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rior to starting our first publication 22 years ago, my husband and I became deeply involved in the neighborhood association we helped create. The lessons learned about local politics and land-use decisions were integral to the type of coverage our publications brought to our community. Just over six years ago, another civic experience dramatically shaped our coverage. In 2011, County Supervisor Susan Peters appointed me to the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. During my six-year term, I learned not only about the farreaching work of the commission, but also the arts community in general. This year, SMAC is celebrating its 40-year anniversary, so I want to share both the history and current work of the commission. SMAC was established in 1977— under Mayor Phil Isenberg—by city and county ordinances as a public agency devoted to supporting, promoting and advancing arts in the region. It is jointly funded by both the city and county. The commission provides funding to local artists and arts groups, and promotes the arts through marketing, outreach and education initiatives. SMAC also provides resources to

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Gerald Walberg’s Indo Arch sculpture, located the corner of 4th and K streets, was the ﬁrst piece of public art commissioned in 1977. Walberg is an internationally renowned sculptor living in Sacramento. support and increase regional arts education activities. SMAC is guided by 11 commissioners, five appointed by the city council, five appointed by the county board of supervisors and one appointed by the current commissioners. SMAC also has a small staff led by Jonathon Glus, director of cultural and creative economy. When I was appointed to the commission, I assumed incorrectly that the only thing it did was select and administer public art. A decade

earlier, I served as a community member on a selection panel for public art that now appears on the water tower on Alhambra Boulevard in East Sacramento. Sacramento’s nationally renowned Art in Public Places program was also established in 1977 to expand visual artwork in public spaces. Sacramento’s most iconic public art pieces—including the giant red rabbit at the Sacramento International Airport and the Jeff Koons’ sculpture at the Golden 1 Center—get most of the media and public attention.

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that the policies and procedures of SMAC lead to grant awards that reflect the rich diversity of our community.

My appreciation for the breadth of the local arts community was signiﬁcantly enhanced by my six years on the commission. SMAC’s gallery program also provides visual art experiences in public locations, including the gallery in the lobby of City Hall and at the SMUD headquarters. These free public exhibitions showcase the artistic and cultural resources of the region.

This month, if you are traveling, you may be lucky enough to hear the Holiday Music Series that brings high-quality, diverse performances to the airport. In recent years, Supervisor Peters also presented holiday music performances at shopping centers in the county. In addition, SMAC administers the Sacramento Poet Laureate Program designed to bring the spoken word to our community through the power of poetry. I believe one of the most impactful programs that SMAC manages is the Sacramento365.com website. The site features comprehensive listings of music, theater and dance performances, museum and gallery exhibitions, film screenings, poetry readings, cultural festivals, kids' activities and much more, showcasing all things artistic that Sacramento has to offer. When I joined the commission in 2011, the arts community was still reeling from the recession. Donations were down, and arts and cultural organizations were on life support. Funding for the commission is based

upon apportion of the city’s hotel tax. As city budgets were slashed, funding for the commission was severely cut, as were funds for staff, programs and grants. In recent years, a good portion of the budget has been restored. As a commissioner, I was asked to attend monthly public meetings and arts events in the community. I have always loved the arts, but frankly my appreciation for the breadth of the local arts community was significantly enhanced by my six years on the commission. In addition, our business developed a program to sponsor the cost of advertising for a number of arts organizations. My goal during my tenure was to bring as much attention to the local arts community as we could through our publications’ coverage. When I stepped off the commission in August, I felt confident that I succeeded in fulfilling that goal. And we look forward to continuing—and further expanding—our coverage well into the future. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

Legends of the Arts Awards As part of Sacramento Metropolitian Arts Commission’s 40th anniversary celebration a special awards program to honor those who have made major contributions to the arts over the past four decades. The celebration was held in October at the lovely East Sacramento home and studio of internationally renowned artist Gerald Walburg. Walberg’s studio was selected because his Indo Arch sculpture was the ﬁrst piece of public art commissioned in 1977. Not pictured is former SMAC commissioner Susan Willoughby who presented her award to ceramicist and arts educator Ruth Rippon.

Arts philanthropist and artist Marcy Friedman presented her award to Shelly Willis for her public art contribution and arts advocacy.

Arts philanthropist Joyce Raley Teel presented her award to Ron Cunningham, artistic director of the Sacramento Ballet.

Former county supervisor and arts advocate Muriel Johnson presented her award to Donald Kendrick of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra.

Arts advocate Dennis Mangers presented his award to Estella Sanchez, the founder of Sol Collective.

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Theater actor and producer James Wheatley of Celebration Arts presented his award to Shonna McDaniel, founder of the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum and Arts Education Program. Daphne Burgess accepted the award for McDaniel.

Arts philanthropist and former mayor R. Burnett Miller and Mimi Miller presented their award to Bob Stanley, Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst poet laureate.

SMAC commissioner Steve Winlock was emcee of the Legends event. Former county supervisor and arts advocate Sandy Smoley presented her award to John Crowe for his work in arts philanthropy.

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.K. McClatchy High School’s Visual and Performing Arts Program will celebrate the grand opening of its new 800seat, state-of-the-art Visual and Performing Arts wing with a black-tie event on Saturday, Jan. 20. The event will feature music, theater and dance performances, an art show and a silent auction of items donated by local artists, arts instructors and businesses. The modernized theater and stage, makeup room, black-box theater and cutting-edge sound system will allow students to produce professionalgrade art shows. For more information, go to ckmvapa.org.

CHRISTMAS HOME TOUR SCHEDULED The 43rd annual Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour returns to East Sacramento this month, with six elegantly decorated Fabulous 40s homes open for viewing. The popular walking tour, expected to draw more than 5,000 visitors, opens Friday, Dec. 1, and runs through Sunday, Dec. 3. The featured homes showcase elaborate renovations while also

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Anthony Krutzkamp is Sacramento Ballet's new executive director. preserving historic design. The custom interior decorations and creative holiday touches are sure to ignite the spirit of the season. Homes on this year’s tour range from a chic California bungalow to a classic Craftsman. Tour hours are noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. There will also be a holiday boutique and cafe at Sacred Heart Parish School. It’s open to the public. The school is at 856 39th St. All proceeds go to Sacred Heart Parish School to help fund programs and financial aid for children who could not otherwise afford a private Catholic education. Tickets to the tour are $30 in advance, $35 the days of the event. For ticket retailer locations, or to purchase tickets online, go to sacredhearthometour.com.

SEE’S CANDY FOR SALE Soroptimist International of Sacramento will hold its annual See’s Candy fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24 at Loehmann's Plaza at 523 Munroe St. “Inside Sacramento: The most interesting neighborhood places in America’s farm-to-fork capital” also will be for sale to benefit the nonprofit service club, which supports at-risk women and girls in Sacramento. For more information, visit soroptimistsacramento.com.

NEW DIRECTOR FOR SAC BALLET The Sacramento Ballet recently announced the appointment of Anthony Krutzkamp as its new executive director. Krutzkamp took over for Charles Ansbach, who stepped down in September, following a cross-country search.

Krutzkamp received his first professional contract from the Kansas City Ballet and went on to dance with the Cincinnati Ballet, where he was promoted every season until reaching the rank of principal dancer at age 23. Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda Cunningham, the Sac Ballet’s co-artistic directors, welcome Krutzkamp and his vision for the future. “Anthony comes to us at a critical juncture and a turning point of the company,” the Cunninghams said in a press release. “We’re pleased to welcome someone with Anthony’s executive background to join us in leading the Sacramento Ballet.” The feeling is mutual. “I’m excited for the opportunity to work alongside two artistic directors of such high standing with a rich history of creative accomplishments,” said Krutzkamp. For more information, visit sacballet.org.

SCIENCE WEEK AT COUNTRY DAY During the week of Nov. 6, students at Sacramento Country Day School participated in PhUn (Physiology Understanding) Week. PhUn Week is an annual K–12 outreach program coordinated by the American Physiological Society that allows students to meet and learn from research scientists. More than 14,000 students across the nation participated this year. Lower-school Country Day students engaged in interactive activities like constructing models of the respiratory system, testing the impact of neuronal

The winning name of Sacramento Zoo’s male Wolf’s guenon is Rori. signaling in cockroach legs, walking through a diagram of the heart and exploring all five senses by smelling cotton balls, tasting jellybeans and more. For more information, go to saccds. org.

ZOO BABY GETS A NAME The Sacramento Zoo recently announced the name of a male Wolf’s guenon that was born on Sept. 24 at the zoo. In the zoo’s recent naming contest, “Rori” took the lead early on and held first place for the entire competition. The contest raised $1,383 for the zoo and primate conservation in Africa. The name Rori continues the zoo’s tradition of giving new members of its Wolf’s guenon family names ending with the letters “i” or “ie.” But the name has an even deeper significance.

The zoo’s director of facilities, Anthony Bailey, has a daughter named Rori who fell ill two years ago. Rori had to be hospitalized, and zoo staffers donated their time off so Bailey could spend time with his daughter during her hospital stay and recovery. The entire Wolf’s guenon family group of five can be seen in the Small Wonders of Africa exhibit. For more information, visit saczoo.org.

CAMELLIA WALDORF PLANS WINTER FAIRE Celebrate the wonder of the season at Camellia Waldorf School’s 29th annual Winter Faire on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy puppet shows, candle dipping, gingerbread-house making, food and drink, artisan vendors, a children’s store for young shoppers and the “Camellia’s Got Talent” showcase.

Sacramento Country Day School students get a hands-on science lesson. Camilla Waldorf School is at 7450 Pocket Road. Admission to the faire is free. For more information, call (916) 427-5022, email frontdesk@

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Housing and Homelessness A MARSHALL PLAN FOR SOLVING SACRAMENTO’S TWINNED CRISES

n 1973, fresh out of high school, I spent six months working for Sacramento-based Woodmore Homes, which built and sold starter homes for the munificent sum of $19,500 each. Woodmore typically built dozens of houses at a time, from start to finish, in under a month. I was a 17-year-old making $1.75 an hour, but even I was conscious enough to marvel at the vivid sight of progress. I used to drive by a few weeks after completion to see the eager young families—with breadwinners making not much more than I was—moving their belongings into the very corporeal embodiment of the American Dream: a home of their own.

