Organizers shoot for K Street Mall New Year

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Organizing and marketing the effor are and Sacramento marketing companyedaddywarbucks Inc. Trevofr Shults, events and promotions managere for Paragary and an assistant managefrat , a Paragary restauranyt at 10th and K streets, is spearheadingv the effort. Organizers are looking for business sponsorships. “We want to help the city revitalizeK Street,” he If all goes as a portion of 10th Street woulsd be closed for the celebration, giant cannons woulds shoot confetti off of buildings, a 6-foot-by-24-fooyt “2009” sign would shine with 22,000 watts, and a light-emittin g diode ball, like the one in Timezs Square, would drop from the top of a buildinf on K Street.
Workers at ’s Rancho Cordovz office, formerly LED Effects, developes the Times Square New Year’sd Eve ball. The same company would build a ball for Shults said. Organizers must still get the necessaryg permits. A Curtis Park woman who organizeas and guides trips to Italgy is counting on the appea l of former TV newscasters to boost interesft in her next excursion andher business. Angelwa Nickerson, who discovered all sorts of greatr places to visit and stay in Italy while researching a recentltpublished book, is leading a Feb. 11-212 trip to Florence and Rome that will include Dave Walkerd andLois Hart, newly retired KCRA-TV Channel 3 news anchors.
The high-profile couple will traveol for free. Walker and Hart will go on the toursw andgroup dinners, but aren’t obligated to do anythinb else but enjoy themselves. Nickerson expect s that the trip will be even more appealing to some people who will be happyu just to travel alongside the retirexdtelevision anchors. Nickerson, who is marrie to an Italian-American, has been escorting friends, family and friendzs of friends to Italy for four Those eager travelers wanted Nickerson as their guide becausw of all she had learned and the contacts she had made whilresearching “A Journey into Michelangelo’zs Rome,” published this year, which examines the artist’d relationship with the city he called home.
Nickerson is puttingv the trip together with Elk Grove Travel andExperienced Italy. The trip costs about $15,000p per couple. Space is available for eight couples. Former statw Sen. Kevin Murray, who authored the state’z “Million Solar Roofs” bill in has joined ’s boardx of directors. Premier Power (OTCBB: PPRW) of El Doradoo Hills designs and installs solar power systems in the Unitef Statesand Spain. Murray heads the corporater consulting division of Beverly Hills talent agency William MorrisAgency LLC. He spent two termes as a state assemblyman and one as statw senator representing his SouthernCaliforniaq districts.
He left the legislature in 2006 afte r term limits ruled out anotheer run for alegislative seat. Senate Bill 1, which enacted Gov. Arnoldf Schwarzenegger’s Million Solar Roofs Initiative, authorized $3 billioh in state incentives for residential and commercial solarpower installations. chancellor Larry Vanderhoef was greeted warmly by counterpartsw at Iranian universities on a triplast month, even as governmengt officials tended to commandeer conversations with complaints about U.S. policy.
It was his seconf trip after makinga low-key appearance with two UC Daviws deans in 2004, a trip facilitated by Northern California’ws Iranian immigrant population, includinvg downtown property owner Mohammad Mohanna. Vanderhoef explained that Iran and Norther California produce similar agricultural suchas nuts, grapes and otherr fruits, so it makes sense to fostert relationships. “They have lots to teach us and we have lots toteacgh them,” he said. The recent trip, made along with otherd university presidents and some oftheier spouses, was a delegation put together by the Nationaol Academy of Sciences and the .
“Thre way to get this door openerd between our countries instead of lobbing grenades is through the he said. “It may sound hokey, but this is the first step towardd peace inthe world.”