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Don’t miss the 18-member Calidanza Dance Company perform under the stars in Crocker Art Museum's courtyard.

“Noche de Muertos” Calidanza Dance Company Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerart.org The 18-member Calidanza Dance Company will perform a high-energy ballet folklorico program to commemorate the Day of the Dead. Excerpts will include “Noche de Muertos,” a modernistic piece commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, and new choreography of “La Viejada.”

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“Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955” Crocker Art Museum Oct. 8–Jan. 7 216 O St. crockerart.org This exhibition will examine Richard Diebenkorn’s artistic evolution through 100 paintings and drawings.

“Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon” Crocker Art Museum Oct. 29–Feb. 4 216 O St. crockerart.org Ninety iconic pieces created from the 1950s to the 1990s by renowned ceramic artist and Sacramento native Ruth Rippon will be on display.

“Masters of Venice” Crocker Art Museum Oct. 29–Feb. 4 Joe Genshlea will perform his one-man show at Sacramento Theatre Company.

“Following My Nose: Memoir of an Undirected Life”

216 O St. crockerart.org In this exhibition, 21 splendid drawings by the most famous father-andson draftsmen in 18th-century Venice, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, will be on view alongside those of other Venetian artists.

Sacramento Theatre Company Oct. 28–29 1419 H St. sactheatre.org Trial lawyer and raconteur Joe Genshlea will perform his third one-man show about growing up in Sacramento. Genshlea’s two previous shows, “A Sense of Place” and “Son of ‘A Sense of Place,’” raised money for STC and Sierra Forever Families. Genshlea will discuss his experiences in the military, Catholic school and the “randomizing of art and architecture” in contemporary society. Proceeds will benefit STC.

Sacramento Modern celebrates the life and career of Carter Sparks this month.

Celebrate your love of wine at the 25th annual Big Crush Harvest Festival.

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Karen Burney Genealogical Association of Sacramento Oct. 18, 12:15 p.m.

Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive gensac.org At its regular monthly meeting, the Genealogical Association of Sacramento will present speaker Karen Burney, an expert on searching Civil War records to help flesh out your family tree. The public is welcome.

Safe & Super Halloween in Space Fairytale Town Oct. 20–22, 5-9 p.m.

3901 Land Park Drive fairytaletown.org Take off to a galaxy far, far away for three nights of trick-or-treating and family fun. Enjoy 15 treat stations, photos with some of your favorite intergalactic characters, Jedi training, a costume parade, magic show and more.

Richard Diebenkorn artwork will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.

“Revelations of Love” Protected Path Camellia Waldorf School Oct. 28, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.

7450 Pocket Road camelliawaldorf.org On the weekend before Halloween, Camellia Waldorf students from the early-childhood program through third grade are invited to walk a campus path lit by luminaria. They will meet friendly costumed characters like fairies, mermaids, magicians and cowboys. Designed for young children, Protected Path cultivates a sense of wonder with none of the scary elements often associated with Halloween.

Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra Oct. 21, 8 p.m.

Fremont Presbyterian Church, 5770 Carlson Drive sacramentochoral.com This evening of inspired music for chorus, soloists, organ, strings and harp will feature mezzo soprano Hannah Penn and pieces including “O Love Divine” by Handel, “Dark Night of the Soul” by Ola Gjeilo, “Fern Hill” by John Corigliano and more. The concert is dedicated to the memory of Betty Graham (1936-2016).

25th Anniversary Big Crush Harvest Festival Amador Vintners Association Oct. 7–8, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Various locations (member wineries in Amador County) amadorwine.com Celebrate the yearly grape harvest at 45 member wineries from the Amador Vintners Association. Your ticket includes tours of the vineyards, grape harvest demonstrations, educational seminars, food-and-wine pairings, live music and family-friendly harvest activities.

San Francisco Munich Trio Crocker Art Museum Oct. 8, 3 p.m.

216 O St. crockerart.org In this classical concert, the famed San Francisco Munich Trio will showcase works by Mozart and Beethoven. The group features Munich-based duo Friedrich Edelmann on bassoon and Rebecca Rust on cello, as well as Northern California piano sensation Dmitriy Cogan.

Enjoy all things Greek at the annual Greek Festival on Oct. 6, 7 and 8.

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54th Annual Greek Festival Oct. 6–8 Greek Orthodox Church, 616 Alhambra Blvd. sacramentogreekfestival.com For more than 50 years, the Sacramento Greek Festival has brought Greek food, wine and culture to Sacramento. This year, the festival is moving back to where it all started on Alhambra Boulevard at the stunning new Greek Orthodox Church. The indoor/outdoor facility will feature a “panigiri” (a centuries-old tradition of live music and dancing under the stars). All proceeds support parish outreach, youth programs and local charities.

Magical Masquerade Ball Families on the Brink Oct. 21, 6-10:30 p.m.

Resurrection Event Center, 6365 Douglas Blvd., Roseville eventbrite.com Help families in need while enjoying an evening of music, magic, dancing, live and silent auctions, dinner catered by Nevada City’s Lefty’s Grill and a talk by featured speaker Taro Arai, philanthropist and owner of Mikuni sushi restaurants. The nonprofit Families on the Brink helps renters during times of temporary financial hardship due to job loss, sudden death in the family, unexpected illness, premature birth, hospitalization and more.

“Fair Winds” Sacramento Symphonic Winds Oct. 15, 2:30 pm.

Crowne Plaza Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. sacwinds.org Don’t miss the first concert of the Sacramento Symphonic Winds’ new season. The 60-piece adult symphonic band will present “Pastime (A Salute to Baseball)” by Jack Stamp, “Fantasia in G” (based on “Ode to Joy”) by Timothy Mahr, Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” from “West Side Story” and more.

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“Carter Sparks: Architect, Modernist, Friend” Sacramento Modern Oct. 4–25 Opening reception Oct. 11, 4:30–6:30 p.m.

Gregory Kondos Gallery (Sacramento City College), 3835 Freeport Blvd. sacmod.org Sacramento Modern celebrates the life and career of Carter Sparks, one of Sacramento’s most recognized and beloved modernist architects. Best known for his work with Streng Bros. Homes, Sparks designed more than 3,000 residences in the region, as well as civic and commercial buildings. This exhibition includes the architect’s early drawings, renderings, photographs, models and ephemera dating from the early 1950s through the early 1990s.

Sacramento Choral Society will perform "Revelations of Love" on Oct. 21.

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Caring for One Another HURRICANES’ AFTERMATH SHOWS THE BEST OF OUR AMERICAN SPIRIT

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ast month, it was heartening to see millions of people in Texas and Florida taking care of themselves in the aftermath of a historic and devastating pair of hurricanes. They displayed courage, generosity and caring for one another—all packaged in a breathtaking sense of community.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, social media was just in its infancy. State and local governments

were paralyzed and unprepared to handle the enormous problems.

Too much reliance on the federal government, which itself was unprepared, made the disaster even worse in terms of loss of life and property damage.

This year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Florida Gov. Rick Scott and the local mayors all seemed to have a firm grasp on the emergencies as they unfolded.

In 2017, social media made communications much easier and more efficient. One dramatic social media post showed a woman sitting in a chair at a retirement home with water up to her waist. Someone nearby saw the post and was there in an instant to pick her up and take her to dry land.

When the call for small boats went out, regular people turned out to help one another in a spontaneous,

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Dunkirk-style rescue. The self-styled Cajun Navy helped save people with boats, air mattresses and pool floats.

Many boats came in from Louisiana, whose citizens Texas had taken in in huge numbers after Katrina.

Our civic response to disasters is a remarkable microcosm of America.

It is usually spontaneous and orderly and based upon the structure of our decentralized American society, which has become a model for the entire world.

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian best known for his “Democracy in America” books, published in 1835 and 1840. The two books were his analysis of the sociological and political science patterns he observed in his American travels. It is considered one of the most important commentaries on America.

