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Home Again HOW A LOCAL CHURCH IS ADDRESSING OUR HOMELESS NEIGHBORS

n the past few years, almost everyone has seen or felt the impact of the increase in homelessness in Sacramento. From where I live near McKinley Park, this population has grown along the Alhambra Boulevard corridor and in McKinley Park, where the nonprofit Friends of East Sacramento—which I co-founded—manages Clunie Community Center and McKinley Rose Garden. The impacts have been significant to both these facilities and tough to deal with effectively. Even with the diligent work of city officials and nonprofit homeless service provider Sacramento Steps Forward, it seems the problem refuses an easy answer. Last year, our Arden-Carmichael edition detailed the homeless problems facing suburban neighbors that not too long ago were pretty much contained downtown. Despite a great deal of discouragement, an organically grown program called ReHome emerged in the past year. It is designed to let the average citizen help make a difference in the successful transition of those who are eventually rehoused. Here’s the story on how it came about. Lisa Schmidt—my Friends of East Sacramento nonprofit partner—deals with the problems of the homeless at our facilities, often on a weekly basis. She works closely with McKinley Library librarian Bridget Laws and

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Pastor David Beck of Sanctuary Covenant Church, which for the past four years has called Clunie its church home for Sunday services. Pastor Beck recently updated East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce at its monthly luncheon at Clunie on the homeless situation as he serves as the

organization’s liaison to the city on the homeless situation. Beck told of a father and his 9-year-old daughter who had been seen spending their days at McKinley Library, with their belongings stashed on the Clunie patio. When Laws approached them, they confirmed

they were indeed homeless. Laws, Schmidt and Beck each worked their part and brought in city staff from councilmember Jeff Harris’ office, other city officials and the Sacramento Steps Forward program to help them out. A case manager at Volunteers of America, one of the largest rapid rehousing programs in the area, was assigned, and ultimately the father and daughter were moved to a shelter and then recently into permanent housing. The situation was challenging as shelters typically are set up for women and children or single men, not fathers and daughters. Beck used the situation to help explain the ReHome pilot program he developed along with some of his church members about a year ago. The situation involved a single mom, working part time, with two children, who were finally found a new apartment by VOA after a period of couch surfing and living in their car. “After their case manager made the introduction, our group delivered the family a welcome-home basket with a mop, broom, cleaners and other household items,” said Beck. “From the moment we were greeted at the door, their tears of gratitude started coming. It was impossible not to fall in love with this family. And we were deeply moved to see that they had not a stick of furniture and almost no household goods.” Beck’s group also brought a meal and spent a few hours getting to know the family and their needs. Over the next few weeks, the group coordinated with the case manager PUBLISHER page 9

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Faire Thee Well CAMELLIA WALDORF CELEBRATES THE SEASON WITH ITS ANNUAL WINTER FAIRE DEC. 10

till looking for a unique gift for that special someone? Camellia Waldorf School’s 28th Annual Winter Faire is sure to have just what you need from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10. Celebrate the magic of the season with children’s puppet shows and craft activities, live music and entertainment, holiday shopping with local artisans offering handmade gifts, organic coffee and baked goods, delicious food, gingerbread houses and a children’s store stocked with treasures for young shoppers. Funds raised will help the school continue its time-honored mission of educating by honoring childhood, appreciating the individuality of each student and instilling a sense of moral and ethical responsibility while building capacities for learning and encouraging clear and creative thinking. For more information, call 4275022 or go to camelliawaldorf.org. Camellia Waldorf School is at 7450 Pocket Road.

In addition to shopping for holiday gifts, you can enter to win exciting raffle prizes and tuck into some delectable goodies from Frenchy’s Waffles Food Truck as well as complimentary coffee and hot cider from Espresso Metro—the perfect treats to keep you going for a day of shopping. All proceeds from the event benefit the Sierra 2 Senior Center and its programs. The center has plans to introduce educational luncheons, gardening workshops and technology classes in 2017, in addition to its current activities. Admission to the fair is free and free parking is available in the lots on Fourth Avenue and Castro Way, as well as street parking along Fourth Avenue and 25th Street. For more information, call 452-3005 or go to sierra2.org. The Sierra 2 Center is at 2791 24th St.

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SHOP ’TIL YOU DROP Local shopping abounds this year, so make sure you check out the Sierra 2 Center’s beloved Holiday Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10.

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Camellia Winter Faire is fun for the whole family

By shopping at the fair, you’ll be supporting local artisans, makers and crafters from the greater Sacramento region. And talk about cool crafts! The Craft Fair features an intimate group of hand-picked vendors with

hand-forged jewelry, soaps and candles, fiber arts and winter wear, wooden home and kitchen accessories, furniture, succulent arrangements and planters and more!

We might not have snow this time of year in Sacramento, but Fairytale Town has the next best thing. The storybook park will be trimmed with festive holiday décor and a flurry of “snow” will fall nightly during Winter Wonderland, from 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 8-11 and 15-18. A dazzling display of lights will brighten the park and a magical winter snowfall will descend on the play park nightly at 7 o’clock. On weekends, enjoy even more holiday cheer with craft activities, vendors and more. Attendees can meet two of Santa’s reindeer on Dec. 10 and 11, LIFE page 10

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and community leaders on how we could best serve, the homeless issue came up in every conversation,” said Beck. “I believe we found a way to make a meaningful difference as families are rehoused every week in Sacramento and face the same transitional challenges.” Pastor David Beck is available to

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help other ReHome groups get trained using a simple guide he created. Months later, the family gained a stronger footing and told the VOA case manager that those pivotal weeks were made much less stressful because of the help of the ReHome group. “The transitional situation creates a great deal of stress on families that

He can be reached at 599-7191 or tdbeck33@gmail.com. Cash donations can be made to Sanctuary Covenant Church’s ReHome fund at P.O. Box 340789, Sacramento 95834. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n

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have already been through so much more than most of us can imagine,” said Beck. “We want to help relieve some of that stress and make the transition more successful.” “The three words I use to describe the ReHome program are simple, practical and relational,” Beck said. “You don’t have to be an expert or have any special training. It is not complicated, but it is very impactful.”

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According to Beck, each welcomehome basket costs about $150 to $200 to assemble. Group members pitch in what they can to cover the costs at this time. The church has also set up a fund for general donations to purchase household items. “We’d love to see the program grow, and even assemble baskets with donations of household items in advance, to distribute as needed with volunteers,” he said. “While this program developed

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LIFE FROM page 8 and kids can visit with Santa in his workshop from 3 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 10, 11, 17 and 18. Want one more thing to be happy about this holiday season? How about Nationwide Free Admission Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24? Fairytale Town gives the gift of free admission to visiting guests on Christmas Eve. How’s that for some holiday cheer? For more information, call 8087462 or go to fairytaletown.org. Fairytale Town is at 3901 Land Park Drive. Help the conservation efforts of the zoo by stopping by the AAZK Wreath Sale Fundraiser

HAPPY HOWL-IDAYS If you’re hankering for some food truck fare, there’s no better place to tuck in than at Off the Grid’s partnership with the Sacramento Zoo to bring food trucks and live music to zoo-goers from 5 to 9 p.m. every Thursday. Off the Grid began in the Bay Area in June 2010 with the idea of grouping street food vendors together to create an experience that allows neighbors, friends and families to connect over some great grub, and it expanded to include Sacramento earlier this year. So bring your appetite and nosh while you boogie down! Think humans aren’t the only ones who should receive gifts during the holidays? The zoo agrees, which is why its annual Holiday Magic tradition is so fun. Watch as the animals unwrap their holiday goodies from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10, and if you bring a nonperishable food item, you’ll receive $1 off your admission. Looking for another way to support the conservation efforts of the zoo and the American Association of Zoo Keepers? Don’t miss the AAZK Wreath Sale Fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on weekends, Dec. 3 through 18. Check out the booth inside the front gate of the zoo to find homemade fresh and burlap wreaths in addition to ornaments painted by the zoo animals to decorate your home for the holidays. Proceeds

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benefit the Greater Sacramento AAZK animal conservation efforts. No one said you had to dress up for Christmas. Come join the zoo’s PJ Party Christmas Eve from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24. Don your best footie pajamas (or roll right out of bed!) and have some festive fun at the zoo for a free admission half-day. For more information, call 808-5888 or go to saczoo.org. The Sacramento Zoo is at 3930 West Land Park Drive.

ALL THE PARK’S A STAGE If you’ve ever enjoyed a performance of the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, or if you

routinely walk through Land Park and have noticed an odd stone stage in the middle of the grass, you’re probably aware of the William A. Carroll Amphitheater, a structure built as a project of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. You might also have noticed that though the structure is impressive, it looks like it hasn’t been updated for quite a while, and you’d be correct: The space hasn’t been rehabbed since the 1960s, according to Ryan Lillis’ article published as part of his City Beat column in The Sacramento Bee on Nov. 1. But the city of Sacramento has taken notice. According to Lillis, the City Council approved a proposal

last month to move $100,000 from a trust fund of fees collected from special events in Land Park into the renovation project. Previous fundraising efforts by a committee that was formed in 2013 were slowgoing, but recent attention and the blessing of the City Council has revved up responses. A fundraiser held last month at Fairytale Town raised about $50,000, with a goal of $250,000 by the end of next summer to cover design costs for a major renovation. The eventual target is $2.5 million to pay for restrooms, better seating, improved sound and lighting systems, and dressing rooms for performers. “This is an investment in moving the project along, but it also tees it up (to receive grant money),” Councilman Steve Hansen, who represents Land Park, is quoted as saying. “It’s really a deficient facility and we’re trying to make it a place that is better used and better appreciated.” Though some longtime Land Park residents wish more attention would be paid to other maintenance issues in the park, such as aging irrigation systems and bathrooms, this investment by the city is hopefully the first in what could amount to a slew of improvements to be made over time. Lillis reports that the city plans to pour more than $600,000 into its parks system. Though Shakespeare wrote that “the course of true love never did run smooth,” we’re hoping that the improvement of the William A. Carroll Amphitheater and other Land Park landmarks of its kind will run as smoothly as can be.

BIKES FOR TYKES The Foster Santa Program needs volunteers to assemble and tune up more than 300 bikes for foster and atrisk children. The work will be done from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 8. To volunteer, contact Hillary Gaines at hgaines@upliftfs.org.

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Election Roundup TAXES, BONDS AND A NEW COUNTY SUPERVISOR

hile most of the media is consumed with the national revolt that led to the election of Donald J. Trump as our 45th president, the election results in Sacramento County may have as lasting an impact on our lives as the Trump ascendency will. Why? Because local governments control the basic government services we rely upon the most: police and fire protection, educating our children, maintaining our transportation system and keeping our water and sewer systems operating whenever we need them, at a cost we can afford. While Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mayor and city council elections were settled in the June primary, the November general election brought other major local issues to our ballots, including a total of more than $1 billion in local school bond measures, a proposed $75 parcel tax proposed by the city school district (Measure G), a proposal to levy $3.6 billion in new taxes by doubling the current countywide transportation sales tax rate by a half cent for 30 years (Measure B) and a big political fight over who would replace retiring Roberta MacGlashan on the county board of supervisors.

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SCHOOL BONDS AND PARCEL TAXES Voters were asked to approve $750 million in bonds for San Juan schools, $476 million in bonds for Elk Grove schools and $55.7 million in two bond measures for Galt schools. School bond measures must secure 55 percent of the vote to pass. The jumbo San Juan bond was approved with 68 percent of the vote, the big Elk Grove bond snagged 69 percent of the vote and the two bond measures in Galt attracted 63 percent and 64 percent of the vote. How much will the bonds cost property owners in the form of higher property taxes? Property owners in the San Juan district will pay $60 more per year for every $100,000 of assessed property value, while Elk Grove homeowners will pay $38 more per $100,000 of assessed value. So someone with a home in the San Juan school district that has an assessed value of $350,000 will pay $210 more each year in taxes as a consequence of the passage of the San Juan bond, while a homeowner in Elk Grove also with a home assessed at

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$350,000 will pay $133 more each year in taxes. Somewhat surprisingly, the school bonds on the November ballot this year drew little to no opposition, despite their unprecedented large size. This marked the first time the Elk Grove school district sought to issue a school bond, having relied until now on state funds and developer impact fees to build out its school system.

The $75 parcel tax put up by the city school district, however, appears to be going down to defeat as we go to print, drawing only 65 percent of the vote, a point shy of the magic twothirds majority required for passage of a special tax. Measure G was promoted as a way of raising $7 million annually for music and arts programming, as well as a source of funds for the hiring of school counselors who would better

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Wishing you and yoŸ family a Joyous Holiday Season and a magni5cent New Year! Steffan Brown ł 717-7217 ł SteffanBrown.com match up with the ethnic composition of the schools in which they’d serve. One of the problems with Measure G may have been the fact that similar districts (i.e., ones with a high proportion of its kids eligible for subsidized school lunches) have been receiving a gusher of new state money in recent years, amounting to a reported 50 percent increase in total district funding over the past five years. If funding were such a problem for city schools, why aren’t more local school districts pressing for a parcel tax to fund their arts and music programs? Another challenge for Measure G that doesn’t exist for school bond measures has to do with a fairly widespread public misunderstanding of the difference between a parcel tax and a school bond. A teacher friend of mine shared a revealing story about a conversation she once had with a group of fellow teachers over lunch. Each teacher in the group was highly educated, intelligent and generally well-informed about what’s going on in the world. But when the subject turned to school bonds, not one of her fellow teachers knew that when a school district issues a bond, it triggers an automatic increase in property taxes for every property owner in the district for the life of the bond. If highly educated public school teachers are laboring under such a major misunderstanding about school bonds, it’s likely that their misunderstanding is shared by a large proportion of voters. And if a large number of voters don’t understand that school bonds trigger property tax hikes, then bond elections may

very well be drawing more support than they would draw if the public were aware of the unbreakable link between school bonds and property taxes. That may explain why a relatively modest, but explicitly labeled, $75 parcel tax is apparently being shot down by voters, while much pricier property tax hikes triggered by school bonds, ranging from $133 to $210 per year for typical homeowners in Elk Grove and the San Juan school district, respectively, were approved by voters with pretty wide margins. Maybe high school government courses should start explaining the difference—if the teachers themselves even know the difference.

