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Cleanup day to be held at Portuguese Community Park

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John F. Kennedy High School Principal discusses new role and first few weeks on the job

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School News ...............................................2

Lance Armstrong feature ............................4

Matías Bombal’s Hollywood .....................7

Faces and Places........................................ 10

Calendar .................................................... 18

St. Anthony’s festival drew large crowds

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A few weeks into the new school year as the new princi-pal at John F. Kennedy High School David Van Natten is absolutely excited for his new responsibilities and he reports that the school had a very smooth start.

“Enrollment is now just under 2,400 students, and I believe that the ever increas-ing number of students and families who choose Ken-nedy is a testament to the comprehensive selection of high quality programs and services that the school of-fers. I am super appreciative of the support that I have received from the faculty, staff, students, families, and community.”

He said his appointment came as a bit of a surprise as there were a number of high-ly qualifi ed, veteran educa-tors who were strong candi-dates, and he was humbled just to be under consider-ation for the job.

Van Natten has been with the Sacramento City Unifi ed School District since Sep-tember of 2003, having fi rst taught ninth and tenth grade English at Luther Burbank High School for seven years, was a small learning com-munity lead teacher, and lat-er served as an administrator at Luther Burbank. Prior to

his tenure with SCUSD, Van Natten taught fi rst-year writ-ing at California State Uni-versity, Chico. He is the past assistant principal at JFK.

Van Natten grew up in Southern California and relo-cated Chico to attend CSUC, which is where he met his wife, Liberty. Th ey lived for a year in Redding before mov-ing to Sacramento for his teaching job at Luther Bur-bank. He completed his M.A. at California State University, Sacramento. “Northern Cali-fornia has become my home, and I can’t imagine living any-where else,” he said.

After four years as an as-sistant principal in a variety of roles at Kennedy, he devel-oped a strong understanding of the school, its needs, chal-lenges, and nuances.

“I wanted to see the good work that (past princi-pal) Chad (Sweitzer) start-ed continue and to fortify a number of initiatives that he had undertaken. I live in the Kennedy attendance area and have school-aged chil-dren of my own. I have a professional as well as a per-sonal interest in seeing that Kennedy becomes every-thing it can be. I am a be-liever in working where you live and understand that the stronger Kennedy is, the better the community will be,” Van Natten said.

In the summer, Van Natten spent several days camping in northeastern California, but as you can imagine, he spent most of his break at Kenne-dy preparing for the upcoming school year.

For the 2015-16 school year, Van Natten said he plans to work closely with the school’s leadership team to continue the many good structures that Sweitzer built during his tenure. In addition, he intends to use his second-ary and post-secondary teach-ing background to work with the faculty and staff to ensure that all Kennedy students re-ceive appropriate access to the school’s rich curriculum, ath-letics, and many extracurricu-lar activities.

And, he is very happy to re-port that the beautiful stadi-

New JFK principal discusses new position and goals for the year

David Van Natten

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um complex is complete, and that the football team is un-defeated!

Kennedy offers a high qual-ity academic program. In ad-dition, a program in the Culi-nary Arts, Manufacturing and Design, Robotics, the Pro-gram in American and Cali-fornia Explorations(PACE), the Sacramento Police De-partment cadet academy, Ma-rine Corps. Junior ROTC, comprehensive athletic and extracurricular offerings, a di-verse assortment of clubs, and a thorough after-school pro-gram: these are just a few of the unique, high quality op-portunities that, in several cases, cannot be found else-where, Van Natten said.

Asked if he plans on mak-ing any changes to the school because of his new role, he explained his commitment to ensuring success for every student at Kennedy. “Chad provided a strong foundation, and much of the work is an evolution of initiatives that the faculty, staff, students, families, he, and I started to-gether. I want to continue to seek strong, consistent, au-

thentic engagement from the school’s many stakeholders, refocus work in the area of instruction, strengthen the commitment to restorative practices, and create a school and culture that will serve as an anchor to the communi-ty,” he said.

“Chad and I share a very similar vision for the school. Kennedy was near and dear to Chad, and it was always easy to recognize his concern and commitment. After four years of working together, he and I are close, and I contin-ue to solicit his input.

