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Nationally Renowned, Humble at Home ICONIC LOCAL ARTIST GERALD WALBURG HAS A HISTORY FEW NEIGHBORS KNOW

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erald Walburg is one of Sacramento’s most talented and notable artists.

The trouble is that over his long and productive career his local profile hasn’t k kept up with his national one. I’m hoping to c change that.

While you might not know Gerald—or Jerry, as he is known—you have undoubtedly seen his monumental public artworks.

His largest and most prominent local sculpture is the 40-foot “Indo Arch,” located at 4th and K streets. It was Sacramento’s first art installed under the Art in Public Places program, established more than 40 years ago.

The “Indo Arch” was controversial from the start. People called it phallic. Some said it was Islamic. They feared it would further endanger U.S. hostages then being held in Iran.

I I’ve always loved the arch, and am grateful the c community now embraces it.

Then there is Walburg’s larger-than-life, ni nickel-rich bronze that he donated and installed ou outside the entrance to the Crocker Art Museum in 201 2013. As is often the case with Walburg sculptures, the elements form an open frame through which to see th the world as well as the work.

Cro Crocker Art Museum curator Scott Shields explains the pie piece was an important addition to the museum because on either end of the Crocker are sculptures by Bay Area artists. Shields felt it was important to have a Sacrament Sacramento-based artist represented. “I made this piece with this site in mind,” Walburg says.

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In 2007, San Jose State published a book on Walburg. event for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. Walburg’s extensive East Sac home, garden and studio property were the perfect venue for the private event.

I quickly discovered that Walburg, at 82, is an amazing talent, artist, craftsman, designer and thoughtful conversationalist—a true American renaissance man.

The day we first met, Walburg was dealing with his contractor and completing a full basement of the third home on his property. It turns out my husband and I had built a full basement in our new home in 2007. We had contracted it ourselves, so I knew all the details involved in construction. We hit it off by sharing basement design and building knowledge!

I was delighted to visit with him several times in the past year when attending small, private art shows he hosts for artists he admires.

Walburg is an East Bay native.

While attending Oakland High School, he pursued a vocational rather than academic path. He was attracted to shop and drafting classes. After high

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school, he followed a friend to California College of Arts and Crafts. His father had been killed in World War II, and the funds from his father’s military survivor benefits paid the tuition.

Walburg was drawn to industrial design. He lacked the math skills for architecture, which was his first love.

When his girlfriend became pregnant, Walburg dropped out and worked to support his marriage and child. He was 20 years old.

Living in San Francisco, he eventually resumed college and focused on academics while continuing to work.

Two more children were born, and the Walburgs moved to Petaluma to be near his wife’s family. He pursued a variety of machine-shop jobs, with an emphasis on metal forming, sheeting, rolling, bending and lathing. These skills would later serve him well. In addition, he worked nights at an architectural office, drawing and drafting. Working hard, Walburg eventually bought a home for his family. There was no time for art.

With every experience, Walburg impressed his employers. He became a skilled draftsman, praised for his

ability to visualize and depict threedimensional objects and details.

After a divorce, Walburg moved back to San Francisco to pursue a degree at San Francisco State College. He also worked in engineering for Standard Oil. A summer college class in ceramics transformed his career objectives. “Clay got into my veins,” Walburg says.

Still without a degree, he switched to art, minoring in industrial design.

Walburg was 29 when he finally graduated. Immersing himself in art, he gave up the idea of teaching, and began a master’s degree art program at UC Davis in 1965.

“It was a very exciting and energetic time at the art school with some impressive newly hired teachers, including Wayne Thiebaud, William Wiley and Bob Arneson, just to name a few,” Walburg says. “I was placed in a situation where I learned to question, challenge and develop philosophies and ideas of my own. This was truly education at its best.”

His ceramic work went beyond function and explored a connection to his love of drafting. His work trended geometric and minimal. He explored a wide variety of materials, including corten (or rusty finish) steel that has been a mainstay of his sculptures.

After graduating, he invested time and money into his own large-scale works. They were quickly purchased for permanent collections of prestigious museums. He considered, but later dismissed, the idea of moving to New York City.

Instead, he accepted a teaching position at Sacramento City College.

He continued to create art and experimented with sculptural illusions and materials, including watercolor. His work was praised by critics and became commercially successful on the world stage.

When offered a faculty position at Sacramento State, he moved and taught there for 37 years. One can only imagine the thousands of students his ideas and approaches influenced. He continued to produce dozens of major commissions from around the world. In 2007, San Jose State published a beautiful book on Walburg to accompany a major exhibition of his work.

On a recent visit, Walburg shared with me one recollection that was a bit shocking. In his early years, he explained, he had various relationships with Bay Area galleries to represent his artwork. Some worked out better than others. But one gallery owner made him a proposition he had to refuse.

“She wanted us to have a personal relationship, and then she’d represent me and promote me to stardom,” Walburg says. “I was single at the time, but wasn’t attracted to her. So I nicely told her I didn’t want to mix business with pleasure. I thought that would be the end of it.”

Walburg was wrong. The gallery owner became bitter and blackballed him among other major gallery operators. He was left with no viable gallery representation.

“I managed to create a vibrant career despite this,” he says. “But when the #metoo movement came into focus last year, it made me realize that it isn’t always just men using their power to abuse women. It sometimes happens the other way around. It clearly happened to me.”

Many decades later, the woman moved to Sacramento and he encountered her at an event. She admitted coolly that what she did to him was not fair. “It did make me wonder how my career might have been different without that unfortunate experience,” he says.

These days, Walburg and his lovely wife, Deborah, keep making improvements to their property. They grow vegetables, tend their garden, cook and produce (and drink) their own wine.

With age, he has given up sculpture, but focuses now on painting and drawing.

The couple have good health and a solid and joyful partnership.

But for a man whose early years were spent working so diligently with both his head and his hands, my hope is that Jerry Walburg is able to stay active and productive until the moment he leaves this earth. Sacramento is a much richer place because this artist made our community his home.

SECOND EDITION BOOK After selling out of the first edition of our 2016 book “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital,” we have worked on an updated second edition this past six months. The new book is now available for purchase on insidesacbook.com and at local sellers listed in an ad in this month’s Inside.

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A watercolor of the "Indo Arch" by Walburg

MORE ON THE BEE In last month’s column, I mentioned the possibility of The Sacramento Bee ceasing print operations at some point in the future. Elaine Lintecum, the McClatchy Company’s vice president of finance and chief financial officer, took exception to my prediction and insisted the newspaper has no plans to curtail or eliminate its print editions. I consider this good news, as I would mourn the day if The Bee were to ever cease print operations.

Lintecum is an East Sac resident and longtime Inside reader. She has generously put two of her own homes on the Urban Renaissance Home Tour, which I organize to raise funds for the nonprofit management of the McKinley Rose Garden. We are thrilled that her beautiful, remodeled home will be featured on our 2018 tour Sept. 23.

Lintecum says there is no truth to “industry rumors” that The Bee’s print operations will wind down in the next year or two. She says McClatchy and The Bee are committed to serving print customers over the long term (as they have since 1857). She offered to send me annual circulation audits for The Bee, although these are not made public.

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HOME TOUR, ART STUDIOS, SOIL BORN, COVER ART This month we are partnering to sponsor three great community events.

On Sept. 23, we will sponsor the Urban Renaissance Home Tour featuring five lovely new and remodeled homes in East Sacramento. Proceeds will benefit Friends of East Sacramento, a nonprofit I co-founded to manage for the McKinley Rose Garden and Clunie Community Center. Visit sacurbanhometour.com or East Sac Hardware to purchase tickets.

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Urban Revival HOME REMODELING TOUR RETURNS

Don't miss the Urban Renaissance Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 23.

