Swanston Estates Neighborhood Association (SENA)

Neighborhood News 1999 No. 4

Jan 24, 2005

November-December 1999

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(916) 922-1556 fax (916) 922-4684

1781 WOOLEY WAY
SACRAMENTO, CA 95815
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Great Food, Great Company, Great Picnic!

New Association Officers

New officers and chair persons for the 1999-2000 term were elected at the SEAC General meeting on October 6, 1999. All officers, chairs, committee members and street captains are volunteers working to improve your neighborhood.

President: Ken Abreu, Vice President: Larry Bosh, Corresponding Secretary: Marie Macaulay, Recording Secretary: Kris Liberato, Treasurer: Don Macaulay: Membership Chairs: Millie and Ted Bodiou, Patrol Chair: Curtis Stout, Street Captain Chairs: Norma Pearson and Thelma Guilday, Editor of the Newsletter: Earlene Lockhart, Print Chair: Glen Fowler, Refreshment Chairs: Norma Pearson and Thelma Guilday, Traffic Chair: Shirley Watts and Accountability Board: Al Benedetti.

Street Captains, volunteers who deliver the Neighborhood News and special bulletins, are Yumi Horton, Thelma Guilday, Steve Nolan, Jolene Benfield, Maria Lane, Lucy and Michael Anderson, Alice Butts, Ann Valle, Ken Abreu, Lynn Placido, Curtis Stout, Mary Lou Lawson, Lupe Reyes, Clancy Determan, Millie and Ted Bodiou, Dorothy Bly, Dolores Combs, Shirley and Del Watts, Elizabeth Coffey, Al Benedetti, Tommy Gray, Tina and Larry Bosh, Mary and Emil Jones, Marie and Don Macaulay and Norma Pearson.

City Council Votes $50,000 To

Babcock Park Baseball Field

Members of the Sacramento City Council voted to contribute $50,000 to the construction of the Babcock Park Baseball Field. These funds along with monies raised through SEAC fund raisers will allow Phase I of the construction to begin.

Town and Country Little League which serves the children in Swanston Estates will use the baseball fields starting April 15, 2000.



Great Food, Great Company, Great Picnic!

A relaxing afternoon of good food and conversations with friends and neighbors was enjoyed by all at the SEAC Membership Picnic on Saturday, Oct. 23, 1999. The event held at Babcock park provided an opportunity for members to try out the new park barbecues. Also utilized were the park picnic tables painted by SEAC residents during the spring neighborhood clean up.

Thanks to volunteer chefs Mary Lou Lawson and Larry Bosh, hamburgers and hot dogs continued to come hot off the grill. Other members brought home made salads, snacks and desserts.

Thank you to McDonald's at Howe & Arden for donating punch drink for the picnic.

Thank You also to the Arden Playhouse for donating tickets for our raffle. Theater tickets and other Items raffled raised $60.00 for the Gifts to Share Fund for the Babcock Park Baseball Field.



Senior Services for Swanston Estates

Caring Neighborhoods representative Laura Richter was the guest speaker at the SEAC Executive Board Meeting Nov. 9th.

Her presentation focused on how residents can help elderly, disabled and dependent neighbors remain safe and independent in their homes.

A Caring Neighborhood Program helps to establish a variety of services such as transportation, home repairs, yard work, phone trees, nutrition and home visits for those with needs.

Questionnaires are included in this newsletter. Please take the time to complete, mail or return the questionnaire to your street captain. This information will help to identify neighborhood needs and community interest.

Your participation is essential to our Caring Neighborhood Program. A Caring Neighborhood Coordinator and other volunteers are needed to establish and maintain the program.

Residents wanting to get our Caring Neighborhood Program off the ground should call Marie at 921-1050 and/or fill out the volunteer section of the questionnaire.

Here is an opportunity for you to help your community.



March 24, 2000

A Fun Night On The Town



Want to start the millennium with an exciting event on your new 2000 calendar? Then, mark an X on Friday, March 24, 2000!

SEAC is sponsoring a fun-filled evening on the town. The event includes a buffet dinner prior to a live performance at the Arden Playhouse. Dessert will be served during intermission.

The Murder Room by Jack Sharkey is a spoof of all crime thrillers. It is filled with secret chambers, secret panels, trap doors galore and all operated with the most ridiculous contrivances. You are sure to recognize some of your favorite British murder mysteries in this clever and witty send-up.

SEAC will sell tickets to the performance as a fund raiser for the Babcock Park Baseball Field. Food for the buffet will be provided and served by SEAC members.

You, your family, your friends, club members and co-workers will all enjoy this night on the town. Youngsters in Swanston Estates who play in the Town & Country Little League will benefit too.