“Chad did a wonderful job of getting out the word about the school. As a result, more and more families have cho-sen Kennedy. Chad worked hard to create a school that the community, inside and out, could be proud to call their own. I thank him for his hard work and the ongoing support he has shown me.”

Students and parents can help in the success of the school with Van Natten’s fol-lowing advice: “Communicate, communicate, communicate! Get involved!” He has a desire for all students to be active in their education and school. “Take ownership! I under-

stand that neither the school nor I ‘go it alone’ and recog-nize the role that parents and families play in working with the school to educate their children. To that end, I have pledged to be accessible and

to engage in ongoing evalua-tion of the school’s programs and services,” he said.

In summing up the interview and his thoughts surround-ing his new position, Van Nat-ten said, “This is a school filled

with great students, a talented faculty and staff, and engaged families. I am happy to be here, and, again, thankful for the support I have received and the trust that has been placed in me.”

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Portuguese Community Park will be the site of a cleanup day presented by the Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society and the city of Sacramento on Saturday, Sept. 26.

The event will begin with a greeting at 9 a.m., followed by volunteer labor, including weed and tree sucker removal and shrubbery trimming.

The city’s Parks and Recreation Department will provide all the tools and equipment, and the work day will conclude at 11:30 a.m. with a picnic lunch prepared by the historical society.

Portuguese music and children’s activities will also be included in the day’s schedule.

In regard to this joint effort by PHCS and the Parks and Recreation Department, Gui Sequeira, the society’s secretary, said, “(The city has) been very congenial with us and we’ve always worked well together.”

Sequeira added that she had been inspired to have a cleanup day at the park after hear-ing about some vandalism that had occurred at the park.

“Some vandalism was done and (the PHCS agreed that) it would be a nice thing to do to (hold a cleanup day) and meet some of the neighbors, and kind of bring them into the fact that the park is their park, but we’re keep-ing an eye on it,” Sequeira said.

In speaking more specifically about vandal-ism at the park, Sequeira mentioned a vandal-ized flagpole.

“The flagpole was vandalized,” Sequeira said. “(The pole) had been donated by a fam-ily at the original construction of the park. In fact, the (family) name is on the plaque (at the park). We might replace (the pole) in the fu-ture, but they are not cheap. They are proba-bly $1,000 or more.”

Portuguese Community Park, which is lo-cated at 7350 Durfee Way, at Portugal Way, made its debut as the Pocket area’s newest park in 1988.

A city resolution to name the then-undevel-oped park site Portuguese Community Park was adopted on Nov. 18, 1986. The resolution – No. 86-871 – was signed by Mayor Anne Rudin.

The local Portuguese community had se-lected the present Portuguese Community Park site from two proposed locations, with the other being the site which now operates as Renfree Park at 54 Cache River Circle.

Another city document, with background information about the property, includes the following words: “This 3.8-acre site, consisting of two parcels adjacent to waterways and con-nected by a foot bridge, was purchased in 1979 and 1980. This park site is located within the Pocket Canal Parkway and was approved by council as a part of the Pocket Community Plan. The parkway consists of the phased in-stallation of a bikeway and landscaping along several open canals in the Pocket area.

“In addition, the Portuguese community has raised more than $11,000 to date towards (sic) the purchase of an ornamental fountain, drinking fountain, benches and a flag pole.

“Once complete, this park site will include elements typically found in a park in Portu-gal: gazebo, benches, walks and landscaping, which features Portuguese vegetation. In ad-dition, the park master plan includes a soccer field and children’s play area.

“The Portuguese Community Park site was chosen by the Portuguese community to sym-bolize the close link between the Portuguese people and the sea. The community has fur-ther contributed to the authenticity of this

Cleanup day to be held at Portuguese Community Park

Photo by Lance ArmstrongPortuguese Community Park is located at Durfee and Portugal ways in the south Pocket area.

See Park cleanup, page 5


Portuguese park through valuable input dur-ing the planning stages, and by securing the specially made ceramic tiles for the gazebo from the national government of Portugal.”

In regard to the aforementioned public bike-way – known as the Pocket Canal Bikeway – the laying of pavement for its west side was completed in 1994. But work on the east side of the bikeway was delayed due to insufficient funding at that time.

Nov. 5, 1988 proved to be a very special day, as the then-recently completed park was dedicated in honor of the Portuguese farming families who lived and worked in the Riverside-Pocket area.

