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Streetwise: Intersection On Film
Written By NatomasBuzz.com on Sunday, November 6, 2011 | 10:20 PM
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Just how safe are Natomas streets for pedestrians and cyclists?
As part of our special series "Streetwise: Walking & Biking in Natomas" THE NATOMAS BUZZ investigated complaints of chronic red-light runners at the busy intersection of Del Paso Road and Natomas Boulevard.
Over a 30-minute period, two to 11 cars ran every red light turning northbound from Del Paso onto Natomas Boulevard.
See the video where pedestrians were forced to wait for 11 cars to run the red light - while the seeing-impaired signal chirped it was safe to cross - before crossing the street here.
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Hundreds Search For Missing Teen
Written By NatomasBuzz.com on Saturday, November 5, 2011 | 10:08 PM
PHOTOS BY LARRY RODDA & BRANDY TUZON BOYD
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Hundreds of volunteers today searched a massive area of Natomas looking for missing teen Sergio Jimenez.
The search started at the Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep campus on Del Paso Road, where the 17-year-old was last seen at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2
"This is incredible - the support," NP3 principal Tom Rutten told those gathered in the school gymnasium.
An estimated 800 volunteers divided into three separate groups searching the agricultural fields, drainage canals, unfinished housing developments and roadways around the school and south toward San Juan Road where Jimenez lives.
Sergio is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing 145 pounds. He
was last seen wearing black jeans, a light gray Polo shirt, and
black-and-gray classic style Vans. He also had on a charcoal gray Vans
zip-up hooded sweatshirt with small back stripes. He had with him a
large, black Jansport backpack. Sergio always wears two necklaces – a
choker made of black twine with a cross and and a brown scapular with
two religious pictures. He wears black, Ray Ban glasses.
Students, parents, teachers, community members and others were looking for any sign the teen might have walked home the day he disappeared. Volunteers reported any findings back to Sacramento Police detectives and also noted any surveillance cameras spotted during the search which might hold video with clues to Jimenez's whereabouts.
Additional police officers were on hand to process any clues found during the search as were Reclamation District No. 1000 and Sacramento City utilities workers and a Sacramento Sheriff's Dept. search and rescue canine unit.
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Inderkum Wins Paws vs. Claws Matchup
BY CHRIS SHANNON
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The Inderkum Tigers finished the regular season atop the Tri County standings by defeating the Natomas Nighthawks 49-7.
The Tigers head to the Division 2 playoffs as the third overall seed and will face the McNair Eagles (5-5) at home Nov. 11.
The Nighthawks (0-10) caught the Tigers (9-1) off guard, scoring a touchdown within the first few minutes of the game. The Nighthawks also held the Tigers on fourth-down deep in Nighthawk territory.
Inderkum regrouped and scored 35 unanswered points by the half. They held Natomas High to no touchdowns the rest of the way.
It was the Tigers’ sixth straight win over the Nighthawks and ninth straight win this season.
The win also secures Inderkum’s spot above Woodland (8-2) who, despite defeating Pioneer 28-21, will finish with a league record of 4-1 to Inderkum’s league record of 5-0.
Natomas High heads to the off-season with their worst record since they went 1-9 in the 2008-09 season.
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Search For Sergio Starts In North Natomas
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The search for missing Natomas teen Sergio Jimenez started shortly after 9 a.m. this morning from the Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep campus at 3700 Del Paso Road.
Several hundred volunteers are combing the agricultural fields, drainage canals, unfinished housing developments and roadways in the area south of the school toward San Juan Road, where the 17-year-old lives with his aunt and cousins. They seek any sign Jimenez walked home from school.
Jimenez was last seen on the NP3 campus and went missing after school on Nov. 2; he has not been in contact with family or friends since.
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Search Planned For Missing Natomas Teen
Written By NatomasBuzz.com on Friday, November 4, 2011 | 12:33 PM
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The Natomas community will join in the search for a missing teen tomorrow morning.
Sergio Jimenez, 17, was last seen at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep campus at 3700 Del Paso Road.
A walking search is planned from the campus along the route Jimenez could have taken if he decided to walk home from school. He usually rides the school bus.
