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Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s ‘One Stroke’ calligraphy exhibition at Sac State A calligraphy exhibit will be held at the Sacramento State University Library Art Gallery from Friday, July 1 to Friday, July 29 with work by the Venerable Master Hsing Yun. Titled, the OneStroke Calligraphy Exhibition, the artwork showcases the virtue of Chinese cultural and education.

“It’s a form of art and also a lifetime cultivation of a propagator,” the Venerable Master Hsing Yun said. “I’m 90 years old, was born and lived in Yangzhou for 12 years, in Nanjing for another; traveled around the world, caring the happiness and peacefulness for everyone in five continents. I wish people can see the word and read my mind.

My writing is for giving joy and making af-

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finity to others...Look beyond my words and see my heart.”

All of the contents of the calligraphy are encouragements to be noble, philosophy in daily lives, transmit the words of wisdom to form good affinity. Every art piece is blended with the Yun’s dedication and cultivation.

You can see the art at the opening ceremony on Friday, July 1 from 1 to 5 p.m. and Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 to 6 p.m. until Friday, July 29. The Sacramento State Library is located at 6000 J St. For more information, call 278-6898. The event is organized by Sacramentan Fo Guang Shan from the Bodhi Temple. This will be a rare treat for those interested in Chinese art, calligraphy and philosophy.

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Sacramento Suburban Water District asks customers to help reduce water use by 10 percent Sacramento Suburban Water District (SSWD) is asking its customers to keep up the great work this summer and voluntarily reduce their water use by 10 percent and to follow District’s recommended watering day schedule.

“Our customers did a fantastic job conserving water during the drought emergency, and reduced water use by nearly 30 percent from June 2015 to February 2016,”” said Greg Bundesen, SSWD Water Conservation Supervisor.

“We’re now asking them to continue their outstanding efforts by limiting landscape watering during the summer when water use is at its highest.”

The District is asking customers who have addresses that end in an even number (0,2,4,6,8) to water on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and those with addresses that end in an odd number (1,3,5,7,9) to run their sprinklers on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Watering is only allowed before noon or after 8 p.m. through the end of September.

SSWD also has many rebates available for its customers to make conserving water even easier. Rebates are available for water-efficient sprinkler heads, drip irrigation systems, pool covers and WaterSense-labeled weather-based irrigation controllers. Weather-based irrigation controllers act like a thermostat for a sprinkler system, and use local weather and landscape conditions to run the sprinklers instead of running according to a preprogrammed schedule.

Customers who install drip irrigation systems and register their WaterSense-labeled weather-based irrigation controllers with SSWD will not be subject to future watering restrictions. Complete details and rebate applications are available on sswd.org.

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In memory of Bev Bos, renown early childhood educator

By Monica Stark

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On Saturday, July 16 a special dedication in memory of early childhood educator Bev Bos will be held at American River College at 10 a.m. where colleagues have raised money to place a “reading bench” on campus. So into reading to children, the “reading bench” seemed like an appropriate memorial. Inscribed on the bench are the following words Bos is known for”If it hasn’t been in the hand, the body and the heart, it can’t be in the brain.”

“When we wanted to do something in her honor, we approached them and had the plaque embedded,” stated Sac Valley Association for the Education of Young Children board member Paul Morehouse.

Known for her advocacy for play-based learning, at age 81 Bos died Feb. 4 unexpectedly in her sleep at home in Roseville.

The dedication of the bench to Bos is a collaborative effort between Sacramento Valley Association for the Education of Young Children (Pat Alexander, President) and American River College.

California Association for the Education of Young Children is the state affiliate of National Association for the Education of Young Children whose R A Y

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offices are in Washington, D.C. NAEYC is the largest and most prominent professional organization overseeing early childhood education in the country and the Sac Valley chapter is one of the largest in the state.

What follows are remembrances from those who knew Bev Bos: Gregory Uba is a preschool teacher at Oak Park Preschool in Sacramento and is on the Board of Sacramento Valley Association for the Education of Young Children.

Others knew Bev Bos far better than I. I was simply a preschool teacher, early in my career, perhaps nearly 30 years ago when I attended a presentation of hers in Southern California. I left that experience knowing that this was the work that I wanted to do. Her presentation was remarkable in that she had the ability to fill us all with an appreciation for the sense of wonder that children feel during the act of playful S T O N E

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Here is the plaque that will be placed on the bench at American River College in memory of early educator Bev Bos.

learning. She sang songs, told stories, blew bubbles – sure.

