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The month is chock full of happy days of celebration, including St. Patrick's Day on the 17th and Easter Sunday on the 27th. Plus March 13th marks the return of Daylight Savings, meaning more sun every day. And basketball lovers can rejoice with the return of the NCAA's March Madness!

If you’re anything like I am, nature is a sure way to enjoy the beginning of spring. Enjoy the rebirth and regrowth of the season by planning a family hike to the Effie Yeaw Na-ture Center in Carmichael and see deer, coyotes, migratory songbirds and raptors as you explore the preserve's lush oak woodlands. Read all about why we consider the Center to be the jewel of the American River Parkway in this month's issue — see you on the trails!

Our March issue is also our celebration of the arts. Read up on the vibrant theater scene here in Sacramento, and get to know the Sacramento Ballet's "Tattooed Prince in Tights." I’m sure you’ll enjoy the read and it’s guaranteed to entice you to buy tickets sooner than later. And we also give you a behind-the-scenes look at California Middle School's newspaper and the students and staff behind its success.

And just in time for tax season, Bryan J. Bentley of Bentley Financial offers up five finan-cial moves to make now. Don't miss reading this one — Bryan always shares such great ways for us to be smarter with our money.

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SACRAMENTO ZOO BREAKS RECORDS IN 2015

Thanks to the support of the Sacramento community, the Sacramento Zoo celebrated some notable milestones in 2015.

In 2015 the Zoo saw high attendance numbers with 555,475 visi-tors, surpassing its previous attendance record of 540,514 visitors in 2013. Also in 2015 the Zoo received a Quarter Century Award from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, recognizing the Sacramento Zoo’s continuous accreditation for 36 years. And on top of that, the Zoo's 2015 visitors helped it increase its commitment to animal con-versation in the wild locally and globally by providing over $150,000 to more than three dozen animal conservation programs.

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This past holiday season, Raley's Family of Fine Stores raised more than 3.4 million pounds of healthy food for those in need through its Raley's Food for Families Holiday Bay Drive, surpassing the campaign's goal of 3 million pounds.

Food donations were collected from November 6th through December 31st in stores, through Facebook, online and via text. Customers could donate a bag of food for just $10 and Raley's more than doubled all dona-tions, turning each $10 donation into more than $27 worth of food. All contri-butions collected stayed in the communities in which they were raised and were distributed by local Food for Families' food bank partners. Additionally, Raley's once again donated over 12,500 fresh turkeys, chickens and hams, which served over 65,000 individuals.

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Open or fund your retirement plan or Health Savings Account (HSA). If you already have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) or other tax qualified retirement plan or intend to open one, you have until April 15th to fund the account. These plans are a great way to reduce your taxable income and invest or save using pre-tax dollars, or in the case of a ROTH account, creat future tax-free income. You must be eligible to open one of these by either meeting income limits or through self-employment. Even if your income is too

high or you are covered by an employer plan and are not eligible for a Traditional or Roth IRA, it may still make sense to fund a non-de-ductible IRA and use the “back door” or “2-step” approach to a Roth conversion. You may also be eligible to open an HSA if you have a high deductible health plan, which will allow you to lower taxable income and pay health expense with pre-tax dollars.

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Live theater is what makes a community distinctive in its entertainment and arts scene. While Americans everywhere share the same movies and television, it is the availability

of quality live theater and music that can raise the level of cultural vibrancy for a region. Sacramento has been fortunate to be a growing center for the entertainment arts over the past decade.

And live theater brings the viewer an experience like none other in entertainment. In theater, you can make a personal connection with the actors that is impossible through a screen, and the audience becomes part of the show and shared experience. And in every show, success depends on the individual and ensemble performances each and every time.

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Sacramento now has many great options for live theater, the leader being California Musical Theatre (CMT), which presents both Broadway Sacramento and the summertime Music Circus. Both series encompass a wide variety of shows each season — Broadway hits like the upcoming The Book of Mormon; family friendly shows like Elf The Musical; classic musicals like last year’s West Side Story; and musician-based shows such as Rain —The Beatles Tribute.

“Live theater is important to any community and as Sacramento’s oldest and largest professional theatre organization, I believe CMT’s contribution is immense,” says Richard Lewis, CMT president and CEO. “Each summer after auditioning literally thousands of professional actors in New York City, Los Angeles and here in Sacramento, we bring some of the best in the business to Music Circus and create a series top quality shows. The experience our patrons have in the intimate Wells Fargo Pavilion is something they can’t get anywhere else. And with our Broadway Sacramento series at Community Center Theater, we also offer some of the most popular touring Broadway shows available. Through those two series, well over 200,000 people attend our musicals annually.”

