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Eastern Little League celebrates 60 years

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Matías Bombal’s Hollywood .....................11

Home Improvement Guide .......................12

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Carmichael Chamber crowns big guy Vlade ‘King’

BILLY RICO LIFELONG LOVER OF BASEBALL REMEMBERED

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Vol. XXV • No. 6

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Camp Pollock has been re-opened to the public for day use and special events. Th e road blocks at Northgate and 160 have been re-moved. Water on the entrance road to Pollock has receded. At this time access via Del Paso Boulevard remains closed.

Camp Pollock was temporarily closed due to rain and fl ooding on Northgate Boulevard and Del Paso Boulevard. High fl ows from sur-rounding creeks including Steelhead Creek, Arcade Creek and First Bannon Slough were the source of fl ooding. Flows from the Amer-ican River, pictured, remain high, but are not the cause of fl ooding. We’re pleased to re-port that the 11 acres at Camp Pollock and the lodge are above water and were unaf-fected by the fl ooding. REI’s scheduled Wil-derness First Aid course with NOLS Wil-derness Medical Institute and a Boy Scout Overnighter scheduled for this weekend will not be aff ected.

Camp Pollock is located at 1501 North-gate Blvd. Th e courtyard and picnic tables are open for day use from Sunrise to Sunset ev-ery day of the week. Th e Lodge and Primi-tive Campsites are available to rent for special occasions for both public and private events. Check our calendar of events and reserva-tions tab for more information.

2016 riverside concert series at Camp Pollock announced

Join local bands for free concerts, surround-ed by nature, in a peaceful outdoor setting. Th e Sacramento Valley Conservancy hosts the Riverside Concert Series at Camp Pollock on the fi rst Th ursday of the month from April through September. Concerts start at 6 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m.

Th ese family friendly concerts are open to the public and no charge to park or attend. Bring your own picnic basket and blanket or camp chairs! Picnic tables are fi rst come, fi rst serve. Enjoy s’mores compliments of Sierra Service Project on April 4, April 23, May 5 and Sept. 1. Leashed dogs welcome.

Hosted by the Sacramento Valley Conservan-cy. All donations directly benefi t the Sacramento Valley Conservancy, whose mission is to protect Open Space for All of Us, with over 17,500 acres protected in the Sacramento valley.

camp Pollock is located at 1501 northgate Blvd., Sacramento, ca, 95815camp Pollock concert Series Featuring Home By DarkDate: Th ursday, April 7time: 6 to 8 p.m.

earth Day Benefi t concert at camp Pollock - tickets sold online Date: Saturday, April 23time: Noon to 6 p.m.

camp Pollock concert Series Featuring cat’s meowDate: Th ursday, May 5time: 6 to 8 p.m.

camp Pollock concert Series Featuring It’s about timeDate: Th ursday, June 2time: 6 to 8 p.m.

camp Pollock concert Series Featuring larisa Bryski & crewDate: Th ursday, June 16time: 6 to 8 p.m.

camp Pollock concert Series Featuring Sac youth Jazz Band/ river city SwingersDate: Th ursday, July 7time: 6 to 8 p.m.

camp Pollock concert Series Featuring Hot BreakDate: Th ursday, August 4time: 6 to 8 p.m.

camp Pollock concert Series Featuring oh the Band Date: Th ursday, Sept. 1time: 6 to 8 p.m.

Camp Pollock re-opened for day use and special events

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By Selwyn BrownSpecial to the Arden-Carmichael News

Carmichael Cham-ber of Commerce will celebrate a new culi-nary center and a new Person of the Year on April 8.

During the new Milagro Center’s first banquet event, basket-ball legend, human-itarian and former Carmichael resident Vlade Divac (pro-nounced “Divacs”) will be named 2016 Person of the Year. Now general manag-er for the Sacramento Kings, the giant com-munity figure will re-ceive his award at the Chamber’s annual awards night. “ It’s my honor,” says the star. “ I am proud to be part of the Carmichael community.”

Divac, 47, was a conquering hero for six seasons of the Sacramento Kings’ most winning years. The seven-foot Cen-ter has also scored for the LA Lakers and Charlotte Hor-nets. The Kings retired his purple and white jersey in 2009 and last year appointed him team mentor and manager. Di-vac enjoys near-royal adulation in his Balkan homeland. Through his own charitable foundation and in cooperation with other Serbian agencies, he and his wife Snezana have raised millions to aid war-damaged children. On the Sacra-mento scene, he supports several children’s foundations and basketball camps for under privileged children.

“I try to use my name as a positive influence,” he explains. “In talking to children, I hope to share good values for their lives.”

What’s the Vlade/Carmichael connection? The area is like home turf for Serbian-born Divac, who recently expressed nostalgia for his old Kingsford Drive neighborhood. “Although I have lived in many places throughout my career,” he said, “Carmichael will always hold a special place in my heart. I am humbled to be named 2016 Person of the Year.”

Former Carmichael Persons of the Year include sports-caster Jerry Reynolds, baseball hero Dusty Baker, Supervi-sor Susan Peters, District Attorney Jan Scully, radio host Kitty O’Neal and Sheriff John McGinness.

The annual chamber fundraiser also hails achievers in business and community fields. Tiner Properties will be named Business of the Year. Founded in the 1970s and now under the leadership of Ben Tiner, (32) the Carmi-chael-based group is among Sacramento’s most prominent real estate firms.

State Farm Insurance agent Jennifer Knighten (33) will be hailed Young Professional of the Year award. Both Tin-er and Knighten are active community volunteers, serving child, health and veteran charities.

The 54-year-old Carmichael Kiwanis Club will be ac-claimed Non-profit of the Year. A portion of gala pro-ceeds will be donated to this organization.

Anyone may attend April 8 celebrations at the Milagro Centre’s convention room. The facility is located at 6241 Fair Oaks Blvd. Tickets are $75 to $100 per person for a three-course dinner and no-host bar. The event begins at 6 p.m. Advance reservations are required and sponsorships are in-vited. For information, call 481-1002 or visit www.cami-chaelchamber.com.