But more than anything she reconnected our adult hearts with the joy of childhood.

She is very possibly... I say “is” because even though she has passed, her influence lives on... She is very possibly the most important early educator in the history of this country.

Not because she was a theorist, although in a very real sense she was... Not because she created a new approach to learning. Not because she started any political movement (she did)... But because she was singularly commit-

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ted to defending the right of children to their childhood, an authentic childhood full of risk, and dirt, and joy, and noise, and energy... And of course wonder.

Most of us make compromises. We try to make the children happy of course... But we also seek to appease parents, Directors, K-12 teachers, funders, policy makers, the department of education, licensing personnel. But Bev Bos only had one stakeholder in mind – the young children. And for them, she also supported the growth and development of parents and teachers – but this support was ever on the terms of the children and Bev. And for the children she pushed (dare I say burst) the envelope.

When I last saw her, she was giving a tour of her program in Roseville to two bus loads of teachers. She knew me a bit (or perhaps knew of me... Or perhaps knew me not at all but sensed in me a shared sense of wonder). She tapped me and called me over and invited me to follow her as she crawled into a small, almost hidden space where children explored magnetism. The old preschool teacher in his mid-50s crawling behind the octogenarian icon.

That will forever be Bev Bos to me. The teacher that never relinquished her appreciation for childhood, who would never forsake or subordinate the needs, the right, of children to own a moment of their childhood.

Tom Rotelli- a parent atRoseville Community Preschool-Bev Bos’s preschool-gave this memorial eulogy at the service Feb. 14, 2016.

My Friends, let me apologize at the start. There will be a little hyperbole here….things I believe and need to say …and if I cannot say them to you, then to whom can I? Ten days ago, Friends, a Hero passed into Legend. Our greatest Hero, my hero, and yours.

A world-renowned champion, who for more than 50 years defended play, children, and childhood itself. For more than three generations, her songs and stories echoed through our lives and families. And like the Legends of Old, her songs and stories will be sung, and told, and retold, and revised, and interpreted, and misinterpreted, and adapted, and modernized, and preserved, and above all remembered. Long, long after we in this room are dust, the songs she wrote and the ones she taught us will be sung at campfires, on road trips, in brewpubs, and in homes. Mothers will cuddle their sleepy babies and sing, “There was music in my mother’s house - there was music all around.” And fathers, since they can’t remember all the words to My Mother’s House, will sing softly to their babes, “No, You can’t be a Pirate, A Pirate, A Pirate, with all of your parts …”

The Gardener has moved on, and the garden remains.

On February 4, 2016, Bev died. By her standards, it was an unimportant day, because on that day she did not arrive at the school an hour before the first child, she did not sweep what she had swept so often, she did not say, “I was waiting for you,” she was not hugged by a child, See Bev, page 7 Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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Sacramento’s K-ZAP celebrates one year anniversary on July 4 An intrepid gang of Sacramento rock radio professionals are alive and thriving, soon to celebrate a one year anniversary on July 4 with a 5,000-person birthday bash in Carmichael Park.

Sacramento’s K-ZAP, is back.

Dennis Newhall, one of the faces of the new K-ZAP, is rightly proud, albeit in a Dick Cavettish kind of way. “It has been a wild year for Sacramento’s K-ZAP. Lots of people hoping, lots of people doubting, lots of people rocking. And, here we are, a year old.”

Along with Diane Michaels, Tom Cale and John Saltnes, the station rolled away the stone last summer and rose like the yowling gilded catbird it is after 24 years dormant, and is now a wailing rock and blues baby with a man beard-a labor of love, listener supported community radio station on a modern mission of music mash-up.

On July 4, station announcers will be rocking thousands in person at Carmichael’s La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road. Food, music and free fun with folks, families and friends beginning at 7 p.m., with the fireworks show beginning at 9:30 p.m. (More information on this event: Carmichael Parks and Recreation: 485-5322) Establishing a radio station/ stream in the spirit of a Sacramento legend was a 3+ year labor of love for the group, along with a number of volunteers. “We came up with the idea and brought it to reality simply because we believe Sacramento, and the world, deserve better than what is currently out there. “Favorite artists making fresh music and fresh artists making new favorites” is the station hook describing the unique programming mix. At 100 watts, the station covers metropol-

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itan Sacramento. Beyond that, listeners tune in worldwide via the kzap.org Internet stream that keeps the music going on mobile devices and computers.

