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Improvement Club celebrates

100 yearsSee page 4

Over the Fence:

What’s new with Curtis Park Village

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Over the Fence ............................................ 2

Local history feature ...................................... 7

Arts .................................................................. 8

Calendar ......................................................... 20

The Ladies of Kennady LaneLong-time residents honored for their neighborly love

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Brownie’s Lounge now has a drive-through. Well, it did temporarily last week. A guy nick-named “49er Steve” bar-reled into the adjoining busi-ness and crashed through the wall at Brownie’s. He wasn’t a patron. He was wearing a foot cast and had a problem with the gas pedal of his Ford SUV. Don’t wear a cast and drive people! Scott the bar-tender said, “It sounded like a bomb went off.” He also told me “The jukebox is dead.”

Nooooo! Not the jukebox. The jukebox was full of cool. It was a cavalcade of clas-sic rock. The Who, Doors, Zeppelin to name a few. Even some of your favorite Irish tunes. They have now brought in an Internet juke-box. I’m thinking of starting a Change.org petition to pro-test! Bring back the old school jukebox. It played CDs. I’m in mourning. Brownie said, “The jukebox is what saved the car from going through the bar and hitting the bartend-er.” I told Brownie, “I guess no more Clancy Brothers.” An-

other patron piped in, “It also had Louie Prima!” The good news is nobody was injured. The jukebox actually helped prevent injury because the bar was full of regulars that night. Claire Brownie told me “We can laugh about it now but when I pulled up in front I thought Oh shit somebody might be dead in there”. So next time you’re at Brown-ie’s Lounge, play some “Crash Test Dummies”.

The Curtis Park Village project is humming along. The orange cones are every-

where in Curtis Park along Sutterville Road. Lots of men in orange, too. The backhoes and excavators are moving and digging dirt… It’s Tei-chert-mania!

Councilmember Jay Sche-nirer had to be the bearer of bad news at the recent Curtis Park Neighborhood Associa-tion meeting. There will be no park in Curtis Park Village. Huh? What? Are you kid-ding? 4.3 acres were supposed to be used for a park and drainage. It got to the point where it was mostly drainage

See Over the Fence, page 9

Photo by Greg Brown A man wearing a foot cast drove into Brownie’s Lounge, destroying a lot of the interior and even the jukebox. This photo was taken shortly after the accident.

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By LANCE [email protected]

Members of the South-side Improvement Club gath-ered in the Monsignor Val Fa-gundes Hall of the historic St. Elizabeth Portuguese Nation-al Church at 1817 12th St. on Dec. 5 to celebrate a very spe-cial occasion – the 100th an-niversary of the organization’s incorporation.

The milestone was actually achieved on Nov. 10, a centu-ry after more than 125 local citizens met at the O.D.E.S. Hall on W Street, between 5th and 6th streets, to offi-cially work as a unit in secur-ing needed improvements for the “South Side” section of the city, which was then de-scribed as being located from Front to 15th streets and from R to Y streets.

Although historic news-paper accounts recognize the Southside Improvement Club as operating for about a decade prior to its Nov. 10, 1913 anniversary date, the or-ganization had not yet been incorporated during those earlier years.

On Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1913, The Sacramento Star pub-lished an article entitled “New improvement club is formed.”

The article noted that the objective of the club was to clean up and improve the south side of the city.

The Sacramento Bee’s Nov. 11, 1913 report on the same topic noted: “It was agreed that any person owning prop-erty on the south side (of the city was) eligible to mem-bership” and that “the club (would) fight for desired pub-lic improvements.”

Charter members of the organization included Ben Adams, J.V. Azevedo, F. Butler, Daniel H. Carroll, William A. Carroll, J.T. Connor, Cornelius C. Con-rad, William A. Durant, Joe Enos, William S. Gloria, R. Arthur Leiva, John B. Mar-tin, Joseph McDermott, Pe-ter J. Nusbaum, Charles S. Ralph, William L. Rose, El-wood Santos, J.G. Thom-as, Elmer O. Walker and Charles W. Walser.

During the aforementioned Nov. 10, 1913 club meeting, the following officers were elected: Ralph, president; Rose, vice president; Nusbaum, treasur-er; and Walser, secretary.

The club’s constitution was read and approved during the organization’s following meet-ing, which was held on Nov. 24, 1913.

Early activities and improve-ments instituted or supported by the club included the devel-opment of Southside and Wil-liam Land parks, the repairing and removal of levees, the con-struction of the Robert E. Cal-lahan Memorial and improve-ments to local streets.

The club was also influen-tial in the efforts to have the

Southside Improvement Club celebrates 100th anniversary

See Anniversary, page 5

Photo by Lance ArmstrongThe gathering was attended by members of the club and their female guests.


current swimming pool con-structed at Southside Park 60 years ago.

The 100th anniversa-ry gathering began with an installation of officers pre-sented by the club’s Presi-dent Joe Waters.