Your Trees

- An Interview with Martin Fitch, City Tree Supervisor

By Marie Macaulay

Have you noticed the City is pruning and cutting down our trees? Some work has been done by the City and some has been ?¬contracted out.?® The contractors started the second week of November. There are about 200 trees in our neighborhood which will receive attention. The City will be trimming approximately 850 trees City-wide and will complete the job by late spring.

Martin Fitch was careful to point out that one tree will be trimmed as it is a City tree within the City's right of way, but the tree next door may not be trimmed. When the trees in our neighborhood were planted, they were randomly placed. Not all front yard trees are within the right of way. This will be upsetting to many of you. The City has pole saws which you may borrow to cut out mistletoe or trim your own front or backyard trees. Call the Tree Foundation at 554-4033 if you wish to borrow a pole saw.

If your tree is scheduled to be trimmed or removed (because of disease), you will receive a notice. If you have any concerns or objections, let them know. They will be more than happy to accommodate you.

If you don't have a City tree in your front yard or the City has taken one out, you may order a tree by calling 433-6345. You may order any tree they have in stock.

Our Modesto Ash trees are currently being replaced by: Ginkgo (medium size leaf), Pistachio (red berries with compound leaf, stem with 8 or 9 leafs), Maple (a number of different kinds), Hackberry and Zelkova (elm family).



Mayoral Debate Feb. 16, 2000

SEAC and the League of Woman Voters will co-sponsor a mayoral debate on February 16, 2000. The event will take place between 7-9 p.m. at Babcock School . The public is invited to hear the candidates discuss local issues.



Gutter Watch

By Millie & Ted Bodiou

It won't be long before the rainy season will be upon us. It would be appreciated if every household in Swanston Estates would make every effort to keep the gutters and drains clear of debris.

We must work together to keep our neighborhood clean and the drains clear. Otherwise, we will have plugged drains and flooded streets.

Let's all do our part and work together. Put grass cuttings far enough out of the gutters so they do not block the water running down to the drains or bag grass cuttings when possible during the winter months to avoid the possibility that rain water will wash debris to and/or down the drains.

Thank you for your help to keep our streets flood free!

Thank You Smog Stop

for contributing $380 to the Gifts To Share Fund for the Babcock Park Baseball Field through your four full page ads.



Artist Visits Babcock School

Babcock GATE classes had a wonderful opportunity to do pen and ink drawings over watercolor still lifes, light houses, oak trees and leaves painted with a saran-wrap technique. Gayle Rappaport-Weiland, a watercolor consultant from Rocklin is a professional artist who sells her work all over the country. She also teaches at Sierra College and various other locations in the area. Gayle is hired twice a year and paid with money raised from cookie sales.



Amazing Harmonatras ssembly

The ?¬Amazing Harmonatras?® performed a number of musical tunes using old-fashioned instruments at a Babcock School assembly. The musicians provided historical perspectives, catchy folk songs and opportunities for students to participate on stage with the group. The assembly held November 10th was sponsored by the Babcock PTA.

Safety Concerns

All residents and parents need to observe the speed limit and speed humps in the Babcock School Zone. Patience and caution are especially important during the wet, busy holidays. Thank you for helping to keep our children safe.

Mourning a Role Model Whose Lessons Live On

By George Skelton, LA Times, November 11, 1999

SACRAMENTO-It's an American story. A Mexican American story-about work, service, commitment. And teaching.

Joe Serna Jr. picked crops as a boy, the son of immigrant farm laborers. As a young man, he ran food caravans for striking members of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union. And Wednesday, 200 or so farm workers carrying UFW flags marched behind his pine casket to the cathedral for a funeral Mass.

Of course, they don't block off downtown streets just for a farm worker. The governor and lieutenant governor don't come out and the mayor doesn't drive over from San Francisco. The network affiliates don't preempt the soaps and televise the march and Mass live for four hours. The cathedral doesn't get packed with 1,400 people and 1,000 don't stand outside in a drizzle listening to a loudspeaker on a work morning.

The captivating event, which he planned, was a metaphor for Serna's diverse life.

Joe Serna, who died Sunday of kidney cancer at 60, was a farm worker who became a college poli-sci professor and Sacramento's mayor-the first Latino mayor of a major California city. He never got much statewide attention, certainly not what he deserved for the lessons he taught us.

He taught-as L.A.'s Tom Bradley did a generation ago-how to succeed politically and govern effectively in a racially diverse society. Sacramento is a composite of the emerging California: 42% white, 25% Latino, 15% black, 15% Asian.

