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COMPLETELY REBUILT IN 2013 This 4 bedroom 3 bath home was rebuilt with the highest quality ¿nishes. The open and spacious layout with high ceilings is complimented by lots of windows for the light and bright living. Large chef’s kitchen, home sound system and even a large garage. Master suite has 2 walk-in closets and a tranquil bath. Pleasant front porch and a backyard oasis. $1,365,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

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BRICK TUDOR IN THE HEART OF EAST SAC Perfectly updated 2 or 3 bedroom 1½ bath home. Arched front door welcomes you to the barrel ceiling living room with built in bookcases around the ¿replace. Leaded glass windows, built-in’s and hard wood Àoors blend perfectly with the remodeled kitchen and opened Àoor plan. 3rd bedroom converted to den opens to covered patio & back yard paradise. $799,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

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EAST SACRAMENTO CHARMER East Sacramento charm at it’s best! Relax on the front porch chatting with the neighbors, walking to restaurants, coffee shops and the park nearby! Vintage Craftsman style inside with wood Àoors, pocket doors, high ceilings and handsome wood moldings. The large remodeled kitchen and dining room perfect for entertaining. Barbecue on the back deck. $699,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495

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L STREET LOFTS Located at 18th and L Streets, and surrounded by top restaurants, galleries, wine shops, coffee houses and more. Unit 413 is a corner Crest loft model that provides ample living space, high ceilings, wall to wall windows, a gourmet kitchen full of light, and tons of storage. Plus an extra half bath and remote bedroom area with walk-in closet. $699,000 JOHN BYERS 916-607-0313

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BEAUTIFUL REMODEL McKinley Park 4 bedroom and 3½ bath home. The open concept Àoor plan brings the outdoors in... from the original leaded glass windows in the front to the cozy backyard. Chef’s kitchen with Viking Range, fridge and 2 dishwashers! Butler’s pantry has wine fridge and 2nd oven, 3rd sink and amazing storage. Spacious master and upstairs laundry room. $1,299,000 JAMIE RICH 916-612-4000

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HEART OF TAHOE PARK Enjoy this 3 bedroom, 1½ bath home w/ 1591 sf. The home has been held in the family since 1968 and offers a spacious living area, dual pane windows, central HVAC, freshly painted inside and out, newly installed laminated Àooring, and a bonus room ready for your ¿nishing touch. The backyard is ef¿cient and includes a unique covered carport. $375,000 PATRICK VOGELI 916-207-4515

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HIGH-WATER CRAFTSMAN Oh sooo cute! This 2 bedroom 2 bath has a commanding view from the front porch and living room. The well lit interior has 9 foot coved ceilings with recessed lighting, polished wood Àoors with over-sized base boards and beautiful wood details. The sunny kitchen and entertaining area is lit by skylight and ornamental pendants, and opens to the back patio. $549,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495

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COVER ARTIST EDUARDO CARRILLO (1937–1997) Testament of the Holy Spirit, 1971, oil on panel, 47 3/4 x 60 in. This painting is part of a special exhibit of the same name at the Crocker Art Museum running through Oct. 7, 2018. Carrillo’s artwork has been described as mystical, realistic, surreal, and visionary. His imagery, whether grounded in the everyday world or infused with magical realism, reﬂects his relationship to his native California and to his Mexican heritage, as well as to his early religious upbringing and respect for European traditions in art.

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America THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE DEFINES US

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he American experience is by and large the immigrant experience. Millions of people from all over the world have come to our great nation in order to find opportunity and freedom and to pursue happiness. Those last two things are unique to America. Our founders enshrined the phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. A few months ago, I was honored to receive a dinner invitation from Dr. Robert Nelsen, the president of Sacramento State University. He also invited the university’s provost, Dr. ChingHua Wang, who had been on the job about a year. Over Mexican food at the new Zocalo off Fair Oaks Boulevard, Nelsen shared Wang’s amazing immigrant story with me. When I couldn’t get enough of the great story, Wang filled in the details. As provost (the university’s second-highest position), Wang oversees the Office of Academic Affairs. It’s the largest unit on campus and includes the university’s seven academic colleges, the library and the continuing-education college. Before coming to Sac State, Wang served as the dean of the School of Health and Natural Sciences at Dominican University of California. There, she was also a professor of immunology and microbiology, and she managed all extramural grants for the school. Before that, Wang was one of 13 founding faculty members at CSU Channel Islands. “While at Channel Islands, I led the development and implementation of eight science and health science programs

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and worked closely with colleagues in starting, advancing and growing the university,” said Wang. She was born in Beijing, the oldest of four children. “While growing up, I experienced one of the darkest periods of Chinese history,” she told me. “I witnessed tremendous turmoil and devastating hardships. My family was split into pieces, and I was sent to Inner Mongolia to get ‘re-educated.’ “When I was living in Inner Mongolia, I served as an elementary teacher at a one-room schoolhouse. My interactions with students from extremely poor families left an indelible impression on me.” In China, Wang earned a master’s degree in immunology and a medical degree. In the winter of 1981, she went to Ithaca, N.Y., to get her Ph.D. in immunology at Cornell University. “I had been so isolated and had no idea what Americans dressed like,”

she recalled. “Before I left, I found a pair of bell-bottoms and thought I’d fit in. But it turned out that fashion trend had long passed! “Both my suitcase handles broke because—rather than bringing clothes—I dragged along all my treasured books. I only had two $10 bills to my name—the maximum amount of cash the Chinese government would let us exchange. And I spent one of the bills to tip a porter who helped me with a cart for my suitcases at the airport.” While living in the United States, Wang and her husband, Nian-Sheng Huang (a historian and published author who specializes in Early American history), had two children. The couple held green cards and remained Chinese citizens until the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989. “With thousands being murdered for expressing their

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE COME TO OUR GREAT NATION IN ORDER TO FIND OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM AND TO PURSUE HAPPINESS. THOSE LAST TWO THINGS ARE UNIQUE TO AMERICA.

desires for freedom, we knew for certain that we’d never return there with our children,” Wang said. In 1990, they moved to California to work in the California State University system. They wanted “to teach students who are mostly first-generation college students and come from humble backgrounds,” Wang said. “People just like us.” After moving to California, Wang and her husband became proud U.S. citizens. Her favorite thing about this country? “Freedom!” she said enthusiastically. “I will never forget the amazing sense of disbelief that I felt when I first walked free on the campus of Cornell. I had never known anything like it. There were so many choices and so many opportunities! “Later on, I had the joy of learning about the history of our country and the millions of U.S citizens who gave their lives for freedom—not just of our own citizens, but to literally save the world from tyranny. “To this day, I am still filled with an overwhelming sense of gratitude for what our country provides to both our citizens and the entire world. It left me with a desire to give back for what was given to me. That will remain my pledge as long as I am alive.” After we finished dinner, Nelsen turned to me, smiled and said, “I guess you have already figured out why I wanted this woman as a leader on our campus. She totally understands what many of our students are going through.” Here at Inside Publications, one of our loveliest employees is photographer Linda Smolek, who was born and raised in Malmo, Sweden.

We hired her after she graduated from Sac State, where she earned a double major in photography and communications—an education that she fully funded herself. After high school, Smolek, an only child, stunned her parents by making all her own arrangements to attend Sac State as an international student. Arriving on her own at Sacramento International Airport, she took a taxi to her dorm room. In her freshman year, she met and fell in love with Jay Gerkovich, who later became her husband. They now have two children, who speak both English sand Swedish. I asked her recently why she became a U.S citizen in 2013, after more than a decade as a green-card holder. “I wanted a voice in our country’s governance. I wanted to vote and be a part of decision making in our country,” she said. Her mother is Swedish, her father Croatian. “I had already dealt with the immigrant experience growing up in Sweden, which is a very homogeneous country,” she said. “In fact, the only discrimination I ever felt in my life was growing up in Sweden as the child of an immigrant father. Nothing like that has ever remotely happened to me in America.” As you celebrate a joyous Fourth of July this month, please remember these two immigrant stories and the simple statement “Freedom Is Not Free” engraved into one wall at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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A Fabulous Fourth RIVER PARK WILL PUT ON ITS ANNUAL FESTIVAL

iver Park Neighborhood Association will hold its annual Fourth of July Festival on Wednesday, July 4. The event begins at 8 a.m. with the Buffalo Chips Running Club’s 5-mile fun run and children’s half-mile fun run. At 9:30 a.m., a classic-car parade will begin at Ciavarella Field and wind its way to Glenn Hall Park. The children’s bike parade will follow, beginning at 10 a.m. Kids of all ages are invited to deck out their scooters, bikes and wagons in red, white and blue and meet at the corner of Camellia Avenue and Carlson Drive by 9:30 a.m.

After the parades, stay at Glenn Hall Park to enjoy the festival, which runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be carnival games and prizes, an inflatable obstacle course, a dunk tank, a pie-eating contest for adults, handmade crafts and goodies for sale and a live DJ. Food trucks and an ice cream truck will be on-site with food for purchase. For more information, go to riverparksacramento.net.

FAB 40S FUN RUN PLANNED The 11th annual Fab 40s 5k Run/ Walk will be held on Saturday, July 28, beginning and ending at East

The East Sacramento Fourth of July parade will begin at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 4. The parade starts on 41st Street between J and M streets.

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annual Taste of East Sacramento on Saturday, July 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. The event features wine, beer and food tastings courtesy of East Sacramento establishments, as well as a live DJ and silent auction. A free bike valet will be on-site. Tickets are $60 in advance, $70 at the door. They can be purchased at Selland’s Market-Cafe and online at

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Lawn Memorial Park. Race-day registration begins at 7 a.m. Young runners can join the fun in the kids’ quarter-mile race for those 5 and younger, or the half-mile race for those 6 to 10 years old. The 5k begins at 8:30 a.m. and takes participants on a scenic tour of the Fabulous 40s, ending with a final-mile loop around the park. All proceeds from the event go to the Alzheimer’s Association. For more information or to register online, visit fab40s5k.org. To learn more about the Alzheimer’s Association, visit alz.org. East Lawn is at 4300 Folsom Blvd.

FREMONT TO HOLD VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Fremont Presbyterian Church will host Vacation Bible School July 9–13 from 9 a.m. to noon each day. The program is open to children from kindergarten through fifth grade. Kids will enjoy crafts, outdoor games and snacks each day. Tuition is $50 per child for the week.

Compton’s Market was awarded the Sidney Pope Memorial Orchid Award last month. To register, visit fremontpres.org/ kids. The church is at 5770 Carlson Drive.

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stationed at racks around the city. By uploading the JUMP app on your smartphone, you can locate a rack In June, East Sacramento near you, pick up a bike, ride it to Improvement Association announced your destination and lock it up at a the winners of the 2018 Orchid and nearby rack. The cost to ride starts at Onion Awards. $1 for 15 minutes. The Sidney Pope Memorial Orchid For more information, visit Award recognizes people or businesses jumpbikes.com. that have made positive contributions to the community. The winner, announced during the June 16 Pops STREETS GET in the Park concert at McKinley Park, RESURFACED was Compton’s Market. Located at A five-year street-resurfacing 4065 McKinley Blvd., Compton’s program in currently in the works. underwent a remodel in 2017. In You will be notified three to five addition to groceries, Compton’s sells days before your street is resurfaced hot food, sandwiches, espresso and ice with a reminder hanging on your cream. The in-store Willy’s Cafe offers front door. a place where locals can sit and enjoy For more information on the beer and wine. program, go to cityofsacramento.org/ The Onion Award is given each public-works. year to encourage improvement in areas that detract from the neighborhood. This year’s Onion MERCY GENERAL went to Cigarettes & More at AWARDED FOR 5615 Folsom Blvd.

STROKE CARE

SACRAMENTO DEBUTS BIKE-SHARE PROGRAM In May, the JUMP bike-share program began operating in Sacramento. The bright-red bikes, which are equipped with electric assist, are

Mercy General Hospital was recently recognized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for the way it handles stroke patients. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate

Fremont Presbyterian Church will host Vacation Bible School July 9–13. treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. According to the American Heart Association, stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States.

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SESSION PLANNED AT MCKINLEY LIBRARY Aikenhead Painter College Consulting will lead a presentation on the college admissions process on Saturday, July 7, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at McKinley Library. Covered topics will include developing a college list, the college application process, application timeline and benchmarks, and testing and financial aid. Registration for the class is required. To register, visit saclibrary.org/ locations/McKinley. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

CSUS HOLDS SUMMER DAY CAMPS Sacramento State University will host weeklong day camps for schoolaged children from July 9 to Aug. 10. Green and Gold Camp, for children 8 to 11 years old, includes activities

such as scavenger hunts, a ropes course, water activities, arts and crafts, games, campus tours and more. The cost is $290 per week per child. Adventure Camp for youths 12 to 15 features daily excursions, including outdoor rock climbing, hiking and white-water rafting. The cost is $410 per week per child. For more information or to register, visit peakadventures.org.