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What happened to those days? That’s the one question that is never asked by our state and local politicians, who were recently falling over each other to enact so-called “solutions” to our twinned crises of escalating housing costs and rapidly increasing homelessness. But how can they offer coherent solutions when they’ve never bothered to assess how we got ourselves into our current crises? In the 1970s, California home prices were typically about 20 percent higher than they were for homes in the rest of the country. Today, California’s new home prices are 250 percent higher than the rest of the country. Obviously, we’re doing something very wrong. The American Dream of owning a home is dying for most Californians, particularly young families, despite historically low mortgage interest rates. We’re seeing increasing outmigration of young families and those at the lower end of the income

spectrum. They’re fleeing California’s high costs of housing, rising gasoline prices, double-digit annual hikes in utility rates and escalating taxes of every imaginable type. And if the current burden of local taxes wasn’t enough, Mayor Darrell Steinberg assures us that more taxhike measures are coming: an effort to double the Measure U “temporary” half-cent sales tax increase, a city housing tax, a city housing bond, a city schools arts and music tax, a repeat effort to double the countywide half-cent Measure A sales tax, and further double-digit annual hikes in city water, sewer and storm-drainage rates. Viewed in isolation, tax-hike measures can appear reasonable and digestible, often expressed by proponents as costing each taxpayer “no more than just one Starbucks Mocha Grande a week.” But the cumulative effect of multiple tax hikes, coupled with escalating housing costs, is beginning to hollow out

(and drive out) the middle class and devastate the working poor, pitching increasing numbers of the “housing insecure” into actual homelessness. The working poor aren’t big buyers of Starbucks Mocha Grandes. The economy may be humming along for those with the resources to insulate themselves from the increasing burdens. But for middleclass and working-class families, and the poor, the California Dream is morphing into a nightmare of steadily eroding living standards, dashed hopes and, in extreme cases, the quiet terror of homelessness. And the current economic recovery hasn’t done much to restore household incomes: Median real household incomes in Sacramento County remain 10 percent below what they were in 2000—a dismal state nine years into our current expansion, particularly with local economists

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LINK BETWEEN HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISES Before I started studying homelessness, I thought homeless people were, in very large part, comprised of folks afflicted with drug and alcohol addictions, those with serious mental health issues and societal nonconformists who simply preferred to live outdoors (with considerable crossover among categories), plus a small few struck by incredibly bad luck (i.e., medical crises, spousal abuse, family disintegration). I didn’t believe that large numbers were homeless as a result of declining economic fortunes (i.e., job losses, unaffordable or unavailable housing). While my initial view of the homeless population in Sacramento may have been accurate several years ago, I no longer believe it’s an accurate depiction of homeless people in Sacramento today. Make no mistake, the addicted and the mentally ill still comprise a major portion of the homeless population, but in recent years it has become increasingly apparent that the rapid run-up in the number of homeless people is attributable to something different. The big rise in “newly” homeless people increasingly consists of those who could and should be legitimately considered “economic refugees,” an often brittle population of people who have dropped off the bottom rung of the housing ladder due to declining living standards, declining real incomes, increasing nonhousing costs of living, rising housing costs, limited housing availability, job loss, limited job skills, limited coping

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skills, absence of a family safety net, poor decision-making skills and poor money management. This is a population that has been most severely impacted by the housing crisis. I reached this conclusion by comparing changes in the homeless populations in cities with recent, rapid run-ups in housing costs with changes in the homeless populations in cities that have experienced much more moderate increases in housing costs. For the most part, cities that have had the biggest spikes in housing costs are also experiencing rapid growth in homeless populations. Now, correlation does not necessarily mean causation. It’s possible that the same cities that have mismanaged and distorted their housing markets are also providing more generous than average levels of homeless services, which may be acting as an attractant to the mobile, nonnative portion of the homeless population, which most studies put at around 30 percent of the total. Major cities along the West Coast (including Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego) share both traits: They’ve experienced a much higher than average run-up in housing costs, while they have also dramatically increased their spending on homeless services. So it’s possible that the major increases in the homeless populations in those cities are made up of both a large new contingent of economic refugees and a large number of transient homeless people drawn by the superior homeless service levels offered by such cities. In any case, a real solution to the housing crisis will likely help staunch the flow of economic refugees to Sacramento’s streets, alleys and parks.

CAUSES OF CURRENT HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISES It’s not terribly difficult to figure out the causes of our current housing mess if you’re willing to look for them. We just need to examine what changes have occurred in California’s housing market in recent decades

compared to housing markets in the rest of the country. Building homes is a business with certain major cost components, including land costs, government fees or “exactions,” and the actual cost of construction. Let’s take a quick look at them in turn.

ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY OF BUILDABLE LAND IS DRIVING UP LAND COSTS Land costs are determined by scarcity: how much land is available on which builders can build homes. California has adopted perhaps the most stringent environmental land-use regulations in the country. Laws greatly discourage what are called greenfield developments, meaning traditional suburban-type subdivisions built on the undeveloped perimeters of urban areas, which is where the great majority of California homes have been built in the past 60-plus years. State law instead seeks to limit growth to infill development in existing urban areas, particularly favoring “transit-oriented developments.” The problem is that infill lots cost considerably more than open suburban land, and the costs of constructing houses on infill lots is much higher. Local governments are required to adopt general plans and zoning laws that must comply with the strict land-use directions of the state, which creates an artificial scarcity of buildable land and, consequently, drives up builder land costs. Most states have nowhere close to the strict land-use controls that California imposes. As a consequence, builders in most states are free to develop and build homes in suburban subdivisions on land that’s dramatically cheaper than buildable land in California.

LAW DRIVES UP HOUSING CONSTRUCTION COSTS Construction costs are also higher in California than elsewhere,

primarily due to higher skilledlabor costs and higher costs of most building materials, which reflect the impact of higher taxes, gasoline costs, utility rates, etc. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law a bill that requires the payment of the “prevailing wage” on all housing projects that receive government financing. The prevailing-wage rate is always the union wage rate, which can be twice as much as the market rate for nonunionized skilled labor. The bill was part of a package of legislation that was intended to increase construction of new housing in California. The California Legislature required the prevailing-wage mandate on such projects under pressure from unions, even though such a mandate guarantees that fewer homes will be built as a consequence of the costly mandate.

REAL COST DRIVERS: LOCAL GOVERNMENT FEES Few realize the magnitude of the heavy fees local governments impose on new house and apartment construction. In Sacramento County, total impact fees can run from $45,000 to $90,000 per house. East of the Rockies, impact fees are largely unknown. (In Texas, a builder pays only a modest fee of a few hundred dollars to obtain a building permit.) Such heavy fees are likely the most significant factor in driving up the cost of new housing and making it unaffordable for all but the most affluent. With few eligible buyers able to purchase at such high prices, the volume and pace of new housing construction falters. Result: a constricted housing supply and spiking housing costs. Why are housing impact fees so high in California? Because it’s very easy for cities to raise revenues by loading up new housing with exorbitant fees. Housing fees can be approved by a vote of a city council. Local tax hikes, by comparison, require voter approval.

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A MARSHALL PLAN Instead of slashing impact fees on new housing or reducing land costs by easing California’s stringent environmental land-use controls, the Legislature and Gov. Brown have placed on the November 2018 ballot a $4 billion housing bond, with the proceeds to be used to build lowincome and subsidized housing. The biggest problem with such a plan is that the government wastes gobs of money paying way too much to build each housing unit ($600,000 per apartment in the case of Sacramento’s pending Twin Rivers housing project), now aggravated by a new prevailing wage requirement. Even Jerry Brown has said that government-subsidized housing is too expensive to build, exclaiming that there isn’t enough money in California to build our way out of our current crisis with government funding. Yet that’s the principal solution he and the Legislature have come up with. And Mayor Steinberg plans to place a city housing bond on

the ballot next year to be funded by a new parcel tax. The smart solution is for governments in our region to join together to adopt the equivalent of an emergency Marshall Plan that would place a moratorium on all impact and other fees currently imposed on the development and construction of new houses, condominiums and apartments. As part of the plan, local leaders should temporarily suspend all climate-based local land-use restrictions on the construction of new housing to the extent permitted under state law, restoring a sensible balance between our region’s dire need for new housing and the governor’s climatecontrol priorities. I’ll discuss such a plan in further detail next month. If you’d like to offer your suggestions or input, I’d appreciate hearing from you. Craig Powell is a retired 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 (916) 718-3030. n

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hat Old Sacramento isn’t the newest, hippest destination in town is old news. Local publications printed articles about Old Sacramento’s dysfunction as early as 1973. There are plenty of opinions about the district, but most Sacramentans would probably agree that Old Sac hasn’t lived up to its potential. Which is why Richard Rich, the city’s riverfront project manager, gave a presentation before the City Council in June. His topic: How can we revitalize Sacramento’s riverfront, specifically in Old Sacramento? “It’s not hard to find ideas,” said Rich, citing decades of city plans. “My job was pretty much to go through them and pull out the great ideas and present them back to council.” Noting that Mayor Darrell Steinberg has made the riverfront a focus of his administration, “we have a once-in-along-time opportunity right now,” Rich said. The question is this: How can we make ours a 21st-century riverfront? Rich proposed focusing on family attractions, improving building façades, expanding barges for music events, creating new riverfront terraces and bike paths, extending the promenade to Miller Park, adding water taxis, even creating a Sacramento monument. But, Rich conceded, the dots must connect first. Old Sacramento is divided into three groups of owners: state, city and private. “While those groups try to work together, they have different missions, and that creates gaps,” Rich said. The goal is “to get those major groups working toward a single vision and operating style to give a better rendition of the story of Old Sacramento.” Another problem, or a symptom of it, is a retail-and-office vacancy rate that is two-and-a-half times the regional average,

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“The new Embarcadero will give us a theater, if you will,” said Rich. “We’ve added lights and power so that we can actually stage events along it. Before, you really couldn’t use it but for strolling, and even that was a huge maintenance issue.” The city also recently reacquired the old public market between Old Sac and the waterfront. “We’d like to refurbish the building, clean and open it up, and make a series of retail spaces, like a ‘Made in Sacramento’ market, with food, wine, handmade goods,” said Rich. “It could open soon because the amount of work that has to be done can be done in a couple months.” “Therein may lie the solution,” Rich continued. “Instead of focusing on Old Sacramento just as a historic district, we evolve the focus to historic entertainment and include activities and entertainment for people to do. The market has changed dramatically, and by the market I mean us.” This isn’t a knock against candy shops and novelty T-shirts, but while districts like Midtown, R Street Corridor and Downtown are evolving

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Reducing Homelessness THE COUNTY TAKES A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH BY PHIL SERNA AND PATRICK KENNEDY

ore than two years ago, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors challenged itself and the county agencies we govern. That’s when board members began making regular and increasingly passionate overtures from the dais. We said things like “What we’re doing is not enough to reduce homelessness” and “We need to do things differently to effect the outcomes we all want.” These statements stemmed from all five of us seeing what our constituents did every day: the person talking to himself in Cesar Chavez Plaza, the huddled figure asleep in a storefront alcove, the growing tent complexes along the American River Parkway. This prompted us to develop a comprehensive and deliberate approach to ameliorate homelessness, the likes of which is unparalleled during our tenure. The following summary explains Sacramento County’s calculated and intensive work in this regard and reflects current measures to reduce homelessness. It is by no means exhaustive, and it denotes only recent developments to augment many

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well-established and effective county programs in place for years.

