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Parks and Wreck WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS, WHERE WOULD MCKINLEY PARK BE?

ix years ago, the thought of my best friend and me restoring and managing two historic cityowned park facilities would have been laughable. But when city budget cuts in 2011 forced the city to consider closing Clunie Community Center, no one in our neighborhood was laughing. Instead, we were panicking at the thought of the beautiful historic building in McKinley Park— which had just celebrated its 75th birthday—closing down. The closure also threatened the McKinley Library branch, which the city had housed in the building for more than 60 years, and the numerous nonprofits that used the center for meetings and events, including many 12-step programs. At that time, the city had recently rebuilt the infrastructure of McKinley Rose Garden, updating the irrigation system and adding curbing and walkways. But in spring 2012, more than half of the 1,200 rosebushes had perished, either during the previous six months of construction or from years of disease and neglect. There were also eight empty perennial garden beds. The future looked bleak, and the city had no plans and no money to complete the project. But they did have a number of summer weddings booked and paid for.

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My home overlooks McKinley Park, and I can see the garden from my second-story home-office window. My friend Lisa Schmidt was on the board of Friends of the McKinley Library, and the possibility of the library branch closing hit her hard. The combination of these losses weighed heavily upon us. The city council gave the parks department six months to find a

nonprofit partner to run Clunie. Lisa and I attended a meeting at which the city detailed the tens of thousands of dollars in annual losses. When no one came forward, it looked like a lost cause. Then Lisa suggested we pencil out a business plan. A few years earlier, we had formed a small volunteerled nonprofit called Friends of East Sacramento. We raised money

through home tours and made donations for parks improvements. Since the organization was already formed, I agreed to consider it. The rose garden was another story. The rental income from weddings could never support the maintenance costs for the garden. And the restoration of the roses and plant materials would require at least another $100,000 of private investment. Both our city councilmember and the city parks department manager at the time were eager for us to take it on. They helped us as best they could to make it happen. Many people contributed to making the two projects feasible. Since we were required to sign two five-year leases with the city, we needed legal representation. Attorney Bradley Elkin of Diepenbrock Elkin Gleason generously donated his time pro bono. Without his expertise, our plan never would have gotten off the ground. The city attorney had no experience with this kind of situation, and we would not have been even remotely protected with the lease terms the city first proposed. Bradley’s great sense of humor was an added bonus. For Clunie, we needed to raise $40,000 just to pay the costs associated with transition of management. My friend Josh Nelson suggested offering banners on the light poles in front of Clunie to honor donors. We had room for eight banners, so each one required a $5,000 donation. Using publicity generated from articles in our publications, within two weeks we PUBLISHER page 12

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PUBLISHER FROM page 11 lined up the donors, most of them either East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce members or friends and acquaintances of mine and Lisa’s. Graphic designer Justin Panson created the beautiful banner graphics for us. Another problem we faced was that the facility was in need of a major cosmetic renovation. We raised another $70,000 to repaint the building, replace carpet, refinish the wood floors and stage, install signage, replace all the light fixtures and furniture, and renovate the entrance garden. Adding to the challenge was that we inherited the building with existing rental agreements in place, and we had to perform the renovations without closing. My friend Claudia Bordin, a designer, was invaluable in getting the project done on time and within our modest budget. Our first hire five years ago was Joe Pane—a retired cop with deep local roots—to serve as our facility manager. His calm personality, along with his mentorship of the young men he’s hired as event monitors, has been a vital part of our success. I also believe God intervened in our project. In the months leading up to the start of our operations, Pastor David Beck showed up wanting to move his Sanctuary Covenant Church to Clunie’s Grand Hall for Sunday worship services. They’ve been our lead tenant ever since, which helped take off some of the financial pressure

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from the start. The church also generously donated to our restoration fund. We now have three additional faith communities that call Clunie home. The rose garden was made possible by special “angel” donors. My friend and neighbor Sue Watkins suggested I approach her parents for the full donation needed for the renovation. She said her dad had camped out in McKinley Park when he moved to Sacramento as child with his family. Ron and Shirley Watkins recently passed away, but their legacy will live on with the gorgeous garden their gift made possible. But money wasn’t all we needed. We were saved by Ellie Longenecker, then active in leadership of the Sacramento Rose Society, who generously donated her time and expertise to buy and plant 600 rosebushes—no small feat as many rose suppliers went belly up during the recession. An expert rosarian, she helped us develop care and maintenance plans that have resulted in extraordinary growth and vigor of both the old and new roses. She had also spent years tirelessly

lobbying the city to replace the aging infrastructure that threatened the garden’s future. Once the garden was completed in late spring 2012, we faced a situation that we had failed to consider. While rental revenues, annual donations and fundraisers were planned to help pay for private weekly lawn and garden maintenance, it didn’t take us long to realize that removing the dead roses, or deadheading, needed to be done every week. Deadheading keeps the roses in continuous bloom for up to eight months a year. So we kicked into gear and recruited volunteers to help. After I crafted a brief training session on technique and trash removal, we asked our volunteers to return each week on their own schedule. Luckily, many of the bushes were

new and small, so the blooms had not yet benefited from the fertilization schedule that first summer. Five years later, we have developed a program that involves hundreds of volunteers. In recent years, we raised funds to hire a part-time staff person to oversee the garden’s care and train volunteers. Recently retired, Lyn Pitts started as a volunteer in 2013, and she proved to be the perfect person for the paid job. Her enthusiasm, hard work and dedication have been vital to the garden’s extraordinary condition. Her pay is modest compared to what she brings to the garden. Without her, we’d never be able to manage what the garden has become. Along the way, we learned many lessons. First of all, the city really has no idea how to be partners with

volunteers like Lisa and me. While our councilmember, Jeff Harris, has been terrific and most supportive, we still have faced difficulties that made a tough job more difficult. When the McKinley playground was burned in an arson fire in 2012, the new construction activity the next year brought water supply disruptions to the garden. We were never notified in advance. Young roses especially need regular water, and the disruption caused us a good number of rosebushes and other plant losses. The following year, when the new playground restrooms were under construction, the same thing happened again. In this case, we also had unplanned water supply cutoffs inside Clunie. Not exactly fun to deal with when we were hosting weddings and other events, and the restrooms and the kitchen lacked water for hours at a time. Last summer, the installation of water meters by city contractors in the surrounding neighborhood also brought water disruptions, all without any notice.

Another totally infuriating situation occurred when we were completely left out of the city parks department’s efforts to allow amplified music in the park after banning it at the request of a group of neighbors—headed up by my husband—20 years ago. Our policy in the rose garden was to ban amplified sound for weddings to spare neighbors the overflow sound. Technically, the city went through a “stakeholder” review process before removing the ban. But it was insulting that they did not consider us stakeholders or perform any outreach to the affected neighbors. The city also has no enforcement mechanism for permit holders who exceed the sound decibel limits. I’ve repeatedly asked that the ban be reinstated after loud band music has disrupted our weddings. We have been ignored. This spring, as we prepared to sign another five-year lease, we learned that the city plans to install a huge water vault under the ball field between the garden and Clunie. This is an enormous construction project

with a gigantic, 35-foot-deep hole. We decided to delay signing another lease until construction schedules and details are firm. Who can blame us for not trusting the city? The adjacent duck pond reconstruction is a year behind schedule. And the potential disruption to weddings could cost us a great deal of rental revenue we need to maintain our operations. To be sure, Lisa and I have no regrets. But it would be nice if there was more appreciation from the city leaders for what we have contributed. It is frustrating to see Lisa work 20 to 40 hours a week as a volunteer when there is still rampant city waste and spending on new projects. Plus, there is a tendency after five years for folks to take for granted what we accomplished. But we will always know in our hearts that we did the right thing at the right time for our neighborhood. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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They Stink THESE BROWN BUGS CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR GARDENERS

t’s called the brown marmorated stink bug, and its foul odor is only a small part of the problem this smelly newcomer may cause as its population begins to soar. Sacramento County horticulture and pest experts warn that the stink bug is spreading fast, establishing itself as a threat to fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental trees, flowers and shrubs in the home garden. It also poses a threat to homes and farms in the region, says Chuck Ingels, farm adviser with University of California Cooperative Extension. “It’s a very large threat not only to fruit trees and vegetables but also homes,” he says. “In late summer, they are looking for places to go inside for the winter. Sometimes they get in people’s sheets, in drawers, closets and cabinets. The biggest hot spot has been 13th and R streets and 14th and Q streets, but it’s now being found in outlying counties.” The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB for short) looks like a regular stink bug, only with a marbled brown color on its back. (Marmorated means marbled.) So look for a five-eighthsinch-long bug with a brownish marble overlay. Its favorite hosts are Chinese pistache, waxleaf privet, peaches, apples, pears, persimmons, cherries, tomatoes, Brussels sprouts and sunflowers.

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The bugs gather in homes and buildings at night in large numbers, especially during the late summer, Ingels says. The critter can easily get into a house through holes in screens, under doors and by way of attic vents and spaces where pipes enter the house.

The insect is not harmful to people or pets and does not sting, bite, suck blood or spread disease.

Brown marmorated stink bugs on a leaf. The bug, a native of Asia, was first found in the United States in Pennsylvania in 2001. In 2013, a large population of stink bugs was discovered in Midtown Sacramento. Being a strong flier and an avid

hitchhiker, the stink bug has made its way into Sacramento County, where it’s proving to be a problem for many ornamental trees, fruit trees, fruiting vegetables and shrubs.

