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The Grand Jury finds Watt/El Camino area water district flooded with safety risks A seven-month investigation into a formal complaint against the Del Paso Manor Water District has led to a scathing report by the Sacramento County Grand Jury identifying a literal flood of concerns ranging from water contamination to aging infrastructure to non-compliance with State of California water monitoring requirements. The report cites an on-going significant lack of public transparency by the District’s Board of Directors to act on numerous recommended improvements made by its own consultants and other entities. A failure to complete an estimated $35 million in repairs and upgrades could have disastrous results, including the potential failure of the entire water complex.

The approximately onesquare mile water district sits at the crossroads of Watt and El Camino avenues. Commercial and residential customers may be largely unaware that their

water service is provided by just two wells and funneled through pipelines which are more than 60 years old.

Thousands of people pass through the area daily to access the Interstate 80 corridor, and well-known businesses such as AT&T, Emigh Hardware, and WinCo are located inside the district’s boundaries.

“This District is operating under a Water Master Plan and a Municipal Service Review which are more than a decade old,” explains Grand Jury Foreperson Deanna Hanson. “ The idea that officials are doing business ‘behind the floodgates’ so to speak does a disservice to the public and its right to understand the impact of vital safety issues, as well as the looming financial impacts.”

The Grand Jury reviewed thousands of pages of documents and conducted numerous interviews during its investigation, discovering a district in dis-

array with four General Managers having resigned in just a two-year period. Then, the majority of the Board of Directors walked away from their positions in September 2021. The District received a Notice of Violation from the State of California Water Resources Board Division of Drinking Water for failing to timely notify ratepayers about a water well contaminated with PCE. Additionally, the Office of Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert issued a “Cure and Correct” letter to the water district for disregarding proper notification requirements in awarding funding for an engineering contract.

The report has been issued to the Del Paso Manor Water District Board of Directors, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, and others for a response. To read the report, visit http://www.sacgrandjury. org.

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Chautauqua Playhouse presents “Every Christmas Story Ever Told” Chautauqua Playhouse continue its new season with the holiday comedy “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!)”

by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez, beginning on December 3rd. at the Playhouse.

The show will run on the following dates: December 3, 4, 5, 9 ,10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23. Performances are at 8:00 pm, except for Sundays which are at 2:00 pm. The performances are held at the Chautauqua Playhouse, 5325 Engle Road in the La Sierra Community Center in Carmichael. Admission is $23 General, $21 Seniors/Students and SARTA members. Premium seating is an additional dollar. Tickets at the door are $25.

Instead of performing Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic for the

umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told -- plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture, and every carol ever sung. Join us for this madcap romp through the holiday season! The play accomplishes the small miracle of making all Christmas myths seem both utterly ridiculous and absolutely essential.

Patrons will be required to follow CDC, local and state requirements and must be masked during the performances. Proof of vaccination or a recent negative covid test and/or a temperature check may be requested.

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Returning VCN writer Kerin Gould infuses her expertise on organic farming and cooking into the pages of her brand new book titled “Produce with a Purpose: So your doctor wants you to eat more fruit and vegetables, now what?”, bringing the reader into her life and home environment of small-scale local farming while providing a guide to sustaining a cancer-fighting/prevention way of eating.

Full of sage advice from the author whose expertise in natural health and recipes from her farm to her kitchen table, Gould’s book was in part developed from her longtime running column in this publication, which was aptly called Farm and Flavor. “Produce with a Purpose” builds upon the column’s themes in digestible and deliciously satisfying portions of useful information.

Opening to the first pages of the book, the reader gets pulled in with a warm welcome. “It’s soothing. It’s not your doctor’s office,” Gould says. “The idea is to inspire an appetite for freshness. You know, this little farm is the kind of place you ideally want your food to come from.”

The two-and-a-half acre farm around the corner from Elverta High School transformed from a “kind of a wreck when we bought it” but with help from her father, Bill Gould who was battling prostate cancer, Kerin worked on the orchard and the fields.

The father-daughter duo searched for and found this little property near the home of the author’s parents. Bill directed the renovation work, based on his experience as a home-owner and people manager, and had a great way with the contractors. “As that wound up, I started planting,” Kerin Gould said.

Then, as the second section of the book explains the importance of eating fresh and seasonal food, preferably organic, Gould lightheartedly reinforces the idea that these are consumption ideals we strive for. “Honestly, you know, unless you’re a Buddhist monk in a monastery, hardly anybody eats perfectly up to their ideals, but that’s what ideals are for, right?” she posits.

From CSAs to farmers markets to farm stands to what you should know about organics and superfoods, Gould then describes how to cook for the best nutrition. “We don’t want to boil all the nutrition out of something or, you know, cook it to death so that there’s no nutrition and no texture or anything like that.”

Woven throughout the book are strands of “Real Talk” conversations with several of her friends who are battling with cancer and figuring out how and what to eat. “There’s nothing like first hand advice, right? I mean, I was there to support my dad.

You know? So I cooked and I researched and all that but there’s nothing like real talk,” she says.

So there’s these pages scattered throughout where she asked her friends for a tip, for instance gadgets that make cooking easier -- and everybody’s got something different. “Here’s real people. They did the best they could. They learned some things along the way. They’re alive. They are, you know, survivors.” Some people are in the clear at this point and others are really working hard on preventing any return of the cancer.

While this book’s audience is primarily geared to those battling cancer, the book has plenty of gluten-free, diabetic-friendly, heart-healthy recsee Book page 5 Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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Generally speaking, she suggests getting lots more color on your plate. While healthy eating seems like such a daunting task, chalked up right alongside the other “shoulds” in your life, Gould ensures the reader that “it doesn’t have to be hard...Because If it tastes great, and it’s really easy to make, you just slide into this being your goto habit.”

For wintry days, Gould recommends a creamy borscht filled with beets, cabbage, onions and potato and a whole lot of dill made creamy with vegan unsweetened yogurt or vegan sour cream. “You can swirl it in so now you’ve got this fuchsia and white and it’s just so eye-appealing, and then it just goes down like comfort food.” And that goes for even those whose senses of smell aren’t working at the moment because of their treatment or stress. “It enters through the eyes, like, ‘wow, that’s a pretty color. I really should have

that. You know, I really want to have that.’”

Gould has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Health and a PhD in Native American Studies. “So she’s a doctor, but not that kind of doctor,” as the tagline reads at the end of each of her columns. Gould has worked with food-related non-profits and taught a local high school farm-to-fork program, but eventually focused on developing her own sustainable, non-toxic, wildlife-friendly farm and exploring a new way to connect vibrant fruit and veggies and those who strive to enhance their health with farm-fresh produce.

The print version will be available soon, and should be considered as a beautiful, delicious, supportive gift for anyone facing cancer or their caregivers.

“It’s pretty, it’s delicious and people can just go through it and take the parts they want at the time they can use it,” Gould said.

“Produce with a Purpose” is available at Barnes and Noble and on Amazon by searching for the title.

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Sauté in oil/butter the onion and dill first, then add in the remaining veggies and continue to sauté until all look glassy and a bit softened. (You could add the beet greens if you have some nice ones.)

Cover with water or broth and cook at a low boil until the veggies are soft enough to blend (10-15 minutes). Don’t cook too long as beets’ nutrients diminish with too much cooking.

Blend with a stick blender or pour into a blender, puree and then return to the pot.

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