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RIVERLAKE’S SOUTHSHORE 4 bedrooms 3 baths in private community with lake access. Close to restaurants, shopping and Sacramento River walk way. Downstairs bedroom and full bath. Spacious master suite with cathedral ceiling, large walk-in closet and jetted tub. Living room cathedral ceiling & high windows. Sparkling sport pool. 3-car garage with drive thru. $725,000 CONNIE LANDSBERG 916-761-0411

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BRIDGEVIEW AT RIVERLAKE Amazing remodeled single story home! 4 bedrooms, 2 baths and 3-car garage. Beautiful yard with pool. Quality upgrades: amazing remodeled kitchen and baths, quartz counters, wood Àoors, custom built-in bar with sub-zero bar refrigerator, and wine fridge! Designer lights, appliances, convection oven and more. Wow!!! $680,000 MONA GERGEN 916 247-9555

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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. $1,150,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

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RIVER GROVE 2 or 3 bedrooms, of¿ce can be 3rd bedroom, 2 bath, single story home in a gated community with private access to the Sacramento River … enjoy walking and sunsets! Newer high quality wood laminate Àoors. Quality custom interior paint done by master painter! Custom window coverings, designer lights, double sided ¿replace. Gorgeous! $460,000 MONA GERGEN 916 247-9555

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CONVVENIENT RUSH RIVER Perfect for busy lifestyle. Easy walking distance to Promenade Greenhaven shopping and restaurants. Close to Garcia Bend Park. Single story 3 bedroom 2 bath home, 1740 square feet. Roomy master and bath, large kitchen views atrium/patio, 2-car garage, central H AC, ¿replace. HOA covers front yard maintenance, gates and back road. $427,500 SUE LEE 916-833-5122

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MARINA COVE AT RIVERLAKE Elegant and sophisticated best describes this home located in the prestigious gated Riverlake Community. Bountiful and beautiful moldings throughout, thermostat controlled ¿replaces, spacious downstairs master suite and upstairs media room are just a few of the wonderful features of this home. Pretty kitchen and soaring ceilings! $850,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

LAKE GREENHAVEN Beautiful brick exterior just hints of things to come. Step in and immediately enjoy the beautiful view of Lake Greenhaven thru the wall of windows in the living room. The spacious kitchen adjoins the pretty family room with contemporary ¿replace. The master suite features a wonderful desk area overlooking the lake. Pool! $895,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

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CUSTOM HOME Amazing 3 bedroom 2 bath home on a quiet interior street in highly desired Greenhaven/Pocket! Single story with nice spacious patio. Spectacular remodeled kitchen and both baths. New wood laminate Àoors throughout. Quartz and granite counter tops, solar tube and more! Home is immaculate and shows like a model! $475,000 MONA GERGEN 916 247-9555

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A Piece of History

Rita Gibson (seated) with Cecily Hastings (left) and Rivkah Sass.

SIGNED ‘LADY BIRD’ SCREENPLAY NOW RESIDES AT THE LIBRARY

am especially grateful that libraries still have a special place in our communities. As a publisher, I admit a fairly large bias toward the written word. Reading for both

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

Central Library and home to the library’s special collections. The screenplay was signed by Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, and actress Saoirse Ronan, who played Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson in the movie, which is set in Sacramento. At the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, the film won the Best Motion Picture award for a musical or comedy, while Ronan won Best Performance by an Actress in the same category. The movie also captured five Oscar nominations. Gibson made the donation in my honor because, as she said at the

centennial event, “My friend, Cecily, has been telling us the interesting and compelling stories of hundreds of Sacramentans—and doing it for more than two decades now.” I was both delighted and humbled by the gesture. Gibson purchased the script at an auction to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, one of many charitable causes she supports. Gibson, who grew up in Sacramento, loved the movie and saw it numerous times. It reminded her of her own path to young adulthood. “When it came up at auction, my first thought was the bidding would go through

