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Sac Feral Resources Platinum Party to Hold Community Honors Pefley Cats Workshop Partnership PAGE 3 PAGE 3 VOLUME 38 • ISSUE 38 Serving Carmichael & Sacramento County since 1981 SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 CARMICHAEL September is Alcohol FOUNDER’S DAY and Drug Recovery Month SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) Dinner in the Park - In recognition that recovery hap- pens and people can change their lives for the better, the Behavioral Health Services, Alcohol and Drug Services presented a resolution to the Sacramento County Board is a Beautiful Thing of Supervisors, who proclaimed September 2018 as Alcohol and Drug Recovery Month in Sacramento County. PAGE 8 And recovery does happen. Case in point: DeAnna Lopez, a Sacramento County resident, began using drugs when she was 11 years old. At 15, she was preg- CHEERS TO VET nant, unemployed and living in her car. DeAnna could not stop using TED DANSON and did not know how to get help. DeAnna’s moment of clarity came when her daughter was born. Child Protective Services was the first organization to offer DeAnna help, and she gladly accepted. Today DeAnna is 12 years sober and works as a Court Services Supervisor for WellSpace Health. She delivered a passionate speech at the Board of Supervisors meeting, recognizing her daughter and County services for helping her PAGE 10 recover from an addiction to drugs. DeAnna is a true success story and is a living testimony that recovery does happen and people do change their lives. “It is critical that people expe- HE MAKES riencing substance use disorders receive the support they need,” said PYRAMIDS IN Sacramento County Alcohol and The Dinner in the Park gala fundraiser sold out at almost 400 guests. Milagro Drug Services Division Manager, THE BACK YARD Center owner Allan Davis (top photo, center) hosted friends for the three-course Lori Miller. “The reality is that dinner. Supervisor Susan Peters (photo at right, center) was among VIP guests. behavioral health is essential to Story and photos property (sponsored by health, prevention works, treatment by Susan Maxwell Skinner Foundation director Paul C. is effective, and people recover.” Pennington), 12 extra tables The County recently passed the CARMICHAEL, CA (MPG) - Following the sell- were available for the 2018 2018-19 budget, which included out success of 2017’s inaugural event, gala. Reservations sold $5.9 million to implement the Drug Carmichael Park Foundation last week out at almost 400 tickets. Medi-Cal Waiver that will provide staged a second “Dinner in the Park” Local restaurants supplied enhanced drug treatment services. fundraiser. The gala benefits park beautifi- appetizers. Sac County provides various cation and helps fund programs offered by For a sit-down main alcohol and drug treatment services Carmichael Park District. course, Hawks (Granite that range from outpatient treat- Entirely al-fresco, the gathering ambled Bay) Restaurant served ment, medication assisted treatment, PAGE 9 over two hidden-gem reserves. Cocktail hour grilled tri-tip and a signature fried chicken residential treatment, detoxifica- Sponsors included Charles Schwab; was bathed by sunset in Sutter Community dish. Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery pro- tion and Perinatal Services. If you Dignity Health-Mercy San Juan; SMUD; Garden; tables were set for a moonlit farm- vided desserts. Following dinner, an auction or someone you know suffers from KMM Services; Wells Fargo; Alpha One to-fork meal in the adjacent Jensen Botanical offered a Costa Rican vacation, season the- substance abuse or dependency, Ambulance; Comstock’s Magazine; BP Garden. Winding paths link the two ven- ater tickets, a Napa vineyard tour and a please call for an assessment at 916- Interiors; Peter and Anna Tateishi; Paul C. ues and live music serenaded every step diamond and sapphire necklace. Donated by 874-9754 or reference the Alcohol Pennington; SEIU Local 1000. of the way. With the recent addition of Carmichael’s Sharif jewelers, the pendant and Drug Services Resource list for For more information, visit 11,000 square feet of lawn to the Jenson sold for $1400. information. Carmichaelparksfoundation.org. H Source: SacCounty News H Scan our QR Code for a direct link to our online edition! $1.3 Million Makeover for McDonalds Story and photo two