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his month marks the return of Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. The groups joined forces a few years ago but canceled their 2014-15 season when funds dried up. They gave their last concert in April 2014. Now, it looks like our community has a real treat coming up in the next year. With the downtown renaissance underway, the timing for a newly strengthened, reinvented Sacramento orchestra seems perfect. In the past decade, the orchestra gave a handful of one-night performances at the Community Center Theater during the traditional October-to-April season. That’s pretty sad considering even Modesto and Fresno have symphonies that regularly perform more than 40 times a year. I’ll spare the “world-class city” talk, but it seems to me that a thriving orchestra is an important ingredient in a wellcultured capital city. In fact, last fall Sacramento was the only American city of its size to not have an active symphony. I am grateful to have grown up with culturally oriented parents who took us to all the family concerts that my hometown of Detroit had to offer.

Julian C. Dixon, director of Community Engagement & Education for the Sac Phil & Opera is shown at the Pocket Library with a string quartet for a performance of the group’s Music Invasion series

My first live musical memory was of a dramatic performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.” It’s a delightful children’s story spoken by a narrator while accompanied by an orchestra. I can still remember the gilded art-deco theater and my adolescent sense of wonder. Those experiences and my parents’ encouragement led me to learn to

play the flute and perform in my high school orchestra. I sold the flute to help pay my college tuition after I figured my talents lay elsewhere. (I held first chair for only one day!) My orchestral appreciation waned in the ’80s but came back when I moved to Sacramento with my husband and found we shared an interest in live orchestral

performance. The once-thriving Sacramento Symphony Orchestra we enjoyed went bankrupt in the mid-’90s. Like us, many people were deeply disappointed. When Sacramento Philharmonic was born the next year, it was composed almost entirely of the same orchestra members, but it kept a significantly shorter schedule. Still, the new group stumbled, not because of its musical talent, but because of organizational issues. During its first two years, it was plagued by problems with management and artistic leadership. But over a short time, it developed a reputation as a leading orchestra in the Central Valley, and we enjoyed almost every concert we attended over almost two decades. Our business was new in 1996, but we sponsored advertising for the orchestra almost every year. We traded ads for tickets and invited employees, friends and family to attend what for many was their first live orchestral performance. The orchestra’s current revival is led by a new executive director, Alice Sauro, who brings 29 years of career success as a musician and a manager of performing arts organizations. She was with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (coincidentally the first live orchestra I ever heard) before she moved to the Bay Area last year. Sauro is bringing together a team of experts from her previous positions in an attempt to build a successful orchestra with an enduring future. Sac Philharmonic & Opera is staging a series of 27 “Art Invasions” performances all over the city this month. The goal is to reach people who have never experienced a formal orchestral performance. PUBLISHER page 9

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Who Controls the Budget? A FLOOD OF NEW CITY SPENDING AS FISCAL CLIFF LOOMS

BY CRAIG POWELL INSIDE CITY HALL

y all accounts, John Shirey likes his job as Sacramento’s city manager and wants to keep it. With his contract expiring this month, his continued tenure as city manager depends on doing what Kevin Johnson and his five closest council allies want him to do with the city budget for next year. And they want 20 new programs, projects and initiatives and loads of new city spending, all outlined in the mayor’s and council’s memorandum of budget priorities, notwithstanding a looming fiscal cliff that the city manager projects will drive the city’s general fund into red ink starting in the following fiscal year, followed by annual deficits that will reach $44 million two years thereafter. And the $44 million projected deficit assumes no further hikes in city labor costs after current labor contracts expire, and no recession in the next five years: both very questionable assumptions. Shirey’s budget message states unequivocally that “expenditures continue to outpace revenue growth in future fiscal years” and that “current expenditure commitments

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are unsustainable.” To protect his job, Shirey is giving the mayor and his allies almost all of the new spending they want in the new budget. But he’s making it crystal clear that the council’s lack of fiscal discipline is leading the city into “unsustainable” (meaning dangerous) financial waters. Welcome to what city hall insiders are now calling “strong mayor through the back door,” an acknowledgement that the mayor has successfully wrested control of the all-important city budget from our supposedly “strong” city manager, despite the drubbing the strongmayor initiative received from city voters last November.

Welcome to what city hall insiders are now calling “strong mayor through the back door.” How did Johnson engineer such a de facto coup? First, he used his council majority to rewrite council rules to create a powerful new budget and audit committee, chaired by the mayor himself, to provide highly detailed early directions—not suggestions—to the city manager on what new spending and programs he wanted to see included in the city manager’s budget, upending the normal budget dance initiated by the manager. A city manager ignores a clear council directive at his professional peril. So Shirey swallowed his misgivings and gave

the mayor and his allies what they wanted: $21.4 million of the $23 million they “directed” be spent. The problem is that a council majority issuing a budget directive to the city manager is focusing only on what politicians do best: spending taxpayer money. They give little to no thought to whether the city has the financial means to make good on their lengthy spending wish list. By directing a city manager to increase spending and launch 20 new programs, they put the city manager—who has the responsibility to present a balanced budget—into an almost impossible box. He has three choices: He can issue a budget that includes the spending the council wants even if it puts the city in fiscal peril; he can refuse to follow the council’s direction on spending and likely find himself out of a job; or he can resign rather than take an action that he knows would be perilous for the city he manages. None of these choices is good for a city. Smart mayors and city councils avoid “my way or the highway” budget directives to their city managers by developing a collaborative relationship with them that includes regular feedback on possible new spending, particularly feedback on fiscal limits and realities. But Johnson appears more interested in asserting control over the budget than collaborating with the city manager. He seems to want to kick off a slew of new programs, initiatives and spending rather than acknowledging the coming fiscal cliff and preparing for a soft landing when the city goes over it in 2019.

BUDGET RECAP

he city’s annual budget is close to breaking through the $1 billion level, with a total budget next year of $940 million, $403.8 million of which is for the general fund, up $20.6 million or 5 percent from last year. (The general fund pays for police, fire, parks and other general government operations.) The $536 million remainder of the budget mostly relates to city utility services. (Note: The city is considering a ballot measure next year to raise the storm drainage rate, as you might have guessed if you received one of the city surveys that included classic push-polling questions designed to soften voters up to approve a rate hike.)

A cool $2.1 million will be spent to create a new central city strategic plan, part of the mayor’s very ambitious initiative to build 10,000 new housing units in downtown over the next 10 years. What programs are receiving new funding this year? In the police CITY HALL page 10

PUBLISHER FROM page 7 But that’s just a warm-up. Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera will kick off its 2015-16 season on Saturday, June 27, with an openingnight celebration featuring Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 2, aptly titled “Resurrection.” Many people consider it one of the greatest musical masterpieces of the past two centuries. The seven-concert season will end May 7, 2016, with Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No. 9. Here’s an added incentive to attend: Ticket pricing has been rolled back to 2003 levels—an average savings of 50 percent over previous pricing. It’s all part of the organization’s patron-friendly pricing philosophy. Subscription packages start at $125 for seven concerts and are on sale now at sacphilopera.org

NEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER LOCATIONS IDENTIFIED A civic task force evaluating options for a new performing arts center has been working hard to find workable solutions to replace the Community Center Theater. The group’s preferred design is a 2,200seat theater that has the flexibility to go smaller for ballet, opera and orchestral performances, along with a small rehearsal hall. Four possible locations have been identified: the east side of 16th Street between J and K streets, the east side of 16th Street between I and J streets, Lot X near Crocker Art Museum and the railyards north of the downtown. The next three to six months will be much more challenging for the task force as its members attempt to figure out where to find the $200 million needed to construct the center. (This estimate doesn’t include land costs or operation expenses.) Private money could come from the sale of naming rights, corporate sponsorships and foundation grants, plus large private donations and a grass-roots campaign seeking smaller donations. City, state and federal funding also needs to be explored, along with the possibility of a new sales tax (an idea that was floated and then shelved a few years ago) and the possible leveraging of city real estate assets.

Members of the task force agree that building a new center is preferable to spending up to $50 million to upgrade the 2,400-seat Community Center Theater, which at 41 years is well past its prime.

MORE ON FAUX TURF My column last month on artificial turf elicited some interesting responses. A few readers misunderstood my point and thought I was encouraging the “plasticization” of our natural world. That was certainly my not intent. I appreciate natural materials a great deal and tend to prefer them. But man-made materials are everywhere, from our clothing, furniture and carpeting to children’s playthings. The new McKinley Park playground has a significant amount of man-made materials incorporated into its design for durability and safety.

I was heartened when several city officials indicated they are not enforcing the current ban on faux turf and said that the law could be changed soon. After reading the column, a city councilmember commented that once plastic turf becomes commonplace, the demand for plastic plants and trees won’t be far behind. But turf is different. It has shallow roots that need frequent and ample watering. Shrubs and trees differ can grow deep roots that keep them alive in periods of drought. A landscape designer wrote and wondered if faux turf is water permeable. It is. The base material is perforated to allow water to seep through. She said she could see how permeable turf could be incorporated into the palette of materials for drought-tolerant landscape design. Another reader sent me information

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regrets whatsoever. Another reader calculated he could recoup the cost of installing a faux lawn within about two years when he considered his annual lawn service costs. Another reader suggested we need to reconsider our traditional Englishbased landscape design ideas in light of the drought and focus much less on expanses of turf and more on design that uses a variety of drought-tolerant materials, plants and trees. I totally agree. But we have neighborhoods with tens of thousands of traditional thirsty landscapes to convert. It will take time and funds to accomplish. And while the current drought may be long and painful, history shows drought is always followed by much longer periods of abundant rain in California. I was heartened when several city officials indicated they are not enforcing the current ban on faux turf and said that the law could be changed soon. Faux grass may not be a perfect solution. But in landscape design, there are always trade-offs. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n

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C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S , C L A S S O F 2 0 1 5 A SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY TRADITION On May 1, seniors advertise their college destinations by wearing shirts from the schools they will attend in the fall.

The members of the Class of 2015 were accepted to many fine institutions of higher learning, including the following: American University Boston University Colorado College Cornell University George Washington University Grinnell College Harvard University Kenyon College Lafayette College New York University Oberlin College

Occidental College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Santa Clara University Syracuse University University of California University of Pennsylvania University of Rochester University of the Pacific Music Conservatory Vassar College Washington University in St. Louis Wesleyan University

Academics. The Arts. Athletics. Every Day. CITY HALL FROM page 8 department, $1 million will be spent to create a new pipeline of candidates to increase minority hiring in the police department. A like amount will be spent on police sensitivity training. A pilot program to install body cameras on police officers will be launched. In the fire department, two new fire stations will be built at a total cost of $10 million to replace two obsolete stations. A cool $2.1 million will be spent to create a new central city strategic plan, part of the mayor’s very ambitious initiative to build 10,000 new housing units in downtown over the next 10 years. If just the plan will cost taxpayers $2.1 million, one can only shudder at the likely cost to taxpayers of inducing (i.e., subsidizing) the construction of 10,000 new homes. Speaking of which, how pressing a public need is it to add 10,000 new homes downtown? Perhaps authors of the plan would be wise to study how Midtown has flowered as a residential area in the past 30 years without costly public

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subsidies or heavy intrusion by planners.

One strategy being used by the city manager to minimize the financial impact of new spending is to funnel most new spending into one-time expenditures, avoiding the need for layoffs when such funding is not repeated in subsequent years. City parks are getting seven more park maintenance workers, on top

of the 22 park worker positions restored in recent years, bringing the positions restored that had been lost in the recession up from 25 percent to 33 percent—still a much lower restoration level than police and fire (which lost no positions at all in the recession). The best news for parks is that the city manager is proposing $2 million be used to fund basic repairs like replacing unreliable and leaky sprinkler systems, broken sidewalks and playground equipment, broken and missing drinking fountains and park tables, essentially attending to long-neglected maintenance items in city parks. But here’s the catch: The budget proposes that repairs be made only to parks located in certain “priority neighborhoods,” a designation not yet defined, but intended to be poorer neighborhoods. City government will explicitly discriminate against certain neighborhoods and favor others in the delivery of a basic city service, based essentially on political pull at city hall. Expect a firestorm of opposition to this gem of an idea, which would pit neighborhoods against one other in an ongoing fight for the delivery of a basic city service. The homeless housing initiative will receive $1.1 million, the animal shelter will get six new employees, and $650,000 of street lighting will be added downtown near the new arena. One strategy being used by the city manager to minimize the financial impact of new spending is to funnel most new spending into one-time expenditures, avoiding the need for layoffs when such funding is not repeated in subsequent years.

THE MEASURE U SHELL GAME

he city’s handling of proceeds of the Measure U one-halfpercent “temporary” sales tax hike is bringing out the city’s worst budgetary practices. The first level of deception is the sales job proponents of the tax did in convincing the voting public that the tax hike—now bringing in $41 million per year—would “only be used to restore services” and “wouldn’t be used to increase

employee compensation.” To dress up this fiction, the city council created a Measure U citizens oversight committee designed to ensure that the proceeds from Measure U are spent only as promised in the campaign that won passage of the measure. And that committee has dutifully reported that the funds were spent as promised. But the segregation of Measure U tax proceeds into a separate account ignores a fundamental and immutable attribute of money: It is fungible. The city has used its Measure U account to hire new city staff and its general fund to hand out major pay raises to city staff. It doesn’t matter if you put one source of money into one of your front pockets and another source into your other front pocket. When you spend it, it’s all coming out of your pockets. So to say that new hires are being paid out of one account while pay hikes are being paid out of another is a creative accounting fiction. Measure U was a general tax hike that generally increased city revenues. In the past year, the city has approved multiyear pay hikes that will increase city police salaries by 10.5 percent and firefighter salaries by 12 percent, plus the added pension costs such pay hikes will trigger down the road. Those pay hikes wouldn’t have been possible without the new revenues from Measure U, taking pressure off the general fund to restore positions lost in the recession. The second budget fiction of Measure U concerns the council’s attitude about its “temporary” nature. It may have been sold as a temporary tax, and voters may have bought the idea that it was a temporary tax, but cynical councilmembers were already talking about their plans to make the tax hike permanent within two months of its passage in 2012. While the tax technically expires on March 1, 2019, you can take it to the bank that the city council will put an extension of the tax on the ballot before its expiration date. You can see the strategy in the council’s resistance to proposals from the city manager to taper down CITY HALL page 12

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CITY HALL FROM page 10 Measure U spending as the expiration date nears. Under the original rules adopted by the council when Measure U was approved, the city manager was formally charged with the responsibility for coming up with ways to continue funding positions after U expired. The latest revision of those rules, recently adopted, dropped even the pretense of requiring the city manager to identify alternative sources for Measure U-funded positions. The city manager, whose job requires him to be fiscally responsible, is now proposing that the council put a year’s worth of Measure U tax revenues (about $41 million) in reserve to ease the transition. But he’s getting pushback from members of the budget and audit committee who take the position that the city should spend every last dime of revenues from Measure U since their plan is to seek voter approval of an extension of the tax.

