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Is Sacramento Dying?

FILM SHOWS HOW WE CAN AVOID SEATTLE’S MISTAKES hen I heard about the hourlong documentary film “Seattle Is Dying,” I felt a certain dread. Listening to a radio interview about the film, I was struck by the bleakness of Seattle’s homeless situation. It took me a week to make time to watch the film. After viewing it, “bleak” wasn’t strong enough to describe the problem.

The film was produced by television station KOMO in Seattle. It was the third part of an informal series developed a few years earlier as the homeless situation grew worse in that city. The film opens with a bold statement: This is about an idea. For a city that has run out of them. What if Seattle is dying? Can it ever recover?

The documentary starts with the premise that a majority of citizens in Seattle are angry, embarrassed and deeply saddened to see one of the most beautiful cities in the world reduced

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to a dangerous and disgusting mess.

The decisions made by civic leaders to cope with homelessness are why many residents are falling out of love with their hometown.

Business owners and citizens are upset. They believe they have rights too. But no one seems concerned about those rights. “We have lost all power in the situation,” one business owner says.

“Why can’t we enforce the laws? This is not right!”

The film shows townhall meetings descend into rage and mockery as citizens laugh at officials who tell them to call 911 to report complaints about the homeless. Crowds cheer at the suggestion by citizens that laws should be enforced. One woman says police are frustrated and tells folks to vote out politicians who created the mess.

“How can watching human beings live and die in filth and madness be the right thing to do?” asks one man.

Another starts a Facebook photo page to document the filth and sadness.

Seattle spends more than a billion dollars each year on a homeless population that is currently estimated at 16,000. In 2016, the population was 10,000, says Sacramento City Councilmember Jeff Harris, who toured Seattle three years ago.

This year, Seattle is spending an average of more than $62,000 on

assistance to each homeless person.

These costs are paid from city, county and nonprofit budgets for medical and mental health services, outreach, drug and alcohol intervention and treatment, food and supplies, trash clean up, shelters, public health intervention, needle clean up, public property repairs, fencing, small houses, and much more.

Law enforcement dollars are consumed dealing with the problem.

The more money that is spent, the bigger the problem seems to get. Add in the horrendous human suffering, and the total cost becomes incalculable.

Only one major city in the U.S. has more property crimes per capita than Seattle at 5,258 per thousand of population. That city is San Francisco with more than 6,000.

But here’s a telling statistic. Of the top 100 repeat criminal offenders in Seattle, all live on the streets. This group is responsible for more than 3,600 crimes annually. As we see in the film, many are emboldened that they can flaunt the law.

The filmmakers tracked Seattle crime from 2006 to 2016. In 2006, only 25 percent of criminal arrests were not charged by the district attorney’s office.

But by 2016, more than 46 percent were ignored or never charged.

A third of the remaining 54 percent of those crimes were dismissed. Another

third were never resolved. Only 18 percent resulted in convictions. After plea deals, only a fraction resulted in serious jail time. Clearly, very few people are held accountable for their crimes in Seattle.

The situation terrifies cops. They’re afraid for their own safety, their jobs and pensions, and retaliation. They’re frustrated because violent criminals are not kept in jail or are given ridiculously low sentences. “We arrest dangerous people for good cause and they just are bounced back on the streets like a revolving door,” one officer says.

Criminals have effectively conquered the criminal justice system.

Police believe their efforts to keep neighborhoods safe are futile because of misguided attempts by leaders to be “compassionate” to the criminal class.

Good cops are leaving the force.

Citizens and law enforcement agree on one thing. When lower-level crimes and acts of incivility stop being enforced, the levels of more serious crimes grow higher. Shop owners— faced with dwindling sales because of the internet—are plagued by savvy criminals who know how to keep theft values below what will prompt an arrest. Added insults are homeless camps adjacent to stores and property crimes committed by campers.

People have lost faith in their government and civic leaders. Less than

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a month after the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a “head tax” ordinance that would have levied a $275 per-employee tax on Seattle businesses making more than $20 million a year, the council voted to repeal the $75 million business tax after citizens rebelled.

Residents are asking if maybe the billion dollars Seattle spends each year could be redirected toward a toughyet-compassionate approach. While the situation in Seattle is devastating, I was heartened that folks there are angry enough to demand more for their tax money, and more from their leaders.

I also wonder what it will take for Sacramento citizens to speak out in favor of a “tough love” approach that requires criminals to face consequences and seeks to end the path of destruction homelessness brings to our city.

Councilmember Harris watched “Seattle Is Dying” a few weeks ago and implored his council colleagues to see the film. With a homeless population of around 3,600, Sacramento might still have a chance to head off the wreckage faced by Seattle, Harris believes. But we are headed in the same direction.

Harris says the situation worsened after California voters passed Prop. 47 in 2014. (The proposition reclassified

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some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors. These offenses include shoplifting, writing bad checks and drug possession. The law allows individuals to steal up to $950 repeatedly, with only misdemeanor consequences.)

And the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last September in Martin vs. City of Boise that governments can’t punish homeless for sleeping outdoors or on public property. This decision makes it very difficult to enforce our camping ordinances.

“These two situations have seriously depleted our tool box for addressing homelessness,” Harris says. “In addition to shelter beds we need an enforcement component as well. There is a huge amount of crime perpetrated by and against the homeless population, which is mostly very vulnerable.”

Harris says law enforcement officials tell him as long as Prop. 47 is in place, our city’s “hands are tied” to deal effectively with the homeless situation.

He believes efforts may be underway in California to overturn the law, but he isn’t optimistic. And given our state’s progressive political leanings, reversal seems unlikely.

Our state’s political leadership hails from the city that’s become synonymous with filthy streets and property crime:

San Francisco. Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein were mayors there. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris was San Francisco district attorney.

Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert—and just about every other DA in California—opposed Prop. 47. Schubert told me last year there was no doubt the felony reductions contributed to the region’s homelessness problem.

“Prop. 47 also took away the tools we had to incentivize folks to accept treatment programs,” Schubert said.

“Incarceration is an important tool to help drug users get into treatment.

Prop. 47 makes it more difficult to get those folks treatment.

“We are definitely seeing a serious uptick in reported property crimes in the county and all over the state.

And that is just with reported crimes.

Many victims don’t even bother to report crimes because there are no consequences.”

Schubert added, “I’ve attended community meetings in diverse areas all over the county, and the complaints are always the same: homeless populations increasing, plus more garbage, drugs and alcohol and crime on the streets.”

Councilmember Harris believes local media in many cases have not been

truthful about our city’s situation.

Now in his second term on the City Council, Harris has become an expert on homelessness. He is passionate about helping resolve the problem.

He accepted our invitation to write an article and set the record straight in an upcoming edition of Inside.

In a recent conversation, Harris shared a few devastating and heartbreaking stories of life on the street, especially involving women.

Most of us would agree there is nothing compassionate about placing folks who are simply unable to afford or find shelter into the same category as drug and alcohol addicts, mentally ill people and criminals. “This must be incorporated into the triage process,” Harris says. “And at this point in Sacramento, it is not. We must change our approach or we may very well end up like Seattle.”

I encourage our readers to watch the film “Seattle Is Dying.” It’s very sad, but it is vital that Sacramento residents become educated and involved.

Otherwise, we can’t complain if our civic leaders replicate the near-complete collapse of social order in Seattle.

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LIBRARY FRIENDS ANNUAL BOOK SALE Friends of the Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library will hold its annual book sale May 11–17. The sale will be held in the Community Room during regular library hours.

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Now, both teachers are being recognized for their work by ABC 10, which honored Cannady and Edwards as teachers of the month, respectively, for March and April.

The local educators will walk the red carpet at the Esquire IMAX Theatre May 15 to attend the annual Teacher of the Year ceremony. Along with other monthly winners, they are eligible for the Teacher of the Year award, which includes a $5,000 check.

I met Cannady and Edwards recently to learn about their work and success.

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Cannady has double responsibilities at SES. He teaches eighth and 11th grade history, and serves as department head.

