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When urijah faber competes in his final fight at the Golden 1 Center on December 17, the former World Extreme Cagefighting Featherweight champion won’t move on to selling cars along I-80. Faber is moving his Ultimate Fitness Gym, currently located on J Street, to a spot on Folsom Boulevard. Faber put up $700,000 for the gym as the sole investor. The 40,000-square-foot property will offer activities such as Brazilian jiujitsu and yoga, feature a cafe, include a Wi-Fi lounge, and cater to CrossFit athletes.
A Change.org petition titled “Electoral College: make hilary clinton President” had accrued 4.7 million supporters as of press time. Combine this information with the increasing popular vote margin—Clinton is currently 2.5 million ahead of Trump—and its tough to accept the results of the election when the president-elect keeps tweeting false information like “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Sure, buddy, whatever you say.
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Congratulations to Kenyan runner nelson oyugi for placing first in the California International Marathon on Sunday, December 4. Oyugi finished the 26.2 mile marathon from Folsom to downtown Sacramento in 2 hours and 11 minutes.
Barnes was back on tmZ—and wanted for questioning by police after a weekend altercation at a New York City nightclub. Barnes, 36, reportedly choked a woman during an argument and then hit two others who tried to intervene. So far, that preseason goal to change Kings culture has led to a 7-13 record.
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was watching Oprah as an airplane crashed into the first tower. As I wrapped my head around what I was seeing, tower two was hit. Alarms sounded and the base commander urgently spoke over the base PA system: “Civilians have 15 minutes to evacuate base.” I was a 20-year-old airman in the U.S. Air Force and my future flashed before me. I was on my way to war. It was Sept 11, 2001. Life had dramatically changed for me after seeing the effects of war and when I returned from Kuwait, I set out on a mission to find myself. I was barely 23 when released back into “normal” society, but it was anything but normal. I returned to a fear-based society that I had not been aware of before when I was living in the belly of the beast. I set out to find balance within my new world. I graduated from college, got married, traveled to over 27 countries and participated in every self-help program that had the promise of a better life. Nothing worked and I was miserable, until I had an unexpected breakthrough. While traveling through Guatemala, I picked up a stomach virus that set me down in cold sweats for three days. I was living with a host family and the mother
went to the doctor for me, returning with a one-ounce bag of herbs. The following 24 hours were filled with cold sweats, tremors and heat flashes, but I was healed by the following morning. In my healing experience with those herbs, I found a new purpose, a new way of helping people. This time it didn’t involve guns, but tea. As I reflected, tea had been a common thread running through my experiences. From helping my grandmother make fresh dumplings while drinking Lipton, to visiting tea rooms in England, to talking with friends in Kuwait into the late hours of the night, when the sun goes down and the cities come alive. My wheels began to turn. I had to find a way to bring this peace that resides in a cup back to my home. Fast forward and I am now a Certified Tea Sommelier, professionally blending tea and herbs for leisure and function. With a farm-to-fork initiative and agricultural abundance, Sacramento is the perfect place for Classy Hippie Tea Company to lay down roots. My goal is to create a local community that will plug into a global community of tea enthusiast who are all about travel, well-being and honest connection with one another.
ALL TEAS AVAILABLE ONLINE ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THESE LOCATIONS: classyhippieteaco.com
Operation Christmas Child’s National Collection Week has set a new record for donated toys. Last year’s 16,976 gifts was a record for the organization, but this year Sacramento area residents broke that record with 21,500 gift-filled shoeboxes for children in need. Well done, Sacramento.
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