Arden-Carmichael News - March 24, 2016

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LIFELONG LOVER OF BASEBALL REMEMBERED See page 4

Carmichael Chamber crowns big guy Vlade ‘King’

Eastern Little League celebrates 60 years

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Camp Pollock re-opened for day use and special events Camp Pollock has been re-opened to the public for day use and special events. The road blocks at Northgate and 160 have been removed. Water on the entrance road to Pollock has receded. At this time access via Del Paso Boulevard remains closed.

Camp Pollock was temporarily closed due to rain and flooding on Northgate Boulevard and Del Paso Boulevard. High flows from surrounding creeks including Steelhead Creek, Arcade Creek and First Bannon Slough were the source of flooding. Flows from the American River, pictured, remain high, but are not the cause of flooding. We’re pleased to report that the 11 acres at Camp Pollock and the lodge are above water and were unaffected by the flooding. REI’s scheduled Wilderness First Aid course with NOLS Wilderness Medical Institute and a Boy Scout Overnighter scheduled for this weekend will not be affected.

Camp Pollock is located at 1501 Northgate Blvd. The courtyard and picnic tables are open for day use from Sunrise to Sunset every day of the week. The Lodge and Primitive Campsites are available to rent for special occasions for both public and private events.

Check our calendar of events and reservations tab for more information.

2016 riverside concert series at Camp Pollock announced

Join local bands for free concerts, surrounded by nature, in a peaceful outdoor setting.

The Sacramento Valley Conservancy hosts the Riverside Concert Series at Camp Pollock on the first Thursday of the month from April through September. Concerts start at 6 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m.

These family friendly concerts are open to the public and no charge to park or attend.

Bring your own picnic basket and blanket or camp chairs! Picnic tables are first come, first serve. Enjoy s’mores compliments of Sierra Service Project on April 4, April 23, May 5 and Sept. 1. Leashed dogs welcome.

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Hosted by the Sacramento Valley Conservancy. All donations directly benefit the Sacramento Valley Conservancy, whose mission is to protect Open Space for All of Us, with over 17,500 acres protected in the Sacramento valley. camp Pollock is located at 1501 northgate Blvd., Sacramento, ca, 95815 camp Pollock concert Series Featuring Home By Dark Date: Thursday, April 7 time: 6 to 8 p.m. earth Day Benefit concert at camp Pollock - tickets sold online Date: Saturday, April 23 time: Noon to 6 p.m. camp Pollock concert Series Featuring cat’s meow Date: Thursday, May 5 time: 6 to 8 p.m. camp Pollock concert Series Featuring It’s about time Date: Thursday, June 2 time: 6 to 8 p.m. camp Pollock concert Series Featuring larisa Bryski & crew Date: Thursday, June 16 time: 6 to 8 p.m. camp Pollock concert Series Featuring Sac youth Jazz Band/ river city Swingers Date: Thursday, July 7 time: 6 to 8 p.m. camp Pollock concert Series Featuring Hot Break Date: Thursday, August 4 time: 6 to 8 p.m. camp Pollock concert Series Featuring oh the Band Date: Thursday, Sept. 1 time: 6 to 8 p.m.

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Chamber Crowns Big Guy Vlade ‘King’

By Selwyn Brown Special to the ArdenCarmichael News

Women’s Empowerment receives $175,000 from the California Wellness Foundation The California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness) recently granted $175,000 to Women’s Empowerment. Funds will be given over three years to strengthen the Sacramento nonprofit’s workforce development strategies for women who are homeless, including women who are hardest to hire – those recently escaping domestic violence, single mothers with interrupted education who lack consistent work history, and those with misdemeanors or felonies on their record.

“Finding a job right now is hard, but when you’re a homeless woman it can feel impossible, especially when you’ve escaped domestic violence or made serious mistakes in your past,” said Lisa Culp, executive director, Women’s Empowerment. “We are grateful to Cal Wellness for recognizing these barriers to employment and understanding the powerful impact that work has on the health of a family.”

Women’s Empowerment’s initial eightweek program for women who are homeless addresses their basic needs such as health and housing while preparing them to become work-ready. The job-readiness component is predominantly taught by skilled volunteers from the community and includes computer literacy training, resumes, communication skills, mock interviews, dressing for success and learning to keep a job. Graduates who need additional training can enroll in Women’s Empowerment’s advanced job-readiness program that includes internships, paid job training, vocational certifications and more.

The grant also will support Women’s Empowerment’s The Get A Job Kit Training that provides paid on-the-job training for its graduates. The program trains women in the production, customer service, shipping and receiving industries, and includes experiential education, onValley Community Newspapers, Inc.

the-job training and active job development with employment specialists. Trainees assemble The Get A Job Kits to sell to customers across the country, including U.S. military organizations helping veterans transition into the civilian sector, technical schools and community colleges preparing students to face a competitive job market, employment counselors helping at-risk youth, and CalWORKS and Welfare to Work programs empowering mothers to become self- reliant.

The Get A Job Kit has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNBC, and in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

The project is funded in part by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation. Since its founding in 1992, Cal Wellness has awarded 7,690 grants totaling more than $912 million. The foundation’s Advancing Wellness grants program is grounded in research on the social determinants of health, which states that where people live and work, their race or ethnicity, and their income can impact their health and wellness.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Women’s Empowerment was recently featured on NBC’s TODAY Show as an innovation and effective solution to ending homelessness for women and their children. The 2014 Organization of the Year has graduated 1,297 homeless women and their 2,700 children. Last year, 93 percent of graduates found homes and 83 percent found jobs or enrolled in school or training. The program combines confidence-building courses, job training, health classes and support services to help homeless women across diverse ages, races and cultures. Women’s Empowerment is funded solely through private donations from the community. To donate online: www.womens-empowerment.org.

Carmichael Chamber of Commerce will celebrate a new culinary center and a new Person of the Year on April 8.

