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Swim with Santa at the YMCA See page 24

Who’s reading our paper?. ............................ 2 Over the Fence: Mercado Loco gets dumped for a CVS.... 5 Local history feature. ..................................... 6 Arts. ................................................................. 8 Calendar.......................................................... 26

Navidades: A new holiday experience See page 8

Longtime ballerina retires from Sac Ballet See page 21

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Santa is gearing up for a big swim event at the YMCA on Friday, Dec. 13. He took a quick break to read the Land Park News while keeping warm on the pool deck. Editor’s note: See story about Santa and his big splash event on page 24-25.

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Celebrate Holiday Magic at the Sacramento Zoo Watch as the animals open their holiday gifts!

The holidays are here and it’s time to enjoy the season! Bundle up the family for Holiday Magic at the Sacramento Zoo on Saturday, Dec. 14.

Throughout the day, special gifts will be delivered to the animals. See them pounce, tear and stomp into their one-of-a-kind holiday gifts.

New this year will be a special holiday feast with all the fixings for the Black and White Ruffed Lemurs, including the four young ones born this past spring.

Bring a new, unwrapped toy or non-perishable food item and receive $1 off your Zoo admission. Toy donations will go to Toys for Tots and food donations go to the River City Food Bank.

Searching for great holiday gift ideas? Sacramento Zoo has something for everyone on your holiday list, including Zoo memberships, Zoo Parent packages

and unique items from the Zoofari Market. Visit saczoo.org to find out more.

The Sacramento Zoo is located near the corner of Land Park Drive and Sutterville Road in William Land Park. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The special Black and White Ruffed Lemur holiday feast will happen at 11:30 a.m.

Schedule of Enrichments: All enrichments will happen at the animals’ exhibits.

10:30 a.m.: Orangutans: Fabric stocking with fruit, nuts and pumpkin 11 a.m.: Bongos & Red River Hogs: Pumpkin bowls with

fruit & vegetables, Christmas trees decorated with hay, carrots and lettuce 11:30 a.m.: Black and White Ruffed Lemurs: Black & White Ruffed Lemurs Christmas feast with a paper turkey piñata, plates of food on a festive table and a cardboard gingerbread house Noon: Sumatran Tigers: Wrapped presents with spices, a Christmas tree, ice & a holiday-themed piñata 12:30 p.m.: Kangaroo & Emu: Christmas tree decorated with carrots, lettuce, greens & squash stars 1 p.m.: Anteaters: Toys with avocado & boxes with oranges

1:30 p.m.: Lions: Large boxes with scent & spice, ice & small pumpkins 2 p.m.: River Otters: Frozen ice ornaments & ice with treats

2:30 p.m.: Giraffes: Wreaths of browse, fruit & vegetables, Christmas tree & piñata 3 p.m.: Ground Hornbills: Holiday-themed piñata with crickets inside

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Winter Wonderland:

Celebrate the holidays at Fairytale Town Celebrate the holiday season at Fairytale Town! The storybook park will be trimmed with festive décor and lit up with a dazzling display of lights, starting at dusk. Enjoy handson craft activities, holiday vendors, and more at this family holiday event. Two of Santa’s reindeer will visit on December 14-15. Visit with Santa in his workshop from 3 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 14-15 and 21-22. This is a special ticketed event. Tickets are $5 for nonmembers.

Members and children 1 and under are free.

During Winter Wonderland, Fairytale Town’s operating hours will be 1 to 7 p.m.

Entertainment Schedule Thursday, Dec. 12: •Holiday themed hands-on activities in Mr. McGregor’s Garden •Special appearances from everyone’s favorite holiday character, Ebenezer Scrooge, and others Friday, Dec. 13: •Bel Tempo, a traditional hand bell choir, performs in the Children’s Theater at 5 and 5:30 p.m.

•Strolling Victorian carolers from 5 to 7 p.m. from Sacramento Theater Company’s School of the Arts •Holiday themed hands-on activities in Mr. McGregor’s Garden •Special appearances from everyone’s favorite holiday character, Ebenezer Scrooge, and others Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 14 to 15: •Santa Claus will be in his workshop in the Children’s Theater and available for visits and photos from 3 to 7 p.m.

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•Live reindeer from 1 to 7 p.m. in Pooh Corner •Holiday themed hands-on activities in Mr. McGregor’s Garden and other areas •Strolling Victorian carolers from 5 to 7 p.m. from Sacramento Theater Company’s School of the Arts •Special appearances from everyone’s favorite holiday character, Ebenezer Scrooge, and others Thursday, Dec. 19: •Author Erin Dealey will present her new book Deck the Walls with a reading and sing-along in the Children’s Theater at 2 & 4 PM •Holiday themed hands-on activities in Mr. McGregor’s Garden •Special appearances from everyone’s favorite holiday character, Ebenezer Scrooge, and others Friday, Dec. 20: •Strolling Victorian carolers from 5 to 7 p.m. from Sacramento Theater Company’s School of the Arts •Holiday themed hands-on activities in Mr. McGregor’s Garden •Special appearances from everyone’s favorite holiday character, Ebenezer Scrooge, and others Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 21 to 22: •Santa Claus will be in his workshop in the Children’s Theater and available for visits and photos from 3 -7 p.m.

•Strolling Victorian carolers from 5 to 7 p.m. from Sacramento Theater Company’s School of the Arts •Holiday themed hands-on activities in Mr. McGregor’s Garden and other areas •Special appearances from everyone’s favorite holiday character, Ebenezer Scrooge, and others *Entertainment Schedule is subject to change

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The blueprints have been drawn up. The property will be vacated. Mercado Loco is saying adios to their Mexican food market on the corner of Franklin Boulevard and Sutterville Road. I guess folks need their Lipitor because a CVS pharmacy is taking over that spot.

I spoke with Fred Emery the manager of Mercado Loco who said, “We’re not too happy about leaving but, we’re just a small company”. He’s also unsure of where they’ll move. Hopefully all the employees go with him to the new location.

A lot of local people love the market. Local food blogger Ally Gaffin, who writes a Girl And Her Fork, raves about the Mercado Loco at Sutterville and Franklin. “I love strolling through their produce department, everything is always fresh and so inexpensive!

I usually will stock up on jalapeños, fresh garbanzos (in the pod), limes and cilantro during my visit.”

The Mexican market also gets a lot of kudos on Yelp.

David O writes, “I don’t just shop local, I shop loco!”

And I like the Big Pink Mexican cookies also known as polvorones rosas. You’ll never find that at a CVS. Work on the new CVS will begin in about a year or year and a half.

Surprisingly, without talking to anybody, the Sacramento Children’s Home cut a deal with CVS to develop it. They didn’t exert any influence over the design aspects. They got a cookie-cutter suburban anywhere USA CVS plan.

The Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Concerns Committee saw the plans and thought, “Ugly, Ugly, Ugly“.

They asked CVS for brick, arches, and bigger and lower windows for a better pedestrian experience. They also moved the bike parking from the back corner to “rock star bike parking” right in front.

The reason for parking in front is it deters theft.

CVS was also doing a very urban unfriendly thing by asking for more parking spaces than the city required.

There was no evidence that they actually needed that much blacktop devoted to

parking, about ten or fifteen more spaces. They will be doing a little more landscaping to replace the blacktop.

I guess it’s not all bad for my fajita loving friends. They’re getting rid of the recycling center in the parking lot.

