By Kitty O Neal, News 93.1 KFBK
Jan 7, 2021
Listen: Nicole Grialou, Marketing Manager for Downtown Sacramento Partnership
The 16th Annual Dine Downtown event is on Jan 8-24 with 30 participating restaurants serving orders to-go. Downtown Sacramento Partnership has partnered with the locally created www.pickupfixe.com online platform for easy-to-use, seamless, and touchless order placement and curbside pick-up.
https://www.godowntownsac.com/
Lots of families have Christmas Day traditions. For one Sacramento-area woman, helping people who face homelessness has been hers for two decades. The Christmas in the Park project started 21 years ago. Judy Serafini and her daughter Jessica realized there was a need to provide essential hygiene supplies, hats, gloves and snacks for people without homes in Sacramento.So, they came up with an idea to provide a small offering of those items to Downtown Sacramento’s unhoused community.“Twenty-one years ago, we didn’t have a place to be on Christmas morning, and so we decided to come down to Cesar Chavez Park, where we knew a lot of needy hang out,” Serafini said. “At that time, all we could afford was lunch bags.”From lunch bags, to shoeboxes, to backpacks, the Christmas in the Park project has grown, year after year.Serafini her daughter, Jessica, and other volunteers distribute those essential supplies along with a $5 bill to people in need each holiday season.“On C
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âYou got to keep tryingâ: New Sacramento businesses open despite COVID-19 pandemic Share Updated: 6:10 PM PST Dec 12, 2020 Marlei Martinez Share Updated: 6:10 PM PST Dec 12, 2020
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Show Transcript PLANS. MARLEI. WELL WALTER MIDTOWN SPIRIT IS ONE OF THOSE NEW BUSINESSES HERE IN SACRAMENTO AND THE OWNERS TELL ME THEY ARE SO EXCITED BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST DISTILLEY IN THE CITY OF SACRAMENTO SINCE PROHIBITION, BUT THE HASNâT MADE IT EASY. DEEP AND ABRAHAMSON IS TRYING TO FOCUS ON THE GLASS HALF FULL DESPITE THE CHALLENGES OF A NEW BUSINESS. COVID SHUTDOWN DIFFICULT TIME RIGHT NOW DAVID AND HIS BUSINESS PARTNER OPEN MIDTOWN SPIRITS LAST MONTH GETTING ONLY A COUPLE DAYS OF INDOOR DINING AND A WEEK OF OUTDOOR DINING BEFORE HAVING TO SHUT DOWN THEIR NEW DIGS THE HARD PART WITH US BEING NEW IS THAT YOU KNOW, NO ONEâS REALLY HAD A CHANCE TO COME IN AND TRY STUFF NOW THE DISTILLERY RELYING SOLELY ON TAKE OUT