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The tour will feature five lovely new and remodeled East Sacramento homes, including the extensive property of Gerald and Deborah Walburg with a renovated guest house and artful gardens over three city lots.

Also on the tour will be a beautiful remodel of a mid-century-design home and a family-style Craftsman, both in the Fab 40s, and two homes near McKinley Park. One features a complete interior remodel, while the other is a newer home with an interior design featuring contemporary art.

Proceeds will benefit Friends of East Sacramento, a nonprofit founded to manage the McKinley Rose Garden and

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Clunie Community Center. This year’s funds will help establish an innovative Butterfly Habitat Garden, a project by artist Daniel Tran, in the rose garden.

Tran designed and constructed a sculptural structure for the garden and added butterfly-friendly plantings. Tour attendees are encouraged to visit the new garden.

To purchase tickets, visit sacurbanhometour.com, Chocolate Fish Coffee at 2940 Freeport Blvd., East Sac Hardware at 48th Street and Folsom Boulevard or #Panache at 5379 H St. Presale tickets at the stores are cash and check only. On tour day, tickets are available at 1229 45th St. and will include credit card sales. The tour runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information or to volunteer as a docent, email friendsofeastsac@aol.com.

TO DAD, WITH LOVE Tribute To Dad: Joe Rice was a successful artist and respected teacher, but he was also a loving father. His daughter pays tribute to the patriarch with a book called “The Reluctant Artist: Joe Rice (1918-2011),” a work that shows how creative families

can extend their legacy into future generations.

“My sisters and I wanted our father’s achievements to be honored and memorialized in some way,” says daughter Dorothy Rice, Pocket resident and author. “This became the genesis of my book.”

Dorothy will discuss her book, which combines memoir and art, at the Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m.

A slideshow will feature Joe’s unique paintings, ceramics and jewelry.

Dorothy Rice, an award-winning author, editor and creative-writing workshop facilitator, will share how she became a published author after retirement, a story that should inspire many Pocket residents.

Then there’s her book. It’s a tribute to her father, a lifetime artist and longtime art teacher in San Francisco public schools. Joe Rice was a classically trained artist who painted every day, even after retirement.

“He was always in our basement working on an art project, fixing things or working on our old Studebaker,” Dorothy says. “As a child, he was kind

of my superhero because he could create or fix anything.”

After her father died, Dorothy and her sisters found a cache of paintings that had been stored in Joe’s attic for more than 20 years. The work had never been shown in public. The family spent hours cataloging the pieces. The women knew that, while their father never sought profit or recognition for his art, the artistic process enhanced his life. His versatile works can be found at josephflaviusrice.com.

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FALL FESTIVAL St. Anthony Parish will hold its 25th Annual Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept.

15, from noon to 9 p.m. Admission is free. The festival’s renowned International Food Alley will showcase homemade foods representing the community’s rich cultural diversity.

Live entertainment will include country tunes from Bryan Keith and Stone Rose Band, and Polynesian dancing from the Chinese Community Church. There will be children’s activities, book sales, a country store, bingo, cake spin and prizes. For more information, call (916) 428-5678 or visit stasac.org.

SCHOOL DAZE With kids back in school, it’s time to think about the next big step—university. College counselor Marilyn van Loben Sel will offer two workshops at the Robbie Waters PocketGreenhaven Library to help students and families navigate the college admissions process.

Register at saclibrary.org or call (916) 264-2920. College application essays will

ARTIST AT WORK Pocket residents can look into the home studio of local artist Simona Hernandez when she opens her residence Saturday and Sunday, Sept.

8–9, as part of the 2018 Sac Open Studios celebration. The Hernandez studio at 1 Silmark Court will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

“My Chicana roots, nature, family and community inspire my work,” she says. “Painting for me is a blend of skill and intuition. The image is progressive, always subject to change.” The owner of Simona’s Fine Arts will demonstrate how to produce engravings on plastic using the intaglio printing process and nontoxic inks. To see Hernandez’s artwork, visit simonahernandez.com.

be discussed Saturday, Sept. 8, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Another inevitable topic— paying for college—will be covered Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 5:30 to 6 p.m.

If your garage is the proud home to a pristine pre-1974 car, now is the time to register for the Elks Lodge No. 6 annual Classic Car Show. The show has room for only 150 cars, so owners should get moving on registration.

Entry fee is $30. The show is Sunday, Sept. 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For information, call (916) 422-6666 or email info@elks6.com. Entrants can fuel up on free breakfast.

CLEAN UP OUR PARKS Help beautify our neighborhoods at the city’s “Clean Up Our Park” day on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Lewis-Didion Park. Organizer Devin Lavelle, parks and recreation commissioner for City Council District 7, advises volunteers to dress comfortably and wear real shoes, not sandals. For more information, contact Lavelle at parks@devinlavelle.com.

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Dorothy Rice will be at the Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library to discuss her book about her father.

MOVIE NIGHT For free, family fun, it’s difficult to beat a classic movie in the park. The

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Double Your Tax? One Voice Objects COUNCILMAN HARRIS STANDS UP TO MAYOR

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t a meeting on July 31, the Sacramento City Council voted 7-1 to place a measure on the November ballot asking city voters to increase the city sales tax by a full 1 percent, doubling the half-percent “temporary” Measure U sales tax approved in 2012. The original measure expires next March. Council member Jeff Harris opposed the 1-percent tax proposal (more about that later).

If approved by voters, the overall sales tax rate in the city will increase to 8.75 percent, among the highest rates in the region. The new ballot measure will bear the same label used for the 2012 tax: Measure U. For clarity, I’ll refer to the 2012 measure as “U 1.0” and the latest 1-percent sales tax hike proposal as “U 2.0.”

The expiring U 1.0 tax brings the city about $50 million per year. The 1-percent tax hike under U 2.0 would likely bring in $50 million in additional revenue, for a total haul of $100 million annually.

In a stunning development, the Sacramento Metro Chamber spoke out in favor of U 2.0, while Firefighters Local 522 sent a letter to the City Council expressing concern that the 1-percent hike was too extreme and might be rejected by voters. Local 522 also believes the tax increase could lead

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to multiple new programs the city won’t be able to sustain.

CITY COPS, PAY RAISES, MORALE PROBLEMS As expected, the Sacramento Police Officers Association endorsed U 2.0.

Earlier this year, SPOA landed a rich new labor contract. The contract raised police salaries across the board and gave 20-percent pay hikes to senior officers with at least 17.5 years on the job.

Under the new contract, city police officers are paid base salaries of between $33 and $45 per hour, depending on their experience and excluding overtime, which brings the pay for veteran cops to about $86,400 per year.

They also receive a valuable benefits package, and salary incentives for items such as college degrees and special training.

In recent years, the Sacramento Police Department had trouble filling its ranks due to several factors. Many veteran officers opted to resign and move to new police agencies, a practice known as lateral transfers. Historically, there are many reasons why cops leave.

Sometimes it’s to escape disciplinary problems. Other times it’s for more money. Some officers get burned out patrolling a large city and prefer to finish their careers in smaller towns or suburbs. And sometimes department morale and political support—or the lack of it—plays a role.

In Sacramento, the exodus has largely stopped this year. However, there is no question the defections were caused not only because some officers wanted more money and better conditions, but because they perceived a lack of support by the City Council in the aftermath of officer-related

shootings of unarmed civilians.

It would be smarter— and cheaper for taxpayers—if the city resolved police morale problems directly, rather than trying to continually “bribe” officers to stay with ever-increasing pay packages. Money has a limited ability to solve deep-seated morale problems. And taxpayers have a limited capacity to fund rich police pay contracts.