The following paragraph comes from the Townships section of one of the books and may best describe why Americans always seem to help in the aftermath of disasters: To the European, a public officer represents a superior force; to an American, he represents a right. In America, then, it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law. If the opinion that the citizen entertains of himself is exaggerated, it is at least salutary; he unhesitatingly confides in his own powers, which appear to him

to be all-sufficient. When a private individual meditates an undertaking, however directly connected it may be with the welfare of society, he never thinks of soliciting the cooperation of the government; but he publishes his plan, offers to execute it, courts the assistance of other individuals, and struggles manfully against all obstacles. Undoubtedly he is often less successful than the state might have been in his position; but in the end the sum of these private undertakings far exceeds all that the government could have done.

This spontaneous organization of thousands of small groups to help one another is the basis of the American spirit we saw in the aftermath of the recent disasters in Texas and Florida.

It may be less efficient than doing it in a top-down, uniform way, but the quantity of help is much greater and the results more immediate.

Based upon past disasters, a national alliance of volunteer groups reported that about 80 percent of recovery efforts are led by nonprofits, the majority of which are faith-based.

Yet FEMA bars many of those same organizations from seeking disasterrelief funding for damages to their own properties.

I’m not sure we pause and reflect on the strong and good nature of our American citizenry often enough.

Churches and synagogues of every denomination all over the country

are hard at work partnering with local churches in disaster-hit areas to bring help where it is needed.

Service groups across the nation, including Rotary, Kiwanis, Optimist, Soroptimist and Lions clubs, quickly kicked into gear to help their fellow clubs in hard-hit areas.

We are the most charitable nation on earth. Our charity numbers are staggering compared to the rest of the world because we hew to the doctrine that every person holds a station of citizenship with their own resources.

And most of us feel we are obliged by honor to use those resources when necessary for the good of the community.

We are also the only country on Earth where significant charity comes from ordinary people. In our country, most of us tend to feel responsible to help when something bad happens to others. We hold our fellow citizens in our hearts and prayers. And then we generously donate our own resources.

Based upon past disasters, a national alliance of volunteer groups reported that about 80 percent of recovery efforts are led by nonprofits, the majority of which are faith-based.

Yet FEMA bars many of those same organizations from seeking disasterrelief funding for damages to their own properties.

Many say that this charitable urge goes back to the principles our country was built on. The first

Americans left everything material behind and moved across the ocean to encounter frontier life. They brought with them every aspect of civilization while leaving behind the notion of aristocracy. Our country was developed on the principles of equality and freedom, and that our leaders are chosen by us and beholden to us.

I love the American Soldier’s Creed. By reciting it, soldiers affirm that they are warriors and members of a team. They pledge to place their mission first, to not accept defeat or leave a fallen comrade.

They also pledge to be disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in their warrior tasks and drills. They pledge readiness to deploy, engage and destroy our enemies. They become the guardians of freedom and the American way of life.

Maybe the many good folks who selflessly help others in disasters— often risking their own lives—do so because they are acting as “citizen soldiers” of our country.

While our local community hasn’t been tested recently, my hope is that my fellow Sacramentans would rise to the occasion and help others. All we need to do is follow the selfless model of the good citizens of Texas and Florida if and when a disaster hits close to home.

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Teaching Tolerance NEW UNITY CENTER OPENS AT CALIFORNIA MUSEUM

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n Aug. 26, the California Museum announced the official opening of the Unity Center, a new long-term exhibition that celebrates our state’s civil rights history.

Originally conceived in 1999 as a response to a series of far-right white-supremacist hate crimes perpetrated in Northern California, the Unity Center inspires visitors to become “Unity Activists” through its interactive exhibits.

“For 19 years, many of us have dreamt and worked for this day,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg.

“Many thousands of people, especially young people, will never forget what they experience here.”

Shortly after the 1999 attacks, then-Mayor Joe Serna and a coalition of local civic leaders announced plans to build an institution dedicated to teaching tolerance. The recession in 2008 brought the project to a standstill. Efforts were revived in 2013 when the California Museum’s board of trustees approached Steinberg, a former member of the Unity Center’s board of directors, with the idea of bringing the center to the California Museum. With Steinberg’s support, the project moved to the California Museum in

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The show took home the top award for best musical, along with seven awards of excellence, including outstanding book, outstanding performance in a leading role (Milo Manheim), outstanding ensemble, outstanding individual performances (Ian Ferrell, Julia Nightingale and Anabella Ronson-Benenati) and festival achievement in projection design (Kevan Loney).

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2014, where it is now housed in a 4,000-square-foot gallery.

In addition to exhibits about hate crimes, racial profiling and religious freedom, immigration, civil rights, equality and gender identity, the museum offers gallery-based education programs like field-trip tours for elementary and high school students. Additional programs geared toward working professionals and the public are scheduled to begin next year.

For more information on the Unity Center, visit californiamuseum.org/ unity. The California Museum is at 1020 O St.

‘GENERATION ME’ SWEEPS NEW YORK FESTIVAL Sacramento natives Julie Soto, Will Finan, Ryan Warren and Jacob Montoya were showered with recognition for their original musical, “Generation Me,” at the 2017 New York Musical Festival Awards for Excellence, which were held on Aug. 6 at Hudson Terrace in New York City.

The piece was first produced in Sacramento and features a creative collaboration among Soto (book, lyrics and story), Finan (music), Warren (story and direction) and Montoya (choreography).

On Thursday, Oct. 19, the Albie Aware Breast Cancer Foundation will announce the winner of the title Albie Champions 2017.

Four teams—Gypsy Souls, The Cook Realty Team, BC Warriors and We All Know Somebody—will meet at the Croatian American Cultural Center to find out which team raised the most money during this year’s contest, which included fundraising activities like spaghetti dinners, brunches, golf tournaments and parties to raise money for the foundation.

The foundation was created in 2004 in memory of Alberta (Albie) Carson, a longtime resident of East Sacramento who lost her life to breast cancer because she wasn’t made aware of all the available technology to detect a recurrence of her breast cancer.

The foundation’s mission is to provide assistance (financial and otherwise) for diagnostic testing, patient advocacy, prevention education and compassionate support

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There’s still time to donate for this year’s competition. Visit crowdrise. com/albiechampions2017 and click on the picture of the team you’d like to support.

For tickets to the Oct. 19 event, call (916) 927-1592. For more information, go to albieaware.org.

STC GETS GRANT MONEY Sacramento Theatre Company recently received a $5,000 grant from the Dennis Mangers Fund for Young Performing Artists.

The grant will support a semesterlong after-school theater program at Sol Aureus College Preparatory School under the auspices of STC’s School Partnership Program.

The program sends STC’s professional teaching artists to local schools to meet with students three to four times a week for lessons in theater, music, dance/movement and stagecraft.

“Our agency has seen tremendous growth with the School Partnership Program during the last six years,” says Michele Hillen-Noufer, STC’s education and School of the Arts director. “This grant will give us additional resources to expand our School Partnership Program and provide access for arts engagement to more students from underserved neighborhoods.”

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COWORKING SPACE GETS A GRANT A Midtown coworking space called 210 Impact Hub received a grant for innovation earlier this year from the city of Sacramento.

The business provides a workspace and gathering spot for social-minded entrepreneurs, businesses, nonprofits, churches and civic organizations.

It offers free parking, high-speed Wi-Fi, conference rooms, workspace and a 3,600-square-foot event room.

It also conducts incubator workshops for entrepreneurs every Thursday evening at 6 p.m.

Memberships start at $249 per month.

Last month, Midtown’s Barwest relaunched its famous Sunday brunch in honor of the 2017-2018 NFL season.

“We have over 20 TVs throughout the restaurant and patio to ensure that everyone has a good view of the games,” says Elliott Ames, Barwest’s marketing manager. “You can’t go wrong with a bloody mary and a breakfast burrito on a Sunday morning.”

Barwest also confirmed that the Breast Cancer Research Stamp will be the featured nonprofit at its Community Table this month.

All proceeds from the Community Table—an eight-person corner booth inside the restaurant—will go toward the purchase of Breast Cancer Research Stamps.

For more information, visit mybarwest.com. Barwest is at 2724 J St.