FAMILY CRISIS RESPONSE AND SHELTERS This initiative will shelter more families dealing with complex health and behavioral health obstacles, and services will be deployed to rapidly rehouse families into permanent and stable living conditions. Entry into family emergency shelters will be simplified by way of a new electronic bed-reservation system managed by the county’s Department of Human Assistance, and DHA bureaus will serve as entry points to the broader crisis-response system, thereby exposing clients to interim supportive services. This initiative is expected to shelter approximately 268 families each year, and transitional housing opportunities will be expanded for an additional 25 families annually.

PRESERVE MATHER COMMUNITY CAMPUS Facing the loss of significant federal funding for more than 200 residential units serving individuals and families in Volunteers of America’s residential and

employment programs, this initiative identifies replacement funding, including new county General Fund support, to continue operations at Mather Community Campus, one of the region’s most successful models offering comprehensive assistance to formerly homeless individuals. With this funding, MCC will transition residents to stable employment and permanent housing in an environment supportive of drug and alcohol recovery.

FULL-SERVICE REHOUSING SHELTER To reach people experiencing homelessness who are difficult to engage in traditional shelter environments, the county will open innovative low-barrier, full-service sites complete with rehousing, and addiction and mental health services. This approach will serve up to 300 individuals each year and welcome people with pets, partners and possessions—the most common reasons given for refusing help. This first-of-its-kind program is intended as a structured “point of entry” to the county’s broader Homeless Continuum of Care, where people can

stabilize and participate in their own recovery and pursue self-sufficiency.

FLEXIBLE PROGRAM The county is implementing a new Flexible Supportive Rehousing Program that will provide adaptive rehousing and stabilization services to people experiencing long-term homelessness and who frequently utilize expensive county and local hospital services (e.g., emergency rooms and/or jail), but who could, with appropriate assistance, stabilize in permanent supportive housing. FSRP will rehouse up to 250 individual and family households in the first year of implementation and provide ongoing services and rental assistance to ensure long-term housing access.

PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY RESOURCES This past spring, the Board of Supervisors (acting as the Sacramento County housing authority) directed the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency to initiate a process that will increase publichousing resources. This initiative hinges on expanding the applicability

of a “voucher” system for people suffering homelessness and includes: • A limited-preference allocation of 150 “turnover vouchers” annually. • Up to 375 project-based vouchers over three years to support new or existing permanent supportive housing, including conversion of “problem property” motels. • 75 Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers authorized to shelter homeless veterans over three years. • 50 vouchers over three years to help current supportive housing tenants progress to affordable housing, and that serve new families in need of intensive services. • 100 vouchers for homeless youth participating in a new federal grant called P3. Altogether, the reprioritized voucher system under the sole discretionary control of the Board of Supervisors aims to permanently house 1,050 formerly homeless individuals and families over the next three years.

WHOLE PERSON CARE The Board of Supervisors has been carefully considering the city of Sacramento’s request for assistance to implement a federal grant program called Whole Person Care. The program offers significant funding to enhance navigation, case management and outreach efforts that direct homeless individuals, and

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those at risk of becoming homeless, to mental health and other services as well as housing resources. The grant, however, does not fund actual service delivery or expand the availability of housing. Following careful analysis, including many appropriate inquiries from supervisors, the board acted on Nov. 7 to apply $44 million in Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) funds to provide vital services that will complement WPC grant objectives and those of the county’s other initiatives. Moreover, the board acted to improve upon the grant’s purpose and intent by thoughtfully identifying millions in Proposition 63 funds to continue helping homeless individuals past the grant’s threeyear lifespan, a very significant development that underscores Sacramento County’s long-term commitment. Over the coming weeks, Sacramento County will refine an associated implementation plan that, while moving swiftly in its development, will strive to include input from stakeholders and the public. It is expected that this partnership with the city of Sacramento will help thousands of homeless people to stabilize their mental health condition, initiate recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, and secure much-needed housing. Like many others, we agree that homelessness is the most complex and nuance-laden humanitarian and local public policy challenge we face. Regardless of how much some may believe it is intractable, we as county supervisors and especially as native Sacramentans refuse to be defeatist or accept the status quo. Instead, we will continue redoubling our efforts and pursue productive partnerships to affect the change we all want. All of our constituents, including those suffering homelessness, deserve nothing less. Phil Serna and Patrick Kennedy serve on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, representing Districts 1 and 2, respectively. They can be reached at supervisorserna@saccounty.net and supervisorkennedy@saccounty.net. n

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Four Years and Out SAC STATE PRESIDENT WANTS STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FASTER

he only thing Robert Nelsen enjoys more than welcoming new students to Sacramento State University is watching them leave—loaded with education and armed with degrees, all in four years. The four-year exit plan is especially important to Nelsen. Timely graduation rates have become something of an obsession with the university president, who arrived in Sacramento two years ago from Texas, determined to improve the experiences of Sac State’s extraordinarily diverse student population. Soon after moving into the president’s second-floor office at Sacramento Hall, Nelsen quickly learned there is much to love about Sac State students. Many have made remarkable sacrifices to study at 6000 J St. They work nights. They juggle family responsibilities. They sweat under tight budgets. And they transfer skills learned during military deployments. But for all their charms and qualities, under no circumstances can Sac State students be considered speedy. Only about 9 percent graduate in four years. Nelsen wants to see that number climb to 30 percent in the next five years.

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Sac State President Robert Nelsen often walks the campus and interacts with the students. “We understand that life can get in the way, and not everybody can or should graduate in four years,” Nelsen says. “But unless you think $23,000 is chump change to pay for a fifth year, why not try to graduate in four?” The president has been making his pitch to parents, who tend to see a more direct connection between college and cost than their children. Students often view tuition, room, board and books as somehow abstract. “We used to focus our orientation sessions on new, incoming students,” Nelsen says. “Now we make a point of discussing how much money parents can save by having their children graduate in four years.”

A snail’s pace toward graduation is not unique to Sac State students. Low four-year graduation numbers are common across the California State University system, which staggers behind the national average. About 34 percent of students nationally graduate within four years from public schools. CSU averages 21 percent. In the search for explanations, Nelsen focused on an institutional trigger. For a student to become eligible for federal Pell Grant money, only 12 units per semester are required. As Nelsen notes, it doesn’t take an engineering degree to know 12 units multiplied by eight semesters equals 96 units. Most Sac State

undergraduate degrees require 120 units. “The Pell Grant requires a minimum of 12 units, so that’s what a lot of students take,” Nelsen says. “But obviously, you need 15 units per semester if you want to graduate in four years.” Sac State doesn’t want to discourage students from seeking Pell Grants, which can provide about $6,000 annually toward college. The grants are based on financial need and determined by family income. A majority of Sac State students qualify. But even with grants, college can be expensive. Nelsen has been asking students to make “Finish in Four” pledges. His pitch is working. About

Unwrap Something Special This Holiday Celebrate the spirit of unique clothing & sportswear for the discerning man 65 percent of Sac State freshmen signed up last year, with 84 percent on board this year. In recent years, leisurely students haven’t been the only reason for poor graduation rates. Sometimes, even the most motivated Sac State student couldn’t secure enough degreefulfilling classes to reach the 15-unit threshold. Classes weren’t always offered. Or they were oversubscribed. “We have to provide the opportunity for a student to graduate in four years,” Nelsen says, admitting class availability has been a problem at Sac State. To ensure enough classes, Nelsen has added 671 courses, which works out to around 12,000 seats that didn’t exist in 2015. He brought in 60 additional instructors last year, with 82 added this year. The teachers aren’t necessarily tenure-track professors, but their courses count for credit. And Sac State is using analytics to help students piece together fouryear plans. Every student can see a course map charting a four-year

diploma in all major disciplines. The program lets the university schedule instructors and courses on demand. Sac State traditionally has attracted a significant student population that needs remedial instruction. Remedial courses don’t count toward graduation. They slow progress. This summer, the CSU system eased the burden by announcing it would remove placement exams and remedial requirements for math and English. Starting in 2018, students can still get remedial help, but they can earn credit while satisfying general-education requirements earlier in their Sac State careers. “It’s going to take some time, and some of our students will have to learn how to handle a full load of 15 units,” Nelsen says. “But we will get there. It comes down to one thing: You just have to study harder.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Hands-On Help VOLUNTEER ROLLS UP HER SLEEVES FOR THE COMMUNITY

f Gayle Kono could pick the one thing that distinguishes the Sacramento Senator Lions Club from other service organizations, it would be the group’s hands-on approach to volunteerism. “We’re considered ‘the workers,’” says Kono, president of the local chapter. “Whatever needs to be done, we’ll roll up our sleeves and do it. Fundraisers are nice. It’s nice to have money to give back to the community. But our main focus is service projects.” The Sacramento Senator Lions Club has two signature service projects: building and maintaining the Japanese Garden at Fairytale Town and sponsoring and maintaining the Sacramento Zoo’s Sensory Garden. The chapter also sponsors the Sacramento ZooMobile, which visits schools in areas where students might not be able to afford to go to the zoo on their own, as well as the Kindle Project, in which students at Sierra Enterprise Elementary School participate in a reading contest for a chance to win one of six Kindle readers. “For every book a child reads, they enter to win a Kindle,” the South Land Park resident explains. “A child who might not be a big reader can still win, so it encourages kids who maybe aren’t the best readers to read.”

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serves on the board of the Sacramento Buddhist Women’s Association. She encourages anyone interested in volunteering to figure out what kind of club best fits their goals.

“I always tell people they should visit different clubs to see where they feel most comfortable.” “I always tell people they should visit different clubs to see where they feel most comfortable,” Kono says, adding that there are 54 service clubs in her district alone. “Come and volunteer at a service project and see if it’s something you’re interested in. And if you have an interest in a particular cause, the Lions Club can help you organize a service project and provide manpower. There’s strength in numbers.”

