Neighborhood News Archive

  • Titan TV for Feb. 20

    Titan TV for Feb. 20

    Here’s the latest from Luther Burbank H.S.

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  • Help for Homeowners Community Event

    Help for Homeowners Community Event

    Are you having trouble making your mortgage payments? Have you lost your job? Have you been turned down for a loan modification? Is your property already listed for sale? Don’t miss this chance to meet one-on-one with your mortgage company or a HUD-approved housing counselor to find options to avoid foreclosure. The Help for Homeowners Community Event will be [...]

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  • The Arts Building in Auburn Covered with Graffiti

    The Arts Building in Auburn Covered with Graffiti

    PlacerArts  invited the Auburn Hip Hop Congress to show off on every surface of The Arts Building in Auburn.  Visual artists Pierre Butler, Joshua Rose Daniels, Douglas Kleinsmith, Jonas Lynch, Duston Michado, Mike “Dr. Myk” Santori, Kai Vittore, Archie Warren, and Leon “AC” Willis took over the building and created a visual explosion.  Visitors from [...]

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  • Citizens input needed for Rainbow Park Community Garden

    Citizens input needed for Rainbow Park Community Garden

    An outreach meeting for the new Rainbow Park Community Garden is coming up this Saturday from 10:00am-12:00pm at the Fruitridge Community Center, and organizers are hoping that members of the community will attend and lend their input.  This meeting is also a great chance for people to learn more about community gardens and to talk [...]

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  • Come to the Bullying Prevention Symposium at La Familia

    Come to the Bullying Prevention Symposium at La Familia

    Members of the community are welcome and encouraged to attend La Familia’s Bullying Prevention Symposium this Friday, February 24th at 4:00 in Sacramento. Sheila Self, Bullying Prevention Specialist for the Sacramento City Unified School District, will be instructing the Youth Voice Group and other attendees in learning about: What to do if your child is being bullied The scope of the problem [...]

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  • Helping a local group support the Special Olympics is fun and easy

    Helping a local group support the Special Olympics is fun and easy

    A Sacramento team that is participating in the Polar Plunge fundraiser benefiting the Special Olympics Northern California & Nevada needs your help to make their event a huge success. If you’ve never heard of the Polar Plunge, the simple explanation is that it is an event where a bunch of crazy people jump into Lake Tahoe in the [...]

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  • Upcoming Production Tips Class With Nate Schemel

    Upcoming Production Tips Class With Nate Schemel

    Film and television production is a “team sport”.  Efficient planning, selecting the right cast and crew, knowing how to pull many schedules together, and a thousand other questions must be addressed to complete even a short movie.  How do you find “good people”?  How do you know a skilled tech from a beginner?  What “do’s [...]

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  • BHC Grantee Meeting Looks Forward Through 2012

    BHC Grantee Meeting Looks Forward Through 2012

    On January 31 Christine Tien, The California Endowment Program Manager, welcomed 50 key community leaders to the Salvation Army community room in Oak Park to capture the stories and lessons learned from the first year if implementation and reinforce the “Health Happens Here” campaign the the BHC communities. For many, this was the first occasion many [...]

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  • La Familia Video Programs “In the Works” – Editing Software Updated

    La Familia Video Programs “In the Works” – Editing Software Updated

    Recently, I had the opportunity to assist La Familia Resource Center with a .MOV upgrade of their video editing platform, which is provided to them as part of the Neighborhood News Bureau partnership.  The editing platform uses Song “Vegas” software and already supports such popular formats as .MPG, .AVI, and .MP4.  The added capability expands [...]

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  • Journalism Honor Awarded to Access Sacramento Executive Director

    Journalism Honor Awarded to Access Sacramento Executive Director

    “It was a very tough decision to choose the winners of The Sacramento Press 2012 Journalism Open. Fifty-three community contributors shared 93 stories about the greater Sacramento area and the quality of submissions this year really impressed the judges. Thank you to all of you who made this year’s Journalism Open a success. The Sacramento [...]

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