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May 12, 2016 | www.valcomnews.com — BRINGING YOU COMMUNITY NEWS FOR 25 YEARS — Arden-Carmichael News Stylish Ranch On Large Lot 5236 Fair Oaks Blvd $675,000 Remodeled a couple of years ago, this home features beamed ceilings, hardwoods, spacious rooms, indoor laundry, master suite & more. Welcome home to Cathay Way! 2313 Cathay Way $289,900 This family home has been loved on by the same family for almost 60 years! So many recent updates on this charming Del Paso Manor Home. Please see flyer for a full list of upgrades. A fabulous street with great neighbor camaraderie. Newer HVAC, original hardwood floors, dual pane windows, large lot with fenced pool. A perfect time to buy this one. .. .will go fast ! NEW PRICE See page 4 Bernie at Bonney Police Logs .................................................. 6 Senior Services .......................................... 11 Home Improvement Guide ....................... 12 Calendar ............................................... 14 Matías Bombal’s Hollywood ..................... 15 See page 2 Carmichael team to raise funds for low-income moms in memory of priest Patrick Lee Band festival coming to Carmichael Park See page 8

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— BRINGING YOU COMMUNITY NEWS FOR 25 YEARS —

Arden-Carmichael News

Stylish Ranch On Large Lot • 5236 Fair Oaks Blvd • $675,000Remodeled a couple of years ago, this home features beamed ceilings,

hardwoods, spacious rooms, indoor laundry, master suite & more.

Welcome home to Cathay Way! • 2313 Cathay Way • $289,900This family home has been loved on by the same family

for almost 60 years! So many recent updates on this charming Del Paso Manor Home. Please see flyer for a

full list of upgrades. A fabulous street with great neighbor camaraderie. Newer HVAC, original hardwood floors,

dual pane windows, large lot with fenced pool. A perfect time to buy this one. .. .will go fast !

NEW PRICE

See page 4

Bernie at Bonney

Police Logs ..................................................6

Senior Services ..........................................11

Home Improvement Guide .......................12

Calendar ...............................................14

Matías Bombal’s Hollywood .....................15 See page 2

Carmichael team to raise funds for low-income moms in memory of priest Patrick Lee

Band festival coming to Carmichael Park

See page 8

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CourtesyStephen Crowley

For the last five years, a Sacramento Life Center representative has stood at the podi-um after the group’s annual walk fundraiser to announce that Father Patrick Lee raised the most money of any team.

This year, Lee is being honored by a group of Carmichael residents who will walk in his memory. A priest with Arden’s Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, Lee passed away in April from congestive heart failure. But his heart for mothers and their babies is the inspiration for the Father Patrick Lee Me-morial Team that will walk in the Sacramento Life Center’s Heroes Walk for Life on Satur-day, May 14, at Maidu Park in Roseville.

“Father Lee always went to anything supporting moms and babies,” said Marie Leatherby, executive director, Sacramento Life Center. “It was his ministry in life. He created our walk in 2011 and raised more

than $12,000 for us over the last five years through the walk alone.”

This year’s Heroes Walk for Life will take place from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and will raise funds for free pregnancy services at the Sacramento Life Center, benefiting low-income pregnant women and teens. People can still sign up to dress up as their favor-ite superheroes and join the family-friend-ly event that will include a 2K and 5K walk and fun run, rally, toddler dash, costume contest, bounce houses, a carnival and more. Registration is $25, but free for kids ages 12 and under. For more information, to sign up or to make a donation, visit www.saclife.org or www.walkingheroes.org.

Leatherby, a member of Lee’s parish and Carmichael resident, will lead the Father

Carmichael team to raise funds for low-income moms in memory of Arden priest

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By Steve Liddick

I was in a downtown thrift store and I gave the clerk my credit card. He rang it up, less a ten-percent senior discount. Automatically. Can you imag-ine that? Would it have killed him to ask if I was old enough . . . out of courtesy, compas-sion, human decency? Older people have feelings too, you know.

It’s been a few years since a clerk asked me if I were old enough to qualify for a senior discount. I just routinely get it now, based on what the clerk sees standing in front of him, all gray and wrinkly, with gravity doing its evil.

I like saving a buck or two as much as the next guy, al-though the next guy is usu-ally younger than I am. It’s not that I mind growing old-er. Not that I can do any-thing about it, short of step-ping in front of a speeding cement mixer. But does the younger generation, herein-after referred to as Whip-persnappers, have to rub it in on members of the old-er generation, hereinafter

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Senior Discount Eligibilityreferred to as “The Older Generation?”

In my experience, that hap-pens to me about 99-percent of the time. And, as everyone knows, 84.2-percent of all sta-tistics used to win arguments are made up.

That’s not the only age related peeve I could men-tion. You get to a certain age and people start refer-ring to the elderly as be-ing at “a certain age.” Not to get all paranoidal about it, but I know they’re talk-ing about me when they say stuff like that.

