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Our beloved Sacramento Central Library is 100 years old this year. My husband and I attended the celebration in April, and I was honored to play a small part in the event. My dear friend, local businesswoman and philanthropist Rita Gibson, recently purchased an original typed screenplay of Greta Gerwig’s film “Lady Bird.” Gibson decided to donate it to the Sacramento Room, located on the second floor of the 100-year-old Central Library and home to the library’s special collections.

The screenplay was signed by Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, and actress Saoirse Ronan, who played Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson in the movie, which is set in Sacramento. At the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, the film won the Best Motion Picture award for a musical or comedy, while Ronan won Best Performance by an Actress in the same category. The movie also captured five Oscar nominations. Gibson made the donation in my honor because, as she said at the centennial event, “My friend, Cecily, has been telling us the interesting

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Sacramento Room, talked a bit about the library’s history. Sacramento’s first library opened in 1879 with a collection of around 6,000 volumes. It was built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. By the 1910s, the library had grown to more than 120,000 volumes. “It became clear that the library deserved a grander home,” DeWilde said. In 1912, the city applied to the Carnegie Corporation for money to construct a new library. The city wanted its public library to join the new City Hall in forming a civic center around a park, now known as Cesar Chavez Plaza. A $100,000 grant was approved in 1914. The city held a competition to design the new library, and Loring P. Rixford of San Francisco was awarded the contract. The new three-story Italian Renaissance building would be built on I Street between 8th and 9th streets. When the terra-cotta plant assigned to create the building’s exterior burned down, Gladding McBean stepped in to complete the façade, which was made of pressed brick. Inside, the walls were white plaster; cork carpets were laid on the floor to deaden sound. A winding staircase connecting the three floors was constructed of marblelike Magnolith flooring, and a fountain at the base of the stairs was built of marble from the bed of the Tiber River in Italy. From the library’s Romanesque windows, one could see trees in the park and the top of City Hall. The building opened to the public in 1918. “That’s just as the Spanish

Sacramento’s Premier Antique & Design Center flu is taking off and less than a month before the armistice ending World War I,” DeWilde pointed out. In the late 1980s, Sacramento’s main city library had once again outgrown its space, and a new Central Library was built around the original Carnegie structure, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Shortly thereafter, DeWilde said, the second floor of the old Carnegie library was transformed into the Sacramento Room. The newly formed Sacramento Public Library Foundation raised private money to renovate the room, which opened

in 1995. The room’s mission is to preserve and share Sacramento history. The historic library building serves as a very fitting home for Sacramento’s special collections. At the presentation of the “Lady Bird” screenplay, Sass said there was no more fitting gift for a room that holds so much of our city’s history. “The movie shared with the world the aspects of Sacramento that we all love,” Sass concluded.

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ancers all over the world want to dance Balanchine,” says Carinne Binda, whose Sacramento Ballet will present “The Genius of Balanchine” at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts June 14–17. For the past 30 years, Balanchine’s works have been a trademark of Sacramento Ballet under the artistic direction of Binda and her husband,

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Ron Cunningham. There’s a reason they’ve always been so faithful to the choreographer, whose iconic works include “Prodigal Son,” “Firebird,” “La Sonnambula” and the American holiday phenomenon “The Nutcracker.” “The musical and technical demands of Balanchine ballets simply make a dancer a better dancer,” says Binda, who danced at least one work by Balanchine every season at Boston Ballet for 13 years. “There is extraordinary nuanced musicality in his work, along with his use of refined pointe work, energy and speed, that developed a new breed of dance artist.” Sacramento Ballet has presented 18 of his masterpieces over the years. His inclusion in the repertoire has been “a powerful draw to dancers wanting to

In April, Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Councilmembers Steve Hansen and Jeff Harris joined with Carinne Binda community leaders and neighbors to dedicate a new urban pocket park in memory of Sacramento arts leader be members of our company,” Binda and pioneer Michael Himovitz. The says. Unlike traditional classical dedication kicked off a weekend-long ballet, she explains, “everyone in a public celebration of McKinley Village Balanchine work dances. The corps Art Walk, a unique collection of public de ballet in his work is equally as art created by local artists and located complex as the soloist and principal in the parks and public spaces of the roles.” McKinley Village neighborhood in “The Genius of Balanchine” East Sacramento. will include excerpts from the “Michael Himovitz was an choreographer’s immense catalog, extraordinary civic leader who made which has influenced generations of pioneering and lasting contributions dancers and dancemakers. to the Sacramento arts scene,” says “It has been said that ballet was Steinberg. born in Russia, raised in France and Himovitz founded the pathbreaking redefined in America by Balanchine,” Himovitz Solomon Gallery and Binda says. “Personally, as a dancer, Himovitz Gallery; helped create I never felt more freedom—nor Second Saturday, one of Sacramento’s experienced such exhilaration— signature art events; and sponsored than when dancing Balanchine’s a series of exchange exhibits that choreography. A great part of Ron’s brought international artists to and my vision in building a company for Sacramento was to bring this same Sacramento and allowed local

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A Stranger in a Strange Land MY TRIP TO D.C. WITH METRO’S CAP-TO-CAP

Publisher’s Note: In the May 2018 edition of Inside Publications, the article that ran in this column space had substantial editorial changes made that were not approved by the writer. We regret the oversight. The full unedited article, which focused on the tragic death of Stephon Clark and the aftermath in our city, will appear in a special online-only edition. This edition will also feature an update from Craig Powell on the conflicting autopsies and their political impact, and an article that details the viewpoint of a police officer in the shooting. Please visit insidepublications.com.

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made the decision to be part of Sacramento Metro Chamber’s annual Cap-to-Cap lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. (aka “the swamp”), with a great deal of hesitation and not a small amount of trepidation. This year, 365 attendees descended on Washington to lobby the federal government to—let’s be frank about it—fork over more federal taxpayer largesse to our region. It’s a wellorganized, highly choreographed, long-standing five-day beg-a-thon, now in its 48th year. Who attends? A lot of local elected officials and senior bureaucrats, trade association executives, reps from large health care systems and nonprofits, government contractors and professional lobbyists, as well as a small contingent of local media people (Jeff vonKaenel, publisher of Sacramento News & Review, a TV crew from Fox 40 and me). Why my hesitation and trepidation, you might ask? Because I wasn’t going on Cap-to-Cap just to cover it for you, my dear readers (although

that was certainly an added benefit). I was going primarily to advocate for policy positions that aren’t exactly aligned with those of the Metro Chamber and the Cap-to-Cap delegation as a whole. You see, Metro Chamber has fallen into, in my view, the habit of supporting almost every proposal that involves Washington sending ever larger sums of federal taxpayer money into our region.

POLICY DIFFERENCES The problem, as I see it, is that that’s not always a good thing, and the dollars that Metro Chamber wants the federal government to send us could, in many cases, be better spent on more deserving projects and programs or in more intelligent, less costly ways. But the powers that be in the Metro Chamber and the Cap-toCap delegation are motivated, by and large, by short-term considerations: to land this new grant or to secure funding for that new project. It’s a beg-a-thon, after all. (Although in

fairness, the Metro Chamber had another important initiative it was pursuing with gusto on Cap-to-Cap this year: to streamline the federal approval process for projects of all kinds.) No one with Metro Chamber, to my knowledge, is suggesting the one solution that would save mountains of taxpayer money while giving state and local governments total control over how such dollars are spent: simply roll up the budgets of dozens of federal departments and agencies and “block grant” the entire pile to the states whence the money came. Eliminate the federal haircut that Washington always extracts when it serves as the middleman between federal taxpayers and local projects and programs. Eliminate the ways in which the federal government’s grant and project guidelines coerce local and state governments into spending their own money (in the form of required local matches) in ways they might not otherwise.

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Sacramento south of Tower Bridge (at a cost of $20 million) and adopting a plan to move the light rail line currently on K Street north three blocks to H Street, so that the new streetcar could travel down K Street (another $20 million addition). As Sacramento City Councilmember Steve Hansen candidly put it, “We didn’t want to leave money on the table. If we want to ask [the federal government] for more, we have to show a bigger project. We’re trying to show them what we would do if they chose to invest more.” Local taxpayers are throwing more money at the project solely because the federal government signaled its willingness to throw more money at it, not because it makes any sense from a transportation policy or efficiency point of view. Under the 50 percent local-match requirement, local governments would have to pony up a further $25 million, increasing the local share of the project’s costs from $75 million to $100 million. How do streetcar backers plan to raise the extra dough? Well, last year Regional Transit was

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company, Fulcrum, owns a large tract of undeveloped land along the proposed new route, near his existing West Sac housing properties. So I went to Washington with the hope of derailing federal funding of the streetcar project. At Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group that I founded and lead), our research showed that streetcars do nothing to enhance mobility or get people out of cars. Our transit expert, Professor Emeritus Gregory Thompson of Florida State University, a nationally recognized specialist in rail transportation, has characterized the proposed streetcar project as “little more than an amusement ride for tourists.” Further, academic studies have shown that streetcars contribute little to nothing to economic development, notwithstanding the rosy claims of streetcar boosters. Most troubling of all is that the $200 million spent on building a streetcar project is $200 million that can’t be spent on RT’s fleet of light rail cars, which are badly in need of replacement. All in all, it’s a lousy deal for Sacramentans—unless you’re

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BARBARA SAFFORD LOVES HER CARMICHAEL COMMUNITY—AND IT LOVES HER BACK

arbara Safford is a breeze at conversation. The Carmichael resident and volunteer can talk to anyone about anything, which has made her an amazing asset to countless organizations over the years. “I’m a people person,” she admits while we lounge in her beautiful backyard. She and her husband, Tom, have lived in this house on Stanley Avenue for 45 years, ever since they moved to Sacramento from their

