Ballots will be mailed out shortly to all Access Sacramento members in good standing. Six Board members are running for election to another 2-year term. They are: Dawn Deason – independent video, Kindra Block-Montgomery – UC Davis School of Education, Walter Yost – Bee Reporter (retired), Charlene Jones – Disability Rights Advocate, Nahid Kabbani – Journalist (retired), and Marcum K. Jones – Intel Corporation.

If you are a member. with solid credentials in the community and would like to volunteer about ten hours per month to the Board, applications are being received for one-year appointments. For an application, stop by the office or look online at www.AccessSacramento.org – and thanks for your ongoing support!

For those of you who submitted scripts for “A Place Called Sacramento” 2012 and are eagerly waiting to hear whether or not your script has been chosen, notifications have been sent out via e-mail on Friday, May 18th.  Even if your script was not chosen, expect to be informed.  The public announcement of scripts chosen will be made at our June 2nd Cast and Crew Call.

The final stage of judging has been completed and the 10 winners have been notified. Join us at the PCS Cast & Crew Call on Saturday, June 2nd at 3pm to meet the filmmakers and find out how you can be part of this summer’s filmmaking fun.  

We have a great group of scripts this year and look forward to seeing the top ten on the big screen this October.

Sunday, May 27, 2012
7:30pm

 
Listen Up! Sacramento will be showcasing local folk musician, Jen Rogar. Her folk music includes some original work that focuses on political and topical stories and she also performs traditional folk songs. Some her songs include “Dove Spring Girl”, “Tree of Life”, and “Prayer for Troy Davis”. Jen has been playing folk music in Sacramento for over a decade and continues to place a fresh and topical twist to her original tunes.
 
For more information about Jen Rogar and her music you can log on to JenRogar.com or check out her music at Reverbnation.com/JenRogar.  

Tune in to Listen Up! Sacramento on Tuesday, June 5th at 11pm on Access Sacramento channel 17 or watch the simulcast online at www.AccessSacramento.org and click ‘watch 17′ 

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Listen Up! Sacramento features local musicians of all genres and languages. Opinions or statements made on the program do not reflect the opinions of Listen Up! Sacramento and the staff of Access Sacramento. If you are a musician in the Sacramento region and you’d like to be a guest on the show you can submit your information and include a sample of your music or a link to your music to Listen.Up.Sacramento@gmail.com.

Fans of TV’s globe-trotting race game can now test their strategies and stellar clue-solving prowess right here in Sacramento! Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) is preparing to host the 4th annual Race for the Ring on July 14, 2012. Hundreds of Sacramento area residents will return for this exciting, location-based game where clues and answers are exchanged via text messages. Participants race from location to location on bike, scooter or foot throughout Downtown and Midtown solving riddles and interactive challenges. Points are awarded for each correctly answered question or properly completed challenge and the team with the most points at the end wins! Prizes include jewelry from Rogers Jewelry Company and gifts from Sacramento-area vendors.

The $50 registration fee for any team includes two race shirts, entrance into the after-party, lunch, a chance to win amazing prizes and a guaranteed day of fun. 100% of the proceeds support SFBFS’ programs. For the price of a modest dinner for two, any pair of friends, relatives, co-workers or those hoping to become engaged can support families in need in our community.

In an effort to keep the event fun and competitive, we’ve limited registration to the first 500 teams. In addition to the top 10 finishers winning incredible prizes, prizes will also be awarded to best team name and best-accessorized bicycles. A silent auction will also be offered to raise funds for SFBFS.

For those who can’t make it out for the event or are not the world’s best texter, individuals can be a virtual racer. Participants still receive shirts, may join the after party and the registration fee supports SFBFS.

What: Race for the Ring

Where: Downtown Sacramento (kick-off and after-party at Raley Field)

When: July 14, 2012, Registration opens at 9 a.m., kick off at 10 a.m.

Who: Anyone age 18 and up

Why: To support Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

For registration and more information about the event, please visit www.sacramentofoodbank.org

About Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services is a local, privately funded, non-profit organization serving families in need since 1976. A staff of 40 and several thousand volunteers accomplish SFBFS’ mission of assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and by moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence. More information is available at www.sacramentofoodbank.org.

Project DREAM (Developing Resiliency through Education, the Arts and Mentoring) started in 2004 when two friends, Kate Bishop-Hazarian and Susan Welch, began to dream about providing students in the North Sacramento and Del Paso Heights communities with the same type of enrichment programs their children had in a middle class community.  Kate had been a school social worker and administrator for many years in the area and told Susan stories of the challenges her students had with homelessness, poverty and truancy.

Susan, a real estate agent from Prudential Realty in Roseville, was touched by the stories and wanted to make a difference.  She went on the Price is Right game show and won a ski boat.  She donated the proceeds from the sale of this boat to the homeless and other needy children in the area and DREAM began.

DREAM is a volunteer committee of business partners, parents and educators dedicated to raising funds to help pay for the positive activities that connect young people to school and inspire them to set goals for the future.  Whether it be violin lessons, uniforms and equipment for sports teams or field trips to the ocean, DREAM supporters believe that these activities build relationships between students and caring adults and shows them possibilities beyond the challenges that they face today.

DREAM has partnered with many businesses and community members to fund nearly $300,000 in enrichment activities, holiday charity programs and College Bound Scholarships in three short years. We’ve also stretched $130,000 in donations from the Bayside Family of Churches to replace playgrounds at Hagginwood, Harmon Johnson and Northwood Schools.

DREAM is entering a new phase as the district they serve has grown. The former North Sacramento School District merged with Grant Joint Union, Del Paso Heights and Rio Linda Union School Districts on July 1, 2008. They have also joined with volunteers from the Rio Linda Education Foundation and are expanding their fundraising ability to meet the needs of 28,000 students in 50 schools throughout the north area of Sacramento County.

This year, just like in the past, DREAM is specifically outreaching to youth who have overcome significant obstacles, such as homelessness, growing up in foster care, being an immigrant, and other family challenges. For 2012, they’ve raised $14,000, enough to offer 25 students headed to college a dorm shopping spree at the Natomas Target in July. DREAM will also purchase six laptops for students who don’t own a portable computer. If they can raise another $10,000, they will purchase laptops for all of the program participants who are about to start their first year of college.

To learn about how you can help Project DREAM, you can visit their website by clicking here. To see a great video of last year’s event, click here.