Young people don’t seem to be able to acknowledge the existence older people. When a person gets to “a cer-tain age” they become in-visible. If we of The Older Generation are with some-one younger, Whippersnap-pers address their comments to that person and act as though the older person isn’t there. If you’re walking down the street, those same people run right into you because they can’t see you. Although, to be fair, a lot of that is be-cause they’re texting.

I was in a supermarket with my mother a few years ago. Mom was in her late 80s at the time. She was using our shop-ping cart like a walker when a younger woman pushed her cart directly in front of ours, blocking ours. She let it sit there and walked away, down an aisle, like she didn’t even see us. Well, I fixed her. I took her cart and lost it in the pro-duce section. But not before I buried several embarrassing

adult products under her oth-er items. I could just imagine her surprise at checkout.

I get pretty steamed up about treatment of the elderly.

And let me tell you, the first guy who talks to me in a loud voice . . . like I’m deaf or something . . . and calls me “Dad” is asking for a punch in the nose.

Steve Liddick is author of the time travel novel, “All That Time.”

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By Monica [email protected]

“(A democracy is a) government of the people, by the people, for the people” –Bernie Sanders quoting President abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address

Despite a last minute decision to come to Sac-ramento, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders drew more than 15,000 maxing the capacity of Bonney Field on Monday, May 9, leaving a report-ed 10,000 outside the gates. Bernie fans and ral-ly volunteers arrived as early as 10 a.m. for the 8:30 p.m. speech and the line to get into the gates wrapped around the field for the most of the day and early evening hours.

Part of the last group that made it in the gates, Sacramentan Andrea Seppinni exclaimed on social media, “It was worth the wait! ‘#Drop-OutHillary #feelthebern #BernieinSacramento’ ... There were still a lot of people still waiting, but we lucked out!”

Chants of “Bern, Baby Bern” reverberated as people danced and sang and by about 7:20 p.m., the stage began to fill with volunteers, creating a backdrop for Mr. Sanders that symbolized, in a festive way, the grassroots support that has created his campaign, one that has been fund-ed not by billionaires or Wall Street but by ev-ery day people.

Igniting the crowd with his opening, Mr. Sand-ers said, “Millions of Americans want a politi-cal revolution. It turns out a lot has changed in a

year. The corporate establishment is getting ner-vous... When they see 15,000 people coming out in Sacramento, they get very nervous. And they should be getting nervous because real change is coming. Over the last year we have won 18 pri-maries and caucuses.”

Addressing the crowd, giving individuals a large task, he boldly stated: “With your help we are going to win the biggest prize of all, the Cal-

Bernie at Bonney:Between 15,000 and 21,000 fill the field, leaving another 10,000 outside

Photos by Stephen Crowley / [email protected] here is a collection of photos from Monday night’s Bernie Sanders rally at Bonney Field.

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ifornia primary, which elects 475 pledged delegates.”

Acknowledging a steep climb to victory, he said with Califor-nia on his side, there can be that possibility. If so, he said, “We will walk into the democratic convention with a majority of pledged voters. Let me tell you we are going to fight for every vote... and we are going to take the political revolution into the convention in Philadelphia.”

Criticizing the current cam-paign finance system, calling it corrupt and undermining American democracy, where “democracy is one person, one vote – not about billionaires and Wall Street and their su-per-pacts buying elections” – the senator said if elected he will overturn the Citizen’s Unit-ed decision and move to pub-lic funding of elections. “De-mocracy isn’t about republicans suppressing the vote,” he said.

“Together we’re going to create a democracy which we will have the highest voter turnouts in the world, not one of the lowest.”

Mr. Sanders contrasted him-self with opponent Hillary Clinton from campaign con-tributions where she has taken between “$10 to $15 million from Wall Street” to his aver-age contribution of $27. He also spoke on raising the mini-mum wage to $15 an hour na-tionwide (versus Clinton’s sup-

port of a $12 an hour wage), to banning fracking, lowering in-terest rates on people’s student debt, taxing carbon and offer-ing free community college.

Speaking about Republican candidate Donald Trump, Mr. Sanders denounced the pos-sibility of him becoming pres-ident. “He will not become president because he does not understand our strength is in our diversity. That when black and white and Latino and Na-tive Americans, when gays and straight and men and women stand together that is when we are strongest. And the Ameri-can people understand we are great when we stand togeth-er. When my family hurts, we are there for you. That’s what America is supposed to be about. Supporting each oth-er always trumps selfishness. At end of the day, love always trumps hatred.”

Sitting in the press box for the duration of the speech former mayoral candidate Russell Rawlings, a govern-mental journalism student at Sacramento State University, said he is overjoyed that he fi-nally has a presidential can-didate that he agrees with on practically every issue. “I feel like I did the first day of Oc-cupy Sacramento: awestruck, inspired and ready for the po-litical revolution!” he said.

Phone banking since the very beginning stages of Sanders’ campaign, Rawlings hosted his

own phone bank and had cof-fee in his own neighborhood, Oak Park. “I have noticed that Oak Park is very accepting. I see Bernie signs everywhere in my neighborhood.”