During the new Milagro Center’s first banquet event, basketball legend, humanitarian and former Carmichael resident Vlade Divac (proPictures by Susan Maxwell Skinner. nounced “Divacs”) Vlade Divac will be named Carmichael Person will be named 2016 of the Year on April 8. The basketball legend Person of the Year. is a former Carmichael resident. Pictured here Now general manag- towering over Kings fans, the giant hero is er for the Sacramento now Sacramento Kings manager.

Kings, the giant community figure will receive his award at the Chamber’s annual awards night.

“It’s my honor,” says the star. “I am proud to be part of the Carmichael community.”

Divac, 47, was a conquering hero for six seasons of the Sacramento Kings’ most winning years. The seven-foot Center has also scored for the LA Lakers and Charlotte Hornets. The Kings retired his purple and white jersey in 2009 and last year appointed him team mentor and manager. Divac enjoys near-royal adulation in his Balkan homeland.

Through his own charitable foundation and in cooperation with other Serbian agencies, he and his wife Snezana have raised millions to aid war-damaged children. On the Sacramento scene, he supports several children’s foundations and basketball camps for under privileged children.

“I try to use my name as a positive influence,” he explains. “In talking to children, I hope to share good values for their lives.”

What’s the Vlade/Carmichael connection? The area is like home turf for Serbian-born Divac, who recently expressed nostalgia for his old Kingsford Drive neighborhood. “Although I have lived in many places throughout my career,” he said, “Carmichael will always hold a special place in my heart. I am humbled to be named 2016 Person of the Year.”

Former Carmichael Persons of the Year include sportscaster Jerry Reynolds, baseball hero Dusty Baker, Supervisor Susan Peters, District Attorney Jan Scully, radio host Kitty O’Neal and Sheriff John McGinness.

The annual chamber fundraiser also hails achievers in business and community fields. Tiner Properties will be named Business of the Year. Founded in the 1970s and now under the leadership of Ben Tiner, (32) the Carmichael-based group is among Sacramento’s most prominent real estate firms.

State Farm Insurance agent Jennifer Knighten (33) will be hailed Young Professional of the Year award. Both Tiner and Knighten are active community volunteers, serving child, health and veteran charities.

The 54-year-old Carmichael Kiwanis Club will be acclaimed Non-profit of the Year. A portion of gala proceeds will be donated to this organization.

Anyone may attend April 8 celebrations at the Milagro Centre’s convention room. The facility is located at 6241 Fair Oaks Blvd. Tickets are $75 to $100 per person for a threecourse dinner and no-host bar. The event begins at 6 p.m.

Advance reservations are required and sponsorships are invited. For information, call 481-1002 or visit www.camichaelchamber.com. www.valcomnews.com • March 24, 2016 • Arden-Carmichael News

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Billy Rico looks over a baseball in front of his former residence in the historic Riverside area of Sacramento.

Billy Rico: Lifelong lover of baseball remembered

Rico was player-manager of Carmichael Firemen’s 1946 Canadian-American ‘World’s Series’ champions

By Lance Armstrong

Special to Valley Community Newspapers

Former Sacramento area resident William F. “Billy” Rico died at the age of 93 on Feb. 18, leaving a legacy as a lifelong lover of baseball.

More than a half-century ago, Rico was a member of a locally famous championship baseball team.

In 1946, he both managed and played for the Carmichael Firemen baseball team, which was sponsored by Carmichael Fire Department Chief Dan Donovan and won the first Canadian-American “World’s Series” for Non-Professional Baseball.

“We were world champions (of non-professional baseball),” Rico recalled in 2011. “Winning that ‘World’s Series’ really sticks in my mind.”

Despite finishing in second place in the 48-team semipro tournament, the Sacramento County League champion Firemen were invited to compete for the international title, since See Rico, page 7

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Library events carmichael library The hours for the Carmichael Library, 5605 Marconi Ave., are, as follows: Sunday: noon 5 p.m.; Monday: Closed; Tuesday and Wednesday: 10 a.m. 8 p.m.; Thursday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Friday: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For details, telephone the Sacramento Public Library at (916) 264-2920 or visit www. saclibrary.org. knitwits (adult) Friday, april 1 at 11 a.m.: Do you knit? Crochet? Do needlework? Want to learn?

Are you an expert who can help others? Bring a project to work on and a snack to share as we learn together! carmichael teen Book club (teen) Friday, april 1 at 3:30 p.m.: Love to read. Join other teens discussing their favorite books. Pick one of our suggestions or read your own choice. Please bring a snack and share your insights.

Backyard composting (adult) Saturday, april 2 at 10 a.m.: This class on backyard composting will cover topics such as the value of compost, types of compost bins, building a compost pile using hot and cold techniques and ways to use compost. Presented by the Master Gardener Compost Education Team tech & ereader Help Saturday, april 2 at 2 p.m.: Need help with your computer, tablet or other mobile device? Want to learn how to read or listen to books & magazines on your device?

Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & passwords related to your device (library card, email, etc).

Introduction to microsoft word 2010 (adult) Sunday, april 3 at 9 a.m.: This is a 4 week class. In this course you will learn valuable word processing skills like creating, saving and retrieving documents; inserting and deleting text; formatting text; and using cut, copy and paste. Before you take this course, you should have some experience with the Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

computer and the Windows operating system. Class consists of four two-hour sessions.

You must be willing to commit to ALL four sessions! Classes will start on Sunday April 3 @ 9 am. Following classes are Sunday April 10 @ 9 am, Sunday April 17 @ 9 am and Sunday April 24 @ 9 am. Registration is required. This is an OASIS Connections class.

about! Coloring pages and color pencils will be provided, or bring your own. Light refreshments will be served.

tech & ereader Help wednesday, april 6 at 5 p.m.: Need help with your computer, tablet or other mobile device? Want to learn how to read or listen to books & magazines on your device?

Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & read to a Dog (School age passwords related to your de(6-12)) vice (library card, email, etc). tuesday, april 5 at 3:30 p.m.: Specially trained therapy dogs History Book club are waiting for children to wednesday, april 6 at 6:30 come read to them. For school p.m.: The Carmichael Library age children that can read. We History Book Club meets supply the books or you may monthly to discuss a non-ficbring your own book to read tion or historical fiction book. to the dogs. The books should Help us decide which is truer: be able to be read in 5 - 10 fact or fiction! Please bring a minutes. After 10 sessions, the snack to share and join us as we reader is awarded a free book. dive into history books. This month’s title is Ladies of Liberadult coloring Program ty : the women who shaped our (adult) nation by Cokie Roberts. tuesday, april 5 at 6 p.m.

Adult Coloring Night. Like toddler Storytime (early to color? Think it’s only for childhood (0-5)) kids? Think again! Come Thursday, april 7 at 11:15 and enjoy coloring time just a.m.: Join Miss Kathy for stofor you. Find out why color- ries, songs and just plain fun! ing for adults is quickly becoming a great way to spend carmichael movie matinee your time. It’s relaxing, stress- (Family/all ages) reducing and most of all, fun. Thursday, april 7 at 3 p.m.: Come and see what it’s all Bring your friends and enjoy a

movie - Free! Visit Carmichael Library for a list of up-coming movie titles. Today’s movie is The Man from U.N.C.L.E. PG 13 © Warner Bros. knitwits (adult) Friday, april 8 at 11 a.m.: Do you knit? Crochet? Do needlework? Want to learn?

Are you an expert who can help others? Bring a project to work on and a snack to share as we learn together!

Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & passwords related to your device (library card, email, etc). read to a Dog (School age (6-12)) tuesday, april 12 at 3:30 p.m.: Specially trained therapy dogs are waiting for children to come read to them.

For school age children that can read. We supply the books or you may bring your own book to read to the dogs.

The books should be able to be read in 5 - 10 minutes. After 10 sessions, the reader is awarded a free book.

after School Book club (School age (6-12)) Friday, april 8 at 4 p.m.: Join us on the Second Friday of every month to talk about the book, play trivia games, and have fun! This month’s book is Into the Wild (Warriors #1) by Erin Hunter. tech & ereader Help tuesday, april 12 and carmichael Second Satur- wednesday, april 13 at 5 day audio Book club p.m.: Need help with your Saturday, april 9 at 10 a.m.: computer, tablet or other moIs this a good book? Is this bile device? Want to learn a good audio book? Bring a how to read or listen to books snack and your perceptions & magazines on your device? to share as we discuss the sto- Come and get help from our ry. This month’s title is Dead Tech Assistant! Walk-ins Wake: The Last Crossing of welcome! No appointment the Lusitania by Erik Larson; required. **Please come with read by Scott Brick. any account information & passwords related to your detech & ereader Help vice (library card, email, etc).

Saturday, april 9 at 2 p.m.: Need help with your com- toddler Storytime (early puter, tablet or other mobile childhood (0-5)) device? Want to learn how Thursday, april 14 at 11:15 to read or listen to books & a.m.: Join Miss Kathy for stomagazines on your device? ries, songs and just plain fun!

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Police Log The news items below are collected from police dispatchers’ notes and arrest reports. The information in them has often not been verified beyond the initial reports. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

a local hospital for unrelated circumstances.

Officers made contact with the missing female and child at the hospital who were found safe.

(DUI Arrest & Injury Accident): 1300 block of Bell Avenue at 5:44 p.m.

Officers responded to an injury accident and found that the driver had rear ended another vehicle causing complaint of pain to the passenger in the other vehicle. The driver who rearended the stopped vehicle was found to be intoxicated and booked for DUI related charges.

Reporting date: March 8 (Stolen Vehicle): Redwood Ave / Fairfield St at 3:49 p.m.

Officers were patrolling the area in an LPR equipped vehicle when they were alerted to a possibly stolen car. Officers contacted the occupants of the vehicle, confirmed that it had been stolen, and arrested an adult occupant on stolen Reporting date: March 11 vehicle charges.

(Burglary Alarm): 2300 block of Del Paso Boulevard Reporting date: March 9 at 12:25 a.m.

(Assault): 800 block of El Officers responded to a Camino at 6:44 a.m. ringing alarm. Upon arrivThe victim was in the al, K-9 searched the location above area when an un- and located a suspect inknown male suspect as- side. The suspect complied saulted the victim causing and surrendered without ina non-life threatening in- cident. The subject was arjury. The victim returned rested for burglary related home and contacted offi- charges as well as a probacers. The victim was trans- tion violation. ported to a local hospital by the Sacramento Fire Reporting date: March 12 Department. The investi- (Assault): 300 block of Silgation remains active. ver Eagle Drive at 2:40 a.m.

Officers responded to the Reporting date: March 10 residence regarding a re(Missing Person): 800 block port of an assault. The vicof San Juan Road at 2:05 tim was assaulted by a famp.m. ily member who prevented A husband reported that her from leaving the home his wife and child went following an altercation. missing.

Officers con- Officers arrived on scene, ducted follow-up investi- conducted follow-up, but gation and found the MP did not locate the suspect. and their child had gone to A report was generated.

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Reporting date: March 15 (Firearm Arrest): Norwood Avenue at Silver Eagle Road at 3:33 p.m.

An officer was hailed by a witness who observed two juveniles with a gun near the railroad tracks near Ford Road. Officers received information that one of the suspects carrying the handgun hid it next to the water.

Officer detained two juveniles in the area. K9 was utilized and conducted an article search of the area. A loaded handgun was located by the dog. One of the juveniles was booked at Juvenile Hall on weapons related charges.

Reporting date: March 16 (Marijuana Grow): 100 block of Arcade Boulevard at 5:20 p.m.

Officers responded to the call of a disturbance. The victim was home when three known subjects forced entry into the residence, assaulted the victim and stole miscellaneous property. The suspects fled prior to officers arriving on scene. It was later determined the victim was operating a marijuana grow. A report was generated.