Some local residents are not fans of the recycling center.

CVS is an anywhere USA type of store. And I doubt they’ll have a salsa fridge. It’s too bad a store with character has to move out because CVS has the big bucks.

If you have any news or items of interest feel free to e-mail me.

Greg@valcomnews.com

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Mercado Loco’s last days on Sutterville and Franklin are nearing. New work begins in about a year and a half for a new CVS Pharmacy which will take its place.

Front Street Shelter offers free training for Pit-Bull adopters In a unique partnership with Chako Pit Bull Rescue and Advocacy, the City of Sacramento’s Front Street Animal Shelter launches a new program offering a free six-week training incentive to anyone who adopts a Pit Bull or Pit Bull mix. The program will help adopters with the transition and responsibility of bringing an adopted animal home, along with teaching the benefits of training a new dog to become a well-behaved, active member of the family and community. Training any dog is important for his own well-being, but because of misinformed media coverage of this breed, Pit Bulls have to be great breed ambassadors. Thirty-eight percent of the shelter’s intake consists of Pit and Pit mixes. Offering adopters an extra bonus will facilitate not only the human-animal bond, but reduce animals from being returned when frustrated adopters struggle with behavior problems. Training is good for the dog and even better for the owner, both will learn something!

The City of Sacramento Front Street Animal Shelter is located at 2127 Front St., Sacramento.

Shelter hours: Wednesday through Friday, noon to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. For more information visit http://www.sacpetsearch. com or http://www.chako.org/ Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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St. Mary’s Cemetery is resting place of notable judge, police chiefs, others

By LANCE ARMSTRONG Lance@valcomnews.com

Editor’s Note: This is part four in a series regarding Sacramento area cemeteries.

As mentioned in the last edition of this publication, many notable people were interred at St. Mary’s Cemetery.

A few more of these people and biographical information about them are presented, as follows:

Dal M. Lemmon Another prominent Sacramentan to be laid to rest at St. Mary’s was Judge Dal M. Lemmon, who passed away at the age of 70 on April 26,

1958. He was entombed in the mausoleum.

Lemmon, who was born in Kansas and raised in Santa Rosa, served for nearly 14 years as a superior court judge in Sacramento County, seven years as a federal judge in Sacramento and four years as a member of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He began his career as a jurist in 1933.

During his time as a superior court judge, Lemmon headed many notable civil and criminal cases, including the Sacramento trial of 17 communists.

In a memorial service for Lemmon in the federal court on June 9, 1958, Judge Sherrill Halbert, who

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St. Mary’s Cemetery at 6700 21st Ave. is the resting place of many notable people.

succeeded Lemmon as federal judge in Sacramento, described him as “one of the finest men I ever knew in my life and a great judge.”

His funeral was held at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 11th and K streets.

Lemmon, who graduated from Stanford University and became a Sacramento resident in 1908, was admitted to the bar a year later.

Among his many other activities were serving as an assistant in the law department of the California

State Library, president of the Sacramento County Bar Association, exalted ruler of Elks Lodge No. 6 and president of the Rotary Club of Sacramento.

Lemmon, whose Sacramento residences included homes at 3418 Brockway Court, 3527 Riverside Blvd., 2571 4th Ave. and 820 15th St., was also one of the first members of the Sacramento Grandfathers Club and a member of the Del Paso Country Club and the University Club.

Dan Donovan Dan Donovan, who founded the Carmichael Fire Department in 1927 and served as its chief for 38 years, was laid to rest at St. Mary’s following his death at the age of 72 on May 9, 1972.

His very eventful life also included playing semiprofessional baseball and cofounding and serving as president of the Sacramento See Cemeteries, page 7

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County League. He played catcher for the Plymouth, Calif. team for six years and with the Sloughhouse team in the Sacramento County League for four years.

Additionally, he was the coach of the Carmichael Firemen, the semipro baseball team, which won the international championship in Wichita, Kan. in 1946.

Donovan also served as director of the Carmichael Irrigation District from 1937 to 1957 and justice of the peace for the Center Township.

Additionally, he worked as a restaurateur and bartender. The site of his restaurant, bar and liquor store at Fair Oaks Boulevard and Garfield Avenue became known as Donovan’s Corner.

Police chiefs Former Sacramento Police Chief Joseph E. “Joe” Rooney was interred at St. Mary’s following his passing at the age of 81 on Jan. 13, 1988.

A Sacramento native, Rooney graduated from Christian Brothers High

School in 1925, received a baseball scholarship from St. Mary’s College and ultimately played professional baseball in the Pacific Coast League.

After joining the Sacramento Police Department in 1936, he worked his way through the ranks, eventually becoming the assistant to Police Chief James V. Hicks in 1951.

During much of Hicks’ tenure, Rooney served as acting chief, as Hicks served on activity duty during the Korean War. Rooney began serving as the department’s official chief in 1965 and was replaced in that position by Ray Dehner four years later.

Rooney was a member of the Christian Brothers Alumni Association, the Police Officers Association and Council 953 of the Knights of Columbus.

In a Jan. 14, 1988 article in The Sacramento Bee, Rooney was described by then-Police Chief John P. Kearns as “tough, but fair.” “(Rooney) had the respect of the community and of the men he worked for, and that’s a hard combination to put together,” Kearns said.

Today, Rooney is remembered through the Joseph E. Rooney Police Facility at 5303 Franklin Blvd.

Additionally, the police facility at 3550 Marysville Blvd. is named in honor of former Sacramento Police Chief William J. Kinney, who was also interred at St. Mary’s.

Priest and nun circles and bishops

In being a Catholic cemetery, St. Mary’s includes the resting places of nuns and priests in areas known as the “priest circle” and the “nun circle.”

Those interred in the priest circle include: Monsignor Valdemiro Fagundes (died on Nov. 27, 1926), Father Philip Brady (d. Oct. 6, 1929), Father Richard Vereker (d.

March 12, 1940), Monsignor John V. Azevedo (d. April 2, 1957), Father Michael Horgan (d. April 20, 1960) and Father Keith Kenny (d. Dec. 23, 1983).

The nun circle includes the burial sites of Sister Mary Winters (d. June 28, 1934), Sister Mary Theresa Duffy (6-1-45), Sister Mary Higgins (d. Dec. 12, 1946), Sister Loretta McKenna (d.

March 9, 1948), Sister Mary

Cagney (d. Sept. 29, 1948), Sister Mary Sheridan (d.

May 12, 1955), Sister Teresa Basurto (d. Feb. 2, 1998) and Sister Mary Cotta (May 11, 2009).

The resting places of Catholic bishops, including Eugene O’Connell (1815-1891), Patrick Manogue (1831-1895), Thomas Grace (1841-1921), Patrick J. Keane (1872-1928) and Robert J. Armstrong (1884-1957), are also located at St. Mary’s Cemetery.

Other notables Among the other wellknown people who were interred at St. Mary’s were Joe Farber, past state commander of the American Legion and a former director of the California Department of Veteran Affairs; Sacramento featherweight boxers Daniel “Danny” Nunes, Jr. and Frankie Rex; Bill Conlin, a former sports editor for both The Sacramento Union and The Bee; Marco Smolich, another former sports editor of The Bee; country western band leader Patrick Callahan; Ralph J. “Rocky” Oliveri, who served as executive secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, a local union leader, a Sacra-

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Dan Donovan, who founded the Carmichael Fire Department in 1927 and served as its chief for 38 years, was laid to rest at St. Mary’s Cemetery following his death at the age of 72 on May 9, 1972.

mento Regional Transit employee and a strong supporter of the United Way; and former Sacramento County District Attorney J. Francis O’Shea.

