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MIDTOWN LIVING 2 bedrooms 2½ baths high ceilings in entry way and lots of windows throughout make this a bright and inviting home. Kitchen with SS appliances, quartz counters and breakfast bar look into the open Àoor plan. Each bedroom has their own bathroom and balcony. Attached garage! $435,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

BEAUTIFUL SANTA YNEZ REMODEL Designed by Ted Smith and built by Ikon Homes, this 4 bedroom, 3 bath home combines old world charm and all the modern amenities you could ask for! A true cook’s kitchen with high-end Dacor range and plenty of workspace including two sinks. Cozy sitting room off of kitchen leads to backyard. $799,500 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

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COLONIAL HEIGHTS Enjoy this 2 bedroom home in the Colonial Heights area of Tahoe Park. The home has many pieces in place including updated kitchen and bath, extensive use of tile Àooring, Fujitsu HFI mini split units for heat and air, ¿replace, crown molding, breakfast nook, inside laundry, detached garage. $225,000 PATRICK VOGELI 207-4515

HEART OF TAHOE PARK Enjoy this 3 bedroom picket fenced home with 1089 sf located in Tahoe Park. On what is considered by many as one of the best streets in the area, this popular Àoor plan has an open dining/living area, updated kitchen with granite, updated bath, hardwood Àoors, dual pane windows. $349,000 PATRICK VOGELI 207-4515

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DOWNTOWN TOWNHOME Elegant updated Saratoga Townhome! Great location and the modern amenities; updated kitchen with granite counters and new stainless appliances, new laminate Àooring downstairs, new carpet upstairs, freshly painted interior, new light ¿xtures. Private patio, attached garage. $339,900 ERIN STUMPF 342-1372

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ADORABLE T STREET Adorable 1925 Elmhurst 2 bedroom home. An arched front door leads you into a cozy home with leaded glass windows in front and dual pane throughout the rest of the house. Gleaming hardwood Àoors, ¿replace, dining room with built-in hutch and a breakfast nook off the kitchen. $425,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

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DARLING RIVER PARK 3 bedroom 2 bath home in popular River Park. Gleaming hardwood Àoors, a lovely formal living room with cozy ¿replace looks into the formal dining area. Fantastic oversize kitchen features granite counters, impressive storage, dishwasher, gas range, and dining bar. Backyard stone patio. $519,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

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SPACIOUS EAST SACRAMENTO Two story 3 bedroom 2 baths with 2456 square feet of living space! Upstairs was added on in 1990. Large master bedroom with lots of closet space. Upstairs has room for of¿ce or bedroom. Lots of charm with glass windows. Great exterior and large rooms. $795,000 JERRY KIRRENE 455-1001, DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495

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UPDATED SARATOGA TOWNHOME Wonderfully updated 3 bedroom 2½ bath townhome with amazing kitchen opened to the living room, quartz counters, Bosch appliances, soft close cabinets, wood Àoors, new carpet, dual pane windows and new paint. Enlarged master suite, your own patio and attached garage. $434,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

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Attractive 3,035 sq/ft gem in the heart of East Sac’s Fab 40s. Tudor exterior and a Modern interior with classic features. Inlaid wood Áoors, arched entryways, plantation shutters. Gourmet kitchen with ofÀce nook, high-end appliances & concrete counters that looks onto Great room with built-ins and brick Àreplace. Traditional dining & large living room. The master suite has a designer walk-in closet & balcony. Upstairs bedrooms share a Jack & Jill bath. Alley access to detached 1 car garage.

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COVER ARTIST Marc Foster and Micah Crandall-Bear “Repose,” a collaborative piece by sculptor Marc Foster and painter Micah Crandall-Bear will be shown through April 20 at Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. Visit beatnik-studios.com. Visit marcfoster.com and micahcrandallbear.com. 3104 O St. #120, Sac. CA 95816 (Mail Only)

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A Remarkable Woman MAKING A NEW AND MEANINGFUL FRIENDSHIP

recently heard a brief summary of three things you can do to help people take a liking to you. First, display an upbeat, positive attitude. Second, take an interest in other people by asking gentle questions and carefully listening to the answers. At the same time, be candid about yourself. In other words, engage in conversational give and take. Finally, be confident. My mother did all of these things and had many meaningful friendships throughout her long life. I recall her saying that making deep friendships later in life could be tough. Hence, it is important to nurture the older connections that give you joy. I am very grateful for mother’s positive influence in my life. And when I meet someone who is like her, I happily reflect back on my mom’s lovely personality. A few years ago, I met someone whose life has roughly paralleled mine in many ways, and who clearly possesses these likable characteristics. Jane Einhorn is a legend in our city, mostly for her PR acumen. Her former partner (and husband of a friend of mine) introduced us at lunch several years ago, and we hit it off immediately. For 37 years, she was a partner in the venerable

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Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn agency (now called RS-E). In 2016, she left the partnership to lighten her workload and strike out on her own. Her departure was in the works for more than a year as she transitioned out of the firm.

I had heard lots of interesting stories about her over the years. I play tennis in the park across from her former home in Arden and first saw her out on her porch in her pink peignoir, letting her dog out in the early morning. The thought of that sight still makes me laugh! And her husband, Jeffrey, played with my mixed-doubles tennis group many years ago.

On the surface, we have many differences: She’s short and I’m fairly tall. (I tower over her when we hug!) She’s a fair-skinned blonde with perky short hair. I’m a sunloving brunette who’s always favored longer hair. She dresses seriously well, favoring designer dresses and separates, complemented by glamorous jewelry. I’m more likely to wear tennis and yoga outfits or rolled-up jeans, and I can count my simple jewelry pieces on one hand. She’s Jewish and I’m Christian. She PUBLISHER page 13

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PUBLISHER FROM page 11 has a New York accent, while I have a bit of a Midwestern twang. She marvels that I am so domestically hands-on in cooking, gardening and design. I admire that she has sat through thousands of board meetings and helped run a company much, much larger than ours. But far more important is what we have in common. We are roughly the same age, in our early 60s, both with long marriages. Our youngest sons are close in age. We both graduated from University of Michigan and were on the Ann Arbor campus at the same time. We are both voracious readers and exchange book recommendations every week. And that is just our life histories. It is our similar personalities that have sparked our deepest connection. Both of us really like people. We like meeting them, connecting with them and sharing those connections with others, trying to help others in the process. When Jane left her firm and went out on her own, I admired her ability to reinvent herself. Her confidence stemmed in part from the fact that she often befriends those she does business with, and those friendships continue. She did seem a bit concerned about the transition in terms of practical matters—the things she took for granted at a large agency. When I asked her about business cards, she wondered if she needed them. I said absolutely and designed her one, taking into consideration her colorful, bubbly personality. Underneath her name, I put the

words “Extraordinary Connections in Public Relations & Marketing.” I sent her a proof of the design, and she loved it. I ordered them and had them sent to her. I also had our IT manager help her set up her home office. Jane clearly loves her new freedom and is thriving in her new role, working directly with her business and nonprofit clients.

When there is common ground and both parties are willing to put care and energy into each other, good things can grow in any season of our lives.

when I hit obstacles and wrote an early recommendation that is printed inside the cover. A few months ago, I chatted over coffee with Ed Goldman, a mutual friend. When I mentioned hitting it off with Jane, he was not the least bit surprised. “You both still have the hustle to make things happen. And that is a powerful asset to have in common,” he said.

Jane and I are a good example that one can make new and meaningful friendships at any age. When there is common ground and both parties are willing to put care and energy into each other, good things can grow in any season of our lives. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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Stop and Go NEW PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AT FOLSOM AND ELVAS

ast month, the city unveiled a new pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Folsom Boulevard and Elvas Avenue. The project was designed to make the intersection safer for pedestrians. At the crossing, a signal called a pedestrian hybrid beacon uses a series of steady and flashing yellow and red lights to warn drivers to stop so pedestrians can cross the street. PHBs have been shown to significantly reduce pedestrian crashes. A Federal Highway Administration study found that pedestrian hybrid beacons reduce pedestrian crashes by 69 percent and total crashes by 29 percent. The city is also working on a project, called the Folsom Boulevard Complete Streets Rehabilitation, to provide continuous bike lanes, sidewalks and enhanced safety for all those using the corridor.

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CHRISTAN BROTHERS POP, FIZZ, CLINK AUCTION On Saturday, March 25, Christian Brothers High School will hold its annual fundraising auction. The theme is Pop, Fizz, Clink, celebrating the exuberant style, culture and jazz of the 1920s. Dinner will begin at 5 p.m., with the live auction following at 7 p.m. Tickets are $125 per person. For more information, go to cbhs-sacramento.org or contact Joanne McShane at 733-3643 or jmcshane@cbhs-sacramento.org.

BUTTERFLY GARDENING WORKSHOP

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A free, one-hour butterfly gardening workshop will be held at East Sac Hardware on Saturday, March 11, at 10 a.m. Participants will learn how to create a successful butterfly garden, including appropriate plant selection

Sacred Heart Parish School students handed out “prescriptions for kindness” at Mercy General Hospital.

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and placement along with other butterfly-friendly practices. Seats are limited. To reserve a space, call 457-7558. East Sac Hardware is at 4800 Folsom Blvd.

WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING AND DANCE On Friday, March 3, McKinley Library will host a children’s program on West African music. Tyehimba Kokayi, a faculty member of Sacramento State

In January, Sacred Heart Parish School students wrote and handed out “prescriptions for kindness” as part of the Great Kindness Challenge sponsored by Dignity Health and Kids for Peace. Students gave their prescriptions to hospital patients, visitors and staff. The Great Kindness Challenge encourages students to engage in acts of kindness. Ten million students were expected to participate this year, completing more than 500 million acts of kindness worldwide.

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Food Truck Mania returns to McKinley Park on Friday, March 10, from 5 to 8 p.m. The March food-

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SPRING NATIVE PLANT SALE The Sacramento Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society will hold its spring native plant sale on Saturday, March 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Elderberry Farms Native Plant Nursery. A wide selection of native perennials, shrubs, trees, grasses, vines and native annuals will be offered. Plant advisers will be available to help you find plants that will fit your garden. Landscape designers will give 15-minute consultations for a donation to CNPS. Elderberry Farms Native Plant Nursery is at 2140 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova. For more information, go to sacvalleycnps.org.

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MINECRAFT AND LEGO AT THE LIBRARY On Friday, March 10, McKinley Library will offer an afternoon of Minecraft gaming for children and teens. Each player will be provided a computer to battle with friends on the library server. Players of any level of experience are welcome. On Friday, March 17, the library will hold its monthly LEGO free-play program. LEGO bricks and DUPLO LEGO bricks will be provided. Both programs start at 3:30 p.m. The library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

COMPTON’S MARKET EXPANSION This month, Compton’s Market will unveil its much-anticipated 4,000-square-foot expansion. The renovation will include a full-service deli, meat department, soup and salad bar. Customers will be able to order wine and beer in the new seating area. Gunther’s Ice Cream will be sold scooped to order.

The renovation will allow Compton’s to offer a larger selection of produce and organic offerings. Compton’s is at 4065 McKinley Blvd.

RAISE YOUR GLASS TO LOCAL CRAFT BEER East Sac breweries will participate in Sacramento Beer Week (March 2–12).

Capitol Beer Fest will feature more than 125 of the nation’s best brewers, 15 food trucks and live music.

Twelve Rounds will host its second annual IPA Fest on Saturday, March 4, followed by a chili cook-off on Sunday, March 5. On Thursday, March 9, Hoppy Brewing will offer brewery tours and half-priced beer sampler platters. Beer Week’s kickoff event, Sacramento Brewers’ Showcase, will be held at California Automobile Museum on Thursday, March 2. The showcase will feature products from more than 40 local breweries, including beers made exclusively for Sacramento Beer Week. Beer Week will conclude with Capitol Beer Fest on Sunday, March 12, from noon to 5 p.m. Held on the 5th Street Bridge, it will feature more than 125 of the nation’s best brewers, 15 food trucks and live music. For tickets and more information, go to capitolbeerfest.com.

