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CUSTOM FARMHOUSE IN WILTON ESTATES Located on 4.69 acre parcel. Close to town. Covered front and back porch overlooking your own private park. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, plus bonus room! Built-in pool resurfaced 2018. Gorgeous remodeled kitchen and master bath. Beautiful hardwood Àoors, whole house fan and built-ins. New paved driveway, landscaping, and exterior paint. Space to enjoy! $925,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

BEAUTIFUL RIVERLAKE Prestigious gated community with private lake! 3 bedrooms 3 baths with remodeled kitchen, heat/air-5 years, whole house fan, skylights, newer metal roof, prof landscape, access to lake, dock, picnic areas. 1 bedroom/of¿ce and full bath downstairs. Amazing yard for entertaining. Huge windows with gorgeous views of the garden. $499,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

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GREENHAVEN QUALITY Gorgeous remodeled 3 bedroom 2½ bath home near the Sacramento River. Remodeled kitchen 2014 and baths 2016. Updates within the last 5 years: pool resurfacing, pool equipment, appliances, counter tops, wood laminate and tile Àoors, shower, and HVAC in 2018. Amazing quality Lee Basford built home. Wow!!! $498,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

CLASSIC FRANCIS COURT HOME Here is rare opportunity to live on one of Sacramento’s premier streets! This classic Tudor home features hand hewn ceiling beams and ¿replace mantle, detailed wood ceilings and custom stained-glass kitchen cabinets. Spacious master suite features large walk-in closet; new master bath with pretty Silestone counters. Open family room. $1,100,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

ELK GROVE GEM! Lovingly cared for, this immaculate 4 bedroom 2 bath home is just waiting for its next owner. Step inside to enjoy the welcoming living room with ¿replace and large picture window. The sunny kitchen offers views of the lush backyard and plenty of room for in-kitchen dining. Large master suite with access to the backyard. Large two-car garage, bonus tool shed. $325,000 KELLIE SWAYNE 916-206-1458

SOUTH LAND PARK Spacious brick home, custom built with a nice covered carport. Huge immaculate backyard for entertaining, gardening or kids to play in. Real hardwood Àoors! 4 bedrooms, separate living and family rooms, and enclosed patio. Walk-in closet in Master. Close to downtown, parks, and grocery store. Great curb appeal! $379,000 MONA GERGEN 916-247-9555

ELK GROVE CUL-DE-SAC Picture perfect house on a cul-de-sac! Open Àoor plan with 4 bedrooms 3 baths updated kitchen, including a large island and stainless steel appliances. Huge backyard great for entertaining with an outdoor kitchen and beautiful landscaping. Large master bath with walk-in closet and soaking tub. Very close to shopping, desirable schools and parks. $465,000 ALEXIS JONES 916-715-0237

MOVE-IN READY ELK GROVE Amazing single-story 3 bedroom 2 bath home in highly desirable Elk Grove neighborhood. Features a bright and open Àoor plan with new interior paint, gorgeous granite counter tops and kitchen cabinets, dual pane windows and beautiful tile Àooring throughout the kitchen and family room. Lovely backyard with deck, fruit trees and more. $375,000 JERRI LI 916-601-0679

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CHALLENGING INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT REQUIRES FINE TUNING OF OPERATIONS

or more than a decade, the death of printed news has been heralded among the smart set. Readers over 50 might recall predictions about a society absent of all paper when the digital age began more than 25 years ago. A look around our homes and offices today will tell you otherwise! While almost everything arrives electronically, companies have discovered humans can easily overlook or lose track of electronic communications. Therefore, physical paper backups are required to get and hold readers’ attentions and move them to action. We founded Inside Publications in 1996 amid this climate and anticipated it might be an uphill battle. But looking back on more than 20 years, our experience would be better described as an opportunity. We took a radically different approach and delivered local news unavailable elsewhere, directly to neighborhood

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homes at no cost to our readers. Our model was based on being fully financed by small-business advertisers. Those advertisers have remained loyal because they see value in reaching audiences that surround their businesses. And some things changed. When we started, readers typically maintained a paid subscription to a regional daily newspaper for local news. As we approach our 25th anniversary in 2021, we are refining and refocusing what we do. Recent paper price increases amounting to more than $3,000 a month have been tough to swallow. The margins in our business can’t absorb significant cost increases without greater revenue from advertising. So we are working on multiple fronts to grow our business and become even more efficient with technology. Our five monthly editions grew over a 20-year period, one edition at a time. Each market has its own identity and stands alone in providing local news. But combined, our monthly circulation of all editions now tops 85,000. And that makes Inside Publications the largest print monthly in the region by a substantial margin. Our circulation is more than twice that of Sactown and more than triple Sacramento Magazine. We print and deliver more copies each month

than both of them combined. Only the free weekly newsstand alternative Sacramento News & Review comes close to us, and it appeals to a much different audience and younger demographic. We have no plans to abandon the neighborhood market-based editions. But we do have plans to leverage our combined circulation for what it is—an audience of more than 60 neighborhoods in five unique editions. Our demographic mix is unique and extremely attractive to local advertisers because our readers have substantially higher-than-average incomes, property values and home ownership rates than the region. Until now, we have devoted our resources almost exclusively to print. And folks often tell me how much they appreciate taking time to sit down with a cup of coffee and enjoy our paper. But we realize we have far more local content available for readers than what we have space to publish. So we are redesigning our website to be more reader and content friendly. While we have been growing for nearly a quarter-century, the naysayers who predicted doom for print were right about one local product: The Sacramento Bee. The paper’s circulation has dropped dramatically in the last decade. A

recent newsroom layoff took out many popular writers, and print subscribers are quitting in droves. My husband and I were loyal print subscribers to The Bee, beginning in 1990. But a year ago, The Bee mailed a letter congratulating us that we now could enjoy a special rate of $8.50 a week. That sounded high, so I checked my most recent annual payment. The “special” rate was actually a huge price increase. A friend told me to cancel, predicting I would be asked what price I would pay to stay. Here’s the part that made me crazy: Nowhere did the letter include a phone number or email to contact The Bee. So I went page by page through the website and finally found a number for customer service. During 20 minutes on hold waiting for a rep to answer, a screen popped up on The Bee’s site offering print and digital for $1 a week. When the rep finally answered and looked up my account, he noted the date when my home delivery would cease under my old payment plan. I asked about the $1 special, and he said I didn’t qualify! That was the end for me. On a side note, I also manage a Bee print subscription for an elderly friend. Since I pay the bill for her, I tried to use her digital access. After four calls to customer service, The Bee could not make it work. Instead,

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I was given the e-edition address that allows open access for readers. My husband still misses his daily crossword puzzles. My friend saves them for him. There are industry rumors that The Bee’s print operations will wind down in the next year or two. The paper has not made any announcements about cutting print, but signs suggest it’s coming. The McClatchy Co. sold the paper’s Q Street headquarters and leased back the building. It actively encourages print customers via email to read online. The Bee has abandoned the circulation audits that were the print industry’s gold standard just a few years ago. And last month, the regional corporate editor (the Sacramento executive editor position was eliminated) penned a front-page appeal asking readers to pony up $119 a year for digital subscriptions to allow The Bee to stay afloat and report local news. With 60,000 digital subscriptions, the editor said the revenue could finance a news organization that has been decimated over the last 10 years. The editor’s

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begging amounted to more than $7 million annually. We could only dream of those kinds of budgets! Some people assume I’d be happy if The Bee ceased printing. But that’s not the case. I believe the more local news, the better—our democracy depends on educated citizens, and newspapers play a big role in civic education. The only people who benefit from less news reporting are local politicians who become free to operate as if no one is watching their behavior. Even more at risk is access to diverse opinions on issues, especially controversies that involve local government spending, land use and social policies that impact our neighborhoods. Despite the dire predictions and gloomy situation at The Bee, newspaper subscriptions nationwide have been on the rise since 2017. A recent study found 169 million U.S. adults, who comprise 70 percent of the population, read newspapers every month. Studies also show print advertising has greater credibility with readers. Newspapers still retain audience

trust. According to the News Media Alliance, fewer than 10 percent of readers report seeing “fake news” in their newspapers, and readers’ trust of ads came in at 75 percent for national and 79 percent for local newspapers. There are also reports that folks find it much more difficult to remember what is read online. Studies show that recall of things read in hard-copy newspapers and magazines substantially exceeds those read in digital format. It has to do with the brain’s ability to visualize and then recall. The same differences also apply to the recall of advertising in print vs. digital. We employ more than two-dozen paid writers each month to bring you stories of the most interesting people, places and events, in addition to creating more than a dozen other publishing jobs. My husband and I also have found great joy in using our publications to help the local arts, volunteer and philanthropy communities reach their audiences. In 2012, when the Clunie Community Center and McKinley Rose Garden faced closure by the city, Friends of East Sacramento—the nonprofit that Lisa Schmidt and I founded—could not have moved forward without Inside Publication’s audience and influence. The publications were integral in helping us reach donors, recognize sponsors, recruit volunteers and market the properties for rent. Six years later we raised more than $250,000 and renovated both facilities.