Gayle Kono Kono says the group’s primary mission has evolved over time to focus on children. “I really feel that if you’re going to put your efforts into anything, the best place to see results is in helping kids,” Kono says. “If you can get to them early and put them on the right track, you won’t have to deal with

other issues down the line. I’ve been the recipient of many acts of kindness throughout my life, especially as a child. Those little gestures that show a kid that someone cares can make them persevere.” Kono also volunteers for the Buddhist Church of Sacramento (where she plays the organ), and she

The Sacramento Senator Lions Club will hold its DandeLion Arts and Crafts Show on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Buddhist Church of Sacramento, 2401 Riverside Blvd. The club meets on the first Thursday of every month at Aviator’s Restaurant at Sacramento Executive Airport, 6151 Freeport Blvd. For more information, go to sacramentosenatorlions.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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NEUTRAL COLORS CREATE A SOOTHING ATMOSPHERE IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT CAN BE OVERWHELMED WITH THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF THREE ACTIVE CHILDREN. entertaining guests. The living and dining rooms remained mostly intact, and the living room’s original fireplace and built-in bookcases were retained. Mirell prefers a neutral color palette for both interior finishes and accessories. Neutral colors, she says, create a soothing atmosphere in an environment that can be overwhelmed with the personal effects of three active children. “I needed to have clean, uncluttered colors,” she says. This holiday season, that neutral color palette will get shaken up when the house is featured on the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour. The theme of this year’s tour is “The Nutcracker." "The Nutcracker”—perfect for the Mirell family, since one of the daughters will be in Sacramento Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” this year. Designer Elizabeth Lake figures she will put in about 300 hours decorating the couple’s home for the tour. “I am going to follow the Nutcracker storyline as you go through the house,” she explains.

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The living room will be decorated for a Christmas party like the one that opens the ballet, with a tree and custom-made stockings on the fireplace mantel. Traditional colors of red, green and gold will provide the background for plenty of fresh greens. Lake hopes to track down candle-shaped lights for the tree. “I want it to feel like it was a long time ago when you walk in,” she says. The dining room will be decorated in rich jewel tones in homage to the battle scene between the Mouse King and the Nutcracker Prince. The kitchen and family room will nod to the ballet’s Land of Sweets scene, with a palette of pinks and silvery touches. A pink tutu will encircle the kitchen counter, and a flocked Christmas tree will adorn the family room. “It will be light and elegant without being too cute,” says Lake.

Lake had access to anything in Sacramento Ballet’s warehouse that won’t be used on stage during the dress rehearsal, which coincides with the tour. “The Nutcracker theme of the Sacred Heart Home Tour marries the two biggest holiday traditions in Sacramento,” Lake says. “People see ideas on the tour that inspire them to do something special for the holidays in their own home.” The 44th annual Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour takes place Friday, Dec. 1; Saturday, Dec. 2; and Sunday, Dec. 3. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 on the days of the tour. For tickets and 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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Friday Night Lights FOR THIS REPORTER, COVERING HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS NEVER GETS OLD

acramento is filled with athletes who hide in plain sight. They walk among us, but their greatness is not obvious. Their greatness belongs to the past. For many Sacramento athletes, greatness came and went in high school. They were among the elite: star players on the football or basketball team; winners of multiple varsity letters; the fastest, strongest, tallest people on campus. Few of these athletes extended their success into college. Fewer still made a living from sports. For the vast majority, high school was the high point. Joe Davidson is one person who never forgets our faded high school stars. For three decades, he has chronicled local high school sports for The Sacramento Bee, writing about them with rare and genuine insight more typically reserved for professional sports. “For a lot of athletes, the coverage they get in high school is the most attention they will ever get,” Davidson says. “It’s a big deal for them, and I take a lot of pride in doing it right.” High school sports are more than final scores and team rankings. For Davidson, games are cultural phenomena, places where

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Joe Davidson communities affirm their pride, legacy and uniqueness. He strives to celebrate the triumphs of inner-city schools such as Burbank, McClatchy, Sacramento and Grant. He describes strategies that propel suburban schools to success, places like Folsom, Del Oro, Granite Bay and Elk Grove. “Sacramento is very lucky because we aren’t dominated by a few elite private schools, which is what you see in the Bay Area and Los Angeles,” he says. “Here, our public schools have great, extremely competitive programs.” The people who run those programs know Davidson and recognize his

influence. With almost 25,000 Twitter followers, he is one of the most popular media figures in Sacramento. When he decides which games he’ll cover, his presence becomes a big deal. Coaches open their locker rooms to Davidson and his photographer an hour before game time, allowing the production of internet minidocumentaries. Not long ago, a new administrator from a local school district was upset that Davidson had too much unrestricted access. The administrator told Davidson he would have to clear all interviews with district staff before arriving at campus.

The writer responded, Really? In that case, he would no longer cover any school from that district in any sport. The administrator’s boss—the district superintendent—quickly intervened and told the staff to let Davidson be Davidson. Attending high school games is the highlight of his week. It’s been that way since 1988 when Davidson covered his first event for the newspaper, an all-star softball game. Given his writing, interviewing and reporting talents, his managers have tried to nudge him toward more celebrated assignments.

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Life Saver HOW TO RESPOND IN A HEART-STOPPING SITUATION

ou’re at the grocery store, or maybe the airport. You see a person collapse. On the floor, the person is not moving, not speaking, and you can’t wake them up. He may be one of more than 350,000 Americans who experience sudden cardiac arrest outside a hospital every year. His heart has stopped pumping oxygen-rich blood to his brain and body. In a few minutes, he will die. What do you do? The top priority is always to call 911 and get emergency services on the

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way. In the meantime, however, time is of the essence. The victim’s chance of survival decreases about 10 percent with each passing minute of inaction. A bystander using an automated external defibrillator—an AED—plus chest compressions can mean the difference between life and death. A bystander? You mean me? I’ve seen AEDs hanging on the wall, but I can’t use one, can I? Yes, you can. According to Chris Harvey, public information officer for the Sacramento Fire Department, “It’s very important not to hesitate. The whole point is to work quickly.” An AED might look intimidating, but it’s designed to walk you through each step, even if you have no experience. Just turn on the AED and the device will literally tell you what to do with voice prompts. It will direct you how and where to hook up the sensor pads on the patient. It will

instruct you when to perform CPR. Even if you haven’t been trained in CPR, you can—and should—do chest compressions when told to do so. The AED also does the thinking for you. It will decide whether the patient is in cardiac arrest and if a shock to the heart might help. The question is whether the patient’s heart is in a specific kind of abnormal rhythm called ventricular fibrillation, which Harvey describes as the heart moving “in an uncontrolled, unfocused way.” If ventricular fibrillation is detected, the AED will charge its capacitor and ask you to make sure no one is touching the patient. When you push the button, an electric shock is delivered to reset the heart’s conduction system with the goal of restoring a normal beating rhythm. While that might sound dangerous, Harvey emphasizes that an AED “won’t shock somebody unless it detects that specific heart rhythm. You can’t cause more harm. You can’t shock someone who doesn’t need it.” As intimidating as an AED might be, Harvey says, “don’t be afraid to take it off the wall and use it.” (If that assurance isn’t enough for you, know that Good Samaritan laws protect you from liability if you act reasonably and in good faith.) Harvey recommends that people get in the habit of noticing AEDs in places that they frequent. In the building where you work or a theater or restaurant that you visit a lot, pay attention and know if there is an AED and where it’s located. More than 2.5 million AEDs have been sold in the United States for use by laypersons. Most AEDs are found in public places where people

gather, such as government buildings and airports, as well as sports clubs, schools and casinos. Their locations are marked with signs. Another way to find an AED is to use the PulsePoint app on a smartphone. This app identifies the location of registered AEDs in public places near you. Looking around my neighborhood, the app tells me that the nearest AED is at Sam’s Club on El Camino Avenue, describes exactly where it’s located in the building and includes a photo of it. Conversely, if you know of an AED that is not yet registered with the app, you can submit details and a photo to get it included. PulsePoint also is connected with the emergency response systems of Sacramento’s Metropolitan Fire District (county) and the Sacramento Fire Department (city). The app “knows” when a possible case of sudden cardiac arrest has been called in and where the patient is located. This information can be used to get help to the patient even before EMS arrives. How? CPR-trained citizens are invited to register for alerts with the app. If you are in the vicinity of a cardiac arrest, your smartphone will notify you—and tell you where the nearest AED is. Arriving as little as a minute or two before EMS can make a big difference in the patient’s chance of survival. A CPR/AED certification course takes about three hours (two hours online, one hour at the American Red Cross near Cal Expo). Register at redcross.org. Amy Rogers can be reached at amy@amyrogers.com. n

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Weed Warriors DOING HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT WITH GARDEN INVADERS

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Leslie Hurlburt

t’s not hard to pull a weed, although there is a technique. Grasp it close to the soil, wiggle to loosen its roots and gently pull. With the right conditions, the roots will

come out readily. But it’s not always that easy. When the roots are tough or the soil is hard, the weed may break off and leave the roots to grow again. You can try moistening the soil

to make the job easier. If that doesn’t work, it’s time to break out your arsenal of weed weapons. There are many weeding tools on the market. Many of them are shorthandled. Leslie Hurlburt, manager of the Hamilton Square garden in Sacramento’s Historic City Cemetery on Broadway, is interested in trying the CobraHead, which he calls “the hottest gardening tool of 2017.” It has a hook topped by a curved blade sharpened on both sides, great for piercing the soil and lifting out the weed, roots and all. Many of my UC Master Gardener friends wield Japanese weeding knives known as hori-hori, which they strap to their side in a holster, ready to annihilate a seedling tree or any other weed that wants to put up a fight. It has a formidable blade that is sharp on both sides, one serrated, one straight. It will slice through just about any soil, slip next to taproots to lift them out, and saw off roots or stems. Another good tool for popping out dandelions and other weeds with deep taproots looks like a screwdriver with a fishtail end. A flat-edged hand hoe is good for dragging just beneath the surface to slice off young plants that haven’t yet developed deep roots. This tool works especially well when weeding decomposed-granite paths. Long-handled weeding tools make it possible to work without getting down to weed level. “I like to stay off my knees as much as possible,” Hurlburt says. Many gardeners, including me, are advocates of hula hoes, which you can shuffle back and forth an inch or so deep, slicing off shallowly rooted weeds. Hula hoes can neatly remove weeds from larger areas and can also work in tight spots. Traditional hoes are swung into the air and chopped into the ground, which takes more effort and stirs up weeds and roots. I prefer to leave soil as undisturbed as possible. Chopping up the ground stirs up seeds and distributes bits of the roots of persistent weeds such as bindweed, nutsedge and Bermuda grass, causing them to multiply. Herbicides can kill weeds outright but may damage other plants, soil organisms and beneficial insects in TO page 37

