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Concrete Canvas EXPANDED MURAL FESTIVAL WILL LITERALLY PAINT THE TOWN
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rt supporters, including me,
paint and other materials provided to
are excited at the direction
them. Artists arriving from out of the
our city is now taking to
country will have accommodations
become a leader in the arts. I’m
and airfare covered, said Sobon.
convinced that we certainly have
Sobon said funding for the event
the talent locally. But what we have
is provided by dozens of public and
lacked is the right apparatus to
private sponsors.
showcase that talent we have here,
Recognizing the ability to draw
both to our local residents and to
people to town, Visit Sacramento
attract visitors from the region and
signed on as the event’s presenting
beyond.
sponsor and provided a significant
Last summer’s inaugural
contribution to the event.
Sacramento Mural Festival was a
Our publications have signed on
great success, bringing on 11 artists
as a major sponsor, and you’ll see
to paint mural locations throughout
on the adjoining pages a listing of
the Grid’s urban core. The celebration
artists and mural locations, along
captivated the city for eight days last
with recognition of the sponsors
August, and visitors flocked to watch
that contributed funds to help make
the artists in action as they completed
it a success. We are also producing
their large-scale projects. The event
a special festival program, called
concluded with a creative-themed
“Inside Wide Open Walls,” that
street party called Art Jam that raised
will include artist biographies and
funds for arts education in local
statements. Pick one up at each of the
schools.
40 mural locations and learn more
This year, the event has taken on
David Sobon
a new identity—it’s now called Wide Open Walls—and has a new organizer
about the artistic talent at work. This year’s conclusion event is called The Wall Ball, an outside-the-
in arts fundraiser and auctioneer
broadened the festival to include more
of them to showcase for this month’s
lines creative party that will be held
David Sobon. The event runs Aug.
than 50 artists and 40 locations, with
cover art.)
on Saturday, Aug. 19, to benefit local
10–20. I know and like David (he’s
spots well beyond the Grid, including
a fellow Sacramento Metropolitan
Natomas, South Sac, Del Paso
to include activities for the public
Arts Commissioner) and definitely
Heights and Oak Park.
to engage with the artists, many
Sobon is also expanding the festival
arts education. Tickets are $100 each and available at wow916.com. In July, I saw an ad for the Artown
of them modeled after ones that
festival held each summer in Reno.
consider him a “big thinker.” His
About three dozen of the artists
energetic approach—fueled by his
are local, including Bryan Valenzuela,
formed spontaneously last summer.
It’s been going on since 1996 and now
personal passion for the arts—has
Jose Di Gregorio, Maren Conrad,
This includes walking tours, pop-up
includes more than 500 arts-related
Micah Crandall-Bear and Stephanie
exhibits, gallery openings, busker
events during the month of July, with
Taylor, all of whom have had their
performances and more. There will
more than 70 percent of the events
work featured on our covers. The
even be a mural-finding phone app.
free to the public. I have friends who
All mural artists will have had
live there and they love attending all
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remaining artists represent 12 countries including Australia, China,
their mural designs approved by
the events. They say a great many
France, Germany, New Zealand and
owners of the buildings where they’ll
folks visit that month just for the
the U.K. (To honor some of the local
appear. The artists also receive a
festival.
artists who are participating in the
stipend for participating and have
mural festival, we have chosen five
Scenes from last year's mural fest.
Nothing against Reno, but it
art and provide the public with the
is hardly known as an art town,
unique opportunity to watch artists
especially compared to Sacramento.
as they create these large-scale works
As I’ve written previously, as a city
of art. David told me that with this
we need to step up our game to
much diversity of talent there are
showcase our local art talent to our
bound to be favorites and not-so-
own residents, and at the same time
favorites depending on the viewpoint
attract new visitors. This mural
of the artist. I can hardly wait …
festival is a great place for us to start
don’t miss it!
and build on in future years. The festival is planned to celebrate the relevancy and diversity of street
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n explosion of growth is taking place in the Arden area as a host of impressive commercial construction projects take shape, particularly in the areas adjacent to Howe Avenue from Fair Oaks Boulevard through Alta Arden. Delicious Midtown has nothing on us. Here’s what’s new and coming: buildyour-own sushi bowls, barbecued everything, rotating taps from dozens of breweries, gourmet Mexican fare and sweet boba drinks. The University Village shopping center at the corner of Howe and Fair Oaks has been remodeled and renamed “The UV.” After the San Francisco development group, Merlone Geier Partners, bought the center in 2014, it launched a $10 million makeover to create a virtual food court with nearly a dozen food and beverage businesses, competition for Arden’s food strip that stretches from Howe to Monroe. Food is good for business at Loehmann’s Plaza, so food ought to work at The UV as long as there’s a solution to the issues of parking and accessibility. The UV is at one of Sacramento’s busiest intersections. But is the traffic a double-edged sword? To be sure, something seemed to prevent University Village from attracting and keeping a cohesive group of thriving businesses.
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Molly Iseley, Melanie Montes and Allie Nickum at Pearls Boba.
Arden resident Kenny Hotchkiss, owner of Cap Tap. That’s where folks like Kenny Hotchkiss come in. Hats off to the Arden resident, owner of Capitol Beer and Tap Room—Cap Tap for
short. For five years, Hotchkiss has kept the beer flowing at his little hot spot at The UV during all the messy, cyclone-fenced-in construction. In
fact, he didn’t simply stay open; his brick-lined beer bar is celebrating five successful years at that location with an all-day beer bash on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 11 a.m. to midnight. “We’ve done well with the beer geeks,” he says. He’s particularly excited about the many new restaurants that have recently opened or will open soon at The UV. The newcomers include Poke Noke, Pieology Pizzeria, Buckhorn BBQ, Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, Zocalo, an organic chicken place called Organic Coup and Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt. Safeway anchors the center, while Quest Diagnostics, Great Clips, a blow-dry salon and a nail shop round out the offerings. “We think all the new, attractive businesses coming in will be very good for our business, giving us more visibility,” says Hotchkiss. “Since we don’t serve food, the restaurants will be a big complement to Cap Tap.” Until the new places open, Hotchkiss has made a clever workaround by allowing patrons to bring in outside food. Cap Tap is tucked inside the center with signage now visible along Fair Oaks Boulevard. Hotchkiss, a San Bernardino transplant, is a relative newcomer to the beverage industry. The recession steered this tile setter and contractor along with his partner, Patti Aguirre, into new territory. “After the recession hit, I figured it was time to do what I was passionate about,” he says. “And I’m passionate about beer.” Jimmy Khov, owner of Miyagi Bar & Sushi at the Lyon Village TO page 16
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From Professor to Goatherd MOM’S CAREER CHANGE GIVES SON A FUTURE
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ive years ago, Professor Kathleen Friedrich was a teacher at McGeorge School of
Law. Now, the Carmichael mother of three milks a small herd of goats before her former colleagues even finish breakfast. Her goats produce 14 gallons of milk per week; this yield is cultured into ice cream, yogurt and several varieties of cheese. Friedrich can hand-milk five udders in under an hour. She also manages pasteurizing and processing. From litigation to lactation was a leap of love. Married for 35 years to fellow lawyer Tim Blaine, Friedrich reinvented herself to give their beloved son a future. “I did this for Nick,” she explains. “Tim and I knew from his first year that he was developmentally disabled. When he was 7, we got the autism diagnosis.” Nick’s schooling progressed through special education classes to attendance at Orange Grove Adult School. “When he was 24,” recalls his mom, “San Juan School District announced it could no longer support Orange Grove. Tim and I knew we must do something to give Nick a meaningful future.” Her immigrant parents had raised goats in Switzerland and later in Rio Linda. “My father commented that in the old country, families would always find
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Kathleen Friedrich and son Nick offer treats to their herd. Tim Blaine and niece Annelise Zumbach join the suburban dairy farmers.
farm work for people like Nick. That planted a seed in my mind.” One of seven siblings raised in a goat farm, Friedrich understood dairying. She cherished memories of growing up around the gentle stock.
“We knew Nick liked animals, so we took him on field trips to dairy farms,” she explains. “Watching our son interact with goats was phenomenal. He was talking to them, cuddling and tickling them. It brought
tears to our eyes. Animals can do that. We knew a farm career would be therapeutic and rewarding for him.” By the time she was 57, Friedrich’s own career was rewarding. In addition to teaching, she’d been appointed an administrative law judge for the state of California. “In 2013, I changed my work hours to part time so I could prepare for running a farm,” she recalls. “My colleagues were surprised, but no one said I was nuts. Some asked if they could join me. I bought three goats and settled them on the Rio Linda property I’d grown up on.” The lawyer had to master a new business. “Dairy regulations had changed in the years since my dad was a gentleman farmer,” she recalls. “I wasn’t scared; it helped me that lawyers are trained to be problem solvers.” By breeding her stock to enlarge the herd, she soon had enough milk to start experimenting with cheesemaking. She does not sell the products, but Carmichael friends are happy recipients of chevre, feta and ricotta cheese tubs with Nick’s portrait and “Friedrich Farm” on the label. The greatest beneficiary is Nick, now 29 years old. “At every opportunity, he loves to be with the goats,” says Friedrich. “I find him plenty of chores. He pulls branches down so the does can nibble the leaves. He cuts up carrots and apples for them. He loves to brush them. He calls them by name and they come to him. Goats are naturally affectionate; they know who their friends are. “When people visit, Nick tells them about the herd and our routines. What the farm gives him is irreplaceable. Having something in
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your life that you feel good at—well, that gives life meaning.” Several other disabled students have worked at Friedrich Farm. “People involved with the developmentally disabled like to find them places in agriculture,” says Friedrich. “Farm tasks can be simple. Animals respond to affection; you feel needed and loved. They give their caretakers importance as human beings. Nick’s friends proved their interest by milking and cleaning up after the goats. They all had something to show for their work at the end of the day. We made cheese and ice cream together.” Friedrich, Blaine and their other sons, Alex and Chris, hope to establish a nonprofit dairy farm to employ Nick and others. For now, the mission still needs to be businesslike. Does must have babies or they won’t produce milk. To manage the farm as a single operator, Friedrich must keep
her herd small. Surplus stock must therefore be sold, usually for meat. But because the babies were nurtured and named by their gentle son, the parents feared heartbreak. “I took Nick to the market,” says Friedrich. “He enjoyed the experience. Then I showed him the checks we got for our sales. He was impressed. He understands there must always be a business side of things.” Gentlewoman farmer Friedrich has no yearning for her professional past. But farming is hard work. “You’re tied to the goats,” she explains. “They must be milked and tended every day. Every Friday night, Nick pretends to complain. He says he doesn’t see why he should have to go out to the goats the next morning. I tell him: ‘It’s OK. You can stay home.’ Then he insists, ‘No, Mom, I’ll go with you.’ “I can see what an impact this farm and the goats have had on our
son,” she concludes. “I’ll always know I did the right thing.”
