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Janey Way Memories........................................ 2 Local history feature......................................... 5 Arts ...............................................................10 Faces and Places. ................................................17 Calendar................................................... 18–19

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Janey Way Memories

Janey Way Goes Hollywood

By Marty Relles

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My friend Tom Hart grew up on Janey Way during the 1950s and 60s. He ran with the younger group of Janey Way boys, which included the Tomassetti brothers, Denis and John, my little brother Johnny and John Ducray. I memorialized them in a past column about the “Battle for Mount Everest,” a hill in the middle of the vacated sand and gravel pit behind the houses on the east side of Janey Way. The younger boys won that skirmish.

Later in life, Tom completed his secondary education at Sacramento High School before going off to college at UCLA where he earned a degree in government.

After college, Tom embarked on a long career in public administration. He worked first in the Modesto Recreation and Parks Department. He then served as Assistant City Manager for Yuba City.

Finally he worked as Assistant Director of the California Redevelopment Agency before taking over as Director, when his boss John Shirey became City Manager of Sacramento. During this time, Tom never lost his desire or ability to pretend, as he once did on Janey Way. Ultimately, he took up acting.

These days, Tom is semi-retired, but he dabbles as an actor. To date, he has no less than twenty credits in movies, television shows and commercials. He once played the role of a coach in a Nike commercial featuring pro basketball star Lebron James.

After the shoot, Lebron walked over to Tom, shook his hand, and said “thanks a lot coach.”

More recently Tom played a lead role in a local independent film titled: “Deer Season.” Tom was a sheriff in that movie which languished on the cutting room until recently. It was screened in Elk Grove earlier this year and now awaits distribution.

Last year, Tom helped form a production company called Back2One Productions. He is the president of the company.

And, just last week Back2One began filming a television pilot about an edgy police detective named Hennessy. In that show, Tom plays the lead character’s more down to earth sidekick. The company has an investor for this project, and their goal is to establish it as a weekly show on a national cable television channel. Who knows, maybe someday Tom will be a regular on a nationally distributed television show.

It looks like Janey Way has finally “gone Hollywood.” Now, Tom’s days of fighting great battles on Mount Everest, are just another thrill-a-minute Janey Way memory.

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CSUS lecture to explore prospect of earthquake proof homes “ The Earthquake-Proof Home – Is It in Our Future?” Civil Engineering Professor Ben Fell will pose that fascinating question at this fall’s first STEM Lecture, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

26, in the University Union Redwood Room.

Fell’s lecture will focus on the efficacy of pairing enhanced engineering with offthe-shelf building materials to limit earthquake damage to conventional homes. It will draw upon 20 full-scale tests utilizing full-scale planar wall specimens subjected to earthquake-type loading.

Fell and his students have worked for a year on this project, which involves researching alternative seismic fortification for light-frame (residential) structures.

That research flows from a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, in conjunction with Stanford University, to gauge the feasibility of strengthening residential structures by using more earthquake-resistant building materials.

Last spring, Fell received the President’s Research and Creative Activity Award for making significant scholarly contributions during the past five years and securing federal grants. He came to Sac State five years ago after completing his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis, in 2008. He received his master’s degree from Stanford and his bachelor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has written extensively on the behavior of structures under seismic effects.

This scientific study underscores Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez’ praise that Fell’s research “is central to the University’s mission” of providing Sacramento State graduates with “practical hands-on education” that makes them so essential to the state and local economy.

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Starlite building has detailed history

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Note: This is part two of a twopart series regarding the new, local business, Starlite, and its historic building.

Certainly one of the more noticeable landmarks along 21st Street is a tall, two-story building at 1517 21st St., where the new Starlite bar and eatery opened last month.

During an interview with this publication on Aug. 27, Starlite co-owner Shannon Cannon spoke about old health department paperwork that had been found inside a bathroom wall during the remodeling project that preceded the recent grand opening of the present business. This paperwork is dated June 24, 1938.

Although Cannon showed excitement about learning that the building existed 75 years ago, the structure’s history began prior to that time.

Evidence of the building’s pre-1938 existence can be found on a detailed record of subsequent building permits issued for 1517 21st St. The earliest date on this record is April 6, 1925, and under the “nature of work” column for that date is the notation: “Move from 2101 P St. & gen. reps.”

In commenting about that notation, Pat Johnson, senior archivist at the Center for Sacramento History, said, “In 1925, the building that’s at 1517 21st St. was moved from 2101 P St. to that site by a L. (D.) Ehret. (Louis D. Ehret) was the (building’s) owner.”

The cost for moving today’s Starlite building from its original location to its present location was $1,500.

It was also on April 6, 1925 that an “application for permit to build” card was filled out for the construction of a building at 2101 P St. The card, which recognizes Ehret as the P Street property’s owner, describes the thenplanned P Street structure as a two-story brick and frame stucco store and apartment building.

