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Here’s a list of what is open and closed in Sacramento County on Monday, Nov. 11 — from supermarkets and pharmacies to banks.

Holiday hours can differ by location, so be sure to check with your local store before heading out.

Here’s when supermarkets and other retailers in the Sacramento area will be open for Veterans Day on Monday:

Costco: 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Trader Joe’s: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Raley’s: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. (some locations open until 11 p.m.)

Safeway: 5 a.m. to midnight (some locations open until 2 a.m.)

Sam’s Club: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Winco: 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. (some locations are open 24 hours)

Whole Foods: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Target: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Here are open hours for local pharmacies on Veterans Day:

CVS: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., pharmacy closes for lunch 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Walgreens: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (hours vary by location)

Walmart: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Sacramento malls will be open for Veterans Day at the following times.

Arden Fair Mall: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Westfield Galleria at Roseville: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The U.S. Postal Services will be closed and will not deliver mail on Veterans Day.

Public libraries will be closed, as all library locations are closed on Sunday and Mondays.

While most banks will be closed for Veterans Day, ATMs will be available.

Expect some delays on bank transfers.

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Sacramento County health inspectors shut down a local Japanese restaurant after discovering major health violations, including an active cockroach infestation and sewage backing up in restrooms.

Additionally, four other Sacramento County restaurants received yellow placards due to various health concerns, ranging from slime buildup and food debris to a dead rodent.

While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations, these are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Food Inspection Guide.

A red placard, however, signals “imminent danger to public health and safety” and suspends the health permit until violations are corrected. This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.

In contrast, a green placard means a restaurant passed inspection.

The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually, with 97% of establishments passing, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.

Approximately 1% of inspections result in a closure, he said.

During previous inspections, health inspectors closed a local restaurant and hotel due to a lack of hot water and other food safety violations.

Tea Bar & Fusion Cafe, 2700 Capitol Ave. in midtown Sacramento, and Holiday Inn Express & Suites of Elk Grove, 2460 Maritime Drive in Elk Grove, both passed a reinspection and received green placards.

Here are the results of Sacramento County food facility inspections for Oct. 31 through Wednesday, Nov. 6, as of Thursday afternoon:

If an inspection listed below needs clarification, business owners can email The Sacramento Bee at [email protected]. The Bee publishes weekly updates on health inspections across Sacramento County.

Teriyaki Stop, 185 Blue Ravine Road, Suite 100, in Folsom, had three violations on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

Health inspectors closed the Japanese restaurant for serious violations, including sewage surfacing in restrooms and non-operational restrooms.

Additionally, inspectors discovered an active cockroach infestation.

One live adult cockroach was seen on the floor drain in front of the three-compartment sink, along with more than 10 free-moving cockroaches under bait traps in the same area.

The restaurant had not been reinspected, as of Thursday, Nov. 7.

The following Sacramento County restaurants had violations the week of Oct. 31 through Wednesday, Nov. 6, resulting in a conditional pass.

Only the dates of violations are listed. Due to the conditional pass and receipt of yellow placard, a reinspection was or will be conducted within 24 to 72 hours of the inspection. The reports are linked.

For updates on individual restaurants, you can search the EMD website here.

Tupi Coffee, 1901 Eighth St. in Sacramento, had six violations on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

During inspection, Sacramento County health inspectors noted several violations, including a lack of hand soap at the front hand sink.

There was no sanitizer in the automatic dishwasher, even after three cycles.

Additionally, dark slime was seen on the ice machine’s working parts.

Inspectors said the coffee shop had no employees with valid food manager certificates or accessible California food handler cards.

Lastly, inspectors observed an employee’s coffee on a preparation table in the kitchen.

The coffee shop had not been reinspected as of Thursday, Nov. 7.

Butcher and Barrel, 723 K St. in Sacramento, had seven violations on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

The steakhouse was cited by health inspectors for a bottle of liquor containing a fruit fly at a bar.

Inspectors also discovered one dead rodent in the downstairs storage and eight rodent droppings in the front bar area.

Potentially hazardous foods, including butter, milk and cheese, were observed out of proper holding temperature.

Inspectors said a spinach dip and soup in large containers had been cooling improperly for approximately four hours. Improperly heated short rib sauce was found in a steam table.

Additional violations included an uncovered employee beverage on the cook’s line and boxes of to-go containers stored on the floor in the downstairs storage area.

As of Thursday, Nov. 7, the restaurant had yet to be reinspected.