Serna showed that you can make it politically without pandering to ethnic constituencies, without playing to your ?¬community.?® His only community really was the 400,000 citizens of Sacramento, as Pollyannaish as that may seem to cynics.

?¬He never, even had a conversation with me about 'Latino Politics,'?® says political consultant Richie Ross, who was a UFW organizer when he first met Serna and Wednesday was a pallbearer. ?¬We never had a private conversation about Latino 'empowerment.' He only thought about working people.?®

?¬He was very proud of his own roots and who he was, but when he entered the world of politics, he was 'working class.' ?®

And that was Sacramento's sense of him-that and a sense of his exercising fairness, rather than favoritism.

Mayor Joe Serna supported Swanston Estates Against Crime and

demonstrated his support by attending our first annual picnic at Babcock Park.



Recipes For The Holidays

Walton's Mountain Coffee Cake

from Marie Macaulay

1/2 cup pecan halves

2 15 oz pkg frozen white dinner roll dough (or frozen bread dough made into rolls)

1 3 1/2 oz instant butterscotch pudding mix

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon



Generously grease a 10 inch fluted pan. Sprinkle pecans on the bottom of pan. Arrange frozen dough balls on top of pecans. Sprinkle dry pudding mix over dough balls.

In a small saucepan cook and stir brown sugar, butter or margarine and cinnamon till butter is melted. Pour butter mixture over pudding mix and dough balls in tube pan. Cover and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours. Let rise, uncover and bake in a 350 degree oven about 30 minutes or until top is golden brown.

Immediately invert coffee cake onto a serving plate. Let stand about 15 minutes before serving.

Pumpkin Almond Squares

from Carol Brown

1 29 oz can solid pack pumpkin

1 13 oz can evaporated milk

4 eggs slightly beaten

1 tsp ground nutmeg

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 Cup sugar

1/2 Cup brown sugar

Blend all ingredients and mix well. Pour into a well-greased 9?®X13?® pan

Topping:

1 box yellow cake mix(no pudding in the mix)

1 Cup chopped almonds

3/4 Cup melted butter

Sprinkle dry cake mix evenly over pumpkin mixture. Sprinkle almonds over cake mix. Drizzle melted butter over cake mix and almonds. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Cool and cut into 18 squares. Garnish with whipped cream before serving.



Microwave Fudge

from Joyce Miyagi



1/2 cup cocoa 1 cube of butter

1 pkg powdered sugar 1/4 cup milk

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Mix cocoa and powdered sugar in large bowl. Scoop out a hole in the center of the mixture. Place cube of butter and milk in hole. Heat in microwave for 3 minutes on high to melt butter. Remove, add walnuts and mix well. Pour into a buttered dish and refrigerate one hour. Cut and eat.

Pumpkin Upsidedown Cake

from Marie Macaulay



Make pumpkin pie filling for one pie. Pour into 8 1/2 X 12?® pan. Sprinkle 1 pkg dry yellow cake mix over filling. Place 1 cup chopped walnuts on top of cake mix.

Drizzle 1 cup melted butter or margarine on top. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until done.

Student Poets At Babcock School

Arden Playhouse presents

Roomies

November 19th-January 29th (except holiday weekends) Matinee December 12th



Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Sunday matinee 2:00 p.m.. Tickets $12.00



Because of the nature of our beer and wine license,

NO ONE UNDER 21 IS PERMITTED.

2120 Royale Rd. Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 927-0942





Young Resident Has Big Heart

Taylor Budowich may only be 10 years old, but he has a heart of gold. You may have read about Taylor in the Sacramento Bee's Neighbors.

Taylor won a new Nintendo set in a school membership drive. After winning, he donated the set and one of his own games to the Ronald McDonald House, a facility that provides a place for parents and family members of critically ill children to stay.

?¬I feel that they will probably be enjoying it and I feel that giving it to them is something that I could do to make the world a better place and make other people feel happy. I thought about helping other kids before...but either I couldn't help them or ...I can't get to them...if they are in another country or something. This was the first time I had something to give away that was special.?® Way to go Taylor!

Zucchini Bread

fromGlenda Lloyd

Beat 3 eggs.

Add: 1 cup oil

2 1/2 cups sugar

3 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups grated zucchini

Mix lightly but well.



Add and mix until blended:

3 cups flour

3 teaspoons cinnamon,

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon soda

1/4 teaspoon baking power

Add 1/2 cup chopped nuts



Grease 2 9 X 5 X 3' pans well.

Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.

