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CLASSIC E SACRAMENTO Fabulous 3 bedroom East Sacramento home is ready for your summer entertaining in the lush low maintenance yard! The home features a spacious Àoor-plan, hardwood Àoors, plenty of built-ins, big bedrooms, and outside guest quarters/of¿ce with a full bath. Walking distance to restaurants, and parks. $574,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

WONDERFUL RIVER PARK Open Àoor plan is inviting with hardwood Àoors, updated kitchen with granite counters and stainless appliances. The contemporary bath has a tub shower combination with subway tile. The master bedroom is spacious. The backyard area has a covered patio for entertaining. Plus a 2 car attached garage. $379,000 CHRIS BALESTRERI 996-2244

SUPER RENOVATION 4 bedroom 3 bath Fabulous 40’s home where old world charm meets all the modern amenities! 2722 square feet with an open Àoor plan concept connecting the living room and dining room to kitchen with quartz counter tops, and leading to family room that opens to a beautiful backyard. $1,199,900 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

SPACIOUS TUTOR STYLE Spacious East Sacramento Tudor at its best! 4 bedroom home is on a very large lot and is minutes from coffee shops, downtown, and restaurants. Notice the charming living room, formal dining, a large kitchen, and a family room that opens to a large sun room. $670,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

MIDTOWN APARTMENTS Exceptional mid-town apartment building with a timeless architectural style. Seven units, sited on a 80’ x 80 corner lot. Dark wood shingle exterior with white trim gives such a great look of classic style, quality and comfort. Built in 1915, and on the historical preservation list. $849,000 RICHARD KITOWSKI 261-0811

MEDITERRANEAN MASTERPIECE One of East Sacramento’s ¿nest homes! Wake up to the tree tops ¿ltering the morning sun or entertain in rooms that invite the outdoors in. Unique features, a spacious artist’s studio, guest wing complete with kitchen and an apartment over the 3 car garage. $1,150,000 CHRIS BRIGGS 834-6483

STEPS TO EAST PORTAL PARK Fantastic home just steps away from one of the best parks in East Sacramento. 2 bedroom home has a brand new central heat and air system, a spacious Àoor plan, a large open kitchen, and a quarter basement which is perfect for storage and a possible wine cellar. $329,900 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

STUNNING 38th STREET One of a kind East Sacramento home! This 4 bedroom 4 bath charmer has been updated and includes a large kitchen/family room, master suite, beamed ceilings, leaded windows and spacious back yard with pool and lawn area. $1,495,000 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495 JERRY KIRRENE 455-1001

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Neighborhood Identity CELEBRATING THE DIFFERENCES IN OUR UNIQUE URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS

BY CECILY HASTINGS PUBLISHER’S DESK

hen my husband and I first arrived in Sacramento in 1989, we had no knowledge of the city or environs, and we didn’t know a soul. It was not exactly a great way to select a neighborhood in which to buy a home and raise a family. We were grateful that we had an experienced real estate agent who spent an entire day with us and, starting in Midtown, took us through a number of neighborhoods moving eastward and then to the south. We wanted to get a feel for the architectural identity of each neighborhood. Looking back now, I realize that our driving tour was wholly inadequate in helping us make such a big decision. Here’s what I recall in a nutshell: Midtown had inexpensive historic homes that needed work and had small yards, and there was a lively shopping district. But we were warned that there weren’t many children in the neighborhood and that the crime rate was fairly high. McKinley Park looked fabulous, especially the park itself, but we were told the public schools were weak. The Fab 40s were

gorgeous, but house prices were too high for us and there was almost zero inventory on the market at the time. We never saw River Park. Heading across the H Street Bridge, we toured Sierra Oaks and thought it was lovely, with big lots and varied home styles. But the houses for sale were small and dated. The Wilhaggin homes we saw were too big, while the Arden Park homes were too small. Carmichael was a mixed bag, with some larger, luxurious homes located next to tiny cottages. The lots were huge—too large for our needs. There wasn’t much shopping close by.

We ended up buying that McKinley Park house. And I later learned that I had been dead wrong in my judgment of Curtis Park. Heading south, we loved lush and expansive William Land Park, but the homes we saw were either too large and expensive or too small and needed too much work. Curtis Park had the most amazing collection of eclectic architectural styles we saw all day. We never saw South Land Park or the Pocket or even heard their names. We probably just ran out of time that day. It was almost a year before we actually purchased a home. The decision ultimately came down to two houses: one directly across the street

from McKinley Park, the other across the street from Curtis Park. We visited both houses numerous times. Each time we went to Curtis Park, we noticed that the park was empty and lacked amenities. In comparison, fun things always seemed to be happening in McKinley Park, with its numerous facilities. To be honest, the lack of activity in Curtis Park caused me to judge the neighborhood in a negative way. It seemed like people didn’t get out of their houses to enjoy the neighborhood. I worried about making friends. We ended up buying that McKinley Park house. And I later learned that I had been dead wrong in my judgment of Curtis Park. In time, I discovered that Curtis Park is one of the most dynamic and engaged neighborhoods in the region, and substantially more active and organized than either McKinley Park or East Sacramento. In publishing four neighborhood editions, covering more than a dozen unique neighborhoods, I’ve learned that every one of our neighborhoods has its own distinct personality. It takes time to discover that personality. The process goes much more quickly if you meet long-term neighbors who share their experiences with you. To be sure, numerous biases for and against different neighborhoods exist among neighbors. For some, it is just simple pride and a reaffirmation of the neighborhood they chose. But others are snobby about architecture, history, location or even class. And while most people would never publicly share their biases about people of different

races and cultures, they seem to have no problem disparaging other neighborhoods. When we started publishing in the Pocket and Greenhaven neighborhoods earlier this year, we selected these neighborhoods based upon their distinct neighborhood identity and strong sense of community, in addition to their home values and income levels that our advertisers find valuable.

Many factors contribute to what makes each neighborhood definable and recognizable, no matter what the income levels and property values. We were amazed when some folks from East Sac and Land Park disparaged these neighborhoods because they include gated communities (as do Arden and Carmichael) and what they consider “suburban lifestyles,” usually dropping snide comments about Natomas into their remarks. Or consider Oak Park, which in its early years was considered one of our city’s nicest neighborhoods. After decades of decline, it started to turn around about 10 years ago, thanks in no small part to Mayor PUBLISHER page 10

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As we celebrate the Fourth of the July this year, we have charming organized parades in the neighborhoods of East Sac, River Park, Pocket, Arden Arcade and Carmichael, among others. Each one has its unique feel and experience. Neighborhood parades are a wonderful way to connect with neighbors and build positive neighborhood identities. If you’ve never attended your neighborhood parade, by all means do so this year. I consider it a privilege and honor to get to know so many wonderful people from every neighborhood we serve. Granted, there are huge differences in the unique identities of our neighborhoods. But isn’t it worth celebrating that Sacramento has so much diversity in its neighborhoods? Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n

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Celebrate the Fourth PARADES WILL TAKE OVER NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS

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n Friday, July 4, River Park and the Fabulous 40s will host Independence Day

parades. River Park’s parade begins at 10 a.m. at Caleb Greenwood Elementary School and concludes at Glenn Hall Park. Classic cars will head up the parade followed by the kids’ parade. Children are encouraged to decorate their bikes, scooters or wagons in red, white and blue and join in the fun. River Park Neighborhood Association will hold its Fourth of July festival at the park from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There will be bounce houses, food, carnival games and musical entertainment by the band Mere Mortals. The festival is free and petfriendly. For more information, go to riverparksacramento.net or email todddamiano@surewest.net. The Fab 40s Independence Day parade will begin at 11 a.m. at the corner of 41st and M streets. Open to everyone, including children on decorated bikes, dogs and birds, it is reported to be the longest-running annual parade west of the Mississippi.

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On Friday, July 4, River Park and the Fabulous 40s will host Independence Day parades

ESIA AWARDS ANNOUNCED AT POPS CONCERT East Sacramento Improvement Association gave residents of 41st Street its Sidney Pope Memorial Orchid Award last month.

The award, named after one of the association’s founders, recognizes those who contribute positively to the neighborhood. Last year, people who live on 41st Street between J and M streets organized, when it appeared a new house would be built on the block that did not meet the minimum front

setback for new construction in East Sacramento. “The 41st Street neighbors deserve the Orchid Award for passionately defending the residential charm of our row houses and tree-lined streets, and for being humble and using their intellect to create a compromise rather than engage in a protracted bitter fight,” said ESIA president Paul Noble when presenting the award at the June 14 Pops in the Park concert at Bertha Henschel Park. Noble praised the neighbors, saying, “If every neighborhood controversy were handled this way, our community would be an even better place.” Other nominees for the award were the future Sutter Park Homes development and Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op. “All of the Orchid Award nominations are well deserved, and each one adds value to the neighborhood in a distinct way,” said Noble. The association gave its Onion Award, which spotlights the bad in the neighborhood, to the boarded-up buildings on the southwest corner of Alhambra Boulevard and J Street. According to Noble, “this cluster of unsightly structures hardly presents a good impression at one of the main entrances to East Sacramento.” For more information on ESIA, call 451-5271 or go to eastsacimprovement.org

AND MORE AWARDS River Park Neighborhood Association recognized Councilmember Steve Cohn and his staff members, Sue Brown and Anne

Romo, for their almost 20 years of work on behalf of the River Park neighborhood. The award was presented last month at the Pops in the Park concert in Glenn Hall Park.

Improvement Association. He spent more than $125,000 on his campaign. Steve Cohn did not run for reelection to the District 3 council seat in order to run for the State Assembly. The district includes East Sacramento, River Park and South Natomas.

COUNCIL ELECTION GOES TO A RUNOFF River Park resident Jeff Harris was the top vote getter in last month’s election to fill the city council seat currently held by Steve Cohn. Harris, who received 26.05 percent of the vote, is chairman of the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission and a former president of River Park Neighborhood Association. It was a tight race for the second spot on the November ballot, with community association leaders Cyril Shah and Ellen Cochrane battling it out. Shah eventually earned the spot, receiving 23.78 percent of the vote to Cochrane’s 22.23 percent. Since no candidate received more than 50 percent of the votes, there

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The River Park Neighborhood Association recognized Councilman Steve Cohn and his staff members, Anne Romo and Sue Brown for their years of service to the River Park community. Former RPNA president, Jeff Harris presented the award at the Pops in the Park concert last month. Photo courtesy of Steve Harriman.

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Shah, a financial adviser, is former president of East Sacramento

Developer Phil Angelides is moving forward with plans to build 336 houses on the McKinley Village site, despite a lawsuit challenging the proposal. In May, East Sacramento Partnerships for a Livable City, a group that was formed the day after the city council’s April 29 vote supporting the development, filed a petition in Superior Court claiming the city did not comply with both California and city laws in analyzing the project’s environmental impact. The lawsuit, filed by the Orange County law firm Rutan & Tucker, alleges that the city’s approval of the project violated the California EAST SAC LIFE page 14

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is so wonderful to have a children’s librarian returning to McKinley Library. A children’s librarian will provide the backbone needed for the children’s programs and can add to our improvements of the children’s book section.” McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd. For more information, call 264-2770 or go to saclibrary.org

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A CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN FOR MCKINLEY AND MCCLATCHY Lindsey Helfrich is the newly appointed youth services librarian for McKinley Library and Midtown’s McClatchy Library.

Lindsey Helfrich is the newly appointed youth services librarian for McKinley Library and Midtown’s McClatchy Library

Before coming to McKinley Library, Helfrich worked for the San Mateo County library system, primarily in the youth services department and in teen services. She also worked on call for the 10 county libraries as needed. She will be at McClatchy every Tuesday, McKinley every Wednesday and Thursday, and alternate between McKinley and McClatchy libraries on Saturdays. According to Helfrich, “I like that children’s librarianship allows to you interact with all of the community, not just the kids but also the parents, caregivers and grandparents. Being able to inspire a love of books and reading for both children and teens,

plan fun programs and interact with the community is what inspired me to become a children’s librarian.” Currently she is focusing on summer programs, but is planning more programs directed toward middle-schoolers and teens in the fall. For almost two years, the East Sac library has been without a librarian dedicated to child and teen programs. The Friends of McKinley Library board lobbied the Sacramento Public Library administration to fill the position. According to Shannon Ross, a board member of the library’s support group and mother of two, “It

The 2014 Insider’s Guide to East Sacramento is now available. The guide, published by East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, includes listings of member businesses and services in the neighborhood, in addition to information about the neighborhood’s history and events. “We had such a positive response when we distributed the guide in past years, both from the neighborhood and the businesses, that we wanted to update the guide to include new businesses that have opened up this year in our community,” says chamber president Brad McDowell, a partner in the law firm Smith, McDowell & Powell. “The guide provides evidence that the neighborhood’s small-business community has grown tremendously in recent years,” says Ted Kappel, a chamber board member. More than 17,500 copies of the guide will be distributed. “This provides even more exposure for our business members,” says Kappel. “The idea is for neighbors to keep the guide on hand and reference it throughout the year when they need products or services. We are also hoping that residents will find new businesses they didn’t even know we have located in the neighborhood.” The guide was delivered to homes in East Sacramento, River Park, Campus Commons, Elmhurst and Tahoe Park in this month’s issue of Inside East Sacramento. They are also available at participating local businesses and events or by emailing eastsacchamber@aol.com EAST SAC LIFE page 16

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5K RUN/WALK FOR ALZHEIMER’S AID East Lawn Memorial Park will hold a Fab 40s 5k run/walk on Saturday, July 26. The course will begin and end at East Lawn Memorial Park (4300 Folsom Blvd.). Registration and packet pickup will begin at 7 a.m. Kids’ races begin at 8:10 a.m., and the 5k begins at 8:30 a.m. Adult registration is $30 before July 6, $35 after July 7 and on race day. Registration for the kids’ fun run is $16. More than 1,200 people are expected to participate. Funds raised will go to Alzheimer’s Association to support families and caregivers dealing with Alzheimer’s disease and to fund Alzheimer’s research For more information or to register, call 492-8966 or go to fab40s5k.org

GIVE BLOOD The annual 38th Street blood drive will be on Thursday, July 17, from 3 to 7 p.m. “This is the sixth year we will have a summer community blood drive in East Sacramento,” says Alice McAuliffe, who with her husband Pat is hosting the event. McAuliffe coordinates the blood drive with the couple’s friends, Kathy Ullerich and Tim Imai. Their goal is to collect 45 pints of blood this year. “The event has a wonderful neighborhood feel and is very important in helping BloodSource meet the needs of the patients and the hospitals over the summer months,” says Ullerich. Two bloodmobiles will be parked at 1141 38th St. For more information, call 451-5507. To schedule an appointment, go to bloodsource.org/ drives and enter location code M597.

