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JULY 2016
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E D I T O R S VI E W |
Scott Thomas Anderson
person who wont read has no advantage over one who

cant read. Mark Twain.
Welcome to the Granite Bay Views summer reading
edition, which focuses on local authors, area book clubs and recommendations to escape life by drifting through forgotten pages.
Growing up on the border of Calaveras County, my own childhood was dominated by the master of rough American brilliance himself Samuel Longhorn Clemens. The legend of how
this hapless drifter morphed into Mark Twain in nearby Angels
Camp was engrained in me: His breakout tale penned there,
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, inspired a
lifelong interest in his novels and short stories.
The Mother Lodes countless tributes to Twain are tied to his
writings from 1865 to 1885, the period of stormy energy that
created works ranging from Roughing It to The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn. One of the least known gems from this
era is The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in
Connecticut, which is as close as well gets to a Mark Twain
ghost story or memory of the macabre. The yarn is an example
Twains ability to mix cocktails of dark humor, existential crisis
and boundless doses of irony.
We dont traditionally think of Twain as a storyteller along the
lines of Edgar Allen Poe or M.R. James, but when I was a student
at U.C. Davis I worked on a research project involving Twains
writings authored after 1890: I soon decided that The War
Prayer, The Mysterious Stranger and Letters from the Earth
represented the most socially morbid and nihilistic prose ever
set down by a 19th-century wordsmith. At that point, the midnight shade of his pen was understandable. The thunder-struck
decade of the 1890s had stolen his fortune, his youngest daughter and his beloved wife.
Fortunately, Crime in Connecticut belongs to the magic
spell that predates Twains melancholy orbit; a period where he
ranked elevating his art of deadly humor above railing at the
unfairness of the world. It was written as an act of thought-provoking entertainment, rather than a spiritual retribution hurled
from the foggy banks of tragedy.
Ultimately, Twain is too complex, too wildly elusive to fit into
canonical boxes. Tales like Crime in Connecticut prove how
amorphous his storytelling gifts really were. He could delve as
far into the depths of fear and rage as he could into imaginative
landscapes of adventure and nostalgia. When traveling overseas Twain often announced, I am not an American; I am the
American. And when we look at the wide breadth of his final
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ooking has been the driving passion of Sonia Narasakis life. When
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her mother. From the beginning, shes
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Now that My Thai Table has gained a
following around its stir fries, Pad Thais,
currys and Satays, Narasaki is launching
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fusion menu that adds smoke house barbecue alongside of the South Asian cuisine. Its an effort to make the restaurant even more family friendly, while
giving South Placer food fanatics
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Ive been cooking forever,
Naraski says with a laugh. I think
the longer you do it, the more you
appreciate it as a true art form.
Its really about craft and creative
expression. There just a sort of special something that makes some
people connect with it.
That philosophy in the kitchen
is what emboldened Narasaki and
her entirely Thai-American staff to
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Chef Sonia Narasaki

adds a new foodie
experience through
smoke house barbecue
options like ribs, tri-tip
beef, chicken, and other
down home staples.
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Pensri Mamnolite, a cook at My Thai Table

Fusion Barbecue, sears in the flavors of mixed
vegetables with chicken with high heat.
use a from-scratch, straight-fromthe-garden approach when working

with their bright panoply of chilis, onions, peppers, tomatoes, sprouts, chives,
mango and noodles. Its also what just
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offerings in a really unexpected way.
We started incorporating the barbecue a few months ago, because while
people who enjoy Thai food seem to really love our Thai dishes, it can be hard
for some couples and families to just
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group is more of that classic meat and
potatoes kind of guy, she explained.
Were barbecuing because we want

those couples and families to be able to
come here and dine together and be entirely comfortable.
The new fusion menu from the smoke
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hotlinks, St. Louis ribs, tri-tip, barbecue
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We started incorporating
the barbecue a few months ago,
because while people who enjoy
Thai food seem to really love our
Thai dishes, it can be hard for some
couples and families to just come
in if someone having dinner in
the group is more of that classic
meat and potatoes kind of guy.
Sonia Narasaki, My Thai Table Fusion Barbeque chef
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Not content to ever stop stirring, Narasaki has also updated the Thai half of
the menu, adding new dishes like salmon salad, avocado curry, crab fried rice,
fried Tofu, coconut shrimp calamari and
warm, flavorful pot-stickers.
Kevin Johnson, Narasakis partner in
My Thai Table Fusion Barbeque, considers the restaurants new vision a fresh vibe
conjured through multi-faceted cuisine.
I think some people see us as an ideal
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For regulars at My Thai Table Fusion Barbeque, the sophisticated yet casual atmosphere isnt news: On any warm-weather
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Customers like the outdoor seating so
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HISTORY |
book award
Reading into the

Sierra College
professors
book lands
national award
Gold Rush
rom the time he was a child, the

legacy of pursuing gold shaped the
path of Gary Noys life. The lengths
men went to for gold, the existences
women had near gold, the catastrophes
inflicted on cultures because of gold,
were all murky, half-concealed stories
that provided the emerging historian
with endless fascination.
Now the gold is coming back to Noy,
literally, in the form of a gleaming medal
for a national book award.
Noy grew up in Grass Valley surrounded by shadows of the Gold Rush and
all of the mountain-tearing mayhem
that followed while industrial barons
grabbed for glitter in the soil. His father
and grandfather both labored at the
Empire Mine on the edge of town, and
his parents had their first date on the
famous site while the mine was still in
operation. One might say that the quest
for gold was virtually in Noys DNA. But
so too were the regions fading stories of
exiled travail, as Noys mother was forced
to immigrate to California during the
devastation of the Dust Bowl. She would
later tell Noy that, for her, Steinbecks
The Grapes of Wrath wasnt a novel or
motion picture it was a documentary
of her childhood.
Noys interest in immigrants lost in a
new land was fed by the stone remnants
and Victorian architecture from Grass
Valley to Nevada City. When he was young
Gary Noys Sierra Stories: Tales of

dreamers, schemers, bigots and
rouges is a celebration of the
individuals and cultural groups who
made the Gold Country their home.
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hed often walk by an obscure alley called
Kate Hayes Street. Once Noy developed
into a professional historian, he set about
combing through archives to discover
the full narrative of who Kate Hayes really was. The chronicle that surfaced was
that of a brilliant songbird of the mining
camps, one whod fled her famine-ravaged home of Cork, Ireland in 1851 to be
an entertainer in America. Hayess life
makes up the first vignette in Noys book,
Sierra Stories: Tales of dreamers, schemers, bigots and rouges, which just won
the top regional nonfiction honor in the
Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Noy has been a history instructor at Sierra College since 1987, and throughout
his tenure hes made it a point to research
and collect tantalizing, sometimes bizarre, true stories from Californias mining
era. A decade ago, Noy helped form the Sierra College Press, which remains the only
full-service university book publisher at
a junior college in the U.S. In 1999, the
Sierra College Press partnered with the
Berkeley publishing house Heyday Books
to release The Illuminated Landscape:
A Sierra Nevada Anthology, which Noy
co-wrote with Rick Heide. Heyday Books
was so impressed by its first collaboration
with Sierra College Press that it asked Noy
to work on another joint project a collection of the backwoods historic memo-
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Gary Noy taking break from teaching

history at Sierra College.
COURTESY PHOTO
ries hed been researching for decades.

In terms of history, Ive always gravitated toward the West, and especially the
Sierra foothills, Noy said. The genesis
of the book was to look for the unusual
things, delving into the lives of people
like Kate Haze, the tales people might
know part of, but not the whole story.
Noy spent years compiling his longtime
research projects and adding pieces that
while sometimes strange and wildly entertaining could still be historically verified through primary sources and strict
academic rigor. He soon found that one of
the biggest challenges would be publishing a book with archival photographs that
were fresh to the general public.