CITY PENSIONS: A WAY FORWARD The police salary hikes will have a major “echo effect” on lifetime pension benefits for cops, and the city’s pension liabilities and costs. The city’s annual pension bill is already expected to shoot up $64 million over the next four years—effectively consuming all of the $50 million in new revenues U 2.0 would generate each year. (The $50 million in taxes that U 1.0 has been bringing in annually is already baked into the city’s ever-increasing budget.)

One pension reform proposal the city could phase in would be to require all city employees to pay one half of the city’s pension costs.

Currently, city employees hired after 2013 pick up about 25 percent of the city’s pension obligations.

Employees with more than five years on the city payroll contribute less. The pension arrangements for public-safety workers—cops and firefighters—are inequitable, since many current police officers and firefighters can expect to retire with pensions of more than $100,000 per year, something the

average Sacramento resident can’t even dream of receiving.

Eye On Sacramento estimates that requiring all municipal employees to pay one half of the city’s pension bill would reduce the city’s annual pension bill by approximately $30 million— which equates to 30 percent of the $100 million overall that U 2.0 would likely generate. But the city’s workforce is unionized, and pension contributions, like salaries and benefits, must be collectively bargained.

EOS is preparing a comprehensive package of proposed reforms that would reduce city costs by more than $100 million annually without reducing core services. The package, which will be released early this month as EOS’ “Blueprint for a Post-Measure U City,” will be available at eyeonsacramento. org.

JEFF HARRIS’ POLITICAL COURAGE It’s not often that a council member stands up to the almost Rasputin-like grip Mayor Steinberg seems to hold over his council colleagues.

I’ve observed that, individually, our council members are, by and large, able and innovative problem-solvers, who bring energy and thoughtfulness

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to problems that affect their districts and constituents. But it’s increasingly worrisome how unwilling these same council members have been to use their skills to deal with citywide problems.

Instead, their attitude seems to be: “Leave it to Darrell.” Consequently, there is very little debate on major matters before the council.

In some respects, a virtual lockstep council consensus on policy can be viewed as healthy, particularly in contrast to the chaos that persisted in Kevin Johnson’s first term as mayor.

But Steinberg is having consistency problems. He frequently changes positions on homeless policy, and convention center expansion and operations plans (first cut from $200 million to $120 million and then pushed back up to $240 million). He seems to operate at one speed: pedal to the metal, proposing new city spending and programs at a dizzying pace with little thought to prioritizing spending in a world of limited resources.

Meanwhile, the city’s chronic and growing financial problems, like its ballooning unfunded pension and retiree health care cost liabilities—now a $1 billion debt—are ignored.

The City Council needs a loyal opposition who is not bashful about expressing competing viewpoints and who can offer badly needed critiques of proposed Steinberg policies, and smart policy alternatives.

Jeff Harris had the courage to debate the mayor on the tax-hike issue on July 31.

After sharing his experience in canvassing voters in his district on a possible 1-percent sales tax hike (Harris said he couldn’t find a single constituent who said they would vote for it), he proposed the council place two ballot questions before voters: first, an option to renew the expiring half-percent sales tax and, second, an option to approve a three-quarter-percent tax hike.

Harris made the case that by failing to offer voters the option to renew and extend the current half-percent tax, the mayor would unfairly exploit voter fears of service cuts if they failed to approve a 1-percent increase.

Harris also noted that if the 1-percent tax hike fails, the council is likely to schedule a special election to seek voter approval to renew the expiring half-percent tax, but at a cost of $2 million. Such a cost could be avoided by including the half-percent option on the November ballot.

The mayor used his political muscle to push aside Harris’ proposal and won a council vote for a straight 1-percent hike in the sales tax. But Harris found his voice on the City Council. We can only hope his council colleagues find theirs.

Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. EOS is one of the authors of the ballot argument opposing Measure U (2.0). Powell can be reached at craig@eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 718-3030. n

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Camping Not Allowed GRAND JURY REPORT HAS IDEAS FOR RIVER PARKWAY HOMELESS PROBLEM

Bob Graswich illustrates the cleanup along the American River Parkway after one year.

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he 2018 Sacramento County Grand Jury report contains an insightful chapter on the scourge of illegal camping along the American River Parkway. The numbers tossed around in the report—figures that delineate taxpayer dollars—are large enough to make Pocket residents near the Sacramento River thankful they didn’t buy homes further north.

Needless to say, the problem is bad.

Illegal camping and drug paraphernalia, trash, assaults, brush fires, burglaries and attacks by unleashed dogs that accompany homeless campsites have damaged the American River Parkway for decades. In recent years, things have gotten worse.

The Grand Jury report has some novel ideas about controlling and potentially reducing the mayhem that has wrecked one of Sacramento’s premier recreational sites. But before

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we consider those suggestions, let’s take a look at what the city is doing to prevent the illegal campers from migrating south along the Sacramento River and into Greenhaven and Pocket.

“Our strategy is to first offer help and services, and if that doesn’t work, we have to move them along,” says Dennis Rogers, chief of staff for City Councilman Rick Jennings, who represents Pocket and Greenhaven.

“We keep eyes on the situation with police, park rangers and neighbors,” Rogers says. “And we’re not geographically close to service providers like Loaves and Fishes, which helps.

Our approach is, these are human beings, yes, but they have to follow the law and respect public and private property.”

While the Pocket’s distance from homeless service centers near the American River discourages many itinerant campers from heading down the levee, there has been homeless migration south into the Sacramento River Parkway. Gary Buzzini, my late friend who loved to ride his bicycle along the levee parkways, considered it his duty to stop and photograph garbage left behind by homeless campers.

He emailed his digitized evidence to Jennings and requested action.

Gary ferociously believed the parkway belongs to everyone. The flip side of Gary’s philosophy was that nobody has

the right to spoil or destroy the levee area.

As for the Grand Jury report, it points out that about 200 people claim the American River Parkway as an illegal home each night. The squatters also commandeer the park as an open toilet, dog run, shooting gallery and trash heap.

Of those 200, the Grand Jury surmises that half habitually refuse assistance from the tireless souls and public authorities who make it their mission to help homeless people. The hardcore 100 believe the parkway is their personal little Brigadoon.

Two-hundred illegal campers doesn’t sound like many when placed alongside the 5 million to 8 million people who annually visit the American River Parkway, which extends 23 miles, Old Sacramento to Folsom. But illegal campers punch way above their weight.

In 2017, the Grand Jury estimates 500 tons of garbage were hauled from the first 6 miles of the lower parkway, where homeless campers concentrate.

The cost was $2 million. City and Metro Fire crews extinguished 79 fires in the parkway in 2016. The county spent $1.4 million for park rangers and maintenance crews to clear the illegal camps, then bumped up the number up to $3.7 million. Money was also spent on special-assignment police officers and sheriff’s deputies.

The Grand Jury was unable to discover an exact dollar figure for the taxpayer cost of illegal camping along the American River Parkway, but estimates the total at $11.4 million for 2016-18. That’s $57,000 for each of the 200 homeless campers.

In a majestically understated conclusion, the Grand Jury writes, “The present approach to dealing with camping in the parkway is not effective.”

The Grand Jury’s solution involves enforcement. The report notes that homeless campers receive tickets when they refuse to pack up and move, but the tickets carry no real penalty.

The jurors suggest development of a “stay away” ordinance, which would give homeless people the chance to voluntarily find other locations to sleep.

If they return to the parkway, they would be arrested. The threat of arrest would deter future camping, the Grand Jury believes.

Not a perfect solution, but a lesson for Pocket and Greenhaven. We don’t want to be the next American River Parkway. As Rogers says, keep eyes on the area. Take pictures for Jennings and the police. Keep the Gary Buzzini spirit alive.

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Battle Tested

Gil Perla and Al Cooper are neighbors at Sunrise Senior Living. They share vivid memories from seven decades ago.

