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Gunther's Ice Cream parlor serves up 70th birthday party

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Published May 14, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Sarah Namestka, 20 months, enjoys her first visit to Gunther's Ice Cream with grandfather Don Namestka, 78. The ice cream parlor celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding Saturday with a party featuring its first employee ... There are memories here, from the mint chocolate chip ice cream to the words scratched into worn wooden booths to the neon Jugglin' Joe flashing above the tiny corner shop ... On a sun-soaked, made-for-ice cream May day, Jenifer Namestka and daughter Sarah of El

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Missouri rapist once a suspect in Sacramento's Oak Park assaults

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Bernard Jackson had been charged with five felonies in an Oak Park sex assault ... For 22 years, five felony counts in a sex assault case against Bernard Jackson sat pending in Sacramento Superior Court ... No action was taken on the matter after it was filed in 1984 as part of the investigation into the Oak Park rapist case, which consisted of as many as 17 assaults that began in 1983 ... Then, on Nov. 13, 2006, the charges were dismissed and the case file was either carted away to archives or

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Art review: Mentors celebrated at North Sacramento gallery

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Published April 25, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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An untitled large-scale work (60 by 60 inches) by D.L. Thomas shows the influence of abstract expressionism ... "3x1" is the title of the current show at North Sacramento's Temporary Contemporary Gallery in the old Himovitz space on Del Paso Boulevard, now owned by Dan Friedlander of Limn. The numeral 3 references the three artists in the show – Laureen Landau, Marilyn Kuksht and D.L. Thomas – and the numeral 1 refers to D. Oldham Neath, who curated the exhibition ... Neath, the proprietor

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Plane's engine quits; pilot lands on Hwy. 50

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

Amateur pilot James Riordan has been in a few scrapes in his 30 years of flying, but this represented a major test: a conked-out engine and no obvious place to land ... So the 63-year-old Cameron Park businessman made an emergency landing Saturday morning on Highway 50 in El Dorado Hills, touching down between two moving vehicles in his small home-built aircraft ... He clipped the rear of a Jeep Grand Cherokee, spun and crashed – but walked away without a scratch from the 11 a.m. incident. The

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Dining: At these Sacramento-area spots, the sweets are something special

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 3:21 p.m.
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Share the love with an assortment of cookies from Freeport Bakery.The fresh strawberry heart tart is a specialty of Freeport Bakery in Land Park ... When money is tight but you still want to go out for a treat or take something home that's something special, dessert is the way to go. And you don't need to spend a lot to get the very best ... On a dizzying dessert-buying spree, crisscrossing our region in a hunt for sugary things, I was pleased to learn that my decadent ways were not breaking the

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Authentic Thai food finds a haven in south Sacramento

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Published Nov. 22, 2009 at 2:06 p.m.
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A hot pot keeps the coconut soup steaming at Thai Thai Express ... I will not be insulting the formidable husband-and-wife team of Adisak and Supatra Vacharasovan if I use shorthand language to describe their restaurant: It's a dive ... On the walls are faded photos of the cuisine, a dive hallmark. The dining room has a drop ceiling that adds an aura of divey gloom. No one entering the restaurant is likely to use "mood" and "lighting" in the same breath. The chairs are black metal with matching

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25,000 without power as storm batters Sacramento region

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Published Oct. 13, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.
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Motorists drive though a flooded section of Interstate 5 underneath P Street in Sacramento on Tuesday ... The wet and windy storm that's moved into Northern California has brought widespread electrical outages, roadway flooding and a growing number of reports of falling trees and limbs ... At one point, there were 25,000 customers without power in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said spokesman Chris Capra. Crews were responding to about 100 separate outage incidents ... Sacramento

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The week ahead: Seven things that will shape the news in Our Region

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Published Oct. 11, 2009 at 2:13 p.m.

MONDAY ... Light Rail's 'Green Line' gets green light ... What: Congresswoman Doris Matsui and local leaders will host a groundbreaking for the $44 million initial segment of Regional Transit's planned light rail line from downtown to Natomas and the airport. The public is invited ... When: 10 a.m ... Where: Richards Boulevard and 7th Street ... MONDAY ... San Juan holds forum to discuss consolidation ... What: San Juan Unified School District continues to experience declining enrollment and is

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Tap into Reno: Brewpubs hop to it in the Biggest Little City

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Published Sept. 20, 2009 at 2:09 a.m.
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Brewmaster Daniel Kahn examines a glass of Tule Duck Red Ale at Buckbean Brewing Co., which has been on the Reno microbrewing scene about a year. The brewery is named for a plant that grows in the nearby Sierra Nevada ... Reno's food culture, long identified with all-you-can-eat casino buffets and steak-and-egg specials, is maturing and diversifying ... Aside from restaurants, Reno offers food enthusiasts a small and quiet but industrious community of entrepreneurs who produce specialty foods

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Making it plein: Wall art enlivens Franklin Boulevard

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Published Sept. 11, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Artist Hearne Pardee works on the wall of Gunther's Ice Cream ... They painted what they saw along Franklin Boulevard. For David Peterson, it was a vintage gas station reborn as a muffler shop. Patris Miller depicted shadows falling across a residential street. And Karen Dukes captured a broken-down "drive-thru" sign at a busy intersection ... Their work is part of the Franklin Boulevard Urban Plein Air Project, which over the past two weeks had 22 artists painting mini-murals –

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