Friday Night Lights + Ballot Envelope Holes + Gold Over America

Sacramento CA

21 August, 2021

3:29 PM

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Welcome to the Sacramento Patch daily newsletter for everything happening Sunday August 22nd, 2021 in The River City. First, today's weather: Clear throughout the day. High: 85 Low: 55. What a beautiful spring-like day it will be! Here are the top stories today in Sacramento: Friday night football is back! High schools across the district played their first games of the season on Friday night. See how your favorite team fared! (ABC10)It's a little known fact that every county designs its own ballot and its own envelope for mail-in voting. Sacramento County's envelope has holes next to the signature line. This has prompted a social media frenzy about the reason for the holes and whether they compromise the confidentiality of your vote. According to Janna Haynes, a spokesperson for the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Office, these holes do not compromise confidentiality. They actually serve a dual purpose, both to ensure blind people know where to sign their ballot and to allow vote counters to ensure every ballot has been tabulated. (ABC10)The Wildwood Performing Arts Foundation out of Folsom canceled its Friday performance of the Gold Country Hayride concert to instead hold a free private concert for those forced to leave their homes due to the Caldor Fire. It was a small bit of relief for people who have been through so much. (FOX40)The nationwide bus driver shortage is impacting Elk Grove schools. The morning routes are all covered, but the district is having a problem getting the afternoon routes covered. Officials are relying on parents to pick kids up from school. EGUSD administrators says they don't know when schedules will return to normal. They are working to recruit and they say that they're going to invest in more training and benefits for those employees to try to help alleviate the problem. (KCRA3)Olympic gymnast Simone Biles will headline the "Gold Over America" gymnastics tour that is coming to Golden 1 Center in September. She'll be joined by Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum, who, along with Biles, won the silver for the team event, Jade Carey, who won the gold medal in floor exercise, and Mykayla Skinner who won the silver in the vault. Tickets are now on sale. (KCRA3) Today in Sacramento Got a 1919 silver dollar burning a hole in your pocket? Sell or trade it at The Sacramento Coin Show at Lion's Gate Hotel. (10 am) All of your favorite coffee shops will be in one spot at the Caffeine Collective! Come out and experience some of Sacramento's best artisanal coffee, pastries, and handmade crafts! (11 am)Yoga and suds (also known as BOGA) can be yours at LogOff Brewing! If the yoga doesn't Zen you out, the morning beer buzz will! (11 am)Sugar Shack will be at Louie's Cocktail Lounge tonight. Enjoy your Sugar Shack with a Cosmo with a sugar rim. (5 pm) Sacramento Patch Notebook Sacramento City Unified School District has a Reopening Dashboard where you'll find COVID data from the district and at the school-site level. As of August 13, SCUSD had provided more than 22k doses of the vaccine and more than 17k tests at school sites and the Serna Center, with a 1.7% positivity rate. Sacramento County's positivity rate is 8.6%. Day Trip! Start out at the Ruhstaller BSMT taproom downtown. They have 16 constantly rotating taps with small batches for you to try. Like it? Then *hop* on over to Dixon where they grow the ingredients! You'll find live music and food trucks every weekend at their farm! You can get your local business featured in this spot in the Sacramento Daily for just $79 a month. Click here to get started. That's it for today! I'll see you soon. If you're loving these newsletters, consider bringing some more friends and neighbors on board. You can send them this link to subscribe. — Jeri Karges About me: Jeri Karges has been living in and loving the Sacramento region for over 30 years. Her passion is finding new and unique ways to enjoy the city and surrounding areas. On weekends, you can find her pestering her friends to sample the restaurant that doesn't have silverware, or try their hand at throwing an axe. Jeri also enjoys writing about retirement planning at https://rockinretirement.subst... Have a news tip or suggestion for an upcoming Sacramento Daily? You can reach me at [email protected].