The first Portuguese immigrants to establish homes in the area arrived during the 1850s.

Present at the 1988 event, which included a dinner, were representatives from the Portuguese consul from San Francisco, women in traditional Portuguese clothing and a band from Tracy.

Ground was broken for the construction of the park by the then-90-year-old Mary L. (Silva) Dutra, who was the daughter of Faial, Azores Islands, Portugal-born Joe Francisco “Milhomens” Silva, who settled in the Pock-et area in 1893.

On Sept. 19, 1999, the park was rededicat-ed, and at the same time, PHCS was celebrat-ing its 20th anniversary.

That event included an invocation and bless-ing by Father Eduino Silveira, pastor of the St. Elizabeth Portuguese National Church at 1817 12th St., performances of the American Portuguese national anthems by the Sacra-mento Youth Band and a flag raising of those nation’s flags by Boy Scout Troop 259.

During the gathering, which was coordinat-ed by PHCS members, Marilia Wiget (presi-dent), Dolores Greenslate (director) and Herb Perry (director), District 7 Councilman Rob-bie Waters presented a city resolution com-memorating PHCS’ 20th anniversary.

Another event was held at the park on Sat-urday, Nov. 13, 1999.

That event was the burying of a time cap-sule, which is scheduled to be unearthed, add-ed to and reburied in 2019.

Included in the capsule, which was created by Dolores Greenslate’s husband, Norman Greens-late, are copies of PHCS newsletters, a 1908 sur-vey plat map of the Pocket area, 1988 and 1999 park dedication brochures, and an aerial photo-graph of the area prior to its redevelopment.

Also included in the capsule is the following statement by Wiget:

“This park was built with the intention of hon-oring those early Portuguese immigrants who settled this fertile region; forever memorializing their struggles and contributions to the develop-ment of the area, the education of their children (and the children of neighbors sharing the land), and the perpetuation of their values and culture.

“The Portuguese Historical and Cultur-al Society considers the development of this park as a major accomplishment. It was from this original endeavor – the recognition of the Portuguese pioneer settlers of the Riverside-Pocket area – that the society grew into the present organization.

“May those who follow us, who open this capsule, be those who have kept and continue to keep the tradition and history of the Portu-guese people on their lips and in their hearts.”

The park was the scene of another PHCS event on Oct. 3, 2004 – the 25th anniversary of that organization.

The gathering included picnic foods, an ap-pearance by Councilman Robbie Waters, and regional dances and instrumentals from the Ribatejo area of mainland Portugal performed by the folkloric dance group, Alma Ribatejana.

Portuguese Community Park presently in-cludes the following amenities: a bantam soc-cer field, a bike trail, a gazebo, a plaza, a large stone climbing sculpture in the shape of a fish like those that appeared on historic maps, and a pirate ship-themed playground structure.

With this more than a quarter-century-old park approaching its cleanup day, Sequeira said, “What we’re most interested in is connecting with the neighborhood. Come and visit and re-connect with your past and keep the Portuguese presence alive in the Pocket area and meet the neighbors that use the park every day. And also volunteer and have some fun.”

For additional information about this event, contact Ralph Nevis at 916-421-7161.

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National Geographic Stu-dios and Terwilliger Pro-ductions offer something bigger than life and full of wonder with “Living in the Age of Airplanes”. Playing in IMAX Theatres exclu-sively, this is just the type of movie for which IMAX was made, and dazzle and delight it does.

It tells the story of the air-plane, not in chronological terms, but in terms of flight’s socio-economic impact on the globe set against the timeline of known human history. Just 175 years after the introduction of steam, we may go almost anyplace on the globe, and even fly over places one may not land at the incredible speed of 500 miles per hour. The first 200,000 years of man-kind, the species walked ev-erywhere. Distances on land were measured in leagues.

One league was the distance one could possibly walk in one day, about three miles. When man took to the sea, a league became three nautical miles, or about 6,076 yards. Today, 100,000 flights take off and land every day!

With jet travel only 60 years old, this spectacularly photographed IMAX Expe-rience is narrated by popular actor Harrison Ford, himself an avid pilot. Director Brian J. Terwilliger and crew pho-tographed this in 18 coun-tries over the course of several years. Presented in five on-screen chapters all contained in the movie’s just under one hour running time, one re-gains the sense of wonder the ancients had looking skyward with hopes of flying like the birds someday, somehow.

