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Aniko Kiezel: “Elvis,” photograph PHOTOGRAPHY MONTH(S) SACRAMENTO MOVES FORWARD The creative sector knows how to adapt quickly, so it’s no surprise that the monthlong and highly anticipated April event has been renamed Photography Month(s) Sacramento. Rather than one month of photographic activities, planning is underway to reschedule some of the exhibits and events into the coming months.

Exhibit and event updates will be posted at photomonthsac.org, under the "Events.” Please check back regularly for updates.

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ublishing a monthly magazine isn’t optimal when information about the coronavirus changes hourly. So most of what you see this month in Inside Sacramento will ideally serve as a welcome and necessary contrast to media approaches that prize speed over accuracy and are intended to generate extreme emotions.

Here we love our neighborhoods because their scale is small. Our relationships tend to be more intimate than what a big city or rural community might offer.

Leopold Kohr, an Austrian economist and political scientist famed for his opposition to the “cult of bigness” in social organization, said, “Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.” When a virus from China spreads around the world in a matter of weeks, it’s easy to see the downside of globalism.

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So let’s think small. “After all, quarantines and social distancing are all attempts to take systems that are too big and divide them into groups and sizes that we can handle. If you can’t stop an epidemic—your country, state, region, city, town, village, is definitely too big,” wrote Kohr, who died in 1994.

The lifeblood of our communities is found in our neighborhoods. They are filled with locally owned businesses and include shops, service providers and food establishments. Our national leaders must recognize that while global players in the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries are suffering huge losses, the little guy has it much worse. Many small businesses in Sacramento operate with low margins and high overheads. Their employees— wait staff, bartenders, cooks or anyone who depends on tips—are being laid off.

They don’t have corporate reserves to fall back on.

Please follow the medically recommended precautions as we navigate this crisis. But whenever possible, use your dollars to support a local business. Without our collective help, they will be history.

Many small restaurants were struggling even in the prosperous years after the Great Recession. If they are trying to survive by providing takeout

food, purchase some every day—it’s a great way to help our neighbors stay open while avoiding crowds and staying safe. If you can buy gift cards to save for when times get better, buy them.

Our country has faced worse crises.

Those of us who have lived long enough have perspective on our country’s ability to recover. The big question is whether we can muster the strength to fight back when the muscle-memories of sacrifice have atrophied in many of us.

I met a mother who recently drove a good distance to visit her young adult children. They refused to touch or hug her. She left after a short while because she was so saddened by their narcissism, drama and hysteria. Other reports show young folks violating rules and acting wildly irresponsible.

The mature among us must do our part to keep others calm and steady, even when they don’t always want to hear it. Avoid social media unless it uplifts your spirits and the hopes of others.

We have surplus time for ourselves now. Make sure to read broadly and carefully. Read history that shows our human resilience. Listen attentively to reliable sources. Look for ways to help people less fortunate. Go outside. Tip greater than normal. Don’t hoard. Be

conservative in everything you use. But never stifle a generous impulse.

We must also repay good faith with good faith. When others disagree, make an effort to hear them out. We are in the midst of grave societal and economic challenges that will hopefully make partisan bickering trivial and ideological purity irrelevant.

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Now they need us to step up and show how much we value them—not simply as businesses that provide wonderful service, but as our friends and neighbors who are hurting.

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Flaming Grill Café, 2380 Watt Ave., (916) 285-5540, flaminggrillcafe.com, takeout available.

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EVENT CANCELLATIONS Please check with specific event organizations for the latest information on event cancellations. Many events support nonprofit organizations, so please consider a donation to help them stay afloat in desperate times.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE As we went to print, Sacramento News & Review announced it was shutting down its weekly print operations. The paper’s ad revenue has always been highly dependent on food, drink and events. In addition, the biweekly magazine SubMerge, which covers local art, entertainment and nightlife, has suspended its print edition, citing lost advertising revenue due to business closures and event cancellations as a result of COVID-19.

Hopefully, SN&R and SubMerge will find a path forward. The more

local news that’s available, the better for our community. But with the Bee’s bankruptcy, Sacramento readers should not take any local news source for granted, including Inside Sacramento.

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Focus on Photography PHOTO MONTH ACTIVITIES WILL EXTEND INTO FALL

MIDTOWN ASSOCIATION TURNS 35 The Midtown Association is celebrating 35 years as an organization dedicated to ensuring Midtown is the center for culture, creativity and vibrancy in Sacramento’s urban core.

What began in 1985 as a grassroots collaboration of merchants who wanted to present a strong voice for the Midtown business community, grew into the Midtown Business Association (later rebranded the Midtown Association) in 2008.

The association then formed an official Property Based Improvement

District with property owners and the help of public officials. In 2015, the Midtown Association renewed its PBID through 2027 with a footprint that now includes 92 blocks in the urban core.

“Key initiatives aimed at increasing housing availability and spurring infill development, protecting historically significant properties and homes, programming welcoming events into public spaces, marketing small businesses, and investing in the safety and cleanliness of Midtown have all combined to make the collective Midtown community much stronger and more successful,” says Emily Baime Michaels, who has served as

“Other Sea” by Bob Fredenburg is part of Photography Month(s) Sacramento.

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photography at different venues in Sacramento, Placer, Nevada, Yolo and El Dorado counties.

“The months-long focus offers a way to encourage more people to explore art spaces that will help shape and define our collective local voice as an inclusive and vital arts community,” says event director Roberta McClellan, executive director of Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Midtown. “We’re excited to present another vibrant and amazing event.”

For updates and programming information, visit photomonthsac.org.

In the meantime, get out your camera (or phone). Great photos are waiting to be captured.

Ivan (left) and Joel with the Midtown Association's Clean & Safe team invite the community to the district’s annual Midtown Love celebration.

Photo courtesy of the Midtown Association.

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Artist registration is now open for Verge Center for the Arts’ 15th Annual Sac Open Studios. the Midtown Association’s executive director since 2013.

To help celebrate the last 35 years, the community is encouraged to visit the Midtown district throughout the year and support its local businesses and events, including the annual Midtown Love celebration on Thursday, May 21, at Faces Nightclub & Bar. For more information, visit exploremidtown.org.

FREE PARK WI-FI Brooks Truitt Bark Park at 1818 Q St. in Midtown and Bill Conlin Youth Sports Complex at 7895 Freeport Blvd. in South Sacramento now have free public Wi-Fi as part of the city’s partnership with Verizon.

Internet access is only available during the parks’ hours of operation (sunrise to sunset daily). Fremont Park at 1515 Q St. got free Wi-Fi in October and the city is working to bring Carl Johnston Park at 231 Eleanor Ave. online, with 23 more parks slated for service by the end of 2020.

To access the network, select “CITYPARK-FREE-WIFI” on your mobile device.

SAC OPEN STUDIOS CALL Registration is now open for Verge Center for the Arts’ 15th Annual Sac Open Studios, the region’s oldest, largest and most prestigious artist studio tour program.

The program is designed to showcase emerging and established artists in Sacramento County and West Sacramento. Throughout two weekends in September—Sept. 12–13 and Sept. 19–20—the community will take self-guided tours and participate in special exhibitions, events, workshops, performances and parties where they will meet local artists, see art in action and purchase original work.

Artist registration is open through May 15. The cost for artist participation is $150. For more information, visit vergeart.com/open-studios/participate.

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Molina, a taiko drummer in residence at Southside Park. “This residency will offer the opportunity for a diverse group of people—all ages, genders, abilities and backgrounds—to learn basic Japanese drumming skills intertwined

with some Japanese language and history.”

“I am excited to see our neighborhoods connect with local artists like Sascha Molina to bring our spaces to life by collaborating with residents to

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Last month, the city of Sacramento launched a new Artists-in-Residence program to enhance local community centers and gardens with communitydriven art. Sacramento AIR is designed for artists and communities to collaborate, explore and reframe the way public spaces are used.

Nine local artists were selected to co-design a residency with city staff and residents at a public location in each City Council district. The resident artists will hold workshops and events onsite for approximately six months.

Workshop topics include drumming, spoken word, visual arts, hip hop, technology, environmental art, music and theater for participants of all ages.

“I love the idea of collaborating with different organizations to build a program that will bring the surrounding community together,” says Sascha

Taiko drummer Sascha Molina is part of the city’s Artists-in-Residence program.

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create unique artistic experiences,� says Councilmember Steve Hansen, whose district includes Southside Park.

Each residency will conclude with an onsite celebratory event, performance, exhibition, project unveiling or community festival. For more information, visit sacmetroarts.org.

SAINT JOHN’S GRANT Saint John’s Program for Real Change has received a $100,000 Allstate Foundation Grant to support its residential program, which serves more than 700 formerly homeless women and children each year—69 percent of whom are survivors of domestic violence.

“Allstate and The Allstate Foundation support us with muchneeded funding to run our daily operations, along with contributing hundreds of hours in volunteer time through their local agents and employees,� Saint John’s Interim CEO Marc Cawdrey says. “They’ve been a wonderful community partner for years.�

Saint John’s recently teamed up with The Allstate Foundation to host its fourth annual Reverse Guest Chef Dinner at Plates CafÊ and Catering.

Local Allstate agents and employees prepared and served dinner to Saint John’s clients as a reverse of the nonprofit’s monthly Guest Chef Dinner fundraisers, where the women prepare and serve dinner under the supervision of a guest chef from a local restaurant.

The dinners are part of Saint John’s Employment Training Program.

For more information, visit saintjohnsprogram.org.

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The city recently opened its first “scattered-site� shelters in two single-family homes in District 6 in South Sacramento. Each site houses approximately five people (not including the house monitor who is onsite 24 hours a day) and provides access to health and rehousing support.

The program is operated by Sacramento Self Help Housing, part of a two-year contract for 40 scatteredsite shelter beds approved by the City Council in October and funded by Measure U dollars with support from Anthem Blue Cross and Dignity Health.

The City Council also recently approved plans for a new sleeping-cabin community in North Sacramento called the Emergency Bridge Housing at Grove Avenue. The two dozen sleeping cabins

will be managed by the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency and will serve approximately 100 young people (18 to 24 years old) per year.

The city is also working to open two new large “navigation� shelters this spring in Meadowview and near the W/X freeway in addition to the one currently operating at Capitol Park Hotel in partnership with SHRA. For more information, visit cityofsacramento.org.

