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INCREDIBLE VICTORIAN 1905 Victorian on a double lot in the heart of East Sacramento! 3 bedrooms 3 baths with guest quarters. Featuring an elegant parlor and dining room, and updated kitchens and baths. Very spacious downstairs, high ceilings, and parklike backyard, with deck overlooking the Redwoods! $799,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

FABULOUS FORTIES BEAUTY This 4 or 5 bedroom 3 bath home features spacious rooms, updated kitchen, beautiful random plank hardwood Àoors, mostly dual pane windows, 2-car garage. Updated kitchen boasts granite slab counters, center island, built-in refrigerator and beverage cooler. $1,150,000 PATTI PRIESS 801-0579, COLLEEN WIFVAT 719-2324

CLASSIC EAST SACRAMENTO East Sac charmer with vaulted ceilings and exposed beams in the living room, great hardwood Àoors with inlays and leaded glass throughout this amazing home. Updated kitchen, walk in closet. Converted garage a charming 225 square foot guest cottage/home of¿ce/arts/game room with full bathroom. $459,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

MIDTOWN VICTORIAN Beautiful Victorian home with a dream kitchen, renovated with subway tile, granite counters, high end cabinets and stainless steel appliances.

Tankless water heater, new roof and fresh paint make this house shine. It even has a full basement. Easy walk to retail, restaurants and all midtown has to offer! $355,000 ALEXIS JONES 715-0237

TURN KEY READY! Beautiful remodeled 3 bedroom 2 bath home in one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in East Sacramento. Fantastic layout with spacious Àoor plan, perfect for entertaining indoors or out. The large backyard comes off the covered patio with plenty of space. Quality and style throughout. $729,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

BRIDGEWAY TOWER PENTHOUSE Enjoy the best of downtown living! Completely remodeled with stunning kitchen and baths. 3rd bedroom now a formal dining room.

Living, dining and bedrooms access the full length balcony, walls of glass for amazing southern views off the 15th Àoor. Easy walk to Capitol. $729.000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

McKINLEY PARK CLOSE Spacious 3 bedroom 2 bath home located minutes from the park!

Unique one story offers a large remodeled kitchen, a formal dining room, indoor laundry, a master bedroom with lots of closet space, and updated baths. Backyard has one of the best garages you will ¿nd; perfect for car collectors or s a sweet playroom. $599,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

BEAUTIFULLY REDONE Remodeled 2 years ago with open Àoor plan. 3 bedrooms 2 baths, re¿nished wood Àoors, spectacular kitchen with built-in stainless steel appliances, new bathrooms. Lots of natural light, and plantation shutters. Large basement for storage. Low maintenance yard. 2-car detached garage. $629,000 COLLEEN WIFVAT 719-2324

MAKE THIS YOUR OWN Conveniently located, close to shopping, restaurants and transportation, this lovely 3 bedroom, 1½ bath home has beautiful re¿nished hardwood Àoors, living room, dining room and spacious master bedroom! Central heat and air conditioning, covered patio and attached garage. $385,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

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ICONIC GEORGIAN COLONIAL! For the Àrst time since 1940, this 5800 square foot brick Georgian Colonial, located

IN THE HEART OF ELMHURST! Looking onto the expansive T Street parkway

in the heart of the revered East Sacramento’s Fab 40’s neighborhood, is offered for sale. This 6 bedroom, 5.5 bath home, resting on .42 acre, presents a spacious formal Living room with a marble Àreplace, a formal Dining room that looks onto the expansive backyard, and a Kitchen with many original features including a Butler’s pantry and adjoining Breakfast room.The backyard beckons the opportunity to entertain: a tile pool, the large fountain, lush Áower beds and lawn area. Boasting unique nuances including two garages, hardwood Áoors, original windows, and incredible crown moldings, this home couples both charm and potential. $1,350,000

and near UCDMC, this 2 bedroom, 1 bath Elmhurst cottage presents delightful charm!

This 1,114 square foot home offers a formal Living room that opens to a formal Dining area, and a spacious Kitchen. The private backyard boasts a retreat from the daily hustle and bustle, with a spacious lawn area, Àre pit area, and a vegetable garden. Other amenities include a two-car garage, hardwood Áoors, and partial dual pane windows. $419,950

LIVE INTHE FAB 40’S! Nestled on a tree-lined street and near East Sac restaurants and shops, this inviting 1,788 square foot cottage couples both incredible charm and modern comforts! This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home offers a formal Living room with a Àreplace, formal Dining room with built-in cabinetry, and a recently updated Kitchen. Inviting opportunities to entertain, the backyard presents a glistening pool, mature foliage, and a patio area.

Other amenities include a Master Suite that looks onto the backyard, hardwood Áoors, and an ofÀce area that adjoins to the detached garage. $829,950

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IRRESISTIBLY CHARMING COTTAGE! This 3/4 bedroom, 2 bathroom brick cottage presents an inviting retreat! This 2367 square foot home offers a formal Living room, a formal Dining area, a spacious Family room, and a Kitchen with an adjoining Breakfast Nook. Other amenities include a glistening pool, hardwood Áoors, an indoor laundry room, and spacious craft room attached to the two- car garage. $649,950

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WELCOME HOME! Located near East Sac restaurants, coffee shops and parks, this 3 bedroom, 1 bath East Sac property offers an inviting place to call home! This 1101 square foot home presents a formal Living room with 9 foot ceilings, a bright Kitchen with an island and dining bar, and a spacious Family room.

Other amenities include hardwood Áoors, an indoor laundry area, fresh interior and exterior paint, and charm throughout! $449,950

A special thank you to our community businesses and business owners that helped to make this truck possible: Jim Reed at Summit Funding, Max Greenberg at the Trenchless Company and East Sac Propane, Ashley Gill, Travis, and Mark Gill of Green Acres Nursery, Steve Larson of Farmers Insurance, Jim Lopez at Pinnacle Pest Control, Lauren Reiff Covert of Decorum Studio, and Colin Smith at the Law OfÀce of Colin T. Smith. And, thank you to Eric Bassett of Riverview International Trucks who guided us along in this process.

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Launch Pad to College AT COUNTRY DAY, AN INNOVATIVE PROGRAM FOR SMART, BUT UNDERPRIVILEGED STUDENTS

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y midsummer, most middleschool students aren’t thinking about school.

But at one special program in Sacramento, quite the opposite is true.

Breakthrough Sacramento is part of a cross-country program collaborative that has changed the lives of tens of thousands of middleschool students. Breakthrough Sacramento’s home and host is Sacramento Country Day School’s impressive campus off American River Drive in Arden.

“The program is a partnership that provides a year-round, tuition-free, college-prep program for academically motivated, ethnically diverse students from underresourced schools primarily in Meadowview, South Sac and Del Paso Heights,” says Adolfo Mercado, director of Breakthrough Sacramento. “It is also an innovative teacher-training program for talented high school and college students.”

Applying to join in February, 36 new students are selected each year to attend an intensive six-week academic summer program taught on the Sacramento Country Day campus by enthusiastic college students

Adolfo Mercado, director of Breakthrough Sacramento

from across the country and local high school students. The students continue in the program for six years, until they go off to college.

Only 25 percent of those who apply are chosen each year after a rigorous selection process that includes essay writing, teacher recommendations and personal interviews.

“The school-year program consists of weekly after-school tutoring sessions in primarily English and math, as well as monthly Breakthrough Saturday events,

including cultural events, outdoor adventures, college visits and community service,” says Mercado, who has directed the program since 2005.

Mercado says that grade tracking, high-school options counseling and advocacy ensure that Breakthrough students have the opportunity to enroll in challenging collegepreparatory high-school programs.

During their high school years, Breakthrough students participate in SAT prep programs, college

preparation workshops and financialaid information sessions for them and their parents. These monthly sessions are taught by local high school students and students from Sac State and UC Davis.

“Family involvement is key, as we estimate that about 95 percent of Breakthrough students will be first in their families to attend college,” says Mercado. “Educating their parents on why they should support their students in going away to college is a real challenge for us. Poor and immigrant families have real fears of their children leaving home. We have to convince them to let go.”

Mercado may be the perfect role model for these students: He grew up in Meadowview, attended Christian Brothers High School and graduated from UC Santa Cruz.

“I am so passionate about this program because I see myself in many of these students,” says Mercado. “I’ll never forget the motto on the wall outside at Christian Brothers: Enter to learn, leave to serve. Through my work at Breakthrough, I can help those who were just like me at one time.”

The program produces measurable results year after year. According to Mercado, 92 percent of Breakthrough Sacramento graduates attend college directly after graduation, compared to 34 percent of low-income students nationally and 29 percent in the Sacramento area.

“Our students’ choices have included St. Mary’s, Harvard, Stanford, Wesleyan, the University of California campuses and more,” he says. “Plus, more than 70 percent of Breakthrough Sacramento teachers plan to enter careers in education PUBLISHER page 13

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Outdoor Cinema SCREEN ON THE GREEN WILL SHOW ‘BIG HERO 6’

BY RACHEL MATUSKEY EAST SACRAMENTO LIFE

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n Saturday, Aug. 29, join your neighbors and see summer off with a movie under the stars at Glenn Hall Park.

This year’s Screen on the Green, sponsored by City Councilmember Jeff Harris, will feature the animated film “Big Hero 6.”

Inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, the high-tech adventure story is rated PG. The movie begins at sunset, approximately 8:15 p.m. Free popcorn will be provided.

Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets, snacks, sweatshirts and flashlights.

Glenn Hall Park is at 5415 Sandburg Drive in River Park.

For more information, visit sacscreenonthegreen.com or call 8085240.

GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH BEGINS EXPANSION On June 14, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church at 600 Alhambra

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A rendering of what the new Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church will look like. A groundbreaking ceremony for the $12.5 million construction project known as The Build was held in June.

Blvd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $12.5 million construction project known as The Build.

The project will fill an entire city block directly across from McKinley Park. It will include a family center, bookstore, preschool, office and event spaces, expanded parking and a treelined common area known in Greek as a plateia.

The site is fenced off and ready for construction. “We’re in the process of demolishing the old buildings that are on-site,” says Sam Manolakas, chair of The Build’s capital campaign committee. “We’re moving forward.

Weather permitting, we expect the

project to be completed in about 14 months.”

For more information, visit thebuildsac.org

NEW PRESIDENT FOR CSUS Sacramento State University welcomes a new face this fall as Robert S. Nelsen, Ph.D., begins his tenure as the university’s eighth permanent president. Outgoing

president Alexander Gonzalez retired in June after nearly 12 years in office.

Dr. Nelsen was appointed by the CSU board of trustees. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees

in political science from Brigham Young University, and he received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought.

“Dr. Nelsen is an accomplished and visionary leader who will successfully build on the foundation President Gonzalez has established at Sacramento State,” said CSU trustee Steve Glazer, chair of Sacramento State’s presidential search committee.

“He has extensive experience leading a large, diverse university and a long history of always putting students first.”

Dr. Nelsen assumed leadership of the university in July. To learn more, visit csus.edu/president

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TAKE A BOOK, LEAVE A BOOK One of the newest sights on the patio at Compton’s Market is a Little Free Library, erected by Girl Scout Troop 1135. The 10 fifth-graders were in pursuit of their Bronze Award, which is the highest a Girl Scout Junior can receive, and requires completion of a significant service project. The girls elected to create a free neighborhood library.

With help from The Woodshop owner Bob Cardosa, who donated his time to the project, the girls built the structure and collected used books from family and friends. Local artist Kimberly Boyd also volunteered her time and helped paint the exterior.

The library is currently stocked.

Neighbors are invited to pick up a book or two or drop off books to share. Compton’s is at 4065 McKinley Blvd.

Anyone can start a Little Free Library. Official registration is not necessary, but those who want more exposure can make a one-time payment to the worldwide nonprofit organization. In return, you’ll receive an official charter sign, a listing on the world map of libraries and other membership benefits.

For a relaxing evening with the family, take a walking tour of the nearby libraries. As of January 2015, there were nearly 25,000 registered boxes, but more crop up all the time.

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PUBLISHER FROM page 11 after working in the summer program.”

Breakthrough Sacramento was co-founded in 1993 by a Country Day parent and former headmaster, who formed a committee of friends dedicated to ensuring opportunities for a college education to a group of students traditionally underrepresented in colleges and universities. Since then, Country Day has sponsored Breakthrough Sacramento at an annual cost of $250,000.

Local school districts and the county office of education at one time provided more than half of the program’s cost. But in 2012, those funds dried up. Now, the school pays

for the program with private and school scholarship funding.

“We are in effect creating student leaders for our local public school, yet we get no funding in return for our efforts,” Mercado says.” Only by increasing our public and private fundraising efforts are we able to consider expanding our program to serve a greater number of students.

We know the demand is certainly out there.”

Country Day’s high school typically has eight to ten Breakthrough students. The school generously pays for their tuition through its $2 million annual scholarship fund.

With the inspired leadership of Mercado and Sacramento Country Day School, Breakthrough Sacramento makes a huge difference in the lives of an impressive

number of academically motivated students from Sacramento’s poorest neighborhoods so they, too, can live the American dream of a college education. Their success helps their families and their neighborhoods.

Please consider this special program in your charitable giving plans. It would be great to see Breakthrough Sacramento grow and reach more deserving students.

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In the East Sac area, libraries have been spotted on A Street near 41st; in Elmhurst at 39th and T and 44th and T; on Aiken Way; and outside Caleb Greenwood Elementary, just to name a few. How many can you find?

For more information, to view a map of registered libraries or to start your own Little Free Library, visit littlefreelibrary.org

The Curvy Girl Exchange will host a plus-size clothing exchange on Sunday, Aug. 23, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Coloma Community Center auditorium at 4623 T St. Participants must donate a minimum of 10 quality clothing items to join the swap. Sizes 10 through 5X are accepted.

On the day of the event, attendees can select from all donated items and browse pop-up shops featuring local plus-size boutiques and vendors.

There will also be raffle prizes and sponsor goodies up for grabs.

There is a $10 entry fee. Ticket purchase and clothing drop-off are required in advance, at This N That Thrift at 2590 21st St. For more details, visit facebook.com/ SacPlusSizeSwap

SUMMER POETRY SERIES CONTINUES Join poet and editor Frank Dixon Graham at McKinley Library for the final month of classes on the poetry of love and heartbreak. Students will read selected poems and listen to a brief lecture; they may then opt to craft their own poems in the styles discussed. The instructor and fellow students will offer encouraging feedback.

The topic for Wednesday, Aug. 5, is “Rumi: Sensuous Words of the Persian Master Poet.”

The topic for Wednesday, Aug. 19, is “English Romantics: Browning, Blake, Keats, and Robinson.”

Class times are 7 to 8:30 p.m.

McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

END-OF-SUMMER READING CELEBRATION Celebrate the end of the public library’s Summer Reading program at an ice cream social at McKinley Library on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Free ice cream will be provided from 6 to 6:30 p.m. After dessert, stay to enjoy Boswick’s Reading Circus from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Boswick the Clown, a former member of Ringling Bros.

Circus, will entertain the whole family with magic, comedy and juggling.

Boswick will be in costume but will not wear clown makeup.