Fruits and veggies needed for California Food Literacy Center’s Holiday Produce Drive for low-income kids in Sacramento Local nonprofit hopes to raise 3,375 pieces of produce Toy drives are in full swing, but California Food Literacy Center sees a different need: healthy food. Local residents can make sure every child in the Sacramento nonprofit’s afterschool program at Capitol Heights Academy in Oak Park goes home for holiday break with a box of 25 fruits and vegetables – five a day for five days. The drive will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Dec. 15 at Whole Foods Market Arden-Arcade, and the group hopes to raise 3,375 pieces of produce. Participants are encouraged to purchase produce at Whole Foods but can also drop off fresh fruits and vegetables during the sixhour window. “ There are so many worthwhile causes right now providing gifts to Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

kids, but we’re in a school where 91 percent of the kids are on free and reduced price lunches,” said Amber Stott, executive director, California Food Literacy Center. “ When they go home for the holiday, we know they don’t have access to the fresh produce they’ve grown to love in our class. This will help them maintain healthy habits while also maintaining their enthusiasm for healthy food while they’re on break from school.”

For more information or to make a monetary donation toward the campaign, contact Stott at amber@californiafoodliteracy.org or (916) 873-2025.

California Food Literacy Center was established in July 2011 to educate and inspire low-income children

to eat healthy food. Students learn fruit and vegetable appreciation, how to read nutrition labels, basic cooking skills and environmental impacts of their food choices. The nonprofit also runs the Food Literacy Academy, which trains community members as food literacy teachers. To date, the nonprofit has 60 active volunteers and serves 2,400 kids annually. After just three months of food literacy education, 70 percent of students request the foods they have tasted in class, including broccoli, celery and oranges. Ninety-two percent of K1st grade students say healthy food tastes good, and 88 percent of children understand how to read a nutrition label. To make a donation: www. californiafoodliteracy.org. www.valcomnews.com • December 12, 2013 • The Land Park News

Ar ts Land Park’s La Raza Galería Posada to participate in Navidades, a new holiday experience Steven Valencia’s new Calidanza Dance Company (which holds practices at Sierra 2), La Raza Galería Posada and El Teatro Espejo offer a unique afternoon of ballet folklorico, street theater, and a Mexican mercado on Sunday, Dec. 15 in downtown Sacramento.

Beginning at 1 p.m., this artistic collaboration will first offer a 45-minute, modern retelling of the Mexican Pastorela, then a festive two-hour holiday ballet folklorico, “Navidades y Tradiciones” from the new Calidanza Dance Company at the Crest Theatre, plus holiday gifts at

the Mercado located in the Crest Theatre lobby.

The Pastorela, a traditional fable with shepherds, angels and devils, will commence outside of the Sacramento Convention Center, move along K Street with stops at the plaza at Mayuhuel and the plaza at Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.

There will be plenty of audience participation.

“Navidades y Tradiciones” Calidanza Dance Company’s new dance program for the holidays, features traditional ballet folklorico dances that reflect different Mexican cultural traditions with a special Christmas dance created by the Company.

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ture area artisans offering their work for holiday gift giving. La Pastorela de Sacramento,” adapted by Tomas Benitez, Manuel Pickett and Marie Acosta, is a modern outdoor theatre reenactment of Mexico’s traditional Christmas pageant.

The group of “Dreamers” (undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children) want to give up on immigration reform. The sudden appearance of Michael, the Archangel gives them the boost they need to continue. “Do not be afraid,” says Michael. “Follow the North Star and you will find what you seek.” But the group will be tempted along the way

by Lucifer and his band of diablitos. “Give up! “they say. “We’ll reward you with wishes beyond your wildest imaginations!” Who will win?? Join the fun at 1p.m. at the Convention Center Plaza at 12th and K Streets.

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Audience participation is strongly encouraged.

Calidanza Dance Company’s “Navidades y Tradiciones”: features 22 skilled dancers presenting different traditions in Mexico. They will be accompanied by Vinic-Kay folkloric musicians, José Roberto Hernandez, director.

The show’s first half will feature different celebrations throughout Mexico including Day of the Dead (the Sacramento premiere of “Noche de Muertos,” a modernistic piece Valencia created for the San Francisco Symphony’s “Day of the Dead” concert held on Nov. 2, 2013), Dia de Candelaria, (candle mass day) AfroJarocho (celebrates the African heritage in Mexico) and Carnaval in Sinaloa.

In an interview with the Land Park News, Valencia explained the magnitude of Carnaval in Sinaloa. “In that particular state it’s really big and in Veracruz, too. You see a lot of banda music, rhumba. Lots of different elements.”

The show will include a traditional Yuchi tribe “deer dance” from the state of Senora, in which the dancer wears a deer head piece.

Hunted by coyotes, the deer dies at the end of the dance, symbolizing the Yuchi’s connectedness to earth.

The second half will celebrate Christmas in Mexico starting with La Rama (celebrated in Veracruz). VaValley Community Newspapers, Inc.

lencia explained Veracruz’s heavily populated African population and how it is the first free slave state, a fact that has inspired one of La Calidanza’s pieces.

Live musicians will serenade the audience with festive Christmas melodies with a procession honoring Las Posadas. The show ends with a Mariachi Christmas in the festive state of Jalisco, including celebrations featuring la piñata and other customary traditions.

Valencia said one of the last dances shows the “agility of old men and how they continue to move. It’s very fun, very festive.” While the “old men” will be depicted by dancers wearing masks, he has actually seen shows in Mexico with town elders dancing the dance. “I have seen that done; the masks come off at the end and there are really old men underneath. In Mexico it’s really cool.”

Valencia began La Calidanza (California dance) Company back in March.

Practices are held at Sierra 2 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. and also have beginning classes for kids at La Raza Galeria Posada on Thursdays 6 p.m. followed by an adult beginner’s class at 7:30 p.m. Visit Calidanza.org for more information or email Valencia at calidanzaco@gmail.com While the event is titled Navidades (Spanish for nativity), Valencia said he didn’t want to do just a Christmas show, but want-

ed to celebrate other Mexican traditions too.

Valencia said he started his career teaching folklorico dance with HISP students at C.K. McClatchy High School as he was earning his degree from Sacramento State University. He said next year, he will be starting folklorico dance again. “We’ve had a good response. We’ve had a lot of interest there. I hope to get an in-school arts program started there,” he said.

Baby” Walker in Cry Baby.

His stage credits include the Los Angeles and Vegas productions of Rock of Ages as Drew, The Fantastics, Hamlet, Ray Bradbury’s Let’s All Kill Constance, Sneaux, Fanny, Carousel and Oklahoma.

His film credits include An American in China and She’s the Man.

Snyder is currently performing with Idina Menzel (Wicked), LaChanze (The Color Purple) and Anthony Rapp (Rent) in the Broadway-bound musical If/Then

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If you go: Navidades! Christmas on K St: Date: Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 1: “La Pastorela de Sacramento”, 1 p.m., Convention Center Plaza at 13th and K Streets., Free 2: “Navidades y Tradiciones”: The Crest Theatre, doors open at 2 p.m., concert at 3 p.m. Tickets are on sale at www.tickets.com; cost is $22 for adults; $12 for children 12 and under Broadway Comes to Christian Brothers High School Christian Brothers alumnus, James Snyder ’99, stage, film and television actor, returns to his alma mater on Friday, Dec. 20, for a benefit concert for Christian Brothers’ Performing Arts Program. The show will include a varied collection of songs and stories from his musical career.