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hile the mayor wants to control the city budget, he apparently doesn’t want the public to know the full extent of his ballooning mayoral staff. Here’s the story: In the proposed city budget, the mayor, who currently has seven full-time staffers, is slated to see his staff increase to nine. (City councilmembers, who have 2.5

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employees each, aren’t slated to see any increase in staff, although they can use their $400,000 annual office budget, set to rise to $425,000 next year, to hire more staff.) But it turns out that the city manager’s office budget is slated to see an increase in three staffers who would “liaise” with the mayor’s office (city cost: $457,000, or about $152,000 for each staffer). In fact, the three new hires will be mayoral staffers in all respects except that their pay and benefits will be booked through the city manager’s office budget. So how much has the mayor’s budget grown in recent years? It rose from $550,000 in 2013 to $940,000 this year and $1.164 million next year, plus the $457,000 cost of the three mayoral staffers being parked on the city manager’s office budget, bringing the total mayoral budget for next year to $1.621 million—an almost 300 percent increase in his budget in just three years. The $657,000 cost of the five new hires to the mayor’s staff next year would be enough money to restore 13 park maintenance worker positions, which would bring the percentage of park worker positions lost in the recession that have since been restored up to nearly 50 percent. Craig Powell is a local attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or 718-3030. n

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promises much more square footage—15,000, to be exact—and plenty of parking, as well as other retail spaces that have yet to be determined. Though not much has been decided about the retail space, which is said to have been sold by the nonprofit Community Resource Project, Inc. for $2.6 million, all parties involved are excited about the future, which will see the existing building reimagined rather than demolished. The 1.9-acre property is ideally situated with a direct line to downtown via 10th Street and into West Sacramento with a bridge that’s currently in the works at the end of Broadway.

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elebrate summertime with Land Park’s favorite annual gourmet get-together, A Taste of Land Park, on Sunday, June 7, from 4 to 7 p.m. on 12th Avenue. This rockin’ block party hosted by Land Park Community Association will feature food and drinks from several local restaurants, breweries and wineries; live music by the all-Land-Park rock ’n’ roll band LP Drive (headed by 13th Avenue resident Jack Morris); the infamous Wall of Wine; an Artist’s Corner; and plenty of hobnobbing with your neighbors. Although the alcohol at the festivities means that only adults ages 21 and over are allowed, the little ones can have even more fun at Planet Gymnastics, which will provide childcare for kids ages 5 to 12 during the event. If you’ve attended in years past, make sure you go to the right street: This year’s new venue is on 12th Avenue, with entrance on 17th Street. (As event marketing manager Sydney Young explains, “It was time to give the generous residents on 14th Street a break!”) But all of the fun and festivities that you remember will be just as jumpin’ this time around—the event is now in its 14th year! To purchase tickets, visit landpark. org or stop in at Vic’s Ice Cream (3199

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Celebrate summertime with Land Park’s favorite annual gourmet get-together, A Taste of Land Park, on Sunday, June 7, from 4 to 7 p.m.

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SOMETHING’S COOKING Good news for foodie fans of the Selland Family Restaurants’ renowned eatery The Kitchen: Sacramento’s favorite high-end

restaurant will relocate to Broadway by the end of 2016, according to an article published April 24 in Sacramento Business Journal. The restaurant is currently located on a lot on Hurley Way that has limited parking. The new space at 915 Broadway, being redeveloped in partnership with Unger Construction,

For Curtis Park music lovers, the start of summer means one very important thing: the return of Music in the Park, the free summer concert series held the last Sunday of the month at the north end of Curtis Park. The series kicks off this year on Sunday, June 28. Thanks to the efforts of event host Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association, you can bring the whole family to watch the setting sun from the comfort of a blanket spread out on the grass, tuck into a picnic dinner and listen to guest musical acts. For more information, visit sierra2. org.

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LIFE IN THE CITY FROM page 14 Corps on Saturday, June 6, at 8 a.m. for its monthly park cleanup. Volunteers will help with the usual clearing of weeds, overgrown bushes and tree suckers. But even more important this time of year is the mulching of every tree in the park to keep them from dying due to lack of moisture. Many of the park’s redwoods are in dire condition, so it’s up to the Corps to keep them healthy. If you’ve noticed dozens of new barbecues cropping up, that’s thanks to the Corps’ dedicated Action Team headed by Forrest Neff. Neff and his team members work to improve facilities, repair and paint park tables and benches and make other critical repairs that are no longer performed by the city. So tuck into the free breakfast provided by Espresso Metro and get to work weeding, mulching and raking to keep the park thriving for current residents and future generations alike. For more information, contact lead coordinator Craig Powell at 718-3030 or ckpinsacto@aol.com. Donations are always welcome and can be sent to: Land Park Volunteer Corps, 3053 Freeport Blvd. #231, Sacramento, CA 95818. The Corps meets at Base Camp behind Fairytale Town (3901 Land Park Drive).

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a variety of activities this month to entertain tykes of all ages. Does your little one love storytelling? Then purchase a $1 ticket ($2 for nonmembers) to The Puppet Company’s performance of “Anansi, The Spider” on Saturday June 6, and Sunday, June 7, at 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. The visiting puppet company will use hand and rod puppets with authentic African music, colorful costuming and classical African design to tell the tale of the tiny spider Anansi, who goes on a quest to win the golden box of stories from the sky god Nyami to bring to the children of Earth. The show is perfect for all ages. Looking for something the whole family can enjoy together? Sign up for the Family Campout from 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 19, through 7 a.m. Saturday, June 20. This exciting overnight adventure includes a theater performance, arts and crafts activities, a scavenger hunt, bedtime stories and a sing-along, as well as a light continental breakfast the following morning. Prices range from $25 to $30 per person and include all activities. (Member discounts are available.) Now that the summer heat has returned, cool off and kick back at A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy on Saturday, June 27, from 5 to 9 p.m. Celebrate William Shakespeare’s popular fairy-filled play while enjoying all-you-can-eat Crystal ice cream at multiple ice cream tasting stations, live entertainment by Celtic rock band Tempest, hands-

on activities, no-host food and bar, a marketplace and more. Costumes are encouraged, and the evening will be emceed by Mix 96’s Dan & Michelle. For tickets and more information, call 808-7462 or visit fairytaletown.org. Still looking for a way to keep the kids entertained during these long summer days? Fairytale Town’s FunCamps are in full swing this month, each designed for a specific age group and featuring a unique theme, including visual and theater arts, literature, puppetry, animals, gardening and more. For children ages 4 to 6, check out Farmer Brown’s Junior Farmers June 15 to 19 from 9 a.m. to noon, which introduces campers to the daily regimens that keep Fairytale Town’s friendly flock of farm animals fit and healthy. Or there’s RockSchool June 22 to 26 from 9 a.m. to noon, where campers can channel their inner rock star and have some hands-on experience with several instruments, including guitar, bass, drums and keyboard. For kids ages 7 through 9, check out Adventure Play June 15 to 19 from 1 to 4 p.m., where children learn about the natural world through science-based experiments and discovery play. For more theatrical tykes, try Curtains Up! June 22 to 26 from 1 to 4 p.m., where campers will learn all aspects of theater, from acting and scriptwriting to costume design and prop construction. For more information about all Fairytale Town goings-on, call 808-7462 or visit fairytaletown.org.

Fairytale Town is at 3901 Land Park Drive.

MERCY ME! Congratulations are in order for the six inspirational high school seniors who received scholarships from Mercy General Hospital Guild for their exceptional volunteerism— over 800 hours!—as part of the Junior Volunteers program. All six Junior Volunteers received scholarships of $1,500 each during an awards dinner on April 16 to further their studies in the medical field. Scholarship recipients are Katherine Diamond from St. Francis High School; Ashley Dong from West Campus High School; Louise Jensen and Christopher John from Davis Senior High School; Sophie Parsh from John F. Kennedy High School; and Matthew Sy from Franklin High School. Congratulations to these dedicated young men and women—here’s hoping we’ll see you one day in the doctor’s office on the other side of the stethoscope!

WILD SUMMER NIGHTS Get ready to party hearty at the Sacramento Zoo this month—between bingo, live music and a gourmet luau, it’s bound to get wild! Practice your “Bingo!” shout prior to the zoo’s Bingo Night on Thursday, June 4, from 5 to 8:30 pm at Florin Road Bingo. Your ticket to this fun fundraiser includes dinner, nonalcoholic drinks and eight rounds of bingo with the chance to win cash prizes. You can also enjoy

This month will focus on building things that move—Hot Wheels tracks included! See Spot. See Spot read. You read that right: on Tuesday, June 23, at 4 p.m., the library’s Read-To-A-Dog event will get the fur flying. Reading to a trained therapy dog (accompanied by an adult volunteer) is a proven method for boosting a child’s reading skills, not to mention a great way to spend an afternoon. Children may bring their own books to read or they may borrow from the library’s collection. For more information on events at the library, call 264-2920 or visit saclibrary.org. Belle Cooledge Library is at 5600 South Land Park Drive.

CONTEST FOR DROUGHT-TOLERANT LANDSCAPE The King of Feasts will take place on Saturday, June 20

the no-host bar, enter the raffle for fabulous prizes and meet some of the zoo’s Animal Ambassadors. Seating is limited, so if you’re 18 years or older and ready to clean up the bingo board, call 808-8376 to reserve your tickets now. Florin Road Bingo is at 2350 Florin Road. Now that summer has officially sprung, so has the zoo’s popular Twilight Thursdays series, starting June 18. Every Thursday through July 30, the zoo will be open late (until 8 p.m.) for visitors to enjoy an evening stroll around the enclosures as well as lots of local bands performing live on the Reptile House Lawn stage. New this year, the Jazz with Giraffes Beer and Wine Garden will feature live jazz, local craft beers and wine near the giraffe exhibit. Themed dinner specials will be available for purchase in the Kampala Cafe, so make sure you bring your appetite along to this awesome evening of entertainment. Visit the zoo’s Twilight Thursdays web page to find out more about each Thursday’s theme. You may have visited the king of the jungle plenty of times at the zoo’s African Lion exhibit (which welcomed three new cubs in October), but for the King of Feasts, there’s only

one night to get down at the zoo’s immensely popular Food & Wine Luau: Saturday, June 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. This year’s gourmet food and wine tasting event will feature live entertainment, Polynesian dancers, a silent auction, food from dozens of the finest Sacramento-area restaurants and bakeries, and premium California wines, craft beers and spirits. Earlybird tickets purchased before June 18 are only $50 each ($45 for zoo members), so don’t wait to get your paws on them. For more information on all events and to purchase King of Feasts tickets, call 808-5888 or visit saczoo. org. The Sacramento Zoo is at 3930 West Land Park Drive.

TRES BELLE Belle Cooledge Library is full of exciting activities this month—from quilting to computers, block-building to books—so make sure you stop by and get in on the fun. On Friday, June 5, and Saturday, June 20, at 10 a.m., bring your latest needlework project and join the River City Bee, an open sewing time for quilters, sewers and embroiderers to work on their current pieces in a unique social environment. The

library will provide irons, ironing boards and extension cords; you bring your supplies and a smile. The River City Bee is organized in collaboration with River City Quilters Guild. Confused by computers? On Wednesday, June 10, at 10 a.m., get some one-on-one technology instruction at Meet the Computer, an information session for anyone who’s never used a computer before. This class will teach you all you need to know to use the machine, the mouse and the keyboard in this fun and relaxed course. To register, call the library’s main number at 2642920 or stop by in person to sign up. (Registration is required.) Need something to do with the kids or grandkids? Introduce them to Magical Mary—a comedian and magician in one—on Friday, June 19, at 3 p.m. As part of the library’s Summer Reading Challenge, Magical Mary will do tricks and tickle your funny bone with her wild stage antics. Calling Lego lovers of all ages! On Saturday, June 20, at 1 p.m., the library will host the Briktastic Lego Party, a monthly block party designed to let kids unlock their inner engineers and make a creative mess with an amazing selection of Legos, Duplos and Megablocks.

Kit Carson International Baccalaureate Candidate School’s Design and Technology Class is holding a design contest to find the best drought-tolerant front yards in Sacramento. The contest, called Beauty Without Water, will honor pioneering Sacramento residents who have responded to the drought with landscaping creativity and ingenuity. “By replacing grass yards with landscapes that showcase drought-resistant plants, scenic bark/ rocks, and other inspired features, these residents have found a way to beat the drought without sacrificing beauty,” said Jed Larsen, who teaches the class. To enter the competition, send up to four photos of your front yard, plus a short written description, to JedLarsen@scusd.edu. The deadline for submission is Sept. 1. The winners will be featured in an upcoming issue of Inside Publications. The contest is open to Sacramento residents in Inside Publication’s readership areas, which include East Sacramento, Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, the Pocket, Greenhaven, Arden and Carmichael. Kit Carson is in East Sacramento. For more information, go to kitcarson.scusd.edu. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n

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Sydney Young SHE HAS A TASTE FOR GIVING BACK

BY JESSICA LASKEY

VOLUNTEER PROFILE

lthough Sydney Young readily admits that she didn’t think she’d end up back in Sacramento, the Land Park resident—and Sacramento native—probably didn’t have much choice in the matter.