WELCOME, ALEX GRAMBOW! The Sacramento Children’s Chorus has welcomed a new artistic director.

Alex Grambow replaces founding director Lynn Stevens, who retired in June.

While he was earning his bachelor of music degree at University of the Pacific, Grambow received the prestigious Presser Scholarship.

He went on to teach at Harmony Stockton, an afternoon program for underprivileged students, before joining Twin Rivers Unified School District. There he ran two different music programs (at Foothill High School and Foothill Ranch Middle School), taught fifth through 12th grades and was in charge of four choirs and two bands.

Grambow believes that music provides children with a unique way to learn about the world and a safe and nurturing opportunity for selfexpression.

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Art Preview

GALLERY ART SHOWS IN OCTOBER

ARTHOUSE on R presents “Celebration,” a solo art exhibit featuring the work of the late Zbigniew Richard Kozikowski, Oct. 13 through Nov. 7. Shown above: “Evening Promenade.” 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com

Tim Collom Gallery in welcoming back Nichole Lauren Fry for her second solo exhibition called ”New Horizons.” The show runs Oct. 10 through Nov. 10.

Shown above: “Sonoma Harvest” by Fry. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com Through Nov. 3, Sparrow Gallery presents “Encounters,” with new paintings, collage art and prints by Margaret Woodcock. Shown right: “Grandmother” a mixed media by Woodcock. 1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com

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by Jennifer Pochinski from Oct. 3 to Nov. 4. Shown left: “Love.”

923 20th St.; bsakatagaro.com Elliott Fouts Gallery features recent work by David Post. The show runs Oct. 7 to Nov. 2.

Shown above: a landscape by Post. 1831 P St.; efgallery.com

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Two-Faced

LITY KRU H A N AS A DO O UB LY GO OD S PLI T PERS

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f you haven’t heard of Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine, it’s only because you haven’t been paying attention. Perennially on top-10 lists, frequently mentioned as a regional dining destination and consistently known as one of the best eating spots in the city, Kru is a shining light in Sacramento’s foodscape.

In its new digs in East Sacramento (on Folsom Boulevard at 32nd Street), the restaurant is bigger and takes in a more diverse set of diners than it could in its previous cozy location. An accommodating sushi bar, a substantial drinking bar and a comfortably sized dining room are all under one roof.

The new space covers a lot of ground, which provides plenty of opportunity for new flavors, but it also comes with its share of frictions.

Kru tries to lubricate itself out of those frictions by presenting two faces simultaneously. This cognitive dissonance is, more or less, successful.

The Jekyll-and-Hyde routine starts with the design of the place.

The dining room and sushi bar whisper minimalist elegance, a fine comingling of Japanese and California influences. The wood beams of the ceiling and the natural—wood, stone, floral—decorations create a beautiful, calming room. Turn your head the right way, however, and you’ll see one full wall covered in an excitingly garish mural, more influenced by tattoo art than traditional Japanese painting.

Look next at the dishes coming out of the kitchen, in which some of the best cooking in the region can be found. An absolutely stunning small plate of lacquered game bird comes out, the delicate, perfectly cooked flesh of the dainty thing perfectly coated in a soy-yuzu glaze that gives a fine snap in the teeth and tang on the tongue.

Compare that gorgeous execution and impressive restraint to the Sunshine Roll. This 11-ingredient sushi roll is a triumph in “party sushi” construction. Combining green apple, lemon, fried shrimp, spicy tuna, fried leeks, garlic sauce and five other ingredients, the dish is a baroque undertaking of flavors and textures.

It’s a bit shocking to see this dish come out of the same kitchen.

Swing the pendulum back with another sushi order, Sashimi Tapas.

This epically beautiful plate features five separate fishes, mostly raw, with the most delicate accompaniments.

The first bite is some of the finest, fattiest salmon you’ve ever put in your mouth. With just a simply dressed bed of seaweed underneath, it’s as expressive a bite as you can have. If some dishes let ingredients sing, then this one just opened at the Met. Or grab a plate of loco moco. This down-and-dirty Hawaiian favorite of hamburger patty and fried egg over rice and gravy gets the Kru treatment with the use of Wagyu beef for the patty and Japanese curry instead of brown gravy. The ingredients are

of the highest sourcing, the cooking expertly deft. But again, this feels like the product of another kitchen altogether, or at least of another menu planner.

Perhaps what makes this twofaced culinary approach work is the one-faced approach to service. That face is excellence. Each dish, each water refill, each glass of wine, each cutlery reset is handled smartly and professionally. The team of servers, bussers and managers works together seamlessly.

There’s also a distinct difference in price depending on what you choose to eat at Kru. The chef’s tasting menu will run you $75 per person, or $110 with drink pairings. The omakase, or chef’s sushi choice (served only at the sushi bar and with limited availability, so make a reservation) can run you $125 per person. A selection of small plates and sashimi or nigiri selections can add up to $60 to $80 per person with a drink.

On the other hand, the same menu offers you the option to make a meal out of sushi rolls and a pitcher of beer. That may come to about $30 per person, not much more than your local casual sushi joint. Of course, have a glass of one of Kru’s rare Japanese whiskies and you’ll double that bill.

Kru is what you make of it. The food is consistently lovely, the preparation excellent, the service on point. You can have a fine-dining experience or a casual sushi fest. Just be ready for Japanese flavors with some clever Hawaiian and Californian influences coming out of Chef Billy Ngo’s kitchen no matter what kind of night you plan.

Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine is at 3135 Folsom Blvd.; (916) 551-1559; krurestaurant.com.

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Gathering Spot OAK PARK TO GET ANOTHER HIP DEVELOPMENT

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n July, The Sacramento Bee described a proposed Oak Park development as a “mini startup campus.” Thanks to the city’s proximity to tech-friendly Silicon Valley and relatively affordable real estate (though that’s rising, too), Sacramento has become a viable destination for erstwhile Bay Area startups. But the developers behind the proposed Triangle Work Space Development at 34th Street and Broadway feel the word “startup” is misleading.

“The original article was just pulled from the planning application,” guesses Sam Allen, co-owner of Grounded Real Estate, which owns the site of the proposed development. “Nobody even talked to us about this. It was portrayed as a startup, but the vision is different. This isn’t like a tech startup.”

Grounded Real Estate and Sacramento architect Ron Vrilakas have partnered to design a three-story, mixed-use building made of shipping containers. Allen hopes it will appeal to local residents and retailers.

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FROM page 22 to a tech company or some other big office,” Allen says. “But that’s not what needs to happen here. We’re trying to create a neighborhood that’s walkable, and where you can take care of all your basic needs within a couple blocks.”

The basic needs of a neighborhood and then some. Allen says the inspiration for the project is Oakland’s eclectic Temescal Alley, a hodgepodge collection of curio shops, retailers and food purveyors. “That’s kind of the thought process behind this,” says Allen: to create a viable space for unique businesses with an artistic vibe.

The two proposed buildings would include about 30 work and retail units, 160 square feet each, with retail on the ground floor and offices on the upper two stories.

Thanks to the recent mural event, Wide Open Walls, and artist Waylon Horner, the façade of the lot’s neighboring building already boasts a colorful mural on one side of what will a 20-foot alley created by the new

development. In the space between the two buildings, Allen envisions “a little taproom, a coffeehouse or a small restaurant where people can sit outside and enjoy the weather.”

The empty lot already has been integral to the revitalization of Oak Park as the site where food trucks park during Oak Park Gather, an event organized by Unseen Heroes and the Oak Park Business Association.

“The whole reason of Gather is to promote local businesses,” says Allen. The Triangle Work Space Development should complement the event by providing retail space for new local businesses.

Since the units will be relatively small, the threshold for entry should be manageable. Allen says he expects rents to be “less than or equal to the cost of a one-bedroom apartment. And you’re getting a retail space that has power and Internet included. There’s just a fixed cost you’ll have to cover.”

Ultimately, this new development is a place where Allen himself wants to be. He lives only two blocks away, but since the lot is also adjacent to

Grounded Real Estate’s office, you can bet he’s investing in a project he’s going to have to see daily.

