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LAND PARK DOUBLE LOT Land Park cutie. 3 bedroom 1½ bath with a highly desired attached 2+ car garage with plenty of storage. Central heat and air. Re¿nished hardwood Àoors, newer paint and a beautiful wood burning ¿replace in the living room. this home is on a double lot and includes two parcels. Walkable school, shops and restaurants. $445,000 LISA McCAULEY 916-601-5474

LAND PARK DUPLEX Sweet little investment property, or starter property for friends - walkable - close to farmer’s market, shopping, Land Park, Midtown and the Broadway Corridor. Each unit is 1 bedroom 1 bath and has its own garage and laundry hookups. Very livable Àoor plan Great Land Park location, plus easy freeway access. $525,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 916-505-5395

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LAND PARK FIXER Calling all investors! This Land Park ¿xer is just waiting for some a little tender loving care. Opportunity knocks in this 2, possibly 3 bed, 1 bath home, such a great location on a beautiful, tree-lined street, and many citrus trees in the back yard. This home has a newer roof and water heater. $388,000 HILARY BUCHANAN 916-397-7502

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BEAUTIFUL WEST SACRAMENTO HOME 3 bedroom, 2½ bath features a kitchen with a gas range, island, pantry dining space and plenty of storage. You’ll love the vaulted ceilings and cozy ¿replace in the family room. Relax in your large master suite offering dual sinks, separate tub and shower; walk-in closet. Inviting back patio under the canopy of trees! $445,000 KELLIE SWAYNE 916-206-1458

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WALK TO McGEORGE LAW SCHOOL Enter this adorable 3 bedroom 2 bath home by the large front porch into a spacious open concept living room with a coved ceiling, wood and tile Àoors. Lots of kitchen counter top in white tile. lighted back yard patio. Perfect for entertaining. Close to McGeorge Law School. New water heater. $349,000 KAREN BOOTH 916-803-0530

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NORTH OAK PARK DUPLEX 1 bedroom 1 baths units with garage on a super spacious lot. In North Oak Park. Orientation of the duplex makes it feel very private. Beautifully maintained and ready for you. Hardwood Àoors, central heat and air and dual pane windows. Convenient location close to transportation and minutes to down town. $410,000 PAULA LOPEZ 916-719-9210

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LOADED WITH CHARACTER AND CHARM Amazing updated Land Park home! Newly re¿nished hardwood Àoors. Highly desired 2-car garage with plenty of storage. Quality remodeled kitchen. Newer roof, heat and air. Wonderful open Àoorplan with spacious kitchen and nook. Formal dining room and large living room with cozy cottage-like ¿replace. $469,900 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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CHARMING LAND PARK BUNGALOW This 2 bedroom home features updated kitchen and bath including granite counters, tile Àooring plus much more! Original hardwood Àoors in bedrooms and open concept living and dining rooms. Close to Dad’s, Freeport Bakery and Taylor’s The quaint, relaxing front porch and backyard complete this darling home! $459,000 JAMIE RICH 916-612-4000

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ROSA DEL RIO HOME Amazing remodeled 4 bedroom home in a fantastic community! Club house, pool and tennis court directly across the street. Gorgeous remodeled kitchen and bathrooms in 2015. Windows 2013. New carpet, paint, lights and quality laminate Àoors. 3 bedrooms downstairs, courtyard entry, open Àoor plan. Two patio areas. $380,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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Jamie helped me purchase my Àrst home several years ago. Her knowledge and professionalism made the purchase smooth and worry-free. Now recently married, I needed to Ànd a home for my new family and once again, I called on Jamie. She is not only an exceptional realtor, but an exceptional person – reliable, patient, supportive, compassionate. She truly understands people, and she understands that “home” is not just a building, but a feeling; that it is not just a Ànancial investment, but an investment in family and in the future. I can’t imagine a better realtor to work with to buy or sell my home!

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JULIE SMILEY Julie Smiley’s main work is in oil painting, although she often uses mixed media. Her art is inﬂuenced by her sensitivity to relationships between people and physical spaces, and ideas of social and personal control. Her current work focuses on the local landscapes. Smiley is represented by the John Natsoulas Gallery. Visit natsoulas.com

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Signing all 4,000 prints was a signiﬁcant undertaking for the artist.

12 Days of Help and Hope ART PRINT SALES RAISE $151,520 FOR PARADISE FIRE VICTIMS

he “Twelve Days of Christmas” song is still fresh in my mind in early January. As every child knows, the festive tune tells the story of a series of gifts given to a loved one that grow in quantity each day. Local artist and gallery owner Tim Collom, who’s also an accomplished Realtor, experienced a similar joy when he set out to offer some signed giclee

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art prints to help raise funds for the Paradise fire victims. “Like everyone, I was just blown away at the devastation of this community. And I had no connection to that area at all. But the whole darn town had burned to the ground,” Collom says. In 2017, Collom created a large, colorful painting of the entire state of California. Previously, he specialized in landscapes common to the state’s major regions, including Tahoe, the Wine Country, the Capitol, beaches and the like. “Someone suggested I combine them into one painting,” Collom says. After selling hundreds of paintings over the years, he loved the California piece enough to keep it for himself. “The only one,” he adds.

But the image became iconic to Collom. He sold prints of all sizes, and generously donated prints to charity fundraisers. “This was the first image that came to mind when I thought I could raise funds. I chose it because it is the entire state that was so saddened by the two regional fires,” Collom says. Tim’s original goal was to raise $4,000 in print sales. He worked with local HFA Print Gallery to determine the cost of 100 prints, plus packing and shipping. The prints were sold for $40, plus tax. They promised delivery by Christmas. He and his gallery launched the fundraiser Nov. 12, using Collom’s extensive social media audience for his art business. And boy, did he underestimate the demand!

The first day brought $35,000 in orders after it went viral on social media. “We were blown away, yet very anxious that we could manage the demand,” Collom says. “We were worried that our website would crash, but thankfully it didn’t.” As sales grew every day, he began to worry about how the money would best directly benefit the victims. Gratefully, one of his Facebook fans introduced him to her husband, Brian Rice, president of California Professional Firefighters. Collom met with Rice and decided to donate the funds to the organization’s foundation after realizing that firefighters are literally the boots on the ground and know a community’s needs firsthand. “What I loved was that they issue $250 debit cards to each victim

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TIM’S ORIGINAL GOAL WAS TO RAISE

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Brian Rice, president of California Professional Fireﬁghters, and real estate agent Tim Collom with the artist’s original painting of California. Tim Collom created the original painting of California in 2017. registered with FEMA. They can spend it on whatever they need,” Collom says. “It was the perfect solution. Onehundred percent went to victims.” Bay Area media coverage helped broaden the appeal. A social media post by U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris brought a fresh audience that kept the sales coming in. By Nov. 24, the campaign ended after reaching $150,000. “Everyone involved was exhausted, and this included me, my gallery staff and the printer. And we had reached the timeframe where Christmas delivery was not possible,” Collom says. But another twist came when they started planning for Collom to sign all 4,000 prints as promised. The signing—which was still not complete when I interviewed Collom in early

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December—took an enormous amount of his time, mostly at night. And this was despite a system to organize the process, including having a page-turner at his side. “I’m certainly not complaining, because this is my contribution, and a completely insignificant one after what the firefighters went through. Keep in mind that 55 of them lost their own homes.” Collom reports print sales came from around the world, but more than 75 percent came from California residents. It was a glorious day when Collom handed the California Professional Firefighters Foundation a check for $151,520 on Nov. 28. Brian Rice received the money at a local fire station. Collom brought the large

original painting along for folks to see. Sort of by accident, the firefighters started signing the back. “I was delighted when I saw them doing that,” he says. “I was totally blown away by the generosity and kindness of folks. I’m so proud to be a part of this wonderful community. I am grateful from the bottom of my heart for the support,” Collom adds. The experience was the highlight of Collom’s life so far. “No question!” he adds for emphasis. In fact, the United States is the most generous country on the planet, by far. Americans are moved to give large and small for those in need every day of the year.

