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Janey Way Memories ....................................... 2

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By Marty [email protected]

My friend Tom Hart grew up on Janey Way during the 1950s and 60s. He ran with the younger group of Janey Way boys, which included the Tomassetti brothers, Denis and John, my little brother Johnny and John Ducray. I memorialized them in a past column about the “Battle for Mount Everest,” a hill in the middle of the vacat-ed sand and gravel pit behind the houses on the east side of Janey Way. The young-er boys won that skirmish.

Later in life, Tom completed his secondary education at Sacramento High School before going off to college at UCLA where he earned a degree in government.

After college, Tom embarked on a long career in public administration. He worked first in the Modesto Recreation and Parks Department. He then served as Assistant City Manager for Yuba City. Finally he worked as Assistant Director of the California Redevelopment Agency before taking over as Director, when his boss John Shirey became City Manager of Sacramento. During this time, Tom nev-er lost his desire or ability to pretend, as he once did on Janey Way. Ultimately, he took up acting.

These days, Tom is semi-retired, but he dabbles as an actor. To date, he has no less than twenty credits in movies, television shows and commercials. He once played the role of a coach in a Nike commercial featuring pro basketball star Lebron James. After the shoot, Lebron walked over to Tom, shook his hand, and said “thanks a lot coach.”

More recently Tom played a lead role in a local independent film titled: “Deer Sea-son.” Tom was a sheriff in that movie which languished on the cutting room until recent-ly. It was screened in Elk Grove earlier this year and now awaits distribution.

Last year, Tom helped form a produc-tion company called Back2One Produc-tions. He is the president of the company. And, just last week Back2One began film-ing a television pilot about an edgy police detective named Hennessy. In that show, Tom plays the lead character’s more down to earth sidekick. The company has an in-vestor for this project, and their goal is to establish it as a weekly show on a nation-al cable television channel. Who knows, maybe someday Tom will be a regular on a nationally distributed television show.

It looks like Janey Way has finally “gone Hollywood.” Now, Tom’s days of fighting great battles on Mount Ever-est, are just another thrill-a-minute Janey Way memory.

Janey Way Memories

Janey Way Goes Hollywood

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CSUS lecture to explore prospect of earthquake proof homes

“The Earthquake-Proof Home – Is It in Our Fu-ture?” Civil Engineering Professor Ben Fell will pose that fascinating question at this fall’s first STEM Lec-ture, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, in the University Union Redwood Room.

Fell’s lecture will focus on the efficacy of pairing en-hanced engineering with off-the-shelf building materials to limit earthquake damage to conventional homes. It will draw upon 20 full-scale tests utilizing full-scale pla-nar wall specimens subjected to earthquake-type loading. Fell and his students have worked for a year on this project, which involves re-searching alternative seismic fortification for light-frame (residential) structures.

That research flows from a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foun-dation, in conjunction with Stanford University, to gauge the feasibility of strengthen-ing residential structures by using more earthquake-resis-tant building materials.

Last spring, Fell received the President’s Research and Creative Activity Award for making significant scholar-ly contributions during the past five years and securing federal grants. He came to Sac State five years ago after completing his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineer-ing at the University of Cal-ifornia, Davis, in 2008. He received his master’s degree from Stanford and his bach-elor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has written extensively on the behavior of structures under seismic effects.

This scientific study un-derscores Sacramento State President Alexander Gon-zalez’ praise that Fell’s re-search “is central to the University’s mission” of providing Sacramento State graduates with “practical hands-on education” that makes them so essential to the state and local economy.


By laNCe [email protected]

Note: This is part two of a two-part series regarding the new, local business, Starlite, and its historic building.

Certainly one of the more noticeable landmarks along 21st Street is a tall, two-sto-ry building at 1517 21st St., where the new Starlite bar and eatery opened last month.

During an interview with this publication on Aug. 27, Starlite co-owner Shannon Cannon spoke about old health depart-ment paperwork that had been found inside a bathroom wall during the remodeling project that preceded the recent grand opening of the present busi-ness. This paperwork is dated June 24, 1938.

Although Cannon showed excitement about learning that the building existed 75 years ago, the structure’s his-tory began prior to that time.

Evidence of the building’s pre-1938 existence can be found on a detailed record of subsequent building permits issued for 1517 21st St.

The earliest date on this re-cord is April 6, 1925, and un-der the “nature of work” col-umn for that date is the notation: “Move from 2101 P St. & gen. reps.”

In commenting about that notation, Pat Johnson, se-nior archivist at the Center for Sacramento History, said, “In 1925, the building that’s at 1517 21st St. was moved from 2101 P St. to that site by a L. (D.) Ehret. (Louis D. Ehret) was the (building’s) owner.”

The cost for moving today’s Starlite building from its orig-inal location to its present lo-cation was $1,500.

It was also on April 6, 1925 that an “application for per-mit to build” card was filled out for the construction of a building at 2101 P St.

The card, which recognizes Ehret as the P Street proper-ty’s owner, describes the then-planned P Street structure as a two-story brick and frame stucco store and apartment building.

The contractor for the new, $35,000 building was East Sacramento resident Edson D. Brier of the Brier Con-struction Co., which was lo-cated at 2809 S St.

Today, the old 2101 P St. building has multiple address-es and, on its ground floor, it houses the Royal Peacock Tattoo Parlor (2101), Choice Food & Liquor (2103), Mid-town Laundry (2105) and Café Au Lait (2107) on its P Street side and Heads 1st men’s and women’s hairstyling salon at 1527 21st St.

During research for this ar-ticle, the earliest discovered building permit card for the original 2101 P St. structure – today’s Starlite building – is a card dated Jan. 9, 1915.

It was notated on the card that a 125-gallon stove oil tank had been placed 4 feet below the ground in the side-walk space outside the build-ing. The work was performed by the Sacramento Burner and Oil Co.

Although research for this article revealed that the 2101 P St. address existed as ear-ly as 1893, it was not deter-mined whether the original 2101 P St. building dates back to any year prior to 1915.

In 1893, Buffalo Brewing Co. workers, Germany native Charles Neidhart, and his son, Robert L. Neidhart, re-sided at 2101 P St. About a year earlier, they were living at 2015 O St.

The 1895 city directory lists the same residents, as well as Charles Neidhart’s daugh-ter, Mollie R. Neidhart (later Mollie R. Tanquary), as resi-dents of 2101 P St. Addition-ally, a reference to “boarding” is mentioned in relation to the building at that time.

From 1900 to 1912, Charles is the only member of his family who was men-tioned in city directories as residing at 2101 P St.

In 1913 and 1914, the building was again recog-nized in a city directory as a place of boarding, and Charles Neidhart (malster at Buffalo Brewery), his German-born wife, Rosa “Tess” Neidhart (boarding), and his daugh-ter, Josephine N. Neidhart (cook), were listed as living in the structure.

