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As an active 64-year-old who enjoys good health, I decided not to rush to get the vaccine. After all, there were many people much older and less healthy who could benefit ahead of me. While I was cautious, I was never overcome with fear. I did not buy into the corporate media reporting that often focused on stoking irrational fear and even panic.

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The medical censorship in the media (still underway) astounded me. Any trust of the media I had evaporated.

However, my husband is 92. While he has no underlying medical conditions, his doctor and family wanted him vaccinated. At the end of January, I signed him up for the shot. I was also offered an appointment. Thinking it might keep him safer to have me vaccinated, I took it.

The next day, we received our first doses of the Moderna vaccine at Cal Expo. We experienced no side effects that first day.

However, the next day, playing tennis, my hands grew extremely sore.

As days passed, I noticed my joints were swollen and inflamed, especially early in the morning. It took more than a week for me to connect the pain as a possible side effect of the vaccine. Hand pain was among the top side effects of the Moderna shot. So were migraine headaches. I experienced those too.

I wrote friends and family to let them know that, while I was not discouraging anyone from getting vaccinated, they should use caution. Side effects can be real. Amazingly, a couple people insisted

my hand pain had nothing to do with the vaccine!

My primary-care doctor—Justin Altschuler of Sequoia Medical— suggested the problem was suddenonset rheumatoid arthritis, a possible side effect of the vaccine. I reported my problems on the government’s VAERS website, which was difficult and timeconsuming.

After conservative treatments failed, Dr. Altschuler Dr. Diana Girnita wanted me to see a rheumatologist.

We quickly learned local rheumatologists were booked six to eight months out for new patients. He said with the side effects of COVID and the vaccine, many patients needed greater care. He said the cost would be many thousands of dollars, out-of-pocket in my case.

This was disappointing. At home in East Sacramento, I am surrounded by major medical centers. Dignity Health, Sutter General and UC Davis Medical Center are within 5 miles of my home. They are the pride of our region. Yet, there was no care available for my worsening condition and its complications.

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My doctor suggested I consider consulting with Dr. Diana Girnita—a rheumatologist with an online practice in Palo Alto. She developed a lower cost, easier access model of delivering her specialized care.

The next morning, I spoke with Dr. Girnita on the phone and decided this was the way to go. After completing a medical history online, we had a 60-minute FaceTime consultation later that day. I cannot recall ever being treated to that amount of time and attention by a medical provider. I was thrilled that she addressed wellness, including diet, exercise, mindfulness and sleep.

Dr. Girnita is an impressive medical professional. Originally from Romania, she is U.S. board certified in rheumatology and internal medicine.

Her background includes fellowships, clinical work, teaching and research at Harvard, University of Pittsburg, University of Cincinnati and more.

Her practice diagnoses and treats adult patients for an array of inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis, autoimmune diseases and osteoporosis.

With a clinical and research background in immunology, cardiology and rheumatology, Dr. Girnita provides a personalized, comprehensive

perspective. She works directly with patients and provides second opinions and inter-professional consultations.

Her patients have access to low-cost lab work and prescriptions.

“My priority is to guide you and advocate for your best health care,” she says. “I am a strong advocate of treating early and appropriately autoimmune and inflammatory conditions as they can significantly increase patients’ cardiovascular risk.”

Dr. Girnita had become disillusioned with the traditional model of rheumatology care in the last decade.

But when COVID hit, she decided to develop a more effective model. Her aim is to widen access to rheumatology patients and other similar specialty doctors.

“It had become clear to me that many, many more people needed access to specialties such as mine. And the extraordinary high cost left many patients suffering without any care,” she says. Dr. Girnita is licensed to practice through videoconference in four states, including California.

My time with her included education, thoughtful discussion, explanations and various options for care. A special app allows email follow-ups. It’s prompt and effective.

I’m happy to report that after five months in her care, I am for the most part healed. However, flare-ups are still possible. My total cost including tests, drugs and consults was around $600.

I’m grateful for her decision to embark on this path, and grateful for her care.

Working in conjunction with local primary-care physicians, Dr. Girnita’s practice model looks to have a bright future. Will Sacramento’s medical establishment see the light and move in this direction? Let’s hope so.

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ew artistic wraps now adorn utility boxes at Winn Park in Midtown and in South Sacramento.

The Midtown Association tapped the talents of local digital visual artist and Sacramento native Brandon Gastinell to wrap two 6-foot utility boxes at Winn Park at 1616 28th St. to help beautify the area.

The city also unveiled a new public art installation in South Sacramento created by local artist Janine Mapurunga titled “Well Together: Portraits of Community.” The health-and-wellnessthemed installation includes 15 utility box wraps and 20 banners along Bruceville Road between Consumes River Boulevard and Valley Hi Drive.

“The main factor determining our wellbeing is connection with others,” Mapurunga says. “The happiest and healthiest people in the world are those whose lives are tightly woven within their communities.

“My goal with this project was to document the ways in which different groups of people in District 8 are nurturing themselves and those around them.”

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ENERGY-EFFICIENT ORDINANCES The Sacramento City Council recently adopted electric vehicle charging and building electrification

ordinances to make Sacramento more energy efficient than ever.

The Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Ordinance requires higher levels of EV charging infrastructure in new construction starting in 2023 and establishes parking incentives for zero-emission carsharing and EV charging infrastructure.

The New Building Electrification Ordinance requires new buildings filing for permits to be all-electric as of Jan. 1, 2023 (one- to three-story buildings), or Jan. 1, 2026 (four stories or more).

Both ordinances are known as “reach codes,” which are local building energy codes that reach beyond the state minimum requirements for energy use in building design and construction. The ordinances seek to reduce greenhouse

Sacramento that subscribe to 2 cubic yards or more per week of garbage and recycling services are now required by state law to separate organic material from their garbage for recycling.

This process reduces the amount of organic waste going to landfills and creating methane gas—one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming—as they break down.

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Photo courtesy of Midtown Association. gas emissions and air pollution from burning fossil fuels in vehicles and inside buildings. For more information, visit cityofsacramento.org.

PROUD AMERICANS Approximately 170 eighthgrade students at Sutter Middle School completed a yearend project interviewing immigrants and children of immigrants, and gathering their stories into a book titled “Proud Americans: Student Version.”

The book, published last month, was inspired by “Proud Americans: Growing Up as Children of Immigrants,” a collection of 50 inspirational stories by Land Park author Judie Panneton.

Students interviewed family members, neighbors and others to learn their personal histories of immigrating to the United States, facing challenges and creating successful lives. The project was spearheaded by English and history teachers Jody Cooperman, Kailyn Bates and Marissa Noguchi.

“A hope is that these lessons will be helpful in their personal, school and professional lives as they find that people often have more in common than they expected, even if their families’ ancestral stories are different,” Cooperman says. “It’s a timely topic considering increased hatred and violence against some minority groups, current immigration challenges and proposed changes to immigration policies.”

JOEY’S FOOD LOCKER Natomas Unified School District is providing free food every Friday to those in need through Joey’s Food Locker at Natomas High School.

The food locker is staffed by volunteers from the district’s Adult Transitions Program, which helps young adults ages 18 to 22 overcome mental or physical challenges by teaching them skills for living independently and getting a job.

Joey’s Food Locker is dedicated to the memory of Joel “Joey” Michael Schwieger Jr., son of NUSD’s Adult Transitions Program teacher Joel Schwieger and his wife Darian. Joey was born with autism and died at the young age of 30, but his caring spirit lives on in the food locker.

Joey’s Food Locker “not only will help (students) with food, it will help them with education,” Schwieger Sr. says. “Instead of worrying about their next meal, they’ll be fed and ready for school.”

The food locker receives canned and dried foods from the Sacramento Food Bank. The public may also make donations at NUSD campuses and the district office. For more information, contact Schwieger at (530) 312-9799 or jschwieger@natomasunified.org.

Sacramento officials are urging the public to increase water conservation efforts this year as severe drought conditions continue to unfold, impacting the environment of the lower American River and potentially next year’s water supplies.

Immediate actions include reducing lawn watering times by two minutes, but remembering to protect trees.

Lawns can handle less water and eventually recover, while trees can be lost forever.

Check soil moisture with a moisture meter before turning on sprinklers.

Water plants early in the morning to reduce evaporation. Transition to a low-water garden by removing some or all lawn and adding drought-tolerant, water-efficient native plants and drip irrigation.

Contact your water provider about rebates to replace old irrigation equipment, fixtures and appliances with high-efficiency models.

For more water-saving tips and a map of watering guidelines, visit bewatersmart.info.

VIRTUAL ACADEMY Davis Joint Unified School District recently launched a new Virtual Academy program for the 2021-22 school year through its Davis School for Independent Study.

This online K–12 remote learning program provides students with access to real-time instruction with a teacher and on-demand learning, as well as the opportunity to pair remote learning with in-person classes at DSIS and other DJUSD sites. Students also can

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“Over the past two years, the traditional education model has experienced radical changes,” says Rob Kinder, Virtual Academy principal.

“Though these changes were originally expected to be temporary, they have since been embraced and incorporated into standard learning options.”

In addition to families in DJUSD, the program is open to students from Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Colusa, Sutter and Lake counties who can enroll upon receiving an interdistrict transfer from their own school district. For more information, visit djusd.net.

EMS DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Sacramento County Emergency Medical Services Director Dr. Hernando Garzon has been named 2020 EMS Medical Director of the Year by the California Emergency Medical Services Authority for his efforts and leadership during the COVID-19 response.

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Garzon assisted the state by building models and predictive theories, which enabled local and statewide leaders to be better prepared to respond to the approaching “storm” of patients.

He also continued to lead one of the largest EMS systems in the state and guided the development of an emerging infectious disease policy that provided direction to the greater EMS community about a sensible approach to preventing transmission of the COVID-19 virus, mitigating the spread of the disease among the workforce and safe return-to-work guidelines.

“I most enjoy working on EMS systemwide and quality-improvement issues because I see that as the key to ensuring the highest quality prehospital care for all people in Sacramento County,” Garzon says.

OAK PARK SPECIALTY CLINIC Imani Clinic, a free health clinic in Oak Park, has opened a new endocrine/ diabetes specialty clinic to address inadequacies in the health care system that disproportionately affect African Americans.

“Sixteen percent of Black individuals have diabetes, which is significantly higher than white counterparts,” says Rishi Sharma, a UC Davis undergraduate who joined Imani Clinic shortly after moving to the U.S. two years ago from Dubai. “This statistic is even more pronounced for Black women.”

Sharma says Oak Park struggles with a disproportionately higher prevalence of chronic disorders like diabetes.

The clinic is staffed with volunteer endocrinologists from UC Davis Health who offer a range of services to patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes and other endocrine disorders. They also have a team of trained lifestyle and health counselors who work with patients to help them manage their conditions. For more information, visit imaniclinic.org.

DIGITAL EQUITY The City Council has approved $600,000 to continue its commitment to closing the digital divide for Sacramentans over the next three years as part of the Digital Equity Response Program. The program is operated by the city’s information technology

department in partnership with United Way California Capital Region.

“We need to ensure our residents most in need are provided with training, technology and internet,” says Ignacio Estevez, the city’s IT manager. “With City Council’s leadership and the hard work of United Way, our communitybased organizations and city staff, we will continue to provide these vital services to our community.”