REALTORS GROUP ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIPS The Sacramento Association of Realtors recently awarded almost $45,000 in scholarships to 39 high school students. The awards ranged from $750 to $2,000. Since 2001, the SAR Scholarship Trust has given away more than $520,000 in scholarships to more than 500 students. The program supports students interested in pursuing careers in real estate, business and other fields. For more information about the program, go to sacrealtor.org. Serena Marzion and Lauren Hastings can be reached at insideeastsaclife@gmail.com. n

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Year, our goal is to get as many of them as possible to enroll in our schools of higher education for their postgraduate degrees, become a much-needed teacher pipeline and to fill important roles in our businesses, nonprofits and foundations to continue to propel our city forward.” For more information, go to cityyear.org/sacramento.

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hen Inside Publications publisher Cecily Hastings donated 75 books to City Year Sacramento earlier this year, she wasn’t just giving the gift of reading material—she was joining the ranks of like-minded locals who want to help the city’s next generation succeed. “City Year’s mission is to address the drop-out crisis in communities

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of concentrated poverty across our country by focusing on the leading early-warning indicators of attendance, behavior and coursework in English language, arts and math,” says Jeff Owen, the executive director of City Year Sacramento. “City Year makes a difference by deploying teams of young professionals into schools to partner with teachers to provide additional capacity and surround our most vulnerable youth with mentors, tutors and positive role models.” Ten million students across the country who live in areas of concentrated poverty are twice as likely as students who don’t live in poverty to face traumatic experiences that interfere with their ability

to come to school ready to learn. Students in these circumstances graduate from high school at rates that are nearly 22 percentage points lower than their middle- and upperincome peers. That’s where City Year comes in. Sacramento is one of 28 cities nationwide where AmeriCorps members are deployed to act as tutors, mentors and role models and work alongside teachers to help fill the gaps that public schools aren’t equipped to handle. “Teachers feel successful and supported. Children get the extra attention needed to help get them get back on track academically,” Owen says. “After their stint in City

Noa Solorio, a young Sacramento actress, has landed her first role in a Broadway show. She will be joining the cast of the new Broadway show “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” in the role of Billie alongside fivetime Golden Globe nominee Marilu Henner. Solorio has been with Sacramento Theatre Company’s Young Professionals Conservatory for the past five years, performing in conservatory shows like “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (in which she played

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Wildlife Care Association of Sacramento is urgently looking for volunteers. the title role) and well as on the Main Stage. “STC gave me a safe place to explore and gain confidence as an actor,” Solorio says. “Getting to work in Main Stage shows gave me more insight into the professional theater world while I learned from the youth and adult actors around me. It also gave me a community where I met some of my closest friends, who are now like family to me. I could not have asked for a better place to grow up.” Previews begin on July 19 before the show opens at the Belasco Theatre in New York City in August. For more information, visit gettinthebandbacktogether.com.

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ZOO SEES FIRST SNOW LEOPARD BIRTH SINCE 2006 Yet another reason to visit the Sacramento Zoo soon? A chance to spot the snow leopard cub born on May 6—the first at the zoo in 12 years. Resident snow leopard pair Misha (female) and Blizzard (male) welcomed two cubs in early May, but one suffered from severe birth defects and passed away not long after birth. Misha and the remaining cub continue to be closely monitored by

staff through closed-circuit video while they’re housed in an off-exhibit maternity den where mother and cub can bond and allow for proper nursing and care in a quiet space. Misha and the cub will remain off exhibit until later this summer, when the cub is routinely leaving the nest area and coordinated enough to navigate his habitat and make his public debut. For more information, visit saczoo. org.

WILDLIFE CARE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS ASAP Wildlife Care Association of Sacramento is sending out an urgent call for volunteers to help care for more than 1,000 birds and small animals the group took in during the months of May and June. Volunteers help feed, raise and rehabilitate injured and orphaned wildlife and give them a second chance at life. If you want to be a critical part of the WCA mission to save wildlife

Studio 55 Salon Suites 530 Pavilions lane angellmedicalspa.com across the Sacramento region, email volunteer@wildlifecareassociation. com. If you find wildlife that has been injured, orphaned or displaced by human activity, call the Wildlife Care Association of Sacramento hotline at (916) 965-9453.

REALTORS GROUP ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIPS The Sacramento Association of Realtors recently awarded almost $45,000 in scholarships to 39 high school students. The awards ranged from $750 to $2,000. Since 2001, the SAR Scholarship Trust has given away more than $520,000 in scholarships to more than 500 students. The program supports students interested in pursuing careers in real estate, business and other fields. For more information about the program, go to sacrealtor.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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The Art of Giving Back KERRI WARNER USES HER ARTISTIC SKILLS TO HELP LOCAL NONPROFITS

JL By Jessica Laskey Giving Back: Volunteer Proﬁle

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erri Warner’s website describes her as a mixed-media artist, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Warner is indeed a celebrated mixed-media artist known for collage, sculpture, mosaic and portraiture, but she’s also a deeply devoted community member who has held leadership positions at nonprofits such as Sacramento Ballet, HandsOn Sacramento and California Conservation Corps Foundation. And she’s donated her artistic skills to dozens of community projects. “I had never thought of using my art to give back to the community,” says Warner. “I really credit Michael Smith at Teichert for connecting those dots and opening the door for me.” Warner met Smith during her year with Leadership Sacramento, a program of Sacramento Metro Chamber that develops business and civic leaders through monthly classes and community-service projects. Smith initially asked for Warner’s artistic help on a volunteer project for River City Food Bank & Family Services, which was being rebuilt after a devastating fire. Warner created sculptures, refinished chairs and decorated the new lobby with portraits of Food Bank clients for her “Faces of Hunger” series. The originals were

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auctioned off to raise funds for the facility, and copies now adorn the lobby walls to make the space more inviting. “It was great to be able to work with the clients directly to hear how they wanted to present themselves,” Warner says. Since the Food Bank project in 2011, the Natomas resident has crafted artwork for 916 Ink’s The Imaginarium, Plates Cafe, Roberts Family Development Center and more. She’s also designed logos for NorCal Services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing. “All of these diverse projects give me the opportunity to learn something new,” says Warner, who got her start volunteering for Children’s Receiving Home as a teen and building sets, props and costumes for a community theater founded by her father and grandfather. “If someone says can you build a fence?, I say I don’t know and then figure out how to do it. Luckily, my husband has a lot of tools.” Warner credits her work with the Metro Chamber for introducing her to so many interesting organizations. “They do a great job of connecting the business community with nonprofits,” Warner says. “I get exposure to all of these groups doing wonderful things, and I get to help in my own way. I’m a firm believer in the idea that a little is enough if enough people do it.” For more information on the programs of the Metro Chamber, visit metrochamber.org. To see Warner’s work, visit kerriwarner. com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Is The Mayor Being Reckless? STEINBERG WANTS TO DOUBLE A ‘TEMPORARY’ SALES-TAX HIKE

f all you knew about the performance of Mayor Darrell Steinberg in office was what you read in the pages of The Sacramento Bee, two things would be apparent. First, you’d think Steinberg was that rarest of creatures: a politician incapable of making a misstep or a bad policy choice. Second, you’d be woefully ill-informed about the potential downside consequences of his policies—and some of the cynical political calculations behind them. Since the June primary, the mayor has been a man on fire. His first salvo was to publicly press the City Council and city voters to support his campaign to double the “temporary” one-half-percent sales-tax hike known as Measure U, which was approved by voters six years ago as an emergency

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response to city service cuts in the Great Recession. He seems not to care that Measure U was sold to voters as a temporary tax designed to fill the coffers of a recession-battered city. Neither the mayor nor The Bee bothers to point out that city revenues have fully recovered from the recession. City revenues have risen 16 percent over the past two years and were up 6 percent last year. The mayor and The Bee have also failed to mention that the city’s labor costs soared 8.5 percent last year on the heels of pricey new city union contracts and soaring pension costs. How pricey? Under the new police contract, officers with more than four years on the job were given 17 percent pay raises (not counting the impact such raises have on city pension costs), while average annual increases in the CPI were less than 1.3 percent over the past four years. The city’s budget is out of control and facing substantial future deficits not because of any shortfall in city revenue but because of spiraling city salaries; unconstrained pension and retiree health care costs; a failure to

implement city staff’s repeated advice over the years to transition out of reliance on the “temporary” Measure U sales-tax hike (which expires next March) by setting aside prudent reserves from its revenues; the diversion of city revenues from the demise of redevelopment to wasteful and misguided city venture-capital programs; the diversion of hotel taxes to subsidize a second white-elephant $240 million expansion of Sacramento Convention Center, which already bleeds $18 million of red ink annually; a unions-enforced refusal by Steinberg and the City Council to outsource selected functions like convention center management, park maintenance and, yes, ambulance services, to lower-cost private-sector firms; and the mushrooming number of new programs launched in the past 18 months under Steinberg. While the mayor promises to spend the $100 million that a 1 percent sales-tax hike would generate ($50 million from renewing the expiring Measure U tax hike and $50 million from the doubling of it) on antipoverty programs in low-income

neighborhoods and building new affordable housing, the truth is that the mayor cannot lawfully make any binding promises on how the money would be spent. He’ll be asking the City Council and voters to approve a “general tax” hike, which requires only a majority vote to pass, as opposed to a “special tax” hike, which requires a two-thirds-majority vote for approval. A general tax hike is one in which there can be no restrictions on how the city spends the money. And with the city bleeding red ink for all of the reasons listed above, it is a virtual mathematical certainty that, unless the city dramatically changes its current spending practices (and there are zero signs of that), the entirety of the tax increase will be eaten by escalating city expenses.

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facebook.com/nepheshpilates up from $75 million today to $129 million in six years. The bill is likely to go even higher due to changes in CalPERS funding rules. And should the stock market experience a major reversal (not a matter of “if” but “when”), the city’s pension bills will rocket up even more. It’s not like the city is powerless to rein in its pension and retiree health care costs. The latter benefit can be phased out by the City Council any time it chooses to, by compelling high-income retirees (firefighters and police) to cover their own retiree health care costs not covered by Medicare and encouraging lowerincome retirees to claim Affordable Care Act subsidies for which they’re eligible. Pension costs can be controlled, first, by controlling salary hikes, which determine pension-benefit payments. The city can also insist that all city employees pay one-half of all city pension costs, including half of the major cost of making up for unfunded pension obligations, a cost currently borne entirely by city taxpayers. Yes, it will require

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councilmembers to stand up to city unions that scream whenever such reforms are considered. But taxpayers should not be stuck with paying for well over half the cost of rich pension benefits that are far greater than most city taxpayers could ever dream of enjoying. The city should also be fully prepared to implement further pension reforms in the event the California Supreme Court grants municipalities the flexibility to trim pension benefits prospectively (i.e., trimming benefits that accrue from services rendered by employees in the future), as many court observers expect it to.

A REMOVABLE BARRIER If the City Council can summon the political will to trim labor costs (a huge “if” given the outsized influence city unions have on the council), there still remains one barrier to council’s reclaiming control over the budget: mandatory arbitration of labor disputes with the police and

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firefighters unions, the city’s two most powerful unions. Decades ago, when no one was paying much attention, city voters ill-advisedly approved a charter amendment, sponsored by the two unions, to remove the City Council’s ultimate authority over large chunks of the city budget. Without mandatory arbitration, a city that reaches an impasse with one of its unions can, at the end of the day, choose to impose the terms of its “last, best and final” offer on the recalcitrant union, which preserves the council’s discretionary power to appropriate taxpayer money. But under mandatory arbitration, the council loses a great deal of control over the city treasury, and a thirdparty arbitrator wields the power to appropriate taxpayer funds. What’s more, under mandatory arbitration, the arbitrator is not allowed to negotiate a compromise settlement. Instead, the arbitrator can only approve the final offer of the city or the union. If the council proposes a labor contract that reins in pension costs, it will likely be stuck trying to convince

an arbitrator to go along with the cost cuts. Studies show that labor costs are almost always higher in cities subject to mandatory arbitration provisions in their city charters. Sacramento would be very well-served if the City Council this August were to place a measure on the November ballot removing the mandatory-arbitration provision from the city charter. The power to spend taxpayer money should belong exclusively to the voters and their elected representatives, not unelected labor arbitrators.