HITLER’S CANNONS AND BATAAN DEATH MARCH COULDN’T STOP THESE 2 WARRIORS

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arlier this year, after he moved into Sunrise Senior Living center on Munroe Street, Al Cooper heard there was a resident who might have a story of survival, bravery and luck to match his own. That would be something.

Then he met Gilmore Perla.

“They told me there was a guy who wore a World War II POW cap, and I thought I should meet him,” Cooper says.

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From the distance of seven decades, the experiences of Cooper and Perla almost defy belief. Their stories read like Hollywood screenplays: German troops searching for downed airmen, Japanese soldiers marching half-starved American troops though sugar-cane fields toward Bataan, scenes of blazing heroism and narrow escapes.

A beautiful coincidence delivered the two warriors to the Sunrise residences, where they live as neighbors and pass the days thinking about families and friends and the endlessly amazing fortunes of their lives. Perla is 97.

Cooper is 96. They laugh easily and have bright eyes and vivid memories few of us can comprehend.

“There were no bowls for rice,” Perla says, cupping his hands to show how he ate on the Bataan Death March. “They dumped the rice into my hands and it was hot. I dropped it. I picked it from the sand and ate it.”

This was World War II. Cooper was shot down by the Germans.

Perla was captured by the Japanese.

Cooper parachuted behind enemy lines. Perla was forced into the Bataan Death March. Cooper was rescued by partisans. Perla was beaten. Cooper was liberated by the Russian Red Army.

Perla escaped through cane fields, helped by villagers.

“I hadn’t had a shower in over three months,” Cooper says. “When we met up with the Russians, they sprayed us for lice, you know, de-loused us.”

Cooper was an Air Corps bomber copilot. On his 23rd mission, his B-24 was hit by German cannon fire over Vienna.

Flying with two engines and wounded by shrapnel, Cooper helped drive the battered plane for 30 minutes before the third engine died. The crew had to bail out.

“The flak was so thick you could walk across it,” he says.

The men landed in Hungary, behind German lines. Luckily, their descent was witnessed by Hungarian partisans, who hid Cooper and crew from German patrols. Traveling at night in horsedrawn wagons, the Americans were taken to Yugoslavia. Cooper met the local army commander, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, and joined up with the Russian Red Army. The Russians delivered the flyers to American authorities in Bucharest, Romania, in early 1945.

“I’ve learned in life that you meet some wonderful people and you meet some jerks,” Cooper says. “But most people are pretty good.”

Perla was a Philippine citizen when he volunteered for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. From January to April 1942, Perla was part of the legendary Philippine Scouts of the American forces that battled Japanese troops on the Bataan peninsula. The defense was

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bloody and futile. U.S. Gen. Edward King surrendered April 9, and Perla’s forced march—along with thousands of wounded and starving soldiers—began the next morning at 4 a.m.

Within hours, Perla was beaten for helping a struggling Marine. A Japanese soldier cracked Perla’s skull with a rifle butt. Later that day, Perla tried to escape. He was caught and beaten again. “The sergeant slapped my face and the others hit me and kicked me,� he says.

Still able to walk, Perla followed the dismal parade down a road adjacent to a cane field. When a break was called, he ducked into the fields and hid. Japanese troops searched but finally gave up and moved on. “Local villagers found me and helped me,� he says. “They hid me and treated me for malaria. They helped me get to Manila.� He spent the Japanese occupation in Manila and joined the Philippine resistance movement.

After the war, both men raised families. Cooper became a California Highway Patrolman. He was a driver for Gov. Earl Warren. He handed the governor the phone when President Eisenhower called and asked him to be chief justice of the Supreme

Court. Cooper retired as CHP deputy commissioner.

Perla joined the Merchant Marines.

He served in the Korean War and became an electronics specialist at McClellan, Vandenberg and Mather Air Force bases. He liked working on missiles.

Today they enjoy each other’s company—a club with tough entry barriers, two good men, brave and lucky.

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Live and Learn GARDENING GOOFS CAN BE HALF THE FUN

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t was our first visit to our son’s new townhouse. Kurt and his girlfriend Shelly had purchased a strawberry pot, filled its little openings with blue lobelia, scarlet salvia and white alyssum, and put it on the front stoop.

The plants were drooping woefully in the blazing sunlight. As soon as Kurt and Shelly opened the door, I blurted, “These plants need water now!” I tried, more diplomatically, to explain that their roots needed more soil and space to grow, and it would be very hard to keep them moist enough to survive in that pot. In my heart, I was lamenting that they were making the same mistakes I made when I began gardening. Why didn’t they consult me, the Master Gardener in the family?

Does each generation need to repeat the last’s gardening goofs?

My heart sunk further when I learned they had bought a fuchsia. They confessed that “she” was not looking good. I explained that fuchsias need

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indirect light and moisture, and are not easy to grow in Sacramento. My husband and I have a long, shameful history as fuchsia torturers. A northfacing wall seemed like a perfect place, but they clung to life there in a straggly sort of way until they expired.

When we went on a two-week summer vacation, our neighbor Bill took care of our garden. Upon our return, we were amazed at how good the fuchsias looked, complimented him on his green thumb and tried for years to match his success.

He confessed much later that they died while we were gone and he had secretly replaced them. This bit of news ended our fuchsia futility.

Kurt and Shelly chose wisely as well.

They purchased a bougainvillea for their balcony, where a neighboring cork tree will shelter it from winter cold. At the top of the strawberry pot, they planted lavender, a woody, drought-tolerant plant that does well with sun and good drainage.

As predicted, the other plants in the strawberry pot died in short order. The fuchsia is doing better in a more protected spot, but not looking good. Kurt and Shelly are undaunted.

“Finding out on your own is some of the fun,” Kurt told me. “We’ve really enjoyed trying things out.”

There’s a lot to be said for learning from experience, although it can cost money and time and be very frustrating.

You can’t just buy a plant that catches your eye and assume that it will grow well. You must be aware that not all plants on the shelves are suited for Sacramento or your particular growing conditions. The plants themselves can be problematic, too. As a sales strategy, commercial growers push their plants with fertilizer and put them into stores when they are flowering at their showy peak. Such over-stimulated plants will need continued fertilizer and plenty of water to keep them going. They probably have very crowded roots which need to be loosened and spread out before planting. Plants are offered in the stores when people are planting, whether or not it is the right time of year. For example, you often find parsley and cilantro among herbs sold in late spring, despite the fact that these cool-season plants will bolt (send out flowering stalks and go to seed) as soon as it gets hot. Perennials and woody plants are offered in the spring, too, even though the best time of year to plant them is the fall.

Gardeners also learn is that location is very important. Kurt tried for years to grow cactus and succulents in various dark apartments with limited success.

In the filtered bright light on the townhouse’s balcony, his collection is now thriving and increasing.

When I began gardening in Sacramento, my main resources were Sunset’s “Western Garden Book” and my friends and neighbors. Today’s beginning gardeners can also find a huge amount of information on the internet. In 1980, a couple of years after I moved into my East Sacramento home, Sacramento County started the first Master Gardener Program in the state.

New and experienced gardeners can attend workshops and open garden days at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center; contact the UC Master Gardener Office for advice; and visit sacmg.ucanr.edu for scientifically based information tailored to our local area.

Kurt and Shelly will continue to learn on their own, but they’ve begun asking me for advice, which I’m delighted to give. Isn’t that what mothers (and Master Gardeners) are for?

Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County Master Gardener.

For answers to gardening questions, contact the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 875-6338 or mgsacramento@ ucanr.edu. The next Open Garden is Saturday, Sept. 8, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. n

FINGERLING POTATOES

BLUE LAKE BEAN

This small, waxy potato gets its name from its long, narrow shape, which makes it look like a finger. It comes in a variety of colors and maintains its shape when cooked.