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“ONCE I HAD IT HOME, I THOUGHT ITS PLACE IS WHERE, HOPEFULLY, SOME YOUNG SACRAMENTO WOMEN WITH BIG DREAMS MIGHT GO AND FIND INSPIRATION TO DO SOME GREAT THING OF THEIR OWN.”

the roof and well beyond my budget,” she said. “But gratefully, not many in attendance understood the value. So my modest bid won, but I really had no idea what to do with it at the time. “Once I had it home, I thought its place is where, hopefully, some young Sacramento women with big dreams might go and find inspiration to do some great thing of their own.” She contacted library director Rivkah Sass, who was over the moon about the gift. “We are so excited and grateful for Rita’s gift and love that is in honor of a local woman publisher,” said Sass. So special is the “Lady Bird” connection to Sacramento that we included a whole page of photographs of “Lady Bird” movie locations in the second edition of our “Inside Sacramento” book, out later this summer. Sass herself was recently bestowed a local honor. She was named one of the 2018 Women Who Mean Business award winners by Sacramento Business Journal. She’s a powerhouse librarian and an exceptional leader. She has headed the library since 2009, when she inherited an organization that had been weakened by corruption and poor management. I was on the Women Who Mean Business judging panel this year. As CEO of California’s fourth largest library system, overseeing operations in 28 branches, Sass stood out among more than 100 nominees. Her strong

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community connections—along with her focus on lifelong learning and literacy efforts—have made her a standout leader far beyond Sacramento. At the centennial celebration, Amanda DeWilde, archivist of the Sacramento Room, talked a bit about the library’s history. Sacramento’s first library opened in 1879 with a collection of around 6,000 volumes. It was built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. By the 1910s, the library had grown to more than 120,000 volumes. “It became clear that the library deserved a grander home,” DeWilde said. In 1912, the city applied to the Carnegie Corporation for money to construct a new library. The city wanted its public library to join the new City Hall in forming a civic center around a park, now known as Cesar Chavez Plaza. A $100,000 grant was approved in 1914. The city held a competition to design the new library, and Loring P. Rixford of San Francisco was awarded the contract. The new three-story Italian Renaissance building would be built on I Street between 8th and 9th streets. When the terra-cotta plant assigned to create the building’s exterior burned down, Gladding McBean stepped in to complete the façade, which was made of pressed brick. Inside, the walls were white plaster;

cork carpets were laid on the floor to deaden sound. A winding staircase connecting the three floors was constructed of marblelike Magnolith flooring, and a fountain at the base of the stairs was built of marble from the bed of the Tiber River in Italy. From the library’s Romanesque windows, one could see trees in the park and the top of City Hall. The building opened to the public in 1918. “That’s just as the Spanish flu is taking off and less than a month before the armistice ending World War I,” DeWilde pointed out. In the late 1980s, Sacramento’s main city library had once again outgrown its space, and a new Central Library was built around the original Carnegie structure, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Shortly thereafter, DeWilde said, the second floor of the old Carnegie library was transformed into the Sacramento Room. The newly formed Sacramento Public Library Foundation raised private money to renovate the room, which opened in 1995. The room’s mission is to preserve and share Sacramento history. The historic library building serves as a very fitting home for Sacramento’s special collections. At the presentation of the “Lady Bird” screenplay, Sass said there was no more fitting gift for a room that holds so much of our city’s history. “The movie shared with the world the aspects of Sacramento that we all love,” Sass concluded. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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n May 4, a solar-powered canoe designed and constructed by 11thgrade students from the School of Engineering & Sciences competed in the California Solar Regatta. The regatta, held annually at Rancho Seco Recreational Area and sponsored by SMUD, is a hands-on event in which high school and college students learn about solar energy

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and sustainability in a fun, outdoor environment. Most competing high schools used a kit with instructions to assemble their boat. The SES students designed and built their own boat using sustainable materials. The SES students’ boat is a short, wide boat with a round hull that better displaces water and helps the boat move faster. It has a remote tracking system that monitors the boat from up to one mile away. As required, it uses MSX-64 solar panels. The boat was built with marine-grade plywood and redwood, making it lightweight. Students encased the outside of the boat with polyester cloth, using a “skin-on-frame” method they learned in their engineering class.