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native Chicago so Tom could take a job. “He was offered jobs in both Sacramento and Southern California, where I actually have family,” Safford recalls. “He picked the one in Sacramento, and when we drove down Stanley Avenue for the first time and I saw how agricultural it was with all the chickens and sheep, I didn’t know what to think. It felt like we were near a zoo!” Safford now says she wouldn’t live anywhere else. One key reason is the abundance of activities she threw herself into when they relocated so she could make the community her own. Volunteerism has always been a part of Safford’s life. As a high school student in Chicago, she volunteered at a preschool to read to kids and was an active Girl Scout. As an adult in Carmichael, she’s served as a Camp

Fire and Cub Scout leader and a PTA member and officer at Mary Deterding Elementary School. She’s volunteered with the Assistance League of Sacramento, Our Lady of Assumption Parish Council, the Administrative Fire Services Section of the California Fire Chiefs Association and, for the past year, as a member of the board of Carmichael Friends of the Library. In March, the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce honored her as volunteer of the year. “I’ve never thought of myself as a volunteer,” says Safford, who worked as the senior staff administrative coordinator at the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District until she retired. “I just like to do things to help others. It’s always been a part of me. It’s my way of learning.” As a board member of the Carmichael Chamber for the past six years, Safford has represented

Carmichael Friends of the Library, spreading the word about the library’s merits. “I think of the library as an indoor park,” says Safford. “People can do all kinds of activities at the library, and there’s always some kind of event going on. The role of the Friends is to help fund those extra programs through our twice-yearly book sales in May and November and through membership. My goal is to tell people all about it.” For more information about Carmichael Library, visit saclibrary. org. For more information about the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce, visit carmichaelchamber.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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TO WASHINGTON So with this backdrop, I signed up for Cap-to-Cap and traveled to Washington on April 13 for a five-day experience unlike any I’ve ever had. Our 365-strong delegation was divided into 12 policy teams. I chose to be on the transportation team, made up of about 30 members. But when I arrived at our conference hotel (the venerable Mayflower Hotel), I was told that my registration for the transportation team, for some reason, couldn’t be found. I was also told that I’d missed our first team meeting that morning because I hadn’t been informed of it. Further, my plans to participate in meetings with administration officials at the Department of Transportation were being blocked because I hadn’t submitted security forms. (I had registered weeks before the deadline for submitting such forms but was not advised of the requirement.)

When I pleaded with our conference managers for help in fixing the security forms problem, a new obstacle arose. I was informed by a senior Metro Chamber official that it was “too late to add folks to agency [administration] meetings. We have been planning this program for the last six months and the attendees for agency meetings have been set.” As a consolation prize, I suppose, I was offered a chance to attend a meeting with Congresswoman Doris Matsui, a major sponsor of the streetcar project. I respectfully declined. I began to feel increasing unwelcome in the cozy fraternity of Cap-to-Cap attendees, made up mostly of folks who were longtime attendees. When I arrived at the conference check-in table, I ran into a Sacramento city councilmember (who shall remain nameless), who looked at me like they’d seen a ghost. A few

minutes later, I ran into the director of the city’s Department of Utilities, Bill Busath, on the sidewalk in front of the Mayflower. (Recurring scandals in that department are a regular target of EOS reports and press releases.) I again got the startled ghost-sighting reaction. I was starting to feel like a party crasher. That evening, I attended a lavish reception for the Cap-to-Cap delegation held at the architecturally stunning Organization of American States headquarters, built on a premier location directly across the street from the South Lawn of the White House. I was grateful to chat with a half-dozen or so friendly associates. I was able to fully participate in meetings on Capitol Hill with senior staffers of the various congressional committees that appropriate transportation dollars (there are a number of them), as well as attend small meetings with staffers in the Capitol offices of our local congressional representatives.

‘STICK WITH THE SCRIPT’ On the morning of our first day of congressional meetings, we were all advised by Metro Chamber officials to “maintain unity” and “stick with the script” of the chamber’s policy positions as published in various handouts. The only problem with that is I’d never agreed to act in lockstep with 100 percent of the Metro Chamber’s policy prescriptions when I signed up for Cap-to-Cap. I knew at that point my task was going to be tricky. In our congressional meetings, typically four to eight of us from the transportation team would meet with the most senior staffer of each party on each of the committees we visited. These were “professional” staff (it even said so on their cards), meaning permanent policy staffers who turn over infrequently. I was startled to find that there was almost

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no discernable difference in the policy preferences expressed by GOP and Democratic senior staffers. If you weren’t told who was who, it was virtually impossible (at least for me) to tell the difference between the two. They all seemed perfectly happy to send taxpayer money out the door. One member of each group was designated as group leader, responsible for guiding our discussions. The leaders were immensely knowledgeable. For example, Jim Corless, the CEO of SACOG, the regional government body in Sacramento that plays a huge role in deciding which local transportation projects get funded, was the leader of one of my groups. We met with staffers of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which ultimately oversees all appropriations for transportation projects on behalf of the Senate. I have found that local advocates of transportation funding typically adopt a public posture that “we should fix our infrastructure first,” meaning before we start blowing taxpayer money on new projects. But that’s almost always empty posturing, not intended to get in the way of their efforts to land federal dollars for new projects, like the streetcar project. So whenever someone in one of my groups touted support for a “fix it first” policy, I would always promptly and strongly echo their sentiment. I would then say that the replacement of RT’s ancient fleet of light rail cars should be funded before the federal government blows $100 million in federal tax dollars on an unneeded streetcar system. Well, that didn’t win me any friends among the members of my groups. In fact, I was twice admonished (albeit politely) by group leaders to “stick to the script” and “never show anything but a united front.” I thanked them for their advice. They had their agendas and I had mine. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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A Tough Job

Daniel Hahn

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f Daniel Hahn didn’t already have the toughest job in Sacramento, he has it now. As police chief, Hahn has faced unprecedented community unrest over the March shooting death of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old killed when two of Hahn’s officers mistook Clark’s cellphone for a gun.

POLICE CHIEF IS THE RIGHT PERSON AT THE RIGHT TIME

At the same time, Hahn has worked to resolve a potential crisis in his ranks. Cops worry they have become political targets for trying to do their inherently hazardous jobs in a messy environment that demands perfection. Still, police feel support from the chief’s office. There has been no real griping in station houses about Hahn’s leadership. And despite community frustration over accountability in police shootings of African-American men, Hahn remains popular in both economically distressed and affluent neighborhoods. If the chief’s job can be described as walking a razor’s edge, Hahn has kept his balance. “Our officers have responded well,” says city manager Howard Chan, who hires and supervises Sacramento’s police chief. “The protesters have really been letting them have it. People have been in their faces, saying they are racists. But they have shown judgment and restraint. Things could be burning. I couldn’t ask for a better partner than Daniel.” Hahn’s presence as the right person in the right job at the right time has been a blessing, not just for Chan but for the City Council and the community at large. But his presence begs a larger question: How long will the chief stick around? To be clear, Hahn has said nothing to suggest he might be thinking of bailing out. He became Sacramento’s 45th police chief only last August, and he made it clear at his swearing-in ceremony that it was his dream job. If Hahn was looking for a retirement gig, he already had it—he was Roseville’s police chief when Chan hired him for Sacramento. Moreover, Roseville authorities didn’t want to lose Hahn. They would have matched any offer made by Sacramento. But Hahn wanted to come to Sacramento. The city is his home: He grew up in Oak Park, went to Sacramento High School, Sacramento City College and Sacramento State University, and he served his entire career with the Sacramento Police Department until Roseville hired him away as chief in 2011. Though he loves his hometown and has a plate filled with goals yet to be fulfilled, there’s another factor that must be considered. Hahn recently turned 50, and that’s a golden age for any city worker classified as a safety officer. When he celebrated his birthday, Hahn automatically became eligible for retirement. The city’s retirement system will pay the chief 3 percent of his salary, multiplied by the number of years he worked in the state retirement system. The Sacramento chief’s annual salary at top range is about $254,000. Three percent of that salary, multiplied by 30, is an annual pension of approximately $229,000. Hahn began as a community service officer at 19 and became a police officer at 21. Being eligible for retirement means Hahn shows up for work for an extra $25,000 per year. “Chief Hahn would not have come here if he wanted to retire,” says Tim Davis, president of the Sacramento Police Officers TO page 19

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Dr. Kellie Whited

Lab Findings THIS SCIENCE TEACHER PUTS THE FUN IN FUNDAMENTALS

r. Kellie Whited is the kind of cool teacher you always wanted as a kid. She’s trained exotic animals and appeared on “The Tonight Show.” She’s worked on a language project with chimpanzees. She loves “Star Wars,” and she created a summer-school class called The Science of “Star Wars.” Her classroom at Sacramento Country Day School is the unofficial student union, where students hang out at all hours of the day. Whited couldn’t be happier in her role as teacher, mentor and “Science Lady,” as her lower-