The issue of local governmental spending to promote Measure B is the subject of a recent grand jury complaint and a soon-tobe filed complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission. If the grand jury or the FPPC finds that the campaign activities of local governments broke state law prohibitions on the use of taxpayer funds for campaigning, don’t be surprised to see a civil suit initiated against those public officials responsible for it to recover tax

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dollars illegally spent on Measure B campaigning. The problem of local governments corruptly campaigning for local ballot measures, particularly tax measures, has become an ever-increasingly problem throughout California, one that fairly cries out for state legislative reform. While private taxpayers can bring a lawsuit to try to stop the practice, they do so at considerable personal risk. A recent appellate decision not CITY HALL page 14

MEASURE B STUMBLES The idea of Measure B was simple: Scare the bejeesus out of voters that their roads were collapsing and that doubling the current half-cent Measure A transportation sales tax to 1 cent was the only way to fix them. Construction firms, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and developers poured $1 million (at last report) into the Yes on B campaign. Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg even loaned $200,000 to the Yes campaign. But that wasn’t all. With just a few exceptions, almost all the local governments that hoped to collect $3.6 billion in new tax revenues over the next 30 years under Measure B spent an estimated $500,000 of taxpayer money on highly dubious, and allegedly illegal, “educational mailers” designed to persuade voters to approve Measure B.

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THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MEASURE B Several months before the November election, the Sacramento Transportation Authority, the originator of Measure B, commissioned an opinion poll that found 69 percent of likely voters were likely to vote for Measure B (which required a two-thirds majority to pass), but that voter support for Measure B quickly dropped to 61 percent once they learned more about it. It was the goal of the Don’t Double the Tax, No on Measure B campaign (which I chaired) to educate voters on Measure B. We relied extensively on an in-depth Eye on Sacramento investigative report on how our local governments have actually been spending $110 million per year in Measure A taxes. The report, principally authored by Greg Thompson, a professor emeritus of urban and regional planning at Florida State University, found

numerous egregious instances of wasteful spending of Measure A taxes, ranging from blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary interest costs to RT’s paying overtime pay to bus drivers while they were on vacation to spending $43 million on an unneeded one-stop “train to nowhere.” (The EOS report can be viewed eyeonsacramento.org.) In addition to waste, Professor Thompson found that the expenditure plan for Measure B dollars simply was not an integrated strategic plan for allocating scarce transportation and transit resources. It was, instead, the product of a political deal that failed to reflect smart planning or transit values. It focused far too much on very expensive long extensions of light rail long before population densities could justify them and focused not nearly enough on increasing ridership closer in to the urban core by upgrading bus service and extending light rail to Sac State and other close-in locations. But the biggest flaw of Measure B was its failure to take into account the rapid, tremendous changes that are occurring in the technology of transportation and transit, including the game-changing introduction of autonomous vehicles. Such vehicles are already being tested in several cities throughout the world. No one knows for sure how these changes will impact our transportation and transit systems in the coming years. So creating a 30-year plan focusing heavily on traditional road and transit projects is a pretty dumb idea. It may make construction industry lobbyists happy, but it would tie our future to outdated 20th-century solutions in a region that faces 21st-century challenges and opportunities. With a campaign budget of just under $50,000, our No on B campaign was outspent 30-to-1 by special interests and local governments. But our goal was never to compete headto-head with the very well-funded Yes on B campaign. Instead, we sought to inform a sufficient slice of the electorate of the defects of B to bring the vote total for the measure below the two-thirds threshold. In that we were successful.

Our hope now is to work with local transportation officials to help them bring down wasteful spending of Measure A dollars and to collaborate with them on the development of a new vision for transit and transportation investments that retains maximal flexibility and nimbleness in adopting exciting new technologies, while assuring that priorities are established and preserved for the repair of our existing roadways and transit systems.

BATTLE FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR SEAT The battle to replace longtime incumbent Roberta MacGlashan on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors came down to two candidates following the June primary: Sue Frost, a Citrus Heights councilmember, former mayor and retired businesswoman, and Mike Kozlowski, a salesman for Johnson Controls and the head track coach at Vista del Lago High School. Frost won the right to represent northeast Sacramento County (Folsom, Orangevale, Antelope) on the board of supervisors by winning 55 percent of the vote against Koslowski’s 45 percent. Frost had come in first in the June primary and had won the endorsements of all of the other candidates who had run in that primary, as well as the support of the Sacramento County Republican Party, the Sacramento Realtors Association and the Rental Housing Association of Sacramento Valley. Kozlowski drew major support from builders, developers and chambers of commerce. Much of Kozlowski’s support came from a well-funded independent expenditure campaign that vastly outspent Frost in the race. Frost focused on walking the district and meeting as many voters as possible. It certainly paid off for her. Craig Powell is a local attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@eyeonsacramento.org or 718-3030. n

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s of 2013, there were an estimated 255 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States. So where exactly are we supposed to put them? Studies estimate that for every car in the United States, there are somewhere between 3.4 and eight parking spots. Eight. That’s, at minimum, almost 1 billion parking spots. According to Walt Seifert, who writes this publication’s Getting There column, “About 30 percent of urban areas nationally are devoted to spaces for cars—in the mall, at home in the garage, grocery stores—and that’s huge amount of real estate devoted to cars, when 90 percent of the time they’re not even moving.” Since Golden 1 Center opened in October, parking has become an especially relevant issue for Sacramentans. Downtown parking meter hours were extended to 10 p.m., new tiered payments were introduced, and the city expected events at the arena would draw thousands of vehicles into the city center, raising fears of an aparkalypse. Initial reviews suggest the city has done a pretty good job managing the potential parking crisis since the new arena opened. The city already had 10 garages and more than a dozen lots downtown, plus it launched a new app (SacPark.org) to facilitate parking by reservation. With Sacramento facing more growth and demands for new housing, Inside Publications spoke with Jason Silva, an architect with Dreyfuss & Blackford, to discuss the future of parking structures, and why developers should look at parking garages as more than necessary evils. “While their function is a place to store your car, usually out of sight, out of mind, these structures don’t have to be just functional,” Silva said. For starters, new garages in dense urban areas can’t be tucked away (where would they go?), and betterplanned structures can potentially

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Ditch the Car PREPARING FOR THE APARKALYPSE

One of the parking garages at UC Davis Medical Center

reduce lawsuits by creating easier access and wider stalls, which could save money in the long run. “Wider stalls mean less car dings, which means less complaints and less

accidents where somebody can make a claim because of some injury to them or their vehicle,” he said. “Parking is the first and last impression that you’re getting when you’re visiting

something. So it can also make or break the experience for visitors.” In other words, a good structure could be good for your business’ brand.

A problem with parking structures, said Silva, is that they’re often dark, dimly lit and potentially dangerous, because many developers build a garage to code minimum—the cheapest that can be made. Garage stalls can cost as much as $20,000 each (or $36,000 for an airport garage), so Silva understands why developers might be hesitant to include amenities that would inflate a project’s budget. “But if you take an inch out of a certain part of the structure,” he said, “it’s repeated so many times throughout for every stall that it adds up to a lot of area that reduces the overall cost.” Expenses saved in one area, like reducing the number of stalls, could mean including improvements like painting the interior. “Having a white, reflective paint on the inside makes the garage much brighter and feels safer, though the cost of painting per square foot ultimately ends up being significant,” Silva said. “It could take out half a million of a

big project, if it costs a dollar per square foot roughly.” He noted that “the problem isn’t often the quantity of stalls, but how they are accessed, or how they are

almost a piece of art in itself, designed by Herzog & de Architect Jason Silva Meuron,” said Silva. communicated.” The above-ground garage, with views As an example, Silva offered out and over the ocean, was built for the parking structure at UC Davis $65 million and fits only 300 vehicles. Medical Center, “which has little (That’s $216,000 per stall.) An lights over every stall. The light is architectural landmark, this garage either red or green, so when you’re driving in a parking garage looking for also has retail stores on intermittent an empty stall, this allows you to look levels and can be rented for events and parties. across the entire row of stalls and see “It’s out of control, and it’s turned what’s open.” parking into an experience. Maybe Garages can also be viewed as art. that fits for Florida,” said Silva, “There’s a parking garage in Florida conceding that more pragmatic cities called 1111 Lincoln Road, and it is

should focus on safety and comfort, at least “an awareness that parking isn’t just me ditching my car in a dark space.” Fortunately for Sacramento developers, he said, “the city has changed its zoning codes to get rid of parking requirements in the central business district.” A smart move, said Silva, “since having every single developer accommodate their own parking on their own site is ludicrous. Instead, it puts parking into an ecosystem unto itself,” so when the city needs more parking, “somebody will put in a garage that will solve the problem.” Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com n

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R Street is a vibrant part of the central city

Brand Identity REDEFINING THE GRID, DISTRICT BY DISTRICT

acramento’s business and residential districts are defining and redefining themselves and literally changing how we view the downtown and Midtown core. For many, Sacramento has a downtown, Midtown and an old town, but within those sections of town, districts are creating new places to work, shop, eat and live. Historically, Sacramento did have residential and commercial corridors such as Alkali Flat, Poverty Ridge, Southside and Boulevard Park, just to name a few. But today, the segmenting of Sacramento districts is

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taking on a whole new life, and each district is building its own distinctive image and identity with a goal to create a unique Sacramento urban lifestyle. Probably one of the first lifestyle districts was Lavender Heights, a centrally located district in Midtown centered around K and 20th streets. Lavender Heights is a marketing name given to the hub of Sacramento’s gay and lesbian community with many gay bars, restaurants and LGBT community resources. While some areas like Lavender Heights came about organically because of the nature of the neighborhood, others are more official and formalized as property-based business improvement districts, nicknamed PBIDs. These PBIDs set out to manage and improve the environment of a business district and

are financed by a self-imposed and self-governed assessment on property. A PBID generally pools resources to keep its district clean, safe and energized through marketing activities. It focuses on everything from graffiti removal, parking issues and lighting to advocating policy, promoting events and setting out long-term plans. Often, these districts look at how to build a distinct identity for themselves to attract business, developers, residents and patrons. According to Michelle Smira Brattmiller, who administers both R Street Partnership and Greater Broadway District, the districts in the city are all unique and have their own niche. “What we try to do is to activate space,” Smira Brattmiller said. “We are trying to do that on R Street, where we are changing a warehouse

district into a pedestrian-friendly artist environment with unique architecture, music, food and culture. Broadway is different. It’s a thoroughfare now, and our hope is to activate the area and make it a destination.” While R Street and Broadway are vastly different in configuration, the activation of space has similarities. They seek a mixture of complementary residential and business development, with people participating in events or sitting street-side at restaurants. But each district also faces its own challenges. The Broadway district is large and diverse, running from Interstate 5 to Highway 99. “Each section of Broadway is different,” said Smira Brattmiller. “The section of Broadway from 3rd to 8th streets is industrial, DOWNTOWN page 23

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The Show Must Go On AN UPGRADE FOR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM

$16.2 million subsidy to save six touring Broadway shows, nine symphonic performances, two choral presentations and six days of “The Nutcracker” ballet is being twirled past Sacramento taxpayers. It’s happening as the City Council embraces a ballooning $270 million budget to remodel the Sacramento Convention Center and Community Center Theater. The $16.2 million subsidy is a one-off that involves Memorial Auditorium. The stately brick hall, built in 1926 to honor Sacramento soldiers killed in World War I, had not been under discussion when city officials began to pencil out the convention center expansion and theater remodel. During a whirlwind of backroom discussions, Memorial Auditorium became the linchpin in the theater rehab project. Discussions focused around four Community Center Theater tenants: Broadway Sacramento, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Sacramento Ballet and Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra. The most important tenant is the Broadway series. Run by the nonprofit California Musical Theatre, which produces Music Circus, Broadway Sacramento is a longstanding cultural asset.

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Richard Lewis is the CEO of California Musical Theatre

In a typical season, six traveling Broadway shows dance their way onto the Community Center Theater stage. The series runs about eight weeks. Richard Lewis, CEO of California Musical Theatre, negotiates to bring the shows and sell the tickets. “The risk and reward with Broadway is far greater than with Music Circus,” he says.

As the city lurched forward with its plan to remodel the Community Center Theater, Lewis and other arts leaders grew concerned. Their big stage would be closed while the theater went dark for renovation. Without the theater, Broadway Sacramento, which requires a professional stage, rigging, lighting

and orchestra pit, “would be out of business,” Lewis says. City Hall faced a big dilemma. Would it move forward with the theater rehab and maybe kill Broadway Sacramento and the other groups? Or would the city schedule the remodel over four years, around the arts schedule? That’s what Lewis suggested. Remodeling the theater without concern for the tenants was never considered. City Council members love to portray themselves as guardians of arts and culture. They did not want to be blamed for silencing “The Sound of Music.” But stretching out the theater rehab over several years carried a massive price tag: around $23 million extra. This summer, another option was introduced. What about upgrading Memorial Auditorium and making it a temporary home for Broadway and the others? “When I heard that, I said it’s impossible,” Lewis says. “That building will not work.” Memorial Auditorium has many shortcomings as a theater. Lighting and rigging supports are inadequate. Same with the stage and orchestra pit. Restrooms and concessions involve staircases—not good for Broadway audiences. And the floor seats are old and hard. No matter; the city’s consultants studied the auditorium and said that with $16.2 million, they could bring it to theatrical standards for the 2019-20 season. “They convinced me,” Lewis says. “We can make it work. It’s cheaper than adding $23 million to the theater remodel. And we’ll have CITY page 24

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DOWNTOWN FROM page 20 and the area from 8th to 21st has fast food and other retail. So we have to look at how these diverse sections merge together.” Even with organized districts, money and investment is the fuel to truly transform a district. “It really does take the foresight of developers who take the risks,” Smira Brattmiller added. “For Broadway, it will take new development and business to fill vacancies. We need to see businesses and residential turn outward toward Broadway and not inward.” It’s been a host of developers and investors on R Street that’s made a considerable difference in the rapid transformation of the corridor into a vibrant area. One developer is

Ali Youssefi, vice president of CFY Development, a firm specializing in acquiring, developing, building and rehabilitating multifamily and workforce housing. Youssefi has been instrumental on R Street with the development of Warehouse Artist Lofts, a mixed-use project combining first-floor retail and housing. R Street was an historic area of Sacramento with warehouses served by rail lines dating back to the 1850s. Many of the buildings dated back to the turn of the century. The vision for R Street, driven by Youssefi and other leading developers and business leaders, was a celebration of history combined with a pedestrian-friendly, artistic, neighborhood feel. “We have some momentum creating this unique urban-living

lifestyle,” Youssefi said. “We want a place for pedestrians who can easily go from block to block. It will be a place for artists and others, but artists can be a driver of creating a place like none other in the country.” R Street development is hitting on all gears. Sacramento’s major developers like D&S Development, Heller Pacific and Cordano Co. are all investing in the R Street Corridor. While it officially runs 27 blocks through town, most of that development is happening from 10th to 20th streets right now. Youssefi is also planning more development with his purchase of the old California Office Furniture on R Street. He’s building out an entire block from 9th to 10th streets, which will be home to a new grocery store concept developed by Raley’s called Market 5-ONE-5. In keeping with the pedestrian lifestyle, outside seating will be placed on the block to create a place for people to interact and connect. “We are taking full advantage of the R Street potential,” Youssefi said.

