Katie Scott of South Lake Tahoe competes in the whitewater rodeo competition at the first Auburn River Festival on Saturday ... About 3,500 cubic feet of icy, serpentine-green water rushed by every second at the China Bar water-play park on the north fork of the American River, in the Auburn State Recreation Area. In whitewater terms, that made it a Class 2 to 3 flow – not technically "extreme," but you wouldn't want to fall in ... The rock-and-dirt parking lot nearby was jammed with SUVs,
You won't find a better corned beef on rye than the one served at Brownie's Lounge, in the far reaches of South Land Park. Not to ignore the juicy ribeye steak, half-pound burger, French dip and wurst ... I was in a booth there one recent Thursday, smearing the sandwich with house-made horseradish and dipping it into jus, when owner Clair Brown joined me ... He spun a great story, but first, you should know that Brown has been in the biz for decades. First in the mid-1950s with the Captain's
A Sacramento Valley red fox ... There isn't much mystery left in the natural environment of the Sacramento Valley, a place completely reshaped by a century of intensive farming, urbanization and levee building. At least, that's the usual assumption ... In fact, it's a faulty one ... A subspecies of red fox that has lived in the Valley all these years turns out to be native to the area ... For more than 100 years these foxes were assumed to be nonnatives, escaped from fur farms and hunting
LEZLIE STERLING lsterling@sacbee.com Pete Horton of Davis, front left, Ed Cox of midtown, ... In ancient Babylon, a priest hit the king in the face. In the Netherlands, they burn Christmas trees in the street. And in upper Land Park, four generations of a family serve "good luck soup." ... Slaps and bonfires and soup – New Year's Day traditions ... "Every tradition grows ever more venerable," observed the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. "The reverence due it increases from
Two major developers have submitted competing proposals for a new Kings arena and entertainment complex in Sacramento's downtown railyard, each saying a facility there could boost the city economy in tough times ... The railyard proposals are among seven submitted last week by an array of development interests, in response to Mayor Kevin Johnson's call for public plans on where and how to build a new sports and entertainment facility in Sacramento ... Members of Johnson's new arena task force
It looks like I may be working off of Truxel Rd in Natomas soon and the building is bike-friendly - How would one get to North Freeway Blvd or Gateway Park Blvd from the American River bike trail? Would I have to get off at Garden Hwy and take Truxel a ...
The El Dorado Irrigation District general manager says he is prepared to sit down with representatives of an environmental group to try to head off a potentially costly lawsuit ... Jim Abercrombie said the EID board has directed him to meet with representatives of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, which advocates for conservation of California fisheries, to review their claims, district practices and system improvements ... EID officials this week responded to the alliance's
Elgean A. Hunt ... Elgean A. Hunt, a native Sacramentan who served two years in the Marine Corps, wrote a column for the Elk Grove Citizen and was known for wearing a flower in her hair, has died. She was 91 ... She was born Elgean Medeiros in 1918, the youngest of four children. Her parents were immigrants from the Azores islands in Portugal. Her father earned a living off-loading river barges. Her mother was a seamstress and worked in a laundry. The family lived at Fifth and S streets near
The California Parks and Recreation Commission will spend $1.9 million in park bond money to relocate and rebuild a replica of Sutter's Mill in Coloma -- considered the birthplace of the California Gold Rush ... Scott Nakaji, superintendent of the state parks' Gold Fields District, said he hopes the new replica will be in place by early 2011 ... The new replica will replace one built in 1968 and will be closer to the south fork of the American River and the actual historic sawmill site, which is
The teenage girl walked up to the Kings booth at Discovery Park on Sept. 26 and asked the question so many have wondered about the city's crestfallen basketball organization ... "Do you have any fans left?" she said ... Except that she didn't mean it that way. It was a triple-digit day by the river, and she was merely one of the thousands of overheated park visitors looking for one of the hand-held cooling systems that had been handed out as a promotion. Jon Brockman could have used one, too ...