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Vol. XXIV • No. 21

2709 Riverside Blvd.Sacramento,CA 95818t: (916) 429-9901f: (916) 429-9906

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By Bonnie osBorn

It seems Joy Reinhardt, general manager of Sacramento’s historic Dante Club, was des-tined for a career feeding and entertaining guests, as hard as she fought against that path in her youth.

Her father was a chef who served as per-sonal chef for a Saudi prince in Riyadh for 20 years; her mother was a waitress, and her stepfather owned a beer and wine bar. “I swore I would never go into hospitality,” Reinhardt recalls today. “My parents were both militant about teaching me how to cook, testing me on different flavors. I couldn’t help myself: I grew up in the business.”

After growing up in Redding and fol-lowing a military career that took her to Germany and Belgium and a foray as a Washington, DC, restaurateur, Reinhardt wound up back in her home state, where she’s spent the past couple of years shep-herding Sacramento’s venerable Italian so-cial club, site of countless weddings, anni-versaries, reunions and holiday parties, to new exciting new growth.

Dante Club, which will celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2016, has undergone a series

of updates and renovations under Rein-hardt’s management. Improvements include updated lighting, new carpeting, a new flag-stone walkway leading to the venue’s beau-tiful outdoor gazebo and more. “My first vi-sion was to add some sparkle here and there while preserving the rich tradition of this venue that has played such a big part in Sacramento’s heritage and the life of our community,” Reinhardt says.

Dante Club will strut many of its recent im-provements for today’s generation of brides and grooms with its first Wedding Preview on Saturday, Nov. 14, from noon to 5 p.m. Guests are invited to tour all four banquet rooms as well as the newly landscaped out-door event area, complete with photo-friend-ly gazebo. Couples who reserve their wed-ding venue during the event will receive half off their room rental. The event is free and open to the public.

In addition to hosting weddings, family reunions, high school reunions, fund-rais-ing events, Italian feasts and holiday par-ties, Dante Club also offers a reasonably priced weekday lunch menu, perfect for of-

Innovative Management, Modern Upgrades Keep Historic Dante Club ‘Forever Young’

Outdoor weddings are popular at the Dante Club.

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fice workers and profession-als in the Fair Oaks/Carmi-chael neighborhood.

“People who got married here 40 years ago say the food has always been fab-ulous. We’ve been com-mitted to preserving that tradition of hearty, family-style meals but have with a new emphasis on season-al and fresh ingredients in keeping with Sacramento’s farm-to-fork culture. We use fresh everything. We don’t have an olive tree, but pretty much every vegeta-ble you get here is going to be fresh… and beautiful.

“You eat with your eyes first,” Reinhardt says. “Esthet-ics is not just on the walls; it has to translate onto the plate as well.”

As part of its locavore fo-cus, the Dante Club bar also sports an impressive variety of local craft beers. “People would be surprised to know how many local breweries we have on tap, our loyalty to local brews,” she says. “It’s important to us to support local businesses.”

The latest news at Dante Club is the imminent grand opening of its brand-new banquet room, The Privato, where Reinhardt has been working nights and week-ends to finish out the decor.

The room’s stained Traver-tine floor and ceiling and el-egant lighting give it an Old World field. With newly landscaped outside entrance opening onto Dante Club’s elegant outdoor venue and private bar, the venue is self-contained and accommo-dates 140 guests.

Before joining the Dante Club event team in 2014, Reinhardt’s early career path took her far afield. Born in San Francisco and raised in Redding, Reinhardt joined the U.S. Army as soon as she was old enough. She initially was stationed at 7th Corps HQ in Stuttgart, Germany, where she worked as a doc-ument specialist handling classified materials. She lat-er transferred to Mons, Bel-gium, serving 5-1/2 years as a NATO news analyst. “I think the military is great for young people who don’t necessarily know their di-rection,” she says today. “It made me stronger and def-initely self-reliant, but also very team-oriented.”

After her military service, Reinhardt landed in Wash-ington, DC, and joined the staff of the local Hard Rock Café, where she served as manager for five years. Even-tually, fed up with the crazy work schedule, she tried her hand at catering, working for a small catering busi-ness before launching her

own company. “I decided I can make money at this,” she recalls. After a year, she persuaded her twin broth-er to join her, and together the two expanded to launch a fine-dining restaurant, in honor of her chef father; a casual-dining “tap and vine” restaurant, in honor of her step-father, and a wine store, where pretentious-ness was forbidden.

