April, 2013 NEWSLETTER

PARK BEAT
The Pulse of Greater Boulevard Park
Boulevard Park Neighborhood Association ¶ Box 163179, Sacramento 95816 ¶ April 2013
HONOR
YOUR MOTHER!
THE
TAXMAN
COMETH!
Aack! Income taxes
are due! April 15
falls on a Monday
this year, giving
us procrastinators the whole
weekend to finish. The IRS website has many useful tools,
including downloadable forms, useful instructions and
free e-filing for many forms.
And if your income is limited to a maximum of $57,000
for 2012, you can get free assistance with your taxes. The
Beehive Portal for the City of Sacramento allows taxpayers
to complete federal and up to two state returns for free,
electronically file and have their refund directly deposited
in their account. This service is provided through the
City of Sacramento City-wide Volunteer Program in
partnership with the Beehive and One Economy. In
addition, those with incomes of $50,000 or less for 2011
qualify for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program
(VITA). VITA volunteers will help prepare federal and
state taxes. The Hart Senior Center at 27th & I Streets
serves as a VITA site as well as a Tax Counseling for the
Elderly (TCE) site, serving those age 50 and up. Services
are available from February 1 to April 15 on weekday
mornings and Saturdays.
For more information, visit myfreetaxes.thebeehive.org/
city of sacramento or contact Infoline Sacramento: call
(916) 498-1000, or call 211 (note: 211 is a free phone
service offering advice and referrals on a variety of topics
– not to be confused with 311, which is the city’s own
information and reporting hotline).
…Mother Earth, that is. On Monday, April 22, the
world celebrates Earth Day. First conceived in 1970
by Senator Gaylord Nelson to bring environmental
issues into the forefront of politics during that time
of social change, Earth Day and the environmental
movement brought about the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the Clean Air, Clean Water, and
Endangered Species Acts. Americans now consider clean air and water part of their
birth rights, but climate change threatens the ecosystems we depend on and is the
theme of this year’s Earth Day (www.earthday.org).
You can join local festivities: on Thursday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the City
of Sacramento is sponsoring a community event at City Hall Plaza, 915 I Street, with
interactive demonstrations on composting, recycling and clean air, as well as magicians
and other entertainment. For more information, call the city’s Earth Day Hotline, 8086525. Then on Sunday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Environmental Council
of Sacramento will present its sixth annual Sacramento Earth Day at Southside Park,
between 6th and 8th, T and W streets. Last year’s event attracted about 4,000 people.
As in previous years, admission is free, and the celebration will include delicious vegan
food, entertainment, and interactive activities. You’ll also find over 100 tables and vendors
dispensing information and goods for saving money, living healthy, and protecting our
environment. If you ride your bicycle there, which is strongly encouraged, Sacramento
Area Bicycle Advocates will provide secure valet parking. For more information, visit
www.sacramentoearthday.net or follow @SacEarthDay on Twitter.
NEW ARENA SITE PROPOSAL – IN MIDTOWN?
Controversy over the proposed arena for the Kings centers primarily on whether or not
(and how much) public subsidy should be provided to keep the Kings in Sacramento.
A new proposal to reduce costs to the city is to locate a new arena on land currently owned
all or in part by the city. Grant and Fremont Parks have been ruled out as too small, as have
the median strips along 21st and 22nd Streets, but Southside, Sutter’s Landing, McKinley and
Land Parks – and, in a pinch, the American River Parkway – are under consideration. One
of four big business figures in Sacramento, a Mr. Stanford, proposed using the site of the
original racetrack and state fair in Boulevard Park where he had previous success, but city
planners point out that it is a park in name only and most of that land is currently under
private ownership. Public forums will be held to discuss the proposal at 3:17 a.m. April 1
at locations TBD at least 6 hours ahead of the meeting.
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Places to Go, People to See
Every Monday – Monday Night Skate – 7:00 p.m. Meet at the
parking lot at the corner of 3rd and S streets. For more information,
go to sacramentoskating.com or call Brian Malone at 715-2808 or
Bernard Scoville at 447-8288.
Mon. Apr. 1 – APRIL FOOLS’ DAY!!! – make someone laugh!
Wed. Apr. 3 – BPNA Board Meeting – 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. 2131 F St
(enter on 22nd St). Contact Catherine Turrill at 498-0437 to add items
to the agenda. Open to BPNA members and other interested neighbors.