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Meg White EXERCISING HER CHARITABLE MUSCLES

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efore opening her East Sac health and fitness studio, Train Hard or Go Home, Meg White used to teach exercise boot camps in McKinley Park. “Without being able to use it, I wouldn’t have been able to grow into my own studio,” White recalls. “Our parks and community centers are crucial to the development of our neighborhood, from children to adults to entrepreneurs who are building new businesses.” So in 2012, when the city cut back on maintenance of McKinley Park because of budget cuts and threatened to close the historic Clunie Community Center, White organized the first Sweatin’ for McKinley event. “When I first came to East Sac, I fell in love with all the parks and was inspired by how the community banded together in the midst of city budget cuts to help the park,” White says. Sweatin’ for McKinley has since become an annual event. This year, it will be held on Saturday, Sept. 13. According to White, this year promises to the best year yet. “What started as fundraising fitness classes has turned into a full-blown health fair,” she says. “We plan to have more free health screenings, educational talks with health professionals, a ton of local prizes and just about every kind of fitness class you can imagine.” White and her team at Train Hard or Go Home are very community minded. “One of our

Join Meg White at Sweatin’ for McKinley on Saturday, Sept. 13

favorite things to do is to combine fitness with charity,” she says. Every year, White, her trainers and her clients participate in Run For a Safe Haven benefiting the nonprofit group My Sister’s House, which provides shelter for domestic violence victims, and the Fab 40s 5k Run/Walk put on by East Lawn Memorial Park for the Alzheimer’s Foundation. (This year’s Fab 40s run will be held on Saturday, July 26.) Recently, working with Abe Sanchez of Article Consignment Boutique, White started a supply drive for Wind Youth Services. She and her trainers also volunteer at an alternative school, Walnutwood High

School, teaching fitness and nutrition to teen parents.

Sweatin’ for McKinley has since become an annual event. This year, it will be held on Saturday, Sept. 13. “As a small-business owner, I think it’s important to support the community that supports you,” White says. “Personally, it’s just one of my favorite things to do. There are so

many important causes, so many charities that need support, and motivating those around me is even more rewarding when I know it’s for a good cause.” This year has been a busy one professionally for White. At the age of 27, she owns one of the most successful businesses in East Sacramento. In January, she opened a second studio at 4601 H St. (Her original studio is at 719 56th St. in Elvas Center.) “Even though my clients affectionately refer to me as MadDog Meg, don’t let that scare you,” she says. “My workouts are designed for Volunteer page 18

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Stylist and Theodore Judah mom Michele Scarberry brought her clippers to school and shaved Tad Carrillo’s locks to the delight of students

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GOONIES IN THE PARK On Saturday, July 12, the 1985 Richard Donner classic The Goonies will be shown at Tahoe Park as part of the 2014 Starlight Movie program. Sponsors include Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association and Councilmember Kevin McCarty. The movie starts at approximately 8:30 p.m. Attendees should bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating. Tahoe Park is at 3501 59th St. For more information, go to tahoe-park. org

RAISING THE ROOF FOR CATS Happy Tails, a no-kill animal rescue sanctuary in East Sacramento, is adding 2,200 square feet to its existing building on Folsom Boulevard. The new two-story addition will house the Zoe McCrea Sanctuary, for the care for cats whose lives were in danger in their previous environment, but who are not yet ready for adoption due to poor socialization with people or other behavioral issues. The interior will have cat trees for climbing and cubbyholes where

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the cats can hide. There will also be an isolation room for cats that may temporarily need special treatments, diets or extra recovery time. The founding gift for the new sanctuary came from the Zoe McCrea Trust in honor of her cat Winkie. McCrea has a passion for cats that don’t necessarily fit in as “normal” pets. She has witnessed many cats with feral, nonsocial behavior become loving, adoptable cats when they are in a safe, protected environment and are treated with compassion. Happy Tails is at 6601 Folsom Blvd. Donations can be made at happytails.org by clicking the “donate now” button. For more information, email purrball@happytails.org or call 556-1155.

A NEW SUMMER CUT Make a bet with fourth-graders and you just might end up losing your shirt—or your hair. That is what happened to East Sac resident Tad Carrillo in the final days of the school year at Theodore Judah Elementary School. Carrillo volunteers as adviser to the school’s first-ever student

newspaper. His son, Holden, is editor. After students in teacher Sandra Gambirazio’s class found several errors in the May edition of the TJ Times, Carrillo decided to turn it into a teaching moment. He challenged the 28 students to edit the June edition perfectly, promising to shave his head if they succeeded. The kids came through, so stylist and mom Michele Scarberry brought her clippers to school and shaved Carrillo’s locks to the delight of the students, even carving “TJ” into the side of his head. Said Carrillo, “This was a great lesson in the importance of checking your work. And now I have a great summer cut!”

Volunteers will meet near the basketball court on Tuesday, July 15, and near the tennis court picnic tables on Monday, Aug. 4. Both sessions are scheduled to run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. No worries if you don’t have a wheelbarrow: The tree foundation will have extra wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. The effort is supported by the city’s parks and recreation department and the tree foundation. The city’s urban forestry service will provide the mulch. For more information or to register, go to sactree.com/events

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Representatives from Pacific McGeorge School of Law’s Victims of Crime Resource Center will offer three workshops on how older adults can protect themselves from financial abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse, and crimes against people with disabilities.

Mercy General Hospital will hold a meeting on Tuesday, July 29, at 5:30 p.m. to address residents’ questions and concerns about construction at the hospital’s East Sac campus. The hospital hosts quarterly meetings that are open to the public. The meeting will be held in the conference room, Greenhouse A & B, of the hospital at 4001 J St.

THE YOGA OF FOOD Melissa Grabau, the author of “The Yoga of Food,” will speak at McKinley Library on Saturday, July 12. Grabau will discuss her book, which focuses on how yoga can help transform people’s health and their relationship to food. The program will be from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

MCKINLEY MULCH MADNESS Grab your wheelbarrow and join three after-work mulching parties this summer at McKinley Park hosted by Sacramento Tree Foundation. Volunteers will be applying mulch rings around the park’s trees.

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EAST SAC LIFE page 20 VOLUNTEER FROM page 17 all fitness levels, all ages, and every size and shape. Every third Saturday is our free community boot camp, and we have a lot of fun.” Being involved in her community is what it’s all about for White. “It makes our neighborhoods healthy, safe environments for everyone, not just for right now but for future generations as well,” she says. “We can’t rely on the government or somebody else to do it for us. Everyone has to pitch in.” This year’s Sweatin’ for McKinley will be on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Clunie Community Center. For more information on becoming a sponsor or participating, go to SweatingForMcKinley.com or call 508-6144. To suggest someone for a volunteer profile, call 441-7026 or email eastsaclife@aol.com n

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The meeting will be at Evan’s Kitchen. According to Marsha Vacca of the Rotary’s board of directors, the public is invited to attend. Lunch is $18 per person and will begin at noon. Guests may also attend just the speech, which will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend the speech. Evan’s Kitchen is at 855 57th St. in 57th Street Antique Mall. For more information or to make a reservation for the lunch, call 7179998 or email mavacca@comcast.net

Workshops include “People With Disabilities—How to Protect Yourself” on July 14; “Money Smartz for Older Adults” on July 21; and “Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse” on July 28. The workshops begin at 1 p.m. and are held at Ethel MacLeod Hart Senior Center (915 27th St.). Space is limited. For more information or to register, stop by the Hart Senior Center front desk or call 808-5462.

NEIGHBORHOOD MOURNS REMOVAL OF PARK TREES Last month, the city removed three large elm trees at the corner of 33rd and Parkway in McKinley Park near Shepard Garden and Arts Center. The trees were victims of Dutch elm disease. Earlier in the year, three elm trees behind the park’s baseball field were removed for the same reason. Neighbors of the park are wondering about plans for replacing the trees, which provided shade for a large part of the park. According to Shannon Brown of the city parks department, the city does not have any policies on tree replacements but works closely with Sacramento Tree Foundation. The foundation has taken on the responsibility of planting trees in city parks, along streets and on some school campuses. According to Anne Fenkner, the foundation’s Greenprint regional coordinator, the foundation receives free shade trees from SMUD. The tree foundation coordinates the planting of the trees with help from neighborhood volunteers. Fenkner says that, due to the drought, the foundation doesn’t plan to plant any trees until late October or early winter. Residents who live near the park are considering raising funds to help purchase larger trees than the foundation normally plants. For more information, email friendsofeastsac@aol.com or call 4528011.

Three large elm trees at the corner of 33rd and Parkway in McKinley Park. The trees were victims of Dutch elm disease.

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Earlier this year, East Sac resident Brian Murphy built a new brick retaining wall and walkway for his neighbor, Jan Adams. When Murphy was done with the work, he surprised Adams with a birdhouse built to match her brick home, even down to the green-and-white trim. Murphy built his first birdhouse 15 years ago and recently took up the hobby again, using materials left over from building projects he is working on. Adams was so pleased with her birdhouse that she held a christening of the house and invited her neighbors and friends. To learn more about Murphy’s birdhouses Murphy, contact him at brianmurphy76@comcast.net

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Jan Adams was the happy recipient of a bird house built by Brian Murphy. The bird house matched her brick home, even down to the green-and-white trim.

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will speak at East Sacramento Rotary Club’s Wednesday, July 16, lunch meeting. Cohn’s remarks will focus on his goals for the Sacramento area.

Sacramento Tree Foundation will offer free guided tours of the trees of McKinley Park on Tuesday, July 1, and Tuesday, July 22, at 6:30 p.m. The tours are led by a certified arborist. Attendees are asked to meet at Shepard Garden and Arts Center (3330 McKinley Blvd.). For more information or to sign up for a tour, go to sactree.com or call 924-8733.

IVIVVA OPENING THIS MONTH This month, ivivva, an athletic clothing line for girls ages 4 to 14, will open a showroom in East Sacramento. The clothing line is designed by the popular lululemon and features gear for girls involved in dance, cheer, gymnastics, yoga and running. According to ivivva spokesperson Kris Quigley, the store also plans to host complimentary classes for girls. Ivivva will be at 3714 J St. For more information, go to ivivva.com

A FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDEN TOUR Soroptimist International of Sacramento has announced the fourth annual East Sacramento Edible Garden Tour will be on Saturday, Sept.13. Six gardens will be open for the tour. Master Gardeners will be in each garden at various times of the day to answer questions. Entertainment

will be provided by The Sacramento Symphonic Winds. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 the day of the tour. Proceeds support local charities that benefit women and children. For more information, go to ediblegardensac.org. The deadline for inclusion of items in this column is the fifth of the month preceding the month of publication. Lisa Schmidt can be reached at eastsaclife@aol.com n

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Keeping Faith CITIZEN COMMITTEE CALLS FOR COMPLIANCE AUDIT ON MEASURE U SPENDING

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ome city boards and commissions have the reputation of being rubber stamps for the city council members who appoint them. But the Measure U Citizen Oversight Committee, while getting off to a very slow start and wielding minimal oversight powers, has surprised the pundits and produced a first report that keeps faith with city voters who are entrusting the city with $30 million in extra sales tax revenue each year. The committee’s report, coauthored by River Oaks resident and CPA Jamie Matthews and Pocket resident and public health and education manager Chris Shipman, gives the city high marks for following through with campaign promises on how Measure U monies would be spent. But it candidly reveals that the committee has to rely on city management’s representations on how Measure U monies are being spent. The report calls on the city to hire an auditing firm to assure that Measure U monies are, in fact, being spent as represented. The report also urges the city to start transition planning for when

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Measure U, a six-year tax hike, expires in March 2019. The city has shown no signs of planning for the day when Measure U money runs out, other than to dryly note in the city’s recently approved budget that the city’s general fund faces a fiscal cliff in 2019 when its general budget deficit is expected to hit $41 million due to the loss of Measure U revenues and spiraling employee benefit costs. The failure to start planning now for the transition will only make the loss of Measure U funding that much more painful in 2019. The city’s failure to plan for a transition plays into the narrative that city officials intend for the loss of Measure U funding to be as painful as possible in 2019 so as to bully taxpayers into extending the tax. Measure U, passed by city voters in November 2012, increased the city sales tax rate by one-half percent to fund a variety of city functions, ranging from police and fire services to parks and libraries. In the same election, California voters approved Proposition 30, which increased the state sales tax rate by a quarter percent (as well as hiking income taxes on higher-income state residents). Together, the measures raised the city sales tax rate to a record 8.5 percent, tied with Galt for the highest sales tax rate charged by any government in the Sacramento region. (The county sales tax rate, for instance, is 8 percent). To help sell the Measure U sales tax hike to city voters, the city council included in the measure a requirement that Measure U spending be subject to oversight by a citizen oversight committee

Measure U Oversight Committee members Chris Shipman and Jamie Mathews

and that spending be audited by an independent auditor—common “confidence builders” to give voters assurance that their dollars will be spent as advertised and not on, say, sports arenas. But the city council has not given the oversight committee independent staff or counsel; it has allocated it no budget, invested it with no subpoena powers or provided it with any other tools needed to function in a meaningful fashion. While the measure called for spending to be audited by an independent auditor, such a requirement is meaningless absent a compliance or performance audit that determines if dollars are actually being spent as promised. A financial audit merely checks that dollars are being accounted for but does nothing to confirm that the dollars are being spent in the ways the city promised to city voters.