“I’ve been teaching for over 10 years and I’m passionate about helping my students better understand today’s world conditions by knowing where our country’s been,” he says. “I often supplement history textbooks with newer technology tools that students are familiar navigating.”

Edwards has been teaching at SES for six years. She works with seventh and ninth graders, and teaches advanced placement history for 11th graders.

“I love it when my students say history is cool and fun,” she says.

The history of bridges was a recent project for her students, who investigated various construction

methods and recreated scale model replicas of famous bridges from around the world. They produced a video documenting their project.

If that wasn’t fun enough, Edwards took a group to San Francisco for the musical “Hamilton.”

How lucky these local students are to have teachers who connect history with today’s reality. I would have paid more attention to my high school history lessons with teachers like Cannady and Edwards.

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Celebrate the people who make Pocket-Greenhaven a wonderful community at the second annual Pride of the Pocket awards ceremony at Didion School Park on Thursday, May 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The Pocket Greenhaven Community Association and elected leaders will recognize some of the people and groups that make the neighborhood a great place to live, work and play. Register for free tickets at pocketgreenhave.org/ pride-of-the-pocket.

JFK ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME The inaugural class of the John F. Kennedy High School Athletics Hall of Fame will be inducted Saturday, May 18, at 5:30 p.m.

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Reservations are required and seating is limited. To RSVP for May 9, call (916) 269-9290; for May 15, call (916) 269-9291. A complimentary meal will be served. For more information, visit eastlawn.com.

TEEN SPACE: G.E.E.K.A. Student gamers can gather after school every Thursday at the Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library.

Enjoy a multitude of anime, video gaming and more from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The School of Engineering & Sciences organizes the weekly teen program.

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COMMUNITY MEETING ON DISASTER READINESS Daniel Bowers, director of emergency services for the city of Sacramento, will discuss disaster readiness on Tuesday, May 7, at 6 p.m. at Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library.

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Mountain Mike's Pizza manager Kimberley Krenke (left) with staff member Gwenyth Sinetos.

Gathering Places POCKET RESTAURANTS SERVE MORE THAN FOOD

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he job of visiting every restaurant in Pocket and Greenhaven has produced a surprise. While I expected diverse menus and a wide terrain of tastes and kitchen talent, I was not prepared to see local restaurants acting as community gathering spots and meeting halls. I expected to see people eat and run.

But quick meals and fast exits are not how every restaurant works in Pocket, especially during the afternoon.

The food comes quickly, but customers are in no hurry to leave. In this way, our restaurants become unique alternatives to home and work. They become the “third place” identified by sociologists—places where people linger

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and experience their neighborhoods in neutral settings.

Cities have many third places. Almost anywhere will qualify—coffeeshops, cafés, bars, barbershops, even parks and libraries. Pocket has all of those, and people congregate in each. But as I wandered from Riverside Boulevard to Pocket Road in the quest to try every restaurant, I quickly found two places where congregation and community served as main courses on the menu.

First was Pho Bac Hoa Viet in the Riverlake Village center on Greenhaven Drive. The restaurant, whose name roughly translates to Vietnamese Flower, bills itself as Vietnamese and Chinese.

The menu features dozens of familiar Chinese dishes, from stir-fried Szechuan chicken to sweet and sour shrimp.

But the soul of Pho Bac is northernstyle Vietnamese cooking. The house specialty is pho bac, a northern soup broth with rice noodles, herbs and a butcher’s delight of beef, including flank, brisket, steak, tripe and tendon.

The meats can be ordered separately or combined. For beef-averse customers,

chicken is an option, but the soup loses richness and potency without a beefy contribution.

The Pho Bac style is neither fancy nor exotic—it’s a straightforward business, with professional staff and prompt, friendly service. A wall of mirrors is the most overwhelming design feature. Maybe the utilitarian environment explains why so many locals can be found easing their way through savory late lunches. People relax and chat and are in no rush to leave Pho Bac. Another fine gathering spot is an old favorite of mine, Mountain Mike’s Pizza in the Promenade center on Rush River Drive. The site has gone through various pizza incarnations, and was vacant for about a decade. Completely remodeled, it has never looked nor tasted better.

Pizza is Pocket’s most popular food— five stores in the community sell various versions, and nearby neighborhoods offer more options—but Mountain Mike’s has worked to separate itself from the crowd by becoming a true gathering place. Five big-screen

TVs create a convivial sports bar atmosphere, and a back room allows for parties. The restaurant works hard to help community organizations with four variations of fundraisers. All involve pizza and cash rebates to neighborhood groups.

“We are always brainstorming ideas to become a gathering place for the community,” manager Kimberley Krenke says. “This is a tightknit community, and people appreciate that we have fundraising opportunities for local schools, teams and churches.”

Like Pho Bac, Mountain Mike’s is a place where people linger, from families with small children to retirees seated alone watching TV. As for the pizza, I’ve yet to find a restaurant that consistently produces a better pepperoni pie. Not all Mountain Mike’s Pizzas are created equal, but from crust to sauce to cheese to topping, the Pocket location has mastered the magic of pepperoni pizza.

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Lesson in Bankruptcy

CITY SCHOOLS FLUNK FISCAL TEST, PRAY FOR HELP

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othing is more important to Sacramento and its future than the education of our children. If Sacramento City Unified School District is in crisis, our city is in crisis.

We cannot attract or retain highpaying jobs and growing businesses if our schools are in shambles. And if we fail to prepare our young people to compete in a competitive world, we consign them to substandard lives and eclipsed prospects.

Most residents are aware that Sac City Unified produces kids who are

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comparatively poor performers on California standardized tests. What many people may not realize is that a fiscal crisis at the school district is about to kneecap the already compromised futures of our children.

A possible state takeover of the school district this November will do severe harm to public education in Sacramento. The harm will reverberate for decades.

If the crisis is not averted by dramatic financial reforms, two things will occur. First, the state will make an emergency loan to Sac City Unified.

Second, the Sacramento County Office of Education will appoint a receiver with dictatorial powers over city schools.

The receiver will have one directive: slash spending, programs, jobs, salaries, benefits, budgets, facilities and school sites to repay the emergency loan, with interest, as fast as possible.

Based on the experiences of nine California school districts taken into state receivership in recent decades, we

should expect the process to last about 10 years. Good luck hiring or retaining quality teachers while the district is in the hands of a receiver bent on slashing spending.

Local input into how city schools operate will be effectively nil. And the stigma of being a failed school district will likely linger for years after receivership ends, which may impact the district’s ability to attract teachers and students, and secure bond financing.

The flight of students to private schools, charters and suburban districts will accelerate and drain city schools of state revenue based on average daily attendance. Sac City Unified has suffered declining enrollment for years.

Those declines will become a tidal wave.

This unprecedented crisis screams out for intervention by Sacramento’s civic, political, business, labor and religious leaders, and—most importantly—the public. Presently, our leaders are snoozing.

HOW BAD IS IT? The state Department of Education sent a Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review the district’s financial condition. The team found past mismanagement, communication failures, inexperienced staff unable to maintain and analyze data, deficit spending, inadequate reserves and imprudent approval of a 2017 labor agreement with the Sacramento City Teachers Association—a deal negotiated

by Mayor Darrell Steinberg that included a 7-percent pay raise, plus a disputed extra raise for mid-career teachers.

According to Sac City Unified, the district must cut $35 million out of next year’s budget and make a further $35 million cut the following year. Officials have identified about $11 million in cuts as of press time.

While the local teachers’ union blames the financial problems on excessive hiring of administrators over

the past two years, management places blame on high health care costs for current and retired teachers.

The district’s unfunded liability for retiree health care amounts to an astonishing $726 million, outpacing the unfunded pension liability at $468 million. District officials claim annual health care costs per pupil at Sac City Unified are the highest in the state at $2,476 each year. That’s $500 higher than gigantic Los Angeles Unified.

In addition to facing a cash-flow crisis, the district faces an upside-down balance sheet. The most recent financial statement reports Sac City Unified shows assets of $919 million, dwarfed by liabilities of $1.867 billion. By any normal reckoning, city schools are bankrupt.

A report on school district finances by state Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) placed negative equity at Sac City Unified sixth from the bottom in California, out of 944 school districts.