FREE PET ADOPTIONS FOR VETS Veterans interested in adopting a dog or cat from any public animal shelter in California are now eligible for waived adoption fees through the Pets for Vets Act. The new law, which became effective Jan. 1, prohibits any California public shelter from charging an adoption fee for a dog or cat to individuals who present eligible identification in the form of a valid driver’s license or ID card with the word “veteran� printed on its face. Standard adoption counseling still applies to ensure a good match between the animal and adopter.

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et’s erase the McClatchy name from Sacramento. Rebrand the high school. Call the park something relevant. As for the little street in Land Park, change it. The name McClatchy means a family best forgotten.

Media turned weepy in February when the McClatchy Company declared bankruptcy and ended the family’s 163-year run as the ultimate Sacramento newspaper dynasty. The tears were not deserved.

No family made a deeper, longer impact on the city. And no family did more existential harm—using its monopoly to squeeze dollars from local businesses while wrecking labor unions, financing colonial expansions in far-flung markets, minimizing its Sacramento imprint and gutting a vital California media institution. A hedge fund is taking over. It will euthanize the Bee and other McClatchy papers.

The family’s destruction of the Bee leaves Sacramento without a daily journalistic powerhouse to protect readers and question politicians. Obese with inherited wealth and anesthetized by profit, the McClatchy family became impotent decades ago. It squandered a legacy of community service and two-fisted journalism in Sacramento. Bankruptcy is a multi-generational, self-inflicted outcome.

I worked 35 years for The Sacramento Bee, the McClatchy flagship. When I started, the

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company was still overseen by Eleanor McClatchy and her nephew C.K. From the start, I was indoctrinated with stories about the family’s foresight and generosity— support for local arts, the creation of SMUD, the expansion of UC Davis.

Eleanor sat beside me in the Bee’s third-floor cafeteria at 21st and Q streets. C.K. pedaled his bicycle to work. They were “Sacramento Proud” before pride became a cliché.

That’s ancient history. By the late 1970s, the beneficence was a façade.

Eleanor faded away. C.K. spent more time in San Francisco. The family— known for paying top industry wages— revealed its new priorities by forcing a strike in 1978. The goal was to drive out composing-room workers, modernize and cheapen production. Many people lost their jobs.

Ten years later, McClatchy became a publicly traded company. The family maintained control with a dual-class stock scheme that left ordinary stockholders powerless. Profit and expansion were obsessions. The Bee racked up annual profits of 40 percent, driven by extortive ad rates. Local merchants had no alternatives. They had to pay.

The family—now the McClatchy Company—returned almost nothing to Sacramento beyond marketing slogans and a Christmas campaign to help needy folks. The campaign was painless for stockholders. Readers paid with donations.

The McClatchy arrogance peaked as the internet began to prove its ability to transmit news and information. The family fumbled, unable to respond in a sustained, creative, dynamic way.

At a Bee employee meeting around 2002, I asked senior management about Craigslist, which was expanding with free online classified ads. “What percentage of our profit comes from classified?” I asked. The response was “about 48 percent.” Feeling the floor disappear, I asked, “How do we compete with free?” The answer: We’re the Bee. Craigslist isn’t our competition. Within four years, classified profits were gone.

Reporters were being laid off.

Around 2004, I asked a senior executive why we didn’t digitize and index our stories from 1857 onward and market a searchable Sacramento website. The answer: We thought about that, but it would cost $250,000.

Too expensive. Meantime, bonuses for McClatchy executives were $250,000 at the low end.

One day in 2006, 10 months before I quit, McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt told me the company was buying the Knight Ridder newspaper chain. Pruitt was pleased with himself. I asked if he was worried that nobody else wanted Knight Ridder. He said no, the deal would make McClatchy one of the most powerful newspaper companies in the country.

McClatchy paid $6.5 billion. The debt broke the company. Pruitt faced

zero accountability. The family gave him $3.6 million when he quit in 2012, including $3.1 million in deferred compensation.

Today, the family is trying to abandon its pension obligations—no surprise. When I joined the Bee, the family owned newspapers in Sacramento, Modesto and Fresno, and TV and radio stations in the Central Valley and Reno. Jobs at the Bee were for life. Pensions were golden.

Things should have turned out better. The family could have embraced online search and social media.

But search tools were expensive and mysterious. And social media was troublesome, giving readers an independent voice. The company bought more newspapers.

Erasing the McClatchy name from Sacramento won’t repair the family’s mistakes. But why should Sacramento honor a dynasty that stopped caring a half-century ago?

R.E. Graswich can be reached at regraswich@icloud.com. Previous columns can be read and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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Katie Valenzuela will represent District 4 on the Sacramento City Council.

HOW RIVER ACCESS BARRIER SANK HANSEN

broken, unwanted levee fence cost Steve Hansen his political career.

One year ago, Hansen decided to stop people from walking onto the Sacramento River levee in Little Pocket.

He told city park officials to build a black iron fence and gate on Riverside Boulevard near 35th Avenue.

The barricade summarized Hansen’s attitude toward public access and recreation. Don’t come here. You’re not welcome. This river is private.

People hated Hansen’s barrier. They hated the exclusion it represented.

Within weeks, the fence was twisted and bent so people could climb through. And on Election Day, voters in Sacramento’s fourth City Council district showed Hansen what they thought about his policies and priorities. Thousands

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rejected the two-term incumbent councilman and voted for his opponent, Katie Valenzuela, who had never run for public office.

Valenzuela never trailed in ballot counts and won easily. She defeated an entrenched incumbent who enjoyed support from City Hall and the Downtown establishment, led by Mayor Darrell Steinberg.

Under city rules, Hansen serves until mid-December. He’s the Invisible Man, living a slow political death.

Until the final weeks of the campaign, Hansen hardly acknowledged Valenzuela. He debated her once in early February at McClatchy High School. His appearance was prompted by the realization that Valenzuela had gained traction with voters as she walked precincts, visited constituents and out-worked Hansen in Midtown, Land Park and Little Pocket.

Rising housing costs prompted Valenzuela to run for City Council.

She rents her home in Midtown and felt nobody at City Hall cared about people such as her—young, educated, professional, making her way in the nonprofit advocacy universe of Sacramento. She had neither money nor support nor a realistic chance of winning.

But when she started knocking on doors, meeting voters and asking what they wanted from their City Council representative, she heard a common narrative—Hansen ignores us, he’s never here, he doesn’t care. She heard frustrations about high rents and the explosion of homelessness around Broadway.

And she heard about Hansen’s efforts to prevent the completion of the Sacramento River Parkway in Little Pocket. He wanted to keep the levee private for the exclusive enjoyment of about 40 riverfront homeowners.

“I can’t tell you how many people brought up the levee access issue and showed me copies of your magazine,” Valenzuela told me. “I didn’t know about the issue, but I started reading about it, and realized why people are so upset. I can’t believe he would stop people from accessing the river.”

Housing, homelessness and access: those were the issues voters discussed on the campaign trail. Many voters believed Hansen ignored housing and homelessness and was obsessed with river access. His staff spent weeks pushing parks officials to hurry up and build the fence at Riverside and 35th Avenue.

Hansen dredged up discredited arguments made by riverfront property owners in Pocket and Greenhaven— even the absurd claim that they “own” the levee. He scapegoated homeless people, saying they set brush fires, trashed the shoreline and forced the city to build the fence to block residents from enjoying the levee. He falsely blamed the Americans with Disabilities Act for preventing the city from opening stretches of the levee parkway in Little Pocket.

When his messages were challenged, Hansen pleaded poverty. He said the city could not afford a 1-mile asphalt bike path atop the levee north of 35th Avenue. His arguments were weak if not false, but Hansen was clever enough to make some voters believe he was on their side and trying his best. He made them believe the dream of a river parkway from Freeport to Downtown, promised by the city in 1975, is just too much to ask.

He was wrong. The city is moving ahead with the river parkway in Pocket and Greenhaven. Valenzuela can celebrate her victory by ripping down Hansen’s fence on Riverside.

The disgraced barrier is a symbol of Sacramento’s past, not its future.

OTHER CITY ELECTIONS Two City Council elections will be decided with runoffs in November. In District 2, which includes Woodlake, North Sacramento and Del Paso Heights, incumbent Allen Warren faces Sean Loloee. Neither reached a 50.1 percent majority in the primary. In District 8, which includes Meadowview, Mai Vang and Les Simmons will campaign to replace Larry Carr, who retired.

Measure G, the Children’s Fund Act, was defeated. The initiative would have given nonprofits about $12 million per year from the city’s general fund, requiring cuts to public safety and parks. The campaign was tainted by scandal when Children’s Fund promoter Derrell Roberts of the Roberts Family Development Center agreed to pay the state $400,000 to settle a lawsuit by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra alleging misuse of public funds.

The story was first reported by Inside Sacramento.

R.E. Graswich can be reached at regraswich@icloud.com. Previous columns can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento.com. n

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Bridge to Perfection CITIES PICK WINNER IN NEW I STREET SPAN

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few months back, Sacramento and West Sacramento announced agreement on design finalists for a new bridge connecting the growing cities. The news was a letdown. Despite extensive community involvement, work from an international design firm and a fair amount of hoopla, it felt as if everyone was trying too hard for something special.

The two spans competing to replace the 108-year-old I Street Bridge were thick, bulky and needlessly grandiose.

Rather than complement and enhance the surroundings, each finalist loomed over the river like a boisterous, unwelcome hulk.

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Part of Sacramento’s charm is that it’s an unpretentious, if ambitious, city.

But the plans seemed more concerned with being noticed than with the utilitarian job of efficiently moving vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians over our namesake river, with some panache.

To win the competition, the finalists needed to reimagine their plans. The effort paid off when the winner, by T.Y. Lin International Group, was unveiled at a Downtown media event. It felt like a revelation to a pleased audience.

As explained by Jeff Harris, Sacramento city councilmember and vice mayor whose district includes the bridge, and Noel Shamble, chief designer from T.Y. Lin, much of the success can be summed up in a word: aluminum.

As the lengthy design process unfolded, with more than 3,800 people participating, there was strong sentiment to include ample room on the bridge for cyclists and pedestrians. The winning design has that and more. It can handle buses and light rail. There are generous overlooks and seating

areas on each riverbank to bring people closer to the water.

The bridge, projected for completion in 2023, will be about 100 feet longer than the 200-foot span it replaces.