Since he dropped out of the mayor’s race, Rawlings said he

will “have more time for Bernie. After next week I will be fin-ished with finals and I can put in the last real hard push. I will be living at the Democratic Par-ty of Sacramento County.”

Journalism student Tirtsah Yisrael said she enjoyed Ber-

nie’s focus on young voters, stating that she can’t see her-self voting for anybody else.

Rachele Lizarraga, also a journalism student at Sac State said she enjoyed the

Bernie:Continued from page 8

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Police logThe news items below are collect-ed from police dispatchers’ notes and arrest reports. The informa-tion in them has often not been verified beyond the initial reports. All suspects are presumed inno-cent until proven guilty.

reporting date: april 27(POD Arrest: Stolen Vehicle ): Arden Way / Oxford Street 5:37 p.m.

Officers were patrolling in the above area when they re-ceived a Police Observation Device (POD) alert of a sto-len vehicle being driven nearby. Officers stopped the described vehicle and contacted the driv-er who was ultimately arrested for possession of a stolen vehi-cle, a parole violation, and pos-session of narcotics.

reporting date: april 28(Assault ): 1700 block of Expo Parkway at 9:46 a.m.

A citizen confronted an un-known male suspect who was reportedly stealing a bicycle. A struggle ensued and the suspect assaulted the victim causing a non-life threatening injury. The suspect fled prior to officers ar-riving on scene. The area was canvassed for evidence and the investigation remains active.

reporting date: april 29(POD Arrest: Stolen Vehicle ): 1600 block of Arden Way at 8:45 p.m.

Officers were patrolling in the area when they received a Po-lice Observation Device (POD) alert of a stolen vehicle being driven nearby. Officers quickly located the vehicle and detained the driver who was arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle.

reporting date: May 1(Traffic Collision / DUI): 1600 block of Arden Way at 2 a.m.

Officers were dispatched to the area on reports of a disturbance. Upon arrival, officers determined

that the disturbance was related to a traffic collision that had oc-curred. Officers evaluated the driver of an involved vehicle for impairment and subsequently ar-rested them on DUI charges.

reporting date: May 3(Fraud): 1600 block of Arden Way at 7:51 p.m.

Officers were dispatched to a business on reports of a wom-an trying to use a stolen credit card. Upon arrivals, officers de-tained the woman and arrested her for defrauding the business. Further investigation will be conducted regarding the pos-session of the stolen card.

(Traffic Collision): Bus 80 Eb / Arden Way at 8:50 p.m.

Officers responded to the area on reports of a two vehicle collision with airbags deployed. One occupant received non-life-threatening injuries during the incident but did not require transportation to the hospital. A report was generated.

reporting date: May 5(Attempted Burglary): 1500 block of West El Camino Avenue at 3:04 a.m.

Officers responded to the call of a ringing alarm. When offi-cers arrived on scene, they lo-cated glass door that had been broken. It does not appear the unknown suspect gained entry into the closed business. A re-port was generated.

(Child Neglect): 3500 block of Del Paso Boulevard at 7:02 p.m.

Officers responded to the call of a possible child neglect. A cit-izen located a 9-year-old juvenile who was reportedly was dropped off by a family member. Officers located the known suspect and after further investigation, the suspect was arrested for child ne-glect. No injuries were reported. CPS was notified and the inves-tigation remains active.

reporting date: May 6(Burglary): 1000 block of El Camino Avenue at 3:11 a.m.

Officers responded to the call of a ringing alarm. When offi-cers arrived on scene, it was de-termined unknown suspects forced entry into the closed business, stole miscellaneous items and fled. The area was canvassed for evidence and the investigation remains active.

reporting date: May 7(Driving Under the Influence): West El Camino Avenue / Aze-vedo Drive at 5:29 p.m.

Officers initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle after observ-ing a vehicle code violation. Of-ficers contacted the driver and conducted an evaluation of the driver for possible impairment. The driver was subsequently arrested on DUI charges.

reporting date: May 9(Outside Agency Assist): Bell and Norwood avenues at 2:02 a.m.

Sacramento Police Depart-ment officers responded to the area to assist Sacramento Sher-iff ’s Department deputies on a perimeter that was initiated at the conclusion of their vehicle pursuit. A search of the area for the suspect was conducted but the suspect was not located.

POD Hit (Stolen Vehicle)): 1600 block of Arden Way at 5:06 p.m.

Officers responded to a POD hit in the area. An officer locat-ed the vehicle and took the sus-pect into custody without inci-dent. The driver was arrested for auto theft related charges.

Carmichael’s Chautauqua Playhouse turns 40 years old this year and theater lovers can help celebrate its milestone birthday by giving a “Happy Birthday Donation”, which will help renovate the lobby and house for the comfort of pa-trons, upgrade lighting and sound system, continue bringing folks entertaining pro-ductions and also keep prices among the lowest in town.

The nonprofit provides more than 150 high quality theater performances each year for adults and children and received the Business in Arts Award for financial management.

Forty dollars for 40 years sounds nice, but any donation would be greatly appreciat-ed. Donate online at: cplayhouse.org/tick-ets and select “Make a Donation” or send to 5325 Engle Road, Carmichael. Ticket sales only cover 40 percent of Chautauqua’s oper-ational costs. Donations are tax deductible.