MONASTERY GARDEN IN SUMMER BLOOM From ancient scribes to poets and modern artists, unfolding lotus petals have fascinated all who beheld them. Symbolic of purity, rebirth and enlightenment, the flower occupies a special place in Carmichael. Tucked behind a country club, the Vedanta Society gardens are a
little-known botanical treasure. In the 1950s, society members developed seven acres of trees, ponds and flower beds for their ashram sanctuary. The mature gardens are watered by on-site wells and maintained by volunteers. Their society promotes supreme spiritual knowledge. Followers have studied Vedic scriptures for 6,000 years. Encouraging mediation, the ashram offers many reflection spots. One is among the few sizable TO page 20
Vedanta Society Minister Swami Prapannananda enjoys lotus blooms in the Vedanta Society’s ashram garden.
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FROM page 19 lotus ponds in Northern California. According to the society’s leader, Swami Prapannananda, the massive flowers attract many June visitors. While lotuses are sacred to Hinduism and Buddhism, local photographers and garden lovers also favor the rosetinted spectacle. “So long as people don’t pick or damage the flowers, anyone is welcome to enjoy our gardens,” says Prapannananda. Ashram flower beds also supply year-round blooms to adorn the society’s altar. Though following Indian spiritual teaching, supporters contend most religions—if sincerely believed—are valid paths to divinity. Garden nooks reveal shrines to Buddha, Mary of Guadalupe and Saint Francis of Assisi. Holy days are many at the Mission Avenue retreat. Contributions and donations support several celibate monks. “We
don’t feel isolated in a Christian community,” explains their Calcuttaborn leader. “Many Christians come here to learn.” At Christmas, the society temple hosts sermons on the teaching of Jesus. Buddha’s springtime birthday brings more celebration. Lord Krishna’s birth will be observed on Saturday, Aug. 19. A focal point of the sprawling garden, the Hindu deity’s statue adorns an island surrounded by water lilies. Worship will include a garlanding ceremony, prayers and Indian music. “Anyone can join our festivals,” says Prapannananda. “We don’t try to convert; we try to help people understand religion better.” The Vedanta Society of Sacramento is at 1337 Mission Ave. To arrange visits, call (916) 489-5137.
A new mural brightens the Sacramento Sheriff's Department Academy in Carmichael. Pictured are student artists with Sheriff's Department representatives.
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A peaches-and-cream-eating contest is part of Aug. 13 celebrations at the Peach Festival hosted by the Carmichael Park Farmers Market.
JUST PEACHY! With summer harvests in full swing, the Carmichael Park Farmers Market will host the first of two produce festivals on Sunday, Aug. 13. The market’s peach outreach will include a bake-off, judged on-site by community leaders. Chefs may enter a pie or dessert whose principal ingredient must be peaches. Presentation, taste and texture are criteria for winning recipes. Last year’s festival attracted nine entries; the judges awarded first prize to Denise Yuponce’s “Mom’s Peach Pie.” An attorney for the state of California, the Carmichael cook used caramelized pecans in her pie. Other masterpieces included a peach sorbet, peach cookies and a cream-oozing peach pudding pie. “Our final choice came down to originality,” confided a judge. “The winners showed fresh approaches to classic desserts.”
Contrasting with such refinement, the festival’s peach-eating contest promises a gooey feeding frenzy. Hands-free contestants must adopt in-your-face techniques to consume their pile of fruit and cream. Running from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the festival event offers free kids crafts, games, raffles and a peach walk. Chefs will share recipes and techniques for canning and pickling fruit. The Tomato Taste-Off, on Sunday, Sept. 10, aims to generate similar enthusiasm for tomatoes. Farmers will present such varieties as cherry, beefsteak and black and green zebra tomatoes. A tomato taste-off will crown a Best Salsa champion. “It’s a great way to let people know what produce is in season and bring attention to our local farmers,” says market founder Marie Hall.
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FROM page 20 “Shopping for food shouldn’t just be a chore, it should be fun.” For more information about the Peach Festival and the Tomato TasteOff, go to ilovemyfarmersmarket.com.
MURAL DEPICTS HEART OF POLICING An old concrete water tank has provided the canvas for American River College students to create a mural saluting Sacramento police history. The work graces a museum at the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department Academy in Carmichael. Top brass recently joined mural artists to dedicate the finished project. Seen every day by sheriff’s recruits, “The Heart of Police Work” mural is a 45-foot bouquet of Americana. Volunteer museum director Sharon Telles last year approached American River College professor Sarah Mattson for ideas to illuminate her museum’s bleak surrounds. “She created a special mural curriculum for her art students,” explains Telles. “I told them our department’s history. They came up with great ideas.” The artists toiled through five summer and winter months. Their panorama contains historic landmarks and milestones, including Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento’s Gold Rush, the railroads and river transport. A bearded, mounted figure represents lawmen who risked their lives policing the wildest of Wild West towns. Sacramento’s infamous portable gallows—loaned to other counties during decades of use—occupies a sober segment. Fair Oaks Village’s 1901 Murphy Scott building is an antique background for a squad car. State and national emblems abound: quails, poppies, even a bald eagle. A U.S. flag and sheriff’s badge crown the work. Symbolizing police humanity, a uniformed officer holds hands with two children, one black, one white. “The students exceeded my vision for the mural,” says Telles. “Their hard work will be an inspiration to the young recruits who train at this academy.”
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Larry Bunfill posed with one of his favorite Cadillacs.
CADILLAC KING TAKES FINAL RIDE Larry Bunfill, a stalwart of the Carmichael Elks July 4 parade, died
recently, just weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Bunfill was a builder, a racehorse owner and, most famously, a Cadillac fanatic. He and his brother Curly
(still going strong at 104) were recognizable at Carmichael events by their cowboy attire, which reflected their passion for Americana and recalled their childhood in a traveling Wild West show. One of 11 siblings, Bunfill was born in a covered wagon in South Dakota. The Bunfill kids rode almost before they could walk but rarely knew a steady address. “In those days, you could camp in town parks,” Bunfill once recalled. “We lived like gypsies.” The Great Depression destroyed the family’s tenuous prosperity. From the age of 13, he worked to help support his family. “I didn’t get any further than the third grade,” he said. “My schooling suffered, but I stuck with my family.” Gravitating west as teenagers, Bunfill and his brother Curley found work as extras in cowboy movies. They married sisters Jewel and Gladys Law and followed family tradition by taking their own broods on the road, following track meetings. Bunfill Thoroughbreds competed all over the Western states. Bunfill’s biggest win was a $50,000 purse at the Longacres track in Washington state with a stallion called HuzzahNew. In leaner times, the brothers fell back on building contracting. Bunfill’s daughter, Lee Lonie, was one of the first Californian women to hold a contractor’s license. “My kids had a different sort of upbringing,” he said. “But they all turned out good.” The brothers also followed family tradition in their choice of cars. Bunfill once guessed he and family members had owned a Cadillac for every one of his years. “Dad bought our first one in 1941,” he recalled. “Ever since, we’ve all got them. We like the way they drive.” The family settled in Carmichael in the 1980s. The brothers and their offspring famously provided vintage Caddies to haul celebrities in the July 4 parade. Congressman, senators, sheriffs and sport celebrities waved from back seats. Bunfill Cadillacs rolled on to become props in movies. For Clint Eastwood's “Pink Cadillac,” Bunfill’s 1959 red Coupe de Ville was painted pink to play the lead role.
His showiest favorite was a “solid gold” 1956 model, identical to one driven by Elvis Presley. When McClellan Air Force Base closed in 2001, this gilded convertible led a final parade. The Bunfill family also loaned vehicles for any number of car show fundraisers. “My biggest pleasure,” said Bunfill, “is to see the good you can do with a great car.” Bunfill is survived by World War II hero Curly, four daughters, a son and a host of relatives. And a stable of vintage Caddies. He is buried at Fair Oaks Cemetery in a Bunfill family plot. The headstone is adorned with a horse head and Cadillac fins.
conducted under its roof, the school served as a community center. Many pupils rode horses to class and brought hay to feed their mounts. Because funds were short, volunteers moved a shed from the old San Juan location to Sutter Avenue to accommodate the livestock. The founders gradually added playground equipment and planted part of the school land with fruit and nut trees to help with expenses. Over the years, the campus expanded with more classrooms and an auditorium. None of the original buildings remains.
Depression-era students lined up for a class portrait with teacher Ada Peck.
