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St. Joseph’s Cemetery: A place of memories

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Gold Lion Arts brings creative culture to Land Park See page 8

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Lance Armstrong history feature .........................5

Over the Fence ......................................................6

Faces and Places .......................................... 14–16

Calendar ..............................................................22

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In celebration of Black History Month, Sisters Quilting Collective (SQC) will host its 3rd annual Quilt Exhibit “Our Stories in Quilts: Quilts That Are Inspired by the Stories in Our Lives” at The Brickhouse Art Gallery. The exhibit will highlight African-American Quilters and Quilts and will open Feb. 1 and close Feb. 15.

The 2014 program will feature: a key note ad-dress by Karen Boutte, author and noted quil-ter, opening and closing receptions, presenta-tions by the 2014 exhibit quilters, quilting story circles, children’s quilting activities, presenta-tions and fashion show by fabric and wearable artists, a presentation on the historical signifi-cance of African American quilters and quilt-ing, raffles and a presentation and prize draw-ing for the 2014 SQC Opportunity Quilt.

The keynote speaker for the quilt exhib-it is “Quilt Diva”, Karen Boutte. Karen is the author of, “Delightful Diva Designs, Wonder-ful Whimsical Wearables,” to share the fun technique with other like minded individu-als. Her lectures and trunk shows feature Af-rican American Quilts and Quilters, the joys of pursuing ones dreams of becoming a Quilt Diva and inspiration and creativity.

Karen has been teaching and lecturing since 1996 and is a nationally known quilt instruc-tor, lecturer, author and designer of original quilts and garments. She has been sewing since she was 6 years old and enjoys the freedom of designing quilts and creating art to wear.

She was profiled in Quilting Arts Magazine, is-sue 5, and Expressions Magazine, October/No-vember 2005. Her work has appeared in num-bers books and magazines. She has also appeared on HGTV Simply Quilts, PBS with Kaye Wood, Kaye’s Quilting Friends, Quilt Central, Janie Donaldson and Cindy Walters and Amer-ican Quilts Creatively television shows. Kar-en’s presentation is Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 1:30pm at The Brickhouse Art Gallery, 2837 36th Street, Sacramento, CA. 95817. The cost for members is $25 and non-members $30.

If you go: What: Opening reception. The keynote speak-er is Karen Boutte, Quilt DivaWhen: Feb. 1; keynote speech from 1:30 to 3 p.m.Cost: $25 members and $30 non-membersStory Circles: 4:30 to 6 p.m.: (Free and open to the public) Donations accepted. Come and share your favorite story about a family quilt (please bring your quilt or photos of your quilt). (Must RSVP by Jan. 20)

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3rd Annual Quilt Exhibit coming to the Brickhouse Art Gallery

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Pony Express 11 year old to be featured performer at SYS Winter Concerto

Roger Xia, age 11, has studied piano and vio-lin for seven years and attends Pony Express Elementary School. A violinist in the Sacra-mento Youth Sympho-ny Premier Orchestra for three years, he is cur-rently Concertmaster of the Premier Orchestra. Xia will be the featured performer at the Win-ter Concerto, where the Premier Orchestra of the Sacramento Youth Symphony, under the direction of Michael Neumann, will per-form works including Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Allegro con brio, Brahm’s First Symphony and Elgar’s Enigma Variations on Saturday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at Hiram Johnson High School.

Xia showed a strong interest in music even when he was a toddler and started his formal piano lessons since age 4. “I love to perform with musical instruments, piano in particular. I re-ally enjoy delivering my happiness of making music to the au-dience,” he told Valley Community Newspapers.

He said it is a great honor to be selected as piano soloist to perform with the SYS Premier Orchestra. “I’m look-

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ing forward to a great per-formance on Jan. 25.” Xia will perform Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 1 in C Major, 1st movement, Al-legro con brio.

Asked about his goals for the future, Xia said: “Mu-sic became and will contin-ue to be an important part of my life. I will certainly

keep studying music further, and hope to earn more per-forming opportunities while traveling on my music-mak-ing journey.”

If you go: What: Winter Concerto Concert featuring Roger Xia, pianist

Youth Symphony:Continued from page 3

When: Saturday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m.Who: Sacramento Youth Symphony, Premier Or-chestra, Michael Neu-mann conductor and ar-tistic directorWhere: Hiram Johnson High School, 6879 14th Ave-nue, Sacramento, CA 95820Why: Winner of the an-nual concerto competition performs with the Premier Orchestra. Tickets: $15 general ad-mission, $10 students and seniors, free to kids 10 and younger www.sacramentoy-outhsymphony.org or call 731-5777.

fun engaging in hands-on quilting activities. Bring the kids and the young at heart for a day of quilting fun and celebration! Then from 4 to 6 p.m. there will be a fabric art showcase event where SQC’s mem-bers will showcase their beautiful fabric art, dolls and clothing.

Film Presentation –“The Skin Quilt Project”

Feb. 13: From 5:30 to 8 p.m., there will be a facilitat-ed discussion led by Cordia Wade. $3 members and $5 non-members please RSVP by Feb. 10 or call 484-5025.