“I have a business degree, but the best education is start-ing a business,” Reinhardt says. “They call it college, and it really is. You learn what works and what doesn’t.”

It’s an education she is put-ting to good use in expanding Dante Club’s role not only as a home to Sacramento’s ro-bust Italian-American com-munity but as a popular event and party venue.

In 1926, when Dante Club was founded, Italian-Ameri-cans were considered an eth-nic minority and often faced prejudice and discrimination, Reinhardt notes. “We oper-ate from the mentality that it doesn’t matter size of your pocketbook, your skin color or the language you speak,” she says. Recent events have in-cluded high school reunions,

an adult Halloween costume party and a traditional Ethi-opian wedding, for which she researched the technique for preparing roasted goat. “It’s those kinds of events that keep me excited and wanting to come back,” she says.

The Dante Club is a popular venue for weddings. Shown here is a gazebo used in such celebrations.

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Sch o o l Ne w STwo upcoming workshops focused on gender and sex-ual identity

San Juan Unified is partner-ing with the Gender Health Center to provide two work-shops on “Understanding Gender and Sexual Identity in School-Age Youth.”

Speaker Ben Hudson will discuss the difference be-tween gender identity and sexual orientation, share best practices for how schools can

support transgender youth by meeting the legal require-ments of AB 1266 and of-fer resources available with-in the community.

These workshops for staff, students and families will take place Wednesday, Nov. 18. A morning workshop will be held in the San Juan Unified board room at 3738 Walnut Ave. in Carmichael from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. An afternoon session will

be held at Del Campo High School’s administrative con-ference center at 4925 Dew-ey Drive in Fair Oaks from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Please RSVP to the Family and Community Engagement De-partment at (916) 971-7929.

2015 sTArs Hall of Fame honorees

The STARS Hall of Fame was established in 2009 by the

San Juan Education Foundation to honor exceptional San Juan Unified School District gradu-ates who embody an innovative spirit and have made their mark in their chosen profession.This year’s honorees were:Alex Stamos, Facebook Chief

Security Officer (Bella Vis-ta High School)

Mary Rotelli, Teichert Chief Operating Officer (Rio Americano High School)

Kate Levering, Tony-nomi-nated award-winning ac-tress (El Camino Funda-mental High School)

interviews will air on educa-tional cable in sacramento:Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. on Comcast 15Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. on Comcast 15Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. on Comcast 16Dec. 6 at 12 p.m. on Comcast 15Dec 16 at 2 p.m. on Comcast 16

Gala to benefit Kids Help-ing Kids

Kids Helping Kids Sac-ramento will hold its fourth annual signature gala at the Harris Center for the Arts in Folsom on Jan. 7.

Tickets to the event are available through the Har-ris Center website. The eve-ning will feature a silent auc-tion, raffle and performances by Grammy-nominated band NEEDTOBREATHE, along with supporting act Johnny-swim.

Kids Helping Kids is a non-profit organization run by students at Del Campo High School. Funds raised at the gala will go towards continu-ing efforts to better the lives of underserved children.

Source: SJ Scene, the San Juan Unified School District’s online newsletter

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It has been written in this publication before about Sacramento resident Joey Garcia’s deep-rooted con-nectedness with the hu-man experience through her writing for the Sacramento News and Review, teaching at St. Francis High School, and also by the work she does helping children in her home country of Belize.

For years, she heard sto-ries of her home country which prompted her to vis-it extended family, and by her 30s, she finally did for the first time since a toddler, an experience that kept her coming back. During those vacations, her desire to help others manifested when af-ter 10 years, she formed Rise Up Belize!, which is an ad-vancement-through-educa-tion nonprofit organization that serves fourth through sixth graders by honing their skills at tuition-free ac-ademic summer camps. Sac-ramento-area teachers vol-unteer to conduct three-day trainings meant to advance

the skills of Belizean prima-ry school teachers.