Fri. Apr. 12 – Wed. Apr. 17 – Festival of the Arts – CSUS (see April
Events)
Sat. Apr. 13 – Second Saturday Art Walk – Each month, galleries
around town are open to showcase specific artists and new showings, and
many bands and vendors line the sidewalks. Check out their web site at
www.sacramento-second-saturday.org.
Sat. Apr. 13 –Friends of the River Bank – 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Swainson’s Hawks Sutter’s Landing Park (see article for details)
Mon Apr. 15 – Copy and Ad Deadline for May issue of Park
Beat. To submit articles and calendar entries, email Margaret Buss at
[email protected] or call 448-6246. To place an ad, call Jennifer Knutson
at 925-324-1289 or email [email protected]
Thu. Apr. 18 – Earth Day celebration at City Hall Plaza – 9:00
a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (see article)
Thu. Apr. 18 – Sacramento Living Library Presents – 7:00 p.m.
David Lasky reading and signing his graphic novel The Carter Family:
Don’t Forget This Song. Time-Tested Books, 1114 21st Street
Sat. Apr. 20 – Green Thumb Brigade - 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Meet
in the alley behind 711/715 22nd Street. The most crucial task now is
to keep the devices swept and weeded. If you like these street amenities
and are willing to help our leafy friends, contact Sally Flory O’Neil at
446-3390 or [email protected] for more information on what needs
watering or other ways you can help.
Sat. Apr. 20 and Sun. Apr. 21 – Sutter’s Fort/State Indian
Museum – Traders Faire and Indian Arts & Crafts (see April Events)
Sun. Apr. 21 – Sacramento Earth Day Celebration – 11:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. – Southside Park, 6th Street near U Street (see article)
Sun. Apr. 21 – 7:00 p.m. Sacramento Living Library Presents –
Remembering PULSE! Tower Records arts magazine. Time-Tested Books,
1114 21st Street
Mon. Apr. 22 – Earth Day – do one good deed to make our
environment safe for the future
Sat. May 4 & Sun. May 5 – Jane’s Walks (see article)
Spring Cleaning?
Save Some Goods for the BPNA Yard Sale!!!
The Annual BPNA yard sale, our favorite neighborhood recycling event,
will be the first day of June on the 22nd Street median between F and
G Streets: this is a change in date). Clean items in good condition
of all sorts are welcome, including furniture, kitchenware, household
goods, sports equipment, children’s toys, and garden items (please, no
clothes or electronics). So, while doing your spring cleaning in April and
May, remember to set aside any saleable items you no longer need. Your
neighbors may have a use for them! Contact Dave Philipp at 212-1322 or
[email protected] if you have items to donate. More details in the
May newsletter….
New Arena Site Proposal
from page 1.
…Citizens interested in this proposal should note …IT’S APRIL FOOLS DAY!
The Year Ahead in the Neighborhood
APRIL Midtown Farmer’s Market Opening at J & 20th Streets
MAY 4&5 Jane’s Walks
JUNE 1
Annual BPNA Yard Sale – 22nd between F & G
JULY 13
BPNA General Meeting in the Commons between 21st/22nd
and F & G – food, speakers and entertainment!
AUG 6
National Night Out Progressive – Dinner throughout the
neighborhood.
SEPT 7
Annual Spaghetti Dinner – 21st & G – the happenin’ event
of the year!
DEC 14
Holiday Potluck Party
The Year Ahead for Friends of the Riverbanks
MAY 11
TBD: Bees or Nature Photography
JUNE 8
Star Gazing on the Mound – Midsummer Night’s Dream
JULY 13
Bats – JoEllen Arnold
AUG 10
Dragons and Damsels – Greg Kareofelas
SEPT 21 Great American River Cleanup – American River
Parkway Foundation
OCT 12
Welcome Back to the Salmon
NOV/DEC? Mushroom Hunt – Ryan LaPorte
Keep current on FORB activities by visiting friendsoftheriverbanks.org.
Walk a Block for BPNA – Volunteer Needed
Sherry Hopkins-Bonds has been faithfully delivering the newsletter as a
block captain since BPNA was formed in the early 90s but now would like
to relinquish that role to someone else. Her delivery route is the block
between G and H Streets, 21st and 22nd Streets. Newsletter delivery takes
15- 20 minutes, once a month. If you are willing to deliver newsletters
for that block, please contact Block Captain Coordinator Joe Cress at
698-7938 or [email protected]. And many thanks to Sherry for two
decades of service!