Building permit cards for Jan. 9, 1915 and March 3, 1916 show Rosa Neidhart as the structure’s owner.

Charles Neidhart passed away on June 11, 1915, at which time his son was resid-ing in Utica, N.Y.

Another card, dated July 21, 1922, lists Arthur Neidhart as the building’s owner.

In 1916 and 1917, the fu-ture Starlite building was home to Lloyd B. Murphy, a solicitor for John W. Lindner, a grocer and wholesale coffee dealer at 808 K St.

A year later, the building housed the creamery of Lewis M. Cosgrove.

Lewis M. and Earl V. Cos-grove opened Cosgrove’s gro-cery store in the same build-ing in about 1920.

A 1923 advertisement for the store lists its offerings as “groceries, candy, statio-nery, soda fountain, fruits and vegetables.”

Following the relocation of the building from P Street to 21st Street, Mabel Woerner and Alfred B. Gilbert opened a delicatessen in the structure.

Other businesses operating in the 21st Street building at various times were a barber-shop, a shoe repair business and a watch repair shop.

In 1929, the building un-derwent repairs in preparation for the opening of a restaurant owned by James W. Keller, who resided in the building with his wife, Elizabeth.

According to the aforemen-tioned list of building permits for 1517 21st St., Elizabeth was a longtime owner of the structure.

Another restaurant, Cozy Café, was operated in the building in 1932 by John L. Campbell and Frank P. Sulli-van, who resided on the struc-ture’s second floor.

A remodeling of the build-ing for a restaurant by lo-cal contractor Charles Vani-na and the construction of a storage room began in 1954.

Four years earlier, Antonio “Tony” Legatos (1892-1964) of Sacramento, John Glynn of Suisun City and Mabel J. Spears of Vallejo official-ly formed The Town House Restaurant Corp. for the pri-mary intention of operating and maintaining a restaurant, bar and tavern business.

The 1955 city directory rec-ognizes the existence of the Town House restaurant and bar at 1517 21st St. Its own-ers are listed as Tony Lega-tos, John Petrakos and Ange-lio Vitoratos.

Other early owners of the business were Samuel Evans,

Paul Manuian, Lloyd Ray-mond and Al Morgan.

During its earlier years, the Town House was primarily a restaurant, with its bar be-ing the secondary part of the business.

There were two banquet rooms upstairs and a dining room downstairs.

The business, which was orig-inally known for its steaks and seafood, eventually reached the point that it was seldom closed, as it once kept the hours of 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Frank Torres, Sr. (1922-2004), a Sacramento native who graduated from Sacra-mento High School in 1940 and became an East Sacra-mento resident about nine years later, purchased 49 per-cent of the business on April 12, 1963.

Then on Nov. 9, 1973, he bought the remaining 51 percent from Tony Legatos’ widow, Hresoula Legatos (1895-1979).

While involved with the Town House, Frank, Sr., whose parents, Jesus and Guadalupe Torres, were im-migrants of Mexico, added

some of his family culture to the business, as he had Mexi-can food placed on the restau-rant’s menu.

Along with his Chihua-hua, Mexico-born wife, Espe-ranza “Hope” (Nunez) Torres (1923-2002), Frank, Sr. had four children, Shirley, Gloria, Frank, Jr. and Ronnie.

Ronnie, who bartended at the Town House in about 1972, said that other bartend-ers of the business included Mike Smith, Ted Henderson and Rick Lewis.

And while reminiscing about the Town Houses’s food, Ronnie said that dur-ing the late 1960s, children’s plates began at $1.65.

Frank, Sr. retired in 1986, and several people owned the business at various times un-til the fall of 2003, when Desi David Reynoso purchased the business.

On Oct. 12, 2012, the building was repurchased by the Torres family through an auction, and Desi continued to operate the business until May 22, 2013.

The building’s present busi-ness, Starlite, held its soft opening on Aug. 6 and its grand opening on Aug. 30.

Starlite building has detailed history

Photo by Lance ArmstrongThe Starlite/former Town House Lounge building is one of the dominant landmarks along 21st Street.


By MONiCa [email protected]

After nearly 30 years in the television business, Access Sacramento Executive Direc-tor Ron Cooper called it quits managing local nonprofit ca-ble television stations, chan-nels 17 and 18 on Comcast and SureWest.

Access Sacramento pro-grams contain different points of view from that of commer-cial stations and prides itself on providing the public the opportunity to be newsmak-ers. As Cooper puts it: “We were kind of the earliest form of YouTube.”

A humble man with a bit of a 1st Amendment activ-ist flare, Cooper truly believes people are good at heart and because of that sharing infor-mation freely on Access televi-sion can be a powerful thing.

As executive director, Coo-per was on the front lines,

making decisions that would safeguard the integrity and honor of the entire organiza-tion and he said he was ready to step away from all that. “Every day you have to deal with stuff and so I just want-ed to step away from that and have more free time.”

What that all entails is un-certain now, but he said the station is as strong as it’s ever been. “The way we’re thought of in the community is very positive, though we wish we were thought of more. It’s tough because … in terms of TV, radio and The Bee, there’s a sense that you’re competi-tion, so it’s hard for them to say anything about us. If what you do is not featured in any of the media, do you really ex-ist? So that’s a challenge.”

But truth be told, the station exists on its own terms and has won numerous awards, including “Best Public Access

Television In Nation” and more than 40 national and re-gional programming awards. Cooper received the 2003 Al-liance for Community Media Buske Leadership Award for national, regional, and local public access leadership.

One thing that Cooper can count on is that the quali-ty of the station will remain intact with the new execu-tive director, Gary Martin, a veteran television professor at Cosumnes who sat on the board of directors at Access. Knowing the station would be left in good hands, helped motivate Cooper’s decision to retire. A national search was done for the replace-ment but Martin’s name still rose to the top.

The station, known as a platform for giving voice to the community not other-wise seen or heard in other media, has between 500 and

750 members with about 150 to 300 who are actively pro-ducing shows. “For $30 a year, you get to do what you want,” Cooper said. “It could be wonderfully interesting and have a following or oth-ers could be, ‘oh my God, his mother doesn’t even watch.’ So the nature of it is not tar-geting for audience appeal.”

“We get an opportunity to experiment where we have to go with the tried and true. We’ve done full game high school football and basket-ball since ’96. In fact, in the 90s and up to the turn of the century, high school sports wasn’t really a big deal. Now you look and every Friday night, every one of the TV stations has all kinds of high school coverage. The Bee has all sorts of high school coverage. It’s become a big deal and we were there (at the beginning).”