I think the most interesting part was
trying to get images that supported the
stories, Noy observed. It involved a lot
of going to the California State Library
and even contacting the Smithsonian
Institute. But we ended up with some
images that had never been published
before. It was amazing.
Sierra Stories: Tales of dreamers,
schemers, bigots and rouges was released
in 2014 to a warm response around Northern California. But the reception was
about to get better when the Next Generation Indie Book Awards selected Sierra
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Far Left: Grass Valleys mining legacy famously inspired

Wallace Stegner to write the award-winning novel Angle
of Repose in 1971; and now Gary Noy, who grew up in the
same town, has won his own national book award for Sierra
Stories: Tales of dreamers, schemers, bigots and rouges, a
nonction meditation on the history of the Gold Country.
Below: The historic streets of Grass Valley still look much
the same as they did when Irish immigrant Kate Haze sang
in their saloons after the Gold Rush. Hazes life is one
of many that is proled in Gary Noys Sierra Stories.
PHOTOS BY KIM PALAFERRI
In terms of history, Ive always

gravitated toward the West, and
especially the Sierra foothills.
The genesis of the book was to
look for the unusual things, delving
into the lives of people like Kate Haze,
the tales people might know part of,
but not the whole story.
Gary Noy, author
Stories as its 2016 Regional Non-Fiction

winner. For the Sierra College Press, it
means a book its published has been honored in the same category as tomes from
publishers like the White House Historical
Society, Yale University Press and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Joe Medeiros, editor-in-chief of Sierra
College Press, told the Placer Herald his
entire team is proud of the achievement.
Its pretty exciting for us, Medeiros
acknowledged. Gary has really matured
as an author He just kept pushing
these great stories from the Sierra out,
and polishing them up on the writing
end, until we had a way to elevate some

very interesting histories that occurred
in our own mountain range.
Medeiros added, I think his book covers a broad spectrum of people: Its not
just the tales of white men who were
around. It studies the lives of real women, Native Americans, the Chinese and
other groups. For Sierra College Press, its
a great flag to fly.
Noy is currently hard at work on his
latest book, Gold Rush Stories: 49 tales
of seekers, scoundrels, loss and luck,
which is due out next spring in a joint
project from Sierra College Press and
Heyday Books. Noy, a Loomis resident,

was taken totally by surprise by the revelation his last book was given such a
prestigious award.
I had no idea that Heyday had submitted it, Noy said. I was unaware it
was even being considered. But, when
you look at some of the other winners, its
certainly an honor to be included in that
group In terms of Sierra College Press,
weve now heard from other junior colleges from as far away as Florida whod
like to reproduce what the Press has
done. To have played a role in creating
the Press, and to see the overall success
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HISTORY |
author
Roots
Don Frasers The

Emergence of One
American Nation:
The Revolution,
the Founders and
Constitution is
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OF A NATION
BY CRAIG BARACCO
n his new book The Emergence of

One American Nation: The Revolution, the Founders and Constitution,
Donald Fraser grapples with one of the
profound questions of American history:
What makes the United States united? In
this deeply researched but very accessible
historical volume, the Roseville author
shows how the several colonies united to
form a single country.
I want to answers a basic question,
Fraser recalls. Why are we one nation,
and not two, or 13, or 15?
A specialist in local government for most
of his career, Fraser has been running his
own consulting firm that specializes in
economic redevelopment for cities since
1999. However, in 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown
signed legislation that ended economic
redevelopment agencies in California, and
Fraser suddenly needed a new career.
I knew I didnt want a real job, Id gone
too long without a boss says Fraser.
The lifelong student of American history pulled out transcripts of the Constitutional Convention hed been carrying
since his college days and began the work
that would later become The Emergence
of One American Nation.
Frasers historical work is very aware of
its connection to the nation the U.S. has
now become: He sees plenty of parallels
from the Founding generation to the
present.
There have always been forces that
bring us together and those that pull
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us apart, Fraser observes. I think that

Trump is an example of those that pull
us apart an example of the figures that
have always been with us.
Fraser also finds that political topics
currently dominating American headlines, such as economic inequality, were in fact familiar
to the founding fathers.
Both Jefferson and Madison
were very concerned with economic inequality and what it
meant for the nation, the author
explains.
One lesson Fraser believes the
U.S. has lost from the Founding
era is an ability to compromise.
Emergence has numerous examples of the compromises that were necessary for the countrys birth.
Fraser is currently working on a new
book that further explores issues of national unity and disunity. The nonfiction
follow-up will start where Emergence

leaves off, exploring the nations political
story from the Constitutions ratification
to the Civil War.
With the Founding Fathers enjoying a
pop culture resurgence around the Broadway hit Hamilton: the musical
and its blockbuster soundtrack,
Fraser thinks its a good time
to be giving talks about his
own book. Hell be hosting a
promotional event for Emergence at Face in a Book in El
Dorado Hills on Constitution
Day, Sept.16. He will also be
teaching a course at the Osher Learning at UC Davis,
based on Emergence, beginning in October.
The Emergence of One American Nation: The Revolution, the Founders and
Constitution is available online at Amazon.com and local bookstores.
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Rosevilles Don Fraser stands

in front of the California Law
Library in Downtown Sacramento
near the State Capitol.
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SUMMER R EADING
words
A world of
Granite Bay Views
staff picks for
summer reading
Magazine journalists are often consumed by the world of words.

The power of language to re-process human experience, and
the ability of books to open doorways of the mind, are typically
a major inspiration for reporters who work in printed media.
For our summer reading issue, Granite Bay View staff writers
Scott Thomas Anderson, Andrew Westrope, Matt Kramer and
Steven Wilson share their favorite novels to crack open in an air
conditioned coffee house or under the blue skies along the lake.
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Publishers Weeklys
Best Summer
Books 2016
THE LONELY
Andrew Michael Hurley

ERIC ROHMER: A BIOGRAPHY
Antoine de Baecque and Noel Herpe

WINTERING
Peter Geye
ALLEGHENY FRONT
Matthew Neill Null
THE OSAMU TEZUKA STORY:

A LIFE IN MANGA AND ANIME
Toshio Ban
EVERYBODYS FOOL
Richard Russo
BARKSKINS
Annie Proulx
VOYAGER: TRAVEL WRITINGS
Russell Banks
THE HEAVENLY TABLE
Donald Ray Pollock

MAY DAY
Gretchen Marquette
PROBLEMS
Jade Sharma
SHALLCROSS
C.D. Wright
BEFORE THE FALL
Noah Hawley
MAGNATE
Joanna Shupe
YOU KNOW ME WELL
Nina LaCour and David Levithan

THE GIRLS
Emma Cline
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE DAYS
Michele Audin
Granite Bay Views
Staff Picks
for Summer
Reading
WARLOCK
Scott Thomas Andersons pick:

Warlock by Oakley Hall
riters, like cowboys, can

find themselves pinned-in.
They get locked in corrals of category. They get trapped in steel
chutes of expectations. They
find themselves steer-wrestling
the book industrys numbing
shadows. But sometimes an
author climbs bareback onto
the force of his own will and
takes a running jump over the
fence of genre, escaping its trap in a hard
gallop for unknown creative territory.
The late Oakley Hall seemed determined to buck the expectations of what
books belonged on which shelves. He
knew the best novels tear the fabric of
a readers reality, lassoing them into a
landscape of words and images so evocative, sonic and rich that it presents the
mirage of a second life. Halls 1958 novel Warlock is a pathfinder in this sense,
a bold re-execution of the American
Western thats sweeping yet personal, poignant yet ethically challenging,
plot-driven yet stoked with personalities
breathing on the page. It is dirt and dust
you can taste in your mouth; its welling
corruption felt under the ribs.
The novel is centered on the merchants and citizens of Warlock, a fictional silver-mining town, who feel helpless
and at times humiliated by the acts of
lawless men. Pushed to desperation, the
people of Warlock appoint professional
gunfighter Clay Blaisedell town marshal thus pulling the mercenary and
his killer friend Tom Morgan into polit-
ical struggle across the entire

county in which few hold a
moral high-ground. The cowboys tormenting Warlock live
by intimidation; but Blaisedell
and Morgan live a colder existence by the gun. The ensuing
confrontation probes the realities of finding freedom through
violence and declaring civilization through illusion. Warlock is,
for my money, simply one of the most
teleporting books written about Californias dark memories.
Hall had a similar achievement in 1978
with his ranch-war novel The Bad Lands,
a remarkable exploration of greed, ambition, naivety and betrayal betrayal
not only committed by men against other
men, but betrayal of the entire American
West by the decimating forces of progress.
The Bad Lands is one of those rare novels
that leaves a reader with equal parts of
hope and emptiness. After years of being
out of print, The Bad Lands will be re-issued in paperback this October. Hall was
a mentor to countless writers, including
award-winning novelists Michael Chabon, Richard Ford and Amy Tan. However,
he used to refer to himself as the most famous writer youve never heard of. With
Warlock having been re-published by New
York Review Books Classics in 2005 and
The Bad Lands returning to stores this fall,
maybe this author who questioned the
concept of frontier justice will finally get
his own.
Oakley Hall
VALIS
Philip K. Dick
THE ART OF
RACING IN THE RAIN
Garth Stein
ON THE ROAD
Jack Kerouac
The Granite Bay