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Former ‘disco king’ speaks about his work as a paranormal investigator

By LANCE ARMSTRONG Lance@valcomnews.com

Editor’s Note: This is part three in a series about former Sacramento disco king, Paul Dale Roberts.

In continuing with the story of the life and times of the former Sacramento disco king Paul Dale Roberts, following the death of disco, Roberts evolved into a new persona.

Far from his days when his dancing attracted crowds at local clubs and he traveled around in Rolls Royces with an entourage, Roberts is now recognized as one the nation’s leading paranormal investigators.

But more than a basic paranormal investigator, he became a Fortean investigator, which is a person who investigates all things paranormal, from ghosts to UFOs to cryptids.

Before Roberts explained how he became a paranormal investigator, he noted that he receives many paranormal hotline calls from people in the Pocket area.”

“There are paranormal books that make claim that many new homes in the Pocket area became haunted due to the fact that these homes were built over Portuguese cemeteries,” Roberts said.

Although, with research, one can easily discover that the majority Portuguese pioneers of the Riverside-Pocket area were interred in the old St. Joseph’s Cemetery at 2615 21st St., it is likely that these books are instead referring to old Indian burial grounds.

In speaking about this delicate topic, Pocket resident Dolores Greenslate, who serves as the historian of the Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society, said, “There was no Portuguese cemetery in Sacramento.

We had a number of (Indian burial grounds) in the Pocket and Riverside area. Two of them that I know of are one on the Manuel Alvernaz ranch and then on the neighboring King Brown property, where his (two-story) home was located (to the immediate north of the Alvernaz ranch) on a mound. The mound was an Indian burial ground. That’s the one when they constructed (Interstate) 5 and they hit this mound, they had to tear down the old house – it was the old Brown house – and when they did, bones went flying all over the place.

They didn’t even bother asking anyone what that was, and if they had, most of us could have told them that that was an Indian burial ground.

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Anyway, they brought the whole Interstate 5 (project) to a halt until they figured out what they were going to do.”

After being asked the golden question of how he became a paranormal investigator, Roberts chuckled, then said, “Oh, yes, where do I begin?

When I was a child, I lived in a haunted house on Effy Street in Fresno. I heard a young woman call my (middle) name and she was trying to beckon me into the orange grove. She was saying, ‘Dale, come here, Dale come here.’ I saw flying skulls in my bedroom. I was violently shoved into a heater. My mother heard me coughing one night and she came into my room and looked possessed and gave me a teaspoon of poison by accident.

I vomited the poison up. She was horrified and we moved out of this home.

After moving out of this home, things got better and I remember meeting (William Boyd, who played) Hopalong Cassidy at a parade in Fresno and my life seemed normal again. I learned later in life that children have psychic abilities up to the age of 8, and then most lose those abilities. (That is) why you hear about children having imaginary friends. I was still haunted about that house on Effy Street, so I started reading every book I could get my hands on in regard to the paranormal. I was reading Brad Steiger books, ‘Chariot of the Gods’ by Erich von Daniken, etc.

“In 1973, I went into the Army and became a military cop with the Criminal Investigation Division, Drug Suppression Team. This is where I learned to be an investigator. I was also a private investigator with my own company, called Silhouette Enterprises. I was not very successful as a private investigator and I allowed that to phase out in my life.”

Roberts said that his curiosity about the paranormal continued through his disco years, and that he became interested in UFOS during his latter Army years.

“I was stationed in Seoul, Korea – Yongsan Barracks – Photo Interpretation Center – Korea,” Roberts said. “At PIC-K, I worked with image interpreters and we studied aerial reconnaissance photos of North Korea and Red China. On one particular day, six photos came in. The photos were of a variety of UFOs taken by reconnaissance satellites in outer space. On the back of all the photos, there were two words:

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Paul Dale Roberts presents a selection of publications featuring his paranormal related writings.

‘intelligent movement.’ Each photo represented a video that went with each photo. I assigned a number to each photo and sent the photos up the line to the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and they eventually went to the CIA, and I heard nothing more about it. Military Intelligence honed my skills as a future paranormal investigator and I didn’t know in 1981 that I would ever became a paranormal investigator, but everything was leading me down a path toward this career. Later, I became an OPFOR (opposing forces) Army instructor teaching the Soviet Threat, which taught me the ability to lead a large group of people. This would be needed to lead my large group of HPI (formerly Haunted and Paranormal Investigations/ now Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence) investigators.”

Roberts said that he later began dating a ghost hunter and that since he was already a writer in the comic book industry and knew a lot about the paranormal, she invited him on an HPI ghost hunt.

With his introduction to HPI, Roberts met HPI’s then-owner Shannon McCabe, who took an interest in Roberts’ experience as a writer.

In speaking about that time in his life, Roberts said, “(After) I told Shannon McCabe that I was a freelance journalist, she Googled me on her laptop, saw the many comic book articles I wrote, grabbed my arm and said, ‘I love the press.’ Shannon showed me how to use the equipment and I wrote my first HPI paranormal article that was published in two British magazines and (on) 14 ghost (related) Web sites.

“Shannon was so pleased at the results, she sent me an e-mail and cc’d her staff. She told me that I was going to be HPI’s ‘ghost writer,’ core group member, and she would teach me how to ghost hunt. I replied to Shannon that I would love to join them on a few occasions here and there, but I was too busy with the comic book industry. Shannon sent me a private message and explained to me that right now the paranormal is hot and I should allow my comic book industry partner and vice president, Richard Vasseur, (to) handle the business for a couple of months. Well, Richard has been running my comic book Web site, (www.jazmaonline.com) for eight years now, and now I am the owner of HPI International and still investigating, writing paranormal articles and writing books.”

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McClatchy, Harkness, Cal Middle, John Cabrillo students help out typhoon victims Across the Sacramento City Unified School District, students and staff are pitching in to help both victims of the typhoon in the Philippines and less fortunate families at home.

For example, in just four days students at California Middle School raised $550 for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan. The money will be donated to the Red Cross.

At nearby C.K. McClatchy High School, the Associated Student Body voted to give a $1,500 award won in a distracted driving awareness contest to typhoon relief efforts. The ASB’s ultimate goal is to raise $5,000 for the Philippines.

Students at H.W. Harkness Elementary School will be selling hot chocolate and lemonade this Friday as a Philippines fundraiser.

And John Cabrillo Elementary’s Student Leadership class, along with the school’s PTA, put together Thanksgiving baskets for 20 Cabrillo families with turkeys, stuffing and all the “fixins”.

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Land Park Pacific Little League registration now open for 2014 There will be no online registration, you must register at Cal Middle School on one of the two remaining dates: Thursday, Dec. 12 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m.

All registration sessions will be held at California Middle School in the cafeteria. Players are encouraged to attend the registration sessions to ensure the accuracy of uniform sizing.

Registration Allowed Based on School Enrollment A just-released new rule change by Little League International allows players who attend school within LPPLL’s boundary to play for our league.

A player will be determined to attend school in the boundaries if the physical location of the school where they attend classes is within the LPPLL boundary.

