Now, I realize that there aren’t many who watch Canadian football out here.
But, family and friends of Sac State Hornet alumnus Brandon Smith might, especially during this past weekend. Smith, as a defensive back on the Calgary Stampeders, defeated the Montreal Alouettes in yesterday’s CFL championship game, and is now a 2008 Grey Cup Champion.
Congrats Brandon!
Not only does Roseville have the better mall, but they’ve now even taken Santa from Sacramento:
The jolly old one will attend holiday events in Roseville on Saturday – including that city’s annual parade – but Sacramento’s annual Santa Parade has been canceled.
The event, always run on the Thanksgiving weekend, has been called off for the first time in the event’s 26-year history, said parade organizer Laurie Hensley.
The decision to cancel the privately organized event was prompted when organizers came up $15,000 short for stages, sound equipment and cash prizes for parade participants, Hensley said.
Sorry Sacto kids, but it looks like your Christmas Eve milk and cookies will go uneaten this year. Santa is off to more lucrative pastures.
In Roseville, however, the Sylvia Besana Annual Holiday Parade is ready to roll at 10 a.m. Saturday.
It will begin at Riverside Avenue and Douglas Boulevard and Vernon Street, proceed along Vernon Street and end behind the Roseville Square shopping center.
Really, Roseville, have you no shame?
UPDATE 11-24-2008: Sac-Eats called it, the Sacto parade is back on after a hefty donation from Mayor-elect KJ. One wonders if Santa was being held as an innocent hostage in some kind of parade-financing dispute.
It’s NOT just us. We now have evidence that Sacto’s kids are, in fact, getting dumber. The Sacramento Business Journal reported earlier this week:
High school graduation rates are falling and fewer teens are meeting requirements to get into University of California and California State University schools in Sacramento County.
Those are among the many findings of the 2008 Sacramento County Children’s Report Card, according to a report to be presented Tuesday to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors…
…Among its education findings, the group reports that the graduation rate among high school seniors decreased to 79.6 percent in 2006-07, from 85.1 percent in 2000-01.
The “group” in question is the Sacramento County Children’s Coalition, and they also reported on several other interesting damn lies statistics:
• High school drop outs earn an average of $21,346 a year, while graduates earn an average of $8,747 more.
• Those with a bachelor’s degree earn more than $21,000 annually more than people who have only a high school diploma.
• Spending per student in Sacramento County in 2005-06 was $7,324, compared to the state average of $8,486 and the national average of $9,138.
Who thinks this will get worse before it gets better? Perhaps it’s time to give education its rightful props on the voting ballot.
Here’s another one for the “things are not as bad as they seem” file.
For all you midtown Peetniks, a new Peets has opened up at the southeast corner of Capitol and Alhambra. You’ll be happy to know there is yet another caffeine option in the area.
So, even though times are tough, apparently the fundamentals of our coffee are strong.
The Sac library system wants to put butts in the seats by allowing butts on their computer screens:
Sacramento, Apr 29, 2008 / 09:23 pm (CNA).- The Sacramento Library Authority Board voted last Thursday to retain its policy of minimal interference with patrons who access pornography on library computers, News10 Sacramento reports. Board members also voted to spend $21,000 for more computer monitors with recessed screens to allow more private viewing.
Recessed screens? How about just set up a whole private booth complete with neon lights?
Board member Robbie Waters explained his support for $21,000 for more private computer screens, saying he wanted people to be able to exercise their right to be able to view whatever they would like. “It allows the screen to come right up at you and nobody can look over your shoulders,” Waters said.
This might be one of the most ridiculous decisions made by a public library that I’ve ever seen. Is perversion not pervasive enough, that now parents can’t take their kids to Sacramento’s libraries unsupervised?
And, just one request to you commenters. Please refrain from commenting on the “exercise their right” or “allows the scene to come right up at you”. It’s a little too obvious, even for the Sac Rag.
First this:
DIXON (CBS13) ― Some serious foul play is going on at a Dixon chicken farm where thieves are stealing or killing hundreds of chickens and its costing the farmer thousands of dollars.
The Eatwell Farm in Dixon has been hit about 5 times since October costing the owner around $20,000.
And then, this:
STOCKTON (CBS13) ― Crates of tomato sauce in Stockton continued to smolder this morning, more than 12 hours after they began burning.
Five hundred plastic 300-gallon crates full of tomato product began burning yesterday afternoon at the Unilever Factory on Waterloo Road.
Coincidence? I think not.
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In the Sacramento area, people who hate Christmas hit ones of Nativity displays every year. What are they after? Baby Jesus, of course:
Baby Jesus was stolen from the nativity scene of an Orangevale family’s front yard.
The family did not notice that Jesus was missing right away because the thieves left everything else, the manger, Joseph and Mary.
The family was not just robbed of a figurine, they were robbed of a tradition.
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What do you get when you take a car, an house, a Sacramento driver, and put them all together?
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you already know the deal. You get this:
CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — A woman crashed a sport utility vehicle into a Citrus Heights apartment complex at least twice on Tuesday, knocking out electricity and causing other damage, police said.
That’s right, a two-fer. How do you hit the same building twice? Perhaps by being drunk at 6:30 AM.
Only in Sacramento, dear friends.
If you live in Elk Grove, you’ve very recently probably received a little mailer from the developers of the “Elk Grove Promenade” – the envisioned shopping mall off Highway 99 between Elk Grove Boulevard and Grant Line Road that has been rumored and innuendoed and planned and then gone back to the drawing board for the last couple of years. The developers are looking for some community support for the project, especially considering resistance from nearby Galt and others within Elk Grove who don’t believe a mall would be the best thing for the community.
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