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Marketing Food Memories THIS BRANDING EXPERT LOOKS FOR THE ‘WHY’ BEHIND FOOD STARTUPS

eghan Phillips loves wine, tacos and her dad’s savory crepes with cheese rarebit sauce. She owns one of Sacramento’s only culinary marketing firms, Honey Agency, which has cornered the market on the Farm-to-Fork brand and local caviar. Most of all, she loves telling the story of food (and beverages). Phillips’ marketing firm buzzed into existence after she left a job at Java City. She worked in the coffee industry when craft coffee was just beginning to market itself as cool—a tactic that winemakers were already successfully using. Phillips had a background in wine marketing from early jobs in Sonoma County, where she grew up and went to college. Her talents transferred naturally into coffee, but Phillips didn’t want to work on a single brand. So she started her own agency in 2008, bringing Java City on as her first major client. Honey Agency’s next big break was landing a startup wine company’s business. The company wanted a female-run agency to develop an “Anthropologie-esque brand,” Phillips says. That winery was Cupcake Vineyards, which is now a major wine brand. Since those early clients, Honey Agency has gone on to represent both local and national brands under Phillips’ leadership. On Aug. 1, she

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Meghan Phillips started Honey Agency in 2008. took sole ownership of the company from her longtime partner, Rebecca Plumb, who left to start her next creative venture. Phillips uses a client survey to capture the “why” behind each business. Cupcake Vineyards, for instance, was founded to meet consumer demand for a consistent product at a low price. “If you know

why a product was created, you can help tell the story,” she explains. Phillips started in the food marketing business before craft was king. Today, food is romanticized in an ever-more competitive space, dulling the unique voice that craft food once held. To make it in a crowded market, brands need marketing expertise. “Food became romantic because we could shoot it with a camera and

become proud of what we’re eating. What’s forgotten is how it got there,” Phillips says. Phillips grew up around farms and farmworkers, and she deeply appreciates great cuisine. For her, a food’s story doesn’t start with a photograph on Instagram or Facebook. It starts in a farm field and lives on as remembrances. Phillips helped Sacramento embrace its neglected story of its agricultural roots. Her company created Visit Sacramento’s Farm-toFork website and several brand items. She believes the campaign has forged a sense of civic pride in a community that was yearning for something authentic to align with as a city. “Meghan and her team really helped us bring Farm-to-Fork to life,” says Visit Sacramento’s publicist, Kari Miskit. “They took the concept from an intangible movement and made it into something people could see and feel.” That vision permeates Phillips’ passions and inspires her approach. “The reason I love food-andbeverage marketing, and what’s stuck with me, is this idea of ‘farming to memories,’” Phillips says. “There are so many memories created around a table.” Client Michael Passmore, the owner of sustainable freshwater fish farm Passmore Ranch, met Phillips when he was seated next to her at a dinner event. She left him with a good impression. The next day, he called to learn more about her company. Eventually, Passmore signed on with the firm. Honey Agency helped launch Passmore Ranch’s caviar, a product

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FROM page 34 the process. Use them sparingly and carefully. If you can control weeds with hand-to-hand combat, do so. Better yet, prevent weeds as much as possible by applying a thick layer of mulch and controlling your growing conditions. Planting densely will shade the soil and discourage weeds from growing. Nutsedge thrives in wet areas. Generally, if you have a nutsedge infestation, you are watering too much or may even have an irrigation leak. Seeds are where weed problems begin. You can’t stop them from blowing into your garden, but you can make sure that you deadhead or remove your own weeds before they go to seed. Weed seeds can lay dormant in the soil for years, waiting for the right conditions. They can survive in most compost piles, so it’s best to throw out any weeds that you pull unless you are absolutely certain they don’t have seeds. If you can’t resist getting down on the ground to weed, try using some sort of cushion. Kneeling pads are cheap enough to buy two or three,

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acramento doctor Ernie Bodai has a new mission. Twenty years ago, Bodai came up with the revolutionary idea for a breast cancer research stamp. It was the first U.S. postage stamp to sell for more than face value. Proceeds went—and still go—to breast cancer research. Since 1998, more than 1 billion stamps have been sold, raising more than $86 million for research. Bodai’s efforts to get the stamp approved required a monumental lobbying

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Bodai targets poor diet, which results in inﬂammation, as a main cause of avoidable disease. “There are a lot of problems associated with prescription medications,” says Bodai. “Americans are taking a lot of these drugs. We don’t know how these medicines react to each other in our body.”

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He sees unhealthy eating, sedentary habits, stress and drug overuse as the main causes of diseases that cause pain, suffering, disability and death. “Our lifestyles are now fueled by technology, so we sit; we are sedentary,” Bodai says. “It’s leading to obesity, unhealthy eating and other problems. We need to exercise.” Bodai targets poor diet, which results in inflammation, as a main cause of avoidable disease. “For the unhealthy, their lives are in a state a constant inflammation,” he says. “This inflammation has been implicated as a factor in nearly all chronic diseases. The chemicals in processed foods are considered a foreign body by our immune system, and there’s growing evidence that what happens in our gut impacts our entire body.” Bodai believes the public is being brainwashed about processed foods. “The labels on processed foods are garbage,” he says. “We need to move to a plantbased diet, no processed foods and only low-fat dairy.” Bodai also says no to meat. Animals are given drugs and consume foods that contain chemicals, antibiotics and hormones that cause harm to the body. As a cancer doctor, he’s seen how hormones—such as too much estrogen—fuel cancer in women. He believes dietary changes would have untold health benefits. According to Bodai, there’s a direct correlation between inflammation and obesity, which can lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and various cancers.

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effort, with Bodai making many trips to Washington and meeting with elected representatives, government officials and the White House. Now, Bodai is on a new crusade: promoting a healthy lifestyle to prevent disease and illness. In the process, he is challenging big, powerful forces, including the medical community, the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. health care system. “There are industries that don’t want to change,” he explains. “A bunch of misinformation is consistently being pushed out to the public from government, the food industry and pharmaceutical companies. It has to change.” According to Bodai, more than 80 percent of chronic conditions could be avoided through the adoption of a healthy lifestyle. Killers like cardiovascular disease and cancer account for more than half of U.S. deaths. He finds it unacceptable that these diseases are rampant in the world’s wealthiest country, which spends more per capita on health care than any other advanced country. Bodai, who founded Kaiser’s Breast Cancer Survivor Institute, was the lead author of a 2017 study on “lifestyle medicine.” Now, he is speaking around the world on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. He tells audiences that if we don’t change our views on health, there will be a “growing health crisis, escalating health care costs and a decline in life expectancy that will only continue.”

According to a Mayo Clinic study, 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription medication, and 20 percent take five or more medications. Prescription drug use among Americans has steadily increased over the past 10 years. Bodai is encouraged by research that shows a healthy lifestyle can prevent chronic illness and disease. But he faces resistance and apathy from powerful forces: the health care system, food producers, Big Pharma, the media and a public that hasn’t yet embraced prevention over treatment. “It’s scary,” he says. “It’s going to take a dedicated mindset to change things, to change our lifestyles. For far too long, patients have experienced chronic illnesses because our health system has not taken a proactive role in promoting healthy eating and active living. We are running out of time to reduce a destructive trend.”

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Dead Pets Society WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME

he Christmas season has many different meanings. To those who don’t celebrate Christmas, it may mean no more than a minor annoyance. To deeply religious Christians, the season may bring annoyance of a different kind. For those who love to shop, the season may be a time of great joy. For those who hate to shop, it may be a time of dread. If you love Christmas songs, you may look forward to having Bing Crosby and Mannheim Steamroller co-opt your car radio for two full months. If you despise Christmas songs, it may be a season of nearconstant station hopping in order to avoid one more rendition of “That’s What Christmas Means to Me.” Somehow, Christmas in our house has become a season for remembering dead animals. About 10 years ago, my wife began honoring our dead pets by putting their photos into small frames and hanging those little photos from the Christmas tree every time the season came around. At first, we had just a few dead pets hanging

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from the tree. Now there are a dozen or so. This includes longtime family members such as Lydia, a deaf cat who shared our lives for 14 years. It also includes short-term residents such as a wounded bluebird I found lying on the ground and kept alive in our house for a few hours while I called wildlife rescue centers to see if they could take it in. I snapped one quick photo of the bird so that I could show it to Julie later, then drove it to a bird-rescue center. Alas, the bird died before I arrived at the

center. Because the bird’s leg had been tagged with a small metal ID label, the bird rescuers asked me to leave the dead body with them so they could figure out where it had come from and why it had been labeled. Julie never saw the bird in the flesh, but she was moved by its story and its photo. And so, every year, an ornament honoring the memory of the little nameless bluebird hangs on our tree alongside ornaments honoring animals we knew and loved for years and spent thousands of dollars in veterinary bills on.

Neither Julie nor I is religious, but we grew up in households that celebrated Christmas, so some sort of Christmas observance is programmed into our DNA. We could no more let the season pass without decorating the living room and setting up a tree than we could allow a summer to pass without visiting some of the area’s many great kayaking spots. Because we are not religious, our Christmas seasons have always tended to be relatively idiosyncratic. There are certain movies we try to watch at least once every season. These include some of the usual suspects (“White Christmas,” “Holiday Inn,” “Christmas in Connecticut”) and a few less traditional favorites that nonetheless have a holiday flavor to them (“The Family Man,” “Serendipity,” “Die Hard”). We do very little shopping at Christmas. Julie prefers giving out handmade items rather than stuff bought at shopping malls. But we nonetheless enjoy visiting a few favorite local stores whenever the Christmas decorations go up. We enjoy walking around and observing all the seasonal hoopla.

