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To see Xavier in action, you’d never guess he was born with a rare congenital heart defect that leaves one side of the heart severely underdeveloped. If untreated, a child rarely survives beyond the first hours or days of life.

That was Xavier’s path when an air ambulance whisked the newborn to UC Davis Children’s Hospital, where Pediatric Heart Center surgeons performed the first in a complex series of three procedures to reconstruct his tiny heart and increase blood flow to his body.

With two surgeries now behind him, the bubbly toddler takes it all in stride – and greets each day with a smile that’s uniquely heartening.

Xavier and other children like him inspire the UC Davis team to push the boundaries of health care every day. To learn more about Xavier’s story, and the specialty services offered at this region’s one nationally ranked comprehensive hospital for children, visit children.ucdavis.edu

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Capsity’s fourth installation features the work of Sacramen-to artists who offer re-imag-ined anthropological discover-ies using repurposed consumer waste, recycled materials, and locally found objects. Upcy-cling in the most creative way, these artists challenge us to re-consider traditional approach-es to artistic creation – from the procurement of raw ma-terials to the selection of sub-strates and framing elements. Happy Earth Day!

Featured artists include: Na-than Cordero, Kristen Hoard, Ning Hou, Rachel Cate, Andy Littlefield, Elaine Luong, James Mullen, and Jill Allyn Stafford.

From Jill: “What the Sea Didn’t Take” was created in re-sponse to the horrific tsunami in 2011. I used newspaper as the base, and in pieces of gifted origami paper, as well as piec-es out of old art magazines. The flowers were hand drawn with a Sharpie, directly on top of Japanese newsprint that had been covered with red tissue paper. The rising sun was cre-ated the same way.

The Capsity gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. The exhibition is up now through June. Capsity is located at 2572 21st St. For more information, call 426-6008.

Art


Curtis Park’s 28th annual home and garden tour set for April 26

A unique neighborhood of large canopy trees and ear-ly 20th century homes, Cur-tis Park is the place to be on Saturday, April 26 for the annual home and garden tour. Everyone is invited to stroll through this neighbor-hood anchored by the Sier-ra 2 Community Center for the Arts and an 18-acre park, touring seven residences in Tudor revival, Monterey and foursquare styles. Interi-ors vary from contemporary to traditional, from neutral tones to rich red, coral and turquoise hues. For chefs, there are several Epicurean kitchens in a variety of sizes and color palettes. Outdoor spaces range from serene gar-dens and patios to striking entertainment areas, foun-tains and swimming pools.

The Curtis Park Home and Garden Tour is one of the few in the Sacramento region that offers a range of authentic and historic architectural exteriors with equally diverse and art-fully designed interiors. The homes are not specially deco-rated to reflect a given theme or holiday, instead, the tour allows visitors to see how people live in these exquisite homes day to day—how they have adapted their homes for their own en-joyment while maintaining and appreciating original craftsmen features and fine materials.

Plein air artists and mu-sicians have been invited to share their craft during the event, both in the park and at the homes on tour. Paintings will be offered for sale with a portion of the proceeds ben-efiting the Senior Program at the Sierra 2 Center.

SCNA’s Heritage Com-mittee will present an archi-tectural design walking tour brochure with a focus on South Curtis Oaks (bound-ed by Sutterville Road, Franklin Blvd. and East Cur-tis Drive). Resident histori-an Dan Murphy will give a presentation on the develop-ment, first families, architec-

tural styles and unique qual-ities of the area including the Sacramento Children’s Home.

The program for the 28th Annual Curtis Park Home Tour kicks off at 10 a.m. at the north end of Cur-tis Park. Throughout the morning and afternoon vis-itors will enjoy live music by Virginia Lights Duo and Midtown Jazz, food from Mama Kim Cooks, Wicked ‘Wich, and Sacatomatoes, historic home displays and information on home resto-ration. The Capitol A’s Sac-ramento Car Club will de-light again with vintage cars touring the neighborhood. Those who visit all sites will log just over two miles. Bicy-cling through the neighbor-hood is an option and bike racks are provided.

SMUD returns as the ma-jor sponsor with Joseph Es-chelman with Wells Far-go Advisors as a supporting sponsor. The event raises funds for the Sierra 2 Center SCNA community events and programs.

Advance tickets are $20 ($15 for SCNA members) and will be available in late March. On tour day, tickets will be $25 ($20 for SCNA members). Call the Sierra 2 Center at 452-3005 for up-dates, or visit their website at www.Sierra2.org

If you go:What: 28th Annual Curtis Park Home TourPresented by: Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association (SCNA)When: Saturday, April 26, from10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Cost: $20 ($15 for SCNA members) in advance; $25 ($20 for SCNA members) day of the event.Tickets: Online at www.sier-ra2.org, at the Sierra 2 Cen-ter at 2791 – 24th Street, Col-lected Works at 4524 Freeport Blvd. and Haus at 5601 H St.

Location / Where to Start: On tour day, purchase tickets at the Sierra 2 Center at 2791 – 24th Street, or at the north end of Curtis Park at 26th Street and Donner Way. Curtis Park is bordered on the north by Broadway, the south by Sutter-

ville Road, the east by Highway 99, and the west by 24th Street and Freeport Blvd.

Food, Refreshments and Mu-sic: North end of Curtis Park, Donner Way and 26th Street

Information: www.sierra2.org

Land Park Garden Tour and Tea

The 16th annual Land Park Garden and Tea Tour will showcase several residen-tial gardens in the Land Park neighborhood on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Land Park Garden Tour and Tea benefits the Holy Spirit Parish School art pro-gram and local charities such as the Mustard Seed School at Loaves and Fishes.

Our Fine Arts Festival is lo-cated at Holy Spirit Church

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featur-ing local fine art, artisans, jewel-ry makers, sculptures, paintings and more. Come find some-thing special for your home and support our local artists and businesses that make our com-munity so unique. If you are interested in renting a booth to sell your art, please contact Doug Konovaloff at [email protected]

If you are inspired to have your garden on the tour for 2015, please contact Liane Quirk 549-1329 or at [email protected].