The approved funding will add to more than $900,000 in CARES Act dollars spent to create a Sacramento Public Library Wi-Fi hotspot checkout program and to distribute 2,765 laptops and mobile Wi-Fi hotspots to low-income individuals impacted by COVID-19. For more information, visit sacramentocovidrelief.org/digital.

LIGHT RAIL LIGHTS The Midtown Association and Sacramento Regional Transit District have completed a spectacular new LED art installation at SacRT’s light rail station on R Street between 29th and 30th streets.

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Investment in beautifying public space enhances our urban experience.”

CERAMICS CURATOR The Crocker Art Museum has announced Rachel Gotlieb, Ph.D., as its first Ruth Rippon curator of ceramics.

A leading ceramics specialist educated in Canada and England, Gotlieb will oversee acquisitions, exhibitions and scholarships, and help bring the Crocker’s international ceramics collection—one of the largest in the United States—to even greater prominence nationally and internationally.

Gotlieb’s role is a new position established through the generosity of Anne and Malcolm McHenry in honor of Ruth Rippon, the influential Sacramento State professor who helped shape the Northern California ceramics tradition.

“The ceramics collection at the Crocker precedes itself,” Gotlieb says. “I look forward to increasing access to its diverse and expansive collection.”

AIRPORT GRANT The Sacramento County Department of Airports will receive $48.6 million

from the Airport Rescue Plan Act, part of efforts by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration to help airports recover from the pandemic.

Passenger traffic at Sacramento International Airport was down 95 percent in April 2020 and recovery is far from complete. The airport is projected to finish fiscal year 2020-21 down 49.8 percent versus FY 2018-19.

“This Airport Rescue Plan Act grant will help keep our workers employed and will facilitate the continued recovery of our airlines and tenants as more of our customers begin traveling again,” says Cindy Nichol, director of airports for Sacramento County.

The Sacramento County Department of Airports is responsible for planning, developing, operating and maintaining the county’s four airports: Sacramento International Airport, Executive Airport, Mather Airport and Franklin Field. For more information, visit sacramento.aero.

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offered by local artist Liz Carroll of Paint the Town With Red! “I love this community and am eager to share the opportunity for you to learn—from me—how to paint a beautiful painting of your choice,” Carroll says. “You don’t need any painting experience. If you can follow simple instructions, you can create your own masterpiece you will be proud of.”

Guests receive step-by-step instructions in an approximately two-hour class for $35, which includes a pre-sketched canvas, apron, easel, paints, brushes and bowls—and an adult beverage, of course!

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District 3 Parks Commissioner David Guerrero enjoys a water splash pad at Jefferson Park.

After Five and Rock the Yacht, departing from Old Sacramento.

Reservations are recommended.

Cruises depart from 1206 Front St. For more information, visit cityexperiences. com/sacramento/city-cruises.

FAIRYTALE TOWN TROUPERS AUDITIONS Calling all young performers! The Elly Award-winning Fairytale Town Troupers is holding auditions for actors ages 5–18 for Fairytale Town’s popular performance series. Auditions are in preparation for the November showing of “The Princess of Camelot.”

No theatrical experience required.

Parents and guardians are welcome to accompany minors. Audition appointments are required. To make an appointment, contact John Lee at mrlee@fairytaletown.org. For more information on Fairytale Town Troupers, visit fairytaletown.org.

SPLASH PADS & POOLS Fourteen pools and water splash pads at 12 city parks run by the city’s Department of Youth, Parks & Community Enrichment are open through mid-August, so don a bathing suit and get out there.

For a list of locations and more information, visit cityofsacramento.org/ parksandrec/recreation/aquatics on the “Recreational Swim Page.”

HOT SPOT NIGHTS The city of Sacramento’s Hot Spot nights for local teens are back. Designed for Sacramento teens ages 13–17, Hot Spot nights are free events that allow young people to interact with their friends while staying close to home in a safe and supervised environment.

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Arden Little League Marlins wins the District 5 Tournament of Champions. and more at seven community center sites. Pre-registration is required at cityofsacramento.org/ypcesignup, under “Activities,” then search for “Hot Spot.”

CARMICHAEL SPORTS The Carmichael Recreation and Park District welcomes adult sports back to La Sierra Community Center.

Registration is now open for volleyball leagues and the 5-on-5 Basketball League.

Coed softball at Carmichael Park is also continuing its summer season.

Indoor pickleball and 3-on-3 Basketball League will resume when resources allow. For more information, visit carmichaelpark.com.

GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARDS Twenty-five Girl Scouts recently received a Girl Scout Gold Award after completing 2,250 hours of service. Three Gold Award Girl Scouts—Haley Dosher, Anna Ermoian and Madison Hause— received special scholarships toward their college tuition.

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest achievement a Girl Scout can receive for girls in grades 9–12 who demonstrate extraordinary leadership in developing sustainable solutions to local, national and global challenges.

Through her Hope project, Dosher addressed the care, safety and education of elementary schoolchildren in her community. Ermoian’s project helped homeless pet owners impacted by California’s severe housing shortage

through a partnership with the UC Davis Mercer Clinic, a free veterinary clinic for homeless people. Hause’s project, Crash Course for High Schoolers on the Student Debt Crisis, educated her peers on how to make educated financial decisions in college.

“In a year filled with many unknowns and interruptions, this group of Girl Scout Gold Awardees continually inspired everyone around them with their perseverance, motivation and forward-thinking attitudes,” says Dr. Linda E. Farley, CEO of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California.

For more information, visit girlscoutshcc.org.

ARDEN LITTLE LEAGUE This summer, the Arden Little League Marlins became the third team in the league’s 60-year history to win the District 5 Tournament of Champions.

In a single elimination tournament, the Marlins played five games in 10 days against teams from Northridge, Rosemont, Carmichael, Rancho Cordova and College Glen. The team won in a 10–8 victory to clinch the championship.

Go, Marlins! For more information, visit ardenlittleleague.com.

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CITY PUTS BEST FOOT FORWARD ON DEL RIO TRAIL

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acramento is getting good at building bike paths. This news may surprise cynics who think the city’s recreational talents range between mediocre and none, but it’s true.

The proof is the Del Rio Trail project.

Running nearly 5 miles between Sutterville Road and Bill Conlin Sports Complex on Freeport Boulevard, Del Rio shapes up as a positive jolt to the city’s quality of life. Cyclists and runners will love it.

The trail follows an abandoned Sacramento Southern Railroad route through some surprisingly lush

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suburban landscapes. In the fine railroad tradition, it passes along the backside of South Land Park neighborhoods and offers vistas impossible to see from city streets. Del Rio rediscovers a forgotten, hidden page of the community. It’s a treat for urban explorers.

The trail will serve as a transportation asset that’s more than the sum of its parts. It’s not just a 4.8mile folly for Land Park, South Land Park, Greenhaven and Pocket residents.

Del Rio will hook up with the Sacramento River Parkway and create a loop that safely carries cyclists, runners and walkers from the levee near Pocket Road to the zoo and William Land Park.

From there, enthusiasts can pedal to Old Sacramento or even Folsom.

“Once it’s completed, people are really going to be excited,” says Scott Burns, a board member with the South Land Park Neighborhood Association.

“We polled our community and received about 600 responses, which is pretty good. The neighborhood is very much in support, by about 90 percent.”

Unlike the Sacramento River Parkway, which was promised by the city in 1975 and won’t be finished for another three or four years, the Del Rio Trail has advanced with lightning speed.

The idea was launched about five years ago. The City Council quickly approved the new trail. Funding was secured and final designs should be ready this fall. With luck, the $20 million Del Rio experience will open by late 2022.

As always, there’s controversy—this time an ironic twist on the Not In My Backyard disease. Backyards are the problem. About 60 homeowners along the Del Rio route mysteriously extended

their yards into the old rail right of way.

Maybe they assumed nobody would notice.

When the city surveyed property lines for the Del Rio Trail, the encroachments were exposed. The city sent demand letters to property owners, who responded with predictable representations of shock and disbelief.

My backyard? How could that be? Most pleaded innocence, swearing they had no idea how those bigger yards came into their possession.

“To the city’s credit, it’s working with the property owners on an individual basis,” says Burns, who knows about such matters. He’s an

DEL RIO WILL HOOK UP WITH THE SACRAMENTO RIVER PARKWAY AND CREATE A LOOP THAT SAFELY CARRIES CYCLISTS, RUNNERS AND WALKERS FROM THE LEVEE NEAR POCKET ROAD TO THE ZOO AND WILLIAM LAND PARK.

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attorney whose career includes years handling encroachment controversies for CalTrans.

Another controversy involves trains, which isn’t a surprise given Del Rio’s history as a railroad route. A group of rail enthusiasts wants to preserve the Del Rio tracks for the fantasy of excursion trains.

Never mind that Sacramento Southern stopped hauling freight down the Del Rio tracks almost 50 years ago.

Or that many rails and ties are buried and rotten and disrupted by scrub oak trees. The dream of steam engines still sparkles.

“There’s no way the community is going to allow trains to run through South Land Park,” Burns says. “It’s not going to happen.”

The city plans to honor the trail’s legacy without resurrecting a real railroad. Del Rio will incorporate old tracks along the bike and pedestrian paths as feasible, similar to R Street near the Fox & Goose pub.

Note the plural “paths.” Here’s an important Del Rio attribute. Much of the trail will include two unique, parallel tracks, one for bikes and one for pedestrians. City designers have finally realized a double-path layout is

best for popular trails, keeping cyclists separated from citizens on foot.

South Land Park neighbors plan to raise money to install interpretive historical features along Del Rio, sort of a cherry on the sundae. When the city finally finishes the Sacramento River Parkway, Sacramento’s bike paths will be the envy of the free world.

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Walk A Mile In My Shoes Editor’s Note: Inside Sacramento asked Zack Sherzad and Walter Yost, two local writers with differing political perspectives, to meet and swap media diets for several weeks.

We didn’t know if they would learn anything or even get along. Their stories describe what happened. Thank you to Braver Angels for the original idea of media swaps.

LET’S AVOID LABELS, BUT THE BERET CAN STAY

BY ZACK SHERZAD When someone asks if I am a rightwing conservative Republican or a left-wing liberal Democrat, I shudder.

There’s no useful answer. In the best case, the response produces a friend who parrots your beliefs. In the worst case, you are ridiculed and dismissed.

When I learned I would be paired with a Democrat in a journalistic experiment where we swap news diets in the spirit of bipartisanship, I was nervous. I don’t like the idea of one’s life experience being boiled down to a single word. It leaves too much to the imagination. In the current political climate, imagination can be uncharitable.

Consider my first impression of Walter. I was told he was “far left.”

When we arranged to meet in a coffee shop, he told me I would know him by his beret. Really? My imagination began to whirl. Was he an artist, communist or revolutionary? All three?

We hadn’t even met and already I’d turned him into a caricature.

We exchanged news sources—his more traditional print journalism vs. my techie websites, podcasts, YouTube videos and Reddit threads—and met

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three times to discuss how the exchange was affecting us.

Each time I was pleased by the nuance of our conversations. We hedged our assertions with considerate devil’s advocacy. We let each other speak.