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Music Circus premiered in 1951, pre-senting shows under a circus style tent. Then in 2003 the Wells Fargo Pavilion opened, continuing their shows in the unique in-the-round style, which brings the audience in close contact with the perform-ers. In 1989 CMT opened the Broadway Sacramento series, bringing national tour-ing productions of current Broadway shows, along with classic revivals, and presented at the larger Sacramento Community Center Theater. This addition brought large scale, world class productions, like Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Rent to the local theater scene for the first time.

This year, the Broadway Sacramento series is presenting The Book of Mormon in March, Disney’s Newsies in April, and Motown The Musical in May to round out the 2015-16 season. This summer Music Circus, which fits six shows into its brief 12 week season, will be presenting Legally Blonde, followed by Hello, Dolly!, Seussical, Caberet, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

“We’re hoping more people will discover what a truly unique experience we offer at Music Circus,” Lewis adds. “Even though we’re going into our 66th season, there are some who have yet to try it. Once they do, I think they’ll be hooked.”

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But it takes more than big produc-tions to make a thriving theater scene and Sacramento is excelling in smaller, more intimate plays as well.

Sharing the Wells Fargo Pavilion facil-ity with Music Circus is the Sacramento Theatre Company, which uses three smaller venues ranging from 85 to 300 seats. While

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Dan DeLuca and the cast of Newsies. Photo by Deen van Meer, courtesy California Musical Theatre.

also producing musicals, they include serious dramatic plays by Shakespeare, Chekov and others, along with comedies and chil-dren’s shows. The company also runs a School for the Arts to train and develop young talent. Upcoming shows include Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Broadway classic The Fantasticks, and an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Nearby Carmichael is the home of the Chautaqua Playhouse — a 100-seat theater that produces six plays and six Children’s Theater shows each year. They put on a variety of traditional and original shows, and run a School of Performing Arts as well. According to Warren Harrison, he and fellow producer Roger Hoopman select their shows with their audience in mind.

“Our philosophy is to produce generally family oriented plays and musicals that include a mix of newer shows alongside classic ‘crowd pleasers’,” Harrison says. “Although we like to appeal to a wide range of ages, the bulk of our audience members are seniors, so that is taken into consideration. Many times we will get requests to revive a particular show or style (mystery thrillers seem to be a favorite), so we try to include these in our season.”

Harrison explains they like to showcase original scripts from both local and national writers, and that he and Marie Raymond — who runs the Children’s Theater — have also written original shows. The performers for the adult shows are usually from local auditions, with some regulars.

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Branching out even further is Celebration Arts — an East Sacramento company that focuses on multi-cultural, multi-disci-pline performing arts, and strives to provide training and perfor-mance opportunities for community residents in dance and music, as well as theater. They produce six plays a year, usually with eth-no-centric themes, along with classical, modern and jazz dance, and music though their Celebration Chorale.

Sacramento’s B Street Theatre, which recently received a boost in funding from the city council for a new downtown facility, focuses on contemporary, thought provoking dramas and comedies for both adults and family audiences. But they strive to educate as well.

According to representative Latrice Madkins, “B Street Theatre hosts a school tour program where an acting troupe and road man-ager travel into approximately 12 surrounding counties to perform a total of 12 shows per week. Each play is a full, 50 minute professional production. Along with each production, a full study guide with pre and post teacher-student activities are made available.” They also reach out to community agencies or institutions for disadvantaged or hospitalized children.

Upcoming shows at the B Street Theatre include Frankenstein and Alice in Wonderland in their family series, and Not Medea, a contem-porary adult play.

There are dozens of community theater organizations all over the Sacramento area, along with wonderful youth theater programs, such as the River City Theatre Company and El Dorado Musical Theatre, which present high quality shows featuring teen and even younger performers. Like most performing arts companies, they rely on generous benefactors and sponsors, but mostly on enthusiastic audiences who appreciate the unique experience of a live show and talented performers — something the Sacramento community is happily providing.

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Sitting in the school ’s archives for decades, the long-forgotten 1936

issue of California Middle School's newspaper, The Californian, was recently remembered, stirring up not only a sense of nostalgia but renewed excitement amongst students and staff.

According to Cal Middle School’s pub-lications teacher Alesandra Sinistro, The Californian had a long run until the 1960s, but no one knows why the publication stopped. Regardless of the mysterious cease in production, upon her principal’s request Sinistro helped to create a publications elective class and is leading her group of middle school students through the process of resurrecting the paper for its student body readership.