The Chautauqua Players were formed in 1975, by Rodger Hoopman. The name of the company came from the traveling Chautauqua shows that toured the coun-try in tents in the early part of the 20th cen-tury. A revival tent had been offered to the company as a potential performing space in the summer of 1975. After one attempt at setting up the tent and the myriad prob-lems involved (eight hours of work, putting the top on upside down and returning the next day to find the tent collapsed), the tent idea collapsed as well.

In the fall of 1975, the Chautauqua Play-ers produced their first show, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, in the Old Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento, and its success led to pro-duction of a Sherlock Holmes drama. The financial success of the two productions led Hoopman to a partnership with Gene Morrow and Eric Ericson and the pursuit of their own performing space.

The original 65-seat Chautauqua Play-house opened at 25th and R Streets in downtown Sacramento in April of 1976. On the 12-foot by 20-foot stage in the for-mer warehouse, the company produced mysteries, Moliere comedies, and contem-porary comedies and dramas to critical and audience acclaim. Over the next several years, as the repertory became more con-temporary, Morrow and Ericson left the partnership and new partner Charles Slat-er enabled the Playhouse to expand to 135 seats and a larger stage in 1980.

Establishing an active children’s theatre program under the direction of Guy Beck (and later under Lisa Krause), and an ever-widening variety of evening performanc-es, the company continued in the facility until an arsonist burned the theatre to the ground in October of 1983. Refusing to give in to adversity, the players reopened the production of MINNIE’S BOYS the following weekend at the theatre in the YWCA building and completed the run.

With the close of that production, the company focused on finding a new facility.

In the interim period, several shows were produced at the Old Eagle Theatre, Sierra 2 and Eaglet Theatre’s Stage 2.

With the help of the theatre commu-nity, the use of theatre patron Bill Wahl’s home as office space, and donations from the community, and after several failed at-tempts to keep the company downtown, the group, now a non-profit organization, opened in the La Sierra Community Cen-ter in April of 1985.

With the support of the Carmichael Rec-reation and Parks District and the the-atre’s new board of directors, the Chautau-qua Playhouse opened its first full season in September of 1985 with Rodger Hoopman as producer and Bill Rogers, instrumental in the transition, as general manager.

Since that first season, Chautauqua has produced a season of six plays per season (running from September through May) plus a six-show children’s theatre season un-der the direction of Marie Raymond. There is also a children’s theatre workshop in voice, drama and dance conducted in Spring, Fall and Summer sessions. Classes are on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

Bill Rogers left the theatre in June 2004, to move to South Carolina and Rodger Hoopman assumed the position of Pro-ducer/Artistic Director. After years of in-volvement as an actor and director, War-ren Harrison joined the organization as co-producer in January of 2007.

(Source: cplayhouse.org)

Happy 40th birthday Chautauqua Playhouse

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By Lance [email protected]

The Carmichael Park Amphithe-ater will once again be the site of the annual Carmichael Park Community Band Festival.

Beginning on Saturday, June 4 at 11:30 a.m., this two-day event will fea-ture a wide variety of concert bands.

Included among the performers will be musicians from Carmichael and Fair Oaks.

Although the old adage, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch,” remains true at this festival, attendees will be pleased to know that all entertainment and parking will be free of charge.

Sponsored by the Sacramento Val-ley Symphonic Band Association and the Carmichael Recreation and Park District, this community event is rec-ognized as “one of the largest commu-nity band festivals in California for over 20 years.”

Auburn Concert BandThe first band to take the stage

will be the 40-member Auburn Concert Band, which is directed by Tom Candlish.

Bill Borba, the band’s president and its percussionist, said that the band is comprised of volunteer, ex-perienced musicians of various ages from Auburn and the surrounding foothills area.

“It’s a mixed age group and we all played as youngsters in school, in college,” he said. “This gives us a chance to continue our passion for playing music. We’ve also got a cou-ple teenagers, school kids, young 20s. It’s a mixed bag.”

Borba said that he has many years of experience behind the drums.

“For me, I’ve been playing drums for more than 60 years,” he said.

“Gosh, I started playing when I was a little kid. I played professionally out of San Francisco.”

But in bettering his own longevi-ty in music, Borba, who joined the band about nine years ago, men-tioned that the Auburn Concert Band was established before any of its members were born.

“The band is over 100 years old, and it gets revised from time to time,” he said. “It’s grown quite a bit over the years with our leadership.”

Borba said that he looks forward to performing at the upcoming festival at Carmichael Park.

“They always draw a good crowd for the two days of the festival and it’s a kick for us to be able to perform in front of other musicians in other bands,” he said.

Auburn Vice Mayor Matt Spokely said that he is very excited that attend-ees of the event will have the opportu-nity to experience some of Auburn’s rich musical culture.

“I’m a longtime Auburn resident and I’ve enjoyed this band on many occasions,” he said.

“Wherever you’re coming from, it will be well worth the trip to attend this show.”