“The recipe is here for a very unique and successful district.” Midtown is evolving, too. Midtown Business District represents a large, diverse area of business, hospitality and residential neighborhoods. However, tucked inside Midtown are smaller districts forging their own identities. These districts in Midtown include the Handle District at 18th and 19th streets bordered by L Street and Capitol Avenue, and the Sutter District around Sutter’s Fort, including the restaurants on J Street between 27th and 28th streets. Supporting the hospitality industry is only part of MBA’s mission. To create the environment for businesses to prosper, MBA supports safety, streetscapes and maintenance throughout the district with additional marketing support through events like Second Saturday. “For us, we look at Midtown and strive to make it as healthy and vibrant as possible,” said Emily Baine Michaels, MBA’s executive director. “We are the overall voice of Midtown, DOWNTOWN page 24

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diversity and audiences for the entertainment it underwrites. Broadway Sacramento has been in decline for a decade. Subscriptions fell from around 18,000 to 12,000. Lewis needed a $300,000 loan from the city to stay afloat in 2011. His troupe was unable to get bank loans. The philharmonic, opera and ballet limp along. The philharmonic and opera canceled seasons in 2014-15 and combined resources. A $500,000 gift from Joyce and Jim Teel saved the day. The ballet laid off dancers and canceled its 2015 season. The choral society maintains solvency with modest professional ambitions. Before voting preliminary approval for an $83.4 million rehab of the Community Center Theater and $16.2 million upgrade for Memorial Auditorium, City Councilmember Eric Guerra said, “We haven’t been putting enough into the arts to begin with.” The city’s forthcoming $100 million theatrical investment says otherwise. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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not just hospitality. We work with all business owners, and by definition we help commercial property owners.” She thinks districts have to have an organic foundation and be authentic to survive. But she quickly points to the need for districts to manage all aspects of the experience to maintain a robust area for business and people. The growth of smaller districts like Sutter and the Handle have a more micro focus with a goal to showcase the unique traits that make them special. For the Handle, it’s the large number of high-quality restaurants in a high concentration of a few blocks.

The Handle has a mix of restaurants and urban housing attracting a diverse age group and professional types. Seann Rooney, who manages the Handle District, said some districts have an identity that grows organically because of the types of businesses, housing or other amenities there already, while others create the identity through a process. “You could say the Handle was somewhat organic,” Rooney said. “We had a critical mass of restaurants that we now organize. Most were established before the district was in place.” Now, while small in size, the Handle has a mix of restaurants and urban housing attracting a diverse age group and professional types. “We have a little something for everyone, but our reputation has been built on the fact we have 15 food hot spots in one square block,” added Rooney. To showcase the Handle and its mix of restaurants, food shops and retail stores, the district hosts block parties for Midtown residents but also to provide a destination for people living throughout the region.

As you look to the downtown core, Downtown Sacramento Partnership is made up of a variety of districts that have their own growing or evolving identities. Some have been around for decades, like Old Sacramento, while the newly blossoming DOCO shopping experience around Golden 1 Center is now being built. Also falling into DSP’s area are other defined districts including the Civic Center, Entertainment District, Theater District, Capitol Mall and The Kay. Michael Ault, DSP’s executive director, sees districts forming through a combination of factors that create an identity. “Some are planned and some are organic,” he said. “They take on their own life. Sometimes, it’s the little things that add up together, like lighting, parklets or other amenities. Sometimes, it’s the location or blend of retail and residential.” He pointed to the Railyards district, which has a foundation in history that will help shape its identity. “DOCO is creating a whole new experience around the new arena, while Old Sacramento has a unique experience and identity all its own,” said Ault. “For the Bridge District in West Sacramento, its identity is shaped by its views of downtown Sacramento.” But Ault pointed out that for districts to succeed, they have to work at it. Just having a unique district in the urban center won’t be enough, and districts need to focus on marketing, maintenance and security. He thinks the key is bringing more people to live in the downtown area. If successful, these districts will activate their areas through a mix of residential and business development. No matter their different identities, districts will bring people together through interactions at the street level, where the energy is a magnet for the people who live and work there and create unique destinations that draw people from the region back to the Sacramento grid. As Sacramento matures, new micro districts will emerge, creating brandnew areas that excite people in the region and beyond to live a vibrant and unique urban lifestyle. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com n

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What’s on Tap

hen Bobby Mull says that he and his business partner Zac Nelson have “zeal” for what they create, he’s not exaggerating. He and Nelson are the two-man band behind Zeal Kombucha, a local company that brews the specialty fermented beverage. Now in their third year of business, Mull and Nelson started out small in a commercial kitchen in Placerville but soon discovered that the demand for their uniquely flavored kombucha was going to require them to have more space.

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The pine needles in the vanilla pine kombucha are harvested by hand by Mull and Nelson themselves from a farm in the foothills.

“I started home brewing kombucha about 10 years ago,” says Mull, who learned the trade from friends. “I got really into fermenting beverages. I’d brew mead, beer, tea. I taught Zac to brew around that time. Four years ago, he approached me about starting a business.” Both Mull and Nelson were working in restaurants, which gave them time to perfect their flavors while enjoying the relative security and flexibility of their day jobs. “We could really tinker to get things dialed in and just right,” Mull says. “We really like to experiment.” This experimentation is a big part of what sets Zeal Kombucha apart. Most kombucha contains fruit juice that, when fermented, has a slightly vinegary taste that some find delicious and others … not so much. Mull and Nelson achieve fruitlike flavors by using herbs, botanicals and teas for a beverage that drinks less like a soda and more like a beer. The lack of fruit juice also means that there’s no added sugar in Zeal products—a bonus for health-conscious kombucha imbibers. “Brewing kombucha is similar to how people develop perfumes,” Mull says. “You start with one main ingredient and build from there.” Zeal currently offers six flavors. Most contain six to eight ingredients derived from herbs and flowers sourced from international and locally based suppliers as well as local farms. The pine needles in the vanilla pine kombucha, for example, are harvested by hand by Mull and Nelson themselves from a farm in the foothills.

“There are so many forgotten, edible ingredients that have been used throughout human history,” Mull says. “Pine needles were actually used in beer before hops because they help ward off scurvy, and each species of pine tastes slightly different. Some taste like grape skin, some like tangerine, mandarin and guava. The age of the needle will change its flavor, too. With spring tips, you can chew on them like a salad green. Older needles are firmer and have more oils and take more time to break down.” If the idea of guzzling pine needles sounds intimidating, Mull says the best cure for the curiosity and confusion many people feel around kombucha is to try it. “There are still so many misconceptions about what kombucha is,” says Mull, who likens the diversity of kombucha flavors to those of beer. “The best way to convince people is to give samples. That’s primarily what we do at the farmers market. We’re educating people about what kombucha is, letting them try it, explaining how it’s made. There’s a lot of outreach involved.” The education effort is clearly paying off: Zeal is now served on tap at several local eateries, including Insight Coffee Roasters, Mother, The Mill and Old Soul. It’s also available in bottles at all the Magpie restaurants, Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op and Elliott’s Natural Foods. For more information about Zeal Kombucha, go to zealkombucha.com n

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Bigger Isn’t Better EMPTY-NESTERS DOWNSIZE TO A COZY NEW HOUSE

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oving is never an easy task. Relocating from a 6,000-square-foot home to 2,400 square feet presents another layer of complication. What to do with all your stuff? After living in the same house on 45th Street for 36 years, Lynne and Ross Relles opted to make the big move to a smaller home. It was a tough decision, but it was the right time to downsize. Their children are grown. They didn’t need all that space and accompanying maintenance. They love the neighborhood and wanted to stay close by. Ross had scouted out a property he liked. But as soon as they saw a stylish house for sale one block from their old house, Lynne and Ross knew they’d found their new home.

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WHEN WE WALKED IN THE FRONT DOOR AND

TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE BACKYARD, THAT WAS IT.

Built in 1927 by East Sacramento architect Arthur Widdowson for the E. J. Morrissey family, the house is a stylish example of French Normandy style. It has a high-pitched roof that steeply descends over the second floor, leaded-glass windows, wood halftimbering, arched doorways and a central two-story round tower tucked into the L of two wings. But it was another feature that captured their attention. “When we walked in the front door and took one look at the backyard, that was it,” says Lynne. A few years earlier, the previous owner had refreshed the outdoor space with a pool,

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hot tub, cozy covered seating area and fireplace. A barbecue area with a refrigerator and sink makes preparing meals outside a snap. Now, the Relleses spend countless hours outdoors. “We’re back there almost every evening,” Lynne says. After purchasing the house in 2014, the pair began deciding what to keep and how to shed the rest. Lynne imagined her daughter would

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be devastated to learn they were selling the family home. Her surprising response: “Mom,” she told Lynne, “it’s the greatest gift you could have given us to not have to think of all the stuff we would have had to get rid of.” At the old house, the three-car garage was full of memorabilia. All the closets and the three-room basement held their share of material memories and knickknacks. The Relleses held a huge estate sale. Their kids took what they wanted, which wasn’t much, according to Lynne. “The kids don’t want all this stuff,” she says. Due to the previous owner’s remodel, no major changes to the new house were necessary. The Relleses removed a fresco from the entry ceiling and repainted the living room, which had been a deep Indian red. The color was beautiful, says Lynne, but she wanted to brighten up the space with a sunny yellow color. They kept many of their large wooden pieces, including beautiful Italian tables that Lynne placed in the living room, where she loves to sit and read. A lush wool area rug was cut in half and now covers the wood floor. Wingback chairs provide comfy seating. The room is a perfect combination of elegance and comfort. Relles is upbeat as well as pragmatic about their downsizing. “I’m comfortable here,” she says. “I like this house and I am not moving again.” The Relles home will be featured on the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour, which takes place Dec. 2-4. For more information, go to sacredhearthometour.com 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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Fashioning a Career ARTIST PRINTS UP WHIMSICAL DESIGNS TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

BY LISA HOWARD MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR

ahoe Park resident Brandy Smith designs everything she sells on her Etsy store, Zen Threads. There’s the wiener-dog-riding-askateboard T-shirt available in 15 colors. Other T-shirts show a river otter wearing a hat and glasses and a manatee paddling a canoe. There are a lot of whimsical California designs: an outline of the state with the words “Stay Golden” and a bear wearing a striped beanie surrounded by the words “Hella Nor Cal.”

She got the idea for custom silk-screened T-shirts when she was having trouble selling paintings. Smith’s whimsical illustrations and graphics are silk-screened by hand onto T-shirts, baby onesies, sweat shirts, kitchen towels, gift bags, tote bags, scarves and buttons at Zen Threads’ production facility in Curtis Park right next to The Coffee Garden. Because she always hated the chemicals and solvents used with traditional silk-screening, Smith uses a green process with eco-friendly dyes and fabrics. She got the idea for custom silkscreened T-shirts when she was having trouble selling paintings.

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Brandy Smith designs and sells things on Etsy

An “Air Force brat,” Smith was born in Sacramento but then lived in Arkansas, New Jersey, Texas and Oklahoma before returning to Sacramento when she was 12. She received a bachelor’s degree in

art studio from Sacramento State University in 1998. “I illustrated and painted,” she says. “I couldn’t sell $300 or $400 paintings, so I thought maybe I can sell 20 T-shirts with something on it.”