Views staff writers,
from left, Scott
Thomas Anderson,
Andrew Westrope,
Matt Kramer and
Steven Wilson.
PHOTO BY BEV RATZLAFF
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Matt Kramers pick:

VALIS by Philip K. Dick
efore the Wachowskis made us do a

double-take on reality with the Matrix trilogy, there was Philip K. Dick.
Perhaps best known today in popular
culture through the films based on his
work such as Blade Runner and Total Recall, Dicks writing is characterized by an insistence that the world, as
first perceived, is not what it seems. In
his 1981 novel VALIS, Dicks paranoid
vision crashes to the fore through a series of technological and mystical events
based on the authors self-reported experience an experience readers must
ultimately judge for themselves as Gnostic revelation, fabulous literary device or
schizophrenic delusion.
VALIS itself is an acronym for Vast
Active Living Intelligence System; the
significance of which becomes contin-
ually apparent throughout

the novel, as Dick weaves a
psycho-spiritual mystery centered on contact between VALIS and protagonist Horselover
Fat. Dick shifts perspectives as
narrator, continually blurring
the lines between reported fact
and fiction as Fat emerges as
a fictionalized version of Dick
himself.
As the novel progresses it becomes increasingly clear that Fats visions, whether psychotic or not, are carrying a significant truth ascertainable only through
direct contact with the mysterious VALIS and the pink ray of energy it emits at
those chosen as its prophets. The reader
is dragged down a mind-bending rabbit hole at breakneck speed, plunging
Steven Wilsons pick:

The Art of Racing in the Rain
book that will give you chills, make you

smile and clutch the binding on each
hairpin plot turn, The Art of Racing in the
Rain vividly dictates the life of an up-andcoming race car driver as seen through the
eyes of his four-legged best friend.
Author Garth Stein takes his readers
down a series of twists and turns as Enzo,
a sandy-colored labrador, tries to make
sense of the good, the bad and the unthinkable. Naming his main character
after the founder of the famous Italian
automobile marque, Enzo Ferrari, Stein
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through layers of philosophy,

Gnostic theology, Buddhist and
Zoroastrian ideology, along with
a torrent of Cabalistic rumination and purported secrets from
Egyptian mystery cults.
Time and credulity are stretched parchment-thin in VALIS as Dicks own theories are
LIS,
incorporated into a semi-fictionalized narrative where linear time seems to have literally stopped
in the first century A.D. Ultimately, after
Dick draws the reader into his own paranoid reality tunnel, escape may become
impossible. The pursuit of the meaning
and mystery within VALIS will leave readers wondering where the lines of fiction
and reality are drawn and if they can in
fact be drawn at all.
by Garth Stein
has re-envisioned his own experience in race cars onto the

pages of a book.
He tells his story through
a lovable dog who, thanks to
many hours watching TV and
listening carefully to his owner, has gained insight into the
human condition. Enzo realizes that life, like racing, isnt
simply about going fast.
In an attempt to help his owner, Enzo
plays a key role in his masters child-cus-
tody battle with his in-laws, and

distills his observations of the
human condition into the mantra, that which you manifest is
before you.
A New York Times best-seller,
The Art of Racing in the Rain will pull
at your heartstrings, but leave you
wanting more. Enzos insight into
the absurdities of human life and
rollercoaster relationships publicizes a compassionate, funny and uplifting
journey, as only a dog could tell it.
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Andrew Westropes pick:

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
f you read one classic every

year for the rest of your life,
you could live to 100 and still
leave the bulk of great English
literature untouched. That
being the case, this summer
why not this summer?
is the time to indulge that
part of you that longs for the
horizon and light out, for 307
breathless pages, with Jack
Kerouacs On the Road.
Exhilarating and melancholy in
equal measure, On the Road is a roman
clef, a semi-true story embellished with
fictional names, based on Kerouacs own
cross-country travels during the infancy of Americas highway system. Arguably the defining work of the postwar
Beat and counterculture movements,
it is known to most people for the way
it captured the restless ennui and freewheeling ambitions of a new generation,
and for its wide-ranging impact on cultural legends that followed people like
Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Jim Morrison and
Hunter S. Thompson.
Reputation aside, this isnt homework
or a history lesson but a livewire piece
of deeply personal literature, a story
rooted in 1950s underground America
about two friends, four road trips and a
whirlwind quest for some abstract thing
to fill the void within. Its a brisk read,
the prose style loose and informal, like
jazz: Kerouac famously wrote his rough
draft in three weeks of furious typing, on
a 120-foot scroll of tracing sheets taped
together, and the result is one of the great
stream-of-consciousness narratives in
modern fiction.
Glorious and wild as it is, though,
readers who take On the Road as a wholly
romantic view of the vagabond lifestyle
miss half the point. Kerouac knows that
for all its intoxicating freedoms, which
Exhilarating and
melancholy in equal
measure, On the Road is
a roman clef, a semi-true
story embellished with
ctional names, based
on Kerouacs own crosscountry travels during
the infancy of Americas
highway system.
he renders in vivid detail, a rootless existence is also inseparable from loss and
loneliness. The quest of Sal Paradise
and Dean Moriarty (wonderful names
abound in this book) is both wish fulfillment and fools errand, fraught with
broken hearts and missed connections,
a search for something none of us ever
really find a search for something that
might not exist.
That the book acknowledges conflicting truths about giving in to youths
reckless abandon the wonder and the
tragedy is one of its great strengths.
That it contains passages like this is why
it will mean as much to our grandkids as
it did to our grandparents:
I woke up as the sun was reddening;
and that was the one distinct time in my
life, the strangest moment of all, when I
didnt know who I was I was far away
from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room Id never seen,
hearing the hiss of steam outside, and
the creak of the old wood of the hotel,
and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad
sounds, and I looked at the cracked
high ceiling and really didnt know who
I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I
wasnt scared; I was just somebody else,
some stranger, and my whole life was a
haunted life, the life of a ghost.
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Granite Bays T.R. Ragan went

from a stack of rejection letters
to selling 2 million of her books.
N OVELIST
PHOTO BY MATTHEW WHITLEY
NOmystery
to Ragans writing success
BY JOHN DICKEY
Granite Bay
novelist took
her own path to
a major audience
alking with Theresa Ragan gives one

an idea of how she managed to become a best-selling author. She talks
fast, and even faster when she is talking
about an idea. Shes a word person who
spent time as a child flipping through reference books and writing poetry.
After her sister handed her a romance
novel, which Ragan devoured while she
was on maternity leave from her job as a
legal secretary, Ragan spent the next two
22
decades juggling her writing with raising

four children as a full-time mom. She
woke up at 3 a.m. to steal writing time
before she had to get her kids ready for
school. She honed her craft to the point
that she was named a finalist in romance
writing contests, a well-worn path toward a publishing contract.
But several years ago, the Granite Bay
residents goal of publishing seemed an
elusive dream because her books were
rejected. One of her books drew the attention of an editor, and after they talked, she wrote another 20,000 words. But
publishers rejected that book too. At
one point, Ragan said an editor told her
that her female character was too strong
for the romance writing genre. She had
turned 50 and while her writer friends
were publishing their books, she kept

finding rejection letters in her mailbox.
I would get rejection letters and I
would cry, spending the day depressed,
said Ragan, who is 57.
Then she got mad and decided to
break the rules.
Her husband Joe had encouraged her
to publish her books herself. Initially,
she was skeptical. She said she felt that
self-publishing carried a stigma, that you
were not a real writer if you published
your own books.
Her attitude changed when her youngest child, who was born about the time
she started writing, was going off to college. Now that her nest was about to be
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But when I realized, OK,

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T.R. Ragan, novelist

full-time work to help her husband pay
their mortgage.
But when I realized, OK, I might have to
get another full-time job, thats when I realized I have nothing to lose, said Ragan.
She self-published a time travel romance,
The Return of the Rose, on Kindle Direct
Publishing, Amazons e-publishing unit,
which allowed readers to buy copies of
the book from Amazons Web site.
She also started writing in a completely
different genre mystery writing.
She ignored the rules that she had been
taught, that sticking to the same genre to
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Instead of writing tender scenes, she studied gruesome serial killings. At first, she
wondered if she could write mysteries.
The disturbing material kept her awake
at nights. She couldnt look at a kitchen
knife without imaging the violent ways in
which it could be used.
She put her mystery book away and
wrote another romance, but when she
returned to her mystery, she realized that
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the book was not about a serial killer. Instead, it was about her female character,
Lizzy Gardner, being a survivor.
I thought OK, this makes sense now. Its
not necessarily about serial killers, its about
Lizzy, finding a way to stay strong, finding a
way past what happened. Then I was fine. It
was like overnight, Im good, and I havent
had a problem sleeping since.
She finished her mystery, Abducted,
which told the story of Lizzy, a 17-year-old
girl who is abducted by a serial killer but
gets away. Years later, her ex-boyfriend,
now an FBI agent, contacts Lizzy because
the serial killer is back, and has left a message for her.
Breaking the rules started to pay off
in sales. When she looked at her sales
numbers for The Return of the Rose on
her Web browser, she would refresh the
browser five minutes later and see that
five more copies had sold.
After Abducted became a hit and sold
300,000 copies, publishers came to her.
But she signed with Amazons publishing
house because she said she got to keep a
higher percentage of the royalties.
Now, her 14 books have sold more than