“It’s really a study of me-dia because it used to be the Bee and all the media – they could cover national and in-ternational news stories be-cause they had bureaus. They had reporters. Now they don’t have those resourc-es. And you have CNN and now in particular with Twit-ter and Facebook instanta-neously sharing news. So they have to go more local.”

There are some shows that Access board members have to make choices about. For instance, they decided to run Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and a Dutch news

program. Then they have staff to cover local sports, produce a show called Listen Up Sac-ramento and they have week-ly Live Wire shows, which have been weekly since 1992 with arts and entertainment. And then there are the many volunteers who do “their own thing,” Cooper said.

Tahoe Park resident Isaac Gonzales was brought into the station in 2010 as the youth correspondent mentor for neighborhood news groups. Cooper explained that was an effort to control hyperlo-cal news and build a second website <accesslocal.tv>. “It’s a different model but it’s very intriguing though we haven’t been able to put the muscle be-hind it and take it big.”

“If you’re a 15 year old and you wrote an article about graffiti in your neighborhood, and you work with your men-tor at La Familia, you can post it with a slide show—that it bothers me about the graffiti in our neighborhood. It’s not only seen on accesslo-cal.tv, it’s also seen by report-ers at 10 and the Bee. Then in theory, they could use that to follow up with a story. So it helps them rather than com-petes with them. It’s a win-win if everybody plays the game. That’s been the hard-est thing- they want the story and not necessarily give peo-ple credit for it.”

The history of the station goes back to the 1980s when

Access Sacramento director retires, leaves legacy

See Access, page 8

Ron Cooper. Photo courtesy A Place Called Sacramento


Sacramento County was the largest metropolitan area with-out cable in the country. “Cable companies were really compet-itive,” Cooper recalled. He was the general manager at a small television production compa-ny and got involved through a club called International Tele-vision Association. They of-fered to help evaluate these ca-ble companies and because of that involvement Cooper was later a part of the blue ribbon committee, which formed the first television nonprofit called The Sacramento Community Cable Foundation and nat-urally he was on the first board of directors.

He was one of the three signers of the papers of in-corporation and the second person hired after the ex-ecutive director in 1986. In 1992, the initial executive di-rector left and then Cooper became the director.

“I was literally a cofounder. I was there before Access Sac-ramento was there.”

His previous experience includes credential as high school and community col-lege teacher, advertising, vid-eo production management, and mental health counselor. B.A. Sacramento State Uni-versity and M.A. San Francis-co State University, Broadcast Communication Arts.

It was really his work as a mental health counselor that pushed him to apply to grad-uate school, as he began to understand the tools of televi-sion. Clients were videotaped

early in the day and then in the afternoon, they would watch the tapes. “I saw peo-ple who were going through something very tearful, very emotional and they would come back at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, see themselves on the little black and white tele-vision monitor and then be right back in it again. I started seeing the tools of television as something more than just selling soap. It just depends. You can build an outhouse, you can build a mansion, but the tools are tools.”

So he applied to San Fran-cisco State and luck had it that year the school was looking for nontraditional television appli-cants. “That was the only year they did it and I was lucky to get in on it. It was an interest-ing class. All of us came from various backgrounds.”

To say the least, Cooper’s journey had a nontraditional beginning but became a long-lasting career with an even longer lasting legacy.

The station’s home has al-ways been located inside the beautiful Coloma Communi-ty Center, 4623 T St. in Elm-hurst. Driving to work every day through the neighbor-hood was enjoyable to Cooper as he got to watch the seasons change just outside his office. It may be a distant memory now, but something tells me he can always go back. (He’s listed as a “consultant” on the website now.)

Access Sacramento detailsstations: Cable channels 17 and 18Websites: www.access-sacramento.com and ac-cesslocal.tvPhysical location: 4623 T Street, Suite A, 95819-4743Phone: (916) 456-8600; Fax: (916) 451-9601

Access: Continued from page 6Soil Born Farms on Hurley Way

gears up for annual fundraiserSBF’s urban agricultural oasis on Hurley Way transforms

into an evening of healthy seasonal and organic food, drink and music, all under the stars on Saturday, Sept. 21. Event goers can wander among the organic Hurley Way gardens of Soil Born Farms, sample seasonal and organic foods pre-pared by prominent local chefs from Sacramento’s finest restaurants at the 11th Annual Fundraiser Autumn Equi-nox Celebration.

People can taste a varied and exceptional wine list from prominent regional vintners. Enjoy live music with Mind X Quartet and Cousin Jimbo & Friends; raffle and silent auction featuring prizes including domestic round trip air-fare for two and more!

Not only will the 11th Annual Fundraiser Autumn Equinox Celebration at Soil Born Farms welcome in the harvest season, but it will kick off the region’s Farm-to-Fork Festival Week.

autumn equinox special Highlights

“The Farmer, the Chef & the Butcher” demonstration: Taste what happens when our lambs and hogs, pasture-raised by Farmer Jared Clark at Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, are put into the culinary care of Chef Michael Tuohy! Chef Tuohy will roast our American Guinea Hogs, one of the heritage breeds in Slow Foods’s Ark of Taste, and lambs on spits over an open flame. Sacramento Natural Food Co-op’s Meat Department Manager Robert Duncan will then be on hand to help serve and discuss the benefits, both in taste and otherwise, of grass-fed, free range meat. Don’t miss your chance to really know where your meat comes from by talk-ing face to face with the farmer, the chef and the butcher. Farm to fork doesn’t’ get any more direct!

If you go: What: 11th Annual Fundraiser Autumn Equinox Cele-

bration at Soil Born Farms, Sponsored By The Sacramen-to Natural Foods Co-op

Where: 3000 Hurley Way, SacramentoWhen: Saturday, Sept. 21 from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.Ticket Info (Advance Purchase Only; No Tickets Avail-

able at the Door): Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 1900 Alhambra Blvd., or Soil Born Farms (916) 363-9685 or online www.soilborn.org

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The Capital Artists’ Studio Tour is an easy way for people to see art where it is made, to buy art directly from the art-ists, and to experience art in our com-munity. It is free to tour goers and gives local artists a chance to share their art from the intimate environment of their own studios.

The following East Sacramento area studios will be open Sept. 21 and 22 from 10 am. to 5 p.m. as part of the two-weekend Capital Artists’ Studio Tour.

The East Sacramento News is very gracious to the artists who have pro-vided us with bios and photos of their work. This guide is an intimate intro-duction to what the tour has to offer our neighbors. For more information, visit wwww.CASTsacramento.org.

1. Paul Almond, Marc Foster, Jennifer Frase, Maya Kini, Hannah Puente (320 Alhambra Blvd.)

Paul almond’s life as an artist is an “evenings-and weekends” thing. “As an architect with my own office, I spend far too much time on that aspect of my life, but love to fill in the remaining time either painting, or working with wood (lately wine barrel staves from which this sculpture is made).”

