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Higher-ed budget relief Gov. Jerry Brown’s draft state budget for 2014-15 is good news

Protect Northern California’s water Cclimate form the basis of our economic power and bring enjoyment to many, including visitors from around the world. alifornia’s natural resources, topography and

Our way of life depends on protecting what is left of the interacting plants and animals of the San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and the Sacramento River Basin. Human modification includes retaining and diverting water for agricultural use at times and locations of low water availability. This water use is further impacted by land use, forest harvest, pollution and maintaining reservoirs. The conservation of natural environby ments has increasing importance as globDoug Alexander al climate change imposes on us an unpredictable future. We must band The author is retired together to preserve water essential for from teaching biology local businesses and native ecosystems, at Chico State, where and resist attempts to move increasing he was an expert on quantities of water south. vernal pools. Environmental problems in Northern California are worsened by top-down governmental attempts to shift water to other locations. The recent removal of groundwater to support water diversion that already overuses surface water is even more inappropriate. The costly and massive environmental modification that would result from building the twin tunnels is part of this program to harvest 4 CN&R January 23, 2014

more water from Northern California. The demand that all Californians finance this highly expensive movement of water from Northern California to support inappropriate agriculture in dry environments at the expense of native environments is unacceptable. Organisms from the High Sierra to San Francisco Bay are linked together by water in multiple ways. The Delta and the San Francisco Bay are intimately connected, and a water bypass of the Delta will reduce water quality and change essential living conditions of the plants and animals that live in and move between both areas. Our plants and animals are adapted to survive under annual wet and dry seasons as well as a successive number of very dry or very wet years. As Northern Californians define and discover their place in the Sacramento River Basin, we realize much of our happiness comes from these marvelous natural ecosystems that are more valuable than the water sent south. An increasing number of individuals and institutions are banding together to block actions challenging the California we love. I support AquAlliance, an organization legally qualified to defend Northern California waters. Also, if you have a well, join the AquAlliance well-monitoring program to further help the protection of your water rights. Ω

for Chico State and Butte College, and thus for Chico and Butte County generally. The budget calls for a 10.8 percent increase in funding for higher education. That translates to an additional $142.2 million, an increase that is designed to avoid further student tuition and fee increases in the University of California and California State University systems. Brown also proposes to eliminate the California Community Colleges’ outstanding deferral debt, some $592.4 million the colleges borrowed from the state during the recession. The increased funding is available because California’s economy is improving, and also because in November 2012 voters approved Proposition 30’s temporary tax hikes. Brown has said his goal for the UC and CSU is to give them “steady and predictable” funding through the next three budgeting cycles. In return, he wants them to meet certain expectations: that student fees and tuition will stabilize; that students will complete their degrees in four years, not six; that the number of students completing programs will increase; and that more community-college students will transfer to fouryear institutions. If the higher-ed budget has a shortcoming, it’s that it doesn’t create more room for students, especially low-income students. Many will be turned away. It’s a problem that can be solved, at least in part, if the colleges and universities work harder to move students through more speedily and foster increased community-college transfers. In the meantime, students and their families will now have the comfort of knowing they won’t be blindsided by surprise tuition hikes, and college and university staffs—which have been in crisis mode since the recession began—can begin to relax. And local economies like Chico’s that rely heavily on the money their universities and colleges generate can begin to breathe easier as well. Ω

No more ‘trust us’ In his recent speech outlining the changes he plans to make in

the National Security Agency, President Obama walked a tightrope between the recommendations of his own blue-ribbon panel and the wishes of the government’s intelligence community. He was unwilling to go as far in limiting the powers of the NSA as his panel had recommended, but he also made it clear that he accepted the critique being made of the NSA and pledged to rein in its most troubling program, the bulk collection of telephone metadata. As the president said, “Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say, ‘Trust us, we won’t abuse the data we collect. … Our system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power; it depends on the law to constrain those in power.” Specifically, he said, telephone bulk collection “could … open the door to more intrusive bulk-collection programs in the future” and, while it was authorized by Congress, “it has never been subject to vigorous public debate.” Obama wasn’t ready to abandon the program altogether, however. Some entity, private or public, will continue collecting and storing the data, but the NSA will have to get court approval to search the collection. That won’t entirely please the civil libertarians, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction. Most important, the president has set the stage for Congress to act. By underlining the importance of privacy protections and admitting that “trust us” is no longer valid, if it ever was, he has issued a challenge to lawmakers and the public alike: Keep moving in this direction. It’s the kind of positive change Edward Snowden was hoping would occur when he began revealing the truth about the NSA. Ω

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Change of mind About two months ago, the Chico City Council was supposed to hear an appeal of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission’s decision to issue Orchard Church a permit to use City Plaza for its homeless-outreach program—the Sunday-evening gathering the group had held at that location for more than five years. But that appeal never happened. The night before the meeting, Jim Culp, pastor of the church, made a deal with the city to hold the gatherings elsewhere—near the “Our Hands” sculptures on the east side of the Chico Municipal Center. He could do so without a permit and the related fees, which would have amounted to about $3,000 per year. Of course, that decision made the appeal moot. The public never had a chance to weigh in on the issue. Those who showed up to speak about it watched, along with me, the whole flap come to an anticlimactic conclusion. We heard the city manager give a brief summation of how the church had withdrawn its application. We listened as Culp gave a diplomatic speech about how the church was still committed to helping people get a second chance. We heard nary a word from the dais. I wrote about that decision in a news story, and in an editorial I said that Culp had taken the high road by accepting the compromise. I pointed out that the church had been operating without any complaints from the public and had been unfairly singled out. But, like most other people, I moved on to other things in the news cycle. One person who didn’t move on was CN&R reader Patrick Newman. See, Newman had been in the gallery during that meeting, with a prepared statement in hand. He wanted to point out that the program had done great good. He wanted to tell the council how unfair it was to further marginalize a group of vulnerable folks at the behest of a few deep-pocketed residents. And Newman is on a crusade to make that known. You can read about his journey from that council meeting to his activism at the corner of Fifth and Main streets in this week’s CN&R cover feature, “Out of sight, out of mind.” Between his letters to the editor and some email correspondence, I asked Newman, whom I’d never met, if he had any interest in writing an essay on the subject. He’d gotten my attention. Moreover, he’d changed my mind: The compromise was not a win-win; it mostly benefited a small interest group of wealthy property owners. I understand why Jim Culp made a deal to move his church’s outreach program. He had a lot to lose. Still, I wish he would’ve let it all play out in the City Council chambers. I think that could have been a turning point for Chico—and for our elected officials—on where we want to go as a city when it comes to the destitute among us. The only watershed moment, it seems, happened for Patrick Newman.

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What about the birds? Re “Don’t delay on flu vaccine” (Editorial, Jan. 16): Butte County Health Department, pharmacies and hospitals are doing a great job getting people vaccinated against the flu. However, I was disappointed to learn that our county and state are not testing dead birds for the flu virus. My wife found a dead bird in the gutter on Ceres Avenue. I called the county and they aren’t testing dead birds and referred me to the state. The state also isn’t testing dead birds and referred me back to the county mosquito department in public health; this year, they are not funded by the federal government, nor is the state funded, to test dead birds. That night, my wife reported this on the Internet. She was informed there have been 42 reported dead birds in Butte County (we don’t know the time period). Our case is ID#598740. My college degree is in public health so perhaps I have more interest than most. JAMES P. SWEENEY Chico

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No sympathy for students Re “Give us a (longer) break, Chico State” (Guest comment, by Michael Fitzpatrick, Jan. 16): In his plea for a longer winter break, Mr. Fitzpatrick rebuts Chico State’s rationale for shortening the break “from the traditional five weeks to four weeks.” This is a telling position to take, not in reference to the university’s budget standpoint, but from that of the student! How well-funded must a university student be that he can afford to live for five weeks without his ostensible raison d’etre to be “in gear”? As a graduate of Chico State, I personally could never have financially borne such a period of “time off to recharge.” Most of the students of my acquaint—back in the ’60s—were in the same boat, which is to say that their budgets were largely or entirely dependent upon summer jobs. In my own case, without my working a long, arduous summer each year—I was a forest firefighter, and eventually a USFS crew boss with a fire station of my own to manage (highest wage: $2.85/hour) for five summers—college would have been impossible, and Vietnam my destination courtesy of the draft, in short order. It is beyond my experience to understand how a student can survive such a prolonged school year, however stringent his budget.

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A ride for the rich Re “Who resuscitated the electric (super) car?” (Greenways, Jan. 9, by Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff): The Tesla Model S: a 100-grand, 21st-century KITT Knight Rider. Nice car if you can get it. Meanwhile, the reality for me on my $877 SSI check is Lady Sapphire, a single-speed tricycle with a maximum speed—depending on my legs on a given day—of a dazzling 12 mph. Thus, we have the opposite ends of the wheeled-transport spectrum, and hell will freeze over before Tesla tech will become affordable by the masses. Ah, but there is a sliver of hope. Next month, I may be able to put an electric motor on Lady Sapphire. If that is successful, then maybe I can challenge the Tesla to a race. It wouldn’t be the first impossible dream I’ve tried and failed. GARY BRUNE Chico

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I recently learned that City Attorney Lori Barker is retiring. I am happy for her, but worried for the city she served so well. Barker’s great sense of fairness and what is right will be missed. The city was her only client. We were better council members, a better council and a better city thanks to her professionalism. What worries me is that the position of an in-house city attorney may be contracted out to a private firm. That would be a costly mistake. The cost of an outside firm providing the same level of service and accessibility to it would be more. The value of day-to-day legal advice to staff may not be quantifiable, but it is huge. An even greater loss if attorney services are contracted out is the intrinsic value

of the city attorney position. The city attorney is one of only two city positions hired by the council. The other is the city manager. The city attorney reports directly to council as an independent legal voice responsible to council on behalf of Chico, its client. The position is an important balance and buffer to the city manager. The in-house city attorney position has a significant procedural and substantive role in the running of our city. Whatever budget balancing may be desired, we cannot afford to lose the systematic checks and balances of a city well-run. ANDY HOLCOMBE Chico

Editor’s note: Andy Holcombe is a former Chico City Council member.

Two on drought designation Gov. Jerry Brown has suspended the environmental laws that keep Southern California from draining North State water resources. Those laws set tough standards for transferring water south in consecutive years—and this year will be the second consecutive year. Now, there will be no consideration of the impact on the local environment or on local groundwater supplies, which are already trending downward. But there is a last line of defense. Butte and Tehama Counties have protected their groundwater from unsafe transfers to other parts of the state. Butte County has transfer requirements that probably can’t be met during a drought, and Tehama County substantially prohibits it. However, Glenn and Colusa counties—dominated by agricultural interests hoping to profit from selling water south—have implemented no protection at all. Groundwater aquifers cross county boundaries and it is possible to suck water out from under neighboring counties as groundwater pumping is increased to profit from the demands of the San Joaquin Valley. So the big questions are these: Will Glenn and Colusa counties summon the political courage to join Tehama and Butte counties in protecting North State groundwater against unrelenting pressure from influential locals who want to profit from selling water south? And if they can’t, is there anything neighboring counties can do about it?

wet. Had 20th-century agencies and entrepreneurs been aware of California’s arid average, it is unlikely they would have invested so much treasure in building dams and canals to develop desert agriculture and grassy municipalities. A balanced Central Valley aquifer system buffered the impacts of the mega-droughts, allowing valley oak groves to thrive, chinook salmon to migrate, and wetlands to endure the dry decades. The charged aquifer allowed Tulare Lake to persist and held Delta salinity at bay. Surface reservoirs will not fill during multiyear droughts and will be operationally challenged when the wet conditions that California has come to expect recede into memory. “Groundwater substitution” water sales/transfers are irresponsible. Bailing out unsustainable desert agriculture by transferring Sacramento Valley groundwater to growers south of the Delta will only expand desertification north. Conservative groundwater management is the key to California’s economic future. Aggressive conversion of Sacramento Valley aquifers into empty underground “reservoir” space only repeats the unrealistic expectations of illinformed investors and water planners. JIM BROBECK Chico

Duh, it’s climate change A headline in the Chico Enterprise-Record on Jan. 19 read “Extreme drought continues in California.” Wow, that is breaking news! Duh, really? I didn’t notice that we in Northern California have not had any significant rain in almost 15 months! Well, actually I have in that I seeded 35 acres of oat hay (the stuff that cows eat so they can give us milk, butter, sour cream, etc.) and none of it came up. I am new to farming, but if you can’t grow a weed in the winter here, there is something wrong. I know it takes conservatives a long time to figure out there is a problem out there, but at least let’s admit there is a problem (I know it takes a while to finish saying, “Bad science ... maybe uh sunspots?”) and work together for a solution [to climate change]. By the way, I can see Mount Lassen from my farm, and believe me, it’s bald! MIKE WIEDEMAN Capay

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MEDI-POT CANDIDATE GETS SERIOUS

Medical-cannabis advocate Andrew Merkel has resigned as leader of the political action group Butte County Citizens Against Irresponsible Government (BCCAIG) to fully pursue a seat on the Butte County Board of Supervisors. BCCAIG is pushing an initiative that would prohibit the supervisors from making further changes to the county’s existing medical-marijuana ordinance. Merkel, a Chico-based real estate agent and pot grower, contacted the CN&R by phone to announce fellow medi-pot advocate Denice Lessard will lead BCCAIG moving forward. Merkel says he’s turning his full attention to vying for Supervisor Larry Wahl’s seat, which is up for grabs in the June primary election. On Wednesday (Jan. 22), BCCAIG launched a radio campaign made up of six different 15-second ads urging medicalmarijuana supporters to show up to the supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting. Meanwhile, the group’s referendum—intended for November’s general election ballot— remains in the drafting process and has yet to begin the signature-gathering process.

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A man walked into Immediate Care Medical Center in Chico on Sunday (Jan. 19) apparently not in search of medical attention, but rather cash. According to a Chico Police Department press release, at about 7 p.m., Daniel Ruggiero, 37, entered the outpatient clinic on the 300 block of Vallombrosa Avenue and asked the receptionists to call him a cab. He then asked how many employees were working and how many patients they had. Ruggiero reportedly told the receptionists to get a little girl who was in the lobby out of there, because something bad was about to happen. “That’s probably what saved us,” said receptionist Michelle Genoba, “because it gave me the opportunity to go down the hallway and call 911.” As soon as Genoba left, Ruggiero allegedly began demanding money while pretending to hold a gun under a sweater. “If you scream and don’t give me the money, I’m going to shoot you,” the man reportedly said to receptionist Rebecca Ruiz (pictured). Ruggiero grabbed Ruiz, and receptionist Ana Salamanca got up, pushed Ruiz aside, handed him the cash box and said, “If you want the money, just take it and leave us.” At that point, unaware of the supposed gun, Genoba said she came back and began wrestling with Ruggiero. When Ruggiero dropped the sweater, Salamanca said she noticed that he didn’t have a gun and began wrestling with him as well and helped force him to the ground. Upon hearing the commotion, X-ray technician Kent Rankin and medical assistant Juan Sanchez came out and helped hold Ruggiero down until police arrived. “What really might have helped us is that we’re best friends,” said Genoba. “I was scared he was going to hurt [Salamanca] and she was scared he was going to hurt me.” 8 CN&R January 23, 2014

Left: Low inflow to Lake Oroville could trigger deeper water cutbacks. PHOTO COURTESY OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Below: Dry conditions have forced Christine Hantelman and Richard Coon to supplement feed for their sheep at Wookey Ranch. CN&R FILE PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

Dry outlook Farmers, officials and activists agree there are parched times ahead

A north of Chico, Wookey Ranch co-owner Christine Hantelman is no stranger to drought. fter two decades of raising sheep