SCHOOL REACHES 100TH YEAR Carmichael’s oldest school will soon begin its 100th year. Carmichael Elementary’s unconventional founding is among many great stories associated with the institution. Lock, stock and barrel, the original school was kidnapped and brought to Sutter Avenue to serve the ambitions of community founder Daniel Carmichael. Before the real estate entrepreneur established his first colony development in 1909, a wooden schoolhouse stood near Winding Way. It was called San Juan School. Built in 1880, it served farm families north of Daniel Carmichael’s empire, on the old San Juan Mexican land grant. Georgia-born entrepreneur Carmichael arrived in California as a penniless teenager. “Bud” Carmichael soon rose to Sacramento prominence. He served as county treasurer, was elected city commissioner and made a fortune in land deals. He also sank an oil well near Bakersfield and became one of California’s first oil millionaires. His first Carmichael farming colony went on the market in 1909. Buyers flocked to purchase 10-acre holdings for between $1,000 and $1,500. A second colony was offered in 1911. The developer—himself one of 11 siblings—decided a school would attract more families with
kids. Legend has it that Carmichael attended a San Juan School meeting and made school trustees an offer they couldn’t refuse. His lure was 10 acres on Carmichael’s Sutter Avenue, provided trustees relocate the building, staff and students. Oh yes, they must also rename the institution after the great man. Courtesy of Superintendent James R. Cowan’s “History of the Carmichael School and Community,” we have a record of its 1917 opening
day. The celebration included Carmichael and his wife Myrtie, and PTA and board members and their wives. The Carmichaels received baskets of fruit and flowers. An eyewitness recalls, “It was a gala day with lots to eat and great rejoicing.” The two-room school had a stove (children contributed vegetables for a soup lunch) and kerosene lamps for evening meetings. With Farm Bureau dinners and church services
Many pupils rode horses to class and brought hay to feed their mounts. The school’s 2017 centenary will pass without celebration. But happy memories of its early years abound. “Mrs. (Ada) Peck taught us to sew a fine seam but first we had to learn to darn socks,” recalled the late Lavern Gibbons Morgan. “We had to do perfect, straight stitches … all by hand. The next project was to make an apron.” Her sister Roberta remembered a fourth-grade teacher: “Mrs. Shoemate saw to it that we learned the three Rs. Whenever there was a fiveminute interlude, she launched into a spontaneous mini-drill of times tables. Boy, did we remember them!” Cowan recalled, “Every day started with the Pledge of Allegiance, then a patriotic song or two before each class marched to its room. Gathering together seemed to give a true sense of belonging. Little children and big kids got to know each other as being in ‘our School.’” Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com. n
Additions made in 1920 to Carmichael Elementary included this handsome entry arch. (Carmichael Presbyterian Church Archive)
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Sharon Gillum GIVING OTHERS A LEG UP
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hen Sharon Gillum joined the Assistance League of Sacramento—the allvolunteer organization that funds philanthropic programs in the Sacramento area—she discovered not only a great group of like-minded women, but also 280 future friends. “One of my colleagues at Rio Americano High School joined Assistance League after retiring,” Gillum says. She had also retired from Rio after teaching a variety of subjects and directing the school’s renowned political studies program, Academia Civitas. “June told me it was an organization I would really enjoy. When I joined in 2010, I found out that I already knew a lot of people. There were several members whose children had been my students as well as some of my neighbors. Even with those I’d never met, I found something in common: We all want to serve the community. We come from varied backgrounds, but our lives have overlapped. I’ve had the most rewarding friendships with these women.” Assistance League volunteers like Gillum oversee 10 philanthropic programs that serve approximately 16,000 people each year. Operation School Bell provides school clothing, uniforms, shoes, backpacks, hygiene kits and underwear to elementary
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Assistance League of Sacramento volunteers Sharon Gillum (center) and Ann Billington chat with a customer. schoolchildren. “Children learn better if they feel comfortable,” Gillum explains. “And a lot of that has to do with clothes.” The Governor’s Mansion History program gives local fourth-graders a peek at the past with History in a Trunk, with costumed Assistance League docents bringing 19th-century artifacts to the classroom for a hands-on learning experience about California history. Kids on the Block is a Muppet-style puppet show that presents topical performances on
personal safety and anti-bullying at regional elementary schools. “That’s for those of our members with a dramatic bent,” Gillum says. This September will mark Assistance League of Sacramento’s 50th year of service, a landmark it is celebrating by introducing still more philanthropic programs. One is Fresh Start, which is designed to help people transitioning into their own housing by supplying them with goods like towels and dishes. The second, Reaching Out, is making a difference
for people with a “hurdle” to getting on with life. “Maybe they’ve been through a rehab program through drug court and have a job lined up, but they don’t have steel-toed shoes,” Gillum says. “We can give them those shoes. Maybe someone can get a job but can’t drive legally because of a traffic warrant. We can pay that warrant.” Part of what makes volunteering for Assistance League of Sacramento so rewarding for people like Gillum
“This work changes the community,” Gillum says. “Not in a grandiose way, but in the intimate ways of helping people feel like they’re part of the community. It’s us saying, ‘We know you’re ready; let us do this for you.’ We’re committed to making life better in Sacramento for those who need a little leg up.” Assistance League of Sacramento secures funding through donations and its resale store, Fabulous Finds
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on Fulton, managed by volunteer Ann Billington. “The resale store is essentially our bank account for the philanthropic programs,” Gillum explains. “Everything we earn from the store gets reinvested into our local programs, so it’s incredibly important. And Ann is amazing at running it— she manages 175 volunteers.” Thanks to the work of Billington, Gillum and their fellow members, Sacramento residents are getting that “little leg up” they need. “We’re helping all across the board, not just the neediest,” Gillum says. “Sometimes the middle group gets forgotten, but it’s like teaching high school: You have to invest in the middle kids. They’re often the ones who carry it forward.”
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Farmers Market to Fork YOU SHOP WITH A CHEF, THEN EAT WHAT HE PREPARES
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t’s Wednesday on a temperate morning in mid-May. I’m with a group waiting to tour the farmers market at Cesar Chavez Plaza with executive chef Oliver Ridgeway—part of Grange Restaurant’s Follow the Chef event. After a quick introduction, we fall into a haphazard line and follow Ridgeway across J Street to the market. Three waitresses, wearing long aprons and black shirts, accompany us. The air is scented with smoke from food trucks and pop-up vendors. Music comes courtesy of a man with a blaring boom box. The plaza is crowded with professionals wearing skirts and suits, taking a break from their air-conditioned offices. “Let’s have a walkabout,” says Ridgeway. He’s tall, or does he just seem tall? He looks even taller dressed in his white chef’s jacket. He dons a pair of cool sunglasses, and there’s more than a hint of Sussex in his accent (he’s originally from England), which increases his cool factor. But I digress. Vendors are already selling stone fruit, even though it seems early in the season. We stop at a stall to sample peaches. I admit to feeling guilty if I don’t buy produce after I’ve sampled it, but here’s a tip from the chef: Sample before you buy. Here’s another: Don’t buy produce before it’s ripe.
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Grange's executive chef Oliver Ridgeway leads a tour of the farmers market on a recent Wednesday. “The beauty of a farmers market is you can try [the produce],” Ridgeway says. He touched, smelled and sampled nearly everything. At Loving Nature Farm, we tried lovage, which tasted like overly intense celery, and at Gotelli Farms we ate dark, sweet Brooks cherries. We didn’t sample kohlrabi, but Ridgeway picked one up and recommended marinating slices in olive oil, lemon and dill. We didn’t
try the asparagus, either (he called it “Sacramento grass”), but here are two more of chef Ridgeway’s tips: He likes thicker asparagus stalks earlier in the season; he buys thinner ones later, when they get woody. Albion-variety strawberries from V&M Farms were a hit with our group. (Chef tip: Do not wash strawberries until you’re ready to eat them. It clogs their pores. Put them in a sealed container lined with
paper towels until ready to use.) And cheese? We sampled lots of cheese. I worried I wouldn’t be able to eat lunch. Did I mention lunch is part of the Follow the Chef event? There are three courses, inspired by seasonal produce, prepared by Ridgeway and his crew. Ridgeway said he had purchased 30 pounds of blueberries earlier that morning because they were beautiful, tasty and he got a great deal. Those
blueberries might make it into a gin sauce, which would be served with duck, or he might dip them in egg whites, coat them with sugar and allow them to dry for a garnish. I could almost see the chef’s wheels turning inside his head. “Chefs don’t have time,” he explains, to shop at farmers markets every day. It’s a romantic idea but it’s not practical. He shops at the farmers market on Wednesdays; it’s a quick trip with his cart. He also visits a farmers market on Sundays, when he shops for his family. “I go out to farms and visit them,” he says. “I’ve never lived and worked in an environment like [Sacramento].” Ridgeway keeps his menus fluid so he can adapt based on what comes in. He says, “I have a farmer who calls me and says, ‘I’m picking today.’” That’s the level of service and freshness he likes. “Food doesn’t have to be complicated. It has to make sense.” Back at Grange, we sipped refreshing spritzers made with blueberries (oh, yes, those blueberries), rhubarb, lemon and club soda. Our group consisted of Deshon Gyamfi, who lives in Lodi; Jennifer Ware; Jennifer’s husband, Jeremy; and Joelle, the couple’s almost-3-yearold daughter. Deshon and Jennifer are sisters; the Wares were visiting the area from New Mexico. They signed up for "Follow the Chef", the first event this year, because they couldn’t get reservations at The French Laundry, a dining destination for food lovers. Everyone at our table was a foodie, even the 3-year-old. Ridgeway came by to introduce dishes. The first course was a salad
made with dark cherries (oh, yes, those cherries), peas, arugula and whipped ricotta. The main course was Skuna Bay salmon served with shaved asparagus and tzatziki made with Straus yogurt. Ridgeway had previously visited Skuna Bay’s fish farms located around Vancouver Island; the veteran chef features the company’s salmon on Grange’s menu. He and Jennifer discussed buying farmed versus wild-caught fish. No matter where you stand on that issue, the salmon was satisfyingly crispy on top and moist inside. He had seared it in a hot cast-iron skillet, skin side down, for about two minutes, popped it in the oven to finish, and sprinkled a bit of sea salt over it at the end—one of the best and least complicated pieces of salmon I’ve had. Dessert was panna cotta, with fresh fruit and pistachio dust, served in a Mason jar. I was almost too full to walk to my car and drive home. Follow the Chef takes place every other Wednesday until October. For information and reservations, go to grangesacramento.com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n
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Callista Polhemus
Let Them Eat Cake FOOD MARKETER HAS THE SWEET TASTE OF SUCCESS
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allista Polhemus is a restaurant marketing consultant with a “side hustle” (as she calls it) that, ironically, she hasn’t had to market. Through word of mouth, her business is rising. She bakes uniquely dramatic
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gourmet cakes as a hobby that’s quickly becoming a paid gig. Her creations are, quite literally, picture perfect. Envision a “naked” cardamom blood-orange cake with soft green pistachio mascarpone buttercream sweeping across the top with contrasting pink blood-orange cream stacked two layers high, alive with fresh camellia blossoms dancing along the bottom. This cake radiates. It creates pause. It beckons. It is art.
This was the cake Polhemus made two years ago for her best friend, John Schuller. It was the first cake she ever made, and she felt compelled to do it, inspired by her friendship. Polhemus, who is also a food photographer, posted a photo of the cake on Facebook, and it became an immediate social media hit with 101 “likes.” At the time, that was a lot for her. Since that first experiment, Polhemus has continued making cakes for friends, growing more
confident in her techniques in both baking and decorating. Every time she creates a new piece, she posts the striking photo on social media. Online, her popularity spread. (A recent photo garnered 221 “likes.”) Cake requests stream in from friends and acquaintances. Recently, she made a cake to celebrate the birthdays of her former employers and mentors, chef Kurt Spataro and restaurateur Stacy Paragary. Polhemus served as marketing director at Paragary
cakes are made custom with attention to every detail. For our beehive party, she made a poppy seed lavender cake with honey frosting. It was beautiful,” she says. Spataro agrees. “I was amazed at how beautiful it was. It was striking, like a small piece of art,” he says. From her photos, Polhemus’ cakes look too good to eat. Starting at $150, they’re visually stunning masterpieces. However, Polhemus proudly asserts that they really are made for eating.
“Every single person has told me it tastes better than it looks,” she says. “I want that wow factor because I get a lot of personal satisfaction that it looks good, but I get even more when it tastes good.” To see Callista Polhemus’ custom cakes, go to semisweetcc.squarespace. com. Amber Stott is founder of the nonprofit Food Literacy Center. She can be reached at amber.stott@gmail. com. n
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That night, Polhemus came home and designed a website, formally launching Semi Sweet CC. With such a meaningful nod of approval, she felt confident in her ability to build a legitimate side business. Polhemus draws inspiration for her cakes from the seasons and surroundings. Her cakes are artistically designed with the eye of a food stylist, combining her experience working with chefs and her innate artistic talent. She designs with a consciousness for how her products will show up on camera. Her cakes drip, dance, spin, climb and wow. Like Polhemus herself, they’re tasteful, elegant and creative. You won’t catch her making a basic chocolate cake or adding cartoon characters, but you will find props. A recent cake for Midtown Business Association’s executive director, Emily Baime Michaels, featured a wooden honey dipper reaching from the top of the cake, sunk into a small pool of honey, surrounded by lavender and wildflowers. Baime Michaels was enthusiastic about the cake she ordered. “[The]
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Restaurant Group for eight years before becoming a private restaurant marketing consultant. For Spataro and Paragary, she made a citrus olive oil cake with Calivirgin lemon-infused olive oil and mascarpone buttercream with citrus lemon curd. Polhemus lay awake at night, dreaming about the design, the flavors and her mentors. She crafts every cake to uniquely fit her audience, and she puts pressure on herself to get the final product just right. “I spent a lot of time getting ideas that were too elaborate, but then having a level of refinement,” she says. “Kurt is all about simple, elegant, appreciating the ingredients. That’s the kind of chef he is. Stacy is very elegant. I didn’t want to look like I was trying too hard.” Thanks to her thorough planning, Polhemus’ citrus cake was a huge hit with her mentors. “It’s not that easy,” Spataro says, “because it’s not a traditional kind of cake and not necessarily for everyone. She managed to please everyone. The whole thing was pretty amazing.”