The contractor for the new, $35,000 building was East Sacramento resident Edson D. Brier of the Brier Construction Co., which was located at 2809 S St. Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

Today, the old 2101 P St. building has multiple addresses and, on its ground floor, it houses the Royal Peacock Tattoo Parlor (2101), Choice Food & Liquor (2103), Midtown Laundry (2105) and Café Au Lait (2107) on its P Street side and Heads 1st men’s and women’s hairstyling salon at 1527 21st St. During research for this article, the earliest discovered building permit card for the original 2101 P St. structure – today’s Starlite building – is a card dated Jan. 9, 1915.

It was notated on the card that a 125-gallon stove oil tank had been placed 4 feet below the ground in the sidewalk space outside the building. The work was performed by the Sacramento Burner and Oil Co. Although research for this article revealed that the 2101 P St. address existed as early as 1893, it was not determined whether the original 2101 P St. building dates back to any year prior to 1915.

In 1893, Buffalo Brewing Co. workers, Germany native Charles Neidhart, and his son, Robert L. Neidhart, resided at 2101 P St. About a year earlier, they were living at 2015 O St. The 1895 city directory lists the same residents, as well as Charles Neidhart’s daughter, Mollie R. Neidhart (later Mollie R. Tanquary), as residents of 2101 P St. Additionally, a reference to “boarding” is mentioned in relation to the building at that time.

From 1900 to 1912, Charles is the only member of his family who was mentioned in city directories as residing at 2101 P St. In 1913 and 1914, the building was again recognized in a city directory as a place of boarding, and Charles Neidhart (malster at Buffalo Brewery), his German-born wife, Rosa “Tess” Neidhart (boarding), and his daughter, Josephine N. Neidhart (cook), were listed as living in the structure.

Building permit cards for Jan. 9, 1915 and March 3, 1916 show Rosa Neidhart as the structure’s owner.

Charles Neidhart passed away on June 11, 1915, at which time his son was residing in Utica, N.Y.

Another card, dated July 21, 1922, lists Arthur Neidhart as the building’s owner.

In 1916 and 1917, the future Starlite building was home to Lloyd B. Murphy, a solicitor for John W. Lindner, a grocer and wholesale coffee dealer at 808 K St. A year later, the building housed the creamery of Lewis M. Cosgrove.

Lewis M. and Earl V. Cosgrove opened Cosgrove’s grocery store in the same building in about 1920.

A 1923 advertisement for the store lists its offerings as “groceries, candy, stationery, soda fountain, fruits and vegetables.”

Following the relocation of the building from P Street to 21st Street, Mabel Woerner and Alfred B. Gilbert opened a delicatessen in the structure.

Other businesses operating in the 21st Street building at various times were a barbershop, a shoe repair business and a watch repair shop.

In 1929, the building underwent repairs in preparation for the opening of a restaurant owned by James W. Keller, who resided in the building with his wife, Elizabeth.

According to the aforementioned list of building permits for 1517 21st St., Elizabeth was a longtime owner of the structure.

Another restaurant, Cozy Café, was operated in the building in 1932 by John L. Campbell and Frank P. Sullivan, who resided on the structure’s second floor.

A remodeling of the building for a restaurant by local contractor Charles Vanina and the construction of a storage room began in 1954.

Four years earlier, Antonio “Tony” Legatos (1892-1964) of Sacramento, John Glynn of Suisun City and Mabel J. Spears of Vallejo officially formed The Town House Restaurant Corp. for the primary intention of operating and maintaining a restaurant, bar and tavern business.

The 1955 city directory recognizes the existence of the Town House restaurant and bar at 1517 21st St. Its owners are listed as Tony Legatos, John Petrakos and Angelio Vitoratos.

Other early owners of the business were Samuel Evans,

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The Starlite/former Town House Lounge building is one of the dominant landmarks along 21st Street.

Paul Manuian, Lloyd Raymond and Al Morgan.

During its earlier years, the Town House was primarily a restaurant, with its bar being the secondary part of the business.

There were two banquet rooms upstairs and a dining room downstairs.

The business, which was originally known for its steaks and seafood, eventually reached the point that it was seldom closed, as it once kept the hours of 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Frank Torres, Sr. (19222004), a Sacramento native who graduated from Sacramento High School in 1940 and became an East Sacramento resident about nine years later, purchased 49 percent of the business on April 12, 1963.

Then on Nov. 9, 1973, he bought the remaining 51 percent from Tony Legatos’ widow, Hresoula Legatos (1895-1979).

While involved with the Town House, Frank, Sr., whose parents, Jesus and Guadalupe Torres, were immigrants of Mexico, added

some of his family culture to the business, as he had Mexican food placed on the restaurant’s menu.