IS LABOR PLAYING GAMES TO AVOID CUTS? There is a chance the teachers’ union is avoiding the bargaining table, and even threatening to strike, as part of a high-stakes game of chicken.

Under this theory, the union’s considerable political influence over the state Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom will force approval of a special state grant to bail out Sac City Unified and save the union from making concessions on its generous health care benefits. The grant would take the place of an emergency state loan and mandated receivership.

While there are only whispers around the Capitol about the possibility of a state grant, there are signs that a political bid for free money may be forthcoming.

First, the Legislature last year broke precedent and authorized grants to two troubled California school districts: Oakland Unified, which was under state receivership as recently as 2008, and Inglewood Unified, which is currently in receivership. The grants would be in addition to emergency loans these districts required.

State grants to Oakland and Inglewood were severely criticized in a December report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. Such gifts would make school districts and labor unions far less willing to make spending cuts and contract concessions to close massive deficits. Why cut spending or make

concessions if California taxpayers bail you out?

Another sign of a possible push for a taxpayer lifeline to Sac City Unified is the move by Sacramento Assemblymember Kevin McCarty to secure approval to direct the State Auditor to conduct a five-year forensic audit of Sac City Unified. The audit would determine what went wrong and who is responsible—a move strongly supported by the teachers’ union.

The state audit was unanimously ordered in March. (Disclosure: I testified in favor of the audit on behalf of Eye On Sacramento.) It’s important to note that McCarty’s wife, Letitia Garcia, was elected to the Sac City Unified board of education last November.

The audit likely won’t be completed until after the deadline for Sac City Unified to solve its deficit or face a state takeover. One Capitol observer theorized that McCarty, a longtime ally of teachers’ unions, would join the all-powerful California Teachers Association to pressure the Legislature and Newsom to approve an “interim” grant to Sac City Unified, pending completion of the state audit. The gift would postpone, if not entirely avoid, a state loan and takeover.

If the local teachers’ union believes a state handout is possible, there is little reason to accept a reduction in generous health care benefits. But if the union is wrong, the miscalculation could push Sac City Unified into a destructive receivership.

One reason to be dubious of a state handout is the dangerous precedent it would set for a bailout of LA Unified, which has a negative equity of well over $10 billion.

What can you do? Eye On Sacramento is forming an “Eye On Sacramento Schools” unit to address problems such as the ones facing Sac City Unified. If you would like to have a role in bringing change and reform to our city’s schools, please contact me.

In my next column, I’ll outline some solutions we are recommending to solve the crisis at Sac City Unified. We could use your help.

Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye On Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reach at craig@eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 718-3030. n

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Location of Aggie Square.

Cutting the Causeway UC DAVIS AND THE CITY GROW CLOSER WITH AGGIE SQUARE

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oping to strengthen ties between the city of Sacramento and UC Davis, university leaders announced a year ago they would build a mixed-use development called Aggie Square on the UC Davis Health Campus in Oak Park.

“Aggie Square will have all the features you’d expect in a live, learn, work, play ecosystem,” UCD Chancellor Gary S. May says. “There will be new housing, new offices, smart classrooms, state-of-the-art research and lab facilities. It will truly be a place where university, industry and community come together.”

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Located on a 25-acre parcel within the 144-acre Sacramento campus, Aggie Square will provide approximately 1 million square feet of research and innovation space to create economic and educational opportunities, and help revitalize the Stockton Boulevard corridor. In addition to proposed retail and food, the location will include housing for academics and UCD graduate students.

Despite estimates that the project will take between five and 10 years to complete, the idea for Aggie Square has moved quickly since May became UCD chancellor in August 2017.

The former dean of Georgia Tech College of Engineering, May participated in 2001 in planning Atlanta’s Technology Square, a 1.4 million-square-foot, mixed-use development home to startups, researchers and technology companies.

In 2017, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg led a delegation to Atlanta to visit May and tour the site. Just over

a year later, UCD announced Aggie Square’s first project, a $60 million inpatient rehabilitation hospital that will create 200 new jobs.

May revealed the latest concrete addition to Aggie Square in February: an innovation center for UCD faculty and partner IBM. The demonstration space in the launch headquarters will be large enough to showcase ideas or technology for about 50 people at a time.

Months after his arrival at UCD, May established an exploratory group to make recommendations for academic programs at Aggie Square. The university website notes Aggie Square will create a stronger and healthier

shared community, but otherwise the university has released little information about its partners pending the finalization of contracts. Bidding for construction contracts has not yet begun.

The building process begins with a formal “request for quotation” and “request for proposal” from UCD, which allows architects and construction companies to bid on the work. “We will issue an RFQ for developing the first phase of Aggie Square in early June,” Bob Segar, Aggie Square planning director, says. “We will follow up with an RFP in the fall. We aim to start construction in 2021.”

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Despite remaining relatively quiet on the project’s appearance, the city and UCD have high hopes for this incubator, innovation hub, residency and retail location. The project is expected to advance technology and create economic opportunities, especially within Oak Park.

In December 2017, Steinberg and May appointed a work group, which produced a 35-page study identifying one of the project’s goals to “contribute to community building and community health by expanding access to Sacramento’s innovation economy for all communities, businesses and individuals with an emphasis on making investments in talent development, career pipelines and opportunities for underserved communities.”

“Here at the city of Sacramento, we are focused on creating an economy that benefits residents of all of our neighborhoods,” Steinberg says. “Partnering with UC Davis on Aggie Square will help us leverage the strengths of this great research institution to create good paying jobs for young people from all of our neighborhoods. Our kids from Oak Park should be first in line for these jobs.”

While the work group promotes job creation and economic opportunity

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for struggling residents, the city and university have not explained how Aggie Square will achieve its goals.

And the question remains: If Aggie Square creates job opportunities within advanced industries in a neighborhood already undergoing gentrification, will it create opportunities for that community to advance with those jobs by importing new talent?

To help answer that question, in June 2018, Gov. Jerry Brown approved $2.8 million in state funds toward Aggie Square. The money was intended for use in 2018 and 2019 toward community engagement and outreach.

While Aggie Square will create jobs through retail, food services and advanced technology, the project remains education-focused. It “will encourage collaborations across disciplines—in life-sciences, food systems, mobility, government, civic technology, arts and communications to spur economic growth in Sacramento,” the school website says.

UCD also is exploring a program to allow students to spend an academic quarter in Sacramento.

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Joan Cochrane

SUTTER’S FORT VOLUNTEER MAKES HISTORY COME TO LIFE

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f Joan Cochrane could travel back in time, she would want to meet her grandparents and see where they grew up—without them knowing it was her.

Because time travel has yet to be achieved (as far as we know), Cochrane gladly settles for traveling back to the early days of California as a costumed volunteer at Sutter’s Fort.

“I love Sutter’s Fort because it’s not a static museum,” says Cochrane, who works at the fort two days a week and most weekends. “It shows students

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what it was like to live and work during that time period from the perspective of early settlers—ordinary people of their time who were part of the foundation of California.”

Volunteering at the fort has allowed Cochrane to combine many of her lifelong interests. She pursued recreation and leisure studies in college, which has given her a “holistic perspective” when working with the fort’s visitors. She’s taught every grade from kindergarten through senior year of high school—she retired in 2017 after 21 years—and she loves kids. By holding a myriad jobs—including working for the parks service, a convalescent hospital, a construction company and Pac Bell—she’s an excellent problemsolver.

All of these skills have made Sutter’s Fort a perfect match for the Tahoe Park resident. During her two years of volunteering, she’s worked as a “powder monkey” for the cannon crew,

taught a brewing class—she laughs while explaining the demonstration was allowed because the mash wasn’t technically beer yet—led weaving and baking stations, recommended books about the Gold Rush, and helped write scripts for characters and events.

“I’m always up for a challenge,” Cochrane says. That could mean mastering a station at the fort or traveling around the globe to locations like the Galapagos Islands, Ireland, Guatemala and China. She also has volunteered for her sister’s campaign for school board and run the arts council in Calaveras County where she lived, as well as found a way to help her students against all odds.

