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METRO SQUARE – MIDTOWN Choice location in the heart of Midtown! Loaded with upgrades, granite kitchen counters, travertine stone Àoors throughout lower level and all bathrooms, new carpet upstairs, new interior paint, recessed lighting. 2 bedrooms plus of¿ce/den that could be third bedroom. Private backyard. $578,500 JAY FEAGLES 204-7756
CUSTOM EAST SACRAMENTO TUDOR Timeless design, 4 or 5 bedrooms 4½ baths. Lots of light, hickory wood Àoors, custom wood work and built-ins. Dual master suites, chefs kitchen, Wolf range, Jenn-Air built-in appliances. Grand backyard with covered and uncovered patios, sparkling pool, outdoor kitchen. Guest house! $1,529,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048
CHARMING ELMHURST Charming Elmhurst Tudor. 2 bedrooms, formal living room with gas ¿replace, dining room with built in hutch, beautifully redone hardwood Àoors, kitchen with butcher block counters, gas range, great den area and laundry room. Partial dual pane windows and leaded glass windows in front! $450,000 CHRISTINE BALESTRERI 996-2244
MARVELOUS OLDER HOME You’ll love the charm and character … from the curve of the ¿replace mantle to the coved ceiling and built-ins it will delight you the moment you walk in. 2 or 3 bedrooms 1½ baths, plantation shutters throughout, newer CH&A and original hard wood Àoors that could easily be re¿nished. $459,900 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379
BRIDGEWAY TOWER PENTHOUSE Enjoy the best of downtown living! Completely remodeled with stunning kitchen and baths. 3rd bedroom now a formal dining room. Living, dining and bedrooms access the full length balcony, walls of glass for amazing southern views off the 15th Àoor. Walk to Kings Arena, restaurants, Capitol. $699,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379
FABULOUS COLONIAL CRAFTSMAN Remodeled in 2009 with old charm and modern features. Beveled leaded glass built-ins in the formal dining room and butler’s pantry are show pieces. Spacious kitchen opens to great room overlooking the deep lot. 4 or 5 bedrooms, master suite with Japanese soaking tub and private deck. $879,000 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495
REMODELED TAHOE PARK Wonderful 3 bedroom home remodeled for your enjoyment! Spacious kitchen perfect for entertaining, updated bath, hardwood Àoors, central heat and air conditioning, large backyard and special loft/playroom above the garage! Don’t miss this classic Tahoe Park home! $319,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048
WALK TO TAHOE PARK 2 bedroom 2 bath home, loaded with special features ideal for comfortable living. Living room views private landscaped front yard. Spacious master bed and bath. Formal dining area. Inside laundry room with utility sink. Over-sized single car attached garage with storage. $234,500 RICHARD KITOWSKI 261-0811
A CHARMER! East Sac 2 bedroom cottage with detached 1-car garage. French sliding glass door lets in happy sunshine to the dining room with views of the large backyard. Let your imagination run wild on outdoor projects or expansion. Great location near Napolitos, other restaurants and coffee houses! $379,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048
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RICH CAZNEAUX CLASSIC BRICK TUDOR! Nestled in the heart of East Sacramento, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home affords the appeal of an idyllic brick Tudor. This 2,571 square foot home features elegantly traditional living and dining rooms. This home KRVWV DQ LPSUHVVLYH PDVWHU VXLWH ZLWK VLWWLQJ DUHD JDV ÀUHSODFH PXOWLSOH FORVHWV DQG D UHPRGHOHG EDWKURRP %RDVWLQJ DQ RXWGRRU ÀUHSODFH DQG mature plantings, the backyard is ideal for entertaining! $1,265,000
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Your air ducts are in charge of carrying the heated or cooled air around your home. But if there are leaks due to tears and holes , or if there are kinks anywhere in the ductwork, it will create a variety of problems and discomfort that can lead to expensive repairs and higher than usual utility costs.
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THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE, PLACES & CULTURE IN AMERICA'S FARM-TO-FORK CAPITAL
COVER ARTIST Anthony Rogone This oil painting was selected for an Inside Publisher's Award at the 2016 California State Fair Fine Art Competition. Anthony Rogone is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society and has been showing his art in the Sacramento area since 1974. Visit rogonewatercolors.com .
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A New Page McKinley Village Opens Green Neighbors Inside City Hall Mary & Bill Kuyper Lawyering With Real Meaning All-Access Pass The Farm Next Door Meet Your Neighbor Food For All Learning On The Links Heating Up Make It Bigger Harnessing The Sun Artful Addition Spirit Matters Science In The Neighborhood Getting There Thirsty Trees Artist Spotlight To Do Oak Park Culinary Delights
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A New Page WE’VE PUBLISHED OUR FIRST BOOK!
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he tables are going to be turned on us in the next few months as we release our new
book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” While usually it is our writers on our pages who tell our vital local stories, we will be reaching out to the rest of Sacramento’s media to help us promote the new book. One of the questions I’ll be asked to answer is why we published this book. Honestly, I grew tired of Sacramento’s not getting the respect it deserves as a place to live or a destination to visit. Sacramento hasn’t marketed itself especially well, especially the great neighborhood experiences our city offers. We rarely show up on lists of great places to live or visit in magazines or on websites. I’m convinced that is because there is nothing published that extols our virtues. A similar book, called “This Is
Sac, Midtown, R Street, The Handle,
Creating a
Oakland” by Melissa Davis and
Oak Park, Land Park and East Sac.
book like this
Kristen Loken, inspired me. After
Originally, I thought we would be able
takes a very
seeing what they’d created for
to find only 70 places to eat, shop and
talented team.
another underrated city, I knew
explore in those neighborhoods.
I am blessed
Sacramento was ripe for a similar
But as we delved into the selection
to have one.
approach to help us create a new
process, we quickly realized we would
The fabulous
civic image. The Oakland book
go well beyond 70 places. When we
work of our
profiled 90 places in seven city
were done, we had tallied 101 great
photographers,
neighborhoods. We identified eight
places! While a handful of places
Aniko Kiezel
city neighborhoods: Downtown, Old
we selected were not available for
and Rachel
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photography or didn’t fit our photo
Valley, speaks
format, we quickly found other places
for itself on
that were worthy of inclusion.
every page.
Creating this book was a challenge,
Jessica Laskey
beautiful book design. Longtime
but it was also greatly rewarding.
wrote the descriptions of each place
book publisher Helen Sweetland,
While our 20-plus years of publishing
and managed the relationships with
now of Left Coast Book Works here
proved helpful, the book publishing
the participants.
in Sacramento, was invaluable in
business is different and required us to learn new skills.
Graphic designer Brian Burch helped guide me in creating the
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odel homes at the McKinley Village development will open on Saturday, Sept. 10. According to local real estate agent Nathan Sherman, author of the blog Welcome to East Sac, buyers will be able to reserve lots and models beginning on Sept. 17. The first properties in the 336-home development will be ready to move into as early as October. The response has been overwhelming, according to the home builder, The New Home Company. “But the concerns of the neighborhood regarding traffic and access to the development may be worse than projected at first,” Sherman says. “When they open the development and the first residents move in, there will only be one working access point. McKinley Village Way, which will connect to C Street between 40th Street and Tivoli Way, will be the only access point for more than a year. The western access point, which goes through Sutter’s Landing and connects to 28th Street, will be accessible only by construction vehicles well into the development and sales of the properties.” A detailed traffic-calming plan for the area around the western access point has been completed. The plan, approved by the city council on May 3, includes traffic circles, pedestrian islands and crosswalks along the
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Model homes in McKinley Village will open this month
stretch of C Street between 21st and 28th streets. Aside from a three-way stop at the entrance, traffic calming for the area around the eastern access point has yet to be addressed. According to a report given at the May 3 council meeting, traffic calming for this area will not be addressed until McKinley Village is “substantially occupied,” which city representatives estimate to be two to three years away. Some residents near the eastern access point have expressed concern about the consequences of funneling 100 percent of the development’s traffic with no additional traffic mitigation measures. City Councilmember Jeff Harris has expressed his hope that “the traffic situation with McKinley Village is going to be very benign.” A proposed bike/pedestrian tunnel, expected to cost $20 million, was rejected by Union Pacific, which owns
property near the development. As of now, says Harris, “there is no bike tunnel plan, due partly to the very exacting demands of Union Pacific. They will not tolerate any gap in their traffic, and in order to build the tunnel we would need to erect a temporary ‘shoofly’ bridge across the freeway.
It’s a very difficult—and costly— engineering feat. But we will continue to explore options, particularly if the traffic from McKinley Village proves very problematic.” The New Home Company contributed $1.9 million toward the tunnel’s construction, should it ever
The Goethe mansion on T Street is one of the houses featured on Preservation Sacramento’s Historic Home Tour
be deemed feasible, though Harris calls it unlikely. In his opinion, the best chance for seeing the tunnel become a reality would be in conjunction with Caltrans widening Business 80. That would require a rebuild of the bridge in question and render UP’s concerns moot. But, Harris says, “that’s predicated on the passage of Measure B, a proposed half-cent sales tax for transportation, which is coming up this fall. And even after that, it would be years into the future.”
COMMUNITY MEETING ON THE ARTS The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission will hold its Sept. 12 meeting at 6 p.m. in Clunie Community Center’s Alhambra Room. SMAC is a public agency devoted to supporting, promoting and advancing the arts in the region. Funded by the city and county, SMAC provides funding to local artists and arts groups; promotes the arts through marketing, outreach and education initiatives; provides resources to support and increase regional arts education activities; and serves as a community partner and resource. The agency is guided by 11 commissioners, including Inside Publications publisher Cecily Hastings. “While our second-Monday monthly meetings are always open the public at the city offices at 300 Richards Blvd., we wanted to occasionally hold meetings in community locations to make it easier for members of the public and the arts community to attend,” says Rebecca Garrison, chair of the commission. The meeting
Elizabeth Ercila of Fancy Feet surrounded by young ballerinas
will also include a presentation on the public art for the new Golden 1 Center. Clunie Community Center is at 601 Alhambra Blvd. For more information, visit sacmetroarts.org.
HISTORIC HOME TOUR The Elmhurst neighborhood will be showcased on Preservation Sacramento’s Historic Home Tour, which takes place Sunday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. One of the houses on the self-guided walking tour is the Goethe mansion
on T Street. It was designed by master architect Julia Morgan, best known as the designer of Hearst Castle. In 1982, the Goethe house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently owned by Sacramento State University. Tickets cost $30 in advance, $35 on the day of the event. For tickets and more information, go to preservationsacramento.org. The tour is seeking volunteer docents. (Docents pay $10 for a tour ticket.) To volunteer, contact Vickie Valine at vhvaline@cwo.com or 4421160.
5 YEARS OF FANCY FEET On Saturday, Sept. 17, Fancy Feet dance studio will host a celebration in honor of its fifth anniversary. The free event is open to the public. There will be dance performances, music, ice cream, a bounce house, face painting, balloon art and vendors. The party runs from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Fancy Feet is at 712 57th St.
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PUBLISHER FROM page 11 helping me negotiate the world of book publishing, printing and distribution. And I am grateful to Bob Graswich for contributing his expert editing skills. My husband Jim deserves a great deal of credit for keeping our business and home life running smoothly while I took nearly a year away from both to create this book. And I am very grateful to my publication staff members Daniel Nardinelli, Cindy Fuller, Michael McFarland, Marybeth Bizjak, Linda Smolek, Lisa Schmidt and Lauren Hastings, who contributed design, photography, editing, distribution or web skills. I am also grateful to the smallbusiness owners who welcomed us into their places, shared their stories with us and helped us with book sales. They truly inspire us. Here is the introduction to the book so you can better understand why we pursued this project.
INTRODUCTION TO “INSIDE SACRAMENTO” Sacramento is known as America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital. No other major American city is more centrally located amid so many small, family-owned farms, ranches and vineyards—all producing year-round in our ideal Mediterranean climate. Sacramento adopted the Farm-to-Fork Capital designation through the efforts of civic and business leaders who wanted to sing the praises of our local foodgrowing and food-making experience. Sacramento is also home to one of the largest farmers markets in the state: the famed Sunday farmers market downtown, an exciting marketplace of fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, flowers and artisanal products. In Sacramento, some 40 other farmers markets attract tens of thousands of people each week seeking the farm-tofork experience.
Sacramento celebrates farm-to-fork
shops, restaurants, cafés and other
culture each September with a festival
commercial establishments. In
and other events capped by a gala
addition, the new Golden 1 Center
dinner, at which hundreds of diners
downtown has encouraged dozens
enjoy a locally sourced meal on the
of new developments that enrich the
magnificent Tower Bridge. Guests
central city and beyond, bringing
are treated to a feast highlighting
people from all over to dine, shop,
the delicious collaboration between
explore and be entertained.
the Sacramento region’s farmers and
Our book is a curated collection
chefs. The honored chefs selected to
of Sacramento’s most interesting
create the dinner are given a special
places. It’s designed to give readers an
green logo on their restaurant’s page
insider’s glimpse into the unique and
in this book.
exceptional Sacramento neighborhood
But Sacramento doesn’t always
experience. It’s not meant just for
get the respect it deserves. Even
people who live in Sacramento, but
though it is the state capital, it’s often
also for visitors from all over the
overshadowed by its larger and louder
country who come on business or
regional neighbors.
vacation or are considering moving
The discovery of gold in the
here. The eight neighborhoods profiled
Sacramento Valley in early 1848
in this book are among the city’s most
sparked the historic Gold Rush. But
pleasant to visit on foot and on bike.
in recent years, another rush has
Sacramento is perfect for raising
occurred: the development of the city’s
families so we have indicated the
many diverse neighborhoods. People
places that especially welcome them.
are attracted to these neighborhoods by the sheer number of interesting
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places we know about from living here and publishing neighborhood newsmagazines for the past two decades. Find yourself in Sacramento! “Inside Sacramento” is a 208-page, softbound, 8-by-10-inch, photodriven guide to our city. It retails for $34.95. A limited number of books are available at all of the places featured in the book. For a list of sellers, go to our website, insidesacbook.com. You
can also purchase a copy at one of our many book-signing events this month. The first will be held at Verge Center for the Arts at 625 S St. on Thursday, Sept. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. The center will be celebrating the launch of its 2016 Art Studio Tours. We’ll also have a booth at the Farm-to-Fork Festival on Capitol Mall on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can also purchase the book online at insidesacbook.com. If you enjoy our publications, you will certainly enjoy our new book! n
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EAT YOUR VEGETABLES Soroptimist International of Sacramento will host its fifth annual Edible Gardens Tour on Saturday, Sept. 10. The tour, which showcases local gardeners’ edible gardening techniques and water-saving methods, was canceled last year due to drought conditions. Thanks to a wetter winter and relaxed watering restrictions, the tour is back. Participating gardens include Kristi and Mike Fitzgerald’s Water Trough Garden, which employs horse troughs for planting and includes an outdoor Scrabble board. East Sac Farms, run by Morgan Daily and Kyle Hagerty, showcases drought-friendly plants and handmade, upcycled furniture. The tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Each stop features Master Gardeners on hand to answer gardening questions, and music by Sacramento Symphonic Winds. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the event. Tickets can be purchased at East Sac Hardware, Green Acres Nursery, Talini’s, Relles Florist, The Pink House, and Fair Oaks Boulevard Nursery. Tickets are also available online at ediblegardensac.org.
