With a renewed focus on their devastating power, major earthquakes are a timely topic throughout the world today.   And now, as part of an annual program, the California State Capitol Museum (located inside the State Capitol) invites the local community to step back in time to experience a re-enactment of California’s 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.  Don’t miss the special opportunity to revisit the moving experience and learn from the past.  Visitors will be surrounded by docents in period attire re-creating the emotional scenes and moments of the recovery efforts that include local dignitaries providing assistance to refugees -- many of whom camped out on the Capitol grounds or

Saturday, Cafe Au Lait will host Sacramento’s Bake Sale for Japan to raise money for victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami devastation in Japan. The Bake Sale for Japan is a national bake sale held on April 2 at bakeries, restaurants and other places featuring baked goods. Milena Pointer, who works as a nanny, and is one of the also an organizers for the Sacramento bake sale. Pointer viewed videos of the destruction in Japan and said she wanted to find a way to help. “If it happened to us, if it happened to America, we would need help,” Pointer said. “Any person with a heart would feel like they like they need to do something. The difference is some people act on that feeling, an

More than six months after the devastating Haiti earthquake, some have wondered if there has been any progress rebuilding the country at all. It is even a question the media have posed. But if you ask Jordan Wong, he will tell you, without hesitation, there has been progress made. Who is Jordan Wong? He is a 28-year-old Sacramento resident who recently came back from Jacmel, Haiti, after volunteering there. “I felt a huge burden to go out of my comfort zone and to minister outside of my church,” Jordan said. “When the Haiti earthquake hit, it really got to me emotionally. So when the opportunity to go there came, I immediately said yes.” In early June, Jordan joined a team from the Sout

Hot Italian, barely in business a month, and just today profiled for its environmental construction in Sacramento Press, has already taken on a subject more serious than pizzas and motos, and more pressing than even the environment: humanitarian aid. Today, the new restaurant's owners, Andrea Lepore and Nicola Rivieccio, announced that tomorrow evening, Thursday, April 9, the restaurant will be donating 100 percent of its net proceeds to a fund just established for victims of Monday's devastating 6.3 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, 56 miles from Rome. The fund, the NIAF/Abruzzo Relief Fund, set up by the National Italian American Foundation in Washington, DC, will then send the money to I