These incoming officers are Larry Budney, president; Manny Perry, vice president; Steve Silva, second vice pres-ident; Robert Salerno; secre-tary; Michael Budney, treasur-er; and Judge Jerry Bakarich, sergeant at arms. These men will officially begin working in these positions in January.

In discussing his upcom-ing role with the club with the Land Park News, Larry said, “We have basically come from a political lobbying type of club (with) concerned citi-zens that were looking to im-prove and beautify the city, and certainly that probably still exists in people’s hearts here. But the reality is we’re getting older and politics is really complicated nowadays, and I’d rather just focus on doing something that’s a lit-tle more practical and focus-ing on how we can be help-ful to the community. In that way, we can work with indi-viduals, like if you know a kid who needs scholarship money or if we’re going to help a fam-ily and improve their life may-be by giving them some extra money for Christmas gifts or whatever. In that way, we would be more philanthropic. It’s also going to require that we think about it. I’m going to

throw it out there to the guys in my first meeting (as pres-ident) and say, ‘Okay, we’re called the improvement club, so in reality, what are we real-ly improving? What is it that you really want this club to do that would be meaningful?’”

The next portion of the Dec. 5 gathering was a his-torical review of the club by Judge Jerry Bakarich.

Bakarich then introduced the club’s historian, William Burg, who presented a slide show featuring historic pho-tographs of the club, the south side area and other scenes of Sacramento.

The event, which was the club’s second ladies’ night of the year, also included a brief speech by Larry Budney and comments by Dr. Her-bert Yee, a rib-eye steak and chicken dinner prepared by Joe Semon and his crew and a raffle for prizes that were donated by club members. The raffle was conducted by Jerry Balshor.

The club also had a collec-tion area for donated coats for the News10 Coats for Kids drive.

In celebration of last week’s special gathering, several members of the club shared details about the organization and their memories about the club and its anniversary.

Portions of the comments of these members are present-ed, as follows:

Al Balshor: “I think it’s great (that the club is cele-brating 100 years) and we’ll keep it at $3 a year (for) dues. We’ve had many, many dig-nitaries in office – mayors,

city managers, supervisors. The old club, if you didn’t go through the Southside, you never got a job. The old dig-nitaries (who were members of the club included) George Klumpp, Frank Seymour, Jim Garlick. Bartley Cavanaugh was the city manager (and a member of the club). We (formerly) met back for many years at the Southside Park clubhouse. (The club) used to have, all the way from the early 1930s or so, fireworks in the park. The city would pay for the fireworks. It cost them $2,500 and we would put it on with entertainment at the Callahan Memorial there. I’ve been president (of the club) twice. I was president in 1954 and 1997, and each

One of the South-side Improvement Club’s historic events was this May 21, 1938 testimoni-al dinner at the Elks Lodge No. 6 build-ing at 921 11th St. The gathering was held in honor of Nettie Hopley, then-retiring Lincoln School principal and a member of the Sacramento County Board of Education.

Photo courtesy of Al Balshor

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Editor’s Note: This is part five in a series regarding Sacramen-to area cemeteries.

St. Joseph’s Cemetery – the predecessor of St. Mary’s Cemetery, which was fea-tured in the first four parts of this series – was estab-lished at Freeport Road and Y Street (now 21st Street and Broadway) nearly a cen-tury and half ago.

The cemetery site was ac-quired during the summer of 1864 by the congregation of St. Rose Church, which was located at the northeast cor-ner of 7th and K streets.

Originally, the cemetery grounds consisted of two 10-acre tracts, one of which ex-tended northward to Y Street. The cemetery presently covers a 10-acre area.

Many longtime Sacramen-tans recall when a portion of a former section of the cem-etery was home to Christian Brothers High School. That school, which had the address of 2535 21st St., opened at that site as Christian Brothers College on Sept. 15, 1924.

Since the 1960s, Chris-tian Brothers has been op-erating at its present loca-tion, which has the address of 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and Bishop Manogue High School filled the vacan-cy at the Broadway site and remained in operation there until 1990.

The property presently in-cludes offices of the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and an Arco AM/PM gas station and convenient store.

On May 7, 1865, St. Jo-seph’s was consecrated by the Rev. Joseph Sadoc Alemany, archbishop of San Francisco.

However, burials at St. Joseph’s Cemetery predate that time.

For instance, in a March 1865 cemetery report, Israel Luce, superintendent of the city cemetery, noted that of the city’s 24 deaths during the previous month, three of the bodies had been trans-

ported to the “new Catholic cemetery.”

Early details regarding the cemetery were presented in the March 24, 1865 edition of The Sacramento Union, as follows: “The new Catholic cemetery lying south of Pov-erty Ridge is being improved by the erection around the ground of a substantial fence, the planting of trees, shrub-bery, etc. The entire tract embraces about twenty acres of land. Carriage ways and footpaths are being laid out in accordance with a gener-al plan. The soil is decidedly favorable to improvements such as are going on, and the cemetery will doubtless be greatly beautified within a few years time.”

