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UNIQUE 1930s EAST SACRAMENTO 2-Story, 3 bedroom 2 bath plus of¿ce on a corner lot; completely remodeled and move-in ready! Kitchen features: oversized fridge, 6 burner gas range, island with 2nd sink, granite countertops and open layout to formal dining plus access via French doors to backyard. Pool and two outdoor ¿replaces. $839,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

FABULOUS EAST SACRAMENTO This 45th Street home has been meticulously renovated ... incorporating vintage charm with modern convenience. 3 bedrooms 2 baths, a master ensuite with 2 walk-in closets! New kitchen features shaker cabinets, quartz counters and upgraded appliances. Large corner lot could be RV storage or fabulous garden! $724,900 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

L STREET LOFT Amazing corner unit with a wraparound deck and city views lets you fully enjoy the loft experience. A large great room space is perfect for entertaining. The master suite is tucked behind the living area for privacy. Large half bath and a large laundry room with built in cabinets for additional storage. $659,000 SUE BALDO 541-3706

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WELCOME TO METRO SQUARE This rare corner unit features 2 or3 bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms with lots of light1 Original owner has done many upgrades and taken immaculate care of this home. Built-in shelving throughout, ¿replace, plantation shutters, whole house fan, updated bathrooms, and more! $549,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

SPECTACULAR This move-in-ready East Sacramento home is full of sunlight showing off the beautiful hardwood Àoors and the nicely Àowing Àoorplan. 3 bedrooms 1¼ baths great for entertaining. Beautiful and private backyard and covered patio; detached 2 car garage and convenient carport. $474,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

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MAKE THIS YOUR OWN Conveniently located, close to shopping, restaurants and transportation, this lovely 3 bedroom, 1½ bath home has beautiful re¿nished hardwood Àoors, living room, dining room and spacious master bedroom! Central heat and air conditioning, covered patio and attached garage. $389,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

HANDSOME BRICK This 2 bedroom home de¿nes the coveted East Sac Tudor bungalow! Unique tray ceilings. Hardwood Àoors with inlay accents. Kitchen remodeled, warm wood cabinets, SS appliances, concrete counters, richly hued slate. Updated bath, bonus studio/of¿ce space attached to the one car garage. $479,000 JAY FEAGLES 204-7756

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METRO SQUARE AT ITS BEST 2 bedrooms 2½ baths plus den in the heart of Midtown. Features include hardwood Àoors and upgrades throughout. Home is clean as a whistle including a relaxing patio with an amazing fountain. Stroll to restaurants, shops, and all that urban living has to offer! $548,000 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

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T STREET Just steps to parkway or relax on private deck off the large master suite. 3 bedroom 2 bath, remodeled kitchen, granite counters, stainless appliances and wine fridge. Plantation shutters, dual pane windows; master suite has a vaulted ceiling, huge walk-in closet, large bath with Jacuzzi tub. Extra of¿ce den! $489,900 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495

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ICONIC GEORGIAN COLONIAL! For the Àrst time since 1940, this 5800 square foot brick Georgian Colonial, located in the heart of the revered East Sacramento’s Fab 40’s neighborhood, is offered for sale.This 6 bedroom, 5.5 bath home, resting on .42 acre, presents a spacious formal Living room with a marble Àreplace, a formal Dining room that looks onto the expansive backyard, and a Kitchen with many original features including a Butler’s pantry and adjoining Breakfast room. The backyard beckons the opportunity to entertain: a tile pool, the large fountain, lush Áower beds and lawn area. Boasting unique nuances including two garages, hardwood Áoors, original windows, and incredible crown moldings, this home couples both charm and potential. $1,435,000

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REMARKABLY CHARMING COLONIAL! Located on a quintessential tree-lined street, this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Dutch Colonial boasts formal Living & Dining rooms, and a spacious den with built-in bookshelves, a Àreplace, and French doors that lead to the inviting backyard. The open Kitchen has been updated to include modern amenities: Dacor 48” dual fuel Epicure series range, granite countertops, and a bright eat-in area that offers ample storage. Other amenities include 2 Master Suites, Loewen windows, new sewer line, hardwood Áoors, and a two-car garage. $1,000,000

IN THE HEART OF ELMHURST! Looking onto the expansive T Street parkway and near UCDMC, this 2 bedroom, 1 bath Elmhurst cottage presents delightful charm! This 1,223 square foot home offers a formal Living room that opens to a formal Dining area, and a spacious Kitchen. The private backyard boasts a retreat from the daily hustle and bustle, with a spacious lawn area, Àre pit area, and a vegetable garden. Other amenities include a two-car garage, hardwood Áoors, and partial dual pane windows. $419,950

IRRESISTIBLY CHARMING COTTAGE! This 3/4 bedroom, 2 bathroom brick cottage presents an inviting retreat! This 2367 square foot home offers a formal Living room, a formal Dining area, a spacious Family room, and a Kitchen with an adjoining Breakfast Nook. Other amenities include a glistening pool, hardwood Áoors, an indoor laundry room, and spacious craft room attached to the two- car garage. $649,950

WELCOME HOME! Located near East Sac restaurants, coffee shops and parks, this 3 bedroom, 1 bath East Sac property offers an inviting place to call home! This 1101 square foot home presents a formal Living room with 9 foot ceilings, a bright Kitchen with an island and dining bar, and a spacious Family room. Other amenities include hardwood Áoors, an indoor laundry area, fresh interior and exterior paint, and charm throughout! $449,950 LIVE IN THE FAB 40’S! Nestled on a tree-lined street and near East Sac restaurants and shops, this inviting 1,788 square foot cottage couples both incredible charm and modern comforts! This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home offers a formal Living room with a Àreplace, formal Dining room with built-in cabinets, and a recently updated Kitchen. Inviting opportunities to entertain, the backyard presents a glistening pool, mature foliage and patio area. Other amenities include a Master Suite that looks onto the backyard, hardwood Áoors, and an ofÀce area that adjoins to the detached garage. $829,950

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Tree Crisis CITIZEN LEADERSHIP IS NEEDED TO SAVE DROUGHT-STRESSED PARK TREES

city streets and parks at an alarming rate. Dozens have been cut down in recent years in McKinley Park alone. There’s little doubt the drought has made this condition worse.

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erhaps at no time of the year more than the summer months of July and August do Sacramentans enjoy the lush, leafy canopies of our magnificent urban forests. Their foliage shades our yards, streets and parks and provides cooling relief to hot city buildings and pavement. And as trees grow and age, their value to our neighborhoods actually increases. But after four years of drought, the media focus seems to be more on lawn-watering restrictions and less on the care needed to save our droughtravaged tree canopy. With water for landscapes severely restricted, it is key that homeowners prioritize their outdoor water use. In my own yard, this meant forgoing annual planting in the flowerbeds and in containers, as they tend to have shallower roots and need much more frequent water. Lawns will usually survive without water by going dormant and brown. But arbor experts warn that trees need to be the first priority for water. Homeowners should have deepwatered their trees before the high

Dead trees are now commonplace in our city parks after a four-year drought. Can we save those that are still struggling to stay alive with deep watering?

summer heat, continuing the practice every two weeks thereafter. Watering should be focused around the tree drip line, which can be a challenge with larger trees. Ideal is a spiral of soaker hose left to slowly penetrate the water down deep. But just moving the hose around the perimeter will work, too, although it is more work. Mulch around the tree’s base helps preserve the moisture reserve. Mulch materials include wood chips, bark, shredded bark and leaves, and compost, and it should be at least 4 inches thick. To avoid rot, you should

leave a mulch-free circle of 6 to 8 inches around the tree’s trunk. Lack of water creates tree stress. This manifests itself as needle dieback in conifers and leaf scorching in deciduous trees. Dead branches start to appear, and oftentimes the entire tree sags down. Trees under stress also are weaker in fighting off pests. The numerous sycamores lining many of our older city streets are suffering from a dramatic increase in scale insects. Pines are seeing more beetles, while birches are being attacked by borers. Heritage elms with Dutch elm disease are being removed from

While homeowners can care for trees on private property with extra effort, local governments are facing extreme difficulty with their urban forests in the drought. Public trees make up about 20 percent of our regional urban forest. Trees in our city parks face a unique crisis. The city’s urban forestry service is charged with the care of the trees on public property, including parks. This department is organized under the city’s Department of Public Works. Urban forestry employees plant, maintain, prune and remove public trees. Additionally, they perform numerous other functions, including the protection of heritage trees. They also are charged with partnering with nonprofit organizations to expand the urban forest and educate citizens about proper tree planting locations and tree care. Under normal nondrought conditions, our heavy winter rains help trees develop deep roots so that they can weather our arid summers. The trees located in natural areas like the American River Parkway never get much summer water and so develop deep root systems that have helped them effectively survive the drought. But park trees are generally surrounded by grass that has typically been watered a couple times a week PUBLISHER page 13

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Growing Theodore Judah ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOOKS TO EXPAND WITH A NEW BUILDING

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iscussion continued in June regarding proposed changes to the Theodore Judah campus. Recent debate focused on whether to replace three old portables with either a permanent structure or a refurbished modular building transferred from another campus. There has been strong support for the permanent structure, and plans to move forward with this option cleared another hurdle on June 8, when the school district held a community meeting to discuss the project’s funding. School district board member Ellen Cochrane was in attendance. Area assistant superintendent Mary Hardin-Young, who led the meeting, said the goal was to present a plan that Cochrane could take to the board to show that the permanent structure would be cost-neutral for the district. Although district enrollment is down, Theodore Judah has continued to grow, becoming what HardinYoung calls “a destination school.” The McKinley Village development

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A rendering of the proposed new building to be added to the Theodore Judah campus to accommodate a growing student population

is expected to further increase the school population. Without a new structure, the school cannot accommodate this growth. Either the modular building or the permanent building would provide the necessary space. “We want really strong neighborhood schools,” said HardinYoung, “and quality classroom space is a priority.” Supporters of the permanent structure feel that the building, designed with green space and natural light in mind, will provide students with classrooms that are optimal for growth and learning. The plan is for a nine-room building that gives the school six

new classrooms and allows for reinstatement of the science lab and art and music room, lost in recent years due to space constraints. According to PTA president Deana Carrillo, the building supports the school’s Project Green Initiative and provides a more cost-effective addition to the campus than the modular building. The new construction has an estimated life span of 80 years, while the modular building would last 25. The permanent structure also has the potential to grow with campus needs, as the design allows for the addition of four more classrooms once other campus portables are retired. Architect Ron Vrilakas and McKinley

Village developer Phil Angelides agree that the permanent structure’s design compliments and enhances the original WPA style of the school. Sacramento City Unified School District has committed $3.32 million to the expansion project. This would cover the cost of the refurbished portable and the expense of removing the existing portables. The permanent structure will cost an estimated $4.9 million. Proposed funding beyond the SCUSD contribution will come from school impact fees generated by McKinley Village and a private donation from Encore McKinley Village, LLC. The Theodore Judah PTA and Judah’s

Project Green award money are other potential sources of funds. The issue was scheduled to be on the agenda at the June 18 school board meeting. If the permanent structure is approved, Vrilakas anticipates an August 2016 completion. Theodore Judah is the oldest continuously operating school in Sacramento City Unified School District. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

CALEB GREENWOOD RECEIVES IB AUTHORIZATION As of May 13, 2015, Caleb Greenwood Elementary School in River Park is an authorized International Baccalaureate World School. It is the only elementary school in the Sacramento City Unified School District that has been authorized to adopt the IB Primary Years Program, a curriculum framework that focuses on five essential elements—knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes and action— aimed at equipping students for successful lives. The mission of IB, a nonprofit organization, is “to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.” Caleb Greenwood became an IB candidate school in September 2013, following a 2011 community redesign of the school’s vision and trajectory led by a team of parents, former parents, community members, teachers and school district representatives. While Caleb Greenwood will remain a neighborhood school, the transition is part of the district’s plan to create a K-12 IB track for East Sacramento. Kit Carson Middle School is currently a candidate for the IB Middle Years Program (seventh through 10th grades) and the IB Diploma Program (11th and 12th grades).

PUBLISHER FROM page 11 to stay green and lush. This causes park trees to develop shallow root structures. When park lawn watering is reduced during times of drought, the trees suffer as their shallow roots dry out quickly. According to arborists’ recommendations, our park trees should receive deep watering during drought. This sends water up inside the tree and encourages roots to grow deeper into the ground. This is where the crisis comes in. City park staffs were decimated during the recent recession, with staff levels cut to 25 percent of prerecessionary levels. Measure U, an extra half-cent city sales tax approved by voters in 2012, was imposed to restore the city’s police, fire and parks departments. It sunsets in 2019. But even with record high revenues from the tax, this past year city park budgets were restored only to 50 percent of prerecession levels. (Police and fire are considered fully restored as of next year’s budget.) I spoke with Jim Combs, the city director of parks, and he is deeply concerned. He says the upcoming budget increases fund only 18 new park positions. The money will be used to hire staff to empty trash and clean public restrooms more frequently, a basic service level that the department fell short of this past year. It is easy to see why, with 226 city parks, the task of deep watering thousands of trees at risk of dying is overwhelming. Councilmember Jeff Harris in my own city council District 3 says, “This is a huge concern to me. We just cannot sit back, give up and let our beloved tree canopy die.” Harris was a long-serving city parks commissioner before being elected to the council last fall. Harris recently reached out to the Sacramento Tree Foundation. They are jointly planning to hold a series of seminars in his district—working through neighborhood associations— on drought care for trees.

CITIZEN LEADERSHIP NEEDED What is desperately needed is citizen leaders willing to come forward and form a temporary emergency task force using volunteers to manage a tree deep-watering campaign in our city parks. The Sacramento Tree Foundation, along with the city’s parks and urban forestry leaders and employees, need to join in offering their expertise and resources. Years ago, a poll showed that our citizens value their tree canopy among their top three favorite things about Sacramento. Hopefully, this could translate into volunteers willing to move hoses and manage watering schedules in order to save our park trees. In recent years, citizen leaders have stepped forward to solve a number of much more complicated civic crises. Craig Powell founded the flagship Land Park Volunteer Corps in 2009. Under his leadership, incredible accomplishments have been made by volunteers. They just finished up their 47th monthly work day. The group now attracts an average 90 volunteers per work day. They’ve cleaned ponds 141 times, removed more than 65 tons of garden clippings and debris and recently mulched every tree and bed in the park. The work model Powell developed inspired many other neighborhood leaders to do the same in their neighborhood parks. There are now dozens of similar groups. With Powell’s can-do civic attitude as a model, Lisa Schmidt and I founded Friends of East Sacramento in 2011 to save Clunie Community Center from closure while also fundraising and overseeing the privately funded restoration of both Clunie and the McKinley Rose Garden. We organize dozens of volunteers to help care for the rose garden each season. Is it easy? No way. But it needs to be done. The American River Natural History Association stepped up to save Effie Yeaw Nature Center from closing years ago. At about the same time, former Congressman Doug Ose

saved Gibson Ranch from closure. Both of these extraordinary efforts improved the facilities and the experience for park users. We need to consider of the civic cost of removing hundreds of dead trees in the coming years. Just last month, the city removed three huge dead conifers in McKinley Park when we complained that they created dangerous conditions for park users, with dead limbs hanging over picnic grounds, park benches and walkways. Powell reports that his group has documented nearly 100 historic redwoods in Land Park that were confirmed near death by city arborist Duane Goosen. It may be too late for these trees, but hopefully not for others. Will volunteers step up in this time of crisis to save our park trees? Will our city leaders and the Sacramento Tree Foundation put in the effort and resources to help organize this task force? I certainly hope so. Greater civic challenges have been solved with this approach. Anyone interested in leading this task force should contact Councilmember Jeff Harris at jsharris@cityofsacramento.org or 808-7003. Volunteers interested in helping with watering should contact Mary Lynn Perry, the city’s volunteer coordinator, at mperry@ cityofsacramento.org or 808-8317. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n

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FOURTH OF JULY FESTIVITIES River Park Neighborhood Association will stage the annual Fourth of July Festival at Glenn Hall Park on Saturday, July 4. The celebration begins at 10 a.m. with the Firecracker Parade of antique cars through the neighborhood and the children’s bike parade from Caleb Greenwood Elementary to Glenn Hall. The festival will feature carnival games, a bounce house, face painting, balloon artists, sack and egg races, and a water balloon toss. Refreshments will be available for purchase from The Weinery and Jamba Juice. Local artists and art organizations will showcase works and provide program information. Musical guest Mere Mortals will perform until 1 p.m. Sponsors and supporters include River Park Neighborhood Association, River Park Mothers Club, Councilmember Jeff Harris, Arts in River Park and Compton’s Market. If joining the throng is more your style, dress in your patriotic best and head to the corner of 41st and M streets for the East Sacramento Fourth of July parade, said to be the longest-running annual parade west of the Mississippi. “The vast majority of people that go to this parade aren’t going to watch the parade roll past them,” says Santa Ynez Way resident Nathan Sherman, author of the blog welcometoeastsac.com. “They are there to walk side by side with hundreds of fellow neighbors on foot, bike, wagon, motorized beer cooler or other crazy contraptions.” The parade starts at 11 a.m.

