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Hollywood Park Elementary gets red carpet treatment for first day of school

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Curtis Fest drew large crowds

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StoryCorpsNow at Belle Cooledge Library See page 8

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Sir Howard Cunningham Morr, an AKA Registered Scottish Terrier, born in Lake Leelanali, Michigan moved to 7th Avenue in Land Park at 10 weeks old where he guarded against cats and squirrels in his yard. A gradu-ate of the Sac City Dog Training program, he remained fi ercely independent all his life, en-joyed walking the neighborhood, checking the duck population in the park and enjoyed trav-eling in the car and shopping with his mis-tress in San Francisco where he received many treats from the sales staff . His cremains will be placed with his mistress in Odd Fellows Lawn, Sacramento.

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The Sacramento Artist Council, Inc. in partnership with The Grid Agency, is host-ing the 2nd annual Smoke on the River at William Land Park on Saturday, Sept. 19.

Smoke on the River is a fundraiser for The Sacramento Artists Council and will raise money for art programs that assist at-risk children and children of homeless families. Proceeds will also be used for adopt a school art programs for Sacramento Regional Schools. Smoke on the River is a state championship and Kansas City Barbecue Society sanc-tioned event.

The event will feature a People’s Choice BBQ award and tastings, People’s Choice award for Best Beer and Best Cider, live entertainment from Danny Morris & the California Stars and The Twilight Drift-ers. Beer tastings will be provided by over 20 confirmed breweries including Neg-ra Modelo, Drake’s Brewing Company, 2 Towns Cider House, Knee Deep Brew-ing Co., Track 7 Brewing Co., No Name Hard Cider, Gordon Biersch, Lagunitas, and 21st Amendment Brewery. The fes-tival will feature bike valet and is dog-friendly. There will also be over 50 Pit-masters competing.

Founder and Executive Director of the Sacramento Artists Council Susan Rabi-novitz said, “We are really thrilled to have over 50 pitmasters coming in from various areas of the west coast, over 20 breweries and everybody coming togeth-er to help make this fundraiser spectacu-lar, raising money for art and music and keeping it in public schools. It is nice to have so many people from around the country coming together for the love of art and music for kids.”

Sponsors of this event include Sactown Magazine, Welk Resorts, Negra Modelo and Sysco. Meat for the People’s Choice category is generously being donated by Sysco.

Event tickets vary in cost. Designated Drivers presale tickets are $20 plus a 2.75 percent convenience fee and include BBQ tastings, beer only ticket pre sale tickets are $20 plus a 2.75 percent convenience fee and BBQ and beer tasting tickets are $35 plus a 2.75 percent convenience fee. Tick-ets increase by $5 at the door. Children un-der 5 are free, and children over 5 are $20 plus a 2.75 percent convenience fee.

Tickets for Smoke on the River are avail-able for purchase online here and in-per-son at Little Relics located at 908 21st St.

For more information regarding Smoke On The River, please contact Emily Griggs at [email protected] or visit the official Facebook page.

Smoke on the River: A beer and BBQ festival comes to William Land Park to raise money for art and music programs

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Curtis Fest Artisan Fair Photos by Monica [email protected]

This year’s ninth Annual Curtis Fest was another exciting event where local artists exhibited and sold their work at Cur-tis Park. There was local music and a petting zoo as well as food trucks and face painting and bubble time with a local fairy, Ashley Blossom.

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Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a series about the his-tory of the William Land Golf Course.

William Land Golf Course at 1701 Sutterville Road in William Land Park has been the site of many enjoyable times for golf enthusiasts.

Its existence as a nine-hole course dates back to its open-ing in May 1924.

However, there was a time very early in its history when an effort was made to have the course substantially in-creased in size.

During a Sacramento Golf Club banquet at Hotel Sacra-mento at 10th and K streets on Sept. 30, 1925, W.G. Mc-Millan, the club’s president, stated that Land Park golf-ers were determined to have the course expanded to an 18-hole course.

McMillan explained that the concentration of golf-ers on the course at that time was so great on Sundays that it required about six or seven hours to complete an 18-hole, regulation game.

In addition to McMillan’s speech, the banquet also in-cluded a speech by L. Stuart Upson, who was referred to at the gathering as the commu-nity’s “granddad of golf.”

The theme of that speech was the history of golf in Sac-ramento.

Upson told the banquet’s attendees that the area’s first golf course had been laid out in Oak Park about a quarter century earlier.

The next local golf course, which Upson mentioned, was a course that had been con-structed in East Sacramento.

Additionally, Upson re-called the development of Del Paso Country Club, as well as the construction of the area’s first municipal course – the Arcade course in Del Paso Park.

As for the purpose of the banquet, it had been orga-

nized by the Sacramento Golf Club in celebration of the suc-cessful team match that was held at the Land Park course on Sept. 27, 1925.

In that match, the “Tough Roughers” defeated the “Sand Trappers.” And in being that the “Sand Trappers” lost the match, they were the guests of the victorious team at the gathering.

Certainly, there are many stories to tell regarding the various competitions and golfers that have been a part of the William Land Golf Course’s history.

Many notable golfers, in-cluding Al “Mr. 59” Geiberger, Bob Lunn, Dick Lotz, Barba-ra Romack and Kevin Suther-land, have played on this lo-cal course.

And of those players, Al achieved the greatest success as a golfer.

On Sept. 6, 1999, in cele-bration of the 75th anniversa-ry of the William Land Golf Course, Al participated in a four-person scramble at the Land Park course.

The event, which raised funds for the Sacramen-to Area Youth Golf Asso-ciation (presently The First Tee of Greater Sacramento), brought back many memories for Al, who had played on the course from 1943 to 1953.

Al, who was born in Red Bluff in 1937 and grew up at 1118 Cavanaugh Way in the Land Park area, would ride his bicycle while carrying his clubs to play golf at this course during his youth.

In 1952, as a Land Park junior club member, Al won the boys’ junior golf championship.

Al’s mother, Mabel, was also a successful golfer, as she was a multiple winner of the Land Park Women’s Golf Club medal play tournament.

Mabel was also a charter member and past president of that club, which was later known as the Bing Maloney Women’s Golf Club.

The Geibergers moved to Santa Barbara during the spring of 1953.

After turning profession-al in 1959, Al won 11 tour-naments, including the 1966 PGA Championship.