ART IN AUGUST Central Library will hold its third annual Art in August program series this month. The theme is

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One of the newest sights on the patio at Compton’s Market is a Little Free Library, erected by Girl Scout Troop 1135

Art in Sacramento, and the events are designed to bring art to the public through hands-on classes and entertaining presentations.

Community members are invited to discover their inner artists while enjoying a series of free art classes, lectures and an Art Day celebration.

On Tuesday, Aug. 18, the lecture topic is “Outside Covers of Inside Publications,” presented by Inside publisher Cecily Hastings and artist Judy Lew Loose. Signs will be posted inside Central Library’s main entrance directing attendees to the exact meeting location. The lecture will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

THE EYES HAVE IT Eyes of Sacramento Optometry opened April 1 at 3315 Folsom Blvd., next door to 33rd Street Bistro. Run by optometrists Susana Belmonte and Arlene Espiritu, the practice is “not only an optometry clinic but an optical, where people can buy frames, lenses and contact lenses,” says Dr. Belmonte.

The two doctors, longtime Sacramento residents currently raising families in East Sac and Midtown, have 24 years of combined experience, with expertise in pediatric optometry, general family optometry,

glaucoma testing and medical ophthalmic care.

To learn more or to book an appointment, visit eyesofeastsac.com or call 246-8111.

NEW HOME DECOR AND DESIGN STORE FOR EAST SAC Urban 57 Home Decor and Design opened May 10 at 57th Street Antique Mall. The space features home décor items as well as interior design services.

Proprietor Kamran Baghestanian, who also owns popular East Sac rug retailer Morry’s Oriental Rug Bazaar, says the name is a combination of the store’s location and design aesthetic.

“Urban is our style,” he says, “and East Sac feels like home. I’ve done business here for 25 years. What’s ironic is that I used to be in this same exact unit, dealing in antiques. When the space became available, coming back here was a no-brainer.”

To learn more about Urban 57’s services or to request an appointment, visit sacramentocafurniturestore.com Urban 57 is at 855 57th St.

SECOND SATURDAY ARTIST RECEPTION Capital Public Radio will host a reception featuring local artist Anthony Montanino on Saturday, Aug. 8.

Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served, and Montanino’s ensemble Surface Tension will play live music.

The reception will run from 4 to 6 p.m.

Capital Public Radio is at 7055 Folsom Blvd. Montanino’s works are on display in the lobby now through Sept. 28. For more information, call 278-8900.

SAC HIGH CLASS OF ’65 REUNION Sacramento High School’s graduating class of 1965 will hold its 50th reunion in October. The weekend of parties kicks off with a social hour on Friday, Oct. 23. The reunion itself is on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Red Lion Woodlake. The weekend wraps up with a brunch on Sunday, Oct. 25. For more information, go to classreport.org/us/ca/sacramento/ shs/1965 or contact Gail Harris Thearle at gail.thearle@gmail.com or 315-8042.

BLUE SKY DAY SPA CELEBRATES 15TH ANNIVERSARY Blue Sky Day Spa will celebrate its 15-year anniversary on Aug. 1. For the entire month of August, guests can receive $10 off any single service of $55 or more. Just say, “I saw it in East Sac Life!”

Blue Sky Day Spa is at 4250 H St. To schedule an appointment, visit blueskydayspa.com or call 455-6200.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT The 32nd annual National Night Out happens Tuesday, Aug. 4. Neighborhoods throughout Sacramento are invited to join forces with thousands of communities nationwide for the crime and drug prevention event. From 6 to 10 p.m., residents across the country are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police.

National Night Out is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention

awareness, generate support for and participation in local anti-crime programs, strengthen neighborhood spirit and police/community partnerships, and send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

Participating neighborhoods can block off their streets and request a visit from the police by completing a block party application.

Block party fees will be waived with completion of the form. The application can be downloaded at portal.cityofsacramento.org/ parksandrec/permits/block-parties, and should be returned to the address listed on the application.

For questions about street closures, call Special Event Services at 8087888. For more information, contact Jeannette Bonner at jbonner@ pd.cityofsacramento.org or 808-6467.

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In 2014, more than 50 people attended the event, which grows in popularity every year. To learn more about East Sac Preservation, visit eastsacpreservation.org

THEODORE JUDAH CONSTRUCTION UPDATE On June 18, the Sacramento City Unified School District board of education voted 6-1 in favor of a proposal to build a permanent twostory, nine-classroom structure on the Theodore Judah Elementary School campus. The vote was the culmination of a three-year endeavor to gain support for the proposal.

Construction is slated to begin in December 2015 and continue until the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year.

One temporary portable building will be added to the back of the campus, along the west side of the fence line. This was slated to occur shortly after the campus closed for summer break. The portable will provide classroom space during construction.

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Making Art Together PAMELA BASURTO, MARY CARBONI AND SHARON HAGAN

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amela Basurto, Mary Carboni and Sharon Hagan are friends and neighbors who share a love for creating art.

In September, the three women will open their East Sacramento art studio to the public as part of the 10th annual Sac Open Studios tour.

Sac Open Studios is an openstudio program produced by Verge Center for the Arts. This year’s tour will feature more than 130 artists over two weekends in September. According to Ariana Young, Verge’s public programs manager, “The annual event and related programming are designed not only to support and celebrate Sacramento artists but to engage local audiences about art making and creative expression.”

Basurto, Carboni and Hagan, who work in a studio behind Carboni’s home, work in different media and followed different paths.

Carboni, who has a degree in art and a teaching credential, taught art at Leonardo da Vinci School until her retirement seven years ago. She works mainly in oil, acrylics and clay.

Basurto, who first worked with ceramics in high school, creates humorous clay sculptures. She graduated from Sacramento State University with an art studio degree in 2006.

A licensed clinical psychologist, Hagan worked in law enforcement for 28 years. She currently teaches part time and works as a consultant to attorneys and law enforcement agencies. “I always enjoyed the creative process and working with color,” she says.

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Local artists Mary Carboni, Sharon Hagan and Pamela Basurto are part of the studio tour this fall

“However, I only began painting after Mary gave me some acrylic paint for a graduation gift when I earned my doctorate in 2009. I accepted her invitation to work in her studio

and have had a wonderful time experimenting with paint.”

They agree that sharing a workspace is a good thing. “Working with Mary and Sharon is fun,

and it helps when I get their encouragement and feedback,” says Basurto.

“We are good friends who work comfortably together,” says Carboni.

“Sometimes it’s hard to get myself out to the studio in the morning, and both Pam and Sharon are great motivators.”

The women have participated in past Sac Open Studio tours and are looking forward to opening their studio once again.

According to Verge’s Young, the coordinator of this year’s event, “A visit to an artist’s studio is truly a unique experience. It’s different from visiting a gallery or a museum. It offers an accessible and collaborative environment to learn about the hands-on process of creative expression.

It’s also a really fun way to explore different neighborhoods in Sacramento.”

“People of all ages have a great time visiting the art studio,” says Basurto. “Sac Open Studios is a fun and positive way to spend a day, or even both weekends. And it’s free.”

“Participating together in the tour is a wonderful way to share what we love with others in our community,” says Carboni.

Sac Open Studios will take place Sept. 12-13 and Sept. 19-20.

Studios in East Sacramento will be open during the second weekend.

The tour is free. An open house to celebrate the launch of the tour will be held at Verge Center for the Arts on Thursday, Sept. 10, from 6 to 9 p.m. Verge is at 625 S St. For more information, go to vergeart.com or call 448-2985.

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Fire Alarm AMBULANCE REFORM WOULD CHALLENGE FIREFIGHTERS UNION

BY CRAIG POWELL INSIDE CITY HALL

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n some sense, the city’s fire department is a 20th century relic operating in a 21st century world. And with its entrenched practices staunchly protected against change by what’s acknowledged to be the city’s most powerful union, Fire Fighters Local 522, the fire department has been essentially immune to efforts by city officials to drag it into modernity. Few have even tried to reform it; none has come anywhere close to succeeding.

To his credit, freshman Councilmember Jeff Harris has stepped up to the plate and is making cost-saving reform of the city’s ambulance service, operated by the fire department, a major priority.

What’s more, he may very well succeed where most haven’t even bothered to try.

Why is the fire department so resistant to change? Fire chief Walt White is only the 21st chief in the department’s 165-year history. And he’s the first chief in city history to be appointed from outside of the ranks of the fire department. Organizational change is not exactly a prevailing value in the fire department. White didn’t have to travel far to take the

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job. Before joining the fire department last year, White spent his career with the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, a nearby district with a long history of paying firefighter salaries that are among the highest in California and a district board dominated by members elected with the financial support of Local 522.

Apart from history and tradition, the status quo in the fire department is vociferously defended by Local 522, whose political action committee typically brings in $150,000 annually and whose cash balance stood at $330,000 at the end of last year. It showers money on candidates for city council. When Angelique Ashby ran for the council in 2010, Local 522 not only gave her campaign $6,500; it spent another $26,826 in an

independent expenditure campaign on her behalf. Such outsized political “investments” buy influence and power.

Once elected, Ashby quickly became the council’s most stalwart advocate for the interests of firefighters, opposing all city efforts that could negatively impact them and consistently advocating for actions that would benefit them.

On three occasions in recent years, Ashby and the president of Local 522 have co-authored ballot arguments on proposed city ballot measures. To this council observer, there has never been a ray of sunlight between the positions of Ashby and Local 522.

Local 522 is led by Brian Rice, an acerbic retired Sac Metro firefighter who penned a June 2 editorial in The

Sacramento Bee entitled “Pensions Aren’t Being Paid at Expense of Filling Potholes,” which argued that city coffers are flush and the city’s rapidly rising pension costs are not “crowding out” public spending on potholes, park maintenance and other city services. It was a novel argument that was recently rebutted, line for line, by the California Policy Center, a nonprofit group that performs indepth analysis of municipal finances in California.

The CPC rebuttal also noted that Rice, who spent 28 years with Sac Metro Fire before retiring in 2011, collects an annual pension of $183,000, plus an estimated $10,000 in additional benefits, on top of his current salary as president of Local 522, which could put him in the running for the poster boy of pension reform.

The combative posture of Local 522 was on full display in budget hearings in May when Rice asserted that the city’s 13 ambulances generate a profit for the city. He also claimed that the city is “not on the edge of a fiscal cliff” and that the prospect of a fiscal cliff was merely a “picture being painted by city manager John Shirey and finance director Leyne Milstein.” Immediately following Rice’s statements, Milstein provided the city council a detailed accounting that demonstrated that, instead of generating a profit, the city’s ambulance service is projected to lose $6.5 million in the fiscal year that began last month.

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that’s not. The prospect of a more diverse fire department is very appealing to councilmembers, but there is serious roadblock to the reform: Local 522, which opposes the reform. Ironically, and rather hypocritically, Local 522 signed a letter of understanding with Sac Metro Fire in 2012 allowing Sac Metro to begin staffing its ambulances with single-role paramedics. But apparently the union doesn’t want to lose any highly paid firefighter/ paramedic positions in Sacramento to lower-cost paramedics.

The reform would not require that any firefighter/paramedics be let go.

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The change is supported by both who have “dual-role” qualification, CITY HALL FROM page 22 the city manager and the fire chief. meaning they must be qualified quite turn out that way. The city’s A key question: Is Local 522 in a to work as both a firefighter and a ambulance service has been a major legal position to block the reform? paramedic. Harris wants to see the source of losses for the city for years.

According to Shirey, it isn’t. He city to adopt a “single-role” policy, At Jeff Harris’ first council meeting believes the current labor contract requiring that ambulance workers be last December, a fresh two-year with Local 522 does not require the trained solely as paramedics. After all, contract with Local 522 was up for union’s consent for the city to adopt they aren’t putting out fires; they’re a council vote. It called for raises the policy change. If that’s the case, providing medical attention and amounting to 12.5 percent over two the only remaining impediment would transporting people to area hospitals. years, offset by some additional be council politics. Are there five votes Moving to single-role paramedics firefighter contributions to their to approve the change in the face of would save the city $405,000 annually pension and retiree health benefits.

Local 522 opposition? for each of the 13 ambulances it Harris made it clear that he didn’t When I asked the city manager operates, according to Harris. Why like the contract, but he was looking if the votes were there for such a the big savings? Because under the to the future and hoping that Local change, he said, “I don’t get paid to city’s contract with Local 522, it costs 522 would work with him to support predict how the council will vote. I the city an astonishing $67,500 more changes he had in mind to reform do know that they are interested in each year to employ a firefighter/ work rules that were driving up making taxpayer dollars go further paramedic than it does to employ a taxpayer costs. He voted in favor of and they’re open to new ideas and paramedic—for doing precisely the the contract with assurances from new ways of doing things.” same job.

Local 522 that it would work with him Shirey and Harris both identified Allowing ambulances to be on work rule reforms. a public safety issue with the way staffed by paramedics also opens up Thus began Jeff Harris’ education ambulances are currently staffed: opportunities for increased minority in hardball politics at city hall. fatigue. A work rule under Local 522’s hiring in the fire department, and The reform that Harris had labor contract calls for firefighters, since paramedics often seek to become foremost in mind was to change including firefighter/paramedics, to firefighters, it creates the potential for the way the fire department staffs work 48 hours straight every week. greater diversity among firefighters in its ambulances. Currently, the city Given that the overwhelming majority the future. Currently, city firefighters staffs every ambulance with workers of service calls to the fire department are overwhelmingly white in a city

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these days is for emergency medical care/transport (only around 10 percent are for fires), the firefighter/ paramedics who operate city ambulances end up being called out three times as often as fire engines responding to fires. A firefighter can expect to get longer, less interrupted periods of sleep in comparison to a firefighter/paramedic who may have to scramble from one medical call to the next, particularly since the volume of medical calls has spiked, from an average of 200 calls a day five years ago to an average of 400 calls a day today, according to fire chief White.

The result is serious sleep deprivation and fatigue among ambulance workers. Shirey asked the city’s chief medical adviser, an emergency room doctor, whether he thought it would make a difference in the quality of care if paramedics worked 12-hour shifts instead of their current 48-hour shifts. After observing ambulance crews arriving with patients for a six-month period, the ER doctor reported that he could tell the difference in mental acuity and alertness between firefighter/ paramedics who were working the first day of their 48-hour shift versus those who were working their second day. White reports that the majority of city ambulance crews are now exceeding the “time on task” standards set by the International Association of Firefighters. How would you like to have a paramedic working the 47th hour of a 48-hour shift trying to locate a vein in order to insert an IV into you or a member of your family? No thanks.

By shifting to single-role paramedics, shifts would be reduced to just 10 or 12 hours, allowing them to go home and sleep between shifts. It would also give the city the scheduling flexibility to beef up paramedic staffing during peak hours for ambulance calls and reduce staffing when call volume is typically low, which would save base labor costs, reduce overtime costs and improve ambulance response times.

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If anyone has been engaged in hostage taking, it’s been Local 522 by refusing to allow the two new units to be staffed with single-role paramedics.

Instead of holding her most important political patron accountable, however, Ashby chose to malign the city manager as a hostage taker when all he sought to do was exactly what the council directed him to do: staff the new ambulance units with single-role paramedics.