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Dress in your patriotic best and head to the corner of 41st and M streets for the East Sacramento Fourth of July parade

love and heartbreak. Students will read selected poems and listen to a brief lecture; they may then opt to craft their own poems in the styles discussed. The instructor and fellow students will offer encouraging feedback. The topic for Wednesday, July 1, is “William Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets.” The topic for Wednesday, July 15, is “Isle of Lesbos: Sappho.” The six-week series will run through August on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Class time is 7 to 8:30 p.m. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

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ESIA ORCHID AND ONION AWARDS East Sacramento Improvement Association announced the winners of its 2015 Orchid and Onion awards at the Pops in the Park concert at Bertha Henschel Park on June 13. Nominees for the Sidney Pope Memorial Orchid Award, which spotlights a business making a positive contribution to East Sacramento, were Cabana Winery, 33rd Street Bistro and the refurbished office building at 3714-20 J St. Voting by ESIA members resulted in a tie between the J Street building, “now a fully leased and attractive asset” to the area, and 33rd Street Bistro, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and is a key anchor of the increasingly vibrant corner of 33rd Street and Folsom Boulevard.

The winner of the Onion award, which is intended to encourage improvement in areas that detract from the neighborhood, was Express Furniture at 5116 Folsom Blvd. Calling the building “a blight,” ESIA president Paul Noble cited a rundown exterior and uninviting interior as reasons for the nomination, declaring that “the neighboring business owners and the broader neighborhood deserve better.” For more information on ESIA, call 451-5271 or go to eastsacimprovement.org

SUMMER POETRY SERIES CONTINUES Join poet and editor Frank Dixon Graham at McKinley Library for a series of classes on the poetry of

Food Truck Mania returns this month to McKinley Park and Tahoe Park. The McKinley Park event, sponsored by Councilmember Jeff Harris, happens Friday, July 10, from 5 to 8 p.m., and continues every second Friday of the month through October. Food trucks will park between the baseball field and the playground. The Tahoe Park event, sponsored by Councilmember Eric Guerra, County Supervisor Phil Serna and Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association, happens Friday, July 24, from 5 to 9 p.m. and continues every fourth Friday of the month through October. Trucks will park near 60th Street and 8th Avenue.

YOGA IN THE PARK Yoga in the Park now happens weekly in both McKinley Park and Tahoe Park. Classes are free and open to all levels. Teachers rotate each week, so each class has a unique style and flow. The McKinley Park class meets Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. near the rose garden. The Tahoe Park class meets Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. at the corner of 59th Street and 11th Avenue. For more information or to view a monthly schedule and

teacher lineup, visit facebook.com/ YogaInTheParkYogaAcrossAmerica

EXPLORE THE NEIGHBORHOOD Have a free Thursday? Make a beeline for West Tahoe Park to check out Finnegan’s Public House. Open since April, Finnegan’s serves breakfast and lunch favorites with some innovative twists. The space is casual and cozy and features live music during Sunday brunch hours. Finnegan’s is located at 3751 Stockton Blvd. After your meal, take a leisurely bike ride through Tahoe Park and down Elmhurst’s tree-lined T Street parkway. End your journey at the UC Davis Health System Farmers Market, operated by BeMoneySmartUSA, a local nonprofit that provides youth with financial, business and career education programs. Now in its third year, the market is open every Thursday through October from 3 to 7:30 p.m at the corner of 45th and Y streets. With

ideal hours for the after-work crowd, the market is cited by neighbors as one of Tahoe Park’s best-kept secrets.

SUMMER CAMP AT FREMONT PRESBYTERIAN Fremont Presbyterian will host a summer camp July 13-17 for children in grades K-5. Camp runs from 9 a.m. to noon each day, and will culminate with a Friday evening celebration where children can share the week’s discoveries. Register now at fremontkids.org

ANNUAL ALZHEIMER’S RUN The eighth annual East Lawn Fab 40’s 5K Run/Walk, benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association of Northern California, will be held Saturday, July 25. Race-day registration begins at 7 a.m. Three levels of kids’ fun runs begin at 8:10 a.m, and the 5K begins at 8:30 a.m. Starting at East Lawn,

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EAST SAC LIFE FROM page 15 the course makes a round-trip loop down scenic M Street. Registration is $30 for adults through July 19. Adult registration after July 19 and on race day is $35. Fun runs are $16 for all participants. All proceeds from the event go to the Alzheimer’s Association, which provides support to people living with the disease, and funds research aimed at ending it. For registration information, call 492-8966 or visit fab40s5k.org. For more information on the Alzheimer’s Association, go to alz.org

COOKING CLASSES FOR KIDS Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op will hold two weeklong cooking camps this month for children ages 9 to 15. Each session runs Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students will learn fundamental skills and culinary techniques, with an emphasis on incorporating the freshest ingredients. Each day, the class will create a meal from a different world cuisine. At the end of the day, they will eat the lunch they created. Two identical class sessions run from July 13-17 and July 27-31. To register, go to sacfoodcoop.org and click on Learning Center and Cooking School.

KIDS ARE TRAFFIC, TOO Grab your helmets and join this month’s Kidical Mass, happening Sunday, July 26. Riders should meet at Sutter’s Landing at 10 a.m. for a ride down the American River Parkway to Camp Pollock. Kidical Mass is a family-friendly group bike ride that happens the fourth Sunday of each month. Volunteer parents take turns planning and leading each ride. The group’s goal is to help families learn to ride safely and legally together, foster healthy habits, spread the joy of bike riding, and encourage goodwill and cooperation among all users of the road. “It’s a great community for people who want to ride with

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Grab your helmets and join this month’s Kidical Mass, happening Sunday, July 26. Photo courtesy of Chris Shultz.

their children but are nervous about beginning, feel more comfortable with a group, or just want a fun family social activity,” says volunteer parent Elle Steele. “The group is always great about offering advice and suggestions about riding with kids.” Future rides include the popular Halloween and holiday lights rides, as well as the Thanksgiving collection ride, benefiting the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services. For more information on Kidical Mass, go to sackidicalmass.org

HARVEST EAST SAC SEEKS VOLUNTEERS, DONATIONS With summer in full swing and the season’s fruits ripening, Harvest East Sac needs volunteers. Harvest East Sac is a local chapter of Harvest Sacramento, the Soil Born Farms edible city initiative. It is a collaborative effort of area residents, nonprofits, community groups and businesses to harvest surplus fruit and vegetables from backyards and small orchards and donate it to local food assistance agencies. Nonprofit

Soil Born Farms plans to expand Harvest Sacramento to include garden builds and fruit tree planting and care. Harvest East Sac coordinator Nancy Kuzins currently has a core team of five volunteers who are available on weekday mornings. “I love to take on new people who are interested in harvesting, particularly in the evenings and on Saturdays,” says Kuzins. “Many of my volunteers are in their 70s, and I really don’t want them up on ladders collecting the stone fruits. We’re going to need other help if Harvest is going to happen this year.” Kuzins would also like to add another coordinator to the team, to take calls and help with scheduling. The main recipient of fruits gleaned by Harvest East Sac is River City Food Bank. Harvest Sacramento coordinator Dominic Allamano says the group also donates to Food Literacy Center and to neighborhood residents. Donation is not required, and Kuzins says no one is turned away. “If there’s a homeowner who’s just overwhelmed with fruit, we’ll

come out and help them,” she says. The owner can then choose to keep or donate the fruit, or share with neighbors. The main objective is to prevent the fruit from going to waste. Anyone with ripe or ripening fruit can call Harvest to schedule an appointment at any time throughout the year. For the soft fruits of summer, Kuzins says neighbors should contact her as soon as the fruit begins to ripen, so the harvest has time to make it to the food bank. She prefers a week’s notice. The main harvest each year is citrus, which is less fragile and has a longer shelf life than summer’s stone fruits. The citrus harvest typically runs from January through March. To volunteer or to schedule a harvest, call Nancy Kuzins at 4559259. In Tahoe Park, call Amanda Fredericksen at 905-2367. For more information on Harvest Sacramento or to make a donation to any Soil Born Farms initiative, visit soilborn.org

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PARK TREES IN CRISIS

With the drought in its fourth year, Sacramento’s park trees are taking a huge hit. Hundreds of trees, many of them heritage size, are in grave danger or have already died. A few of the dead trees have been removed, but numerous others are still dangerously standing. Trees photographed here are located in Land Park, McKinley Park and East Portal Park. The city’s 226 parks also have many other trees under stress from drought conditions. District 3 Councilmember Jeff Harris is forming an emergency task force to try to save some of these trees by using volunteers to perform deep watering. Anyone interested in leading the task force should contact Councilmember Jeff Harris at jsharris@cityofsacramento.org or 808-7003. Volunteers interested in helping with watering should contact Mary Lynn Perry, the city’s volunteer coordinator, at mperry@cityofsacramento.org or 808-8317.

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JULY AT MCKINLEY LIBRARY Sacramento Public Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Reading program continues through Aug. 31. Sign up at any library branch and receive a colorchanging pencil and a free book or book bag for the first five books read. Every five books read earns participants one entry into the end-ofsummer drawing for an iPad Mini. Celebrate the summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Read to the Rhythmâ&#x20AC;? theme by creating your own musical instrument on Friday, July 10. The workshop begins at 2 p.m. On Friday, July 17, Didgeridoo Down Under visits McKinley Library for an afternoon of interactive family fun. Learn about the Australian aboriginal instrument and enjoy a show that incorporates music, culture, puppetry, storytelling and audience participation. On Friday, July 31, join musician Catherine Mandella as she demonstrates a variety of world instruments. Audience participation is encouraged. Start time is 2 p.m.

BRAS FOR A CAUSE East Sacramento Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club will wrap up its Support Our Sisters campaign on July 4. For the past four months, the club has been collecting new and gently used bras for donation to local groups St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shelter for Real Change and WEAVE, and to global charity Free the Girls International, which sends bras to specific African regions to aid victims of sex trafficking. Free the Girls helps survivors set up micro enterprises selling bras in secondhand clothing markets, where the garments are typically highly sought after and command top dollar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to collect a mile worth of bras, which our sister club in Citrus Heights figured to be about 1,800,â&#x20AC;? says board member Tracey Strong, who with committee chair Alicia Kerr helped organize the collection drive. As of mid-June, the total number of bras collected was estimated at 1,150. Last-minute donations to Support

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After decades of struggling to secure funding, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on Alhambra Blvd. finally breaks ground for its $12.5 million construction project on June 14

Our Sisters can be made at the Bra Boxes at Article Consignment (706 56th St.) and the East Sac farmers market. Now in its second year, ESWC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to active participation in service and charitable projects, in and beyond Sacramento. Members partner with existing organizations to help meet ongoing or seasonal volunteer and collection needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ESWC philosophy,â&#x20AC;? says club president Shannon Downs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is that by planning and working collectively, we are able to stay motivated, make a bigger impact, and forge and strengthen our community ties in positive and meaningful ways.â&#x20AC;? The club will be accepting new members during its August session. Although most members live in the greater East Sacramento area, membership is open to all adult women over the age of 18 who are interested in sharing their time, energy and talents in support of conservation efforts, animal welfare and human rights. For more information on the club, find it on Facebook or visit eastsacwomensclub.wix.com/eswc

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METERED WATER SERVICE AREA EXPANDS The city’s Department of Utilities held a public meeting on June 3 to discuss Phase II of its water main replacement project. In addition to the abandonment of existing water mains and laying of new PVC mains, this phase of the project will involve the installation of 1,406 water meters in accordance with AB 2572, which mandates that all California homes have metered water by 2025. The city has adopted its own accelerated plan, targeting 2020 for completion of citywide meter installation. Residents of the area targeted in Phase II, roughly bordered by Alhambra, Folsom, 40th and B streets, attended the presentation and Q&A session. Councilmember Jeff Harris also attended and spoke about the expected benefits of the project, calling water meters “an essential

tool to help us understand how we use water citywide,” and warning of prohibitive restrictions the city may be forced to impose if water usage does not continue to decline. Project manager Melissa Marshall explained the new billing process, which will include one year of “comparative billing,” during which residents will continue to pay their flat rate while receiving usage information on their bill. Those who would like to begin paying the metered rate immediately may opt to do so. Harris also discussed offering homeowners with utility easements the option to pay to have their meter installed in the sidewalk rather than in their yard. He plans to follow up with the city to determine whether this option is viable. Phase II is expected to run from June 2015 to June 2016. Teichert Construction was awarded the work contract. To learn more, visit cityofsacramento.org/utilities

P.M. PRESCHOOL RETURNS TO LUBIN Ms. Anita and the Parent Participation Preschool will return to the David Lubin campus this September, after nearly a decade of site-hopping due to fluctuating enrollment and room availability. The program spent 28 years at David Lubin before relocating to Theodore Judah and then Caleb Greenwood. In recent years, many David Lubin parents with children in the program began to push for its return. Principal Richard Dixon was determined to

bring the change about and worked closely with parents, teachers and district representatives to free up classroom space. School clerk Becky Petrie says the effort was aided by the fact that enrollment is down comparatively from the time of Ms. Anita’s departure. Ms. Anita will teach afternoon sessions at David Lubin Monday through Friday from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The current Monday-Thursday morning preschool program and Friday toddler session will remain at Caleb Greenwood. The preschool follows a semester schedule and runs from September through January and February through June. David Lubin is at 3535 M St. in East Sacramento.

SAC HIGH STUDENT RECEIVES STATE DEPARTMENT SCHOLARSHIP Emiliano Gomez, a Sacramento High student, has been awarded a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) scholarship for

2015-16. He will study Korean in South Korea for the summer. Gomez is one of 620 students from across the country selected this year for overseas study of Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Russian or Turkish. In South Korea, Gomez will receive formal instruction and informal practice in an immersion environment. The program aims to spark enduring interest in foreign languages and cultures and develop a corps of young Americans with the skills necessary to advance international dialogue and cross-cultural opportunities in the private, academic and government sectors. For more information on NSLI-Y, go to nsliforyouth.org. Applications for 2016-17 will be available in early fall. For information about other U.S. Department of State-sponsored exchange programs, visit exchanges. state.gov The deadline for inclusion of items in this column is the fifth of the month preceding the month of publication. Rachel Matuskey can be reached at insideeastsac@gmail.com n

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Samantha Klein PAYING IT FORWARD WITH FRESH FRUITS AND VEGGIES

vegetables. The truck takes the donated food right to local food banks. “At a farmers market, you can shop for yourself and buy something to donate and just drop it off at the Reverse Food Truck,” says Klein. “Everyone should be able to have fresh fruits and vegetables. But, it’s OK if people want to give other food items or money. Just give something for people who have less than you do.” Klein hopes that more young people will get involved with the Reverse Food Truck. “I have learned a lifelong lesson: that if others need help and I can help, I should,” she says. Says Klein’s father Mike: “Jenny and I have always told our children luck has a great influence on your lives—luck where you were born and circumstances you were born into. Not everyone has the same luck. It’s important to do what you can to help those that didn’t have your luck.”

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amantha Klein says she is one of the lucky ones: She has always had access to food, including fresh fruits and vegetables. Last year, when she started attending Sutter Middle School, she realized that some of her classmates were getting free lunches at school because there was not enough food in their homes. Klein, who has lived in East Sacramento all her life, wanted to do something to help. Her mother, Jenny Klein, a pediatric physical therapist, suggested she talk to her friend, Dr. Zoey Goore, who with her husband Richard was starting the Sacramento Reverse Food Truck. “While most people know about food trucks that sell food, the Reverse Food Truck accepts donations of fresh fruits and vegetables, nonperishable foods and money instead of selling food,” says Goore. “The truck is at local farmers markets and events collecting donations that are then distributed to local food banks.” Klein, who turned 13 this year, was excited about the chance to help with the project and decided to make it her tzedakah (charitable action) project for her bat mitzvah, which she celebrated last month. (Her synagogue asks that bar/bat mitzvah students do a volunteer project as part of the preparation.)