The students worked about two hours every day for a month to construct the boat.

TRAVEL WRITER TO SPEAK AT LIBRARY On Saturday, June 23, former Sacramento Bee travel writer Sam McManis will discuss his new book, “Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a State of Wonder and Weirdness.” For five years, McManis traveled through California, looking for interesting and unusual places and people. The book is a compilation of his newspaper columns on the “real California.”

He’ll speak at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive.

WALK WHILE EATING AND DRINKING Pocket Walk-It—a “walk, eat, drink” event—will take place on Saturday, June 2, from noon to 4 p.m. Participants will sample local craft beers and food from food trucks while walking around the PocketGreenhaven neighborhood. Proceeds from the event will benefit Rotary Club of Pocket/Greenhaven, ACC Senior Services and The Danny Oliver Foundation.

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TOUR THE FIRE STATION On Saturday, June 23, Fire Station 11 will hold its annual open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Attendees can tour the station, see the gear used to fight fires and meet firefighters. Sparky the Fire Dog will visit with the children. Fire Station 11 is at 785 Florin Road. For more information, call (916) 808-1011.

A ROUNDTABLE SET FOR BUSINESS OWNERS Pocket Greenhaven Community Association will hold its second Local Business Roundtable for local business owners on Thursday, June 28. Discussion topics will include exploring effective ways to market a business to the community and

organizing a â&#x20AC;&#x153;shop localâ&#x20AC;? campaign. Residents are invited to attend and provide input. The roundtable will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Community Room at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive. For more information, email info@ pocketgreenhaven.org.

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City Councilmember Rick Jennings will hold District 7 office hours on Thursday, June 21, at 6 p.m. in the Community Room at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library. This is an opportunity for constituents to discuss community concerns with the District 7 team. For more information, contact Yoon Chao at (916) 808-7007 or ychao@cityofsacramento.org. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive.

Residents are welcome to join their neighbors at Caffe Latte every Wednesday morning from 7 to 10 a.m. for conversation and coffee. The group meets in the back of the restaurant by the piano. Caffe Latte is at 7600 Greenhaven Drive.

On Saturday, June 30, local food blogger Elaine Lander will present a free workshop on easy, inexpensive meals for independent and college-bound teens. Her blog is called The Seasoned Vegetable (seasonedvegetable.com). The workshop will be held at 2 p.m. at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library. The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive.

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

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

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

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

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

D.C. FUNDING MISFIRES Here’s an example. When Sacramento was designing its proposed Downtown recirculating streetcar project, it wanted to

secure funding from the federal government’s Small Starts program, which at the time allowed for federal grants of up to $75 million and required local governments to match the federal investment. So Sacramento, in partnership with West Sacramento and Regional Transit, designed a $150 million streetcar project, half to be funded by the Small Starts program and the remainder to be funded from various state and local sources. But in the closing days of the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation decided to increase the maximum grant allowable under the program to $100 million. The enticement of federal money is so strong that city officials dumped its $150 million streetcar plan and quickly expanded it to a $200 million plan, adding a mile of track along undeveloped river frontage in West Sacramento south of Tower Bridge (at a cost of $20 million) and adopting a plan to move the light rail line currently on K Street north three blocks to H Street, so that the new streetcar could travel down K Street (another $20 million addition). As Sacramento City Councilmember Steve Hansen candidly put it, “We didn’t want to leave money on the table. If we want to ask [the federal government] for more, we have to show a bigger project. We’re trying to show them what we would do if they chose to invest more.” Local taxpayers are throwing more money at the project solely because the federal government signaled its willingness to throw more money at it, not because it makes any sense from a transportation policy or efficiency point of view. Under the 50 percent local-match requirement, local governments would have to pony up a further $25 million, increasing the local share of the project’s costs from $75 million to $100 million. How do streetcar backers plan to raise the extra dough?