(Actually, the old I Street Bridge, just south of where the new bridge will be

located, isn’t going away. It will carry only rail traffic.)

Extra length means more weight for the steel deck and support structure.

Normally, extra weight requires higher, bulkier towers. But not in Sacramento, thanks to aluminum.

“We worked tirelessly to come up with new material innovations to make that weight less and allow us to really cut those tower dimensions in half,” Shamble said.

Now, the $210 million curvilinear bridge is sleek and graceful. It will wind and flow, like the water, with a sweeping line that extends from riverbank to riverbank. The lighter, thinner towers will be turned 90 degrees from the roadway, further evoking the river’s motion, with transparency built into the design.

With arches inclined over the roadway, users will experience a cathedral-like effect under the arches, a gateway experience in the approach. At night, the bridge will be tastefully lit, a glowing connection between two cities striving to take greater advantage of their riverfronts.

By the time the bridge opens, the area should be well on its way to a major renaissance, with a new soccer stadium, waterfront entertainment and other amenities, development in the Downtown railyards and more. Mayor Darrell Steinberg was not exaggerating when he said the new bridge “will be an instant landmark.”

Because it’s arched and designed to rise for river traffic, as the I Street Bridge does, Shamble said the design is unique in the world.

At the media event, U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, who worked to secure federal funds for almost 90 percent of the cost, pulled the cover from a glass-enclosed model to enthusiastic applause. She described the bridge as “a modern, iconic structure that will define our region for the next century.”

It can also lead to more, much-needed bridges, City Councilmember Steve Hansen told the crowd.

“What you have today is a gift to the next generation … that will inspire us to do another bridge at Broadway, another bridge over the American River,” Hansen said.

Bridges should be more than a way to stay dry while crossing from one shore to another. At their best, they inspire with beauty, such as the Golden Gate Bridge.

They celebrate a city’s architectural heritage, as with the Brooklyn Bridge.

No one will compare Sacramento’s new bridge, the first built here since the 1960s, with anything so grand. But by listening

to the community, thinking creatively and seeking to fit in rather than dominate, the two cities delivered a blueprint for what could become the region’s most crowning architectural achievement since the Capitol building. It should also be fun to ride, walk, drive or just kill time on.

Gary Delsohn can be reached at gdelsohn@gmail.com. Previous columns can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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Robynne Rose-Haymer chats with Wind Youth Services clients.

Young and Alone WIND SERVES YOUTH WITH NOWHERE TO GO

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omeless young people are found in every corner of Sacramento.

Some sleep on the streets.

Others couch surf with friends or tap into social services scattered around town.

One Downtown organization, Wind Youth Services, is dedicated to helping homeless young people. In recent years, the organization has blossomed as a robust provider of programs and services after near insolvency.

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Growing numbers of unsheltered young people have been an inevitable consequence of Sacramento’s homeless crisis. As the problem expands, so does Wind. The organization served 805 young people in 2018 and 1,029 last year.

“The problem keeps getting worse,” says Robynne Rose-Haymer, Wind’s executive director. “We have an influx of young people moving here. There’s little affordable housing and services have not been publicized. We certainly have seen a spike in the need in Sacramento.”

When many young people near their 18th birthday, they leave home, driven out by family dysfunction. Often they have no place to go, no strategy for long-term stability, and limited skills and education to thrive in the job market. Drugs and alcohol may play a

role, making daily existence even more difficult.

“These young people fall off the workforce roles,” Rose-Haymer says.

“The home life starts to fall apart and young people know no options. They don’t know how to complete forms, get housing, open a bank account or even manage housing if they found something.”

Wind provides options. It runs the only emergency shelter for homeless and runaway kids. While participants may need training in multiple subject areas, the Wind Downtown drop-in shelter staff explains the basics of survival. They offer support networks, food services, limited health care options, classes and programs, laundry, games and more.

“We ask our participants to invest in themselves,” Rose-Haymer says.

“They need to be competent in basic life skills. They need the hard skills like budgeting, getting credit and applying for a job. But they also need access to a learning environment and a path forward into adulthood.”

The program teaches young people how failure is not an end but a start.

The Wind team takes pride in success stories and the growth of young people.

“Everyone knows about our housing issues and the lack of affordable housing for low wage jobs,” Rose-Haymer says.

“We have to continue to find housing opportunities and we will continue to work with youth so they can have employment and ability to keep their house once they get it.”

Wind’s model includes collaboration with other organizations—service providers with systems to help young people with school, health care, housing and other needs.

Beyond the Downtown drop-in shelter, Wind operates group homes and has the only homeless street outreach program in Sacramento. The program is designed to help homeless youth on the streets, building trust and encouraging them to access other services. The outreach teams carry food, clothes and basic necessities.

“We want homeless youth to know there’s help out there,” Rose-Haymer says. “Wind has the programs and a great staff ready to help. Our board is very active and we have built strong relationships throughout the community. However, we still need to get the word out about us.”

Wind provides other support, including life lessons, education and help with housing. And there’s a focus on job development.

“With skills, a minimum-wage employee can advance to $20 to $30 per hour,” Rose-Haymer says. “Or they can take a few classes and get a career tech certificate which can add to their paycheck. Many young people don’t know about Social Security cards, identification, time sheets and other basic skills to acquire and keep a job.

We get them prepared.”

She adds, “Some of our participants even get jobs here at Wind. We all believe in help and making a difference.

It’s really heart-to-heart type of work. It takes special people and we have them here at Wind.”

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Get a Move On

LOCAL WALKS RAISE FUNDS TO FIGHT PARKINSON’S his can be a busy time of year for Mary Beth Arjil. She has helped organize not one, but two fundraising walks to fight Parkinson’s disease—the Annual Robert G. Smith Walk to COP (Cancel Out Parkinson’s) by the Parkinson Association of Northern California, and Moving Day by the Parkinson’s Foundation.

These walks raise crucial funds for research and support for people living with Parkinson’s disease. People like Arjil.

Seven years ago, Arjil saw her doctor about a persistent resting tremor

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and was diagnosed with young onset Parkinson’s disease at the age of 43.

Though the diagnosis was shocking, she wasted no time getting involved with the Parkinson’s Foundation’s annual Moving Day—an event that not only raises money, but also connects patients and their families to others going through similar experiences.

Since 2011, more than 130,000 people have participated in Moving Day events across the country, raising more than $27 million to improve care and advance research for a cure.

“When you’re first diagnosed, it’s very confusing and overwhelming,” says Arjil, who sees a neurologist specializing in movement disorders to help manage her symptoms through medication and exercise. “It’s a big help to have somebody you can talk to. That’s what’s so nice about Moving Day—every year I’ve met multiple people who are newly diagnosed and new to the walk who are glad to have somebody who understands what they’re going through. We all help each other.”

When Arjil was first diagnosed, the nearest Moving Day was in San Francisco. But three years ago, the organization decided to branch out and hold a walk in Sacramento—and contacted Arjil to help facilitate it.

She now serves on the Moving Day committee managing event logistics and has attended the foundation’s national conference to drum up local volunteers.

“The people who work for the foundation are some of the best people I’ve ever met,” Arjil says. “They work so hard and are so committed to getting the word out and supporting volunteers, patients and families with a huge amount of resources.”

Arjil also wanted to do more to help her local community, so she started a support group in Carmichael for young onset patients like herself through the Parkinson Association of Northern California. The association provides resources such as support groups, respite for families, and seminars and training for fitness and physical therapy professionals on how to properly work with Parkinson’s patients. The group also holds the annual COP walk sponsored by the Sacramento Embarcadero Lions Club.

“Everybody probably knows somebody who has Parkinson’s disease,” Arjil says. “But it really hasn’t been at the forefront, so we’re trying get the word out about these much-needed fundraisers to help support patients and fund research. We’re all working toward a common goal.”

Editor’s Note: This month’s Robert G. Smith Walk to COP and Moving Day have been canceled due to COVID-19.

For more information on Parkinson’s disease and future fundraising events, visit panctoday.org and parkinson.org.

Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Previous profiles can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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Gone Not Forgotten 33RD STREET BISTRO MADE COMMUNITY HAPPEN

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n March, neighbors in East Sacramento were stunned to learn 33rd Street Bistro was closing, six months before the 25th anniversary of its opening in 1995. The East Sacramento restaurant was forced to shut down after the new landlord opted for another tenant, co-owner Matt Haines says.

I feel a special bond with 33rd Street Bistro and its owners, brothers Matt and Fred Haines, who were born and raised in Sacramento.

My husband and I started our business that same year. The Haines family has continually advertised with Inside Sacramento since the Bistro opened. They were one of our beloved “lifetime” advertisers.

When the Bistro opened, Matt told me the plan was to showcase the flavors of the Pacific Northwest, where Fred got his start as a chef.

They chose the location because the corner of 33rd Street and Folsom Boulevard—which was pretty run down—had potential as a destination.

At the time, it was the only restaurant in walking distance from our McKinley Park home.

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the community they loved. It was a place where friends old and new could gather and enjoy life.

The idea of building community was the part I loved most. My husband and I embarked on a publishing venture in 1995 that was designed to strengthen our communities through sharing great stories of people, places and events in East Sacramento—home for the first edition of Inside.

Over the years we met people from outside the neighborhood who often identified themselves as fans of 33rd Street Bistro.

For 24 years, the Haines brothers leased their building. But in January, the longtime property owner sold to Dowling Properties of Davis. The brothers were soon told Dowling wanted to “go a different direction.” The Bistro’s month-tomonth lease would not be renewed, Matt says.

Dowling received several offers from prospective tenants while the building was in escrow. The new owner opted for an upscale Italian-American restaurant. It will open in a few months.

At Dowling’s request, the new tenant approached the Haines brothers and discussed a transition process. Offers and counters were made to sell the name, recipes and personnel, but a deal was not reached.

Sadly, the story is common. Business owners who lease rather than purchase their properties often end up shut out. Others I know who bought their buildings a decade or more ago are looking at comfortable retirements, even if their businesses close down or are sold.

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The Haines brothers also own Suzie Burger, Wildwood Kitchen & Bar in Pavilions Shopping Center and Bistro 33 in Davis. A 25th anniversary party was scheduled for Nov. 14. The date now serves as a benchmark for when

the Haines brothers would like to open another 33rd Street Bistro in East Sacramento, Matt says.