During the second round of the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic (now FedEx St. Jude Classic) in 1977, Al earned his nickname, as he became the first player to post a score below 60 in an official PGA tour event. And in obtaining his record, he shot a 59, with 11 birdies and one eagle.

Al, who also finished sec-ond in the U.S. Open on two occasions, later won 10 Se-nior PGA Tour (now Cham-pions Tour) titles.

In a recent article in The Sacramento Bee, Al, whose son, Brent, also became a pro-fessional golfer, was recog-nized as “clearly the best golf-er in Sacramento history.”

During a recent visit to the Land Park course by this pa-per, several golfers spoke about the course and what it means to them.

Bob Suber, Jr., a third gen-eration Sacramentan, said that he is no newcomer to the William Land Golf Course.

“I’ve been coming out here since the late 1950s, Bob Su-ber, Jr. said. “Everybody in Sacramento came out here. This was the old nine-hole course before the big coun-try clubs came around like El Macero and Valley Hi.

“I grew up across the street, basically, in high school and my dad and I used to come over here early in the morning. We would go up across Sutter-ville (Road to the) course.

“It’s (a) fun (course). About the ninth hole, you figure, ‘Let’s do one more nine.’ But it’s just enough. But for a pub-lic course, in all seriousness, they do a good job. And since (the aforementioned golf-based youth development or-ganization, The) First Tee, started here, they double cut the fairways. We used to call it the goat ranch. It was kind of rough.”

In further commenting about The First Tee, Bob Su-ber, Jr. said, “One of the old-

William Land Golf Course has brought enjoyment to locals, others for decades

Photo courtesy of William Land Golf CourseFormer professional golfer Al Geiberger, who regularly golfed at William Land Golf Course during his youth, eventually became known by the nickname of “Mr. 59.”

er guys who started First Tee here, George Tinseth, he’s got George Tinseth Plaza here. He’s been putting here for years. He’s an old neighbor in the area. The driving range is (primarily) for the kids. It’s not (always available) for the grown ups. That’s all for teach-ing the First Tee (kids), and I think they need all the (in-struction). That’s the future. (First Tee is) teaching them

the discipline and everything that goes with the game. And obviously, it works. You see them coming out here with their teachers and everything. We just kind of say, ‘Well, I guess we’re not putting today.’ But that’s ok. It’s for the kids, and I think it’s wonderful.”

Bob Suber, Jr. also re-called another change to the

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Mahoroba featured on public television

Locals know all about Ma-horoba Bakery in Land Park. But now, the secret is out.

Maharoba Japanese Bakery was recently featured on Pub-lic Television’s A Few Great Bakeries. I caught it the oth-er night on KVIE. Yes, I’m a supporter of public television and local businesses.

Maharoba in Sacramento was prominently featured along with some of the fin-est bakeries in the United States, from the Columbus Baking Company in Syra-cuse, New York to the Mi-nerva Bakery in Mckees-port, Pennsylvania.

We now have a bona fide star along Freeport Boulevard!

I paid a visit to Mahoroba Bakery on a Thursday morn-ing and they had a steady stream of customers in the cool octagon shaped building.

In fact, the bakery has been busy non-stop since the TV show aired on Public Televi-sion. They have been flooded with customers.

When I dropped by, the owner/baker Naruske Mon-guchi was furiously rolling dough to bake the famous kobe creams. He does it all with a smile.

Lauren Okamoto, who has worked at Mahoroba for six years, said, “He’s a one man army. It’s hard for him to stop moving.”

The bakery has been get-ting a lot of first timers ever since “A Few Great Bakeries” aired. Tim Burns was driv-ing through town from Lake Tahoe on his way to Wal-nut Creek when he decid-ed to stop by. He saw A Few Great Bakeries on KQED in the Bay Area and decid-ed to try almost everything in the bakery. He had two big pink boxes of Japanese baked goodies to take home. He said, “If I don’t try it all, my wife and kids will say, ‘You didn’t get the Choco-late Hat?’”

His wife will be thrilled!Last Saturday at 6 a.m.

there were actually quite a few people waiting in the parking

lot for the bakery to open. It opens at 7 a.m.

Lauren Okamoto told me the bakery has been getting calls from all over the country, including from people want-ing the baked goods shipped cross country overnight ex-press. Lauren said, “The qual-ity control would be hard.”

People gotta have the kobe creams!

A lot of people must have seen the program, because the weekend after the show aired, there were lines out the door and a long wait for kobe creams and chocolate hats, which are among two of their specialties.

What food tourists don’t know is Mahoroba has an outdoor patio with a great view of Freeport Boulevard — a great place to watch the weird that occurs along Freeport.

new dining at old crepe Escape location

Last October I wrote about the new restaurant that will be taking over the Crepe Es-

cape building that shut down after a devastating fire.

Rafi Rozbahani, the own-er of Café Dantorels in Cur-tis Park, is busy completing construction on the new spot on Freeport Boulevard in Land Park.

I ran into Rafi a couple weeks ago at Dantorels and he told me the name of the new res-taurant will be “Meet & Eat.” His wife even showed me the new logo on her smartphone.

And no, it’s not Meat and Eat. It’s Meet and Eat. Like friends meeting up to eat.

When I spoke with Rafi last October he told me the new restaurant will offer ca-sual, healthy food like salads and sandwiches. They’ll have burgers, too. A variety of dif-ferent foods will lean more to-

wards a healthy direction like a signature salmon burger. They will also offer a variety of local craft beer.

They also spent some mon-ey on the building to make it look nicer. It’s basically a whole new building. The pa-tio will be used year round for outdoor dining and…meet-ing and eating.

Look for the new casual din-ing spot to open in October.

Land Park porch swing locked up

There’s nothing like a good porch sittin’, right? In William Land Park they have a met-al porch bench swing that is near the WPA rock garden. It has a great view of the park.

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It’s also a good place to sit back, relax, and swing.

I went to sit and swing and…what? I didn’t notice until I started to swing that the bench swing had been chained up and locked.

According to the Land Park Volunteer Corp’s Forrest Neff, “Some city employee ground off the safety stop which made it very unsafe. I am in the pro-cess of getting it fixed.”

Let’s hope the cool bench swing near the WPA rock gar-den is back in business, soon.

Land Park trees on the chopping block

Another thing I noticed while enjoying William Land Park is all the trees that were marked for death with a big orange flat line across the trunk. I thought an orange frowny face would be more appropriate.

There were quite a few marked for death. Seemed to be an as-tounding number of them.