“I was teaching at Parkway Elementary in South Sac, which is a high-poverty school,” Cochrane recalls.

“We decided to take the students on a field trip to Sutter’s Fort—they’d never done anything like that before.

The fort generously gave us a grant for

admission, but the school had to cover transportation, supplies and costumes.

We had to beg, borrow and steal to get the kids there. I got us grants from Target and Home Depot, and scoured every thrift store in the area to find costumes. But they went!”

Thanks to Cochrane’s efforts, her students were able to experience all the things that make the state historic park so special.

“You get everything at Sutter’s Fort,” Cochrane says. “You learn about language, math, science—every station has something to enrich education. And everyone gains a better appreciation of the fort because it makes history come alive.”

For more information, visit suttersfort.org.

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he State Hornet, Sacramento State’s student-run news organization, celebrates its 70th anniversary this spring with a series of community events and alumni gatherings to honor The Hornet’s influence and impact.

The newspaper, which published a four-page inaugural issue in January 1949, has produced evocative and memorable news coverage, careers and experiences.

From the university’s cornerstonelaying ceremony in 1952, to Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Sac State in 1967, to coverage of protests, 9/11 and sports successes, State Hornet student journalists reported, photographed, wrote and edited stories that would propel them to bright futures.

The work reflects seven decades of milestones at Sac State and demonstrates how the university has enriched the region, state and nation.

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Derek Moore had never reported before joining The Hornet as a student from 1991–93. In 2017, Moore was part of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the wildfires that ravaged Napa and Sonoma counties.

He recalls The Hornet “wasn’t the theory of reporting. It was the practical application of reporting.

Basically, I learned the fundamentals of how to be a reporter at my time on The State Hornet. I’ve carried those with me throughout my entire career.” Today, Moore is president of the Pacific Media Workers Guild.

Kristine Phillips is a State Hornet alumna who began as a news writer on the paper before advancing to the role of news editor.

Phillips moved to the Indianapolis Star and Washington Post before settling into her current job as a justice reporter at USA Today where she covers national stories, such as the U.S. Justice Department investigation led by Robert Mueller.

“As a college writer, I made a lot of mistakes,” Phillips says. “As a college editor, I made even more. But nothing else could have prepared me for a career in journalism than making all those mistakes—and learning from them.”

Phillips spent many sleepless nights and years of hard work producing The State Hornet, but the time invested brought significant returns.

“Most importantly, it gave me the spine to not just ask the right questions, but also the tough ones,” Phillips says.

Another alumna who solidified her confidence on The State Hornet

is Elizabeth Graswich. Graswich is director of communications and community relations at San Ramon Valley Unified School District. She is a former Sacramento Bee reporter (and married to Inside contributor R.E. Graswich).

When the Olympic trials were held at Sacramento State in 2000, The State Hornet was granted two press passes. Graswich and another reporter went to pick up the passes, but were turned away.

“I was determined to cover it,” Graswich says. “So, I camped out there all day hounding (the event’s media coordinator).” After a day’s

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struggle, Graswich received the two promised press passes.

“One of the lessons as a journalist was determination,” Graswich says. “You get turned down a lot.

It takes grit and determination to be successful, and that was a real turning point for me and my confidence to go after what I wanted.”

Sam Amick, a former NBA reporter for The Bee and USA Today who covers pro basketball for The Athletic, got his start in sports journalism on The State Hornet.

Long before he covered Lebron James and Steph Curry, Amick drove out to Lake Natoma to cover Sac State women’s rowing—a sport Amick knew nothing about.

“I had to instantly kind of learn how to connect with people,” Amick says. “And basically conduct the kind of interviews and have the kinds of conversations that would help me understand what it is that they all did.

“That was easily the best experience I had as I was trying to figure this whole thing out,” Amick says. “The real-life experience, what

reporting was, the camaraderie of the newsroom.”

The State Hornet is the mostrequested research collection at the Donald & Beverly Gerth Special Collections & University Archives at Sac State. To mark the historic anniversary, The Hornet and the archive organized “The State Hornet: The First 70 Years,” a free exhibition featuring more than 20 large reprints and original editions dating to 1949.

The exhibition runs at the Archives through May 3, then moves to the Harper Alumni Center at Sacramento State for The State Hornet’s 70th Anniversary Celebration and Alumni Reunion. The celebration will be May 4 from 7–10 p.m., and includes food, no-host bar and souvenirs.

Tickets are available at statehornet.com/70th for $45 before May 4, and $50 at the door.

Jose Fabian is a State Hornet staff reporter and political sciencejournalism major at Sacramento State. He can be reached at josefabiante@gmail.com. n

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Wild About Art

EFFIE YEAW NATURE CENTER HOSTS SPRING GALA & AUCTION

A live auction of work by VIP and award-winning artists is the highlight of the June 8 alfresco event.

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ow in its ninth year operating as a nonprofit, the Effie Yeaw Nature Center is preparing for its June 8 Spring Gala & Auction with new patronage. As honorary chair, Sacramento writer Ed Goldman follows such luminaries as publisher Cecily Hastings, Congresswoman Doris Matsui, the late businessman Russ Solomon, and artists Marcy Friedman and Gregory Kondos.

Administered by the American River Natural History Association, the facility and its preserve welcome approximately 100,000 visitors each year. “The Center has a special history in this community” notes retired Effie Yeaw executive Betty Cooper. “Caring supporters keep

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us open and available for future generations.”

A portion of funds raised at the gala will provide free natureenrichment programs for schools that could not otherwise afford them.

The Sacramento Fine Arts Center is a vital art show partner supporting the fundraiser with work by artists from all over the Sacramento region.

Jurists are sculptor Gary Dinnen and KVIE auction curator D. Neath.

Celebrity artists contributing this year include Pat Mahony, David Peterson, Gregory Kondos, Maria Winkler and Paula Bellacera. Keith McLane of KLM Auctions will wield the auction gavel and KCRA’s Eileen Javora will emcee.

Silent and live auctions will offer award-winning works. Travel and other lifestyle experiences also will be up for bid. From May 14, the gala art can be viewed in the “Art Where the Wild Things Are” exhibition at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center on Gibbons Drive in Carmichael. The exhibition will include photographic entries.

Artist Pat Mahony has donated her “Purple Irises” painting to benefit of the Effie Yeaw Nature Center.

Inspired by a Carmichael garden, the canvas was recently part of the National Watercolor Society’s exhibition and international competition.

A sunset supper and beverages are part of the $100 per-person admission for the June 8 gala, which will be held from 5–8 p.m. at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Ancil Hoffman Park. Valet parking is free. Table sponsors are welcome.

For information on the gala, visit www.sacnaturecenter.net. To learn more about the Sacramento Fine Arts Center exhibition, visit www. sacfinearts.org.

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s soon as they walked in, David and Heather Hadley knew immediately. The Streng Brothers home near Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael was exactly what they were looking for.

“Growing up in Sacramento, I admired Streng homes,” Heather says.

“I always hoped that I would own one.”

Jim and Bill Streng built more than 3,500 homes in Sacramento, Yolo and Placer counties between 1959 and 1989, working with modernist architect Carter Sparks. Categorized as midcentury modern or postwar modern, the homes were famous for their interior atriums with domed skylights, concrete aggregate floors extending

from outside to inside, living rooms with high exposed-beam ceilings, abundant windows and sliding-glass doors leading to tree-shaded backyards.

“We love the openness of the house,” says Heather, who spends her days as an apparel buyer for a local golf course.

“It’s got character. It speaks to our style.”

But the classic three-bedroom, twobath home, built in 1974, “needed a lot of work,” says David, an art director for a Midtown ad agency.

For example, the showstopping indoor garden was overgrown with bamboo and ivy. The couple kept one schefflera, but replaced the other plants with a variety of greenery, including African milk trees, aloe and a rubber plant. An interior faucet in the wall makes watering a cinch.

The couple retained the 1,790-squarefoot floor plan but stripped the “popcorn” ceilings, added recessed lightening, and retextured and repainted the walls throughout the house.

