Dump trucks, graders and backhoes signal progress along the Sacramento River levee. Heavy equipment and the smell of diesel are doubly pleasing to Pocket residents, both for the enhanced flood protection they bring and the promise of public access.
In recent months, the riverfront near Garcia Bend Park has been crowded with work crews and engineers.
Bob Tribe talks about something that happened in 1965 like it was yesterday. His photographic memory is helpful in volunteer work for the Sacramento Library, where he interviews veterans for the “Valley to Vietnam” archive project.
“I’ve always been fascinated by history,” says Tribe, who passed up graduate school at San Francisco State to join the U.S. Army in 1966 at age 22.
The Sacramento City Council voted to approve certifying the McKinley Water Vault’s Environmental Impact Report on October 9. The project is expected to go to bid in January, with the goal of starting construction in early 2019.vIn the weeks before the council vote a small but intense neighborhood opposition emerged, expressing its position on red and yellow banners erected on two H Street homes. The banner reads, “Halt the 3.2-acre sewage tank.”
People who stay in short-term rentals when they visit Sacramento don’t need to be next to the Capitol, convention center, Golden 1 Center or Old Sac. Short-term rental guests seem to prefer D Street. Why D Street? It’s impossible to say how that humble byway became the boulevard of choice for the Airbnb crowd, but the numbers don’t lie.
I have good news for all of you. Most of you, that is.
I’m not dead.
Apparently, a few of my readers thought, as evidenced by the voicemail I received this past week, that I was singing in the celestial choir.
Lorelei, a nice woman from Lodi, reported that she’d sent a donation for my daughter’s charity, Chispa Project, which starts children’s libraries in Honduras. However, the post office returned it stamped, “Recipient Deceased.”
