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While speaking to this publication at Carmichael’s Effie Yeaw Nature Center last week, Marilyn Escobar said that many visitors of this popular environmental and cultural education facility are not familiar with the story of Effie Yeaw, the person.

Escobar, a longtime volunteer at the center, noted that Yeaw was a local elementary school teacher who worked to instill an appreciation of nature in her students.

“She used to bring her schoolchildren down to the area around the American River, which is now Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Ancil Hoffman Park,” she said. “She used to bring them down for

nature study classes. She got permission from the Deterding family, which at that time owned this property.” That property was then known as Deterding Woods.

Escobar added that Yeaw was also an activist for the preservation of today’s 23-mile American River Parkway. “(Yeaw) heard back in the 1960s that this property was due to be developed and she was horrified,” she said.

“She worked with other likeminded citizens in the county and the county Board of Supervisors to get this property along the American River, from the confluence with the Sacramento River up to the Folsom Dam, preserved as the American River Parkway.

“She was at the forefront of (that movement), and that’s why the (nature) center is named (after) her.”

Effie’s early years Long before becoming a notable, local educator, Yeaw was raised by her parents, Galen and Ella Cummings, who were both schoolteachers.

Born Effie Mae Cummings in Chico on May 6, 1900, Yeaw lived in various other places in California, including Lincoln and Barstow. The Cummings family eventually moved to Sacramento.

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school’s Biological Honor Society.

A report on that organization in the 1917 edition of the school’s yearbook, “ The Review,” notes that the group compiled data toward their goal of creating a complete catalog of plant and animal life, including their habitats and times of appearances.

Yeaw later attended Sacramento Junior College (today’s Sacramento City College) and the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from the latter institution, with a bachelor’s degree in social studies, in 1922.

Effie the educator Becoming a teacher, Yeaw taught at Harkness Grammar School and Sutter Junior High School (today’s Sutter Middle School) in Sacramento before moving to Hawaii, where she continued to teach, while earning her master’s degree in social studies from the University of Hawaii in 1932.

After returning to Sacramento, Yeaw resumed her teaching as an elementary school teacher in the ArdenCarmichael Union School District, which later became a part of the current San Juan Unified School District.

Effie Cummings became Effie Yeaw through her marriage to William Yeaw in 1933.

Through her work as a schoolteacher, Yeaw instilled a love for nature in

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her students through the Arden-Carmichael Conservation Center, which included birds, squirrels, raccoons and a fawn. The center operated from 1952 to 1955.

An article in the Jan. 12, 1954 edition of The Sacramento Bee notes that Yeaw was the general supervisor of the third annual Carmichael area bird census. The final tally in that census was 4,253 birds of 53 species in the district.

The same paper, in its December 23, 1957 edition notes that Yeaw would be among the census takers of the Sacramento Audubon Society’s then-upcoming “Christmas bird count” within a 15-mile radius centered on the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers. see NATURE page 4

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Effie Yeaw gives local schoolchildren an up-close view of a mockingbird at Deterding Woods in 1962, the year she retired from teaching. Pictured with Yeaw are, left to right, Jana Treon, Louis Heinrich Jr. and Charles Blagg.

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Effie Yeaw Nature Fest to be held Sept. 22 File photos by Monica Stark

Effie Yeaw’s largest family event of the year, NatureFest, promotes science and nature education and is an excellent opportunity to learn more about local organizations that support our community. Held Sept. 22 at Effie Yeaw Nature Center, starting at 10 a.m., this family-friendly event includes live animal shows, kids activities, demonstrations, guided nature hikes, and food.

This year’s line-up of exhibitors and animals

shows will be a huge hit!

There will be live animal presentations on the main stage and close up visits with the Nature Center’s own ambassador animals at Critter Corner, plus many more creatures of all shapes and sizes.