If you would like to help dec-orate a table this year, please contact our tea table hostess Jennifer Jeffers at 448-6200 or at [email protected].

Tour goers can pick up the Land Park Garden Tour Book Guide at Holy Spirit Church, 3159 Land Park Dr.

Home tours in your neighborhood


Cal Middle School to hold farewell reception for long-time administrators

A farewell reception to honor the administrators of Cal Mid-dle School will be held on May 9 from 7-8:30 p.m. The event, for Principal Elizabeth Vigil and Vice Principal James Eder will be at Cal Middle School, 1600 Vallejo Drive, Sacramento.

Ms. Vigil has been in education for 25 years, nearly half of that time at Cal Middle. She was Cal’s Vice Principal for two years and has been Principal for ten years. During that time, she has overseen a significant growth in both the school’s test scores and its student population. Mr. Eder has been Cal’s As-sistant Principal for 3 years, after serving in several other posi-tions in the Sacramento district.

Both have accepted positions at Rosemont High School, the 10-year-old high school located at Keifer Boulevard and Brad-shaw Road. Vigil will become Rosemont’s principal and Eder will be a vice principal.

The reception is sponsored by Cal Middle PTSA. Those who wish to make a donation toward a gift may write a check payable to Cal Middle PTSA and mail it to Melinda Shapro 1177 Larkin Way, Sacramento. Cal graduates who wish to say farewell by video may email their short video message to [email protected]

City Council District 5 candidate forum set for May 5

The Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association invites you to a candidates forum featuring the candidates in the Sacramento City Council District 5 primary election. The candidates fo-rum will be held on May 5 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It will take place in Curtis Hall at the Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

The District 5 City Council race will be on the ballot for the June 3 primary election. The forum is sponsored by the SCNA with the program conducted and moderated by the League of Women Voters of Sacramento County.

This candidates’ forum is offered to give the voting public an opportunity to see and meet the candidates and hear their po-sition on a wide range of topics. The attending public is given the opportunity to ask questions and examine each candidate’s platform in order to cast a more informed vote in the Sacra-mento City Council election.

Seating is limited and the forum will start promptly at 6:30 p.m.

News Briefs


By LANCE [email protected]

Throughout its history, Sacramento has been home to popular bakeries, and many longtime residents re-call some classic local bakeries of the past such as Philipp’s Bakery and the Muzio Bak-ing Co. in East Sacramento. And certainly, Cramer’s Bak-ery was once one of the city’s most popular bakeries.

The roots of Cramer’s Bak-ery date back to about 1952, when Leonard Dee Cramer (1905-1984) began working as a baker at Philipp’s Bakery, which operated at 3300 Fol-som Blvd. for 82 years.

In 1955, Leonard, who was then residing with his wife Ro-saleen at 1328 Rodeo Way, near East Portal Park in East Sacra-mento, opened Cramer’s Pastry Shop at 2726 Broadway.

The 141-foot by 151-foot building, which housed the bakery, was constructed dur-ing the same year by the Er-ickson Construction Compa-ny of Sacramento.

Working as the original clerks of Cramer’s Pastry Shop were Rosaleen and Pa-tricia A. Cramer.

In 1958, the bakery was purchased by Arne and Kamma Ahlberg of 2721 V St., Apt. #1, and renamed Broadway Pastry Shop. The Cramers were then living at 2810 V St.

Three years later, C.D. Tin-del, who resided with his wife Betty Tindel at 2865 58th St., became the bakery’s new owner.

It was around that time that Leonard opened Cramer’s Bakery at 4321 Arden Way.

By 1963, Cramer’s Bakery was under the proprietorship of Arthur D. and Arvid W. Krein. The Kreins renamed the business, Krein’s Arden Way Bakery.

Carol A. Jones purchased the bakery in about 1976 and renamed it the Arden Plaza Bakery.

Janice’s Cake Box, which was owned by Michael Young, oc-cupied this Arden Way busi-ness spot from about 1979 to at least 1982.

The site’s current business, The Mandarin Restaurant, was opened by Steve and Kay Lee Helmrich on Dec. 27, 1983. The business is pres-

ently owned by their son, Mi-chael Helmrich.

In returning to the story about the former Cramer’s Pastry Shop site on Broad-way, Broadway Pastry Shop was sold once again in 1966, as Preston E. Lee of 5625 Laurine Way and James E. Lee of 5464 48th St. became its new proprietors.

It was also around the same time that Leonard acquired a job as a baker at Bill’s Pastry Shop. He worked there for about one year.

Preston E. and James E. Lee continued to operate the Broadway Pastry Shop until about the early part of 1970, when 2726 Broadway became vacant.

A year earlier, Leonard opened a new Cramer’s Bak-ery at 4960 Freeport Blvd.

Leonard sold Cramer’s Bak-ery on Freeport Boulevard to George Premock, Sr. in 1972.

George Premock, Sr.’s granddaughter, Shonna (Pre-mock) Martin, explained that Cramer’s history included a major fire in the 1980s.

“An electrical short in an-other business caused the complex (with the bakery) to burn down, except for (a) bank and (a Thrifty Drug and Discount Store at 4980 Freeport Blvd.), and I’m un-sure of the other businesses affected,” Martin said.

She added that Cramer’s was rebuilt, then reopened one or two years later.

Following the death of George Premock, Sr. at the age of 70 on June 26, 1989, the bakery was left to his wife, Elnora Premock (1924-2000), and their sons, George Premock, Jr. and James Premock. The latter two named family members took over the op-eration of the bakery.

James Premock, who died on July 27, 2004, one day pri-or to his 59th birthday, left the Cramer’s Bakery part-nership in about 1990 to es-tablish Rosemont Bakery at 9131 Kiefer Blvd., between Watt Avenue and Bradshaw Road, in the Rosemont Pla-za shopping center with his daughter, Shonna Premock, who had not yet become Shonna Martin.

In commenting about the establishment and short ex-istence of that bakery, Mar-

tin said, “We left [Cram-er’s Bakery] around 1990. It took about a year to find a location, equipment, per-mits, etc. So, we opened (Rosemont Bakery at the former site of New York Ba-gel Boys) in 1991 and closed (it in) 1992.”