SACRED HEART FALL FESTIVAL The Sacred Heart Fall Festival will celebrate its 75th anniversary on Saturday, Oct. 1. A community-based celebration of family and friendship, “this is the highlight of the year for many people in East Sacramento,” says event chair Mark Carroll, who has organized the festival for the past eight years. “The buzz at this time of year is high. This is the first time we all come together to have some fun each school year—and it’s been that way for 75 years. Many community members tell us stories of how they brought their children here years ago, and now they’re bringing their grandchildren. In many cases we’re up to great-grandkids!” The volunteer-run festival will feature food, games, live music, local beer and wine, lip-syncing and hulahooping contests, and the popular
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steak booth, which has been part of the action since the festival’s early years. “Folks come back year after year just for one of these famous steak sandwiches,” Carroll says. The Fall Festival begins at 11 a.m. and runs until dusk. Admission is free. Sacred Heart is at 856 39th St.
50TH REUNION FOR HIRAM JOHNSON Hiram Johnson High School’s Class of 1966 will hold its 50th reunion on Saturday, Oct. 1, at Sacramento Embassy Suites in Old Sacramento. Tickets are $75 per person. There will also be an informal meet-and-greet on Friday, Sept. 30, at the hotel. For more information, call Russell Silber at 456-3115 or go to hiramjohnson66.wix.com/50-years. The website includes a list of missing classmates. If you are in touch with any of the missing classmates, email Mary Just at mkjust1966@gmail.com.
SAC HIGH CLASS OF ’71 REUNION Sacramento High School’s Class of 1971 will hold its 45th reunion October 7-9. Activities will include dinner at Dante Club and a Sac High football game. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com. For more information, go to sachigh1971.com or contact Randy Cape at rcape@surewest.net.
BABY BOOMERS UNITE In East Sac, a growing group of friends are “having fun and paying it forward,” says East Sac Baby Boomers director Kelley Woodward. The group started as a series of casual, nostalgic meet-ups and is now an official nonprofit charitable organization with more than 200 members. Founding members Rick von Geldern, Bruce Nelson, Stuart Walthall, Lyle Cunningham and Steve Cippa started the group to help others while hosting social events. They envisioned friends and acquaintances reconnecting, and new friends being made, while raising money and awareness for local causes.
The group holds events throughout the year, including meet-and-greet nights, dancing at The Torch Club, karaoke at Limelight Bar & Cafe, a Harvest Halloween fundraiser, a winter holiday celebration and a spring garage sale. According to Woodward, the group is for “anyone who has lived, worked or played in East Sac, has fond memories of days gone by, and wants to help others.” He says the group has attracted people of all ages, including the children and grandchildren of current members. “You don’t need to be a baby boomer to join us,” he says. Membership is free. For more information, go to eastsacbabyboomers.com.
JAYJAY GALLERY CELEBRATES MILESTONE YEAR JAYJAY Gallery turns 15 years old this month, and owners Beth Jones and Lynda Jolley are celebrating in a big way. Jones and Jolley started JAYJAY in 2000 in a small storefront on Franklin EAST SAC LIFE page 19
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EAST SAC LIFE FROM page 17 Boulevard. The partners, who describe themselves as “passionate gallery owners and art professionals, in love with our artists’ minds,” share a personal interest in contemporary art. In JAYJAY they focused on representing artists whose work they would collect for their own. In 2002, the growing business moved to 5520 Elvas Ave. Here, Jones says, “we created a venue where people can experience exceptionally curated, thoughtful and innovative exhibits by museum-track artists, many of whom are scholars in their field.” For the past few years, Jones and Jolley have maintained both their exhibit space at 5520 Elvas Ave. and a neighboring space known as the Annex, at 5524B Elvas Ave. Now, the Annex has been remodeled and will serve as the gallery’s premier exhibit space. “The Annex provides more versatility to show large work, and more work, and we can alter the
layout of the space thanks to movable walls,” says Jones. On Thursday, Sept. 15, JAYJAY will host a combined 15th anniversary celebration, grand opening of the Annex and artists’ reception from 5 to 8 p.m. The gallery will feature all-new work from both veteran and first-time JAYJAY artists. The exhibit, called “REBOOT: New Work from JAYJAY Artists,” will run through Oct. 29. To learn more about JAYJAY, visit jayjayart.com.
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sually when people buy a house, they look for a certain number of bedrooms, or an updated kitchen, or an open floor plan. Not Morgan Daily and Kyle Hagerty. When the couple moved from Pacific Grove to Sacramento so Hagerty could take a job with Metro Fire, they weren’t just looking for a place to live—they were looking for a lot with plenty of outdoor space. “We were looking for a yard more than a house,” says Daily, who with Hagerty, her boyfriend of four and a half years, runs East Sac Farms, an urban farmstead based in the backyard of the 56th Street home they moved into in 2014. With a 5,800-square-foot lot (only one-fifth of which is house), the East Sac couple found the perfect setting to plant their biggest garden yet. “Kyle and I share an interest in sustainable living,” says Daily, who is starting as a junior at UC Davis this fall to study sustainable agriculture and food systems. “He inspired me to build my first garden right after we met.” Hagerty had grown up with a green thumb thanks to his mother, who introduced him to a love of gardening early on—a love that’s continued to blossom over his 31 years. Though he holds down a full-time job as a firefighter, he and Daily dedicate a significant amount of time to their
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their Instagram, @urbanfarmstead. It’s a stunning panoply of photos that features well-composed shots of produce, the photogenic Hagerty and Daily romping in the garden, the quaint chalkboard listing “Today’s Bounty,” a few shots of the farmstead suppers they’ve hosted in their backyard for family and friends, as well as some candid shots of their adorable border collie-Lab mix, Burdock. But when neighbors showed enthusiasm for their concept, the pair decided to spread the word on Nextdoor.com, a website that fields alerts and events for 10 neighborhoods in Sacramento. “At first we weren’t sure if we wanted to share it with everyone,” Daily admits. “But then it started to get so much attention. It was not really something we expected. We haven’t expected any of this, actually. It’s been very exciting.” Urban farms have been gaining in popularity and permanence. Last year,
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urban farm, which produces an abundance of seasonal goodies that the community-minded couple give away every other Tuesday. You read that right: They give it all away. “Our main goal is to inspire people to grow their own food or to buy responsibly and support local farmers,” says Daily, who explains that their open hours are designed
to not interfere with other area farmers markets, so they don’t compete with those who rely on the markets for their living. “You can also reduce waste by offering the excess from your own garden to trade.” When the urban farm first started up last year, Daily and Hagerty advertised it only through
the city of Sacramento passed the Urban Farm Ordinance, which allows people to sell produce they’ve grown in their own backyards—something Hagerty actually helped make happen. Daily and Hagerty have tapped into a growing desire to get closer to the source of our food, which is right up Daily’s alley. “I was originally studying culinary arts,” the 26-year-old says. “But I quickly realized that while I enjoy cooking, I didn’t want it as a career. I switched my major first to environmental science, then to sustainable agriculture, which combines the ideas of healthy eating and living and sustainability.” Maintaining an urban farm is hard work. Daily, who works as a nanny when she’s not studying, thoroughly enjoys working on the farm. So does Hagerty when he’s not fighting fires like the recent Sand Fire in Southern California. They work with Peaceful Valley Nursery in Grass Valley to obtain seeds and to follow how-tos on making the most out of their garden. Daily works in the garden in the mornings, and the pair spends one
full day a week tending crops, fertilizing, pruning, checking for bugs and mildew, tilling in compost and harvesting the bounty for their biweekly giveaways. They encourage visitors to bring produce from their own gardens to trade. They also accept monetary donations, which go right back into the garden or to local school programs that encourage healthy eating and education like the Food Literacy Center and Edible Sac High, where Daily regularly volunteers. “When I graduate, I want to run the farmstead and teach kids,” Daily says. “I want to help local schools encourage kids to know and love healthy food and to know how it’s grown.” They need only stop by East Sac Farms and see how it’s done—one yard plus one dedicated duo equals a beautiful bounty for all. Check out East Sac Farms’ photos on Instagram @urbanfarmstead or email eastsacfarms@gmail.com for more information. East Sac Farms will be featured on the Edible Garden Tour on Saturday, Sept. 10. For more information, go to soroptimistsacramento.com n
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Double the Tax? MEASURE B WOULD RAISE CITY SALES TAX TO 9 PERCENT
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admit it. I’m a local government geek and spend entirely too much time keeping track of the machinations of dozens of local government units. But I confess that even a geek like me had never heard of the Sacramento Transportation Authority until earlier this year. So don’t feel ill informed if it’s never crossed your radar screen either. Why am I mentioning it now? Well, it’s not to give you a remedial civics lesson, I assure you. The previously unknown authority has emerged as the promoter of the largest single tax increase in the history of local government in Sacramento County: Measure B, which will appear on the November ballot. What’s the proposal? To raise $3.6 billion from city and county residents and businesses over the next 30 years by doubling the current Measure A transportation sales tax from onehalf percent to a full 1 percent. If voters approve it, Measure B would increase our overall sales tax rate in the city from 8.5 percent to 9 percent and increase the county rate from 8 percent to 8.5 percent. (Our city rate is one-half percent higher than the county rate due to passage of a different Measure B in 2010.) Measure B, should it pass, would be layered on top of the current Measure A tax, which has another
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24 years to run in its 30-year term. Measure A will likely raise nearly $3 billion in that time. So the combined take of Measures A and B would be close to $6.5 billion. As a “special tax” dedicated to transportation spending, Measure B requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass. Frankly, I’m not used to bandying about billion-dollar figures. They make me a bit nervous. Yes, it cost the county an astonishing $1 billion (plus a whole lot of interest) to build the new airport terminal. The total city budget is closing in on $1 billion annually, while city debt is now almost $2.5 billion. But a $3.6 billion tax hike is way up in nosebleed territory.
THE POLITICS OF MEASURE B The transportation authority, controlled by a large board of local elected officials, has been polling for years to see if voters would swallow such a humongous tax hike. Until this year, its polling showed little voter appetite for such a tax. But this year the authority’s pollster reported that a one-half percent hike in the transportation tax would capture 67 percent of the vote, the barest of margins needed for passage. Its polling also showed that if any organized group was formed to oppose the measure, voter support for it would quickly drop to 61 percent, six points short of passage. Well, organized opposition to Measure
U has arrived. It goes by the name Don’t Double the Tax, No on Measure B. I have some familiarity with this campaign committee as I happen to serve as its chair. We know it’s not unusual for city voters to approve tax measures by fairly large margins. For example, the Measure U sales-tax hike, a general tax hike that required only a majority vote, garnered more than 6o percent support. But Measure B will be voted on by voters countywide. And in the unincorporated areas of the county and in our smaller cities, there are much larger concentrations of a species that’s in fairly short supply in our city these days: fiscally conservative Republicans. And CITY HALL page 24
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law office of brian d.wyatt ,PC CITY HALL FROM page 22 since county voters outnumber city voters by more than 2 to 1 and Republicans are in rough numeric parity with Democrats in the county, the challenge of securing a two-thirds majority vote in favor of the largest tax hike in county history is daunting, to say the least. Can proponents convince a sizable share of more conservative, taxaverse county voters to support a doubling of the transportation tax? It’s a tall order, particularly since median household income in all of Sacramento County, adjusted for inflation, fell a whopping 12 percent between 2007 and 2014 (the most recent year for which U.S. Census data are available). When people feel financial stress, they aren’t likely to have much appetite for approving a major tax hike. Also, a sales-tax hike is about the most regressive tax there is, falling heaviest on those with modest and fixed incomes whose budgets are already pretty much to the limit. Will such voters be in a mood to approve a tax hike that might
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bust their family budgets? It’s pretty doubtful.
THE ROLE OF RT Most objective observers acknowledge that the public’s perceptions of RT could have a pivotal impact on the electoral fortunes of Measure B. In one sense, that’s somewhat unfair, since public transit is slated to receive just under 30 percent of the tax proceeds if Measure B is approved by voters, with the remainder funneled through the authority to local governments to fund roadway improvements, fix potholes, widen roads and help build the “Southeast Connector” that will connect Elk Grove to eastern Sacramento County. The connector has been a major priority of the business community, but a bête noir of some environmentalist groups. Such roadway expenditures are more popular with county voters looking for faster commutes and less roadway wear and tear on their cars. But they draw fire from environmentalists, who view them as encouraging suburban
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sprawl and higher greenhouse gas emissions. Most environmentalists would prefer see to a greater share of the tax earmarked for public transit investment. Make no mistake about it, RT has been a growing disaster zone in recent years. Years of deep service cuts, major fare hikes, falling ridership, unsafe and dirty light rail trains, slow service, notoriously poor connections between light rail and bus lines, galloping labor costs, poor performance ratings in national surveys, a chronic failure to build reserves and poor board governance have taken their toll on RT and the public’s perception of it. The canary in the coal mine was RT’s effort earlier this year to raise its fares to the highest transit fares in the nation, tied only with New York City. When the move led to a near revolt of transit riders at a packed RT board meeting, its board canceled a proposed 50-cent fare hike and approved a 25-cent hike instead, making RT’s fares merely the highest in California. But RT staff reacted by strongly recommended that the board
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CITY HALL FROM page 24 It’s supposed to be the first stop on a future “Green Line” to Sacramento International Airport, a $1 billion project that would be funded, in significant part, by Measure B. But there is almost no current demand for rides to and from largely empty Richards Boulevard. So why did RT build it? Well, the politically connected developer of Township Nine wanted the track and the associated light rail station (built at an estimated cost of $5 million) to attract future tenants. And he got it. After RT spent $45 million of its money on its “train to nowhere,” it no longer had the cash on hand to fund the local match needed to qualify for federal funding of its next premature light rail expansion, this time an expensive extension of RT’s southern line from Meadowview to Cosumnes River College. So RT borrowed $75 million through a bond issuance to fund its share of the costs. Ridership numbers rose modestly when the line extension opened up, but the impact of the project on RT’s operating budget has been nothing short of catastrophic. Between higher operating costs and bond payments, the line extension has blown an unbudgeted $6 million annual hole in RT’s general fund. The EOS report on these matters was authored by Gregory Thompson, who recently retired as a professor of urban planning at Florida State University. Thompson is the immediate past chair of the Transportation Research Board’s task force on light rail. He knows what he’s talking about. (You can view
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CAN HENRY LI RESCUE REGIONAL TRANSIT? How willing is RT to change its ways? When EOS issued a report on RT’s financial condition and the proposed fare hikes earlier this year, it identified 15 ways RT could reduce its operating costs. The RT board and then-general manager Mike Wiley simply ignored all of EOS’s suggestions. But there is a new sheriff in town at RT. This spring, Wiley retired (and pocketed a substantial annual pension, generously augmented by the RT board), and the board promoted Henry Li to the general manager’s job. So how is Li doing as RT’s new leader? All reports are that he’s getting off to an excellent start. He is making a major push to repair relationships and operate in an open and transparent manner. He’s unafraid to publicly acknowledge RT’s significant shortcomings. In his first months on the job, he’s taken two important steps. First, he rejected a staff recommendation to save money by making further cuts to RT’s service levels. Li argued that the service cuts would only exacerbate the anticipated decline in ridership caused by RT’s July 1 10 percent fare hike. He also essentially dismissed RT’s entire planning staff, a smart move given RT’s need to avoid the kind of premature expansions of the light rail system that have been the source of many of RT’s financial problems. Both actions were among the list of
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reforms that EOS had recommended to RT earlier in the year. There are two important open questions. First, is Li willing to expend political capital in pressing the RT board to approve the more difficult actions that it must take to fix RT’s problems? Second, will the 15 members of the RT board, politicians all, approve critically needed reforms and policy shifts, including dropping its grandiose plan to build a $1 billion light rail line to the airport, a project that’s been criticized by transit experts, environmental groups, bicycling advocates and folks concerned with RT’s survival? It doesn’t look promising: The authority-approved expenditure plan for Measure B states that its proceeds would be used to build a light rail line to the airport.