Closing receptionFeb. 15: The closing re-

ception activities will feature presentations by the 2014 exhibit quilters from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. There will be a historical presentation by Lillian LeBlanc, SQC’s Chair and Fredi Slaughter-Walk-er, Founding Member from noon to 1 p.m. Then there will be an interactive presen-tation and demonstration by Alice Calhoun, noted hand quilter from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. RSVP by Feb. 8. Thim-ble required for hands- on activity. Awards, acknowl-edgements, raffles and view-er’s choice. Cost is $5 mem-bers and $10 non-members.

For more info visit SQC’s blog: sistersquiltingcollectivesqc.blogspot.com or call 484-5025. All events will be held at The Brickhouse Art Gallery, 2837 36th Street, Sacramento.

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By LANCE [email protected]

Editor’s Note: This is part six in a series regarding Sacramen-to area cemeteries.

The 149-year-old St. Jo-seph’s Cemetery on 21st Street, just south of Broad-way, is one of the city’s oldest existing cemeteries.

Regarding that cemetery and an earlier established Catholic cemetery, on Sept. 8, 1864, The Sacramento Union published the following words: “Sev-eral years ago, a tract of land was purchased on the Low-er Stockton Road, four miles from the city, by the St. Rose Church for burial purposes, which was afterward known as St. Rose Cemetery. On ac-count of the distance from the city, it was finally determined to abandon that locality as a cemetery and purchase a new one, more conveniently situat-ed. A week or two ago, a tract of land was purchased, and yesterday the first interment in it took place. It is located south of Poverty Ridge and embrac-es about twenty acres. The ground was formerly known as Russell’s ranch, but was re-cently purchased of L. Stan-ford and others. No name has yet been adopted for the new cemetery.”

The first interment at St. Rose Cemetery was that of former Sacramento Coun-

ty Hospital steward Mar-tin Kennedy, who was buried on November 18, 1860. The cemetery grounds were con-secrated on May 12, 1861.

As part of the establishment of the new Catholic cemetery, which would become known as St. Joseph’s Cemetery, arrange-ments were made for the re-mains of those who were bur-ied at St. Rose Cemetery to be transferred and reinterred at the newly acquired site.

A reference to the Catho-lic cemetery on today’s 21st Street appeared in an article in the April 21, 1893 edition of The Union.

It was noted in the article that the rails for a 21st Street branch of the electric railroad, which would extend south to St. Joseph’s, were in transit by ship and that the branch would be constructed as soon as the rails arrived.

Another 19th century ar-ticle provides evidence that vandalism and thievery are far from new topics when it comes to cemeteries.

On Nov. 22, 1898, The Union ran an article, entitled “Graveyard raids.”

It was noted in that article that the headboard from the gravesite of the Silva children, who burned to death three years earlier, had been sto-len during the night of Nov. 20, 1898 and then discarded in Capitol Park, where it was later discovered.

Also mentioned in the ar-ticle were occurrences of the thievery of flowers from mul-tiple Sacramento cemeteries.

Among the gravestones at the cemetery are those of priests and nuns, Civil War veterans and athletes.

One of the great tragedies on the Sacramento River in-volved the steamer Washoe.

While the Washoe was trav-eling about 35 miles below Sacramento on Sept. 5, 1864, about half of its 175 passen-gers were killed as a result of a boiler explosion on this ves-sel, and about half of the sur-vivors were severely injured.

Among those who were killed by the explosion were Irishmen James O’Hara and John Cluney.

Two days following the Washoe explosion, O’Hara and Cluney became the first people to be buried at today’s St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

In another local tragedy, an au-tomobile carrying four men was struck by a train on Feb. 1, 1925.

The collision proved fatal for the car’s passengers, Mar-ian Sabich, 41, his cousin Mate Sabich, 29, John Puljiz, 41, and Marijan Bitanga, 28.

The resting places of these men, who were all local rail-

road workers, are located side by side at St. Joseph’s and in-clude nearly identical grave-stones.

Another person to be in-terred at St. Joseph’s was An-tone Rodrigues Perry, who was born as Antone Rodrigues Pereira in Faial in the Azores islands on March 26, 1831.

In the early 1850s, Per-ry became one of the earli-est, if not the earliest of the Portuguese to settle in today’s Pocket area.

Perry farmed in the upper Pocket area and during his

St. Joseph’s Cemetery: A place of memories

See St. Joesph’s, page 10

Photo by Lance Armstrong Joseph’s Cemetery is located at 2615 21st St.


By GREG [email protected]

The line has been drawn on Freeport Boulevard. There’s a new Chinese market on Free-port Boulevard called Free-port Asian Market. It’s right across the street from Ho Chin Chinese Market. A Chi-nese market throw-down!

The Freeport Asian Market had its grand opening last week and it was anything but grand. When I walked in there was a female teenager behind the reg-ister. I had a few questions but she had no answers. Looked to me like she was babysitting two younger siblings, too.

The store wasn’t really stocked to the gills with Asian specialty food. Their hot food section wasn’t so hot. They mostly offered dry goods like dry mushrooms, noodles, and fish. They did have a whole aisle of Chinese treats like umbrella cookies, cream wa-fers, and rice snacks.

Perhaps they’ll stock up in the New Year.

Then I crossed the street over to Ho Chin, a small

Asian mom and pop gro-cery store with lots of char-acter. Ho Chin is dark, dingy and packed wall to wall up to the ceiling with Chinese gro-ceries. They have it all…even dried octopus and chicken feet for the adventurous eater. Anthony Bourdain wouldn’t bat an eye.