Among those buried at St. Joseph’s during its first year of operation was John McGarra-han, a former resident of the capital city.

McGarrahan died as a re-sult of having been thrown from his horse about a year earlier in Newcastle (Plac-er County). His remains were exhumed from a cem-etery in the Newcastle area

and reinterred at St. Jo-seph’s during the afternoon of June 28, 1865.

In August 1865, Jesse Morrill, who had replaced Luce as the superintendent of the city cemetery, report-ed that of the 33 deaths that had occurred in the city during the previous month, four of those people had been interred in the St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

Also among the people who were interred at St. Joseph’s during 1865 was Patrick Kel-ly, who drowned in Beach’s Lake, south of the city, on Oct. 30, 1865.

A large number of his friends attended his fu-neral two days later and his remains were accom-panied to the cemetery by those friends and the Em-met Guard.

In another report, Morrill noted that of the 28 deaths in the city in December 1865, three of those people were buried at St. Joseph’s.

During the following year, the monthly number of in-terments at St. Joseph’s in-creased. For instance, the bodies of seven people were placed in the cemetery in Au-gust 1866 and nine more peo-

St. Joseph’s Cemetery established nearly a century and half ago

See Cemetery, page 21

ple had their remains interred in those grounds during the following month.

Another fairly early inter-ment at St. Joseph’s was that

Photo by Lance Armstrong


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Spanglish Arte now inside Sol CollectiveBy MONiCA STARk

Inside the Sol Collective art gallery and center for culture and activism, is Spanglish Arte, a retail space which features “local art-ists with a global following.” Spanglish relocated from its space in midtown on J Street and has been inside Sol Collective for about three months now, explained Mari Arreola, the creative director. With the slogan local arte for the masses, Arreola said the mass production of prints she has for sale works toward that mission of being able to provide all income levels with quality local art. She said she has enjoyed the new space inside of Sol Collective as it has a good vibe with student interns who are interested in art and cul-ture. Sol Collective is located at 2574 21st St.


and not so much park. It’s not so much Paul Petrovich as it is the city. The City of Sacra-mento is saying that the area would have to be able to take 250,000 gallons of water dur-ing a storm.

What Petrovich is con-sidering is getting rid of the park altogether and making it a water feature. It could be 2.12 acres of water features with benches around it…and more housing. Not a very green solution.

The trade off, according to Councilmember Jay Schenir-er, is because Petrovich is no longer doing a park he’ll have to pay Quimby fees and hous-ing fees: 1.9 million in Qui-mby fees and $2.5 million in housing fees, $4.3 all togeth-er and that could be spent on Curtis Park…the park itself.

Then Jay took questions….One resident mentioned,

“It’s a serious trade-off. That $4 million will be spent but

that public space will still not be there. If you spend the $4 million on Curtis Park that’s still the only public space to support the new develop-ment and the existing neigh-borhood.”

Schenirer answered by say-ing the water feature would be a public space with bench-es, just not green public space. And then the resident men-tioned, “Then they’ll have to spray for mosquitos.” Jay re-torted, “Always look at the glass half full.” Jay just want-ed to give everybody a head’s up that this was coming. He didn’t have all the details and all the answers because he had just been informed about it. Curtis Park resi-dent Rosanna Herber said, “One thing that concerns me is that things get chipped away like the street that was in front of the park that got taken away because we want to make sure the kids have an easy way to get over to the park and play. Losing that road was a significant benefit

Over the Fence:Continued from page 2

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for Petrovich but not so much to the people who will be liv-ing there. She added, “This is what bothers me. Now we have this change, now we’re making another change, and it’s a slow whittling away of the benefit that we’re trying to keep in the development.”

“I think people need to see the stuff we continue to lose as this gets dragged out.”

I wonder if Paul Petrovich will suggest a gigantic me-tallic soaring eagle or may-be a giant silver metallic uni-corn where water shoots out the horn. Stay tuned because I have a feeling this whole thing ain’t over.

Following up on a story I mentioned last week in Over The Fence, Mexican grocer Mercado Loco is vacating their location at Franklin and Sutterville. When the lease runs out, a CVS will be mov-ing in. A lot of neighborhood

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Capsity is located at 2572 21st St.

Photos by Monica Stark “Fauna” by Leilani Joy, acrylic and collage on canvas (25x48)

“Amorous” by Sherrell A Cisco, acrylic (36x24)

“Today” by Erin Wapple, (20x16 ½)

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(term was) two years. I didn’t join (the organization) much long before (1954), because I was under 18. You have to be 18 to get in. I think there are about 12 left of (the surviv-ing) presidents (of the club). (Among them is) old Man-ny Perry. He’s of my age. We meet on the third Thursday of each month at St. Eliza-beth Church at 12th and S (streets), and occasionally we’ll take bus trips. We’ll go to Reno, (etc.). We have a la-dies’ night twice a year. It’s still a men’s club, but we’ll bring them as our guests.”