Every year, she uses the most conservative rainfall estimates to carefully calculate how to keep her foraging flock of 150 on green pastures, by even allowing for a two-month Ken Smith cushion in case of especially dry kens@ seasons. newsreview.com When Gov. Jerry Brown announced a state of emergency in drought-stricken California last Friday (Jan. 17), he was merely making official what Hantelman and others in the agriculture industry have known for months; in the middle of the rainy season, the state remains parched, with what Hantelman called “unprecedented” dry times ahead. In fact, 2013 was the driest year ever recorded in California, with records dating back to 1850. The Sierra Nevada snowpack and other snowpacks statewide are currently holding about 20 percent of the water they normally do this time of year. Learn more: “I think it’s a far more seriGo to www.butte ous situation than most people county.net/water resourceconserva might understand, because as tion/Home.aspx to dry land ranchers, we’re kind of access the on the front of it,” said Hantelwebsite of Butte man, noting the dry conditions County’s have already had a significant Department of Water and impact on the agricultural operaResource tion she runs with her husband, Conservation. Richard Coon. She estimated

they’ve bought at least twice the amount of hay as in normal years, a necessity to supplement her flock’s needs when the grass is dry and depleted of nutrients. Hantelman said her neighbors and friends in the cattle trade report similar numbers, and their problems are just beginning. “The reality is, we’ll all have to destock,” she said. “I’m looking at reducing my flock by 30 percent now. If we get no rain at all this spring, I might have to sell the entire herd. “We’ve spent the last 10 years increasing our operation to make it financially successful,” she continued. “If we have fewer animals to sell or have to liquidate, it will have financial impacts that could carry over for years to come.” Hantelman said fellow ranchers have also reported problems with securing drinking water for their animals, as features like stock ponds have already run dry at the height of winter, making it necessary to truck water pumped from wells or other sources to places it usually flows naturally for much of the year. Christina Buck, water resources

scientist with the Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation, said that some others are already feeling the drought’s pinch. She noted that water levels at monitoring wells recorded last fall were already at or near historic lows, and some people have already found that wells that have worked fine for years are now not deep enough to access groundwater. “There’s definitely some vulnerabili-

ty, especially in areas that use water for both household and agricultural uses,” Buck said, citing the Durham-Dayton and Vina areas as examples. “We’re in uncharted territory,” she said. Buck explained that Butte County does have an emergency drought plan. A task force composed of representatives from her office and other entities, such as Cal Fire and agricultural stakeholders, usually meets once a year to discuss current water conditions and concerns. The group met in November, submitted a report to the Butte County Board of Supervisors earlier this month, and will meet more regularly throughout the drought crisis. Buck said a February meeting is in the works. Those with shallow wells (under 200 feet) are the most likely to experience problems, she said, recommending wellusers be mindful. “We want to make sure people know how deep their wells are, and that they’re prepared, in case they need to get water another way or dig their wells deeper.” Vickie Newlin, the county’s assistant director of the Department of Water and Resource Conservation, said her department is also emphasizing the importance of neighborly cooperation to conserve water. “We really recommend people work together,” Newlin said, explaining that pumping groundwater creates a temporary “cone of depression” in the underground aquifer, and for nearby neighbors pulling water from the same source, it becomes more expensive, less efficient

and places greater strain on limited resources. “If you irrigate one day, maybe your neighbor could irrigate a few days later so there’s not as great a pull on the aquifer at the same time,” she said. “Cooperation and communication between neighbors, especially in the farming community, is essential to helping us get through this.” Some water-rights advocates

have criticized aspects of Gov. Brown’s emergency declaration, particularly as it calls for the expediting of water transfers to areas south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. It also suspends some oversight regarding the environmental impacts of these transfers. “Water transfers north to south have gone without any sort of comprehensive analysis for well over a dozen years,” said Barbara Vlamis, executive director for local water watchdog group AquAlliance. “Expediting these transfers, as well as eliminating analysis from the California Environmental Quality Act, compounds the problem. “Nobody can deny that we’re having critically dry conditions, which certainly plays into what’s happening here, but gross mismanagement and lack of planning is at least 80 percent of the problem,” she said. Newlin acknowledged water transfers can affect the hydrological health of the North State, but said she’s more concerned about the possibility of more austere measures that might be taken down the road if inflow to Northern California’s large reservoirs remains low. She explained that, because of agreements made during the building of Shasta and Oroville dams, some water districts with pre-1914 water rights may be forced to give up more water if drought conditions reach certain levels and certain agencies call for the cutbacks. Some of the water districts along the Sacramento River have agreements with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, while others along the Feather River have similar arrangements with the California Department of Water Resources. The former organization could cut back 25 percent of the water it shares with some users along the Sacramento, allowing only 75 percent of surface water from the river to be used on farms in those areas. The latter organization can claim 50 percent of the Feather River’s surface water in any single year, and once every seven years can claim 100 percent of the water. “Even if it’s cut back 50 percent, water districts with surface-water supplies will have to pump groundwater to meet their needs,” Newlin said. “There’s the potential for this to happen in Butte County and the Sacramento Valley. “Everything is dependent on the balance of groundwater and surface water that gets used, and it’s a very delicate balance.” Ω

Lost in transmission KZFR Community Radio turns to listeners for help egular listeners of KZFR Community R Radio 90.1 FM may have noticed the station’s signal has been weak of late, particu-

larly in Butte County’s eastern foothills. On some radios, the station’s programs have been marred by static, while others lose the signal entirely. “If you’re traveling south on Highway 99, the signal gets a little funky around Live Oak,” said Rick Anderson, KZFR’s general manager, during a recent interview. “Orland is still OK. Going east, the signal loses [clarity] around Stirling City. People are calling, wondering what’s going on; they’re upset they can’t hear us anymore.” The fuzzy signal is due to the station’s transmitter, located in a remote and heavily wooded ridge near Magalia, which has been on the fritz since Thanksgiving Day. Anderson explained that a faulty temperature gauge has been falsely sensing that the transmitter is overheating, which prompts an automatic shutdown. After determining that the heatsensing unit must be replaced at a cost of roughly $2,000—in addition to the $10,000 KZFR has spent maintaining the transmitter since purchasing it for $40,000 in 1999— Anderson decided it was time to “stop throwing good money after bad” and install an entirely new transmitter. “[The transmitter] is the mechanical heart of the radio station,” he said. “The radio station is the transmitter. We’d be nothing, just Donation info:

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an Internet music-streaming service, if we didn’t have it. “Not having a healthy transmitter severely impedes our ability to be a part of the community, to reflect the community.” As Anderson discovered, much has changed in the electronics industry since 1999. At $30,000, the new transmitter will actually be less expensive than the old one, but $10,000 more in improvements to the site’s air-conditioning and air-filtration system are needed to ensure the longevity of the new equipment, bumping the total cost to an estimated $40,000. About $5,000 of that will be offset by selling the old transmitter, but KZFR will depend heavily on the community to bridge the gap. On Tuesday (Jan. 28), the station will launch a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo.com that will run between a month and 40 days with a goal of raising $25,000. Additionally, KZFR will host a series of “Power to the Tower” benefit concerts at Chico Women’s Club, beginning Feb. 1. The success of similar campaigns last year by the Pageant Theatre and The Bookstore, both of which were able stay open through crowdfunding, is a good omen for KZFR’s

SIFT|ER African-American migration In this time period between the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the beginning of Black History Month (February), we offer the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest numbers on the shifting population of black America. Percentage of population by region: 1950: South Midwest Northeast West

68 % 14.8 % 13.4 % 3.8 %

1980: South Midwest Northeast West

53 % 20.1 % 18.3 % 8.5 %

2010: South Midwest Northeast West

Current total population: 44.5 million. Projected population for 2060: 77.4 million. Largest population by state: 3.7 million in New York. Highest percentage of total population: 51.6 percent in Washington, D.C. Largest population by county: 1.3 million in Cook County, Ill.

56.5 % 17.9 % 16.8 % 8.8 %

prospects of staying afloat, Anderson said. “I’m confident our community will come out and help us out. Our listeners want us to sound the best we possibly can, and this new transmitter is going to sound really good—it’s going to make our sound a lot fuller,” Anderson said. “I think the community will come to our aid and help protect the valuable resource KZFR has become over the last 24 years.” For Anderson and the volunteer DJs

at KZFR, addressing the issue of the failing transmitter is just the latest challenge in their ongoing crusade to preserve community radio as a relevant medium. In KZFR’s early days of broadcasting, for instance, the challenges were great. Programmers recorded their shows on a reel-to-reel tape machine, made the one-hour drive to the transmitting station and waited in real time as the shows were broadcasted. And while technology has made conducting some aspects of the operation much easier—such as the studio’s rooftop dish, which eliminated the need to drive to the transmitting station—it also represents traditional radio’s greatest threat. “The industry is suffering in a lot of ways; radio in general has experienced decreased listenership because of all the different options,” Anderson said, referring to online music-streaming services. “New cars are coming out with Pandora [Internet Radio] in them, Wi-Fi Internet on the dashboard, or without radios at all.” Since about two-thirds of KZFR listeners tune in from their cars, Anderson said, that trend is particularly alarming. But for KZFR specifically, the outlook is not all doom and gloom. In fact, the station’s annual pledge drive raised an all-time high of $50,000 last year. “I think it’s a positive reflection of our health as community radio,” Anderson said of the continual support KZFR has received from its listeners. “It’s obviously important to people—they find a place in their budget to help us. I’m convinced our audience is there for us.” —HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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Court rules on fight between DA and local business n ongoing legal battle between AChico George Scott Sr., owner of Scrap Metal Inc., and the

Butte County District Attorney’s Office took a turn in federal court Jan. 17 that may signal the fight is over. The matter goes back to 2008, when District Attorney Mike Ramsey filed charges against Scott for disposal of waste at an unauthorized facility and knowingly violating environmental safety laws. Chico Scrap Metal owns four scrap-metal sites in Butte County, including the one in Chico on East 20th Street where soil tests on the site conducted by the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) in 2007 revealed contamination in the form of chromium, lead and zinc, as well as polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). Ramsey filed criminal charges against the company for failing to adhere to the DTSC’s order to clean up the site. The company’s owners, which include Scott’s grown children, pled no contest in Butte County Superior Court to two of the charges and were fined $700,000 by Judge Sandra McLean—$500,000 of which was to be used for cleanup—placed on five years probation, and ordered to comply with the cleanup directive. The owners argued they had received inadequate legal representation and appealed their case to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, where they were represented by Bay Area attorney Therese Cannata. Cannata, according to court

documents, argued the real motivation behind DTSC and the DA’s office in this case was financial gain, not public safety. “Plaintiffs allege that the investigation was not intended to enforce California hazardouswaste laws, but that the investigation was instead intended to produce revenue for DTSC and Defendants,” the court documents say. In November 2011, that court upheld the ruling against Chico Scrap Metal, which then appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where it remained dormant until it was assigned to a three-judge panel last week. The appeal was dismissed on Friday, Jan. 17. DA Ramsey said Scott had a five-year extension to clean up the sites, but that the extension expired last year. “Now it is up to the state Department of Toxic Substances Control to monitor the cleanup,” he said. “The DTSC, I believe, was a little reticent when they were being sued, but now that this is done, they can move forward.” But Ramsey remains a bit pessimistic. “Sometimes pushing a state bureaucracy can be a bit like Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill,” he said. “But it’s important for the safety of the community, and from our standpoint, it’s back to DTSC and saying, ‘What are you folks doing?’” Ramsey argues that if Scott had spent the money on the cleanup of his properties rather than legal

costs, he and the community would be better off today. “Quite frankly, the law was fairly clear in this area,” he said, “but if you’ve got enough money and passion, you can keep it going for a long time.” In a statement sent to the

Chico News & Review by Cannata’s legal office just before press time, the Scott family vowed to continue the fight. “What’s important is that everything we have been saying is now backed by science, and the DTSC supervised investigation of our scrap-metal recycling yards,” Scott’s daughter Kim is quoted as saying in the statement. “There was never and is not now hazardous waste on our property.” The cleanup is slated for all four sites—the one in Chico, one in Durham and two in Oroville, including one at the Highway 70 Industrial Park, which has a history of environmental problems dating back to the 1980s and includes three federal Superfund sites. In October 2011, the Chico City Council gave Chico Scrap Metal a three-year extension to remain at its East 20th Street location. That decision came five years after the owners were told the business would have to move by the end of 2011 because of the Chapman/ Mulberry Neighborhood Plan rezone to change the area from light industrial manufacturing to a neighborhood/commercial district. —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

Letter raises a stink Council balks at LAFCo’s annexation demands threat to sue the city contained in what Afromveiled Councilman Mark Sorensen called a “harsh” letter the chairman of the Local Agency Formation

Commission (LAFCo) had some Chico City Council members in high dudgeon at their meeting Tuesday (Jan. 21). “When I read the letter, to say I had a negative reaction is a massive understatement,” Sorensen said. LAFCo is the über-agency that oversees crossjurisdictional development in the county, including annexation. It has seven members: two representing the cities, two representing special districts, two county supervisors and one public member, Chairman Carl Leverenz, author of the aforementioned letter, which was dated Dec. 19. LAFCo and the city have been butting heads for several years because of the city’s practice of allowing sewer hookups in the Chapman/Mulberry neighborhood without requiring that the properties be annexed to the city, without obtaining authorization from LAFCo, and without paying LAFCo’s fees. Some 62 homes have been connected in that way. Leverenz called these hookups “illegal.” He gave the city two options: Either “enter into a binding master annexation agreement to include a comprehensive extension of services authorization” or submit an application for the 62 unincorporated parcels, pay back fees in the amount of $37,200, annex the 26 parcels that are contiguous to the city and pay the

These maps illustrate just how much land the city annexed between 1990 (bottom) and 2008 (top). Dark areas are in the city, white areas in the county. MAPS COURTESY OF CITY OF CHICO

appropriate fees, and reimburse LAFCo $17,606 for staff time spent working on the matter. He gave the council only until Jan. 3 to decide, a deadline that fell before the council’s next scheduled meeting. Failure to do so, he said, would lead LAFCo “to consider legal action to compel compliance.” Neither option was palatable to the council members, who didn’t take kindly to Leverenz’s hectoring. For years, the city has been annexing county islands as LAFCo wishes, but now it no longer can afford to provide them with city services. In a few years, perhaps, but not now. Councilwoman Ann Schwab, who is an alternate member of LAFCo, explained that the issue had its origins more than 20 years ago, when the state determined that septic tanks in Chico were polluting the shallow groundwater with nitrates. The city and county got together and created a Nitrate Action Plan, which called for the extension of city sewer lines along with annexation. That enabled the city to obtain funding and put in the lines. Thousands of homes, especially in north Chico, hooked up and were annexed. LAFCo didn’t become involved until 2011, perhaps because the city was doing such a good job of annexation. By then, Schwab continued, the city, which had recently extended sewer lines into Chapman/Mulberry, not only couldn’t afford to provide city services, it also didn’t insist on annexation. Most residents didn’t want it, and they had the backing of their county supervisor, Jane Dolan. Using a section of the government code that allows sewer hook-ups without annexation for health and safety reasons, the city continued to allow connections, but without LAFCo’s authorization. “We did make some mistakes,” acknowledged Mark Wolfe, the city’s community development director. The city now refers sewer hookup applicants directly to LAFCo to obtain authorization, he said. Steve Lucas, LAFCo’s executive officer, reminded the council that annexation doesn’t mandate additional services. Besides, having an annexation plan would “put the city back in the driver’s seat” on annexation, inasmuch as state law allows cities to annex unincorporated islands without the approval of their residents. Council members, who know how insistent constituents can be when they want services, weren’t convinced. Ultimately, they voted unanimously to direct city staff to come up with a third option—a “win-win-win solution” for the city, county and LAFCo, as Schwab put it—and to pursue negotiations with LAFCo. In other council news: The panel unanimously approved an update of the Sanitary Sewer Master Plan to conform with the 2030 General Plan. The sewer plan, prepared by Carollo Engineers Inc., predicts total flow into the city’s sewer plant will double by 2030, from 6.9 million gallons per day to 13.9 mgd. System upgrades will cost $63 million, with all but $9 million of that going to meet the needs of future users. The council also approved four memoranda of understanding regarding pay and benefits for four employee bargaining groups, including firefighters. Assistant City Manager Mark Orme praised the employees for making benefits concessions— paying more for health insurance and pensions, in particular—to save money. The firefighters’ concessions alone will save $1.8 million, he said. —ROBERT SPEER

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THE PULSE IN ANTICIPATION OF EMERGENCY

Locals concerned about the potential cost of calling an ambulance can now enroll in a costsaving membership program. The average cost of transport in a ground ambulance in Butte County is $3,000, while annual individual or family membership plans— which provide medically necessary ambulance transportation for no or lower cost—are both available for $100, according to a Butte County EMS press release. The family plan covers the primary member, the member’s spouse or domestic partner, and other family members listed on the same income-tax return. The membership program covers ambulance services provided by Butte County EMS, Willows Ambulance and Colusa Ambulance. Go to www.buttecountyems.org to learn more and to fill out a membership form.

EMERGENCY ROOMS TOO SLOW

For the second time, an advocacy group has given California’s hospitals an “F” for speedy emergency-room treatments. An updated report card from the American College of Emergency Physicians rated how well states support prompt emergency care, noting that California has the fewest ERs per capita in the nation at 6.7 per 1 million residents, according to the Los Angeles Times. The report’s authors called overcrowding in the state’s ERs a “critical problem,” finding that, on average, people admitted to a hospital after visiting the emergency room left more than 5 1/2 hours after arriving. The authors said ER overcrowding is due in part to a lack of primary-care access for Californians newly insured through the Affordable Care Act who go to ERs for routine care. The Golden State also received a failing grade in 2009, the last time the group produced its rankings.