The band will play “The Star-Span-gled Banner,” “The Vanished Army March” and the overture from “Roy-al Fireworks Music,” among other fa-mous musical pieces.

Elk Grove Community Concert Band

The Elk Grove Community Concert Band, which is directed by Jay Roberts, will perform on June 4 at 1 p.m.

Founded in May 1997 by Jay and Carolyn Roberts, the band first per-formed at Elk Grove High School for a 4th of July event during the same year.

Following that performance, these musicians made the decision to con-tinue playing together.

Among the band’s memorable experiences was opening for the band, Three Dog Night, at the grand opening of the Elk Grove Auto Mall.

This nonprofit band has also performed at the Elk Grove West-ern Festival, Elk Grove’s annual holiday tree lighting, park open-ings, Eagle Scout ceremonies and school fundraisers.

Roseville Community Concert Band

The Roseville Community Concert Band, which was formed in 2000, will perform on June 4 at 2 p.m.

Bill Hastings established the band to give local musicians another perfor-mance avenue to present their musical skills to live audiences.

The band is also notable for plac-ing an emphasis on providing op-portunities for young, talented stu-dent musicians to perform with adult musicians.

Stephanie Sugano, who joined the band as its director in 2007, has a master’s degree in instrumental conducting from Sacramento State University.

The band, which regularly performs at public and private events, plays in a variety of styles, including ballads, big-band, holiday music, inspirational, jazz, movie scores, show tunes, swing and waltzes.

Winds of FaithWinds of Faith, which is directed by

Van B. Crane, will perform on June 4 at 3 p.m.

Established as the William Jes-sup University Community Wind Ensemble in 2008, this ensemble began their history providing per-formance opportunities for instru-mental music students at William Jessup University.

An increase in that institution’s instrumental student enrollment led to the founding of Winds of Faith, which plays marches, show

Band festival coming to Carmichael Park June 4-5Photo courtesy

The 40-member Auburn Concert Band will perform at the Carmichael Park Community Band Festival on Saturday, June 4 at 11:30 a.m.

Photo courtesyOne of the festival’s bands will be the Auburn Concert Band, which performs classical, traditional, patriotic, jazz, Broadway and pop music.

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tunes, light classics and other tradi-tional band music.

Members of the ensemble consist of musicians from Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Folsom, Auburn, Roseville and other areas.

3 Note BandThe first band that will perform on

Sunday, June 5 will be Carmichael’s very own 3 Note Band.

The band, which will begin its per-formance at noon, is directed by Dor-othy Frueh.

Frueh assures readers of this paper that despite its name, 3 Note Band plays more than three notes.

“We do play more than three notes,” she said. “About nine years ago, I was asked if I would teach some of our friends how to play three notes on band instruments, so they could play Christmas songs for a party. Of course, it would take a few more than three notes, but I said, ‘Why not?’”

“Eleven people attended three les-sons where the fingerings were writ-ten in and instruction was centered around making a sound. The band performed at the party and the mu-sicians were so excited they wanted to continue to play.”

Frueh shared an interesting bit of trivia about the band’s singer.

“Our singer is 92-year-old Mickie Davis,” she said. “We met her about five years ago at (a performance at) an assisted living facility. She’s been sing-ing with us since then.”

Sacramento Symphonic Winds

Sacramento Symphonic Winds will perform at the festival on June 5 at 2 p.m.

This 60-piece wind ensemble consists of musicians from Sacramento, Da-vis, Woodland and the Sierra Nevada foothills, and performs music ranging from rock and jazz to show tunes and contemporary ensemble masterpieces.

According to information provided by Sacramento Symphonic Winds, its founder and director, Dr. Les Lehr es-tablished this wind orchestra to “pro-vide quality musical performances for audiences in the greater Sacramento area and to offer local musicians a chal-lenging and rewarding musical experi-ence in an encouraging environment.”

Sacramento Concert BandThe Sacramento Concert Band,

which will perform at the festival on June 5 at 4 p.m., has a long history of playing at Carmichael Park.

Founded by Ed LaFranchi in 1969, the band first performed at the park during its fourth year of existence.

Band FestivalPerformance ScheduleSaturday, June 411:30 a.m. – Auburn Concert

Band12:30 p.m. – Citrus Heights

Community Marching Band1 p.m. – Elk Grove Community

Concert Band2 p.m. – Roseville Community

Concert Band3 p.m. – Winds of Faith4 p.m. – Solano Winds Com-

munity Concert Band5 p.m. – Yolo Community

Band

Sunday, June 5Noon – 3 Note Band1 p.m. – Pittsburg Communi-

ty Band / Vallejo Communi-ty Concert Band

2 p.m. – Sacramento Symphon-ic Winds

3 p.m. – Capital City Concert Band

4 p.m. – Sacramento Concert Band

5 p.m. – Rancho Cordova River City Concert Band

Photo courtesyThe Auburn Concert Band will return to the Carmichael Park Community Band Festival stage on June 4 for an 11:30 a.m. performance.

The band, which has undergone various name changes throughout the years, has been directed by Cosumnes River College Music Department Chair Grant Parker since 1990.