She first started her business in 2008 in the garage of the Tahoe Park home where she lives with her partner, Kellie Denso, and their three dogs: two dachshunds, Kehei (the model for the skateboard design) and Ari J., and a Yorkie named Posey. At first, she tried selling the T-shirts on eBay without much success. Then a friend told her about Etsy. Denso helped out with the orders but at the time was still working part time at Tower Cafe. Eventually, Zen Threads got so busy that Denso quit Tower to work full time on Zen Threads. Smith says, “It was a little scary because we had just bought the house in Tahoe Park.” And in some ways, Smith’s timing was awful. This was in the depths of the Great Recession, and she was trying to build her business when others were losing theirs. When asked how Zen Threads succeeded, she says she doesn’t have an easy answer but that she worked very hard. “Every free minute I had, I was trying to design something new,” she says. “What kind of shirt should I print this on? I’d look at stores that sold vintage-style shirts for ideas. I also got on every social media site I could find to promote the store. I made sure to post on Facebook every day.” Zen Threads also received some unexpected marketing. Earlier this year, the “Live Slow” tank shirt featuring a sloth saw a bump in sales after NHL goalie Scott Darling of the Chicago Blackhawks was photographed wearing it while eyeing the newly inked “Stanley Cup Champs” tattoo on his arm. Although Etsy has helped Smith establish and grow her business,

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allowing her to hire six employees and move out of her garage and into the production space, she thinks she may have hit a plateau, with sales this year roughly the same as last. “I feel like that was bound to happen,” she says. “It kept growing and growing, so I was almost ready for that to happen.” Which is why she is putting more energy into expanding Zen Thread’s work with custom orders. The company has silk-screened T-shirts for a variety of businesses, from yoga studios to McGeorge School of Law and Hot Italian. Smith credits some of her success to an early failure. It’s also why she doesn’t want to own a retail space for her line of products. “In 2002, I opened a little boutique downtown with a friend of mine,” she says. “We had a passion to open a store and rent was cheap. Now it’s a great location, but back then it wasn’t.” The boutique on S Street at 11th was called Gurlie Door after the art of Peter Blake and sold Californiamade and organic apparel, graphic Ts,

jeans and bags. It lasted only eight months. “We spent money we didn’t have trying to get that store off the ground,” says Smith. “I remember thinking after it closed that I never wanted to own a retail store again.” But she thinks the experience helped her with Zen Threads. “Working backward from that experience, I learned from my mistakes. With Zen Threads, I felt like it happened naturally, organically.” Even though Zen Threads doesn’t have a retail space, the Etsy store is always open (etsy.com/shop/ ZenThreads), and Zen Threads periodically holds sidewalk sales, which are announced on its Facebook page. And customers are welcome to call or come in for custom T-shirt orders. When asked if she ever has time to do other art, she laughs. “In all honesty, when I have time I want to create new T-shirt designs instead of paint something.” For more information about Zen Threads, go to zenthreadsshop.com n

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Strikes and Spares THE GOOD TIMES ARE STILL ROLLING AT THIS BOWLING ALLEY

he lanes are synthetic, which means harder than wood and easier to play. Which means fewer bedpost splits. But just about everything else at AMF Land Park Lanes on Freeport Boulevard is original, from the hardwood approaches to the linoleum kids’ play area and the low, curved blue-and-white hard plastic seats that defined Space Age, midcenturymodern bowling furniture when Land Park Lanes opened in 1964. Like converting the diabolical 7-10 split (the bedpost), it’s a neat trick when a sports business honors its legacy without destroying its future. That’s Land Park Lanes. With fresh coats of paint, bright new lights and a respectful, loving approach to bowling that transcends generations, Land Park Lanes is packed most evenings. League bowlers mostly fill all 32 lanes. They provide the foundation of the business. As the night progresses, leagues give way to couples on dates and young people out having fun. If you just want to bowl and not bother with social or organizational stuff, like the beer frames and pot games, late afternoons are the time to visit. That’s when I showed up, not to bowl, but to look closely at Land Park Lanes and see how the place rolls. “My grandfather worked here,” a staff member tells me. “My father

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AMF Land Park Lanes on Freeport Blvd.

was a great bowler. He had 50 or 60 perfect games. He could have gone pro. He got me started in bowling as a little kid. You could say I grew up in the game.” Many Land Park bowlers have been showing up since they were children. Loyal customers still compete in Japanese Nisei leagues formed in the 1960s. One regular bowls with his feet because he has no hands. Heather Helton is general manager at AMF Land Park Lanes. It’s her job to orchestrate the harmony around a fun, nostalgic experience. If the ball return is sluggish or a pinsetter misses a pin, her crew gets to work. They hustle down a narrow ramp into

the workspace behind the pins and fix equipment that dates from Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. They replace broken parts with new components, which, surprisingly, are still being made. Crewmembers share the dirty work. They empty trash and clean restrooms. It wasn’t always this way. Not so long ago, the bowling alley wasn’t being kept up. There were times when customer service was an afterthought. These can be touchy points for a business, but when I ask about the customer service improvements, Helton indicates she can’t discuss the matter. AMF is a corporate property, part of a chain that extends across

304 bowling alleys in the U.S. And for reasons known only to AMF, the chain apparently doesn’t want houses like Land Park to build a local identity. “This is a corporation, and if you have questions, you have to go through our media office,” Helton says. “My manager says the corporation and media office will have to approve any article that gets written.” I respectfully explain to the young bowling manager that journalism doesn’t operate like that – imagine the stories that would result. Besides, it doesn’t matter. AMF Land Park

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Bowling in Sacramento has surged and faltered over the years. Behind the ball racks near Lane 1, there’s a closet with a warning sign on the door telling people not to enter. I look inside and see a rectangular black machine standing on its side, about 4 feet high, the underbelly a tangle of thick blue brushes, plastic tubes, wheels and rollers. The machine cleans and oils the lanes each night after bowlers go home, creating a surface that

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optimizes opportunities for fairness, fun and respectable scores. The oiling equipment is the heart of any bowling alley. Improperly set, the machine can make high scores maddeningly impossible even for the best bowler (or incredibly easy). Bowling in Sacramento has surged and faltered over the years. Some houses tried disco lights and disc jockeys. Alpine Lanes on Florin closed four years ago. Two bowling houses in the grid were bulldozed decades ago. Capitol Bowl still thrives in West Sacramento. And the suburbs support Country Club Lanes, Fireside Lanes, Lake Bowl and Mardi Gras Lanes, plus newer houses in Elk Grove and Rocklin. At AMF Land Park Lanes, across from Executive Airport, trends arrive and depart. Scoring is push button, erasing any need for math. The old barn looks good with its upgrades. Well oiled for another 50 years. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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Rock Star Organist HE’S BEEN COMPARED TO JIMI HENDRIX

BY PETER ANDERSON MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR

avid Link, the longtime organist and choir director at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Midtown, was once called the Jimi Hendrix of pipe organs. At 61, he looks about as much like Jimi Hendrix as a pipe organ resembles an electric guitar. When asked how he earned that unlikely nickname, he laughs and says, “Believe me, it didn’t come from me! A few years ago, after I played an especially rousing and bombastic piece on the organ during the Easter Vigil (‘Pim’s Toccata’ by Englishman Alan Wilson), a very enthused teenage boy rushed up to me and exclaimed, ‘Wow, dude! You must be the Jimi Hendrix of pipe organs!’ ” Link, who has been at Trinity Cathedral since 1984, is the longest tenured employee of the church and one of the most highly regarded. Says Lynell Walker, a canon pastor who has worked with the organist for 22 years, “I can’t speak much about the Jimi Hendrix comment—my mother was a highly professional flautist in Los Angeles, and we didn’t listen to pop or rock music. But I can tell you this about David: When he plays, it sets your heart in motion. You realize instantly that the person making the music is someone of great faith. “What he has is a profound gift— not a technical or keyboard skill, but a very special gift that springs from the soul. This is a man on a very active spiritual journey. He often leads us in prayer during staff meetings, those tedious hours when our minds get in the way, when you can’t think

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David Link is the organist and choir director at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

your way to God. In his music and in his words, David is sacramental and sensual, and he cuts a path straight from your soul to God’s ears.” The musical program at Trinity has always been dear to the parishioners’

hearts. It is a happily singing congregation. Parish administrator and operations manager Jerry Pare says, “Trinity worshippers are absolutely passionate about their singing, and they find David

wonderful to work with. He oversees the Children’s Choir, the Celebration Choir and the Cathedral Choir. I think David’s success stems from the fact that he avoids the political realm of church business. His work and

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happy with the niche he has carved for himself. “It’s uncanny,” he says, “the chemistry that the people have created with me. When I play, the people instinctually know when to join in, unlike many congregations that experience awkward start-andstop interplays with the organist.

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All Gardening Is Local HOLIDAY GIFTS FROM INDEPENDENT GARDEN CENTERS

hat do you give a gardener who has everything? That’s a trick question. It’s not hard to buy a gardener a gift. People who like to grow things never have everything. They always covet yet another seed packet, plant, bulb, tool or accessory. Sacramento is blessed with several locally owned and operated garden centers, no two exactly alike, although they have their similarities. They all sell the 2017 Master Gardener Gardening Guide and Calendar, stock plants well-suited for Sacramento and offer practical yet unusual tools and frivolous decorative items. Better yet, they are staffed with knowledgeable and experienced staff who carefully tend their plants and are eager to advise. One neighborhood institution is East Sacramento’s Talini’s Nursery (5601 Folsom Blvd.), founded in 1976. Assistant manager Meg Gray says, “We buy things that will do well here. We believe in our plants.” Over the years, Talini’s has evolved with the neighborhood, catering to today’s trends in edibles and water-efficient landscapes. Talini’s encourages people to get their hands dirty. “If somebody wants to buy a chemical for weed control, we try to sell them a dibble to dig the weeds out. There is no fast and easy way to garden,” Gray says. It’s not surprising that people drop by frequently for advice, to pet the kitty or just to see what’s new on the

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The Plant Foundry in Oak Park is filled with gifts for the gardener on your list

shelf. There is plenty to purchase. At a recent visit, I drooled over top-ofthe-line Dutch garden tools. Bulbs are touted as stocking stuffers, but Talini’s immense amaryllis bulbs wouldn’t fit in any but the most oversized socks. Fair Oaks Boulevard Nursery (4681 Fair Oaks Blvd.) has also been around for decades, moving across the street to its present location about 20 years ago. Manager Quentyn Young focuses on water-efficient plants, with a wide variety of California natives. The nursery offers unusual edibles and a “really good selection of shade trees that you can’t find many places,” he says. This time of year, they increase

their houseplant inventory so that you can keep gardening throughout the winter, improving air quality while beautifying your home. If you’d like Angela Pratt is the owner of The Plant to try a terrarium or Foundry make a fairy garden, which would tuck into a stocking very you can buy one ready-made or nicely. assemble one from an assortment The newest neighborhood store of tiny plants. Carnivorous plants? is Oak Park’s The Plant Foundry They have them. Large hanging (3500 Broadway), located in the baskets, ready to impress? That, too. fast-changing Broadway Triangle. A particularly popular tool is the Close to Land Park, Curtis Park Japanese hori-hori, a digging knife, and East Sacramento, it offers a

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Play by Play AFTER 31 YEARS, THE KINGS’ G-MAN IS STILL EXCITED BY THE GAME

here were long, isolated

the NHRA series as a pit reporter for

stretches between homes on the

ESPN. Gerould has also been an NFL

paper route that youthful Gary

announcer and did multiple sports for

Gerould would walk each day in the

the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

winter. His imagination would often

“I’ve done sumo wrestling to the

drift into daydream mode, which

NFL, and everything in between,”

helped relieve the boredom and take

laughs Gerould.

his mind off the snowy roads and

He also enjoyed a 12-year tenure

freezing cold Michigan weather that

with KCRA 3. He was the Sacramento

would rip through his clothing no

TV station’s primary sports anchor,

matter how many layers he wore.

covering the local scene but also

Lacking the physical tools to play

major events like the Super Bowl,

for some very good Midland High

the Masters, multiple World Series

basketball teams, Gerould found

and more. But when a management

another way to participate in the

change arrived in 1977, he was asked

game he loved. The paper route

to resign.

became his personal broadcast booth, where Gerould would pretend to announce his high school team’s games as he trudged along the snowy streets. “I was too short and too slow; I wasn’t good enough to make the cut for my high school team,” explains Gerould, who has lived in the same Greenhaven home with his wife, Marlene, since 1979. “But I was fascinated by it and loved basketball. I would announce the games in my head during those snowy winters walking on my paper route. I dreamed of being a basketball announcer.” The dream came true and in much loftier terms than the teenaged Gerould could have ever imagined.

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Sacramento Kings announcer Gary Gerould

Following his 31st season as the

you get those magical nights when

Sacramento Kings’ play-by-play

something special happens, there’s

radio announcer, the guy people

nothing better.”

affectionately call “the G-Man” has

Gerould shares those magical

the fifth longest active tenure among

games and the mundane ones with

NBA broadcasters. He entered the

legions of loyal Kings fans. Yet there

2015-16 season having announced

are people around the country and

2,348 (preseason, regular season,

worldwide who recognize the dulcet

playoff) games and surpassed the

tones of the 75-year-old Gerould

2,400 mark by early February.

and have no idea he’s been an NBA

“I absolutely cherish the fact that 31 years after they hired me I still

announcer for more than three decades.

have this opportunity,” Gerould said.

For 37 years, Gerould’s weekends

“I’m blessed. I still love the challenge

were devoted to motor sports coverage

every night. One of the great things

that included the Formula 1 circuit,

is every game is different. And when

CART, NASCAR and, most recently,

Even though during 23 of those 31 seasons the Kings have owned a losing record, night after night Gerould retains his excitement for the game and his optimism for a Kings victory. Losing the job hurt, but an optimistic Gerould quickly moved on, forming Gary Gerould Enterprises and becoming a freelance public relations consultant, commercial spokesman and motor sports writer and broadcaster.