(Assault): 2600 block of Albatross Way at 8:06 p.m.

The victim was inside the above residence when a known roommate assaulted him. The Sacramento Fire Department responded to address the victim’s non-life threatening injuries. Officers located the suspect who was safely detained and ultimately arrested for assault.

Reporting date: March 17 (Bait Bike Activation): 800 block of Arden Way at 4:02 p.m.

Officers responded to the call of a bait bike activation. When officers arrived in the area, they located a male suspect in possession of the stolen bicycle. The man was issued a citation and released.

Officers were dispatched to the area to assist security who was attempting to break up a fight between several individuals. One of the security guards sustained a nonlife-threatening injury during the effort. Officers arrived and cited an adult male for (Pursuit): Arcade Blvd / battery and a report was genMarysville Boulevard at erated.

4:40 p.m.

Officers were on patrol in (Homicide Investigation): 3700 the above area when they ob- block of Clay St at 10:04 served a motorcyclist driving a.m. recklessly. When officers atOfficers responded tempted to stop the rider, a to a residence for a welpursuit ensued. After a short fare check. Upon arrivdistance, the rider struck a al, officers located an unrefence. The rider and his pas- sponsive female adult who senger were safely detained. had sustained traumatNo injuries were reported. ic injuries. SFD responded The suspect was arrested for and pronounced the wommultiple charges. an deceased. The woman did not appear to have Reporting date: March 19 died of natural causes. A (Bait Bike Arrest): 2500 homicide investigation was block of Del Paso Boulevard initiated. No arrests have at 6:01 a.m. yet been made and the inOfficers responded to the vestigation is ongoing. area regarding the theft of an SPD bait bicycle. Up- (Domestic Violence): 1500 block on arrival, officers contact- of Nogales Street at 6:08 ed 25-year-old Christopher p.m.

Haase with the bait bike Officers responded to a reand arrested him for theft, port of a domestic dispute at possession of stolen prop- a residence. Upon arrival, oferty, and possession of bur- ficers contacted the victim glary tools. who had sustained a non-lifethreatening injury. Officers (Robbery): 2400 block of Del located the suspect at anothPaso Boulevard at 7:28 p.m. er location nearby and arrestOfficers responded a busi- ed her on domestic violence ness on reports of a robbery charges. that just occurred. The unknown suspects were observed (Subject Stop): American River shoplifting by security. When Bike Trail at 9:11 a.m. security attempted to detain Officers were patrolling the them, the suspects became bike trail and surrounding combative and ultimately fled areas when they contacted a the area on foot. A report was group of subjects. A search generated. of one of the subjects revealed live ammunition in their Reporting date: March 20 possession. The suspect was (Battery): 1600 block of West arrested for unlawful posEl Camino Avenue at 1:12 session of ammunition and a a.m. warrant.

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the first place, St. Joseph, Mich. team, which included several former major league players, could not compete in the series because of its need to fulfill league obligations.

The Carmichael team did not disappoint their many hometown fans, as they won the seven-game series, which was held at Lawrence Stadium in Wichita, Kan., in five games.

In the final game of the series – an 8-2 Firemen’s victory against a team from Windsor, Ontario, Canada on Sept.

10, 1946 – Rico contributed two hits, scored one run and batted in two runs.

The Wichita Beacon’s next day coverage of that final game includes the following words: “Carmichael had two big three-run innings, scoring in the fifth on a walk and a hit, then Rico’s single brought in two runs after two were out.

Following the game, trophies were presented both teams.

The Coleman, for the winners, went to Bill Rico, manager of the California club.”

Rico was named the tournament’s most outstanding manager, and Les Lollis, the team’s only African-American player, was recognized as the tournament’s most valuable player.

Rico, during his 2011 interview, commented about what it was like winning that championship.

“It was really great,” he said.

“We had a good bunch of guys.

It was a great ball club. It was a tough (tournament). You take them Texas ball clubs and the Oklahoma ball clubs, they’re tough people. I mean, when they slide into you, you know it. They hit you hard.”

Rico said that his return home from the tournament was also a very memorable experience for himself and other members of the team.

After arriving by train to Stockton, the team was escorted by the California Highway Patrol to the state Capitol, where bands were playing and a large crowd had gathered to greet the team.

Rico fondly spoke about that experience.

“Coming to Sacramento and getting the reception that we did was really great,” he said. “There were about 2,000 people at the state Capitol and the governor (Earl Warren) was there to greet us.”

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Following the gathering at the Capitol, a party was held for the team at Donovan’s Corner, a business owned by Donovan.

The following year, the Firemen placed fourth in the same tournament, which had been expanded to 52 teams.

In a remembrance article about the team 25 years later, Marco Smolich, sports editor of The Sacramento Bee wrote that the Carmichael Firemen “must be considered the most successful bush baseball club in this area’s history.”

Rico, who was one of the six children of Joe and Delfina Rico, who were immigrants of the island of Terceira in the Azores Islands of Portugal, explained that baseball became a very important part of his life during his grammar school years.

“I first played baseball when I was 8 or 9 years old down on (the old Riverside Road/present day Pocket Road) in the school yard at the Lower Lisbon School,” he said.

“There was also another place that I played baseball back then. Joe Freitas (who later became the manager of the local Julius Style Shop-sponsored, bush league team), and his brother Jess, they were alter boys in the (St. Mary) Church (on today’s Pocket Road) down there and they played in their cow pasture across the road and a short distance northeast from the church.

“I used to go down there and play and do a lot of catching without a mask. I never did get hit though. And some of the grown ups used to play and I used to play with them.

That was (about a mile away) from our house and we used to have to walk up there.”

Rico attracted the attention of Sacramento Union writer Vincent F. Stanich, who gifted him his first pair of baseball spikes.

In about 1936, Rico moved with his family to 1704 O St., and he eventually began attending Christian Brothers School at 2535 21st Street at Broadway.