Huong Sen Tofu, 6830 Stockton Blvd., Suite 105, in Sacramento, had 11 violations on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

Sacramento County health inspectors cited the Vietnamese restaurant for lacking a valid food manager certificate, missing food handler cards for all employees and an expired health permit.

Inspectors said the facility had cleanliness issues, with accumulated grease and food debris on the floor beneath the main cook line, throughout the side storage room and on the hood filters.

Additionally, there were broken light covers above the main cook line.

Among the other violations, inspectors observed an employee eating in the main cooking area and found a plate of cut honeydew melon, reportedly intended for staff, stored on top of customer food items inside the walk-in cooler.

Vegetable egg rolls and fried tofu were at unsafe temperatures.

Various dishes, such as tofu, steamed buns and cooked corn, were on the service line with newly applied time stickers, despite being past their safe consumption times.

The restaurant had not been reinspected as of Thursday, Nov. 7.

Suzie Burger, 2820 P St. in Sacramento, had nine violations on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

The hamburger joint was cited by Sacramento County health inspectors for violations including the absence of an employee with food safety certification and missing food handler cards for review.

Additionally, a case of food was improperly stored on the floor in the walk-in freezer and an employee beverage was in an improper container and placed on the prep cooler’s cutting board.

Other violations included raw beef patties stored above vegetables in a cold drawer, raising cross-contamination concerns.

Several potentially hazardous foods were outside of safe holding temperatures, including a cheese sauce kept in an insufficiently heated water bath.

A restroom hand sink was missing paper towels.

Inspectors had yet to reinspect the restaurant as of Thursday, Nov. 7.

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Native Americans will take center stage in a parade running through Capitol Mall for the first time in Sacramento’s history on Saturday.

In honor of Native American Heritage month, the California Legislative Native American Caucus has organized the celebration, which begins at 10 a.m., to highlight the cultural diversity, achievements and visibility of California tribes and Indigenous peoples nationwide.

Saturday’s festivities will highlight more than 80 tribal nations, Native groups and other allies to Indian Country, said Assemblyman James Ramos, D-San Bernardino. The parade will come down straight down the west Capitol steps, he added.

It’s a day that will be incredibly meaningful for people like Dustin Murray, the tribal administrator for Shingle Springs. His Miwok ancestors were banned from practicing their cultural traditions, he said. Growing up, his community was discouraged from embracing their identity publicly due to negative stigma the tribe faced, Murray said. Countless times he saw his elders and relatives from previous generations confronted in public.

“People used to say all sorts of nasty things about the tribe, especially when they were put in the spotlight,” Murray said. “We just kept our opinions to ourselves, because if you tried to advocate or stand up for it, you’d be in trouble.”

Fast forward to today, where instead of hiding their cultural practices on the Rancheria, the pride of the Shingle Springs will be out for Sacramento and the Capitol to see. Saturday won’t just be a parade, but a day his ancestors fought for, he said. It will be a day of reclaiming what was taken away from them. To be who they are as tribal people, without any fear of retribution.

“(This is) something that mine and every other Tribal person’s ancestors were unable to do for a very long time,” Murray said. “I hope that who we are and the work we continue to do is who and what they prayed for.”

Parade floats will highlight specific aspects of various Native cultures, said Ramos. For example, Shingle Springs’ float will showcase its close ties to the Sacramento Valley and its waterways.

Tribes from across California will perform cultural dances, including the parade’s Southern California tribes, who will be led by inter tribal bird singers, Ramos, and Wayne Nelson, who is from the Pala Band of Mission Indians and is a member of the California Native American Heritage Commission.

Saturday’s festivities will bring several topics impacting tribal communities to the forefront, said Ramos. It will be a call for the state to acknowledge the atrocities inflicted on Native people, dating back to the California genocide, Spanish colonization and issues today, like the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis.

“We’re exposing that, for the state of California, to see and to be able to work together and move forward from this painful past, but also to build on the resiliency of our ancestors,” said Ramos, who is Serrano/Cahuilla.

California has the largest Native population out of any state in the country. More than 700,000 people who identify as Native American or Alaska Native live in the state.

Tribal nations have faced significant cultural barriers for decades, Murray said. For Native people, gaining basic rights has been a long fight. Tribal communities were forbidden from practicing their religious beliefs in public until 1978, when the American Indian Freedom of Religion Act passed. And it wasn’t until 1924 that Native people were granted the right to vote with the Indian Citizenship Act.