A unique aspect about the band is that it is an adult education course of the San Juan Unified School District.

Currently, the band’s rehearsals are held at Rio Americano High School.

Other festival performersIn addition to entertainment pro-

vided by the acts featured in this ar-ticle, the festival will also include per-formances by the Capital City Concert

Band, the Citrus Heights Communi-ty Concert Band, the Rancho Cordo-va River City Concert Band, the Sola-no Winds Community Concert Band, the Yolo Community Band, the Pitts-burg Community Band and the Valle-jo Community Concert Band.

The Carmichael Park Amphithe-ater is located on the southeast cor-ner of the park at 5750 Grant Ave. in Carmichael.

Attendees of the event are encour-aged to bring the entire family, picnic lunches, lawn chairs and hats.

For additional information about this festival, call (916) 489-2576 or visit the website www.svsba.net.

Festival:Continued from page 8

Photo by Susan Maxwell Skinner Sacramento Symphonic Winds will perform on Sunday, June 5 at 2 p.m.

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The Sacramento Chrysanthemum Society will be presenting their annual rooted cutting sale at Shepard Garden and Art Center on Saturday, May 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sun-day, May 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Last year’s sale was near-ly a sell out. This year the club will have over 1600 rooted cut-ting for sale from which to choose. Most cultivars will have pictures representing the bloom that the cuttings will produce later in the year.

Members of the club will be on hand to discuss the various plant bloom styles and assist with your selections. The stat-ed goal of the club is to promote interest in the chrysanthe-mum and assist in the growing of the plant to successfully cre-ate beautiful blooms.

There are 13 classification of bloom type within the chry-santhemum plant family. Within those classifications are many cultivars. The general public is usually most interested in the spider type bloom such as the zaryah bloom, the quill such as King’s Delight and Oberlin,and the various incurve blooms such as River City. King’s Delight and River City are cultivars that were developed by local (Clements) resident, Ted King, former owner of Kings Mums. Our society is very proud and honored to have Ted as a member for many years and appreciate the contributions he has made to the Chry-santhemum culture.

This year the local club will be hosting the National Chry-santhemum Convention, to be held Nov. 5 and 6 at the Rancho Cordova Marriott Hotel. Growers from around the United States will be showing their best blooms. Show is open to the public.

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“Many of our friends and family have used the Sac-ramento Life Center’s ser-vices and know how help-ful they are,” Clifford said. “The ultrasounds and free health clinic are so impor-tant, but what the Sacra-mento Life Center also of-fers is encouragement for women who want to move

forward with their pregnan-cies – that they can do it and not be afraid. And I know they keep in close contact with many of the moms and babies for years after.”

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medical care to women and couples facing an unplanned or unsupported pregnan-cy. The Sacramento Life Center’s licensed Sac Val-ley Pregnancy Clinic in-cludes a primary clinic and two Mobile Medical Clin-ics that provide all services for free, including pregnan-cy testing, STI testing, ul-trasounds, advocacy for men and women, education and resource referrals. The non-profit also offers a school-based teen education pro-gram, a 24-hour hotline and a program for women seek-ing support after having an abortion.

Lee was passionate about the work of the Sacramento Life Center and was a dedi-cated advocate for the center

since its start in 1972. The 73 year old served for 48 years as a priest of the Di-ocese of Sacramento. A na-tive of Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland, Lee was ordained in 1968 in Ireland and invited to serve in the Diocese of Sacramento. He served as assistant pastor at St. Peter Parish in Sac-ramento, Holy Spirit Par-ish in Fairfield, St. Thom-as More Parish in Paradise

and St. John Vianney Parish in Rancho Cordova. He was pastor of Our Lady of the Snows Parish in Westwood and of St. Joseph Parish in Marysville, and served as chaplain at UC Davis Medi-cal Center.

“Father Lee was our num-ber one guy,” Leatherby said. “I can’t think of a better way to honor him than to walk for mothers and babies in need of care.”

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rally, noting that the student newspaper, The Hornet, may post video at a later date. “I thought the speech was great. I liked how he is so focused on diversity and mentions as many groups as possible. There was good energy and it was laid back. I felt safe. It was not chaotic.”

Involved with Sacramento for Bernie Sand-ers City Farms resident Darrow Sprague took some time while waiting for the senator to take the stage to speak with this publication regard-ing his involvement with the local group.

“I have seen the candidate go from some-one people didn’t know about to where lots of people know about him and they’re getting be-hind the issues he’s bringing to the table... It’s pretty awesome. A year ago, no one in Sacra-mento had heard of him, except for the hard-core political geeks ... A year ago I launched the Facebook page and it’s taken a year to get here. I remember people asking me what will it take to bring Bernie to Sacramento. If we are able get volunteers and make an impact: that will put us on the radar.”

To Darrow the most important issues Sand-ers addresses include wage inequality issues and providing greater opportunities to join the middle class. “(He is) someone who is address-ing the challenges that we face. I also think

his position on climate change is very impor-tant to me. I do think we need a World War II scale mobilization to combat climate change, not something we can do incrementally. The crisis is great. Bernie Sanders recognizes that and wants to make it a priority.”