Note: This excludes home schools, cyber schools, sports-related schools, sports academies, or preschool or after school where a student participates outside of the primary school the player is enrolled.

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School attendance will be established and supported by a document indicating enrollment for the current academic year, dated prior to Oct. 1, 2013 and with the physical location of the school, from one of the following categories to determine school attendance by such player: 1) Official/Certified School enrollment record.

2) School issued report card or performance record.

3) A Little League issued school attendance form completed by the principal, assistant principal or administrator.

Schools in LPPLL boundaries include: Alice Birney Waldorf Methods, Brookfield, Bret Harte Elementary, California Middle, CK McClatchy High School, Crocker Riverside Elementary, Hollywood Park Elementary, Holy Spirit School, John Cabrillo Elementary, Leataata Floyd Elementary, Leonardo Da Vinci, Merryhill School, Sam Brannan Middle School, St. Robert School, William Land Elementary

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Decorating Land Park with red ribbons and a disco ball Photos by Linda Pohl

Ever wonder how and who decorates the green lampposts throughout Land Park?

Dunnigan Realtors have been climbing ladders and hanging up red ribbons on them for about 15 years, said Dick Swayne, whose daughter, Kellie Swayne is shown here with a big grin. “It’s a wonderful thing, especially when we get to drive down the street and see them all decorated. It really puts you in the spirit,� said Dick Swayne.

Also in Land Park, this neighbor on Markham Way, added a bit of the 70s to his front yard with large disco balls, such as this one that he hung from a large tree.

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South Land Park Hills Jazzercise worked out for a good cause on Thanksgiving Photo by Linda Pohl linda@valcomnews.com

Happy sweaty faces pose after the annual Thanksgiving “Turkey Trot Dance Dance Party” at Jazzercise in South Land Park. The annual class supports a charity in the Sacramento area. This year’s recipient, Wind Youth Services, engages youth experiencing homelessness to provide them safety from the streets and access to resources to move them from crisis to healthy functioning. Five large boxes were filled with personal items, socks and warm clothing, paper products, razors, shampoo, soap, Kleenex, and gift cards and cash were donated by the attending members of this class.

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Coffee Garden holds second December Mike’s Light Ride The second Mike’s Light Ride – a fundraiser and bicycle cruise through Curtis Park to enjoy holiday lights in the community – is set to take place on Saturday, Dec. 14.

Mike’s Light Ride will begin with a party at The Coffee Garden starting at 2 p.m., where attendees can mingle with Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and Snoopy.

Then starting at 6 p.m., the bike ride will begin. Madsen plans to take riders on a route through some of the best holiday lights in the area, plus there will be a few stops for hot chocolate or hot apple cider along the way.

And to add to the holiday fun, riders are invited to come dressed in their holiday best and decorate their bikes.

Wellspring’s Toy Drive and Food Drive Although Mike’s Light Ride is all about holiday fun, it’s also a way of giving back.

The beneficiary this year is Wellspring Women’s Center, which is located at 3414 4th Ave. in Oak Park. According to the website, www. wellspringwomen.org/, it is open Monday through Friday, offering a nutritious breakfast daily to more than 200 women and their children. Volunteers provide supervised and creative play for guests’ children. During the afternoon, guests may obtain mental health counseling from a staff social worker and interns. Wellspring staff members assist guests with referrals for needed services, and local agencies provide outreach at Wellspring so that community resources are not duplicated.

Wellspring is asking for donations of items that can help out with various programs.

Nutritious Meal Program: Hot chocolate; instant oatmeal/cold cereal (unsweetened); coffee;

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Safety Net Services Program: Sanitary napkins/ tampons; adult diapers; travel-size toiletries (deodorant, soap, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste); small tissue packets.

Women’s Wellness Program: New socks; new underwear; umbrellas; grocery gift cards ($10-$20); bus passes; gas cards; yarn; sewing scissors and other craft supplies.

Children’s Program: Disposable diapers (sizes 36, pull-ups); baby wipes; baby wash, baby powder; lotion, shampoo; diaper rash crème; baby bottles, bibs, baby blankets; baby clothes; outlet covers.

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IF YOU GO What: Mike’s Light Ride When: Saturday, Dec. 14; fun starts at 2 p.m. followed by a light ride through the beautifully lit Curtis Park neighborhood at 6 p.m.

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Front Street Shelter Flies Fifty Pups to Idaho Humane Catching the tail wind of Operation Airlift, the Front Street Animal Shelter flew 50 dogs to Idaho Humane on Monday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m., departing from the Executive Airport. This will be the largest transfer of dogs in the City’s history. Made possible by the Wings of Rescue, 50 dogs will take a two hour flight to find permanent homes. Idaho Humane is a no-kill shelter with an outstanding record of partnership with the City of Sacramento’s Front Street Shelter. Several previous transfers have occurred, but never quite as large as this.

The Front Street Animal Shelter typically receives 10,000 animals per year. While the primary goal is to reunite lost pets with their owners, unfortunately 85% of the dogs are never reclaimed.

Most arrive without a microchip, ID tag or license, posing a challenge if owners do not come looking. Faced with the duty of placement, partnerships with organizations across the country make the chances of saving more lives possible. On any given day, 20-40 animals arrive on Front Street. The flow out must match the flow in if the save rates are to increase. Relationships with shelters outside of Sacramento make it possible. The Front Street Shelter refuses to euthanize animals for time and space constraints, this alternative makes that possible.

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Local Youth Shine In The Sacramento Ballet’s The Nutcracker

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Sacramento Ballet productions, Ron Cunningham’s The Nutcracker has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people over the years and is a great holiday tradition for many. This year’s The Nutcracker production at the Sacramento Community Center includes local girls who have a long history with the Sacramento Ballet.

When asked about their initial involvement, Clara McNatt, an 11 year old Land Park resident said “People told me that it would be fun when I moved here. That was four years ago. I tried out every year for Clara and last year I finally got the part.”

Her sisters Louise (Loui) and Anna (twins) who are age 8, joined with they were five.

Abigail Fitzpatrick, a 15 year-old East Sacramento resident and Christian Brothers High School student who plays Rich Girl in the prologue says, “It’s a lot of fun because I am not much of a dancer but I love to act.

I have been acting since Kindergarten. The good thing about the Nutcracker is that you don’t have to be a total ballet dancer. You are learning a lot like how to be with other kids.”

And for younger dancers like Loui McNatt, “Dancing as a mouse I am only on stage for a minute at a time,” she states. But as she and Anna explained, when children get older, the characters spend more time performing.

Regarding the audition process, Mariah Hill, a 10 year-old Pocket-Greenhaven resident said “ They measure your height, you get a number and wait in line to try out.

They choose people for call backs”. Abigail Fitzpatrick, added “ They will play a movie because you are here for hours. There is a line out the door.” In fact, over 900 aspiring performers tried out, roughly 150 per part. Children from all over the area were cast. For some, they have performed several characters like Abigail Goehring, a 10 year-old Arden- Carmichael resident, who has played such roles as Baby Blue Party Child to Clara and has been in ballet classes since age 3.5.

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When it comes to balancing ballet with other priorities in their daily life Clara says, “We always remember that when ballet is busy, school still comes first”. “Clara had to quit soccer because she got the role of Clara”, her sister Anna added. And Abigail Fitzpatrick adds “At Sutter Middle School, they taught us time management skills last year.

I find time to do homework, even backstage before performances.”