Well, last year Regional Transit was in line to receive $25 million from high-speed-rail project bonds for “local rail connections” to high-speed rail (assuming high-speed rail ever comes to Sacramento). RT should use this $25 million to initiate a program of replacing its fleet of obsolete and increasingly dilapidated light rail cars—a looming $200 million liability that RT has no reserves set aside to cover. Instead, in a power play, Mayor Darrell Steinberg pressured the RT board into diverting the high-speed-rail money to the streetcar project, with a promise that he would help RT impose a new tax on Sacramento residents and businesses to make up the difference—a de facto streetcar tax. What is Sacramento getting for the extra $25 million in federal funding? Moving the light rail tracks from K Street to H Street will inconvenience legions of state workers, most of whom work in state buildings south of K Street. The 1-mile extension of the proposed streetcar line along the West Sac riverfront, south of Tower Bridge, principally benefits only one person: developer Mark Friedman, whose company, Fulcrum, owns a large tract of undeveloped land along the proposed new route, near his existing West Sac housing properties. So I went to Washington with the hope of derailing federal funding of the streetcar project. At Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group that I founded and lead), our research showed that streetcars do nothing to enhance mobility or get people out of cars. Our transit expert, Professor Emeritus Gregory Thompson of Florida State University, a nationally recognized specialist in rail transportation, has characterized the proposed streetcar project as “little more than an amusement ride for tourists.” Further, academic studies have shown that streetcars contribute little to nothing to economic

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development, notwithstanding the rosy claims of streetcar boosters. Most troubling of all is that the $200 million spent on building a streetcar project is $200 million that can’t be spent on RT’s fleet of light rail cars, which are badly in need of replacement. All in all, it’s a lousy deal for Sacramentans—unless you’re a politically influential developer who owns a large tract of undeveloped land along its route.

TO WASHINGTON So with this backdrop, I signed up for Cap-to-Cap and traveled to Washington on April 13 for a five-day experience unlike any I’ve ever had. Our 365-strong delegation was divided into 12 policy teams. I chose to be on the transportation team, made up of about 30 members. But when I arrived at our conference hotel (the venerable Mayflower Hotel), I was told that my registration for the transportation team, for some reason, couldn’t be found. I was also told that I’d missed our first team meeting that morning because I hadn’t been informed of it. Further, my plans to participate in meetings with administration officials at the Department of Transportation were being blocked because I hadn’t submitted security forms. (I had registered weeks before the deadline for submitting such forms but was not advised of the requirement.) When I pleaded with our conference managers for help in fixing the security forms problem, a new obstacle arose. I was informed by a senior Metro Chamber official that it was “too late to add folks to agency [administration] meetings. We have been planning this program for the last six months and the attendees for agency meetings have been set.” As a consolation prize, I suppose, I was offered a chance to attend a meeting with Congresswoman Doris Matsui, a major sponsor of the streetcar project. I respectfully declined. I began to feel increasing unwelcome in the cozy fraternity of Cap-to-Cap attendees, made up mostly of folks who were longtime attendees. When I arrived at the conference check-in table, I ran into a

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

‘STICK WITH THE SCRIPT’ On the morning of our first day of congressional meetings, we were all advised by Metro Chamber officials to “maintain unity” and “stick with the script” of the chamber’s policy positions as published in various handouts. The only problem with that is I’d never agreed to act in lockstep with 100 percent of the Metro Chamber’s policy prescriptions when I signed up for Cap-to-Cap. I knew at that point my task was going to be tricky. In our congressional meetings, typically four to eight of us from the transportation team would meet with the most senior staffer of each party on each of the committees we visited. These were “professional” staff (it even said so on their cards), meaning permanent policy staffers who turn over infrequently. I was startled to find that there was almost no discernable difference in the policy preferences expressed by GOP and Democratic senior staffers. If you TO page 15

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The Waiting Game LEVEE FENCES WILL COME DOWN, BUT NOT YET

James Leigh-Kendall runs and walks his dog Charlie everyday on the levee.

housands of people in Greenhaven and Pocket— people who love the Sacramento River and enjoy easy access to the levee parkway that frames the community—are wondering exactly when the levee fences are coming down. The answer is soon. The deeper part of the answer is we have to be patient for a bit longer.

