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Art German Sports Enduring runner Cancer fighter Gary Ritchie makes a final go at Western States silver buckle Uplifting story Seniors credit hard work family loyalty for surviving the Depression 5 a I X- 1 1 A tv: THURSDAY June 24 1999 wwsacbeecomneighhoi Rosemont Tour nails negligent landlords event hits dilapidated homes BY ROBYN EIFERTSEN Neighbors staff riter Rickety roofs Dry rot Shaky staircases The sixth annual Fainted Ladies Tour scheduled from 10 am to 1 pm Saturday will showcase these unsightly and dangerous features of some of boarded-up homes The bus tour is designed to embarrass absentee homeowners into renovating their homes as well as influence city officials to encourage the preservation of pre-World War II homes in the Central City The name derives from San celebrated and renovated Victorians known as the Instead of featuring such restored homes the Sacramento tour pinpoints homes that preservation activists say are in danger of being torn down want to revive the (of Sacramento) and make them said Karen Jacques event organizer Two historic homes on the tour are in danger of being demolished Jacques said Registration starts at 9:30 am at the Llewellyn Williams Mansion 900 St at the southwest corner of Ninth and streets in Central City Parking is available at the city garage at 11th and I streets The mansion built in 1885 and restored four years ago was featured on the tour in the early 1990s Tour officials request a $5 donation Proceeds will defray the cost of the tour The event costs nearly $1000 Jacques said In-kind donations are being provided this year by the Sacramento Old City Association Llewellyn Williams American Youth Hostels City Councilwonian Heather Fargo City Councilman Steve Cohn Lyon Realtors and North American Mortgage Muffins and coffee will be provided for participants Tourists will receive a tour map pamphlets and a list of More than 100 homes are on this list Jacques said This year the tour will also honor 12 homeowners for their work in renovating their aging homes many of which were once considered Last year 15 homeowners were See Tour Page 3 2 PAGE Oak Park Tahoe Park East 0 i i f- it City leaders propose constructing jog- ging trails of decomposed granite in have done it a long time ago When you run along the edge of the lawn there are tree roots that stick out I almost twisted my ankle one Simmons who grew up in South Land Park but lived near McKinley Park for a time said he misses running on the East Sacramento decomposed granite trail granite is softer on your knees and your Simmons said Lee-Vogt said the original master plan for Land Park did not include a jogging trail so none was ever built Curtis and Southside parks also have decomposed granite jogging trails PAGE Sacramento College Greens rt 1 3 rt iu -t 'V LbZUfc 1 hRLINCi NhKjHBORS William Land Park along informal paths created by joggers Edmisten said those trails were established after joggers had made their own dirt paths in those parks When the Land Park trail was first proposed nearly three years ago Lee-Vogt said many residents were concerned the trail would be cement or asphalt think people wanted to make sure we maintained the integrity of the Lee-Vogt said Luree Stetson Land Park Community Association president said the neighborhood organization supports the trails as long as they are made of decomposed granite and created on paths already used as proposed Central Land Park Curtis Park Park paths on horizon for joggers BY ROBYN EIFERTSEN Neighbors staff writer William Land Park users may be able to jog and stroll the site with more ease by next year City park officials propose creating decomposed granite jogging trails around sections of the park as part of the Land Park Capital Improvement Program Officials have budgeted up to $120000 to pay for the trails said Vic Edmisten city parks and recreation manager The funding is expected to be considered by the City Council when it reviews the city budget in July If approved the money for the trails would come from the Land Park Trust Trust funds are generated from concession sales permit fees and admissions to Funderland an amusement center in the park The trails could be completed by next summer Edmisten said Tina Lee-Vogt project manager for the Land Park Master Plan Study said the trails would be along areas where joggers have already beaten paths Edmisten said the trails would likely loop around a section of Land Park Drive and Sutterville Road areas often used by joggers The 240-acre park is composed of pockets of park land separated by streets parking lots and attractions like the Sacramento Zoo The park areas total 163 acres Lee-Vogt said Makeshift jogging trails have damaged surrounding lawns it help with the Lee-Vogt said trails) will just help with the look of the If approved the final design and boundaries of the trail would be established after residents and the public have a chance to comment on where they would like to see the trails The trails are needed to make the