This popular bean, also known as a snap or string bean, is considered the gold standard of green beans. Mild and versatile, it has a darkgreen, cylindrical, stringless, firm, plump pod.

To eat: Use for quick pickling or canning.

To eat: Slice in half vertically, toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and roast in a hot oven.

APPLE

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Nearby Apple Hill supplies the apples in our local farmers markets. They come in numerous varieties: Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith and more. This popular autumn fruit can be used in a variety of ways, from salads to desserts.

To eat: Bake in a pie with a lattice crust or crumb topping.

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This root vegetable looks like a top-heavy white carrot. It develops a rich, nutty flavor after cooking. Don’t try to eat it raw—it’s practically inedible.

To eat: Add to soups and stews.

CELERY ROOT BEET

This root vegetable comes in a rainbow of colors: red, gold, pink, white, even striped. It has a very high sugar content and is a unique source of phytonutrients called betalains. Its greens are edible, too: Prepare them similar to spinach or chard.

Despite its name, this vegetable is not related to celery. A dense, fleshy white root vegetable, it is a flavorful source of vitamin C. It’s also known as celeriac.

To eat: Use in salads and slaws.

To eat: Roast and serve in a salad with arugula, goat cheese and chopped walnuts.

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Boxed Out SACRAMENTO FIGHT GAME IS DOWN ON ITS LUCK, BUT THERE’S HOPE

David Owens, owner of Center Ring Boxing, has been training and coaching young students, like Yahir Gutierrez, who is passionate about the sport of boxing.

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he rule was professional boxers paid half price for meals at Georgian’s. Amateurs ate free. But the truth was more generous. No fighter ever paid for lunch, dinner or breakfast at Georgian’s when Sid Tenner was around. Sid grabbed all the checks.

And Tenner was always around, a constant presence at the card room, restaurant and bar at 19th and J

streets, wandering the dingy halls with a toothpick dangling from his mouth, hustling tickets from a cigar box for upcoming fights at Memorial Auditorium or Arco Arena.

For almost 40 years, Tenner was the heart of boxing in Sacramento—a fight manager and publicist. He helped guide the careers of Bobby Chacon, Pete Ranzany, Tony and Sal Lopez,

Loreto Garza, the Savala brothers, Bill McMurray, Henry Clark, Stan Ward, Willie Jorrin, Diego Corrales and more, a generational production line of fistic talent.

“Sacramento was a great, great fight town,” says Don Chargin, the renowned Los Angeles boxing matchmaker. Now 90 and still promoting fights, Chargin

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Those days are gone. Boxing was on its heels and headed for the ropes when Tenner died in 2004 at age 81.

Georgian’s, headquarters for the local fight game, closed in 1990 after police claimed the joint harbored drug dealers.

The building was demolished.

Today, it’s hard to believe that the loss of a rumpled figure like Sid Tenner and the padlocking of a marginal place like Georgian’s could foretell the death of the city’s proud boxing legacy, but that’s what happened. The local fight game hasn’t recovered.

“Diluted is the word for it,” says Jim Jenkins, retired executive sports editor and boxing writer for The Sacramento Bee. Jenkins is the closest thing the city has to a boxing historian. “There are still a couple of people promoting fights locally, and there are a couple of cards a year, but we don’t have the fighters and we can’t compete with the casinos, who pay upfront money.”

A South Sacramento boxing show in June demonstrated the game’s diminished status. The main event was limited to eight rounds because the headlined fighters weren’t experienced enough to handle the classic 10 rounds.

Jenkins wrote a story for fightnews.com, a boxing website, that put Sacramento’s status as a fight town into bleak perspective. He wrote: “The card, by Thompson Boxing Promotions, was held outdoors in the back lot of a commercial business.

Portable lighting and seating, plus live streaming via Facebook still attracted several hundred fans to the makeshift venue featuring several Northern California fighters.”

Jenkins was trying to be positive.

He respected the promoter’s effort. But boxing has faded across the country, overtaken by the popularity of mixedmartial arts, an amalgamated circus

that holds no interest for aficionados of the sweet science.

“People are turned on by that streetfighting crap,” Jenkins says. “I’m not enamored of it. If they have to stand and fight with a real boxer, they don’t have a chance. They don’t have the chins and they don’t have the defense.

They fight on the floor like a barroom brawl.”

The exception to boxing’s downfall is Las Vegas, where casinos and TV dollars attract the world’s best fighters.

One of Sacramento’s greatest boxers, Tony Lopez, plans to move to Vegas this winter to train fighters and relocate his bail bonds business.

Lopez, who ran for mayor in 2016, never left the fight game. The threetime world champion has maintained a side job training boxers at Center Ring Boxing on Franklin Boulevard. But finding a young Sacramento star—the next Tony Lopez—is frustrating.

“I have guys who won’t show up, won’t train hard, and I tell them, I don’t have time for this,” Lopez says.

Lopez is a hard man to knock down, and his mood soars when he speaks about his latest teenaged amateur prospect, Alex Miller, a Guatemalan raised in Nevada County.

“I don’t train amateurs, but I made an exception,” Lopez says. “He hits hard and he’s not afraid, which is half the battle. He can be a champion at 125 pounds.”

Chargin would love that. He says, “You’ve got to latch onto the local guys to make Sacramento a fight town again.”

With Lopez moving to Nevada, Miller’s progress may require longdistance tracking. The fight game in Sacramento awaits the next Sid Tenner, the next Georgian’s, the next Lopez.

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Heavy Metal SACRAMENTO ARTIST OPENS HOUSE AND GARDEN FOR URBAN HOME TOUR

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erald Walburg is a gentle, unassuming man with an extremely large perspective on life. His multiple homes, backyard art studios and sophisticated gardens are proof. But nothing conveys this man’s vast talent for great endeavors more than his art—his really big art. Examples include the 40-foot-tall corten steel “Indo Arch,” installed in 1980 outside of Macy’s on the K Street Mall, and a striking bronze sculpture at the entrance of the Crocker Art Museum.

While art lovers can access Walburg’s public creations at any time, the community now has the opportunity to view his private collection during this year’s Urban Renaissance Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 23. Sponsored by Friends of East Sacramento, the event raises funds to support the McKinley Rose Garden.

Behind an expansive wall of cinder blocks, adorned with a charming array of rusty metal cutouts (an art piece unto itself), sits Walburg’s three homes, side by side on one large parcel of land in East Sacramento. Also on the property are two art studios, one with a separate rental unit upstairs. Walburg purchased the main house, which he shares with his wife, Deborah, 38 years ago, and completely renovated the home. Ten years later, he bought the house next door and turned it into a guest house and gallery for other artists to showcase their work. When the third house in the lineup came up for sale two years ago, Walburg grabbed that one too and went to work creating a modern, three-story, living and work space he meticulously designed himself. When finished, he and Deborah plan to move two doors down to the new residence.

In addition to the 800-square-foot guest house/gallery, tour attendees will be able to wander the gardens, also methodically designed by Walburg and filled with his larger-than-life metal art sculptures. Most of pieces are bronze and steel, cast and fabricated either in the warehouse-like studio on his property or at Sac State where he was an art professor for 37 years. Walburg, now retired, points to one of the smaller artworks. “This little piece is the oldest in the yard—it goes back to 1970.”

Everything in the garden was either planted or carefully chosen by Walburg.