The brown marmorated stink bug emits a powerful offensive odor if disturbed or crushed. Although the insect is not harmful to people or pets and does not sting, bite, suck blood or spread disease, it overwinters in large groups in homes, in cracks and wood trim creases. Come springtime, a new generation emerges en masse to begin feeding. Both adults and nymphs inject tissue-destroying enzymes and suck juices from fruit and seeds, creating pockmarks and distortions that make fruit pithy and unmarketable. The bugs can also feed on buds, flowering structures, leaves and stems, including feeding through the bark of the branches and trunks of young trees. What can the home gardener do? Insecticides are not effective against brown marmorated stink bugs. Since insecticides can kill beneficial insects and

facebook.com/nepheshpilates contaminate waterways, they are not recommended. Keeping the bugs out of homes and buildings is the primary means of control. “New screens are a good idea,” says Ingels. “Window air conditioners are a bad idea. It’s best to seal holes that lead into the home.” Don’t crush them inside your house because they will emit an odor. “It’s better to pick them off or hose them off with blasts of strong water.” For large clusters, pest management vacuums are available and are very effective, Ingels says. If you see a cluster of brown marmorated stink bugs, call 875-6913. For a map showing where clusters have been found, go to ccag-eh.ucanr. edu.

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or creating a canopy of trees, and cultivating and drying lavender. Master Gardeners will conduct mini live demonstrations beginning 10 a.m. at Fair Oaks Park Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. For more information, go to sacmg.ucanr.edu.

BOOK SALE FOR THE LIBRARY Arden-Dimick Friends of the Library will hold a two-day community book sale on Friday, June 2, and Saturday, June 3. Thousands of books will be available for purchase at a fraction of the cost of new books. Proceeds from the sale benefit Friends of the Library, which raises money for materials, programming and furnishings for Arden-Dimick Library. The book sale will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at ArdenDimick Library, located at 891 Watt Ave. For more information, go to saclibrary.org.

SMUD GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR NONPROFITS June 26 is the deadline for nonprofits to apply for SMUD’s new community sponsorship program. The program, known as Shine, will give grants of $5,000 to $100,000 to organizations working to improve neighborhoods in the Sacramento region.

SMUD says it is primarily interested in proposals in the areas of neighborhood revitalization and cleanup, STEM education, the environment and general beautification.

SMUD will hold an informational session about the grant program on Wednesday, June 7. In the past six months, SMUD awarded three pilot sponsorships to local nonprofits: Downtown Sacramento Partnership, for its program to light up K Street Mall and St. Rose of Lima Park; Mutual Assistance Network of Del Paso Heights, to create the College and Sports Academy of Del Paso Heights; and Wellspring Women’s Center, to renovate its kitchen. SMUD will hold an informational session about the grant program on Wednesday, June 7. It starts at noon at the SMUD Customer Service Center at 6301 S St. To RSVP, email rsvp@smud.org. For more information about the Shine program or to apply, go to smud.org/Shine. Duffy Kelly can be reached at dk@ insidepublications.com. n

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Citizen’s Day WELCOMED TO AMERICA BY A BALD EAGLE

merica has been good to me. Because I very recently became a citizen, I can appreciate the profound step taken by millions of immigrants every year. On my naturalization day, I lined up with 1,200 other candidates. I felt like I was a part of a rich international potpourri. Pledges and solemn oaths ensued, but the mood was festive. We waved our American flags with reckless abandon. Parents and kids wore their best clothes. Some walked proudly in national dress. A New Zealand Maori carving hung at my chest. The participating immigrants’ countries were announced alphabetically. I felt an Olympic moment during applause for three inductees from my little New Zealand. While it was not a day for politics, it was a day of triumph. When 400plus Americans from Mexico were announced, cheers roared and feet stomped for minutes. There was no time to announce these 1,200 new Americans by name. Whether our homelands were vast or tiny, we all felt achievement in our unique journeys. Immigration officers—once-daunting figures in Capitol Avenue offices—smiled and congratulated us. I got a hug from a female administrator. When the mass of newly minted citizens later spilled into the sunshine

New Zealand-born photojournalist Susan Maxwell Skinner saw a bald eagle and two eaglets on the day of her naturalization.

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Framed by its mother, a bald eaglet peers from an American River Parkway nest.

on J Street, strangers embraced. Families left for parties. I returned to riverside nature watching—business as usual for me. But the most symbolic reward awaited this new citizen. For the past 14 months, I have observed local bald eagles. Once near extinction, the species is slowly regenerating. The national bird now soars over new hunting grounds, and my discovery of a mated pair on the American River Parkway caused a huge sensation in 2016. Soon after, I recorded their nest building. By February, we knew a new raptor generation would bless our river, breeding in a spot closer to Sacramento than in recorded history. Two eaglets hatched in March, but until the day of my naturalization, their heads had not cleared the nest rim. Perhaps the mother was used to my scent and “raptorazzi-style” camera clicks near her tree. Perhaps providence decided March 29 should be monumentally memorable for this new American in several ways. At the twilight’s last gleaming, a fuzzy form appeared over the ramparts, perfectly framed by the mama eagle’s gorgeous neck and beak. The bright-eyed emblem posed for a golden moment. I also glimpsed the blurred crown of a second bald baby eagle. I’ve photographed the eaglets and their majestic parents nearly every day since. Seeing them as symbolic of a nation’s tenacity, I feel the privilege never grows old. Like gaining citizenship, recording that chick’s first tender days will remain a lifetime achievement.

Aged 88, Rudy Moll recently marked 60 years in the United States. The DutchIndonesian immigrant and his wife, Mady, celebrated with burgers. I thank a generous American mom for sharing. And I thank a generous America for accepting this immigrant. Follow Susan Maxwell Skinner’s American River nature blog on Facebook.

RUDY MOLL CELEBRATES 60 U.S. YEARS Rudy Moll tasted his first hamburger at a Carmichael takeout restaurant. The 27-year-old DutchIndonesian immigrant was sold at first bite. “I wrote home about it,” he recalls. “I’d never had so much meat in my life.” Feast and famine shaped Moll’s life. He spent his teenage years as a Japanese prisoner of war, coveting each grain of rice. American rations were salvation after his family’s 1945 liberation. Many dark-skinned Dutch Indonesians struggled for acceptance in Holland after Indonesian independence. Moll served in the Royal Dutch Army and pursued a dream to live in the bountiful United States, whose air-dropped food had helped save him. Carmichael Presbyterian Church sponsored his 1956 immigration. Parishioners Warren and Mary MacMillan drove Moll and his first wife, Sonja, to a rented home where

they met their landlady, Effie Yeaw. “She was strict,” he recalls of the community matriarch. “But she was fair. The Presbyterians didn’t care that we were Catholics. Everyone in Carmichael knew us. We were the first refugees they’d seen. I had to get used to village life.” Moll recently celebrated his 60th year in the “village” that welcomed him. No prouder patriot can be found. He recalls the elation of prisoners when U.S. military P-38 aircraft chased Japanese Zeros over occupied Indonesia. “My father (an electrical engineer) refused to work for the Japanese,” he explains. “They loaded thousands of us in the hold of a ship and took us to Celebes. Mom and I went with the women and children; Pappie was taken to a men’s camp. “Boys were put to work milking the cows. To a hungry boy, that milk smelled good. But we were punished if we even took a drop. We finished every grain of rice and it was never enough. The guards considered boys future enemies and treated us poorly. Mom protected me; she was terrified I’d be taken to men’s camp, where things were worse. Pappie and Mom exchanged a few words by censored postcard at Christmas. I still treasure those cards. We all learned to help each other; we also learned not to

waste. Today, when I see people throwing away food, I remember those hungry times.”

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FROM page 19 from B-24 Liberator bombers in 1945. Internees licked spilled chocolate powder from the ground. “People got sick from eating too much,” he says. “Years later, I saw my first American grocery store: Safeway in Carmichael. We wrote home that we were in the land of plenty. We’d never seen so much food.” The immigrant found a clerking job for PG&E in Arcade and retired from the company after 30 years. By then, he’d married his second wife, Mady. Music lovers, the Molls are a dancing fixture at local concerts. In Sinatra-style hat, Moll also volunteers his baritone for volunteer concerts in senior homes. Fifty years after immigrating, the patriot became a U.S. citizen. “I don’t feel like an immigrant anymore,” he. “Citizenship makes me feel I belong. My brown skin never bothers anyone here; I’m accepted. America has been good to me.”

NEW ‘FUR-BABIES’ FOR GEMILY WEST Two litters of Australian cattle-dog puppies mean nostalgia and joy for Carmichael resident Gemily West. “It’s been my dream since I was a little girl to raise puppies of my own,” says West. “They’re the best antidepressant ever.” Five years ago, national headlines reported the local girl’s heartbreak: During an evening walk on her home street, a drugged hit-and-run driver mowed down her boyfriend, Harry Randall, and her four dogs, Winry,

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Zury, Bindie and Evie. The beloved heelers were slaughtered. Two weeks later, Randall died from injuries. West needed 42 metal pins and a steel rod to rebuild her shattered right leg; she still suffers mobility problems and daily pain. “My life will never be the same,” she says. “I hurt from the time my feet touch the floor each morning.” Her gradual recovery was aided by three adopted Aussie herders, Kiry, Breezy and Honey. Last year, West decided one of the trio should be a mom. She did not count on two becoming pregnant and giving birth just a week apart. “Two squirming, licking litters of fur babies are the best motivator anyone could ask for,” she says. “They do my heart good.” Since one of the dog moms was a niece of the perished Evie, her springtime babies carry a precious bloodline. “They have her facial expressions and her famous head tilt,” West says. “I see it and I remember their beautiful great-aunt Evie. Oh, that expression gets me every time.” Naming the new arrivals was a challenge. Monikers like Ruby, Daisy, Brumbie and Cookies litter the bunch. “To the average Joe, they all look the same,” she says. “I knew all the babies apart from birth.” With coloring that runs from red to the much-sought Aussie “blue,” the new puppies quickly achieved Facebook fame and adoptive families. “It’ll be a bittersweet experience saying goodbye,” West predicts. “But I’m excited for their futures. They’ll go to people I know, so we’ll stay in touch. Their new families have promised me pictures and emails.”

Dog moms Honey and Kiry will stay with West. “Their puppies are fun, but they’re hard work. You’re always cleaning, feeding, hugging. Socializing is most important.