Ho Chin has been at the same location for over 20 years. They even have a kitch-en in the back where you can order hot Chinese food to go.

I wanted to ask them what they thought about the new Chinese market across the street. They were crowded on a Saturday morning with long lines of Asian folks stocking up on their favorite Chinese goods. They had no time for some pesky writer.

I seriously doubt Ho Chin is worried about the competi-tion across the street.

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A new food truck has been hanging out at the former

See Over the Fence, page 7

Ho Chin Chinese Market, a small Asian mom and pop grocery store with lots of character, is located on Freeport Boulevard.

Photos by Greg BrownFreeport Asian Market, a new grocery store on Freeport Boulevard recently held its grand opening. It’s right across the street from Ho Chin Chinese Market.


Capital Nursery spot on Free-port Boulevard. Move over King of Curls RV! North Border Taco has been parking its food truck in the empty lot for a couple months.

Every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Damian Avalos and his mother Maria cook up some tasty Tex-Mex tacos, tortas, burritos, quesadillas and more. Mom does most of the cooking and taught Da-mian everything he knows.

The North Border Taco truck has a large array of Mexican food on the menu. They even offer the South-ern Boy Taco. It’s beef or pork coupled up with bacon then topped with onions, cilantro, guacamole, and corn. Yeehaw! A taco fit for a good old boy.

Damian told me between orders the best seller is the Taco Truck Taco. And it’s only $1.50! Damian quipped “That’s the Stockton price right there.”

North Border Taco is a brick and mortar inside the Sherwood Mall food court in Stockton. They recently launched the food truck busi-ness and are invading Sacra-mento every week.

Out of nowhere a group of hungry people started to gather and order the Tex- Mex creations. Richard An-daya dropped by to check it out. He ordered the Asada burrito and said it was “awe-some”. He added it was “not quite as good as Zocalo’s but much better than Lagaran-cha’s” as he wolfed down an asada burrito.

North Border Taco will be hanging out every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. along Freeport Boulevard. Slow down. Stop by. Check it out.

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New Helvetia 2.0 is com-ing and the food trucks are going. Let’s just call it Phase 2. The brewery on Broadway and 18th will soon be serving up some tasty pub grub to go with the delicious craft beers via a new kitchen. When I dropped by New Helvetia on a Saturday afternoon owner David Gull told me, “We have plans for some burgers, fries, sandwiches and salads. The standard fare you would ex-pect but I think the way the kitchen is being designed,

there will be an opportunity to do much nicer stuff as well. We’ll have a couple items on the menu that will push the limits beyond the pub grub.”

I hope it involves bacon.Gull unraveled the blue-

prints and showed me how it’s all being planned. The kitchen will be located in a small 400-square-foot room behind the courtyard of the brewery. There will be minor changes to the courtyard like a cut-through window and an overhang to keep the bird droppings off the tater tots. Other than that, the brew-ery will still have the same feel. “It keeps us essentially like a brewery tasting room that we are now except we don’t have to worry about a food truck now showing up,” Gull said.

Gull added, “We’re not go-ing to have valet parking; we’re not going to have a host-ess stand or the vibrating red light gizmos.“ The kitchen will operate much in the same way the food trucks operate. It will stay casual.

The small 400-square-foot room will cost as much to improve as the entire brewery when they first launched it more than a year ago. It‘s a major fi-nancial investment. The costs of expanding have skyrocketed. Gull said, “It doesn’t help little guys like us to get our dreams built, but I suppose in the grand scheme of the economy it’s a good thing.”

New Helvetia will also re-main a family operation. Gull has brought in his cous-in Steve McKay and his wife Rita to handle kitchen duties. They’re both Cordon Bleu trained chefs who live in Hol-lywood Park. They know the culinary arts.

The kitchen will also al-low New Helvetia to ex-pand their days and hours. They’ll add Mondays and Tuesdays; they’re currently closed those days, and they’ll also have lunch hours. Gull hopes to get some of the DMV State workers to walk over, grab some lunch, and maybe a pint once the kitch-en is up and running.

And when will the kitch-en be up and running? As fast as New Helvetia and the City Of Sacramento can make it happen. And yes, there will be a phase 3 coming to New Helvetia. Stay tuned.

In other brewery news, New Helvetia Brewing Com-pany is having a Name That Buffalo Head Contest. Own-er David Gull just came up with the spur-of-the-moment idea after a couple craft beers. Some of the best ideas come after a refreshing pint! Gull purchased the large wooden Buffalo head off eBay. Some

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People stand in line, waiting for their tasty lunches.

of the names have come from Facebook and others via hand written name tags in the brewery. Gull said, “Not sure how we’ll give credit to name tag entries since no one wrote their name or contact info.” So far, the name Lou is the frontrunner. Other sug-gested names are Woody, Buffy, and Herman, the orig-

inal brewer at Buffalo Brew-ing Company.

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Land Park just got a lot hipper. Where will you find benefit concerts, music les-sons, record swaps, art exhibits, and mu-sic clinics? Gold Lion Arts on Riverside Boulevard. They also serve up a darn good cheese plate.