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school students affectionately refer to her. “I’ve had many weird jobs,” Whited says. “They’ve all prepared me to do what I do now. I feel like taking many different paths leads you to where you’re meant to be.” A native of San Diego, Whited came to UC Davis to study veterinary medicine and worked at Marine World during the summers. After earning her bachelor’s degree, she worked at the San Diego Wild Animal Park with pretty much any animal they could throw at her: cats, birds, snakes, you name it. (“The birds are the most unpredictable,” Whited says. “Happy one minute, biting you the next.”) This work experience led her to “stalk” Joan Embery, the longtime international ambassador for the San Diego Zoo who appeared with exotic animals on “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Whited contacted Embery and convinced her to allow her to

intern, which led to Whited’s own appearances on the show. Despite fulfilling a childhood goal, Whited found she missed Davis, so she returned to the university to work for a lab and earn her Ph.D. studying the digestion of fats in the body. She began to teach at UC Davis as well as Cosumnes River College. During these lecturing stints, a friend who worked at Sacramento Country Day approached her about teaching a nutrition class at the K–12 school. She accepted the job and was soon teaching one high school class a day while also pregnant with her first son, writing her dissertation and lecturing. “I never thought I would be a high school teacher,” Whited admits, though she says the fact that her students “don’t bite me or pee on me” like her former animal charges has its benefits. But she found herself falling in love with “the big kids” and

the ways she could open their eyes to the wide world of science. “Kids often think that if they like science, they have to be a doctor,” says Whited, who lives within walking distance of Country Day. “Science isn’t all lab coats and chemicals. It’s silly and messy and fun. There are so many other options.” Fun is a key component in Whited’s classroom. As a teacher of biology, anatomy, physiology and nutrition for the high school and the coordinator of all things science for the lower school, she’s all about hands-on activities (she starts kids on dissections as early as kindergarten) and experimentation. “The most important thing for kids to know is that failure is OK,” Whited says. “Go ahead. Take a wild stab and make a fool of yourself. You’re failing in a safe environment. But you have to keep asking questions.” Last November, Sacramento Country Day participated in PhUn Week!, a partnership with TO page 19

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New Owners, Same Vibe CONTINUING D&J KITCHENS & BATHS’ LEGACY OF STELLAR REMODELING SERVICES

community, so it means a lot to take over a business that’s so local. When you took over on Jan. 1 of this year, did you want a big change or to continue smooth sailing? D&J had its policies and procedures already in place, so it was appealing to be able to step right in. The key is that the character and the culture— and the people—were already here. We want to continue operations as they stand. We’re lucky that the staff has been incredibly loyal and helpful. They were the key to this transition. Tony Lunsford, our production manager, has been in the construction and remodeling industry since 1987. He has so much knowledge! Amanda Barnhart, our lead designer, has specialized in kitchens and baths for 15 years and was D&J’s first employee back in 2004.

John Otto and Jeff Zimmerman

hen John Otto and his business partner, Jeff Zimmerman, were looking to start a new venture, they had only to look down the street. D&J Kitchens & Baths is known all over Sacramento for providing topnotch remodeling services, and Otto

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would regularly see its signs along the street where he lives in Land Park. When Otto and Zimmerman heard that D&J founder Darius Baker was planning to retire, the two entrepreneurs decided they wanted to continue the legacy that Baker started. Here, Otto discusses the ownership transition and his plans for the future. You and Jeff both have extensive experience in construction. (Otto worked with family-run Otto Construction, which his grandfather founded

in 1947. Zimmerman hails from a local real estate family and has spent years managing multiuse development projects.) Why did D&J appeal to you as a business? We heard through personal connections that Darius was planning to retire but didn’t want to let go of his baby—his legacy—that is D&J Kitchens & Baths, which he’d run for almost 37 years. Since Jeff and I were looking to partner on a new project and we both come from family-owned businesses ourselves, we thought the opportunity was too good to pass up. We’re both very involved in the

What do you see for the future of D&J? The niche for D&J has always been higher-end kitchens and baths. Our ambition is to expand the number of whole-house remodels we do and slowly but steadily grow the company while keeping operations intact. Sacramento is growing, and we want to be a part of that. D&J Kitchens & Baths will help you realize your home remodeling dreams. Call (916) 925-2577 or visit djkitchen.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Association. “But there’s an old saying: When a police officer reaches 50, it’s three bad days in a row and I’m gone.” Hahn still has momentous work to accomplish in Sacramento. He wants to move the culture of the police department and recruit more officers of color and more women. He wants to build trust with the community. “There’s only one difference between us and Ferguson [in Missouri] and us and some of these cities where things did get really bad, where buildings were burning,” Hahn says. “That’s our history of relationships between the police department and the community. Granted, it’s not where it should be, but it’s a lot better than it was in some of those other communities. The trust you have with the police department in the Fab 40s and North Natomas can be the same in Del Paso Heights and Meadowview. We’re not there now, but we can be.” City Councilmember Angelique Ashby was upset when Hahn moved to Roseville. She vowed to get him back. He was her district’s captain when he left. She lobbied for his return and wants to keep him. “This guy is everything we are all about as a city, and I never want to lose him,” she says. “But people need to have reasonable expectations for him. We need to be really careful about those expectations. The question isn’t how we can judge Daniel Hahn as police chief? It’s how can we help him?”

Sacramento State in which students in kindergarten through fifth grade learned about physiology. They constructed models of the respiratory system using Gatorade bottles and tested neural signaling in cockroach legs. If that sounds like it requires a lot of focus for such young students, Whited’s response is clear. “Kids are sponges,” she says. “They want to learn, and we don’t want them to get to a point where they think science is too hard. By exposing them to things early on and learning through play, they won’t experience culture shock once they get to the higher grades and start tackling more complex concepts.”

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Ready for a Change EMPTY NESTERS CREATE NEW MEMORIES IN MODERN EAST SAC FLAT

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hen empty nesters Phil and Julie Angelides downsized to their new residence in McKinley Village, they were not sure how much of an emotional toll the move would have on them. “I expected when I drove by our old home that my heart would sink,” says Julie of the 1933 pink stucco house in Land Park where the couple lived for 30 years. Phil and Julie, who have three adult daughters, both grew up in Sacramento. Julie fell in love with the older home while walking past it in high school; she and Phil purchased the classic when it came up for sale years later. “I thought they were going to have to drag me out on a stretcher,” she jests. “The home had a lot of memories,” adds Phil, former state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor in 2006. “For example, Bill Clinton was in our home three times,” including in 1996 when he was president of the United States. But when Julie saw the new East Sacramento homes at McKinley Village, which Phil co-developed with The New Home Company, “I just fell in love,” she says. “This gives us a chance, at our age, to set our roots down, to make new friends, to have a different lifestyle.” “Julie took care of our old home by herself— she did the yard, she did the house,” notes Phil. “This downsizing has been wonderful.” Julie agrees. “I had worked so hard in that house,” she adds. “Now I feel free. It is a very good feeling. It’s liberating.” Another adjustment was necessary when moving from their 4,000-square-foot home on a half an acre of land to a 2,224-square-foot flat with no backyard. “We sold all our furniture,” says Julie. “We just started discarding.” Basically, dishes, cookware, artwork and family mementos were among the few items that made the transition. “We had our moments,” remarks Phil. “When you go through all the belongings you have accumulated over four or five decades, there was emotion in the move. But we ended up saving all the stuff we cared deeply about.” In addition to his treasured tennis trophies, he brought along all his books. “Books are like gold to me. My concern was if there would be enough room for them.” McKinley Village, a new 50-acre urban housing development situated between Capital City Freeway and an elevated railroad line in East Sacramento, opened to the public in 2016. “The idea was to create a community that was in harmony with East Sacramento and had a range of housing opportunities for people who

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A HOME FOR A LIFETIME.

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want to live near restaurants and shops, who work Downtown,” says Phil. Phil, a longtime developer, is quick to give credit to nationally known urban architects Peter Calthorpe, who created the initial design concepts, and Mike Woodley, who was the lead on the final land plan and home designs. Sacramento-based architect David Mogavero designed the central clubhouse. When completed, there will be 10 parks and common areas throughout the “urban village” that will feature art installations by local artists. The Angelideses’ model, called the Alder, offers single-story living in a two-story flat. The first floor features a half bath, coat closet, access to the two-car garage, a staircase and elevator. “The elevator is great when we have suitcases from traveling, when my 95-year-old dad comes to visit, when we come back from the store,” comments Phil. The second level is the living space, complete with a master bedroom suite with a bathroom and two walk-in closets; guest bedroom and bathroom; laundry room; and library for all those books. “Even though our old home was beautiful, it had 1933 closets,” says Phil. “With this home, everything is all spankin’ fresh and new.” The couple elected to go with a modern look in the kitchen with quartz countertops, a Carrera marble tile backsplash and high-end stainlesssteel appliances. Eighteen-feet-high ceilings add drama to the open living area with a fireplace. Scratch-resistant tile flooring was important to the couple, who have active grandchildren, a goldendoodle dog and a calico cat. “I wanted it to be easy to take care of,” notes Julie. “I can clean this whole place in less than two hours.” From the second-level outdoor patio, they can enjoy a view of Downtown Sacramento’s skyline. “We have the most glorious sunsets,” says Julie. Phil adds, “At night, this place feels particularly urban and exciting.” The home was pre-wired with a 240-volt electric vehicle charger—perfect for Phil, who just purchased a plug-in hybrid that will go 53 miles on pure electric. “I come home at night, plug it in, and within two hours it’s completely charged,” he says. With more than half of the homes already sold, the neighborhood is starting to come alive. “It’s a good mix of young families, couples with no children, empty nesters,” comments Phil. “We’re getting to know everyone and it’s exciting. Everyone feels like they are part of an adventure.” Even though the couple, now in their mid-60s, own vacation houses in Oregon and Los Angeles, they call Sacramento home. Their new flat in

McKinley Village represents the next phase of their lives. “Hopefully, this will be a home for a lifetime,” says Julie. “And we will have 30 more years of memories here, too,” adds Phil. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. n

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Young Brains and Football LOCAL ASSEMBLYMAN TACKLES A TOUGH PROBLEM

he debate over tackle football and whether children should be allowed to play it builds around several points. There’s the safety argument: Tackle football is just too dangerous for kids younger than 12. And there’s the nanny-government argument: Politicians already interfere enough in our lives. But there’s no debate about one fundamental feature of youth tackle football. No matter what happens to those young brains and bones and spinal columns on the gridiron,