Chamber Crowns Big Guy Vlade ‘King’

Pictures by Susan Maxwell Skinner.Vlade Divac will be named Carmichael Person of the Year on April 8. The basketball legend is a former Carmichael resident. Pictured here towering over Kings fans, the giant hero is now Sacramento Kings manager.

Women’s Empowerment receives $175,000 from the California Wellness Foundation

The California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness) recently granted $175,000 to Women’s Empowerment. Funds will be given over three years to strengthen the Sacramento nonprofit’s workforce develop-ment strategies for women who are home-less, including women who are hardest to hire – those recently escaping domestic vi-olence, single mothers with interrupted ed-ucation who lack consistent work history, and those with misdemeanors or felonies on their record.

“Finding a job right now is hard, but when you’re a homeless woman it can feel impossible, especially when you’ve escaped domestic violence or made se-rious mistakes in your past,” said Lisa Culp, executive director, Women’s Em-powerment. “We are grateful to Cal Wellness for recognizing these barriers to employment and understanding the powerful impact that work has on the health of a family.”

Women’s Empowerment’s initial eight-week program for women who are home-less addresses their basic needs such as health and housing while preparing them to become work-ready. The job-readiness component is predominantly taught by skilled volunteers from the community and includes computer literacy training, re-sumes, communication skills, mock inter-views, dressing for success and learning to keep a job. Graduates who need addition-al training can enroll in Women’s Empow-erment’s advanced job-readiness program that includes internships, paid job training, vocational certifications and more.

The grant also will support Women’s Empowerment’s The Get A Job Kit Train-ing that provides paid on-the-job train-ing for its graduates. The program trains women in the production, customer ser-vice, shipping and receiving industries, and includes experiential education, on-

the-job training and active job develop-ment with employment specialists. Train-ees assemble The Get A Job Kits to sell to customers across the country, includ-ing U.S. military organizations helping veterans transition into the civilian sector, technical schools and community colleg-es preparing students to face a compet-itive job market, employment counselors helping at-risk youth, and CalWORKS and Welfare to Work programs empow-ering mothers to become self- reliant. The Get A Job Kit has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNBC, and in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

The project is funded in part by a grant from The California Wellness Founda-tion. Since its founding in 1992, Cal Well-ness has awarded 7,690 grants totaling more than $912 million. The foundation’s Advancing Wellness grants program is grounded in research on the social deter-minants of health, which states that where people live and work, their race or ethnici-ty, and their income can impact their health and wellness.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Women’s Empowerment was recent-ly featured on NBC’s TODAY Show as an innovation and effective solution to ending homelessness for women and their children. The 2014 Organization of the Year has graduated 1,297 homeless wom-en and their 2,700 children. Last year, 93 percent of graduates found homes and 83 percent found jobs or enrolled in school or training. The program combines con-fidence-building courses, job training, health classes and support services to help homeless women across diverse ages, rac-es and cultures. Women’s Empowerment is funded solely through private donations from the community. To donate online: www.womens-empowerment.org.

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By lance armStrongSpecial to Valley Community Newspapers

Former Sacramento area resident William F. “Billy” Rico died at the age of 93 on Feb. 18, leaving a legacy as a lifelong lover of baseball.

More than a half-century ago, Rico was a member of a local-ly famous championship baseball team.

In 1946, he both managed and played for the Carmichael Firemen baseball team, which was sponsored by Carmi-chael Fire Department Chief Dan Donovan and won the first Canadian-American “World’s Series” for Non-Pro-fessional Baseball.

“We were world champions (of non-professional baseball),” Rico recalled in 2011. “Winning that ‘World’s Series’ really sticks in my mind.”

Despite finishing in second place in the 48-team semipro tournament, the Sacramento County League champion Fire-men were invited to compete for the international title, since

Billy Rico: Lifelong lover of baseball rememberedRico was player-manager of Carmichael Firemen’s 1946 Canadian-American ‘World’s Series’ champions

Photo by Lance ArmstrongBilly Rico looks over a baseball in front of his former residence in the historic Riverside area of Sacramento.

See Rico, page 7

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carmichael libraryTh e hours for the Carmichael

Library, 5605 Marconi Ave., are, as follows: Sunday: noon - 5 p.m.; Monday: Closed; Tues-day and Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Th ursday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Friday: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For details, telephone the Sacramento Public Library at (916) 264-2920 or visit www.saclibrary.org.

knitwits (adult)Friday, april 1 at 11 a.m.: Do you knit? Crochet? Do needlework? Want to learn? Are you an expert who can help others? Bring a project to work on and a snack to share as we learn together!

carmichael teen Book club (teen)Friday, april 1 at 3:30 p.m.: Love to read. Join other teens dis-cussing their favorite books. Pick one of our suggestions or read your own choice. Please bring a snack and share your insights.

Backyard composting (adult)Saturday, april 2 at 10 a.m.: Th is class on backyard com-posting will cover topics such as the value of compost, types of compost bins, building a compost pile using hot and cold techniques and ways to use compost. Presented by the Master Gardener Com-post Education Team

tech & ereader HelpSaturday, april 2 at 2 p.m.: Need help with your com-puter, tablet or other mobile device? Want to learn how to read or listen to books & magazines on your device? Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & passwords related to your de-vice (library card, email, etc).