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101 Places This book is a curated collection of Sacramento’s most interesting places. It’s designed to give readers an insider’s glimpse into the unique and exceptional Sacramento neighborhood experience. It’s not meant just for people who live in Sacramento, but also for visitors from all over the country who come on business or vacation or are considering moving here. Sacramento adopted the Farm-to-Fork Capital designation through the efforts of civic and business leaders who wanted to sing the praises of our local food-growing and food-making experience. We designate those chefs who have contributed to this experience.
Sacramento is perfect for raising families so we have indicated the places that especially welcome them.
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1,000 Photos More than 25,000 shots were taken of our neighborhood places by our two amazing photographers. Then we carefully edited, selecting the very best visual images to help represent the unique places we feature. Aniko Kiezel aniko.la @anikophotos
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EARLY PRAISE “Superbly done. This book captures both our heritage and a new vibrant vision of our future. Through artistic photographs and well-crafted descriptions, you can almost sense the aromas, delicacies, fun, excitement and energy of places that bring friends, family and visitors together. Bravo!� Scot Crocker & Lucy Ediam Crocker, Crocker & Crocker Communications
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Mary and Bill Kuyper THEY’RE VERY BUSY HELPING OTHERS
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o say that Mary and Bill Kuyper have a full schedule is an understatement. How much of an understatement? Let’s start with their full-time jobs: Bill is an ornamental iron contractor who’s been commissioned by hospitals, hotels, restaurants and private residents. Mary is a facilities manager for the state with a background in interior design. But the East Sacramento couple also runs a busy side business: a wedding floral
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company called Garden Wishes. And they volunteer their time with local organizations, including Sacramento Event Crew, the Sacramento International Airport Ambassadors, the Sacramento Zoo and Friends of East Sacramento. “We like doing lots of different things,” says Bill, who just completed a stunning metal sculpture for Sutter Hospital as a memorial to a 12-yearold patient. “We volunteer and we travel,” Mary concurs. (They make a point to travel every six weeks or so.) This shared affinity for spending time helping others and exploring the world is something the Kuypers discovered early on in their 20-year marriage. On one of their first dates after meeting at the Sacramento Tall
Club, they scooped ice cream at the zoo’s annual Ice Cream Safari. That was more than 21 years ago, and the Kuypers still volunteer for the event every year. As Airport Ambassadors, the Kuypers help out at the airport information booth, telling travelers about local tourist attractions and answering questions. “We understand travel because we do it so often,” Bill explains. “People are tired and cranky because they’ve just gotten off a flight, so we like to help out.” “Then, when we’re at other airports as travelers ourselves, we like to stop by the information booth and chat with the volunteers,” Mary adds. “Talking to so many people is like studying psychology. You learn how to
interact with so many different kinds of people.” This love of conversation has served the couple well as volunteers at the California State Fair for the Sacramento County booth and at the California Grown Floral booth demonstrating how to make wedding bouquets. For the past four years, they have volunteered at McKinley Rose Garden through the nonprofit Friends of East Sac. They oversee the garden’s annual winter pruning, which brings nearly 100 volunteers together on a Saturday morning each January to prune 1,200 rosebushes. Bill has also lent his metal talents to the arbors decorating the perimeter, as well as to reinstalling the wrought-iron trellis
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that was stolen from the garden and recovered last April. “We got married at the Rose Garden, so we want to keep it beautiful,” Bill says.
There’s always room to spare for a good cause and a neighbor in need. The connection to their community includes Bill’s service on the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. (He was named Volunteer of the Year in 2015.) The couple created and donated centerpieces for the annual Taste of East Sacramento fundraiser, and they regularly donate blood, work at Farm-to-Fork events in September and are involved with Sacramento Event Crew, which posts volunteer opportunities on its website every month.
“It’s great because you can decide to get involved in whatever comes up,” Mary says. “You don’t have to be tied to one organization.” Mary’s love of lending a hand can be traced back to her mother, who often took Mary with her on volunteer outings and who still tries to help out—at the age of 95—at the skilled nursing facility where she lives. “She likes to feel useful for people who aren’t as able,” Bill says proudly. Mary’s mother’s love of doing good clearly rubbed off, and lucky for Mary, she found a companion who’s just as gung-ho about giving back. So no matter how busy life gets for the Kuypers, it appears there’s always room to spare for a good cause and a neighbor in need. For more information about volunteer opportunities, visit friendsofeastsacramento.org, saczoo.org, visitsacramento.com, saceventcrew.com or saccounty.net. To see Bill Kuyper’s metalwork, visit billkuyper.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n
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Lawyering With Real Meaning FOR BRIAN WYATT, A PRACTICE IN ESTATE PLANNING MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE
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ow did you get started in law? I was born and raised in Sacramento and then went to law school at the University of California, Berkeley. After that, I clerked for a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and went to work for a law firm in San Francisco. I liked the people I worked with, but I never got to meet clients faceto-face—I never got a sense that I was doing anything that made a difference, which is why I went to law school in the first place. I wanted to practice law in a way that mattered. Around this time, I talked to a friend who was an estate planner and I told him that I wasn’t accomplishing what I had set out to do. I thought that maybe there wasn’t anything left for me in a law career. He recommended that I open my own practice in estate planning, so I moved back to Sacramento and did just that. It’s been wonderful.
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What does your practice specialize in? We focus on trusts, wills, probates, conservatorships and special needs planning. I’ve been practicing for more than 15 years and focusing exclusively on estate work for more than 10 years. Uniquely, more than half of our clients have loved ones with disabilities. It’s a great joy for
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my practice to be able to help all kinds of families; we’re the place their loved ones turn to when Mom or Dad aren’t there anymore.
We focus on making sure the estates left behind are protected and used properly. We want these important people to live the fullest possible lives and, in the case of those
Why is estate planning so important? All clients care about how loved ones will inherit from them. A living trust can be useful because, if it’s done and managed correctly, it can save expensive trips to probate court, prevent fighting and eliminate unnecessary taxes. Plus, if your trust is designed to survive your passing, it may be possible to protect your beneficiaries from creditors, divorces, additional taxes and poor judgment for more than a generation. For those who have a loved one with disabilities, like many of my clients, we can include a special needs trust that provides an important system of management and care, so the person continues to qualify for important benefits and enjoys the highest quality life. The way I see it, we’re not only planning and drafting documents, we’re also thinking through issues and helping people make good choices. Then we make sure that those choices are carried out when our clients aren’t here anymore. A big part of our practice now is helping the next generation administer the wills and trusts their parents established. Family harmony and the welfare of the beneficiaries depends on the work being done well. Why would someone want to put their assets in a trust?
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SHOPTALK FROM page 32 You don’t have to have a lot to benefit from a good trust. Almost everyone in our neighborhood would save time, expense and hassle by having an up-to-date living trust that covers what happens if they get too sick to manage things or pass away. When people work with us, they also often discover that they have an opportunity to do something for their loved ones that will make a difference in their lives. This planning makes things easier for those you leave behind so no one ends up in court for a judge to figure everything out. That’s why I love to come alongside people early on. That way, they get years of peace of mind knowing that everything is well thought out. And then I have the opportunity to be there for their loved ones afterward. When you consider that this planning is in many ways how you’ll say “I love you” for the last time to the most important people in your life, its importance is hard to overstate. If things go well after
you’re gone, it can be a real blessing. Making sure that’s what happens for our clients and those they care about is what we do. Why do you enjoy practicing in Sacramento? My wife and I and our three kids used to live in Folsom, but we recently moved back to Sacramento to be closer to family, my wife’s job (she’s the chief administrative officer for the department of emergency medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center) and my practice on American River Drive. My parents are two minutes away and my oldest daughter now attends first grade at Sierra Oaks, the same elementary school that I attended. I love how everything has worked out. I wanted to be able to take care of people, and my practice has turned out to be everything I ever hoped a career in the law could provide. The Law Office of Brian D. Wyatt, PC, is located at 3406 American River Drive. Contact Wyatt at 273-9040 or visit wyattlegal.com n
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All-Access Pass HE’S AT EVERY SACRAMENTO EVENT, HELPING OUT AND MAKING FRIENDS
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ou probably don’t know his name. But if you ever met him, he’d remember your name. And after that, you probably wouldn’t forget his. At 56, Randy Brink has spent a lifetime building relationships, working—for free—for many of Sacramento’s leading sports teams and community organizations. A volunteer for the Sacramento Kings for 31 years, he attends all the home games, holding the titles of chief sound engineer and certified stagehand. For the Sacramento River Cats, he’s assistant for stadium operations and fireworks safety officer. For the Sacramento Republic FC, he’s the director of pitch. “Randy has just always been here,” says Jeff Savage, president of the Sacramento River Cats. “I don’t know how he gets in or gets tickets, but he does. I’ll see him in the hallway, in the office or around the stadium.” Brink’s secret: He makes friends easily and at all levels inside an organization. He quickly learns people’s names and becomes part of the team. “He’s a fixture around the River Cats,” says Savage. “Most of the staff knows him.” “Everyone loves Randy,” says Warren Smith, a former River Cats executive and now president of Sacramento Republic. He and Brink
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Randy Brink with River Cats president Jeff Savage. Photo courtesy of Kaylee Creevan.
met in 1991, when Smith was working to bring the River Cats to Sacramento and get a stadium built in West Sacramento. “He just walked right up to me and said, ‘I’m going work for the River Cats,’” Smith recalls. “I said, ‘What do you want to do?’ Randy became fire marshal for the team and stadium.” Later, Brink followed Smith to the Sacramento Republic soccer team. At every home game, as director of pitch, Brink escorts officials and referees onto the field to start the game.
“Randy will walk around the rest of the game,” said Smith. “He’ll talk with staff and the people he knows. The players love him. Fans love him. He’s a special guy.” Kings and River Cats games and Republic matches aren’t the only places you’ll see Brink. That was him at this summer’s California State Fair, where he holds the title of state fair goodwill ambassador. He helps open every meeting of the fair’s board of directors, and he says an opening prayer at Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau board meetings.
From farm-to-fork events and firework shows to Junior Olympics and NCAA Track and Field Championships, Brink is there, with all-access passes around his neck and a title for every activity. Brink’s volunteer resume is long and varied: He announces the baseball games at McClatchy High School. He’s facilities manager at Crocker & Crocker, emergency response manager for the West Sacramento Fire Department, DOWNTOWN page 38
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Brink attended McClatchy High School. Developmentally disabled, he now lives in a group home. A group of local leaders help him out when a need arises. One of those friends is Brian May, vice president of operations with the Sacramento Republic, who retired as deputy general manager of Cal Expo in 2012. “I met Randy more than 30 years ago,� says May. “We were at the Special Olympics and he requested the microphone, explaining that he was ambassador of the event and had to address the group. Randy didn’t compete, but he did show up and got involved.� With the help of Bob Thomas, then the director of Sacramento’s parks and recreation department, Brink volunteered for the city. Thomas went on to be Sacramento’s city manager and Sacramento County chief executive. Their friendship paved the way to more volunteer jobs with the city. May helped Brink get his Cal Expo gig and supplied him with a desk and business cards. As a Cal Expo
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volunteer, Brink has an email address and a bike. “He’s part of the family,� says May. “It’s been a blessing. I think the reason Randy has been so successful is he’s not shy. He gets to know people and their families and asks about them.� Brink gets around by foot and local buses. His schedule is packed with places to be and things to do. How does he keep it all organized? Brink points to his head and simply says, “It’s all up here.� His favorite sports teams are the Kings, River Cats, Monarchs, San Francisco Giants, Oakland A’s, Oregon Ducks, 49ers and Raiders. “Oh, yeah, I liked the Mountain Lions when they were here. They were the kitty cats,� he says with a laugh. Dressed in sunglasses and distinctive colored sneakers, he’s a fixture at events sponsored by the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau. “I think we all, at one point or another, forget to stop and enjoy the good things happening all around us,� says SCVB president Steve
Hammond. “Randy’s positive attitude is a reminder to all of us to look for the joy in our lives. He’s also living proof that if you give of yourself to your community, your community will give back in return.� As facilities manager at Crocker & Crocker, Brink handles company events. When he turned 50, Lucy Crocker and a team of Randy fans threw a birthday party attended by more than 200 local leaders, the Kings Dancers and other longtime friends. In 2001, the city honored him with a proclamation recognizing his “outstanding commitment to the City of Sacramento and neverending willingness to help in almost any capacity, extending our deepest gratitude and appreciation for all that he has done.� There will be more jobs and titles in Brink’s life. He might be Sacramento’s number one volunteer. He’s certainly Sacramento’s number one cheerleader. And with that, he has an all-access pass to everything Sacramento. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com n
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The Farm Next Door EVERYTHING EDIBLE GROWS AT THIS BACKYARD URBAN FARM
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uice from a just-picked orange threatens to run down my chin. My host, urban farmer Nina Prychodzko of Old World Farm in East Sacramento, says the fruit came from a tree her father planted more than 40 years ago. She urges me to sample a sun-warmed cherry tomato and a ripe fig—what she calls candy. I hesitate to pick an Asian pear. It looks like a green apple on steroids, but it is surprisingly sweet and I eat the whole thing. I wipe my sticky hands on my jeans and struggle with my flip-flops as I follow Prychodzko around the garden. She darts here and there while she fills a bag with fruits and vegetables, despite my protest that I can’t accept gifts. I’m almost too full to walk. Old World Farm is one of six urban gardens that will be featured on Soroptimist International of Sacramento’s Edible Gardens Tour on Sept. 10. Prychodzko and David Baker of Green Restaurants Alliance Sacramento will be on hand at Old World Farm. Along with other local gardeners, including Kristi and Mike Fitzgerald and East Sac Farms’ Morgan Daily and Kyle Hagerty, they will answer questions and offer watersaving tips and information to create your own edible garden. On this morning, Prychodzko is wearing cut-off sweatpants, a T-shirt
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Old World Farm looks like every other house on 37th Street, albeit one with an abundance of figs and comfrey growing in the front yard. When Prychodzko opens the gates to her garden, you travel back in time. She practices farming techniques she learned from her parents, who were originally from Belarus and Poland and had a farm in Paraguay. They came to California in 1964 when Prychodzko was 5 years old. There are no drip-irrigation systems or equipment here. Prychodzko waters by hand and uses a pitchfork to till the soil. Her neighbors throw cardboard over her fence and leave pails of compost on her porch. The compost goes directly into the ground, and she covers it with carpet scraps and cardboard to keep the soil moist. Her parents bought the unassuming house and double lot for cash in 1973 and transformed it into a working farm. “My mom used to sell produce right off the front porch, 24/7,” she says. Customers knew to slide money through the mail slot on the door when the family
Urban farmer Nina Prychodzko of Old World Farm
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wasn’t home. Guys knew her mother would encourage them to buy lots of flowers for their sweethearts. “Mom said, ‘The more you talk, the more you sell,’” she says. Prychodzko, one of 11 kids, inherited the house and farm, along with her mother’s charm and a bit of her accent. She shows me a photo of her parents while we take a break under the arbor. A hummingbird buzzes by and eyes the grapes. Prychodzko no longer sells produce on the porch and doesn’t keep business hours; she puts out fliers and a flag to let people know when she is open. And, like her mother before her, she sells the fruits of her labor to local chefs. Patrick Mulvaney, a longtime customer, is fond of the figs in the front yard. “I get to share [my garden] with chefs,” she says. “I don’t want any demands. I’m going to grow what I want to grow.” I try to write down everything she does grow: sunflowers, grapefruit, grapes, persimmons, peaches, beets, Swiss chard, raspberries, tangelos, melons, those famous figs and her
father’s oranges. She adds a spiky, purplish amaranth plant to the bag, which is getting heavy, along with some bay leaves. There are dahlias, cacti and wooly thyme. I’ve missed a bunch. It’s impossible to keep track of it all, but Prychodzko has a map in her head. Everything is natural. Nothing is wasted. “I don’t spray anything. I don’t fertilize. The earth takes care of itself,” she says. I ask about the weathered wreaths lying around the vegetable boxes and Prychodzko tells me she rescued them after Christmas last year from a heap of yard waste on 42nd and M streets. They are slowly composting into the soil. Proceeds from the 2016 Edible Gardens Tour will benefit Tubman House’s Doorway Program and the Food Literacy Center. Be sure to visit Old World Farm, as well as the other gardens on the tour. And wear your walking shoes. For more information about the Edible Gardens Tour, go to soroptimistsacramento.com n
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The Attic Architect SHE GIVES NEW LIFE TO OLD CITY HOUSES
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BY TERRY KAUFMAN
the senior cohousing development in
MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR
Davis. What Macaulay is now passionate
rchitect Laura Macaulay
about is repurposing unproductive
has never done things the
attic space in older homes, primarily
easy way. She grew up in the
in East Sacramento, to create
heart of East Sacramento, on 46th
additional bedrooms or other living
Street, comfortably ensconced in a
space. For years, she had creatively
well-established Sacramento dynasty.
reimagined these attics, having grown
Her father was a city councilmember
up in a house blessed with just such
and the owner of the local Mayflower
a space. “Most of these houses were
moving and storage franchise at 20th
built in the mid ’20s to ’30s,” she
and J streets (Carmichael’s Macaulay
says. “They have high peaks, they’re
Circle is named in his honor), and her
neo-Tudor, and they have a nice
home had been in the family for more
presence.”
than a generation.
