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WONDERFUL S LAND PARK Sharp 3 bedroom features new roof, Àoors, granite counters and master bath remodel. Nice location close-in, with easy access to both 99 and I-5. Screened-in Florida room for relaxing with those Delta breezes. Family room / kitchen / dining area, and generous sized living room with ¿replace. $345,000 MIKE PUENTE 395-4727

CLASSIC LAND PARK HOME Fantastic Land Park home with everything you need! 3 bedrooms plus bonus space in the master bedroom, 1½ bathrooms, updated kitchen, hardwood Àoors, ¿replace, formal dining room, tons of storage, 2-car garage, inside laundry, and a backyard perfect for family and friends! $569,000 PAULA SWAYNE 425-9715, KELLIE SWAYNE 206-1458

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FACING CURTIS PARK Beautifully updated 3 bedroom 2½ bath two story home located on East Curtis Drive that features a lovely pool. Fabulous kitchen with granite counter tops, updated appliances and island with adjoining family room overlooking the pool. Spacious master suite too! $709,500 SHEILA VAN NOY 505-5395

CRAFTMANSHIP FROM A BYGONE ERA Beautifully renovated from head to toe - The Didion House - Rich wood, ¿ne detailing and spacious rooms. Historical in in both style, heritage and culture. 4 bedrooms 2 full baths and 2 half baths with new kitchen, three Àoors, including media room, and a full basement. $1,395,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 505-5395

MIDTOWN LOFT Beautiful two story loft with stained concrete Àoors on 1st Àoor and bamboo hardwood on the 2nd Àoor. Open layout with spacious living room / kitchen and dining areas as well as high ceilings and a fully upgraded kitchen with granite counter-tops. Upstairs and downstairs baths, indoor laundry room. $455,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

SPACIOUS LAND PARK Charming 3 bedroom 2 bath home! Pretty random plank Àooring, nicely appointed living room ¿replace and dining room large enough to host holiday meals. Very large ¿nished basement with ¿replace, great for game room or additional living space. Large shaded backyard! $598,000 PAULA SWAYNE 425-9715

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4 BEDROOM HOME Super clean, close in, and ready to go! Hard to ¿nd 4 bedroom home with 2½ baths in Land Park! Energy ef¿cient and beautifully maintained. Conveniently located, an easy walk to Land Park, Vic’s Ice Cream and Crocker Riverside Elementary School. It’s waiting for you! $325,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 505-5395, ERIN STUMPF 342-1372

GREAT URBAN LIVING Blocks to the Capitol, theaters, restaurants and future arena! Large 2 bedroom condo is on the lower level with balcony and stairs to the enclosed greenbelt and campus. Great decorator colors, newer recessed lighting, plantation shutters, inside laundry and more! $214,900 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495 PAMELA ANDERSON 502-2729

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SOUTH LAND PARK GEM! 3 bedrooms 2 baths plus a bonus room and potential for an additional half bathroom. With new heating and air systems in 2013, and new roof in 2009. Hobbyists and woodworkers will LOVE this oversized, fully insulated garage with dedicated 220v outlet. Lots of storage! $319,900 KELLIE SWAYNE 206-1458

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nowing that our son is in law enforcement, our friend Robbin Ware recently invited my husband and me to a forum on policing sponsored by the local chapter of the NAACP and Mayor Kevin Johnson. This event was a follow-up to Mayor Johnson’s Sept. 28 op-ed in The Sacramento Bee: “Views on Race: Ferguson doesn’t need to happen in Sacramento.” The forum, held at the impressive St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Park, attracted about 175 people. About a quarter of those present were law enforcement officers from the city’s police force, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and the CHP. After the top brass and officers were introduced, the crowd was broken up into eight groups to discuss problems and perceptions in minority communities regarding police interactions and to come up with solutions. My group included four officers, a few young people and some middleaged folks like me. Several people in the group talked about their experiences with law enforcement.

Some recalled getting pulled over while driving for what seemed like no good reason. They felt they’d been profiled because of their skin color. One woman said she thinks lack of respect is a problem. When treated disrespectfully, she said, law enforcement may respond in kind. It’s a vicious cycle. Another thoughtful gentleman said that misunderstanding of the justice system leads some people to confront law enforcement, rather than understand they have to argue their case in front of the district attorney and judge.

My husband rode along with our son Alex during two 12-hour shifts (morning and evening), and he was blown away at what the job entails. As the mother of a law enforcement officer, I said I worry that the media and some members of the community tend to paint all law enforcement with racist motives, rather than focus on the bad apples that are sadly found in practically every line of work. The law enforcement officers in our group expressed frustration at their agencies’ lack of success in recruiting more officers from minority communities. They spoke at length

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about the ongoing diversity and sensitivity training they receive. The “solutions” part of the discussion was fairly fruitful. Several in our group thought things would improve if officers actually lived in the communities they serve. One man said it used to be this way decades ago, before police unions put a stop to residency requirements. I suggested developing a ridealong program so that members of the public can sit in a police car with officers and observe their interactions with the community. My husband rode along with our son Alex during two 12-hour shifts (morning and evening), and he was blown away at what the job entails. Alex did several of these rides with different agencies before enrolling in the police academy.

Another citizen suggested having officers at community and school events so they can interact with citizens in positive settings. Video cameras that record officersuspect interactions are being considered nationwide. Sacramento city cops already have cameras in their cars. Now, police forces across the country are looking at officer body cameras, which tend to dramatically reduce claims of police brutality. At the conclusion of the meeting, the eight groups presented their top concerns and ideas. There were lots of great ideas. More forums are being planned in future months. We look forward to participating.

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A Look at Measure L STRONG-MAYOR PROPOSAL SPARKS BROAD PUBLIC DEBATE

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easure L is a very big deal, marking the most ambitious effort to modify our city government since a failed ballot measure in 1990 to consolidate city and county governments. And responsible Sacramento voters are paying very close attention. The number of public forums devoted to discussion of the measure has surely set an all-time Sacramento record. Our Eye on Sacramento forum on Measure L on Oct. 2 at Clunie Community Center in McKinley Park drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 150 people. After a robust two-hour-long discussion of EOS’s findings, responses from campaign representatives, commentary by an academic expert and audience Q&A, they were still people with further questions to ask and comments to express. (If you missed it, you can view the forum on Access Sacramento cable channel 17 on Nov. 2 at 10 p.m., Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. or Nov. 4 at 6 a.m.) We convened the forum to brief the public on the findings of EOS’s independent assessment and report on Measure L. (You can view or

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download the 32-page report at eyeonsacramento.org). If you are looking for EOS’s position or recommendation on how to vote on Measure L, you won’t find it. In addition to acting as a watchdog over local government, we put a great deal of effort into independently researching and analyzing selected major local issues and informing the public of our findings and the results of our research. However, we trust informed voters to make up their own minds on ballot measures based on their own values and priorities. They certainly don’t need us telling them how to vote. A word on EOS’s independence. Our 15-member all-volunteer board is beholden to no one and to no interest group. We decline opportunities to serve on local government boards to avoid the appearance of bias or undue influence. At times, EOS has been labeled as being irretrievably in the pocket of Mayor Kevin Johnson. At other times, we’ve been tagged as being implacably opposed to whatever the mayor happens to support. Both conclusions are far from the mark. We look beyond who is supporting or opposing a proposal and examine the merits (and demerits) of the proposal itself. And we don’t spend time fretting about the potential political fallout of our actions or positions. We have viewpoints like everyone else. We place very high value on local democracy, on effective and efficient government that provides real value in exchange for taxpayers’ dollars, and on honest, clean and transparent local government that respects its citizens’ rights, freedoms and aspirations for a better life. We

are always wary of the improper and illegitimate influence that powerful special interests can have on elected officials and local government. This marks the fourth time Mayor Johnson has tried to bring a strongor executive-mayor proposal before the voters. His first effort, introduced in his first days in office back in 2009, was supported by initiative petitions signed by more than 32,000 registered Sacramento voters. Johnson’s first effort was shut down by a court ruling, and his second and third efforts were sidelined by an uncooperative city council. EOS has consistently supported the public’s right to vote on these proposals. When more than 30 percent of regular Sacramento voters request the opportunity to decide for themselves how their city government should be governed, we believe that real (small “d”) democrats on the city council, including even those who may be stridently opposed to the proposal, should accede to the voters’ wishes, not stand in their way. Voters can lose respect for elected officials who support voters’ rights only with respect to measures that they themselves support while opposing voters’ rights on measures that they themselves oppose—the recognized pattern of a cynical “situational democrat.” Here is a summary of EOS’s findings on Measure L: 1. EOS believes that the Sacramento city charter should not be overhauled without a showing by proponents of good cause and strong justification for doing so. The campaign literature of the “Yes” campaign argues that the current

charter is “outdated” and that, while the city is not broken, Measure L “is just better.” We find such justifications to be exceedingly weak. 2. The proponents’ core justifications are that the measure will improve government accountability, responsiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and transparency. 3. While direct election of the city’s chief executive officer is an important indicator of accountability, we believe that real accountability involves being held to account for performance. On that score, we find that a city manager is subject to far greater accountability than an elected executive mayor. 4. Governmental responsiveness comes in several forms: responsiveness to citizens’ needs, responsiveness to the policy preferences of citizens and, importantly to Sacramento, responsiveness to opportunities for economic growth. We find that Sacramento’s current councilmanager system is likely to be more responsive to the needs of citizens, but that there would likely be no appreciable difference in each system’s responsiveness to the policy preferences of citizens. An executive mayor may be more responsive to opportunities for economic growth. 5. Research clearly demonstrates that cities that employ city managers are more efficient and effectively managed than cities run by executive mayors. 6. Components of Measure L will increase the transparency of city CITY HALL page10

PUBLISHER FROM page 7 At the end of the meeting, one young attendee said that what was really needed was police outreach and engagement with his generation. He suggested that outreach be conducted through Facebook, Twitter and other social media. It’s obvious that there is a great deal of work to be done. But with law enforcement, schools, churches and community groups working together, we can help to improve relations between law enforcement and Sacramento’s minority communities.

MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION On Friday, Nov. 7, the U.S. Marine Corps will celebrate its 239th birthday. Here in Sacramento, present, former and retired Marines join together each year for a festive lunch at the Sutter Club. My husband, a Marine captain during the Korean War, was asked to attend several years ago by Brig. Gen. Jack

Hagan. Last year, my husband invited active Marine reservist Tony Ulep, a city park supervisor we know through his work in nearby McKinley Park. This year, he invited Tony’s father, also a former Marine. Attorney, Rotarian and former Marine Tom Knox asked us to help spread word of this year’s event, hoping to invite even more Marines to the party. “We have a great lunch and an interesting speaker, but we also have our own birthday cake,” says Knox. “We let the oldest and the youngest Marine in attendance cut the cake. “Even though many of us have gotten a little soft in our middle age, we all enjoy the company of the local recruiters who join us. They remind us of what the best of the Corps looks like these days,” he says. If you would like more details about the lunch or would like to attend, contact Knox at 498-9911 or tknox@ klalawfirm.com Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n

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CITY HALL FROM page 8 government, but the details—and thus the effectiveness—of such components are left largely to the future discretion of the city council. 7. Measure L would likely reduce the power and influence of councilmembers to a considerable degree. Since the influence of neighborhoods depends tremendously on the power and effectiveness of councilmembers, we conclude that Measure L will significantly reduce the influence of neighborhoods on city policy. The possible creation of a neighborhood advisory committee will likely do nothing to arrest a decline in the influence of neighborhoods under Measure L. 8. Measure L may politicize the appointment of senior city managers and result in a loss of manager professionalism and potential difficulties in management recruitment. At the same time, Measure L may open up management positions for dynamic and actionoriented managers from the private sector.

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9. Measure L may weaken the bargaining position of city government in labor negotiations due to the political influence of publicsafety unions on an executive mayor, potentially leading to higher taxpayer costs and/or reduced service levels. 10. Measure L may very well lead to an accelerated processing of development projects through the city’s environmental and planning processes, and could possibly lead to a lowering of environmental and planning review standards. 11. It is highly uncertain whether a sufficient pool of qualified candidates for mayor will run for office following adoption of Measure L. If qualified candidates do not run for mayor, the city will almost certainly experience a deterioration in the quality of city management. 12. The creation of an independent redistricting commission and a strong code of ethics, as called for by Measure L, will improve the integrity and transparency of city government. However, the city council must truly commit to creating an ethics

commission with the authority to enforce a code of ethics. 13. The increase in mayoral powers under Measure L will likely lead to increased political fundraising by the mayor and greater risks of corruption and “pay to play” abuses involving private interests seeking taxpayer subsidies for private projects, increasing the importance of a strong and effective ethics code and ethics commission. 14. EOS has major concerns over the steady erosion of democratic values and democratic practices in city government in recent years. We encourage voters to evaluate Measure L, in part, on whether they believe it will enhance or diminish our collective ability to democratically govern our city now and in the future. Measure L is not exclusively the mayor’s proposal. The city council insisted on some tweaks of its own to Measure L before they agreed to place it on the ballot, few of which have received much public attention. For example, the council inserted a provision that drops the current requirement that the city council meet every week (when not on its annual one-month vacation). They changed it to require that the council meet a minimum of just two times per month—without any corresponding reduction in councilmember pay, of course. Last year, EOS reported on the frequency and duration of city council meetings and found that the council is now spending half as much time in public session as it did under former Mayor Heather Fargo. If Measure L passes and the council elects to cut its meetings down to twice monthly, the council may end up spending 75 percent less time in public session than it did under Fargo, further reducing the opportunities citizens have to express their views to their elected officials at council meetings. The council also dropped from Measure L a provision that imposed term limits on city councilmembers but kept a provision imposing a three-term limit on mayors (not counting terms served wholly or partly before passage of the measure). It also dropped a requirement in the measure that would have required

voter approval for councilmember and mayoral pay raises greater than 5 percent in a single year. It added sections that provide that the city council “may” create an ethics commission and “may” create a neighborhood advisory committee. The use of “may” instead of “shall” in these sections makes them nonbinding and, thus, illusory. The mayor has included a number of “good government” components in Measure L in an effort to increase its appeal to voters. As noted above, they include provisions calling for an independent redistricting commission and a robust ethics code, as well as a transparency code and, perhaps, an ethics commission. As the adage goes, the devil is in the details. Regrettably, these provisions are virtually devoid of details, leaving it to the next city council to define how a redistricting commission would work and what an ethics code should include if Measure L is approved. Many of these reform proposals have been around for some time. Following the debacle of the council’s last redistricting of council district boundaries in 2011, EOS helped form an ad hoc group called Empower Sacramento made up of leaders of minority groups and led by community activist and former council candidate Efren Gutierrez. Empower Sacramento’s primary goal was to convince the city council to place a charter measure on the ballot creating an independent redistricting commission. (The voting power of Sacramento’s Hispanic community was atomized by the council’s 2011 redistricting plan, while many residents of Oak Park were outraged by the removal of UC Davis Medical Center from the Oak Park council district in which it had been located.) EOS researched the options and helped prepare the proposal for a redistricting commission. However, the effort lost political steam when the mayor adopted the idea himself and bolted it onto his strong-mayor proposals (plagiarism being the highest form of flattery). All of the good-government provisions of Measure L are meritorious and broadly supported CITY HALL page 13