Along with his Chihuahua, Mexico-born wife, Esperanza “Hope” (Nunez) Torres (1923-2002), Frank, Sr. had four children, Shirley, Gloria, Frank, Jr. and Ronnie.

Ronnie, who bartended at the Town House in about 1972, said that other bartenders of the business included Mike Smith, Ted Henderson and Rick Lewis.

And while reminiscing about the Town Houses’s food, Ronnie said that during the late 1960s, children’s plates began at $1.65.

Frank, Sr. retired in 1986, and several people owned the business at various times until the fall of 2003, when Desi David Reynoso purchased the business.

On Oct. 12, 2012, the building was repurchased by the Torres family through an auction, and Desi continued to operate the business until May 22, 2013.

The building’s present business, Starlite, held its soft opening on Aug. 6 and its grand opening on Aug. 30.

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Access Sacramento director retires, leaves legacy

By Monica Stark

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After nearly 30 years in the television business, Access Sacramento Executive Director Ron Cooper called it quits managing local nonprofit cable television stations, channels 17 and 18 on Comcast and SureWest.

Access Sacramento programs contain different points of view from that of commercial stations and prides itself on providing the public the opportunity to be newsmakers. As Cooper puts it: “We were kind of the earliest form of YouTube.”

A humble man with a bit of a 1st Amendment activist flare, Cooper truly believes people are good at heart and because of that sharing information freely on Access television can be a powerful thing.

As executive director, Cooper was on the front lines,

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making decisions that would safeguard the integrity and honor of the entire organization and he said he was ready to step away from all that.

“Every day you have to deal with stuff and so I just wanted to step away from that and have more free time.”

What that all entails is uncertain now, but he said the station is as strong as it’s ever been. “The way we’re thought of in the community is very positive, though we wish we were thought of more. It’s tough because … in terms of TV, radio and The Bee, there’s a sense that you’re competition, so it’s hard for them to say anything about us. If what you do is not featured in any of the media, do you really exist? So that’s a challenge.”

But truth be told, the station exists on its own terms and has won numerous awards, including “Best Public Access

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Television In Nation” and more than 40 national and regional programming awards.

Cooper received the 2003 Alliance for Community Media Buske Leadership Award for national, regional, and local public access leadership.

One thing that Cooper can count on is that the quality of the station will remain intact with the new executive director, Gary Martin, a veteran television professor at Cosumnes who sat on the board of directors at Access.

Knowing the station would be left in good hands, helped motivate Cooper’s decision to retire. A national search was done for the replacement but Martin’s name still rose to the top.

The station, known as a platform for giving voice to the community not otherwise seen or heard in other media, has between 500 and

750 members with about 150 to 300 who are actively producing shows. “For $30 a year, you get to do what you want,” Cooper said. “It could be wonderfully interesting and have a following or others could be, ‘oh my God, his mother doesn’t even watch.’

So the nature of it is not targeting for audience appeal.”

“We get an opportunity to experiment where we have to go with the tried and true.

We’ve done full game high school football and basketball since ’96. In fact, in the 90s and up to the turn of the century, high school sports wasn’t really a big deal. Now you look and every Friday night, every one of the TV stations has all kinds of high school coverage. The Bee has all sorts of high school coverage. It’s become a big deal and we were there (at the beginning).”

“It’s really a study of media because it used to be the Bee and all the media – they could cover national and international news stories because they had bureaus. They had reporters. Now they don’t have those resources. And you have CNN and now in particular with Twitter and Facebook instantaneously sharing news. So they have to go more local.”

There are some shows that Access board members have to make choices about. For instance, they decided to run Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and a Dutch news

program. Then they have staff to cover local sports, produce a show called Listen Up Sacramento and they have weekly Live Wire shows, which have been weekly since 1992 with arts and entertainment.

And then there are the many volunteers who do “their own thing,” Cooper said.

Tahoe Park resident Isaac Gonzales was brought into the station in 2010 as the youth correspondent mentor for neighborhood news groups.

Cooper explained that was an effort to control hyperlocal news and build a second website <accesslocal.tv>. “It’s a different model but it’s very intriguing though we haven’t been able to put the muscle behind it and take it big.”

“If you’re a 15 year old and you wrote an article about graffiti in your neighborhood, and you work with your mentor at La Familia, you can post it with a slide show— that it bothers me about the graffiti in our neighborhood.

It’s not only seen on accesslocal.tv, it’s also seen by reporters at 10 and the Bee. Then in theory, they could use that to follow up with a story. So it helps them rather than competes with them. It’s a winwin if everybody plays the game. That’s been the hardest thing- they want the story and not necessarily give people credit for it.”