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The Summer of 1915 NEW BOOK LOOKS AT SACRAMENTO’S ELIMINATION LEAGUE
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ou never know what might turn up when a retired math teacher digs into microfilm and ancestry records and learns about a long-ago summer and a baseball stadium built over a garbage dump at Riverside and Broadway. The math teacher is Tom Crisp. The stadium was called Buffalo Park. The deeper Crisp dug, the more he learned. Eventually, he excavated a fascinating story about a cutthroat professional baseball experiment based at Buffalo Park in 1915. When Crisp unearthed the forgotten tale that links Sacramento to its sports legends and legacies, he did the natural thing. He wrote a book. The book is called “The $1,000 Elimination League: A 1915 Sacramento Valley Baseball Experiment.” Crisp, who taught at Winters High School, admits he’s no genius at marketing his work. “I’m selling it out of my trunk,” he says. Sacramento was a passionate baseball town 103 years ago. But in late 1914, the city suddenly found itself without a professional team. The Sacramento Senators, drowning in the Pacific Coast League basement, decided to move to San Francisco. “That left Sacramento without a professional baseball team,” Crisp says. “The Chamber of Commerce president, Daniel Carmichael, thought
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Math teacher Tom Crisp has written a book about baseball in Sacramento.
it was bad for business to have the ballpark empty for a season. So he and some of the city’s baseball guys came up with the idea of an elimination tournament.”
Led by Carmichael, chamber members put up $1,000—all of which would go to the winner. The second- through fourth-place finishers would receive cash from ticket sales.
Play began with 22 teams, 13 from Sacramento, nine from around the countryside. They had evocative names. There were the Oroville Olives, Orland Oranges and Chico Colts. A team from Lodi was called the Peltier Orientals, with players of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. Sacramento teams included Arata Brothers, the Milton Haneys, the Patterson Hatters and Sacramento Giants, an African-American team. Crisp figured out the youngest player was 16. The eldest was George “Farmer” Waite from Willows, still running bases at 35. “The Elimination League was integrated, with African-American and Asian players who would not have been allowed to play in the major leagues or Pacific Coast League,” Crisp says. The men on the Giants were blacksmiths, hotel porters, mail carriers. Members of the Peltier Orientals mostly worked on farms. Many had degrees from universities in Japan and Hong Kong. After explaining the league structure and introducing the teams, Crisp takes readers on a week-byweek tour through the Sacramento summer of 1915. He starts on April 11 and wanders through July 5, when the clubs reached the championship round. Along the way, Crisp sprinkles newsy tidbits across his narrative, introducing context to the summer and letting readers know he was distracted by nonbaseball headlines while reading century-old copies of The Sacramento Bee, The Sacramento Union and the Bee’s evening rival, The Sacramento Star.
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Nothing is more important UArt Sacramento 2601 J Street 916-443-5721 UniversityArt.com Among the flashes fresh off the telegraph are accounts of the Lusitania sinking and street signs being stolen in Chico. Intimate portraits emerge, reminding readers that while baseball endures, life was very different in 1915. Consider when the Giants missed their train to Sacramento after an elimination game in Orland: They hopped a train to Woodland but arrived at 2 a.m. Nearby restaurants were padlocked. “They found a bakery just opening and bought $4.90 worth of doughnuts, which they took back to the depot in a barley sack and ate as they waited for the train to Sacramento,” Crisp writes. The book features 44 pages of biographic material on dozens of players and managers—much of which Crisp completed with help from the men’s descendants. “For me, the joy is getting this information out and talking to the families,” he says. Buffalo Park was home to most Elimination League games. Built in 1910, the wooden grandstands
held about 5,000 fans. Riverside and Broadway (then called 11th and Y streets) was a strategic location. Just beyond the city limits, teams could sell beer there without police interference. The name reflected the intent. Buffalo Park was named for Buffalo Brewery in Midtown. The championship game was between two rural teams, the Woodland Oaks and Winters Giants. But the final match exposed a fracture in the Elimination League’s structure. Woodland and Winters went on strike halfway into the first inning. They demanded a bigger share of the ticket sales. League officials bowed to the extortion, then asked for their money back the next day, after Woodland won 4–0. The league’s plans for 1916 collapsed amid the bickering, but the concept of professional “town baseball” continued with a new alignment called the Trolley League. That’s a story for another day. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n
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A Great Resource TREES ARE PART OF SACRAMENTO’S DNA
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n Sacramento, there are a lot of battleground issues: water, growth, cyclists versus cars, conservatives versus liberals. There’s even some contention over our trees. The most recent controversy was over the replacement of the “City of Trees” slogan on a water tower on Interstate 5. The slogan was taken down and a new one went up: “America’s Farmto-Fork Capital.” Whether that’s our brand or not, it really doesn’t matter. The simple fact is that we have a lot of trees. And we will remain the City of Trees if most city planners and leaders, environmental nonprofit groups and individual activists have their way. “I loved the water tower,” says Matt Van Donsel, community engagement manager at the Sacramento Tree Foundation. “It was iconic. But a city can have multiple identities. We see this as an opportunity. It’s very telling that people have been so passionate about the tower.” Tree issues won’t likely go away. In recent years, there’s been controversy over how all the leaves from trees in the city would be picked up. Then there are the regular media reports about someone cutting down trees they shouldn’t or diseased trees that
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should be removed but aren’t. During the drought, many were concerned that trees would wither away and die. Some did. All agree we have an unbelievable natural resource in our trees and
the benefits they provide. On a hot day, people and pets seek out shade. Trees line the city streets in their magnificent glory. Some give fruits. Others give nuts. Some have been around for more than a century.
All those trees are part of what experts call an urban forest. The forest includes trees, plants and vegetation on both public and private lands. Sacramento’s urban forest is part of a regional network of urban forests in the county and adjacent counties and cities. In Sacramento, only about 20 percent of trees are considered public trees found in parks, city rights of way and other public spaces. The other 80 percent of trees are privately owned and found in the front and backyards of homes. Some people like to say Sacramento ranks up there with Paris as a city of trees. According to Van Donsel, a better metric to use is the Green View Index, which measures the amount of green someone would see when looking around a city from a street perspective, not just from overhead. That study was done by researchers at MIT, working with the World Economic Forum. They created Treepedia, a website that measures and compares cities’ foliage using Google Street View data. “As it turns out,” says Van Donsel, “Sacramento ranks third in the world, just behind Vancouver and Singapore. And Paris actually ranked much lower.” The importance of so much green isn’t just its beauty. Advocates of urban forestry have done many studies to determine the impact trees and greenery have on the human condition. According to this research, green space reduces health complaints, allowing people to live longer lives. Trees filter pollutants from the air to reduce asthma and other respiratory conditions.
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W E L I V E I T. W E L O V E I T. W E K N O W I T. Studies also show trees reduce stress in people and can reduce anger and aggressiveness. Studies of workers who have office plants and window views often show improved productivity, job satisfaction and attentiveness. Studies also show that patients in hospitals who can see trees recover faster. Streets lined with trees are safer because drivers tend to slow down. Neighborhoods are often safer because people will be outside in shade-covered yards and sidewalks. It’s proven that crime rates are lower in neighborhoods with trees and greenery. Trees also lower noise levels because of their sound-buffering abilities. Finally, trees shade people from the sun, screening away harmful UV radiation, and keep surrounding areas cooler. This is the one benefit everyone wants and sees. For Van Donsel, the urban forest can’t be taken for granted. “We need to plan how we are going to take care of our public street trees,” he says. “When developers and
city planners are doing their work, trees and green space can’t just be an afterthought.” Van Donsel thinks developers and city planners have a shared feeling that the urban forest enhances new and existing developments in the city. “Really, we all want more walkable and shaded space,” he says. “The city’s new tree ordinance is a good step in the right direction.” The ordinance, which was approved in 2016, was designed to provide clarity and accountability for those managing the urban forest by replacing existing laws that were out of date and didn’t adequately address new challenges of development, disease and replacement. “One of the big problems we see is the fact that many streets in the city are lined with trees of a similar species and age,” says Van Donsel. “That’s a problem. We have an aging canopy, and we need some sort of succession planning to ensure that our urban forest remains healthy.” While the city has its new ordinance, the Sacramento Tree
Foundation is focused on a regional framework to grow and manage the best urban forest. Called Greenprint, it guides the growth of, and investments in, urban forest initiatives. “Our goal for the region is to plant 5 million new trees,” says Van Donsel. “We also want to look at the tree canopy to be equitable. So we are looking at areas like Del Paso Heights and South Sacramento.” To that end, 1 million of the planned trees are destined for under-resourced, low-tree-canopy neighborhoods. The other 4 million are for the development community to meet expected growth and additional 290,000 homes that could be built by 2035. Big developments like the Railyards will need to have a seamless tree canopy coming from the adjacent Downtown corridor. Keeping the tree canopy healthy will be a challenge even as local government and nonprofits plan for the future. With most of the trees on private property, property owners and
homeowners will have to play a vital role. The Sacramento Tree Foundation’s mission is to educate people about pruning and watering new trees and the older trees lining some of Sacramento’s most beautiful neighborhoods. If the trees are not properly cared for, they could easily die or be susceptible to disease. Drought makes it difficult for people to water their trees. That problem is only compounded by strong storms and rain, like those we had this past winter, which downed weakened trees and overly saturated the ground. There are a lot of issues to battle over in Sacramento. Trees may be a source of contention, but mostly they are source of cooperation. Regardless of city branding, trees represent a vital part of Sacramento’s identity and a cherished resource that adds to our health, comfort and quality of life. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com. n
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Urban Herbs HAVE YOU EATEN YOUR GREENS TODAY?