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law office of brian d.wyatt ,PC In 1985, another opportunity arrived with the Kings, which was planning a franchise move from Kansas City to Sacramento and was looking for a “local” voice. For his audition tape, Gerould attended one Golden State home game and followed the Warriors to the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, each time sitting in the “nosebleed section” doing play-by-play into a tape recorder. Gerould was told that Kings general manager Joe Axelson listened to the tapes as he drove from Kansas City to put down roots in Sacramento. “Kid, you were a hell of a lot better than you had a right to be, considering the situation,” Axelson told Gerould the day he was hired. Even though during 23 of those 31 seasons the Kings have owned a losing record, night after night Gerould retains his excitement for the game and his optimism for a Kings victory. “G-Man is the best,” marvels Jason Ross, who has sat by Gerould as both a statistician and announcing

partner for the past 15 years. “Even though the Kings continue to lose, he treats every game like it was his first one. Night after night, he starts the broadcast with enthusiasm and excitement.” The sporting venues have changed, but one thing that has remained a constant all these years is Gary Gerould. He walks around the arena on game day with an amiable smile and treats high-level people like Kings owner Vivek Ranadive the same way he does an usher he may have known for years. “Gary is so humble. There is no ego at all. He’s just a genuine person,” Ross says. “I have so much respect for him. He’s a fantastic broadcaster but an even better person.” Gerould is putting no timetable on his tenure with the Kings. The kid who walked the snowy streets of Midland pretending to announce basketball games still loves what he’s doing. When that stops, so will he. Jeffrey Weidel can be reached at skiweidel@gmail.com. n

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y two stepdaughters and their father are world-class Christmas shoppers. All three of them love braving the holiday crowds and filling shopping cart after shopping cart with expensive presents for all eight of my grandchildren. My wife refuses to compete in this costly Olympics of commercialism. She has always been the family’s unofficial photographer, snapping numerous pics at birthday bashes, volleyball tournaments, backyard barbecues and the annual family trek to Apple Hill. As Christmas approaches, she selects each grandchild’s best photo, mattes it and places it in a frame. She buys inexpensive off-the-rack frames and does all the work herself. The cost per grandchild is about 10 bucks. Through the years, the thousands of toys my grandchildren have received as Christmas presents have mostly vanished, but my wife’s framed photos have mostly endured, proving that it’s the gifts you can’t buy at Toys “R” Us that tend to last the longest. I was reminded of the age-old tradition of handmade Christmas gifts in October of this year when, at the monthly Second Sunday Flea Market in Sacramento, I discovered (and purchased for $10) an odd little poetry book amid a pile of old paper

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ephemera. The book was written by one Bonnie Madeline Barnes. She wrote it specifically for her niece, Carol Keeny Rawlings. The book is titled “Rambling Rhymes of Childhood Times.” The title page was hand-decorated by “Aunt Bonnie.” The other 50 pages (containing 23 poems) were carefully produced (not a single typo) on a manual typewriter and collected in an old three-ring binder with black leather covers. According to Ancestry.com, Aunt Bonnie was born in 1880, and her niece Carol was born in 1914. The poems appear to be addressed to a child between the ages of 10 and 15, so Aunt Bonnie must have written them in the late 1920s. The poems are mainly anecdotes in verse, many of them ending with a quatrain that sums up the (usually trite) moral. At the end of a poem about two naughty boys named Peter and Paul, she writes: To all little girls I send this warning Till late at night from early morning, Don’t pattern your actions by Peter and Paul, Do what is right or do nothing at all. Though Aunt Bonnie wasn’t much of a poet, she was a gifted storyteller. Most of her anecdotes deal with her own childhood, and they must have given Carol plenty of insight into her own mother’s upbringing. When Aunt Bonnie was a child, her father decided to uproot his family and move them from Marengo, Iowa, to Helena, Mont. This upheaval is recounted

in a poem called “The Young Immegrunts.” (Though she was a schoolteacher, Aunt Bonnie’s spelling is often quirky; this was probably done intentionally, for comic effect.) Bonnie’s father (Carol’s grandfather) left for Montana ahead of his family in order to prepare a home for them. It was left to Bonnie’s mother (Carol’s grandmother) to pack up the Iowa house and bring the nine children by train to Montana. Bonnie’s harried mother hired a young woman to help look after the kids on the long train ride. It didn’t work out too well. About this maid, Bonnie wrote: But she was a crafty thing And used this means, at best, As a method of getting herself And her sweetheart, too, out West. He was hiding on the train, Keeping hid from sight, Mother didn’t see him Till well along toward night. Then it happened like this— The maid couldn’t be found, So mother began to search, Hunting all around. Till she found the pesky thing On the very back of the train, Neglectful of her duty, Spooning with her swain. Bonnie’s sister Ethel (Carol’s mother) was about 10 at the time of the trip and nearly got her younger brother killed while crossing a switching yard: Your mother, I think it was, Took Bill across the track.

He caught his foot in a switch As they were coming back. An engine stood nearby, Puffing and blowing steam, And when we saw it start, How we kids did scream!!! Some men came running to help, The engine came to a pause, And so we loosed Bill’s foot From those awful iron jaws. Although generally sweet and anodyne, Aunt Bonnie’s book takes an occasional dark turn. In one poem, she describes how an aunt of hers tried to get one of her nephews, Nathan, to break off his friendship with an African-American boy named Willie Jones. The aunt even employs the dreaded N-word in this conversation, after which: Nathan looked puzzled, Pondered a bit, And then he asked, The reason for it. Auntie decided It wasn’t best To emphasize “Color” Along with the rest. So she compromised With a statement mild, That she didn’t like The looks of the child. Now this to Nathan Was not enough, I guess he decided To call her bluff. WRITING page 44

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WRITING FROM page 42 “Auntie, I don’t Like your style, But I’ve got to be with you All the while.

The kids from homes of the rich are spoiled,

her niece at Christmas. She must Once I was reading a tale of old,

have spent a good part of each year

And the things one tries to do for

Of castles, and queens, and kings,

working on her annual collection.

Of knights, a moat, a buttress,

This may be the best example I’ve

Are more enjoyed by far.

And various other things.

ever seen of the tradition of making

Their faces are dirty, their clothes

And when we came to the

Are homely and tame, But I love you, Just the same.” Elsewhere, Aunt Bonnie recalls instances when her own father behaved cruelly toward her or one

homemade gifts that are personal and are ragged,

“Buttress” word,

uncommercial. I don’t know what Carol Keeny

As a rule their manners are bad.

I stopped my reading a bit,

Rawlings thought of her aunt’s

But the touch of refinement they

And asked some one to explain to

Christmas gift. Carol died on Sept.

get at school

me,

30, 1972, at the age of 57 or 58. But

Always makes them feel glad.

What was the meaning of it?

She takes particular delight

Up spoke a rowdy little boy,

years after it was assembled and 44

of her siblings and then roared with laughter as though delighted with

history in verse and passing it on to

Those from the poor seldom are, them,

“And your looks to me

The terms they didn’t know.

the fact that the book was still in remarkably good shape roughly 90

some joke. Aunt Bonnie doesn’t spare

in watching her students wrestle

A kid raised in the gutter.

years after Carol’s death suggests that

herself, either. One poem describes a

with the English language. In one

“Aw, I know what a buttress is,

not only did Carol treasure it, but

time when she, still a young girl, stole

poem, she recalls a child asking her,

A lady who peddles butter.”

some of her heirs must have treasured

a dollar from her father’s business

“Can I go bareheaded on my feet?”

partner. Apparently, Aunt Bonnie had

Other poems contain similar acts of

enough respect for her niece not to try

childhood wordplay:

to sugarcoat the family’s history. The best poems in the book are about Aunt Bonnie’s experiences as a teacher. As a rule, she preferred the children of the poor to the children of the wealthy.

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it, too. Amazingly, this book, so full of wonderful family stories, all of them written in verse, wasn’t the first of

In stories they took the keenest delight,

its kind that Aunt Bonnie gave to her niece. In the opening poem, Aunt

But sometimes they were slow.

Bonnie refers to last year’s poetry

To help them understand, I’d

collection. Apparently, this was a

explain

Now it’s mine to treasure.

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Running Man THE MOST IMPORTANT PROMISE OF ALL

ave you ever made an outlandish promise and later reneged? On a recent fall morning, my wife reminded me that I’d nearly done such a thing. We’d just awoken with the morning alarm when she noticed me retreating under the covers. “Aren’t you running this morning?” my wife asked. “It’s too cold,” I replied in my best helpless-man whiny voice. She kissed my upper left arm, her not-so-subtle reminder of a wild promise I’d made in 2012 to my adult children. That was the year I signed up for a marathon. My kids didn’t believe their old man could run 26 miles, so I made this astonishing promise: “If I finish Sacramento’s California International Marathon, I’ll get a tattoo.” I had little reason to believe I’d make good on my grandstanding. I had some injuries that made me doubt my ability to complete the training, much less start the race. But I not only started, I slam-dunk finished in the biggest rainstorm we had in years. In fact, I even thrived enough to run the Air Force marathon nine months later. Yet still no tattoo. Ten months later, I was in San Luis Obispo for my annual two-week training with the Air National Guard.

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not the impulsive silly promise that defaced my arm with a blue running man tattoo the size of a half dollar. She was reminding me that I’d gotten the tattoo as a promise to myself—a promise to stay fit and not give up the run.

My kids didn’t believe their old man could run 26 miles.

A week into this “hardship tour,” my chaplain assistant, Rob “Web” Webster, and I were enjoying happyhour specials in a local pub with several Guard members. Suddenly, my assistant put a dare on the table. “Chaplain! When are you going to get that tattoo you promised?” His question caused some beer mugs to make a hard landing on the table. A young lieutenant seated at the adjoining table raised an inquiring eye that prompted Web to share my promise with God and everyone. I wanted to remind Web that we’d both promised our wives that we would look out for one another. I’d assumed that Web’s duty might

include protecting a chaplain from himself, but he clearly intended to shirk that part. “There’s a tattoo parlor within walking distance,” Web said. “Of course there is,” I said. “They’re always within walking distance of a bar or military base.” “Looks like it’s time to get that tattoo,” challenged the lieutenant. Several responded with an “amen.” Fast-forward through the next painful hour that felt like the continuous scratching of a cat. Now, return with me to that recent cold fall morning. My wife kissed my tattooed arm to remind me of a promise I’d made. No,

While she doesn’t consider it the smartest thing I’ve ever done, she does know that the running man is more than a mark on my arm, hidden under my short-sleeve shirt. I’d put it there to encourage myself to keep running, to keep working and to continue to thrive into my senior years. Perhaps that’s what the Apostle Paul had in mind when he told Timothy (2 Timothy 4:7-8): “I’ve run hard right to the finish, believed all the way. All that’s left now is the shouting—God’s applause!” My wife knew, as Paul knew, that the promises that probably matter most in life are those that you make to yourself. They are the promises you make to become a better person, to walk more deeply in faith and to run life’s race with resilience. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net n

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The Buzz on Bees STORE HELPS URBAN BEEKEEPERS START AND SET UP HIVES

am at the Sacramento Beekeeping & Honey store on X Street. The air smells sweet, like honey, candles and soap. There is orange carpeting on the floor and a mural of a bee flying a biplane in the beekeeping supply room. (Say that fast five times.) A couple sample honey from the honey bar, while another customer checks out the beekeeping supplies. Workers—most are members

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of the Stewart family—buzz around me. Owner Nancy Stewart is in her office, which is packed full of stuff, including a supply of Band-Aids. The store, which was originally located across the street, opened on Jan. 15, 1985. Business was tough that first year. “I knew nothing about beekeeping,” Stewart says. “It wasn’t a moneymaker for a long time.” Which brought up an obvious question: Why did she open a beekeeping store? Her husband, Fred, is partially to blame. He had a co-worker who kept bees, and Fred soon acquired his own beehives. “I wasn’t interested much at all,” she admits. “When he handled the honey, he’d make a mess everywhere.”

Nevertheless, his budding interest sparked a passion in his wife for bees.

“Hobby beekeeping has become so popular. It’s like a taste of farm life.” “We’ve had bees in our backyard for 35 years,” she says. The Stewarts used to have many hives, but they currently keep a few at home and two behind the store. Stewart estimated

she’s been stung 10 times. That is a much lower number than I expected. “Hobby beekeeping has become so popular,” Stewart says. “It’s like a taste of farm life.” The city of Sacramento generally allows two hives (boxes) per lot for urban beekeepers. You can order your own bees from the store in late December or early January, and they will arrive in April. You’ll get three pounds of bees (roughly 6,000 to 10,000 bees) plus a queen—enough to start a colony. Stewart says she sells about 500 packages of bees every year. Someone from the store will even come out and help you set up your hive.

barrels of honey. The store sells 11 different kinds of honey from commercial beekeepers, including locally sourced honey. Workers transport the sticky substance in buckets from the warehouse to the store.

“I’d rather do this than anything I can think of.” “We have thousands of people who swear by honey for allergy relief,” Stewart says. She takes a spoonful every evening. “It helps you sleep at night.” After three decades as a beekeeper and storeowner, Stewart is an expert on all things bee. She and her husband do a lot of consulting about beekeeping. Here’s what I learned from Stewart: Although there are other insects that pollinate plants, honeybees are one of the most efficient pollinators. That makes them essential players in the food-growing process. Bees are not normally aggressive; they sting in selfdefense. Stand still or gently brush it away, Stewart advises, if a bee lands on you. Bees function much like the characters in “Game of Thrones.” When they swarm, bees are looking for a new home. (The store keeps a list of beekeepers who will collect swarms.) When the hive becomes crowded, some of the bees split; the queen will take half the colony with her. The workers are females, and they live for a scant six weeks. Male drones are there to mate with the queen and provide atmosphere. Without drones, the hive isn’t a happy home. After they mate with the queen, the drones die. “They operate as a unit and communicate with pheromones. They’ll kill a queen who is bad because it makes the colony survive,” Stewart says. When I asked her what type of bee she would be, Stewart says without hesitation, “I’d be a worker.” “I enjoy my job. I’d rather do this than anything I can think of.” Nancy Stewart is the owner of Sacramento Beekeeping & Honey

Stewart recommends that newbie beekeepers educate themselves. “It’s not difficult,” she says. “There are people who think they can put a hive in the backyard and forget about it. You have to learn about bees.” For starters, bees need the basics, such as food and water, and you have to keep

a close eye on the queen and monitor the bees for diseases and parasites. One of her husband’s jobs is to put dots on the new queens’ backs so they will stand out from the others. Honey is a labor of love, according to Stewart. She has a warehouse in West Sacramento where she keeps 600-pound

The Sacramento Beekeeping & Honey store is at 2110 X St. For more information, go to sacramentobeekeeping.com Angela Knight can be reached at: knight@mcn.org n