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Soil Born Farms on Hurley Way Access: County was the gears up for annual fundraiser Sacramento largest metropolitan area withContinued from page 6

SBF’s urban agricultural oasis on Hurley Way transforms into an evening of healthy seasonal and organic food, drink and music, all under the stars on Saturday, Sept. 21. Event goers can wander among the organic Hurley Way gardens of Soil Born Farms, sample seasonal and organic foods prepared by prominent local chefs from Sacramento’s finest restaurants at the 11th Annual Fundraiser Autumn Equinox Celebration.

People can taste a varied and exceptional wine list from prominent regional vintners. Enjoy live music with Mind X Quartet and Cousin Jimbo & Friends; raffle and silent auction featuring prizes including domestic round trip airfare for two and more!

Not only will the 11th Annual Fundraiser Autumn Equinox Celebration at Soil Born Farms welcome in the harvest season, but it will kick off the region’s Farm-to-Fork Festival Week.

Autumn Equinox Special Highlights “The Farmer, the Chef & the Butcher” demonstration: Taste what happens when our lambs and hogs, pasture-raised

by Farmer Jared Clark at Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, are put into the culinary care of Chef Michael Tuohy!

Chef Tuohy will roast our American Guinea Hogs, one of the heritage breeds in Slow Foods’s Ark of Taste, and lambs on spits over an open flame. Sacramento Natural Food Coop’s Meat Department Manager Robert Duncan will then be on hand to help serve and discuss the benefits, both in taste and otherwise, of grass-fed, free range meat. Don’t miss your chance to really know where your meat comes from by talking face to face with the farmer, the chef and the butcher.

Farm to fork doesn’t’ get any more direct!

If you go:

What: 11th Annual Fundraiser Autumn Equinox Celebration at Soil Born Farms, Sponsored By The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Where: 3000 Hurley Way, Sacramento When: Saturday, Sept. 21 from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Ticket Info (Advance Purchase Only; No Tickets Available at the Door): Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 1900 Alhambra Blvd., or Soil Born Farms (916) 363-9685 or online www.soilborn.org

out cable in the country. “Cable companies were really competitive,” Cooper recalled. He was the general manager at a small television production company and got involved through a club called International Television Association. They offered to help evaluate these cable companies and because of that involvement Cooper was later a part of the blue ribbon committee, which formed the first television nonprofit called The Sacramento Community Cable Foundation and naturally he was on the first board of directors.

He was one of the three signers of the papers of incorporation and the second person hired after the executive director in 1986. In 1992, the initial executive director left and then Cooper became the director.

“I was literally a cofounder.

I was there before Access Sacramento was there.”

His previous experience includes credential as high school and community college teacher, advertising, video production management, and mental health counselor.

B.A. Sacramento State University and M.A. San Francisco State University, Broadcast Communication Arts.

It was really his work as a mental health counselor that pushed him to apply to graduate school, as he began to understand the tools of television. Clients were videotaped

early in the day and then in the afternoon, they would watch the tapes. “I saw people who were going through something very tearful, very emotional and they would come back at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, see themselves on the little black and white television monitor and then be right back in it again. I started seeing the tools of television as something more than just selling soap. It just depends.

You can build an outhouse, you can build a mansion, but the tools are tools.”

So he applied to San Francisco State and luck had it that year the school was looking for nontraditional television applicants. “That was the only year they did it and I was lucky to get in on it. It was an interesting class. All of us came from various backgrounds.”

To say the least, Cooper’s journey had a nontraditional beginning but became a longlasting career with an even longer lasting legacy.

The station’s home has always been located inside the beautiful Coloma Community Center, 4623 T St. in Elmhurst. Driving to work every day through the neighborhood was enjoyable to Cooper as he got to watch the seasons change just outside his office.

It may be a distant memory now, but something tells me he can always go back. (He’s listed as a “consultant” on the website now.)

Access Sacramento details Stations: Cable channels 17 and 18 Websites: www.accesssacramento.com and accesslocal.tv Physical location: 4623 T Street, Suite A, 958194743 Phone: (916) 456-8600; Fax: (916) 451-9601

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4. Pamela Basurto, Mary Carboni, Sharon Hagan (1020 41st St.)

East Sacramento area art studios open to public during the annual

Pamela Basurto: My love for working with clay started in high school, many, many years ago. Back then I did some hand building, but mostly I threw pots on the wheel. Over the years I gravitated more and more towards what I am doing now, creating hand built sculptures of cats and mice together, causing a scene.

The Capital Artists’ Studio Tour is an easy way for people to see art where it is made, to buy art directly from the artists, and to experience art in our community. It is free to tour goers and gives local artists a chance to share their art from the intimate environment of their own studios.

The following East Sacramento area studios will be open Sept. 21 and 22 from 10 am. to 5 p.m. as part of the twoweekend Capital Artists’ Studio Tour.

The East Sacramento News is very gracious to the artists who have provided us with bios and photos of their work. This guide is an intimate introduction to what the tour has to offer our neighbors. For more information, visit wwww.CASTsacramento.org.