You might not agree with everything you read from us, but you will always find valuable local content not available elsewhere. Stay tuned for some great changes!

WITH APPRECIATION Two of our most valuable employees moved on last month and I want to acknowledge the tremendous role they played in the success of our company. After more than 20 years with Inside Publications, account representative Ann Tracy has retired, along with our editor Marybeth Bizjak. Both started in our first few years. Marybeth introduced me to her friend, Ann, when we needed a rep for our advertising sales. It didn’t matter that she had no sales’ experience. Being an active mother of four meant she was an expert organizer. The three of us are about the same age, and our children, who are also the same ages, knew each other when they were little. Ann worked diligently and professionally with our advertisers and our staff loved her. Marybeth taught me everything I know about editing, and was the consummate professional. I valued her advice tremendously. We will miss them both but they deserve to start another chapter in their lives. We wish them only the best! Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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ome say friendships that begin at Cub Scout camp can survive miles and months of separation without losing strength. This describes eight young men—a special group of friends who all joined the Cub Scout’s Tiger program at age 6. The boys continued in Pack 50 from the first to fifth grades. They then all moved up to Boy Scout Troop 50 from grades six to 12. The eight boys, from PocketGreenhaven and Elk Grove, are recent high school graduates: Brendan Firth, Drew Tanaka and Chad Wong (John F. Kennedy High School); Drew Ikemoto (Franklin High School); Brandon La (Inderkum High School); and Thomas Ito, Corey Tanaka and Sam Wolff (Cosumnes Oaks High School). The boys all earned the Eagle Scout rank, the highest achievement in the Boy Scouts of America. Troop 50, which is sponsored by the Buddhist Church of Sacramento, has a higher-

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than-average rate of Scouts attaining the rank of Eagle Scout. Only about 3 percent of all Boy Scouts reach this level. To become an Eagle Scout, boys must earn 21 merit badges and complete an Eagle Project. Some of the eight boys earned more merit badges than necessary, which was no easy feat. Wong earned 36 merit badges. Ikemoto met all the requirements to earn his Camping badge including snow shoeing or rappelling down 30 feet. “It took me over three years to earn this badge,” he says. Tanaka, who also earned his Camping badge, found it a challenge. “I had a hard time learning how to tie knots.” Firth says the Cycling badge was difficult because it required completing a 50-mile bicycle ride. Wolff became a certified lifeguard while earning his Swimming and Lifeguarding badge. Ito plans to study aerospace engineering at Cal PolyPomona as a result of his experience earning the Space Exploration badge. In addition, each Scout must complete an Eagle Project, which involves community-service hours and fundraising. Many Scouts also join in extracurricular activities. Ikemoto, Ito and Firth participated in high school sports; Wong played in his school

drumline band; and Tanaka studied piano. Scouting has been a positive family affair with siblings and parents participating in the program. The Eagle Scouts credit their troop leaders and parents for providing a nurturing environment that brought out the best in each of them. The confidence they built and life skills they learned will influence them far beyond high school. Several boys will attend community college in Sacramento and others are off to college all over the state. Despite the distance, they know their friendships would endure because of the strong bonds they developed during their scouting experience.

LIBRARY ANNIVERSARY The community is invited to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 25. Childfriendly carnival games begin at 10 a.m. and a Taiko drum performance by Kristy Oshiro at 11 a.m. This free event is made possible with support from the Pocket-Greenhaven Friends of the Library and their Teen Advisory Board volunteers. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive.

MOVIE NIGHT UNDER THE STARS Movie night will be held Friday, Aug. 17, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Garcia Bend Park. Local food vendors will be on site to provide bites and beverages. The Academy Award-winning movie, Coco, will begin around dusk. The evening is sponsored by Councilmember Rick Jennings and his District 7 staff. For more information call (916) 808-7007. Garcia Bend Park is at 7654 Pocket Road.

GREENHAVEN SUMMER SOCCER CAMPS In conjunction with the Transatlantic Soccer organization, the Greenhaven Soccer Club has scheduled summer camps Aug. 6-10 for children ages 4 to 16. The camps will take place at Garcia Bend Park from 9 a.m. to noon. A team of professional coaches from Scotland and Spain will work with soccer players in a motivating and fun learning environment. Three camps will be offered: Skills Camp for players ages 4–13; Advanced Players (must have soccer experience) for ages

DISTRICT 9 AND 7 OFFICE HOURS Assemblymember Jim Cooper will hold District 9 office hours on Thursday, Aug. 16, from 3 to 5 p.m., at the Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library. His staff will assist with concerns about state agencies and connect constituents with community resources. District hours will be held at the library on the third Thursday of every month. For more information, contact Daniel Washington, senior field representative, at (916) 670-7888 or daniel.washington@asm.ca.gov. City Councilmember Rick Jennings will hold District 7 office hours on Thursday, Aug.16, at 6 p.m., in the Community Room at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library. For more information, contact Yoon Chao, community affairs director, at (916) 808-7007 or ychao@cityofsacramento. org. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive.

Eagle Scouts (top row, left to right): Drew Ikemoto, Brandon La, Corey Tanaka and Brendan Firth. Bottom row: Samuel Wolff, Thomas Ito, Drew Tanaka and Chad Wong. 10–16; and Goalkeepers Camp for ages 9–16. Online registration is at transatlanticsoccer.com. Camp fee is $135 for the week. Enter GHAVEN for a $20 discount. For more information call (916) 8270820 or email programdirector@ transatlanticsoccer.com. Garcia Bend Park is at 7654 Pocket Road.

LIBRARY EVENTS The Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library is offering the following events this month: Pocket Photography Showcase, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 6 to 8 p.m. Meet local photographers Stephen Michael Crowley, George Yong and Troy Young, and view their work. This free exhibit is sponsored by the PocketGreenhaven Friends of the Library and NextDoor. Book Discussion, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2 to 3 p.m. Library staff will facilitate a discussion of “Manhattan Beach” by Janet Egan. September’s book will be “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee. Is Solar Right for You? Wednesday, Aug. 8, 6 to 7 p.m. SMUD staff will answer questions about potential

savings, system size and cost of solar. Register at saclibrary.org. Is an Electric Vehicle Right for You? Wednesday, Aug. 15, 6 to 7 p.m. SMUD staff will present the basics of electric vehicles, including what to know before buying, charging technologies and discounted rate options. Register at saclibrary.org. Cooking with Tofu, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2 p.m. Local food blogger Lisa Lin will demonstrate recipes and how to make chickpea tofu. Pre-registration is not required. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive.

BACK-TO-SCHOOL NIGHT AT MLK Martin Luther King, Jr., K-8 School will welcome families to its Back2School Extravaganza on Thursday, Aug. 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. Food will be available from local food trucks, including Saucy Lito’s, Cecil’s Taste of Soul, Memo’s Tacos and Cowtown Creamery. Free fingerprinting for children will be available. For more information, call (916) 395-4645. Martin Luther King is at 480 Little River Way.

SES ANNUAL BBQ The School of Engineering & Sciences will kick off its 2018-19 school year with an annual BBQ on Thursday, Aug. 23, from 6 to 7 p.m. The BBQ is free for all SES students and their families. An orientation session for seventh- and eighth-grade students will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Other orientation events are Tuesday, Aug. 21, from 6 to 7 p.m. (grades 11 and 12), and Wednesday, Aug. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. (grades nine and 10). SES is at 7345 Gloria Drive.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT The 35th Annual National Night Out takes place Tuesday, Aug. 7. This event gives neighborhoods an opportunity to join together to increase crime awareness and prevention, generate support for neighborhood watch programs, and strengthen the partnership between the community and local law enforcement. Neighborhoods that would like a visit from an area officer may register at cityofsacramento.org/ police/events-notices.