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Jay Erhart

parents and guardians can’t say they weren’t warned. Sacramento Youth Football, which operates tackle leagues for 10,000 children ages 5 and older, posts on its website 17 separate documents related to injuries. Fourteen of them talk about concussions. They cover everything from symptoms to diet to whether and when a child who has suffered a football concussion should return to school. This helpful library of information comes in addition to the gruesomely detailed waiver parents and guardians must sign before their young athletes

strap on football helmets. The waiver indemnifies the league from lawsuits involving an array of potential injuries, all spelled out and punctuated by the ultimate tragedy, “even sudden death.” Despite the dangers, thousands of parents each year in Sacramento examine the documents, sign the waivers and suit up their children for a season of tackle football. The game stirs deep passions in these parents. They were not pleased to see an effort by their representative in the California State Assembly, Kevin

McCarty, to ban tackle football for kids younger than 12. “As you might expect, we do not agree with the legislation,” says Jay Erhart, commissioner of Sacramento Youth Football. “We believe the research they cite is flawed, and we believe other sports are every bit as dangerous. This is governmental overreach and an attack on youth sports. If they succeed with banning football, they will move onto other sports.” Earlier this year, McCarty introduced Assembly Bill 2108, the Safe Youth Football Act, which is

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916-967-6900 Ć Visit artisansash.com FREE ESTIMATE EPA Certiﬁed Ca. Lic. 949891 remarkably simple as legislation goes. It would prohibit children from playing organized tackle football until their 12th birthday. With support uncertain, McCarty shelved the bill prior to a committee hearing in May. But the issue won’t go away. “Some people act like we want to ban apple pie,” says McCarty. “Obviously, that isn’t the case. I became interested in this issue when I began to dig into the studies and research. They are pretty decisive. The odds of suffering brain damage in tackle football increase by 50 percent for kids under 12. It’s compelling.” McCarty made a gutsy call when he decided to carry the legislation. It’s not a juice bill—an instrument of legislation that saves or produces money for special interests—and it’s not a feel-good bill that moves forward without real consequences. While youth tackle football may not stand supreme among the burning issues of the day, the Safe Youth Football Act is something that touches many families and inflames the hearts of many people whose

children are long past the age of youth sports. Erhart, a retired law enforcement officer with 34 years in youth football, praises the game for its ability to teach mentorship, discipline, commitment and resilience, especially among African-American and Latino youngsters in South Sacramento. He says other sports leagues often abandon inner-city kids. And he says parents know better than politicians what’s best for their kids. “I call BS on that,” McCarty says. “There are plenty of other youth sports that provide those values, including soccer, baseball, volleyball, flag football and others. Even a contact sport like ice hockey has taken steps to reduce the type of contact injuries that cause concussions.” The assemblymember dismisses the claim that state government should keep its nose out of youth football. “I’ve heard the nanny-government argument, but I don’t buy it,” McCarty says. “We have a duty to pass laws that protect people. It’s why

we have seat belts and child car seats and why kids can’t buy cigarettes.” Youth football has grass-roots support from across the country. The proposed ban activated football fans and helped with parental awareness, Erhart says. Meantime, McCarty has several legendary NFL players and coaches who have lent their names on behalf of AB 2108 and similar bills in other states. Among them are Phil Villapiano, Nick Buoniconti, Chris Borland and Harry Carson.

Last year, five of the 10,000 kids in Sacramento Youth Football suffered concussions. That’s five more than anyone would like to see, but no sport is 100 percent safe. “Safety is our first priority,” Erhart says. The bill is on hold for now, but the battle over youth football will continue. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Crazy for Color

THE GARDEN IS NO PLACE TO BE BASHFUL

here are few entries in my baby book. My mother was a hardworking farm wife with two children, much too busy to be documenting my every tooth and step. One of the few things she wrote was “Anita loves flowers—22 months.” Decades later, I still do. I first encountered the term “flower floozy” at Annie’s Annuals & Perennials, a wonderful nursery in Richmond, and recognized kindred spirits among the staff and customers. This nursery began by specializing in annual plants, which pump out flowers, set seed and die in a single season. Annie’s now offers other types of plants, but flowers still rule. What is it about flowers? While I love their fragrance and form, their color makes me weak in the knees. I appreciate the restfulness of a mostly green garden and the purity of a white garden, but I want pink, red, orange, yellow, purple and blue, and lots of it.

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These colors don’t necessarily blend well. Tastes vary, but I prefer gardens where colors have been chosen carefully rather than mixed together randomly. Many books and articles have been written about the use of color in the garden, often referring to the color wheel to explain how colors interact. The color wheel contains the full range of colors. You can choose colors in a triad, equally spaced around the wheel. Complementary colors are opposite, while analogous colors are next to one another. Monochromatic schemes are the same hue, often in different shades. Pastels give an English-garden look. Bright colors can look tropical. Colors ranging from red through chartreuse are considered hot. They seem to advance and make a space seem smaller. Blues, violets and greens are cool and seem to recede. At my house, I have relegated hot colors to a narrow border along the driveway where they can throw a loud party without upsetting the more genteel pastel and cooler tones of my main garden. Big purple canna leaves contrast with their orange flowers and with the brilliant yellow and orange blossoms on ‘Joseph’s Coat’ rose and Mexican lobelia. It’s hot, hot, hot out there. Walk through the garden gate and you find a still-colorful but more

subdued garden. I grow many roses from the 19th century, which by definition do not come in the bright yellow or orange tones that were first introduced in the 1920s and 1930s. Deep-red roses punctuate the garden. Some old roses have peachy tones, and they grow in one section of the garden offset by the purple and blue flowers on varieties of salvia, veronica, teucrium and plumbago. It’s helpful to look at gardening books and pay attention to what you like when you walk through the neighborhood or visit gardens near and far. If you like a combination, consider what appeals to you. While I don’t care for an all-white garden under our blazing Sacramento sun, white or light-colored flowers interspersed with other plantings can cool things off and stay visible as the sun goes down. Darker colors disappear at dusk. What are some of my other favorite flowering plants? I love bearded iris, with extravagant ruffled flowers that came in many hues. (Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow.) Some iris varieties repeat bloom in the fall, an added bonus. I like spring bulbs such as tulips and narcissus, which pop with color at a time of the year when very little else is blooming. Drought-tolerant gardens can be drab if you pick mostly grasses

and plants that go dormant in the summer. You can have nearly yearround color by carefully selecting what you grow. In the spring, small trees and shrubs such as ceanothus, flannel bush and redbud bloom blue, gold and magenta. California poppies will repeat bloom if you cut them back after their first flowering. In the summer, Bidens and other members of the daisy family bear brightyellow flowers. Red buckwheat gives a nice contrast and holds its color for months. Autumn sage comes in almost every color. Spanish lavender blooms heavily and is fairly long-lived, unlike many other lavender varieties. California fuchsias bear fluorescent orange and red flowers for a long, beebusy season. A photographer once visited the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden where I volunteer. As he bounded excitedly from rose to rose, he stopped at an intensely purple-violet flower and shouted, “I live for this color!” I do, too, and all of the others in the flower rainbow. Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n

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Gold-Medal Cooking

s a sports performance chef, Brett Eisen has fed plenty of athletes, including the Sacramento Kings, Oregon Ducks, Denver Broncos and 2016 U.S. women’s Olympic soccer team. But working in PyeongChang, South Korea, as a chef for the U.S. ski and snowboard team was a special thrill. “Easily, to date, the highlight of my career,” says the 28-year-old East Sac resident. The Olympic Committee contacted him five months before the 2018 Winter Games to be a member of the culinary team. (The team, which competes year-round, already had a full-time chef.) His mission? “Merely show up and cook food,” he says. Eisen set up shop in an old snowboard store across from the bobsled course and went to work. “Cooking for finely tuned skiers and snowboarders is fun and fairly easy,” he says. “There is no nutrition counseling. These world-class athletes already know what they need and want. My job was to inject variety, flavor and fun into their daily menus.” For breakfast, he made quinoa oatmeal sprinkled with orange zest, banana maple cinnamon muffins and lots of eggs: egg sandwiches, egg burritos, quiches, frittatas and French toast casseroles. Eisen fermented his own kimchi, which he added to pancakes and dumplings. “Nothing too spicy, but fun, flavorful and tasty,” he

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explains. To combat the cold, he made huge pots of bone broth for the athletes. In the snowboard storeturned kitchen, he provided grab â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; go sandwiches along with simple pasta dishes and homemade gnocchi. Dinners were robust affairs: chimichurri flank steak, Japanese sweet potatoes, roasted root vegetables, chicken piccata, pesto chicken, chicken and pasta, hearty soups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I stressed home-style cooking,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The athletes yearned for great carbsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not basting stuff in butter, but lean and clean.â&#x20AC;? He stayed in the same condo as the athletes, and he kept their lounge stocked with dried fruits, granola and healthy snacks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was inspiring to see the good nature and warm camaraderie among our skiers and snowboarders,â&#x20AC;? says Eisen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their gratitude for my home cooking induced me to perform at max.â&#x20AC;? Eisen was euphoric to be at the games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d walk around thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Holy crap, I am at the Olympics!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? His friend and mentor, Adam Sacks, accompanied Eisen to PyeongChang to help him cook. The

two share an intense passion for health, nutrition and sports. Which brings us to Eisenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next venture: Fuel Good, a Sacramentobased business that caters to retired athletes. Eisen shows them how to incorporate real food and performance-level nutrition into their lifestyles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have found,â&#x20AC;? says Eisen, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that retired athletes might not immediately possess the necessary awareness to maintain healthy physical conditioning after they transition to their new way of life. Northern California is a highly desired locale for former athletic stars, and while I hope to stay in Sacramento for the immediate duration, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a close commute to reach out and serve those athletes who still need a sense of direction when it comes to wellness, clean living and healthy nutrition.â&#x20AC;? For more information about Fuel Good, email Brett Eisen at chefbretteisen@gmail.com. Peter Anderson can be reached at 49peteranderson@gmail.com. n

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An Arts Blueprint THE CITY’S CULTURAL PLAN MOVES FORWARD

JV By Jordan Venema Building Our Future

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n April 23, hundreds of people gathered at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium to see the final draft of the city’s proposed cultural plan. It was the final step in a process called Creative Edge: six months of town hall meetings, community forums, and city and countywide surveys to shape the city’s arts, culture and creative economy in the years ahead. Sacramentans’ participation and enthusiasm proved residents are hopeful the cultural plan will yield more than just words on paper. Mayor Darrell Steinberg admitted some still may have doubts. “I know there may have been experiences with the city over the years where there were promises made and promises not kept,” he said. Sacramento artist Jeff Musser, who participated in four meetings throughout Creative Edge’s planning process, responded to the draft with cautious optimism. “Bureaucracy is a very slowmoving train, but if there is enough momentum, things will happen,” he said. “However, as Steinberg hinted,

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festival that art is essential both to Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity and economy. Musser, and artists like him, hope the city finalizes a plan that enables artists to make a living. As a marching band paraded through the auditorium, Musser gestured to the band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope they got paid,â&#x20AC;? he said. In fact, most Sacramentans want to see artists get paid. According to the surveys conducted during the planning process, more than 90 percent of residents cited the importance of art, and 73 percent said they support a citywide tax to benefit the arts. Likely inspired by those numbers, Steinberg announced at the meeting the possibility of renewing Measure U, a temporary half-cent sales tax approved by voters in November 2012. The draft plan explores other sources of funding: creating a cultural trust fund, restoring transient occupancy taxes and seeking funds through outside sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.