SPRING SALE On Saturday, March 4, SacTown Union will offer a homebrewing demonstration.

Shepard Garden & Arts Center will hold its spring sale on Saturday, March 18, and Sunday, March 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plants, pots,

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FORMOLI’S BISTRO CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

Formoli's Bistro owners Aimal Formoli and Suzanne Ricci crafts, jewelry books and other gardening items will be sold. The center is at 3330 McKinley Blvd. For more information, call 823-5500 or go to sgaac.org.

A PLAY AT CLUNIE Four performances of “Over the River and Through the Woods” will be held at Clunie Community Center in late February and early March. It will

be the first live play performed on the center’s stage in recent years. Presented by Cherry on Top Theater Productions, the comic play will be performed at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28; Thursday, March

To celebrate 10 years in business, Formoli’s Bistro will offer a 20 percent discount to customers in exchange for their business card. “This is an opportunity to network with our customers and thank them for their business these last 10 years,” says Suzanne Ricci, who owns the restaurant with her husband, chef Aimal Formoli. Formoli’s Bistro is at 3839 J St. For more information, go to formolisbistro.com.

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Beyond Charity USING ART TO ENRICH LIVES

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think the process of being involved in creation is the best of the human spirit,” says Laura Ann Walton. “It’s the best thing we do as human beings.” Walton speaks about the human spirit from the perspective of not only being an artist herself—she’s a poet who self-published a book entitled “God Is a Lion”—but also as the

founder of Women’s Wisdom ART, a creative organization that offers art classes for women in need, and as a former nun. After graduating from Catholic high school in 1963, the Sacramento native joined the Sisters of Mercy religious order and later taught high school English while working on her master’s degree in creative writing at Sacramento State. Her experience working at Loaves & Fishes set her on her current course. “I was reading so much about providing for the poor, I thought it was much more important than what I was doing, so I gave up my poetry,” Walton says. Walton had a vision to expand Loaves & Fishes and founded the Maryhouse daytime hospitality shelter for women and children in 1986. Walton served as Maryhouse’s first director, overseeing the daily buffet breakfast and social services that linked women—many of them mentally ill—to services like shelter and rehab. Getting to know the

women she served had a profound impact on her. “Most of the women who came in were seen as people who needed help—objects of charity,” Walton explains. “It was difficult to see beyond the need to the person. As I got to know them, I learned that there was a whole lot more to these women besides needing charity.” In 1991, Walton founded The Wisdom Project, an empowerment program that included art classes and other resource-related workshops that met at the Loaves & Fishes dining room each week. Walton soon dropped the social services aspect altogether because she found that the women were most interested in the classes in painting, jewelry making and creative writing. “We discovered that it gave these women a chance to participate in something not as needy people. It gave them a chance to create,” Walton says. “In that process, they developed self-confidence and could see themselves as something other than a reject from society.”

The group was funded at first by Loaves & Fishes and the Sisters of Mercy. But when Walton got wind of a grant offered by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission for an art show, she applied for and won the grant. “Having an art show in a larger space meant that the people who came to look at and buy the art were able to meet the women as artists instead of as homeless, helpless people,” Walton says. “They were now people in the community instead of victims.” The group—by now called Women’s Wisdom ART—had grown enough that it needed more space to operate, which it found at Sutter Galleria, then at a location in Curtis Park, then at Sacramento Food Bank, where it stayed for 13 years. During this time, Walton decided to leave the sisterhood and took a job with Turning Point Community Programs as a children’s mental health quality assurance manager. In 2012, Walton learned that the Food Bank was going to close the

Women’s Wisdom program. So she stepped back in. Today, Women’s Wisdom ART is based at the Sacramento Poetry Center. In 2015, for its 25th anniversary, the group received official nonprofit status, proving that faith and friendship can take you far. “These women have developed a very strong support community,” Walton says proudly. “Because it’s strength based (we’re not here to fix anybody), a woman can be a member of the community as long as she wants to be. Some have moved on, done better for themselves, gotten jobs. Some of our mentally ill participants have achieved new levels of stability and connection. In the end, it’s all about the women. They’ve made the program work. The courage of these women to try art and transform themselves in the process calls forth the best, most courageous part of the human being.” For more information, go to womenswisdomart.org. n

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Another Scandal SKY-HIGH FIREFIGHTER OVERTIME PAY DRAWS FIRE

here are two long-standing assumptions at Sacramento city hall about the fire department. The first is that it is perennially the number-one target of city budget hawks because of its well-known operational inefficiencies. The second is that it’s the city department most resistant to change because of a city hall perception that the firefighters union is the political equivalent of a 600-pound gorilla: able to stomp on every effort to bring the department to heel. A just-released report by city auditor Jose Oseguera revealing egregious overtime abuses in the fire department and calling for major reforms reaffirms the first assumption and will put the second to a major test this year. The auditor’s findings are eyeopening. He found two firefighters were paid for more than 6,000 hours of work in a single year, which equates to almost 70 percent of the time they were living and breathing. Nearly 150 firefighters in the department were found to have the ability to approve their own overtime without supervisor oversight. The amount spent on fire department overtime has almost doubled in recent years, increasing from $7.4 million in 2011 to more than $13 million in

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fiscal year 2014–2015, representing more than 250,000 overtime hours.

A SCANDALOUS PAST If the utilities department is the most reliable scandal generator of city government, the fire department’s scandals have been the most lurid. There was the scandal over Sacramento firefighters who liked to drive their fire engines to local clubs on the weekends and offer joy rides to attractive women, a novel “community outreach” effort that was defended by some at the time with the excuse “boys will be boys.” Then there was the much more serious scandal involving firefighter thefts of Demerol supplies from city

ambulances, which are operated by the fire department. The scandal was compounded by reports that the thieves tried to cover up their thefts by refilling drained Demerol containers with water. As someone who hitched a ride in a city ambulance following a bone-shattering bicycle accident several years back, this last outrage hit home for me in a big way, particularly since the Demerol I received en route to the hospital seemed to do nothing to diminish my screaming (although, to be fair, my pain threshold is pretty low). The primary reason offered by the fire department for why it’s running up so much overtime is that hiring of new firefighters hasn’t kept pace with

staffing needs. The department has been on a hiring tear of late, hiring more than 100 firefighters in the past two years. As many as 44 firefighters are expected to join the department from the fire academy in July, which should knock back overtime hours significantly. Overtime hours are also driven up when city firefighters are called upon by Cal Fire to assist in fighting summer forest fires, although summer forest fires are as predictable as sunrises in California. One would have expected Cal Fire to have in place a less costly way of surging manpower in busy summer firefighting months than paying local firefighters overtime. CITY HALL page 24

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BIG EARNINGS FOR FIRE CAPTAIN So how bad is the abuse? Well, a recent public records request by Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group I head) reveals some stunning numbers. In 2015, city fire chief Stanley Gholson received a base salary of $100,724 and $173,130 in overtime. His total pay, including $1,966 in supplemental pay, was $275,820. When his benefits of $47,148 were added in, his total 2015 compensation rose to an eye-popping $322,968. To put that in perspective, the current salary of the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is $263,300, while the vice president of the United States pulls down $230,700. Two local firefighters managed to nearly triple their salaries with overtime pay in 2015. One received a base salary of $84,096 and collected $155,655 in overtime

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plus supplemental pay of $2,131, for total pay of $241,882 (2.9 times base salary). With $38,669 in benefits, his total compensation in 2015 came to $280,551. The other received a base salary of $75,988 that year, augmented with $141,665 in overtime pay plus supplements of $1,517, resulting in total pay of $219,170 (2.9 times base salary). With $48,734 in benefits, his total compensation amounted to $267,904. Keep in mind these income figures are drawn from 2015 pay records. They do not reflect the impact of a labor pact with the firefighters union approved by the city council that year, which granted a 12 percent hike in firefighter salaries phased in over two years. (The pact expires in June 2018.) So if the same hours are worked by these firefighters this year, Gholson would collect $361,724 in total pay (nearly double the $190,100 current salary of California Gov. Jerry Brown), while the two firefighters’ total pay would, all other factors being equal, amount to $270,907

and $245,470. Ten firefighters accumulated so much overtime in 2015 that they earned more than the fire chief. In light of such numbers, it’s not surprising that the city auditor found the fire department “has not established a formal overtime use policy.” The auditor also found, again unsurprisingly, that the department lacked “a formal process in place to ensure employees receive adequate rest breaks between shifts.” This departmental failure can have real-world consequences, as when an exhausted ambulance worker/ firefighter administering critical medical care is 46 hours into a normal 48-hour shift. (Fire employees, including ambulance personnel, work a crazy 48-hours-on/96-hoursoff schedule.) But when that same ambulance worker is at the tail end of a 96-hour double shift, merely maintaining consciousness is a major challenge, let alone making sound judgment calls and maintaining skill levels. The auditor found that, in some instances, fire employees worked six 24-hour shifts in a row without a break between shifts. He also found that a 72-hour maximum work period limit is routinely ignored. He reported that the total salary paid to firefighters who were away from work due to an injury on the job jumped an astonishing 144 percent between 2012 and 2016, which certainly suggests that the higher frequency of injuries on the job may be a consequence of excessive overtime work.

FIRE ENGINE STAFFING But the city auditor’s report went much further than chronicling the department’s overtime abuses. It made two major recommendations that strike at the core of the fire department’s well-deserved reputation for inefficiencies. First, Oseguera recommended that the city staff its ambulances with more cost-effective “singlerole” employees, which means that the city should abandon its current requirement that ambulance workers be qualified as both paramedics/EMTs and as firefighters. “Dual-qualified”

ambulance workers currently cost the city nearly $50,000 more each year (in higher salaries, health-insurance costs, pensions, etc.) than ambulance workers qualified as paramedics or EMTs. By shifting staffing on the city’s 15 ambulances to nonfirefighter paramedics and EMTs, the city could save $4.3 million a year in labor costs. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, which provides ambulance services in the unincorporated areas of the county, made a successful and cost-savings transition from dual-role to single-role ambulance personnel four years ago. City councilmember Jeff Harris has been the council’s primary champion of the city’s shifting to single-role ambulance workers since early last year. His proposal has been met with opposition from the firefighters union, which is loath to give up the current higher salary scale for ambulance personnel that the dualrole requirement provides. But the union’s opposition is based on greed, not sound policy. After all, how often do city ambulances come upon people in need of medical assistance or transport who happen to be on fire? The second major reform Oseguera recommended involves the staffing of firefighters on fire engines. The city currently requires all but one of its 24 fire engines to carry four firefighters, while almost all of the surrounding jurisdictions have a staffing requirement of just three firefighters per engine. The auditor recommended that staffing be reduced to three firefighters on eight of the city’s 24 fire engines, using three-person crews in more suburban areas and keeping four-person crews on engines in the urban core with high-rise buildings. Oseguera’s recommendation is less aggressive than the reform urged by former city manager John Shirey a few years ago. Shirey recommended shifting to three-person crews on twothirds of all city engines and keeping four-person crews only on engines at fire stations in or near Downtown. Shirey’s recommendation came on the heels of a 2010 report from the city’s primary consulting firm, Management Partners, which urged the city seven CITY HALL page 26

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service provider that also happens to put out fires. The auditor reported that firefighters are grossly and consistently underworked in comparison to national standards, while the city’s ambulance personnel are substantially overworked. The fire department should reduce its firefighting resources (personnel, vehicles and equipment) to come into alignment with national standards while increasing its ambulance resources to assure faster response times to medical emergencies. By assigning smaller, less expensive SUV-size two-person emergency response vehicles to the city’s 24 fire stations, paramedics/EMTs would be able to beat fire engines to virtually every medical emergency call, which would obviate the need for sending a lumbering, fully staffed fire engine along on every medical call.