Martin added that there were a variety of reasons why the Rosemont Bakery closed, including “not enough money coming in to continue.”

George Premock, Jr. con-tinued the operation of Cra-mer’s Bakery until about ear-ly 2000.

Martin presented the fol-lowing list of Premock fam-ily members who worked at Cramer’s Bakery: George Premock, Sr., Elnora Pre-mock, George Premock, Jr., Janet Premock, James Pre-mock, Shonna (Premock) Martin, Georgie Premock and Jeff Premock.

And although she could no longer recall their last names, Martin said that the following non-family mem-bers worked at Cramer’s Bakery: Betty, Clark, Irene, Kim, Mark, Norene, Roy, Tes and Ziglinda.

As for Cramer’s offerings, Martin said, “We baked ev-erything from a small item to a large item – cookies, cup-cakes, scones, doughnuts, Danish (pastries), coffee cakes, pies, all kinds, breads, all kinds, tea cakes, loaf cakes, cakes and wedding cakes. The specialty (items were) the fruit basket cake, sponge cake and our butter cream ic-ing that wasn’t too sweet. Bee-hive (cake) was another spe-cialty item.”

Cramer’s Bakery was open Mondays through Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

But Martin noted that that schedule changed one time per year.

“We took two weeks off – closed the bakery during the summer for family time,” Martin said.

She added that the annual two-week closure was impor-tant, considering the many hours that her family dedicat-ed to the business.

In commenting about her father and uncle’s dedica-tion and hard work at Cra-mer’s Bakery, Martin said, “I missed my father presence (at home). He worked six

to seven days a week (and) about 12 to 14 hours a day. We had to be super quiet during the day, so he could sleep, which was very hard to do. I have learned no one ap-preciates or values the labor involved in a product when you make everything from scratch and you do not use equipment to do the work for you. His feet, legs, hands were in pain all the time. My uncle (George Premock, Jr.) had back injuries from lift-ing heavy bowls.”

Martin fondly recalled Cramer’s customers, not-ing, “(Cramer’s had) dedicat-ed daily customers, even if it was for a cheap cup of coffee. We had two sets of numbers ranging from one to 100 peo-ple. (Customers) would have to take a number, go shop-ping and return to pick up their items, especially during the holidays. We had peo-ple traveling from San Fran-cisco, Reno, etc. to purchase items. A lot of our custom-ers were state workers taking items back to the office.”

Sacramento native Lois (Herbert) Lindstrom, 86, who moved to South Land Park in 1958, fondly re-called her regular visits to Cramer’s Bakery on Free-port Boulevard.

“There was nothing to equal the food that you bought there,” Lindstrom said. “It was just outstanding, and my very favorite thing

was the beehive (cake). They had the greatest beehive in Sacramento. It’s almost made like a Boston cream pie in layers with the filling, but it’s called the beehive. Oh, my God, it was so delicious. And the doughnuts were be-yond compare, and they had homemade biscuits that were heavenly. They would just float away. It was a wonder-ful bakery and when it closed everybody was heartbroken.”

Cramer’s Bakery was among city’s most popular bakeries

Photo by Lance ArmstrongA Japanese restaurant now operates at the former site of Cramer’s Bakery at 4960 Freeport Blvd.


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By MONICA [email protected]

Habitat to local fauna Regional Transit’s tracks between Sutterville and Pocket roads are overgrown with lush greenery and natural beauty. It’s just a little bit of country in our back-yard. The South Land Park refuge at-tracts neighbors who enjoy taking walks with friends and family, and, of course, the family dog. With signs like – “You forgot to pick up your dog’s poop? Oh, my gosh, really?” – or land-scaping with plants like golden pop-pies, and cacti, the greenbelt is a bea-con of neighborly do-goodery – one that has been saved, at least for the time being, from having trains run on the tracks again.

At an Old Sacramento State Histor-ic Park General Plan meeting, which was held Tuesday, April 15, inside the Stanford Gallery, 111 I St., represen-tatives from the department clarified an important piece of information. The part of the proposal to use the RT tracks has been cut from the plan, which will be voted on by the Califor-nia State Park and Recreation Com-mission on Friday, May 2 at 10 a.m. at the State Natural Resources Building auditorium, 1416 9th St. What re-mains in the plan now is the potential use of the rail line right-of-way from Old Sacramento to the Sacramento Zoo and from Pocket/Meadowview roads to the town of Hood, with views along the way of Stone Lakes Nation-al Wildlife Refuge.

In an interview with this publication hours before the April 15 commu-nity meeting, project manager Steve Musillami said the plan will include improvements to the railroad muse-um, depots, as well as the rail yards and “some property state parks owns around the Sacramento River. It’s a visionary plan for next 20-plus years, but all proposals are based on fund-ing issues. As far as between The Zoo and Pocket Road – we don’t own (the railway). That’s up to Regional Tran-sit. It could be reintroduced as anoth-er rail line again. It could be paved a trail line. It could be a rail trail.”

According to RT spokesperson Al-ane Masui, RT acquired said proper-ty in the 1980s from Southern Pacific and there have been no recent discus-sions about selling the land, though RT is open to the idea because of on-

going maintenance costs. “It was pur-chased at the time because RT didn’t know where the lines were going to go, but we expanded the lines (south to Meadowview) running on Union Pacific tracks.”

Councilmember Steve Hansen told Valley Community Newspapers re-moving the RT right-of-way from the Old Sacramento State Historic Park General Plan “seems to be an appro-priate response to neighborhood con-cerns.” Hansen said the project still needs to be studied in detail, which would happen when, and if, the Gen-eral Plan is adopted. “We are follow-ing the process closely and will contin-ue to do so,” he said.

Hansen said that since this issue was initially brought to his attention, he has advocated for better outreach to the community and appropriate opportunity for public input.

But, during the interview before the meeting, Musillami expressed some frustration about the public’s confu-sion regarding the proposed plan.