Manuel “Mannie” J. Viera, Jr.: “My dad (Manuel J. Viera, Sr.) belonged to (the club) for years. And I got my cousin, Ricky Dias, into it, too, or vice versa. I’m not sure which. I like the camaraderie (of the club). There are a lot of people who I’ve known since I was a young man going to (Holy Angels School and Christian Broth-ers High School). We remi-nisce about those things and stuff like that. I think it’s tre-mendous (that the club is cele-brating its centennial). A lot of clubs don’t last that long. The membership drops and they get disinterested and that sort of thing. But (the Southside club) seems to be doing a pret-ty good job over there, so I’m glad I’m with them.”

Ron King: “I joined the (club) about 45 to 50 years ago. Everybody at south side used to belong to it back then. They took care of everybody in south side. I lived right by (Southside) Park at 3rd

and W (streets). I think (the 100th anniversary) is out-standing. A lot of old-tim-ers went through that club, and big wheels, too. They had mayors, police chiefs, stuff like that. I get to see a lot of guys (at the club) who I grew up with. There are a lot of old-timers there who lived down by (Southside) Park. So, you get to see them and talk to them and hash over old times.”

Bob Dias: “Ron King and a lot of friends I had in there (at the club) – Gene Plecas and a guy who worked for me, Tony Viegas, and his brother, Dan-ny Viegas – (were members of the organization). I just got interested in it. There are few clubs that have lasted as long (as the Southside Improve-ment Club), so you’ve got to give them a lot of credit. Fi-nancially, they never had a lot of money to operate on, but they survived.”

Joe Waters: “I joined about 20 years ago. My friend, (Tony Scalora), who passed (at the age of 78 on April 20, 2004), he and I were great fishing buddies, and he said, ‘Why don’t you come down (to the club) and I’ll pay your dues?’ It’s $3 a year. It’s the best two-bit club in America. I live in the north area. (Origi-nally), there were no (residen-tial) boundaries (for the club members, but today) some (members) live in the north area, some of them live in the Bay Area, some of them live in Elk Grove, Auburn, El Dora-do Hills. They’re scattered all over now. When I first got out of the Air Force (in 1960), I lived on W Street (near) 16th

Street. I (initially) thought (the club) was a hoot. The guys, they would get up and they would talk about base-ball and what we’re going to do to help the area. (Despite its more social approach), it’s still an improvement club. We give to (St. Elizabeth) church, we give to the different schools and what have you. It’s a great club and I hope we’re going to do another 100 (years).”

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Loved by their neighbors – Mary, Muriel, Carol, Su-zanne, and Tomi – five ladies from Kennady Lane, were honored for their generosity over the years, the friendships they forged and their dedica-tion to the community.

A lovely affair, the honor-ees were treated to an inter-national tea on Sunday, Dec. 8 at their neighbor Nikki’s home. Bringing out savory bite size dishes like samosas, English sandwiches, cheese and crackers, pork boa, and, of course, traditional English desserts like mince pies, Nik-ki set tables with her moth-er’s bone china for the big day, which included about 14 la-dies from Kennady Lane.

Neighbors Jen and Mike are known on the street for hosting friends for dinner and Nikki felt it was her turn to do the honors and make sure “certain people” could come. “I went around and asked the key players and started to plan it,” she said.

“Because Jen is British and does lovely entertaining and I never pay back, and, well, I just retired and thought I should have a tea for Jen,” Nikki said, adding that Jen loved the idea,

but that she wanted to honor others on the block.

With an idea in motion, Nikki started asking key play-ers if they could make the Dec. 8 date.

The thing about the street, Kennady Lane, like many streets in Sacramento, is that people raised their kids on them, but what’s unusu-al, Nikki said, is the street has a large amount of neigh-bors who have lived on it for a long time. “It has the conti-nuity of a street people want to live on,” Nikki said. “We re-ally feel fortunate to live here and know all these people,” she said.

At the tea, each attendee introduced herself and de-scribed what it has been like living on Kennady Lane.

Nikki said when she and her husband first moved to the lane, they got to know Muriel’s husband Art rather well. “Art was always on the street talking to people. He was why people got to know each other.” And about Muri-el, one of the honorees, Nikki said: “She really is a great lady. She’s fiery and independent.”

Muriel loves ballroom danc-ing, and, as a former inde-pendent instructor at Arthur Murray dance studios for many years, she said, “it was

wonderful. I loved it. I miss it right now. I still have all my tapes I teach with.” Muriel said she first learned by tak-ing lessons and then built her-self up, and, from there, she ended up teaching in her own studio and winning in North-ern California dance competi-tions. To this day, Muriel said, “I still have my shoes.”

A volunteer at the Belle Cooledge Library bookstore, Muriel was asked by a librar-ian to teach staff how to dance and they all learned in an hour. Also an animal lover, Muri-el is known for taking care of neighborhood cats when their owners are out of town and she feeds the squirrels and birds.

Muriel’s late husband Art used to teach math at Fern Bacon Middle School and Muriel remembers how they would have students come over for cookies while they studied. Muriel and Art didn’t have children of their own but they took in the students as their own.