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2620 21st Street, Suite A, Sacramento • 916-453-3333 These days, our most unusual Christmas tradition involves recalling the names and personalities of all the dead pets who have passed through our lives and made our 37 years of marriage richer for their presence. For us, putting up the Christmas tree has always involved a stroll down memory lane. Julie can recall how every single one of our dozens of ornaments was acquired. She knows where we got it, approximately what year we got it and why we got it. Many of them were purchased at bygone gift shops in some of the many Northern California towns Julie and I have called home throughout our years together: Auburn, Grass Valley, Placerville, Loomis, etc. In some cases, all we have left of a certain period of our lives are our memories and the Christmas ornaments we acquired at the time. Some of the ornaments were handmade by Julie, and those are usually marked with the date and location of their completion. Some of the ornaments were gifts given to us by someone we worked with long

ago, or a former neighbor we haven’t seen in decades. Julie remembers each ornament’s story, and every year at Christmas she recounts them for me. Not until she began adorning the tree with photos of our fallen pets was I able to participate in this annual rite of storytelling. I may not be able to recall the bygone gift store in Auburn where we bought the glass hummingbird that has hung on our tree for 20 years now, but I certainly can remember the names of all the cats and rabbits and turtles and other animals that have shared our lives through the years. Of course, we will be reminded of Shelley or Peachy or Mathilde whenever we see a turtle or cat or rabbit that looks like them. That happens at random moments throughout the year. But the decorating of our Christmas tree now gives us a dedicated couple of hours each year during which each beloved pet is called to mind as his or her photograph ornament is lovingly unwrapped from the tissue paper that

has protected it during the previous 11 months and placed on the tree. As each animal photo emerges from the giant trove of ornaments, Julie and I will stop and look at the fondly remembered face and share a few reminiscences of the way that Bo, when he was feeling playful, used to scamper sideways across the living room floor like a spider monkey. Or the way that Lydia, being deaf, used to jump up on the piano keys, then look around in confusion at the way the other cats in the room would scatter to the four winds, frightened by a noise Lydia couldn’t hear. We’ll recall how Eddie was the only cat we’ve ever owned who loved to fetch thrown objects. We’ll recall how Peachy, whose full name was Peachy Carnahan (he was named for a character in the Rudyard Kipling story “The Man Who Would Be King”), was such a scaredy-cat that we eventually nicknamed him Cowardly Carnahan. On March 6 of this year, Julie and I lost another beloved pet, our cat Snickers, who lived with us for

about eight years. I have written about him before. He was a great escape artist who defied Julie’s best efforts to keep him in the backyard. We worried about him whenever he made his latest escape, but he always managed to return unharmed. Alas, kidney failure proved to be the one thing Snickers couldn’t escape. He no longer adorns the living room couch or the backyard patio, but it will be nice to see his face again when he’s adorning our Christmas tree. Of course, this Christmas tradition of ours has nothing to do with virgin births, crowded mangers, the star of Bethlehem or the three wise men. But that’s the beauty of living in a pluralistic society that recognizes a separation between church and state. We are free to celebrate secular holidays, such as the Fourth of July, by going to church if we want, and we are free to celebrate religious holidays by commemorating the lives of bygone pets. That’s what Christmas means to me. Kevin Mims lives in Land Park. He can be reached at kevinmims@ sbcglobal.net. n

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Pardon Us EUROPEAN SOLUTIONS TO COMMON ANNOYANCES

ccasionally a reader suggests that I offer a religious view on the division that entangles our nation. My response is that often our best spirituality can be found by unpacking its practical components. To that end, I made some observations during my recent extended stay in Europe that might help defuse some of our national disagreements. For instance, road rage might be checked if we practiced the European method of passing other cars only while they are in the slow lane. Doing this means you aren’t whizzing by someone on their visually restricted passenger side. Also, does a slow or uncertain driver ever befuddle you? Maybe he’s a new driver. It’d be great if we adopted the Irish practice of labeling the back window of student drivers

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with a large red “L” for learning, and newly licensed drivers with a large “N.” Best of all, Europe employs traffic cameras to identify traffic offenders and sends citations by mail. Adopt this practice and police won’t be making dangerous traffic stops.

We detest any perceived intrusion into our personal space. Driving isn’t the only thing that enrages Americans. We detest any perceived intrusion into our personal space. Not so in Europe. If you brush a passerby, you needn’t utter so much as a “pardon me.” In fact, during the two years I was stationed in Turkey with my family, I was only once asked for a pardon. A man profusely apologized when he bounced a cigarette butt he intended for the street off my son.

Personal space in Europe is defined as any unoccupied space. If there is an open sidewalk space, no matter what its size, you’re entitled to it. We were in a nearly empty theater when a couple took the seats next to us. No worry. However, restaurants place a high regard on personal space. They encourage you to occupy your table long past your last bite of dessert. Signal them when you’re ready for a check and your bill will exactly total the menu price because all prices include tax. Meanwhile, in the United States, the battle lines are drawn over the most personal of spaces: the toilet. Much animosity is expressed over who should enter restrooms marked “men” or “women.” Some argue for a traditional gender distinction based on safety. Others make a case for inclusivity based on self-identity. No matter what bathroom you choose in Europe, you’ll find an attendant who’ll likely collect 75 cents for use of the toilets. At first, I was annoyed by the practice, but now I’m impressed with how the attendants keep the bathrooms clean, stocked and safe.

Some bathrooms are labeled “toilet” or “W.C.” (for water closet). The British call it a loo. While German men desperately hunt for the crude sign “pissoir,” Belgian men look for relief in the public-square urinal behind a half partition. Many restrooms maximize space through the use of a foyer where both sexes share the wash sinks. But whatever a toilet is called or however it’s used, Europeans make gender agreements a moot point with floor-to-ceiling toilet stalls. Better still, some places simply have two or three unmarked toilet rooms. No fuss, no muss. No one questions who you are or how you accomplish your business. These down-to-earth solutions are simple methods to employ before anger erupts. They are the practical side of Jesus’ teachings; what we call the Golden Rule. The modern translation is this: Here is a simple rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. n

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or thousands of years, mankind got around by walking, riding animals or riding in conveyances pulled by animals. Railroads transformed longdistance travel in the last half of the 19th century. For shorter trips, another form of mechanized travel, the bicycle, emerged on the transportation stage. During the first decades of the 1900s, city travel was revolutionized. First came the electric streetcar and interurban rail lines. Streetcar lines, sometimes owned by land developers, pumped up land values outside of cities and made suburban development possible. Then came the motorcar, which took advantage of the paved roads resulting from the “good-roads movement” led by bicyclists. Depending on your point of view, streetcars either faded away

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naturally, due to shrinking demand and a lack of profitability, or were systematically bought up and shut down in a corporate conspiracy. Holding companies controlled by General Motors, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Standard Oil and Phillips Petroleum purchased streetcar companies in big cities, ripped out the tracks and stopped operations. Individual ownership of automobiles became much more common, and city planners catered to this “modern” way to get around, all in the name of progress. Rubber-tired buses replaced streetcars in most places. In big cities, public-transit systems replaced the unprofitable or defunct private streetcar lines. For urgent trips and hard-to-reach destinations, public transit was supplemented by private taxis. For the past 70 or so years, short urban trips have been dominated by the personally owned car. With the exception of the very biggest cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, very few trips in American cities were made by public transit, walking, biking or taxis. More recently, urban transportation has started to morph again. It started small. The Blue Van replaced some taxi trips to airports by cutting costs

with shared rides. Private, for-profit car-share companies and private and public bike-share programs started and, at least for bike share, have burgeoned in number and scale. Uber, Lyft and other “ride-hail” companies entered the scene with another new scheme. Using cheap labor and other people’s cars, they offered rates lower than taxis and easy payment. Their convenience (door-to-door service with no parking costs) beat public transit and rivaled or beat private-car use. Research by UC Davis shows that ride hailing may actually be increasing the number of trips people make and cannibalizing trips from public transit and bicycling. Ride-hail companies are also starting to offer shared rides and some fixed-route service, further reducing costs for customers willing to spend a bit more time on their trips and rub elbows with strangers. Uber and Lyft are also experimenting with partnerships with transit systems, giving discounts for trips to transit stations. The next step in the local transportation evolutionary process is almost certain to be driverless ride-hail services. Eliminating labor will dramatically cut costs while

making tens of thousands of driving jobs disappear. Private transportation services will become even more cost competitive with subsidized public transit. It’s inevitable that public-transit systems will seek to cut their costs by eliminating bus drivers and railvehicle operators. Existing systems still have the capacity to move large numbers of people without clogging the roads. There could be increased competition between private- and public-transportation providers, with both offering rides on large, multipassenger driverless vehicles. Are we coming full circle after decades of domination by personally owned cars? Horses probably aren’t on their way back, but could we have a second era in which privatetransportation providers, walking and biking predominate for urban trips? There’s already increasing recognition on the part of government and public-health officials that walking and biking, while not modern, are sustainable activities to be encouraged, not disdained. Yet there are other possibilities, less promising, as well. Cheap ridehail trips could mean more trips by car. Many people already prefer TO page 51

CHICORY

This plant has a single long, thick root, plus leaves and flowers that can be used in food. In the South, the root is roasted, cut up and steeped to make a coffee substitute. Eat it: The root can be boiled and eaten as a vegetable.

COLLARD GREENS A Southern staple, these loose-leafed greens are related to cabbage, broccoli, kale and spring greens. Collards are a good source of vitamin C and soluble fiber. Eat it: Braise with bacon, onion and crushed red pepper.

MANDARIN ORANGE

This small citrus fruit has few seeds and a loose, puffy orange skin that is easy to peel, making it a popular addition to children’s lunchboxes. Eat it: Peel and enjoy.

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

MUSTARD GREENS

This cruciferous vegetable is super healthy, with antioxidant, antiinflammatory and cholesterol-lowering properties. Eat it: Saute and serve with walnuts.

POMEGRANATE

Originally from Persia, this fruit is nutrient dense and rich in antioxidants. A glass of pomegranate juice has more antioxidants than red wine, green tea, blueberries or cranberries. Eat it: Add the jewel-like seeds to salads.

DINO KALE

Also known as Tuscan kale and Lacinato kale, it has dark blue-green leaves and a bumpy, embossed texture. It’s called dinosaur kale because it’s said to resemble dinosaur skin. Eat it: It’s great in soups and pastas

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Students in the Transition to Adult Living program are ready to get to work at Fiery Ginger Farm.

Growing More Than Plants AT THIS LOCAL FARM, YOUNG ADULTS LEARN JOB SKILLS

n West Sacramento, behind the old Hollywood Hardware building on Merkley Avenue, there’s a farm. Washington Unified School District leases the 1-acre plot to the Center for Land-Based Learning, and Fiery Ginger Farm subleases it from the center. The farm’s owners, Hope Sippola and Shayne Zurilgen, grow their fall and winter crops here. This morning, a work crew, students from the district’s Transition to Adult Living program, arrives with their aide, Lynne Narag. Four days a week, this crew helps Sippola and Zurilgen with farm chores in West Sacramento. On Tuesdays, the TAL

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students take the bus to Davis, where Fiery Ginger Farm leases another plot at The Cannery. The crew has been working with Zurilgen and Sippola for about a year. The TAL program assists young adults with developmental disabilities transition from student life to independent living. Communitywork settings, like Fiery Ginger Farm, teach the students hands-on, employment-related skills. The program pays the students for their time. Today, the crew is transferring Freedom Ranger chicks from the plastic crates they arrived in to their new homes: movable structures called chicken tractors. The structures don’t look like tractors; they look like chicken apartments. The only moving parts are the birds themselves, although the structures are rotated from spot to spot every day. Zurilgen shows the crew how to carry a red-feathered chick with both

hands. Sippola counts the chicks as the crew transfers them from crate to tractor. Austin Todd, wearing a blue shirt covered with sailboats, baggy

jeans and bright-orange running shoes, flutters his eyelashes and fingers. He’s not sure that he wants to touch a Freedom Ranger, let

TAL students help plant seedlings for vegetables, such as bok choy.