INCREASING SALES TAXES INCREASES POVERTY Traditional liberals consistently opposed hikes in regressive taxes. Since sales taxes aren’t based on a person’s ability to pay the tax or their income level, sales taxes are considered the poster child of regressive taxes. They most hurt the poor (including the homeless), seniors on fixed incomes and working families with modest incomes. Such people typically have little to no

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discretionary income at the end of the month. A hike in the sales tax means they have less to eat and can drive less, buy fewer items of clothing for their kids and purchase fewer prescribed medications. The affluent have the discretionary income to absorb a sales-tax hike without sacrificing any of the necessities of life. It is richly ironic that Steinberg is proposing to use the proceeds of a poverty-enhancing sales-tax hike to fund new anti-poverty programs in Sacramento’s lowincome neighborhoods. Given the abject failure of legions of state and federal anti-poverty programs to reduce poverty over the past 50 years, it’s borderline lunacy to hurt Sacramento’s poor with higher sales taxes to launch a new anti-poverty program that has almost no chance of relieving poverty.

STEINBERG’S PLAN We’ve known since the day after Measure U was approved by voters in November 2012 that cynical (and

insincere) councilmembers were planning to seek a renewal of Measure U before it expired in 2019. But we didn’t catch wind of Steinberg’s plan to seek a doubling of Measure U until about six months ago. We assumed that Steinberg would do the prudent and fair thing and ask the City Council to submit to the voters a two-question ballot. The first question would ask, “Do you want to renew the expiring one-half-percent sales-tax hike?” The second would ask, “Do you want to double it?” That’s the prudent and fair approach to take, because many voters may want to renew the expiring tax hike to avoid city budget cuts but may have zero interest in doubling the tax hike. The two questions empower voters to make the distinction between the two very different questions. But the mayor is reportedly planning to seek council approval for just a single ballot question: “Do you want to double the expiring Measure U tax hike?” He wants to deny voters the option of approving a renewal of the one-half-percent tax hike without doubling the tax hike. In

other words, he wants to coerce voters into doubling the tax hike or face the prospect of city budget cuts. He pretty clearly plans to run a campaign designed to scare the hell out of city voters that, if they don’t double the tax hike, they’ll face draconian, worldending budget cuts. But if he really cared about avoiding the budget cuts and had respect for city voters, he’d offer them the choice of approving a renewal of the tax hike without doubling it, which a two-question ballot would do. The mayor’s hunger for ever-higher taxes is trumping his good judgment. Why is he doing it? Because, according to an individual familiar with the matter, his internal polling shows that he can get a majority of voters to buy into doubling the Measure U tax hike, but that offering voters the option of just renewing Measure U would undercut voter support for doubling it.

WILL FIREFIGHTERS UNION UNDERWRITE THE CAMPAIGN? We’ve received reliable City Hall reports that Steinberg is counting on the firefighters union to fund the lion’s share of the campaign to double the Measure U sales tax. Is that why he and the council decided to extend the term of the firefighters union contract until after the November election? Will the firefighters get their reward with a rich labor contract if the Measure U tax hike is doubled? And what will happen to Councilmember Jeff Harris’ longstanding effort to modify the firefighters union contract to jettison the current requirement that ambulance workers be crossqualified as firefighters, a needless rule that adds about $14,000 per year to the salaries of city ambulance drivers? Will Steinberg walk away from his previous support for such a contract change in exchange for the firefighters’ funding his tax measure? Is it any wonder why voters these days are so cynical about the motives of politicians? The only effective way of sending the mayor the message that you

won’t stand for being coerced at the ballot box is to vote no on doubling the sales-tax hike and force city politicians to do their jobs of responsibly managing city finances. A wrinkle: The California Business Roundtable is trying to qualify a state ballot measure that would require all local tax increases to be approved by a two-thirds majority of voters. It would also require that local tax measures specify how the proceeds of the tax would be spent. If it qualifies for the ballot and is approved in November, any renewal—or doubling—of the Measure U tax hike would require a two-thirds vote of city voters to pass, throwing a major wrench into Steinberg’s plans to raise taxes. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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Place of Refuge IN OAK PARK, EXPLOITED WOMEN FIND A TEMPORARY HOME

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achelle Ditmore has spent much of the past 18 years encouraging women to quit the sex trade and stop using harmful, illegal drugs. When women listen and accept help, Ditmore often gives them shelter. She finds places for the women and their children to stay and sleep, temporarily and

transitionally, even if that means they have stayed and slept in Ditmore’s house. But ask her what she thinks about men who exploit young women in Sacramento—ask her what she thinks about pimps—and you’ll hear a surprising answer. “The pimps in this neighborhood have my phone number, too, just like the women do,” she says. “They know they can call me for help. Pimps are not the enemy. They are broken people, just like the women.” Ditmore and her husband, Loren, run an organization called City of Refuge Sacramento in Oak Park. The couple started it when they were newlyweds almost two decades ago. Their goal was to help young women escape street life, drugs and sexual exploitation. Ditmore can’t remember how many women she has helped, but a conservative estimate would be between 150 and 200. City of Refuge operates from a handsome old brick building with black shade awnings on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, just up the road from City Fire Station No. 6. Ditmore can sit at a small table near the front door and watch the fire engine and ambulance come and go, which they do constantly. She can look out the window and recognize most of the people who walk, ride, run, roll, stagger or skate along the sidewalk past City of Refuge’s door. When she sees someone she knows, she stops her conversation, leaves the table, runs to the door and yells a greeting. Since she knows just about everybody in Oak Park, her conversations are a tapestry of breaks and non sequiturs, woven across interruptions and introductions, always returning to her mission of helping people in need. “We believe in nurture over nature,” she says. “When you help someone, when you nurture them, it’s never in vain.” Next door to City of Refuge headquarters is a big, empty lot, wide and deep enough for two houses at least. The land has been scraped flat, down to the weeds. Nothing is there except dirt and a fence to keep intruders and trouble out. But the empty lot is special. Its terrible past holds the future for City of Refuge. “We worked with the city and we now own that property. It’s ours,” Ditmore says. “We don’t have a dime right now to do anything with it, but we have big plans.” When the lot is developed, a new mission will rise from an awful memory. Three decades ago, a house on the property was

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From left, WWII veteran Pearl Wallace with a 1944 portrait of her friend, Odessa Taylor; Lisa Daniels with a photo of her father, Milton Daniels; David Jones with a photo of Buffalo Soldier Benjamin Brown.

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‘WE ALL HAVE A STORY,’ SAYS FOUNDER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORAL-HISTORY PROJECT

isa Daniels thought she knew the grandmother who raised her in Fresno. But in college, when she had to write a biography of a loved one, she learned that Rita Hernandez—“Gram”—had been part of a civilian force that helped build the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. “Gram always had great stories,” says Daniels, now a Sacramento resident. “But I never knew she’d served in WWII.” Looking for more information about African-American contributions to the war effort, Daniels set out to gather as many firsthand accounts as she could. She discovered that many

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thousands of black veterans were unsung heroes. “Most mainstream wartime stories don’t include the African-American experience,” she says. “I’m trying to get that on record. My work provides a platform for those who were not given a voice.” In 2000, Daniels founded Unsung Heroes Living History Project. She has collected oral histories and images from the Civil War, the SpanishAmerican War and every 20th and 21st century conflict. Last year, she partnered with Indiana University Southeast to use students to collect veteran narratives. In February, for African-American History Month, the Sacramento Kings honored Daniels for her work with a Dream All-Star Award during a game at Golden 1 Center. “Afterward, so many people reached out to shake my hand,” she says. “Their appreciation was a testament: We all have a story. As time goes on, we’ll all grow to appreciate each other.”

During the day, Daniels works as the after-school director at Aspire Capitol Heights Academy, a public charter school. After hours, she photographs veterans and gathers

memorabilia. Many gems come from the families of African-American veterans. “I’m humbled as a total stranger to be welcomed into homes and have families share with me,”

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pays homage to her and others who served. In earlier times, many of these people fought on two fronts. They were honored overseas for what they did fighting for us. Then they came home to mistreatment.â&#x20AC;? Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own family has been influenced by her work. Her father, Milton, served in Vietnam and has been encouraged by the stories sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collected. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finally finding the strength to open up about his experiences,â&#x20AC;? she says. According to Daniels, Unsung Heroes Living History Project provides a vehicle to shine a light on the impact of African-Americans in the military. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great when people â&#x20AC;Ś see the pictures and tell stories that give them pride and identity,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an opportunity for conversation about us as a collective people. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all part of the American fabric.â&#x20AC;?

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Better Than Golf THE HUMBLE GAME OF DARTS HAS MANY CHARMS

ome of us who have been around Sacramento for a long time are thrilled when we learn the city is home to the world’s greatest something or other. It doesn’t matter what. Just learning that Sacramento claims ownership to something coveted in Tennessee and Chicago and Japan and Brazil gets us excited like children on Christmas morning. And when that world’s greatest something involves sports, our joy soars. Which is why I haven’t stopped talking about Magic Darts once I realized what it was: the world’s greatest emporium for darts and dartboards, sitting proudly on Auburn Boulevard north of Madison Avenue.

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John and Kelly Baxter I may be guilty of slight exaggeration here. Allen Louderback, who works as the retail manager for Magic Darts, says, “If you exclude Europe, we are probably the best in the world. We ship product everywhere. We’ve had people come to the store from China, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand and other places, just to see it. This diplomat came by—I think he was the ambassador of Tanzania—to do some shopping.” What Louderback means is that there might—just possibly—be a dart shop equal to Magic Darts in England or Australia, places where darts are religiously observed. But in the United States and Asia, nothing comes close. Magic Darts is more than just a darts store (as if that wasn’t enough). It also stocks hundreds of pool cues and thousands of dice and cards. It

even sells mahjong tiles and neon beer signs. But darts are the main attraction. John Baxter, who owns Magic Darts with his wife, Kelly, was a professional darts player. He toured the world and made a fortune in tournaments before retiring to the relative calm of life as a Sacramento shopkeeper. One great thing about visiting Magic Darts, aside from the sheer volume of inventory that overwhelms the first-time visitor, is the customer service. Before they sell a darts set to a novice, they will teach you everything you need to know to be successful at darts. The knowledge won’t create an extraordinary darts player; that takes years of practice. But the Magic Darts customer will walk away from

the store looking good and talking a great game. Louderback ran me through his school. It took about 30 minutes. Right-handed or left? Lefties prefer darts with forward weight. Are your hands large or small, rough or smooth? Women throw slightly lighter darts. Face the dartboard more or less sideways. Weight on front heel. Head lined up over front foot. Arm straight out, horizontal. Bring dart back until the flight (the stabilizer behind the barrel) almost brushes your face. Throw. Body frozen except forearm, wrist and hand. Wrist does all the work. Be sure to follow through. “Pros will use just two muscles when they throw,” Louderback tells me. “You’re using about seven. If you keep that up, you’ll get tendinitis

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camaraderie. When one business is successful, we’re all successful. Why do you love being a business owner in Sacramento? EB: Sacramento has been changing over the years and becoming a place on the map for so many things. We’re excited and proud to be part of this development. This venture has opened our lives to many different experiences, and we feel very lucky that Sacramento has embraced our business with such gusto. SJ: Over the past 30 years, it’s become harder and harder to stay in business in California. However, when all is said and done, the thing I love about being a business owner in Sacramento is being able to give back to my community. It’s very satisfying to see so many people enjoying themselves at an event your business helped sponsor. Any exciting projects on the horizon? EB: We’re continually growing our wholesale business—you’ll notice Chocolate Fish Coffee in many more

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acramentans might remember Arden resident Dr. Kevin Keck, who served as chief of medicine at Kaiser Permanente, as a clinical professor of medicine at UC Davis and as the beloved leader of Cub Scout Pack 518. His 40-year career in health care took him, along with his wife Gail and three children (Phillip, Laura and Brian), to Portland. Board certified in pediatrics and internal medicine, he led the historic and

successful turnaround of Providence Medical Group as chief medical officer and worked in palliative and hospice care. Now he’s back home, and what a gift he and his family are bringing to Sacramento: J.J. Pfister Distilling Company, a state-of-the-art distillery that produces 650 bottles a day of certified organic, sustainably distilled, gluten-free, top-shelf vodka, gin, whiskey and brandy, all made from

potatoes. The gleaming facility has shiny brass and chrome pot stills, column stills, a tasting room with brick walls and rich wood paneling, a bottling room and a museum to honor the family’s entrepreneurial spirit that goes back to the 1860s, when Kevin’s grandfather, J.J. Pfister, brought the first knitting machine to San Francisco. (He made the country’s first full-body swimsuits, worn by bathers at the turn of the century.) So how did J.J. Pfister Distilling come to pass? This is where 31-year-old Brian Keck enters the scene. He, like his father, was born with a keen interest in science—chemistry in particular. He graduated from Santa Clara University with degrees in finance and chemistry before earning master’s degrees in chemistry at UCLA and in viticulture and enology at UC Davis. Klamath Falls organic potato grower and Keck family friend Mike Noonan approached Brian with an idea. Whole Foods purchases perfect potatoes from Noonan, leaving behind ones that are not the desired shape or size. That amounts to roughly 1 million pounds of potatoes per year. Noonan thought Brian and his father would be the ideal people to head up a distillery featuring spirits made from organic potatoes. Noonan knew Kevin as someone always up for a challenge. He was right. “I happen to know it’s very good for your brain to learn new things,” says Kevin. What tipped the scales for the Kecks was the unique twist the