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4509 MCDONALD DR 2240 EL CAMINO AVE 2829 ALAMITOS WAY 3600 WOODCREST RD 3017 JONALAN DR 2501 CAMBON WAY 2501 FULTON SQUARE LN #3 3505 FONTAINE CT 4320 WHITNEY AVE 2813 LA PAZ WAY 2801 AVALON DR 3017 TAMALPAIS WAY 3130 LASSEN WAY 3110 CALLE VERDE CT 2811 HERBERT 3073 BERTIS DR 4640 NORTH AVE 3424 CHENU AVE 3113 CLAIRIDGE WAY 3732 LAURA CT 2691 BELL ST 3011 SANDHURST CT 3620 ARDMORE RD 3030 HOWE AVE 3506 RONK WAY 2730 TIOGA WAY 2377 CARLSBAD AVE

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2147 MATSON DR 2177 ONEIL WAY 2278 67TH AVE 1924 63RD AVE 7412 TROON WAY

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5120 EUCLID AVE 3938 BARTLEY DR 6690 21ST ST 2167 53RD AVE 2424 40TH AVE 2133 65TH AVE 7516 CANDLEWOOD WAY 7300 MILFORD ST 3225 TORRANCE AVE 6022 MACHADO WAY 1291 KENNADY LN 4711 DEL RIO RD 6691 GOLF VIEW DR 7524 LEMARSH WAY 6941 21ST ST 2144 STACIA WAY 5870 GLORIA DR 1210 35TH AVE 2524 38TH AVE 1610 GLIDDEN AVE 7277 CROMWELL WAY 1400 COOLBRITH ST 1909 WENTWORTH AVE 2354 MURIETA WAY 1164 35TH AVE 4925 VIRGINIA WAY 6113 MCLAREN AVE 1431 CAMPBELL LN 912 ROEDER WAY 7440 24TH ST 2050 KIRK WAY 2162 MATSON DR 5220 HELEN WAY 6060 GLORIA DR #2 2700 SWIFT WAY 5609 23RD ST 5621 HAROLD WAY 1108 LANCASTER WAY 5301 PLEASANT DR 7507 18TH ST 7555 MUIRFIELD WAY 2150 S AARON WAY 6820 HOGAN DR 1508 65TH AVE 949 SEAMAS AVE 6742 21ST ST 1512 ZELDA WAY 5636 EL ARADO WAY 1453 SHIRLEY DR 2805 WAH AVE 7568 EDDYLEE WAY 6109 25TH ST 2319 ANITA AVE 7486 HITHER WAY

95825

1326 OAK TERRACE CT #15 2212 WOODSIDE LN #6 2429 MORSE AVE 2590 AZALEA RD 810 DUNBARTON CIR 2280 HURLEY WAY #7 279 MUNROE ST 2517 EXETER SQUARE LN 2242 SWARTHMORE DR 1527 HOOD RD #D 1412 HESKET WAY 2002 UNIVERSITY PARK DR 1900 WOODSTOCK WAY 13 COLBY CT 1071 VANDERBILT WAY 2309 LANSING 2470 NORTHROP #15 301 FAIRGATE RD 2280 HURLEY WAY #37 2040 BOWLING GREEN DR 2648 LA VIA WAY 2541 HERNANDO RD

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217 PALISADES SIERRA OAKS LN 2410 LARKSPUR LN #243 1908 RICHMOND ST 2201 WOODSIDE LN #8 2301 BELL ST

95831

6366 SEASTONE WAY 230 PORTINAO CIR 6579 WILLOWBRAE WAY 171 PORTINAO CIR 7060 CATLEN WAY 986 GREENHURST WAY 18 LOS GATOS CIR 795 CRESTWATER LN 1176 MONTE VISTA 877 SHELLWOOD WAY 7715 LOS RANCHOS WAY 2 MAD RIVER CT 7301 GLORIA DR 7252 CAMINO DEL REY ST 521 COOL WIND WAY 94 STARGLOW 251 BREWSTER AVE 17 CINDER CT 6510 DRIFTWOOD ST 563 DE MAR DR 7418 BRAERIDGE WAY 748 LAKE FRONT DR 6240 S LAND PARK DR 6411 13TH ST 6296 SURFSIDE WAY 1203 CEDAR TREE WAY 51 BINGHAM CIR 6700 HARMON DR 321 RIVER ISLE WAY 7345 MARANI WAY 1 LOOKOUT CT 906 LAKE FRONT DR 805 ROYAL GARDEN AVE 7720 RIO ESTRADA WAY 611 CORIANDER WAY 602 RIVERCREST DR

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3908 LA VERNE WAY 3421 NORTHROP 4624 OXBOW DR 2244 MARYAL DR 2340 GILA WAY 3904 EL RICON WAY 840 WIXFORD WAY 4366 VULCAN DR 4260 N RIVER 3340 AMERICAN RIVER DR 3125 WINDSOR DR 1524 GLADSTONE DR 4095 LAS PASAS WAY 1008 EASTERN AVE 3312 WHITE OAK CT 3136 SOMERSET RD 2333 GILA WAY 707 REGENCY CIR 3001 BERKSHIRE WAY 4333 VULCAN DR 1474 EL TEJON WAY 1855 ROCKWOOD DR 800 EL ENCINO WAY 3905 BERRENDO DR 4534 JUNO WAY 3854 BERRENDO DR 1725 DEVONSHIRE RD 610 LA SIERRA DR 345 WYNDGATE RD 801 SIERRA OAKS VISTA LN

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Salmon Season NOW’S THE TIME TO WATCH THESE MAGNIFICENT FISH IN ACTION

o you smell something fishy? It’s salmon season in Sacramento! The American River is home to two native species of migratory fish that have the unusual ability to survive in both fresh water and salty ocean water at different times of their lives. These anadromous fish, steelhead trout and Chinook salmon, are hatched in rivers but spend their adult lives in the Pacific. After two to five years of life in the open sea, American River salmon return home to spawn, swimming 131 miles from San Francisco Bay to Sacramento. The salmon start to arrive here about mid-October and continue into December, followed by steelhead in January and February. These fish will struggle upstream and uphill, leaping over rocks and obstacles, always fighting the current, committed to reaching the exact river and stream where they were born, navigating by sense of smell and magnetic fields. Take a walk along the American River (especially upstream of Watt Avenue) and you may spot some of these magnificent fish swimming by. They might not look so magnificent, though. Salmon stop eating once they leave the ocean, and their bodies change shape for the spawning run. The difficulty of the journey is written in their ragged appearance.

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In fact, the salmon are starving to death. This is a one-way trip. Their goal is to find a place with cold, clean water and a gravel bottom to build a redd (nest) where they’ll lay thousands of eggs or fertilize them. Once that task is finished, both male and female salmon die. So fish carcasses might be easier to find than actual fish on your river walk. The odor of fish decay might reach you even if you’re not at the river.

Migratory steelhead trout, on the other hand, do not exhaust themselves. They spawn and then swim back to the sea. An adult steelhead can make the long journey several times in its life. Prior to the Gold Rush, Chinook salmon were abundant in the American River. Although we can only estimate the numbers of fish from that time, it’s clear

that hydraulic mining and the construction of dams greatly reduced their population. The American River used to have a second salmon run in the spring; due to human activities, this run went extinct around 1950. Dams cut migratory fish off from the majority of their historical spawning habitat, which once included about 6,000 miles of rivers and streams far up into the foothills. Now only one river (the Cosumnes) flows westward out of the Sierra Nevada with no major dam, leaving fewer than 300 miles of breeding grounds still accessible. To compensate for the harm done by dams, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife operates 10 salmon and steelhead hatcheries across the north state. Here in Sacramento, Nimbus Fish Hatchery sits on the American River just downstream of Nimbus Dam near Hazel Avenue. During salmon season, a removable barrier called a weir is placed across the river. This directs the fish into a fish ladder leading to the hatchery. If you’ve never seen the fish ladder in action, you simply must make a visit. Driven by their instinct to swim upstream, powerful salmon launch themselves uphill, one step at a time. For most of November and December, egg-taking operations are conducted at the hatchery. Salmon are anesthetized in the water and sorted by sex, then quickly killed. (The process is different with steelhead, which are released back into the river after spawning.) Eggs are harvested from the females and blended with sperm “milked” from the males. Visitors can watch the whole process

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through windows in the visitor center. Fertilized eggs are subsequently hatched and young fish raised in raceways on site, where visitors can have a ball feeding them. Tens of thousands of pounds of edible salmon meat are donated by the hatchery every year and after processing are returned to local food banks. Lower quality salmon flesh is turned into fertilizer. If you’d like to catch some of that salmon for your own dinner, be aware that fishing is temporarily prohibited in the prime spawning habitat between Hazel Avenue and Ancil Hoffman Park. Downstream, you’re welcome to try. Because the salmon are spawning, the quality of the meat varies. Fish that made the run up from the ocean quickly will be edible. Those that spent more time in the river will be mushy. Even if you don’t fish the American River, you may have eaten a salmon hatched at Nimbus. The Nimbus Hatchery produces about 4 million Chinook salmon and 430,000 steelhead trout every year.

After being released into the river or downstream in San Pablo Bay, hatchlings that survive to adulthood join the wild populations in the ocean, where commercial fisheries catch fish destined for local supermarkets. Salmon have another mammalian predator: sea lions. Remarkably, sea lions will follow salmon on the spawning run—all the way to Sacramento. According to Laura Drath, a Fish and Wildlife interpreter at the Nimbus Visitor Center, sea lions are occasionally spotted as far upstream as Watt Avenue. She has seen them several times at Sutter’s Landing near East Sacramento. Nimbus Fish Hatchery is open yearround. Call 358-2884 for information about when the fish ladder is open and egg-taking is happening (weekdays only, usually Monday and Thursday mornings). Bring quarters for fish food. Does your group or book club need a speaker in 2017? Contact Amy Rogers at Amy@AmyRogers.com n

THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES

Dec 1 – Dec 10 Geery Theatre 2130 L St, Sac taacproduction@gmail.com The Alternative Arts Collective (TAAC) is proud to produce John Guare’s wildly funny black comedy, The House of Blue Leaves. It tells the story of Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper by day and a songwriter with visions of glory by night. Artie dreams of escaping his humdrum life in Queens, and making it big writing songs for the movies in Hollywood. The story unfolds on the historic day in 1965 when Pope Paul VI visited New York to meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson and to celebrate a nighttime Mass of Peace at Yankee Stadium. The Vietnam War was about to begin in earnest, rock music was taking the place of rock and roll, and the times “they were a’changin.” Throw into the mix Artie’s love interest, a kid in the army, a little lunacy, and a trio of nuns; and well, you get the idea.

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Thru Dec 11 Sacramento Theatre Company 1419 H St, Sac Sactheatre.org This comedy-drama follows struggling screenwriter Herb, who abandoned his family 16 years earlier, and his daughter, Libby, who travels to Hollywood to convince her father to give her the acting career she wants. Libby confronts Herb with the trials and responsibilities of parenthood and forces him to come to terms with his girlfriend, Steffy. In this play, humor touches the heart, as well as the funny bone.

THE SANTA LAND DIARIES

Dec 7 – Dec 31 Capital Stage 2215 J St, Sac Capstage.org Crumpet the Elf is back for another round of best-selling author David Sedaris’ sardonic comedy. This wry tale is based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of Sedaris’ brief stint as an elf in Macy’s Herald Square SantaLand display. Hysterical, behind-the-scenes anecdotes are a holiday treat for adults, mercilessly cutting through the sticky-sweetness of Christmas to illuminate the insanity of the holidays.

CINDERELLA

Thru Jan 1 Sacramento Theatre Company 1419 H St, Sac Sactheatre.org Cinderella, a classic fairy tales with lots of laughs for children and adults alike. Traditionally performed during the Christmas season for family audiences, modern pantomime incorporates song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, mild innuendo, and audience participation.

THE 39 STEPS

Nov 18 – Dec 17 Big Idea Theatre 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac BigIdeaTheatre.org Richard Hannay decided to take in a show to alleviate his constant boredom, only to become implicated in the murder of a woman he’d just met who uncovered a mysterious organization’s plot to steal British military secretes – or, in other words, mission accomplished! Now the target of a nationwide manhunt, he must find the true killer and clear his name. In this zany, fast-paced farce based on the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, actors play over 150 characters in a tale of espionage, intrigue and romance.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Thru Dec 24 B Street Theatre 2711 B St, Sac Bstreettheatre.org Watch, laugh, and gasp as literature’s greatest curmudgeon tries to free himself from the grasp of world’s most popular Christmas story.

ROBIN HOOD

Thru Dec 24 B Street Theatre – Family Series 2711 B St, Sac Bstreettheatre.org An original retelling of the classic hero of Sherwood Forest. Four actors bring to life the story of Robin Hood and his merry men as they steal from the rich to give to the poor. This action packed adaptation features sword-play, chivalry, and plenty of laughs.

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Bright Lights STREETLIGHTS HAVE HEALTH IMPACTS

here are so many things to worry about. You probably didn’t know that the color temperature of street lighting is one of them. I certainly didn’t. But in June, an American Medical Association report pointed out health and other problems associated with LED streetlights. U.S. municipalities and cities around the world are rapidly switching to LED streetlights. The U.S. Department of Energy has encouraged the switch based on energy savings. LED lights have a longer service life than the lights they replace, so they also save on maintenance costs for bulb replacement. LEDs contain no toxins. I’m no lighting expert, but I’ve learned that not all white light is the same. Color temperature measures the spectral content of light. A high color temperature (measured in Kelvin or K) indicates a greater amount of blue light—even when light output appears white to the naked eye. White LED lights are usually based on blue LEDs filtered through a phosphor coating to make the light appear white. A primary health issue with many LED streetlights is that they produce a white light that contains so much blue. The light is much bluer than the more yellow high-pressure sodium

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streetlights that they typically replace. The blue-rich LED lights can cause damage to the eye’s retina and create hazardous glare for drivers, especially older drivers. They can also create a stark “prison atmosphere” at night that people simply don’t like. Further, the light can disrupt human circadian rhythms, resulting in reduced amount and quality of sleep. The AMA report says LED street lighting is five times more disruptive to our sleep cycle than conventional street lighting. There are indications that exposure to blue-rich white light at night may increase risks for cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Humans are used to warmer, more yellow light at night from fires and candles. Lowwattage incandescent bulbs also have less blue light. These sources don’t suppress the creation of sleepinducing melatonin in the same way that the harsher light spectrum from LED streetlights (and smartphones, tablet computer screens and backlit e-readers) do. Streetlight problems can extend beyond humans to nocturnal wildlife and the environment at large. At seaside communities, hatching turtles

have been confused by streetlights that mimic the color temperature of moonlight on the water. They’ve headed inland to their demise instead to a life in the sea. Bats, birds and nocturnal insects are also affected. The AMA report says 60 percent of animals are nocturnal. Cheaper lighting, or poorly shielded lighting, can mean more lighting, creating what the International DarkSky Association calls light pollution. Light pollution affects not just astronomers but everyone’s ability to see the starry sky in its full and glorious, mind-boggling beauty.

