Summer Is Taking Shape in Curtis Park by Sue Staats Viewpoint Staff Writer Music in the Park July 28
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A Publication of the Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association Vol. 35, No. 1 2791 - 24th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818 • 452-3005 • www.sierra2.org July 2013 Senior housing SUMMER is taking shape in Curtis Park By Sue Staats Viewpoint staff writer Music in the Park July 28 ffordable senior housing in Versatile Curtis Park Village moved a step musicians with a Acloser to reality June 11 when the City bold, American Council approved the plan for the The drawing depicts the housing complex Domus repertoire will 91-unit complex. It will be built and Development plans for Curtis Park Village. fire up their managed by Domus Development. instruments for a To be called Curtis Park Court, it “a great place for seniors to continue to thrive couple of hours the complex will launch new housing within the and maintain independence.” Seniors will enjoy Sunday evening 72-acre Curtis Park Village, according to Domus large indoor and outdoor community areas, July 28 for the West of Next performs July 28. president Meea Kang. Most of the 91 apartments raised-bed community gardens, and a secure bike second Music in will have one bedroom, a few will be studios or room to encourage use of the many planned bike the Park concert this summer. The band West of Next have two bedrooms. The housing is designed to paths. The building entrance will feed directly will be on stage with their new member, Lillian be affordable to seniors on a fixed income. Rents into the pedestrian bridge that will connect to McLeod. She’s an experienced actress and singer will start at $400 a month for studios and top out at the Sacramento City College light rail station. A who swings from R&B and rock to country, Western $1,030 for two bedrooms, with one-bedroom space program called “Life Steps” will provide services swing and other renting for $450–$915 a month. and programs for the residents. genres. Get into the swing Architect for the project is the Oakland and Cost for the project is pegged at $20 million, The official Like most events in our Davis-based firmYHLA. Domus has worked with which, according to Kang, will be funded with a concert time is neighborhood, Music in the Park them on several senior housing projects, most recently combination of $1.8 million from the Sacramento 6-8 p.m., but runs on volunteer power. Sierra 2 and notably La Valentina project in Alkali Flats. Housing and Redevelopment Agency and tax neighbors know is looking for neighbors to help With over a dozen projects in Northern credit allocation. The latter is a government to come early with the beer garden, serve beverages and act as a cashier. California, Domus Development specializes in high- program in which low-income housing projects with blankets, density infill projects, focusing on environmentally are awarded tax credits that are then sold to low chairs and responsible senior and affordable housing. investors to raise equity. Domus will apply for picnics. The City ordinance forbids alcohol in the Kang is excited about Curtis Park Court, calling Please see Village, page 8 park, so the neighborhood association will set up its beer garden to sell beer and wine. Transcribers make and give books to the blind The concert will include a children’s program of songs and chatter by Music Mike. By Craig McCulloch Viewpoint Staff Writer Movie in the Park July 12 acramento Braille Transcribers was among Among the summer movie evenings sponsored the first tenants at Sierra 2, starting when by City Councilmember Jay Schenirer is a showing theS facility opened. It rents two rooms that it’s July 12 of “ParaNorman.” This 2012 animated filled with equipment and books. The volunteers comedy horror film stars a teenage boy who can talk transcribe books for visually impaired persons to to the dead, a skill critical to his town’s survival. read in braille. According to the National Braille There will be two food trucks. Popcorn at 7:45 p.m., Association, “Braille is a system of reading and movie at 8:30 p.m. It’s free. writing using raised dots. It allows people who are blind to read with their fingers.” Music in the Park Aug. 25 The volunteers passed a test administered Maybe the most popular band to play on Curtis by the Library of Congress to become certified as Park’s stage, On Air is guaranteed a warm welcome braille transcribers. They enter words from books when it returns to the neighborhood stage Aug. 25. into a computer software program and double If any band can get neighbors on their feet to dance, check them for accuracy. Then the words are Photo/Joan Cusick this is it. “embossed” in braille by a machine that raises the Betty Falltrick watches a document run through On Air is half way