Anatolia Fire Station Reopens Local Songwriter Page 2 National Videois Finalist Award for Grapevine Page 5 VOLUMEI 4747 ndependent •• ISSUE ISSUE 41 25 CORDOVA FOOTBALL PROUDLY PROUDLY SERVING SERVING RANCHO RANCHO CORDOVA CORDOVA & & SACRAMENTO SACRAMENTO COUNTY COUNTY PREPARES FOR SVC OPENER Music in the Meadows October June 19, 9, 2015 A Neighborhood Picnic Event Food Locker Page 14 Aids Needy RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) - ATHLON SPORTS Cordova Community Food Locker (CCFL) has been serving the hungry The in INSIDE COLLEGE the Rancho Cordova area since 1987. A group of 11 local churches banded FOOTBALL together to create and operate CCFL to help feed the area’s most needy residents. The facility, located on the grounds of St. John Vianney Church on Coloma Road, is an entirely secular operation which distributes emergency supplies of both federally funded and locally donated food. The Food Locker is staffed entirely by volunteers and is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:20 p.m. Since CCFL is a designated IRS 501(c) (3) non-profit charitable orga The band Melting Pot will provide music, along with band Purple Sky, at Music in the Meadows, a community picnic day on Sunday, October 18th, at Cordova Meadows Elementary School. Those attending should bring their own picnic dinner, lawn chairs or blankets. Photo courtesy of Rick nization, donations are tax deductible. Maness Mr. Ed Evans, a CCFL founder, said- Story by Margaret Snider the facility has provided food for over Page 15 15 million meals since its inception RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) - and now serves about 1,200 families year, the Cordova Meadows area of Rancho The two bands will provide music through per month. Last Thanksgiving, the BYE, BYE, Cordova is holding an informal Forcommunity the third out the afternoon. Melting Pot has played Food Locker distributed nearly 1,400 two previous Music in the Meadows events. “bring your own” picnic with live music pro - turkeys and approximately 60 tons of SO LONG, vided. Organized by the group called Keep “We do a little jazz, a little funk, a little R&B, an additional member works in Rancho non-perishable foods. The Christmas Cordova Meadows Beautiful (KCMB), classic rock, pop,” said Rick Maness, the Cordova. distribution was even larger. CCFL FAREWELL the event is called Music in the Meadows. - band’s keyboardist and a resident of Cordova Melting Pot has played at many differ receives food from Sacramento Food Cordova Meadows Elementary School at Meadows. “We just like to entertain people ent venues in the Greater Sacramento area, Bank Services, as well as local busi at private parties, clubs, benefits, and spe 2550 La Loma Dr. is providing the lawn for and especially to see them dance, and we like - nesses and private individuals. The to play.” cial events. Maness said that the band Purple the picnic, which will be held 3:30 p.m. to 6 KCRA Channel 3 annual Kids Can - p.m., Sunday, October 18th. Don Kazama of Sacramento is a found Sky has also played at Music in the Meadows Food Drive also provides canned in the previous years, and has re-formed this - Between 50 and 100 people enjoyed the ing member of the band and plays lead guitar. goods to regional food lockers. E year with some of the same musicians and N event each of the past two years, and those He has been performing with bass and gui D - CCFL operates mostly on donations OF THE some different than those who played before. attending are encouraged to bring lawn tar for 25 years, playing with bands in some from parishioners of local churches, of Sacramento’s top hotels and clubs, as well “This event is at the school because chairs, blankets, and their own picnic din - and augmented by donations from res BENCH ner. The bands Melting Pot and Purple Sky as in the San Francisco nightclub circuit Principal (Joseph) Piazza has let us know idents of the local community. Mr. are supplying music for the afternoon, and and in Reno and Las Vegas casinos. Carrie he’s all for promoting our neighborhood Evans said that the Great Recession - activities. There’s no charge and the grassy - BY GERRY SCHOLL the elementary school’s PTA will be selling Moore of Rancho Cordova is the vocalist. of 2008 greatly increased the need homemade desserts as a fundraiser. Drummer R.T. DuBose of Sacramento and area is pretty large,” Nesel said. All those for emergency food supplies. He also interested in attending the neighborhood pic “There’s been discussion about having a bass player Dan House of Elk Grove used said, because we are able to purchase Page 14 food truck or hot dog vendor, or making food to perform together in the band that accom nic day are welcome. School rules apply: no food for pennies on the dollar, CCFL alcohol, smoking, or pets. and selling it at the event,” said Mary Nesel, panied the CalPERS Holiday Chorus, which - gratefully welcomes tax-deductible was directed by Maness for 35 years. On The Cordova Meadows neighborhood one of the organizers of both the event and of - donations of both cash and non-per KCMB. “Ultimately, we thought maybe some keyboard and trombone is Albert DeLeon has been a part of Rancho Cordova since ishable foods throughout the year. of Elk Grove. Bass guitarists Geno Lopes of the 50s and 60s, and several programs have where down the road, but keeping it super Foods may be dropped off at CCFL - simple is what makes it enjoyable both to plan Sacramento and Rodell Patman of Natomas been undertaken to help organize the neigh during its operating hours and receipts and to attend.” Others playing a major role are - provide rhythmic and harmonic founda borhood and encourage residents to work are provided upon request. Monetary and come together in caring for their area. Katherine Cox, and Bob and Meada Cashatt. tion. Maness and Moore have both lived in - donations should be mailed to Rancho Cordova for many years, two other To this end, almost four years ago the Keep - CCFL, 10497 Coloma Road, Rancho members of the band grew up in Rancho Cordova Meadows Beautiful organization Cordova, CA 95670. Mr. Evans sends Cordova and attended area schools, and was formed. The community also participates receipts by return mail. For additional in NextDoor.com, a private, online neighbor information on donating or volun hood social network. teering, please call CCFL at (916) - 364-8973. - H Source: Gary Greeson, CCFL Volunteer Neighborhood Meeting H for Proposed Bridgeway Square Apartments RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) - The proposed design of the Bridgeway Square apartments at Capital Village. Photo courtesy of the City of Rancho Cordova The City of Rancho Cordova’s Planning Department would is to introduce the revised like to invite you to a sec design, update the neigh ond neighborhood meeting to bors on the progress made, Triple Play! discuss the proposed 4-story,- and answer some of the ques - 194 unit apartment commu tions presented to staff at the 1. Guaranteed Delivery of the Grapevine Independent nity located at the southwest last neighborhood meeting. - A C.L.U.B. for 2. 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The emails appear to be - from the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Page 2 Service and include a bogus case number. 50 Foster Youth The fake emails may include the following message: “Your Room South, 2729 Prospect Attend United Way’s reported 2013 income is flagged - for review due to a document Matt Diaz, associate planner, Day at the Capitol processing error. Your case has been forwarded to the Taxpayer $ Advocate Service for resolution assistance. To avoid delays pro 00 cessing your 2013 filing contact - the Taxpayer Advocate Service Park Drive, Rancho Cordova, for resolution assistance.” at (916) 851-8754 or by email Recipients are directed to click on links that supposedly provide information about the “advo 28 cate” assigned to their case or - that let them “review reported income.” The links lead to See inside for details web pages that solicit personal CA. 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