Chicken care is part of the work assignments for TAL students. alone carry one. I’m not sure I blame him. His friend Jordan Iorga, who is sporting a Chicago Bulls T-shirt, encourages him to be “brave.” Iorga tells me his grandmother has chickens and the rooster chases him. Zurilgen is patient. He’s a former middle school science teacher, and that training shows. Narag helps Todd carry a chick by putting her hands over his. He smiles once the chicken is in the tractor and everyone cheers. Everyone and everything is in the present moment. Nearby, I-80 produces a steady traffic hum. Seagulls circle overhead. Dragonflies skim the tops of recently planted seedlings. Soon, the tractors are filled with cheeping chicks. They are getting accustomed to their new environment, drinking water, sampling grain and pecking at the ground. A couple of chicks bump chests like tiny football

players. Zurilgen compares them to little boys on a playground. In addition to vegetables, Fiery Ginger raises chickens for eggs and meat. This batch will be “processed” when they are about 9 weeks old and tip the scales at 5 to 6 pounds. Until then, they can free-range comfortably inside the tractors; they are excellent foragers. Plant matter and bugs improve their health, which means better-tasting chickens. In turn, they fertilize the soil. A new batch of chicks will be introduced in about seven weeks. But now it’s time to plant seedlings. Nick Brisco and Iorga get a lot of satisfaction from the job, Zurilgen says. “Planting is something they do very well. It’s a win-win, beneficial to us [and them].” The program teaches students life skills, along with a work ethic. They go on to find employment in the community at grocery stores, Goodwill and on farms like this one.

The students choose their trowels and start planting a row of bok choy. Sippola scoops seedlings out of flats while the crew digs small holes and places a baby bok choy in each one. Wearing pink gloves and a gray hat with the hashtag #Love, Byron Moore stands close to Sippola, skipping over more than a few seedlings to keep up with her. The work is not perfect, but perfection is not the goal. “It’s about the experience, learning where your food comes from,” Sippola says. Most of Fiery Ginger’s vegetables are started from seeds and sprouted in trays, but beet, carrot and turnip seeds are placed directly in the ground. Fiery Ginger sells chard, bok choy and kale to the school district. The farm also grows lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, garlic and onion. Fiery Ginger’s produce can be purchased at local farmers markets, along with broiler chickens and eggs.

Brisco is a careful planter, feathering and fluffing soil around the seedlings. The crew works in a line: first Moore, followed by Iorga, Brisco, Todd and Narag. Iorga likes to leapfrog forward in line. Todd stands and smiles until Narag puts him to work. “Byron, don’t plant too deep,” she says while straightening seedlings. Narag’s been with the TAL program for 12 years. She calls each student “buddy,” praises and encourages them, and reminds them not to cover plant leaves with dirt. Last year, the crew sold pumpkins from a farm stand. “They did a way better job than we did,” Zurilgen recalls. Seeing them at work this morning, it’s not difficult to picture. For more information about Fiery Ginger Farm, go to fierygingerfarm. com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n

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It's "Nutcracker" time! Sacramento Ballet dancer Maggie Rupp as the Sugar Plum Fairy.

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“The Nutcracker” Sacramento Ballet Dec. 9–23 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacballet.org Ron Cunningham’s crown jewel of holiday entertainment returns for its 30th year. Select performances will feature live music by the Sacramento Philharmonic Opera & Orchestra.

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Sacramento Theatre Company Thru December 24 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 Returning after a five-year hiatus, this adaptation of the classic Dickens novel is by local artists Richard Hellesen and David de Berry and stars Matt K. Miller reprising his role as Ebenezer Scrooge. The Christmas tale traverses Scrooge’s greed-filled past, his regrettable present void of forgiveness, and his fated future if he doesn’t change his avaricious ways.

KINGS OF AMERICA

Sacramento Theatre Company Thru December 10 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 Sactheatre.org Through the recurring dreams of a struggling teenage boy named Noah — dreams which happen to be populated exclusively by former presidents — this timely new play explores presidential figures of American history, their flaws, and the legacies they have left behind. But, for Noah, these episodes might be more than just fantasy; they could be a means for forgiveness and personal healing.

A MOVING DAY

B Street Theatre Thru December 24 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BstreetTheatre.org Every building has a history. Every building has a secret. When one man is forced to move out of his family home, he must confront the history and secrets buried in the building. With the help of a moving company and a mysterious companion, our hero sifts through the mystery of the past and reconciles with his future in this funny warm story for the holidays.

MACY’S THEATRE OF LIGHTS

Downtown Sacramento Partnership at Old Sacramento Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve OldSacramento.com 970-5226 Clement Clarke Moore’s classic Christmas poem will come to spectacular life from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve on the balconies of Old Sacramento at K Street and Front. This year’s show will premiere the night before Thanksgiving with the grand lighting of the Umpqua Bank Christmas Tree at 6 p.m. The event will include the premiere performance of this year’s Theatre of Lights at 6:15 p.m. The production is a live dramatization of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” a special appearance by Jack Frost, and the lighting of the 60-foot Christmas tree by St. Nick himself.

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Big Idea Theatre Thru December 16 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org When Henrietta Leavitt is offered a position at the prestigious Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she leaves her rural Massachusetts home to pursue her passion for astronomy. Upon arriving, however, she learns that she won’t have access to the telescope but instead will be working with photographic plates, cataloging the stars with her fellow female “computers.” Undaunted, she dedicates her spare time to exploring her own ideas — juggling work, family and burgeoning love on the way to making a groundbreaking discovery. This true story of the celebrated astronomer explores female solidarity in a maledominated world, challenging conventional ideas of one’s place in the world and the universe.

MISSD BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Capital Stage December 6 – December 30 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 Capstage.org

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1400 L Street, Room 202 • sacballet.org Join the Sugar Plum Fairy on a magical journey to the Land of Sweets for a whimsical tea party for all ages. Mingle with beloved characters from “The Nutcracker” while enjoying a high tea sponsored by Ettore’s Bakery.

Carmichael Seventh-day Adventist Church, 4600 Winding Way • sacramentochildrenschorus.org Get ready to tap your toes as four choirs get the whole family in the holiday spirit.

Winter Faire Camellia Waldorf School Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. 7450 Pocket Road • camelliawaldorf.org Start the holidays right with a day of crafts, food, shopping and entertainment that includes storytelling, puppet shows, a gallery of student work and live music. The Children’s Store is stocked with treasures designed to fit a child’s budget.

“Jingle All the Way!” Sacramento Master Singers Saturday, Dec. 16, 3 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. • mastersingers.org Don’t miss this 45-minute special performance of holiday songs for children and their families.

“Christmas Angels” and “The Nutcracker” Sacramento Civic Ballet Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m. The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred, 2300 Sierra Blvd. • deanedancecenter.com Sacramento Civic Ballet, along with Crockett-Deane Apprentice Company and Deane Dance Center, will present two Christmas ballets.

Holiday Magic Sacramento Zoo Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 3930 W. Land Park Drive • saczoo.org Watch the animals receive special treats and listen as zoo staffers share facts and answer your questions. Members receive 25 percent off at the Zoofari Market; visitors can donate to Loaves & Fishes’ holiday drive and receive $1 off admission. Don’t forget to wear your PJs to the zoo’s free-admission Pajama Party day on Sunday, Dec. 24, 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

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“Wells Fargo Home for the Holidays” Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra Saturday, Dec. 9, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St. • sacramentochoral.com Join the Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra and guests Sacramento Children’s Chorus, narrator Matt Hanscom, puppets by Green Valley Theatre Company and the Vibrance Barbershop Quartet under director Alexander Grambow and conductor Donald Kendrick.

“Kings of America” Sacramento Theatre Company Through Dec. 10 Pollock Stage, 1419 H St. • sactheatre.org Don’t miss the world premiere of a play by local playwright Sean Patrick Nill. The timely production explores the flaws and legacies of American leadership through the recurring dreams of a struggling teenage boy. "Ground Swell" by Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee can be seen at Beatnik Studios.

“The Sound of Music” Holiday Event Crocker Art Museum Thursday, Dec. 28, 1:30 and 6 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org The Crocker’s screening of this beloved movie returns for its sixth and final year with costume contests, door prizes, yodeling, singing and lots of laughs.

“Winter Wonderland” Fairytale Town Saturday, Dec. 9 and 16; Sunday, Dec. 10 and 17, 1–7 p.m. 3901 Land Park Dr. • fairytaletown.org Celebrate the holiday season in Dr. Seuss’ Whoville with festive décor, dazzling lights and Grinch-themed hands-on activities. Don’t miss the snowfall nightly at 7 p.m.

Holiday Craft Fair Sierra 2 Center Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 2791 24th St. • sierra2.org Shop for jewelry, soaps, candles, fiber arts, winter wear, wooden home and kitchen accessories, furniture, succulent arrangements, planters and more. All proceeds benefit Sierra 2 Senior Center.

“Intersection” Beatnik Studios Dec. 1–Jan. 25 (Opening reception Friday, Dec. 1, 6–9 p.m.) 723 S St. • beatnik-studios.com Artists and longtime friends Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee collaborate on several stunning works of acrylic on photography and showcase new individual works. Still gift shopping? Check out Beatnik’s Handmade Holidays craft fair on Saturday, Dec. 16, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

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“A Master Singers Christmas” Sacramento Master Singers Sunday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St.

Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 17, 3 p.m.; Tuesday, Dec. 19, 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. • mastersingers.org From a meditative candlelight processional to exuberant spirituals, this concert delivers the beauty and joy of the season.

Holiday Art Sale Gregory Kondos Gallery Dec. 6–9 Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd. • scc.losrios.edu Shop for one-of-a-kind artwork created by students and professionals at this annual art show.

Sacramento Theatre Company Stages world premier of Kings of America.

“A Joyful Noise” Sacramento Symphonic Winds Sunday, Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m. Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. • sacwinds.org The 60-piece adult symphonic band conducted by Timothy M. Smith will perform Timothy Mahr’s "Fantasia in G," Alfred Reed’s setting of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Frank Ticheli’s “Joy Revisited” and more.

“Ring We Now of Christmas” Bel Tempo Handbell Choir Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m. Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3235 Pope Ave. • northminsteronline.org Enjoy an afternoon of handbell music, violin, marimba, English horn and a variety of percussion instruments. Proceeds benefit Family Promise of Sacramento, which provides a safe and secure haven for displaced families. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

Sacramento Civic Ballet presents two Christmas ballets. Photo courtesy of Linda Yun.