DON’T JUST BLAME FAST FOOD

Even if eating at fast-food restaurants wasn’t an option, many children would continue eating poorly enough for them to remain overweight or obese, a study finds. Researchers from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looked at health and nutrition data on 4,466 American children ages 2 to 18, grouping them according to what they ate outside of fast-food restaurants, according to the Los Angeles Times. They found that the children whose consumption of non-fastfood items included relatively high amounts of saturated fats and added sugars—even among those who were considered “nonconsumers” of fast food—were the most likely to be overweight or obese. The authors wrote that “the effect of publichealth efforts targeted at fast-food restaurants may … be overestimated, such that these efforts may be necessary but not sufficient to reduce child[hood] obesity if the remainder of the diet is not addressed.” Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.

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HEALTHLINES The health impacts of using increasingly popular e-cigarettes, marketed to smokers as less harmful cigarette substitutes, remain unclear.

A view to a killer Tobacco still taking lives 50 years after landmark surgeon general’s report

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A a widespread, widely accepted habit—so much so that tobacco companies half-century ago, smoking was

put doctors in cigarette ads and no one batted an eye. We’ve come a long way, baby. Today, tobacco marketing and packaging receive careful scrutiny. Anti-smoking campaigns are mainstays of mass media. State governments levy taxes to discourage tobacco use and devote the proceeds to health and education efforts. The turning point traces to a particular date: Jan. 11, 1964. That’s when Dr. Luther Terry, the U.S. surgeon general at the time, publicly tied tobacco to illness. The Surgeon General’s Office refers to his Report on Smoking and Health as “the first federal government report linking smoking and ill health, including lung cancer and heart disease”—adding, “This scientifically rigorous report laid the foundation for tobaccocontrol efforts in the United States.” Bruce Baldwin clearly recalls that watershed moment. He was 10, living in Quincy, with a mother and father who smoked. Two years later, he’d pick up and puff his first cigarette, increasing over time to three packs a day before finally quitting more than two decades later. He now teaches smoking-cessation classes locally, including a program through Skyway House and his employer, the Butte County Office of Education. “I really remember how much controversy [the report] generated,” Baldwin said in a recent phone interview, “and my dad’s response: ‘Oh, that’s BS!’ Basically they

both kept smoking and they both ended up dying from it. I ended up smoking for 25 years—you would think that watching my mother have her right lung removed when I was 8 or 9 years old would’ve kept me from wanting to. … “As big as it was, and the impacts that have come from the report, 50 years later we’re still here fighting tobacco as the No. 1 public-health threat in America. Still one out of five Americans dies from using tobacco. You have lot of people who think we’ve won this war because kids get that smoking’s bad … but one out of three people who try it get addicted, so if the industry can get just one kid in every sixth-grade class in America, they’re set for life.” Statistics underscore the concern.

Though the rate of smoking in America has more than halved since 1964, dropping from 42 percent to 19 percent, the U.S. still has around 44 million smokers. They include more than 3.5 million Californians—200,000 of whom are under age 18. The state’s smoking rate is 13 percent, the

secondlowest in the nation, but like many rural areas, Butte County is significantly above the average, at almost 21 percent. “We’ve got to do better in rural America,” Baldwin said. The American Cancer Society estimates tobacco use contributes to 443,000 premature deaths a year, plus 3,400 nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke, and costs the country $193 billion a year when adding lost productivity to healthcare expenditures. “Tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death in the United States,” said Jim Knox, vice president of advocacy for the Cancer Action Network, when reached by phone at his office in Sacramento. “I don’t think people realize the continued toll—from a health perspective and a financial perspective—that tobacco takes. Smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, murders, car accidents, suicides and fires combined.

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“We still have a lot of work to do.” Policy pushes from the Cancer Action Network and other antismoking advocates include raising tobacco taxes, which would contribute to several other goals: increasing funding levels for cessation and education programs; regulating smoke in multiunit housing complexes; and getting more states to ban smoking in workplaces, as California first did in 1994.

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the stress of addiction becomes a reason they pick up a cigarette,” he said. “Scientists and researchers say [nicotine] is harder to quit than heroin or cocaine.” Karen Vollman, a respiratory therapist at Feather River Hospital, also helps North State smokers quit. She says smoking can be “one of the only forms of pleasure for some people” and affirms that many people use nicotine—“a brain stimulant and muscle relaxant”—to “self-medicate to reduce stress.” As a result, “for someone interested in quitting smoking, the hard part is finding the alternatives that work and that satisfy them.” She continued: “Quitting takes practice. When someone’s smoked hundreds of times—every day, ever since they were 12 years old—it’s hard to learn new behaviors. It can take several methods and techniques.” Ω

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WEEKLY DOSE Keep it moderate If you want to remember your anniversary and have something coherent to say to your grandkids, you might want to take it easy on the sauce. According to a new study published in the journal Neurology, middle-aged men who consume more than 2 1/2 servings of alcohol per day on average experienced a significant decline in memory—up to six years sooner than moderate or light drinkers. In fact, men who consumed two or fewer drinks per day showed no more decline in mental function than nondrinkers. As always, everything in moderation.

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Taking life back from hip and knee pain When the pain you are experiencing in your hips or knees severely restricts your ability to walk or perform simple activities, it may be time to talk to an orthopedic surgeon and consider a joint replacement procedure. Mobility is a vital part of life and Feather River Hospital’s award winning Joint Replacement Center of Excellence is seeing to it that patients get back to the life they know and love faster. This includes patients who would consider themselves too young for a replacement. Feather River Hospital surgeons use unique, advanced techniques that require smaller incisions and damage less muscle tissue. These techniques allow faster recovery and a shorter hospital stay. Because surgeons are part of a skilled care team that provides a consistently high level of treatment from pre-op through recovery, patients are able to be active again more quickly. The care team comprised of surgeons, nurses, therapists and even dieticians also focuses on the patient experience and the benefit of compassionate, patient-focused care in promoting healing. This approach has helped the program to reach a level of excellence recognized by awards such as a 5-Star Rating in Total Hip Replacements for 10 years in a row from Healthgrades. Feather River Hospital is also a Blue Distinction Center+ for Hip and Knee Replacements. “Blue Distinction Centers set themselves apart by adhering to best practices in patient safety and surgical care

and producing consistently strong outcomes with fewer complications,” says Marcus Thygeson, M.D., senior vice president and chief health officer at Blue Shield of California. The Joint Replacement Center of Excellence offers an innovative, proactive approach to care for total knee and total hip replacement patients utilizing pre-operative learning classes and group therapy. “The focus of this effort is to create a smooth, cohesive plan for the patient that helps them to be fully prepared for their procedure and gives them a clear plan for recovery and an excellent outcome,” says Gloria Santos, Vice President for Patient Care. When recovering in the hospital, patients recover as a group – exercising, enjoying various activities, and providing support and encouragement to each other. Total joint replacement patients average a hospital stay of only one to three days. Most patients are putting weight on their new joint later in the same day that they have their surgery. For patients who once suffered from joint pain, being able to hike, golf, play with their children or even ride a motorcycle again greatly improves their lives. Feather River Hospital’s joint replacement program is helping them to achieve these excellent outcomes as fast as possible. For more information about the Feather River Hospital Joint Replacement Center of Excellence call (530) 876-7243 or visit www.frhosp.org. To learn more about Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care®, please visit www.bcbs.com or contact your Local Plan.

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EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS Left: Redwood Seeds co-owner Kalan Redwood, holding daughter Maisie, and Heartseed farmer Elliott Proffitt check out Heartseed Farms’ hoop house in preparation for the upcoming workshop on Jan 25.

CALIFORNIA’S DROUGHT OFFICIAL

On Jan. 17, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the Golden State, and asked Californians to voluntarily cut their water use by 20 percent. Just prior to Brown’s declaration, some cities had already implemented water-use restrictions, according to Al Jazeera America. Residents of Folsom must limit lawn-watering to twice weekly and use a shutoff valve on hoses while washing cars. Folsom Lake’s water level is currently so low that the remains of a 19th-century town submerged in 1955 have reappeared. The city of Santa Cruz, whose primary water source is Folsom Lake, is telling residents they cannot wash paved surfaces and may be cited for watering their yards between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.; additionally, restaurants there are allowed to serve water only upon request, and swimming pools cannot be drained and refilled. The Sacramento City Council had also recently voted to require a reduction in water use of 20 percent to 30 percent, and a drought emergency was declared for Mendocino County.

BEARS FORCED TO EAT TRASH

In more drought-related news, black bears in the Lake Tahoe area are roaming around in search of garbage to eat instead of hibernating. “We have had black bears in the Tahoe Basin that have actually either not hibernated, or in most cases hibernate just a little bit, and then wake up on garbage night,” said Chris Healy, Nevada Department of Wildlife public-information officer, in a California News Service article. “Basically, [they] follow the garbage truck around, eat for a couple of days, and then go back into hibernation.” The bears’ normal food—berries and nuts—are in short supply due to the drought.

TAR-SANDS AND THE DAMAGE DONE

Rock musician Neil Young kicked off a recent four-stop Canadian tour with some strong words about tar-sands oil production in the province of Alberta. Just prior to the start of his “Honor the Treaties” tour, Young (pictured)—a Canadian expat who lives in Northern California—held a press conference in Toronto denouncing the rapidly expanding tar-sands industry in Alberta, according to an article in the Toronto Star. He called the controversial tar-sands project a “devastating environmental catastrophe” and accused Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative party of “selling out their grandchildren’s future for the sake of short-term financial gain,” the article said. Young’s Canadian tour is a fundraiser to help the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s legal battle to stop “reckless development” by the petrochemical industry and have the tribe’s constitutional right to be consulted about such development be honored. Send your eco-friendly news tips to Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia at christinel@newsreview.com.

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Below: Plants in the Brassica oleracea species, like these young kale sprouts, can easily cross-pollinate.

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classroom—not in their backyards. But for Redwood Seeds co-owner and seed grower Kalan Redwood, the use of Latin is essential for seed saving. “The basic rule of thumb is that anything that [is in] the same species will cross-pollinate,” she explained recently by phone. Broccoli, which is categorized as a Brassica oleracea, is a prime example. “Things that will cross-pollinate with broccoli include kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, cauliflower,” because all of those plants are also categorized as Brassica oleracea, noted Redwood, “so we can plant only one of them” for seed saving. A cross-pollinated plant will still produce seeds, but it’s anyone’s guess what type of confused plant will grow from those seeds. Redwood, therefore, pays attention to the scientific names of plants— the genus and species—to assure herself that, at the end of the growing season, she has no unwanted cross-pollination and will have reliable seeds for the next year. At Cultivating Community North Valley’s upcoming workshop for seeding coolseason plants, Redwood will guide participants in planting a hardy spring garden from start to finish, with seed saving in

mind. At the workshop, “we’re going to plant broccoli. It’s one of the only Brassica oleracea that will go to seed in one season—it doesn’t have to go through a winter; it’s not a biennial [(like carrots or onions)],” making it a good candidate for beginning seed savers, as the wait time for seeds is abbreviated. Gardeners can grow all the varieties of Brassica oleracea they wish—but in order to save seed, only one may be allowed to flower (which is unlike other plants, such as squashes—their flowers are needed to produce the vegetables). CCNV’s Jan. 25 workshop is the first in a six-part series. The focus for part two (Feb. 22) will be on “transplanting the cool-season things,” Redwood said. “In March, we’ll seed the warm-season things, and then transplant the warm-season things

Saturday seed-saving series:

· Seeding Cool Season Crops, Jan. 25, 2-4 p.m. · Transplanting into a Seed Saving Garden, Feb. 22, 2-4 p.m. · Seeding Warm Season Crops, March 22, 2-4 p.m. · Transplanting Warm Season Crops, April 26, 2-4 p.m. · Harvesting & Winnowing Cool Season Crops, June 28, 10 a.m.-noon · Harvesting & Water Processing Warm Season Crops, August 2, 10 a.m.-noon Workshops are free for income-eligible participants, and $10 each for others. Visit cultivatingcommunitynv.org for location and to register.

in April. In June, we’ll be harvesting the seeds from the things that we’re seeding in this workshop. “By June, all the lettuces and the broccoli will have gone to seed and will be dry … so we’ll harvest those seeds, and clean and process them. In August, we’ll have the last workshop, where we’ll harvest and clean and process the warm-season [seeds], like tomatoes and cucumbers.” Participants who attend all the workshops will gain a “very comprehensive idea of how to save seed,” in addition to all the basics of cool- and warm-season vegetable planting and care. They’ll go home from the first workshop with six-packs of planted seeds such as arugula, Green Wave mustard (which is Brassica juncea, not Brassica oleracea), and cilantro, for their own gardens. Redwood notes that a greenhouse is not required to grow cool-season plants; participants may choose to grow their starts from seed in a sunny window, or bring the six-packs inside on colder nights. As with other CCNV workshops, signups are first open to low-income gardeners, after which the general public may register. CCNV’s gardening workshops are funded by the California Department for Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant. The Jan. 25 workshop will be held

at Heartseed Farm’s greenhouse at the GRUB Cooperative on Dayton Road.

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15TH ANNUAL

Snow Goose Festival JANUARY 22 – 26 | CHICO, CALIFORNIA WWW.SNOWGOOSEFESTIVAL.ORG

FREE Events and Activities for the Entire Family

Saturday/Sunday January 25-26, 2014 Chico Masonic Family Center • 1110 W. East Ave. • Chico The Maze of Maps All About Bats! Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am – 3:00pm This year we will feature an eclectic assortment of interesting maps from around the North Valley and beyond. Get the bird’s eye view of our local landscape features. Stroll through maps in the CMFC hallway and let your curiosity take you on a tour.

Exhibits Galore & Vendors

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am – 3:00pm Displays by State, Federal, and Non-profit organizations. Plus vendors selling everything from binoculars to bird books.

Federal Junior Duck Stamp Display

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am – 3:00pm All California winners from nearly 2,000 entries will be on display. Don’t forget to see the Chico winners.

Meet Smokey Bear and the Blue Goose

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am – 3:00pm Smokey the Bear and the National Wildlife Refuge’s Blue Goose will be visiting at various times courtesy of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Also be sure to visit the US Fish & Wildlife Service fire safety exhibit booth.

Junior Naturalist Activities

Sat 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Sun 10:00 am – 3:00pm Along with the Live Raptor Presentation, Meet Smokey Bear and Blue Goose, Junior Duck Stamp Display, children may earn a Junior Naturalist Certificate by participating in a few activities designed just for children. There will be nature crafts, opportunities to build bird feeders, make a bird call and much, much more!

River Dynamics & Wildlife

Sat 9:00 am - 10:30 am NEW Sun 1:00pm – 2:30pm Join us for a virtual journey through the upper and middle Sacramento River regions. We will discuss how physical river systems and seasons affect and influence wildlife within the Sacramento River Watershed. This workshop will highlight the majesty, ecosystem services and diverse wildlife of the Sacramento River. This 1.5 hour workshop will have plenty of time for questions and attendee input. Presenter: Lucas RossMerz

Wetlands’ Wildlife The Sacramento Valley (Film)

Sat 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Sun 11:00am – 12:00 Filmed in the Gray Lodge Wildlife Refuge, The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, The Llano Seco Wildlife Refuge, and the wetlands and rice fields in and around the counties of Butte and Colusa in California, this beautiful video gives viewers a close-up look at many of the migratory birds that come from as far away as Siberia and the Arctic Circle to make their homes in the Sacramento Valley’s wetlands each winter. Included are Snow Geese, Ross’s Geese, Greater White-Fronted Geese, Canada Geese, Tundra Swans, Sandhill Cranes, Bald Eagles, and many other species. Presenter: Henry Ganzler

Sat 11:00am – 12:30pm They are one of the most beneficial, yet most misunderstood animals in the world. Learn more about the habits, habitats, and species of bats that reside within the unique ecosystems of California’s valleys and forests. Presenter: Linda Angerer

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All Those White Geese! (FREE)

Snow Goose Workshop Sat 12:00pm - 1:30pm Snow Geese, Ross’s Geese, and Blue Morphs - it can be overwhelmingly white in the sky! Come learn how to tell the difference between all these white geese. Through exquisite pictures and lively narration, you can become much more knowledgeable about our Mascot of the Festival. Presenter: Mike Peters, Colusa NWR

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Sat 1:00pm – 2:30pm Meet “Checkers” a Great Horned Owl as Marilyn shares some fascinating facts, unique habits, and curious myths about these beautiful birds of prey. Learn about wildlife rehabilitation and what you can do to help native wildlife. A surprise visit by other raptors is sure to delight all ages. Presenter: Marilyn Gamette

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Sun 9:30 am - 10:30 am Learn the basics about Binoculars and Spotting Scopes for bird watching! What do the numbers mean? Isn’t higher power always better? This will be a “show and tell” discussion about the differences in size, quality, and construction of optics so that you can make a good choice for your needs and budget. Sample optics will be available from numerous manufacturers to illustrate. Marilyn Rose from Out of This World Discount Binoculars will be the presenter. Presenter: Marilyn Rose

Volcanoes of Lassen Volcanic National Park

Sun 11:00am – 12:30pm This workshop is a great opportunity for educators, adults, and children ages ten and older to learn about some of the world’s most exciting active earth processes. Learn about the unique geologic features of this national park and how to identify the four major types of volcanoes using a variety of fun and creative techniques. Educational props, volcanic rocks, visual display, and other resources will be used to enhance this presentation. Presenter: Ranger Steve Zachery

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SQUIRRELS & BIRDS! The next two Saturdays, Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 E. Eighth St.) is hosting two events: The Secret Life of Squirrels Preschool Program and Birding in Bidwell Park, respectively. The squirrelcentric program, for kids ages 3 to 5, runs from 11 a.m. to noon and costs $12; the birding event is open to all ages (binoculars and field guides are provided) and a $10 donation is suggested. Call 891-4671 for more info.