City spokesperson Marycon C. Razo sent a press release stating 66 trees were sched-uled for the Department of Urban Forestry wood chipper.

She added, “The trees slat-ed to be removed are in poor health and structural condi-tions. Due to the drought, trees are more predisposed to dis-ease, and are more suscepti-ble to problems. Trees that are dead or dying, in poor structur-al condition, poorly placed, or are otherwise unsustainable are being removed. Of course, pub-lic safety is a primary concern.”

Last week there was a big tree NOT scheduled for re-moval that had a giant limb smash the roof of a car. An enormous eucalyptus tree near Funderland also lost a big limb that crushed the roof of a car. Nobody was injured. That tree was actually removed.

It is unfortunate to see trees marked for removal and ul-timately taken down, but it’s something that needs to be done for the health and safety of the remaining trees in Land Park and the people who enjoy it.

Land Park raley’s officially announces move to capital nursery site

The Land Park Raley’s has finally, officially, declared they are moving over to the Old Capital Nursery loca-tion on Freeport Boulevard.

It’s the worst kept secret in the neighborhood! I kid Ral-ey’s, but it’s true.

They filed paperwork with the city to start the process of building a new store. No word on how long that will take, but the neighborhood should be excited about a new modern-day Raley’s Supermarket.

I first found out about it through the Raley’s Land Park Facebook page. They posted a message along with a new store design using the hashtag #LandParkRising

According to Raley’s Chel-sea Minor, the new Raley’s will be expected to have “abundant outdoor seating areas, pedestri-an and bicycle friendly access, and a mix of retailers catered to serve the neighborhood.”

Oh yeah. And no gas sta-tion. Which means no con-troversy.

Some people have asked, why build a new Raley’s a few blocks away? Chelsea told me “That location has its limita-tions and we’ve made some improvements to the store, but we’ve kinda hit our peak there and are looking forward to bringing a whole new fresh feel to the neighborhood.”

When I spoke to Chelsea over the phone I told her Raley’s is my family’s neighborhood gro-cery store and we’ve “spent quite a bundle over there.” She was a good sport and said, “Well we appreciate the support! That store has been an integral part of the community.”

And she was right. The Land Park Raley’s has been serving customers for 57 years. Raley’s is an old-school Sacramento institution.

The press release stated, “Raley’s is collaborating with MO Capital to develop a fa-cility with design elements and landscape plans that tie the project to the unique feel of the Land Park residential community.”

Sounds like Raley’s is open to feedback from the neigh-borhood about the feel and design of the project. Lis-

tening to neighbors/cus-tomers who have support-ed the Land Park Raley’s all these years is probably a good thing.

The neighborhood was greatly affected by the closure of Capital Nursery. It was a local gem. It left a gaping hole in the community.

A new Raley’s will fill the empty gap and make that

spot bustle again along Free-port Boulevard.

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Like so many Californians of Japanese descent, Carl Wata-nabe’s family was sent to an in-ternment camp during World War II in the interest of na-tional security.

For Watanabe, who was just 3, those years meant more than a loss of freedom, it was a devastating, life-altering ex-perience as both his mother and sister died before being re-leased at the close of the war.

The impact of that expe-rience is just one of the many possible topics the 74-year-old Watanabe is considering to touch upon during the Capital Public Radio-sponsored Story-Corps event which runs Sept. 10 through Oct. 9 in the park-ing lot of Sacramento Public Li-brary’s Belle Cooledge branch (5600 South Land Park Dr.).

“We went in as a family of four,” said Watanabe, who serves as CPR’s station manager and in-house ombudsman. “It had a profound effect, certainly on my father, as well as myself. My life would have been a lot different.

It’s not necessarily my pur-pose to say something for the benefit of the world, but to share my story with those im-portant to me.”

Archiving an oral history of “everyday Americans” has been the mission of Dave Isay since he founded the nonprofit in 2003. Now, with more than 65,000 interviews culled from residents of all 50 states – large-ly through the efforts of a three-person “MobileBooth” team – StoryCorps has gathered one of the largest single collections of human voices ever recorded.

Community outreach is es-sential in getting the word out in each of the 10 cities the tour visits annually, said Emily Janssen, who, as site manager of the mobile tour, works ex-tensively with National Pub-lic Radio partners throughout the United States in securing hosts for the tour’s Airstream trailer. The trailer serves as both office space and sound-recording studio that emulates the comfortable atmosphere of a local diner, rather than a ster-ile, high-tech control room.

Typically, 145 stories are col-lected during each stop’s five-week stay, said Janssen.

Currently celebrating its 10th anniversary of year-’round op-eration, the mobile tour process is quick and easy. As the Story-Corps model is geared toward conversation, pairs of interested volunteer storytellers are invit-ed to make their reservations via phone (800-850-4406) or web (storycorps.org). While the first round of Sacramento appoint-ments filled early, a second spate of reservations will be made available at 10 a.m. Sept.11.

The tour team consists of two facilitators. One acts as a greeter and briefs the participants on the process, as well as on the multi-tude of directions their conver-sation may undertake – from a traditional interviewer-inter-viewee format concerning per-sonal history, to a mutual remi-niscence of a shared event or era, to a memoir of a loved one.

“It can take the form of what-ever works best for that pair,” said Janssen. “What’s most important, is that if they’re not having an ac-tual conversation, that the person talking has someone who’s listen-

ing to what they’re saying, and who’s asking questions.”

The entire process takes an hour, said Janssen, which in-cludes some paperwork, an overview of the process and 40 minutes of recording.

While well-known local and national personalities have par-ticipated in the StoryCorps pro-cess (President Barack Obama recently sat down with a White House intern for a casual con-versation that will join other such recordings in the Library of Congress), Janssen said the mission is definitely not intend-ed only for high-profile people.

“People will often say, ‘I don’t have a story to tell,’” she said. “A lot of us don’t think of our-selves as natural storytellers, talk about whatever is impor-tant to you, it might be you want to remember someone who you loved and passed away, or bringing someone you’re in-terested in and want to know more about. For instance, you may not know much about a grandmother when she was in her 20s, and you want to know more about that time in her life

– a story someone in your fam-ily can listen to years down the line, or family members you’d like to share it with now.”

What makes a story interest-ing doesn’t have to be of global interest, she reiterated. But many are initially hesitant to participate because they haven’t cured a dis-ease, haven’t climbed Mt. Everest, haven’t walked on the moon.