Young clearly learned her lesson well. She and her husband Tom—a vice president with Blue Shield—have lived in Land Park for the better part of 16 years with their 9-yeard daughter Logan and have old

up and down the streets. There’s still a sense of safety. We appreciate the makeup of the community, its proximity to downtown, the history of the neighborhood. We know one

“We know one another, look out for one another. We’re there for each other. The LPCA works to make sure the neighborhood maintains that sense of community, connection and friendliness.”

“Land Park is still one of those neighborhoods where kids can go out and ride their bikes up and down the streets. ” “My folks, Mary and Bob Young, were real leaders in the community,” says Young, whose dad designed the Guy A. West Memorial Bridge, the footbridge that connects Sacramento State and the American River Parkway. “You learn based on what you’re surrounded by. I was fortunate to be born to two amazing people who were very involved civically. They taught me that wherever you choose to live and work, a big part of being in that community is that you step up and give back, whether it’s providing funding or your time and talent to things you’re passionate about.”

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and visitors alike, the event was a perfect fit for Young, who does brand development and market strategy for professional service firms and startups.

Sydney Young

involved themselves in several community organizations over the years, including Sacramento Children’s Home and Land Park Community Association, for which Young has served on the board for the past year. “I feel very lucky that we made a conscious decision to put roots down here,” Young says. “Land Park is still one of those neighborhoods where kids can go out and ride their bikes

another, look out for one another. We’re there for each other. The LPCA works to make sure the neighborhood maintains that sense of community, connection and friendliness.” One way it achieves that is by hosting the annual A Taste of Land Park event, which returns on Sunday, June 7, in a new location on 12th Avenue. Essentially a block party with food, drinks, live music and a chance to hobnob with neighbors

“In my work on behalf of corporate clients, I do many thousand-person events,” Young explains, “so marketing A Taste of Land Park was a natural role for me to take on. It’s an underlying talent I can provide.” Just like her mom and dad taught her to. Tickets are sold at Vic’s Ice Cream (3199 Riverside Blvd.) and Espresso Metro (2104 11th Ave.). For more information, go to landpark.org n

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Reviving Downtown THE 700 BLOCK PROJECT COULD LEAD THE WAY

BY JORDAN VENEMA BUILDING OUR FUTURE

e’re halfway through 2015, and Sacramentans already are riding a first wave of infill development that could reinvent and reinvigorate the downtown grid. Structures like Warehouse Artist Lofts (WAL) and 16 Powerhouse represent the latest trend in mixed-use development, with buildings that integrate residential and retail spaces. Bay Miry of D&S Development believes these projects are just a part of the larger “development renaissance” occurring throughout downtown Sacramento. If true, WAL and Powerhouse are just the beginning, and the downtown sports arena is definitely not the end. And if Sacramento is witnessing its own renaissance, then, like the more famous Italian counterpart, this localized movement could have cultural, social and economic impact both within and beyond the city’s limits. CFY Development and D&S Development, the local developers behind WAL and Powerhouse respectively, are working together on the 700 Block project, a 70,000-square-foot development on the 700 block of K Street. Construction began earlier this year; developers expect it to be completed at the same time as the Kings’ new arena, just a block to the west. Consisting of 137 apartments and 15 retail spaces, 700 Block is “an eclectic, mixed-use, mixed-income infill development,” according to Miry, “and encompasses so much of what we want and need in our city.” The 700 Block project will host local

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businesses from the owners of Shady Lady Saloon, Kru, Insight Coffee Roasters and The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar. As such, 700 Block is local space built for local business by local developers. Both CFY and D&S are family-operated businesses with roots in Sacramento. CFY vice president Ali Youssefi was born and raised in Sacramento, and he both works and lives downtown. “I love this city,” says Youssefi. “I’m trying to do all that I can to help this city grow in a positive direction.” Like Youssefi, Miry grew up in Sacramento, and he echoes those sentiments. Both men see development as an opportunity to invest in their home. Says Miry, “I’d like to see even more sustainable mixed-use development in the years to come—projects that focus

Renderings of the 700 Block project

on the implementation of ‘green’ technologies as well as quality.” For now, these Sacramento developers are focusing on the six-story structure rising above the 700 block of K Street. The apartments, which range from studios

to penthouses, will offer views of downtown and the Capitol, says Miry. While in larger cities, on-site laundry facilities could be called a luxury, the 700 Block will offer diverse amenities. The project will include “a must-see community room”

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Where Sacramento Gets Engaged! Furthermore, 700 Block will maintain these affordable units for the next 55 years. So even if Sacramento’s renaissance translates to higher market rates in the future, there will be, for a time anyway, livable space downtown for the workforce of Sacramento—and not just its wealthiest. Since mixed-use, mixed-income development has the potential to provide more inclusive space, 700 Block could also potentially promote the diversity for which this city is known. Mixed-use and mixed-income spaces certainly offer a more realistic cross-section of a city—more, anyway, than self-insulating suburbs or downtown “urban blight.” And because Miry and Youssefi themselves are representative of Sacramento’s cross-section, perhaps 700 Block will truly reflect the needs of this city by incorporating the needs of all its citizens. That’s the hope anyway, and in time, Sacramento will judge. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com n

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Entrepreneur for a New Era WHEN THE CALL CAME FOR DREAMERS, SHE ANSWERED

BY SCOT CROCKER INSIDE DOWNTOWN

na Manzano had a dream, or maybe that dream was thrust upon her by fate and circumstance. She’s an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. In 2014, she won a contest called Calling All Dreamers, sponsored by Downtown Sacramento Partnership. This gave her seed money and support to open Ana Apple, a children’s apparel company, in Old Sacramento. Open since April, Ana Apple is a store selling apparel for infants and youth, along with an expansive space called The Greenhouse, which hosts classes and activities to inspire creativity in children and young adults. Entrepreneurial dreams in Old Sacramento are not new. Within a block of Manzano’s store are the banks of the Sacramento River, which became ground zero for the greatest entrepreneurial movement in the known universe: the Gold Rush. You can say it was about getting rich, but it was more that. The Gold Rush was about pursuing dreams. It attracted people from all over the world, all walks of life, all nationalities, all colors, creeds and religions. They worked alone. They worked together. The 49ers made their way into the gold fields in pursuit of wealth, not

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Ana Manzano opened Ana Apple along with an expansive space called The Greenhouse, which hosts classes and activities to inspire creativity in children and young adults, in Old Sacramento

unlike today’s entrepreneurs. Some got rich. Some made a living. And some changed course but remained entrepreneurs in other lines of work, becoming ranchers, farmers, shopkeepers, bankers, lawyers, restaurant owners, mill operators and store owners. Like Sacramento, Ana Apple was founded on a dream.

Manzano grew up in Maui, went to college in Washington, D.C., and found her way to San Francisco to work as a professional staff photographer in her 20s. It was a tough business and lacked job security, so she became a freelancer. Business was OK but not enough. “I had to do something different,” Manzano says. “So I expanded my

market area south to San Jose and north to Sacramento.” Sacramento turned out to be a good market for a freelance photographer. She worked for various local magazines and publications but was always looking for other creative opportunities, so she thought about making fun and creative clothes for her family. “I was an auntie, and aunties sew clothes, right? So I set up a table in the living room and got to work making some unique items for my two nieces,” Manzano explains. “It was fun. Word got around, and I started making more and more and figuring out if I could make this a business.” Manzano went from a living room card table to a separate bedroom. Then it was time to get more serious. She got a job as a bartender to pay the bills, moved into the basement of an old art studio and started expanding her line. She was selling through the Internet and other retailers and setting up tables at street fairs here and in the Bay Area. Two years ago, after careful planning to ensure she had enough savings and support, she went full time into Ana Apple. “I thought I had it all down and then, bam, a $2,000 car repair bill that I wasn’t counting on,” says Manzano. “There went my credit cards.” As an entrepreneur, she took a leap of faith and kept on going. She operates best under pressure and loves the competition. But her competition is internal, not with other stores. “I’m not competing against others,” she says. “I’m competing against myself. I challenge myself. I’m driven. I know I can do it, and I’m looking at what else is possible.”

In 2013, a friend suggested she enter the new Calling All Dreamers contest. She started filling out the application, which required a detailed business model, financial plan and more. She then stopped. She wasn’t ready. “We had 10 finalists that first year,” says Valerie MamoneWerder, senior manager of business development at Downtown Partnership. “They were very good business models, so we awarded two of them. And it’s amazing that eight out of the 10 finalists opened businesses anyway, even without winning the competition.” When the second year rolled around, Manzano was ready. Competition was fierce. After submitting a detailed application, hopefuls go before a group of business experts who scrutinize their plan before a second round of critiques from the final selection group. Winners, such as Manzano in 2014, receive a business support package valued at more than $100,000 from Downtown Partnership and sponsors. Prizes include a $10,000 cash prize from the Downtown Foundation, free legal, accounting and marketing services, printing services, advertising from Inside Publications and more. Winners also get up to a year’s free rent in a downtown property owned by AKT Development. Manzano wanted to be in an Old Sacramento space not owned by AKT, so the developer gave her $10,000 for rent instead. “The process really allowed me to focus on the business model and how I would take an Internet business into a brick-and-mortar location,” Manzano explains. “Even if I didn’t win, the process of building and presenting the business plan would have been worth it.” Upon learning she won, Manzano was shocked. “I couldn’t believe it,” she says. “From that moment last year when I heard I won until opening our location a month ago, I’ve had so much support from the community, family and friends. It’s been very exciting.” Manzano’s store on K Street between Front and Second streets is your typical Old Sac storefront: woodplank walkway in front, hardwood

floors, high ceilings and long windows. Inside, she wanted a general store feel complete with produce carts and apple crates to showcase her apparel and select items from other California makers. From the main store area, you enter a whole new room called The Greenhouse, a unique feature that differentiates Manzano’s apparel shop from others. The Greenhouse is a space and studio for kids where they “cultivate creative curiosity.” Manzano named the studio The Greenhouse because it fits the brand imagery of nature and a place where creativity grows. The studio offers classes along with special events such as movie and craft nights for kids and handmade happy hour for adults. The space can be rented for birthday parties and baby showers. Manzano is giving 10 percent of tuition from classes to local childrenrelated nonprofit groups. Giving back, collaborating and expanding creativity are all part of her grand plan. For most entrepreneurs, dreams never end. Manzano still has one big one on her list. “If I could have anything, I want to be on ‘The Ellen Show,’” she laughs. “I know there are Oprah people out there, but I can relate to Ellen and what she’s all about. I want to be on ‘Ellen.’” In the meantime, you can find her in Old Sac making clothes, selling apparel and inspiring creativity in children and adults. She will become a role model for upcoming young entrepreneurs following their dreams … maybe even help the next round of finalists and the ultimate winner in the next Calling All Dreamers competition. As leaders try to define Sacramento, isn’t our brand right before our eyes? Sacramento is a lot of things, but on top of it all, one thing is for sure: Dreamers Come Here. Ana Manzano did. Thousands of others have, and they followed in the footsteps of those dreamers from around the world in 1849 who joined greatest entrepreneurial movement ever and helped put Sacramento on the map. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com n

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Media Man HE’S INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY, ON THE AIR AND OFF

BY JESSICA LASKEY

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information for all ages. It’s often the first time these families have stepped

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fit for his jobs at Univision, the

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Northern California chapter, the past six as board president. “Univision advocates for us to be

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years, Carla, hails from Mexico. “We

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Francisco. He worked as an account

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manager a mere seven months later.

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health, prosperity and participation.

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For the Birds THIS GROUP TAKES IN LOST FLEDGLINGS AND VULNERABLE WILDLIFE

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ometimes, volunteering is for the birds—literally. As spring segues into summer, dozens of volunteers are wielding eyedroppers, tweezers and loving hearts to feed hundreds of baby, teen and young adult birds at the Wildlife Care Association’s facility at McClellan Business Park. They also wash towels, prepare kibble and watch their charges move from utter dependency to release into the wild. It’s a sight: Shelves are lined with bins housing sparrows, starlings, finches, magpies and other birds whose existence is entirely dependent on the volunteers’ efforts. From newborns brought in while still in their shells to adolescents sporting feathers and starting to flex their wings, the place is filled to the rafters with birds. Some are adults being treated for injury or illness, but most are youngsters being readied to fly the coop. The overseer of this cacophony of tweets, chirps and cackles is Brianna Abeyta, who started volunteering with WCA six years ago and is now its operations manager. Abeyta first became aware of the association when

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Brianna Abeyta, who is in charge of operations at the Wildlife Care Association at McClellan, feeds a couple of young European starlings.

she was 11 years old and Newton, a baby sparrow, fell out of her family’s palm tree and “discovered gravity.” The bird formed an attachment with her family (a biological phenomenon known as imprinting), and the family of birds imprinted itself on her heart. Today, she’s responsible for just about everything: volunteer training,

care management, facilities upkeep. It’s a never-ending task. Hatchlings are fed every half hour. As they grow, the feeding intervals lengthen to 45 minutes, then an hour, then two hours. Before release, the birds spend from two weeks to a month in the aviary, where they learn to spread their wings and fly.

“We take extra precautions to keep them from imprinting on us, so we don’t talk to them,” Abeyta says. “We don’t want them to become tame.” In addition to birds, WCA takes in small mammals for assessment and treatment. They are sent to private homes for care and rehabilitation by specially trained and licensed caregivers. That the 40-year-old association is still here is nothing short of a miracle. Supported entirely by donations, the nonprofit almost closed its doors in 2014 when it found itself with insufficient funds. Formerly run out of a repurposed house off of Auburn Boulevard, the organization had moved in 2008 to McClellan. The larger space allowed it to substantially increase the number of animals it took in, and it went from spring/ summer to year-round operations. But then, says WCA president Theresa Bielawski, “the economy crashed in 2008 when we moved. People lost their jobs; donations went down. We had a bigger property that we were running year-round, with more animals, but a lot of our older volunteers had passed away. A UC Davis program that sent us interns went away. Everything got worse.” With expanded obligations and a shortage of money and volunteers, things came to a head last year. “It was the peak of the season, and we had $6,000—not enough to pay for our utilities,” recalls Abeyta. “We were asking ourselves what to do with 1,000 animals.” The story was picked up by local media, and the crisis was just barely averted. “The community responded so wonderfully to the news stories,” she says. “They saved us.”