The movie’s composer, James Horner, who ironically recently died in a small plane crash, has created a great score here, especially in one chapter where we view how the simplest objects in your home may have arrived there

by airplane from remote cor-ners of the world. His music soars into a fun tempo as we see roses picked in Kenya and packed in the world’s larg-est flower hub, Amsterdam, where they are sorted and shipped by air to 130 coun-tries. We see the same flow-er cut and arrive within five days to a vase on the oppo-site side of the globe, follow-ing it at each stop along the way. This was one of Horn-er’s last scores, only three re-

main unheard by audienc-es for the yet to be released “The 33”, “Wolf Totem” and “The Magnificent Seven”.

Among the many dazzling sights you see in the gigantic and sharp impressiveness of IMAX are 95 locations, in-cluding Brazilian waterfalls, Cambodian ruins, Austra-lian outback, South Pacific sea turtles, the African Sa-vannah, and much, much more. This has all the thrills of the giant big screen ad-venture travelogues of the days of Cinerama, taking you to remote places like the south pole, and congested

places like busy metropoli-tan airports.

Director Terwilliger hoped to remind audiences that are frustrated by the many in-conveniences of modern air travel of just what a miracle air travel actually is in mod-ern life. He hopes to return the sense of wonder of flight the world had in a sim-pler time, when flight was a hopeful inspiration. He has succeeded. This is a giant experience that awaits you. Don’t miss it! I want to go see it again and again. Cur-rently at the Esquire IMAX Theatre, Sacramento.

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The Sacramento Film and Music Festival honored The Pocket News’ movie reviewer Matías Antonio Bombal for this year’s Film Arts Service Award, an honor given out to those who have dedicated their lives to sup-porting those who have worked in local film production and appreciation. The festival, which opened up with the award ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 9 and ended Sunday, Sept. 14 at Jean Runyon Theater at the Memori-al Auditorium, celebrates and showcases film-making from around the world and also fos-ters the creative works of local filmmakers in California’s Capital region.

According to an old Sacramento Press ar-ticle by Tony Sheppard, co-director of the Sacramento Film and Music Festival, past Film Arts Service Awards recipients in-clude Shawn Sullivan who has a track record teaching animation at Sheldon High School and watching his students go on to great suc-cess at companies such as Pixar, Bill Bron-stein who has directed the Tower of Youth film festival for many years and championed the cause of youth filmmakers, and Ron Coo-per, Executive Director of Access Sacramen-to and the force behind 11 years of their “A Place Called Sacramento” screenwriting and filmmaking program.

A biography about Bombal appeared in the festival program as follows: “Born in Santiago, Chile in 1967, and a Sacramentan since 1976, Matías Antonio Bombal fell in love with film when he first saw Walt Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ at the age of three. He developed a similar pas-sion for film exhibition and historical movie theaters, and was instrumental in the reopen-ing of the Crest Theatre in 1986, where he programmed film until 1991.

“Numerous other theater associations and revivals were accompanied by a career in tele-vision and radio, often introducing or discuss-ing movies, which in turn led to many invita-tions to emcee regional film arts events such as the Crocker Art Museum’s outdoor film series. He is also the producer and director of ‘The Sacramento Picture,’ a documentary

made in partnership with the Center for Sac-ramento History to showcase the Center’s ex-tensive film archives.

“His latest venture is the characteristically timeless MABHollywood.com, where he re-views current theatrical releases in his own unique style, most notably black and white reviews from his vintage-themed studio. He writes for several area publications (Ed note: The print publications include The West Sacra-mento News-Ledger, Valley Community News-papers’ East Sacramento News, Pocket News, Land Park News and Arden-Carmichael News), is heard regularly on local radio, distributes his reviews internationally, and is a constant proponent of film, film history, and the associ-ated arts that complement it.”