Arriving at Bonney Field at 10 a.m., 10 hours before Sanders took the stage, Darrow described the scene as including “a lot of en-thusiastic people”, about 100-120 volunteers who gathered in the bleachers to hear from campaign staff regarding different roles for volunteers to fill.

While he’s been so involved with the local campaign efforts, Darrow said many of the people who came out to the volunteer efforts on Monday were unfamiliar to him. “It’s kind of the nature of the grassroots campaign. A lot of people are doing their thing without it be-ing centralized.”

The next morning, on Tuesday, May 10, Land Park resident Shelly Keller described: “I loved this event. So many young people. My favorite things he spoke about were restor-ing the American Dream, and how human be-ings are part of nature and we need to protect our environment. You’ll never hear that from Hillary or Trump. And I loved when he spoke about war and the crowd responded by raising their hands, making the peace sign. I’ve never felt more patriotic than I did last night.”

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Sons In Retirement (SIR) Branch #93 Luncheon programs are held on the third Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at Elks Lodge No.6. SIR is a lun-cheon club with 141 branches and a membership of 18,000 men who are re-tired from full-time employment. Activ-ities included weekly golf tournaments and bowling league teams. For more in-formation or an application call Chair-man Dick West at 919-3858.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Nar-Anon meeting for families and friendsTh e group meets to learn about drug abuse, share problems, encourage the addict to seek help, replace despair with hope, improve the family attitude, help regain your self-confi -dence. For more information, call the First United Methodist Church at 446-5025, ext. 101. Meetings are Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., 2100 J St.

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Music at noonMay 18: Free music programs, offered at Westminster Presbyterian Church at noon on Wednesdays. This week enjoy music by Cellist Susan Lamb Cook and Friends play more Brahms.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Insights into coping well with vision lossMay 18: Changes in our visions as we age are a natural part of life. Macular degener-ation, glaucoma, and cataracts are three of the leading causes of vision loss and typ-ically occur in people over the age of 55. If you are experiencing changes or loss in your vision, the senior IMPACT Proj-ect can help. Free of charge. Pre-registra-tion required. Class will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City. For more details, call (916) 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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aging and coping with your blood sugar and diabetes. Th e next class to be held June 7 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. will be on meal plan-ning and carb counting. Free of charge. Pre-registration required. Class will be held at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City. For more details, call (916) 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Human traffi ckingMay 19: Did you know that human traf-ficking is especially prevalent in Sac-ramento? This presentation on human trafficking will shed light on this global crime, including indicators, the different types, and resources available to victims. Free of charge. Pre-registration required. Class will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City. Free of charge. Pre-registration required. For more details, call (916) 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––View a fi lm screening of “Alive Inside”, a fi lm that celebrates the capacity of music to reawaken our soulsMay 19: From 6 to 8 p.m., Snowline (www.snowlinehospice.org) will pres-ent a screening of the film “Alive Inside” at the Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive. The film demonstrates music’s abil-ity to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. “Alive Inside” chronicles the astonish-ing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listen-ing to music. The documentary filmmak-er, Michael Rossato-Bennet, will be in at-tendance and speak about his film that chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple expe-rience of listening to music. His camera reveals the uniquely human connection we find in music and how its healing pow-er can triumph where prescription medi-cation falls short. An uplifting cinematic exploration of music and the mind, “Alive Inside’s” inspirational and emotional sto-ry left audiences humming, clapping and cheering at the 2014 Sundance Film Fes-tival, where it won the Audience Award. Tickets are available online for a suggest-ed donation of $10. All proceeds from ticket sales for this event will be donated by Snowline to the local Alzheimer’s As-sociation. The City of Sacramento’s Tri-ple-R Adult Day Program, Alzheimer’s Association and Revere Court Assisted Living Community are co-sponsors of this presentation. For more information and to get tickets view: www.snowlinepresent-saliveinside.eventbrite.com––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Locke historic districtMay 20: Established in 1915, Locke is an island of Chinese culture and the only ex-isting town in America built exclusively by and for Chinese immigrants. Learn about its unique history and be transported back in time. Participants for the trip will meet at ACC Senior Service, 7334 Park City on Fri-day May 20, 2016 from 9:15 a.m. to 2 pm. Pre-payment of $10 and Pre-registration by May 13, 2016 required. Lunch is included. For more details, call (916) 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Women’s Empowerment 15th anniversary galaMay 19: Tickets are on sale for Wom-en’s Empowerment’s 15th anniversary gala honoring formerly homeless wom-en in ballgowns. Community mem-bers are invited to the 15th Anniversa-ry Celebration of Independence Gala that benefits Women’s Empowerment, a local nonprofit job training and em-powerment program for women who are homeless and their children. The event, which raises funds for the organization and honors the group’s 1,322 graduates, will take place 5:30-8:30 p.m. on May 19 at the Red Lion Woodlake Hotel, 500 Leisure Lane. Guests will mingle with graduates from the program and enjoy a formal dinner, live and silent auctions, live music and presentations from the graduates. Tickets are $100. Those who cannot attend, or wish to contribute more, can sponsor a graduate to attend the event. For tickets or spon-sorship opportunities, call 669-2307 or visit www.womens-empowerment.org.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Locke historic districtMay 20: Established in 1915, Locke is an island of Chinese culture and the only ex-isting town in America built exclusively by and for Chinese immigrants. Learn about its unique history and be transported back in time. Participants for the trip will meet at ACC Senior Service, 7334 Park City on Fri-day May 20, 2016 from 9:15 a.m. to 2 pm. Pre-payment of $10 and Pre-registration by May 13, 2016 required. Lunch is included. For more details, call (916) 393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Locke Asian Pacifi c Spring FestivalMay 21: Gala event featuring lion dance and martial arts, cultural entertainment, arts and crafts, vendor booths, food, silent auction, mahjong and poker tournament. Come visit the only surviving rural Chinese town in the U.S., historic Locke, 13916 Main St. Wal-nut Grove. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost includes free admission and free parking. Event is sponsored by the Locke Foundation. For more information, visit www.locke-founda-tion.org, call 916-776-1661 and email: [email protected]. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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Walt Disney Studios Mo-tion Pictures and Marvel En-tertainment off er the lat-est comic book crowd pleaser “Captain America: Civil War” from the director brothers that brought you “Captain Amer-ica: Winter Soldier”, Antho-ny and Joe Russo. Th e Aveng-ers, a group of several humans with enhanced features and specialized skills or abilities have wrought much havoc in past movies based on the Mar-vel comic books in which these colorful superheroes origi-nate. Th is movie is really non-stop action from start to fi nish which is mind-bending since it is on the screen and in 3-D for a long 146 min.

