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Placer County Partnerships: Setting the Table for Success
Placer County
Placer County partnerships are the key to our success. We are one of the fastest-growing counties in California and business is booming!
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CITY OF ROCKLIN
OFFERING MORE THAN JUST A GREAT QUALITY OF LIFE
This year, the City of Rocklin celebrates its 130th anniversary of incorporation. With humble beginnings in granite quarries and railroads, this city continues to grow in size while honoring its rich history.
Getting Back to the Happiness Business
Capital Region wedding venues share lessons learned from the pandemic years
After more than a year of canceled or postponed nuptials in 2020 and 2021, last year saw a wedding boom as many of those couples finally took their vows, spurring opportunities for growth and renewed hope for wedding venue owners across the Capital Region.
A Crayfish Craze in the Delta
Isleton Crawdad Festival returns for the first time in more than a decade
Isleton’s Crawdad Festival — a defining event from the mid-1980s to the late 2000s for the tiny city along the Sacramento River — returned to Main Street for the first time in 14 years on June 17-18, swelling the city of less than 800 residents to an estimated 60,000 over the two-day event.
A Place of Peace
Awe-inspiring flowers and vistas await visitors at Nevada County’s Crystal Hermitage Gardens
Even when the tulips aren’t blooming during the April-May window, Crystal Hermitage is a destination experience that has received accolades by AAA Magazine as a top garden to visit in the West.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY AIRPORT SYSTEM
PUTTING PEOPLE AT THE CENTER OF EVERY TRIP, EVERY EXPERIENCE, EVERY DAY
Dotted throughout the Greater Sacramento region are four airports that play a major role in the economic development and international connectedness of the area.
Hometown High School Sweethearts Bring Cajun Cooking to Benicia
Lines often form for their homemade cooking
The story of The Workshop, the popular 600-square foot Cajun-Creole walk-up restaurant in Benicia, starts with a teen romance between Danny Glassmaker and Naomi Buskirk more than 30 years ago.
Neighborhood Favorite: Stand Up Kabob
A Persian restaurant at a Davis car dealership aims to support the Iranian women’s revolution
There are many clues that Stand Up Kabob, a Persian restaurant
literally welded onto the side of a used car dealership on the
outskirts of Davis, is no ordinary kebab shop.
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ACRES OF HOPE
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Established in 2006, Acres of Hope provides a safe family environment and a healthy living program for women with children striving for a new way of life. This faith-based renewal center’s balanced approach through a two-year program sets the foundation of change and breaks the cycle of homelessness.
Neighborhood Favorite: Kind Bean Cafe and Ethiopian Cuisine
This cafe serves ceremonial Ethiopian coffee — and breakfast burritos
The coffee ceremony at Kind Bean Cafe and Ethiopian Cuisine
unfolds like a sacrament, each tool imbued with significance like
objects on an altar. The beans, roasted and ground throughout the
day, steep in a jebena, an ebony-colored earthenware vessel
developed more than 800 years ago.