While at the end of the day Ashby got her way, securing council funding for two new ambulance units staffed with more expensive dual-role firefighter/paramedics, the split vote on the issue and ensuing council discussion revealed that support for single-role paramedics is growing, leaving Jeff Harris with a rate opportunity to put this major fire department reform over the goal line.

This is just the first of several needed major reforms of the fire department, but those are topics for another day.

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I told the city manager that the current system looks almost as if it were designed to maximize the waste of taxpayer dollars, reduce the quality of care and increase ambulance response times. It may also be exposing the city to significant liability if substandard care results in serious harm to patients.

During spring budget hearings, Angelique Ashby pressed the council hard to fund staffing of a second ambulance in North Natomas. She mobilized North Natomas residents to fill the council chambers and insist upon staffing for a second ambulance. Ashby told the crowd that such staffing was “promised” to her constituents two years ago, in the fiscal year 2013/2014 budget, but hadn’t been delivered. That budget, approved by the council, did call for two new ambulance units, one in North Natomas and one in the south area, but its language was quite clear: “It is anticipated that these medic units will be staffed with non-sworn personnel [meaning single-role paramedics].”

Ashby said she “didn’t care” whether the new units were staffed with dual-role or single-role paramedics. Well, if she had cared and had pressed her friends at Local 522 to accept single-role paramedics for the new units, it would have saved enough money on those two units alone ($810,000) to fully fund staffing of a new ambulance unit in North Natomas two years ago.

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Crocker brings the PR capabilities of her firm, Crocker & Crocker, to the retail campaign. Other members of the board represent retail, advocacy, financial and other disciplines. “This is a motivated and talented group,” she says. “We’re all committed to WEAVE’s success.”

TRUE will sell name-brand apparel and jewelry—without the sticker

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his fall, WEAVE will open a new retail concept in Midtown. The store will focus on young, fashion-conscious urban buyers.

The store will be called TRUE (Totally Recycled Urban Exchange).

Shoppers will be able to buy, sell or trade clothing, jewelry and accessories. The organization already operates a thrift store on Arden Way called WEAVEWorks. Proceeds from the new store will go to WEAVE, which provides services for people who experience domestic violence and sexual assault.

shame,” as Sugimoto likes to call it.

“If we can’t use an item that someone brings in, we’ll give them a tax receipt and donate it.”

Sugimoto has worked for WEAVE since 2000. Among other things, she oversaw the Suited for Success program, which matches clients with clothing and other essentials. In 2005, her career took a detour through Bend, Ore., where she worked for Ronald McDonald House Charities.

She came back to Sacramento in 2009, spending five years as executive director of the Greater Sacramento Chapter of the ALS Association.

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Revenues from the store will help fill funding gaps and ensure WEAVE’s sustainability.

Amy Sugimoto, WEAVE’s director of retail operations, worked with a retail advisory board of local professionals to design TRUE. The

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hen Friends of East Sacramento put a plan together to restore and manage McKinley Rose Garden in 2011, they knew volunteers would be needed. “But we had no idea just how vital they were until our first summer of blooms arrived,” says Cecily Hastings, co-founder of the Friends nonprofit group, which oversees the ongoing care.

Seven years ago, the city employed two full-time gardeners for the public rose garden. Then, city budget woes prompted cutbacks.

The gardeners “were first to go as the city parks staff struggled to keep numerous parks up with skeleton crews,” says Hastings.

After the city funded new concrete walkways and a new irrigation system in 2011, there were no funds to replant hundreds of rosebushes that had perished in recent years due to disease and lack of water. Friends of East Sacramento raised more than $100,000 in private donations and replanted the rosebushes, added new boxwood hedges and planted eight empty perennial beds. The group also built a new brick monument sign and a shade gazebo and refurbished 26 park benches.

The nonprofit leases the garden from the city and manages event rentals in the garden. Event rentals, combined with the garden’s Adopt-A-Garden program, generate funds for weekly lawn and plant maintenance services. Corporate and

Linda Jayne enjoys working each week in the McKinley Rose Garden

private sponsors fund the more than $10,000 a year need to underwrite the care of the garden. Colorful banners on light poles along H Street recognize major donors.

“But one vital job that we simply could not afford to hire is the deadheading of the roses while they are in bloom,” says Hastings.

“Roses typically start blooming heavily in April and go through the later fall now that we have established a regular fertilization program,” says Ellie Longenecker, a Master Gardener and rosarian who provides advice on the care of the roses. “It is vital that

the dead blooms be cut off each week in order to encourage new blooms.”

After receiving about 30 minutes of training, each volunteer commits to spend about an hour a week in the garden on his or her own schedule.

“We now only have about 10 regulars working weekly. We need to double that amount in order to keep up with more mature roses and better fertilizing,” says Hastings.

New volunteer recruitment signs have already helped. “We try to snag their interest while they are walking in the garden or around the park.”

Linda Jayne responded to the call and works weekly in the garden,

usually in the early morning hours.

“I love this job because I can do it any time and I don’t have to do much cleanup,” she says. “I actually find this work kind of addicting. It is so beautiful and peaceful, and I feel exhilarated when I’m done.”

Volunteer Luci Schwartz, a retired College Glen resident, finds the work a great escape from her home life. “I find that working in the garden refreshes my spirit,” she says. “I feel lucky to have found this opportunity. It is the best volunteer job in the world.” Schwartz likes that she can set her own hours.

She also says that the feeling of community created through the experience is a “true gift.”

“I had forgotten what an important part of Sacramento our city parks have always been,” she says. “Watching the families interact and the weddings being planned, I know that I am both giving back of my time and, at the same time, meeting wonderful people.”

Volunteer Annie Ables says, “I am really enjoying helping to take care of the roses. It is so peaceful and gratifying.” She can’t believe how many people thank her for helping to make the garden so beautiful. “It really is the best volunteer job ever!”

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Dog’s Best Friend LOCAL DESIGNER USES SOCIAL-MEDIA SAVVY TO SAVE UNWANTED ANIMALS

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ou might not think that fashion and animal welfare go hand in hand, but Bobby Mann sees it differently. As public relations ambassador for the Front Street and Bradshaw animal shelters, Mann has used his unique knowledge of the design industry and the power of social media to help triple the number of animals adopted over the past two years.

Just a few years ago, the 27-yearold didn’t know the first thing about animals. “I always had a dog growing up, but it wasn’t really my thing,” the Pocket resident and Turlock native admits. “When I was 15, my parents relocated us to Elk Grove, and I ended up going to the International Academy of Design and Technology to study textile design. My life was supermaterialistic. It was all about designing clothes, driving fast cars, partying.”

But his life changed direction in two shakes of a puppy dog’s tail— literally.

“I was going to a grocery store by my school and I saw a gentleman with a box,” Mann says. “There was a pit bull puppy inside. The man said he was selling it, that if he couldn’t get rid of it, he was just going to dump it by the river. I wasn’t in a position to have a dog, but I felt empathy for the animal. So I scrounged in my pocket, paid him $80 and went back to school with the puppy.”

What Mann didn’t realize about his momentary act of mercy was how much responsibility he’d also acquired. His first visit to the vet cost more than the dog itself, so when it came time to neuter his new

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Bobby Mann with a furry friend, one of many dogs available for adoption at the Front Street Shelter

addition, he looked up low-cost clinics in the area. He found a local shelter that offered a pit bull spay/neuter program.

“When I started researching the program and the shelter, I thought that volunteering there might be fun,” Mann says. “So I filled out a super-extensive application and got called in for an interview. That’s when I knew it was serious.”

Mann was not called in as a volunteer: He was being considered for a full-time job based on his impressive application.

“I figured I needed interview experience, so why not?” Mann says.

“At this point in my life, I was 20 years old and I’d never touched a cat.

I had to take a quiz at the interview about animal knowledge. I thought it was a huge joke, that there was no way they were going to hire someone my age. But they offered me a job one month later.”

Nothing could have prepared him for what lay ahead.

“I showed up the first day and saw hundreds of dogs in the back,” Mann remembers. “I thought, this can’t

be right. People lose their pets and then they come and pick them up, right? I had no idea people weren’t coming back to their pets. I had no idea animals were being put down in my community. My whole life I’d been concerned about clothes, and there were animals dying in my backyard. It was life altering.”

Shocked, Mann decided to do something. He figured that if he could educate the people who were giving up animals, he could slow or even stop the surrenders. Through studies conducted with the help of local nonprofits, Mann discovered that the vast majority of shelter animals were coming from Del Paso and South Sacramento, so he targeted schools in those areas for an animal welfare campaign.

“Education and awareness are the keys,” says Mann, who started a humane education nonprofit called Not Just Animals. He also teamed up with an organization called Lend A Heart Lend A Hand Animal-Assisted Therapy to bring certified therapy dogs into schools, where kids could read books aloud to them. “In eight weeks, all the kids saw an increase in literacy. Their attendance was better.

Their behavior was better. It was a win-win.”

The savvy activist sought out grants to expand the program into other Sacramento schools. He recently rebranded his efforts as Pawsitive Impact to include internships that teach animal care skills in local juvenile detention facilities.

“These kids feel like these animals: stuck in a bad situation,” Mann says.

“We need to empower them.”

Despite all the good he was doing, Mann missed using the skills he’d

honed at design school. He decided to write a memoir and include photos of shelter animals, so he contacted Gina Knepp, the manager of Front Street Animal Shelter, to see if he could come by.

“Gina replied in 20 minutes and said I could come down right that minute,” Mann says.

Knepp was in the middle of a major rebranding of the city’s municipal shelter from “the pound” to Front Street. Knepp had doubled the shelter’s save rate in her first year on the job.

Mann joined the Front Street team first as a volunteer, then as a part-time employee to help grow the shelter’s social media presence.

Front Street now has up to 2.4 million unique views of its Facebook page each week and more than 52,000 followers. With that increased Internet visibility came tangible results: The save rate has tripled over the past two years to around 80 percent.

“It’s a lot easier to get from 20 to 40 percent than it is to get from 70 to 90 percent,” Mann says. “We

need more funding to get over that next hurdle, so we have to be smart fundraisers.”

Enter Mann’s first love: design. He created a collection for his clothing line, The Problematic, called Team Front Street, which features T-shirts declaring “Adopt Don’t Shop” and clever twists on iconic high-end brands (like “Furmes” for Hermes and “Fursace” for Versace). The collection debuted at Sacramento Fashion Week last year and continues to rake in funds for Front Street. For Mann, it’s been nothing short of a full-circle success.

“I took the lifestyle I lost and turned it into what I love now,” Mann says. “I get to walk down the street and see people wearing our shirts and know that we’re changing people’s perception of shelter animals. But I have so much more to do. I’m excited to wake up every day and do what I do.”

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Not Your Grandpa’s Downtown THE CENTRAL CITY ISN’T JUST FOR YOUNG FOLKS THESE DAYS

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acramento’s central city is finally dusting off years of economic malaise and restoring itself as an energetic, edgy home to young adults living in old Victorians, steely lofts and rustic apartments. While they socialize at the latest coffee shops, meet up at restaurants and close down bars, older folks are also quietly moving in to tap into the vibrant energy only metro living can provide.

“This may be a new way to age,” says Sandy Smoley, a well-known community leader, 20-year veteran of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and former secretary of California’s Health and Welfare Agency.

Smoley had to make some decisions after her husband, Walt, died. In January 2012, she packed her bags and left the ’burbs. After years of country living overlooking Lake Natoma, Smoley decided to move into the city. She’s never looked back.

Smoley found a home to rent in Midtown’s vibrant Handle District.

She grins while reporting that there are 11 restaurants within a half block of her home. Right across the street

Sandy Smoley loves living in Midtown and often invites friends and neighbors over for a glass of wine on her front porch

is 58 Degrees & Holding Co. Then there’s Zocalo, The Press, Aioli, The Rind, Buckhorn Grill, Crepeville and more.

“I love to joke with Patrick Mulvaney, owner of renowned Mulvaney’s B&L, that he makes me walk a whole block to have dinner there,” Smoley says. “I love it. I eat out every night. There’s always someplace to go.”

She can stroll over to Old Soul for coffee or have food delivered from Edible Pedal.

“It’s been a game changer and life-altering experience for me,” she says. “Some of my friends seem lonely or isolated in the suburbs. I couldn’t be lonely if I tried. I could write a blog about how to age and stay active.”

Smoley loves the buzz. She also creates her own buzz—on her

porch. There, she hosts friends and associates for discussions, chats or to drink wine. When she’s out with friends, they all find their way back to Smoley’s porch.

A friend told her to leave up some old Christmas lights in her front window. Smoley turns the lights on as a signal to friends who might be dining or hanging out in Midtown that she is holding court and serving wine. She lists the wines on a small whiteboard. Smoley beams with delight that so many people are willing to stop by to visit or simply say hi.

“When I first moved here, I was surprised at the sense of community,” she says. “I know all my neighbors.

Everyone is kind, and we look out for each other.”

Smoley gained more than community from moving to Midtown; she also gained time. When she lived in Fair Oaks, she spent more than two hours a day commuting for work. Now, she can get everywhere she needs to go within minutes: restaurants, B Street Theatre, Sacramento Philharmonic and more.

“The commute really bothered me,” she says. “It was impacted both ways. The drive was ludicrous for me.

Now it’s so easy to get around.”

Dave Ljung, managing partner of Gilbert Associates accounting firm, moved to Midtown after his kids were grown. He says it was one of the best moves he ever made. Ljung lives in Tapestri Square, a community of single-family brownstone-style homes in Midtown’s Poverty Ridge neighborhood.

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Superior Interiors FOUNDER BRINGS AN ITALIAN AESTHETIC TO PROJECTS LARGE AND SMALL

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dele Barsotti, the owner of Pacific Design Group Interiors on Fulton Avenue, has always had an eye for design. She could hardly help it, considering she grew up in the picturesque town of Brindisi in southern Italy.

“When you are born overseas, you’re surrounded by so much culture, it’s almost impossible not to love design and architecture,” Barsotti says. “You see all of these beautiful buildings and churches everywhere, and because Brindisi is at end of the Appian Way, it has every style you can imagine, since we were invaded by all kinds of cultures.”

Barsotti has been in California since 1974, but she brings her European aesthetic to bear on everything she works on at PDG Interiors, from commercial spaces to sustainable residential interiors. After graduating from the University of Italy, she followed her then-husband to the United States to further his computer engineering career, but it wasn’t long before Barsotti struck out on her own in the floor covering industry.

She now specializes in commercial floor covering design, but the business she founded in 1998 also tackles window coverings, custom cabinetry, interior and exterior lighting, home and contract furnishings and fine art and accessories.

“It’s been part of an evolution,” the Carmichael resident and mother of three explains. “You start in one thing, then a client asks, ‘Can you give me a price on window coverings?’

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Adele Barsotti, owner of Pacific Design Group Interiors, in her design studio

‘I need a price on a sofa.’ So you evolve into other fields to meet the clients’ needs.”

Barsotti’s stunning showroom, which moved to its current large, light-filled location last November after spending six years on Fair Oaks

Boulevard, also plays host to three other highly qualified designers and the landscape architecture firm William Chambers & Associates, owned by Barsotti’s companion, Will Chambers. The full-service designer showroom is open to the public but

also serves as a valuable resource for the interior design trade with its vast libraries of textiles, catalogs and showroom merchandise.