Introduction to microsoft word 2010 (adult)Sunday, april 3 at 9 a.m.: Th is is a 4 week class. In this course you will learn valuable word processing skills like creat-ing, saving and retrieving doc-uments; inserting and deleting text; formatting text; and using cut, copy and paste. Before you take this course, you should have some experience with the

Library eventscomputer and the Windows operating system. Class con-sists of four two-hour sessions. You must be willing to commit to ALL four sessions! Class-es will start on Sunday April 3 @ 9 am. Following classes are Sunday April 10 @ 9 am, Sun-day April 17 @ 9 am and Sun-day April 24 @ 9 am. Regis-tration is required. Th is is an OASIS Connections class.

read to a Dog (School age (6-12))tuesday, april 5 at 3:30 p.m.: Specially trained therapy dogs are waiting for children to come read to them. For school age children that can read. We supply the books or you may bring your own book to read to the dogs. Th e books should be able to be read in 5 - 10 minutes. After 10 sessions, the reader is awarded a free book.

adult coloring Program (adult)tuesday, april 5 at 6 p.m. Adult Coloring Night. Like to color? Th ink it’s only for kids? Th ink again! Come and enjoy coloring time just for you. Find out why color-ing for adults is quickly be-coming a great way to spend your time. It’s relaxing, stress-reducing and most of all, fun. Come and see what it’s all

about! Coloring pages and color pencils will be provided, or bring your own. Light re-freshments will be served.

tech & ereader Help wednesday, april 6 at 5 p.m.: Need help with your computer, tablet or other mo-bile device? Want to learn how to read or listen to books & magazines on your device? Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & passwords related to your de-vice (library card, email, etc).

History Book club wednesday, april 6 at 6:30 p.m.: Th e Carmichael Library History Book Club meets monthly to discuss a non-fi c-tion or historical fi ction book. Help us decide which is truer: fact or fi ction! Please bring a snack to share and join us as we dive into history books. Th is month’s title is Ladies of Liber-ty : the women who shaped our nation by Cokie Roberts.

toddler Storytime (early childhood (0-5))Th ursday, april 7 at 11:15 a.m.: Join Miss Kathy for sto-ries, songs and just plain fun!

carmichael movie matinee (Family/all ages)Th ursday, april 7 at 3 p.m.: Bring your friends and enjoy a

movie - Free! Visit Carmichael Library for a list of up-com-ing movie titles. Today’s movie is Th e Man from U.N.C.L.E. PG 13 © Warner Bros.

knitwits (adult)Friday, april 8 at 11 a.m.: Do you knit? Crochet? Do needlework? Want to learn? Are you an expert who can help others? Bring a project to work on and a snack to share as we learn together!

after School Book club (School age (6-12))Friday, april 8 at 4 p.m.: Join us on the Second Friday of every month to talk about the book, play trivia games, and have fun! Th is month’s book is Into the Wild (War-riors #1) by Erin Hunter.

carmichael Second Satur-day audio Book club Saturday, april 9 at 10 a.m.: Is this a good book? Is this a good audio book? Bring a snack and your perceptions to share as we discuss the sto-ry. Th is month’s title is Dead Wake: Th e Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson; read by Scott Brick.

tech & ereader Help Saturday, april 9 at 2 p.m.: Need help with your com-puter, tablet or other mobile device? Want to learn how to read or listen to books & magazines on your device?

Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & passwords related to your de-vice (library card, email, etc).

read to a Dog (School age (6-12))tuesday, april 12 at 3:30 p.m.: Specially trained thera-py dogs are waiting for chil-dren to come read to them. For school age children that can read. We supply the books or you may bring your own book to read to the dogs. Th e books should be able to be read in 5 - 10 minutes. Af-ter 10 sessions, the reader is awarded a free book.

tech & ereader Help tuesday, april 12 and wednesday, april 13 at 5 p.m.: Need help with your computer, tablet or other mo-bile device? Want to learn how to read or listen to books & magazines on your device? Come and get help from our Tech Assistant! Walk-ins welcome! No appointment required. **Please come with any account information & passwords related to your de-vice (library card, email, etc).

toddler Storytime (early childhood (0-5))Th ursday, april 14 at 11:15 a.m.: Join Miss Kathy for sto-ries, songs and just plain fun!


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Police logThe news items below are collected from police dis-patchers’ notes and arrest reports. The information in them has often not been ver-ified beyond the initial re-ports. All suspects are pre-sumed innocent until proven guilty.

reporting date: march 8(Stolen Vehicle): redwood ave / Fairfield St at 3:49 p.m.

Officers were patrol-ling the area in an LPR equipped vehicle when they were alerted to a possibly stolen car. Officers contact-ed the occupants of the ve-hicle, confirmed that it had been stolen, and arrested an adult occupant on stolen vehicle charges.

reporting date: march 9(assault): 800 block of el camino at 6:44 a.m.

The victim was in the above area when an un-known male suspect as-saulted the victim causing a non-life threatening in-jury. The victim returned home and contacted offi-cers. The victim was trans-ported to a local hospi-tal by the Sacramento Fire Department. The investi-gation remains active.

reporting date: march 10(missing Person): 800 block of San Juan road at 2:05 p.m.

A husband reported that his wife and child went missing. Officers con-ducted follow-up investi-gation and found the MP and their child had gone to

a local hospital for unrelat-ed circumstances. Offi-cers made contact with the missing female and child at the hospital who were found safe.

(DUI arrest & Injury ac-cident): 1300 block of Bell avenue at 5:44 p.m.

Officers responded to an injury accident and found that the driver had rear ended another vehicle caus-ing complaint of pain to the passenger in the other vehi-cle. The driver who rear-ended the stopped vehicle was found to be intoxicat-ed and booked for DUI re-lated charges.

reporting date: march 11(Burglary alarm): 2300 block of Del Paso Boulevard at 12:25 a.m.

Officers responded to a ringing alarm. Upon arriv-al, K-9 searched the location and located a suspect in-side. The suspect complied and surrendered without in-cident. The subject was ar-rested for burglary related charges as well as a proba-tion violation.

reporting date: march 12(assault): 300 block of Sil-ver eagle Drive at 2:40 a.m.

Officers responded to the residence regarding a re-port of an assault. The vic-tim was assaulted by a fam-ily member who prevented her from leaving the home following an altercation. Officers arrived on scene, conducted follow-up, but did not locate the suspect. A report was generated.

reporting date: march 15(Firearm arrest): norwood avenue at Silver eagle road at 3:33 p.m.