“They see those things in other people, but not them-selves,” Janssen said. “But we’re all living history right now. Even if we’re not curing can-cer. All those mundane things that make up the bulk of our lives matter to people we know – things they’ll cherish. They’ll hear your voice, your person-ality, as you share stories of re-membering how you fell in love, or when you lost a job. These stories are being stitched to-gether and are going to be ar-chived in the Library of Con-gress, and will make a history of who we are as a community.”

A select number of these 40-minute sessions will be ed-ited for broadcast on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” which

CPR airs Fridays at 3:25 a.m., 5:25 a.m. and 7:25 a.m.

Janssen said participants have the option of remaining anon-ymous, and that StoryCorps does not require a release for public archiving or broadcast – that decision is left to those in-terested in having their story re-corded. People can simply tell their story and leave with it on a CD with no public archiving, she said.

Of course, StoryCorps staff would like all who participate share their stories for the na-tional archives.

“There’s something about a voice that’s not carnival barking,” said Watanabe, who is bringing along his daughter Hiroko, 25, as his conversation partner, “but is simply telling you a story. And you can get a sense of a person you don’t get from the printed word ei-ther. With the sound of the voice, there’s genuine contact, there’s a genuine person behind a voice.

“Words can mean any-thing on paper, but add in-flections and nuance, there’s a sense of presence that comes with a voice.”

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grounds: the late 1950s elim-ination of the old clubhouse in the area of today’s Fai-rytale Town.

The present clubhouse is located just north of Sutter-ville Road.

Ninety-seven-year-old Sac-ramento resident Jim Hayes, who has been playing golf since about 1941, also spoke favorably about the Land Park course.

“I came up from L.A. in 1959, and I (started golf-ing) here (in Land Park) in 1962,” said Hayes, a former golf partner of Bob Suber, Sr. (1925-1999) and a pres-ent golf partner of Bob Suber, Jr. “The (course) is about the same, really. Well, it’s in bet-ter shape now. (The course is) easy to get to and they take care of it very good. Anyway, the only thing bad about it is I can’t hit the ball.”

But that was not always the case, as Hayes added, “I hit a hole-in-one on the seventh hole at par-3 (at the Land Park course). That was in about 1982.”

Another local resident who has fond memories of the course is Pocket area res-ident Eric Pohl, whose wife Linda Pohl is a longtime Valley Community News-paper employee.

In 1973, Eric won his sec-ond consecutive William Land Park Men’s Golf Club title.

Following that victory, Eric, who was best known for his tee to green game, was presented that year’s trophy by Ed Sabonge, who was then serving as the club’s president.

In regard to the Land Park course, Rocklin res-ident Betty Wicksted, who enjoys golfing at the course with her husband, Tom, said, “ It’s beautiful out here and the people are so nice out here. (They are) like family.”

Also commenting about the course was East Sacramento resident George Wagner.

“The course is very for-giving,” Wagner said. “It plays slow, because you get a lot of young people and older people. You have to come out here with the at-titude that it’s not going to be a fast round of golf. But it’s going to be leisurely and you’re not going to lose that many balls out here. We like to play nine holes, because it (takes) two (to) two and a half hours.”

The William Land Golf Course is presently celebrat-ing its 90th anniversary.

For additional information about this course, call 916-277-1207 or visit the website, www.williamlandgc.com.

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By Monica [email protected]

A beautiful, fun and flat bicycle ride will be making its way through the Sacramento Del-ta Wine Region on Saturday, Oct. 10. From a family-friendly ride to a serious 100-mile-long adventure, the Sacramento Century promises to be a ride for all levels of biking skills.

The event is two-fold. Not only is it a bike ride, riders and non-riders alike are welcome to come celebrate and have fun at Oktober-fest, which will be held where the ride starts and ends – Capitol Mall.

For the riders out there, there are four choic-es – the full century, a 65-miler, a 40-miler or a 20-miler. Non-riders can attend Oktoberfest for just $10. At that event, there will be music by Mumbo Gumbo, City of Trees Brass Band, The Mock Ups and Playback. Additionally, there will be great food, local beer, wine and fun for the entire family with kids activities like bounce houses.

Together, proceeds from the Sacramen-to Century and Oktoberfest benefit two local nonprofits – Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento and Team RWB (red, white and blue), whose stated mission is “to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and so-cial activity.”

Both nonprofits pull at the heart strings of members of the Rotary Club of Sacramen-to. Speaking about RWB, “They are people so close to my heart,” said Frank Cook, president of Cook Realty and Rotary member.

This is the second year the Rotary has put on the event and organizers hope it will continue to grow into a big community event. They hope to raise more than double the amount of mon-ey from last year – with the goal of $150,000 split in half between both nonprofits. Last year, Habitat for Humanity was the only beneficia-ry, but had enough money for the construction of one home for a needy local family, which will be the goal again this year. As of last Friday,

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Cook said 800 bike ride tick-ets have been sold and the Ro-tary is hoping for another 400 by the day of the event.

The full century, or 100-mile ride starts between 7 and 7:30 a.m.; the metric century, or the 65-mile ride, starts between 7:30 and 8 a.m.; the half cen-tury, or the 40-mile ride, be-tween 8 and 8:30 a.m. and the fun ride, the 20-mile ride, between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. According to the event web-site, sacramentocentury.com, all four rides start and finish in front of 500 Capitol Mall with the following description: “With the sun rising over the State Capitol, all rides cross the Sacramento River on the Tower Bridge and head south towards Isleton. The Full Cen-tury rides as far as Isleton, while progressively shorter loops create the Metric Centu-ry, ½ Century and Easy Fun Ride. The Full Century In-cludes 6 Delta Islands and a Ferry Crossing. This is a fun and flat ride to end your ride season! The Full Century ride is less than a 1,000-foot eleva-tion change, mostly going up and down island levees.”

With about 200 volunteers from the Rotary Club of Sac-ramento and volunteers from the Sacramento Area Bicy-cle Advocates, known collo-quially as SABA, the event is reaching its goal of becoming more of a community event than in the past.

Read the next issue of this publication to hear more about the community effort in putting on this grand event.

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People enjoyed Oktoberfest in Capitol Mall last year.

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SCUSD celebrated start of school with Hollywood-style ‘premiere’

Lights! Cameras! Backpacks! Sacramento City Unified School District threw an early morning red carpet bash – complete with life-size award statuettes, paparazzi and autograph hounds – to celebrate the first day of school on Thursday, Sept. 3.

