🌱 Roseville Volunteers Adopt-A-Creek + Jessup Softball Champions!

Hello, neighbors! Jeri Karges here with your Wednesday edition of the Roseville Daily.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and hot. High: 97 Low: 65.

Here are the top five stories in Roseville today:

1. While Roseville boasts a long list of reasons it is a desirable place to live, unfortunately, we can't breathe easy that we are on top of all of them. Air quality in the Roseville-Sacramento region continues to be a challenge according to the American Lung Association. Sacramento is a valley, so "stuff" tends to settle here. We also are seeing a rise in building and, of course, extended fire seasons. All of that is conspiring to increase air pollution and decrease air quality. This article from Roseville Today shows you where we fall on the (bottom of) the lists The American Lung Association tracks for air quality. (Roseville Today)
2. Thanks to the wonderful community of Roseville, our creeks and rivers are clean, maintained and ready for us to enjoy and utilize as a natural resource. In October 2021, Environmental Utilities’ stormwater program began hosting multiple Adopt-a-Creek clean-up events throughout the city. As a result of this effort, over 6,300 pounds of trash were removed from the rivers by approximately 178 volunteers over 5 different events at 3 locations. Nice job, Roseville! We thank our volunteers for helping us keep our natural resources natural! (Roseville Today)
3. Softball at Jessup is HOT! And I'm not talking about sweaty players. For the first time in the program's history, the WJU softball team became NAIA Golden State Athletic Conference champions! But they're not done yet! They were named the number two seed in their bracket. They play number three seeded Rio Grande on their journey toward a potential NAIA championship. Nice Going Jessup! (ABC10)
4. We'll call this one "the kitten that outfoxed a Rocklin resident." A Rocklin woman rescued what she thought was a kitten. After a family member realized it was not a kitten, they called animal control. What the woman had found was a fox kit! The animal has since been taken to the Gold Country Wildlife Rescue to be treated. (CBS Sacramento)
5. Beginning May 28, the Roseville Aquatics Complex opens for the season by RESERVATION ONLY. Construction delays on the recreation and play pools mean that swimming is restricted to the competition pool which has limited space, and even more limited shallow water, resulting in the need for reservations. While the entire complex won’t be open on Memorial Day weekend, they hope to open more pool amenities soon (as construction permits). Reservations will be available each week on Mondays for the upcoming weekend. (roseville.ca.us)

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Today in Roseville:

• Join the Annual Snowline Remembrance Gathering at Palladio in Folsom. The Gathering offers you and your family a space to honor and memorialize your loved ones who have died, and a healthy space to deal with grief of all kinds. (5 p.m.)
• It's the VERY LAST Wine Down Wednesday of the year! Come down and take in the Town Square, listen to great tunes, taste local wines and be sure to bring your friends. (5:30 p.m.)
• It's trivia night at University of Beer in Roseville! Team up with your friends and put your knowledge to the test. (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out this stunning Blood Moon photo over Roseville captured by a local resident! (Roseville Today)
• The Roseville Police Department has 12 Summer Safety Tips for home and travel for you. Check them out here! (Roseville Today)
• Try something new with Roseville Public Library's 12 to Try Challenge! Join the year-long journey of exploring new genres through the 12 to Try Challenge hosted on Beanstack. The 12 categories range from "Book to Film" to "Food" and more. Sign-up is easy and free. Download the Beanstack app or visit https://roseville.beanstack.com/reader365 (Facebook)

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— Jeri Karges

About me: Jeri Karges has been living in and loving the Sacramento region for over 30 years. Her passion is finding new and unique ways to enjoy the city and surrounding areas. On weekends, you can find her pestering her friends to sample the restaurant that doesn't have silverware, or try their hand at throwing an axe. Jeri also enjoys writing about retirement planning at https://rockinretirement.subst...