“We’re a one-stop shop,” Barsotti says proudly. “Visitors can browse without a designer or work directly with one of our designers by appointment in the studio or in their own home or office. Our staff is incredibly knowledgeable.

“And because our showroom is so beautiful, people are often surprised by how affordable we are. We consistently underbid big box stores because we get everything wholesale.”

It’s not surprising, then, that Barsotti and her talented team see a lot of repeat business.

“We get a lot of referrals,” Barsotti says. “People hear about us by word of mouth, which is the best way to achieve new business. When people are buying thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, they need to trust you.”

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Joe Marty’s Return SACRAMENTO’S ORIGINAL SPORTS BAR SET TO MAKE A COMEBACK

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t’s not like Sacramento needs another bar. There are plenty of places to stop for a quick cold beer or artisanal cocktail, with infinite possibilities awaiting the social drinker and degenerate boozer alike.

But we still could use a decent sports bar. More specifically, we could use Joe Marty’s.

There were shutters on the windows, but they were forever closed, as if exposure to sunlight would scorch the patrons.

Tucked into the far western corner of the Tower Theatre building at 15th Street and Broadway, Joe Marty’s was the original sports bar, catering to daytime drinkers, late-night

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bachelorette parties and everything in between.

You could drink, eat and gamble there. Greasy sandwiches were a specialty, as were bar dice and omnipresent bookmakers who would handle your action on the Kings, Giants or whomever.

The joint’s run was legendary, from 1954 to 2005. A kitchen fire one warm night in June 10 years ago destroyed the bar and most of the dining area, though city firefighters heroically salvaged much of the cobwebbed memorabilia and baseball photos nailed to the walls. Joe Marty’s has existed as an empty shell ever since.

Now, a group of local real estate investors hopes to reopen Joe Marty’s sometime this fall. The investors tell me they are working through typical

hurdles: city and county permits and landlord glitches. But a new Joe Marty’s would be terrific, even if the new operators make the old saloon more family friendly than it was before the smoke cleared in 2005.

I’ve never been a fan of familyfriendly bars, finding the concept somewhat oxymoronic. As a little kid in San Francisco, I can still recall being dragged by my parents to a place called the Lane Club in Maiden Lane, where Mom and Dad made me sit in a corner booth and drink a Roy Rogers. The Lane Club scared me, because it was always so dark in there, even during daylight hours.

Joe Marty’s was always dark, no matter the time of day. Entering the joint on a late summer afternoon was especially hazardous and required a

period of adjustment, lest you stumble into a barstool while your eyes adapted to the midnight blackness of the main room. There were shutters on the windows, but they were forever closed, as if exposure to sunlight would scorch the patrons.

Despite its function as a place to behave in ways that were patently bad for you, Marty’s provided a positive social service for the community. It was a safe haven were sports fans could gather and reminisce and argue and show off and challenge each other’s knowledge about the arcane nonsense that makes sports so enjoyable and enduring.

A stranger once sat down next to me at Joe Marty’s and announced Ralph Sampson was the worst player who ever wore a Sacramento Kings

uniform. I begged to differ—Olden Polynice got my vote at the time— but we spent an hour respectfully discussing the definition of “worst,” which, when you’re talking about the Kings, becomes a hugely complex problem worthy of a postgraduate’s dissertation. I can’t think of another bar in Sacramento where that could have happened, then or now.

Joe Marty’s was special because it was a real sports bar, imagined and operated by a real sportsman, as opposed to our modern sports bars, which tend to be designed by hospitality guys with financial partners who measure their enthusiasm by return on investment.

Joe Marty was one of Sacramento’s greatest baseball players (he hit a home run for the Chicago Cubs in the 1938 World Series against the New York Yankees), and when his career wound down he did what great athletes did in those days: came home and opened a bar. He didn’t care about investors or trends. He barely cared about customers.

Joe was a pain: He drank too much and maintained racial attitudes that

disgusted most of us from younger generations. But he knew what a classic sports bar should feel like, locker-room musty and loud with laughter.

There was a TV, but it only showed sports and the sound was permanently set to silent—an iron rule that modern sports bars have abandoned to the detriment of all.

Marty died in 1984 at age 71. The bar passed among the founder’s friends for the next 21 years. They barely dusted the joint and changed nothing.

Contemporary sports bars will blossom downtown when the new arena opens. They will be filled with TV monitors and bright lights and families and craft beer handles by the dozen.

And by the standards of Joe Marty’s, they will be antiseptic and predictable—even boring. You can watch a game anywhere. But put a bet down with a bookie? That requires a real sports bar like Joe Marty’s.

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All For One BUSINESSES JOIN FORCES TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR EVERYONE

BY JORDAN VENEMA BUILDING OUR FUTURE

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rowth isn’t always measured by the height of new buildings or the width of boundaries on a map. Sometimes, the greatest signpost of a healthy city is the absence of any sign at all. In recent years, Sacramento has shown fewer “signs” of graffiti, crime and vagrancy, leading to a collective addition by subtraction.

From Midtown to Power Inn, and from Fulton to Florin, property and business owners have been improving their districts through cooperative services such as maintenance and security, marketing and special events. Property and business improvement districts (PBIDs) were permitted to organize under California’s Property and Business District Law of 1994.

“A traditional [PBID] model is a group of businesses or property owners getting together to fund services or improvements that are implicit to their business.

So it is essentially a publicprivate partnership, generally led [and managed] by the business community… but with significant oversight role by the city or county,” explains John Lambeth, founder and president of Civitas, a Sacramento consulting firm that develops PBIDs. With a general consensus between owners, followed by city council hearings and a balloting process, a PBID is formed as a private nonprofit for a five-year term, Lambeth explains. Each property within the PBID pays a fee based upon parcel assessments, which is taken directly out of tax assessment bills.

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R Street Partnership’s administrator, Michelle Smira Brattmille

Lambeth basically wrote the book on PBIDs: He authored California’s Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 and helped organize the state’s first PBID, Downtown Sacramento Partnership,

in 1995. Since then, Sacramento has added 15 more districts.

The size of Sacramento’s PBIDs ranges from large to cozy: Power Inn Alliance supports more than 1,300 properties over 6 square miles, while

R Street Partnership includes about 100 businesses over approximately 10 blocks.

Big or small, PBIDs usually begin with a conversation between business owners about the needs of their district. And since PBIDs are, in Lambeth’s words, “folks getting together in a common way to protect their common interest,” the improvement is from the ground up.

According to Michelle Smira Brattmiller, R Street Partnership’s administrator, that first conversation began with questions about streetscape improvement. Capitol Area Development Authority obtained a grant to provide general street renovations and improvements, “but the grant didn’t include any kind of maintenance after the fact,” explains Brattmiller. “But what happens if a light goes out? Who pays for it? With new improvements, there were new costs down the road.”

So R Street Partnership was formed in 2013 to ensure continued maintenance of the district. The partnership has employed its $111,000 budget to increase security, remove graffiti and add benches, bike racks and decorative lighting.

But these districts aren’t just about erasing and preventing the eyesores and nuisances; they also determine the identity of the neighborhood. R Street Partnership business owners, explains Brattmiller, felt a “need to be proactive in determining the future of R Street.” Brattmiller says the partnership plans to conduct more events that are “framed around the arts,” reflecting the district’s galleries and artists.

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BUILDING FROM page 40 Though Sacramento PBIDs create their own identity within the greater context of the city, they have not become islands separate from the rest of the community. Transience and homelessness have long been issues for the city and businesses. But rather than pushing the homeless to other city blocks, Sacramento’s PBIDs have worked closely with nonprofit Sacramento Steps Forward to address the issue.

“We’re talking about people,” says Maya Wallace, the director of external affairs at Sacramento Steps Forward, whose goal is to find housing for the city’s chronically homeless.

According to Wallace, Sacramento’s PBIDs have been actively involved with Steps Forward, both financially and strategically.

“By way of a history lesson,” begins Wallace, “[Ryan Loofbourrow] was in charge of the security team at Downtown Sacramento Partnership, and he started thinking how to address homelessness downtown.”

Loofbourrow, now the executive director of Steps Forward, helped expand the organization’s Homeless Navigators program, which identifies homeless people in frequent contact with hospitals or police and provides them with permanent housing. Says Wallace, “We’re expanding with the help of some of the PBIDS, including River District and Midtown Business Association.” Navigators with Downtown Sacramento Partnership, she adds, “place probably 20 folks a month into housing.”

While the city provides much of the amenities that we enjoy, PBIDs connect the lines between the dots.

Midtown Business Association organizes historical walking tours, mural installations, holiday events and the Saturday Midtown Farmers Market at 20th and J streets. Its baitbike programs have led to more than 50 arrests of bicycle thieves.

Midtown Business Association’s current term ends in December 2016, but the PBID already is working with Civitas to draft a proposal to expand the district into the Alhambra Corridor, where Midtown meets East Sacramento. Currently, the bulk of the district lies between I and N and 16th and 29th streets. It is set to grow to include 30th Street and Alhambra Boulevard between K and S streets, as well as Stockton Boulevard all the way to Highway 50.

“Midtown is looking to expand into Alhambra,” explains Nichole Farley, a project manager with Civitas, “because with the [Sutter Health] expansion, they were starting to see how the area needs to be revitalized.”

If the new proposal is approved, she adds, “the clean and safe activities that Midtown has been working on for the past 10 years will move into Alhambra.”

For the Alhambra Corridor, the PBID expansion could translate to better security and maintenance, more events and marketing, and a stronger identity. And since Sacramento PBIDs have consistently grown since 1995, expect more businesses to communicate and collaborate in order to reinvigorate their districts, thereby making stronger neighborhoods, which ultimately should make a stronger Sacramento.

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Beating the Widow Maker LUCK AND SCIENCE ARE A POWERFUL COMBINATION

BY R.E. GRASWICH CITY BEAT

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here is no good way to learn your heart is diseased with blockages and you could die at any moment. It helped that I was lying down at the time.

The cardiologist who delivered the bad news was a young man named James Schipper. He threaded a line from my right wrist into my heart and injected dye to trace how my heart was working. This happened as I watched.

There was much joking by Schipper and myself and two cardiac nurses named John that morning, all goodnatured stuff to help me relax. Then the chatter stopped. Watching the dye patterns, Schipper saw a severe blockage of my left main coronary artery.

Medical professionals have a technical term for this revelation. They call it a “widow maker.” The heart attack that follows brings immediate death. About 116,000 Americans die this way each year. “You need heart bypass surgery as soon as we can schedule it,” Schipper said.

And the doctor said something else.

After a pause to let the news sink in, he spoke six words that lifted the weight and let me breathe. He said, “It’s OK. We can fix this.”

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So began my journey from being an average guy who in recent weeks experienced a slight, dull pain in the middle of my chest while exercising (which for me meant a brisk walk with the dog) into the world of open-heart surgery, recovery and rehabilitation.

Within 24 hours of Dr. Schipper’s study of the dye in my heart, I had met one cardiac surgeon, three cardiologists and two anesthesiologists. I had been transported in an ambulance from Kaiser South to Mercy General.

And I had my chest cut open, my breastbone sawed in half, my heart stopped for about two hours and my left leg pierced in three places by a device that harvested redundant blood vessels that would be grafted onto my heart, creating new pathways. When I left Mercy five days after surgery, I felt great. My left ankle was sore. My chest was tender. Otherwise, it was like nothing happened, almost.

Each step of the way, I was blessed by luck. The only reason I went to the emergency room in the first place was because my wife saw me pause during a walk. She asked why. When she heard the answer, she insisted we go to Kaiser.

That was luck, because without her, I would have been dead in weeks or days. The widow maker would have made another widow. Meeting Dr. Schipper and his nurses, the two Johns, was luck, because they let me know that unlike so many other catastrophic medical conditions (diseases that lack borders and demand months of treatment and end up being partially successful or not so successful at all), mine was a plumbing problem.

It was luck to be dispatched to Mercy General, a hospital that specializes in cardiac treatment.

And it was luck to be placed under the authority of Dr. Henry Zhu, a

low-keyed heart surgeon from Harvard blessed with humor and steady hands, and his cardiologist colleague Dr. James Foerster, another Harvard man who approaches his craft from an earlier generation but arrives at the same destination, focused on the patient.

The journey was not entirely pleasant. When I woke up after surgery, I was agonized by the presence of something—a towel?—stuffed down my throat. In fact, it was a breathing tube. When my intensive care nurse Paul removed the tube and gave me an ice chip, he became St. Paul for my eternity.

Three drainage tubes extended from my stomach. Moving around with tubes poking from your stomach brings no joy. My nurse Lacy extracted the tubes with a yank—she told me to hold my breath. They pulled easily, assisted by morphine.

I missed my son’s graduation from McClatchy High School. But a storm

rolled in that night and I saw the flashes of lightning and the roar of thunder from my window while the graduation procession was underway at Memorial Auditorium.

My nurse Darcy came in and told me she watched the same lightning storm at home with her two young children.

They were awed by nature’s magic.

My nursing assistant Keith cleaned up my room that day. He talked about his father’s Air Force career, cut short by death.

At dawn on the morning I left Mercy General, I thought about everyone who helped me—strangers who became intimates through a series of fateful breaks involving clogged arteries. And I did something I never do. I closed my eyes and remembered all these things that happened and cried for a long time, overwhelmed by luck, kindness and life.

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Planned Obsolescence IT’S OUR JOB AS PARENTS TO MAKE SURE THEY DON’T NEED US

teach her. That was the first moment

wheel. Just as soon as you’ve taught

their everyday existence. That kind of

that I realized I wasn’t in control. I’ve

them to talk, you’re teaching them

stings.

been out of control ever since; just ask

the difference between thoughts

her!

that “come out of the mouth” and

are so notoriously tough. All that

those that “stay inside.” That lesson

bickering over curfews and midriff-

extends into adulthood for some of us.

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Planned obsolescence. Hmm. Check out this definition from Wikipedia and you will begin to see

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subscribe to the Forrest Gump school of parenting. It’s like a

Perhaps that’s why the teen years

There are functional skills and

to lessen the blow when our roles

what I mean: “Planned obsolescence

there are interpersonal skills, and

in their lives start to shift. There

in industrial design is a policy of

for the most part we parents are

is a little part of us that is actually

planning or designing a product with

either responsible for teaching them

relieved to not pick up dirty dishes

an artificially limited useful life,

or putting our kids in a position to

from all over the house.

so it will become obsolete, that is,

learn from others. I don’t think our

unfashionable or no longer functional

work is ever done, but at some point

I had two children in diapers and

after a certain period of time.”

we’re going to become less essential to

one in elementary school. Now, all

When I started writing this column,

box of chocolates: You never

know what you’re gonna get.

There is one thing you can be certain you’re going to get as a parent (besides tired, that is): Unsolicited advice, now that’s a sure thing.

It seems folks just love to share their views about everything from feeding to diapering to educating your little ones. It doesn’t matter that a thing or two has changed since their parenting days, or if they’ve ever been parents themselves. Everyone has an opinion they can’t wait to share. Just

As a young mom, I wish I’d heard more about the life skills kids would need rather than the products people thought would make my job easier.

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the “unfashionable” part, but that’s

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not what I’m getting at. If we do this

actually a prediction: “Your job as a

parenting thing right, we give our

parent is to make yourself obsolete.”

kids the tools to function without us.