But the genius of this beautiful small print is that it takes a cash donation one step further. By hanging the work in your home or office, you are reminded every day that you were part of a generous community that takes care of people in need. And hopefully, it will lead to a lifelong habit of helping others with your time and treasure. For more information on Collom and to purchase prints, visit timcollomgallery.com. And like Tim Collom Art on Facebook. Cecily Hastings is at publisher@ insidepublications.com. n

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Dine Downtown Restaurant Week features prix ﬁxe menus by local chefs.

f you’re looking for Midtown luxury living, the new Q19 community— developed by SKK Developments and Grupe Company—might be just your style. The project features 68 boutique apartments from studios to twobedrooms. Q19 is the first in the region to offer a fully integrated Vivint smart home system platform, which includes programmable lighting, keyless entry and Alexa or Google Home voiceactivated commands. Other amenities are rotating art in the modern foyer, high-end finishes and a fleet of Envoy electric cars as part of Electrify America’s Sac-to-Zero program.

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New on Q SACRAMENTO BOUTIQUE APARTMENT COMMUNITY COMES TO MIDTOWN

Q19 anchors the Midtown Quarter, a new residential enclave at various stages of completion, which will be made up of 400 new units, including 20PQR Townhomes and the Ice Blocks. “We’re thrilled to bring Q19 to the heart of the Midtown Quarter,” says Sotiris Kolokotronis, president of SKK Developments. “It delivers a boutique living experience and enables a sustainable and exciting lifestyle.” Have a pet? The pet-friendly complex features a pet spa and Truitt Bark Park just across the street.

Nearly 50 percent of the units are leased so far, many to out-of-town residents. For more information, visit q19midtown.com.

DINE DOWNTOWN Local foodies can explore Sacramento’s top restaurants during this year’s Dine Downtown Restaurant Week taking place Jan. 11–21. Presented by Kaiser Permanente, Dine Downtown showcases unique, three-

course prix fixe menus at $35 per person from celebrated local chefs. “Dine Downtown is a celebration of the culinary talents that call our urban core home,” says Michael Ault, executive director of Downtown Sacramento Partnership. “Guests have an opportunity to explore new dining experiences and rediscover some of the most iconic restaurants in our region.” Launched in 2005, Dine Downtown provides a significant boost for local restaurants, as well as local charities. One dollar from every Dine Downtown meal is donated to food literacy and social service programs in the community. In 2017, more than $13,000 was raised to support programs run by the California Food Literacy Center and Transforming Lives, Cultivating Success. For a full list of participating restaurants and to make reservations, visit godowntownsac.com/ dinedowntown.

The Sacramento Zoo welcomes a new clan of meerkats.

UPPING THE PACE Visitors to Sutter Health’s new SeniorCare PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) facility—which opened in the River District in December—will notice the lively artwork that decorates the 45,000-square-foot center. That’s because Sutter Health retained Art Consulting Services—a local woman-owned firm—to develop a unique package for its elderly patients. ACS worked with an art selection committee comprised of area interior designers, clinicians and Sutter leadership, as well as with current PACE patients to find the perfect artistic balance. “They were funny and outspoken about not wanting ‘old people art’ in

their new facility,” says ACS principal Kira Stewart. “It was really inspiring!” The new state-of-the-art facility— located at 444 N. Third Street—boasts black-and-white photos of musicians like the Beatles and Elvis alongside vibrant abstract paintings by Roseville artist Margarita Chaplinska, as well as wall space for the seniors’ own creations. PACE is a nonprofit, all-inclusive health plan that offers daily activities at the day center, roundtrip transportation to appointments and in-home medical care to adults 55 and older as an alternative to residence at a nursing home. For more information, visit sutterhealth.org/lp/pace.

New SeniorCare PACE center showcases carefully selected artwork.

ZOO’S COOL ‘KATS For the first time in its history, the Sacramento Zoo is now home to an all-female clan of meerkats from the Brevard Zoo in Florida. Contrary to what the name suggests, a meerkat is not a feline but rather a small carnivore belonging to the mongoose family native to Africa. These gregarious animals spend much of their lives in underground burrows in large family groups of up to 40 individuals. This species is specially adapted to life in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, making them exceptionally

well-suited for Sacramento’s hot days and cool nights, as well as relatively temperate winter. Much of the construction work to augment the new meerkat habitat— which includes a central termite mound for the meerkats to plunder—was completed by the zoo’s in-house facilities team with training by Cemrock Landscapes Inc. For more information, visit saczoo.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Submissions are due six weeks prior to the publication month. n

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Frets &

Vets GUITAR LESSONS FOR VETERANS HIT A CHORD

Bill McAleavey

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nything can be healed by music,” says Bill McAleavey, the Sacramento coordinator of Frets & Vets Six Strings Stronger, a guitar instruction program for veterans offered for free through the local VA. “It gives people a sense of purpose once they see what they can do.” A veteran of the Navy himself, McAleavey is also an accomplished guitar player—he used to play in a rock ‘n’ roll band that performed at weddings and parties, although he admits they “never made any money at it.” Now retired from a career in health care finance (he worked for major medical centers like Dignity Health and Stanford, and eventually traveled the country as a consultant), the Swallows Nest resident turned to teaching. After volunteering with a national nonprofit that McAleavey found wasn’t

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as supportive of the local community as he would have liked, he turned to the VA. The agency was enthusiastic about the idea of providing guitar instruction to local veterans as a positive creative outlet. “The lessons give the vets a reason to get out of the house,” McAleavey explains. Classes currently take place in a conference room at Mather, but there are plans to expand to McClellan and a veteran center in Citrus Heights once they recruit more instructors. “We require that vets commit to the 10-week course, but nothing else is clear cut. It’s not, ‘by week three, you must be able to do this.’ They move at their own pace.” To participate in the program, veterans must be referred by their health care provider and sign a contract that they will show up every week for 10 weeks

until graduating from the program. At that time, they are presented with a certificate, a new guitar and a “gig bag” carrying case loaded with all the “doodads” they could need, like picks and extra strings. McAleavey says that 90 percent of the participants referred to the program are veterans with “serviceconnected issues,” such as PTSD or physical injuries from tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and more. “Every war we’ve been in is represented,” he says. The program’s first two students graduated in November and McAleavey hopes, as they beef up their volunteer corps of instructors (they currently have five), they’ll be able to serve many more. In the meantime, McAleavey is content teaching those

he can as interest in the program grows. “I like hands-on volunteering,” says McAleavey, who also serves on the food line at Loaves & Fishes with his wife once a month. “The vets are kind of like a floating target—you never know the situation you’re dealing with, so you don’t want to say, ‘Tell me about what you’ve been through.’ But because I was in the military and speak the language, sometimes I can get them talking. But most of all, the music helps them see what they’re capable of. It’s very rewarding.” For more information, email fretsnvets6ss@gmail.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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People Power HOW A CITIZENS GROUP CAN MUSCLE THE CITY COUNCIL

ost people can think of better ways to spend time than volunteering for a City Hall committee that promises hours of hair-splitting budget analysis and endless arguments over where to spend $100 million in taxpayer cash. And here’s another disincentive. The hours and energy might add up to absolutely nothing—a complete waste of time. Maybe the City Council will follow the volunteers’ recommendations. Or maybe it won’t. There are no obligations. That’s the cynical view. But there’s another, more enlightened way to look at the Measure U Community Advisory

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Committee to be formed in February by Sacramento’s political and civic leadership. With unity, clarity and purpose, the group can demand serious attention from the City Council—and get it. Since the Measure U tax hike passed with 56 percent voter approval in November, the city has been accepting applications for the public committee that will advise on where and how to spend the windfall. The measure doubles Sacramento’s special recession sales tax to one full penny and makes it permanent. The surcharge is expected to bring about $100 million into City Hall each year. While the law gives the City Council total discretion in spending the money, the campaign for passage highlighted the element of citizen input—a mandated public advisory committee. Deadline to sign up is Jan. 9 at 5 p.m. The application is available online at engagesac.org/measureu. The process is simple, requiring basic information, details about relevant experience and a statement explaining why you would make an absolutely perfect addition to the committee.