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The fences are eight private barriers built by homeowners along the levee, fences that go back decades. Many years ago, a few homeowners were able to convince officials at the state flood board that those fences were necessary to protect against motorcycles, Jeeps, horses and marauding fishermen, all of which would use the levee to create unspecified future mayhem. The mayhem was fiction, of course, but the flood board didn’t ask too many questions or think too seriously about the problems the fences would create. The bureaucrats simply glanced at crude drawings made by the homeowners showing the proposed fences running across the levee and nodded and issued the permits. In the decades that have passed, homeowners who obtained the original fence permits died or moved

away. But people who bought or inherited those houses along the levee figured they automatically inherited the fence permits, too, even though the state has no legal language or paperwork that spells out such transfers or succession rights. The new homeowners assumed the old permits were good enough. The authorities at the flood board shrugged and went along, not wanting to pick fights. And that’s where things stood, until members of the community— people who read this newspaper— began to speak out and say, “Wait a minute. This isn’t right. The public deserves access to the levee and river.” A few weeks ago, I spoke to one like-minded community member, a man named James Leigh-Kendall, who for more than 30 years has enjoyed running and cycling along the

levee, or at least the parts of the levee he can access from his home nearby without running into a fence. “The river and the levee were big parts of what attracted me to this community in the first place,” he says. “We’ve always used it. I enjoy running, and I’ll cycle with my kids. It’s a beautiful place.” Like many people in the community, Leigh-Kendall was pleased to read about plans to pull the fences down. Several years ago, the state changed its ways and decided to issue no more permits for levee fences in Sacramento. But rather than revoke the old permits, which the state can do anytime, bureaucrats at the flood board decided to wait for levee repair work to remove the fences. Levee repair is a big, expensive job and requires money from Congress. The work was scheduled to start

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442-4256 this year, but it’s been pushed back. While we wait, levees in Pocket, Greenhaven and Little Pocket have erosion sites and don’t meet seepage or stability criteria. They are not safe under federal guidelines. While various agencies from the region, state and federal governments gather their resources, the levee fences wait, doomed but still standing, like death row inmates. Leigh-Kendall told me about a fence he noticed upstream from Garcia Bend Park. At first he was pleased because the fence was open and the public was able to enjoy the levee. Then he noticed a new fence being built to replace the open gate. A man working on the fence told him the levee was private property. What Leigh-Kendall ran into was an unfortunate example of a neighbor taking liberties and refusing to admit that full public access is coming to the river parkway. When I checked with authorities about that particular fence, it seems the homeowner violated his permit by adding barbed wire, which is illegal and instantly

put his fence out of compliance. The state could have revoked the permit then and there, but it simply notified the homeowner and told him to make his fence legal. Some fences make bad neighbors. To smooth things over without lawsuits, the city has offered to pay homeowners for public easements across the top of the levee. It’s a nice gesture, probably unnecessary from a legal standpoint, but a good way to avoid costly litigation. Earlier this year, City Hall sent out nine offers. One was accepted. The rest may need more encouragement—such as having the state revoke some fence permits. Meantime, Leigh-Kendall waits for the levee to open up. “When we’re out on the levee,” he says, “people get to know each other. We see each other with our kids and dogs and bicycles. It makes the area safer. It makes us a community.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

