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Demonizing transients Mayor Mary Goloff’s decision, at last week’s Chico City Council
Farmers getting fracked V
intner Steve Lyons of Santa Barbara County
was stunned when he found an oil well in his vineyard in 2011. Veneco Inc. owns his mineral rights and proceeded to drill and frack a well without even notifying Lyons. Keith Gardiner is a third-generation Kern County farmer whose three 50-year-old deepwater wells were contaminated with chloride. He suspects the oil field tank farm and disposal well next to his property. The investigation will probably take years to prove, just like farmer Fred Starrh’s eight-year, $8.5 million judgment against Aera Energy. Aera contaminated Starrh’s groundwater with by frack wastewater, and now he is suing Dave Garcia Aera for $2 billion in punitive damages to clean up his aquifer. The author is the Kern County farmer Mike Hopkins is political chairman of suing the California Division of Gas and the Yahi Group Sierra Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). HopClub. He also serves kins does not own his mineral rights and on the Butte Environmental Council claims DOGGR exempted CEQA requirements for Veneco Inc. to drill in Advocacy Committee his orchards. His cherry orchard is dying and is a volunteer for Food and Water because of high levels of toxic chloride in Watch, which wants his groundwater. He suspects a nearby oil to ban fracking. He field as the cause, and fears oil wells on lives in Oroville. his property will only cause further contamination. Oil companies’ encroachment onto prime farmland has soured the mutual 4 CN&R March 14, 2013
existence of the oil and agriculture industries. The oil companies’ impunity has united Kern County farmers, who have formed the Committee to Protect Farmland and Clean Water. The committee complained to the county supervisors of the oil industry’s encroachment on their farmland without notice and polluting their groundwater, soil and air. These actions convinced the county supervisors to start crafting an interim public process for resolving land-use conflicts. Water is life. We must have clean freshwater to grow our crops and food. Fracking mixes thousands of pounds of toxic carcinogenic chemicals with millions of gallons of freshwater and injects this brew into the earth, leaving from 30 percent to 70 percent of this toxic brew in the well. Fracking removes freshwater from our water cycle, leaving this unusable toxic brew to contaminate our groundwater, surface water, soil and air. Agriculture is California’s No. 1 industry, with 81,500 farms producing $43.5 billion in annual profits in 2011. Fracking and farming don’t mix; just ask farmers Starrh, Lyons, Gardiner and Hopkins. Read “Fracking Our Food Supply” at www.thenation.com to discover that the more you learn about fracking, the more terrifying it becomes. Ω
meeting, to scrap the agenda for the next council meeting, on March 26, and use the time for a workshop “digging deeper” into the goals of the new group Clean and Safe Chico, was a bold move. Members of the group had just made an impassioned and persuasive presentation to the council, and Goloff wisely decided not to let the momentum dissipate. The eclectic ad-hoc group was formed to come up with responses to homelessness, but particularly the homeless transients and panhandlers who hang out downtown and in various other spots around Chico. It’s a good group with heartfelt goals, but as CN&R reader Bill Mash, himself homeless, notes in a letter to the editor on page 6, “When you target a minority sector under the guise of making an area ‘clean and safe,’ you do an injustice to the entire Chico community.” Demonizing homeless transients is harmful, Mash writes, because it encourages another downtown group, alcohol-fueled “young hoodlums,” to take out their rage on homeless transients. That’s why the council should focus the workshop on all of the factors that make Chico, and especially downtown, less than “clean and safe,” not just the homeless transients. Yes, there are more of them downtown, but let’s not go overboard. Downtown is still a highly attractive area. Our guess is that many Chicoans—probably most—still enjoy coming downtown during daylight hours. Weekend nights are another matter. Too often, the sidewalks are filled with drunken and belligerent youths making a spectacle of themselves and frightening passersby. Any effort to make Chico cleaner and safer should also focus on them. Ω
A worthwhile filibuster Sen. Rand Paul’s old-fashioned, 13-hour filibuster last week
drew attention to the United States’ use of drones to assassinate suspected terrorists around the world. As Glenn Greenwald writes, “For the first time since the 9/11 attack, even lowly cable news shows were forced … to extensively discuss the government’s extremist theories of power and to debate the need for checks and limits.” Polls show most Americans support the use of drones to kill terrorists, but that’s in part because most are unaware that far more innocent civilians, including children, are killed than terrorists. As some analysts have noted, the program reflects an “empathy gap” whereby innocent people in Pakistan or Yemen are less worthy of living than those elsewhere. Imagine the outrage were the U.S. to target terrorists in London or Berlin, with the resulting “collateral damage.” The drone assassination program is also deeply troubling because the criteria for targeting suspected terrorists are uncomfortably broad. Mere association with suspected terrorists, or being a man of a certain age in a certain village, is enough to generate a death sentence. Then there’s the tricky matter of targeting people who happen to be U.S. citizens, as was the case with Anwar al-Awlaki. The Obama administration has been forced to twist itself into legalistic knots to justify taking the life of an American without due process. Some people have pooh-poohed Sen. Paul’s biggest concern, which was that the administration might someday use drones to kill Americans on American soil. That would never happen, they say. But in fact the president has the power to label anyone anywhere, even an American on U.S. soil, an “enemy combatant” and do anything he wants to that person. This represents an unprecedented expansion of executive power that every American should be concerned about. Sen. Paul did us all a service by calling attention to it. Ω
Passing of the torch As I’ve often said about my tenure at the CN&R, I’ve been working here long enough to have quit twice and been fired once. Well, I’m about to quit again, this time for good. I’m retiring at the end of May, after nearly 30 years at the paper, off and on. I’ll no doubt do some reminiscing in upcoming columns, but for now I want to introduce my successor, our current managing editor, Melissa Daugherty. She will have the distinction of becoming the first female editor-in-chief in the paper’s history. About time, I say. Originally from the East Bay, Melissa’s long had ties to this area. Her grandparents owned an almond and walnut farm outside of Hamilton City, and she spent many holidays here with them and her cousins. So it was natural for her to attend Chico State, where she majored in journalism and worked for three semesters on The Orion student paper. After graduation in 2003, she took a paid internship with the Enterprise-Record, eventually going full time there, covering the town of Paradise and Glenn County. But her best beat, she says in a short bio she provided me, was Chico State, where she “broke some pretty big stories, many picked up by AP.” Some of the highlights, she writes, include a story about the Chico fraternity whose members had sex with porn stars filming a video for a Van Nuys-based porn company; a story about an L.A. Times reporter who parachuted into Chico, got his article all wrong, and when Melissa busted him got fired; and her investigative piece about the death of Chi Tau pledge Matthew Carrington in a hazing ritual in which she revealed that his would-be frat brothers had been warned during a campus lecture that water hazing could be lethal. In 2007 she moved over to the CN&R, where she’s filled almost every major role at the paper—Greenways editor, special-projects editor, news editor and managing editor—in addition to writing more than 140 stories. Along the way she and her boyfriend, Matt, managed to get married and have a baby together. I’ve worked with Melissa for six years, so I know she’ll be a great editor. She’s got all the right skills, she knows the area well, her colleagues respect and like her, she’s a superb content and copy editor, and she writes beautifully. She could work anywhere, but she and Matt love Chico and are fully committed to this community, so here they’ll stay. Please welcome Melissa to her new role. She can be reached at melissad@newsreview.com.
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Re “Another one bites the dust: Chico building director gone in a cloud of mystery” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, March 7): I find it odd that the best person for the position of assistant city manager is an employee who comes from Hemet, the place City Manager Brian Nakamura was last working. According to Mr. Nakamura, Mark Orme competed against 55 other candidates and (with the city manager having the last interview and say) came out the best possible choice. An unbelievable coincidence, at best. I am curious why, if Mr. Orme is such a qualified employee, he did not become the Hemet city manager? I am also curious why (in tight economic times) Mr. Orme had to be hired at near top step. Additionally, Mr. Nakamura’s admitting that his friend from Hemet was “on his mind” does not indicate an open selection process. Mr. Nakamura’s management style shows a clear tendency to fail to supply the City Council with timely information as to how he has arrived at a decision. When he brought the recommendation to reduce department heads, he admitted that the full report was incomplete due to time constraints. He did the same thing with salary adjustments of the remaining department heads. Finally, he clearly knew that he was going to hire Mr. Orme, but did not notify council until after salaries were set by the council. Transparency and professionalism in city government are essential. I hope the city not only encourages these traits, it also demands them. DAN TINNEL Chico
City Council, it is time to take a very serious look at the city manager you hired. We know he is willing to lie. He publicly stated to his staff, the council and the public in Hemet: “The outpouring from the community, council and department directors really confirmed my decision that ultimately I want to stay in Hemet. I never had a real desire to leave.” That was less than a month before he accepted the job in Chico. We’ve watched him talk in circles and give non-answers as he unveiled his plan that, as far as I can tell, is a promise to lay off close to a million dollars’ worth of employees with no data as to the real impact on the city. We’ve watched him end the careers of two longtime city employees. You don’t really think anyone is buying this “sudden retirement” nonsense, do you? Now, after he’s jacked up the salary of the assistant city manager position, Nakamura is bringing in an old buddy to fill the job. By now you are realizing you made a bad hire. You must be. So what are you going to do? JULIE GAO Chico
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What about the hoodlums? Re “Tackling transiency” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, March 7): When you target a minority sector under the guise of making an area “clean and safe,” you do an injustice to the entire Chico community. You also send a message that these people aren’t “OK,” giving young hoodlums additional impetus to attack and beat defenseless people during alcohol-fueled rages. It’s abhorrent to exclude the issue of college students’ behavior while under the influence of alcohol in public meetings to make downtown safe. You might be thinking, “Ah, that’s not fair, it’s just a small minority of college students making poor choices.” If so, understand the very same thing can be applied to the homeless population. Until the issue of alcohol-induced violence and mayhem is addressed, downtown won’t be safe. Period. BILL MASH Chico
More coyote tales Re “The coyote hunt” (Cover story, by Allan Stellar, Feb. 28): My grandfather was a hunter. He took my grandmother hunting in Idaho for their honeymoon. He would track big bucks for days, camping in the snow from Tuolumne to the Warner Mountains. He never shot more than he could carry, and he would probably laugh at what passes for a “hunter” these days, zipping around on four-wheelers in coordinated Cabella’s camo, shooting pre-ordered pheasants in a pen. He was no environmentalist— he bent sheet metal and shot pool for a living—but he was practical, he knew right and wrong, and he would have seen killing dogs
en masse as wasteful since it doesn’t achieve the desired goal of reducing their populations, which is the whole justification for the “hunt,” right? Shooting dogs for fun is not hunting, and it does not make someone a hunter. I like both city folk and rural folk, and it’s too bad everyone gets so polarized because the majority of folk in both those places are nice, really. My issue is that this particular issue isn’t about “tradition.” “Tradition” is taking your kids into the wild and teaching them how to be patient, how to think like an animal, to track, to shoot and dress a deer, and how to
have had are camouflaged by his blatantly biased and obviously fictionalized account of his experience in Adin. Adin is a lovely community of good, caring, hard-working people who take care of one another and welcome strangers as friends. Hunting is a part of their heritage and livelihood. It is a shame that Mr. Stellar had to denigrate the whole community in a misguided attempt to “bear witness for the coyotes.” It’s an even greater shame that the CN&R had to print his nonsense. SARAH DEFOREST Chico
“I can hear the coyotes howl at night and look my dog straight in the eye, and there’s nothing more Western than that.”
—Chris DiVittorio
be a good person. “Recreation” is popping coyotes like Now & Laters with a pistol-grip AR on the weekend for prizes. I have lost many hundreds of dollars to coyotes, so I know the frustration and even considered poison and traps. But in all honesty one could kill a thousand of them today and there would be just as many tomorrow. From a population biology standpoint you can’t make a dent, which is one of the reasons it is high time to do away with this and other legal dogkilling sports. I don’t anymore feel like I need to control nature, mostly because I can’t. I am smarter than them most of the time, and building cages and not being lazy has reduced losses to near zero, and while bending metal all day is nowhere near as fun as a 30-30, I can hear the coyotes howl at night and look my dog straight in the eye, and there’s nothing more Western than that. CHRIS DIVITTORIO Albany
I must object to Robert Speer’s assertion in his From This Corner column (“Coyote tale,” Feb. 28) that Allan Stellar’s piece was fair and balanced. It seemed to me that he went to Modoc County in search of violence and gore, and, finding none, he resorted to cheap caricatures of bloodthirsty, rifletoting rednecks instead. Northeastern California has a predator problem. Adin has found a creative, entrepreneurial way to address the problem. Mr. Stellar may disagree with the coyote hunt, but any valid arguments he may
As a rancher who manages to live peacefully with coyotes and other predators, I take issue with these hunts. Not only is it well documented that they are counterproductive in reducing coyote populations, but killing as a part of a contest to see who can kill the most is wrong. I’m not a hunter, but if I were a hunter who ate what I killed and treated the sport with respect, I would be furious to be lumped in with people who kill simply to win some sort of prize or trophy. Is this really what we want to teach our children? That certain lives have no value, or that our livestock matters more than our wildlife? KELI HENDRICKS Petaluma
Thanks for highlighting the decimation of the coyotes. I have not heard them in the early morning hours for months. They are one of the charms of the Chico area— the wildness with the hominess of the area. The author did an excellent job of shocking me with pictures and descriptions of what he and his brave granddaughter had to endure in the Clampet-like mindset of Modoc County. And these are the yahoos who are protecting their gun rights. We should all be deathly afraid. Bring back protection for the coyotes and run the yahoos out. M. MOHR Chico More letters online:
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SCHOOL DISTRICT GETS DESIGN AWARD
The Chico Unified School District announced this week that it had received the 2013 Leroy F. Greene Design + Planning Award of Honor for the 42,000-square-foot science-classrooms structure recently built on the Chico High campus. A press release says the “building’s shape and orientation on the site were carefully developed in order to save as many of the campus’ mature trees and to allow for maximum daylight entering learning areas at all times of day.” The building includes 16 classrooms, three science labs and a student commons area. Also receiving the award was the DLR architectural firm, which designed the building. The award is named for former Assemblyman and state Sen. Leroy Greene, who during his 36 years in office sponsored bills to fund the modernization of school facilities. Greene, who died in 2002, also introduced the bill that legalized bingo in California and one that would have legalized prostitution. That measure failed.
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The Butte Environmental Council has received $11,000 in two grants that it will use to give blood tests to five people who lived close to the Covanta-owned cogeneration plant Pacific Oroville Power Inc. The ash from the plant, which created energy by burning wood as well as ag and “urban” waste, tested high in dioxins. There is concern that the exhaust from the burners may have contaminated the air for those who lived close to the plant. BEC’s Mark Stemen said the organization is still figuring out how to offer the tests to those who may be affected. The tests will be analyzed by a lab in Germany, Stemen said. The grants came from the Patagonia outdoor clothing company and Clif Bar organic food makers. Both companies’ websites mention their respective environmental activism.
CHICO MARINE KILLED BY TANK
Chico High grad and Marine private Casey Holmes was killed Monday (March 11) during a training exercise when he was struck by a tank on the Twentynine Palms Marine base in Southern California. Holmes graduated from Chico High in 2011, joined the Marines last May and completed basic training in August. A family representative told KHSL-TV news that Holmes (pictured) was stationed in Hawaii and had last visited Chico at Christmas. He was said to be a gifted athlete in high school and considered among the most physically fit in his Marine company. The family released the following statement: “Casey is remembered for his tenacity of spirit and his loving nature. Casey dearly loved his family and friends. Casey was happy to serve his country and was proud of his success in the Marine Corps.” 8 CN&R March 14, 2013
County turns to hawks and falcons to chase annoying gulls from the landfill
B to discourage the thousands of California gulls that visit the Neal Road Recycling and
utte County has adopted a new way
Waste Facility every winter: hawks and falcons. For years the landfill has served as a cafeteria of sorts for story and the gulls, which consume food photo by Tom Gascoyne scraps and then circle above, dropping their waste on landfill tomg@ workers and customers below. newsreview.com The food they’re consuming and then depositing may be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. In recent years the state has urged landfills to try to disperse the birds, or the “flying rats,” as employees have come to call them. The gulls, though considered disease-spreading vectors, are protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Act, making it illegal to kill them or remove them or their nests from private property. Of course, the property where the landfill has sat for nearly 50 years is public, and the birds— which come from Utah—don’t actually nest there. Initially the county used pyrotechnics in the form of a propane-fired cannon that would emit a blast on regular basis, unnerving not only the gulls, but also the workers and customers. Marina Winslow is the county’s solid-waste inspector. “I inspect the landfill every month,” she said. “Vector control is required by the state.”