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This year, the concerns are threefold. There is a pressing need for volunteers to keep the birds fed, a task that takes place 10 to 14 hours every day. The minimum commitment for volunteers is five hours a week—a single shift. But often there aren’t enough volunteers, so Abeyta and her staff fill the gaps. Another concern is the lower number of birds this year, a side effect of the drought. “We had 100 more in our care last year,” says Abeyta, “and they were coming in severely dehydrated. Either there are fewer babies this year or they’re dying in the nest. On really hot days, we’re flooded with animals, so we expect a huge spike in the numbers.” Finally, Bielawski is committed to turning WCA’s finances around. “I’ve been doing most of the fundraising, but we’re working on a bigger plan,” she says. “We need to bring in corporate sponsorships and approach cities and counties to contribute.” As the only year-round care center in

the area, WCA cares for wildlife from Sacramento, Yolo and Placer counties, handling more than 2,000 birds and mammals every year. “We’ve been running in the red,” says Bielawski, “but just 3 percent of donations goes to administration. Almost every dollar goes to our operations.” Paper towel drives by local schools have helped immensely, as have donations of cat and dog kibble and food items. “Hard-boiled eggs, watermelon and worms are favorites of the birds,” says Abeyta. “It’s never tiring,” she says. “It’s more than fulfilling, beyond enjoyable, to see them return to the wild. Even when I work a 12-hour day, there’s never a dull moment.” For more information about the Wildlife Care Association, go to wildlifecareassociation.com Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com n

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Light and Bright A STYLISH REDECORATION FOR A POCKET HOME BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT

hen inspiration knocks, open the door and welcome it in. That’s the attitude adopted by Mark Mason and his partner of eight years, Michael Davis. Their Pocket home’s dramatic transformation began when they installed a hand-forged fire screen in the living room in 2013. Davis set the evolution in motion with a single comment.

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“Eclectic is always good. Your home should be personalized by you and not look like a model.”

“He said, ‘Oh my God, it looks kind of medieval,’” Mason says. “Then we had to change everything.” The process took a year to complete. About 90 percent of their furnishings went to several consignment shops; the rest was repurposed. Then they set out to find remarkable new pieces, including a hand-forged candlestick chandelier, a dining table with two benches and two high-back chairs trimmed with

studs, a diamond-pattern tuck-androll sofa and chair, shields, swords, an iron-gate bed and an old-world wine cabinet. Mason, who bought the 1985 duplex in 2002, had already completed substantial renovations before he and Davis began redecorating. His first project was laying brick in the backyard, which at the time contained only one lonely rosebush. He contemplated three different patterns before settling upon herringbone. It took him about a year to dig up the yard, then lay down sand and finally brick. Today, the backyard contains a gurgling fountain, a birch tree, numerous flowering plants and a cozy seating area, all surrounded by a lighted fence. “At night, the whole perimeter of the yard is lit up,” says Mason. Next, he installed a new roof. He painted the interior using two complementary paint colors in each room, with the lighter color on top and the darker shade below. This creates the illusion of higher ceilings and adds character to each room.

Mason, a former pastry chef and now co-owner of Michael Mason Salon in Midtown, noted that the kitchen originally had a dated country look. There were Formica counters, dark brown cabinets and three layers of linoleum that had to be removed. “It just felt old and dark,” he says. “I wanted to lighten and brighten up the space.” Because the house doesn’t have a plethora of windows, Mason chose a color palette of soft yellows, birch and khaki for the kitchen. A series of can lights illuminates the entire space. Mason installed birch laminate flooring and birch cabinets topped with counters made of green granite with cranberry veining for a clean, stylish look. Both bathrooms received facelifts. Mason replaced everything except the original flooring, which was in good shape and neutral enough to harmonize with the new paint, plumbing fixtures and granite-topped cabinets. HOME page 30

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HOME FROM page 29 The guest bedroom was repainted and now serves overnighters, mainly Mason’s children and four grandchildren, with a comfy bed, cozy chair and small, stylish workspace. A charming collection of family photos dot one wall. “I generally don’t like pictures on the walls, but I had to dedicate a wall to my family,” he says. Both men, self-professed homebodies, appreciate their neighborhood for its access to downtown, proximity to the river and great walking and bike paths. Their lush front yard contains a second fountain that provides a buffer from traffic noise. Davis, who works at the Franchise Tax Board and enjoys gardening, landscaped the front yard with plantings of wall flowers, red hot poker plants, fragrant star jasmine, day lilies and agapanthus. The drought, he says, has cut into the couple’s plant purchases this year.

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All Together Now FOR ROWERS, BEING IN A BOAT IS THE ULTIMATE TEAM SPORT

BY R.E. GRASWICH SPORTS AUTHORITY

o win a rowing race when the boats are slender and sleek varsity eights and the wind has tormented the water into miniature whitecaps and the adrenaline is pumping, the first and most important thing to remember is that the word “go” is three syllables. Not “go,” but “g-uh-oo,” as if the sounds are squeezed out in slow motion. When the starter says, “All crews ready. Attention. Go,” the boat should be moving on the “g,” leaping forward under short, explosive pulls from the eight rowers, who will soon enough stretch their arms and legs and elongate the boat’s human engine room to create more power, more efficiency, before hurtling into the sprint to the finish. And that’s about all there is to winning a rowing race—that, plus another thousand physical and mechanical manifestations that must be processed, aligned and perfected amid the anxiety, sweat and sunscreen of eight unique rowers and a coxswain’s rhythmic urgings. I learn these tricks while spending a few hours at the Port of West Sacramento, cruising on the water

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Tricia Blocher coaches the junior women and serves as the club’s one employee

near two big merchant ships with a few dozen high school girls who make up their gender’s youthful component of River City Rowing Club. Technically, the young women are called “juniors,” but there is nothing junior or immature about their approach to rowing, which is the only sport on earth that has the

breathtaking capacity to strain and strengthen every relevant muscle in the human body while the human stays seated. “They work hard,” says Tricia Blocher, who coaches the junior women and serves as the club’s one employee. “Practice is six days a

week, two hours a day. In winter, we row in the dark.” Blocher brings an impressive pedigree to her work. She rowed for Ohio State University, one of the nation’s best teams. When she arrived at River City Rowing Club seven years ago, she professionalized and elevated training regimens and expectations for her competitive rowers. She understands the grace and impossibility of competitive rowing, from classic varsity eights to the single scull. “There comes a point where you get as good as you can be, and it’s never perfect,” she says. “There will always be something to improve. But we’re going to do our best.” River City Rowing Club occupies a curious place in the Sacramento sports landscape. It provides an inspiring backdrop for fitness— imagine an oar catching glass-smooth water as the day’s first light reveals a Sacramento morning—and appeals to people whose ages span 8 to 70-something. The club has boats and opportunities for rowers of all levels. And while rowing is not exactly a high school sport, the club’s most competitive teens can parlay their River City Rowing success into scholarships at elite universities. Rowers come from across Sacramento, from Arden Arcade to Davis. I meet Mikhayla Armstrong and Mychiah Teach on the dock moments before they step into their varsity eight boat. They tell me they are seniors at Davis High School, soon headed east to study and row, Armstrong to Williams College, beneath the Berkshire Mountains in Williamstown, Mass., Teach to Boston SPORTS page 34

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Teach a kid to row and she glides for a lifetime. “I had a knee injury and couldn’t play basketball but needed a sport to play,” Armstrong says. “Even though I started late in the season, I felt welcomed from the first day.” Says Teach, “The team aspect really appealed to me. I didn’t know anything about rowing—I didn’t even know crew was a sport on the water. But it was a natural fit from the beginning. And the opportunity to row competitively at Boston University would not have happened without the club.” Despite its strawberries-andcream image and legacy ties to elite schools, rowing is not an elitist sport. It requires working-class values,

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teamwork and unity. The close quarters of a boat allow for zero squabbles. The club seems to have a positive impact on family members whose feet stay planted on land. “Whenever a parent complains about having to drive their kids to practice, I say, ‘OK, so you’re complaining about a sport that’s safe and fun and teaches teamwork and discipline and gives your kid an incredible workout,’” says Vanessa Jacobs, a mom who drives her kid to rowing. “What else do you have to complain about?” Boats are expensive (a new varsity eight boat can cost $45,000), but RCRC memberships are cheaper than competitive soccer, less than $2,000 per season, including all training, coaching and travel. And there’s the priceless value of knowing how to stay upright in a rudderless boat propelled by your own steam. Teach a kid to row and she glides for a lifetime.

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Fully in Stride FLEET FEET’S OWNERS ‘STILL LOVE IT’ AFTER YEARS OF SUCCESS AND GROWTH

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hen Jan Sweeney says that she and her husband, Pat, are determined to “bring our town to its feet,” she’s being literal. She and Pat are the owners of Fleet Feet Sports and Fleet Feet Boutique on J Street, the sideby-side specialty running and fitness stores that are the go-to Sacramento spots for breaking a sweat in style. “We are a starting point for those looking to be healthy and wanting to live active lives,” Sweeney says. “As our manifesto states, ‘We are not a shoe store. We are a starting point to bring our town to its feet. We move people for life. And health. And strength.’” Fleet Feet Sports was founded in Sacramento in 1976 and has since become a national franchise company, boasting more than 160 stores that are each locally owned and operated. The Sweeneys bought the original Sacramento store about 20 years ago and added the boutique next door 11 years in. “It all started back in 1993 when Pat called me at work to say, ‘I know what we’re going to do with the rest of our lives,’ ” Sweeney recalls. “Honestly, I wondered if he’d been drinking but he had, in fact, just visited Fleet Feet Adams Morgan in Washington, D.C. About a year later, we sold our house, put our yellow lab in our SUV and drove across the country to start working at Fleet Feet Sacramento and have never looked back.”

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Jan and Pat Sweeney are the owners of Fleet Feet Sports and Fleet Feet Boutique on J Street, the specialty running and fitness stores

That gung-ho, pick-up-and-go attitude is one the couple has shared since they met many years ago while working for People Express

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“From the beginning, Pat and I have run our business together,” Sweeney says. “He oversees the front of the house and I oversee the back. We talk about work constantly because we still love it, even after 20 years.” They love it so much, in fact, that owning one store wasn’t enough, so they decided to add the Fleet Feet Boutique to their roster. “Our boutique was created to offer women urban-casual, comfortable fashions for work, every day or travel,” Sweeney says. “We show women they can be comfortable but still fashionable. Many of our sports store customers mentioned that the only place to get some of their favorite casual brands was at REI. Pat and I agreed that we could create a store that could support this demand, but our sports store didn’t have enough floor space. So in 2008, we rented the

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space right next door to Fleet Feet Sports and launched it that spring.” The addition proved popular, and the Sweeneys now oversee a staff of 40 employees, three of whom have gone on to own their own Fleet Feet Sports locations; a training groups division that trained more than 2,500 people to walk or run distances from 5K to marathons and triathlons last year; fitness events in which nearly 20,000 people participated last year; and their newest endeavor that launched in February, the Ton of Fun weight-loss challenge. “It’s a 12-week community program to help people who are trying to lose weight,” Sweeney explains. “So far, in the first 10 weeks, they have collectively lost over 700 pounds!” This kind of resounding success is thanks in large part to the Sweeneys’ dedicated management staff, including their general manager, Dusty Robinson, who’s been with the company for 12 years. “Pat and I hope to sell our business to Dusty in a couple years,” Sweeney says. “He loves this business as much as we do and has helped us grow into the business we are today.” But most of all, it’s the customer connection that has kept Fleet Feet going strong for more than a decade. “We got a letter just a few days ago from a customer who worked for the Kings organization who was forced to retire due to a stroke,” Sweeney says. “He not only overcame the issues from his stroke, he began running again after consulting Pat and Dusty on proper form and footwear and he just wrote us saying that he qualified for the Boston Marathon in December. He’s in the 65-69 agegroup, by the way. Letters like that are what drive us and our employees.” Sounds like the Sweeneys are staying true to their motto of getting Sacramento moving—one pair of fleet feet at a time. In need of some new shoes or fashionably functional fitness gear? Visit Fleet Feet Sports (2311 J St.) and Fleet Feet Boutique (2315 J St.). For more information, call 442-3338 or go to fleetfeetsacramento.com n

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A Lot of Garbage SEPARATING TRASH SAVES LANDFILL SPACE

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here does your garbage go? Into the bin, out to the curb and presto, once a week, it vanishes! For most of us, household solid waste is out of sight, out of mind. But Doug Kobold, program manager for the county’s department of waste management and recycling, knows the disappearing trick we take for granted relies on good science and engineering—as well as careful financial planning. Kobold’s department collects hundreds of thousands of tons per year of virtually every kind of solid waste that area households produce, from used cat litter to grass clippings to batteries. Based on what’s safe for the environment and what’s economically feasible, different types of waste are handled differently. Customers of the county’s curbside trash pickup program know that the waste “stream” is first separated by people like you and me into containers for green waste (leaves, grass clippings), mixed recycling (which

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includes clean plastics, paper, glass and metals) and household garbage. Batteries, medications, paint, motor oil, fluorescent light bulbs (including CFLs, which contain mercury vapor), e-waste and solvents must not be placed in any of the curbside pickup containers. These and other hazardous wastes can be dropped off (for free) at the North Area Recovery Station near I-80 and Watt. Kobold says, “We rely on individuals to keep toxic materials out of the waste stream. We’re trying to spread the word about putting materials in the right place.”