An officer was hailed by a witness who observed two juveniles with a gun near the railroad tracks near Ford Road. Officers received in-formation that one of the suspects carrying the hand-gun hid it next to the water. Officer detained two juve-niles in the area. K9 was utilized and conducted an article search of the area. A loaded handgun was located by the dog. One of the ju-veniles was booked at Juve-nile Hall on weapons relat-ed charges.

reporting date: march 16(marijuana grow): 100 block of arcade Boulevard at 5:20 p.m.

Officers responded to the call of a disturbance. The victim was home when three known subjects forced entry into the residence, assaulted the victim and stole miscel-laneous property. The sus-pects fled prior to officers arriving on scene. It was later determined the victim was operating a marijuana grow. A report was gener-ated.

(assault): 2600 block of al-batross way at 8:06 p.m.

The victim was inside the above residence when a known roommate assaulted him. The Sacramento Fire Department responded to address the victim’s non-life threatening injuries. Officers located the suspect who was safely detained and ultimate-ly arrested for assault.

reporting date: march 17(Bait Bike activation): 800 block of arden way at 4:02 p.m.

Officers responded to the call of a bait bike activa-tion. When officers arrived in the area, they located a male suspect in possession of the stolen bicycle. The man was issued a citation and released.

(Pursuit): arcade Blvd / marysville Boulevard at 4:40 p.m.

Officers were on patrol in the above area when they ob-served a motorcyclist driving recklessly. When officers at-tempted to stop the rider, a pursuit ensued. After a short distance, the rider struck a fence. The rider and his pas-senger were safely detained. No injuries were reported. The suspect was arrested for multiple charges.

reporting date: march 19(Bait Bike Arrest): 2500 block of Del Paso Boulevard at 6:01 a.m.

Officers responded to the area regarding the theft of an SPD bait bicycle. Up-on arrival, officers contact-ed 25-year-old Christopher Haase with the bait bike and arrested him for theft, possession of stolen prop-erty, and possession of bur-glary tools.

(Robbery): 2400 block of Del Paso Boulevard at 7:28 p.m.

Officers responded a busi-ness on reports of a robbery that just occurred. The un-known suspects were observed shoplifting by security. When security attempted to detain them, the suspects became combative and ultimately fled the area on foot. A report was generated.

reporting date: march 20(Battery): 1600 block of west el camino avenue at 1:12 a.m.

Officers were dispatched to the area to assist security who was attempting to break up a fight between several individuals. One of the secu-rity guards sustained a non-life-threatening injury during the effort. Officers arrived and cited an adult male for battery and a report was gen-erated.

(Homicide Investigation): 3700 block of clay St at 10:04 a.m.

Officers responded to a residence for a wel-fare check. Upon arriv-al, officers located an unre-sponsive female adult who had sustained traumat-ic injuries. SFD responded and pronounced the wom-an deceased. The wom-an did not appear to have died of natural causes. A homicide investigation was initiated. No arrests have yet been made and the in-vestigation is ongoing.

(Domestic Violence): 1500 block of nogales Street at 6:08 p.m.

Officers responded to a re-port of a domestic dispute at a residence. Upon arrival, of-ficers contacted the victim who had sustained a non-life-threatening injury. Officers located the suspect at anoth-er location nearby and arrest-ed her on domestic violence charges.

(Subject Stop): american river Bike trail at 9:11 a.m. Officers were patrolling the bike trail and surrounding areas when they contacted a group of subjects. A search of one of the subjects revealed live ammunition in their possession. The suspect was arrested for unlawful pos-session of ammunition and a warrant.


the first place, St. Joseph, Mich. team, which included several former major league players, could not compete in the series because of its need to fulfill league obligations.

The Carmichael team did not disappoint their many home-town fans, as they won the sev-en-game series, which was held at Lawrence Stadium in Wich-ita, Kan., in five games.

In the final game of the se-ries – an 8-2 Firemen’s victo-ry against a team from Wind-sor, Ontario, Canada on Sept. 10, 1946 – Rico contributed two hits, scored one run and batted in two runs.

The Wichita Beacon’s next day coverage of that final game includes the following words: “Carmichael had two big three-run innings, scoring in the fifth on a walk and a hit, then Rico’s single brought in two runs after two were out. Following the game, trophies were presented both teams. The Coleman, for the win-ners, went to Bill Rico, man-ager of the California club.”

Rico was named the tourna-ment’s most outstanding man-ager, and Les Lollis, the team’s only African-American player, was recognized as the tourna-ment’s most valuable player.

Rico, during his 2011 in-terview, commented about what it was like winning that championship.

“It was really great,” he said. “We had a good bunch of guys. It was a great ball club. It was a tough (tournament). You take them Texas ball clubs and the Oklahoma ball clubs, they’re tough people. I mean, when they slide into you, you know it. They hit you hard.”

Rico said that his return home from the tournament was also a very memorable ex-perience for himself and oth-er members of the team.

After arriving by train to Stockton, the team was es-corted by the California High-way Patrol to the state Capi-tol, where bands were playing and a large crowd had gath-ered to greet the team.

Rico fondly spoke about that experience.

“Coming to Sacramento and getting the reception that we did was really great,” he said. “There were about 2,000 people at the state Capitol and the governor (Earl War-ren) was there to greet us.”

Following the gathering at the Capitol, a party was held for the team at Donovan’s Corner, a business owned by Donovan.

The following year, the Fire-men placed fourth in the same tournament, which had been expanded to 52 teams.

In a remembrance article about the team 25 years later, Marco Smolich, sports editor of The Sacramento Bee wrote that the Carmichael Firemen “must be considered the most successful bush baseball club in this area’s history.”

Rico, who was one of the six children of Joe and Delfina Rico, who were immigrants of the island of Terceira in the Azores Islands of Portugal, explained that baseball be-came a very important part of his life during his grammar school years.

“I first played baseball when I was 8 or 9 years old down on (the old Riverside Road/pres-ent day Pocket Road) in the school yard at the Lower Lis-bon School,” he said.

“There was also anoth-er place that I played base-ball back then. Joe Freitas (who later became the man-ager of the local Julius Style Shop-sponsored, bush league team), and his brother Jess, they were alter boys in the (St. Mary) Church (on to-day’s Pocket Road) down there and they played in their cow pasture across the road and a short distance north-east from the church.