The event at Hollywood Park Elementary School (home of the Hollywood Park Stars) kicked-off a year of honoring SCUSD’s 76 neighborhood and specialty schools, campus-es that have launched the dreams of Sacramento residents for generations.

“The first day of school is our district’s big debut and our stu-dents, parents, teachers and staff are the superstars of our produc-tion,” said Superintendent José L. Banda. “The event at Hollywood Park is our way of showing our appreciation for our community, an appreciation that begins on the first day of school.”

The district provided a selfie station for parents to pose for first-day photos with students. In addition, a local college cam-era crew conducted red carpet interviews.

One of the oldest school districts in the state (established in 1854), Sacramento City Unified serves about 43,000 students on 76 campuses.

Photos by Monica StarkShown here is a collection of photos from the first day of school red-carpet celebration at Hollywood Park Elementary School.


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Join Fairytale Town for the 15th annu-al ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival, the largest early childhood literacy event in the Sac-ramento region on Saturday, Sept. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy back-to-back readings and presentations from authors and illustrators on the Mother Goose Stage, then shop at our of-ficial bookseller, Time Tested Books booth, to purchase your favorite story. Authors and illus-trators will be available to sign books immedi-ately following their presentations.

The festival also features storytelling perfor-mances, hands-on literacy activities, a Scho-lastic book fair and more! Plus literacy and arts organizations will be on hand to provide information about early childhood literacy programs offered in the region.

Admission to this two-day festival is free-of-charge thanks to the generous support of ScholarShare College Savings Plan.

Featured authors and illustratorsLaura numeroffPresenting: If You Give a Mouse a CookieTime: Saturday, at 11:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and Sun-day at noon and 3 p.m.If a hungry little mouse shows up, you might want to give him a cookie. And if you give him a cookie, that mouse might take you on a whirlwind adventure where you never know what will happen next!

Melissa abramovitzPresenting: Helping Herbie HedgehogTime: Sunday at 10:15 a.m.

Kids will delight in helping Herbie get places, shop, do chores, play sports, and navigate other everyday activities. Should Herbie ride his bicycle to cross the ocean? Will his TV set cook a meal? Yikes, he needs these kids’ help!

Jen BartonPresenting: If Chocolate Were PurpleTime: Saturday at 1 p.m.When chocolate is purple and things turn top-sy turvy, one thing your little one can count on is your love. Full of delightful rhymes and whimsical imagery this fun bedtime story will warm hearts and ignite imaginations.

Janay Brown-WoodPresenting: Imani’s MoonTime: Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m.

Imani is a young Maasai girl with a lov-ing mother and a desire to do something great. When she decides she wants to touch the moon, she works hard to reach her goal, even in the face of teasing from the naysay-ers around her.

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Janet ann collinsPresenting: Slime & AllTime: Saturday at 10:15 a.m.

The other farm animals all run away from Lump, the giant, talking worm. Lump escapes to town and meets a boy who helps him make friends. This 2nd grade reading level chapter book can help kids accept people with differences.

kate davidPresenting: McKay and the Magical HatTime: Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

As the reader begins the imaginative journey in McK-ay and the Magical Hat, they explore just some careers little girls dream to have. What will McKay decide to be when she grows up?

Erin dealeyPresenting: Deck the WallsTime: Sunday at 2 p.m.

Deck The Walls takes the classic carol and turns it on its head. In this riot-ous, raucous rendition of a family meal gone hilari-ously awry, you’ll find food hockey, vegetable sculp-tures, crashing dishes and grown-ups wondering what has gone wrong.

andy domek & Stephen GreenPresenting: Our GardenTime: Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

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Sammy GinniPresenting: Mario’s HouseTime: Sunday at 1 p.m.Charming forest charac-

ters learn valuable lessons of kindness and sharing. Captivating and detailed illustrations capture the changes in the forest from spring through winter and will delight readers as they are taken through the sea-sons.

tim MccannaPresenting: Teeny Tiny TrucksTime: Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

Teeny Tiny Trucks hits the road with a convoy of micro-sized rigs as they trek through a garden, down a grassy land-scape, across a stretch of side-walk and beyond. Will they deliver their teeny tiny cargo in time?

Musical robot (Jason adair & Scott namanny)Presenting: If You’re a Robot and You Know ItTime: Saturday at noon and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

It ’s the classic song as you ’ve never seen (or heard!) it before. Sing along to the free down-loadable song as you turn the pages of this pop-up book showing the robot characters going through al l of the cal l-out move-ments.

Michael SlackPresenting: Wazdot?Time: Saturday at 11 a.m.

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Sac Open Studios showcases Land Park artistsBy BonniE oSBornESpecial to the Land Park News

Sac Open Studios, a two-weekend tour of 134 artist studios and galleries throughout Sacramento County, will treat guests to a packed schedule of exhibits, perfor-mances, demonstrations and interactive events—as well as the too-rare opportunity to visit and interact with artists where they live and work. The self-guided tour will take place Sept. 12-13 and Sept. 19-20, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Elaine Bowers (elainebowersart.com) and Bob Thomp-son, who transformed the garage of their Land Park home into Butterfly Studios, both are long-time participants in Sac Open Studios, Bowers for nine of the tour’s 10 years. She divides her time between fine art and a successful art therapy practice, and in recent years has enjoyed national recognition for her watercolors, winning an award at the 2013 American Watercolor Society show in New York. Her paintings depict the region’s agricultural landscapes made from aerial photographs she shoots from planes while flying over the terrain, with any pilot she can cajole into giving her a ride. One of her best adventures was fly-ing in a 1940s-era Piper Cub. “We took off in a field and landed in a field,” she says. “ The plane flies low and slow, and we flew right over the agricultural landscapes, right down the river like it was a road.” Once she has the aerial photos, she uses the computer to get a good image, enlarg-es it and paints from the image in a super-realistic style.

“I really enjoy doing Sac Open Studios, because we get to educate people about how art is created,” she says, “how to bet from point A to point B, from blank paper to fin-ished work.”

Thompson got into art by taking pottery and ceram-ics classes at Sacramento City College then branched out into multiple genres, including photography, comput-er drawing, encaustics, wood-cut printing, screen print-ing and plate printing. He has made a number of clay sculptures for this year’s Open Studios tour. Like Bowers

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“Undaunted” by Mary Kercher.


he likes the opportunity Sac Open Studios affords to interact with vis-itors. “You can get ideas and feed-back from people you don’t know. I try to engage people and find out more about what they like and why. It’s always fascinating to see how people react.”