2 million copies, according to her web
site, theresaragan.com. Her books have
been translated into German, French
and Portuguese, making her an international success.
Brenda Novak, a Sacramento resident
and author friend of Ragan who has also
made best-seller lists, said Ragan is a
nice person who has shown plenty of determination.
Shes very nice, and she has done a
good job of sticking with it, said Novak.
Failing to catch the eye of publishers
worked out for Ragan in one respect. Novak said writers such as Ragan who had
written a backlog of unpublished books
were in a good spot when the digital
craze started.
People who got in right then who had a
backlist had a big advantage, said Novak.
Even though shes anything but an overnight success, Ragan sees experiences that
come with best-selling author status, such
as talking to a live audience, as surreal.
Even now, my husband and I walk
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BY EILEEN WILSON
hen the textbooks close for the year, the regular books come out to play; Books that are
fun to read. And whether you favor traditional
paper, e-reader or audio, there are plenty of great titles
from which to choose.
According to Becky Cunnington, library assistant at
Granite Bay Library, many library patrons want playful
books during summer months light reads, easy to
put down when traveling or between activities. Cunnington said theres a huge uptick in books on CD in the
summer, perfect for road trips, and the mystery genre
is a great bet for easy reading. Current favorites include
Australian author, Kate Mortons historical mysteries,
which take place in the present, but also look at events
from the past.
The Kate Morton books are basically two stories in
one, and theres something being solved, Cunnington
said. And the guys really eat up the suspense and espionage genre, like books by James Patterson.
Another popular book, according to library staff,
is A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman, translated
from Swedish.
Im constantly hearing people say they are reading
the book for their book club, library assistant, Felicia
Foster said. And teens are enjoying the Red Queen
series, and also the Lunar Chronicles. Teens also love
what I call chick lit for teens books with teenage
protagonists who are typically on an adventure of
some kind. Like the Anna and the French Kiss series.
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Each library staff member specializes in a unique genre, making the library an outstanding resource to learn about books for
everyone in the family. The library offers fun events throughout
the summer, and a perpetual book sale in the lobby.
Speaking of book groups, there are plenty of people participating in groups throughout the area. And if you think that
Granite Bay readers are reading nothing but fluff this summer,
think again.
Many book clubs dont take a hiatus in spite of busy travel schedules. In fact, many book lovers pack in more reading
during summer months, whether its lazy days by the pool, or
waiting to pick up kids from their many activities.
The GM Chapter of P.E.O., a group that helps women achieve
their educational goals, has a monthly book group, and they
dont shy away from books of substance. Recently the group
read China Dolls by Lisa See, a local author who writes about
her Chinese American familys experiences, as well as historical fiction. The group started the summer season with Chris
Bohjalians The Guest Room nothing light there. The group
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clubs is sharing ideas with other book lovers, and reading books
that you wouldnt normally pick up.
We feed off each others ideas, Roche said. I dont typically
like science fiction, but a member suggested Andy Weirs The
Martian, and I loved it.
The Wexford Book Group takes the month of July off, and
meets for a Summer Reading Round-up in August. Members
are encouraged to discuss their favorite summer reads, and also
bring books to share or swap. Members have suggested everything from mysteries and thrillers, to narrative non-fiction, to
re-reading favorite classics. One book group member re-reads a
heavy tome by a Russian author each summer.
Aqua Chicks, a group of women who initially got together
during their kids water polo practices, gets together every other
month, and though they sometimes read a stereotypical beach
read, often, hosts try to one-up each other with ever-increasing
literary fiction and non-fiction.
Reading is my passion, and I love being introduced to
books I otherwise wouldnt read, said Alison LeBaron, an Aqua
Chicks member. The host selects the book we are going to read
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While theres nothing wrong with light reading on an airplane,
or poolside, why not spend the extra-long days of summer enjoying a variety of books? Pick up something that you wouldnt
typically read.
Granite Bay area book clubs like the

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are familiar with the role the towns
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La Huacha,
a Peruvian
restaurant, has
been developing
a following with
South Placer
foodies. Its chefs
are directly from
Lima and they
cooked for Granite
Bays Peru Cultural
Fest on June 12.
PHOTO BY
MATTHEW WHITLEY
comes to
Peru Cultural Fest

highlights cuisine and
conservation tourism
alifornias top travel experts on

Peru believe so strongly in the
lands enthralling ruggedness
and warm, indigenous energy that they
brought the Andes directly to the Granite
Bay Pavilions June 12, offering an afternoon of traditional music and cuisine
from Lima, as well as presentations on
the broader arc of Incan history.
The Peruvian Cultural Festival was
hosted by SA Expeditions, a global travel company whose co-founder is from
Nevada County. The event was co-sponsored by the Travel Store in Sacramento. Both groups settled on the popular
Peruvian restaurant La Huacha in East
Roseville to muster enough culinary arts
and ambiance to transport locals to a
pre-Conquistador past.
Throughout the afternoon, Peruvian
musician Hirtzon Velasquez and La Huachas chefs from Lima dazzled a crowd
with creative flourishes from their homeland. A discussion on Perus mountain
trails and archaeological sites was given
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by Nick Stanziano, a man who truly has a

foot in two worlds. Stanziano was raised
in Grass Valley but has made Peru his base
for a decade. His wife and children are Peruvian, and he now has dual citizenship.
He says he founded SA Expeditions partly
out of fear that the centuries-old way of
life would disappear in the global economy without a certain type of traveler helping the small villages survive.
Growing up in the Sierra Nevada, I was
always hiking through the hills to see the
relics of how our Native American tribes
lived before the Gold Rush, Stanziano recalled. You could only try to get hints of
how it was, because that way of living is
gone now. In the Andes, its like stepping
through a time machine, because the
peoples from the same era are still living
their traditional way of life. You can experience the real thing. But it is threatened
it is in danger of disappearing.
As the world flattens and interconnects, a lack of income is pushing young
people from isolated Andean villages into
Its conservation through

economic development in tourism.
We are working on doing it in
a way where our guests will be
visiting villages that are not on the
main path of the Inca Road, places
that arent getting crowded with
other travelers, and then contributing
to the people of those villages
income, so they can continue
their traditional existence.
Nick Stanziano, SA Expeditions owner
Perus major cities of Lima and Cusco in

search of jobs. As a company, SA Expeditions mantra of Conservation Tourism
seeks to work against that tide by bringing
American sojourners to remote Peruvian
villages people who want to experience
the real Peruvian lifestyle without altering
it or running it through unintended consequences of their travel habits.
Its conservation through economic de-
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Know & Go
SA EXPEDITIONS:
Call (415) 549-8049 or visit

www.saexpeditions.com
THE TRAVEL STORE
SACRAMENTO:
Call (916) 929-5555 or

visit www.travelstore.com/
travelstore-sacramento
velopment in tourism, Stanziano said. We

are working on doing it in a way where our
guests will be visiting villages that are not
on the main path of the Inca Road, places
that arent getting crowded with other travelers, and then contributing to the people
of those villages income, so they can continue their traditional existence.
One way SA Expeditions plans to make
this vision a reality is by sending Stanziano and a team of explorers on a 2,000mile trek by foot in April 2017, probing
the ancient Inca road system between
Cuenca, Ecuador, and Cusco, Peru. The
estimated five-month journey will take
the team from the far northern point of
the old Inca Empire to its most southern
capital. All the while, the team will be
looking for ways to perfect responsible,
low-impact tourism that helps the native
villagers profit and keep their identity.
In the meantime, SA Expeditions is
already taking people on private, smallgroup travel excursions to Perus top destinations, from the Amazon rain forest to
Lake Titicaca. With Zagat.com now naming three of the top 50 restaurants in the
world as being in Lima, South Placers Peruvian Cultural Festival was a chance for
locals to get a complimentary glimpse of
the kind of gastronomy theyd experience
in South America. During the event, La
Huachas restaurant put out a buffet of anticucho, a marinated, shredded chicken
dish; causa de pollo, a yellow potato mash
filled with chicken bits and spices; leche
de tigre, a tiger milk ceviche with lime
juice, lomo saltado, juicy cut, sauted
beef marinated in onion and tomato; Aji
de gallina, a creamy chicken sauce dish
Above: Nick Stanziano from SA Expeditions