By separating our trash, we help the county divert a remarkable 73 percent of solid waste from going straight to the landfill. Using the recycling bins also helps to keep our bills down. According to Kobold, as the market for recycled materials has matured over the past 15 years or so, county recycling programs that used to cost them money are now earning income. Contractors buy 36,000 tons of mixed recycling waste from the county every year, at a price of $15 to $45 per ton.

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Finer materials might be put to use as cover at the county’s landfill, or shipped to a processor in Durham (near Chico) for composting. What happens to the rest of our household garbage? We dig a hole and bury it. Despite advances in recycling technology and the market for recycled products, much of the stuff we throw away goes to the landfill. While it sounds simple to dig a hole, fill it with trash and cover it

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No Pain, No Disdain UNIVERSAL MEDICAL IMAGING TRIES HARD TO PUT PATIENT COMFORT IN THE PICTURE

BY JESSICA LASKEY SHOPTALK

f you’re someone who doesn’t like small spaces—I myself get sweaty just thinking about taking the elevator—then the idea of having an MRI (a “magnetic resonance imaging” scan that uses magnets, radio waves and computer technology to produce images of the internal structures of your body) might be too much to bear. But for the nice and knowledgeable folks at University Medical Imaging on University Avenue, have made it their business to make sure patients, no matter how skittish, can successfully complete an exam. “People generally don’t look forward to medical procedures,” admits Tiffany Redden, who oversees business development at UMI. “MRI and X-ray exams aren’t painful, but some patients can still be apprehensive about their exams. Throughout the process, we treat our patients with respect and patience, taking the time to make sure they’re comfortable. We even bake cookies for them!” Snacks aside, what sets UMI apart as a stellar imaging facility is its dedicated and experienced staff. Robert Smith has been an MRI technologist at UMI since 2008, but his scanning schooling started all the way back in 1990, when he earned his associate degree in radiological technology at Merced Community College. The Minneapolis native had just ended his service as an enlisted member of the Air Force two years prior and was looking for a new career when medicine came calling. “I knew people who were X-ray techs and they all had positive things

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Robert Smith of University Medical Imaging prepares to scan a patient

to say about the career field,” Smith says. “After completing my schooling, I was immediately offered a position at Sutter Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, where I worked, including my one-year internship, for just under 17 years.” Smith’s expertise has taken him from that first job as an X-ray tech at the fast-paced trauma center in Modesto to the field of computerized tomography, also known as CT. He worked for more than 10 years with CT imaging before moving to MRI technology in 2006, when he

moved to Sacramento to be closer to his then-girlfriend, now wife. With certifications from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists in both MRI and CT under his belt, he was an ideal candidate for joining the staff at UMI, which he did seven years ago this August. “It’s a very nice place to work,” Smith says. “We have very good people working here that know their jobs very well, and that creates an atmosphere that’s great for the patients and employees.”

In addition to the collegial work environment, what drew Smith to UMI was top-of-the-line imaging machinery: the 3.0 Tesla highdefinition MRI scanner (“3T” to those in the know), one of only a few in operation in the Sacramento area due to its high cost of purchase and maintenance. “Our scanner is the strongest magnet strength for clinical use,” Redden explains. “The extra strength and speed translates into clearer images and provides more detailed information for physicians to determine appropriate treatment. Other machines of this caliber are located in hospital systems intended for research or specialty department use.” UMI relies on this incredible piece of technology to provide pictures of everything from internal organs to muscles, connective tissue and the central nervous system that are twice as clear and detailed as X-rays or CT scans, giving radiologists and physicians a non-invasive way of quickly and accurately diagnosing a patient’s situation. That speed and accuracy translates into less time you have to spend lying prone inside a metal tube, which is good news for any avoiders of small spaces. “The faster scan times are really helpful for those patients that are in pain, claustrophobic or have a difficult time remaining still for a period of time,” Smith confirms. “It’s just better and faster with a 3T.” Even for elevator haters like me. Need help seeing the big picture? Contact University Medical Imaging at 922-6747 or umimri.com University Medical Imaging is at 500 University Ave., Suite 117. n

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A Man and His Bag KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY PURSE

BY KEVIN MIMS WRITING LIFE

like to carry a lot of stuff wherever I go: a book or two, a notepad, a pen, a wallet, a collection of crossword puzzles, a Swiss Army knife, an iPod, toothpicks, comb, you name it. For years, I generally kept all this stuff crammed into the pockets of my cargo pants. If I was working at some job that required me to look businesslike, I kept these things in a briefcase. But there were times when I didn’t feel like wearing a pair of pants made almost entirely of pockets, nor did I feel like carrying around a bulky briefcase. Sometimes I wanted to leave the house wearing a pair of ordinary jeans, but then how would I carry around my notepad or whatever paperback novel I happened to be reading? About 10 years ago, while pondering this nagging question, I happened to catch an early episode of the TV show “The Office.” The show features a character named Jim Halpert, who is played by John Krasinski. The minute I saw Krasinski’s character enter the scene, I found myself smitten—not with Krasinski, mind you, but with the shoulder bag that Jim Halpert

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routinely carried to work. It struck me as the perfect solution to my storage problems. A day or two later, I ventured to Macy’s, where I purchased a Lacoste men’s shoulder bag from a discount table. The price had been marked down to $30 because the item had been discontinued. When I got home from Macy’s and modeled my shoulder bag in front of my bedroom mirror, I was at first a bit disappointed. The bag didn’t make me look at all like Jim Halpert. Eventually, however, I decided that the fault was probably mine and not Lacoste’s. After all, John Krasinski is roughly seven inches taller, six inches slimmer and 21 years younger than I am. So, though it might not have improved my appearance much, the bag—really just a big purse—was in all other respects everything I wanted it to be. Eventually I became as dependent on my purse as my wife is on hers. I couldn’t leave home without it. Within a year’s time, it was damn near an appendage of my body. And that was how it remained until earlier this year. In January, while walking to my job at a local bookstore, I was stopped by a woman who was out exercising her dog. She hailed me from across the street and came running over to ask me about my purse. She wanted to know who made it and where she could buy one like it. The purse sported the familiar Izod alligator logo. I hadn’t thought about its origins in years, so I told her the purse was made by Izod, mistakenly assuming that Izod was a division of Lacoste. She thanked me for the information and we went our separate ways.

A week later, the same woman (walking the same dog) accosted (or should I say “Lacosted”) me again. She told me she had searched the internet for an Izod shoulder bag like mine but couldn’t find one. “Are you sure it was made by Izod?” she asked. I inspected the bag for other signs of its origins. Eventually I discovered the word “Lacoste” on the zipper to one of its many compartments. “You might try searching under the name Lacoste,” I told her, “but I think Izod and Lacoste are the same thing.” She thanked me and once again went on her way. Later that day I Googled Izod and Lacoste and discovered that, though once affiliated, they no longer have any connection to each other. A few days later, I encountered the same woman and dog while walking to work. She had had no luck finding a bag identical to mine. Only then did I recall that I had found the bag in a stack of discontinued items at Macy’s. I suggested she look on eBay to see if she could find a used one for sale. She thanked me and went on her way. But something about the encounter bothered me. I thought about it all evening while I worked at the bookstore. Finally it hit me. The encounter had reminded me of a story I had once read by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll. In the story, Carroll encounters an old friend named Nick who is wearing a very fetching fedora. Carroll compliments him on the hat. Months later, when he again encounters Nick, Carroll once more compliments him on the fedora. Finally, after an interval of several more months, Carroll encounters Nick and once more mentions his admiration for the old fedora. At that

point, Nick takes off the hat and gives it to Carroll, saying, “It is the custom of my people to give an admired thing to the admirer if he mentions it three times. You have flattered my hat three times, therefore it is yours.” Carroll claimed that he had lived by Nick’s rule ever since, and had thus been forced to relinquish the hat to another admirer of it. Something about the “three compliments” rule struck me as being cosmically correct, so the next time I encountered the admirer of my bag, I gave it to her. By doing so, I bumped our relationship up to the next level. She told me that her name was Erin and that she was an artist. She liked the bag because it was the perfect size for the sketchpad and colored pencils she habitually carried with her. She was the author of a book called “Create Your Own Artist’s Journal.” A few days after I gave her my bag, she dropped by the bookstore and gave me an autographed copy of her book. Alas, the “three compliments” rule had left me without a purse. I didn’t realize how attached I had become to my bag until it was gone. I went online to look for a used bag identical to the one I’d given Erin but, as she had warned me, my Izod/Lacoste bag was now nearly impossible to find. I visited a couple of local boutiques where I had seen shoulder bags on sale before. Only then did I realize that men’s shoulder bags—now generally referred to as messenger bags—had become extremely popular fashion accessories. Locally, I couldn’t find one I liked for less than $100. Fortunately, I was able to find a handsome leather-and-canvas shoulder bag online that suited my needs at a price of only $55.

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95816 EAST SACRAMENTO, MCKINLEY PARK 2730 F ST 2821 SOLONS ALLEY 2418 P ST #E 3248 D ST 817 24TH ST 3119 CARLY WAY 1617 28TH ST 440 34TH ST 1301 34TH ST 1301 32ND ST 1562 34TH ST 1425 37TH ST

95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 2482 41ST ST 2041 36TH ST 4330 3RD AVE 3045-1/2 39 ST 3409 42ND ST 2633 57TH ST 4408 U ST 3256 8TH AVE 3243 11TH AVE 2016 35TH ST 3400 42ND ST 3928 1ST AVE 3019 5TH AVE 5125 2ND AVE 3985 4TH AVE 3111 SANTA CRUZ WAY 3524 40TH ST 2521 51ST ST

95818 LAND PARK, CURTIS PARK 2740 SAN LUIS CT 2930 23RD ST 2677 FREEPORT BLVD 2522 U ST 2650 DONNER WAY 2773 6TH AVE 2532 9TH AVE 2114 26TH ST 1701 U ST 2746 17TH ST 815 V ST 519 ROBERTSON WAY 733 MCCLATCHY WAY 1840 MARKHAM WAY 2779 17TH ST 2932 LAND PARK DR 1149 MARKHAM WAY 919 8TH AVE 2672 18TH ST 2615 FREEPORT BLVD 1715 V ST 2773 CURTIS WAY 2640 CASTRO WAY 2921 MUIR WAY 559 JONES WAY 2633 28TH ST

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95819 EAST SACRAMENTO, RIVER PARK

5125 TEICHERT AVE $482,500 201 TIVOLI WAY $490,000 79 51ST ST $381,000 1225 56TH ST $353,000 5136 TEICHERT AVENUE $491,000 921 51ST ST $337,500 5001 D ST $414,000 1140 40TH ST $1,150,000 400 42ND ST $400,000 551 PALA WAY $533,000 5420 D ST $390,000 5818 O ST $359,000 5420 D ST $390,000 201 43RD ST $550,000 1216 55TH ST $700,000 1231 57TH ST $389,950 1157 51ST ST $470,000 1613 CHRISTOPHER WAY $395,000 1424 RODEO WAY $510,000 1709 41ST ST $480,000 5236 F ST $564,900 5326 L ST $329,000 5208 Q ST $238,300 5731 CALLISTER AVE $410,000

95821 ARDEN-ARCADE

3975 WOODPOINTE CIR $322,500 3321 SIERRA VIEW LN $180,000 2444 WULFF LN $187,000 3017 TAMALPAIS WAY $299,999 4424 PARK GREEN $390,000 2410 SAINT FRANCIS DR $325,000 2561 FULTON SQUARE LN #57$115,750 2213 FRANCO LN $180,000 3331 ARBOR WAY $190,000 3408 COLEEN CT $160,000 3324 CHENU AVE $400,000 2706 WRENDALE WAY $520,000 4209 HIGHLAND VIEW CT $425,000 2840 ASHBOURNE DR $575,000 3420 LERWICK RD $147,000 3521 MULHOLLAND WAY $263,000 3812 KINGS WAY $270,000 3601 RIDGEWOOD WAY $274,900 3230 CLAIRIDGE WAY $693,000 2810 DANUBE DR $216,000 3011 BELL ST $217,000 2517 DARWIN ST $164,000 3400 BRAEBURN ST $335,800 3744 HUFF WAY $350,000

95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 2230 51ST AVE 1851 60TH AVE 7485 GEORGICA WAY 7547 24TH ST 1621 GLIDDEN AVE 5604 NORMAN WAY 1630 ARVILLA DR 2380 MURIETA WAY 3212 LOMA VERDE WAY

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4975 HELEN WAY 6310 HERMOSA ST 4851 DA ROSA DR 1601 FRUITRIDGE RD 2360 IRVIN WAY 6801 27TH ST 2089 WAKEFIELD WAY 2801 69TH AVE 7347 SPRINGMAN ST 3210 ELLWOOD AVE 5653 23RD ST 2097 51ST AVE 2256 KNIGHT WAY 2097 51ST AVE 2630 WOOD VIOLET WAY 26 PULSAR CIR 2010 BERG AVENUE 7334 LOMA VERDE WAY 2500 ENCINAL AVE 7500 SCHREINER 7536 21ST ST 2142 54TH AVE 1835 68TH AVE 2171 MONIFIETH WAY 1618 WENTWORTH AVE #4 7429 AMHERST ST 3260 TORRANCE AVE 6810 27TH ST 7528 LEMARSH WAY 2217 16TH AVE 2174 SARAZEN AVE 2313 22ND AVE 1440 CLAREMONT WAY

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95831 GREENHAVEN, S LAND PARK 7614 KAVOORAS DR 7283 RIVERWIND WAY 6760 POCKET RD 7524 ALMA VISTA WAY 5 SILMARK CT 7257 POCKET RD 6768 ORLEANS WAY 1048 E. LANDING WAY 911 ROUNDTREE CT 310 ZEPHYR RANCH DR 7115 LYNHOLLEN WAY 800 SHORE BREEZE DR 7702 RIO ESTRADA WAY 7353 L ARBRE WAY 6550 RIVERSIDE 7811 RIVER ESTATES DR 6504 BENHAM WAY 735 RIVERCREST DR 6181 RIVERTON WAY 8060 LINDA ISLE LN 7666 DEL OAK WAY 106 HIDDEN LAKE CIR 6731 ORLEANS WAY 7304 STANWOOD WAY 626 LELANDHAVEN WAY 8075 LIDO ISLE LN 7459 CASTANO WAY 7208 SANTA TERESA WAY 956 SHELLWOOD WAY 895 PARKLIN AVE 27 SPRINGMIST CT 6642 13TH ST

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why I have a few rules that I employ his is the season feared by

before the wedding.

was at it, she told both our parents

my mother would ask him if he’d

My mother usually gave him a

BY NORRIS BURKES

Next rule: Prepare my honorarium

Most wedding complications could be avoided if all couples followed my first rule: No alcohol before the wedding.

escalate the argument a bit. We would do well to consider the model used in many countries where weddings are accomplished by the state. If couples want a religious ceremony, they can celebrate that in a separate rite according to their own traditions.

see someone die than get married.

a home wedding where the best

It’s because funerals are simpler. The

man had to prop up the inebriated

biggest requirement for preaching

groom. Another couple brought a

state, as well as the true intention of

a good funeral sermon is empathy,

keg in a truck to the church parking

Jesus’ admonition to “Give Caesar

something that well suits the

lot. “Don’t worry, that’s for after the

ministerial personality type.