“I used to go down there and play and do a lot of catch-ing without a mask. I never did get hit though. And some of the grown ups used to play and I used to play with them. That was (about a mile away) from our house and we used to have to walk up there.”

Rico attracted the attention of Sacramento Union writer Vincent F. Stanich, who gift-ed him his first pair of base-ball spikes.

In about 1936, Rico moved with his family to 1704 O St., and he eventually began attend-ing Christian Brothers School at 2535 21st Street at Broadway.

“I started there (at Christian Brothers) in grammar school in the sixth grade,” he recalled. “I played baseball at Christian Brothers in grammar school and in high school. I played second and third base. We were good in 1939 in my first year (in high school). We had a real good team (that was led by its coach, Bud Hanna, and

its top player, Wally West-lake). We only lost two games (to Marysville High School), but we also beat (Marysville High) twice in the same sea-son.”

Rico, who also played in summer league games dur-ing his youth, related an expe-rience he had with Westlake during a Christian Brothers baseball team practice.

“(Westlake) was a big guy,” he said. “I remember throw-ing batting practice and I hit him one day.”

In response, Westlake told Rico that he was going to hit a line drive right at him.

“And he did, too,” Rico said. “But luckily I got out of the way. We had a lot of fun back then.”

Christian Brothers home baseball games during that era were played at William Land Park and the Stanford Play-ground – present day Stanford Park – at 28th and C streets.

Rico’s father died at the age of 59 on March 9, 1929 after being kicked by a horse and in order to help sup-port his family, Rico opted to drop out of high school prior to his senior year and acquire employment at Mc-Clellan Field.

While later working at the Shasta Dam, Rico played a season for the Redding Ti-gers of the Sacramento Val-ley League, which also includ-ed the Marysville Giants and the Chico Colts.

In 1944, Rico played a half-a-season for the Pacific Coast League’s Oakland Oaks.

Residing in Sacramen-to once again, Rico, in addi-tion to his time with the Car-michael Firemen, played and managed the Ed Sparks-spon-sored Muir-Acme club in the Winter League until 1951. He also played on champion-

ship teams in the city’s Rec-reation Department’s Munic-ipal Twilight Softball League during the same era.

After his baseball playing years, Rico, who was mar-ried to his now-late wife, Al-berta “Bertie” G. (Camillo) Rico, for 65 years, worked as a city park maintenance work-er from 1952 to 1984. And more specifically, Rico said that he was mainly in charge of the ball diamonds at Wil-liam Land Park.

Rico, a longtime, dedicat-ed fan of the St. Louis Cardi-nals, remained a lover of base-ball throughout his life. And he could frequently be found watching televised Major League Baseball games and adding to his rich knowledge of the game and its players.

Thinking back on his years as a baseball player, in 2011, Rico, who was a longtime member of Sacramento Elks Lodge No. 6, said, “Those were very memorable times

for me. I would never change them for anything. It was the greatest time of my life.”

A celebration of the life of Rico was held at Holy Spir-it Church.

Rico:Continued from page 4

Photo courtesy of Billy RicoBilly Rico, center, shakes hands with Gov. Earl Warren following the Carmichael Firemen’s world semipro baseball championship in 1946.


By SteVe lIDDIck

Several hundred young Little League ballplayers, their parents and supporters gathered to kick off the first day of the 60th Eastern Little League baseball season. The day began with a pancake breakfast at Carmichael’s Mullins Field on the Starr King Ele-mentary School complex.

Young people dash around the field; equal parts of typical youthful exuberance and the invigorating ef-fects of the chill of a March morning.

“There are 26 teams,” Van Sarantis said. Sarantis is the Eastern Little League Vice President and a for-mer president. “The divisions include T-Ball (4-6-year-olds), Minor B (7-8), Minor A (9-10), Major (11-12), Juniors (13-14), and a transitional Interme-diate division that includes 11, 12, and 13-year-olds.”

Blue and white uniformed youngsters have been taking to the field since the Eastern Little League started in 1956.

The event could be described as an American mi-crocosm. “Nothing more Americana than this,” Mike Huetter said, as he and his wife, Robyn, enjoyed sausages and chocolate chip pancakes. Huetter is a coach and a volunteer fundraiser for the league.

At the early end of the age spectrum, child maintenance duties were performed by parents

Little league opening day celebrated in Carmichael

See Baseball, page 9

Photo by Steve LiddickJuniors Division player Draven Forssell pitches to teammate Brandan Door. Draven is new to Little League, but Brandan has been playing since the age of four.


of younger members; wip-ing melted chocolate chips off their faces, cutting their sausages into bite-sized pieces . . . and all the other things parents have always done for those not long out of their playpens.

“ Tie your shoelaces,” a parent calls out to a run-ning boy.

Little league is all inclu-sive. In the 30 years since girls were brought into the program, 18 female play-ers from throughout the na-tion have made it to the Lit-tle League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Color is no barrier either. That is evident as kids of all ethnic backgrounds run, play, and engage in animated conversations together.

“We don’t turn any kids away,” league sponsorship director Kyle Hergert said. Hergert is also a manager. To ensure that no one is left out, he says scholarships are available for youngsters who need help.

A boy rides by on a bicy-cle. You can tell he is seri-ous about the sport because he has two baseball bats in scabbards attached to his backpack.

Later in the morning the teams will assemble on the fields assigned to their par-ticular league, ranging in size from the same dimen-sions the big leagues use to tiny T-Ball fields.

Little League has been a big part of Elijah Rogals-ki’s life. He is 11-years-old and has been playing since T-Ball at the age of four. He can point proudly to ten home runs in his career.

Manager Kyle Hergert said, “We built a safety fence to protect the T-Ball field from guys like this who hit them over the fence.”

Eight-year-old Sofia Hoff-man is a Minor B Division “Rockies” player. But she won’t be playing for awhile. She came to the event in uni-form, but a twisted ankle has her on crutches. “I’m gonna watch,” she said.