Not to mention, demonstrations, exhibits, activities for kids and families, and guided hikes through the nature preserve. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

From frogs to fly-fishing, and from bats to native basket-weaving, this event truly has something of interest for everyone! Come out and spend the day on the wildside.

students on nature tours A leader in Deterding Woods. Duramong local ing those tours, she presentconservationists ed tales of animals with huAdmired among other loAfter the closure of the man names and various facts cal conservationists, Yeaw Arden-Carmichael Conser- about these creatures of the was a very active leader in vation Center, Yeaw led her wild and their environment. the founding of the Save the American River Association (SARA), the establishment of a county tree control ordinance and the previously mentioned American River Parkway.

In 1963, SARA President Dr. Harold Severaid referred to Yeaw as a person who “epitoTickets online at www.cplayhouse.org mizes the philosophy of or by calling the Chautauqua box office at 916.489.7529 conservation.”

Effie Yeaw Nature Center – a fitting memorial to a lover of nature The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors approved a Land Use and Development Plan in 1965. That plan included an interpretive center in Ancil Hoffman County Park to interpret the natural and cultural resources of the American River Parkway.

Seven years later, county voters approved a park bond measure, with funding for the center.

Those actions led to the establishment of the Effie Yeaw Interpretive Center (today’s Effie Yeaw

Nature Center), which was formally dedicated on June 19, 1976.

The center, which features a 77-acre nature preserve with scenic trails, offers tours, educational nature programs, a visitors’ center, a natural history museum, a gift shop and nearly 30 nonreleasable resident animals.

Yeaw died of cancer at the age of 69 on Jan. 3, 1970, before the former Deterding property became home to the nature center named in her honor.

Escobar said that she believes Yeaw would be both humbled and grateful to have her name associated with the center.

“I’m thinking she’s pretty humble and she might have thought, ‘Oh, why are they naming it after me. There are other people who are more worthy.’ I’m thinking that would be her first thought, and then she probably would be very grateful, as well.

“I think the (center’s name) is very fitting.”

Effie Yeaw Nature Center is located at 2850 San Lorenzo Way – off Tarshes Drive – and is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through October.

Winter hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information regarding the Effie Yeaw Nature Center and its activities, call (916) 4894918 or visit the website www. sacnaturecenter.net.

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Have you heard of the “International Movement” that is made up of ordinary people who are all working to end the age of fossil fuels and to build a world of community-led renewable energy for all? They describe what they are doing as a “fight against climate change is a fight for justice”. People in all countries of our world are feeling the impacts of climate change. And, the people who are suffering the most are the ones that have done the least to cause the problem. They want us to cut off the “social license” and financing for the fossil fuel companies: “divest, de-sponsor, and defund”.

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Climate change is not just an environmental issue. It is a social justice issue, and an economic issue. The goal is to accelerate the transition to 100% renewable energy for all. 350.org feels that this can be accomplished by banning all oil, coal and gas projects from being built. This will be done by using local restrictions and community resistance efforts.

We want to cut off the“social license” and financing for the fossil fuel companies: “divest, de-sponsor, and defund”. We are aware that the climate crisis is immense and feel that “we must be daring and courageous in response”. Jamie continues.“The climate crisis looms over every single decision I make, and impedes any and all plans I try to make for the future.

I have never known a time in my life where life on earth as we know it wasn’t coming to an end thanks to the climate crisis”.

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The group was active during the International Day of Climate Action that took place in 2009, the Global Work Party in 2010, and Moving Planet in 2011. Before you knew it, 350 .org had become a planet-wide collaboration of organizers, community groups and just ordinary people who are fighting for the future. Today, the group 350.org works on grassroots campaigns across the globe.

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Retired Woman with a Great Career Joins the Area’s Homeless Population

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Betty was a well- dressed senior citizen, who was sitting on the wooden bench in front of the library on a Monday morning, waiting for the front doors to open. I started a conversation with her. She told me that she was very tired because she had just moved all of her belongings into a storage unit.

I asked her why. She told me that she had a great career and had retired with what she thought would be enough income to keep her going during her older years. She was wrong. The apartment that she was renting was affordable and her life was wonderful.

She was comfortable and happily retired after many years of hard work.