“Wait,” he cried. Then he extended

ceremony,” they said, with air quotes

a $100 bill toward the end of my nose

around “after.”

and said, “Here ya go, Bud!”

My father was a pastor who demonstrated his resistance toward

Third rule: Keep the vow changes

Your Gift of Love Leave everything you’ve worked for to the people you love.

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I believe that solution offers the only true separation of church and

what is his, and give God what is his.” (Mark 12:17). If we can make this separation, I think we’ll find ourselves as pleasantly surprised as the crowd was that first heard this wisdom is Jesus’ teaching. For according to remainder of the verse, “Their mouths hung open, speechless.” Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of the book “Hero’s Highway,” about his experiences as a hospital chaplain in Iraq. He can be reached at ask@ TheChaplain.net n

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ou can preach farm-tofork all you want, but the bottom line is this: Unless people have access to all those good, healthful foods and know how to prepare them, it’s nothing but talk. And that takes us to Chanowk Yisrael’s mission in life: “Transforming the ’hood for good.” The ’hood Yisrael talks about is his South Oak Park neighborhood, certainly not an area that pops into your mind as urban farmland. But that’s where you’ll find Yisrael Family Urban Farm. It’s a half-acre of space behind a small house that sits well off the road, hidden behind an orchard of citrus trees. It’s not pretty, but it does fulfill Yisrael’s yearning to provide a place where family, friends and neighbors can gather to learn how to grow, prepare and preserve fruit and vegetables. It is his version of farmto-fork. The farm started out as a family garden about seven years ago. “I had a lucrative career in the computer tech industry as a systems engineer. By all intents and purposes, I had made it,” said Yisrael. “I had money, a nice car, nice clothes, everything I needed. But I was driving

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Judith and Chanowk Yisrael

30 miles one way every day, dropping my kids off at school and then driving to work. All the while, I kept thinking about my parents who both had serious health issues. I really believe

that those health problems were caused by, or at least aggravated by, diet. I wanted to figure out a way to keep my family healthy, which to me meant a plant-based, organic diet.

“I have a big family (nine children ranging in age from 9 to 24). My food bill was just as big as my mortgage,” he said. “Then, with all the things going on with the economy in 2008, I realized I just couldn’t keep things going the way they were. I took a look at this big backyard and decided to plant some vegetables. I thought I could just put in a few plants and they would grow. Everything died. Then I signed up for a class with John Jeavons, author of ‘How To Grow More Vegetables.’ I learned so much from that class that it really changed the way I think. That’s when the whole idea of urban agriculture began to really make sense to me. I learned that I could take a small piece of land and grow enough food to feed a lot of people.” Yisrael is a deep thinker, a philosopher of sorts. I’m thinking fried okra. He’s thinking about the impact urbanization makes on topsoil. I’m thinking caprese salad. He’s thinking organic insect control and natural soil supplements. “We need to be good stewards of the earth,” he said as he stooped to pull some weeds crowding his summer squash. “To do that, we just need to stop trying to manage the earth and allow it to produce all that we need.” Most important, he believes that one of the greatest rewards in life is to gather friends and family around the table to share a meal of fresh, wholesome food. “Food has always been a very social thing, especially for AfricanAmericans,” said Yisrael. “After we started the farm, when we got together with friends they would ask how to grow or create something.

I realized that there was a lot of interest, but they just didn’t know how to begin. So I invited them into the garden. Soon, along with Judith (his wife), we began teaching people how to grow and produce good food. Now we have community days at the farm. We invite neighborhood kids and adults in to help with the work. We show them how to plant and how to water. We let them taste from the gardens. Judith teaches them how to cook vegetarian meals and make jam and pickles. “Now, for me, it’s not just about tomatoes,” he said. “That’s just one aspect. It’s about the community engagement that comes along with urban agriculture. For me, that is true farm-to-fork.”

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LAND PARK VOLUNTEER CORPS AT WORK ON SATURDAY, MAY 2 Volunteers tackled weeding, trimming overgrown bushes, tree suckers and worked to mulch every tree in the park to protect them from the ravages of drought. The Corps’ Action Team, led by Forrest Neff, has been busy installing dozens of new BBQ’s, repairing and painting park tables and benches by the dozen and making critical repairs no longer performed by the city. Contact Craig Powell at ckpinsacto@aol.com for more information. Their next work day is Saturday, June 6 at 9 a.m. behind Fairytale Town.

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Clothes for Kids FOSTER CHILDREN OFTEN COME WITH JUST ONE SET OF CLOTHES

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id you know that children who enter foster care often come with just the clothes they’re wearing? That’s because they have been taken out of their homes or schools before they can pack up their belongings. To help local foster kids and their foster families, Sleep Train is conducting a clothing drive. They’re seeking new clothing for infants, children and teens. Consider donating jeans, T-shirts, socks, sweatshirts and undergarments. You get the picture: Think about what’s on your child’s or teen’s shopping list and buy another to donate. Sleep Train’s clothing drive ends Sunday, June 21. For more information or to locate a store where you can drop off your donation, go to sleeptrainfosterkids.org

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“We are excited to approach a major milestone for our organization, and we look forward to the next 150 years.” The commissary will be moved out of the main building into one that’s closer to the children’s residence. Several offices will be rearranged to improve overall efficiency. The updates will allow the administration to work more effectively and provide better care for the children and families receiving services from Sacramento Children’s Home. DesCor Builders is overseeing the renovation. The work should be completed within a year. Said Roy Alexander, the home’s chief executive officer, “Our newly

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Who Pays? MYTHS ABOUND ABOUT WHO BEARS THE COSTS OF ROADS

sales taxes, pay about half the costs of roads. Everybody pays those taxes, no matter how much or how little they drive. They pay even if they don’t own a car. Most local roads were built with local taxes, such as property taxes and assessments. Many roads were built before there even were gas taxes—at

BY WALT SEIFERT

a time when roads were shared by

GETTING THERE

horse-drawn buggies and wagons,

pedestrians, streetcars and playing yths are powerful,

children. There’s a video available

pervasive and persistent.

online of the chaotic street scene in

There are two related

San Francisco in 1906. Film taken

myths about who pays for roads.

from the front of a streetcar shows

One is that motorists, through gas

everyone in the street. It’s people who

taxes, vehicle fees and tolls, pay

dominate the scene, not the occasional

all the costs of road construction

open car that careens through.

and maintenance. The other is that all other road users, transit

Many roads were built before there even were gas taxes—at a time when roads were shared by horse-drawn buggies and wagons, pedestrians, streetcars and playing children.

riders, pedestrians and bicyclists are freeloaders. They unfairly take advantage of the largesse supplied by motorists and “divert” funding from real needs. These notions are both wrong, but belief in a myth tends to be stronger than facts. The mind-boggling complexities of transportation funding don’t help much, either. Even an all-star team of CPAs would be left scratching their heads if they tried to untangle the sources and shares of road money. A recent paper by U.S. PIRG Education Fund & Frontier Group sheds light on the realities of who is, and has been, coughing up the dough for roads. The answer, in a nutshell, is everybody, not just motorists. Yes, motorists contribute to road construction and maintenance

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through the taxes and tolls they

been declining. Meanwhile, highway

pay. But the share they contribute

construction and maintenance costs

is actually shrinking. Federal and

have been rising at a rate higher

and they don’t pay for the substantial

state gas taxes haven’t gone up for

than inflation. The future will bring

external costs (costs not borne

decades. Those taxes are assessed on a

more cars powered by electricity or

directly by individual users) they

per-gallon basis. Because gas mileage

hydrogen, not oil. It’s reached the

create. Motor-vehicle-generated air

has improved and total miles driven

point, according to U.S. PIRG, where

pollution and noise affect people’s

have stabilized, gas tax revenue has

general taxes, such as income and

Motorists don’t pay all road costs,

health and create medical costs. Crash

are what roads are all about, then

costs and emergency services aren’t

road design should favor vehicles even

always covered by insurance. Road

if doing so creates barriers or safety

congestion costs time and money.

problems for pedestrians, bicyclists

Parking subsidies increase the costs

and transit. If motor vehicle use

of goods and services. U.S. PIRG

covers road costs, then building new

says the average U.S. household pays

roads for sprawling development is

$1,100 to $1,800 annually in road-

fine.

related costs, whether or not it owns a car. What about those freeloading bicyclists? They don’t pay any gas taxes or vehicle registration fees or even need licenses. They do, however, pay general taxes and contribute that way. Most bike trips are on local roads primarily funded by non-gastax money. In fact, cyclists are often banned from freeways.

Unlike heavy motor vehicles, cyclists impose virtually no wear and tear on roads since wear is a function of weight.

Unlike heavy motor vehicles, cyclists impose virtually no wear and tear on roads since wear is a function

The US PIRG report cites Prime

of weight. Cyclists take up little space

Minister Winston Churchill’s

on the road. They are small in size

opposition (as chancellor of the

compared to a vehicle. They don’t

Exchequer during the 1920s) to a

require the large separation buffer

British “roads tax” on motorists

around them that faster vehicles

crafted to help pay for maintenance.

demand. Instead of inflicting high

Churchill said, “It will be only a step

external costs for crashes, air, noise

from this for [motorists] to claim in

and carbon pollution, walking and

a few years the moral ownership of

cycling create virtually no external

the roads their contributions have

costs. As a result, Todd Litman of the

created.”

Victoria Transport Institute concludes

Even if drivers did pay the full costs

that bicyclists actually pay more than

of roads, they wouldn’t own them,

their fair share of road costs.

morally or legally. The public owns

The myths about who pays for

the roads. Roads are public rights

roads are important. Belief in the

of way. Pedestrians and bicyclists

myths affects attitudes. My wife,

have the legal right to use them.

while bicycling recently, doing

Nonmotorists are not less important

nothing wrong and trying to make a

users because their numbers

legal left turn, was yelled at and told

are smaller. Their use should be

to “Stay out of the street!” by a driver

encouraged, not discouraged.

whose domain had been invaded. The

Transportation decisions should be

notion that drivers pay for roads has

based on what’s best for everybody,

literally and figuratively marginalized

not on myths. The good thing is that

pedestrians and bicyclists. It’s made

most everybody is multimodal. Most

drivers more aggressive in their

of us are drivers, walkers, bicyclists

treatment of others trying to share

and transit users. And despite the

the road.

myth believers and the negativity of

The myth of drivers paying for the

some, almost two-thirds of Americans

roads also influences transportation

support more funding for alternatives

policies and spending decisions. If

to driving.

drivers pay for roads, then we simply should build more roads when they become congested—even if having more people walk, bike or use transit reduces congestion. If motor vehicles

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Second Chance AFTER A CAREER IN PUBLIC SERVICE, SHE FOUND HER VOICE AS A SINGER

BY JESSICA LASKEY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

he song “The Seasons of My Time” perfectly describes the way Carolyne Swayze sees her life. It should: She wrote it. Swayze is a singer, songwriter, composer and novelist, though she didn’t start out that way. She spent 30 years in public service, first as a member of the Marine Corps, then as an investigator for the San Francisco District Attorney’s office (she carried a gun and a badge) and finally in the Department of Child Services. For the DCS job, she commuted 200 miles a day to and from her home in Campus Commons. “It was a ‘lifestone,’” Swayze says with an easy laugh. “Milestones mark your progress in life. Lifestones are burdens you have to deal with. Finally, one day I hit a wall emotionally. I said, ‘No more commute.’ I was loaned to the state here in Sacramento for six months and then I said, ‘I think I’m ready to retire.’” Retirement allowed Swayze to return to her first love: music. As a child growing up in Chicago, Swayze was surrounded by music, between her maternal grandmother (“a devout Mennonite who played piano and sang only of gospel praises”) and another grandmother figure who sang opera and jazz. But her family was far from encouraging. Her grandfather, the first African-American bishop in the Mennonite Church, told a young Swayze that she should “learn how to type or become a teacher” instead of sing. When Swayze finally got her

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Carolyne Swayze is a local vocalist, composer, songwriter and novelist

mother to drive her to an audition for Ted Mack’s “Original Amateur Hour” (the “American Idol” of its day), the pressure was more than she could handle. An embarrassing bout of

stage fright left the 14-year-old all but mute onstage, and Swayze put music aside for years. “It wasn’t until I came to California that I dared to sing again,” Swayze

says. “I happened to be out one night with friends, having a particularly good time at a dinner house in Fresno, listening to a band. Suddenly I said, ‘I know these songs’ and walked up to the bandleader and said, ‘Do you know “The Masquerade Is Over”?’ He said, ‘What key?’ I looked at him like he had two heads, we did the proverbial ‘Hum a few bars,’ and I ended up working with that bandleader, Dick Scudder, for the next three years.” Swayze credits Scudder with giving her the formal singing training she’d always longed for: how to breathe, how to stand, how to phrase, how to speak to the audience. She began singing on the hotel and country club circuit while working full time. “Having a regular job was a blessing and a curse,” Swayze says. “It gave me a career, but I think I may have gone further into music if I hadn’t had a day job. I’m only now understanding the strugglingmusician thing, but I have no regrets. I feel very fortunate to have experienced both.” After making it through her second divorce (another lifestone), Swayze found herself retired in Sacramento and wondering what to do next. At the encouragement of friends, she started composing, recording and releasing singles of her own music as well as covers of old favorites. “As I started to get older, I realized that if you’re going to stay in this business, you have to make your own mark,” Swayze says. “There are lots of wonderful songs out there, but you can’t sing cover songs better than the people who made them. At best, ARTIST page 60

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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (performed with a live orchestra) Thru June 21 24th Street Theatre 2791 24th St. Sac 207-1226 RunawayStage.com Catch Me If You Can is the high-flying, splashy new musical that was nominated for 4 Tony Awards including Best Musical. The teenager, Frank W. Abagnale Jr., runs away from home in search of a glamorous life, with nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer - living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams. But when Frank’s lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty, Carl pursues Frank across the country. Both Frank and Carl forge an unlikely friendship and discover a way to ultimately work together.