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“I was not surprised that she would want to help,” says Goore. “She knew it would help those in need, and she knew it was a project that was important to us. She wanted to be supportive to all. That is who she is.” Klein designed fliers to create awareness about the truck and helped distribute them at events. When the Reverse Food Truck had its opening

event in May as part of Hunger Awareness Week, Klein helped collect donations of food and money and worked to sign up volunteers. This summer, she will help staff the truck at local farmers markets. Unlike a lot of food collection sites that take only canned and shelf-stable goods, the Reverse Food Truck allows people to donate fresh fruit and

The Sacramento Reverse Food Truck is a project of the American Academy of Pediatrics California Foundation. Look for it at the East Sacramento Farmers Market on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in McKinley Park later this summer. For more information, visit sacrft. com To suggest someone for a volunteer profile, call 441-7026 or email eastsaclife@aol.com n

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Personal Drive HER DAD’S BOUT WITH LEUKEMIA SPARKED A DESIRE TO HELP

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bby Douglas is not your average high school junior. Sure, the East Sacramento native is a great student at C.K. McClatchy High School (she especially loves English and history), but she’s also done extensive work with the Sacramento Tree Foundation and recently wrapped up a fundraising campaign for the local chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. While Douglas is clearly quite community-minded, her drive to raise funds for the LLS as part of its Students of the Year campaign was also quite personal: Her father, Eric, was diagnosed with lymphoma four years ago; thanks to a drug developed through the LLS’s extensive research efforts, he’s now in remission. “As I watched my dad going through chemotherapy, I got a much better understanding of the disease,” Douglas says. “I now had personal experience with it, and I very luckily saw him come out the other side.” When a fellow student got in touch with Douglas about participating in the Students of the Year campaign— in which student pairs across the country raise as much money as they can for the LLS, the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer research—she jumped at the chance to help the society and, more specifically, a little girl named Bailey McFarland. “What’s so great about the society is that they provide patient support as well as doing research,” Douglas says. “They help you deal with the normal stress of cancer plus the

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Abby Douglas, Bailey McFarland and Julia Davis

logistics, like where to go to get care. Every year, the local LLS chapters select an honorary Girl and Boy of the Year who represent all of the their fundraising efforts. This year, the Sacramento chapter’s Girl of the Year is Bailey McFarland, a 9-yearold diagnosed with leukemia. We met her early on and she immediately gravitated toward us.” Douglas and her fundraising partner, Julia Davis—a student at Rio Americano High School and Douglas’s best friend “literally since birth” (their mothers were friends while pregnant, and the girls were born in the same hospital only four days apart)—decided to try to raise $50,000

for a research fund to be named in Bailey’s honor. “When I pitched the idea to Julia, she was very gung-ho,” Douglas says. “And we’ve found out we’re actually really good at working together.” They launched Bailey’s Cancer Busters, a blog and donation page that tells Bailey’s story—she commutes with her family from Reno to UC Davis Medical Center for treatment twice a week—and chronicles the events they’ve held for her, including a one-on-one dunking session with Sacramento Kings player Jason Thompson. “People fundraise in different ways in this campaign,” Douglas says. “Some are successful with events;

some are more successful doing personal asks. We had originally planned a foot-golf tournament last month that was supposed to be our main fundraising event, but we didn’t see enough interest from our network to make it profitable, so we canceled it. Instead, we held a different benefit event on May 8—a more traditional party with cocktails and dessert at my family’s house in East Sac—that went much better. We’re still chugging away.” By the end of May, Douglas and Davis had raised $50,000 for LLS and learned some invaluable lessons along the way. “This experience with fundraising has been crazy,” Douglas admits. “It’s a different thing to do when you’re 17—it feels very adult. Thankfully, the LLS has been really helpful and clued me in to this really cool infrastructure that’s already in place. I think this will be a great thing to do even in college.” While Douglas still has a couple of years before she takes on university life, she’ll stay busy in the meantime with her local activism, be it working on the pilot program to “green” local high school campuses that she co-created with the volunteer coordinator at the Sacramento Tree Foundation or raising funds with her friends for the next person in need. And thanks to efforts like hers and the blood cancer research bolstered in part by LLS, her dad will be here to cheer her on. For more information on the Sacramento chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, go to lls.org/sac Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n

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Ethics Reform REFORMERS, COUNCIL OFFER STARKLY DIFFERENT APPROACHES

BY CRAIG POWELL INSIDE CITY HALL

he campaign to enact ethics, transparency and redistricting reforms in Sacramento is hitting a critical stage this summer as a communitybased effort led by Eye on Sacramento and the League of Women Voters—now reorganized as the Sacramento Integrity Project— prepare to deliver their package of reforms to the city council following a dozen public forums. Meanwhile, a city council ad hoc committee on “good governance,” operating behind closed doors, is moving in a dramatically different direction, downplaying ethics and transparency reform, seeking to postpone redistricting reform for several years and pushing, instead, for the creation of a “neighborhood advisory committee.” The million-dollar question is: Will the efforts of the Sacramento Integrity Project and the council committee converge at some point, resulting in the adoption of meaningful reforms by the city council, or are their approaches so divergent from one another as to make convergence impossible, leading reformers to place their proposals

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Efforts to enact ethics reform at city hall hit a critical stage this summer

on the 2016 ballot and leave it to city voters to decide? Given the time required to qualify reform measures for the ballot, the question will likely be decided this summer or early fall. Beginning in February and concluding on May 27, Eye on Sacramento, the League of Women Voters and 23 co-sponsoring community organizations held public forums in every council district in the city, all but one of which included the local councilmember as a panelist. At each forum, a report on recent reforms adopted by 15 other California cities was distributed and discussed, and suggestions and comments from

the public were received. The reforms under consideration fall into four categories: the adoption of an ethics code governing the behavior of councilmembers and senior city officials; the creation of an independent ethics commission to enforce an ethics code and other city laws; the adoption of a transparency or open-government code; and the creation of an independent redistricting commission to draw council district boundaries, removing the city council’s current power to draw their own district lines. On May 27, 65 previous forum attendees participated in a final forum featuring breakout sessions

that drilled deeply into each of the four categories, generating detailed comments and recommendations from the conscientious participants who attended the event at Clunie Community Center. At that final forum, it was announced that the broad coalition of groups sponsoring the forums and drafting the reform proposals were reorganizing to relaunch their effort as the Sacramento Integrity Project, led by an executive committee headed up by local attorney and experienced reform advocate Nicolas Heidorn, who also chairs its research and drafting committee; Gary Winuk, an attorney CITY HALL page 26

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CITY HALL FROM page 24 who stepped down recently as chief of the enforcement division of the Fair Political Practices Commission after six years; Paula Lee, co-president of the League of Women Voters; and me, president of Eye on Sacramento. Former Sacramento city manager Bill Edgar is serving as a special adviser to the executive committee. Currently, members of its research and drafting committee and its various subgroups are hard at work reviewing comments and suggestions gathered from hundreds of forum attendees, conducting research, interviewing subject-area experts and government officials, discussing and debating specific reform elements and putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to draft the reforms that will make up the final report. Meanwhile, Integrity Project representatives are setting up meetings with neighborhood associations, community groups, business and union groups and service

clubs to inform them and the broader public of the proposals and goals. In a rather stark reminder of the pressing need for transparency reform, city clerk Shirley Concolino announced last month that the city plans to mass delete decades of city emails on July 1 as part of a new email retention policy that divides city emails into categories of “transitory” emails (emails deemed to have nebulous value) and project-specific emails (emails related to specific city projects). Under the new policy, transitory emails would typically be deleted after a briefer retention period than project emails, which would enjoy a longer or shorter retention period depending on the duration of the project to which they relate. The city clerk was unable to provide even a rough estimate of the total number of emails the city expects to mass delete on July 1. A major weakness with the new policy is that city staffers are being asked to make subjective determinations of which emails are worthy of being saved and which

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on how to empower neighborhoods,

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neighborhood advisory committee.

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rather than the substance of it.

who reports that he’s made it into

Two high-profile citizen advisory

at least one other council ad hoc

committees created by the city council

committee meeting in the past, was

earlier this decade vividly illustrate

turned away at the door when he

the futility of advisory committees.

attempted to crash the meeting of the

In 2009, the council created the

ad hoc committee on good governance.

Citizen Charter Review Committee

At a council meeting in January,

to review options for updating the

the committee announced that it

city charter. The committee issued a

was bringing in McGeorge School of

well-reasoned, well-researched report

Law, Sacramento State and the Fair

to the city council with thoughtful

Political Practices Commission to

recommendations, which were

study good-governance reforms on

promptly ignored.

its behalf. The staff report released

The same fate befell the

by the committee at the time was

Sacramento Redistricting Citizens

pretty startling. Instead of outlining

Advisory Committee that the council

avenues for the committee to explore

formed to recommend new boundary

to improve city ethics standards

lines for council districts in response

and enforcement and upgrade city

to the 2010 census. The committee

transparency, it instead essentially

passed along recommendations to the

listed all of the city’s current

council, which the council not only

ethics and transparency rules and

rejected but, in several instances,

practices, with a conclusion that said,

publicly scorned.

effectively, “Aren’t we doing swell?”

Why is the council ad hoc

The ad hoc committee members also

committee floating the idea of a

suggested that the creation of an

neighborhood advisory committee,

you might wonder? Well, it has its

Measure L? Given the recent election

origins, like so many ethics and

of a couple of councilmembers who

transparency reform proposals

tend to regularly vote with the mayor,

under review, in Measure L. As the

his position on these questions may

election on Measure L drew closer,

very well determine whether the

councilmembers who supported a

city council and reform advocates

strong-mayor form of government

enjoy a kumbaya moment by joining

could see that opponents were

together to adopt meaningful ethics

undermining support for the measure

and transparency reforms or whether

by arguing that its passage would

reformers and the city council battle

reduce the power of councilmembers

it out for the hearts and minds of

and, derivatively, the influence of

Sacramento voters on these issues in

neighborhoods at city hall.

a 2016 election.

To rebut the argument,

You can express your support for

councilmembers came up with the

the reform effort, as well as sign up

idea of inserting in Measure L a

for email updates and developments,

mandate that the city council create

by visiting the Sacramento

a neighborhood advisory committee,

Integrity Project’s website

essentially to make up for the loss of

(sacramentointegrityproject.org). One

neighborhood influence at city hall

thing is clear: Broad public support

under a strong mayor. But with L’s

for the Sacramento Integrity Project

defeat, the power and influence of

is essential to bringing meaningful

councilmembers remains unaltered

reform to city government. Craig Powell is a local 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 718-3030. n

and the justification for the creation of a neighborhood advisory committee no longer exists (if it ever did). In a very real sense, Sacramento already has a functioning neighborhood advisory council. We call it the city council, and we democratically elect members to it every two years. It’s far from perfect, but it’s also not a Potemkin village dressed up to look like a vehicle for neighborhood input. Besides, the public is not clamoring for yet another powerless and ineffectual

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Yoga For All FREE CLASSES IN THE PARK ARE A LABOR OF LOVE

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n a weekend morning about six years ago, Zach Stahlecker found himself in an unusual place: in the middle of a park doing cobras, pigeons and downward dogs with dozens of strangers. He had done yoga previously (“at home with videos,” he says), but there was something revelatory about standing in the open and striking poses with an entire community.

The Saturday and Sunday groups represent the largest weekly yoga class in Sacramento history. “It inspired me to continue going into it,” says Stahlecker. “I began doing serious yoga at a studio, but I still went out to the park on Saturdays to practice.” Three years ago, Stahlecker decided it was time to step up his game. He trained to become a yoga

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assistant, completing a 16-hour course that qualified him to move through the crowd and help participants with their posture. A year ago, he completed the certification program to be a yoga teacher. As his yoga knowledge and expertise grew, the community in the park grew as well. What started as a handful of practitioners who met in the home of Gina Garcia, the originator of Yoga in the Park, turned into a movement. Today, more than 200 people of all ages show up every Saturday morning, rain or shine, to do yoga in East Sacramento’s McKinley Park. During the wet winters, classes are held at the park’s Clunie Community Center. Thanks to Stahlecker, a similar crowd now enjoys yoga during the dry season on Sunday mornings in Tahoe Park. The classes are free. The Saturday and Sunday groups represent the largest weekly yoga

class in Sacramento history, touching tens of thousands of lives since the program started in 2009. In the last year alone, more than 7,000 people experienced yoga this way, and the program is looking to branch out to additional locations.

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HEROES FROM page 28 background in business and a fulltime career as a massage therapist, he says it was a perfect fit for him. “I was already doing management for the program when it was offered to me,” he says. “I don’t see how I could have walked away from it.” It’s definitely a labor of love. None of the teachers or assistants is paid. Karen Wilkinson taught yoga at Encina High School but found a real place for herself in the park. “I started there as a student, then as an assistant, and then I was teaching 100 to 200 students every week,” she says. For Summer Ward, a full-time yoga instructor who teaches classes at McClatchy High School and other locations around the city, the journey has been inspiring. “I did my first teacher training with Gina seven or eight years ago, at the very beginning of Yoga in the Park,” Ward recalls.

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“We reached out to other teachers and it just kept going. It really hits home how much it’s grown and the sense of community it’s created.”

“We are a community of connection, service and love.” When her McClatchy students miss a class, she allows them to make it up in the park. “It’s so nice to be outside,” she says. “There is a mutual relationship between the students and the outdoors.” Stahlecker enjoys seeing entire families doing yoga. “I’ve seen moms with babies in strollers,” he says. “I’ve seen moms and dads with 7, 8 or

9-year-olds. It’s a great setting for the family, as well as the elderly.” The classes are geared for all levels, and assistants help those struggling with new positions or physical challenges. “We push them only with their permission,” says Stahlecker. He recounts the story of a woman who came to a class for the first time, having never done yoga. “She didn’t think she’d keep up, but she actually did beautifully,” he says. “Afterward, she sent me a Facebook message telling me that it had changed how

she approached things and how she looked at herself. You really see the subtlety of it. There are a lot of people who find real transformation there.” When she turned the program over to Stahlecker, Garcia wrote the following on the group’s Facebook page: “This transition is a testament to the power of this yoga practice, and the beauty of this Yoga in the Park community. We are a community of connection, service and love.” Yoga in the Park takes place from 9 to 10:15 a.m. Saturdays in McKinley Park and Sundays in Tahoe Park n

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acramento needs more dreamers and doers like Jessica Kriegel. We have our fair share of homegrown fans who defend Sacramento like you would defend a quirky uncle. More impressive are the outsiders who have moved here or admire the unique and superior essence of our city from afar. Extraordinarily impressive are the smart, young and ambitious millennials who could live anywhere in the world but see Sacramento through a progressive lens and could very well make Sacramento a worldclass city. One such phenom is Kriegel. She’s young, single, adventurous, ambitious and entrepreneurial. She will categorically say that Sacramento is the best city in the world. This is where she has decided to live, work and start a unique new app to highlight Sacramento’s best places for food, drink, events and activities. While this may sound like a “been there, done that” service provided by others, Kreigel’s app uncovers Sacramento’s hidden gems, hot spots, hangouts and city assets from the perspective of locals who know what’s what.