“It’s pretty cool how John Mellencamp’s “ Rain on the Scarecrow” can segue into new roots phenom Sturgill Simpson’s” Brace for Impact” to a Zombies classic(“She’s Not There”) to Dead Weather’s (Alison Mosshart/ Jack White’s new supergroup) raging punk-blues “ I Feel Love”. It works!” says Newhall.

The feisty station has been created in the spirit of the original station, birthed in 1968, carefully curating the best new music from established rock acts, as well as plenty of new releases from up-an-coming young performers, and then deep catalog tracks across “50 Years of Rock, Blues & More.” Says Newhall, ”We forge ahead without forgetting the music that is the foundation of the station. It’s a fun kind of balancing act to play good tunes from the past five decades, while keeping an ear out for relevant young bands.”

Robert Williams, Bob “ The Godfather” Galli, Zachariah, Tom Cale, Dave Gregory, Scott Elliott, Jon Russell (who hosts the brand new Friday 5 p.m. “Rush Hour Blues”) and Newhall returned to their KZAP roots. Pro radio hosts from former competitor stations are on board too: Scott Forrington, Kevin Kelley, Matt Pacini, John Norman and Faith Wolfram.

With the award-winning journalist Ace Young just now back in Sacramento to helm station news after decades in LA and other Western climes, the story arc of the revived station is complete.

“We are community oriented,” Newhall says. “As a way to make sure there’s always a supply of kids on the

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horizon making the most of their musical ambitions, we are working with our non-profit broadcast licensee to expand a program that offers budding rockers in-school music lessons. Process Theatre, Inc . and Sacramento’s Leonardo da Vinci Middle School teach kids to play, form bands and actually set up gigs for the public to enjoy.” Sacramento’s K-ZAP operates as a non-profit affiliated with Process Theater Inc., a Sacramento-based media-education organization and operates on underwriting, sponsorships and donations and the K-ZAP store with designer tee shirts and ballcaps.

Also in the spirit of community need, the station organized a heartfelt listening party gathering at the Starlite Lounge in Midtown only 48 hours after David Bowie suddenly passed away in January. And, partnering with Dimple Records, the station has also revived the in store concert with young emerging touring bands, including Denver’s The Yawpers, and also local rock/ pop favorites, Bellygunner for Record Store Day in April.

A daily concert calendar includes local and regional shows at Harlow’s, The Crest Theatre, The Harris Center, The 24th St. Theatre and in venues in Davis, Folsom, Rocklin, Orangevale, Carmichael, Roseville, Grass Valley/Nevada City and the Bay Area.

As the station with the legendary Cat logo reaches our first anniversary, we continue to evolve by emphasizing more new music and more songs from the 1990s and 2K’s, when KZAP was dark. Rock has had a history of reinventing and renewing itself every decade or so, and that, says Newhall “gives us a half century of innovative and interesting music to pick from.”

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Annual fourth of July fireworks show Celebrate Independence Day in Carmichael

Don’t miss the annual Fourth of July fireworks spectacular at La Sierra Community Center. Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, shade umbrellas, friends and family to watch the show. Come for food, music and fun.

Activities include arts and crafts provided by the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, inflatables, face painting, balloon artist and more. Parking is free and food and beverage are available for purchase. Make it a whole day of fun by participating int he additional activities. Special thanks to Fourth of July Fireworks Show sponsor Mission Oaks Recreation and Park District. For more information, visit carmicahelpark.com or call 485-5322.

Event details: What: Fourth of July fireworks show When: Monday, July 4 at 7 p.m., fireworks begin at about 9:30 p.m.

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African Children’s Choir Carmichael performance The African Children’s Choir melts the hearts of audiences with their charming smiles, beautiful voices and lively African songs and dances.

The program features wellloved children’s songs, traditional spirituals and Gospel favorites. Concerts are free and open to all. A freewill offering is taken at the performance to support African Children’s Choir programs, such as education, care and relief and development programs.

Music for Life (The parent organization for The African Children’s Choir) works in

seven African countries such as, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. MFL has educated over 52,000 children and impacted the lives of over 100,000 people through its relief and development programs during its history.

MFL purpose is to help create new leadership for tomorrow’s Africa, by focusing on education.