The challenge is superimposing
The street on which she lived was
current building codes onto these
wide and tree-lined (“The trolley
historic structures. “Every bedroom
cars went down our street, out
requires two means of egress. That’s
to Oak Park,” she says), and the
usually a door and a window. The
neighborhood was a bastion of history
code requires a certain size and height
and community. Macaulay’s parents
for the windows,” says Macaulay.
went to high school in an era when
“You’re looking at at least 1,000
Sacramento had just one (her dad)
square feet of storage space up there,
or two (her mom) high schools. She
but some houses don’t even have
herself attended high school at St.
access to that space.”
Francis.
Once she can get up there,
Nevertheless, when she graduated
Macaulay has to look at the specific
from UC Davis, having studied
features of the attic. The minimum
planning, landscaping, interior
wall height can be no less than 5 feet,
design and architectural history, she
and at least half the room must have
couldn’t wait to leave. She applied to,
a height of 7. Additionally, the floor
and was accepted into, the graduate
must be brought up to code so that
architecture program at Miami University of Ohio. “I never wanted
Architect Laura Macaulay
to come back,” she confesses. “I grew up in my mom’s childhood home. They moved into it in 1932, and it was built in 1927. My mom loved to go for walks, but we couldn’t go for half a block without stopping to chat with someone. It would take an hour to walk two blocks.” Macaulay was determined to break the mold. She chose to enter a
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it can support the added weight of walls and residents. It’s a complicated process.
male-dominated profession that was
She cut her teeth doing
“The owner, the contractor, the
both personally and professionally
conventional projects, both large
building department: They all want
demanding. She was also committed
and small, and these continue to be
different information,” she grouses.
to living in a different time zone and
her bread and butter. Her company,
“I need to appease all three of them.”
seeing the world. To her surprise and
Macaulay + Architects, housed on
At the same time that a structural
bemusement, she ultimately found
19th Street in Midtown, has done
engineer is analyzing stress tolerance,
herself back in Sacramento, this time
work for St. Francis, as well as the
Macaulay is measuring everything
as a trailblazer.
remodel for her brother’s alma mater,
in the space from every conceivable
Jesuit High School, and it designed
angle. “You have to have a strategy
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so that you know what to do if it’s not
Macaulay is pleased with the
to code,” she says. “Everyone comes
results she has achieved and the
in to look at it, but the owner wants
new life she has imparted to classic
things done a certain way. How do we
houses in Sacramento. “This is the
do it and meet the code?”
culmination of all the bits and pieces
Despite the hassles and headaches,
she says. “You really get to see how
completed project in Curtis Park,
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his is the story of something seemingly simple yet mysteriously complex: bread. But not just any bread. This bread is more than flour, water and salt. This is wild bread, or to put it more technically, naturally yeasted sourdough bread. Devout followers of this baking style set jars of flour and water outside to harvest natural yeasts from the air. This jar becomes alive with a growing bloom called a mother, which is used as the starting basis for each batch of bread. Some mothers are old, even ancient. They’re talked about and looked after like family members. Gin Yang, a local fan of fermented foods, keeps two mothers alive. One is supposedly a descendant of the original San Francisco sourdough. She believes that the other, which she calls Baked Alaska, dates back to the 1800s. Greg Berger, a Sacramento graphic designer, also has a mother with a colorful history. It was passed down from local chef Adam Pechal’s mom, who started it 55 years ago. Pechal gifted this yeast to Berger, who then mixed it with some wild yeast. To keep a sourdough mother alive, you occasionally toss out half of the old mother as you feed it with new flour and water. This process is what
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sets home-baked sourdough apart from most commercial varieties. “It’s a level of commitment to keep the natural mother alive and difficult to do at a full-scale bakery,” explains Berger. “Tartine [the famed San Francisco bakery] does it, but it’s superselect. It’s only available certain hours, and you can only buy one.” So when you’re looking for a great loaf of sourdough bread, you’re better off making friends with home bakers like Berger and Yang. They are constantly perfecting their craft, which means there’s often leftover bread to share. Berger makes bread so often that he started “bread bombing” his friends, a term he made up to describe
the act of showing up, unannounced, to deliver a beautiful sourdough loaf. “If I was going to charge you for the time and labor … is that my hourly rate, my graphic design rate? That’ll be a $75 loaf of bread!” Berger declares, laughing. Luckily for his friends, it’s always free. He’s not doing this for the money. He’s chasing the challenge of the ultimate loaf, a journey he started in 2013. Yang also drops bread off to friends and neighbors. In the past four years, she’s made more than 1,000 loaves. Yet she’s by no means satisfied with her results. She says she’s still learning, and she expects to be for some time.
“Sourdough gives you a run for your money, kind of like raising kids. Eventually the reward is there,” Yang says. “It’s a journey.” In the world of naturally yeasted sourdough, the journey is better traveled together. Many home bakers have formed online learning communities where they share tips and discoveries. This is where Berger and Yang met. In fact, the two have never met in person—or tasted each other’s breads. Yet they each claim that the other is making the best wild bread. They’re basing this on what they’ve learned from each other online. You can also tell a lot about a successful loaf of sourdough from appearance, so
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Learning on the Links KIDS DEVELOP CHARACTER WHILE PLAYING GOLF
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ichael Craft was raised in a middle-class home in South Sacramento, behind Executive Airport. His mother worked at McClellan Air Force Base. His father was the first African-American probation officer hired by Sacramento County. So it doesn’t automatically stand to reason that Craft’s youthful interests would gravitate toward the game of golf. But that’s exactly what happened.
Encouraged by his father Leon, young Michael fell hard for golf. Michael Craft (second from left) among the One Swing golfers
Encouraged by his father Leon, young Michael fell hard for golf. He hustled over to Bing Maloney, the public course near his home, after classes at Christian Brothers High School and on weekends. He played well enough to earn a golf scholarship from a Texas university, Prairie View A&M. “The fact that I was able to use golf to save my family the burden of paying for college, that’s something amazing,”
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Craft says. “That’s the message I try to bring to kids and their parents today.” Craft, 51, followed his father’s pathway into law enforcement, joining the county probation department a generation behind his dad. These days, he’s preparing to retire after 27 years of trying to keep offenders away from handcuffs and holding cells. And while Craft doesn’t play golf like he once did, the game continues to beckon, delight and challenge. Craft has taken his love for the sport and turned it into a teachable moment, creating an organization call One Swing Golf that helps local youngsters gain proficiencies that will ideally lead to college scholarships.
“It’s highly unrealistic for a young person and their parents to believe that they can play golf professionally,” Craft says. “But it’s not all that unrealistic for a young person to develop the skills that will lead to college admission and some sort of scholarship. If they have the talent and discipline and believe in themselves, it can happen. I’m proof.” One Swing Golf, which enrolls 17 or so young people each year, focuses on character as much as square face contact and kinetic links. Students must be on time. Phones and music devices must be stowed. Proper attire is required. Parents are expected to attend practices and support their kids. Craft underscores that he’s not a baby sitter.
Most of the teaching is done on weekends at Bing Maloney, but One Swing youngsters are encouraged to practice during the week. Quizzes may include questions about the most recent pro tour events. The self-motivation part of the program is essential to show students how to measure among themselves who will succeed. Ultimately, focus and dedication are more important than raw talent, Craft says. Competition for college entry and athletic scholarships is cutthroat, and only the hungry survive. “I’m not even talking about getting a kid a scholarship to UCLA or Cal Berkeley,” he says. “Getting
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says. “I remember a line Clyde used: ‘The grass is the same.’” The grass may be the same, but the trip to the Monterey Peninsula reaffirms the reality that golf typically carries a hefty price tag. Craft has worked out arrangements with equipment companies to supply gear for his students. He basically asks families to pay what they can afford. He minimizes the overhead, sells One Swing logo gear (he designed the logo) and seeks donations to fill budgetary gaps. The One Swing budget runs about $1,500 per student. This month, One Swing will benefit from a charity tournament Sept. 9 at Bartley Cavanaugh Golf Course, called Swing Fore! Education. Foursomes cost $380, while individuals play for $95. There are few more worthy goals in sports: One Swing golfers are not restricted by gender, race or economic distinction. If the kids take the game seriously and get noticed, that’s enough. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n
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Heating Up THE ICE BLOCKS DEVELOPMENT WILL BE LIKE MARRS —ONLY BETTER
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ny historian will tell you that we can’t really know where we’re going unless we know where we’ve already been. That lesson can be applied fairly generally, from politics to economics, and maybe even particularly to development. Despite recent question marks, the trajectory of Heller Pacific’s Ice Blocks development might be guessed at through comparisons to a previous Heller Pacific project, the MARRS building on 20th Street.
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It was only last November when the historic Crystal Ice building went up in flames, essentially putting Heller Pacific’s project on ice. Despite the fire, Ice Blocks, a seven-building mixed-use project on R Street between 16th and 18th streets, is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. “We were approximately 85 percent preleased on the office space upstairs, and then the fire destroyed the project altogether,” says Aaron Marchand, vice president of Turton Commercial Real Estate. Marchand, responsible for leasing office space in Ice Blocks, admits that the fire posed a challenge for the developers: how to keep momentum while redefining the project.
“The project was a question mark. So we flew to Portland to refresh and get a sense of what was going on in other cities that we hoped to emulate,” he says. “We saw that heavy-timber construction was really leading the charge up there.” In Portland, they toured redevelopment projects with high ceilings, natural light, huge glass windowpanes, exposed beams—all things that the Crystal Ice building could provide. After the fire, Heller Pacific and local architect Stephen Guest of RMW treated the project as “a blank slate,” says Marchand, “with efficient floor plans and energy efficiency, while maintaining a cool, creative space. Now we can offer loft mezzanine-type creative office environments, with
internal stairwells and 24-foot walls of glass.” The development is broken into three blocks. The first will include approximately 30,000 square feet of retail and approximately 97,000 square feet of creative offices. The second block will include 12,000 square feet of retail, as well as about 145 market-rate apartments. The third block is made up of three small buildings with multiple retail tenants on the ground floor and offices on the second. Marchand says the new design will pay tribute to R Street’s industrial history while creating a vibrant space where people can gather and socialize outside of home or work—the socalled “third place” of community building.
For those wondering what impact Ice Blocks may have on the Sacramento community, the MARRS building may be instructive. In 2008, Heller Pacific redeveloped what Marchand describes as “an old concrete warehouse box,” transforming the half-block building into what he says is now “a vibrant, pivotal piece of Midtown.” A short drive along 20th Street between J and K streets, from Peet’s to LowBrau Bierhall, seems to confirm this: The patio stretching the length of the block-long MARRS building is routinely packed with people. Marchand says Ice Blocks will be like the MARRS building on steroids. Though it’s only a single building, MARRS seems larger. It was designed to “activate” the public space along the length of its exterior, creating a third-place environment that Ice Blocks, as a seven-building project, should only improve upon. As an example, says Marchand, “two buildings will be staggered, with a breezeway connecting the two, so that now you have eight possible corners instead of just four.”
Marchand expects that the creative vibrancy of Ice Blocks will rely upon the diversity of its tenants, a synergy that can’t be gauged until after those tenants move in. In the meantime, Ice Blocks is appealing to everything from “small consulting firms to large tech companies,” as well as to both Sacramento businesses and national clients. “We can offer suites down to 1,200 square feet, which is unique for a new development. Also, you can have a 400-square-foot retailer all the way up to a 10,000-square-foot retailer, even a 20,000-square-foot retailer,” says Marchand. While Ice Blocks lost some tenants after the fire, the leasing agent has since entered new negotiations with other potential tenants. “The momentum is picking back up,” says Marchand. One important tenant still plans to move its main office to Ice Blocks: Sacramento Republic FC. (It also plans to open a storefront and event space.) Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com n
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Make It Bigger HE THINKS PLANS FOR CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION ARE TOO TIMID
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arry Broome likes to see foundations being dug, concrete being poured and tower cranes working in the sky, hoisting iron for new office towers, warehouses, factories. Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council, is delighted when the region builds stuff. New buildings mean investments and jobs. So why is Broome calling for a full stop on Sacramento’s plans to sink upward of $200 million into an expanded convention center and remodeled community center theater? Three reasons. First, the expanded convention center won’t be big enough to make a difference in the type of conventions the city attracts. Second, the theater should not be part of the convention center because it restricts the expansion footprint. And third, several key players whose input is critical to the expansion— the city manager, the mayor and the convention and visitors bureau chief—are either leaving office or nearing retirement. “These three key people who are responsible for the leadership in this project have done a great job, but there will be less accountability once they leave,” Broome says. “Unfortunately, the region will be left to deal with whatever they've done in
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“The convention center project is just as important as the new arena because of the economic impact it will bring to the region,” Broome says. “The convention, tourist and hospitality platform is huge, and it should represent the best marketing tools a city can offer. We haven't been able to capitalize because the performance of the convention center has been below market.”
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terms of the convention, tourism and hospitality platform.” Broome is intense and indelicate with his opinions. But over coffee at Peet’s on Capitol Mall, near offices leased by the economic council in the
Wells Fargo building, he’s passionate about the opportunities presented by a new convention center. He’s fearful of what will happen if the city underestimates the stakes.
An expanded convention center and remodeled theater have been discussed for years at City Hall. This past May, the city council announced its intent to get serious about the project by paying $1.34 million to consultants and architects. The city plans to issue bonds and borrow money for the job, which will run about $200 million under current estimates—or about $600 million by the time the 30-year bonds are paid off. Broome believes those funds will be a waste of taxpayer money if the expansion is too modest.
