Organizers shoot for K Street Mall New Year

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Organizing and marketing the effort are and Sacramento marketing companyedaddywarbucks Inc. Trevor events and promotions manager for Paragary and an assistantf managerat , a Paragart restaurant at 10th and K streets, is spearheadiny the effort. Organizers are lookinf for business sponsorships. “We want to help the city revitalizreK Street,” he said. If all goes as a portion of 10th Street would be closed for the giant cannons would shoot confetti off of a 6-foot-by-24-foot “2009” sign would shines with 22,000 watts, and a light-emitting diodr ball, like the one in Times Square, would drop from the top of a building on K Street.
Workers at ’s Ranchok Cordova office, formerly LED Effects, developed the Times Square New Year’zs Eve ball. The same company would build a ball for Shults said. Organizers must still get the necessary permits. A Curtiss Park woman who organizes and guides trips to Italy is counting on the appeal of former TV newscasters to boost interest in her next excursion and her Angela Nickerson, who discovered all sorts of great places to visit and stay in Italy whilr researching a recently published book, is leading a Feb. 11-2q2 trip to Florence and Rome that will includee Dave Walker andLois Hart, newly retired KCRA-T Channel 3 news anchors.
The high-profile couple will travep for free. Walker and Hart will go on the toura andgroup dinners, but aren’tr obligated to do anything else but enjog themselves. Nickerson expects that the trip will be even more appealiny to some people who will be happy just to travelk alongside the retiredtelevision anchors. Nickerson, who is marriesd to an Italian-American, has been escortinfg friends, family and friends of friends to Italyu forfour years.
Those eager travelers wanted Nickerson as theirr guide because of all she had learned and the contactsd she had made whileresearchingg “A Journey into Michelangelo’s published this year, which examines the artist’s relationshio with the city he called home. Nickerson is putting the trip together with Elk Grove Travek andExperience Italy. The trip costse about $15,000 per couple. Space is availabls for eight couples. Former state Sen. Kevin Murray, who authoreed the state’s “Million Solar Roofs” bill in 2006, has joinef ’s board of directors.
Premier Power (OTCBB: of El Dorado Hillsw designs and installs solar power systems in the United Statezsand Spain. Murray heades the corporate consulting division of Beverlh Hills talent agency William MorriwsAgency LLC. He spent two termsx as a state assemblyman and one as state senator representing his Southern California He left the legislature in 2006 after term limit ruled out another run for a legislative SenateBill 1, which enacted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’d Million Solar Roofs Initiative, authorized $3 billion in state incentivese for residential and commercial solafpower installations.
chancellor Larry Vanderhoef was greetede warmly by counterparts at Iraniabn universities on a triplast month, even as government officials tendecd to commandeer conversations with complaints abouf U.S. policy. It was his second trip aftert makinga low-key appearance with two UC Davis deanw in 2004, a trip facilitatexd by Northern California’s Iranian immigrant including downtown property owner Mohammad “Moe” Mohanna. Vanderhoef explained that Iran and Northerj California produce similaragricultural commodities, such as nuts, grapes and othetr fruits, so it makes sense to fosterf relationships.
“They have lots to teachb us and we have lots toteach them,” he The recent trip, made along with othef university presidents and some of theie spouses, was a delegation put together by the National Academ y of Sciences and the . “Th way to get this door opened between our countries insteade of lobbing grenades is through the he said. “It may sound but this is the firsft step toward peace inthe world.
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