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eaf season starts Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 31, which means, now is the time city residents can place yard waste that exceeds bin capacity at the curb. You might remember driving down Sacramento city streets in autumns past and seeing a leaf pile in front of every house. The city recently made curbside waste illegal for most of the year due to its high volume and the stress it put on its already overtaxed pickup services. Leaf season is now the only time yard waste at the curb is allowed. The city asks residents to fill their bins first before putting green waste on the street to help the city keep up with the high demand. “We collect 75,000 tons of yard waste a year,” says Steve Harriman, the city’s general manager of integrated waste. “More than one third—about 27,000 tons—is picked up November through January. By using the container first, along with a street pile for excess yard waste, city crews can clear streets faster.” So rake those leaves and make those piles while the sun (sort of) shines. Do you have more matter than you can handle? You can also

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Who doesn’t love a good sale? Get deep discounts from 32 Swans Studiowear and The Pink House at their tandem end-ofseason sale on Sunday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community. 32 Swans founder, Nina Bookbinder, is a former ballerina and current graphic designer who took her dance dedication and eye for detail and turned it into a sleek, slimming clothing line. Pieces are flattering for all shapes and sizes, pack perfectly for travel and can be switched and swapped Get deep discounts from 32 Swans Studiowear and to make endless The Pink House at their tandem end-of-season sale on outfits—and all that Sunday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sierra 2 Center can be yours for up to for the Arts and Community 70 percent off! Looking for serious sale will take place in the dance wing savings on unique handbags, shoes at the back of the building. and accessories? Don’t miss this For more information, go to opportunity to shop the merch from 32swans.com East Sacramento hot spot The Pink House at a fraction of its usual cost. Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community is at 2791 24th St. The

OPEN HOUSE AT CAMELLIA WALDORF Do you have a tyke who’s almost ready for school? If you’ve ever considered Waldorf education, now is the time to check it out at Camellia Waldorf School’s Early Childhood Open House on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 9:30 a.m. Founded in 1989, Camellia Waldorf is an independent school that serves toddlers through eighth-graders. Camellia Waldorf School is at 5701 Freeport Blvd. For more information, call 4275022 or go to camelliawaldorf.org

PARK UPGRADES CONSIDERED Have you been wondering what’s happening with the Plaza Cervantes park on 11th Avenue? Last winter, Land Park Community Association, the city’s parks and recreation department and Councilmember Steve Hansen were considering improvements to the area to make it more user friendly. LPCA conducted a survey of residents, which the city used to draft a site plan. The initial plan includes improvements like a safer interior walkway between the northwest and southwest ends of the park, new bench seating, a new drinking fountain, additional shade trees and other landscaping, and possibly some public art. The plan is still under consideration. For more information, go to landpark.org

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Worried that your family has sealed your medical fate? Find out how genes contribute to your future health at this month’s meeting of the Genealogical Association of Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at noon at Belle Cooledge Library. Special guest speaker Lisa Foster will discuss the forensics of tracing your family medical tree. For more information, call Melanie Howard at 383-1221. Belle Cooledge Library is at 5600 South Land Park Drive.

Land Park Volunteer Corps’ final work day of the season will take place Saturday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. So what are you waiting for? Don a pair of gloves and dig in! Fuel up on breakfast provided by Espresso Metro and help the corps complete some of its many park improvement projects before the weather makes it too chilly to work and the corps goes on its winter hiatus. Meet at base camp behind Fairytale Town (3901 Land Park Drive). For more information, contact lead coordinator Craig Powell at ckpinsacto@aol.com or 718-3030. Donations are accepted and can be sent to Land Park Volunteer Corps, 3052 Freeport Blvd., #231, Sacramento, CA 95818.

GIVING THANKS AT THE ZOO

Since November is the month of gratitude, show yours by bringing a nonperishable food item to the Sacramento Zoo during this month and next and receive $1 off your admission. The food collected will be donated to River City Food Bank to feed those in need. If you’re planning to bring a donation on your next visit, be advised that the zoo’s winter hours will start Nov. 1 and run through Jan. 31. The zoo will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. except on Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you or a loved one is a military member, bring your valid military ID card on Tuesday, Nov. 11, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and receive a 50 percent discount on admission. Consider it a very small token of appreciation for those who protect and serve. The zoo is accepting donations of browse—tree and Looking for shrub trimmings from approved plants—to feed to its wild inhabitants, including the giraffes, bongos, chimps, lemurs a way to serve and many types of birds.

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Land Park Volunteer Corps’ final work day of the season will take place Saturday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Photo courtesy of Jill Macdonell.

the animals you visit? The zoo is accepting donations of browse—tree and shrub trimmings from approved plants—to feed to its wild inhabitants, including the giraffes, bongos, chimps, lemurs and many types of birds. The animals love to nibble the leaves, chew on the stems, strip the bark and play with the trimmings—activities they’d do in their natural habitats as well. Check the list of acceptable plants at saczoo.org (under the “Animals and Conversation” and “Donate Browse” tabs). The Sacramento Zoo is at 3930 W. Land Park Drive. For more information, call 8085888 or go to saczoo.org

WINTER WONDERLAND Fairytale Town is adjusting its hours for winter. Starting Nov. 1 and continuing through Feb. 28, the play park will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free Admission Day and Canned Food Drive will take place Friday, Nov. 28. Bring a canned food item to donate to Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services’ Holiday Spirit of Giving Food Drive and receive free family admission. The day will also include arts and crafts and a puppet show for an additional $1 fee for members ($2 for nonmembers). Fairytale Town is at 3901 Land Park Drive. For more information, call 8087462 or go to fairytaletown.org

HO-HUM FOR THE HOLIDAYS Everyone is starting to get excited for the holidays—but what if you don’t feel like jumping for joy? Honor the sorrow that many people feel during this time of year at the workshop “Creativity Through the Holiday Blues” on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community. “We are culturally led to believe that the traditions of the American holiday season are supposed to be a time of joy, family and shopping,” says workshop facilitator Joanne Moylan-Aube. “But for many, it is a deep time of sorrow and introspection. Someone is missing, or something is missing, or our bodies long to follow the seasonal time of darkness. This workshop will be a time to express that part of ourselves that wants to embrace silence using expressive arts. We will write, read poetry and experience very simple but profound art processes. We will intentionally create space to honor how we feel around the holidays and embrace all those emotions without judgment.” Moylan-Aube has a master’s degree in psychology with a focus on death education and counseling and is a counseling psychology instructor at Sacramento City College. The workshop is $50 and includes materials. Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch and a

journal. For more information, go to breadoflife.org Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community is at 2791 24th St.

LIBRARY LOVE There’s lots of fun to be had this month at your local library. Read on for activities that all ages will enjoy. Magician Magical Mary will perform at Ella K. McClatchy Library on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and at Belle Cooledge Library on Friday, Nov. 14, from 4 to 5 p.m. Ella K. McClatchy Library will hold its annual open house on Saturday, Nov. 15. Drop in during normal library hours for snacks, crafts and tours of the library. Teens can make accessories at the steampunk jewelry workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Ella K. McClatchy Library. Books for inspiration, tools and jewelry elements—washers, gears and many more metals—will be provided. Is your little one learning to read? What better way to boost their

burgeoning skills than at the Read to a Dog event at Belle Cooledge Library on Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.? Bring your own books or borrow a few and practice reading to trained therapy dogs and their adult volunteers. Ella K. McClatchy Library is at 2112 22nd St. Belle Cooledge Library is at 5600 South Land Park Drive. For more information, go to saclibrary.org

FAIRE GAME Is your gift-giving list growing out of control? Check off a few items at Centennial Christian Preschool’s Christmas Faire on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The nonprofit Land Park preschool will host vendors, including crafters, jewelers and artists. For more information, call 4530976. Centennial Christian Preschool is at 5401 Freeport Blvd.

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Candy Anderson HOW HER CURTIS PARK GARDEN GROWS

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or Candy Anderson, describing her job as the volunteer curator of the Curtis Park garden as a “labor of love” doesn’t even begin to describe it. The Sacramento native created the garden from scratch in 2009 and has been tending to it almost entirely by herself ever since. “My husband and I moved in across from the park in 2001,” Anderson says. “We were sent a survey that asked what we wanted to see in the park. I said I wanted to see a garden. Nothing happened for years, but I started to observe the space across from our house to see if it would be a good place for a garden. I wanted to see how many balls from the tennis court would go in there, how many dogs and people walked through. It looked like it would be a great place.” In 2009, Anderson finally got the go-ahead from the city to plant the garden of her dreams, so she had 20 yards of soil delivered to the plot and got started. In the ensuing five years, she’s tripled the size of the garden with plants she buys herself and the time and attention a neighborhood garden requires. “Everybody loves it,” Anderson says. “When I’m working in the garden, people will walk by and say, ‘Oh, it’s so beautiful. Thank you so much.’ But the reality is that everyone assumes someone else will take care of it—and that someone is me.”

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Candy Anderson is the volunteer curator of the Curtis Park garden

The part-time music teacher has always had a green thumb, citing a passion for plant life that started at age 20 (she’s 62 now) and eventually led to her studying botany in college. Perhaps that’s what makes seeing the Curtis Park garden mistreated all the more difficult. “I’ve learned that it’s very tricky to garden in public,” Anderson says. “People love to be in nature, but if you give them the space, they’ll walk right in there with no regard for the footpaths. If I plant anything flamboyant and brightly colored, it’s usually picked or vandalized or stolen. I’ve learned what kinds

of plants people will leave alone, which has changed my view of the general public. I’ve lost some of my innocence.” Anderson says that Daisy Mah, a fellow gardener and the longtime keeper of the Land Park rock garden, shared similar complaints about the treatment of the city’s green spaces, but she’s still determined not to let it get her down. “You have to tell yourself, ‘Look at how beautiful it is,’” Anderson says. “I go over there early in the morning to water when it’s still really quiet. I love how tranquil it is. I even saw a professional photographer in there

the other day with a mother and child, and I could tell the photos were going to turn out really well.” Anderson’s labor of love is also a demonstration garden, meaning it’s a space that people can visit to see what plants might do well on their own property based on their success in the climate of the Curtis Park garden. To guarantee optimal garden results, however, you’ll also need Candy Anderson. Interested in giving Cathy Anderson a hand in the Curtis Park garden? Give her a call at 455-6312. n

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Ooh Rah FORMER MARINE NOW LEADS THE UNFIT INTO BATTLE AGAINST FLAB

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o understand Marco Guizar’s approach to his job as a fitness guru, consider his last job, as a Marine Corps infantryman. Guizar loved the Marines but resigned after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan because the Corps had become too soft. “I hate to say it, but it’s true,” he says. “I was in for four years, but by the end, you couldn’t do the kind of training we had when I started. You couldn’t even swear at the boots.” Boots are new Marines. And it’s fair to say Guizar doesn’t swear at his clients, new or old, at Fitsom Studios in Curtis Park. There’s no need to swear. Guizar doesn’t need his Fitsom customers to cover his back at firefights in Fallujah. For Guizar, life inside Fitsom Studios is sunny and wholesome and all about helping clients attain Marine Corps-quality group fitness training— not to fight, but to live longer and enjoy satisfying lives. With endless charm and candor, Guizar address clients from the posterior position, literally: All training begins with an assessment of your hips and gluteus maximus. It might be two weeks before the eager

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Marco Guizar opened Fitsom Studios on Franklin Boulevard, five years ago

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there, and we have to find out what it is. And then there’s your posture.” Needless to say, Guizar’s posture resembles a ship’s mast and would fit nicely on a Marine Corps recruiting poster. The journey to Curtis Park, where Fitsom Studios occupies a weary building that has served as a paint store and tattoo parlor, plus various enterprises in between, began in Grimes, a Colusa County farm town with 391 residents. Guizar grew up in Grimes and was quickly introduced to hard labor. As an adolescent, he went into the fields with his mother and worked the harvest seasons. At 18, he had seen enough of Grimes. He settled on a heroic escape route: straight into the arms of the Marine Corps. “I walked into the recruiting office and said, ‘I want to fight. I want to join the infantry. Sign me up.’ The recruiter said, ‘OK. We can do that.’” The Marine Corps gave Guizar everything he wanted: purpose, confidence, maturity, discipline and the familial assurance of a group that will die for each other. “The Marine Corps is basically like a gang,” he says. “It doesn’t matter what I’ve done to you, thrown a drink at you, whatever. If you put your hands on me, you’re going to deal with every Marine in the room.” The Marine Corps brotherhood helped keep Guizar alive in Iraq and Afghanistan. He says, “We got into some bad situations and had to rely totally on each other. We saw some things that are hard to describe. I mean, very bloody, house-to-house. I lost friends. But I kept thinking, for each of us who dies, we’ve probably