gives a detailed seminar on Peruvian
archeology, history and travel for a crowd
of people in Granite Bay.
At left: Lomo Saltado, a mix of steak,
tomatoes and red onions over rice
and crispy potatoes, was one of many
traditional Peruvian dishes La Huachas
chefs cooked up for the Peru Cultural Fest
in Granite Bay.
PHOTOS BY MATTHEW WHITLEY
with spices; and pachamanca, an Andean

slow-roasted pig with seasoning.
These are all traditional dishes, said
Riva Bacquet, managing partner for SA
Expeditions. What we were looking to
do is create a menu that represents specialties from each region of Peru, from the
mountains to the coastline.
Like Stanziano, Bacquet is a Californian
who now calls Lima her permanent home.
She added that all of her companys travel
guides have lived in Peru for long periods.
With a base of operations in San Francisco, the group has partnered with Sacramentos Travel Store to make expeditions
fast and easy for South Placer adventurers.
The Travel Stores master planner Tracey Kleber said her own group wanted to
sponsor the Peruvian Cultural Festival because it already holds regular meet-ups
for its travel club all over the region.
We put on a lot of destination seminars like this, Kleber explained. So we
decided it made a lot of sense to partner
with SA Expeditions to put this festival in
the Roseville area.
The Travel Stores next destination seminar will be on New Zealand on Wednesday,
July 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Landmark Building at 1750 Howe Avenue, Sacramento.
During the fest, Stanzianos lecture
on Peruvian history starting from the
Neolithic era and ending after the Shining Path terrorism events of the 1980s
was well-received by the sizable crowd.
For locals who want to learn more about
Peruvian culture, Stanziano recommends books such as Hugh Thomsons
The White Rock, Mark Adams Turn
Right at Machu Picchu and William
H. Prescotts classic The History of the
Conquest of Peru.
At the same time, he hopes people with
a dream of seeing Peru will consider his
conservation mode of traveling.
There is a lot of new stability and
economic growth in Peru, he said. But
by distributing tourism into the more
rural areas, the traveler gets a more genuine experience with the indigenous
people while also helping their culture
to survive.
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ED U CATION
From
Language
program gives
Zachary Gorsen
a future in the
Middle East
Granite
Bay to Morocco
BY ANDREW WESTROPE
NADOR
RABAT
FES
CASABLANCA
Morocco
MARRAKESH
Morocco occupies
a region of
mountains and
desert on the
northwest coast
of Africa.
COURTESY PHOTO
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fter four summers of studying foreign languages, 18-year-old Zachary Gorsen of Granite Bay has learned what he can from books and classrooms, and now he wants to study the far
corners of the world firsthand.
Having just graduated from Granite
Bay High School on May 28, Gorsen has
secured himself a place in the U.S. Department of States elite National Security Language Initiative for Youth, a study
abroad program which will take him this
month to Marrakesh, Morocco for an
eight-week crash course to improve his
Arabic.
Ill be living in Marrakesh, and Ill be
trying to experience the culture and experience the people, and Ill be living
with a family I dont know who yet
in a student exchange program like we
have in the U.S., Gorsen said. Basically
Ill live with them, Ill eat food with them,
and Ill be there during Ramadan, which
will be extra special because Ill have to
wake up very early to eat food and stay up
very late to eat food, and itll be really hot,
so the water situation its going to be a
challenge, but its going to be good.
Gorsen departed June 15 to spend three
days preparing in Washington, D.C., and
then to North Africa until the program
concludes in August.
He said he started studying languages
in 2012, the summer before his freshman
year of high school, by attending a sort
of summer camp for languages at Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota.
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Above: Granite Bay

resident
Zachary Gorsen,
18, will go to North
Africa this summer
on a scholarship
from the U.S.
Department of State
to learn Arabic.
At right:
Moroccans and
tourists shop in the
narrow covered
alleys that make up
the historic Souk
area of Marrakesh
Medina.
COURTESY PHOTOS
Enrolled in a Spanish program without

speaking a word of it, he said he had trouble following along at first but enjoyed it
more once it coincided with his Spanish
classes in high school. Gorsen returned
to Concordia the next two summers, and
by his senior year he was semi-fluent
in Spanish, by his own estimation, and
was two years into learning another language: Arabic.
Gorsen said he started on Arabic between his junior and senior years by attending an intense, eight-week, 18-credit
course called the Arabic Summer Language Intensive Program at CSU San Bernardino. He has also honed his conversational skills with multilingual customers
and landscapers while working part-time
at Green Acres Nursery in Roseville.
After talking to his mom in October
about what he might do the summer after
graduation, they discovered an opportunity with the National Security Language
Initiative a chance to truly immerse
himself in the language and culture,
which he was looking for which accepted him after a rigorous selection process of four interviews and several essays.
As I was learning Spanish, I learned
that a lot of the words in Spanish actual-
ly come from Arabic, and I was thinking

of what I was going to major in college,
what kind of career Im going to have. I
was really good at economics, so thought
I could go into finance, but finance is really, really competitive, and the only way
to differentiate myself is to be multilingual, Gorsen recalled. People in the
Arab world have lots of money, and they
need to diversify just because theyre running out of oil, but they dont trust anybody because of cultural reasons, so you
have to learn Arabic to do it.
Gorsen said there will be 36 students
from across the U.S. living in Marrakesh
this summer, and all of them are in the
process of absorbing a thick book of rules
from the state department, as they will be
representing the U.S.
Their scholarship for the program covers air fare, room and board, and a weekly stipend for extra purchases. Since the
host family provides the meals and bed,
Gorsen said, there is almost no cost to
the program on his end, and it will earn
him college credit through the University
of Georgia which he will apply to a double-major in finance and Arabic when he
starts at Southern Methodist University
in Dallas in the fall.
If you really want to speak

a language well, youll have to
understand the cultural background.
I like being a man of the world,
I pride myself on knowing lots
about the world, and language
is the most effective way of learning
about people.
Zachary Gorsen, 18, Granite Bay High graduate
With that, he intends to pursue a career in international finance, move to the

Middle East maybe Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, he said and continue his lifelong education.
If you really want to speak a language
well, youll have to understand the cultural background. I like being a man of
the world, I pride myself on knowing lots
about the world, and language is the most
effective way of learning about people,
he said. (Morocco) will be the 20th country Ive been to. I like learning Arabic, and
its a pretty amazing opportunity, to get a
pretty-much-free trip to a foreign country
for eight weeks, and have this amazing
thing to put on your resume, to have the
experience of it. Who wouldnt want to
travel abroad like that?
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Granite Bay senior
nds pain-free
career in cycling
BY STEVEN WILSON
ometimes, adversity hits us when

were least expecting it. Other times,
its just what we need.
The latter is true for Abby Murer, who
was diagnosed with osgood-schlatter disease a painful bone growth expansion
in her knees in 2009, when she was
in fifth grade.
Although she tried numerous
times to compete with kids her age
in soccer or cross country, Abby
was restricted from participating in any impact sport.
In eighth grade, I tried out
for cross country, but my
knees starting acting up so I
had to quit, she explained.
Later that year, I met a
friend at a mountain biking race and thats where
it all started.
Abby Murer shows what she

can do on a bike as she races
through the hills at Granite Beach.
PHOTO BY CHRIS COSTIGAN
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Witnessing that one event helped
Abby find a passion in mountain biking
something that has bred like wildfire
throughout Granite Bay thanks to events
like the Granite Bay Grinder and programs like Total Body Fitness.
According to the Mayo Clinic, theres
more than 200,000 cases of osgood-schlatter disease in the U.S. Common with children experiencing growth spurts, patients
with the disease require a medical diagnosis. But its usually self-treatable and
can dissipate over time.
When a kid is growing really fast, the
bone is being pulled and stretched, thus
theres these micro-fractures that cause a
lot of pain, Abbys father and coach, Wes
Murer explained.
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As Abbys growth slowed, so too did