Though the surveys suggest the vast majority of Sacramentans value art, Jonathon Glus, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of cultural and creative economy, noted that â&#x20AC;&#x153;everybody experiences arts, culture and creativity on their own terms.â&#x20AC;? The draft plan addresses the need to foster cultural diversity while alluding to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to protect it in the past. According to Glus, the draft reflects the issues raised by residents who participated in the planning process, essentially mandating the city to take cultural equity more seriously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to make sure there is access to resources in our neighborhoods so that people can explore their own cultural identity and creative expression,â&#x20AC;? Glus said. Glus expects a final version of the draft to go to the City Council for approval soon. Councilmember Angelique Ashby said she believes the plan has the five votes necessary to pass. I asked Glus, who has participated in similar arts and cultural planning processes in both Houston and

Pasadena, if he could compare those processes to Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You may be surprised, but Sacramento has seemed more eager, more optimistic, more enthusiastic and ready for a step forward,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was cautioned that there could be some cynicism with the plan â&#x20AC;Ś but I think it has been really amazing to see the community step up.â&#x20AC;? Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skepticism may be giving way to expectations, but arguably Creative Edge has already found its target. Sacramento is seeing an arts and cultural renaissance that is proven by the process itself: the participation and persistence of Sacramentans whose job now is to hold the city accountable by creating an arts and cultural plan that represents every Sacramentan. To read the draft of Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural plan, go to creativeedge. cityofsacramento.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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Marc Prescott and his sons work on tiny doors together.

A Mighty Idea TINY PEOPLE SELLING TINY DOORS FOR TINY HOUSES

arents these days have to answer tough questions from their children, even young ones, about why there are people living on the streets, in parks, under overpasses or on sidewalks. Answers aren’t easy when it comes to the homelessness problem, which seems to be growing in all Sacramento neighborhoods.

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Most families have the means for food and roof. But some don’t. Kids ask why. Parents have to explain about mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty and despair. But that still doesn’t answer the question about why they have to live on the street. Marc Prescott, an assistant pastor at Restoration Life Church in Tahoe Park, has had to answer these questions from his own children, Benjamin, 3, and Joshua, 5. His church is building 20 tiny homes for homeless people at Compassion Village, a program that brings together civic, business, nonprofit and church leaders to work on solutions to social issues. Six tiny

homes have already been built on the grounds of St. Paul Church of God in Christ in North Sacramento; 14 more will be completed by the end of summer. Young Benjamin knew about the tiny homes and wondered why they couldn’t build more houses for the homeless people he saw. Prescott told him that people are trying, explaining that they need more money, volunteers and support to solve such a large problem. The city of Sacramento is looking at the small-dwelling concept as an important piece of the puzzle. Prescott and his wife, Tina, had an idea for raising money and engaging

the community. It would be a life lesson for Benjamin and Joshua. The family’s solution: Make little doors with wood, paint and inspiration. Walk around their East Sac neighborhood, talk about homeless issues and sell the doors for a $20 donation. The money would go in a jar to contribute to build more tiny shelters. “The boys saw homeless people near our neighborhood or on the river,” said Prescott. “They asked questions. This was a chance for the family to do something and have the boys take a positive step in community service and caring for other people. They are very aware that something’s wrong.”

The little multicolored wood doors can be found on East Sac porches, leaning up against trees and in yards. The Prescott family would love to have other families participate in the tiny-door project. “It’s good,” said Benjamin. “Tiny people selling tiny doors for tiny homes.” Compassion Village in North Sac is moving along nicely, according to organizers. E49, the nonprofit organization that oversees Compassion Village, is planning another homeless village at Genesis Church in South Sacramento. It will have 20 tiny homes, primarily for homeless mothers and their children. The little homes are built on wheels and are considered trailers for zoning purposes. They provide housing that can be permanent or temporary. Volunteers build the structures using supplies provided by The Home Depot, Lowe’s and other suppliers. Each partner church agrees to build the tiny homes and provide $7,500 for construction. In addition, they provide $5,000 per year in support and services for residents of each unit. Eventually, some residents will pay a small rent. “We would love to have 15 to 20 different villages following the same model of 20 units per location,” said Tammy Vallejo, founder and president of E49. Vallejo, a real estate broker, is committed to collaboration with

ministries, professionals and others to help make Compassion Village a success. Her board includes Restoration Life’s pastor, Dan Axtell, and other community leaders. “We all have to work together to find solutions,” she added. “It’s going very well and we’re excited. I look at these issues from a business perspective. I’ve witnessed the pain when people have lost their house during the recession. But there are other issues ranging from homelessness and youth at risk to racial tensions and sex trafficking.” “We have to keep going,” said Prescott. “People are dying on the street. We have to assign worth to the worthless. If we all pull together, we can do this.” Benjamin and Joshua may not totally understand the significance of their little doors, but as they grow older, they will take satisfaction that they tried to help others. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com. n

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Don’t Blame Me CONFESSIONS OF A BAD BABY BOOMER

or most of my life, I have felt like a bad boomer. I was born in 1958, which makes me, technically, a baby boomer. But unlike the stereotypical boomer, I have no idea where I was when news of JFK’s assassination was first broadcast. I was 5 years old at the time and didn’t pay any attention to national news. I have no recollection of Sputnik’s launch, because it happened 10 months before I was born. None of the schools I attended ever practiced the duck-and-cover civil defense drills that are supposedly a part of every boomer’s childhood memories. Not only did I not attend the original Woodstock music festival, I didn’t even hear about it until years afterward. My 11th birthday coincided with the middle day of that three-day festival. I never watched “I

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Love Lucy.” I never saw Elvis Presley or The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” I’ve never seen “The Howdy Doody Show,” “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” “Father Knows Best” or even “American Bandstand,” which ran until 1989. I never protested the Vietnam War. It ended when I was 16 but had been winding down for a year or two at that point, and I never seriously feared I would end up fighting in it. I never participated in a sit-in, a love-in or even a be-in. I’ve never smoked a single marijuana cigarette (or any other kind, for that matter). Whenever I hear someone in the media describing the typical baby boomer, that boomer never sounds anything like me. The stereotypical baby boomer went to college in the 1960s, dropped out and spent a few years dallying with hippie culture, eventually straightened out, finished school and, after perhaps spending a few years pursuing personal enrichment via the Peace Corps or an organic vegetable farm/commune, drifted into the Establishment and made good money for many years as a corporate lawyer, an academic, a unionized public employee, a stockbroker, a real estate agent, a doctor, an architect, a small-business owner or some

other staple of yuppiedom. Sometime around the beginning of the 21st century, the parents of the baby boomers began dying off, leaving their yuppie offspring enough money to buy vacation homes, invest heavily in the stock market, start up their own boutique consulting firms or retire early and begin writing that novel they abandoned after leaving grad school in the 1970s. Not only does this stereotype not fit me, it doesn’t fit any of my siblings or close friends, either. David Costanza, an associate professor of organizational sciences at George Washington University, recently published an essay in Slate called “Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as If They Are a Thing?” in which he noted that “saying someone is a millennial doesn’t say anything about them as an individual because the variation within millennials (or Xers or boomers) is often more extensive than the variation between generations.” Boomers are often stereotyped as selfish, Xers as slackers and millennials as narcissists. You’ll find plenty of people who fit these generational stereotypes, but you’ll also find plenty who don’t. Which pretty much renders the stereotypes worthless.