One of the serious omissions in Measure U is the absence of “supplanting protection.” Before your eyes gaze over, let me explain what supplanting protection is and is not. Let’s say the city’s general fund provides $1 million each year to operate the city’s animal shelter, but the shelter’s funding level falls far short of what animal lovers think it should be. (Hey, our family has two cats.) So, let’s say animal lovers convince the city council to place a tax hike measure on the ballot to raise taxes $1 million to double annual funding for the shelter. Let’s assume the measure passes with 80 percent of the vote (not impossible given the results of a recent national survey that found Sacramento is the seventh most cat-friendly city in the country). Then let’s say that city unions press the city council to increase CITY HALL page 24

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CITY HALL FROM page 22 employee salaries (the city is currently locked in contract negotiations with all of its major unions) and the city, scrapping around for cash, decides to withdraw its existing $1 million annual funding for the shelter, figuring that the shelter can get by on the $1 million new animal shelter tax (hypothetically) approved by voters. Such budgetary sleight of hand is called “supplanting.” It involves withdrawing pre-existing general fund support for a program that is benefiting from a recently approved tax increase. It is a cynical maneuver used by unscrupulous government officials to rip off voters and taxpayers by breaking government’s promise to spend tax revenues as represented to voters. And it’s lawful for government to “supplant” unless a tax measure includes supplanting protection that forbids the maneuver. (The library parcel tax, Measure B, approved just last month by voters included an anti-supplanting section at the behest of Eye on Sacramento, courtesy of Councilmember Angelique Ashby.) But Measure U includes no supplanting protection. Part of the reason is Measure U is not a special tax that provides funds for any specific programs. It is, instead, a general tax hike, which the city can legally spend on anything it wants. General tax hikes require only a majority vote while special taxes, like the library tax, require a twothirds majority approval. Supplanting protections are typically used to protect the use of special taxes, not general taxes. Nevertheless, the city sold Measure U to voters on the premise that proceeds would be used to increase funding for public safety, parks and libraries. So what happens when $300 million of arena bonds are sold (this year or next) and the $15.4 projected annual shortfall in arena bond payments (the difference between the $21.9 million annual arena bond payment and the $6.5 million annual arena lease payment paid by Kings owners) is not covered by hoped-for increases in city parking profits? Absent major, unanticipated increases in the city’s other revenue sources,

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the city would have to cut other general fund spending to cover the $15.4 arena bond payment shortfall. And what are the three biggest budget programs that together make up about 85 percent of the city’s general fund budget? Answer: police, fire protection and parks.

The committee’s report gives the city high marks for following through with campaign promises on how Measure U monies would be spent. So if the city council is compelled to cut, say, $15 million from police, fire and parks budgets in 2019 to fund arena bond funding shortfalls, it will be withdrawing existing general fund support from Measure U-funded programs. In short, it will be supplanting Measure U funding and diverting it to underwrite arena bond payments. That’s why Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters last year characterized Measure U as a disguised “arena tax.” Shipman and Matthews take very seriously the oversight committee’s responsibility for assuring that the city is fully transparent in how it spends Measure U receipts. Shipman, as a veteran staffer of health and education programs and a graduate of the city’s management academy, and Matthews, with 12 years of experience auditing local government finances and consulting with local government officials on behalf of Gilbert Associates, are both savvy to the ways of government budgeting and spending, including the potential for Measure U supplanting. They have both demonstrated a willingness to press the city for changes that enhance such transparency. Matthews, a selfdescribed professional skeptic, worked hand in hand with the city’s budget director, Leyne Milstein, to secure an

expansion of the scope of the city’s next outside independent audit to include a compliance audit of the city’s Measure U spending. Shipman, a longtime community and neighborhood activist, is pressing the city to develop metrics to measure and assess the effectiveness of Measure U spending, particularly as it relates to programs involving city youth and seniors. For her, tracking how money is spent is not enough. Measurable results are what count. As management guru Peter Drucker famously put it: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Shipman sees a need to build up our community’s “social capital” as a necessary element of community growth and health. Shipman and Matthews, as well as their fellow oversight committee members, Cecily Hastings (publisher of Inside Publications), Carlos Anguiano and Michelle Brattmiller, are proving that they are not rubber stamps for anyone in the important work they are doing on behalf of Sacramento taxpayers. They are also showing us all how important civic service—a major component of social capital, as Shipman would put it—is to the quality of life of our community. What do Shipman and Matthews draw from the experience of serving on the oversight committee and authoring the committee’s report? For Matthews, a 13-year Sacramento resident, “The experience has given me the confidence to know that I bring something to the table, to see that I could add value.” Shipman, a 24-year resident who has worked on the master plan of education for New Jersey and hospitals at Emory University in Atlanta and in Indiana, is committed “to keeping the city accountable, from helping high-risk kids, to improving graduation rates, to reducing gang involvement. I want to know: What has the city done to make things better?”

THREE COUNCIL RACES DECIDED WHILE ONE HEADS TO A RUNOFF

he results of last month’s city council races covered the spectrum from a slam-dunk

victory in North Natomas (District 1) for first-term incumbent Angelique Ashby, who ran unopposed, to a lopsided win for Jay Schenirer in Curtis Park and Oak Park (District 4), a very tight outright primary victory for Rick Jennings in the Pocket/Greenhaven area (District 7) and a thrilling free-for-all race in East Sacramento and South Natomas (District 3), where the winner will be decided in a November runoff election. In District 4, Schenirer, a firstterm councilmember, faced a spirited challenge from SEIU political director Ali Cooper, who challenged Schenirer on his vote on the downtown arena subsidy, his support of a modification of the big-box retail ordinance and his raising of charitable contributions, particularly from a Walmart affiliate, to support a robust set of nonprofit projects in his district. Schenirer won handily with 5,312 votes or 62.8 percent to Cooper’s 3,105 votes or 36.7 percent. In the money race, Schenirer vastly outraised Cooper $134,000 to $45,000. Schenirer was also the beneficiary of an independent expenditure campaign organized by Sacramento Metro Chamber that paid for TV ads promoting Schenirer’s record. In District 7, Jennings, a former school board member, edged out retired Sacramento fire chief Julius Cherry in a tight race. Jennings won the race outright with 5,046 votes or 50.6 percent to Cherry’s 4,187 or 42 percent. Third-place finisher Abe Snobar received 709 votes or 7.1 percent. The District 7 seat opened up when incumbent Darrell Fong decided to jump into the race for State Assembly District 9. Both Jennings and Cherry had strong personal stories and campaigned door to door. They raised a comparable amount of money, with Jennings taking in $140,000 and Cherry collecting $128,000. The mayor was a real presence in the District 7 race, with Cherry distancing himself from the mayor early, saying, “I’m not the mayor’s favorite candidate, but I’d like to be yours.” Jennings was criticized for being too close to the mayor, while Cherry was the subject of a hit piece

slamming him for collecting the largest pension check of any retired city employee. The piece was financed by an obscure out-of-the-area PAC with alleged ties to Philip Morris, according to the Cherry campaign. The real nail biter race of the night was the fight for the East Sacramento/ South Natomas seat vacated by two-decade incumbent Steve Cohn, who gave up his seat to run for State Assembly. A sizable field of seven candidates fought it out for a spot in the November general election, as no candidate was expected to capture a majority in the primary.

An interesting statistic: Shah spent a lavish $86.50 for every vote he received, while Harris spent a miserly $4.34 for each of his votes. The presumptive favorite going into the election was financial planner Cyril Shah, who raised an eye-popping $182,000, more than three times the amount raised by all the other candidates combined. But Shah barely squeezed his way into a second-place finish, edging out schoolteacher Ellen Cochrane for a spot in the November runoff. The big winner of the night was general contractor Jeff Harris, who came in with a surprising first-place finish. Despite raising just $10,000, Harris parlayed his long experience as a neighborhood volunteer, community activist and parks commission member into the top spot by winning 2,305 votes or 26 percent of the votes cast. Shah collected 2,104 votes or 23.8 percent and Cochrane received 1,967 votes or 22.2 percent, while Deane Dana received 844 votes or 9.5 percent, Rosalyn Van Buren won 811 voters or 9.2 percent, and Efren Guttierrez of South Natomas won 513 votes or 5.8 percent. The big issue in the District 3 race was the McKinley Village

development project, which was up for approval before the city council just as the council race hit full stride. Cochrane was the organizer of the group opposing the project, a position that almost catapulted her into the runoff. Harris and Shah will face off against one another in November. An interesting statistic: Shah spent a lavish $86.50 for every vote he received, while Harris spent a miserly $4.34 for each of his votes. The only measure on the city ballot was Measure B, a temporary $12-per-year parcel tax hike to fund city libraries. It passed handily with 72.9 percent of the vote, exceeding the two-thirds majority vote needed for passage. In county races, the big action was in the race to replace retiring district attorney Jan Scully after 20 years in office. Mary Anne Schubert, endorsed by both Scully and Sheriff Scott Jones, easily defeated Maggy Krell and Todd David Leras. Schubert won the position outright with 58.2 percent of the vote, while Krell received 32.2 percent and Leras received 9.4 percent. While the race for DA is nonpartisan, Krell, a Democrat, received the endorsements of the Democratic Party establishment, while Republican Schubert received almost universal support from local law enforcement groups and officials. Jones had a relaxed election night, running unopposed in his bid for a second term as sheriff. Sacramento city schools board member Patrick Kennedy, who lost narrowly to Schenirer for city council four years ago, managed to soundly win the county supervisorial seat opened up by the retirement of longtime supervisor and former councilmember Jimmie Yee. Kennedy garnered 84.5 percent of the vote to defeat Jrmar Jefferson, who picked up 15 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, first-term county supervisor Phil Serna and longtime county supervisor Don Nottoli both ran for re-election unopposed. First-term county assessor Kathleen Kelleher also ran unopposed. In the state legislative races, city councilmembers Kevin McCarty and

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31 percent. They will meet again in November. In what appears to be an historic first, Republicans have been entirely shut out of the November general election in all of the state legislative races that touch upon the city of Sacramento, victims of the new top-two primary system. It raises the question: Where will Republican voters, who make up about 24 percent of all city voters, go on Election Day in November? Will they organize and throw their support behind one or more of the top Democratic finishers? Will they split their votes among the Democratic contenders? Or will they just sit this one out? The answer may decide the outcome of more than one state legislative race this year. Craig Powell is a local attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. In 2012, he chaired the No on Measure U Committee. He can be reached at craig@eyeonsacramento.org or 7183030. n

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n Sacramento, the city council sets policy. The city manager runs the show. When John Shirey was hired at the city’s chief executive in 2011, his arrival ended a period of musical chairs at the manager’s office. Shirey recently talked to Inside Publications about a range of topics, from organizational problems at the fire department to the prospects of quitting his job if voters approve the strong-mayor initiative in November. What kind of shape is the city’s budget in? The good news is I’ll be able to present a balanced budget this summer. We had a deficit of about $12 million. We were able to reduce that to about $3 million, but we will be balanced ending the year. The bad news is that while we’ve seen an increase in property and sales taxes, our expenses are still increasing faster than our revenues. While I expect to have not great but good budgets for the next two fiscal years, that quickly changes in those out years and becomes pretty red, mostly because of increased pension costs. Here’s a fact for your readers: We currently pay about $48 million per year to CalPERS. In five years time, that will increase to $82 million. That gives people an idea of the increases the CalPERS board has been approving. We’re not alone. This is being experienced by most cities in the state.

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You mentioned CalPERS raising the rates it charges cities to pay public employee pensions. How are you dealing with two other budget busters: the expiration of Measure U in five years and $470 million in unfunded liability for long-term

medical benefits for retired city workers? Your question is right on the money. The PERS problem is most immediate. The second is the expiration of Measure U, which comes in 2019, when it sunsets. Of course, the city council could decide

to present that to voters and it could be extended. Another outcome is that it will expire. Then we will have a fiscal cliff. That cliff will be around $30 million. We can’t absorb that. I’m trying to convince the council to not spend all those dollars, but instead to create a cushion that will ease the drop-off come 2019. In addition, I’m hoping we have increases in revenue to cushion that blow. We’ll have to have discipline. We’ll have to have reserves. We can’t just keep spending it on new initiatives or more employees or whatever. I have to assume it will be allowed to expire. I can’t operate on the assumption that council will go back to voters and ask for an extension. The unfunded health-care obligation to our employees is very troubling. Unfortunately, when that benefit was given to employees in the 1970s, no funds were ever set aside to pay for it. Apparently, I’m the first city manager who ever raised questions about that. It’s an obligation that has serious consequences for this city’s future. Right now, that’s about $472 million and growing by the minute. It will increase several thousand dollars during this interview. I convinced the city council to establish a trust fund. We’ve set aside $4 million, and I’m going to recommend more. That seem like a small amount, but it establishes that we are at least acknowledging the problem. And it sends a good message to rating agencies. Now, take these three issues and put them together: It’s unsustainable. We have to do something. We’re not going to be laying off people for the coming fiscal year, but I can’t

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Somers, is doing a terrific job using his resources wisely. That’s why we’re seeing good trends in terms of crime numbers. We’re also getting good help from the community. People are doing more for themselves, such as our Neighbor Next Door program, which has 12,000 subscribers. People are communicating with each other about suspicious things they see. What I do is look at our crime in terms of other cities, and we’re not as safe as we should be. One reason is we have an unusually high number of parolees living in Sacramento. We want to think that people who have gone through prison will start new lives, but sometimes they start new lives of crime. The good news is the crime numbers are down. The bad news is they are still relatively high compared to other jurisdictions. I am a firm believer that we need more policing and more people to do crime analysis, crime solving, and to work with our neighborhoods. The fire department hasn’t changed its culture in generations. Now firefighters

work 48-hour shifts but rarely fight fires. Most 911 fire calls are medical. Isn’t it time to update the fire department? The reality is we no longer have a fire department. We have a paramedicine department. That’s not unusual. That’s the way most fire departments have gone across the country. About 70 percent of our calls are paramedic calls. Even fire calls are often false alarms or very minor fires, not the large structural fires you hear about every so often. Our resources are not deployed accordingly. We don’t have enough paramedic resources. And the staffing model, which is 48-hour shifts, isn’t appropriate for people who are working in paramedicine. Think about somebody who’s putting an IV in your arm on his 36th hour on the job. We need to rethink how we deploy people who are on the medic vans as opposed to people on fire trucks and engines. It’s time to think about changing how we approach services. We need new, creative ideas in terms of the fire department, which is really a paramedic service.