Attendees were especially pleased that one of the honor-ees, Tomi, made it out to the tea. Accompanied by a care-taker, Tomi sat in a wheelchair and remained quiet. Neigh-bors were prepared to bring

The ladies of Kennady Lane:

Long-time residents honored for their neighborly love

See Kennady, page 17

Photo by Monica StarkThe ladies pictured here, from the left, Carol, Mary, Suzanne, Tomi, and Muriel, were honored for their neighborly love and generosity to the community. They all live on Kennady Lane and have long ties to the other women on their street. They were honored at an international tea at their neighbor, Nikki’s house on Sunday, Dec. 8.


Tomi a plate to her home if she didn’t make it to the tea.

Tomi’s husband was a dentist in town. “Their story, they were amazing people,” Nikki said. “One of the things is that ev-ery New Year she would make sushi and bring some around to all the neighbors,” Nikki said. Among other things Tomi would share to neighbors in-cluded plants from the garden. “They were really involved in their yard,” Nikki said.

Another of the honorees, Mary, is known for her good sense of humor, having the ability to make everybody laugh. Devoted to her family, she still cooks for them on a regular basis. “She has family here and they are all involved in her life. She has visitors ev-eryday. She cooks for them and does the holidays still. Her life has been devoted to her family. She is lucky to have them here,” Nikki said.

Upon remembering cer-tain things about Mary, Nik-ki said, Patty, Mary’s daugh-ter, used to drive up in a little BMW. “You would always hear Patty honk when she was leaving,” Nikki said.

Mary has a son named Bob back in Virginia and grand-children here. Also known as a fabulous cook, she brings cookies around to people on the block.

At the tea, Patty said she re-members moving into their Kennady Lane home when

she was just 4 years old. Now 62, she described the differ-ences of when she grew up on the street versus the way it is today. “It’s very different and I attribute it to garage door openers. Back then, every-body knew everybody and you played in the street back then. The kids would all come out on the summer nights. We’d all play baseball. We would set up on our front porches and bring our junk out and play store. We would roller skate. It’s proba-bly considered trespassing be-cause we’d roller skate up and down everybody’s driveway. There’s no sidewalks.”

The original owner of her home, honoree Suzanne bought the house in 1964 with two children, one of whom was 3 years old and the other age 4. “One of my neighborhood claims to fame is that our son Rick used to deliver The Bee and a lot of people knew him because of that.”

At the tea, neighbors com-mented on the different style of house Suzanne has, to which, she said she used to live on South Land Park Drive near Sutterville Road and even back then South Land Park Drive was a very busy street, but, that there was a home on it that caught her attention and so luck had it she was able to find a build-er who took ideas and built a home to spec on Kennady Lane. “It’s so cozy; the build-er had his parents living there until someone bought the house. Now I know why the fireplace was on. There was

no heating in that house,” Su-zanne joked.

Linda, who lives second to the corner and who has the sustainable landscape, moved into her home in 1986. “I was told it was nice to have kids in the neighborhood, and we had toddlers, but they didn’t mean them; they meant us (she and her husband Dave). It was just really welcoming. I really felt connected right away.”

Another of the honorees, Carol, moved into her home in about 1970, she said. Be-cause her husband became sick, Carol took a job with the State of California later in life and worked until she was about 70 years old. Neighbors remember watching her walk down the hill every day to the bus stop where she’d pick up the No. 6 bus and take it downtown to work.

Upon speaking about one of her neighbors named Mar-jorie, Jen said, she lived over on the corner and she would run around with two poodles. “She was flamboyant. But, she was our Realtor and she did us great justice, because, of course, we love the neighbor-hood,” Jen said.

The name Kennady Lane also has an interesting story unto itself. On one end of the street, the sign spelled it “K-E-N-N-A-D-Y” and on the other end it was “K-E-N-N-E-D-Y”. There were various explana-tions neighbors brought up as to the discrepancy. One said: “Art told me that when Ken-nedy High School was built, all the signs got stolen, so they

changed the spelling (from K-E-N-N-E-D-Y to K-E-N-N-A-D-Y).”

Another lady said, “Well, I have another story: We bought from Rosa and Ron. They were both teachers there and they said that was where the original ranch was, and, we found the horseshoe-ing pit and a lot of horseshoes and they said it was a ranch and it was not (pronounced) Kennedy it was either (pro-nounced with a long-a sound) Kennady or (a short-a sound)

Kennady. Rosa was very, very sure of that. And we did look if there were cemetery head-stones. And they (the Ken-nadys) were an old family.”

The spelling differences could be problematic in the event of an emergency. “What if we call an ambulance and they’re looking for Kennedy and we’re on Kennady?”

Whatever the reasons for the name, one thing remains the same, the love the wom-en have for each other and for the street they call home.