Plants that participants grow from seed at that workshop will be transplanted into the seed-saving garden at the Chico Grange Hall during the February workshop. Seed collected from those plants will be used by the GRUB Education Program in community gardens across town. The six workshops will also cover basic seeding technique and flower anatomy, pollination, and the many “quirks” of seed saving, like “isolation distances”: how far away plants must be from one another to prevent cross-pollination. The distance varies greatly, said Redwood: “For lettuce it could be 10 feet, but for these Brassicas, it can be up to a quarter mile. It definitely can be a concern,” she said. Redwood recommends collaborating with neighbors to prevent cross-pollination with plants on the other side of one’s fence. “Once you learn these basics of

not letting things cross-pollinate ... it is easy to incorporate saving seeds,” Redwood said. “An obvious benefit is that it’s a real money saver,” compared to buying plant starts. Another benefit is that gardeners can also attempt to avoid GMO contamination in plants like corn and beets, Redwood said. “In some places it is getting harder and harder to find non-GMO corn,” she noted, “so I think it important that as many people as possible are saving non-GMO seed, because once it is contaminated, it is very hard to clean it up.” The shockingly dry months of December and January, and the uncertainty in the garden that comes with climate change, point to another reason to save seed: resiliency. “When you have a lot of different seed-producers producing the same variety, you end up with more genetic diversity within that variety. If you have more genetic diversity within a population of plants, and if drought strikes, maybe you’ll have [enough] genetic diversity within your plant population that 10 percent will survive,” Redwood said. “You save seed from that 10 percent and replant it, and the next generation is going to be more drought tolerant, whereas if we’re all just sourcing our seed from the same corporate source, then we’re not going to have that genetic diversity that is specific to that location. “It ultimately comes down to more food security,” she said. “We’re not dependent on larger corporations for our food” when gardeners save their seed. Ω

UNCOMMON SENSE Look up! With no precipitation on the horizon, the cold, clear winter skies offer some great astronomical viewing opportunities. Jupiter has been particularly fantastic—rivaling Venus as one of the brightest objects other than the moon—with features like its Great Red Spot (pictured) and four largest moons visible even through inexpensive telescopes. Amateur astronomers have also been reporting the International Space Station has been particularly bright lately, if you know where and when to watch—information which is readily available at NASA’s Spot the Station site (spotthestation.nasa.gov).

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FAREWELL, DR. MEL Widely known animal advocate, longtime veterinarian and former Paradise resident Dr. Mel Richardson passed away of heart failure on Jan. 2 at age 63 in the state of Georgia. His close friend, local avian ecologist Dawn Garcia (who I have written about more than once in these Greenways pages) asked if she could share her thoughts on this good man: “Family and friends mourn the loss of our dear friend and animal advocate Dr. Mel Richardson, known to many simply as ‘Dr. Mel.’ Mel had a way of making you feel safe with a warm hug and generous smile, and he loved a good joke. His calm demeanor and confidence made people and animals at ease. … “In Chico, many knew Mel as their local veterinarian working for various clinics including Mangrove Veterinary Hospital and … Valley Oak Veterinary Center. “But Dr. Mel’s passion was for the wild ones. Mel had a longtime career with the zoo and captive-wildlife business, [but later] realized the wrongs of industries that use animals as commodities. This increasing awareness sparked the momentum for Mel to change his focus: In the late 1990s, he began to shift his career using his veterinary skills and exotic-animal experience to defend animal welfare, particularly … the well-being of captive wild animals. “Mel found his partners in kindred organizations including In Defense of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Animal Defenders International (ADI), Chimp Sanctuary Northwest, Animal Legal Defense Fund, The Humane Society of the United States, the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and others. Mel preferred to support organizations that do not believe in breeding animals for profit … often in inhumane conditions. “In 2007, he was hired as the veterinarian for PAWS in San Andreas, Calif., working with founders Ed Stewart and Pat Derby. Mel was integral in moving zoo and circus elephants to this lush sanctuary, where they could roam, bathe in ponds, take down trees and socialize in herds. No more chaining, breeding, living in constricted areas or performing impossible Dr. Mel Richardson at Orland’s Farm Sanctuary with one of his many animal friends. tricks for entertainment. Dr. PHOTO COURTESY OF DAWN GARCIA Mel later teamed with ADI founders Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips in the world’s most ambitious and daring animal rescue in Bolivia [of 25 lions from illegal traveling circuses]; the resulting [documentary], Lion Ark, depicts the lions’ real-life journey and release to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. “Dr. Mel also provided expert testimony for legal cases, hearings and the media. Working with groundbreaking lawsuits to stop animal abuse, DESIGNER he testified for the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, Ban the BullJEN_PU hook, the Great Ape Protection Act and numerous individual cases. He had become a powerful voice for the voiceless. “More recently, Mel had moved bears from concrete moats in roadside zoos to The Wild Animal Sanctuary. Mel was anticipating assisting with another ADI rescue effort in 2014 to bring circus animals out of Peru. “In honor of Dr. Mel, please help support ADI in its mission to Peru, or any of the organizations above. To learn more about the captive animal industry, see such films as Blackfish, An Apology to Elephants, Lion Ark and How I Became an Elephant.” BIRD COUNT FOR KIDS! The Chico Creek Nature Center is offering its first

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Left to right: Beth Fox, Don Regis-Bilar, Nichole Favilla and Patrick Newman get the attention of passersby during a protest at the southwest corner of City Plaza on Dec. 29. PHOTO BY MELANIE MACTAVISH

“If you had a schizophrenic son or daughter or brother or sister or father or mother who, despite your best efforts, went wandering the country, would you want them to be loved—by someone, somewhere?”

Out of sight,

Patrick Newman talks with musician Clem Edwards (right), who lives on the streets with his faithful companion, Mud, a chocolate Labrador.

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Protesting the ouster of two homeless-outreach programs from City Plaza BY PATRICK NEWMAN

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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. —Mother Teresa

had a box of bread for the homeless, a few picket signs and some leaflets: a stack of one-page summaries describing why I was standing on the corner of Fifth and Main. I’d parked in one of those diagonal spaces, up against the mostly concrete Chico City Plaza. It was a still, blue-sky day and traffic was light—perfect conditions for a first-time activist. I was determined to stand on the corner from 3 to 5, on that mid-December Sunday afternoon. I did—and it was a long two hours. I was on the same corner of the plaza where Orchard Church had served food and given comfort to the homeless—every Sunday evening for more than five years. It was the church’s removal from the plaza that got me out there—standing alone and with no small

degree of discomfort. My sign read, “APARTHEID HAPPENED HERE.” Nelson Mandela had died 10 days earlier and we had just sent our homeless out of the town square—a case of discrimination, if ever there was one. My sign made sense to me, but probably not to any of the passing motorists— most of whom were merciful enough to look straight ahead. A few people on foot or bikes took notice—so I at least had a chance to explain: “Well, see, Orchard Church got moved behind the municipal building, out of the heart of town. Hidden! Apart-hide, get it? And that was wrong, wrong, wrong.” It was wrong. You see, I had fallen in love with this little weekly gathering—mostly on summer

evenings. I watched the way middle-classlooking “church” people would walk up to men and women, many of whom were clearly destitute, and engage them in conversation. I watched people following the Gospel I learned as a Catholic boy—the Gospel of love for the stranger, the Gospel of love for the person who is sometimes the hardest to love. It was inspiring, in a world where inspiration is often hard to come by. I’d never joined them in prayer or the work they did. Never thought I’d fit in and, frankly, I was not particularly motivated to work with homeless people. I rationalized that I’d done my bit of social work, throughout my life: about a decade working with developmentally disabled adults and people with various mental-health challenges. I was down in the plaza for an evening stroll—not

About the author:

Patrick Newman has worked as a surveyor, gardener, writer and social worker.

to go out of my way to meet street people.

The story turned one day last summer when Jim Culp, the pastor of Orchard Church, was put on notice: His program needed a permit from the city to stay at the plaza. Culp spent months jumping through hoops, and the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission ultimately voted 6-0 to issue a three-month permit. But, while pondering a future of endless public hearings and yearly fees of nearly $3,000, Orchard Church was next faced with a challenge by conservative Councilman Sean Morgan and mega-property owner Wayne Cook. Cook filed an appeal against the permit, since Morgan, as a politician, could not do so himself. Various homeless issues had gotten my attention in the summer and fall of 2013, but it was when I read that Morgan and Cook were attempting to torpedo the church’s hard-won permit that I finally became engaged. I prepared—for the first time in about 20 years—a statement to the

City Council. It read, in part: “The services of Orchard Church have caused no harm and done great good and it is a travesty that this discussion is even taking place. Mr. Cook, who has made this appeal, owns a large aggregation of income-generating property, along with a tower overlooking the same plaza where street people are fed and made welcome in our community. This tower stands above his Hotel Diamond and Johnnie’s Restaurant and Lounge—which were, incidentally, built with the financial assistance of the city of Chico. It strikes me as a medieval spectacle: The rich man in the tower looking down on the destitute, and demanding they be removed. “But this issue is bigger than Wayne Cook and Orchard Church. This is about our city government being heavily influenced by a few well-organized people with a lot of income property. It’s time, now, to send a message back: You, the financially elite, don’t get to decide who wanders the streets, or how

they dress, or whether they are worthy to eat a meal in a city park. “Orchard Church represents the generous side of Chico. I hope this council will put an end to the bullying and set a new course toward fairness, decency and hope.” I never delivered this public comment, nor did the public or council ever weigh in on the subject of the appeal. City Manager Brian Nakamura and Pastor Culp brokered a compromise that relocated the church program to behind the Chico Municipal Center. The eleventh-hour deal came just before the City Council meeting, circumventing the public process that was to unfold on the night of Nov. 19. Instead of a contentious public hearing and a vote on the appeal, Culp went to the podium and graciously accepted the arrangement. There was some light applause. But, for me, there was a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach—something was very wrong. I slept poorly that night, and before sunrise “ACTIVIST” continued on page 22 January 23, 2014

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Out of sight,

Patrick Newman talks with musician Clem Edwards (right), who lives on the streets with his faithful companion, Mud, a chocolate Labrador.

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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. —Mother Teresa

About the author:

Patrick Newman has worked as a surveyor, gardener, writer and social worker.

to go out of my way to meet street people.

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had written a “letter to the editor” to both local newspapers. I condemned the deal as a compromise that served the interests of Wayne Cook and the financial elite, at the expense of a model program—a program which I saw no good reason to punish. This view was not commonly held. Everywhere I turned, the deal was hailed as a sensible compromise. This made the issue even more interesting. Was I wrong to be so rigid in my thinking? Was there really that big a difference between locations? On Nov. 20, I went to the corner of the plaza, where the church had been working, and I took the walk to the east side of the municipal building. As I stood in the new location, it was obvious why this move was significant. The new location is hidden from the thoroughfares of downtown—the municipal building stands like a Berlin Wall between the homeless and the plaza. It occurred to me that this new location was like the back of the bus in any Southern city 50 years ago. People would be fed, but because they are viewed as second-class citizens, they would get fed where we—the general public—were far less likely to see them. Indeed, the homeless were sent a message that is painful to contemplate, even as I write this now: You, the inferior and undesirable ones, are not worthy to be seen and embraced in the public square of our town. We are hiding you. We are marginalizing you. But we want to feel good about ourselves, so we will feed you over there—in the shadows. Anyone who doubts this should ask one simple question: Why else were they moved?

The more I pondered this issue, the angrier I got. This led to a public-records request, and correspondence and conversations with Pastor Culp, park commissioners, City Council members, the park manager, people from the Chico Peace and Justice Center, heroic and amazing homeless people, friends, the Downtown Ambassadors, private security guards, people from Food Not Bombs, insightful and affirming members of the Quaker community, baby boomers, downtown merchants,

and random people on the street. My first step was to request whatever city documents I could obtain: everything from when the park ranger first warned the church, to the council meeting of Nov. 19. Walking up the stairs of the municipal building—and even parking my truck in the city lot—was a bit unnerving. What the hell was I doing there? I was bothering people, and I had no clue how to approach anyone for any of this. I was relieved when I found City Clerk Deborah Presson to be a kind, intelligent and helpful public servant. Ultimately, on reading the documents, I was impressed with the diplomatic language that Culp used in the face of a painful episode of scapegoating. It was evident that the new location was offered at the end of a brutal bureaucratic marathon. The Morgan/Cook appeal hearing was imminent—which would have provided the least empathetic and most backward voices in the community another chance to pound on the podium and demand more social cleansing. In my own conversations with Pastor Culp, it was clear that he did not want to leave the plaza, but the complexity and expense associated with the permit process made the new location appealing enough to justify accepting the change. One sentence from an email summarized his position: “I agree that we have been unfairly targeted and I would have loved to continue to meet in the plaza, but not with the restrictions that the BPPC [Bidwell Park and Playground Commission] would require of us.” But, it was evident that regardless of whether Culp held the removal to be right or wrong, or desirable or undesirable, it was always a matter of conscience for me. I did, though, seek the opinions of others, as I questioned the validity of my own response. This led to taking the pulse of Chico on the homelessness “problem” in general, along with the issue of the relocation. In talking with members of the ’60s generation, I found many who told me how difficult it had become to coexist with the homeless. There was a distinct lack of outrage

In October, hundreds of Chicoans attended a City Council study session and came up with ideas for curbing transiency and crime. Among ideas such as “start a militia” and instituting a “sit/lie” ordinance was a call for “no feeding in plaza.” PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY

regarding the recent raft of anti-homeless initiatives—the sit/lie ordinance, private guards, etc. It seemed a little like some of my peers had an imaginary contract guaranteeing them a retirement in Pleasantville, USA. This made little sense to me. I don’t see my generation as having done anything that remotely qualifies us to live out our years in utopia. If anything, we have embraced a culture of competition and consumerism unlike any before us—and that, it seems to me, is more likely to lead to a dystopian future. I got some insight into the thinking of the landlord class, as I toured the town with the salaried leader of a downtown volunteer group—a service that does a lot of good work on the streets of Chico. We encountered an owner of a swath of downtown property, who appeared to be on intimate terms with my guide. He gazed into the plaza and pointedly said, “What’s happening? It looks like there are a lot more of the undesirable element in the plaza today.” The weather was nice and homeless people were basking in the sun. It appeared to be a message for my guide: He was possibly failing to do his job. Though, how exactly he was supposed to do this job, I’m not sure—since there is a mountain of case law upholding the right of law-abiding street people to occupy the public space. Among merchants, there seemed to be a wide diversity of opinion—some of it very empathetic. However, one young woman, working at the Saturday farmers’ market, summed up the position of more than a few when she said, “Ever been to Yosemite? Have you seen the signs? ‘Please Don’t Feed the Bears!’” I have to admit that this statement reduces something complex to a neat formula. For me, the only answer is a question: If you had a schizophrenic son or

Orchard Church Pastor Jim Culp speaks with members of the homeless community, and others, months ago, when the church was still conducting its fellowship at City Plaza. PHOTO BY ROBBY MALONEY

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daughter or brother or sister or father or mother who, despite your best efforts, went wandering the country, would you want them to be loved—by someone, somewhere? It was interesting to sound-out eight or 10 homeless folks on the subject of Orchard Church’s removal. The symbolic significance of the move was not lost on them—and many expressed appreciation that anyone cared enough to ask the question. It came to my attention, after a couple of weeks of trying to grasp how the Orchard Church could have been coerced into its move, that Food Not Bombs had been bumped from the plaza as well. A passionate young activist, carrying dirty dishes from the Saturday food-service program—which is now serving food on the front lawn of the municipal building—described wanting to “get arrested” in protest of having been forced from the plaza. I later learned that a board member of the Chico Peace and Justice Center offered to join him. Ultimately, no consensus was reached and no act of civil disobedience was undertaken. I was heartened that it was seriously considered. In the final analysis, there was nothing in any conversation that led me to see these relocations as anything other than morally repugnant acts of discrimination.