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Kriegel came from what she calls an adventurous family. Raised in New York, she has lived around the world in places like Paris, Malibu, Thailand, London, Milan, Boston, Shanghai. And now, Sacramento. People find themselves in Sacramento for many reasons: They relocate for jobs, college, family or fate. Kriegel followed a boyfriend. She hung around downtown, not thinking Sacramento had much to offer. It was just another place. Nothing special. But while walking her dog,

she started to sense discovery around every corner. “I saw a different side of Sacramento,” says Kriegel. “I saw the new bars and restaurants blooming on K Street, and I discovered people with passion. Friendly people. People who care.” Connecting with the city and its people became a passion. Kriegel was living downtown and working as a senior director of strategic planning at Oracle. She first noticed community

So Kriegel got more involved. She was selected for the Nehemiah Emerging Leaders Program, a 10-month professional development program designed to prepare participants for effective and ethical leadership in their companies and communities. NELP opened her eyes. She joined the board of Downtown Sacramento Partnership as well as MetroEdge, Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce’s program for people 40 and younger focused on giving back to the community and leadership development. With more than 500 “Edgers,” the program is trying to redefine Sacramento for young professionals. It was at a MetroEdge event that Kriegel was inspired. She thought about an app that would highlight things to do in Sacramento. Following a similar program in Indianapolis, she created an app called In the Sac that allows users to find places and things to do in downtown and Midtown

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are getting support from Downtown Sacramento Partnership, Midtown Business Association, CADA and WALKSacramento. More are sure to follow. “If younger professionals could see Sacramento through my eyes, they’d see a great city,” Kriegel said. “It’s a special place. People want to know each other. It’s vibrant. There’s cutting-edge technology going on at Urban Hive and Hacker Lab.” Kriegel has a lot of balls in the air. She’s working at Oracle, building her app and volunteering with a number of nonprofits. You can see her cruising downtown and Midtown in a vintage BMW motorcycle with a sidecar. Her dad used the vehicle to operate a messenger service in New York. He would pick his daughter up from school and drive her home in the sidecar. Now she rides her dad’s BMW with pride on Sacramento’s streets. “I learned how to drive at 12 years old in the little side roads of New England,” she said. “Ten and half years ago, my dad left on a 10-year trip around in the world on his sidecar. He is in the Himalayas today and will never stop. He even has a website that follows his travels.” She’s proud of her dad, proud of her motorcycle and proud of the city she loves. And through pride and a search for adventure, she will help transform Sacramento, finding hot spots, cool places and exciting things to do for young professionals like her. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com n

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t’s funny to hear Gary Little describe 57th Street Antique and Design Center as “the bestkept secret in Sacramento.” The 10,000-square-foot complex, which houses 75-plus antiques dealers, an interior design firm, fitness businesses and a restaurant, is hard to miss between H and J streets right off Elvas Avenue. But somehow, even people who have lived nearby for decades don’t know it’s there. “I’ve been in the shop helping my wife on weekends and people will come up to me and say, ‘This is wonderful, how long has this been here?’ I say, ‘Thirty-eight years. Where do you live?’ ‘Four blocks away.’ ‘You don’t get out much, do you?’” Little and his wife, Jamie, bought the sprawling property nearly four decades ago, when it housed Christy Gun Works and Thunder Machine Works, and added 3,500 square feet 10 years ago when they bought the adjacent property from the city of Sacramento. Both Littles are native Sacramentans—Jamie is from East Sacramento, Gary was born in Land Park—and they’ve lived in East Sacramento since they got married. They’ve been dedicated antique hounds for years. “My family’s been in antiques for the last 50-plus years,” Little says. “My mom and dad owned antique shops in Sonora, and Jamie and I always wind up antiquing. We’ve got a big red Expedition that fills up easily, and there’s always room for more.”

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Gary and Jamie Little in The Ruralist, one of the shops in the 57th Street Antique and Design Center

But the Littles didn’t necessarily intend to create the vast antique empire that they now oversee. “The center wasn’t set up to do antiques. It just happened,” Little explains. “We bought the property and the businesses in there. Then, when those folks decided to retire, we thought, ‘Oops, we’ve got to do something with this thing.’ “Gravyboat Antiques opened across the street, so I approached them and said, ‘I think you need more space.’ The owner said yes, I do, but I can’t afford it. I said, ‘Yes, you can. I’ll give you the deal of a lifetime.’

“Then Avanti Pottery became vacant and it all kind of started from there.” The center is now home to a vibrant mix of antique shops that carry high-quality, curated antiques and interesting gifts; an interior design shop with full interior design services; a high-end rug store; the popular, award-winning restaurant Evan’s Kitchen; a yoga studio and cross-training gym; and a salon and spa, making the complex the oldest and largest of its kind in Sacramento. “All the shop owners are local Sacramento people who have a great depth of knowledge about what they carry and what they do,” Little says.

“As far as the number of vendors, I say the more the merrier. People can wander around to all the different shops—it’s not all just antiques—then go to lunch, talk about what they saw, then go back and buy.” They’ll more than likely run into Jamie, who’s owned The Ruralist shop in the center with business partner Tom Kurth for the past two years, and maybe even Little himself when he helps his wife on weekends. That is, unless the couple is on vacation in Paris, where they were headed just after this interview. Although antiquing is not the express purpose of this particular visit, Little assures me that they’ll

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ears before the golfers who made up the field at the U.S. Senior Open ever saw the 18th hole at Del Paso Country Club, with its three fairway bunkers and approach over Chicken Ranch Slough, a difficult question lingered in the air. The question was about Sacramento. Could the drowsy state capital, a community without high-powered corporate headquarters and legacies of generational wealth and fountains spewing marketing dollars, really support the second-most important festival in golf? It was a fair question. And it demanded a truthful answer, not wishful thinking or civic platitudes. The people who asked were senior executives from the United States Golf Association, the group that runs the U.S. Senior Open. Dan Spector, a local estate and trust attorney who served as Del Paso’s voluntary point man in negotiations with the USGA, didn’t hesitate with his answer. He recalls, “I said yes, without any question. They told me they had their concerns,

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Dan Spector served as Del Paso’s voluntary point man in negotiations with the USGA

frankly, about Sacramento. But I knew we could do it.” Such faith has been validated. Weeks before the U.S. Senior Open began June 25 at Del Paso, the club surpassed its budgeted sales goals— not by a whisker, but by more than $1 million. The 18 corporate tents

along the course were sold out more than a month prior to the Senior Open’s first practice round. Same with the rentable space in the Del Paso clubhouse—snapped up before the bolts were tightened on the TV camera platforms.

An abiding respect for the tenacity of the Del Paso community—plus the region at large—made Spector confident in his discussions with the USGA. As a member of the golf club for more than a decade, he understood the resilience and tenacity of his club mates. After all, these were basically the same 800 or so people who continued to pay dues while the club was closed for 18 months, torn apart and rebuilt from 2004 to 2006. The deconstruction, which saw trees uprooted and all topsoil removed and replaced with packed sand, erased the landscape of Del Paso, rerouted the layout and launched the century-old golf course into the modern era. “The game of golf had changed,” Spector says. “The course was no longer competitive from a championship perspective. But the membership has always seen itself as a regional leader, and they were ready to make the necessary changes to get back to that level.” The modern Del Paso has no relationship to the old Del Paso, beyond the name, clubhouse and creek that meanders through the property. The new layout is built upon the contemporary USGA mantra of “firm and fast,” which means old-timers would draw comparisons to playing on a billiard table as they cursed their brassies, niblicks and mashies. And it means the U.S. Senior Open crowd found plenty of challenges, including prevailing winds that push tee shots into bunkers, a false-front green on the 15th hole that bends

Super Summer Sale! Reductions of 30%-60% & All custom clothing and shirts reduced 30% like a question mark and a lake that makes No. 17 play like an island. “The golf course really begins at the final four holes,” Spector says. “Those four can destroy a lot of pretty good golfers.” Not surprisingly, the Del Paso membership roster was delighted to share its little shop of horrors with the best elder golfers on the planet— and TV viewers around the world. When the club opened sign-up sheets for volunteers at the Senior Open, members flocked to duty. Spector says about 75 percent of all volunteer jobs during the four-day tournament were filled by club members, from crowd control to parking. The spirit of cooperation extended beyond the gates at Del Paso. Financial and professional support came from the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and Sacramento City Council, plus public-safety teams from Metro Fire, Sheriff’s Office and Highway Patrol. Camaraderie from local businesses was demonstrated by the brisk ticket and premium hospitality tent sales. Local youth golf

programs will benefit with donated dollars. “It became a partnership between the private and public sectors,” Spector says. “That’s why it worked.” Spector can rattle off figures that demonstrate the civic benefits of playing host to the U.S. Senior Open: extra hotel nights, increased traffic at Sacramento International Airport, rental car bookings and visitor taxes. But more than that, the event allowed the community a rare opportunity to show off on a big stage. The presence of a historic and pristine championship-caliber golf course, friendly accommodations for guests and the enthusiastic support of locals—such marketing opportunities rarely present themselves in a town whose primary business is generating governmental policy and writing regulations. The U.S. Senior Open has shown the world that bureaucrats know how to throw a party. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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Farmers in the City CITY COUNCIL GIVES URBAN FARMS THE GREEN LIGHT

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with many members of the Hmong community. He noted that his mother, who grows more fruits and vegetables than she can use, will now be able to sell her excess produce to local grocery stores and restaurants.

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n March, the city council adopted the urban agriculture ordinance allowing city residents to grow and sell food directly from their properties. Passed by a 6-1 vote, the ordinance will allow small “urban farms” on vacant lots and private property throughout the city. To sell goods at an urban farm stand, a resident must obtain a business operations tax certificate, which will cost roughly $31 for a farm stand earning $10,000 or less per year. To address drought-related concerns, the ordinance requires urban farmers to adhere to city water conservation measures. Despite the nearly unanimous vote in favor of the ordinance, some councilmembers expressed concerns over issues that may arise from allowing farming activities to occur right next to businesses and residences. To mitigate some of these

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To mitigate some of these concerns, the ordinance restricts hours of operation for urban farm stands in residential neighborhoods: Tuesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. An urban farm stand located on a vacant lot may operate at any time.

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concerns, the ordinance restricts hours of operation for urban farm stands in residential neighborhoods: Tuesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. An urban farm stand located on a vacant lot may operate at any time. Other council members expressed concerns regarding the impact the ordinance would have on communally owned yard spaces, particularly in communities like Natomas where shared yards are common. District 3 Councilmember Steven Hansen, who has been an outspoken supporter of urban agriculture in the

region, said the ordinance will provide opportunities for urban farmers to become entrepreneurs and to do something positive with many of the vacant lots throughout the region. “The ordinance gives us a chance to grow our own fruits and vegetables and to take these forgotten spaces and make them something special,” he said. In Oak Park, there are more than 40 vacant lots. More than 100 people attended the March 24 council meeting to express their support for the ordinance. One of those supporters was Kau Vue, who said that gardening is popular

Food Literacy Center founder Amber Stott says urban farms could help improve nutrition and reduce hunger in the region. “Only 6 percent of our kids are eating their daily recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables,” says Stott. “Children are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables they’ve had a hands-on experience with, such as growing and cooking them.” The Food Literacy Center runs a weekly after-school program for low-income elementary school students throughout Sacramento. “In our elementary school food literacy classes, we know that 70 percent of our kids go home and ask for the produce they’ve tasted in class,” she says. BUILDING page 42

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BUILDING FROM page 40 According to Stott, the ordinance will increase opportunities for kids to learn about healthy food choices outside the classroom. “Perhaps kids leaving our food literacy classroom could stop by a school farm stand when their parents pick them up from school, right after they’ve fallen in love with their first piece of broccoli or plum—foods my kids repeatedly tell me they’ve never seen outside my classroom.” Stott isn’t the only mover and shaker in Sacramento who thinks the ordinance will go a long way toward improving the community. Local restaurateur Patrick Mulvaney applauds the ordinance and says it will provide people with a way to feed their families right in their own neighborhoods. Mulvaney’s B&L in Midtown is a regional staple for food lovers. “Our menu changes every day,” says Mulvaney, “so the ordinance gives us an opportunity to use local, ripe, picked-at-peak-offreshness fruit and vegetables.” Mulvaney is willing to buy produce from local residents. “We are ready as

soon as someone brings those fruits and vegetables in the front door,” says Mulvaney, who prints the names of his farm purveyors on his menu, creating exposure for small-scale farming businesses in the region.

“Local farms will create gathering places, and those gathering places are what create strong community,” he says. The ordinance means more to Mulvaney than just an opportunity to enrich his restaurant’s menu. “Local farms will create gathering places, and those gathering places are what create strong community,” he says. “This is who Sacramento is, and this is how to create a better future for our region.” n

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ccording to a recent Wall Street Journal story by reporter Brian Costa, organized sports for children are in decline. The number of kids playing Little League baseball dropped from 8.8 million in the year 2000 to 5.3 million in 2013. Similar declines have been reported in other youth sports, such as basketball and soccer. Costa seems to view this as a worrisome trend, particularly where baseball is concerned. “This shift threatens to cost Major League Baseball millions of potential fans,” he wrote, “raising concerns about the league’s future at a time when revenues are soaring and attendance is strong.” He quoted MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s observation: “The biggest predictor of fan avidity as an adult is whether you played the game” as a kid. Personally, I’m not much worried about the future of Major League Baseball. And I’m bothered by the idea that children’s recreational activities should be orchestrated in a way that is beneficial to some bazillion-dollar sports league. I spent thousands of hours during my youth playing basketball, baseball, football and other sports, and very few of

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those hours were spent engaging in so-called “organized sports”— i.e., sports that were overseen by adults and conducted under the guidelines of some governing body. I never tried out for any of my high school’s athletic teams. It would have been a waste of time. I was not a gifted athlete. But I did love to play baseball, football and basketball, and I rarely lacked for opportunities to do so. My friends and I were experts at what you might call “disorganized sport.” We didn’t need uniforms or yard markers or umpires or scorekeepers in order to compete in an athletic contest. We were excellent improvisers. We could play a game of football with as few as two players per side. On occasion, we even pitted a team of three players against a team of four players. If there were seven of us and we wanted to play football, we’d figure out a way to do it. Usually we’d give the team with only three players some sort of strategic advantage: the ability to rush the quarterback immediately, say, without first counting out three Mississippis. Sometimes we played football on fields that had a few trees growing on them. In that case, we might just randomly decide that any pass that hit a tree was automatically a turnover. At other times, we might decide that a ball that hit a tree was to remain a live ball until it was recovered by a player from one side or the other. Our basketball and baseball games were just as inventive. We rarely had enough players to field an entire baseball team, so we engaged in a form of baseball that permitted “cross outs.” If you fielded a ground ball and

could throw it between the runner and the base he was headed for, he was out. No one had to catch a cross out; it just had to pass between the runner and the bag in order for the runner to be out.