If you would like to apply but are out of practice with writing personal statements, ask any college freshman who successfully charmed his or her way into a decent university. There are books and counseling services to help. Better still, talk to your City Councilmember or Mayor Darrell Steinberg. They each get to pick one Measure U advisory committee member. The council’s Personnel and Public Employees Committee gets six additional picks, meaning 15 lucky Sacramento residents will comprise the final group. Populating citizen committees is a refined art at City Hall. When I worked for Mayor Kevin Johnson, I helped fill many seats on various public committees, from animal services to preservation and planning and design. And I watched how other City Council members handled the chore. Basically, it was a game of political payoff and expediency. Most councilmembers (including the mayor) cared little or nothing about the city’s numerous community committees. They dished out committee slots as rewards to supporters or eager folks hoping to

break into politics. If you are thinking about running for school board or City Council, a civic committee post is an excellent kick off. Most advisory committee jobs require only that the applicant live in the district overseen by the City Council member who makes the appointment. The Measure U committee comes with a few extra requirements. There’s one seat for a young person, age 16 to 24. There’s a seat for someone with experience in affordable housing. The committee will have one member from a taxpayer group, and one from the world of capitalism—a businessowner. The committee will need a trauma or mental health expert, and someone with public health or environmental justice experience, whatever that means. Clearly, the definitions are loose, giving the council room to maneuver. Nine remaining seats are open to anyone chosen by the council. Citizen committees typically do grunt work that helps set the stage for City Council action. They operate in the background. The public rarely knows or cares what happens in committee

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WITH UNITY, CLARITY AND PURPOSE, THE GROUP CAN DEMAND SERIOUS ATTENTION FROM THE CITY COUNCIL—AND GET IT. meetings. But the Measure U committee can be different. “This new advisory committee will help make sure tax dollars are being spent wisely and in ways that best serve our communities,” says city manager Howard Chan, who from my experience is one of the most honest and nononsense bureaucrats to step foot into City Hall. The key word in Chan’s statement is “help.” The City Council has no obligation to follow any advice from the new advisory committee. Under state law that allowed Measure U to pass with a simple majority, the money must be spent without earmarks—it goes wherever the City Council says. But no other advisory committee operates with a public mandate to watch over $100 million annually. If the council ignores the committee’s advice, a determined group of 15 citizens can shame the council and mayor. The committee can hold press conferences.

Measure U passed with a promise of transparency. With loudly proclaimed independence, the community advisory committee holds leverage over the City Council. Get your application in today. Two information sessions on the Measure U Community Advisory Committee will be held Thursday, Jan. 3, 6–7 p.m. The first at South Natomas Community Center, 2921 Truxel Road; the second at Sam and Bonnie Pannell Community Center, 2450 Meadowview Road. Another meeting will be held Monday, Jan. 7, 6–7 p.m., at Oak Park Community Center, 3425 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. For more information or to apply for the Measure U Community Advisory Committee, go to engagesac.org/ measureu. Craig Powell's column will return next month. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Bikes Get Left Out LOOPHOLE LETS GOLDEN 1 CENTER FORGET CYCLISTS

or people interested in building barrooms, restaurants, bowling alleys, fraternity houses, hotels, motels, auto dealerships, poolhalls, retail shops, hospitals, nursing homes, batting cages, dog kennels, yoga studios, brewpubs, churches, theaters and cardrooms, Sacramento civic authorities publish a chart about bicycles. The chart proves how serious Sacramento is about bikes. It leaves nothing to chance. It explains exactly

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how much bike parking is required for each type of building and business. Bike spaces are broken into categories: long term for employees, short term for guests and customers. The requirements vary by neighborhood. Downtown demands more bike slots than suburban locations. A bowling alley Downtown needs one bike space for every two bowling lanes. In the suburbs, they can get away with one space for every four lanes. Assembly halls—defined as social and cultural gathering spots—must provide bike parking for 5 percent of their audience. At Golden 1 Center, which seats 17,608, the formula works out to 880 required bike spots. Yet the arena has posts for just 12 bikes at Fifth and L streets. How could this happen in a city serious about getting people to ride bicycles? Here’s how: The city doesn’t consider Golden 1 Center an assembly hall. It puts the arena in a category called

“Other.” Under city code, “Other” gets to work out private deals with City Hall. Regular rules don’t apply to “Other.” Special allowances for Golden 1 Center reveal a contradiction for a city that is justifiably proud of its efforts to promote cycling, walking and public transportation. For reasons both political and geographic, support for bikes evaporates at Downtown Commons. Sadly, it’s nothing new. For more than 60 years, the worship of cars brought destruction to lower K Street. Interstate 5 was installed along Third Street as an expressway for suburban traffic. It separated the city from the West End—the city’s original retail hub. Two generations of shopping centers were built on lower K Street to compete with suburban malls and their vast, free parking. Both were bulldozed. The city is on its third K Street mall iteration, this one branded DoCo. Bike access at DoCo is treacherous and nearly impossible.

Having suffered from the mistake of trying duplicate suburban experiences Downtown, Sacramento tried to make good with Golden 1 Center. No new garages were built for the arena. Instead, the city inventoried existing parking—streets and lots. The public was assured there were plenty of spaces for cars. Cyclists were left out in the cold. The city didn’t want to discuss bike parking at the arena, and referred me to the Kings. The Kings pointed me to their 12 bike stalls at Fifth and L. “The city realizes it has a problem,” says Jim Brown, executive director of Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates. “The goal is more and more people in the grid, so something has to be done to accommodate them without relying on cars.” While the city contemplates anti-auto accommodations Downtown, bikes ride alone. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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to wait for his turn to speak in lieu of listening. “I had an inkling of what I wanted to do, but that helped me with developing listening skills that I did not have,” Flores says of the comedy class. Armed with these newfound skills, Flores launched the podcast “Serious Talk. Seriously.” in 2014, focusing on people who are “contributing to Sacramento to make it different.” The show instantly connected with the community, especially with a guest list that included artist Maren Conrad, musician Autumn Sky Hall and Mayor Darrell Steinberg. Flores never returned to the Comedy Spot for follow-up classes, but his entire podcasting career has been an extended

act of improvisation, a trial-and-error process driven by a passion for this “freeform artform.” Ultimately, though, Flores wants to help the next generation of podcasters avoid his mistakes.

“A lot of people are interested in doing this, but they don’t know how,” he says. “I built up all this knowledge. I learned the hard way. So I want to share with you how to do it the easy way.” Born in Southern California, Flores attended Del Campo High in Fair Oaks before joining the Navy in 1994, serving for four years, mostly in the San Diego area. Flores bounced around some more after getting out of the military, briefly living in Spokane and Portland before returning to Sacramento about 10 years ago. In late 2011, Flores’ Tahoe Park neighbor brought up the idea of podcasting. “He had purchased some recording equipment, and he asked if I thought about doing a podcast,” Flores says. “I was vaguely aware of podcasts, but I hadn’t checked any of them out.” Research led Flores to popular podcasts like “WTF with Marc Maron” and “How Did This Get Made?” and resurrected a long-burning desire to host a radio show. After spending a few months brainstorming ideas, a friend suggested that Flores parlay his affinity for nerd culture into a podcast. In 2012, Flores launched “No Nipples on the Suit,” the title a reference to the Joel Schumacher “Batman” films, which Flores calls the “the two low points in nerd cinema.” Without any training, Flores stumbled through a season of episodes before pulling the plug on the show in mid-2013. “‘No Nipples on the Suit’ taught me about being consistent, communicating with your audience on a regular basis,” he says. “It was my trial by fire.”

FLORES LAUNCHED THE PODCAST “SERIOUS TALK. SERIOUSLY.” IN 2014, FOCUSING ON PEOPLE WHO ARE “CONTRIBUTING TO SACRAMENTO TO MAKE IT DIFFERENT.”

While waiting on his next podcast idea, Flores did some freelance illustrating around town, working on posters for art shows and concerts. “The people of Sacramento, for a long time, had a lot of self-hatred,” he says. “I had just met all these really cool, interesting people that were proud of Sacramento and what was going on here, and I thought it was a shame more people don’t know about them.” That desire to celebrate the people who were making Sacramento special inspired Flores to launch “Serious Talk. Seriously.” Sourcing guests for the show proved easier than expected. “I built some equity with people in town who at the time were scrambling to make a name for themselves,” he says. Once he had established a roster of reputable interviewees, their name value made it simple to sell the show to potential guests. Flores has released more than 150 episodes of the show in the last four-plus years, many of them recorded in the garage of his home in Colonial Heights. Some of his favorite guests include Canon East Sacramento owner Clay Nutting, City Councilmember Angelique Ashby and any of the many comedians he has interviewed.