One of the most dramatic changes involved ripping out the old parquet floors, then polishing and sealing the concrete foundation underneath. “The parquet floors were destroyed,” Heather says. “I really wanted to keep them and bring them back to life, but there was no hope.”

The cracks and blemishes in the exposed concrete add to “the character and history of the house,” David notes.

“Probably the best decision we made,” Heather says, was to polish down the concrete aggregate that surrounds the interior atrium. “I knew I would not want to walk barefoot on that every morning.” The bumpy “sidewalk

pebble” is now smooth like “beautiful travertine tile,” she adds.

After living with the original fireplace for more than a year, the couple made the difficult choice to paint the brick white. “Every decision we made, we took into consideration the Streng originality,” David explains. “But it was a struggle when it came to the fireplace.”

Heather adds, “There was always something missing. Something needed to be elevated. Once we painted it, we felt so much better. It opens the space up.”

When replacing the distressed window glass, the Hadleys went to great lengths to use the same company— Blomberg—that made the original windows. In keeping with the Streng concept, they kept the wood frames and went with single panes. “Vinyl windows you can buy at Home Depot do not fit this house,” Heather says.

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A sliding glass door leads to a spacious backyard strewn with 40-foottall California redwoods planted by the original homeowner who had a nursery.

The couple opened up the galley kitchen for better flow to the family room. They refinished the original kitchen cabinets, keeping the same hardware; added a white tile backsplash; installed new stainlesssteel appliances; and replaced laminate countertops with quartz. A vintage globe light fixture was relocated to one of the bedrooms.

Keeping true to the Streng era, the Hadleys furnished their home with timeless pieces purchased second hand at estate sales, thrift shops and on Craig’s List. As a side gig, David and Heather have a space at Scout’s Living, an antique and vintage design collective in Midtown.

“I am super proud of the way we decorated,” Heather says. “We like things that speak to us. We didn’t

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just want to go to West Elm and buy everything out of the catalog and be matchy, matchy, and have everything that someone else has in their house.”

Tips for other homeowners looking to undertake a complete renovation?

“Lower your expectations on time,” Heather says. “It will take months longer than you want it to.”

The Hadley’s home will be featured on this year’s SacMod Mid-Century Modern Home Tour, “60 Years of Streng Brothers Homes,” Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tickets—$40 for the general public and $25 for SacMod members—are available at brownpapertickets.com/ event/4103901. SacMod is a nonprofit association dedicated to preserving and protecting modern art, architecture and design in the Sacramento region.

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Popularity Contest CITY HAS 3 TEAMS, BUT WHICH IS OUR FAVORITE?

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s the Kings rolled to their annual demise without the playoffs in sight, my friend Peter Monson, who owns the Fox & Goose pub on R Street, mentioned how things were getting better.

The Downtown arena had delivered on its promise to enliven a neighborhood devoid of charm and relevance. The Kings had shown improvement and potential for next season. But there was something different about the NBA crowds at Golden 1 Center.

“They aren’t the same as they used to be,” he told a few of us at the pub.

“They’re just not.”

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Peter wasn’t being critical. Rather, he was displaying the nostalgia expressed by many veteran Kings fans. They get sentimental when reminiscing about old Arco Arena in North Natomas or the tilt-up concrete barn that housed the Kings for three seasons when they arrived from Kansas City in 1985. He was talking as a true Sacramento sports fan, someone who follows the Kings without regard to their hopelessness.

The conversation got me thinking about which one of our sports teams generates the most love among city fans—not suburbanites, not bandwagon climbers, but people whose lives revolve around Downtown, Midtown, East Sacramento, North Sac, South Sac, Land Park, Oak Park, Curtis Park, Meadowview or Pocket.

I wondered if I could figure out whether Sacramento’s three professional sports teams—Kings, River Cats and Republic FC—were balanced in their support among city residents, or if they were more dependent on newer, suburban audiences.

This exercise was more complicated than might be expected. I asked each

team for a ballpark percentage of city residents within their season-ticket customer base, by ZIP code. Teams get nervous when media ask about seasonticket data. So I kept the request generalized, strictly round numbers.

The River Cats were fast to respond.

The baseball team’s media rep, Conner Penfold, said he checked with several colleagues in the front office and came up with an impressive number: “Roughly 60 percent come from the city of Sacramento.”

The Republic was a little more suspicious. I have a friend with an impressive job in the soccer team’s management, so I checked with him.

He asked what my angle was, and when I told him, he seemed satisfied.

But that was the last I heard from my old friend.

The Kings were not much better.

They didn’t respond to my emails.

When I finally reached the team’s public relations chief on the phone, she promised to ask around for the information. I’m still waiting to hear back.

Seven years ago, when the Maloof family was selling the Kings to an investor group led by Vivek Ranadive, I saw data indicating about 25 percent of Kings season ticketholders were Sacramento city residents. It was an admirable number, given that the city’s population of around 500,000 is a fraction of the regional market’s 2.4 million people.

Season-ticket buyers, along with corporate sponsors and media deals, are part of the economic nucleus that allows our teams to operate. Obviously, the Kings, River Cats and Republic run on vastly different scales. But they compete for the same fans and sponsors. And in Sacramento, those numbers are limited.

So which pro team is most popular among city residents? The answer is impossible to prove. But to find a consistent collection of true Sacramento city sports fans, I would say a trip across the river for a baseball game at Raley Field is an excellent idea.

R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@ graswich.com. n

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Forbidden Food

WHAT’S GOOD FOR PEOPLE IS NOT ALWAYS GOOD FOR PETS

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ot long after my husband, Mark, and I moved into our Wilhaggin home, we decided to build a deck and pergola off the master bedroom. Mark is a man of many talents—he is a consultant for the state Legislature during the week, but on weekends he turns into a tooltoting maniac capable of building or renovating just about anything.

When the gorgeous redwood structure was complete, it called out for a decorative vine that would wrap around each of the four corner posts and provide a canopy of shade during Sacramento’s hot summers.

Without a second thought, we ordered online four Tempranillo grape vines.

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In addition to being fast growing and hearty, the plants would provide Mark and his son the opportunity to become home winemakers.

What we didn’t consider—until one fall day when I came across our 10-pound terrier mix, Tammy, munching on a bunch of fallen fruit— was that grapes and raisins are toxic to pets. Even small amounts can cause kidney failure in dogs and cats, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

I also have noticed on my daily dog walk that wild mushrooms are popping up in lawns all around the neighborhood—sometimes overnight.

Sacramento’s spring weather, with magnificent cloudbursts followed by sensational sunshine, provides the ideal environment for potentially poisonous fungi.

While some wild mushrooms are harmless, only an expert can determine which are dangerous and which are not. According to the University of California’s Agriculture

and Natural Resources, our golden state has extremely poisonous mushrooms that look similar to safe mushrooms.

If you find toadstools growing in your yard, don’t take any chances— remove them immediately. And remember to keep an eye on your pooch while out walking.

In addition to grapes and wild mushrooms, there are many other foods that are perfectly fine for humans, but dangerous, even lethal, to pets. Some of the most common, according to ASPCA, are alcohol, avocados, chocolate, coffee and tea (caffeine), citrus (stems, leaves, peels, fruit, seeds), coconut and coconut oil, nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts, macadamia), onions, garlic, chives, raw meat and eggs, salt and salty foods, and xylitol (artificial sweeter used in gum, candy, baked goods).

Signs that your pet has ingested a toxic substance include vomiting, diarrhea, panting, excessive thirst and urination, decreased

coordination, weakness, difficulty breathing, tremors, seizures and unconsciousness.

But don’t wait for symptoms to appear. If you know or even suspect your pet has eaten something that could be poisonous, call your veterinarian immediately. If it is after business hours, call the nearest 24-hour emergency pet hospital (do you know where yours is?). Signs of serious poisoning can take hours to appear—after the damage is done.

The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center also is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year— call (888) 4264435.

The good news is that our dog Tammy never had a negative reaction to her grape-gobbling endeavors. And we replaced the troublesome vines with four beautiful evergreen bower plants that provide us with fragment flowers instead of forbidden fruit.

