Do your part to protect and enhance our urban waterways April 4–13 during this year’s Creek Week. Sponsored by Sacramento Area Creeks Council, this annual week of activities celebrates our region’s vital creek systems. The opening event, Splash Off, will take place Thursday, April 4, from 11 a.m. to noon at Camp Pollock on Northgate Boulevard with keynote speaker Chris Brokate from Clean River Alliance. Dr. Roland Brady will receive the 2019 Creek Steward Award for his extraordinary efforts to organize the cleanup of Steelhead Creek.
Eva Rutland had a special way to describe Sacramento: “How green, how clean, how wonderful!” Her perspective was unique as an African-American woman who moved her family to California from the segregated South in 1952. Her book, “When We Were Colored: A Mother’s Story,” describes the family’s remarkable journey.
They made the promise in 1975. It was memorialized in writing and adopted by the Sacramento City Council. The document was called the Sacramento River Parkway Master Plan, and its vow was simple.
If you’re all in for a night of poker to benefit the community, bring your sharpest card shark skills to the All In for Arden-Arcade Celebrity Poker Tournament on Saturday, March 16, at 4:30 p.m. at Mercedes-Benz of Rocklin.
When Northern California Ballet in Paradise lost its studio and storage unit in the Butte County Camp Fire late last year, its annual holiday performance of “The Nutcracker” was put on indefinite hold due to the devastating loss of its costumes.
Despite predictions of a rainstorm, 85 volunteers descended on the McKinley Rose Garden in early January for the annual prunathon organized by the Friends of East Sacramento, the nonprofit that manages the care and events at the city’s public garden.