Police and fire both build overtime into their cultures. They say it’s cheaper, but is the city well served by cops and firefighters working so much overtime? Overtime by itself is not a bad thing. Any organization that’s staffed around the clock can’t be managed without the use of overtime. That goes for utilities as well as police and fire. We have to have people available anytime for anything that might go wrong. It’s true that we can provide additional staffing cheaper by using overtime. However, it sometimes gets overused. When we have people who are making double their salaries by virtue of overtime, it suggests we have something wrong on the management side. We either don’t have enough people or we’re granting too much OT. It’s not good to work people that many hours. They’re not as effective, not as alert. It takes a toll on their health. We have examples of where we’ve overused overtime, and we need to correct those. SHIREY page 28

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JOHN SHIREY FROM page 27 Politically, the city council refuses to talk about privatizing services such as garbage, ambulance, even water. But could the city benefit from some privatization? What’s important for us is to compare ourselves to the competition. One thing the city hasn’t done is what I call “performance management,” which includes using metrics that measure how efficiently we provide services. We’re going to start doing that on July 1. That will give us data by which we can better see how we’re managing the organization, and to compare ourselves to the competition: other cities and the private sector. We should always be willing to provide services in the most efficient and most effective way. It shouldn’t matter whether that service is provided by a public employee or a private-sector employee. The city council is studying ways to fund a new performing arts theater. Is this the right

time to think about replacing the Community Center Theater? I’d like nothing more than to see the capital city of California have a first-class performing arts center. The issue has always been money. This debate started long before I became city manager. I’m just trying to get some decisions made. One of the weaknesses of Sacramento is we don’t have a lot of wealth and we don’t have a strong corporate base. In other communities, they do, plus large foundations. They can undertake projects as large as putting in a new performing arts center. I’d like for us to be able to do the same. Whether we can remains to be seen. The downtown arena is moving forward. What happens if the Kings come to the city midway into the project and say they need more money or else? One of the strengths of this agreement, as opposed to the agreement that we had tentatively with the previous owners: This

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see private development activity in the railyards. The new courthouse project is still alive, but there isn’t funding. Again, some of these other things need to happen before the courthouse can move ahead. It all depends on an agreement about how future environmental liabilities on the property will be handled among those three parties. There are seven residential infill projects in the works: Sutter Memorial, McKinley Village, Setzer, New HelvetiaSeavey Circle, Curtis Park railyards, Delta Shores and the downtown railyards. This is unprecedented. How will you manage the impact on services and infrastructure? It’s a wonderful sign for the city that we have that many projects pending. They are infill projects, and we are living up to the spirit and the word of The Blueprint, which was adopted sometime ago by our regional planning agency (SACOG)—that we should focus on infill. The obvious place for that is Sacramento, where we already have a concentration of jobs and we have more public transportation than other places. This is wonderful news for our economy, our air quality and environment. In terms of infrastructure, they will have to pay their share of the costs. They will have to be self-supporting. It’s our job to make sure they don’t become unfeasible for economic reasons, so we have to work hand in hand with the developers and property owners. I’ve tried to bring a spirit of cooperation with the private sector, so we’re doing things in partnership. You will have at least three new city councilmembers this November. How are you getting along with the council? I think we have a great council, both the one that hired me and the one we have now. It’s unusual for Sacramento to have so much turnover. We’ve had people such as Steve Cohn, who served for 20 years,

Strong mayor is on the ballot in November. You’re opposed. Will you resign if it passes? I’m a professional city manager. That’s the career that I’ve chosen. That’s what I believe in. I gravitated to this field because I felt it was the best form of local government. Right now, I can’t imagine a scenario that would make me serve as city manager under a system other than the one we have in place now. But I also keep an open mind on these things. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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emasculated by a system in which they have no jobs, no stature and no power. Depression, domestic violence and divorce are epidemic. “Those who make it do so only after years of trial and tribulation,” says Koga. Koga ended up using his own immigrant experience to change the way California’s health system manages these fragile communities. As the director of refugee health research for UC Davis’s School of Medicine, he oversees a system that is tracking, in real time, the mental health of large groups of immigrants across the state. Physicians at nine major county clinics are capturing data on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and disparities among patients and transmitting it to Koga’s team.

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arius Koga is an expert on the traumatic effects of war, deprivation, dislocation and transplantation. He has spent years studying posttraumatic stress disorder, tracking the psychological landscape of refugee populations resettled in the United States and writing scholarly works on the science behind the debilitating brain changes that plague these populations. He holds degrees in medicine and public health from prestigious universities and is a well-respected international expert on PTSD. Even if he didn’t have these credentials, Koga would be an expert: He spent more than a decade imprisoned, beaten and tortured in postwar Romania, where he incurred the wrath of the Communist government for speaking out against the psychological control of political dissidents. He fled under cover of night in 1989 to a refugee camp in Serbia, leaving behind everything he had known, then found his way to the United States, a land of both opportunity and lack of interest. “We refugees come from cultures with a communal mentality,” he observes. “In the American system, there is no

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Marius Koga is an expert on the traumatic effects of war, deprivation, dislocation and transplantation

discrimination; everybody is equally disregarded.” For immigrants whose wounds are still fresh, that sink-or-swim mentality is one more nightmare with which they must cope. Koga himself struggled with the demons of his immigrant experience while establishing a career, as well as a home for his wife and two children,

in Sacramento. He knew that he was more fortunate that most. “These refugees move from pre-migration trauma to post-migration stress,” he says. In addition to a new language, they are expected to learn a new culture, new ways of interacting, new definitions of right and wrong. Men who once held important jobs and supported families find themselves

“We refugees come from cultures with a communal mentality,” he observes. “In the American system, there is no discrimination; everybody is equally disregarded.” “We’re getting a GPS on the lives of refugees,” he says, “profiling them and seeing pathologies.” He also founded VIRTIS, the Veteran, Immigrant and Refugee Trauma Institute of Sacramento, a nonprofit whose logo is Odysseus’s

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want to translate it into a model that is bigger, wiser and smarter.” The organization’s original focus on refugees from Eastern Europe has expanded to encompass refugees from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and other turbulent regions. VIRTIS is steeling itself for an influx of Syrian refugees over the next few years. For Koga, the stories continue to resonate. “I was a refugee myself,” he says. “I remember the border guards and the dogs. I look at everyone as myself. I hear stories of loss, grief, trauma, confusion. My years of imprisonment are nothing compared to what I hear.” He sees an even deeper purpose to his work. “I’ve written about the anatomy of evil, and my work with refugees keeps me close to the source of evil,” says Koga. “I have empathy but also a desire to fight the enemy. I want to get beyond what happened to me and ask, ‘How is it possible for people to do this?’” For more information about VIRTIS, go to virtis-ptsd.org Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com n

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arren Smith was in high school when he played his first soccer game. He survived less than one minute. As the game began, the ball came toward Smith. An opposing player executed a technique known as the slide tackle. The opponent slid into Smith and Smith’s leg snapped. The broken bone ended his soccer career. Fortunately for Sacramento soccer fans, the devastation of a high school sports injury didn’t destroy Smith’s appreciation for soccer or sports. Today, as president of the Sacramento Republic Football Club professional soccer team, Smith is trying to lead the city to the promised land of bigtime soccer. He’s off to an impressive start. The Republic, which two summers ago was a figment of Smith’s imagination, is the hottest ticket in town, with about 5,100 season ticket holders and more box-office demand than can be satisfied. Not bad for a club that lacks a permanent home and plays in a developmental minor league. “We’ve been blessed with early success,” Smith says. “But I tell our people we’ve got a long way to go. This is only the beginning.”

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Warren Smith is president of Sacramento Republic Football Club

Smith knows about pacing and patience. He has seen countless pro sports teams disintegrate in Sacramento, from indoor (and outdoor) soccer and outdoor (and indoor) football to hockey. Amid the wreckage of broken franchises, Smith can present himself as a unique Sacramento sports promoter, the guy who has done it right, twice. About 18 years ago, Smith and Bob Hemond dreamed up Raley Field and the Sacramento River Cats, which became one of the most successful minor-league baseball teams in history. Smith went on to run minorleague baseball and soccer franchises in Portland, Ore., rescuing them from

bankruptcy and helping turn them into multimillion-dollar assets. He did this without leaving Sacramento. Today, Smith is applying the triumphs and errors from his sports background to the Republic, which is building a temporary home at Cal Expo after selling out three games at Hughes Stadium on the Sac City College campus. “It’s pretty basic,” he says. “We keep close watch on our expenses and put our focus on marketing and promotion. Sports teams get in trouble because they spend too much. We won’t do that.” For an entrepreneur who has inspired soccer fans across the

Sacramento region to buy Republic tickets, hats, shirts and scarves, Smith has a professionally detached view about soccer. Maybe it’s the broken leg. “Let me make it clear, I love soccer,” he says. “But what we’re doing isn’t about soccer. It’s about Sacramento. We want to give Sacramento an attraction where people can gather and have fun and celebrate our community.” Soccer is the perfect vehicle for Smith’s dream of community involvement because Sacramento loves soccer. Before Smith sold one Republic ticket, he immersed himself in data that confirmed 130,000 soccer

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t was going to be a great idea or we were going to become a laughingstock,” says Sally Freedlander, vice chair of the Power Inn Alliance board of directors, about the Art of the Dumpster project on display this summer at 3101 Power Inn Road. A look at the dumpsters painted by 10 regional artists confirms that it is a brilliant idea. From bold to cool to glistening chrome, the lowly receptacles have been transformed into symbols of creativity and possibility. “To see what these artists did, how they took one thing and turned it into something completely different, is just one small example of what we can do with our surroundings,” Freedlander says. Commissioned by Power Inn Alliance, which advocates for the Power Inn business and transportation triangle, and curated by Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Art of the Dumpster brings together artists Brenda Louie, Nathan Cordero, Waylon Homer, John Berger, Gioia Fonda, Jim Piskoti, Mark Emerson, Joy Bertinuson, Robert Ortbal and Susan Silvester in an exhibit in which 22-foot-long dumpsters serve as their canvases. Each artist brought a different approach to the project. Together, the works form a cohesive statement of ingenuity. Emerson, a veteran painter, transferred his trademark bold and geometric style to an Atlas Disposal dumpster using exterior house paint

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The Art of the Dumpster project on display this summer at 3101 Power Inn Road and features artwork by 10 regional artists

"Bulldozer with Passengers" by John Piskoti

Joy Bertinuson created a functional piece inspired by a parklet, which invites visitors to sit down and relax

and 11 daring colors including black, turquoise, orange and light pink. This, he says, is the largest piece he’s ever worked on. The dumpster was “rusty and dirty,” he says, but he wiped it down, scraped off the Atlas label and went to work, spending about six weeks to lay down a double coat of paint and pattern. Silvester went after her dumpster with a spray washer and primer paint. “There was rust and gunk and the surface was slick,” she says. Using house paint and acrylics, Silvester created an elaborate forest scene with dreamlike characters. One side depicts daytime in pale green and blue. On the other side, nighttime is rendered in deep blues. “I don’t see it as a dumpster,” Silvester says. “It’s another surface, a blank space that needed painting.” Piskoti, a retired art professor, tapped into the trash aspect of his dumpster. Large yellow bulldozers dominate the surface of his work,

and purple mountains of garbage make up the background. Seagulls and a skunk watch over the scene. LED lights extend upward to indicate puffs of smoke from the bulldozers. “I remember going to the city dump,” he says, “and I was struck by this surreal apocalyptic scene of garbage and bulldozers and seagulls. It was an out-of-this-world experience, and it’s played out every day all over the world.” Piskoti’s visual commentary reflects the active industry in the Power Inn area, which Freedlander describes as a center for innovation, green jobs and repurposing. The area’s Atlas Disposal is on the cutting edge of trash, using anaerobic digestion for waste management and employing food waste to run trucks,” she says. “The Art of the Dumpster project initiates inventive thinking

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game the boys liked to play the most

In a last-minute attempt to squeeze

was “pin down your sister and spit

in one final attraction before the bus

on her.” Today, kids can go barely 10 Sometimes the journey is as much fun as the destination

minutes without smartphones, iPads and tech gadgets. At least no one is getting spit on, and that’s a plus. A trip to San Francisco was a rare opportunity to spend a little one-on-

carve out individual time for each

that everyone would be amused on

child.

the ride to and from San Francisco.

Taking the Megabus seemed like a

In spite of the heavy holiday-

one time with Emma, a rarity now

great way to travel to the California

weekend traffic, the kids were

that her dad and I share custody of

Academy of Sciences without the

delightful on the journey. Emma

her and her two brothers. Do the

stress of driving in traffic, parking

and Tyler had a blast sharing iPads,

math: Take 50 percent and split it

and, well, parking. We packed a bag

teaching each other how to play

three ways. With numbers like that,

of snacks, iPads for Emma and her

games and watching “MythBusters”

a parent has to work pretty hard to

friend Tyler, and chargers to ensure

on Netflix. It was a rare quiet twohour trip.

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rolled out of town, we hopped a cab to Ghirardelli Square. In our rush, we left the backpack behind when we got out and headed toward our chocolatefilled destination. This is the part of the story where the day could have gone downhill. But it didn’t, not at all. Kids are pretty good at responding to the reactions of the adults around them. If you freak out, they freak out. If you’re mellow, they are generally mellow. Tyler’s dad

and I chose the latter and were pretty

cab company. We remained calm, and

relaxed about the lost iPads. We both

so did our young charges.

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When we got back to the bus, the

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“I’m sure we will get them back. The main thing is, the four of us are safe and happy,” said Tyler’s dad. “Now let’s keep having a great time.” And that’s just what we did. The kids skipped down the street, pointing out interesting architecture. We adults

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This “nice” stuff wasn’t as easy as

in my workplace.” The second part

it sounds. I was beginning to wonder

say something nice to me. His words

is an effort “to say something nice,

if nice guys really do finish last.

were a true reflection of Apostle

uplifting or encouraging.”