The MAB (Matías Antonio Bombal) Hol-lywood archives is a collection of videos on YouTube, pieces and recordings of saved work “my old TV work, some of which were

Congratulations to VCN movie reviewer Matías Antonio Bombal

Photos by Stephen CrowleyCongratulations to Matias Antonio Bombal, the Pocket News’ movie critic. He won this year’s Film Arts Service Award and was presented with it at opening night of the Sacramento Film and Music Festival, which was held at Memorial Auditorium’s Jean Runyon Little Theater on Wednesday, Sept. 9.

See Bombal, page 9


horrible. There are around 50 or 60 pieces floating around YouTube,” he said. Currently, he is in the process of restor-ing his interview with great Eartha Kitt, actress, singer, cabaret star, dancer, stand-up comedian, activist and voice artist who many remember her as Catwoman in the fi-nal season of the 1960s tele-vision series, “Batman.”

As a film/music histori-an Matías has contributed to many books on film history, especially on the silent and early “talkie” era.

Introducing Bombal for the award was photojournal-ist Mike Carroll of KCRA TV, the award’s past recipi-ent, which KCRA has called a talented man behind the camera who has had a unique impact on the creative com-munity. In television for more than 25 years, often working as a one-man crew, Carroll has helped write movies and has written about how to suc-ceed in broadcasting with his books, “Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film - Without A Crew - For $10,000-$6,000 Or Less Revised & Expand-ed For DSLR Filmmakers” and “Breaking Into TV News How To Get A Job & Excel As A TV Reporter.”

Introduced by Carroll was a very humbling experience for this year’s award winner, as Bombal said, “Over the years, (Carroll) would do TV sto-ries about me. He would come to the Crest (Theatre which Bombal managed from 1986 to 1991). He said nice things about me. It was a great in-troduction. I had no idea he had noticed me and had been watching me over the years.”

As KCRA has been prepar-ing for its 60th anniversary, Bombal said he was called to bring a projector because no one knew how to operate the older machines. “I am their go-to guy on how to handle old films.”

Speaking about this hon-or coming from someone as impressionable as Carroll, Bombal said “I have been impressed by him from his movies. He teaches classes on how to be one-man film-makers. He can be on cam-era, do the camera. He’s a one-man film crew and he’s

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been doing it like that for 20-plus years. He’s made several movies himself that are quite good. One of my favorite of his independently made is ‘Night Beats.’ To be held in esteem and given an award by someone who has such an es-sential and fundamental un-derstanding of the power of images to give me an award, it’s a very sweet and hum-bling experience.”

In his nearly four-minute speech, Bombal recognized three influential people in his professional career and he ac-cepted the award on their be-half and influence - Jo Bab-bitt, assistant manager at Tower Theatre; movie theater projectionists James Homer Criss and Ernie Smith.

“(Babbit and Bombal) worked at the Crest. We were really good friends. He loved stuff about movies I would go about on and on about. We were really close friends. If anyone would have been my No. 1 champion, it would have been him.”

“Ernie Smith was at Tow-er when I just started there. He was a crotchety old man. He used to drink Wild Tur-key (bourbon) in the projec-tion room. He had a tattoo on his arm. Ernie died in about 1989-90.”

“Criss was a black projec-tionist in the projectionists’ union. He ran ‘Gone With the Wind’ in its first run. He was at the Crest (when Bombal managed it). He was such a cool character. He would ride a Harley to work. He was the coolest dude, an old black guy. He was one of my favorite, fa-vorite people.”

In good company with fam-ily at the ceremony his moth-er, Judy Nevis and half-broth-er Jeremy Nevis, Bombal said he forgot to recognize his fa-ther Antonio Bombal who died in 2009. While most re-member Antonio Bombal as the piano tuner for the Sac-ramento Symphony, few-er know about his work as a professor of comparative lit-erature at U.C. Berkeley, Cal-ifornia State University, Sac-ramento and Sacramento City College. “He was an Old World aristocrat. He wanted to be lawyer; he was a moun-tain climber. He climbed tallest mountains in Chile. I have pictures of him climb-ing above the clouds,” Bom-bal said of his admiration for his father.

In regard to a particular film that Bombal looked for-ward to, he said it was one he did a review for, a 12:11-min-ute documentary short, “The House is Innocent”. Direct-ed by Nickolas Coles, the film is about the Dorothea Puente house and the couple who happens to live there now and who has who cleaned up the house. They posted signs with phrases like trespassers will be buried in the garden and put up a manikin dressed as Doro-thea Puente holding a shovel

Closing his speech with a line from the movie Sun-set Boulevard, “I am sure I will see you again very soon, somewhere out there in the dark,” Bombal’s words of lit-erary wisdom can be seen here within the pages of this publication today and in fu-ture editions.


