The Park District board of directors has decided to place Rio Linda’s Centennial Time Capsule in the Xeriscape Garden near the Sacramento Northern bike trail at the Community Center Park.
Reserve your place in history and be part of the Rio Linda Centennial Celebration.
On October 7, 2012, the Rio Linda Centennial Committee will be burying a time capsule for fifty years and they want letters and packets to be placed in it for the next generation to discover.
Submissions are open to anyone with any kind of connection to Rio Linda.
Deadline for all submissions is September 1, 2012 and they may be dropped of at the Rio Linda Community Center.
Requirements for Free Letter submissions
If you would like to submit a letters then it must follow these requirements:
A single piece of 8.5”x11” white paper (Please use acid-free and lignin-free paper).
Include on the top of the letter your Name, Address, Birthday and City and State where you were born. Black ink only (color ink will fade and might damage the paper).
The letters can be handwritten or computer printout and you may write or print on both sides. No glues, staples, stickers, glitter or anything attached to the page will be allowed.
You can write about whatever you want and print b&w pictures or decorations on your page. It’s up to you and your imagination what you want to say to the future.
A donation is not required for a letter but is appreciated.
Requirements for Packet submissions
If you would like to submit a larger packet of information about yourself, your family, group, business or organization then a donation of $25 is needed to cover expenses and the submissions must follow the same requirements as the Letters To The Future and these additional requirements:
The size of the packet contents must be 8.5” x 11” x 1” or less (about 220 sheets of typing paper).
Materials Allowed: Archival-quality acid-free and lignin-free paper, books, microfilm, b&w photographs prints or negatives (on a polyester base) and cotton or polyester items.
You can include color photographs (on a polyester base) but they may fade. you may also include archive-quality CD, DVD or Flash drives but there is no guarantee they will be readable when the time capsule is opened.
The contents you provide will be repacked in archive quality packing materials.
Also, the committee will only be looking for the submission requirements and will not read the contents of the letters or packets.
For more info please contact the Rio Linda Historic Society at (916) 991-3910
Email: RioLindaTimeCapsule@gmail.com or go to www.riolindacentennial.net