SELF-DEFENSE CLASS A four-session workshop on selfdefense will be offered Aug. 4-5 and Aug. 11-12 at the Asian Community Senior Services Center from 1 to 3 p.m. The workshop, which is limited to 30 participants, will teach techniques to use to prevent becoming a victim of crime. The cost is $40. To register, contact Anna Su at (916) 393-9026, extension 330, or classes@accsv.org. For information on other classes or to sign up for the e-newsletter, visit accsv.org. ACC is at 7334 Park City Drive.

SUNDAY JAZZ Elks Lodge #6 is seeking volunteers to help on Jazz Sundays, the second Sunday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact Clayton Hablitz at clayton39.ch@gmail.com or (916) 706-9837. The Elks Lodge is at 6446 Riverside Blvd. Corky Mau can be reached at corky. sue50@gmail.com. n

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Rent Control and Mendocino HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION

’m writing this month’s column from the sunny deck of our vacation rental home at the historic Heritage House Resort, located four miles south of the beautifully preserved North Coast village of Mendocino, a world and 40 degrees of temperature away from Sacramento. Yes, this is, in part, “how I spent my summer vacation,” but with a twist. The timing of my vacation is convenient: the Sacramento City Council and most senior city managers spread out in all directions for a vacation break during the first two weeks of July each year, following the rigors of approving a billiondollar-plus city budget for the new fiscal year. With city leaders absent, there’s not as much for me to keep an eye on.

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This also is the quiet before the storm at City Hall. When they reconvene, City Council members will debate and decide whether to place on the November ballot: a) a measure to renew the expiring Measure U “temporary” one-half cent sales tax hike; or b) a measure that would double the tax to a full 1 cent, as Mayor Darrell Steinberg has been pushing. It’s an issue that our publication will be covering in the months ahead of the November election.

RENT CONTROL We can also expect the beginnings of a showdown between the mayor and City Council over rent control in Sacramento. The Service Employees International Union failed in its $600,000 effort to qualify a strict rentcontrol measure for the November ballot. The proponents came up short of the 35,449 signatures needed to qualify the measure for the ballot. For the past nine months, the mayor has, behind the scenes, been pressuring the City Council to impose a “moderate” form of rent control on

the city in a bid to stave off the more draconian version of rent control represented by SEIU. But even after SEIU failed to qualify its rent-control measure for the November ballot, the mayor has still been pushing the council to pass some form of rent control. One might conclude that he is trying to rescue the rent-control agenda of SEIU, with which he has been politically allied, despite his public protests that rent control is a bad idea for Sacramento. There is another possible explanation. SEIU has a shot at putting its measure on the June 2020 ballot if it submits the requisite signatures by mid-September of 2019, the end of a 180-day signaturegathering deadline. Steinberg may be hoping that passage of some form of rent control by the City Council will persuade SEIU to abandon further signature gathering. But SEIU has never said it would abandon its initiative if the City Council adopts some form of rent control. And how likely is SEIU to abandon its strict rent-control initiative after spending $600,000 on its first signaturegathering effort?

The answer is unclear. But SEIU may have already abandoned its initiative. When it launched its signature-gathering drive in March, it deployed legions of paid and volunteer signature gatherers everywhere throughout the city—at stores, homes, apartments, public events, etc. By late May, the intensity of its efforts had faded dramatically.

RENT-CONTROL SPONSOR HITS ROUGH PATCH The SEIU that launched its rentcontrol measure earlier this year is not the same SEIU that exists today. First, an internal SEIU Local 1000 election this past spring led to the ouster of all senior-level officers except its president, Yvonne Walker. There are some indications that the new leadership team may be helping to refocus the union’s mission, including a new emphasis on matters that directly affect SEIU members and a reduced focus on costly public policy campaigns that have little to do with core union business, possibly

including sponsoring local rentcontrol initiatives. Then there is the recent Janus decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which declared that workers who don’t wish to join a government union can no longer be required to pay “agency shop” or “fair share” fees to a union. The decision is a political earthquake. When Wisconsin adopted similar “right to work” laws, government unions in the state experienced as much as a 30 percent drop in membership and revenues. Government unions in California, including the giant SEIU, are reeling from the decision. They are recalibrating their budgets and strategic goals to focus on keeping membership losses to a minimum and on recruiting new members. The financial crunch is likely to leave little extra cash for funding political programs to enact societal change, like rent control, as well as put a squeeze on union’s prodigious campaign contributions to Democratic politicians at every level of government. Even if SEIU decides to spend the $200,000 to $300,000 more it will likely take to secure the remaining signatures needed to place its Sacramento rent-control measure on the June 2020 ballot, there’s little chance that a post-Janus diminished SEIU will have the financial wherewithal to fund the $2 million to $3 million it would take to run a competitive campaign for the measure in two years’ time. (The opponents of rent control in Sacramento are promising to raise $3 million to $4 million to defeat it). SEIU will have a big enough challenge trying to maintain anything close to its current level of political giving to its favored politicians. Additionally, the Sacramento initiative is not the only local rentcontrol initiative SEIU is funding in California this year. It’s reportedly funding active rent-control measures in a half-dozen other California cities, as well as helping the ambitious effort to repeal the state’s Costa-Hawkins law, which currently prevents cities from imposing rent control on single family homes, condos and rentals built after 1994, as well as restrictions

on rentals as they become vacant. Many political veterans believe the statewide fight over a Costa-Hawkins repeal will amount to a $100 million political slugfest.

RENT CONTROL’S LEGAL THICKET Finally, if SEIU’s Sacramento rent-control measure qualifies for the June 2020 ballot, it would likely draw substantial pre- and, if it passes, postelection legal challenges. The SEUI initiative would roll back rents to Feb. 20, 2018 (the date on which proponents filed the measure with the Sacramento city attorney), and would compel property owners to refund all rent hikes issued after that date. That would be a burden on mom-and-pop rental owners. If the measure appears on the June 2020 ballot and is approved by voters, it would compel owners to refund all rent increases issued during the 48 months before voters approved the measure, a draconian, and likely unconstitutional, burden on rental owners. Courts have ruled that rent-control laws that deprive property owners of a fair return on their investment represent an illegal and impermissible “taking” of property under the 5th Amendment. Preventing owners from recovering their increased costs of operations for more than two years would likely trigger a wave of lawsuits challenging the measure as an unlawful “taking.” The rent-control measure would also grant to a newly created rent-control board the power to unilaterally determine all fees charged to owners, determine its own budgets and payroll, and issue regulations that would have the force of law. It’s expected that such a broad grant of legislative powers to an entity not created by the city, nor authorized by state law, would be challenged as an unlawful usurpation of the legislative powers granted exclusively to the city by state law. In the face of SEIU’s recent internal management upheaval and its expected major loss of members and revenues after Janus,