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READERS NEAR & FAR 1. Grace Doll, Mary Doll, Michele Chafee and Robyn Chaffee at Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah.

2. Tyler Mull, Tommy Stroud, Todd Arrouzet, Doug Mull and Jeff Chadbourne at Stubaier Glacier in Innsbruck, Austria.

3. Stacy and Phil Kalstrom in Matamata, New Zealand.

4. Dennis and Barbara Luther atop Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand.

5. Ian Maki, Plua Maki, Maria Tsiu and Andrew Tsiu at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.

6. Ruth-Marie F. Chambers in Montecatini, Italy.

7. Pat Drake with a local soldier in Valleta, Malta.

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Lisa Dobeck paints a mural with the students.

Terri Young shows Honduran children how to cut snowflakes.

Color the World with Hope LOCAL VOLUNTEERS JOIN EFFORT TO BRING BOOKS TO HONDURAN SCHOOLS

Honduran children thank U.S. volunteers.

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o you ever find it helpful in risky situations to disregard worrisome thoughts and push yourself past tragedy, pain and danger?

Some call that approach denial. I call it “exactly what I need” as I rendezvous with 13 library volunteers at the airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

The group arrives on a humid Sunday afternoon in response to an invitation I extended in my column last year. Most

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Students read books provided by the Chispa Project. hail from Missouri, South Carolina and Alabama, but two of the women—Lisa Dobeck and Terri Young—are from the Sacramento area.

This chipper group of volunteers unites to help Chispa Project, a nonprofit charity started by my daughter Sara Burkes. Chispa (pronounced cheez-pah) is Spanish for spark and highlights the motivational “spark” necessary to implement sustainable change in Honduran education.

Chispa’s mission is simple: start children’s libraries and fill them with quality books in Spanish. Accomplishing the mission is also simple: donate children’s books, coach local teachers in creative reading strategies and sponsor international-volunteer projects to Honduras.

Our first hours in the country find us on a bus to a rural retreat center run by a Presbyterian cadre of Honduran women. Upon arrival, camp administrators show us to five rooms with bunk beds, where I can’t help but feel I’m at church camp. But I also can’t help but feel pride in my group. These well-seasoned travelers are fully aware of why this project shouldn’t work.

Murders occur so frequently here that the Peace Corps pulled out in 2012.

The traffic is horrendous. Motorcycles dart in front of cars like stray dogs and overloaded trucks menace the roadway.

Roadside-trash buildup is stifling.

Education is so grossly underfunded that school staff must ration toilet tissue. Language and cultural differences raise the bar discouragingly high. But hope keeps us in denial and we press on.

We wake Monday to board our bus to Maradiaga School. During the drive, Terri Young, a 64-year-old semi-retired bookkeeper from West Sacramento, takes a moment to share her motivation for volunteering.

“I was feeling frustrated listening to news stories about what was going on in our world. I asked myself, ‘What could I do? What tiny step could I make toward becoming a part, a very small part, of a positive solution?’”

We begin that “tiny step” an hour later when a school guard admits us into a walled compound. My daughter gathers the group to explain how each teacher will receive a portable library that will rotate among classrooms every month. But first, we must prepare reading corners appropriate for these new books.

Chispa volunteers Antonio Rodriguez (left) and Terry Brakhane (seated) use a puppet show to teach children how to care for books.

Don’t let another vacation slip away.

Have your kids do something memorable this summer.

Our group scatters to survey classrooms and divide project pieces among us. The work begins when we power-up two projectors that splash mural outlines onto corner sections of the walls. Young starts her “small part” as she pencil-traces the image.

Behind her, a few other volunteers dip paintbrushes into bright primary colors that will bring inspirational book characters to life.

Meanwhile, 57-year-old Caltrans chemist Lisa Dobeck tries to cross the noisy breezeway toward an adjoining classroom. Suddenly she’s surrounded by children giving her such rapid hugs that they delay simple movement. They smile with unrehearsed gratitude.

Theirs are broad, cheeky smiles that go for miles and miles.

The first two days pass slowly with the tedious task of taking inventory, coding each book with a sticker and packing the portable libraries into plastic tubs. Still our group remains focused.

On Wednesday, the school suspends classes so my daughter can train teachers in methods that will encourage students to read books. Sara demonstrates her methods by reading Drew Daywalt’s “The Day the Crayons Quit” to the faculty.

Dobeck identifies this grassroots training as what first appealed to her.

“Chispa places the books in the hands of the children. Then the teachers are trained and supported for the next year to ensure the program runs smoothly.”

During the last two days, Chispa hosts a library inauguration, a sort of all-day birthday party where children rotate among classrooms for hands-on fun with puppets, experiments and storytelling.

In one classroom, Young helps students cut snowflakes from folded

paper while the teacher reads aloud from a book about penguins.

Dobeck demonstrates science experiments, watching a fourth-grader carefully turn the pages of a science book. There’s a break in her voice as she tells me later, “Many Hondurans are proud of their country. They want to make a living wage, raise a family. They don’t want to migrate. Books broaden their world, open their eyes and let them travel to many different times and places.”

As the week draws to a close, everyone gathers in the courtyard where children dazzle us with a cultural dance in swirling dress. They unfurl a banner spelling out their gratitude: “Thank you for making our school a better place to learn.” The banner is bracketed with two U.S. flags.

Why do we make this trip? Deny our fears and push against the worrisome odds?

Dobeck suggests that, “You never know how touching someone’s life will change them, but you do the right thing because that’s what your heart tells you to do.”

She adds a benedictory thought as she considers the colorful murals we have painted. “These children have no idea the life they will lead outside the school walls, nor would I want them to know. All that matters now is that they can be a kid, sit on the floor and read a book. ‘Peppa the Pig’ won’t save them, but who knows where she may lead them.”

Join the Chispa Project for the 2020 trip March 8–15. To donate, visit chispaproject.org/thechaplain or send a check to 10566 Combie Road, Suite 6643, Auburn, Calif., 95602.

Norris Burkes can be reached at

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TO DO THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Timothy Mulligan: The Linear Landscape Elliott Fouts Gallery May 4–30 Second Saturday Reception: May 11, 6–9 p.m.

1831 P St. • efgallery.com Mulligan’s award-winning artwork has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art magazine and on numerous Inside covers.

Something Old, Something Borrowed Sacramento Symphonic Winds Sunday, May 5, 2:30 p.m.

Timothy Mulligan's "Boaters at Granite Bay," acrylic on canvas, at Elliott Fouts Gallery.

Rio Americano High School Center for the Arts, 4540 American River Drive • sacwinds.org This spring concert features lyric baritone Omari Tau and Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association’s Youth Artist Competition winner Jennifer Su on flute. Tickets are $15 for general admission; $10 for students and seniors; free for 8th graders and younger.

Sean Royal: Death Valley and Back Archival Gallery May 1–30 Second Saturday Reception: May 11, 6 p.m.

3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com Mixed-media artist Sean Royal says of his muse, “Death Valley has changed me...and my art. It’s a dynamic place full of contrasts…but it always leaves me feeling incredibly calm and at peace.”

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Sean Royal's "Death Valley 53," mixed media, at Archival Gallery.

Light and Fire

Children’s Book Week

Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m.

Fairytale Town Through Sunday, May 5, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacphilopera.org This concert will feature the West Coast premiere of Dan Forrest’s “Lux: The Dawn from on High” and pieces by Mendelssohn with soloists Oksana Sitnitska, Carlos Santelli and Matt Hanscom.

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org Check out storytime, craft activities and giveaways April 29 through May 5. The Scholastic Book Fair will have books for sale. Weekday admission is $5 per person; weekend admission is $6 per person; children 1 and younger are free.

Elaine Bowers: Delta Reflections

Sing Me to Heaven

Sparrow Gallery May 10–31 Artist Talk: Saturday, May 11, 3–4 p.m.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 6–9 p.m.

Reconciliation Singers Voices of Peace May 3, 7:30 p.m., Journey Church, 450 Blue Ravine Road May 4, 7:30 p.m., Congregation Beth Shalom, 4746 El Camino Ave. May 10, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St. May 11, 7:30 p.m., Pleasant Grove Community Church, 1730 Pleasant Grove Blvd.