The African Children’s Choir has had the privilege to perform before presidents, heads of state and most recently the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II, for her diamond jubilee. The Choir has

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she did not hand out paint nor melted crayons nor glue nor dye nor vinegar nor baking soda, she did not shoo away a bunch of parents for clumping and not watching the kids, she did not try to push a swinging child all the way around, she did not bury a dead walking stick nor a fish, she did not argue with the state as to why a preschool should not have an open body of water in its entryway nor why a roaring fire in the sand yard was unusual, she did not read a book, she did not laugh at Teacher Sally so bundled in Surveyors Tape that she could not walk, she did not look at a child covered head-to-toe in shaving cream and say, “Let me get you more,’ she did not ask Michael Leeman to sing 47 verses of On The Day I Went to Sea, she did not pinch a parent for Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

also had the honor of singing alongside artists such as Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, Michael W. Smith, and other inspirational performers!

Promotional support of this community concert is greatly appreciated.

The African Children’s Choir is a nonprofit humanitarian and relief organization dedicated to helping Africa’s most vulnerable children today so they can help Africa tomorrow.

No tickets, donations welcome.

If you go: What: African Children’s Choir performance When: Sunday, July 10 at 9 a.m. and again at 10:45 a.m.

Where: Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Ave. Carmichael For more information: 344-2382; www.africanchildrenschoir.com​

saying “Good Job!” Her auto-harp was still.

She did not say, I love you.

February 4, 2016, however, became perhaps the most important day in all of our lives. For on that day, we inherited something … something wonderful … something awesome … something scary. On that day, WE became Bev’s legacy. The burden that Bev had always carried for us suddenly passed to us. We became the gardeners. Our love demands that we rise to become the champions that Bev showed us how to be. We must stick up for childhood. We must challenge the norms. We must never rush a child.( As her great friend Docia Zavitkovsky said, Pulling the tail off a tadpole will not make it a frog!” ) We must discard the word “readiness:” and ask not if the child is ready for kindergarten, but is the child done with preschool. We must not praise

art. We must never do for a child what she can do for herself.

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If I could talk to Bev one last time, I wouldn’t say “thank you,” or “ I love you” she knew all that. I would say, “I will never forget what you taught me: we are here for the children. Period.” And I can hear what she would say: “What can I get you?”

“Do you have everything you need?” My answer, “You have given me all you have and all you are, how could I ask for more?

I have more than enough” …. and then I might throw in a “Good Job!” … if only to feel her pinch me one last time. The garden remains, and we are the gardeners. THIS is how our story starts ….” www.valcomnews.com • June 23, 2016 • Arden-Carmichael News

What do we tell our children when tragedy strikes

By Karen Devaney

With the barrage of news on the radio, television, podcasts, and papers, parents are bound to be burdened or rather challenged with the difficult task of discussing the gruesome Orlando events with their children. How do we explain unspeakable events to elementary or preschool children?

What do we say to our middle graders or high school students about a mass shooting? A terrorist act? Or any despicable act of horror? I began to ponder these questions after my neighbor’s five year old was mulling around (he is a frequent flier at our house) wanting my husband and I to play soccer with him. He caught us in the middle of a conversation about the latest details of the Pulse nightclub killings (we hadn’t heard him come in the yard) and asked “what are you talking about?” My husband and I froze. Simultaneously we distracted him with tossing the ball around the back yard and diverted the conversation to dribbling techniques.

It left me with a cold sensation somewhere between guilt and profound sadness. Do we yank away our children’s innocence or do we delicately explain what happened and if so, to what extent do we disclose the details? What age or when is it appropriate to tell children about deep seated hatred and prejudices? I batted these questions back and forth: tell them early on so they hear it from a loving parent or let them enjoy the magic of childhood as long as they can—after all their imaginations are precious and once damaged can be difficult to restore. If children have not personally seen or experienced violence—why not protect them from it as long as possible? Indulge their make-believe. Yet one day, their awareness will shift and the veil of innocence will be lifted. Then what?

If we don’t want to perpetuate violence, hatred, discrimination and all the ugliness that goes with it —we have to teach our children that love is the ultimate defender against the world’s injustices. It is the beacon of hope they can take solace in and when cultivated, will provide selfconfidence and strength. I can already hear the groans and sighs “this women is naïve—ridiculous.” But look at Malala Yousafzai, the then sixteen year old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She lived by the law of spiritual love—which allowed her to not be victimized from her harrowing experience. If our children understand that yes, there are bad people that do

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bad things in the world but are raised with love—and taught to respond with love, there is a better chance of them surviving unscathed—at least spiritually. To teach a child to turn their back on hatred is powerful— it creates a ripple that can have an equal or stronger effect on society and communities. To teach a child that hatred begets hatred and that propagating it always backfires—fuels the fires. .