A few days after Costanza’s article appeared, The New York Times published an essay by Patricia Hampl called “Baby Boomers Reach the End of Their To-Do List.” Hampl appears to be that rare boomer who actually matches the media stereotype pretty well. She was born in 1946, widely regarded as the first year of the baby boom. She has an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has spent most of her career cosseted in various academic ivory towers and has benefited from numerous grants and endowments (Guggenheim, NEA, Fulbright, etc.). She writes that we baby boomers “had a preposterously long sense of our own youthfulness,” by which she means that she did. Those of us who went to work right out of high school or had our first baby at the age of 18 probably didn’t share that preposterously long sense of youthfulness. In her essay, Hampl addresses the very first-world problem of figuring out what do with all her free time now that she is rich and retired. Her solution: nothing. She has learned how to become a loafer, and she loves it. Hence the title of her latest book: “The Art of the Wasted Day.” As you might imagine, Hampl’s meditation on how to spend all day

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Failure To Launch THE CONFESSION OF AN OLDER AND WISER PASTOR

was only six months into my first pastor’s job in Hopland, Calif., when I contemplated quitting. As I considered my pastoral responsibilities, I had to admit I had an uncomplicated life. I was a fulltime graduate student driving 90 miles every weekend to preach two sermons in a country church. Not a bad gig, as they say. But on April 12, 1981, I began to feel a dissonance between my academic world and the rural working life of Hopland. I remember the date precisely because I’d anticipated the day’s events for months. That was the Sunday Navy test pilot Bob Crippen flew the Space Shuttle Columbia into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Astronaut John Young, who’d walked on the moon in 1972, commanded the mission. I stepped to the podium that day overflowing with optimism. Nothing

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would extinguish my unbridled enthusiasm except, as it turned out, Bob, my volunteer music director. I asked if he’d seen the launch. “Oh, that’s NASA nonsense produced in a Hollywood studio.” Too stunned to reply, I turned to greet the arriving congregation. I tried to pump up their passion for America’s return to space, but no one seemed moved. After church, I tried to reignite discussion at the potluck by telling my congregants how the shuttle was the first reusable spacecraft. The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane, but still no one had any energy for it. As Becky and I drove home to our little student apartment, I turned our commute into a pity party. I railed about the ignorance and high illiteracy rate of my church members. I couldn’t even get them to follow my Scripture readings, much less have them sing from a hymnal. We had only one member with a full-time job. Since most were unemployed, our offerings looked more like God’s tip jar than a collection plate. I nitpicked more, telling Becky that these Hoplanders weren’t even good Baptists. As a Baylor graduate, I knew a good Baptist did not smoke, drink

or chew—or date girls who did. These folks did all those things. The shame of it all! I was racing a fast high horse called Pretty Petty Preacher. Over the next several months, I began believing my slanderous slime. Finally, 13 months after I’d accepted the job, I gave my two-week notice. Sometime before graduation, a therapist helped me come to grips with my failure to launch. My seminary life overlooking San Francisco’s exclusive North Bay was an alien universe next to the practical lives of Hopland folks. While my congregants were trying to make ends meet, I was inflating my self-importance in philosophical student discussions of neo-Kierkegaardian existentialism. (I don’t know what this is.) Hopland was being overrun by the inflationary 1980s, but I was busy debating urgent issues like transubstantiation and consubstantiation. I had little time to sit with parishioners who were losing their lumber-industry jobs. The academia of theological graduate school placed me into a useless orbit, lost in space, circling the moon of elitism and irrelevance. God has a funny way of discomfiting the proud. Two years

after my resignation, it was deja vu all over again. I accepted a full-time pastorate in the unincorporated rural community of Brentwood, Calif. I had a little trouble locating the church because traffic slowed as plowing tractors whipped up a localized dustbowl. Finally, I found 25 grandparents waiting on their newly minted seminary graduate and muchhumbled pastor. Eventually, new houses sprang up in Brentwood and the growing community added its first stoplight. Our membership rolls grew accordingly through baptisms and births. We helped with a 7-pound, 3-ounce addition of our own. Fifteen years later, the Air Force sent me into an ecstatic orbit when they assigned me to be the launch chaplain for Cape Canaveral (19992002). Sometimes God has a funny sense of humor. Chaplain Norris Burkes will lead a free marriage retreat for military veterans July 20–22 at Sequoia National Park. For more information and to register, go to thenaturecorps. org/tour/sequoia. He can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net or (843) 608-9715. n

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2531 C ST 3157 DULLANTY WAY 3163 DULLANTY WAY 355 36TH WAY 389 SANTA YNEZ WAY 2416 L ST 1818 22ND ST #108 1500 24TH ST 1322 E SUTTER WALK 235 39TH ST 1216 39TH ST 1818 22ND ST #115 1818 22ND ST #106

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2025 VALLEJO WAY 1111 MARKHAM WAY 2143 7TH AVE 1008 YALE ST 3525 CROCKER DR 2716 HARKNESS ST 1009 7TH AVE 606 MERKLEY WAY 3083 FRANKLIN BLVD 2733 HARKNESS 2265 10TH AVE 2724 2ND AVE 914 U ST 2920 24TH ST 700 DUDLEY WAY

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5919 CAMELLIA AVE 1147 43RD ST 1848 43RD ST 871 55TH ST 832 41ST ST 1049 44TH ST 3810 MODDISON AVE 936 47TH ST 217 TIVOLI WAY 1108 43RD ST 4707 H ST 663 40TH ST 512 55TH ST 5200 J ST 1609 55TH ST 3799 MODDISON AVE 5725 MONALEE AVE

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2440 LARKSPUR LN #302 $145,000 628 WOODSIDE SIERRA #6 $165,000 803 DUNBARTON CIR $380,000 818 ELMHURST CIR $444,000 2235 UNIVERSITY $855,000 2507 EXETER SQUARE LN $345,000 290 HARTNELL PL $375,000 134 HARTNELL PL $399,900 1539 UNIVERSITY AVE $471,000 2040 ROBERT WAY $219,950 2413 MORSE AVE $300,000 2120 UNIVERSITY PARK DR $405,500 239 PALISADES SIERRA OAKS LN $786,000 2202 WOODSIDE LN #6 $157,000 2294 SIERRA BLVD #C $229,000 13 ADELPHI CT $385,000 3116 PENNLAND DR $324,000 1405 GANNON DR $359,000 2036 DELMA WAY $253,000 2320 AMERICAN RIVER DR $359,000 1840 MORSE AVE $307,500 1928 TERRACE DR $350,000 2204 PENN CT $425,000 1218 VANDERBILT WAY $435,000

1019 DORNAJO WAY #164 902 VANDERBILT WAY 3108 VIA GRANDE 2433 LAREDO RD 3118 VIA GRANDE 708 WOODSIDE EAST LN #5 2266 WOODSIDE LN #3 2405 BARCELONA WAY 925 FULTON AVE #428

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My Trip to Costco A RIVER FLOWS THROUGH IT

ost people shop at Costco like they’re survivalists stocking up for Armageddon’s aftermath. They purchase massive quantities and trundle the goods to their cars via ginormous carts and wheeled pallets. Recently, I needed only a single item that I knew Costco carried. I was unsure about finding it anywhere else. I thought, “Why not bike to Costco, get a little ride in and enjoy the trip?” I found out why not.

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As the crow flies, the Expo Parkway Costco is just over 2 miles from my East Sacramento home. That’s a distance that can be easily biked in 10 minutes. However, crows don’t have to worry about crossing the American River. For those of us using earthbound transportation, a bridge is required. For me, the bridge that would be most convenient, the one carrying the Capital City Freeway, allows neither pedestrians nor bikes. It’s for motor vehicles only. To cross the river by bike, my choices are either the former Sacramento Northern Railway bridge, now converted to bicycle and pedestrian use (behind the Blue Diamond Growers almond factory), or the H Street Bridge. I headed out toward the Sacramento Northern bikeway. The ride through East Sacramento and Midtown was fine. The trailhead for the Sacramento Northern is near

20th and C streets. The scenery there changes dramatically. There are no historic homes and no shade. Instead, there’s rampant graffiti alongside the Union Pacific tracks. There are also many conspicuous homeless campsites along the trail edge, with attendant piles of trash nearby. A female cyclist I talked to this weekend said such conditions creeped her out. Once you’re on the American River Parkway trail, the surroundings are more scenic and less impacted. A steep ramp took me to the levee top, and an access trail connected nicely to Expo Parkway. Even better would have been a parkway access direct to the REI and Costco parking lots, but no connection was added when the stores were built. (Maybe Costco didn’t want passing cyclists to horn in on the churros, pizza slices and hot dogs on offer.) By the time I got to Costco, 30 minutes had passed. The ride was 5.7 miles, almost tripling

the distance and time needed for a theoretical direct route. Once at Costco, I had to figure out what to do with my bike. Ideally, bike racks for retail stores and other commercial uses are located near a main entrance. That’s where they are easy to find and most convenient. Also, it’s where they are well-observed by passersby, which helps prevent theft of bikes and components. At Costco, not only could I not find a bike rack near the entrance—I couldn’t spot a rack anywhere. That’s not a welcoming sign, but it’s not an unusual situation for bicyclists. Improvising seems to come with the territory. I locked my bike to a pole in the parking lot. Costco has parking for more than 500 cars. Cars are clearly welcomed there. Without a doubt, most customers need a car to haul away the goods to stock their bunkers. Yet shouldn’t any busy destination have

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a place where one or two bikes can be safely and conveniently locked? On my return home, just to compare, I came back via the H Street Bridge. The trip was almost exactly the same distance (5.8 miles) and took the same time, half an hour. Crossing the bridge requires riding on a too-narrow sidewalk and trying to squeeze by pedestrians and other cyclists going in the opposite direction. My wife describes this experience as harrowing. I have the flexibility to spend more time than the average person on getting places. When I use my bike for transportation, I can appreciate the enjoyment of the ride itself and the physical benefits. Most people are much more time limited. They can’t afford to spend an hour on a trip they could make in 10 or 20 minutes by car. If Sacramento is to achieve its tantalizing potential as a truly bicycle-friendly city, it must address its riverine barriers and how bicyclists are welcomed at destinations. Bicycling needs to be not only safer