Thompson uses his photogra-phy to capture images from his sur-roundings that people may walk or drive by every day but never notice. “I try to get a lot of close-ups of flowers or plants that people may see every day as they walk through their neighborhood or gardens, but when you look at it closely it’s like you are in a different world…. With photography you think about the composition, the different colors, the direction of the light, all things you don’t consider when you’re just out walking your dog.”

The two-weekend tour is or-ganized geographically. Weekend One, Sept. 12-13, features artists located west of I-80 and Highway 99; Weekend Two, Sept. 19-20, features artists east of 80/99, plus one each in Galt and Herald.

Also joining Bowers and Thomp-son at Butterfly Studios on Week-end One of Sac Open Studios, Sept. 12-13, will be jewelry art-ist Mary Bartels—entries 120 A, B and C in the Sac Open Studios Guide (http://vergeart.com/sac-open-studios-2015/guide)—and one additional artist.

Participating in Sac Open Stu-dios for the first time this year are Tim McHargue (122B in the cat-alog) and Lynnette Diem (122A). McHargue creates light sculptures from hollowed bamboo grown and harvested from his own backyard, near his studio in the garage of the couple’s Land Park home. McHar-gue hollows out the bamboo, then runs LED lights inside it. Marbles and other materials are added, and the pieces are usually made to move or rotate. For the tour, his sculp-tures will be displayed in a dark-ened room in his and Diem’s home, where she also has her studio.

McHargue’s work often has an environmental theme. His entry for the Verge Preview Exhibit, “ Tree in Three Sections: Deconstructed/Reconstructed,” is made from a Po-lonius tree, one of two he planted there himself. He reluctantly re-moved this one after it grew into the overhead power and phone lines. “I had some remorse from taking it down, so I decided to reconstruct it as art,” he says. “Something told me it still wanted to be a tree.”

McHargue works as a counsel-or to disabled students at Folsom Lake College and organizes an an-

nual show of art by disabled stu-dents from Los Rios Community College District.

Diem (lynettediem.com) teaches art at Davis Senior High School and works in many different mediums, primarily painting. She has sever-al series in progress now, includ-ing a series of sunsets and sunrises in landscapes; a series of portraits and free-standing head sculptures made from recycled cardboard; and a series influenced by Sacramento River rocks. Diem lived for years in Indonesia, an experience she says influences all of her work.

She and McHargue travel each year to a different part of the world and pretend to live there for a month, painting in the mornings and exploring the local environ-ment. Currently they are visiting different regions of Spain and have previously done the same in Aus-tralia and Indonesia.

Mary Kercher (123 in the catalog) paints in a variety of styles, most recently a series titled “Undaunted,” which she describes as “natural ab-stracts, influenced by nature.” The series title was inspired by her ex-periences as a cancer survivor. She also creates sculptures using the ancient Japanese Raku method of fiving stoneware, known for yield-ing unpredictable, one-of-a-kind results.

Kercher (marykercherart.com) has participated in Sac Open Stu-dios for five years and usually has lots of visitors. “ The way I am situ-ated in my studio, with my convert-ed garage behind my home, people walk down the driveway through the gate, and it’s great to see peo-ple coming to see you and the art,” she says. “No one would know you are there unless they were to find you in the guide and walk into your

space. It’s encouraging for me to see them react to the artwork.

“I just like to make things, and I think people really like to see how things are made…. For me it’s im-portant just to share my art. You make art; you share art. If you just make it and pile it up in your garage and never share it, then why make more? If you make it and share it, the cycle is complete.”

Established in 2006 by Center for Contemporary Art Sacramen-to (CCAS) as a woman-focused ex-hibition at the California Museum, Sac Open Studios has grown to be-come the largest open-studio event in Sacramento County. For the sec-ond year, the tour will be produced by Verge Center for the Arts follow-ing its merger with CCAS in 2014.

“One of the most exciting aspects of Sac Open Studios is the opportu-nity it provides visitors to meet and interact with the artists where they work and live,” says Verge Found-ing Executive Director Liv Moe. “It gives people a chance to buy art di-rectly from the artists and maybe even discover and explore parts of Sacramento County where they’ve never been before.”

Verge will kick off 2015 Sac Open Studios with a Launch Party at its gallery and studio project at 625 S Street on Thursday, Sept. 10, 5 to 9 p.m., featuring the Preview Exhi-bition, a “teaser” display of art from each of the 134 participating art-ists. A prize wheel and art supply giveaways from Event Partner Blick Art Materials will add to the fun.

Free special events include a re-ception at Warehouse Artist Lofts on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2 to 5 p.m., featuring live performances and ex-hibits by WAL residents; Sac Open Studios Nightcap, Saturday, Sept. 12, 6 to 10 p.m., hosted by Beat-

nik Studios and featuring perfor-mances by Capitol Dance Company and Aerial Evolution and music by Honyock and Alison Wonderland; and Art Quad by DISPLAY: Cal-ifornia Saturday, Sept. 19, which will transform an empty parking lot into an “interactive quad of activ-ities” celebrating Sacramento’s ro-bust design scene. Beatnik Studios will host a special project, “Musi-cal Chairs by Robert Ortbal,” the collective title for two exhibitions of sculpture, drawings and installa-tion works opening simultaneously in September at Beatnik and JayJay Galleries. Tour hours for Musical Chairs are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Satur-day, Sept. 12, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sun-day, Sept. 13.

University Art will feature juried selections from the tour by Manag-er Dave Saalsaa at its 2601 J Street location during September, and Blick Art Materials will feature in-teractive art activities led by Verge studio residents and teaching art-ists Interval Press and James Ang-ello at its Sept. 19 Grand Opening at 905 Howe Ave.

Would-be artists will find lots of ways to get involved, includ-ing demonstrations of letterpress printing, digital drawing, mono-type, Raku firing, sculptural weld-ing, portrait sitting, recycled paper-making, encaustics, and kids and adult gourd projects.

The mission of the non-profit Verge Center for the Arts (vergeart.com) is to expose the Sacramento art region to internationally recognized contem-porary art, while providing vital re-sources to local career and emerging artists. For more information and a full schedule of exhibits, demonstra-tions and special events, visit http://vergeart.com/sac-open-studios-2015/guide.