The trick, we concluded, was to avoid focusing on labels. There may be times when labels can be useful, but they are shortcuts—excuses not to do the hard work of learning what someone really believes, and how those thoughts developed.

It’s easy to hate a label. Liberal.

Conservative. Democrat. Republican.

These are abstract concepts, not people.

They depend more on the perspective of the perceiver than the perceived. It’s not so easy to hate the articulate individual standing before you, drinking an iced coffee and sharing events that shaped his politics.

When I was in high school, I joined a mission trip. We drove to Tijuana to build a house for a Mexican family. We arrived at dusk and passed through the city as the sun was setting. I saw people living under tarps, sleeping on bare dirt and drinking filthy water. As a teenager

from a small U.S. town, I never imagined such a degree of poverty existed.

We spent a week pouring a foundation and assembling a simple one-room house out of tarpaper and wood. When we finished we gave the family a broom as a housewarming gift. It was a cheap broom from a dollar store, but the mother cried and hugged the broom to her chest. Her 7-year-old son said, “Now we will not have to sleep in the street with the cockroaches.”

When I graduated from college, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two years teaching English in Tanzania.

Most of my students were desperately poor. Their parents were subsistence farmers who lived at a standard many Americans would not believe possible.

Their houses were made of sticks and mud, with roofs thatched from dried palm fronds. They collected rainwater to drink and labored to grow cassava in the jungle.

None of this experience is communicated by the word “Republican.” When I read Walter’s media, it felt as if millions of reasonable Republicans nationwide were being

judged by the behavior of outliers. It seemed that all good faith had been drained from the conversation. The situation is similar for right-leaning media coverage of Democrats.

It would be easy to blame the media. But I don’t like that narrative.

Americans are not sheep. If something thrives, it’s because an audience exists.

It’s quicker and easier to label, condemn and ignore the opposition than to practice the intellectual discipline, rigorous open-mindedness and radical empathy required for true centrism.

But the media meet us where we are—and right now many Americans choose the easy path of prejudice.

Today I consider Walter a close friend. I respect him for his beliefs and have faith that his viewpoints make sense in the narrative of his experience.

From now on, when someone says the word “Democrat,” I’ll think about Walter’s many good qualities. If we approach the opposition in good faith, we might find we aren’t as opposed as we think.

Zack Sherzad can be reached at zacksherzad@gmail.com.

OUR MEDIA SWAP WAS A LISTENING TOUR

BY WALTER YOST When Inside Sacramento asked if I’d be interested in swapping media diets with a stranger, I was skeptical. After all, I’d spent most of my career as a newspaper reporter, a profession known for its skeptics.

When it comes to creating conversations between “blues” and “reds” to learn what they have in common, I’ve about given up on bridging that divide.

However, the concept was too intriguing to pass up. At Sacramento State, I’ve taught a class called “Media Literacy & Critical Thinking.” Here was an opportunity to put some of those classroom ideas to the test.

For this project I was paired with Zack Sherzad. I spent two weeks following Zack’s news and media sources, which included the State of Jefferson website and watching and listening to podcasts by Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson.

Poor Zack had to read the New York Times and Political Wire and be exposed to my favorite left-wing magazine, The Nation.

As it turned out, sharing those news sources was insignificant compared to the freewheeling discussions Zack and I had, along with the friendship we developed while meeting for coffee or walking through Capitol Park.

At our first meeting, we realized the labels “conservative” and “liberal,” “Democrat” and “Republican,” and even “red” and “blue” didn’t fit us. We decided such definitions often create more divisiveness.

Our differences could be better defined as millennial vs. baby boomer (he’s 32; I’m 72), rural vs. urban (he grew up in Angels Camp and joined the Peace Corps; I was raised in the Bay Area, went to college in San Jose and identify with city life), and traditional vs. non-traditional (among Zack’s favorite podcasts is a 20-hour biblical lecture series; I’ve never read the Bible).

As Zack pointed out, our age difference helps explain our news habits. “Traditional news sources are respected by older people,” Zack says.

“While newer generations tend to get their news from places like podcasts and social media.”

Case in point is “The Joe Rogan Experience,” one of the world’s most popular podcasts. Nearly every semester

one of my students encourages me to listen to Rogan. I’ve always demurred.

My assessment after viewing several of his podcasts is that Rogan is a better listener and interviewer than I imagined. His guests were interesting.

Rogan would often ask intelligent, pointed questions.

But something about him nagged at me. Then recently, he attacked President Joe Biden, saying, “Everybody knows he’s out of his mind.

He’s just barely hanging in there.”

Sorry Zack, but that’s the kind of lies and misinformation spewed by Fox News, not by someone many consider a “centrist.”

This brings me to Jordan Peterson.

My initial reaction to Peterson was, “Who?” As Katha Pollitt wrote in a Nation column: Friends, where have you been?

Peterson’s 2018 book, “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” has sold five million copies and his YouTube channel has 3.68 million subscribers.

But Pollitt is no fan. Peterson’s work, she says, contains a lot of “sexist, conservative, mythological/biblical/ evolutionary-animal-behavior-folderol.”

I gave Peterson a fair shot, watching several of his YouTube videos. I agree with Pollitt.

Neither Zack nor I may continue to walk in each other’s news, but that really isn’t what this experiment is about.

The hours Zack and I spent together talking were a revelation. We shared our life experiences and listened with the intent to understand each other. I was impressed by how well we got along.

We shared titles of some of our favorite books, including “The Overstory” by Richard Powers (mine) and “Poor People” by William T. Vollmann (his).

Our experience reminded me of something Celeste Headlee, author of “We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter,” said: The most important skill you can develop is listening.

Maybe that’s the most we can ask of each other. Take time to listen.

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Help Wanted WILL COUNTY ELECTIONS BRING NEW FACES?

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acramento County will have a new Board of Supervisors next year. Exactly how new is an open question.

Three board seats are up for grabs in 2022, but county residents might have just one serious choice with the retirement of veteran member Don Nottoli. Incumbents Phil Serna and Patrick Kennedy hold the other two seats under consideration. Both will run to keep their jobs. The big question is whether they will have viable opponents.

Nottoli began his board service in 1994, which means younger voters in District 5, which encompasses much of the county’s southern regions, will

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choose a new supervisor for the first time in their lives.

Several politicians have announced their desire to replace Nottoli. Elk Grove City Councilmember Pat Hume, former Elk Grove Mayor Gary Davis and Cosumnes Community Services District board member Jaclyn Moreno are in the race. Isleton resident Vernon David Swart also filed campaign papers.

As for Serna and Kennedy, the field is less crowded, at least for now. No formal opponent against Serna had materialized when summer began.

Kennedy has one challenger, Duke Cooney, a South Sacramento resident, conservation policy advocate and law student. As a newcomer, Cooney must prove he can raise funds, gain endorsements and build support to challenge Kennedy, a two-term incumbent.

Kennedy represents South Sacramento neighborhoods including Land Park, Hollywood Park, Pocket and Greenhaven. His board tenure has reflected a moderate-to-liberal viewpoint, but he’s been leaning left with efforts to combat climate change and install oversight for the sheriff’s department.

The Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association ran a full-page ad in The Bee soliciting candidates—a

strong indication there are no experienced candidates ready to oppose Kennedy or Serna. The deputy labor group says, “Time after time, polls have clearly stated that the majority of people do NOT want their law enforcement defunded.”

There’s plenty of time for challengers to surface against Serna and Kennedy.

The law enforcement ad claims polling shows Sacramento City Councilmember Angelique Ashby could beat Serna, but Ashby is running for state Senate. The poll also claims voters want to replace Kennedy. As for the accuracy of all that, time will tell.

BUDGET UPDATE Supervisors adopted a preliminary budget of $6.5 billion this summer for the upcoming fiscal year. You can expect those numbers to change by September, when the state updates its revenue information and the county adopts its final budget.

Interim County Executive Ann Edwards says the budget will allow the county “to implement initiatives, plans and processes to accomplish real change and advancement.” She says the county will focus on “diversity, equity and inclusion across county departments and in the community.”

Serna, Kennedy and Nottoli went on record last year to declare racism a public health crisis. They agreed to promote racial equity with respect to policies and resources.

The June preliminary budget includes $12 million to fund an Alternative Emergency Response for people experiencing mental health issues. The word “alternative” means non-law enforcement. The new response will eventually have a standalone phone number independent from 911.

While law enforcement participation will be excluded from the new effort, the current Mobile Crisis Support Teams will continue to operate under 911 protocols. Those teams combine law enforcement with behavioral health experts.

The sheriff’s department took a $428,000 hit with the elimination of the Tobacco Abatement Team, which worked to prevent smoking among juveniles.

Howard Schmidt has worked on the federal, state and local levels of government, including 16 years for Sacramento County. He can be reached at howardschmidt218@aol.com.

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NEW EAST SAC HOME IS TRIBUTE TO ARTIST’S CREATIVITY

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n 1933, the United States Steel Corporation developed a very special steel. Some clever marketeer dubbed it corten, referring to its corrosion resistance and tensile strength.

This steel alloy was unique in that it used oxidation to its advantage. As corten rusts, it develops a protective layer, removing the need for paint or expensive weathering treatments. Akin to terra-cotta and adobe, corten steel’s natural patina lends anything built with it an earthiness that is irresistible.

The exterior of Gerald Walburg’s three-story new residence typifies the distinctive reddish-orange of “young” corten. It makes sense that he’d pick this distinctive siding—Walburg, a renowned artist, has been working with corten for longer than I’ve been alive. His 40-foot “Indo Arch” at 4th and K streets

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THE THREE-STORY BUILDING IS OPTIMIZED FOR SUBDIVISION—EACH FLOOR HAS THE HOOKUPS NECESSARY TO BE A SELF-CONTAINED UNIT.

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is a monument to the material’s natural beauty and durability. Since its installation in 1980, the “Indo Arch” has been weathering for more than 40 years, and has since settled into a deep coffee brown.

Like corten, Walburg designed his new house in East Sacramento with a philosophy that embraces the natural forces of time. “At our age, you’d better plan ahead,” laughs Deborah, Gerald’s wife.

The three-story building is optimized for subdivision—each floor has the hookups necessary to be a self-contained unit. Lock a few doors and you’ve got three apartments ready for rental, each with its own entrance, kitchen and bathroom. “If I was alone, I would take two floors for myself,” Deborah says.

Each floor is a marvel in its own way.

The central floor has an open-concept living room, kitchen and dining area.

Maple floors, large windows and a wide sliding glass door give the space an inviting lightness.

Accenting the space are handmade rugs, a large Jack Ogden painting

and a laundry list of original vintage furniture—a George Nelson dining table; six accompanying Eames molded fiberglass chairs, plus an Eames lounge chair and ottoman; a Hans Wegner sofa.

The mid-century aesthetic is so strong that the Walburgs chose their kitchen cabinet hardware to match the pulls on the many pieces of original Nelson furniture throughout the house.

Ascending to the bottom floor drops the temperature a dozen or so degrees, and the background noise of the city fades beneath the 10 feet of surrounding dirt. “I sleep down here in the summer,” Walburg says.