Mary Carboni: After many years as an art instructor at Leonardo Da Vinci School in the Sacramento Unified School District, I retired from the public sector, and decided to focus on acrylic and oil painting, working out of my studio in East Sacramento. With the encouragement of fellow artist, Pam Basurto, who works in ceramics, I decided to revisit working with clay several years ago, and have been learning and experimenting with the medium along with my painting ever since.

I feel very fortunate that I now have the time and opportunity to visualize, absorb, and interpret the world around me, as I live it, through my art.”

Capital Artists’ Studio Tour function in a space and allow for any environment to have the element of beauty and balance sometimes only reserved for galleries and museums.”

For the tour, Jennifer Frase will be working out of Marc Foster’s studio at “The Factory.” Her artist statement: “Maybe they won’t see me in here is one piece in my lighthearted series about motherHannah Puente is a recent gradhood, titled, please stop choking your sisuate from the University of Southter. As the mother of twin toddlers, I have ern California, Roski School of had moments of insanity, moments of joy Fine Arts. Since finishing school and many moments of humor. This seand returning to her hometown ries is meant to remind the viewer that of Sacramento, she has been bethe stresses of parenthood are often fungun to develop her skills and style ny – and perhaps if we look at a tough as an emerging artist. When she day with a different perspective, we’ll have is not working at the Crocker a new appreciation for this rare and fleetArt Museum, she is painting and 1. Paul Almond, Marc Foster, Jennifer ing time. I’m a fine art photographer curdrawing whimsical spaces and naFrase, Maya Kini, Hannah Puente (320 rently pursuing my MFA in Photography ture inspired scenes.

Alhambra Blvd.) at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.

Paul Almond’s life as an artist is an As I explore the way I use photography, “evenings-and weekends” thing. “As an I am still experimenting in many themes 2. Andy Cunningham (4094 C St.) architect with my own office, I spend and styles, but my use of humor is a comAndy Cunningham will be workfar too much time on that aspect of my ment thread in my work.” ing out of his studio located at 4094 life, but love to fill in the remaining time www.jenfrasephotography.com C St. “I teach drawing at Sacrameneither painting, or working with wood to Country Day School and have an (lately wine barrel staves from which MFA in combined media from Huntthis sculpture is made).”

Maya Kini works out of a studio in er College in New York City. I will her home in Meister Terrace but will be be showing work in France and the showing with a group of artists at The Netherlands this fall. I have been livFactory, Marc Foster’s studio space on ing in Sacramento for about 15 years.

Alhambra Blvd. Maya’s process stems This piece is about color and compofrom a belief in perfection and symme- sition and the heat of a Sacramento try but with the knowledge that these summer afternoon, it is 4 x 4 ft. and qualities often hide within imperfec- acrylic on wood, 2013. My work can tion and asymmetry. She brings a love be seen at http://syndeticart.tumblr. of research, a minimalist sensibility, and com a sculptural approach to making. Maya investigates materials and their capacities to perform physically and poetical- 3. Linda Paris (388 36th Way) ly. Her work emerges from the belief Linda Paris: “In my work, I strive that no material is static and that there to create a feeling that calls to mind is beauty to be found in the changing a moment. There is a strong narrasurfaces of objects as they are worn. tive, but it is not always explicit. The Maya was born in 1977 in Boston. She subject matter is whatever inspires me studied sculpture and literature before at the moment. The medium I use is going on to receive a graduate degree dependent on the inspirations. Today, in Metalsmithing in 2007 from Cran- my inspirations come from nature and brook Academy of Art. Recent exhibi- incongruities. All of my series of work tions include Silk, a solo show at Shibu- come from their own idea and are Marc Foster will be working at his mi gallery in Berkeley and Ferrous, at not related to one another. They are own studio- Marc Foster Creative, also Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francis- about long moments wrapped in inlisted as The Factory- 320 Alhambra co. She has lived in Sacramento, Cali- spirational randomness. I am formalBlvd. “Combining mixed media in my fornia since 2007 where she is a studio ly trained, but I have always worked designs, I find that art can also have jeweler, mother and educator. outside of that training.”

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5. Natalie Sakurai (1055 41st St.): “I studied art at CSUS, have shown locally, and am currently working in encaustics, mixed media, and kiln-formed glass. I generally work in layers, creating visual depth as well as depth of meaning in my art.”

6. Lisa Fernald Barker (1401 40th St.) Lisa Fernald Barker’s fine art is represented nationally by Serena & Lily and her works are often seen at Crocker’s juried art auction, and in Bay Area galleries such as SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery. Lisa, originally an artist local to Sacramento visits for the CAST weekend from Santa Cruz County.

She will be showing her latest work from her friend’s house on 40th Street.