“A lot of people are commenting on things without reading the plan, without gathering information from State Parks. We’ve had three public workshops, three commission meet-ings. We sent out mailings to about 2,000 people in the area. Unfortu-nately, people are still confused. We have tried to do the best we can. We have met with neighborhood orga-nizations, including The Land Park Community Association in 2010. At the time, we did not meet with South Land Park organization. We thought they were all working together, but we found out they were not. (The April 15) meeting (was to give) the public another opportunity to voice concerns,” Musillami said.

However, prior to the meeting, neighbors were rightfully concerned about that land they feel so strongly about, especially since the State Parks website still as of Friday, April 18 hadn’t been updated to inform them that wasn’t part of the plan anymore.

So, while the meeting’s purpose was to inform the public about the scope of the entire general plan for the Old Sacramento State Historic Park, the South Land Park community has been focused on the section of the rail line owned by RT.

During the public comment peri-od, which followed Musillami’s pre-sentation, Julie Morengo, a resident of

South Land Park Terrace, said she was appreciative of the promise by State Parks to remove the RT property from the language written in the Gen-eral Plan proposal, however, she ex-pressed her dissatisfaction of the pro-cess of how neighbors were notified, as well as the environmental impact it could have in the neighborhood, in-cluding the uses of pesticides, asphalt, and other potentially hazardous ma-terials. “I was disturbed by the secre-tive and exclusive nature (of the pro-cess. Don’t confuse history with the current condition. You could achieve the same things with other options,” Morengo said.

Terry Oehler, a homeowner in Park Village, an upscale 2000s sub-division located south of 35 Ave-nue near the tracks, described the nature of his neighborhood in jux-taposition to the images shown during Musillami’s presentation. “ This is a beautiful, pristine neigh-borhood. Your pictures don’t show houses. The track is 46 feet from my master bedroom. This proposal is not a situation of a compelling gov-ernment need; it’s just for leisure. When we bought our homes, we did not think they’d pave over the tracks and have trains on them.”

Neighbor Adele Ose agreed, add-ing that the lien benefits tourists and not any of the neighbors. “Many eco-systems have developed into an urban woodland enjoyed by many. Addi-tional rail crossings would further im-pact local intersections, and there’s no demonstrated financial benefit.”

Summing up how many South Land Park neighbors felt about the idea of trains running on those tracks again, Ja-net Gaithre said: “My father is a veter-an and deserves peace and quiet. He is 89 years old and deserves to have peace in his old days. This is different from when trains ran on the levees and (con-

ductors) threw candy; no more trains behind our homes, please.”

Upon discussing the speed of the excursion trains that are part of the proposal, Musillami told the Land Park News, “If you go up on the levee in Old Sacramento, the trains run so slow. These aren’t big freights. They’ve only got four or five cars and they’ll be historically designed. They’re only go-ing to go 15 miles an hour. This would be better than having a light rail go through here because they have to run at the posted speed limit. Because it’s a historic train line, the intent is to link a real significant time in history. It was called a Walnut Grove Branch line and we’d like to link the line with Railroad Museum, which is the most popular (railroad museum) in the country. A lot of people come to Sac-ramento to come to the Railroad Mu-seum. The Polar Express gets sold out in hours and the ones in the spring, summer, and fall are very popular also. They fill up very quickly.”

During the interview and at the meeting itself, Musillami explained the importance this plan has for the furthering of the State Parks’ mis-sion to reenact the history of the Gold Rush era. “The Gold Rush era and in-terpretation is very important to this plan as well, but, all elements and proposals are based on funding. The grassy area in Old Town – we have a proposal to reconstruct 1849 build-ings in that area. New structures will be historic replications of what was there at the time. It was a city block and there were different buildings (over the course of the) different eras. In 1849, the city was 8 feet lower than it was today. There were buildings at one level and higher levels in 1860s and 1870s, which varies with the era. But there were stables, and a hotel. As funding comes available, we’ll do more detailed studies.”

A little bit of country in the midst of a little bit of controversy

Photo by Monica StarkThis bit of natural beauty surrounds the old railroad tracks, owned by Regional Transit, between Sutter-ville Road and Fruitridge Road/Seamas Avenue. Many people enjoy walking in the serenity of this green-belt, which has been saved from the once-proposed notion that trains would run from Old Sacramento to Hood. State Parks had to ditch the section shown here because they don’t own the land, RT does. RT has no current plans to sell it either.

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Casa Garden Restaurant celebrates 40 yearsBy MONICA [email protected]

Tucked back from the hustle and bustle of traffic on Sutterville Road rests a hidden landmark that’s cel-ebrating its 40th anniversary – the almost entirely volunteer run Casa Garden Restaurant.

It’s a typical Friday morning. A few are working in the garden, watering the beautiful trees and tending to the flowers and fauna, as one of the regular, long-time volunteers, Carol Williams takes a look around inside to see if the dining room is set up for the day before supervising the wait “staff ” and telling them what to do – a task she takes as much pride in, as doing the laundry, or greeting and seating the guests.

Today, Casa Garden Restaurant has 250 volunteers, including 60 active ones, like Carol, who pro-vide a range of tasks, including: gardening, serving, bartending, organizing the pantry, preparing food, and ringing up receipts. All of that is done not just for the weekday lunches, but for special events, like anniversaries, retire-ment parties, weddings, and me-morials.

Forty years ago, the Casa Garden was just a fundraising idea from two Sacramento Children’s Home board members, yet, wth a rubber stamp of approval from the oth-ers on the board, the restaurant was designed so that if it failed it could become one of the cottages for the Children’s Home.

Far from ever becoming a cottage, the restaurant has raised nearly $3 million for the next-door Sacra-mento Children’s Home.

“ That’s a lot of lunches,” giggled Carol, who, along with her good friend, and also longtime volun-teer, Susan Scotland, reminisced about the restaurants’ transforma-tions over the years and the ini-tial impression by board members that the restaurant wouldn’t last very long at all.

“That’s what they expected us to do – fail, but 40 years later, it’s still the restaurant. And so that was a big undertaking to have that sort of energy, enthusiasm, and commit-ment to do that,” Susan said.

In the early days, organizing meetings took place inside volun-teers’ homes, which Carol remem-bers quite well. “We originally had many, many coffees in people’s homes and so forth to recruit mem-bers. We decided we needed mem-bership to make this work – a vol-unteer group,” she said.