“Be gracious in your speech. The goal

my email program chirped. Hoping

is to bring out the best in others in a

I may have missed the formal day,

the Baptists were sending revised

conversation, not put them down, not

but I can still salvage the sentiment.

instructions, I quickly checked my

cut them out.”

After all, chaplains get paid to avoid

in-box.

uplifting things.

ecently I was sitting in my hospital office, staring at the June calendar, when I

noticed I’d missed participating in the eighth annual Say Something Nice Sunday on June 1. In case you missed it, too, the day

Paul’s admonition in Colossians 4:5-6:

office charting patient visits when

derogatory comments and promote

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to visit patients, this should be easy.

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BY NORRIS BURKES

doctor’s office with his sick wife, to

demeaning or derogatory to anyone

At a nearby nurses’ station, I saw

The email was from Rev. Christopher Flesoras, a Greek Orthodox priest from Roseville. He’s

my first opportunity to kick off my

a newly commissioned chaplain in the

pledge drive. Behind the desk sat

Air National Guard and is in line to

a familiar doctor wearing a bright

replace me when I retire next month.

checked shirt.

His email contained a nice thank-you

“I like that pink shirt, doctor,” I said.

for my mentorship during the past year.

He responded with a glare. “He doesn’t think it’s pink,” a

He sounded as if he could be bucking to become grand marshal

nurse said in his defense. “He says it’s

of the Say Something Nice Sunday

orange.”

Parade, even.

“Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.”

was organized by a Baptist church in

“Aren’t those red squares on a

But his note, like his recent life,

Charleston, S.C., to encourage people

white background?” I asked her.

took a solemn turn. Flesoras asked

to be nice. Participants are asked

“Don’t red and white make pink?”

for prayers for his 41-year-old wife,

the Say Something Nice pledge

to take a two-part Civility Pledge.

“I tried to tell him that,” she

Krissy, as she undergoes more clinical

because people like Flesoras inspire

trials for lung cancer.

me to believe that being nice to others

The first part contains a promise to

whispered. The doctor dismissively

“Refrain from saying anything ugly,

swiveled his chair away from us.

just might help our world. And just

Krissy,” he said. “Every prayer lifted

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ith the idea of children in their future, Scott and Gayle Govenar knew they needed more space than their two-bedroom, one-bath house could

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provide. So when a 3,600-squarefoot house facing William Land Park came on the market, they were interested.

In 2005, they became the third owners of the house, built in 1951 by Newton Cope. (Cope is famous locally as the man who turned an 1853 firehouse in Old Sac into The

Firehouse Restaurant.) Though the house had been well maintained, it needed updating and reconfiguring. Scott, a fan of midcentury modern HOME page 54

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The existing crystal chandelier, though not technically midcentury modern, worked perfectly in the room, so the Govenars left it in place in a tribute to the original home.

HOME FROM page 52 architecture, envisioned a home that combined their need for more family space with the clean, modern look he appreciated. “Scott had the vision for this house,” says Gayle. “I don’t think I have that kind of vision for seeing how we could open it up and achieve what we wanted.” What she appreciated was the house’s familyfriendly vibe. “A really nice family lived here before us and raised their kids here,” she explains. “It had a good feel.” Remodeling took eight months. Wanting no delay once the project commenced, they stored all the appliances and materials in the garage before building began. During construction, the couple lived in the house except for two occasions: when the maple flooring was installed and when the walls were plastered. The house needed major updating of its heating, plumbing and electrical systems. “When you buy an older house, you have the expectation that you will need to do these things,” Scott explains. “And you have to have contingencies since you don’t know what’s behind those old walls.” The interior was a mishmash of colors and patterns. The light fixtures

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and window coverings were outdated, and concrete tiles covered most of the floor, though the white carpeting in the living room was spotless. The front and back yards needed attention. Previous owners had painted the living room’s flagstone fireplace white. Adding a raised concrete hearth stained a warm brown, along with shelving and cabinets of zebrawood, added a warm snap of color. The couple refreshed the dining room by removing the draperies and a set of accordion doors and painting the walls. The existing crystal chandelier, though not technically midcentury modern, worked perfectly in the room, so the Govenars left it in place in a tribute to the original home. Creating an open, efficient area for family and social gatherings meant reconfiguring the kitchen. The couple removed a wall and relocated a small bathroom. A new pantry created more storage space and lessened counter clutter. A new entryway allows for an enticing visual sweep of 60 feet through the kitchen and playroom to the revitalized backyard. Anigre, an African hardwood, was used for the kitchen cabinets. Countertops are dark gray flecked with black. Dark-blue concrete tops

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the island. On the walls, glass tiles in light blue and opaque white are interspersed with small blue ceramic Spanish accent tiles. Throughout the house, art by local artists including Joan Moment, Darrell Forney, Gary Dinnen, Eric Dahlin, Peter and Camille VandenBerge, John Tarahteeff, Alan Post, Shirley Hazlett and Ianna Frisby adorns walls and shelves.

“A good designer who is willing to work outside the box smoothes the entire process. It is really an exercise in flexibility.” “Sacramento has an incredibly robust art scene with some of the most talented artists.” Gayle explains. “We enjoy supporting them and their work. We especially enjoy meeting them on the Studio Arts tour in September.” Landscaping, which took a year, began once interior work was complete. What was a “sea of grass” in the front yard became a charming entry/family area buffered from the street, yet still offering views of the park. “We wanted a place where we

could sit and the kids could play,” Gayle says. Local landscape architect David Gibson planted a hedge of Grecian laurel to divide the space into two distinct areas. On one side of the hedge is a grassy street-side verge. On the other, there’s a patio and a grassy area for children to romp. The frontentry gate is made of powder-coated steel in a simple geometric pattern. Built from artificial flagstones painted white, the backyard fireplace creates a visual link between the inside and outside spaces. Utilizing artificial flagstones saved a considerable sum as well. Artificial turf in a shady spot of the backyard play area keeps the children and the sweet family dog from tracking mud into the house. Looking back on the project, Gayle says she was astounded by the number of decisions involved in remodeling an older home. The process, she points out, requires patience and a sense of humor. “A good designer who is willing to work outside the box smoothes the entire process,” she says, noting the contributions made by designers Kari Miner and Cheryl Holben, Kristy Lingner of River City Builders and landscape designer Gibson. “It is really an exercise in flexibility.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n

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Pretty as a Picture THESE CLUBBERS LOVE TO PAINT ON PORCELAIN

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ou can do this,” said a confident Bonnie Lee Boeck. “You just need to know a few techniques.” I am quite certain that producing the beautiful painted porcelain pieces filling Boeck’s Auburn home takes a bit more than knowing a few techniques. How about a steady hand, an eye for color, a skill for creating balance and more than a little artistic talent? I’m not sure I could produce such amazing art if it were paint-bynumbers. If it truly is possible for anyone to create porcelain art, where would you begin? Boeck, a member of Camellia City Porcelain Artists, whipped out a list of members in the area who teach in their home studios. That’s how she got started painting 17 years ago. During a long recovery from an illness, her husband decided she needed something to occupy her time, so he introduced her to a porcelain artist and teacher in the Bay Area. “I was instantly hooked,” said Boeck, who has since moved to Auburn. “Then I got my mother involved and she became addicted as well.”

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Bonnie Lee Boeck, a member of Camellia City Porcelain Artists, started painting 17 years ago

“Really, you could do it,” she persisted. “First, you sprinkle out powdered paint. Blend it with medium. Load your brush and then gently draw the brush across the porcelain in a curved line. See how easy?” I wasn’t convinced. A few years ago, I tried my hand at painting ceramics. “Absolutely not the same thing,” Boeck scolded. “Ceramics is a craft. This is art. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter deemed porcelain painting an art, not a craft. The resolution, passed by Congress, states

that ‘the art of painting on porcelain requires great skill, intensive training and great artistic ability and produces works of beauty.’” OK, then. I am forever destined to be a crafter. “Porcelain painting starts with a white porcelain surface which has been glazed. The powdered paints used are mineral based,” Boeck explained. “After the paint has been mixed with a medium, it is applied to the porcelain with a soft brush, just as you would when painting a canvas. Porcelain paint, which is done in

very thin layers, is applied in stages, working light to dark. After each layer, the porcelain is kiln fired, then repainted and fired again. Once it’s fired, the paint is permanent. It’s a long process. “What I enjoy about porcelain painting is the translucent look,” said Boeck. “That makes it possible to create beautiful layers of color and the appearance of texture. You can’t do that with any other painting technique.” I was thinking about my grandmother’s collection of porcelain

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teacups as I looked around Boeck’s home. Certainly this art form is not limited to teacups. There were amazing framed paintings on the walls, vases that looked like stained glass, trays, bowls and platters. Boeck had selected a variety of subjects, including the traditional flowers, but also wildlife and cottage scenes. My favorite was a framed picture of three very happy, elegant pigs. Grandma would have loved it.

The Camellia City Porcelain Artists club sponsors lots of workshops and demonstrations during its meetings and encourages beginners and the curious to attend. The club meets at 10 a.m. on the fourth Monday of the month, August through May, at Shepard Garden and Arts Center in McKinley Park. Most meetings include a workshop or speaker demonstrating various painting techniques. The club frequently has special meetings and events on weekends. Annual dues are $30 a year, but visitors are always welcome. Usually 25 to 30 artists attend meetings. If you’d like to know more about porcelain art, circle the weekend of Oct. 11 and 12 on your calendar and plan to attend the club’s annual Porcelain Fired Art Show at Shepard Garden & Art Center. You will also find more information on the California China Painting Art Association website, ccpaa.net If you know of an interesting club in the area, contact Gwen Schoen at gwensclubs@aol.com n

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The Big Picture TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS NEED TO TAKE HEALTH IMPACTS INTO ACCOUNT

BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE

aking decisions can be difficult, as anyone who lives with an endlessly equivocating Libran knows. Good decisions are guided by information about all potential consequences. When choices are made in a knowledge vacuum, or if only partial ramifications are considered, outcomes are likely to be less than optimal. That’s why governments (and private developers) are starting to do health impact assessments before embarking on major transportation and development projects. Transportation projects are often especially massive in scope and cost. Their impacts are profound and enduring. Ideally, health impact assessments make health an explicit consideration when evaluating all public policies— not just transportation and land-use projects. It’s a more holistic approach. Community health shouldn’t be ignored. Health assessments create better projects and policies by involving the public and evaluating long-term effects. They insure benefits and harms are equitably

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spread among the vulnerable, such as the young and old or economically disadvantaged. Canadians and Europeans have done formal health impact assessments for several decades. More recently, U.S. agencies have started to use them, mostly on a voluntary basis. In 1986, the World Health Organization urged policymakers to “be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and to accept their responsibilities for health.” The California Department of Public Health notes that “the most important determinants of health and disease are subjects of policymaking in institutional sectors outside

the authority of the public health sector.” In other words, government officials make a multitude of decisions that affect health, usually without any input from public health professionals. Dr. Richard Jackson, a former California state health officer, said, “Transportation decisions are health decisions.” You might think that impacts to human health are already analyzed in the environmental impact reports required for major projects. They are, but only to a degree. The physical environment is the focus of those reports, not health. Transportation projects do affect air and water quality. In turn, poor air quality is

associated with strokes, heart disease, lung cancer, asthma and other respiratory diseases. Water quality may affect cancer rates and cause other diseases. Dirty air and water have decidedly unhealthy consequences, but in developed countries such as the United States, those consequences are only part of the picture. Other impacts of big transportation projects directly affect human life and limb. A road widening usually results in higher vehicle speeds and greater difficulty in crossing the street. This can lead to vehicle crashes, more serious crashes and motorist, pedestrian and bicycle injuries and fatalities. The dangers and downright

nastiness of roads designed to maximize speeds and car volume discourage trips made by public transit, walking or cycling. The resulting reduced physical activity has a huge and negative impact on health. There is an average increase of about 40 minutes per day of physical activity for participants in the Natomas Unified School District Safe Routes to School program. This is according to a health assessment done by the Centers for Disease Control and the UCLA School of Public Health. The extra activity increased the percentage of students who are active for at least 30 minutes every day from 12.8 percent to 21.4 percent. There are many examples of health impact assessments improving, creating support for and even justifying and helping to secure funding for projects. A health impact assessment for the East Bay Greenway proposal lent support to the project and came up with recommendations to make it better. The proposed project was to build a greenway with a walking/

biking trail under the elevated Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train tracks for 12 miles from East Oakland to Hayward. Proponents hoped that more open green space would make it easier for residents to be active and help fight the increasing incidence of diabetes and obesity. The assessment concluded the project would increase physical activity, foster social contacts between neighbors and reduce stress. By recommending that the greenway connect to existing bike or walking paths, the assessment further encouraged activity. Discussions revealed security concerns were a barrier to greenway use. The assessment recommended lighting, other design features and creating a citizen watch group to patrol the trail. In Georgia, health assessors made similar recommendations for the Atlanta BeltLine, a project to develop 22 miles of an abandoned railroad. According to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the project will â&#x20AC;&#x153;promote the health of local residentsâ&#x20AC;? far more than if the

BeltLine had been built without the assessment. When updating its general plan, the Humboldt County board of supervisors had its public health agency consider the health impacts of three future growth alternatives, ranging from restricting development to existing urban areas to allowing continued sprawl. The public health officer partnered with a nonprofit to conduct a health impact assessment. County planners and a community group participated.