Klamath Basin presented to the in a stream until they like the flavors proposition. The Klamath area is a coming through. “We’re tasting, “pinch point” for migrating birds feeling, smelling and relying on each traveling along the Pacific Flyway. other at every step,” says Johnson. The birds rest and fatten up in They make gin by steeping wetlands in the Klamath Basin. coriander, lavender flowers and Noonan’s farming practices call for juniper berries in the vodka base. organic fertilizing techniques, but The crew has recipes for a London potatoes need lots of nitrogen. Bird dry gin, a juniper-forward gin and a droppings are loaded with the stuff “New World” style that is more citrus and are ideal for adding nitrogen to forward. “We will be laying down the soil the natural way. Noonan some whiskeys, including a bourbon floods his fields during the birds’ and a rye, and a few brandies using migration period to create wetlands. Apple Hill apples and local grapes,” The wetlands provide birds a safe says Kevin. resting place, the bird droppings feed Gail heads up the aesthetics—logo, the soil and no artificial chemicals labels and facility decor—and oversees are needed to grow a huge crop of the museum, which showcases Greatpotatoes. “The largest population of Grandpa’s knitting machine. She also bald eagles in the lower 48 is located handles tastings and bookings. in this area, so we can be part of a Together, the family works on the nice environmental plus with our vision, the distribution and number product,” Kevin says. The Kecks crunching, all the while thinking donate 1 percent of their distilled of the overarching family principle spirits sales to help preserve and that helped make J.J. Pfister such create these wetlands. a respected success. “J.J.’s value How do the Kecks make vodka or proposition was customer service gin? and quality,” says Kevin. “We won’t They start by washing, grinding sacrifice on either.” and cooking the potatoes in water that’s heated to 190 degrees. Enzymes J.J. Pfister Distilling Company is at help break down the starches to 9819 Business Park Drive. For more simple sugars. Next, they push the information on tours, tastings and mix into a fermenter. After a while, private parties, email info@jjpfister. the mixture goes through stills, com or go to jjpfister.com. n which increase the alcohol content and capture the ethanol in a stepby-step fashion. As the liquid moves between a series of plates, the ethanol rises and the water falls away, leaving 95 percent alcohol when it reaches the top of the last plate. Then, with reverse osmosis and filtered water, the mix is proofed. Brian works with master distillers Mike Moore and Chris Johnson, whom he met at UC Davis. Moore and Johnson taste all along the Master distillers Chris Johnson, Brian Keck and Mike Moore. way, dabbing a finger

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he very first time anyone ever called me “Pastor” was during the early 1980s at First Baptist Church of Hopland, Calif. For 52 Fridays in 1981, I left my seminary classroom in the Bay Area and drove 100 miles with my wife, Becky, to my weekend pastorate. Parishioners often hosted us in their homes, but eventually they converted a Sunday-school classroom into a kind of bed-minus-breakfast room for their newlywed pastor. The church ladies strove for a homey feel, covering our poster bed with doily pillowcases and a homemade quilt. They welcomed me as their faithful, fun and fearless pastor. Fearless, that is, until I wasn’t. Our clapboard church building was wedged between an interstate highway and a railroad track, a highway for drifters. Late at night, the building moaned with unexplained noises. The empty building proved

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to be an unsettling place for a young couple when the lights were off. There were summer nights when the wide temperature swings caused the floors to mysteriously squeak. Sometimes the winter wind harmonized with a thundering train, and we’d jerk from our sleep in fear that God’s wrath was coming through the walls. One Sunday afternoon, I raised my “security questions” to the deacons. “Who do I call if there’s a problem at night?” I asked. “Especially in the absence of a police force.” “Well,” suggested one older man, “If you’re a-scared, how’s about I loan you my .22 rifle?” I thought a minute about the NRA youth course where I’d qualified as a marksman first class. I accepted his offer, reassuring Becky I could revive my skills. I put my borrowed rifle under our bed and pulled it out at night. That’s when I’d walk the inside perimeter of the sanctuary looking for nonexistent intruders, swinging that rifle like some sort of third leg. One dark and stormy night, a man came pounding on our church door. At first, we played possum and tried to ignore him.

However, his knocking grew too intense. He seemed determined to break the door rather than retreat. We imagined a stowaway who’d jumped from a train in search of someone to harm. Becky egged me out of bed, and I ventured down the darkened church aisle with my flashlight. I stopped inside the vestibule, rifle at the ready, and loudly demanded to know the man’s intentions. From the other side of the locked door, he said only that he needed food and money. I tightened my grip on the rifle. I had a new wife to protect. I wasn’t inclined to entertain a stranger, even if it might be an angel, as suggested by Scripture. I recommended he go elsewhere but made no mention of my Remington argument. He heeded my prompting. In the years that have followed, I’ve done some serious soul-searching about rearming myself. I’ve had to ask myself, “What am I really afraid of? Who am I ‘a-scared’ of? Can a pastor really practice a gun-toting faith?” Hopland taught me that my desire to carry a gun only fanned the fears that I’d conjured up myself. That kind of fear can suck the meaning

completely out of life. When we succumb to those anxieties, we become the little boy afraid of the dark, imagining all kinds of no-good things. At the end of the day, I don’t like where those fears put me. So I lock my doors, keep reasonable vigilance and take comfort in Paul’s words of 2 Timothy 1:17: “For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” By the way, several weeks after our late-night disturbance, someone broke into our unoccupied church. They tore through our locked bedroom door and stole my trumpet, our pillows and the deacon’s rifle. Apparently, guns don’t protect themselves. Thus marked the end of my guntoting days. Norris Burkes will lead a free marriage retreat for military veterans July 20–22 at Sequoia National Park. For more information and registration, go to thenaturecorps. org/tour/sequoia. He will also speak at Sierra Arden United Church of Christ on Sunday, July 8, at 10 a.m. The church is at 890 Morse Ave. Burkes can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. n

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n a sunny day in 1981, as a reporter for a New Zealand newspaper, I watched Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles. A few weeks ago, their son, Prince Harry, was also blessed with a sunny wedding day. There the similarities ended. Thirty-seven years have passed, and times sure have changed. Little boys when I last saw them, bridegroom Harry and his brother, Prince William, now have balding Windsor pates. Two of William’s

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children were among bride Meghan Markle’s junior attendants. Kate Middleton’s middle-class family exuded more allure than their royal in-laws, and celebrity wedding guests garnered more attention than anyone. Even the soprano who sang at the wedding claimed that meeting George Clooney was the highlight of her day. With a showbiz bride at the altar, Hollywood did indeed meet Holyrood. But what defined this event was an unapologetic decree that multiculturalism would rule in a marriage that mirrors much of Britain’s Commonwealth. Wearing a tiara that had belonged to Queen Mary (Harry’s great-greatgrandmother), the bride walked alone down the aisle of ancient St George’s Chapel. Through a

last-minute arrangement, she held Prince Charles’ arm for a few steps—stagecraft that cleverly evoked a future king’s blessing. The word “obey” was absent from her vows. Markle began as she meant to continue. This wedding indicated a nonnegotiable path for a modern duchess (and duke) and an apparently accepting royal family. Markle’s road to a splendid marriage was more strewn with thumbtacks than rose petals. She hails from a crisis-prone clan. She’s American and divorced. If this were enough to rule out Wallace Simpson as a bride in 1936, times again have changed. Embarrassing baggage is now more common than coronets among the royal family’s ranks.

Markle might be a TV star, but the happiness she has brought to Princess Diana’s son is not an act: His wedding-day tears were real. Moreover, she promises to be an unprecedented weapon in the royals’ fight for popularity. Arcane traditions like divine right survive only through a monarch’s adaptability, and Elizabeth II’s energetic new duke and duchess will increase royal relevancy. As an actress, Markle will smile her way through a life sentence of tedium. As humanitarians who bring attention to good causes, she and her besotted husband will be fantastic ambassadors for “the firm,” as the royal family is jocularly known. Thirty-seven years ago, no one could have told me that the queen would endure a pulpit-thumping

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t is not unusual for people to stop in front of Carla Serra and Gary Ackerman’s home in Wilhaggin just to admire the corner lot’s lush landscape. Elegant Japanese maples dot a curving berm edged with decorative rock. Showy, colorful annuals and perennials, in

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varying heights and textures, take turns blossoming with each season. Grapevines twist up a white arbor that frames a stately row of windows, bedecking a comfortably appointed porch. As captivating as the front yard is now, it was not always so. Mulberry trees, liquidambars, oleander bushes, a magnolia tree and a massive amount of ivy dominated the landscape. The roots were so overwhelming that the couple had to hire a logging company from Auburn to remove the trees, as well as a bulldozer to dig out the ivy. “We had a hard time because the roots had gone under the foundation,”

Serra points out. “We were pulling up roots that were huge.” Serra, recently retired as an orthopedic surgical nurse at Kaiser Medical Center in South Sacramento, and Ackerman, a dentist whose office is in Carmichael, purchased the 2,300-square-foot home in 2014 after looking for a neighborhood that would be convenient for both their commutes. “We were trying to find a middle ground and a nice area. This worked best for us,” says Serra. In addition to completely transforming the front and back yards, the new homeowners gutted the interior right down to the studs and renovated the entire house before

taking up residence in May 2015. “Other than the basic footprint, nothing is the same,” notes Serra, who also has a degree in interior and exterior design. The three-car garage, which was “basically falling apart,” says Serra, was the first to be overhauled so the couple could use it for storage while they revamped the rest of the house. Structural changes throughout the home included adding cathedral ceilings, removing walls, widening the hallway and installing additional windows. “The house was very dark,” comments Serra. A sliding glass door to the backyard was replaced with three sets of French doors. “We

wanted an open floor plan that also led to the backyard. So if the French doors are open, it adds to the space in the house.” The master bathroom was split in half to create a pantry in the kitchen and a laundry room near the bedrooms. Carpeting was ripped out and hardwood floors were installed. The original two fireplaces, one with dated lava rock, were redone with Italian porcelain tile. A sliding decorative barn door conceals a new wine bar off the living room. The kitchen was remodeled with white cabinets and black granite countertops, with a reverse color scheme on the island. “I designed the island to be like a furniture piece,” says Serra. “Storage, microwave and dishwasher are all incorporated.” The only things that were not removed in the overgrown backyard were the patio and “gargantuan” pool, which was green with black mold, according to Serra. The original owners “let each of their sons design a portion of the pool, so no angle matches anywhere. Eventually, we will have to do something about that.”

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The couple also made maximum use of the side yard, where they added a seating area with an outside fireplace made of flat rocks from Montana. The side of the house can be important, “especially on a corner lot,” notes Serra. “You can recapture space. A lot of times you lose acreage to the front yard, but most people don’t sit in the front yard.” The side of the house also is where the couple gardens. Four large water troughs hold an array of vegetable plants. Multiple fruit trees line up along the fence. There are plans for a shed that will be designed like a barn. “I’m very eclectic. I like what I like, and I just put it together, and it works for me,” says Serra, who has added decorative elements throughout the landscape. “I like a touch of Asian flair. But because it’s a ranch house, I mixed country in with it, too, so you see a little bit of everything.” Remaining on the list of future projects is finishing the master bedroom, which will include adding back a master bathroom. Serra, who has relaunched her business, Designs by Serra, since renovating her Wilhaggin home, has tips for people considering a remodel. “A lot of people don’t get professional advice,” she says. “They start a project and end up wishing they would have—or having to do things twice because they didn’t think of things. And if you really want something bad enough, get what you want. A lot of people want something and a contractor will talk them out of it, and they usually regret it.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n

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Where’s the Cream? THIS VEGAN GELATO DOESN’T NEED IT

ndrea Seppinni loves dessert. About two years ago, she founded Conscious Creamery with her husband, Kevin. Their company makes artisanal gelato without dairy, eggs, mixes, artificial fillers, emulsifiers or stabilizers. Rotating crops of flavors are crafted from cashew cream, sugar and fresh, usually local fruit. On a recent visit to the company’s commercial kitchen on Bell Avenue, Kevin is sitting in front of a computer. The “gelato trike,” which the couple’s daughter, Olivia, rides at local events, is parked behind him. Besides peddling gelato, Olivia handles socialmedia duties and helps out when needed. Splashes of the company’s signature robin-egg blue brighten the walls. Customers can tour the facility and pick up pints of gelato after placing their orders online. The focus here is on Andrea and the kitchen, where she spends most of her time. This native Sacramentan moves fast and talks even faster. She’s petite, with wiry biceps. When she isn’t in motion, she balances on one foot as if in a yoga tree pose. The couple is putting everything they have into the business. “It’s a passion for me,” she says. “This is what we do.” Organic strawberries purchased from Terra Firma Farm in Winters are cooling in racks after being sprinkled with balsamic vinegar and a pinch of cane sugar and slowly roasted. Roasting intensifies the flavor, caramelizes the fruit and removes moisture. This batch will end up in Andrea’s roasted-strawberry gelato bars—frozen confections that give ice cream serious competition. She processes 11 pounds of strawberries at a time, yielding 8 quarts of gelato or 90 bars. She’s also tempering luscious chocolate (cocoa butter and 70 percent chocolate), which is the dip for chocolatecovered bars.