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Begun in 2011, the project extends water supply to parts of Gold River and Rancho Cordova where groundwater was tainted by seepage from the Aerojet Rocketdyne facility. Purification is achieved at the district’s Ancil Hoffman Park plant on the American River’s Carmichael side. Treated water then passes under the river via over 80 feet of newly laid pipeline. The project also assures reliable water supply for Gold River and Rancho Cordova during droughts. Its $8 million price tag was covered by Aerojet Rocketdyne, the California Department of Water Resources and the Carmichael Water District.

A trainer for Best Friends Total Pet Care in Carmichael, West is around canines 24-7. Like any hardworking mom of multiple pets, she appreciates help from family, friends and her fiancée, David Pierce. “Even though I’ve never had a baby myself, I’ve learned so much,” she says. “I love these puppies as if they were my own kids. “When I look back at everything that happened to me in the last five years, I know I’ll never get back what I’ve lost. But I feel so blessed having these little dumplings in my life.”

TOP STOPS FOR TINA Recently celebrated as Carmichael Person of the Year, TV anchor Tina Macuha gave an acceptance speech that revealed some of her favorite local eating spots. “I do a lot of restaurant and food segments,” explained the "Good Day Sacramento" veteran. “Some of my Carmichael adventures have included

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Farmers Market. “Oh yes,” she said, “I do get out!” "Watch Tina Macuha and Good Day Sacramento" friends from Monday to Friday on KMAX, Channel 31.

OF PIPES AND PONDS The Sacramento Environmental Commission has given the Carmichael Water District its highest award. The honor goes to the district’s American River Pipeline Conveyance Project for “outstanding efforts to improve the environment.”

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Sacramento Environmental Commission recently applauded the Carmichael Water District for a project that installed a pipeline under the American River and restored vernal habitats.

“This project is a great example of public and partnerships working together to solve problems and improve water quality.” The commissioners applauded the project’s restoration of wildlife habitat. During the six years of implementation, 400 feet of unsightly and exposed steel pipe from from the 1950s were removed from the river channel near Rossmoor Bar. Other unused concrete and metal structures were also demolished. Vernal ponds in Ancil Hoffman Park are now assured piped-in water. Culvert improvement and debris removal have reconnected an upstream riperian habitat near Rossmoor Bar to water inflow. “This project is a great example of public and partnerships working together to solve problems and improve water quality and the environment we enjoy,” says CWD manager Steve Nugent. Learn about the Carmichael Water District’s Pipeline Project at carmichaelwd.org. Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at Sknrband@aol.com. n

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John Frisch OTHERS GOLF; HE VOLUNTEERS

hen it comes to volunteering (and to life in general), John Frisch’s philosophy is pretty simple. “You’ve got to show up,” says Frisch. “The most important thing about being a volunteer is the same for work, the same for going to the gym, the same for being on a board: You have to show up if you’re going to get any benefit out of it. Amazing things happen when you’re present.” Frisch has been remarkably present during his life, whether in his job as senior managing director of commercial real estate company Newmark Cornish & Carey, or on the board of directors for numerous nonprofits. “My volunteer passions are social services, education and community development,” he says. “I want to help make the region a little better, and there’s still a lot of work to do. Plenty of people out there need help.” Frisch serves on the boards of The Salvation Army, Sacramento Metro Chamber, Active 20-30 Club, Rotary Club of Sacramento, Sutter Hospitals Foundation, Fairytale Town, American River College Foundation Board and more. He recently led The Salvation Army’s $7.4 million capital campaign. (“The Salvation Army is my number-one passion because

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active Rotarian, he strongly suggested I get involved in the Active 20-30 Club (young men’s Rotary). I’d never been involved in a service organization before, and I found out I loved it. I loved the people and I loved the things we did. My best friends are still the people I met in 20-30 and Rotary.”

“My volunteering happened kind of by accident—the best things in my life have.” That camaraderie has served Frisch well over the years: He says that his “social life and service life are very intertwined.” And he’s discovered a sense of purpose in supporting a cause not just financially, but with his time and attention. “People ask me how I can spend so much time going to board meetings,” Frisch says. “The answer is easy: I don’t play golf. A lot of people spend a half day a week at least playing golf. John Frisch I spend a half day a week at least in they help the people that need it the Chamber’s 2005 Volunteer of the Year volunteer activities. I don’t sit around thinking, ‘Gee, I really want to give most,” he says.) And he co-chaired and 2013 Sacramentan of the Year. back.’ Here I am.” the regional capital campaign for his And to think none of this might ever alma mater, UC Berkeley. (He and his have happened. For more information on wife, Maggie, also an alum, still attend “My volunteering happened kind The Salvation Army, go to home football games.) of by accident—the best things in my With all of this giving back, it’s life have,” the Arden resident admits. salvationarmyusa.org. no wonder that Frisch was the first recipient of the Trainor Fairbrook Humanitarian of the Year award in 1995 and was named the Metro

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reed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Gluttony. Wrath. If these sound familiar, that’s because they’re perhaps the most explored—and often vilified— concepts in history: the Seven Deadly Sins. They’re also the foundational principles of Ron Cunningham’s brand-new ballet of the same name, which will enjoy its world premiere as part of Sacramento Ballet’s “Modern Masters” program June 16-18 at Harris Center in Folsom.

“With any ballet, I start with a premise and—like a scientiﬁc theory—I try to prove it.” Ron Cunningham “The Seven Deadly Sins sounds sexy, but I want to change the perspective on them,” says Cunningham, whose provocative piece will share billing with George Balanchine’s groundbreaking work “The Four Temperaments” and Ashley Walton’s innovative “Focal Point.” “There are a million

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references to the Seven Deadly Sins. The Bible has certain definitions of them, the Dante cycle explores them, but they’ve changed over the centuries. I wanted to figure out how to represent them in our daily lives now, to relate them to modern life. If we’re born in God’s image according to Christian-based religions, is sin not in our DNA? Are they really sins, or do they only become that way if they’re out of proportion?” Cunningham wrestles with these moral conundrums in the clever narrative choreographic style that has been honed from authoring

more than 60 original ballets. Many of these ballets have received their world premieres at Sacramento Ballet during Cunningham’s nearly 30-year career at its helm. This premiere is potentially more bittersweet than others: It was announced last July that the 2017-18 season would be Cunningham’s last as the board of directors seeks a “new direction.” He is choosing to focus on the artistic feat before him rather than dwelling on disappointment. “This might be the last ballet I choreograph for the Sacramento

Ballet, so I might as well go out with a bang,” Cunningham says. Like any creative endeavor, what began as a vague concept has grown over time into something of appropriately epic proportions. “With any ballet, I start with a premise and—like a scientific theory—I try to prove it,” says Cunningham, who tries out characters and concepts on the company dancers based on their specific bodies and skills. “Sometimes it takes a left-hand turn, you go, ‘Whoops, that’s not it,’ then find a new thread to follow. You don’t know where it’s going to lead you, but you have to trust your

instincts and years of doing this and discover it along the way.” Over the past several months, Cunningham has discovered that the ballet will hinge on the duality of human nature: a light side and a dark side that can be drawn to sin but, if integrated and balanced, become merely aspects of a whole person. The piece will open with a gritty street scene complete with graffiti and a chain-link fence with the dancers crowded around various shopping carts—a stark allusion to homelessness that Cunningham hopes will spark a conversation. “I want to explore the question of how the homeless population got there,” he says. “We can feel sorry for people in the streets or fear them because we don’t know them, but how did the homeless problem start? What brought people to the streets? And how do we confront that? I want to put audience members in that space theatrically—to make it clear that what’s going in the streets today affects them.”

The probing and provocative nature of Cunningham’s vision does not stop there. Pride will appear nude (with a trick of costuming), while the monstrous creatures who worship her will represent Envy. Wrath will explore the cycle of spousal abuse, Sloth will see an animated couch engulf a man whole (with costuming inspired by 1950s-era choreographer Alwin Nikolais), Lust will include three couples in fetish wear, and Greed and Gluttony will meet on the field of battle—literally—with scenes of war, grave robbing and grief. “People go to the ballet to be entertained by pretty girls with nice legs and good-looking guys,” Cunningham says. “But that’s only a small part of this art form. Art makes us think, question and see beyond ordinary popular culture. It can be controversial, but most of all, it has to mean something.” “Modern Masters” runs June 16-18 at Harris Center for the Arts at Folsom Lake College. For tickets and more information, visit sacballet.org. n

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f you have access to a computer or a mobile phone, look up Chrisa’s Cut on Instagram. That petite, stylish gamine you see smiling demurely or exuberantly from every shot, wearing stunning designer clothes, is Chrisa Pappas Sioukas, a Sacramento native and part of the famed Pappas real estate clan. She’s making a splash on the international fashion scene through Instagram and her blog (also called Chrisa’s Cut). “I’ve loved fashion since I was a little girl,” Pappas Sioukas says by phone after returning from a whirlwind trip to Europe for Paris Fashion Week. (She attended six fashion shows in five days.) “I always knew it was something I wanted to do, but I struggled with what area to focus on. When I was little, I thought I wanted to be a fashion designer, but as I grew up, I got more interested in my family business. When I started working for them, I immediately got into the design aspect of real estate, which brought out the fashion in me again.” If you’re wondering how a Sacramento fashionista could make herself known thousands of miles away in a world capital of chic like Paris, Pappas Sioukas’ secret is simple: the internet. After a move into a new home in the Wilhaggin area with her husband and two kids (a 7-year-old daughter and 10-year-old

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son), the fashion collector realized just how much merchandise she’d accumulated over the years. So she did what anyone with a closet bursting at the seams would do: She sold her highly coveted pieces (including hard-to-find items scooped

up on trips overseas) to friends and family from her living room. When enough people told her that they would love to shop her closet more often, the idea dawned on her to widen her circle of friends through social media.