Subterranean floors are great for things like wine—Walburg is a passionate home vintner, and his wellstocked cellar is tucked in a far wall.

But the challenge with spaces like these is overcoming the dreariness of having no natural light. This problem is solved by an elongated basement patio well dug parallel to the path of the rising sun.

A sliding glass door lets in a surprising amount of morning light.

Moving from the lowest floor to the highest feels like stepping into an aviary or lighthouse. The slanted shed roof starts high on one end and drops to below eye level. The coziness of the low end emphasizes the grandeur of the tall side. When you stand at the window of the cantilevered floor, you can’t help but marvel at the greenery of the adjacent

parcels—also Walburg property, all landscaped by the artist himself.

A wall-sized Nelson CSS (that’s Comprehensive Storage System for those unfamiliar with the Herman Miller catalog) defines the top floor’s kitchen area, and a pristine Executive Home Desk, complete with typewriter

cabinet, stands on the corner of a truly epic Persian rug.

“It wouldn’t fit in the house we lived in,” Deborah says. “When Jerry bought that rug, I knew I was doomed to move!”

Zack Sherzad can be reached at zacksherzad@gmail.com. To

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Katie Valenzuela Photo by Aniko Kiezel

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ummer brought an unwelcome spectacle to City Hall when an unknown who became somebody let an even bigger nobody crash her political career.

The first nobody is City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela, who rose from obscurity last year to bounce incumbent Steve Hansen into retirement. Valenzuela is a tireless campaigner who benefited from personality traits absent in Hansen— humility, sincerity and the willingness to listen and learn. Voters liked her passion for community issues. They also liked the fact that she wasn’t Steve Hansen.

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Arriving at City Hall in December’s pandemic frost, Valenzuela didn’t enjoy a stellar start. She exasperated veteran members with endless philosophical meanderings as she worked her way through issues. She often ignored the first rule of politics: When the votes are lined up, shut up.

Such annoyances were forgivable in a new councilmember, especially one who never served on a school board or planning commission. Valenzuela acknowledged her confusion over council practices and procedures. She was dazzled by the parliamentary voodoo of Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a magician who can tip his top hat and make white doves flutter from a consent agenda.

Valenzuela was in deep waters over her head, but that’s OK. She was growing into her position and sincere about her progress.

Then she embarked on a suicide mission. The rookie councilmember who represents Downtown, Midtown, Land Park and Little Pocket asked a nobody named Skyler Michel-Evleth to join her City Hall staff. He handles social media and constituent calls.

As jobs go, the labor expected of Michel-Evleth was entry level.

Council offices have happily used high school interns to post social media greetings and respond to complaints about illegal dumping and badly parked vehicles. The work was not heavy lifting.

Unfortunately for Valenzuela, Michel-Evleth is not a college intern.

He’s a grownup performance artist and attention seeker whose stage name is Skyler Henry. He produced podcasts where the audience, while small, was not influential.

Serially unoriginal, Michel-Evleth embarked on his quest to gain attention by presenting himself as a detached, avuncular radical. He threw no Molotov cocktails, but told his less hip audience members that such acts as terrorizing the domestic serenity of Steinberg and City Manager Howard Chan were perfectly acceptable.

Naturally, Michel-Evleth declined to get his clothes dirty and risk arrest.

He left the grunt work to his handful of listeners.

Soon enough, his tiny audience included Steinberg, Chan, Police

Chief Daniel Hahn and City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood. When the City Council realized Michel-Evleth was the same Skyler Henry hired to post videos for Valenzuela, eight councilmembers not named Valenzuela instructed Alcala Wood to block the attention seeker from City Hall with a judicial restraining order.

Despite Alcala Wood’s best efforts, the judge was not impressed. He tried to temper hostilities by explaining that blowhards can pretty much say what whey want. But it was too late.

Supported by Valenzuela, MichelEvleth engaged his own lawyers— experienced, professional agitators.

The City Hall Uncivil War was on.

The war might have ended with a whimper if Michel-Evleth took responsibility for his words, wrote a resignation letter and freed his naïve, young boss from the corner into which she painted herself. That’s how these mistakes typically disappear.

But ego and principle and opportunity spun out of control. Good sense evaporated.

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SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL • 2636 LATHAM DRIVE, SACRAMENTO, CA 95864 • SACCDS.ORG • 916.481.8811 Valenzuela wrapped herself and her new staff member around the First Amendment. She told me she would rather sacrifice her political career than squelch someone’s freedom of speech. The city’s position was also righteous. The homes and families of Chan and Steinberg were terrorized, with the perpetrators publicly supported by Michel-Evleth.

If this sad story comes down to a piety test, Valenzuela loses. No one questions Michel-Evleth’s right to make idiotic remarks. But nightriders who assault homes and terrorize the families of Chan and Steinberg are shameful and gutless. They don’t deserve support at City Hall.

Valenzuela should know better.

When she hires someone who

promotes or endorses property damage against public officials, her credibility collapses. Her fitness to serve becomes questionable. In self-reverential defense, Valenzuela and Michel-Evleth sound eerily similar to proud patriots who defend their normal tourist visit to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Valenzuela’s term runs to 2024—a political eternity from now. MichelEvleth seems like a forgettable character. Katie better hope so.

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Memorable Times Mario Ortiz Photo by Aniko Kiezel

FIREHOUSE WINE DIRECTOR CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF SERVICE

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Sacramento, Ortiz has held nearly every position. He’s now wine director, general manager and sommelier.

Ortiz helped the restaurant build one of Northern California’s legendary wine cellars with more than 14,000 bottles and 1,800 individual labels, including a collection of rare wines housed in The Vault.

But Ortiz, a native of Mexico and longtime Land Park resident, didn’t plan to go into wine. It all started because of his love of painting.

“Wineries have pretty nice buildings,” says Ortiz, who enjoys painting landscapes. “I would go to the wineries and ask permission to paint them. They said sure and that if I wanted to taste wine afterward to come inside. I said yes at first as a favor to them, but it led to being friends with some pretty cool people.”

The late Robert Mondavi stands out as one of Ortiz’s first and biggest influences. Though Ortiz didn’t drink wine when he first met the winemaker,

he was fascinated by literature Mondavi gave him about the winemaking process.

By then, Ortiz already worked at The Firehouse—he started as a part-time event employee at age 16. After meeting Mondavi, Ortiz made it his mission to sit down with as many winemakers and sommeliers as he could and pass what he learned onto his customers.

“People always tell me that they learn a lot about wine from me indirectly,” Ortiz says. “I like to talk to people about wine, not instruct them or correct them. Even if a master sommelier teaches me something, I still have my own palate. It doesn’t mean I have to like it.”

Ortiz’s palate and gentle teaching style have won him hundreds of devoted clients over five decades. He remembers when he first decided to offer Silver Oak, a high-ticket Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, by the glass.

Ortiz recalls how former Sacramento Bee food critic and close friend Mike Dunne told him he was crazy, that there was no way he could sell a wine that expensive in Sacramento. But Ortiz’s decision paid off.

“People hadn’t experienced it before because it’s so expensive by the bottle,” Ortiz says. “But once they tasted it, it converted a lot of them and we ended up selling cases of it.”

Ortiz is in the business of selling wine. But more than that, he’s in the business of helping diners have a memorable time. Whether advising on a wine from the comprehensive wine list or sharing stories, Ortiz enjoys coming to work each day.

The work pays off. The Firehouse has won numerous national wine awards, including Wine Spectator’s coveted “Best of Award of Excellence” for 19 consecutive years and the California Restaurant Association’s “Best California Wine List.”

“It’s the people that have kept me here for so long,” says Ortiz, who met his wife of 32 years, Sue, at an event at The Firehouse. “Whether it’s for a wedding, a business event, a special dinner or just a night out to socialize, I’ll be here to take care of you.”

For more information, visit firehouseoldsac.com.

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Saving Bushy Lake (From left) Alexandra von Ehrenkrook, Dr. Michelle Stevens and Madeleine Sierra at Bushy Lake.

SAC STATE PROFESSOR LEADS RESTORATION, PRESERVATION EFFORTS

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cattered patches of smoldering ash emit wisps of grey smoke—10 days after the fire.

The once verdant flora is now black.

The air hints of scorched grass underfoot.

“These hot spots are not out. I worry about what’s going to happen,” says Dr. Michelle Stevens, professor of environmental studies at Sac State.

“Just let it all burn? Will we have nothing left?”

Bushy Lake, 20 acres of riparian landscape and wetland, located behind Cal Expo along the lower American River Parkway, has burned three times in recent years—2014, 2017 and this past June.

Under a collaborative effort between Sac State and Sacramento County Parks Department, Stevens has led herculean efforts over the past five years to restore and protect Bushy Lake’s fragile habitat.

Stevens and her students plant fire- and drought-resistant native grasses, pull invasive weeds, and clear trash from homeless camps and other human activities, while monitoring and researching the abundant wildlife.

Thanks to such work, the Environmental Council of Sacramento named Stevens 2021 Environmentalist of the Year. In addition to grants and other funding, the Bushy Lake Restoration Project

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A native western pond turtle at Bushy Lake.

recently received $350,000 from the California Wildlife Conservation Board.

The professor and several students were surveying turtle nesting sites at Bushy Lake the morning of June 6.

“All the turtles are nesting right now, so we’ve been out every day,” Stevens says.

The team left around 1 p.m. At approximately 2 p.m., the wildfire ignited, presumably at a homeless encampment. The flames engulfed 6 acres, through the entire restoration project up to the shore. But unlike the 2017 blaze, there was no effort by fire crews to stop this year’s burn, Stevens laments.

“I was hoping against hope that this area would have been spared, but it was far worse than I could have imagined.” When the 2017 wildfire hit, “the fire department held a line on the southern road so the fire didn’t get to our restoration plantings,” she says.

Now Stevens is calling for a fire plan—clear guidance, adhered to by all public agencies, to protect

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the land. “This is one of the most important natural resources on the whole river,” she says. The area is protected under the Bushy Lake Protection Act, enacted into law in 1976 and expanded in 2009.

Bushy Lake is home to an array of wildlife, including beavers, river otters, opossums, skunk, deer, coyote, jack rabbits and other mammals, as well as more than 160 bird species and approximately 50 types of butterflies and other pollinators.

Despite the fire, Stevens and her students continue their restoration efforts and research on turtles. There are hundreds of turtles in Bushy Lake. Unfortunately, most are nonnative, such as the red-eared slider, released by well-meaning people who get them as pets.

“You see why people love them— they’re cool, they’re pretty,” Stevens says. “But they get big and live 30 to 40 years. People think they’re doing good to let them go in the wild. They don’t realize those turtles displace the native turtles.”

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The red-eared slider competes for food and basking sites with the native western pond turtle, listed as a “species of special concern” in California and endangered in other western states.

To learn more about the reptiles, once a month Stevens’ team places traps, baited with halibut, in Bushy Lake and returns the next day. The caught turtles are measured, weighed, marked and released.

“Ultimately, we’ll probably re-home some of the non-native turtles,” says Madeleine Sierra, a Sac State student and research assistant. They are searching for herpetological societies to take them. “Or responsible pet owners who are not going to release them back into the wild.”