Local Sacramento musician Ross Hammond is the owner of Gold Lion which was named after his daughter‘s fa-vorite song by indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Ross decided to open Gold Lion Arts because he “just wanted a central hub for us to work, like an artists’ col-lective space. This is kind of a way for us to work on our individual arts but at the same time we also have the space where we can put on a concert, or clinic, or a re-cital for students.”

Gold Lion had a benefit concert last month with the Harley White Trio. All you had to bring was a coat to lis-ten to the acoustic jazz stylings of Har-ley and his crew. Baby, it’s cold outside

at night in Sacramento and a coat drive is a great way to help folks who need to bundle up. It was easily worth the price of admission.

After the Harley White Trio, came Elec-tropoetic Coffee, which is a unique listen-ing experience. It’s poet Lawrence Dinkins and Hammond improvising on guitar. Thought provoking poetry with pleasant sounds coming from Hammond’s guitar, it had an ethereal edge to it.

“We hope to use the space in a lot of dif-ferent ways,” says Hammond. And he has certainly done that so far.

There’s a record swap every other month at Gold Lion. A lot of the ven-dors and customers already know each other. It’s a great excuse to gather, swap stories and swap records. I was able to snag The Stones’ Sticky Fingers and an old Mister Rogers LP.

One of the record vendors, Dennis Yudt told me, “Ross is good for Sacramento. If

Gold Lion Arts brings creative culture to Land Park

Photo by Greg BrownGold Lion Arts owner Ross Hammond stands outside the brand new art and music haven on Riverside Boulevard.

See Gold Lion Arts, page 9


anything creative is going on, Ross is usually involved.”

Gold Lion Arts will host a lot of music clinics. Jazz guitar play-er Henry Robinette came in one evening and had a little Q & A with some folks. He sat in a small semi-circle and talked about how he sees music and how he com-poses. Ross told me, “it was great. I want to try and do that once a month with a different artist.”

Hammond is also a music in-structor. He offers music lessons for children and adults. He’s al-ready had some students com-ing in for lessons. Ross has been teaching guitar for 18 years. When it comes to instruction Ross told me six or seven is a good age to start learning. Ross says: “If kids want to learn how to read music, that’s the per-fect time because they can pick it up just like that. They’re little sponges at that point.”

Ross offers lessons in guitar, ukulele, bass, and banjo for all

ages. You are never too old to learn to play a musical instrument. Gold Lion Arts also offers lessons in drum, piano and voice.

There’s also plenty of art to look at. Artist Greg LaTraille had an

opening art reception in Decem-ber at Gold Lion. The exhibit showcased a series of oil paintings by LaTraille known as “Equation-art.” According to the event invite “These are paintings that incor-porate actual famous equations, using the shapes of the equation symbols as artistic objects.” The Equationart is currently hanging up at Gold Lion Arts.

It’s a very organic word of mouth kind of place. In January Gold Lion will have a music gear swap where the public can buy, trade, or sell all types of gear from amps, guitars, drums, sound gear and more.

Gold Lion Arts is located at 2733 Riverside Blvd. in Land Park.

For music lessons, contact [email protected]

You can also find Ross Ham-mond on Facebook at: <https://www.facebook .com/#!/ross .hammond.52?fref=ts> Jim Bakker still in shrink wrap.

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early days as a farmer, he operated a freight produce business, in which he delivered fruits and vegetables to min-ers in mining communities northeast of Sacramento.

At the age of 34, Antone married Maria Gloria Silva and together, they eventually had 10 children.

In 1868 and 1869, Maria’s god-father, Manuel Da Rosa, and An-tone purchased about a 44-acre par-cel, which included the site of today’s Lewis Park at 6570 Park Riviera Way in the Pocket area.

Antone passed away on May 2, 1917, and in honoring him, as well as Maria, who died on Jan. 30, 1909, and five deceased infants and children of their family, during the late 1990s, several of his descendents worked on a project to have new markers placed at the Perry plot in the old section of

the cemetery. The markers were in-stalled on Dec. 9, 1999.

Sacramento native Lisa (Vierra) Turrentine, who has her own Portu-guese heritage, is quite familiar with St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

In continuing the former work of her mother, Billie (McKinney) Vi-erra (1923-2006), Turrentine deliv-ers flowers to the gravesites of her de-ceased ancestors at St. Joseph’s, St. Mary’s and East Lawn Memorial Park about nine days per year.

“My grandmother [Uva (White) McKinney] went to pay homage to her ancestors and relatives at East Lawn, because they contributed so much to our family. I know she took flowers there. Following in her footsteps, my mother would take flowers to East Lawn, as well as St. Joseph’s. I started going with my mother to the cemeteries after my father ( John Vierra) passed away in 2002. I go to visit all of the differ-

ent gravesites, because I just don’t think that those people should be forgotten. My daughter (Katie Roberts) occasionally goes to the cemeteries with me and I hope that she will (one day) take the torch and carry on the tradition.”

Turrentine, who graduated from Burbank High School in 1973, said that her cemetery visits even-tually led her to the discovery of her great-grandmother’s gravesite at St. Joseph’s.