Marc Foster will be working at his own studio- Marc Foster Creative, also listed as The Factory- 320 Alhambra Blvd. “Combining mixed media in my designs, I find that art can also have

function in a space and allow for any en-vironment to have the element of beau-ty and balance sometimes only reserved for galleries and museums.”

For the tour, Jennifer Frase will be work-ing out of Marc Foster’s studio at “The Factory.” Her artist statement: “May-be they won’t see me in here is one piece in my lighthearted series about mother-hood, titled, please stop choking your sis-ter. As the mother of twin toddlers, I have had moments of insanity, moments of joy and many moments of humor. This se-ries is meant to remind the viewer that the stresses of parenthood are often fun-ny – and perhaps if we look at a tough day with a different perspective, we’ll have a new appreciation for this rare and fleet-ing time. I’m a fine art photographer cur-rently pursuing my MFA in Photography at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. As I explore the way I use photography, I am still experimenting in many themes and styles, but my use of humor is a com-ment thread in my work.”

www.jenfrasephotography.com

Maya kini works out of a studio in her home in Meister Terrace but will be showing with a group of artists at The Factory, Marc Foster’s studio space on Alhambra Blvd. Maya’s process stems from a belief in perfection and symme-try but with the knowledge that these qualities often hide within imperfec-tion and asymmetry. She brings a love of research, a minimalist sensibility, and a sculptural approach to making. Maya investigates materials and their capaci-ties to perform physically and poetical-ly. Her work emerges from the belief that no material is static and that there is beauty to be found in the changing surfaces of objects as they are worn. Maya was born in 1977 in Boston. She studied sculpture and literature before going on to receive a graduate degree in Metalsmithing in 2007 from Cran-brook Academy of Art. Recent exhibi-tions include Silk, a solo show at Shibu-mi gallery in Berkeley and Ferrous, at Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francis-co. She has lived in Sacramento, Cali-fornia since 2007 where she is a studio jeweler, mother and educator.

Hannah Puente is a recent grad-uate from the University of South-ern California, Roski School of Fine Arts. Since finishing school and returning to her hometown of Sacramento, she has been be-gun to develop her skills and style as an emerging artist. When she is not working at the Crocker Art Museum, she is painting and drawing whimsical spaces and na-ture inspired scenes.

2. andy Cunningham (4094 C st.)andy Cunningham will be work-

ing out of his studio located at 4094 C St. “I teach drawing at Sacramen-to Country Day School and have an MFA in combined media from Hunt-er College in New York City. I will be showing work in France and the Netherlands this fall. I have been liv-ing in Sacramento for about 15 years. This piece is about color and compo-sition and the heat of a Sacramento summer afternoon, it is 4 x 4 ft. and acrylic on wood, 2013. My work can be seen at http://syndeticart.tumblr.com

3. linda Paris (388 36th Way) linda Paris: “In my work, I strive

to create a feeling that calls to mind a moment. There is a strong narra-tive, but it is not always explicit. The subject matter is whatever inspires me at the moment. The medium I use is dependent on the inspirations. Today, my inspirations come from nature and incongruities. All of my series of work come from their own idea and are not related to one another. They are about long moments wrapped in in-spirational randomness. I am formal-ly trained, but I have always worked outside of that training.”

4. Pamela Basurto, Mary Carboni, sharon Hagan (1020 41st st.)

Pamela Basurto: My love for working with clay started in high school, many, many years ago. Back then I did some hand building, but mostly I threw pots on the wheel. Over the years I gravitated more and more towards what I am doing now, creating hand built sculptures of cats and mice together, causing a scene.

Mary Carboni: After many years as an art instructor at Leonardo Da Vinci School in the Sacramento Unified School District, I retired from the public sector, and decided to focus on acrylic and oil painting, working out of my studio in East Sacramento. With the encouragement of fellow artist, Pam Basurto, who works in ceramics, I decided to revisit working with clay several years ago, and have been learning and experimenting with the me-dium along with my painting ever since. I feel very fortunate that I now have the time and opportunity to visualize, absorb, and interpret the world around me, as I live it, through my art.”

5. Natalie sakurai (1055 41st st.): “I studied art at CSUS, have shown

locally, and am currently working in en-caustics, mixed media, and kiln-formed glass. I generally work in layers, cre-ating visual depth as well as depth of meaning in my art.”

6. lisa Fernald Barker (1401 40th st.)lisa Fernald Barker’s fine art is repre-

sented nationally by Serena & Lily and her works are often seen at Crocker’s juried art auction, and in Bay Area galleries such as SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery. Lisa, originally an artist local to Sacramento visits for the CAST weekend from Santa Cruz County. She will be showing her latest work from her friend’s house on 40th Street.

7. leslie toms (1215 43rd st.)8. Cheryl lobenberg, David lobenberg (5523 F st.)9. Janet Montague, kim tennant (836 57th st.)

10. Marcia Cary, alex Calder, Florence Jones (6346 elvas ave.)

Marcia Cary: “Although I was trained as a painter (MFA, UC Berkeley; BA, UC Davis) and have painted and drawn most of my life, digital photography en-tered my life recently. I have been mak-ing digital collage, collecting and pho-tographing images to mix … About the photo: A lie can travel #3, from the say-ings series: a lie can travel around the world twice before the truth can get its pants on. Mark Twain and others have said something like this. I like the ver-sion with the pants in it (sometimes it’s shoes) because from time to time you try to put both legs in the same hole and you fall over. Oh? You’ve never done that? Nothing in this picture is the truth.”

alex Calder is a freelance production artist with a degree in commercial art pro-duction that in the last two years start-ed to work in conceptual theme photog-raphy using film and digital formats. He is also working on publishing a book using his iconographic images based on differ-ent social issues. A percentage of his book sales will be donated to a California based anti-bully campaign. He says: “I admire people that try to figure me out, I thought I was the only one wasting.”

Florence Jones: “I have been work-ing with handmade paper since the late 1980s after seeing the works of oth-er papermakers. (I) took several class-es in papermaking and continued on ever since. There is so much you can do working with natural fibers - plus pro-cessed cotton linters and Abaca (Banana Hemp Plant). Love creating heavy tex-ture and forming it over tree branch-es, etc. Even though preparation of the natural fibers is time consuming, requir-ing soaking the fibers for extended peri-ods of time, cooking, beating by hand or mechanical means, the final results are worth the effort. My involvement with the Sacramento State Alumni Associa-tion and the Art Department has filled a need to be associated with the aca-demic world.Through the Alumni Art Chapter - am currently serving as pres-ident – we celebrate an end-of-the-year Art Ball honoring our graduates; curate an art show for our alums in June of ev-ery year; and work on other activities. In the business world, I have worked with interior designers for many years.”