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN DECEMBER

The work of California artist Sharon L. Barnes is showing at the newly opened CK Art Gallery. Shown above: “De’tente” by Barnes, acrylic and gesso on industrial rooﬁng paper. 2500 J St.; ckart-gallery.com

“Big Show of Small Treasures” showcases intimately scaled works of art at Sparrow Gallery and various art venues around the city. Through Dec. 31. Shown above: “Box Girl” by Linda Nunes, encaustic. 1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com

Archival Gallery presents selected works By Jian Wang and “Hometown” paintings by Earl Boley through Jan. 27. Shown above: an oil painting by Boley. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com

“Intersection” is a two-person show at Beatnik Gallery featuring Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee collaborations, along with a showing of new individual works. Show runs through Jan. 25. Shown above: “Rolling Stones” by Dana and Satterlee, acrylic on photograph. 723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com

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Annik Gunther

An Artist at Last SHE GAVE UP ART, THEN LATER TURNED TO PAINTING FOR SOLACE

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nnik Gunter’s motto is “When you have a lemon, you squeeze it on caviar.” This gustatory phrase is appropriate not only because Gunter used to own a restaurant, but also because it’s gotten the artist through some pretty

tough times. Let’s start at the beginning. In her last year of high school in La Rochelle, France, one of Gunter’s teachers encouraged her to apply to art school, but her father told her there was no way a daughter of his

was going to be an artist. Gunter pursued her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics instead. Looking for a way to leave Europe with her two young children, Gunter got a grant to study linguistics at UC Berkeley. Her studies into the

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to focus on her marriage and career. She sold it to Trong Nguyen, a former student and creator of La Bou. While she misses the restaurant and still cooks occasionally, Gunter really misses the classroom. She retired from Sac State after suffering a stroke and mild aphasia, which made lecturing difficult. Gunter says she got one very good thing out of it: her rediscovered love of art. “When I had the stroke, I saw all these psychedelic colors,” Gunter recalls. “I wanted to capture these colors, so painting became a necessity.” That necessity increased when Gunter’s disabled son passed away in 2015. After deciding she’d “better do something to soothe me,” she began studying with painter Gary Pruner and pastel artist Reif Erickson. She eventually joined Sacramento Fine Arts Center, where she now serves as the vice president of Northern California Arts, which promotes the visual arts.

“NCA has about 160 members with various skills in watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil, fiber and textures,” Gunter says. “I’m responsible for selecting the artists for the 2018 program and organizing their demonstrations and workshops.” Gunter is wildly inspired by her work with SFAC—and it shows. The walls of her house off American River Drive are filled with vibrant landscapes in watercolor and soft pastel. But there’s a new love in her life: PanPastel, which are professional-quality colors in a cakelike pan format. “I’ve discovered the treasure of the world,” she says as she runs her fingers lovingly over the pans of brilliant color. Who needs caviar when you’ve got pastels? Sacramento Fine Arts Center is at 5330 Gibbons Drive. For more information, go to sacfinearts.org. n

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medieval evolution of the vowel “e” in French led her to UC Davis and, eventually, to a 38-year-long career teaching ancient and French civilization at Sacramento State University. “I loved my job,” Gunter says. “Absolutely loved it.” Early in her teaching career, Gunter was looking for a way to supplement her income to take care of her two sons, one of whom was disabled. She decided to open a French restaurant in an old A&W stand on Munroe Street, near Fair Oaks Boulevard. “I thought people would get a kick out of it,” she says. “You go to A&W and get a gourmet French meal.” At first, her restaurant was open only for lunch, since Gunter cooked everything from scratch by herself. When she realized that the wait list for reservations was getting impossibly long, she brought in help, and the restaurant flourished for years. While scrambling to cater her own wedding, however, she started to think about selling the restaurant

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A poke bowl from Delilah's Market Cafe.

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reeport Boulevard is a wellworn stretch of road. Talk to longtime area residents and they’ll tell stories of the old airport, Ford’s Hamburgers, Sacramento City

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College and a host of other important landmarks that were, or still are, part of the Freeport landscape. As the years have moved on, the landscape has changed somewhat. At the south end of the boulevard, the regional airport became Executive Airport, the local college became the city JC and the new high school (McClatchy) became the old high school. Food, too, has changed along Freeport. Where once there were steakhouses and tiki bars, there

now sit Korean barbecue joints and karaoke lounges. But with new tastes come new flavors, and two new food spots on Freeport stand out as refreshing, unique and delicious.

DELILAH’S MARKET CAFE The Hawaiian dish of poke (pronounced poke-ay) comes from, like so many other great dishes, humble origins. Combining chunks of raw fish, hearty sauces and generous heaps of fresh herbs and veggies, poke

was originally seen as fishermen’s grub. Like the San Francisco creation of cioppino, it involves the trimmings and leftover bits of fish, mixed with strong flavors and served with a hearty starch. (For cioppino, it’s SF sourdough; for poke, it’s rice.) In the past few years, poke has seen a huge upswing in popularity and notoriety. Throughout the West Coast, poke shops are poking up everywhere from San Diego to Vancouver. Hawaiian flavors and dining places are seeing a strong

push, whether it’s loco moco (hamburger patty and gravy over rice) at nearly every new restaurant with a hip flair, or Hawaiian-plate lunch spots popping up in strip malls. What makes Delilah’s Market Cafe a treat is that it combines the fresh flavors of the islands with the decadent and the divey. When you first arrive in the sparse environs of Delilah’s, you’re faced with a decentsized cold case filled with at least half a dozen types of seafood. Ahi, octopus, salmon and more line the shelves. At the counter, you can choose from a grab-and-go selection of musubi, perhaps the greatest Hawaiian culinary creation of the 20th century. For those unfamiliar with it, musubi is a ball of sushi rice topped with a slice of grilled spam, all wrapped with a slender ribbon of seaweed. This might not sound like your cup of tea, but you have to try it. It’s the low-budget indulgent treat

you didn’t know you loved. Delilah’s dresses up its musubi with optional bits of jalapeno, barbecued eel and other odds and ends, should you want a few more flavors. A menu of made-to-order grilledcheese sandwiches is also available at the counter. The sandwiches feature seafood-focused combos, such as lobster with Swiss and cheddar, and salmon with cream cheese. They’re panini-style pressed sandwiches that blend surprising tastes and go far in disproving the old rule that seafood and cheese shouldn’t be served together. To top off the Hawaiian immersion, you can also pick up a Dole whip. The icy, sweet pineapple treat brings up thoughts of palm trees, sea breezes and maybe Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, depending on your age. No matter what your demographic, the bright, bold flavors of Delilah’s

genuine recreation of a Honolulu food counter are going to please.

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2966 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 442-4256 $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • freeportbakery.com

Iron Grill 13th St. and Broadway • (916) 737-5115

Federalist Public House

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

2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134

Jamie’s Broadway Grille

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

427 Broadway • (916) 442-4044

Hot Italian

L D $$ Full Bar Featured on Diners, DriveIns and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986 • jamiesbroadwaygrille.com

1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000

Riverside Clubhouse

L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net

2633 Riverside Blvd. • (916) 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • riversideclubhouse.com

1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022

Taylor’s Kitchen

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

2924 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 443-5154

1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

Freeport Bakery

L D $-$$ Full Bar American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch • easyoni.com

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L $$ Wine/Beer • Lunch menu varies weekly. Operated by volunteers to beneﬁt Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagarden.org

1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574

L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888

Frank Fat’s

LAND PARK

Café Bernardo

The Red Rabbit 2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275 L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome • taylorskitchen.com

Willie’s Burgers 2415 16th St. • (916) 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 2:30 am on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

Paragary’s 1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com

CURTIS PARK

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

Revolution Wines

2700 24th St. • (916) 451-2200

1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

Magpie Cafe

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

1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594

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

806 L St. • (916) 442-7092

Iron Horse Tavern

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

1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner

Grange Restaurant & Bar

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

926 J St. • (916) 492-4450

Shoki Ramen House

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

1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com

2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711

The Rind

2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767 L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

South 2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

Pangaea Bier Café L D Sunday Brunch $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio A curated tap list dedicated to only the ﬁnest of brews • pangaeabiercafe.com

Shoki Ramen House

Suzie Burger

2530 21st St. • (916) 454-2411

L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger. com

L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

Gunther’s Ice Cream 2801 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 457-6646

1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

B L D $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio Seasonal menu features crepes and more in a colorful setting • cafedantorels.com

2743 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 454-4942

Skool

2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500

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Café Dantorele

Tapa The World 2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live ﬂamenco music • tapathewworld.com

L D $ Long-standing landmark with retro decor supplying homemade ice cream in a variety of ﬂavors plus soup and sandwiches • gunthersicecream.com

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EAST SAC 33rd Street Bistro 3301 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Paciﬁc Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdst.bistro.com

Burr’s Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

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Cabana Winery & Bistro 5610 Elvas Ave. • (916) 476-5492 L D $$ Wine/Beer Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2 • cabanawinery.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 48th St. & Folsom Blvd. • (916) 451-5181

Kru 3135 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 551-1559 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Raw and reﬁned, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. • (916) 455-7803 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting • latrattoriabohemia. com

Nopalitos Southwestern Café 5530 H St. • (916) 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting • nopalitoscafe.com

OneSpeed 4818 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 706-1748

Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio, Private Room. Artisan pizzas & seasonally inspired menu in a casual, neighborhood setting • onespeedpizza.com

Clubhouse 56

Opa! Opa!

723 56th St. • (916) 454-5656 B L D $$ Full Bar American. HD sports, kid’s menu, breakfast weekends, late night dining • ch56sports. com

OBO Italian Table & Bar 3145 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 822-8720 L D $$ Full Bar The rustic, seasonal and nourishing ﬂavors of Italy. Counter service • oboitalian.com

Español Italian Restaurant 5723 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 457-1936 L D $$ Full Bar Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere • espanol-italian. com

Evan’s Kitchen and Catering 855 57th St. • (916) 452-3896 B L D $$ Wine/Beer Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • chefevan. com

Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. • (916) 448-5699 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Mediterranean inﬂuenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. • (916) 558-4440 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

5644 J St. • (916) 451-4000 L D $ Wine/Beer Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service • eatatopa.com

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. • (916) 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

Selland’s Market Cafe 5340 H St. • (916) 736-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High-quality hand-crafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar, Sunday brunch• sellands.com

OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com

Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723 L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com

Vibe Health Bar 3515 Broadway • (916) 382-9723 B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar. com n

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