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grew up on an Ohio farm, where my exposure to herbs, other than a sprig of parsley garnishing a plate, was nonexistent. They weren’t in my mother’s kitchen, and they were certainly not in the garden. I remember when I was in college being given a spice rack and opening the bottles cautiously as I sniffed and sampled them. Which things were spices and which were herbs? How should I use them? It was a mystery. Shortly after coming to California 40 years ago, I planted herbs in my garden. Chives, rosemary, oregano, tarragon and mint are attractive and drought-tolerant, and they reliably survive year after year. These, along
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with an annual planting of sweet basil, are the extent of my herbal adventures. A recent talk by Daisy Mah at the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club inspired me and other seasoned gardeners to think of planting more types of herbs and using them more boldly. One of the mysteries that Daisy cleared up was why we Americans don’t pronounce the “h” in “herb.” It’s a French word, and that’s how it’s said there. English speakers elsewhere scorn such Franco-frippery and defiantly pronounce the “h.” Some of us weren’t exactly sure what Daisy meant by “herbs,” because instead of using just a pinch or teaspoon at a time, she likes to make a meal of them. Herbs don’t just go into salad dressing—they are the salad. She grows and eats so many herbs that she’s begun calling her home garden “Daisy’s Herb Farm.” To a botanist, an herbaceous plant is any seed-bearing plant that doesn’t
have a woody stem and that dies back after flowering. Daisy limits herbs, however, to the usual definition of edible leaves, flowers and stems from plants that are used for medicinal, aromatic or savory qualities. She uses them generously in every meal.
While it’s fun to nibble in the garden, not every plant is edible or to your taste. In order to make herbs a regular ingredient, they need to be accessible, she advises. “Don’t put them out in the back 40,” she says. One of the nice things about growing herbs is that you can harvest them when they are in optimal condition, not dried out
and flavorless in a bottle. She keeps a colander in the garden, cuts herbs into it and rinses them off whenever she prepares a meal. Many of us have had the experience of mint spreading uncontrollably through a planting bed. If you cut it often enough, Daisy says, that won’t be a problem. Frequent cutting also keeps basil compact and producing tender new leaves. Parsley and coriander bolt, sending up seed heads, when they feel stressed by hot weather. Trimming them often, and growing them in partial shade, may prolong their life. You don’t have to limit yourself to a few familiar herbs. If you can’t find what you want in a local nursery, order seed and grow your own. Lemon basil, winter savory, unusual oreganos and bronze fennel are but a few decorative and delicious herbs that she recommends. Daisy has been experimenting with growing her own microgreens. She sows seeds in a
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Herb seeds are sometimes used as spices. Cilantro seeds are called coriander. Fennel seeds pack a potent punch of anise flavor and are used to season Italian sausages and Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Herbs can flavor water or lemonade or be brewed as tea. Great bunches of them can be chopped up for pesto sauce, to make salads or tossed into soups. Once you begin to explore all of the ways that herbs can be used, there’s almost no limit to their uses. “Food is boring sometimes,” Daisy says. “Herbs bring life and flavor.” Anita Clevenger is a lifetime platinum UC Sacramento County Master Gardener. On Saturday, Aug.5, join her and many other Master Gardeners at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Harvest Day, featuring demonstration gardens, lectures and educational tables. Be sure to check out the herb garden while you are there. For information about Harvest Day, and answers to gardening questions, call 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n
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Bracing Others TEEN WRITES BOOK TELLING KIDS WITH SCOLIOSIS TO ‘STAND TALL’
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hen she was 12, Sarah Larson was diagnosed with curvature of the spine and fitted with a hard-plastic back brace. Now 18, the River Park teenager recently self-published a book called “Brace Yourself” to educate and inspire other youngsters with scoliosis. Her story is one of grit and the power of positive thinking. For two years, Larson wore the corsetlike brace 20 hours a day, removing it only for showers, swimming and sports. “It was definitely a challenge,” she recalls, “but I kept a positive attitude. The one hassle was in the summer. It had padding, so it got hot. And it was hard to bend over to tie my shoes.” In the book, Larson describes her “love-hate” relationship with the brace, which she decorated with a rainbow peace sign and named Joan after her favorite saint, Joan of Arc. Joan, she writes, “encouraged me to stand tall in the world and prepared me to face any challenges that might come my way.” While wearing the brace, Larson went to physical therapy and did special exercises to strengthen her spine and prevent the curvature from progressing. She practiced yoga to keep her core strong. To camouflage the brace, she dressed in flowing blouses and hippie skirts instead of crop tops and tight pants. “Most people couldn’t tell I was wearing it,” she says. Her St. Francis High School classmates were extremely supportive. “I was never made fun of,” Larson says. “My friends helped
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Sarah Larson shares her experience with scoliosis. me take it on and off until I learned how to do it myself.” She says she grew to appreciate the brace, which she sometimes called by another nickname: Abs of Steel. “I thought of it as something that was helping me, keeping my back straight and my curve from progressing. I made peace with it, for sure.”
For an assignment in her freshman year of high school, Larson wrote a short story celebrating her brace. “It was very liberating to write,” she recalls. “It was my way of sharing my story.” Her parents encouraged her to turn the story into a book. Last summer, Larson drew illustrations and used online publishing company
CreateSpace to make a 28-page softcover book. Larson was diagnosed with scoliosis—an abnormal curvature of the spine that affects about 7 million Americans—during a routine physical. The diagnosis came as a shock, although she later learned that her aunt and grandmother had had scoliosis, too. In “Brace Yourself,” Larson writes, “I do not think of having scoliosis as a disease or burdensome condition. Instead, I think of it as an adaption to life.” Larson donated copies of the book to Shriners Children’s Hospital, St. Mary and Caleb Greenwood elementary schools and local orthopedic offices. She would like to read the book to school groups. Her goal, she says, is to “inspire other girls to stand tall in the world.” To connect with girls around the world, she created a website (braceyourselfscoliosis. com) and an Instagram account (@ braceyourselfscoliosis). It’s been four years since she stopped wearing her brace, but Larson still has it. “I’m deciding what to do with it,” she says. “I may turn it into an art piece.” Larson recently graduated from St. Francis and received a meritbased President’s Scholarship to attend University of Portland. She plans to study biology and hopes to become a naturopathic pediatrician. In the book, she pays tribute to her brace: “Although I am done wearing Joan, the memory of her is still imprinted on my heart. She held me so strong when growing through my young adolescence and has left me with the courage to face
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Cannabis Czar NEW CITY OFFICIAL CRACKS DOWN ON CRIMINAL ‘GROW HOUSES’
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ess politicized than Oakland,
construction. In April, Sacramento
better regulated than Los
police investigated a double homicide
Angeles, Sacramento has built a
at a suspected grow house in South
profitable relationship with legalized
Sacramento. Authorities believe the
cannabis. But a major problem haunts
murders occurred during a botched
the city’s biggest growth industry.
home invasion robbery.
Thirty dispensaries in Sacramento
“They are simply unsafe for a
generate millions of dollars in
number of reasons,” Devlin says.
sales taxes. They have provoked no
“Nothing is up to code. There’s lots
upswing in neighborhood crime since
of electrical work that’s unsafe and
becoming regulated in 2010. About
unpermitted.”
70 cultivators have applied to City
Sacramento attracts criminal
Hall for commercial indoor growing
cultivators for three primary reasons,
permits.
Devlin believes. Homes can be
The trouble comes from outlaw
obtained here at relatively cheap
growers who ignore regulations
prices, at least compared to the Bay
and have no interest in legalizing
Area, San Diego and Los Angeles.
their businesses. In neighborhoods
Easy freeway access allows cartel
across the city, an estimated 1,000
growers to quickly get their product
private homes have been turned into
beyond California, as most illegally
illegal cultivation sites, filled with
grown marijuana is destined for other
ramshackle wiring, holes cut through
states. And there’s SMUD, the publicly
walls and fire hazards everywhere.
owned utility that provides power
“If we had capacity to bust three of these houses a day, and no new
at economical prices. Every indoor
ones popped up, we would have to
cannabis farmer—legal and
work a full year, seven days a week, to
otherwise—requires significant jolts
eradicate them all,” says Joe Devlin,
of electricity to drive the lighting
the city’s new chief of cannabis policy
systems that stimulate the crop’s growing cycles.
and enforcement. “I could spend all
Joe Devlin is chief of cannabis policy and enforcement.
day on this.” Devlin, who served seven years as
The city’s cannabis office is busy
if only because of the danger they
“SMUD is a great utility provider,” Devlin says. “A grower can do the
chief of staff for City Councilmember
with many chores. There’s the
Jay Schenirer, doesn’t have all day
alignment of city ordinances with new
present to Sacramento neighborhoods. math on the back of an envelope and say, ‘Wow, I’ll save 30 percent on my “These are not mom-and-pop
to kick in doors at suspected illegal
state laws on adult-use retail sales,
operations with a few plants,” he
cultivation houses.
delivery services, distribution and
says. “There’s an organized element
SMUD helps local authorities
transportation regulations. There’s
to this. They go in and they purchase
catch criminal cannabis cultivators.
testing and conditional-use permits
or lease multiple homes, and they go
The utility works with the city to
for commercial cultivation and
inside and gut them and turn them
identify homes and businesses with
manufacturing facilities. The rules
into what are commercial cannabis
unusually high power usage. Officials
are complex. The task list is long.
production facilities.”
obtain an inspection warrant—easier
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But illegal grow houses have become a preoccupation with Devlin,
Illegal cultivation sites are
power bill in Sacramento.’”
to get than a criminal warrant—and
inevitably dangerous, with hazards that extend beyond sloppy
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knock on the door looking for code
regulations that will align with new
violations.
state rules, which take effect Jan. 1.
Code violations typically don’t
trail, helping legitimate cultivators,
they can put the illegal grower out of
manufacturers and retailers get their
business, at least temporarily. State
product to market. And telling illegal
and local laws are evolving to allow
growers to move somewhere else.
confiscation of illegal plants and dangerous, nonpermitted equipment. The criminal grow house is a sinister presence in a city that has worked hard to establish a positive relationship with regulated cannabis. Sacramento was among the first major California cities to create ordinances for medical cannabis dispensaries. The city is a leader in converting warehouse space to professionally operated indoor farms. (Outdoor grows are illegal in the city.) Responsible growers and dispensary operators pay permit fees and sales taxes to fund the city’s enforcement activities. The city doesn’t have a cap on commercial grow permits, but the high investment costs for regulated indoor farming should limit the competition. “I hope that money will allow us
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Sacramento is blazing a leadership
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1. Fair Oaks, Carmichael and Citrus Heights Chambers of Commerce members mixed with pageant winners at North Ridge Country Club.