Arts:Continued from page 16

Photos courtesy(above left) “Undaunted” by Mary Kercher. (above right) “Mochi Man” by Bob Thompson.


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On Sept. 26, Sacramentan Dr. Carroll Cooks will be hosting a very elegant busi-ness dinner with a special guest appear-ance from Dr. Bernice A. King, daugh-ter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Bernice A. King will be a keynote speaker at the dinner as well as dedicat-ing our newly renamed educational center to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educa-tional Center.

Valley Community Newspapers spoke with Dr. Carroll Steven Cooks regarding the dinner. What follows is a biography of Dr. Cooks and a brief interview with him.

Dr. Carroll Steven Cooks began his crusade for the youth in 2002 and has never stopped. In 2004 he won an out-standing accomplishments award from the Employment Development Depart-ment. In 2006 he was given an award from the California Corrections and Re-

habilitation Department. In 2008 he was given an award from the County Board of Supervisors for developing an innova-tive outreach and education program. In 2010, he was given an award for outstand-ing mentorship from the Sacramento City Unified School District. In 2012, he was presented with a Doctorate Humanitari-an Award, In 2014 is when he began the development of the current education-al center for our youth, I.C.A.R.E. (In-ner City Arms Round Education). In late 2014, is when Dr. Cooks was given per-mission from the King Estate to rename the educational center to Dr. Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Educational Center. Dr. Car-roll Cooks has been steadfast on a cru-sade to save our youth and will let nothing come in his way of doing so. This is a man with extraordinary passion to make a dif-ference in this world. Dr. Cooks is cur-rently putting together the itinerary for a

very historic business dinner which will include a special guest of Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of the late Dr. Martin Lu-ther King Jr. To be noticed with recog-nition from all of the above mentioned businesses with an award, that tells you that a lot of effort was put into this mans mission.

What does it mean to have dr. Bernice a. king to be the keynote speaker of the dinner in September?

To have received the honors from the King Estate in Atlanta to use the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for 10 years and be the only center in California that is actually on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. and also to have his daughter Dr. Ber-nice A. King, supporting the educational center along with the college students of

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the Los Rios School District, Sacramento State, and UC Davis support by providing programs for High School, Middle School, and Elemen-tary School Students is a great honor for Dr. Bernice a King to be present for the ribbon cutting day for the Education-al Center and it will be show-ing appreciation to all of our college students supporting a vision of her father’s dream, No Youth Left Behind Foun-dation of America, and our

capital city setting the example for the 58 counties our capital city represents.

can you find out what her keynote message will be about?

Dr. Bernice A. King’s mes-sage will be about the im-portance of education, unity among all nonprofit organiza-tions, providing different ser-vices, and the importance of working together for the so-lution of the youth crisis we have in America while encour-aging that we all rise to meet the challenge.

tell us about the current use of the center. How many people use it, and for what purposes.

Currently we are waiting for our community colleges to re-open so the use of the educa-tional center will begin after the ribbon cutting ceremony for our volunteer sign ups, for our intake forms, and intro-ducing the programs and ser-vices we will be providing.

can you provide the details of the dinner? When? Where? cost? can the general public attend?

Dr. King:Continued from page 14

The details of the din-ner will consist of honor-ing the business women and men in our capital city who will have purchased a gold plaque space, which will in-clude: The name of their business, their address, their website, their phone number, along with a message of en-couragement for youth that will be mounted on the wall inside of our educational gold room. The gold plaques will be visible so that all parents and visitors can see the com-panies and corporations who support our college students

and the programs and servic-es they will be providing. The event will be Sept. 26 and It will be held at the Holiday Inn, 300 J St. The cost of the entire event is approximate-ly $15,000, and unfortunate-ly it will not be open to gen-eral public.

is there anything else you would like to add?

I hope that you will assess and consider the benefits of supporting our youth is our future and it is our responsi-bility to help in any way that we can.


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Non-Profit Organization is Seeking Local Host Families for High School Exchange Students ASSE International Student Exchange Pro-grams (ASSE), in cooperation with your com-munity high school, is looking for local fami-

lies to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of countries: Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, to name a few.ASSE students are enthusiastic and excit-ed to experience American culture while they practice their English. They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families welcome these students into their family, not as a guest, but as a family member, giving every-one involved a rich cultural experience.

The exchange students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, acci-dent and liability insurance. ASSE students are selected based on academics and person-ality, and host families can choose their stu-dent from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and personal interests.To become an ASSE Host Family or to find out how to become involved with ASSE in your community, please call 1-800-733-2773 or go to www.host.asse.com to be-gin your host family application. Students are eager to learn about their American host family, so begin the process of welcoming your new son or daughter today!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Rotary Club South meetingThe Rotary Club of South Sacramento meets at noon for lunch every Thursday at Iron Grill, located at 2422 13th St. (Broad-way and 13th Street). Rotary is one of the largest service organizations in the world dedicated to community service both locally, and internationally. Please call JR Springer at 425-9195 for additional information.

September

Fire Station 20 Open HouseSept. 12: Fire Station 20, located at 2512 Rio Linda Blvd., will have an open house

from 2 to 4 p.m. Meet firefighters and possi-bly mascot Sparky. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Third Annual Sacramento Play Summit Sept. 12: Fairytale Town, the Sacramen-to Public Library and ScholarShare Speaks will present the third annual Sacramento Play Summit on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tsakopolous Library Galleria in Downtown Sacramento. The daylong conference aims to highlight the im-portant role of play in child development and is geared for all adults who work with children, from parents and grandparents to educators and school administrators.