“I loved seeing my friends getting enjoyment out of getting a good deal or finding something they’ve been looking for,” says Pappas Sioukas, who cites designers Nicolas Ghesquière for Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Chanel, Giambattista Valli and Andrew Gn as favorites. “For them to be able to grab something that you can only find elsewhere is exciting. So I thought that if I set up a store with an online presence, I could reach more people.” Pappas Sioukas keeps an edited inventory of pieces in a private showroom in the Arden area that’s open by appointment. But her biggest retail audience is undoubtedly her 26,000 Instagram followers and readers of her delightfully candid and beautifully photographed blog. On the blog, you can follow in her fashionable footsteps as she attends events like Paris Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week and special luncheons for designers like Gn, who’s now a friend. “I like to post what my followers want to see,” Pappas Sioukas says. “I love attending special events and writing about them and sharing them with everyone. When I attended Paris Fashion Week for the first time last year, I posted photos for fun on my personal Facebook account. So many of my friends and acquaintances told me, ‘We had the best time following you—we got to live vicariously.’ My eyes were opened. I’m used to being very private and not putting anything out there. I don’t want to come off as bragging or boasting about this fortunate thing I’m able to partake in. But the fact that I can give people an insight into the fashion world and entertain them is wonderful. We’re

not doing anything too serious. We’re not breaking any boundaries. But I love investing in fashion and sharing it with people. There’s an art to putting an outfit together.” Pappas Sioukas has that art down to a science. And she doesn’t plan on quitting her outfit alchemy anytime soon. In fact, she hopes to focus on attending events and taking her followers along for the ride—something she can do more now thanks to time and a tight-knit family.

“Being out of the country takes a lot of effort to plan,” she admits. “I definitely couldn’t have done this a year or two ago when the kids were little. It’s usually a tag-team effort with my husband of ‘who’s going to watch the kids?’ But I’m very lucky that my family has been so supportive. I don’t know what the future holds, but so far it’s been a very enjoyable ride.”

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For Love of the Game HE WROTE THE BOOK ON SACRAMENTO BASEBALL

ld-time baseball players in Sacramento may have been many things, including profane, crude and hard-drinking, but they were remarkably clean cut. Among the 10 members of the 1897 semiprofessional Sacramento Gilt Edge team, only third baseman William Devereaux wore facial whiskers—a glorious handlebar mustache. The 1925 Sacramento Senators were entirely clean-shaven, maybe to their detriment. The local team finished seventh in the Pacific Coast League but looked good while losing. To savor the sartorial habits of Sacramento’s baseball pioneers is among the endless pleasures provided by William D. McPoil in his new book, “Sacramento Baseball.” The 127-page volume, released by the photographically obsessed Arcadia Publishing house, is an unprecedented collection of more than 200 rare and curated photos that flow across the spectrum of Sacramento’s most traditional game. “People talk about the Kings having history in Sacramento, and they have been here for 33 years, which is impressive,” McPoil says. “But people were playing professional baseball here in 1859. Sacramento is a baseball town.”

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Author William D. McPoil has written a book about Sacramento baseball. And McPoil is a baseball guy. He played catcher as a youngster in Tahoe Park, and he might have continued if not for bad luck and injuries–arms and leg broken in a

motorcycle accident, with his knees shattered in a fight with a suspect while working as a Sacramento Police officer.

“From the time when I was a kid, I’ve always loved baseball,” he says. The inspiration for “Sacramento Baseball” arrived serendipitously, when McPoil visited a bookshop in Colorado. Sitting on the shelf was an Arcadia Publishing book charting Colorado Springs baseball legacies. If Colorado could have such a book, McPoil wondered, why not Sacramento? He came home and scouted around the bookshops and internet. There was no Sacramento baseball book. He wrote an email to Arcadia Publishing and received a response the next day. They were interested. In fact, they already planned a Sacramento baseball edition, but the project became sidetracked when the author had trouble gathering enough publishable material. McPoil has academic credentials— he earned a master’s degree in history from Sacramento State University— but had no experience with commercial publishing or preparing a manuscript for general audiences. It was a big job. And McPoil wasn’t easily intimidated. Before becoming a police officer and then a labor negotiator, he served two tours in Vietnam with the Marines. But when he got the green light from Arcadia, McPoil’s confidence began to wobble. “I’d had a paper published in college, but that was it,” he says. “They wanted around 200 photographs, with captions and introduction. I knew it would take a lot of work. When I finally collected about 120 pictures, I thought there’s

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The result is a record that crosses generations and depicts a community’s love affair with the game. From the late 1800s to the modern-day River Cats, countless photographers have made images of Sacramento baseball. The challenge is to find them. McPoil spoke with officials at the city-owned Center for Sacramento History. They have a trove of historic baseball photos, but they demand payment for any republished pictures. McPoil underwrote the research himself

for “Sacramento Baseball,” so he preferred free or low-cost photos. He hit a grand slam at Sacramento Public Library, where the Sacramento Room opened its collection and let McPoil bring a scanner and copy photographs without charge. Sacramento State’s library was also generous. He met Sacramento baseball historian Alan O’Connor, who provided research and archival material. Norm Blackwell offered amateur and semipro photos. Kerry Yo Nakagawa contributed a chapter on players from local JapaneseAmerican communities. The River Cats pitched in. “I got lucky,” McPoil says. “There were some extremely helpful people.” The result is a record that crosses generations and depicts a community’s love affair with the game. Photos show Fruitridge Little Leaguers in action and the Mexican Athletic Club barnstorming at Folsom Prison. There are high school teams and early Sac State teams, women’s teams and the Florin Athletic Club,

whose members played behind razor wire at Japanese-American internment camps in World War II. Every great book needs a hero. Built around photos, “Sacramento Baseball” lacks a traditional narrative thread. But it has a hero: Earl McNeeley, a center fielder who drove in the winning run for the Washington Senators in the 1924 World Series. McNeeley was born in Sacramento. He eventually bought the local baseball team. McPoil placed our hero on the cover of “Sacramento Baseball,” a young man grinning in spring sunshine, bat resting on his right shoulder, pinstriped flannels tucked in, proudly displaying the Sacramento Senators’ symbol—letter S surrounded by a heart—on his chest. He’s about 25 and seems to have not a care in the world. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Farm School A SEVEN-MONTH PROGRAM SHOWS WOULD-BE FARMERS THE ROPES

n 10 years, Ojas Chauhan

Dreams are important, but

Farming used to be

Tuition costs $3,600, which provides

hopes to be the “okra king of

there’s no substitute for practical,

intergenerational. Knowledge, and

250 hours of training in the classroom

California.” That was one of the

hands-on experience. That’s where

the actual farm, was passed down

and field. Classes are held at the

goals he included on his application

California Farm Academy’s beginning

from parents to children, providing a

Center for Land-Based Learning’s

to California Farm Academy. He has

farmer-training program comes in.

model for succession. That’s changed

farm in Winters and a swanky new

even grander plans after he conquers

It was designed to produce the next

in the past 60 years or so, according

barn at The Cannery, a farm-to-

the okra market. He wants to be the

generation of farmers and, at the

to Sethuratnam. At one time, he says,

fork community in East Davis. The

largest grower of exotic vegetables on

same time, accommodate working

more than 20 percent of the U.S.

seven-month program targets folks

the West Coast.

students.

population farmed, but that number

who plan to get serious about farming

has dwindled to 1.8 percent. Today,

in the future, either part time or full

who are dreamers, like Chauhan,

the average age for a farmer is around

time.

says Sri Sethuratnam, California

60.

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The program looks for applicants

Farm Academy’s director. It can take

Every year, a new crop of would-be

Once admitted, students attend classes and listen to lectures twice

a decade or more to get to the point

farmers submit applications to the

a week (plus two Saturdays a

where a farmer is providing wholesale

Farm Academy in the hope of being

month) from February through

produce on a regular basis, he says, so

one of the 18 to 20 students admitted

September. They also visit organic

future farmers must be realists, too.

to this intensive and intense program.

and conventional farms and meet

successful farmers. While there’s

her application on time last year. “I

plenty of hands-on learning, including

can’t believe it. I got in,” she recalls

tractor driving and seed sowing,

saying when she found out she’d been

the more mundane parts of farming

accepted. “I wanted it so bad.”

aren’t ignored. Students have to

Gause teaches landscape design and

develop a business plan and present

maintenance part time at American

it to a panel of farmers and lenders,

River College. She has a degree in

as well as complete an independent

environmental science and another

study project outlining their farming

degree in horticulture. For a time,

and marketing goals. “They’re fully

she owned her own landscape design

conscious that this is difficult work,”

business, where she spent most of her

says Sethuratnam.

time working at a desk. Gause and

Chauhan decided to apply to the

her husband planned to buy a farm

program after he started looking

after they’d retired, but she realized

for land to buy. He realized he

it made more sense for her to start

didn’t know what to look for in

working on their dream right now.

farmland. Then he discovered the

Like her classmate Chauhan, the

Farm Academy’s website. “This is

future okra king, Gause has a big

exactly what I want to do,” he recalls

vision. After she graduates, she’d like

thinking. As a child growing up in

to lease one of the incubator farms

India, he spent time working on

(available to graduates) and then

farms owned by his uncles. Looking

purchase a 1- to 5-acre farm. Her goal

back, he realized that farming made

is to grow boutique vegetables and

him happy. He continues to work full

sell them to local restaurants and at a

time at Intel as an engineer while

farm stand in Davis.

attending the program. “This program allows them to learn

For Gause and Chauhan, the best part of the program has been meeting

about farming while keeping their

and talking with farmers. “I’m so

existing jobs,” says Sethuratnam.

excited when we go out in the field,”

There have been 93 graduates since

says Gause. Those farmers have been

the farmer-training program started

honest, welcoming and willing to

six years ago, and 75 percent are

share what they’ve learned with the

doing something related to farms, he

next generation.

says. The age range for students is generally 25 to 55 years old; 40 to 50 percent are women. Cindy Gause has wanted to

For more information about California Farm Academy, go to landbasedlearning.org.

submit her application ever since the farmer-training program first started. “I almost missed [the deadline]

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again,” she says, but she filled out

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Distracted Gardening PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR GARDEN

e all know the dangers of distracted driving, whether fiddling with a cellphone, tuning a car radio or getting lost in daydreams or conversation. Distracted gardening doesn’t put your and other people’s lives at risk, but it can affect or even kill your plants.