to allow time for the home’s ceilings and flooring to be demolished and rebuilt. We thank our lucky stars for the incredible folks at Farmers Insurance whose agents and adjusters are among the most caring and supportive folks you’ll ever meet. They’ve kept our tragedy from becoming inordinately traumatic, for which we will be eternally grateful. By a stroke of luck (for a change) we were able to arrange, on very short notice, to rent an idyllic summer vacation home for three weeks at the Heritage House, a sprawling property with seaside cottages spread across some of the most beautiful real estate and coastline on God’s green earth. It was the location where the 1978 movie “Same Time Next Year” was filmed (starring Alan Alda and Ellen FIRE, FLOOD Burstyn, musical score by Marvin Hamlisch). We’re told it was, for a AND MENDOCINO brief time, the hideout of notorious Our vacation in Mendocino, while gangster “Baby Face” Nelson when he well-timed, was not exactly planned was on the lam for a time in the ‘30s. in the traditional sense. In mid-June I’ve been an admiring patron of the we had a fire at our Land Park home place for more than three decades. that caused extensive smoke damage Mendocino is an area I’ve visited to our house and everything in it. A annually since I was a teenager large team of firefighters from the Sacramento Fire Department arrived camping at nearby Van Damme State Park at Little River, one of the jewels at our home in less than five minutes of our state park system. A town with four engines and trucks. They of just 1,100 residents, Mendocino did a truly heroic job of saving our has an extraordinarily rich array home from being a complete loss, of cultural offerings, including its while being extraordinarily kind and annual music festival, film festival, supportive to me and my family. art center, a frenzied performing arts Following the fire, we spent two schedule, civic groups, study groups, weeks in area hotels before renting a public forums, poetry readings, and very nice East Sacramento home for wonderful art galleries, restaurants the nine months to a year it will take to fully renovate our Land Park home. (try Café Beaujolais), inns and B&Bs. The Heritage House’s staff has While East Sac is a truly wonderful been extraordinary, looking after our neighborhood that I’ve always every need. And we have a lot of needs cherished, it will be hard for us to after having lost virtually everything part from our beloved Land Park for in the fire. My wife, our youngest nearly a year. My volunteer work son Bradley, our 15-week-old French leading the Land Park Volunteer bulldog Boo Radley and I will be Corps won’t be affected, but my going home soon. We’re all very much regular haunts will change from La looking forward to it. Bou by the zoo and Mulligan’s Café Craig Powell is a retired attorney, at the William Land Golf Course to businessman, community activist and some of the excellent cafes and coffee president of Eye on Sacramento, a houses of East Sac. civic watchdog and policy group. He Sadly, on just our second night in also founded and leads the Land Park our new East Sac home, a middleVolunteer Corps. He can be reach at of-the-night break in an upstairs craig@eyeonsacramento.org or (916) plumbing fixture flooded our new home, driving out our nomadic family 718-3030. Opinions expressed are his own. n once again, this time for three weeks will it choose to deplete its already threatened finances by putting millions behind a local rent-control measure that will likely be mired in litigation for years, even if it manages to pass? Not likely. And its apparent suspension of paid signaturegathering efforts in May indicates that it has already decided to abandon the effort. So why would the City Council bother to enact a rent-control ordinance for the purpose of sidelining an SEIU ballot measure that’s either already dead or is very likely to be abandoned by SEIU in the future? It’s a question that has not been answered by local elected officials.

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Look to D.C. WAITING ON THE FEDS FOR LEVEE REPAIRS TO START

reg Wagner is the kind of neighbor who makes the Pocket a good place to live. He’s concerned about his neighborhood, and he’s realistic. He doesn’t expect perfection. He’s not sure about spending taxpayer dollars to run a bike path through a city pumping station where the Pocket Canal meets the Sacramento River. But when it comes to opening access along the river levee and letting people enjoy Sacramento’s greatest natural asset from Freeport to Downtown, he’s all in. Not long ago, Wagner got me thinking about the levee’s future.

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He sent an email wondering where things stood with the gigantic U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project that will bring scores of workers and tons of equipment to the Pocket and Little Pocket for major repairs and improvements to the levee. The project has been on the charts for years but has been delayed thanks to funding questions. Not surprisingly, the money issues originated in Washington. Funds for the work were authorized by Congress. But the Corps of Engineers can’t start pushing dirt and rocks around until Congress and the Trump administration give a final green light for appropriations. It’s been about a year since Inside Publications checked with authorities about the job. Prompted by Wagner’s questions, I contacted Jay Davis, project ombudsman for the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, which has responsibility for planning levee repairs.

Beyond the obvious need to make levees as safe as possible and reduce flood risk, there’s a secondary reason why the repair work is significant. Any private fences along the construction route will be summarily removed to allow crews to complete their tasks, meaning the levee will have unobstructed access once the project is completed. Officially, SAFCA isn’t saying it will tear down nine private fences that have blocked access for decades. But privately, city and state officials have told me they figure the big project is the perfect opportunity to end the fence controversy. Once the private gates—most of which are illegal anyway—come down, state flood authorities will not issue permits for new ones. Not surprisingly, SAFCA and the Corps of Engineers have zero interest in wading into the levee-accessibility battle. They are staying focused on the monumental repair work. Getting

rid of the fences will be a nice little bonus for the Pocket, Greenhaven and Little Pocket communities. SAFCA is happy to talk about the levee work. Davis explains the Corps of Engineers will tackle nearly the entire levee between Downtown and Freeport. Rocked-bank protection will be secured for 10 miles to help with erosion. Nine miles of slurry cutoff wall work will help deal with seepage and stability. Geotextile—a permeable synthetic fabric—will be deployed for 2.5 miles to stabilize the levee slope. And crews will flatten the slope for 2 miles to complete levee stabilization efforts. It’s a big job. “The project is a component of systemwide improvements that will provide a minimum 200-year level of flood protection, thereby reducing flood risk, meeting state requirements for urban areas and allowing the community to retain its current

FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map status,” Davis says. The design work is basically done. “The draft design information developed by SAFCA has been shared with (the Corps of Engineers) to utilize in completing the project designs,” Davis says. The final question is when will the work commence? Last year, local officials hoped the repairs would be underway by spring 2018. Spring came and went. Now we’re waiting on Washington. Funds for the Sacramento River east-levee repairs were approved and authorized in December 2016. That was the hardest part, politically, and required years of lobbying by local elected officials. But the job can’t start until the money is formally appropriated for construction, Davis explains. “In fiscal year 2017, Congress and the administration provided the (Corps of Engineers) with initial design funding,” he says. “The soonest that any federal construction

funds could be appropriated is for fiscal year 2018.” The job will require more than federal money. State and local funds will be used as well. But a work schedule can’t be announced until funds are released. Washington holds the key. “Like a lot of people, I’ve been wondering when the work will start,” says Wagner, the neighborly homeowner. “I’m eager to see it completed so we can finally make the levee fully accessible. That’s part of why we moved here.” Wagner is still wondering about the bike path through the canal pump station. I’ll dig into that in a future column. Meanwhile, levee repairs will provide protection for a 200-year flood, but the removal of levee fences will bring public access forever. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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A Half-Cent More

WHEN MEASURE U SUNSETS, WHAT COMES NEXT?

f nothing is certain beyond death and taxes, Measure U was supposed to be the exception. The half-cent sales-tax initiative was sold to Sacramento voters in November 2012 as a temporary lifeline to remedy cuts from the Great Recession. Parks and pools would be restored to full-service glory. Police ranks would be rebuilt. Fire station brownouts would stop. Measure U promised six years of restoration and repair. Then the tax would disappear, gone in March 2019. It won with 64 percent voter approval.

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But for elected officials, taxes are as addictive as potato chips. They can’t stop eating them. Measure U raised about $45 million each year, and the thought of that revenue stream drying up terrifies City Hall. In June, Mayor Darrell Steinberg went to Sacramento City College, stood before a group of city employees and developers, and announced he wants to make Measure U permanent. And more: He wants to double the tax. Steinberg has proposed a November ballot initiative to enshrine Measure U as an eternal funding fountain, not a half-cent tax but a 1-cent tax. It’s a risky play for a regressive tax that has made some supporters nervous and could potentially strain alliances across the city. “The city has managed the Measure U money pretty well, and none of us wants to see it sunset next

March without a replacement,” says City Councilmember Jeff Harris, who represents East Sacramento, River Park and South Natomas. “If Measure U sunsets, we will be scrambling for an emergency election. But my concern is that 1 cent is an overreach. What if people think it’s too much? What if it doesn’t pass? We’re stuck,” he says. Harris was a parks commissioner in 2012, when Measure U went before voters. He believed in the initiative, having seen what neglected maintenance and staff layoffs did to city parks during the recession. He knocked on hundreds of doors and asked voters to support the temporary tax. Some residents told Harris they expected him to return one day and ask to extend the tax—more potato chips. They didn’t buy his “temporary tax” pitch.

