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Volume 36 • Issue 18 Serving Carmichael and Sacramento County since 1981 April 29, 2016 COMING OF AGE DURING THE The Power of HOLOCAUST: A DAY Carmichael Man Adds Humor Music Closes OF REMEMBRANCE Generation Gap to Reading for the Blind River City Chorale’s Spring Concert to Feature Two Young Singers SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - The younger generation cannot imagine a world without social media, while those of us over a certain age may not be fluent with anything beyond email, but there is Page 3 one thing that we all understand: the power of music. COPS AND RELICS
Page 2 Shelby Pierce, alto soloist. Shelby has been singing since she was about four years old. She enjoys FATAL DISTRACTIONS many genres of music, but her heart belongs to Broadway. Photo (TO YOUR GOOD courtesy River City Chorale While styles may be different, INTENTIONS) Walt Farl worked in radio for 10 years after visiting a radio station at age 8 that was 25 miles from his hometown in Minnesota. Photo courtesy Kristin Thébaud Communications it is still possible to span the years separating younger and older sing- CARMICHAEL, CA (MPG) - Walt Farl of magazines, newsletters, and print media, ers with beautiful choral music. Carmichael has a growing audience of as well as local ads from grocery, drug, Come hear it for yourself, when people with low vision who listen to him discount, and department stores, 24 hours Sometimes it’s the Madrigal Choir of Del Campo read grocery store ads on Society for the a day. High School, conducted by Pam Blind’s Access News program. Yes, gro- Despite offering readings for local mag- irreverent, and Mitchell, joins with the long estab- cery ads. azines such as Comstock’s and Sactown, “at the end of the lished River City Chorale in its “People are eternally grateful for what as well as national media such as People Spring Concert, April 29th and Access News readers do, but what can and Newsweek, Access News’ radio ads day, listeners May 1st. you do with grocery ads? I have a little with Farl are some of the most popular may not remem- The program with also fea- fun with it and take a little bit of license,” segments. ture two teenage soloists: Shelby Farl said. “Food can take you back to peo- “Most of the ads I read revolve around ber the price of Page 9 Pierce, alto, and Colin Regan, ple, places or things that you’ve known stories,” Farl noted. “I saw a Raley’s ad spare ribs, but baritone. Shelby has been singing because families come together over the for bologna and remembered how much since she was about 4-years-old. table. It draws your memories back from I liked bologna and ketchup sandwiches I hope they had She enjoys many genres of music, day one.” as a kid. Food brings you back to fam- but her heart belongs to Broadway. The former radio personality began vol- ily; Thanksgivings when aunts and uncles a good time. Her goal is to go to a performing unteering with Society for the Blind’s would come over or backyard barbecues — WALT FARL arts school and major in music. Access News program in fall 2010 to with friends. Everybody has a story to tell PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ”SCIENCE Shelby is a junior at Del Campo keep up his voiceover talents. He now and you never run out of them.” High School. Colin sings with the reads grocery store ads four hours a week Farl worked in radio for 10 years after microphone and the room that seemed so Waldorf High School Choir at the through Access News, which gives local visiting a radio station at age 8 that was 25 big. George Washington Carver School people with low or no vision the chance miles from his hometown in Minnesota. “Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, of Arts and Sciences. He plays to hear audio recordings of newspapers, To this day, he can still remember the Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4 Scan our QR Code for a direct link to our online edition! Redeeming Goods and People Carmichael’s Only Non-Profit Thrift Store Celebrates Second Anniversary
