With the summer season underway, the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District would like to remind all local residents that poor air quality can affect the health of people of all ages. Symptoms can range from wheezing and coughing to aggravated respiratory illnesses, such as asthma. The good news is there are plenty of fun indoor activities you can do with your kids on Spare The Air days.   1. Treasure Hunt Find all the treasures on the list. Make a list of 10 items and hide them throughout the house. For younger kids who can’t read, take pictures or use symbols and hide them according to your child’s ability level. 2. Fairy Tales and Movie Scenes Act out your favorite bo

The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District will host Scooter’s Clean Air Pet Fest and 1st Birthday Party this Saturday, May 21, 2011. The festivities will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. alongside the dog park at Howe Avenue Park, located on the corner of Howe Avenue and Cottage Way in Sacramento. This free, pet-friendly event will kick off the 2011 Spare The Air season, which takes place every year from May through the end of October. The Spare The Air program offers different tips and tactics that can be used to help reduce air pollution in the Sacramento region. Scooter and several of his mascot friends will gather to celebrate Scooter’s first birthday and pro

CSUS students collected 509 pints of blood in the Unite to Save Lives blood drive for BloodSource, held on May 3rd and 4th. ASI hosted the event and the Public Relations Planning and Management Class (COMS 158), taught by Dr. Jing Zhang, promoted the event. The PR class ran a full-scale campaign to spread awareness about blood donation and Be the Match bone marrow registry. The class The class set a goal of 450 pints of blood over the two-day drive. and were able to accomplish that through the support of students, faculty and staff, and local organizations. CSUS has worked with BloodSource for over twenty years and will host another blood drive, the Causeway Classic in the fall. If you a

CSUS Students are hosting the Unite to Save Lives blood drive and health fair for BloodSource on May 3rd and 4th from 10-5 p.m at the University Union on the CSUS campus. The CSUS students have set an ambition goal of raising 500 pints of blood and obtaining 150 new registrants for the "Be the Match" bone marrow registry. The CSUS students will also be promoting BloodSource's Pint for Pint  campaign. Everyone that attempts to donate will receive a certificate for a free pint of Baskin Robbins ice cream.   Still not sure if blood donation is right for you? BloodSource blood donors give hope to accident victims, surgery patients, cancer patients, and many others in need. Over four million

  At 6’9 and 250 lbs, it is amazing that Big Easy Lofton made it across the zip line. Big Easy Lofton and his friend and teammate Flight Time Lang of the Harlem Globetrotters were recently on the Emmy award-winning CBS television show, “The Amazing Race.” One of their challenges was to cross a zip line suspended over water. In an interview with both Flight Time and Big Easy, Big Easy said the challenge was “exhausting.” He told me that he was told the zip line was tested, but just never tested for someone of his size. Luckily, his strength and athletic ability allowed him to finish. Flight Time and Big Easy finished fourth in the race that premiered the season final on December 6, 2009.  

I am upset and I am tired. I am upset that my generation is complacent. I am upset that me and my fellow students so easily accept things going on in the world that are not right.  Well I do not want to be complacent anymore. I am tired of it. Alex Gonzalez Jr., son of Alexander Gonzalez Sr., President of Sac State, received a marketing position at Sac State making $83,000 annually. The marketing position would require Alex Jr. to promote "Destination 2010," a campaign to turn Sac State into a traditional campus rather than a commuter school.  Now, to be fair to the Gonzalez, Alex Jr. may be very qualified for the position. The problem is that no other candidate was interviewed and the po

The Sacramento Kings are offering a new opportunity this season for local artists to display their Kings basketball inspired artwork. The Kings are asking that local artists submit their artwork for a chance to see it displayed on billboards across Sacramento. Interested??? The opportunity is open to any artists working in 2D media on a large scale. The final pieces will be expected to be as big as 12’ X 25’ and 14’ X 48’. If you are interested in submitting your Kings basketball inspired artwork, you can do it by emailing a thumbnail of the piece to Heather Vaughan at vaughan@arcoarena.com by the deadline, October 15, 2009. The billboards will be throughout the Sacramento area and the

They shuffled in to the room, found seats, and appeared slightly uninterested. Then the music began and the Sacramento Monarchs entered the room. The teens began to buzz and one young man stood up to applaud. The teens might have tried to appear uninterested, but they couldn’t suppress their excitement. The Sacramento Monarchs had arrived. On Tuesday, August 18th the Sacramento Monarchs, along with volunteers from Wells Fargo/Maloof Sports and Entertainment and world renowned local artist, David Garibaldi presented the Do It Yourself (DIY) Teen Center to the River Oak Center for Children. The River Oak Center for Children is an organization that provides programs and services to families

Sacramento might be known as the capital of California, home of the “Governator,“ or the city of tents, but many are not familiar with one of our local superstars. Though he might be known as the king of the jungle, he is certainly the king of Sacramento: Slamson, the Sacramento King’s mascot and entertainer extraordinaire. I recently was able to go to a few Kings games and recognized Slamson as a great addition to the team. He was fun, entertaining, and had jungle cat reflexes that left me wondering if he did kickboxing or Pilates to keep in such good shape. It turns out he does cardio, weight training, and yoga, along with all of the games he performs at. Slamson performs at all of the

     CSUS will be presenting the “Vagina Monologues” in the University Union on Feb. 19, 20 and 21st. This is the 8th year the monologues will be performed.      Eve Ensler, a playwright and feminist, wrote The Vagina Monologues. The monologues are a compilation of interviews with hundreds of women on their views of sex, relationships, and violence. The monologues cover issues that range from child birth to the lost women of Juarez, Mexico. The Vagina Monologues are the heart of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.      The monologues are only performed between Feb. 1st and March 31st and the proceeds go to programs that work to end violence against women and g

Mayor Kevin Johnson will be hosting a “Gang Summit” next month that will have local gang members, law enforcement, educators, and religious groups in attendance. Mayor Johnson’s spokesman, Steve Maviglio, offered further details about the gang summit. Maviglio says that due to some controversy involving the “gang tax,” a plan that the Mayor was not supportive of, Mayor Johnson called for a summit so that law enforcement, local gang members and educators could find some common ground on a comprehensive plan. Maviglio says the agenda will focus on strategies to prevent children from joining gangs as well as ways to reduce gang-related crime. The gang summit is a big step towards Mayor John