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Almost everything is done by hand, although a small Emery Thompson machine churns the gelato in the “dairy” room. (Even though their gelato does not contain dairy, they are required to have a dairy room.) The plan is to install more and bigger machines to meet product demand, but even with ET’s help, making gelato is a labor-intensive process. Andrea came by her love for food organically. Her dad was in the wholesale food industry, and she remembers going to work with him. Now 81 years old, he pitches in when he’s not at Lions Club meetings. “He knows how to prep,” she says. She’s always been interested in cooking, but turning her passion into a career took time. Eventually, she ended up at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Sacramento (it closed in 2015) and became a classically trained chef. While working as a head cook at a residential care facility, she created a plant-based menu to address health issues like diabetes and dementia. She was disheartened when she found out the management was interested only in sugar-free desserts and dressings. For a time, she owned a catering business, and she also worked with a doctor to treat pain patients with a plant-based diet. She blogged about food and she taught cooking classes. The couple became vegans about 10 years ago. She was having digestive issues and had osteoarthritis. Pain medications made her feel worse. “The light bulb went on,” she says, when she realized that a plant-based

diet was the way to go. Her health has improved. Kevin had cholesterol and blood pressure issues, and his health improved as well. “I don’t tell anybody what they should do,” she says, but she believes that vegan food should taste good and that anyone can enjoy it. Despite an impressive list of culinary accomplishments, something was missing. She found it on a trip to Europe when she and Kevin were celebrating their 30th anniversary. In Vienna, they discovered a gelato shop called Veganista and fell in love, going back a few times to sample the product. When they got home, she started working on recipes. Kevin became her designated taster. Pop-up events at Identity Coffees and Burly Beverages helped her to refine her recipes and perfect the gelato. For six months, they gave away a lot of samples. “There’s no school [you can go to] to learn how to make vegan gelato from scratch,” Andrea says. She developed her own recipe for making the cashew-milk base. It has a neutral taste and creamy consistency. Andrea buys local fruit whenever possible, often from farmers markets. She uses fair-trade vanilla beans and vanilla extract, and she pays top dollar for premium ingredients. Customers can also expect to pay more for Conscious Creamery’s gelato. Some people are not going to care about the cost, Andrea says, and those are their customers. “It’s a treat and it should be a treat,” she says.

What does she envision for the future of the company? Short term, they need to hire more employees. Long term, they hope to open a retail storefront. And she’d like to make more custom flavors, like port-roasted fig. For now, she’s doing what she loves. “We’re thankful that people have been so wonderful to us,” she says.

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t’s hard not to notice the stylish, brand-new, bright-red JUMP bikes around town. Their color and design jump out at you. The bikes have a basket, bell, chain and skirt guards, an integrated lock, and head and tail lights. The seat height is adjustable. A small electric motor zips you along at speeds up to 15 mph. With a full charge, the bikes have a range of 30-plus miles. It costs $1 to rent the bike for the first 15 minutes, then 7 cents a minute afterward. When you’re done, simply lock up the bike wherever you are and leave. (A hefty $25 charge applies if you leave a bike out of the designated service area.) Sacramento is no longer a laggard in the bike-share world. By the end of the summer, we could have the largest fleet of electric-

assist bikes in the country. There are 300 on the streets with 600 more to come. Bike-share systems are evolving. They’ve gone from free bikes to “dockless” bikes with GPS trackers that can be left almost anywhere. First-generation dockless bikes were relatively inexpensive bikes that some service providers simply dumped by the thousands in cities around the world. Because of their electric assist, JUMP bikes are the latest generation of dockless bikes. I haven’t been a fan of electric bikes. One of my main motivations for cycling has been the health benefits from using my own power. Deep down, I felt bikes with motors were for the lazy or weak. But e-bikes open up bicycling to new riders and should build momentum for adding more bike lanes and racks. They are fast and fun. You pedal, but the electric assist (though it takes some getting used to) makes the ride easy. Biking in business attire or on a scorching Sacramento summer day is more feasible. I actually read the multipage terms of use when I signed up for the JUMP mobile app, something most users probably don’t do. The terms contain some nuggets. To ride, you have to be 18 years of age and weigh 210 pounds or less. You can’t carry more than 20 pounds in the bike basket or use the bike for commercial

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purposes (such as food delivery). You owe JUMP $1,600 if the bike goes missing on your watch. My experience trying out a JUMP bike indicated there are some kinks in the process. Signing up for the app, getting a Personal Identification Number and finding a bike nearby were fairly simple, though the app crashed multiple times. Bikes are shown as red dots (a lot fewer than 300 when I looked) on a map or on a list of the nearest bikes. The closest bike to me was at Selland’s MarketCafe in East Sac, about 2 minutes from my home by foot. The next closest were at Sac State and on M Street, both 15 minutes away and not worth the walk. The app indicated the Selland’s bike had a “low” battery while the other two were 85 and 39 percent charged. The low battery turned out to be a problem. I rode only about a block when the electric assist seemed to quit. It was still OK to pedal, but starting up the 70-pound bike from a dead stop was an effort.

When I ended my short trip at 48th and J, I saw three college-age males riding JUMPs on the sidewalk in front of El Dorado Savings Bank. They were going fast. As a pedestrian, I would not enjoy being rammed by anyone on a bike that is so heavy. Jim Brown, executive director of Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, believes the JUMP program has started well. Rides per day is a common bike-share metric. JUMP is not yet disclosing those numbers but says it’s “very encouraged by usage at this stage from riders in Sacramento, Davis and West Sacramento.” A problem that JUMP is trying to address is that customers are locking bike to poles and other fixtures instead of bike racks. To be viable, a bike-share system has to be convenient and inexpensive to use and operate. No doubt the JUMP service, and bike sharing in general, will continue to evolve. In April, JUMP was purchased by ride-hail giant Uber for an estimated $200 million, so JUMP will have the resources to grow quickly and refine its practices.

In Sacramento, bike batteries are currently charged when the bikes are transported to West Sacramento during “rebalancing”—that is, repositioned to prime locations by a driver who picks them up and transports them in a truck. That methodology seems like a costly, inefficient business model. In the future, some bikes may be recharged at special hubs, perhaps with a customer credit for returning the bike to a powered hub. E-bikes like JUMP are especially suited for shorter central-city trips of 1 to 3 miles. They can be faster and cheaper than Uber, Lyft or public transit. I’ve got my own four unpowered bikes (one for every purpose), but I’d certainly be interested in using a system like JUMP if I didn’t own a bike or for getting around when I travel to other cities. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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Bardis the Builder YOUNG DEVELOPER HAS HER EYE ON HOMES FOR MILLENNIALS

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he Mill at Broadway ticks all the boxes of a successful development: an environmentally conscious infill project providing affordable, entrylevel housing while bringing life and activity to an underused corridor. Check, check, check and check. It also

puts The Mill in millennial, with firsttime homeowners in their 20s and 30s making up 90 percent of its residents. That was by design, says Katherine Bardis of Bardis Homes, the developer behind The Mill at Broadway. A millennial herself, Bardis was her own target demographic.

“I was 25 at the time [we began The Mill at Broadway], and I wanted to live somewhere but couldn’t afford anything,” she admits. “The same went for all my friends. We were all tired of renting but we had no place to go, so I thought I’m going to build what I want.” An audacious task, since she and her cousin, Rachel Bardis, had founded Bardis Homes only the year before. It was 2012, and the cousins initially started the company as a hobby while Katherine Bardis finished law school. Bardis laughs that nobody sane starts a development company during law school, but she was drawn by its dynamism. “In development, every day there’s an issue you have to solve, and a continual sense of satisfaction,” she says. As a developer, she experienced quick success. In 2012, Bardis Homes developed four vacant lots in the Pocket neighborhood, and a year later the company was building the first 200 of The Mill’s 1,000 homes. The project is located on the site of the old Setzer Forest Products plant, just south of Broadway between 3rd and 5th streets. “We went from four homes to 1,000,” laughs Bardis. She acknowledges that her family’s reputation helped secure the project. Bardis’ father is longtime developer Chris Bardis of Reynen & Bardis Homes. “Probably the only reason why the owners of The Mill were willing to take a risk on these two girls who had only built four homes was they knew we had the infrastructure behind us with our family, and they knew we

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3902 J Street, Sacramento were going to put everything into it,” says Bardis, for whom living up to her family’s reputation was more important than stepping out from under its shadow. “When people are young, they want to make a name for themselves. But for me, it was never about making a name but living up to the name that I was given,” she says. “My family did so much for me, so I just want to work hard and do right by them.” She’s on the right path, at least. The Mill at Broadway is now in its second phase, which will see the construction of 200 additional condos, priced from the mid-$200,000s to more than $600,000. Bardis hopes to create community in a market that hasn’t been kind to new homeowners. “The median price for homes in Sacramento is high—in the $400,000s, $500,000s,” says Bardis. “And when we started, there was nothing, at least from a new-home standpoint, that you could really buy under $400,000.” Which is why Bardis Homes is building not just for millennials but also for Sacramentans. “Sacramento should never be a commuter town,” she continues. “I hear so many developers say we need to be like the Bay Area. But why do we need to be like someone else? We have such a great and passionate community here. It’s one thing to build a home. It’s another thing to build a community, and we want to build an environment outside of the home as much as the home itself.” So in addition to offering condominiums that allow for homeowners to customize countertops and flooring, the

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community includes plans for a 4-acre park, bike paths and an on-site food hall and market created by Sonny Mayugba, co-owner of The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar in Midtown. Though Bardis has found initial success with The Mill at Broadway, she is also proving that a young developer isn’t bound to build just for millennials. Bardis has been the project lead for The Grounds, a Reynen & Bardis Homes development near UC Davis Medical Center. “Every time we release a home over there, it sells that day,” says Bardis. Bardis Homes is also developing Fair Oaks EcoHousing, a cohousing community that includes a common garden and a clubhouse for shared meals. The project includes 30 town homes and flats with two to four bedrooms, priced from $300,000 to $600,000. By May, 25 units had already been sold. It’s safe to say that Bardis is finding her groove in an industry that typically has been dominated by older men. “It is hard to find young people passionate about the industry,” says Bardis, admitting that she’s been mistaken for an assistant even at conferences where she’s been invited to speak. She and her cousin are proof that young developers do exist. And in a city that’s currently dealing with its own housing shortage, a new outlook may be exactly what Sacramento needs. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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ast July, we had 11 triple-digit days, some topping 105 degrees. Such hot weather makes me want to stay inside, close the shades and sip a cool drink. However, gardeners know that plants need attention now more than ever. July is the peak time for water to evaporate from the soil and transpire from the plants, so we must be vigilant about watering. We also need to protect plants from heat and sun, monitor for pests, remove spent flowers, keep rampant growth in check and harvest regularly. Sacramento’s summers are bearable because of the Delta breeze, which drops temperatures 30 or even 40 degrees overnight. Most mornings

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are delightful, with temperatures in the 60s and brilliant blue sky overhead. If you can’t haul yourself out of bed before it gets unbearably hot, evenings offer some relief. You can even don a headlamp so that you can examine your garden hands-free after dark. There are some strategies for keeping your plants hydrated. Several inches of mulch will slow evaporation and keep roots cooler. Run sprinklers in the wee hours of the night or very early in the morning. Check whether soil is dry with a moisture meter or by digging into the soil, and adjust watering schedules and amounts accordingly. Potted plants need special care because their roots can get very hot and dry out quickly. Be sure that water is penetrating and moistening the soil, and consider repotting a plant if water runs out too quickly. I prefer a planting mix that contains coconut fiber, known as coir, which retains water well while still promoting drainage and aeration of the soil. Light-colored pots reflect heat and keep roots cooler than dark or black containers.