THE UNION AND THE COUNCIL Most of the city auditor’s major recommendations for the fire

department aren’t new. Most, if not all, of the reforms can be enacted unilaterally by the city manager simply by changing administrative policies and don’t require renegotiation of the union’s contract or even city council approval, according to an Eye on Sacramento’s review of the labor contract. It’s just that city managers have lacked the will to make the changes, fearing a political backlash from city councilmembers beholden to the firefighters union. But the old operating assumption that firefighters-union opposition is enough to stall every effort at reform is collapsing. First, we have a disruptive new mayor who was elected over the opposition of the firefighters union. His opponent, Angelique Ashby, actually announced her campaign for mayor at the union’s headquarters. Steinberg owes the union nothing politically. Second, an analysis of recent city elections (including the recent mayoral race) shows that the firefighters union’s endorsement

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When the World’s a Stage ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR STREET PERFORMERS

he street corner violinist, the sidewalk saxophone player and the mime who teases plaza audiences aren’t exactly a Sacramento fixture. But that could soon change. The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, whose mandate involves injecting diverse forms of art into the urban environment, has established a busking committee—the first step toward legitimizing street performances in the Grid. Appropriate for a town with no significant history of sidewalk artisans, the committee is starting with the most basic definition. “Do you even know what a busker is? Most people around here don’t,” says David Sobon, a professional auctioneer and volunteer arts commission member who was enlisted to study street performance possibilities. Yes, I tell him, I’m acquainted with the ancient art of busking. I’ve been delighted, annoyed, entertained and harassed by street buskers in many cities. An early encounter created a negative impression decades ago, when I saw “No Busking” signs in the London Underground being aggressively ignored by people screeching opera and impersonating Elvis. “The Tube is the only place in London where it’s illegal without a permit,” Sobon says. “Busking is one

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Street performer Carter Sobon in Old Sacramento. of the coolest things that happen in public places. And let’s face it, that’s what we’re trying to do here: make Sacramento a cool place.” Sobon has traveled the world. He knows busking can be a mixed bag when it comes to talent. But his overall experiences have been positive. He’s seen some terrific street artists working for handouts. He believes the spontaneity of stumbling upon a sidewalk virtuoso can create joy. Some of Sobon’s best vacation memories involve buskers. He discovered a wonderful student

performer in a Mexican plaza near a college campus. Sobon returned for the student’s evening show, which took place after class. “I had the time of my life,” he says. Another discovery took place in Whistler Blackcomb, Canada, where stages created for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics became permanent locations for street performers. “They even have amps for street musicians to plug into,” Sobon says. As he began to research busking and to review how cities regulate street performers, Sobon soon realized he had wandered into a

universe of possibilities. There’s no limit to how buskers have historically tried to seduce a nickel or franc or yen from street audiences. The busker fraternity stretches far beyond musicians and mimes and includes sword swallowers, fire eaters, dancers, jugglers, acrobats, magicians, snake charmers, balloon sculptors and organ grinders who deploy monkeys to collect money. Regulations are equally diverse. Some cities try to keep buskers away from captive audiences in subway stations. Others make buskers reserve and rent the most lucrative, tourist-

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Ultimately, the wisdom of crowds will decide. An open guitar case, an upturned hat. Donate or not. There’s no tougher audition. “San Francisco charges them to play in certain locations,” Sobon says. “There’s a reason why you always see those same Peruvian guys playing out by Ghirardelli Square. They pay the city to be there. That’s their job.” Most buskers aren’t full-time professionals, Sobon says, but younger artists trying to improve their craftsmanship and make enough money to explore the world. “My son has been a busker, and he says it’s a great way for a young person to travel,” Sobon says. “They tend to be independent artists who don’t want to be told when, where and how to play.” Sacramento has a modest busking tradition. Several musicians

make regular appearances in Old Sacramento. K Street was enlivened by the late bluesman Johnny “Guitar” Knox, and K Street still attracts entertainers who perform for Kings fans. At Christmas, the city pays singers to appear at public locations. One trick Sobon and the arts commission committee will perform involves identifying the difference between busking and begging. Holding up a cardboard sign and asking for money may be an art, but it’s not what civic authorities have in mind when they establish busking ordinances. Another twist will involve the severity and flexibility of busking rules. Sobon doesn’t think the city would benefit from rigid ordinances. Busking zones marked by paint might be sufficient. “There are literally hundreds of ways to regulate busking,” he says. “Do we have tryouts? Do we have a way of telling performers they aren’t any good? What about background checks? Whatever we come up with, it’s got to be what works for Sacramento. We want it to be an organic process.” Ultimately, the wisdom of crowds will decide. An open guitar case, an upturned hat. Donate or not. There’s no tougher audition. David Sobon will moderate a community meeting on busking on Wednesday, March 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Warehouse Artist Lofts, at 1108 R St. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Molly Greene SHE JUST KEEPS RUNNING AND CYCLING

iver Park resident Molly Greene has had her fair share of challenges. Close friends and family members have been diagnosed with cancer. Some have died. Greene herself suffered a severe foot injury that required her to have a bone removed, so now she uses a wheelchair when covering long distances. But that hasn’t stopped the medical malpractice and business litigation attorney from doing what she loves: volunteering for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

While tragedy has hit Greene and her family hard, she maintains a positive outlook. “What I’ve seen my dollars do to help find a cure (for blood cancers) and come up with amazing research and advancements over the past 16 or so years is just amazing,” says Greene, who has participated in more than 20 events for LLS’s Team in Training, which raises money for blood-cancer research through running, cycling, triathlon and hiking events. “It’s necessary for me to keep going, to raise

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Molly Greene crossing the ﬁnish line at America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride (left) and the California International Marathon.

a little bit of money every year. I’ll never stop doing what I’m doing.” Greene has worn many hats during her years of involvement with TNT: marathoner, cyclist (on a bicycle and, after her injury, a hand cycle), running mentor and assistant cycling coach. But she admits she first started participating “to impress a boy.” “In the year 2000, I had just joined a Bay Area-based band, and the best friend of the guy I liked had a 5-yearold son who was fighting leukemia,” Greene recalls. “Everybody in the band decided to help him out, which is how I first heard about TNT. So I—who had never done anything athletic in my life—decided to join TNT and run the California International Marathon, which happened to fall on my birthday that year. My training had not gone well and it was not a good marathon, but it was my first and I raised $2,500. I cried when I crossed the finish line.” After that race, Greene decided that running was not her favorite form of exercise, so she got involved with TNT’s cycling branch. By this point, the boy Greene had been trying to impress had become her husband. (They wed in 2005.) He, too, was interested in cycling for TNT—for even more personal reasons. “Three days after our wedding, my brother-in-law was diagnosed with leukemia,” says Greene, whose own mother died of cancer in 1994. “He died in 2006, the same year my husband’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My best friend was also diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma around that same time. I wanted to help my new family, so in 2007, my husband and I got new bikes and joined the cycling team. It had a

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“If everybody gave a little bit, imagine where we would be.” While tragedy has hit Greene and her family hard, she maintains a positive outlook. “I’ve met so many determined people who’ve worked through setbacks and still succeed,” says Greene, who hopes to hand cycle in the New York City Marathon this fall with Achilles International, a group that helps people with disabilities participate in mainstream running events. “It really opens your eyes. When I got injured, I had to adapt a lot, but I found a way to keep going. I have pain every day, but I have to remind myself that it could be a lot worse. That’s kind of the point of

5900 Elvas Avenue Sacramento, CA 95819 www.stfrancishs.org/summer TNT. People don’t want to run 26 miles or ride 100 miles. It hurts! But when you think about doing it for the people who can’t, it’s all about perspective.” Greene also serves as vice president of River Park Neighborhood Association. “I have a good life,” she says. “I’ve worked really hard to get where I am, but I believe we’re here to do good. If I can spend a little bit of my time and commit to fundraising, getting the word out on new research or making my neighborhood a safer place to live, I’m going to. If everybody gave a little bit, imagine where we would be.” For more information on the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training, go to teamintraining.org. For more information on Achilles International, go to achillesinternational.org. For more information on River Park Neighborhood Association, go to riverparksacramento.net/rpna. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Telling Stories SHE FINDS POWER IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

he philosophy behind Under the Gum Tree—the literary-arts micro magazine that writer and editor Janna Marlies Maron started in 2011—is “Tell stories without shame.” This philosophy not only informs the creative nonfiction and visual artwork featured in Maron’s beautiful quarterly publication, but also her own life and career. “When I was in grad school at Sac State for creative writing, I was introduced to the genre of creative nonfiction,” says Maron, who moved to Sacramento in 2001 and gradually fell in love with Midtown after growing up in the Bay Area. “Everybody goes to grad school and writes fiction and poetry. I was writing really bad biographical fiction. When I write fiction, it feels contrived. It’s not who I am as a person or a writer. When I was introduced to creative nonfiction, I was blown away by the concept. I thought, ‘I can write true stories in the manner of fiction and call it nonfiction? That’s a thing?’ It unlocked my voice as a writer. The freedom to write nonfiction in a literary form was really liberating.” This creative liberation was a long time coming for Maron, who wrote for a newspaper in El Dorado Hills after college, then worked in magazine publishing and eventually got involved in the coworking

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Writer and editor Janna Marlies Maron movement in town with a space called ThinkHouse Collective that she co-owned with her husband for four years. After earning her master’s degree, Maron also ran a Meetup group called Shut Up and Write for fellow artists. She teaches at Sacramento City College and in private writing workshops and acts as the adviser for the literary journal at William Jessup University. But

something was still missing for the dedicated wordsmith. “By the time I graduated from Sac State, I’d become obsessed with the creative nonfiction genre,” Maron recalls. “But aside from reading memoirs, I was desperately searching for where to read more of this kind of writing and wondering where I could publish my own.” So she started Under the Gum Tree in 2011.

“What I loved about magazine publishing was the design and layout and the glossy, full-color treatment of the content,” Maron says. “There aren’t a lot of publications focusing on creative nonfiction and certainly no other publications that are doing a glossy, full-color product. I realized that I could bring my background in magazine publishing to the literary space and converge both of my interests.” The response to Maron’s magazine has been wonderful. But she didn’t realize how important that support would be until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis eight months after the first edition of Under the Gum Tree was published. “The diagnosis was a huge shock and surprise,” says Maron, who started experiencing mysterious symptoms in 2012. “My biggest symptom was fatigue. I could barely make it up the stairs of our building. I would go to bed at 6 p.m. and sleep till 9 or 10 the next day and not realize I was sleeping that long. I thought, ‘What’s wrong with me? I’m young, relatively healthy, I jog and practice yoga.’ My official diagnosis of MS came when I was only 33.” Maron refused to be beaten by extreme fatigue. She pared back on what she could, and she and her husband closed the coworking space in 2015. But she says it wasn’t even a question whether or not she would continue the literary magazine. “I wanted desperately to see how far I could take it, and I had only just started,” says Maron, who manages her condition holistically (without drugs) and has been symptom free for NEIGHBOR page 34

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two years. “Having my own magazine is the culmination of everything I’ve ever done. I’m really proud of it. My amazing staff—all of whom are volunteers—remind me that what I’m doing is much bigger than I am. If it had been just me all these five years, it wouldn’t have lasted this long.” Under the Gum Tree also serves as a constant reminder of the power of storytelling, even in the face of debilitating illness.

