This comes from a neighbor on Sierra Oaks Drive.
Hi-I am writing to you to report some thefts in the neighborhood today of UPS packages. Today there were 2 packages delivered to my doorstep by UPS. I saw the UPS man deliver both packages but when the doorbell rang I had two babies in my arms and couldn't immediately grab the packages. Within one minute or so we saw a lady come up to the doorstep and take one of the packages. I ran outside and saw a lady in a blue Geo Metro speeding out of our driveway at 3324 Sierra Oaks Drive. When I looked down, I noticed she had left a new package on our doorstep, one addressed to 3394 Sierra Oaks Drive. That package had been opened.
When my husband delivered the package to 3394 Sierra Oaks Drive they discovered that another package delivered by UPS to their doorstep had been opened and stolen.
I tried to contact UPS to report the problem so that the driver could be aware that someone was following him and stealing packages, but was told that I would have to contact the shipper and have them contact UPS directly. I have since also contacted the shipper.
I just thought I'd report the problem to SONA directly so that all neighbors could be aware of the problem of stolen UPS packages.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Suspicious Person
While walking my dog this (Saturday May 24th ) morning at 6:20 AM, I watched a vehicle coming east on American River Drive turn on to Moffat. That is the route I normally take so I followed. He turned right onto Kadema and then parked under the power lines. By the time I caught up to him he had parked and was walking east on Kadema looking in the windows of some cars parked in front of one home. When he saw me he acted as though he was talking on his cell phone and immediately went back to his car and drove away.
Vehicle license number is CA. 6DVF 205 and was a white Mazda two door with a large dent in the drivers door. The individual was tall, slender build, mid twenties, very short hair, and had a script tattoo on the back of his neck. He was wearing an unbuttoned plaid shirt with a t shirt under it and baggy shorts.
My observing him clearly made him nervous and I thought was worth reporting.
Vehicle license number is CA. 6DVF 205 and was a white Mazda two door with a large dent in the drivers door. The individual was tall, slender build, mid twenties, very short hair, and had a script tattoo on the back of his neck. He was wearing an unbuttoned plaid shirt with a t shirt under it and baggy shorts.
My observing him clearly made him nervous and I thought was worth reporting.
Horseback rider drowns trying to ford American River
Published Sunday, May. 24, 2009
A horseback rider drowned Saturday evening when he fell off his horse while trying to ford the swift-moving American River near Howe Avenue.
Divers found the body about two hours after witnesses reported the accident at 5:12 p.m.
Sacramento Fire and Sacramento County Sheriff's Drowning Accident Rescue Team members pulled the body from the river at 9:30 p.m.
The victim remained unidentified Saturday night.
The drowning prompted fire officials to issue a stark warning for the Memorial Day weekend. "This is yet another tragic reminder of how strong the rivers currents are," Fire Capt. Jim Doucette said. "No one should assume otherwise."
According to witnesses, two riders on horseback were on the north side of the river. One began to cross the river. His horse lost its footing but righted itself, and the rider took it back to the riverbank.
"We thought, 'Well, he got lucky,' " said one of the witnesses, Jeff Tillery.
The rider tried it again, but this time, he and the horse began spinning in the current, according to witness accounts. The rider fell off his mount about 20 yards out from the bank and began yelling for help and that he couldn't swim.
Two bystanders swam out to him. One of the would-be rescuers, David Benning, said the other swimmer reached the victim who pulled him under. Benning said he tried to swim around behind the victim but the man went down and didn't come back up.
"It was the strangest thing," Benning said. "There was no flailing, nothing. He just didn't come back up. It's like he went into an empty pit."
Benning dove at the spot and reached bottom, but couldn't find the victim in the murky water. Both would-be rescuers made it safely back to the riverbank. The horse also swam back to land.
Sacramento County park rangers said the second rider told them he warned the victim, whom he knew only by first name, not to try to cross the river.
"This is a head-scratcher," said Sacramento County park ranger Steve Ingalls. "I've never seen a drowning like this before."
A horseback rider drowned Saturday evening when he fell off his horse while trying to ford the swift-moving American River near Howe Avenue.
Divers found the body about two hours after witnesses reported the accident at 5:12 p.m.
Sacramento Fire and Sacramento County Sheriff's Drowning Accident Rescue Team members pulled the body from the river at 9:30 p.m.
The victim remained unidentified Saturday night.