What should you do if a plant wilts during the day? First, see if the soil is dry. If it is, water immediately. If there is enough moisture, evaluate other causes. Sometimes plants wilt because they have gotten too much water or have developed a disease. Many plants require full or partial shade and will wilt and burn in the sun no matter how well they are watered. Even sun-loving plants can be injured when the heat and sun are especially intense. Protect fruit tree trunks by painting them with diluted interior white latex paint. Tomatoes, peppers and other fruit often get sunburned, developing brown, leathery patches. Tomatoes can also develop green shoulders or solar yellowing when it’s hot and sunny. To avoid sun damage, maintain a vigorous leaf cover on the plants and use shade cloth or screening to block some light. Temperatures alone can affect your crops. Tomatoes may stop setting fruit when temperatures are above 90 degrees during the day or below 55 degrees at night. Last year, many of my purple eggplants were a bright, sickly yellow. I was afraid that were unsafe to eat, so I

threw out at least 20 of them. After spending many hours scouring the internet to identify the problem, I finally decided that the hot weather had suppressed development of the purple pigment in the skin and that the color change was just cosmetic. As soon as temperatures dropped, the eggplants once again grew in a glossy black color. Summer is a great time to be a bug. We humans have to stay on the lookout for tomato hornworms and other pests that suck, chew, rasp or pierce plants. Spider mites love hot, dry conditions. They will drape webs on branches and suck juice from leaves, creating a stippled appearance. Blast them off with water, making sure that you hit the underside of the leaves to knock off their eggs. This technique also works to control aphids. You need a magnifying lens to see mite eggs, but clusters of yellow or orange bug eggs are clearly visible. Pick off the infested leaves and destroy them. Pick off immature and adult bugs by hand, or knock them into a bucket of soapy water. Use pesticides carefully and as a last resort. TO page 61

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igh energy would be an understatement when it comes to describing Harry, a 12-pound terrier mix who was named for his likeness to the pre-bath scruffy mutt in the classic children’s book, “Harry the Dirty Dog.” Simon de Vere White and Alina Cervantes adopted the wiry blackand-silvery pooch last year from the Sacramento SPCA as a family dog for their daughters, Mari and Kyle. “He is that quintessential pound puppy that is a little bit of this and a little bit of that,” says de Vere White. How does the family handle the irrepressible vigor of a 1-year-old pup who can make a vertical leap straight into the air and chase a ball to exhaustion? “We have a high level of energy,” explains Cervantes, an early-childhood education professor at American River College. Harry gets plenty of walks—four or five a day around their East Sacramento neighborhood. “At least twice a week, we’ll go for a good 2-mile run,” notes de Vere White,

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OUT AND ABOUT The family has found that owning a dog is a good icebreaker when it comes to meeting the neighbors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good excuse to get out of the house with everybody,â&#x20AC;? notes de Vere White. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have lived here a number of years, but now we are walking the neighborhood. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to meet new people.â&#x20AC;? Harry also is finicky when it comes to making friends with other canines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has his favorites,â&#x20AC;? says Cervantes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit and missâ&#x20AC;? when walking him on a leash. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because we live in East Sac, we had visions of sitting somewhere for lunch with dogs all around usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it just has not transpired yet.â&#x20AC;? But with the upswing of dog-friendly restaurants in the area, the family is still hopeful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This summer, we will be ready to try it out,â&#x20AC;? adds de Vere White.

SO SMART In terms of training, Harry may be too smart for his own good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a work in progress,â&#x20AC;? says Cervantes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been to doggy school. But we need to be more consistent with his commands. Because he is a really smart dog, he picks things up very quickly. He has the impression that he is a lion. He is definitely an alpha dog.â&#x20AC;? When asked about allowing Harry on the furniture, Cervantes is hesitant to respond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is just so cuddly,â&#x20AC;? she confesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The trainer was adamant that the dog was never to be on the furniture. But if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here by myself and I have a blanketâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I am very weak.â&#x20AC;? De Vere White is quick to point out that they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;definitely sending mixed signals.â&#x20AC;?

LIFESTYLE ADJUSTMENT Like any new pet parents, the family has had to adjust their lifestyle

to cater to the needs of another living being in the home, such as leaving events early because Harry needs to be let outside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Which we knewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we were fully aware of what we were getting ourselves into,â&#x20AC;? comments Cervantes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just lost a little bit of our freedom.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to make the commitment of getting a dog, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just part of it,â&#x20AC;? adds de Vere White. Taking Harry with them whenever possible, such as on a recent trip to Lake Tahoe, is part of the plan. Luckily, they also have built-in doggy sitters with Cervantesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parents.

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PART OF THE FAMILY Harryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exuberance is contagious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He brings us so much joy,â&#x20AC;? says Cervantes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love coming home to him. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if I had a bad day. I just dive in the door and roll on the ground. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just happy to see him.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has added so much to the family,â&#x20AC;? notes de Vere White. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a friend, a companion, a part of the family.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He makes me smile more,â&#x20AC;? says Cervantes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He makes everybody smile more,â&#x20AC;? agrees de Vere White. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. n

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7466 SYLVIA WAY 2285 67TH AVE 6427 ROMACK CIR 4570 FRANCIS CT 2125 65TH AVE 5613 KINGSTON WAY 1479 MCALLISTER AVE 7062 WILSHIRE CIR 1050 SAGAMORE WAY 1414 CARROUSEL LN 2061 48TH AVE 7509 COSGROVE WAY 5675 EL ARADO WAY 6981 DEMARET DR 2176 KIRK 7225 CROMWELL WAY 7362 CRANSTON WAY 3100 ELLWOOD AVE 1454 STERLING ST 2081 50TH AVE 5944 LAKE CREST WAY 1471 CAMPBELL LN 3917 BARTLEY DR 7451 WINKLEY WAY 1965 ONEIL WAY 4790 DEL RIO RD 6749 GOLF VIEW DR 1761 68TH AVE 1249 43RD AVE 1406 LONDON ST 7430 19TH ST 6554 23RD 1908 FLORIN ROAD 2011 48TH AVE 2091 15TH AVE

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The Art of Balance THIS PAINTER AND PREPARATOR TAKES HIS TIME ON HIS CLIMB TO THE TOP

Justin Marsh

ustin Marsh isn’t interested in being a flash in the pan. The painter, photographer and museum preparator is in it for the long haul. “I’ve tried to play the long game,” Marsh says on a break from an in-

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studio day at his house in South Land Park. “I didn’t pursue my master’s degree or residencies. I didn’t fasttrack myself into a big artist network. I went for the conservative approach so I could develop my studio practice and navigate a professional career, a studio career and a family all at the same time.” An early fascination with comic books caused Marsh, a Lodi native, to fall in love with drawing. He earned a

bachelor’s degree in pictorial art from San Jose State University in 2007. While in San Jose, he organized and curated 12 & Taylor, an artist cooperative housed in a converted basement that hosted pop-up art exhibitions. Since moving to Sacramento in 2010, he’s handled installations for Crocker Art Museum, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and UC Davis’ Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem

Museum of Art, where he’s now the exhibition and program preparator. “It was a chain reaction,” Marsh says of his gigs over the past several years. When he was 20, he got a job working “front of house” at the San Jose Museum of Art. That led to a part-time job on the museum’s installation team. Later, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art hired him to do installation as well. “With that experience, I ended up getting hired to handle the installation of the

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TOP RIGHT CLOCKWISE This month, Tim Collom Gallery presents “Go Figure,” featuring figurative works by Melinda Cootsona and Margarita Chaplinska. Shown: “Tea Garden” by Cootsona. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com Archival Gallery presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Stephanie Taylor and photography by Jesse Vasquez July 10–31. Shown: a photograph by Vasquez. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com John Natsoulas Gallery presents Bud Gordon’s richly textured abstract paintings inspired by urban landscape, from July 5–Aug. 11. Shown: a landscape by Gordon. 521 First St., Davis; natsoulas.com Sparrow Gallery presents a mixed-media invitational group show July 14–Aug. 6. Shown: “Flow,” detail of a photo encaustic by Dianne Poinski. 1021 R St., first floor; sparrowgallery.com ARTHOUSE Gallery presents “At the Beach,” featuring the art of Tj Lev and LaLa, July 14–Aug. 6. Shown: “Dog Pile” by Lev. 1021 R St., second floor; arthouseonr.com

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new Crocker wing, which took a year and a half,” he says. “That was pretty wild.” Marsh makes the most of every opportunity. When he joined Sacramento’s Axis Gallery, an artist-led gallery space inside Verge Center for the Arts, the gallery was “fairly quiet,” he says, full of older members exploring art in their retirement. Marsh stood out as wellversed in creating his own exhibition opportunities and highly experienced in the art of museum-quality installation. Axis Gallery relies on its members not only to keep up the studios but also to show regularly and recruit new members. “It’s very much a DIY approach,” Marsh says. “To build critical mass, you have to network with other artists.” Marsh’s artwork is a combination of photorealistic and abstract imagery captured in oils and arresting photos of dilapidated buildings that he either

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displays on their own or uses as source material for his paintings. “The thread for a lot of my work is the concept of some sort of loss or failure,” Marsh says. “It probably comes from losing my father when I was very young. In high school, we would flip through copies of National Geographic to find photos we liked. I came across this image of a collapsed bridge in Burma. It really stuck with me that this fallen structure—the cascading of forms—could be chaotic but also beautiful. Ruined structures can express a broken home, things that can no longer hold their own weight. The jumping-off point for me was the idea of looking at failure from a literal, physical perspective, so I started going to abandoned sites like the Del Monte cannery on C Street to take photos.” Though failure is a common theme in Marsh’s work, he’s achieved success by exploring it in his artwork. He’s now gearing up for his next show at Axis, full of large-scale works

based on his other favorite genre: portraiture.

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Big Idea Theatre Thru July 14 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 916 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org Inspired by a true story, BOY explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bond between a doctor and patient. In the 1960s, a well-intentioned doctor convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a terrible accident. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice continue to unfold.

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Capital Stage Thru July 22 2215 J St, Sac 916 995-5464 Capstage.org

Four mismatched artists attempt to devise an ethnically sensitive play for the local schools to celebrate both Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month – with no Native American actors. In this wickedly funny satire, political correctness, ego and just plain ignorance collide as these well-meaning self-proclaimed artists try to perform a Thanksgiving miracle (without killing any turkeys).

BLUE DOOR

Celebration Arts July 8, 15, 22 and 28 2727 B St, Sac 916 455-2787 Celebrationarts.net Lewis is a tenured professor of mathematics at a well-regarded university. Underneath his veneer of success lies a soul troubled by questions of personal and cultural identity. A night of disorienting insomnia conjures his ancestors, three generations of men from slavery through Black Power. They challenge Lewis to embark on a night journey combining past and present.

BLACK PEARL SINGS

Celebration Arts July 12, 13, 19, 20 and 28 2727 B St, Sac 916 455-2787 Celebrationarts.net Alberta “Pearl” Johnson has inherited from her African-American ancestors a soulful collection of rare folk songs. It’s 1933 and she is imprisoned in Texas for murder. Music is her lifeline to family and future. Enter Susannah, a white woman who is an ambitious collector of songs for the Library of Congress. To advance her career, Susannah wants to record Pearl singing her extraordinary repertoire. Pearl sees Susannah as a possible escort to freedom.