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Dr. Kit Langstroth assesses a patient by putting her palm on a special scanning hand cradle

Once the patient’s unique profile is established, the patient follows a prescribed healthful, whole-food diet. “Because this is a true ketogenic— or fat-burning—diet, a person will not be hungry or have cravings because the body burns its own deep-seated fat for energy,” Langstroth says. “In fact, patients report they have more energy than ever. The weight loss is fairly dramatic—20 to 30 pounds in 40 days, especially in areas where fat tends to be typically resistant to loss, including the midriff, thighs and arms.” Langstroth says the program is safe, healthy and is reversing many serious health conditions, including diabetes and high cholesterol, among

his patients. Plus, he says, the program has been proven to reset the body’s base metabolic rate to help avoid weight regain. “Nutrimost is a great program that I personally used myself,” he says. “So we know the importance of offering daily coaching and support every step of the way for our patients.” For more information, call Langstroth at 925-2007 for a consultation or go to sacramentofatloss.com

HAUS TO HOME For Jonathan Marquardt, this year’s 10th anniversary as the owner of Haus Home Décor and Specialty

Gifts marks a significant milestone in a storied retail journey that has taken him clear around the country. “Prior to starting Haus,” Marquardt says, “I did retail consulting, was an operations manager for a high-end design showroom in San Francisco, managed a variety of retail stores in Texas and California, managed design showrooms in both Dallas and California, and was a customer service manager and inventory planner for some major companies in Dallas.” Needless to say, Marquardt knows his stuff, as anyone who’s ever stopped into his beautifully appointed home-and-gift store on H Street can attest. The inventory is an eclectic, elegant mix of furniture, artwork, accessories, gift items and textiles from around the world that Marquardt personally sources to provide his clientele with a one-stop shop for all things “haus” and home. “My partner and I love to travel and our travel experiences are often reflected in the merchandise we offer,” the River Park resident says. “In a world of chain and box stores, we strive to offer items not found elsewhere. They may cost more, but they’re special.” Case in point: This month, Marquardt and his staff will transform the shop for Christmastime with a series of themed trees and merry decorations galore. “The whole store gets a makeover,” Marquardt says. “The various themes will include a vintage toyland tree, complete with an oversized toy train on display, a candyland tree, a red-and-white tree, a silver tree, a gold tree and a kids’ tree. We’ll

also continue to showcase authentic mouth-blown, hand-painted glass German ornaments that we specialorder from cottage operations in small German villages.” The ornaments are the perfect example of Marquardt’s attention to detail when stocking his store. Whether it’s candles from a niche brand such as Nest, clean-lined furniture from Barclay Butera or limited-edition giclée prints to spruce up a wall, Marquardt’s years of experience seeking out the chic is reflected in the store’s impressive and ever-expanding array. Check out the store’s recently expanded children’s section (“everything from books to bibs,” as Marquardt puts it), tempting jewelry and accessories and the new bedroom floor display that’s sure to have you dreaming. “Having worked in the wholesale, retail and design industry for many years, I saw the industry changing and wanted to put all the best parts of those businesses under one roof,” Marquardt says. “We wanted to offer a unique boutique shopping experience, which is why we offer specialty seasonal gifts and home furnishings along with professional design services.” Those design services allow customers to achieve the interesting interior they desire. Marquardt’s two in-house designers work with clients to reimagine or refresh any room in the house, from the fixtures to the fabric to the finishings, to create livable, luxurious living spaces. Who wouldn’t want Haus to be their home? Come see what Haus has to offer at 5601 H St. Questions? Call Marquardt at 448-4100 or go to haushomeandgift.com And be sure you don’t miss the Haus open house this month: Sip complimentary champagne while you shop and enjoy giveaways and gifts-with-purchase all day. For more information (and an instant discount), check the Haus Facebook page at facebook.com/haushomeandgift

Jonathan Marquardt is the owner of Haus Home Décor and Specialty Gifts in East Sacramento

FLOORING IN THE FAMILY

hen Heather and Florin Toderean say they’ve been in business together for a long time, they’re not exaggerating—the owners of Heirloom Flooring Gallery in Carmichael started their tandem path of proprietorship right out of high school. “Our flooring career started with my parents,” Florin says, who emigrated with his parents from Romania. “I helped them start a janitorial business when I was 16 or 17, so they’d have a job despite the language barrier. That business developed into carpet cleaning, then flooring, and now into the current business.” The Todereans started Pacific Coast Services, a carpet cleaning service, in 1997. When they recognized there was a high demand for providing actual flooring products, not just keeping them pristine, they decided to expand. “We were constantly referring customers to other flooring stores in the area,” Florin recalls. “We realized we could open our own and service

clients from selling to repairs. Now we provide the labor and the goods.” In 2010, the enterprising couple opened Heirloom Flooring in Citrus Heights to provide even better service to their carpet clients. They bought an existing flooring company’s inventory—“The gentleman retired when the market fell,” Florin explains—and combined it with Pacific Coast Services, then moved the entire operation to their current Carmichael location in 2011. “It took a little bit to combine the two businesses,” Florin says. “You’re forced to learn pretty quickly when running a business, but it didn’t take very long. In our line of work, things come and go all the time— manufacturers change, product lines come and go. There are always new products, new technologies, new fibers, new ways of making hardwood floors. The industry is always evolving and changing.” As you might imagine, it’s a pretty busy time for the Todereans, what with their booming business and four children, who range in age from 4 to 14. But no matter how hectic it gets, they pride themselves on the stellar

customer service they’ve provided since Day 1. “Since we can do everything, I don’t have to push one service or product to make a sale,” Florin says. “If a customer thinks her carpet is ‘done’ but it actually just needs to be re-stretched and she can get more wear out of it, we’ll help her do that. You get an honest evaluation, not a pushy salesman. We live, work and shop in this community—we go to school here, go to church here. Our life is in this neighborhood.” “We want to take care of our customers and build long-term relationships with them,” Heather concurs. “We don’t want to just sell them flooring products, we want to take care of all their flooring needs for years and years to come.” Need a flooring refresh? Call the Todereans at Heirloom Flooring Gallery at 978-0206, check out heirloomflooring.com or drop in at 4005 Manzanita Ave., Suite 26 in Carmichael.

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unning this business is almost like playing house,” Gaby Sizemore says. This sentiment is particularly apt when you consider Sizemore and her husband, Warren, run The Window and Door Shop Inc. in ArdenArcade, but she means something more than merely outfitting homes with windows and doors. “I find myself doing a lot of things that I didn’t care about back when I worked in the corporate world, but that I find useful in my own business now,” Sizemore says. “All that experience carries over.” Sizemore is referring to her 18 years working in the contracting department at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, a job that required a level of detail orientation and focus that she

finds incredibly helpful in her current line of work. “I specialized in data analysis at UCSF, so I can review anything and it doesn’t scare me,” Sizemore says. “But the corporate world is very different from the small business one. Before, I had the stress of meeting with doctors, but it’s a different kind of stress now. I do all the operations here—accounts payable, receivable, Quickbooks—and I also started selling full time this year. It’s a whole different kind of ballgame.” Sizemore is good at keeping her cool, however, which is kind of what got her into this business in the first place. Her brothers founded the original Window and Door Shop in their native San Francisco in 1987 and Sizemore helped get them get up and running with Quickbooks when she was barely out of high school. But it wasn’t just the financial future of the company that interested her.

Heirloom Flooring Gallery owners Heather and Florin Toderean have been in the business since they graduated from high school

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“I liked to go over to the shop with my girlfriends because there were always lots of guys there,” Sizemore admits—guys who included Warren. Sizemore met and married her now-husband at her brothers’ shop, where Warren worked for seven years before accepting a job with a window manufacturing company that took the couple to Colorado. “Warren is incredibly knowledgeable,” Sizemore says proudly. “He started very young working in hardware stores and he knows the name of every little screw. He can talk to architects, builders, homeowners, anybody. He has a good visual understanding about how things come together and can come up with ideas that nobody else thinks of. That’s why I married him.”

The couple didn’t stay long in Colorado—“Moi didn’t like it there,” Sizemore admits—and upon returning to California, they decided to open up a sister shop in Sacramento in 2009. “All four of us are partners, which is why we were able to use the name,” Sizemore explains. “The Window and Door Shop is well-known in San Francisco, and we still do a lot of stuff with them. We don’t have a carpentry shop here, but if a client is looking for something custom-made, then we go ahead and do it from the San Francisco location. “We treat San Francisco just like any other company. It’s obviously more personalized but we try to conform to practices like lead times, SHOPTALK page 27

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Care, Not Cure HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE AT THE END OF LIFE

BY TERRY KAUFMAN LOCAL HEROES

my Schweitzer still gets emotional when she recalls watching the man take his last breath. He was a hospice patient who had been homeless and had no one to see him through the last moments of his life. “When I got to the facility, I saw that he was actively dying, so I held his hand while he passed away,” she says. “I remember leaving in tears, then sitting in my car for a long time. I was so grateful that I was able to be there with him. Otherwise, he would have died alone.” Schweitzer had been looking for meaningful volunteer work when she happened upon hospice about three years ago. “I went to the hospice training and was immediately convinced that this was the right fit,” she says. A lawyer for the state as well as a new mother, she visits patients of the Sutter Hospice program in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, which gives her more flexibility than home visits that have more rigid scheduling requirements. The visits are the high point of her week. “You sit down and get to know them. Sometimes, they don’t have family nearby or they don’t get a lot

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Sutter Hospice volunteers Amy Schweitzer and Fred Harrold

of visitors,” she says. She’s always nervous going in for the first time. “But once they welcome you in, it’s great,” says Schweitzer. “It’s an honor being with a person at the most vulnerable time of their life, getting to hear their stories, seeing their pictures. You get to skip past all of the small talk and just be there for them. There’s no other agenda, and they’re so grateful to have a new person that they can talk to and share stories with.” At 88, Fred Harrold has been a hospice volunteer since retiring from his Ford dealership more than 13 years ago. “I wanted to volunteer somewhere, but I didn’t want to lick stamps,” says Harrold. “This clicked

for me. I always seem to have a new experience. The people are interesting and varied.” Over the years, Harrold has seen an increase in the number of Alzheimer’s patients in hospice, and he finds himself working more often with patients younger than himself. “I’m older than most of them,” he says with a chuckle. He loves hearing their stories, like that of a World War II navy aviator who discovered where a fleet of Japanese ships was hidden. But he also enjoys helping in other ways. “The caregivers are on duty 24/7, they don’t get a break,” he says. “So I tell them to get out of the house or take a nap while I’m there.” He once snuck a patient’s dog into

a facility to cheer her up. He took another patient to the hardware store so that he could walk the aisles and pick through the bins. “When they come into hospice, there is nothing more that can be done to cure them, but there’s a lot that can be done to enhance the quality of their life, to help them live better and longer,” says Cindy Dunning, manager of Sutter Hospice’s volunteer program. Dunning has been with Sutter Hospice for 29 years. When she began back in 1985, she says, “I never thought this would be the job from which I would retire.” She came to hospice from a position with the American Cancer Society, and it was a perfect fit. “Hospice

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“Our volunteers come from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, but they all have a ‘hospice heart’ in common.” “Hospice is one of the best-kept secrets,” says Harrold. “The day will come when I’ll trade places with my patients, but I expect to be around for a while yet and will do this until I burn out. Emerson wrote, ‘What is an important man? Someone who leaves the world a little bit better than he found it.’” To learn more about Sutter Hospice, go to suttercareathome.org or call Cindy Dunning at 388-6255. Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com n

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was a fledgling program in the ’80s, and we had just 17 volunteers,” she says. “Today we have more than 80 on our roster.” Hospice services run the gamut from traditional nursing and bathing to massage and spiritual healing. The volunteers play a critical role by simply listening. They go through training and orientation, as well as background checks and health screening, before being paired with hospice patients. “They are patient, compassionate,” says Dunning. “Our volunteers come from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, but they all have a ‘hospice heart’ in common.” Most spend up to four hours a week with a single patient, then may take time before being paired with another. Dunning works hard to match volunteers with patients, and she holds monthly support meetings. She would welcome more men among the volunteer ranks, as well as Chinese speakers. The volunteers find the work anything but depressing. “It’s never a burden,” says Schweitzer. “I’m

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Handyman Special A LOT OF SWEAT EQUITY WENT INTO THIS ELMHURST REMODEL

BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT

fter Steven Maviglio moved to Sacramento from the East Coast, it took him nine months to find the right place to land. Proximity to downtown and being able to ride his bike to work were top priorities. In 2001, Maviglio found what he wanted in Elmhurst. The 1927 Craftsman bungalow had been a

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“They had destroyed the feel of the house but not the character.”

rental for a long time, and former occupants hadn’t been kind to the 1,100-square-foot home. “They had destroyed the feel of the house but not the character,” he says. “There was a generally funkiness, but I could see past that.” The kitchen lacked charm. The layout was inefficient. There was an old refrigerator and a hot water

tank in the small mudroom off the kitchen. “The kitchen was completely backward from what a functional kitchen should be,” Maviglio says. The bathroom also needed updating. Three concrete steps provided the only access to the backyard. Art deco lights clashed with the home’s Craftsman style. Maviglio remodeled the house in three phases: the kitchen in 2002, a bed-and-bath addition in 2006, and the small bath in 2009. He cut costs by offering a bit of sweat equity to the contractors, D & J Kitchens & Baths. “They are meticulous cabinetmakers and at first were a little nervous about letting me help out,” he explains. Maviglio doesn’t want anyone to think he is Joe Handyman, but HOME page 30

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HOME FROM page 29 he grew up doing a lot of this kind of work, including painting, ripping out floors and walls and installing insulation.