An inspection report from her on the landfill dated Feb. 25, 2008, includes the note: “Upon [local enforcement agency] arrival to the tipping area, numerous seagulls were observed at the working face. Take necessary measures to keep birds out from the open space.” Her Dec. 23, 2008, inspection report says: “Seagulls were observed at the work face area. The operator was applying screamers to control the birds.” Winslow said the “screamers,” or soundproducing devices, were not effective. “The gulls were not scared of the sound of the shotgun at all,” she said. “They don’t care.” So the county decided to try a new approach. In December, it awarded falconer Dave Myers a four-month contract to see if he could disperse the scavengers with his falcons and hawks. Judging from a demonstration last Sunday morning (March 10) organized by Winslow for county employees and their families, the new approach is not only effective, but also makes for great theater. Myers, of Oroville, owns Bird
Abatement Services. He’s long been a falconer, having gotten his first bird in 1967, when he was 12 years old. “I was originally a lizard boy before I
got a bird,” he said. “I guess I just advanced.” He got the county contract—$1,000 a week—after making a bid last fall and is now on site seven days a week, six hours a day. He has a business partner named Alan Taylor who’s been a falconer for 25 years. They have 10 birds in all— falcons and hawks—and use a combination of them each day. So far, the birds of prey haven’t caught a single gull, but their mere presence is enough to keep the pests away. As Myers talked, the peregrine falcons, gyrfalcons and Harris hawks were either in crates or sitting outside tethered to perches. The birds wore fitted leather hoods to keep them calm. One gyrfalcon was on a perch on the front seat of Myers’ parked truck, listening to countywestern music. “It keeps her calm,” Myers said. “At home they have TVs, and they mostly watch the hunting station.” Myers demonstrated two approaches to scaring off the gulls. The first was carried out by a 9-month-old falcon named Parker. Myer pulled the hooded bird out of his crate and fitted his leg with an electronic tracking device. Then, with the bird placed on his leather-banded
wrist, he removed the hood. Parker, tethered to Myers’ arm, fluffed his wings and gave out a series of screeches. Almost as if on cue, a flock of perhaps 100 gulls had gathered in the sky above, circling in coordinated motion and moving closer to the ground and its awaiting trash. Myers pulled out a “pole-lure”—a fishing pole attached to a rope that carried a piece of meat on its end. He released Parker and began swinging the meat. The bird began its swift motion of flight, rising and then diving in blazing speed toward the food. The swarming gulls noticed this, and in unison they lifted higher and moved to the south. Myers then pulled a Harris hawk named Venus from her crate and removed her hood. She, too, sat on his leather glove as he walked her across the landfill to a point about a quarter-mile away. He warned the children before he walked away, “Kids, keep quiet and don’t wave your arms and hands. She might think you’re food.” He released Venus, and she flew over the area where customers—private and commercial—were dumping their trash. The bird landed about 25 yards from her audience on a post that held food. Her initial flight again pushed away the circling gulls that had moved back and closer to the ground. She then made a series of flights, circling each time back to Myers’ waiting glove. The gulls disappeared. Myers said that, besides the landfill, he has a contract with the county’s two casinos to help keep them pigeon free. And he is hoping to expand his business to cover area agricultural businesses as well. Bill Mannel is the manager of the
county’s Waste Management Division. He said the county is working under the California Code of Minimum Standards for hauling and disposing of waste materials, which includes keeping vectors out of the trash. “We typically cover the trash with soil or tarps at night, to keep the gulls away from the trash this time of year, he said. “We used pyrotechnics for a while, but that was pretty devastating to the workers and the public.” The gulls, he pointed out, learned to live with the blasts. “It’s amazing how adaptable the gulls are for these predators, too,” he said. “If [Myers] comes out at 9 or 10 in the morning, they’ll fly away. But they’ll come back the next day at 7 in the morning. So now he comes out and stays from 7 until 4.” Mannel said that, beyond state encouragement, the county is trying to effectively shoo away the gulls for practical reasons. “We did this in part to try to find a very effective technique to protect the employees and our customers,” he said. “You put 5,000 gulls in the area, and they’re crapping on everything.” Ω
UPEC business manager Christopher Darker addresses Butte County employees currently represented by the Butte County Employees Association.
It’s union vs. union
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County employees consider new representation ome Butte County employees are so upset S with their latest contract and compensation that they are considering switching
unions to get better representation. About three dozen employees—some in office wear, some in weather-beaten orange shirts and all fresh from a day’s work— attended an informational meeting at Chico’s Oxford Suites Tuesday (March 12) evening held by the Redding-based United Public Employees of California (UPEC), Local 792, to hear what the organization has to offer employees. The workers are members of the county’s General Unit and Social Service Worker Unit currently represented by the Butte County Employees Association (BCEA), Local 1. The units include employees working for Public Works, Behavioral Health and other departments. UPEC Business Manager Christopher Darker and union relations representative Christine Perry reiterated several times that the meeting’s purpose was not to poach the BCEA’s members, but simply to let them know they have options. “We’re not here to knock our brothers and sisters,” Perry said. “Some of the people here asked to learn about us. This is America; we think competition is healthy, and we came down tonight to share our strengths and introduce ourselves.” The meeting turned into a good deal more than a meet-and-greet as angry employees shared horror stories about co-workers whose wages qualified them for public assistance and others who hadn’t received raises in more than five years. Some said they work multiple jobs to make ends meet.
At the heart of the debate are last year’s contract negotiations between the county and its employees. In the end, workers were forced to accept a deal that included a 2 percent raise (which workers say isn’t enough to keep up with inflation and cost of living), but cut their employer’s contribution to retirement funds. The employees have also absorbed rising costs of their medical benefits. One worker, who asked not to be identified, summed up the situation thusly: “We now pay all of our PERS retirement contribution, which is 7 percent of our salary. The county used to pay this as part of our benefits package. We still are required to pay this contribution, but now out of our pockets, which for me and many of my co-staff adds up to about $300 a month less take-home pay than just three years ago. “We are also paying more for our crappy health-care insurance. We pay more for copays, office visits, prescriptions and deductibles.”
While BCEA members consider their While the Social Services Unit and
General Unit are represented by BCEA, UPEC is currently the negotiator that represents the Butte County Professional Employees Association (PEA) and the Probation Peace Officers Association (PPOA). In December, the PEA, whose membership includes nurses, scientists and prosecutors,
SIFT|ER Americans: Up the minimum wage An overwhelming majority of Americans (seven in 10) supports raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour, a proposal President Obama made in his recent State of the Union address. The president would like for Congress to vote on the increase by the end of 2015. “Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour,” Obama said to Congress during the speech. Here’s how the support shakes out, by political party affiliation, according to pollster Gallup.
Democrat Independent Republican
raise it 91% 68% 50%
rejected the supervisors’ offer, came to impasse and continued to fight the county. PPOA members took the supervisors’ offer. The UPEC reps touted these separate decisions as evidence of the union’s democratic approach. “We’re here to research and present you with options, and then you guys vote on everything you want to do, and we’ll make it happen,” Darker said. At the end of the meeting, several workers took away petitions that would decertify BCEA as their labor representative. Perry said 30 percent of the union members’ signatures are needed to move it to the next level, a confidential poll of all members on whether to stick with the BCEA or move to UPEC. She said the General Unit needs 275 signatures and the Social Service Worker Unit 150, and they must be submitted between April 3 and May 2. UPEC represents 3,500 workers in 65 separate bargaining units from the Oregon border to Carmel. It is a member of the Laborers International Union of North America and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). This was UPEC’s second meeting in less than a month with BCEA members. The first was held Feb. 25 in Oroville. Perry said employees invited them again to accommodate Chico workers who couldn’t make it to the first meeting.
don’t raise it 9% 30% 48%
affiliation, the PEA continues its fight against the supervisors with support from UPEC. After the December impasse, members chose to use one of the tools in the negotiator’s bag-of-tricks: independent fact-finding. “The fact finding proves that Butte County compensates its professional employees at far lower rates than Sutter, Yuba and Tehama counties, and that we’d continue to fall behind other counties at the rate we’re going,” said PEA President and Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Bennett. “We have a great group of people who work for the county and really care about the community,” she said. “Most of us live here and have a vested interest in keeping it a safe and healthy place to live. But if we can’t compete with other counties, many of which are smaller than Butte, we’re not going to be able to keep, retain and hire the best people for some of these jobs. “We didn’t get the same deal as the other unions got because we chose to reject that initial offer. We didn’t feel it was fair considering we aren’t even competitive with surrounding counties, while at the same time there are department heads getting pretty nice salary increases of their own.”
—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com
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Nakamura backers step forward City employees say changes are much needed ot everyone who works at N Chico’s City Hall is unhappy with the changes occurring there.
This week, three city employees contacted the CN&R in an effort to counter the bad press new City Manager Brian Nakamura has been getting since he began restructuring city departments. Two of those employees, a man and a woman, came to the CN&R office for an interview; the third submitted her thoughts in writing. They asked for anonymity to avoid retribution in the workplace, so we’ll call them James, Karen and Anne. Their conclusion: Some people simply don’t like change. They’re accustomed to the way city government was managed in the past, like a big, happy family where, as James put it, “jobs were protected at all costs,” work demands were moderate and there was a good pension down the road. Nakamura was brought in, they say, because that model wasn’t meeting the city’s needs at a time when the one-two punch of a state budget crisis and the national recession had depleted revenues to the point where, as James put it, “we didn’t have pencils to write with.” Nakamura’s marching orders from the City Council were to restore the city’s financial health and make it solvent, and that’s what he’s tried to do, the employees say. As an outsider, he’s been able to see the city from a business-like perspective and make the changes needed to restore its health. He’s getting a bad rap, they insist. As Anne put it in her written comments, “Between the recent articles and anonymous city employee comments, it sounds as if Brian is walking around City Hall, pointing his finger at people saying, ‘You’re fired!’”
In fact, Nakamura has let
just two people go, former Assistant City Manager John Rucker and former Building and Development Services Director Fritz McKinley. Neither James nor Chico City Manager Brian Nakamura. PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER
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Karen knew why they left, but both assumed there were good reasons for the separations. Some city employees have actively tried to undermine Nakamura, they said, by publicly questioning why he met with certain people, canceling scheduled meetings without approval, counseling other employees to disobey his directives and sending anonymous complaints to the media. Contrary to their accusations, Nakamura has been “very open from day one,” Karen said, adding that he was completely forthright at department-head meetings, explaining the challenges the city faced and how “right-sizing” would be needed to meet them. James and Karen weren’t surprised when Nakamura announced that Mark Orme, who had been his assistant at his previous posting, in Hemet, would replace Rucker as assistant city manager. “He needs somebody he can absolutely trust,” Karen said, “not a team that is going to be undermining him.” To these employees, the easy familiarity and feeling of security that had prevailed before had led to “a sense of entitlement and complacency,” as Karen put it. Many employees—though certainly not all—were in “no rush to get things done,” she explained. Since Nakamura began shaking
things up, she continued, quite a few people have sharpened their work habits and become more productive. There’s a renewed interest in performing well from people who want to keep their jobs. What’s happening at City Hall is similar to what happens when a floundering corporation gets a new CEO, James said. A shake-up is to be expected. Mayor Mary Goloff, like most of the council members, agrees that Nakamura is taking the city in a positive direction. She too has heard from city employees who support him. “The hostility is from people who are resistant to change,” she said. Historically, she said, the city has been run by people promoted from within who have strong relationships with city employees. Being an outsider, Nakamura “brought a level of objectivity that enabled him to take the city in the right direction.” It’s not easy. “I’m having a difficult time because so many of the city employees are people I care about. I care about their families. But my obligation is to serve the city.” She said she has no problem with Orme’s hiring, which she called a “non-issue.” “Am I surprised Brian went after a person he knew? Not at all,” she said, adding that it was understandable that he would want to build his own team. “I think a year from now we’re going to see that these changes have been good for Chico,” she concluded. —ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com
Bulgaria smiling Chicoan looks to hometown to help orphans hristina Stoimenova is enjoying each day Cer and to its fullest, taking in the beautiful weaththe convenience of everyday life in Chico, her hometown, but also a place she’s just visiting. For the past nine years, Stoimenova has lived in Bulgaria, a small Eastern European country, and the poorest in the European Union. Life is harder in almost every way in the former communist nation, and it’s especially difficult for the children in orphanages, a segment of the population that has been terribly neglected by society and the corrupt country, where there are more children in orphanages than in any other country in the EU. Especially ostracized are those known as Roma children, the politically correct term for Gypsies, Stoimenova explained. Bulgarians generally are extremely prejudiced against Gypsy kids, whose ethnicity in recent years has been traced to India. The children are throwaways, growing up without the education and social skills needed to be successful in life. “These kids don’t have a lot of hope,” she said. But Stoimenova, whom Chicoans know as Christina Lando (daughter of former City Manager Tom Lando and Cindy Page), is working to change that. And she’s back in the States temporarily to shed light on the plight of these forgotten children and to convince others to come to their aid. Stoimenova, 36, and her husband, Spas, a native Bulgarian she met while working with orphans at a summer camp, are here raising funds to open a family-based center to house six to eight orphaned kids and provide them with the love, support and life skills necessary for them to lead healthy and productive lives as adults. There’s a great need for such family-like environs, as the institutions the orphan children are reared in provide only the most basic of needs, often just food and shelter, and where abuse is common. Thus, when the children leave the relative safety of the orphanages when they turn 18, most are ill prepared. While the men oftentimes can eke out a living doing hard labor, the women don’t have as many options. In general, many of these young adults turn to crime, the women mostly selling their bodies, Stoimenova said. “That only reinforces the stereotype,” she said. Stoimenova’s work with orphans
started when she went on a month-long trip to the Ukraine in 1999 between her junior and senior years at Biola University, a private Christian college in Southern California. She recalled having to physically pull
Join the cause: off children who had For info on making attached themselves a contribution, to her body when she email would get ready to scstoimenovi@ gmail.com or visit leave at the end of www.facebook.com the day. “They were /SmileBulgaria. so desperate for attention that they would literally cling to you,” said Stoimenova, who returned to the Ukraine after graduation and moved to Bulgaria in 2004. Stoimenova described how Bulgarian orphanages are often overloaded with children, upward of 20 in some cases with just one person in a supervising role. Conversely, the family-based center the Stoimenovas are proposing to open would include two live-in parental figures, ideally a married couple, as well as a psychologist, social worker and tutors; basically everything needed for the children to transition to adulthood.
Christina Stoimenova (top right) with orphan kids in the Bulgarian town of Dupnitsa, in 2009. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTINA STOIMENOVA
“We want it to be a model that can change people’s perception,” she said. “That’s what can change society.” The Stoimenovas are working with The Smile Bulgaria Foundation, in cooperation with Global Outreach International, a Christian nonprofit the couple have partnered with as missionaries, teaching everything from reading and writing English and Bulgarian to practical job skills such as sewing and computer literacy. They are working to raise about $65,000, which would sustain the center for a year. So far, they’ve raised about 10 percent of the funds. They plan to return to Bulgaria in August. Originally, the Stoimenovas had planned to act as the house parents in a home, but the couple put that plan on hold and instead will oversee the facility because they are raising two young daughters, Joanna and Abigail, ages 4 and 22 months, respectively. When the girls grow up and leave home, Stoimenova says, then she and her husband would like to be the parental figures in a center. “Hopefully by that time there won’t be a need,” she said. —MELISSA DAUGHERTY melissad@newsreview.com
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DAVIS WATER PROJECT APPROVED
A recently passed measure that will allow Davis to draw water from the Sacramento River has already prompted a lawsuit from opponents. Measure I passed with 55 percent of the vote on March 5, officially approving the $245 million Surface Water Project that will allow the communities of Davis and neighboring Woodland to supplement their water supply by drawing from the Sacramento River, according to The Sacramento Bee. But to pay for their share of the project— which will include a $110 million water-treatment plant in Woodland, a $13 million intake facility on the river, $60 million for water pipelines and $63.6 million for local facilities, land purchases and other costs—Davis residents are looking at a 42 percent increase in water rates in 2013-14. Yolo Ratepayers for Affordable Public Utility Services has filed suit on the grounds that Davis is overcharging its residents and not paying for the municipality’s own water use.
BEST CHOICES
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KEYSTONE XL TOTALLY GREEN?
A recently released State Department report analyzing the potential impact of the Keystone XL pipeline project on climate change has drawn the ire of activist groups. The 2,000-page assessment, released on March 1, suggested the pipeline would have little effect on the climate, claiming Canada’s oil sands will be developed with or without President Obama’s approval and U.S. oil consumption would continue as usual, according to The Washington Post. Environmental groups have long maintained President Obama’s administration has a chance to send a strong message about moving away from fossil fuels by denying approval of the the pipeline, which would transport tarsands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast. Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, called the report “deeply flawed analysis.”
GOOD ALTERNATIVES
Consulting a handy wallet card can help fish consumers make educated choices when dining out or shopping at the grocery store. The seafood shown here ranges from “best choices” (catfish and salmon) and “good alternatives” (squid and herring) to two fish on the “avoid” list, Atlantic flounder and red snapper.
How to make sensible, sustainable choices when it comes to buying fish
OBAMA MAKES EPA, DOE PICKS
President Obama has turned to an experienced hand to replace Lisa Jackson as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Gina McCarthy, currently the EPA’s assistant administrator in charge of air and radiation, will replace Jackson barring protest from the Senate, according to SFGate.com. Additionally, Ernest Moniz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will replace Steven Chu at the U.S. Department of Energy. McCarthy played a key role in developing the tough national fuel standards implemented by the Obama administration during his first term. Obama said McCarthy (pictured) and Moniz will be expected to invest in American energy and job creation and “doing everything that we can to combat the threat of climate change. “They are going to be a great team,” he said. “And these are some of my top priorities going forward.”