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You need to keep your eyes on your garden. If you can’t stay focused, there are some things you can do to make up for your occasional or regular lapses. Many of us buy plants and let them languish or die unplanted. It’s best to have the planting space ready before you go plant shopping, and to plant your purchases as soon as you get home. If you can’t resist buying a plant impulsively, make sure to keep it watered. In our climate, irrigation is one of the most basic needs for your plants. All but the most drought-tolerant

gardens require added water through our hot, dry spring, summer and fall months. Irrigation controllers allow you to establish how long and often your plants are watered, and they can usually be adjusted seasonally to apply differing amounts of water throughout the year. Smart controllers go even further and adjust watering based on weather conditions. You still must check the system at the beginning of spring to ensure that it’s working properly and monitor how your plants are doing throughout the year, but it’s good to have the help of an automated system.

Plants grown in containers require more frequent watering and offer much less margin of error. When it’s really hot, your container garden may need water every day, a task that takes time and discipline. You can set up a drip system to apply water to each individual container rather than watering by hand. You can turn it on or off manually, install a batteryoperated timer or connect the system to an automatic valve. You can reduce the amount of watering that container gardens need by mixing compost into the potting mix, choosing large pots that don’t crowd roots, raising them

from the surface of pavement using legs, bricks or stones and spreading a layer of mulch on the soil.

Finding time to be in your garden and really look at it is not only good for the plants; it’s good for you. Mulch helps distracted gardeners everywhere in the garden. A layer of wood chips will keep soil cooler and retain moisture. Mulch suppresses weeds and makes it easier to pull them out. People often think that decomposing wood or bark chips will pull nutrients out of the soil, but studies have shown that there is very little deleterious effect if mulch is put on the surface of the soil. Instead, it will encourage decomposing organisms that will enrich the soil in the process. What about fertilizing your plants? The California Master Gardener Handbooks says, “Garden soil is rarely fertile enough to supply all of the nutrients required for the best growth of plants.” Nitrogen, essential to plant growth, leaches readily from the root zone and needs to be replenished. If you can’t be counted upon to fertilize on a regular basis, try using a slow-release inorganic fertilizer that will break down slowly, releasing relatively small, consistent

amounts of nitrogen with each watering. It’s good to set up a regular schedule to inspect your grounds and identify little problems before they get big. Before I retired, my morning routine included 10 minutes every morning to stroll through the garden, cup of coffee in hand, to enjoy what was blooming and to look for insect, snail or disease damage. It was fresh and lovely outside, and a great way to start the day. Squishing bugs or rinsing them off with water took out some aggression, too. Like many retirees, I find my schedule is more erratic, and it’s harder these days to stay focused. Recently, I’ve hired some gardening assistance. That helps get me out into the garden and provides another set of eyes to spot problems. Finding time to be in your garden and really look at it is not only good for the plants; it’s good for you. There’s something meditative and downright pleasurable about getting away from the couch and electronic screens and immersing yourself in the sights, smells and sounds of the natural world. No wonder gardening is the top hobby in America. The more distracting our lives get, the more we need to focus on the garden. Anita Clevenger is a lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at 876-5338, visit their website at sacmg.ucanr.edu or come to their next open garden at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center on Saturday, June 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. n

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here is nothing about Mike McKeever that suggests power or authority or arrogance. His manner is friendly and relaxed. He is a good listener. And he is a tremendous talker, favoring thoughtful and complete sentences, nothing boastful or pushy, making his point like a social-science professor in a calm, positive, old-fashioned way, punctuated with a smile. McKeever is chief of staff for Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, which makes McKeever one of the most important people at City Hall. His access to the boss is second to none, and anybody who wants anything from the mayor understands McKeever can make those needs known. Like every chief of staff, McKeever must be careful when he speaks, because when he opens his mouth, the words are linked to Steinberg. This includes occasions when McKeever is required to say something Steinberg himself doesn’t want to say, such as when he can’t accommodate certain people and wants them to go away. “We’re a good match because we share two core values,” McKeever says. “We both believe that for good change to happen, decisions have to be based on facts. And change requires multiple factions to work together.”

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Mike McKeever is Mayor Steinberg's chief of staff. Every significant politician—from appointed officials to mayors to state legislators to the governor, members of Congress and the president—has a chief of staff. There are hundreds of them in Sacramento. But there’s no good way to create one. No schools teach the craft of being a chief of staff. Many chiefs are sycophants, hired because they deeply admire their bosses, even adore them to the point of something like a crush. They never, never push back or disagree.

Others are hired for loyalty rather than brains. Many chiefs of staff work relentless hours with a sense of fear and desperation hovering over them. McKeever works hard but isn’t desperate. He respects his boss, has known him for years and offered to help him for free. McKeever doesn’t need the job. Three months after starting at City Hall, McKeever and his wife left for Europe for several weeks—unthinkable for many chiefs. They toured Scandinavian and

Baltic capitals and searched for the Northern Lights. They didn’t find the Northern Lights, but they enjoyed themselves. “This is a good job to come back to,” McKeever says. “The mayor encourages strong opinions, but he listens and is willing to change his mind. He goes very hard all the time. When I start the day, I feel like I’m 30 again. But when I’m done, sometimes I feel like I’m 90.” When Steinberg called McKeever last summer and started to talk about the chief of staff job, McKeever he’d help but didn’t want a real job. He was 61 and planning his retirement as director of Sacramento Area Council of Governments, a regional jointpowers agency that studies growth and transportation across six counties and 22 cities in the region. He was with SACOG for 12 years. “I was on a true retirement path,” McKeever says. “My intent wasn’t to disappear but was to make no commitments for a year. My life was going to be about kids and grandkids and coaching basketball and learning to speak Italian.” Steinberg pursued McKeever for three months, leveraging their common visions, values and energies and noting how much fun McKeever would have working for one boss rather than the 31 elected officials he had to wrangle at SACOG. Eventually, McKeever relented and accepted an annuitant’s pay of $55.85 per hour once his state retirement benefits began. McKeever loves planning—he was a planning consultant in Oregon before joining SACOG—but is pretty good at politics. As chief of staff, he must

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And after each company was run through the new process, D&J is the only one in the country that gained the designation. I think my approach to both business and life was informed by my 29 years in the Air Force Reserve. The Reserve has a well-defined system to train future leadership, which helped me see how a well-organized machine should run. It was a natural segue into creating my own business. I had been developing all of this for many years.

&J Kitchens and Baths, Inc. is the first company in the country to receive the National Association of the Remodeling Industry’s new Accredited Remodeling Company designation. Owner Darius Baker explains the process of creating the program. Yours is one of only 15 remodeling companies across the country that was asked to participate in the creation of NARI’s accreditation program. What’s the idea behind the designation? There have always been certifications available for individuals but never something to designate the company itself. For years, the remodeling industry hasn’t had a good reputation, but this year it’s projected to have an annual volume of $400 billion. That’s twice as much as new construction, according to a Harvard study. The accreditation process lets remodeling companies with extensive standards stand above “chucks in trucks.” The Accredited Remodeling Company designation gives the consumer a way to feel confident that the company they are considering is well organized and has systems in place to insure a timely

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D&J Kitchen and Baths owner Darius Baker and successful project. I was humbled to be invited to join the task force. Why do you think NARI selected you to write the guidelines for the Certified Kitchen and Bath Remodeler program? Over the 36 years I’ve been in business, I’ve striven to make sure we have good systems in place: accounting, organizational

charts, job descriptions, standard operating procedures, etc. These are all important pieces that define a successfully run company that’s viable for ongoing financial success. It’s not a piece of cake to put that together. It takes a lot of time and industry involvement to learn to implement. Being involved and known in the industry is why I was invited to chair the committee.

What do you foresee for the future of the accreditation program? We have a tough road ahead of us to educate the consumer about what the designation means, and we’ve got to get a lot of companies accredited before we start to advertise it. It is going to take awhile to get the word out to the companies and then have them apply and work through the process. I believe this will truly be a game changer for how remodeling companies are not only developed by the owners but also how those companies are perceived by the consumer. In the meantime, it’s awfully nice to say that in a world where you have 1,000 choices, what makes us different from the other 999 is that Sacramento is the only place on the planet where you can hire an accredited company—ours! D&J Kitchens and Baths is at 1345 Silica Ave. A. For more information, call 925-2577 or go to djkitchen.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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he author of Ecclesiastes says there is “a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die.” In my job as a health care chaplain, I’ve seen both of these times. In the 2000s, I comforted the parents of premature babies born in our neonatal intensive care unit, NICU (pronounced “nick-u”). These days, I work the other end of life’s journey with hospice patients, most of whom are elderly and struggling for a few more weeks of time. When I compare my former job in NICU with my current job in hospice, I’m struck by a bit of whiplash as I consider the opposite poles of health care. In the NICU, I met patients like little Johnny. He lived in a world of wires, IV bottles and backlit beds. Doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists constantly squeezed through tangled tubes to deliver highly specialized health care to the tiniest people you’d ever see.

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sees the finish line come sooner than she wanted. Both patients struggle to live just one more day. Little Johnny’s parents hope that another day suggests the possibility of a healthy life. For Miss Joni, one more day holds out the tease of another.

When I compare my former job in NICU with my current job in hospice, I’m struck by a bit of whiplash as I consider the opposite poles of health care.

In hospice, I visit Miss Joni, who like little Johnny marks each breath as a victory. There is a drastic age difference between patients like Johnny and Joni, but they share many similarities. Both enjoy the gift of life. In the NICU, you can peek at the gift long before you are supposed to peek. In hospice, you must look carefully to find the gift that’s nearly faded beyond recognition. Both patients are in a race. For Johnny, getting a head start doesn’t mean he will finish the race early—it means his race is longer and full of obstacles. For Miss Joni, it means she

Prayers go up for both patients. Prayers for Johnny are offered with fervency and purpose. Miss Joni prays with less certainty, not knowing if she should ask for another day or for a more peaceful departure. Nurses attend both patients, but Johnny shares his nurse with only one other baby, while Miss Joni shares a nurse and a few aides with 30 other patients. Machines are a concern to both patients. Machines sustain the hopes of parents, while Miss Joni signed papers that declare she refuses to let machines rob her of dignity.

