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Vol. XXII • No. 19
The Land Park News is published on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month and delivered by mail and home delivery in the area bounded by Broadway to the north, Interstate 5 on the west, Florin Road on the south and Freeport Boulevard/21st Street on the east.
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Publisher....................................................................... George Macko General Manager......................................................... Kathleen Egan Editor............................................................................... Monica Stark Art Director......................................................................John Ochoa Graphic Designer.............................................................Ryan Wunn Advertising Executives Linda Pohl, Patty Colmer, Melissa Andrews, Jen Henry Distribution/Subscriptions....................................... George Macko
Cover by: Greg Brown Other photos Monica Stark Lance Armstrong
The Land Park News • October 10, 2013 • www.valcomnews.com
By Greg Brown greg@ valcomnews.com
A man got trapped inside the old Masonic Cemetery nestled between Odd Fellows and the Sacramento City Cemetery on Riverside Boulevard. There are plenty of places to lie down in there but he was having none of that. The folks at Valcom News heard lots of loud, panicky honking coming from across the street -loud enough to wake up the dead. They went outside to see what all the commotion was about and turns out there was indeed a man trapped inside the Masonic Cemetery. There’s a posted sign that tells visitors the gates close at 4:15 p.m. and are locked at 4:30 p.m. The man, John Lozano, said: “they saw me come through the gate.”
They usually do a thorough search but sometimes they “miss somebody in the shadows under the trees“ according to Tony Pruitt who manages Odd Fellows Cemetery. With all the chaos the employees from George L. Klumpp’s Chapel of Flowers across the street came outside to see what was going on. Turns out a cou-
ple of their staff have keys to the gate. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the correct keys since all the locks had been changed recently due to theft. Don Macvicar, who manages the Masonic Lawn Cemetery, had his car broken into awhile back at the cemetery and the thieves See Over the Fence, page 12
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