Fast-growing bamboo, deciduous ginkgo and redbud trees, and elegant Japanese maples fill the landscape. A flowering wisteria drapes over an arbor and creeping fig vines decorate the path. The Colorado spruce came from the now-closed Capital Nursery and a magnolia tulip tree with black flowers was acquired at Green Acres. There is a Japanese black pine, a blood orange and a ruby-red grapefruit that is more

than 30 years old. Deborah oversees the vegetable garden, which includes tomatoes and peppers. “I used to do a lot of landscaping, but now I have a young man who is one-third my age,” says Walburg.

For the guest house/gallery, Walburg chose rosewood for the floors, sustainable bamboo for the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, and slate for the countertops. His propensity for all things contemporary goes back to his childhood. “At a very early age, I was

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always interested in modern,” he shares. Walburg’s smaller art pieces, such as an assortment of glazed ceramics, can be found throughout the home.

Also important to Walburg: music and wine. Both of his studios are wired for sound. The artist’s preference? “Straightahead jazz or classical jazz,” he says. And Walburg has been making wine for more than 30 years. His bare bottles are stored according to the varietal. “I purposely never designed or use a label,” declares Walburg. “I think a lot of bad wine is sold by fancy labels. My attitude is: It’s not what’s on the bottle, its what’s in the bottle.”

Five East Sacramento homes will be featured on the Urban Renaissance Home Tour, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23. To purchase tickets, visit sacurbanhometour.com, East Sac Hardware at 48th Street and Folsom Boulevard, #Panache at 5379 H St. or Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters at 2940 Freeport Blvd.

Presale tickets at the stores are cash and check only. On tour day, tickets are available at 1229 45th St. and will include credit card sales. For more information or to volunteer as a docent, email friendsofeastsac@ aol.com.

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2. The Steenbuck and Morse/Wohl family on vacation in Caye Caulker, Belize.

3. Logan Morris, Judy Hirigoyen and Paxton Hurd with their catch at Shaver Lake in California.

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Sky’s The Limit CROCKER MUSEUM REIMAGINES PARK FROM GROUND UP

Crocker Park, which is owned by Crocker Art Museum, will be completely transformed in the future.

Photo courtesy of THINair Professional Aerial Imagery.

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his summer, the Crocker Art Museum made a $40-million announcement to lift people’s spirits, literally and creatively.

The museum named Seattle’s Olson Kundig, in partnership with San Francisco-based Surfacedesign, Inc., as the lead architect to develop the underused Crocker Park, the open expanse just north of the museum.

Although the Crocker purchased the park in the early 1960s, communications and marketing director Christine Calvin says the site’s development is “good timing for everybody with the current renaissance of Sacramento.”

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Olson Kundig, a leading international design firm, will transform the open space between Second and Third streets, and design a multi-use structure the museum hopes will address the lack of storage, parking and recreational space. There may even be room for weddings. Surfacedesign will focus on landscape architecture.

Last year, the Crocker had approximately 275,000 visitors. But the museum shares about 200 parking spaces among permits parkers, visitors and its 94 fulltime employees. The new structure will introduce about 400 new parking spots, approximately doubling current space.

Plans also include space to display work from the Crocker’s collection. Of the 18,000 pieces in the museum’s care, only about 5,000 are on public display at any given time.

More than providing practical solutions, Calvin believes the development of Crocker Park is an opportunity to create one of America’s great park spaces.

“We do envision that,” Calvin says.

“And the hope is that it will provide a multi-use space where we can have additional programing, whether it’s films or parties, or a space to share with other entities out in the community.”

Thanks to the unique and diverse nature of the project, Calvin says the Crocker had applications from firms around the world. The design will reflect changing modes of transportation— notably, autonomous and ride-share cars.

“The reason we got so much interest from other architects is that we need that garage to park vehicles, but maybe someday not park vehicles, if they decline in use,” she says. “This space has to modify itself maybe to someday not be a parking garage, while it also has to host events and art.”

Calvin adds, “So there will be a building, but it will also very likely house our ceramics collection on view, or you very likely can get married in it.

It’s also possible that it will have staff offices.”

Thirty architects, landscape designers, board members and donors from the community comprised the panel that ultimately narrowed 50 applicants to three firms, among which Olson Kundig was unanimously selected. The firm recently completed a redesign of the Seattle Space Needle.

“They spent a lot of time here,” Calvin says, “and they knew us inside and out. Without us even prompting them, they talked about a future that doesn’t rely on vehicles.”

Olson Kundig’s principal owner and lead designer on the project, Alan Maskin, told Inside Publications that the park and structure “will allow the museum to literally spill outside the museum walls. From the design perspective, it’s one of the most interesting, compelling design challenges you can ever be given. In that regard, this will be one of the top projects I ever work on.”

According to Calvin, one reason for Crocker’s attraction to Olson Kundig is its reputation for working on “projects in the sky.” In Sacramento, she says,

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“We are just beginning the design process,” Maskin says. “But one initial idea we have is to include a rooftop park or other kinds of elevated spaces. It would be amazing for people at Crocker Park to be able to see the river nearby, the relationship to the Capitol and the urban configuration of Sacramento.”

With the design process in its initial stage, Crocker Museum plans to host public town hall meetings. Dates will be announced through social media and the museum website. The Crocker posted

a link in a July 12 blog on its website where community members can share ideas for the park.

“We are still in the imagination space, and there will be a lot of community engagement around this,” Calvin says. “We’ll be sure to let media know when that happens. This isn’t meant to be a surprise for the community or an isolated project.”

The museum hopes to break ground Oct. 10, 2020, which would mark the 10year anniversary of the opening of the Crocker’s Teel Family Pavilion.

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The American

Dream LET’S TAKE A TRIP TOGETHER

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ast winter, my wife and I went to Honduras for three months to help our daughter in a small, grassroots nonprofit called Chispa Project. One night as we left a restaurant, a man followed us to our car. “Por favor,” he said, handing my daughter a note.

“PLEASE, can you help me get to America?” the note said. It was signed with a name and phone number.

The man’s plea points to the desperation shared by thousands of Latin American families making the treacherous journey north to the southern border of the United States.

They come for refuge but are being arrested.

Did you ever wonder what makes them take the risk? Why do they trek thousands of miles through harsh

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weather, violence and rough terrain?

Why do they risk arrest or, even worse, rape, robbery, human trafficking or being separated from their children?

How bad would it have to be for you to leave your home forever in Mansfield, Ohio, or Lakeland, Fla., or Sacramento, Calif.? What would force any one of us to make such a perilous journey?

In part, the simple answer is that Hondurans want to escape the secondhighest murder rate outside of war zones. Their corrupt governments empower gang cultures fueled by U.S. drug consumption and U.S.-sponsored weapons.

Many of these refugees also seek better education. Public schools are overcrowded, underfunded and poorly staffed. Children are required to buy expensive uniforms and have little hope of progressing past sixth grade because advanced education requires costly private schools.

Honduran refugees are seeking a way to make an honest living, a government that doesn't steal their tax dollars and leave their social security bankrupt, and a job that pays fair wages so they don't have to watch their children starve.

Honduras is a complex and struggling country, but it's also one full of hospitality and love. Because of this,

my daughter, Sara, started Chispa Project. Chispa (pronounced cheez-pah) means “spark” in Spanish. It’s a word Hondurans use to describe people with spark or drive. And what is better than education to spark sustainable change?

Chispa Project has a simple mission: sponsor children’s libraries and equip them with quality books in Spanish by working side by side with Honduran community leaders and educators.

In the 50 schools where Chispa works, their secret to success is building alliances with communities to design, fund and manage their own libraries.

Community members volunteer with the library project and raise a symbolic portion of the funding ensuring sustainability and ownership.

Chispa Project, like Hondurans, wants to see children educated and grow up so they can remain united with their families and have choices in their future. They want to see Honduran children dreaming the American dream.