When asked what advice they would give other children who dream of performing in The Nutcracker or a similar role, Mariah advises,” If you want to do ballet, start at a young age to get used to it.” Abigail Fitzpatrick said “If you don’t get auditions, keep trying every year and eventually you will get the part.” Abigail Goehring advised,“Follow your dreams and never give up even when sometimes you feel like it.” And there are admitted struggles; late nights rehearsing, school projects due during the busiest rehearsal weeks, but they all agree that it is worth it. In fact some are considering career in ballet.

You can see these girls and many other local children performing at the Sacramento Community Center Theater, Dec. 7- 23. Tickets are $19 - $90 (children’s tickets are for ages 12 and under). For more information about The Nutcracker and other Sacramento Ballet productions visit www.sacballet.org.

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an Yorkey. The show is wrapping up a pre-production run in Washington, D.C. and opens on Broadway in March 2014.

The show starts at 7 p.m.

For reservations please visit www.cbhs-sacramento.org or call Nancy Smith-Fagan at 916-733-3647. The cost is $25 per person and seating is limited, reservations are encouraged.

Proceeds from the event will be used to purchase lighting equipment for the school’s new performing arts building, the George Cunningham’40 Performing Arts Center, slated to open in April of 2014. Christian Brothers High School is located at 4315 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

County. Many have seen SCN art at such diverse venues as the Crocker Art Museum, the California State Fair, the State Capitol, public mural installations, as well as countless galleries and businesses throughout the Central Valley region. Outside of the area, SCN art exhibitions include the Ames Gallery in Berkeley, the Outsider Art Fair in New York City and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

Coffee Garden December Show The CG Gallery will be featuring the work from Short Center North (SCN). This is a fundraiser for SCN and the pieces make very unique gifts for holiday gift giving. There will be paintings, ceramics and jewelery. Shown here is a piece

by Bob Sulin. CG Gallery is located next door to the Coffee Garden on the corner of Franklin Boulevard and 4th Avenue in historic Curtis Park. Developmentally Disablilites Service Organiz ation( DDSO) of which Short Center North is part of provides a broad range of programs that champion the creativity and potential alive within the hearts and minds of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. SCN was developed in 1978 as an arts-based program for adults with developmental disabilities, which specifically available to people living in the northern part of the Sacramento

Delta Workshop The Delta Workshop, which is located at the corner of 21st Street and 1st Avenue in Land Park, has many great gifts for the home, including: Eat Local Calendar from Maria Schoettler Illustration, Herb Stakes from Alluvial Ceramics, royal cocktail coasters from Rifle Paper Co., tea towels from Rigel Stuhmiller Printmaking and Illustration, dipped wood bowls from Wind and Willow Home, recipe cards from Rifle Paper Co., ceramics from Adventures In Clay Ceramics and Christmas Stocking from Two Accordions.

Some gift ideas “for him” available in the shop include: Guitar strap from The Little Things by SM, leather key fob from Son of a Sailor Supply, coffee temp tattoos from Tattly, shaving kit from Son of a Sailor Supply, foxtrot knife from Son of a Sailor Supply, pig butchery print from Drywell Art, men’s t-shirts from Marty May and a beer carrier from Half Iron Design.

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Long-time ballerina retires from Sac Ballet

By Monica Stark

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Sacramento Ballet dancer Montana native Isha Lloyd has announced her retirement from her first career. Spending nearly seven years with this “incredible family of professional artists”, as she describes her fellow dancers, Lloyd has unfortunately accumulated an incredible amount of injuries that have caught up with her, ending a memorable career. “(The injuries) are finally physically preventing me from enjoying or being able to perform,” she told Valley Community Newspapers.

The first dancer in her family besides her grandfather who was a can-can dancer, Lloyd said she is not sure where she got her passion and dance ability from, though she said she got the ballet bug when she was little.

Forced into ballet when she was 3 years old, along with baseball, soccer and swimming, she hated it until she was 9 and started taking classes in Montana. One of the few states with a residence in ballet program, Lloyd “absolutely loved” ballet.

She quit track, swimming and all of the other sports she played up until then.

At that young age, Lloyd began her ballet regimen of dancing six days a week and that drive was an impetus for her to graduate early from high school.

But days before the commencement ceremony (as well as her prom and SAT examinations), she got into a terrible, life threatening car accident. Her doctor said she would never dance again, but she proved otherwise within weeks, despite being in a coma for three days and suffering brain trauma, a broken pelvis and leg. Doctors put a titanium rod in her femur. Her first goal toward dancing again was to walk across the stage at graduation. Because she knew if she put herself on a recovery fast track, she would be more likely to fulfill her prior commitment to the Seattle Pacific Northwest Ballet Company, where she danced prior to joining Sac Ballet.

“I made it a goal to walk at graduation.

I ditched the crutches. My brother was there to catch me if I fell, which I didn’t do. Getting back to ballet was hard,” she said. That’s when she took Pilates seriously. Her dance teacher in Montana was certified in Pilates and came up with a regimen and brought her back on her feet. Time passed quickly from then on, starting in Seattle where Carinne Binda Cunningham of the Sacramento Ballet Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

happened to watch a random Saturday class.“She picked me out and offered me an apprentice contract. I said why not?

I was going to be a ballerina. I am so glad I did it. I spent seven years here. I wouldn’t trade it for anything else.”

During Lloyd’s first month of dancing for the Sacramento Ballet, she contracted mononucleosis.“I started on the wrong foot, but they stuck with me,” she said.

And, despite being injury prone, the company embraced her talent and passion, giving her leads in such productions as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker.

Because of the surgery, she can felt the cold weather coming during Nutcracker season. “I feel old. My bones get stiffer. It’s harder to move the hip joint and I have a harder time warming up. But Pilates have helped me get warm.” For Lloyd, this additional physical work became “muscle memory” but it was something that made her feel a lot better.

“When I don’t do it, I can notice a difference,” she said.

Having a lead in the Modern Masters in the spring, Lloyd decided to dance through her pain, warding it off with pain killers and holding off on a surgery until three days after the final production.

Lloyd has decided to stay in Sacramento and focus on her education toward a second career in Sports Medicine hopes to organize the Sacramento Ballet into a better dance health care program.

She also teaches a Pilates class at Pipeworks, where she took up rockclimbing and met her boyfriend. “Ballet dancers make for the perfect rock climber,” she notes.“Your legs are strong. You’ve got the muscle memory and are smart enough to know the choreography of the route. I use that to my benefit. It’s a different kind of release and you are connected by a rope.

It’s a lot of fun. It’s a good transition from pretty, pretty ballet to climbing up rocks.

I am lucky to find something out of ballet that makes me so happy.”

Earlier in the day when Lloyd sat down with this publication on Nov. 8, she had taken a ballet class at the Sacramento Ballet. Depending on who is teaching the class, she said, it could be anywhere between 1 to 3 hours long. Considered the warm-up class for the ballet company, Lloyd said she has been told by the Cunninghams that she is always welcome to come by, though she has retired.

It’s because she cannot give up the art completely. Realistically she commented on how quickly one can get out of ballet shape. “We have a joke in ballet

Photos by Keith Sutter

Isha Lloyd has retired after nearly seven years with Sac Ballet.

that after missing one day of practice, your body feels it, two days off your boss knows it and after three days, everybody knows it,” she said.