4. Mission Oaks Community Center supporters enjoyed a summer fiesta.
2. Milagro Centre owner Allan Davis (center) was grand marshal for the Carmichael Elks July 4 Parade.
5. Tim’s Music opened a new Carmichael Store.
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How Much Is Enough? THE RETIREMENT QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD ASK
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n answer to a reader’s question, I paraphrased Mark Twain to say, “The rumor of my retirement has been greatly exaggerated.” “I will definitely keep writing my column,” I assured her. “I retired only from two of my three jobs. In 2014, I retired from the Air National Guard, and last month I retired from health care chaplaincy.” But she wasn’t the only one asking questions. Many of my hospice colleagues and friends were surprised I was retiring, just shy of 60 years old. “How can you retire early?” they asked. “Don’t get your financial advice from a chaplain,” I told them. “However, I can help you with two spiritual questions I asked myself about retirement.” The first thing I grappled with was: Are you living within your means? While it sounds like a question from your financial adviser, it really gets at the spiritual issue of greed. If greed prevents you from reducing your spending, you’ll have a problem since retirement will often cut one’s income nearly in half. That’s why we began preparing two years ago by cutting our employment to half-time hours. My wife split a prekindergarten teaching position and I took a per-diem chaplain job
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working only 25 hours a week. We sold our suburban home and moved into a double-wide mobile home at half the cost of the old two-story McMansion. As the months passed, the numbers proved workable. Any greedy impulses that remained began to subside. Honestly, it wasn’t that hard to do. We were ready. Our kids were out of the nest and finished with their schooling. However, we couldn’t have addressed the first question if we had not answered the bigger spiritual question: How much is enough? Most financial planners will tell you that you can never save too much. You need to save 15 percent of your annual income toward retirement, but since most of us don’t do that, we’re advised to save every dime. Take a second job, they say. Delay taking Social Security and work until you’re
70. And if you have to, rent a room in Norris’ double-wide. Don’t consider any of these options until you first decide how much is enough. I know a rich man who’s saving so he can retire with $11,000 a month in pension income. He’s killing himself over the anxiety that he won’t be able to keep his mansion and his big toys. I’m not like him, and you probably aren’t either. But there are ways in which we bear a resemblance. In retirement, and perhaps long before, we need to ask whether we really need two cars. Do we honestly need the latest cellphone or greatest big-screen TV? Can we find refreshing social connections in libraries, churches and service organizations? Or does our self-image rely on fashion-store clothing and expensive gyms, restaurants and country clubs. How much does one need to possess before one can claim, “I’m good
enough” or “I’ve made it”? Must we collect more and more to feel that we are worthy? Is it all about feeling better than someone else? If it is, then I suggest we’ve likely made the transition from ownership to slavery. At the end of the day, my wife and I decided that our lives are full. We have enough, not just in future finances, but also in terms of happiness now. Next week, we’re ditching the double-wide to travel worldwide. However, as I assured my reader, I will continue to write as long as my editors will allow. The reader seemed happy with my decision to keep writing. Stay tuned, however—sometimes my wife changes her mind. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain. net. n
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he grid is getting greener. If you live in the city or county of Sacramento, your electricity is supplied by SMUD (Sacramento Metropolitan Utility District). SMUD is a public, municipal utility structured as a not-forprofit and is governed by a board of seven directors. Thanks to this arrangement, SMUD customers pay about 30 percent less for electricity than our regional neighbors who are served by investor-owned PG&E. Reflecting the priorities of many local residents, SMUD’s board has a history of emphasizing environmental goals even before
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government regulations make such goals mandatory. SMUD was the first utility in California to reach 20 percent of power produced from clean, renewable sources—and that percentage keeps rising. Today, 40 to 50 percent of SMUD electricity is generated from noncarbon-emitting sources: hydroelectric, solar, wind and biofuel. (The remainder comes almost entirely from natural gas-fired power plants. There is no coal-fired generation in the state of California.) This puts SMUD somewhat ahead of the curve as the state toughens laws regulating how utilities may source their electricity. The California Renewable Portfolio Standard currently mandates that 33 percent of the state’s power must come from solar, wind, biofuel and “small” hydroelectric by 2020, and 50 percent by 2030. (For some reason, clean power from “large” hydroelectric plants is a separate category, so actual renewable generation will be even greater.) In particular, SMUD is growing its solar-generating capacity. In a 1989 referendum, SMUD ratepayers voted
to shutter the utility’s only nuclear power plant, at Rancho Seco. SMUD then built a natural gas plant at the site to take advantage of existing power lines and infrastructure. But there was still plenty of room for a large solar farm. SMUD completed the Rancho Seco Solar Array last year. Solar panels built on rotating turrets follow the sun, generating up to 10.5 MW of clean, renewable power. Some of that power is earmarked for Golden 1 Center, which is 100 percent powered by the sun. Eightyfive percent of the arena’s electricity comes from the Rancho Seco solar project. The rest is generated from rooftop panels on-site. Consumer demand is driving SMUD’s investment in renewable power generation. Golden 1 isn’t SMUD’s only big customer signing up for green electricity. UC Davis Medical Center recently signed an agreement to buy a percentage of its power as solar in order to reduce the center’s carbon emissions. Individual consumers can also green their electricity consumption without having to build a solar system on
their home by buying into SMUD’s renewable power program, called Greenergy. For only a few dollars extra per month, you can have 50 percent or 100 percent of your power generated from renewable resources.
Solving the storage problem would pave the way for renewables to really take over the grid. Solar power and wind power offer advantages. They don’t contribute to carbon dioxide emissions, and they’re virtually free once the infrastructure is in place because you don’t have to buy fuel. But converting the state’s power grid to rely more and more on renewables presents significant technical challenges. The number one problem with renewables is they’re
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is highest between noon and 4 p.m.; wind tends to be strongest at night and early morning. Consumers unhelpfully burn most of their juice between 5 and 8 p.m. So one way to integrate more renewables into the grid is to shift consumption away from those peak evening hours. SMUD is rolling out a plan to use price incentives for this goal and to reflect the actual cost of electricity at different times of day. Starting in 2018-2019, SMUD will transition customers to time-of-day pricing. The rate you pay per kilowatt hour will vary depending on when you use it, with the highest price during the evening peak. If power consumption can be spread more evenly through the day, this will support our state’s shift from natural gas to renewable electricity.
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Name That Trail WE HAVE SO MANY GREAT ONES, AND EACH DESERVES A NAME
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it were the only one around. Its actual name is the Jedediah Smith Memorial Bicycle Trail. That’s a mouthful that few utter, so it’s understandable people use a shorter term. But the formal name provides a connection to our past. Jedediah Smith was a frontiersman who explored the American River in 1827. The name also distinguishes it from other trails. While the Jed Smith trail is gorgeous, remarkably long at 32 miles and very well used, it’s not the only trail in or near Sacramento. Even in the American River Parkway, there’s
a second trail, the Two Rivers Trail, which runs along the river’s south bank. It starts at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers. Planned extensions will take it nearly all the way to Rancho Cordova. There are other area trails and structures, with colorful names that offer links to geography and history. Roseville has the Miners Ravine and Secret Ravine trails. Folsom has the HumbugWillow Creek Trail, the Johnny Cash Trail and bike/pedestrian bridge with towers mimicking Folsom Prison. Those are names with panache.
In the city of Sacramento, the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail follows the path of the Sacramento Northern Railway, an interurban line with passenger service from Oakland to Chico until 1941. There’s another 10-mile-long multipurpose trail in the Ueda Parkway. It runs atop a levee paralleling Steelhead Creek and languishes in relative obscurity. The Sacramento River Trail, if all goes well, will one day be much longer than today and fully connect riverbanks both north and south of Downtown. Another rail trail, the Del
Rio, is planned for the southern part of the city. The city will soon officially christen the 3-mile Jackrabbit Trail in Natomas. Valley Vision, a nonprofit civic organization, is promoting the idea of an Epic Trail between El Dorado County and the city of Davis. This trail would include the Jed Smith memorial trail, the old Placerville Branch rail right of way and maybe parts of the Pony Express riders’ route. In my view, every trail should have a name. Ideally, that name should be evocative, vivid and memorable. An intimate connection to local history, flora, fauna or geography is certainly a plus. Sadly, all trails don’t have names, a deficiency that could easily be corrected. A related problem is that virtually no trails, even ones with names, have street signs with their names on it. In a quirk of the rules governing traffic signs, there is no mandate for the intersection of a trail with a street to have signs. Nor is there a requirement for
the intersection of two trails to be signed. Yet the manual for traffic signs requires street-name signs at all intersections of urban streets. Why the difference? Maybe it’s just an oversight, but it’s easy to see this as an indication of the second-class treatment of bicycling throughout the transportation system. Perhaps the good news is that, mandate or not, a city or county can install name signs at every trail intersection with a street or with another trail. I believe every trail intersection should have the same signs you see at street corners. Kudos to West Sacramento for having done just that for its Clarksburg Trail. Signs not only help people navigate; they help advertise the existence of the trails and promote their use. Trails are real community assets, used for recreation and active transportation. Their existence should be celebrated, not hidden or ignored. A rule of thumb for signs along highways or trails is that wherever there’s a decision point, signs are needed. Signs provide guidance and
reassurance. Trail users must make a decision at every intersection of two trails. How can someone unfamiliar with a trail know which fork to take if there are no signs? Users need to make decisions where a trail crosses a road as well. Even in the GPS era, trail users can confirm where they are with street-name signs. Two years ago, I rode my bike to the grand opening of a new segment of the Jackrabbit Trail. Unbeknownst to me, my route took me past the south end of the trail. It was inconspicuous and completely unsigned. I rode right by it, not noticing it. I went considerably out of my way to get to the event site. Why not a sign post with name signs for Jackrabbit Trail and Airport Road? Names have meaning. Let’s use them and post them for the world to see. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n
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Making Memoirs EVERYBODY HAS A STORY TO TELL
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I feel like I’m a good steward to show people how to get their oral histories in print. Besides more than a dozen years of published award-winning writing, I’ve actually written two manuscripts in the past 10 years: a fictionalized memoir and a spiritual memoir. Once both my kids are in college the year after next, I’ll focus on getting “Shallow End of the Gene Pool” and “An Angel for Heaven” published. But until then, why not teach people how to tell their own stories? I understand that not everyone thinks it’s as much fun as I do to write 200-plus pages of your life events, but everyone has a story to tell. (Can you imagine all the fascinating stories a room full of people spanning 60, 70, even 80 and 90 years of history have to share? It’s
a treasure trove waiting to be opened! And I’ve been given the key!) I’m hoping the people who sign up for my class will learn not to be intimidated by a blank piece of paper or screen. Instead of wondering where to start, we will be eager to begin. We’re going to go on a journey retelling old favorites, chronicling life-defining moments, unearthing lost memories and discovering new perspectives through fun exercises, short essays, longhand journaling and desktop typing. Whether you come to one (free trial) class or stick with it for a whole year, I guarantee you’ll walk away with something to be excited and proud to have created. (A gift, really, for yourself or your family. What I would give to have Uncle Billy’s entertaining chronicles still available, hearing his voice come
alive again in some sort of transcript, at any time able to visit with him through the tales of his fascinating life!) Whether a bucket-list item, a new interest, a passing fancy or just looking for an interesting way to pass an hour of your day each Tuesday this fall, I would love to share my knowledge and experience with you or someone you desperately wish would capture their amazing life on paper. No writing experience needed. Just visit morpd.com to register for Memoir Writing—only $20 a month! (Come for my fabulous class; stay because I’ll bring snacks and goodies!) Kelli Wheeler is an author, family columnist and freelance writer. For weekly Momservations or to contact her, go to momservations.com. n
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Home Again AFTER MOVING AWAY, A LAND PARK COUPLE RETURNS
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of Nevada City. That translated into spaciousness inside and out for their two sons, two dogs and a kitty. But as their sons grew, they expressed an interest in attending Jesuit High School in Sacramento. That required a return to Sacramento. The couple realized that their one-story, 1,447-square-foot, threebedroom, one-bath house in Land Park would be a tight fit with two teenage boys, two dogs and a kitty. In 2014, they drove through various neighborhoods searching for a new
home. It didn’t work out. “I really didn’t see anything I liked,” Valvo explains. During one trip to Sacramento, the pair visited a Land Park neighbor who suggested they get in touch with local architect Michael Malinowski of Applied Architecture Inc. It was a perfect match. Malinowski has a 30-year track record of taking a “neighborhood-considerate” approach to his projects. For Malinowski, success is when you can’t tell from the
street whether the second story was always there or added later. “Mike was so simpatico with our goal of trying to keep the original look of the house and make it fit into the neighborhood,” says Parks. By the beginning of 2015, plans were completed; construction began in April. The family moved into the two-story 2,410-square-foot, fivebedroom, two-bath house the day after Thanksgiving. As the boys grew older, Valvo says, she began to understand the privacy
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benefits distinct rooms have over open floor plans. One bedroom is used as an office; another serves as the boys’ TV room. The house’s original footprint changed little except for a 6-foot addition off the back of the house. The kitchen received a major rehab and was enlarged, which facilitated the pleasing placement of the new staircase. The new upstairs master bath is a showstopper, with an oversized shower and travertine floor tile. The charmingly petite window in the
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TO RETAIN THE COTTAGEY LOOK OF THE PARK/VALVO HOME, HE WORKED FROM THE OUTSIDE IN
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READERS NEAR & FAR 1. David and Nancy Boyer celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary at the Wawona Hotel in Yosemite National Park 2. Rita Gibson and Nancy Brodovsky on the Cap-to-Cap trip in Washington, DC 3. April and Adam Dougherty celebrating their anniversary at To-ji, the tallest pagoda in Japan 4. Ron Starr and Ralph Simoni stopped in front of the walled city fortress in Carcassonne, France 5. John and Miriam McCormack enjoying Venice, Italy 6. Ted and Jennifer Kappel with their daughter, Abby Rose, in Cancun, Mexico
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shower (where the roof lines come together) illustrates Malinowski’s genius for solving the biggest conundrum of the project. According to Malinowski, the exterior appearance of a house is his starting point. To retain the cottagey look of the Park/Valvo home, he worked from the outside in, effectively using what might have been seen as wasted space. “The biggest challenge was to fit the interior design into the exterior shell,” he says. “The shower is a great example of how well that worked out.” Malinowski suggests homeowners consider shifting the way they think about adding a second story to their
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home. Instead of an addition, he says, think of it as a conversion. “We don’t want to visually drop something on top of a house,” he explains. “Rather, we want to convert a one-story house into the character, flow and function that would have been there if the house was originally built as a twostory home.” The backyard was once home to a large landmark tree recognized by the Sacramento Tree Foundation. When it had to be removed, the house became much warmer in the summer, and much of the vegetation died off. Recently, the front and back yards were revitalized by The Garden Tutors.