her pain.
When I was younger, it used to be this
terrible pain in my knees, to the point
where I couldnt walk, Abby recalled. I was
on crutches for a month and then again,
on and off throughout middle school. But
when Im biking, I dont feel any pain at all
it doesnt affect me in any way.
In the span of a few short weeks, just
before she enrolled at Granite Bay High
School, Abby found out her new school
lacked a competitive mountain bike program. So she convinced her mom and dad
to start, and coach, a new cycling team.
Her dad, Wes Murer, was an avid
mountain biker since the 1980s, but had
no prior coaching experience. He soon
became the forefront to a up-and-coming program.
We started building the team in 2012,

and it took about a year or so for us to get
up and running, Wes recalled. But she
was the first and only girl on our team for
two years. This year though, were up to
four girls, which really made us competitive as a team.
Wes and his daughter met with current
NorCal cycling coaches, got a feel for team
requirements and scheduled a meeting
with the league director. The coaches
needed CPR and wilderness training, certificates and the team needed sponsorship, but the group worked hard to get off
the ground.
Until we actually got serious about it
and organized a team with the school,
I didnt realize how much my dad really
enjoyed cycling and how much I enjoyed
it, Abby admitted. After seeing that first
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Despite not having

a single varsity
rider, the Grizzlies
managed to score
a pair of junior
varsity girls and
boys all season
en route to
a Division II
league title.
PHOTO BY
CHRIS COSTIGAN
race in eighth grade, it really sparked my

interest and I thought it was something I
could compete in.
For two years, Abby was the only female rider on the Grizzlies cycling team.
But what started as a nine-member club
sport, has now expanded to 16 riders,
three coaches and the group is growing
each season.
In the beginning, I didnt really feel
connected or involved with anything, but
once people started showing interest in
our team, it was something we did together and that was honestly, the best feeling,
Abby acknowledged. Going from not being a part of anything to being a part of
something that has grown so much over
these past four years has been amazing.
The Grizzlies success was all made
possible thanks to Abbys persistence and
tireless competitive attitude.
Underclassmen impressive in 2016

Thanks to standout performances from Julianne JJ
Hamler, who led the Grizzlies cycling team in scoring
throughout the year, Granite Bay captured the NorCal Division
II league title this past season and finished second in the team
standings this past weekend at the NorCal Championships.
Thats a huge improvement from where we finished last
year, head coach Wes Murer acknowledged. So of course I
was very pleased with our team and how far theyve come.
After earning Dream Team recognition in 2015 by the
National Interscholastic Cycling Association for encompassing
the five traits of the league strong body, strong mind, strong
character, inclusivity and equality, the Grizzlies proved once again
why they are one of the areas best up-and-coming squads.
The team, which didnt sport a single varsity rider this
season and was forced to score based off four junior
varsity riders, tallied 1910 combined points at the state
championships in Los Olivos, which was just three points shy
of the first-place team.
In the final outing of the year, Hamler continued her
strong season and took home second place in the junior
varsity girls race with a time of 28:57. Meanwhile, Taylor
Kring (25:33) finished seventh on the boys side in the junior
varsity race, followed by Zach Dillon (26:52). Dillon and Kring
finished one and two all season in junior varsity events and
capped an impressive season together with hopes of better
performances in 2017.
Before this season, (our team has) never placed that high,
senior rider Abby Murer explained. In the past, weve only
had a couple riders that were good. But weve been really
lucky with this team, with how hard they work, how much
effort they put in and how much they care.
In the junior varsity division, Abby finished 52nd, capping
her career and becoming the first four-year member of the
Grizzlies race team. She will continue cycling next fall at
Montana State University surrounded by the rugged terrain
near Yellowstone Park.
Ive come such a long way since my freshman year, Abby
admitted. I started as a slow rider, who wasnt very strong
and hung around the back of the pack most of the time, but
I grew a little bit as a sophomore. Then last year, as a junior, I
had a really good season. I placed top-ten in a couple of races
and hung with some really talented riders. This year, I had
another great season.
The Grizzlies brought home numerous first-place trophies
this past season and should return a handful of talented
riders next year, including four varsity boy riders and three
junior varsity girl riders, along with a slew of sophomores and
incoming freshmen.
With such drastic improvement over the past six months,
Granite Bays cycling team seems poised for success. And with
so many talented riders coming back with a full offseason under
their belt, next season should provide just as much excitement.
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REAL ESTATE |
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Privacy, peace
in
the
heart
BY JENNIFER BONNET
his exceptional five-bedroom custom Granite Bay home designed by

local architect Jeff Glorioso is situated on a third acre enhanced by shady
views and majestic palm trees. It boasts
a resort-worthy outdoor oasis with a
swimming pool and slide, planter beds,
grassy areas and tree-top views.
Prepare to be oohed from the moment
you walk up to it. Stately pillars flank a
leaded glass double-door entry with
arched transom window for lots of natural light. The pillars are carried into the
formal living room and adjacent formal
dining room with soaring tray-ceiling
and pendant light fixture.
The area with a built-in china cabinet
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of Granite Bay
opens seamlessly into the eat-in kitchen

straight out of a model home. The dark
classic wood cabinetry is complimented
by lighter wood floors. This room also
has a tray ceiling and plenty of lighting and marbled granite countertops
accented by stainless steel appliances.
There is also a center preparation island
with electricity and additional cupboard
space.
The cozy family room, which is connected to the kitchen making entertainment easy, has stone tile flooring and a
marble fireplace flanked by yet more pillars. There is a bonus room, as well.
The tray ceiling accent is also carried
into the master bedroom with fireplace
and plenty of windows for natural light.

There is a separate sitting alcove surrounded by yet more windows that are
perfect for enjoying ones morning cup
of coffee and a good book.
The master bath is huge with a separate tub and shower.
This house, built in 1995, has a tile
roof that should last for decades. Outside, in addition to the swimming pool
and slide, there is a wood deck that traverses the entire back of the house.
This property is easy to get to; take
the East Roseville Parkway heading into
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REAL ESTATE
Recent Transactions
The following are all of the recent real estate transactions that took
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4823 Bentwood Way, Granite Bay 95746-6408
6895 Boardwalk Drive, Granite Bay 95746-9201
6940 Boardwalk Drive, Granite Bay 95746-9242
7755 Capella Drive, Granite Bay 95746-9547
5632 Carlile Court, Granite Bay 95746-9016
6480 Carolinda Drive, Granite Bay 95746-9001
8035 Chestnut Court, Granite Bay 95746-8833
8010 Cobble Court, Granite Bay 95746-9024
4715 Coppereld Circle, Granite Bay 95746-6626
6162 Del Oro Road, Granite Bay 95746-9007
9720 Elmhurst Drive, Granite Bay 95746-7108
5500 Granite Falls Way, Granite Bay 95746-9028
5405 Granite Grove Way, Granite Bay 95746-9047
4895 Ketchum Court, Granite Bay 95746-7241
4821 Knightswood Way, Granite Bay 95746-6455
9100 Los Lagos Circle S, Granite Bay 95746-5842
7205 Morningside Drive, Granite Bay 95746-8155
8262 Parus Way, Granite Bay 95746-7311
201 Prescott Court, Granite Bay 95746-7137
8122 Quartzite Circle, Granite Bay 95746-9612
8120 Redwood Lane, Granite Bay 95746-9396
8154 Shadowood Court, Granite Bay 95746-9582
4512 Shari Way, Granite Bay 95746-6603
8060 Shelborne Drive, Granite Bay 95746-8627
5881 Silkwood Way, Granite Bay 95746-6476
7985 South Lake Circle, Granite Bay 95746-8148
5175 Stirling Street, Granite Bay 95746-6150
5851 Wedgewood Drive, Granite Bay 95746-6706
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Preventing Alzheimers
through your lifestyle
WHAT S T R ENDING |
Paula Hendricks
id you know that Alzheimers disease cannot be cured once