Asked how many performances she has done for the Sacramento Ballet, Lloyd tried to add it up aloud. “Normally we do three ballets per rep and there’s about five reps per year. And then there’s four … I would have to look at my resume to see.”

A few of her colleagues wrote VCN accolades in tribute to Lloyd. Gabriel Williams said: “It was wonderful watching Isha grow as an artist over the years I was fortunate enough to work with her. Her enthusiasm, work ethic,

and drive were highly valued at both the Sacramento Ballet and Black Rock City Ballet. I was always happy to have the chance to work with her.”

Said Ilana Goldman, “Isha was extremely focused and driven in the studio. She would often volunteer to understudy or learn extra roles so that she could challenge herself and gain exposure to new movement styles. Isha was not just a force in the studio and on stage, but she was pro-active in helping Sacramento Ballet have a presence in the community as well. It was a pleasure working with her as a dancer in the company and also as a choreographer.”

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Staying warm at Southside Park Pool In response to expected night temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s over the next four evenings, the City and County of Sacramento, coordinated by the County Office of Emergency Services, opened a nighttime warming center inside the Southside Park Pool Building for residents to get out of the cold. Six peopled stayed in the downtown center opening night, Wednesday, Dec. 4. They were welcomed in at 8 p.m., and could stay until 6 a.m. The Southside Park Pool building stayed open for the next several nights and as this paper went to press, it was indicated that it could stay open even possibly longer, depending on weather conditions. The situation has been monitored and updates given daily.

No residents arrived at the Galt or Elk Grove centers. Reports indicate that other warming centers in the area were near capacity. The criteria for this response, according to the County/City Severe Weather Guide, are extreme cold/freeze warnings for three days accompanied by night temperatures of 32 degrees or fewer. The City of Sacramento sent out 48,294 phone

alerts via their Everbridge system and the City of Galt sent out 14,000 reverse 911 messages.

The capacity of the Southside Park Pool building is approximately 60-75 people. Snacks and chairs will have been provided; however, no beds were.

If the center reaches capacity, backup facilities have been arranged. Staffing has been provided by the Office of Emergency Services, the Department of Human Assistance, City Parks & Recreation and Medical Reserve Corp and Hands On Sacramento volunteers. Security has been provided by Sacramento City Police Department.

City Animal Services supplied 10 kennels for larger dogs, and small carriers for smaller animals. A location on the site was identified as a possible animal holding area. The animals of the people using the warming center were not transferred to City Animal Services.

In addition, the following warming centers are open for homeless individuals: Winter Sanctuary - a program that rotates locations amongst local churches

Volunteers of America at 700 N 5th Street The Union Gospel Church at 400 Bannon Street The Salvation Army at 12th and North B Street Elk Grove Warming Center at Barbara Wackford Community Center - 9014 Bruceville Road, Elk Grove from 7PM-8AM; pets can be accommodated. Contact: 916-698-4437 Complete information can be accessed by contacting 2-1-1.

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Swim with Santa: Even Santa Swims at the YMCA

By Monica Stark

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Land Park resident Ronald Fanning (also known as Santa) enjoys swimming at the YMCA. Just last year, he asked lifeguards if they have a Santa who stops by the pool and when he was told that they don’t, he realized he would bring his alter ego to the pool.

“I was swimming here, doing the exercises, you know five guys and 50 women, but I got to know the ladies working here, so I asked them, ‘Do you have somebody who does Santa Claus?’ And they said, ‘Well, we’ll be looking for somebody.’ And I said, ‘I’ll do it.’”

So, donning his costume while sitting on a raft around this time last year, Santa took note of children’s wishes as some hung onto the edge of the boat, as others swam around in the warm, 85 degree indoor pool.

While on the raft, Santa stepped a little too hard down that he tipped over and fell in. Scurrying over to the ladder to get out of the pool, Santa’s clothes were so heavy his pants fell down.

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and it worked out real well, so we came out to get in the water with the kids and I tore the bottom out of the boat. I put my feet down to raise myself higher and I went right through the bottom. “ The first thing I did was see if I was turning the pool red and it didn’t, so I just stayed in the water and then when I climbed out, I don’t know if there are pictures in the world, but there were a lot of people there, I climbed out right here and my pants fell off because they were filled up with so much water. Fortunately, I had a bathing suit on. But the Y thing was just fantastic.”

“They had a tree set there in the corner, had a chair for me and by the time I talked with all the kids, I was all wet because they climbed out of the water and sat on my lap,” Fanning said.

Fanning said last year, he spent about three hours at the pool for the event which had about 75 kids and their parents show up. “ It was worth every second of it,” he said. Kids asked for the typiSee Santa, page 25

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cal superhero items and Barbie dolls, “and things I had no idea what they were talking about,� he said.

Fanning said he enjoyed that day so much he wanted to do it again and so on Friday, Dec. 13, children of all ages are welcome to bring their wish lists and join Santa for poolside pictures. Free and open to the entire community with a donation of a non-perishable food or new winter clothing item, the fun continues in Mrs. Claus’s workshop with crafts and holiday snacks. “I’ve been doing this (dressing as Santa) since my daughter was in like the second grade, but I was wearing a phony beard then. So, basically, it’s been 23-24 years,� he said. Fanning has made his appearance as Santa at daycares, private parties.

With about 700 kids a year and growing each season, Fanning keeps busy as Santa Claus.

But he said, the event at the Y was probably one of his most memorable experiences yet, other than some of the daycare events. “I have been doing some of them for five or six years, so the pictures are up there every year are added to and you go,‘Wow, kids are grown up.’ Of course, I never change.�

Fanning attended high school in Ripon (San Joaquin County) where he participated on a swim team. Then he was on the Coast Guard swim team in the military and taught fellow personnel lifesaving techniques. “I’ve spent a lot of time in the water,� he said.

So while he may not seem like the typical Santa, Fanning said: “Someone said something the other day, he said, ‘you look kinda like Santa.’ And I said, ‘I heard he looked a little like me.’ I get a lot of attention and I love every minute of it.�

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Santa Claus sits and visits with children on Sunday, Dec. 8 during open swim at the YMCA.

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Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at Iron Steaks Restaurant, 2422 13th St, Sacramento, CA 95818.

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Ongoing: The Sacramento Capitolaires meeting A men’s Barbershop Harmony group, meets every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Pilgrim Hall (Sierra Arden United Church of Christ), 890 Morse Ave., Sacramento. Info: www.capitolaires.org, call 888-0877-9806, or email info@capitolaires.org ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Soroptimist International of Sacramento South meetings

Wishing you and your loved ones a happy and safe holiday season!

A service organization dedicated to insure the status of women and girls, the group meets at Aviator’s Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. for lunch and to discuss the day’s topic. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 12:15 p.m. The meetings discuss our fund raising Projects and Community Service, often with speakers from our community.

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Balance and mobility training to reduce falls class Kelly Ward, Parkside Community Church’s “Fall Prevention Lady” will be presenting a 4-week Beginning balance and mobility class on Monday and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., starting Oct. 2 through Oct. 30 at Parkside Community Church at 5700 Land Park Drive. The one-hour classes will include warm up, balance and mobility training, muscle building exercises, flexibility, and range of motion exercises, followed by a cool down segment to review the day’s lesson. Wear loose comfortable clothing and sneakers. Kelly Ward is a certified fall, balance and mobility instructor and a certified Senior Fitness Training, M.S. Therapeutic Aging. For questions, call 821-5715.