The drowning prompted fire officials to issue a stark warning for the Memorial Day weekend. "This is yet another tragic reminder of how strong the rivers currents are," Fire Capt. Jim Doucette said. "No one should assume otherwise."
According to witnesses, two riders on horseback were on the north side of the river. One began to cross the river. His horse lost its footing but righted itself, and the rider took it back to the riverbank.
"We thought, 'Well, he got lucky,' " said one of the witnesses, Jeff Tillery.
The rider tried it again, but this time, he and the horse began spinning in the current, according to witness accounts. The rider fell off his mount about 20 yards out from the bank and began yelling for help and that he couldn't swim.
Two bystanders swam out to him. One of the would-be rescuers, David Benning, said the other swimmer reached the victim who pulled him under. Benning said he tried to swim around behind the victim but the man went down and didn't come back up.
"It was the strangest thing," Benning said. "There was no flailing, nothing. He just didn't come back up. It's like he went into an empty pit."
Benning dove at the spot and reached bottom, but couldn't find the victim in the murky water. Both would-be rescuers made it safely back to the riverbank. The horse also swam back to land.
Sacramento County park rangers said the second rider told them he warned the victim, whom he knew only by first name, not to try to cross the river.
"This is a head-scratcher," said Sacramento County park ranger Steve Ingalls. "I've never seen a drowning like this before."
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Neighborhood Association Nights with the River Cats
Through our relationship with the Sacramento River Cats, Neighborhood Association families and friends are able to enjoy premium seating at a reduced rate for the most popular games this season!
Buy Tickets Now
Password: Neighbor
Game Dates:
¨ Saturday, June 13, 7:05 pm – Sutter Health Post Game Fireworks!
¨ Sunday, July 19, 1:05 pm – Dinger’s Birthday and US Bank Kids Day!
¨ Sunday, August 23, 1:05 pm – US Bank Kids Day!
Locations:
¨ Senate Box Seats $18
¨ Gold Rush Seats $16
¨ Delta Box Seats $12
¨ Lawn $7
Benefits and Promotions:
¨ To view up-coming River Cats promotions click here!
¨ No ticket service fees!
¨ Up to $4 off for Neighborhood Association family and friends!
¨ Special welcome message on the matrix board!
Tickets are subject to availability
For groups of 20 or more contact Ashley Auld at 916-376-4778 or aauld@rivercats.com
Buy Tickets Now
Password: Neighbor
Game Dates:
¨ Saturday, June 13, 7:05 pm – Sutter Health Post Game Fireworks!
¨ Sunday, July 19, 1:05 pm – Dinger’s Birthday and US Bank Kids Day!
¨ Sunday, August 23, 1:05 pm – US Bank Kids Day!
Locations:
¨ Senate Box Seats $18
¨ Gold Rush Seats $16
¨ Delta Box Seats $12
¨ Lawn $7
Benefits and Promotions:
¨ To view up-coming River Cats promotions click here!
¨ No ticket service fees!
¨ Up to $4 off for Neighborhood Association family and friends!
¨ Special welcome message on the matrix board!
Tickets are subject to availability
For groups of 20 or more contact Ashley Auld at 916-376-4778 or aauld@rivercats.com
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Parks Cuts
Dear Fellow Neighborhood/Community Leader:
I am the chair of the Parks Committee of the Land Park Community Association and we are tremendously concerned with the impact that the City’s proposed layoff of 50% of the city’s park maintenance workers will have on city parks. Under the City Manager’s proposed budget, 100 full-time park workers and dozens more seasonal and part-time workers will be dismissed. As you may have read in a Bee article last Thursday, the proposed cuts will:
(1) Reduce now weekly grass mowing to once every two to three weeks;
(2) Result in park trash being emptied only once or twice a week instead of the current daily emptying of cans; and
(3) Close all park restrooms, except for special events.
Park garbage cans will be overflowing much of the time in many of our parks. The lack of regular mowing during summer months will make it unsanitary and unsafe for families to hold picnics or children to play baseball or soccer. The closing of park restrooms will be a public health disaster that will impact not only our parks and park goers, but nearby residents and businesses as well.
As the neighborhood with Sacramento's largest park, Land Park, we did not feel that we could sit idly by and let city parks become ruined. We believe that if the City Council makes intelligent budget choices, even in this bad budget year, our parks can be saved from ruin. Our “Parks Budget Working Group” has been studying the issue in cooperation with City staff and has several sound ideas for spending reforms. We are also certain that others also have excellent ideas to share for dealing with the funding crisis in ways that do not render our parks virtually unusable.