FROM page 13 weren’t told who was who, it was virtually impossible (at least for me) to tell the difference between the two. They all seemed perfectly happy to send taxpayer money out the door. One member of each group was designated as group leader, responsible for guiding our discussions. The leaders were immensely knowledgeable. For example, Jim Corless, the CEO of SACOG, the regional government body in Sacramento that plays a huge role in deciding which local transportation projects get funded, was the leader of one of my groups. We met with staffers of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which ultimately oversees all appropriations for transportation projects on behalf of the Senate. I have found that local advocates of transportation funding typically adopt a public posture that “we should fix our infrastructure first,” meaning before we start blowing taxpayer money on new projects. But that’s almost always empty posturing, not intended to get in the way of their

efforts to land federal dollars for new projects, like the streetcar project. So whenever someone in one of my groups touted support for a “fix it first” policy, I would always promptly and strongly echo their sentiment. I would then say that the replacement of RT’s ancient fleet of light rail cars should be funded before the federal government blows $100 million in federal tax dollars on an unneeded streetcar system. Well, that didn’t win me any friends among the members of my groups. In fact, I was twice admonished (albeit politely) by group leaders to “stick to the script” and “never show anything but a united front.” I thanked them for their advice. They had their agendas and I had mine. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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A Tough Job

Daniel Hahn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Alberta “Pearl” Johnson has inherited from her African-American ancestors a soulful collection of rare folk songs. It’s 1933 and she is imprisoned in Texas for murder. Music is her lifeline to family and future. Enter Susannah, a white woman who is an ambitious collector of songs for the Library of Congress. To advance her career, Susannah wants to record Pearl singing her extraordinary repertoire. Pearl sees Susannah as a possible escort to freedom.

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Young Brains and Football LOCAL ASSEMBLYMAN TACKLES A TOUGH PROBLEM

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

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

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

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

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children are long past the age of youth sports. Erhart, a retired law enforcement officer with 34 years in youth football, praises the game for its ability to teach mentorship, discipline, commitment and resilience, especially among African-American and Latino youngsters in South Sacramento. He says other sports leagues often abandon inner-city kids. And he says parents know better than politicians whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for their kids. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I call BS on that,â&#x20AC;? McCarty says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are plenty of other youth sports that provide those values, including soccer, baseball, volleyball, flag football and others. Even a contact sport like ice hockey has taken steps to reduce the type of contact injuries that cause concussions.â&#x20AC;? The assemblymember dismisses the claim that state government should keep its nose out of youth football. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard the nanny-government argument, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy it,â&#x20AC;? McCarty says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a duty to pass laws that protect people. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why

we have seat belts and child car seats and why kids canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy cigarettes.â&#x20AC;? Youth football has grass-roots support from across the country. The proposed ban activated football fans and helped with parental awareness, Erhart says. Meantime, McCarty has several legendary NFL players and coaches who have lent their names on behalf of AB 2108 and similar bills in other states. Among them are Phil Villapiano, Nick Buoniconti, Chris Borland and Harry Carson.

Last year, five of the 10,000 kids in Sacramento Youth Football suffered concussions. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five more than anyone would like to see, but no sport is 100 percent safe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Safety is our first priority,â&#x20AC;? Erhart says. The bill is on hold for now, but the battle over youth football will continue. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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

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

John Otto and Jeff Zimmerman

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

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

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

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

Crazy for Color

THE GARDEN IS NO PLACE TO BE BASHFUL

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

AC By Anita Clevenger Garden Jabber

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

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

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

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

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

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A HOME FOR A LIFETIME.

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HOPEFULLY, THIS WILL BE

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

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

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My Trip to Costco A RIVER FLOWS THROUGH IT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Marc Prescott and his sons work on tiny doors together.

A Mighty Idea TINY PEOPLE SELLING TINY DOORS FOR TINY HOUSES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Failure To Launch THE CONFESSION OF AN OLDER AND WISER PASTOR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Take in some artwork by Kellie Raines at Archival Gallery.

H@ck the Park Fest

“20/20 Show”

Square Root Academy Saturday, June 23

Kennedy Gallery Through June 4

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

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

“Birds of a Feather” and “New Works”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art show will feature 20 works by 20 artists.

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

Spring gala will beneﬁt Effie Yeaw Nature Center.

Enjoy two days of music at Carmichael Park Community Band Festival.