through its third decade. Its dots on special paper. Single copies of the books the Braille embossing machine. Certified by the show includes classics, ballads, Motown winners. Library of Congress 43 years ago, Betty has been are bound and sent to school libraries, teachers or transcribing materials into Braille ever since. The band’s exciting choreography and superb vocal blind individuals. Donations help fund the costs for harmony with screaming horns give everyone plenty equipment and supplies. Often other materials, including sandpaper, are of reason to applaud between dances. Music Matt will Math and science textbooks are the mainstay used to enhance the tactile “feel” of the pictures. return with his children’s show. of their transcribing work. One volunteer also The graphical images in math books and maps are The Aug. 25 concert is the last one for the specializes in picture books for very young produced using similar techniques. season. All the concerts are sponsored by SCNA. students, including such classics as ”Goodnight The transcribers are looking for additional Moon” and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” These projects for schools or individuals. Their Sierra 2 Curtis Fest books have few words but mostly grand pictures office is in Room 7 and 8, and they are open from receding of animals and other subjects. Their depiction in 9 a.m. to noon weekdays. For more information: August’s raised outlines in plastic is called “thermoforms.” Sacramento Braille Transcribers at 455-9121. eveningP concert will be a day of art, music and food Inside: Volunteers needed Aug. 10 for Curtis Fest. The event often draws up to 50 fine • First Friday August 2 ................page 2 for park clean-up team artists, photographers and crafters. At midday, guests can hear musicians perform Vintage lighting ......................... page 3 Calling all park parents, a.k.a. volunteers near the food truck vendors. Among the musicians • Movies in the Park....................page 5 in the Adopt-a-Park program, the next clean- are guitarist Jon Merriman and the Mike Justis Band. up day is Aug. 10. Work is from 9 a.m. to noon. Food truck vendors include Wicked ’Wich, Mama • The Grads! ....................................page 6 Sign-ups are encouraged at [email protected] so Kims and Local Kine Shaved Ice. • New Bret Harte principal .....page 8 organizers can email a list of items to bring and For the children, there will be a petting zoo and the meeting place. New volunteers are welcome. the Happily Ever Laughter Fairy. For questions, contact the Sierra 2 office at 452-3005. Page 2 Viewpoint July 2013 Notes from June 12th meeting Supervisor updates board on initiatives and discusses issues Supervisor Phil Serna stops by four years. She is impressed by the The SCNA Board meets at 7 p.m. treatment that has not proven Sacramento County activities the association puts on in in the Garden Room on the effective. The Neighborhood Supervisor Phil Serna came by the the neighborhood and the strong second Wednesday of the Concerns Committee will evaluate June board meeting to update the sense of community throughout month. The next meeting is more information and bring a board on his initiatives and answer Curtis Park. Cara looks forward July 10. For more information, recommendation to the next board questions. The County passed a to engaging with the larger call the Sierra 2 office at meeting on whether to pay for the $3.5 billion budget June 11 and community through the board. 452–3005. treatment. staved off layoffs in the sheriff’s Marco Guizar, owner of the office. Supervisor Serna started a Fitsom fitness studio on Franklin Senior Center and Board blue ribbon commission to address operate on an honor system. Boulevard and Curtis Park working on relations the disproportionate African Supervisor Serna also spoke resident, was recommended to The board approved American child deaths in the about the ongoing possessory the board by current member hiring a facilitator to help with County. The board of supervisors tax dispute between Sierra 2 and Joe Eschleman. Guizar enjoys communication and establish approved the commission’s the County. He is committed to living and working in Curtis Park, procedures to ensure a strong recommendations to address the working with both sides to find a so much he hopes to move his working relationship with the issue and a $500,000 budget over solution. He encouraged the board mother to the neighborhood and Senior Center. Following last five years with matching funds to look at similar organizations looks forward to giving back by month’s proposal to move the from First5. operating community centers serving on the board. Senior Center, this approach Serna is also trying to within the County to see if any was recommended by the senior maximize the availability of others have faced a possessory tax.