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Committees
BPNA Board of Directors 2013
Chair
Catherine Turrill
Secretary Suzie Johnston
Treasurer Jim Betzing
Nita Davidson
Lorna Martens
James McDaniel
Dave Philipp
498-0437
397-9294
446-4884
448-8064
718-3900
802-5228
212-1322
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Boulevard Park Neighborhood Association purpose: The BPNA is created to support,
promote, and improve the quality of life for the residents of the greater Boulevard Park
neighborhood. By achieving this goal we strive thereby to improve the quality of life for
others who work and live in and around Boulevard Park and for Sacramento as a whole.
Membership: Sally Flory-O’Neil, 446-3390
Preservation: Dave Philipp, 212-1322
Park Beat Production Team
Editor: Margaret Buss, 448-6246, [email protected]
Ad Manager: Jennifer Knutson, 925-324-1289, [email protected]
Graphic Designer: Kevin Boyd, 442-4429, [email protected]
Block Captain Coordinator: Joe Cress, 698-7938, [email protected]
Great ad rates! Call Jennifer at 925.324.1289 for details.
Don’t forget! The deadline for ads and copy for the May issue of
Park Beat is April 15 by 5:00 p.m.!
New & Renewing Members Nov. / Dec.
*Dues received after March 14 will be listed in May’s Park Beat.
A membership form is on the back page.
Who’s New in the Neighborhood?
Ralph Bonds and Sherry Hopkins-Bonds
Tom Hutchings
Eric & Jennifer Knutson
James & Rebecca McDaniel
Melinda & Norv Wellsfry
Laurelea Williams
A new Park Beat feature—new businesses in our neighborhood.
This month BPNA welcomes:
Trumpette, A Baby Gift Boutique
2020 I Street – www.trumpette.org
Features very cute baby socks, shoes, tights and clothes
April 2013
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April Events – Spring-Ing To Life
Midtown Farmers’ Market – Opening Soon at J and 20th Streets
A new Farmer’s Market will be launched in midtown in April. Its sponsor, the Midtown Business Association (MBA), says this “family-friendly market”
will be open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. until Second Saturday in October and will “showcase local agriculture, prepared foods, artisans,
and crafters.” A Grand Opening event with live performances and food demonstrations also is planned. For more information, go to the MBA website
(www.mbasac.com/projects/midtown-farmers-market).
April 12 - 17 – Annual Festival Of The Arts And “Family Funday Sunday” At Sacramento State
Every year the College of Arts and Letters hosts a wide variety of events in the visual, performing, and literary arts—many of them free—in April. The 2013
Festival, which starts April 12, includes art exhibits and demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, poetry readings, concerts, dance recitals, and more.
New this year will be a full day of family-friendly events on the campus on April 14 – Family Funday Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.). For more information, go
the Festival’s website (http://www.al.csus.edu/festival/). Among the many art-related events during the Festival is an exhibition of posters by members of
the RCAF, a world-renowned art collective founded at Sacramento State by local artists José Montoya (a resident of Boulevard Park) and Esteban Villa.
Called “The poster! La Palabra! The Word!,” the exhibition will be on view in the University Library Gallery Annex from April 2-27 (Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10
a.m. – 5 p.m.). A dual program (lecture and panel discussion) about the RCAF and college art collections will be held at the Gallery Annex from 1-4 on
April 13, followed by a reception from 4-5.
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April 14 – Friends of the River Banks:
Return of the Swainson’s Hawks
Jane Jacob’s Walks, May 4 & 5
Join (FORB) on Saturday, April 14, for its fourth annual hawk walk.
Jude Lamare and Friends of Swainson’s Hawks will bring live birds
and talk about the importance of hawks in the ecosystem, as well as
answer questions. The group will then walk to the area where Swainson’s
hawks have nested for every year except 2011. During the program that
year, a pair of Swainson’s hawks flew around with nesting material but
didn’t successfully nest, possibly because a great horned owl had already
established a nest in that area. Mother Nature always surprises us. Come
and see what transpires this year. Wear warm clothing and bring a change
of clothes for young children, plus life jackets if you think they’ll go in
the water. FORB asks that you leave dogs at home, for the sake of the wild
critters we go to see.