“Friendly” is the key word when describing the compe-tition among the teams, al-though five-and-a-half-year-old first-year T-Ball player Devin Ward put a somewhat tougher spin on it when he said, “I don’t know if there are any Giants here because the Giants are icky.”

Don’t forget that half-year Devin always adds to his age. That extra half is very impor-tant to a little boy impatient to be grown up.

Baseball:Continued from page 8

Photo by Steve LiddickHundreds gathered in Carmichael for the first day of the baseball season and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Eastern Little League. Opening day started off with a sausage and pancake breakfast.

Photo by Steve Liddick“Guys like this hit them over the fence,” Kyle Hergert said of 11-year-old Elijah Rogalski. Hergert says a safety fence had to be built to protect little T-Ball players from balls sent their way by power hitters like Elijah, who has been playing in Little League since he was four-years-old and has ten home runs to his credit.


Matías Bombal’s HollywoodemBrace oF tHe SerPent

This film has not been rated.Oscilloscope Laboratories

has a studio logo not unlike like the classic Toho-Scope logo of the Golden Era. In glorious black and white, it sets the stage for remarkable cinematography to follow that will show you a world that you literally have never seen before: the Amazon River in Colombia. The movie’s Span-ish language title is “Abrazo de la Serpiente” (“Embrace of the Serpent”) You’ve never seen the Amazon in this way: lyrical, poetic and mysterious in rich black and white tones. In this captivating visual ex-perience, we are told a story of the Amazon in an entire-ly new way. From the perspec-tive of a native Colombian of the Amazon, Karamakate.

Karamakate is played by two men over different periods in time, yet in both, he leads a white man as a guide in search of flora and fauna of the Amazon, and in particular the rare health re-storative plant “Yakruna” a hal-lucinogen vine, epiphyte of the rubber tree. The sap of trees on which it grows is of higher pu-rity. Karamakate the younger is played by Nilbio Torres, a 30-year-old actor who speaks lit-tle Spanish as he mostly speaks Cubeo. This is his first mov-ie. He had previously worked in agriculture. The elder Kara-makate is played by Antonio Bolívar Salvador. Bolívar in real life is one of the last survivors of the Ocaina people. Besides play-ing one of the main characters, he also served as interpreter for the Tikuna, Cubeo, Huitoto languages and even English, as he became a teacher of the inter-national actors.

The “white men” of the movie visit the famous snake shaped river as have others in movies past, with in interest in rubber or natural history. The movie cuts between the two tales set apart by many years. This gives you the non-traditional sense of timelessness of the Ama-zon and how the indigenous folks that live there view time and space; not at all as in west-ern thought. It becomes clear in the narrative that the natives view both white explores as one man, one spirit and not two.

The movie begins to tell of a 1909 Illness of Thedor von Martius, ( Jan Bijvoet) based

on real life German explor-er Theodor Koch Grünberg (1878-1924). “Martius” was snagged by this illness while trekking through the Ama-zon. One native begrudgingly agreed to help him search for a special plant to help him.

The real Koch-Grünberg wrote: “It is impossible to know if the infinite jungle has initiated in me the pro-cess that has taken so many others to total and incurable insanity If that is the case, it only remains for me to ex-cuse myself and ask your comprehension, for the dis-play I witnessed in those en-chanted hours was such that I find it impossible to de-scribe in words of its beau-ty and splendor. All I know is when I came back, I was an-other man.”

This is a movie of three personal journeys against all odds and nature and the won-der that is the Amazon. Da-vid Gallego’s photography is a character in the movie, just as timeless and complex as the river and its now lost peoples.

After the main title appears on screen, our second “white man” (Brionne Davis), also German and a student of Mar-tius appears with reflex 1950s camera offering a clue to the time period of his part of the story. He is Evan, and based on the real life person Rich-ard Evans Schultes (1915-2017). He meets the meets older Karamakate, who sees in him the same soul of the man that he had taken through the

wilds so many years earlier. They revisit spots seen in the earlier journey with startling differences that have occurred over time. In one such case, the initial visit was to a Catholic mission. The later visit shows it overrun by cannibals in a harrowing and remarkable se-quence.

In one scene of profound Karamakate wisdom of the jungle, Martinus’s compass is stolen by natives, and he in-sists on keeping it. He’d not escape with his life if he were to persist, and is advised to just leave as Karamakate says: “You can’t forbid them to learn. Knowledge belongs to all men.”

The travel diaries of The-odor Koch Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes are recognized today as the only known records of large por-tions of Amazon cultures. The movie was nominat-ed for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards, but lost to “Son of Saul”. The film’s director, Ciro Guer-ra, risked life and limb with

cast and crew by taking mo-tion picture film cameras on lactation in the real Amazon. He released this statement:“Whenever I looked at a map

of my country,I was overwhelmed by great

uncertainty.Half of it was an unknown

territory, a green sea, of which I knew nothing.

The Amazon, that unfathom-able land, which we fool-ishly reduce to simple con-cepts. Coke,

drugs, Indians, rivers, war.Is there really nothing more

out there?Is there not a culture, a his-

tory?Is there not a soul that tran-

scends?The explorers taught me oth-

erwise.Those men who left every-

thing, who risked every-thing, to tell us about a world

we could not imagine.Those who made first con-

tact,During one of the most vi-

cious

holocausts man has ever seen.Can man, through science

and art, transcend brutali-ty? Some men did.

The explorers have told their story.

The natives haven’t.This is it.A land the size of a whole

continent, yet untold. Un-seen by our own cinema.

That Amazon is lost now.In the cinema, it can live

again.”This movie is a stunning

and remarkable experience into another world and time reality so unlike our own. Beguiling, yet hard to com-prehend, I was fascinat-ed and horrified, enchanted and frightened. I’d never had the desire to see the Amazon in person, the snakes alone would make me expire at their mere sight. Yet this was a remarkable look at a life so foreign on our own planet and the famous river that has lured adventure since it beck-oned discovery to the first in-trepid souls that tried to un-ravel her mysteries.