“When I was taking flowers to my grandmother’s (Maria Silveira Vier-ra) grave, there was a large tomb-stone next to her (gravesite) that had the name Maria Silveira Fuzi-la on it. I asked my uncle about it and he had never heard the name, Fuzila, before. The more I looked at it, the more curious I became. I always had an interest in my fam- Photo by Lance Armstrong

Lisa (Vierra) Turrentine places flowers at the grave of her great-grandmother, Maria Silveira Fuzila, at St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

St. Joesph’s:Continued from page 5

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ily history. I suspected that it could have been an aunt of my grandmother’s. I knew that her parents had both died when she was very young and she was raised by one of her aunts. So, I final-ly went downtown to the re-corder’s office and requested a death certificate for Maria Silveira Fuzila. They asked me if it was a relative and I told them that I didn’t know and it could possibly be my great-grandmother. The clerk pulled up the death certificate and when she handed it to me and I saw the names on the death cer-tificate, I knew that it was my great-grandmother. And I just literally got chills.”

Turrentine added that the confusion with the name on the tombstone was she knew of her great-grandmother solely as Mary Perry. Maria Silveira Fuzila was the daugh-ter of Jose “Joseph” Pereira Beirao, who immigrated from Sao Jorge in the Azores is-lands to the United States in about 1854 and commonly used the Anglicized surname Perry.

With her initial success in discovering the burial site of her great-grandmother, Tur-rentine continues to expand her genealogical research and has also discovered that her aforementioned great-grandfather is buried in an unmarked grave next to her great-grandmother.

In regard to the latter years leading up to the opening of

St. Mary’s Cemetery, The Sac-ramento Bee reported on Oct. 5, 1917, that during the pre-vious night, the Curtis Oaks Improvement Club had made a decision to request that the city commission close St. Jo-seph’s Cemetery.

The article noted that Al-fred J. Argall, the club’s pres-ident and a resident of 2208 2nd Ave., near the cemetery, would name a committee to appear before the city com-mission to present its opin-ions that the Catholic Ceme-tery Association should find other grounds for burials somewhere out in the coun-try, and that further burials at St. Joseph’s should be dis-continued.

Additionally, the article noted that the poor con-dition of a section of the old Freeport Boulevard, including the cemetery’s frontage area, was “retard-ing the development of the West Curtis Oaks and Cur-tis Oaks communities.”

The article mentioned that that section of the road, which was a main artery into the city, had been declared as one of Sacramento’s worst streets.

About 11 years would pass before a new Catholic ceme-tery site “out in the country” would be acquired and de-veloped. That cemetery – St. Mary’s Cemetery – had its first burial in 1929.

St. Joseph’s Cemetery, which still has occasional burials, presents many op-portunities for people to learn about Sacramento’s past. The cemetery is open daily from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Riding through Sacto on bikes decked out with lights.

On the bike lanes they went, safely all the way. Bells on handlebars rang, making spirits bright.

What fun it was to ride and see some Christmas lights that night.

Oh! Kidical Mass! Kidical Mass! Kidical Mass was a blast! Kids of all ages came out to ride on Dec. 28.

They ate pumpkin bread, peppermint bark and played at Coloma Park. They did all that before riding off

together into the dark.

Up T Street, down T Street, two miles in total,

they saw many lights neighbors put up to make the darkness bright.

Oh! Kidical Mass! Kidical Mass! Kidical Mass is a blast. Kids of all ages come out to ride every fourth Saturday of the month.

Three years or so agothe story you must like

Elle Bustamante,

she really loves to bike. Her sons are growing up

with bikes a part of their lives. Biking from their home to school,they’re learning that bikes rule!

Their mom, hence started a groupand has a following too!

She hopes you join their joyous ridesas most the people do!

Oh! Kidical Mass! Kidical Mass! Kidical Mass is a blast. Kids of all ages come out to ride every fourth Saturday of the month.

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Faces and Places:

Kidical Mass!Photos and words by Monica [email protected]

To much needed seriousness though, it seemed like everyone had a jolly good time at the December Kidical Mass bike ride.

Curtis Park resident Anna de Kok has two kids Matea, age 6, and Vida, 3. Asked what she likes about the bike rides, Matea said, “I like riding on the bike!” Decked out with orange and blue lights, reused from the Halloween Kidical Mass event, which drew about 70 riders with some in costume. Said Anna: I “like being a part of a bike riding culture and showing our children that riding bikes is fun and giving them a love for bike riding.” Her bike related New Years resolution? “I am going to ride to her school (Alice Birney Waldorf Methods K-8 School) every Fri-day. My goal was to do that in September. It’s four miles away.”

Also a Curtis Park resident with two children, Melissa No-ble said her bike-related New Years resolution is to try to bike commute four days a week. What she enjoys about Kidical Mass is being a part of a group with similar interests and she said she enjoys the safety in numbers aspect. “Sometimes it’s scary alone,” she said.

First time Kidical Mass biker Somer Lowery said she was impressed with the turnout. She was excited to see her 6-year-old son enjoy his Christmas present, an Isla bike, which he rode at the event.

Kidical Mass began in April of 2008 in Eugene, Oregon. A play on the term, “Critical Mass”, the founder of Kidical Mass, Shane MacRhodes, wanted to do something different from the typical Critical Mass ride, which has been described as a monthly protest by cyclists reclaiming the streets. Kidical Mass, on the other hand, promotes safety and following the rules of the road and letting motorists know cyclists have just as much rights to be on the road

Bustamante’s hope is that with the Kidical Mass bike rides, the group is able to share with others the joy of using bikes as transportation, entertainment, and exercise. As she writes on her blog, Tiny Helmets Big Bikes: “Most importantly, I just want to show that it is not only possible to choose pedaling over driving, but it’s actually easier than you think.”