A person’s definition of love depends on their spiritual background, culture, religion, experiences, age, and other miscellaneous persuasions.

But– there are universal truths that over centuries have defined love; tolerance, forgiveness, selfless-ness.

The famous philosopher and writer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky once wrote; “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

The French novelist and playwright, Honore de Balzac (whose writings influenced other famous writers) expressed; “The more one judges, the less one loves.” Renowned scriptures and faith inspired writings speak of love as a guiding light illuminating the soul giving life purpose and a path to personal peace. (Obviously zealots distort these definitions of love to accommodate their delusions—but they are the minority and we need to keep it that way).

Getting back to the 5 year old and what we tell our children; let’s face it most kids (and adults) want to be-

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lieve good triumphs over evil that virtues such as honesty and truth always win. Look at fairy tales; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, or The Emperor’s New Clothes, the moral of these stories is just that. If the sundry of cultural proverbs and stories were boiled to a reduction, the remains would be that goodness, honor, love always win in the end. Including these fundamental truths into a difficult discussion about terrifying acts, we give children a way to process. If we teach that behaviors are bad, not a sector of people, than perhaps we can thwart the corrosive effects of tragic occurrences such as the shooting of innocent people.

My daughters are now grown adults—but there were news events I had to negotiate through, devastating news that jarred their sense of security; caused confusion.

Throughout history parents have had to be frank with their children about unsafe unfair acts of injustice; imagine the African American child growing up with racial prejudice or the immigrant child who experienced discrimination, the gay child who lived with bullying or the Jewish child who had to be sent away often into the arms of strangers with no guarantee of ever seeing their parents again. Misfortunes are unpredictable. But if we teach our children love—strong self-love that builds confidence, not arrogance,

that snuffs out hatred, love that sees through barriers, we are giving them hope. And we all could use a hefty dose of hope that allows us to put one foot in front of the other to trample fear and ignorance.

We can also teach our children to pray, or meditate, or have a moment of sending positive energy to those in need show them a sense of connection to fellow human beings. We can teach them to take action; to raise money for victims, to speak out when someone is made fun of in their classroom and to come to us when they are scared.

Keep communication as open as the channels of water sloshing between two piers. We must be accountable as adults for our actions around our children as Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Most of us wish there was a magic wand of loving fairy dust that would magically change the hearts and motives of those who want to destroy but there is not. The magic lies in the positive power of linking our love and our light until we overcome pettiness and exclusion. Not in a Pollyanna way, but in a belief deeply rooted that love can make a difference no matter what faith you subscribe to.

The little 5 year old next door is utterly blind to color, religion, age—I hope fundamentally he can stay that way forever.

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Project Rebound for ex-offenders comes to Sac State

Mary Maguire, chair of the Division of Criminal Justice and director of Sac State’s Project Rebound program.

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In 1967, a former Soledad Prison inmate who served five years for armed robbery launched Project Rebound at San Francisco State, where he was a professor of sociology.

The program was revolutionary at the time and, nearly 50 years later, it continues to help currently and formerly incarcerated Californians earn their degrees at S.F. State.

Now, Project Rebound is expanding to Sacramento State and six other California State University (CSU) campuses. Funding comes from a one-year, $500,000 Renewing Communities grant provided by the Opportunity Institute. Sac State will receive approximately $71,000.

“It’s incredibly difficult to get from prison to college, and if previously incarcerated people get themselves successfully admitted to the university, they really want their degree and are ready for college,“ says Mary Maguire, chair of the Division of Criminal Justice and director of Sac State’s Project Rebound program.

Maguire anticipates that Sacramento State will accept 15 to 20 formerly incarcerated students into Project Rebound each semester.

Research shows that attending college drastically reduces the likelihood that an individual will return to prison. In 2010, the most recent year for which data are available, only 3 percent of Project Rebound students returned to prison, and most of the returns were for parole violations.

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“Ninety-five percent of inmates will be released back to their communities,” Maguire says. “Education is the way to stop the revolving door. Education makes the community safer, because it’s an avenue to meaningful work, which gives people a purpose and something to lose.”

San Francisco State reports that over the past 10 years, 140 Project Rebound students have graduated, a 95 percent completion rate that exceeds that of its traditional students.