But, then the notice arrived in the mail that the rent was increasing 30% over what she currently paid. She could not believe it. She had no way to pay that much unless she went back to work again. And, she did not want to go back to work. She had worked many years already and wanted to be retired.

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she is homeless and she is not sure what she will do to change that situation. I could tell that she was very upset about her current living situation. She seemed lost and was obviously angry about what had happened to her.

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I know what to do when the thought comes. Shake it out. Clear your head. Assess those coffees. Banish the thought.

I did. I picked a French Roast and pushed the basket down the aisle. I strolled by the books, slowly. Some anguished romances, so no temptations there. Down another aisle. Halloween stuff with Pat Lynch up already. Marie appeared and put bread, cheese, a precooked chicken and wine in the basket. “Meet me by the popcorn,” she said. “Nearly Naked is way up high so a clerk is going to get a forklift to bring it down.” A forklift for popcorn? But I said okay.

I wandered over to the pharmacy and idly surveyed the various potions that restore youth in thirty days. I thought I heard someone call Around 8 p.m. I met my Costco was crowded but in chases. It was ideal for him. my name, but it was noisy friend, Marie, at Costco. She we went. I was at the back, Who was he? He was the and I strolled on. Suddenly wanted a bulk purchase of eyeing the bags of coffee, killer who used his special- Marie was there, her expresNearly Naked popcorn. If when the thought arrived: ized war weapon to slaughter sion weird. “I’ve been callyou munch this at night you this was a big store busy with dozens at once. One blast, a ing you,” she said. “Two powon’t puff up the next morn- basket traffic, chattering kids, dozen down. Another blast, lice with automatic weapons ing and have to sweat it off. adults conferring over pur- another dozen. and padded vests came in and said, ‘Where’s the camping equipment?’ and went over to it.”

“You saw them?”

“Just now.”

Uneasy, we considered what to do. We could go now but didn’t like the prospect of walking past the camping aisle. And if we were scared enough to leave we’d have to warn others.

Marie said, “The girl at the front door said maybe the police were just shopping.”

I laughed, and we finally decided to get our popcorn and go. The police were here already, there were no loud popping sounds, no signs of Sutter hospitals offer: panic or even worry, we were • Free care, or care at a substantial discount for certain uninsured and insured at a good distance from the patients based on family income and medical expenses. camping equipment, things • Reduced prices to the uninsured, including a prompt pay discount to uninsured felt under control. patients who pay their bills within 30 days.

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degenerate Marie was about popcorn. We had a nice time chatting with her before Cynthia excused herself, saying she’d return soon. She did, but this time her smile was gone. “You need to leave,” she said.

“Leave the store?” we said at once.

“Yes.” Marie pointed to the basket. “What about this?”

“Leave it,” Cynthia said.

Other Costco employees had fanned out, made eye contact with customers, motioned them to come forward and quietly told them to abandon their baskets and evacuate.

“You take care of yourself, Cynthia,” Marie said, and Cynthia nodded.

Marie and I joined a crowd forming a line behind the counters. I felt numb at first but weirdly observant. We’re in it, I thought.

This is it, and we’re in it.

A young woman, face pale, eyes sick with fear, pulled her toddler boy from the basket, fiercely grasped the hand of her other son who was about five.

People turned from nearly full baskets without a backward glance, gathered their kids, and walked in silence. Nobody ran, nobody pushed. Parents put their children between them. A group of Costco workers urged us along in our silent, sudden exodus. When we emerged from behind the line of cash registers we saw from eight to ten police officers, all facing into the store, while we headed to the doors. A white male was stopped, frisked, released.

The thought came: now is the time for him to shoot, when we’re all in a row. But it dissipated instantly. We had a human shield of police facing every aisle. We had only to get outside.

We did. We went right to our cars. Most people did the same. I heard a man see COSTCO page 11 Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

Life on Two Rivers: Cold, Deep and Fast

By Ellen Cochrane

On the first day of each school year, I would pull out a laminated story from the local daily. The picture shows a boy in a life vest and the story covers safety on the river. My tanned students, fresh from summer, eyed the paper and passed it around.