park safer for runners and walkers Edmisten said walk in the street especially those going to and from Sacramento City Edmisten said The college is across the street from Land Park on Freeport Boulevard trying to encourage people to use a safer path and to also provide a trail for people who frequently jog at the Don Simmons of South Land Park jogs in the park every other day during fair weather He said he was happy the city may put in a trail surprised they done anything here Simmons said should City Notes Quotes Missing girl found in Tahoe Park Many Tahoe Park residents were alarmed June 12 when police announced from a helicopter at about 7:30 pm that a little girl was missing But a scare was all it was said Burt Yoshioka Sacramento police officer The girl 8 had gone to a friend's house after swimming at the park She called her mother after hearing the announcement from above Yoshioka said residents should know that the incident wasn't anything suspicious" Arson fire cancels anniversary event i Last week's arson fire of Land Park's Congregation B'Nai Israel postponed the temple's combined anniversary celebration with the Buddhist Church of Sacramento The event which was to feature a tour of both houses of worship and a brunch of feriyaki chicken and bagels and lox was scheduled for Sunday Carmichael resident JoAnn Solov brunch coordinator said the event will be rescheduled The synagogue is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year The Buddhist church is celebrating its 100th anniversary Solov said Both churches are off of Riverside Boulevard The event was planned to celebrate the two cultures and Religions Solov said June 17 "I think it is to all our advantages to know more about each other" Solov said I INSIDE Calendar 4 Community Business 3 People t' 2 Perspective 6 PoliceFire Log 3 Sports 5 3 :3 Monument honors pioneer physician of early Sacramento Dr Benjamin Franklin Pendery After graduating from medical school in 1868 Pendery opened a medical practice in Dayton Ohio and moved to Farmer City 111 in 1872 In 1875 he came to Sacramento where he opened an office at what was then Fourth and streets but is now Fifth and streets His first wife Lucy A Brown died in 1881 Pendery later married Edith Dickson whose family had moved to Sacramento in 1849 Pettite said hobby was horse racing A horse-drawn buggy with a figure dressed to look like Pendery was at the recent ceremony Pendery driving his horse and buggy over the cobblestone streets of Sacramento was a familiar said LaPerriere Monsignor Patrick Nolan gave an ecumenical prayer at the ceremony honoring New Helvetia reinterments Nolan is retired but used to be in charge of all cemeteries in the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento which includes 20 counties reaching to the Oregon border The caskets of four family members who had been buried in the Pendery family plot at New Helvetia were moved to East Lawn along with that of the physician The new monument to Pendery was secured through the efforts of the Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society the Pfund Family Fund the Ruhkala Monument Co and East Lawn Memorial Park BY DIRK WERKMAN Neighbors staff writer A once-prominent Sacramento physician whose family lived more than 80 years in Fair Oaks has been honored by the Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society When the physician Dr Benjamin Franklin Pendery died in Sacramento in 1905 he was buried in a family plot at the New Helvetia Cemetery at Alhambra Boulevard and Street During 1954-55 however the city of Sacramento unceremoniously dug up the remains of nearly 5000 people buried in the cemetery and moved them to East Lawn Memorial Park at 43rd Street and Folsom Boulevard Gone were the individual markers that had once identified those buried in New Helvetia A large marker in memory of Pendery was dedicated at East Lawn Memorial Park June 12 in a ceremony sponsored by the medical society "They were a very fine family and very prominent said William Pettite a Fair Oaks journalist and historian who participated in the ceremony widow Edith moved to Fair Oaks where her son Franklin who died in 1966 was an early director of the Fair Oaks Water District Pettite said He noted that Franklin operated a dairy in Fair Oaks and that the site was later sold to the Fair Oaks Cemetery District It now serves as the north section of the cemetery daughter Fay Hartzell lived in Fair Oaks for many years She died two years ago Pettite said Her daughter Carol Lane of Bend Ore attended the ceremony Dr Bob LaPerriere a member of the medical society committee that sponsored the marker and dedication ceremony outlined the story of the former New Helvetia Cemetery during the June 12 ceremony Other committee members were Dr Ed Mansour Dr Pat Stanford Dr Norman Schwilk and Dr Irma West Pettite who has known members of the Pendery family since 1949 talked about the life of the doctor who was bom on Aug 11 1846 in Hamilton County Ohio as one of 10 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