The Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims Center, an Islamic center located off Community Oak Drive, will finalize phase three of their mission in May with the completion of their mosque.   Salam Center was established in 1987 in hopes of one day having a complete Muslim community center that would include a library, bookstore, school, counseling center, youth center, family corner and a mosque.   Phase one, which was started in the late 1980s, included on-site work such as boundary walls, landscaping and the front gate.  Phase two, which began in the early '90s, brought the completion of the community center, full-time school, weekend school and kitchen.  Phase three has been d

KOLT Run Creations  hosted a full house at Ooley Theater during the opening weekend of “Crime and Punishment.”   The theatrical performance features local actors Brian Rife, Patrick Murphy and Kelley Ogden. Rife plays Raskolnikov, the protagonist guilty of murdering two women, while Murphy and Ogden play a variety of characters throughout the show.   Having three actors play seven characters is not as distracting as it seems. The actors do a good job transitioning into different roles. They also have great facial expressions along with changes in pitch that help differentiate characters.   Audience member Penny Kline Meagher said she felt that Ogden did a good job in her transitions.

Dreams are said to be a state of unconsciousness, but they don't always have to be.  Marcy Nault is living proof that dreams can come true.   Nault, a fiction writer originally from Boston and currently living in Sacramento, created a list of 20 dreams she wanted to accomplish throughout her lifetime. The list included learning to figure skate, traveling around the world and learning how to salsa dance. During an eight-year period she accomplished her entire list of dreams.   Nault said she knew she wanted more but wasn't inspired to pursue her dreams until she ended a long-term relationship about two years ago. She had moved to California with her partner, but what she found in Sacramen

"Crime and Punishment," a theatrical performance presented by KOLT Run Creations, will open Friday at Ooley Theater in Midtown.  The play, originally a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, was brought to Sacramento by KOLT co-founders Kelley Ogden and Lisa Thew for a specific purpose.  "We usually do shows or pick scripts that have issues that are related to our community," Odgen said. "When we looked at doing our next show, we could not escape that there is a real economic poverty (in Sacramento)."  Odgen explained the with all the job-loss and furlough situations, they felt the play reflected current times around the community.  "Crime and Punishment" takes place during the mid-1800s in St. P

Additional safety precautions for athletes of all ages were discussed during the Youth Sports Safety Summit Tuesday morning. Professionals, including athletic trainers, orthopaedic surgeons, parents, students, physicians, professors and state legislators all presented possible solutions to help decrease the risk of catastrophic athletic injuries and illness among athletes.    Last year, Tommy Mallon, a student at Santa Fe Christian High School in San Diego, broke his neck during a lacrosse game.  His school athletic trainer, Riki Kirchhoff, saved his life by following proper procedure.  It turned out Mallon had a fractured neck and without the help of an athletic trainer, he would have d

CORRECTION: AB 656 went to the Assembly Committee of Revenue and Taxation suspense file and was voted on later that evening. The bill was approved 5-2 and will go before the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Jan. 21.

yes, public schools are exempt, but all other eateries must follow the new law

CORRECTION: CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION SPOKESMAN, DANIEL CONWAY.

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Oh wow, I can't believe neither I, nor the copy editors caught that. Sorry about that it should read(minus the caps): “I think, as Barry said, it’s likely that Sacramento is not going to be the answer to peace in the Middle East,” he said. “On the other hand, we can do our part — and our part is to show that people are people where ever they are in the world and we can get along.”