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Wcontent, and fish and other waterdwelling species of all kinds struggling for
ith bigger fish high in mercury
survival as a result of overfishing, anyone watching his or her health—or concerned about the environment—might be tempted to forgo fish altogether. Unlike so many other food choices— organic versus non-organic, fresh versus processed—deciding which fish to select requires a lot of specific knowledge before determining if it’s one to choose or to avoid. This includes needing to know how a fish was raised, or where it was caught, and the survival status of a particular species which changes as fish populations diminish and rebound. Thankfully, there are a number of new tools to help us become better fish buyers. Wallet cards—such as the free, down-
loadable one put out by Shedd Aquarium in Chicago (see column note)—are probably the best-known consumer tool for making ecologically sound fish choices, with smartphone apps a close second. Aimed at maintaining or restoring diminishing fish stocks, these little cards have lofty goals. Using simple color coding, wallet cards break choices into three categories: • Green: Best choice. Fish stocks are abundant and well-managed; fish is caught or farmed in responsible ways. • Yellow: Good alternative. There are concerns with how the fish is caught or farmed, or known habitat destruction. • Red: Avoid. Biomass needs time to recover or changes are needed in how the fish is farmed or caught.
• Overfishing: This happens when the biomass of a species becomes critically low or if a species is fished faster than it can reproduce to replenish stock. Haddock in the Northeast was for many years on the “avoid” (red) or “good alternative” (yellow) list depending on the catch method. Better management beginning in 1995 ended overfishing, allowing the species to recover. Choose hook-and-line-caught haddock (green) when possible. • Bycatch: This is the unintended discarded dead or dying fish and other marine life. Fishers are allowed nine pounds of discard to every one pound of intended catch—a plainly unsustainable ratio. Ask about bycatch reduction equipment infor-
Of course, beyond this basic guide,
there’s a lot to know about what’s happening to fish and why we should be concerned. There are five main factors that generally go into rating seafood:
Put it in your pocket:
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ECO EVENT mation, especially for shrimp. Pacific halibut fishermen adopted fly-fishing streamers and catchshares to dramatically reduce the destruction of seabirds and turtles from their longlines, and to protect the fishery from overfishing. Look for wild-caught Alaskan halibut (green). • Habitat destruction: This comes from destructive fishing methods such as bottom trawling— a practice that’s not unlike clearcutting a forest to catch a few deer. Whole habitats are mowed down by large, heavy rolling bars paving the way for nets pulling up the ground-dwelling fish and everything else around it. Some trawlers have modified equipment to create less damage to the ocean floor. The vast majority of imported
shrimp is farmed in environmentally destructive conditions. All shrimp imported in the U.S. from Thailand is farmed. Only about 25 percent comes from recirculating systems that do not release untreated waste into the environment. Choose U.S. wild-caught shrimp if you can get information about bycatch reduction or imported Thai shrimp if it is
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from a recirculating farm. • Aquaculture/farmed fish: At least half of the seafood we eat is aquaculture-raised. That is, farmed. And some fish farms use more fish (such as anchovies) for feed than they produce. Pressure is mounting for internationally recognized, environmentally sound aquaculture standards. U.S. farmed catfish and barramundi are both good examples of environmentally sound aquacul-
UNCOMMON SENSE Invasive? No, sustainable! Sushi eaters, are you aware of the fact that some of your favorite eats—such as yummy bluefin tuna—are being overfished, in large part due to the huge demand for sushi fish? Bun Lai, chef/owner of Miya’s Sushi in New Haven, Conn., knows this and is doing some inventive things about it. The sustainability minded chef began adding seafood species viewed as invasive—such as whelks and periwinkles—to his restaurant’s menu. They are plentiful and tasty, and eating invasive species “help[s] to restore and regenerate habitats,” said Lai. “Today we eat very few species, like tuna. ... And because of it, we’re having a horrifically damaging impact on the living planet.” So, do your homework on invasive West Coast species of crabs, shellfish and so on, and suggest that your favorite local sushi place get really creative and sustainable with its menu. Who knows? Maybe an (invasive) Carcinus maenas crab roll will soon appear on its specials board. Exciting! Source: Grist.org
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ture. The best farmed fish involves land-based, recirculating tanks and fish feed with a high portion of plant matter. • Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing: Prior to 2010, IUU fishing accounted for 19 percent of world seafood catch, with an estimated worth of $13.5 billion. Some international discussions have begun to address improved traceability. Bluefin tuna (“avoid”) is near collapse thanks to well-documented illegal fishing. Chilean seabass also comes from waters with high rates of illegal fishing. Avoid it altogether or choose only Marine Stewardship Council-certified Chilean seabass. If you are nursing or pregnant, steer clear of large fish like tuna and swordfish, which have the highest quantities of pollutants like mercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), substances that can impair neurological development in infants. And sustainability can also include economic and social goals. Is the fishery from which your purchase comes managed in a way that sustains fish and local fishing communities? Many people choose to participate in community-supported fisheries programs to support their local economy and local families. Before you head to the store or out to dinner, take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the many tools now available. You’ll find that making healthful and informed seafood decisions is well within reach—as close as your phone or your wallet. Ω
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interactive Skype lecture—titled 21st Century Economics (or Down the Rabbit Hole)—given by author and Yale University graduate Charles Eisenstein to an audience of about 70 people assembled in Chico State’s Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. The event was hosted by the university’s Peace Institute. In a lecture that unfortunately was sometimes marred by technical difficulties that made it hard to understand what he was saying, Eisenstein— the author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition—made it clear that he is, as he put it, “aligning himself with the economy that [he] see[s] coming.” In other words, Eisenstein—who has a complex grasp of history, economics and culture—envisions a necessary evolution from the present-day economy (which he points out is unsustainable, as it is based upon continual growth and extraction of increasingly scarce resources) to an economy that places environmental sustainability and fair distribuCharles Eisenstein, who writes about civilization, tion of wealth, among other money and cultural evolution, appears on-screen things, at the forefront. as he prepares to deliver a Skype lecture at One of the thought-provoking Chico State on March 7. Lower right: Three topics that Eisenstein touched on members of the Q-and-A panel consisting of during the evening was the idea moderator Robert Bowman, local acupuncturist of negative-interest currency, and practicing Buddhist Adam Moes, Chico State economics professor Michael Perelman, and Dan whereby one’s money loses rather than gains value the Everhart (not pictured), local progressive longer it sits in a bank account, activist and Peace Institute board member. thus encouraging it to be recirPHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA culated into the economy quickly, with all the economy-boosting results that would follow. “In all areas, we’re reaching limits of growth,” Eisenstein said, referring to the push to obtain fossil fuels by such controversial means as fracking, Arctic drilling and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline as evidence that we are “running out of options. And [these options] are increasingly destructive to the environment and our civilization.” A question-and-answer period following Eisenstein’s talk (he was Skyping from his home in Pennsylvania) focused first on the panel in attendance, consisting of moderator and former Chico State music professor Robert Bowman, Chico State economics professor Michael Perelman, local acupuncturist Adam Moes and progressive activist Dan Everhart, and next on questions from the audience. Questions from a couple of panel members largely took the form of lengthy speeches on the topics that interested them, unfortunately, rather than succinct questions to Eisenstein. This had the effect of not giving Eisenstein a chance to weigh in much, and pushed the audience question period late into the evening. The Q-and-A period would have been more effective by limiting each panel member’s turn to perhaps a five-minute time period that included to-the-point questions to Eisenstein. Eisenstein’s book, Sacred Economics, is available online for free download at www.realitysandwich.com/homepage_sacred_economics. Quotes from late naturalist John Muir “Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” “The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” EMAIL YOUR GREEN HOME, GARDEN AND COMMUNITY TIPS TO CHRISTINE AT CHRISTINEL@NEWSREVIEW.COM
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Chemical companies have filed suit against Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration, asserting that bisphenol A (BPA) should not be included on California’s “blacklist.” Filed by the American Chemistry Council, the suit claims that BPA—which is widely used in household plastics and aluminum cans—does not belong on the state Environmental Protection Agency’s list of harmful chemicals, according to the Los Angeles Times. The suit suggests a 2008 report found no clear evidence that BPA poses serious health risks; however, Allan Hirsch, chief deputy director of the California EPA said the same report found “that there is clear evidence that bisphenol A causes developmental toxicity in laboratory animals.” BPA’s addition to the toxins registry is of particular concern to manufacturers, as placement on the list can be a virtual death sentence for a chemical.
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Cardiologist Marcia Moore is a strong advocate of smoking cessation. Inset: Clinical dietician Heather Rushing. PHOTOS BY KYLE DELMAR
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Government spending on Medicare and Medi-Cal in California has exceeded the total amount of the state’s general-fund budget, a report finds. The report, released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, found that the federal and state governments spent $46 billion on Medi-Cal in 2011, while the federal government spent $59 billion on Medicare, a health program for the elderly, according to The Sacramento Bee. The BEA noted that California pays about $16 billion to Medi-Cal annually. Further, the report estimated that state spending on Medicare and Medi-Cal has doubled in the last 15 years, and is set to equal 10 percent of national gross domestic product by 2037. The BEA also estimated that the federal government spent six times more on health programs than on unemployment benefits and 16 times more than on food stamps.
MIRACLE PILL ON THE WAY?
Recent findings regarding the life-extending chemical found in red wine and dark chocolate could have big implications for a burgeoning pharmaceutical niche. Harvard geneticists David Sinclair and his colleagues, who have long researched how resveratrol—found in grapes, peanuts, cocoa and berries—combats the effects of obesity, diabetes and certain forms of cancer, claim to have discovered a link between the chemical and a group of enzymes called sirtuins, according to the Los Angeles Times. Sinclair said resveratrol stimulates a sirtuin known as SIRT1, which “is like a Pac-Man that removes these proteins and tells other proteins to go out and repair the cell,” shedding light on the anti-aging properties of resveratrol. His previous research has already prompted a $30 million-a-year resveratrol supplement industry, but the new findings could pave the way for designing a “miracle pill” in the future.
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Dmetaphor. The Chico cardiologist has a particular favorite when she’s talking r. Marcia Moore loves an apt
with patients about their health—one she heard from a nutritionist with the American Heart Association: Your body is your home and you can’t move out of it. “Expanding on that,” she said, “I remind people how much we spend on our homes and our cars to keep them nice and to keep them running. Don’t our bodies deserve even more attention?” In that spirit, Moore also appreciates the metaphor in the title of Enloe Medical Center’s community health event, Inspiring Healthy Lives: Build Your Wellness Toolkit, which will give attendees the opportunity to add tools to their metaphorical toolbox—or, put another way, to build what Moore calls “pillars of prevention.” The Friday-afternoon (March 15) event includes a variety of activities: discussions, consultations and screenings. The goal, said Enloe Community Outreach Coordinator Deanna Reed, is for “members of our community to come meet with a variety of health professionals to learn about heart
disease and diabetes risk factors, as well as to participate in one-on-one screenings to help give them a baseline for their own health. With that information, we hope they will have at least a few new tools they can use in their own day-to-day lives to make smart choices when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle.” But what about the people who aren’t able to attend? Moore and Heather Rushing, a clinical dietician at Enloe, shared some tips with the CN&R in order to help readers expand their personal-health toolkits. • Anytime is a good time to stop smoking. “This used to be something I had to talk
about all the time,” Moore said. “Unfortunately, it still is a problem, but much less of a problem than it used to be, certainly in California.” Nonetheless, smoking cessation is her top tip. “Within a year of not smoking,” she explained, “the risk of a heart attack goes down by about 90 percent, and in two years they’re back to that [risk level] of a non-smoker. Truly there is no organ system in the body that doesn’t respond to getting rid of nicotine.” • Eat balanced meals with whole foods. “Try to stay away from more-processed
APPOINTMENT HELP THEM HELP THE HUNGRY Beginning at Riverbend Park in Oroville on Saturday, March 16, at 9 a.m., Oroville residents will walk in support of community organizations that provide food to the hungry. Sponsored by the Cooperating Christian Churches of Oroville, proceeds raised will benefit Feed the People Ministries, Oroville Rescue Mission, Salvation Army and The Hope Center. The walk will make a two-mile loop through downtown Oroville (with rest stations along the way) and return to the park. Coffee and donuts will be served during the sign-up period, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Call Linda Chapman at 533-0262 for more info.
foods, because they aren’t having a great effect on our health,” Rushing said. “The more-processed foods tend to go through the system quicker, so you tend to eat more, and that’s really affecting our weight and increases risk of diabetes.” Fruits and vegetables should constitute the bulk of your grocery cart. Still, it is important not to overload on any one particular food group. When placing dinner items on your plate, make sure you have protein, carbohydrates and vegetables. • Use measuring cups when preparing your meal. Even if you’re eating a premade food, make sure you keep the portion-sized dietary information on the package in mind. “Many people come in [to a dietician appointment] and say, ‘I’m eating healthy,’ but they’re eating too much,” Rushing said. “Be aware, when you’re looking at a label, of the serving size and how much you’re actually eating.” • If you see something in a TV commercial … eater, beware. Both Moore and Rushing endorse this tip. The majority of edible products advertised on television are either processed foods or fast food. “The food industry is trying to
sell products, so they’re going to try to make themselves look good,” Rushing said. Read labels and menu information carefully. • Don’t miss meals. Many people skip breakfast or don’t make time for lunch. Problem is, they’re likely to overeat when the next meal comes around. “When eaten in combinations, the energy and glucose that come out of food will last for four or five hours,” Rushing said. “You’re looking for energy—that’s what you get from food.” Feel free to snack if you get hungry between meals—just do so healthfully. • Get out of your chair and get your heart pumping. When it comes to exercise, Moore says, “there’s no age at which it’s not beneficial. I would say I’m probably talking to people about exercise now as much as I used to have to talk about smoking.” Cardiovascular exercise is particularly important for people with high risk for heart disease. Consult with your doctor or physical therapist to find a regimen that’s right for you. • Get enough sleep. Stress is a double whammy— not only does it cause some people to overeat, but it also can interfere with sleep patterns. Moore points
WEEKLY DOSE Not a lot to smile about Gallup and Healthways just released their annual Well-Being Index, and our part of the North State did not score well. The study’s overall wellness score is an average of six basic categories of well-being and, as a state, California is in the upper half with a No. 18 ranking (Hawaii is holding tight at the No. 1 spot), the place it has been parked for three years. But up here in former Congressional District 2 (the 2012 survey was conducted along the old district lines)—which encompassed the I-5 corridor north of Sacramento and included Chico, Red Bluff and Redding—we’re apparently not feeling so hot. Well-being ranking compared to all 436 congressional districts: Overall 342 Life evaluation 391 Emotional health 358 Physical health 407 Healthy behavior 60 Work environment 163 Basic access 376
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to the benefits of sleep’s restorative properties. “When people are deprived of energy from lack of sleep, they’ll try to make up for it by eating more,” she explained. • Incremental progress is still progress. You don’t need to make drastic changes all at once. “If you’re talking about diet and exercise and weight loss,” Moore said, “it’s been shown over and over again through evidenced-based medicine that when people lose weight with dietary changes, slowly, they’re much more likely to keep it off— because they’re creating new habits. “When I talk to people about exercise, I tell them, ‘Don’t do a marathon immediately.’ Push yourself a little bit more every time you go out.” Taken as a whole, the tools above truly can help build pillars of prevention. “For many years, I’ve called heart disease and stroke the diseases of the 20th—and now the 21st—century,” Moore said. “It’s amazing to people that in the middle of the 20th century, heart attacks were still, believe it or not, pretty rare. President Eisenhower was probably the first really wellknown person to have a heart attack; then it seemed like they were popping up all over. Moore attributes the change to “a lot more smoking, a lot more sedentary lifestyles, all of the labor-saving devices, the beginning of fast food and unhealthy foods, and people not simply wearing off the calories [as they did] before when they were much more active. “There are some people who have a perfectly healthy lifestyle and still have a heart attack. But if we look at the major proportion of people, all of those things can make a difference in reducing the risk of early onset of heart attack or stroke.” Ω
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“Mama put my guns in the ground I can’t shoot them anymore That cold black cloud is comin’ down Feels like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door” —Bob Dylan, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”
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am a gun nut. I like the feel of a pistol in my hand or a rifle stock against my cheek. I like the smell of gun oil and cordite. I like the shiny bluing on a barrel, and the look of a case-hardened frame. I like the sound when I cock the hammer of my .45 single-action, those crisp little clicks when I advance the cylinder. I like seeing a beer can flip into the air when I’ve made a snap shot that is true. The memory of a well-placed shot I made decades ago can still replay itself in my mind, bringing with it thoughts of good friends and good times now gone.