11. susan recely (620 Hartnell Pl.)

12. kate Farrall (2855 58th st.):kate Farrall: “By hacking into per-

sonal histories, through the photo-graphic memories of strangers, I create

mutated recollections in an effort to con-sider how I make sense of being human. By using the communicative properties of bioluminescent organisms, I map a heredity of mis-communication. I’m fascinated by mistakes and words, and the role of photography in our person-al histories and as our surrogate memo-ry. Chance, color, process, motion, space and low-tech approaches are employed in all I make. Made in an analog fashion by photographically recording the emit-ted bioluminescent light from living or-ganisms including fish from the deep, sea algae, fire flies and foxfire fungi onto color photo paper.”

13. John yoyogi Fortes (5861 18th ave.)John yoyogi Fortes: “After many years

in various warehouse spaces I am now working out of my home in a converted two-car garage for my studio. My paint-ing in the collection at the Crocker Art Museum, which is 12 feet wide, was cre-ated in the studio at home near Tahoe Park. I don’t consider myself an artist, but instead feel I’m just someone com-pelled to make objects. These objects speak to me on many levels and hopeful-ly others will be drawn to them as well. Making art isn’t romantic. The process begs questioning of ones self and brings to the surface ones own worst critic.”

14. Frankie Hansbearry (4210 2nd ave.): “I am a native Sacramentan of Okinawan and Northern European an-cestry and have lived most of my life in Sacramento except for a five-year peri-od in San Felipe, Baja California. Very early in life I was exposed to other cul-tures through the National Geograph-ic magazines my mother subscribed to and this began a life-long interest in comparative mythologies and the cul-tural practices of indigenous people. I am fascinated by ancient figurines and the folk art traditions from many parts of the world. This interest also in-cludes music, traditional dress, spiri-tual practices and dance. Much of my art, particularly the sculptures, tell sto-ries about human strengths and flaws. Some of the work is reflective. Some of it is just plain silly. If the work touches you in some way, maybe I’ve done my job. Making something from nothing is like birthing. Whatever comes out of

my overactive mind is a gift from the universe, and I feel pretty lucky to be on this creative journey.”

15. kassandra Voigt (3983 4th ave.) “I have been making art furiously since I took a figure drawing class at SAIC in high school. I knew being an artist was the path for me, and I have been doing it ever since. I graduated from SAIC in 2000, then moved to sunny Cali to be with my family. Currently I work as an art teacher at a Montessori pre-school and enjoy sharing my art in vari-ous forms. I recently opened a Society6 shop online, as well as being an active member of Etsy.com since 2010. I love life, I love making art, I love teaching art, and I love sharing art in all its vari-ous forms.”

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The Capital Artists’ Studio Tour is an easy way for people to see art where it is made, to buy art directly from the art-ists, and to experience art in our com-munity. It is free to tour goers and gives local artists a chance to share their art from the intimate environment of their own studios.

The following East Sacramento area studios will be open Sept. 21 and 22 from 10 am. to 5 p.m. as part of the two-weekend Capital Artists’ Studio Tour.

The East Sacramento News is very gracious to the artists who have pro-vided us with bios and photos of their work. This guide is an intimate intro-duction to what the tour has to offer our neighbors. For more information, visit wwww.CASTsacramento.org.

1. Paul Almond, Marc Foster, Jennifer Frase, Maya Kini, Hannah Puente (320 Alhambra Blvd.)

Paul almond’s life as an artist is an “evenings-and weekends” thing. “As an architect with my own office, I spend far too much time on that aspect of my life, but love to fill in the remaining time either painting, or working with wood (lately wine barrel staves from which this sculpture is made).”

Marc Foster will be working at his own studio- Marc Foster Creative, also listed as The Factory- 320 Alhambra Blvd. “Combining mixed media in my designs, I find that art can also have

function in a space and allow for any en-vironment to have the element of beau-ty and balance sometimes only reserved for galleries and museums.”

For the tour, Jennifer Frase will be work-ing out of Marc Foster’s studio at “The Factory.” Her artist statement: “May-be they won’t see me in here is one piece in my lighthearted series about mother-hood, titled, please stop choking your sis-ter. As the mother of twin toddlers, I have had moments of insanity, moments of joy and many moments of humor. This se-ries is meant to remind the viewer that the stresses of parenthood are often fun-ny – and perhaps if we look at a tough day with a different perspective, we’ll have a new appreciation for this rare and fleet-ing time. I’m a fine art photographer cur-rently pursuing my MFA in Photography at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. As I explore the way I use photography, I am still experimenting in many themes and styles, but my use of humor is a com-ment thread in my work.”

www.jenfrasephotography.com

Maya kini works out of a studio in her home in Meister Terrace but will be showing with a group of artists at The Factory, Marc Foster’s studio space on Alhambra Blvd. Maya’s process stems from a belief in perfection and symme-try but with the knowledge that these qualities often hide within imperfec-tion and asymmetry. She brings a love of research, a minimalist sensibility, and a sculptural approach to making. Maya investigates materials and their capaci-ties to perform physically and poetical-ly. Her work emerges from the belief that no material is static and that there is beauty to be found in the changing surfaces of objects as they are worn. Maya was born in 1977 in Boston. She studied sculpture and literature before going on to receive a graduate degree in Metalsmithing in 2007 from Cran-brook Academy of Art. Recent exhibi-tions include Silk, a solo show at Shibu-mi gallery in Berkeley and Ferrous, at Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francis-co. She has lived in Sacramento, Cali-fornia since 2007 where she is a studio jeweler, mother and educator.

Hannah Puente is a recent grad-uate from the University of South-ern California, Roski School of Fine Arts. Since finishing school and returning to her hometown of Sacramento, she has been be-gun to develop her skills and style as an emerging artist. When she is not working at the Crocker Art Museum, she is painting and drawing whimsical spaces and na-ture inspired scenes.

2. andy Cunningham (4094 C st.)andy Cunningham will be work-

ing out of his studio located at 4094 C St. “I teach drawing at Sacramen-to Country Day School and have an MFA in combined media from Hunt-er College in New York City. I will be showing work in France and the Netherlands this fall. I have been liv-ing in Sacramento for about 15 years. This piece is about color and compo-sition and the heat of a Sacramento summer afternoon, it is 4 x 4 ft. and acrylic on wood, 2013. My work can be seen at http://syndeticart.tumblr.com

3. linda Paris (388 36th Way) linda Paris: “In my work, I strive

to create a feeling that calls to mind a moment. There is a strong narra-tive, but it is not always explicit. The subject matter is whatever inspires me at the moment. The medium I use is dependent on the inspirations. Today, my inspirations come from nature and incongruities. All of my series of work come from their own idea and are not related to one another. They are about long moments wrapped in in-spirational randomness. I am formal-ly trained, but I have always worked outside of that training.”