“This is critical habitat for native western pond turtles,” adds Alexandra von Ehrenkrook, who graduated from Sac State last year and is continuing as a research assistant. “We’re trying to do nesting surveys every day until July 1. That’s usually when they stop nesting.”

Since May, the team has flagged about 30 nests. Thankfully, some

are in vegetation spared by the June wildfire. “But we haven’t seen much since the fire,” Sierra says. “They won’t nest in the ash,” Stevens adds. “If they did, the eggs wouldn’t survive.”

“It’s very emotional for us,” Sierra says. “I’ve poured the last six months of my life into it—coming out here almost every single day. It’s hard seeing it like this. But it will come back.

“A goal going forward is to get funding to plant more native species.

Because that’s where it starts— having a good foundation so our native wildlife can come back and thrive.”

Beginning in January, when the rains come, the public is invited to join in the re-planting efforts. For more information, visit bushylake.com.

Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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Paul Dong surrounded by his children Harvey, Julie, Michael and Alvin.

Photos courtesy of the Dong family.

For His Family & Country SACRAMENTO CENTENARIAN RECEIVES CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR

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aul C. Dong, a Land Park resident, knows a thing or two about achievements and milestones.

He is 100 years old—and a U.S. Army veteran who recently received the congressional Medal of Honor in recognition of his outstanding military service during World War II. The Medal

of Honor is the highest civilian award Congress grants.

The Army trained him as a tank driver and engineer. He served in the Philippines where U.S. forces fought the Japanese, as did his brother Ben. “I saw the most beautiful sunset ever in Manilla,” Dong says.

A Sacramento High graduate, he enlisted in the Army as a U.S.-born citizen at age 21. Against that backdrop, Chinese Americans experienced many forms of discrimination emanating from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that restricted the immigration of people from China. The Chinese Exclusion Act arrived 19 years after scores of

Top left to right: Sim Dong (step-brother), William Dong (brother) Bottom left to right: Paul Dong, Benjamin Dong (brother) Chinese laborers began building the transcontinental railroad, a herculean project launched in 1863. Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act came Dec. 17, 1943, as the second World War raged.

During World War II, there were 100,000 Chinese Americans living in the U.S. About 20,000 Chinese Americans served in the armed forces, a testament to their patriotism during the second World War. Dong received a letter from the Chinese American WWII Veterans Recognition Project that acknowledged his service: “The United States remains forever indebted to the bravery, valor, patriotism and dedication that the Chinese American Veterans of World War II displayed in defending and protecting democracy, at home and overseas.”

Later, after the war ended, Dong married Jeanne, who traveled to the U.S. from Canton, China. “She was my war bride,” Dong shared during a homebased backyard ceremony awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Jeanne began as a cannery worker.

Later, she worked for the state as a

keypunch operator. She passed away in 2013.

The couple wed in Sacramento, where they reared four children: Alvin, Julie, Harvey and Michael. As the breadwinner for his young family, Dong went to work as a mechanical engineer for the state of California. He studied mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley.

Becoming a homeowner presented Dong with challenges. He used the GI housing bill to purchase a home directly from a builder due to restrictive covenants discriminating against Chinese Americans and other minorities who sought to buy real estate.

He retired in the 1980s.

One thing is certain. Dong was there for his country and family when it mattered.

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Green Thumbs LAND PARK COUPLE KEEP THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFUL

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f you see two people in their late 70s weeding, planting or pruning in William Land Park, they’re probably Jeannie and Dale Claypoole, longtime Land Park residents who have made it their mission to keep the area beautiful.

“We’re advocates for the park,” says Jeannie, a certified Master Gardener and former school psychologist whose green thumb is behind much of the landscaping at McClatchy High School, along Sutterville Road and in Land Park.

“If something’s not right, we try to find somebody who will make it right.”

The Claypooles came to Sacramento from the Midwest when Dale was stationed here for the Air Force. They liked the city—especially its lack of

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snow—and stayed, settling in South Land Park.

Shortly after moving into the neighborhood, the couple became aware of the Sacramento Zoo’s plans to expand its footprint—a controversial discussion that’s been ongoing since the 1970s.

Concerned those plans might disrupt the “valuable community asset” that is the park, the Claypooles joined four other families to form the Association to Preserve Land Park (now the Land Park Community Association). They provide a voice for the 160-acre park, which opened in 1918.

Over the years, Jeannie and Dale have contributed hundreds of hours of labor and visionary garden planning to their neighborhood. Jeannie’s first project after completing Master Gardener training in 1995 was renovation of Swanston Terrace, where a memorial fountain and statue dedicated to early Sacramento cattleman Charles Swanston stands.

“There wasn’t much there at the time,” Jeannie recalls. “It used to be landscaped so beautifully, but then the

funding dried up. I’d drive by there and think, this could be so beautiful again.”

Acting on her own, Jeannie secured funds from the community association, Girl Scouts, Sacramento Tree Foundation and the city to spruce up the area. She took care of the prettified plot for many years until Craig Powell founded the Land Park Volunteer Corps, a group that meets on the first Saturday of each month for landscape maintenance in the park.

Jeannie didn’t stop there. She saw the area could use more trees, so she canvased neighborhood businesses and asked if she could plant a tree on their property with money from the Tree Foundation. Most said yes. Many of the 100-plus trees she planted still stand.

In the 1990s, the Claypooles were instrumental in cleaning up the entrance to their neighborhood at the corner of Land Park Drive and Sutterville Road.

“The corner had been a mess for many years, so we thought, let’s make it a nice welcoming to Land Park,” says Dale, a former legislative analyst and leader of the California State Water Resources Control Board. “After a number of years,

we were able to nag (the city) enough and got $26,000.” The city hired an architect for the project. Jeannie and longtime park caretaker Daisy Mah suggested which plants to use.

These days, you can still find Jeannie and Dale out in the park. But they know they need someone to take over their chores as they get older.

“We’re getting a little creaky,” Jeannie admits with a laugh. “We need up-andcoming leaders, experienced adults and neighbors, to participate and be replacements for us. The park is part of our lives and we know other people feel that way too.”

For more information on the Land Park Volunteer Corps, visit the Land Park Community Association website at landpark.org, under “Get Involved.”

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

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Tower of Power Inn MUSIC VENUE CAN REVITALIZE FORLORN CORNER

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f you were searching for a place to build an upscale concert hall and restaurant to lure name acts and music lovers, the spot Nick Bauta found is not an obvious choice.

South of Folsom Boulevard and across from Hornet Stadium at Sacramento State, the projected home for The Rose Sacramento sits in a neglected netherworld of train tracks and messy industrial sites—a neighborhood more blight than bright.

But this is Bauta’s comfort zone. In his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, the developer’s projects, including the popular Fete Music Hall,

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helped transform a neglected industrial area into an eclectic, energetic destination.

“I like to think of myself as a developer of real estate for the arts,” he says. Providence media called Bauta “the unofficial guardian angel of Providence’s industrial building stock.”

Providence and Sacramento could be sister cities. About 50 miles south of Boston, the Rhode Island capital has long lived in the shadow of the Massachusetts metropolis. Popular musical acts often drove through and kept going.

Sacramento has Ace of Spades on R Street and the much bigger Memorial Auditorium, with a few niche venues such as Harlow’s and The Sofia in between. Hot acts that could attract crowds of 2,000 often hit San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, and bypass our city.

Bauta wants to correct that with a 19,000-square-foot performing arts center and musical hall that books performances two or three times weekly. In plans showcased on the project website (sacramentomusichouse.

com), a 10,000-square-foot restaurant is included.

On Ramona Avenue between 65th Street and Power Inn Road, the space could be configured to accommodate recitals, music rehearsals, business meetings, community groups and other events ranging in attendance from 200 to 2,300.

“My background is as a sculptor, so designing the interiors of venues is something I’ve done right out of college,” says the 44-year-old graduate of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. “Finding good partners along the way, great managers—it’s quite a machine once it gets rolled out. The consistency and a lot of shows coming through, it’s an industry for sure.”

This is a project that should be music to the city’s ears as well. A financial analysis by Economic & Planning Systems, Inc. put the costs of construction and development at $11 million. The complex would support 81 full-time jobs and generate an estimated $10.7 million a year in tax revenues for the city, region and state.

Determined business owners in the area and city officials have had high hopes for development of the Power Inn District for years. Several attractive housing projects for Sac State students have finally generated momentum.

Now, once he gets his final city permit in the next few months, Bauta plans to start construction and optimistically eyes opening next summer or fall.

“We view ourselves as a catalyst for development in the district but first people need to feel safe,” he says. “Like it’s a good area to walk in or a good area to go down to, and right now you don’t get that feeling. It’s sort of a neglected part of the city.”

So why put The Rose there? Why not roll the dice in a more established and patronized part of the city like Downtown or Midtown?

Land in the Power Inn District is cheaper, for one thing. And a couple thousand people leaving a concert and walking to their cars would not be as disruptive there. Then there is the parking.

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Tiny Food Pantry

Ashley Jun Photo by Linda Smolek

MCCLATCHY GRAD USES STEM TO FEED HER COMMUNITY

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f there’s a problem to be solved, put River Park resident Ashley Jun on it.

As a recent graduate of C.K. McClatchy High School’s esteemed Humanities and International Studies Program, Jun was tasked with creating and implementing a senior project last winter that is connected to the

humanities and serves the community.

Since the pandemic was in full force, Jun decided to tackle food insecurity— with the help of some science, technology and engineering.

“Being somebody who knows I want go into STEM, I wanted to be able to integrate STEM with humanities while taking the safety issues of the

pandemic—we were in lockdown at the time—into consideration,” says Jun, who will attend Stanford this fall on a full scholarship to study electrical engineering.

“After speaking with my mom and teachers, we came up with an idea based on those little libraries people have in their neighborhoods. It would be socially distanced, people could come and go as needed, and it would inevitably help the community, even though I couldn’t physically be there.”

The 18-year-old revamped the little library concept into a tiny food pantry that contained nonperishable food items for people to take as needed. Whether someone was looking for a recipe ingredient because the grocery stores were out of baking supplies, or a snack on their walk, Jun’s boxes catered to many needs.

Constructing the four boxes became a family project. Jun’s dad acquired the building materials and made measurements and cuts. Her brother nailed down the roofing. Her mom painted the box exteriors with the McClatchy logo in eye-catching colors.

It was Jun’s job to figure out how to monitor the goods inside and make sure the boxes stayed stocked.

Jun used her engineer’s brain to devise a system of six slots inside each box fitted with motion sensors. When triggered, the sensors sent emails through a website to let Jun know a product was out of stock. She wired and programmed everything herself, using YouTube tutorials and advice from friends in robotics classes. She learned soldering, which she found difficult and time-consuming but also “an amazing new skill to learn.”

The four boxes were set up around the Sacramento area—usually in front of a friend’s house, to help keep an eye on them—and became a full-time operation. At first, Jun used her dad’s NextDoor account to send out a request

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for donations of nonperishable food items. When the boxes took off (helped by a feature on KCRA 3) and were emptying faster than she could resupply them, Jun changed tack and asked people to deliver goods right to the boxes or to her front door.

“For three weeks, every day felt like Christmas,” Jun says. “Every time we’d leave the house, there was always something new in front of the door. It was so heartwarming.”