Maviglio loves cooking and entertaining, so updating the kitchen was paramount. D & J would provide a list of jobs and the necessary tools. With a bit of training, Maviglio was able to work evenings and weekends at his assigned tasks. “When someone shows you how to rip apart stuff, it is pretty easy,” he says. “I could come home from work

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and get rid of the stress of the day ripping apart floors and walls.” Maviglio loves cooking and entertaining, so updating the kitchen was paramount. Custom cherry cabinets with glass inserts replaced the drab originals and opened up the small space. Oak flooring was installed. Stainless steel appliances including a Thermador oven, dishwasher and refrigerator added a bit of luster. “This is nothing fancy but it really works,” he says. The master bed-and-bath addition added approximately 275 square feet. In the bathroom, Maviglio installed new fixtures along with beadboard, subway tile in the shower and chicken wire tile on the floor. A luxurious glass-enclosed shower and custom cherry cabinets and mirror complete the scene.

worked my remodel around my furniture.” He worked with SMUD to increase the home’s energy efficiency, installing new windows, a tankless water heater, a highefficiency furnace, new insulation in the walls and attic and an upgraded electrical system “It is so tight I hardly need to turn on the airconditioning,” he explains. French doors off the mudroom and master bedroom provide access to the backyard. A barbecue sits steps from the kitchen. A new deck, pergola, fountain and outdoor speakers create a welcoming place for guests. Maviglio created an orchard that produces blood oranges, Meyer lemons, figs and persimmons. An olive tree provides a link to his Homeowner Steven Maviglio at the entrance to his Italian roots. urban orchard Maviglio loves to travel, and his home contains In the second bathroom, Maviglio numerous pieces, paintings and installed more cherry cabinets and artworks collected on his trips to a large claw-foot tub rather than a Italy, Chile, Laos and Thailand. shower. His preference for cherry Local artist Mark Emerson is also a stems from memories. “I spent most favorite. of my life in New Hampshire, and it “Every morning when I walk reminds me of home,” he says. through the house, I take a trip around the world,” he says. Maviglio concedes his style of remodeling isn’t for everyone. He felt lucky finding Darius Baker, co-owner of D & J Kitchens and Bath. “We had an immediate bond,” he says. “And they were willing to have me do some of the work.” He stresses the importance of hiring craftsmen who pay attention to details and not just the bottom line. Maviglio’s interior reflects his “You must be brutally honest appreciation of fine craftsmanship about what you want accomplished,” and woodworking. His collection of he says. “We had some very frank furniture includes pieces by Stickley, conversations about this project.” Thomas Moser and cabinetmaker Loran Smith, a friend. If you know of a home you “If you aren’t building the Taj think should be featured in Inside Mahal, you have the budget to buy Publications, contact Julie Foster at nice furniture,” he explains. “I foster.julie91@yahoo.com n

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The Running Man MANAGING A SHOE STORE FOR SPORTS FANATICS, HE’S ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD

BY R.E. GRASWICH

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here’s an excellent reason why customers aren’t encouraged to wander up the stairs and into the corporate suites above Fleet Feet’s tidy store on J Street in Midtown. The second floor is a mess. Boxes of running shoes, T-shirts and product samples of healthy-lifestyle accessories crowd the halls and sit stacked in office warrens. A cluttered desk reveals a black bowl of half-consumed noodles, suggesting lunch interrupted. The jumble is no big deal to Fleet Feet employees. They navigate around the stacks of inventory like mountain goats headed for green pasture. In this sense, the Fleet Feet machine operates like an artisanal sausage factory, producing savory results from a process best left unobserved by outsiders. Dusty Robinson, general manager of Fleet Feet, makes no reference to the chaos as he welcomes a visitor into the belly of the beast. After poking his head into several offices, he finds sanctuary at the end of the hallway. He waves an arm and says, “We won’t be interrupted here.” He is right. Sacramento is a running town, a place where many thousands of residents brave car traffic and broken,

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Dusty Robinson is the general manager of Fleet Feet

uneven sidewalks, potholes, mud, heat and rain in the pursuit of local trails and pathways, relentlessly placing one foot in front of the other, mile after mile. For the most serious runners, Fleet Feet is not a store but an extension of the lifestyle, a place where no explanations are necessary. Fleet Feet employees aren’t sedentary souls who spend their off-hours playing video games. They run. And they know more than might be expected about the anatomical intricacies of ambulation, training and recovery, having learned the hard way: by going out and doing it. “We are a running store, yes,” Robinson says. “But our real goal is

a healthy lifestyle for our customers. That’s why we can talk to you about proper insoles and muscle massage, and why we have items for yoga and swimming.” Sacramento’s flat terrain and mild weather mean people can run yearround. Running paths line the rivers. Many parks in urban neighborhoods feature decomposed granite, the runner’s friend, alongside concrete sidewalks. “There is something going all the time,” Robinson says. “It’s difficult to find a weekend in the Sacramento area when there isn’t a race scheduled.” So the feet beat never ceases. The Sacramento race calendar has no

single peak but a series of peaks. October’s Urban Cow half marathon and 5-kilometer events give way to December’s California International Marathon, which yields to the Shamrock’n half marathon in March and the Women’s Fitness Festival in June. Those are marquee events. Add smaller races, triathlons and gimmicky goofs like The Color Run, and the chaos in a running store becomes understandable. September 2014 saw 17 unique running events in Sacramento. Unlike golf, tennis, cycling and water sports, running requires no expensive equipment beyond a modestly priced pair of shoes. A few

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bold runners don’t even bother with shoes, believing the naked, wellcalloused foot is a propulsion device impossible to improve upon. For customers who prefer shoes, Robinson and his crew take extra steps to consider proper fit and lifestyle. “Even if you’re running a couple of hours every day, there’s probably eight or nine hours a day when you’re wearing something else at your job,” Robinson says. “What you do on the job becomes very important in terms of avoiding injuries while running.” This is where the holistic approach to running and lifestyle comes in. By any measure, running is hard on the body. A human foot has 26 bones and 33 joints, held together and launched by more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. The morass of cartilage and marrow means much can go wrong. Which is why smart shoe people converse in esoteric languages: the vernacular of stretching, self-massage, hydration and insole support.

“We have podiatrists who come to the store, and they will ask our employees questions, because they know we see more runners’ feet than anybody,” Robinson says. They don’t spend all their time looking at feet. Beyond the retail confines of Midtown, Robinson and his crew sponsor and organize multiple races, handling signups, course management and results. On the marketing side, they juggle new product releases, struggling to keep pace with shoe and apparel manufacturers who follow byzantine shipping schedules. “They all try and get the edge on their competitors. There is no one season,” Robinson says. He points to a white board covered with multihued dates and shoe names, each color indicating when new models will be shipped. The silent, solitary act of running is like that: mesmerizingly complex, one step at a time.

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Golf for the Rest of Us FOOTGOLF USES A BIGGER BALL, A BIGGER HOLE AND THE PLAYER’S FOOT

BY GWEN SCHOEN THE CLUB LIFE

s a lifelong golfer, I admit to having a few prejudices about the game. In my opinion, golf should be played in relative quiet, with clubs, small white balls and a certain amount of etiquette. Most important, one should never kick a golf ball, unless it’s behind a tree and nobody is looking. And so I was a bit skeptical when, about a year ago, at Haggin Oaks Golf Complex, I noticed a FootGolf course being installed along the side of the Arcade Creek course. “This could not be good,” I told myself. And then, the FootGolfers arrived. They came in groups of four. They laughed. They ran between shots. They cheered, high-fived and kicked their balls from tee to hole. It was far too much frivolity and energy for the game of golf. “Harrumph,” a few of the grumpy golfers moaned. But I watched the FootGolfers with a bit of amusement. It was like a party on the golf course. They certainly were respectful of the traditional golfers, waiting until holes were open before kicking their tee shots. They stayed well clear of the manicured greens and off the fairways when golfers were playing through. It seemed as though the two games might

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FootGolf players Theresa Yarra, J-R Sterba and Lilli Bewley

coexist just fine. A year later, that’s exactly what has happened. “FootGolf is a new sport,” says Lilli Bewley, a co-founder of California FootGolf Club. “We’re still trying to work out all the rules and get organized, but the sport is growing pretty fast. We’re up to 65 members in Sacramento. We’re about evenly divided between men and women.” Bewley describes the sport as a combination of soccer and golf. “Many of our members are former soccer players,” she says. “Some play both golf and soccer.” Just like traditional golf, a game is either nine or 18 holes. The balls are the size of a traditional soccer ball size, and the FootGolf cups (holes) measure 21 inches. As with golf, cups are marked with flags. The rules are similar to traditional golf. Each FootGolfer kicks his or her own ball and keeps track of how many kicks it takes to sink the ball from the tee blocks to the hole. The object is to use as few kicks as possible. As with traditional golf, each hole has a par. A par-3 hole, for example, should take three kicks to complete. “The game can be as active or sedentary as you want it to be,” says Bewley. “Some players run from shot to shot. Others drive a golf cart so they have a place to stash gear, snacks and beverages.” I was liking the sound of this game: cart, snacks, beverages, 21-inch cups. That might improve my score considerably. “We haven’t quite found our niche yet, but the game is just two years old,” says Bewley. The game originated in the Netherlands in 2009. Not long after that, players in Belgium and Hungary began playing on golf courses instead of public parks. The American

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by early next year. For now, we have two categories: masters, who are better players, and premier for people just starting out. You don’t need experience to come play with us. We really just play for fun. We’re happy to help anyone get started. We’ll even loan you a ball.” If you are interested in joining the club, check with the pro shop at Haggin Oaks, call 804-1649 or email lbewley@cafootgolf.com. You will also find the group on Facebook. Green fees are similar to traditional golf green fees at most FootGolf courses. At Haggin Oaks, for example, it’s $16 for 18 holes if you walk (or run) and $24 with a golf cart. There are six courses in the Sacramento area. At Bradshaw Ranch Golf Course, FootGolfers can play after dark with glow-in-the-dark balls. You can find a list of local FootGolf courses at footgolfcalifornia.com For more information about FootGolf, go to usfootgolfassociation. org If you know of an interesting club in the area, contact Gwen Schoen at gwensclubs@aol.com n

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Shopping for Charity ONE FOR ME AND ONE FOR YOU

breakfast and rally at Cal Expo. “This is what United Way does best,” said the keynote speaker, Sacramento Kings president Chris Granger. “We mobilize people to join hands and meet community needs, and that’s exactly what happened.”

BY GLORIA GLYER DOING GOOD

n November, one way to do good is to donate food, money or time to nonprofits getting ready for the holidays. It’s not too early to start collecting a bag or box of food items. The next time you add peanut butter to your shopping cart, pick up a second jar to donate. It’s one of the items food banks most appreciate receiving. What else? Roseville Home Start has a great list: bread and butter (if it’s donated the same day as it’s purchased), peanut butter, healthy cereal such as Cheerios, frozen vegetables, canned fruit, powdered milk, canned ravioli, pasta sauce, crackers, granola bars and other snacks, juice boxes, fruit juice, even frozen, microwaveable meals, preferably family sized. Simply start filling a shopping bag or two and deliver it to your favorite nonprofit in mid-November.

UNITED WAY HELPED OUT United Way’s second Annual Day of Caring on Sept. 12 included 31 projects across the region, with 577 local residents volunteering to build garden beds, paint murals, landscape and more. The event began with a

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WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT GETS A BOOST Women’s Empowerment recently received a $25,000 grant from U.S. Bank to provide job training for homeless women. “Sacramento is already one of the hardest places in the country to find a job. But when you add barriers like homelessness, it can feel nearly impossible without the right training,” said executive director Lisa Culp. “We are grateful to U.S. Bank Foundation for providing us with additional funding to ensure more women leave our program employed and ready to break the cycle of homelessness for themselves and their children.” Women’s Empowerment provides an eight-week program for homeless women that addresses basic needs such as health and housing while preparing them to become work ready. Mostly taught by volunteers, the program includes computer literacy training, resume writing, communication skills, mock interviews, dressing for success and more. Last year, 81 percent of graduates found homes and 90 percent found jobs or enrolled in training. For more information, go to womensempowerment.org

STOPPING ABUSE BEFORE IT HAPPENS A benefit for the Child Abuse Prevention Center was recently held at Screeching Owl Ranch on the Sacramento River. Supporters gathered around the pool for snacks and sips served beneath colorful tents. The result: $37,000 was raised to help the center, which provides advocacy, training and services. According to the center, a typical case of child abuse costs society $118,000 in law enforcement and other costs. The center provides services for $1,200 per child—and that’s before the harm has occurred. The center says it has a 98 percent success rate in preventing child abuse. For more information, go to thecapcenter.org

STREET PARTY FOR THE FOOD BANK It’s possible to have fun and raise money at the same time. River City Food Bank recently held a street party with food trucks, beer and wine. The event, attended by about 350 people, raised $27,000 for the food bank. “The event was a great way to showcase our food bank and bring awareness to the desperate issue and growing trend of hunger among us,” said executive director Eileen Thomas. For more information, go to rivercityfoodbank.org

U.S. SENIOR OPEN NEEDS VOLUNTEERS Golfers will descend on Sacramento June 22-28 for the U.S. Senior Open at Del Paso Country Club. Volunteers are needed for duties that include

access control, admissions, will call, corporate hospitality, disability services, merchandise, orientation, product distribution and volunteer headquarters. All volunteers must purchase the basic volunteer package for $125, which includes a championship golf shirt, windbreaker, ball cap or visor, water bottle and credential valid for all seven days of the championship. For more information, go to 2015ussenioropen. com

FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW FOCUS The Harvego Family Foundation has announced that it will focus on three “areas of priority” when deciding which organizations should receive grants. This year, it will give priority to nonprofits that focus on youth and families, food literacy or arts, entertainment and culture. “For more than 15 years, my family has silently and diligently given back to the Sacramento community in time of need, to those who asked and for causes rooted in our family values,” said Lloyd Harvego. “That Harvego habit will never change. But now, we want to open the door to additional nonprofits that share our love of the region by inviting them to compete for funding.” Since 1999, the Harvego Family Foundation has invested nearly $2 million into local nonprofit organizations. For more information, go to harvegofoundation.com

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Waiting for Rain WHAT IF WE HAVE ANOTHER DRY WINTER?