“I had people say, ‘You knucklehead, don’t tell me it’s only going to last six years. You’ll be back.’ And they were right. I don’t mind going back, because I think the money has been put to good use. But I am concerned about getting doors slammed in my face if I ask them not for just one-half cent, but for a full cent.” Steinberg has lofty plans for the money: housing, youth services, the riverfront. “A dream is just a dream unless it’s combined with creative and bold action,” he says. Reality may be significantly less poetic. Much of the money from a permanent 1-cent tax would be shoveled into the city’s pension obligations for retired employees. Like other California cities, Sacramento has been hit with budget-busting invoices from CalPERS since 2012. The state’s public employee retirement system is battling insolvency. In the process, it drags cities toward bankruptcy. Cops and firefighters, who can retire after age 50 and get monthly pension checks up to 90 percent of their salary, command big chunks of tax dollars. Even in prosperous times, CalPERS can’t cover all pensions with investment returns, so it taps cities. The League of California Cities estimates municipal pension costs will double in the next seven years. For Sacramento, pension contributions will hit about $134 million in 2024-25. The city budget calls the obligation “unsustainable.” If Measure U is made permanent, Harris expects a large part of the money will go to pensions. With the remainder, he would like to keep staffing for park maintenance and public safety at current levels. The city has four scenarios for Measure U. First, do nothing and let the tax die. Nobody at City Hall favors

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eith Walter is admittedly “terrible at retirement.” The 62-year-old has tried to retire several times over the past several years and each time he’s found himself diving back into the work world at the behest of friends who need his skills as a telecommunications expert. “I love to problem solve,” says Walter, who started out as a physicist before getting involved in engineering and technology, where he specializes in “transformation projects” (when telecommunications companies periodically upgrade their technology, a consultant like Walter helps smooth the transition). “The bigger the problem, the better for me.” But Walter has discovered that his favorite problem solving to date has come from his work as a small business mentor with SCORE, a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow and succeed nationwide. Walter first got involved with the Sacramento chapter of SCORE—which he now chairs—six years ago when he and his wife moved to Fair Oaks after By Jessica Laskey one of his many attempts at retirement since age Giving Back: Volunteer Proﬁle 50. He joined SCORE, Rotary and half a dozen

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other local service organizations in an effort to keep himself rooted instead of jetting off to the next exciting project (recent work has taken him to Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore). “The idea was if I got involved in enough activities, I wouldn’t have time to un-retire,” Walter says. “Though, it certainly hasn’t changed my desire to run off to exotic locales.” But it did introduce Walter to an organization that has allowed him to share his extensive knowledge base with others trying to follow in his footsteps. Approximately 40 volunteer SCORE counselors with a wide range of business backgrounds work with applicants to discuss everything from business plans to escape plans. “About 2,000 people contact us each year asking for help,” Walter says. “The vast majority will never go on to start a business. Half of our work is walking them through what it takes to start a business so they don’t lose their life savings or put their families or future at risk. Often, their dream is a good dream but they don’t have the resources to start it right now, so we redirect them to explore other options within their profession, work with local job centers to find a new job or work on their finances.” This screening process not only helps avert potential disaster but also lets SCORE focus its efforts on those who are ready to start a business and provide them with connections to the Small Business Administration, city, county and state governments, chambers of commerce and financial institutions to help them begin or improve their operations. SCORE also holds workshops four times a month about the fundamentals of getting started and matches applicants with local mentors who can provide a specific skillset. “I’ve long believed that small business is the backbone of our economy and success as a country,” Walter says. “Someone might have a passion but not have the background or skills to turn that passion into a profitable business. SCORE has done great work over the last 50 years bringing those passionate people together with those who are interested in giving back.” “My favorite part is when I’m able to find someone who listens and takes my advice and that advice turns out well for them,” he continues. “SCORE gives me a reason to get up in the morning and find another problem to solve. That’s the beauty of the nature of volunteering—you never know where it’s going to go.” To learn more about SCORE, visit sacramento.score.org. n

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Nematode Nemesis PREVENTION HELPS CURTAIL UNDERGROUND ENEMIES

ave your tomatoes or other vegetables started wilting in the middle of the day, even though the soil is moist? Are their leaves yellowing or undersized? Have the plants stopped growing and producing? The problem may be underground. When you remove a puny plant, gently rinse off the soil and examine its roots. If they are thickened, with pearly white nodules growing on them, your soil is probably infested with root-knot nematodes. That’s bad news because it’s virtually impossible to get rid of this lurking menace. You can find ways to grow a good crop, but it will take some strategy and effort. Nematodes, invisible to the naked eye, are microscopic roundworms that live in the soil. Some are beneficial, consuming pesky pests. A few, notably root-knot nematodes, are our gardens’ enemies. They are most prevalent in sandy, moist soil where there is

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food for them to eat. Unfortunately, they feed on the roots of most kinds of vegetables and many other plants, including weeds, ornamentals, and fruit and nut trees. In warm climates like Sacramento’s, their eggs survive winter and hatch when the soil warms. Juveniles feed on plant roots, which respond by enlarging their cells. Females lay eggs in a mass that extends through the root surface and into the surrounding soil. Nematodeinfested roots can’t take up water and nutrients, so plants decline or even die. As with every problem, prevention is best. Nematodes are introduced by infested soil or plants. Avoid moving plants and soil from infested areas, and be aware that if somebody gives you a plant from their garden, it may bring invisible enemies along. Plants from commercial sources are probably safe, but it’s wise to examine new plants for telltale nodules before putting them into the ground. If some of your garden has nematodes, but not all, clean your tools so you don’t spread them and make sure that irrigation water doesn’t run off. No chemicals are available to home gardeners that kill nematodes. Soil solarization will temporarily reduce their population about a foot below the surface. (Soil solarization

is a nonchemical method to control soilborne pests by capturing radiant energy from the sun to heat the soil.) This will give you a year or two to garden in the space before the population builds again. It’s not too late to solarize this year, but time is running short since you need six weeks of intense sun. Instructions are available from the UC Master Gardeners (see note below). You can buy nematode-resistant varieties of some vegetables. There are many tomatoes that not only resist nematodes, but also diseases such as verticillium and fusarium wilt. Look for the letters “VFN” on their labels. If you have nematodes, plant favorite tomato hybrids such as Sungold, Celebrity, Ace, Better Boy and Early Girl. Unfortunately, heirloom tomatoes are not resistant. Nematode populations will reduce if there is nothing for them to eat. Planting resistant varieties will help. Keeping the soil bare (a process called fallowing) for a year will reduce the population enough to grow a good crop the following season. When fallowing, keep the soil moist to induce egg hatch. Don’t allow weeds and other plants to grow in the area where you are trying to starve them out. Some plants suppress nematodes. One variety of French marigold, Tangerine, has been found to be effective against all kinds of rootknot nematodes. You can order seeds online if you can’t find them in local stores. Harvest their flowers to prevent the seeds from spreading. Turn the marigolds under the soil to maximize their effect and increase the organic matter in the soil. Other cover

crops and organic soil amendments will help deter nematodes and build healthy soil. Planting veggies early or late in the season, when the soil is cooler, is best. This increases the chance that healthy roots will establish before nematodes are active. Feed and water your plants well. Pull out potentially infested plants as soon as you harvest to reduce the amount of roots that they can feed on. Don’t compost infested plants—some sites recommend burning them, but bagging and disposing should suffice. I have fought nematodes in my home garden for more than a decade, ever since I purchased a sandy soilcompost mix to fill raised planting beds. Apparently, nematode eggs came along for the ride. Using all of these techniques, I’ve managed to grow enough homegrown tomatoes for the addicts in my family. I watch the plants closely, examine their roots with bated breath at the end of each season, and renew the battle whenever needed. You can negate the nematode nemesis, too. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, including more information about nematode control and how to solarize soil, call (916) 875-6338 or visit sacmg.ucanr.edu. Sacramento’s premiere gardening event, Harvest Day, is Saturday, Aug. 4, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. Enjoy lectures, educational tables, demonstration gardens and the opportunity to consult with Master Gardeners. n

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Retail Therapy BASEBALL FANS HAVE A PLACE TO SHOP AT RALEY FIELD

ne hot afternoon this summer, I parked on 3rd Street, walked across Tower Bridge and wandered into the River Cats On Deck retail store at Raley Field. I expected to find sales racks filled with the stuff of

