River Cats Playoff Tickets! Page 13 Legends ComePLUS: Grapevine to Life at the Circus! Page 12 VOI LUM E 4 6 • I S SU E 3 5ndependent P r Bob McGarvey California Cities ou d Ly S Er vi ng r A n C H O C O Day of Caring rGives d OVA & S Back ac r ame n t O cou n t y Augu s t 2 9, 2 014 Rancho Cordova Page 3 Sal Arrigo, Jr. Business to Kiwanis Corner Business Event Story and photo by Jennifer Trovato RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) - On Thursday, August 21st, the City of Rancho Cordova hosted a well-attended Business to Community and Business to Business Expo at City Hall. The event has grown so much since last year that business booths filled the large expo space inside the building and overflowed to the back parking lot. People Page 3 happily walked from booth to booth sampling food, network- Best Trades in Each ing, catching up with friends, NL Franchises’ History and enjoying a late summer day in the good company of Rancho At this year’s Day of Caring, United Way is anticipating 500 volunteers will help with 31 projects for this annual event sponsored by Nationwide. The event, which kicks Cordova residents and busi INSIDE MAJOR off the fall fundraising campaign, will start at 8 a.m. with a breakfast and rally at Cal Expo and keynote presentation by Sacramento Kings president Chris Granger. ness representatives. The local LEAGUE BASEBALL RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) - wild turkeys even made an of Rancho Cordova is spending one day caring appearance. - for its community at United Way California The Rancho Cordova Business Capital Region’s 2nd Annual Day Zurich of CaringInsurance Exchange is a business to com- on Sept. 12th. munity and business to business Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, expo that brings together busi- The local company is sponsoring a project at Health Education Council and Pacific Housing Volunteers of America, Wellspring Women’s nesses from throughout the to build a community garden. Twenty Zurich Center and more. region. Food vendors, schools, volunteers will be creating a community gar At this year’s Day of Caring, United Way community service businesses, den at Mulberry Gardens Estates Apartments, is anticipating 500 volunteers will help with and more were represented at projects. To sign up, visit www.yourlocalunit- one of six across the region that were funded 31 projects for this annual event sponsored by the mixer, including Sugar Bake edway.org. through this year’s Big Day of Giving through Nationwide. The event, which kicks off the fall Cupcakes, SJVC Junior College, United Way. fundraising campaign, will start at 8 a.m. with For more than 90 years, United Way William Jessup University, - a breakfast and rally at Cal Expo and keynote California Capital Region has actively worked Hannibal’s Catering and Events, Page 15 Health Education Council and Pacific to address the community’s most pressing Housing are hoping the new garden will pro- presentation by Sacramento Kings president the Sacramento Children’s issues, now focusing on innovative solutions mote unity among its residents and provide an Chris Granger. Volunteer projects will begin Museumm, and Costa Vid Fresh related to high school graduation rates, house- opportunity to learn how to grow, prepare and at 10 a.m. Last year, 362 volunteers completed Mexican Grill. hold financial stability, and obesity. United consume nutritious, homegrown food. 25 volunteer activities across five counties. One of the booths represented Way’s team of nonprofits, businesses, donors, “We’re excited to watch companies, vol- the Community Readers K-3 Zurich Insurance is no stranger to giving and volunteers have formed the Live United back to its community. In the last couple of unteers and nonprofits come together again Literacy Project of the Folsom Movement to provide positive, measurable years alone, Zurich’s partnership with United for an amazing day transforming our com- Unified School District, which is results on these issues through United Way Way has brought employees out to volun munity through volunteer projects,” said dedicated to giving local, under projects: STAR Readers, $en$e-Ability and Fit teer with Sacramento Habitat for Humanity, Stephanie McLemore Bray, United Way pres- privileged children a good start ident and CEO. “This is what United Way and Kids. Community members can give, volun- in school and in life by expos- the community do best – joining hands with teer and advocate in support of the causes they ing them to reading at a young - people across