“Comedians are super easy to talk to, because engaging and storytelling are their bread and butter,” he says. In the last year, Flores has expanded his podcasting empire by producing other people’s shows, including the Comstock’s podcast “Action Items.” Flores also cohosts “Graphic Novel Explorers Club,” which is “an audio book club for graphic novel readers,” and produces “Dare Daniel,” which is “a film review podcast with an absurdist sense of humor.” After informally assisting people with their podcasts for several years, Flores went professional last August, realizing one of his long-term goals by launching Flores Podcast Consulting. The business offers recording and editing services, as well as advice about starting and growing a podcast. "Podcasting is a great way to connect with an audience or engage with a customer base," Flores says. "Helping others to build appealing and entertaining podcasts is a passion of mine that I love to share with my clients."

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acramento’s grand homes of yesteryear were places where family and friends gathered for merriment and good cheer. Stately mansions with flowing rooms, high ceilings and wide staircases accommodated a multitude of guests

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who enjoyed lavish banquets, drink and dance. When local real estate agent Ted Russert and his husband Matt Martinez purchased a historic two-story home in Midtown in 2016, grand gatherings were exactly what they had in mind. Following a yearlong renovation to bring the impressive old home back to its original glory, the couple threw a holiday open house attended by hundreds of friends, family and clients, as well as many people in the real estate community. “This is a great home for entertaining,” says Russert, who has been in the real estate business for more than two decades and is currently with RE/MAX Gold Midtown.

The distinguished home was designed by prominent Sacramento architect Rudolph Herold, who created Sacramento City Hall, the Masonic Temple on J Street, Mercy Hospital and Del Paso Country Club, among other landmarks. The Midtown home was a guesthouse for Sacramento Bee owner and editor Charles K. McClatchy and his wife Ella. The McClatchy family lived next door in what is now the Ella K. McClatchy Library. The guest home took three years to build—from 1910 to 1913—in the hilltop neighborhood of Poverty Ridge, and over the years became a temporary residence for visiting family and friends, and out-of-town newspaper reporters and musicians.

When Russert and Martinez purchased the historic home from the McClatchy family, they were committed to carefully and patiently resurrecting the original detail and architectural style of the home. “Thankfully, the place was all in original condition,” Martinez says. “It had not been updated. It needed a lot help, not only to bring the full glory back to life of the original architecture, but putting new systems in place for modern living.” The home’s architecture is a PrairieEgyptian Revival style with linear lines and art deco details. “Many of the homes, if not all the homes, in this area have a lot of architectural significance,” Martinez explains. Of particular note are the decorative plaster “faces” adorning the exterior and details in

the crown molding of the three front rooms. “We were told that the faces on the outside were a gift from William Randolph Hearst to the McClatchys.” The 3,960-square-foot home boasts 15 rooms, including four bedrooms, four baths, a music room, living room, entry, dining room, kitchen, butler’s pantry and laundry room (originally a servant’s quarters), plus an indoor/outdoor garden room and a third-story tower that leads to a flat roof. “We plan to put a nice roof deck up there because the views of Downtown are incredible,” Martinez says. The home has two staircases—a main staircase that leads to a stained-glass window made by Tiffany, and a servant’s staircase from the kitchen—as well as three fireplaces. The elaborate relief tile surrounding the dining room fireplace depicts pears, grapes, pomegranates and plums. Vintage andirons were purchased at the monthly Sacramento Antique Fair, which is in walking distance of the house. “We’ve acquired some really cool things there,” Russert says. The original red oak hardwood floors on both levels are accented with a mahogany inlay. The couple refurbished the double-hung windows throughout the home. “Every room has windows on two walls at least,” Martinez notes. “You get lots of light and never feel closed in.” The ceilings were repaired and re-plastered in every room, and most of the baseboards were rebuilt. For electrical outlets, “we used the baseboards to run wiring so we wouldn’t have to rip into the walls” Russert says. Light switches were replaced with old-style push buttons. The original chandeliers were removed long ago, so the couple chose all new light fixtures. Among them are an 1890s bronze chandelier in

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HOW SAC STATE CASHES IN ON SPORTS

old Sac State deserves some cheers. On any given day, there are about 470 varsity athletes enrolled at Sac State. They attend classes, train hard, wear the Hornet colors and play their best. Most have no hope of earning a living as professional athletes. They play because sports help pay for their education. And they love competition. Many of them even graduate—about 75 percent. It’s worth noting that most of Sac State’s 470 athletes are not competing in high-visibility games. They are not football or basketball players. The football team carries 95 players. Men’s basketball has 14. That leaves about 361 who compete in rowing, tennis, golf,

volleyball, track, gymnastics, soccer, softball and baseball. When it comes to athletic inclusion, Sac State is an equal-opportunity campus. The school has more women varsity athletes than men, 248 to 220, at last official count. This makes sense because there are about 3,100 more women than men enrolled fulltime at Sac State. “Women are a major part of our athletics program,” says Brian Berger, assistant athletic director. “They have been some of our most successful teams over the years, with championships in golf and volleyball.” Some things aren’t equal, especially coaching pay and opportunity. In 2017,

the people who coached Sac State men’s teams had average salaries of $125,370, against $69,727 for head coaches of women’s teams. Salary data require deeper consideration. Eight men were head coaches of women’s teams at Sac State. Only two women ran women’s teams (no women coached men’s teams). Every women’s team had one or two female assistant coaches. Improving coaching opportunities and the accompanying pay for women should be a priority at 6000 J St. Football is the big “revenue” sport at Sac State because it sells more tickets and attracts more dollars with advertising and sponsorships. Each

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s both a prolific professional brewer and a “serious backyard BBQer,” Peter Hoey loves to play with unique and exotic ingredients, but his favorite ingredient is time. Whether smoking a brisket for a day or barreling a mixedfermentation sour beer for an entire year, Hoey makes patience an essential part of his process. “It’s an ingredient that I think a lot of chefs and brewers take for granted, but it’s always intrigued me,” says Hoey. “All my endeavors are things that take a lot of time.” The endeavor that took Hoey the longest time has finally come to fruition. After 20 years in the craft beer business as a brewer, business owner and industry consultant, Hoey, along with partner Rob Archie of Pangaea

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Bier Café, has opened the ambitious Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse in the old Brownie’s building on the corner of 14th and V streets. Located in a 15,600-square-foot facility, with a 15-barrel production brewery, 300-seat restaurant, large outdoor patio, and ample space for barrels and oak foeders, Urban Roots is a dream project made real on a grand scale. “Rob and I joke that we are picking all our favorite things from all over the world and putting them all into one place,” says Hoey. “That’s not too far off from the truth.” Beloved elements from his beerrelated travels with Archie have made their way into the Urban Roots concept: the homey comfort of English pubs, old-world charm of French and Belgian farmhouses, and laid-back vibe of

West Coast craft breweries. Hoey loves German beer gardens, so he insisted that the plans for Urban Roots include a large outdoor drinking space, complete with traditional chestnut trees. Both Hoey and Archie have kids, so a discreetly out-of-the-way children’s play area was also included. “We’re trying to set it up in a way where we can have a little something for everybody,” says Hoey. There are few people as synonymous with California craft beer as Hoey, yet he comes from a wine background, with family roots in Healdsburg and oenophile parents. “A lot of our vacations as kids were going winetasting with the family, and my brother and I were just tagging along,” says Hoey. “I was already coming up in that culture, and I started cooking a lot.”