“There is no free educa-tion in Belize—it’s all tu-ition- and fee-based—so we help Belizean youth pay for high school,” she says. “One young Belizean man who re-ceived an RUB scholarship is now a police officer, an-other is in law school. One young woman who received an RUB scholarship is a nurse, another is a teacher. It’s exciting to make a differ-ence, one person at a time.”

Training for teenagers in the Rise Up Belize! Acade-my of Student Teachers in-cludes workshops in cultur-al competency, curriculum development and classroom management, facilitated by experienced master teachers who currently work in Sac-ramento-area high schools. The Rise Up Belize! Acad-emy of Student Teachers is the only U.S. program in which high school students create curriculum and teach — fully in charge of a class-room — in a developing country. Teens in the Acade-

Rise Up Belize!Fashion show fundraiser set for Nov. 15 at Katia’s Collections

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my of Student Teachers gain leadership skills that will stay with them the rest of their lives.

One of the volunteers, a St. Francis High School graduate and now a stu-dent at UC Berkeley, Mad-dy Dyer, attended the stu-dent teacher program. While still in high school,

she organized a fundrais-er for Rise Up Belize! and helped train the student teachers who were serving in Belize.

In an interview with this publication, Maddy said her first of two trips to Belize was the first time abroad without her family.”We pre-pared for the trip for about eight months. The process for preparing for the trip was the longest. We were there

for 10-11 days. We taught for a week, but it takes time to fundraise.”

She said she really enjoyed working with kids her first trip down, tutoring at lo-cal elementary schools, but the second time she want-ed to take the reigns and make an impact. So she de-veloped more organization-al skills and realized the ex-tent of her patience. “I am pretty patient. I could ring

in a class of 20 rambunc-tious kids.”

The children there, Mad-dy said, really have no sense of self esteem and that much of her job was to help them come up with goals and strive to achieve them. “It’s not real-ly instilled at home or in the classroom. Everyday, we had a lesson surrounding self es-teem. We talked about the cycle of violence. Kids are caught in that. The age group was eight to 10 years old.”

Even though the time spent in Belize was just a few days, Maddy saw a pos-itive change in attitude with the children. “They were shy. Two American girls in a classroom – they were a lit-tle scared. Girls are differ-ent, subservient. My biggest goal was not just teach them

fractions but give them a self esteem.

“A lot of kids friended me (on Facebook) immediately after I left. They still call me Miss Maddy. Through out the time, they wrote about their dreams. They wrote about going to Harvard and being in the Olympics. They were going to pursue those goals after I left.”

On Sunday, Nov. 15 at 11 a.m. at Katia’s Collections, 1608 41st St., there will be a benefit for Rise Up Be-lize! where all proceeds go to the nonprofit. The cost is $30 and will include a fash-ion show, champagne and brunch. RSVP by Nov. 8. To reserve your seat, write a check to Rise Up Belize! and mail to Jan Lee 1608 41st St., Sacramento 95819.

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After 27 years as a Sacra-mento gallery owner, Hel-en has decided it is time to retire. The Helen Jones Gallery will be closing the end of December 2015!

Helen’s eclectic blend of art by local and nation-al artists includes origi-nal oils and acrylics, wa-tercolors, etchings, bronze sculpture, serigraphs, lith-ographs, prints, porcelain figurines, ceramics, vin-tage items, jewelry, gift items and more. Pricing on everything in the gal-lery has been reduced sig-nificantly. If you have any interest in items for your-self, a family gift, an up-coming wedding, Christ-mas, etc., the Helen Jones Gallery is a must see!

Helen Jones Gallery is one of the most eclectic galleries that Sacramen-to has to offer. To under-stand where this eclecti-cism comes from, one only needs to get to know a lit-tle about Helen herself.

Helen Jones is a native Sacramentan, who was married to her high school sweetheart Gordon Jones, who later became a major league baseball pitcher. Be-ing the wife of a ball play-er took Helen across the United States as well as Cuba and Venezuela. On those adventures, she was afforded the opportunity to dance with Dezi Arnez, sing with Keely Smith, and swim with Ester Wil-liams. Before starting Hel-en Jones Gallery in 1988, Helen worked for the Cal-ifornia Legislature, begin-ning as a messenger and retiring thirty-one years

later as Chief of Staff for Senator Waddie Deddeh. Her greatest achievement, Helen says, has been the rearing of her three suc-cessful children: Gary Jones who owns ATV, a video production company in Sacramento; Greg Jones who is a publishing con-sultant and is sought after in North America for his circulation expertise; and Janet Berry who recent-ly became the first woman Judge of the 2nd Judicial District Court of Reno, Nevada.