When you’re parenting a young

It starts with learning to walk and

child, this is a little hard to take.

use appropriate table manners and

Honestly, we don’t ever want to

goes from there. One minute, we’re

imagine our little darlings going on

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great. If I play my cards right, even

teenagers. I have to laugh about the

to keep those “inside thoughts” truly

though they won’t need me as much,

inordinate amount of time I spent

inside: Those are the tools I think my

they’ll still want me around, despite

worrying about baby wipe warmers

kids need more than perfectly pressed

being unfashionable and not entirely

and which shoes would help their

outfits and organized play dates.

necessary.

feet grow properly, choosing the

These days, our teachable moments

Turns out Forrest’s mom was

most educational television shows

involve driving a car, managing

pretty smart, too. He asked her,

and limiting their sugar. It’s not that

money and choosing a college, things

“What’s my destiny, Mama?” She

these things aren’t important (they

that were hard to imagine during

replied, “You’re gonna have to figure

are), but they pale in comparison

those early years of mashed sweet

that out for yourself.”

to teaching things like compassion,

potatoes and “finger foods.” Just as

tolerance and kindness. Like Forrest

thousands of people have said to me

said, “Stupid is as stupid does,” and

over the years: They grow up fast. My

it’s our job to make sure our kids

firstborn started her first real job this

make good choices along the way.

summer. She’s traded her piggy bank

Now that I have some years as

in for an ATM card. The more time

a parent under my belt, I realize

she spends away from home, the more

that helping kids formulate a moral

I hope she will rely on the tools I’ve

compass is where most of my energy

given her for making it out there in

should have gone. They’ve turned out

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Living Homelessly TAKING TO THE ROAD FOR A YEAR OF MINIMALISM

BY NORRIS BURKES SPIRIT MATTERS

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his month, my wife and I will take a huge financial step: We are going homeless. But don’t worry. I won’t be on the street corner waving a sign that reads “Will preach for food.”

By homeless, I mean we’ll no longer own a house or owe for it. By homeless, I mean “less of a home,” downsized in a big way.

Yes, we’ve gone minimalist. We’ve sold our 2,800-square-foot home where we’ve spent 13 years raising

four kids, three dogs, two guinea pigs and one corn snake.

No more McMansions for us. We’re renting a double-wide mobile home for the next year to help us transition into an itinerant retirement. We aren’t taking any children or animals, only what will fill two bedrooms. The move slashes our living space by 1500 square feet and our monthly housing budget by $1,000.

I can hear a sympathetic chorus of readers asking: “Norris, what happened? Why would you leave such a lovely subdivision? Doesn’t your writing pay the bills?”

Actually, it never really has, but that’s not my point.

If you ask me what happened, I’d have to say that Ecuador happened.

We recently went to Ecuador to visit the Galapagos and explore the idea of overseas living in retirement.

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With the cost of shipping or storage prohibitively high, they’d left most of their belongings behind. When they boarded the plane to Ecuador, most carried their life essentials in three suitcases apiece.

Yes, we’ve gone minimalist. We’ve sold our 2,800-square-foot home where we’ve spent 13 years raising four kids, three dogs, two guinea pigs and one corn snake.

Within a few months of getting off the plane, most managed to furnish their new home with utilitarian essentials from local sources. No longer stuck in the revolving door of StuffMart or CostlyCo, many resourceful expats built their own furniture or made their own clothing.

If shedding that kind of material wealth is something you find unimaginable, you’re in good company. The truth is that this level of sacrifice inspires us, but few of us actually do it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m sacrificing very little. I’ve managed to sell my home and belongings at a fair price and will receive a sizable tax deduction for what I’ve given away.

Most of what I’ve shed hasn’t been used for years.

Nevertheless, our life change has made me take a hard look at the value I place on my stuff, especially the stuff I thought I needed but never used. The whole event has me asking myself, when will a person feel satisfied that he has enough stuff or enough money?

The answer is never. You’ll never be sure you have enough.

The only thing you can really do is draw a bottom line on your net worth and determine that it will be enough.

You must resolve, “This has to be enough. I will make this work. I will make it so.”

To make such a decision, I take some guidance from the homeless Galilean man who declared in his Sermon on the Mount, “Don’t store up for yourself treasures on Earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

You might say this was Jesus’ version of the modern truism, “You can’t take it with you,” or “You’ll never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer.”

In the meantime, I will admit that my newfound minimalism isn’t a complete transformation. We both find ourselves holding on to all we possibly can. Does anyone know where I can rent a cheap storage unit?

Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of the book “Hero’s Highway,” about his experiences as a hospital chaplain in Iraq. He can be reached at ask@ TheChaplain.net n

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Spanish Style A YOUNG COUPLE FALLS IN LOVE WITH AN OLD CHARMER

BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT

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y the end of 2014, William and Cindy Scharffenberg had been sporadically navigating the open-house circuit for six months. Recently married and living in Natomas, they were

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“We love living in this neighborhood and are blessed to be living in this home."

seeking the perfect home.

Viewing a Spanish Revival house in East Sac from the outside only, they dismissed it, thinking it didn’t look like their dream home. Built in 1927,

the house had once been a two-story duplex.

But soon, an insistent family member changed their minds. Visiting from Southern California, Cindy’s parents stopped by the house for a tour. Her father called the couple immediately and told them to look at the house again. “We told him we weren’t interested,” Cindy says. “But he said, ‘Yes, you are interested.’”

Three days after touring the house, they made an offer. “After coming inside,” says William, “we realized everything was perfect for us.” By the end of January, they’d moved in.

William fell in love with the house based on his admiration of older homes with hardwood floors.

He imagined himself cooking in the beautifully redone kitchen.

During the remodel, numerous walls and one staircase were removed, creating a spacious, modern feeling.

“We love living in this neighborhood and are blessed to be living in this home,” he says. “It was

a nice set of events that allowed us to live here.”

Cindy loved the location and the spaciousness the home offered for entertaining and starting a family. And the Spanish Revival style inspired recollections of her childhood.

“It reminds me of the neighborhoods I grew up in Southern California and stirs memories of towns my family visited on the California coast,” she explains.

The exterior exemplifies Spanish Revival style, with Spanish tiles gracing the entryway, an impressive arched door, clay roof tiles and rustic shutters. Inside are arched doorways and window casings that match

the dark flooring. The marvelous 3,200-square-foot house will be open to the public Sept. 28 for the Urban Renaissance Home Tour.

The couple undertook an eightmonth-long renovation. During the remodel, numerous walls and one staircase were removed, creating a spacious, modern feeling. The addition of a master suite upstairs added 430 square feet of living space.

All the windows were replaced along with the mechanical systems of the house. Original wood flooring was salvaged where possible and intermingled with new flooring throughout the house.

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HOME FROM page 51 The couple hired interior designer Kerrie Kelly of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab to make sure the house would be both stylish and comfortable. “We wanted someone who could work with us and understood our style,” says William.

According to Kelly, they wanted a livable design that would integrate the furniture they already owned.

“The couple wanted the design to feel authentic and approachable without feeling too staged or formal,” says Kelly.

To play off of the contemporary Spanish style, Kelly employed splashes of color and texture using area rugs and pillows.

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“We also used riveted accents throughout the home as well as carved and reclaimed wood features to refine the design even further,” she says.

The sumptuous kitchen has custom cabinets, granite-topped counters and an island with seating for four. The gas range features a convection oven that William is still mastering. A cozy outdoor dining area off the kitchen is the perfect spot for casual summer meals.

“A few nights ago, three people said hello as they walked by while we sat outside eating,” he says.

Upstairs, the two front bedrooms each feature a small balcony, perfect for morning coffee. The luxurious

master bath includes two sinks, a large glassed-in shower and a commodious stand-alone tub.

The sumptuous kitchen has custom cabinets, granitetopped counters and an island with seating for four.

Though construction was complete when the couple moved in, the ongoing decisions regarding furnishing their home have strengthened their bond as a couple.

“Melding my husband’s style with all my influences is an ongoing process,” says Cindy. “We have learned a lot about what we like and don’t like and how to come to a joint decision that we can both embrace.”

The Urban Renaissance Home Tour, featuring five new and remodeled homes in East Sacramento, will be held Sunday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour is sponsored

by Friends of East Sacramento. All proceeds benefit the McKinley Park Renewal Fund. Tickets are available at sacurbanhometour.com If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n

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Growing Together AT COMMUNITY GARDENS, NEIGHBORLINESS BLOOMS

BY GWEN SCHOEN FARM TO FORK

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he morning I stopped for a visit at the community garden on the corner of 14th and Q streets was a good reminder of why I love living in Sacramento. It was early in the day. The sun had not yet reached the sizzle point, and a gentle breeze was lifting the leaves on tomato vines and swaying the sunflowers. A happy bird serenaded the neighborhood from his perch in a treetop.

Under a bench, a lazy orange tabby cat lounged in a sunspot. His job, I learned later, is to keep rodents away from the gardens. If his girth is an indication, he’s good at his job.

The garden is beautiful, not just visually, but also because it brings together people living in the neighborhood who love to grow vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers.

It truly is a community brought together by the joy of digging in the soil, growing food and sharing what they grow. Gardeners arrive on bicycles and on foot, some pulling wagons to load with their morning harvest. As they tend their plots, they greet each other and proudly show off the results of their efforts. Outside

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the gate is a box filled with zucchini and fresh dill.

“We put extras in the box to share with other neighbors,” explained Angela DeShields, one of the gardeners. “People walking by are welcome to pick up anything they might be able to use.”

As we explored the plots, checking out the squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, basil and beans growing in raised beds, DeShields told me how, in 2008, the whole community came together to move bricks, shovel soil, build the raised beds and construct compost bins.

“It took a lot of volunteers, and we even worked in the rain,” she said. “But it was good to bring the neighbors together to work on a goal,

and it was worth every bit of effort.

Plus, now we have a place to grow vegetables and fruit even if we live where there is no space for a garden.”

A project such as this doesn’t happen by accident. The garden at 14th and Q streets, called Fremont Community Garden, was developed as a joint venture of the Capital Area Development Authority, Rembold Properties and the city of Sacramento. The land was donated by the California Department of General Services. The Garden Advisory Board, made up of volunteer Fremont gardeners, manages the garden under the guidance of community garden coordinator Bill Maynard. Maynard works for city’s department of parks and recreation.

“There are 13 community gardens in the city of Sacramento,” said Maynard. “We have so many people on the waiting list for garden space that we are planning to add four more. One at the corner of 19th and Q streets will be a combination dog park and community garden.”

Most community gardens are divided into plots 10 feet square or 10 by 20 feet. Some plots are raised so that they’re accessible to gardeners in wheelchairs. Participants pay an annual fee of $25 to $50 depending on the size of their plot. At Freemont, there are 50 plots and a waiting list.

“We have about eight to 10 people leave a year,” said Maynard. “When a space appears not to be maintained, we send the gardener a friendly note asking if they would like to give up their plot. Still, it can take several years of waiting to get a spot because the gardens are so popular. When we opened the community garden in Natomas, we had 83 requests for space but only 26 plots. We had to have a lottery and everyone else was put on a waiting list.”

The idea of community gardens is not new. During World War II, they were called victory gardens. People grew food to aid the war effort. In the 1970s, gardening became popular once again, which helped renew interest in community gardens.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture began promoting its Urban Gardening Program. About that same time, the American Community Gardening Association was founded. Maynard is the current president of the association.

Besides the bounty and camaraderie, the gardens also provide a wonderful learning experience.

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“Everyone helps them out. Right now, because of the drought, we are requiring everyone to use mulch and to limit watering to two days a week.

That alone has been a good learning experience. We also invite third- and fourth-grade students from Oak Ridge Elementary School for a visit. We give them seeds to plant. They are amazed to learn things like potatoes don’t grow on trees. Sometimes I buy carrots with the tops still on. I’ll put them into the soil before the kids

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arrive and let them pull them out of the ground. They love the surprise.”

Here in the self-proclaimed farmto-fork capital, we have many things to celebrate. Gathering our family and neighbors around a community garden is one of the best.

For more information about Sacramento’s community gardens, call 808-4943.

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Time To Get Moving ACTIVE CITIES AREN’T JUST HEALTHIER

BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE

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e’ve engineered physical activity out of many aspects of our lives. At home, labor- saving appliances have eliminated the time and drudgery associated with laundering and doing the dishes. Gas and electric leaf blowers and lawnmowers (not to mention lawn services) having reduced exercise from raking and mowing. Remote controls ensure couch potatoes planted in front of the TV have no need to bestir themselves.

While people have become less active, the number of calories they consume has grown.

The bottom line is a discernable impact on bottom lines.

Outside the home, remote megaschools, megamalls and big-box stores have replaced neighborhood

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schools and shops down the block.

What could be reached easily by walking or biking now requires a car trip. In office buildings and malls, escalators and elevators means fewer stairs to climb.

In the workplace, there’s been a shift to white-collar desk jobs that entail sitting in front of a computer screen and moving nothing but a mouse. Formerly, a far larger proportion of blue-collar factory jobs demanded manual labor for eight hours a day or longer. Loggers ate like loggers because they were burning scads of calories. They felled trees with axes and two-handled saws, not mechanized equipment and chainsaws.

In the United States, there’s probably been no more profound reduction of physical activity than in the realm of transportation. Active, people-powered transportation has drastically declined. Most adults drive everywhere. The number of kids who walk or bike to school has dropped precipitously. Buildings, streets and cities have been reoriented toward automobile use, though public transportation plays a prominent role in a few major cities, such as New York.

It’s difficult to replace activity that used to be part of daily existence with gym workouts. Going to a gym is time consuming and can be costly.

It seems very likely that there’s

been a profound reduction in daily calories expended by most people.

While people have become less active, the number of calories they consume has grown. The bottom line is a discernable impact on bottom lines.

More people are overweight and obese than ever. The health consequences of that extra weight are not good.

Many of the anti-activity changes have been anti-neighborhood as well.

Not only is it more difficult to shop or find a school in your neighborhood; out-of-neighborhood trips mean less social interaction between neighbors.

When trips are made by car, even within neighborhoods, the ability to see, meet and talk to neighbors is limited.

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How do we engineer physical activity back into communities? What are the benefits of doing so? The Active Living Research organization’s report “Making the Case for Designing Active Cities� answers those questions. The report examined research on five critical determinants of activity in cities: parks and trails, urban design, transportation, schools, and workplaces and buildings. The authors assessed not just if these activity determinants affected physical and mental health, but

if they also had related benefits such as improved safety and injury prevention, environmental sustainability, social integration and economic gains.

The study found that the benefits of active cities were wide ranging, positive and profound: “When settings are designed to be activity-friendly, there is good reason to expect not only more physical activity, but also other health, environmental and economic benefits.�

There are many examples of things that can be done to increase the opportunities for activity. Adding parks, greenways and trails is one.

According to the report, “Spending time in green outdoor common spaces is systematically related to stronger social integration and a stronger sense of local community.�

The presence and proximity of parks not only resulted in more physical activity; greenery helped with stress recovery, improved mental health and reduced feelings of loneliness. Tree cover decreased energy use.

Schools often sit idle after hours and during vacation periods.