“We’re devastated. It’s our family and friends, and it is much bigger than a business with us,” he says. “We started from scratch and built a name for ourselves here. It’s our identity.”

Running any type of small business is not for the timid. It’s tough, demanding and often unforgiving. And it’s highly risky, especially in the food business.

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gobble up food and hospitality dollars adds more pressure, as do rising product and labor costs.

The incredible local hospitality scene is the primary reason why I published our book, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-To-Fork Capital,” in 2017 and 2019. I wanted to showcase the best of the locally owned businesses that make Sacramento unique. The first place I considered for the book was 33rd Street Bistro.

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The Haines brothers delivered what they set out to create in 1995. While the Bistro reflected the identity of the Haines brothers, it also captured the identity of East Sacramento. I wish them the very best luck in finding a new home.

Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidesacramento.com.

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Master Class CURTIS PARK HOME MAINTAINS ORIGINAL OLD-WORLD CHARM

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ill Harms is an artist and craftsman who studied with a master in Germany.

In 1957, Harms migrated to New York with his parents and siblings. A year later, they crossed the country by bus and landed in Sacramento.

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“We got out on L Street where the Greyhound bus station was,” Harms says. His first impression was a sleepy village. But the family soon found an apartment at 23rd and G streets, and “that’s when we started loving the area.”

On practically a handshake, they purchased a quaint two-story English Tudor built in 1925 in Curtis Park. “The owner said he was interested in selling it to us, so we opened the doors and windows, and started painting and texturing,” Harms recalls.

More than six decades later, Harms now shares the 2,200-square-foot home with partner Allison Sabraw, who he met as a neighbor. “I lived right across the street,” Sabraw says. “He was always coming over to visit. We’d have wine and talk. We were really good friends, and it’s just evolved over the years.”

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The four-bedroom two-bath home has seen various upgrades over the years.

“What we haven’t done is knock out walls,” Sabraw says.

When the Harms family bought the house in 1959, they went to work texturing and painting the walls and ceilings. They also added wood beams in the dining room. Today, each room sports a different vibrant wall color, such as ruby red (handmade by Harms) in the dining room, terra-cotta clay paint in the living room and chartreuse in the kitchen.

The moldings, baseboards, doublehung windows and a built-in cabinet in the dining room are original. Harm’s brother, who also trained as a craftsman in Germany, replicated another builtin cabinet in the breakfast nook. Also original is the extra-wide, vertical-grain front door with its window and glass doorknob.

Harms created an archway between the breakfast nook and kitchen to replace a “pretty ugly” door, he says.

Harms and his brother added three more arches throughout the home,

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including a curved pine door, distressed to appear aged, that leads to a wine cellar in the basement.

The kitchen has been updated with green Italian tile countertops on one side and butcher block, flanking the stove, on the other. Harms’ brother created new kitchen cabinets with solid-pine doors recessed to replicate the original cabinets. “We made sure to copy the old doors exactly,” Harms says.

Two layers of old linoleum in the kitchen, pantry and breakfast nook were ripped up and replaced with engineered hardwood to match the original oak floors throughout the rest of the home.

The kitchen leads to a family room with a bar, formerly a linen closet, where the couple entertains. The bar, another creation by Harms’ skilled brother, features hand-finished Honduran mahogany countertop and open shelves.

A small window and door in the family room were replaced with a new sliding glass door leading to the brick backyard patio where guests can gather.

The lush garden is surrounded by apple, pomegranate and birch trees providing shade and privacy.

Up the staircase with its original railing is a bedroom where the walls are covered with grass cloth hung

by Harms’ father. “I didn’t have the heart to tear it out,” Harms says. “So I painted over it. You have to keep some things to remember your folks by.”

Painted knotty-pine panels line the walls and ceiling of another bedroom, which Sabraw calls her retreat. A small window was replaced with a larger version that looks out over the Curtis

Park neighborhood. “When girlfriends come over, we come up here and hang out,” Sabraw says.

The upstairs bathroom underwent a “semi-major” remodel. “It was horrendous looking when we bought the place,” Harms notes. The remodel was twofold over many years, first to expand the footprint and then to refashion the design, which included replacing the old concrete shower.

“With old homes there is a constant need to scope things out to upgrade or repair. Bill takes it on as God-given task,” Sabraw says.

“Some people work with their hands.

Some with their brains,” Harms adds.

“Mine is with my hands.”

The Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour, originally scheduled for April 25, has been canceled. For information on a possible rescheduling, visit sierra2.org.

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Want to Bet? STATE READY TO DIVE INTO SPORTS WAGERING

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othing bonds sports fans better than a friendly wager. Maybe $20. Or $100. No matter the dollar amount, betting on sports quickens the pulse, heightens the intensity and pulls the fan into the action. When you’ve got money riding on the game, the final score really matters.

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Unfortunately, California sports fans transform themselves into criminals when they make a sports bet. Sports wagering is illegal in the state, whether online or between two neighbors. The only way to stay within the boundaries of California law is to make your wager in Nevada.

But the game is changing. Earlier this year, the California Legislature began to examine the benefits of licensed sports betting. Gambling industry experts predict the California sports betting market could be worth $2.5 billion to bookmakers lucky enough to get a license.

Sacramento has a rich history of sports betting. Legendary figures Sid

Tenner and Greg Tomita paid their rent servicing sports fans and satisfying the human hunger for action.

Tenner and Tomita, both long dead, were old-school bookies. Bettors would call Tenner at Georgian’s card room at 19th and J streets and bark out wagers.

Tomita worked the bars, walking from Simon’s to Joe Marty’s and every saloon in between, collecting bets and paying winners.

Naturally, those illicit transactions weren’t taxed. If California legalizes sports betting, fees from the billions wagered on sports will be diverted into city, county and state budgets—money that now goes untapped in the sports gambling marketplace.

Sports betting can include absurd propositions and numbingly complex possibilities. Las Vegas sports books offered 18 separate wagers on this year’s two Super Bowl quarterbacks, plus wagers on how long it would take Demi Lovato to sing the national anthem. But the fundamental issues faced by California legislators are simple.

There are two big questions the state’s political leaders must answer to unlock the door to sports betting: Where should sports bookies physically locate?

And how should online betting schemes operate?

California already has a mature gambling infrastructure and culture.

The state could accommodate physical sports bets tomorrow. More than 70 card rooms operate in communities as diverse as Sacramento, Fresno, San Luis Obispo, Merced, Santa Clara, Bakersfield, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Each could instantly create space to handle sports bets.

Moreover, the state has 14 horse racing tracks, from Ferndale to Del Mar, all of which accept racing wagers and could accommodate sports bets within hours if laws were changed. Finally, 69 tribal casinos operate in California, including 16 resorts. With a little remodeling, each could create a lavish sports betting atmosphere.

Online betting would add another dimension to California’s plunge. Online wagering means exactly what the name suggests—bettors establish an account with an offshore website, make a deposit with a credit card, bank transfer or bitcoin (offshore gambling sites generally welcome cryptocurrency), check the odds and start betting.

Like any website that requires credit cards, online gambling sites have the potential to scam sports bettors. But several have operated for decades, making honest profits from the commissions paid by bettors on each wager. California would probably choose an experienced vendor to handle its online sports action.

Just because the choices are simple doesn’t mean California will get sports betting right. The state’s lurch into regulated cannabis has already failed on many levels. Too bad Tenner and Tomita aren’t around to tell legislators how to cash in on a sure thing.

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It’s All Greek to Him

hen people ask Jay Greenwood how long it took him to write his new historical fiction novel “Race to Marathon,” his answer is simple: a little over half a century.

The Oregon native credits his “fantastic English teachers” in high school with first piquing his interest in Ancient Greek literature and history.

As a freshman, Greenwood recounts that he was assigned “The Odyssey” in class—which he calls “a very heavy lift for a country boy from Oregon.” But when he managed to finish the book and realized he’d just read one of the greatest works ever written, he was hooked—so much so that it changed the course of his career.

Always “red hot” in math, Greenwood enrolled at Oregon State as an engineering major but retained his interest in humanities. When he was told by the dean of engineering to stop taking “foo-foo classes” (meaning English), Greenwood realized that not only did he enjoy those classes more, he was doing better in them—as in, straight-As better. He shifted his major to English and philosophy, and never looked back.

Greenwood’s deft ability to “string my words together” led to a graduate degree in political science at UC Davis after serving two tours of duty in Vietnam as an officer. He then went onto an impressive career writing about political issues and working for the Fair Political Practices Commission, as well as serving as chief of staff for members

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But the call of Ancient Greece was still strong for the Sierra Oaks resident, who was inspired to finally channel his love of history into a manuscript when he discovered his protagonist: Themistocles. Greenwood describes the real-life Themistocles as “the Winston Churchill” of the Greeks—namely for his heroic efforts to save his people from the invading Persians.

“Themistocles was the heart of salvation of Greece and Western civilization,” Greenwood says. “It was

Had the tiny Greek city-states not managed to stop the invading Persians—who far outnumbered and outarmored the Greeks—it’s likely the Persians would have pushed all the way to Portugal and England, changing the face of history as we know it.

like he had a crystal ball—he was a genius of human nature and knew what was coming from the Persians and then outfoxed them all. When I first read about him, I was impressed to the point of being flabbergasted.”

Thus began months of research and writing for what became “Race to Marathon,” a page-turning historical fiction book that Greenwood says is intended to get people interested in the subject of Ancient Greece and inspire readers to learn about this critical part of our shared history.

“When Americans think of the ancient Greeks, we tend to think of Classical Greece, which was around 460 BC—the time of the famous philosophers like Socrates and the great playwrights,” Greenwood explains. “We don’t think of the era that preceded it, known as Archaic Greece. It was a fascinating period of time in which strange things are happening—Greece is figuring out how they see themselves as a culture and how to rule themselves.”

The book’s focus on the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC is due to its role as a turning point in history. Had the tiny Greek city-states not managed to stop the invading Persians—who far outnumbered and out-armored the Greeks—it’s likely the Persians would

have pushed all the way to Portugal and England, changing the face of history as we know it.

But lest you think this book is all about war and “ugly, guy kind of stuff,” as Greenwood puts it, don’t be deterred. To balance the story, Greenwood purposefully implemented a “strong women’s theme” surrounding Themistocles’ wife and other female characters who historically helped the fight by keeping Athens strong while its men were away at war.