After retirement Helen plans to spend time with her son Gary enjoying the sunsets in Cabo San Lu-cas. Her daughter, Jan, will also be retiring and they will be able to enjoy life together, including spend-ing time with her grand-children.

David Markle, the gal-lery’s framer has been with

the Helen for 18 years and is currently review-ing his options. David may or may not open his own frame shop. And, the gal-lery’s popular and knowl-edgeable sales associate, Cary Parrotte, retired in July due to ill health.

Helen Jones Gallery is at 588 La Sierra Drive in the Arden Town Center (cor-ner of Watt Ave. and Fair Oaks Blvd.). The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10AM – 6PM, and they can be reached by phone at 481-1118.

Helen Jones to retire from 27 years as an Arden area gallery owner

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Faces and Places:

Treasures of the Valley Photos by sTePHen Crowley

Folks celebrated the 25 anniversary of the Sacramen-to Valley Conservancy with a party at Camp Pollock on Thursday, Oct. 22. The theme, Building on the Next 25 Years, went hand in hand with the Camp Pollock Lodge undergoing a partial restoration. The Cats Meow pro-vided the evening’s sound served with plenty of scrump-tious hors d’oeuvres complimented by wine and hand-crafted micro-brews to set the tone for this celebration. A&A Music Events hosted the evening’s live auction, ta-ble games and silent auction to raise money supporting the SVC’s mission: To purchase, protect and preserve open space for all of us.

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sPeCTre The MPAA has rated this PG-13

Sony, via the union of Co-lumbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer give us “Spec-tre”. This is the 24th movie in the James Bond franchise of films, or 26th if you include “Casino Royale” and “Nev-er Say Never Again”. Dan-iel Craig is 007 for the fourth time. The criminal organiza-tion of SPECTRE returns from the other stories featured in past Bond pictures. The let-ters of SPECTRE signify Spe-cial Executive for Counter-in-telligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

Director Sam Mendes is back from the previous Bond picture, “Skyfall”, and cinema-tographer Hoyte Van Hoy-tema lights the classic Bond look in a way that will please fans. This movie was shot en-

Matías Bombal’s Hollywoodtirely digitally. Just as in the shift from film to digital, the story centers around the push to eliminate real members of Her Majesty’s Secret Service in favor of digital surveillance with technology. Plans are in the works to tie all nations se-curity systems into one gener-al surveillance service. Actor Andrew Scott plays “C”, the instigator of this new order of watchfulness. Early in the picture “C” breaks the news to “M”, played by the always ele-gant Ralph Fiennes, that his days and that of the 00 agents are at an end. You may well imagine how that goes over.

This seems not to affect our hero Bond, James Bond, who we first see on a mission of his own in Mexico City, during the pageantry of Dia de los Muertos as he tracks a killer with links to SPECTRE. Fol-lowing a spectacular build-

ing destruction, huge crowd scenes of the costumed rev-elers, and some fine helicop-ter acrobatics, Bond gets his man, only to find that it turns out to be a lead to Rome.

Don’t all roads lead to Rome?

Bond is witness to a secret international meeting of the all powerful SPECTRE, the Illu-minati of international crime world, but is singled out in the room by this movie’s top villain, Herr Oberhauser, played with calmness by Christoph Waltz. With clever and typical der-ring-do, Bond wiggles his way out and makes his sudden de-parture in the pride and joy of the Aston-Martin firm of mo-tor makers; a car just for Bond, the Aston Martin DB 10, of which only 10 cars were made.

Bond now must find Ober-hauser, for he suspects a con-nection between his nefar-

ious plans and that of “C” back at MI6. Of course, his adventures lead him past many faces (and more) of beautiful women, beginning in Rome, then eventually Austria where he finds Mad-eleine Swann, played by love-ly Léa Seydoux.