BY ANITA CLEVENGER GARDEN JABBER

ast year, I wrote about the “fifth season,” the time when California waits breathlessly

for rain and the precious awakening of late fall and winter. When our usual rainy period begins, the hills and roadsides turn emerald, seemingly overnight. Flower seeds sprout under changeable skies filled with clouds and the occasional rainbow. We were teased this year by September rain. That happened last year, too, but the early promise

spotted with a few plants. Others

sprinklers, your trees are thirsty.

or ET. In layman’s terms, less water

was followed by yet another year of

are colorful and relatively lush, filled

Many of our landscape trees come

evaporates and transpires (passes

drought. Hillsides stayed a patchy

with drought-tolerant plants. Then

from locations with ample rainfall

through the pores on a plant’s leaves)

brown most of the winter. Snow

there are the unintentional deserts,

and milder temperatures than our

when the days are shorter and cooler.

in the Sierra was scant, not nearly

where plants have died or look very

saunalike summers. Redwoods, elm

The Sacramento Valley’s ET drops

enough to fill our reservoirs. Our

stressed because people have confused

trees and red maples are among

from July’s high of 7.9 inches to

water districts set varying degrees of

“low water” with “no water.” Even

the varieties that simply have to

1.6 in November, and it begins to

watering restrictions.

the most drought-tolerant plants

have a good, long drink periodically.

increase in March as the days get

must be watered in their first season

Sacramento Tree Foundation offers

longer. There are smart irrigation

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or two, with periodic deep watering

great tips at sactree.com/water

controllers that measure the daily

Most lawns are less green than usual,

throughout their lives.

Passing through our

although many are a vivid shade

I’m hopeful that by the time you

The trees also tell of drought. Many read this, the weather will have

ET and adjust watering accordingly. Less sophisticated controllers may

that only lavish amounts of water

of them are dead, dying or stressed.

changed and that rain and snow will

have a seasonal-adjustment setting

and fertilizer could produce. A few

New and young trees will die without

have begun falling. But what if this

for you to apply a smaller percentage

lawns are totally brown. Some people

regular water. Most of our mature

winter is just as dry as last, or even

of watering. If it hasn’t begun to

have given up on all or much of their

landscape trees need occasional deep

drier?

rain, about 40 percent would be

turfgrass with considerably variable

watering, penetrating at least a foot

results. Their front yards may look

down, throughout the dry season. If

throughout the year. Horticulturists

point, it’s probably better to water no

like the desert, covered with rock and

you’ve reduced or stopped your lawn

talk about evapotranspiration rate,

more than once a week, making sure

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Your plants still need water

appropriate for November. At this

that the water soaks to the root zone.

the Sahara are to find an oasis? We

The city limits irrigation to one day a

need to achieve a sustainable balance,

week during winter months, starting

using less water but keeping our

Nov. 2 and ending when daylight

city livable. The most important

saving time resumes. You can water

thing is to keep our trees alive and

on either Saturday or Sunday. If

healthy. Trees take decades to grow to

it’s raining, cut off the irrigation

maturity.

altogether. Fall is a good time to plant. The

Even if it’s raining as you read this, we are still in a drought. The state of

city still offers its river-friendly

California has mandated a monthly 20

landscape rebate for replacing turf

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or going online to sparesacwater.org Trees, shrubs, flowers and grass are part of what makes Sacramento’s scorching summers bearable. In addition to being beautiful, plants cool things down and filter the air and water. Pavement, rocks and artificial turf absorb and retain heat.

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City Living CONSTRUCTION OF CONTROVERSIAL DEVELOPMENT IS MOVING ALONG

BY R.E. GRASSWICH

suburban subdivisions. He prefers to take a neglected and abused site, bordered by urban expectations and wary neighbors, and create something that blends well and enhances the community.

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faded blue front loader tells the story of Curtis Park’s newest revival on this fine sunny morning. Trundling slowly down 10th Avenue and making a cautious right turn onto 24th Street, the tractor inches along with its stack of oriented strand board—OSB, the modern builder’s choice in undercoat sheeting for wood-frame construction. Homes are going up fast here, ready for occupancy before Thanksgiving. Political arguments over the shape, size and attributes of the Curtis Park Village housing development have dragged on for years. But the presence of construction workers pounding nails signals the fight is over. New homes sprout from the wasteland between Curtis Park and Sacramento City College on dirt that once belonged to Western Pacific Railroad. “It hasn’t been easy, but we’re excited to be where we are,” says Mike Paris, founder of BlackPine Communities, developer of the first 86 lots in what will eventually be a collection of 267 homes, shops and offices in the old railyard. Paris came to Curtis Park late, acquiring a strip of land along the western fringe of the development, between 24th Street and newly paved Crocker Drive, in 2013. This was about a decade after the primary Curtis Park Village developer, Paul Petrovich, began the astonishingly adversarial work of cleaning the 72-acre brownfield site and acquiring entitlements from the city to build there.

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“They are looking for the amenities of city life, and they can afford to wait until they find exactly what they’re looking for.”

Mike Paris is the founder of BlackPine Communities, developer of the first 86 lots in what will eventually be a collection of 267 homes, shops and offices in the old railyard

Paris, tall and lean with spiky silver hair, isn’t a man who wastes time. This summer, his sales trailer bustled at the Village site, off 10th Avenue. Eager customers signed contracts. Crews poured concrete and built frames for homes that sell

for $450,000 to $650,000 in one of Sacramento’s largest infill projects. After decades in residential real estate development, Paris has become an infill guy. You won’t find him on land where the roads stop and tomato fields begin, building

In Curtis Park, he’s exceeding expectations with three variations of homes, identified in real estate sales pitches as Cottages, Brownstones and Expressions, the latter being the largest and most expensive. These are high-density residences that range from tiny (1,500 square feet) to abundant (more than 2,500 feet). Paris sold six of the first 12 homes before the structures were framed out. “Our customers know what they want,” he says. “They are looking for the amenities of city life, and they can afford to wait until they find exactly what they’re looking for.” Paris doesn’t provide data about his buyers, but informal conversations with potential customers at Curtis Park Village reveal exactly the sort of people you might expect to live in the neighborhood: high-level state workers, government consultants and health care professionals, people who

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want to reside near work and enjoy city life. The architectural features of the new homes posed a challenge for Paris. He wanted his designs to reflect Curtis Park, but he soon realized that Curtis Park is many things adding up to no particular style. “When Curtis Park was originally developed, builders bought one lot, built their home, sold it and that was that,” he says. “There was no thought given to master planned communities like today.” The result, he notes, is a perpetual “revivalism” of architecture in Curtis Park, which evolved from the farmland, dairy and stockyards of several 19th-century Sacramento pioneers, among them William Curtis. Paris met a Curtis Park resident named Dan Murphy, who published a 2005 book called “Sacramento’s Curtis Park.” The book charts the transformation of farm, dairy and stockyard into homes, using the phrase “mosaic” to describe the development. Murphy helped Paris understand how Curtis Park came to

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be a mosaic, and how new cottages and brownstones could be made to fit, especially along the periphery of the neighborhood on 24th Street. “Twenty-fourth Street has always been a sort of stepchild to Curtis Park,” Paris says, pointing to homes vastly more eclectic and humble than those two blocks east. “Hopefully, our project helps pull it all together.” It’s important to note that Paris is not Petrovich. Their projects, closely linked, are separate. Says Paris, “It was a very tough deal we did with Paul. But he fights hard because he believes in the project. I admire his tenacity.” While Paris nears completion of the first new homes in Curtis Park Village, he needs Petrovich to succeed with the rest of the project, especially the markets and shops that will serve all those new homeowners. “We’re waiting for Paul to get going, especially on that Safeway,” Paris says. “The sooner the better.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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eth Hassett has traveled to every U.S. state except Hawaii, Alaska and North Dakota. Most of these visits occurred while road tripping across the country as a child with her family, a pastime she continues to enjoy as an adult. “I think the world would be a better place if people went on more road trips,” she says. Hassett has also traveled in Europe and can one day see herself working with women and children who are victims of domestic and sexual abuse overseas. But before that happens, she knows there’s a lot of work left to do in her own backyard. She’s doing that work as executive director of WEAVE, a nonprofit organization that aims to end domestic violence and sexual assault throughout Sacramento County. In assuming the top leadership role in 2006, Hassett rejoined an organization she had worked for in the 1990s, returning because she remained committed to the cause. “I am very passionate about social justice issues and making sure people who have no protection (get) some protection and help,” she says. “There was a lot of unfinished business.” WEAVE provides crisis intervention services for survivors, along with prevention and education programs for the larger community to do its part in breaking the cycle of violence. The organization also supports international and domestic victims of human trafficking.

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The job is tough, especially considering that some 40 years after the movement to support survivors of sexual assault began, this societal problem still exists.

Beth Hassett is the executive director of WEAVE

Hassett wasted no time after taking the helm, immediately launching efforts to transform the organization’s residential, counseling and legal services and build a $4 million, 12,000-square-foot safe house. The safe house provided 10,396 nights of shelter to 163 women, two men and

206 children from July 2012 to July 2013, according to an annual report. “Beth is a rock star,” says attorney Ashley West, a member of the board of directors for several years. “She runs WEAVE like a business, and getting services to women and children who need it is her bottom

Hassett oversees a budget of $3.5 million and 120 regular and on-call employees. The annual report details the critical work done by WEAVE staff and volunteers: For instance, the phone line answered 10,217 calls, and the 24-hour sexual assault response team provided support to 188 rape victims undergoing an evidentiary exam. “The hardest part is all the vicarious trauma we all have here,” Hassett says. “The staff sees terrible, heart-wrenching stories and sees people in a lot of pain. Sometimes we feel helpless. There’s a lot of suffering, and we can’t always fix it.” Raised in Massachusetts and Indiana, Hassett was exposed to the arts by her parents, both writers. Her mother wrote Harlequin romance

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the movement to support survivors of sexual assault began, this societal problem still exists. “We’re at the point where the world has not changed dramatically,” Hassett says. “So what do we do?” Knowing that men perpetuate the vast majority of violence, WEAVE is making a concerted effort to bring more men into the movement. One method has been through Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, an annual walk/ race in which men wear high heels and raise money for the organization. WEAVE is also introducing youth-led programs into schools to talk about ways to curb gender violence. In her spare time, Hassett loves to travel and vacation at her family’s cabin in Utah, where she can escape technology and relax. She and Kevin go to concerts together and recently saw Arcade Fire perform. She plays with her pug, Demetrius, and writes romantic suspense novels for fun. “And, as many people will tell you, I play Words With Friends way too often,” she says. n

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The Biggest Loser FAILURE CAN BE AS VALUABLE AS SUCCESS

BY KEVIN MIMS WRITING LIFE

late magazine recently published an essay by Josh Keefe, a young man who, from 2001 to 2003, quarterbacked his high school football team to 23 consecutive losses. That’s an extremely difficult feat. Normally, quarterbacks who lose 10 or 15 games in a row get replaced. Keefe somehow hung onto his job long enough to set what is almost certainly a record for consecutive losses by a single starting quarterback. Here’s how Keefe described the lesson it taught him: Life is a hopeless fight against loss and failure. We are all going to die, as will all of our loved ones. Getting beaten continuously on the football field, sometimes brutally so, illuminates this existential struggle. It teaches you to find joy in what you’re doing, and the people you are doing it with, in spite of the inevitable outcome. As a culture, we try to make every kid feel like a winner. Maybe we should also give every child a task that he will fail at again and again, along with teammates to fail with. He might learn to detach himself from

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winning and losing and learn the value of putting up a good fight. He might learn that trying and failing to achieve a long-shot dream is better than settling for a passionless life. There are not many topics I can speak knowingly about, but failure happens to be my metier. It’s what I do. I have closets full of unpublished novels, short stories, poems, essays, TV and movie scripts. Josh Keefe spent three years failing at football. I’ve spent about 40 years mostly failing at writing, and I can honestly say it has brought me more personal satisfaction than just about any other facet of my life except my marriage. I used to wonder what it would be like to be insanely successful at something. Then I got a tiny taste of it. For years, three friends and I have competed together in pub trivia contests all around Sacramento under the name The League of Mediocre Gentlemen. One of our regular venues is the Tuesday-night trivia contest at the Fox & Goose pub. When we began competing there, the quizmaster was a woman at least 25 years younger than the youngest of the Mediocre Gentlemen. Morgan asked a lot of questions about contemporary pop culture, a topic the Mediocre Gentlemen know little about. In nearly every quiz, she included a question about “The Simpsons,” a TV program no Mediocre Gentleman has ever seen. Even worse, she asked a lot of questions about biology and medicine, which she was studying in college. This benefited a team called The Zookeepers, which, rumor had it, consisted of four youngish veterinarians. In those days, The