Conditions of parole require that former inmates remain in their county of conviction, so bringing Project Rebound to the CSU campuses in Bakersfield, Fresno, Fullerton, Pomona, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Sacramento will make the program accessible to 70 percent of Californians monitored by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Project Rebound provides students with mentoring, financial assistance, and other services. And if a prospective student isn’t immediately qualified to attend the CSU, Project Rebound will help with other options, including community college.

In addition to the Opportunity Institute, Project Rebound is supported by the California Endowment, the California Wellness Foundation, the Roy & Patricia Disney Family Foundation, the ECMC Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Rosenberg Foundation.

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Busy summer construction schedule underway in San Juan Unified One new STEAM campus, 29 more next-generation classrooms, five fencing projects and LED lighting upgrades at 26 campuses will highlight a busy construction summer season in San Juan Unified.

District-wide school improvements this summer continue an $87 million spending plan funded by Measure J and Measure N in the construction or planning stages.

“We have a very aggressive schedule to improve our schools and meet needs outlined in our Facilities Master Plan,” Director of Facilities, Construction and Modernization Brett Mitchell said. “ This summer is going to be extremely busy for our department, but we are extremely excited to improve schools for students and teachers.”

Key projects that are now underway include: Future Sylvan Middle School (SteaM - Science, technology, engineering, arts, Math) Sylvan The district’s largest project is the future Sylvan Middle School site, which is a renovation of old classrooms combined with the construction of new buildings. The former Citrus Heights Elementary campus is being converted into nextgeneration classrooms, a library, science building, music room and a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) lab.

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The 350Rio interior -seat edu/hsprojects. trict’s middle schools and trict-wide wireless techmusic auditorium and class11 elementary sites. Com- nology upgrades, two room project is expected to class-size reduction bined, the LED retrofit will kitchen remodels, fire and break ground in mid-June, San Juan Unified is net the district $500,000 emergency safety alarm with construction scheduled building next-generation a year in energy savings, upgrades and many other to last one full year. The the- classrooms at Greer (4), and a total of $700,000 in smaller-scale projects. ater will feature a floor-lev- Mariemont (3), Cowan (4) SMUD rebates. el stage designed for band and Del Dayo (3) elemenUpdates on all projects can performances and a lob- tary schools along with the other be found at www.sanjuan. by. The Measure N signa- Thomas Edison Language San Juan Unified is also edu/constructionnews. ture project will compliment Institute (4) to help accom- busy this summer with disSource: sanjuan.edu Rio’s renowned band pro- modate a smaller studentgram and support other ac- to-teacher ratio at those ademics such as the Civitas sites. These classrooms political science program. will all feature flexible furLearn more at www.sanjuan. niture, flat-screen moniedu/hsprojects. tors and multiple writing surfaces for teachers.

Bella vista science wing Another Measure N sig- Fencing nature project, Bella Vista’s The district is dedicating science wing will feature 11 a portion of bond funding next-generation classrooms to upgrade safety, includand labs, plus a 5,000-square- ing wrought-iron fencing foot “flex space.” The project projects at El Camino Funis a renovation of two cur- damental High, La VisStephanie Slagel, Agent Life insurance shouldn’t wait. rent shop buildings. The flex- ta, Starr King K-8 and the Insurance Lic#: 0C34763 6130 Fair Oaks Blvd Even though life is busy, take space is being created by plac- Ralph Richardson CenCarmichael, CA 95608 a moment to reflect on what’s ing a roof between the shops, ter. These projects are deBus: 916-485-4444 most important. For peace of forming a fully conditioned signed to keep campuses mind, protect your family with room for student collabo- safe, but they also add an State Farm life insurance. ration or large group meet- aesthetically pleasing look We put the life back ings.The project is scheduled to the perimeter of the in life insurance. to break ground in June and school sites.

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June Rolled flank steak June 23: Learn how to make a delicious rolled flank steak stuffed with a savory filling. The flank steak will be served with vegetables, a salad , an apple dip appetizer with flour tortilla chip and an apple pie cookie made with pie crust and apples. Pre-registration and pre-payment of $12 required by June 16. Limit 9 students. Class will be held from noon to 1 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

Planning ahead for the inevitable June 24: A 25-minute presentation on why everyone should pre-plan funeral arrangements. Eliminate stress and relieve your family of the burden, know all available choices, get what you want, ensure every detail is covered, and save money! Free of charge.