No decisions have been finalized, but city documents suggest the convention center renovation could expand the facility’s exhibit space from 134,000 feet to 200,000 feet. Not big enough, says Broome. The current convention center lags far behind in two other key convention magnets: meeting space and ballroom size. The center has only 20,700 square feet of meeting space—less than half the national average. And the center’s ballroom is 24,300 square feet, or 6,000 square feet smaller than average. While city documents emphasize the importance of bringing the convention center up to average capacity for exhibitions, meetings and ballrooms, Broome would like to go much further. He wants to transform Sacramento into a top-level convention city. Timid has been the city’s abiding philosophy when it comes to conventions and hospitality. Our comparison cities have been Long Beach and San Jose, not San Francisco and Phoenix. Broome is
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s Julie Greene, executive director of Solar Cookers International, leads me around her 22nd Street office, she points to stunning photos on the walls that look like they could have been plucked from National Geographic. What’s even more remarkable than their beauty, however, is the subject matter. “This is Elizabeth,” Greene says, gesturing to a photo of a smiling Kenyan woman. Elizabeth is one of thousands of people in 133 countries that Solar Cookers International has helped gain access to free, zeroemission energy in the form of solar cookers. “Solar cooking can change your life,” says Greene, who oversees the organization, which was founded in 1987 based on the simple solar box cookers. “It allows people to breathe cleaner air, decreases burns and house fires. And because it allows people to pasteurize water, they don’t have to suffer from waterborne illnesses. It also means that people don’t have to walk for hours every day to find wood in dangerous conditions.” The environmental impact is clear: Carbon emissions are eliminated when people don’t have to cook with wood, charcoal or dung. Solar cooking also lessens dependence on fossil fuels
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The original resident of this historic house was Mary Ruby Taylor Palmer, the widow of a mining engineer from Amador. Her husband, William A. Palmer, lived there from 1914 to 1916. The house was a modest bungalow typical of homes in the early 20th century. Later owners made numerous changes to house, culminating with the Nasts’ remodel, which added 1,000 square feet. The couple’s appreciation for the home’s architectural details meant they required a team experienced in working on older homes. Creative Eye Design + Build and Ted Smith Design fit the bill. “That was a top requirement, since we wanted to make sure the design elements stayed consistent and cohesive from an architectural standpoint,” says Shellie. Except for one small area that became the new laundry room, the footprint of the house wasn’t altered. The Nasts took their cues from the front room of the house, which in Craftsman homes is generally the most formal. New rooms received paneling, moldings, wainscoting and baseboards that matched the original dimensions. In the dining room, the builders created a stunning box beam ceiling that replicates the one in the living room. The couple chose historical paint colors, mostly grays, browns and blues. They painted Steve’s office copper red and added a Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper frieze. Columns on the exterior of the house are tapered, so the newel posts on the staircase and corners of the kitchen island repeat the same design. The front door is situated at an angle, so the couple re-created the same angle pattern for the doorways in the upstairs hallway. “The idea was for the construction to be consistent. It was functional as well, since it would have been tight if we had used the traditional hallway concept,” Steve explains. The kitchen had been remodeled in the 1980s by a previous owner. The Nasts gutted the space, installing woven bamboo flooring and a farmhouse sink. A new laundry room off the kitchen replaced the inconvenient facility in the basement.
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THE NASTS TOOK THEIR CUES FROM THE FRONT ROOM OF THE HOUSE, WHICH IN CRAFTSMAN HOMES IS GENERALLY THE MOST FORMAL.
A beautiful staircase with cherry stair treads leads to the second-story addition with its three bedrooms and two baths. The railing is inset with two-sided hammered copper tiles in a rose pattern. Tiles are styled after the work of American artist Dard Hunter (1883-1966), who was active in the Arts & Crafts movement. In the bedroom occupied by couple’s son, Bradbury & Bradbury silk-screened wallpaper sports an airplane motif. A window seat provides extra storage. His bathroom boasts an oversized tub and blue penny round floor tiles. The master bath delights the senses with its basket-weave tile carpet runner and the shower’s mosaic tiles. Both bedrooms have awning-style windows. “We open these every night along with the windows over the stairwell during the summer, and the Delta breeze flows through the house,” says Shellie.
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“Everyone did such a great job on this house. It was all about the collaboration,” she says. We love this house. It’s a happy place to be.” I would like to thank Professor Catherine Turrill Lupi, chair of the art department at Sacramento State University, for help with this story. The Nast home will be featured on Preservation Sacramento’s Historic Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 on the day of the tour. To purchase tickets, go to PreservationSacramento.org/hometour. If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n
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Pretty in Pink GETTING STOPPED SHORT AT SPIRITUAL CHECKPOINTS
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hen I travel, I never leave home without my most important tool of resilience:
my pillow. Recently, I was rushing out of the house to catch a plane at zero dark thirty. I kissed my sleeping beauty and grabbed my trusty pillow. An hour later, I was running through the well-lit terminal and realized I’d grabbed my wife’s extra pillow—the one with the bright pink case. It’s not that I’m sexist. I truly think real men can wear pink, but a pink pillowcase crosses a manly boundary. And you should know that I have boundary issues. I suppose it’s surprising to some of you that a grown man who’d dare open-carry a pillow would be concerned about the color, but I was. I was in such a hurry to catch the plane that I not only grabbed the wrong pillow; I became that rude guy in such a rush that he sideswipes his way down the moving sidewalk. At one point, I passed a girl sucking her thumb and swinging her baby doll. The girl pointed to me, but her mother lowered the girl’s arm with whispered response. Was it my pillow? Was she making fun of it? Hmm. Maybe she wanted it. I quickened my pace. Hoping no one at the security checkpoint would notice the downy
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softness of my pillow, I slung it onto the conveyor belt. I suppose they wouldn’t have noticed it if I hadn’t walked off without it. “Wait,” the security lady yelled. “Is this your pink pillow?” Mortified, I turned toward her. She was beaming the sassy look of someone who’s got you in the crosshairs of humiliation. “You’ll need this to go night-night,” she said. I grabbed at the pillow, feeling her tugging grip just a second too long. I was sure she would demand to see my man card. The whole thing reminded me of those moments in life when we feel exposed by life’s little security checkpoints. You know what I mean. They’re the moments when someone calls our bluff, when someone calls us up short and strips us of our false importance. Just as in airport checkpoints where you lay aside the entrapments
of importance — cellphones, fat wallets, Rolex wannabes, designer shoes and, yes, even pink pillows — there are checkpoints where we encounter a divine presence that will thoroughly search our souls.
I truly think real men can wear pink. Life has a grand way of running us through these serendipitous checkpoints. They will often be places that strip us of our self-interest, our pride, our hardness, our excuses, our grudges. For instance, I find my checkpoints in the hospital chapel or in the quiet corner of the church sanctuary during communion. These are the places where I kneel and ask God to sound
an alarm if I’m carrying stuff that I shouldn’t be carrying. Sometimes I find these checkpoints on the beach when I’m walking at the water’s edge. At the crashing surf, I can almost hear the waves laughing at the grandiose images I’ve constructed of myself. Take a moment and ask God to put you through a checkpoint. Ask him what you are carrying that will either embarrass him or will keep you from being the image he has created you to be. But be warned. God isn’t shy about sounding the gawking buzz to tell us we’ve been found out. And with that humble bit of wisdom, I’ll pull my pink pillow up to my travel beard and say, “Nightnight, y’all.” Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net n
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After the Flush WHERE DOES YOUR WASTEWATER GO?
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n September 2006, garbage collectors in Sacramento went on strike. For several weeks, homeowners’ trash piled up in driveways, yards and streets. It was a stinky, ugly inconvenience. Losing solid-waste pickup was nothing compared to what would happen if we lost our wastewater disposal system. Can you imagine two weeks without a flush? Wastewater treatment gets my vote for the most underappreciated science-based public utility. What it lacks in glamour it makes up in importance. The British Medical Journal named sanitation the greatest medical advance since 1840 for its role in reducing waterborne diseases. Without good sewage collection and treatment, a community’s drinking water cannot be safe. Prior to the federal Clean Water Act of 1972, the safety of Sacramento’s water supply was at risk. The region had 22 small wastewater treatment plants discharging directly into the Sacramento and American rivers. To protect local waterways and comply with the Clean Water Act, local leaders decided to “regionalize” wastewater treatment. Sacramento County, along with the cities of Sacramento and Folsom, joined together to form the Sacramento
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Regional County Sanitation District (now known as Regional San). Between 1976 and 1982, Regional San built a single massive wastewater treatment plant in Elk Grove that replaced the older plants and now serves about 1.4 million residents from Folsom to West Sacramento, Citrus Heights to Elk Grove. The Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, processing an average of 150 million gallons of sewage per day. Like most Sacramentans, I didn’t even know where this 3,000-plus-acre operation was located until I signed up for a public tour. Yes, a surprising
number of ordinary people want to walk around a wastewater treatment plant, and Regional San obliges with free, seasonal monthly tours. The plant’s site in Elk Grove was carefully chosen. First, it sits at a very low elevation (32 feet below sea level), which saves money because wastewater can flow to the plant by gravity (although some pumping is required in the conveyance system). Second, it is only about 2 miles from the Sacramento River, where the treated water leaving the plant (called effluent) is discharged. Whatever you flush or send down your sink or shower enters a colossal underground system of pipes. Pipes
with a diameter of 3 or 4 inches typically carry your wastewater from your home to a grid of larger main lines and trunk lines under the streets. That system of sewer pipelines is managed by your local collection district (such as the city of Sacramento or the Sacramento Area Sewer District). Local sewer collection pipes funnel into much larger “interceptor” pipelines that are managed by Regional San, analogous to the way local roads feed into interstate highways. Your utility bill reflects separate charges for the services of your local collection agency and Regional San. Regional San has about 177 miles of pipes compared to the local systems’ 6,000 or 7,000 miles, but Regional San’s interceptors are as large as 12 feet in diameter. The journey of wastewater from your home to the treatment plant takes time. Morning shower water from Citrus Heights arrives maybe 10 hours later; wastewater from Folsom may take a day. (Because of this, flows coming into the plant are generally lowest in the morning.) Along the route, Regional San controls odors at pump stations using chemical scrubbers. The plant itself was designed with hundreds of acres of open space around it. These “Bufferlands” protect Elk Grove residents from the stench. (I was lucky to visit on a windy day—the plant hardly smelled at all.) On the tour I saw a jar of influent (wastewater that enters the plant). It didn’t look like my idea of sewage. Influent is watery, cloudy, slightly yellow-gray in color and a bit sandy. It can, however, carry debris such as rocks and tree limbs that would
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User Friendly? TRANSIT CUSTOMERS CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT THEY WANT
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he New York-based TransitCenter foundation recently surveyed 3,000 transit riders across the country to find out what they wanted. Researchers also held focus groups with transit users to delve deeper into their transit desires. Unsurprisingly, it turns out transit users most prize transportation basics: frequent service, short trip times and stops you can get to by walking. (A local Sacramento concern, security on board transit vehicles, was not surveyed.) Those basic wants seem simple enough, but many times they aren’t met. Decision makers, who typically are not transit users themselves, may place more emphasis on serving a large geographic area than on frequent and fast service. Further, decision makers may have a distorted view of transit customers. TransitCenter found that the traditional concept of two rider types, well-heeled “choice” riders and transit-dependent “captive” riders, is wrong. Even supposedly captive riders do have other transportation options. Shoddy service will still drive them away. The customary transit system strategy of catering to commuters (a mix of choice and captive riders), yearning for more choice riders and virtually ignoring captive riders is misguided.
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TransitCenter breaks the transit market into three rider categories: occasional, commuters and all purpose. They recommend that transit providers vigorously target all-purpose riders—the riders who make the most transit trips. The goal, according to the foundation’s report,
should be to “create conditions that increase the number of people who can walk to useful transit.” In a number of ways, Sacramento’s approach to transit operations has been at odds with the market-oriented (and trip-maximizing) transportation system TransitCenter touts.
Regional Transit has cut back service frequency. Based on user wants, reducing frequent service is the worst long-term marketing strategy. Frequent transit service is the most valuable transit characteristic. Ideally, with service every 10 or 12 minutes, a rider may not have to bother checking a schedule. There’s a shorter wait if a bus or train is missed. RT’s buses typically run every half hour or even less frequently. That’s a problem. Riders want fast trip times, but RT has cut routes. That means slower trip times. Trips that used to be direct may require transfers, waiting, circuitous routes, taking buses that get stuck in traffic, and walking too far. TransitCenter suggests reducing trip times by creating dedicated rights of way for transit. Prepaid fare collection, “tap-and-go” fare cards and other methods can speed boarding. Designing (and redesigning) routes to be straight and direct is important. Streetcars earn special disdain in the TransitCenter report. A few streetcar systems have been successful by serving walkable neighborhoods and busy destinations. Most other systems have fallen far short of meeting ridership expectations. They’ve mainly been a development tool or tourist attraction, rather than a key transportation component. Streetcars operating in mixed-flow traffic (with cars), like the one Sacramento is planning, are slow, averaging 8 mph. Buses can go twice as fast. RT has 22 light rail park-andride stations. These stations are inherently not walkable and have no neighborhood feel or sense of
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Watt stations that are in the middle of nowhere. McClellan Business Park, with thousands of jobs, is close by but not served. The Folsom line could have jogged over to Sac State but it didn’t, and it runs through miles of sparsely developed land. In November, Sacramento County voters will be voting on another transportation sales tax. Instead of fixing it first and focusing solely on more frequent and faster transit service and needed maintenance, the measure includes light rail expansion to far-flung, less dense, less walkable areas. It includes an expensive streetcar line. Light rail expansions to Elk Grove and the airport will add some new customers, but they won’t provide what most transit customers want: frequent and fast service and walkable stations. In fact, the operating costs for the expansions will likely hamstring RT’s ability to deliver what customers really desire. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n
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Thirsty Trees STRESSED BY DROUGHT, THEY MAY NEED A DRINK
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ur long, hot summer is nearly over. Days are getting shorter. Your landscape needs less irrigation as fall approaches. However, now is not the time to stop watering your trees. In fact, if you haven’t been watering them periodically and deeply, now is the time to start. In my East Sacramento neighborhood, many people have been so eager to conserve water that they have turned off lawn sprinklers and let their grass die, or removed their turf altogether and replaced it with drought-tolerant plants, gravel, decomposed granite or pavement. In the middle of these arid landscapes, you will often see trees in shock: stressed, dying or dead from lack of water. Even in years with average or more winter rainfall, landscape trees need additional deep watering every few weeks during the summer. UC’s California Center for Urban Horticulture says, “Although mature trees can often survive one season with only one or two deep waterings during the spring and summer, two seasons without enough water can result in severe drought stress and even death. Drought-stressed trees can be more prone to damage from diseases and insects.” When winters have been dry, additional summer water is even more crucial.
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What constitutes deep watering? Water needs to be applied at a slow enough rate to soak at least 18 inches into the root zone, which can be 3 feet deep and extend two to three times the width of the canopy. Sacramento County Master Gardener Pam Bone illustrates how far feeder roots extend by setting a wine glass onto a dinner plate. Feeder roots absorb water the best, so the area that the plate represents is where you should put a soaker hose, drip line or slowly oscillating sprinkler. How often should you water? Bone warns that there is no single answer. “You need to learn to bend over,” she says. “Check your soil. Take a
12-inch screwdriver and push it into the soil at the drip line of your tree. If it brings up moist soil, no water is needed. Otherwise, it’s time.”
New trees require thorough and frequent irrigation. How long should you water? It depends on your soil. An inch of water will soak 12 inches down into sandy soil, but only 4 or 5 inches into
clay soil. Sandy soil dries out faster, so you will need to water it more often. The Center for Landscape and Urban Horticulture has a link to easy calculators for estimating landscape water use. UC also has directions for making and using a “rotary spray irrigation contraption,” which can be simply built for about $20 and distributes water from a hose end. New trees require thorough and frequent irrigation. Should we be planting them during a drought? Just as real estate agents will always tell you now is the time to buy, foresters will tell you fall is the time for planting, no matter the drought forecast. Trees are an investment
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organisms. No wonder Bone calls mulch a magic elixir! Bark chips don’t decay readily, so it’s better to use chipped tree trimmings. Rocks can look nice in limited areas, but they serve as a heat sink and can kill micro-organisms in the soil. Not only does decomposed granite retain heat, it can block water and air movement. We take great pride in our City of Trees and enjoy the benefits that our urban forest canopy provides. Benassini calls them our “original air conditioners.” Not only can they reduce utility costs, a canopy of trees makes our neighborhoods more inviting and increases property values. Once lost, a mature tree will take decades to regrow. Use water where it matters most and keep our trees healthy. You can save water and save trees, too. Anita Clevenger is a lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu n
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Sacramento’s Eye THIS PHOTOGRAPHER IS AT EVERY EVENT WORTH ATTENDING
BY TERRY KAUFMAN ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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hen the Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce gave Tia Gemmell its 2015 small business of the year award, history was made. Gemmell, perennially behind the camera for every event of note in Sacramento, was finally forced to step in front of the cameras.