Among the actors turned su-perheroes; Chris Evans is fea-tured in the title role repeating it from other fi lms. He’s always fun to watch. Anthony Mack-ie is Falcon, Elizabeth Ol-sen appears as Scarlet Witch. Robert Downey, JR recreates Iron Man once more, with on ongoing parade of great mov-ie names; Don Cheedle (War Machine), Scarlett Johansson Black Widow), and Paul Bet-tany (Vision). If there is one thing that may be said for this picture, the cast is top heavy with talent. Other masters of Th espis in this comic book

action opera include Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Martin Freeman, Marisa Tomei, John Slattery, Alfre Woodard, Wil-liam Hurt, and as our villain in this picture, Daniel Brühl (Zemo). Chadwick Boseman looks pretty sleek in his Black Panther suit in this non-stop comic book orgy of action.

International sanctions on these superheroes are demand-ed by the United Nations fol-lowing the destruction of the building in the fi rst major ac-tion scene in the movie due to the loss of many human lives. Th e pressure is on to restrict the activities of the Avengers, and Captain America wishes not to cave to these pressures. Th e meeting by the Avengers to discuss which side of this they will take; to conform, or go rogue, may be the calmest moment in the picture.

Another fl y in the ointment of this splitting of superhero ways is actor Sebastian Stan returning as Th e Winter Sol-dier, who may be programmed to follow suggestion by simply hearing a series of coded words to trigger his brainwashing. Villain Daniel Brühl most cer-tainly manipulates him with di-visive results for our heroes.

I am positive that this will please Marvel Comic fans who know and love these charac-ters and eagerly await not only

for the mandatory cameo from comic book legend Stan Lee, but linger to the end of the cred-it crawl to see not just one, but two separate scenes that will portend of future Marvel may-hem in current production.

Th ere are many exceed-ingly popular movies in this vein from both the rival com-ic book concerns of Marvel or DC Comics, and they all suf-fer one major fl aw in being able to stand alone as a movie on its own merits. Th e produc-ers, and majority of the audi-ence for that matter, are sure to be invested in these stories and characters from past movies or comic books. Th ey assume you already know all of the players.

Imagine for a moment the movie patron such as myself,

who may have never read a com-ic book in their lives, but loves to see name talent doing what they do best. Especially if that name talent is in such a major produc-tion full of the latest movie wiz-ardry. Th y hypothetical patron that I suggest will not have any idea of who suddenly appears in a scene, without any expla-nation of who or what they are. Th is newly introduced fi gures are not developed as a character within the context of the movie’s narrative, they just show up and start doing their thing, much to the delight of those in the know that have followed these stories in previous movies and or in the comic books themselves.

Th us, from the perspective of a movie being a self-con-tained narrative, this mov-

ie will not work. It assumes you know what happened be-fore and will engage you to fi nd out what’s next. In the process, it only dazzles with loudness, action and shiny objects over its long running time, which, with all that time, does not let the great cast have much dialog to showcase their talents. Each action is in reaction to an-other bit of fast paced mov-ie wizardry. Th is is defi nitely a crowd pleaser for the fans, but what moments from this will they remember and or cherish ten years from now? In 3-D and IMAX, in Sacra-mento, at the Esquire IMAX Th eatre. Also showing in other theatres in wide-screen 3-D presentations.

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