Dr. Mario Motta, an AMA report co-author, said, “Our hope is that municipalities will use the report’s guidelines when considering the adoption of LED street lighting, making their communities safer for both humans and wildlife.” The report suggests requiring properly shielded lighting, controls that can dim or extinguish light at offpeak periods (such as 1 to 5 a.m.) and limiting the correlated color temperature of outdoor lighting to 3000K or lower. In January 2014, the city of Davis began replacing its 2,600 cobrahead

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streetlights with LEDs having a color temperature of 4000K. The city had also tested, and rejected, 5700K lights. By May of that year, after installing half the new lights, the city halted the program because of citizen comments. Ninety percent of the comments were negative. At a cost of an extra $350,000, the city wound up replacing 650 of the newly installed lights with lights that were 2700K. Davis plans to use that same warmer color temperature for its decorative fixtures in parks and greenbelts. According to Sompol Chatusripitak, an engineer in the Public Works department, the city of Sacramento is about one third of the way through conversion of its 30,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;mass armâ&#x20AC;? or cobra-style streetlights to LED technology. For the moment, the city is holding off on converting the ornamental â&#x20AC;&#x153;acornâ&#x20AC;? lights in residential neighborhoods. Conversions so far have cost $2.5 million. The estimated energy savings are $400,000 annually, so program costs will be recovered in six years.

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Sweet Kiwi Magic COUPLE WHO LIVED IN NEW ZEALAND BREW UP CHOCOLATE FISH COFFEE ROASTERS

hanks, mate, you deserve a

as the manager of a ski and scuba shop

chocolate fish.”

and then as an IT specialist—made for

For a New Zealander (or

a strong foundation. Chocolate Fish

“Kiwi,” colloquially), this is one of the

opened in 2008 at Third and Q streets

best things you can hear after a job

and the Bakers haven’t looked back.

well done. For Edie and Andy Baker,

“We realized that if we were working

it was the inspiration for their popular

so hard for other people, why not work

coffee landmark, Chocolate Fish Coffee

that hard for ourselves?” Edie Baker

Roasters, located downtown, in East

says. “And it wasn’t easy. People don’t

Sacramento and, next year, in Land

realize how hard it is to start a business.

Park.

I was still working as a nurse every day for the first few years, then we switched so Andy was working in IT. It took years before the coffeehouse could support us

“A chocolate fish is an iconic New Zealand candy given out as a thank you for a good deed.”

full time.”

While living in New Zealand, the Bakers developed a shared interest in the country’s vibrant coffee culture.

“A chocolate fish is an iconic New Zealand candy given out as a thank you for a good deed,” explains Edie Baker, who was working as a nurse when she decided to sell everything and move to New Zealand, where she met and married her Kiwi love Andy

Edie and Andy Baker

and subsequently stayed for eight

While living in New Zealand, the

Never ones to jump into anything

years. “We wanted a name reflective of

Bakers developed a shared interest in

half-baked, a four-year period of

New Zealand and this has such a good

the country’s vibrant coffee culture,

research ensued, during which time

history, it worked out well.”

so when the couple moved back to

the Bakers took classes through the

Sacramento to be closer to family, it

Specialty Coffee Association of America

seemed only natural to continue their

and carefully crafted a business plan.

espresso appreciation stateside.

(“We weren’t young, we didn’t want to

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“When we moved back here, we

lose everything,” Edie Baker explains.)

went everywhere looking for a great

The dynamic duo discovered that their

cup of coffee,” she says. “But we’re so

experience in other fields—Edie’s as a

far behind (compared to New Zealand)

medical sales rep, where she learned

that we realized this was our chance.”

about marketing and sales, and Andy’s

But just serving coffee wasn’t enough for the hardworking Bakers. On a trip to Guatemala with the Roasters Guild, the couple was intrigued by the complex process of roasting and decided to test it out back home. After copious amounts of research and months of practice, the Bakers opened their very own roastery in a warehouse in 2010. “But people didn’t know we were roasting coffee,” Edie Baker says, “so we designed the East Sac space as half coffee roastery, half café so people could see the process.” Ever the community-oriented entrepreneurs, the Bakers make it

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Artistic Intuition TONKIN RIEGEL REFINES CREATIVE PROCESS, GUIDES OTHERS

express. “We all have something. It’s a matter of whether we want to be open to it.” Riegel is dedicated to guiding others through the creative process and hosts workshops at her Granite Bay Studio. “At first I taught kids, but then their parents wanted to make art too.” So she added workshops for adults in 2006. Riegel is an attentive listener and workshop leader who offers a range of creative experiences from printmaking to copper enameling to mobile making. No matter what the medium, Riegel says the workshops are about connecting with creativity, which she believes involves being in the moment and letting the process happen without worrying too much about what’s next or the outcome. She says many people view the workshops as a retreat where they can unwind and let go. “In life we always get caught up with what’s next. There is really nothing that compares to being in the zone and fully immersed in the act of creativity. It’s a feeling of full involvement and energized focus.”

don’t know what I’m doing,” says Susan Tonkin Riegel. But she says it with the conviction of a lifelong artist. Inside of her spacious studio is a procession of work: canvases, assemblage, encaustic, works on paper and new pieces incorporating plaster, wood and cardboard. Her art is symbolic and colorful with a hint of mystery and intrigue. “I let the piece and the materials guide me,” she says. “It’s an intuitive process.”

“The window painting was one the most fun jobs.” Riegel is excited about the combination of color and materials and just starts working, letting the process evolve. The trick, she says, is to stop before the piece is overworked. “It’s better to keep work slightly unfinished and fresh.” Over the course of teaching art for 25 years at Sierra and American River Colleges, she says this was a difficult concept for students. She advised students to pay attention to how they felt about the work—to notice their gut or heart Susan Tonkin Riegel

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reaction and not intellectualize the process too much. She retired from Sierra College last fall and expects the change in routine to register in her work as she prepares for a November show at Artspace 1616 on Del Paso Boulevard. “Change

is simultaneous with life,” says Riegel, who lives in Gold River. “When life changes, our work changes.” She believes all artists, whether a poet, a dancer or a musician, are “recording life in a subconscious way,” and that everyone has some creative thing to

“There is really nothing that compares to being in the zone and fully immersed in the act of creativity.” The creative process hooked her in second grade, when she made

a papier mache solar system and painted it. While she has always had the desire to draw and make art, she never thought she was as good as other people at drawing or painting. This changed once she went to UC Berkeley and studied with noted Bay Area figurative painters Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff. “Joan Brown encouraged my strange compositions and the way I drew people and told me I was a good artist.” Bischoff was a big influence, too. Riegel describes him as a quiet man who didn’t say much, but when he did, it was profound. “Bischoff always told me to keep the practice going and also to go it alone and not worry what my friends were doing artwise, and listen to my own artistic voice.” It was not a direct route to UC Berkeley for Riegel. She grew up in Sacramento and went to C.K. McClatchy High School, attended University of the Pacific and then UCLA. “I was searching. My parents were divorcing and it was a chaotic time,” she recalls. She took a year off to travel and worked for six months on a kibbutz in Israel, lived on a Greek island for three months and visited France and Italy. Upon her return, her mother persuaded her to go to UC Berkeley and finish college. “I think that was the only time I followed her advice,” she says. She worked at a variety of jobs including office work and waitressing in Berkeley, framing, art sales, color consulting and painting holiday

windows in Sacramento and Berkeley. “The window painting was one the most fun jobs,” she says. “It was good money in a short amount of time, and I could paint Santas and angels on windows and also learn the art of business and how to deal with executives.” Soon after her children were born, she started looking for teaching jobs, first teaching at Learning Exchange and then Sierra College and American River College. Her two children are grown now, and she continues to work alongside her husband of 32 years, sculptor Mike Riegel, whose studio is adjacent to hers.

“It’s much more crucial to have time to make art.” Riegel has shown work in Sacramento since the early ’80s and has been awarded residencies in France, Sweden, China, Mexico, Switzerland, San Francisco and Alberta, Canada. The residencies give her the chance to dig deep into work and have time alone to seriously consider her compositions. She acknowledges it can be a balancing act between creating and selling art. “Selling work is important, and I love

it when my work resonates with someone, but I don't like to put pressure on myself to sell. “It’s much more crucial to have time to make art.” For more information, go to: susantonkinriegel.com and redbarnstudios.org n

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Sacramento Ballet will perform The Nutcracker. Photo courtesy of Keith Sutter.

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Nuts For The Holidays The Sacramento Ballet presents Ron Cunningham’s “The Nutcracker” Dec. 10, 11, 17, 18, 22, 23 The Sacramento Ballet presents “Nutty Nutcracker” Dec. 9 and 16 at 7 p.m. Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. sacballet.org

Best-known and most beloved of all Sacramento holiday-season traditions, Ron Cunningham’s delightful “Nutcracker” is a true spectacular. Be captivated by this crown jewel of family entertainment with Clara’s magic journey through the sparkling Snowﬂake Forest to the delicious Land of the Sweets. Select performances will even be performed with live music provided by the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. If you’re looking for some holiday spirit with a twist, don’t miss “Nutty Nutcracker,” a madcap, zany send-up of your favorite holiday classic. After rave reviews last year, this special production will get not one, but two performances this year. Visit the Sacramento Ballet website for show times and information on special pre-performance events.

Capitol Idea State Capitol holiday music program Daily through Dec. 23 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays 1-3 p.m. Sundays California State Capitol (10th Street between L and N streets), ﬁrst-ﬂoor Rotunda 324-0333, capitolmuseum.ca.gov

Get ready for some holiday fun on your next visit to the California State Capitol. Beautiful vintage decorations create a lovely backdrop for a variety of diverse holiday musical performances in the Rotunda. Enjoy live musical entertainment including the Camellia Flute Choir, Sacramento Youth Symphony ensembles, Caltrans and CalPERS choruses, bell-ringers, harps, accordions, Broadway-style song and dance, baroque and brass ensembles, talented school choirs, barbershop choruses and much more.

Happy Birthday, Frank! A celebration of Sinatra’s 101st birthday presented by the Valerie V Quintet Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. Nepenthe Clubhouse, 1131 Campus Commons Drive 205-4001, valsvocals.com

Enjoy the music of legendary crooner Frank Sinatra as well as timeless tunes from the Great American Songbook and beloved holiday classics performed by singer Valerie V and her talented troupe of musicians. Take in the music while you sip some delectable wine provided by Cabana Wine and Bistro and nosh on some nibbles. Preferred seating is $15 and general seating is $12. Be sure to reserve early—this event will sell out fast!

25 And Lookin’ Good

Gabriela Smith plays the Snow Queen at the Crockett Deane production. Photo courtesy of Linda Yee.

“Still We Rise: Women’s Wisdom Art’s 25th Anniversary” Through Dec. 4 Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerartmuseum.org

Of Advents and Artisans

Since 1991, Women’s Wisdom Art has provided a support system and nurturing environment to empower women through artistic exploration. Women in all stages of life work closely with talented volunteers and professional artists to create healing works of art in diverse media, including paintings, ceramics and jewelry. This exhibition is composed of a selection of group and individually created works of art.

“Gold Laundry of the Advent Arrival,” art by Mehran Mesba and Jeff Mayry Dec. 2 through Jan. 19 Opening reception on Friday, Dec. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. “Handmade Holidays” artisan craft fair Sunday, Dec. 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Visions Of Sugar Plums

Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. 400-4281, beatnik-studios.com

The Crockett-Deane Ballet Company presents “The Nutcracker” and “Christmas Angels” Friday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m. (preview of selected scenes only) Saturday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at 2 p.m.

Sacramento artists Mehran Mesba and Jeff Mayry bring an exhibition of new paintings entitled “Gold Laundry of the Advent Arrival” to Beatnik Studios. The work explores ideas related to the reconstruction of identity. Mesba focuses on the process of deformation and the effect certain forces have on physical forms over time, and Mayry takes his cues from physical sensation both real and imagined. Also at the gallery through Dec. 22 is Trent Dean’s installation “Cube for Thought.” Dean uses mixed media to create forms that are at once familiar and unfamiliar; the series uses the cube as a representation of oneself. In the market for some fun ﬁnds for the holidays? Beatnik Studios’ eighth annual holiday party and craft fair will feature 36 of Sacramento’s coolest and craftiest artisans selling local, handmade goods like art, clothing, hats, jewelry, pottery, body products and toys. A selection of small art pieces by various Beatnik artists will also be available for sale, as well as food and drink for both adults and kids.

The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred, 2300 Sierra Blvd. 453-0226, deanedancecenter.com

If you’re not sure your little ones will be able to make it through a longer version of “The Nutcracker,” give them the taste of this one-act, family-friendly, narrated version featuring the beautiful music of Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky. Then stick around for “Christmas Angels,” an original ballet by Don Schwennesen set to traditional Christmas carols.

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Give Good Gift The Sacramento Symphonic Winds present “The Gift of Melody” Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p.m. Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. 489-2576, sacwinds.org

Come one, come all to this family holiday concert featuring the Sacramento Symphonic Winds, a 60-piece adult symphonic band conducted by Music and Artistic Director Timothy M. Smith. Celebrate beautiful melodies and inspired melodic invention with pieces such as “Chester” by William Schuman, “Russian Christmas Music” by Alfred Reed, “Divinum Mysterium” by James Swearingen, three unique settings for band of the plainchant, and more!