My friends and I were experts at what you might call “disorganized sport.” We didn’t need uniforms or yard markers or umpires or scorekeepers in order to compete in an athletic contest. No doubt millions of other kids across America employed cross outs in their sandlot games as well. Of course, cross outs were a pain in the butt if you were playing in the street or on an asphalt playground without any walls or backstops or thick grass to bring the ball to a stop, so we usually employed cross outs only when playing on an actual baseball/softball diamond. When playing out in the street, we also generally employed the “one extra base per overthrow” rule. Without that rule, an errant throw to first base might allow a runner to turn a sloppy single into a scoring play while the poor schlub at first

base chased the overthrow all the way down to the next city block. When playing basketball, we rarely had a full court at our avail. Usually we were playing in the street, using a hoop that someone’s dad had attached to a telephone pole. Thus, we engaged in a practice called “clearing the ball,” a common procedure in halfcourt basketball. If a defensive player rebounded a ball, he couldn’t just put the ball up for a shot. He had to first clear the ball by dribbling or passing it out beyond a predetermined line on the street. After that, he was free to shoot from anywhere on the court. Rather than being marked in chalk, the clearing line was usually just some distinguishing mark in the street: a manhole cover, a patch of tar, a scar in the asphalt. At 15, I could roam the streets of my neighborhood and identify the clearing lines of a half dozen different makeshift basketball courts. As with our football and baseball games, there were a lot of variations that had to be worked out before each basketball game we played. In fact, deciding upon the rules before a game was one of the most enjoyable aspects of the sporting ritual. Oftentimes, we would decide that an air ball didn’t have to be cleared. If a defensive player caught someone’s air ball under the net, he could put the ball right back up and score a bucket with it. This struck us as eminently sensible. It discouraged players from taking wild shots that had little chance of even touching the rim. Sometimes we decided that a missed shot that touched the backboard but not the rim qualified as an air WRITING page 47

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t’s the first week of summer. My kids are on vacation with their dad, so I did what most moms do when the kids are away: I watched TV! What? You thought I was going to say clean the house/go to the gym/get a pedicure? I’m not saying I watched the tube all week. It’s only Tuesday. after all, and I still have several days to do other stuff, like put away the Christmas wrap, finish unpacking from our move last summer and prep for Back to School. You can never be too ready for Back to School. Some of you are still stuck on the part where the kids are on vacation with their dad and I’m blissfully home alone. To borrow some hip lingo from my kids (all the cool moms do): I know, right? I digress. That happens a lot when you’re adjusting to a new schedule. It has been only a few days, but I already miss those sweet school mornings. “Five minute warning.” “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.” “Seriously, this backpack isn’t going to carry itself!” You haven’t lived until you’ve gotten into your car after work and found your son’s breakfast remnants on the floor boards. A bowl

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of dried-up ramen or a crusty hot dog have never looked so great. Good times! I remember my mom singing us awake on school days. Maybe I’ll try that next year. Nah, probably not. A lot of moms would use their free time to binge-watch “Orange Is the New Black” or this “Game of Thrones” thing I’ve heard about. Not me., I poured a nice cold glass of chardonnay and watched “Blue Collar Comedy Tour.” That’s where a bunch of Southern boys tell redneck jokes. It’s good to check out other cultures once in a while. I don’t think I’m anything like rednecks, with their pickups and moonshine and cars parked on the lawn. I was raised in the O.C. I spent my summers on the beach. And I’ve never worn Daisy Dukes. (I can hear my kids applauding all the way from Oregon on that one.) I had my first taste of Jack Daniels at age 40-something. And yet this redneck thing seemed to ring true. Then I realized it’s because redneck life and parent life are surprisingly similar. In honor of parenting culture, I give you “You Might Be a Parent.” You might be a parent if; … you use that singsong voice as you point out the garbage truck, train or construction vehicles to your colleagues. ... you have thought about filling a sports bottle with wine to get you through a kids’ sporting event. (Two if it’s a swim meet.) … you’ve ever considered goldfish crackers dipped in ketchup a balanced meal. ... your kids have ever painted the cat with pudding, and you took

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Having to police ourselves forced us to be honest, because a failure to do so would have caused every contest to devolve into anarchy, which no one would have enjoyed. A decade ago, when my grandchildren were growing up, I attended many of their organized basketball and football and baseball and volleyball games. But I don’t recall ever seeing them play much in the way of disorganized sports. Back then, all sports seemed to be supervised by adults and governed

by fixed rules and regulations. Nowadays, it seems, the trend is moving in the other direction, toward the disorganized sports that characterized my own youthful days. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred may be worried about this, but I think it’s a healthy trend. Assuming, of course, that it actually is a trend. Maybe all those kids who are dropping out of Little League aren’t eschewing organized sports in favor of disorganized ones. Perhaps they are eschewing sports in favor of video

games, exchanging text messages with their friends, checking their Twitter feeds, and a lot of other “activities” that can be engaged in while your butt is firmly planted on the living room sofa. If that’s the case, then the future looks bleaker—and flabbier— than even Rob Manfred can imagine. Kevin Mims lives in Land Park. He can be reached at kevinmims@ sbcglobal.net n

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A Thorny Matter WHERE BOOBIES DARE TO FLY

“Those webbed feet aren’t built to land on branches. Looks like he’s impaled those giant feet onto the tree thorns. However,” he said, bringing the bird into sharper focus, “he’s still alive!”

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ormally, I keep my distance from anyone acting like a booby, but last month during our Galapagos Island cruise, my wife, Becky, and I had an unforgettable encounter with a booby of the blue-footed variety. We were two of 10 tourists on a four-day cruise through four of the beautiful islands that sit 600 miles off the humid Ecuadorian coast. Twice a day, crew members helped us into an inflatable dinghy and steered us ashore. Our island guide took us

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We were stunned to hear it, but not as stunned as we were when he asked for a volunteer to help rescue the bird. “Take Becky,” I said, inspiring a quick group concurrence. For the next several minutes, our group shared the binoculars and watched Becky and our guide disentangle the booby. After a few moments, they placed it on the ground where it would recover or die. When we returned to our ship, I lay my seasick self down in our tiny cabin to contemplate the booby who’d paid the price for flying into a place he didn’t belong, for trying to gain something that wasn’t his. The moment inspired this confessional prayer:

Lord, There are times when I’m tempted to fly into places I don’t belong, tempted to swoop in to claim a territory not meant to be mine. There’ve been times when I’ve entered into personal arguments that aren’t mine, and I’ve offered opinions that weren’t sought and made judgments that were uncalled for. Like the feckless booby, I’ve sought nourishment from barren and thorny sources. While making a seemingly stealthy landing, I’ve only impaled myself on the consequences of being where I shouldn’t. Forgive me, Lord, for the times when I’ve called out for rescue from those places, somehow hoping that redemption would come without penalty. Adding a hymn to my prayer, I couldn’t help but hum the Fanny Crosby tune I knew from childhood, “Rescue the Perishing.” While much of the song is steeped in an evangelical fervor I don’t much appreciate, I still found some wisdom in the third verse.

Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore; Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. Meanwhile, above my cabin, Becky and the guide sat in the ship’s lounge, a bit bloodied by their efforts. The thorns were almost as bad for them as they’d been for the booby. Fortunately, there was another rescuer on board in the person of an emergency room physician from New York. He stitched their wounds with skin adhesive, and we were all, as they say, sailing happily into the sunset.

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rchitect Mark Huck is a

be featured on Preservation

self-proclaimed old-school East Coaster. That helps

explain his initial attraction to the Craftsman house he bought in 2008 Sacramento’s Richmond Grove neighborhood. “I am not a native Californian, and my first impression of the property

“There are so many possibilities with an older home. This was one of the things that attracted me to this one.”

Sacramento’s 40th annual Historic Home Tour in September. It features numerous design elements common to Craftsman-style homes, including three built-in benches; a built-in book shelf in the living room; paneling and a beamed ceiling in the dining

was of the two palm trees in the front

room plus a breakfront with leaded

yard,” Huck explains.

glass doors; and columns flanking the

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living room entrance. All the rooms,

little crazy in older homes,” he says.

excluding the dining room, have

“There are doors on every surface,

9-foot-high coved ceilings, another

so sometimes it is hard to place

Craftsman design element.

furniture.”

“The rooms I love the most—the

Huck built a large table for the

entry foyer, the living room and

dining room (the largest room in the

dining room—didn’t need much

house) with an electrical connection

work,” says Huck, who works for the

for appliances or a laptop. “The dining

state Office of Historic Preservation.

room table extends to 12 feet, and I

Thanks to the high ceilings, large

can seat up to 14 people,” he says.

windows, Sacramento’s Delta breeze

The dining room has a beautiful

and an attic fan, Huck hardly has to

beamed ceiling coupled with Douglas

turn on the air conditioning.

fir paneling. Pocket doors provide

Immediately after purchasing the

privacy when needed. Huck installed

house, Huck had the wood floors

sconces where two gas pipes extended

sanded to bring the contrasting wood

out from the wall. “The house

colors back to life. (He speculates the

may have been built during that

floors were made of white oak with

shoulder period that had both gas and

either mahogany or walnut borders.)

electricity,” he explains.

Since then, Huck has completed

The living room has a wonderfully

numerous projects himself, including

large picture window that offers a

building a desk and a back gate

sweeping view of Sacramento street

and removing stains from around

life. The fireplace’s terra-cotta

doorways. He also removed numerous interior doors. “The circulation is a

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Two of the true delights of this home are on the second floor. A cozy balcony off Huck’s office captures the morning sun. Flower boxes filled with lacy ferns and colorful spring blossoms create a living privacy wall. The perch is the perfect place for early-evening relaxing or reading the Sunday paper. Down the hallway, a sun porch with windows on three sides provides a treetop view of the neighborhood and is just the right spot for curling up with book. There’s no need to wander downstairs, since coffee accoutrements are stashed in a nearby hutch. Huck tells people thinking about buying a historic home to consider all the work that must be performed on it. Does the work that’s already been done enhance or detract from the home’s historic value? Have the original features—windows, woodwork, circulation patterns, lighting and plumbing fixtures and door hardware—been retained? “There are so many possibilities with an older home. This was one of the things that attracted me to this one,” Huck says. While on tour, watch for the kitchen’s California cooler (a cabinet typical of homes of the period and located next to an outside wall with vents to the outside); scored plaster in the bathroom meant to resemble tile; three built-in benches; and the dining room’s built-in breakfront with leaded glass panes. Preservation Sacramento’s 40th annual Historic Home Tour will be held Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Richmond Grove neighborhood, which has never been the site of a Sacramento home tour. Richmond Grove is bounded by W, R, 10th and 19th streets. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 on the day of the event. For more information, go to preservationsacramento.org

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In the kitchen, a functioning

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The Bee Rescuer HE’S SWEET AS HONEY FOR HIS BEES

architect by profession with an extensive background in botanical science. As we walked through his yard, he expounded on what he likes to call “musings of an urban beekeeper.”

His yard is divided by a fence and shrubs, which separate about a third of the property for beekeeping.

BY GWEN SCHOEN FARM TO FORK

ecently I learned that there are some benefits to being a local barfly. While enjoying a fruity and complex chardonnay at Matteo’s Pizza & Bistro in Carmichael, I noticed a sign on the bar encouraging support of local beekeepers and honey produced by rescued bees. Well, I’ve rescued a fair number of dogs in my years, but bees? At the bottom of the sign was contact information for Alex Young, a local beekeeper and member of the Feral Bee Society. So I gave him a call, hoping to learn how and why someone would rescue bees. Wow, I’ve never been greeted with so much energy and enthusiasm. It was like walking into a swarm of bees on a sugar high. Young lives in the Arden Park area, not too far from Matteo’s. He has a large, beautiful backyard—the type of yard attached to homes built more than 40 years ago. His yard is divided by a fence and shrubs, which separate about a third of the property for beekeeping. At the moment he has about 15 to 20 hives buzzing with activity. Young is a landscape

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Alex Young is a local beekeeper and member of the Feral Bee Society

Why do you call them rescued bees? Young: Because I took them out of places where they didn’t belong and gave them a new start instead of killing them. When did you first start beekeeping? Young: When I was about 11. I grew up along the Jersey Shore and started beekeeping there. I always thought it was fascinating and a good way to practice animal husbandry. Do you get stung? Young: Sure. I have a bee suit but don’t often wear it. I do wear the hat. One of the funniest experiences I’ve had was when I was still living in Jersey. I had a couple of hives I needed to move, so I put them into the back of my van. I was driving along with the wind wings open in the van, which was keeping the bees on the back window. When I stopped at a light they all flew forward trying to get out the wind wings. So I stopped

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We’ve heard a lot about hive collapse recently. What can the average person do to help the bees along? Young: When a hive no longer thrives and you can’t identify a reason, it’s called hive collapse. Basically, people can just plant things that bees like: trees that flower such as maples and Japanese maples and flowering hedges. The UCD Pollination Center is a good source for plant lists. You recently participated in the Good Food Awards competition in San Francisco. How did Arden Hills Gold honey place? Young: Good Food Awards 2015 competition is sponsored by Seedling Projects. Arden Hills Gold made it to the finals for the honey category out of over 300 entries. The judging was not just for quality but also recognition of the sustainable management that we use. I’m very proud of how we placed. Before saying goodbye, Young gave me a taste of his honey. What’s not to like about honey? It was wonderful, with tiny bits of wax that made it slightly grainy but chewy at the same time. “The girls did a good job, didn’t they?” said Young. Yes, they did. For more information about Arden Hills Gold, go to 2beeyoung.wordpress. com. You can contact Alex Young at 541-0832 or to tobeeyoungapiaries@ gmail.com To learn more about beekeeping, go to sacbeekeepers.org Gwen Schoen can be reached at gwen.schoen@aol.com n

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Vision Zero HOW MANY TRAFFIC INJURIES AND DEATHS ARE WE WILLING TO TOLERATE?

BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE

o one should have to die simply by trying to get around.” That’s what San Francisco’s pedestrian advocacy organization says on its website. Can anyone disagree that you shouldn’t have to risk your life to cross a street, go for a bike ride or ride in a car?

Preserving human life should be the highest priority for the transportation system, not mobility or anything else. Yet that’s the situation we’re in. According to state of California statistics, 51,575 motorists, pedestrians and cyclists in Sacramento County died or were injured in traffic collisions between 2008 and 2012 (the most recent data available). That’s nearly enough to fill Sleep Train Arena to capacity

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three times. For the years 2008-2010, Sacramento County was the third most dangerous county in the state (out of 58 counties) for fatal and injury crashes. It improved to seventh most dangerous in 2011 and 2012. Among the 13 largest cities, the city of Sacramento was the worst in the state in collision danger in 2008 and 2009. In 2011 and 2012, the city ranked in the middle of the pack. Some cities and countries have set a dramatic goal to stop traffic-caused carnage. The Vision Zero program, created in Sweden in 1997, seeks to eliminate all fatal and serious traffic injuries. Norway, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom followed with programs of their own. In

the United States, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Portland and San Jose have established Vision Zero goals. Each locale has set a specific year to reach zero deaths, ranging from 2022 to 2050. The ethical premise behind Vision Zero is simple. Preserving human life should be the highest priority for the transportation system, not mobility or anything else. Saving a few seconds in getting somewhere shouldn’t outweigh the life of a child or senior citizen crossing the street. Too often in the past, there’s been a cold, heartless reckoning to determine whether traffic deaths and injuries are tolerable. Traffic engineers have put a dollar value on human life and

done cost-benefit analyses to calculate how many fatalities and serious injuries are acceptable. Hasn’t the answer always been none at all? With Vision Zero, Sweden has reduced fatalities and serious injuries by more than a third at a time when overall miles driven in the country has gone up. To be fair, some other European countries have done even better at reducing fatalities and injuries without adopting a Vision Zero effort. But having a goal of zero, and setting a year to achieve that goal (initially 2020 and now 2050 for Sweden), has been effective and is part of the cultural change needed to make the public and officials think about making roads safer for

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and cyclists are disproportionately represented as crash victims. We know many ways to prevent traffic crashes. Making it harder to drive drunk or impaired is doable. Reducing traffic speeds gives drivers and others more time to react and significantly reduces the severity of collisions. Strict enforcement would help. The casual acceptance of distracted driving needs to change. Better road and vehicle designs can be employed. Fear of traffic deters parents from sending their children off to school on

foot. It discourages adults and kids from going places by bike. Deaths and injuries from crashes cause immense emotional and physical pain. According to the American Automobile Association, the annual economic toll of crashes is nearly $300 billion. Adopting Vision Zero would be a way to bring about change. Getting to zero is unlikely to be done easily or quickly. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even possible. But improvement is possible. Our region has made admirable progress in traffic safety, but far more could be done. Vision Zero programs for both the city and county could help reverse the poor track record the area has had for traffic safety. If done right, Vision Zero would save lives, reduce human suffering, decrease vehicle property damage and cut auto insurance rates. Other cities and countries are leading the way. We shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be left behind.

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Beyond Drought Tolerance HOW LOW CAN LANDSCAPE WATER USE GO?

have a Grass Gallery that showcases them together? Finally, he sketched in an Evergreen Grove at the top of the garden, hiding a utility area with trees and shrubs that provide a green backdrop. With some tweaks here and there, we had a plan.

Volmer wants his landscapes to be consistent with the character of the Central Valley.

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dozen years ago, the Sacramento County Master Gardeners installed a water-efficient landscape (known as the WEL garden) at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. This garden demonstrates that you can have a colorful landscape with yearround interest that uses less than half the amount of water needed by cool-season turfgrass. Such low water usage has been achieved using carefully selected plants, drip irrigation and a thick layer of wood chips to retain moisture. In the hot, dry months, the irrigation generally runs twice a week. Chuck Ingles, Sacramento County’s UC Cooperative Extension farm adviser, oversees the Master Gardener program. He was proud of this success but wondered if it could be better yet. Is it possible to have a beautiful year-round landscape that could be irrigated much less frequently or not at all? What overall design would work? How would it be irrigated? What plants would work, and where are they available? Scott Volmer, a landscape architect who owns Great Valley Design, Inc., worked with Ingles and the Master Gardeners to develop plans for an “ultra-WEL.”