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Pollination Sensation June 26: The Sacramento Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society presents a tour of California’s pollinator superstars starting at 10 a.m. at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway.

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hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects are out in full force gathering pollen and nectar for their nests. California native plants in particular provide an excellent, high-nutrient source of food for not just the European honeybees but for our native birds and pollinators. Join our tour in the California Native Plant Demonstration Garden and learn how to garden for pollinators with our resilient, drought-tolerant summer blooming natives that continue to bring beauty into the garden even during the hottest months of the year. The cemetery is located at 1000 Broadway, Sacramento. There is free street parking on surrounding streets, with limited parking within the cemetery. There is construction going on across the street from the cemetery, so add a few minutes to your travel time to find parking. The group will meet at the information kiosk at the front entry and take a short walk to the garden. For the heat, wear a good sun hat. Ice water provided. Tours are free; however, your tax-deductible donations are appreciated and benefit operations of the native garden.

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Computer classes open house June 28: Are you thinking of taking a computer class? Come for open house and visit the lab and try the computers. Our friendly computer instructors will be available to answer your questions about upcoming classes, questions on your computer and any specific problems or issues you are having. Free refreshments. Free of charge. Pre-registration suggested. Open house will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

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Personal and home security for seniors June 29: Seniors are our most vulnerable group of neighbors. This training will discuss simple things to do that can make them less of a target and scams that are currently directed toward the elderly. Free of charge. Pre-regis-

tration required. Class will be held Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call (916)393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

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Music at noon June 29: Free music programs, offered at Westminster Presbyterian Church at noon on Wednesdays. This week enjoy music by concert pianist Thomas Hansen.

July The truth about hearing loss July 1: Gradual hearing loss affects 1 out of 3 people over the age of 65. Even a mild hearing loss can damage our lives. Untreated hearing loss hurts our relationships, our health and our sense of well-being. People with untreated hearing loss are two times as likely to have memory issues and 4 times as likely to have heart problems. Free of charge.

Pre-registration required. Class will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

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Library Friends to Hold Bag Sale aT Book Warehouse July 9: For $6, get all the “gently used” books, videos, records, books-on-cassettes and sheet music you can stuff in a grocery bag at the Saturday July 9 warehouse clearance sale of the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library. The warehouse is at Suite E, 8250 Belvedere Ave., just south of 14th Avenue between Power Inn and Florin-Perkins roads. Plenty of parking is available, but be careful not to park between the “No Parking” signs on the south side of Belvedere.

Sale hours will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There will be a preview for Friends members only on Friday July 8 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (You can join at the door for $15).

Many children’s books, excluding picture books, will be included in the bag sale.

Some bags will be available at the warehouse, but shoppers are encouraged to bring

their own paper-handled bags.

Income from the sale helps pay for programs, equipment, and materials local libraries need but can’t afford.

The book store will be open during the warehouse sale as well as weekly on Thursdays from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Most items there are priced from $2 up, but there is also a large dollar-a-book section of fiction. For more information, call 731-8493 or go to bookden@saclibfriends.org.

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Prevent annoying sales July 13: Are you constantly bothered by calls from salespeople? Join us for a FREE workshop to learn abut the National Do Not Call Registry and the rules that may reduce the number of sales calls you receive. Find out how to register and how to file a complaint.

Learn why you may still get calls, what calls are not covered by the Registry and find out about robocalls.. Anyone who bring their cell or landline phone bill for review will receive a free gift. Free of charge. Pre-registration suggested. Class will be held on Wednesday from 2:30 to 3 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

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Diabetes Academy educational series July 15: Diabetes 101 is a series of classes on managing diabetes. This class to be held on July 15 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. will be dealing with medicines: what they are, when they should be used and how they work.

Free of charge. Pre-registration suggested.

Class will be held at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

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Cemetery Tour – Sacramento History For Kids

July 16: Who says history has to be boring?

The Old City Cemetery Committee presents a tour of Sacramento’s history developed just for kids, starting at 10 a.m. at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway. Come hear tales of floods, fires, revolts, and even a story that almost ended in death by duck! The kicker is that all of these stories are true and taken from the residents of the Old City Cemetery. Come see why truth is stranger than fiction. This tour is designed for kids in fourth grade and up. 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.

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Land Park SactoMoFo Dinner July 17: From 4 to 8 p.m., join SactoMoFo for Food Truck Mania in Land Park, at the corner of Freeport and Sutterville, courtesy of the Land Park Community Association! You will find lots of gourmet food trucks, great music, and kid-friendly entertainment.