When I was a boy, I yearned for a BB gun until I got one at age 8 or 9, then went on to dream of my first rifle, which I got when I was 12, a single-shot .22. Over my lifetime I’ve owned or shot everything from muzzle-loading blackpowder guns, long and short, to more modern weapons in calibers from .22 to .54, and shotguns from .410 to 8 gauge. I currently own four handguns. That puts me two guns below the average gun owner in this country, where six guns per owner is the “norm.” In California, there are an estimated 40 million guns, slightly more than one gun for every single resident of the state, including babies and old people on respirators. My brand of gun nuttiness still finds expression in fantasies I picked up as a kid, daydreams in which I stood with the valiant defenders of the Alamo. I’ve always resonated to that image of a heroic last stand, which may be why I, and lots of guys who share my affliction, identify with the last scenes in The Wild Bunch, when Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Ernest Borgnine, and William Holden march toward their doom in a fight against overwhelming numbers. Unless you’re a little nuts your own self, there’s probably no way to explain the weirdness that made so many guys think that the way Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid went out guns a-blazing was about the coolest imaginable way to leave this planet. So, for a gun nut like me, the prospect of attending the 37th Annual Chico Gun Show on a mid-February weekend was enticing. There are far worse ways to spend time than looking over neat old guns laid out on folding tables for sale or trade. I’ve attended gun shows before, in Sacramento, Las Vegas, 18 CN&R March 14, 2013
Notes from a Reno and up in Washington State, but I’d never been to the Chico Gun Show before. In the current post-Sandy Hook environment, however, where gun owners are being whipped into hysteria with fears of gun confiscations, I worried that driving my pickup truck with its Obama bumper stickers to a gun-nut gathering might not be the most convivial way to spend part of a weekend. Calls for strengthening regulations on gun shows have prompted wariness on the part of gun-show participants everywhere. And, though California law makes gun shows here much more tightly controlled than in other states, apprehension and antagonism are in
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the air, the polarization that infuses lots of issues currently dividing people. On no issue, however, is the polarization greater than on the subject of gun control. Two days before President Obama’s
second inaugural, avid supporters of the Second Amendment proclaimed a Gun Appreciation Day. On that day, five people were shot at gun shows across the nation. None of those accidental shootings happened in California, and no one died. Still, I was not keen on sustaining a flesh wound while prowling through the Chico Gun Show, fondling weaponry and chatting up a few big-bellied men selling various kinds of death-dealing appliances. My apprehensions were eased when I contacted Rhonda Burns, a congenial woman who has been promoting the Chico Gun Show for 13 years. She assured me they have rigorous rules to prevent accidental discharge of any of the hundreds of guns on display and for sale each year. “Our show is well secured,” she said, in
advance of the show. “The Department of Justice requires all firearms be checked and tagged with the owner ID at the door. California has strict seller restrictions and regulations. All of the dealers who have firearms at their tables have their actions tied open so the actions can’t be engaged. We abide by all California and federal laws. We have security on the premises, and we’ve never had a problem.” My anxieties thus calmed, I headed out to the gun show, where 70 vendors had assembled to sell their wares to the anticipated 3,000 attendees. There was lots of interesting stuff for sale at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds on that recent Sunday morning, everything from powder horns for black powder to camouflagethemed earrings for that special someone. There were more than a few camouflage outfits worn by potential buyers who didn’t look like they were heading out to a field anytime soon, making the camouflage pants and jackets distinctively ineffective for blending in with the gun show décor, but pretty good for
A day at the Chico Gun Show, two months after Sandy Hook
gun nut BY JAIME O’NEILL
blending in with other clientele. One vendor was selling wall plaques reading, “Due to the high price of ammo, I will not be able to provide the courtesy of a warning shot. Thank you for understanding.” At another table, a guy was selling stun guns of various shapes and powers, some touted as protection against pit bull attack. I stopped and talked to a dealer who had a nice Colt single-action “Peacemaker” under a sign that read: “Very Rare Colt, Never Owned By a Sheriff or Outlaw.” I liked the drollery of that note, and I liked the guy behind the table. For those not in on this kind of joke, he was lampooning the tall tales that attach themselves to old guns. Spend some time around gun shows, and you’ll soon find out that there’s hardly a post Civil War-era firearm being traded that didn’t once belong to John Wesley Hardin or Billy the Kid. There was a large booth where you could buy a gun safe to store your gun collection, with specials on offer for gun show atten-
dees. At another stall, I bought a raffle ticket that might win me a rifle with a camo stock. Proceeds of the sale of the raffle tickets benefit programs to help keep Oroville kids off drugs. I saw a little boy carrying what appeared to be a plastic cross-section of a zombie head and torso. A little farther down the aisle of vendors, I discovered where he’d gotten it. A couple of pretty Chico ladies were selling four different targets, cast in plastic to look like zombies. Since zombies are the “undead,” you couldn’t actually call the targets “lifelike,” though they were definitely human forms, albeit uglier than most liv-
The annual Chico Gun Show took place Feb. 16 and 17 at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds. Rhonda Burns (right) has organized the event for 13 years. PHOTOS BY MELANIE MACTAVISH
ing humans. “They’re single-use targets,” one of the young women informed me. Obviously, the targets were being marketed to target shooters who’ve spent time in darkened theaters watching actors like Woody Harrelson turn the cinematic walking dead into hamburger. I stopped to say hello to Rhonda
Burns, pleased to put a face to the voice I’d heard on the phone. “We see this as a family event,” she told me. “We get lots of families. Lots of law enforcement people, in and out of uniform, show up. It’s in conjunction with the Butte County Sheriff’s Posse.” Burns couldn’t have been friendlier, even though I’d made it clear that the piece I was writing was likely to include some things gun lovers might not like. “Buying and selling firearms the right way is a legal right,” she said, “and we support that.” I spoke with her at the full bar being operated about midway through the line-up of vendor tables. I was a little surprised to see hard liquor being sold in this context. Even though there was security, and the guns going in and out of the place were all secured, it made me nervous. I’ve long had an aversion to mixing bullets and booze, an aversion I’d just had confirmed in a conver“GUN NUT” continued on page 22 March 14, 2013
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sation with a vendor who’d told me of a law enforcement friend of his who’d accidentally put a 9mm round through the palm of his hand while drunk. After five operations, that hand still isn’t entirely functional. NRA propaganda was being dispensed at the Chico Rod and Gun Club table, and I heard an angry old man fulminating about what a travesty it was that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is reintroducing the assault-weapons ban that was law during the Clinton years, but eliminated during the early years of the Bush administration. Among the NRA broadsides being handed out were sheets bearing an unflattering picture of Feinstein and another with the headline: “Anti-Gun Democrats Again Working to Erode Second Amendment Rights in Sacramento.” That seemed redundant. There are lots of pro-gun Democrats, of course, but there are absolutely zero “anti-gun Republicans,” even though Ronald Reagan, the saint of Republicans everywhere, couldn’t find a reason why any civilian would need the kind of guns Feinstein’s legislation seeks to ban. The Chico Rod and Gun Club has a 50-year history, and has maintained a shooting range in Upper Bidwell Park for most of that time. Donations to the club are tax-deductible, and the organization has bestowed its blessings on recently retired Congressman Wally Herger with the club’s “Defender of Freedom” award. It’s entirely likely that Herger’s successor, Doug LaMalfa, will also earn that award from Chico gun lovers some day, in recognition of his service to the National Rifle Association’s
Gun dealers live in fear that new gun laws are going to run them out of business, and they tend to see enemies everywhere.
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aims and objectives. As I’d expected, there was some palpable paranoia at the Chico Gun Show on the second day of its two-day run. Gun dealers live in fear that new gun laws are going to run them out of business, and they tend to see enemies everywhere. It’s a little like the paranoia that attended parties I went to back in the ’60s where the experience of taking a hit on a joint was amped up by the suspicion that anyone not dressed as we were might be a narc. And some of these gun nuts are old hippies, with hair gone white and tied back, wearing the kinds of buckskin drag that Dennis Hopper affected in Easy Rider back in those purple hazy days of yore. Then, too, my peace symbol belt buckle might have pegged me as an anti-NRA liberal in the minds of some gun sellers. That’s sorta what I am, of course, so the hostility I sensed may have just been the unease I brought in with me. But at least a couple of guys wearing NRA caps engaged in what writer Ishmael Reed once called “reckless eyeballing,” giving me that angry-faced once-over hardly ever seen from people looking to sell me something. I couldn’t help thinking of the lyrics to the old Buffalo Springfield (the name of a rifle, incidentally) song with the lines: “Paranoia strikes deep/ Into your heart if will creep/ There’s a man with a gun over there/ Telling me I’ve got to beware.” Paranoia is one of the nuggets of nuttiness that afflict some American gun nuts, but there are other pathologies that attach themselves to an avidity for firearms. Some mental-health professionals think it’s clinical. According to a psychiatrist I spoke with about this story, those most inclined to believe the Second Amendment was intended to protect us from our own government are “giving voice to their fears of facing the dangerous father from their childhoods. Guns give them added power to defeat him—also a form of identification with his frightening strength. In some ways, that’s a healthy adaptation, except it doesn’t work. There aren’t enough guns to erase the paranoid anxiety, that subconscious sense that government equals dad. Ironically, getting more guns PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
Among the guns for sale were many accessories, including zombie shooting targets. PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
only increases the paranoia.” When I was a young father, we moved
to a place on the outskirts of Quincy. Our next-door neighbor was a bullet-headed old man who’d moved from Southern California and gone into full survivalist mode. His house was littered with guns, and he was fond of discharging them at all hours of the day. He routinely blew crows out of the trees just for the hell of it. He was reckless with his guns, and it was scary living near him. County code made it illegal to discharge firearms within a hundred yards of a roadway or a neighbor’s house. But laws are often not enforced, and when I filed a complaint, the sheriff’s office would not respond. My neighbor turned out to have been the district attorney’s friend and campaign manager when that public servant had run for office. It will surprise no one to learn that both my neighbor and the D.A. were big NRA supporters. Though I was not able to get a response to my complaints from local law enforcement, the gunfire slacked off after my neighbor’s wife was injured when she knocked a loaded handgun off a bureau. The gun discharged, disfiguring her face. At around that same time, I met Clarence, a saloonkeeper who kept three loaded bigcaliber handguns strategically placed under his long bar. There’s a quote I picked up somewhere that goes, “With his will, or against his will, a man reveals himself with every word,” and with every word I heard Clarence speak, he revealed how much he was aching to shoot someone. Clarence had a lot of free-floating anger in him. That’s hardly a rare quality among gun owners, or any other random group of Americans. Helen and Clifton Murphy, of Paradise, couldn’t make it to the Chico Gun Show. They were in the Butte County jail, charged with stockpiling explosive devices for a yetto-be revealed purpose. Agents from Homeland Security, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and other national, state and local agencies converged on the Murphy’s Melody Lane home on Feb. 14, two days
before the gun show, arresting the couple and confiscating a small arsenal of weapons that included assault rifles. What that couple was up to has yet to be revealed. As I was leaving the gun show, I saw a couple of gun buyers wearing crucifixes prominently outside their shirts, and a seriously overweight guy with proclamations of faith tattooed on his forearms. As I backed out of my parking space in the Silver Dollar parking lot, I noted a truck with one of those “freedom isn’t free” bumper stickers. And that’s certainly true. The freedom to have so many guns and such a confusing morass of federal and state gun laws costs us some 30,000 lives a year, far more than all the men and women lost in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 11 years. When Vice President Joe Biden presented the recommendations his hastily assembled committee had come up with in response to the Sandy Hook massacre, the gun lobby exploded, firing off volley after volley of outrage at the “tyranny” of “King” Obama and his minions of freedom-denying anti-gun pansies. But the actual recommendations are far less draconian than NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre and other voices in the gun-nut corridor would have their followers believe. What is being proposed is universal background checks on the buyers of guns, a law we already have here in California. There’s also a proposal for uniform gun registration in order to keep track of the guns that are out there, but Dudley Brown, a spokesman for the National Association for Gun Rights (a group just a smidgen to the right of the NRA), tells his followers that “gun registration is the first step toward confiscation.” After the Sandy Hook massacre, Mike Huckabee, once a candidate for president, proclaimed: “It isn’t a lack of gun regulation that caused the Sandy Hook massacre. It is the fact that we’ve removed God from our schools.” Last year alone, however, there were 115 shootings in churches where God, presumably, had not been cast out. Vying for the title of Bull Goose Loon of Gun Nuts, LaPierre, the guy who’s paid a million bucks a year to be the face of the NRA, thinks that “it’s not paranoia to buy a gun. It’s survival.” In all my years of shooting, I’ve never fired a round in anger, never hurt anyone intentionally or accidentally, and I am grateful beyond words that no fellow human being’s blood is on my hands or on my conscience. I am grateful, too, that it has never been necessary to protect my home and family with a firearm. I’ve dispatched countless bottles and cans to that big waste dump in the sky. I spent lots of ammo and lots of time with Jim, my much-missed best friend who was with me during most of those days we shared, shooting and acting out scenes from our favorite westerns, playing cowboy even as we grew older and he, alas, was admitted to heaven after several brave years spent knockin’ at heaven’s door. Most of the gun nuts I’ve known were as
Left: Dudley Brown, spokesman for the National Association for Gun Rights. Below: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. PHOTO BY GAGE SKIDMORE VIA FLICKR
law abiding and harmless as Jim and I. Like us, they were grown men playing with dangerous toys. The arrested development found in all too many gun nuts finds expression in the childishly oversimplified idea that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” But good guys can change in an instant, becoming bad guys when drunk, when angered, when deranged. American children die every year because too many grownups simply won’t submit to sensible restrictions on the toys we can have. But I am one gun nut who would happily surrender his guns if doing so would allow a few more kids to grow up, find mates, have children of their own, and grow old watching the thousands of sunrises and sunsets denied to those 20 bulletriddled children who died last December at an elementary school back in Connecticut just a few days before Christmas. Ω
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Arts & Culture What’s that sound?
Retired Chico State music professor David Rothe with his baby, the Centennial Pipe Organ. PHOTOS BY KEN SMITH
THIS WEEK
Chico State’s oft-forgotten pipe organ to shine at Bach Fest
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some of our greatest artifacts. Chico State is no exception; its various departments are each by entrusted with preserving Ken Smith and protecting items of kens@ great cultural and material newsreview.com value, from rare books and artwork to high-tech tools. If you were to ask retired music professor BACH LIVE: Chico Bach Fest, David Rothe his opinion on March 15-16. what is the university’s Friday, 7:30 p.m.: greatest treasure, he’d likeGerman Organ ly tell you about the CenMass on Centennial Pipe Organ. tennial Pipe Organ, an Saturday, assessment with which 7:30 p.m.: many of his music-minded colleagues agree. The Glorious “If you think about the university and all its Baroque , works by holdings, the organ is one of the most amazing various composers performed by things it possesses,” said one of those colchamber singers leagues, current music professor and choral and more. director David Scholz. “It is utterly irreplaceTickets: $6-$15 able and one of the most unique tools owned for each night. by Chico State, a fantastic piece of equipment.” The irony is that alarmingly few people Harlen Adams Theatre know about the organ at all. The 24-foot-tall, Chico State 20-feet-wide instrument with a gleaming pol898-6333 ished façade trimmed in gold leaf rests just out of plain sight backstage at the Harlen Adams Theatre, and in recent years makes only two annual public appearances—during the department’s holiday show in December, and at the annual Chico Bach Festival, which is happening this weekend. The event will kick off Friday, March 15, with a performance of Bach’s German Organ Mass on the Centennial. “This was the lesser of many evils in terms of places on campus we could put it,” said Rothe, explaining that other proposed locations—Laxson Auditorium or center stage at Harlen Adams—proved too costly or otherwise problematic. Rothe pulled off some miraculous magic tricks to have the organ built in the first place. When he came to Chico State to teach in 1968, Rothe—who started playing piano at age 4 and organ in his early teens—saw a need for a great organ in town, and began a decade-plus campaign to get one. “I went over several years to talk to the university presidents, and they were all very nice, patted me on the head, gave me an orange and sent me away,” he explained. The story of the organ’s creation is as spectacular
as the instrument itself, and an inspired example of out-of-thebox thinking. Rothe and his fellow organ crusaders eventually 24 CN&R March 14, 2013
14THURS Special Events EMPTY BOWLS: Ceramic bowls created by student artists will be on sale to benefit the Torres Community Shelter. Ticket includes soup and bread. Th, 3/14, 5pm. $10. Chico Junior High, 280 Memorial Way.
convinced the university to put an organ builder on staff, hiring Munetaka Yokota in 1984. Over the next several years, Yokota and Rothe organized a volunteer workforce of faculty and students to build the organ themselves in what would be the first attempt to build an organ onsite since the Middle Ages. Whenever possible, local materials were used. As Rothe is a Bach devotee, he decided to model the organ after one in Dresden, Germany, built in the great composer’s era, with some changes made to incorporate other styles. The 2,400 tin-and-lead-alloy pipes for the organ’s 32 stops were handmade by volunteers in the university’s Art Department, and much of the work was centered in a shop at the University Farm. Weights were cast with lead from bullets collected at the old Bidwell Park shooting range. The keys were made from carved shin bones of university-raised cows, and the organ’s bench and pedal board were carved from wood from the Hooker Oak tree. Altogether, the cost of materials was well under $100,000; Rothe estimates it’s worth 10 times that today. It’s fitting the organ, partly inspired by Bach’s
work, remains an integral part of the annual festival. This year, guest organist Angela Craft Cross will play one of the maestro’s most intricate compositions—a group of pieces collectively called Clavier-Übung III and more commonly known as the German Organ Mass. Scholz—who took over as Bach Festival Director when Rothe retired—explained the piece’s original name translates to “Keyboard Practice” and is the only one of four ClavierÜbungs Bach wrote for organ, with the rest composed for harpsichord. “Bach would write in various styles and compositional techniques that were very good for practice,” Scholz said. “So it’s basically him giving a set of practice pieces that also worked in terms of parts of the mass. “Bach was pooh-poohed by his contemporaries for writing music that was way too difficult and not useable,” he said, explaining that one fugue in the work requires the organist to simultaneously play six different melodies, two with each hand and two with the feet. “Well, it’s not necessarily meant to be usable; it’s him showing off a little bit.” Ω
LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: Afro-American storytelling through wildly energetic tap, jazz, ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop dance. The troupe has been noted for their work on movies Avatar and The Little Mermaid. Th, 3/14, 7:30pm. $12-$25. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.