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Everybody involved in this project, including me, is excited by the possibilities. Volmer develops water-efficient designs for commercial, public and private clients. He wants his landscapes to be consistent with the character of the Central Valley. While it’s possible to save water by using widely spaced spiky or gray desert plants (he calls it the “Las Vegas look”), valley landscapes are

covered with softer grasses and flowers surrounded by rounded shrubs and trees. Volmer proposed several different areas. Let’s build a Wildlife Cafe, he suggested, full of plants providing pollen, fruit and shelter. Along the sidewalk under the blazing sun, put a Heat Lab of shrubs, bulbs and perennials that will thrive in such extreme conditions. Instead of spotting a few big ornamental grasses in the landscape, why not

How will the water use be lower than the WEL garden? Referring to the Water Use Classification of Landscape Species, plants selected will require “low” or “very low” water. Shrubs and perennials will be watered with high-efficiency irrigation nozzles, which apply water deeply and efficiently. In some corners of the garden, the nozzles will be turned off altogether once the plants are established. “I’ve never been asked to do that before,” Volmer says. The plans will become reality this year. Already, Boy Scouts are building an information kiosk. Soon, the area will have walkways, irrigation trenches and irrigation lines. The plants will go in the ground this fall, which is the best time for planting in our area. During winter, roots begin to spread into the surrounding soil. During the first two years, plants will be irrigated regularly until they GARDEN page 61

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Treasure From Trash LANDFILL GAS TURNS GARBAGE INTO POWER

BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

n a dry, sunny day, I drove past strawberry farms and fields of California poppies in search of a big, stinking mess. Kiefer Landfill is located amid rolling meadows and vernal pools east of Sacramento, near Sloughhouse. As the only permitted municipal solid waste landfill in the county, Kiefer Landfill gets virtually all of Sacramento’s household garbage, about 600,000 tons of solid waste per year. I thought it would be easy to spot—or smell. In fact, if you don’t know what you’re looking at as you drive in on Kiefer Boulevard, the county-owned landfill site appears as nothing more than a small power plant and a set of truck-weighing scales adjacent to a large, grassy hill. The appearance is clean and natural. Making sure the underground reality matches this surface appearance is the responsibility of Tim Israel, a senior civil engineer with the county’s Department of Waste Management and Recycling. Israel oversees the site’s

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environmental control systems, compliance and monitoring. I climbed into Israel’s mudsplattered pickup for a tour. The truck skirted a massive hill of grass and lupine punctuated by wells sticking like straws out of the earth. Pipes webbed the grass. Hidden underneath lay 200 feet of trash. “The first hole was dug here in 1967,” Israel said. “Conservatively, I’d say we have capacity for at least another 60 years. Maybe longer, if we keep diverting more of the waste stream away from the landfill.” The main environmental hazard of a municipal landfill is leaching of chemicals out of the buried trash and into the surrounding soil and groundwater. To prevent this, since

the early 1990s the county has lined all newly dug pits with a sophisticated geosynthetic lining system. This begins with a layer of very low permeability clay sandwiched between two pieces of resilient fabric called geotextile. Atop this clay liner is a geomembrane, essentially a thick sheet of impermeable HDPE plastic. Additional layers of alternating geomembranes and “geogrids” funnel any water leaching through the garbage into a collection system. At Kiefer, they collect 10,000 gallons per day of leachate water. Only one section of the landfill site is being used as a dump at any time. I knew we were almost there when we passed through a crowd of thousands of seagulls. “They’re here in the

winter,” Israel said. “They leave in May.” Atop a gentle slope, bulldozers pushed piles of garbage over the edge. Additional vehicles smoothed and packed the load. Scavenging gulls and blackbirds whirled amid the stench I’d expected to encounter sooner. “At the end of every day, we cover the trash, sometimes as much as 2 or 3 acres,” Israel said. The daily cover keeps out scavengers and minimizes odor. Giant reusable tarps on rolls lie next to the trash heap for this purpose. Green waste that’s not suitable for composting is used as an alternative cover at times. Every few weeks, a layer of soil is spread over the trash. When an area of the dump has reached its maximum allowed height of 325 feet above sea level, it

can be permanently covered by 6 feet of soil and planted over with shrubs and perennials. What happens next is up to the bacteria.

Over time, microbes break down buried waste. Over time, microbes break down buried waste. How quickly depends on what’s in the garbage, the temperature, how much water is present and other factors that affect microbial growth and metabolism. When bacteria eat garbage, they produce waste products of their own, just like we produce CO2 from our food. In a landfill, where little or no oxygen is present (anaerobic conditions), many bacteria produce methane—otherwise known as natural gas. Kiefer produces enough methane pumped from wells drilled into the landfill to fuel two power plants with a total generating capacity of 15 megawatts. That’s renewable electricity to power about 10,000 homes. SMUD buys the electricity for its Greenergy program. Unlike solar or wind power, landfill gas feeds the electrical grid without interruption, no matter the weather or time of day, making it a reliable energy source. Israel and his team have discovered that soaking leachate water into the landfill trash dramatically accelerates decomposition and landfill gas production. He hopes to expand Kiefer’s system of underground infiltration trenches to wet more of the trash. Speeding up the natural breakdown of buried trash also shrinks the volume of the landfill. “That extra airspace is money in the bank,” Israel said. “The value of a landfill is in empty space, room for more waste.” Amy Rogers is a novelist, scientist and educator. If you’re interested in microbes and fossil fuels, you might enjoy her thriller novel “Petroplague.” For more information, go to AmyRogers.com n

GARDEN FROM page 58 are fully established. After that, watering will be much less frequent. The garden will use as little water as needed to keep the plants healthy. Volmer wants our landscapes to be full of attractive, tough, resilient plants, not just ones that will tolerate little or no summer water. Resiliency means that they will recover if irrigation is inadvertently shut off in the summer or a winter brings heavy rains. “Homeowners shouldn’t need a horticulture degree to keep their plants alive and looking good,” he says. While native plants are a great choice, this garden will not be limited to them. “There is a huge palette of Mediterranean plants from around the world that can work.” Volmer says that the most expensive thing in landscaping is not doing something when you have a chance. When installing a new landscape, consult a professional if possible. Amend the soil for drainage and structure, and anticipate future needs. Pick and site plants carefully. Don’t skimp on irrigation lines. “Pipe is cheap,” he says. Digging things up in the future is not. Come to the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center on Harvest Day on Aug. 1, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., to look at this new garden area and learn what is going on and why. During this gardening extravaganza, you can also examine the existing WEL garden, visit the orchards, vineyards, berries and vegetable gardens, stop at information tables and listen to talks. The Master Gardeners will be out in full force, eager to advise you and help solve your gardening problems. If you haven’t yet installed a more water-efficient landscape, this fall is a great time. If you have already done so, how low can you go?

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To Save a Hummingbird VIGIL OBSERVES WOODLAND PASSAGE OF TWO EMERGING BABY CHICKS

BY SUSAN MAXWELL SKINNER

and singing. It had not flown far. Had it tarried to say goodbye? The puffy baby resumed flapping and rose inches, baby steps, to higher branches. Above the maples, it reached towering oaks; with each ascension, it encountered brighter light. The mother hen reconnoitered to deliver breakfast. Through my telephoto lens, I saw the fledgling bathed in its first sunrise. Happy chip-chips reached me below. And that was it: flight of the hummingbird. Breakfast news in the

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hy were two baby hummingbirds so important? For me and my Carmichael friend Irv Faria, supporting a hen and her mini family was all that mattered for weeks. From eggs to their first flight, we guarded them. On an unruly planet, the feathered trinity seemed a flawless microcosm of worth. We found two hummingbird nests in the oak-shaded valley tended by Irv and his wife, Pauline. The first, a miracle of plant down, was secured by cobwebs to a Japanese maple limb. Despite April’s rain and wind, the hen incubated two pea-sized eggs. Grublike chicks hatched. Round the clock, she pumped regurgitated insects and nectar into them. Eyes soon opened; spiny skin grew feathers. One day, Irv found the nest mangled, the babies gone. A blue scrub jay had lurked for days. When the chicks achieved meal size, the predator evidently dined. To us, two babies were enough easy meat for the predator. Near the torn nest, a better hidden cradle held more hummer chicks. We decided these two must survive. Night offered protection so we kept day shifts. Each dawn, I gave thanks that two tiny heads yet poked from their dainty bulwark. The to-andfroing mom soon ignored us. To the babies, Irv and my voices became familiar as birdsong. We watched and learned. We noted the twins were already potty-trained, elevating

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A hummingbird hen copes with mealtime domination by an alpha chick. Her twins hatched and fledged in a Carmichael Creek valley. Inset: One inch long, the babies hatch open-mouthed and begging.

tails to jettison waste overboard with impressive force. One morning, as sunlight fingered the leafy canopy, a ray hit the nest. The larger chick ventured first wingbeats. I heard pianissimo cheeps, soft as whispers. I recalled the Sistine Chapel ceiling and felt I had witnessed the Creator’s hand. The alpha sibling was unstoppable. Two weeks from hatching, its cavernous mouth seemed likely to consume Mom. While its sibling watched in awe, the alpha mounted the nest rim and flapped eagerly. After one flap-filled afternoon, the alpha flew at dusk. We missed the miracle. Next morning, one tilted face remained. Feeding her early bird elsewhere, Mom’s protection was now divided. The murderous jay flitted once to

perch below the untended morsel. I scared it off. Later, a jewel-bright male hummer tried to visit. Hurling abuse, the female routed him. Father had played his part; the nursery was off-limits. By now, the lonely runt flapped in earnest. Every half-hour, its heartbreaking endeavor repeated without lift-off. Almost three days after the first chick flew, the mom chirped encouragement from a nearby branch. Dusk fell. Her exhausted baby slumbered and I went home. I returned at dawn to an empty nest. I heard a faint chip-chip from branches below me. Smaller than my pinkie finger, the chick sat, liberated

real world presented accumulated mayhem for our consideration. To us, the big picture had been very small indeed. In a Carmichael Creek valley, two innocents had survived to make the real world a lovelier place. Footnote: By late spring, identifiable by their camaraderie, the fledglings flew freely in the valley. They would soon separate and compete for nectar routes. Perhaps they’ll nest here in another spring. n

A hummingbird incubates pea-size eggs for 17 days. After hatching, the babies develop for about three weeks before fledging. Their nest is secured to a tree limb by cobwebs. 1. From their walnut-size cradle, the growing babies contemplate a leafy ceiling. 2. Commanding the nest rim, the alpha chickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battering wings awe its smaller sibling. 3. And then there was one. The tardy chick experiences solo occupancy. 4. With only baby yet in the nest, mother hen continues a feeding relay in two parts of the garden. 5. Liberated at last, the tardy hummingbird achieves flight with a mixture of puffy baby feathers and adult plumage. 6. Companionable twins forage together. After fledging, they will never return to the nest.

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7100 STELLA LN #1 $105,000 4719 ELI CT $179,000 5845 TOPP $238,000 6312 ASLIN WAY $240,000 3117 MURCHISON WAY $310,000 6227 GLADEMONT CT $459,900 5625 VALL CT $259,000 5304 LEQUEL WAY $385,000 5450 MILGRAY CT $391,000 2329 VIA CAMINO AVE $120,000 3328 PARKS LN $158,000 4945 FAIR OAKS BLVD $361,000 4815 ROBERTSON AVE $375,000 5464 EDGERLY WAY $240,000 6508 MORAGA DR $365,000 1073 HARRINGTON WAY $592,000 27 COVERED BRIDGE RD $637,000 4001 ALEX LN #13 $175,000 4205 OAK KNOLL DR $290,500 4441 ROLLINGROCK WAY $320,427 4206 CLOVER KNOLL CT $326,000 4831 JAN DR $331,000 6950 LISA MARIE WAY $373,000 4412 JAN DR $474,900 5106 VALE DR $249,900 5232 FAIR OAKS BLVD $360,000 5500 ARDEN WAY $425,000 4227 OAK KNOLL DR $300,000 3848 MARSHALL AVE $514,000 3430 FARID CT $180,000 6304 TAMI WAY $231,000 6936 LINCOLN AVE $401,000 2629 CALIFORNIA AVE $715,000 7032 FAIR OAKS BLVD #8 $105,000 5211 ARDEN WAY $282,500 5117 GIBBONS DR $170,250 5115 GIBBONS DR $179,000 5632 SAPUNOR WAY $227,000 4730 CAMERON RANCH DR $295,000 6429 PALM DR $670,000 6133 VIA CASITAS AVE $174,000 3707 WINSTON WAY $239,000 4005 COBBLESTONE LN $299,000 6269 HEATHCLIFF $305,237 6536 MILES LN $342,000 4910 PHELPS CT $1,090,000 6449 STANLEY $1,630,000 6304 EDGERTON WAY $171,000 4757 COURTLAND LN $185,000 6363 TEMPLETON DR $187,000 6306 WINDING WAY $260,000 5012 BOYD DR $265,000 3605 VOLEYN ST $363,000 7032 FAIR OAKS BLVD #20 $144,500 5527 DELROSE CT $429,900 5902 CASA ALEGRE $111,000 5210 JANELL WAY $176,000 4917 DONOVAN DR $248,000 2935 CALIFORNIA AVE $300,000 8436 GAYLOR WAY $325,000 5961 VIA CASITAS $124,000

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4609 STOLLWOOD DR 3711 CLAIRE DR

$335,000 $505,000

95816 EAST SACRAMENTO, MCKINLEY PARK 3316 I ST 1517 32ND ST 716 22ND ST 1469 33RD ST 541 35TH ST

95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 3729 7TH AVE 2611 59TH ST 2720 58TH ST 3220 SAN JOSE WAY 3634 2ND AVE 3501 10TH AVE 3000 10TH AVE 3410 38TH ST 3110 SAN JOSE WAY 3210 6TH AVE 2636 43RD ST 2667 61ST ST 3608 DOWNEY WAY 4201 U ST 5248 U ST 2140 36TH ST 6135 TAHOE WAY

95818 LAND PARK, CURTIS PARK 2701 23RD ST 900 SWANSTON DR 2730 LAND PARK DR 601 DUDLEY WAY 2423 CASTRO WAY 2600 3RD AVE 2725 11TH AVE 800 8TH AVE 3009 6TH ST 872 VALLEJO WAY 2017 15TH ST 717 FLINT WAY 2536 27TH ST 1309 W ST 701 3RD AVE 2600 16TH ST 3313 CUTTER WAY 1925 4TH AVE 2891 3RD AVE 812 FREMONT WAY 3220 24TH ST 2119 W ST 1165 3RD AVE 1625 12TH AVE

$470,000 $240,000 $725,000 $354,900 $620,000

$207,750 $289,900 $320,000 $95,000 $385,000 $135,000 $398,000 $135,000 $136,500 $208,000 $250,000 $345,000 $345,000 $371,000 $362,000 $390,000 $398,000

$405,000 $655,000 $775,000 $359,000 $430,000 $669,000 $640,000 $474,950 $337,500 $420,000 $355,000 $400,000 $410,000 $355,000 $406,000 $365,900 $535,000 $559,000 $320,000 $399,250 $328,500 $375,000 $615,000 $637,000

95819 EAST SACRAMENTO, RIVER PARK 1074 58TH ST 5025 DOVER AVE

$445,000 $519,000

417 SAN MIGUEL WAY 501 45TH ST 912 46TH ST 1061 44TH ST 5320 N ST 4109 H 111 LAGOMARSINO WAY 460 PALA 1001 44TH ST 1400 55TH ST 1125 54TH ST 3958 D 4106 MCKINLEY BLVD 1140 57TH ST 945 45TH ST 4408 G ST 5643 ELVAS AVE 1900 48TH ST 912 56TH ST 1848 49TH ST 5070 TEICHERT AVE 561 PALA WAY 1072 57TH ST 701 45TH ST 130 TIVOLI WAY

$871,500 $680,000 $719,000 $995,000 $459,000 $525,000 $621,200 $1,000,000 $1,188,000 $550,000 $642,500 $451,000 $441,000 $605,000 $799,900 $445,000 $356,850 $360,000 $365,000 $459,000 $460,000 $640,000 $679,500 $990,000 $345,000