Not the U.S. dream, but the true American dream that belongs to all people everywhere. It’s a God-given belief that all people should have the power to prosper anywhere through hard work and community that isn’t stifled by lack of health care, stolen tax money or violence.

Most Hondurans don’t want to leave their home. They don’t want our country. They don’t want our welfare dollars or our jobs. They want their country. They want their home. They want a way to provide for their families.

That’s why my new Honduran friends are inviting my readers for an exclusive visit. They want you to sip the best cup of coffee in the world. They’d love for you to scuba dive off the island of Roatan or explore the rich Mayan ruins of Copán or salsa dance in a Tegucigalpa nightclub. Hondurans are incredibly proud of their country.

In February 2019, I will return to Honduras. I need 10 volunteers to accompany me and help Chispa establish two more libraries. I need 20 more people to help me purchase 1,500 books for those libraries. If you can help, email me at norris@thechaplain. net or leave a voice mail at (843) 6089715.

We are all Americans—North, Central and South. May God help us all to find our American dream! Please visit chispaproject.org/donate.

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TO DO

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“Visions of Excellence” Koi Show Camellia Koi Club Saturday, Sept. 1, and Sunday, Sept. 2 Old Sugar Mill, 35265 Willow Ave., Clarksburg • camelliakoi.org At this free show, visit vendor booths, talk to Camellia Koi Club members, win raffle prizes, purchase koi and enjoy Old Sugar Mill’s wine-tasting rooms.

“Color, Light and Form” Tim Collom Gallery Sept. 5–Oct. 4 Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept. 8, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

915 20th Street • timcollomgallery.com This show features a fresh array of new seascapes, landscapes and figurative art by artist and gallery owner Tim Collom. The gallery will also show a selection of Cindy Wilson’s ceramic figures, abstract paintings by Jessie Hyden Maker and new work for sale by resident jeweler Erin Kahuluikeao Jenny.

World Music Series: GYANI Indo Jazz Sacramento State School of Music Thursday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m.

Sac State, Capistrano Concert Hall, 6000 J St. • csus.edu/music/worldmusic This California-based Indo Jazz group combines Indian raga, jazz, Arabic melodies and global rhythms to make a unique brand of music blending classic Hindustani forms and cutting-edge improvisation.

“Telling Stories” Sacramento Ballet Sept. 27–30 The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave. • sacballet.org The season opener of “Roots and Wings,” the ballet’s 65th anniversary under new artistic director Amy Seiwert, will feature four short ballets inspired by the written word: Ron Cunningham’s “Incident at Blackbriar,” Adam Hougland’s “Cigarettes,” Seiwert’s “Instructions” and a world premiere by Penny Saunders.

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Sac Open Studios Verge Center for the Arts Launch Party: Thursday, Sept. 6, 6 p.m.

Open Studios: Sept. 8–9 and Sept. 15–16, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Various locations • vergeart.com This 13th annual art event showcases more than 150 emerging and established artists in their studios across Sacramento County and West Sacramento. For studio locations, visit the Verge website.

“Reaction of Rhythm,” “Non Linear” and “Distant Shores” JAYJAY Gallery Sept. 6–Oct. 20 Reception: Thursday, Sept. 6, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

5524 B Elvas Ave. • jayjayart.com This group exhibit will feature new paintings by Mark Emerson and Michaele LeCompte, and sculptures by Dean DeCocker.

Dinner in the Park: A Carmichael Gourmet Dinner & Auction Carmichael Parks Foundation Saturday, Sept. 8, 5:30–9 p.m.

Sutter Park & Jensen Botanical Gardens, 6141 Sutter Ave. • carmichaelparksfoundation.org Enjoy a gourmet dinner by Hawks Restaurant, wine, music and a live auction. Proceeds benefit the Carmichael Parks Foundation, which supports youth scholarships, recreation programs, park beautification and special events.

“The Viewing Room” Howe Avenue Theater Sept. 14–16, Sept. 20–23, Sept. 28–30 Howe Avenue Park, 2201 Cottage Way This new play by local playwright Mark Smith follows stern patriarch Chester Dumbrosky on the day he’s finally decided to make amends with his dysfunctional family—during his own wake.

Backyard Composting Workshop UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County Saturday, Sept. 15, 1–2 p.m.

North Highlands-Antelope Library, 4235 Antelope Road • sacmg.ucanr.edu The UC master gardeners will teach you how to turn yard and food waste into “gardener’s gold.” This free class will cover the basics of composting, including how to set up a compost bin and tips for success.

15th Annual Monte Carlo Night Stanford Settlement Neighborhood Center Saturday, Sept. 22, 5:30 p.m.

California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St. • stanfordsettlement.org Get ready for an evening of casino gaming and entertainment—including a buffet dinner, complimentary champagne, silent auction and raffle—to raise funds for Stanford Settlement, an agency that offers programs for children, teens, seniors and families in Gardenland-Northgate, North Sacramento and Natomas.

“KOKO’s Love: The Technicolor Unfairy Tale Ball”

ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival

Verge Center for the Arts Sept. 6–Oct. 28

Fairytale Town Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

625 S St. • vergeart.com This series of immersive videos and installations by Yoshie Sakai are inspired by “KOKO’s Love,” an original East-Asian/Asian-American hybrid soap opera series written, produced, directed and performed by Sakai.

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org Enjoy readings and presentations by children’s book authors and illustrators— including headliner Steve Antony, author and illustrator of the “Mr. Panda” series— storytelling performances, hands-on literacy activities and play time at the largest early childhood literacy festival in the region.

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Enjoy adult beverages and support Fairytale Town at the Tales & Ales event.

Photo courtesy of Greg Flagg.

30th Annual Wines of Clarksburg Wine Tasting & Fine Art Auction Friends of the Clarksburg Library Sunday, Sept. 16, 1–5 p.m.

Heringer Ranch, 37375 Netherlands Rd., Clarksburg • facebook.com/clarksburgartwineevent This elegant afternoon of gourmet food samplings, local wines, live music, garden art and a fine art auction featuring Sacramento and Delta artists will raise funds for the Clarksburg Library, the only community-owned public library in California.

Sacramento Water Forum and American River Natural History Associa on present

Sunday, October 7 10am to 3pm

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Sacramento Play Summit Fairytale Town Saturday, Sept. 15, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

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Family-friendly food!

Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 8281 I St. • fairytaletown.org The sixth annual summit—presented by Fairytale Town and Sacramento Public Library—will highlight the importance of play in early childhood development. Keynote speakers will include Lisa Murphy, founder and CEO of Ooey Gooey, Inc., and Mike Lanza, author of “Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood into a Place for Play.”

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN SEPTEMBER

The annual open watercolor exhibition, “Go With The Flow,” runs Sept. 4–30 at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Shown top right: “Portuguese Fishermen,” watercolor by Steve Walters. Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330 Gibbons Drive, Carmichael, sacfinearts.org.

The September show at Tim Collom Gallery features new works by Tim Collom. Shown bottom left: “Lake House,” oil on wood panel, by Collom. Tim Collom Gallery, 915 20th St., timcollomgallery.com.

JAYJAY gallery presents a three-person show featuring paintings by Mark Emerson and Michaele LeCompte, and sculptures by Dean DeCocker. The show runs Sept. 6 to Oct. 20. Shown bottom left: “Near and Far,” painting by Emerson. JAYJAY, 5524 Elvas Ave., jayjayart.com.

The ARTHOUSE presents “Alchemy,” a show of new cyanotypes by Linda Clark Johnson. Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process where prints are exposed to UV light and are typically a deep shade of blue. The show runs Sept. 7 to Oct. 5. Shown middle left: cyanotype print by Johnson. ARTHOUSE, 1021 R St., second floor, arthouseonr.com.