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stocked with teenagers goofing around. It’s a lovely, youthful environment. But the teens are immersed in themselves, not cultural legends and baseball technicalities. Yet there they were: Joe and Marilyn and a scorebook, relics from another generation, when baseball players wore flannels and fans showed up in suits, hats and dresses. For the record, DiMaggio had a Sacramento connection. The Clipper often attended State Fair horse races. The store has more surprises, all by design. The manager, Rose Holland, has been moving merchandise at Raley Field for 10 years. She and her merchandise team go beyond the essential retail duties of stocking what sells. They help create logos and designs, and they format the shop based on weather and holidays. “There’s a point each year when sweatshirts and blankets are replaced by T-shirts,” Holland says. “But we’re given a fairly free hand on what we display.” The shop is impressively diverse for a business that’s hyperfocused on a single brand. Actually, there are four brands that intrigue customers in various nooks around the store: Store manager Rose Holland (left) with assistant manager Erin Kilby River Cats, San Francisco Giants, at the River Cats' retail store On Deck. Sacramento Solons and Dorados de Sacramento, the Spanish alter ego of impulse buys and yard sales. Instead, I apparel to hats to toys and games. the River Cats. discovered a remarkable emporium of But it also featured two items I never The Giants represent a huge part baseball culture, Sacramento style. expected to find: a book about the of the shop’s inventory and a big The River Cats’ store is no ordinary tortured relationship between Joe chunk of its success. As parent club collection of kitsch and textiles with a DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, and to the River Cats, the Giants and local sporting theme. The shop reflects an old-fashioned baseball scorebook. their orange-and-black merchandise a sophisticated curation of goods that The literary offerings were a treat, are far easier to market than their demonstrate an appreciation—no, a given the store’s demographic targets predecessors in green and yellow, the love—of baseball and its history. The and abundance of young fans at Oakland Athletics. store is worth a visit, even on a hot Raley Field. “We stock a lot of different stuff afternoon when the River Cats are out The kids who fill the seats and from the Giants, and it’s very of town. concourse at Raley Field probably popular,” Holland says. “We have A table near the front door was know nothing about MM and the their Memorial Day and July Fourth my introduction to the delights and Clipper. And they likely have zero hats. A lot of customers will buy from surprises. The table presented a interest in scoring a baseball game. us before they go to San Francisco. smorgasbord of goods, from children’s On game nights, the ballpark is

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hen Marc and Ingrid Foster purchased their 1922 East Sacramento bungalow in 2008, “the walls were crumbling, the floors were sloping and everything needed to be updated,” says Ingrid, cringing. But

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the recently married couple looked beyond that. “We immediately saw the potential and charm it had.” Delving into such an extensive project would have been daunting for most people, but the Fosters had two important things on their side. Both come from families adept at swinging a hammer. Marc grew up in Texas, where his family owned and restored an 1892 Queen Anne Victorian. With this experience under their belts, Marc’s two brothers flew out from Texas to help with the East Sac remodel. Ingrid’s parents also have a background in construction, building

homes in Lake Tahoe, where Marc and Ingrid lived briefly before moving to Sacramento. Second, and more importantly, Marc is a renowned artist and craftsman, specializing in largeformat, three-dimensional visual and functional art. “Wood, tons of stainless steel, new purchased materials, artifacts, found objects, concrete,” lists Marc, checking off his preferred mediums. The recipient of the 2018 Visual Artist of the Year Award by the Arts & Business Council of the Sacramento Region, Marc has an impressive

portfolio. “La Feuille,” an 18-foothigh honed stainless-steel sculpture of tree leaves emerging from the ground, can be found at the entrance to East Sacramento’s McKinley Village. Other recent projects include work at Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters and Wildwood Kitchen & Bar; “gritty” bench seating at The Bank, a soonto-open food and beverage hall on J Street; and a steel sculpture created from a salvaged boiler (rescued from the old Crystal Ice plant) for the Ice Blocks at 17th and R streets. Marc also has donated pieces to the annual Crocker Art Auction.

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With Marc’s artistic vision and renovation experience, the couple went to work to give new life to their 1,447-square-foot home with two bedrooms, one bath and a sunroom (which has taken on various roles over the years—from office to nursery to playroom—as their family has expanded). In addition, there is a bonus room with a half bath and a fully functional apartment in the back. The remodel included eliminating doors, tearing down walls and ripping up linoleum to expose original wood floors. “There were five doors that led into the kitchen and breakfast nook,” laments Marc. The original venting flue, which had been concealed within a wall, was uncovered to expose the old red brick. Marc’s two brothers helped build new cabinets in the kitchen, which now features a walk-in pantry, granite countertops and a tumbled-marble backsplash. A new front door came from a friend’s flat in San Francisco. In addition to the structural elements, Marc’s “functional artwork” is seen throughout the home: a modern metal coat rack; a cabinet of white oak and galvanized-steel tiles; wood-and-steel bar stools bolted to the floor; iron sconces flanking the fireplace; an industrial bunk-style bed suspended halfway up the wall; a bed and dresser of hot-rolled steel and padauk, an exotic wood from Africa; a privacy wall made of mahogany scraps; a kitchen table created from 1920s railcar floorboards with benches that double as storage. Ingrid

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DELVING INTO SUCH AN EXTENSIVE PROJECT WOULD HAVE BEEN DAUNTING FOR MOST PEOPLE, BUT THE FOSTERS HAD TWO IMPORTANT THINGS ON THEIR SIDE.

calls it “creative living in small spaces. You have to get inventive.” For their five-year wedding anniversary, Marc carved a figure of a woman with child from the wood of a landmark camphor tree in Midtown that had to be removed in 2012 due to disease. He also constructed a trilevel playhouse around a mature tree in the backyard for the couple’s two children. With the addition of their son and daughter, as well as a lovable golden retriever, the Fosters have already set their sights on another fixer-upper, also in East Sac, with a larger floor plan and bigger backyard. “We will be doing this all over again with little ones. Back then, we were footloose and fancy free,” says Ingrid, who has an MBA in strategic management and marketing and oversees the business side of her husband’s work. “Whatever it takes so Marc can do the creative stuff.” Are they looking forward to another major renovation? “Aspects,” admits Marc. “I’m a lot busier now than I was before. I might not be doing all of the work myself.” “Just the custom cool stuff,” adds Ingrid. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@ surewest.net. n

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STARTING A NEW CHAPTER NEW OWNERS OF CRAWFORD’S BOOKS REALIZE A LIFELONG DREAM

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ue and Greg Richards have always loved bookstores. “Bookstores are where we end up on vacation,” says Greg, a licensed structural engineer who specializes in school design and construction. “Wherever we may

be, we check out the local used book shops.” The Richards love bookstores so much that now they own one. On Jan. 1, they became the owners of beloved Hollywood Park bookstore Crawford’s

Books upon the retirement of its founders, Jim and Joyce Crawford. “Owning a bookstore had been a pipe dream of ours for years,” says Sue, who spent eight years working in children’s mental health, took time off to raise the couple’s two kids and then worked another eight years as an office manager for a nonprofit. “We were longtime customers of Crawford’s and one day when I was headed to Kennedy High School to drop off food for marching band practice, Greg suggested I stop by Crawford’s and tell them that if they ever want to sell to please keep us in mind.’” Sue did just that—and it just so happened that that very morning the Crawfords had discussed retirement. The couples met a few days later to start the purchasing process and just like that, the Richards’ pipe dream suddenly became a reality. “This has been a leap into new territory,” Sue admits. “Neither of us have ever worked retail, so we’re reaching out to people who know how to do things like marketing and advertising. There’s a lot to learn,

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Dungeons & Dragons or card game Magic: The Gathering. They are also starting to host book clubs—including a tween club at the request of their 12-year-old daughter—and a toddler reading hour. “Our goal is to go beyond being a retail outlet that just sells books and become a community hub,” Sue says. “We want to build up our section of local authors and feature local art as well to help artists get their names out there. We have friends who are musicians, so we’re planning to eventually offer live music.” “We also talk to people and ask what they want to see,” Greg adds. “We keep close notes about what people come in looking for and we’re always asking for ideas from our customers. We’re open to what the community wants.” If the community wants a vast selection of genres housed in a venerable local bookstore owned by two passionate bookworms, then Crawford’s Books is the place to go. Crawford’s Books is located at 5301 Freeport Blvd. For more information, visit crawfordbooks.net. n

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f you are one of the few Sacramento folks still unaware of Wide Open Walls, known as WOW—our local mural festival—you might be walking around our central city with your blinders on. In its inaugural year in 2017, more than 50 local, national and international artists literally painted the town—in every color of the spectrum—over a 10-day span last August. The festival is now returning for its second year running from Aug. 9—19. Sacramento’s first mural event—the Sacramento Mural Festival—was held in 2016.

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Although most people may have seen and heard of WOW, many are unaware of the curator who partnered with WOW founder David Sobon to create the largest public arts project in the history of the West Coast. Warren Brand, CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based Branded Arts, has curated more than 350 public arts murals and projects in more than 50 cities worldwide. “I’m an art collector first and foremost,” says Brand. “My mom was a painter, and it’s kind of a natural progression to begin curating art and working with artists.” Now Brand says his passion is “to help bring artists to greater heights.” Brand and Sobon met shortly after the Sacramento Mural Festival in 2016, when Brand gave Sobon a tour of the Los Angeles site of the Robert F. Kennedy Mural Festival, which Brand had curated earlier that year. “That was 30 public art projects in a three-block radius at the largest

public school on the West Coast,” says Brand. Ultimately, Sobon partnered with Brand to create Wide Open Walls, a festival similar to the Robert F. Kenney mural event but larger in scope. “The thing about Sacramento is that it’s more spread out in terms of locations than almost any other festival in the world, in terms of the amount of miles between the walls,” explains Brand. “Most of the time festivals are very geographically concentrated.” And while WOW invites artists from all over the world to paint murals throughout the greater Sacramento area, the festival also dedicates about half its walls to local artists. The goal of the festival, says Brand, is “to cultivate the talent that’s already in Sacramento,” while showcasing talent from around the world.

