Food Truck 4 Kids+Beer Glass Brawl+Local Voice Contestant Rocks!

Happy Wednesday, neighbors! Let's get you all caught up on what's happening locally to start today off on an informed note.

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First, today's weather:

Today is the Autumnal Equinox! It won’t feel much like fall, though, as high temperatures will be several degrees above normal this week.

Clear throughout the day. High: 92 Low: 59.

Here are the top stories today in Sacramento:

1. Fun food at school? Why not?! The Sacramento City Unified School District has purchased a food truck that will go around to middle and high schools in the district and serve breakfast and lunch. The truck will serve only fresh foods - never frozen. The district is hoping the food truck mania that is sweeping the country will help entice kids to eat well. The truck was purchased by grants from the No Kid Hungry program. Besides going to the 80 different schools in the district, the food truck will also head to neighborhoods in the summer so students have access to high-quality food throughout the year. SactoMoFo watch out! (KCRA3)
2. Last week it was an egg roll and this week it is a warm beer glass that so enraged a restaurant customer that he resorted to violence. Restaurant workers say that the violence against them has escalated since the pandemic. This video catches this customer throwing a beverage and then a tip jar at a worker simply, she says, because they were too busy that day to properly chill the beer glasses. A police report has been filed and an investigation is ongoing. (ABC10)
3. According to Insurify, Rancho Cordova has the rudest drivers in the nation. "To determine the rudest cities in the nation, Insurify’s data scientists calculated the share of drivers with one or more rude violations on their driving record in 869 U.S. cities by analyzing over 4 million insurance applications," a spokesperson said. The highest number of "rude" incidents involved failing to stop or failing to yield. Rancho Cordova, however, begs to differ. "The subjective terminology Insurify uses to label specific moving violations can only be called sensationalism at best, and spurious at worst," said Maria Kniestedt, spokesperson for the city. They did their own crunching and the numbers are very different. (ABC10)
4. It was a high profile police killing. Darell Richards, 19, was shot and killed by SWAT Officer Patrick Cox and Sgt. Todd Ederton on September 6, 2018. The police claim that Richards pointed a gun at them in his backyard in the neighborhood of Curtis Park. Richards would be shot several times and killed. He was found to be possession of a pellet gun—one that resembled a handgun—and a knife. For reasons that are not clear, the city attorney’s office failed to file certain documents relating to the officers involved in this incident under seal, thus undermining the city's request for confidentiality of these documents. The documents in question are from an incident involving alcohol while on duty. The incident occurred nearly one year to the date after the incident and the city argues, therefore are not related to the incident, but the family's attorney argues that they are relevant to the decision making of one of the officers involved in the shooting. (The People's Vanguard of Davis)
5. A new season of NBC’s “The Voice” premiered Monday night and one of the new contestants who advanced is from Sacramento! First time judge Ariana Grande chose Sacramento mom Katie Rae as her first choice for her team. Three red chairs turned around (What's wrong with you, Blake Shelton!?) as Rae belted out “The Bones” by Maren Morris and I gotta say that chick ROCKED it! Listen for yourself! (KCRA3)

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Today in Sacramento:

• Art For Change presents an evening with Directing Change celebrating Hope & Justice. The first part of the event is a FREE Facebook Live Ribbon Cutting Event to introduce our brand new Hope & Justice Virtual Exhibit. The second part of the evening is a TICKETED virtual painting experience. (5:30 pm)
• Join a virtual talk by Tarisse Iriarte and Fernando Armenghol. This artist talk will be a dialogue about the ways in which Oaxacan photographer Fernando Armenghol and Afro Puerto Rican curator Tarisse Iriarte are co-creating with the Afro Mexican women on the coast of Oaxaca. (6 pm)
• Join guest teacher Lillian Frances and The Library Of MusicLandria for a super chill, hands-on introduction to home recording. (7 pm)
• Come out and laugh with Josh Means at By All Means presented by Laughs Unlimited. (8 pm)

Sacramento Patch Notebook

• At Majka Pizzeria and Bakery you can choose your pizza every day - by that I mean you can choose to take it or leave it. They only make one kind of pizza on any given day, but it changes every day they are open. They source fresh, local ingredients and those ingredients dictate what the pizza will be. You'll find everything from mushrooms to sweet potatoes on the pizza, but whatever the choice, this eatery is sure to become a Sacramento staple.
• This story is out of neighboring Solano County. I liked it so much, I just had to include it, though! This school custodian is one of a kind - so much so that he's won a national honor and a place on Time Magazine's cover! When I was in elementary school, if this dude had come into my classroom with a Ghostbuster's-esque cleaner pack on his back with a COVID Busters logo that he designed, he'd have been my best friend. Better than that, though, he felt so sorry for Spongebob sitting alone on the beach in a mural in one of the bathrooms that he painted a plethora of friends for him - along with some that were suggested by, and attributed to, the students of Alamo School in Vacaville. Maybe I just like him because he's teaching a new generation about Mr Rogers. (The Reporter)

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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...

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