“I started there (at Christian Brothers) in grammar school in the sixth grade,” he recalled.

“I played baseball at Christian Brothers in grammar school and in high school. I played second and third base. We were good in 1939 in my first year (in high school). We had a real good team (that was led by its coach, Bud Hanna, and

its top player, Wally Westlake). We only lost two games (to Marysville High School), but we also beat (Marysville High) twice in the same season.”

Rico, who also played in summer league games during his youth, related an experience he had with Westlake during a Christian Brothers baseball team practice. “(Westlake) was a big guy,” he said. “I remember throwing batting practice and I hit him one day.”

In response, Westlake told Rico that he was going to hit a line drive right at him.

“And he did, too,” Rico said. “But luckily I got out of the way. We had a lot of fun back then.”

Christian Brothers home baseball games during that era were played at William Land Park and the Stanford Playground – present day Stanford Park – at 28th and C streets.

Rico’s father died at the age of 59 on March 9, 1929 after being kicked by a horse and in order to help support his family, Rico opted to drop out of high school prior to his senior year and acquire employment at McClellan Field.

While later working at the Shasta Dam, Rico played a season for the Redding Tigers of the Sacramento Valley League, which also included the Marysville Giants and the Chico Colts.

In 1944, Rico played a halfa-season for the Pacific Coast League’s Oakland Oaks.

Residing in Sacramento once again, Rico, in addition to his time with the Carmichael Firemen, played and managed the Ed Sparks-sponsored Muir-Acme club in the Winter League until 1951.

He also played on champion-

Photo courtesy of Billy Rico

Billy Rico, center, shakes hands with Gov. Earl Warren following the Carmichael Firemen’s world semipro baseball championship in 1946.

ship teams in the city’s Recreation Department’s Municipal Twilight Softball League during the same era.

After his baseball playing years, Rico, who was married to his now-late wife, Alberta “Bertie” G. (Camillo) Rico, for 65 years, worked as a city park maintenance worker from 1952 to 1984. And more specifically, Rico said that he was mainly in charge of the ball diamonds at William Land Park.

Rico, a longtime, dedicated fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, remained a lover of baseball throughout his life. And he could frequently be found watching televised Major League Baseball games and adding to his rich knowledge of the game and its players.

Thinking back on his years as a baseball player, in 2011, Rico, who was a longtime member of Sacramento Elks Lodge No. 6, said, “Those were very memorable times

for me. I would never change them for anything. It was the greatest time of my life.”

A celebration of the life of Rico was held at Holy Spirit Church.

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Little league opening day celebrated in Carmichael

By Steve Liddick

Photo by Steve Liddick

Juniors Division player Draven Forssell pitches to teammate Brandan Door. Draven is new to Little League, but Brandan has been playing since the age of four.

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Several hundred young Little League ballplayers, their parents and supporters gathered to kick off the first day of the 60th Eastern Little League baseball season. The day began with a pancake breakfast at Carmichael’s Mullins Field on the Starr King Elementary School complex.

Young people dash around the field; equal parts of typical youthful exuberance and the invigorating effects of the chill of a March morning.

“There are 26 teams,” Van Sarantis said. Sarantis is the Eastern Little League Vice President and a former president. “The divisions include T-Ball (4-6year-olds), Minor B (7-8), Minor A (9-10), Major (11-12), Juniors (13-14), and a transitional Intermediate division that includes 11, 12, and 13-year-olds.”

Blue and white uniformed youngsters have been taking to the field since the Eastern Little League started in 1956.

The event could be described as an American microcosm. “Nothing more Americana than this,” Mike Huetter said, as he and his wife, Robyn, enjoyed sausages and chocolate chip pancakes. Huetter is a coach and a volunteer fundraiser for the league.

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Hundreds gathered in Carmichael for the first day of the baseball season and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Eastern Little League. Opening day started off with a sausage and pancake breakfast.

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of younger members; wiping melted chocolate chips off their faces, cutting their sausages into bite-sized pieces . . . and all the other things parents have always done for those not long out of their playpens. “ Tie your shoelaces,” a parent calls out to a running boy.

Little league is all inclusive. In the 30 years since girls were brought into the program, 18 female players from throughout the nation have made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Color is no barrier either.

That is evident as kids of all ethnic backgrounds run, play, and engage in animated conversations together.

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“We don’t turn any kids away,” league sponsorship director Kyle Hergert said.

Hergert is also a manager.

To ensure that no one is left out, he says scholarships are available for youngsters who need help.

A boy rides by on a bicycle. You can tell he is serious about the sport because he has two baseball bats in scabbards attached to his backpack.

Later in the morning the teams will assemble on the fields assigned to their particular league, ranging in size from the same dimensions the big leagues use to tiny T-Ball fields.

Little League has been a big part of Elijah Rogalski’s life. He is 11-years-old and has been playing since T-Ball at the age of four.

He can point proudly to ten home runs in his career.

Manager Kyle Hergert said, “We built a safety fence to protect the T-Ball field from guys like this who hit them over the fence.”

Eight-year-old Sofia Hoffman is a Minor B Division “Rockies” player. But she won’t be playing for awhile.

She came to the event in uniform, but a twisted ankle has her on crutches. “I’m gonna watch,” she said.

“Friendly” is the key word when describing the competition among the teams, although five-and-a-half-yearold first-year T-Ball player Devin Ward put a somewhat tougher spin on it when he said, “I don’t know if there are any Giants here because the Giants are icky.”

Don’t forget that half-year Devin always adds to his age.

That extra half is very important to a little boy impatient to be grown up.

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“Guys like this hit them over the fence,” Kyle Hergert said of 11-year-old Elijah Rogalski. Hergert says a safety fence had to be built to protect little T-Ball players from balls sent their way by power hitters like Elijah, who has been playing in Little League since he was four-years-old and has ten home runs to his credit.