Though Jun’s project only lasted until February, a retired McClatchy teacher who lives in Lincoln was inspired by the venture. She asked Jun for the specs to create boxes. Jun passed along the boxes she previously built. Now the project has a new life in Lincoln.

“I wasn’t just fulfilling a requirement for a project. I saw it as connecting with people in my community,” says Jun, who wants to study the human applications of technology.

“I loved when I’d go to fill the boxes and see people actually using it. People would randomly shout ‘Good job!’ out the car window. That’s not necessary or something you think of, but it really sticks with you. I’m just glad I was able to help out.”

Part of the 5.3-acre parcel includes a vacant parking lot with 477 spaces, something that would cost a small fortune in the central city. The complex would include electric vehicle charging stations, solar generation on site and a shuttle to the Power Inn light rail station.

“We had other sites under contract Downtown but we moved away from them in favor of having our own parking where we wouldn’t bother anyone,” Bauta says. “Finding the site in the Power Inn District was just by chance, but it reflects a lot of work on the ground. My Google Maps probably

has 200 spots marked on it in the Sacramento area.”

From all I have seen of the plans and Bauta’s track record in Providence, this is a project with great promise. The city and nearby property owners should embrace something with this much potential in a part of Sacramento that needs a catalyst to turn the corner.

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

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An Orchid Affair BEAUTIES TAKE WORK, BUT THEY’RE WORTH IT

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rchids seduce, delight and frequently meet an untimely death. Muttering, “I killed another one,” often precedes the shopping trip to buy more exotic beauties.

When inviting orchids into the home, longevity will not be an option unless you are willing to perform basic

plant maintenance. Already in bloom to attract buyers, the challenge is to keep an orchid alive and nurture it into multiple bloom cycles over several years.

Native to the tropics, where they grow on trees and rocks, grocery store orchids (Phalaenopsis) are greenhouse grown, packed in sphagnum moss, inserted in plastic sleeves and dropped

into decorative ceramic pots with no drainage holes. No drainage holes strongly suggest growers are silently promoting a death sentence to spur more sales.

Do not despair. You can grant Death Row pardons, and if you lose a few consider it a horticultural hiccup.

“I still lose a few,” says Vivian Sellers of Elk Grove, an orchid hobbyist and University of California Master Gardener. “I heard a speaker once say you cannot consider yourself a good orchid grower until you have killed at least a hundred orchids. After 25 years of growing, I am sure I have killed way more than that.

“Do not be discouraged if your orchid dies. It might not be your fault.

Join the Sacramento Orchid Society (sacramentoorchids.org). They love newcomers.”

Sellers grew orchids in her home for five years before expanding to a greenhouse. Currently, she grows about 400 orchids. She has won numerous cultural awards from the American Orchid Society, is a past member of the Sacramento Orchid Society and belonged to the Orchid Forum, an online resource for orchid growing.

“Growing orchids is addicting,” she says. “There are so many species to choose.”

Sellers began with mostly Phalaenopsis (pronounced fal-uhNOP-sis) orchids. Phalaenopsis or “moth orchids” are the most common retail orchid. The striking flowers are difficult to ignore in doctors’ offices, florist shops or on grocery store shelves.

Orchids are one of the largest and most diverse plant families, with around 30,000 species, but our focus is on Phalaenopsis.

Two of Sellers’ no-nos: Never water orchids with ice cubes and never pot an orchid in potting soil. Ice can burn roots. When was the last freeze in tropical Southeast Asia, where Phalaenopsis are native? Potting soil is too dense for orchid roots that require air and drainage. Sellers prefers sphagnum moss for her Phalaenopsis, but there are numerous potting mixes.

When should you repot your new orchid? After the blooms fade. Sellers uses clear plastic pots to allow more light to the roots. Look for plastic pots with air holes or slots on the sides and bottom. Snip off the old flower stock, carefully remove the old potting mix and fill the new pot with fresh potting mix.

Sellers waters once a week most of the year. In winter, she waters less

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With clear plastic orchid pots, it’s easy to see the roots, which should be firm and white or green right after watering. Grayish white indicates water is needed. Brown may mean overwatered and rotting.

Try to avoid directly watering atop the orchid. Water that collects where leaves meet stem can promote crown rot. Water the planting mix around the main stem.

Seemingly healthy orchids that stubbornly refuse to re-bloom are likely not receiving enough light, Sellers says.

“East and south window exposure is best,” she says. “North is not enough light, and west is too bright and hot.

The plant will have dark green leaves with not enough light and red tinges if too much light.”

Orchids are worth the extra attention.

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If Walls Could Talk CAMPUS COMMONS PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURED STREET ART MOVEMENT

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hen Jim Prigoff began photographing street art in the late 1960s, he didn’t realize he was documenting an artistic revolution. But he knew there was something special about the spray-can art popping up on walls all over the world.

Prigoff, who became internationally renowned for his photos of graffiti, died in April at his Sacramento home. He was 93. Several weeks before his death, he granted an introspective interview to Inside Sacramento.

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“The end of the 1960s was a time of foment,” said Prigoff, a New York City native who lived in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco before settling in Sacramento in 1989. “Everyone was going to the walls to express different ideas and concepts you didn’t get in the news.

“People were talking about (graffiti) as criminal, but I had a sense that something was happening that was actually very positive. I started to take a few pictures and it turned out I was on the right track. Street art has developed into the most significant art form of the last 40 years.”

Prigoff had an eye for capturing culture. After graduating from MIT in 1947, he and his wife Arline embarked on an 11-week trek to photograph natural wonders in the U.S. and Canada.

That led to more travels abroad, which led to Prigoff joining The Explorers

Club, an international multidisciplinary professional society founded in 1904 to promote scientific exploration.

According to the club’s website, “Members have been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts: first to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon.”

This year, The Explorers Club named Prigoff one of the “Fifty People Changing the World the World Needs to Know About” (also known as EC50). Prigoff was selected from more than 400 nominations from 48 countries in recognition of his immense contributions to the documentation— and legitimization—of street and urban art.

Through photography, writing, lectures and exhibitions, Prigoff showed the world that even though

this artwork was done with spray paint on subway cars and railroad retaining walls, it wasn’t less artistic or culturally significant than other art forms.

“Different art is usually rejected initially, like the Impressionists in Paris,” Prigoff said. “Originally, it was about inner-city kids staking out a little bit of territory. They’d see cars with fancy license plates, but a kid doesn’t own a car. He can’t put his name on a license plate. So how does he get recognition? He puts his name on a wall. It’s a different way of saying, ‘I’m here. I’m a significant person.’ It’s a way of communicating. And now, what was once criticized as vandalism is being sold for millions of dollars.”

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“Many of these kids come out of gangs,” the Campus Commons resident told Inside. “Many of their friends have died, so they join a fraternity of the streets—a street group that paints together—instead. Many young people come up to me and say, ‘Your book saved my life. It took me out of a dangerous place.’”

Prigoff was pleased to see his favorite art form in Sacramento. He mentioned murals by Shepard Fairey at 16th and L streets, Apexer at Seventh and J, Bryan Valenzuela at 28th and R, and new pieces from Wide Open Walls each year.

In these works, he saw the same energy he fell in love with nearly 60 years ago.

“It’s a very ephemeral art form,” Prigoff said. “It can never be duplicated.

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TAHOE PARK MOM GIVES PEOPLE ON AUTISM SPECTRUM A PLACE TO BELONG

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or many parents, a child finishing school is an accomplishment. For Tahoe Park native Vanessa Bieker, seeing her son John Almeda aging out of the school system was nervewracking.

Almeda has non-verbal autism, which Bieker explains “means he lacked social, emotional and life skills and job training when he graduated in 2015.”

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“I thought, John can’t be the only one out there going through this,” Bieker says. “There have to be other families facing this too.” In 2016, Bieker left her job at UC Davis to found the Fly Brave Foundation, a nonprofit that hosts events and provides free services and training in social skills, fitness, public speaking, art, theater and employment skills for individuals on the autism spectrum.

In the early days, the five participating Fly Brave families met in Bieker’s living room and made bracelets to sell and help fund the group’s activities. They started a running club— Almeda loves running and completed the Boston Marathon in 2019—and helped clients get landscaping jobs.

Their first event was what Bieker calls an “autism prom.” Her son and his friends never attended a prom, so Fly Brave made it happen. It was a huge hit.

Over the last four years, the nonprofit has grown to 400 families.

Fly Brave established communitybased employment training programs in landscaping, retail (through an online retail store and pop-up markets), public speaking and social skills workshops. The group organizes numerous events including proms, karaoke nights, fashion shows, talent shows and art shows. There’s a fitness program that includes running, yoga, fitness in the park and Sky High Sports meet-ups, plus a Fly Fit program that pairs police officers with people on the autism spectrum to learn about one another and build community bonds through fitness.

To celebrate its growth, Fly Brave rented vacant space at 59th Street and Broadway. The site provides a home base and retail space for products made in the art and design program, including popular slogan T-shirts.

Bieker and six other moms renovated the space and opened the store this summer. The Fly Brave Emporium

sells gently used clothes, housewares and furniture, plus new items, such as soaps, candles, accessories and art, from artists across the U.S. The adjacent coffee shop is now the Anime Café with a coffee cart run by Fly Brave clients as they learn about customer service. After hours, the shop serves as a gathering place for classes, meet-ups and events.

“It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get where we are,” Bieker says.

“Fly Brave’s goals are to give you hope that anything is possible, to give you a life of purpose and make you feel like you belong. We went from having no one to having a village.”

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Storytelling SOLID SERMONS CAN PACK THE HOUSE

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s I prepared for my first speaking engagements in our new post-pandemic environment, I was ready for an unpleasant question: “Why is church attendance declining?”

Last month in this space, I raised this question myself and shared a Gallup poll tracing the decline of America’s church membership by a whopping 23 percent through the last two decades.

So, what should a church do?

Well, I’m just a chaplain. I’m not a church-growth expert. On Sundays, I’m a listener, sitting across from you. What do we listeners know?

A lot, I dare say.

For instance, we intuitively know the accuracy of a 2016 Pew Research poll

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that said 83 percent of Americans say good preaching guided their choice of a congregation.

If we choose our places of worship by what we hear from the lectern, then we are qualified to encourage our pastors in the craft of preaching. Or as my seminary preaching professor often said, “Remember, anyone is a better judge of your sermon than you are.”

With that in mind, here are three tips I often give when speaking to local ministers. The three ideas are something you might want to discuss with your pastor. Just remember, he or she may be like me—we carry fragile egos.

First, I encourage ministers to keep their message short, 12 minutes, 15 tops. That means sermons should be one point, not three. I knew a pastor who, after making his single point, challenged people to post on social media what he called “Sermon in a tweet.”

Second, that single point should be coupled with a call to action. This is the “so-what” of the sermon. Congregants should be challenged with a specific action.

For instance, I once watched a pastor take a “reverse offering.”

Offering plates were passed throughout the congregation containing sealed

envelopes of money. Each family was told to take an envelope and spend the money helping someone. The following Sunday, people were invited to share their stories.

When speaking about forgiveness, the same pastor asked church members to take a gift to places often perceived as condemned by Christians. Church members brought back stories of their visits to strip clubs, abortion clinics and a gay newspaper.