1021 R St. • sparrowgallery.com Check out new watercolors by accomplished local favorite Elaine Bowers.

Milk & Cookies Reading Queer Sacramento Authors Collective Friday, May 31, 7–9 p.m.

Lavender Library, 1414 21st St. • qsac.rocks Join QSAC for its quarterly reading featuring eight local authors of queer fiction—and milk and cookies, of course!

Sesquicentennial Community Day California State Railroad Museum & Foundation Wednesday, May 8, 10 a.m.

rsvpchoir.org RSVP’s free spring concert will collect donations for Joshua’s House, a nonprofit hospice opening in 2019 for terminally ill men and women who are experiencing homelessness.

Celebrating Empowerment Fundraiser National Council of Jewish Women Sacramento Sunday, May 19, 1–3 p.m.

Nepenthe Clubhouse, 1131 Commons Drive • ncjwsac.org Enjoy music from the Tony Kaye Trio and light refreshments. Funds raised will provide quarterly Bridge to Success grants for Women’s Empowerment graduates.

Tickets are $36.

125 I St. • californiarailroad.museum Enjoy a day of free activities along the Old Sacramento Waterfront to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad, including historic reenactments, picnics and complimentary train rides.

Elaine Bowers' "California Dreaming," watercolor, at Sparrow Gallery.

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Sesquicentennial Community Day at California State Railroad Museum.

How to Make Change for the Better Janet Hegarty Thursday, May 9, 7 p.m.

First Church of Christ Scientist, 4949 Kenneth Ave. • janethegarty.com International speaker Janet Hegarty will give a free talk exploring a fresh perspective on God.

Concerts in the Park Downtown Sacramento Partnership Fridays, May 3–July 26, 5–9 p.m.

Queer Sacramento Authors Collective's David L. Kent at Milk & Cookies reading at Lavender Library.

Image by J. Scott Coatsworth.

48th Annual Sacramento-Sierra TCA Toy Train Show Train Collectors Association Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St. • brsta@comcast.net All aboard for Lionel and American Flyer trains, food and more. Parking is free. Admission is $5; children 12 and younger are free.

Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St. • godowntownsac.com The free weekly summer festival returns every Friday night through July. May’s bands are Joy & Madness, Souls of Mischief, DREAMERS, Emarosa and Lyrics Born.

Big Names, Small Art Crocker Art Museum Thursday, May 23, 5–9 p.m.

216 O Street • crockerart.org Bid on nearly 400 small artworks (each 12 inches by 12 inches or less) by renowned artists starting at just $25. Tickets are $10 for museum members; $20 for nonmembers.

Koi Pond Tour of Excellence Sacramento Camellia Koi Club Saturday, May 18 Various locations • camelliakoi.org This tour will feature up to 20 beautiful ponds of all sizes built by professionals and homeowners.

Makeup & Mimosas: Drag Brunch with a Punch Punch Line Sacramento Sunday, May 19, 11 a.m.

2100 Arden Way • punchlinesac.com Enjoy breakfast, bottomless mimosas and a drag show with co-host Suzette Veneti and performers Apple Adams, Roselia Valentine, Hellen Heels, Faye Mennon and Betty Booger. Show only is $12; continental breakfast/show is $23; brunch/show is $35.

Reconciliation Singers Voices of Peace concert series.

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Train Collectors Association's Toy Train Show at Scottish Rite Masonic Center.

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery Theatre in the Heights Through May 5 8215 Auburn Blvd. • theatreintheheights.com This play by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. explores everything that can go wrong on opening night with cunning comedy. Tickets are $15.

The Long Ride Friends Undocumented Student Scholarship Project Sunday, May 5, 2 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd. • uuss.org Enjoy a free showing of this award-winning film that documents the historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.

Cathedral Music Series: Welcome Back Beethoven Chamber Music Society of Sacramento Sunday, May 19, 4 p.m.

Janet Hegarty at First Church of Christ Scientist.

Spring Food Sale Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church Pre-Order & Pre-Pay by Thursday, May 9 Pick-Up on Saturday, May 18, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

6929 Franklin Blvd. • sacjumc.com Pre-order delectable food like teriyaki chicken, Spam musubi, chow mein, udon, Korean short ribs with kimchi and sesame chicken bento to raise funds for the church.

Trinity Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Ave. • cmssacto.org The Artists in Residence at Trinity Cathedral will present their final program of the season featuring works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Haydn and Bartók with Grammy Award-winning cellist Jennifer Culp.

Anthony Montanino: Between Two Rivers

California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts

915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com This solo exhibition showcases Montanino's bright urban scenes and landscapes in oil and acrylic.

John Natsoulas Gallery May 3–5 521 First St., Davis • natsoulas.com Attend lectures and demonstrations by nationally recognized ceramic artists including Patti Warashina, Kim Dickey, Dan Anderson, Cynthia Consentino, Stephen Braun and Shalene Valenzuela. General Pass for May 3–5 is $202; General Pass for May 4 only is $192; Student Pass for May 3–5 is $183; Student Pass of May 4 only is $173.

Small artwork auction at Crocker Art Museum.

Tim Collom Gallery May 7–30 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Submissions are due six weeks prior to the publication month. n

California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts at John Natsoulas Gallery.

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Beyond Basic Basil IT’S TIME TO PLANT SUMMER’S FAVORITE HERB

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ummer cuisine isn’t summer cuisine without fresh basil. We pulverize it into pesto and toss it into tomato sauce. We combine it with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese to make pizza, lasagna and caprese salad.

While it’s a staple of Italian cooking, Californians use it in many kinds of food. There are dozens of mouthwatering basil recipes just a Google search away.

It’s now warm enough to plant basil, which can be damaged by temperatures below 50 degrees. Give it a sunny spot, water it regularly and pinch it back to keep the plant bushy and prevent it from flowering, which causes the leaves to be less flavorful and slows down the plant’s growth.

You can start seeds in a pot indoors or sow them in the ground, protecting them from pests such as slugs and

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snails. I usually buy already-started plants. There are often half a dozen seedlings in a single pot. I tease them apart and plant them separately in the ground, placing them between my tomato plants. It may be an old wives’ (or gardeners’) tale, but I’ve heard that if you plant basil close to the tomatoes, it will improve their flavor and discourage pests. That may not be true, but it’s convenient to grow them together.

What kinds of basil should you grow?

Sweet basil is commonly sold, but there are many other varieties. It’s wise to sample a leaf to be sure you like the taste. You can buy basil with big leaves to use as wraps or compact plants with little leaves. Genovese types are ideal for pesto. Also available are purplefoliaged basil, Thai basil or varieties with flavored leaves. I discovered lemon basil last year and fell in love with it, giving bunches to grateful friends, family and neighbors. It was wonderful cooked with chicken, seafood or eggs, added to salads or even used to make tea. I’m glad I planted two of them!

African Blue is a sterile hybrid that will bloom constantly without setting seeds. This basil is edible, but has a strong flavor. It’s usually grown for its beauty and ability to attract pollinators.

Last summer, I tried three similar, but smaller, basils. Magic Mountain grew the largest, to about 3 feet. Wild Magic was a little more than 2 feet. Red Ball was the smallest at about 16 inches. All had purple-tinged foliage, continuously produced lavender-pink flower spikes without deadheading and were tender to frost. Wild Magic was the best size for my garden, but you can’t go wrong with any of them, and the bees will buzz with gratitude.

When you harvest basil for cooking, don’t put it in the refrigerator. Leaves will blacken with too much cold.

Instead, put the stems into a glass of water and set it on your counter, pinching off leaves and flowers as you need them.

You can buy a big basil plant from the grocery store, but it will need some attention to last longer than a few weeks. These statuesque beauties have been grown in a peat-moss potting mix in a greenhouse, forced with lots of fertilizer, water and light. Such plants are already fairly mature and woody. To keep one growing, cut the plant back, remove it from the pot and plant it in the ground or in good potting mix in a container. Don’t feel guilty if it doesn’t survive.

In fact, you shouldn’t feel guilty if any of your basil plants get too big and woody despite your best efforts.