“There were two driving forces in Greece at this time: valor and glory,” Greenwood says. “And valor was attributed to both men and women—it wasn’t limited to the battlefield. It’s uplifting for our society to know a little bit more about where they come from.

As the Ancient Greek adage goes, ‘Know thyself.’”

For more information, visit ancientgreecepersia.com. “Race to Marathon” is available on Amazon.com.

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Parkway Progress CITY SET TO TAKE LAND FOR LEVEE TRAIL

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he Pocket-Greenhaven community has two citizen-warriors who work hard to keep bureaucrats honest. They are the two Jims—Jim Geary and Jim Houpt. Both lawyers, they love to deploy their expertise to dissect documents, ask tough questions and insist authorities deliver services as promised.

The two Jims give special attention to the river and levees that make

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Pocket and Greenhaven unique. They are serious about parks and recreation.

They believe the city must deliver on its 1975 promise to complete the Sacramento River Parkway atop the levee from Freeport to Downtown.

The Jims were pleased last year when the Sacramento City Council unanimously agreed to move forward with eminent domain easement acquisitions along the levee, a big step toward finishing the parkway.

The acquisitions involve tiny strips of backyard footage claimed by property owners along the levee. For decades, a few homeowners insisted they “owned” the levee, which was ridiculous. The state owns the levee. It controls everything that happens there.

While levee ownership is clear, the city believes the property owners

may have some claim to title for land beneath the levee, whatever that means. To avoid a legal rabbit hole, the city agreed to buy small recreational easements from levee property owners.

If owners refuse the city’s generosity, easements will be taken through eminent domain for public benefit.

The two Jims have had many discussions about the city’s strategy.

While they don’t necessarily embrace the city’s theories, they cheer the decision to move ahead. For the Jims, what matters is public access to the river and levee—now, not years down the road.

Which is why the Jims have been asking City Hall: What’s happening with eminent domain?

The answer: Nothing, yet. While the City Council green-lighted the

acquisition of recreational easements along the levee, the process has been held up by the city’s desire to get other public agencies lined up. It’s a complex exercise, running through all levels of government, federal to local.

“The city has budgeted general fund money for the acquisition of the recreational easements, plus the design, permitting and environmental work,” says Dennis Rogers, chief of staff for City Councilmember Rick Jennings, who has led the battle for levee access.

“We’re basically making sure everyone is on the same page.”

The parkway project involves CalTrans and regional flood agencies.

It concerns the Army Corps of Engineers, because the Corps is busily repairing levee sections from Pocket to Downtown. The final paving work

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“I’m gratified the city is moving forward even if it’s taking longer than expected,” Houpt says. “We really wouldn’t want the trail paved only to have it torn up by critical work to improve our levee. The city has the luxury of time to make sure it gets everything right.”

Geary agrees, but notes the city has ignored his requests for information about eminent domain progress. He says, “A little transparency from the city could go a long way to improving

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Why must we fight for every bit of information?”

He’s right. The city’s habit of hiding information about the levee parkway destroys public trust.

But the city is determined to acquire easements and build a riverfront bike trail that should have arrived decades ago. It’s nice to know neighbors are ready to yell when progress takes a detour.

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Speaking of Eagles LIBRARY TALK EXPLORES THE NATIONAL BIRD IN OUR SUBURBS

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he ongoing—and increasing— presence of bald eagles on the American River is the subject of a Carmichael Library talk on Thursday, April 30. Photographer/ author Susan Maxwell Skinner will present photos and stories of the newcomers’ migration to areas considered closest ever to Sacramento.

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She recorded their courtship and the construction their first nest.

Subsequent photography of four sets of eaglets hatched in the eyrie has achieved worldwide circulation.

Beyond the first couple, at least two more pairs of bald eagles have since established local territory and the researcher believes the species could be common on the Sacramento and American rivers within a decade. The original parents’ fourth set of chicks recently busted from baseball-size eggs. Dawn-to-dusk hunting by both parents brings nourishing prey and the babies will soon achieve their great adult size. At around 13 weeks, they will spread 7-foot wings and fly.

Maxwell Skinner has recorded maiden flights—and the dramas

of fledging day—by the previous chicks. Parental devotion comes with sacrifice, she notes. Exhausted by childcare, mom and pop complete each parenting season with tough love. They escape, leaving juveniles in the care of babysitters. Mom and pop later reclaim their territory and rebuild the nest for next season.

A testament to the regeneration of a species threated once with extinction, this American River family’s presence is a joy to flightpath neighborhoods. The birds remain federally protected, and for fans unable to peer inside the eyrie, Maxwell Skinner’s photography is the next best thing to an eagle-cam. Her stories underscore the intelligence, efficiency and resilience of the species.

“They’re also selfless providers, committed to family and to raising independent kids,” she says. “They’re fantastic stewards of nature and we might learn much from them.”

Carmichael Library is at 5605 Marconi Ave. The free presentation begins at 6:30 pm. Eagle photo cards and the author’s book on Carmichael will be available for purchase.

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Kelly Cunningham and Sadie

Power to the Pets SACRAMENTO RENTERS FACE LACK OF AFFORDABLE ANIMAL-FRIENDLY HOUSING

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hen the owner of a Tahoe Park rental home abruptly sold the house, Kelly Cunningham and her 37-pound Australian shepherd mix, Sadie, found themselves unexpectedly searching for a new place to live.

“I started looking for housing and was completely dismayed,” Cunningham says. “There was a

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scarcity in rentals that would take pets, specifically a 37-pound dog.”

Cunningham learned of a petfriendly rental house near Tahoe Park, complete with a dedicated dog area in the backyard. “I arrived after work during the open house and the agent told me I would have had to arrive at the start. She was already buried in applications and my likelihood of getting the place was next to nothing.”

Cunningham inquired about other possibilities. “The agent said, ‘We have no other pet-friendly homes in our system’”—a system with approximately 200 dwellings for rent.

“The lack of pet-friendly rentals is a problem,” says David Dickinson,

director of the Sacramento County Animal Shelter on Bradshaw.

“Responsible owners need options for rentals.”

A search on the real estate database Zillow finds 1,260 available rental homes, condos, townhouses and apartments in Sacramento County. Of those, 499 allow cats, 524 small dogs and 173 large dogs (the definition of small and large dogs varies by rental property).

In the 994 square miles that make up Sacramento County, approximately 14 percent of rentals allow large dogs.

“I don’t consider 37 pounds a very large dog,” Cunningham says. “But so many draw the line with a small dog or one pet only.”

Available housing options show landlords and management agencies tend to be more amiable to felines and small canines. “Cats can be easily litter box trained and typically do not do damage to dwellings,” Dickinson says. “Dogs are also easily house trained.”

After about two months of “worrying and searching,” Cunningham finally landed a duplex in River Park. “At first the landlord said no to dogs.” However, to a strong referral from a friend who rents the other half of the duplex, the landlord agreed to an interview.

Renters have to become animal advocates, Cunningham says. Start by suggesting a pet interview. “Make

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If you have a certificate of behavior training, bring it.” Cunningham also recommends a letter of referral from past landlords.

“If you lapsed on training with your dog, get back to basics,” with commands like sit, down and stay.

“Make sure your dog is ready for the interview,” she says.

Also, offer to add a statement to the lease agreement that the renter will pay for damages caused by the animal.

“If something happens in a house you’re renting, be honest and up front and repair that damage with the landlord’s permission,” Cunningham says. “Be a good renter. A good dog citizen. A good dog advocate.”

As the dog foster coordinator for the East Sacramento-based rescue group Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary, Cunningham has firsthand experience with pet owners facing a lack of affordable housing.

Requests to surrender animals to Happy Tails has increased over the last two years, she says. “There were a lot of requests in 2019. People having to move. People in tears who

cannot find housing they can afford that allows animals. That’s been a conversation I’ve had over and over again,” she says.

“If you think you have to part ways with your animal, you need to plan ahead,” she adds. “Contact rescue groups or make an appointment at the SPCA right away.”

The Sacramento SPCA, which mainly accepts owner-surrendered pets, tracks the reasons why people give up their companion animals. In 2019, 255 cats (19 percent of total feline surrenders) and 468 dogs (24 percent of canine surrenders) were given up due to housing-related issues, including foreclosures, homelessness, inadequate houses or yards, landlord rules and moving.

“Sacramento is rated as one of the most dog-friendly cities in the nation, yet housing is still one of the top reasons why animals are surrendered by their owners,” says SSPCA CEO Kenn Altine. “As Gov. Newsom boldly pushes to end euthanasia of adoptable or treatable pets in California’s shelters, we must address the reasons

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Newsom’s inclusion of $50 million in his 2020-21 budget proposal to help California become a “no-kill” state has won praise and skepticism among animal advocates. “If Gov. Newsom’s investment in California becoming a no-kill is going to be successful, then we’ve got to change the way landlords and building owners look at pet ownership. And also help renters understand their rights and obligations,” Cunningham says.

“Lack of pet-friendly housing is a major reason for pet abandonment and relinquishment to animal shelters,” according to the No Kill Advocacy Center, which offers model legislation to prohibit housing discrimination against people with animal companions. “As long as reasonable concerns about pets are addressed—such as a deposit against damage—the privilege of living with a dog, cat or other animal should not be reserved to those fortunate enough to own their own home.”

With pet-friendly housing comes an additional monthly rental charge, as well as an often-hefty pet deposit. The Zillow search found prices for petfriendly rentals ranging from $925 a month for a one-bedroom apartment to $5,000 a month for a six-bedroom home.

With all the new multi-unit housing being built in Sacramento, Cunningham is hopeful there will be more affordable options for people with companion animals. “Landlords are a huge part of the issue. By saying no to animals, they are ending up in the shelters and rescues. These animals are the unseen victims.”

“Landlords have all the power,” Cunningham adds. “They have to recognize pets as family. They are saying no to someone’s emotional support. Money cannot be the sole factor.”

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All You Need Is Love

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VOLUNTEERS BRING LIFE BACK TO HISTORIC ROSE GARDEN he renaissance of the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery is a remarkable volunteer success story. In the words of the Cemetery Master Plan, the cemetery was “barren and lifeless” until volunteers transformed a “neglected burial ground to a vibrant historic cemetery that is a horticultural attraction.”

The plan states a vision for the historic cemetery, recognizing three major areas devoted to gardens: Historic Rose Garden, Hamilton Square Perennial Garden and California Native Plant Demonstration Garden.

