SACRAMENTO Safe Routes to School Conference - FREE

     Friday October 21, 2011  8:30am to 4pm
     Sacramento Count Office of Education
        10474 Mather Blvd, Mather, CA

The theme of this year's conference is how to get your Safe Routes to School project funded. Join in and get a leg up on the competition!

You'll learn.................
  ---Where to find and how to collect data that are asked for in an SRTS grant application
  ---How to build support for your project at your school and in your community
  ---About alternate funding for both engineering and programs in the afternoon you will have a hands-on opportunity to look at real SRTS grant applications and discuss why they were successful.

NOTE: Lunch will be available for purchase at the conference for $10 and will include carnitas, rice, beans, salsa, tortillas, apple salad, green salad and a drink.

Sylvan Ranch Community Garden- Oct 8- Saturday

Sylvan Ranch Community Garden - Citrus Heights

3rd Annual Harvest Festival

Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser 

Saturday, October 8, 2011, 5-7:30pm

at the Citrus Heights Community Clubhouse

6921 Sylvan Road, Citrus Heights

The Sylvan Ranch Community Garden is growing! Join us and see what we've accomplished, find out about what's next and learn how YOU can get involved in all the fun!

Tickets available at the door

Enter the Raffle and Silent Auction to win great prizes

For more information please contact Cheryl Bennett at (916) 281-8056 or

email: sylvanranchgarden@yahoo.com

 ALL YOU CAN EAT!!

Adults - $10 donation

Children - $5 donation

(ages 12 & under)

ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT

THE COMMUNITY GARDEN- We thank you!

and of course here is the best part THE MENU

Spaghetti w/ choice of meat sauce or marinara sauce

Garden Salad

Rolls and Butter

Assorted Beverages & Desserts

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Sylvan Cemetery- Citrus Heights overdue headstone for Civil War Veteran buried 110 years ago

THEODORE COLLINS FITCH, Captain Union Army 1865 – 121^st Ohio Infantry

Born September 13, 1838 – Died September 3, 1901

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On September 3, 1901, Theodore Collins Fitch died.  He was a veteran of the American Civil War and had served from the beginning in 1861 all the way to it’s conclusion in 1865.  He served in the 6^th Ohio Infantry and the 121^st Ohio Infantry, rising from private to the rank of Captain by wars end.  He was laid to rest in the Sylvan Cemetery in Citrus Heights, California.

Captain Theodore Collins Fitch did not receive a headstone for his grave site.  Instead there is simple metal bar in the ground with a small metal tag with his name, age, date of death and that he was a Civil War Veteran.  Over the 110 years since his death the tag has been bent and wrinkled to the point that it could no longer be read.  His final resting place almost became an un-marked grave.

After six months of research and building a document file on Capt. Fitch, a request was made of the Department of Veterans Affair for a proper military style headstone to place at the grave site.  In mid September, the headstone arrived at the Sylvan Cemetery.  It is a white marble, military style headstone with all of the information to describe the final resting place of an American Veteran. 

On Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 11:00 am, there will be a dedication ceremony at the Sylvan Cemetery in Citrus Heights, CA.  Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and Sons of Veterans Reserve Company B, 8 Calif. Infantry Regiment, will take part in the ceremony – dressed in Civil War Union Blue uniforms.  There will be musket salute, drum and bugle and a formal color guard.  The public is invited and encouraged to attend to pay tribute to an American Veteran who did not receive the recognition that all veterans deserve.

http://sylvancemetery.com/