MY FAIR LADY June 9 – June 14 Wells Fargo Pavilion 1419 H St. Sac 557-1999 CaliforniaMusicTheatre.com When aristocratic professor Henry Higgins takes in Cockney pupil Eliza Doolittle on a bet, he gets far more than he wagered. This show will feature “I Could Have Danced All Night” “On the Street Where You Live” and “The Rain in Spain.”

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ARTIST FROM page 58 it’s an imitation because it’s someone else’s song. I discovered that I had some things to say. I think that’s why it took all these years to literally find my own voice. It has to do with life experience.” Swayze released a CD in 2010 but found that the Internet provided an even broader audience for her work. “People are listening to music differently,” Swayze says. “You can download a track to your phone in minutes. That kind of technology was never available to independent artists before. The Internet has changed the music industry. You can make yourself accessible to everyone.” She is happy with her new lease on life. “I’m very comfortable at this stage of my life,” she says. “I’m not trying to be the next Beyoncé. There’s a small niche for what I do and I’m happy to do that. To share great music with great musicians and great friends, that’s what it’s all about.”

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WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES On May 3, more than 1,100 men took to the streets of Sacramento and walked a mile in women’s high heels in the name of stopping domestic violence and sexual assault in our community. This year marked the fifth year of the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. Money raised means a victim of sexual assault has a WEAVE advocate with her throughout the evidentiary examination, the 24 hour Support & Information Line is there whenever a victim needs to reach out and a family can experience a safe night’s rest in WEAVE’s confidential Safehouse. This year’s walk raised $345,000.

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Wonder of Wonders SOON-TO-OPEN FOLSOM TOY MUSEUM WINDS UP FOR A FAIRYTALE FUNDRAISER

BY JESSICA LASKEY RIVER CITY PREVIEWS

ver wish you could frolic in a fairytale? On Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 6 p.m., your dreams will come true at The Garden of Wonder and Delight, a fundraiser for the soon-to-beopened Museum of Wonder and Delight in Folsom, held at the beautiful private McMichael estate. The lush, 2-acre garden will play host to whimsical characters and magical fairies as well as live music, light appetizers and drinks to raise the final funds for the nearly completed museum, located at the lower end of historic Sutter Street in Folsom. It will house Dolph Gotelli’s internationally renowned collection of 19th and 20th century toys, folk art, games and much more. “The event promises to be an adventure of fun, fantasy and surprises at every turn,” Gotelli says. “Much like the museum!” For tickets (adults and their inner children only, please), call 985-2707, go to folsomhistorymuseum.org or purchase in person at Green Acres locations in Folsom (205 Serpa Way), Roseville (901 Galleria Blvd.) and Sacramento (8501 Jackson Road).

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Ever wish you could frolic in a fairytale? On Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 6 p.m., your dreams will come true at The Garden of Wonder and Delight, a fundraiser for the soon-to-be-opened Museum of Wonder and Delight in Folsom.

FREE TO BE YOU AND ME The Sacramento Pride Festival is back and better than ever in its 31-year history from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, at Capitol Mall. Expect exciting entertainment, hundreds of displays and plenty of food and fun to be had, all to benefit the nonprofit Sacramento LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Community Center. First, the headliner: Belinda Carlisle, former lead singer for the

chart-topping, all-girl punk bank The GoGo’s, will serenade Sacramento Pride audiences as she has at Pride festivals all over the country. “My LGBT fans have long been among my favorite audiences—giving, fun and free—and they always energize and inspire me,” Carlisle says. “As someone with many LGBT individuals in my life, both personally and professionally, performing at Pride events has always been very important to me. I’ve heard so much about Sacramento’s exciting Pride Festival and cannot wait to be there

to make my voice heard for LGBT equality and to show my Sacramento fans a great time.” The Main Stage lineup also will include two stars, Jujubee and Kennedy Davenport, from Logo TV’s hit reality show competition “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” as well as hiphop artist Cazwell and Sacramento singer-songwriter Andrew Castro, who recently released his new EP album “Inside/Out.” The festival will also feature booths from hundreds of local businesses and nonprofit organizations, a dance

pavilion, a pet pavilion (where you can adopt a furry friend), a Kids Zone, an Art Zone featuring the work of local artists, food trucks and plenty of drinks to keep the party going all day long. To get the day going, don’t miss the Sacramento Pride Parade, starting at 11 a.m. at Third and N streets. It will feature floats, cheerleaders, bands and performers, as well as contingents from among churches, veterans, law enforcement groups and nonprofit organizations. Sacramento Pride is the largest source of funding for the Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s programs and services, which are open to everyone and specifically aimed to serve marginalized populations within the LGBT community. The center’s many programs promote health and wellness, economic empowerment and education by providing peer support, services for at-risk youths, a free weekly legal clinic, HIV/AIDS prevention and support services, transgender support and numerous discussion groups and other activities for LGBT adults. Tickets for Sacramento Pride are $10 (the parade is free) and children ages 5 and younger get in free. For more information, go to sacramentopride.org

Crocker Art Auction gets going from 5:30 to 11 p.m. on June 6. This year’s event will feature work by more than 100 of the region’s renowned artists

GOING ONCE … GOING TWICE … Summer is for all intents and purposes here, and with it comes three exciting exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum, as well as the region’s favorite art auction on June 6. Keep your bidding paddle primed when the Crocker Art Auction gets going from 5:30 to 11 p.m. on June 6. This year’s event will feature work by more than 100 of the region’s renowned artists, all on the bidding block for you to take home and add to your collection. The evening will start with cocktails, head into a delectable gourmet dinner and end with a lively live auction. For tickets, call 8087843. If you’d prefer to ogle the art rather than buy it, check out the Crocker’s three new exhibitions,

Later in the month, take in the stunning porcelain work of Chinese artist Shimo in “Flowers of Fire and Earth: Shimo’s Blue-and-White Porcelains,” on display June 21 through Sept. 6. The beautifully translucent pieces, nearly 40 in all, show Shimo’s delicacy and intricacy working with a medium that aims to “combine ancient traditions with a contemporary spirit” and “to melt the national aesthetics of Eastern and Western art in one furnace,” according to the artist himself. From June 28 through Oct. 11, feast your eyes on the work of San Francisco native Armin Hansen in the exhibition “Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage,” organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art in collaboration with the staff of the Crocker. Hansen, who was born in 1886, sought to capture the raw power and vitality of the Pacific Ocean and those who sailed it, which resulted in lush still lifes, spirited rodeo scenes, loosely rendered landscapes and depictions of his signature subjects, fisher-folk and the sea. The exhibition features 100 works including oils on canvas, watercolors and etchings. For more information on all things Crocker-related, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

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Don't miss the Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s “Focus on Fiber” annual Fiber Arts Open Show, on display June 2-20 in Carmichael

starting on June 7 with the opening of “David Ligare: California Classicist,” which will stay on display through Sept. 20. Nearly 80 pieces of Ligare’s photorealistic pieces will be on

exhibit in this extensive retrospective that includes still-life, landscape, architectural and figurative paintings alike.

If your doctor tells you that you need more fiber in your diet, you’ll get just what the doctor ordered at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s “Focus on Fiber” annual Fiber Arts Open Show, on display June 2-20 in Carmichael. “Focus on Fiber” will feature exceptional uses for this common material, including basketry, beading, crochet, dyeing fabric, felting, hooking, knitting, knotting, lace making, painting or printing on fabric, quilting, spinning, sewing, stitching, tapestry, costuming and more. Exhibit judge Kristine Buchanan has vetted each piece to make sure that no crafts, kits or production work will be shown, so you PREVIEWS page 64

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PREVIEWS FROM page 63 can be sure that you’ll be getting the best of the best on your new “highfiber” diet. Interested in seeing fiber artists in action? Don’t miss the demonstration by the Spinners Group from the Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 2. You can also meet the “Focus on Fiber” artists and cheer them on as they’re given awards for their work at the Second Saturday reception from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on June 13. For more information, go to sacfinearts.org The Sacramento Fine Arts Center is at 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

FITNESS FOR FUN Trying to figure out a way to keep those little hands, and feet, busy once school is out for the summer? Fleet Feet Sports’ “Little Feet” Summer Camps on June 15-19 and June 22-26 in William Land Park might be the

perfect way to keep your tot engaged while also getting a little exercise. The noncompetitive environment of “Little Feet” is geared toward all fitness levels and will teach kids entering first through sixth grades (no exceptions) the importance of teamwork and sportsmanship through activities such as minihurdles, water relays, silly versions of tag, obstacle courses and the “Little Feet” Olympics at the end of each session. The groups are small (only six to seven children per group) with one “Big Foot” team leader each. Classes run from 9 a.m. to noon every day and include a camp shirt, a daily healthful snack and plenty of water to keep kids cool and hydrated. Session I will run June 15-19, Session II will run June 22-26. Registration is done through the city of Sacramento at cityofsacramento. org Select “After School Programs and Day Camps” or search by bar code #150573 (Session I) or #150574 (Session II). “Fleet Feet Sports: Little

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Feet Summer Camp” will appear as one of your choices. Select the date you would like to participate and complete the registration process. For more information, go to fleetfeetsacramento.com or email training@fleetfeetsacramento.com William Land Park is at 3800 South Land Park Drive.

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS The Carmichael Park Community Band Festival is a one-stop shop for all band music aficionados, and it’s taking place Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7, at the Carmichael Park Amphitheater. Mark your calendar and don’t miss out on one of the largest community band festivals in California for the past 20 years. Fifteen concert bands will take the stage during the twoday extravaganza, including the Sacramento Symphonic Winds, the Capitol Pops Concert Band, the Amador County Concert Band, the Auburn Concert Band, and many more. The event is presented by the Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association and is free to all comers. Bring the family, a picnic, some sunscreen and settle on the grass for a rousing good time. There will be music from noon to 7 p.m. on June 6 and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on June 7. For more information, go to svsba.net or sacwinds.org Carmichael Park is at 5750 Grant Ave.

PLAYING ’POSSUM If you’ve ever found a critter lurking around your backyard or rummaging through your garbage cans, chances are your first thought is not how you can help your new furry friend, but rather how fast you can get the broom. But as more and more opossums— those beady-eyed, prehensile-tailed marsupials—find their way into urban environments, the more danger these harmless creatures encounter. Best known for “playing dead” to trick potential predators, opossums can’t outrun a car or an angry dog, so many of them get injured and are left to die. The Wildlife Care Association (WCA), a nonprofit resource center providing care, recovery and release of small animals and birds in the Sacramento region, is out to change the opossum’s bad rap and make sure concerned citizens know what to do if they encounter an injured critter. Classes on how to care for injured opossums—on the way to dropping them off at the WCA, where they can be properly rehabilitated—as well as on how to qualify to become a WCA rehabilitation volunteer will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, at the WCA facility at McClellan Park. Pre-register by emailing wcarehabilitation@yahoo.com or call 965-WILD (965-9453) for more information. The WCA is at 5211 Patrol Road at McClellan Park.

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The Carmichael Park Community Band Festival is a one-stop shop for all band music aficionados on Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7. Photo courtesy of Susan Maxwell Skinner.

MAIS OUI! For those of us who aren’t lucky enough to call France home, there’s no reason you can’t keep up with the fabulous French film world from the comfort of home. The 14th Sacramento French Film Festival will kick off with an opening reception at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 19, in the lobby of the Crest Theatre. The first film will start at 8:30 p.m. Film screenings of the most buzzworthy French films, all with English subtitles, will take place all day on Saturdays and Sundays, June 20-21 and 27-28. Evening screenings will take place on Fridays, June 19 and 26. For a complete lineup, including dates of receptions, breakfasts, film festival parties, special guests and post-screening discussions, go to sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org For more information, call 4763356. The Crest Theatre is at 1013 K St.

MISTY WATERCOLOR MEMORIES To see Sacramento through the eyes of renowned local painter David Lobenberg would be a rare treat, and one visitors will get to experience when they take in his most recent exhibition, “Focal Points: Sacramento,” at the Union Hall Gallery on K Street starting on June 13. “My watercolor paintings reflect some of my most cherished Sacramento memories,” Lobenberg says. “To name a few: taking our daughter to play at Fairytale Town, enjoying a flick and dinner with my wife at Tower, and walking the magnificent grounds of the state Capitol.” Hobnob with Lobenberg himself at the Second Saturday reception from 6-9 p.m. on June 13. The Union Hall Gallery is at 2126 K Street. To see more of Lobenberg’s watercolor works, go to lobenbergart.com

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS What do you get when you give 20 of Northern California’s best artists a theme based on everyone’s favorite,

David Lobenberg's exhibit “Focal Points: Sacramento” will be on display at the Union Hall Gallery on K Street starting on June 13

though often frustrating, childhood game Rock Paper Scissors? You get the awesome new Archival Gallery show “Ro Sham Bo,” on display June 6 through July 2. Featured artists include recognizable regional names such as Al Farrow, William Maul, Corey Okada, Estaban Villa, William Ishmael, Maria Winkler, Richard Feese, Mariellen Layne and more as they wrestle in various media with the decision-making game that defined our childhoods. Meet the artists in person at the Second Saturday reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on June 13. For more information, call 923-6204 or go to archivalgallery.com

Archival Gallery is at 3223 Folsom Blvd.