Cost is a concern for both patients. Medical ethicists debate spending so much of the health care dollar to save Johnny. Miss Joni turned to hospice when the bills became impossible. Both cry. Johnny can’t tell you why he’s crying and Miss Joni can’t stop telling you why she’s crying. Both have family who think medical staff ought to do more. Both are attended by staff members who think family should be visiting more. Both require their diapers changed—one by nurses with loving coos and the other by underpaid aides with grimacing faces. Both are rich—Johnny with potential and Miss Joni with history. Both face the possibility of death every day. If it comes for Johnny, it will inspire the grief that naturally follows the loss of such potential. When it comes for Miss Joni, it will likely come with a mixture of grief and relief. Life will cease for both patients eventually—one at the beginning and one at the end. All of which serves to remind us that, also from Ecclesiastes, “the race is neither to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happens to them all.” Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net. n

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Sacramento company has an unusual request: Come poop with us. AdvancingBio is a not-for-profit stool bank that lifted its (toilet) lid in February 2015. Yes, a stool bank. A donation and collection center like a blood bank, except … well, you know. I am not making this up. Manager Erin Stinson showed me around the AdvancingBio facility at Mather. My tour began with the donation restroom (very clean and ordinary) and ended in a modest laboratory where the world’s most

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unwanted material is converted into a miracle cure. In spite of—or in a way, because of—modern medical technology, the hottest new therapy around is human feces. Raw, untreated brown gold has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives a year in the United States and end misery and debility for hundreds of thousands more. I’m talking about fecal microbiota transplantation, or FMT, an FDAapproved experimental treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis, commonly known as C. diff. FMT is the infusion of a healthy person’s microbe-laden stool into the diseased colon of a person whose own microbiome (gut bacteria) is completely out of whack. If that sounds gross, Stinson assures me that C. diff infection is a lot worse. “These patients suffer so

much,” she says. “If I had a way to end that kind of physical pain, I know I’d want it.” C. diff is an infection usually acquired during a hospital stay, and both the rate of infection and the severity of the disease have increased markedly since 2000. Ironically, antibiotic treatment is the number one cause of C. diff. Drugs that can save a patient’s life by killing bacteria end up triggering a new problem. The reason for this unintended consequence is the microbiome. Your body, especially the inside of your gut, is loaded with bacteria. Though this fact is underappreciated, having a wide variety of microorganisms living on and in you is both normal and desirable. Your microbiome is essential for your health in myriad ways that science is just beginning to understand.

One benefit of a healthy gut microbiome is to keep dangerous, disease-causing bacteria at bay. This is called “colonization resistance” and can be likened to the way a forest of tall trees minimizes undergrowth. If mature trees (bacteria of a healthy microbiome) are destroyed by fire (antibiotics), a bunch of different plants (C. diff) can quickly shoot up. The primary treatment for C. diff is more antibiotics. Sometimes that works; C. diff gets knocked out and the microbiome reasserts itself. Other times, the microbiome is too badly damaged to recover, and C. diff just keeps coming back. Transplanting healthy stool can restore the gut microbiome, driving C. diff bacteria back into the shadows. In fact, the cure rate for recurrent C. diff after FMT is about 90 percent. In medicine, that’s an unheard-of success. Demand for FMT is growing

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Currently, AdvancingBio ships 40 to 50 â€œproductsâ€? a month, most of which are administered to patients by colonoscopy. Theyâ€™re starting to get more orders than they can fill. Only half-joking, Stinson says, â€œWe need a PoopMobile.â€? I asked why people couldnâ€™t do their business at home and bring in donations. She replied that this creates â€œchain of custodyâ€? problems. Donors must be screened, and donors must be matched to their donation. â€œWeâ€™re helping a lot of patients who are suffering,â€? Stinson says. So

if youâ€™re healthy, 18 to 65 years old and not obese, if you find yourself near Mather Field with a certain urge between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on a Monday or a Wednesday, stop by. No appointment necessary. AdvancingBio is at 10520 Armstrong Ave., Suite B, Mather. For more information, call (844) 426-7264 or go to advancingbio.org. To schedule an amusing, generalinterest talk about the human microbiome for your group, contact Amy@AmyRogers.com. n

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t’s not hard to find bicyclists breaking the law. Some ride on the wrong side of the road. Some ignore red lights. Some ride on sidewalks where it’s not permitted. Many run stop signs. Most people understand that kids on bikes are unpredictable. They worry about, but can forgive, bad bicycling behavior by children even when it is illegal. That tolerance and forgiveness do not extend to adult bicyclists. Adult bicyclists may ride on the wrong side of the road or on the

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sidewalk because they believe it is safer. But riding against traffic is one of the most dangerous things bicyclists can do. Sidewalk riding is risky, too. Sidewalks may not have cars mixed in with pedestrians, but sidewalk cyclists can have vehicles cross their path at every intersection and driveway. Drivers don’t look for relatively fast-moving bicyclists on sidewalks. Many bicyclists don’t stop at stop signs because of the loss of momentum. While illegal, that behavior may well improve traffic flow and save time for everyone. It’s been argued that not stopping, by reducing the time bicyclists are exposed in intersections (where most collisions occur), could actually be safer for bicyclists. But when cyclists fail to “cease forward motion” at stop signs, they arouse the ire of their fellow citizens. Yet those same

fellow citizens may be guilty of rolling through stop signs or stopping in crosswalks and blocking pedestrians. In Idaho, it’s been the law for decades that bicyclists can treat stop signs as yield signs and proceed if it is safe to do so. They are also permitted to treat red lights as stop signs, stopping and then going if traffic is clear. An Idaho-style law has been proposed, but not passed, in Oregon and is being considered in California. The stereotyping of cyclists as scofflaws works against their interests. Police blame crashes on cyclists when they actually may be innocent victims. Whenever there’s a news article about bike projects, quite hateful public comments appear railing against the spending because bicyclists don’t behave. Politicians, in turn, don’t provide adequate funding for bicycle infrastructure because they believe bicyclists don’t deserve it.

Observations of bicycle and motorist behavior paint a different picture about who are the worst traffic-law violators. The authors of an article in Journal of Transport and Land Use briefly summarized the unlawful behavior of motorists and bicyclists. Yes, bicyclists run red lights. In surveys done in Australia and Brazil, 37 to 38 percent of bicyclists admitted to, at some point, running a red light. In an observational study of more than 4,000 bicyclists in Australia, 6.9 percent ran a red light. That percentage dropped to 5.1 percent when authors discounted left turns they deemed safe—equivalent to our turning right on red. It turns out many motorists also run red lights. In a New York City study that recorded the behavior of drivers in the first car to arrive at an intersection after a signal turned red,

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They pose far less risk to others. Their illegal behavior primarily endangers themselves, not innocent car passengers or pedestrians.

Almost all drivers speed. A study found that only 23 percent of drivers drove at or below the speed limit on suburban and urban collector roads. Bicyclistsâ€™ reputation as renegades and the worst traffic scofflaws appears undeserved. Bicyclists earn special scorn even though almost everyone jaywalks or, as a driver, breaks the speed limit. Most drivers are not bicyclists, while most bicyclists are drivers, too. Perhaps that explains

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hef Oliver Ridgeway plays with his food—and he wants you to join him. The Englishborn executive chef of Grange Restaurant & Bar now offers the opportunity to dine at his “Chef’s Table” every other week. Ridgeway draws upon his global travels when creating the menus, using locally sourced ingredients. The only boundaries of the feast are the corners of Ridgeway’s creative mind. Ridgeway has always loved food. He grew up spending time in his father’s pub and restaurant. He remembers fondly the smells of food freshly cooked, the fast pace of food service and the feeling of making people happy by feeding them. “It was always a jolly environment,” says Ridgeway, himself a jovial guy. “It might have had something to do with all the beer that everyone was drinking,” he laughs. While his peers set off for college, Ridgeway followed his heart and started a career in food. He landed a job working on a luxury ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth II. It wasn’t like the cruise ships of today. Ridgeway describes it as similar to the Titanic: a high-class, white-linen experience. While his childhood friends were earning university degrees, Ridgeway circumnavigated the globe by the age of 21.

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seeing global icons like the Statue of Liberty from his ship’s window— symbols that had only appeared to him in movies before. Ridgeway realized that his chosen trade could take him anywhere in the world. He’s cooked for both the Sydney and Salt Lake City Olympics. He’s worked in New Orleans and Santa Fe. His first job in America opened his eyes to combining traditional technique with innovation. “It was a fun, fun wake-up,” he says.

While his childhood friends were earning university degrees, Ridgeway circumnavigated the globe by the age of 21.

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This commitment to the joy of cooking inspired Ridgeway to create Grange’s newest concept, the Chef’s Table series. Every other Friday, Ridgeway and his team offer a five-course, chef’s-choice, familystyle menu for 12 that costs $85 per person, with an optional $50 beverage pairing. What’s on the menu? Guests will find out when they arrive. They can expect small starter small plates that culminatinge in a rustic feast. A recent menu (I was invited for a test-

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he freeloading is over. It’s time for our teenage boy to realize In-N-Out burgers don’t grow on trees and our teenage girl to understand that if you have to pay for it yourself, $30 mascara is not a necessity. It’s time for a summer job. Real summer job, too. Not working for Dad like last year. No big secret, but Dad is a pushover when it comes to his kids. Let’s just say someone was very well paid for zero construction skills and had schedule flexibility that allowed for emergency runs to the river to go skimboarding with buddies. My 16-year-old daughter, Whitney, has actually worked the past two summers as a junior leader at a kids’ camp—albeit for free. The experience earned her a paid position as a camp leader this year, but that didn’t stop Dad from giving in to Whitney’s exceptional negotiating skills last year and kicking down a cash payout for her community service hours. He held firm until she pointed out she worked harder for free last summer than a certain son did on the payroll. With college looming for both our kids in the next two years, Hubby and I decided it was time to see the kids flap their wings as part of Operation Independence. It was time for the official First Job—the one with a paystub and that awful FICA person taking their cut. The kind where you might have to tell your buddies you

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can’t go because you can’t get off work. The kind where if there’s an event you just can’t miss, you have to find someone to work for you. Welcome to the real-world type of job. To be honest, we didn’t have to encourage Whitney to take this leap. When she first told us she wanted to be a junior leader for Camp Kids at Mission Oaks Recreation and Parks

District the summer before her freshmen year of high school, I was the one who protested, thinking of the summer plans already in place. “But you’ll have to work every day of the whole summer!” “Only a half day, Mom,” she said. “I’ll still have the other half of the day left.” “But you’re not getting paid!”