Coming up, the group will ride off onto the American River Bike Trail to Iceland from Grant Park (22nd and C streets) on Saturday, Jan. 25. Cost for skating is $7, including skates. Then on Feb. 22, the group is off to the Crocker Art Museum. Times are to be deter-mined. To stay updated, visit www.tinyhelmetsbigbikes.com.

Editor’s note: Valley Community Newspapers will be running their monthly calendar listings in the community calendar.


Faces and Places:

The Garvey Market PlaceBy MONiCA STARk

Editor’s note: To read an interview with the creator of the Garvey Market Place, Cleo Ta-biaZahra Cartel, see the next issue of the Land Park News. This piece features discussions from various vendors at the latest event.

Selling out of art galleries and tak-ing over Land Park sidewalks is the latest flea market trend in Sacramen-

See Garvey Market, page 17


to. Known as The Garvey Market Place, vendors sold high quality vintage cloth-ing and accessories inside of Gold Lion Arts on Sun-day, Jan. 6 while massage therapists gave customers, traders and the vendors there a relaxing massage.

Deemed a clothing swap, Sunday’s marketplace had a few rules, notably being that “nothing may be priced higher than $40 on any swapper’s table.”

The Garvey Market Place has a bit of a gypsy flare to it as it’s always on the move; there is no set location for it. Besides inside Gold Lion Arts on Riverside, the mar-ketplace has been seen on the sidewalk in front of Sol Col-lective on 21st Street in Land Park across the street from St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

One of the vendors on Sunday was Land Park res-ident Del’Esa Lee who of-fered clothing and shoes she’s collected during personal shopping travels. Essentially she dresses models in vintage clothing for photo shoots and then sells the clothes and accessories to the public af-ter they’ve been worn a cou-ple of times.

One of her latest shoots was for a Black fashions hair magazine that worked in collaboration with a local hair stylist. “ I love shopping and if I can shop and make money, then it’s good. “I might shoot once or twice, then get rid of it.

Some of these things are gently used and I just want to find a good homes for them,” Lee said.

A former employee who lived the corporate work lifestyle, Lee said she had enough and hasn’t looked back as she has found fash-ion to be a passion she’s suc-cessful at pursuing.

Lee said one of the most challenging shoots she’s expe-rienced was at the river with three models in evening wear. “To keep the clothes clean, free of dust. But the pictures came out really well – the jux-taposition of nature and glam-or, but it was hot.”

Lee said she had a suc-cessful run with the Gar-vey Market Place on Sun-day. “I did pretty well. (Sold) more than I thought I would.” Asked if she’d participate again, she said: “I will. I feel there’s a lot of opportunity for the move-ment to grow and I’m all about supporting the local businesses.” A Land Park native, Lee said the area needs more things like the Garvey Market Place.

Likened to the set-up of the small vendors in the large shopping malls, the Garvey Market Place is similar except it’s situated within a community-ori-ented venue.

The vendors enjoyed shar-ing the space with others who share the same goal.

Another vendor, Han-nah Be, a stylist and own-er of RETROSPECT Vin-tage Fashion, has had items appear in Italian Vogue. As

Lee said of her stylish friend: “She’s won awards; she’s good. She’s inspired me to do this. She knows I think pretty highly of her.”

With customers from around the world as far away as Australia, RET-ROSPECT has sold to peo-ple in more than 100 coun-tries and can be found on Etsy, eBay, Facebook.

Be said she’s been in-volved with the compa-ny for 4 and a half years. Originally, she was working with Social Security as a li-aison and account manag-er but she lost her job and “someone kind of showed me about the vintage col-lecting and stuff like that. And then it just started and people said: ‘ I like your concepts, your outfits.”

Pricing is set so “every-body can wear (the VIN-TAGE) line of clothing. We’ll start very, very low, like $9.99 to $150. And we rarely go over that thresh-old of $150. That has to be very, old, very unique. Most of the items sell between $9.99 to $35.”

Be said she “tripped and fell into” the vintage fash-ion scene over time with a friend who was showing her the trade. Her friend would say: ”‘Let’s go look at some lovely jackets for $5’”, to which Be said, “‘OK.’ And then I really started to see the clothing that you could purchase for myself. My best find was around this time. I had met peo-ple from Europe. They had boxes and boxes of designer

glasses (such as Oscar De la Renta, Ray Ban). It was like every brand you could think of. They were selling for $4. I put two and two togeth-er and figured I could make money like that. That’s where it all started and it picks up every year.”

Be said among the most interesting pieces she’s col-lected include a 1950s jack-et made of fox fur and baby calf hair she picked up at 50 percent off purple tag sale Thrift Town on Stock-ton Boulevard for $15. Be-cause the jacket is damaged on the arm, Be said she’s go-ing to cut it up and make it into a vest. “Because the big vests are in.”