My third tip is one I especially hope you will voice to your minister: Good preaching will be great storytelling.

Jesus told story-truths called parables because stories confront people to change.

Tell us a story-truth, pastor. Tell us an amazing story about people, their heartbreak and the consequence of sin.

Tell us a personal story, or even one from pop culture, about overcoming the fear of (fill in blank).

Share the news, historical or current, but never your personal politics. Tell us stories about rockets, racketeering and race. For instance, the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme makes a great sermon on greed.

Give us comedy or tragedy. Like the story of the chaplain who accidentally carried his wife’s pink pillow through

airport security. We want to laugh at church, too.

Within the first five minutes, give us 75 percent of the story. Then open the Bible and connect the story with the old, old story of redemption and grace.

As you close the sermon, I promise we will anxiously await the end of your personal story. Tell us how things ended well or how they didn’t—but be sure to relate it to the biblical story.

As you share these thoughts with your pastor, remember that Philippians 2:13 tells us, “It is God who is working in you, (enabling you) both to will and to act for His good purpose.” This means you needn’t be a pastor to tell a story-truth.

If all goes well, don’t be surprised if your pastor invites you to share a story of your own.

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burst of optimism shot across the local sports scene this spring when the Oakland Athletics received a hunting license from Major League Baseball.

The license means the A’s can “explore other markets,” team president Dave Kaval says.

First priority for Kaval is to build a $1 billion ballpark in Oakland near Jack London Square. Failing that, the A’s might follow their football cousins to Las Vegas. If Nevada taxpayers grow tired of financing temples for billionaire sports cartels, there’s always Portland, Nashville, Charlotte or Vancouver.

There isn’t Sacramento. Local baseball fans have dreamed about stealing the A’s for almost 40 years, since foundations were poured for the abandoned ballpark next to Arco Arena.

It’s not going to happen. The A’s have

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never seriously considered moving to Sacramento. And that’s fine.

The A’s know the political congestion in Sacramento may be slightly less phlegmatic than Oakland, but baseball execs can do math. They understand the challenge of filling a 40,000-seat stadium 81 times a year, combined with soft corporate support in a mid-sized government town.

They know financial success would be tough in Sacramento, even if the ballpark was constructed with public subsidies and supported by a sweetheart development deal. Baseball owners are similar to basketball owners and football owners and soccer owners. They want guarantees, not risks.

Ten years ago, when I worked for Mayor Kevin Johnson, I met a group of consultants from the A’s and Major League Baseball. They wanted to see the Downtown railyards. Johnson told them a big league ballpark would fit beautifully among the old Southern Pacific warehouses and repair shops.

The baseball boys wanted to see for themselves.

We brought them into the yards through a muddy entrance on Jibboom Street. They inhaled history and savored opportunity. They felt nothing.

Maybe they lacked imagination.

The baseball boys asked no questions about the city’s history. They barely

RIVER CATS ARE ALL THE BASEBALL WE NEED

mentioned baseball. Their focus was on parking spaces, corporate suites and sponsorships, market strength and media support.

They wanted to know how much money the city would have leftover for baseball once it helped finance a new arena for the Kings. When they realized the answer was not much, the tour was over. They didn’t even bring up the River Cats, who would disappear if the A’s moved in.

I wanted to talk about the River Cats. They were among the most successful teams in minor league baseball and Oakland’s Triple-A feeder club. With their jewel box ballpark in West Sacramento, clever front office, warm summer nights, cold beer and fresh peanuts, the River Cats created a perfect environment. They primed the city for Major League Baseball. At least that was the mayor’s theory.

Watching a River Cats game on a summer night is a wonderful experience. Ticket prices are reasonable, food is hearty, and crowds are youthful and fun. River Cats games are vastly more enjoyable than seeing the A’s at the Oakland Coliseum— the action is closer, the atmosphere relaxed.

Pro sports teach us to think we should be grateful to pay to watch superstars, but the modern game has

been reduced to interchangeable parts.

A revolving door of pitchers determine the final score. Rosters are ridiculously fluid, here today, gone tomorrow. Who cares who plays first base?

Which convinced me Sacramento doesn’t need the A’s. The River Cats are the best sports experience in town, better than the Kings.

When the River Cats canceled the 2020 season and padlocked the ballpark for 600 days, the community’s pandemic losses intensified. Summer without the River Cats heightened the COVID depression. The loss of baseball proved how completely the River Cats have woven themselves into the community for 22 years.

I don’t know if the A’s returned to check out Sacramento after that visit 10 years ago. I doubt they came back.

There’s nothing for them. Today the River Cats support the Giants under a 10-year agreement, which is fine with everyone. The ballpark is open. Crowds are joyous. Major League Baseball would only get in the way.

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Bald Eagle Babies on the American River PHOTOS BY SUSAN MAXWELL SKINNER

A new generation of our national bird recently took wing on the American River. Observers named the 2021 babies Rio (river) and Lago (lake). Their parents established an eyrie—then considered the closest bald eagle nest to Sacramento in recorded history—in 2016.

Photojournalist Susan Maxwell Skinner has recorded the progress of this rare avian family since then. Rio and Lago hatched in March and flew for the first time during the June heatwave.

For the safety of this protected family, the nest location is not specified.

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The Bees Knees CARMICHAEL ARTIST HELPS BOLSTER LOCAL BEE POPULATION

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f you see healthy bees happily flitting from flower to flower in Carmichael, Oscar Econome is probably partly to thank for that.

The 20-year-old Carmichael resident has kept bees in his backyard since he was 14. What started as a hobby has grown into a small side business selling honey from his hives and educating neighbors about the benefits of bees.

“I didn’t know a whole lot about bees when I started,” Econome says. It was his uncle, an avid beekeeper, who inspired his mom to buy him his first hive for his 14th birthday. “I started to do research online to learn more about how they work as a creature, how to care for them, how to take honey and about all of the different uses for the natural materials that come from a beehive.”

Honeybees such as Econome’s produce honey, of course, which can aid in allergy prevention when ingested, as well as propolis, a resin-like mixture made of bee saliva and beeswax that has medicinal properties. To increase his output of honey to sell on social media, Econome bought 10 hives last spring, but he’s now down to one due to a seasonal swarm.

Econome explains that hives tend to “swarm” in the spring— either to find a new place to live that has better food or to follow

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The whole gang is waiting for you. a new queen. The idea of a bee swarm probably conjures up shivers of fear in many people, but Econome maintains that while it’s “built into our biology” to be afraid of bees, swarms are perfectly natural and are how bees propagate their species.

In March, one particularly aggressive swarm inhabited his neighbor’s tree—a neighbor who happened to be deathly allergic to bee stings—and Econome learned pest control had been called.

Since it’s illegal in California to exterminate bees because they’re a protected species, Econome asked if he could intervene.

He quickly gathered his equipment and successfully captured the swarm by knocking it off a tree branch into a bucket—and onto his own feet. Though he sustained nearly 80 stings on his ankles and feet, Econome was unfazed.

That hive now lives in his backyard.

When not rescuing bees, Econome works at a senior living facility and studies art at American River College.

The research skills that helped him learn about beekeeping have come in

handy in his art studies—he makes his own materials, from pigment to canvas.

“Using the things the masters used to paint with is my main goal,” says Econome, who counts Rembrandt and Titian as particular inspirations. “It’s a totally different game from buying paint and canvas at the store. Making my own surfaces and paints helps me have control over the outcome and achieve the desired effect.”

While art is his career focus, Econome says he’ll always have at least one beehive and wants to continue to inspire his neighbors to keep bees as well. “When you have bees all around— especially a lot together—they’re better off,” he says. “It creates diversity in their community.”

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he family legacy runs between a village restaurant in Thailand and Midtown, where customers feast on tasty dishes created from farmers market produce with spices grown around the world.

Suleka Sun-Lindley is owner and chef of Veg Café, which sits atop Thai Basil, her other restaurant at 25th and J streets. She grew up in Northeastern Thailand, watching her mother and aunts pick fresh produce from an outdoor market for their restaurant nearby.

Sun-Lingley recalls getting up at 4 a.m. to visit the market, buy vegetables and fruit, and return to the kitchen before 8 a.m. to cook for the morning crowd. In the afternoon, they would hit the market again for fresh dinner ingredients.

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“It’s like a homemade Panda Express,” Sun-Lindley laughs as she describes her family’s business in Thailand, which has operated for 50 years and is now run by relatives. “I always check out what they do and pick their brains on recipes. My family’s very into food. That’s all we talk about when we get together.”

At age 19, Sun-Lindley came to the United States, where her mom and sister lived. She got a restaurant serving job while studying environmental design at UC Davis. In 1994, the women opened Thai Basil Roseville, one of the first Thai restaurants in Placer County.

“Nobody even knew what Thai food was at the time, so it was our job to educate customers on what we are and how our food is different from Chinese,” SunLindley says.

Thai Basil’s menu features traditional Thai dishes, such as curries, rice and noodles, soups and fresh salads.

Pad kee mow (drunken noodles) is a spicy combination of wok-fried fresh flat rice with chopped garlic, chilies, tomatoes and Thai basil, served over a bed of lettuce and bean sprouts. One specialty is kow pad sapparod (pineapple fried rice). This dish is a traditional Thai-style fried rice with chicken and shrimp, egg, pineapple, onions, golden

raisins and dried cranberries, topped with cashews.

Desserts at Thai Basil are equally enticing. Take the sweet tropical grill— grilled mango, banana and pineapple in butter rum sauce with coconut, mango, ube or vanilla ice cream.

The Veg Café menu combines SunLindley’s appreciation for traditional cooking, her Ayurveda medicinal philosophy of “mindful eating” and her passion for food. “I wanted to focus on world cuisine rather than just Thai food like Thai Basil,” Sun-Lindley says.

“Like healthy food from India, Korea, Italy, France and the Mediteranian.

We do it all and use a lot of spices and herbs, tamarind, truffle oil, all plantbased.”

Sun-Lindley recalls when she proposed the idea of a vegetarian restaurant in 2016, her sister teased her saying, “If you don’t have any meat no one will come!” She tried it anyway and succeeded.

The Veg focus is on physical and mental health. The menu changes almost weekly depending on what’s in season and available. In addition to shopping at farmers markets, SunLindley sources directly from Red Tower Farm in Elk Grove. “Sometimes I just ask them to bring whatever they

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have and we plan the menu around it,” Sun-Lindley says.

The grilled peach and goat cheese salad is a seasonal concoction of creamy sunflower seed dressing, mixed greens, beet puree, pickled radishes, fried capers, goat cheese, mustard oil, poached green almonds, roasted rosemary beets, toasted almonds and grilled peach.

Seasonal crepes were the first thing on the menu at Veg Café. The crepes are made without eggs and filled with seasonal vegetables. The summer crepe combines fried tofu, bok choy, spring onions, sugar peas, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, thai basil and purple cabbage sauteed in a miso garlic sauce.

All that is packed into a turmeric chickpea crepe, served with chili lime vinaigrette, pickled carrots and pickled onions.

“It’s our philosophy (to serve) according to season,” Sun-Lindley says.

“That’s what nature is telling you your body needs.”