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Broadway At Music Circus July 24 – 29 Wells Fargo Pavilion 1419 H St, Sac 916 557-1999 BroadwaySacramento.com This landmark show, with a celebrated score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, is based on the life of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee. A singularly-focused mother takes her daughters on a cross-country adventure in pursuit of fame and fortune on the dying Vaudeville circuit. Classic songs include, “You Gotta Get A Gimmick,” “Let Me Entertain You” and the show-stopping “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”

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Ten Ten Room DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL SPOT DOES ADULTING RIGHT

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he word “adulting” has crept into the national vocabulary over the past couple of years. This unwieldy gerund is a catchall for 20-somethings and even some 30-somethings when they’re referring to activities that a responsible, grown adult should be doing. For instance, you might see a social-media post of a stack of paid bills, a tower of folded laundry and a bowl of salad with this caption: “Totally nailed adulting today!” What I think is missed in some of these ideas of adulthood is the simple pleasure of slowing down and luxuriating in a fine meal, a wellcrafted cocktail and the conversation of friends. It might feel a little oldfashioned to savor such simple things, but I’m pretty sure it’s the upside of adulthood—that is, being able to stop and appreciate the things you took for granted in your youth. Speaking of old-fashioned, Ten Ten Room, a dignified new Downtown cocktail lounge and restaurant, makes a lovely version of the classic cocktail by the same name. It also makes splendid versions of many drinks with familiar names to even the most casual bar patron: Harvey Wallbanger, Grasshopper, Manhattan. In fact, Ten Ten Room draws from postwar America for inspiration in much of its menu, aesthetic and confident swagger. Located at 1010 10th St., the small bar and restaurant took over the space formerly occupied by Megami Bento-Ya. That longtime outpost of simple, nontrendy Japanese fare shut its doors in 2016, and after an extensive remodel, Ten Ten Room opened last fall. The feel is dark and clubby. Not dance-club clubby, but old social-club clubby, with dark, polished woods, plush fabrics and burnished metals. In a library-style wall of shelves, glass bottles of spirits glint in what little

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light there is. When you’re sitting at the comfortable bar, chatting with a friend or a stranger, you definitely feel like an adult. The menu bristles with options pulled straight out of Sunset magazine circa 1957: meatballs with grape jelly, deviled eggs, shrimp cocktail. Each item is touched up with a highend preparation or added ingredient that elevates the dish and brings it into the now. A simple plate of potato chips and onion dip is far beyond the simple party food it emulates, with thickcut, house-made chips and indulgent, retro-fantastic dip. The deviled eggs get a punch from some “scotching.” A Scotch egg is a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage, then breaded and fried. Ten Ten goes a step further, deviling the egg before frying, so you end up with a nosh that stands up to the high-octane cocktails coming from the bar. In addition to traditional cocktails, the bar serves a few original creations that span the spectrum from tiki to cheeky. A drink called Forty Thieves is made with rum, coconut, pineapple and a float of sesame oil— an unexpected yet savory note that balances the drink beautifully. The Garden Party tastes of summer: vodka, strawberry, hibiscus and prosecco. It’s a warmweather treat. If you’re in the mood for more than a snack or looking for a preevent dinner spot a few blocks from Golden 1 Center, the limited but well-curated dinner menu offers some real standouts. First, let’s all applaud Ten Ten Room for serving reasonably priced, reasonably sized entrees. You won’t need a doggy bag, but you won’t leave hungry, either. Steak frites is $18, is a wonderful preparation and would be the pride of any steakhouse. The house-made

horseradish aioli punches the dish up, and the hand-cut fries are just right. Shrimp and grits ($16) show a sophisticated blending of cultures, taking the Southern staple and dressing it up with Spanish chorizo and romesco sauce. The resulting dish is complex yet comforting. There’s definitely no mention of this recipe in a 1950s homemaker’s guide. The casual sandwich menu is perfect for a Downtown lunch or a happy-hour bite. The garlic steak sandwich is reliable, and the shrimp po’ boy is a fair re-creation of the New Orleans standard.

Ten Ten Room is a welcome addition to Downtown. It’s a cocktail lounge and restaurant for folks who wish to savor the finer things as well as the simpler things. It straddles the line between hip bar and sophisticated haunt better than most that attempt it. It’s the rare place that feels as comfortable at noon as it does at midnight. Ten Ten Room is at 1010 10th St.; (916) 272-2888; tentenroom.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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10 Great Things About America BY DINESH D’SOUZA

America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy. Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an incomparably high standard of living for the “common man.” We now live in a country where construction workers regularly pay $6 for a latte, where maids drive nice cars and where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe. Indeed, newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by “poor” people in the United States. America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe. America is the only country that has created a population of “self-made tycoons.” Only in America could Pierre Omidyar—whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris— have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry and a billionaire to boot. Admittedly, tycoons are not typical, but no country has created a better ladder than America for people to ascend from modest circumstances to success.

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Work and trade are respectable in America, which is not true elsewhere. Historically, most cultures have despised the merchant and the laborer, regarding the former as vile and corrupt and the latter as degraded and vulgar. Some cultures, such as that of ancient Greece and medieval Islam, even held that it is better to acquire things through plunder than through trade or contract labor. But the American founders altered this moral hierarchy. They established a society in which the life of the businessman, and of the people who work for him, would be a noble calling. In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter. The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country. America has achieved greater social equality than any other society. True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities. The American view is that the rich guy may have more money, but he

isn’t in any fundamental sense better than anyone else. People live longer, fuller lives in America. Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively. In 1900, the life expectancy in America was around 50 years; today, it is more than 75 years. Advances in medicine and agriculture are mainly responsible for the change. This extension of the life span means more years to enjoy life, more free time to devote to a good cause and more occasions to do things with the grandchildren. In many countries, people who are old seem to have nothing to do; they just wait to die. In America, the old are incredibly vigorous, and many people in their 70s continue to pursue the pleasures of life. In America, the destiny of the young is not given to them but is created by them. In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist.

This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Young people especially find irresistible the prospect of authoring the narrative of their own lives. America has gone further than any other society in establishing equality of rights. There is nothing distinctively American about slavery or bigotry. Slavery has existed in virtually every culture, and xenophobia, prejudice and discrimination are worldwide phenomena. Western civilization is the only civilization to mount a principled campaign against slavery; no country expended more treasure and blood to get rid of slavery than the United States. While racism remains a problem in America, this country has made strenuous efforts to eradicate discrimination, even to the extent of enacting policies that give legal preference in university admissions, jobs and government contracts to members of minority groups. Such policies remain controversial, but the point is that it is extremely unlikely that a racist society would have permitted such policies in the first place. America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of

the world. Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other’s homes in so many places in the world? The American answer is twofold. First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish. Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can “become American.” America has the kindest, gentlest foreign policy of any great power in world history. Critics of the United States are likely to react to this truth with sputtering outrage. They will point to longstanding American support for a Latin or Middle Eastern despot, or the unjust internment of the Japanese during World War II, or America’s reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime. However one feels about these particular cases, let us concede to the critics the point that America is not always in the right. What the critics leave out is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world: first from the Nazi threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism. What would have been the world’s fate if America had not existed? After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, the United States proceeded to rebuild both countries, and today they are American allies. Now, we are doing the same thing with Afghanistan. Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after the U.S. victory in the Cold War. For the most part, America is an abstaining superpower: It shows no real interest

in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. (Imagine how the Soviets would have acted if they had won the Cold War.) On occasion, America intervenes to overthrow a tyrannical regime or to halt massive human-rights abuses in another country, but it never stays to rule that country. In Grenada, Haiti and Bosnia, the United States got in and then got out. Moreover, when America does get into a war, it is supremely careful to avoid targeting civilians and to minimize collateral damage. Even as America bombed the Taliban infrastructure and hideouts, its planes dropped rations of food to avert hardship and starvation of Afghan civilians. What other country does these things? America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counterintuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Indeed, some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty. Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent, praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen. By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran.

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THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

2018 California State Fair July 13–29

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1600 Exposition Blvd. • castatefair.org Ready for your corn dog and annual trip on the Giant Ferris Wheel? The California State Fair is back with all the rides, exhibitions, concerts, horse racing and weird and wonderful food you can handle.

Movies Off the Wall: “Idiocracy” Crocker Art Museum Film Series Thursday, July 5, 8:15 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org “Idiocracy” is a cult classic that riffs on pop culture and our doomed future as a society based on stupidity. The courtyard opens at 7 p.m.—bring your own chair or rent a premier-seating cabana.

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Broadway at Music Circus California Musical Theatre “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” through July 1 “Disney’s Newsies” July 10–15 “Gypsy” July 24–29 1419 H St. • broadwaysacramento.com Catch the latest offerings from Sacramento’s summer tradition of Broadway-caliber theater-in-the-round featuring new musicals and cult classics.

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers “Idiocracy” will show at Crocker Art Museum on July 5.

Active Chair Yoga With Alicia Patrice Sacramento Yoga Center Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 10–Aug. 30, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Jazz Night at the Crocker Thursday, July 19, 6:30 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org Lavay Smith and her band have lit up stages around the world with sparks of swing and traditional jazz with sounds reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington.

2791 24th St. • (916) 548-7221 Using a chair to support the body when needed, explore the unlimited realm of possibilities for yoga off the floor. This class is accessible for anyone with knee, hip, vertigo or other challenge that makes getting up and down unpleasant.

RSVP Cabaret Night RSVP Choir Sunday, July 8, 5:30 p.m. 124 Vernon St., Roseville • rsvpchoir.org RSVP presents its first-ever cabaret-style variety show and dinner. Admission includes a catered buffet dinner, cabaret show, no-host bar and silent auction.

Drag and Comedy Extravaganza LoLGBTQ Sunday, July 15, 7 p.m. 2100 Arden Way • punchlinesac.com The fourth installment of the wildly popular comedy and drag show hosted by drag princess Suzette Veneti.

North Star Piano Trio Crocker Art Museum Classical Concerts Sunday, July 8, 3 p.m.

RSVP presents its ﬁrst-ever cabaret-style variety show and dinner.

216 O St. • crockerart.org Violinist Kristen Autry, cellist Alexandra Roedder and pianist Lynn Schugren make up this dynamic new chamber group that specializes in works by female composers.

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Enjoy food and drinks at the annual Let Them Eat Cake fundraiser.

Don't miss a comedy show hosted by drag princess Suzette Veneti.

16th Annual Let Them Eat Cake

Sacramento African Market Place

Sacramento Self-Help Housing Thursday, July 12, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

July 7 and July 21, noon–6 p.m.

723 S St. • sacselfhelp.org This annual fundraiser benefits the Sacramento Self-Help Housing organization, a leader in the “housing first” model of homelessness response that provides shared housing for nearly 200 homeless people at more than 45 sites. Guests will enjoy appetizers, beverage tastings and cake viewing, judging and sampling.

Bingo A-Go-Go CGNIE Sunday, July 8, 3–6 p.m. 1500 K St. • cgnie.org The most fun you’ll ever have playing bingo. This event will be hosted by Mr. and Miss Gay Sacramento as part of the Court of the Great Northwest Imperial Empire (CGNIE), which raises money for fellow nonprofits to promote human understanding.

2251 Florin Road • facebook.com/sacramentoamp Enjoy this indoor shopping bazaar featuring affordable handmade natural soaps and other skin products, perfume oils, African-American memorabilia, books, local music, African fashion and jewelry, food vendors, handmade dolls, handbags and more every first and third Saturday of the month.

DCI Capital Classic Sacramento Mandarins Drum & Bugle Corps Friday, July 6, 7 p.m. 8661 Power Inn Road, Elk Grove • mandarins.org Enjoy an evening of delicious food and drum corps entertainment all in one location. More than 1,000 musicians will perform their highly intricate precision marching and maneuvers, choreography and colorful pageantry. Food will be available for purchase. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Allora Exquisite Italian-inspired seafood & exceptional wines in a jewel box setting 5215 Folsom Blvd. • 916.538.6434 allorasacramento.com

33Rd Street Bistro Food inspired by the Paciﬁc Northwest 3301 Folsom Blvd. • 916.455.2233 33rdstreetbistro.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters Award-winning roasters 4749 Folsom Blvd. • 916.451.5181 chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L Classic American dishes with millennial ﬂavor 1116 15th Street • 916.492.1960 cafeteria15l.com

Canon East Sacramento A creative menu in a re-imagined warehouse 1719 34th Street • 916.469.2433 canoneastsac.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters Award-winning roasters 3rd and Q Sts. • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

Corti Brothers The legendary food source by Darrell Corti 5810 Folsom Blvd. • 916.736.3800 cortibrothers.com

de Vere’s Irish Pub A lively and authentic Irish family pub 1521 L Street • 916.231.9947 deverespub.com

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Classic Mediterranean dishes 5644 J Street • 916.451.4000 eatatopa.com

Downtown & Vine Taste and compare the region’s best wines 1200 K Street, #8 • 916.228.4518 downtownandvine.com

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Bike-themed neighborhood pizza cafe 4818 Folsom Blvd. • 916.706.1748 onespeedpizza.com

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Ella Dining Room & Bar New American farm-to-fork cuisine 1131 K Street • 916.443.3772 elladiningroomandbar.com

The Kitchen Restaurant 5-course prix ﬁxe seasonal dinner menu 2225 Hurley Way • 916.568.7171 thekitchenrestaurant.com

Esquire Grill Classic dishes in a sleek urban design setting 1213 K Street • 916.448.8900 paragarys.com

Selland’s Market-Café Family-friendly neighborhood café 5340 H Street • 916.736.3333 sellands.com

Firestone Public House Hip and happy sports bar with great food 1132 16th Street • 916.446.0888 ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

OBO’ Italian Table & Bar The simple, nourishing ﬂavors of Italy 3145 Folsom Blvd. • 916.822-8720 oboitalian.com

Frank Fat’s

Kru Contemporary Japanese A unique and imaginative culinary experience 3145 Folsom Boulevard • 916.551.1559 krurestaurant.com

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Nopalitos Southwestern Café Southwestern cooking for lunch & dinner 5530 H Street • 916.452.8226 nopalitoscafe.com

A locally-inspired creative menu by Molly Hawks 1525 Alhambra Blvd. • 916.588.4440 hawkspublichouse.com

Traditional butcher shop - nose to tail! 4801 Folsom Blvd. #2 • 916.400.4127 vmillermeats.com