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Matsuyama Elementary School will have a Mobile Clothing Drive FundraiserThere will be a Mobile Drop Box on cam-pus at 7680 Windbridge Drive, Sacramen-to from march 8-21. Donations can be dropped off 24/7. This fundraiser pro-motes recycling, gives back to the local com-munity AND raises money for our school. ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF: Us-able clothing (all sizes), shoes, jewelry, belts, purses, backpacks, bedding and linens, toys, DVDs, and other small non-break-able items.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Sutter’s Fort looking for volunteersDo you have an interest in early Sacramen-to history? Do you get excited at the idea of dressing up in Pioneer clothing, churn-ing butter, or making barrels? If so, volun-teering at the birthplace of the city of Sacra-mento may be just for you! Sutter’s Fort will

sored with Group Fitness at The WELL, the campus recreation and fitness facili-ty at Sacramento State. For more informa-tion, please visit www.SacStateUNIQUE.com or call the University Union Info Desk at 278-6997.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society (STJS) monthly music eventEvery second Sunday of the month, STJS has music at the Elks Lodge No. 6, 6446 Riverside Blvd., from noon to 5 p.m. Each month STJS has a different bands, there is three different rooms to listen to music. Nominal fee for members is $8; non-mem-ber price is $10.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Nar-Anon meeting for families and friendsThe group meets to learn about drug abuse, share problems, encourage the addict to seek help, replace despair with hope, improve the family attitude, help regain your self-confi-dence. For more information, call the First United Methodist Church at 446-5025, ext. 101. Meetings are Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2100 J St.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Rotary Club South meetingThe Rotary Club of South Sacramen-to meets at noon for lunch every Thurs-day at Aviators Restaurant at Executive Air-port,6151 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95822. Rotary is one of the largest ser-vice organizations in the world dedicated to community service both locally, and inter-nationally. Please call JR Springer at 425-9195 for additional information.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Beginning tai chi gongThese exercises use the principle of chi flowing properly throughout the body to maintain the equilibrium of yin and yang. Regular practice of these forms will develop better balance and flexibil-ity, gain strength, promote deep relax-ation, and improve health. This begin-ning class will also learn the 24 Yang Style Tai Chi and Yi Jing, a tradition-al Health Qi Gong. Pre-registration and prepayment required or $7 drop-in fee at the door. Class will be held on Tues-days from 4:00-5:00 pm at ACC Se-nior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call (916)393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Soroptimist International Sacramento SouthMeets the second and fourth Tuesday at Executive Airport, Aviators Restaurant at 12:15 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Widow persons monthly buffet and socialWidowed Persons Association of Califor-nia, Newcomers’ Buffet and Social is open to any and all widows and widowers, the third Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. The buffet will be held in the private dining room at the Plaza Hof Brau, corner of El Camino and Watt Avenue, cost varies as the choice is from a no-host buffet menu. There is no charge to attend the social other than the meal chosen. For more information, call 916 972-9722. Widowed Persons As-sociation of California, Sunday Support, is open to any and all widows or widowers, ev-ery Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. in the meeting room of the WPAC office, 2628 El Cami-no Avenue, Ste. D-18. Enter from the back parking lot. For more information, call 916 972-9722. Saturday, Nov. 7, Widowed Per-sons Association of California Workshop, “Coping with the Holidays,” 2 to 4 p.m., the doors open at 1:30 p.m.. A second ses-sion will be held Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. The work-shops will take place at 2628 El Camino Ave., Ste. D-18. Enter from the back park-ing lot. For more information or to register, call 972-9722.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Soroptimist International of Sacramento meetingSoroptimist International of Sacramento meets Fridays at 11:30 a.m. at Casa Garden Restaurant. Open to all who want to im-prove the lives of Women and Children. See www.soroptimistsacramento.org for more information.

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Music at noonmarch 30: Free music programs, of-fered at Westminster Presbyterian

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Sons In Retirement (SIR) Branch #93 luncheon programs are held on the third Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at Elks Lodge No.6. SIR is a luncheon club with 141 branches and a membership of 18,000 men who are retired from full-time employment. Activities included weekly golf tournaments and bowling league teams. For more information or an application call Chairman Dick West at 919-3858.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Free Yoga Night at Sacramento StateSacramento State’s The University Union UNIQUE Programs is pleased to announce an evening of relaxing yoga with fitness in-structions from The WELL at Sacramento State on Thursday, March 17, 2016 starting 7:30 p.m. in The University Union Ball-room. The event is free for Sac State stu-dents and the general public. The first half hour will be an introduction to yoga for be-ginners. Immediately following will be yoga appropriate for all fitness levels. Yoga will develop inner and outer strength, increase stamina and flexibility and help you get cen-tered through a blend of different yoga tra-ditions. This class links body, breath and mind with focus on alignment. Co-spon-

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SAVE THE DATE!67th Sacramento High School Reunion

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Church at noon on Wednesdays. This week enjoy music by Free music pro-grams, offered at Westminster Presby-terian Church at noon on Wednesdays. This week enjoy music by a nostalgic swing band.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

KVIE Public Television Presents KVIE Uncorked, An Evening with Frankie Morenomarch 31: Las Vegas Headliner of the Year Frankie Moreno, accompanied by his band mates and back-up singers, will perform at KVIE Uncorked, on Thurs-day, March 31, 2016, from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. at the KVIE Studios in Sacramen-to. Open to the community, KVIE Un-corked, An Evening with Frankie More-no, is a special night benefiting KVIE Public Television and celebrating food, wine, beer, and music. Guests can enter a raffle for wonderful prizes, enjoy deli-cious refreshments, and experience the fun sound of Frankie Moreno – all while supporting local public television. Gen-eral admission guests will enjoy the stu-dio concert and a dessert reception. Tick-ets are $75 for general admission. VIP guests can enjoy a pre-show reception, meet and greet with the band, studio concert, and post-show acoustic set in the courtyard. VIP tickets are $150. The VIP pre-show reception opens at 7 p.m. To purchase tickets, or for more informa-tion, visit kvie.org/uncorked.