Zookeepers were the New York Yankees of the Fox & Goose trivia contest, the team everyone loved to hate. With their knowledge of “The Simpsons,” animals, medicine and biology, they had a distinct advantage over the Mediocre Gentlemen, whose specialties are literature, film, history and geography. Time and again we found ourselves bested by the blasted Zookeepers. Then, about three years ago, Morgan left and the Iceman cometh. That’s right, the new quizmaster goes by the name Iceman. Though younger than the youngest Mediocre Gentleman, he is nonetheless older than Morgan and seems particularly keen on the pop culture of the 1960s and ’70s—the heyday of the Mediocre Gentlemen. He is also a film and literature buff. As soon as the Iceman arrived at Fox & Goose, the Mediocre Gentlemen began dominating the Tuesday trivia contests and the Zookeepers departed for greener pastures. Nowadays, our stiffest competition comes from a team called The Geezers, a foursome of people who are even older than we are. Our team wins about a third of the contests and rarely finishes below second place. The Geezers win about a quarter of the contests. Occasionally, some group of young whippersnappers will rise up and defeat both the Geezers and the Mediocre Gentlemen, but this happens less than half the time. When our team wins, we tend to win big. Back when The Zookeepers were the dominant team, the difference between first and second place was usually only a point or two. But the Mediocre Gentlemen sometimes

win by five or more points. We won a recent movie-themed quiz by answering 31 of 36 questions correctly. The second-place team had only 25 correct answers. We are now even more dominant than The Zookeepers ever were. And how do we feel about this tremendous success? To be honest, we’re kind of sick of it. Oftentimes, we find ourselves hoping that the Iceman will announce some other team as the winner of the contest. We miss the days when victory was a rare pleasure, one to be savored and celebrated. Quite often, on Tuesday nights, I come home from the pub infused with a sense of triumph. I don’t really like it. I’m much happier playing the role of the eternal underdog. And when I wake up on Wednesday morning, sit down at my computer and begin working on the latest of my almostcertain-never-to-be-published novels, I find myself once more luxuriating in that most familiar of feelings: failure. My old friend and flame. The one thing in life that almost never abandons me. Utter failure and astounding success can sometimes be combined in a single individual. Green Bay Packer Paul Hornung was one of the NFL’s all-time greatest halfbacks and also quite possibly its worst-ever field goal kicker. In 1964, Hornung missed 26 of 38 field goal attempts. No one before or since has missed as many in a single season. He also missed extrapoint attempts in two separate games, and the Packers lost each of those games by a single point. And who was the coach who put such a lousy kicker in a position to do so much damage to

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his team? That would be NFL legend Vince Lombardi. Despite his brilliance as a tactician and motivator, Lombardi was never quite smart enough to realize how valuable the position of placekicker could be to an NFL team. Rather than “waste” a roster spot on a full-time kicker, Lombardi would palm the job off on some other player. The year before Hornung established himself as the league’s worst kicker, Lombardi used right guard Jerry Kramer for the task. Kramer missed 18 of his 34 field-goal attempts. Over the course of two seasons, Lombardi left perhaps 100 points off the scoreboard simply because he couldn’t be bothered to hire a full-time kicker. Most people familiar with Paul Hornung probably envy him his success as a running back (Heisman Trophy, NFL MVP, four NFL championship rings), but I am not one of them. Maybe I’m wired wrong, but what I admire is the fact that, throughout that 1964 season, as it became painfully clear that whatever

placekicking prowess he might once have possessed was now largely gone, Hornung kept going out onto the field whenever his coach asked him to attempt a field goal and, more often than not, failed in front of tens of thousands of people. A lesser man might have asked to be relieved of the kicking duties, but Hornung never did. Like Josh Keefe, he endured unprecedented failure without whining or complaining about it. Rudyard Kipling famously wrote that a real man must “meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two imposters just the same.” For some reason, I’ve always been more intrigued by the plight of those dealing with Disaster than by the plight of those dealing with Triumph. Maybe that’s why the Tuesday-night trivia contest has lost some of its luster for me. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m starting to miss The Zookeepers. Kevin Mims can be reached at kevinmims@sbcglobal.net n

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2540 CATALINA DR $315,000 2905 LACY LN $420,000 2701 LERWICK RD $120,000 2831 DARWIN ST $105,000 3700 N EDGE DR $202,500 4043 EDISON AVE $297,000 4437 RUTGERS WY $375,000 4100 HORGAN WY $245,000 2933 POPE AVE $259,950 3131 SHASTA WY $225,000 3313 BROOKWOOD RD $253,000 3023 NORRIS AVE $295,000 2440 WULFF LN $204,000 4031 GLENOLIVE CT $285,000 2398 RALSTON RD $160,000 3925 LASUEN DR $222,000 3316 BROOKWOOD RD $259,000 2856 VERNA WY $260,000 2849 AURORA AVE $152,775 3813 PASADENA AVE #23 $183,000 3219 BROPHY $187,000 2844 IONE ST $226,000 3117 KERRIA WY $247,500 3608 DARLENE AVE $189,000 3624 MULHOLLAND WY $250,000 3407 SAINT MATHEWS $220,000 2571 AVALON DR $250,000 4029 HANCOCK DR $409,000 3304 BROOKWOOD RD $235,000 3330 HARMONY LN $248,000 3057 SAND DOLLAR WY $328,000 3221 MORSE AVE $480,000

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was a freshly minted minister in 1984 when I preached an “audition sermon” before 26 parishioners at First Southern Baptist Church of Brentwood, Calif. After the sermon, the church voted unanimously to hire me, certain that my youthful enthusiasm would increase church membership. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the glamorous Brentwood of O.J. Simpson fame. This was an unincorporated hamlet on the fringes of the San Francisco Bay Area with only one traffic light and one ATM. Progress

wasn’t a speeding bullet for Brentwood businesses, much less a church. During my first year, I proposed improvements to spur church growth. For instance, I suggested that removing “Southern” from our name might attract people from other cultures. “Not in our lifetime,” the parishioners said. I recommended we hire a secretary. Nope. But mostly, I lobbied for building improvements. “Paint, remodel and landscape!” Not likely, they told me. One day, however, I got a helpful phone call from the Brentwood fire chief asking to schedule the church’s annual fire inspection. “What does that mean?” I asked, alarmed at the unlikelihood of passing inspection. The chief assured me that his was a routine inspection for fire hazards. I smiled at the possibilities. I was more than willing to hang our proverbial dirty laundry for him to see.

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“You mean like the hole in the foyer ceiling?” “Yes, I suppose so,” he said, his tone shifting suspiciously. “You’ll want to see the faulty wiring in our fellowship hall?” I asked. “Sure, I guess so.” When the chief arrived the following week, I was ready with my laundry list. For two hours, he dutifully recorded my dictated prompts onto a three-page form addressing blocked exit doors, overstuffed classrooms and faulty wiring. Afterward, as he pushed the form toward me for my signature, he generously offered a few extra months to complete the list. “Nope,” I said, dotting the “i” in Norris and crossing the “t” in Pastor. “This is long overdue.” The following Sunday, I presented the repair list to the deacon chairman. He stared long at the list before releasing a low whistle. “We’ve never had so many violations!” Then he fixed his stare onto me. I took sudden interest in the chipped tile beneath my feet. “I sort of helped him find those things,” I said. “You what?” “I was just following James 5:16,” I said with a wink. The Bible says, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.” His furrowed forehead and bushy eyebrows told me he needed more elucidation. “Haven’t we been praying that our church building would be ‘healed’?” I asked.

He nodded with slow understanding. “So you just did the confessing part?” “Precisely.” I said. “I confessed that our walls need patching and painting. Our electrical outlets need covering and our doors need replacing.” The old deacon seemed a bit stunned by my creative exegesis of scripture, but eventually he was pleased that I’d found a way to light a fire under the congregation. Over the next several weeks, our parishioners painted, hammered and plastered that building from one end to the other, until finally, after a summer of Saturday workdays and sumptuous potlucks, we finished the chief’s “honey-do” list. By year’s end, we saw our lowly membership of 26 people climb to 56. And by the following year, 56 souls approached 100. Amazingly, numerical increases and building improvements weren’t even the best things that happened. The best things came from the spiritual growth we experienced from confessing our shortcomings to one another—shortcomings like the holes in our hearts and the faulty wiring in our thinking. Only after we did that were we able to grow as people and pastor, as shepherd and congregants, and even as sons and daughters of God. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of the book “No Small Miracles.” He can be reached at ask@TheChaplain.net n

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Showing the Way TEEN NURTURES YOUNG AUDIENCES FOR MUSICAL THEATER

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ara Kong has seen scores of musical shows. And through her love for theater, and precocity for fundraising, hundreds of Sacramento teens have also enjoyed what Broadway has to offer. Four years ago, at age 14, Kong saw a touring production of “Billy Elliott” and exclaimed: “Everybody in the audience is in their 80s!” Since then, the Sacramento Country Day School student has relentlessly raised money (around $80,000 so far) to rejuvenate theater crowds. By her graduation day, she hopes her fourth season of fundraising will bring the total to $100,000. Through the project she calls On Broadway, the entrepreneur sponsors underprivileged children to attend shows. “I’ve lost count of how many kids we’ve taken—probably more than 400,” she says. “It’s amazing to think they’ve all had a chance to see how the theater works. Each show opens your mind and changes your thinking.” For those 18-and-under students Kong calls “my kids,” “Mary Poppins” was a 2014 season favorite. “They all knew the songs,” she explains. “The show lets your imagination soar. You forget about anything worrying at home.” Troubled homes are common among the teens on Kong’s outings. Many are also served by a Country Day project called Breakthrough Sacramento, which helps students from underachieving schools prepare for college. Kong’s fundraising

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Lara Kong shows mementoes from some of her favorite musicals. The Sacramento Country Day senior has taken hundreds of underprivileged schoolchildren to the theater.

sponsors up to 40 tickets for each performance by the California Musical Theater. Her chaperoned guests are given a show prologue; they also meet actors and stage crews. “They learn about costumes, lighting and sound,” says their benefactor. “Then they see how it all works on stage. “Instead of texting and watching TV shows, they’re experiencing art,” Kong continues. “They see how actors tell a story, not just through their lines, but with their faces and body language. Many are amazed that the music comes from a live orchestra. There’s nothing fake in the theater.” Kong’s dedication is a win-win for kids whose social and educational opportunities are expanded—and for the theater industry itself.

“If you see shows at a young age,” she reasons, “you’re more likely to bring your own kids someday. It’s a domino effect.” California Musical Theater executives applaud this vision. “From the age of 14, her passion and generosity has made a difference to young people,” says development director Allison Cagley. “She’s also helped introduce a new audience generation to our shows. We love having Lara as part of our theater family.” Now in her senior year, Kong is thinking about college and hopes eventually to bequeath her program to another volunteer. “It’s a lot of work, “says the uberachiever. “But I’d be sad to see it end.

Theater has brought so much to my kids’ lives.” Even she admits surprise at On Broadway’s bottom line. “I never dreamed I could raise so much money,” she marvels. “As a result, so many young people have enjoyed the theater experience and benefitted from it.” Kong feels she has grown up with her nonprofit. “It’s matured me,” she considers. “At 15, I was nowhere near as poised in talking to adults as I am now. I’ve learned that many people are eager to help others if you approach them.” Her parents, lawyer Clement and mom Melinda Kong, are top donors and morale boosters. “They are simply the best parents ever,” she says. Her dad reciprocates: “Somehow Lara is able to couple her passion for musical theater with a commitment to help those who aren’t as fortunate as she is,” he says. “She gets tremendous rewards knowing students have new opportunities through her efforts. “We hope she maintains these values throughout her life. We have to thank friends, businesses and family; people who care enough about Lara to make sure her project succeeds.” His exemplary daughter is still an ordinary teenager in other respects: “My wife and I hope her organizational skills, and time she devotes to her fundraiser, will translate to cleaning her room and getting her college applications filed in time,” the father says. At 5 years old, his daughter donned frilly frocks to see such shows as “Beauty and the Beast.” Kong anticipates future magical outings

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Academy of Ancient Music THU, NOV 13 with her own kids. For now, her mom and dad are still her theater dates. “I’m thankful they always took me to shows,” she says. “These sparked my love for music (she plays flute for Sacramento’s Youth Symphony) and let me connect with the stage. After performances, we always have great conversations.” Fundraising and planning aside, the magic never dies.

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Beautiful Bridge GUY WEST CROSSING IS GREAT, BUT WE NEED MORE BRIDGES

BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE

love Guy West Bridge. William Morris, the British designer and writer, said, “Have nothing … that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” He was talking about household items, but his maxim applies to community assets, too. Our mini-Golden Gate Bridge is both beautiful (even if it is a copy) and eminently useful. The bridge, with its American River views, is one of the city’s most scenic spots and a true landmark. It gives the Sac State campus, home to some nondescript architecture, real identity. The bridge is named after the founding CSUS president, Guy A. West, an esteemed educator and a mover and shaker who presided over the opening of the campus. I’ve used the bridge thousands of times to get to the American River Parkway bike path. It’s a vital and convenient connection for bicyclists, joggers and pedestrians between East Sacramento, the campus, the Campus Commons neighborhood and the parkway. Crossing it is a pleasure. After nearly a half-century of use, the city has been repainting and restoring the bridge. Back in 1966, the developers who turned hops

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fields into Campus Commons paid for and built the bridge and then turned it over to the city. At the time of construction, it was the longest foot suspension bridge in the United States. The bridge’s old paint was lead based. During paint removal, the bridge, including its two 87-foot-tall towers, has been partially hidden in eerie white shrouds to keep toxic lead out of the environment. The city is returning the faded paint to its original International Orange color, the same hue as the Golden Gate. The $3.2 million project is also removing corrosion, fixing railings and restoring the suspension cables. The city says it will finish its

restoration work by the end of the year. The original globe lights on the bridge, long a favorite target of vandals, were replaced years ago. Also years ago, CSUS improved access to its side of the bridge with a gently graded circular ramp and a much-needed overcrossing of State University Drive East. Unfortunately, the design of that ramp’s campus end creates multiple conflict points between bicyclists and pedestrians and with some large and unnecessary concrete columns. Hundreds of people cross the bridge during peak afternoon hours. The bridge’s connectivity helps avoid a

thousand or more vehicle trips each day. Sacramento suffers from a scarcity of bridges. The Sacramento and American rivers remain major barriers for pedestrians and cyclists because crossings are so few and far apart. It’s relatively easy for a motorist to go a half-mile or mile out of his or her way to cross one of the rivers. For someone walking, that much extra distance could mean 20 to 30 minutes extra time each way. That’s why bridges like the Guy West are so important: They make alternatives to car travel more possible. And they make the crossing journey more pleasant

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uch of what happens in a chemistry lab resembles cooking. Chemists measure volumes and weights. They mix, heat and transform one substance into another. Much of what happens in the kitchen is chemistry: Salt crystals dissolve. Water changes phase from liquid to gas. Runny, clear egg white stiffens into meringue. I love the science-y aspects of cooking. I like knowing that olive oil has a lower smoke point than peanut oil, and that enzymes in fresh pineapple (but not canned) will prevent Jell-O from gelling. So in anticipation of Thanksgiving, when I’ll be faced with one of the toughest culinary challenges—cooking a whole turkey that’s done but not dry—I sought advice from Harold McGee’s classic book, “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen.” McGee explains everything a kitchen scientist could want to know about cooking meat. He reveals that meat gets juicy at about 140 degrees, when shrinking protein fibers release water. He writes that denaturation

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of myoglobin pigment explains the bleaching of fresh red meat when it’s cooked, and that the honeycomb structure of bones makes them insulators that slow the transfer of heat.