7. Leslie Toms (1215 43rd St.) 8. Cheryl Lobenberg, David Lobenberg (5523 F St.) 9. Janet Montague, Kim Tennant (836 57th St.) Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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Bikers Fight Breast Cancer In Memory of well-loved “Poobunny” “Get your motor runnin’…

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Ok, so Steppenwolf never sang it like this, however, it’s playing out that way at the 1st Annual Poobunny Ride. On Saturday, October 12, 2013, at 11am about 200 bikers will be revving up their engines in support of Albie Aware Breast Cancer Foundation.

The departure point is Renegade Classics, a motorcycle gear shop at 6758 Folsom Boulevard. Their destination is Paschke Ranch in Woodland. (36047 County Road 25) This ride, which is open to all cyclists (and autos), was created by Dotie Dollson. who was looking for a way to memorialize her niece, Adele Mott. Nicknamed Poobunny, Adele lost her battle with breast cancer in 2010.

Riders will be treated to a catered lunch, a raffle, live music by blues-rock favorite, “Neckbone” and various vendors selling their wares.

Registration is from 8 to 10:30 a.m. and kickstands will go up at 11 a.m. A $25 donation includes a ride pin, T-shirt (while supplies last), catered lunch and raffle ticket. Pre-register at www. eventbrite.com (The event title is 1st Annual Poobunny Ride) Albie Aware was launched in 2004 to fill a need…a gap, if you will, in our health care system. Simply put, standard tests may not detect breast cancer and prescribing more thorough, expensive diagnostic tests is often not medical protocol,

not covered by insurance, and can be cost prohibitive to many patients, putting far too many at risk.

Simply put, we raise money to assist people facing a breast cancer diagnosis and we educate the community on minimizing risks.

A second event supporting Albie happens on Oct. 26 at the 5th Annual Rib Cook-Off Fundraiser: Ribbin’, Rockin’ & Raisin’ Money. For the serious griller out there, you can join a “Q-team” to compete at this cook-off event, which will be held Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Hilltop Tavern, located at 4757 Folsom Blvd.

The event, which takes place from Noon till 6, will feature over a dozen teams, grilling and smoking two full racks each of St. Louis style ribs, with proceeds benefiting the Albie Aware Breast Cancer Foundation.

There will be live music – Urban Fire and Chalk Board Ringo, from 2 to 5 p.m.

The price for this all-ages family event is $20 for adults and $12 for kids, which includes a rib lunch served from noon to 3. There will also be a silent auction and raffle with great prizes.

Teams that are interested in competing in the Q-off can register at the Hilltop or contact Albie Aware at 927-1592. (4 commemorative aprons per team will be provided) Judging will be handled by professional rib judge Chef Hef and his experienced team.

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50th Sacramento Greek Festival Photos by Monica Stark editor@valcomnews.com

The 50th annual Sacramento Greek Festival, featured food, dancing, cooking workshops and more at the Sacramento Convention Center this past Labor Day weekend (Aug. 30-Sept. 1). In addition to the many festival featured a roster of special guests including one of California’s most prominent artists, Gregory Kondos; New York Times bestselling author and wine educator, Rick Kushman; and, Sacramento’s foremost Executive Chef Patrick Mulvaney of Mulvaney’s B&L. Meanwhile there was a bit of fun with costumed visitors from the nextdoor SacAnime convention.

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Mental Health America of Northern California is seeking volunteer peer counselors to work with older adults in the Sacramento County. Volunteer peer counselors will provide emotional support, friendship and needed resource linkage for isolated, homebound older adults. For information please contact Jesse Williams or Jan Blanton at (916) 855-5444 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– California Youth Basketball League is currently registering for the Fall 2013 season.

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Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www. eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com, Meeting/ Membership info: 916-761-0984, volunteers always welcome!

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Michael Denman Scholarship Golf Tournament Sept. 20: AMR crews from the Sacramento and surrounding areas are organizing a Golf Tournament in honor of their lost Paramedic Michael S Denman. Michael was an extremely generous soul who worked hard to not only be an excellent patient care provider but a community leader who made a real difference. This tournament benefits the MSD Foundation Scholarship which provides EMT and Paramedic education to serve our community. The tee off time is 1 p.m. at Lincoln Hills, 1005 Sun City Lane.

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Best of Grateful Crane Sept. 21: Buddhist Church of Sacramento, Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church and Asian Community Center presents a Grateful Crane Ensemble Production of the Best of Grateful Crane. Two performances – 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Buddhist Church of Sacramento Kaikan, 2401 Riverside Blvd., Sacramento. General admission tickets are $20, bentos available advance purchase for $10. Information, tickets and/ or bento lunch boxes, contact Hiroshi F. Kashiwagi, 769-1125, or hfkashi@aol.com ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Fire Station 18 Open House Sept. 21: The Sacramento Fire Department will be hosting Fire Station Open House from 2 to 4 p.m., located at 746 N. Market Blvd. You are invited to bring your family and friends to visit with firefighters, take a tour of the fire station, and more! For more information, call 808-1011.