Art Receptions JANICE PORTER: SELECTED WORKS RECEPTION: A reception for the exhibition of works on canvas, paper, board and cardboard from the late local artist Janice Porter. Th, 3/14, 5-7pm. Free. University Art Gallery, Trinity Hall At Chico State; (530) 898-5864.
Music COUNTRY GOSPEL JAM: Fiddlers from across the North State (in town for the State Fiddle Championship) will perform alongside local church choirs and gospel musicians. A loosely structured open mic to follow. Th, 3/14, 5:30-8pm. Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 1200 Myers St. in Oroville; (530) 533-1413.
OLD-TIME FIDDLE & PICKING CONTEST: The California State Old Time Fiddle and Picking Championships draw fiddlers young and old from throughout the state. Go online for more info. 3/14-3/16. Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 1200 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 589-0735, www.csotfa.org.
Theater 12 OPHELIAS: Shakespeare’s Ophelia finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. Th, 3/14, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Wismer Theatre, Chico State Campus; (530) 898-5739; www.csuchico.edu/upe/boxoffice.html.
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FINE ARTS LULA WASHINGTON DANCE Tonight, March 14 Laxson Auditorium
SEE THURSDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS
16SAT Special Events HOME, GARDEN & LEISURE SHOW: More than 300 informative exhibitors offering ideas for landscapes, outdoor living spaces, home improvement, decor, leisure activities, entertainment and more. 3/16-3/17, 10am-5pm. Prices vary. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.chicohome andgarden.com.
NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY OF IRELAND: One of the finest Irish step-dancing companies in the world, this troupe relives the history of Irish Celts with a live band, three tenors, 22 dancers and flashy costumes. Sa, 3/16, 7:30pm. $20-$35. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.
FATHER OF THE BRIDE: A humorous and touching look at the bond between a father and his engaged daughter. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 3/24. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
PROOF: The acclaimed Broadway play follows a young woman’s struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 3/24. $7-$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.
Poetry/Literature MARTHA COLLINS: A talk with Martha Collins,
acclaimed author of Blue Front, a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed at five years old, among other works. Th, 3/14, 7:30pm. $3. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973;www.1078gallery.org.
SPRING FORTH RECEPTION: A reception for the exhibition of North State paintings in pastel, watercolor and oil. F, 3/15, 4-8pm. Free. Sally Dimas Art Gallery, 493 East Ave. #1; (530) 3453063.
Music BACH GERMAN ORGAN MASS: As part of the Chico Bach Festival, San Francisco organist Angela Kraft Cross plays selections from Bach’s Clavierubungen III (also known as the German Organ Mass) on the Centennial Pipe Organ. F, 3/15, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, W. First St. CSU, Chico campus, 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.
OLD-TIME FIDDLE & PICKING CONTEST: See Thursday. Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 1200 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 589-0735, www.csotfa.org.
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COMEDY CHAOS: Adult humor with stand-up
FATHER OF THE BRIDE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.bird cagetheatre.net.
comedians Lisa Landry, Sean Patton and Brad Williams. F, 3/15, 8pm. $20. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 5349892; www.goldcountrycasino.ticketforce.com.
Art Receptions CREATIVE FUSION RECEPTION: Opening night for the exhibition of work from seven local junior and senior high school students includes music by the Pleasant Valley High School Jazz Band. F, 3/15, 7-9pm. Free. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. 6; (530) 895-8726; www.chicoartcenter.com.
Music BUCK DEVLIN BENEFIT CONCERT: The Stillwater Savage Band, which specializes in country and southern rock, plays to help offset medical expenses for Paradise man Buck Devlin, who is struggling with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Sa, 3/16, 6pm. $20-$25. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise.
GLORIOUS BAROQUE: BACH AND BEYOND: As part of the Chico Bach Festival, musicians from the North Valley Chamber Chorale and Chico State music students present works by Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Pergolesi and more. Sa, 3/16, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, W. First St. CSU, Chico campus; (530) 898-5739; www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.
MENDELSSOHN ORGAN MUSIC: As part of the Chico Bach Festival, San Fransisco organist Angela Cross presents a lecture-demonstration on the music of Felix Mendelssohn using the church’s T.C. Lewis organ. Sa, 3/16, 10am. Free. St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, 228 Salem St.; (530) 894-7409.
OLD-TIME FIDDLE & PICKING CONTEST: See Thursday. Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 1200 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 589-0735, www.csotfa.org.
Theater FATHER OF THE BRIDE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
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“Self Portrait,” by Carissa Leiber, at Chico Art Center
Art 1078 GALLERY: Allison Hyde & Nicole
Pietrantoni Exhibition, works of paper, sculptural installation, digital media, painting, screen printing and collage. Through 3/30. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
ANGELO’S CUCINA TRINACRIA: Michael Mulcahy
Exhibition, hard-edged pop art in exuberant color. Through 4/30. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.
ART ETC.: Sheryl Karas, portraits in new and mixed-media styles touching on realism, abstract expression and folk art. Through 3/31. 122 W. Third St., (530) 895-1161.
AVENUE 9 GALLERY: From the Trenches, an exhibition of work from Chico State students relating their daily slog through technical and creative obstacles. 3/15-4/13. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.
BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE & BREAKFAST JOINT: Caitlin Schwerin Exhibition, a display of small to medium cheerful and colorful paintings. Through 3/31. 1387 E. Eighth St., (530) 894-2800.
CHICO ART CENTER: Creative Fusion, an exhibition of work from seven local junior and senior high school students. 3/15-4/6. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.
CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.
CHICO MUNICIPAL BUILDING: Camera Club
Exhibit, works by the Chico Camera Club on display. Through 7/12. 411 Main St., (530) 8967214.
CHICO PAPER CO.: Lewis Jones, over 20 original scratch boards from the renowned local artist. Through 3/31.California Mountain Series, Jake Early’s mountain serigraphs— now including the recently completed “Tamalpais”—on display. Through 4/20. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.
ELLIS ART & ENGINEERING SUPPLIES: Teacup Series, works on canvas by Colleen Wampole in the window. Through 3/31. 122 Broadway St., (530) 891-0335, www.ellis hasit.com.
GYPSY ROSE SALON: New work, pieces by local artists on display, including ink drawings by Bob Garner. Through 3/31. 151 Broadway St, Chico, CA, (530) 891-4247.
HEALING ART GALLERY: Sten Hoiland, wire sculptures by Northern California artist Sten Hoiland. Through 4/11. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.
JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:
Emily Weil Exhibition, large, abstract acrylic paintings and figures in watercolor and pastel. Through 3/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.
LAXSON FINE ART GALLERY: Mike Hurley &
Chaz Martinsen, various works on display. Through 3/15. 400 W. First St. CSU Chico, Laxson Audtorium.
SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Spring Forth, views of the North State in pastel, watercolor and oil. Through 4/6. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Janice Porter:
Selected Works, works on canvas, paper, board and cardboard from the late local artist Janice Porter. Through 4/1. Trinity Hall At Chico State, (530) 898-5864.
Call for Artists 2013 ART FIESTA BOOTHS: Artist booths are still available for next spring’s event. Call or email for more info. Through 4/1. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 487-4553.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOKMARK CONTEST: The annual bookmark contest (for students K-3 and 4-6) is themed “Communities Matter at Your Library.” Visit the library for applications and more info. Through 4/6. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.
REFLECTIONS ON OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE: All medias accepted for this exhibition of work drawing inspiration from American Heritage historical journals (available at the gallery). Call for more info. Through 3/16. Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.
THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET PERFORMERS: Applications accepted for performance slots. Through 3/21. Contact for info, (530) 345-6500.
Museums CHICO MUSEUM: I Heart Chico. Through 6/2. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.
GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Spring Exhibits, The exhibit “Sportsology” explores the science behind sports, while “Brain Teasers 2” offers a new collection of confounding puzzles. Through 5/5. $3-$6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.
VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Infinity & Beyond, an exhibit tracing early human celestial observation to modern space endeavors. Ongoing. CSUC Meriam Library Complex.
FROM THE TRENCHES RECEPTION: Opening night for the display of works by Chico State art students, plus live music by Loki Miller and The American Renaissance. F, 3/15, 5-8pm. Free. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave.; (530) 8791821; www.avenue9gallery.com.
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Our pick: the pickers If there’s an acoustic stringed instrument in your life the place you wanna be this weekend is at the annual California State Fiddle and Picking Championships in Oroville. Fiddlers, guitarists, banjo and dobro players and more will be gathering around the Oroville Municipal Auditorium Thursday-Saturday, March 14-16, to camp and jam the EDITOR’S PICK days away as the competition rages inside. Grab your instrument, or just a chair, and head down by the river to welcome spring by singing a few old tunes with a few new friends.
—JASON CASSIDY
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THIS WEEK continued from page 25 PROOF: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.bird cagetheatre.net.
17SUN Special Events HOME, GARDEN & LEISURE SHOW: See Saturday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.chicohome andgarden.com.
SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER: A spaghetti dinner and silent dessert auction fundraiser with DJ dancing, kid’s activity tables and an author presentation to benefit book publishing fees. Su, 3/17, 5pm. $3-$6. Chico Women’s Club, E. Third And Pine; (530) 624-0420.
Theater FATHER OF THE BRIDE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
PROOF: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcage theatre.net.
Poetry/Literature AUTHOR PRESENTATION: A PowerPoint lecture with Andy Mark, author of The West Branch
Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company. Su, 3/17, 4pm. Free. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8722; www.gold nuggetmuseum.com.
18MON Music DERVISH: A six-piece Celtic music group using mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and accordion to back their dynamic frontwoman, Cathy Jordan. M, 3/18, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.
Poetry/Literature WORD PLAY: A freestyle poetry reading open mic ending in a two-round slam. First and third M of every month, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.
19TUES Theater CHARLOTTE’S WEB: The California Theatre Center presents two showings of the stage adaption of E.B. White’s novel of a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. Tu, 3/19, 9:30 & 11am. $8.75. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8454; www.brownpapertickets.com/event/274018.
20WED Art Receptions MICHAEL MULCAHY RECEPTION: A reception for the exhibition of hard-edged pop art in exuberant color with a no-host bar and refreshment. W, 3/20, 5-7pm. Free. Angelo’s Cucina Trinacria, 407 Walnut St.; (530) 8999996.
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BULLETIN BOARD Community AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave. North off of Hwy 32 and East Ave, (530) 321-5607.
AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,
Brazil and West Africa with live drumming. Tu, 5:30pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 345-6324.
BIRDS OF NORTHEAST INDIA: Bud and Margaret Widdowson recount their trip to northeast India and the discovery of a new bird species. M, 3/18, 6:30pm. Free. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled
meeting. Every other Tu, 9am. Board of Supervisors Chambers, 25 County Center Dr. in Oroville, (530) 538-7631, www.buttecounty.net.
BUILD YOUR WELLNESS TOOLKIT: An Enloehosted expo to promote healthy lifestyles with fitness tests, specialist lectures, cooking demos and more. F, 3/15, 1-5pm. Free. Enloe Outpatient, 888 Lakeside Village Commons Dr., (530) 332-6800.
CHAPMAN FARMERS MARKET: A farmers’ market in the park serving as a neighborhood collaborative forum focusing on healthy lifestyle promotion, education and access. F, 2-5:30pm through 12/31. Free. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 592-0889, www.cchaos.org.
CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.
CHICO POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Monthly meeting hosted by the Chico Police Chief to discuss community issues. Third W of every month, 5:30-7pm. Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1877 Hooker Oak Ave., (530) 342-7777.
CHICO STATE TREE TOURS: An extensive tour of old trees around the mansion and on campus. F, 3/15, 10am; F, 3/29, 10am. Free. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 3422293.
C&R RANCH HIKE: A walk through oak woodlands and grasslands at the C&R Ranch in Paskenta. Bring lunch, water and appropriate clothing. Su, 3/17, 9am. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 343-02397.
DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit. Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, (530) 891-6524.
DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Simple, meditative and uplifting group dances honoring many of the world’s spiritual traditions. Third Sa of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5-$10 donation. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 891-8789.
FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods, honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more.
Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday
Farmers’ Market, Parking Lot, (530) 893-3276.
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT Tonight, March 14 BMU Auditorium SEE COMMUNITY
seling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.
SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524.
SOUTH SIDE OF BIDWELL PARK: A hike from the Green Gate along Highway 32 to Five Mile Recreation Area below the golf course. Bring lunch, water, carpool money and sturdy shoes. Sa, 3/16, 9:30am. Five Mile Picnic Area, Centennial Way, (530) 893-1994.
TABLE MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWER TOURS: A guided hike of Table Mountain during wildflower bloom with California Department of Fish and Wildlife naturalists. Go online to register. Sa, 10am & 1pm through 5/4. Free. Contact for info, (916) 358-2869.
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT: A series of workshops, talks, poetry readings and a silent candlelit march to raise awareness of violence against women. Go online for a complete schedule. Th, 3/14, 6-9pm. Free. Bell Memorial Union Building, Chico State; (530) 898-5724; www.tinyurl.com/blu54xx.
WRITING GROUP: All writers welcome. Bring
paper, a pen and writing to share. F, 3:305pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.
For Kids ART FOR KIDS: Hands-on art activities for students from 1st to 12th grades led by Chico State art faculty and students. Tu, 3:30-5pm through 5/14. Free. The Turner Print Museum, Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.
CCNC SPRING CAMP FOR KIDS: A programs designed to provide outdoor recreation activities and foster awareness of nature, with full and half-day options. Go online for more info. 3/18-3/22. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org/page/kids/daycamps.php.
FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor
medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave. Corner of Downing and E. 1st Ave, (530) 518-8300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.
HERBALIST TALK: CHEMO & NATURAL MEDICINE: Herbalist Harry Chrissakis discusses the use of herbs for mitigating the side effects of chemotherapy. Th, 3/14, 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 933-8244, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.
HUNGER WALK: A two mile walk to benefit organizations feeding the hungry in Oroville. Call for more info. Sa, 3/16, 8:30-11am. Riverbend Park, 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville, (530) 5330262.
SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health coun-
Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park web site for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.
MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.
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Connolly, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay, and Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith as the diva who is disrupting plans for the home’s annual Verdi concert/fundraiser. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Now playing 21 & Over
I wonder if the night will go terribly wrong in this comedy written and directed by The Hangover screenwriters about two party dudes taking their friend out for his 21st birthday on the eve of an important medical-school interview? Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.
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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —C.B.
Escape from Planet Earth
Brendan Fraser, Rob Corddry, Jessica Alba and William Shatner are among those who provide voices for this animated feature about the adventures of a superstar astronaut and his nerdy brother. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.
Cold service
Identity Thief “I’m mad.” “Me, too. Let’s kill some people.”
Noirish story of revenge is not your typical mob thriller
M with the Sturm und Drang of Hollywood actioners, Dead Man Down is a surprisingly compelling take on your ixing the aesthetics of European cinema
typical multiplex thriller. High up one side of a concrete canyon in decaying Manhattan, a lonely urban dweller by waves tentatively to her mysterious neighbor Craig Blamer across the way. The return wave is equally tentative. Both have their damage, physical and psychological. Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) is a shattered young woman, her face a livid jigsaw puzzle and her dreams a fading echo. Her optimism has been crushed by a justice system that allowed the drunken-driving judge who destroyed her face to skate. Dead Man By this time, we’ve already seen her neighDown bor, Victor (Colin Farrell), in action during the Starring Colin Farrell, Noomi cold opening in which all sorts of hell was Rapace and unleashed by the Hungarian and his gangster Terrence Howard. cronies. Victor is a lieutenant for a crime syndiDirected by Niels cate that is being targeted by someone on a Arden Oplev. very personal vendetta. (Hmm … who could Cinemark 14, Feather River be behind the cryptic Post-it notes left on the Cinemas and corpses of his colleagues?) Of course, this being a Hollywood shootParadise Cinema 7. Rated R. ’em-up thriller, it’s not exactly a surprise who’s gunning for Victor’s boss (Terrence Howard). The surprise is how tenderly director Niels Arden Oplev (of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) bucks the Hollywood template Poor and focuses more on the cautious courtship between Victor and Beatrice. Both are shattered people, their facades held together by the Fair glue of becoming partners in revenge. For those who want two hours of bullets, blood and extended CGI spectacle, this might Good be frustrating. Dead Man Down most assuredly delivers the goods with bursts of stylish mayhem and sweaty machismo, but here the mayhem serves the narrative, not the other way Very Good around. But Oplev also takes care to create vulnerability between his two leads, emphasized with an undertow of dread. One definitely gets Excellent the vibe that The City demands a blood sacri-
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fice, and hope makes for a tasty entrée. But while Oplev’s portrait of Manhattan is not the postcard we’re accustomed to, he still manages to evoke the mystique. While there are no amazing twists to be found here and the narrative is only a step above fundamental, there is still some unexpected subtext at work as well as the slow-burn pleasure of watching the director unpeel the layers of character motivation like an onion. Rapace is unafraid to have her beauty painted over in a patchwork quilt of scar tissue and play Frankenstein to the neighborhood bullies, and Farrell delivers with his brooding shtick, but reinforced here with a definite air of determined hopelessness. Granted, the climax takes a sudden detour into Hollywood absurdity, but by that point it’s a little too late in the game to derail the positives. Ω
A raunchy comedy starring Jason Batemen as a businessman who tracks down the deceptively wily woman (played by Melissa McCarthy) who has stolen his identity. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated. R.
