May 1, 2019
The job of visiting every restaurant in Pocket and Greenhaven has produced a surprise. While I expected diverse menus and a wide terrain of tastes and kitchen talent, I was not prepared to see local restaurants acting as community gathering spots and meeting halls. I expected to see people eat and run.
But quick meals and fast exits are not how every restaurant works in Pocket, especially during the afternoon. The food comes quickly, but customers are in no hurry to leave. In this way, our restaurants become unique alternatives to home and work. They become the “third place” identified by sociologists—places where people linger and experience their neighborhoods in neutral settings.
May 1, 2019
Community weighs in on proposed path near River Park.
The Two Rivers Trail Phase II project is designed to provide a 2.4 milelong multiuse path between Sutter’s Landing Park and H Street, near Sacramento State. The city released an environmental document on the project—which will rim the River Park neighborhood—in October 2018.
Numerous comments were received.Concerns have been raised about the section of the proposed trail where levee alterations are needed. At issue is the policy of the American River Flood Control District that recreational trails be kept off the levee crown, except where not feasible.
May 1, 2019
There’s nothing dusty or dull about history when Will Cannady and Mari Edwards start talking. The two Pocket teachers make our past relevant and exciting every day in their classrooms at the School of Engineering & Sciences.
Now, both teachers are being recognized for their work by ABC 10, which honored Cannady and Edwards as teachers of the month, respectively, for March and April.The local educators will walk the red carpet at the Esquire IMAX Theatre May 15 to attend the annual Teacher of the Year ceremony.
Along with other monthly winners, they are eligible for the Teacher of the Year award, which includes a $5,000 check.
Apr 5, 2019
Upside, downside, P/E ratio, EPS, options, short sells, PERT, SSG, REIT—all foreign terms to me. But I am a little smarter now after attending a meeting of the Pocket Change Investment Association.The investment club was established in April 1994 by Pocket neighbors. Founding members Michael Fong and Dr. Helen Kwong considered the monthly $25 dues as “pocket change,” which fit perfectly with the name of their neighborhood. And so the Pocket Change Investment Association was born. It meets monthly.
Apr 5, 2019
Construction is ramping up again at Crocker Village. BlackPine Communities—the builder of other high-profile local infill projects like California Brownstones and The Creamery—will begin work on three additional villages in the next few months.
“It is a world-class ‘surban’ community,” says BlackPine president and COO Mike Paris. “The architectural style and design is uniquely different, with architectural influences ranging from the brownstones in Park Slope, New York City, to the classic genres of the historical ‘park’ neighborhoods throughout Sacramento.”
Apr 5, 2019
They present themselves as victims of robberies and assaults, but police data shows their streets are extraordinarily safe. They promise to sue the city, but never file lawsuits. They make threats and bark loudly, but never bite.Empty threats have worked wonders for a handful of Pocket and Greenhaven homeowners who claim they own public levees along the Sacramento River. The ownership claims are fantasy.