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Tahoe Park clean up day Sept. 21: Clean up day from 8 to 11 a.m.

East side of the park on 61st Street between 8th and 11 Avenues. Tasks include weeding, pruning, raking, and some rehabilitation of the horseshoe pit. Two different Boys Scouts in pursuit of their Eagle Scout Badges will be on hand.

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Sunburst Projects Perennial Sale Sept. 21-23: Fall perennial sale. Cash and check accepted. Benefits Sunburst Projects. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 3072 24th St. Curtis Park.

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Northern California Chapter of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society (GRHS) meeting Sept. 22: “The Northern California Chapter of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society (GRHS) will meet Sunday, 9/22/13 at 1:30 p.m. in St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L Street, in Sacramento. This month’s program will consist of a video by Pauline Litfin of the Lodi Chapter of AHSGR. Ms. Litfin describes her life in Ukraine and the challenges she faced when she traveled to Germanyand the United States. The GRHS is a non-profit, non-denominational, and non-political organization whose purpose is to bring people together that have historic and genealogical interest about Germans from Russia and to preserve their unique and rich heritage. For more information about the club and its meeting dates, contact Don Schell at 428-6495 ordonnorschell@att.net.

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Rotary Clubs of Arden-Arcade, Carmichael Sept. 24: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome, every Tuesday. Arden-Arcade meets at noon, Jackson Catering and Events, 1120 Fulton Ave. (916) 925-2787. Carmichael meets at 6:30 p.m., Ancil Hoffman Golf Club. www.rotary.org ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

East Sac Rotary Sept. 25: Meets at 6 p.m., Evan’s Kitchen, 855 57th St. Sacramento. www.eastsacrotary.com.

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Rotary Club of Pocket/Greenhaven Sept. 26: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome. 7:30 a.m., every Thursday. Aviators Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. (916) 684-6854.

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Kiwanis Club of East SacramentoMidtown Sept. 26: Visitors Welcome, weekly breakfast meeting on first, second and third Fridays at 7:00 AM and Dinner meeting on fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM. Topical weekly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’.

Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www. eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com, Meeting/ Membership info: 916-761-0984, volunteers always welcome!

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Rotary Club of South Sacramento meeting Sept. 26: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome. Every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at Iron Steaks Restaurant, 2422 13th St, Sacramento, CA 95818.

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Sept. 27: Free 12-step program/support group, for people who have Bi-Polar and those who love them. Meets every Friday, 78:30 p.m. 4300 Auburn Blvd., Room 106.

(916) 889-5786.

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Free Two-Day Literacy Festival at Fairytale Town Sept. 28-29: All aboard for reading! Fairytale Town presents the 13th annual ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival on September 28 and 29. Sherri Duskey Rinker, the New York Times bestselling author of “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site” and “Steam Train, Dream Train,” will headline the two-day Festival. Admission to the Festival and Fairytale Town is free to the public thanks to the event’s sponsor, ScholarShare College Savings Plan. Free. Adults must be accompanied by children. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive, Sacramento, CA 95822, 808-7462, mail@fairytaletown. org, www.fairytaletown.org ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Tahoe Park Starlight Movie Series Sept. 28: The last showing of the Starlight Movies Series for 2013. Seating begins at 5:45 p.m. and the movie (TBD) begins at dusk, approximately 7 p.m. This event is always free. 61st Street between 8th and 11th avenues.

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Fire Station 60 Open House Sept. 28: The Sacramento Fire Department will be hosting Fire Station Open House from 2 to 4 p.m., 3301 Julliard Dr. You are invited to bring your family and friends to visit with firefighters, take a tour of the fire station, and more! For more information, call 808-1011.

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4th Annual World Rabies Day Event Sept. 28: The Sacramento Valley Veterinary Medical Association is coordinating its 4th Annual World Rabies Day Event. In the “Three for Free” campaign, there will be offering free microchips and free rabies vaccines to dogs and cats, as well as a free oneyear license to all first time, altered pets.

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Sacramento Community Concert Association performance Sept. 29: SCCA presents 7-String guitarist Matthew Grasso and The Vocal Art Ensemble at 3 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian, 1300 N St. Matthew Grasso is one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation. He has taken the art of the extended 7-string guitar to new heights. The Vocal Art Ensemble, Tracia Barbieri, Conductor, brings together experienced musicians pursuing artistic expression through finesse of the human voice. Appealing to both the discerning musician and the casual music lover, VAE performances celebrate the elegant beauty of Renaissance motets, tonal color of modern works, and exotic flavor of music from other cultures. Regular subscription: $90, Group discount (8 or more people): $75, Students subscription: $45, Single Ticket: $25. For more information, contact Sacramento Community Concert Association www.sccaconcerts.org; info@ scc.aconcerts.org; 400-4634.