the region to make a tangible care most about, benefiting United Way and age. According to Community - difference.” hundreds of nonprofits in Amador, El Dorado, Outreach Coordinator Angela Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties. United Volunteers are still needed to fill the 31 Griffin Ankhelyi, many chil Raley’s Supermarket Settles CivilWay is anEnvironmental independent, local affiliate of United dren areCase not only exposed to Way Worldwide. For more information, visit Special Report little or no reading at home, www.yourlocalunitedway.org. District Attorney’s Office but are exposed to a very lim- - Source: Kristin Thebaud Communications ited vocabulary in general. By SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) age two, low-income children improperly stored, handled, and - District Attorney Jan Scully are six months behind in lan- disposed of hazardous waste and joins 25 other California dis- H guage development compared pharmaceutical waste products trict attorneys in announcing that to higher income children. By into company trash bins. Instead West Sacramento-based Raley’s of being sent to authorized dis- California Raley’s supermarkets supermarket was ordered to Continued on page 4 posal sites, hazardous wastes modified existing policies and pay $1,599,000 in civil pen- and contaminated materials were have alties, costs and supplemental being unlawfully transported adopted new policies and pro- environmental projects, as state-registered haulers, taken to area landfills. Additionally, cedures designed to eliminate part of the settlement of a civil to proper disposal facilities, the lawsuit alleges that Raley’s the disposal of retail hazardous enforcement prosecution, which and properly documented and failed to take sufficient steps waste products and pharma- includes a final judgment and accounted for. to preserve the confidentiality ceutical waste into store trash transportation, and disposal, permanent injunction. Raley’s In addition, the settlement of their pharmacy customers’ compactors for eventual dis- Raley’s has agreed to purchase cooperated with the prosecution posal into local landfills not requires Raley’s to dispose of or information. destroy all confidential customer five mobile freshwater puri- team throughout the investigation equipped to handle such wastes. fication systems to provide into their unlawful practices. As a result of the prosecution, Hazardous waste produced by medical information in a manner that preserves the confidentiality safe drinking water to local The judgment is the culmi- California Raley’s supermar of the records. communities in California in nation of a civil enforcement kets through damage, spills, and times of emergency or other lawsuit filed in San Joaquin returns is now being collected by In addition to devoting resources to California envi- pressing need. The mobile fresh- County to stop the supermarket The Perfect - water purification systems will chain from unlawfully trans- ronmental compliance with Combination! regard to hazardous waste iden- be located in Placer, El Dorado, porting and disposing of retail A C.L.U.B. for Sonoma, Sacramento and Contra Alzheimer’s tification, classification, storage, hazardous waste. The law- Patients Rough LossesPLUS: for Costa counties, but will be avail- Page 2 suit claimed that more than Cordova Baseball able for use by other counties 130 Raley’s supermarket stores Page 11 Start Yours Today! Grapevine Independent delivers your within the state. local community news every week. VOLUME 4 6 • ISSUE 15 Pr OUdLy S Laura Lewis Chosen ErVIng rAnCHO CO as New SMUD rdOVA & S ACr Get The Sunday Sacramento Bee! AME ntO General Counsel COUnt y H It’s River Cats Season! A pril 11, 2014 IRS Warns of New Email Phishing Scheme BOTH NEWSPAPERS WA SHINGTON, Internal RevenueD .ServiceC. (MPG) warned - The consumers today to be on the lookout for a new email phish ing scam. The emails appear to be from the IRS Taxpayer Advocate- Page 2 Service and include a bogus case 50 Foster Youth number. 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 ON been forwarded to the Taxpayer Advocate Service for resolution assistance. To avoid delays pro LY cessing your 2013 filing contact - the Taxpayer Advocate Service for resolution assistance.” Recipients are directed to click 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 Page 4 information. FOR Taxpayers who get these mes sages should not respond to the Cub Scout Pack - email or click on the links. 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