Among the awards or ac-colades, Retrospect Vintage has received, include: 2013 Editorial SEVEN TRIBES MAGAZINE, 2013 Retro-spect Vintage Featured Bou-tique for Hair & Fashion Battle 1st annual Mixer, 2012 Sacramento RAWawards Fashion Designer of the Year, 2012 TUBE MAGAZINE Interview

At the Marketplace, event goers were treated to the home cooking by the mar-

ketplace’s founder and orga-nizer Cleo TabiaZahra Car-tel, which included: Salad with homemade salad dress-ing, corn bread, black eyed peas. There was also dirty rice, a traditional Cajun dish made from white rice which gets a “dirty” color from be-ing cooked with small piec-es of chicken.

“It was delicious. I ate ev-ery bit of it,” said Paula Os-born, a massage therapist who offered services at the marketplace. “(Cartel) did that, too, on top of every-thing else,” she said.

Coming from a varied background as a personal chef and professional jazz and funk musician, Osborn said while it wasn’t terri-bly busy at the marketplace, she made lasting connec-tions which would benefit her new endeavor: massage therapy. She practices out of the collectively run busi-ness, The Body Café, locat-ed at 2414 21st St. “It was nice to give massage to the vendors. It takes a while to know the community.”

To follow on Facebook, search for The Garvey Market Place.

Garvey Market:Continued from page 16


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Editor’s Note: This is part one in a series about the late Riverside-Pocket area na-tive Marvin Silva.

Marvin Silva, who passed away last October, less than two weeks shy of his 90th birthday, lived a very eventful life.

His connection to the Riverside-Pocket area is undoubtedly rich, as he was literally born in the area.

On Oct. 28, 1923, a doctor arrived by horse and buggy to assist in his birth at the Silva house on the ranch of Marvin’s grandparents, John and Clara Machado.

The Silva family home was located at the postal delivery address of Route 8, Box 752, directly across the street from Manuel “Pachtude” and Carrie Mauri-cio’s home at Route 8, Box 737.

Although the old Mauricio home still stands on the river levee at the present day address of 5890 Riverside Blvd., the Silva home was demolished in prepara-tion for the construction of Interstate 5 in that area.

Marvin’s parents, Victor D. and Ma-mie (Machado) Silva, had moved into their home off the old Riverside Road following their January 1923 mar-

riage at St. Elizabeth Portuguese Na-tional Church at the northeast corner of 12th and S streets.

Because Marvin had a greater weight and length than an average baby, the men of his family proudly spoke about how they believed he would grow to be a “big man.”

Additionally, Marvin’s family took an even deeper pride in his birth, as he repre-sented the fourth generation of his family to reside in the Riverside-Pocket area.

Marvin’s great-grandfather, Antone Rodrigues Perry, who was born as An-tone Rodrigues Pereira in the island of Faial in the Azores islands on March 26, 1831, was one of the earliest, if not the earliest of the Portuguese to settle in today’s Pocket area. He became a res-ident of the area in the early 1850s.

The Riverside-Pocket area was very rural during Marvin’s youth.

For instance, his grandparents’ ranch had cows for milk and cheese and rab-bits for food.

The Machado ranch also included al-falfa, row crops, fruit trees, two large barns and a tool shed.

Fortunately for Marvin, the Mauri-cio family included Edward and Her-

Riverside-Pocket area native Marvin Silva remembered

See Silva, page 21

Photo courtesy of Silva familyMarvin Silva is shown with his parents, Victor D. and Mamie (Machado) Silva, in this early 1924 photograph.

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man Mauricio, who were both around his age and were thus suitable to become his child-hood playmates.

Marvin’s sister, Dolores, who was a year younger than him, became a tomboy, as she tagged along with these three boys.

These children and other children in the area attended the old Sutter School, which is the present site of Cabrillo Civic Club #5 at 4605 Karbet Way. The boundaries of the school, which educated first through eighth grade students, were from Pimentel’s Ingle-side Café – presently The Trap bar – north to Sutterville Road.

A short distance north of the Silva home was the home and grocery store of Manu-el Da Rosa.

After graduating from Sutter School, Man-uel’s oldest son, Elmer, learned to fly a plane and become a crop duster.

In being fascinated by aviation, Marvin idol-ized Elmer, and Elmer became his hero.

Furthermore, the Municipal Airport – now known as the Executive Airport – was locat-ed on Freeport Boulevard, about a mile away from Marvin’s home.

Planes from that airport would frequent-ly fly near the ranch and Marvin would pes-ter his father to take him to the airport to watch planes take off and land and to possi-bly see Elmer.

When Marvin was in the fifth grade, he moved with his family to a different home at 2932 Freeport Blvd., near the then-future site of C.K. McClatchy High School, which would receive the address of 3066 Freeport Blvd.

At that time, Sacramento was home to only one high school, Sacramento High School, which was established in 1856.

Following his family’s relocation to Free-port Boulevard, Marvin began attending the old Crocker School at 1740 Vallejo Way. The school eventually combined with the later es-tablished Riverside School at 2970 Riverside Blvd. to create today’s Crocker/Riverside Ele-mentary School at the latter named address.

After completing his education at Crock-er School, Marvin attended the old California Junior High School at Land Park Drive and Vallejo Way for grades seven, eight and nine, and McClatchy High for grades 10, 11 and 12.

Marvin, who began to be recognized as “Marv” at McClatchy High, developed leader-ship skills at that school.

He became involved in many high school ac-tivities and he served as his class’s president during his sophomore and junior years and McClatchy’s student body president for his se-nior year of 1940-41.