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Carmichael, CA - Paul Hobson, a burly parks. He slept on the stairs His addiction began PRESORTED STD. PRESORTED 43-year-old former foot- at a local church that some- when he was about to begin Change Service Requested ball player, manages the times gave him food. When classes at American River ATLAS Thrift Shop on Fair the church asked him to College. He had turned out Oaks Boulevard, which leave, the woman who for football practice there is celebrating its second would become his wife let and worked a graveyard anniversary. him live in her apartment shift as a security guard to As a non-profit, the until he threw a TV remote pay his way. To keep alert, store finances efforts in at her in a fit of anger, Paul started using metham- Carmichael to help needy breaking her nose. phetamines, known on the people turn their lives The domestic vio- street as “meth,” “crank,” around by “Attaining lence arrest that came the or “speed.” Truth, Love and Self- next day began another “I was staying up nights, Control.” ATLAS and sorry chapter in a Paul’s using crank,” he said in a the store are both about 20-year downward spiral recent interview. “I never redemption — like Paul’s of drug and alcohol addic- made it through the sec- own life. tion. Beginning at age 18, ond football practice, and Four years ago, Paul was he had walked in and out never started classes. I got one of the scores of home- of several recovery pro- hooked on crank. You get Paul and wife, Cheryl Hobson. ATLAS refers people to local and county services and trains less people drifting along grams. He always relapsed. this great feeling. You’re volunteers to mentor homeless people, abused women, addicts, and others whose lives are out of control. It also networks with churches and other groups to build community. Photo the Carmichael’s streets Nothing could compete Continued on page 10 courtesy ATLAS Thrift Shop www.CarmichaelTimes.com 2 • Carmichael Times April 29, 2016 Cops and Relics New Museum Records Legacy of Law Story and photos by Susan Maxwell Skinner
SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - Sacramento’s first Sheriff, Joseph McKinney, was elected at 21 years old and shot dead a few months later. The year was 1850. Sheriff Ellis Jones and his posse were armed to the teeth to combat a Lore of Sacramento law evokes 1927 Folsom Prison riot. the county’s unruly past. Before a envied other cities’ police muse- treasure is nevertheless its jail was built, bad guys were tied ums and lobbied for a similar founder, who witnessed seven to trees or held in dirt pits. local set up. “When they demol- sheriffs’ administrations up- “There is no forgetting that our ished the old brick jail, we lost close and personal. Undaunted department started in the Gold most of our historical docu- by their legends, she recalled Rush,” said veteran employee ments,” she lamented. “Precious the county’s top cops. “I started Sharon Telles. “Thousands of artifacts were just thrown away— under Sheriff John Misterly,” men were walking to the gold- that’s men for you.” she said. “He was intimidating fields every day. There were riots The historian began gath- at first. But I soon learned how and shootings. Sacramento was ering relics in her final years much he cared about the staff he the wildest of Wild West towns.” with the department. Word of called ‘his girls.’ The historian revels in depart- her quest spread. Families and “Sheriff Duane Lowe rode in ment tidbits: early sheriffs, she retiring officers donated cop- on a horse in 1971. He whipped notes, resided in the jail house. abilia. Exhibition space did not the department into the 20th 1920s Sheriff Ellis Jones banged materialize until after Telles’ Century. Robbie Waters and I a pole on his bedroom ceiling retirement. While working on were at school together; he was a when prisoners got rowdy above. Sheriff Scott Jones’ election, life-long friend, then he became Because his daughter took meals she extracted promises from the sheriff. It was surreal. Sheriff to miscreants, he dubbed his campaigner. Glen Craig was a true leader and lass Sacramento’s first female Visiting exhibits, retired Lieutenants Harry Machen and Gil Magness suffer a short spell in the museum slammer. “I hounded him,” she admited. my mentor; he gave women in the deputy. “Some time after his election, his department a voice. Lou Blanas Telles shows ancient jail meal wait while you got your gun out.” imagine what it was like to sweat A 1950s picture shows him with undersheriff, Rick Book, showed was our Mr. Personality; as sher- trays, soldered with lead. “I And if Sacramento jail walls in wool gabardine in patrol cars movie star buddy Roy Rogers. me a 40-ft classroom at the acad- iff, he was everybody’s buddy.” never heard that anyone died could talk, infamy would be with no air conditioning; with- Central to displays is a cell, com- emy. He asked if it would do.” She recalls