Kennady:Continued from page 16

Photos by Monica Stark(above left) Carol and Mary were two of the honorees at an international tea on Sunday, Dec. 8. They, along with neighbors Suzanne, Tomi and Muriel, were honored for their neighborly love and generosity to the community. They all live on Kennady Lane and have long ties to the other women on their street.(above right) Ladies of Kennady Lane gathered to honor five of their neighbors at an international tea on Sunday, Dec. 8.


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Free event: Estate Planning Sa-fari at the Sacramento ZooJan. 23: Held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Kampala Center in the Sacramento Zoo, this free informative seminar will navigate through a jungle of topics presented by lo-cal attorney Mark S. Drobny, California State Bar Certified Legal Specialist in Es-tate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. Top-ics will include, but are not limited to: Liv-ing trusts versus wills; how to avoid probate; reasons for using powers of attorney, ad-vance health care directives, charitable gift annuities. Seating is limited. To RSVP, call 808-8815 to guarantee your seat.

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Sacramento Community Concert Association performanceFeb. 22: Celebrating Black History Month, SCCA presents Tenor Darron Flagg & So-prano Candace Johnson and The UC Berke-ley Gospel Chorus at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian, 1300 N St. Singer-actor Dar-ron Flagg is recognized as a standout profes-sional bel-canto tenor, lauded for his heart-felt performances. Candace Johnson is a dynamic vocal artist who has experience in musical the-ater, television commercials, poplar songwrit-ing, and piano performance. The UC Berkeley Gospel Chorus started in the 1970s as an in-formal student activity. Since 2007, director D. Mark Wilson has taken the Gospel Chorus in new directions, building a repertoire, which in-cludes traditional and contemporary gospel mu-sic, spirituals, and classically influenced gospel anthems. Regular subscription: $90, Group dis-count (8 or more people): $75, Students sub-scription: $45, Single Ticket: $25. For more information, contact Sacramento Communi-ty Concert Association www.sccaconcerts.org; [email protected]; 400-4634.

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of Patrick Degman, who was placed in the cemetery under the care and direc-tion of the Sisters of Mer-cy on June 6, 1867.

According to a funeral an-nouncement in the June 6, 1867 edition of The Union, the remains of Degman “were brought down (to Sacramen-to) from Summit City on the Central Pacific Railroad cars” two days earlier.

On June 19 and 20, 1868, Masses were held in honor of the Rev. James S. Cotter, who had served as pastor of St. Rose Church since 1865. He died at the age of 33 on June 18, 1868 and was buried at St. Joseph’s two days later.

Following Cotter’s funer-al, which was held at St. Rose Church on June 20, 1868, a cornet band played the Ro-man Catholic hymn, “O Sanc-tissima” – aka the “Sicilian Mariners Hymn” – while his casket was placed in a hearse that was attached to four black horses.

A procession then left the church and headed up K Street en route to the cemetery.

Included in the procession were six carriages carrying the clergy, about 150 girls of the St. Joseph Academy at 8th and G streets, about 150 boys of the Catholic Sunday school, members of the Emmet Guard in fatigue uniforms, and repre-sentatives of Knickerbocker Engine Co. No. 5.

During the procession, peo-ple viewed the scene from the streets and balconies and en-

gine houses paid tribute to the late Ireland-born pastor by ringing their bells.

In a showing that Cot-ter was well remembered, on Dec. 5, 1872, J.C. Devine & Bro., a marble cutting firm at 216-218 K St., placed a 17 and a half-foot-tall Italian marble monument for Cotter at his gravesite.

The sides of the monument, which was placed on a granite base, were created with an in-scription bearing Cotter’s full name and other details about him, panels for additional in-scriptions, and carved images such as those of a lamb and cross, two cherubim and a wreath of roses.

The circular-shaped lot containing Cotter’s grave was lined with evergreen shrubs and trees.

Other people who were in-terred at St. Joseph’s dur-ing the early 1870s included Kentucky native John Harris, who passed away in Shingle Springs (El Dorado County) at the age of 58 on May 20, 1871; Ireland native P.J. Mc-Mahon, who passed away in Sacramento at the age of 46 on July 18, 1871; Ireland na-tive Owen C. Casey, who passed away in Sacramento at the age of 52 on Dec. 15, 1871; and Ireland native Pe-ter Riley, who passed away in Hicksville (Sacramento County) at the age of 46 on June 1, 1873.

Harris was the father-in-law of John T. Whyte, the conductor of a Sacramento Valley Railroad train; Mc-Mahon was a former propri-etor of the three-story Unit-

ed States Hotel at 55 Front St. and a fireman with the aforementioned Knicker-bocker company; Casey was one of Sacramento’s lead-ing liquor and soda dealers; and Riley worked as a black-smith in Dry Creek (So-noma County).

In early 1872, the St. Rose Church congregation ap-pointed a committee to at-tend to improving and beauti-fying the cemetery grounds.

And later that year, in ac-cordance with the Legisla-ture’s 1868 approval of an act to “encourage the plant-ing and cultivation of shade and fruit trees upon the pub-lic roads and highways of the state,” shade trees were plant-ed from the northwest cor-ner to the southwest cor-ner of the cemetery grounds, along Freeport Road.