To celebrate Farm-to-Fork month in Sept. Elliott Fouts Gallery presents paintings by Teagan McLarnan. Shown top left: “Tomatoes and Chard,” an egg on tempura by McLarnan.

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LESLIE TOMS CELEBRATES LIFE WITH A PAINTBRUSH

Leslie Toms in her home studio.

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eslie Toms’ business card tells you a lot about her as a painter.

It’s a 2.5-by-2.5-inch square— an unusual size and shape, but that makes the card stand out. The front features a high-gloss image of two sunflowers in a vase with her name printed across the bottom in bright red letters. The colors are so vibrant that you can’t help but stare.

The card is the epitome of Toms’ artistic style: a little different, a lot colorful and always pleasing to the eye.

When I visit her home studio in Campus Commons, where she’s lived for almost a year, Toms is preparing for her first private showing and open house.

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It’s a big deal that Toms finally has a space she can host in—she moved three times in two years following a divorce and a subsequent move out of her longtime home in East Sac looking for a new place to call her own. The property off Commons Drive not only fits her “even better than East Sac,” it’s also a mere 3.8 miles from her childhood home in Arden Park—a fact that might have shocked her younger self.

“I’ve loved to travel since I took the train to San Francisco with my grandmother at 5 years old,” says Toms, seated at a glass table in front of one of her large California landscapes done in rich purples, pinks and blues—a palette that perfectly complements her beachhouse-meets-French-farmhouse interior aesthetic. “I went to college as far from home as I could (at Chapman University in Southern California) and I managed to travel around the world before the age of 21. I still love to travel, but now I find myself really slowing down and embracing Sacramento. Living somewhere so beautiful means I don’t have to travel far to get subject matter.”

Always artistic—she remembers painting on grocery bags as a kid to pass the time—Toms was living on a houseboat in Holland during a year abroad in college when a visit to a museum sparked her career trajectory.

“I was sitting in front of Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’ at the Rijksmuseum and I suddenly went, ‘I’m going to go home and be an artist,’” Toms recalls.

She did just that. When she changed her major at Chapman—she had previously planned on becoming a U.N. translator—she lost many of her scholarships, so she transferred to Sacramento State and ended up studying under the tutelage of Wolf Kahn, Gregory Kondos, Charles Sovek, Harrold Gregor, Joseph Raffael, Ann Toulmin Rothe, Jerald Silva, Wayne Thiebaud and others.

“Wolf had the biggest influence on my style,” Toms says. “I’d never felt so free—I paint from the gut, not the head, and color is very emotional for me. He and I were on the same wavelength. I discovered that I love to paint in a way that’s fun and different. It’s how I see.”

Toms spent years working as a graphic designer and printmaker following her studies, but when she took a part-time job managing the museum store at the Crocker Art Museum in 1985, she was reminded of her love of painting. She made a point to pass by pieces by Thiebaud, Kondos, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn and Manual Neri on her daily breaks and, inspired anew, she returned to the medium and never looked back.

Since then, Toms’ subjects have ranged from landscapes of California wine country to vistas of Tuscan village life (which got her “discovered” in Sacramento when the Piatti restaurant group commissioned pieces for all 17 of their eateries) to close-up studies of sunflowers, which hold particular meaning.

“I was recovering from cancer surgery five years ago and people kept sending me flowers,” Toms says. “My surgeon suggested that I start painting at the table to speed my recovery and get me working again, so I started painting the flowers people had given

me. I now do a series of sunflowers every year—often inspired by different artists—to celebrate the fact that I’m still here.”

This is a philosophy that informs much of Toms’ work nowadays. She often reflects on the fact that the career she chose perfectly suits the person and artist she’s become.

“I’m so happy that I made the choice to be a painter,” Toms says. “I’ve never

regretted it. It’s difficult to be an artist.

But doing this work every day—no matter how much or how little I make— has never made me unhappy. We have a choice to make life what we want and I feel like I made the right choice.”

Take a digital tour of Toms’ work at leslietoms.com.

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CHEF KEEPS HIS MIDTOWN BISTRO HUMMING

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avid English doesn’t quite fit the mold when you think of the modern chef. We’ve been led to believe, through reality shows, feature films and, increasingly, the local scene, that a successful restaurant chef is a personality. A chef with one successful restaurant should be thinking about opening a second and third. A well-coiffed, camera-ready cook should be polished and passionate about culinary concepts and stunning technique. On the other end of the spectrum we should expect a tattooed, pierced, shaven-headed renegade who just wants to get back to basics and get her hands dirty by discovering the locally sourced bounty all around her.

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HE RUNS ONE OF SACRAMENTO’S BEST RESTAURANTS AND HAS NO PLANS TO RUN ANOTHER.

Well, English is none of those things. He’s a clean-cut, even-keeled Californian interested in serving expertly made, unfussy food at a reasonable price. He runs one of Sacramento’s best restaurants and has no plans to run another. No plans to expand, no plans to change. David English believes in consistency above all else, and it shows after eight years at his restaurant, The Press Bistro.

Opened in the uncertain days of 2010, The Press Bistro hasn’t waivered. In fact, whereas you might think opening at the tail end of a recession might be less than optimal, Chef English sees it in the most positive light.

“Back in 2010, you could find cooks, contractors, designers and furniture builders all ready to work, and ready to work at a good price. These days, with the local restaurant boom, you’re lucky to get people to return your phone calls.”

A few other advantages of opening in times of uncertainty, English says, is that you can be the “new hot thing” for almost two years. These days, you’re lucky to be the new thing for two weeks.

As they say, fortune favors the bold, and opening up in 2010 was a bold move. It also happened to be the perfect move for a chef who doesn’t strain for the limelight and doesn’t go in for much self-promotion.

“When I was named best new chef in New Orleans many years ago, the restaurant owners wanted me to be part of the public relations campaign.

That’s just not me. I don’t like any of that,” English says. “And what’s more, I worried that my ego was more important than the food.”

Go into The Press Bistro any night and you’ll see English’s ego, or rather lack of it, on display. There is no job too big or too small that you won’t see him doing in his restaurant. From bussing to grilling, sweeping to serving, you’ll witness English in his white chef’s coat,

keeping his fingers in every part of his place.

When it comes to the food, little has changed at The Press Bistro in eight years, and English likes it that way.

Prices have moved slightly up with the market, but the three-for-$10 tapas are always available with the stuffed peppers, roasted beets and ridiculous fried meatballs, the best of the bunch.

And odds are you won’t see that changing anytime soon.

“Those meatballs, peppers, beets, basically everything on the tapas menu—if I took any of those off, my regulars would come after me with butter knives,” says the chef.

The Press Bistro’s small plates are still a playground for seasonal, local ingredients. But one dish that always stays put, because it might be the finest in town, is the grilled calamari. Tender, smoky, delicate strips of calamari, lightly dressed and served over a bed of arugula, leeks and white beans, is a dish that at once reminds you of how incredible squid can be while at the same time throwing almost every other restaurant under the bus for their failure to properly celebrate our bigeyed, sea-residing friends.

When I spoke with English, I mentioned that some restaurants seemed to change their menu from soup to nuts almost every season. The Press Bistro, though, has kept the same basic menu items since it opened, while only rotating in a few new dishes here and there. The chef recalled his time in France, wanting to emulate the neighborhood bistro.

“Each local bistro has its few menu items that people come to depend on,” he says. “This place does duck, that place does roast pork. The sides and sauces change with the seasons, but the basic preparation becomes a hallmark of the restaurant.” Which is why, English says, that The Press Bistro will always have its popular short rib, hanger steak

and lamb shank on the menu. It’s what people have come to expect and, above all else, English believes in consistency.

Bless him for it.

The Press Bistro is at 1809 Capitol Ave.; (916) 444-2566; thepressbistro.com.

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