“I feel passionately about the healing process,” Maron explains. “When a writer writes a story and shares it with an audience, there’s a powerful synergy that comes from sharing and owning the experience. It’s a way of saying, ‘This is my truth. This is what has happened to me in my life.’ It’s empowering.” To subscribe to Under the Gum Tree, go to underthegumtree.com. n

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Experiencing Art ARTSTREET CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF LOCAL CREATIVES

here’s something enticing about the raw, organic creativity of aspiring artists bringing

enthusiasm, excitement and new thinking to a city’s arts scene. While Sacramento has always had a bubbling visual, performing and literary arts scene, it was recently showcased in a meaningful way through ArtStreet. In case you missed it, ArtStreet was a large-scale art experience that took place for three weeks in February. The exhibit, sponsored by the art collective M5 Arts, occupied the interior and exterior of a warehouse at 3rd Street and First Avenue, on the expansive property once occupied by the Setzer family’s lumber and wood products business. The land is now being redeveloped into a mixed-use community of homes and businesses known as The Mill at Broadway. Like ArtHotel (a smaller installation held last year in an

ArtStreet took place last month.

apartment building scheduled for demolition), ArtStreet was temporary. Now that the show is over, some artists will remove their works; other works will be demolished along with the warehouse to make room for new development. But the memory of ArtStreet won’t go away. The labyrinth of individual art exhibits circulated through more than 65,000 square feet of interior and

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exterior space. Around every corner

strolling along. That’s the experience

opening night. There’s lots of

was something different and unique—

we wanted. People could walk slowly

talent.” ArtStreet attracted national

something to think about.

enough through the exhibit to take in

attention, he says, and was featured

the sights and sounds.”

in two top national arts publications.

For the artists, it was an opportunity to showcase their talents

Ishmael is excited about the success

Jacob Pluckbaum is a 13-year-old

and explore concepts that might not

of M5’s ArtHotel and ArtStreet and

Sacramento artist whose works were

otherwise have been seen outside

their impact on Sacramento. He

showcased at ArtHotel and ArtStreet.

their own apartments, converted

credits that success to a renewed

A student at Sutter Middle School, he

garages and cramped studios. The

interest in art and community

had to apply and get accepted to show

artists came from all walks of life

awareness, driven by art at the new

at ArtStreet. He then spent seven

and ranged across the spectrum of

arena and the energy of millennials in

days creating his piece: a 6-by-9-foot

age, gender, ethnicity, income and

the Grid.

abstract self-portrait made from 1,110

discipline. “The ArtStreet philosophy was

“It’s amazing to see this all

spray paint cans all painted in shades

happen,” says Ishmael, who had his

of gray. The spray cans were donated

all about flâneur,” says William

own exhibit at ArtStreet. “These

by local artists.

Ishmael, a member of M5 Arts and a

artists were pulling all-nighter

longtime Sacramento artist. “Flâneur

after all-nighter on shoestring

able to get out of school for three

is French for taking one’s time and

budgets to get their work up before

days. But since I couldn’t miss any

“I had a whole weekend and was

more, I finished it after school for two

the lineage of Arthur Rimbaud and

days,” says Pluckbaum. “I had my

David Wojnarowicz, two artist-poets

grandpa, Pat Barrett, help me. He did

embodying the concept in life and

the heavy lifting.”

work in 19th-century Paris and 20th-

Participating in ArtStreet, says

century New York, respectively.”

Pluckbaum, is “really awesome. It’s interesting to see people looking at it. At first they don’t see the face, but as they step back, there’s a cool moment of discovery.” He also had some collaborative pieces at ArtStreet. At school, he is in a weekly art club and a photo class, which created some group projects. Pluckbaum started taking art seriously three years ago, with encouragement from his parents, local artists and mentors like Danny Scheible, Shaun Burner, Franceska Gamez and René Steinke.

Valenzuela sees the art scene in Sacramento as a nexus, with upand-coming artists connecting with those willing to commission and fund them.

“I expect art will be a part of my life forever,” he says. Valenzuela’s piece was a striking

winner of the Leff-Davis Fund for

re-creation of Rimbaud’s famous

Visual Artists and Best in Show prize

portrait from the photo series

at the 2015 California State Fair.

“Rimbaud in New York.” “The

He was also one of two local artists

installation image is an homage to

chosen for a large-scale public-art

that figure,” says Valenzuela, “an

piece at Golden 1 Center.

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and hundreds of gold-painted leaves

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Valenzuela sees the art scene in

director at a local marketing and

Sacramento as a nexus, with up-and-

public outreach firm. Horton was

coming artists connecting with those

called in at the last minute to create a

willing to commission and fund them.

work for ArtStreet.

“We’ve had a lot of great art coming

“A handful of us were called a week

out of our city for a long time,” he

before. They said they have some

says. “It’s been a really cool thing.”

empty space for murals,” Horton says.

While first

“I said yes immediately, but since I

attracted to

was traveling for part of that week, I

music, Valenzuela

completed the piece in three evenings

was pulled

after work.”

toward art. He

The large-scale mural is 15 feet tall.

loves all types

Entitled “Stranded on Earth,” it’s a

of art and has

colorful, abstract portrait of a larger-

worked in two-

than-life woman.

dimensional and

Horton has murals at Warehouse

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forms. Now, he

and other local businesses, including

is attracted to

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Seattle and Denver as well.

art projects”

M5 Arts plans to continue creating

like the ones at

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a chance to shine. Is ArtCity just around the corner?

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The Hunter-Publisher HANK SHAW EATS WHAT HE KILLS, THEN WRITES ABOUT IT

hen I talked with local author Hank Shaw by phone, he was on tour promoting his latest cookbook, “Buck, Buck, Moose,” a guide to butchering and cooking large animals with antlers. Think deer, elk, antelope and moose. Shaw had just finished eating lunch at a “hole-in-the-wall” restaurant in Oklahoma. His readings often turn into cooking events with local chefs to promote the farm-to-table food or, more accurately in Shaw’s case, noseto-tail food that he champions. It’s not a new concept, yet in the last decade or so there’s been renewed interest in eating all parts of an animal. Shaw practices what he preaches. “If you’re going to shoot something, use all you can,” he said. We spoke before he had to track down a couple of boxes of books that had gone AWOL; he needed them for an event that night. The DIY approach—with its crisis of the day— is a way of life for authors like Shaw who self-publish and go out on tour to promote their books. At readings, Shaw’s audience is filled with young men wearing camouflage, he said, which doesn’t fit the image I had of the typical cookbook-buying demographic. “It’s like being a rock star, but there’s no chicks, no booze and no money,”

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Hunter, chef and author Hank Shaw Photos courtesy of Holly A. Heyser. Shaw joked when I asked him how the tour was going. “I’m working every available moment.” He estimated he’d visit 41 states before he would head back home. There are lots of ways to “work your way through” a deer, according to Shaw, and traditional ways of cooking it, but you can’t run to the store and pick up another one. “Buck, Buck, Moose” came out of a need to create “bulletproof” methods for

cooking venison (and other antlered animals). The whole world eats deer, or its equivalent (he mentioned gazelle and kangaroo, which he called “hopping deer”), in some form or another. “This is something we all share as humans,” he said. “It makes us us.” Shaw’s cookbook trajectory started with “Hunt, Gather, Cook,” which was published in 2011 by Rodale Press, followed by “Duck, Duck,

Goose” (Ten Speed Press) a couple of years later. For his latest book, he formed his own publishing company rather than sign with a traditional publishing house. Even though he had to learn an enormous amount about publishing in a short amount of time, Shaw said he will self-publish his next one. “I’ve already had a baby. I know it’s going to hurt,” he said. His next cookbook will cover small game, like rabbits. He’s a former restaurant cook and he worked as a political reporter for 19 years. When his bureau in Sacramento closed, he went back to what he knew: cooking and writing. “Cooking is like journalism; you learn by doing it,” he said. Shaw started writing his blog “Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook” while he was still working as a newspaper reporter. It won Best Food Blog by the James Beard Foundation in 2013. He has another compelling reason for writing, which addresses the question he posed to me: “If all the markets closed down, how many of us would be able to feed ourselves?” He writes in an approachable, often self-deprecating and humorous style that makes the subject of hunting palatable. His writing skills are top-notch, and his essays have the right amount of sensory details to appeal to nonhunters like me. One of my favorites is titled “The White Coyote.” It has nothing to do with cooking a coyote, or a deer for that matter; it has everything to do with his appreciation for the natural world. Another essay, “On Killing,” eloquently explores the relationship between the animals Shaw hunts and himself. “Even if you’re a vegetarian,

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acramento has two crown jewels for sporting people. There’s Golden 1 Center, which

delights sedentary folks who prefer to watch other humans run, jump and sweat. And there’s the American River Parkway, which was designed to thrill the DIY crowd by providing runners, walkers, cyclists and equestrians with hearty, adventurous treks from Old Sacramento to Folsom. The new Downtown arena has exceeded its promise despite inept performances by its master tenant, the Kings. But the American River Parkway is in trouble, weighed down by a perennial problem that devours endless political oxygen while avoiding remedy. The trouble comes from the collision between active, athletic residents and an expanded population of homeless people who build camps in the parkway. For many citizens who love the parkway and its 26 miles

Homeless camps are a common sight along the American River Parkway.

of trails, the homeless presence has turned stretches of the American River into a no-go zone, especially

spent in the mayor’s office. Newly

real estate legacy near the American

who build illegal camps, start fires

near Downtown.

installed Mayor Darrell Steinberg has

River’s northern shore, places that

and leave garbage strewn across his

made homeless solutions a priority.

include North Sacramento and Del

grandmother’s former property are

problem will not find a cure anytime

Meantime, parts of the parkway

Paso Heights.

“bums.”

soon.

remain frightening and dangerous.

None of this is new. And the

Debates about cleaning up the

What’s an athlete to do? For some

“My grandmother donated 10 percent of the parkway, 2.6 miles

“Back in the years 1986 to 1989, I began to ask the authorities in the

American River Parkway swallowed

parkway perspective, I visited Bob

worth of land,” he says. “All she asked city and county, ‘Why are all these

significant time and energy during

Slobe, whose family firm, North

was for the county to pick up the

people camping in the park?’ My

the eight years Kevin Johnson

Sacramento Land Company, donated

taxes and maintain the gates.”

point then and now was this isn’t a

acreage for the crown jewel and

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Watching his grandmother’s

homeless issue; it’s a law enforcement

helped move the American River

beloved parkway become unsafe for

issue. It’s against the law to camp in

Parkway from dream to reality.

walkers, cyclists and joggers has not

the parkway.”

“It’s getting worse,” he says. “It’s like an army.” Slobe has the advantage of

been easy for Slobe.

Slobe has served on various

He long ago abandoned any

committees and task forces formed to

pretense of political correctness

resolve the problem. They always fail.

generational perspective. He loves

when discussing the problem. He

the parkway and has passion for the

avoids the word “homeless” as a

say, ‘We need more permanent

communities that link to his family’s

noun or identifier. For him, people

housing,’ which is fine. But it won’t

“They inevitably come back and

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worst.â&#x20AC;? As for solutions, Slobe has one, but

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They wanted to keep the problem right here,â&#x20AC;? he says. With his real estate office only a

itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not something most people want

few hundred feet from the American

to hear. He says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem is

River levee, Slobe has made frequent

probably intractable, but we should

tours of his grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old land

share the burden of responsibility.â&#x20AC;?

to monitor the homeless situation.

By this, Slobe means dividing up the homeless population and sharing it equally, across the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When somebody says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We need

He has served as tour guide for politicians and journalists.

