Some of you out there may not know me and my role at The Sacramento Press so let me fill you in just a bit, I work in our marketing department and it's my basic job to get out there and interface with the people and let them know we are here for their communities. However I often take advantage of this wonderful paper and write stories as well, and you should too.

Last Tuesday, I set out on my mission to put together our first official mobile office. I needed to think of a good place to set it up and get a good feel for it. I instantly thought back to the story that one of our interns had done about some people in the River Park neighborhood who are working with the city to close the access point at Paradise Beach.

The short version of the story is that the citizens that want it closed are sick of the crowds of college kids and other people that visit the river to hang out, barbecue and drink beer. Now I do understand that it is illegal to drink at this point on the river but that is no excuse to close the area down. The plan is to place turnstyles at the access point to the river, making it an exit only!

So there I sat most of the day with my mobile office, which actually turned out to be great. My office was right at the top of the levee so I was able to catch everyone coming and going to let them know that A) we exist, and B) we had done this great story about their neighborhood.

While I was sitting in my office writing a little story it gave me a chance to talk to a lot of people. Most notably I spoke with the teachers and parents of the Davis Waldorf School who were having an outing with their kindergarten class.

"The kids spent three weeks building their sailboats, painting them, all leading up to this day. And we were so grateful to have such a beautiful and safe place on the river to bring the class to finally test out their boats, as well as teach them about the river and its surrounding nature," one of the teachers said.

“This is so great what you are doing out here and I will definitely have to check out the full story,” a parent added.

So at the end of this day I felt really good because if this access point did get shut down people like this would not be able to use it either.