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West Sacramento Foundation All Charities Dinner drew great results for local organizations

By Monica Stark editor@news-ledger.com

The West Sacramento Foundation hit another all-time high at this year’s annual raffle and spaghetti dinner, bringing in $70,981 to 35 West Sacramento charities. The ceremonial dinner, held on Saturday, Oct. 17 inside the gymnasium at Our Lady of Grace School on Linden Road, brought smiles and good cheer to those receiving checks and those handing them out. The Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization of more than 1.8 million members, showed on Saturday its dedication to its four areas of service as local members dished out plates of delicious spaghetti and salad to the hundreds of hungry community members who awaited the start of the presentation of checks.

What started off with the golf tournament in the late 1980s, netting about $30,000, this year’s West Sacramento Foundation total marks a big accomplishment. The following nonprofit organizations sold more than $5,000 worth of raffle tickets: Veterans of Foreign Wars, River City High School Music Boosters, Southport Elementary PTA, River City Rowing and Our Lady of Grace School. Richard Stamos, commander at Bryte VFW post 949, said his nonprofit the VFW Riders Association, will be putting the money earned at this year’s raffle ($4,680) toward helping veterans, including helping with hospital bills and memorials. “One guy (a veteran) got kicked out of his house. The West Sacramento Police Department said it was inhabitSee Dinner, page 3

What’s That Smell? Last week, several calls have come into City Hall regarding a strong odor described as sewage, in the Southport area. Well, it’s not a sewage spill. West Sacramento Public Works crews have been out diligently investigating the stink, but have not been able to locate the source. The unpleasant odor seems to appear every autumn…some years are worse than others. Air quality experts in the past have looked into naturally decomposing vegetation that occurs in large bodies of water, like the Yolo Bypass. So far this year, that has not been confirmed as the source. West Sacramento residents are encouraged to contact the The Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District or West Sacramento Connect if the odor persists. Source: West Sacramento City iLights

Photo by Monica Stark

Shown here are all the charities that were represented at this year’s West Sacramento Foundation All Charities Dinner, held on Saturday, Oct. 17 at Our Lady of Grace Church.

Alina Corona and Mia Corralejo wear their custom made white cheer shirts and help fire up the crowd during a recent football game at RCHS.

RCHS welcomes new honorary cheerleaders By AnnaMaria Corona RCHS Journalism Student Two River City High School students from Nancy Abplanalp’s special needs class were invited to cheer with the junior varsity cheerleading squad last Friday night during the Raider’s home game against Yuba City. Students Alina Corona and Mia Corralejo had the opportunity to help excite the crowd and encourage the football team in what turned out to be very close and tense game that came down to the last play. Besides being close to all the action on the field, Corralejo said that what she liked most about cheerleading was the new friendships she has been able to make with the other members of the squad. The two new honorary cheerleaders participated in the routines with the assistance of senior cheerleader Samantha McCormack. McCormack is Abplanalp’s teacher assistant

in her class. It was McCormack’s idea to have the two girls come out and cheer and she took the lead in organizing the details of this event. McCormack also designed and ordered custom t-shirts online for the two girls to wear during the game. “It was really fun. Seeing Mia and Alina having fun and being so excited, they took the stress away,” says McCormack. Mia and Alina have been invited to join the cheerleading squad for the remainder of the football and basketball seasons at all home games. They will cheer next Friday the 23rd at River City’s senior night during junior varsity’s last home game of the season against Woodland. When asked her reaction to seeing her daughter cheer for the first time, Alina’s mom, Melissa Corona said, “It makes me so proud of our community’s high school students and cheerleaders to see how welcoming and supportive they have been. It was such an emotional experience to see the girls do something I never thought they could.”

Southport levee improvement project now underway For more than five years, West Sac Flood Protect has been planning and designing for the launch of the Southport Levee Improvement Project. The project improves a vulnerable stretch of levee along the Sacramento River in Southport. The first phase of the Southport Levee Project is construction of Village Parkway South, which is now underway. Village Parkway South will replace segments of South River Road; construction is anticipated to last nine months. The City of West Sacramento’s General Plan already identifies the construction of Village Parkway but due to the levee improvements, construction is starting 10 years earlier than previously anticipated. Construction of the sixmile levee improvement will start next summer. Also under construction this fall is a roadway project called Village Parkway North. Although not associated with the Southport Levee Project, the construction schedules overlap. When both roadway projects are complete next year, the new continuous Village Parkway will connect the Mike McGowan Bridge to Gregory Avenue. Source: West Sacramento City iLights


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