When I started volunteering in the rose garden 18 years ago, the cemetery was full of life. Not only did volunteers work in the three gardens, they cared for hundreds of other adopted plots.

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program of history and garden tours, classes and events.

Founded in 1992, the rose garden is a collection of more than 500 roses from historic sites throughout California that are allowed to grow large in the style of 19th century pioneer plot cemeteries.

Old roses and Victorian funerary statuary and monuments are a perfect combination.

The rose garden was one of the most inspiring, beautiful and romantic spots I had ever known. Climbing roses clambered up trees, extended over arbors, wrapped around tripods and fountained over supports. A team of volunteers continuously tended the garden, working to preserve its living library of roses, educate the public about them and add beauty to the cemetery. The garden received two international awards for this outstanding effort. One of its many foreign visitors, the president of the United Kingdom’s Royal National Rose Society, said it well: “I feel surrounded by love.”

My son and daughter-in-law were married beneath their favorite cemetery rose arbor last April. Many wedding guests expected a somber, funereal

atmosphere. Instead, they were stunned by the beauty of the setting.

Most of the wedding guests didn’t realize that city staff had directed the removal of all supports and climbing plants from the cemetery several years earlier, and set requirements to move, remove or cut back many other plants.

Their rationale was questioned during heated statements to the Preservation Commission. Rose lovers throughout the world pleaded for the roses to be saved. Staff agreed to a moratorium until revised horticultural guidelines were developed cooperatively.

The good news is that a muchimproved set of guidelines was finally approved a year ago. The bad news is they were never implemented. This past winter, staff brought in an outside rosarian who vigorously pruned all of the roses in the collection. The climbing roses within the cemetery were cut back severely, and most of their supports were removed.

Roses are tough. They will grow back, some stronger than ever. However, the amount of bloom will be significantly less this spring, and the beauty and romance of the garden may never be the same.

The wedding guests also didn’t realize that cemetery volunteers were under siege, with staff demanding that volunteers sign a very restrictive agreement that included a gag order.

I could not bring myself to sign it, and was dismissed as a volunteer the day before the wedding. Other garden volunteers throughout the cemetery chose to leave, feeling that their efforts were neither appreciated nor supported.

Staff got the control they wanted, but at a steep cost.

A few rose garden volunteers proved they are as tough as the roses. They signed the agreement and continued to work in the garden, hoping to preserve the roses and beauty of this unique garden, develop a cooperative relationship with staff and rebuild a volunteer team. I and others supported them behind the scenes, advising and helping to plan and conduct tours and events sponsored by our parent nonprofit, the Old City Cemetery Committee.

We’ve propagated some of the best roses from the collection for the annual Open Gardens and Rose Sale, scheduled for April 18–19. Every year, people line up excitedly waiting for the sale to begin.

Even though its gardens are diminished, the cemetery is still a beautiful and historic place. It can have a renaissance once again if staff embraces history, horticulture and volunteers in accordance with the Master Plan. Roses can regrow. New and better supports can be installed.

Volunteers can be encouraged once again. All you need is love.

The Open Gardens and Rose Sale will be Saturday, April 18, from 9:30 a.m.–2 pm, and Sunday, April 19, from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway. For a catalog of plants for sale and schedule of events, visit cemeteryrose.org or the Facebook page.

The next UC Master Gardener Open Garden will be Wednesday, April 15, from 9 a.m.–noon at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks.

Anita Clevenger is a platinum Sacramento County Master Gardener.

For answers to gardening questions, contact the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or mgsacramento@ ucanr.edu, or visit sacmg.ucanr.edu.

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Fido & Farmers KNOW THE RULES BEFORE BRINGING THE POOCH TO MARKET

Pedals rides in her owner's backpack because she is not allowed to walk through the farmers market.

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t’s a brisk Sunday morning and the farmers market at 8th and W streets is already alive with a confluence of characters. Young families with strollers, college students in knitted sweaters and loyal patrons carrying baskets all buzz from booth to booth collecting organic acorn squash, cagefree brown eggs and lightly bruised oranges.

A young man and woman meander down the center corridor doting over a heap of broccoli with a wagging corgi in tow on a short leash. Passersby gesture to the sandy-colored dog with giddy chuckles and small gasps of amusement.

When a balding gentleman in jeans and a plaid jacket strides up and gently

pushes a piece of paper into the man’s hand, they all smile politely. Holding the dog’s leash, the man looks down at the wrinkled paper and begins to scan the lengthy text. In bold at the top of the page it reads, “No Dogs at Farmers’ Markets.”

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that canines are not allowed at “certified” farmers markets. There are often signs visibly posted throughout the aisles. But are pet dogs really a harmful addition to these outdoor affairs?

In 2014, California added amendments to its law on "live animals" in the Retail Food Code related to pet dogs in outdoor dining areas. The law states that patrons may bring their

pet dogs to an outdoor dining area if the establishment owner allows it and certain requirements are met.

Requirements include an outdoor entrance, and dogs leashed and under control. Employees also must wash their hands if they touch the canines.

Then why doesn’t this law apply to farmers markets?

The answer lies in California Health and Safety Code 114259.5, which stipulates that, with the exception of service animals, “live animals may not be allowed in a food facility.” Certified farmers markets, although they usually take place outdoors, fall into the category of a “food facility.”

SHOULD DOGS BE ALLOWED AT FARMERS MARKETS?

Courtney Smith Shared Abundance Organic Farm Auburn

Peter Moua Ge Moua Farm Courtland

Miriam Garcia Yanez Farm Sacramento

Jose Gallardo Gallardo’s Organic Farm Salinas

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“Personally, I’m a total dog lover, and we have dogs running around the farm! But people don’t contend with dogs lifting their legs on stands.”

“I think it’s OK if the dog is helping the person and is obedient, but not if the dog gets aggressive.”

“Some yes, but not all. When the dogs are tall, they smell the produce and some customers don’t like that.”

“I have no problem with dogs.

People come and go, and there’s never a problem.”

The Sunday Farmers Market under the freeway is a certified farmers market. Courtney Smith with Shared Abundance Organic Farm in Auburn cheerfully greets customers from behind a booth at the Sunday market. Smith says although she personally loves dogs, a farmers market with fresh produce and crowds may not be the place for them.

“People don’t contend with dogs lifting their legs on stands,” she says.

“And sometimes dog hair clings to the lettuce.” Smith mentions that not all markets have the same policy on dogs— or perhaps there are just no signs posted to remind patrons of the law.

The Midtown Farmers Market is managed by a Northern Californiabased events marketing agency called Unseen Heroes and hosted by the Midtown Business Association. The market is certified by the Sacramento County Agricultural Commissioner, which allows both “certified” and “uncertified” producers to sell their agricultural products provided all produce meets certain minimum quality standards.

At the Midtown Farmers Market, dogs are allowed to walk through the market, but not in the immediate market stalls (service animals are

allowed in all areas). “We periodically set up our 4-footed-favorite mobile PopUp Dog Park adjacent to the market,” says John Adair, director of bid services and communications for the Midtown market. “Many of the surrounding restaurants offer brunch on the patios that are dog-friendly, such as LowBrau and the MARRS building.”

Jose Gallardo of Gallardo’s Organic Farm has a booth at the Midtown Farmers Market with a bounty of red, green and rainbow Swiss chard and other fresh produce. Gallardo says he has no problem with dogs, and with patrons walking in and out so quickly it doesn’t seem to cause any issues.

Shopping at farmers markets directly supports the farmers and helps preserve California’s farmland. Two year-round markets in Sacramento are the Sunday Farmers Market under the freeway at 8th and W streets, and Saturday’s Midtown Farmers Market on 20th Street between J and K streets. Many other markets will pop up throughout the city as springtime approaches.

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4819 MARLBOROUGH WAY $805,000 2749 GUNN RD $395,000 6113 RANGER $365,000 2404 FALLWATER LN $365,000 6314 MADISON AVE $325,000 76 FOOTBRIDGE PL $517,500 5190 FINLANDIA WAY $765,000 5633 ANGELINA AVE $430,000 4912 BROOKGLEN WAY $426,000 6137 STANLEY AVE $599,500 4934 PALOMA AVE $650,000 3705 MACKENZIE LN $644,000 1470 GARY WAY $672,900 4824 ALEXON WAY $460,000 5137 WHISPER OAKS LN $450,000 3521 AUTUMN POINT LN $1,540,000 2845 ROYAL PALM WAY $630,000 6441 MILES LN $375,000 6418 BELGROVE WAY $321,000 5784 HASKELL AVE $465,000 2528 MIDLAND WAY $369,000 4362 VIRGUSELL CIR $465,000 4931 MARLBOROUGH WAY $765,000 6121 WINDING WAY $500,000 6100 STANLEY AVE $549,000 5316 ROBERTSON AVE $375,000 5259 MARIONE DR $1,009,000 6450 WINDING WAY $500,000 6036 ELLERSLEE DR $314,000 4008 REGGIE WAY $379,000 2620 FOOTHILL DR $350,000 5920 COYLE AVE $325,000 4523 JAN DR $475,000 2025 CLAREMONT RD $850,000 5947 RIVER OAK WAY $1,275,000 4016 EASTWOOD VILLAGE LN $385,000 2230 HILLCREST WAY $799,000 4182 SCRANTON CIR $425,000 6307 MADISON AVE $330,000 4117 SHARWOOD WAY $447,000 6028 SUTTER AVE $425,000 6838 GRANT $250,000 3110 JOELLEN CT $465,000 6707 STEELE OAK LN $869,000 4045 POPPLETON WAY $915,000 5337 HALSTED AVE $505,000

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3544 1ST AVE 4220 11TH AVE 3020 MARSHALL WAY 3109 39TH ST 5624 V ST 2738 60TH STREET 3879 8TH AVE 2025 30TH ST 19 MIDWAY CT 4111 8TH AVE

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2572 20TH ST 2340 MARSHALL WAY 3265 CROCKER DR 2709 10TH AVE 3610 24TH ST 2916 REGINA WAY 3481 22ND ST 2301 2ND AVE 3154 16TH ST 2356 MARSHALL WAY 2455 CASTRO WAY 2212 PORTOLA WAY 2340 RIVER CATS ALY 2549 10TH AVENUE 1316 BURNETT WAY 3281 CROCKER DR 2029 4TH ST 1803 CASTRO WAY 573 SWANSTON DR 2333 CASTRO WAY 2014 4TH AVE 2114 9TH ST 2681 MONTGOMERY WAY