One of the exciting things about this class is that it is a great example of what the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) movement is striving for in the classroom. “Teaching students to be inquisitive, to search out stories and accurately report on them, to write creatively in a manner that will engage readers…all ties perfectly with CCSS,” Sinistro explains.

Not only are the students enthusiastic about the newspaper project, but as Sinistro reveals, “They are developing their strengths as writers, (as) writing is the primary focus of the class.”

However, the students don’t stop there. “They are also using math skills to format pages and they use problem-solving skills,” Sinistro adds. Since CCSS requires students to dig deeper in strengthening their critical thinking skills, collaboration and support in writing, this class’s content spurs the students to apply their fact finding lessons and more.

“I really like to write and I like being able to inform students about what’s going on

Students from the publications elective class at Cal Middle School. Photo courtesy Cal Middle School.

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around campus,” says Benjamin Silva, 12. “I’m learning to be a better writer and how to write correctly. My favorite part is being able to bond with other students and work with classmates on articles. In the future if I decide to become a writer, this (class) can make a huge impact.”

In this day and age of digital publications, The Californian is sticking to its paper roots — for now. Sinistro says she has aspirations of going online and also combining with a broadcast class. But for the moment, she is simply thrilled with the students’ excitement to work on the paper.

Student Wilson Urkov, 12, says, “We’re learning skills on how to get things done. It’s not that easy, so (the class is) teaching us how to complete (articles) with indepen-dence and on time.”

“I like learning about how to write an article to catch people’s attention and learning more about computers, which is a life skill. And I like the responsibility (the class) gives me,” interjects Bessa Miller, 13. She continues that she believes the class will

help her build skills that she can use in the future. “Technology is a big part of daily life, so maybe I could get a job in computers,” Miller adds.

In all, the Cal Middle School Publications students see the full poten-tial of what this class offers. As Colby Tell, 13, sums up, “(We) apply writing skills for rigor. We’re working and col-laborating with others in class to actually make the newspaper something that can happen at this school.”

“My favorite part is being able to bond with

other students and work with classmates

on articles. In the future if I decide to become a writer, this (class) can make a huge impact.”

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If you catch Richard Porter at the pub, you probably wouldn't guess he's a principal dancer with the Sacramento Ballet. Sporting tattoos

on his arms and piercings in his ears, the 31-year-old Australian looks more like he belongs drumming in a rock band than spinning pirouettes in second position.

“I like to be different,” he says in an Aussie accent while sipping on a beer. Plus, he does actually drum.

As a sports-loving surfer dude growing up in Melbourne, Porter didn't initially envision himself as a ballerino. He had a different goal in mind: to dance in music videos. So he enrolled in hip-hop, tap and jazz. Ballet was suggested as a way to build the core strength needed to seriously pursue dance.

As a young teenager, Porter was hesitant to pull on the tights — what would his football mates think?

He quickly got over the embarrassment and “fell in love with ballet, especially the partnering.”

With ballet as the new dream, he trained at Dance World 301 and the Australian Ballet and later joined the West Australian Ballet and Melbourne Ballet Company. Then he was ready to travel the world. He

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sent audition tapes to several California companies, thinking the state was all beach and surf.

Within a week, he was on a plane to dance under the direction of the Sacramento Ballet's husband-and-wife duo of Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda, whom he praises as “second to none.”

In his eight years with company, Porter has danced some of the most iconic roles: Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, and the Prince in Cinderella. Porter cites the classics as his favorites. “There's nothing like dancing for three hours as Romeo and then the curtain comes up and you see 3,000 people standing and crying.”

He also speaks with enthusiasm about the contemporary perfor-mances in smaller venues, such as the Beer and Ballet series, where the dancers choreograph themselves to modern music. The more intimate setting allows the audience to get a better appreciation for what the dancers do. “You can see all our muscles working, how hard we're breathing. It's gritty. It's hard work.”

When he's not working hard on stage, Porter stays busy as a new dad. He and his wife, retired Sac ballet dancer Amanda Peet, wel-comed baby Annabelle in 2015. Despite the lack of surf, the family plans to stay in the capital city. “This is home for me.”

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JEWEL OF THE AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAYARTICLE PAMELA BAKER | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

Water & Woods

Effie Yeaw Nature Center, jewel of the American River Parkway, is a natu-

ral habitat of walking trails and abundant wildlife. A 100-acre preserve within Ancil Hoffman Park in Carmichael, the center offers a welcome relief from the hustle and bustle of the nearby city.