Faces and Places:

St. Anthony Parish Annual Fall FestivalPhotos by Stephen [email protected]

St. Anthony Parish Annual Fall Festi-val had international food booths from cuisines of the world. There were also fun and games for the entire family in-cluding: carnival style games, 50/50, bin-go, cake spin, a country store, pull tabs, wine spin, books, live entertainment and raffle prizes. Types of food include:

Filipino, Italian, Mexican, Nigerian, Polish, Greek, American as well as des-serts and snow cones.

St. Anthony Parish is located at 660 Florin Road.

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

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

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

Together, proceeds from the Sacramen-to Century and Oktoberfest benefit two lo-

Don’t miss the Sacramento Century and Oktoberfest, Oct. 10

Sacramento Century riders from last year.See Oktoberfest, page 14

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cal nonprofits – Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento and Team RWB (red, white and blue), whose stated mission is “to enrich the lives of Ameri-ca’s veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity.”

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

This is the second year the Rotary has put on the event and organizers hope it will continue to grow into a big community event. They hope to raise more than double the amount of money from last year – with the goal of $150,000 split in half be-tween both nonprofits. Last year, Habitat for Hu-manity was the only beneficiary, but had enough money for the construction of one home for a needy local family, which the goal again this year. As of last Friday, Cook said 800 bike ride tickets have been sold and the Rotary is hoping for another 400 by the day of the event.

The full century, or 100-mile ride starts between 7 and 7:30 a.m.; the metric century, or the 65-mile ride, starts between 7:30 and 8 a.m.; the half cen-tury, or the 40-mile ride, between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and the fun ride, the 20-mile ride, between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. According to the event website, sac-

ramentocentury.com, all four rides start and finish in front of 500 Capitol Mall with the following de-scription: “With the sun rising over the State Capi-tol, all rides cross the Sacramento River on the Tow-er Bridge and head south towards Isleton. The Full Century rides as far as Isleton, while progressive-ly shorter loops create the Metric Century, ½ Cen-tury and Easy Fun Ride. The Full Century Includes 6 Delta Islands and a Ferry Crossing. This is a fun and flat ride to end your ride season! The Full Cen-

tury ride is less than a 1,000-foot elevation change, mostly going up and down island levees.”

With about 200 volunteers from the Rotary Club of Sacramento and volunteers from the Sacramen-to Area Bicycle Advocates, known colloquially as SABA, the event is reaching its goal of becoming more of a community event than in the past.

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

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Drawing Class (Adult)Sept. 18: The joy of draw-ing with pencil, colored pen-cil and ink will be the focus of this eight week class, which starts at 10 a.m. Students will become familiar with the var-ious drawing implements and artistic terminology used in the world of fine art. They will have the opportunity to view drawings created by art-ists throughout history and then share their thoughts and ideas regarding the evolu-tion of drawing. Fun warm-up sketching exercises will be used to set the mood for the planned demonstrations and projects. Students will gain knowledge and skills that will enable them to conceptual-ize create render and complete drawings. Space is limited and registration is required. Please note that participants should plan to attend all 8 sessions. Registration is required.

knit Together (Adult)Sept. 18: Anyone interested in knitting—even an absolute beginner--is invited to join the Pocket Library Knitting Group at 1 p.m. Participants can learn to knit, get help on current projects or general advice from expert knitters. There might even be some great conversations too. Don’t

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Modern Calligraphy (Adult)Sept. 19: This isn’t your an-cestors’ calligraphy! Instead, modern calligraphy is a blend-ing of styles that is perfect for journaling and scrapbooking along with the more tradi-tional invitations and letters. Starting at 1 p.m., students will learn the history of the art, how to design notes and envelopes and practice with new alphabets that are easy and fun! All materials will be provided. Space is limited so registration is required. Go online to www.saclibrary.org or call 916-264-2920. Regis-tration is required.