4. Pamela Basurto, Mary Carboni, sharon Hagan (1020 41st st.)

Pamela Basurto: My love for working with clay started in high school, many, many years ago. Back then I did some hand building, but mostly I threw pots on the wheel. Over the years I gravitated more and more towards what I am doing now, creating hand built sculptures of cats and mice together, causing a scene.

Mary Carboni: After many years as an art instructor at Leonardo Da Vinci School in the Sacramento Unified School District, I retired from the public sector, and decided to focus on acrylic and oil painting, working out of my studio in East Sacramento. With the encouragement of fellow artist, Pam Basurto, who works in ceramics, I decided to revisit working with clay several years ago, and have been learning and experimenting with the me-dium along with my painting ever since. I feel very fortunate that I now have the time and opportunity to visualize, absorb, and interpret the world around me, as I live it, through my art.”

5. Natalie sakurai (1055 41st st.): “I studied art at CSUS, have shown

locally, and am currently working in en-caustics, mixed media, and kiln-formed glass. I generally work in layers, cre-ating visual depth as well as depth of meaning in my art.”

6. lisa Fernald Barker (1401 40th st.)lisa Fernald Barker’s fine art is repre-

sented nationally by Serena & Lily and her works are often seen at Crocker’s juried art auction, and in Bay Area galleries such as SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery. Lisa, originally an artist local to Sacramento visits for the CAST weekend from Santa Cruz County. She will be showing her latest work from her friend’s house on 40th Street.

7. leslie toms (1215 43rd st.)8. Cheryl lobenberg, David lobenberg (5523 F st.)9. Janet Montague, kim tennant (836 57th st.)

10. Marcia Cary, alex Calder, Florence Jones (6346 elvas ave.)

Marcia Cary: “Although I was trained as a painter (MFA, UC Berkeley; BA, UC Davis) and have painted and drawn most of my life, digital photography en-tered my life recently. I have been mak-ing digital collage, collecting and pho-tographing images to mix … About the photo: A lie can travel #3, from the say-ings series: a lie can travel around the world twice before the truth can get its pants on. Mark Twain and others have said something like this. I like the ver-sion with the pants in it (sometimes it’s shoes) because from time to time you try to put both legs in the same hole and you fall over. Oh? You’ve never done that? Nothing in this picture is the truth.”

alex Calder is a freelance production artist with a degree in commercial art pro-duction that in the last two years start-ed to work in conceptual theme photog-raphy using film and digital formats. He is also working on publishing a book using his iconographic images based on differ-ent social issues. A percentage of his book sales will be donated to a California based anti-bully campaign. He says: “I admire people that try to figure me out, I thought I was the only one wasting.”

Florence Jones: “I have been work-ing with handmade paper since the late 1980s after seeing the works of oth-er papermakers. (I) took several class-es in papermaking and continued on ever since. There is so much you can do working with natural fibers - plus pro-cessed cotton linters and Abaca (Banana Hemp Plant). Love creating heavy tex-ture and forming it over tree branch-es, etc. Even though preparation of the natural fibers is time consuming, requir-ing soaking the fibers for extended peri-ods of time, cooking, beating by hand or mechanical means, the final results are worth the effort. My involvement with the Sacramento State Alumni Associa-tion and the Art Department has filled a need to be associated with the aca-demic world.Through the Alumni Art Chapter - am currently serving as pres-ident – we celebrate an end-of-the-year Art Ball honoring our graduates; curate an art show for our alums in June of ev-ery year; and work on other activities. In the business world, I have worked with interior designers for many years.”

11. susan recely (620 Hartnell Pl.)

12. kate Farrall (2855 58th st.):kate Farrall: “By hacking into per-

sonal histories, through the photo-graphic memories of strangers, I create

mutated recollections in an effort to con-sider how I make sense of being human. By using the communicative properties of bioluminescent organisms, I map a heredity of mis-communication. I’m fascinated by mistakes and words, and the role of photography in our person-al histories and as our surrogate memo-ry. Chance, color, process, motion, space and low-tech approaches are employed in all I make. Made in an analog fashion by photographically recording the emit-ted bioluminescent light from living or-ganisms including fish from the deep, sea algae, fire flies and foxfire fungi onto color photo paper.”

13. John yoyogi Fortes (5861 18th ave.)John yoyogi Fortes: “After many years

in various warehouse spaces I am now working out of my home in a converted two-car garage for my studio. My paint-ing in the collection at the Crocker Art Museum, which is 12 feet wide, was cre-ated in the studio at home near Tahoe Park. I don’t consider myself an artist, but instead feel I’m just someone com-pelled to make objects. These objects speak to me on many levels and hopeful-ly others will be drawn to them as well. Making art isn’t romantic. The process begs questioning of ones self and brings to the surface ones own worst critic.”

14. Frankie Hansbearry (4210 2nd ave.): “I am a native Sacramentan of Okinawan and Northern European an-cestry and have lived most of my life in Sacramento except for a five-year peri-od in San Felipe, Baja California. Very early in life I was exposed to other cul-tures through the National Geograph-ic magazines my mother subscribed to and this began a life-long interest in comparative mythologies and the cul-tural practices of indigenous people. I am fascinated by ancient figurines and the folk art traditions from many parts of the world. This interest also in-cludes music, traditional dress, spiri-tual practices and dance. Much of my art, particularly the sculptures, tell sto-ries about human strengths and flaws. Some of the work is reflective. Some of it is just plain silly. If the work touches you in some way, maybe I’ve done my job. Making something from nothing is like birthing. Whatever comes out of

my overactive mind is a gift from the universe, and I feel pretty lucky to be on this creative journey.”

15. kassandra Voigt (3983 4th ave.) “I have been making art furiously since I took a figure drawing class at SAIC in high school. I knew being an artist was the path for me, and I have been doing it ever since. I graduated from SAIC in 2000, then moved to sunny Cali to be with my family. Currently I work as an art teacher at a Montessori pre-school and enjoy sharing my art in vari-ous forms. I recently opened a Society6 shop online, as well as being an active member of Etsy.com since 2010. I love life, I love making art, I love teaching art, and I love sharing art in all its vari-ous forms.”