Grange Restaurant & Bar The city’s quintessential dining destination 926 J St. • 916.492.4450 grangesacramento.com

Hot Italian

Hawks Provisions & Public House

V. Miller Meats

Fine Chinese dining in an elegant interior 806 L Street • 916.442.7092 frankfats.com

Remarkable pizza in modern Italian setting 1627 16th Street • 916.492.4450 hotitalian.net

La Consecha by Mayahuel Casual Mexican in a lovely park setting 917 9th Street • 916.970.5354 lacosechasacramento.com

Ma Jong Asian Diner A colorful & casual spot for all food Asian 1431 L Street • 916.442.7555 majongs.com

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Mayahuel Mexican cuisine with a wide-ranging tequila menu 1200 K Street • 916.441.7200 experiencemayahuel.com

Old Soul

European inspired casual café 1431 R Street • 916.930.9191 paragarys.com

Fish Face Poke Bar

Preservation & Company

Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free 1104 R St. #100 • 916.706.0605 ﬁshfacepokebar.com

South Timeless traditions of Southern cooking 2005 11th Street • 916.382.9722 weheartfriedchicken.com

Solomon’s Delicatessen Opening summer of 2018 730 K Street • Solomonsdelicatessen.com

OLD SAC The Firehouse Restaurant The premiere dining destination in historic setting 1112 2nd Street • 916.442.4772 ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

Rio City Café California-inspired menu on the riverfront 1110 Front Street • 916.442.8226 riocitycafe.com

Willie’s Burgers A quirky burger joint 110 K Street • 916.444.2006 williesburgers.com

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Café Bernardo

Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 555 Capitol Mall • oldsoulco.com

Preserving delicious produce from local farms 1717 19th Street #B • 916.706.1044 preservationandco.com

R STREET

Iron Horse Tavern Gastropub menu in an industrial setting 1800 15th Street • 916.448.4488 ironhorsetavern.net

Hook & Ladder Co. Hearty food and drink in an old ﬁrehouse setting 1630 S Street • 916. 442.4885 hookandladder916.com

Localis Local sourcing becomes a culinary art form 2031 S Street • 916.737.7699 localissacramento.com

Magpie Café

Sac Natural Foods Co-Op

Seasonal menus, locally sourced ingredients 1601 16th Street • 916.452.7594 magpiecafe.com

Omnivore, vegan, raw, paleo, organic, glutenfree and carnivore sustenance 2820 R Street • 916.455.2667 • sac.coop

Shoki Ramen House

Suzie Burger

Ramen becomes a culinary art form 1201 R Street • 916.441.0011 shokiramenhouse.com

Burgers, cheesesteaks and other delights 2820 P Street • 916.455.3500 • suzieburger.com

Sun & Soil Juice Company

THE HANDLE Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates Unmatched sweet sophistication 1801 L Street, #60 • 916.706.1738 gingerelizabeth.com

The Rind A cheese-centric food and wine bar 1801 L Street # 40 • 916.441.7463 therindsacramento.com

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan Farm-fresh New American cuisine 1215 19th Street • 916.441.6022 mulvaneysbl.com

Zocolo Tastes inspired by the town square of Mexico City 1801 Capitol Avenue • 916.441.0303 zocalosacramento.com

Old Soul Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 1716 L Street (rear alley) • oldsoulco.com

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Raw, organic nutrition from local farms 1912 P Street • 916.341.0327 • sunandsoiljuice.com

The Waterboy Classic European with locally sourced ingredients 2000 Capitol Ave. • 916.498.9891 waterboyrestaurant.com

Biba Ristorante Italiano Legendary chef, cookbook author Biba Caggiano 2801 Capitol Avenue • 916.455.2422 biba-restaurant.com

Federalist Public House Signature woodﬁred pizzas and local craft beers 2009 Matsui Alley • 916.661.6134 federalistpublichouse.com

The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar A focus on all things local 2718 J Street • 916.706.2275 • theredrabbit.net

Skool Japanese Gastropub Inventive, Japanese-nuanced seafood 2319 K Street • 916.737.5767 skoolonkstreet.com

Tapa the World

Centro Cocina Mexicana

Traditional Spanish & world cuisine 2115 J Street • 916.442.4353 tapatheworld.com

Mexican cuisine in a festive, colorful setting 2730 J Street • 916.442.2552 paragarys.com

Revolution Wines

Lowbrau Bierhalle Modern-rustic German beer hall 1050 20th Street • 916.452.7594 lowbrausacramento.com

Block Butcher Bar Specializing in housemade salumi and cocktails 1050 20th Street • 916.476.6306 blockbutcherbar.com

Paragary’s French inspired bistro in chic new environment 1401 28th Street • 916.457.5737 • paragarys.com

Urban winery and kitchen 2831 S Street • 916.444.7711 • rev.wine

Temple Coffee Roasters 2200 K Street • 2829 S Street 1010 9th Street • templecoffee.com

Old Soul at The Weatherstone Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 812 21st Street • oldsoulco.com

OAK PARK La Venadita Hot spot for creative Mexican cuisine 3501 3rd Avenue • 916.400.4676 lavenaditasac.com

LAND PARK Selland’s Market-Café Family-friendly neighborhood café 915 Broadway • 916. 732.3390 sellands.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters Open Summer 2018 • 2940 Freeport Blvd. chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

Willie’s Burgers A quirky burger joint 2415 16th Street • 916.444.2006 williesburgers.com

Iron Grill A mecca to hearty eating 2422 13th Street • 916.737.5115 irongrillsacramento.com

Freeport Bakery

A modern take on a traditional hof brau 3413 Broadway • 916.376.7694 • oakhaussac.com

Award-winning neighborhood bakery 2966 Freeport Blvd. • 916.442.4256 freeportbakery.com

Old Soul

Riverside Clubhouse

Oakhaus

Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 3434 Broadway • oldsoulco.com

Vibe Health Bar Clean, lean and healthy breakfast and snacks 3515 Broadway • 916.382.9723 vibehealthbar.com

Traditional Amercian classic menu 2633 Riverside Blvd. • 916.448.9988 riversideclubhouse.com

Taylor’s Market & Kitchen A reputation for service & quality 2900 & 2924 Freeport Blvd • 916.443.5154 taylorsmarket.com

Casa Garden Restaurant Outstanding dining in a garden setting 2760 Sutterville Rd. • 916.452.2809 casagardenrestaurant.org

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4920 Folsom Blvd • 452-5516 • 10am-9pm

EAT. DRINK. SPORTS. Full bar, top-notch food and family friendly! Clubhouse 56 features two movie theater screens, numerous HD TVs, a state-of-the-art sound system, and all major DIRECTV sports packages. Daily Specials. Happy Hour: Mon - Fri 3 - 6pm

Vic’s Ice Cream & Café

The Mandarin Restaurant

Family owned since 1947 3199 Riverside Blvd. • 916.448.0892 vicsicecream.com

4321 Arden Way • (916) 488-4794

CURTIS PARK

Pita Kitchen

Shoki Ramen House

L D $$ Authentic Mediterranean cuisine made from scratch on site • pitakitchenplus.com

Ramen becomes a culinary art form 2530 21st Street • 916.441.0011 shokiramenhouse.com

916.454.5656

www.ch56sports.com

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

Cafe Bernardo 515 Pavilions Lane • (916) 922-2870 B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-inﬂuenced comfort food • paragarys.com

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

916-455-0497

MON-SUN, 11am - 8pm TheWienerySacramento.com 715 56th Street 95819

Ettore’s Bakery & Cafe 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • ettores.com

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

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

Luna Lounge 5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883

MKT-9811A-A

B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11 am daily. Weekend breakfast • lunaloungeandbar.com

Carroll O Dudley III

Dave Nealon

5642 Folsom Blvd Camellia Center Sacramento, CA 95819 916-457-3121

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930 Alhambra Blvd Suite 90 Sacramento, CA 95816 916-442-1239

www.edwardjones.com Member SIPC

2989 Arden Way • (916) 480-0560

Roxy Restaurant & Bar 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 489-2000

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883

723 56th Street

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chinese food for 32 years • Dine in and take out • themandarinrestaurant.com

Matteo’s Pizza & Bistro 5132 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 779-0727 L D $$ Full Bar Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes • pizzamatteo.com

B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere • roxyrestaurantandbar.com

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

Sam’s Hof Brau 2500 Watt Ave. • (916) 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • originalsamshofbrau.com

Thai House 527 Munroe in Loehmann’s • (916) 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

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

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COLDWELL BANKER MODERN SOPHISTICATION IN RIVER PARK! Luxury design & quality jnishes thur-out. Lrg 3bds, 2.5ba, over 2100sqft hm w/custom chef's kitch, Master suite, & wood krs. Front & Back yards blt to entertain. TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895 CHARMING 1920’S TUDOR! On a massive lot in the heart of East Sacramento with 2BD/1BA. Lrg living rm, HW krs, Indoor laundry, & sep. dining. Lrg detached garage & bsmnt too. $499,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895 IN THE HEART OF EAST SAC! This 2BD/1.5BA hm was restored in 2012 w/new Plumb, Elect, Baths, Windows, Roof, Sewer, Lndry & more. $549,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

DESIRABLE COURT IN EAST SAC! Lovely 3 bedrooms, 2 bath home with 1562 square feet. $589,950 RICH CAZNEAUX 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558

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RIVER PARK DUPLEX! Great investment opportunity. This duplex offers 2BD/1BA in each unit. $579,950 RICH CAZNEAUX 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558

GREAT DUPLEX IN RIVER PARK! Investment opportunity in River Park. Duplex with two 2 BED/1 BATH. $579,950 RICH CAZNEAUX 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558 DOWNTOWN/MIDTOWN! A rarity, 4bd/2 full baths+2 car attached garage. Living room/with separate bonus rm or family rm. Central heat & air, low maint. Landscaping. $475,000 MARGIE WONG 916.995.5185 CalRE#: 00879949 INCREDIBLE EAST SAC HOME! On the market for the 1st time in history! This updtd 1930’s classic offers 3BD/2.5BA & close to Bertha Henschel Park. $949,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

EAST SAC BEAUTY! Located on a superb street. 4 lrg bds & 2.5ba, lndry rm, master bdrm upstrs. Huge bckyrd w/sparkling pool. Lrg 2 car det. gar. $819,987 SCOOTER VALINE 916.420.4594 CalRE#: 01896468

TRADITIONAL MEETS MODERN! Light-jlled oasis w/details of an era gone by married w/clean lines & amenities. $799,000 THE WOOLFORD GROUP 916.502.2120 CalRE#: 00679593/01778361/00680069

STUNNING RANCH HOME! Situated on a quiet street. 3BD/1.5BA, stainless applncs, granite cnters, newer roof, lrg 2 car garage w/ loft area. Bckyrd w/multi-level decking, horse shoe pit, water feature & pergola. $359,950 CLARA TUCKER 916.502.0400 CalRE#: 02026727

GORGEOUS EAST SAC TUDOR! Built in 2015, 4bds, 3 full baths, & massive Loft for play or ofjce. Open custom kitch. Built to entertain. $929,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

MCKINLEY MANOR! Lovingly updtd, chef's kitch, & gorgeous wood detailing. Great master ste. 4-5bd/3ba, & bsemnt. $1,520,000 THE WOOLFORD GROUP 916.502.2120 CalRE#: 00679593/01778361/00680069

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QUINTESSENTIAL EAST SAC CHARM! Updated with extended living space in backyard, adjacent to Ladybird’s Fabulous Forties. $969,900 ELISE BROWN & POLLY SANDERS 916.715.0213 CalRE#: 01781942/01158787

EAST SAC TUDOR! 4BD/2.5BA hm, frml living rm w/frplc, frml dining rm, bonus study space upstrs. 1/4 bsemnt. $969,000 THE WOOLFORD GROUP 916.502.2120 CalRE#: 00679593/01778361/00680069

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MIDTOWN “PORCH LIFE” IS GREAT! Updated 3bd, 2ba bungalow w/oversized deck, & yard, 2 car garage. Steps to Co-Op! STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

COZY EAST SAC COTTAGE! 2BED/1BATH, 1207sq/ft. Close to restaurants & shopping. $499,950 RICH CAZNEAUX 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558

MARVELOUS MIDTOWN HOME! In the heart of Sac’s dining & arts community. Hardwood koors, jreplace, & charming kitchen delight in this Marshall School-NE Park Home! $489,500 STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

SACRAMENTO METRO OFFICE 730 Alhambra Boulevard #150 | 916.447.5900

RIVER PARK! 4bd/2ba, hdwd krs, DP windows, whole house fan, & kitch w/stnless steel applnce. $479,000 ELISE BROWN & POLLY SANDERS 916.715.0213 CalRE#: 01781942/ 01158787

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