“You know, I moved to Oak Park in 2005 because that’s where I could find cheap rent. I used to walk down here, and at the time, I wouldn’t advise people to walk down here. But then I fell in love with the neighborhood,” he says.

“We really want a community gathering space, and I want a place where I can take my kids, my family and just hang out.”

The project is still in the planning phase. “We’re waiting for the first round of comments from the planning department, then a round of revisions,” says Allen. Still, he hopes the project will be finished by late summer or early fall 2018. “I’m hoping that this thing will be, if not complete, substantially on its way to completion this time next year.”

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All That Jazz I Carolyne Swayze

THIS SINGER BRINGS CLASSICAL JAZZ TO THE COMMUNITY

Who could imagine that the playful musician’s maxim “Hum a few bars” could launch a career? It did just that for jazz singer Carolyne Swayze—founder of the recently formed Sacramento Jazz Cooperative—when she approached the bandstand at a California dinner house.

“To this day, I don’t know what gave me the nerve,” Swayze says. Her singing voice had long been silenced by a bad case of stage fright as a child after auditioning for “Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour” in the mid-1960s. “I had recently relocated to California from Chicago and wandered into this dinner house.

I walked up to the bandleader and asked, ‘Do you know this song?’ He said, ‘What key do you sing it in?’ I didn’t know what that meant, so he said, ‘Hum a few bars.’ I ended up performing with that group—the Dick Scudder Trio—for five years.”

Growing up in a home with two sets of grandparents (one devoutly religious, one devoted to classical jazz), she heard both musical influences from an early age. In her teen years, Swayze decided she was going to be Nancy Wilson, a selfproclaimed “song stylist” with 70 albums and three Grammy Awards to her name. But it was after making herself part of the Fresno-based Dick

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Scudder Trio and working the San Francisco hotel and country club circuit as a singer that Swayze’s own personal style began to emerge.

She eventually went to work for the city and county of San Francisco, and singing took a back seat. She moved to Sacramento in 1997 and retired a decade later.

“I kept thinking maybe it was too late to go back to singing,” Swayze says. “But then I went to the Mondavi Center to hear a performance of the Wynton Marsalis Lincoln Center jazz band. They were so marvelous, and I started to look around the room.

There were 1,800 people in that room and not one person I knew. I thought, ‘Who are all these people? How can I get this crowd to support what I want to do?’”

So she started Sacramento Jazz Cooperative, a nonprofit designed to develop a greater understanding of jazz as an American art form and increase audience participation through education and performance.

SJC hires local and touring talent to perform at least two Mondays a month at the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts in Midtown.

“There are a lot of opinions about what jazz is,” Swayze says. “If Dixieland and R&B are on opposite sides, we’re in the middle. We do mainstream classic jazz. All jazz is good, but there’s so much out there.

Sacramento already has a traditional jazz society. We didn’t want to compete. We’re not trying to get the whole pie, just a slice of excellence.

We want to do our thing and do it better than anyone else.”

Since it began in September 2016, SJC has produced 16 performances

to ever-increasing audiences.

Membership is also increasing, which is good news for the growth-minded Swayze.

“I feel like we woke a sleeping giant,” she says. “The outpouring of acceptance from the community has been overwhelming. Now I have a sense of obligation to keep it going and make it everything it can be.”

That includes educating not only current audiences but also future musicians.

“I want to have our own building with a recording studio, a lounge and classrooms,” Swayze says. “There’s a lot of educating to be done. There’s more to this business than going to school and becoming a great stylist.

I want to teach seminars about how to know your key and work with a band. Luckily, a great number of our members are educators in the CSU and UC systems. I didn’t know so many Ph.D.s could blow a saxophone!”

No matter how grand her plans may be, Swayze is committed to keeping everything SJC does within reach for all patrons. Tickets have been $25 apiece.

“Tickets are $25 no matter who we bring in, whether they’re local or a celebrity,” Swayze says. “That’s why we really need the support from the community. It costs much more to bring in a celebrity performer, but I don’t want to increase ticket prices. I want everyone to be able to be a part of it.”

For more information about Sacramento Jazz Cooperative, visit sacramentojazzcoop.org.

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Monthly Market A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN OCTOBER

SUNCHOKE

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Eat it: Roast in the oven with other vegetables, or puree for a soup.

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This knobby golden fruit looks like a pear and is generally too hard and sour to eat raw.

Eat it: Stew in water or wine, then bake in a tart.

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Helping the

Forgotten SHE WANTS TO BUILD A HOSPICE FOR DYING HOMELESS PEOPLE

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arlene von FriederichsFitzwater was no stranger to the repercussions of a cancer diagnosis—nor to the feeling of isolation that comes along with it.

But when she met Anna, a homeless woman who had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, she realized that the sense of isolation dug even more deeply into terminally ill people who had no home or family.

So von Friederichs-Fitzwater created Joshua’s House, a hospice house for terminally ill people who are homeless. She named it after her grandson Joshua, who died while homeless in 2014.

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Friederichs-Fitzwater worked as a reporter for The Los Angeles Times and then as a publicist for Walt Disney Studios before starting her own publishing company. She was then approached by Westminster College to develop a course on writing articles for magazines.

But with only a bachelor’s degree, she knew that teaching would mean going back to school. She applied to the University of Nebraska Omaha, thinking that she would continue studying journalism and mass media.

“In my first semester, I had what I thought was a routine doctor’s appointment and discovered I had advanced cervical cancer,” she says.

It was the late 1970s, and she was a single mother of four sons.

“The nurses and doctors started pulling away,” she recalls. “It became a very isolating experience. I thought, ‘Why is that?’ These people are trained. They know people die. They should be comfortable if that is the prognosis. As a reporter, it fascinated me. I made a deal that if I survived, not only would I do something to give back to other cancer patients, but

I would find out what the problem was.”

When her health improved, she followed through with that promise.

She studied health communications, focusing her graduate work on how doctors communicate with dying patients. She went on to earn a doctorate.

“I wanted to teach medical students how to do better at communicating with patients,” says von FriederichsFitzwater, “particularly when they were seriously or terminally ill.”

In 1985, she went to teach at Sacramento State University, where she helped develop a new minor in health communications. During her 20 years as a professor at Sac State, she also served as a volunteer clinical faculty member at UC Davis School of Medicine.

After she retired from Sac State in 2005, she went to work at UC Davis to develop an outreach research education program for the Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“Here was a chance to fulfill my other promise to give back to cancer patients,” she says. “I was

really trying to help cancer patients get through that journey and have support so they didn’t feel isolated like I had.”

She spent the next 10 years developing patient-education and cancer-support programs, including a cancer peer-navigator program that trains survivors to be cancer coaches for newly diagnosed patients. This is when she met Anna and became aware of the needs of homeless individuals facing terminal illnesses.

“If you were homeless and diagnosed with cancer, you might be able to get treatment, but they had no option but to discharge you back on the street,” says von FriederichsFitzwater. “That just stunned me.”

This realization came at the same time as her grandson lost his life on the streets at the age of 34. She knew she needed to focus on finding a solution.

“That’s Joshua’s House,” she explains.

Von Friederichs-Fitzwater and her advisory board drew up a floor plan and held a kickoff fundraiser in April.

She hopes to raise $1 million by the

“PROVIDING A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN DIE WITH LOVE AND DIGNITY AND RESPECT IS IMPORTANT.” end of 2017 and to open Joshua’s House with 10 beds on the Loaves & Fishes campus in 2018.

In addition to housing and hospice care, von Friederichs-Fitzwater also wants Joshua’s House to provide art and music therapy programs.

“One of the issues the homeless have is that being homeless makes them feel invisible. Their greatest fear is dying on the street and just being forgotten,” von Friederichs-Fitzwater says. “Providing a place where they can die with love and dignity and respect is important. But also through art therapy and writing, they may be able to leave something for others to learn about them and their lives.”

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Mod in Mansion Flats INFILL DEVELOPMENT MARRIES MODERN DESIGN WITH NATURE

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ASSOCIATION. EACH HOME HAS A CLEARLY DEFINED GREEN SPACE.