Cemetery:Continued from page 7

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Editor’s Note: This is part four in a series about former Sacramento disco king, Paul Dale Roberts.

For this final article of this series about the adven-tures of former Pocket resident Paul Dale Roberts, he explained more about his work as a Fortean in-vestigator and had the author of this story join him as a guest at one of his paranormal investigations.

As noted in the previous article of this series, Paul Dale Roberts is recognized as one the nation’s lead-ing paranormal investigators.

Additionally, Roberts is a writer for Phenomena magazine in England and The Costa Rican Times, he has written four HPI Chronicles series books relat-ed to the paranormal and he has appeared on eight documentaries regarding the same topic.

Roberts, whose writings are included in 11 paranormal-themed books, said that he was read-ing Brad Steiger paranormal books at the age of 12, and that he now has articles published in sev-eral of Steiger’s books.

Roberts has met paranormal icons, Bill Murphy, lead scientist on the SyFy television channel’s in-vestigation series, “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,” and Paul Bradford of the SyFy series, “Ghosthunt-ers International.”

Stanton Friedman, the star of Discovery Chan-nel’s “UFO Hunter,” and Brad Klinge of the para-normal television series, “Ghost Lab,” have contrib-uted to Roberts’ paranormal articles.

Additionally, Nick Pope, a former British min-ister of defense and a well-known journalist, en-dorsed one of Roberts’ books.

Roberts is considered the “go-to guy” in Holly-wood for Northern California investigations, and he was contacted by the producers of the paranor-mal television series, “A Haunting,” “Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal” (in which he was con-sidered for a technical consultant position), “Ghost Adventures,” “Paranormal Witness,” “The Haunted” (on the Animal Planet channel), “The Othersiders” (on the Cartoon Network), “Haunted Collector,” “Ghostly Encounters” (on the Biography Channel), “Haunted Highway” and “When Ghosts Attack” (on the Destination America channel).

For the “Othersiders” series, Roberts was used as a finder-locator for paranormal hot spots in North-ern California.

“When Ghosts Attack” recently showed an epi-sode based on an article that Roberts had written about HPI’s Keith Dovichi’s demon case in Pio-neer, Calif.

Additionally, Roberts was supposed to be includ-ed in an episode of the Travel Channel’s “Ghost Ad-

ventures” in regard to his investigation at the Na-tional Hotel in Jackson.

However, when Roberts and his team arrived at the National Hotel, the “Ghost Adventurers” crew was at a different National Hotel about two hours away.

Roberts laughed and while pretending to be en-gaged in a conversation on his cell phone, he said, “Hello, I’m in the lobby. I don’t see a camera crew.”

In speaking about his business, Roberts explained that HPI originally stood for Haunted and Paranor-mal Investigations. But after Roberts became HPI’s owner, it became known as Hegelianism Paranor-mal Intelligence (International).

The organization was named after the Ger-man philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel’s idealism and philosophy utilizes the pros and cons of any given situation. Roberts uses the pros and cons of every investigation to determine the conclusion of whether the place of investigation is haunted.

Roberts’ investigators are actually known as “para-normal intelligence operatives,” and HPI is consid-ered international, since Roberts has traveled to 55 countries and territories to conduct investigations.

Among the places where Roberts has investigat-ed are Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, Hon-duras, Belize, El Salvador, the Dominican Re-public, Haiti, Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, Stonehenge and the Tower of London in England, Dublin Castle in Ireland, the bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand, San Miguel Island in search of the legendary cryptid, Chupacabra, Mount Shas-ta for Bigfoot and UFO hunting, and the Auburn and Colfax area’s Green Valley Vortex. The latter place has been rumored to have had UFO sight-ings, a crop circle and ghostly activities.

In discussing the topic of paranormal activities in the Pocket area, Roberts said, “On one investigation in the Pocket area, the occupants were complaining

Former Land Park resident shares more about his ghost hunting adventures

Photo by Lance Armstrong(above) Jeri Smith’s 11-year-old daughter, Macie Whitten, studies nonhu-man-like handprints on a mirror in her home’s living room. Jeri Smith is shown in the background.

(left) Paul Dale Roberts and an assistant use paranormal investigation instruments during the Nov. 27 investigation.

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that ceramic cups flew off the kitchen shelves and came crashing onto the kitchen floor. This was too much for the occupants to handle.”

Roberts said that he conducted an investiga-tion at that house and captured many electronic voice phenomena or “EVPs,” and that some dis-embodied voices spoke in a foreign language.

He added that when he conducted a Catholic house blessing to cleanse the home of the entities, a resident of the home looked at him with surprise and claimed that an orb flew between them and “shot up into the night sky,” and that the house has been “peaceful ever since.”

Orbs, Roberts explained, can be anything from dust, skin flakes and light refractions to dew, lint and bugs. But he added that if an orb presents an “intelligent movement,” then it can be deemed as paranormal.