SEPTEMBER 21–22

1. Paul Almond, Marc Foster, Jennifer Frase, Maya Kini, Hannah Puente (320 Alhambra Blvd.), 2. Andy Cunningham (4094 C St.), 3. Linda Paris (388 36th Way), 4. Pamela Basurto, Mary Carboni, Sharon Hagan (1020 41st St.), 5. Natalie Sakurai (1055 41st St.), 6. Lisa Fernald Barker (1401 40th St.), 7. Leslie Toms (1215 43rd St.), 8. Cheryl Lobenberg, David Lobenberg (5523 F St.), 9. Janet Montague (836 57th St.), 10. Kim Tennant (836 57th St.), 11. Marcia Cary, Alex Calder, Florence Jones (6346 Elvas Ave.), 12. Susan Recely (620 Hartnell Pl.), 13. Kate Farrall (2855 58th St.), 14. tJohn Yoyogi Fortes (5861 18th Ave.), 15. Frankie Hansbearry (4210 2nd Ave.), 16. Kassandra Voigt (3983 4th Ave.)

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Call 808-8687 for more infowww.cityofsacramento.org/excursions

APPLE HILL - Thurs., Oct. 17 - Lunch included $60 ppNAPA WINE TRAIN - Sat., Nov. 2, Lunch included $200 pp

BARGAIN HUNTERS TRIP TO SAN JOSE FLEA - Sat., Nov. 16 - $50 ppHOLIDAY SHOPPING IN UNION SQUARE - Sat., Dec. 7 - $50 pp

SUNDAY BRUNCH AT THE CLIFF HOUSE with Gary HollowaySun., Feb. 16, 2014 - Brunch included $115 pp

Send your event announcement for consider-ation to: [email protected] at least two weeks prior to publication.

Mental Health america of Northern Cal-ifornia is seeking volunteer peer counselors to work with older adults in the Sacramen-to County. Volunteer peer counselors will provide emotional support, friendship and needed resource linkage for isolated, home-bound older adults. For information please contact Jesse Williams or Jan Blanton at (916) 855-5444–––––––––––––––––––––––––––– California youth Basketball league is cur-rently registering for the Fall 2013 season. Games continue through Nov. 2. Boys and girls grades 5 thru 12. Individual and Team registration. For more info call 391-3900 or visit us on line @www.cybhoops.com

September Bi-Polar Anonymoussept. 20: Free 12-step program/support group, for people who have Bi-Polar and those who love them. Meets every Friday, 7-8:30 p.m. 4300 Auburn Blvd., Room 106. (916) 889-5786.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Kiwanis Club of East Sacramento-Midtownsept. 20: Visitors Welcome, weekly break-fast meeting on first, second and third Fri-days at 7:00 AM and Dinner meeting on fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM. Topical week-ly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’. Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www.eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com, Meeting/Membership info: 916-761-0984, volun-teers always welcome!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Michael Denman Scholarship Golf Tournamentsept. 20: AMR crews from the Sacramento and surrounding areas are organizing a Golf Tournament in honor of their lost Paramed-ic Michael S Denman. Michael was an ex-tremely generous soul who worked hard to not only be an excellent patient care pro-vider but a community leader who made a real difference. This tournament benefits the MSD Foundation Scholarship which pro-vides EMT and Paramedic education to serve our community. The tee off time is 1 p.m. at Lincoln Hills, 1005 Sun City Lane. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Best of Grateful Cranesept. 21: Buddhist Church of Sacramen-to, Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church and Asian Community Center pres-ents a Grateful Crane Ensemble Production of the Best of Grateful Crane. Two perfor-mances – 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Bud-dhist Church of Sacramento Kaikan, 2401 Riverside Blvd., Sacramento. General admis-sion tickets are $20, bentos available advance purchase for $10. Information, tickets and/or bento lunch boxes, contact Hiroshi F. Kashiwagi, 769-1125, or [email protected]––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Fire Station 18 Open Housesept. 21: The Sacramento Fire Department will be hosting Fire Station Open House from 2 to 4 p.m., located at 746 N. Mar-ket Blvd. You are invited to bring your fami-ly and friends to visit with firefighters, take a tour of the fire station, and more! For more information, call 808-1011.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Tahoe Park clean up daysept. 21: Clean up day from 8 to 11 a.m. East side of the park on 61st Street between 8th and 11 Avenues. Tasks include weed-ing, pruning, raking, and some rehabilitation of the horseshoe pit. Two different Boys Scouts in pursuit of their Eagle Scout Badg-es will be on hand. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Sunburst Projects Perennial Salesept. 21-23: Fall perennial sale. Cash and check accepted. Benefits Sunburst Proj-ects. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 3072 24th St. Curtis Park. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Northern California Chapter of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society (GRHS) meetingsept. 22: “The Northern California Chap-ter of the Germans from Russia Heri-tage Society (GRHS) will meet Sunday, 9/22/13 at 1:30 p.m. in St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L Street, in Sacramento. This month’s program will consist of a video by Pauline Litfin of the Lodi Chapter of AHS-GR. Ms. Litfin describes her life in Ukraine and the challenges she faced when she trav-eled to Germanyand the United States. The GRHS is a non-profit, non-denominational, and non-political organization whose pur-pose is to bring people together that have historic and genealogical interest about Ger-mans from Russia and to preserve their unique and rich heritage. For more informa-tion about the club and its meeting dates, contact Don Schell at 428-6495 [email protected]. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Rotary Clubs of Arden-Arcade, Carmichaelsept. 24: Guest speakers address local, re-gional and international topics. Visitors wel-come, every Tuesday. Arden-Arcade meets at noon, Jackson Catering and Events, 1120 Fulton Ave. (916) 925-2787. Carmichael meets at 6:30 p.m., Ancil Hoffman Golf Club. www.rotary.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

East Sac Rotarysept. 25: Meets at 6 p.m., Evan’s Kitchen, 855 57th St. Sacramento. www.eastsacrotary.com. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Rotary Club of Pocket/Greenhavensept. 26: Guest speakers address local, re-gional and international topics. Visitors welcome. 7:30 a.m., every Thursday. Avia-tors Restaurant, 6151 Freeport Blvd. (916) 684-6854. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Kiwanis Club of East Sacramento-Midtownsept. 26: Visitors Welcome, weekly break-fast meeting on first, second and third Fri-days at 7:00 AM and Dinner meeting on fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM. Topical week-ly speakers and ‘first meal for visitors on us’. Meet at The Kiwanis Family House, (at UCD Med Ctr/ 50th St & Broadway) 2875 50th Street Sacramento, CA 95817. www.eastsacmidtownkiwanis.com, Meeting/Membership info: 916-761-0984, volun-teers always welcome!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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

