This past Saturday night over 150 supporters attended a fundraising event at the Florin Road Arts and Business Complex in South Sacramento for Marissa Grant, 16, a Sacramento area teen who suffered cardiac arrest on January 27, 2011 while attending classes at Natomas High School. The event was hosted by “The Friends of Michele Grant,” a group that includes Grant’s coworkers, friends and concerned members of the community who came together to provide financial and emotional support as Marissa fights her way back from the effects of being deprived of oxygen for 8-10 minutes before paramedics arrived to revive her. “We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and love,” stated Michele G

Consumnes River College hosted the First Annual Banana Festival on August 13, 14 and 15. This was a festival celebrating everything having to do with bananas. It was geared towards families and had lots of banana related food and entertainment concentrating on community and healthy eating. A food court was set up to sell delicious international food many specializing in banana recipes. The event was set up to entertain all ages. A kid zone was stationed on one end of the Consumnes River College football field and at the another end an entertainment stage was situated. Many entertainers performed during the 3 day event. In the middle of the field there were many local non-profit and commun