“Jane Jacob’s Walk”—neighborhood walking tours organized
throughout the world to encourage people to get to know their cities by
walking—will happen in Sacramento the weekend of May 4. Coordinated
by William Burg, State Historian for California State Parks and President
of SOCA, the 2013 “walk” also is a “Jane Jacobs Roll,” for it involves
some pedaling, too. It begins Saturday, May 4, with a “Bikes, Boxers, and
Baseball” tour set in Old City Cemetery, led by Eric Bradner (10 a.m.);
a “Streetcar Ride,” with cyclists tracing some of the routes once followed
by the city’s streetcars between the Cemetery and downtown Sacramento
(noon); and a Downtown/Midtown tour led by Downtown Sacramento
Partnership’s Shawn Peter (4 p.m.). Activities resume at 10 a.m.
Sunday, May 5, with a tour of Alkali Flat led by SOCA Board member and
Alkali/Mansion Flat Historic Neighborhood Association president, Luis
Sumpter, followed by a tour from downtown Sacramento through Capitol
Mall led by William Burg (1 p.m., ending at Southside Park).
April 18 & 21 – Sacramento Living Library
Time-Tested Books (21st Street between K & L Streets) sponsors FREE
talks each month about events and people important in Sacramento
history and culture. April’s events include:
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David Lasky reading & signing his graphic novel The Carter
Family: Don’t Forget This Song on Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m.
The novel tells the struggles and successes of Carter Family, the
first superstar group of country music, whose styling and songs,
such as “Wildwood Flower” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,”
influenced traditional and contemporary country music for
decades.
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Remembering PULSE! Magazine. Thirty years ago, Tower Records
published the very first issue of PULSE! Magazine—a scrappy,
independent take on music and culture. Editor Mike Farrace
created a platform for creative journalism that was an early home
to many outstanding talents, including Jackson Griffith, Marc
Weidenbaum and Adrian Tomine. On Sunday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
take a look back at Tower Records’ amazing music publication
and the people who made it happen.
HAIR GALLERIA
April 20 & 21 – Sutter’s Fort & State Indian
Museum – Traders’ Faire and Indian Arts &
Crafts – 10 a.m. to 5 P.m. Each Day
Do your gift shopping early at two family-friendly events at Sutter’s Fort
State Historic Park (SHP) and the State Indian Museum on April 20 & 21,
between K & L, 27th and 28th Streets. Visitors will have the opportunity
to learn – and buy – from artisan crafters at the Sutter’s Fort Traders’
Faire (California’s First Mall), experience the hustle and bustle of pioneer
trading days by watching artisans create goods, haggle with traders,
hammer square nails, and enjoy musket and cannon demonstrations.
Next door the State Indian Museum’s “Arts & Crafts Market” will feature
custom beaded jewelry, artwork, baskets, gourds, soapstone and elk
horn carvings, drums and more. Combo price – $8 for adults; $6 for
youth ages 6-17 which includes entrance into both the Fort and Museum.
Sutter’s Fort stand-alone price: $7 for adults; $5 for youths ages 6-17.
Indian Museum stand-alone price: $4 for adults; $3 for youths ages 6-17;
Admission for children ages five and under is free to both the Fort and
Museum.
April 2013
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Critter Corner:
ET TU, BRUTUS?
Could this be Brutus, our
midtown sea lion, captured in
this photo by Robert Sewell
taken on February 14? Brutus is
about 600 pounds and, although
cruising in our neighborhood
stretch of the American River
on Valentine’s Day, doesn’t seem
interested in breeding right now. Like any midtown sushi foodie, he is content
hanging around Sutter’s Landing Park and eating small fish. Life is good.
Got an unusual pet you’d like featured in Critter Corner? Send information and/
or a photo to Suzie Johnston at [email protected] or Margaret
Buss at [email protected].
BPNA is on Facebook!
Want to stay in the know on the latest events in the
neighborhood? Then find and “like” the Boulevard
Park Neighborhood Association page on Facebook.
We post stories about recent developments and
reminders about BPNA events. It’s another great way
to connect with BPNA and your neighbors!
EDMONDS AND PHILIPP: Your
Way Home
Whether buying or selling, call the team that lives & works in Boulevard Park.
Recycling vintage homes in record time is our specialty!
Dave Philipp
REALTOR
916.212.1322
[email protected]
Liz Edmonds
REALTOR
916.838.1208
[email protected]
Boulevard Park Neighborhood Association Membership Form
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P.O. Box 163179, Sacramento, CA 95816-9179
Name:___________________________________________________________________________________
Address:_________________________________________________________________________________
Telephone:____________________________E-mail:_______________________________________________
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