Sergio is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing 145 pounds. He was last seen wearing black jeans, a light gray Polo shirt, and black-and-gray classic style Vans. He also had on a charcoal gray Vans zip-up hooded sweatshirt with small back stripes. He had with him a large, black Jansport backpack. Sergio always wears two necklaces – a choker made of black twine with a cross and and a brown scapular with two religious pictures. He wears black, Ray Ban glasses.
A volunteer search party will meet 9 a.m. in the NP3 gymnasium. Groups of volunteers will walk the roads and fields between the school and the neighborhood where Jimenez lives, west of Interstate 5 and off San Juan Road, searching for any sign of the young man.
Volunteers are advised to wear long pants, old shoes, be prepared
for tall vegetation, mud and uneven ground; a walking stick is
recommended.
“Everybody's help would be greatly appreciated,” NP3 principal Tom Rutten said.
Students on campus are worried and several plan to help with the search. Concern about Jimenez's whereabouts continues to mount with each passing hour, said Rutten.
“It's like he's vanished into thin air,” said Teresa Valdivia, the aunt with whom Jimenez lives. “Nobody knows anything, nobody has seen anything, nobody has seen him. We're all stumped.”
Valdivia describes her nephew as routine-oriented, the student who was always first to board the school bus, who was never absent or tardy for class.
“We are concerned because this is uncharacteristic behavior for this young man,” north area police Capt. James Maccoun said via e-mail to Natomas-area residents. “However, we have no indications at this time of foul play. A variety of investigative measures are underway."
Last night, the Sacramento Police Department helicopter unit conducted an air search of the Westlake neighborhood near the school campus at 7:46 p.m. looking for Jimenez. Police are also said to be checking for surveillance video from area traffic cameras.
Valdivia said she hopes tomorrow's ground search will shed light on whether her nephew tried to walk home from school – or rule it out as a possibility.
She said, “We're looking for some shred of evidence Sergio was walking through there.”
Call the Sacramento Police Dept. at (916) 264-5471 with any information.
Call the Sacramento Police Dept. at (916) 264-5471 with any information.
Natomas Buzz NP3 Intern Emily Mibach contributed to this report.
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Natomas v. Inderkum On The Field Tonight
BY CHRIS SHANNON
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Tonight is the Respectful Rivalry pitting the Natomas Nighthawks against the Inderkum Tigers and if history is an indication of anything, odds are not on the Nighthawks’ side.
Things have been rough for the Nighthawks team which has not won a single game all season. Natomas High has also never defeated the Tigers on the football field.
In their five meetings since 2006, the Tigers have dominated the Nighthawks, outscoring them by an average of 49.2 points to 7.8 points.
The Nighthawks will have to fight to change the trend.
For the season, the Tigers are scoring 33.4 points per game while holding opponents to 18.2 points per game. In contrast, the Nighthawks as scoring 12.8 points per game while allowing opponents to score 37.2 points per game.
Not all hope is lost for the Nighthawks to pull of an upset; they had a strong start against the Linden Lions earlier this year, and played a close game against River Valley.
Game kicks off 7 p.m. tonight at at Inderkum High School.
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Women's Tackle Team Tryouts In Natomas
BY CHRIS SHANNON
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The Sacramento Sirens women’s tackle football team will hold tryouts at Natomas High School at 9 a.m. on tomorrow, Nov. 5 and Dec. 3.
Participants should bring water, cleats, and dress in workout clothes.
The Sirens were incorporated in March 2001 as part of the Women’s American Football League. In 2002, the team joined the Women’s American Football Conference and won their first championship that same year.
The Sirens joined their current league, the Independent Women’s Football League (IWFL), after the 2002 season and went on to win three consecutive IWFL National Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. The Sirens were the IWFL Western Conference Champions in 2010.
Registration begins at 9 a.m., followed by tryouts at 10 a.m. Cost is $45.
For more information, call (916) 722-6432.
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Where In Natomas?
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Seen In Natomas: One Top Teacher
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Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan presents Natomas Unified School District's Teacher of the Year, Jeff Galindo, with
an Assembly resolution in the music teacher's class with his students at Natomas Middle School.
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Water Levels Normal In Natomas
Written By NatomasBuzz.com on Thursday, November 3, 2011 | 2:59 PM
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Have the Natomas retention basins and canals looked more "full" than normal? They are.