December Rotary Club of South Sacramento meeting Dec. 12: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome. Every

Dec. 13: Free 12-step program/support group, for people who have Bi-Polar and those who love them. Meets every Friday, 78:30 p.m. 4300 Auburn Blvd., Room 106.

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Soroptimist International Sacramento presents Dr. Christine Lee

Dec. 13: Christine Lee, author of Optimal Life: Essentials of Diabetes, will be the guest speaker at the luncheon, which begins at 11:30 a.m. at Casa Garden. The entire speaker series is posted on the Club Calendar page of the S.I.S. website at www.soroptimistsacramento.org. A limited number of seats are available to the public on a first come, first served basis. The cost is $15. If you want to reserve a seat for lunch and hear an upcoming speaker, contact Rosalie Gladden; rosaliegladden@comcast.net Meetings are held Fridays, 11:30 a.m. at Casa Garden Restaurant, 2760 Sutterville Road, Sacramento, California.

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Kiwanis Club of East Sacramento-Midtown Dec. 13: Visitors Welcome, weekly breakfast meeting on first, second and third Fridays at 7:00 AM and Dinner meeting on fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM. Topical weekly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’. Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www.eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com, Meeting/Membership info: 916761-0984, volunteers always welcome!

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Sacramento Jingle Bell Run/Walk Dec. 14: The Sacramento Jingle Bell Run/ Walk is a fun, festive event for the whole family! Put on your reindeer antlers and your running shoes and come join us for some holiday cheer at Crocker Art Park.

You can participate in the 5K chip timed race or 5K fun run or walk with holiday themed activities all along the course. Bring your friends, family, and colleagues too! The kids will love the 1K Reindeers Games (untimed fun run for ages 3- 12). Crocker Park is located at 211 O St, Sacramento.

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Rotary Clubs of Arden-Arcade, Carmichael Dec. 17: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome, every Tuesday. Arden-Arcade meets at noon, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in the Pavilions on Fair Oaks Blvd. (916) 925-2787.

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Dec. 17: An organization for the betterment of women and children meets at the atria El Camino Gardens at 2426 Garfield, Carmichael. Call Sheila at 624-4643.

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Dec. 17: An organization for the betterment of women and children meets at Aviator’s Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. for lunch and to discuss the day’s topic.

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East Sac Rotary Dec. 18: Meets at 6 p.m., Evan’s Kitchen, 855 57th St. Sacramento. www.eastsacrotary.com.

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Rotary Club of Pocket/Greenhaven Dec. 19: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome. 7:30 a.m., every Thursday. Aviators Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. (916) 684-6854.

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Dec. 19: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome. Every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at Iron Steaks Restaurant, 2422 13th St, Sacramento, CA 95818.

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Dec. 24: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome, every Tuesday. Arden-Arcade meets at noon, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in the Pavilions on Fair Oaks Blvd. (916) 925-2787.

Carmichael meets at 6:30 p.m., Ancil Hoffman Golf Club. www.rotary.org –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Dec. 24: An organization for the betterment of women and children meets at Aviator’s Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. for lunch and to discuss the day’s topic.

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Dec. 31: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome, every Tuesday. Arden-Arcade meets at noon, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in the Pavilions on Fair Oaks Blvd. (916) 925-2787. Carmichael meets at 6:30 p.m., Ancil Hoffman Golf Club. www.rotary.org –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Dec. 31: An organization for the betterment of women and children meets at Aviator’s Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. for lunch and to discuss the day’s topic.

Bi-Polar Anonymous Dec. 20: Free 12-step program/support group, for people who have Bi-Polar and those who love them. Meets every Friday, 78:30 p.m. 4300 Auburn Blvd., Room 106.

(916) 889-5786.

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Kiwanis Club of East Sacramento-Midtown Dec. 20: Visitors Welcome, weekly breakfast meeting on first, second and third Fridays at 7:00 AM and Dinner meeting on fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM. Topical weekly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’.

Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www. eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com <http://www. eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com> , Meeting/ Membership info: 916-761-0984, volunteers always welcome!

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A Victorian Christmas Dec. 20: Capella Antiqua is joined by premiere women’s ensemble Vox Musica to present a beautiful evening of Victorian Christmas music, starting at 7:30 p.m. Featuring lessons from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and period Christmas carol responses, this program celebrates the true spirit of the season. Concert-goers will be invited to join in several sing-along carols and a hot cider post-concert reception. The upcoming Christmas concert will take place in the beautiful and resonant Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, 1017 11th St. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Kiwanis Club of East Sacramento-Midtown Dec. 26: Visitors Welcome, weekly breakfast meeting on first, second and third Fridays at 7:00 AM and Dinner meeting on fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM. Topical weekly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’.

Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www. eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com, Meeting/ Membership info: 916-761-0984, volunteers always welcome!

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February Sacramento Community Concert Association performance Feb. 22: Celebrating Black History Month, SCCA presents Tenor Darron Flagg & Soprano Candace Johnson and The UC Berkeley Gospel Chorus at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian, 1300 N St. Singer-actor Darron Flagg is recognized as a standout professional bel-canto tenor, lauded for his heart-felt performances. A few of Mr. Flagg’s engagements include the Lincoln Center, theaters in Eastern Europe, Walt Disney

Hall, as well as the San Francisco and Sacramento Opera companies. Candace Johnson is a dynamic vocal artist who has experience in musical theater, television commercials, poplar songwriting, and piano performance.

Among her many accomplishments, she held the title of Ms. Black Tennessee, and she was a finalist in the National Leontyne Price Competition. The UC Berkeley Gospel Chorus started in the 1970s as an informal student activity. Since 2007, director D. Mark Wilson has taken the Gospel Chorus in new directions, building a repertoire, which includes traditional and contemporary gospel music, spirituals, and classically influenced gospel anthems. Regular subscription: $90, Group discount (8 or more people): $75, Students subscription: $45, Single Ticket: $25. For more information, contact Sacramento Community Concert Association www.sccaconcerts.org; info@ scc.aconcerts.org; 400-4634.

March Sacramento Community Concert Association performance March 22: SCCA presents A Night At The Movies With Pipe Organist Dave More-

no at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian, 1300 N St. Complemented by emcee Matias Bombal, organist-entertainer Dave Moreno will thrill you as he accompanies popular silent films on Westminster’s grand 3000-pipe organ. Don’t miss this extraordinary event. Regular subscription: $90, Group discount (8 or more people): $75, Students subscription: $45, Single Ticket: $25. For more information, contact Sacramento Community Concert Association www.sccaconcerts.org; info@scc.aconcerts. org; 400-4634

April Sacramento Community Concert Association performance April 27: SCCA presents talented, young, local classical chamber musicians and The Mondavi Center/SF JAZZ High School All Stars at 3 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian, 1300 N St. Coordinated by Susan Lamb Cook, these seven gifted students will play great works from the chamber music repertoire. Directed by Mike McMullen, the Mondavi Center/SFJAZZ High School All Stars are an elite high-school-age jazz performance ensemble selected by audition.

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Dec. 26: Guest speakers address local, regional and international topics. Visitors welcome. Every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at Iron Steaks Restaurant, 2422 13th St, Sacramento, CA 95818.

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Bi-Polar Anonymous Dec. 27: Free 12-step program/support group, for people who have Bi-Polar and those who love them. Meets every Friday, 78:30 p.m. 4300 Auburn Blvd., Room 106.

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