Additionally, Marvin edited the sports page for McClatchy High’s weekly news-paper, The Prospector, and was the busi-ness manager of the staff for the school’s yearbook, The Nugget.

Each year, he sold the most yearbooks, in-cluding 112 in 1941. His sister was the run-ner-up yearbook salesperson to Marvin, and she would eventually surpass her brother’s re-cord sales figures following his graduation.

Marvin also had an interest in sports, be-yond his school newspaper work, and his fa-vorite sport was football.

During his junior and senior years, Mar-vin was a member of McClatchy’s varsity foot-ball teams, which included standouts Freddie Wristen, Ernie Busch, Gene Geremia, Ted La Tona and George Stathos.

Marvin, who was the team’s right halfback, contributed to one of the most notable games in McClatchy sports history – a gridiron con-test against the Lions’ archrival, the Sacramen-to High School Dragons football team, on Nov. 17, 1939.

Following McClatchy’s 13-6 victory against Sacramento High – a game that marked the team’s first victory in their annual rivalry game against the Dragons – many McClatchy stu-dents walked or drove cars between Sacra-mento Stadium (today’s Hughes Stadium) and McClatchy High.

The students yelled and honked their horns for nearly an hour and would have likely con-tinued their celebration had they not been ushered from the area and told to return to their homes.

Silva:Continued from page 20

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and middle income taxpayers, with special atten-tion to those age 60 and older. Volunteers are es-pecially needed to assist with electronic filing of tax returns. You do not need to be an AARP member or retiree to volunteer. For more infor-mation on how you can join the AARP Tax-Aide team in Northern California, contact Ron Byrd at [email protected] or visit website at; www.aarp.org/taxaide––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Attn. students: Submit now for water efficiency video contest High school students can win cash priz-es and the chance to view their video on the Raley Field Jumbotron by entering the 2014 Water Spots Video Contest. The contest, sponsored by the Regional Water Authori-ty (RWA) and the Sacramento Bee Media in Education (MIE) program, challenges teens to create compelling and original 25-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) videos on a select water efficiency topic. The 2014 water efficiency theme is: Don’t be a gutter flooder: Prevent overspray and runoff. Judg-ing will be based on creativity, entertainment value, accuracy, originality and incorpora-tion of the water efficiency topic. Finalist vid-eos will be displayed on the Raley Field Jum-botron screen and winners announced at a Sacramento River Cats game in April 2014. Winning students and their teachers will

also get cash prizes. The grand prize winner’s spot may become part of RWA’s 2014 televi-sion ad campaign. Submissions due Feb. 28. Visit www.BeWaterSmart.info for more in-formation and tips on using water more effi-ciently and to submit entries or get more in-formation about contest rules, judging and prizes, visit www.sacbee.com/water-spots ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

California Youth Basketball League taking applicationsCYBL is a non-profit year round league for ages 4 through 18 that prides itself on be-ing well organized that aims to develop bas-ketball skills, sportsmanship and self-esteem through coaches, gym official and organizers. Visit www.cybhoops.com or call 391-3900. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Artisan holds Food DriveArtisan Salon is participating in the Spir-it of Giving Food Drive. Over the last 17 years, the Spirit of Giving (SOG) drive has helped Sacramento Food Bank collect and distribute over 4.6 million pounds of canned and non-perishable food items for local families in need. Help support fam-ilies in need by participating in this year’s drive! Artisan Salon is located at 3198 Riv-erside Blvd.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Soroptimist International of Sacramento South meetingsA 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.

January

ACC presents: “A Veteran’s Journey”Jan 9: From 6 to 7 p.m., at ACC Senior Ser-vices Center, 7375 Park City Dr., follow the steps of a daughter as she guides her Veteran father through the deep and complex land-scape of end of life. Learn the issues that are unique to Veterans and their families at end of life. Discover the support that is available for Veterans. Free. Pre-registration requested. Info: (916) 393-9026 x330/www.accsv––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

ACC offers free health evaluationsJan 10: From 10 to 11 a.m., at ACC Se-nior Services Center, 7375 Park City Dr., discover your 9 body composition numbers (weight, body fat percent, body water per-cent, bone mass, muscle mass, visceral fat level, metabolic age, BMR, physique rating). Free. Pre-registration requested. Info: (916) 393-9026 x330, www.accsv.org/cl/.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

ACC offers a cooking demonstrationJan 10: From noon to 1:30 p.m., ACC Green-haven Terrace, 1180 Corporate Way, learn to prepare delicious marinated Korean Flank Steak and make savory Japanese Egg Rolls, a rolled omelet that can be served for breakfast, as a bento item, or used for sushi. $11. Pre-registration and pre-payment requested. Call: (916) 393-9026 x330, www.accsv.org/cl/.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Polar plunge at Greenhaven Ca-bana: Calling All Polar Bears!Jan. 11: It’s time for the annual Polar Bear Swim at the Greenhaven Cabana Club North! Everyone is invited to take the plunge into the cool waters from 11 at 1 p.m. The Green-haven Cabana Club North is located at 6207 Riverside Boulevard, Sacramento, 95831. The entry fee of $10 (for members and nonmem-bers) will earn the polar bear a t-shirt, certifi-cate of Polar Bear Membership, hot chocolate and s’more’s in addition to the opportunity to take the plunge into polar bear stardom! For more information contact the club at [email protected].

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