One paid person in the kitchen wasn’t going to cut it, so the vol-unteers got the menus going with the formation of a menu committee, which decided which recipes were appropriate to serve.

“And that’s how our menu evolved,” Carol said. “Now we don’t have menu committees but the kitchen manager selects the recipes.”

Susan recalls being on the menu committee – “Many years ago, I was on the menu committee and we would taste recipes and rate them” – to which brought back memories to Carol: “Some of them were great; some of them were really flops!”

There were no hurt feelings; no-body made a big deal, though Su-san remembers the oxtail stew. “I remember they made oxtail stew and I remember Betty Wer-ner, another early member, talk-ing how they would serve it in the dining room and people sat there and they couldn’t figure out how to cut this piece.”

Suffice to say, as Carol said: “(The oxtail) deleted quickly from the menu.”

So over the years, the menu has become more sophisticated and up-dated, though Susan was quick to point out the Casa is somewhat limited in what they can accomplish because they’re all volunteers. “We

have to have recipes that people with a variety of skills can do and so it’s not like Kurt Spataro’s down-town and whipping out wonderful things or whatever. So we have to be mindful of that when we are plan-ning, but we try to stay up to date with choices,” Susan said.

“That’s one of the big things that has changed since we opened – we have a weekly menu and it changes every week. So when (Casa Garden Restaurant) first opened you only had that menu, now we have the hot entry, the salad entry, and a sand-wich entry. We have done that so we can be more flexible and people can have some choice,” she said.

A year or two after Casa was opened, Carol remembers the board being approached by a woman who sat on the Children’s Home board who asked if she could have her granddaughter’s wedding recep-tion at the restaurant. “We had nev-er done a wedding reception, so our

volunteers got together and looked up a menu and hors d’oeuvres and they did all the cooking and every-thing and we were scared to death that we were going to make a big mistake, but it went off beautiful-ly. So that launched us into doing wedding receptions. Everyone was quite nervous. We wanted to please this family and I believe this fam-ily owned a florist shop in Sacra-mento so there was an enormous amount of gorgeous flowers. It went off well, so we thought, well, there’s another avenue for revenue.”

The Children’s Home has been at its location since 1905 when all around the premises was beau-tiful country where the children got to grow their own food and where staff lived. Fast forward 109 years, the Children’s Home is still fortunate to have this huge piece of acreage in the middle of

Photo by Monica StarkShown here, Casa Garden Restaurant volunteers have been instrumental in raising funds for the Sacramento Children’s Home. The restaurant is celebrating 40 years with a week full of events, starting on Monday, May 5.

“That’s what they expected us to do – fail, but 40 years later,

it’s still the restaurant.” –Susan Scotland

See Casa Garden, page 11

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the city. Staff works in shifts. There are only 30 kids on the grounds, as most of the efforts are going into preventative services, which arguably makes a great-er impact, serving families through cri-sis nurseries, resource centers, and after school programs, improving the lives of more than 5,000 kids.

Many of the long-time volunteers have been pretty lucky in life and nothing feels better than giving back to children who haven’t had a good start. Susan explained the longevity of the volunteerism at Casa as follows: “Everybody’s lives have ups and downs and we’re all fortunate to have good families and a good start to life and I think that makes us feel like we can help children that haven’t been that lucky. (The restau-rant) is one step removed, but your efforts are going towards them.”

Carol explained how former resi-dents come back and tell Casa volun-

teers what they’ve accomplished in life. “Some of it is very impressive – how they’ve started out as a child with so many serious problems, and then now a couple of them are attorneys.”

To celebrate the milestone of 40 years fundraising for the Sacramento Chil-dren’s Home, the Casa Garden Restau-rant has a week full of events, starting on Monday May 5 with a luncheon recogniz-ing its sponsors. Tuesday is the popular, of-ten sold-out monthly wine social. Then, on Wednesday, they will honor past presidents and have a fashion show featuring mem-bers wearing original server uniforms from the past 40 years. On Thursday, there will be craft show in the meeting center where Casa volunteers will have their crafts for sale, and on Friday, Casa will celebrate the Children’s Home by inviting former em-ployees and board members to join the vol-unteers for lunch.

Visit www.casagardenrestaurant.org for more in-formation, or call 452-2809.

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Children enjoyed the Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association egg hunt on Saturday, April 12.

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Neighbors for the annual Spring Egg Hunt and Hat Parade on Saturday, April 12. This egg-citing annual event included visits from the Mr. Cotton-tail, and children’s musician, Mister Cooper.

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Councilmember Steve Han-sen provided the Land Park News with an update regard-ing progress in our neighbor-hood. What follows is a quick question and answer with your elected representative.

Land Park News: Please sum-marize “the state of Land Park neighborhood” and describe the kind of response you got from neighbors at the March 20 Land Park Community Association meeting.

Steve hansen: I was pleased to provide a District 4 up-date at the Land Park Com-munity Association meet-ing, which was well attended. I shared information on im-provements in William Land Park and the proposed im-provements to Cervantes Pla-za, our support of Land Park schools and other neighbor-hood organizations and of-fice-sponsored activities. I also asked Captain David Peletta, the Sacramento Po-lice Captain for the area, to

provide an update on crime in Land Park and traffic con-cerns, including the collision on Riverside.

LPN: In February 2013, you told our writer, Corrie Pelc you were looking to im-prove the economy. Please describe any improvements. Also you spoke about keep-ing neighborhoods safe and, you said: “making sure that we do things that are inno-vative is also a big priority for me.” Please describe any progress there.

Sh: There are a number of exciting developments in the City that will bene-fit residents, especially those in District 4. A priority of mine is to make neighbor-hoods more livable, walkable and bike-able. With the goal to improve streetscapes and walkability, we spearhead-ed a program to develop en-ticing micro public spaces called “parklets” on our city streets. Parklets can feature

public art, creative seating arrangements, and even busi-ness friendly bicycle park-ing, making businesses more visible from the street and neighborhoods more inviting to pedestrians.