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t’s tricky pinpointing just when a neighborhood takes on a new life. But Erica Cunningham has observed changes in the Mansion Flats neighborhood where she and her husband, Nathan, recently completed four single-family homes.

The couple, principals of Indie Capital LLC, began building the infill project last November.

In the past year, Cunningham has seen people buying and restoring homes in Mansion Flats, becoming homeowners rather than investors and landlords. Hotels in the area are

expressing an interest in shifting to boutique-style accommodations.

Entertainment options continue to blossom. Cunningham credits the increased activity to the neighborhood’s proximity to Golden 1 Center and The Railyards.

“It was pretty sleepy down here a year ago,” she says.

The only real issue the pair faced during construction of their Mansion Flats Modern development was the weather.

“It began raining just after we poured the concrete, so we were on

hold for four months,” she explains.

“Starting in April, we got a good push on the project and finished up.”

The entry of each home boasts a demure patio just right for enjoying the street scene. Two rows of plants, one growing to 3 feet tall, the second 4 feet, have been planted. Once mature, the hedge will create a living fence, ensuring both a sense of privacy and a connection to the neighborhood.

Each of the four homes has three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths and almost 1,600 square feet of

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living space, with prices starting at $549,000. The first-floor layout is the same for all the homes, with slight differences on the second floor.

Indie Capital homes routinely boast an impressive list of above-average standard features. A very abbreviated list of these perks includes Sierra Pacific aluminum-clad wood windows and doors; 9-foot ceilings; a kitchen island with waterfall end panels; frameless cabinetry with softclose doors and drawers; a Sharp microwave drawer and Samsung induction range; tiled bath floors and

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shower surrounds (no fiberglass); a smart thermostat; white oak hardwood flooring; and an electric-car charging outlet in the garage.

The main level’s floor of polished concrete is delightfully smooth underfoot and surprisingly comfortable in the winter. “The thick slab is so well insulated that you don’t get any temperature transfer,” Cunningham explains.

Pocket doors keep the lines of each room clean. Plenty of cabinets and shelves throughout the house ensure each room is free of clutter. Lots of casement windows bathe the rooms in natural light and allow views to the outside.

In the backyard, trash enclosures are hidden away behind a door wrapped in siding material, essentially eliminating garbage from view and sensitive noses. All the landscaping is native and drought tolerant. The irrigation system communicates with a weather station, which increases or decreases the amount of water delivered depending upon the temperature.

Cunningham notes there is a misconception regarding the outdoor space at the rear of each home.

“Everyone thinks this is a common area, but actually everyone has their own yard,” she says.

The backyards are based on the idea of creating a green space where everyone has their own defined space but can still connect with nature and their neighbors. Rather than fences dividing up the space, hedges were planted. Plans call for planting trees, hedges and tall grasses to create a lush greenbelt between the four existing homes and

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four more that will be built soon.

Indie Capital successfully petitioned the city to block off both ends of the alley, so residents will gain additional outdoor space.

“Nature will form the boundary instead of fences,” Cunningham says.

“When we get this built out, it will be a sanctuary with green space that residents will be able to relax and enjoy.”

Who does Cunningham envision taking up residence in these gems?

The homes are for people who desire more than a condo with a balcony.

Instead, these modern confections are a perfect fit for people who crave an urban home close to everything, but who also want a connection to the outdoors and bit of elbow room.

“Homeowners will enjoy more light, ventilation and views and can more easily engage with neighbors when desired,” Cunningham says.

“We are really happy with how these turned out.”

INDIE CAPITAL SUCCESSFULLY PETITIONED THE CITY TO BLOCK OFF BOTH ENDS OF THE ALLEY, SO RESIDENTS WILL GAIN ADDITIONAL OUTDOOR SPACE.

For more information about Indie Capital’s Mansion Flats Modern development, go to indie-capital.com.

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first learned about Haven for Hope, a unique homeless facility in San Antonio, Texas, from a close friend, Jill McDonnell. Jill is a professional photographer in Sacramento who doubles as the official photographer of the Land Park Volunteer Corps. Jill rides “shotgun” with me on our monthly park work days in William Land Park. We distribute copious amounts

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of cold water to hardworking park volunteers and thank them for their indispensible help.

Jill’s overriding passion, however, is capturing extraordinary images of Sacramento’s homeless people.

Her photography is reminiscent of the remarkable work of Dorothea Lange, the photographer famous for chronicling the desperation on the faces of struggling migrants during the Great Depression. Jill’s photos of homeless people have been displayed in the photo gallery in the lobby at Sacramento City Hall and other local galleries. We occasionally display her work at the Corps’ Base Camp, a reminder to park volunteers of the struggles the homeless in our midst face. Her pictures of our park volunteers are often featured in this publication.

Jill is no softheaded bleeding heart.

She has a steely-eyed realist’s view of the complexity of human nature, both its positive and negative elements.

She’s also closely attuned to the players, policies and politics involved with homeless issues in Sacramento.

Because she has an abiding human compassion and innate common sense (an all-too-rare combination, I’ve found), I sought out her perspective when I began studying the city’s stumbling responses to the homelessness problem. She had one unwavering piece of advice: Go to San Antonio.

What she meant was that I should visit Haven for Hope. Last month, I spent a week in the south Texas city while attending a think tank conference. I made sure to schedule an extended tour of the facility with

Laura Calderon, Haven for Hope’s insightful and frank director of external relations.

OVERVIEW OF HAVEN FOR HOPE Haven for Hope, built in 2010, is the largest facility of its kind, caring for almost 1,600 people nightly in a sprawling campus spread out over 34 acres. It’s also the nation’s most highly acclaimed homeless facility. Officials from more than 300 U.S. cities have passed through its doors to see exactly how the Haven model works and to assess whether its approach would be a good fit for their communities. Haven differs from other facilities in its innovative two-step approach to

caring for the homeless, as well as its comprehensive approach to helping homeless individuals transform their lives. Haven for Hope is clearly not in the business of just warehousing people.

HAVEN’S TRANSFORMATIVE CAMPUS Haven for Hope is clear about its mission: to transform lives, not merely ameliorate the immediate problem of homelessness. Unlike most homeless programs, Haven is laser-focused on aggressively and comprehensively addressing the root causes of homelessness, which are as varied as the colors of the rainbow: drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, bad luck, medical crises, sudden joblessness, domestic abuse, domestic disintegration, the unique challenges facing disconnected LBGT youth, and the rebellious among us who choose a life of living off the grid.

The heavy lifting of helping people work through the root causes of their homelessness takes place in its “Transformational Campus,” a series of renovated industrial warehouses housing 65 affiliated service agencies and nonprofits that implement the highly individualized care plans crafted by case managers for each new participant. An additional 85 referral partners provide services to Haven’s residents at their own sites. There are also typically 1,000 volunteers working on the campus each month in various capacities.

THE FIRST STEP: THE COURTYARD The typical entry point for most homeless people to Haven is through its outdoor Courtyard. It is a very large, open-air covered patio that typically has a count of 841 people during the day and 637 at night.

It’s equipped with heavy-duty fans and misters to keep down ambient temperatures. Indoor facilities are made available to Courtyard occupants during periods of inclement weather. Only basic services are provided to those in the Courtyard:

regular meals, laundry access, sleeping pads, health care triage and mental health care services, as well as lockers for personal belongings.

Sobriety is not a requirement for entry into the Courtyard. It is a largely safe resting and sleeping place for those not yet ready to meet the requirements for entry into the Transformative Campus. Petty theft is a problem, but the Courtyard is heavily patrolled by both Haven security personnel and off-duty San Antonio police officers.

If someone is willing to commit to sobriety and agrees to comply with the Transformative Campus’ rules for participation, they are typically admitted to the Transformative Campus. Once admitted, they are closely monitored in their early days to ensure that they remain sober.

Haven staffers acknowledge that slips are often a part of recovery and don’t result in summary dismissal from the program. Staffers are clearly committed to each resident’s success.

More than 5,948 people have moved from the Courtyard to higher levels of residential care, including sobriety programs, mental health programs and other forms of supportive and/or permanent housing, since Haven’s opening in 2010.