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but more convenient. Midtown is a very good place to ride a bike with its shaded streets, short blocks offering a variety of routes, bike lanes and numerous destinations, many with new bike racks. Those conditions don’t exist in every, or even most, neighborhoods. They should. Two of California’s premier rivers flow through Sacramento. Sacramento is fundamentally a river city. An inability to quickly and conveniently get across the Sacramento or American rivers severely limits travel choices. Inevitably, because of that, more people choose to drive and, in so doing, generate vehicle traffic that we don’t need. I don’t expect it, but I’d love to see more bikes at Costco (maybe with heavy-duty trailers to haul all that stuff). Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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LOCAL FRUITS, VEGETABLES, NUTS AND MORE MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THIS CIDER

hen Vincent Sterne opened Two Rivers Cider Co. in 1996, it was one of the first craft cider companies in California to make its product from fresh fruit instead of concentrate. A David fighting many Goliaths, Two Rivers needed to stand out to compete with the industrial ciders imported from England and Canada. Following the lead of the always-innovating craft beer industry, Sterne decided to buck convention by adding pressed juice from locally sourced fruit into his dry apple ciders. “Pomegranate cider was a first for Two Rivers and, as far as I know, the whole cider market,” says Sterne. “I think the pomegranate cider put Two Rivers on the map.” Fast-forward two decades and the tap list at Two Rivers’ tasting room bursts with fruit flavors. The group of “core ciders” includes the pioneering pomegranate as well as flavors like blackberry, strawberry jam, blood orange and huckleberry, while the “rotating” group of seasonal ciders includes raspberry and boysenberry. However, the innovation doesn’t stop with sweet fruits. You can find unconventional ciders ranging from walnut to habanero to ginger, all of them shockingly well-balanced. There is also a hopped cider for beer fans, likely another first in the world of cider. “The hopped cider has become quite popular throughout the region,” says Sterne. “We always have a hopped cider on tap in our tasting room now.” Sterne’s ability to experiment increased exponentially when Two Rivers opened its Hollywood Park tasting room in 2016. “The tasting room is an excellent platform for exploring new ciders and for gauging the consumer’s reaction,” he says. That spirit of

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experimentation even extends to the customers. “A lot of people like to mix ciders. They’ll take a ginger cider and mix that with a habanero cider,” he says. When it comes to sourcing the fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts for his ciders, Sterne takes a variety of approaches. A lot of the citrus fruit comes directly from the tangerine, tangelo, orange, blood orange, lemon and grapefruit trees of customers in nearby neighborhoods like Curtis Park and Land Park. Sometimes a simple trip to the Sunday farmers market will spark an idea for a new cider. Two Rivers also works directly with Northern California farmers to source the freshest seasonal produce. This summer, for example, Sterne is sourcing cherries from a farmer in Wilton. He might ferment some fresh-pressed cherry juice in with the apple juice, or he might add it into an already-made base cider. Sterne also plans to create a cherry-flavored cyser, a blend of cider and honey,

using honey sourced from the same farmer supplying the cherries. In another potentially pioneering move, Sterne has started research and development on making sake with locally grown rice. “Sake is the most fascinating and challenging of all the fermentation industries,” he says. “It’s a more labor- and timeconsuming process than beer or wine or cider because there are multiple parallel fermentations.” Sterne recently returned from a trip to Japan, where he studied the centuries-old art of sake making, and where he also became enamored with the flavor of yuzu. “It’s a citrus fruit that’s like a cross between a lemon and an orange,” he says. “I was fascinated with the flavor, and I think that it would make a delicious cider.” More seasonal produce will make its way into Sterne’s ciders over the course of the summer, including a popular kiwi cider. “It’s a very laborious process of peeling and pressing the kiwifruit,” he says. “We basically use a potato peeler to get the skin off, and it’s a long day.”

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If there’s a concern moving forward, it’s that there won’t be enough apples for all the ciders that Sterne wants to make. While Sterne sources as many cider apples as he can from places like Barsotti Ranch in Camino and Five Mile Orchard in Watsonville, he also sources off-season apples from out of state. “California doesn’t grow enough apples to supply all us thirsty cider makers,” he says. “There’s a real financial challenge to keep the apple trees in the ground.” However, Sterne holds out hope that with the increasing popularity of craft cider that trend will start to change. “A lot of growers are realizing that there is a new market for cider fruit as opposed to table fruit,” says Sterne. “The advantage is that they’re not growing fruit that has to be cosmetically perfect, which also means less pesticide.” Two Rivers’ tasting room is at 4311 Attawa Ave. For more information, go to tworiverscider.com. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielebarnes@hotmail.com. n

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THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS Sacramento Ballet will perform "The Genius of Balanchine."

“The Genius of Balanchine” Sacramento Ballet June 14–17

jL By Jessica Laskey

The Soﬁa Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave. • sacballet.org Sacramento Ballet will perform excerpts from 18 of choreographer George Balanchine’s most iconic works as part of its commitment to continuing his artistic legacy.

“Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo” (“Testamento del espíritu: Pinturas de Eduardo Carrillo”) Crocker Art Museum June 24–Oct. 7 216 O St. • crockerart.org This bilingual exhibition features more than 60 paintings and watercolors spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s production, from the late 1950s through the late 1990s.

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The third episode of the Convergence II series will feature ﬂutist Maquette Kuper, clarinetist Deborah Pittman and baritone Omari Tau.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy Fairytale Town Saturday, June 23, 5–9 p.m. 3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org This magical midsummer evening features multiple ice cream tasting stations, live entertainment, hands-on activities and more. Costumes for the whole family are encouraged.

Crocker Art Auction Crocker Art Museum Saturday, June 2, 5:30–11 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org The 40th year of Sacramento’s premier art auction will feature nearly 120 works from established and emerging artists from California and beyond. Proceeds support the museum’s educational programs and community outreach.

Leslie Hackard's artwork will be on display at Tim Collom Gallery.

Carmichael Park Community Band Festival Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association Saturday, June 2, and Sunday, June 3 Carmichael Park Amphitheater, 5750 Grant Ave. • svsba.net With 14 concert bands, this has been one of the largest community band festivals in California for more than 20 years. Bring a picnic and the whole family for two days of music.

Sacramento Black Book Fair The Historic Center of Oak Park Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2 3555 3rd Ave. • sacramentoblackbookfair.com This annual book fair will include book signings, talks by featured writers, cultural vendors, food trucks, a kids’ zone, a community parade, poetry readings, writers’ circles and art displays.

Art Where Wild Things Are Gala American River Natural History Association and Sacramento Fine Arts Center Saturday, June 9, 5–8 p.m. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way, Carmichael • sacnaturecenter.net This elegant outdoor fundraiser benefiting the center’s youth education programs will feature a catered meal, local wines, music and silent and live auctions of juried artwork.

Work by Eduardo Carrillo will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.

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Take in some artwork by Kellie Raines at Archival Gallery.

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Square Root Academy Saturday, June 23

Kennedy Gallery Through June 4

North Laguna Creek Park, 6400 Jacinto Ave. • htpfest.com This festival turns the park into a tech wonderland for all ages. In partnership with the city of Sacramento, Square Root Academy has curated a STEM experience for the whole family celebrating culture, innovation and community.

1931 L St. • kennedygallery.net This group exhibit includes 20 8-by-8-inch works in various media from each of the 20 juried artists featured.

“Birds of a Feather” and “New Works”

Fair Oaks Horticulture Center Saturday, June 16, 9 a.m.–noon

Archival Gallery June 6–30 3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com Delightful paintings of birds from artists Kellie Raines and Don Yost will share wall space with new work from Miles Hermann. The Second Saturday reception will be held on June 9 from 6–9 p.m.

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Open Garden 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks • sacmg.ucanr.edu Bring your gardening questions and enjoy demonstrations on soil solarization, growing sunflowers, harvesting fruit-tree crops, vegetable garden-pest management, harvesting blueberries and more.

Kim Hayden in Conversation Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, June 20, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Gen Sac’s monthly meeting will feature Kim Hayden from the Center for Sacramento History sharing information on how to conduct historical research at the center.

Patricia Tool McHugh’s “Still Life Variations” and Leslie Hackard’s “Juicy” Tim Collom Gallery June 5–July 5 915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com Tool McHugh is known for her lush landscapes and sumptuous still-life work in watercolor. Hackard’s art reflects a joyous, nostalgic spirit through her use of vibrant colors and everyday items.

Sacramento Taco Festival Vida de Oro Saturday, June 2, 10:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. The Boulevard, 1600 Del Paso Blvd. • sactacofest.com The main event of Sacramento Taco Week, this festival will feature tacoeating contests, live music, professional wrestling, kids’ activities, arts and crafts, a Chihuahua beauty contest and the largest selection of tacos in one location.

Art show will feature 20 works by 20 artists.

Convergence/Hello MôD Artists Sunday, June 3, 3–5 p.m. Guild Theater, 2828 35th St. • sthope.org The third episode of the Convergence II series—an event-based project that reveals the history of Oak Park through original music, art, dance, oral histories and film—will feature flutist Maquette Kuper, baritone Omari Tau and clarinetist Deborah Pittman. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Genre Bender Jeff Myers

THIS ARTIST USES TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE UNIQUE WORKS OF

Art

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ecause Jeff Myers believes that artists need to keep learning or get stale, the painter and photographer has made it his mission to come up with ever more inventive and innovative techniques. The son of legendary local stock photographers Sally Myers and the late Tom Myers created a sculpture for the McKinley Village development in East Sacramento that is a genre unto

itself. Myers purchased a 1950s Ford tractor and covered the outside with a fresh “skin” of aluminum plating to which he applied his art. “The project for McKinley Village is a direct extension of what I’ve been doing on a two-dimensional surface in my studio,” says Myers, who lives in Midtown and works out of a studio in Land Park. For the tractor sculpture, he painted a series of detailed

paintings based on aerial photographs looking down on human patterns, such as agricultural fields and freeway networks. Then he sent the paintings to Los Angeles to be photographed and heat-imbedded into aluminum, a process called dye sublimation. “Aluminum is a beautiful screen to print or project onto,” he says. “It gives a piece an almost stained-glass feeling.” Myers then welded and