The conclusion was that the most compact development alternative would improve health outcomes for almost all 35 community-prioritized indicators, while the sprawl alternative would harm health. Knowledge is power, including the power to do good. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, pedestrian, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@ surewest.net n

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Tag, You’re It! WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO LABEL YOUR PLANTS

BY ANITA CLEVENGER GARDEN JABBER

y husband gave me a set of tall metal plant markers for our garden years ago. They are still on a shelf in the garage. Back then, I knew the names and locations of everything I’d planted. Labels were for public gardens and forgetful gardeners. Not for me. I still know the names of my 60-odd roses, but it sometimes takes me a moment to pull them out of my memory. Will there be a time when I can’t recall them at all? Already I don’t remember the identities of other plants in my garden or in the driveway “pot ghetto.” Once, they all had plastic stick tags, but many are now gone or illegible. Not only do I forget their names, but I don’t remember what I’ve planted or where. I dig into forgotten dormant bulbs in the winter, wonder what is popping up in the spring and mourn the loss of a small smothered plant during fall cleanup. I need to do better at keeping track. Things are much better organized in the public gardens where I volunteer. In the Historic Rose Garden in Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, we list all of the roses

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by location in a database, and we hang laminated tags on each rose. Water-efficient plants at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center are marked with sturdy metal stakes bearing plant labels. It’s good information for visitors and gardeners alike. Many kinds of plant markers, mounted on wires or stakes, are sold in garden centers and online. There are some drawbacks to putting upright markers in the garden. I’ve tripped over them again and again. Inexpensive ones bend out of shape. Heavy-duty ones can hurt you. They may get overgrown or moved out of position. Still, it’s a simple way to mark what you have—or what you have lost. A sign next to a dead plant or in an empty space may indicate that a plant is gone for good or is just dormant and will come back. Gardeners are optimists and know that hope and some plants spring eternally. Every potted plant in my garden came with a label on its pot or a tag stuck into the pot. I find plastic “stick tags” all over the place, like little white grave markers reminding me of dearly departed plants. My friend Barbara Oliva says that tags “go walking.” While I’ve never seen one move on its own, I’ve watched squirrels toss them aside as they frantically bury a nut, and I’ve heard about dogs or children pulling

them out. Worse yet, kids sometimes move the tags around. Tags break, get buried or fall out. For a while, I used popsicle sticks, but they are only good for a little while until they rot. Plastic or metal is much more durable and more likely to stay put if attached to something rather than stuck into the soil. For roses and other plants with woody stems, you can use wraparound plastic tags that loop and lock. You can also punch a hole into a stick tag and attach it to the plant, its pot or support, or a stake. The tags for my tomatoes are at eye level, fastened onto each cage with a zip tie. Our favorite material for fastening hanging tags in the cemetery rose garden is strips of nylon stockings, which are an increasingly rare commodity now that women wear pants or go bare-legged. The nylon

is soft, unobtrusive and rots away after a couple of years. More sturdy materials can damage the plant. Twine, string and wire all have their advocates. Most “permanent” marking pens will fade in the sun, leaving faint frustrating traces. A soft pencil makes surprisingly durable markings. Other alternatives are printed labels, paint pens or garden pens. There are many creative ways to label your plants. I’ve visited friends’ gardens where they paint the names of roses onto rocks, plates or handmade ceramic plaques. If you aren’t into garden art, you can make a schematic map of your garden, identifying the locations of your plants. Many people use garden journals to write down what they’ve planted and where, illustrating them with sketches or photos. A simple list of what you’ve planted is better than what I usually do: digging a hole, thrusting a plant into it and losing its tag in the process. A rose by any name smells as sweet. If you want to know how to take care of it, buy another just like it or recommend it to a friend, you need to know what the heck it is. Anita Clevenger is a lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call 875-6913 or go to ucanr.edu/sites/sacmg n

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95608 CARMICHAEL

4920 OLIVE OAK WAY $410,000 6153 VIA CASITAS $155,000 4909 BOYD DR $249,000 4345 JAN DR $275,000 4353 GALEWOOD WAY $275,000 6105 PALM DR $436,000 25 RIVER BLUFF LN $540,000 5419 KIRKLAND WAY $303,000 1639 ARDEN BLUFFS LN $552,000 5259 MISSION VIEW CT $298,000 6000 ARD AVEN PL $725,000 3200 ASHWOOD LN $200,000 6040 TELESCO WAY $250,000 5900 RANGER WAY $325,000 2553 EL VITA WAY $369,000 6326 PERRIN WAY $390,100 4832 NORTH AVE $425,375 1682 DEL DAYO DR $875,000 6406 LINCOLN AVE $304,500 5631 ENGLE RD $215,000 2404 FALLWATER LN $273,000 6935 LINCOLN CREEK CIR$419,000 2366 VIA CAMINO AVE $132,000 3824 HOLLOWAY LN $162,500 4109 GEYSER LN $420,000 6536 MILES LN $140,000 3216 PETTY LN $158,000 2425 GUNN RD $161,000 4834 CAMDEN CT $340,000 4647 LADERA WAY $359,000 5500 WYNDHAM HILL CT $475,000 4727 OAK TWIG WAY $380,000 4961 OLIVE OAK WAY $465,000 4249 GLENRIDGE DR $260,000 5314 ANGELINA AVE $276,000 5305 BAUMGART WAY $280,000 3700 GORDON WAY $850,000 6034 WINDING WAY $279,000 3700 ORANGERIE WAY $284,500 2917 PALM ESTATES CT $465,000 6907 LINCOLN AVE $376,000 5205 WHISPER OAKS LN $426,500 5541 DYE WAY $454,000 7110 STELLA LN #15 $104,000 2436 VIA CAMINO AVE $125,000 5858 SHARPS CIR $249,900 4817 MELVIN DR $270,000 4720 MARGUERITE WAY $575,000 6152 VIA CASITAS $99,000 5133 KOVANDA AVE $252,500 4307 GALEWOOD WAY $349,000 5209 SAGEL CT $260,000 4776 OAK TWIG WAY $361,250 7220 WILLOWBANK WAY $385,000 6032 CHERRELYN WAY $207,000 6111 WINDING WAY $220,000 5712 FRONTIER WAY $455,000 5519 TASHI BELL LN $489,000 3927 OAK VILLA CIR $127,000

95816 EAST SACRAMENTO, MCKINLEY PARK

541 38TH ST 1550 36TH ST 216 23RD ST 2731 D STREET 3835 H ST 952 33RD ST 3271 B ST 1125 34TH ST 1511 26TH ST 2504 H ST 3708 S ST 253 39TH ST 601 34TH ST 3117 C ST 1435 38TH ST 1564 34TH ST 3129 CARLY WAY 1547 34TH ST 3177 CARLY WAY 632 39TH ST 1901 23RD ST 719 36TH ST

$420,000 $292,000 $282,000 $354,000 $317,000 $525,000 $360,000 $405,000 $435,000 $553,000 $396,000 $465,000 $570,000 $430,000 $1,225,000 $260,925 $263,000 $329,000 $355,000 $375,000 $379,900 $680,000

95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 3900 12TH AVE 5508 2ND AVE 3742 BIGLER WAY 5905 TAHOE 2533 54TH 3335 7TH AVE 2617 51ST ST 2964 43RD ST 3985 SHERMAN WAY 2935 32ND ST 4717 V ST 3351 42ND ST 3331 SAN CARLOS ST

95818 LAND PARK, CURTIS PARK

$199,000 $297,000 $140,000 $303,000 $329,000 $155,000 $304,000 $125,000 $235,000 $170,000 $316,000 $190,000 $230,000

1972 BIDWELL WAY $353,200 2040 BIDWELL WAY $427,000 1341 MARIAN WAY $735,000 2610 14TH ST $295,000 2724 9TH AVE $381,000 1288 MARIAN WAY $485,000 564 6TH AVE $340,000 2516 SAN FERNANDO WAY$188,000 1531 7TH AVE $810,000 2117 17TH ST $318,000 2666 CURTIS WAY $499,000 1521 W ST $297,500 1845 CARAMAY WAY $360,000 2816 4TH AVE $429,000 2801 14TH ST $545,000 1545 11TH AVE $672,500 2661 DONNER WAY $369,000 1630 9TH AVE $434,700 1020 U ST $435,000 1329 VALLEJO WAY $561,500

3731 17TH ST 2773 PORTOLA WAY 2746 MARSHALL WAY 733 MCCLATCHY WAY

$735,000 $308,000 $540,000 $275,000

95819 EAST SACRAMENTO, RIVER PARK

640 40TH ST $609,900 4100 FOLSOM BLVD #2A $420,000 5737 MONALEE AVE $462,500 5331 SANDBURG DR $445,000 1332 40TH ST $1,050,000 4408 C ST $465,000 558 LAGOMARSINO $479,500 650 52ND ST $370,000 5413 E ST $450,000 544 36TH STREET $510,000 5669 ELVAS $395,000 282 40TH ST $510,000 710 50TH ST $615,000 1425 57TH ST $510,000 5190 MODDISON WAY $334,000 401 SAN ANTONIO $383,000 530 SANDBURG DR $405,000 658 41ST ST $428,025 95 51ST ST $300,000 1352 61ST ST $391,000 4911 B ST $394,500 5400 AILEEN WAY $398,500 5125 J ST $319,000 618 52ND ST $361,850 115 52ND ST $582,350 1752 41ST ST $359,000 5312 SHEPARD AVE $399,500 1708 40TH ST $680,000

95821 ARDEN-ARCADE 2701 CLOVER LN 2910 WHITNEY AVE 2073 SILVER CT 3237 EASTWOOD RD 4201 OTEROL CT 3309 BROOKWOOD RD 3561 MIAMI ST 3956 ROSEMARY CIR 2520 CATALINA DR 3230 FIELDCREST DR 3240 LERWICK RD 2570 VERNA WAY 4618 BRIARWOOD DR 14013800 4434 PARK GREEN CT 3204 CARNELIAN CT 2440 MICHELLE DR 2710 WRIGHT 3301 CHENU AVE 3834 COUNTRY HAVEN COURT 3300 ARBOR WAY 3500 GABILAN WAY 2016 EL CAMINO AVE 4915 HOPE LN 2245 TULIP WAY 3905 HILLCREST LN

$140,000 $215,000 $150,000 $240,000 $325,000 $328,000 $333,000 $229,000 $304,900 $620,000 $210,000 $234,000 $360,000 $330,000 $415,000 $173,800 $179,000 $325,000 $417,000 $199,000 $330,000 $117,000 $975,000 $205,000 $336,000

3858 WOODCREST RD 2200 BURNEY WAY 4306 ZEPHYR WAY 4438 PARK GREEN CT

$375,000 $175,000 $353,000 $389,950

95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 7265 LOMA VERDE WAY 7442 24 ST 3210 ELLWOOD AVE 7035 CROMWELL WAY 5669 LA CAMPANA WAY 5642 CAPSTAN WAY 1142 LANCASTER WAY 10 LUNDY CT 6811 W 23RD ST 2293 68TH AVE 6860 DEMARET DR 5813 13TH. ST 7528 BOWEN CIR 5661 CAZADERO WAY 3181 TORRANCE AVE 924 LINVALE CT 6017 HOLSTEIN WAY 2181 57TH AVE 5617 BRADD WAY 1230 27TH AVE 4925 CARMEN WAY 2436 37TH AVE 1443 LONDON ST 1800 60TH AVE 5677 JACKS LN 5885 GLORIA DR #1 7511 WAINSCOTT WAY 5656 HELEN WAY 2409 39TH AVE 7056 21ST ST 7459 29TH ST 7448 WINKLEY 2136 STACIA WAY 5665 DELCLIFF CIR 7521 21ST ST 7321 WILLOWWICK 1103 DARNEL WAY

95825 ARDEN

$110,000 $112,000 $146,000 $275,000 $180,000 $460,000 $349,500 $229,000 $130,000 $135,000 $175,000 $485,000 $168,000 $220,000 $115,000 $447,000 $480,000 $175,000 $190,000 $555,000 $265,000 $229,000 $80,000 $189,990 $216,000 $123,500 $212,000 $222,500 $236,500 $113,000 $129,000 $150,000 $279,000 $440,000 $139,000 $175,000 $276,500

102 E RANCH RD $295,200 649 WOODSIDE SIERRA #4$83,000 2128 UNIVERSITY PARK DR$305,000 485 HARTNELL PL $401,000 2086 UNIVERSITY PARK DR$370,000 1407 HOOD RD $124,500 2212 WOODSIDE LANE #6$125,000 3210 COTTAGE WAY $259,999 1217 VANDERBILT WAY $265,000 3216 STREVEL WAY $222,000 442 HARTNELL PL $371,000 144 HARTNELL PL $290,000 2472 LARKSPUR LN #363 $101,000 933 VANDERBILT WAY $260,900 1901 BELL ST $244,000 874 WOODSIDE LN #3 $131,000 3107 VIA GRANDE $93,000 2119 COTTAGE WAY $75,500 1497 UNIVERSITY AVE $320,000

979 FULTON AVE #493 1041 FULTON AVE #384 3253 VIA GRANDE 3116 MERRYWOOD DR 425 HARTNELL PL 977 FULTON AVE #490 1428 COMMONS DR 1413 HOOD RD

$77,000 $120,000 $150,000 $209,000 $395,000 $107,000 $340,000 $123,500

95831 GREENHAVEN, S LAND PARK

308 RIVER ISLE WAY $239,000 6360 CHETWOOD WAY $449,000 61 WINDUBEY CIR $245,000 19 ESTUARY CT $288,000 10 SEA CT $358,000 7647 ROMAN OAK WAY $511,500 7361 DURFEE WAY $194,000 443 DE MAR DR $267,000 7756 PARK RIVER OAK CIR $225,000 563 RIVERGATE WAY $325,000 6824 GLORIA DR $430,000 6319 N POINT WAY $438,000 6241 RIVERSIDE BLVD #201$118,000 7341 BARR WAY $330,000 15 WATERFRONT CT $281,000 737 EL MACERO WAY $345,000 40 ESTUARY CT $240,000 14 RIPPLE CT $350,000 508 ROUNDTREE CT $107,900 6875 CLAIBORNE WAY $202,500 6150 RIVERTON WAY $433,000 6705 FREEHAVEN DR $494,500 6457 S. LAND PARK DR $499,000 1107 ROUNDTREE CT $115,000 403 ROUNDTREE CT $120,000 7448 DELTAWIND DRIVE $228,000 1157 MONTE VISTA WAY $502,500 7720 OAKSHORE DR $439,000 109 BLUE WATER CIR $260,000 6456 S LAND PARK DR $465,000 825 FLORIN RD $170,000 775 PORTUGAL WAY $198,000 728 RIVERCREST DR $250,500 7268 FARM DALE WAY $270,000 23 PARK WEST CT $172,000 1065 SILVER LAKE DR $312,000 23 PARKSHORE CIR $361,638 1009 GREENHURST WAY $313,000 528 VALIM WAY $473,000

95864 ARDEN

3408 WINDSOR DR 3115 BAKULA WAY 3208 BERKSHIRE WAY 2020 VESTA WAY 3208 CHURCHILL RD 3453 WEMBERLEY DR 3333 WEMBERLEY DR 3329 WELLINGTON DR 3217 WEMBERLEY DR

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Swim Smart SIX SAFE-SWIMMING TIPS THAT AREN’T COMMON SENSE

landlocked timeout because she knows you shouldn’t swim right after you eat. Nonsense. There has never been a single documented case of a person drowning as a consequence of eating. The swimming-eating myth probably arose from the commonsense observation that if you exercise hard on a full stomach, you may get a “stitch” in your side. Few recreational swimmers swim at that level of intensity, and even if you did, a cramp isn’t going to make you sink like a rock. Your muscles will work just fine—and get you to the shore or shallow water if necessary.

BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

his month, many of us will escape the heat in a pool or the Sacramento or American rivers. Swim safety is a priority, with the No. 1 goal being to prevent drownings. But there’s more to a healthy swim experience than not drowning. To enhance your aquatic adventures, here are six smart swimming tips that come from science, not common sense. Clear water isn’t necessarily clean water. Swimming pool water should be clear, but clarity alone doesn’t mean the water is free of disease-causing microorganisms because germs are invisible to the eye. A pool’s main defense against germs is a mixture of chlorine-containing molecules collectively called free chlorine. At the proper concentration and pH, free chlorine will kill bacteria and other microbes in the water. If you’re wondering whether your favorite pool has the right chemical balance to control germs, you can check it yourself by buying chlorine test strips and dipping one in the water. Or use your nose: There should be a faint whiff of bleach near the water surface.

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An excessive “chlorine” smell at the pool means someone needs to add more chlorine.

An excessive “chlorine” smell at the pool means someone needs to add more chlorine. Most people think that an eye-irritating odor around a pool is a sign of too much chlorine in the water. In fact, that strong smell isn’t free chlorine. It’s chloramines. Chloramines are formed when free chlorine reacts with contaminants in the pool, especially urine. The way to get rid of that smell is to shock or superchlorinate the pool with enough free chlorine to turn the chloramines into a gas (ammonia) that dissipates into the air. Be aware that a stinky pool may also be a germy pool because, unlike free chlorine,

chloramines are not very good at killing microbes. Avoid swimming in public waters after a heavy rainfall. Runoff from a storm washes soil, animal waste and sewage overflow into lakes, rivers and ocean shores, increasing the number of potentially dangerous bacteria in the water. The effect is temporary; most diseasecausing germs naturally die off within a day or two. Go ahead and swim after eating. Junior just finished a bowl of ice cream and wants to jump in the pool. But Mom puts him on

Use extra sun protection around water. Solar ultraviolet radiation causes sunburns and damages DNA, raising your risk for skin cancer. Being near water increases your sun exposure because some of the radiation is reflected. If you’re in the path of that reflected ultraviolet light, you get a double dose, from above and below. The direction of the reflected light depends on the angle at which the sun is hitting the water. At midday, when the sun is straight overhead in the sky, light is reflected straight up—at people in or on the water. If you’re in a boat, a hat alone won’t protect your face. By contrast, in late afternoon, the sun is lower on the horizon and

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light skips off the water at an angle closer to the ground. People on the shore will catch those reflected rays. Don’t borrow air from a scuba diver. Do you ever take a big breath and see how deep you can dive? Or have you been snorkeling and followed a fish to the bottom? Then you’ve tried freediving, which is swimming deep while holding your breath. Serious freedivers include spear fishermen and anyone catching California abalone, which by law may not be taken using scuba gear. Say you’re freediving and you encounter a scuba diver. You borrow some air from the scuba tank. This gives you extra time to explore, maybe to bag another abalone, and then you hold your breath and swim to the surface as usual. Sounds great, right? Wrong. The air from the scuba tank is compressed by the pressure of the water column above you. As you ascend, the pressure decreases, and the air you’re holding in your lungs expands. Even from a modest depth of, say, 10 feet, the change in volume

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Don’t Meet Me at the Fair ANNUAL SUMMER EVENT ISN’T ALWAYS KIND TO THE ANIMALS

delicate creatures. They came with no care instructions. Offering live animals as prizes is not a good lesson in kindness to animals for a child, but plenty of other bad lessons have been taught to kids every year at the California State Fair, including live birthing of calves and nursing sows immobilized in cruel birthing crates. You may remember what happened to a

BY SUE OWENS WRIGHT

stressed pregnant cow several years

PETS & THEIR PEOPLE

ago when it panicked and escaped its

enclosure. I look forward to the fair every year. I have missed only one in

n July 11, the California

my life, but this tragic incident almost

State Fair will open at

soured me on attending it ever again.

Cal Expo, marking 160

I understand that the bovine births

years of operation if you count the

are now being televised from remote

first agricultural exposition held in

cameras to reduce the animals’ stress

San Francisco in 1854. Sacramento

in an already-stressful situation.

has been the state fair’s permanent

The state fair has never seemed

home since 1859, though the fair

to me a very kind place for animals.

has been held at several locations

Animals and entertainment for the

in our city prior to its final move

masses isn’t always a good mix. I find

to Cal Expo in 1968. Many older

myself pitying the poor creatures

Sacramentans grow misty-eyed

in livestock barns, races, rodeos,

recalling the halcyon days when

elephant rides, petting zoos and on

the fair was held on Stockton

grand old brick Counties building.

always won a prize, to the delight

the midway. Sacramento summers

Boulevard, with its mature shade

That fountain no doubt soothed a few

of his young daughter. Those prizes

are typically hot, and though some

trees that sheltered fairgoers from

tired feet and cooled the kiddies.

included stuffed toys, glassware and

precautions are taken to cool them,

even live animals such as chameleons,

many of the animals look miserable.

the hot August sun. For me, this

Animal attractions historically

eagerly anticipated yearly event

have been featured at the state fair,

turtles, yellow chicks and fuzzy

I’m sure that is even truer for animals

marked the end of summer vacation

including horse races. I recall the

ducklings. What child could resist?

in midway sideshows. Back in the

and the last hurrah of fun before

excitement of cheering on our favorite

Fairgoers were intrigued by

school started.

Thoroughbred in many a photo finish.

the exotic chameleons displayed

sideshow “freaks” like the Amazing

In those days, families could

Undeniably, the most exciting venue

on a bright-green sandwich board

Five-legged Lamb and the Giant

dine on delicious homemade meals

has always been the midway, with its

to demonstrate their amazing

Vietnamese Rat, which wasn’t really

prepared by local church groups,

thrilling rides and other amusements.

camouflage abilities. Everyone wanted

a rat at all but a capybara, a large

which also provided complimentary

I watched my father pitch his hard-

a chameleon, including me. At the end

semiaquatic rodent from South

fans for fairgoers to cool themselves

earned dimes to win souvenirs for

of the day, fairgoers went home with

America.

while listening to the orchestra

his family at the carnival. Sometimes

a menagerie of prize pets and no clue

playing on the bandstand. Rainbow-

he’d let me pitch some coins, too, but

of how to properly feed or house these

colored dancing waters spouted from

Dad was a deadeye shot. He nearly

a fountain gracing the facade of the

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1960s, fairgoers might have seen

The fair finally ceased giveaways of animals on the midway, but I was dismayed last year to see that goldfish

were still offered as prizes in various

“We can’t imagine spending our

carnival booths. Goldfish are also

best years

living, feeling beings, and they have

anywhere but home.”

no place on the state fair midway. Think how hot the water in those tiny fish bowls must get on a triple-digit day. You can imagine where those fish end up when the novelty wears off, if they survive that long. Animal-rights groups have been trying to persuade officials to stop allowing goldfish to be offered as carnival prizes at this year’s fair. I hope they succeed. The animals have never been winners in these games of chance. In fact, most have no chance of survival. I hope that the California State Fair will restrict prize giveaways on their midway to stuffed toys and other inanimate objects and will take steps to ensure that henceforth our state fair is kind to all animals. Sue Owens Wright is an awardwinning author of fiction and nonfiction about dogs. She writes the Beanie and Cruiser Mysteries for dog lovers. For more information, go to sueowenswright.com n3

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Many Hats MORE THAN AN ACTOR, HE ALSO WRITES, TEACHES, DIRECTS AND DOES VOICEOVERS

BY JESSICA LASKEY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

hen people use the term “Renaissance man,” they’re usually being generous. If you’re using it to describe Matt K. Miller, you’re being accurate. Miller is one of those rare artistic professionals who does more than just act. He also directs, teaches, writes award-winning plays and lends his expressive, resonant voice to everything from commercials to anime. Yes, you read that right: anime. “When I was living in Los Angeles, I submitted a cassette tape—that tells you how long ago it was—to an anime producer I knew,” says Miller, who was cast as Tenchi in the Cartoon Network anime series “Tenchi Muyô!”

Miller has worked as both an actor and director with nearly every professional theater company in town. Miller’s cartoon work is just one fascinating facet of his career, which started back in his native Rockville Centre, N.Y. He did theater in high school and college, then looked for a place where he could spread his wings.

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Matt Miller

He didn’t want to go straight to New York without a union card, so he headed to Chicago instead. It was the early 1980s, a good time to be an actor in the Windy City. With consistent acting work, it wasn’t long before he earned his membership card for all three unions: Actors’ Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. After eight years in Chicago, Miller moved to Los Angeles in 1990. “I really tried to do it all in L.A.,” Miller says. “I got a lot of anime work because I could record really fast. You have to be able to act, have a character and match the ‘lip flap’

of the animation. It’s tricky, but I happened to have a knack for it.” There, he added to his résumé, working in anime, theater, television and film. He had roles on the soap operas “Santa Barbara” and “General Hospital” and appeared in the film “Gods and Generals.” But Miller wasn’t satisfied living in L.A. “I was working a lot but had no real artistic satisfaction,” he admits. “I wasn’t happy in L.A. My first marriage was breaking up, and I found I was happier doing work out of town.” A majority of those out-of-town opportunities were coming from Sacramento Theatre Company, where

Miller was performing regularly. (In fact, the first time I ever saw Miller onstage was at STC in 2003 in “Fully Committed,” a manic one-man show in which Miller played a total of 40 distinct characters.) STC’s thenartistic director, Peggy Shannon, loved working with Miller so much that she offered to keep him busy onstage if he moved to Sacramento. Move Miller did, in the one week he had off between “Fully Committed” and his next show. “I rented a truck, packed up my stuff in L.A. and got outta Dodge,” Miller says. ARTIST page 71

Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JULY

The b. sakata garo gallery will exhibit lamps by Garry Knox Bennett July 1 to Aug. 2.Shown: Bronze daffodil lamp. 923 20th St.; bsakatagaro.com

Archival Gallery presents new summer-themed paintings by Robin Leddy Giustina and sculpture using found objects by Richard Feese July 9 to Aug. 4. Shown: “Bikes and Legs” by Robin Leddy Giustina. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalframe.com

ART HOUSE presents Friends of ARTHOUSE Artists from July 12 to Aug. 4. Shown: Orange Perfume by Elaine Bowers. 1021 R St.; arthouse-sacramento.com

“Champagne” is the first exhibition in the newly remodeled space at Verge Center for the Arts. Curated by San Francisco visual and performing artist Yarrow Slaps, the show runs through Aug. 24. Shown: a painting by Angela Dalinger. 625 S St.; vergeart.com

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center’s annual Members Show is always exciting for the quality and range of photographic art it showcases. The exhibit runs July 8 to Aug. 2. Shown: “Golden Gate Structure” by Rhonda Campbell. 2015 J St.; viewpointgallery.org

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Celebrating Spiritual Awareness COMMUNITY SUPPORT GROUP HOSTS HOLIDAY CARNIVAL

By Jessica Laskey RIVER CITY PREVIEWS

ou can celebrate not only the founding of our fair nation, but also the universal good that lives in us all at the Center for Spiritual Awareness’ 4th of July Carnival: Picnic & Performance in West Sacramento. The CSA was founded in 1998 to provide compassionate, spiritual support to its members and the community at large—regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation—under the spiritual leadership of the Rev. Georgia Prescott. Combine that with traditional Fourth of July fare (hot dogs, potato salad and apple pie), original performances and familyfriendly activities galore, and you’ve got one kickin’ carnival. Festivities begin at noon, when children are turned loose outside the CSA’s 12,500-square-foot facility to bop in the bounce houses, enjoy the slick Slip ’n’ Slide, get their faces painted and dunk (or get dunked) in the dunk tank. At 1:30 p.m., the CSA Teens group will present an original theater piece, “America the Change,” that incorporates spoken word, dance and musical duets on cello and violin

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Celebrate America's birthday at the Center for Spiritual Awareness’ 4th of July Carnival: Picnic & Performance in West Sacramento. The festivities begin at noon Photo courtesy of David Seals Photography.

to explore their experiences growing up American. Next, the team at Generation Next Media will perform “The Living Constitution: A Lively Look at the Creation of America,” which was commissioned by the Sacramento Public Library for its 2012 “One Book” celebration and has since been performed around the region at elementary schools, high schools and churches. The witty, high-energy romp through 250 years of the making of a nation will have history buffs, patriotic parents and energetic kids highly entertained. Admission to the picnic is free. Admission for both performances is a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12, though no one will be turned away for inability to pay. Satisfy your hunger with a hot dog, potato salad and beverage combo for $2, plus plenty of

separate side dishes and desserts to choose from. For more information, call CSA at 374-9177. The Center for Spiritual Awareness is at 1275 Starboard Drive in West Sacramento.