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Jack the Giant Slayer
We start in familiar territory, with a teenage Jack accidentally letting some magical beans loose into the soil, causing an enormous beanstalk to explode toward the sky. It connects to a dangerous land between Heaven and Earth, where angry giants dream of making human bones into afternoon snacks. The beanstalk has also carried Princess Isabelle into the giants’ world and, damsel in distress that she is, she needs saving! (For all its updating, the storyline doesn’t do much for feminism.) There are some fun moments from a strong ensemble of actors, and the fantasy land of the giants’ world looks pretty cool. All the basic fairytale themes are recycled here: saving the kingdom, true love overcoming class differences, and so on. It’s fun, but, just as the giants might, we see it all coming from a mile away. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —R.B.
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Oz the Great and Powerful
It’s been 74 years since the release of The Wizard of Oz, and director Sam Raimi (Spiderman) and company are exploring its title character, pre-Dorothy and gang. Struggling magician/con-artist/womanizer Oscar “Oz” Diggs (James Franco) isn’t living up to his “great” potential, working the circus scene in Podunk, Kansas. So when a tornado sweeps him away to the land of Oz, where the inhabitants believe that he’s their awaited wizard, he goes with it. With the help of Glinda The Good Witch (a sappy Michelle Williams), this amateur hero attempts to save the citizens of Emerald City from the wicked sister witches (Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis). There’s plenty of visual oohing and ahhing to be had, but the fun stops there. The dialogue falls flat and the mediocre acting does little to save it. Keep traveling down that yellow brick road. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —R.B.
Safe Haven
Swedish director Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules) helms this story of a young woman (Julianne Hough) who moves to a small town in North Carolina to hide from her past only to find that, after getting close to a local widower (Josh Duhamel), her past has followed her to the sticks. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
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Silver Linings Playbook
Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is returning to his blue-collar neighborhood in Philadelphia after a court-mandated stay in a mental institution. He’s determined to make amends for the violent incident that got him institutionalized in the first place—as well as separated from his wife and fired from his job as a schoolteacher. But making amends is not going to be easy, due in no small part to the fact that the family abode is a bit of a madhouse. The lively onscreen results for writer-director David O. Russell look like a romantic comedy of an unusually brash and farcical sort. And the heart of both the comedy and the drama becomes evident via Pat’s offbeat collision with a recently widowed Goth/punk gal named Tiffany (a terrific Jennifer Lawrence). Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.
Snitch Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Rachel Bush and Juan-Carlos Selznick.
The Rock stars as a dad who makes a deal with the DEA to be an informant and go undercover in a drug cartel in order to free his wrongfully imprisoned son. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Opening this week The Call
A young woman (Abigail Breslin) calls a 911 dispatcher (Halle Barry) from the trunk of her abductor’s car, which draws the operator into a dangerous game that finds her back in the sights of a killer (Michael Eklund) from her past. Cinemark 14. Rated R.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Steve Carell plays Burt Wonderstone, a Vegas magician who reunites with his old partner, Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi), in an effort to revive their act and fend off the rising popularity of an edgy street magician played by Jim Carrey. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Quartet
Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut with this story of four retired opera singers living in a musicians’ retirement home. The four opera veterans are played by Billy
Ends tonight, March 14. Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin in a geezer gangster comedy. Brash humor and a giddy impulsiveness give it unexpected charm. Noah Haidle’s script, his first for a feature-length film, feels like an amalgam of Goodfellas, Grumpy Old Men, The Bucket List and whatever aging gunfighter movies you’d care to name. Nevertheless, the comic lines he’s written for Pacino and company have a pleasing wallop to them, and director Fisher Stevens does a brisk and skillful job of ushering the cast through the story’s rambunctious zigzags between half-serious action and rowdy farce. Pacino is a scruffy delight. Walken has fewer laugh lines, but he’s superb as a guy who listens and thinks a lot and doesn’t have to say much to get his point, comic or not, across. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.
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Warm Bodies
Here we have America a few years after the rise of the dead and the ensuing fall of the living. The few folks who huddle behind a walled-off sector of the city don’t care about what brought about the plague, because they are too busy staying alive. The dead don’t care, because they’re dead. Well, aside from one zombie who we come to know as “R” (Nicholas Hoult) whose heart begins to flutter when he spies a hottie breather named Julie (Teresa Palmer). He tries the ever-reliable approach to stealing a woman’s heart of eating the brains of her boyfriend, which, um, gives R the dude’s memories and kick starts his heart. Ultimately, Warm Bodies delivers by balancing a sweet li’l love story while maintaining the underlying grottiness of the zombie premise. Cinemark 14. Rated. PG-13 —C.B.
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opposite end of the beer spectrum. Sure enough, January, February and March are traditionally the months when breweries by Alastair release what might be the king of Bland craft beers—the barleywine. This rich and delicious style, born long ago in Britain, is usually honey- to amber-colored, often quite sweet, and approaches wine levels of alcohol (hence the name). Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot barleywine contains more than 9 percent alcohol by volume, and some barleywines—especially modern American ones—go as high as 15 percent or more. Traditional British barleywines are softer on the hops and heavier on the candy and caramel notes. Anchor’s Old Foghorn—one of the first barleywines brewed in the United States, in 1975—was modeled after British beers encountered by the San Francisco brewery’s owners as they toured England’s pub country, seeking brewing inspiration. Old Foghorn, on the low end of the scale at 9 percent alcohol by volume, has retained its gentlemanly composure even through the American extreme brewing craze of the past decade. Elsewhere, American barleywines have become a recognized style, bigger, stronger, and bitterer than the original English renditions. Dogfish Head in Delaware, for example, makes a ferocious beast called Olde School, which is brewed with dates and figs and weighs in at 15 percent ABV. Many others measure 12 percent and 13 percent, and increasingly popular among brewers is to age barleywines prior to bottling in wooden barrels that once contained whiskey, rum or wine. Bigfoot—which has touched such boozy wood on a few experimental occasions—is one of most extreme of American-style barleywines. The beer is famously bitter, so aggressively hopped that it could just as well be categorized as a double IPA. But whereas IPAs are best consumed fresh from the tanks, barleywines originated as beers for the cellar, to last through the cold months. They served as a source of calories for people for whom solid food may not have been a guaranteed asset in the winter.
Brewers quickly discovered that barleywines, better than nearly any other beer style, can endure the passage of months—and years—with grace. That is, rather than grow skunky or sour like a forgotten lager in the basement, barleywines mature and grow. Their easy-drinking sweetness of youth turns thick and chewy, with elderly specimens exhibiting wonderful flavors of caramel, vanilla, dried figs, and fudge. The presence of the word “old” in the names of so many current barleywines reflects the tradition of keeping these beers in the cellar. With bitterly hopped barleywines like Bigfoot, the changes brought about by time are especially dramatic: the hops fade quickly as the malt character develops. Tastings of aged Bigfoot are popular among many beer aficionados, who may sample several vintages side by side to study like scientists the dramatically different stages of maturity. Barleywines can be expensive—$6 to $10 or more for a 22-ounce bottle—and they are always precious. Like acclaimed wines, barleywines may be treated with great reverence, and cherished by the sip through an evening—especially when it’s cold out. Popular barleywine marketing imagery portrays cabin-bound old-timers sipping mahogany brown beer from tulipshaped snifters by a roaring log fire, as snowdrifts pile high outside. (No: a barleywine is not for drinking on the lawnmower.) Barleywines are opened on special occasions, perhaps with special people. But whosoever you may be hosting the night you open that longawaited barleywine, the beer—at least for a few moments—becomes the guest of honor. What barleywines to try? Still very much in season, there are many to be found currently on retail shelves, including Lagunitas’s Olde GnarlyWine, FiftyFifty’s Old Conundrum, Rogue’s Old Crustacean and 21st Amendment’s Lower De Boom. Coming later in March is a collaborative barleywine made by Deschutes, Rogue, and North Coast brewing companies (as part of Deschutes’ Class of ’88 series). Meanwhile, Anchor’s Old Foghorn and Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot are still around as well—but as spring and summer warm up the days ahead, stash unused bottles of barleywine in a cool place until next winter. They’ll be waiting. Ω
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Various artists The brand-new Rough Guide to Cumbia is a soul-satisfying tour through the exciting territory that is Colombian cumbia music—from its Afro-Caribbean roots to contemporary takes on cumbia. The late Lucho Bermúdez’s highly danceable “Gaita De Las Flores” is must-hear stuff, as is the even more mesmerizing “Fiesta En Mi Pueblo,” by Los Hispanos, a Colombian group known for bringing cumbia to the upper-class youth of Colombia’s interior in the 1960s. The album closes with the catchy, techno-driven “Para Bailar,” an up-to-the-moment take on cumbia as interpreted by El Hijo De La Cumbia (Argentinian DJ/producer Emiliano Gómez). As one online reviewer put it, “It is so good that the painter (from Colombia) who is painting our hallways rang my doorbell to ask about it. He wants a copy, too. He danced out the door.” To add extra frosting to this delectable cake, a bonus CD is included: The captivating (and sensuous: listen to “Ocho Dias”) Rough Guide to Los Corraleros De Majagual. ¡Sabor! —Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia
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Adam Green & Binki Shapiro Adam Green & Binki Shapiro New Rounder For most indie-pop fans, the name Adam Green might not ring any bells initially, until the reminder: “You know, the guy from The Moldy Peaches.” And where The Moldy Peaches were simply a lo-fi good time, Green the solo artist is a more refined good time. His lyricism is irreverently poetic, capable of creating a range of moods, while the songwriting itself quite often achieves perfection with its brevity. Green’s latest work with sultry songstress Binki Shapiro (formerly of Little Joy) only enhances the above praise, as the two channel a duet approach fantastically reminiscent of Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra. Their 10-song, self-titled effort evokes both romantic playfulness and longing, drawing in listeners with a pair of voices that seem bonded by natural adhesive. “Pity Love” is the album’s definitive track, a flawless cut of bouncy, melancholy pop that hooks you with the verse: “My heart is everywhere, clapping out like thunder/ everybody, everybody’s cheating on each other.” The album’s succinctness—clocking in at 28 minutes total—is one of its biggest strengths; every brief gem, from “Just To Make Me Feel Good” to “Pleasantries,” leaves you wanting even more.
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P Whatever interpretations one has of the characters and actions in Hamlet, there’s no mistaking that rince Hamlet was not nice to Ophelia.
the crazy-making, dad-killing prince with mommy issues did in fact treat his would-be by lover unkindly, contributing greatly Jason Cassidy to her mental slide toward ending her jasonc@ life in the “weeping brook.” newsreview.com In Caridad Svich’s 12 Ophelias, the young Ophelia’s story gets a different ending, one that starts with her REVIEW: rising from the cold waters and com12 Ophelias , final ing back to life in the backwoods of performance, Appalachia. And she has a score to tonight, March 14, settle with that misbehaving Hamlet. 7:30 p.m., at “It’s paying time. I feel it,” she says. Wismer Theatre. “The boy will remember. I am on Wismer Theatre land.” PAC 135 For the opening-night performChico State ance of the theater department’s first 898-6333 production of the spring semester, director William Johnson and his Chico State cast and crew surround that promising plot device with a good measure of energy and entertaining elements (including some great music), but unfortunately it’s mostly window dressing for what turned out to be largely a one-note performance; that one note being that Hamlet was a jerk and Ophelia is (sort of) not having it anymore. There’s really not much else to take away from the avant-garde semimusical. Underlining that one note was the play’s dialogue, which was a combination of Shakespeare-like heightened language with a touch of hillbilly vernacular and construction. Either of those elements has the potential to be tiresome in a contemporary play, but blending them together and having the players deliver the result with vaguely Southern accents just didn’t work. The actors did their best with it, heightening their voices to meet the theatrical nature of the language (but that just might’ve made things worse). Joining Ophelia and Hamlet (back in the form of a leather-clad ruffian named Rude Boy) are other names from the past: Gertrude (as a whorehouse madam) and Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (who go by H,
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R and G, respectively). And the story here is mostly just a series of verbal fisticuffs among various groupings of the characters strung together, the only narrative being Ophelia’s changing opinion of Rude Boy as they go back and forth and back and done. Erin Duffey as Ophelia was most successful at rising above the noise. She had a great voice (both spoken and in song) and played the part as sort of a feral wolf-girl found in the wilderness, full of lust and anger, and was fun to watch as she made her way to and through Rude Boy with energy and courage. While Ophelia got to branch out of her previous character, the once-complex Hamlet’s punishment seems to be that he be reduced to a blunt caricature. Murphy Mayer does fine in the role, but since rude is all he can be, well … Nonetheless, there are several parts of the production to recommend. The music was fantastic. Songwriter Marcel Daguerre created a range of sounds with his original numbers (set to the playwright’s lyrics)— from beautiful, harmony-rich folk tunes to dark-sounding rock songs—that provided much of the play’s emotional impact. Local folk group The Railflowers (with help in spots from guitarist Dave Elke, violinist Joel Quivey and Daguerre on bass and drums) supplied the live soundtrack, and their airy, sweet-voiced version of Appalachian folk was pitch perfect. And the singing by the cast matched up beautifully with what The Railflowers were doing offstage. Duffey’s rich voice was especially impressive, and the six women in the Chorus of Ophelias lived up to their name with flawless, goosebump-inducing accompaniment. Scenic designer Daniel Schindler and crew also created a nice, simple scene with the stage at the center of the room being formed out of what looked like a giant boulder surrounded by a moat of a river that would reveal different characteristics with each lighting change. And keeping with the surreal nature of the play, hanging from the ceiling were trees with roots growing down below the lights and casting creepy shadows across the stage. In the end, despite the moments of creativity and many inspired choices for this production, it was hard to get past the play’s rough delivery and the fact that it Ω didn’t end up anywhere interesting.
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Blame Sally is returning to the Big Room after a triumphant 2012 appearance. “One of the finest bands in America right now, like a folk-based U2.” – San Diego Troubadour Wonderful visuals alongside outstanding vocals and musicianship make Blame Sally a must-see musical event. The band features Pam Delgado on percussion, guitar and vocals; Renee Harcourt on guitar, bass, banjo, harmonica and vocals; Jeri Jones on guitar, bass, Dobro®, mandolin and vocals; and Monica Pasqual on piano, keys, accordion and vocals. This will be a seated show with dancing space on the side. Come out and enjoy a special musical evening. Tickets $17 On sale Saturday, 03/16 in the Gift Shop or online at www.SierraNevada.com Doors open at 6pm • Music starts at 7:30pm
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organist Angela Kraft Cross plays selections from Bach’s Clavierubungen III (also known as the German Organ Mass) on the Centennial Pipe Organ. F, 3/15, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, W. First St. CSU, Chico campus, 898-6333, www.schoolof thearts-csuchico.com.
BASSMINT: An ongoing weekly electronic MYKAL ROSE & SISTER CAROL: The acclaimed reggae musicians perform with a full band. DJ PhG and Water Truck Sound open. Th, 3/14, 9pm. $20$25. Lost On Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.
OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians
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IMPROV JAM: A weekly open jam session. Th, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.
BLUES UNPLUGGED: An acoustic blues
showcase with host Steven Truskol. Th, 3/14, 7-10pm. Free. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.
BOGG ALBUM RELEASE PARTY: The local jazz fusion group celebrates the release of their debut album, So Happy It Hurts, with a full ten-piece group. Avita Treason, The Rugs and Song Sparrow Research open. Th, 3/14, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.
CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.
Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St.; (530) 892-2473.
JOHN SEID TRIO: John Seid, Larry Peterson and Steve Cook play an eclectic mix of tunes. Th, 3/14, 5:308:30pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.; 809-2304.
MATTEO PLAYS FILM SCORES: Classical guitarist Matteo plays film scores and light classics. Th, 6pm. Free. Angelo’s Cucina Trinacria, 407 Walnut St.; (530) 899-9996.
THE MONTANES: Live, original country
tunes on the back patio. Th, 3/14, 69pm. Free. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
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welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.
PUB SCOUTS: Chico’s favorite Irish rock band pay tunes from the Pogues, Christy Moore, Waterboys and more. Th, 3/14, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.
PUNK SHOWCASE: An evening of epic punk rock with Violation and Hellbomber out of Santa Rosa and locals The Oisters and Helm of Cerebrus. Th, 3/14, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.