She spends countless hours helping great causes tell their stories and share their moments through the memories Tia captures with her camera. Gemmell had been such a behindthe-scenes stalwart of the Black Chamber and every other chamber in the region that the moment was almost surreal. “I’m not a stage person,” she says. “I never get in front of a microphone. I’m always behind a camera.” She managed the moment the only way she knew how: “I walked onto the stage with a selfie stick, then I turned around and did a selfie with the audience.” She is creative, resourceful and dedicated. At a point in life when most people are looking at slowing down, this former educator resident is busier than ever. She started doing photography
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on the side while teaching art full time at a middle school in Lodi. For 27 years, she commuted daily from her Natomas home on Garden Highway to her teaching post. But toward the end, she was rushing the reverse commute so that she could make it to her photography gigs. That was when she rethought her professional life. Today, Gemmell is the resident photographer not only for the various local chambers but also for a range of print and online media outlets too numerous to mention. Well, let’s mention a few: Comstock’s. N Magazine. Sacramento Business
Journal. The CBS13/CW31 website, where her snapshots of Sacramento life appear under “Eye on the City.” Any local celebrity who has not been photographed by Gemmell is merely a wannabe. She knows the routine so well that she’ll proactively edit a shoot to spare a politico the embarrassment of posing with a drink in hand. Her schedule is a moving target, with 24/7 availability for event coverage. Then the real work begins. “Editing takes the most time,” she says. “I can easily take 1,200 photos at one event. I recently downloaded 300,000 photos to an external hard drive.” Gemmell posts
the best shots on websites, Facebook pages and anywhere else they should be seen. When she began, it was all about referrals and self-marketing. Today, Gemmell is so well known in the event planning community that she can pick and choose her assignments. “I don’t market myself,” she says. “My name is out there. If you go to events, you see the same people. The community leaders all know me. They know how I work and they trust me to do their photography.” ARTIST page 72
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n six weeks of chomping, 900 sheep and goats recently cleared 200,000 pounds of potential fire fuel from the American River Parkway. Essential laborers in Sacramento County fire-prevention programs, the Lincoln-based herd twice forded the American River, climbed 100-foot bluffs and caused a sensation in parts of Sacramento, Gold River, Fair Oaks and Orangevale. Their 120-acre parkway cleanup continued for two months. Proving that nature can answer problems that humans and machines cannot, 3,600 cloven hooves easily conquered dangerous gullies and rocky gold tailings. Poison oak and blackberry were mere aperitifs for chomping jaws. “They’re easy to please,” observed herd owner Steve Gregory. “We shepherds work hard setting up fences, hauling water and keeping them safe. For them, each day is just another day of eating in contentment.” Ending its second year, the animal grazing program has exceeded hopes for parkway brush clearance. “I was amazed how much and how fast the animals ate,” said Sacramento Regional Parks natural resources specialist Mary Maret. “They’re especially effective at clearing ladder fuels (vines and tall brush). This prevents ground fires from climbing up and burning trees. After the safety of homes, our big concern is to preserve the parkway’s riparian forest.” Commuting from bluffs to river banks, the grazing visitors were featured on morning television and in newspapers. This flashback to pioneer ways proved a novel hit. Unoffended by noise and pastoral pungency, suburbanites flocked to view the wooly workers. “The only people who complained,” reported Maret, “were those who lived in neighborhoods our sheep and goats did not visit. They felt left out.” For information on Sacramento County stock-use programs, go to sacparks.net. Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com.
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THEATRE GUIDE THE BLACK AND RED GALA
Thru September 9 Sacramento Theatre Company 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 Join Sacramento Theatre Company (STC) for the Third Annual Black and Red Fundraising Gala. This will be an evening of food, fundraising, and fun in celebration of STC’s upcoming 2016-2017 Season of Trials, Travels, and Triumphs. The evening will feature cocktails, appetizers, and socializing; the rare opportunity to enjoy dinner on stage in STC’s Main Stage Theatre; and a raffle and live auction. The evening will be catered by Bella Bru. There will be performances by Gary S. Martinez, Megan Pearl Smith, Sam Misner, Vivian White, Ryan Blanning, Miranda D. Lawson, and Jerry Lee. Note: Black and red cocktail attire required.
SHREK THE MUSICAL
Thru September 18 Presented by Runaway Stage Productions at 24th Street Theatre 2791 24th St, Sac 207-1226 Based on the award-winning DreamWorks animation film, Shrek: The Musical is this year’s must-see show for all the family. Join the unlikely hero and his loyal steed Donkey as they embark on a quest to rescue the beautiful (if slightly temperamental) Princess Fiona from a fire breathing, love-sick dragon. Add the diminutive Lord Farquaad, a gang of fairytale misfits, and a biscuit with attitude, and you’ve got the biggest, brightest musical comedy around. Featuring all new songs as well as cult Shrek anthem “I’m a Believer,” Shrek: The Musical brings all the much-loved DreamWorks characters to life, live on stage, in an all singing, all dancing extravaganza.
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
Thru September 18 B Street Theatre 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 The most hilarious show you’ll ever see about depression! An ailing mother. A dutiful son. Every brilliant thing to make her feel better.
MURDER MYSTERY DINNER
Thru September Sacramento River Train 400 N Harbor Blvd, West Sacramento 800-866-1690 Get a dose of intrigue with murder mystery dinner theatre aboard the Sacramento RiverTrain. As the train rolls along, you’ll meet a cast of quirky characters who will draw you into their drama as they squabble, scheme, and ultimately meet their demise. You’ll be counted on to solve the case while you dine. Tickets include a three hour train ride, three courses of American fare with unlimited coffee and soft drinks, and an interactive dinner theatre show.
HOW TO USE A KNIFE
Thru October 2 Capital Stage 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 National New Play by Will Snider and directed by Michael Stevenson. In the chaotic hustle and bustle of a Wall Street restaurant kitchen, Chef George is trying to stay sober. In between yelling at a pair of trash-talking line cooks and a pot-smoking busboy, he befriends Steve, an East African immigrant who seems to be a humble yet dignified dishwasher. But Steve played a shocking role in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide, and immigration authorities are on his trail. Set during busy dinner shifts and filled with a cast of unforgettable New York characters, HOW TO USE A KNIFE bursts with grinding suspense, energy, and surprise.
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September 16 - October 1 EMH Productions at Ooley Theater 2007 28th St, Sac 214-6255 EMH productions is proud to bring to the stage an original piece by actor and writer, Dan Fagan. Rough neck… that’s what they call men like Brint who work under highly dangerous conditions out in the oil fields. Driven to drink in excess, Brint struggles to deal with his personal issues like a relationship he destroyed, a child who needs a father, and meeting possibly the love of his life, who really should go to Nashville to pursue her dreams of being a singer.
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6125 STANLEY $250,000 6209 WILDOMAR WAY $260,000 5601 ENGLE RD $290,000 2730 COMPTON PARC LN $295,000 2700 COMPTON PARC LN $295,000 7100 STELLA LN #3 $120,000 4920 ENGLE RD $291,000 6024 DENVER DR $312,000 4869 SCHUYLER DR $337,000 4984 SAN MARQUE CIRCLE $480,000 7373 NOB HILL DR $519,500 6131 VERNAL WAY $353,000 2940 EASY WAY $379,950 4624 LUE LN $384,990 5028 OLIVE OAK WAY $420,000 5907 OAK AVE $435,000 3120 OZZIE CT $368,800 1819 JAY CT $667,650 6424 SUTTER AVE $1,700,000 5438 EDGERLY WAY $250,000 4308 PARADISE DR $359,000 6032 CHERRELYN WAY $314,900 4552 GARFIELD AVE $320,000 2779 JULIE ANN CT $424,850 2416 UPHAM CT $267,000 4706 CAMERON RANCH DR $395,000 4336 GLEN VISTA ST $480,000 3100 OAK CLIFF CIR $591,500 6448 ORANGE HILL LN $725,000 6214 VIA CASITAS $162,500 3925 CYRUS LN $286,000 5413 CARDEN WAY $270,000 4901 ANDREW CIR $415,000 2525 CALIFORNIA AVE $430,000 3824 OLIVEBRANCH LN $265,000 4938 KURZ CIR $353,000 4151 PROSPECT DR $475,000 1271 LOS RIOS DR $540,000 5009 MELVIN DR $259,000 6398 PERRIN WAY $330,000 4628 LUE LN $422,867 5970 MARLIN CIR $259,000 3595 SUE PAM DR $375,000 5900 GRANT AVE #102 $113,500 6450 PALM AVE $300,000 5541 ENGLE RD $406,000 1076 SAND BAR CIR $500,000 5540 IVANHOE WAY $500,000 1400 THISTLEWOOD WAY $580,000 3110 JOELLEN CT $302,500 6109 FOUNTAINDALE WAY $470,000 1705 MISSION AVE $515,000 4800 KEANE DR $645,000 3319 WINSOME LN $445,000 6041 SHIRLEY AVE $545,000
95811 MIDTOWN
1818 L ST #508 1818 L ST #412 1718 LIESTAL ALY #100
$469,000 $550,000 $335,000
95816 E SAC, MCKINLEY PARK 1564 35TH ST 2401 Q ST 569 35TH ST 2400 E ST 1074 36TH ST 741 33RD ST 318 27TH ST 1325 WEST SUTTER WALK
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3180 C ST 2401 D ST 568 SANTA YNEZ WAY 3201 D ST 1216 27TH ST 1327 33RD ST 1329 E SUTTER WALK
95817 ELMHURST 3451 36TH ST 3748 MILLER WAY 5425 2ND AVE 3055 DONNER WAY 2833 34TH ST 2632 36TH ST 4309 U ST 3408 42ND ST 2926 39TH ST 2906 58TH ST
$461,000 $375,000 $485,000 $560,000 $730,000 $430,000 $531,000 $230,000 $380,000 $515,000 $475,000 $400,000 $325,000 $405,000 $259,000 $320,000 $410,000
95818 LAND PK, CURTIS PK 2744 21ST ST 2033 VALLEJO WAY 2847 22ND ST 2708 6TH AVE 1828 CASTRO WAY 2000 VALLEJO WAY 2613 16TH ST 1440 8TH AVENUE 2608 12TH ST 3605 CROCKER 2501 8TH AVE 2648 3RD AVE
$445,000 $415,000 $790,000 $488,000 $495,000 $481,275 $425,000 $720,000 $433,000 $599,900 $515,000 $532,000
95819 E SAC, RIVER PARK 745 SAN ANTONIO WAY 1387 56TH ST 469 PALA WAY 1441 40TH ST. 1416 62ND ST 1033 56TH ST 5539 MODDISON AVE 5413 CALEB AVE 55 49TH ST 826 43RD ST 1900 DISCOVERY WAY 222 TIVOLI WAY 1362 50TH ST 5895 CAMELLIA AVE 112 ADA WAY 1200 44TH ST 1873 51ST ST 1361 54TH ST 5707 SPILMAN AVE 655 55TH ST 517 40TH ST 1517 40TH ST 400 41ST ST
95820 TAHOE PARK 6644 18TH AVE 5212 CABRILLO WAY 3025 53RD ST 5915 18TH AVE 6022 RAYMOND WAY 5 SUBURBAN CT 5020 59TH ST 4560 25TH AVE 4924 63RD ST 3101 PERRYMAN WAY 4204 57TH ST 3859 KROY WAY
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4865 10TH AVE 3119 63RD ST 5112 ORTEGA ST 3839 60TH ST 4145 56TH ST 5502 ESMERALDA ST 4817 61ST ST 5217 62ND ST 5301 60TH ST 4240 13TH AVE 201 BRADY CT 5701 8TH AVE 5201 8TH AVE. 4406 78TH ST 5114 ESMERALDA ST 4420 28TH AVE 5150 46TH STREET 3650 62ND ST 4301 71ST
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95821 ARDEN-ARCADE
2541 FULTON SQUARE LN #39 $95,900 2560 AVALON DR $265,500 2398 RAINBOW AVE $275,000 4126 EDISON AVE $275,000 3613 HILLCREST LN $334,000 2012 JANICE AVE $155,000 2670 WATSON ST $272,500 2440 CARLSBAD AVE $290,000 3613 MIAMI ST $330,000 3712 HUFF WAY $342,000 3857 TERRA VISTA WAY $390,000 3207 KENTFIELD DR $325,000 4100 DENA WAY $376,000 2466 TOWN CIR $210,839 3092 BERTIS DR $277,000 4601 ROBERTSON AVE $410,000 3116 KERRIA $267,000 4508 WYMAN DR $314,900 4419 MULFORD AVE $328,000 2624 EASTERN AVE $360,000 2803 EDISON AVE $166,000 2849 DARWIN ST $220,000 3058 YELLOWSTONE LN $379,950 4308 RIO VISTA AVE $429,000 3109 MIRAMAR RD $309,000 3416 HARGER CT $521,500 2800 TIOGA WAY $345,000 2501 FULTON SQUARE LN #2 $95,000 2561 FULTON SQUARE LN #57$125,000 2701 WATT AVE $245,000 3815 EDISON AVE $575,000 3832 WOODCREST RD $308,000 2401 LESLIE LN $265,000 3300 RUBICON WAY $295,000 2747 TIOGA WAY $379,000 3517 DOMICH WAY $273,000 4625 WYMAN DR $295,000 4500 N PARK DR $425,000 3837 DURAN CIR $315,000 3756 N EDGE DR $230,000 2611 GRANITE WAY $235,000 3601 FRENCH AVE $243,000 4111 BOONE LN $292,000 3533 CHADSWORTH WAY $340,000 3740 N EDGE DR $419,000
95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 7582 SAN FELICE CIR 7472 HENRIETTA DR 4437 EUCLID AVE
$225,000 $316,000 $500,000
7400 BALFOUR WAY 2540 FERNDALE AVE 7505 AMHERST ST 2345 CORK CIR 2101 57TH AVE 5210 CARMEN WAY 4900 CRESTWOOD WAY 5624 JACKS LN 2200 MURIETA WAY 2041 ARLISS WAY 5861 ANNRUD WAY 2251 MURIETA WAY 5641 LA CAMPANA WAY 1436 WACKER WAY 7519 HENRIETTA 1649 68TH AVE 5612 HAROLD WAY 5620 23RD ST 2385 ANITA AVE 6441 HOGAN DR 2125 62ND AVE 7013 AMHERST ST 2011 BERG AVE 2406 34TH AVE 1441 WENTWORTH AVE 5991 WYMORE WAY 7555 MUIRFIELD 2014 ONEIL WAY 2138 54TH AVE 7492 GEORGICA WAY 6068 ANNRUD WAY 7518 AMHERST ST 6811 DEMARET DR 6649 CARNATION AVE
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782 WOODSIDE LANE EAST #12 $90,000 2280 HURLEY WAY #31 $140,000 1528 HOOD RD #C $135,000 532 HARTNELL PL $342,000 1179 VANDERBILT WAY $350,000 2323 SWARTHMORE DR $355,000 2121 TRIMBLE WAY $357,000 961 FULTON AVE #539 $65,500 2212 WOODSIDE LN #1 $147,000 882 E WOODSIDE LN #2 $195,000 2112 JUANITA LN $275,000 2221 WOODSIDE LN #1 $189,500 3021 EL PRADO WAY $285,000 708 COMMONS DR $297,500 2290 WOODSIDE LN #6 $180,000 2025 RICHMOND ST $330,000 504 HARTNELL PL $310,000 1551 UNIVERSITY $445,000 1019 DORNAJO WAY #112 $96,250 1505 HOOD RD #B $130,000 2286 WOODSIDE LN #6 $137,100 606 WOODSIDE SIERRA #5 $110,000 973 FULTON AVE #482 $90,000 2280 HURLEY WAY #75 $160,000 2519 EXETER SQUARE LN $271,500 546 WOODSIDE OAKS #5 $101,000 704 ELMHURST CIR $365,000
95831 GREENHAVEN, SOUTH LAND PARK
6859 ANTIGUA WAY 6370 GRANGERS DAIRY DR 6241 RIVERSIDE BLVD #115 1164 SPRUCE TREE CIR
$375,000 $583,000 $140,000 $282,000
796 SAO JORGE WAY 7348 WILLOW LAKE WAY 7516 POCKET RD 415 NASCA WAY 1157 SPRUCE TREE CIR 804 ROYAL GARDEN AVE 540 VALIM WAY 805 ROUNDTREE CT 7457 WINDBRIDGE DR 7327 FARM DALE WAY 6960 FLINTWOOD WAY 39 SIX RIVERS CIR 930 TRESTLE GLEN WAY 1407 SAN CLEMENTE WAY 1207 SPRUCE TREE CIR 7 PARK VISTA CIR 60 SOUTHLITE CIR 7100 POCKET RD 8003 LINDA ISLE LN 6241 RIVERSIDE BLVD #111 575 DE MAR DR 6912 S LAND PARK DR 671 RIVERGATE WAY 703 BRIDGESIDE DR 15 STARGLOW CIR 6843 WATERVIEW WAY 1324 SAN AUGUSTINE WAY 418 ROUNDTREE CT 1211 SPRUCE TREE CIR 809 ROUNDTREE CT 45 LAS POSITAS CIR 7492 RIO MONDEGO DR
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3808 EL RICON WAY 4313 LAURELWOOD 2130 ROCKWOOD DR 4376 VULCAN DR 432 WYNDGATE RD 1613 LA PLAYA WAY 810 LARCH LN 2801 BERKSHIRE WAY 3440 MAYFAIR DR 1711 MERCURY WAY 1371 FITCH WAY 750 EL ENCINO WAY 4335 SIERRA MADRE DR 3021 SIERRA MILLS LN 2005 MARYAL DR 641 ESTATES DR 1337 KEENEY WAY 4340 VALMONTE DR 3220 MAYFAIR DR 1837 MARYAL DR 3320 CHURCHILL RD 3844 LYNWOOD WAY 4260 AVILA LN 2032 NEPTUNE WAY 4140 LAGUNITA CT 4373 VULCAN DR 4305 MORPHEUS LN 2584 MORLEY WAY 3304 SIERRA OAKS DR 1149 GREENHILLS RD 3670 LAS PASAS WAY 736 WHITEHALL WAY 4229 BURRELL WAY 1320 GREENHILLS RD 3120 HEMPSTEAD RD 2106 VENUS DR
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TO DO THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Home Sweet Homes 41st annual Historic Home Tour Sunday, Sept. 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. preservationsacramento.org/hometour
This year’s highly anticipated Historic Home Tour, now in its 41st year, showcases the Elmhurst neighborhood for the very first time, with architectural gems such as the Julia Morgan House and other regal residences in the Mediterranean, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and Victorian styles. In conjunction with the home tour, a free street fair will include booths from local contractors, businesses, artists and nonprofit, advocacy and historic organizations. The neighborhood is bounded by Highway 50, Stockton Boulevard, V Street, Second Avenue and 59th Street, so start your tour at the Preservation Sacramento booth at the T Street median (between 40th and 42nd streets) to receive a program and a wristband for entry. Preservation Sacramento, formerly the Sacramento Old City Association, is a citywide nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Sacramento’s irreplaceable historic places and encouraging quality urban design through advocacy, outreach and activism.