But we are just one neighborhood group among many. To protect our parks from this threat, we firmly believe that we all need to unite into a coalition to make the strongest possible case to the City Council for changing the City’s spending priorities to protect basic, park maintenance funding. It falls to us, as neighborhood and community leaders, to lead this campaign. We have given this joint effort the name “Rescue Sacramento Parks” (e-mail: rescuesacparks@gmail.com).
We are putting out a call to all of Sacramento’s neighborhood and community leaders, concerned citizens, park users and other friends of local parks to join us at an urgent “Community Summit” to help organize efforts to rescue our parks from the coming disaster. The community summit will be this Thursday, May 14th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Eskaton Monroe Lodge at 3225 Freeport Blvd. , Sacramento , CA 95818 . We hope you can come or can send a representative in your place.
We apologize for the short notice, but the City Manager just released his proposed budget last week and the City Council is holding its public hearing on the budget just a week from today, at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19th. For our voices to be heard, we must act swiftly to rescue Sacramento ’s parks. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at ckpinsacto@aol.com or call me at 456-9839. We hope to see you on Thursday night. And we encourage you to bring along fellow board members of yours and others who may have interest in lending support to the effort. Thank you for your support of Sacramento's parks.
Very truly yours,
Craig Powell, Chair
Parks Committee
Land Park Community Association
P.S. If you are unable to attend the “community summit,” but your group would like to join the effort to rescue Sacramento parks, you can do so in two ways: (1) let us know that your group would like to be counted as a supporter of “Rescue Sacramento Parks;” and (2) send e-mail alerts to your group’s members alerting them to the peril posed by these cuts and encouraging them to contact members of the City Council, as well as attend the City Council hearing on May 19th. We have attached a template of such an alert that you might find helpful.
If your group is unable to join the “Rescue Sacramento Parks,” you may still wish to offer your individual name and title to the effort and help send the signal to the City Council that community leaders are standing up to protect the health and vitality of their parks and neighborhoods. Thank you, again.
I am the chair of the Parks Committee of the Land Park Community Association and we are tremendously concerned with the impact that the City’s proposed layoff of 50% of the city’s park maintenance workers will have on city parks. Under the City Manager’s proposed budget, 100 full-time park workers and dozens more seasonal and part-time workers will be dismissed. As you may have read in a Bee article last Thursday, the proposed cuts will:
(1) Reduce now weekly grass mowing to once every two to three weeks;
(2) Result in park trash being emptied only once or twice a week instead of the current daily emptying of cans; and
(3) Close all park restrooms, except for special events.
Park garbage cans will be overflowing much of the time in many of our parks. The lack of regular mowing during summer months will make it unsanitary and unsafe for families to hold picnics or children to play baseball or soccer. The closing of park restrooms will be a public health disaster that will impact not only our parks and park goers, but nearby residents and businesses as well.
As the neighborhood with Sacramento's largest park, Land Park, we did not feel that we could sit idly by and let city parks become ruined. We believe that if the City Council makes intelligent budget choices, even in this bad budget year, our parks can be saved from ruin. Our “Parks Budget Working Group” has been studying the issue in cooperation with City staff and has several sound ideas for spending reforms. We are also certain that others also have excellent ideas to share for dealing with the funding crisis in ways that do not render our parks virtually unusable.
But we are just one neighborhood group among many. To protect our parks from this threat, we firmly believe that we all need to unite into a coalition to make the strongest possible case to the City Council for changing the City’s spending priorities to protect basic, park maintenance funding. It falls to us, as neighborhood and community leaders, to lead this campaign. We have given this joint effort the name “Rescue Sacramento Parks” (e-mail: rescuesacparks@gmail.com).
We are putting out a call to all of Sacramento’s neighborhood and community leaders, concerned citizens, park users and other friends of local parks to join us at an urgent “Community Summit” to help organize efforts to rescue our parks from the coming disaster. The community summit will be this Thursday, May 14th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Eskaton Monroe Lodge at 3225 Freeport Blvd. , Sacramento , CA 95818 . We hope you can come or can send a representative in your place.