On board the Orient Ex-press, Bond and Swann move from the wagon-lit to the din-ing car where we see a mo-ment of calm before a typi-cal Bond movie interruption; This movie’s tough hench-man, Hinks, played by Dave Bautista, who you may re-member from “Guardians of the Galaxy”, attacks Bond re-lentlessly, channeling “Odd-job” from “Goldfinger”. There’s a nice tip of the hat in this scene to a moment in “Jaws”, but with similar shaped ob-jects all in a row being pulled overboard (or in this case, off the railroad car) one by one. It just might spell Hink’s de-mise, but you’ll have to see it to find out.

With all of the great ex-pense lavished on each of the Bond movies, and this is no exception, you’d think we’d have a hit on our hands. The fantastic photography, stunts and beautiful inter-

national settings don’t bring this 007 to life. This movie falls flat. The story wanders lightly from one event to the next. The characters are not developed to the point where you want to hate them or like them.

The only exception, where the movie has some lightness deftly handled, are the scenes featuring actor Ben Wishaw as “Q”, a role he recreates from the last Bond release, “Sky-fall”. As the nerdy MI6 gad-get guy who has dependent cats, he offers some charm in a movie that is slick without substance. We don’t even get the cleverly named Ian Flem-ing type Bond girls, aside from Miss Moneypenny.

The best line of the mov-ie comes from Oberhauser as he tells of the many women in Bond’s life by saying “a long line of pretty faces on your way to death” I’ll paraphrase that and say: after a long line of excel-lent 007 movies, this one dies an unfortunate death. Perhaps they should not have started the picture with “Dia de los Muertos”. I was shaken, not stirred by this Bond offering. Too bad, they can be so fun! In IMAX and standard screen-ings throughout the nation.

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Non-Profit Organization is Seeking Local Host Families for High School Exchange Students ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with your community high school, is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of countries: Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, to name a few. ASSE students are enthusiastic and excited to experience American culture while they practice their English. They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families wel-come these students into their family, not as a guest, but as a family member, giving ev-eryone involved a rich cultural experience.The exchange students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, accident and liability insurance. ASSE students are selected based on academics and personality, and host families can choose their student from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and person-al interests. To become an ASSE Host Fami-ly or to find out how to become involved with ASSE in your community, please call 1-800-733-2773 or go to www.host.asse.com to be-gin your host family application. Students are eager to learn about their American host fami-ly, so begin the process of welcoming your new son or daughter today!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society (STJS) monthly music eventEvery second Sunday of the month, STJS has music at the Elks Lodge No. 6, 6446 Riverside Blvd., from noon to 5 p.m. Each month STJS has a different bands, there is three different rooms to listen to music. Nominal fee for mem-bers is $8; non-member price is $10.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Rotary Club South meetingThe Rotary Club of South Sacramento meets at noon for lunch every Thursday at Iron Grill, located at 2422 13th St. (Broad-way and 13th Street). Rotary is one of the largest service organizations in the world dedicated to community service both locally, and internationally. Please call JR Springer at 425-9195 for additional information.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Beginning tai chi gongThese exercises use the principle of chi flow-ing properly throughout the body to main-tain the equilibrium of yin and yang. Reg-ular practice of these forms will develop better balance and flexibility, gain strength, promote deep relaxation, and improve health. This beginning class will also learn the 24 Yang Style Tai Chi and Yi Jing, a tra-ditional Health Qi Gong. Pre-registration and prepayment required or $7 drop-in fee at the door. Class will be held on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00 pm at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call (916)393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.

November

An Evening with Lyn St. James, One of Racing’s Most Influential Womennov. 13: From 5:30 to 10 p.m., enjoy a farm-to-fork dinner with live entertainment. Tickets are $75 until Nov. 1. Spend an eve-ning celebrating one of the most respected women in racing. We will be hosting a farm-to-fork dinner, serving cocktails and enthus-