Baby/Toddler Stay & Play (Early Childhood (0-5))Sept. 22: “Stay and Play” is an unstructured social

time for babies and toddlers (ages 0 and up!--older sib-lings are welcome as long as everyone can play nicely to-gether) and their caretak-ers, starting at 10:15 a.m. Developmental toys and board books will be avail-able. These informal play sessions will be immedi-ately followed by a Story-time for babies and toddlers (ages 0-3 years) and their caretakers/families, except on the last Tuesday of each month when we have a spe-cial performance by Mister Cooper instead. This pro-gram is made possible with support from the Pocket-Greenhaven Friends of the Library.

Baby/Toddler Storytime For Ages 0-3Sept. 22: A combined tod-dler and baby Storytime in which babies and toddlers

(ages 0 to 3 years) and their caretakers are invit-ed to join us for songs and rhymes in this language en-richment program designed to boost brain development at 11 a.m. Please also note that on the last Tuesday of each month we’ll have a special musical perfor-mance by Mr. Cooper in-stead of Storytime.

College Essay Writing Series (Teen)Sept. 23: Applying to col-lege is more than filling out a form and taking tests--the essay section of the applica-tion is what helps you stand out. College essays and high school English essays are different and in this session you will learn how to inter-pret the prompts, what col-leges are looking for in your response and how to ap-proach writing your own.

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Non-Profit Organization is Seeking Local Host Families for High School Exchange Students ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with your community high school, is looking for lo-cal families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of coun-tries: Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, to name a few.ASSE students are enthusiastic and excit-ed to experience American culture while they practice their English. They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families welcome these students into their family, not as a guest, but as a family member, giving every-one involved a rich cultural experience.The exchange students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, acci-dent and liability insurance. ASSE students are selected based on academics and person-ality, and host families can choose their stu-dent from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and personal interests.To become an ASSE Host Family or to find out how to become involved with ASSE in your community, please call 1-800-733-2773 or go to www.host.asse.com to be-gin your host family application. Students are eager to learn about their American host family, so begin the process of welcoming your new son or daughter today!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Rotary Club South meetingThe Rotary Club of South Sacramen-to meets at noon for lunch every Thurs-day at Iron Grill, located at 2422 13th St. (Broadway and 13th Street). Rotary is one of the largest service organizations in the world dedicated to community service both locally, and internationally. Please

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Birds of South America to be featured at next Audubon meetingSept. 17: The birds of South America will be featured at the September 17 meeting of the Sacramento Audubon Society. The public is invited to the 7 p.m. meeting at Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Ancil Hoffman Park (For directions, see sacnaturecenter.com). There will be no charge for the program or park-ing, and no park-entry fee. The speaker, re-tired California State Parks scientist Craig Swolgaard, will cover highlights of his 2013 trip from semitropical Iguazú Falls to icy Pa-tagonia. He’ll also make recommendations on places to go and “how to travel down there on the cheap.” Swolgaard has been birding in South America below the Amazon for about 40 years, covered 13 countries, and seen near-ly 900 species of birds – still only a quarter of what’s there, he notes.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Wisdom Project presents “LGBT Elders Community Cafe Comedy Night”Sept. 18: Wisdom Project presents “LGBT Elders Community Cafe Comedy Night” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at First United Method-ist — Terrace Room (on the corner of 21st and J streets). Parking is available and the event is wheelchair accessible. Comediennes include Regina Stoops and Mary Carouba. It will be a Mexican feast catered by Valle-jo’s and will include: meat or veggie fajitas, beans, rice, salad, chips, melon and churros. It’s $15 per person and tickets are available at the Sacramento LGBT Community Cen-ter or online at http://lgbt-elders-september-2015.brownpapertickets.com/. Only 70 tick-ets are available. Don’t delay. The last day to buy tickets is Sept. 14. For more information, email [email protected]–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Bats Bats Bats! Meet our neighborhood bats Sept. 19: Friends of the River Banks will gather at 7 p.m. to learn all about bats. JoEl-len Arnold, local bat expert, will bring her bat echolocation detector and explain which bat species are being heard. Best of all, she’ll bring live bats. Don’t miss this great oppor-tunity to get to know the bats in our neigh-borhood. Meet at Sutter’s Landing Park parking lot at the very end of 28th Street.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Greater Sacramento area MIP back to school kickoffSept. 19: Open to all women, the purpose of this event is to gather women together to pray for children and schools. There will be break-out groups through out the day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be a time to pray for ar-eas through out Sacramento. Breakout groups will be inclusive of various languages. Regis-tration is $15. Continental breakfast, lunch and snacks are provided. Access registration at momsandprayer.org. The event will be held at Chinese Grace Bible Church, 6656 Park Riv-iera Way, 95831. Contact is Margie Ng, [email protected]; 392-2317. For registra-tion. momsandprayer.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Fall prevention class Sept. 22: Each year, one in three adults age 65 and older falls; this can cause injuries such as hip fractures and head injuries. In this work-shop, you will learn how you can reduce the risk of falling in your home, improve your balance, increase your awareness of hazards outside of your home, and what to do if you fail. Pre-reg-istration and pre-payment of $5 required. Class will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more de-tails, call 393-9026 ext330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Fall prevention 101 classSept. 23: Afraid of falling? Concerned about a loved one falling: Join certified FallProof balance and mobility specialist and evidence-based Stepping on Master Trainer Kelly Ward in this dynamic workshop and learn about factors that increase the risk of fall-ing and what you can do to reduce it. She will