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His guests have been disgusted by discarded needles and trash, human

a camping ordinance,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I ask them

waste, pornographic materials.

where they live and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been chased by dogs. Often,

nearest park. Then I say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

they end the tour early.

put that camping ordinance in Land

Slobe doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tour the parkway

Park, Curtis Park, McKinley Park,

like he once did. The centerpiece of

whatever park. I want the homeless

Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recreational jewel has

to have what you have.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But people

become too dangerous, even for him.

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He no longer has the speed to run

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Biggest Deadbeat THE STATE SHOULD PAY FOR CITY SERVICES IT USES

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or several political seasons, there has been much talk that all should pay their “fair share” of taxes to support vital and necessary public services. In Sacramento, a huge entity consumes copious quantities of city services but does not pay property taxes, sales taxes or all utility taxes, which are the primary sources of this city’s funding. This deadbeat rapacious consumer of city services is not a greedy corporation or a taxdodging rich person. The culprit is the state of California. The resulting systemic chronic fiscal problem is unique to this city, due to the huge amount of prime real estate that is off the tax rolls due to ownership or lease by the state. The result is that Sacramento residents subsidize state government use of city services. School districts, county facilities, federal offices, courthouses, SMUD and joint powers authorities are in similar situations but have a minor impact on city finances when compared to the state. Some state government entities do render a few crumbs of financial compensation to the city, such as the possessory interest tax paid by the Capitol Area Development Authority, some types of utility taxes, and assessments for entities such as property and business improvement districts and business improvement areas. A cursory look at state-owned and leased properties in Sacramento makes it appear likely that the

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property tax impact factor alone exceeds $10 million dollars per year and may be far higher. Sacramento should undertake a detailed study to determine the full extent of the financial hole this situation creates. The city must fully understand the impact of this monetary deficit and adjust city expenditures to reality, including city employee pay, pensions and postemployment health care. Current city budget practices in those areas are unsustainable, and the constant resort to raising taxes and fees only

succeeds in punishing city residents, rather than solving this underlying problem. Sacramento property taxpayers have been long victimized by the fact that there is no way to legally force the state to pay more. Withholding selected city services might be one way to get the state’s attention. This issue has never been brought to public attention as far as can be recalled in the decades that I have followed the machinations of Sacramento city government. Mayor Darrell Steinberg spoke of his ability to get greater state

government cooperation and participation with Sacramento when he ran for the office last year. He and the city council should put forth ideas and effort to get the state of California, as a good Sacramento resident, to volunteer greater compensation for services received. Can the city finesse the governor and legislature to get the state to pay its fair share? Rick Stevenson is a member of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. n

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A New Front Door REMODELED DOWNTOWN DEPOT IS ANOTHER NOTCH IN CITY’S BELT

he 90-year-old train station at 4th and I streets has gotten a much-needed face-lift, and, finally, an official name. Informally known as “the depot” or the Southern Pacific depot, it had no formal name when the city bought the building in 2006. While doing research, the city’s senior architect, Greg Taylor, discovered that Southern Pacific had once referred to it as Sacramento Valley Station. The city liked the name enough to put it on the building’s façade. The station’s renovation and remodel is the second phase of a three-phase plan that included a firstphase, $70 million project, to relocate the tracks. In the third phase, the city will develop a master plan to assess the station’s future over the next 20 years. “We’re starting that process now in terms of alternatives that will help tease out the function of what the station will be,” says Taylor, who is overseeing the project. The city will consider a bus component and the possibility of building another station for its current tenant, Amtrak, that would be nearer to the tracks. The completion of the $30 million second phase, marked by the station’s rededication on Feb. 23, couldn’t have come at a better time. The

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remodel not only falls within the building’s 90th year but also precedes renovation of the neighboring Railyards and follows construction of Golden 1 Center. A station once on the periphery of the Grid now finds itself in the middle of new development and traffic.

Taylor calls the station Sacramento’s civic front door. “When you look on the map and you encompass the Railyards, the River District, the Broadway Triangle and Downtown, we’re right in the center,” he says.

Years of grit and grime had taken their toll inside and outside the station. “Decades of black soot from the engines had to be cleaned,” says Taylor. “I joke that my biggest regret was not thinking about doing a promotion for the American Lung Association. Everything was cleaned with distilled water.” After the cleaning, all the swabs, he says, were black. “We peeled away the paint that was probably done in the ’70s or ’80s, an eggshell white with an eggplant purple trim, and found the original color,” says Taylor, who also referred to historic photos to duplicate the original color and tone of the interior’s stone. The renovation retained the building’s historic features, from ornate wall sconces to original benches, whose unique radiator vents doubled as the station’s original heat source. Now, however, the building’s temperature is maintained by radiant floor heating. The 53-foot ceiling’s medallions were recast, and the chandeliers were shipped to Ukiah, where they were cleaned and rewired for LED bulbs. A mural by artist John MacQuarrie, depicting the groundbreaking for the first transcontinental railroad, was cleaned, retouched and reinforced where the painting was breaking away from the wall. The most practical renovation was moving Amtrak from the western to eastern wing of the building and remodeling the eastern wing into three floors of retail and office space, with about 12,000 square feet each available on the first and second floors and 1,500 on the third.

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Paying It Forward PRAYERS FOR OTHERS CAN BOOMERANG BACK ONTO YOURSELF

s you might imagine, offering prayers for patients is part of my daily routine as a healthcare chaplain. When they accept my offer, I ask if they’d rather me pray aloud at the moment or pray for them silently later. I allow this option so as to not put the patient on the spot before staff or visitors. Most choose an audible prayer in the moment, but I can recall at least two octogenarians who countered my offer with a surprising one of their own. The first patient leaned forward from her pillow to ask, “Do you get paid for this job?” “Yes, ma’am,” I said. “The hospital pays me for my work.” “Well, then,” she concluded. “I’ll expect both.” “I’m sorry. Both?” I asked with a confused chuckle that proved me to be slow on the uptake. “I’m answering your question,” she said firmly. “If you’re paid to do this job, you should pray for me now and later.” I shook a finger toward her in the way one does when admitting that a worthy opponent has the upper ground. “You got me,” I said. “You definitely got me.” If she wanted two prayers for the price of one, I would certainly oblige.

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The second prayer patient gave a more serious response. His medical condition wasn’t serious, but as he was nearing 90 years old, his “heavenly discharge” was more likely with each passing year. With a bald head and a small frame, he had a Gandhi look about him and maybe even a touch of Gandhi’s spirit. At the end of our visit, I offered the aging Episcopalian a prayer, but he made a counteroffer that I’ve never forgotten. “Does anyone ever offer to pray for you, chaplain?” His question told me he was looking outside himself at a time when most patients look, understandably so, inside themselves.

“Well, uh …,” I stumbled, embarrassed that he’d focused his attention on my needs. “Have you ever had a patient pray for you?” he repeated with special emphasis on “ever.” “I guess not.” “It’s about time, don’t you think?” he declared with a wink in his voice. Perhaps he suspected that in my position as a caregiver, I imagined myself above receiving pastoral care from others. Perhaps he saw an attitude in me that said, “I’m here to help people, but I don’t need any help.” The wise elder found that while facing his own mortality, other people mattered that much more. And most importantly, he knew that the prayers he offered for others could boomerang and become a part of his own healing.

As he prayed for my work, my family and my health, I recalled the words of an old spiritual: “It’s not my brother, it’s not my sister, but it’s me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.” His prayerful plea multiplied my efforts to pay the blessings forward to the remaining patients on my rounds. At the end of the day, I couldn’t help but wonder if the old man had found the secret to longevity in Jesus’ words, “If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.” Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net. n

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omelia Pease, LVN, founded Senior Care Coordinators in East Sacramento last year to help older people and their families find health care and other services. We spoke with Pease about her business.

family, create a realistic plan based on time constraints, budget, insurance and available resources. The duty of the elder advocate, is to take the weight off the family, empower them with knowledge and uphold the rights and dignity of their loved ones, while finding an appropriate level of care.

Why did you decide to launch Senior Care Coordinators? My experience over the past 20 years includes working with people in crisis within the public (Sacramento Police Department) and private sectors (Mercy McMahon Terrace). I began to see a pattern while working with victims, seniors and their families. The common denominator was a lack in advocacy and follow-up with care and services. People don’t generally know how to navigate through social and health care services or have a thorough understanding of their insurance coverage and requirements. I could no longer ignore the need for elder advocates and found this to be my calling. Where did you see that help was needed? A common scenario, is that a senior is sent to the emergency room alone, and in some cases, they lack the ability to convey their symptoms. It’s not uncommon for a patient to be

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How did you go about launching Senior Care Coordinators last December? After creating a business plan, securing office space and doing considerable research on the rules and regulations of the state of California and the city of Sacramento, I began the application process. The easy part is getting a business license. The challenge is the application process with the state. The state requires the business to obtain liability and workers’ compensation insurance and to be bonded prior to license approval. The application packet is 46 pages long, with no room for error. There is no live person to answer questions and the application fee of several thousand dollars is nonrefundable. Currently, the licensing process is taking from six to nine months.

Romelia Pease is the owner of Senior Care Coordinators. discharged from the ER only to end up there again two days later. This is referred to as patient bounce-back. In most cases, it’s the result of a lack of communication and medication challenges. As an elder advocate, I knew my role had to be proactive and that I had to step in and advocate for my seniors by asking questions regarding

medications, labs and testing performed while in the ER. The second, most common way we can help, is when families are looking for guidance in navigating the overwhelming process of trying to find appropriate housing and care for Mom or Dad, while trying to keep up with their own careers and responsibilities. We sit down with the

What are some of the issues facing seniors these days? Savings and investments running out or inadequate income, lack of quality memory care programs (for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients) and isolation, which unfortunately leads to an increase in health concerns. I receive at least one call a week from seniors on the verge of becoming homeless. Many have exhausted their

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ome people build a home and stay put. Others, like Erica and Nate Cunningham, build a home, settle in for a few years, then move again. In 2016, the Cunninghams relocated to their latest home, a family-friendly 3,000-squarefoot home in East Sacramento. “We’re builders. That’s what we do,” Erica Cunningham says. “We’re always scouting around for a new home.” Initially, the couple began restoring Craftsman bungalows in 2001. They were old-house people through and

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through. But in 2007, they altered course. “We got on this modern kick after spending every single summer staining the shingles on our 100-year-old bungalow,” Cunningham explains. “We started thinking about other stuff.” Today, she’s a broker with the couple’s company, Indie Capital Real Estate. On the development side of the business, Indie Capital LLC, she works with architects and engineers on design. Nate, a licensed general contractor, oversees construction. Most years, the couple manages a handful of projects. This year, they’ve got 24 in the works. “We’ve had a lot of experience, have made mistakes along the way and figured out things as well,” Cunningham explains.

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“Now we know what we like. It’s all about having the time to do the things you want.” For their East Sac home, the pair worked with local architect Stephen Henry of Henry + Associates. The modern exterior is a combination of stucco, fiber cement siding and weathered steel panels. The interior, while refreshingly free of doodads, still evokes a warm family environment. The decorating scheme is simple and spotless. “I don’t like cleaning, so the less stuff we have around, the better,” Cunningham says. She kept the design scheme neutral, using mainly whites, grays and beiges. She uses the same fixtures and porcelain tiles in all the bathrooms. “When I do the color boards for a house, I like to keep it to four or five materials,” she says. “I think it gets too distracting with more.”