“It’s OK. I’m doing it with Katherine. It’ll be fun.” OK, so maybe Dad isn’t the only softy around here. Not to be outdone by his soaring sister who had her summer job secured by March, Logan, 17, worked hard on … thinking about getting a job somewhere. Maybe. “Where do you think you might want to work this summer, Bud?” we asked, nudging him toward the edge of the nest. “I’m not sure.” “What kind of work do you think you’d be interested in doing?” “I don’t know,” Logan said, stoking our Failure to Launch anxiety. “Don’t you think you should start applying for a summer job here soon?” “Yeah, probably.” Not a flap of the wings to fly. It wasn’t until we polled all his friends about where they’d be working this summer that Logan finally let go of his FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), because all his buddies were working this summer, too. With one more nudge, he followed through and secured his first official job: Kids’ Camp and Kids’ Club leader at Rio del Oro Racquet Club. We thought it was perfect because it matched his skill set: playing outdoors and playing with kids. He was excited for the dress code. “Mom! I get to wear my Chubbies and Rainbows!” I doubt he can rock the short shorts and flip-flops like I rocked my straw hat from my first job at Straw Hat Pizza, though. 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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Love and Marriage THEY MET, FELL IN LOVE AND REMODELED

hen Kevin West and Kimberly Parsons West met two years ago, they had something in common. Kimberly is a designer at Design Galleria by Valentine, and Kevin needed help updating his home, a 2,500-square-foot ranch-style house in Carmichael. Soon, ideas for the remodel were percolating. So was love. Now married, they live together in the newly renovated house.

“We dove right into this and started drawing up the plans right away,” Kimberly says. “That’s what happens when you meet a designer.” Kevin is a car guy. So the first project they tackled was the conversion of the garage into a man cave. It received new garage doors, a coat of epoxy on the floor, a climatecontrolled interior, new sheetrock and LED lighting. Now, Kevin has a workout area and a special place for his Corvette.

Rather than altering the home’s original footprint, they chose to redo the interior and exterior and landscape the front yard. They repainted the outside of the house and added a new roof, windows and service lines, including sewer, sprinkler, plumbing and electrical. The new water purification system uses granulized citrus peels and charcoal. The front doors were custom made of mahogany. In the front yard,

pavers and plants created a lush new look. For the interior, Kimberly focused on a clean, modern look. The style of the 1961 home was midcentury modern—and it needed lots of updating. During the planning process, she kept a notebook filled with the couple’s ideas. Today, the neatly tabbed tome is 5 inches thick, and it details numerous trips to San Francisco design centers and inspiration from online sources.

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The couple wanted an open floor plan that would allow for livelier entertaining. As empty nesters, they had no need for a third bedroom, so they removed it to make space for a larger master bedroom suite. “We may have gone a bit overboard on the house,” Kevin explains. “But we will be spending the rest of our lives here, so why not?” They stayed put during the remodel, which took more than a year. They cooked meals in the new garage and moved, vagabondlike, from room to room as construction progressed. Kimberly’s focus for the remodel began with two pieces already in the home: a Minotti sectional upholstered in gray wool, which established the main color scheme, and Kevin’s mother’s walnut midcentury-modern Kimball piano, which Kimberly loved. The couple removed interior walls and added sliding glass doors that gave them a floor-to-ceiling view of the backyard. In the great room, they covered the floor with stylish Italian porcelain tile. “We thought the tile would be good since you are coming in from the pool,” Kimberly explains. The revamped kitchen is sleek and uncluttered. The custom cabinets are made of solid walnut with a specially patterned walnut veneer. High-quality touches include dovetail joints and soft-close drawer mechanisms. Counters are topped with Caesarstone. The new Wolf appliances include two ovens and a nifty induction range with a hidden vent that rises out of the counter when needed. “I wanted a gas range, but Kevin said the induction range cooked faster. Plus, we wondered where we would install a flue,” Kimberly explains. Off the kitchen, there’s a seating area with two comfy Holly Hunt chairs and a landscape painting by Kimberly’s son, local artist Robert Scott Lindsey. There’s also an entertainment area with a gas fireplace. The dining area features a built-in walnut cabinet. One door lifts up (in a similar fashion to the famous DeLorean car doors) while four swing out. Remote-controlled blinds lower at a touch. One wall of the spacious new master bedroom is covered with mica-gray wallpaper from the New York company Phillip Jeffries. In the spacious walk-in closet, a Caesarstone-topped island provides extra storage. Plush wool carpeting is cozy underfoot. The spa-worthy master bath has a heated floor and towel rack. The interiors of the his-and-hers Robern medicine cabinets are fitted with GFCI outlets. The Italian floor tile is from Biaggio, and the strip trim is from Versace. Kimberly’s tips for containing remodeling costs include doing plenty of homework and planning to lessen the chances for expensive mistakes. And work with professionals. “Hire an interior designer,” she says. “And use quality installers.” 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 JUNE

JAYJAY presents “Loved to Death,” a retrospective of works by painter and ceramicist Maria Alquilar, who was inspired by the narrative artists she exhibited and collected for her own Sacramento gallery. The artist died at 86 in 2014. Show runs June 8–July 29. Shown above: “Loved to Death II.” 5524 Elvas Ave.; jayjayart.com

Elliott Fouts Gallery presents California landscapes and cityscapes by Timothy Mulligan. Show runs June 3–29. Shown above: “Colorful Underlight, American River.” 1831 P St.; efgallery.com

The Archival Gallery presents “Histories/Essays,” new paintings by D L Thomas. This show features ﬁgures relating to art history as well as historical family photos from the artist’s personal history. Show runs June 2–July 1. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com ARTHOUSE on R presents “thINK,” featuring unique works by printmakers Vinay Sharma, Taylor Gutermute, Katherine Venturelli, Tesia Blackburn, Ellen Markoff and Tina Pressler. Show runs June 9–July 3. Shown above: “Space Memory” by Pressler. 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com

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Through July 12, SMUD Art Gallery presents “Gerald Huth: A Visual Journey of Cultures and Civilizations,” featuring mixedmedia paintings and collages by an artist who has traveled the world for 45 years. Shown above: “Time Passings: Histories.” 6301 S St.; smud.org

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Letting Go THIS ARTIST PAINTS LIKE SHE LIVES

he title of Jennifer Keller’s art class at University Art—Let Go & Layer—is something of a metaphor for how she approaches both art and life. She subscribes to the theory of “intuitive painting,” which is as much about putting paint to canvas as it is about exploring one’s innate creativity. “The intuitive painting technique is all about trusting your inner guidance as it comes up and not having a preconceived idea of how you want things to turn out,” Keller explains. “It can be a very healing technique to use, because as you build layer by layer, some really interesting insights can come up during the course of the painting experience.” Keller has expressed herself through visual art for most of her life. She comes from a long line of teachers and creative types, and her parents met in art school. Her dad taught ceramics his whole career; her mom is a ceramicist who creates plates pressed with vintage lace.

Keller has expressed herself through visual art for most of her life. After earning an art degree with a focus on museum and gallery practices at Humboldt State, the Sacramento native went to work at a vintage photography gallery in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square. “Lot of tourists, lots of pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge,” Keller says. Back in Sacramento, she worked at TO page 66

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FROM page 64 the now-defunct Solomon Dubnick Gallery and as a volunteer for the KVIE Art Auction. Keller now helps other artists with their framing and supply needs at University Art while keeping up with her own creative output and teaching others along the way. “I’ve tried a lot of different mediums over the years,” says Keller, who specializes in bright, intricately layered acrylic artwork that is organic and otherworldly. “I focused on photography and drawing in college, and I’ve also worked with found objects. But I discovered that acrylic paint suits me best. It’s fast, you don’t need as long an attention span and it really lends itself to the intuitive painting style because it dries quickly, so it layers really well. Once I figured that out, I was hooked.” Keller also collects vintage objects, which she sells on the website Chairish in her online shop, Harmony

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Rogue Interiors. She opened a brick-and-mortar store two years ago but closed it one year later. “I realized that I missed working with co-workers and the public and being inspired by other people’s energy,” Keller explains.

Keller tries to maintain a sense of wonder and awareness in everything she does, which she’s found can facilitate creativity. She also experimented with a service called Creative Care Packages,

in which participants would receive a surprise bundle of art supplies and found objects in the mail each month to challenge themselves to think outside the proverbial box, but the idea never quite got off the ground. “I’ve always enjoyed seeking out interesting things. There’s a sense of adventure going picking for cool, styled items,” Keller says. “We have a society now that creates too many throwaway items that break, which just becomes landfill. There’s a holistic side to vintage decor. You’re appreciating the craftsmanship of an item and the fact that it’s still functional, whether in your home or when used in art.” This ability to see the beauty in everyday objects is no accident: Keller tries to maintain a sense of wonder and awareness in everything she does, which she’s found can facilitate creativity.

“The first online art course I ever created is all about overcoming artist’s block,” she says. “I always thought I had to come up with something completely unique, to pull an idea out of thin air for it to be good. But that’s not the case—that’s not how inspiration works. You have to go out and be inspired and set up your life and space and time to be able to facilitate creating. Everything is a metaphor for living a more inspired and intuitive life. By being mindful, you can cultivate positivity in your life. It’s an inner journey as much as a creative one.” To see Jennifer Keller’s artwork or subscribe to her newsletter, go to jenniferlaurelkeller.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Don't miss the vocal ensemble Vox Musica's last performance of the season.