This realization led me to the corner of Fifth and Main streets. My fifth Sunday there was very different than the first. For starters, I had settled on a new sign: “Orchard Church, Food Not Bombs, BRING THEM BACK.” I also wasn’t alone. My daughter was in town and she brought a friend—along with a basket of food for the homeless. The usual street characters stopped by to chat, and a friend from the Quaker meeting was there, too. I felt grateful to friends who had dropped by, for many hours, over the previous weeks. Also, to my neighbor who had come out, on every Sunday she could, and taught me a lesson in mutual support—a lesson I endeavor to go on learning. Going it alone can be pretty use-

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Notes from the corner Sunday, Dec. 22: Four or five homeless people came up to us and said some version of: “I’m glad you are here doing this.” One homeless woman: “They’ll never be back!” As if to say: “Can’t you see what a fool you are?” But there was no malice in it. It made me laugh, and, yes, I can see what a fool I am— when I’m thinking straight. Saturday Dec. 28: More time sitting on the curb at the market, with two homeless guys. One, a peaceful Vietnam-era vet, got all his stuff—guitar, wheelchair, cane, cart—impounded by the Chico Police Department. Something to put on the police blotter, I suppose. Tears my heart out—total bullshit. Sunday, Dec. 29: My neighbor came back with a sign and chair. She said it was funny breaking the sit/lie ordinance. A roller-derby homeless girl came by. She told us about dressing up as an angel and handing out candy on Christmas Eve. Monday, Dec. 30: Met a man while walking my dog near Children’s Playground. One of many—the pack, the unwashed clothes, the fifty-something years of hard life written on his face. He said he was looking for his parents, then said they were dead, and then said he was looking for them. I gave him some bus money. Who knows what he did with it? Who cares? I hugged him and walked away with tears in my eyes. That’s a new thing, but a welcome thing.

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Saturday, Jan. 4: I noticed a homeless man go over and listen to a young woman playing a guitar. I saw him put a bill in her tip jar and thought to myself, “Oh, my! How extraordinary.” Then my stupid brain was awakened by my less stupid brain and I thought, “You dumbass, these people are probably more generous than anyone, if you look at what they actually own and how they share, just to survive.” Thoughts such as that filled my mind, which reminded me that I am full of preconceptions and bullshit. Try. Fail. Rejoice. Repeat. Sunday, Jan. 5: Two 17- or 18-year-old women came up to me as I was putting up my signs. They asked how to get to Highway 99. One had been on the streets since she was 10. Both had been in foster care. They were in Chico for only a few hours and I said I hoped they found it to be a good place. They said they had experienced generosity. Off they went. I vividly remember this encounter, because of the joy in them … in the face of obvious adversity, and because of a feeling of deep gratitude to the many people of Chico who make this a soft place rather than a hard place. Sunday, Jan. 12: A thought is emerging as I stand on the corner. I see crisis ahead, on a global scale. Earth wounded or dying, Earth as home, all of us homeless, homelessness our future—loving them is loving us. —PATRICK NEWMAN

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ful in getting an outsider’s perspective, but having a few affirming companions is much better for the long haul. Leafleting at the Saturday farmers’ market has been almost as interesting as my time at the plaza and far more conversational—especially sitting on the curb, with two homeless friends. People often stop to discuss issues. It’s important to have the conversation—it means that things are being noticed. In a very recent exchange with Pastor Culp, it was clear that Orchard Church has accepted its new location as a permanent home. I was disappointed to hear this. But I can hardly be the judge of that decision. Nevertheless, I insist it should never have been made necessary, being a consequence of the “madness of crowds”—irrationality that often

results in the brutalization of people. I ran into that same activist from Food Not Bombs the other day. The group may return to the plaza with food service that requires no equipment set-up. I love his spirit. Ultimately, compassion in the governance of our city will turn on small details. The seeming subtlety of this issue makes it all the more important. Regimes of social cleansing and genocide develop incrementally. No one asks us a question one day that neatly encapsulates the moral dilemma: Shall we implement the “final solution” today? Yes or no? Do you approve of ethnic cleansing, eugenics? These things happen by inches. How we respond to the more challenging problems of the future will be determined by whether the needle of our moral compass is allowed to guide us, right here and right now. Ω

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Arts & Culture A pink cocktail

The hills are alive with the sound of Pink Martini and their most recent collaborators, The von Trapps. PHOTO BY CHRIS HORNBECKER

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Special Events SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL: Experience the natural

Mixing all the genres in the throwback “small orchestra” from Portland, Ore.

Salways loved to challenge herself, a quality that has informed her storied career—from her garageongstress Storm Large says she’s

rock days in early 1990s San Francisco to her 2006 participation in reality TV show Rock Star: Supernova, as well as by Ken Smith her successful forays into writing and acting. kens@ newsreview.com But perhaps her single biggest professional challenge was joining established, Portland, Ore.-based “small orchestra” Pink Martini in PREVIEW: Chico March 2011, when the band’s reguPerformances lar female vocalist, China Forbes, presents Pink had to take a break for throat surMartini Sunday, gery. Jan. 26, 7:30 “I had to learn 10 songs in five p.m., at Laxson languages in four days, and my first Auditorium. shows with Pink Martini were four Laxson sold-out shows at the Kennedy Auditorium Center in Washington, D.C.,” Large Chico State recently said via phone interview. campus “I was so overwhelmed I don’t www.chicoperform ances.com even remember the shows, but was told I did OK.” That was just the beginning of Large’s trial by fire; as Forbes recovered, Large spent 250 days of the next year on the road with the band, playing sold-out shows throughout the United States and Europe. Even after Forbes recovered, Large was invited to stay on to share vocal duties. Today, she’s still glad to have accepted the offer. “I love them as people; we’d been friends a long time, so it’s kind of like hanging out with my friends and going cool places,” Large said. “Having performed with them the last three years has been so educational—stylistically and linguistically. I sing in 15 different languages and now I speak some 24 CN&R January 23, 2014

French, so it’s been so good for my brain.” Pink Martini was the brainchild of bandleader Thomas Lauderdale who, as an aspiring politico in 1994, grew bored with the music commonly played at political actions, fundraisers and other events. He also happened to be a Harvard-trained classical pianist, and enlisted the help of college pal Forbes to start what would become Pink Martini. Since then, the band—which usually numbers 10 to 12 musicians—has performed around the world, sometimes joined by larger symphonies in various locales. The band’s repertoire includes international jazz, classical and pop standards from a more gilded age and original compositions in the same spirit, prompting Lauderdale to sometimes liken the band to “the United Nations’ house band, circa 1962.” Pink Martini is also known for its live and recorded collaborations with other artists. For example, the band’s most recent album, 2013’s Get Happy, includes guest stars ranging from melancholic crooner Rufus Wainwright to National Public Radio White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro. It also contains the last known work of Hollywood legend Phyllis Diller—a cover of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” that the actress and Lauderdale recorded in her Los Angeles living room six months before her death in 2012. The next album, scheduled for release in March, is a collaboration with The von Trapps (as in the descendants of Captain and Maria von Trapp, immortalized in The Sound of Music) called Dream a Little Dream. Large said the band’s connections are another interesting facet of performing with Pink Martini, noting she especially liked singing with Wainwright and Australian-born cabaret artist Meow Meow. “Thomas has really great taste in artists, and also in characters,” she said, “people who are incredibly talented and also absolutely lovely human beings.” Ω

wonder of the Pacific Flyway with the annual waterfowl-migration celebration, featuring four days of presentations, activities, field trips and exhibits. Home base is the Masonic Center, with the big banquet/auction happening at the BMU Auditorium (Sa, 1/25, 5:30pm) 1/23-26. Free. Chico Masonic Family Center, 1110 East Ave. (530) 342-7143.

Music CRYSTAL BOWERSOX: Portland, Ore., soulful/blues singer-songwriter and American Idol runnerup comes to the El Rey. Th, 1/23, 8pm. $18. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

Art Receptions INTO THE BLUE : Explore the nautical secrets of the Frolic, a ship that sank off the Mendocino coastline in 1850. Th, 1/23, 4:30-6:30pm. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Meriam Library, Chico State.

PLACES I’VE NEVER BEEN : Artist Philip Hartigan’s printmaking showcases halfremembered narrative moments, and the collection of photographs from Patricia McNair develops community memoirs. Artists’ talk at 6:30pm. Th, 1/23, 5:30-7:30pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Special Events SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL: See Thursday. Free. Chico

Theater

Masonic Family Center, 1110 East Ave. (530) 342-7143.

BARK! THE MUSICAL: Follow six canine characters for a day at Deena’s Doggie Daycare. Partial proceeds benefit the Butte Humane Society. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 2/15. Su, 2pm 2/2-16. $12-$22. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: Tevye and his five daughters will be on hand for the famed Broadway musical. Featuring a live orchestra. Presented by California Regional Theatre. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm, through 2/9. $15-$20. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 8992692, www.crtshows.com.

GREASE: Danny and Sandy reunite after a summer of love as the Pink Ladies and TBirds dance and sing their way through the school year. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 2/9. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

THE SENATOR WORE PANTYHOSE: This comedy revolves around the failing presidential campaign of “Honest” Gabby Sandalson. Directed by Jackie Glover. F, Sa, 7:30pm, & Su, 2pm through 1/27. $10$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VENUS IN FUR: The Rogue Theatre players return to the Blue Room to collaborate on David Ives’ “sexy dark comedy.” Directed by Joe Hilsee. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 2/1. (Actors’ benefit show Su, 1/26, 7:30pm.) $10-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

BARK! THE MUSICAL Shows through Feb. 16 Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse SEE THURSDAY-SATURDAY THEATER

FINDING THE PLACE: A workshop about discovering a sense of place in text and image, using observation, memory and imagination with artist Philip Hartigan and writer Patricia Ann McNair. Sa, 1/25, 2-5:30pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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STUNT DOG EXPERIENCE: Chris Perondi’s stunt

CAROLYN WONDERLAND: American blues

dogs fly, jump rope and perform comedy skits and more. Tu, 1/28, 7:30pm. $15-$28. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

singer/songwriter from Texas returns to the Big Room. W, 1/29, 7:30pm. Sold Out. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 3452739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

Special Events SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL: See Thursday. Free. Chico

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

Masonic Family Center, 1110 East Ave. (530) 342-7143.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: Featuring Bob & Tom Radio

STUNT DOG EXPERIENCE Tuesday, Jan. 28 Laxson Auditorium

SEE TUESDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

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Special Events SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL: See Thursday. Free. Chico

CHRISTOPHER TITUS: A one-man show of dark comedy with Titus’ Angry Pursuits of Happiness tour. Comedian Rachel Bradley opens. F, 1/24, 8pm. $28. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

Theater BARK! THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: See Thursday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

GREASE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

THE SENATOR WORE PANTYHOSE: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VENUS IN FUR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Art Receptions EVERYTHING BLUE: An opening reception for the mixed-media group show using “blue” for inspiration. F, 1/24, 7-11pm. Manas Artspace & Gallery, 1441-C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

SNOW GOOSE WILDLIFE ART EXHIBIT: Features paintings, photographs and sculptures by 35 wildlife artists from around the world. Live jazz by Susan Schrader and and Eric Peter. F, 1/24, 5-8pm. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

Masonic Family Center, 1110 East Ave. (530) 342-7143.

Theater BARK! THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: See Thursday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

GREASE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

LEADING LADIES AUDITIONS: A comedy by Ken Ludwig. Directed by Jerry Miller. Casting for five men/three women (ages 20s-60s). Sa, 1/25, 1pm. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

THE SENATOR WORE PANTYHOSE: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VENUS IN FUR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Art Receptions DAPHYNE ALTMAN: A multi-media art retrospec-

PINK MARTINI: GLOBAL CABARET: The 12-piece mini orchestra draws inspiration from Hollywood’s golden era of musicals and 1950’s cocktail lounges. Su, 1/26, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Theater FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: See Thursday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

GREASE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

THE SENATOR WORE PANTYHOSE: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VENUS IN FUR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Music SOULFLY: A night of heavy metal with Soulfly (Phoenix, Ariz.) and locals Armed For Apocalypse and God Van Damme. M, 1/27, 7:30pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

Art 1078 GALLERY: Places I’ve Never Been, artist Philip Hartigan’s printmaking showcases half-remembered narrative moments, and the collection of photographs from Patricia McNair serves as community memoirs. Through 2/1. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Snow Goose Wildlife Art

Exhibit, features paintings, photographs and sculptures by 35 wildlife artists from around the world. Through 2/1. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Members’ Showcase, the Chico Art Center’s annual exhibition of member artwork. Through 2/14. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Mixed-media works, by Machelle Conn. A gallery for Northern California artists touched by cancer. Through 4/17. 265 Cohasset Rd., inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:

Lois Cohen Art Sale, works in multiple mediums by the late Lois Cohen produced over her 90-year career. Through 1/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.james snidlefinearts.com.

MANAS ARTSPACE & GALLERY: Everything

Blue, local artists exhibit a mix of media inspired by “everything blue”. 1/24-3/7. 1441-C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: The Way of the New Year, original art by local makers. 1/23-2/22. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

THE JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Pushing Boundaries—Expanding Horizons, the

10th Janet Turner National Print Competition. The joint exhibition with the University Art Gallery surveys new and innovative “must sees” in the print world. 1/27-2/22. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Pushing

Boundaries Expanding Horizons, the 10th Janet Turner National Print Competition. The joint exhibition with the University Art Gallery surveys new and innovative “must sees” in the print world. 1/27-2/22. Trinity Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

Museums 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.bidwell park.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico in Black and White, an exhibit featuring historical photos from the John Nopel collection. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Explore

Evolution, investigate evolutionary principles in organisms ranging from smallest to the largest, with interactive exhibits giving the viewer an opportunity to experience how scientists conduct research on evolution. Ongoing. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Into The Blue: Maritime Navigation

and the Archeology of Shipwrecks, the nautical secrets of the Frolic, a ship that sank off the Mendocino coastline in 1850. Featuring artifacts recovered from Frolic and the story behind the ship’s history. Tu-Sa through 7/24. Opens 1/23. Meriam Library, Chico State.

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tive for Daphyne Altman’s 90th birthday. (Bring or wear the Altman art you own!) Sa, 1/25, 2-6:30pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

Tonight, Jan. 23 Manas Artspace & Gallery

FREE LISTINGS!

Show veteran Tim Cavanaugh and guest Bryan Moore. Su, 1/26, 7pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

Under the sea In 1850, a ship named the Frolic left China laden with household goods and tools to be sold in San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush. It never made it. After striking a reef off of Point Cabrillo in Mendocino County, it sank to a watery grave. A new exhibit at the Valene L. Smith EDITOR’S PICK Museum of Anthropology called Into the Blue: Maritime Navigation and the Archaeology of Shipwrecks features artifacts recovered from the Frolic as well as other historical maritime items. It kicks off tonight (Jan. 23) with a reception featuring Tom Layton (an author of three books about the Frolic), a film, appetizers and much more.

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INTERNSHIPS 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., (530) 321-5607.

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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.

CAREER BUILDERS/COUNTER RECRUITMENT: A monthly counter-recruitment meeting for the community’s youth. Fourth Th of every month, 3:30pm. Free. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 343-3152, www.chico-peace.org.

water bottle, drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit. Call for more info. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, (530) 8916524.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

the elements. F, 6-8pm. $6-$12 sliding scale. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 532-1989.

EVENING DANCE JAM: A weekly meditative dance session. F, 7:15pm. $10. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Ste. 150, (530) 342-0100.

FANCY FEET DANCE: Beginning to experienced

FARMERS’ MARKET: SATURDAY: Chico’s weekly community gathering, with fresh produce, crafts, baked goods and more. Sa, 7:30am1pm. Municipal Parking Lot No. 1, Second & Wall streets.

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FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First

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account of how we communicate and the unexpected positive consequences. Su, 1/26, 1-5pm. Free seminar. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 3546672.