The interactive nature center is named after Effie Yeaw — a teacher, early

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conservationist and visionary for the American River Parkway. In the 1950s and 1960s, Yeaw would often use the area, formerly known as Deterding Woods, to introduce children to nature and wildlife. Alarmed by the growing threat to open space available for nature study, wildlife and recreation, Yeaw and other conservationists worked diligently to get a county parks bond

measure passed to purchase land along the American River and establish the parkway. The lower portion of Deterding Ranch was part of that purchase and the Nature Center became part of the parkway plan, guarantee-ing access to the river and nature’s beauty for future generations.

Teachers can bring their classes to the center where students explore the interactive

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A young girl catches a fish during the Nature Center's Outdoor Adventures summer camp. Photo by Kari Bauer.

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museum and meet some of the native raptors, reptiles and amphib-ians; walk the trails and discover native plants and wildlife in the preserve; wade into the American River or ponds to investigate creatures living below the water’s surface; or learn more about the Maidu Indian culture in the replica of a native village.

The center also offers day camps during school breaks at a cost of $20 for members or $25 for non-members. Camps offer classes on outdoor skills, water and rain, exploring the river’s edge, a variety of animals, and many other fun topics.

Every Saturday and Sunday, there are free programs for families, adults, and children. Visitors need only pay the park entry fee of $5 per car, and arrive early to ensure a spot in that day’s program. Topics range from Coyote Tales, Birding for Families, Nature’s Art Box, Beavers vs. Otters, Salamander Story Time, a Kid’s Christmas Bird Count in December, and many other fun and fascinating adventures. Once a month, there is a free family bird walk led by a member of the Sacramento Audubon Society.

But for those who just want to enjoy the center on their own, there are three self-guided trails with opportunities to see deer, wild turkeys, coyotes, owls, snakes, hawks and songbirds. On my last visit to the center, just a few steps into the Main Trail, I encountered two does and six fawns that were undaunted by my presence. The Main and Natoma Trails both lead down to the American River for an up close view of one of Sacramento’s most treasured natural resources.

Paul Tebbel, the center’s Executive Director, considers the center to be “one of the safest places in the Parkway. You don’t have to worry about bikes speeding by because the bike trail is on the oppo-site side of the river.” In fact, Tebbel said that many local residents use the trails on a regular basis for walking and running.

So the next time you feel the need to get away from confines of city life, visit Effie Yeaw Nature Center and experience this natural jewel in its wild, yet scenic, setting along the American River. To learn more, visit SacNatureCenter.net or call 916.489.4918.


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When most people think of March, they think of the impend-ing end of winter and the promise of warm days and spring

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important — the start of camping season!About four years ago, my husband and I discovered camping. Both

having grown up in Northern New Jersey with parents that laughed at the idea of spending a weekend in a tent in the wilderness, it's just something we had never been introduced to. Then thanks to some friends here in Northern California, we had an opportunity to go on our first camping trip. We absolutely loved it — the fresh air, the quiet, being unplugged from technology. It was bliss!

Every year since that first trip, we try to plan one camping trip every month from March through October. Our shorter weekend trips are spent tent camping in some beautiful spots like Sunset State Beach in Watsonville. And for our longer trips we bring our fifth wheel trailer along, which allows us to work while we're there, but then also unplug and enjoy the beauty of spots like Clearlake, Fort Bragg, and Lake Tahoe once our work is done.

Now you might be reading this and saying to yourself, “I'm SO not a camper!” Heck, that's what I said for many years. But you're really doing yourself a disservice if you never give it a shot. Here's some reasons to help change your mind.

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Here in Sacramento we are very lucky to be just a few hours car ride from some of the most beautiful places to camp. Drive to the east and you can start camping as soon as Folsom Lake State Recreation Area

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There's numerous benefits to camping, many of which I didn't realize until I started doing it. The big one for me is being able to unplug from technology for a while — it does wonderful things for the brain! But you can also just unplug from life in general. There's no grocery store lists or telemarketers calling — just you, your family, and the beautiful scenery around you. And researchers have found spending time in nature can help relieve depression and just make you happier overall.

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Although it might still be a bit too cool for tent camping, now is the time to start planning and booking camp sites as they will fill up fast. If you're new to camping, try sites like ReserveAmerica.com and KOA.com to find great camping spots all across the U.S. And if you don't have all the camping gear you might need, see if you have a friend that will let you borrow theirs for the weekend or some businesses like REI and Peak Adventures will let you rent camping gear so you don't have to buy it all upfront.

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