Pictures of the Week Oct. 23-29
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Kristy Levings and Brian Douglass raise several breeds of chicken at Cache Creek Meat Co. The birds dine on organic feed and run free in pastures. -
Folsom defenders Jordan Richards (middle) and Kori Babineaux (5) break up a pass intended for Monterey Trail's Michael Worthen during a key Delta River League game in Folsom. Babineaux scored in overtime, but it wasn't enough for the Bulldogs. -
Joleen Robbins, left, and family friend Jessica Laughtin sit beside a display of candles and photographs Saturday night outside the house on 39th Street in south Sacramento where what are believed to be the decomposed bodies of Robbins' daughter Tammula and Shan Cote were found. -
Jason Thompson gets hit by #50 for the Warriors Corey Maggette as he drives to the hoop. Thompson got the foul on the play in the first half. Kings Vs Warriors October 17, 2009. -
Nelson Rivera (center) walks with his son Nathan and family to the entrance of the Memorial Auditorium to participate in the ceremony to become an American citizen on Wednesday morning. Rivera, whose wife was killed by the D.C. sniper in 2002, now lives in Sacramento with the couple's young daughter and plans to return to the East Coast in two weeks to witness the execution of John Allen Muhammad. October 21, 2009, -
Susan "Sussy" Flanigan sits in her favorite spot at the Dutch Flat Hotel earlier this month. Flanigan and her husband bought the three-story hotel in 2003 and poured more than $1 million into restoring and decorating it. But Flanigan said they can't break even as a bed-and-breakfast and have put the hotel up for sale. -
Bertha Sanchez, an employee at Rocket Farms in Salinas, carries a flat of orchids, which will be shipped to supermarkets around the country. Thanks to science, today's moth orchids will bloom even for people who lack a green thumb. -
Sacramento King Omri Casspi celebrates after penetrating the Portland Trail Blazer defense in the second half Wednesday, October 7, 2007 during the Kings' preseason opener at Arco Arena. Trail Blazers win 89-86 -
Bettye Elaine King received a kidney transplant at age 78 through the United Network for Organ Sharing, whose expanded guidelines allow cadaver transplants. Now she's working to dispel myths that keep the elderly off transplant lists and to recruit more black don- ors. "Wealth and race and age have nothing to do with who gets a transplant," she says, "or else why would I have have gotten mine?" -
Workers repair the damaged section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, after a rod attached to the Bridge snapped on Tuesday during the commute, Wednesday, October 28, 2009. -
Gerald Hawkins, father of Sacramento State slaying victim Scott Gregory Hawkins, displays photos of his son at various stages of his life, along with a note asking for privacy, on his front porch in Santa Clara on Thursday. -
This Novelty Orchid waits to be transported from the Rocket Farms greenhouse in Salinas to supermarkets around the country. Novelty Orchid is a catch-all term applied to any Orchid that displays more than a single color on its pedals. -
Kathy Newman, 60, right, vents frustration Thursday during a computer lesson at Sacramento's Ethel M. Hart Senior Center. Instructor David Hatter, 31, standing, offers advice as Carol Scott, 71, left, and Newman's husband, John, 63, follow along. "I'm over my head already, just signing up for this," says Scott. -
Jared Clark, a worker at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova, washes lettuce. In summer Soil Born has a waiting list for its produce boxes. Executive Director Shawn Harrison wants to collect produce from other small operations for delivery to larger buyers, like schools. -
Malinoi, front, and Mara are Grevy's Zebra at the Sacramento Zoo, October 15, 2009. -
Nelson Rivera, above, embraces his daughter Jocelin, 10, outside Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday after taking the oath of citizenship. -
Plant manager Chris Kemp looks through a venting panel Monday at the Nestle water bottling facility in Sacramento, where the city ordered work halted Friday. -
Stephanie Nishikawa organizes goods at the Paper Garden Boutique in Town & Country Village. Nishikawa sells a variety of premium paper stock and printing instruments such as ink stamps. These appeal to customers who like to fashion homemade cards and gifts. "They can be the Martha Stewart on the block," she said. -
Richard Song, left, and Cassie Eskridge light candles for Scott Hawkins, whom his professors described as being an especially engaged student. -
Kamau, the African lion, looks out of his exhibit at the Sacramento Zoo, October 15, 2009. -
Darrelle Revis of the Jets grabs an interception over the RaidersÕ Todd Watkins. -
Czeslawa Belson, center, joins Jon Nutting and his daughter Amethyst in a mass dance to the beat of Michael Jackson's video smash hit from 1983, "Thriller." Seventy-six other dancers also participated Sunday in the event at the Marketplace at Birdcage. -
A mini sampler plate with smoked ribs, southern style chicken, and tri-tip with homemade sides of collard greens, coleslaw, mac & cheese and flips at House of Chicken & Ribs in Antelope, Wednesday, October 14, 2009. -
Gerald Hawkins comforts his wife, Elizabeth, in their sonÕs bedroom in their Santa Clara home Thursday. Scott HawkinsÕ bookcase is full of the history books that were his passion. Gerald Hawkins said his son liked the history department at CSUS "better than any other schoolÕs." -
Suki Sennett, shown with dog Iggy, is vice president of the 500-home Sausalito Floating Homes Association and calls the community "a wonderfully crazy" place. -
Boy Scouts march from Raley field toward the state capitol. Called the "California Capitol March, " 5,000 - 6,000 Boy Scouts walk to the state capitol from Raley Field to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding the organization. It's the first in the nation celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Scouting (1910-2010). -
Sharon Lamagni of Exeter looks at portraits of state Senate members during a lunch break Tuesday for the California Senior Legislature. The group is holding its annual model legislative session through Friday at the Capitol. The four-day session examines issues of the aging and helps to shape potential legislation helping older citizens. Members of the nonpartisan, volunteer body are elected by their peers in their regions.