95821 ARDEN-ARCADE

2550 BORICA WAY $265,100 2531 FULTON SQUARE LN #27$104,500 2628 BALL WAY $202,951 2900 KERRIA WAY $232,500 3525 MORROW ST $420,000 4301 LANDOLT AVE $320,000 3819 THORNWOOD DR $355,000 2841 CARSON WAY $370,000 4117 HILLCREST WAY $435,000 3560 WEST WAY $265,000 3516 NORRIS AVENUE $319,000 4484 EDISON AVE $225,000 3231 BALMORAL DR $347,000 3510 LARCHMONT SQ LN $128,000 2540 ANDRADE WAY $190,000 2511 CATHAY WAY $245,000 4860 HOPE LN $365,000 2661 CREEKSIDE LN $365,000 3911 HANCOCK DR $375,000 3846 HILLCREST LN $379,000 4125 LEVENDI LN $599,000 3813 PASADENA AVE #10 $200,000 3654 EDISON AVE $200,000 3236 ARCHWOOD RD $260,000 2660 HOWE AVE $265,000 2811 HERBERT WAY $211,000 3171 MORSE AVE $660,000 2581 MARYAL DR $270,000 2236 JULIESSE AVE $190,000 3704 WEST WAY $255,000 2560 BUTANO DR $265,000 2608 BUTANO DR $226,000 2690 PARK HILLS DR $230,000 3604 POPE AVE $265,000 4221 SILVER CREST AVE $309,000

95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 7553 LEMARSH WAY 2440 FERNANDEZ DR 5001 GILGUNN WAY 2232 ARLISS WAY 5617 DANA WAY 1125 25TH AVE 2212 HOLLYWOOD WAY 1475 POTRERO WAY 2162 60TH AVE 9 ROSA CT 4819 SOUTH LAND PARK DR 7255 AMHERST ST 2032 68TH AVE 4452 FRANCIS CT 7448 WILLOWWICK WAY 6229 24TH ST 6636 30TH ST 4725 JOAQUIN WAY 1113 35TH AVE 6008 13TH ST 5020 S LAND PARK DR 7328 STRATFORD ST 5705 DORSET WAY 5604 LONSDALE DR 4631 CUSTIS AVE 1504 FRUITRIDGE RD 7573 TWILIGHT DR 1437 63RD AVE 2378 ANITA AVENUE 2481 FERNANDEZ DR 151 QUASAR CIR 1500 ENDRES CT 7525 WAINSCOTT WAY 7460 TISDALE WAY 2404 37TH AVE 5230 SALVATOR WAY 3958 BARTLEY DR 1500 60TH AVE 2328 24TH AVE 4051 WARREN AVE 1406 LONDON ST 2204 18TH AVE

95825 ARDEN

3440 ARDEN CREEK RD 514 DUNBARTON CIR 2460 LARKSPUR LANE #341 224 HARTNELL PL 2008 BOWLING GREEN DR 1338 COMMONS DR 630 WOODSIDE SIERRA #1 1173 VANDERBILT WAY 1905 WOODSTOCK WAY 237 HARTNELL PLACE 613 WOODSIDE SIERRA #6 2280 HURLEY WAY #14 927 FULTON AVE #445 1019 DORNAJO WAY #101 2256 SWARTHMORE DR 2116 VIOLET ST 2328 BARCELONA WAY 114 HARTNELL PL

$153,000 $205,000 $415,000 $170,000 $258,000 $297,000 $305,000 $605,000 $208,888 $300,000 $626,000 $195,000 $229,000 $925,000 $180,000 $184,000 $185,000 $240,000 $305,000 $320,000 $682,000 $219,000 $329,000 $285,000 $292,500 $285,000 $155,000 $190,000 $273,000 $215,000 $125,000 $150,000 $275,000 $225,000 $230,000 $260,100 $595,000 $225,000 $279,500 $405,000 $116,500 $245,000

$405,000 $519,000 $67,000 $280,000 $225,000 $269,000 $155,000 $319,900 $169,000 $408,000 $91,275 $113,000 $52,000 $101,000 $400,000 $165,400 $212,000 $327,500

732 HARTNELL PL 2238 WOODSIDE LN 2442 GWEN DR 2092 UNIVERSITY PARK 2202 WOODSIDE LN #6

95831 GREENHAVEN, S LAND PARK

6507 PARK RIVIERA WAY 8056 LINDA ISLE LN 7551 DELTAWIND DR 438 WINDWARD WAY 6706 HEATHERWOOD 6561 CHETWOOD WAY 692 RIVERLAKE WAY 7295 RUSH RIVER DR 6989 WESTMORELAND WAY 781 HARVEY WAY 7905 COLLINS ISLE LN 7779 RIVER LANDING DR 7495 SALTON SEA WAY 7640 RIVER RANCH WAY 7 TERN CT 432 FLORIN RD 10 SAND CT 6338 GRANGERS DAIRY DR 7846 RUSH RIVER DR 23 SAIL CT 6240 HAVENSIDE DR #2 67 SIX RIVERS CIR 96 SOUTHLITE CIR 1205 CEDARBROOK WAY 7417 DELTAWIND DR 1218 GRAND RIVER DR 109 PARKSHORE CIR

95864 ARDEN

$250,925 $86,000 $198,000 $315,000 $83,000

$375,000 $405,000 $280,000 $375,000 $279,000 $434,000 $459,000 $276,500 $360,000 $392,000 $440,000 $595,000 $315,000 $350,000 $398,000 $168,000 $360,000 $490,000 $430,000 $620,000 $156,250 $310,000 $485,000 $531,000 $322,500 $460,000 $359,000

1821 MERCURY WAY $332,000 780 LA GOLETA WAY $675,000 3105 WINDSOR DR $180,000 4524 OXBOW DR $305,000 3448 WEMBERLEY DR $159,000 815 EL ENCINO WAY $360,000 851 LAVERSTOCK WAY $736,000 570 RODANTE WAY $825,000 1325 SHADOWGLEN RD $181,000 4413 MORPHEUS LN $332,000 1311 CHICA WAY $525,000 2679 AMERICAN RIVER DR $635,000 1705 ORION WAY $439,000 1512 SEBASTIAN WAY $190,000 1131 CASTEC DR $560,008 3870 CRONDALL DR $870,000 3146 TRUSSEL WAY $219,500 1305 WATT AVE $108,100 2245 AVALON DR $229,000 2013 VESTA WAY $320,000 1804 ROLLING HILLS RD $591,500 815 LOS MOLINOS WAY $1,175,000 1517 JONAS AVE $240,000 2916 SIERRA MILLS LN $350,000 321 WYNDGATE RD $582,500

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HAVE “INSIDE,” WILL TRAVEL 1. Wendell Alderson and Ken Nather atop Poon Hill in the Himalayas with Annapurna in the background 2. Kim Buchholz and Amy Jackson at the Temple of Zeus in Athens, Greece 3. Jim Guida in Washington, D.C. 4. Earl Silliman and Chris Silliman in Samoa, CA 5. Mary DaSilva setting off for the Caribbean on board the Oasis of the Seas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 6. Mary and Akio Miyamoto at the base of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

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Art Everywhere THIS ARTIST’S WORK IS ALL OVER SACRAMENTO

BY PETER ANDERSON ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

armichael graphic artist and painter Bob Miller is such a prolific illustrator that you may be leaning against, walking past or reading one of his many creations right now. Now 84, he helped produce the splashy murals that line the K Street pedestrian tunnel into and out of Old Sacramento with depictions of pioneers like John Sutter. He drew the illustrations on the historic plaques that grace the riverfront promenade along the eastern banks of the Sacramento River just south of Tower Bridge—illustrations that tell the stories of riverfront development and local history. And he wrote and illustrated the “Guide to Old Sacramento” paperback that has served tourists and residents alike for nearly 40 years. Born on a Modesto peach farm and raised by parents who urged him to be curious and busy, Miller has spent a lifetime bringing artistic expression to the scenery and businesses of the Sacramento Valley. Equipped with a degree in graphic arts from San Jose State, he started life in Sacramento with his wife and fellow student Anita. The pair raised five children while Miller began work at KCRA 3. He was the station’s original art director the day Channel 3 started airing in 1955. He created all the signage and constructed the sets for shows like “Valley Playhouse” and the live news broadcasts featuring legends like Stan Atkinson. Says Atkinson of his longtime coworker: “I’m a lifetime fan of Bob’s.

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Carmichael graphic artist and painter Bob Miller shown with samples of his art work

Considering all that he was asked to do, he did it in amazing ways. Back in that day—late ’50s and early ’60s—and long before the remarkable things that technology would bring into graphics, the tools were basic and klutzy. But Bob Miller, the wizard of show cards and rubber cement, could get anything done for the TV screen, in record time and with a first-class look.” Miller laughs modestly when told of Atkinson’s praise. “What Stan never knew,” he says, “was that sometimes the rubber cement and ink-drawn sketches of the show cards behind his handsome head would melt under the glare of the live TV lamps and start dripping down the screen just past his hair!”

After 10 years at Channel 3, Miller joined Wade Advertising (owned by late Sacramento County Supervisor Fred Wade) and did design and logo work for Sacramento businesses like Raley’s, Country Club Motors, Crystal

Creamery, River City Bank, Channel 3, Suburban Ford and Capitol Federal Savings & Loan. “Through the signage and logo work I was producing,” he says, “I discovered I really liked to paint.

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I work almost exclusively with acrylics—occasionally watercolor— because acrylic dries faster than oil. I became best known for painting iconic Sacramento images like Tower Bridge, Torch Club, Old Ironsides, Alhambra Theatre, Vic’s Ice Cream, Espanol Restaurant, Club 2-Me, Jim-Denny’s, Club Raven, Jamie’s and many more that people have commissioned me to do, like private residences, businesses, even their personal airplanes.” Miller stays active in the local arts community. Recent public shows

have included displays at Union Hall Gallery on K Street and Blue Wing Gallery in Woodland. “I’m very much a realist in my art,” he says, “and it always puzzles me when people try to ascribe something ethereal or spiritual to my work. I like to stand behind folks at art shows and listen to them try to interpret things that just aren’t there. Honestly, I am much more Norman Rockwell than Jackson Pollock.” In the 1990s, when wine label art became a fashionable and lucrative sideshow for well-known painters, Miller was coaxed into the genre by a

friend and fan, Mary Jane Corcoran, who put the artist in touch with vintners in the Napa Valley and the foothills. His clients include top-notch California wineries: Sierra Vista, Corti Brothers Wine, Trentadue, Cuvaison and Peju Province Winery. “I really give Mary Jane credit for introducing me to the wine label side of my art work,” he says. “She was a housewife looking to do something outside the home, and her engaging, very warm personality proved to be an invaluable sales tool in getting me into a new line of work that is fiercely

competitive. Like a lot of creative types, I am most comfortable in my studio, which is in my home, so we turned out to be a great team.” The home is also an empty nest. Says Miller: “Two of our boys are involved in the arts—one a writer/ photographer and another with a graphic design studio in Manhattan— and the remainder of them are also good citizens and good parents, and we are very proud of them all.” To see Bob Miller’s work, go to bobmillerdesign.com n

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Welcome to Tomorrowland ARTIST PAYS TRIBUTE TO DISNEY CREATION WITH EXHIBIT AT MIDTOWN COFFEEHOUSE

BY JESSICA LASKEY RIVER CITY PREVIEWS

f you fancy a cup of coffee and a gander at a great new art exhibit, head on over to The Trade, a new coffee and co-working shop in Midtown, and check out Patricia Araujo’s new painting exhibition, “Tomorrowland Today,” on display through July 31. Sip on some Blue Bottle coffee while you appreciate the shop’s first art exhibit, featuring 13 of Araujo’s eye-catching, other-worldly images that pay homage to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. According to Araujo’s website, Araujo’s father was an architect who worked for Walt Disney Imagineering in the 1970s and ’80s. Not surprisingly, Araujo visited Disney World every summer and it was there that she became fascinated with amusement parks—in particular with the Space Mountain ride. After finding photographs of circus arenas in Romania and Dnepr, Ukraine, Araujo realized how similar the structures were to her favorite attraction, and thus embarked on “Tomorrowland Today,” a painting project starting in 2008 that culminated in a self-published book in 2011 of the same name. Araujo has

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The Trade, a new coffee and co-working shop in Midtown, “Tomorrowland Today,” through July 31

pulled inspiration from futuristic, classical and industrial architecture from Eastern Europe, Disneyland and her decade spent painting building façades in central San Francisco. Araujo’s paintings will be on exhibit through July 31. The Trade is open every day from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is at 2220 K St. For more information about Araujo’s work, go to abstractmetropolis.com

MUSEUM MADNESS It’s heating up at the Crocker Art Museum this month—only figuratively, of course, considering it’s actually nice and air-conditioned— and there are plenty of activities for arts patrons of all ages. Starting on July 2, take a look at the wonderful world of Waldorf in the special exhibit “Camellia Waldorf School: The Art of Learning,” which will be on display until its closing reception on Dec. 6. The 25-year-old school, located in south Sacramento,

prides itself on making art part of the school day at every grade level, from preschool through eighth grade, to encourage creativity and resilience, strengthening students’ ability to think critically, collaborate and communicate. This exhibit will showcase work from students ages 6 through 14 in a variety of media, including clay, wood, fiber, metal, charcoal and ink. Find out what makes Camellia Waldorf so special at this once-in-a-lifetime display. PREVIEWS page 72

This Month at the Market A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN JULY

ZUCCHINI

PEARS

NECTARINES

These fast-growing squash are low in calories, contain no saturated fats or cholesterol, and are a good source of protein, vitamin A and other vitamins. To eat: Slice horizontally, brush with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and grill over a hot fire.

Pears are packed with dietary fiber, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins. They are low in calories, too! To eat: Slice, top with a dollop of blue cheese and wrap with prosciutto for an elegant hors d’oeuvre.

Related to peaches, these delicious stone fruits are full of antioxidants and provide some B-complex vitamins and minerals. To eat: Combine with raspberries to make a summery crumble or cobbler.

CUCUMBERS

TOMATOES

WATERMELON

This low-calorie vegetable has a surprisingly high amount of vitamin K. The peel is a great source of dietary fiber. To eat: Peel and seed, then chop coarsely and combine with yogurt, garlic and lemon juice to make the zingy Greek dip known as tzatziki.

This summer treat—practically synonymous with Sacramento!—contains massive amounts of lycopene. According to a study from The University of Montreal, a diet rich in tomatoes may help reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer. To eat: Slice, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper for the perfect summer salad.

Low in calories, watermelon contains dietary fiber, potassium, and vitamins C and A. Drink watermelon juice after a grueling workout. To eat: For a refreshing salad, serve with arugula and feta.

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PREVIEWS FROM page 70 Quench your thirst at the aptly named Art Mix “Quench” from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 9. Your yard may be dried up, but your social life doesn’t have to be: Work up a sweat getting down to live music by Bonanza King and DJ Larry Rodriguez, cool off and “become one” with the art in Charlie Schneider’s interactive performance, discover fun ways to save water in style, and enjoy food and drink discounts during happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. (As usual, drink specials are only $5 all night.) The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. For an afternoon of timeless tunes, check out the Classical Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 12, featuring William Feasley on guitar. Inspired by the art of David Ligare (on display at the museum through Sept. 20), renowned guitarist Feasley will perform a program of works by neoclassical composers, including contemporary compositions by California-based Peter Madlem and 20th century works by Mexican composer Manuel Ponce. Space is limited, so reserve your tickets in advance by calling 808-1182. The concert is $6 for museum members; $10 for students and Capital Public Radio members; and $12 for nonmembers. Can’t get enough jazz? Don’t miss Jazz Night featuring singer Clairdee at the Crocker at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16. Curated and hosted by Vivian Lee, regional jazz “matriarch,” Jazz Night will

teens, free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. For more information on all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

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Ceramics artist Dana Bilello-Barrow gets “Below the Surface,” literally, in her first solo show of the same name, on exhibit July 11 through Aug. 3 in the main gallery at Arthouse on R

take place this summer every third Thursday through September. Let Clairdee serenade you from the Main Stage with her unique style combining jazz, pop, gospel, rhythm and blues. The performer is unmatched at both delighting and educating audiences, given her background as a teaching artist with SFJAZZ and the San Francisco Symphony, a faculty member of the Jazzschool Institute (now known as the California Jazz Conservatory) in Berkeley, and a performer at renowned venues that include Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Monterey Jazz Festival. If you get to the festivities early, the Café Stage will feature the garage soul band Current Personae at 5:15 p.m.; the band describes its sound as “reminiscent of Erykah Badu’s early days, Jill Scott before she became an actress and Stevie Wonder’s funky period.” Don’t miss it! Tickets are $7 for museum members; $12 for Capital

Public Radio members and students; and $14 for nonmembers. Back by popular demand, get your gaming on at the Twisted Sacratomato Salon, which returns to the Crocker from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 23. Join fellow gamers, artists and trivia buffs for a night of pub trivia, drawing games, tours of the galleries and a cash bar for this “adult playdate.” The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. Find out what really happens when young people are in charge at “The Takeover: An Art Jam by & for Youth” from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 30. But it’s not as scary as it sounds: The program, celebrating its third year as the meeting point of the art, vision and culture of local youth, is offered in partnership with Sol Collective and Low En Theory Collaborative. It’s also free for

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Ceramics artist Dana BilelloBarrow gets “Below the Surface,” literally, in her first solo show of the same name, on exhibit July 11 through Aug. 3 in the main gallery at Arthouse on R. The local potter is known for her unique surface treatments and large-scale site-specific installations, inspired by the natural and organic ability of rivers and oceans to mold our environment. The show will feature the sculptural and fluid vessel forms that have become BilelloBarrow’s signature. Meet the talented artist in person at the Second Saturday opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on July 11. For more information, call 455-4988 or go to arthouseonr.com Arthouse on R is at 10th and R streets downtown.

