We’re just breaking free of winter, but the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services is already thinking and talking turkey – as in next Thanksgiving’s 17th annual Run to Feed the Hungry.
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Filling food banks is goal of El Dorado youth group push
An El Dorado Hills-based youth group will sponsor a “Fill the Food Banks” blitz March 21 at several grocery stores from Orangevale to Placerville.
AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands
HOLDING FOR STORY: graphic shows law enforcement statistics for outdoor marijuana cultivation Not far from Yosemite’s waterfalls and in the middle of California’s redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them. Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level: using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering a potential yield of more than 30 tons of pot a year
Schwarzenegger, Clinton discuss obesity at summit
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday weighed in on California’s pricey battle with obesity, calling for the elimination of sugary “sports drinks” in schools and more vigorous physical activity during and after school. Alongside former President Bill Clinton, who underwent heart surgery to open a clogged artery this month, Schwarzenegger discussed solutions to the obesity crisis at a summit of leaders in the public and private sectors of health care in Los Angeles.
Feds indict SK Foods’ chief on racketeering, conspiracy charges
Frederick Scott Salyer has been indicted on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner just announced. Salyer faces seven counts that could each net him 20 years in prison in connection with a massive fraud allegedly perpetrated nationwide in the food industry.
Getting high not needed for pot to relieve pain, new UC study shows
University of California system researchers have concluded that smoking pot provides effective relief of pain-related medical conditions.
Tougher school lunch safety rules in the works
By this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have launched its most sweeping safety reforms in a decade for the food it buys for school lunches.
Don’t let good oranges to to waste, activists say
Orange trees line P Street in Sacramento. Both city and state collect fallen fruit as green waste
FBI arrests SK Foods owner on fraud charges
Frederick Scott Salyer, heir of one of California’s biggest land barons, was arrested Thursday in New York City after being secretly charged in Sacramento federal court with massive fraud in connection with the operation of his SK Foods LP.
Sacramento to designate ‘Little Saigon’ district
Nancy Tran broadcasts Thursday from Vietnamese Radio TNT. She sees efforts to identify a section of Stockton Boulevard as “Little Saigon” as positive. “For a lot of Vietnamese immigrants, Saigon has a deep meaning – it reminds us of freedom,” Tran says.