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The home’s most prominent feature is the abundance of natural light. Every room benefits from expanses of large aluminum-clad wood windows. The front door is essentially a large glass panel. A skylight over the staircase drenches the interior with natural light. Both bathrooms have skylights as well. “When we build a home, we put money where it will matter most,” says Cunningham. “And that is usually in the windows and doors.” The kitchen’s exposed structural beam, made of parallel strand lumber, adds visual appeal. The quartz countertops are 2 centimeters thick, rather than the standard 3 centimeters, for a more modern look. The custom-made powdercoated steel wall unit, by local artist Thomas Ramey, stores dishes and utensils within easy reach. A built-in microwave drawer reduces counter clutter. The digitally controlled Electrolux induction range offers more temperature precision that gas. In the living room, the piano, which both daughters play, sits against the wall, ready for family concerts. Suspended from the ceiling is an eye-catching, eco-friendly Fireorb fireplace. “You pop it open and pour in some denatured alcohol, which burns clean so we can burn every night,” she says. Sanded and sealed on-site so there are no seams, engineered white oak flooring, brightens the upstairs hallway. The stair railing (also by Thomas Ramey) is metal topped with a wood cap for a touch of warmth. Storage space is vital to Cunningham’s uncluttered style. The master bedroom’s walk-in closet is enviable for its size and organization. Cunningham dislikes tiny closets where she can’t see everything at a glance. Both daughters’ rooms are impeccably neat. Cunningham noted that since prospective clients often stop by to tour their home, the girls know keeping their rooms tidy is the rule. And since the family moves regularly, possessions are kept to a minimum. Initially the girls were a bit unsettled by the moves, but staying in the same general area allows them to attend the same schools.

“Now they wonder where their next home will be,” Cunningham says. “My girls are nomads.” Outside, an ipe wood deck expands the family living space. The koi pond is a tank painted black. The swimming pool’s deep shelf is a bonus for young swimmers. Native California plants dot the space. Veggies thrive in raised beds. A dining table allows for alfresco meals.

Behind the house is a two-story, 600-square-foot garage. Tucked off to one side is a chicken coop. The garage floor’s epoxy coating resists stains. The second story is a separately metered rental unit. The roof is home to several beehives. The family plans on staying put until next spring. Cunningham doesn’t mind leaving a house as long

as it’s in good hands. But often it’s hard to say goodbye. “We go back and visit neighbors,” she says. We make the rounds and stay in touch.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com. n

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Mercury Rising AN UNWELCOME LEGACY OF THE GOLD RUSH

he California Gold Rush brought fame, growth and prosperity to Sacramento. It also left behind a toxic mess that continues to harm our local environment today: mercury contamination of our rivers and creeks. Mercury (abbreviation: Hg) is a neurotoxic metal that occurs naturally in several different chemical forms. California’s Coast Ranges are rich in cinnabar, an ore of mercury sulfide (HgS). Cinnabar is converted into elemental mercury (just plain Hg) by heating in a furnace. The mercury vaporizes and is condensed into the silvery liquid you might recognize from old thermometers. California cinnabar mines have produced a lot of mercury—more than 200 million pounds since 1848. More than 25 million pounds of that mercury was used for gold mining in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath-Trinity Mountains, primarily for extracting placer gold. In placer mining, large amounts of gold-containing sand or gravel are tumbled with water over some kind of sluice box. Because gold is more dense than other substances in the slurry, it falls out of solution into the box’s riffles. Some gold, however, is lost with the wastewater and rock. Elemental mercury makes placer gold recovery more efficient because

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gold and mercury stick together. Miners would add mercury to their sluice boxes, capturing bits of gold as a heavy amalgam of the two metals. The amalgam would be trapped, and they would heat it (a process called retorting) to vaporize the mercury and purify the gold. Although miners attempted to trap and reuse their mercury, an estimated 10 to 30 percent was lost into the environment—millions of pounds of the stuff. Some went into the air; most entered the water. Studies are ongoing to understand where all that toxic metal is today. Some remains in soils and bedrock at mining sites. Hydraulic mining

sites, where mountains of earth were blasted apart and run through sluices, left behind huge amounts of mercury. According to a U.S. Geological Survey fact sheet, hundreds to thousands of pounds remain at each site. Much mercury was swept downstream with placer tailings and lies in sediments still today. As a result, several local waterways with a history of gold mining are on the Clean Water Act Section 303(d) list of “impaired” waters due to mercury levels that exceed water quality standards. These include the American River (below and above Nimbus Dam), Sacramento River, Feather and Yuba rivers, Cache

Creek, Davis Creek, Putah Creek, Folsom Lake and Lake Natoma. Actual concentrations of mercury in these waterways vary a lot. Generally, there’s more mercury present in areas immediately downstream of old gold or mercury mines, and more mercury after flooding or high stream flow. By itself, tiny concentrations of elemental mercury do not pose a threat to human health. For example, it’s perfectly safe to swim in these waters. Elemental mercury has a hard time entering the human body. It’s not absorbed through the skin, and even if consumed, very little of it gets absorbed by the gut. (The elemental

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form is hazardous primarily through inhalation of its vapor.) Unfortunately, elemental mercury in the environment doesn’t stay in that chemical form. Under low-oxygen conditions (such as in sluggish water or wetlands), bacteria convert Hg into methylmercury. Methylmercury is the most toxic form of the element. When ingested, methylmercury is readily absorbed into the body, where it damages the nervous system, immune system and more. Unborn babies and infants are exceptionally sensitive to the toxic effects of methylmercury. Exposure can cause birth defects or neurologic symptoms that are hidden for a long time. So how might you be exposed to methylmercury? By eating contaminated fish. Fish gradually accumulate methylmercury from the water they live in. It builds up in their muscle and liver. If one fish eats another fish, the predator absorbs the mercury from the prey. This means mercury concentrates up the food chain. Top predators like bass (as well as fish-eating mammals and birds like bald eagles) show the highest

concentrations of methylmercury in their tissues, a phenomenon called biomagnification.

Generally, there’s more mercury present in areas immediately downstream of old gold or mercury mines, and more mercury after ﬂooding or high stream ﬂow. Humans who eat contaminated fish are in the same boat as other top predators. The more they eat, the more mercury they accumulate in their bodies. Unlike with some organic toxins, you can’t reduce mercury in fish by cutting out the skin or fat. It’s in the fillets

themselves, and cooking doesn’t eliminate it. The solution is to pay attention to fish advisories and avoid eating large amounts of fish from contaminated waterways. What exactly does that mean? California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment posts recommendations of how much fish is safe to eat based on the fish species, the waterway it came from and who you are (child, woman of childbearing age or not). For example, young women are advised that lower American River steelhead trout are safe to eat twice a week, but black bass from the same river should be entirely avoided. You can find fish advisories for Sacramento-area waterways at oehha. ca.gov/fish/advisories. If you’re interested in mercury in Gold Country, you might enjoy the science-themed thriller novella “Quicksilver” by Toni Dwiggins. Would your book club enjoy a visit from a local author? Contact Amy Rogers at Amy@AmyRogers.com. n

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Concrete Fact CAN WE PAVE OUR WAY OUT OF CONGESTION?

t’s intuitive that the way to unclog streets and highways is to widen them and build more of them. Don’t doctors increase blood flow through blocked arteries by widening them with tiny inflatable balloons? Even though it’s an obvious approach, widening roads hasn’t worked well in the real world. Adding asphalt is no magic cure for congestion. That fact, grounded in real-life observations from many cities, didn’t stop proponents of the transportation sales tax on last fall’s ballot (Measure B) from claiming that more and wider roads would provide “congestion relief.” They promised motorists, many frustrated by congestion, that projects such as widening the Capital City Freeway and building a 33-mile SouthEast Connector (located in a distinctly rural part of the county) would ease freeway gridlock. There’s no doubt that roadway expansion is good for the paving industry, homebuilders and developers. More roads are especially good for land speculators. They can buy cheap land and have the public foot the bill to increase its value. For the rest of us, more pavement isn’t so good. More roads mean higher taxes, sprawl, pollution, a diminished quality of life and loss of farmland and habitat.

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The 26-lane Katy Freeway in Houston. Most importantly, more roads usually mean more traffic. Congestion may be unaffected or even increase. Considerable evidence suggests that more miles of paved lanes don’t

provide relief from congestion in the long run. Yes, road expansions can provide temporary relief, but that typically lasts only a few years. Further, during the construction

period, already-bad congestion can be made far worse as traffic backs up in construction zones. The reason congestion doesn’t go away is a phenomenon called “induced demand.” Traffic tends to increase proportionately as miles of new lanes are added. With new and wider roads, people move to more distant locations and take longer trips. They take more trips. They alter trip destinations. They choose to drive instead of walking, biking or using transit. Walking to a neighborhood restaurant may be the best choice when roads are packed. Driving to a distant restaurant is more viable when traffic is less of a deterrent. Essentially, induced demand is the embodiment of the principle “build it, and they will come.” It’s basic economics. People demand more of a good when it’s cheap and available. Interestingly there’s a corollary principle: “Destroy it, and they will go away.” Roads have been narrowed, demolished and removed in San Francisco, Paris, Seoul, South Korea and elsewhere. The traffic hasn’t merely been displaced in those cities and caused gridlock elsewhere; it’s disappeared. Besides the unfavorable and uncertain results on congestion, there are practical limits to widening roads and building more of them. Katy Freeway in Houston has an astonishing 26 lanes, counting access and frontage roads. Congestion on it returned soon after $2.8 billion was spent on widening. Most urban areas don’t have Texas’ wide-open spaces. Space in urban areas is

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scarce. Peter Samuel, writing for Reason Foundation, blithely suggests accommodating traffic by either building over or under existing rights of way. Decking a freeway or putting roads in tunnels can be enormously expensive and disruptive propositions. Decks and tunnels are also more costly to maintain than surface-level roads. If paving the countryside doesn’t work to relieve congestion, what does? Creating better conditions for walking and biking and providing better transit service are alternatives. Walking and biking are particularly cost effective but have suffered from severe underinvestment for decades. Increasing their share of trips not only would help relieve congestion; it would improve public health and reduce environmental harms. Having motorists pay for road use through tolls or congestion charges has been shown to change behavior. Charges reduce the number of trips or change the time trips are made. After all, outside of peak hours, the road system has excess capacity.

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ary Rousseve likes her food slow. When she was a kid, Rousseve’s mom made sure she understood the importance of healthy eating. Today, Rousseve carries on those lessons in her day job in public health and her volunteer role as the new president of Slow Food Sacramento. Rousseve has a recipe to bring slower food to her community. Rousseve grew up in Sacramento as one of eight siblings. Her dad was a land appraiser who helped set aside acreage for conservation, while her mom lived by the code of Adelle Davis, author of “Let’s Cook It Right” and “Let’s Eat Right To Keep Fit.” In the 1970s, Davis was a leader in recognizing the connection between diet and chronic disease. “It was practical,” Rousseve recalls of her mother’s commitment to healthy eating. While Rousseve wasn’t allowed to eat junk food at home, she never felt deprived. She recalls sleepovers at friends’ houses where eating Pop-Tarts felt like a real treat, but she equally enjoyed the foods her mom prepared with love at home. “That whole-wheat bread lasted all week,” she says. “She made it fun.” When Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op first opened, Rousseve’s mom was a loyal shopper. It was this slowfood ethic that stuck with Rousseve long after she finished college with

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Rousseve keeps her day job separate from her volunteer work, yet she loves the intersection the two have on creating a healthier community. Seven years ago, she met Slow Food Sacramento board member Charity Kenyon, and she’s served on the organization’s board ever since. Slow Food Sacramento is one of the international group’s largest chapters due to the community’s interest in the farm-to-fork movement. This year, Rousseve and her board hope to tap into that passion for sustainable eating though several key programs.

Slow Food Sacramento is one of the international group’s largest chapters due to the community’s interest in the farm-to-fork movement.

Mary Rousseve, president of Slow Food Sacramento a degree in English and started her career in marketing. She got a job working with the state of California to launch its five-a-day campaign, which encouraged the consumption of five fruits and vegetables per

day. This eventually led to her current role as communications lead with the Department of Public Health, working on chronic disease prevention.

