{"id":269569,"date":"2026-04-15T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:11:18","slug":"empact-sacramento-sacramento-county-district-1-race-play-godspell-in-folsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269569\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPACT Sacramento | Sacramento County District 1 Race | Play \u2018Godspell\u2019 in Folsom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                EMPACT Sacramento | Sacramento County District 1 Race | Play \u2018Godspell\u2019 in Folsom&#13;<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776283878_976_img_6545.jpg\" title=\"From left, Deborah Ortiz, Tim Riley, Flojaune Cofer and Eric Guerra participate in a candidate forum for Sacramento County Supervisor District 1 at the Coloma Community Center in Sacramento on April 9, 2026.\" alt=\"From left, Deborah Ortiz, Tim Riley, Flojaune Cofer and Eric Guerra participate in a candidate forum for Sacramento County Supervisor District 1 at the Coloma Community Center in Sacramento on April 9, 2026.\" class=\"border\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption small\">From left, Deborah Ortiz, Tim Riley, Flojaune Cofer and Eric Guerra participate in a candidate forum for Sacramento County Supervisor District 1 at the Coloma Community Center in Sacramento on April 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credit small\">Tony Rodriguez\/CapRadio<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                EMPACT Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>The Natomas High School community is reeling following a deadly shooting last Friday. The victim has been identified as 16-year-old De\u2019Jon Sledge, a sophomore at Discovery High School, and two more people have been arrested. The Sacramento County District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/articles\/2026\/04\/14\/da-calls-natomas-high-shooting-self-defense-declines-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says it will not file homicide charges<\/a>, calling the shooting an act of self-defense during an attempted robbery. Leia Schenk is the founder of the grassroots organization <a href=\"https:\/\/empactcommunity.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EMPACT<\/a>, which has been a major source of support since the shooting. She joins Insight to talk about how her organization helps families feel supported and heal during difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento County District 1 Race<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will have a new member after District 1 Supervisor Phil Serna announced he will not seek reelection after 16 years. The crowded field of candidates looking to replace him include City Councilmember Erica Guerra, epidemiologist and former mayoral candidate Dr. Flojaune Cofer, former State Senator Deborah Ortiz and computer programmer Tim Riley. CapRadio Local Government Reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/about\/bios\/tony-rodriguez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Rodriguez<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/articles\/2026\/04\/10\/candidates-face-off-in-sacramento-countys-open-supervisor-race-at-crowded-forum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaks down the race<\/a>, which covers much of the Sacramento city core.<\/p>\n<p>Play \u2018Godspell\u2019 in Folsom<\/p>\n<p>Folsom Lake College\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.falconseyetheatre.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Falcon\u2019s Eye Theater<\/a> is presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harriscenter.net\/godspell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGodspell\u201d<\/a> at the Harris Center beginning this Friday, April 17. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/u\/0\/d\/1605S3BwEjasm-rJSOiK1bwuvRjgvzFhCpTtjYSixdgg\/edit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Mendiola<\/a> stars as Jesus and he joins us, along with Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.falconseyetheatre.com\/faculty-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Provenza Wallace<\/a>, to preview the musical. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; EMPACT Sacramento | Sacramento County District 1 Race | Play \u2018Godspell\u2019 in Folsom&#13; &#13; From left, Deborah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[701,702,117372,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-269569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-capital-public-radio","tag-cpr","tag-empact-sacramento-sacramento-county-district-1-race-play-godspell-in-folsom","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}