Capitol Pops Concert Band lights up the Citrus Heights Community Center on Oct. 15

"An Evening with the Capitol Pops Concert Band" is set for 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, at the Citrus Heights Community Center, 6300 Fountain Square Drive.
Under the baton of Director Jerry Lopes, CPCB concerts feature Broadway show tunes, movie themes, marches and patriotic songs, as well as old/new popular standards. For more than a dozen years, the band has performed at venues and events throughout the Sacramento area, including the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee and the west steps of the Capitol in downtown Sacramento.

The Oct. 15 concert is sponsored by the City of Citrus Heights. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available for purchase on-site.

Director Lopes will add to the concert’s fall flair by featuring some spooky Halloween tunes and some lively polka music in honor of international Oktoberfest celebrations. The Citrus Heights concert also will feature vocalists and instrumental soloists.

Musicians in the Capitol Pops Concert band span a wide range of ages, from students to nonagenarians. The CPCB scholarship fund provides private music lessons for interested students.

Started in 1997, the Capitol Pops Concert Band has performed a diverse portfolio of high-quality, well-prepared music heard by thousands of concert-goers throughout Northern California. Based in Fair Oaks, the self-supporting, nonprofit band of about 75 musicians represents a wide cross-section of the Sacramento area.

For more information on the band, call (916) 967-1461 or visit www.captiolpops.org. E-mail inquiries can be sent to Lopes at glopes@macnexus.org.

3rd Annual Holiday Referral Program through the Citrus Heights Police Dept

It is that time of year to begin working on our 3rd Annual Holiday Referral Program.  We are planning to start advertising and releasing the application on September 26, 2011.  Please keep an eye out for families that could benefit from this program.  Due to the large numbers of referred families last year, we will be shortening the “open enrollment” period for the applications. We expect to open the process on October 3, 2011 and close it on October 14, 2011. We have also made a few changes to the program that we felt would benefit everyone involved in the program.  These changes are reflected in the attachments titled “Information Sheet”  and “Program Information.”     This will give us 6 weeks to evaluate families and children you are in contact with.    
 (IF you are interested in any of the attachments please contact me and I'll forward the attachments to you (slbenward@comcast.net)

We are also asking that anyone interested in holding a donation drive (i.e., food drive, toy drive, etc.) for this year’s program to choose a category listed in the attachment “Donation Request.”  If each club, school, or business could focus on collecting “like items” in the categories attached, we can provide each family with the same food items. We have come up with these categories based on last year’s needs.  However, please feel free to make any suggestions if you feel we are missing something. 

We are also expecting to receive a lot of donations from the community and due to the limited space and time we plan on accepting donations starting November 14, 2011 and ending on December 1, 2011.  If any of the clubs or schools plan on holding a donation drive before November 14^th we will try to make arrangements to store the items.  We are grateful for any help we can receive from the community; however, there is only limited space for storage and we want the adopting families to have adequate time to choose items for their family. 

For the service clubs and schools, please talk with your clubs/organizations regarding their participation in this program.  We will take any help they are willing to give.  We will also be setting up a meeting around the second or third week of September to discuss this program in further detail. 

I have attached the tentative program timeline, application draft, information sheet, and possible donation categories to this email.  All of these documents are still being updated and are not “set in stone”, so please feel free to review them and make suggestions.   We look forward to another great year and hope that the changes noted in the documents attached will assist with better organization, like items, and more time for family interviews.   

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 

Thank you,

Sandy Maraviov

Support Services Manager
Citrus Heights Police Department
6315 Fountain Square Dr.
Citrus Heights, CA.  95621
916-727-5557

smaraviov@citrusheights.net

PRESCRIPTION DRUG PROGRAM through Sacramento County

Through a neighborhood leader Jim Monteton: "Last Friday  (August 26, 2011) I attended the District 4 breakfast that Roberta MacGlashan holds every month.  During that meeting a presentation by the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services was made the identified a Prescription Drug Program that exists in the county that is available to all residents.  It costs nothing and you don't have to join any thing or fill out paper work.  You simply go to the web site listed below and print out a Drug Prescription card.  Then when you go to your pharmacy show the card and get a discount on all prescriptions.  It could be as much as 40-70% off.  At the web site you can check locations and pharmacy's within Citrus Heights."

"Again no gimmicks; no membership; no cost to you.  It's funded by Sacramento county.  It's one of those unknown secrets.  Any way please try it and pass the info on to your neighborhood residents - print the card and take it with you on your next pharmacy visit." 

If you are interested in getting information about the new prescription drug card service Sacramento County has, please go to this website-- http://www.sacbestrx.com/en/index.aspx   

Additional information can be obtained at:

·          1-877-684-0032

·          TTY 711 for relay link

·          The Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services website does have a link to the program in the HHS Partners tab

ALERT - Road Work Sep 6- 23, 2011

Beginning Tuesday, September 6^th at 9pm, Weston Construction Corp will begin night work at the intersection of Auburn Blvd and Greenback Lane.   A FULL ROAD CLOSURE will be in effect from 9pm until 5 am (access will be fully open by 6am).  Greenback will be closed westbound from Park Oaks/Bremen all the way to Garfield.  Eastbound will be closed from Garfield to Desimone.  Auburn will be closed from Desimone to the McDonalds (next to Chevron).  Traffic heading up Auburn will be able to make a right on to Desimone and access eastbound Greenback.  The detour maps are also available online.   Road closures will occur nightly beginning Tuesday, September 6^th (pm) and ending Friday, September 23^rd (am). 

No Friday or Saturday night-work is scheduled.   All the adjacent businesses and residents have been notified via handouts and a mailer.