Since Roberts conducts Catholic house bless-ings for the purpose of ridding homes of mali-cious entities and malevolent, dark forces, he is known by the nickname of the “Demon War-rior” in the paranormal community.

Roberts said that his success rate in “cleansing” homes is at “an all-time high.” And he added that there are many ghost hunting groups that have equipment to conduct investigations, but “have no methods of cleansing a home.”

Roberts’ arsenal of cleansers consists of Christian, Buddhist, Wiccan, Apache, Choctaw, Greek Ortho-dox, metaphysical, and even Voodoo.

Roberts explained that there are many haunt-ed locations throughout the world, and that he receives a lot of calls from residents in the Land Park area, because so many homes are “old and have a history.”

Roberts said that HPI has 43 investigators, 12 of whom are noted to have psychic abilities.

And he added that the organization has a “stockpile of equipment,” including infrared cameras, digital recorders for EVPs, night vi-sion goggles, digital cameras, camcorders, tem-perature gauges, K-II meters and EMF (electro-magnetic field) readers. K-II meters and EMF readers determine if there is a fluctuation in

the electromagnetic spectrum. Such detection, Roberts said, may indicate that there is “an en-tity present.”

In continuing, he said, “Temperature gauges mea-sure drops in temperatures. This may indicate that an entity is feeding off the energy of a particular area, causing a vacuum in that immediate area, which will cause a cold temperature drop.”

Roberts added that at times his team even uses dogs in their investigations.

“Dogs have a natural sixth sense and can pick up on ghosts,” he said. “(Roberts’ dogs), HPI (pro-nounced hi-pee) and Princess Hannah, will some-times sense a presence.”

Roberts noted that he uses his dogs and his psy-chics as tools to locate hot spots and it is up to the investigators to prove that something paranormal is actually occurring in those hot spots.

“I will not just take the word of a psychic without positive proof,” Roberts said.

Roberts also spoke about the use of what he referred to as a “spirit box.” The instrument uti-lizes radio frequencies to attempt to communi-cate with spirits.

But he noted that “spirit boxes” and dowsing rods – another tool used in attempts to communicate with spirits – are only tools of the trade and are not used to substantiate the existence of an entity. Instead, EVPs are more valuable instruments for paranormal investigators.

On the eve prior to Thanksgiving Day, the author of this article joined Roberts for an investigation of an alleged haunted house in south Sacramento.

Jeri Smith, one of the house’s residents, claimed that she had experienced paranormal activities in her home.

“The first incident was like a year ago,” Smith said. “I had seen a really black, distinguished figure on my ceiling in my room, and there were no shadows in the room or anything. It was a perfect black fig-ure of a man with a hood.”

Smith also shared details about several oth-er incidents that she explained as being possi-bly paranormal in nature. These alleged experi-ences included the sound of mysterious voices and footsteps in the house and nonhuman-like handprints on mirrors.

Smith’s friend, Lesa Willis, added that on an oc-casion when she spent a night at Smith’s home, she also heard mysterious footsteps in the house.

As Roberts investigated this home, he did cap-ture a few anomalies through digital photogra-phy. But Roberts was not able to deem any of those photographs as evidence of paranormal ac-tivity.

Roberts also performed what he called a “quick and dirty EVP session.”

During that time, he spoke simple phrases into a recorder such as “Is there anyone here?”

Roberts paused each time to allow a possible en-tity to respond.

These tests did not capture any “disembodied voices,” as he called them.

While Roberts was using a pair of dowsing rods at the home, the rods underwent very limited ac-tivity.

Following the investigation, Roberts conducted a Catholic blessing at the home.

Roberts noted that although the pre-Thanksgiv-ing investigation did not result in the detection of any paranormal activity at the home, he said that two days later his team traveled to Tracy and con-ducted another investigation.

During the latter investigation, a woman, who was a guest at the home, said that she had become possessed and acted as if she was possessed.

Roberts commented, “If she wasn’t possessed, she was a damn good actress.”

Toward the end of his last interview for this se-ries, Roberts expressed appreciation for his oppor-tunity to share his life adventures with Valley Com-munity Newspapers.

And he added, “If you see a Kia Forte – aka the Rusty Anomaly – with ghost hunting car mag-nets on the car doors in your neighborhood, don’t be alarmed it’s only the ‘Demon Warrior’ mak-ing sure that your neighborhood is safe from any paranormal activity.”

Roberts’ paranormal stories can be read at www.jazmaonline.com and he can be contacted through the paranormal hotline: (916) 203-7503.

Photo by Lance ArmstrongParanormal investigator Paul Dale Roberts utilizes a pair of dowsing rods during the recent investigation in south Sacramento.

Photos by Lance Armstrong(above left) “Beyond the Norm” is the third volume in Paul Dale Roberts’ HPI Chronicles book series. (above middle) Paul Dale Roberts is known as the “Demon Warrior” in the paranormal community. (above right) Jeri Smith gives Paul Dale Roberts a hug following his Christian blessing of her home.

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