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homas Cannell is in the business of making beautiful, useful things.

A native of Newcastle, England, Cannell is the expert woodworker behind Block & Bowl, a new venture he launched with his wife Rosemarie in April to merge his passions for cooking and carpentry.

As a youngster, Cannell spent weekends building things in his grandfather’s backyard woodworking shop. He also loved to spend time in the kitchen and intended to become a chef upon graduating from high school. But his mother insisted he learn a trade.

Cannell set off on a two-year carpentry apprenticeship that turned into a five-year job as a cabinetmaker—in between some work in local kitchens.

In 2010, Cannell decided to travel.

He moved to Whistler, a Canadian resort where he quickly found restaurant jobs. He also found the love of his life, meeting Rosemarie on her annual Whistler snowboarding trip. He followed her to Los Angeles where she finished pharmacy school at USC. After moving for Rosemarie’s job—first to Seattle in 2014, then Sacramento in 2018—Cannell admits carpentry became more of a hobby while he focused on his dream to attend culinary school for baking and pastry arts.

Though he flexed his woodworking muscles doing home renovations, he didn’t make carpentry his fulltime focus until this year, when the pandemic gave him time for his workshop at the couple’s Land Park home.

“The transition back into carpentry has really worked out,” says Cannell, who creates beautiful kitchen and home goods, such as chopping blocks, serving boards, egg holders, muddlers

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and rolling pins. “Friends and family wanted things, so we started an Etsy page—and now we’re shipping things all over the country. We’ve been lucky, everything snowballed pretty fast.”

Every piece is lovingly staged and snapped by Rosemarie—an avid food and travel photographer—and then posted online on the Block & Bowl website or on Etsy. Cannell’s pieces are available in person at Details

Mercantile on Riverside Boulevard, Crocker Cutlery on H Street and The Pip Wine Bar & Shop in Dixon.

Each piece is unique and can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days to make. Cannell explains the time varies depending on the size and number of pieces of wood involved.

Many of his chopping boards have exotic woods from South America and Africa in vibrant colors inlaid into a neutral-colored body of maple, cherry or walnut. A typical Cannell board goes through several steps: First the lumber is milled, then planed, glued, set and planed again. The corners are sanded and styled, then the whole board is submerged in mineral oil, drip-dried and coated in beeswax to seal the surface and toughen it for everyday use. Each piece comes with a tin of beeswax and care instructions.

Now that he’s back to serious woodworking, Cannell plans to add cabinetry and other pieces, including coffee tables and dining tables to his inventory. He’d love to collaborate with local restaurants and hotels on custom boards now that the world is back to dining out.

“I love making things that people can actually use,” he says.

For information, visit blockandbowl.com.

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’m happy to report Plan B, the California-meets-France restaurant in Arden Town Center, hasn’t lost a step. When my mother called and asked if I’d like to go for dinner, it delighted me to learn the food and service are still on point.

Plan B’s resilience makes a visit that much more joyful.

If you are not familiar with Plan B, I understand. The restaurant sits in the back section of the center, facing neither Watt Avenue nor Fair Oaks Boulevard, the two main cross-streets.

Plan B is a little tricky to find on La Sierra Drive but worth the search.

During many visits, I’ve sampled most dishes and found them consistent

reminders as to why French cuisine still sets culinary standards.

Each salad and simple appetizer is served with a presentation well above its starter status. A butter lettuce dish presents like a budding green flower. The wonderfully pungent Dijon vinaigrette brightens the salad and blends elegantly with the Roquefort, walnuts and sun-dried cherries.

Another example of subtlety and decadence working together is the raclette tart. Try to imagine a bowl of French onion soup, except it’s a pizza.

Well, not exactly a pizza.

Plan B serves a few different “tartelettes” each night. It’s a 6-inchwide puff pastry topped with ingredients from fennel and leek to tomato and goat cheese. One recent evening, the raclette tartelette was on the specials menu and not to be missed.

Raclette is an alpine melting cheese.

Meant to be served warm and oozing, it topped the tartelette and covered a ridiculous pile of sauteed onions. The onions, sweet and tangy and tasting of an all-day cook, almost stole the show.

But the cheese and onions sang in harmony.

The rack of lamb, beautifully seared to medium rare, stood out. It arrived well-seasoned with herbes de Provence and was served with sides of yummy mashed potatoes and ratatouille.

A dish of prawns in a rich tomato bisque hit every expectation. A plate of sliced duck breast with mashers and French green beans was masterful.

For me, the highlight of Plan B's menu is the choice of mussels. Choose one of six different preparations, ranging from a classic white wine and garlic recipe, to an exotic coconut milk and cilantro preparation. At $16, the affordable price only makes the mussels that much better.

Mussels Provençal, which comes swimming in a sauce of tomatoes, garlic, basil and herbes de Provence, is a thing of beauty. Picking apart each mussel is a pleasure, but not as much fun as running a side of fries through the tomato broth left over once the mussels have been dispatched.

Desserts extend from the traditionally French crème brulee to a classic New Orleans dish, bananas foster. Again, each option shows expert work in the kitchen and is plated with elegance.

Talking to owner Chris Prybyla, I learned he was able to keep almost all his staff through the pandemic. Most of the staff, he tells me, have been at Plan B longer than he has.

Prybyla started dropping into Plan B many years ago to help former owner

Lionel Lucas when an extra hand was needed. Having worked alongside Lucas as a friend, Prybyla was a natural choice to buy the business about four years ago and keep the menu just as the restaurant’s loyal regulars expect.

Prybyla says there’s magic in the little corner restaurant, and the neighborhood locals who frequent Plan B are like family. If you’re interested in adding some friends and family to your

life, you would be hard pressed to find a better place than Plan B. Plan B is at 555 La Sierra Drive; (916) 483-3000; planbrestaurant.com.

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Race for the Arts at William Land Park

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Race for the Arts Saturday, Aug. 28, 7 a.m.–1 p.m.

William Land Park, 3800 Land Park Drive • raceforthearts.com Grab your running shoes for the 5K run/walk and kids’ fun runs to raise money for local nonprofit arts organizations and school programs. A free arts festival will take place until 1 p.m. Registration varies from $15–$35 depending on age and date of entry. Receive a 20% discount for teams of 10 or more. Registration includes event T-shirt and refreshments.

Animal House Sacramento Fine Arts Center Aug. 3–29; Second Saturday Reception, Aug. 14, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

5330 Gibbons Drive, Carmichael • sacfinearts.org Enjoy this widely popular juried art show that celebrates all animals through paintings, photography, ceramics and other media.

Leslie McCarron’s “Color Blooms” PBS KVIE Gallery Aug. 10–Oct. 8 2030 West El Camino Ave. • kvie.org Sacramento artist Leslie McCarron’s exhibition includes more than a dozen works featuring still life paintings of ranunculus, roses, peonies, sunflowers and the occasional lemon inspired by her time walking by the American River, working in her garden and bringing fresh flowers into her studio.

Concerts in the Park Carmichael Recreation and Park District Aug. 7–28, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Carmichael Park, 5750 Grant Ave. • carmichaelpark.com Welcome back to Carmichael Park’s annual free music series at the Daniel Bishop Memorial Pavilion. This month’s acts include the Fryed Brothers Band (Aug. 7), Todd Morgan & the Emblems (Aug. 14), On Air (Aug. 21) and Great Wide Open (Aug. 28).

Social Distance Theater California Stage Saturday, Aug. 14, 4–7 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 21, 8–10 p.m.

1725 25th St. • calstage.org On Second Saturday, photography by Jim Coats, Linda Kingsbury and Kathy Keatly Garvey will be on display in the Courtyard Gallery. The following Saturday, the Music in the Courtyard Concert will feature the Lisa Phoenix Band. Tickets are $15.

Movies at the Fort Midtown Association Saturday, Aug. 14, 8:45 p.m.

Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, 2701 L St. • exploremidtown.org/movienight Bring a blanket and picnic to enjoy “Up” projected on the walls of the fort.

Tickets are free but must be reserved online.

Folsom Americana Fest: Gold Country Hayride Wildwood Performing Arts Foundation Aug. 20 & 21, 7–9:20 p.m.

403 Stafford Street, Folsom • folsomfest.org The hayride will welcome Rockabilly Hall of Fame member Stan Perkins and recording artist/songwriter/manager of the WS Holland Band, Ron Haney.

Food trucks, beer, wine and merchandise will be available. Proceeds benefit Wildwood’s arts program and the Johnny Cash Art Trail. Tickets are $10–$75.

Todd Morgan & the Emblems at Carmichael Concerts in the Park

Family Campout

Leslie McCarron’s “Ranunculus Carnival” at PBS KVIE Gallery

Fairytale Town Friday, Aug. 6, 5:30 p.m.–Saturday, Aug. 7, 7 a.m.

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org Spend the night under the stars at Fairytale Town during this exciting overnight adventure that includes playtime, arts and crafts, a scavenger hunt, games, bedtime stories and a light continental breakfast. Adults are $30; children 2–12 are $25; children 1 and younger are free.

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Virtual Harvest Day UC Master Gardeners of Sacramento County Saturday, Aug. 7, 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

Online • sacmg.ucanr.edu Enjoy keynote speakers Fred Hoffman, Greg Gayton and Bill Krycia, as well as informative webinars on unusual edibles and tips for growing houseplants and bearded irises at this free virtual event. Register online to receive the participation link.

Kathy Dana’s “French Connection” at Sparrow Gallery

“Fork to Canvas” & Gary Dinnen’s “Wall Dogs” Archival Gallery Aug. 5–28; Second Saturday, Aug. 14, 5 p.m.

3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com This group show features works in all mediums that celebrate Northern California’s agricultural heritage in a playful way. Gary Dinnen’s popular raku “Wall Dogs” will be shown on the front wall. “Fork to Canvas” is dedicated to the memory of artist Michael Hoffee, who passed away in May and was originally scheduled to show this month. His still-life café scenes with floral bouquets were the inspiration for this show.

Kathy Dana’s “Little Hot Seats” Sparrow Gallery Ongoing 1021 R St. • sparrowgallery.com Artist Kathy Dana’s series of sunlit patio chairs painted in luscious acrylic on wood panels celebrates the lazy days of summer and invites art lovers to have a seat and relax.

Anthology Book Launch Stories on Stage Sacramento Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1–4 p.m.

Capitol Books, 1011 K St. • storiesonstagesacramento.org The nonprofit literary performance series celebrates the publication of its first anthology, “Twenty Twenty: A Stories on Stage Sacramento Anthology,” with this free in-person reception. The book contains 43 essays and short stories written by Northern California writers and notable guest authors, including Pam Houston, Karen Bender and Sands Hall.

Ron Cunningham’s “Peter and the Wolf” Sensory Friendly Dance Saturday, Aug. 21, 2 p.m.

The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave. • sensoryfriendlydance.org This children’s ballet is an inclusive theater experience, especially for those in the autistic community. Sensory-friendly accommodations include leaving lights on, lowering music volume and allowing audience members to play with fidget toys, dance, talk and sing during the performance. The production will include spoken and ASL narration. Tickets are $5.

Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Submissions are due six weeks prior to the publication month. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n Family Campout at Fairytale Town Photo by Karen Iddings

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