ing you with live entertainment. There will also be a live and silent auction hosted by David Sobon and our MC’s will be KFBK Amy Lewis and former KCRA Dann Shive-ly. We will be featuring a VIP hour begin-ning at 5pm, complete with complimenta-ry champagne, photo ops and a not-to-be missed meet and greet with Lyn herself. Vis-it Calautomuseum.org or call (916) 442-6802 for more information. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––The Eddie Leon West Fundraiser for Veterans 2015Nov. 14: Simply ReMarcAble Foundation presents The Eddie Leon West Fundrais-er for Veterans 2015 at their facility. 100 percent of proceeds from this fundrais-er will go to remodeling this facility for veteran housing and services. Local ven-dors will be on hand to provide food, raf-fles, a live DJ, and more. The Eddie Leon West Fundraiser for veterans is located at 3630 Morse Ave. Sacramento, CA 95821. Noon-4 p.m. For more information, call 970-5161 or 826-1510.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––“Living the American Dream” dinner dance and gala at St. Anthony’s Nov. 14: Lorenzo Patino LULAC Coun-cil of Sacramento and Hermandad Mexi-cana Transnacional invites you to “Living the American Dream”, a dinner, dance, and gala

for new citizens, scholarships and commu-nity service recognition. This event is being held at St. Anthony Parish in the Memorial Hall starting at 5 to 6:30 p.m. with cocktails followed by dinner/program from 6:30-8:30 p.m. There will also be music and entertain-ment with DJ Alberto from 8:45-11 p.m. Tickets are $25/ No host bar. For informa-tion, reservations, and payment contact, call Dolores Mendez at 916-454-3652 or The-resa Riviera at 916-2011-236 or reserve and pay online at www.sacramentolulac.org. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Join the Camellia Chapter, Embroiderers’ Guild of AmericaNov. 17: Join the Camellia Chapter, Embroider-ers’ Guild of America at their monthly meeting at the Arcade Library, 2443 Marconi Ave. at 7 p.m. Guests welcome. Free. 223-2751.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Skin care products safetyNov. 20: Ever wonder what ingredients are in your cosmetic products and the effect on your skin? This will be an introduction to some of the common chemicals found in cosmetic products that are of concern to the public. If you would like, please bring a product label from a cosmetic or skin care product you use to the workshop for discus-sion. Free of charge. Pre-registration is re-quired. Class will be held from 2 to 2:30 p.m. at ACC Senior Services, 7334 Park City Drive. For more details, call (916)393-9026 ext 330, www.accsv.org.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Crocker holiday artisan market Nov. 27-29: The Creative Arts League of Sacramento is partnering with the Crock-

er Art Museum in bringing attendees an opportunity to shop for distinctive, one-of-a-kind, high-end modern gifts at the an-nual three day Crocker Holiday Artisan Market. This one-of-a-kind holiday mar-ket will be in East Sacramento at the Scot-tish Rite Center. Free parking will be avail-able for attendees as well as six rooms to shop from. Vendors will be showcasing and selling functional pieces such as unique glass works, textiles, ceramics, paper, paint-ing, sculptures, jewelry, fiber arts, metallur-gy and woodworking. More than 100 artists and their original works have been careful-ly juried into this special event to provide at-tendees with an exciting, varied and elegant shopping experience that is only presented in the Sacramento region. This event is fam-ily friendly offering holiday festivities such as picture opportunities with a Victorian Santa, holiday music from local musicians, food from Ambrosia Cafe, gift-wrapping, as well as the opportunity to meet and engage with each designer and artist. Scottish Rite Center is located at 6151 H St. Hours for the sale are Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost for Crocker and CALS members is $3; non-member adults are $6. Students and seniors (over 65) are $3. Parking is free.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Free admission day and canned food drive at Fairytale TownFriday, nov. 27: From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on the day after Thanksgiving, Fairytale Town offers free admission to families who bring a canned food item for do-nation to the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services – Holiday Spirit of Giv-ing Food Drive. The day also includes free arts and crafts activities and a pup-pet show. Puppet show tickets are $1 for members and $2 for nonmembers. For more information, visit fairytaletown.org or call 808-7462. Fairytale Town is locat-ed at 3901 Land Park Drive.

December

Sacramento Senator Lions club will host the 3rd Annual DandeLion Arts and Crafts Dec. 5: Sacramento Senator Lions club will host the 3rd Annual DandeLion Arts and Crafts show at the Sacramento Bud-dhist Church, 2401 Riverside Blvd. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free admission. All profits are used to support community projects. Event information at [email protected]. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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