Parks and Valvo had no idea when they attended an open house at Jesuit High School years ago that the family would one day be back living in their first home. They love Land Park and are so pleased with the results of the remodel, which retained the character and charm of the house. “It’s good to be home again,” says Valvo, “this time with our two teenage boys, who will be in ninth and 11th grades at Jesuit. Truly it was providence that everything fell into place.” 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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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN AUGUST
“Fields of Grain: The Art Collection of the California Rice Commission” will be on display at the Robert T. Matsui Gallery in Sacramento City Hall. Shown right: “Summer Rice Fields, Colusa County” by Phil Gross. The show runs through Nov. 14. 915 I St.
Archival Gallery presents the collage paintings of Maureen Hood and the collage sculpture of Sean Royal through Sept. 4. Shown right: “Dead Valley” by Royal. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com
Tim Collom Gallery welcomes Richard Stein for a solo exhibition titled “New Fields” through Sept. 1. Shown above: “Garden Farms.” 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com
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Sacramento Fine Arts Center presents “Celebrating the Figure,” featuring drawings, paintings and sculpture by the Friday Morning Figure Drawing Group. The show runs through Aug. 15. Shown above: “Time Vectors” by Steve Memering. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacfinearts.org
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It’s a Mod, Mod World ASSESSING THE CITY’S STOCK OF MIDCENTURY-MODERN HOMES
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Characterized by clean, sharp lines and the interplay of interior and exterior, midcentury modern became prominent in American architecture following World War II and dominated development in the late 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. According to Carson Anderson, the city’s senior planner and preservation director, these homes and developments are at risk. “The reason we want to showcase these homes,” says Anderson, “is that most people don’t look at things from the late ’40s, ’50s and ’60s as being possible historic resources, and a lot of demolitions and alterations
can occur without people really understanding what they’re doing.” The hope is that people who want to renovate or modernize these buildings can learn to do so sympathetically. “That’s a conversation we have regularly,” says Anderson. “But before we can even get there, we need to know what’s out there.” And as they’ve discovered, there’s a lot out there. According to Anderson, there are roughly 48,000 properties developed in Sacramento between the late ’40s and the late ’60s. In order to locate and identify these homes, and perhaps even designate them as historic
landmarks, the city and Sacramento Modern created a volunteer program to survey Sacramento neighborhoods for midcentury-modern architecture and development. Sure, many of those 48,000 homes are junk, admits Anderson, “made cheaply and built quickly—maybe 85 percent of it. But it’s the 15 percent that we’re looking at, while focusing on who designed them and what sort of stories they tell about the development of the city in the postwar period.” The value of these homes is recognized by the California Office of TO page 62
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Midcentury-modern buildings can be found all over town and are both private residences and commercial structures. FROM page 60 Historic Preservation, which provided a grant to fund the program. Volunteers attended three-hour workshops hosted by the city on April 29 and May 6. They received training on how to identify the hallmarks of midcentury-modern architecture and how to input those findings into a mobile application that would provide the city with live updates. Richmond resident Joann Pavlinec volunteered for the program, driving to Sacramento once a week, and says identifying the homes wasn’t as easy as it might sound.
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“It’s tricky because it’s not just one style,” says Pavlinec, a former city planner for the city of Berkeley and a historic preservationist who sits on Richmond’s Historic Preservation Commission. “It’s a simplified style with clean lines, but the different characteristics between substyles is not that easy to detect.” Pavlinec loves midcentury-modern design. “It’s the simplicity of it,” she says. “It definitely exposes the structure of a building, and modernism, especially in housing, is so simple and has very clean lines. But you don’t realize how special that is until you’re on the inside. So it’s deceiving to a lot of
people, because it’s the flow of space, the floor plan, the openness and how the inside of the house relates to the outside. There’s an interaction with its environment.” Pavlinec says there is a bias against midcentury modern. “Look at a Victorian: the detail on the outside, and the articulation of the design elements,” she says. “If you look for that on a midcentury-modern home, you won’t find that much of a distinction.” In other words, she says, midcentury-modern homes aren’t as flashy as Victorians. “But people hated Victorians and used to strip them. Historically, it just takes a lot of time to appreciate newer
styles,” she concludes. “So it’s good to get these homes marked so people at least know they’re midcentury modern and work with somebody who knows how to retain those elements if they want to remodel.” The volunteer program, which wrapped up in July, identified significant midcentury-modern tracts and hot spots in Sacramento, especially in South Land Park and some areas of Land Park. According to Anderson, there is a group of homes along South Land Park Drive that were designed by the famed California architect TO page 65
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Portrait of an Artist BRINGING SCULPTOR TONY NATSOULAS TO LIFE ON THE SCREEN
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hen Benjamin Fargen stopped by Rick’s Dessert Diner one evening in 2016, all he had on his mind was a towering slice of German chocolate cake. But a chance meeting with an old friend would open the door of possibility, propelling the composer and filmmaker (after he finished his cake) into a yearlong journey of professional growth and artistic exploration. Fargen, a Sacramento native who lives in Carmichael, always had an affinity for writing and recording music. He began playing guitar at age 12. After years of playing in bands, he added bass keyboard and vocals to his repertoire and gradually built a career as a serious composer. His music has appeared in numerous television shows, including “Duck Dynasty” and “Leah Remini: It’s All Relative.” Fargen also owns Exclusive Amps, a guitar amplifier company, and in order to generate promotional content for his products he began teaching himself the basics of videography and editing. He spent 15 years casually honing these skills, eventually realizing that he had become, in his words, “fairly competent” at editing. Then one day, after watching a documentary that left him unimpressed, he found himself thinking he could do better. The more he thought about it, the more he was intrigued by the artistic challenge of directing a film and scoring it with his own original compositions. The only question that remained, Fargen says, was “who or what would be a worthy or interesting subject?”
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Benjamin Fargen Enter ceramic sculptor Tony Natsoulas, who just happened to be sitting inside Rick’s that fateful evening. Fargen and Natsoulas first became acquainted when they shared a studio space in Midtown in the early 1990s—Fargen making music and Natsoulas working with clay, molding it into his now-iconic forms. At times, the two collaborated, with Fargen providing raw materials like old guitar strings and tubes that Natsoulas would then incorporate into his colorful, campy work. “When I ran into him again at Rick’s,” Fargen says, “a light bulb went off. I realized that Tony’s story was the perfect one for me to tell. It’s a pretty
uncommon one among local artists in terms of reach and success. He’s very respected in the ceramic art community, and his larger-than-life subjects and characters have been shown around the world.” The self-funded film weaves interviews, photographs and voiceover narration to give viewers an intimate look at Natsoulas’ unique style and the humor that resonates in his work. “One of my biggest challenges was to find a way to show this underlying humor while also emphasizing the incredible hard work and dedication Tony has put into his craft throughout the years,” Fargen says. The story focuses on
Natsoulas’s early childhood, as well as his art education at UC Davis, where he earned a master’s in fine art. Production wound its way across Northern California, capturing various pivotal moments in Natsoulas’ life and 30-year career. Along the way, Fargen found that he liked everything about the filmmaking process. “I was surprised at how smooth and enjoyable the one-on-one interviews were,” he says. “Everyone in the film has their own unique story that pertains to some part of Tony’s history as an artist. I also really loved reconnecting with Tony and learning so much more about the rich history of our local
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Along the way, Fargen found that he liked everything about the ďŹ lmmaking process. Fargen titled his film â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Face in the Crowd,â&#x20AC;? referring back to Natsoulasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; focus on sculptures depicting large-scale human forms and exaggerated personalities. Examples of his work can be seen locally at Bing Maloney Golf Course, Tahoe Tallac Little League Park and Granite Regional Park. One large, gravity-defying sculpture of a teetering man struggling to hold too many objectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a metaphor for modern
life, entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Balancing Actâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stands on Freeport Boulevard near Sacramento City College. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title was also appropriate in terms of Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work as a whole,â&#x20AC;? Fargen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I visualized his work lined up alongside other artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work and thought that it would always stand out as a unique â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;face in the crowd,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; literally and metaphorically.â&#x20AC;? Fargen says he will continue making documentaries. With Natsoulas as collaborator, he plans to focus his next film on artist and UC Davis professor Robert Arneson, who was Natsoulasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mentor and one of the catalysts behind the California Funk art movement of the 1970s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Face in the Crowdâ&#x20AC;? premiered Feb. 25 at UC Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shrem Museum of Art. It is will be screened this fall at Crocker Art Museum. To view the trailer, go to vimeo.com/201584718. For updates on Benjamin Fargenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future film projects, go to everymanproductions.us. n
FROM page 62 Joseph Eichler, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and that grouping of buildings likely merits a historic district designation,â&#x20AC;? he says. Which is ultimately one of the goals of the program. Developments like this, says Anderson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;are part of the cultural and architectural history of the city.â&#x20AC;? Furthermore, the program broadens the definition of preservation in Sacramento. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is historic? What does that even mean? Does it just mean Victorian architecture, which
Sacramento obviously has, or does it also mean Craftsman bungalows? Or does it include buildings from the recent past that tell equally compelling stories about the cultural development of the history of the United States and Sacramento in particular?â&#x20AC;? asks Anderson. Thanks to the work of local volunteers, the city of Sacramento and Sacramento Modern are in a better place to begin answering these questions. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n
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Capital Dance Project will perform "Behind the Barre: Made In Sacramento " in August.