Sacramento Ballet will perform "Modern Masters" this month. Photo courtesy of Keith Sutter.

“Modern Masters” Sacramento Ballet June 16–18 Harris Center at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway sacballet.org Co-artistic director Ron Cunningham will premiere his brand-new ballet—one of 60 original pieces he’s created during his career—based on “The Seven Deadly Sins.” The corps will also perform George Balanchine’s groundbreaking masterpiece “The Four Temperaments” and contemporary choreographer Ashley Walton’s innovative “Focal Point,” which features swinging lights that the dancers must duck while dancing.

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This painting and other artwork by Raimonds Staprans will be on exhibit at Crocker Museum.

Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans June 25–Oct. 8 Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerart.org Even though California landscapes feature heavily in this new exhibition of paintings by Raimonds Staprans, the artist—who was born and raised in Riga, Latvia—insists his “education, experience and personality” are thoroughly Latvian. Staprans’ use of the full spectrum of bold colors in his depictions of landscapes, architecture and still lifes will let viewers appreciate his deft skill, no matter where in the world it’s from.

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“A Salute to the Coen Brothers” Sacramento Outdoor Film Festival June 3, 10, 17 and 24 Fremont Park, 1515 Q St. Grab a lawn chair and a beer at this new series that producer Robert Hayes calls “outdoor movies for big kids”—a space for adults to enjoy award-winning comedies, dramas, documentaries and student-produced short films from the Sac State film department in a communal space under the stars. The free event is for people 21 and older and will include food trucks and a local craft beer garden beginning at 6 p.m. (The movie will start around 9 p.m.) Net proceeds from the beer garden will be donated to Front Street Animal Shelter. The schedule: “Fargo” on June 3; “Barton Fink” on June 10; “No Country for Old Men” on June 17; and “The Big Lebowski” on June 24.

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Ryan Enright Organ Concert St. John’s Lutheran Church Sunday, June 4, 2 p.m. St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L St. stjohnslc.org Ryan Enright, St. John’s resident organist, will present an organ concert featuring works by French Canadian composer Rachel Laurin, Parisian organist-composer Thierry Escaich, Sebastian Bach, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen, Louis Vierne and Enright himself.

Carmichael Park Community Band Festival Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association Saturday, June 3, noon–6 p.m. Sunday, June 4, noon–7:15 p.m. Carmichael Park Amphitheater, 5750 Grant Ave. svsba.net Pack a picnic and grab your sun hat for one of the largest community band festivals in California. Eleven concert bands will perform over two days, including the Rancho Cordova River City Concert Band, Sacramento Symphonic Winds, Winds of Faith, Solano Winds Community Concert Band and Yolo Community Band on Saturday and 3 Note Band, Vallejo/Pittsburg Community Band, Amador County Concert Band, Sacramento Concert Band, Roseville Community Concert Band and Capital City Concert Band on Sunday.

Organist Ryan Enright will perform at St. John's Lutheran Church.

Zoo’s 90th Birthday Party Sacramento Zoo Saturday, June 17, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. 3930 W. Land Park Drive saczoo.org The zoo turns 90 this year. To celebrate, it’s throwing itself a birthday party complete with games, crafts, face painting, free sno-cones and party hats, a bounce house and a special wildlife stage show celebrating another special birthday: The zoo’s oldest resident, Herkimer the desert tortoise, is also turning 90.

Sacramento Zoo is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

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“Beauty and the Beast” California Musical Theatre June 20–July 2 Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H St. californiamusicaltheatre.com The Music Circus season has begun. First to the stage this summer will be the Disney classic “Beauty and the Beast.” The Tony Award-winning, family-friendly musical features an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken and plenty of dancing dishware to delight all ages.

Sac Pride 2017 Sacramento LGBT Community Center Saturday, June 3, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Capitol Mall between 3rd and 7th streets sacramentopride.org The annual Sacramento Pride Parade and Festival celebrates the start of the Pride movement more than 40 year ago and promotes acceptance and understanding throughout the local LGBT community. After the free parade complete with floats and high-profile participants, there will be live music, a dance pavilion, kid zone, local vendors, information booths and food trucks during the daylong festival.

Crocker Museum will host a Rainbow Families Pre-Parade Party on June 3. Photo courtesy of Crocker Art Museum/Tom Gomes.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy Fairytale Town Saturday, June 24, 5–9 p.m. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive fairytaletown.org Dress in costume as a nod to Shakespeare’s popular fairythemed play and scoop up all the Crystal ice cream you can at this fun, family-friendly fundraiser. The event will feature multiple ice cream stations, no-host food and bar, live entertainment, hands-on activities and performances by Celtic band Stepping Stone.

Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com.

Enjoy as much ice cream as you want at Fairytale Town's A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy. Photo courtesy of Greg Flagg.

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Impressive Ambitions NEW WOODLAKE TAVERN IS JUST THE BEGINNING FOR RESTAURATEURS

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he corner of Del Paso Boulevard and Arden Way has been something of a standout in culinary circles over the past few decades. It’s an unlikely location for some of the area’s best restaurants. Perched on a busy intersection without much glitz or glamour, the great restaurants on this corner have always been seen as the anchors for Del Paso Boulevard’s “comeback.” In the ’90s, the space on the corner housed Enotria, a restaurant with one of California’s best wine collections and one of the area’s most sophisticated kitchens. After a dozen years of limited success, Enotria rebranded itself as an outpost of molecular gastronomy under chef Pajo Bruich. Despite the rave reviews and buzz, the concept failed and Enotria shuttered. Next to take a swipe at the corner was a short-lived establishment called Cask & Barrel. The upscale barbecue joint and whiskey bar served some of the best fare in town. But before two years were up, Cask & Barrel was gone. The current occupants, owners of Woodlake Tavern, are trying to learn from the previous tenants’ histories. And after tasting what they have to offer, I’d say their chances of making a go of it are above average. Restaurateur couple Deneb Williams and Elizabeth RoseMandalou are veterans of the local scene: Williams was the executive chef at The Firehouse Restaurant, and Rose-Mandalou worked at Ella Dining Room & Bar. They bring experience, confidence and optimism to the artdeco triangle on Del Paso and Arden. They have what I think is a winning combination: stellar execution in the kitchen, confident, casual service and reasonable prices. The menu carries on the tradition of Cask & Barrel, featuring beautifully executed barbecue dishes, but strays from the previous occupant’s model by bringing the dishes down to ground level, keeping them simple and reasonably priced. Unlike Cask & Barrel, barbecue makes up only a portion of the menu.

Outside of house-made smoked sausage, 22-hour brisket, heavenly ribs and smoked chicken, the menu offers seasonal pasta, seasonal risotto (at this writing, a gorgeous spring combo of asparagus, spinach and English peas) and a killer burger the size of a football helmet.

The dead-simple macaroni and cheese hits every note you want from a cheesy mac without the fussiness of extra ingredients thrown in. Each dish is crafted with care and skill. The English peas in a petite plate of gnocchi are perfectly al dente and flavorful as all get out. The dead-simple macaroni and cheese hits every note you want from a cheesy

mac without the fussiness of extra ingredients thrown in just for the sake of standing out. It’s obvious that executive chef Matthew Stauss is a capable hand in the kitchen. On the business end of things, Williams and Rose-Mandalou have created an accessible menu, both in price and flavor. Only one dish, a 16-ounce rib-eye, costs more than $20, and many hearty sides and small plates sit below the $10 line. Also, can’t-miss comfort foods like chicken pot pie, fried chicken sandwich (ridiculously good, by the way) and chicken wings make up a good portion of the tightly controlled menu. The bar follows the same pattern, for the most part. Sure, there are high-end tipples on the top shelf, but most cocktails and wines by the glass are less than $10. Wednesday nights feature half-price wine specials. And the happy-hour menu is generous and a bargain all the way through. The standout deal, however, is Woodlake Tavern’s Sunday supper. At $18 a head, featuring your choice of meats and sides served family style, it’s a steal.

Most restaurateurs would be busy enough opening one restaurant, but Williams and Rose-Mandalou are planning to open three before the year is done. Next door to Woodlake Tavern is their second enterprise, Uptown Pizza. Open only a few months, the pizzeria offers a lovely selection of expertly made pies along with panini, house-made pastas and adult beverages. (Uptown deserves applause for stocking bottles of Rainer beer.) A third fine-dining restaurant, Allora, will take over the former home of Rust Florist at Folsom Boulevard and 53rd Street. If the pair can maintain their stamina, they’ll have a trio of highly anticipated restaurants to run. But if the skill with which they’ve put together Woodlake Tavern speaks to their talents, I wouldn’t put it past them to pull this thing off. Woodlake Tavern is at 1431 Del Paso Blvd.; 514-0405; woodlaketavern. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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This Month @ the Market

A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN JUNE

CORN

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CHERRIES

There’s nothing that says summer like an ear of fresh corn. It has high concentrations of antioxidant carotenoids and is a good source of fiber—not to mention it’s delicious! To eat: Remove the husk and silks, then char the corn over a hot barbecue grill before dousing with seasoned butter.

This beautiful golden-orange-colored stone fruit is full of betacarotene, fiber and vitamins A and C. To eat: Perfect for making jam, a tart or ice cream.

Cherries have a lower glycemic index than many fruits, making them a great choice for a fruit snack, especially for diabetics. To eat: Remove the pits and toss into the blender for a smoothie.

OKRA

FIGS

EGGPLANTS

This very low-calorie vegetable has lots of vitamin A and antioxidants such as beta-carotene and lutein, and it’s a good source of folates. To eat: Use in a Southern gumbo or Caribbean stew.

Figs supply potassium, which controls blood pressure, and dietary fiber, which can help you lose weight. To eat: Add quartered figs to an arugula salad, or poach in wine for dessert.

Eggplant provides dietary fiber, plenty of vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients such as nasunin and chlorogenic acid. Many of its nutritional benefits come from the vegetable’s skin. To eat: Cut into thick slices, brush with olive oil and grill.

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