Native people have also overcome generations of Indian termination policy, which was a series of laws that dismantled tribal sovereignty and attempted to assimilate Indigenous peoples. These laws were enacted throughout the 1940s and 1960s. Tribes today are still reclaiming their identity and autonomy as independent nations, living through the aftermath of these policies.

Wilton Rancheria, whose headquarters are in Elk Grove, was targeted by Indian Termination policy under the California Rancheria Act and lost its federal recognition in the late 1950s. The tribe gained it back in 2009. Wilton Rancheria will be one of the many tribes featured in Saturday’s festivities.

The parade will give Native people the chance to represent themselves how they want to be, Murray said. After generations of attempted eradication, government assimilation and erasure, this parade will give power back to tribes to embrace who they are.

“The visibility this parade affords us doesn’t just ask to focus on our traditional aspects of being a people, but our lives in the contemporary too,” Murray said. “There is no theme, we are the theme.”

This story was originally published November 7, 2024, 7:00 AM.

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Emma Hall is an equity reporter for The Sacramento Bee covering Indigenous and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders communities. She’s previously worked for the Chronicle of Higher Education and NPR. She is a graduate of Sacramento State and Diablo Valley College.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County voters are still waiting to hear the results of some of the biggest races.

Meanwhile, the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Office says it's processing ballots as quickly as it can.

"Hundreds of thousands of ballots still left to process. As of the end of election night, the last release of results we are sitting at about 35% voter turnout, but that's really only inclusive of early voting and the people that voted in person," said Janna Haynes, spokesperson for the Sacramento County Voter Registration & Elections.

The ballots left to count include those dropped off at drop boxes Tuesday night and from mail coming in. The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections says they'll see close to an 80% voter turnout once all is said and done.

From now on, results will be released Fridays and Tuesdays until they certify.

"We don't call races. We only show results, so candidates and measures and propositions, the people that run those races often will make their own determination, kind of based on math — how many voters there may be in those districts — but we, as the registrar's office, we never call races," Haynes said.

The Elections Office has 29 days to certify, and they plan to use that time to ensure accuracy.

Sean Riley, an election worker who worked until 2 a.m. and had to be back by 8:30 a.m., says the goal is efficiency.

"Because it's very crucial, we don't want to get them mixed up, and if someone calls in and is looking for their ballots, we need to store them in the right place so we can find them pretty easy," Riley said.

The biggest question now is from voters questioning where their ballot is.

Haynes says, if you mailed it in, it's likely they haven't received it yet. Once the ballot goes through their machine, and the signature check and verification, the BallotTrax system will alert you once you sign up.

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Construction along Highway 50 in Sacramento will result in an “extended closure” lasting multiple days, according to Caltrans.

The roadwork kicked off Tuesday, Nov. 5, and will continue through the end of the week, the California Department of Transportation said on its website.

One freeway exit will be closed for an entire week.

Here’s where to expect delays:

The Highway 50 Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project, also known as Fix50, aims to rehabilitate pavement and add 14 miles of high-occupancy lanes from the interchange of Highway 50 and Interstate 5 interchange to the Highway 50-Watt Avenue interchange, Caltrans said in a news release.

The $483.5 million project is the largest in the Sacramento region, according to the project website.

The southbound 65th Street on-ramp toward westbound Highway 50 will be closed through Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 5 a.m, according to Caltrans.

Construction crews will work on the 26th Street off-ramp from the No. 1 lane on W Street from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Oct. 6.

In addition, various Highway 50 lanes and on- and off-ramps will be closed overnight on the following days, the state road agency said.

Nighttime work takes place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., Caltrans said.

Wednesday, Nov. 6:

Thursday, Nov. 7:

Friday, Nov. 8:

To avoid roadwork, drivers can take the following detours, Caltrans said in a news release:

Drivers should prepare to slow down, the agency said.

According to Caltrans, the speed limit has been reduced to 55 mph in the construction area.

California Highway Patrol officers will be “patrolling the area to issue citations to motorists who exceed that limit,” Caltrans said.

“Caltrans does not anticipate heavy dust or noise impacts to nearby city streets,” the agency said.

California Vehicle Code 22362 says it is illegal to exceed the posted speed limit in construction zones, even when workers are not present.

On highways, the speed limit is reduced by 10 mph, and in some areas, it can be as low as 25 mph.

Motorists caught speeding can receive tickets, with fines varying based on their speed.

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Caltrans has several tips for driving safely in construction zones. They include:

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This story was originally published November 6, 2024, 11:21 AM.