We apologize for the short notice, but the City Manager just released his proposed budget last week and the City Council is holding its public hearing on the budget just a week from today, at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19th. For our voices to be heard, we must act swiftly to rescue Sacramento ’s parks. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at ckpinsacto@aol.com or call me at 456-9839. We hope to see you on Thursday night. And we encourage you to bring along fellow board members of yours and others who may have interest in lending support to the effort. Thank you for your support of Sacramento's parks.
Very truly yours,
Craig Powell, Chair
Parks Committee
Land Park Community Association
P.S. If you are unable to attend the “community summit,” but your group would like to join the effort to rescue Sacramento parks, you can do so in two ways: (1) let us know that your group would like to be counted as a supporter of “Rescue Sacramento Parks;” and (2) send e-mail alerts to your group’s members alerting them to the peril posed by these cuts and encouraging them to contact members of the City Council, as well as attend the City Council hearing on May 19th. We have attached a template of such an alert that you might find helpful.
If your group is unable to join the “Rescue Sacramento Parks,” you may still wish to offer your individual name and title to the effort and help send the signal to the City Council that community leaders are standing up to protect the health and vitality of their parks and neighborhoods. Thank you, again.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
A Neighbor's View
This comes from a resident on University. They also sent along this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050101657.html?hpid=smartliving
We love our home and neighborhood, but it absolutely kills us that we don't know our neighbors, or even know anyone in the neighborhood with kids for our child to play with (the people we meet at neighborhood parks either 1) don't talk to us even though we say hi, 2) talk to us and note that they're from outside the neighborhood, or 3) talk to me and ask if I'm "the nanny" -- we don't know how else to meet neighborhood people with kids besides knocking on doors, but that would probably get us in trouble.
We consider moving from Sierra Oaks on a daily basis because of feelings of isolation. Anything more we should be doing to be neighborly? Appreciate SONA's services and any insights.
We love our home and neighborhood, but it absolutely kills us that we don't know our neighbors, or even know anyone in the neighborhood with kids for our child to play with (the people we meet at neighborhood parks either 1) don't talk to us even though we say hi, 2) talk to us and note that they're from outside the neighborhood, or 3) talk to me and ask if I'm "the nanny" -- we don't know how else to meet neighborhood people with kids besides knocking on doors, but that would probably get us in trouble.
We consider moving from Sierra Oaks on a daily basis because of feelings of isolation. Anything more we should be doing to be neighborly? Appreciate SONA's services and any insights.
Sacramento Area Sewer District Service Levels Report Card
At the District, we continually ask ourselves, "How do we measure up?" to get a sense for how well we are serving our customers, meeting their expectations, and fulfilling our mission.
In talking with our customers and stakeholders, we have identified a core set of seven service levels that are particularly important to (and clearly affect) our customers. Simply put, these levels measure the aspects of our service that customers care about most.
Drawing on the feedback that customers and stakeholders provided during a series of focus groups, phone interviews and surveys, we have worked hard to develop and refine appropriate categories for measuring how well we deliver our services and meet our mission. View the Service Levels Report Card website at http://www.sacsewer.com/reportcard.html.
For more information about this program, or to provide your feedback about the service levels, please contact Erin Harper, Asset Manager, at (916) 876-6958 or via e-mail at harpere@sacsewer.com.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Sheriff's K9 Volunteer Program
This comes from Deputy Brian Amos.
We are recruiting volunteers for the SSD K9 program. Sally Giancanelli, a resident of Arden Park, is our volunteers coordinator. The volunteers would help us promote our fundraising events and assist in building our K9 association. We really could use the help. We had our first meeting Saturday. It would be great if we could add a few more volunteers. Our K9 office and training field is located off American River Drive at the Sheriff's academy so the meetings are not far. Interested parties can contact me by phone or email 916 606-0733 bamos@sacsheriff.com.
Bamboo Classic
Get a jumpstart on the golf tournament season! The Sacramento Asian Chamber of Commerce (SACC) is holding its’ 15th Annual Bamboo Golf Classic on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at the BEAUTIFUL AND CHALLENGING Yocha-De-He Golf Club at Cache Creek Casino Resort. If you or anyone else would like to sign up for a foursome, please fill out the attached form and send, along with a check payable to the Sacramento Asian Chamber of Commerce to:
ATTN: Karen Nelson
Sacramento Asian Chamber of Commerce
2012 H Street, Suite 202
Sacramento, CA 95811
ATTN: Karen Nelson
Sacramento Asian Chamber of Commerce
2012 H Street, Suite 202
Sacramento, CA 95811
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