diagnosed, but the risk of developing this mind-robbing
disease in the future may depend on what you decide to
do today?
Alzheimers disease, the most frequent form of dementia, is a
devastating neurological disorder that slowly destroys the ability
to think and eventually robs a person of their memory and ability
to function independently. Current research suggests that it starts
as an inflammatory process in which the brains cells deteriorate
over time and no longer regenerate, causing it to shrink.
Worldwide, 44 million people have been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease or dementia, but only one in four people with
Alzheimers have been diagnosed according to Alzheimers Disease International. About one in nine Americans are afflicted
with this disease in their 60s, and some as early as their 50s. From
a recent poll taken from people ages 40-60, almost half said they
would rather have cancer than Alzheimers.
Scientists now believe this mind-robbing disease is in part
due to lifestyle diseases which are conditions that are primarily brought on by unhealthy daily choices/habits people make.
Lifestyle diseases include poor eating habits, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, lack of exercise and mobility, stress, and smoking. All of these can increase the risk of
developing dementia by causing the brain to age and degenerate more rapidly than normal.
The good news: With some desire and dedication, and for
some, medical care, lifestyle diseases can be treated, changed
and most likely reduce your risk of developing Alzheimers.
Here are five key lifestyle changes you can take right now that
will help your body and brain reap the benefits tomorrow:
Take any excess pounds off and maintain a healthy weight.
Eliminate inflammatory foods from the diet.
Get some daily exercise.
Supplement with micronutrients to help reduce
inflammation in the body.
Exercise your brain.
Allow me to expand on these key changes. Its time to get off
any excess weight for good. Loss of excess fat will reduce inflammation significantly, which can help prevent diabetes, heart disease, elevated blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. Even a
10-percent drop in weight will get you started in the right direction in reducing your risk for Alzheimers.
Weight loss is not easy, but if you cut back on sugar intake
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enjoy cooking and eating vegetables and tasty omega-3-rich fish.
Time to dust off the bike and hit the trail at Folsom Lake. Exercise does more than just build muscles, burn fat and improve
overall health. New studies show it also boosts brain power by
improving oxygen and blood flow to the brain, which nourishes
brain cells. Exercise positively affects cognition studies show
that people who exercise regularly develop AD later in life and
less often than sedentary people.
Start taking the supplements you have stashed in the back of
your cupboard. Although there are not many scientifically-validated supplements recommended to reduce AD, there are a
lot of dietary supplements on the market today that can help
maintain and improve memory and reduce inflammation in the
body. Here are a suggested few:
Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) ALA activates an enzyme that facilitates increased acetylcholine production, which is used in
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helps combat insulin resistance, an inflammatory process seen
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Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids (OM3) The OM3 fatty acid,
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L-Carnitine Studies show that acetyl-L-carnitine stimulates
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Youve heard of the saying use it or lose it? Studies have
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nerve cells in the brain. The best mental stimulation you can do
is to learn something new every day. Reading about new ideas,
playing word games or puzzles, taking up a new hobby or signing up for a computer class promotes mental stimulation. Even
surfing the internet can stimulate the brain just not for hours
on end or youll run out of time for exercise.
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t happens to everyone: That moment when we realize that its

time to do something about our weight, shape or even our
physical strength. It may happen when were looking in the
mirror, standing on the scale or lifting a bag of groceries.
Our first thought is to go on a diet, but as quickly as that enters our mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return along
with all the frustration. Join a new gym; I think Ive tried every
gym in town.
Then you wonder, Why bother? The weight will come back,
as it always has; Ill stop exercising as I often do. Then Ill be
back in front of the mirror as discouraged as ever.
The answer is not to go on another diet or bite off more than
we can chew with a crazy, over-the-top exercise program.
The answer is to change our lifestyle.
STEP 1: MAKE THE CHANGE

Its time to lose our all or nothing mentality. Embrace simple, small changes that will add up to big improvements in our
lifestyle. These are our main venues for change.
STEP 2: UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU EAT

Most of the foods we eat arent the healthiest. Some are downright terrible (the burger and fries we had last week). While others are simply excessive (the snacks we eat while watching TV).
The solution to cleaning up our daily diet is not to go back on
a diet. In fact, we should never go on a diet again. Instead make
small permanent healthy changes to your eating habits.
Here are some practical examples:

Choose salad over chips or fries
Dont add butter to your food
Eat fresh produce with every meal
Purchase fat free dairy products
Limit desserts to one or two per week
Cut out mindless snacking
Drink water, not soda
Dont expect to eat a perfect diet every day of the week thatd
be ludicrous. We should, however, make more healthy choices
every day than unhealthy ones.
STEP 3: WORK ON HOW YOU MOVE

Exercise is a huge component to a healthy lifestyle, I always
recommend exercising most days of the week, but if you have
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just set you up for failure. Start out with a few days a week or a
few minutes every day; before you know it you will be hooked
and you will make time for exercise.
I understand how hard it is to find the motivation to stay consistent: True change happens in degrees, not in one fell swoop.
This is a relief when you realize that you have miles to go on
your goals. There is no need to attempt all of the change at once
simply nudge yourself in the right direction each and every
day and maintain the small changes as you go. Making small
changes one at a time is the secret to success.
Your lifestyle is the balance of all the choices that you make
regarding your body. Swing the balance in your favor make a
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Small changes in the right direction, maintained over time,
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FAST FRIDAYS
Fans and riders have been crave the sound of

Jawa engines, the smell of methanol and sight
of kicked up dirt. The Gold Country Fairgrounds
comes alive with some of the very best
speedway motorcycle racing in the country
every Friday night throughout the summer.
4th of July Roseville
The parade begins at 9 a.m. at the intersection of Riverside, Vernon and Douglas, continues along Vernon Street past the Civic Center, turns right on Lincoln
JULY Street before turning right again onto Park Drive. Arrive early to get your preferred
viewing spot. Stay for the fun after the parade in Royer Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for
carnival games, bounce houses, food vendors and music by the Capitol Pops Concert
Band. Finish your day of celebration at the Placer County Fairgrounds for fireworks.
Gates open at 5 p.m., and the show begins at approximately 9:30 p.m. No alcohol, glass
containers, barbecues or personal fireworks permitted. Refreshments will be available
for purchase at the fairgrounds. There is a $5 parking fee. For more information visit
roseville.ca.us/events
BIRD WALK
At 8 a.m. Saturday July 9 at Bridgeports north parking lot, just

past the Yuba River highway bridge. Wear weather-appropriate
clothing and bring binoculars. Walk led by Bob Slyker and Carol
and Bruce Malnor. Info: (530) 432-2546, cmalnor@comcast.net,
bgsly@aol.com
20TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA WORLD FEST
Featuring eight stages of music from around the world, camping

with family and friends, workshops, international food, fine crafts,
and a renowned childrens program. From July 14-17 at the Nevada
County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley. Tickets
start at $65. On-site RV and tent camping available. For more
information call (530) 274-8384 ext. 14, or visit worldfest.net.
UC MASTER GARDENERS OF PLACER COUNTY WORKSHOP
UC Master Gardeners of Placer County Garden Day and Workshop

is Saturday July 16 from 9-10 a.m. Tour the Garden/Ask a
Master Gardener and from 10-11 a.m. Maximizing Your Veggie
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FRIDAY JULY 1 Speedway and
Extreme Sidecars Series Round 3
FRIDAY JULY 8 Speedway and
Challenge Elimination Series Round 4
FRIDAY JULY 15 Bud Light: North vs. South
Civil War Challenge
FRIDAY JULY 22 Speedway:
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FRIDAY JULY 29 Speedway and AMA Youth
National 250cc and 150cc Championship
Where: 1273 High Street, Auburn
Cost: $10-12
Info: Call (530) 878-(RACE)7223
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Potential: Fall/Winter Vegetable Gardening at the DeWitt Center

Demonstration Garden, 11477 E Avenue, in Auburn. Free. Rain will
cancel. Part of 15 workshop series. For more information call (530)
889-7388, pcmg.ucanr.org.
AINT NECESSARILY DEAD FESTIVAL
From noon to 10 p.m. Saturday July 16 at Regional Park,

3770 Richardson Drive in Auburn. Free. Event features kid zone,
food and music. Info: auburnrec.com.
CHARITY ICE HOCKEY GAME
California Highway Patrol against Sacramento area Firefighters

from 2:34-4:45 p.m. Saturday July 30 at Skatetown Ice Arena,
1000 Orlando Avenue in Roseville. Tickets: $20. Proceeds benefit
CHP officer Michael Ericson. Who was injured in April and Officer
Nathan Taylor who was killed in March. Event preceded from
1-2:30 p.m. Free demonstration of K-9s; CHP Emergency vehicle
and motorcycle and Sacramento Fire Department Truck or Engine
all in front of Skatetown. Info: (916) 783-8550, skatetown.biz.
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Ongoing events
PLACER COUNTY WRITING GROUP
Meets from 9-10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Flower Farm Bocce

Court, at 4150 Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis. For more information
visit flowerfarminn.com.
FARMERS MARKETS
Foothill Farmers Markets are year round from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tuesdays at Whole foods Market at the Fountains, Galleria Boulevard
and East Roseville Parkway in Roseville. For more information visit
foothillfarmersmarket.com. Kaiser Permanente Farmers Markets are
year round from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Kaiser Clinic,
1001 Riverside Ave., in Roseville and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays
at 1600 Eureka Road in Roseville. For more information email
hicksvilleacres@sbcglobal.net.
GLOVES AND SHOVELS GARDEN CLUB
Meets 10 a.m. the third Thursday of each month at