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shed new light on balance and how aging af-fects stability. Learn what factors to change and what you can accept. Since the most ef-fective way to reduce the risk of falling is a consistent exercise program, Kelly will guide you to a few movements that will help you re-main independent. Pre-registration and pre-payment of $6 required. Class will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Alphabet soup of acronyms & diagnosisSept. 23: Acronyms can be like a foreign lan-guage to patients and consumers. Add to that the sudden decisions and changes that may be faced, it’s enough cause someone to go AWOL! One can research the web for these acronyms, print out or order guides or simply ask the professional for a description. Or at-tend an informational session by our Direc-tor of Patient Care Services; “Alphabet Soup of Acronyms and Diagnosis”, what your Dr. is telling you about your condition. The meet-ing will be held at 6:30 p.m. Call to RSVP at 399-5922. Absolute Compassion Hos-pice & Palliative Care is located at 6355 Riv-erside Blvd. Suite T. If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Pati Rader; Community Liaison at Absolute Compassion Hospice & Palliative Care or email at [email protected].––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Jan Ken Po Gakko Arts and Crafts Fair Sept. 24: There will be an arts and crafts fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation, 9040 High Tech Court. Free admission, accepting all major credit cards, free raffle, oishii bentos.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Senior scams: Just say no!Sept. 24: Older adults are prime targets for financial scams both by people they know and by strangers. According to a study by Metlife, older Americans lost at least $2.9 billion to financial exploitation in 2010! In this free workshop, we will provide infor-mation on how to protect your assets and

recognize various types pf scams, especial-ly telephone scams..Free of charge. Pre-reg-istration is required. Class will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Art of reading tea leavesSept. 24: This workshop is an introduc-tion to the ancient art of reading tea leaves. For centuries, people around the world have consulted tea leaves for information con-cerning romances, health, wealth, happi-ness, and other life changing issues. come and learn about different types of healthy tea and have fun learning to read the sym-bols and patterns created by the leaves. Each person attending the class will have an indi-vidual tea leaf reading. Pre-registration and pre-payment of $15 required or $20 drop-in fee at the door. Class will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Stopfalls Sacramento fall prevention screening eventSept. 25: This event will consist of free senior fall risk fitness tests, shoe assessments, medication re-views, blood pressure screening, and more. Free

of charge. Pre-registration is required. Class will be held from 9 to noon at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Lighting for safetySept. 29: Lighting is a tool we use to in-crease security and prevent accidents like falling. This workshop will demonstrate dif-ferent ways to utilize lighting to better illu-minate the environment at night while in-creasing our feeling of security. Concepts cover including using proper quantities of light, color of light, reducing glare and sav-ing energy in the process. Free of charge. Pre-registration is required. Class will be held from 10 to noon at ACC Senior Ser-vices, 7334 Park City Drive. For more de-tails, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Renovating your home for retirementSept. 30: Learn which renovation projects can accommodate the needs of seniors, can increase your home’s resale value, and can improve your chances for speedy, attractive offers when you decide to sell.Free of charge. Pre-registration is required. Class will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. at ACC Senior Servic-es, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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