Hoey’s budding culinary interests evolved into a fascination with homebrewing, and the wunderkind produced his first batch of beer at the age of 17. He got hired as an assistant brewer at Sacramento Brewing Company in 1998, and he worked there while taking classes with the American Brewers Guild. After completing his education, Hoey found work at Sierra Nevada in Chico, where he absorbed the legendary craft brewery’s obsession with quality control. He spent two years at Sierra Nevada, then became brewmaster at Bison Brewing in Berkeley before moving back to Sacramento Brewing. After Sacramento Brewing ceased operations in 2009, Hoey made his first attempt to launch his own brewery with Odanata Beer Co. “Instead of building a

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f KCRA-TV anchor Edie Lambert ever decides to leave television, working for the Metro Chamber of Commerce could be a new career path. Lambert loves Sacramento. But don’t get your hopes up too high, chamber folks. Lambert is pretty smitten with her job. “I love my job and I love my city,” says Lambert, whose roots extend to both Orange County and the San Juan

Islands, but who has called Sacramento home since 1995. A political science major at UC Santa Barbara, Lambert was working for the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara when a position as a morning anchor and reporter opened up at KCRA-TV in 1995. “I’ve always had an interest and passion in covering politics,” Lambert says. “So, when I was offered a job in Sacramento and could be in the heart of state politics, I jumped at it.” She has

anchored the 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts for more than a decade. Lambert lives a short drive from KCRA-TV’s Downtown studios in a 1935 two-story Dutch Colonial-style home in East Sacramento with her husband of 10 years, former state Assemblymember Lloyd Levine, and their daughters, Alise, 7, and Carlie, 4. Rounding out the family are Zeus, a 90-pound black lab chow mix; Bitsy, who Lambert and Levine bottle-fed after Lambert’s coworker found the kitten with her head stuck in a fence; and pet rabbit Simon, a gift to Alise and Carlie from Santa, who “may or may not have worked with the Sacramento House Rabbit Society,” reports Lambert. The couple moved into their house a little more than four years ago when Lambert was pregnant with Carlie. Lambert appreciates the history of her home and surroundings. A section of wrought-iron fence in her front yard is a gift from friend Patty Roberts, who lives on the Fabulous 40s property that Ronald Reagan and his family lived in while Reagan was serving as governor of California. The trees in Lambert’s backyard are more than 100 years old. “Truly, with some of these homes you feel like you are a caretaker for the time you are there,” she says. Lambert credits living in East Sac with making her life as it is possible. “Where I live is part of what enables me to have the career that I have. I am able

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to come home and put my girls to bed every night.” But the short commute is not the only reason Lambert loves the neighborhood. “I can walk to so many of my friends’ homes in five minutes. We do some of our shopping on foot. We walk to Trader Joe’s. We can walk to restaurants. I love that we have such a nice neighborhood feel.” Two of those neighborhood friends are KCRA-TV co-anchor Kellie DeMarco and former KCRA-TV anchor/reporter Kristen Simoes. Alise and Simoes’ daughter, Gabriella, were born five weeks apart. Carlie and DeMarco’s daughter, Piper, were born 10 days apart. The two sets of girls have shared everything from nannies to clothes to books. The girls enjoy their time together while the moms are able to connect. Lambert relishes having close friends in her industry. “We all just get each other. We understand the demands. We understand the unique pressures of our schedules. I feel we can be there for each other in some really unique ways. I’m very grateful for my village and my tribe,” she says. Lambert’s hectic schedule—she doesn’t get home before midnight most nights—makes having quality family

time important. Fun family hot spots include Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Crocker Art Museum and lunch on the Delta King followed by a walk around Old Sacramento. “It’s fun to play tourist in your own hometown,” she says. When it comes to date nights, Lambert and Levine—who met on a Seattle-to-Sacramento Southwest flight in 2005—keep it simple. “We can always bank on date nights several times a year with our B Street [Theatre] tickets,” says Lambert. (Levine, who sits on the B Street Theatre’s board of directors, is president of the political consulting firm Filament Strategies, LLC, and a public policy fellow at UC Riverside.) “We Uber to dinner, then we can walk to the theater. Often we will walk somewhere after for a glass of wine before we come home.” Stay-at-home dates are popular, too. It’s not unusual to find the couple outside on the front porch, catching up with each other and saying hi to the neighbors. “Everyone is out walking their dogs or sitting on their front porches,” says Lambert, who sees herself retiring in Sacramento. “This is our home.” Elena M. Macaluso can be reached at elenamacaluso4@gmail.com. n

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ven though it’s tempting to cocoon inside, winter is the time for Sacramento gardeners to pick up our tools and go outdoors. The work that we do in the next few months lays the foundation for the rest of the year. Winter is pruning season for roses, grapes and most deciduous fruit trees. Pruning encourages the growth of fruiting or flowering branches and controls a plant’s shape and size. Pruning can also improve a plant’s health by removing dead, diseased and damaged growth. Be sure to use sharp clean tools, review proper pruning

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techniques for each type of plant, and get the job done before buds begin to swell (mid to late February). Cherry and apricot trees are susceptible to disease if pruned in wet conditions, so prune them after fruit is harvested next summer. Wait to prune spring blooming shrubs and trees, such as spirea, lilac, azalea, camellia, forsythia and quince, until after they flower. Retain most old wood on onceblooming roses, although it’s good to cut off the tip of each cane on all types of roses. Sanitation is also an important winter gardening task. Clear out weeds where pests can harbor, remove leaves from rose bushes, pick up diseased leaves from under plants and dispose of any fallen fruit. Many types of weeds are busily germinating and growing. Remove them now while the soil is moist and before they have a chance to send down deep roots and go to seed. If you grow peaches, nectarines or apricots, control leaf curl with a

carefully timed dormant spray, avoiding rainy and windy days. Old growth on perennials should be cut back to where new growth is emerging at the base of the plant or on the stems. If a plant is somewhat tender, leave top growth to protect it from frost. As temperatures get milder, don’t be afraid to cut back hard to promote healthy, bushy growth and lots of flowers. Shear warm-season ornamental grasses to about four inches. Don’t dig, cultivate or walk on wet soil because you can readily compact it, slowing drainage and reducing soil aeration. A good layer of mulch on the surface of planting beds will reduce that risk and suppress weeds. As you clear out and prune your garden, consider what plants you should remove altogether or move to a better space when the soil is less wet. You may find that some plants are being crowded out, are growing too big or just aren’t performing as you’d like. Some judicious editing will make a garden easier to maintain and give you an opportunity to

plant something new. Don’t forget that bulbs and some perennials disappear altogether after they bloom or during the winter. Refer to photographs or garden maps to refresh your memory of what is planted where. Shaping up your garden now also shapes you up from the exercise, fresh air and much-needed natural light. It’s good for your soul too. Hummingbirds zip by, gathering bits of fluff to make their nests. Other birds feed on seeds and insects. You may even spot a rainbow. Much better than cocooning! Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, contact the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or mgsacramento@ ucanr.edu, or visit sacmg.ucanr.edu. Noted rose expert Stephen Scanniello will conduct two pruning workshops Jan. 12 at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden, 1000 Broadway. For more information, go to cemeteryrose.org. n

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n the pecking order, Anchovy is the chief chicken. She is an Ameraucana and lays pale blue eggs. “She will boss everyone around,” says Nicole Martin, who lives in Arden Park with husband Phil, and their daughters Phoebe and Lucie. “She will literally peck the others on the head.” Anchovy barely tolerates being picked up, but loves to be around people, especially Phil when he is working in the family’s spacious backyard garden. “She follows me around the whole time,” he says. Alessandra is a Silver Laced Wyandotte and does not like to be held. Donatella and Fabiana are Buff Orpingtons, a very friendly breed. In the chicken world, “they’re known as Golden Retrievers,” says Nicole as she strokes Donatella’s velvety feathers. “The Buff Orpingtons will crawl into your lap. They are wonderful for families and kids.” Best of all, they are prolific at what hens do best—laying eggs. The Martins became part of a growing trend when they acquired six 1-day-old chicks as backyard pets in 2014. “We started with six, but now we’re down to four,” explains Nicole, who is a librarian at Mariemont Elementary School and part-time Jazzercise instructor. One turned out to be a rooster and was relocated to a farm in Orangevale. The other acquired an infection and had to be humanely euthanized.