A Safe, Happy Holiday Season To All

Shadowhawk Teaches Valuable Lessons



Val Shadowhawk provides educational lectures and demonstrations of Pnaci history, culture and spirituality, traditional Northern Plains dance, ?¬Native American?® flute and hand drumming. His lectures and demonstrations are as informative as they are fun for the fourth graders studying California history at Babcock School.

Shadowhawk encourages a drug and alcohol free, family oriented lifestyle which is essential to Pnaci culture. The fourth grade teachers feel his contributions to the students are so valuable, they fund his program out of their own pockets.

How does your knowledge of Pnaci (the term used to describe the indigenous people of this continent) words stacks up to that of the fourth graders! Can you name the states whose names can be traced directly back to Pnaci Nations? Here are just a few.

Alabama (Choctaw) ?¬To clear, open, reap the land or thicket.?® Arizona (Papago) ?¬Place of the little creek, small stream.?® Connecticut (Mohican) ?¬The long river.?® Idaho (Shoshoni) ?¬It is sun-up?® ?¬Light on the mountain.?® Illinois (Algonquian) ?¬Tribe of superior men.?® Iowa (Dakota) ?¬The sleepy one.?® Kansas (Sioux) ?¬South wind people.?® Kentucky (Iroquis) ?¬Meadow land?® ?¬The land of tomorrow.?® Massachusetts (Algonquian) ?¬Place of the big hill.?® Michigan (Chippewa) ?¬A great lake?® ?¬Big water.?® Minnesota (Dakota) ?¬Sky?® ?¬Tinted water.?® Mississippi (Chippewa) ?¬The great water?® ?¬Big river.?® Missouri ((Algonquian) ?¬Muddy water?® ?¬Town of the great canoes.?® Nebraska (Omaha) ?¬Flat river?® ?¬River of the flatness.?® North Dakota (Sioux) ?¬Friend or ally.?® Ohio (Iroquis) ?¬Beautiful water.?® Oklahoma (Choctaw) ?¬Red people.?® Wisconsin (Chippewa) ?¬The gathering of the waters.?® Wyoming (Algonquian) ?¬At the big flats.?®



This is Just to Say

By Tammie Nguyen



I have ingested

The pie

That was leftover

From dinner

And which

You were probably

Going to eat

For a snack

Forgive me

It was so delicious

So sweet and so tasty.





Ben & Jerry for Y2K

By Nic C.



I have eaten all

The Ben & Jerry Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream

That ever

Existed

And which

You were most likely

Saving

For Y2K

I'm mortified

It was so creamy

So fattening

And so beloved by me.





I Cleaned It

By Alexa Giannoni



I have cleaned

the desk

That was next

To me

And which

You were probably

Saving

To clean tomorrow

Forgive me,

It was calling me because it was

So dirty

And so I cleaned it.



The Science Project

By Tina :-) Horton



I have eaten

the science project

that was made out of sugar cubes

And which

you've been working on

since September

For school

Forgive me

It was stale,

So hard

Yet so sweet.







Next SEAC

General Meeting

Wed. Jan. 26, 2000

Babcock School Auditorium

7 p.m.

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Executive Board and Street Captains Meeting

Wed. Jan. 12, 2000

Babcock School

Room 13 6:30 p.m.

Guest Speaker will be

Herman Hansten



Crime Alert

The Sacramento Police Department released these crime statistics for Swanston Estates during the period of September 15, 1999 to November 15, 1999.



7 stolen cars

3 business burglaries

3 residential burglaries

4 vandalism

3 car break-ins



Secure your home during the holidays. Make sure your neighbors are aware of your plans to be gone for any length of time.

Newsletter Contributions

are welcomed. Fax information to 648-3034 or call 925-1882.

Donations Needed

Clothes and shoes for the Babcock School Clothes Closet are needed. Items should be taken directly to the school.

Oak Trees Available

Resident Herman Hansten has a few oak trees to give away now so they will get a good start through winter. The oak trees should be planted close to your Modesto Ash tree. Once the oak tree gets a good start, the Modesto Ash can be removed. For a free oak tree, call Marie & Don at 921-1050.

Steve Cohn Is

Principal for A Day

Babcock School had an additional principal for one day thanks to an annual event sponsored by the Sacramento County Office of Education. Steve Cohn volunteered for the event and was assigned to Babcock School.

SEAC Will Be Blooming

A group of neighbors is getting together to prepare for a spring plant sale. The event will coincide with the annual neighborhood clean-up day. All proceed from the sale will go to the Babcock Park Baseball Field.

Herman Hansten, a resident and retired engineer, grows exotic plants for ?¬fun.?® He will speak at the Jan. 12th, Executive Board meeting. Herman and Marie Macaulay are willing to help interested residents develop their green thumbs. Call Marie at 921-1050.