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724 44TH ST 5333 SPILMAN AVE 5109 DOVER AVE 1311 57TH ST 521 PICO WAY 1318 44TH ST 4533 T ST 4911 D ST 511 LOVELLA WAY 4633 P ST 324 41ST ST 5040 MODDISON AVE 5908 CAMELLIA AVE 5329 L ST 936 47TH ST

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3335 64TH ST $489,000 4857 11TH AVE $396,500 4424 11TH AVE $285,000 4631 DEL NORTE BLVD $223,900 3962 44TH ST $199,000 3527 20TH AVE $270,000 4816 36TH ST $240,000 5825 7TH AVE $530,000 7411 25TH AVE $280,000 3620 22ND AVE $262,500 4840 PRISCILLA LN $310,000 3351 58TH ST $445,000 5213 CABOT CIR $333,000 5639 SIERRA VIEW WAY $409,900 4700 14TH AVE $250,000 3701 52ND ST $405,000 4731 16TH AVE $227,500 4311 48TH ST $258,000 4830 76TH ST $230,000 6600 SAN JOAQUIN ST $435,000 4417 W NICHOLS AVE $330,000 5409 8TH AVE $430,000 5404 62ND STREET $275,000 4900 CONCORD RD $280,000 5007 ARGO WAY $307,500 4134 SOLEDAD AVE $300,000 5808 21ST AVE $317,000 3856 38TH ST $290,000 3829 FRANKLIN BLVD $338,000 5081 MENDOCINO $190,000 3904 22ND AVE $168,000 5571 ONTARIO ST $200,000 4731 7TH AVE $425,000 5201 MORENA WAY $260,000 4900 CABRILLO WAY $225,000 3404 22ND AVE $151,000 4537 BRENT CT $283,000 3632 52ND ST $460,000 4840 SE TRINITY CT $238,000 5330 PRISCILLA LN $300,000 3811 35TH ST $255,000 5410 MENDOCINO BLVD $232,000 4941 9TH AVE $337,000 3808 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD $285,000

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3310 POTTER LN 3816 FRENCH AVE 2391 TYROLEAN WAY 3738 EASTERN AVE 2528 MORETTI WAY 4624 MCDONALD DR 3133 WOODMARK CT 2001 EDISON AVE 2651 BELL ST 4260 ALVA CT 3642 BAUSELL ST 3710 SUNNYVALE AVE 4160 DE COSTA AVE 4119 GISELLE CT 4331 ROBERTSON AVE 4012 FULLER WAY 4111 SILVER CREST AVE

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$290,000 $389,000 $370,000 $400,000 $280,000 $365,000 $591,400 $325,000 $363,000 $326,000 $539,000 $475,000 $425,000 $541,500 $362,000 $290,000 $615,000 $375,000 $249,000 $220,000 $354,000 $350,000 $406,000 $385,000 $269,000 $299,000 $305,000 $259,888 $740,000 $325,000 $642,888 $355,000 $295,000 $445,000 $174,000 $251,250 $325,000 $308,173 $679,000 $300,000 $295,000 $300,000 $250,000 $262,000 $249,978 $300,000 $300,000 $276,000 $511,000 $250,000 $295,000 $505,000 $651,200 $321,000 $650,000 $307,000 $410,000 $495,000 $290,000

2003 KEITH WAY 2824 MERRYWOOD DR 1820 RICHMOND ST 305 DUNBARTON CIR 3001 EL PRADO WAY 2120 BELL ST 531 HARTNELL PL 611 E RANCH RD 2248 SIERRA BLVD. 2116 MADERA RD 518 HARTNELL PL

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6936 S LAND PARK DR 7429 DURFEE WAY 6690 S LAND PARK DR 8 BINGHAM CIR 1309 LYNETTE WAY 6 BIG RIVER CT 689 CLIPPER WAY 10 CACHE RIVER CIR 90 GREENWAY CIR 6637 GLORIA DR 30 SPRINGMIST CT 60 RIO VIALE CT 18 RIVERSTAR CIR 23 OCEANFRONT CT 7316 WILLOW LAKE WAY 6 FLEET CT 9 WINDUBEY CIR

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4230 NORTH RIVER WAY 2213 IONE ST 4516 JUNO WAY 3723 LYNWOOD WAY 3644 LUSK DR 862 LA SIERRA DR 821 SAVERIEN DRIVE 2413 AVALON DR 2630 SIERRA BLVD 4401 CLYTIE WAY 2213 EASTERN AVE 4541 JUNO WAY 3236 WINDSOR DR 311 ROSS WAY 1020 MORSE AVE 3116 HURLEY WAY 1840 NEPTUNE WAY 3571 LOS ALAMOS WAY 1237 FITCH WAY 4329 VALMONTE DR 1108 SINGINGWOOD RD 2116 EDITH ST 4235 STOWE WAY 3108 KADEMA DR 2308 SAINT MARKS WAY 3121 BAKULA WAY 917 HAMPTON RD 4345 VULCAN DR 120 CLUNIE DR 4227 LUSK DR 4608 THOR WAY

$305,000 $373,000 $425,000 $435,000 $315,000 $302,500 $635,000 $465,000 $570,000 $322,500 $400,000 $560,500 $400,000 $500,000 $469,000 $487,000 $529,000 $657,000 $394,500 $500,000 $479,000 $455,000 $474,000 $590,500 $435,000 $437,500 $396,000 $355,000 $620,000 $328,300 $419,400 $453,000 $393,000 $575,000 $680,000 $292,000 $750,000 $479,900 $464,000 $465,000 $307,000 $615,000 $665,000 $208,000 $300,000 $594,500 $825,000 $465,000 $315,000 $514,000 $820,000 $850,000 $310,000 $370,000 $315,000 $430,000 $850,000 $530,000 $585,000

February 2020 sees new monthly high for median sales price February closed with 1,014 sales, up 7.4% from the 944 sales in January. Compared to one year ago (1,015), the current Àgure nearly unchanged. Of the 1,014 sales this month, 144 (14.2%) used cash Ànancing, 613 (60.5%) used conventional, 172 (17%) used FHA, 51 (5%) used VA and 34 (3.4%) used Other† types of Ànancing.

The median sales price increased 6.1% for the month from $375,000 to $397,750. This Àgure is up 10.5% from Feb. 2019 ($360,000).

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Saying ‘Thank You’ WHEN GRATITUDE HAS A DEEPER MEANING

t was an icy morning when I trudged the uphill sidewalk that skirts the University of Nevada campus.

Behind me, I heard the huffing of a fellow student approaching on his bicycle and I moved to my right to yield for faster traffic.

However, I unwittingly detoured the bicyclist already approaching my right and sent him onto a muddy knoll. He managed to stay upright as he passed me. Then, with his tires spitting mud and his voice dripping sarcasm, he yelled, “Thank you SO much!”

Unlike the rider, our thanks will often have some basis in sincerity. Yet most of the time, we express it in an automatic manner as a throw-away nicety. We use the polite “thank you”

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for people who hold a door open, serve our food or give us a printed program.

Occasionally, beyond this level of mannerly gratitude, we venture deeper by offering a thankful tone for the mindful effort someone makes specifically on our behalf. For instance, before I run in a local 10K, I thank race organizers and volunteers. During the race, I will break from my runner’s mental zone to yell, “Thank you, Sacramento PD,” or I’ll give a running applause to the roadside musical entertainers.

I do this because I am sympathizing with the laborious effort they’re making to help my cause. Their sheepish, smiling response often tells me they are humbled that I’ve interrupted my runner’s focus to salute their work.

But “thank you” goes deeper when the person receiving the thanks echoes your remark. By returning your expression they are acknowledging your effort to be present with their life difficulties.

I was visiting a hospice patient when I was blessed with this deeper

expression of gratitude. I arrived at the man’s house to find him better dressed than on recent visits. He wasn’t wearing the typical attire of hospice patients, which is often pajamas, sweatpants or blue jeans. My new friend was sporting slacks, a collared shirt and loafers.

“You are looking dapper today,” I told the 90-year-old.

“Thank you,” he said. “I told my family that I wanted to look nice today because my chaplain was coming for a visit.”

“Ah, thank you,” I said, gushing sincerity.

My gratitude centered around two things. First, the nonagenarian paid me a high compliment through his words, “my chaplain.” He is well respected in the religious community for his humanitarian efforts, so he’s likely had many “pastors.” But that day, he singled me out as “my chaplain.”

But more than that, I was thanking him because he knew that I knew the honor of being invited into the home of a dying person. He was reflecting that honor by dressing in the attire that

made him feel most like the person he remembered himself to be.

Through our mutual recognition of gratitude, he found a safe place to express himself. In the next hour, we shared some laughs, tears, heartaches and celebrations.

As I left, he thanked me for coming.

Gratefully, his last expression was nothing like I’d heard from the cyclist.

You’re likely wondering how I responded to the two-wheeled weaver.

Well, in a tone that matched the morning frost, I simply shouted, “You’re welcome!”

It’s unlikely the guy will ever come to know me as “my chaplain.”

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Crowded Out

TRANSIT SOLUTIONS NEEDED FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE

he world’s population keeps growing. In 1900, the planet was home to 1.6 billion people. Today, the population is 7.7 billion and it’s projected to approach 10 billion in the next 30 years. Most of the growth will be in urbanized areas.

The California Department of Finance expects Sacramento County’s population to increase 54 percent by 2060—nearly 800,000 more people.

El Dorado and Placer counties are growing at faster rates. Yolo County is just behind. Those three counties could add another 430,000 residents to the region’s population, bringing the newcomer total to more than 1.2 million.

Population growth is good for land speculators and developers, who usually lean on the rest of us to contribute monetarily to the infrastructure— sewers, new roads and freeway

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interchanges—needed to accommodate more housing.

People, including politicians, don’t generally talk about population growth as a problem, but the Earth’s resources are finite. There are only so many mineral deposits. The amount of arable land is limited, yet agricultural land is being taken out of production due to growth and lost to erosion and climate change. Fishery production is limited and overfishing is a problem. Hydraulic fracking has delayed the inevitable decline in oil production (and increase in prices), but carries environmental consequences.

