Sac. Co. Sheriff’s Central Division Toy Drive

This holiday season the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Central Division is serving 250 low-income families who live in the South Sacramento county areas, including the Delta. Your toy donations are needed to give to the families who qualify and complete an application. The applications are screened and entered into a database.

Please bring a new, unwrapped toy to the Sheriff’s Central Division, 7000 65th Street, Suite B, Sacramento (behind Burlington Coat Factory). A collection bin will be in the front lobby from 9 am to 5 pm, M-F (excluding holidays).

All age-appropriate toys will be distributed to children up to 12 years old. The families will also receive a box of non-perishable food and a frozen turkey or chicken donated by the Salvation Army.

Your donated toys are needed by Friday, December 12, 2014. For more information, please contact Laura Grossman, Crime Prevention Specialist, at 916-876-8322.

"I Am the Dream and the Dream Is Now"

The Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT) is celebrating its 7th annual Season of Civil Rights with a series of events during the months of December, January and February to build awareness about the significant role that transit played in the American Civil Rights Movement.

In preparation, RT invites students in grades 3 through 12, who attend a school within RT's service area, to participate in the "I Am the Dream and the Dream Is Now" art and poetry contest.

The contest allows students to creatively express their ideas about the relationship between transit and civil rights either through art or writing. Original drawings must be submitted in landscape orientation on 8.5" high x 11" wide paper. Entries should not be created in pencil or include the use of unlicensed images taken from the Internet or print materials. Poems must be 10 lines or less and be original work and type written. All entries are required to relate to both the theme of transit and civil rights.

Twelve entries will be selected, four from each grade category: 3rd through 6th, 7th through 9th, and 10th through 12th. Winners will receive a $25 bookstore gift card and "The Rosa Parks Story" DVD.

RT will display the winning works of art and poetry on RT interior transit cards in buses in January and February 2015, to commemorate RT's Season of Civil Rights. Winning entries will also be on display at special events during the three-month campaign.

Submissions must be received by Friday, December 12, 2014. To submit original artwork or poems, please mail or deliver to:

Sacramento Regional Transit District
Attn: Season of Civil Rights Art and Poetry Contest
1225 R Street
Sacramento, CA 95811

All entries must be original work, and include student's name, grade, school, teacher and contact information. All contest entries received become the property of RT, which reserves the exclusive, unrestricted right for the use, reproduction and publication of the content of such entries.

For more information, contact Brittany Dobbs, RT Marketing and Communications Specialist, at 916-556-0125 or bdobbs@sacrt.com.

Nov. 15th is "A Taste of Tanzania" fundraiser

Please join the Sojourner Truth Museum on Saturday, November 15, 2014 to celebrate “A Taste of Tanzania” fundraiser.

Enjoy banana plantain with chicken cooked in curry and coconut sauce or fried fish cooked with coconut sauce. Both dishes will be served over rice and include a tossed salad. Price is $10. For an additional $2 you can get a slice of lemon meringue pie or butter cake and a 12 oz. cup of swonk tea.

All orders must be pre-ordered. Email sojomuseum@gmail.com to place your order. Deadline to order is Thursday, November 13th.

All orders will be for pick up only at the SOJO Museum, 2251 Florin Rd. #126, Sacramento, CA 95822 on Saturday, November 15th from 11 am to 7 pm.

Call 916-320-9573 for more info.

Registration for "Evening with Santa" Event

The Fruitridge Community Center and the Rizal Community Center are holding registration for the "Evening with Santa" event on Wednesday, November 12 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

This year they will take all applications and then do a lottery drawing for attendance. Those who are drawn will be contacted Friday, November 21, 2014 by the Southgate Recreation and Park District staff.

Please call 916-422-7610 for more information.

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