ROCK THE CROCKER Summer is in full swing, so why not cool off and catch some even cooler activities at the Crocker Art Museum this month? First up is Art Mix/Hip Hop from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 10. Get hyped for everything hip-hop including live performances by FLOW Sacramento (featuring the Element Brass Band), hip-hop DJ sets by Sacramento’s best mix-masters, a music video showcase presented by Sol Collective, a DIY beat laboratory and writing workshop, wearable

mix tape art making, plus in-gallery performances by Foreign Native. Shop at the Hip Hop Pop Up Shop for local music, merchandise and more, enjoy under-$5 drink specials all night and 10-minute talks on the current exhibition “African American Art: The Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond If classical music is more your jam, don’t miss the Classical Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 13, featuring musicians from the Camellia Symphony under the direction of conductor Christian Baldini. The concert will highlight female composers and their compelling stories, and music, to complement the “Workt by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts” exhibition. Be a cool cat and get down at the Jazz in the Courtyard concert at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, featuring MJ’s Brass Boppers, a “singing

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and swinging” party band that will transport you to New Orleans with its sensational Southern sound. Tickets are $6 for members, $10 for students and kids, $12 for nonmembers. Has your tyke ever dreamed of being locked in a museum overnight like Ben Stiller in the kooky adventure movie “Night at the Museum”? From 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, make their dreams a reality with the Night at the Museum event presented by the Crocker with the help of the Sacramento Theatre Company. Kids can wear their PJs or dress up as their favorite character from the movie while they enjoy art activities, live animal shows, screenings of the film, dancing and more at this familyfriendly fun fest. The event is free for members and is included in general admission. For tickets and more information on all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

THE FOREST FOR THE TREES See the great outdoors depicted by a great artistic eye when artist Matt Bult’s solo exhibition “Meadow/ Wood” comes to the Alex Bult Gallery (the names aren’t coincidence: the gallery is owned by Bult’s son) from July 10 through Aug. 2.

Bult is a multimedia mastermind, making arresting artwork with everything from traditional acrylics and watercolor to assemblage and collage to found pieces of wood. This particular exhibition was inspired by a meadow near Bult’s Nevada City home and is dedicated “to the memory of our dog Kira, who passed away on March 10th, 2014,” Bult says. Meet the award-winning artist at the preview party from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 10 or during the Second Saturday artist reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 12. For more information, call 476-5540 or go to alexbultgallery.com The Alex Bult Gallery is at 1114 21st St., Suite B.

UNDER THE BIG TOP It’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! “Mary Poppins” flies into the Wells Fargo Pavilion from July 8 through 13 as part of the Sacramento Music Circus season. You surely won’t need a spoonful of sugar to swallow this whimsical Disney classic, complete with flying nanny (played by Julie Andrews in the film, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal), bottomless bag and famously hummable songs. For this show only, you can get a $20 discount off tickets in the yellow, red or blue seating sections for kids ages 4-12. Just don’t feed the birds …

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Come see what’s new inside! ARTIST FROM page 68 Now situated in Sacramento, Miller has worked as both an actor and director with nearly every professional theater company in town, including STC, B Street Theatre, Capital Stage and New Helvetia. He even served as STC’s artistic director during the 2010-2011 season. But it was his connection to Sacramento Shakespeare Festival that got him going on his current career track. “I directed ‘Twelfth Night’ for the festival,” Miller recalls, “and because the plays are technically part of a class at Sacramento City College, the school made me an adjunct professor so I could direct. After ‘Twelfth Night,’ they offered me Storytime— directing children’s theater—and this year I’ll be teaching Intro to Acting as well.” Miller is not new to teaching, considering he’s done one-on-one actor coaching for years as well as led master classes for STC’s Young Professionals Conservatory and

sessions at various summer camps. But teaching gives him the stability he was longing for, especially since settling down with his wife, Katherine, and having a child. “People kept telling Kat that she should meet me,” Miller says. (You can hear his grin all the way through the phone.) “So many people tried to set us up that she thought, ‘Is he paying you people?!’” The persistence paid off: After a six-month engagement, the pair married onstage at STC in May 2006 and welcomed their son, Max, two years later. While Miller and his wife are both professional actors, they might have to make way for the newest addition to the acting clan. “Max played Tiny Tim in ‘A Christmas Carol’ at STC,” Miller says proudly. “He stole the show. Now he’s been asking when he can be in a show again.” With a Renaissance man like Miller as his dad, you can be sure that Max will be wowing the world in no time. n

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The 25th annual Festival of Concerts, presented by the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop is scheduled for July 9, 16, 18, 19 and 20 at various venues.

PREVIEWS FROM page 71 Ride an umbrella from England to the sunny “South Pacific” for the musical of the same name on July 22 through 27. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic will have you singing before you even sit down, with songs like “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Bali Ha’I,” “Younger Than Springtime” and “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” tunes that helped the show win a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1950 and 10 Tony Awards when it debuted on Broadway in 1949. The show, which explores themes of love, war and race amid a lush musical backdrop, inspired the movie that was the third-highest-grossing U.S. film in the 1950s. For tickets and more information, call 557-1999. The Wells Fargo Pavilion is at 1419 H St.

BIG FUN! Just as it’s starting to get blistering outside, it’s time for the state’s biggest outdoor extravaganza: the 2014 California State Fair is open for business July 11-27 at Cal Expo. Just be sure to bring your sunscreen.

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With 70 exhilarating midway rides, statewide competitions for everything from art to agriculture, wine and beer gardens, livestock displays, live horse racing, free concerts galore and more food than you could ever consume in one sitting—get a deep-fried Snickers; you’ll thank me—the State Fair has the most summer excitement you can get for a single ticket. For tickets and more information, go to bigfun.org Cal Expo is at 1600 Exposition Blvd.

DROP-DEAD AWESOME Whether you’ve jumped on the zombie bandwagon or cover your eyes during ads for “The Walking Dead” television show, the Trash Film Orgy (TFO) Zombie Walk is sure to draw undead aficionados of all kinds on Saturday, July 12, which also marks the opening of the 14th annual TFO Film Festival. Started in 2001, the Zombie Walk is designed to promote the TFO Film Festival, and it’s better than ever this year. Beginning at 5 p.m. at Roosevelt Park (940 P St.), get your zombie on at the free Carnival of the Dead, which will include hours of undead

entertainment (including live music with Tragically White), food trucks (including Squeeze Inn and Fuzion), professional make-up stations, a zombie shooting gallery, dancing, carnival games, vendors, contests, prizes and more. At 9 p.m., the Dead Walk starts, which is a largescale performance art experience where folks dress up as zombies and infiltrate the streets of midtown. New this year, the TFO will actually shut down 10th Street to do a zombie parade to the tunes of the Undead Marching Band. Once you’ve dragged your undead self around midtown, the party continues at 10 p.m. at the Dead Party at the Crest Theatre (1013 K St.) for the opening night of the TFO Film Festival, which will feature a stage performance and a special screening of “Dawn of the Dead.” Though the Crest event is only for adults 18 and over, the rest of the evening’s events (the Carnival of the Dead and the Dead Walk) are open to all ages. Bloody good! For more information, go to trashfilmorgy.com

What do you get when you combine talented young musicians, top-notch instruction and fun, free performances? The 25th annual Festival of Concerts, presented by the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop and directed by Susan Lamb Cook, on July 9, 16, 18, 19 and 20 at various venues. Founded in 1990 by Cook, the summer session of the SYS Summer Chamber Music Workshop introduces young musicians to chamber music literature and rehearsal techniques through individualized coaching in duets, trios and quartets with music professionals, as well as public performance opportunities. Over the years, the program has gone from teaching 15 participants with three teachers to serving more than 70 students a week with a staff of 25. Talk about a growth spurt! This year’s Festival of Concerts will feature student chamber ensembles at noon on two Wednesdays, July 9 and 16, at Westminster Presbyterian Church (1300 N St.) and at 3 p.m. on Friday, July 18 at Capistrano Hall at California State University, Sacramento (6000 J St.). The students will be joined by faculty performers at the Festival Chamber Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 19 in the Music Recital Hall at CSUS. The annual Concert in the Courtyard, featuring orchestra, piano and woodwind students from the SYS Chamber Music Workshop joined by faculty players, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 20 at St. Anthony’s Memorial Center at St. Anthony’s Church (660 Florin Road), with a reception following in the courtyard. For more information, call 731-5777 or go to sacramentoyouthsymphony.org

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BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER

here’s something convivial about a plate of meat and cheese. Maybe it’s because it’s meant to be shared, each diner groping and grabbing, stabbing at the plate with knives, forks and fingers. A pile of beautifully shaved meat sitting daintily, enticingly on a strong wood-grain board surrounded with pickled bits is as close to art as simple food gets. Sure, you can create a visual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory masterpiece with an amazing variety of equipment, time and skill. You can master the world of molecular gastronomy or modernist cuisine or zero-gravity braising. You can paint a plate with smears and smudges and foams. But that’s a different world. The world I find myself gravitating toward is one of perfectly aged ham, sliced translucent-thin, a solid triangle of sheep’s milk cheese and a pile of vinegar-soaked veggies. It’s a world I do not tire of. A world that I’ll return to for any occasion, not just a special occasion. Lucky me, then, that I got to sample the wares at Sacramento’s two newest meat-and-cheese joints. We’ll start with Block Butcher Bar. Located right next door to LowBrau Bierhall on 20th and K streets, Block feels a world away from the high-pitched party atmosphere at the popular sausage-and-beer hangout. Owned by the same group as LowBrau, Block feels like a place for more quiet contemplation—serene revelry, if you will.

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A classic from The Cultured and The Cured, mac and cheese made with fiscalini cheddar and parmigiano reggiano

The music is low. The waiters and waitresses show no skin. The walls are adorned with meat hooks and pickling spices. The beauty of wood and steel and hundreds of bottles of whiskey creates the right vibe for you to enjoy the simple, but by no means plain, treats that will be put before you. Other than a handful of appetizers and a decent grilled cheese sandwich, Block’s menu is as simple as “pick your meat, pick your cheese.” That’s it. The meat selection is lovely, sophisticated and not so large as to be overwhelming. The cheese selection is easily broken down into four simple

categories: cow, goat, sheep and blue. This is not an intimidating selection for the average diner. You do not need to have majored in curds and minored in whey to understand what is going on. However, should you just not want to choose, the cultured servers will be happy to bring out a plate of their favorites. But whatever you do, don’t skip the Iowa white spread, a seasoned whipped lard concoction that melts on toast and tastes wonderfully like pig butter. Along with the well-curated selection of meats and cheeses is a selection of brown alcohol large enough to make comprehending it difficult. More than 100 bottles of

whiskey rise up the ceiling, looming over the bar with their glowing brownness. Whether you are a fan of single-malt, blended, bourbon, rye, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch or Japanese (that’s right, Japanese), you’ll find a nip of something to your liking. For nondrinkers, there’s an exceptional array of hand-mixed colas and other nonalcoholic treats. Compared to the cacophony next door at LowBrau, and the overall party happening most nights on 20th Street, Block feels like a little oasis where adults are allowed to eat, drink and feel comfortable acting like adults. A bit farther down J Street in East Sac, you’ll come across a brighter,

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lighter, cheerier version of Block Butcher Bar: The Cultured & The Cured. This little (and I mean little) meat-and-cheese shop feels much more like a shop and less of a restaurant than Block. The deli case is front and center, showcasing another well-curated variety of incredibly fine culinary delights. A small selection of plates is available to eat on-site or off, but they are worth the stop. This is going to sound like a bit of overstatement but here goes: C&C probably has the best mac and cheese in town. There, I said it. Rich, thick, cheesy, it’s everything you want mac and cheese to be. A fork will stand up in it. A crispy cracker of fried prosciutto actually does stand up in it. Peas are thrown in when in season. It’s my ultimate m&c. Get ready for another: best grilled cheese in town, too. I don’t know that I’d order a grilled cheese anywhere else. These people turn perfectly delicious firm

cheeses into beautiful lava flows of scrumptious dairy on ridiculous bread, then add little touches like sauteed seasonal mushrooms. I have simply never had better. Other dishes blow it up as well. Yummy bites like brie and asparagus bread pudding and fresh pea soup are handled deftly and with skill. With a few tweaks to the seating arrangement (on a recent visit, all the tables were on the sidewalk) and the addition of a beer and wine license (can’t even bring your own), it’ll be a perfect hang for after-work and earlyevening meals. Insider tip: C&C will deliver across J Street to local favorite Bonn Lair. Block Butcher Bar is at 1050 20th St.; 476-6306; blockbutcherbar.com The Cultured & The Cured is at 3644 J St.; 732-3600; culturedandcured.com Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com n

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and community, and the next market takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 6 on Del Paso Boulevard. The award-winning event is designed to bring consumers and creators into direct contact. Merchants must go through a rigorous selection process to offer their wares, which range from artists offering home decor, furnishings, clothing and jewelry to fine food purveyors, local chefs, grocers, bakers and organics urban farmers serving delectable—and sensible—food items. Groove to live music while you shop for local products and you’ll be saying one thing when the afternoon is over: “That was GOOD!” The GOOD Street Food + Design Market takes places the first Sunday of every month at 1409 Del Paso Blvd. For more information, go to gooddesignmarket.com Please email items for consideration by the first of the month, at least one month in advance of the event. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@ gmail.com n

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Buckhorn Grill 1801 L St. 446-3757 L D $$ Wine/Beer A counter service restaurant with high-quality chicken, char-roasted beef, salmon, and entrée salads

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Lucca Restaurant & Bar 1615 J St. 669-5300 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Patio Mediterranean cuisine in a casual, chic atmosphere • Luccarestaurant.com

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LAND PARK Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809 L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire $$ Wine/Beer. Elegantly presented American cuisine. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children's Home. Small and large groups. casagardenrestaurant.org

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Jamie's Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044 L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

Taylor's Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.

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Willie's Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

ARDENCARMICHAEL Bella Bru Café 5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full Bar Espresso, omelettes, salads, table service from 5 -9 p.m. • bellabrucafe.com

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Jackson Dining 1120 Fulton Ave. 483-7300 L D $$ Wine/Beer Creative cuisine in a casual setting • Jacksoncateringevents.com

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The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104 L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

Leatherby’s Family Creamery 2333 Arden Way 920-8382 L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thai House 427 Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

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