Agreements between school districts and cities for joint use of schools can create recreational opportunities and re-establish schools as community hubs while saving money.

Making stairwells more attractive by adding painting and carpeting, framed artwork and music increases their use.

When physical activity is optimized, the economic results are very positive.

Homes near parks and trails are

worth more. Health care costs decline.

According to one study, there is a remarkable return on investment in bicycling and walking facilities. For each dollar invested, the benefits ranged from $13 to $19.

People want more active cities.

According to the report, “there is good evidence that most U.S. adults want more walkable neighborhoods, like to live in mixed-use neighborhoods, and want safer places to ride bicycles.

There is strong support for more government funding for walking and bicycling facilities and recreation centers. The evidence we found says that U.S. adults are in favor of the kinds of activity-friendly environments that help people be active and produce important cobenefits.�

When local decision makers consider all the benefits of active cities, it should be easy to choose costeffective ways to re-engineer activity back into people’s lives.

Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n

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Brown Is the New Green WHO SAYS OUR LAWNS HAVE TO BE LUSH?

BY ANITA CLEVENGER GARDEN JABBER

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s our dry spring turned into summer, I was startled by how quickly the grass began to deteriorate in my normally verdant neighborhood. Sure, some lawns were still green, but most of them began showing varying signs of water stress. Instead of a lush emerald carpet stretching block after block, there was a patchwork of varying shades of brown and green.

It didn’t take long to adjust. Now, I’m startled when I see a brightgreen lawn. After all, it’s natural in California for the grasses to turn golden every summer. It’s not a sign of death or neglect but part of the natural cycle. Who says that grass should retain the same color all year long? If we lived in a cold climate, we would accept brown grass all winter long. In our Mediterranean climate, why don’t we go for the gold during the summer?

Perhaps we are now awakening from a mass delusion that we live in an area with unlimited water and can maintain lawns that look like Wimbledon. We seem to be forming new expectations for how our landscapes should look. Some people are watering less or not at all. Others

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are reducing the amount of grass or tearing out their lawns altogether, replacing them with combinations of pavement, gravel, mulch and waterefficient plants. Pavement, especially, worries me. It retains and reflects heat and allows water to run off into storm drains during the winter rather than absorbing into the ground and replenishing the water supply. Rock is permeable, but it too increases heat rather than helping cool our blistering summers. Mulch and plants— including grass—keep things cooler, clean our air and water and help reduce flooding. A lawn can be part of a more water-efficient landscape. It may just be smaller and browner.

Like the Munchkins, we need to learn that there is a difference

between nearly dead and most sincerely dead. Watering grass deeply every week or two will keep its roots alive and its blades somewhat green.

It will recover when rain finally comes again.

If you are watering your lawn less, your trees and shrubs that have relied on lawn sprinklers probably need supplemental watering. It’s especially critical this year, when we started out the summer with the water table unusually low. Check to see if the soil is dry and crumbly 6 to 8 inches below the surface. If it is, coil a soaker hose under the drip line and run it for several hours until the soil is saturated at least a foot deep.

You can also water with a trickling hose or oscillating sprinkler, changing

its position several times until the roots are watered all around. If you deep-water your trees once or twice a month, you will increase their chance of survival. Adding mulch under the dripline in lieu of grass will further retain soil moisture and reduce the amount of grass that you need to tend. Be sure to keep mulch at least 4 to 6 inches from the trunk and no more than 4 inches deep so that oxygen can reach the roots.

Grass clippings can be chopped up during mowing and left in place to feed and cool your lawn’s roots.

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Nature’s Air Conditioning THE DELTA BREEZE IS THE COOLEST THING IN SACRAMENTO

BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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n other parts of the country, sunset gives little relief from sweltering summer days. Air conditioners run all night long.

They don’t have our Delta Breeze.

Sacramento lies 90 miles from the coast. But thanks to physics and a quirk of geography, on many hot days we get natural air conditioning from the ocean. The Delta Breeze is a sea breeze that pushes cooler marine air into our backyards and drops our nighttime temperatures much lower than they would be without it.

A very hot day in the valley causes a big temperature gradient with the coast, which drives a strong Delta Breeze.

The Delta Breeze is created by temperature differences between the

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land and sea. In summer, the land of the Central Valley gets very hot. It heats the air, and just like in a hot air balloon, that hot air rises. As it rises, it slightly decreases the air pressure at ground level.

Meanwhile on the San Francisco Bay, the surface temperature of the ocean stays about the same year round, day or night, usually in the mid-50s. This keeps the air cool as well as humid or foggy. This cool, moist air forms a blanket called a marine layer sandwiched between the ocean and warm, dry air higher up in the atmosphere. The marine layer keeps the Bay Area closer to the temperature of the ocean. It stretches inland and is trapped by the Coast Ranges (mountains), where it forms

a wall of cloud that cars going west from Sacramento plunge into.

But there’s a gap in the Coast Ranges at the Carquinez Strait, a narrow bit of water spanned by the I-80 toll bridge just past Vallejo. Here, the waters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers flow out of the Delta and into San Pablo Bay on their way to the Pacific Ocean. It’s also where the marine layer sneaks through the mountains into the Central Valley as a breeze.

The breeze is driven by the tiny difference in air pressure (only hundredths of an inch of mercury) between the hot valley (where air rises) and the cool coast (where air stays low and heavy). It’s enough to generate a wind of at least 14 mph, with gusts of 20 to 25 mph common in

Sacramento. In Fairfield, closer to the Carquinez gap, gusts reach 35 to 40 mph. Once the Delta Breeze reaches the Central Valley, it spreads out, turning northeast toward Sacramento and Marysville and southeast to Stockton.

The effects are profound. According to James Mathews, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Sacramento, “If it weren’t for the Delta Breeze, we’d have a lot more 100 degree days.” As proof, Mathews told me that on average, Sacramento experiences 22 such days per year; Stockton has 18. Redding, which is cut off from the Delta Breeze by its elevation in the mountains, suffers through 40.

“The breeze is self-regulating,” Mathews says. A very hot day in

the valley causes a big temperature gradient with the coast, which drives a strong Delta Breeze. The breeze then cools the valley and decreases the temperature difference, especially the next day. “In 2013, the breeze gave us our greatest one-day temperature drop ever, from a high of 110 degrees on July 4 to 86 on July 5.”

The Delta Breeze doesn’t always come to the rescue. Forecasting whether the breeze will arrive on a given day is particularly important to the power companies. “SMUD needs to match electricity supply with demand,” Mathews says. “If the breeze isn’t coming, they have to buy power for air conditioning.”

So why do we get relief some days but not others? The depth of the marine layer is the primary determinant of the breeze. The thicker the layer of marine air over the coast, the more cool air spills into the Central Valley. A thickness of 2,000 feet at the coast is the minimum required to get a breeze here. The location of the “Pacific High” is also important. The Pacific High is a mass of warm, dry, high-pressure air that typically forms around Northern California in the summer. If the Pacific High forms offshore, the marine layer is deep and the Delta Breeze is strong. If the Pacific High moves inland, it squashes the marine layer and the breeze dies out.

Meteorologists try to predict the time the Delta Breeze will arrive.

According to Mathews, “The sea breeze will pick up at the coast around noon and reach us usually around 4 p.m.” If it arrives before the hottest time of day (usually 5 p.m.), the breeze reduces the daily high and decreases electricity demand for the whole evening.

Mathews and his fellow scientists study this airy phenomenon, but they don’t always get it right. “If you’re in this business long enough,” he says, “you realize that nature doesn’t read your forecasts.”

Amy Rogers is a novelist, scientist, and educator. To invite her to speak at your book club or public event, contact her at Amy@AmyRogers.com n

GARDEN FROM page 58 leaf from a lawn, removing cut grass and dumping it in the green waste container. They also blow all organic material from planting beds, leaving roots unprotected. Along with our acceptance of browner grass, it’s time to accept that leaf litter is natural and beneficial. Particulates in the air are higher in Sacramento as a result of the drought. Having blowers stir up dust and debris doesn’t do our air quality or landscapes any good.

If you are planting new trees this fall, be sure to select less-thirsty varieties.

If you are planting new trees this fall, be sure to select less-thirsty varieties. Beautiful trees such as birch, red maple, ginkgo, coast redwood and tupelo require regular water and are not good choices for a water-efficient landscape. Sacramento Tree Foundation, in partnership with SMUD, offers many varieties that are drought-tolerant once established.

Newly planted trees and shrubs will need regular watering for their first three years, regardless of how drought-tolerant they will be once established.

We’ve seen some stunning cultural shifts recently. It’s no longer cool to smoke in airplanes, restaurants or bars, offices or even public parks.

Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. Will we turn away from our green summertime lawns, too? Only time will tell.

Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at 876-5338 or go to ucanr.edu/sites/sacmg. For a list of shade trees available from the Sacramento Shade Program, go to sactree.com n

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7337 STOCKDALE ST 1661 BELINDA WAY 7045 WILSHIRE CIRCLE 1450 POTRERO WAY 2521 MEADOW WOOD CIR 7249 17TH ST 4831 DEL RIO RD 1170 13TH AVE 7012 REMO 7041 CROMWELL WAY 7049 WILSHIRE CIR 1408 COOLBRITH ST 6112 BELLEAU WOOD LN 1442 65TH 2039 ONEIL WAY 7516 GEORGICA WAY 1121 34TH AVE 1641 ARVILLA DR

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95831 GREENHAVEN, SOUTH LAND PARK 6700 HAVENSIDE DR 975 ASTRO CT 19 SAIL CT 87 GREENWAY CIR 14 MOONLIT CIR 1217 47TH AVE 787 PORTUGAL WAY 905 LAKE FRONT DR 6745 SWENSON WAY 10 FOX OAK CT 12 TERN CT

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7756 SLEEPY RIVER WAY 30 ZEPHYR COVE CIR 6670 POCKET ROAD 7052 RIVERSIDE BLVD 56 SPRINGBROOK CIR 6403 NORTH POINT WAY 1015 ROUNDTREE CT 6380 LAKE PARK DR 6430 14TH STREET 718 SKYLAKE WAY 6380 SURFSIDE WAY 7668 MARINA COVE DR 621 BRICKYARD 299 BREWSTER AVE 6310 DAIRY COURT 530 RIVERGATE WAY 261 PORTINAO CIR 7340 BARR WAY 1171 SPRUCE TREE CIR 19 BLUE WATER CIR 7237 LONG RIVER 7717 BLACKWATER WAY 7080 GREENHAVEN DR 7302 RIVER PLACE WAY 7731 ROBERTS RIVER WAY 9 RIVER GLADE CT 365 CEDAR RIVER WAY 31 SHADY RIVER CIR 6594 LAKE PARK DR 1323 SAN CLEMENTE WAY 1209 47TH AVE

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For the Love of Art FUN RUN IN LAND PARK TO BENEFIT LOCAL CREATIVE PROGRAMS

BY TERRY KAUFMAN DOING GOOD

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rts lovers: Plan to run, walk or simply watch on Saturday, Aug. 22, in beautiful, shady William Land Park while you support your favorite arts program. The 17th annual Race for the Arts benefits California’s nonprofit performing, literary, cultural and visual arts organizations and school music, literary, drama and art programs.

Every penny of your pledge will benefit your designated group or program.

Every penny of your pledge will benefit your designated group or program. After the run, stick around for a post-run party and arts festival.

The 5k run/walk begins at 8:35 a.m.

Registration fees are $30 for adults and $15 for kids by Aug. 17; starting Aug. 18, the fee for adults goes

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up to $35. To register or for more information, go to raceforthearts.com The event officially kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, with Off to the Races, a food and wine tasting extravaganza in the courtyard of the Pavilions shopping center on Fair Oaks Boulevard. Guests will listen to music from the Sacramento Guitar Society while they sample appetizers from some of the area’s finest restaurants, sip wines from around the region and enjoy more music from Kitty O’Neal and Kurt Spataro and Suzuki Music Association. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at raceforthearts.com

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY A Clockwork Ball, otherwise known as Gender Bender Ball, is the biggest annual fundraiser/party for Gender Health Center. The center provides counseling and therapy services to anyone who self-identifies or is perceived to be gender variant.

This is year six of the ball, and the theme is steampunk. The event takes place Saturday, Aug. 15, at Sacramento International Hotel (925 H St.). The event organizers say not to worry if you don’t know what steampunk is: Just wear your best Victorian-era gadget-infused genderbending costume. Tickets are $20. For tickets and more information, go to thegenderhealthcenter.org

RAPTORS AND REPTILES: OH MY! If you love raptors and reptiles, August is the month for you. The Wildlife Care Association at McLellan Business Park is offering classes for the public about these flying and crawling creatures, with a session devoted to raptors on Sunday, Aug. 2, and reptile training on Sunday, Aug. 16. Both classes begin at 10 a.m. and are free for WCA volunteers, $10 for nonmembers. To sign up for a class, email your full name, phone number, class name and group affiliation to wcarehabilitation@yahoo.com

BRAIN FREEZE If you haven’t yet gotten your fill of animals, or if you’re just too darn hot, get ready for the Sacramento Zoo’s 31st annual Ice Cream Safari on Saturday, Aug. 15. While you’re licking Baskin-Robbins ice cream and sipping Coca-Cola drinks, you can be exchanging glances with a tiger or following the antics of an orangutan.

Just remember to keep the treats to yourself! The event, which is for the whole family, is from 4 to 8 p.m., and the ice cream is all-you-can-eat. The zoo closes at 1:30 that day. Tickets are $17 adults, $13 for children before Aug. 13, $20 and $15 after.

You’ll have another chance to help the zoo on Tuesday, Aug. 25, during Bingo Night at Florin Road Bingo.

Tickets include dinner, nonalcoholic drinks and eight rounds of bingo with the chance to win cash prizes. There will be a no-host bar, a prize raffle

and the opportunity to meet some of the zoo’s Animal Ambassadors, such as an African hedgehog or a ball python. Tickets are $40 by Aug. 22, $45 after. Seating for the event, which will be from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at 2350 Florin Road, is limited, so make reservations. For more information, go to saczoo.org

A PARTY FOR ANIMAL LOVERS Still have an urge to help the four-footed community? Front Street Animal Shelter will pull out all the stops to celebrate the work of local volunteers who save thousands of animals each year.

The Paws to Party event will be held Friday, Aug. 28, from 6 to 9 p.m.at California Automobile Museum (2200 Front St.). Guests will enjoy food, wine and beer, live music and a silent auction. Tickets are $50 in advance, $60 at the door. For tickets and more information, go to pawstoparty.weebly.com The shelter, run by the city of Sacramento, does far more than simply care for lost and abandoned animals in the region. Its volunteers transport sick or injured stray animals to the emergency vet, rescue animals locked inside hot cars, administer a rabies control program and educate pet owners on the importance of spaying and neutering.

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HAVE “INSIDE,” WILL TRAVEL 1. Jan and Ray McNally in Havana, Cuba 2. DART at Arden Hills coach Brian Nabeta and swimmers Claire Pinson, Kailee Nabeta, Lizzie Menzmer, Amalie Fackenthal and Jordan Kirrene trained with Water Mates Swim Club in Yokohama, Japan 3. Johnny and Janie Rosso celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Belize City, Belize 4. Mary Ellen Kassotakis in Agra, India in front of the Taj Mahal 5. The Gomez family in Guatemala 6. Jane and Ada Gregory high up in the trees on the Capilano Suspension Bridge on break from cheering on the USA at the Women's World Cup!