april Yee Fow: Chinese Pioneers: The Old City Cemetery Committee presents a tour that explores Sacramento’s Chinese pioneersapril 2: The Chinese immigrants to Cal-ifornia endured more discriminatory laws and taxes than any other ethnic group, but managed to maintain their commu-nity in the face of tremendous organized opposition, legal and otherwise. Old City Cemetery Committee will introduce you to Chinese doctors, merchants, boxers, baseball players, church-goers and gang-sters. The cemetery is located at 1000 Broadway, Sacramento. There is am-ple free street parking on surrounding streets, with limited parking within the cemetery. Tours are free; however, dona-tions are appreciated and benefit ceme-tery preservation. For more information, call 448-0811. The mission of the OCCC is to join hands with the community to restore, beautify, preserve, and protect the Historic City Cemetery, while maintain-ing access by descendants of the deceased, and to provide educational services to all visitors to the Historic City Cemetery of Sacramento. The tour starts at 10 a.m.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Over 100,000 “Gently Used” Books Available at Friends of Library Book Warehouse Sale april 2 : An ever-changing invento-ry of more than 100,000 “gently used” books, videos, and audio books will be of-fered for prices from 50 cents to $2 at the warehouse of the Friends of the Sac-ramento Public Library. The warehouse is at the rear of the Friends’ “Book Den” store at Suite E, 8250 Belvedere Ave., just south of 14th Avenue between Pow-er Inn and Florin-Perkins roads. Plenty of parking is available, but visitors should be careful not to park between the “No Parking” signs on the south side of Belve-

dere. Sale hours on Saturday will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a preview and sale on Friday April 1 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for Friends members only (You can join at the door for $15). Income from the sale helps pay for pro-grams, equipment, and materials lo-cal libraries need but can’t afford. With more books constantly needed, the Friends will be glad to have yours, too. See a staff member on how to donate. The book store will also be open during the sale as well as weekly on Thursdays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Fridays and Satur-days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Items there are priced from $1 up. For more infor-mation, call 731-8493 or go to [email protected].––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Healing Arts Festival Supporting Sacramento SPCA at Their First 2-Day Eventapril 2-3: The Healing Arts Festival will be holding its first of two events this year – this time a 2-day event. They will be collecting donations and fundraising for the Sacramento SPCA. The Healing Arts Festival, a metaphysical, spiritual, and holistic expo has been a staple in the Sacramento community since 1999. Af-ter changing ownership in late 2014 the event continued to expand. Now, for the first time, it will be a 2-day event allow-ing people to come to both days with one admission. The Sacramento SPCA has been a favorite fundraiser for the attend-ees and exhibitors of the Healing Arts

Festival. This will be the third spring in a row they will be collecting donations for this cause. Last year the event added the SPCA mobile adoption van so that people may see who they are support-ing and maybe adopt a friend. This year the mobile pet adoption will be avail-able on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Healing Arts Festival will take place at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center at 6151 H St. On Saturday, April 2, the event will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The attendance fee is $5 for the week-end or free with an item donation. The Sacramento SPCA’s wish list is available on the Healing Arts Festival’s website (www.healingartsfestival.com/fundrais-ing-community-support) Financial gifts above the $5 entrance fee are always wel-come. For more information about this fundraising event, please visit the Heal-ing Arts Festival website at www.healin-gartsfestival.com.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Ching Ming celebrated at East Lawn cemeteriesapril 2-3: Ching Ming is an important time of ritual and honor for the Asian cul-ture. In celebration of Ching Ming, all three East Lawn cemeteries will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition, in each park from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. there will be raffle prizes and free giveaways. At East Lawn Elk Grove Memorial Park on Saturday only, there will also be a Bud-dhist Monk officiating from Sacramento

True Buddhist Temple. Guests are wel-come to ask the Buddhist Monk ques-tions. This is a free service. Please come and honor your loved ones on these two special days.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Vox Musica Vocal/Choral Workshopapril 1: From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Beat-nik Studios, this workshop will be open to institutions as well as individuals. You will have the opportunity to be en-riched with Vox Musica’s arts resources, hands on demonstrations, engaging activ-ities, group singing, and professional mu-sical presentations. Participants will learn about choral and vocal singing and brief historical description of vocal styles and history as the voices of Vox Musica of-fer their musical presentations that will bring music to life through song, instru-ments, demonstrations, and participatory activities. Vox is honored to be support-ing music education in our community. Later that day there will be the third an-nual 2015/16 New Music Composition Competition. Local Sacramento compos-ers of any age, gender, creed, or national-ity may submit compositions for women’s chamber choir. In honor of our Tenth An-niversary we wanted to focus our contrib-ute to our community compositions that are influenced by or based on Sacramento themes, text, poets/poetry, or history. The winning compositions will be featured in a public performance. In addition, the en-semble’s top choice, will be considered for

a publishing opportunity. Each winning piece will be performed in their entirety on Vox Musica’s Concert on May 22. Sub-mission deadline: April 1.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Vox to present an evening of chant and poetry with DECEMapril 2-3: Join Vox for an intimate eve-ning of chant and poetry with DECEM: A Hildegard Vespers, a concert focus-ing on the music of medieval prophet-ic visionary and composer, Hildegard Von Bingen. Besides being considered some of the finest music produced in the Middle Ages, Hildegard’s melodies are connected very closely to the emo-tions of the text. Collaborating with us on this project is Diana Silva a “scholar of medieval music” who will be contrib-uting to our project with performance practice ideas and will be supporting Vox by playing the Vielle. This perfor-mance will offer our patrons a unique opportunity for repose, reflection, and renewal through music and word. DE-CEM, April 2nd and 3rd, will be a mu-sical and spiritual journey unlike any-thing experienced before.April 2 at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament (1017 11th St.) and April 3 at 7 p.m.at Beatnik Studios (723 S St.) (Tickets are $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at: www.VoxMusica.net/Project-Three)––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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