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FABERGÉ OF EGGS “When we got our first egg, we called it our $1,000 egg,” jokes Nicole. Costing only $2 a chick at a local feed store, the six fledglings started out quite inexpensive. But expenditures didn’t stop there. Take for example the impressive backyard chicken coop—standing 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide—that Phil built using Douglas fir, redwood planks and wire mesh from plans purchased online. “People have been building this style of coop for years,” he says. “Very simple construction. Anyone could build one.” The cost? “It was about $1,200— that’s a lot of eggs,” Phil says. “But well worth it.”

LIVING THE DREAM Needless to say, the Martins’ freerange chickens are living the dream, with approximately 3,800 square feet of run-around space. “Our chickens are spoiled because they get let out of their coop all day, every day,” says Phil, who, when not attending to his feathered friends, is a pilot for United Airlines. When it’s time to roost, the hens are ushered back into the safety of their mini chicken mansion, which is surrounded by wire mesh sunk 18 inches below ground so predators, such as skunks and raccoons, cannot intrude. “Every night we close up the coop, so they are totally protected,” Phil notes. “They are great low-maintenance pets,” says Nicole. “We can leave for a day,” adds Phil. “They have their self-waterer, self-feeder and plenty of room to move around comfortably.” For longer trips, “we have lovely neighbors who are happy to help,” adds Nicole. For payment, they collect and keep the eggs. Phil built 10 planter boxes, one devoted to being a “hot tub” so the chickens can take dust baths. “If they’re

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Rendering of Convention Center exterior. Courtesy of Populous.

n June 2018, Sacramento began the first phase of its C3 Project, the renovation and expansion of the Convention Center, Memorial Auditorium and Community Center Theater. The City Council unanimously approved the issuance of up to $350 million in bonds in September to pay for the project; however, according to City Councilmember Steve Hansen, who represents Downtown, some improvements have been under discussion for two decades. “C3 is the continuation of projects that have been in various stages of discussion, some of them for as long as 20 years,” says Hansen, referring specifically to the Community Center Theater. “It really is a time capsule from 1974. If you were to go backstage, you wouldn’t believe the wires running

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everywhere. It looks like the original Starship Enterprise. It just needed to be taken from midcentury into this century.” Hansen notes the city has been under court order to update the Community Center Theater’s federal disability access since the early 2000s. In addition to technical and aesthetic improvements, the city also expects the C3 Project to induce development, much like the Golden 1 Center. Since the arena’s construction, Hansen says

the city has seen more than $1 billion of ancillary development. C3, says Hansen, “should help rectify the shortage of about 2,000 hotel rooms Downtown that we need to compete for larger events.” The city hired the architectural firm Populous and contractor AECOM Hunt to carry out the $182 million in improvements specific to the Convention Center. Assistant project manager Sabrina Tefft says the renovation and expansion will create

Rendering of Convention Center interior. Courtesy of Populous.

new opportunities for the Convention Center to host more events. “The way the Convention Center currently is set up makes it very hard to host two events,” Tefft says. The current Convention Center design has only one lobby and entrance, effectively preventing the city from playing host to multiple events at the same time. “The biggest impact will be adding another lobby on the east side of the building,” she says. The city hopes to see a new hotel developed across the

Rendering of Community Center Theater lobby. Courtesy of DLR Group/Westlake Reed Leskosky.

street from the eastern lobby, connected to the expanded Convention Center via a skywalk. The renovation will improve the existing plaza between the Convention Center and Community Center Theater. “We’re hoping it will be a place where the community can gather, enjoy the space, and that the theater can utilize for outdoor performances in the summertime,” Tefft says. Improvements to the Community Center Theater, whose construction is scheduled from this May to September 2020, are estimated to cost $84 million. Plans by architectural firm DLR Group show the theater expanding its lobby to the edge of L Street. “Currently, the theater is set back away from the sidewalk and the street, and we are going to push it out to the sidewalk so that it’s right on the street, and it will have floor-to-ceiling glass,” Tefft says. The $16.2 million renovation of the Memorial Auditorium will provide additional seats and include acoustic, video and audio enhancements. Construction is underway and expected to be completed by May, coinciding with the start of construction of the Community Center Theater. “That’s kind of the purpose of the improvements to the Memorial Auditorium,” says Tefft, noting the refurbished auditorium will allow continued programming of arts events traditionally booked into the Community Center Theater. “We are

Rendering of Community Center Theater exterior. Courtesy of DLR Group/Westlake Reed Leskosky.

getting it set up now so we can move events over to the Memorial Auditorium while the Community Center Theater is being renovated.” The expanded Convention Center will feature new meeting rooms, exhibit halls and kitchen space, with Sacramento hotels paying $50 million to construct a new ballroom. The $350 million bonds approved by the City Council will not be repaid from the city’s general fund, but through the city’s Transient Occupancy Tax, a 12-percent tax on hotel and short-term rentals. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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f there was one New Year’s resolution that would help you do all the following, wouldn’t you jump at the idea? • Lose weight and look better. • Feel better and be happier. • Be healthier and ward off disease and dementia. • Save time and money. • Reduce stress and anxiety. • Live longer with better quality of life. Those are some, but not all, of the direct, personal benefits from carrying out this single, superlative resolution. Also, it will make your neighborhood more sociable and livable. And it could help save the whole planet. What’s this all-purpose, miraculous resolution? It’s simple: Occasionally substitute biking or walking for a car trip.

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It’s not that hard to do, especially when you integrate “active transportation” into your weekly routine. It’s easier than sticking to a strict, goody-free diet. It’s way more fun than grimly using a treadmill in a gym. No Botox injections or surgeries are required. Our bodies are fundamentally designed to move. The federal government released its updated 10-year-old physical activity guidelines in November. The guidelines call for adults to get at least two and a half to five hours of moderate-intensity activity, or one and a quarter to two and a half hours of vigorous activity, a week. Only 20 percent of adults reach those levels. Many people have trouble fitting time for activity into busy schedules, or just don’t consider the possibility of walking or biking to get somewhere. Northeastern University neuroscientist Charles Hillman, who helped develop the guidelines, said, “Every time you’re active, you feel better, think better and sleep better.” Doesn’t that sound good? And while some activity is better than none, more is better than some. Getting more activity doesn’t mean you have to run a marathon or commute by bike every day. Instead, walk or bike on a neighborhood jaunt to the post office, drug store, barber or hairdresser,

or restaurant. Years ago, my wife began taking one trip a week by bike. Everyone doing that will likely make more such trips as they discover the joy of combining body movement with transportation. My wife now bikes several times a week and loves it. Recently she was running late and drove to the gym (per the guidelines, strength training is also a good idea) instead of biking. It took her 11 minutes to drive instead of the 15 minutes by bike. But driving lost her 30 minutes of activity time. Instead of arriving at the gym warmed up, she arrived cold. Also, she increased her sitting time by 22 minutes, not a good thing. The guidelines say sitting is “especially harmful.” Think about that while you’re driving, watching TV or at your computer. When she talks to her locker-room buddies at the gym about biking, a common response is, “I could do

that.” Why don’t they? It could be fear (another topic) or lack of resolve (this very topic). You can fix the resolve part on New Year’s Day. It may be a bit daunting to think about walking and biking in January, when days are short and it’s often rainy and a bit nippy. But you know what? You can bundle up. Rain doesn’t fall every day and there are breaks in the precipitation. Make your trips when the weather is good. You can also wait for spring, but, really, there’s no time to start like right now. Happy New Year! I wish you health and happiness. The key to both could be in how you decide to get around. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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Walking Among the Wounded NURSES SACRIFICE PARTS OF THEIR OWN EXISTENCE TO HELP OTHERS

have a story I’ve never written. Not because I lost it or forgot about it, but because it’s so graphic I thought it needed a preliminary warning. In 1990, I left my work as a congregational pastor to begin a oneyear internship transitioning into a career as a hospital chaplain. During my internship at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, I worked four rotations in various parts of the hospital. The one I will never forget was the 13 weeks I spent working in the burn unit. The burn unit was a highly specialized assignment. While I dropped in a few times a day, nurses limited

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their care to only one patient during a 12-hour shift. I will never forget the patient I met there named Mr. Brown. His nurse explained to me how Brown’s condition was the tragic result of love scorned. His girlfriend had doused him with gasoline and set him afire as he lay in a drunken sleep. Due to his name, I was struck by the irony of Mr. Brown’s tragedy. He was African-American, but the fire altered his skin pigment, changing his face to an almost albino white. Honestly, I wanted to be anywhere else but in that burn unit. The patients were hard to look at through my inexperienced eyes. Mr. Brown was one who spoke so softly that I had to bring myself close enough to absorb his pain with all my senses—smell, sight and, yes, even touch through gloved hands for his protection. I spoke with him daily, but I had other patients to see, so I can’t tell you where I was in the hospital when I overheard the page: “Chaplain Burkes, to the burn unit, stat.”