Bi-Polar Anonymoussept. 27: Free 12-step program/support group, for people who have Bi-Polar and those who love them. Meets every Friday, 7-8:30 p.m. 4300 Auburn Blvd., Room 106. (916) 889-5786.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Free Two-Day Literacy Festival at Fairytale Townsept. 28-29: All aboard for reading! Fai-rytale Town presents the 13th annual ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival on September 28 and 29. Sherri Duskey Rink-er, the New York Times bestselling author of “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site” and “Steam Train, Dream Train,” will headline the two-day Festival. Admission to the Festival and Fairytale Town is free to the public thanks to the event’s sponsor, Schol-arShare College Savings Plan. Free. Adults must be accompanied by children. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive, Sacramento, CA 95822, 808-7462, [email protected], www.fairytaletown.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Tahoe Park Starlight Movie Seriessept. 28: The last showing of the Star-light Movies Series for 2013. Seating be-gins at 5:45 p.m. and the movie (TBD) begins at dusk, approximately 7 p.m. This event is always free. 61st Street between 8th and 11th avenues. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Fire Station 60 Open Housesept. 28: The Sacramento Fire Department will be hosting Fire Station Open House from 2 to 4 p.m., 3301 Julliard Dr. You are invited to bring your family and friends to visit with firefighters, take a tour of the fire station, and more! For more information, call 808-1011.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

4th Annual World Rabies Day Eventsept. 28: The Sacramento Valley Veterinary Medical Association is coordinating its 4th Annual World Rabies Day Event. In the “Three for Free” campaign, there will be of-fering free microchips and free rabies vac-cines to dogs and cats, as well as a free one-year license to all first time, altered pets. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Sacramento Community Concert Association performancesept. 29: SCCA presents 7-String guitar-ist Matthew Grasso and The Vocal Art En-semble at 3 p.m. at Westminster Presbyte-rian, 1300 N St. Matthew Grasso is one of the most innovative guitarists of his gener-ation. He has taken the art of the extended 7-string guitar to new heights. The Vocal Art Ensemble, Tracia Barbieri, Conduc-tor, brings together experienced musicians pursuing artistic expression through finesse of the human voice. Appealing to both the discerning musician and the casual music lover, VAE performances celebrate the el-egant beauty of Renaissance motets, ton-al color of modern works, and exotic flavor of music from other cultures. Regular sub-scription: $90, Group discount (8 or more people): $75, Students subscription: $45, Single Ticket: $25. For more information, contact Sacramento Community Concert Association www.sccaconcerts.org; [email protected]; 400-4634. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Free golf lessons offered at Bing Maloney Golf Complexsept. 29: Are you interested in start-ing to play golf, but not sure where to be-gin? Bing Maloney is offering Free Family Clinics for 2013. These clinics are family oriented for any level of golfer. Each clin-ic will be held on Sundays from 1 to 2:15 p.m. at the Bing Maloney Golf Course: 6801 Freeport Blvd. in Sacramento. Call 808-2283 for more information.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––


Open HOuseSunday, October 13, 20131:00pm - 4:00pm

sHadOw daysOctober 28 - December 12, 2013

placement testNovember 23, 2013 orJanuary 18, 2014

We invite you to experience the

St. Francis High School

community, meet our

outstanding faculty, and learn

how we help each student

develop her gifts and talents.

5900 Elvas Avenue . Sacramento, CA 95819 . 916.737.5095 . www.stfrancishs.org

Of course she will be well prepared for college… but she’ll also be part of a life-long sisterhood of faith, excellence, leadership and service.

Community outreach fairsept. 29: From 1:30 to 4 p.m., the goal of this event is to bring information to our community not only about the servic-es that our Lodge has to offer but the ser-vices that are available from local organiza-tions, businesses, and healthcare providers. There will be free hearing and vision test-ing, free blood pressure checks. In addition, media and local elected officials will be in-vited and scheduled tours of our facility will be offered along with refreshments. Inter-ested in participating in this event? Con-tact Jane Gallagher, Chairman (916) 422-8351 or (916) 607-8347. SPONSORS: GOLD: $100; SILVER: $ 75; BRONZE: $50. [email protected] To reserve a table,

please complete the registration form be-low and mail or email to: Sacramento Elks Lodge #6, 6446 Riverside Blvd., Sacramen-to, CA 95831––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

St. Joseph Craft Fair and Chili Cook Offsept. 29: From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Clarks-burg is the St Joseph Craft Fair and Chili Cook Off. Nat Brown will be the Musi-cal Guest. Cook off begins at 8 a.m. with tasting from 11 to 1. Price is $5. There will also be a craft fair from 8 to 3. For the cook off, call Lou at 424-2624 or for the fair, call Joan at 392-9946. 32890 South River Rd., Clarksburg.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Evening with Gerlene and Pamelasept. 29: Two local musicians, organ-ist and pianist Gerlene Kwan and con-tralto Pamela Knox will perform a pi-ano and vocal fund raising concert at 7 p.m. at the Centennial United Method-ist Church. Gerlene will present a var-ied program of classical, gospel, con-temporary, light jazz, and ragtime music. They will be sharing their tal-ents to raise funds to maintain Centen-nial UMC buildings. Advanced tickets are $15, $20 at the door; students are free. For more information, call 452-4477. 5401 Freeport Blvd.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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CONVENIENT EAST SACRAMENTOWonderful home remodeled with gourmet kitchen with 2 sinks, pot filler, gas range, and granite counters. The bathroom with tub & shower has also been remodeled. New 1 1/2 car garage. Great open layout with wood floors, recessed lighting, and a large entertainment deck with canvas shade. Roof approx. 9 years new $499,000

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REMODELED FABULOUS 40SThis lovely remodeled 4 bedroom and three bath home! High quality appliances and finishes in the gourmet kitchen; con-nected family room has French doors that open up to the backyard where you will feel like you are on a tropical vacation among the Sago and Queen Anne palms. Plus a back gate into the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club. $1,199,900

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STEPS FROM THE PARK3 bedroom, 2 bath home located just steps from McKinley Park. Features include a spacious floor plan, hardwood maple floors, granite kitchen counters, stainless steel appliances, beautiful kitchen cabinets, completely updated bathrooms, and a private low maintenance backyard patio. $375,000

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GREAT URBAN LIVINGJust blocks to the Capitol, theaters, restaurants! Take in the Farmer's Market or a baseball game at the neighborhood park. Large 2 bedroom condo on the lower level with balcony and stairs to the enclosed greenbelt and campus. Great decora-tor colors, newer recessed lighting, plantation shutters, wood laminate floors and gated outside parking. $210,000

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MIKE PARIS BUILT HOMEFabulous new home being built in the heart of East Sacramen-to!!! This 3 bedroom 2½ bath will have all the classic signatures of a Mike Paris home... high ceilings, large rooms, open floor plan, indoor/outdoor living, gourmet kitchen, and an old world style and charm. Drive by and look at the three homes already completed to get a true feel of the quality! $765,000

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STATELY TWO STORYRegal brick 2 or 3 bedroom home on a quiet East Sac-ramento corner. Move in ready with a new kitchen, bath-room, roof, tankless water heater, refinished hardwood floors, interior paint and minimal maintenance yard. Walking distance to so much but quietly removed from it all! $645,000

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