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In Living Color LOCAL WATERCOLORIST ILLUMINATES LIFE IN ALL ITS HUES

BY JORDAN VENEMA ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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or Sacramento painter Judy Lew Loose, every canvas begins with “feeling, feeling, feeling.” Her first artistic feeling goes back to kindergarten, when she felt wonder from mixing colors with her fingers. She knew then she wanted to be an artist, but when Loose shared the idea with her parents, they told her no. “It was my first experience of feeling severely rejected by my parents,” admits Loose, who took to drawing under the bed sheets with a flashlight. “My whole life, I felt ashamed that I was an artist.”

That rejection didn’t prevent Loose from pursuing her dream, and over the past two decades she’s become one of Sacramento’s most recognizable artists. Her work has been featured in magazines and books, galleries and competitions, as well as on numerous covers of Inside Publications.

Loose was born in Sacramento, and after high school she enrolled in San Francisco’s Academy of Art University as a fine arts major. She slept on the floor of her aunt’s onebedroom apartment—“with roaches,” says Loose. “I woke up one morning saying I can’t live like this. I can’t make a living being a fine artist.”

So Loose switched to the more practical graphic design major and transferred to New York’s Pratt Institute, where she studied advertising, graphic and package design.

After Pratt, Loose worked as a package designer in New York City while living in a basement. “But basically I had moved from one box to another box,” she admits, and under

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Watercolor artist Judy Lew Loose at work in her home studio

the weight of student loans, Loose returned to Sacramento during her late 20s.

As Loose worked three jobs as a freelance designer to pay off her student debt, painting became a distant memory. “My focus was not about being, but about surviving,” says Loose. Then she landed a graphic

design position with SMUD (where she’s worked for 23 years), married and had her first child. Life began to settle down, and Loose enrolled in a night course at Sacramento City College studying watercolor painting.

“After the kid went to sleep,” says Loose, “I’d have an hour or two to

paint, then get up by 5 a.m. and go to work. That was my routine.”

Loose had studied acrylic and oil painting in college, but never watercolor. The night course opened her to a new medium, which in turn opened her to a new way to express her emotions. “There’s just something about water,” says Loose, explaining the allure of watercolor. “I love water, maybe because I’m Pisces; I’m a fish.”

She describes the color and texture as smooth, relaxing, soothing, sensations she tries to express in her paintings.

“I want people to have a sense of calmness and serenity when they look at my paintings,” she says.

Watercolor can be a challenging medium, with a tendency to run or bleed on paper. The process can be slow, since watercolor paints must dry before additional layers are applied.

Many galleries told Loose she’d more likely sell paintings if she painted in oil, but Loose says it was never her goal in life to sell paintings, only to paint.

Through watercolor, Loose developed what she calls a hybrid style, “a half-and-half” between traditional brushstrokes and pointillism, the method developed by French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat. Pointillism uses small, separate dots, like pixels in a screen, to create a larger image, grasped as a whole. Pointillism provides layers of paints, allowing Loose to use vibrant, nearly neon colors, the hallmarks of her latest paintings.

As a watercolorist, Loose recognizes the medium does not command critical attention. She mentions the British painter J.M.W. Turner, but otherwise, says Loose, “there’s not many that stand out.” She would like to see watercolors “garner the same

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respect as oils,” she says “I want it to have a place in the museum someday.”

Her own artistic aspirations are no less ambitious. “I want to find that one angle where it’s so different that no one would ever see it that way,” says Loose. Ultimately, she hopes her paintings touch people’s lives. “That’s why I create what I do,” explains Loose. “As an artist, follow your emotions. It’s honest and real. That’s what real work is about.”

In her paintings, Loose has focused on a variety of subjects: flowers, Sacramento cityscapes, children. But

seven years ago marked a turning point for Loose. “I was burning the candle at both ends,” she explains.

“I got sick, my mom got cancer, I was going through a separation and divorce.” Simply put, Loose crashed.

During a four-day stay in the ER. she asked herself: “If I make it out of here, what would I paint? What would make a difference in someone’s life?”

Soon thereafter, she began a series of portraits of Sacramento’s homeless.

Through personal relationships, Loose painted about 20 subjects.

“I was trying to paint them with dignity,” she explains. “They’re human, just like me and you.” The

series still travels between churches, encouraging donations to support Sacramento homeless.

Loose’s paintings are an expression of feeling, sometimes raw emotion, even pain. She doesn’t shy away from admitting her dark periods, though you’d never guess it from her use of bright colors. “But I’m at a different stage of life,” says Loose.

“My paintings are different now. I’m doing more shadows and reflections, perhaps because I’m reflecting on my past life.”

Judy Lew Loose will join Inside Publications publisher Cecily Hastings on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Sacramento Central Library. Hastings will be talking about the history of Inside Publications’ cover art as part of the library’s Art in August program.

The presentation starts at 6 p.m.

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Race for the Arts 17TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISER LACES IT UP AUG. 22 AT WILLIAM LAND PARK

BY JESSICA LASKEY RIVER CITY PREVIEWS

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trap on your running shoes and pile up the pledges for your favorite California nonprofit visual, performing, cultural or literary arts organization or school music, drama or literary art program at the 17th annual Race for the Arts on Saturday, Aug. 22 at William Land Park.

Whether you’re a serious sprinter or more of a fun-runner, the 5k Run/ Walk at 8:35 a.m. will have plenty of picturesque scenery to take in as you jog or walk by. If you have a tyke who wants in on the action, register him or her for the Kids Fun Run at 8:10 a.m.

Once you’ve sweated for your cause of choice (although pledges are not required to run the race), enjoy the all-day Arts Festival, which will include an Instrumental Discovery Zone; hands-on activity booths where you can make a hat, get your face painted or learn some new dance moves; a visit from the Sacramento County Library Bookmobile; booths with art for sale; food trucks with delectable fare; and nonstop entertainment on the amphitheater stage.

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The 17th annual Race for the Arts on Saturday, Aug. 22 at William Land Park

Participating arts groups and programs will receive 100 percent of the pledges designated to them. Over the past 16 years, 214 arts groups and schools have benefited from the event.

Ready for some pre-gaming? Don’t miss the Off to the Races Food & Wine Tasting event the weekend before the race from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at Pavilions Shopping Center (563 Pavilions Lane off Fair Oaks Boulevard).

Groups of 10 runners or more will receive a 20 percent discount

and all registered participants will receive an event T-shirt, refreshments and exclusively designed socks by Trumpette. So what are you waiting for? Register now at raceforthearts. com For more information, call 9668893. William Land Park is at 3800 South Land Park Drive.

THE PLAY’S THE THING The year is 1952. The setting?

Sacramento. And you’re the first

black family on your block. “When We Were Colored,” a play by Ginger Rutland—yes, the former television reporter, NPR commentator and editorial writer for The Sacramento Bee—based on her mother Eva’s memoir of the same name, premieres on Friday, Aug. 21 and plays through Aug. 30 at Pioneer Congregational Church in midtown.

The play, like the book from which its springs, tells the story of a middleclass black woman born and raised in PREVIEWS page 70

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This Mediterranean fruit is sweet and chewy, with tiny, crunchy seeds and a smooth skin. It’s a great source of dietary fiber and potassium.

To eat: Sacramento’s now-defunct Fat Face restaurant used to serve poached figs inside a grilled brie sandwich.

This vegetable gets a bad rap for its sometimes-slimy texture.

It’s a staple in Southern cuisine, particular gumbo. It’s low in calories—as long as you don’t fry it!

To eat: Grill, roast or pickle.

This delicious stone fruit is a relative of the peach, nectarine and (surprise) almond. When dried, it’s a prune.

To eat: Eat out of hand, or slice and bake for a cobbler, pie or upside-down cake.

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Pucker up: This citrus fruit is tart and tangy. It’s rich in vitamin C and the antioxidant lycopene. It comes in white, pink and red varieties.

To eat: Broil grapefruit slices until warm for a quick, healthful dessert.

This root vegetable is packed with beta carotene. Classically orange in color, it also comes in white, red, yellow and purple varieties. Look for tender baby carrots at the market.

To eat: For a cooling summer soup, make carrot vichyssoise.

This melon has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

It belongs to the cucurbit family of plants, which includes cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes.

To eat: Using cantaloupe, Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis makes an unusual and tasty dish called Spaghetti al Melone.

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PREVIEWS FROM page 68 the segregated South before World War II who moves West to raise her children in “integrated” California after the war—tough-as-nails Eva Rutland herself. Hear the poignant realities of her trials and tribulations as dramatized by her talented daughter.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. on Sundays, with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees, from Aug. 21-30. For tickets and more information, call 443-3727 or go to brownpapertickets. com Pioneer Congregational Church is at 2700 L St.

‘I JUST MET A GIRL NAMED MARIA’ Ready to have your heart broken and your socks rocked off? The final two shows of the Music Circus season are in full swing under the Wells Fargo Pavilion big top: “West Side

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Ginger Rutland

Story” on Aug. 4-9 and “Hair” on Aug. 18-23.

First up is the Leonard Bernstein/ Stephen Sondheim musical masterpiece “West Side Story,” the 20th century retelling of the ill-fated Romeo and Juliet romance.

Timeless tunes in the star-studded score include “Tonight,” “Maria” and “Somewhere,” and this year’s Music Circus cast will include some gems of its own: Carolann Sanita, who has performed all over the country in regional theaters and starred in the national tour of “The Music Man,” will play Maria; Justin Matthew Sargent, who has spent the past four years on Broadway playing lead roles in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” “Rock of Ages” and “Bonnie & Clyde,” will play Tony; Desiree Davar, who has danced on “Glee,” will reprise her role from the Broadway production and tour of “West Side” as Anita; and Sacramento’s own Dave Pierini will play Officer Krupke.

Make sure to bring your tissues!

As a special option to the season for subscribers, and added fun for singleticket buyers, the groundbreaking rock ’n’ roll musical “Hair” will return to Music Circus for the first time since 1976. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam era, the show follows a group of youth revolutionaries in the late 1960s and includes such well-known songs as “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Aquarius” and “Good Morning Starshine.”

The cast will include veterans from London’s West End as well as

Broadway, several national tours and offBroadway productions as well as TV and film.

For tickets and more information, call 557-1999 or go to californiamusicaltheatre.com The Wells Fargo Pavilion is at 1419 H St.

SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK Dun dun … dun dun … dun dun …

If you could name that ominous film score in two notes or less, don’t miss the screening of “Jaws” as part of the Crocker Art Museum’s Courtyard Classic Film Series at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6.

The 1975 Steven Spielberg classic that’s made swimming in the ocean traumatic for generations of moviegoers will be screened large for all to see from their lawn chairs and blankets (seating is also provided) in the museum’s E. Kendell Davis Courtyard. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets are only $5 for museum members, $6 for students/youths, $8 for nonmembers. If you’re hungry before the film, tuck into a delicious three-course dinner with wine at the Crocker Café by Supper Club. For reservations and pricing, call 8081289.

If you prefer soothing piano to man-eating sharks, don’t miss the Classical Concert featuring pianist

Andrei Baumann at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9. The program will feature the landscapes of sound of a Franz Schubert sonata and the Impressionistic imagery of Maurice Ravel inspired by the ongoing Armin Hansen exhibit. Tickets are $6 for museum members, $10 for students/ youths and Capital Public Radio members, $12 for nonmembers.

Calling all drag (race) kings and queens! Art Mix Drag is the place to be from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13 when the Crocker’s monthly after-hours party features live music by the Troublemakers, a rip-roaring DJ, electric RC car races and, of course, a special edition of Drag Queen Bingo. The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers.

Enjoy food and drink discounts during happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. and $5 drink specials all evening.

Cool off on a sweltering summer night with breezy tunes from Jazz Night on Thursday, Aug. 20 featuring Cynthia Douglas on the Café Stage at 5:15 p.m. and Ron Moton on the Main Stage at 6:30 p.m. Curated and hosted

by Vivian Lee, Jazz Night is sure to get your toes tapping with Moton’s uplifting saxophone and Douglas’ unique brand of jazz fusion. Tickets are $7 for museum members, $12 for Capital Public Radio members and students/youths, $14 for nonmembers.

For tickets and more information for all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

CLASS OF ’65, WHERE ARE YOU? If you graduated from the Hiram W. Johnson Senior High Class of 1965, your classmates are looking for you!

The 50th class reunion will take place from 6:30 p.m. to midnight on Sept. 19 at the Old Sacramento Embassy Suites, but the reservation deadline is fast approaching on Aug. 1. So, if you want to see some familiar faces from way back—come on, aren’t you curious?—go to the website johnsonclassof65.com or call

A new twist on Sacramento’s longest-running y grea at summer jazz series. On 3rd Thursdays, enjoy great ional music curated and hosted by Vivian Lee, regional makes m jazz matriarch and aficionado. Jazz Night makes r.. Don’ the Crocker the cool place to be this summer.

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THE (NOT SO) SILENT TREATMENT If the thought of mimes brings up images of sad-faced clowns in striped shirts and white gloves, you’ve never seen the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. For one Sacramento performance only (at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29 in Southside Park) see the mind-blowing storytelling troupe and its newest show, “Freedomland,” which has taken the country by storm.

Though mimes don’t generally talk, the troupe’s dynamic description of their frenetic performance piece speaks for itself.

“A door is blown off its hinges!

Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16s, America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their deadly gunsights on … an old black man watching TV on his couch? This isn’t Baghdad or Kandahar—it’s

home, and for ex-Black Panther Malcolm Haywood, it’s just another wrong-door police raid in the War on Drugs. Of course, Malcolm is horrified when the grandson he’s tried to protect, Nathaniel, returns from serving in Afghanistan only to find another war zone at home—and one where young black men like Nathaniel are in the crosshairs!

“Meanwhile, the mayor and the police chief—one desperate for votes, the other desperate to fund his militarized police force—ramp up the fear (and their shiny new tank) to fight the newest drug threat to America …worse than weed, meth, coke, crack or crank, it’s …SNORF! And, of course, the SNORF trade is centered in the darkest part of town.

“Are the police out of control?

What happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty?’ Is Malcolm’s neighbor Lluis (an undocumented immigrant) actually a SNORF-lord? And can Malcolm convince his grandson that it is safer to re-up and fight overseas

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Red Dot Gallery presents Common Threads: New/Recent Work by Lisa Neal, Laurie Vanina and Lynne Cunningham.

Shown right: “Going the Back Streets” by Lynne Cunningham.

The show runs through Aug. 5 to 29.

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Gallery Atelier 20 is featuring Urban Layers: new plein air paintings by Abigail VanCannon. Shown below: “Marina” by VanCannon. Show runs Aug. 8 - Sept 5. 915 20th St. kristihughesdesign.com

Artspace 1616 presents works by Susan Silvester through Aug 30.

Shown above:“Huntress” By Silvester.

Artspace is at 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

Tim Collom Gallery presents New Works by Richard Stein from Aug. 8 - Sept. 5. Shown below: “Valley Rivers Confluence” by Stein. 915 20th St. timcollomgallery.com

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PREVIEWS FROM page 71 than to try to survive here at home in Freedomland?”