The City is working with businesses on Broadway to develop the Broadway Corridor. By making the area more pedestrian and business friendly, through street redesign and innova-tive projects such as travel-ing art exhibitions, we hope to see an increase in activi-ty in the area. This is part of a larger effort to activate the Broadway Corridor and connect its myriad areas, including development in northwest Land Park.

The City also is working to make it easier to start and grow businesses. A great ex-ample of this is the recent re-vision to the City’s zoning codes. The redesign is intend-ed to incentivize projects the City seeks, such as infill and mixed use projects.

LPN: Are we going to get a bridge across the Sacramen-to River at Broadway? You said last year: “There’s this new museum that’s been proposed to go in at where the auto museum is – they want to buy that land, tear it down and build a natu-ral history museum and an auto museum. And we’ve got some new activity down at Miller Park.” Describe what’s new in that area.

Sh: Planning for a new Sac-ramento River crossing in the area of Broadway is un-derway. West Sacramento re-cently retained a consultant to do the initial study but an alignment has not been fi-nalized and is subject to en-vironmental review. We have high hopes for a new cross-ing in the Broadway area that could spur economic growth in the corridor.

LPN: You also agreed last year speeding was a major issue; and apparently it still is. After the fatality on Riv-erside, what will be done to slow drivers down?

Sh: Thanks to voters over-whelming passing Measure U in November of 2012, we have been able to increase staffing in our Police De-partment from a low of 653 sworn officers to our current level of 694. These officers allow for increased proactive deployment and traffic en-forcement. I have asked the Police Department to in-crease traffic enforcement in the Land Park area giv-

en concerns about speed-ing, and in anticipation of potentially increased traf-fic happening as a result of CalTrans’ repairs to the W/X span of Highway 50.

There have been several steps taken on Riverside to mitigate speeding and in-crease safety. A few years ago the speed limit was low-ered from 35 to 30 miles per hour. Also, the school zone was lengthened and signage was added. Bike lanes were added and the street was re-striped. In addition, a radar truck is periodically placed on Riv-erside to keep speed down.

LPN: Why are you against opening up a continuous bike trail on the Sacramen-to River?

Would you agree that it’s a privileged few who get access to certain parts of the river? And if so, do you think that’s fair? Why or why not? Can you provide some history as to how property owners have gotten ownership of sections of the levee?

Sh: The idea of a contig-uous riverfront bike trail is attractive but the cost of ac-quiring property easements from homeowners is very high. Many of my constitu-ents in the Little Pocket area have significant concerns about safety and privacy, as a bike trail would run next to their homes. I have re-quested that City staff ex-plore less expensive alter-natives to the Little Pocket section of trail.

State of the neighborhood:

A Q&A with Councilmember Steve Hansen

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JAkE GLEESON No. 1GoalkeeperHeight: 6-5Weight: 210Born: June 25, 1990 in Palmerston North, New ZealandHometown: Wellington, New ZealandPrevious club: Portland Timbers

MIkE FuCITO No. 2ForwardHeight: 5-9Weight: 165Born: March 29, 1986 in Westford, MassachusettsHometown: Westford, MassachusettsPrevious Club: San Jose Earthquakes

JACk AvESYAN No. 3DefenderHeight: 5-7Weight: 147Born: September 22, 1988 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaHometown: Tujunga, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Ventura County Fusion

ChAd BONd No. 4MidfieldHeight: 6-0Weight: 182Born: April 20, 1987, in Neath, WalesHometown: Neath, WalesPrevious Club: Port Talbot Town

ChAd BARTLOMé No. 5ForwardHeight: 6-3Weight: 190Born: February 10, 1983 in Sacramento, CaliforniaHometown: Chicago Park, CaliforniaPrevious Club: BSC Old Boys

JACk LANE No. 6DefenderHeight: 6-3Weight: 180Born: March 26, 1993 in Manchester, EnglandHometown: Winsford, Cheshire, EnglandPrevious Club: Ventura County Fusion

GILBERTO dOS SANTOS SOuzA JR. No. 7MidfielderHeight: 6-1Weight: 172Born: October 20, 1988 in Cerrinha, BrazilHometown: Cerrinha, BrazilPrevious Club: Philadelphia Union

ROdRIGO LOPEz No. 8MidfielderHeight: 5-7Weight: 152Born: May 10, 1987, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, MexicoHometown: Santa Barbara, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Los Angeles Blues FC

dAkOTA COLLINS No. 9ForwardHeight: 5-10Weight: 165Born: August 15, 1991 in Santa Barbara, CaliforniaHometown: Temecula, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Cal Poly

ThOMAS STEWART No. 10ForwardHeight: 5-11Weight: 179Born: Nov. 12, 1986 in Craigtown, Northern IrelandHometown: Portadown, Northern IrelandPrevious Club: Shamrock Rovers FC

MAx ALvAREz No. 11ForwardHeight: 5-10Weight: 160Born: June, 16, 1991 in Napa, CaliforniaHometown: Napa, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Sacramento State

NEMANJA vukOvIć No. 12DefenderHeight: 6-3Weight: 180Born: April 13, 1984 in Podgorica, MontenegroHometown: Podgorica, MontenegroPrevious Club: FK Mladost

JOSE “CRISTIAN” GONzALEz No. 13DefenderHeight: 6-0Weight: 155Born: March 22, 1993 in Ario de Rosales, Michoacan, MexicoHometown: Houston, TexasPrevious Club: Houston Dynamo Academy

BRYAN GALLEGO No. 16DefenderHeight: 5-10Weight: 170Born: March 10, 1993 in Kinnelon, New JerseyHometown: Kinnelon, New JerseyPrevious Club: Portland Timbers

JuSTIN BRAuN No. 17ForwardHeight: 6-2Weight: 195Born: March 31, 1987, in Salt Lake City, UtahHometown: Salt Lake City, UtahPrevious Club: Toronto FC

IvAN MIRkOvIć No. 18MidfielderHeight: 5-6Weight: 150Born: March 25, 1987 in Belgrade, SerbiaHometown: Belgrade, SerbiaPrevious Club: Ventura County Fusion