In California, for every 100 people there are 75 cars. How will the 1.2 million more people in the Sacramento region, who need to commute, go to school, shop, socialize and recreate, get around in 40 years? Today, most use cars. Yet congestion is already the biggest transportation problem people name.

Can we, or should we, build our way out of congestion while adding more people? Are we condemned to be like a dog chasing its tail, hoping for relief while eternally stuck in traffic?

“Smart growth” has been the recent, more progressive way to deal with population growth. Essentially, smart growth is infill housing and denser development. While smart growth may be better than dumb sprawl in reducing the length of trips, it is still growth

and still results in more people and more trips. Further, our track record on smart growth has not been good.

Fast growing Roseville, Elk Grove and Natomas all pretty much mandate longer trips made by driving to get anywhere.

If population growth is a given (not that it should be), the options for dealing with its effects on transportation and road congestion are few. We can pave more of the countryside. We can discourage all trips.

We can try to shift trips from single occupant vehicles to carpools, transit, walking and biking.

Building new roads and interchanges is expensive. Widening existing roads is costly and often impractical. Are we to double-deck freeways through areas that are already developed?

Unfortunately, adding road capacity induces more people to drive. Adding road capacity doesn’t seem to be a winning proposition economically and is environmentally untenable.

Adding transit capacity is also expensive and, especially for railbased transit, construction time can be measured in decades. It demands housing density to be efficient. One big advantage of transit is that it can be scaled up without raising the same issues as catering to more automobiles.

Service frequency can be bumped up.

More cars can be added to trains.

Automobile trips can be discouraged through congestion fees, tolls, higher gas taxes and parking fees. Those are all economically justified, but politically unpopular.

Some observers believe we will always have to live with congestion made worse by population growth. It’s too costly to build a road network that is uncongested during peak hours when those same roads would be grossly overbuilt for traffic volumes during most hours of the day.

As long as populations keep growing, the onslaught of humanity will complicate any plans to improve personal mobility. Demand for getting around keeps increasing. Creating the supply to meet that demand gets more expensive to build and maintain.

Perhaps we will be permanently condemned to being stuck with our newest neighbors on crowded highways.

Or will we recognize that perpetual population growth is not a good thing?

Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. Previous columns can be read and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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hen I catch up with artist Bryan Valenzuela on the phone, he asks if it’s OK that he’s talking to me on a headset while he paints. In San Francisco. On the side of a building.

Three stories up.

Valenzuela is hard at work on a 48-foot mural in the courtyard of a renovated hotel. What should have taken only a couple of weeks is taking far longer due to unseasonal rains that halt his progress for days at a time. Valenzuela says he doesn’t mind the pauses, but he does worry that he has other projects to attend to and, more importantly, “the faster I get it done, the sooner I can see my dog.”

The Orange County native isn’t complaining about the work—in fact, he’s immensely grateful that he’s gotten to a point in his career where all he does is make art. Although, painting wasn’t his first love—he started as a writer, which isn’t surprising when you consider how much text is featured in his artwork.

Valenzuela has become known for his unique and utterly arresting style that involves, as he puts it, “the atomization of the figure by carving out shape and light with handwritten text. Though virtually unnoticeable from afar, once the viewer steps closer to each work, they are engulfed in a barrage of words intermingled with other mixed media elements, such as needle and thread, acrylic paint and collage.”

After going to high school in the foothills, Valenzuela attended Sacramento State, where he was “lured” into the art department. He graduated in 2003 with his bachelor’s degree in art studio, and has worked and exhibited steadily since then.

But the Boulevard Park resident says the moment his career really took off was when he was commissioned by the city of Sacramento and Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission to

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create the public art installation “Multitudes Converge” at the newly completed Golden 1 Center in 2016.

Valenzuela’s hanging sculpture is made up of approximately 400 blownglass spheres in shades of blue and turquoise with hints of gold.

“After that commission, I was swept out to sea on a current I didn’t expect,” Valenzuela says. “Golden 1 made it so I could be an artist fulltime. I feel really lucky that I’ve been able to bounce from one project to

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a good home base. It’s like a small town that’s also a city—a real hidden gem. It has an amazing, supportive, talented art community and a great pace of life. When you go to other cities like New York, you get off the subway and there’s this ‘whoosh’ of activity. I like the burst of energy, but it’s nice to have a break when I come back.” another, but it’s definitely been a That break will probably be whirlwind.” short-lived if the current demand Since Golden 1, Valenzuela for his talents is any indication. has completed projects all over After completing the mural in San California—including “Kumbaya Francisco, Valenzuela is off to Malibu Moment” for Sacramento’s Wide for another project, then back to Open Walls mural festival in 2017—as Sacramento for a commission with well as in Chicago, New York, New the 1810 Gallery, followed by a solo Orleans and Brooklyn. But no matter show at Beatnik Studios in April and where he travels, he’s always happy to potentially another mural for Wide come home.

Open Walls.

“Sacramento has been really When he has time in between, he’s good to me,” Valenzuela says. “It’s composing, performing, recording

and touring with the band Exquisite Corps—music is another one of his creative outlets—or walking his dog to his favorite Midtown haunts. Life is a whirlwind right now to be sure, but Valenzuela wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I keep challenging myself to do more and more ambitious work and keep pushing the boundaries,” Valenzuela says. “I keep challenging myself to do better.”

For more information, visit bryanvalenzuela.com.

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n the early 2000s, local breweries began popping up where no food or drink establishments dared to open before. Light industrial areas, warehouse districts and other commercial spots where rent was cheap and square footage plentiful became destinations for a new generation of brewer.

One of Sacramento’s first such breweries was Track 7 Brewing Company, which opened in 2011. The award-winning beer-maker set up shop in a “roll-up door” strip of industrial shops near the train tracks adjacent to Sacramento City College.

This out-of-the-way spot turned out to be a popular destination for local beer enthusiasts and set up Track 7 as a standard bearer for Sacramento’s new brewing boom. The Curtis Park-area brewery and taproom expanded, and a second Natomas brewery and taproom opened. Last year, the popular brewery expanded even further, opening The Other Side, an East Sacramento restaurant.

This new enterprise brought the ethos of Track 7’s low-frills, industrial pedigree right to the middle of one of Sacramento’s poshest neighborhoods and most bustling restaurant rows. Nestled on the corner of 51st Street and

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Folsom Boulevard, The Other Side finds itself just blocks away from some of the city’s best casual dining at One Speed and Origami, steps from neighborhood favorites like The Shack and Three Sisters, and a stone’s throw from what is possibly Sacramento’s best fine dining at Allora.

What, then, would The Other Side bring to the neighborhood? Sass. That’s what.

Pairing simple food and creative beer is no mean feat, and The Other Side has got it nailed. Starting with a menu focused on rotisserie cooking and impeccable execution, The Other Side does things right in almost every way. From brunch to dinner, wings to poutine, this place is hitting the beer snacks and gastro pub vibe right in the kisser.

Let’s start with brunch, because I don’t want the rather insanely perfect execution in this otherwise underwhelming category to go unnoticed. Let me put this simply: The Other Side serves the best brunch I’ve had in quite a while.

The Monte Cristo sandwich is an item frequently attempted, but rarely perfected. I’d go as far as to say that The Other Side serves a perfect Monte Cristo. Is it iconic? Probably not. Is it traditional? Not quite. But the ham and cheese sandwich brunched up with orange marmalade, berry consommé and powdered sugar, then deep fried in tempura batter, is one of the few things that my wife has refused to share with me in the decade we’ve been together.

It’s the best MC I’ve had in my eating years.

However, if the brunch sandwich isn’t your thing, then the fried chicken on a biscuit and gravy is so ridiculously good that you’ll quickly forget how unbelievably indulgent it is. The sunnyside egg topped on the expertly fried chicken topped on the gorgeously gravysoaked biscuit is simply phenomenal. I couldn’t get enough of it.

Being a brewery, The Other Side serves my favorite brunch drink as well, the Beer-mosa. A lovely tulip of Belgian ale with a splash of orange juice. This treat is what makes Sunday mornings happy.

The regular menu aims for more sharable plates and simple deliciousness. A rotisserie plate of chicken, pork or cauliflower gets served with spot-on pita and sauces. Add on a couple of sides like golden beets and jalapeno slaw, and you’ve really got something.

The more indulgent parts of the menu usually include the indulgently indulgent (did I mention indulgent) beer cheese. Man, it’s good. Dip your pretzels in it. Spread it on your fries. Make mac and cheese with it. Slather it on your meats. It doesn’t matter where you put it, the beer cheese will make anything better.

Oh, and let’s not forget the burger.

The Other Side serves what I like to call the dirty American burger. A thin patty with iceberg, thousand island, tomato and bacon add up to a perfect combo of American eating. They call it the T7B Classic. I call it delicious.

This is a light-service, order-atthe-counter kind of place. Seating is communal for the most part with

ample outdoor tables and a convivial atmosphere. There’s beer and wine and soft drinks. There’s plenty of room for the kiddos and adults to enjoy themselves shoulder to shoulder.

I’m personally happy to see a well-regarded brewery expand into an impressive dining experience. The Other Side has a bright future and killer menu that will make it a neighborhood favorite for years to come. If nothing else, you owe it to yourself to show up for weekend brunch and devour that Monte Cristo!

The Other Side by Track 7 is at 5090 Folsom Blvd.; (916) 475-1875; track7brewing.com.

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UPDATED EAST SAC TUDOR First koor features a den and master suite with a spa-like bathroom complete with heated koors! $829,950 Rich Cazneaux 916.212.4444 DRE#10447558 Brand New Duplex! Gorgeous jnishes with plenty of space. Convenient to shopping and public transportation. Perfect income property! $635,000 Rich Cazneaux 916.454.0323 CalRE# 01447558

DOWNTOWN 3 BR 2.5 BA CONDO Live large in this Southside Park 2-story home with covered parking.

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PENDING MCKINLEY PARK DUPLEX! Designed to look like a single-family home, offers jreplaces and hard wood koors! $749,000 Lorene Warren 916.799.2121 DRE#00680007 NEW LUXURY RIVERFRONT HOMES! Top of the line jnishes, large decks, limited-call for info. Michael Onstead 916.601.5699 BRE#01222608

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MARVELOUS 4BR, 4 BA MIDTOWN VICTORIAN! Modern features + pool, dry sauna & 2 car garage. $1,249,800 Steph Baker 916.775.3447 DRE#01042254

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