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Despite being illegal, home distilling is on the rise

Dhome is against federal law, yet making moonshine is a hobby on the rise. Homebrew shops, especialistilling alcohol for consumption at

ly, seem to have their fingers on the pulse of the trend, since making beer and wine often by serves as the gateway to the art of Alastair distilling. At the Chico Home Brew Bland Shop, owner Dawn Letner says that for several years she has received more and more inquiries from customers interested in making their own hard alcohol. “There are some people who really don’t know it’s illegal,” Letner said. “They’ll ask me how many gallons they can legally make per year at home, and I’ll say, ‘Well, you can’t make any.’” Which is generally true—making booze at home with a still for home consumption is illegal in the eyes of federal law. A permit, however, can be acquired from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for making ethanol for fuel use, and those who wish to go into the business of selling spirits can get a commercial permit from the same agency. Distillation does not actually produce alcohol. Fermentation, via yeasts, is what turns sugars into ethanol, the type of alcohol on which people have gotten buzzed for millennia, whether via sake, wine, beer or cider. Distillation, on the other hand, is a method of separating the alcohol from the rest of the liquid (beer, wine or any already fermented drink). To do this, a distiller heats a still to at least 173 degrees, at which point alcohol begins to boil and then condense on the ceiling of the still and emerge from the spigot tube in clear-liquid form. Like so, one can turn a 5 percent cider into fiery hot applejack, a gentle wine into brandy, and fermented potato mash into vodka. As in the United States, home distilling is generally illegal in Europe, yet traditions of making booze— including brandy, chacha, rakia, cognac and tsipouro—thrive in most nations. Forest Ranch winemaker Phil LaRocca’s family brought brandy- and grappa-making traditions with them when they moved to San Francisco from Sicily. “My dad made wine, and he would give the grape must to my uncle, who had a still,” LaRocca said. Grappa is distilled from the gunk left at the bottom of

a wine-fermenting tank, while brandy is made from straight wine. Several years ago, LaRocca shipped a thousand gallons of zinfandel to a custom distillery in Ashland, Ore. “That got me 50 gallons of 190-proof brandy,” he said. At 95 percent alcohol, such a formidable liquor must be watered down to be made palatable. A quick Google search reveals that distilling equipment can be purchased at many brewing shops and specialty stores throughout the country. Hillbilly Stills in Kentucky is one of the more reputed of the suppliers. The equipment, after all, is not illegal to own or sell. Moreover, even people who haven’t acquired a fuel permit or a commercial distiller’s license may be undertaking perfectly legal business with their gear, which looks something like a beer keg with a tube exiting the top. They may be distilling water or—like Bayliss Ranch in Biggs—making scented distillates from aromatic herbs for use in foods, drinks, lotions and oils. The reason home hooch-making is federally prohibited may be because it’s potentially dangerous. Distilling can produce methanol, the sort of alcohol that can kill a person. Methanol and ethanol are extremely flammable, too, and home distillers can be injured or killed in explosions. Money may also be a factor in the federal prohibition on home moonshining. That is, the federal liquor tax of $13.50 per gallon is bypassed by those who engage in their own booze-making. The distillation boom is not just occurring at home. Hundreds of commercial craft distilleries have opened in the past decade, and small-batch brands of whiskey, gin, rum, vodka and other spirits have taken to retail shelves. Many bear familiar names—those of breweries like Rogue, Anchor and Ballast Point which are distilling beer into the hard stuff. Some breweries have even sold off batches of tainted beer to distilleries, since the process of removing the alcohol from a wine or beer tends to leave behind flaws in the original product. Then again, a common saying among distillers goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.” LaRocca attests to the same: “The best brandy is made from the best wine.” Making a good home hooch, in fact, can be very difficult—so difficult that it may not even be worth it. And anyway, it’s illegal. Ω January 23, 2014

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I college, a long, long time ago. I was outright Godawful. Like, laughably bad. And—as trying something took an acting class once. In community

and sucking at it tends to do—it gave me tremendous respect for people who do it well (this also explains, by the way, my by deep admiration for married people). Emiliano It also explains why I’m really Garcia-Sarnoff relating to one of the central themes of this new production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur: the inversion of power and gender roles in the theater world, and to a larger extent, the entertainment industry—and to an even larger extent, the whole dang REVIEW: world (more on that in a moment). Venus in Fur Co-produced by both the Rogue shows Thursdayand Blue Room Theatres, Thursday Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through (Jan. 16) night’s showing of Venus in Feb. 1 (special Fur opened with present-day playactors’ benefit wright Thomas Novachek complainSunday, Jan. 26, ing on the phone to his fiancée about 7:30 p.m.), at the Blue Room the women he’s been auditioning for Theatre. the female lead of his new play, an Tickets: $12-$15 adaptation of 19th century erotic (Thursday cheap novella Venus in Furs, written by nights, $10) Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (whose Blue Room last name eventually provided the Theatre “M” in “S&M”). In walks Vanda— 139 W. First St. an all-over-the-place actress who 895-3749 strangely shares names with the charwww.blueroom acter she’s auditioning for. At first, it theatre.com seems to Thomas, that’s about the only thing that’s right. Not only is she two hours late for an appointment she apparently never had, she’s also the very embodiment of everything Thomas has been complaining about in his auditionees: ignorant, unsophisticated, unfeminine as he sees femininity. But as she begins performing scenes with him, Vanda’s command of the material takes Thomas aback, and what ensues is a high-momentum, enjoyably disorienting, twisting, multilayered, 90-minute real-time test of wills full of sexuality, power dynamics, literary wit and real surprises. It came as no shock to me to learn, later, that Venus 28 CN&R January 23, 2014

in Fur is currently the most produced nonShakespearean, non-holiday-themed play in America. Sounds good, right? And it was good. Pretty good. The thing is, with a two-person play like this one, which is not emotionally profound as much as it is exhilaratingly clever, the experience for the audience really hinges on the acting and the dynamic between the two actors on stage—in this case, Jeremy Votava and Suzanne Papini. Votava and Papini are full of charisma and, it must be said, are really easy on the eyes, especially as Papini almost immediately began disrobing down to lingerie, vivid tattoos and a dog collar. But, though there were occasional specialeffect strobe flashes of lightning and recordings of thunder, there just wasn’t—at least on opening night—any electricity in the air between these two actors. In particular, I found Papini’s performance, which included some flubbed lines, to be somewhat scene-chewing and disconnected. The result was like a low dose of an SSRI antidepressant: I was entertained, but I just couldn’t quite feel it. This brings me back to my great respect for actors and the theme (present in the play) of gender and power roles in the entertainment industry. As with directors and playwrights, the great preponderance of theater and film critics are men—which is to say, positions of influence and control in the entertainment industry are largely “dominated” by men. Women, for instance, write only one of eight plays performed on Broadway and represent just 5 percent of directors in Hollywood. (Although it should be noted that for the 2013-14 season, half of the most-produced plays in the country were written by women—which is the best percentage in the past nine seasons). And a recent San Diego State University study found that, at least when it comes to film, men write 82 percent of reviews (a percentage that holds roughly true here at the Chico News & Review, too). I feel shitty, is my point, about being yet another mansplaining critic who finds an actor’s (and especially an actress’) performance too this or too that, or lacking in x or in y—especially since the two actors in this case obviously worked their asses off for this complex and demanding play. I couldn’t do what Papini does if I rehearsed for two millennia. In fact, I’m not even Ω worthy to lick Papini’s boot. I’m sorry, mistress!

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Sebastian Squid: Lost! Casey Fay East Bay PD Chicoan-turned-Oaklander Casey Fay is a talented artist (and a pea pod, if you believe the bio on his website, Faydirgle.com). His artistic obsession with creating very cute drawings of cephalopods resulted in a self-published 2008 book called Wonders of the Sea: Cephalopods. Recently, Fay added another cephalopod-centric book to his bibliography: the delightful Sebastian Squid: Lost!, the first in his fledgling Determine Your Own Destiny series. Aimed at kids, Sebastian Squid transforms the reader into a squid—Sebastian—who goes on an adventure that has the possibility of seven different outcomes, depending on choices the reader makes throughout the course of reading this wonderfully illustrated page-turner. Fay includes scientific information (black holes, decapods) as well as nutritional and environmental information (a plastic bag “after one use has one of two probable fates: Either sit in a landfill for a million years or end up as part of a gigantic plastic mass in the ocean”) in such an entertaining way that young readers will almost certainly get his timely, constructive messages. Fay’s book is so appealing that one can easily forgive a couple of misspellings (“suprisingly” instead of “surprisingly,” for one), though, for the sake of kid readers, one hopes that they will be corrected in a second edition.

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Knock Madness Hopsin Empire Distribution Corp. L.A. rapper Hopsin has a history of offering blistering denouncements of the tired and overproduced stereotypical hip-hop that is often single-mindedly concerned with the trifecta of fame, money and bitches. On his fourth album, Knock Madness, Hopsin takes control of the conversation away from producers— and their checklists of buzzwords to be repeated ad nauseum—but he refuses to change the topic. The chest-thumping ego of “Hop Is Back,” the money moochers in “Gimmie That Money,” and the unfettered hate toward an unfaithful woman in “Good Guys Get Left Behind” all seem born from Hopsin’s personal life, with his pain and rage balanced by moments of self-doubt and vulnerability. The depth of feeling is most evident on “Old Friend,” a poignant tale of losing a childhood friend to a meth addiction. Hopsin’s depiction of an expressionless, aimless addict is haunting and his sense of loss is palpable. Knock Madness earns its “explicit lyrics” advisory label, but, here, the raw vulgarity is an effective tool for expressing difficult issues for the artist and for the rest of us.

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New Jack pretty

not for the brilliancies of characterization that bring the whole thing back to life just as a grim despondency threatens to take over. Ultimately, the prime example of that brilliance comes via Solomon Northup himself (Chiwetel Ejiofor). The movie, which portrays Solomon as refusing to be defined by his own victimhood, finds its most powerful and incisive dramatics in the tragic ironies of the man’s struggle not just to survive but to preserve a sense of dignity and self in the midst of soul-crushing cruelties. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Gravity

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Reboot with Tom Clancy’s signature character is by-the-numbers actioner

J credentialed intelligence agent/cold warrior/ soldier/intellect of Tom Clancy’s novels—has been ack Ryan—the multitalented, highly

played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck in the various movie versions. Now, screenwriters Adam Cozad and David Koepp have by Juan-Carlos devised their own Jack Ryan tale, with baby-faced Chris Pine playing Selznick the Clancy hero at the outset of a career in all-purpose international intrigue. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit might be termed a prequel, except that the franchise chronology has been flipped. This Ryan is indeed younger than the others, but the Jack Ryan: events of Shadow Recruit are all Shadow post-9/11. That leaves the film as a Recruit kind of speculative hybrid—a ClanStarring Chris cy-like adventure tale that plays Pine, Kevin around with notions of what ClanCostner and Keira Knightley. cy’s hero might have been like if he Directed by had been born circa 1980. Kenneth There are some amusing possiBranagh. bilities in that basic premise, but the Cinemark 14, onscreen results are consistently Feather River Cinemas and generic, dutiful and efficient. This Paradise Cinema film’s Ryan is a semi-juvenile cutie7. Rated PG-13. pie with nascent action-hero chops, and Pine serves ably in the role’s various aspects—the athletic action exploits, the bantering expository dialogue, the whimsical digressions Poor into romantic comedy. Pine/Ryan is the one who gets the spectacular tasks here, but CIA agent Fair Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner)— Pine’s mentor/minder/father figure/ enabler—has the slightly more central, pivotal and deeply heroic role. Good Costner’s Harper seems a wry, middle-aged version of what Ryan will become, but he’s so deeply involved in every aspect of young Ryan’s Very Good formative adventures and so miraculously present for each key twist that his guardian-angel status seems more Excellent than merely metaphorical.

Nevertheless, much of the rest of Shadow Recruit is taken up with oddball variations on the routine stuff of genre entertainment. There’s a gratuitous love story that has Ryan’s fiancée (Keira Knightley) following him to Europe and getting caught up in the dangers of a supposedly secret mission. And there’s Viktor Cherevin (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed), a Russian megalomaniac who’s plotting a terrorist attack on Wall Street as well as a catastrophic devaluation of U.S. currency. Dr. Cathy Muller (Knightley), who falls for Ryan while he’s recovering from drastic war wounds, is a curiously absurd and discordant piece of the story—she’s heroic in a silly B-movie way, and she’s also a pawn of the plot and a barely noticeable fly in the psychosexual ointment of the super-male spy genre. Branagh, meanwhile, is something of an embarrassment—a character actor and occasional Shakespearian playing a cartoon Russian despot with no psychological credibility and no “character” apart from the dictates of plot mechanics. And his direction of this project is functional and adequate, at best. Ω

Reviewers: Craig Blamer and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week

From Lakeshore Entertainment, the production company behind the Underworld franchise, comes this story of Frankenstein (Aaron Eckhart), who has survived to modern times and is now involved in an all-out battle against an army of gargoyles and demons. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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American Hustle

American Hustle is a sardonically comical caper movie, a semipicaresque period piece set among con artists, influence peddlers, political fixers, etc., in the late 1970s. Banking scams, FBI stings, Mafia politics, governmental corruption, fashion excesses, and elaborate double-crosses all have roles to play. It’s a beguiling tale, with a nicely timed set of surprise twists laid out along the way. But what makes this one of the best films of the year is mostly a matter of superb, beautifully directed performances from a fine cast, including especially its four leading players. The key figures here are a sleazy entrepreneur/con man (Christian Bale), a frenetically ambitious young FBI agent (Bradley Cooper), a gifted quick-change artist (Amy Adams), and the Bale character’s hilariously erratic wife (Jennifer Lawrence). Bale is especially brilliant—giving unexpected shades of emotion and intelligence to a character who at first seems merely a mild comic grotesque. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

August: Osage County

The new film by Alfonso Cuarón is a dazzling piece of artful entertainment. It’s a sci-fi adventure, with a pair of stranded astronauts played by George Clooney and Sandra Bullock trying to survive a space-station calamity, and it packs a great deal of unexpected interest into what might sound like a relatively simple story. Scarcity of oxygen, suspension of the law of gravity, extreme physical isolation—they all heighten the stakes in the characters’ efforts to improvise self-rescue via the increasingly disabled remnants of their elaborate space-travel technology. Cuarón and company make wonderfully expressive use of the 3D format on behalf of all of its main concerns. Both visually and dramatically, Gravity is about human beings struggling to get their bearings, in several senses of that word. Spatial and psychological disorientation recurs, but the screenplay by Alfonso and his brother Jonás Cuarón also nudges us toward perspectives on the dimensions of human identity, of purpose and self, and locale. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

I, Frankenstein

Re-opening this week

12 Years a Slave

Director Steve McQueen’s new film recounts the agonizing ordeal of a prosperous and well-educated African-American, a freed man named Solomon Northup, who was shanghaied back into slavery for more than a decade in pre-Civil War U.S. As such, 12 Years a Slave is a sometimes a grueling history lesson that pays graphic attention to the physical cruelties as well as the legal and moral injustices of the slavery system. A certain weakness for punishing realism might have been fatal, were it

As a play, August: Osage County won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008. Now it’s out in a film version featuring Meryl Streep and a big-name supporting cast, and it seems to have lost what I’m assuming was the combination of luster and grit that made it so impressive onstage. Streep dominates the story in the role of Violet Weston, a foul-mouthed, drug-addicted, cancerplagued Oklahoma matriarch whose weary, alcoholic, literary husband (Sam Shepard) has suddenly disappeared. Violet dominates her daughters and the other relatives who gather in the aftermath of that disappearance, and all sorts of family secrets, semisubmerged resentments and half-hidden scandals are dragged out to center stage. Director John Wells hasn’t really found a coherent form of overall presentation here, and the performances as well as the script suffer as a result. The low-key performances—Chris Cooper as Violet’s brotherin-law, Julianne Nicholson as the youngest of her daughters, Misty Upham as an in-house caregiver, Shepard—come as welcome relief. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Devil’s Due

From the minds of the Radio Silence filmmaking collective that contributed to the cult fave V/H/S, this found-footage-style horror flick follows a newlywed couple who are documenting the progress of an unplanned and increasingly unsettling pregnancy. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Her

Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a techie whose literary skills are highly prized at the computerized letter-writing service where he works. He’s also a rather lonely romantic who can’t quite bring himself to sign the final papers on his divorce from Catherine (Rooney Mara). Theodore lives in a world of gesture- and voice-activated digital technology, and special things begin to happen when he gets connected to an operating system that provides him with a virtual companion/assistant/confidante who can think and talk and, up to a point, share emotions. This virtual aide has a female voice (provided, with much sly skill, by Scarlett Johansson) and Theodore names her Samantha. A unique and surprisingly complex set of reflections on romantic relationships arise from director/screenwriter Spike Jonze’s blatantly peculiar premise, and the offbeat dramas that ensue from it are far richer than one might expect. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Lone Survivor

Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) directs this true story about a failed Navy SEALS mission to capture a Taliban leader in Afghanistan in 2005. Starring Mark Wahlberg. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Monks of Vina

John Beck documents the Trappist monks of the Abbey of New Clairvaux in nearby Vina as they pray, make wine and wrestle with their inner lives in a quest to become closer to God. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

The Nut Job

An animated feature about a park squirrel who teams up with a city rat and plans to rob the goods from a nut store in order to help his park mates with their winter stash. Starring the voices of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser and Katherine Heigl. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Ride Along

An action-comedy directed by Tim Story (Barbershop) about a small-time security guard (Kevin Hart) who goes on a ride-along with his fiancée’s brother, an Atlanta cop (Ice Cube), in an effort to prove himself worthy to marry his sister (Tika Sumpter). Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

The Wolf of Wall Street

This film has a lot going for it—a lot to like, and a lot to see. But most of its lively virtues and strengths are in the details and on the margins. At its heart, this three-hour extravaganza rings rather hollow. The sources of its greatest appeal include a supercharged lead performance from Leonardo DiCaprio; stylishly frenzied direction by Martin Scorsese; a penchant for bravura scenes and eccentric set pieces; a distinctly contemporary topicality (Wall Street scammers); and a large and quirky supporting cast, with particularly pungent contributions from Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill and Joanna Lumley. But some of the film’s most striking aspects are allied, in the long run, with its abiding weaknesses. McConaughey’s early “tutorial” scene with DiCaprio is a darkly comical tour de force that just might be the single best moment in the entire film, but the intense articulation of character and theme of this scene goes unmatched through the film’s final two-thirds. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Still here Frozen

Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

Nebraska

Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

Saving Mr. Banks

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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THURSDAY 1/23—WEDNESDAY 1|29 CHRISTOPHER TITUS: F, 1/24, 8pm. $28. El

ROCKIN THE MIC: A monthly open mic

Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

FRENCH REFORM, SISTERHOODS, UGLY AS HELL

open to performers young and old.