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The highlight of the conference will be three keynote addresses by play experts and advo-cates. Dr. Peter Gray, research professor of psy-chology at Boston College and author of “Free to Learn,” will explain what exactly play is and why it is such a powerful vehicle for learning. Singer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Chapin will speak on his five-decade-long creative musi-cal career. Louse Glaser, MD, a pediatrician for more than 25 years, will speak on the value of play and how adults can support children by creating ample time and space for play. Ear-ly bird registration is available through Aug. 31 and is $40 per person and $30 for students, seniors, members of Fairytale Town, Friends of the Sacramento Public Library, and Schol-

arShare account holders. General registra-tion begins Sept. 1 and is $50 per person and $40 for students, seniors, members of Fairytale Town, Friends of the Sacramento Public Li-brary, and ScholarShare account holders.This year’s Play Summit schedule also includes an evening presentation at Fairytale Town. at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, Dr. Peter Gray will give a second talk called “Play Defi-cit Disorder: A Worldwide Crisis and How to Solve It Locally” in which he’ll explain how play is essential to children’s healthy emotional and social development and suggest possible ways by which families, neighborhoods and commu-nities can restore children’s opportunities for outdoor play. Doors open at 6 p.m. The evening presentation is included with admission to the Sacramento Play Summit, and tickets are also

available to the public. Advance tickets for the evening lecture are $10 for adults and $5.50 for children ages 2-12. Day-of tickets are $20 for adults and $5.50 for children ages 2-12. Chil-dren ages 1 and under, Fairytale Town mem-bers, Friends of the Sacramento Public Library and ScholarShare account holders are free.For more information and to register for the conference or evening presentation, visit sacli-brary.org/playsummit. The Sacramento Play Summit is sponsored by ScholarShare College Savings Plan and Sutter Health.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Debut of new Railroad Museum exhibit, “California Railroad Landscapes: Original Oil Paintings by Rod R. Aszman”Sept. 12: California State Parks and the Cal-ifornia State Railroad Museum are proud to debut a new exhibit titled “California Railroad Landscapes: Original Oil Paintings by Rod

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R. Aszman” in the Lobby Gallery. This all new exhibit showcases 16 original oil-on-can-vas paintings by California railroad artist Rod R. Aszman who specializes in painting scenes that highlight the Golden State’s fascinating and picturesque railroading heritage. The ma-jority of the paintings in the visually-exciting exhibit depict scenes within California, while a few showcase other railroads and landscapes in the West. Subjects include Southern Pacific’s mighty cab-forwards, and the railroad’s color-ful “Daylight” passenger trains rolling along the California coastline pulled both by steam and diesel locomotives. Rounding out this beau-tiful exhibit, guests will see paintings of San-ta Fe’s “San Diegan” passing through orange groves plus a station scene at Del Mar, Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” locomotive in operation and a shiny “City of Los Angeles” passenger train.Artist Rod R. Aszman’s award-winning paint-ings have been seen at numerous shows and ex-hibits throughout the West, including a mem-orable show with Mr. Aszman and the late railroad photographer Richard Steinheimer at the Museum in 1983. Also of mention, was Mr. Aszman’s participation in shows featuring a number of railroad artists during Railfair ‘91 and Railfair ‘99, which were large-scale railroad heritage festivals held at the California State Railroad Museum. In addition, his paintings have been reproduced as covers for railroad books and within publications of railroad his-tory. The “California Railroad Landscapes” ex-hibit will remain on display at the California State Railroad Museum through March 12, 2016. Railroad Museum admission is $10 for adults, $5 for youths (ages 6-17), and children ages five and under are free. More information about the California State Railroad Museum is available at 916-323-9280 or www.csrmf.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Railroad Museum calls out for volunteers — Special drop-in volunteer open house Sept. 12: Fascinated by railroading history? In-terested in working on a train? California State Parks, the California State Railroad Muse-um and Old Sacramento State Historic Park (SHP) are recruiting adults (18 or older) inter-ested in volunteering to help communicate the West’s fascinating heritage of railroading and the California Gold Rush. For those interest-ed, a special, drop-in Volunteer Open House is scheduled for Saturday, September 12, 2015 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Stanford Gallery at 111 I Street in Old Sacramento. Volunteer applica-

tions are being accepted through September 15, which will be followed by an interview process.Each year, approximately 600 men and wom-en volunteer for the California State Railroad Museum’s programs — including weekend excursion train operations, track construc-tion, restoration and maintenance, even clerical work. A background in history is not required to become a volunteer. In fact, most of the vol-unteers in the popular program began with lit-tle knowledge of railroads or the Gold Rush. As individuals become more familiar with the Museum’s varied and frequent programs, many volunteers take on additional responsi-bilities, such as conducting research or giving talks to community organizations. New do-cents can choose to work in the Museum in-teracting with visitors from around the world, working in the railroad restoration shops on rare and unique railroad equipment, work on the Sacramento Southern Railroad, or other jobs in this dynamic and fun environment. Volunteering represents a serious commitment of at least 84 volunteer hours annually, but the hours are flexible and the rewards can be tre-mendous. Docents receive perks such as a dis-count at the Museum Store, preferential and/or early access to selected special events, and the pride of working at North America’s fin-est and most visited railroad museum. Volun-teer applications can be downloaded at http://

www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25583 and com-pleted forms can be emailed to [email protected] or mailed/delivered to the Volunteer Coordinator, California State Rail-road Museum, 111 I St., Sacramento, CA 95814. For more information, please call 916-323-9280 or 916-445-0269. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Sacramento Ballet Nutcracker 2015 auditionsSept. 12-13: Auditions for the children’s cast of The Sacramento Ballet’s 2015 production will be held at The Sacramento Ballet Stu-dios, 1631 K Street, Sacramento (corner of 17th and K streets). Children must be 6 years old by Dec. 1 to participate. Children may au-dition for more than one role if they meet the height and skill requirement. However, once they are cast in a part they may not audition for a second role. Various times depending on age and level. www.sacballet.org/auditions ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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PRIME LAND PARKThis is a Frank (Squeaky) Williams built home in great location. Features three spacious bedrooms and three full baths; large living room and dining room with numerous individual details. Family room and updated kitchen have open views of beauti-fully landscaped rear yard. $779,000

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LITTLE POCKET HOMEBring your imagination, loads of potential! Fantastic location, huge lot and 3-car garage that includes a drive through! Trees galore including Fuji Apple, Persimmon, Grapefruit, Pomegran-ate and so much more! 3 bedroom home was altered to ac-commodate wheelchair and handicapped. $350,000

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CURTIS PARK AREA 4-PLEXMinutes from downtown, freeways, McGeorge Law School, City College, Med Center and DMV. Super easy to rent, very well maintained. Four 1 bed 1 bath units, room for 2 cars to park in the back and street parking. Newer roof and gutters, dual pane windows, painted 2½ years ago. $469,000

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SARATOGA TOWNHOMECompletely updated 2 bedroom 1½ bath with spacious kitchen, high end appliances, dual pane windows, hickory wood fl oors and travertine in the bathrooms. Expanded with a bonus offi ce arena, loft & walk-in-master closet! Attached garage. $369,000

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