A tough cut of meat can be made tender by cooking. I was enjoying all this until I got to a section titled “The Challenge of Whole Birds.” In case you had any doubt, science has proven that roasting the perfect

turkey is hard. The problem is, breast meat and leg meat are chemically very different and have different ideal cooking conditions. In general, turkeys don’t fly much. They walk. So in life, the turkey’s leg muscles get a lot more exercise than the breast. The more a muscle is worked, the more connective tissue it has. Connective tissue, made mostly of the proteins collagen and elastin, is like a scaffold for the muscle. It provides support for the muscle fibers to pull against. Turkey breast doesn’t need much connective tissue. Turkey legs have quite a bit: two to four times more collagen than breast meat. You can easily tell a high-collagen meat from a low-collagen one by cutting or chewing it. Collagen

protein is solid and tough. Meats with little collagen in the muscle are naturally tender. A tough cut of meat can be made tender by cooking. If you heat collagen long enough, it dissolves into gelatin, which is tender and tasty. That’s why cheap, fibrous meats are delicious when stewed. (Incidentally, this is a separate issue from “white” and “dark” meat, which is related not to how much a muscle gets used, but the way it is used. White muscle fibers are adapted for fast, brief spurts of activity. Red muscle fibers specialize in sustained activity. Ducks, which use their breast muscles to fly for hours at a time, have “red” breast meat.) So the chef’s solution to tough turkey legs should be to cook the meat

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the Sacramento firm of Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard. But even all the determination in the world couldn’t stop the progress of her waning sight. “Giving up my professional and legal career was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Dignan says. “I loved my work in water and agricultural resources management and development, and I wanted to be a significant player in that professional and political arena. But today I’m happy practicing art instead of law. I don’t think I’d be any happier if I were still able to practice law, and I’m grateful for the good life I have.”

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urely you’ve heard people talk about the healing power of art, but few artists are more familiar with that concept than Mary Dignan. “Anything you’re passionately and enthusiastically interested in is going to be something you will find the energy for,” Dignan says. She should know. Her journey from an attorney practicing water and natural resources law to a prolific mosaic artist has been exceptional not only because of her work ethic, but because of just how much she’s overcome to be where she is today. Dignan was born with moderate to severe deafness but was not diagnosed until the age of 5, when she had already been misdiagnosed as having mental disabilities. When Dignan explains that though “a normal visual field is around 160 to 180 degrees,” and hers is 4 degrees, it becomes even more remarkable that she’s had such a varied and successful career. “My visual field was about 8 degrees when I started law school (at McGeorge School of Law) in 1990 and I was down to less than 4 degrees when I finished and passed the bar exam in 1994,” Dignan says. “But with reading glasses, I could handle the reading. “My deafness was more of an issue. I wore two high-power hearing aids and I was lucky to have good study buddies. They’d lend me their lecture notes, and I’d check my own

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Dignan now spends her days creating beautifully complex mosaic art and teaching classes through Spirit in the Arts.

Mosaic artist Mary Dignan works on a project in her studio

notes against theirs to make sure I heard things correctly. “It was a good system. We all made it through law school”—Dignan even made the dean’s list—“and we all passed the bar exam. It was sheer determination and discipline that got us through.”

Those qualities have served Dignan well throughout her working life, which has included stints in newspaper reporting, legislative work for the U.S. House of Representatives and the California State Assembly Committee on Agriculture, public relations, her own consulting business and practicing law with

Dignan now spends her days creating beautifully complex mosaic art and teaching classes through Spirit in the Arts, a community outreach project. “I’ve always liked ceramic tile and mosaic work,” Dignan says. “I made my first mosaic for a college art class back in 1973, which today hangs in my mother’s apartment. When Andy”—her husband—“and I bought our first house, we taught ourselves

cope with life’s trials and tribulations through art.

This willingness to say yes to the world has given Dignan not only the strength to overcome hardship, but also the appreciation of the artistry that flows through her veins.

how to lay ceramic tile floors and counters in our home. It wasn’t until my brain tumor surgery in 1997, though, that I really started making mosaics. They were a big part of my healing, and still are.” Even while managing her myriad health issues, Dignan has managed to keep her spirits up, in more ways than one.

“In my advanced class, I encourage my students to use the mosaic process to explore the therapeutic, spiritual and creative messages the process has for them in their lives,” Dignan says. The artist’s local students are not the only ones who benefit from her spiritual and artistic know-how. She also teaches children in India how to

“A solo show of mine in 2013 generated a few news articles,” Dignan recalls. “A friend I know through our work together at the Foundation Fighting Blindness sent one of the news articles to a friend of hers, who happens to be a major supporter of the Mathru schools for the Blind, Deaf and Blind, and Differently Abled in Bangalore, India. He liked the news article and contacted me and asked if I’d be willing to spend a couple months at the Mathru schools to teach my

mosaic technique to blind and multidisabled children there. I said yes.” This willingness to say yes to the world has given Dignan not only the strength to overcome hardship, but also the appreciation of the artistry that flows through her veins. “I’ve always been an artist at heart,” she says, “and always made room for creative outlets, whether it was in the kitchen, in the garden, on the sewing machine or in my mosaic studio. And I’m lucky to have my husband, Andy, and my friends to share my life with.” Her family and friends probably feel just as lucky. To see the world through Dignan’s eyes, visit her website at marydignan. com n

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his month marks an exciting opportunity for lovers of the Sacramento Ballet. On Nov. 8 and 9, the ballet’s popular Inside the Director’s Studio series will feature “Conversations with Barbara Crockett,” the founder of the Sacramento Ballet, at the company’s studios in midtown. As the second-oldest ballet company west of the Mississippi, the Sacramento Ballet boasts a rich 60-year history that all started with Crockett’s ambitious artistic vision and continues today under co-artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda. Former Crockett student and ballet company member Robert Kelley will moderate an evening that’s sure to be full of fascinating revelations and reminiscing. Don’t miss it! Inside the Director’s Studio will take place at 6 p.m. on Nov. 8 and at 5 p.m. on Nov. 9. For tickets and more information, call the Sacramento Ballet at 552-5800 or go to sacballet. org The Sacramento Ballet studios are at 1631 K St.

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Sacramento Ballet’s popular Inside the Director’s Studio series will feature “Conversations with Barbara Crockett,” the founder of the Sacramento Ballet this month

PLAY ON Do you have music-minded tykes at home? Let them sit in with the big kids on Friday, Nov. 7 at Rio Americano High School Band’s Playathon event on the RAHS campus. Elementary and middle school students are invited to sit in with Rio’s internationally recognized bands from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. during the exciting 17-hour musical marathon.

Now in its 34th year, Playathon is intended to showcase the tremendous musical talents of Rio’s seven jazz and concert bands, which have performed all over the world. If your kids are more interested in snacks than sonatas at the moment, don’t miss the accompanying Playathon carnival from 3 to 8 p.m., featuring games and free food, as well as free concerts open to the community from 5:45 to 9 p.m.

The Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Premier Orchestra has cooked up something special for Veterans Day. Its Saluting Our Veterans concert will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at the Community Center Theater. The talented youngsters will be joined by the City of Sacramento Pipe Band and composer Isaac Smith under the baton of Maestro Michael Neumann for a rousing, patriotic program that’s sure to put a pep in your step. The performance will include “The 1812 Overture,” “Armed Forces Salute,” “Victory at Sea,” “Adagio for Strings,” “Amazing Grace,” the premier of “The Power of Freedom” and more to salute and serenade those who have served. Tickets are free and available to reserve online at sacramentoyouthsymphony.org or to pick up at the Community Center Theater box office (limit four per person). The Community Center Theater is at 1301 L St.

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PREVIEWS FROM page 60 men and market shopping that are guaranteed to make you glad. The Classical Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9 will feature virtuoso flutist Laurel Zucker and Grammy Award-winning harpist Jacquelyn Venter as part of the Festival of New American Music presented by California State University, Sacramento. The nationally recognized musicians will not only pluck the harp strings, but your heart strings, too. For tickets, call 808-1182. From 5-9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, the Crocker is calling all dudes for Art Mix BroVember. The museum will offer a “bro-asis” of grooming goodies, fashion finds, music and other hot commodities for the male population (and their gal pals, of course). Attendees can pick up etiquette, style and interiors tips and tricks from the Denim Spot, watch a live barber demonstration by Anthony’s Barber Shop, rock out to live tunes from The Nickel Slots and guest DJ Billy Lane, get artistic details on the “manliest men” in the Crocker’s collection, participate in beard and mustache contests, and more. Add to that $5 drinks and a $2 discount for college students, and the evening is sure to be a slam dunk. Hoping to get a jump start on your holiday shopping? Don’t miss the Crocker Holiday Artisan Market, now in its ninth year, on Nov. 28-30 at the Scottish Rite Center on H Street. More than 100 artists will be on hand to offer one-of-a-kind handmade and decorative gifts that are guaranteed to get you a high-five come holiday gift-giving time. The event is free for museum members, $6 for nonmembers and $3 for students and seniors. Market hours are from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 29; and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30. The Scottish Rite Center is at 6151 H St. For more information on Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

and soon to be your new favorite organ soloist. For tickets and more information, go to allsaintssacramento.org All Saints Episcopal Church is at 2076 Sutterville Road.

DON’T RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Jeff Myers has a new solo exhibition, “The Nature of Droids and Machines,” at the Alex Bult Gallery from Nov. 6 through Dec. 6.

GET ORGANIZED Are you ready to hear a master organ soloist take to the keys? Don’t miss Jack Miller perform at 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 at All Saints Episcopal Church. Following the performance of a Choral Evensong for All Saints Sunday, renowned Sacramento

organ soloist Jack Miller will tickle the sizeable ivories of the church’s large pipe organ for the second concert of the 2014-5 season. Miller is the founder of the women’s vocal ensemble Chanteuses and music director of the Bravo Bach Festival—

Do machines think? Do droids feel? These are the kinds of questions artist Jeff Myers explores in his new solo exhibition, “The Nature of Droids and Machines,” at the Alex Bult Gallery from Nov. 6 through Dec. 6. Myers’ exhibition, dedicated to his father, Tom, who died in April, continues to expand on themes he started to examine in his first exhibition “The Land Series,” then continued to explore last year in his show “The Secret Life of Machines.” The artist uses his paintings to examine the relationship among land, technology and humans and where exactly consciousness comes from. Heady stuff, to be sure, but the vibrant canvases tell you all you need to know: Myers is one very talented painter. Meet Myers in person at the preview reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 6 and at the opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. For more information, call 476-5540 or go to alexbultgallery.com The Alex Bult Gallery is at 1114 21st St., Suite B.

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Celebrate 35 years of the artistic achievements of artists with developmental disabilities at “Many Happy Returns: a 35 Year Retrospective of Short Center North,” on display from Nov. 6 through Dec. 21 at the Verge Center for the Arts. With more than 200 pieces dating all the way back to the founding of Short Center North (SCN) in 1978, this is the center’s largest exhibition of its kind. The show will provide a chronological survey of more than three decades of work since the SCN’s inception in mediums that include

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Thru Nov 23 B Street Theater – Main Stage 2711 B St. Sac 443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org Anthony and Rosemary, two farmers and neighbors, live in the Midlands of Ireland. Rosemary has been romantically interested in Anthony for all of her life. The shy Anthony, however, is unaware of Rosemary’s feelings. Anthony, tired of both farming and his father, plans to leave the farm to a nephew. Through it all Rosemary and Anthony struggle to find happiness for themselves.

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Presented by Resurrection Theatre at California Stage Nov 1 – Nov 22 California Stage Theatre 2509 R St. Sac 223-9568 Five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the guests during a wedding reception at a Tennessee estate. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women discover a common bond. Play is written by Alan Ball, the creator of True Blood, American Beauty and Six Feet Under.

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Nov 5 – Dec 14 Sacramento Theatre Company 1419 H St. Sac 446-7501 Taking place on New Year’s Eve 1999, Katharine Hepburn reflects on her life and her loves as she ponders, at age 92, what the future holds. Filled with fond memories, while also delving into uncharted emotional waters, audiences will experience a side of Hepburn they, perhaps, have never seen.

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Thru Nov 23 Capital Stage 2215 J St Sac 476-3116 CapStage.org Anna Karenina struggles to make the choice between a cold husband, a beloved child, and the dashing Vronksy. Society turns against her, Anna becomes doubtful of Vronsky’s love and her world begins to fall apart. This production promises to thrill audiences with its unique new approach to the classic novel.

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Nov 7 – Dec 6 Big Idea Theatre 1616 Del Paso Blvd. Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.com De-frocked priest T. Lawrence Shannon attempts to hide from his personal demons in a dilapidated hotel on the coast of Mexico and instead finds himself enmeshed in intrigue as three women battle for his attention. Tennessee Williams last great play is a haunting story of dying dreams, frustrated sexuality, and lost-souls transformed as people are pushed to their breaking point.