hours of business. Twenty staff were by Susan Maxwell Skinner challenged by a rush of walk-in and drive-through customers. Parents and CARMICHAEL, CA (MPG) - McDonalds children thronged to slides and climbing restaurant supplied free hamburgers walls of a new indoor playing area. for a year to the first 50 visitors during “It was a great day for the store and PAID its recent re-opening event. The event its employees,” said Burns. “This restau- PERMIT 350 PERMIT US POSTAGE celebrated a $1.3 million revamp for rant has been one of our most popular for Carmichael, CA PRESORTED STD. PRESORTED the decades old Carmichael business. many years. We’re happy to be remod- Change Service Requested A year of free coffee rewarded the eled and continuing business in a loyal next 100 diners. community like Carmichael.” Prior to the Chamber of Commerce McDonalds restaurant is located at ribbon-cutting, dozens of customers 7329 fair Oaks Boulevard. H lined up to await the lunchtime open- Corporate executive Clayton Burns (with ing. 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Almost 3% Elsewhere In Empire State Building. ‘You lost hundreds of thousands of Brown's recent approval of The United States. Los are falling down four stories, voters and residents through Senate Bill 100, setting a Angeles Times but have 80 to go,’ he said. outbound migration to Texas, 100 percent clean electricity The other important issue ‘Maybe you are not damaged Arizona, Nevada and Florida, goal for the state, and issued we discussed is the vast yet, but it is certain you will the state has shifted to a part- an executive order establish- untapped energy resources die.’ time economy. Other than ing a new target to achieve in the Monterey Shale Oil “The governor said his over- Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and carbon neutrality – both by Reserve. Since Jerry Brown In 2017, SMUD Cares volunteers donated nearly 18,000 hours and nearly $500,000 to local nonprofits. This year, SMUD riding concern is that global a threatened agriculture indus- 2045. was reelected Governor in Cares volunteers are on pace to match or exceed those totals progress has stalled. ‘This try, Democrats in California Ironically perhaps, Brown 2011, I've been writing about with projects such as this one. Photo courtesy SMUD is real,’ Brown said. ‘It is far have shunned manufacturing kicked off his 2018 Global California's Monterey Shale Commentary more serious than anybody is jobs, and replaced them with Climate Action Summit, formation: SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - Led by SMUD by Katy Grimes, saying.’” part-time, minimum wage Wednesday, and welcomed ‘California sits on two- CEO Arlen Orchard, more than 100 SMUD employ- Investigative Journalist Global Warming hypo- workers who need welfare to China's 120-plus attend- thirds of America's shale ees descended upon the Sacramento Children’s Home crite Tom Steyer warned: ‘If make ends meet. ees – the largest country oil reserves. The Monterey Crisis Nursery to makeover its indoor and outdoor SACRAMENTO REGION, Trump pulls the US out of the There is one exception: delegation at the event – Shale Formation is four facilities. Volunteers turned an overgrown field into a CA (MPG) - The doomsday #ParisAgreement he will be Oil industry jobs. California As Daniel Turner points times the size of the Bakken play area complete with a nature trail, sand boxes and predictions of global-warm- committing a traitorous act of boasts 360,000 jobs in the out, China is the world's Shale Reserve in North picnic tables. They revamped the playground, installed ing alarmists would have war against the American peo- oil industry. Yet to hear Gov. number one polluter, exempt Dakota, which is now the new landscaping, and painted and decorated the interior us believe there are more ple.’ Remember that Steyer Brown talk, he despises the oil from the sacred Paris largest oil producer in the rooms as part of its employee giving campaign. droughts, more extreme hurri- made his billions on coal and industry. Climate Accord, and the land country behind Texas. “It’s a great day to be out here giving back to the canes and tornados, that arctic oil. Following the latest bill of forced child labor in coal Along the Western side of community,” said SMUD CEO Arlen Orchard. “I am snow caps are melting, and all The LA Times' Evan Halper signing, Brown said in a state- mines.