Rose Lovell of Morningsun Herb Farm advises planting a second round of basil in mid-summer. Newer plants will be more productive and have better flavor too.

As temperatures dip in the fall, basil plants start to look scruffy and suddenly drop their leaves. Harvest before that happens. While you can dry the leaves, you’ll retain their fresh flavor by freezing pesto or chopped basil, topped with water or oil, in ice-cube trays.

Basil can be grown indoors yearround in a sunny window or under fluorescent or LED lights. Be sure that you give the plants plenty of water and light, and fertilize once a month.

No matter what time of year, one bite of fresh basil and it’s summer again.

Anita Clevenger is a lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, contact the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or mgsacramento@ucanr.edu, or visit sacmg.ucanr.edu. The next Open Garden will be held May 11 from 9 a.m.–noon at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks. n

9th Annual Fundraiser Benefiting Triumph Cancer Foundation

JUNE 15TH 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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Art and Advocacy WATERCOLORIST WANTS TO INCREASE FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN MUSEUMS

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ccording to a study by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, only 3 to 5 percent of artwork in permanent museum collections around the world are works by women.

Artist and advocate Kathrine Lemke Waste is out to change that statistic.

“Museums are repositories of our cultural heritage,” says Lemke Waste, a leader in the “25 in 25” movement, a national push by the nonprofit American Women Artists to get more work by female artists into American museums over the next quarter century.

“Generations to come will go to museums to see what was deemed important enough to be saved for future generations—and women artists’ point of view will not be represented,” she says.

“That impact is huge. If little girls can’t see it, they can’t be it.”

Lemke Waste was a girl of 7 or 8 when she first realized that painting was her preferred form of artistic expression. Following studies at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1980s, as well as what she describes as a “five-year apprenticeship” with Salvatore Casa—winner of the American Watercolor Society’s Gold Medal—Lemke Waste made a national name for herself as a Master Signature member of AWA (she also serves as the organization’s board president emeritus).

The Land Park resident’s

By Jessica Laskey work has been featured Open Studio in museum exhibitions

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Watercolors by Kathrine Lemke Waste.

in Arizona, Vermont and Georgia, and highlighted in issues of Southwest Art, American Art Collector and Sunset magazines.

As an educator, she taught for 15 years in the California state college and university system, including at UC San Diego, Palomar Community College and California State University Chico. She also leads watercolor workshops for the Crocker Art Museum and workplace innovation workshops for companies like Intel.

Though many artists would be content to rest on such laurels, Lemke Waste uses her success to fuel other female artists. Since joining AWA, Lemke Waste has made it her mission to expand the membership and help the organization focus its energy on getting more of the members’ artworks into permanent collections of national museums.

“Being included in a museum collection impacts the value of our artwork,” Lemke Waste explains. “A higher value on our work means we’re able to make better livings as artists, but that’s not a path that’s open for most women.

“An Oxford study found that female artists make 40 percent of what men do on their work. That inequality not only severely limits what we can make in the art world,

Kathrine Lemke Waste it also cuts our access to museums and the legacy we leave behind for future generations.

“If we can’t see women as ‘geniuses’ in a creative context, that means we also can’t see women in leadership positions—roles in which we easily see men.”

In 2015, AWA decided to make museum shows featuring women artists a priority. They approached small and midsized museums with an offer of assistance: if the museum agreed, AWA would share costs by organizing the educational symposiums and fundraising necessary to make an exhibition a success. In turn, the museum would consider purchasing one of the pieces to maintain in its permanent collection.

Though it was slow going at first, Lemke Waste reports that the movement

is “getting some air speed,” with shows booked through 2023 and seven pieces purchased by museums since 2015.

“I consider advocacy part of my artistic practice,” Lemke Waste says.

“All human beings are driven to some kind of creative expression. Art and advocacy are mine.

“I’m working toward a time when we can stop seeing women depicted only as beautiful, passive, sexual objects in a painting and recognize them as active, productive members of society.”

For more information on AWA, visit americanwomenartists.org. For more on Lemke Waste, visit lemkewaste.com.

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Big Shoes to Fill TWO LOCAL SACRAMENTO COUPLES TAKE OVER AN INSTITUTION

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By Greg Sabin Restaurant Insider

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’m going to admit this up front.

Before last month, I’d never been to Luigi’s Pizza Parlor on Stockton Boulevard. I’d been to the shortlived Midtown extension called Luigi’s Slice and Fun Garden on 20th Street, but never to the “mothership.”

As a lifelong Sacramentan, I’m beginning to find out that I was in the minority. Everyone I ask has a Luigi’s story. Whether they’re 32 or 82, the people of Sacramento have a litany of tales to tell about the pizza parlor serving Oak Park and environs for almost seven decades.

One longtime Sacramento resident told me that he and his friends “learned to drink” at Luigi’s in the 1950s. Apparently the owners didn’t look at IDs too closely, and back then drivers’ licenses didn’t have pictures on them.

A younger Luigi’s frequenter told a story of trying to get change for the jukebox as a child and having to compete for the server’s attention with an armed robber. In his recollection, everyone was calm and cool considering the situation.

Another Sacramento senior told me he loved the animatronic band above the bar at Luigi’s. He had stories of watching the players crank out a tune.

However, another patron told me that the musical set up never worked from the day it was installed.

One friend told me a lovely tale of afternoons with his grandmother, staring mesmerized at “Luigi himself” tossing pizza dough in the window. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that there never was a “Luigi.”

Or maybe there was a Luigi, somewhere, at some time, because the line between memory and myth is a hard one to delineate when it comes to neighborhood institutions.

This much is fact: Luigi’s has new owners. The pizza parlor, which opened its doors in 1953 and changed ownership once in the 1960s, has changed hands again. Local restaurateurs Jen and Gary Sleppy, owners of The Shack in East Sacramento, and Vanessa and Joshua Garcia, owners of All Seasons All Reasons Catering & Event Design, have joined forces to breathe new life into the local icon.

Purchasing the legendary pizza parlor from members of the Brida family, who had owned Luigi’s since 1965, the Sleppys and Garcias have maintained original recipes while adding new touches to the menu, such as scratch-made pasta dishes. Ravioli, spaghetti and lasagna are all made inhouse. Not too many restaurants in town do a scratch lasagna. And I’m not

sure if you can get any others close to Luigi’s price of $13.

There are new pizzas as well, creative combinations like the Joyland, a mix of mozzarella, parmesan, roasted chicken, onions, pineapple and BBQ sauce.

The beer and wine selection is brand new with a complete lineup of whites and reds from Italy alongside a fairly extensive beer list. Beer can still be taken to go with your pizza, so no worries there.

What’s the same? Almost everything else.

The Garcias and Sleppys count themselves fortunate to have had the Bridas on hand for the first month of transition. The two couples were able to learn recipes, absorb techniques and carry on decades-old traditions, including the secret to Luigi’s ranch dressing.

For example, the pizza recipes that come from Luigi’s kitchen now are actually older than those that were used for the past few years. For some diners, any change is sacrilege. But some might not know that the pizzas—dough, sauce and cheese—are an attempt to recreate Luigi’s scratch recipes from decades ago.

And they are fantastic. Upon his first bite, a pizza-loving friend said, “Well this now my favorite crust in town.”

Similarly, the house-made sausage, meatballs and pastrami are oldfashioned recipes that really sing.

Whether you’re having the crumbled sausage on a pizza or in a decadent sandwich with peppers, you can taste the love that goes into the meat.

Sure, some things are different and will never be the same. An extensive overhaul of the dining room may have moved or removed some diners’ favorite pieces of mid-century kitsch. The legendary ranch dressing now comes in small ramekins instead of a room-

temperature squeeze bottle. A longtime employee might not be there to greet you and share familiar jokes.

But I commend the new owners for trying to preserve many of the things that made Luigi’s special, while adding their own particular touches to make it the best they can.

Luigi’s Pizza Parlor is at 3800 Stockton Blvd.; (916) 456-0641; luigissacramento.com.

Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. Please send me your Luigi’s stories—I’d love to read them! n

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