HELLO, BIRDIE! It wouldn’t be summer in Sacramento without Music Circus, performed in the circus-tent-cumclimate-controlled-theater-in-theround Wells Fargo Pavilion. This month, don’t miss “Bye Bye Birdie” PREVIEWS page 76

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JULY

ARTHOUSE on R presents “Below the Surface,” fine ceramics by Dana Barrow through Aug. 3. 1021 R Street, arthouseonr.com

Artspace 1616 presents works by Julian Faulkner, Richard Blackburn, Anne Veraldi and Reece Metzger through Aug. 2. Shown right is “Behold “ by Metzger. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

Atelier 20 Gallery features the works of Margarita Chaplinska from July 11 to August 1. Shown is “Santa Monica Freeway” an oil on board by Chaplinska. 915 20th St.

Red Dot Gallery presents Rated F: Fleshing out the Female, an exhibition that explores the spirit of the female essence. Shown left: ArtDivas (Collaboration) “She’s an Open Book,” a collage/assemblage. The show runs through June 27. 2231 J St.; reddotgallery.com

Helen Jones Gallery presents “Summer Passion”, originals and serigraphs by Sabzi through July 31. “Hot Moon” by Sabzi is shown right. 588 La Sierra Dr.; helenjonesgallery.com

Jay Jay presents Trending: New Art from California through July 23. Shown left: Summer Night, a monotype by Quynh Tran. 5520 Elvas Avenue; jayjayart.com

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PREVIEWS FROM page 72 and “Peter Pan” as they take River City by storm. On July 7-12, revel in the musical that made a star out of Dick Van Dyke and gave the world such classic tunes as “Put on a Happy Face,” “One Last Kiss,” “A Lot of Livin’ To Do” and too many more to recount (or hum) here. This production of “Bye Bye Birdie” will be headed by director Glenn Casale (who’s also the acting artistic director of California Musical Theatre, which produces Music Circus) and features choreography by Randy Slovacek. The cast will feature heavy-hitters, including Janine DiVita, seen on Broadway in “Grease,” “Anything Goes” and “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” who plays long-suffering wife Rosie Alvarez; Larry Raben, the off-Broadway director of “Falling for Eve” and actor from “The Producers,” “I Married an Angel” and “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” who plays Albert, Rosie’s frustrating yet talented hubby;

Amanda Jane Cooper, who played Glinda in the first national tour of “Wicked” and had a recurring role on the ABC series “Selfie,” as kissable Kim MacAfee; and Helen Hayes Award-nominated Rebecca Baxter, who played Cinderella at the New York City Opera and guest-starred in ABC’s “The Middle” last season, who will play Mrs. MacAfee. Local favorite Mary-Pat Green will play Albert’s mother Mae Peterson. She was in the original Broadway cast of “Sweeney Todd” and “Candide” and has appeared in countless television series. If you’ve gotta crow, don’t miss “Peter Pan,” playing July 21-26. The beloved story about a boy who won’t grow up features all your favorite characters onstage at Music Circus for the first time since 1986. Leading the high-flying adventure in the title role is Jenn Colella, who was most recently seen on Broadway in “If/Then” opposite Idina Menzel. Jennifer Hope Wills, who earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of Eileen in the revival of “Wonderful

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Town” and also performed on Broadway in “The Phantom of the Opera” as Christine, is returning to Music Circus for her fourth season to play Mrs. Darling. Brothers John and Michael Darling will be played by Aidin Winn, who performed earlier this year at Dallas Summer Musicals, and local performer Joshua Davis, a veteran of El Dorado Musical Theatre. The role of Mr. Darling/Captain Hook will be played by Paul Schoeffler, who marks his eighth season at Music Circus and who has performed on Broadway in “Rock of Ages,” “Sweet Charity,” “Peter Pan” and “Beauty and the Beast,” among others. For “Peter Pan” only, tickets are available for $40 in any section for children ages 4 to 12. For tickets and more information, call 557-1999 or go to californiamusicaltheatre.com The Wells Fargo Pavilion is at 1419 H St.

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Be a part of history, or at least display it in your house, when the personal collection of Sutter Creek’s storied Klima’s Antiques owners goes up for auction online at Witherell’s Appraisals and Auctions from July 1-15. With nearly 500 lots, this is due to be Witherell’s largest summer auction yet. It will include pieces from the personal collection of Earl and Ray Klima, who ran antique stores from Los Angeles to Sutter Creek for more than 30 years, amassing a vast trove

of collectibles that includes coinoperated machines, early cap guns, California advertising, law badges, antique clocks, Mexican statues, Tiffany collectibles, chandeliers, American furniture, jewelry and more. “The Klimas have such an outstanding collection of pop culture,” says Brian Witherell, CEO of the auction house and familiar face from the PBS show “Antiques Roadshow.” Also on the block this month will be unusual Civil War items, including an 1864 Burnside carbine, from the collection of Lt. Col. Arthur Crego. (You may have caught Witherell and the collector’s descendants recently on the Fox Business Network show “Strange Inheritance” talking about Crego’s fascinating collection.) Due to the abundance of items, the auction preview from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 11 will be held in the Witherell’s warehouse at 1925 C St. For more information or to bid on an item, go to witherells.com

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Shirley Hazlett comes from a long line of “makers”—seamstresses and embroiderers, shoemakers and milliners, knitters and quilters—so it’s no wonder that she was destined to express herself creatively with needle and thread. But it’s the amazing patterns she coaxes out of ink and watercolor that are on display in her current solo exhibition

“Textural Memory” at the Shimo Center for the Arts from July 10 through Aug. 5. With this show, Hazlett is honoring the collective memory of the textile arts in her life with a series of largeformat, two- and three-dimensional ink and watercolor works on 100 percent cotton paper, which abstractly recreate textures found in stitching, weaving and quilting. You may have seen her work locally at the Crocker Art Museum, the California Museum, the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Verge Center for the Arts or at Davis’s Pence Gallery and Nelson Gallery or in the collections of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, the UC Davis Mind Center, Kaiser Hospital, Sacramento State, the Carmichael Italian Cultural Center, Hanson McClain and the Grotto in San Francisco. Meet Hazlett at the Second Saturday reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on July 11. For more information, call 706-1162 or go to shimogallery.com

Shirley Hazlett's patterns made from ink and watercolor are on display in her current solo exhibition “Textural Memory” at the Shimo Center for the Arts from July 10 through Aug. 5

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Special Exhibit CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR HONORS PAINTER EARL BOLEY THIS MONTH BY CECILY HASTINGS

his month, the California State Fair will feature a retrospective exhibit of the paintings of Carmichael artist Earl Boley, who died in 2013. World-renowned artist Jian Wang, a friend of Boley’s, curated the selection of 18 works that show the breadth of subjects Boley painted, both locally and abroad. For more than a decade, Boley’s work was frequently featured on the covers of Inside Publications. He also received numerous awards for work he entered in the fair’s California Fine Art juried competition. “I reviewed thousands of paintings that fill his studio and the rooms in the house he shared with his wife Susan,” said Wang. “He painted on anything he could lay his hands on:

cardboard, strips of wood, canvases old or new. What was important was that he was able to paint.”

“Earl’s greatest joy was making paintings.” Wang’s selections encompass more than 45 years of Boley’s lifelong passion for painting. “Earl’s greatest joy was making paintings. And yet, as a true artist, he never stopped trying to make even better paintings,” said Wang. The California State Fair runs July 10-26 at Cal Expo. For more information, go to calstatefair.org n

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A French Connection BRASSERIE CAPITALE OPENS

BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER

here’s a trend in the restaurant industry these days. It’s the equal and opposite reaction to the “local first/local forever” types, the types who consider themselves perfect locavores and insist on questioning others’ loca-motives. This trend is the celebration of all things old, traditional and, sometimes, foreign.

In keeping with the brasserie atmosphere (a little more casual and pubby than a white-tablecloth restaurant), the offerings fall on the hearty side. I’ve seen it in several cities throughout the Unites States, this new desire for traditional cooking from outside the country. Whether it’s a spot-on, brand-new English pub on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square or an “authentic” Barcelona tapas bar in Chicago, this trend is nothing new; it’s just seeing a small uptick as a counterpoint to the “celebrate local” ethos. Our town’s most recent entry into the contest is Brasserie Capitale, a

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The dining room at Brasserie Capitale on K Street

lovely take on a traditional French eatery, highlighting classic French cooking and dependable French wines. Since opening in May, the restaurant already has impressed a host of writers and diners. The parties behind the enterprise are Aziz Bellarbi-Salah and his family, owners of Aioli Bodega Espanol and The Grand wine bar. Both Aioli and the Grand are examples of the thoughtful combination of lovely atmosphere, fine cooking and good management. So it’s no surprise to see Brasserie Capitale putting out fine dishes and professional, competent service in its first month of operation. Taking over the busy corner at 12th and K streets once held down by

the venerable beef joint The Broiler, Brasserie Capitale hopes to cash in on a revitalized K Street and the popularity of nearby Ella Dining Room and Bar and Tequila Museo Mayahuel. Between these three fine restaurants, there’s bound to be something to suit nearly every diner. Bellarbi-Salah, however, has positioned the restaurant to succeed not just with those looking for fine dining, but with lingering evening diners, afternoon business lunchers and early morning grab-’n’-goers. The key to success might be the informal sister bar/cafe next door, Cafe a Cote. Offering morning pastries, ridiculously good coffee and to-go fare for lunch, it’s already a popular destination for the downtown

workers surrounding K Street. Cafe a Cote also has a full bar open in the evenings for those sticking around after work or coming into downtown to enjoy the nightlife. Brasserie Capitale’s menu is wallto-wall French classics. In keeping with the brasserie atmosphere (a little more casual and pubby than a white-tablecloth restaurant), the offerings fall on the hearty side. Saucisson de l’Ail ($9), a sliced garlic sausage served on a bed of lentils, is an absolutely lovely little plate. The lentils, savory and rich, still retain a little tooth, and the sausage carries enough sharpness of flavor to cut through. You’ll find both pork and duck pate on the menu as well ($9). The pork

THEATRE GUIDE SLEEPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BED Thru July 5 Wilkerson Theatre 1723 25th St. Sac 451-5822 This play takes audiences on an epic yet all-too relatable journey. From the frustrations of finding the edge of a Saran Wrap roll, to the farce of internet dating, it’s an exploration in the secret life of a newly divorced man. From the sacred to the scary, it’s sure to be an evening of humor and self-discovery.

NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre

Deviled eggs from Brasserie Capitale

is rough and earthy, country-style, with only a mellow hint of liver. The duck, on the other hand, is rich and pungent, indulgent in small dollops on grilled baguette. Also on the small-plates side of the menu, you’ll find a trio of tartares: salmon, beef and mackerel ($12). The salmon, made mostly from belly, is light in flavor and redolent of dill. The mackerel is nearly overpowering, as any good mackerel should be, but it melds well with creme fraiche, scallions and lemon zest. The beef is the standout of the trio. Made as classically as you’d expect, it’s a perfect mix of chopped filet, spices and capers, with a raw quail egg perched on top. On the entree side of the menu, a few options stand out. The grilled pork shoulder ($24), beautifully grilled, sits on an heirloom bean ragout. The pork, tender and lovely, blends seamlessly with the savory ragout. This is an elegant dish, made even more elegant by how simple and hearty it is.

However, steak frites ($27) is the star of the show. Sure, it’s simple. Sure, it’s classic. Sure, it’s basic. But the kitchen at Brasserie Capitale knows its steak, and it knows its fries. A few dishes, like the escargot, fall a little flat. And classics like onion soup need a little tweaking. But overall, the menu is superb. In only the first month of operation, this is impressive. Deserving of praise is chef Scott McNamara, a veteran of the Selland empire (Ella, The Kitchen, etc.) whose last posting was as chef of Bistro Michel, a gem of a place with incredible French cuisine. Unfortunately, that gem was so well hidden in a sleepy corner of downtown that it never received the accolades it deserved. I’m glad to see McNamara back doing what he does best. And I have a feeling he’ll get more business than he might be ready for at Brasserie Capitale. Brasserie Capitale is at 1201 K St.; 329-8033; brasseriecapitale.com Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com n

Thru July 25 Big Idea Theatre 1616 Del Paso Blvd. Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.com Ushered in by an amused, lidless valet, three people take up residence in a windowless Second Empire drawing room. As they await their impending agony, they question each other about the individual reasons that brought them together, and soon discover that ultimate punishment….is having company. Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist nightmare takes on new (after) life in this unique multimedia production, which audaciously visualizes the inescapable external elements that define – and condemn ….. our identities.

UNCANNY VALLEY Thru July 19 Capital Stage 2215 J St. Sac 476-3116 CapStage.org Drawing on current research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and the possibility of “downloading” human consciousness as a means of extending the human lifespan, Uncanny Valley charts the relationship between Claire, a neuroscientist, and Julian, a non-biological human. Uncanny Valley explores the painful divide between creator and creation, the inherent unpredictability of consciousness, and how we are redefining what it means to be human in the 21st century.

MY MOTHER’S ITALIAN, MY FATHER’S JEWISH & I’M IN THERAPY! Thru July 19 24th Street Theatre 2791 24th St. Sac (855) 448-7469 This two-time award winning play created by Steve Solomon has met with rave reviews and great audience acclaim throughout the country. It is an evening of hysterical comedy topped off with 30+ voices of the most hilarious characters and situations you’ve ever see. All this brought to life by the comic genius of author Steve Solomon, starring Peter Fogel. One part lasagna, one part kreplach, and two parts Prozac. You don’t have to be Jewish or Italian to love the show. All you need to know is what it feels like to leave a family dinner with heartburn and a headache.

THE EXPLORER’S CLUB Thru July 26 B Street Theatre 2711 B St. Sac 443-5300 Set in London, 1879, the prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire….. and how do you make such a decision without a decent drink? Grab your safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras, irate Irishmen, and the occasional airship.

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Willie's Burgers

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L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

806 L St. 442-7092

Il Fornaio

400 Capitol Mall 446-4100

L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com

Grange

926 J Street • 492-4450

B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com

2415 16th St. 444-2006

ARDENCARMICHAEL Bella Bru Café

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Espresso, omelettes, salads, table service from 5 -9 p.m. • bellabrucafe.com

Café Vinoteca

L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com

L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com

1415 L St. 440-8888

Mikuni Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

Ettore’s

2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com

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

Ten 22

Jackson Dining

1530 J St. 447-2112

1022 Second St. 441-2211

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

1120 Fulton Ave. 483-7300

L D $$ Wine/Beer Creative cuisine in a casual setting • Jacksoncateringevents.com

Jack’s Urban Eats

LAND PARK Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire $$ Wine/Beer. American cuisine. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children's Home. Small and large groups. casagardenrestaurant.org

Freeport Bakery

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225

L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

The Kitchen

2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

Iron Grill

Leatherby’s Family Creamery

13th Street and Broadway 737-5115

2333 Arden Way 920-8382

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Vietnamese and Thai cuisine in a casual yet elegant setting

5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727

L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794

D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

Roxy

2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000

Hock Farm Craft & Provision

Total DINNER food order of $40 or more

With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Expires 7/31/15.

Jamie's Bar and Grill

L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

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

Ristorante Piatti

571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885

L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting • piatti.com

Sam's Hof Brau

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

Thai House

427 Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888

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

Willie's Burgers

5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com n

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