Pictures of the Week Aug. 28 - Sept. 3
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Kara Dobrinski draws the curtains in her Elmhurst home to keep it cooler in the summer heat. She and her husband also leave their air conditioner off to keep their utility bills down. The current economic downturn, she says, "is a great time to be more frugal and live below your means." -
Big Springs Garden has been a labor of love for Don Phillips, who annually opens his 30-acre hideaway near Auburn for weddings, lunches and barbecues from June through September. But due to health problems, Phillips thinks this will be his final summer at Big Springs, which features thousands of blooming plants. The garden has been called "Monet in the Mountains," for its French-like vistas and welcoming flower-lined pools. -
A worker for the city of Sacramento Department of Utilities deflates the tires of a trailer truck Wednesday afternoon as it sits wedged on 16th Street under the railroad bridge near C Street. Police Department officials said the truck, operated by Pallet King of Stockton, was too tall to make it through the underpass. The trailer was stuck for hours until a tow truck finally was able to extricate the rig Wednesday evening. No one was injured. -
Helen Lim Kim, in her south Sacramento home, fled North Korea on foot after communists took over. An upcoming reunion of relatives in the split country has her remembering her 1991 visit to the North. -
Goalkeeper Wes Colter has traveled from homelessness to dealing drugs to prison and now is bound for Milan, Italy, to play in the Homeless World Cup. -
Haydee Perry stands outside her Antioch home, next door to where Phillip Garrido and his wife allegedly held captive Jaycee Lee Dugard and the two daughters he fathered with her. Perry said that she saw only one little girl living at Garrido's. Perry estimated she was 11. She said the girl was nervous, uneasy and "not right." -
In an alley between K and L streets, at top, artist Clare Bailey follows local landlord Thomas Roth along the first mural in the Midtown Alley Project. Above, Bailey and Roth compare their arms with the painted version that became part of the 80-foot-long work by many artists. -
Sacramento police officers photograph homeless camper Carmen Bray outside her tent Wednesday. Police rousted about 30 people from the site on C Street owned by Sacramento attorney Mark Merin. He has allowed the homeless to illegally camp on the property while negotiations on a permanent solution proceed among local business, political and religious leaders. -
Grant lineman Villiami Moala works out recently at the school. The Pacers are The BeeÕs preseason No. 1 pick. Last season included a bowl victory over Long Beach Poly. -
Marla Gordon holds her daughters as they looked at their burned down home on Oak Mist Lane destroyed by the Auburn fire. August 30, 2009. The fire consumed 275 acres and destroyed over 20 structures. -
Jeff Back, who with wife Gail owns Back Wine Bar in Folsom, pours water for a visitor recently before taking her orders. -
San FranciscoÕs best urban hike is family friendly. The Coastal Trail at Lands End offers sweeping views of coast and ocean. -
Garrett Haden, 15, shreds lemon zest for one of his culinary creations, a sauteed shrimp dish with black olive chipotle pesto sauce. -
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont, listen to a debate Monday. Both houses' bills aim to halve parole officer caseloads, but the Senate plan would cut prison spending by $220 million more. -
Tim Waring reviews vegetables with his son Liam, 2, at their home in Davis. Liam is covered by the Healthy Families health insurance plan for low-income working families. An apparent bipartisan deal in the Legislature may prevent more than 500,000 children from being dropped from the program because of state budget cuts. -
Franchisee Jeff Conley opened his first Wingstop store three years ago in Elk Grove and a second store in Tracy in April. Since a wing recipe became popular in Buffalo, N.Y., in the 1960s, spicy variations have helped increase U.S. chicken wing consumption to 2.55 billion pounds last year. -
Phillip Craig Garrido is escorted by deputies at the El Dorado County Jail as he is taken by car to his arraignment at the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, CA on Friday, August 28, 2009. Phillip Craig Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, were charged with 28 felony counts, including rape, in the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard. -
Alex Cabral takes some swings with help from tosses from his father, Rick, during a recent visit back to Sacramento. Above, he settles a squabble between 6-year-old nephews Michael, left, and Anthony Alden. Cabral hopes to study engineering at UC Berkeley -
Big Springs Garden has been a labor of love for Don Phillips, who annually opens his 30-acre hideaway near Auburn for weddings, lunches and barbecues from June through September. But due to health problems, Phillips thinks this will be his final summer at Big Springs, which features thousands of blooming plants. The garden has been called "Monet in the Mountains," for its French-like vistas and welcoming flower-lined pools. -
Ron Ulm of West Sacramento loves to hunt. So does his yellow Labrador retriever, Gracie. During bird-hunting season, the two are an efficient, eager team. Says Ulm: "If I get up in the morning on a weekend and I put a hat on, she's ready to go. She knows what's going to happen. She hops in the truck." -
Christopher Zajic, owner of Zajic Appliance Sales & Service in Sacramento, checks out an energy-efficient refrigerator. The prospect of multiple rebates "seems almost too good to be true," he says. -
Desi Casarez looks for anything salvageable Monday in the fire-ravaged Auburn home of his fiancee, Rachel Higgs, who barely escaped the 49 fire Sunday with her infant daughter, Aubrey. "We are absolutely relieved" that no one was killed, one fire official said. "This was like an Armageddon for a couple hours here." -
The Giant Wheel is framed by a rosy sunset Thursday. Fair officials are hoping that evening entertainment attracts ample crowds. -
Destin Cantrell of Huntington Beach arches his body Thursday while his motorcycle soars above the Xtreme Zone in a freestyle motocross show at the State Fair. Each day at 3 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., FMX riders sail across a 75-foot gap between two ramps as they flip and gyrate 35 feet above the ground. -
Brittany O'Bryant her putt on the 2nd green of the Emerald Lakes Golf Course. Steve Pajak is writing story that features three Bee readers weekly playing a local golf course with which Pajak is not familiar and helping him write about it. -
Aryn Bigler of Roseville displays the form that won her first place in the adult women's freestyle this month in the World Baton Twirling Federation's International Cup in Sydney, Australia. She also placed first in adult solo and adult 3-baton. -
Jessica Brambila, who was a second-grader at Meyers Elementary School when Jaycee Dugard was abducted on the way to school, recalls Thursday how her parents walked her to the bus stop every day after the kidnapping. The ÒmissingÓ poster of Dugard is still used to teach South Lake Tahoe children about dealing with strangers. -
It takes Deborah Lee about 45 minutes to make her little monster friend Ð you can do it, too, with her step-by-step instructions, here and at www.instructables.com. Keywords -
On the Coastal Trail just past the USS San Francisco memorial, you can glimpse the Golden Gate Bridge and see tourists posing for pictures. -
Lucas Allen, 4, left, suffered wounds in his neck and chest after he wandered too near a neighbor's leashed Rottweiler. In the melee that followed, brother Jak, 8, suffered wounds to his arm. Lucas' injuries required about 100 stitches and three days in the hospital. Every year 3.5 million children in the United States are bitten by dogs, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
Jean Kong, a massage therapist, leaves the West Sacramento Ikea on Wednesday with material for her massage room. West Sacramento's new campaign to boost local shopping will promote businesses ranging from newly arrived national chain stores such as Ikea and a Walmart Supercenter, to long-established homegrown favorites.