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Matías Bombal’s Hollywood EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

This film has not been rated.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has a studio logo not unlike like the classic Toho-Scope logo of the Golden Era. In glorious black and white, it sets the stage for remarkable cinematography to follow that will show you a world that you literally have never seen before: the Amazon River in Colombia. The movie’s Spanish language title is “Abrazo de la Serpiente” (“Embrace of the Serpent”) You’ve never seen the Amazon in this way: lyrical, poetic and mysterious in rich black and white tones.

In this captivating visual experience, we are told a story of the Amazon in an entirely new way. From the perspective of a native Colombian of the Amazon, Karamakate.

Karamakate is played by two men over different periods in time, yet in both, he leads a white man as a guide in search of flora and fauna of the Amazon, and in particular the rare health restorative plant “Yakruna” a hallucinogen vine, epiphyte of the rubber tree. The sap of trees on which it grows is of higher purity. Karamakate the younger is played by Nilbio Torres, a 30year-old actor who speaks little Spanish as he mostly speaks Cubeo. This is his first movie. He had previously worked in agriculture. The elder Karamakate is played by Antonio Bolívar Salvador. Bolívar in real life is one of the last survivors of the Ocaina people. Besides playing one of the main characters, he also served as interpreter for the Tikuna, Cubeo, Huitoto languages and even English, as he became a teacher of the international actors.

The “white men” of the movie visit the famous snake shaped river as have others in movies past, with in interest in rubber or natural history. The movie cuts between the two tales set apart by many years. This gives you the non-traditional sense of timelessness of the Amazon and how the indigenous folks that live there view time and space; not at all as in western thought. It becomes clear in the narrative that the natives view both white explores as one man, one spirit and not two.

The movie begins to tell of a 1909 Illness of Thedor von Martius, ( Jan Bijvoet) based Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

on real life German explorer Theodor Koch Grünberg (1878-1924). “Martius” was snagged by this illness while trekking through the Amazon. One native begrudgingly agreed to help him search for a special plant to help him.

The real Koch-Grünberg wrote: “It is impossible to know if the infinite jungle has initiated in me the process that has taken so many others to total and incurable insanity If that is the case, it only remains for me to excuse myself and ask your comprehension, for the display I witnessed in those enchanted hours was such that I find it impossible to describe in words of its beauty and splendor. All I know is when I came back, I was another man.”

This is a movie of three personal journeys against all odds and nature and the wonder that is the Amazon. David Gallego’s photography is a character in the movie, just as timeless and complex as the river and its now lost peoples.

After the main title appears on screen, our second “white man” (Brionne Davis), also German and a student of Martius appears with reflex 1950s camera offering a clue to the time period of his part of the story. He is Evan, and based on the real life person Richard Evans Schultes (19152017). He meets the meets older Karamakate, who sees in him the same soul of the man that he had taken through the

wilds so many years earlier.

They revisit spots seen in the earlier journey with startling differences that have occurred over time. In one such case, the initial visit was to a Catholic mission. The later visit shows it overrun by cannibals in a harrowing and remarkable sequence.

In one scene of profound Karamakate wisdom of the jungle, Martinus’s compass is stolen by natives, and he insists on keeping it. He’d not escape with his life if he were to persist, and is advised to just leave as Karamakate says: “You can’t forbid them to learn. Knowledge belongs to all men.”

The travel diaries of Theodor Koch Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes are recognized today as the only known records of large portions of Amazon cultures.

The movie was nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards, but lost to “Son of Saul”. The film’s director, Ciro Guerra, risked life and limb with

cast and crew by taking motion picture film cameras on lactation in the real Amazon.

He released this statement: “Whenever I looked at a map of my country, I was overwhelmed by great uncertainty.

Half of it was an unknown territory, a green sea, of which I knew nothing.

The Amazon, that unfathomable land, which we foolishly reduce to simple concepts. Coke, drugs, Indians, rivers, war.

Is there really nothing more out there?

Is there not a culture, a history?

Is there not a soul that transcends?

The explorers taught me otherwise.

Those men who left everything, who risked everything, to tell us about a world we could not imagine.

Those who made first contact, During one of the most vicious

holocausts man has ever seen.

Can man, through science and art, transcend brutality? Some men did.

The explorers have told their story.

The natives haven’t.

This is it.

A land the size of a whole continent, yet untold. Unseen by our own cinema.

That Amazon is lost now.

In the cinema, it can live again.”

This movie is a stunning and remarkable experience into another world and time reality so unlike our own.

Beguiling, yet hard to comprehend, I was fascinated and horrified, enchanted and frightened. I’d never had the desire to see the Amazon in person, the snakes alone would make me expire at their mere sight. Yet this was a remarkable look at a life so foreign on our own planet and the famous river that has lured adventure since it beckoned discovery to the first intrepid souls that tried to unravel her mysteries.

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Matsuyama Elementary School will have a Mobile Clothing Drive Fundraiser There will be a Mobile Drop Box on campus at 7680 Windbridge Drive, Sacramento from March 8-21. Donations can be dropped off 24/7. This fundraiser promotes recycling, gives back to the local community AND raises money for our school.

ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF: Usable clothing (all sizes), shoes, jewelry, belts, purses, backpacks, bedding and linens, toys, DVDs, and other small non-breakable items.

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Sutter’s Fort looking for volunteers Do you have an interest in early Sacramento history? Do you get excited at the idea of dressing up in Pioneer clothing, churning butter, or making barrels? If so, volunteering at the birthplace of the city of Sacramento may be just for you! Sutter’s Fort will

soon begin Docent training classes for those interested in interpreting pioneer California history to the public. For more information about training dates and requirements, please contact volunteer coordinator Llonel Onsurez at (916) 323-2015 or llonel.onsurez@parks.ca.gov.

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Free trees Sacramento Tree Foundation, in partnership with SMUD, provides free expert tree selection advice and energy saving shade trees to SMUD customers. Call the Sacramento Tree Foundation at (916) 924-8733 or email shadetrees@sactree.com to make your appointment to receive up to 10 free shade trees.