GET A START IN THE ARTS Is your teen a theater aficionado, whether onstage or off? Rio Valley Charter School (RVCS)’s Sacramento Arts Guild is now accepting applications for students interested in Performing Arts in Service, a new arts, media and entertainment educational career path offered at its Sacramento Arts Guild satellite campus. RVCS is an independent K-12 charter school serving students in both San Joaquin and Sacramento counties and is fully accredited through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

During the 2014-15 school year, RVCS piloted a small arts-focused satellite program here in Sacramento called the Arts Guild, which drew students from Natomas to Elk Grove. Due to the program’s success, RVCS has added the Performing Arts in Service learning track to better serve those students interested in a career in the theater. University of California-approved class offerings will combine subjects such as Social Action Theatre, Vocal Performance, Dance, Stage Combat I & II, Video & Film Production and Geometry & Stagecraft with intensive school daytime training opportunities on the stages of the R25 Arts Complex and Access Sacramento’s production studios. Students will work with credentialed teachers and local experts in this four-year program that leads to a new certificate designed with input from film and theater experts. The mission of the program seeks to broaden the interests and skills of student artists beyond that of fame into the real-world applications of the arts in civic action, social entrepreneurship and community betterment. Interested? Attend an information night at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, at the R25 Arts complex at 2509 R St. For more information, go to riovalleyartsguild.org or call (844) 368-4934.

READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UPS See the world through the lenses of three talented local photographers at the “Three Photographers—Three Views” show, now on view through June 26 at the Ella K. McClatchy Library in midtown. The show features three Sacramento-area photographers who each approach photography with their own artistic bent. Roberta Bailey scans arrangements of real flowers into her Mac, then reworks the images in Photoshop. James Canning shoots natural objects, then digitally manipulates them into intricate, symmetrical images to PREVIEWS page 67

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JUNE

Artistic Edge will feature works by Bill Lorenz, Pat Orner and Shannon Raney. Shown: “Wilbur” by Shannon Raney. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com

A Still Life Show will be featured through July 31at Patris Studio and Art Gallery. Shown left: “Teapot” by Patris 3460 2nd Ave.

The Archival Gallery presents an exhibit through July 2 based on “Ro Sham Bo” featuring interpretations of “Rock Paper Sizzors” by more than 20 top artists. Shown is a work by Maria Winkler. 3223 Folsom Blvd. archivalgallery.com

Red Dot Gallery presents works by 21 artists invited to participate in the theme-oriented exhibition titled Self: Beyond the Face. Shown: “Ornament” by Margarita Chaplinska. The show runs through June 27. 2231 J St.; reddotgallery.com

Helen Jones Gallery presents original seascape and landscape paintings by Robert Wee. “Morning Breaker” by Wee is shown. 588 La Sierra Dr.; helenjonesgallery.com

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Atelier 20 features artist Randy Honerlah and his series of impressionist landscape paintings. Shown: “Free Fallin” by Honerlah. Atelier 20, 915 20th St.

PREVIEWS FROM page 65 create an entirely new composition. Gail Parris creates images focusing on Delta birdlife that emulate Japanese woodprints, Inuit stone prints and even Audubon bird prints, which she achieves by altering the light and applying hand coloring. Feast your eyes at the Ella K. McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St. For more information, call 264-2700 or go to saclibrary.org

THIS IS OUR YOUTH You’re probably familiar with the tremendous talents of the Sacramento Youth Symphony (SYS), the nearly 60-year-old nonprofit organization that boasts a membership of more than 400 talented young musicians ages 6-21 from all over the region. But have you ever wondered what happens to those capable pupils-cumperformers after they’ve aged out of the group? Good news: Many of them go on to pursue college degrees, in music and other disciplines, all over the world. Some of the students graduating this year include Drew Dardis, 17, of Fair Oaks, who will be continuing his studies in flute performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Maryland under the instruction of legendary flutist Maria Piccinini. Audrey Shepherd, 18, of Sacramento will be pursuing a double major in bassoon performance and applied mathematics at the University of Michigan. Lindsay Marty, 18, of Granite Bay received a full scholarship to USC, where she’ll

pursue oboe performance and premedical studies. These are just a few of this year’s successful graduates, with many others set to attend schools such as Boston University, Cornell, the Royal Conservatory of Scotland, UC Davis, Cal Poly, Cal State Northridge and more. We think Dardis put it best: “When I first joined the Sacramento Youth Symphony, I was insecure about my playing, but the friendship and support I received during my three years there, especially Maestro Michael Neumann’s wise teachings and encouragement, were instrumental to my success.” Thanks to the SYS, these students will go on to big, bright futures— and that’s music to our ears. For more information on the SYS, go to sacramentoyouthsymphony.org

CALLING ALL ARTISTS If you’re an artist of any kind— sculptor, photographer, painter, et cetera—don’t miss the opportunity to submit your artwork by June 30 to the Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s annual open show, “Magnum Opus XXVI.” This year’s national juried art exhibit will be judged by Linda Gelfman and will offer various accolades for competing artists, including the $1,000 Best of Show Award. Interested artists can download the prospectus and instructions at sacfinearts.org All entries are due by midnight on June 30. The show will run Aug. 4-29 at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael. n

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Cold Treats and Sweets A ROUNDUP OF NEIGHBORHOOD DESSERTS FOR SUMMER

BY GREG SABIN

all the old-fashioned charm you’re looking for when thinking about a family ice cream parlor. Using ice cream from Vic’s, Burr’s creates inventive shakes, splits and malts. 4920 Folsom Blvd.; 452-5516

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ith the mercury working its way up the thermometer, it seems like a good time to remind you of how many sweet and cold treats are available. Cool off, or just satisfy your sweet tooth with any one (or more than one) of these local favorites.

MIDTOWN Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates: Proprietor Ginger Elizabeth Hahn has an international reputation for her exquisite chocolates and desserts. Lesser known, however, is her annual dive into frozen treats. Every May, the tiny Midtown storefront expands its menu to include handmade “microbatch” ice creams and frozen delicacies. Imagine a frozen hot chocolate parfait, or a Parisian macaron ice cream sandwich, or a sour cream and strawberry ice cream sundae with roasted rhubarb butter. I know, sounds terrible, right? Best you stay away and leave more for me. 1801 L St.; 706-1738; gingerelizabeth.com

ARDEN ARCADE/ CARMICHAEL The Parlor Ice Cream Puffs: One of the most creative ice cream shops in town, The Parlor offers custom flavors from Gunther’s Ice Cream with a variety of novel presentations. Think about Thai ice tea ice cream served on a giant French macaron, or “choco taco” ice cream stuffed into a glazed doughnut and topped with powdered sugar. The flavors are cleverly addictive and the serving options indulgent. 2620 Fair Oaks Blvd.; 977-3997; theparloricecream.com The Hagen’s Original Orange Freeze: For old-time Carmichael residents, Hagen’s holds the keys to the door of history. Merlino’s original orange freeze has been a part of Sacramento summers for generations. Hagen’s picks up where Merlino’s left off almost a decade ago, claiming to serve the original Merlino’s recipe. You’ll find standard snack-shack burgers and provisions, but you’re really going there for the brain-paininducing orange freeze, icy-cold and tasting of history. 2520 Walnut Ave.; 489-7842

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Cleary’s Ice Cream & Candy Bar: A treat for youngsters, Cleary’s, open for only a year, hits the sweet spot with a soft-serve ice cream bar and a ridiculous bounty of newfangled and old-timey candy. You’ll find better ice cream at many other places, but the visual stimulation of all that

brightly colored candy will widen the eyes of the munchkins in your family. 2545 Fair Oaks Blvd.; 900-8251; clearysisters.com

EAST SACRAMENTO Burr’s Fountain: An East Sacramento institution, Burr’s offers

Devine Gelateria & Cafe: Gelato is just Italian ice cream, right? Well, one taste of Devine’s gelato and you’ll rethink that position. With gelatos and sorbettos made fresh daily, Devine serves up some of the most delectable and creative frozen flavors in the region. Go bold and opt for the bananas foster gelato, or the fig/apricot/fromage. Or go traditional and try the best affogato (espresso poured over a scoop of vanilla gelato) you’re bound to have this side of the Mediterranean. 1221 19th St.; 446-0600; devinegelateria.com

Cleary’s Ice Cream & Candy Bar features a large selection of sweet treats

CURTIS PARK/LAND PARK Gunther’s Ice Cream: One of the two granddaddies of Sacramento ice cream, Gunther’s has held down the same corner spot on Franklin Boulevard and 3rd Avenue since 1949. Its iconic neon sign, its huge corner of windows and its absolutely spot-on flavors make it a destination for midcentury-modern aficionados as well as ice cream seekers of all ages. Beyond ice cream, Gunther’s also stands out for its best-in-class eggnog (available as a beverage or ice cream during the holidays), its frozen specialties like mud pie on a stick, and its proximity to one of the best beer bars (Pangaea) in the region. 2801 Franklin Blvd.; 457-6646; gunthersicecream.com Vic’s Ice Cream: The other granddad of Sacramento ice cream, Vic’s has been dishing out quality

scoops since 1941. The small counter and handful of booths have served generations of Sacramentans. Vic’s ice cream, in a panoply of flavors, is available by the scoop, the dish or the quart. Service is quick and friendly, but don’t expect the line to be short. On a weekday after school, or on any weekend day, you’re bound to wait in a bit of a line to get that creamy goodness. Vic’s also makes a fine sandwich. Try the wiener sandwich or the turkey salad for a classic treat. One last note: If you’re eating at a downtown restaurant and ice cream is on the menu, it’s probably from Gunther’s or Vic’s. 3199 Riverside Blvd.; 448-0892; vicsicecream;com Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com n

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MIDTOWN

Jack’s Urban Eats

1800 L St. 447-9440

L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

Aioli Bodega Espanola L D $$ Full Bar Patio Andalusian cuisine served in a casual European atmosphere

Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com

Buckhorn Grill 1801 L St. 446-3757 L D $$ Wine/Beer A counter service restaurant with high-quality chicken, char-roasted beef, salmon, and entrée salads

Café Bernardo 2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 1431 R St. 930-9191

1230 20th St. 444-0307

Kasbah Lounge 2115 J St. 442-4388 D Full Bar $$ Middle Eastern cuisine in a Moroccan setting

Lucca Restaurant & Bar 1615 J St. 669-5300 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Patio Mediterranean cuisine in a casual, chic atmosphere • Luccarestaurant.com

Moxie 2028 H St. 443-7585 D $$-$$$ Eclectic menu in a boutique neighborhood setting

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

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan

Centro Cocina Mexicana

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

1215 19th St. 441-6022

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

Old Soul Co.

Chicago Fire

B L D $ No table service at this coffee roaster and bakery, also serving creative artisanal sandwiches

2416 J St. 443-0440

D $$ Full Bar Chicago-style pizza, salads wings served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chicagofirerestaurant.com

Crepeville 1730 L St. 444-1100

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Outdoor Dining Crepes, omelets, salads, soups and sandwiches served in a casual setting

Ernesto’s Mexican Food 1901 16th St. 441-5850

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Fresh Mexican food served in an upscale, yet familyfriendly setting • Ernestosmexicanfood.com

1806 Capitol Ave. 447-8646 L D $$ Gourmet pizza, pasta, salads in casual setting • Paesanos.biz

Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th St. 457-5737

D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio California cuisine with an Italian touch • Paragarys.com

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

The Streets of London Pub

1217 18th St. 442-5858

1804 J St. 498-1388

L D $$$ Wine/Beer California cuisine served in a chic, upscale setting • 58degrees.com

L D $ Wine/Beer English Pub fare in an authentic casual atmosphere, 17 beers on tap

Fox & Goose Public House

Tapa The World

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer English Pub favorites in an historic setting • Foxandgoose.com

Harlow’s Restaurant 2708 J Street 441-4693 L D $$ Full Bar Modern Italian/California cuisine with Asian inspirations • Harlows.com

Italian Importing Company 1827 J Street 442-6678 B L $ Italian food in a casual grocery setting

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Paesano’s Pizzeria

58 Degrees & Holding Co.

1001 R St. 443-8825

1716 L St. 443-7685

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

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

This Month at the Market

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

CORN

APRICOTS

CHERRIES

There’s nothing that says summer like an ear of fresh corn. It has high concentrations of antioxidant carotenoids and is a good source of fiber—not to mention it’s delicious! To eat: Remove the husk and silks, then char the corn over a hot barbecue grill before dousing with seasoned butter.

This beautiful golden-orange-colored stone fruit is full of betacarotene, fiber and vitamins A and C. To eat: Perfect for making jam, a tart or ice cream.

Cherries have a lower glycemic index than many fruits, making them a great choice for a fruit snack, especially for diabetics. To eat: Remove the pits and toss into the blender for a smoothie.

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This very low-calorie vegetable has lots of vitamin A and antioxidants such as beta-carotene and lutein, and it’s a good source of folates. To eat: Use in a Southern gumbo or Caribbean stew.

Figs supply potassium, which controls blood pressure, and dietary fiber, which can help you lose weight. To eat: Add quartered figs to an arugula salad, or poach in wine for dessert.

Eggplant provides dietary fiber, plenty of vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients such as nasunin and chlorogenic acid. Many of its nutritional benefits come from the vegetable’s skin. To eat: Cut into thick slices, brush with olive oil and grill.

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