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Happy Holidays! Grapevine VOLUMEI 46 • ISSUEndependent 52 The Year That Santa Almost Didn’t Come PROUDLY SERVING RANCHO CORDOVA & SACRAMENTO COUNTY December 26, 2014 Merry Christmas! Take Care When Page 12 Rancho Cordova Heating Homes Employee Passes SACRAMENTO REGION (MPG) - winter storms hit California, Cal Permit Certification Fire is reminding residents to take steps to heat their homes safely. As Exam While the cooler weather and rain are welcomed during a time of severe drought in California, it means that many will turn on home heating sources to keep warm indoors. Cal Fire is encouraging every one to heat their homes safely, as fire departments nationwide see an increase in home fires at - this time of year due to danger ous heating equipment or unsafe practices. Improper use or poorly maintained heating equipment - Page 3 contribute to home fires and home fire deaths across the country. Half Palmer Takes of home heating equipment fires are reported during the months of Featherweight Title December, January, and February. “Home fires caused by negli gent use of heating equipment are easily preventable,” says State Fire Marshal Tonya Hoover, - Cal Fire-Office of the State Fire Marshal. “Taking the time to check your heating equipment and maintaining it correctly could make the difference in protecting your home, but most importantly your life. With just these few simple safety steps, you can prevent most heating-related fires from happening. Every home should Page 2 have a working carbon monox ide (CO) alarm to avoid the risk of CO poisoning. Keep anything that can burn at least three feet - away from heating equipment, like the furnace, fireplace, wood stove, or portable space heater. Have a three-foot “kid-free zone” around open fires and space heat ers. Never use your oven to heat your home. Have a qualified pro fessional install stationary space - heating equipment, water heat By Paul V. Scholl, Publisher ers, or central heating equipment - according to the local codes and manufacturer’s instructions. Have - The holidays are upon heating equipment and chim us and again it is time to us know how we are neys cleaned and inspected every give thanks to so many. doing. We also get many year by a qualified professional. All of us at Messenger requests for things that Finally, remember to turn portable - heaters off when leaving the room Publishing Group would readers would like to see and small, who entrust us like to thank our many or going to bed. added to our products. with the responsibility of For more information on safe thousands of read- We take each request helping them grow their home heating, visit the Cal Fire ers of our eight local seriously and evaluate businesses and succeed. the right direction at the website at www.fire.ca.gov. newspapers serving the how we can become a We do our best with every right time and at the right Source: Cal Fire Sacramento Region. We better newspaper as we issue but always look at speed to hit the dead- often get great responses grow. the job done and try to lines to keep readers and serve. H from our readers letting We would like to find ways to improve. advertisers happy. Each Our goal every year thank all of our adver As publisher, I would job done is important, is to find more ways to tisers throughout the like to thank the 65 peo- and every detail is crit help improve the qual- Sacramento market, big ple who help publish and ical. Our staff has taken ity of life within our areas - distribute these products. new and tough steps to of service. If you know of The Perfect - Combination! It is not an easy task. It grow as a company this an organization or group A C.L.U.B. for Alzheimer’s takes everyone moving in year. We look forward to that could benefit from Patients Rough LossesPLUS: for Page 2 Cordova Baseball continuing that growth getting more exposure Page 11 Start Yours Today!so we can do more within in their local newspaper, Grapevine Independent delivers your please have them contact local community news every week. the communities we VOLUME 46 • ISSUE 15 us. We will consider each Pr OU dLy S Laura Lewis Chosen ErVI ng rAnCHO CO as New SMUD rd OVA & S AC request for coverage in r Get The Sunday Sacramento Bee! AME nt O General Counsel COU nty It’s River Cats Season! April 11, 2014 IRS Warns of New Email the coming year. Phishing Scheme BOTH NEWSPAPERS WAS HINGTON Internal Revenue, D Service.C. ( M warned PG) - The consumers today to be on the lookout for a new email phish Remember the reason ing scam. The emails appear to be from the