Then I told my stories.

Many years ago my father took me aside to show me a small clipping from the paper. A young girl drowned in the American River. Her last name was Brown, and I sat behind her the prior year in school. She tripped into an underwater hole and was overcome by the currents.

She died on a beautiful July day playing with her family and friends.

My parents drilled river safety into us with one rule:

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say, “Nobody wants to hang around and get shot.”

Well, there was no killer, or if there was someone who intended to kill, he got out before the police came. But there was trauma, and dread, and a fatal certainty: this will happen elsewhere, and the killer will use his easily acquired weapons on a crowd as innocent as ours.

We think Costco made the right call: evacuate people who may be in harm’s way.

The next day a motorcycle backfired in Times Square and panic erupted. People pounded on theater doors and begged to be let in. Sobbing tourists ran into restaurants and shops.

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Don’t swim in the rivers.

They were lifelong Sacramentans and had their own stories of river death.

Years later, one of my students died in the Sacramento River. He was being chased by a group of boys who were angry that he’d flirted with one of their girlfriends. He jumped into the river to evade them and drowned.

I taught immigrants – children from Laos, Vietnam, Mexico and other warmer climates. Equally dangerous rivers flow in these countries, but they are often not as cold, as deep or as fast moving as ours. Many of my students don’t know how to swim, let alone understand icy mountain water. Pushed by blazing summer heat, the young

and invincible will wade into the rivers. But in my silent classroom, wide-eyed students listened to my stories of dangerous undertows, snags and Sierra snow runoff.

Sadly, these stories are not new to some students. To keep their interest, one of my fall assignments was making a game.

Students experiment with writing rules, and planning paths and strategies. Xiong turned in a two-sided paper, handmade dice with pencil point dots and simple instructions. The paper was covered with dozens of numbered spaces, arrows, ladders and pictures. The setting was Laos and the drawings depicted each of the perils he lived through before coming to

Twelve people were injured in the panic and six had to be hospitalized. “ This isn’t a country I want to live in with anxiety and fear for my life in public areas. This isn’t right and this isn’t a way to live,” tweeted P.J.@ petrinajc. Many caught in the fright expressed kindred sentiments.

As I write three men in three states are in custody for expressing desire to commit mass shootings. One Florida man, Tristan Wix, said he had already chosen a location. “A good 100 kills would be nice,” he said. Another, Brandon Wagshot from Connecticut, stated on Facebook that he wanted to commit a mass shooting and is being held for illegal possession of large capacity magazines. A third, James Reardon from Ohio, was arrested for threatening a Jewish community center.

He identified as a white nationalist and had a cache of guns and ammunition. Intoxicated by the power of the gun, these men stockpiled.

It was easy for them to get their guns, and it’s easy for anyone, anywhere in America. The person who tweeted from Times Square tweeted for Marie and me, and for all of us. “This isn’t right and this isn’t a way to live.”

America. There were villages with huts and gardens, men with guns, burning houses, mountains, rivers and an airplane that could go either to happy California with sun and dancing children or to a camp with barbed wire. You rolled the dice to begin your journey.

The river square showed a person drowning.

Quickly I changed the tone from healthy fear to education: Learn how to swim. I smile and pass out papers that cheerfully announce swim lessons at the local pools.

Look at these free lifejacket stations. I flash pictures of the jackets from Howe Avenue and Discovery Park. Tell your folks my stories, and don’t swim in the rivers. Swim in pools.

I’ll never know if I have saved a life. Teachers never really know how lessons will follow students. They might be instantly forgotten or resurrected much later.

But if a child brings lessons home, parents listen and information is passed on.

Fall is around the corner and teachers will be thinking of their new lesson plans. In the flurry of the first school days, teach a lesson that might save a life.

Tell the stories you know, and then, come May, tell the stories again. Act flustered.

Did I tell you this at the beginning of school? Yes, well, it must have been so important I have to repeat it.

Ellen Cochrane is a Certified California Naturalist and science writer living in Sacramento, California.

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