Bushnells Garden Nursery, 5255 Douglas Blvd. in Granite Bay.
Free. For more information email gloveandshovels@yahoo.com.
DEPARTMENT OF ROCK
Harris Center
Don Miguel Ruiz & Sons, Toltec Art of Life and Death
Presented by Spiritual Center for Positive Living.
For audiences ages 18 and older.
When: 7 p.m. Friday July 1
Cost: $55-$175
Disneys Alice in Wonderland Jr.
Presented by El Dorado Musical Theatre.
When: 7 p.m. Friday July 8, 2 & 7 p.m. Saturday July 9,
2 p.m. Sunday July 10, 7 p.m. Wednesday July 13, 7
p.m. Thursday July 14, 7 p.m. Friday July 15, 2 & 7 p.m.
Saturday July 16 and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17
Cost: $14-$29
Swan Lake Act 2 & Divertissement
Presented by Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet Theatre.
When: 2 p.m. Saturday July 23 and 2 p.m. Sunday July 24
Cost: $22-$33
From 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays in the Palladio shopping center on

Palladio Parkway, one block north of East Bidwell Street in Folsom.
For more information visit gopalladio.com.
LIVE ON THE BOULEVARD
From 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays at El Dorado Hills Town Center,

4364 Town Center Blvd., Steven Young Amphitheater in El Dorado Hills.
Free. Bring y chairs. For more information visit edhtowncenter.com
Thunder Valley
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OUTDOOR PICKERS MARKET
The market is every fourth Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. rain

or shine at Hand Pickin Emporium, 4155 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.
Event includes antique, vintage, upcycle, crafts, arts, garden food
and fun. Food provided by Daves Dawgs. For more information
email Barb or Bob Pratt at handpickin@aol.com.
ACCORDION SOCIETY MEETS
Northern California Accordion Society meets from 6:30 p.m.

to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Lutheran Church of the Resurrection
6365 Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay. Cost is $2 for members and
$3 for guests. For more information call David at (916) 806-6927.
FOOD TRUCK MANIA!
From 5-9 p.m. the second Thursday of the month year-round

enjoy live music, food trucks including Squeeze Inn Roseville,
Volkswaffle, Krush Burger, Chandos Tacos, OMG Yogurt, Simply
Southern Food, Cajun Wagon and Drewskis Hot Rod on Vernon
Street in downtown Roseville.
FRIDAY FAMILY FEST
From 6-9 p.m. Fridays through July 29 at the Loomis Train Depot,
5775 Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis. For more information visit
loomis.ca.gov
CRUISE NIGHT IN FOLSOM WITH THE CAPPUCCINO CRUISERS
From 5-9 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 26 at Dennys,

1011 Riley Street in Folsom. For more information visit capcruz.com.
Diana Ross
When: 8 p.m. Saturday July 9
Cost: $49.75 -$189.75
Rick Springfield and 38 Special with the Romantics
When: 6:30 p.m. Friday July 15
Costs: $34.75 -$169.75
Charlie Wilson
with After 7 and Solero
Costs: $44.75 -$189.75
Boston: 40th Anniversary Tour with GAMA
When: 7 p.m. Sunday July 17
Costs: $43.75 -$189.75
Happy Together Tour 2016
When: 7 p.m. Friday July 22
Costs: $39.75 -$139.75
Barenaked Ladies, OMD and Howard Jones
Costs: $35.75 -$149.75
Papa Roach with Oleander and Some Fear None
When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday July 30
Costs: $27.75 -$139.75
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Word-rushing
muckrakers
ED ITO R S UPDATE |
Scott Thomas Anderson
nfamous scribblers. Mercenary pamphleteers. The men with

the muck rakes. These are terms politicians used back in the
18th and 19th centuries to describe newspaper reporters.
The New Yorker magazine recently unearthed my own favorite
ink-stained wretches which was first hurled at writers in
1921 and stayed in fashion for some time.
In arguing that the term ink-stained wretches is still a fitting
sobriquet, the New Yorkers archivists wrote of print journalists:
Their main job is to interrogate the world; to that end, they
must be extroverted but disconnected, energetic but grumpy,
open-minded but incredulous Their work is animated by
gleeful, even joyous, dissatisfaction.
Thats not an entirely flattering portrait of whats left of my
profession, but probably one some officials in Placer would have
no problem attaching to our newsroom. Along those lines, on
behalf of the team assigned to covering the south county for the
Herald, the Press Tribune and the Granite Bay View, we do hope
our readers find within our pages some measure of the undaunted persistence that embodies the idea of ink-stained wretches.
In the last four years, our crew has worked to shine a spotlight on
realities other news agencies werent in a position to bring out:
The confirmed heroin-related deaths of dozens of local young
people; the link between Rosevilles gang members and larger
organized crime; the alleged slum conditions permeating Old
Town Roseville, as well as the city and countys failure to take action; ongoing assaults tied to the states new justice experiments;
public officials spending half a million dollars of tax payer money in a year to fly first-class around the world; and the nature of
the train-hopper culture camped on Rosevilles periphery.
Just last week, we spent days plowing through financial records to prove just how much outside money from Southern
California and the Bay Area was being infused into the local
District 6 Assembly race.
In the old days, and by that I mean six years ago, the reporters working on these watchdog projects would have been balanced within their news room by at least one or two obsessive,
persnickety, linguistically enslaving creatures known as copy
editors. Now, at the risk of delving into inside baseball, there
is a big difference between a content editor and a copy editor.
A content editor looks at a pre-published story with an eye for
cleaning up clichs and lazy phrases, correcting faulty structure,
patching problems in a story-arc, and, most importantly, acting
as a final judge on whether a reporters evidence is lacking when
making an explosive claim.
Copy editors, on the other hand, are extremely rare individuals with the capacity to read through 2,000 words of text in
50
one sitting and catch every missing article that a normal persons eyes fill in, every tiny pronoun or pluralizing error on the
margins and every nasty homonym mistake that fast writing
makes and spell check will never catch. No matter how pressing a deadline is, no matter if he or she is just minutes from
going to press, a professional copy editor will look at a quote
that references shining bacon of awesomeness and never
miss the fact that the person actually said shining beacon of
awesomeness. Similarly, an experienced copy editor can read
a 950-word political Op Ed and, after catching every possible
mistake, still notice in its last line that voting ballet is supposed to be voting ballot.
Gold Country Medias South Placer news team doesnt have a
specialized copy editor, and probably wont have one anytime
soon. Most people have heard about the tectonic challenges
facing the American newspaper industry; yet it still amazes me
when Im out in public that most people assume that our crew
working on the Herald, the Press Tribune and Granite Bay View
is twice the size it actually is. Heres the reality: the team putting
together those two weekly newspapers and monthly magazine
covering a daytime population zone of 240,000 people consists of four-and-half staff positions tasked with capturing every
facet of life in South Placer, from reporting on local governments
and launching investigations, to handling breaking news online
and capturing the dimensions of the artistic, business and religious communities. Oh yeah, we also have to highlight hometown sports events and personalities for six high schools and two
local colleges. Now, our crew is greatly immeasurably assisted in its mission by a small platoon of contributing writers,
photographers and interns: the heroes, as I call them. The contributors probably make the whole thing possible, but we are still
facing massive challenges to serve our readers.
Moving forward, Gold Country Medias South Placer news
team wants to re-affirm a connection to the public that involves
100 percent transparency. We take every opportunity to engage
readers and the message we repeatedly get is that they want our
publications to strive to represent an intelligent, fearless civic
alarm system while highlighting the true character of the community. Given our limited resources in the newsroom, as much
as wed love to have a spectacular copy editor, we can only meet
the readers main demands if we fill those few slots with experienced reporters who have a background in investigations
and covering an array of neighborhood concerns and achievements. These are reporters, including myself, who spend as
much time at fires, car accidents, crime scenes and local gatherings as they do sitting at their desks. In essence, theyre the
mercenary pamphleteers the infamous scribblers.
But that doesnt mean we wont try to keep getting better with
the details. South Placer may be leaving its linguistic standards
in the hands of ink-stained wretches, but they areyourinkstained wretches.
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use a from-scratch, straight-fromthe-garden approach when working

Were barbecuing because we want

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Sonia Narasaki, My Thai Table Fusion Barbeque chef

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