WOW is building on last year’s momentum by continuing to curate renowned local and international artists, although it will also scale back its scope by concentrating on fewer neighborhoods. More than 40 artists will paint murals around the Grid’s Downtown and Midtown neighborhoods, while also focusing around Del Paso Boulevard and Oak Park. According to Sobon, this year’s WOW is partnering with Sacramento Promise Zone, a partnership of more than 150 private, nonprofit and public-sector organizations that serve 22 square miles of underserved neighborhoods in Sacramento. Sacramento Promise Zone’s vision is to ensure that all residents enjoy good health, improved educational opportunities, living wage jobs, economic opportunity and sustainable communities. And since its designation as a Promise Zone in 2015 by the U.S.

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Italy and Mexico, about half of the artists will be from Sacramento, including John Horton, Raphael Delgado and Lin Fei Fei. Locations of murals and artists will be available on the WOW website. WOW also plans to launch an app for navigation. An official “meet and greet” with the artists will be hosted at every mural site on Aug. 10 between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Wide Open Walls will also include three block parties on Aug. 10. at 1414 Del Paso Blvd., Aug. 11. at the Elks Tower at 12th and J streets, and Aug. 18 at 1625 Del Paso Blvd. These parties will be free to the public and will include food trucks, live music and live painting, with more events to be announced on wideopenwalls.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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ave you ever noticed a resemblance between the church hypocrite and gym hypocrite? It’s said that the church hypocrite is a “seasonal saint” who comes to church only on Christmas and Easter. They come to be seen in their finest new clothes. Much like the church hypocrite, the gym hypocrite thinks only about fitness after the big eating holidays. They work out in their designer fitness clothes only to look good for the swimsuit season. During a 1999 deployment to Saudi Arabia, I lived the life of a gym hypocrite. I only worked out to stave

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off the effects of my daily gorge of mess-hall food. One cool day in January, instead of dressing in shorts, I walked to the gym in a new matching two-piece workout suit. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and only a few people were in the gym. The machines were wide open, so I flew from one to the other, working on my “Body by Jake.” Within a few minutes, I peeled off my workout jacket. Still hot, I plopped myself in front of a huge factory fan. For some reason, the fan could not muster enough bluster to cool this gym customer, so I put my thumb in the waistband of my running pants and slid them down to my knees. There, sitting on that bench, I was suddenly much cooler than I had expected. The hairs on my thighs were vibrating like palm leaves in a hurricane. Looking down, I recalled that I had opted out of wearing gym shorts underneath my running pants. There, in full-length mirrors, I saw much more of my body than was reasonable to expect in a public place.

Needless to say, I couldn't have pulled those pants up any faster than if I were sitting atop a fire ant hill. So what did I learn? First, if you are going to pull your pants down in a public place, make sure there is a distraction in the room—preferably a football game or breaking news on the TV that will steer all eyes away from your geeky, farmer-tanned legs. Second, mom was smart to advise you to always wear good underwear. What if you have to go to the hospital, or you decide to pull your pants down in a public place? Last, and most important, there will always be hypocrites in both the church and the gym. I suppose that’s why I spend so much time in both and include myself as among the best of them. But I think that’s OK, because I see hypocrites as people who understand the tension of their discrepancy. They realize they are not who they should be, so they keep trying to be what

they ought to be. In short, they don’t give up on themselves. Hypocrites want badly to be someone better than they have been. So they choose to live with criticisms from those who will inevitably catch them with their pants down. They live with the frustration of being one thing while striving to become another. They hope someday to morph into the honest likeness of the person they are currently pretending to be. If my gym experience taught me anything, it’s to forgive and overlook the faults of others lest I risk becoming the biggest hypocrite of all. That’s why, when someone complains of too many hypocrites in the gym or the church, I never miss the opportunity to tell the person that we have room for one more: you. Perhaps I will see you at the gym next week? If so, I promise you won’t see too much of me. Norris Burkes can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net. n

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Behind the Barre: Made in Sacramento Capital Dance Project Friday, Aug. 10, and Saturday, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m.

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Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. • capitaldanceproject.org This independent collective of Sacramento’s professional ballet dancers is back for a fourth year with its innovative dance, art, tech and live music performance featuring nine local artists and musicians in collaboration with CDP’s resident choreographers. A special Sensory-Friendly Dance Performance—designed specifically for individuals with autism or special needs—will take place Saturday, Aug. 18, at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum at 216 O St.

The Elaine and Sidney Cohen Collection of Contemporary Ceramics Crocker Art Museum Aug. 5–Nov. 18 216 O St. • crockerart.org This collection includes 60 pieces by many of the country’s best-known artists working in clay, including Jun Kaneko, Claude Conover, Rudy Autio, Edwin and Mary Scheier, Don Reitz, Tim Rowan, Tom Rippon, Nobuhito Nishigawara and more.

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Jazz Night at the Crocker: Marcus Shelby Crocker Art Museum Thursday, Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org Celebrated bassist, bandleader, composer, activist and Sacramento native Marcus Shelby returns to close out the season with vocalist Tiffany Austin. Praised for his original score for Anna Deveare Smith’s Off-Broadway play “Notes from the Field,” Shelby delights audiences with a repertoire that includes works by Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Charles Mingus, as well as original compositions driven by African-American historical narratives.

Free Outdoor Movie Night Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park Saturday, Aug. 11, 8 p.m. 2701 L St. • exploremidtown.org/movie-nights In partnership with California State Parks and Friends of Sutter’s Fort, the Midtown Association invites the community to bring blankets and lawn chairs to view “Clueless,” a classic romantic comedy projected on the wall of the historic fort. Food will be available for purchase, including Costa’s Finest Kettle Corn and Mr. Pops Popcorn.

Harvest Day 2018: A Gardener’s Dream Day UC Cooperative Extension Saturday, Aug. 4, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Bld. • sacmg.ucanr.edu Join the UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County at this ultimate gardening event featuring mini-talks on Mason bees, succulents, vineyard pests and worm composting; keynote speeches by horticulturalists Fred Hoffman, Karey Windbiel-Rojas and Quentyn Young; booths from 30-plus community organizations; demonstration gardens; grape tastings; and more.

UC Davis MFA students will show their work at Verge.

41st Annual Sacramento Jewish Food Faire Congregation Beth Shalom Sunday, Aug. 26, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. 4746 El Camino Ave. • jewishfoodfaire.com This annual faire features traditional and modern Jewish cuisine, live entertainment, arts and crafts, and activities for all ages. Breakfast and lunch served all day. Take home homemade and imported pastries and breads.

Broadway at Music Circus California Musical Theatre “Mamma Mia!” Aug. 7–12 “Little Shop of Horrors” Aug. 21–26 Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H St. • broadwaysacramento.com Catch the latest offerings from this summer Sacramento tradition of Broadway-caliber theater-in-the-round featuring new musicals alongside cult classics. Both shows this month are Broadway at Music Circus premieres!

Tales & Ales Brewfest Fundraiser Fairytale Town Saturday, Aug, 25, 5–9 p.m.

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3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org Celebrate Fairytale Town’s 59th anniversary at an all-ages fundraiser featuring unlimited beer tastings, food trucks and live music by AKAlive. Proceeds will support Fairytale Town’s education programs and park improvements.

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Enjoy adult beverages and support Fairytale Town at the Tales & Ales event. Photo courtesy of Greg Flagg.

Sacramento Historic City Cemetery Tour Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Aug. 15, 10 a.m. A Crocker Art Museum exhibit focusing on artists working in clay will open Aug. 5.

Notebooks of a Body: Visual Arts from UC Davis MFA Students Verge Center for the Arts Through Aug. 12 625 S St. • vergeart.com This exhibition showcases the multimedia work of first-year graduate students from the studio program of the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis. Featured artists include Bailey Anderson, Julian Childs-Walker, Adam Cochran, Rachel Deane, Sarah Frieberg and Brooklynn Johnson.