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riveted the thin sheets of aluminum onto the tractor—“almost like recreating flesh,” he explains. The project—called “Tractor Levitation,” since it’s suspended above its base on three steel beams—stands sentinel at one of the entrances to the home development in the very area where Myers grew up. (In fact, he remembers when the land was covered with peach trees instead of new homes.) In a way, the artwork acts as a merging of all of Myers’ passions: photography, painting, technology and history. “I’ve become more and more interested in the historical wave of technology versus the wave of human consciousness,” Myers says. “I love exploring consciousness. What are the boundaries of it? How does it relate to the curve of technology? I like to bring an ambiguity to my forms: Are those brushstrokes something alive and organic or something digital? I like that in-between ground.” Myers grew up traveling all over the country with his dad to photography gigs. In school, he struggled with dyslexia, which made visual art a more natural mode of expression than reading or writing. He doodled constantly—still does— and studied art at Sacramento City College, UC Davis and Sacramento

State with the likes of Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Petersen, Fred Dalkey, Laureen Landau and Oliver Jackson. He moved to New York in 1995 and stayed for five years, making friends and connections that he still maintains. “I wanted to view the major exhibitions and collections located in New York in person as part of my education,” says Myers, who still goes back east to visit at least once a year and periodically places pieces with a private art dealer there. “I moved to New York to establish a network of friends and collectors so that now, a big chunk of my work comes from commission. As a freelance artist, you have to balance commission with exhibition.” Myers is due to show his latest work at Elliott Fouts Gallery this fall. His current focus is a collection of photos he took while in Paris to create a temporary art installation with a friend. (Myers ripped up photos he’d taken of giant redwoods and tacked them to edifices throughout the city.) He’s manipulating the photos with different types of printing processes. For example, he’ll print out a photo and transfer it to a canvas through a painstaking sponging process, then he’ll paint over the ghost image just

enough that you can see both the new strokes and the original image. “I love playing with the time trajectory of past, present and future,” he explains. “I think one of the roles of visual art as the world changes faster and faster is to provide that anchor point, that stillness. And when traditional materials and

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technology interrelate, they create a visual tapestry unlike anything else.” For more information, go to jeffmyersart.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Boulevard in East Sacramento. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housed in a small but elegant brick building that until 2016 was the home of Rust Florist. With the retirement of Greg Rust, the building underwent an impressive transformation inside yet retains its lovely, modest exterior. Elizabeth-Rose Mandalou, who owns Allora with her husband, chef Deneb Williams, had loved the building from afar for many years and jumped at the chance to open

a restaurant there. The fact that the former owners left the building to retire also lent an air of positive energy to the space. In just a few short months, Mandalou and Williams have done great things with the former florist shop. Unlike the host of farm-totable, let-the-ingredients-shine, simple-preparation, rustic-kitchen restaurants that have opened in the past decade, Allora has a definite

fine-dining bent. The tablecloths arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t white (in fact, there are no tablecloths at all), but the Italian-inspired dishes are artistic and architectural in their beauty, sophisticated in their flavors and jewel-like in their proportions. The deceptively complex Insalata di Mare jumbles together cold shrimp, calamari, crab and mussels, all perfectly cooked and seasoned and served with a stunningly

beautiful salad of shaved asparagus and pea tendrils. The plate is prettier than a spring garden, with a few strategically placed dots of forestgreen dressing and a fluttering yellow pansy. (Almost every dish is finished with flowers to pay tribute to the original florist who built the space.) The textures are on point and made more interesting by the addition of a smattering of pillowy-soft cannellini beans. Much like the quickly vanishing spring, the plate is gone in a few forkfuls—just enough time to luxuriate in the experience and then regret it was over so soon. A small but diverse selection of pastas, all house-made, highlights the kitchen’s impressive skills without showboating. The bucatini, layered with crab, sea urchin and garlic cream, is about as rich and indulgent a pasta dish as you’ll see. The cream sauce holds the dish together in a velvety embrace, not letting any one ingredient skip any one bite. It’s an impressive feat of cohesiveness. For the cavatelli with sausage, chili, tomato and broccoli raab, the kitchen takes a rustic seasonal pasta and elevates it to a small, condensed dish with flavors so overlapping and layered as to be nearly overwhelming. It’s the kind of dish that makes you want to put the fork down in between each bite and quietly reflect. Honestly, what kind of wine list could stand up to this onslaught of elegance and sensation? Mandalou, an advanced sommelier, opts for a stunning selection of Italian varietals from California, Italy and beyond. She smartly divides her wine list into three sections: “New World expressions of Italian varietals,” “Classic Italian wines” and “For the adventurous palate.” On one visit, I let our server choose wines for us, and his aim was unnervingly on-target. Through each course, he brought glasses that were lovely complements to the dishes we were eating. The highlight was a dessert wine from Sardinia, a passito, so named because the late-harvest grapes are left out to dry and the wind “passes” through them. It tasted of dried apricots and sweet earth and paired delightfully with my olive oil cake and zabaglione.

Speaking of dessert, the offerings at Allora are as refined as the rest of the menu. The olive oil cake came dressed with dollops of mascarpone and gently dusted with flowers. Bomboloni— Italian doughnuts—were filled with huckleberries. The service, especially at a restaurant open only a few months, is near-perfect. Friendly, professional, attentive without being cloying, the servers, bussers, bartenders and owners all make their presence known. It’s no surprise that this is Williams and Mandalou’s third restaurant. Allora shows a steady hand and wealth of experience. What is surprising is that the duo have opened all three of their restaurants— Woodlake Tavern, Uptown Pizza and now Allora—within the past 18 months. If that last year and a half is any indication, this impressive couple will help keep Sacramento in the national culinary conversation for years to come. Allora is at 5215 Folsom Blvd., (916) 538-6434; allorasacramento. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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Artistic Edge Gallery presents work by Cynthia Hayes, Tenley Willock, Bill Reed and Paul Sanchez through June 30. Shown above right: “Tiger Under Water,” an oil by Paul Sanchez 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com The American Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibition from New York runs through June 30 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Shown above left: “Notre Dame” a watercolor by Sandy Delehanty. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacﬁnearts.org The ARTHOUSE presents their Alumni Show, a gathering of artists that have come through the gallery while on their artistic path. Many disciplines and mediums represented at this show that runs through July 6. Shown above: “French Bull Dog,” a ceramic by Paula Wenzl Bellacera. ARTHOUSE Gallery, 1021 R St., Second Floor; arthouseonr.com Patris Studio and Gallery presents “The Broadway Rain Series,” a solo exhibition by Oak Park artist Patris through June 30. Show left bottom : “Broadway Rain” by Patris. Patris Studio and Gallery, 3460 2nd Ave.

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GRACEFUL TUDOR IN THE HEART OF CURTIS PARK! 4bd/3ba plus ofjce of vintage elegance w/ jnished bsemnt & 3 car garage to boot! $1,049,900 STEFFAN BROWN 916.717.7217 CalRE#: 01882787

ONE OF A KIND! 1920’s North Oak Park near UCD Med Center. 3 lrg bds, two living areas, and a massive new 2 car + garage, completely restored. $550,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

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APPEALING LAND PARK DRIVE! Stunning hm w/ updated Kitch, Brkfst Nk, DP wndws, Hrdwd krs & gorgeous yard w/iron gate. $595,000 WENDY KAY 916.717.1013 CalRE#: 01335180

SINGLE STORY COTTAGE ON A COURT! Sweet 2bd/2ba cottage in the Pocket nestled at the end of a quiet court. New kitchen applnces. Covered patio. Lg yrd w/pool. 2-car garage. SABRA SANCHEZ 916.508.5313 CalRE#: 01820635 L STREET LOFTS! Premium majestic 2-stry penthouse loft w/balcony, great living space, 18’ ceilings, granite & stainless kitch. $969,800 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916.601.5699 CalRE#: 01222608

MIDTOWN VICTORIAN! Gorgeous 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bath with 2766 square feet. $879,950 RICH CAZNEAUX 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558

TREMENDOUS SACRAMENTO RIVER! Income property-2 parcels totaling 1.7ac w/380ft of river frontage. Marina operation w/350' dock for lrg & small boats. 2bd/2ba, 1800sf hm, separate gst qrtrs & ofjce. $1,899,000 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916.601.5699 CalRE#: 01222608

RIVERFRONT ESTATE! Outstanding 1.5ac property w/200ft of Sac River frontage. 4130sqft hm+lrg guest house, pool & close to Scott’s on the River. $1,799,000 PALOMA BEGIN 916.628.8561 CalRE#: 01254423

ENTERTAINER’S DELIGHT! 4BD/4BA, over 4500sqft of space, jlled w/luxury amenities, & a bckyrd jt for a king. $899,000 ELISE BROWN & POLLY SANDERS 916.715.0213 CalRE#: 01781942/01157878 TAHOE PARK BEAUTY! Original owners. 3bd/1ba hm w/blt-in dining rm cabinets, rejnished wd krs, new paint &I N lighting. G Master w/sliding door access to thePdeck E N&D2 walk-in closets. $379,900 STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

UPDATED & CONVENIENT! Lovely 3bd, 2ba w/2 car garage+bonus rm+bsemnt. Steps to Co-op, Temple and so much more! STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

CHARMING NEW OAK PARK! 2bd hm w/updtd kitch & bath. Beautifully shaded w/ tons of curb appeal. Alley along the back of the property. $385,000 DEBBIE TOWNE 916.532.2652 CalRE#: 01305405

LOVELY LAND PARK! Well maintained 4BD, 2BA home with curb appeal & on a large lot! $845,000 ELISE BROWN & POLLY SANDERS 916.715.0213 CalRE#: 01781942/ 01158787

CLASSIC HIGHWATER BUNGALOW! In the heart of Midtown w/2-3BD, 2BA, 1029sqft w/ inviting front porch, frml dining w/blt-ins & full bsemnt. $519,000 CHRISTINA HINDS 916.341.7806 CalRE#: 01902832

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PENTHOUSES @ CAPITOL PARK! Fantastic 15th kr penthouse atop the Marriott Residence Inn Hotel. 2bd/2ba with spectacular views. $799,888 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916.601.5699 CalRE#: 01222608

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