OCTAvIO GuzMAN No. 19MidfielderHeight: 5-10Weight: 175Born: November 26, 1990 in Guadalajara, MexicoHometown: Bay Point, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Chico State

CARLOS MARTINEz No. 20MidfielderHeight: 5-8Weight: 168Born: January 21, 1992 in San Pedro, CaliforniaHometown: San Pedro, CaliforniaPrevious Club: FC EnergieCollege: n/a

MICkEY dALY No. 21DefenderHeight: 6-1Weight: 180Born: June 4, 1987 in Sonoma, CaliforniaHometown: Sonoma, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Wilmington Hammerheads FC

hARRISON dELBRIdGE No. 22DefenderHeight: 6-4Weight: 205Born: March 15, 1992 in Sydney, AustraliaHometown: Sydney, AustraliaPrevious Club: Ventura County Fusion

EMRAh kLIMENTA No. 23DefenderHeight: 6-1Weight: 180Born: Feb. 13, 1991, in Rozaje, MontenegroHometown: Rozaje, MontenegroPrevious Club: Bay Area Rosal (Indoor)

dOMINIk JAkuBEk No. 25GoalkeeperHeight: 6-1Weight: 195Born: Sept. 2, 1979 in Lodi, CaliforniaHometown: Lodi, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Sacramento Gold

MAWOLO “GABRIEL” GISSIE No. 26ForwardHeight: 6-0Weight: 172Born: Nov. 23, 1996 in Monrovia, Liberia, AfricaHometown: Loganton, PennsylvaniaPrevious Club: New England Revolution Development Academy

AARON LONG No. 27MidfielderHeight: 6-2Weight: 185Born: Oct. 12, 1992 in Victorville, CaliforniaHometown: Oak Hills, CaliforniaPrevious Club: Portland Timbers

Sacramento’s professional soccer team, Re-public FC, has its inaugural home opener vs. Harrisburg City Islanders on Saturday, April 26 at Hughes Stadium. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.; the kick-off is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $6. Secure your seat for this “indomitable”

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Mahogany Urban Poetry Series - Queen Sheba - poetry readingsEach Wednesday from 8-11 p.m. at Queen Sheba in Sacramento, local talent makes it

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Women with Good Spirits monthly meetingWomen With Good Spirits is a networking group that engages women in the Sacramen-to community with non-profit organizations that make contributions to our quality of life and care for our fellow residents. Each month, Women With Good Spirits invites a communi-ty non-profit to present on its mission work. The meeting is held at Revolution Wines on the sec-ond Tuesday of each month and starts at 6:30 p.m. The presenter will start their presentation promptly at 7:15 p.m. and will last 15-20 min-utes with an open question and answer forum after. RSVP is appreciated as well as a $5+ do-nation per person that will go directly to the non-profit presenting that month. Revolution Wines is located at 2831 S St. Visit www.womenwith-goodspirits.com or find the group on Facebook. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Sacramento Community Concert Association performanceApril 27: SCCA presents talented, young, lo-cal classical chamber musicians and The Mon-davi Center/SF JAZZ High School All Stars at 3 p.m. at Westminst er Presbyterian, 1300 N St. Coordinated by Susan Lamb Cook, these sev-en gifted students will play great works from the chamber music repertoire. Directed by Mike Mc-Mullen, the Mondavi Center/SFJAZZ High School All Stars are an elite high-school-age jazz performance ensemble selected by audition. As the premier jazz group for Mondavi Arts edu-cational outreach, they perform an eclectic rep-ertoire drawn from the giants of the jazz legacy, and original material composed and arranged by group members. In addition to the core ensem-ble, this concert will feature other notable young talent from the area. Regular subscription: $90, Group discount (8 or more people): $75, Stu-dents subscription: $45, Single Ticket: $25. For more information, contact Sacramento Commu-nity Concert Association www.sccaconcerts.org; [email protected]; 400-4634––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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SCUSD workshops help parents understand new online testsApril 29: Students across California are getting ready to participate in a trial run of the state’s new online assessment program which will eventually replace paper-and-pencil testing. The new Smarter Balanced Assessments will be field tested in SCUSD schools beginning April 7. To help parents learn about the new tests, SCUSD is sponsoring a series of parent workshops that focus on the assessments and the learning stan-dards to which they are tied. Workshops are scheduled for 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Nicholas Ele-mentary, Will C. Wood Middle School, Hiram Johnson Middle School, Matsuyama Elemen-tary, California Middle School and Luther Bur-bank High School.

May

May is Bike MonthMay 1-31: May is Bike Month. 10th Annu-al Sacramento Region monthly challenge. Nicely complements Fix 50 vehicular traffic jams. Events run all month long. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Davis Art Center invites teen girls to write and publishThe Davis Art Center is offering a six-week creative writing class for girls ages 13-18 from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays starting February 11. The class will offer a positive, support-ive space for girls who love reading and writ-ing and are interested in discovering and de-veloping their individual voices. Participants will use short stories by a diverse range of contemporary women writers as jumping off points for their own writing sessions. Each student will pick her best writing to include in a class-produced literary magazine. The class will be taught by Elise Winn Pollard, who earned her M.A. in creative writing from UC Davis. The fee is $95 for Art Cen-ter members and $105 for the general pub-lic. To enroll, stop by the Art Center at 1919 F. St., call (530) 756-4100 or register online at www.davisartcenter.org. Students must be registered at least two weeks before the first class session.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Gentle Qi GongLearn powerful relaxation techniques re-duce stress, reduce physical pain and emo-tional suffering, lower blood pressure, increase immune response and improve bal-ance. Inviting all seniors to Eskaton Mon-roe Lodge, 3225 Freeport Boulevard, 3 to 4 p.m., Wednesdays. $7 per class. Call 441-1015 for more information.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 Wa-ter Authority (RWA) and the Sacramento Bee Media in Education (MIE) program, challenges teens to create compelling and original 25-second Public Service An-nouncement (PSA) videos on a select wa-ter efficiency topic. The 2014 water effi-ciency theme is: Don’t be a gutter flooder: Prevent overspray and runoff. Judging will be based on creativity, entertainment val-ue, accuracy, originality and incorporation of the water efficiency topic. Finalist vid-eos will be displayed on the Raley Field Jumbotron screen and winners announced at a Sacramento River Cats game in April 2014. Winning students and their teach-ers will also get cash prizes. The grand prize winner’s spot may become part of RWA’s 2014 television ad campaign. Sub-missions due Feb. 28. Visit www.BeWa-terSmart.info for more information and tips on using water more efficiently and to submit entries or get more information 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. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Kiwanis Club of East Sacramen-to-MidtownVisitors Welcome, weekly breakfast meeting on Fridays at 7 a.m. Topical weekly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’. Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacra-mento, CA 95817. www.eastsacmidtownki-wanis.com. Meeting/Membership info: 916-761-0984, volunteers always welcome!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Sacramento Capitolaires meetingA men’s Barbershop Harmony group, meets every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Pil-grim Hall (Sierra Arden United Church of Christ), 890 Morse Ave., Sacramento. Info: www.capitolaires.org, call 888-0877-9806, or email [email protected] ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Artisan holds Food DriveArtisan Salon is participating in the Spirit 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 families in need by par-ticipating in this year’s drive! Artisan Salon is located at 3198 Riverside 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 Free-port 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 Com-munity Service, often with speakers from our community.