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Free golf lessons offered at Bing Maloney Golf Complex Sept. 29: Are you interested in starting to play golf, but not sure where to begin? Bing Maloney is offering Free Family Clinics for 2013. These clinics are family oriented for any level of golfer. Each clinic will be held on Sundays from 1 to 2:15 p.m. at the Bing Maloney Golf Course: 6801 Freeport Blvd. in Sacramento. Call 808-2283 for more information.

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Community outreach fair Sept. 29: From 1:30 to 4 p.m., the goal of this event is to bring information to our community not only about the services that our Lodge has to offer but the services that are available from local organizations, businesses, and healthcare providers.

There will be free hearing and vision testing, free blood pressure checks. In addition, media and local elected officials will be invited and scheduled tours of our facility will be offered along with refreshments. Interested in participating in this event? Contact Jane Gallagher, Chairman (916) 4228351 or (916) 607-8347. SPONSORS: GOLD: $100; SILVER: $ 75; BRONZE: $50. events@elks6.com To reserve a table,

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St. Joseph Craft Fair and Chili Cook Off Sept. 29: From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Clarksburg is the St Joseph Craft Fair and Chili Cook Off. Nat Brown will be the Musical Guest. Cook off begins at 8 a.m. with tasting from 11 to 1. Price is $5. There will also be a craft fair from 8 to 3. For the cook off, call Lou at 424-2624 or for the fair, call Joan at 392-9946. 32890 South River Rd., Clarksburg.

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Evening with Gerlene and Pamela Sept. 29: Two local musicians, organist and pianist Gerlene Kwan and contralto Pamela Knox will perform a piano and vocal fund raising concert at 7 p.m. at the Centennial United Methodist Church. Gerlene will present a varied program of classical, gospel, contemporary, light jazz, and ragtime music. They will be sharing their talents to raise funds to maintain Centennial UMC buildings. Advanced tickets are $15, $20 at the door; students are free. For more information, call 4524477. 5401 Freeport Blvd.

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CHARMING BRICK TUDOR

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Classic brick Tudor home with charming leaded glass windows and great updates! New exterior paint and HVAC in '09, 50year shingle roof in '99 and newer stainless steel appliances.

2 bedrooms 2 baths with hardwood floors, gas fireplace, top down/bottom up blinds, a canopy of trees and a gated driveway to an oversized garage with built-ins! $499,000

Stylish 4 bedroom 3 bath home with interior featuring coffered ceilings, oak hardwood floors with walnut inlaid trim, 2 master suites, gourmet kitchen, granite counters, large dining room with built-in leaded glass hutch, wine room & tasting area, office, gym and a professionally landscaped yard and BBQ. $1,050,000

This lovely remodeled 4 bedroom and three bath home! High quality appliances and finishes in the gourmet kitchen; connected family room has French doors that open up to the backyard where you will feel like you are on a tropical vacation among the Sago and Queen Anne palms. Plus a back gate into the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club. $1,199,900

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Beautifully maintained River Park ranch style 3 bedroom 2 bath home that is ready for you. Newer roof and dual pane windows. Large kitchen with tons of storage, breakfast nook and formal dining room, central heat and air and whole house fan; private backyard and plenty of storage. I think you’ll love this! $399,500

Wonderful home remodeled with gourmet kitchen with 2 sinks, pot filler, gas range, and granite counters. The bathroom with tub & shower has also been remodeled. New 1 1/2 car garage.

Great open layout with wood floors, recessed lighting, and a large entertainment deck with canvas shade. Roof approx. 9 years new $499,000

3 bedroom, 2 bath home located just steps from McKinley Park. Features include a spacious floor plan, hardwood maple floors, granite kitchen counters, stainless steel appliances, beautiful kitchen cabinets, completely updated bathrooms, and a private low maintenance backyard patio. $375,000

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PATTY BAETA 806-7761

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Just blocks to the Capitol, theaters, restaurants! Take in the Farmer's Market or a baseball game at the neighborhood park.

Large 2 bedroom condo on the lower level with balcony and stairs to the enclosed greenbelt and campus. Great decorator colors, newer recessed lighting, plantation shutters, wood laminate floors and gated outside parking. $210,000

Fabulous new home being built in the heart of East Sacramento!!! This 3 bedroom 2½ bath will have all the classic signatures of a Mike Paris home... high ceilings, large rooms, open floor plan, indoor/outdoor living, gourmet kitchen, and an old world style and charm. Drive by and look at the three homes already completed to get a true feel of the quality! $765,000

Regal brick 2 or 3 bedroom home on a quiet East Sacramento corner. Move in ready with a new kitchen, bathroom, roof, tankless water heater, refinished hardwood floors, interior paint and minimal maintenance yard.

Walking distance to so much but quietly removed from it all! $645,000

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