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Wales of a Tale “Between Two Fires” author event and book signing Saturday, Sept. 3, at 2 p.m. Avid Reader at Tower, 1600 Broadway marknoce.com
Escape to the exciting world of medieval Wales imagined by author Mark Noce in his debut historical fiction novel, “Between Two Fires,” the first in a series published by Thomas Dunne Books (an imprint of St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan). The book was released on Aug. 23, but now is your chance to grab a copy from the author himself, hear him speak and get him to sign your book—and maybe even spill some secrets about the next installment in the series.
In the Studios Sac Open Studios Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 10-11 and Sept. 17-18, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weekend One: Studios west of Interstate 80 and Highway 99; Weekend Two: Studios east of I-80 and Highway 99 vergeart.com
Now in its 11th year, this two-weekend tour of 150 artist studios throughout Sacramento County will treat guests to a packed schedule of exhibits, activities, demonstrations and interactive events. Established in 2006 by the Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento and run in conjunction with Verge Center for the Arts since 2014, Sac Open Studios has grown to become the largest open-studio event in the county. Verge will kick off the tour with a launch party at its gallery and studio project at 625 S St. from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8, with a preview exhibition, food and drink vendors, a DJ and hands-on kids activities. The party also serves as the official book launch and book signing for the new “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-toFork Capital,” a photo-driven guide to the city published by Cecily Hastings. Free special events will be going on during both weekends of the tour, so check out vergeart. com for more information and a full schedule of events and exhibitions.
Sac Open Studios offers tours of 150 open artist studios with exhibits and demonstrations on two Sept. weekends
Quantum Leap “Entanglement With Artificial Intelligence,” presented by Carmichael Quantum Mystics Friday, Sept. 16, 6:45-8:30 p.m. Carmichael Public Library, 5605 Marconi Ave. meetup.com
Do you ever wonder if robots are the future of human evolution? The Carmichael Quantum Mystics probes this hair-raising question in this free program that features a viewing of Season 4, Episode 7 of “Through the Wormhole” with Morgan Freeman, followed by a short presentation of the three evolutionary stages of artificial intelligence and discussion.
“Yay!” For JAYJAY Reboot: New Work from JAYJAY Artists Sept. 14 through Oct. 29 5524B Elvas Ave. 453-2999, artsy.net/jayjay
One of Sacramento’s favorite contemporary art galleries celebrates its 15th anniversary with the reveal of a newly remodeled exhibit space and an exciting opening show of all new work from the well-known JAYJAY stable of artists as well as artists who are new to the gallery. Founders Beth Jones and Lynda Jolley started JAYJAY (for Jones and Jolley, natch) in 2000 in a small storefront on Franklin Boulevard as an experiment, and clearly, the venture took off! Join the two J’s at their 15th anniversary celebration and grand opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, with music and refreshments.
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All That Jazz Jazz Night at the Crocker Thursday, Sept. 15, at 5:30 p.m. (Shelley Burns & Avalon Swing) and 6:30 p.m. (Denise Perrier) Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerartmuseum.org
The Jazz Night at the Crocker series comes to a crescendo with Denise Perrier on the Crocker’s Main Stage. Described as “the voice with a heart,” Perrier’s rich, contralto voice delivers the standards but spices things up with blues and Latin. Avalon Swing will bring a swing sensibility to classic jazz on the Café Stage.
Cruise Fest on Fulton is back and features more than 500 classic and unique cars this year.
Super Fun Superheroes ArtMix Crocker-Con Thursday, Sept. 8, 5-9 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerartmuseum.org
Bust out your cape and tights and get ready for a galactic good time at the Crocker’s fourth annual ArtMix Crocker-Con. Meet local comic book artists and writers, check out dozens of vendor booths, enjoy out-of-this-world live performances, sample the work of independent game designers and get down at the inaugural comics jam session. You can also do your best superhero impressions at character karaoke and challenge other caped crusaders at the first-ever masquerade parade and dance-off. Enjoy food and drink discounts during happy hour (from 5 to 6 p.m.) and $5 drink specials all night.
Get Your Motor Running CruiseFest On Fulton Avenue (benefitting the California Automobile Museum) Saturday, Sept. 10, 4-8:30 p.m. Fulton Avenue between Marconi Avenue and Cottage Way calautomuseum.org
Cruisin’ is back on Fulton Avenue, but this year, the cars aren’t just parked and pretty, they’re movin’ and cruisin’! More than 500 classic and unique cars will take over Fulton Avenue, including Gov. Jerry Brown’s ’74 Plymouth and re-creation “clone” cars provided by Tribute Team American Graffiti as seen in the movie “American Graffiti.” After the cruise from 4 to 6 p.m., the cars will all be parked along the route, where spectators will be able to get up close and personal with the cool classics, from a 1931 Model A to a 1938 Buick Special to a 1965 Suburban, as well as a variety of exotics such as Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches and Maseratis. The festivities will also include six bands and a variety of food trucks, vendors, breweries and auto-related artisans. As always, CruiseFest is free to all spectators. CruiseFest On Fulton Avenue is a benefit for the California Automobile Museum, located at 2200 Front St. in Old Sac.
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Pianist Catherine Miller performs at the Crocker
Girl Composer Power Crocker Classical Concert featuring soprano Carrie Hennessey and pianist Catherine Miller Sunday, Sept. 11, 3 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerartmuseum.org
Acclaimed soprano Carrie Hennessey returns to the Crocker for a concert celebrating female composers throughout the eras, including works by Alma Mahler (wife of Gustav), Clara Schumann (wife of Robert) and Fanny Mendelssohn (sister of Felix), as well as contemporary composer Libby Larsen. Hennessey will be accompanied on piano by Sacramento native Catherine Miller, a graduate of John F. Kennedy High School and a former member of the Sacramento Youth Symphony. Miller has gone on to study at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary, as a Fulbright scholar, receive her master’s of music degree at the Juilliard School, and tour around the world as a vocal competition accompanist.
Oy Vey, Schmear! Traditional Jewish cuisine of all types is available at the Jewish Food Faire
39th annual Sacramento Jewish Food Faire Sunday, Sept. 18, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Congregation Beth Shalom, 4746 El Camino Ave. 485-4478, jewishfoodfaire.com
The 39th annual Sacramento Jewish Food Faire is a chance for the community to come together to enjoy entertainment, arts and crafts vendors and, of course, food! Chow down on new and traditional Jewish cuisine such as corned beef, pastrami and brisket sandwiches, bagels and lox, blintzes, latkes, falafel, stuffed cabbage rolls, noodle kugel, matzo ball and vegetarian mushroom barley soups, falafel, homemade hummus and Israeli pickled vegetables. Have a sweet tooth? Check out the hard-to-find homemade and imported baked pastries including rugellah, hamentashen, strudel, noodle kugel and much more. Highlighting the Faire’s “Generation to Generation” theme, many parents, children and grandchildren of the same family are participating in this year’s event by working together preparing foods, sharing recipes, performing and serving.
Going Once, Going Twice … 35th annual KVIE Art Auction Friday, Sept. 23, 7-10 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 24, and Sunday, Sept. 25, noon-10 p.m. kvie.org/artauction
Celebrating KVIE Public Television’s 35 years of creating an accessible venue to bring art into area homes, the 35th annual KVIE Art Auction will showcase more than 260 works of art by emerging, well-known and world-renowned Northern California artists selected by a distinguished panel of jurors overseen by KVIE art curator D. Neath. The live, threeday broadcast on Channel 6 will feature work that was culled from nearly 800 entries to make it to your TV screen—so get bidding! A complete list of artists as well as images and information on each piece up for bid is available on the KVIE website. Want a sneak peek? Don’t miss the Preview Gala on Monday, Sept. 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Twenty Shades of Ray Twenty Shades of Ray: 1996-2016, a 20-year survey of art by Robert-Jean Ray Sept. 10 through Oct. 1 DaDas Art Gallery Boutique, 3655 J St. 538-1082
See the beauty of two decades of creative creation when DaDas Art Gallery Boutique (in cooperation with microARTCollection) presents a 20-year survey of drawing, printmaking, collage, painting and mixed-media micro art by Robert-Jean Ray. Ray’s development was influenced by the graphic innovations of early 20thcentury modernism and, later, by post-modern abstract expressionism, arte povera and neo-expressionism. For more than 15 years, Ray’s goal has been to merge depictions of the human face with mixed-media collage compositions inspired by urban street graphics. His micro format drawings, collages and mixed media pieces have been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and he has contributed illustrations to numerous publications, collaborated with other creatives, organized exhibitions for various art galleries and public institutions and is the founder/curator of microARTCollection. Meet him in person at the opening reception on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 3-5 p.m.
Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Please email items for consideration by the first of the month, at least one month in advance of the event.
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Oak Park Brewing Company
La Venadita
Oak Park Culinary Delights NEW AND ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES PUT OUT FINE FARE IN OAK PARK
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ak Park has been called “Sacramento’s first suburb.” More than a century old, Oak Park was a streetcar suburb, easily reachable by streetcars that were first drawn by horses and later ran on electricity. At the turn of the last century, the neighborhood was a thriving center for arts, culture, shopping and dining.
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Throughout the 20th century, events conspired to bring Oak Park down, turning it into a neighborhood more known for crime and decay than for arts and culture. The freeway building boom of the ’50s and ’60s dealt a double blow to Oak Park, cutting it off from adjacent neighborhoods and allowing middle class and prosperous residents to move out to more remote suburbs farther from the city center. Much like other similar neighborhoods across the country, Oak Park has been a target for revitalization and redevelopment for decades, with progress coming in fits and starts, and sometimes not at all. RESTAURANT page 85
Lunch at La Venadita
Art Preview
GALLERY ART SHOWS IN SEPTEMBER
WASH Inc. Annual Open Watercolor Exhibition, “Go With The Flow 2016”, runs through Oct. 2. at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center.Shown above: “Whitewashed” by Diana Johnson,a 2015 Award Winner. 5330B Gibbons Drive.
Tim Collom Gallery will exhibit new works by Tim Collom through Sept. 28. On display will be a new collection of works in oil as well as selected limited edition giclees. Shown above: “Sunflowers”, 24”x24”, oil on birch panel, 2016 by Collom. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com
Viewpoint Photographic Gallery presents a retrospective of photographer Francine Moskovitz through Oct. 1. Shown above: “Karen, Back View” by Moskovitz. 2015 J St.
The exhibition “Reboot” denotes the reset of JAYJAY on their 15th anniversary. This show celebrates their expanding stable of modern and contemporary artists and runs through Oct. 29. Shown above: Galaxy XVI by Joan Moment, 42” x 84” acrylic on canvas. 5520 Elvas Avenue; jayjayart.com ARTHOUSE on R presents “Ghost Genes”, works by Craig Martinez through Oct. 4. Shown left: “Apache Gahn” by Martinez. 1021 R Street; arthouseonr.com
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RESTAURANT FROM page 82 Recent revitalization efforts, however, seem to be taking hold. A handful of businesses have staked their claim around the newly named Triangle District, and their fortunes seem to be on the rise. This isn’t luck or good timing, however. Many of the businesses nestled in the crook of the triangle, around 35th Street and Broadway, are putting out quality food and libations. They’re places that would be successful no matter where they set up shop. Two that stand out for their exemplary fare are Oak Park Brewing Company and La Venadita. The first is a thriving brewery/restaurant opened by a couple of local home brewers who wanted to share their passion with others. The second is a new venture by a successful Bay Area restaurateur who grew up in Sacramento. La Venadita (Spanish for the little deer, or doe) is a tongue-in-cheek taqueria. Owner Tom Schnetz grew up not far from Oak Park and now owns a house just a few blocks from his new restaurant. La Venadita’s logo is a portrait of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo with antlers coming out of her head. You’ll find this kind of playfulness throughout the space and the menu.