april Garage Sale benefiting nonprofit daycare, Forever YoungApril 26: Large multi-family sale featuring items from pre-school closure. From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., small furniture, clothes, sporting goods, books, toys, office equipment, tools, camping gear, seasonal and holiday decora-tions will all be out in the play yard, 1209 P St., Sacramento.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––


Mental Illness WalkMay 3: Northern California National Al-liance on Mental Illness Walk. 8 to noon, Village Green. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Carmichael community yard saleMay 3: Clean out your office, house-hold items, collectibles, toys, and other items. Location is La Sierra Communi-ty Center, 5325 Engle Road, Carmi-chael. Booth space is 10 feet by 10 feet and the cost is $20 per booth or two for the price of $30. Can’t buy a booth, but want to donate stuff? The Carmichael Chamber will have a booth. All pro-ceeds to benefit the Carmichael Com-munity Beautification Program. The Salvation Army truck will be available after the event. For booth space, call 485-5322, extension 23.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Derby Day 2014: Hats On For the Kids Benefiting Lilliput Children’s ServicesMay 3: From 1 to 5 p.m. at Mulvaney’s B&L,1215 19th St., the “Derby Day 2014: Hats On For the Kids” fundraiser will be cel-ebrating the 140th Kentucky Derby, while raising awareness and resources for vulnera-ble children and their families. For more than 30 years, Lilliput Children’s Services has been helped abused and neglected children by con-necting them with a safe, loving and perma-nent family. Lilliput completes more than 500 foster adoptions each year, the most of any pri-vate agency in California. Event features: Live broadcast of the Derby races on multiple big screen TVs, delicious authentic Southern food by Mulvaney’s, hosted wine and beer, ladies’ hat contest, live jazz band featuring Frankie Sorci, unique and exciting live auction items and convenient valet parking, $5 per vehicle. This is the one signature event that Lilliput has to raise unrestricted program dollars and to promote community awareness. All net proceeds will be used to augment communi-ty services that are otherwise unfunded or un-derfunded through our government contracts. Ticket cost is $60 per person. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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16th Annual East Sac Garden TourMay 10 and 11: Tour seven beautiful East Sacramento gardens. Enjoy a delicious ca-tered luncheon at the historic Sutter Lawn & Tennis Club, Shop at the unique artisan boutique with 25 vendors. And take a break at the Sweet Stop and Sactotomatoes food truck. Tickets for the tour are $20 through May 9 and $25 for the weekend. The lun-cheon is $15. Visit www.eastsacgardentour.com. All proceeds benefit the students of David Lubin School. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Scottish Music Workshop and ConcertMay 10: Learn to play in the Scottish style from a world-famous master musi-cian; Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Assem-

bly Room (upstairs in the annex building); 2620 Capitol Ave. Workshop 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Concert at 7 p.m. Space is limit-ed so register early to secure your place! Ad-vance registration required. Contact Janet Kurnick at 446-4404 or [email protected] for more information. Workshop Only: $20. Concert Only: $20. Workshop and Concert: $35. (discount!)––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Libertarian Party of Sacramento Country Presents State Assembly District 9 Candidate ForumMay 15: Meet the candidates: Manuel Martin,Tim Gorsulowsky, Jim Cooper, Dar-rell Fong, Diana Rodriguez and enjoy some

pizza and beer. Round Table Pizza, 1307 Florin Rd. Sacramento; 6-9 p.m.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Sacramento Community Concert Association performanceMay 17: Starting at 7:30 p.m., this will be a FREE (non-ticketed) Bonus Concert at Westminster Presbyterian, 1300 N St.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Angelman Syndrome Walkathon May 17: 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Village Green ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Deane Dance Center presents “The Story of Noah’s Ark”May 17-18: Deane Dance Center’s spring production is coming up on Saturday, May 17 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m. The center is located at 2300 Sierra Blvd., 95825. The ballet is entitled,” The Story of Noah’s Ark.” Original music by Henrik Jul Hansen. Adults $15, Seniors and Students $12 and children $10. Tickets are available at the door or by calling 453-0226. Visit deane-dancecenter.com for more information.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Buzz Oates No Excuses 5K,May 24: Buzz Oates No Excuses 5K, 7 to 11 a.m., Village Green. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

International Kids FestivalMay 24: International Kids Festival, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Land Park Amphitheater

June

Doggy DashJune 7: Doggy Dash,7:00 am - 1:00 pm, Village Green. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Women of Life Picnic and Songs,June 7: Women of Life Picnic and Songs, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Land Park Amphitheater. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

A Taste of Land ParkJune 8: VIP Member Hour, 3 to 4 p.m.; general 4 to 7 p.m., 14th Street between Vallejo and Markham ways. Neighborhood eateries, live music, wall of wine, regional wineries and breweries, artist’s corner. 21 & Over only. Check LandPark.org for tickets.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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