The Sacramento chapter leads the national movement through its Snail of Approval program, which it designed and helped other chapters across the country to replicate. The program celebrates local food-based businesses for fulfilling the Slow Food mission: to create good, clean and fair food for all.

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Corti, owner of Corti Brothers grocery store. Chenin Blanc is a white-wine grape indigenous to France’s Loire Valley. It is being preserved in our region as Clarksburg Chenin Blanc wine, grown in the Clarksburg American Viticultural Area. Slow Food Sacramento wants to see Ark of Taste products like this being promoted by other Snail of Approval food businesses. Other new programs on deck for Slow Food Sacramento include a youth food systems training, which will be led by chapter board member Chanowk Yisrael of Yisrael Family Farms, and a Chefs Alliance, to encourage more Slow Food items on local restaurant menus. The chapter will also host quarterly meetings with member presenters on topics such as chronic disease prevention, sustainable salmon and local food history. Amber K. Stott is founder of the nonprofit Food Literacy Center. She can be reached at amber.stott@gmail. com. n

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3536 LARCHMONT SQUARE LN 3201 KENTFIELD DR 3112 TAMALPAIS WAY 2581 FULTON SQUARE LN #80 2512 EASTERN AVE 3412 COLEEN CT 3414 MORSE AVE 2520 ETHAN WAY 3813 PASADENA AVE #27 4314 WHITNEY AVE 3365 HORSESHOE DR 3100 KERRIA WAY 3730 EDISON AVE 3205 POPE AVE 3650 W COUNTRY CLUB LN 2621 MAYRIS CT 4601 BELCREST WAY 3326 SAINT MATHEWS DR 3320 MOOREWOOD CT 2711 WRIGHT ST 4142 WHEAT ST 3460 SOLARI WAY 4466 N PARK DR 3929 LASUEN DR 3633 FRENCH AVE 2805 EDISON AVE

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Architect Daniel Tran uses irrigation tubing to create art.

Artful Reuse HE TAKES PLASTIC TUBING AND MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL

s a student in architecture school, Daniel Tran was told to think of himself not as an artist, but as a problem solver. If Tran’s career is any indication, he’s found a way to reconcile these two sides of himself. Tran is an architect and geographic information systems specialist for MidPen, one of the country’s leading nonprofit developers of high-quality affordable housing. He’s also the brain behind Growetry, a line of geometric artwork he creates with

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plastic tubing used in greywater irrigation systems. “What I really like about art is the same reason I’m really reluctant to call myself an artist,” the Midtown resident says. “There are great traditions of art being an important part of social change. I’m able to do things in my artwork that don’t work in architecture or engineering or public policy. Art allows me to have a different kind of conversation.” The conversation Tran is most interested in having these days is about protecting our valuable natural resources and reconnecting to the land. Growing up in San Diego, Tran was the son of Vietnamese orchardists who came to the United States during the postwar diaspora and started one of the first Asian grocery stores in San Diego.

“Produce is a huge part of the grocery business,” Tran explains. “You also learn the importance of space and efficiency, circulation, placement and how to make the most of space and materials. You have to be very parsimonious, which is part of what sparked my interest in architecture. When you’re building a community, food is a big part of it. It’s the main attraction to bring different cultures together.” Inspired by his upbringing and spurred by a high school interest in AutoCAD (computer-aided design and drafting software), Tran studied at Pratt Institute in New York and at USC, where he earned his bachelor’s in architecture. Studying abroad in Toussaint, France, opened his eyes to the many facets of his future career. “I was attending a landscape architecture school in this small

Roman town,” Tran recalls, “and the one thing tying the school to the town was the allotment (or community) garden. There’s a tremendous pride in the soil of your hometown in French culture, and we had to learn how to address urban and rural design issues at the same time. You have to celebrate and respect the soil while introducing new buildings to a city with so much history.” This mindset informs Tran’s current work on affordable housing. “When you look at disadvantaged communities, access to fresh food always comes up,” Tran says. “I know from my childhood how a really good grocery store can be a major community building block. That’s why MidPen focuses on addressing the housing shortage by providing both housing and ancillary services

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He found a beauty within the materials that he couldn’t ignore. His awareness of the literal roots of a community also made Tran take a long, hard look at water policy, especially after studying at UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and landing an internship in the governor’s office in Sacramento. Tran started designing greywater irrigation systems, which recycle gently used water from bathroom sinks, showers, tubs and washing machines to irrigate gardens, greenhouses, yards and more. He found a beauty within the materials that he couldn’t ignore.

“I had so much scrap irrigation tubing, I thought, ‘How can I repurpose it to decrease my ecological footprint?’” Tran says. Tran’s Growetry pieces are stunningly simple geometric designs that he makes with a philosophy a friend dubbed “create and release”: Tran hangs finished models from street lamps and trees to delight passers-by or sell them at local makers markets. “I use the models to highlight a beautiful tree, or cast a moving pattern under a floodlight, or to activate a neighborhood that needs a bit more love,” Tran says. “In my day job, change may be moving slowly, but making one 30-by-30-inch piece takes a lot less time and can get people excited and aware. It’s like a bridge— something I can do in the meantime that has immediate results while I’m working on solving bigger issues.” To see Daniel Tran’s work, go to m5arts.com/product/growetry. His work is also on display and for sale in the lobby of Clunie Community Center in McKinley Park. n

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standing in water. No wonder they looked so miserable! Clay soil has some great gardening attributes, but drainage isn’t one of them. Water penetrates clay slowly, so it may run off into your garden’s low spots or flood your gutter. Once clay is wet, it stays wet for a long time. Watering once a week is often enough if you’ve watered deeply. Before you add more water, dig down 6 inches and see if the soil is still moist.

When putting in new plants, it’s a good idea to dig a hole, fill it with water and see how quickly it drains. If water stands for an hour or more, your plants are going into a watery grave. There are several ways to improve drainage. Installing French drains, perforated pipes buried over a bed of gravel, may solve the problem. That’s a major job, especially if you need to trench through existing trees and shrubs. Mixing in organic

amendments, such as compost, will lighten heavy soil and help it drain. Another, perhaps easier way to improve drainage is to build raised beds. They can be as shallow as 6 inches, or as much as 2 or more feet high. It’s best to mix some organic amendments into the soil beneath before filling the raised beds with a well-draining mix of topsoil and compost. Container gardening is the easiest solution of all if you have severe drainage problems. Growing in pots has become very popular, but it has some drawbacks. Containers can be expensive. Many garden plants like to send down very deep roots. They will grow, bloom and produce fruit in large containers, but they probably would do better planted in the ground. Roots of containerized plants can cook in the blazing sun, especially in smaller plastic pots. Clay pots insulate roots better but dry out quickly. To make watering easier, many people run a drip system to their containers. How much should you be watering? There are some rules of thumb, but the only correct answer is “water when your plants need it.” Master Gardeners are often asked how long sprinklers or a drip system should run. It’s impossible to answer that without knowing the type of soil and how much water the system delivers. For lawns planted with “coolseason” grasses such as tall fescue, about 2 inches of water a week is recommended. Bermudagrass, a “warm-season” grass, needs about half of that. Lawns should be watered only two or three times a week, even in the hottest weather. You can measure how much water your lawn is getting by distributing empty

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I Gotta Crow! “Peter Pan” and “Viva Vivaldi” presented by the Sacramento Ballet March 24-26 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-5181, sacballet.org Let your imagination soar on a nonstop flight past the second star to the right and straight on to Neverland with the boy who won’t grow up, courtesy of Ron Cunningham’s stunning, high-flying choreography. Join Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily and the Lost Boys, as they outwit the nefarious Captain Hook in this family-friendly classic. Sharing the performance program is the high-energy, tour-de-force “Viva Vivaldi,” the seminal work of Gerald Arpino (resident choreographer and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet) that was part of the dance revolution that catapulted the Joffrey Ballet to international acclaim.

International Men Of Music World Music Series Concert featuring GYANI Tuesday, March 28 at 8 p.m. Capistrano Hall at Sacramento State, 6000 J St. 278-4323, csus.edu/music/worldmusic, gyaniindojazz.com This masterful music group combines Indian raga, jazz, Arabic melodies and global rhythms to make a unique brand of music that blends classic Hindustani (North Indian) forms and cutting-edge improvisation. The group is composed of internationally recognized musicians who are each masters of their own instrument: GYANI founder Pt. Binay Pathak (a classical Hindustani musician and composer whose lineage dates back centuries) on vocals and harmonium; Abbos Kosimov on doira (frame drum); Osam Ezzeldin on piano and keyboards; and Vishal Nagar on tabla. The California-based ensemble brings together world-class musicians who share a passion for exploring and expanding the possibilities of merging Indian music with other genres.

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Luck o’ the Irish Three performances by the McKeever School of Irish Dance: “Irish Social” Saturday, March 11 from 1-5 p.m. Christian Brothers High School, 4315 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. thelasalleclub.com, mckeeverdance.com

21st annual Sacramento St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 18 (performances before the parade starts at 1 p.m.) Old Sacramento (Neesham and Front streets) oldsacramento.com/specialevents, mckeeverdance.com

“An Irish Hooley” Sunday, March 19 at 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway, Folsom harriscenter.net, mckeeverdance.com The McKeever School of Irish Dance (housed in CLARA Midtown) offers students the opportunity to learn, master and preserve the art of Irish Dancing with founder and owner Nicole McKeever, who toured the world for seven years with shows such as “Riverdance,” before settling in Sacramento. The studio offers classes for children and adults in both solo and team choreography, from beginners through the professional level. Check out performances around town this month to see what that stunning high-stepping is all about!

Picture This “Images in Sound,” a Sacramento Symphonic Winds concert Sunday, March 19 at 2:30 pm. Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. 489-2576, sacwinds.org The 60-piece adult symphonic band conducted by Music and Artistic Director Timothy M. Smith, will delight your ears and your mind’s eye, with this concert featuring “Three London Miniatures” by Mark Camphouse, “George Washington Bridge” by William Schuman, “The Othello Suite” by Alfred Reed, and more.

Photos by Indian photographer Pranlal K. Patel will be on display at City Hall during March. “Carrying Goods. Kalupur Railway Station, Ahmedabad, 1937” Copyright Pranlal K. Patel.

McKeever School of Irish Dance will be performing in March.

Refocusing the Lens “Refocusing the Lens: An Exhibit of Pranlal Patel’s Photographs of Women at Work in Ahmedabad” On display through March 31 Sacramento City Hall, 915 I St. dhi.ucdavis.edu The UC Davis Middle East and South Asia Studies Program’s “South Asia Without Borders” initiative, is pleased to announce its 2017 public event with a special focus on Gujarat, India, in partnership with the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. “Refocusing the Lens” features images documenting lives of women who were part of India’s labor force in the early 20th century, taken by celebrated Indian photographer Pranlal K. Patel. Commissioned for Jyoti Sangh, a women’s social reform organization dedicated to improving the lives of Indian women, these photographs provide insight into the everyday lives of working-class women engaged in a range of tasks in their homes, neighborhoods, markets or on the streets of Ahmedabad. “These photos show working women very active in the public sphere at a time when it was assumed that women were not permitted outside the confines of the house,” explains Mridula Udayagiri, a member of the UCD Middle East and South Asia Studies Program advisory board. “It breaks down stereotypes and helps us gain a deeper appreciation of why cross-cultural understandings of gender are important.” The exhibition is curated by Dr. Lisa Trivedi, a professor of history at Hamilton College in New York and a cultural and social historian of modern South Asia, who received her doctorate from UC Davis. Trivedi discovered Patel’s series during a sabbatical in Gujarat in 2011 and worked closely with the photographer for two years before his death to create this exhibition for the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, from which it is currently on loan.