“Behind the Barre: Made in Sacramento” Capital Dance Project Aug. 25–27 Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. capitaldanceproject.org Capital Dance Project, a local professional dance collective, presents its summer dance series. On Aug. 25 at 6 p.m., CDP will partner with the Sacramento Kings and Kings Foundation for a sensory-friendly dance performance, with fewer loud sounds and flashing lights for the benefit of individuals with autism and other sensory disabilities. On Aug. 26 and 27, CDP will present nine world premieres of works by its resident choreographers, who collaborated with visual artists and musicians on multidisciplinary works.
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Don't miss the Fire Spectacular this month. Photo courtesy of Cedric Sims Photography.
10th Annual Fire Spectacular Obsidian Butterfly and Sacred Fire Dance Company Saturday, Aug. 12, 11 a.m. Land Park Amphitheater, 3901 Land Park Drive sacredfiredance.com Celebrate a decade of stunning fire performance from the founder of the Sacramento “fire scene,” Obsidian Butterfly. The event promises eye-catching dance, music and, of course, fire and LED light entertainment.
"Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." Photo courtesy of Jeremy Meehan with Day Forty-One Photography.
“Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” Errant Phoenix Productions Aug. 4–20 Mesa Verde Performing Arts Center, 7501 Carriage Dr., Citrus Heights errantphoenix.com The year is 1976. The place is Marfa, Texas, where James Dean’s famous movie “Giant” was filmed in the 1950s. This dramatic comedy drops the audience into the 20th reunion of the Disciples of James Dean in West Texas, where the arrival of a stranger ignites conflict, controversy and more than a little soul searching.
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Jazz Night at the Crocker: Ray Obiedo Crocker Art Museum Thursday, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. 216 O St. crockerart.org Cool down and chill out to the smooth Latin sounds of Ray Obiedo, Capital Public Radio’s jazz music director Gary Vercelli’s pick for this installment of Sacramento’s longest-running summer jazz series. The Bay Area-based contemporary jazz composer and guitarist Obiedo will offer an eclectic evening of multiethnic rhythms.
“Love’s Labour’s Lost” Theatre in the Heights Through August 6 8215 Auburn Blvd., Citrus Heights theatreintheheights.com In one of Shakespeare’s classic comedic masterpieces, King Ferdinand imposes a ban on women in court to focus on his studies but forgets that he’s due to receive the princess of France. Insulted by the ban, the princess sets up camp in front of the court to exact revenge, while the court fool Costard gets involved in a merry mix-up of love letters, punishments and mistaken identities.
Ray Obiedo will perform at the Crocker jazz night.
Tales & Ales Brewfest Fairytale Town Saturday, Aug. 26, 5–9 p.m. 3901 Land Park Drive fairytaletown.org Happy 58th birthday, Fairytale Town! To celebrate the play park’s special day, check out this family-friendly fundraiser featuring beer tastings from local craft breweries, food trucks and live music by AKAlive on the Mother Goose Stage. Proceeds will support Fairytale Town’s education programs and park improvements.
“Miss Saigon” Young Actors Stage July 28–Aug. 6 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th St. youngactorsstage.com Local talents Alexi Ishida and Alex Greenlee star in the school edition of the smash Broadway musical “Miss Saigon.” Ishida, who studies drama at UC Irvine, portrays Kim, a 17-year-old barmaid who, in the waning days of the Vietnam War, falls in love with an American GI named Chris, played by Greenlee. Both earned raves for their work last summer in a local production of “Les Miserables.”
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Classical duo Stephanie and Saar will perform at the Crocker on Aug. 13.
There will be plenty of cold treats at Sacramento Zoo's annual Ice Cream Safari on Aug. 19.
33rd Annual Ice Cream Safari Sacramento Zoo Saturday, Aug. 19, 4–8 p.m. Alex Greenlee and Alexi Ishida, who play the roles of Chris and Kim in the Young Actors Stage production of "Miss Saigon."
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Bring your appetite and your sweet tooth for the zoo’s coolest event of the year. All-you-can-eat ice cream stations throughout the 14-acre zoo will offer cones, sundaes, floats and unlimited Coca-Cola drinks. Enjoy a scoop while you scope out the wildlife!
Saturday, Aug. 26 Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St. sactownnachos.com The first nachos festival in Sacramento will take the city by storm. The festival will feature 40 varieties of nachos¬, from traditional to Oreochos (yes, Oreo cookie nachos), by local chefs. There will also be a beer garden, performances by the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and a personal appearance by Kings point guard Ty Lawson, who’s sponsoring the event. A large portion of the proceeds will be donated to the local nonprofit Project Optimism, which benefits children, the homeless and individuals diagnosed with cancer.
“Stephanie and Saar: one piano, four hands” Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Aug. 13, 3 p.m. 216 O St. crockerart.org Pianists Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia will perform Bach’s intriguing composition “The Art of Fugue”—the very last fugue Bach ever wrote, and one that he mysteriously left unfinished. Of further intrigue? The pair will play the composition together on a single piano.
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Bright New Light SELLAND’S OPENS ON THE EMERGING BROADWAY DISTRICT
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roadway used to be more of a “Broadway” than it is today. It used to be the highfalutin, strutting thoroughfare of town. The movie house, the bars, the restaurants, even the ballpark used to be on Broadway. Riding one of the many streetcars rolling up and down its length, the Sacramentans of the early 20th century could get their shopping done, see a show or ballgame and take a stroll in the elegant cemetery (a popular distraction at the time), all without leaving the Broadway stretch.
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That Broadway is no more, of course. The ballpark burned down, and in its place is now a Target. The restaurants and clubs slipped down a rung in their grandeur. The cemetery fell into a bit of disrepair. One of Sacramento’s greatest brands, Tower Records, came and went. Now, however, as large and midsized cities all around the country start to rediscover their neglected urban cores, Broadway emerges as a great boulevard of opportunity. Some of the old bones are still there. The Tower Theatre still stands, its beautifully garish neon prominence jutting out into the sky. The Old City Cemetery remains a beautiful city landmark, well maintained by a cadre of dedicated volunteers. Smart and dedicated restaurateurs like Jim Seyman, owner of Tower Cafe, and recently passed and sorely missed Jamie Bunnell of Jamie’s Broadway Grill kept the flame
alive with some of the most popular restaurants in town.
Well, it appears that Broadway is the place to be once again. A host of top-notch international restaurants moved in over the decades as well. While some less familiar with the neighborhood might drive right on by, the locals (I include myself in that description, having lived just a few blocks from Broadway for many years) knew that they could find some of the city’s best Indian cuisine (Kathmandu Kitchen), Ethiopian food (Queen Sheba) and Vietnamese fare (Viet Ha Noodles & Grill) all on the same street.
Well, it appears that Broadway is the place to be once again. Drive along its length and you’ll see construction, upgrades and redevelopment on nearly every block. One of the first to get in on the revitalization is Randall Selland with his new Selland’s Market-Cafe. While most Sacramento residents might know the Selland group by the fine-dining standouts Ella and The Kitchen, it’s probably Selland’s Market-Cafe that actually turns the most tickets. It’s affordable, convenient, quick and, for the most part, delicious. What makes Selland’s work is its casual, order-at-the-counter system and seemingly endless list of special events, deals and offers. The menu, a combo of soups, sandwiches, pizza and prepared hot dishes, hasn’t changed much in the 17 years since the first Selland’s Market-Cafe opened in East Sacramento. But seasonal specials and weekly offers keep curious
diners coming through the front door without nudging out the favorite dishes that keep the neighbors coming in week after week.
The hot and cold cases overflow with offerings not unfamiliar to the frequenter of Randall Selland’s other fastcasual spots. This new Broadway outlet is a large, spacious hall with a high, noisebouncing roof and a flood of light coming through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Like each of the other locations, the kitchen is wide-open and on full display. Where the original East Sac location is cozy and the El Dorado Hills outlet is quaint, this new Broadway space is modern and industrial. The hot and cold cases overflow with offerings not unfamiliar to the frequenter of Randall Selland’s other fast-casual spots. The menu is synonymous with those of the restaurant’s other locations. Of the classics, it’s hard to choose a favorite. Selland’s busy kitchen has figured out a range of simple, hearty dishes that hit the spot every time. The chicken breasts smothered in mushroom gravy ($8.75) rarely
disappoint, offering a slightly more muscled-up American version of the classic chicken marsala. Paired with a side of hand-mashed potatoes ($3.25) or potatoes au gratin ($3.75), it’s a hearty way to go. Meatloaf, teriyaki chicken thighs and salmon fillets also hit the spot with rigid dependability. Standout sandwiches include the crab cake po’ boy ($13.75) and the citruscurry turkey dip ($10.75). The pizza oven turns out sturdily delicious pies of high quality and upfront flavor. The simple Margherita ($15) and the very American combo ($17.25) are both totally solid and without flaw.
The dessert case is a thing of beauty. Don’t miss what might be the best carrot cake in town or the delightfully light and playful seasonal strawberry cupcake. Well-made cookies and perfect lemon squares are also available. Selland’s weekly and rotating special of two entrees and a bottle of wine for $25 is well worth the trip in itself. Make sure to check the website
to see the offerings each week. Odds are, even if you’re not a local, you’ll become one pretty soon. Selland’s Market-Cafe is at 915 Broadway; (916) 732-3390; sellands. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n
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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 nowdefunct Fat Face restaurant used to serve poached figs inside a grilled brie sandwich.
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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.
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