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

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Matias Bombal’s Hollywood Finding Dory The MPAA has rated this PG “Finding Dory” is the latest from Pixar Animation Studios, released through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is a sequel to their popular computer animation of “Finding Nemo” released in 2003. Dory is voiced again by Ellen DeGeneres. She is a friendly but forgetful fish that is separated from her parents early in the story, and she can’t remember how to get back to them.

This sets into motion her adventures of swimming across the ocean, assisted by her friends Nemo and his father, Marlin, voiced by actor Albert Brooks. Brooks’ portrayal is one of the movie’s most enjoyable aspects. Once Dory has traveled far across the sea, she loses Marlin and Nemo, and cannot remember where to find them. Lured by the actual voice of Sigourney Weaver, she finds herself outside a famous aquarium, which triggers a memory for her, a clue to find where his parents might be.

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other fish friends. In the quest to find her parents, she ends up in an area for quarantined fish. It is there that she meets Hank, the octopus voiced by Ed O’Neil of “Married with Children” fame. Hank has lost a tentacle, so Dory referrers to him as a “Septipus”. They begin to formulate a plan to find her fish folk.

Remarkably most of the fish are tolerant of her memory loss, although some are indifferent. Many are inspired by her stick-to-itiveness, and rally with “What would Dory do?”; a motivation phrase.

Andrew Stanton is the director of this movie, and the cast features the additional voices of Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Idris Elba, Bill Hader and Willem Dafoe.

Largely entertaining, but not a great movie, the end goes a little over the top. I felt slightly uncomfortable that Dory’s memory loss was the subject of humor in this movie, for memory loss is not funny in real life. However, Dory’s positive attitude dispels any negativity that might be related to her dis-

ability. I found this fun for kids. Albert Brooks is wonderful. Solid, but not up to the high bar set by Pixar in the past. If not to make money in franchise terms, I’d wonder why it was made.

Maggie’s Plan The MPPA has rated this R Sony Pictures Classics gives us delightful Greta Gerwig as Maggie, a pretty young lady with definite ideas in mind. She wants to have a baby on her own, via a semen donor, Guy (Travis Fimmel), an “artesian” (read hipster) pickle maker. That goes awry when she falls for a married man, an author and teacher named John played by Ethan Hawke. He is a specialist in an obscure field of study at Columbia, as is his Teutonic wife, Georgette played by Julianne Moore.

John is self-centered, obsessed with his great manuscript. He leaves his wife and children to live with Maggie.

This causes concern for Maggie’s best friends, a constantly quarreling couple played by Maya Rudolf and Bill Had-

er. At first, Maggie is happy with this arrangement, even though it was not according to her initial plan.

As time progresses, she becomes dissatisfied with John’s self-focus and approaches Georgette to take him back. From here nothing seems to go as Maggie planned. A sense of independent control is important to her, but at every turn, she must compromise.

Greta Gerwig is one of the most joyful screen arrivals in recent memory. She has a frankness and honesty in her performances that is most attractive. She is natural, in no way artificial and this gives her a most radiant wholesome beauty. She is fun to watch here, as a smart young lady with great plans for her independence.

Ethan Hawke has turned in some great performances of recent, notably as Chet Baker and here he is very much like a New York intellectual character that you’d find in a Woody Allen movie. Indeed this entire movie, directed by Ms. Rebecca Miller, has the air of a Woody Allen scenario, absent his charming use of nostalgia. It is also differ-

ent than an Allen picture in that it so interestingly tells the story from the female point of view. Like Woody’s Allen’s great use of music for his movies, Miller has a great soundtrack of musical selections throughout and it enriches the story marvelously.

Julianne Moore’s performance is unlike any other you’ve seen. She seems to do no wrong and here she clearly has fun with the role of Georgette, whose accent sounds like Madeline Kahn impersonating Marlene Dietrich in Mel Brook’s “Blazing Saddles”. Also in the picture, you’ll see one of my favorite actors, Wallace Shawn, sadly only used in one scene. He may be most famous for “The Princess Bride” where is line, “Inconceivable!” was heard throughout that film. I saw him first as half of the conversation in 1981’s “My Dinner with Andre” and just love his character work.

This is a very New York movie with excellent performances from capable actors, although the story becomes convoluted and bogs down a bit. It is saved by lovely Ms. Gerwig, who I hope to see much more of on screen in future.

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