THE NATOMAS BUZZ asked Reclamation District No. 1000 general manager Paul Devereux about the phenomenon.
Once a year, the reclamation district treats area canals with an herbicide to clear them of vegetation. Until the herbicide dissipates, water cannot be released from canals flowing throughout the Natomas region, or flood retention basins like the one pictured above in the North Natomas Regional Park, into the American and Sacramento rivers.
Devereux said the reclamation district has notified city and county officials of the "all clear" and regular releases should resume.
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Capt. Jerry Visits Natomas School
PHOTOS BY LARRY RODDA
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The city-run "Captain Jerry Traffic Safety Program" paid a visit to Two Rivers Elementary School in Natomas on Wednesday.
The program is designed to education school-age children on traffic safety such as how to travel safely to and from school, using seat belts, walking in crosswalks, watching for cars and bicycling rules.
The Capt. Jerry program was presented to Two Rivers students during two separate assemblies. A Two Rivers student was hit by a car while riding his scooter to school last month.
Capt. Jerry advised students of the "Cool School Safety Rules"- Stop! Look! and Listen! Wear a helmet! Buckle up! and DON'T talk to strangers!
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17-year-old Natomas Teen Missing
BY BRANDY TUZON BOYD
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Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep senior
Sergio Jimenez, 17, remains missing this morning.
Jimenez was last seen on the Del Paso
Road campus where surveillance video shows the teen heading toward
the bus loop at about 3 p.m. He was last seen wearing a gray, zip-up hoody sweatshirt, black jeans and white tennis shoes.
Principal Tom Rutten said a fire alarm
pulled in the school gymnasium delayed the release of school by a few
minutes on Wednesday. The school day is scheduled to end at 2:55 p.m.
“He gets to the center of campus and
turns like he is heading to the bus pickup area," Rutten said this morning of the video. "After that we
don't see him again.”
Jimenez has been a student at NP3 for 1½ years and previously attended Natomas High School. He lives with
his aunt in south Natomas and usually rides the school bus with his
cousin to a stop on San Juan Road.
Jimenez reportedly never got on the bus
after school on Wednesday.
Sacramento police officers, parents and students
searched the NP3 school grounds last night. As of 9 a.m. Thursday, Jimenez had not attempted to contact family or friends.
Rutten
this morning said he was continuing to review the surveillance footage. The case has been turned over to the police department's Missing Persons detectives.
Anyone with information about Jimenez's
whereabouts is asked to contact Rutten (916) 826-5966 or the Sacramento Police Department (916) 264-5471.
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RD 1000 Celebrates 100 Years In Natomas
PHOTOS BY LARRY RODDA & BRANDY TUZON BOYD
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Reclamation District No. 1000 on Wednesday, Nov. 2 celebrated it's centennial with an open house event held at its historic offices and adjacent pump station on Garden Highway.
More than 100 people - from the Inderkum family to Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna - attended the event celebrating 100 years of the District "protecting lives and property in Natomas community."
Reclamation District No. 1000 has been providing flood protection and
public safety to residents, businesses, schools and agriculture since
1911. The special district maintains more than 40 miles of levees
surrounding the perimeter of the basin to keep floodwaters from the
Sacramento River, American River, Natomas East Main Drain Canal,
Pleasant Grove Creek Canal and Natomas Cross Canal out of the basin.
The district also operates and maintains hundreds of miles of canals and seven
pump stations in the interior to collect and safely discharge the rain
that falls within the Natoma basin back into the river.
Revenues to operate and maintain RD 1000 are raised through a
special benefit assessment on properties in Natomas which benefit from the
flood protection provided by our efforts. The assessment appears on the
annual Sacramento County property tax bill as a direct levy and is determined by the
property’s use, size and location in the Natomas basin.
This week's event was also the premiere of the new book "A Century of Protecting Natomas: The History of Reclamation District No. 1000, 1911-2011" by Natomas writer Karen Wilson. Copies can be ordered from RD 1000, call (916) 922-1449 for more information.
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Seen In Natomas: Fall Sunset
Written By NatomasBuzz.com on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | 6:18 PM
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