Fourth F of every month, 6-8pm. Free.

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

Tonight, Jan. 23 Café Coda SEE THURSDAY

¡VIVA MEXICO!

IRISH-MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi-

JOHN SEID TRIO: John Seid, Steve Cook and Larry Peterson play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 1/23, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

tion: 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.

JAKE NOLAN: Local new wave/experimental rock with Jake Nolan, plus Seattle-based acoustic/indie singer/songwriter Sean Martin. Tom & Jerry open. F, 1/24, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

MANDOLIN JAZZ: with Tyler Mansfield and

23THURSDAY BEER PAIRING PARTY: Featuring a sea-

sonal beer, Wild Billy Winter Bock. Th, 1/23, 6pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

CRYSTAL BOWERSOX: Portland, Ore., soulful/blues singer-songwriter and American Idol runner-up comes to the El Rey. Th, 1/23, 8pm. $18. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 3422727.

FRENCH REFORM, SISTERHOODS, UGLY AS HELL: An evening of local indie, experimental and blues rock. Th, 1/23, 8pm. $3. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

Matt Christensen F, 1/24, 6:30-9pm. Albatross, 3312 Esplanade, (530) 3456037, www.thealbatross.com.

24FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peeking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St. 4, (530) 895-3888.

BIG BAD BOOGIE ROCK: Retro funk/rock

from the ’70s and ’80s. F, 1/24, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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MONKEY MUSIC SHOWCASE: Spotlighting local acoustic singer/songwriters and musicians. F, 7:30pm. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.

MUSIC AT FLO: A grab bag of musical talent with Playboy Smooth, Tiny Salmon, Ze Treasure Troll, Ol’ Hawk Eye and the Iowa Ska Experience, Loren Downer and Alien Owls. F, 1/24, 7:30pm. $3-$5. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

Led by vocalist/accordionist José Darey Castro, Los Dareyes de la Sierra are a popular musica norteña group hailing from Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico. The hard-working, hard-touring band released more than a dozen original albums between 2005 and 2010, including 2009’s Una Copa Más, which was nominated for a Latin Grammy. The band’s repertoire includes several narcocorridos— controversial and danceable folk ballads about the heroes of the Mexican drug trade. Los Dareyes appear Saturday, Jan. 25, at Lost on Main.

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27MONDAY JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Live jazz happy hour with Carey Robinson Trio. M, 5-7pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

LAURIE DANA: Soul, light rock, blues, country, Tin Pan Alley, jazz and more.

W, 7-9pm. Free. VIP Ultra Lounge, 191 E. Second St.

OPEN MIC: An all-ages open mic for musicians, poets, comedians, storytellers

and dancers. W, 7pm. Free. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.

STEVE JOHNSON: Acoustic Americana. W, 1/29, 7-9pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.wee bly.com.

SOULFLY: A night of heavy metal with Soulfly (Phoenix, AZ) and locals Armed For Apocalypse and God Van Damme. M, 1/27, 7:30pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmax productions.net.

25SATURDAY HEATHER MICHELLE AND THE MAKE YOU MINES: Local indie folk singer/songwriter plus, folk/rock by The Rugs and lonesome mountain songs by Sons of Jefferson. Sa, 1/25, 9pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

JOHN SEID TRIO: John Seid, Steve Cook and Larry Peterson play an eclectic mix at the Snow Goose festival’s Gathering of Wings Banquet & Silent Auction. Sa, 1/25, 6pm. Bell Memorial Union (BMU), 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 898-4696, www.snowgoose festival.org.

LOS DEREYES DE LA SIERRA: Sa, 1/25,

9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SOULFLY

Monday, Jan. 27 Senator Theatre SEE MONDAY

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.

PULLING STRINGS: Experimental jazz with David Dvorin and Matej Seda plus, kora master Karamo Susso. Sa, 1/25, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

TRIBE OF THE RED HORSE: Neil Young tribute band. Sa, 1/25, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co.,

3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

26SUNDAY PINK MARTINI: GLOBAL CABARET: The 12piece mini orchestra draws inspiration from Hollywood’s golden era of musicals and 1950’s cocktail lounges. Su, 1/26, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: Featuring Bob & Tom radio show veteran Tim Cavanaugh and guest Bryan Moore. Su, 1/26, 7pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

28TUESDAY OPEN MIC: Open-mic night with Aaron

and Friends. Tu, 7-10pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveat flo.weebly.com.

SHIGEMI & FRIENDS: Live jazz with keyboardist Shigemi Minetaka and rotating accompaniment. Tu, 6:308:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.

29WEDNESDAY CAROLYN WONDERLAND: American blues singer/songwriter from Texas returns to the Big Room. W, 1/29, 7:30pm. Sold Out. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

Fiction 59 CAN YOU TELL A STORY IN 59 WORDS? WE WANT TO READ IT! The annual Fiction 59 contest is back. Submit your stories to the Chico News & Review today for the chance to have your work published in the CN&R's annual Fiction 59 issue on March 6. Winners will also be invited to read their works (and receive prizes!) at a live reading. ONLINE AND EMAIL ENTRIES PREFERRED. Visit www.newsreview.com/fiction59 to submit, or email stories to fiction59@newsreview.com. Please specify age and division: adults; high school (ninth–12th grade); junior high (sixth–eighth grade); kids (fifth grade and lower). Under-18 entries, please specify age. You can also drop off or mail your entries to the Chico News & Review office at 353 E. Second St., Chico, CA, 95928. Deadline for submission is Wednesday, Feb. 19, at midnight.

PAINFULLY FUNNY

Some of the funniest comedians are people who’ve faced terrible difficulties in their personal life. Christopher Titus is a prime example of this. Among the more lurid details of his dysfunctional childhood is the fact his mother killed her abusive second husband eight years before she took her own life, horrific events he has managed to spin into darkly comedic works such as his one-man show titled Norman Rockwell is Bleeding. His current tour, which stops at the El Rey Theatre on Friday, Jan. 24, is titled The Angry Pursuit of Happiness.

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DOWN ON MAIN STREET There is at least one thing that Arts DEVO has

Chico’s guide to food and nightlife Coming February 13

learned about music in Chico during his decades of paying attention: Good bands that play music of the party-ready dance genres—funk, jam, reggae, hip-hop, etc.—will always be popular in Chico. Punk, indie, metal and jazz might all feature acts that are well regarded by many discerning observers, but it is unusual for them to extend their reach across Chico’s funky spectrum—from the groovy hippie elite to the booty-shaking youngsters. With that truism in mind, there looks to be reason for Chico’s party people to rejoice as Lost on Main—the downtown nightclub with the at times unpredictable schedule—is going through some potentially stabilizing changes that hold the promise of providing a regular calendar of the kind of live music to which Chico likes to get down. First, new booker Jonas Beeler (who Dumpstaphunk to Chico. used to work with one-time Chico promoter Azariah “Z” Reynolds of Bobolink Productions) has started curating an impressive schedule of dance-floor-filling acts for the semester—Dead Winter Carpenters (Feb. 1), Pimps of Joytime (Feb. 13), Dumpstaphunk (March 1), among others. Second, Beeler has been working with the club to revamp the inside of the space, with new paint and lights going up this week and the stage returning to the opposite side of the building (where it was when the late Matt Hogan’s Mr. Lucky club was in the space). Time will tell whether or not the fresh vision for the ever-changing club will stick, but the first steps toward new club life will happen at back-to-back “Grand Rebirth” shows next week: the Dead Winter Carpenters show (Feb. 1) and a more low-key local-band event the night before (Jan. 31), featuring The Rugs, The LoLos and Broken Rodeo.

MICHAEL JACKSON, KING OF HOP Next time you press a Trappist-style

dubbel to your lips or are discussing the nuances of a barrelaged old ale at the craft-beer bar, take a second to raise your glass and give thanks for the other Michael Jackson. Known as The Beer Hunter for the documentary TV series of the same name that he hosted in the early 1990s, the late Jackson is the influential beer The Beer Hunter. writer who, thanks in large part to his seminal work, The World Guide to Beer (1977), was instrumental in bringing knowledge of the huge variety of great beers in the world to the U.S. Next week, Thursday, June 30, at 6:30 p.m., Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. pays homage to the beer pioneer with a free showing at the Big Room of the recently released documentary Beer Hunter: The Movie.

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HIRE A MURALIST I got a note from Chicoan Judy Fox the other day saying that she had some walls around the patio of her house that she wanted to brighten up, but that she didn’t want to just brush on a fresh coat of paint. So, she said that she posted an offer on Craigslist to trade studio space to an artist who would come paint a mural on her walls instead. Local musician and painter Daniel Vera answered the ad and he is in the middle of making Fox’s home a work of jungle-inspired art. Wonderful!

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Love’s ReAL estAte Draw The Line

certain word associated with country property should never be forgotten. Hard lessons are learned when it is. The lesson for me began with a phone message from one of my clients, Jill: “We have a problem. Would you give us a call, please?” Her voice was shaky. “Freddy won’t go away!” Jill and her husband, Jack, had closed escrow and moved into their new country home just a week prior. “Freddy” was Mr. Johnson, the seller, an old mountain man who didn’t say much. Jill dubbed him Freddy after a character in a horror movie. “He just creeps me out,” she would say. “He stares at us. And he wears that black felt hat and plaid jacket.” I first met Freddy, that is, Mr. Johnson, at the side of the road. He held a rumbling chainsaw and stared at me. He made it clear I had inconvenienced him by interrupting his work. “I’m looking for the owner of the property up the road, the two-story house with the pond in back,” I said. He stared. I explained I had buyers for country property and I was scouting for them. Did he know who owned the property? “Yep.” Did he know their name? “Yep.”

YOU’RE WELCOME, NATURE.

I finally determined he was, in fact, the owner in question. I eventually listed Mr. Johnson’s property, and Jill and Jack bought it. I returned Jill’s call. “Freddy’s up there right now,” she said. “At our pond!” Forty minutes later, I stood next to Mr. Johnson. “Pretty, ain’t it?” he said. The pond was the best feature of the property; clear, fresh and private, surrounded by sycamores, maples and oaks. As tactfully as I could, I told Mr. Johnson that Jill and Jack were uncomfortable with his unannounced visits. “It is their property now,” I said. “Pond ain’t on the property,” he said, “this here’s BLM land.” “But the fence line …” “Old cow fence,” he said. I flinched and recalled a vision of my old mentor, KDV. “A certain word associated with country property should never be forgotten, babe,” he’d said. “The only way country buyers will know what they’re buying, is if they get a ...” “Survey,” I said out loud. “We should have gotten a survey!” Mr. Johnson stared at me. “Yep.”

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SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

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BR/BA

SQ. FT.

426 Weymouth Way

Chico

$499,000

4/ 3

2723

55 Herlax Cir

Chico

$296,000

4/ 2

2016

1270 Filbert Ave A

Chico

$415,000

2/ 1

2688

348 W 11th Ave

Chico

$295,000

3/ 1

1590

343 Weymouth Way

Chico

$367,000

3/ 3

2280

2546 Tom Polk Ave

Chico

$258,000

3/ 1.5

1699

1 Stoney Point Way

Chico

$364,500

4/ 2.5

2233

1044 Windsor Way

Chico

$215,000

3/ 2

1124

1708 Oak Way

Chico

$337,000

4/ 3

2024

2165 Huntington Dr

Chico

$210,000

3/ 2

1102

2646 E 20th St

Chico

$300,000

3/ 3

1803

1565 E 8th St

Chico

$180,000

3/ 2

1446

3779 Cosby Ave

Chico

$300,000

3/ 1.5

1960

137 W 11th St

Chico

$150,000

2/ 1

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of January 6, 2014 – January 10, 2014. 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. TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

9975 Esquon Rd

ADDRESS

Durham

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2048

150 Crane Ave

Oroville

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1183

9619 Midway

Durham

$107,000

2/ 1

1032

6487 Jack Hill Dr

Oroville

$225,000

3/ 2.5

2304

1615 Bille Rd

Paradise

$240,000

3/ 2

1752

65 Hart Dr

Oroville

$224,000

3/ 2

1780

5465 Princeton Way

Paradise

$235,000

2/ 2

1940

161 Riverview Dr

Oroville

$196,000

3/ 1.5

1764

6250 Lower Wyandotte Rd Oroville

$168,000

3/ 2

1276

610 Sunset Dr

Paradise

$205,000

2/ 2

1422

1659 Leta Ln

$157,000

3/ 1.5

1391

470 Friendly Way

Paradise

$107,000

2/ 1

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3171 Sandstone Lane (X St: Shallow Springs Ter.) 5 Bd / 4 Ba, 4,430 Sq.Ft. $1,100,000 Heather DeLuca 228-1480 Sherry Landis 514-4855 Frank ‘Speedy’ Condon 864-7726

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177 Lazy S Ln (X St: Stilson Canyon) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,260 Sq.Ft. $675,000 Frank “Speedy” Condon 864-7726

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 7 Firefly Ct (X St: Manzanita Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1833 Sq.Ft. $325,000 Justin Jewett 518-4089

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 35 River Wood Loop (X St: Glenwood) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1915 Sq.Ft. $318,000 Ed Galvez 990-2054

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1083 San Ramon Dr ( Ceres Ave) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1829 Sq.Ft. $315,000 Johnny Klinger 864-3398

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155 Spanish Garden (X St: Skyway) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,642 Sq.Ft. $549,950 Patty Davis Rough 864-4329

708 Bradford Ct (Alamo) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1806 Sq.Ft. $275,000 Ron Kelly 521-3629 Paul Champlin 828-2902

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4084 Guntren Road (X St: Garner) 5 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,045 Sq.Ft. $535,000 Sherry Landis 514-4855

1866 Conifer Dr (X St. Pentz) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,781 Sq.Ft. $249,900 Sandra Grill 228-3937

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1325 Kentfield Rd. (X St: East 1st) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,522Sq.Ft. $465,000 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

2364 England St (X St: E. 20th St) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1344 Sq.Ft. $245,000 Paul Champlin 828-2909 Anita Miller 321-1174

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1193 Olive Street (X St: E. 12th St) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,512 Sq.Ft. $245,000 Brian Bernedo 624-2118

