Alaskan Youth Mission Trip Changes Lives and Builds Relationships
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PLUS: Local Man Wins Dallas Brass Cowboy Action to Play in Folsom Shooting Cordova High School Band Championship Page 2 Members Perform Page 4 Grapevine ndependent VOLUMEI 4 5 • ISSUE 3 5 ProudLy SErving rAnCHO CORDOVA & SacramentO county AUgUSt 3 0, 2013 Sierra Club Opposes Peripheral Tunnels GMY Phone Through the Delta Alaskan Youth Mission Trip Changes Scam Dials in on Older Lives and Builds Relationships Adults By Richard Cable BBB warns to never give out bank account RANCHO CORDOVA, numbers to callers CA (MPG) – The Presbytery of Sacramento in cooperation SACRAMENTO REGION, with the Presbytery of Alaska CA (MPG) - Better Business sponsored a youth mission trip Bureau Serving Northeast to Metlakatla, Alaska, August California warns older adults to 1─10, 2013 hang up on phone calls claiming The Rev. Jeanie Shaw, pastor at to be from a company calling itself Page 9 River Valley Presbyterian Church GMY after an Elk Grove woman in Rancho Cordova, led a 10-day received several phone calls from trip to Alaska that was hosted the company requesting bank by the Rev. Larry Emery, pastor account information. Next? ... of the Metlakatla Presbyterian The Elk Grove woman grew Church on Annette Island, about suspicious of phone calls her 45 minutes south of Ketchikan, elderly mother was receiving AK. The mission trip consisted as early as 6 a.m. when she of 16 youth and 13 adults from intervened in the communication. six Sacramento area churches: “When I got on the phone, they River Valley Presbyterian of tried to convince me my mother Rancho Cordova; Northminster would be receiving a card to pay Presbyterian and Bethany for her medical care,” said the Presbyterian of Sacramento; woman. “They went on to ask Auburn Presbyterian of Auburn; for her bank account numbers. Woodland Presbyterian of I wouldn’t give them any Woodland; and St. Andrew information when they refused Presbyterian of Yuba City. to tell me their phone number or company name.” Page 3 Metlakatla is a Tsimshian native village on the island of The woman eventually spoke to Annette, off the southeastern someone identified as a supervisor most part of Alaska. It is the only who told her the company name Ideology Need native Reservation in Alaska. was GMY. Consumers from Metlakatla comes from the Sacramento Presbytery’s Vacation Bible School’s theme “Superheroes from the Bible” was supported across the country have reported Not Reign Tsimshian word meaning “Salt by comic book superheroes (front row) Timmy Voet of River Valley, Hunter Middlekauff of Northminster, similar scams in which the same Supreme Water Passage” and was named (middle row) Rocco Cable of River Valley, Canaan Gresham of St. Andrew, and (back) Rev. Hayes Noble company name is utilized. In other after another village of the same of St. Andrew. calls, the company may claim name in British Columbia, to be working with Medicare to Canada. beach, a nearby waterfall, and learning about the Tsimshian Metlakatla during its annual issue new cards. In 1886, the Rev. William abundant fishing. Duncan and culture and community through Founder’s Day celebration. “It doesn’t matter who claims Duncan, an Anglican minister his followers canoed nearly 60 cultural exchange, hard work, This year marked the first time to be on the phone; do not serving in Old Metlakatla, was miles across open sea to their new fellowship, and prayer. The that both Canadian and Alaskan give unsolicited callers your disheartened by the vices brought island home. They named the team flew to Ketchikan, Alaska Tsimshian chiefs and youth bank account or social security in by traders that he deemed village New Metlakatla. Duncan to join the Metlakatla youth together re-enacted the historic numbers,” said Gary Almond, harmful to his congregation. So then lobbied the U.S. Congress who had ferried to Ketchikan to 60-mile canoe trek from Old president of BBB Serving he and close to 1000 devoted to establish Annette Island as greet them. While in Ketchikan, Metlakatla, British Columbia Northeast California. “Always Tsimshian followers decided to an Indian reservation and it was the team was treated to a day of to New Metlakatla in Alaska. make sure you are speaking with leave Metlakatla. Duncan went granted in 1891. Today, it is the ziplining through the rainforest The day-long celebration also a trustworthy person and business before taking the conversation Page 11 to Washington, D.C. and asked only Indian Reservation in the and a day touring local attractions included traditional singing, the U.S. government to give his State of Alaska. such as the Totem Heritage dancing and beautiful displays any further.” group land in Alaska. The U.S. The Sacramento Presbytery Center. of native regalia. To avoid this and similar scams, gave them Annette, an island team left with the dream of The Sacramento Presbytery BBB offers the following tips: with a calm bay, accessible seeing Alaska and the hope of team was fortunate to arrive in Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 4 First City Manager to Retire in January By Julie Parker University in Oxford, where he met his city manager. wife, Bonne, on the first day of school. “They wanted somebody who deeply RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) They recently celebrated their fiftieth and thoroughly understood county – “Ted's tenure here in Rancho Cordova wedding anniversary. government, had new town experience, has been tremendously beneficial to Thereafter, he spent more than 20 years had served in a Central Valley city – in the residents of our fine city. We have as an appointed government official in my case, Visalia – and was a senior in the established an innovative, efficient and Oregon, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, business who could teach the council and award-winning local government in as well as California. He owned a staff about what professional management partnership with our citizens under Ted's government consulting company in San could do and what the partnership between leadership. I sincerely doubt that we Rafael for 13 years, and served as Vice a professional manager and local elected could have been as successful with any President for Business Development for officials could be like.” other manager. Ted is one-of-a-kind, and ACS. In 2000, he became the CEO for He’s particularly proud of the centrally we will be forever indebted to him for Nevada County. located building, which sits in the middle his massive contributions to our city.” “My first professional years were in of a business park, so people perceive - David Sander, City Council Member the tumultuous 1960s, when people were the city government as a business. Ted Gaebler, Rancho Cordova’s first changing things by riots and burning down It’s also home to the Chamber of City Manager, will retire in January 2014, cities. I thought, ‘There must be some Commerce, Recreation and Park District, following a decade of service to the City way that somebody with a managerial Assemblyman Ken Cooley and a private and 50 years of public service. Under his background can change governments Rancho Cordova’s first City Manager, Ted business. “There’s no excuse to be late for leadership, Rancho Cordova has achieved peacefully from within.’ So, I tried to Gaebler. Photo courtesy of City of Rancho a meeting.” an 88% approval rating and a high degree make sure I always focused on helping Cordova Last fall, on its annual Best Small & of support from its citizens. my work force change.” 6 on the New York Times Bestseller Medium Workplaces list (recognizing “There are no complainers, no petitions, He earned a Master’s Degree in List and was translated into 22 different companies with exceptional workplace and no gadflies at council meetings,” said Government Administration from the languages. From 1993 to 1999, he was cultures), Fortune magazine’s Great Gaebler. “We have done a really good Wharton Graduate School of Business, invited to speak in 39 countries. The Place to Work® placed Rancho Cordova job of building a city government that is and studied the best practices performed book continues to have a huge impact 12th of 25 best small workplaces in the responsive to the community.” in this country and around the world. on the way people perceive government United States. In fact, it was the first local Although Ohio is Gaebler’s home state, Gaebler co-authored the 1992 management. government agency to appear on the list. he briefly spent time at Berkeley under publication, “Reinventing Government: After leaving Nevada County, and If he could offer a few words to the next a leadership program for students aged How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is while briefly serving as the interim City city manager, they would be, “Continue 17-23, as the second youngest student on Transforming the Public Sector” (http:// Manager for East Palo Alto, Rancho campus. He later graduated from Miami tinyurl.com/lrvzsvc). It rose to number Cordova invited him to serve as their first Continued on Page 4 Page 2 The Independent August 30, 2013 Local Man Wins Championship in Cowboy Action Shooting 11230 Gold Express Drive, Suite 308 Gold River, California 95670 Phone: (916) 635-5400 Fax: (916) 635-5739 Website: http://dwightmillerdds.com Don Pergande of Rancho Cordova performs scenario cowboy action shooting during a recent competition. Each scenario features situations that may be based on old west history or western movie scenes, in which the shooters test their timing and accuracy against steel targets. Photo courtesy Pancho Sin Lefty Story by Freelance Journalist was doing,” Pergande said. “Even with all those Margaret Snider problems I was good enough to take first place in my category, the first match I went to, and I was RANCHO CORDOVA, Ca (MPG) - Cowboy really kind of thrilled about that.” action shooter Don Pergande of Rancho Cordova Pergande was into motorcycles all his life and has won the championship for the SASS Western at that time had a Harley, only a year and a half Regional competition in the Cattle Baron old.