1000 Broadway • gensac.org In lieu of its regular meeting, GAS will host a tour of the Historic City Cemetery. The tour is open to the public. Non-GAS members will be asked for a $5 donation to the Old City Cemetery Committee restoration fund.

Milk & Cookies: Author Reading Queer Sacramento Authors Collective Friday, Aug. 24, 7–9 p.m. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St. • qsac.rocks Join this newly formed group—founded by author J. Scott Coatsworth—of Sacramento-area queer and/or queer fiction authors for four readings a year. This month’s reading includes milk and cookies!

Kachina Collection of the Late Thomas Empey Witherell’s Auction House Aug. 2–16 Preview on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 10 a.m–1 p.m. 1925 C St. • witherells.com Bid online at this premiere auction featuring more than 100 Kachina dolls from the collection of the late Thomas Empey (1946-2016). Empey’s curation emphasizes the family lineage of artists. The sacred art of Kachina carving is passed down from one generation to the next.

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The Art of Balance THIS PAINTER TAKES HIS TIME ON HIS CLIMB TO THE TOP

Justin Marsh

ustin Marsh isn’t interested in being a flash in the pan. The painter and photographer is in it for the long haul.

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“I’ve tried to play the long game,” Marsh says on a break from an instudio day at his house in South Land Park. “I didn’t pursue my master’s degree or residencies. I didn’t fasttrack myself into a big artist network. I went for the conservative approach so I could develop my studio practice and navigate a professional career, a studio career and a family all at the same time.”

An early fascination with comic books caused Marsh, a Lodi native, to fall in love with drawing. He earned a bachelor’s degree in pictorial art from San Jose State University in 2007. While in San Jose, he organized and curated 12 & Taylor, an artist cooperative housed in a converted basement that hosted pop-up art exhibitions. Since moving to Sacramento in 2010, he’s handled installations for Crocker Art

Museum, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and UC Davis’ Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, where he’s now the exhibition and program “preparator”—someone trained to handle and install objects in a museum. “It was a chain reaction,” Marsh says of his gigs over the past several years. When he was 20, he got a job working “front of house” at the

San Jose Museum of Art. That led to a part-time job on the museum’s installation team. Later, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art hired him to do installation as well. “With that experience, I ended up getting hired to handle the installation of the new Crocker wing, which took a year and a half,” he says. “That was pretty wild.” Marsh makes the most of every opportunity. When he joined Sacramento’s Axis Gallery, an artist-led gallery space inside Verge Center for the Arts, the gallery was “fairly quiet,” he says, full of older members exploring art in their retirement. Marsh stood out as well-versed in creating his own exhibition opportunities and highly experienced in the art of museumquality installation. Axis Gallery relies on its members not only to keep up the studios but also to show regularly and recruit new members. “It’s very much a DIY approach,” Marsh says. “To build critical mass, you have to network with other artists.” Marsh’s artwork is a combination of photorealistic and abstract imagery

captured in oils and arresting photos of dilapidated buildings. “The thread for a lot of my work is the concept of some sort of loss or failure,” Marsh says. “It probably comes from losing my father when I was very young. In high school, we would flip through copies of National Geographic to find photos we liked. I came across this image of a collapsed bridge in Burma. It really stuck with me that this fallen structure—the cascading of forms— could be chaotic but also beautiful. Ruined structures can express a broken home, things that can no longer hold their own weight. The jumping-off point for me was the idea of looking at failure from a literal, physical perspective, so I started going to abandoned sites like the Del Monte cannery on C Street to take photos.” To see Justin Marsh’s work, go to jgmarsh.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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ESTELLE BAKERY RETURNS WITH FRENCH TREATS GALORE

here are pastries and there are pastries. The first category includes bear claws and Danishes wrapped in cellophane

and laid out in an office break room, slightly sad and sweaty, sitting on a table next to a note about leaving a dollar and reminding the reader of the honor system or some fundraising enterprise. At the other end of the spectrum are sugary, glistening dollops of brightly hued perfection, golden-hued sweet breads and fragile creations ready to dissolve with just the softest bite. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to say that Estelle Bakery & Patisserie traffics in the latter. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want you to think that all Estelle puts out are sugary delicacies, but they are the thing you first notice when you walk in the door of the Arden Way shop. The colors, the textures, the sheer decadence that is the pastry case at Estelle are simply astounding. Having been raised Catholic, I feel a certain guilt just being in the same room with such indulgence.

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To think of eating these treats almost makes my head explode. But for you, dear reader, I entered the belly of the beast and took on the challenge of supping full on the sinful delight of French pastry. And let me tell you, it was pretty darned swell. Let’s start with things other than sweet treats because I don’t want them to get short shrift. First, the basics: You might remember Estelle holding down a prominent corner on 9th and K streets for many years. After leaving that location, the Estelle team set their sights on a commodious space on Arden Way near Fulton Avenue. This new outpost is large, serene and has a pastry case that seems as long as a bowling alley. Just a few months ago, a second, smaller Estelle opened in Downtown Commons near Golden 1 Center. This petite locale is perfect for folks working Downtown or living in close proximity to the arena. If you’re stopping in for breakfast, the options are numerous and tempting. Croissants—plain, almond, chocolate, ham and cheese—are

prepared in the classic French fashion. Their buttery, flaky goodness is so thoroughly apparent, you almost don’t have to eat them to know they’re good. Eat them anyway. A breakfast sandwich featuring ham, cheese, egg and aioli is a wonderfully indulgent way to start the morning. At most places in California, you’ll find a slice of tomato or avocado or a handful of arugula on your breakfast sandwich. Not at Estelle. You get a proper French breakfast sandwich, on brioche, without even the suggestion of fruit or vegetable. Muffins abound. Scones prosper. And, like I said, croissants overflow. However, while you’re still staring at the pastry case, may I suggest a slice of quiche for a lovely brunch or lunch? Served with a delicate side salad, ham or veggie quiche not only fills you up but does it with a certain Gallic homeyness that is hard to replicate. At Estelle, the insanely flaky crust might actually outshine the dense, flavorful egg filling. Let’s move on to pastries. The first thing you might notice is the

macarons. Let’s be clear: These are not macaroons, the fluffy balls of coconut, egg and sugar that are one of my favorite concoctions. Nor are we to confuse these treats with Macron, the surname of the current president of France. These are macarons, small sandwich confections that combine light-as-air meringue cookies and indulgently sweet fillings, usually in rainbow-defying colors not found in nature. These little sandwichy treats gained popularity in the United States a little more than a decade ago. Now, macarons are sold in nearly every city in the country. Estelle happens to make them quite well. Lemon, raspberry, lime, vanilla and other macaron flavors fill the case. Oversized versions stuffed with fresh raspberries and cream delight the senses.

Then there are the glistening raspberry domes, prettier than the topper of your favorite cathedral. Architecturally and visually stunning, these tiny almond cakes with raspberry mousse raise decadence to a new standard. There are cookies, cheese Danishes, turnovers and sweet breads of innumerable quantity. There are candies and more. And then there’s the croixnut—a doughnut made from croissant dough. It is one of my favorite things I’ve eaten this year. Estelle Bakery & Patisserie is at 2530 Arden Way; (916) 551-1500; estellebakery.com. The Downtown location is on David J. Stern Walk near 7th and K streets. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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Downtown & Vine Taste and compare the region’s best wines 1200 K Street, #8 • 916.228.4518 downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar New American farm-to-fork cuisine 1131 K Street • 916.443.3772 elladiningroomandbar.com

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN AUGUST

The ARTHOUSE presents “The Color of Trees,” a solo show by Kathy Dana celebrating the color, mythical shapes and beauty of trees across the world. Shown top left: “Ocean View,” acrylic on canvas by Dana. ARTHOUSE Gallery, 1021 R St., Second Floor; arthouseonr.com The August show at Tim Collom Gallery features four artists originally from China, now living here. Shown bottom left is a Chinese ink on paper by Leo Pan. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com “Wildﬁre” is a show of new encaustics by Jaya King running Aug. 10 through Sept. 1. Shown top right is “Flare,” an encaustic by King. Sparrow Gallery, 1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com Artistic Edge Gallery will feature works by Bob Tonjes, Tenley Willock, Kathi Gibson and TJ Owens. Shown bottom right: “Ripples to Serenity,” oil on canvas by Kathi Gibson. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com

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