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Casey Kirk

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Director of Community Outreach for The Sacramento Press

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Southside Park

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Graduated from CSUS in December 2008 with a BA in Journalism, minoring in Family and Consumer Sciences.

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Racing for a Reason: Tony Prakash

Lace up your shoes, Sacramento -- the 18th annual Run to Feed the Hungry is this week! Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) encourages you to be part of Sacramento's Thanksgiving tradition. The 5K and 10K fun run and walk launches from Sacramento State, 6000 J St., on Thanksgiving morning. With 30,000 participants expected to be involved, you are guaranteed a morning of fun with family and friends. Every week up until then, we will interview a new Run to Feed the Hungry runner. We will ask a handful of different past and present runners the same questions. We have found that people are motivated by many different reasons to be involved in this incredible event. There is still

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Racing for a Reason: Melissa Bierer

Lace up your shoes, Sacramento -- the 18th annual Run to Feed the Hungry is only a couple weeks away! Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) encourages you to be part of Sacramento's Thanksgiving tradition. The 5K and 10K fun run and walk launches from Sacramento State, 6000 J St., on Thanksgiving morning. With 30,000 participants expected to be involved, you are guaranteed a morning of fun with family and friends. Every week up until then, we will interview a new Run to Feed the Hungry runner. We will ask a handful of different past and present runners the same questions. We have found that people are motivated by many different reasons to be involved in this incredible event.

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Hanging with Hatch: Parking enforcement 101

Recently, A&E launched “Parking Wars,” a reality series chronicling the parking division in Philadelphia and Detroit and their encounters with the parking-impaired. I admit, I’m hooked. As I watched episode after episode, I found myself in awe at the sheer amount of rage that one dreaded slip of paper can instill in someone. As someone who has dumped my own fair share of hard-earned dollars into parking citations, I can understand why the ticketed become irate; times are tough and tickets are expensive. Curious why anyone would subject themselves to a job where harassment is guaranteed, I set my bitterness aside and asked the city if I could hang out with a parking enforcement officer. I

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Racing for a Reason: Laura Smith

Lace up your shoes, Sacramento -- the 18th annual Run to Feed the Hungry is only a few weeks away. Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) encourages you to be part of Sacramento's Thanksgiving tradition. The 5K and 10K fun run and walk launches from Sacramento State, 6000 J St., on Thanksgiving morning. With 30,000 participants expected to be involved, you are guaranteed a morning of fun with family and friends. Every week up until then, we will interview a new Run to Feed the Hungry runner. We will ask a handful of different past and present runners the same questions. We have found that people are motivated by many different reasons to be involved in this incredible event. The

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Racing for a Reason: Tonja Field

Lace up your shoes, Sacramento -- the 18th annual Run to Feed the Hungry is only a few weeks away. Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) encourages you to be part of Sacramento's Thanksgiving tradition. The 5K and 10K fun run and walk launches from Sacramento State, 6000 J St., on Thanksgiving morning. With 30,000 participants expected to be involved, you are guaranteed a morning of fun with family and friends. Every week up until then, we will interview a new Run to Feed the Hungry runner. We will ask a handful of different past and present runners the same questions. We have found that people are motivated by many different reasons to be involved in this incredible event. The

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Conversation about: Local Man Fired for Feeding Cats

Thanks for continuing to update us Heather! I think it's great you have been following this after your initial posting and hope you will continue to do so. We have received several emails commending The Sacramento Press for breaking this story. However, we'd like to clarify that the author of this story is one of our many talented community contributors who voluntarily posted this article as an entry to our journalism contest last month. That being said, we are lucky she chose to use our platform to bring awareness to this situation! At 7,000 views right now, you are doing a great job of spreading the word about this article. Thanks again for posting, Heather!

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Conversation about: Pet of the Week- Jack Sparrow (Adopted)

Hooray! Thanks for the update. We updated the headline!

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Conversation about: Local Man Fired for Feeding Cats

We have made a correction to your article. We encourage all contributors to use our free copy editing by sending a draft to journalism@sacramentopress.com. Email support@sacramentopress.com if you have any questions about this process. Thanks for posting!

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Conversation about: Corti Keeps Tradition of Balsamic Vinegar Alive

An audio clip will be embedded soon. Sorry for the delay, Lisa!

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Conversation about: MidLife GridLife - When Crazy Became Cool

Thanks for your feedback, kateo. The comment you are referring to has been removed. We encourage constructive criticism but don't allow personal attacks or offensive language.

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