Letter: Thanks for making Pence sale a success
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This year, the Pence Gallery was forced to cancel its annual Garden Tour due to COVID restrictions. But as with art itself, there are work arounds and this year we adapted the Garden Tour into an outdoor Art in the Garden event.
Twenty artists created wonderful art to enhance gardens and delight garden owners. There were over 200 items available, and their sale helped not only local artists, but the Pence Gallery itself. Upstairs in the Andresen Learning Center, the “Natural Abundance” exhibit featured garden paintings from 18 artists. Fresh bouquets of flowers, fabulous theme baskets, plants, and free seed packets from Hedgerow Farms, all contributed to the festive theme.
Even a pandemic couldn t stop the population and housing boom in this Sacramento suburb
Sacramento Bee 4 hrs ago Darrell Smith, The Sacramento Bee
May 7 It s never happened before.
California s population shrank for the first time in 2020. By the numbers, that s 182,083, or 0.46%, a decline slightly larger than the population of Elk Grove.
Any drop in the Golden State is big news a first-ever 12-month decline for California, the state Department of Finance said Friday attributed to fewer births, changes to federal immigration policy that slowed migration and deaths from COVID-19.
But look inside the state population figures released Friday and it shows Elk Grove residents what they already see and feel.
It was David Mering’s turn to share. On a conference call in March 2020 with a group of independent advertising agencies, he looked a bunch of other CEOs in their virtual eyes and confessed that COVID-19 put Mering, the Sacramento-based branding company he founded in 1985, in a chokehold. It was tough to admit. Other owners had shared minor updates, nothing catastrophic. But most of Mering’s clients came from the travel industry, so the agency (whose motto is “We move people”) found itself at the mercy of a pandemic. “You can imagine, when everything went into lockdown, we were hit
Steve Murray
The new company is called RTC Consulting and is the brainchild of Steve Murray, who co-founded and previously served as president of Real Trends, as well as Scott Wright, former Real Trends vice president. According to a statement, RTC Consulting is a “real estate research and management consulting firm” that will advise companies on “valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and business planning services.”
The statement goes on to tout Murray and Wright’s past experience consulting on those issues.
“In 2020, together, Murray and Wright advised on a slew of transactions including Gardner Realtors in their sale to Latter & Blum, Benchmark in its merger with United Real Estate, Virtual Properties in its merger with United Real Estate, Better Homes and Gardens Kansas City to a local investor group, Lyon Real Estate in being acquired by Windermere, and many others,” the statement notes.
Comings & Goings: Businesses feeling absence of UCD students
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ASUCD Coffee House closed indefinitely on Friday. Noting a lack of business, its management said the CoHo will remain shuttered at least through winter quarter.
In a Jan. 14 statement, Darin Schluep, longtime director of Associated Students Dining Services, said, “We will be utilizing this break in service to evaluate the past year’s operations, and identify key learnings and improvements to implement as part of the reopening strategy for the Coffee House and its satellite operations.”
Schluep said Dining Services management will determine by the end of winter quarter whether to extend the closure through spring and summer.