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Into the Wood(winds) “Musical Scenery,” a Crocker Classical Concert featuring Trois Bois Sunday, March 12 at 3 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org Enter a pastoral soundscape with the woodwind trio Trois Bois, comprised of oboe, clarinet and bassoon. Drawing inspiration from bucolic artwork in the Crocker’s permanent collection, which includes August Renoir’s “Danseuse au Tambourin” and E. Charlton Fortune’s “Feeding Time,” Trois Bois has created an idyllic concert that is sure to delight the ears with music by Joseph Canteloube and Henri Sauguet, among others. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended. Trois Bois will perform at Crocker Art Museum.

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“Love Heals: Songs of Hope in Trying Times,” a Sacramento Master Singers concert Saturday, March 18 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 19 at 3 p.m.

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First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. 788-7464, mastersingers.org Recent tragedies, violence and loss of lives, have spurred the Sacramento Master Singers to offer a choral program to help us mourn together, comfort one another and unite in love as a community. Audiences will be bathed in soothing favorites from John Rutter and Maurice Duruflé; Sacramento writer and spoken word artist Laura “immoBme as.i.be.we” Cook; favorites from Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Eric Whitacre and Pentatonix; fresh settings of “Kyrie Eleison” and “Pie Jesu” by Ken Medema; as well as Jake Runestad’s new work, “Let My Love Be Heard.”

Relles Florist, 2400 J St. 441-1478, rellesﬂorist.com Calling all budding floral designers, flower enthusiasts and admirers of European hand-tied bouquet design! Join the experts at Relles Florist for a class that explores the principals of hand-tied design techniques with a focus on seasonal spring flowers, including tips and tricks to help you make bouquets that are on-trend and vase-ready. You can even use what you learn to construct a wedding bouquet! Take home your handiwork and impress a loved one. Who says romance has to end in February?

Forbidden Fruit “Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at Meissen” March 19 through June 25 Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org In 2012, the renowned Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Germany, invited Oregon-based sculptor Chris Antemann, to collaborate with Meissen’s master artisans on a series of contemporary sculptures. The results are this grand installation at the Crocker, that reinvents and invigorates the porcelain figurative tradition. Using the Garden of Eden as a metaphor, Antemann has created a contemporary celebration of an 18th-century banquet of “forbidden fruit”— including a 5-foot version of Meissen’s historical model of Johann Joachim Kändler’s monumental “Love Temple” from 1750—attended by a host of semiclothed revelers in a style that evokes the decadence of Boucher and Watteau. The exhibition also includes a pleasure garden, a massive porcelain chandelier and a collection of smaller sculptures.

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The late Darrell Forney is exhibiting at Beatnik Studios.

Going Downton “The Music of Downton Abbey,” a Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra concert Saturday, March 18 at 8 p.m.

Gyani will be at Sacramento State on Tuesday, March 28.

Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-5181, sacchoral.com Enjoy music from the popular TV Series by Emmy Award-winning composer John Lunn, as well as British chorus and orchestra gems from the era by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Villiers Stanford, Hubert Parry, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst, alongside narrations about memorable events from the show. The song stylings of Carrie Hennessey and baritone Kevin Doherty, are sure to delight, as is the pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. by Conductor Donald Kendrick, and post-concert lobby reception with a full English tea service. Don’t forget to attend in your best post-Edwardian England dress. Photo opportunities abound!

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“Playing Around: An Appreciation,” artwork by the late Darrell Forney Exhibition continues through March 23 Films will be shown on Tuesday, March 14 beginning at 7 p.m.

ArtMix | Vintage Swank at the Crocker Art Museum with TUBE. Magazine Thursday, March 9 from 5-9 p.m.

“Repose,” artwork by Marc Foster and Micah Crandall-Bear March 3 through April 20 Reception on Friday, March 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. 400-4281, beatnik-studios.com Mother Nature’s trash is local artists Marc Foster and Micah Crandall-Bear’s treasure. As this two-dimensional artist and three-dimensional artist come together, totally distinctive approaches to how materials convey “abstract simplicity” merge. Crandall-Bear’s technique for layered painting applied to the normally monochromatic surfaces of Foster’s steel and wood work, delivers qualities of simple, elegant, industrial coalescence. Beatnik also continues its celebration of the late Darrell Forney. In addition to the exhibition “Playing Around: An Appreciation,” Beatnik will screen several of his films along with those of his friend and fellow filmmaker Horst Leissl, courtesy of the Center for Sacramento History. The films will be shown on Tuesday, March 14 beginning at 7 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org The Crocker is partnering with TUBE.Magazine, to bring you a wild night of whimsical art, cirque performances, theatre, vintage fashion and lots of surprises. Enjoy magical music by Unwoman and bawdy dramatics by the Green Valley Cabaret Troop, food and drink discounts during happy hour from 5 to 6 p.m. and $5 drink specials all night. The event is free for museum members and only $10 for nonmembers. Just make sure you’re over 21 years old! Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

The Light of Day “An Evening of Inspiration and Celebration,” a concert beneﬁtting Shriners Hospitals for Children—Northern California Saturday, March 18 at 6 p.m. Elks Tower Historic Ballroom, 921 11th St. shrinerschildrens.org Grammy Award-nominated singer Andra Day, will share her virtuoso voice, at this memorable performance for the benefit of Shriners’ specialized pediatric health-care programs. The tone and flavor of this exclusive evening will be made all the more delectable thanks to the culinary gifts of guest chef Rick Mahan, owner of The Waterboy and OneSpeed Pizza.

Sacramento Master Singers perform “Love Heals: Songs of Hope in Trying Times.”

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ome studies show that cheese is more addictive than drugs or booze. While I find those claims a bit hard to believe, I will say that a leisurely evening spent with friends, indulgently sampling fine chesses and sipping wines, is an unparalleled pleasure.

sheep’s milk and a creamy number from Vermont—before deciding that the aged sheep’s milk cheese was our favorite. However, the creamy item from Vermont stood out, not only because it had a rind made of birch bark, but because it had the look and texture of brie, but a completely different flavor profile. It was light and tangy without the distinct notes that make a brie a brie—what I typically think of as the flavors of an old utility drawer.

This is a space where the casual diner and practiced connoisseur can rub shoulders easily and without pretense. The Rind, one of the finer cheese outposts in Northern California, is a place where you can spend many a night going through an international sampling of cheeses in an unstuffy environment. This isn’t an intimidating room. This is a space where the casual diner and practiced connoisseur, can rub shoulders easily and without pretense. The small Midtown eatery is a cozy delight that brings together a mixed bag of folks looking for a quick bite as well as

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They are gooey and stretchy and molten and altogether indulgent.

The Rind's take on classic mac-and-cheese. those ready for an evening-long tour of dairyland. The Rind isn’t a cheese counter at which you can grab a few slices of things only fit for a picnic. It’s a proper restaurant with an insanely cheese-focused menu: cheese boards, mac and cheese, grilled cheese, salads

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Speaking of that birch bark rind, I asked our server what is standard etiquette when it comes to eating cheese rinds: eat or discard? He told us, very confidently, that unless otherwise instructed, a cheese rind is part of the cheese and imparts flavor and therefore should be eaten. After a brief pause, he then listed about 25 exceptions to this rule: Don’t eat wax rinds, lattice rinds, linen wrappers, wood rinds, plastic rinds, tinfoil wrappings, cling film, Tupperware containers, balsa wood, birch wood, or really any kind of wood, et cetera, et cetera, which left me wondering if it was really all that much of a rule or just a guideline. But still, it’s good information for dinner parties. We

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN MARCH

Tim Collom Gallery is showing works by painter Whitney Lofrano that explore her ﬁrst year of sobriety, through the end of March. Shown above: “The Deep End #1,” watercolor. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com

ARTHOUSE on R presents “Winter’s Dawn: October in Iceland” by Victoria Veedell, through April 4. Shown right: “Iceland Dawn,” oil. 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com

At Ella K. McClatchy Library, “Mixed Messages: Art Quilts” features the work of Jan Soules and The Pixeladies, through April 26. Shown above: “Blue Morningfull,” a quilt by Soules. 2122 22nd St.; saclibrary.org

New watercolor works by longtime graphic designer Michael Dunlavey is shown through March 31 at Sparrow Gallery. Shown above: “Black Pearl.” 2418 K St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com

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Smith Gallery presents an exhibition of new “Costa Rica and Jungle” scenes, original mixed-media works on canvas by Steve Memering, through April 30. Shown above: “At the River’s Edge,” oil. 1011 K St.; smithgallery.com

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

Ma Jong’s

Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

1431 L Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

Willie’s Burgers 110 K Street L D $ Great burgers and more. • williesburgers.com

723 56th Street ƒ 916.454.5656 ƒ www.ch56sports.com

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R STREET

MIDTOWN

Café Bernardo

Biba Ristorante

1431 R St. 930-9191

2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine

Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R Street Suite 100

Iron Horse Tavern 1116 15th Street L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net

Old Soul & Pullman Bar 12th & R Streets B L D $ Full-service cafe with artisan coffee roasts, bakery goods and sandwiches • oldsoulco.com

Magpie Cafe 1601 16th Street L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

Nido Bakery

1409 R Street Suite 102 L D $ Bakery treats and seasonal specialities. hellonido.com

Café Bernardo

L D $$ Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • sshokiramenhouse.com

Y IL

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service

Centro Cocina Mexicana

LE HO O H

2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180

2730 J St. 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com

Federalist Public House 2009 N Street L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

Hot Italian 1627 16th Street 444-3000 L D Full Bar $$ Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, Gelato• hotitalian.net

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. 441-6022 L D Full Bar $$$ Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R Street

L EL

L D $$ Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com

AU ST

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service

Red Rabbit 2718 J Street L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a

L U N C H,DI N N E R,

AND HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS

1131 K STREET DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO 916.443.3772 WWW.ELLA DINING ROOM AND BAR.COM

sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

THE HANDLE The Rind 1801 L Street #40 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th St. 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • Paragarys.com

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

2831 S Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • rwwinery. com

Skool 2315 K Street D $$ Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

Suzie Burger 29th and P. Sts. 455-3300 L D $ Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger.com

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

Thai Basil Café 2431 J St. 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com

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The Waterboy

Kru

2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891

3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559

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

L D $$-$$$ Beer/Wine Raw and reﬁned, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com

EAST SAC

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803

33rd Street Bistro

L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting

B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Paciﬁc Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdstreetbistro.com

Opa! Opa!

3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233

Burr’s Fountain

4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

5610 Elvas 476-5492 LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com

Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809 L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire Wine/Beer. Operated by volunteers to beneﬁt Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagardenrestaurant.org

Freeport Bakery 5644 J St. 451-4000 L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. 443-5402

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

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

The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

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

Cabana Winery & Bistro

LAND PARK

13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com

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

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

Jamie’s Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044

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

B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

Luna Lounge

723 56th. St. 454-5656

Selland’s Market Cafe

Riverside Clubhouse

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

5340 H St. 736-3333

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

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

B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

Clubhouse 56

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

La Venadita

Español

3501 Thurd Ave. 4000-4676

5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679 L D Full Bar $$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

Evan’s Kitchen 855 57th St. 452-3896 B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chefevan.com

Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. 448-5699 B L D Wine/Beer $$-$$$ Mediterranean inﬂuenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. 558-4440 L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

OAK PARK

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L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com

Oak Park Brewing Company

Vibe Health Bar 3515 Broadway B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com

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

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.

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

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

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

3514 Broadway L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com

Matteo’s Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727

Taylor’s Kitchen

3145 Folsom Blvd.

5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

ARDEN AREA Bella Bru Café 5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full bar, casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com

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

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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