Sheriff John from it,” she pondered. Until recounted. President Ford’s out computers, and with little plete with bars taken from the For the next two years, the McGinness with motherly fond- the 1960s, deputies created their attacker Squeaky Fromme, radio contact. These were the ancient Sacramento jail house, tireless grandmother finessed ness. “He began his calling as an own uniforms from Army sur- Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, men and women that built this demolished in 1980. “Most of design and display. Remodeling Explorer Scout,” she said. “He plus oddments. The first official bank robber Patty Hearst’s organization.” today’s recruits have never seen funds came from a benevo- worked his way to the top job. female deputies were kitted in accomplices, and serial mur- Museum exhibits bare her out. a cell block,” said Telles. lent foundation established by He’s a cop’s cop, with a mind pencil skirts, high heels, and derer Dorothea Puente all cooled There are mothballed uniforms, Current Sheriff Scott Jones the wife of Bruce Verhoeven, like a steel trap. His brain should nylons. “They carried their guns captive heels in the downtown clunky car radios, and a one-way was among her museum’s first a corporal killed during a 1973 be bequeathed to science.” in shoulder purses,” she laughed. slammer. glass used for vintage lineups. visitors .“This will introduce robbery call. Current Sheriff Scott Jones “Imagine asking a bad guy to Telles served seven sheriffs There are shackles, sap sticks, new recruits to the culture of the and has established a museum and gothic-looking cell keys. department,” he approved. “I tell “It’s hard to tell the story earns her final accolade: “He to verify 165 years of local law A recreation of Sheriff Duane them the department is like a of 160 years in 40 feet,” con- kept his word and made my history. In a former classroom Lowe’s 1970s office includes stream. They jump in and they’re ceded the curator. “We’ll change dream come true,” she smiled. at the Sacramento Sheriff’s his massive mahogany desk, his our future. But they need to exhibits regularly.” Telles hopes “We now have our museum.” Academy, she displays arti- cowboy boots, and portraits of know that there was a significant veteran cops will help with The Sheriff’s Department facts to remind new recruits how the steed Lowe rode at President upstream, and about the people docent duty. She also hopes more museum will be dedicated in tough their predecessors were. Ronald Reagan’s inauguration. who got us to where we are.” exhibits will materialize from early 2016. Though designed “Law enforcement is a call- A framed snap shows Lowe and Telles is part of that upstream. retiring officers or police wid- for department staff and fami- ing,” she declared. “I’m in awe Gerald Ford, hours before the During the long career that pro- ows. “It’s time to go through your lies, outside groups may visit by of what it takes to get up every president’s near-assassination. moted her from PBX telephone garage,” she urges them. “I know appointment. For information, Old Folger Adam cell keys morning and do this job. If mod- Sheriff Don Cox is immortalized operator to sheriff’s secretary there’s more treasure out there.” call (916) 876-7497. H accessorize a 1915 prisoners’ The museum’s greatest register book. ern cops think they’ve got it bad, by gun belt and election posters. and communications officer, she
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Picture courtesy John Skinner Band Commemoration is: “The the Institute for Holocaust Story by Susan Maxwell Skinner Holocaust: Coming of Age dur- Education, asks contestants to ing the Holocaust.” recognize an historical indi- CARMICHAEL, CA (MPG) - In the tradition of recent Valentines and St The stories of survivors Gina vidual or group who showed Patrick’s theme events, a Cinco de Mayo dance party will bring out Parker and Rita Rimalower- moral courage with a tie into the the Latin in Mission Oaks Community Center hoofers. Nettler will be told by their Holocaust. The free fiesta marks the Mexican day of celebration at Mission daughters, Tamara Theodore The commemoration is Oaks Community Center on Thursday, May 5th. Complimentary and Michele Gold. Both survi- Sunday, May 1st from 6:30 refreshments will accompany the dance. Music — ranging from vors were 15-years-old when to 8 p.m. at Mosaic Law Latin beats to American swing favorites and rock ‘n roll — will be their stories began. 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