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Mehran Mesbah will be on display at Beatnik Studios starting Dec. 2

Small But Mighty “Big Show of Small Treasures” presented by the Sacramento Visual Arts Collaborative Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10 and 11 Various venues (see below) robertray.collage@yahoo.com, facebook.com/SacVAC

The Sacramento Visual Arts Collaborative is proud to present this extraordinary annual art event showcasing intimately scaled works of art (12-by-12-inches or smaller) at 11 amazing art venues around the city. A diverse range of artistic disciplines including painting, drawing, printmaking and collage and genres such as landscape, still life, ﬁgurative and abstract will be exhibited by artists Shirley Hazlett, Bill Reed, Dwight Head, Barbetta Lockart, Susan Rabinovitz, Linda Welch, Patris, Linda Clark Johnson and Tim Collom, among many others. The venues are ARTHOUSE (1021 R St.), Artistic Edge Gallery (1880 Fulton Ave.), Brickhouse Art Gallery (2837 26th St.), DaDas Art Gallery Boutique and microARTCollection (3655 J St.), ITSA Studio (4330 24th St., Suite 2), Little Relics (908 21st St.), Patris Studio Gallery (3460 Second Ave.), Red Dot Gallery (2231 J St.), Sparrow Gallery (2418 K St.) and Tim Collom Gallery (915 20th St.).

The Sacramento Children’s Chorus holiday concert “A Ceremony of Carols” Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St. Sunday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. Carmichael Seventh Day Adventist Church, 4600 Winding Way Sacramento Choral Society’s “Home for the Holidays” featuring the SCC Saturday, Dec. 10, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sacramento Memorial Auditorium 646-1141, sacramentochoral.com

Help the Sacramento Children’s Chorus (SCC) ring in its 24th season by returning to its roots. In its debut performance in 1992, the SCC presented Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols,” according to Lynn Stevens, SCC’s conductor and artistic director. Four choirs with more than 150 children total will perform under the direction of Stevens and Melanie Huber to bring back this stunning work for treble voices. The concert will also include beloved carols such as “The Coventry Carol,” “In the Bleak Midwinter” and “Lo, How a Rose,” as well as traditional songs such as “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and variations on “Jingle Bells” with a special solo appearance by Sacramento’s premier soprano, Carrie Hennessey. The program will also feature harpist Carol Kihm. Don’t miss out on yet another seasonal Sacramento tradition when the SCC performs with the Sacramento Choral Society in the annual “Home for the Holidays” concert at the Memorial Auditorium on Dec. 10.

SCSO Christmas Celebration Saturday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sacramento Memorial Auditorium 536-9065, sacramentochoral.com

Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra Conductor Donald Kendrick has once again created a fresh and sparkling program designed to capture the magic and spirit of the season for the whole family with their Wells Fargo Home for the Holidays concerts. This year the concerts feature life-size puppets, narrations and San Jose Opera baritone headliner Matt Hanscom, along with the Sacramento Children’s Chorus, candlelit procession and audience sing-along, all accompanied by the SCSO Orchestra. Tickets priced at $50, $40, and $35 with a 50% student discount.

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State Capitol Holiday Music Program

Sacramento Children's Chorus is celebrating the season by performing “A Ceremony of Carols”

Master-ing the Season

If It Ain’t Baroque …

The Sacramento Master Singers present “A Master Singers Christmas: Angels We Have Heard On High” Sunday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m.

Vox Musica presents “Voices of Peace: A Vox Christmas” Saturday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. Jesuit High School (Phelan Chapel), 1200 Jacob Lane, Carmichael Sunday, Dec. 18, at 5 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1430 J St. Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m.

Harris Center of the Arts, 10 College Parkway, Folsom 608-6888, harriscenter.net

Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (1066 26th St.) 788-7464, mastersingers.org

The Sacramento Master Singers present “Jingle All the Way!” Saturday, Dec. 17, at 2 p.m. Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (1066 26th St.) 788-7464, mastersingers.org

From a meditative candlelight processional to exuberant spirituals, “A Master Singers Christmas: Angels We Have Heard On High” is guaranteed to deliver the beauty and joy of the holiday season. The concert will include Mannheim Steamroller’s mysterious “Veni, Veni,” a dramatic setting of “Ubi Caritas” by Ola Gjeilo, a string quartet to accompany Buxtehude’s “Das Neugeborne Kindelein” and Brian Büda’s “Love Came Down at Christmas,” plus modern settings of traditional carols. Audiences will also enjoy Pentatonix’s versions of “Mary, Did You Know?” and “That’s Christmas to Me,” the energy of Straight No Chaser’s “The 12 Days of Christmas,” as well as “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” If your tiny tykes want to join in the holiday cheer as well, check out “Jingle All the Way!” a 45-minute special performance for children of all ages. The choir will sing holiday songs the kids are sure to know and the audience is invited to sing and play along. The event concludes with a surprise visit from Santa.

Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. voxmusica.net/project-one

Vox Musica opens its 11th season with an authentic and masterful performance of literature from the Baroque period. At the heart of the program are two Italian masterpieces, Antonio Vivaldi’s “Magniﬁcat” and the premiere of a rare, unpublished edition of Nicola Antonio Porpora’s “In Te Domine,” both accompanied by a period string ensemble and organ continuo. This three-concert project will provide patrons with a unique musical experience and one that makes a signiﬁcant contribution to the preservation of this rich, and rare, choral literature.

The Halls Are Alive “The Sound of Music” Holiday Event Thursday, Dec. 29, at 1:30 and 6 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerartmuseum.org

The Crocker’s “The Sound of Music” holiday event returns for its ﬁfth year, with costume contests, door prizes, yodeling and lots of laughs. The beloved multi-Academy-Award-winning ﬁlm starring Julie Andrews with music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein never ceases to tickle the heart and warm the soul. Dress in costume, party with interactive fun packs available for purchase and sing your heart out! This event sells out every year, so advance registration is recommended. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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This Month @ the Market

A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN DECEMBER

BROCCOLI

CABBAGE

MEYER LEMON

This healthful cruciferous vegetable is available much of the year, from September through June. It’s a member of the cabbage family. To eat: Steam or roast at high heat in the oven with olive oil and salt.

This leafy green-, purple or white-colored plant is low in calories and can be pickled, fermented, steamed, stewed, braised or eaten raw. To eat: For a fresh slaw, slice thinly and toss with poppy seed dressing.

This citrus fruit is yellower and rounder than a regular lemon, and its flavor is much sweeter. To eat: Use the juice to make a sweet curd or a nicely flavored vinaigrette.

RADISH

SWEET POTATO

These are grown locally year-round, but they are particularly crisp, juicy and mild in flavor when grown in cool weather. They come in multiple varieties, including daikon, watermelon and white icicle. To eat: Serve with butter and salt for a French-inspired hors d’oeuvre.

This large, starchy, sweet-tasting root vegetable is a great source of beta-carotene. To eat: Roast the flesh and use instead of pumpkin for a delicious Southern pie.

BLOOD ORANGE

This lovely orange has beautiful crimson flesh and a pitted skin. It makes a spectacular juice for drinking plain or adding to cocktails. To eat: Segment and use in a salad.

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Morning Glory THESE TWO DINNER HOUSES ALSO SERVE UP GREAT BREAKFASTS

here are some restaurants that specialize in breakfast. They have perfected the egg flip, mastered the fresh squeeze and gilded the griddle. Then there are those that broker in brunch, pouring mimosas by the gallon and piling waffles with enough garnishes to bury even the sturdiest Belgian. If you find yourself in ArdenArcade on a bright winter’s morning,

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you might think of Ettore’s to satisfy your hunger. Its European-style baked goods and quick-order, highquality kitchen fit the bill almost any morning. Maybe you’re in Tahoe Park and wondering where breakfast is served. Any local will tell you that Bacon & Butter is the spot for rich, inventive, gut-busting plates of early-morning delight. The spot on 59th and Broadway has a line out the door almost any day of the week. What if you’re downtown and meeting friends for weekend brunch? Odds are the first place that will come to mind is Tower Cafe, the longstanding (and long-lined) destination for brunch. If you’re in

Midtown, you might jump at the thought of brunch at The Porch: biscuits, grits and creative morning cocktails. Then there’s a small group of restaurants that are rarely thought of for breakfast. They traffic mostly in dinners and are known more for their steaks and seafood than their eggs and bacon. I’ve stumbled upon a few of these in my travels, well-regarded eateries that quietly put out daily breakfast without fanfare, but with a fair amount of skill and flavor. The foremost of these hidingin-plain-sight breakfast joints is Grange. The downtown spot might not come to mind when you’re hungry for morning fare, but folks

from the surrounding businesses and government offices drop in for breakfast meetings frequently, and travelers staying at The Citizen Hotel use it as their first morning stop. Grange has a fine reputation throughout the region, and its breakfast isn’t at all a letdown. Executive chef Oliver Ridgeway has been at the helm for five years now, and his care and meticulous attention to detail stand out. The menu is limited, but quality is evident in every dish. The chorizo scramble seems simple enough but sings with layers of flavor, from the well-balanced, house-made sausage to the simply perfect guacamole to the perfectly crisp potatoes along for

Celebrate the Holidays at Fat’s Open Christmas Eve

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the ride. The whole beautiful mess is served up smartly in a cast-iron casserole with a few house-made tortillas. Similarly well laid out is the plate of avocado toast. Rough and delicious whole-wheat batard gets a generous smear of avocado, topped with an expertly poached egg. A well-dressed salad alongside offers an unexpected dot of sophistication to an otherwise simple and straightforward dish. On a bright winter’s morning, the floor-to-ceiling windows offer an inviting lightness in which to bask while drinking your surprisingly strong cup of coffee. The service is brisk and friendly, and the prices are neither low nor unexpected for a downtown restaurant. Another surprising purveyor of breakfast is Iron, the Broadway eatery and drinkery known more

for its steaks than anything on the breakfast spectrum. Served all week, breakfast ranges from freshly fried beignets to a hearty plate of steak and eggs. Iron, formerly Iron Steaks, on Broadway and 13th is housed where Fuji used to serve up Japanese fare. The restaurant opened seven years ago with a focus on steaks, but as the years have gone by, the place has become a pretty well-rounded restaurant serving breakfast every weekday. It also has the comfiest booths west of the Mississippi. Most notable on the breakfast menu is the crab cake and eggs. A substantial plate of food, the plate includes a large crab cake topped with hollandaise, plus potatoes, eggs and toast. The crab cake is much better than you’d expect from a breakfast joint, tender and flavorful, and it

turns out to be a spot-on item for a hungry breakfaster. Other items, save the beignets, are boilerplate breakfast fare: eggs, bacon, potatoes, waffles, etc. But the fact that Iron serves breakfast every weekday and brunch on the weekends makes it a great alternative to the long lines down the street at Tower Cafe or the charming-for-some, terrifying-for-others clown paintings at Pancake Circus. Whether you’re rising or shining, some of Sacramento’s better dinner restaurants are also great destinations for breakfast. If you’re looking for a spot for a morning meeting or a special treat on a weekday morning, you’d be well served by Grange and surprised by the offerings at Iron.

Lorene Warren 799.2121 Wishing You Peaceful & Joyous Holidays

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Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 116 15th Street 551-1559 L D $$ Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

Rio City Cafe

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

MIDTOWN Biba Ristorante

The Firehouse Restaurant

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

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L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com

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DeVere’s Pub

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 1131 K St. 443-3772 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space Elladiningroomandbar.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

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

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L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com

Firestone Public House 1132 16th Street L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical american menu• ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

1431 R St. 930-9191 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service

Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R Street Suite 100

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com

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

Grange 926 J Street • 492-4450 B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.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

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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

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

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 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

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

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

EAST SAC 33rd Street Bistro

3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233 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

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

OBO Italian 3145 Folsom Blvd. L D Full Bar $$ The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing ﬂavors of Italy. Counter service and patio • oboitalian. com

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Iron Horse Tavern

L D Full Bar $$$ Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

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

Red Rabbit 2718 J Street

Evan’s Kitchen 855 57th St. 452-3896

sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, community table for single diners • Chefevan.com

B L D $ Full-service cafe with artisan coffee roasts, bakery goods and sandwiches • oldsoulco.com

Paragary’s Bar & Oven

Formoli’s Bistro

1401 28th St. 457-5737

3839 J St. 448-5699

Magpie Cafe

L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • Paragarys.com

B L D Wine/Beer $$-$$$ Mediterranean inﬂuenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a

Old Soul & Pullman Bar 12th & R Streets

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

Revolution Wines 2831 S Street

Nido Bakery

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

L D $ Bakery treats and seasonal specialities • hellonido.com

Skool

1409 R Street Suite 102

2315 K Street

2005 11th Street 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

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

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. 442-7092

2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180

2009 N Street

Esquire Grill

2115 J St. 442-4353

The Waterboy

1110 Front Street 442-8226 L D Wine/Beer $$ Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

Tapa The World

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R Street L D $$ Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • sshokiramenhouse.com

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

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

Kru 3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Raw and reﬁned, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803 L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting

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Vibe Health Bar

5644 J St. 451-4000

3515 Broadway

L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

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

Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

LAND PARK Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

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2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

5340 H St. 736-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com

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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

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

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

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Nutcracker

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

13th Street and Broadway 737-5115

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L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire Wine/Beer. Operated by volunteers to beneﬁt Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagardenrestaurant.org

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The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

Total LUNCH or DINNER food order of $25 or more

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

2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104 L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

5723 Folsom Boulevard 457-1936

Luna Lounge

Dine In & Take Out • Cocktail Lounge • Banquet Room Seats 35

5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com

The Mandarin Restaurant

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

With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Expires 12/31/16.

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria

1110 Front Street

Lunch 11-4 pm • Dinner 4-9 pm Sundays • 11:30-9 pm • Closed Mondays

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

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Roxy 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000

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

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

Sam’s Hof Brau

Ettore’s

L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

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

2500 Watt 482-2175

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

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