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Saturday, May 26, 2012
Paul Trudeau
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This day in Sacramento history: Internment begins
68 years ago on this day, on May 13,1942, in the middle of World War II, buses began taking all people of Japanese heritage in the City of Sacramento (approximately 3800), including some from Southside Park neighborhood (citizen and non-citizen, adult and child, on no basis other than ethnic heritage) from Memorial Auditorium to a temporary camp at Walerga (near the present day Walerga Park near the intersection of Madison & I-80;) for internment, as part of the larger internment of people of Japanese heritage from all areas of the West Coast. I Street between 15th and 16th, and 15th between I and J, were blocked off for this purpose. The removal continued thru the morning of May 16. Pe
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A short history of Southside Park’s original inhabitants
Prior to arrival of Europeans in the 1700’s, California’s Central Valley, including what is now Sacramento’s Central City, was one of the most densely populated areas of the continent. The Nisenan people lived from just south of present-day Sacramento to north of where the Sacramento Airport is now, around what is now called the Bear River. For thousands of years (2500? 4000? more? --estimates vary), the Nisenan and others thrived, enjoying an abundant natural food supply of acorns, game, fish, and much more. There were towns and villages throughout the area, usually on high ground near water. Towns typically had hundreds of inhabitants; a large town such as Sama (not far from present-day
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Conversation about: Traffic-calming plan creates anxiety in Alkali Flat
I hope you can work things out in Alkali. NTMP worked great here in Southside Park. From my perspective the program does more to incorporate resident input than just about any other facet of City government I can think of, which I think contributed to its success in my neighborhood.
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Conversation about: Council gives go ahead for study of 'neighborhood friendly' river crossings
cogmeyer hits the nail on the head: "I would like to see West Sac take some ownership of their own recent development problems before dumping their self-induced traffic nightmare on established Sacramento neighborhoods." And it's not just about Land Park. I'm in Southside Park, smack dab between the site of a Broadway Bridge and downtown Sac, the likely destination of many of those drivers. Instead of building infrastructure that accommodates more cars every time we develop traffic problems, I think we should be investing in trains/light rail/street cars/that kind of thing, including for this situation.
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Conversation about: Local historian Burg appointed to Sacramento Heritage board
Bill's awesome. Any organization would be lucky to have him involved. And it's not every local historian who's also a noise/experimental music enthusiast!
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Conversation about: You know it when you see it
Sorry to hear about the vandalism, Kathleen. Glad you're in our neighborhood and thanks for hanging in there. Monday morning, March 23 of this year, found a planter of mine upended in the alley my home faces, and another in the same alley 1 block away (both just west of Southside Park). In my case the planter and plants recovered and ended up giving months of beautiful California poppy blossoms. The vandals don't always win...
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Conversation about: Fighting creatively to keep Oak Park Community Center open
Best wishes to our neighbors in Oak Park. FYI in Southside Park, the City leased Southside Park Clubhouse to a private non-profit for 3 years starting late last summer. That organization is apparently working on bringing in some programming but nothing so far. The lessee says all other groups wanting to use the building for meetings etc. need to pay hourly for room use, including our neighborhood association and community garden, which always used them at no charge in the past. However, then the lessee let us know that they have offered use of the facility to an outside group twice a week for free--go figure! We are pursuing this through City Councilmember's office at this point.