IRS Taxpayer Advocate - Page 2 Service and include a bogus case 50 Foster Youth number. for the season. The mean- The fake emails may include Attend United Way’s the following message: “Your F reported 2013 income is flagged OR Day at the Capitol for review due to a document processing error. Your case has ONLY been forwarded to the Taxpayer ing of Christmas is at the Advocate Service for resolution assistance. To avoid delays pro cessing your 2013 filing contact the Taxpayer Advocate Service - for resolution assistance.” Recipients are directed to click heart of our great nation. on links that supposedly provide information about the “advo $ cate” assigned to their case or that let them “review reported - income.” 00 web pages thatThe solicit links personallead to 15 If we all lived our daily Page 4 information. FOR Taxpayers who get these mes sages should not respond to the Cub Scout Pack - email or click on the links. Instead, See inside for 6 M details 281 Receives Creek they should forward the scam emails to the IRS at phishing@irs. As part of the Oakland Athletics farm sys lives with such principles, gov. For more information, visit Week Proclamation big league level. Last season, a total of 26 ONTHS significant role in the Athletics winning the the IRS’s Report Phishing web tem, the River Cats will continue to develop “ page: River Cats were called up by the A’s to cont http://www.irs.gov/uac/ SAC RAMENTO 2013 American League West Division title. Report-Phishing. - REGION, home grown” talent that contributes to fu It’s time to catch the feelCA ( MPG The Taxpayer Advocate Service ing! The 2014 baseball season ) 15 years. ribute at the Major League level. Many of the - Photo courtesy of the Sacramento River Cats. is a legitimate IRS organization ! it would be Christmas is underway and your home This season, the River Cats ture success at the embracing the eat-local food that helps taxpayers resolve fed grown Sacramento River Cats will strive to highlight many se players had a eral tax issues that have not been of the great people and places movement, “Farm to Fork,” by - are primed to make a run at their the River Cats will continue to resolved through the normal IRS 12th division championship in in the Sacramento area, as well serving food from local bakeries, donut shops, and other restau develop “home grown” talent channels. The IRS, including TAS, as celebrate the region’s strong does not initiate contact with tax agricultural background by rants in the area. that contributes to future success - at the big league level. Last sea payers by email, texting or any for each of us every day. In addition, as part of the - Oakland Athletics farm system, son, a total of 26 River Cats were social media. called up by the A’s to contribute- For more on scams to guard Page 4 against see the “Dirty Dozen” list Anderson Picks Up 900thContinued Career on page 11 Win on IRS.gov. By Mike Bush Source: IRS M.R.O. H Live it. Share it. Do more RAnc HO CORDO five runs came in the fourth, fifth and seventh Schoolbaseball coach VA, CGuy A ( Anderson has MPG) - Cordova High innings. “finally got it over with” regarding reaching Anderson’s milestone win came in front of a milestone in his historic coaching career on many family and friends, and some former the diamond. Lancer players who attended the game. The Lancer skipper, in his 42nd season, good. picked up the coveted 900th varsity career “The Lancer skipper, in his 42nd win in a Capital Athletic League contest at season, picked up the coveted Antelope on April 4. That is where Cordova 900th varsity career win on April 4. posted a 10-2 win over the Titans. “We got great pitching from Tylon Myers,” “Lots of people,” said Anderson, who noted said Anderson of his winning pitcher, w one of the most important people who wa ” struck out five and gave up two hits. Merry Christmas! there was Karen, his wife. “She doesn’t miss Cordova (3-2 in CAL, 6-7) banged out ho a game. Lots of nice people who have been s 10 hits in its victory. Nigel Robinson went following us over the years. It was exciting.” 3-for-4 with an RBI in the Lancers’ victory. What was important to Anderson are the 15 Dominic Gentry was 2-for-3 at the plate, and players on this year’s roster. James Nixon, Riley Robson, Logan Appino, “The kids felt it, too,” Anderson said. Zackary Tapia and Jerome Brown had a hit “They’ve played well the last two games. each. Now we have it out of our way.” Cordova scored two runs in the first and Anderson became the Cordova baseball three in the second for a 5-0 lead.

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