The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 77

ufuiiii oo ft wwwsacbeecomantelope The Sacramento Bee NATOMAS RIO LINDA ELVERTA DEL PASO HEIGHTS NORTH SACRAMENTO NORTH HIGHLANDS FOOTHILL FARMS ANTELOPE ROBLA ANTELOPE NORTH SACRAMENTO I PEOPLE G2 SPORTS G4 COMMUNITY CALENDAR G5 Section THURSDAY February 27 2003 fKiF fn fSvn vr ww xjx pprx ww kite itete rft tt an iAjsa- drfl i J-J 1 1 Criimme 6 The public simply doesn't know we are out there at the base Christopher Carey McClellan Aviation Museum Foundation ouuo a pflajpe area Residents at two neighborhood meetings tell of drug deals and craps games in their driveways By Dirk Werkman BEE STAFF WRITER been more than a decade since Dorothy Hill 72 used a garden hose to cool off two men fighting in the front yard of her Strawberry Manor home But Hill is still searching for ways to fight the crime that gives Del Paso Heights and other North Sacramento communities the reputation of being among the most dangerous areas in Sacramento County Hill a leader in the Terrace Manor Neighborhood Association said more must be done to get the attention of the absentee landlords who let their properties deteriorate thus inviting criminal activities Another neighborhood resident Bertha Robinson says parents should accompany their children to Strawberry Manor Park know what is go-' ing on out there" Robinson said to 50 people attending a meeting on neighborhood issues are bullets The overall situation is improving but police are still fighting an uphill battle said Sacramento Police officer Andy Newby who has worked in the North Sacramento area for the past decade Now a Problem Oriented Policing officer Newby and his partner Tom Turay have arrested more than a dozen major drug dealers during the CRIME back page C6 Bob Dahlberg of Peach Tree City Ga above looks into the cockpit of an F-1 05 Thunderbird at McClellan Aviation Museum Top photo an A-1 0 air craft used in the Desert Storm conflict still has the number of kills made during the Persian Gulf War recorded underneath its cockpit UP IN THE AIR McClellan Aviation Museum plan may stall on funding By Dirk Werkman BEE STAFF WRITER craft that can no longer take to the skies He is the director of the McClellan Aviation Antelope pushes for unification By Laurel Rosen BEE STAFF WRITER Still searching for a way to bring a high school to their community Antelope residents have asked trustees of the Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District to consider expanding the district to serve students from kindergarten through 12th grade "We would like you to look at the Dry Creek district with long-term Antelope resident Brian Caldwell said at a board meeting Feb 20 keeping our students together (through high school) have better control of the His comments followed an explanation from SCHOOL page G3 Museum a facility designed to ensure that the public never forgets the thousands of men and women who played critical roles in the defense effort during the 62 years that the North Highlands base was in operation got some grand Brown said of plans to move the museum to a 7-acre site adjacent to Freedom Park on the former base and to construct a 150000-square-foot building to protect the aircraft from the weather Such a project could cost $15 million or more a healthy sum for the McClellan Aviation Museum Foundation that is struggling to pay the $60000 annual rent for the current museum site at 3204 Palm St inside McClellan Park One of the first steps the foundation must take MUSEUM page G3 Penny Bunt looks at the nose of a T-6 Texan aircraft used in the Korean War before it became a trainer plane Like silent sentinels 30 military aircraft stand on a 68-acre site at McClellan Park Once they roared night and day out of what was then McClellan Air Force Base rattling the nerves of A1 Brown and his neighbors south of the Haggin Oaks Municipal Golf Course Brown remembers growing up in the 1950s and 1960s when aircraft seemed to leave south runway every few minutes Aircraft that towed gliders into Normandy during World War II flew reconnaissance missions during the Cold War and fought in the skies above Vietnam now rest quietly Information about each of the planes can be found on the Web site at wwwmcclellanaviationmuseumorg Brown in a sense stands guard over the air Sacramento Bcc photography by Jose Luis Villegas Obsolete hay mowers reborn as Mowasaurus the dinosaur employees When he took the names to the county for registration he learned that one name was already being used When asked what name he wanted for that street he is supposed to have answered The street thus became Any my sad ending: 1 find Any Way where the map said it should be All left is a gated apartment development on a street with a sign saying not a county road Any Way anywhere anymore Street Whys Quiz: At least one city street still crosses a wooden bridge in Sacramento Can any reader tell me where a little wood bridge crosses a creek drainage in Hagginwood? The Bee's Carlos Alcald can be reached at (916) 773-6847 or calcala sacbee com Ruth Hutchins as the source of the Any Way explanation Hutchins was the first postmaster for North Highlands starting in 1951 and before she died was the memory she said it by golly I believe said local activist Merrie Hutchins told Oliver that Any Way was named inadvertently by Jere Strizek a visionary developer and creator of Town Country Shopping Center ancestor to all the Downtown Plazas and Roseville Gallerias of the area This is what essayist Joan Didion said about Strizek in her classic book White never met Jere Strizek but at the age of 12 1 imagined him a kind of frontiersman a romantic and revolutionary spirit and in the indigenous grain he Now that you have the long buildup version: streets were said to have been named for his relatives friends or ter ended up in a Reno hospital with a mysterious ailment postponing the opening The illness has abated somewhat and Doiron is aiming for an opening today with another on the March event and a grander opening when things settle down the ongoing rebirth of an arts space Street Whys: The Whys Guy has kind of a long one today but he hopes you read it anyway about Actually Any Way shown on the map in a corner between Madison Avenue and 1-80 in North Highlands My yarn starts with Ray Oliver a North Highlands stalwart who worked in the McClellan Air Force Base history office Oliver cited the late in the hay business because I ever seen that sat down what happened to the dinosaurs They sat down during the Cretaceous Renaissance woman: Unlike the dinosaurs Joyce North Sacramento gallery is not extinct Doiron closed her gallery last year to go east to spend time with her aging mother was a very heart-wrenching four she said Then she heard about a space available on Del Paso Boulevard and came home The new Doiron Gallery was to have its renaissance with "old artists Feb 8 was going to be the big she said Just before that however daugh Elverta-brate biology: Even if you are well-versed in paleontology you probably have never come across a Mowasaurus Unless of course you had driven out Rio Linda Boulevard past Rio Linda to the outer reaches of Elverta where find the rusty dino looking like a cross between a turkey and a dragon James McGrew 84 said he made the Mowasaurus and about 100 other iron sculptures out of parts from obsolete farm machinery from dinosaur equipment to dinosaur sculpture Five old hay-mowing machines gave the Mowasaurus its name Only a few sculptures are near the road now because the first couple he put out there were stolen McGrew is not an artist by trade He was a farmer and hay dealer for years He knew welding from fixing the machines and got the sculpture bug from a nephew He keeps his hand.