15FRIDAY BACH GERMAN ORGAN MASS: As part of the Chico Bach Festival, San Francisco
dance music party and DJ showcase. F, 9:30pm. $3. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W Second St Chico; (925) 451-5035.
CHAD BUSHNELL: A local four-piece country band playing an energetic mix of old and new country tunes in the brewery. F, 3/15, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.
COUNTRY NIGHT: Live country music with Rancho Mars. F, 5-8pm. Free. Towne Lounge, 327 Main St.; (530) 896-0235.
EZ STREET: Danceable rock, blues and
country in the lounge. F, 3/15, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.
Flying Birds and Alli Battaglia open. F, 3/15, 8pm. $8. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafe coda.com.
THE HOOLIGANZ HOT NIGHTS: The partycentric local hip-hop outfit performs. DJs Babyface and Marvel open. F, 3/15, 9pm. $5. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with a traditional Irish music session by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.
LOW FLYING BIRDS: Original acoustic
bluegrass tunes. F, 3/15, 7-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.
MCBRIDE BROTHERS BAND: Covers of ’60s British invasion-era rock ‘n’ roll. F, 3/15, 8pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.
Free. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.
WHISKEY & STITCHES: Irish folk-punk in the lounge. F, 3/15, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.
16SATURDAY BUCK DEVLIN BENEFIT CONCERT: The Stillwater Savage Band, which specializes in country and southern rock, plays to help offset medical expenses for Paradise man Buck Devlin, who is struggling with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Sa, 3/16, 6pm. $20-$25. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise.
SIAMSA LE CHEILE: Scottish and Irish dance music in the lounge. F, 3/15, 8:30pm.
FLOATER: A longtime Chico favorite, the hooky Portland-based progressive rock band plays the first show in their two-night stand. F, 3/15, 8:30pm. $15$18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproduc tions.net.
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dance music in the lounge. Sa, 3/16, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 5349892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.
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SOCORRO: Indie folk-rock out of Los Angeles. Portland-based Denim Wedding and local singer-songwriter Aamir Malik open. Sa, 3/16, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.
EZ STREET: Danceable rock, blues and
country in the lounge. Sa, 3/16, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.
FLAT BUSTED: A Sacramento-area country outfit. Sa, 3/16, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.
HOUSE OF FLOYD: A Pink Floyd tribute band out of the Bay Area performs in the brewery. Sa, 3/16, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.
California, Quarteto Nuevo is a firstrate world music ensemble of soprano sax, cello, percussion and guitar. Sa, 3/16, 7:30-9:30pm. $10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.
Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.
ST. PATTYS DAY FEST: A special St. Patrick’s Day celebration with food, music by Molly’s Favourite and Bunch of Shams and Michael Springer playing old-time fiddle and guitar. Su, 3/17, 12-
514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
USNEA: Funeral-doom metal out of Portland. Metal-headed contemporaries Amarok, Venkman and Jedi Scum open. Su, 3/17, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.
18MONDAY ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC: Acoustic musicians
will perform two songs apiece. M, 3/18, 9pm. Free. Maltese Bar & Taproom, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.
DERVISH: A six-piece Celtic music group using mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and accordion to back their dynamic frontwoman, Cathy Jordan. M, 3/18, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.
JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: With the Carey
Robinson Trio. M, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.
MOOD: SWING TRIO: A guitar, clarinet and violin ensemble plays jazz and Brazilian music. M, 3/18, 6:30-8:30pm. No cover. Bellachino’s Espresso & Panini Cafe, 800 Bruce Rd. 600; (530) 892-2244; www.pianofun.com/ moodswing.
19TUESDAY AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-
writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
BELLY DANCE CLASS: Weekly belly dance
with BellySutra. Tu, 6-7pm. $8. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.
SHIGEMI & FRIENDS: Weekly live jazz with keyboardist Shigemi Minetaka and rotating accompaniment. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade; (530) 343-2056; www.farmstar pizza.com.
20WEDNESDAY LAURIE DANA: Soul, light rock, blues, country, tin pan alley, jazz and more.
W, 7-9pm. Free. VIP Ultra Lounge, 191 E. Second St. Upstairs from The Beach.
STOLAS: A totally shreddin’, post-hardcore progressive rock band out of Las Vegas. These Colors and Monk Warrior open. W, 3/20, 9pm. $3. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
SWING DANCE WEDNESDAY: Every Wednesday night, swing dancing lessons 8-10pm. W, 8-10pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.
WAHID: A world music duo that favors
RAMONA SKYE: A dreamy three-piece band that draws on the blues, folk and alternative rock. The Recovery and Mallory Penzotti open. Sa, 3/16, 9pmmidnight. Free. Maltese Bar & Taproom, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.
GLORIOUS BAROQUE: BACH AND BEYOND: As part of the Chico Bach Festival, musicians from the North Valley Chamber Chorale and Chico State music students present works by Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Pergolesi and more. Sa, 3/16, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, W. First St. CSU, Chico campus; (530) 898-5739; www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.
JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans
QUARTETO NUEVO: Out of Southern
FLOATER ACOUSTIC: The beloved Portland-based progressive rock band plays a stripped-down acoustic set for the second show of their twonight stand in Chico. Sa, 3/16, 9pm. $12-$15. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.
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ST. PATTY’S 2013
Alright, friends. Let’s have a good time this St. Patrick’s Day weekend, feasting, dancing, and tossing back a couple at the public houses with your mates all decked out in green, but let’s not let anyone get hurt out there. If you’re kicking around downtown, or anywhere else in Chico, look out for one another and plan on goin’ home by cab.
THE ROCKHOUNDS: Classic rock covers in
the nightclub. Sa, 3/16, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rolling hillscasino.com.
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WAY OUT WEST: A weekly country music showcase with The Blue Merles. W, 79pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
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CENTURY IN THE MAKING The first bit of news for the Chico Women’s Club is that the 102-year-old Steinway grand piano that has been in the hall for 80 years has just returned from its $40,000 restoration. The impressive instrument made its public debut last weekend during the 10 Chico Silent Film Festival, and according to Women’s Club member Sandy Goulart everyone in attendance raved about its beautiful sound. The second bit of Chico Women’s Club news is that the longstanding community group is turning 100. In October of 1913, a group of 29 women (including Chico founding mother Annie Bidwell) started the Chico Art Club (which it was called until changing to its current name in 1960), and on Sept. 8 of this year the women’s group will be hosting a party in celebration of 100 years of serving Chico. Leading up to that occasion, they will be producing a series of Centennial Steinway concerts to recoup funds spent on the piano. The Ebony & Ivory campaign will feature one concert per month leading up to the anniversary event—each with a different musical theme (jazz, folk/bluegrass, classical, etc.)—with a big gala concert/ progressive dinner capping it all off on Sept. 27. Visit www.chico womensclub.org for more info. DEVOtions
• Janice Porter exhibit: The late Chico artist’s paintings will be on display and for sale at the new temporary home of the University Art Gallery (in the Humanities Center) through April 4. Opening reception is tonight, March 14, 5-7 p.m. • Hobilly’s “Dirt Road”: Go now to James Wright’s YouTube page at www.youtube.com/user/subatomic funk to see the sweet black-andwhite video he made of local slideguitar stud Hobilly M.F. (of Michelin Embers, Shout Bamalama!, Hallelujah Junction) tearing it up on dobro. Art of Janice
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NEW LISTING IN DURHAM
Remodeled & looks brand new. 4 bd 3 ba 2263 sqft with a pool. Great neighborhood. Asking Price: $379,900.
3 bed 2 bath home.
Brandon Siewert
(530) 828-4597 brandonsiewert.com
New ListiNg !
Light & bright
pending! it’S time to Sale!
EmmEtt Jacobi
Cell 530.519.6333 • emmettjacobi.com
Sponsored by Century 21 Jeffries Lydon ADDRESS
TOWN
PRICE
BR/BA
SQ. FT.
1507 Ridgebrook Way 1046 Arcadian Ave 591 E Lassen Ave 1585 La Linda Ln 94 Lexington Dr 77 Lexington Dr 2743 Lowell Dr 560 E 9th Ave 1079 Sierra Vista Way 2165 Mariposa Ave 322 W 20th St
Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico
$245,500 $230,000 $228,000 $228,000 $220,000 $202,500 $185,000 $170,000 $170,000 $155,500 $155,000
3/ 2 4/ 2 2/ 1 4/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1.5 3/ 2 2/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 1
1316 1565 1630 1590 1163 1248 1194 1000 1545 1092 902
March 14, 2013
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Century 21 Jeffries Lydon
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4
10465 Bogie Way (X St: Estates Drive) 3 Bd/3 Ba, 3063 sq. ft. $559,900 Alice Zeissler 518-1872 Heather DeLuca 228-1480 Johnny Klinger 864-3398
3 Nancy Way (X St: Hawthorne) 3 Bd/2 Ba, 1525 sq. ft. $265,000 Heather DeLuca 228-1480 John Wallace 514-2405 Heather DeLuca 228-1480 Alice Zeissler 518-1872
Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 2527 Ramada Way(X St: East) 5 Bd/3 Ba, 2907 sq. ft. $365,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508
Sat. 11-1 & Sun. 2-4 134 W. Tonea Way (X St: Esplanade) 3 Bd/3 Ba, 2478 sq. ft. $337,000 Ron Kelly 521-3629 Becky Williams 636-0936
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 9474 Lott Road (X St: Oro Chico) 3 Bd/2.5 Ba, 1670 sq. ft. $290,000 Emmett Jacobi 519-6333 Saeed Khan 916-705-6977 Ronnie Owen 518-0911
4290 Prarie Drive • Butte valley Panoramic view on 9.90 acres, fully fenced with complete horse set-up. Includes custom 3 bedroom/2 bath home, 1669 sq. ft., comes with large kitchen & open floor plan. All located in Butte Valley.
2 bed/2 bath, 1974 manufactured home on 1/4 acre in Chico. Possible owner carry. $118,500.
Dana W. Miller
(530)571-7738 (530)570-1184 dmiller@century21chico.com
• Quality custom 3 bd/4 ba, 1.66a acs, pool + more $668,000 • Wonderful 4 bed/2 bth, 2,600 ft, formals, INGRV parking $259,900 PEsqND • Bungalow 2 bed/1 bth, 818 sq ft, garden beds + more $165,000 • Condo, upstairs, upgraded 3 bd/2 ba, 1,025 sq ft. $149,000 • Horse Property, 9.90 Ac, 3 bed/2bth, 1,669 sq ft. $409,000
Century 21 Jeffries Lydon
KATHY KELLY 530-570-7403
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1 63 Oak Drive (X St: White Ave.) 2 Bd/1 Ba, 1205 sq. ft. $179,000 Anita Miller 321-1174 Frankie Dean 717-3884 Ronnie Owen 518-0911
Sat. 11-1 2050 Springfield #109 (X St: Forest) 3 Bd/2 Ba, 1676 sq. ft. $89,000 John Wallace 514-2405
2555 & 2551 Banner Peak (X St: Bruce Road) 3 Bd/2 Ba, 1784 sq. ft. $288,000 3 Bd/2 Ba, 1603 sq. ft. $277,000 Ed Galvez 990-2054
Teresa Larson | Realtor | Century 21 Jeffries Lydon (530) 899-5925 | www.ChicoListings.com | chiconativ@aol.com
3 bed, 1 1/2 bath with approximately 1,039 sq ft. $179,000
1533 Manchester (X St: 5th Avenue) 3 Bd/2 Ba, 1475 sq. ft. $255,000 Dustin Wenner 624-9125 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4
listeD at: $409,000
Just Listed!
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4
DRE# 01860319
KathyKellyC21@gmail.com
USDA 100% FINANCING AVAILABLE on this new construction! Two plans to choose from & 8 different lots at this price, 3 bed & 2 bath models with a den & 3 car garage. 90-120 day build out, call me for materials list & subdivision information. $280,000
• Super nice 4 bd/2 ba, 2,045 sq ft, newer! $317,000
MARK REAMAN
Teresa Larson (530) 899-5925
530-228-2229
www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com
Mark.Reaman@c21jeffrieslydon.com
Jeffries Lydon
The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 25, 2013 — March 1, 2013. The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home. ADDRESS
1628 E Lassen Ave 6 Cheshire Ct 1222 W 11th Ave 3245 Wild Turkey Run 1840 Ohio St 1955 Indiana St 1855 Vermont St 1279 Losser Ave 1604 Spruce St 1175 Cedar St 357 Crane Ave 36 CN&R March 14, 2013
TOWN
PRICE
BR/BA
SQ. FT.
ADDRESS
TOWN
PRICE
BR/BA
SQ. FT.
Chico Chico Chico Concow Gridley Gridley Gridley Gridley Gridley Gridley Oroville
$140,000 $137,000 $130,000 $136,000 $245,000 $200,000 $175,000 $160,000 $115,500 $112,500 $235,000
3/ 1.5 3/ 1.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 4/ 2 4/ 2.5 3/ 2 4/ 2 1/ 1.5 3/ 1.5 3/ 2.5
1231 1254 1601 1536 2478 2130 1504 2426 1833 1162 1997
391 Skyline Blvd
Oroville
$172,000
3/ 2
1276
31 Rogers Ridge Ct
Oroville
$165,000
4/ 2
2048
227 Viewcrest Dr
Oroville
$160,000
3/ 2
2034
3027 Florence Ave
Oroville
$105,000
3/ 2
1152
74 Tuscan Dr
Paradise
$515,000
3/ 2.5
2806
2397 Tokay Ct
Paradise
$240,000
3/ 2
1945
306 Memphis Dr
Paradise
$180,000
3/ 2
1600
5422 Hickory Way
Paradise
$151,500
3/ 2
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CLASSICS 1970 MGB Classic Convertible Restored, pristine condition. All records. $8,995.00. 530-345-9373 Days or Evenings.
INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE Wanted Older Guitars! Martin, Fender, Gibson. Also older Fender amps. Pay up to $2,000. 916-966-1900
MUSICIAN SERVICES Record your own album on CD at a quality home studio. Call Steve 530-824-8540
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GALLAWAY CONSULTING, NORTHSTAR ENGINEERING, NORTHSTAR ENVIRONMENTAL at 111 Mission Ranch Blvd,, Suite 100 Chico, CA 95926. MAP ASSOCIATES, INC. 111 Mission Ranch Blvd., Suite 100 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: MARK ADAMS, PRINCIPAL Dated: February 4, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000169 Published: February 21,28, MArch 7,14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ROWDY FARMS, RURAL RESOURCES at 3080 Throntree Dr Suite 85 Chico, CA 95973. JOHN ROWDEN 599 E 9TH St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOHN ROWDEN Dated: January 31, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-000157 Published: February 21,28, March 7,14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as CONSCIOUS CREATIONS at 220 2ND AVE Orland, CA 95963. COUNTY OF GLENN KELLY LYNN OSBORNE 220 2ND AVE Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KELLY OSBORNE Dated: January 22, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000098 Published: February 21,28, March 7,14, 2013
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OLD SCHOOLHOUSE RANCH at 1227 Peninsula Dr Chico, CA 95928. DAVID J SAAD 1227 Peninsula Dr Chico, CA 95928. JULIE C SAAD 1227 Peninsula Dr Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: DAVID SAAD Dated: February 15, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000227 Published: February 21,28, March 7,14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARADISE COMPUTER REPAIR AT 4047 Neal Road #1 Paradise, CA 95969. DAVID ESCALANTE 8741 Nugget Lane Paradise, CA 95969. EDWARD JAMES 16940 Skyway Stirling City, CA 95978. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: DAVID ESCALANTE Dated: February 14, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000219 Published: February 21,28, March 7,14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DIALED IN ATHLETICS at 2515 Zanella Way Suite #1 Chico, CA 95928 DIALED IN ATHLETICS 2515 Zanella Way Suite #1 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JAKE DAVIS Dated: February 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000161 Published: February 28, March 7.14.21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOZY CO at 1340 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926. THOMAS SHARKEY 1340 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: Thomas Sharkey Dated: February 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000235 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business names INSTASHIRT, INSTASHIRT. COM at 430 W 7TH ST Chico, CA 95928. REYNCOR INTERNATIONAL LLC 430 W 7TH ST Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: JOSEPH R REYNOLDS Dated: February 20, 2013 FBN Number: 2012-0001502 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INSTASHIRT, INSTASHIRT.COM, PHAMILY GRAPHICS at 805 W 12TH Ave Chico, CA 95926. JOSEPH R REYNOLDS 805 W 12TH Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual.
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Signed: JOSEPH R REYNOLDS DAted: February 20, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000236 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO UPCYCLE DESIGNS at 1504 Laburnum Ave Chico, CA 95926. AIMEE ALARID 3068 Boulder Dr. Chico, CA 95973. JULIE ELLEN 1356 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973. LISA SHERMAN 1504 Laburnum Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: LISA SHERMAN Dated:February 4, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000174 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BEYOND THE BARN, JUNKIN FOR JOY BOOKS, JUNKIN FOR JOY PAPERS, JUNKIN FOR JOY VINTAGE at 2279 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926. LAURA MARIE HAZEL 1785 Heron Lane Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LAURA M HAZEL Dated: February 4, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000171 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING STORE at 1600 Mangrove Ave. Ste. 135 Chico, CA 95926. ALOIS SCOTT, JR 1162 Guill Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ALOIS SCOTT JR Dated: January 23, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000100 Dated: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CYCLEDATA at 275 Fairchild Suite 105 Chico, CA 95973 INFORMATION AGENT, INC 275 Fairchild Suite 105 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: RJ SCOTT, PRESIDENT Dated: February 21, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000246 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALMA’S BEAUTY SALON at 973 East Ave #A Chico, CA 95926. JORGE PEDRAZA TORRES 1109 Marin Street Corning, CA 96021. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JORGE TORRES Dated: February 22, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000252 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as 38 RANCH ROPING AND ORGANICS at 270 Shady Oak Dr Oroville, CA 95966.