The queso fundido, usually a combo of molten cheese and chorizo, swaps out the standard Mexican sausage for shrimp, directly assaulting the noseafood-and-dairy “rule.” The mix is a gooey, satisfying treat. The carnitas taco is one of the best I’ve ever had. Fried in the shell, this beautiful combo of simmered pork, cheese and salsa takes a staple and elevates it to something extraordinary. Similarly, the Vampiro, an al pastor taco, is a sloppy feast of marinated pork, fried cheese, onions, cilantro and just a little bit of guilt. You won’t want to skip it. Unexpectedly, one of the standouts on the menu is a simple salad. A perfect combo of mixed greens, roasted red onions and red peppers, pumpkin seeds, queso fresco and cumin vinaigrette, it’s a beautiful summer salad. The flavors are on point and a blunt reminder to us carnivores how flavorful and rewarding a well-made salad can be. La Venadita’s interior is plucky and funky. One bright-pink wall dominates the space, looming over an open, exposed-brick-and-beam room flooded by light from two walls of windows. The service is light. It’s an order-at-the-counter kind of place, but orders are sent from the kitchen muy rapido.
Buy one entrée and get a second entrée FREE! $15 maximum value. Seniors 55 and older. Must present proof of age. Coupon required. Offer valid 9-6-2016 through 11-23-2016.
Monday through Thursday only. May not be combined with any other offer. Tax and gratuity not included.
1001 Front Street • Old Sacramento • 916-446-6768 www.fatcitybarandcafe.com Just across the street, Oak Park Brewing Company holds down a secure spot in the new Oak Park. Open only two years, this brewery/ restaurant already seems like a fixture of the neighborhood, and a solid citizen in the ever-expanding Sacramento brewing scene. Oak Park Brewing offers a wide array of housemade and guest beers, including my favorite: the housemade Rope Swing Cream Ale. The food menu is varied, with some ambitious dishes. Culinary standouts include the Little Chicken Bucket, a Southernfried game hen served with an indulgent pile of cheese grits, collard greens and chili
honey glaze. This little dish is one of the finest Southern dishes in this here Western town. The shrimp and grits are also a great Southern plate, but pack enough heat to light a gas furnace, so be warned. The shrimp po’ boy, OP burger and spare ribs are worth eating as well. Everything is served on point by friendly waiters in the brewery’s elegant steampunk environs. If you haven’t dropped by some of the new eateries in Oak Park, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Check it out. It’s closer than you think, and it offers a new slice of Sacramento history. La Venadita is at 3501 3rd Ave.; 400-4676; lavenaditasac.com. Oak Park Brewing Company is at 3514 Broadway; 660-2723, opbrewco. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com n
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DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 116 15th Street 551-1559 L D $$ Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com
DeVere’s Pub 1521 L Street L D Full Bar $$ Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com
Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518 Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, flight or glass • downtownandvine.com
Ella Dining Room & Bar
ITALIAN
Our pet services include: • Doggie Day Care • Pet Taxi • Watering house plants • Picking up mail & newspapers • Changing drapes & lights
Since 1923
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$10 OFF Total DINNER food order of $40 or more
With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Expires 9/30/16.
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5723 Folsom Boulevard 457-1936 Dine In & Take Out • Cocktail Lounge • Banquet Room Seats 35 Lunch 11-4 pm • Dinner 4-9 pm Sundays • 11:30-9 pm • Closed Mondays
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Owner Beni Feil, trusted member of the Sacramento community for over 50 years!
for a rate sheet or complimentary consultation. Licensed • Bonded • Additional pets and services negotiable
1112 Second St. 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com
Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
L D $ Great burgers and more. • williesburgers.com
110 K Street
R STREET
1213 K St. 448-8900
Café Bernardo
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com
1431 R St. 930-9191
L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical american menu• firestonepublichouse.com
Frank Fat’s 806 L St. 442-7092 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service
Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R Street Suite 100 L D $$ Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • fishfacepokebar.com
Iron Horse Tavern 1116 15th Street L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net
Ma Jong’s 1431 L Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com
Old Soul & Pullman Bar 12th & R Streets B L D $ Full-service cafe with artisan coffee roasts, bakery goods and sandwiches • oldsoulco.com
Grange 926 J Street • 492-4450 B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com
Magpie Cafe 1601 16th Street L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com
Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com
South 2005 11th Street 382-9722
Call 451-PETS
The Firehouse Restaurant
Willie’s Burgers
1132 16th Street
ESPAÑOL
L D Wine/Beer $$ Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space Elladiningroomandbar.com
Firestone Public House Loving, quality pet care in your home.
1110 Front Street 442-8226
1131 K St. 443-3772
Esquire Grill
Sacramento’s Oldest Restaurant
Rio City Cafe
L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com
OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768 D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants.com
Nido Bakery
1409 R Street Suite 102 L D $ Bakery treats and seasonal specialities. hellonido.com
Shoki Ramen House 1201 R Street L D $$ Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • sshokiramenhouse.com
FOOD LITERACY CENTER September 8-25
first course (choose one) CHILLED TOMATO SOUP Fresh mozzarella, basil, young olive oil
first course (choose one) GRILLED OCTOPUS New potatoes, saffron aioli, molho cru
SUMMER MELON AND PROSCIUTTO Jimmy Nardello peppers, basil, mint, toasted pepitas, feta
GAZPACHO Cucumber, tomato, onion, micro cilantro, avocado
BABY MIXED GREENS Local pears, Point Reyes blue cheese, toasted walnuts, Champagne-honey vinaigrette
second course (choose one) HOUSE-MADE HANKERCHIEF PASTA Fromage blanc, fine herbs, cherry tomatoes, Parmesan cream, brioche GRILLED FLAT IRON STEAK Roasted Fingerling potatoes, gypsy peppers, summer squash, wild arugula, Romesco GRILLED KING SALMON Summer vegetables, ratatouille, salsa verde
third course (choose one) MISSION FIG TART Local figs, balsamic, mascarpone whip cream
WARM NICASIO VALLEY CHEESE CO. RACLETTE Mission figs, Marcona almonds, saba, membrillo, cornichons
second course (choose one) PORK & CLAMS Braised pork, manila clams, new potatoes, roasted peppers, aioli, cilantro CHICKEN LEG CONFIT Compressed melon with basil, pickled chili, balsamic vinegar braised mustard greens, bacon & habanero jack biscuits GRILLED FLAT IRON STEAK Jimmy Nardello peppers, grilled squash, muscatel glazed cipollini onions, Romesco
third course (choose one) LEMON SOUFFLÉ CAKE Genepy glazed blueberries
BAKED ALASKA TRIFLE Watermelon sorbet, mint chocolate chip gelato, graham crumb, burnt meringue
VANILLA BEAN CRÈME BRÛLÉE Summer berries
Reservations required: esquiregrill.com / 916.448.8900
Reservations required: hockfarm.com / 916.440.8888
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This Month @ the Market
A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN SEPTEMBER
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BLUE LAKE BEAN
This root vegetable comes in a rainbow of colors: red, gold, pink, white, even striped. It has a very high sugar content and is a unique source of phytonutrients called betalains. Its greens are edible, too: Prepare them similar to spinach or chard. To eat: Roast and serve in a salad with arugula, goat cheese and chopped walnuts.
Nearby Apple Hill supplies the apples in our local farmers markets. They come in numerous varieties: Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith and more. This popular autumn fruit can be used in a variety of ways, from salads to desserts. To eat: Bake in a pie with a lattice crust or crumb topping.
This popular bean, also known as a snap or string bean, is considered the gold standard of green beans. Mild and versatile, it has a dark-green, cylindrical, stringless, firm, plump pod. To eat: Use for quick pickling or canning.
CELERY ROOT
PARSNIP
FINGERLING POTATO
Despite its name, this vegetable is not related to celery. A dense, fleshy white root vegetable, it is a flavorful source of vitamin C. It’s also known as celeriac. To eat: Use in salads and slaws.
This root vegetable looks like a top-heavy white carrot. It develops a rich, nutty flavor after cooking. Don’t try to eat it raw—it’s practically inedible. To eat: Add to soups and stews.
This small, waxy potato gets its name from its long, narrow shape, which makes it look like a finger. It comes in a variety of colors and maintains its shape when cooked. To eat: Slice in half vertically, toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and roast in a hot oven.
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THE HANDLE The Rind 1801 L Street #40 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com
Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com
Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th St. 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • Paragarys.com
Revolution Wines 2831 S Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • rwwinery. com
Skool 2315 K Street
MIDTOWN Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com
Café Bernardo 2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service
Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com
Federalist Public House
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
Hot Italian
SACRAMENTO’S PREMIER SPORTS LOUNGE
2431 J St. 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com
2009 N Street L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-fired pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com
EAT DRINK SPORTS
The Waterboy 2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com
NFL SEASON IS BACK!!! Experience the BEST Sunday FUNdays in Sacramento
Breakfast Sat & Sun 9am-Noon
1627 16th Street 444-3000 L D Full Bar $$ Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, Gelato• hotitalian.net
EAST SAC 33rd Street Bistro
3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233
Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. 441-6022 L D Full Bar $$$ Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting
Red Rabbit 2718 J Street L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a
B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdstreetbistro.com
Burr’s Fountain
4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties
sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net
Cabana Winery & Bistro 5610 Elvas 476-5492 LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com
HAPPY HOUR
M-Th 3-7pm All Day Friday
Enjoy our Steak Dinner Saturdays & Sundays on special and cooked to order for $14.95
Check out our website: www.ch56sports.com Clubhouse 56 ō 723 56th Street ō 916.454.5656
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Distinctively
Sacramento
OBO Italian
Selland’s Market Cafe
3145 Folsom Blvd.
5340 H St. 736-3333
L D Full Bar $$ The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing flavors of Italy. Counter service and patio • oboitalian. com
B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com
Español 5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679 L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere
Evan’s Kitchen 855 57th St. 452-3896 B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, community table for single diners • Chefevan.com
Formoli’s Bistro
OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Thurd Ave. 4000-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com
Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com
3839 J St. 448-5699 B L D Wine/Beer $$-$$$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com
Vibe Health Bar
L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com
Kru
1110 Front Street
442.8226 | riocitycafe.com
L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com
Ettore’s
LAND PARK Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809
La Trattoria Bohemia
Freeport Bakery
L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting
Café Vinoteca 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331
L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Raw and refined, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com
3649 J St. 455-7803
B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-influenced comfort food • Paragarys.com
B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com
L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire Wine/Beer. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagardenrestaurant.org
3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559
Pavilions Shopping Center
3515 Broadway
Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. 558-4440
Cafe Bernardo
2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708 B L D $-$$ 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 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com
La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104
Opa! Opa! 5644 J St. 451-4000 L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service
Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting
Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com
Iron Grill
L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting
13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
Jamie’s Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044 L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
Luna Lounge 5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com
Matteo’s Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727 L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes
The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794 D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out
Taylor’s Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.
Willie’s Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com
ARDEN AREA Bella Bru Café 5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full bar, casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com
Roxy 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000 B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere •
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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#1 IN CALIFORNIA
EAST PORTAL PARK CHARMER! 2bd/1ba w/lrg lot. Family rm & bonus rm, finished attic space. Come make this beautiful hm yours. $399,000 POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942
SO MUCH CHARM & SO MUCH MORE! Behind the white picket fence is a charming 3bd/1ba East Sac hm that will tug at your heart strings. POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942
EAST SACRAMENTO 2 Bd hm artfully updtd & rmdld forNtoday's G urban ethos. Park N D I or pull all the way through off the street on the long P Edriveway the 2 car gar to the back of this HUGE city lot w/raised beds. $472,000 POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942 ELMHURST Fabulous 2 bd hm w/beamed ceilings in the living rm, frml dining rm, breakfast rm. New kitch w/granite cnter tops, hdwd flrs CH&A & 2 car garage. 1/4 bsemnt. $569,000 MELANIE CONOVER 341-7807 CaBRE#: 00419087
PRIME EAST SAC LOCATION! Spacious Tudor style home with 4bd/2ba, 2 car garage on a large lot. $599,000 SCOOTER VALINE 916-420-4694 CaBRE#: 01896468
ONE OF A KIND! East Sac Condo w/floating stairs, lofts, huge circular beamed skylight, loads of storage & private patio. $250,000 PALOMA BEGIN 628-8561 CaBRE#: 01254423
BRICK-FRONT EAST SAC CHARMER! 2bd, 1.5 ba plus a den, bonus room, family room & Huge living room with beamed ceiling & fireplace. $419,900 DOUG COVILL 764-5042 CaBRE#: 00800308
TUCKED IN LOCATION! Updated 3 bdrms, 2 ba w/family rm, spacious & private master suite. THE WOOLFORD GROUP 834-6900 CaBRE#: 00680069, 01778361, 00679593 COLLEGE GREENS Amazing corner lot location. 4bds/2baths with 1600+sqft. Perfect palette to make your own. THE WOOLFORD GROUP 834-6900 CaBRE#: 00680069, 01778361, 00679593 COLONIAL HEIGHTS Cute 2BD bungalow with detached 2 garage is near UC Davis Med Center, Medical & Nursing School campuses, as well as UOP's McGeorge School of Law, and Sac State. $249,900 MARK PETERS 600-3029 CaBRE#: 01424396
MCKINLEY PARK CHARMER! Stunning curb appeal, hdwd flrs, & many period details make this hm a joy to see! POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942
TERRIFIC DOWNTOWN LOCATION! Close to Southside Park & the new Golden One Arena. All brick building. Zoned Residential/Office. $259,000 MIKE OWNBEY 616-1607 CaBRE#: 01146313 BERTHA HENSCHEL PARK! Cute 3 bedrooms, 1 bath home located in desirable location. 2 car garage and private yard with patio. PALOMA BEGIN 628-8561 CaBRE#: 01254423
STUNNING ELMHURST HOME! Blt in 1924 & underwent massive renovation/addition in 2015. 4bd/2bath Huge Master Suit, custom kitchen & lrg bkyd. $605,000 TOM LEONARD 834-1681 CaBRE#: 01714895
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NEW CONSTRUCTION IN EAST SAC! 3bd/2ba, 1500sqft plus a 400sqft, 1bd apartment, 2 car garage, fully loaded and brand new everything. $749,000 TOM LEONARD 834-1681 CaBRE#: 01714895
SHINING WITH EAST SAC PRIDE! 3bd/2ba hm, fabulous flrpln, frplce, master ste w/walk-inG $549,000 JEANINE closet, pool & near Bertha Henschel D I NPrk! N E P ROZA & SINDY KIRSCH 548-5799 or 730-7705 CaBRE#: 01365413; 10483907 FANTASTIC CUSTOM HOME IN FAB 40’S! Rmdld by Tim Leake, this 4 or 5 bdrm hm is perched on an oversized East Sac lot w/separate studio. POLLY SANDERS & ELISE BROWN 715-0213 CaBRE#: 01158787, 01781942 PENTHOUSE @ CAPITOL PARK 15thFlr Penthouse: 1389sf, southern view, gourmet kitch, hdwd flrs, 2bd/2ba, pool/spa/gym. SacramentoPenthouse.com $1,019,000 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916-601-5699 CaBRE#: 01222608
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EAST SAC BRICK TUDOR! Oodles of traditional charm. 4 bdrms, 3 full baths & family rm. Art Studio. THE WOOLFORD GROUP 834-6900 CaBRE#: 00680069, 01778361, 00679593
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