The contrast between the spartan Courtyard and the more supportive Transformational Campus provides a strong incentive for homeless people to transfer to the Campus.

SUCCESS IN ENDING HOMELESSNESS: EMPLOYMENT OF RESIDENTS The Transformative Campus currently houses 433 single men, 174 single women and 254 family members (including 152 children with an average age of 6), each housed in separate dormitories. It also houses 56 veterans.

Since opening, 3,682 people have exited the Transformative Campus and moved to permanent housing. The average length of stay for the past 12 months was 162 days for single people and 134 days for families. After one year, 90

AFTER HAVEN’S FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION, THE ANNUAL JANUARY POINT-IN-TIME COUNT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE IN DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO DECLINED FROM 738 TO 254, A DROP OF NEARLY TWO-THIRDS. percent of people who exited with a housing placement did not return to homelessness, an extraordinary track record. More than 2,262 individuals have attained employment since Haven’s opening, typically through the efforts of Haven’s staff and affiliates.

IMPACT ON RESIDENTS AND THE SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY How effective has Haven for Hope been in reducing homelessness in San Antonio? After Haven’s first year of operation, the annual January pointin-time count of homeless people in downtown San Antonio declined from 738 to 254, a drop of nearly two-thirds. In the most recent count in January of this year, the homeless count had dropped to 148.

Because Haven provides comprehensive health care to its residents (and nonresidents), including mental health programs, detox services and in-house recovery programs, it has become the care facility of choice for San Antonio police dealing with public inebriates.

More than 50,000 people have received such potentially life-saving detox services at Haven’s Restoration Center since its inception, relieving city and county jails, emergency rooms and courtrooms of an estimated $97 million in taxpayer costs, according to Haven estimates.

Haven’s In-House Recovery Program provides housing and support for those with drug and alcohol addictions. A total of 1,438 individuals have successfully completed the program, and many of its graduates were job-ready upon completion. Since opening in October 2010, IHRP has had a success rate of 56 percent, which exceeds the average completion rate for such programs

of 44 percent. Through its in-house mental health wellness programs, one for men and another for women, Haven has served 1,391 individuals, with a combined success rate of 44 percent.

Haven has developed joint projects with the San Antonio Police Department, including Haven’s Jail Release Program and the Center for Health Care Services’ Jail Diversion Program, which has resulted in sharp drops in the number of jail bookings.

Jail bookings dropped 3,300 in Haven’s first year, with recent drops of 800 and 1,700 in the past two years.

Haven’s Restoration Center also allows police officers to quickly divert injured prisoners to the center’s onsite minor-emergency clinic instead of to hospital ERs, minimizing the time officers spend in emergency rooms.

The city estimates that the value of getting those officers quickly back on the street is approximately $2 million annually.

Most of the health clinics operating at Haven are open to the public free of charge; the public makes more than 40,000 visits to Haven for medical, dental and vision care services annually.

AN ENGAGED PRIVATE SECTOR FUNDED MOST OF DEVELOPMENT COSTS Haven for Hope was built at a cost of $100.5 million in 2010. Here’s a stunning fact: More than 60 percent of its construction cost ($60.1 million) was funded by private sector sources ($22.5 million by the city of San Antonio, $11 million by Bexar County and $6.1 million by the state of Texas). Its construction served to create 190 permanent new jobs TO page 37

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The Spirit Moved Them HOW OAK PARK GAINED ANOTHER CHURCH

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astor Mark Meeks and his friends at City Church of Sacramento knew the challenges they faced when they decided to move from North Land Park to Oak Park, a distance of about 35 blocks.

They knew they were leaving a neighborhood that needs City Church, a neighborhood that includes the Marina Vista and Alder Grove housing projects and is underserved by other churches.

And they knew there are no easy ways to move a church. Apart from

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physical manifestations, which can be relocated with strong backs and sweat, there’s the spiritual presence: the sense of place and mission. The spirit can be stubborn when it comes to moving.

Finally, there was Oak Park itself.

When City Church was founded five years ago, its mission was to bring a pure, nondenominational message— love God and love others—to a corner of the city that suffered from a scarcity of organized religion.

That corner was not Oak Park, which lacks for neither churches nor religion. Oak Park has a deep history of faith and is blessed with houses of worship on almost every block. There are at least 20 churches between Broadway and 12th Avenue.

Still, Meeks and his fellow City Church leaders and parishioners faced a tough decision. They were thriving in North Land Park, bringing song

and inspiration to a place in the Grid mostly silent on Sundays. But they were without a real home—a church without pride of ownership.

They rented space from Sacramento City Unified School District at Health Professions High. They conducted services in a building designed for ecumenical, not spiritual, learning. Each Sunday, they transformed a school auditorium into a church and filled the room with rapture, then turned out the lights and mailed a check to the school district.

“The goal was always to find our own church, a home to call our own,” Meeks says. “But it’s not easy. We’re not a wealthy church, and there were no suitable buildings in the Broadway corridor or around Southside Park.”

Meeks and his elders broadened their search eastward. The pastor purposely avoided Oak Park, where he had many friends and pastoral colleagues. He wanted to stay as close to Southside Park and Broadway as possible.

Divine intervention changed everything.

A City Church parishioner heard about a property possibly coming on the market at 39th Street and 4th Avenue. It was the old First English Lutheran Church, an intriguing facility with two sanctuaries, one built in Spanish Colonial style in 1931, the other a soaring A-frame constructed in 1956.

The chapels were linked by offices, meeting spaces, classrooms and a kitchen. The larger church had a pipe organ that still worked. The church closed about 20 years ago. The owner, St. John’s Lutheran Church at 17th and L streets, would occasionally

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The property was valuable. City Church leaders estimated the site was worth about $1.5 million. That was far more than City Church could afford. And there was the location: right in Oak Park among its wealth of churches.

But the allure of First English pulled at City Church. Meeks toured the buildings and saw potential.

The church needed a carpenter’s embrace—floors and windows demanded repairs; electrical work and painting were necessary; there was no air conditioning. But City Church leadership decided to seize the opportunity.

They opened discussions with St. John’s. While they were aligned by faith, the talks might have collapsed over a hopelessly agnostic subject: money. But they didn’t.

“We considered many options, including selling the campus for development,” says St. John’s pastor, Frank Espegren. “But we wanted

the property to continue to be the blessing that it was for First English.”

St. John’s leaders visited City Church in North Land Park and watched the congregation. Espegren says, “We saw they had a heart for service and a deep commitment to the community. We realized this was a church we could serve with in partnership.”

City Church needed a significant price break to buy First English. Even with a steep discount, debt payment and repairs would put severe pressure on City Church’s budget.

A bargain price was established.

St. John’s took the question to its entire congregation for a vote.

The sale was approved almost unanimously.

“There were many reasons for both of us—St. John’s and City Church— not to do this deal,” Meeks says. “But in the end, we all understood it was the exactly right thing to do.”

And from North Land Park to Oak Park, the spirit moved.

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FROM page 35 at Haven and another 150 new jobs created by its affiliate nonprofits, as well as 465 construction jobs.

Haven for Hope is still heavily supported by the private sector: 50 percent of its $18.6 million annual operating budget is funding by private-sector donors, 27 percent by the state, 16 percent by city government, 4 percent by county government and 3 percent by the federal government. Of the private-sector sources of operations funding, the United Way contributes 8 percent, private contributions account for 21 percent and 21 percent is provided by two private foundations, one of which is largely funded by the extraordinary visionary who created Haven for Hope, William E. Greehey, a retired CEO of San Antonio-based Valero Energy.

BUSINESS COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP In 2005, Greehey, recently retired as Valero’s CEO, was having difficulty figuring out how to make a difference. According to an interview by the Los Angeles Times, Greehey said he was inspired by a local television report on homelessness.

“What I saw was that all we were doing is recycling the homeless people that would go to jail, come out of jail, get sick, go to the emergency room, get treated, get back to the street. We weren’t doing anything to address the root cause of why these people were homeless,” he said.