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CHERYL A CASTAGNA 270 Shady Oak Dr Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CHERY A CASTAGNA Dated: February 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000160 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LIGHTS OUT FISHING at 1432 N. Cherry Street Chico, CA 95926. JAMES DEREK FELL 1432 N. Cherry Street CHico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JAMES FELL Dated: February 7, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000198 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL FINANCIAL GROUP at 3201 Esplanade Suite 100 Chico, CA 95973 BRADLEY LOCKHART 2910 Alamo Ave Chico, CA 95973. RODNEY ROLLINS 6 Walnut Park Drive Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed; ROD ROLLINS Dated: January 22, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000093 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name BEAUTY ADDICTIONS at 1900 Oro Dam BLVD Suite 5 Oroville, CA 95966. CORRINE E FLICKER 3354 Argonaut Ave Oroville, CA 95966. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: CORRINE E FLICKER Dated: February 14, 2013 FBN Number: 2009-0001026 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLACK AND WHITE PRODUCTIONS at 615 Bidwell Drive Chico, CA 95926. LIAM JULIAN PAVLIK SELBY 615 Bidwell Drive Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LIAM JULIAN PAVLIK SELBY Dated: February 25, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000270 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DIGESTIVE DISEASE ASSOCIATES Cohasset Road, Suite 300 Chico, CA 95926. NORTH VALLEY DIGESTIVE DISEASE AND GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATES, INC 251 Cohasset Road, Suite 300 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: STEPHE PEARCE, PRES. Dated: February 4, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000172 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EL TACO LOCO at 701 Main Street Chico, CA 95928. MARTIN GARCIA 5 Sterling Ct Chico, Ca 95926. TELMA GARCIA 5 Sterling CT Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: MARTIN GARCIA Dated: February 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000274 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NAIL CANDY at 169 Cohasset #6 Chico, CA 95926. JILL S OGBORN 949 Downing Ave Chico, CA 95926. SCOTT C OGBORN 949 Downing Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: JILL S. OGBORN Dated: February 15, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000229 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as A2D POWERSPORTS LLC at 16 Phendx Dr Chico, CA 95928. A2D SPORTS LLC 16 Phendx Dr Chico, CA 95928. CHRISTOPHER M VIALE 16 Phendx Dr Chico, CA 95928 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: MICHAEL VIALE Dated: February 12, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000209 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BRONZED AND POLISHED at 14154 Skyway #5 Magalia, CA 95954. JENNIFER LEANN HERNDON 13779 So Park Drive Magalia, CA 95954. NICHOLAS ALAN HERNDON 13779 So Park Drive magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: J HERNDON Dated: February 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000272 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CAVEWOMAN CONFECTIONS at 37 Glenshire Lane Chico, Ca 95973. JOHN PHILLIP PATTON 37 Glenshire Lane Chico, CA 95973. VALERIE LYNN PATTON 37 Glenshire Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: VALERIE PATTON Dated: February 8, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000202 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JOHN’S HANDYMAN SERVICE at 714 Bradford Ct Chico, CA 95926. JOHN FREDERICK INNOCENTI 714 Bradford Ct Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOHN INNOCENTI Dated: March 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000290 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FILTHY KICKS at 260 E Lassen Ave Apt. 11 Chico, CA 95973 MICHAEL MEAD 260 E Lassen Ave Apt. 11 Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL MEAD Dated: March 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000287 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KRAKER WEB SERVICES, SERVICERS WEB at 2581 California Park Drive #134 Chico, Ca 95928. NATHAN ROY KRAKER 2581 California Park Drive #134 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: CHRISTINA KRAKER Dated: March 5, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000317 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name: ADONIS POOLS AND SPAS at 12 Pheasant Run Court Chico, CA 95973. LEONARD D STACHELEK 12 Pheasant Run Court Chico, CA 95973. WATER ART INC 12 Pheasant Run Court Chico, CA 95973. This business was conducted by a Corporation. Signed: LEONARD D. STACHELEK Dated: February 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2006-0000239 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KEARNS CLEANING at 230 Walnut Street Suite C #118 Chico, Ca 95928. MICHAEL KEARNS 698 W 8TH Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL KEARNS Dated: March 8, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000333 Published: March 14,21,28, April 4, 2013
NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE: Saturday 3/30/13 at 12:00pm at Bidwell Self Storage, 65 Heritage Lane, Chico, 893.2109, Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units contain clothes, toys, boxes. The unit numbers and names are: Unit 270: Clothes Unit 300: Clothes, Toys, Small furniture
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ARTHUR ALEXANDER DEUBERRY To all heirs, beneficiarIes, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ARTHUR ALEXANDER DEUBERRY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JOHN ARMSTEAD DEAN, JR. in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: JOHN ARMSTEAD DEAN, JR. & CYNTHIA CURRY CRIM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 21, 2013 Time: 1:30pm Dept:TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Case Number: PR40539 Petitioner: JOHN ARMSTEAD DEAN, JR./ CYNTHIA CURRY CRIM 3850 W. 59TH Place Los Angeles, CA 90043 Published: February 28, March 7,14, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The Name of the Applicants are: JERONIMO MORENO ALVAREZ, CANDIDA BAUTISTADEALVAREZ The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at:
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820 Oroville Ave Chico, CA 95928-5541. Type of license applied for: 41 - On-Sale Beer And Wine Eating Place Published: March 7,14,21, 2013 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Secs 6101-6107 U.C.C.) 1.Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below: 2.The name(s) and business address of the seller(s) are: SCHINDELBECK, INC, 6 Trinity Lane, Chico, CA 95928. 3.The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: 1141 Forest Avenue, #20, Chico, CA 95928. 4.The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: BURTON, McVANNEL & RIX, LLC, 1208 Bidwell Avenue, Chico, CA 95926. 5.The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: NUTRISHOP CHICO, 1141 Forest Avenue, #20, Chico, CA 95928. ESCROW HOLDER: Bidwell Title & Escrow Co. 500 Wall St. Chico CA 95928. P.O.Box 5173, Chico, CA 95927 ESCROW OFFICER: Jolleen Whitsett Order No. 00246102-002 DATE OF ANTICIPATED SALE: April 1, 2013 LAST DAY TO FILE CLAIMS: March 29, 2013 Notice is hereby given that Transferor intends to make a BULK SALE of the assets of the above described Business to Transferee including all stock in trade, furniture and equipment used in the said Business, to be consummated at the office of Escrow Holder at the time of consummation or thereafter. Creditors of the Transferor may file claims with the Escrow Holder on or before the last day to file claims stated above. This sale is subject to Sec. 61066107 of the California Commercial Code. Transferor has used the following business names and addresses within last three years so far as known to Transferee: NUTRISHOP EAST AVENUE, 855 East Avenue, #20, Chico, CA 95926 Dated March 8, 2013 Signed: DARCI BURTON Published: March 14, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BECHARA ABDUL HAY, HANAN ALHOURANI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYSON BECHARA ABDUL HAY Proposed name: NATHAN BECHARA ABDUL HAY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 5, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court
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655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: February 13, 2013 Case Number: 158906 Published: March 7,14,21,28, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SONDRA AMPEROSA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DANTE JULIAN DICKISON Proposed name: DANTE JULIAN AMPEROSA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 5, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: February 8, 2013 Case Number: 156625 Published: February 28, March 7,14,21, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRANDON DAVID BLAUGH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRANDON DAVIS BLAUGH Proposed name: BRANDON DAVID WILLIAMS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: May 3, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: March 1, 2013 Case Number: 158990 Published: March 7,14,21,28 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner OLGA LEONTEAC MAKININ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: OLGA LEONTEAC MAKININ Proposed name: OLGA MAKININA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to
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show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: april 19, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: February 25, 2013 Case Number: 158982 Published: March 14,21,28 April 4, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CASEY LOGAN ALLEN RENAUD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CASEY ALLEN LOGAN RENAUD Proposed name: CASEY LOGAN ALLEN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 26, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: February 25, 2013 Case Number: 159006 Published: March 14,21,28 April 4, 2013
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If
it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.” That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week. Being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being judgmental should be at the bottom. Here’s another mantra that may serve you well: “Those who take history personally are condemned to repeat it.” I hope you invoke that wisdom to help you escape an oppressive part of your past. Do you have room for one more inspirational motto, Aries? Here it is: “I am only as strong as my weakest delusion.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t you
just love to watch the spinning of those wheels within wheels within wheels? Aren’t you grateful for the way the ever-churning plot twists keep you alert and ready to shift your attitude at a moment’s notice? And aren’t you thrilled by those moments when fate reveals that its power is not absolute— that your intelligence and willpower can in fact override the seemingly inexorable imperatives of karma? If you are unfamiliar with the pleasures I’ve just described, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get deeply acquainted.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It won’t be a
good week to issue unreasonable, illogical and self-centered demands. And please don’t make peanut butter and jelly a part of your sex life, take a vacation in Siberia, or photocopy your butt and deliver it anonymously to your boss. On the other hand, it will be an excellent time to scrawl motivational poetry on your bedroom wall, stage a slow-motion pillow fight, and cultivate your ability to be a deep-feeling free-thinker. Other recommended actions: Give yourself a new nickname like “Highball” or “Root Doctor” or “Climax Master”; write an essay on “The Five Things That the Pursuit of Pleasure Has Taught Me;” and laugh uproariously as you completely bypass the void of sadness and the abyss of fear.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the mid-
19th century, prospectors mined for gold in the mountains of western Nevada. The veins weren’t as rich as those in California, but some men were able to earn a modest living. Their work to extract gold from the terrain was hampered by a gluey blue mud that gummed up their machinery. It was regarded as a major nuisance. But on a hunch, one miner took a load of the blue gunk to be analyzed by an expert. He discovered that it contained rich deposits of silver. So began an explosion of silver mining that made many prospectors very wealthy. I suggest you be on the alert for a metaphorical version of blue mud in your sphere, Cancerian: an “inconvenience” that seems to interfere with the treasure you seek but that is actually quite valuable.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When pioneer film-
maker Hal Roach worked on scripts with his team of writers, he sometimes employed an unusual strategy to overcome writer’s block. He’d bring in a “Wildie” to join them at the conference table. A Wildie was either a random drunk they found wandering around the streets or a person who lived in an insane asylum. They’d engage him in conversation about the story they were working on, and he would provide unexpected ideas that opened their minds to new possibilities. I don’t necessarily recommend that you seek the help of a Wildie, Leo, but I hope you will come up with other ways to spur fresh perspectives. Solicit creative disruptions!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is the term
“unconscious mind” a good name for the foundation of the human psyche? Should we really be implying that the vast, oceanic source of everything we think and feel is merely the opposite of the conscious mind? Dreamworker Jeremy Taylor doesn’t think so. He proposes an alternate phrase to replace “unconscious”: “not-yet-speechripe.” It captures the sense of all the raw material burbling and churning in our deep awareness that is not graspable through
Word player
by Rob Brezsny language. I bring this up, Virgo, because you’re entering a phase when a lot of notyet-speech-ripe stuff will become speech-ripe. Be alert for it!
by
Shannon Rooney
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1928, biologist
Alexander Fleming launched a medical revolution. He developed the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, making it possible to cure a host of maladies caused by hostile bacteria. His discovery was a lucky fluke that happened only because he left his laboratory a mess when he went on vacation. While he was gone, a bacteria culture he’d been working with got contaminated by a mold that turned out to be penicillin. I’m thinking that you could achieve a more modest but quite happy accident sometime soon, Libra. It may depend on you allowing things to be more untidy than usual, though. Are you game?
Reed Rickmers started writing poetry when he was just 5 years old. Now, the 28-year-old facilitates and promotes a performance event called Word Play, created a few months back by Café Flo owner Mark Watts. Word Play takes place twice a month at Café Flo. On March 1, Rickmers was featured at Pleasant Valley High School’s Poetry Alive, an event featuring poetry, music and dance performances. Contact Rickmers at reedrick21@gmail.com for info about Word Play.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I am iron
resisting the most enormous Magnet there is,” wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi. He was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think there’s something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel the tremendous pull of our destiny—the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings—and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. What’s your current relationship to your magnet, Scorpio? I say it’s time you allowed it to pull you closer.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
NASA used whale oil to lubricate the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good reason: Whale oil doesn’t freeze at the low temperatures found in outer space. While I certainly don’t approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, I want to use this story to make a point. It’s an excellent time for you, too, to use old-school approaches for solving ultra-new-school problems. Sometimes a tried-and-true method works better, or is cheaper, simpler or more aesthetically pleasing.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The
theory of the “butterfly effect” proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately impact the weather in New York. Here’s how the writer Richard Bernstein explains it: “Very slight, nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end.” That’s why, he says, “the world is just too complicated to be predictable.” I find this a tremendously liberating idea. It suggests that every little thing you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with how this works in your daily life. Put loving care and intelligent attention into every little thing.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Former
football quarterback Joe Ayoob holds the world’s record for throwing a paper airplane the longest distance. After it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled more than 226 feet. I propose we make Ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming week. From what I can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse and control. It’s time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A source of
fulfillment you will enjoy in the future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem. Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring works, including symphonies, ballets, operas and concertos. When he was a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that frequently surged through his mind. “This music! This music!” he complained to his mother. “Take it away! It’s here in my head and won’t let me sleep!”
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What is Word Play all about?
15 MINUTES
BREZSNY’S
For the week of March 14, 2013
Word Play is about accessibility to anyone. I want anybody who’s interested in performing to feel comfortable and safe … I want people to be able to come and perform and to witness poetry as well. I try to make it available to anyone who wants to get up [and perform]. I just want people to treat it with respect. I have no limits as to who gets up there and participates, as long as it’s done out of respect.
How did the first Word Play go? The first one was great because it was a young crowd combined with some of the older crowd, and was a great atmosphere of acceptance. It’s about the words, not any specific form of poetry, and it doesn’t have to be poetry. It could be a story or comedy. It’s just about you getting up and expressing words that you enjoy and love.
What’s your background with words? When I was 18, I first performed a poem at Has Beans’ open mic. Then I steadily got involved
with the slam scene around here. I moved to Humboldt when I was 20 to attend Humboldt State, and I became involved with the slam team there. We would host the traveling top slam poets, so I got to meet some really successful poets. Through that, I became involved in the production aspect too. I got to be involved in this wonderful community of poets who all supported one another.
What does it cost to attend this event? A distinction I’d like to make is that [Word Play] is not about making money. I am charging only a dollar, for the café. I personally make nothing, and I’m not interested in money. I just want people to come. It’s really about the community aspect. That’s my dream for it at least. I think that’s an important distinction, because I’ve heard that many people feel they shouldn’t have to pay to hear poetry or to perform poetry.
FROM THE EDGE
by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net
Work day I start with an hour of meditation, and I wash yesterday’s dishes. Then I make a cup of something, Morning Thunder or Roastaroma usually, sometimes coffee for a harder kick. I feel obligated to go through my email. There’s hardly ever anything worthwhile in my inbox, save daily quotations from Abraham-Hicks and Living Compassion. Still, I’ve got to see if the British High Commission for Nigeria has finally cut me a check for the $8 million promised me by a former government official who wants only to rid himself of the burden of his former boss’s fortune. I’ve gotten offers and proposals from Mrs. Farida Waziri, Abel Ubeku, Ben Ayodele, Mrs. Rose Wood, Khyati Desai, John McGowan, Mr. James Nana, Mr. Paul Smith, Dr. Omar Bin Suleiman, and Robert S. Mueller, who works for the FBI. More than once someone overseas named Porter has died intestate, and I’ve been picked to inherit all of his money. I haven’t gotten it yet, but when the cash shakes loose I don’t want to miss out, so I keep checking my email. If no money has fallen out of the sky, I go through
my notes. I use a digital recorder, so my notes are sound files. Now and then listening to notes gives me a useful idea. I usually know when I record a note whether I can get a column out of it, though I may have to listen a second or third time to know what’s there. I used to read the news headlines for fodder, though not anymore. Politics and commerce—mostly the same thing—are easy subjects in that I have plenty to say about what’s going on. When I write about easy targets, though, I end up thinking about them as targets, and I no longer think constant attack is helpful to me or the things I care about. Janice was never comfortable with my political writing, and I’ve come to understand why. In desperation I can fall into my old habits and whip out a rant that’ll fill my box on the back page, but when I do, although I can make me laugh—which is always satisfying—it feels like cheating and a waste of time. I just checked my email, and it seems that a Chris Brunelle, who goes so far as to address me as “Dear,” has a “package box” for me containing $1.5 million and has been waiting for some time for me to claim it. All I have to do is pay the $195 “security keeping fee” and I’m good to go. Finally. March 14, 2013
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