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Something To Celebrate CELEBRATION ARTS MOVES INTO A NEW HOME

James Wheatley

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ast year was one wild ride for James Wheatley, executive director of Celebration Arts, the 32-year-old arts organization that provides training and performance opportunities in drama, music, dance and storytelling devoted to the African-American experience. Last October, Celebration Arts lost its lease at its home on D Street and scrambled to find new digs. Yet as Wheatley jogs to meet me across the parking lot of his organization’s new home at 2727 B St., there’s no trace of stress in his sure, athletic poise or affable intensity. “We’re here,” Wheatley says with a laugh as he settles back into a folding chair. “It’s been a challenge, but we’re determined to succeed.” Wheatley’s grit has served him well, both as a performer and as the leader of the educational arts organization he founded in 1976. As a kid in Los Angeles, he was singing publicly by the time he was 9. That led to solo gigs and, eventually, a graduate degree at USC’s Thornton School of Music. A professional dancer as well, Wheatley performed all over Southern California before making his way to Sacramento to take a job with the state. Celebration Arts grew out of a need Wheatley identified early on to provide a local training ground for young African-American performers in the area. “You have to understand, we’re not a community theater,” Wheatley says. “We’re a training organization. The performances are an extension of that training. But first and foremost, we’re here to help these young people develop critical thinking and analytical skills and learn how to move. You’re not just reciting words. You’re making a story live. And in order to do that, you have to be able

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to move and articulate your body. If you want to be good at anything, you have to put in the work mentally, physically and spiritually.” Wheatley himself is exceptional onstage, but his face lights up most when he talks about teaching. One thing the unexpected move has provided is additional space for rehearsals and dance classes—a luxury the previous building didn’t have. “If we wanted to have a class, we’d have to clear everything from the current show off the stage to make room,” says Wheatley, whose group started leasing the new space—which once housed B Street Theatre—on Jan. 1 following a somewhat frantic real estate hunt and “a lot of soul searching.” The new building effectively triples the company’s square footage, which comes with risk as well as potential reward. “We have more seats, yes, but now we have to fill them,” Wheatley says with a wry smile. Right now, local government seems to be doubling down on arts support: Celebration Arts received a grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and another $25,000 for pop-up performances that will take place this year all over the city. Still, it’s difficult for arts organizations to secure consistent audiences and stable income. “We offer all kinds of incentives in our marketing to keep people coming back,” says Wheatley, who’s constantly searching for new plays from diverse voices. “All arts organizations have the same problem: People are spending their time doing really good work, but there still needs to be more publicity. People need to know that there’s great art to see here in Sacramento.” For more information, go to celebrationarts.net. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Allora Is Outstanding NEW FINE-DINING RESTAURANT IN EAST SACRAMENTO SHINES

new restaurant called Allora has sprung up at the corner of 53rd Street and Folsom

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

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

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

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

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

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Fish Face Poke Bar

Paragary’s

1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605

1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737

L D $$ Beer/Sake Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com

Iron Horse Tavern

Revolution Wines

1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711

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

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

Magpie Cafe

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 1116 15th St. • (916) 492-1960 L D $$ Full Bar Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 400 P St. • (916) 400-4204 Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

de Vere’s Irish Pub 1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947 L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

Downtown & Vine 1200 K St. #8 • (916) 228-4518 L D $$ Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, ﬂight or glass with tapas and small plates • downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. • (916) 443-3772 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. • (916) 448-8900 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • paragarys.com • esquiregrill.com

Firestone Public House 1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888 L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. • (916) 442-7092 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner

1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594

Skool

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

2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767

Shoki Ramen House

1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011

Suzie Burger

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

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

2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500

Grange Restaurant & Bar 926 J St. • (916) 492-4450

THE HANDLE

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

1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463

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

OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com

The Rind L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226 L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

Willie’s Burgers 110 K St. • (916) 573-3897 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

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

L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com

Café Bernardo 2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com

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

Federalist Public House 2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

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

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

Thai Basil 2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties • thaibasilrestaurant.com

2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891

1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000

2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353

Biba Ristorante

1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574

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Tapa The World

The Waterboy

2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422

Rio City Cafe

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

MIDTOWN

Hot Italian

L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

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

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

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

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

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JUNE

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

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