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Presented by Runaway Stage Productions Thru Nov 16 24th Street Theatre 2791 24th St. Sac 207-1226 Get ready for gales of laughter and gusts of gusto. It’s the Roaring Twenties and no one roars more ferociously than Mame Dennis, the turban-wearing, jewelry-dripping, eyebrow-rising life of the party. Enjoy songs like “We Need A Little Christmas,” “It’s Today,” “Bosom Buddies” and, of course, “Mame”.

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Thru Nov 9 B Street Theatre (Family Series) 2711 B St. Sac 443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org Travel back in time and bear witness to the death-defying adventures of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk as they dazzle the world with their new invention: The Airplane!

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Nov 5 – Nov 22 Community Center Theater 1301 L St. Sac 557-1999 Jersey Boys is the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical about rock and roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds, and sold 175 million records worldwide -- all before they were 30! Jersey Boys features their hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”

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the artist’s early-morning and lateafternoon walks in our fair city. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public through Dec. 6, with the exception of the VIP reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. Join the fun during the Second Saturday public reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and you might even get to rub elbows with the artists! For more information, call 4765500 or go to gallery2110.com Gallery 2110 is at 2110 K St.

PREVIEWS FROM page 62 painting, sculpture, animation, assemblage and fiber arts. SCN was founded by the Developmental Disabled Services Organizations (DDSO) as one of the first day centers in the Sacramento area to employ professional artists as arts mentors for adults with developmental disabilities. Clearly, the mentoring paid off: SCN artists have shown their work around the Sacramento region as well as at national institutions, including the National Folk Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Outsider Art Fair in New York City, and the Ames Gallery in Berkeley. The exhibition will be accompanied by a live performance by client artist Ellen Bourdreaux at the opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6; a Verge-hosted pop-up shop offering artwork for sale for the holiday season; and an online version of the retrospective hosted by the DDSO’s Virtual Feast website at ddsoarts.org For more information, call 4482985 or go to vergeart.com The Verge Center for the Arts is at 625 S St.

GIGGLES DO GOOD

Don’t miss Jack Miller perform at 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 at All Saints Episcopal Church

GALLERY GOODIES Gallery 2110 is full of newness this November, with two new exhibitions opening in both gallery spaces on Nov. 5. In the Main Gallery, check out “Languages of Color,” a showcase of artwork by James Gasowski and Ilya Mokhov. Gasowski takes inspiration from geometrical abstraction and the line and color of calligraphy to

create powerful paintings that delight the eye. Mokhov’s expressive pieces are done in the fauvist tradition, with plenty of bold brushstrokes and catchy colors to excite art aficionados and newbies alike. In the Loft Gallery, Kathy Dana’s exhibition of “Sidewalk Moment” celebrates exactly what the title implies: fleeting moments of light and shadow on the sidewalk inspired by

If you’re a fan of stand-up comedy and helping improve the lives of others, don’t miss the TLCS Comedy Showcase fundraiser.

MERCY ME! If you’re looking for that perfect something to give that special someone, look no further than the Mercy Guild’s annual Christmas boutique and luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at the Dante Club. Mercy General Hospital’s volunteer-run guild has put together an impressive collection of various vendors offering everything from handbags and jewelry to jams and jellies, hair accessories and Christmas decorations. With this kind of inventory, you’re sure to wow your gift recipients this year! For more information, call BeBe Wright at 424-2628. The Dante Club is at 2330 Fair Oaks Blvd.

The VIP Reception and Silent Auction begin at 5:30 p.m. (tickets are $100). General admission for the Comedy Showcase is $20; doors open at 7 p.m. For more information, call 441-0123 or go to tlcssac.org The Crest Theater is at 1013 K St.

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If you’re a fan of stand-up comedy and helping improve the lives of others, don’t miss the TLCS Comedy Showcase fundraiser at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4 at the Crest Theater. TLCS is an award-winning, nonprofit social rehabilitation agency that for 32 years has helped psychiatrically disabled adults avoid becoming homeless, or get back on their feet after becoming homeless. Local comedians are donating their time and talent to this second-annual showcase to help raise awareness and funds for the organization.

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Jeff Myer’s lush collection of paintings, “The Nature of Droids and Machines,” will be featured at Alex Bult Gallery through Dec. 6. 1114 21st St.; alexbultgallery.com

Verge Center for the Arts will present “Many Happy Returns,” a 35-year retrospective of Short Center North featuring more than 200 pieces by artists with developmental disabilities, through Dec. 21. Shown: a painting by William Haddad. 625 S St.; vergeart.com

The b. sakata garo gallery will exhibit ceramic sculptures by Richard Shaw (shown above) through Nov. 29. 923 20th St.; bsakatagaro.com

Archival Gallery will present a group exhibition, with paintings by Maria Winkler, collage by Robert Androvich and sculpture by Julie Didion, through Dec. 6. Shown: “Coastal View” by Maria Winkler. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalframe.com

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t’s not easy to rebrand, to reboot, to reinvent, especially in the restaurant biz. Starting a restaurant takes vision, capital and a metric ton of hard work. It’s not easy to take your baby and turn it into something else, something quite different than the original concept. Two notable grid-based restaurants performed significant turnarounds in the last year, one to silence the critics, one to reopen the doors. I had written about both of the restaurants previously, but we here at Inside Publications felt like each place needed a checkup to see how the reboot was going. Capital Dime—Original review, November 2013: “At the helm is Noah Zonca, former chef at The Kitchen. For a near-celebrity-level chef, I can’t imagine that this [menu] is acceptable, and I hope he takes a tighter hold of the reins to bring his undertaking up to the level that so many thought it could achieve.” One year later finds Capital Dime transformed. Gone is front man Noah Zonca. Gone are the dishes using Guy Fieri-style naming conventions. Gone are the sometimes-inedible items coming out of the kitchen. Also gone are the local celebrities filling up the front windows. Gone are the articles singing Zonca’s praises. In their place are a homey menu, impeccable service and a low murmur of appreciation from almost the entire food establishment of the area. Nearly every change has been an improvement.

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The first step in the transformation was to replace Zonca’s bigger-thanlife personality. New partners Chris Jarosz and Matt Chong, co-owners of Broderick Roadhouse in West Sacramento, came in and immediately made an impact. They subtly redid the interior, making it a bit more simple and homey. They revamped the menu to give it folksy, Southern flavor and reasonable prices. The overall effect has been to turn a glitzy little place with a host of flaws

into a laid-back Midtown eating and drinking stop with top-notch food and good prices. The house-pickled vegetables ($5) are a perfect, puckering starter. Follow them with the farmers market salad ($10) or with fried green tomato BLT ($10). The salad is a heaping pile of the season’s bounty. The fried green BLT is a giant stacked beast of a thing, ripping with strong flavors and crunchy textures. The pan-fried catfish over hoppin’ john (a combo of

Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery—Original review, July 2012: “Focusing almost exclusively on seafood, Blackbird’s menu offers a healthy list of raw offerings and a small but well-focused selection of cooked fare: oysters, chilled lobster and crab, and gorgeous plates of sashimi-style kampachi and Arctic char. These latter plates are true standouts, melding smartly chosen herbs and pickled vegetables with the delicate flavors of impeccably fresh fish.” Slightly more than one year after I wrote those words, Blackbird suddenly closed its doors, citing business concerns and a host of behind-the-scenes issues. Diners like me bemoaned the loss of this unique, seafood-centric destination. But like another well-known avian, the phoenix, Blackbird rose from the ashes and reopened less than six months later. The new Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery is a less-focused enterprise. As the name suggests, beer is a centerpiece of the establishment.

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With more than 40 taps and a wellcurated, diverse beer list, it’s doing a good job at balancing the rare and the common, the drinkable and the exotic. The food, however, lacks the focus of the beer selection. A few favorites can still be found from the former seafood menu—chowder, cioppino, oysters, etc.—and they still maintain their high standards. But several new additions to the menu miss the mark, by a lot. A “little gem” salad ($10) was overdressed and more reminiscent of a basic Caesar than anything gemlike. Mussels ($12) were not great—too garlicky and bitter. And two pieces of fried chicken ($12) were burnt and otherwise unremarkable. Chef Carina Lampkin is undoubtedly a culinary talent. Her first attempt at Blackbird proves that. Let’s just hope that this iteration of her restaurant can tighten things up and get back to its former glory. Blackbird Kitchen + Beer Gallery is at 1015 9th St.; 498-9224; blackbirdkitchen.com n

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

Suzie Burger

29th and P Sts. 455-3300

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

58 Degrees & Holding Co.

The Streets of London Pub

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

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

1217 18th St. 442-5858

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1615 J St. 669-5300

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com

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

Lucca Restaurant & Bar

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

1730 L St. 444-1100

1001 Front Street, Historic Old Sacramento 916-446-6768 www.fatcitybarandcafe.com

D Full Bar $$ Middle Eastern cuisine in a Moroccan setting

Centro Cocina Mexicana

Crepeville

Tax and gratuity not included. May not be combined with Fat Tuesday or any other discount.

2115 J St. 442-4388

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan

2416 J St. 443-0440

$16 maximum value. Seniors 55 and older. Must present proof of age. Coupon required. Offer valid 9-1-2014 through 11-26-2014.

Kasbah Lounge

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

2730 J St. 442-2552

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1230 20th St. 444-0307

Fox & Goose Public House 1001 R St. 443-8825

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

Harlow’s Restaurant

1804 J St. 498-1388

Tapa The World

2115 J St. 442-4353

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

2708 J Street 441-4693

Thai Basil Café

Italian Importing Company

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com

L D $$ Full Bar Modern Italian/California cuisine with Asian inspirations • Harlows.com

1827 J Street 442-6678

B L $ Italian food in a casual grocery setting

2431 J St. 442-7690

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Clark's Corner Restaurant

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Food with Thai Food Flair

L D Full Bar $$ American cuisine in a casual historic setting

The Waterboy

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BLD Full Bar $$ American cuisine. HD sports, kid's menu, beakfast weekends

2502 J Street 440-1088 Lunch Delivery M-F and Happy Hour 4-6

2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891

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1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303

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3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233

B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting

Burr's Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516

B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

Cabana Winery & Bistro 5610 Elvas 476-5492

LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. â&#x20AC;˘ cabanawine.com

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723 56th. Street 454-5656

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5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679

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

Formoli's Bistro

3839 J St. 448-5699

B L D Wine/Beer Patio $$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a neighborhood setting

Italian Stallion

3260B J St. 449-8810

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5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348

BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com

Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768

D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants. com

Opa! Opa!

The Firehouse Restaurant

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

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

5644 J St. 451-4000

Nopalitos

5530 H St. 452-8226

B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

Selland's Market Cafe 5340 H St. 473-3333

B L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, wine bar

1112 Second St. 442-4772

Frank Fat’s

806 L St. 442-7092

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

Il Fornaio

400 Capitol Mall 446-4100

L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com

Grange

926 J Street • 492-4450

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

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. 440-8888

L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com

Star Ginger

3101 Folsom Blvd. 231-8888

Asian Grill and Noodle Bar • starginger.com

Thai Palace Restaurant 3262 J St. 446-5353

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Authentic Thai cuisine in a casual setting

McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant 1111 J St. 442-8200

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale seafood, burgers in a clubby atmosphere • Mccormickandschmicks.com

Mikuni Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar 1530 J St. 447-2112

DOWNTOWN

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com

400 L St. 321-9522

Morton’s Steakhouse

Foundation

L D $$ Full Bar American cooking in an historic atmosphere • foundationsacramento.com

Chops Steak Seafood & Bar 1117 11th St. 447-8900

Parlaré Eurolounge 10th & J Sts. 448-8960

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Rio City Café

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Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. 443-3772

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900

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

Estelle's Patisserie

901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches. EstellesPatisserie.com

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D $$$ Full Bar Upscale American steakhouse • Mortons.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere • Chopssacramento.com

1200 K Street #8 228-4518

621 Capitol Mall #100 442-50

D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space

1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com

Ten 22

1022 Second St. 441-2211

L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting ten22oldsac.com

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Casa Garden Restaurant

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com

2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire $$ Wine/Beer. Elegantly presented American cuisine. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children's Home. Small and large groups. Reservations recommended • casagardenrestaurant.org

Freeport Bakery

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

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

Iron Grill 13th Street and Broadway 737-5115

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

Jamie's Bar and Grill

427 Broadway 442-4044

L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

Riverside Clubhouse

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

Taylor's Kitchen

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154

D $$S Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested.

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5723 Folsom Boulevard 457-1936 Dine In & Take Out • Cocktail Lounge • Banquet Room Seats 35 Lunch 11-4 pm • Dinner 4-9 pm Sundays • 11:30-9 pm • Closed Mondays

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1518 Broadway 441-0222

B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting

Willie's Burgers

2415 16th St.444-2006

2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708

Jack’s Urban Eats

2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225 L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

The Kitchen

2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

Leatherby’s Family Creamery 2333 Arden Way 920-8382

L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

Lemon Grass Restaurant 601 Munroe St. 486-4891

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Vietnamese and Thai cuisine in a casual yet elegant setting

Matteo's Pizza

5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727

L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794

D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

Roma's Pizzeria & Pasta

L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am weekends

6530 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-9800

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Andaloussia

L D $$ Traditional Italian pizza & pasta Family Friendly Catering + Team Parties • romas-pizzaand-pasta.com

2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000

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

1537 Howe Ave. 927-1014 L D $-$$ Authentic Moroccan cuisine, lunch &

Ristorante Piatti

dinner specials, belly dancing weekends • bestmoroccanfood.com

L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting

Bella Bru Café

Sam's Hof Brau

571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

2500 Watt 482-2175

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Espresso, omelettes, salads, table service from 5 -9 p.m. • bellabrucafe.com

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

Café Vinoteca

Thai House

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

L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

Chinois City Café

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-8690

L D $$ Full Bar Asian-influenced cuisine in a casual setting • Chinoiscitycafe.com

427 Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888

Willie's Burgers

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