A few minutes later, I stood at the washing station, prepping for my entrance. After donning gloves, mask and a gown, I punched an electric switch with my elbow and hurried through the unit’s opening doors. At the nurses’ station, I met Brown’s nurse who told me he’d passed away. “Where’s the family?” I asked. “They left an hour ago,” she said. After all my entry prep, I shot her a disappointing look. “They didn’t stay long,” she said. Youthful impatience percolated under my mask. I wanted to scold her for not calling me in time to meet the family. Instead, I began making feeble excuses to leave. Then, just as I turned to do so, I saw her tears slipping past her mask. I motioned her toward the nurses’ lounge, where we found a place to sit as she unfolded her story. She removed her gloves and dropped her mask. The nursing bravado was gone. “I spoke with him for hours every day,” she sobbed. “Now he’s gone.”

Our conversation was the first time I really thought about the fact that people who help people will get hurt. There’s no way they can walk among the wounded without leaving crumbling pieces of their hearts on the floor. It’s as if they sacrifice parts of their own existence to sustain a few more years of existence for others. That’s what nurses do. Today, in that same burn unit in Northern California, dedicated nurses are working around the clock to help the victims of the infamous Camp Fire. I ask you to pray for these nurses and others, to respect what they do and give to those who bravely stand in the gap between disaster and us. If you wish to contribute to a special fire-relief fund that will help several organizations, go to globalgiving.org under California Wildfire Relief Fund. Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net. n

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Cooperative Coffee SMALL-SCALE, FARMER-OWNED PACHAMAMA PRODUCES SUPERIOR PRODUCT

ith its spacious interior, exposed beams and brickand-wood aesthetic, the 6,000-square-foot Pachamama Roastery Coffeebar that opened in Midtown early last year resembles many other specialty coffeeshops around town and across the United States. However, no matter how similar it might seem to other so-called “third-wave” coffee roasters, Pachamama operates under the most unique business structure of any coffee company in the country. Launched in 2006, the Pachamama Coffee Cooperative of Small-Scale Coffee Producers is a fully farmer-owned and operated outfit. The company is the brainchild of co-founder and CEO Thaleon Tremain, who saw the subpar standard of living for coffee farmers firsthand while serving in the Peace Corps in Bolivia in the 1990s. Pachamama is essentially a cooperative of cooperatives representing more than 100,000 small farmers, with member organizations from Guatemala, Ethiopia, Mexico, Peru and Nicaragua sharing the equity and governance of the company.

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This business model flows more profits to small producers by cutting out the middlemen and purchasing beans directly from the farmers, resulting in a superior product. “When they have equity in the company, they’re more incentivized to send us their better coffee,” says Lauren Taber, communications manager for Pachamama. “Because they’re selling their own coffee, they want to have the best crop available, so they’re sending us their highest-quality coffee and that’s what we’re roasting and selling.” Not only are the farmers empowered by this arrangement, but the environment benefits as well. “Because we’re owned by small-scale farmers, they have more of an incentive to keep their own patch of land healthy and operating, and not just be looking to produce as much coffee as possible,” Taber says. All Pachamama products are USDA Certified Organic. The word Pachamama means “Mother Earth” in Quechua, an ancient Andean language. “It’s really a big part of the Andean worldview, this idea that Mother Earth gives to us so much, there needs to be a reciprocal relationship where we also give back in the form of sustainable production and honoring the Earth in everything that we do,” says Taber. “It just made sense in going back to the mission of why Pachamama was started, of having a more reciprocal relationship between coffee producers and coffee consumers.” Although Tremain is a native of Ohio and earned his MBA at the University of Texas, he elected to headquarter operations in Northern California. “He knew that the Sacramento area, with

Employees Daniel Milla (left) and Paul Lockett prepare coffee subscriptions for shipping. the agricultural hub that it is, would really appreciate the connection to farmers that traditionally have been left out of the conversation in the U.S.,” Taber says. “I think he knew that it would be the right market to understand exactly how important that connection is, as far as a seed-to-coffee enterprise.” Pachamama opened as an onlineonly business, roasting coffee in small batches and shipping directly to subscribers. The company’s farmerfocused mission made it a perfect fit for natural food stores and grocery cooperatives, so a robust wholesale operation was built. Those subscription and wholesale operations are still thriving (you can even buy Pachamama beans on Amazon), but the farmers that make up the Pachamama Board of Directors have recently focused on expanding the brick-and-mortar side of the business. “They wanted to be able to have control through every step of the process, and there was also the idea that a latte is the most value-added that you can put on coffee,” Taber says. “It was a way for them to capture even more of the retail value of the coffee that they’re growing, to sell it in a café setting.”

With the new Midtown location added to a smaller East Sacramento coffee bar last March, Pachamama has been able to raise its profile in the community. In addition, the larger building allows for onsite classes and concerts, including a November benefit for the Camp Fire victims. “It’s been a place for us to be a larger part of the Sacramento community in a more active way,” Taber says. Pachamama continued a breakthrough in 2018 by signing on as the official coffee sponsor of the Sacramento Farmto-Fork Festival and winning two Good Food Awards. As for the future of Pachamama, that’s in the hands of the farmers, although further expansion in the Sacramento area seems likely. “It’s really up to the what the board of directors wants to do,” Taber says. “Ultimately we’re just going to keep growing and roasting more and more coffee every month and getting out the story of what Pachamama is and why we do what we do.” Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielebarnes@hotmail.com. n

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Those Who Can, Teach ARTIST MARIA WINKLER DEDICATES HER LIFE TO LOVE OF ART

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aria Winkler is, as she puts it, “a maker of things.” The artist is well known for her paintings of landscapes and waterscapes, as well as her more whimsical—yet no less technically stunning—portraits of vintage toys. “I get bored,” admits Winkler, who retired from a 40-year teaching career in 2010. “I’ll do watercolor for 10 years, pen and ink for another 10 years, acrylic for the next 10 years, then I’ll dabble in sculpture and art books. I try to be as versatile as I can. I’m never satisfied with just one thing. I like to push the boundaries and keep myself interested.” Winkler is most certainly versatile, if her proficiency in a multitude of media is any indication. She credits this ability to her “very traditional” art education as a young person— something she holds very near and dear to this day. “I started drawing when I was 3 and, even though we were very poor, my parents arranged for private oil painting lessons when I was 9,” Winkler says. “I was interested in other artistic disciplines, but I really excelled at visual art, so I focused on that for the rest of my life.” Winkler’s youth is remarkable not just for her talent and dedication to art, but for the events that preceded it. Her father is a famed Polish scientist and Holocaust survivor who helped rebuild the petroleum industry in Poland in the early 1940s before becoming a commercial attaché to the Polish embassy in Washington, D.C., in 1947. It wasn’t long after he brought Maria and her mother over that the entire family applied for political asylum to remain in the U.S. Because her father needed to find work, the Winklers moved around a lot, which is why the artist and longtime Arden resident doesn’t consider herself “from anywhere in particular” (though she’s now spent more years in California than anywhere else). You might expect this fraught upbringing to have a negative impact on such a young artist, but it’s in fact had the opposite effect. “I could dwell on it and be bitter or provide harmony for other people,” says Winkler, whose work graces

hospital waiting rooms all over California. “My peaceful, reflective, meditative art comes from a desire to bring peace to the world—perhaps as a reconciliation with my history.” Winkler’s family background not only gave her an appreciation for peace but also a penchant for experimentation (“my father’s scientific part of me,” she says). Winkler was one of the first people to offer a computer graphics course at Sacramento State in 1981. Fascinated by the artistic possibilities of the new medium, Winkler asked one of the engineering professors to teach her the basics, and then designed classes based around her newfound skills. “I’m a big believer in demonstration—you can’t teach it unless you can do it,” says Winkler, who holds a Ph.D. in curriculum development from Pennsylvania State University. “I taught all kinds of students—ones who’d never had an art class before, as well as art majors—so I had to be able to communicate what I was teaching so everyone could comprehend. It was the greatest fun.” Winkler’s love of new media continues to grow. She’s a huge proponent of computer sketching, which enables her to compose and rescale her work on a computer before committing it to canvas. One of her most recent projects is a public commission to resurface the utility boxes at the corners of Franklin Boulevard and Mack Road and 10th and G streets with huge images Winkler designed on the computer, then printed on vinyl and affixed to the boxes. “I love public commissions because they allow people to see my work for an extended period of time,” Winkler says. “I still get fan mail from pieces that have been hanging in the hospital for 20 years.” But far be it from Winkler to rest on those laurels. “I’m doing more art now than ever,” she says. “I’m a nervous, Type-A personality, so I’m always making things—jewelry, stitchwear, art books, new paintings. I’ve waited my whole life to devote myself entirely to art.”