“Freedomland” is written

by Michael Gene Sullivan with music and lyrics by Ira Marlowe. Music will start at 4:30 p.m. prior to the performance. For tickets and more information, go to sfmt.org Southside Park is at Sixth and T streets.

TEEN ANGST Self-discovery. Budding sexuality.

Teen love. And alternative rock?

All of these forces collide in the groundbreaking rock musical “Spring Awakening,” which will be produced

by Flying Monkey Productions on Aug. 28, 29 and 30 and Sept. 4 and 5 at the West Sacramento Community Center.

Based on the 1891 play of the same name by Frank Wedekind, the musical, which nabbed eight Tony Awards for its Broadway premiere in 2006, is set in late 19th century Germany and features a folk-rockinfused score to underline the tumult of the young cast of characters’ budding teenage sexuality. All of the teen roles will be played by actual teenagers, in keeping with the ethos of Flying Monkey Productions, whose express purpose in producing is to give young people the opportunity to run the artistic duties of a theater production as well as perform onstage.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28; at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29; at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30; at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4; and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5. For tickets and more information, call 215-9077 or go to flyingmonkeyproductions.org The West Sacramento Community Center is at 1075 West Capitol Ave.

IT TAKES TWO When you first see the art pieces on display at b. sakata garo gallery in midtown, you might think they look like the work of two minds on one surface. Well, you’d be right— the pieces are the products of a

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collaboration between artists and close friends Robert-Jean Ray and Lou Bermingham, which makes the title of their exhibition, “2Thoughts,” all the more apt.

When the two first met at b. sakato garo in 2009, neither knew what was in store for them six years later.

Ray specializes in extremely small, intricate, mixed-media collage pieces that are the size of matchboxes, while Bermingham creates large, gestural abstract paintings that convey the vastness and wonder of the universe.

When the two decided to collaborate this year, there were only a few parameters: After agreeing on a size format, the artists selected surfaces such as heavy stock paper and wood of various sizes and shapes (square, rectangle, horizontal, vertical) and split each in half. Each artist then created an art piece on the left or right, top or bottom, then shipped the completed halves to one another and responded to each of the contributions. (They later discovered they were also both listening to jazz while working. If that’s not a case of great minds thinking alike, we don’t know what is.) The results are stunning and not to be missed.

“2Thoughts” will be on exhibit Aug. 4-29. For more information, call 447-4276 or go to bsakatagaro.com The gallery is at 923 20th St.

IT TAKES THREE See California through the eyes of three artists at ARTHOUSE on R’s current exhibition “The Poetic Landscape,” featuring paintings by Jeremy Duncan, James Leland and Judith Perry from Aug. 8 through Sept. 10.

Duncan has spent most of his life in Northern California and he enjoys working en plein air in the styles of his artistic idols Edgar Payne, John Carlson and John Singer Sargent. For Leland, his artistic eye is employed not just on canvas, but also in designing homes, communities and cities in his work as a community developer. He ventured into oil painting in 2011 and has never looked back.

“What fascinates me is to attempt to capture the essence of a physical

Don't miss “Spring Awakening” playing at the West Sacramento Community Center.

Photo courtesy of Debbie Soto.

place,” Leland explains. “Whether man-made or natural, there are qualities innate to a place. Those qualities are what we remember when we long to return to a place that is special to us. Oil painting is the perfect medium for that expression.”

Perry has been working in the medium of pastels for more than 10 years under the tutelage of renowned artists such as Anita Wolff, Terry Miura, Kim Lordier and Gil Dellinger.

Since she loves capturing the beauty of the California coastline, the Sierra mountains and the southern deserts, it’s no surprise that she’s an avid member of the California Art Club.

Meet this talented trio in person at the Second Saturday opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 8.

For more information, call 455-4988 or go to arthouseonr.com ARTHOUSE on R is at 1021 R St.

B-I-N-G-OH! Want to try your luck and change someone else’s, all while surrounded by the bawdy fun of Sacramento’s vibrant drag queen community? Look no further than the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce’s Drag Queen Bingo event, Sacramento’s long-running monthly charity fundraiser formerly managed

by Outword Media Marketing Events.

Since its inception in August 2009, this fabulous fundraiser has raised more than $100,000 for local nonprofit organizations, including

WEAVE, Alzheimer’s Association, NorCal AIDS Cycle, Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus, Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Gender Health Center and Front Street Animal Shelter, to name a few. The do-gooding and fun-having will continue every first Thursday of the month at Mango’s on K Street from 7 to 9 p.m. under the chamber’s new management.

“The Outword team and I are very proud of the support we have provided for local nonprofit organizations with Drag Queen Bingo,” says Fred Palmer, president and publisher of Outword Media Marketing Events.

“The event is still successful and more popular than ever, but I have taken on other business and personal commitments, and it is simply time for us to let another organization take it on.

“We felt very strongly that we wanted to be sure Drag Queen Bingo would be operated by an organization with a solid staff and volunteer base and the infrastructure to keep it going and make it even better. We have confidence that the chamber will be a good steward of the event.”

“The chamber board is honored to take on the mission of continuing this great event that has done so much good in our community,” Sacramento Rainbow Chamber President Paul Weubbe concurs. “We’re excited to have the opportunity and want to use it as a way of connecting our LGBT community and causes with the

greater Sacramento community. And we know it will be a lot of fun!”

The Aug. 6 game will benefit the Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Sept.

3 game will benefit the Camellia Gay Softball Tournament. And as always, the games will be emceed

by Sacramento’s favorite drag personalities Rusty Nails, Felicity Diamond and Do Me Moore, which means the ribald fun for good causes will continue in full force.

For more information, call the Rainbow Chamber office at 266-9630 or go to rainbowchamber.com Mango’s is at 1930 K St.

one to uniquely complement the painting it’s paired with.

I’LL TAKE ‘NOUNS’ FOR $1,000, ALEX

In keeping with the mission of Gallery 2110 to support nonprofit organizations, proceeds from the show will go to the New Life Pregnancy Center, where Winterstein is a volunteer counselor. The center offers compassionate care, practical help and accurate information for those facing unplanned pregnancy.

Meet Winterstein in person at the artist preview reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 or at the Second Saturday Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 8. For more information, call 333-3493 or go to gallery2110.com Gallery 2110 is at 1023 Del Paso Blvd.

Check out the beautiful nouns on display at Gallery 2110 this month, specifically “People, Places & Things,” a new show by artist Jan Winterstein.

Winterstein is a native of Northern California who was originally educated in interior design but quickly realized that she wanted to express herself in brushstrokes rather than buildings. Her vibrant oil, watercolor and acrylic pieces showcase her abilities with landscape, still life and figurative work, and they include a clever nod to her former career in interiors: She uses refurbished frames around her works of art, refinishing and painting each

In keeping with the mission of Gallery 2110 to support nonprofit organizations, proceeds from the show will go to the New Life Pregnancy Center.

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THEATRE GUIDE MY CHIDLREN! MY AFRICA! Thru August 29th Celebration Arts Theatre 4469 D St, Sac 455-2787 In 1984 and generational conflict over the most effective means for ending apartheid in South Africa defines the relationship between a gifted but impatient black township youth and his devoted but “old fashioned” black teacher.

GROUNDED Thru Aug 8th B Street Theatre 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BStreetTheatre.org This is a story of an ace fighter pilot who’s career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorist by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

SACRAMENTO’S NEXT IMPROV COMEDY STAR Thru Aug 7 CSzSacramento 2230 Arden Way, Sac 243-8541 ComedySportzSacramento.com Twelve contestants with limited or even no experience will compete to be Sacramento’s Next Imrpov Star. Come laugh and cheer on your favorite contestant.

PLAYWRIGHT’S REVOLUTION “Cottonwood in the Flood” Tues Aug 4 “The Osanbi Deal” Wed Aug 5 Capital Stage 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 Email: boxoffice@capstage.org Capital Stage presents its annual new works festival Playwright’s Revolution with staged readings of six brand-new plays. This year’s selections will follow the theme of social injustice and unrest in the world. As Sacramento leader of bold, thought-provoking theatre, Cap Stage created this series of staged readings to identify and develop new plays and playwrights.

INSIDE OUT – Katie Rubin August 8 Capital Stage 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 Capital Stage presents the return of local favorite KATIE RUBIN in her one-woman show, Inside Out! This is a story of one young person’s journey from her high school and college years through her introduction to the working world. Abuse of alcohol, drugs, food and sex, mark the journey into and ultimately out of self-loathing. The performance seeks to depict the lifelong struggle for integration of the many aspects of the self, and the continued voyage towards peace of mind.

NEXT TO NORMAL Thru Aug 16th West Sacramento Black Box Theater 1075 West Capitol Ave, West Sac 207-1226 This rock-musical explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness.

Next to Normal tells the story of a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry and suburban life. Enjoy the provocative lyrics and a thrilling score.

See California through the eyes of three artists at ARTHOUSE on R’s current exhibition “The Poetic Landscape,” featuring paintings by Jeremy Duncan, James Leland and Judith Perry from Aug. 8 through Sept. 10.

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The King of R Street FOX & GOOSE CELEBRATES 40 YEARS

BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER

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Street is the newest, hippest, slickest stretch in Sacramento, with new clubs, bars, restaurants, artists lofts, even a barber bar. (That’s a bar and hair-cutting establishment in one, not to be confused with a drinking establishment featuring elephants, which would be a Babar bar.)

Walk down R and everything looks new and bustling and fresh.

What the hefty brick building lacks in coziness, it makes up for in space and good cheer.

Fox & Goose Public House on R Street

However, the old Hollywood saying applies to old neighborhoods: There’s no such thing as an overnight success.

Folks don’t just stumble on an empty patch of ground and infuse it with culture, class and desirability. Some group of like-minded people has been laying the foundation, doing the hard work and the small things that make a city a city and not just an overgrown mall.

In this instance, the institution most responsible for the flourishing of R Street is Fox & Goose Public House.

Opened in 1975, FnG was the baby of Bill and Denise Dalton. Inspired by a 200-year-old pub of the same name in Bill’s hometown of Hebden Bridge,

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West Yorkshire, Sacramento’s Fox & Goose eschewed comfy, low-ceilinged, country-pub décor and instead made its home in an old paint and glass factory built in 1913.

What the hefty brick building lacks in coziness, it makes up for in space and good cheer. With a soaring, thickbeamed roof and a nearly endless façade of brick, there’s no doubting that this place is, first and foremost, a pub.

Its history is that of a great watering hole, a place where lawmakers and law breakers rubbed shoulders, where many a pint was spilled, where many a fight ended with hugs and tears, where hearts

were broken and fences mended. In other words, it’s a proper pub that serves a proper pint.

The Daltons sold the establishment to their daughter Allyson in the ’90s.

She, in turn, sold the place just this year to longtime employees Jessa Berkey and Peter Monson. There are no plans to make any substantive changes—music to the regulars’ ears.

When it first opened in 1975, the R Street row was mainly industrial.

The road itself was in constant disrepair, and the surrounding neighborhood was, to use a polite word, transitional. Through 40 years that saw great transformations in our town, FnG held down its corner at

R and 10th. There have been subtle changes (a recent remodel helped with accessibility, expanded the outdoor seating, updated the loo and carved out a lovely back room perfect for large parties and special events), but any visitors from 1975 would walk in the front door and immediately know they were at the ’Goose.

These days, Fox & Goose is known for many things: great music, great breakfasts and English expats among them.

Breakfast is definitely the best thing coming out of the kitchen.

Starting everyday at 6:30 a.m., there’s a fine combination of English ingredients and California cooking to

Best friends forever.

Fish & chips from Fox & Goose Public House

be had. Traditional bangers, Heinz baked beans, grilled tomato and all the other fixings make up the “Full English” plate each morning.

Housemade scones with Devonshire cream are a rare delight, and there aren’t many other places in town where you can get a hot buttered crumpet.

Not all the food is traditionally English, however. Standard American breakfast fare can be had, as well as more modern plates like tofu scrambles and freshly made quiche.

Breakfast is truly the highlight of the day and should be considered your destination meal.

The standout, however, is the Welsh rarebit, a housemade cheese sauce so decadent as to be nearly illegal. Order it over the Benedict Arnold, an eggs Benedict derivative featuring poached eggs and roasted corned beef on an English muffin.

The rest of FnG’s menu of lunch and late-night bites is strictly pub grub: fried bits and sandwiches typical of pubs the world over.

Breakfast is truly the highlight of the day and should be considered your destination meal. If you’re going on a weekend, though, plan to wait 45 minutes to an hour for a table; a 40year tradition of excellent breakfast tends to be a poorly kept secret.

Evenings at the ’Goose are for drinking, music and conviviality.

The old R Street anchor has been a reliable venue for up-and-coming local musicians as well as seasoned veterans. Like any good pub, there’s also a trivia night (every Tuesday) and open-mic night (every Monday).

So if you find yourself wanting to check out all the new happenings on R Street, carve a little time out of your schedule to stop in at the joint that started it all. Grab a pint, say your hellos and thank the folks at Fox & Goose for holding down the fort for the past 40 years.

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L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com

Estelle's Patisserie

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HeavenLy’s Yogurt

5535 H Street 11 to 10:30 pm Daily

901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches • EstellesPatisserie.com

Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768

D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants.com

The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. 442-4772

L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com

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L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

Riverside Clubhouse

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

Lemon Grass Restaurant

Taylor's Kitchen

601 Munroe St. 486-4891

D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.

Matteo's Pizza

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154

Tower Café

1518 Broadway 441-0222

B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting

Willie's Burgers

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com

L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

806 L St. 442-7092

Il Fornaio

400 Capitol Mall 446-4100

L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com

Grange

926 J Street • 492-4450

B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com

2415 16th St. 444-2006

ARDENCARMICHAEL Bella Bru Café

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Espresso, omelettes, salads, table service from 5 -9 p.m. • bellabrucafe.com

Café Vinoteca

L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com

L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com

Mikuni Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

Ettore’s

2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com

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Jackson Dining

1530 J St. 447-2112

1022 Second St. 441-2211

L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

1120 Fulton Ave. 483-7300

L D $$ Wine/Beer Creative cuisine in a casual setting • Jacksoncateringevents.com

Jack’s Urban Eats

LAND PARK Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire $$ Wine/Beer. American cuisine. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children's Home. Small and large groups. casagardenrestaurant.org

Freeport Bakery

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225

L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

The Kitchen

2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

Iron Grill

Leatherby’s Family Creamery

13th Street and Broadway 737-5115

2333 Arden Way 920-8382

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Vietnamese and Thai cuisine in a casual yet elegant setting

5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727

L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794

D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

Roxy

2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000

Hock Farm Craft & Provision

Total DINNER food order of $40 or more

With coupon. Cannot be combined with other discounts.

Expires 8/31/15.

427 Broadway 442-4044

Frank Fat’s

1415 L St. 440-8888

Sacramento’s Oldest Restaurant

Jamie's Bar and Grill

L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere •

Ristorante Piatti

571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885

L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting • piatti.com

Sam's Hof Brau

2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

Thai House

427 Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888

L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

Willie's Burgers

5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com n

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