He spent the next five years developing his ambitious vision for Haven for Hope, a first-of-itskind facility in terms of its scope of services, size and degree of collaboration required by nonprofit and agency partners. He succeeded in bringing San Antonio’s mayor and city manager on board as strong early supporters. He also corralled major support from San Antonio’s business community and leaders, as well as those experienced in providing services to homeless populations.

He used his deep experience in

industrial development and executive leadership skills to move his vision from dream to reality.

A MODEL SACRAMENTO SHOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER In my August column, I recounted the failure of homelessness policies in almost every major city on the West Coast while public spending

by West Coast cities to “solve” their homeless problem has been skyrocketing. In my September column, I chronicled the seemingly endless fights and disagreements in Sacramento over how to best deal with homeless issues, with Mayor Steinberg scrambling to spend money as quickly as possible on largely untested scattershot approaches to the problem.

San Antonio’s model, Haven for Hope, is succeeding in transforming lives, dramatically reducing street homelessness, improving health outcomes for both the homeless and the public, moving people from homelessness into permanent housing, increasing employment and dramatically reducing costs to taxpayers. I’m convinced that developing a Haven for Hope-type facility in Sacramento requires strong private-sector leadership, free of the political angles that color—and too often contaminate—the search for sound solutions to difficult public problems. In addition, privatesector capital is probably essential to bringing such a vision to life in Sacramento.

The Sacramento business community has no shortage of visionary, talented business leaders.

Here is a perfect opportunity for one of them to make a real difference.

Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group.

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ho would have guessed that a 10-year-old boy fascinated by fixing cars would end up being the driving force behind one of the nation’s most respected automobile dealership conglomerates? Sacramento’s iconic Niello Company is nearly synonymous with luxurious cars, quality service, gleaming showrooms and super nice salespeople who even drive to your house to help program your garage. (It happened to me!)

That 10-year-old boy was Louis Niello, the son of Italian immigrants who settled in San Francisco in the early 1900s. As a young man, he worked as a Packard mechanic in the Bay Area. During World War I, he took his machinist skills to San Diego’s Naval Air Station. After the

the youngest, little Richie, is not in the car business just yet.) For good measure, there’s also Roger, the local politician, and David, who heads up the Bay Area arm of the family business.

But for now, let’s start with Louis’ son, Richard.

He’s 95, but he thinks, jokes and acts like a man 50 years younger.

“I feel great. I just hope I don’t fall asleep,” he says with a little twinkle. The natty dresser, complete with a crisp straw hat, jacket and tie, is quick to share stories about his days as a duck hunter, an avid skier and the one responsible for “teaching” his young boys to capsize a sailboat yet keep it from sinking, Rick Niello all while Mom watched horrified from the shoreline.

Graduating from UC Berkeley in 1943, then moving to Northwestern University, he served in the Navy in the South Pacific during WWII. He returned to work at General Motors, where he met Wes Lasher and Elmer Hubacher, two future partners who would take their automobile savvy to Sacramento. In 1955, Lasher and Richard Niello Sr. partnered to form the Volkswagen SACRAMENTANS dealership in downtown Sacramento, HAVE PURCHASED CARS FROM while Hubacher went the THIS AUTOMOTIVE FAMILY Cadillac route. Lasher and Niello then formed separate FOR DECADES Volkswagen dealerships.

Always looking for the next hot car, Richard added the Porsche franchise to his lineup the following war, Louis returned to his San year, creating what would become Francisco job, this time as shop the longest-owned Porsche foreman. By 1921, he had opened an dealership in the country. Next he independent shop in San Francisco that specialized in Packard cars.

Before long, it grew to feature the Pierce-Arrow luxury line of automobiles.

Louis was on the road to bringing up four more generations of men in the car business. Next would come Richard Niello Sr., followed

By Duffy Kelly by three more Richards over the Meet Your Neighbor course of nine decades. (To be clear,

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The Niello family business started in 1921 and is still growing.

set his sights on the little-known Audi brand. In 1973, Niello brought yet another newcomer to Sacramento: BMW. Meanwhile, revving their engines in the background were Richard’s three sons, Richard II (known as Rick), Roger and David, who all worked in the automobile industry in the 1970s but not yet for their father.

In 1969, Rick was a medic in the Army. “When you’re in the Army and away from home, you have a lot of opportunity to think,” Rick says.

He figured out an age-old dilemma of the family business. “If I go to work for my father and do well, people will say, ‘Well, what did you expect? He’s the boss’ son.’ If I go to work for my father and don’t do well, they’ll say, ‘Well, what did you expect? He’s the boss’ son.’”

Turning the no-win question over in his head, he decided to learn the ropes in San Francisco, not from his father but the hard way, at a car dealership altogether separate from the family name. Could he cut it on

his own? The future would be the ultimate judge.

After three years in sales at Carlson Volkswagen in the Bay Area, Rick moved home to Sacramento and began working for the Niello Company as a finance manager.

His brother Roger would join him as general manager before he got the political bug. The family would then acquire Porsche Audi, Lincoln Mercury, Infiniti and Acura dealerships.

In 1995, Rick would take the company wheel with David serving as vice president. When Roger stepped into politics, Rick stepped on the gas, going from zero to 60 in record time year after year and opening more luxury dealerships, which now include Niello Alfa Romeo, Niello Acura, Niello Audi, Niello BMW Sacramento, Niello BMW Elk Grove, Niello Infiniti, Land Rover Rocklin, Land Rover Jaguar Sacramento, Niello Maserati, Niello MINI, Niello Porsche, Niello Volkswagen, Niello Volvo and the Niello Collision Center.

Each year, Automotive News, the industry’s leading magazine, ranks the best places to work based on employee-satisfaction surveys. Out of 23,000 automobile dealers in the country, Niello has had three to seven dealerships in the top 100 every year since the ranking program began.

“We never know anything about when the employees are being quizzed or how it happens. We just get the results,” says Rick.

To what else do they owe their success? “Developing the right product mix and the right company culture,” says Rick. “It’s not any different than any other business.

We’re focused on those two things. We’ve had a lot of growth opportunities and we’re still taking advantage of those.”

Other keys to success might be the company’s customer-satisfaction policy, which includes a 700-mile buy-back program. (Rick took a call during this interview to arrange to swap out a new car to a recent buyer who had changed her mind.)

Or possibly the company culture of generosity that led Sacramento Business Journal to rank the Niello Company as the community’s fourthlargest philanthropic contributor. Or maybe it’s something less tangible like the obvious busting-buttons pride of Richard Niello Sr., who beams when he rattles off not the number of dollars but the people numbers: three children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, his late wife Ellen and dear friend Clarissa, the family that grew to more than 75 Niellos in the span of 100 years.

This reporter thinks it’s all that and one more thing that dates back to the beginning, when Louis Niello starting fixing cars at age 10.

According to legend, it was a spark plug. Louis just so happened to have the right one.

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Living Proof DONATE LIFE AMBASSADOR RECEIVES GIFT OF LIFE THROUGH ORGAN DONATION

Joseph Frizzi

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hen Joseph Frizzi talks about the importance of organ donation as a Donate Life Ambassador volunteer for Sierra Donor Services, he knows what he’s talking about. Frizzi needed a liver transplant eight and a half years ago.

An organ donor saved his life.

“I first started showing symptoms in August 1988,” Frizzi recalls. “I went to the dermatologist because my skin was itching. I thought I just had something topical, so I was given some lotion and sent home.”

Two years later, a routine cholesterol screening pointed to something much more serious.

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Frizzi’s abnormally high numbers turned out to be a classic sign of cirrhosis of the liver. Several doctor visits later, he was diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare autoimmune disease, in 1991.

“When I was first diagnosed, I went home and started bawling,” the Del Paso Manor resident admits. “I thought I was going to die. In that moment, I said, ‘Jesus help me,’ which was very out of character for me at the time. But in that moment, I found faith.”