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Embodiment—In Paradisum Samantics and Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre Jan. 11–12, 7:30 p.m.

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Jill Solberg Performing Arts Theatre, Folsom High School, 1655 Iron Point Road • scdtheatre.org Samantics brings back its stunning original choral requiem by group leader Sam Schieber, accompanied by original dance choreography by local favorite Jacob Gutierrez-Montoya. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

32nd Annual Diocesan Choir Festival

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Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Saturday, Jan. 26, 4 p.m.

Sacramento Valley Cymbidium Society Wednesday, Jan. 23, 7–9 p.m.

2620 Capitol Ave. • trinitycathedral.org Organist and chorister master of Canterbury Cathedral, Dr. David Flood, will conduct singers invited from the Diocese of Northern California in traditional Choral Evensong.

Shepard Garden and Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd. • sgaac.org Learn how to keep your outdoor orchid plants (cymbidiums) safe during the wet winter months. Free to the public.

Cheesy Pies and Tarts Class C’est Le Cheese Saturday, Jan. 26, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. American River College Culinary Center, 4700 College Oak Drive • cestlecheese.com Learn to make luscious and velvety creations for appetizers, brunch, lunch or dinner with culinary professor Roxanne O’Brien. Class is limited to 16 students; fee is $60.

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TriMusica Crocker Classical Concert Sunday, Jan. 13, 3 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org Clarinetist Sandra McPherson, cellist Susan Lamb Cook and pianist John Cozza will present an afternoon inspired by Crocker’s collection of European art. Tickets are $10 for museum members, $18 for students/youth/Capital Public Radio members and $20 for nonmembers.

David Fiveash's “The Nightmare,” mixed media, at Archival Gallery.

Brasil Brazil at Crocker Art Museum.

Introductions Archival Gallery Jan. 10–26 Second Saturday Reception: Jan. 12, 6 p.m. 3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com The gallery welcomes five new local artists with works in collage, fabric, watercolor, pastel, assemblage, oil and acrylics. The reception will include a book signing by author Ed Goldman.

Global Rhythms: Brasil Brazil Crocker Art Museum Thursday, Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org The energetic vocals and jazzy percussion of Brazilian natives Ana Gazzola and Sonia Santos create a musical experience of fervor and excitement. This is the first of four in Crocker's new Global Rhythms music series. Tickets are $10 for museum members, $20 for nonmembers and $30 for a member pass to all four concerts.

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Jacob Lawrence's "Forward Together," silkscreen on paper, at Crocker Art Museum.

History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence

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Crocker Art Museum Jan. 27–April 7

Tim Collom Gallery Jan. 9–31 Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 12, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

216 O St. • crockerart.org This exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of influential American artist Jacob Lawrence’s printmaking oeuvre, featuring more than 90 works produced from 1963 to 2000, exploring three major themes: history, labor and life.

915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com Greet the New Year with two emerging artists and their work—found object art by Emily Swinsick and sculpture by Randy Won.

Connections: Small Works by Janice Nakashima Ella K. McClatchy Library Jan. 19–March 9 Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2–4 p.m. 2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org This exhibit features local artist Janice Nakashima’s small-work watercolors, oil paintings and assemblages.

Janice Nakashima's “Couplet 3 2k,” oil on panel, at McClatchy Library.

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Pruning Workshop UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County Saturday, Jan. 19, 9 a.m.–Noon Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. • sacmg.ucanr.edu Master gardeners will demonstrate winter pruning of deciduous fruit trees, blueberries, cane berries, grape vines and landscape trees in this free workshop. The 2019 Gardening and Preserving Guide and Calendar will be available for $10.

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Canon Fodder ONE YEAR IN AND EAST SAC EATERY IS AS AMBITIOUS AS EVER

anon has been open for slightly more than a year. In that period, the East Sacramento restaurant has played with format, menu, presentation and everything in between. A recent full menu overhaul and a whole new offering of adventurous plates means, in a way, starting anew.

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Owner Clay Nutting and chef Brad Cecchi, to put it simply, aren’t phoning it in. When Canon opened in October 2017, the first thing that told the casual observer that this would not be a run-of-the-mill establishment was the location. Tucked away on 34th Street, surrounded by industrial space and no other evening businesses open anywhere nearby, Canon’s presence alone spoke volumes. Nutting says the location was a small corner of Sacramento that most residents hadn’t traveled to. “When people drop in,” he says, “it’s almost like they’re a tourist in their own town.” The buildout was one of the more impressive in the recent restaurant boom. During an epoch where new restaurants are opening every day, and the “new thing in town” phase lasts

less than a week, Canon’s space was something to talk about. A high pine-paneled ceiling draws the eye up and crowns the room like some Viking hall. Dangling from that ceiling and studded on the walls are architecturally impossible light fixtures that seem like they’re from the future and the past at the same time. The walls are well adorned with modern art, including a chaotic and edgy beauty by local artist Nate Cordero, whose recent passing was quite a blow to the Sacramento art scene. It’s no surprise that the feeling and atmosphere of Canon are more than that of a simple dining hall. Nutting has had his hand in the local art scene for a while—he was a driving force behind the ArtStreet and Art Hotel projects— and is a bit notorious for championing

creative spaces that go beyond just being places and double as experiences. Cecchi leaves the creativity on the plate. His menu looks simple enough when given a cursory glance, but the ingredients and preparations are an intricate web, drawing from all over the world. Whether it’s the Japanese octopus on the pickle plate, or the Italian tonnato (a tuna-infused sauce) on the beef tartare, or the Tunisian harissa butter that tops the BBQ oysters, the multiple swipes through the global pantry definitely give depth and complexity to the dishes. Each sharable dish (small and large dishes are meant to be shared) brings a host of flavors, textures and visuals. Take, for example, the wonderfully playful smoked trout tart. Now, to start off, I’m a sucker for smoked fish. You could put smoked trout on a radial tire

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caraway seed, sneakily marinated apples, silken roe and, finally, with a stunning and insightful flourish, tops off the plate with a nasturtium leaf. I think I was aware that you could eat a nasturtium leaf, but I don’t think I ever

had. The flavor is earthy and luscious and perfectly cuts through the smoke the fish, the salt of the roe and the heat of the horseradish. All in all, a beautiful plate.

The rest of the menu is just as ambitious: crispy cauliflower with candied peanuts, squash with popcorn and brown butter, roasted beets with smoked blue cheese. Dishes like these don’t come without risk, however. The grilled short rib, unlike the typical preparation that is slow cooked and gravy laden, is served dry with the rather impressive beef rib alongside. The grilled preparation leaves a bit of work to be done by the diner in the chewing department, and might not be up everyone’s alley. The cocktail menu is a work of art with creative use of ingredients and flavors pushing the envelope of craft cocktailing. On one visit, my lovely wife chose not to drink alcohol and the bartender deftly put together a freakishly good “mocktail” without a second thought. It’s an impressive beverage experience. The minds behind Canon do not lack in ambition. Whether it’s the space, the menu or just the vision, this restaurant is a someplace. And you feel like a someone when you’re there. Canon is at 1719 34th St.; (916) 4692433; canoneastsac.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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