Your appointment can be online or in person and an expert Community Forester will work with you to find the best places and tree varieties to plant that will provide the most shade for your home. About two weeks after your appointment, once you agree to the planting plan, your trees, stakes and ties will be delivered to you. This is a free service provided in partnership

by SMUD and Sacramento Tree Foundation to help SMUD customers save ener-

gy. For more information, call Sacramento Tree Foundation at (916) 924-8733 or visit www.sactree.com. Properly planted trees can save help you save up to 40 percent on summer cooling costs, increase your property value, clean the air, reduce stormwater flooding, and make your neighborhood a better place to live. Call Sacramento Tree Foundation at (916) 924-8733 or visit www.sactree. com for your free trees.

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Sons In Retirement (SIR) Branch #93 Luncheon programs are held on the third Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at Elks Lodge No.6. SIR is a luncheon club with 141 branches and a membership of 18,000 men who are retired from full-time employment. Activities included weekly golf tournaments and bowling league teams.

For more information or an application call Chairman Dick West at 919-3858.

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Free Yoga Night at Sacramento State Sacramento State’s The University Union UNIQUE Programs is pleased to announce an evening of relaxing yoga with fitness instructions from The WELL at Sacramento State on Thursday, March 17, 2016 starting 7:30 p.m. in The University Union Ballroom. The event is free for Sac State students and the general public. The first half hour will be an introduction to yoga for beginners. Immediately following will be yoga appropriate for all fitness levels. Yoga will develop inner and outer strength, increase stamina and flexibility and help you get centered through a blend of different yoga traditions. This class links body, breath and mind with focus on alignment. Co-spon-

sored with Group Fitness at The WELL, the campus recreation and fitness facility at Sacramento State. For more information, please visit www.SacStateUNIQUE. com or call the University Union Info Desk at 278-6997.

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The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society (STJS) monthly music event Every second Sunday of the month, STJS has music at the Elks Lodge No. 6, 6446 Riverside Blvd., from noon to 5 p.m. Each month STJS has a different bands, there is three different rooms to listen to music.

Nominal fee for members is $8; non-member price is $10.

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Nar-Anon meeting for families and friends The group meets to learn about drug abuse, share problems, encourage the addict to seek help, replace despair with hope, improve the family attitude, help regain your self-confidence. For more information, call the First United Methodist Church at 446-5025, ext.

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Rotary Club South meeting The Rotary Club of South Sacramento meets at noon for lunch every Thursday at Aviators Restaurant at Executive Airport,6151 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95822. Rotary is one of the largest service organizations in the world dedicated to community service both locally, and internationally. Please call JR Springer at 4259195 for additional information.

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Beginning tai chi gong These exercises use the principle of chi flowing properly throughout the body to maintain the equilibrium of yin and yang. Regular practice of these forms will develop better balance and flexibility, gain strength, promote deep relaxation, and improve health. This beginning class will also learn the 24 Yang Style Tai Chi and Yi Jing, a traditional Health Qi Gong. Pre-registration and prepayment required or $7 drop-in fee at the door. Class will be held on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00 pm at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call (916)393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

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Soroptimist International Sacramento South Meets the second and fourth Tuesday at Executive Airport, Aviators Restaurant at 12:15 p.m.

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Widow persons monthly buffet and social Widowed Persons Association of California, Newcomers’ Buffet and Social is open to any and all widows and widowers, the third Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m.

The buffet will be held in the private dining room at the Plaza Hof Brau, corner of El Camino and Watt Avenue, cost varies as the choice is from a no-host buffet menu. There is no charge to attend the social other than the meal chosen. For more information, call 916 972-9722. Widowed Persons Association of California, Sunday Support, is open to any and all widows or widowers, every Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. in the meeting room of the WPAC office, 2628 El Camino Avenue, Ste. D-18. Enter from the back parking lot. For more information, call 916 972-9722. Saturday, Nov. 7, Widowed Persons Association of California Workshop, “Coping with the Holidays,” 2 to 4 p.m., the doors open at 1:30 p.m.. A second session will be held Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. The workshops will take place at 2628 El Camino Ave., Ste. D-18. Enter from the back parking lot. For more information or to register, call 972-9722.

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Soroptimist International of Sacramento meeting Soroptimist International of Sacramento meets Fridays at 11:30 a.m. at Casa Garden Restaurant. Open to all who want to improve the lives of Women and Children. See www.soroptimistsacramento.org for more information.

March Music at noon March 30: Free music programs, offered at Westminster Presbyterian See Calendar, page 15

To the members of the 1966 class of C.K. McClatchy High School 50 year REUNION is in October 2016.

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SAVE THE DATE! 67th Sacramento High School Reunion Class of 1949

Saturday, September 10, 2016 11 A.m. - 3 p.m.

Contacts: Joyce Cowan at cowan_j@sbcglobal.net and Vera Malkovich at borka@comcast.net

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Crockett-Deane Ballet & Deane Dance Center present…

“The Story of Sleeping Beauty” Fri. April 15 at 8 a.m. (Act III only) Sat April 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Sun April 17 at 2 p.m.

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Continued from page 14 Church at noon on Wednesdays. This week enjoy music by Free music programs, offered at Westminster Presbyterian Church at noon on Wednesdays.

This week enjoy music by a nostalgic swing band.

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KVIE Public Television Presents KVIE Uncorked, An Evening with Frankie Moreno March 31: Las Vegas Headliner of the Year Frankie Moreno, accompanied by his band mates and back-up singers, will perform at KVIE Uncorked, on Thursday, March 31, 2016, from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. at the KVIE Studios in Sacramento. Open to the community, KVIE Uncorked, An Evening with Frankie Moreno, is a special night benefiting KVIE Public Television and celebrating food, wine, beer, and music. Guests can enter a raffle for wonderful prizes, enjoy delicious refreshments, and experience the fun sound of Frankie Moreno – all while supporting local public television. General admission guests will enjoy the studio concert and a dessert reception. Tickets are $75 for general admission. VIP guests can enjoy a pre-show reception, meet and greet with the band, studio concert, and post-show acoustic set in the courtyard. VIP tickets are $150. The VIP pre-show reception opens at 7 p.m.