Thanks to a complex medication regimen and the strength of his newfound faith, Frizzi lived a “pretty normal” life for the next 17 years. But in 2008, internal bleeding sent Frizzi to the hospital, where he discovered he needed a liver transplant—and quickly. He got placed on the waiting list as an active liver-transplant candidate and six months later— on Jan. 7, 2009—he received the lifesaving surgery.

While Frizzi’s story has a happy ending, he knows he’s one of the lucky ones.

“Every day, 22 people die who can’t get a transplant,” says Frizzi, who wrote a book, “Faith Builder,” about his experience. “There are 120,000 people across the country waiting for an organ, and a third of those will die because there aren’t enough organs available. There’s an absolute shortage.”

Frizzi is intent on changing that statistic. For the past seven and a half years, he and his wife have volunteered with Sierra Donor Services. They attend health fairs and cultural events to encourage people to sign up as organ and tissue donors.

“People are either ready to sign up or not,” says Frizzi, who included an appendix in “Faith Builder” that details the step-by-step process of donation to clear up myths and false information. “For lots of people, organ donation just isn’t on their radar.

When you put information right in front of them, they sign up. That’s why we’re Ambassadors: Unless you have somebody in front of you telling you about it, you’re not going to sign up. And even with over 13.5 million registered donors in California, they’re not all going to be available at the same time. Only 1 percent will ever be in the optimal situation to be a donor, which is not a big number.

We need more people signed up to

make it more possible that somebody who needs it will get an organ.”

According to Frizzi, the mostneeded organ is the kidney, due to the ongoing national epidemic of diabetes and hypertension. The fastest-growing liver disease requiring a transplant is nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is caused by a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet.

Other people just get a bad health break, like Frizzi. No matter the cause, donors are desperately needed.

“About 300 people annually have their sight restored through corneas provided by Sierra Donor Services,” Frizzi says. “There’s also a need for bones, Achilles tendons, cartilage, heart valves, veins and arteries, rotator cuffs, femoral nerves and skin.

It’s amazing how many parts of the body can be used.”

Frizzi turned 72 in August. Thanks to a donor like those he recruits as a Donate Life Ambassador, it was a very happy birthday.

For more information about organ and tissue donation, visit donatelifecalifornia.org. Joseph Frizzi’s book, “Faith Builder: How Getting a Liver Transplant Strengthened My Faith,” is available on amazon.com.

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You Pick ’em

THIS URBAN U-PICK FARM BRINGS FLOWERS FROM FIELD TO VASE

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he number of enthusiastic people who showed up in the sticky heat for Flourish Farm’s first U-pick event in West Sacramento a few months ago astonished owner Laurie Gates. She doesn’t know how many attended; she was busy handing out containers, reminding people to put their flowers in water and making change.

Most people brought their own containers. Someone tucked flowers into a fish bowl. I used a bucket, which would have worked better had I added water before picking—proof that I’m a U-pick rookie. I ended up with a bucket’s worth of blooms for $20, which my husband arranged into a beautiful bouquet. One pair attended the event as part of a date, Gates says, earning them the cutest-

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By Angela Knight Farm to Fork

Laurie Gates of Flourish Farm.

Photo courtesy of Beth Baugher.

couple-ever award. They’d bought new gloves, clippers and matching vases.

U-pick or pick-it-yourself is a bonus feature at farm-to-fork events, but there aren’t a lot of U-picks happening in urban environments, making Flourish Farm unique. Direct interaction with people and flowers is exactly what Gates envisioned when she attended the farmer-training program at California Farm Academy and created a business plan. Her dream to start a flower farm was still on paper last winter. How did she go from bare ground to enough pictureperfect blooms to hold a U-pick event?

Work. Lots of work.

Gates grabbed a spot at one of West Sacramento’s urban farms and signed the lease for the land in January.

West Sacramento supports smallscale farmers like Gates who want to farm in an urban environment by converting vacant lots into mini business incubators. “They’ve stepped up to the plate” when it comes to urban farming, Gates says, and she likes the Chamber of Commerce’s slogan: “We don’t do boring.”

The spot where Gates grows her flowers has its share of problems.

There’s a large homeless population in the area. Gates recognizes that most people are struggling with mental illness and substance abuse, and she tries to be kind and respectful, but confrontations can be uncomfortable, especially when she has to persuade folks not to sleep on the picnic bench.

At first, she peddled her flowers at the farmers market at The Barn in West Sac. It takes her seven hours to cut the flowers, load them, set up the stall and break it down. One night she made $5; she spent $3 on tomatoes from the stall next door, so her profit was a couple of bucks. U-pick events provided a solution to that business model.

Gates grew up in Orange County and recalls being fascinated by the flower fields there. “[Flowers are] such a back-to-your-childhood thing,” she says. Before she started farming, she was a full-time English teacher, but she wanted to do something different, something with her hands.

In 2004, she stopped teaching and

studied landscape design, earning a certificate in landscape preservation and management.

She has three, sometimes four or five jobs. She’s worked at UC Davis Student Farm for seven years. She is a substitute teacher. She runs her own landscape design business.

And she’s completed a mystery novel. Flourish Farm takes up her remaining time. “I’m trying to piece it together financially to be able to farm,” she says.

When she started working with plants, her long-term marriage had recently ended. Her parents had died.

She was physically not well. Farming was healing. “There’s nothing more therapeutic than pulling a weed,” she says. “When you’re out there working, you can solve small problems.” Work in today’s world isn’t always good or productive, but she feels like she is doing something “elemental.”

When bee colony collapse disorder was in the news, she asked herself, “What can I do?” The answer? “I could grow flowers.” She dreamed of pollinator flowers. Flourish Farm consists of only one-eighth of an

acre (she shares the lot with another urban farmer), but Gates has poured sweat equity into that small space.

Her original business plan was to farm one-quarter acre, but she knows now that is too much farm for one person. Even though she has some help in the form of volunteers from the Center for Land-Based Learning, she barely keeps up.

When we talked in August, she was starting to replant. In the fall, she’ll grow a cover crop of peas, beans and grass. Sweet peas will add nitrogen.

She’s looking forward to having some downtime as well.

In addition to U-pick events, people can visit Flourish Farm on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Gates hopes to hold a U-pick event or an open house in mid-October. Bring your own bucket or even a fish bowl.

Flourish Farm is at 317 5th St. in West Sacramento. For more information, check out Flourish Farm’s Facebook page.

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HEIRLOOM TOMATO Summer may be over, but you can still find heirloom tomatoes at the farmers market. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.

Eat it: Slice and drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Monthly Market A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN OCTOBER

BUTTERNUT SQUASH This long squash is one of the tastiest winter squashes, with a subtle flavor similar to pumpkin.

Eat it: Roast the flesh and use in a simple risotto.

BLOOOMSDALE SPINACH

This old spinach variety (from the 19th century) has a crinkled leaf and a deep, interesting flavor.

Eat it: Sautee in olive oil with garlic and hot red pepper flakes.

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Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L Street • 916-440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com

South 2005 11th Street • 916-382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

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L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live flamenco music - tapathewworld.com

1725 I Street • 916-469-9574

Ella Dining Room & Bar

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

2115 J Street • 916-442-4353

1112 Second Street • 916-442-4772

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

1213 K Street • 916-448-8900

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The Firehouse Restaurant

Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, flight or glass • downtownandvine.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space Elladiningroomandbar.com

29th and P Streets • 916-455-3300

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1200 K Street #8 • 916-228-4518

1131 K Street • 916-443-3772

Suzie Burger

L D Wine/Beer $$ Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com

DeVere’s Pub 1521 L Street

2315 K Street

L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R Street L D $$ Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • sshokiramenhouse.com

THE HANDLE The Rind 1801 L Street #40 • 916-441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

2009 N Street L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-fired pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

Hot Italian 1627 16th Street • 916-444-3000 L D Full Bar $$ Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, Gelato• hotitalian.net

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Thai Basil Café 2431 J Street • 916-442-7690

2000 Capitol Avenue • 916-498-9891 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Thurd Avenue • 916-4000-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com

1215 19th Street • 916-441-6022 L D Full Bar $$$ Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

Red Rabbit 2718 J Street L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th Street • 916-457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • Paragarys.com

Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com

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