To purchase tickets, or for more information, visit kvie.org/uncorked.

dere. Sale hours on Saturday will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a preview and sale on Friday April 1 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for Friends members only (You can join at the door for $15).

Income from the sale helps pay for programs, equipment, and materials local libraries need but can’t afford. With more books constantly needed, the Friends will be glad to have yours, too.

See a staff member on how to donate.

The book store will also be open during the sale as well as weekly on Thursdays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Items there are priced from $1 up. For more information, call 731-8493 or go to bookden@saclibfriends.org.

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Healing Arts Festival Supporting Sacramento SPCA at Their First 2-Day Event April 2-3: The Healing Arts Festival will be holding its first of two events this year – this time a 2-day event. They will be collecting donations and fundraising for the Sacramento SPCA. The Healing Arts Festival, a metaphysical, spiritual, and holistic expo has been a staple in the Sacramento community since 1999. After changing ownership in late 2014 the event continued to expand. Now, for the first time, it will be a 2-day event allowing people to come to both days with one admission. The Sacramento SPCA has been a favorite fundraiser for the attendees and exhibitors of the Healing Arts

Festival. This will be the third spring in a row they will be collecting donations for this cause. Last year the event added the SPCA mobile adoption van so that people may see who they are supporting and maybe adopt a friend. This year the mobile pet adoption will be available on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Healing Arts Festival will take place at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center at 6151 H St. On Saturday, April 2, the event will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The attendance fee is $5 for the weekend or free with an item donation. The Sacramento SPCA’s wish list is available on the Healing Arts Festival’s website (www.healingartsfestival.com/fundraising-community-support) Financial gifts above the $5 entrance fee are always welcome. For more information about this fundraising event, please visit the Healing Arts Festival website at www.healingartsfestival.com.

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Ching Ming celebrated at East Lawn cemeteries April 2-3: Ching Ming is an important time of ritual and honor for the Asian culture. In celebration of Ching Ming, all three East Lawn cemeteries will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition, in each park from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. there will be raffle prizes and free giveaways. At East Lawn Elk Grove Memorial Park on Saturday only, there will also be a Buddhist Monk officiating from Sacramento

True Buddhist Temple. Guests are welcome to ask the Buddhist Monk questions. This is a free service. Please come and honor your loved ones on these two special days.

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Vox Musica Vocal/Choral Workshop April 1: From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Beatnik Studios, this workshop will be open to institutions as well as individuals.

You will have the opportunity to be enriched with Vox Musica’s arts resources, hands on demonstrations, engaging activities, group singing, and professional musical presentations. Participants will learn about choral and vocal singing and brief historical description of vocal styles and history as the voices of Vox Musica offer their musical presentations that will bring music to life through song, instruments, demonstrations, and participatory activities. Vox is honored to be supporting music education in our community.

Later that day there will be the third annual 2015/16 New Music Composition Competition. Local Sacramento composers of any age, gender, creed, or nationality may submit compositions for women’s chamber choir. In honor of our Tenth Anniversary we wanted to focus our contribute to our community compositions that are influenced by or based on Sacramento themes, text, poets/poetry, or history. The winning compositions will be featured in a public performance. In addition, the ensemble’s top choice, will be considered for

a publishing opportunity. Each winning piece will be performed in their entirety on Vox Musica’s Concert on May 22. Submission deadline: April 1.

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Vox to present an evening of chant and poetry with DECEM April 2-3: Join Vox for an intimate evening of chant and poetry with DECEM: A Hildegard Vespers, a concert focusing on the music of medieval prophetic visionary and composer, Hildegard Von Bingen. Besides being considered some of the finest music produced in the Middle Ages, Hildegard’s melodies are connected very closely to the emotions of the text. Collaborating with us on this project is Diana Silva a “scholar of medieval music” who will be contributing to our project with performance practice ideas and will be supporting Vox by playing the Vielle. This performance will offer our patrons a unique opportunity for repose, reflection, and renewal through music and word. DECEM, April 2nd and 3rd, will be a musical and spiritual journey unlike anything experienced before.

April 2 at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament (1017 11th St.) and April 3 at 7 p.m. at Beatnik Studios (723 S St.) (Tickets are $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at: www.VoxMusica.net/ProjectThree) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

April Yee Fow: Chinese Pioneers: The Old City Cemetery Committee presents a tour that explores Sacramento’s Chinese pioneers April 2: The Chinese immigrants to California endured more discriminatory laws and taxes than any other ethnic group, but managed to maintain their community in the face of tremendous organized opposition, legal and otherwise. Old City Cemetery Committee will introduce you to Chinese doctors, merchants, boxers, baseball players, church-goers and gangsters. The cemetery is located at 1000 Broadway, Sacramento. There is ample free street parking on surrounding streets, with limited parking within the cemetery. Tours are free; however, donations are appreciated and benefit cemetery preservation. For more information, call 448-0811. The mission of the OCCC is to join hands with the community to restore, beautify, preserve, and protect the Historic City Cemetery, while maintaining access by descendants of the deceased, and to provide educational services to all visitors to the Historic City Cemetery of Sacramento. The tour starts at 10 a.m.

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Over 100,000 “Gently Used” Books Available at Friends of Library Book Warehouse Sale April 2 : An ever-changing inventory of more than 100,000 “gently used” books, videos, and audio books will be offered for prices from 50 cents to $2 at the warehouse of the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library. The warehouse is at the rear of the Friends’ “Book Den” store at Suite E, 8250 Belvedere Ave., just south of 14th Avenue between Power Inn and Florin-Perkins roads. Plenty of parking is available, but visitors should be careful not to park between the “No Parking” signs on the south side of BelveValley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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