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871 El Dorado St (X St: 8th St) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1636 Sq.Ft.. $245,000 Anita Miller 321-1174 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SKZ PHOTOGRAPHY at 851 Victorian Park Dr Chico, CA 95926. SHIANNE ZERLANG 851 Victorian Park Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SHIANNE ZERLANG Dated: December 10, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001574 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CITIZENS ACTION NETWORK, FRACK-FREE BUTTE COUNTY at 2965 Madre De Oro Pl Oroville, CA 95965. KAREN DUNCANWOOD 6656 Pentz Rd #56 Paradise, CA 95969. DAVE GARCIA 128 Via Las Lupes Yankee Hill, CA 95965. CHARLES GREENWOOD 128 Grimy Gulch Bangor, CA 95914. JONI STELLAR 2965 Madre De Oro Pl Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Unincorporated Association. Signed: JONI STELLAR Dated: December 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001594 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: PCMD PC TREATMENT CENTER at 2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. NICOLETTE BATTENFIELD 355 E Lassen Ave #5 Chico, CA 95973. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: NICOLETTE BATTENFIELD Dated: December 23, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000782 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as POETRY DIVINE, RAINCLOUD PRESS at 807 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. ERIKA LUNDER 807 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ERIKA LUNDER Dated: December 30, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001629 Published: January 9,16,23,30, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INDIAN HEAD VENDING at 1584 Montgomery St. Apt. B Oroville, CA 95965 BRANDON MICHAEL HILL 1584 Montgomery St. Apt. B Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: BRANDON HILL Dated: December 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001590 Published: January 9,16,23,30, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PC-MD at

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2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. KYLE SILLIMAN 3465 Hackamore Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KYLE SILLIMAN Dated: December 23, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001615 Published: January 9,16,23,30, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SALON VOGUE at 101 Salem Street Suite 140 Chico, CA 95928 HALEIGH BETTENCOURT 1583 East Ave Chico, CA 95926. MEGAN KATHLEEN WARREN 400 Hideaway Park Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MEGAN WARREN Dated: December 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001610 Published: January 9,16,23,30, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: BUTTE COUNTY TOW AND RECOVERY at 1161 1/2 Muir Ave Chico, CA 95973. MELISSA EATTOCK 1161 1/2 Muir Ave Chico, CA 95973. FELICIA EATTOCK 1161 1/2 Muir Ave Chico, CA 95973. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MELISSA EATTOCK Dated: December 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2011-0001470 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROFESSIONAL GROWER SERVICES at 1642 Almendia Dr Chico, CA 95926. JACK COOTS 1642 Almendia Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JACK COOTS Dated: January 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000010 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RYON FAMILY PARTNERSHIP at 7225 Durnel Road Nelson, CA 95958. JANET L HEWITT 187 Prospector Road Dayton, NV 89403. PATRICIA J JONES 15953 Katydid Lane Magalia, CA 95954. ELIZABETH A ROLLAND 5179 Woodside Ct Carmel, IN 46033. CHARLES H RYON 6847 Sacramento St Nelson, CA 95958. EDWIN E RYON 7229 Durnel Rd Nelson, CA 95958. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: PATRICIA J. JONES Dated: January 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000034 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BLOWN N BITCHEN, BLOWN N BITCHEN DESIGNS, BNB CUSTOM DESIGNS, BNB CUSTOM MODS, BNB CUSTOMS, BNB DISTRIBUTION, BNB DISTRIBUTORS, BNB HEADQUATERS, LADIES OF BNB, MAD VAPE ARTIST, ME AND MY BIG IDEAS, ME AND MY CRAZY IDEAS, ME AND MY CRAZY IDEAS INC, MOD WARS, MOD WARZ, RUTHLESS EXISTENCE, VAPE UNION, VAPERS UNION, VAPING UNION, VILLIN INDUSTRIES at 3 Roberto Court Chico, CA 92708. ME AND MY CRAZY IDEAS, INC 17465 Appalachian Street Fountain Valley, CA 92708. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: PATRICK J. SCANLAN/ PRESIDENT Dated: January 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000066 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAIL CANDY at 1311 Mangrove Ave Suite B 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: December 16, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001595 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SISTERS SALON at 1561 Myers St Oroville, CA 95965. HEATHER ERICA HOFFMANN 40 Melrose Dr Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: HEATHER HOFFMANN Dated: January 6, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000026 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AVH PHOTOGRAPHY at 555 Vallombrosa Chico, CA 95926. ASHLEY A VANDERHEIDEN 1712 Broadway Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ASHLEY VANDERHEIDEN Dated: January 14, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000094 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JEFFERSON STATE COFFEE COMPANY at 3881 Benatar, Suite C Chico, CA 95928. BIDWELL NATIVE, LLC PO Box 2273 Chico, CA 95927. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: ERIC FAIRCHILD, OFFICE MANAGER Dated: January 15, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000100 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CLEAR CREEK HEALING CENTER at 3561 Clark Road Butte Valley, CA 95965.

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PAULA BARROS 3561 Clark Road Butte Valley, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: Paula J Barros Dated: January 14, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000093 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FINAL TOUCH CLEANING COMPANY at 11630 Dairy Rd Chico, CA 95973. KAREN RACHEL LEWIS PO Box 61 Forest Ranch, CA 95942. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KAREN LEWIS Dated: January 8, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000048 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO WEB ADVERTISING at 313 Walnut Street Ste 110 Chico, CA 95928 MICHAEL THOMAS ERPINO 2921 Grape Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL ERPINO Dated: January 15, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000104 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A LEGAL BRIDGE ATTORNEY SUPPORT SERVICES, A LEGAL BRIDGE SELF HELP CENTER at 3 Silkwood Way Chico, CA 95973. ELIZABETH FLEISCHER 3 Silkwood Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ELIZABETH FLEISCHER Dated: January 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000011 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DUANE WALTER HELGESON AKA DUANE W. HELGESON AKA DUANE HELGESON To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DUANE WALTER HELGESON, AKA DUANE W. HELGESON, AKA DUANE HELGESON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DONALD R. CANADA in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: DONALD R. CANADA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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:

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Date: February 13, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m. 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 the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 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: PR40904 Attorney for Petitioner: MICHAEL MORAN 686 Rio Lindo Avenue Chico, CA 95926 Published: January 16,23,30, 2014

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc. The unit numbers and names are: Unit 117CC: Jimmy Newton Unit 248SS: Ferman Ramirez Unit 258SS: Mariya Beeton Unit 312AS: Stephanie Waller Unit 324CC: Rich Gilstrap Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: January 25, 2014 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926. Published: January 16,23, 2014

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

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address of the seller(s) are: Gnowco, Inc. 7 Stansbury Court Chico, CA 95928 3.The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: Same as above 4.The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: Humble Holdings, Inc. 92 Corporate Park, Suite C-803 Irvine, CA 92606 5.The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: Togo’s/Baskin-Robbins/A Friend of the Family Catering 241 W. East Ave. Chico, CA 95926 and 2009 Forest Avenue Chico, CA 95928 ESCROW OFFICER: Jolleen Whitsett Order No. 00248271-002 DATE OF ANTICIPATED SALE: February 14, 2014 LAST DAY TO FILE CLAIMS: February 13, 2014 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: None Dated: December 19, 2013 Signed: Frank Cohen, Secretary Published: January 23, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHLEEN V STARR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: AAREN INLOW STARR Proposed name: AAREN INLOW THOMAS STARR 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: February 26, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 17, 2013 Case Number: 161100 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARGARET DOLORES (DELORES) O’DONNELL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARGARET DOLORES (DELORES) O’DONNELL Proposed name: LADY MARGARET WATTS SCHNEIDER VALLIER MARKS O’DONNELL 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: February 19, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 24, 2013 Case Number: 161154 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JENNIFER LYNN ANTONE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JENNIFER LYNN ANTONE Proposed name: JENNIFER LYNN HUTCHINSON 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: February 26, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 17, 2013 Case Number: 161052 Published: January 9,16,23,30 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LEANDRA RASH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BLAKELY KALYNN RASH Proposed name: BLAKELY KALYNN FARRELL 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: January 29, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: December 9, 2013 Case Number: 160875 Published: January 9,16,23,30 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KURTIS LEE BROWN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KURTIS LEE BROWN Proposed name: KURTIS LEE MENDONCA 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: February 19, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 24, 2013 Case Number: 161141 Published: January 9,16,23,30 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HARPREET K. TIWANA AND HARMANDEEP S. TIWANA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NIHAAL SINGH Proposed name: NIHAAL SINGH TIWANA 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: March 5, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: January 6, 2013 Case Number: 161163 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CRISTY LEE OLSON & STEPHEN ROSS PADDOCK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CRISTY LEE OLSON, STEPHEN ROSS PADDOCK Proposed name: CRISTY LEE ROSS, STEPHEN PADDOCK ROSS 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: March 5, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: January 8, 2013 Case Number: 161193 Published: January 16,23,30, February 6, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHARLES SILVA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CHARLES SILVA Proposed name: CHARLES MCENESPY 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: February 26, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: January 15, 2014 Case Number: 159311 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TALIA MAY LEE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TALIA MAY LEE Proposed name: FAHM FEUY SAECHAO 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: March 5, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: January 10, 2014 Case Number: 161181 Published: January 23,30, February 6,13, 2014

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Actor Casey Affleck appreciates the nurturing power of his loved ones. “My family would be supportive,” he says, “if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.” I’d like to see you cultivate allies like that in the coming months, Aries. Even if you have never had them before, there’s a good chance they will be available. For best results, tinker with your understanding of who your family might be. Redefine what “community” means to you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author John Koenig says we often regard emotions as positive or negative. Feeling respect is good, for example, while being wracked with jealousy is bad. But he favors a different standard for evaluating emotions: how intense they are. At one end of the spectrum, everything feels blank and blah, “even the big things,” he says. “At the other end is wonder, in which everything feels alive, even the little things.” Your right and proper goal right now, Taurus, is to strive for the latter kind: full-on intensity and maximum vitality. Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you achieve that goal. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At her Other-

wordly blog (http://other-wordly.tumblr.com), Yee-Lum Mak defines the Swedish word “resfeber” this way: “the restless race of the traveler’s heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together.” You might be experiencing resfeber right now, Gemini. Even if you’re not about to depart on a literal trip, I’m guessing you will soon start wandering out on a quest or adventure that will bring your heart and mind closer together. Paradoxically, your explorations will teach you a lot about being better grounded. Bon voyage!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): How does a

monarch butterfly escape its chrysalis when it has finished gestating? Through tiny holes in the skin of the chrysalis, it takes big gulps of air and sends them directly into its digestive system, which expands forcefully. Voilà! Its body gets so big it breaks free. When a chick is ready to emerge from inside its egg, it has to work harder than the butterfly. With its beak, it must peck thousands of times at the shell, stopping to rest along the way because the process is so demanding. According to my analysis, Cancerian, you’re nearing the final stage before your metaphorical emergence from gestation. Are you more like the butterfly or chick?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I’m not sure

where to go from here. I need help.” I encourage you to say those words out loud, Leo. Even if you’re not sure you believe they’re true, act as if they are. Why? Because I think it would be healthy for you to express uncertainty and ask for assistance. It would relieve you of the oppressive pressure to be a masterful problem solver. It could free you from the unrealistic notion that you’ve got to figure everything out by yourself. And this would bring you, as if by magic, interesting offers and inquiries. In other words, if you confess your neediness, you will attract help. Some of it will be useless, but most of it will be useful.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dogs have a

superb sense of smell, much better than us humans. But ours isn’t bad. We can detect certain odors that have been diluted to one part in 5 billion. For example, if you were standing next to two Olympic-sized swimming pools, and only one contained a few drops of the chemical ethyl mercaptan, you would know which one it was. I’m now calling on you to exercise that level of sensitivity, Virgo. There’s a situation in the early stages of unfolding that would ultimately emanate a big stink if you allowed it to keep developing. There is a second unripe situation, on the other hand, that would eventually yield fragrant blooms. I advise you to either quash or escape from the first, even as you cultivate and treasure the second.

Art & philanthropy

by Rob Brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Whatever

adventures may flow your way in the coming weeks, Libra, I hope you will appreciate them for what they are: unruly but basically benevolent; disruptive in ways that catalyze welcome transformations; a bit more exciting than you might like, but ultimately pretty fun. Can you thrive on the paradoxes? Can you delight in the unpredictability? I think so. When you look back at these plot twists two months from now, I bet you’ll see them as entertaining storylines that enhance the myth of your hero’s journey. You’ll understand them as tricky gifts that have taught you valuable secrets about your soul’s code.

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About 15 years ago, Jessica Souder succumbed to her sister’s repeated requests to check out a pottery studio near their mother’s home in San Francisco. She thought, “Why don’t we have this in Chico?” The married mother of two was so moved by the experience that, soon after, she opened Glazed Creations, a paint-your-own pottery studio in downtown Chico in 2000. Both business and owner have seen big changes since the opening: Glazed Creations is no longer a brick-and-mortar enterprise, and recently Souder added a new career in “philanthropic team-building” at Odyssey Teams to her pottery work, and is busy helping to make dreams come true on a much larger scale.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Manufacturing a jelly bean is not a quick, slam-bam process. It’s a five-step procedure that takes a week. Each seemingly uncomplicated piece of candy has to be built up layer by layer, with every layer needing time to fully mature. I’m wondering if maybe there’s a metaphorically similar kind of work ahead for you, Scorpio. May I speculate? You will have to take your time, proceed carefully and maintain a close attention to detail as you prepare a simple pleasure. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I

understand the appeal of the F-word. It’s guttural and expulsive. It’s a perverse form of celebration that frees speakers from their inhibitions. But I’m here today to announce that its rebel cachet and vulgar power are extinct. It has decayed into a barren cliché. Its official death from-oversaturation occurred with the release of the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster The Wolf of Wall Street. Actors in the film spat out the rhymes-with-cluck word more than 500 times. I hereby nominate you Sagittarians to begin the quest for new ways to invoke rebellious irreverence. What interesting mischief and naughty wordplay might you perpetrate to escape your inhibitions, break taboos that need to be broken, and call other people on their BS and hypocrisy?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ger-

man philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has had a major impact on the development of ideas in the Western world. We can reasonably divide the history of philosophy into two eras: pre-Kantian and post-Kantian. And yet, for his whole life, which lasted 79 years, this big thinker never traveled more than 10 miles away from Königsberg, the city where he was born. He followed a precise and methodical routine, attending to his work with meticulous detail. According to my analysis, you Capricorns could have a similar experience in the coming weeks. By sticking close to the tried-and-true rhythms that keep you grounded and healthy, you can generate influential wonders.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The

Aquarian author Georges Simenon (19031989) wrote more than 200 novels under his own name and 300 more under pseudonyms. On average, he finished a new book every 11 days. Half-a-billion copies of his books are in print. I’m sorry to report that I don’t think you will ever be as prolific in your own chosen field as he was in his. However, your productivity could soar to a hefty fraction of Simenon-like levels in 2014¡ªif you’re willing to work your ass off. Your luxuriant fruitfulness won’t come as easily as his seemed to. But you should be overjoyed that you at least have the potential to be luxuriantly fruitful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When I’m

older and wiser, maybe I’ll understand the meaning of my life. When I’m older and wiser, maybe I’ll gain some insight about why I’m so excited to be alive despite the fact that my destiny is so utterly mysterious. What about you, Pisces? What will be different for you when you’re older and wiser? Now is an excellent time to ponder this riddle. Why? Because it’s likely you will get a glimpse of the person you will have become when you are older and wiser—which will in turn intensify your motivation to become that person.

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15 MINUTES

BREZSNY’S

For the week of January 23, 2014

How has Glazed Creations changed over the years? I’ve been in three different locations in Chico. The first was next to the Senator Theatre on Main Street, then I moved to a location across from Beatniks [Coffee House & Breakfast Joint]. Then I wanted to be downtown again, but I didn’t want the big space, so I found this great place on Second Street above the Beach Hut Deli. Now, I’m fully mobile. I do field trips at schools, birthday parties and the CARD summer camps. I’ve even thought about getting an RV and being like a food truck.

What impact does art-making have on people? It feels so good to paint pottery. Everything goes away. For a little while, you can feel like you’re away from everything. It took my sister to drag me into the studio to realize that.

What’s your new job all about? I also work for Odyssey Teams, a global philan-

thropic team-building company. We build bicycles and give them to deserving youths. A corporation will call us to facilitate a program for them. If they pick the bike program, we bring in bikes to be built by their participants. At the end of the program, once they build these bikes, they discover their customer is actually a child who’s going to walk in the room. The kids walk in and they realize they’re getting a new bike. Most of the kids have never had a bike, and probably never [would] if it wasn’t for this. The participants don’t know they’re building the bikes for the kids, and the kids don’t know they’re getting the bikes. It’s a very impactful program. We also put together prosthetic hands to be used for people in developing countries, like India, Cambodia or Thailand, for example.

Is there a connection for you between facilitating creativity and philanthropy? With Glazed Creations, for me to be happy, I needed to help others in some way, even if I’m helping them paint a pot. I think that’s where that comes in. The opportunity to help people is just necessary in my life. And working with Odyssey also fills me up with that.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net

The darnedest thing I was paying for something online, and I got to the part where the numbers of my card’s expiration date are Janice’s birthday. Every time I have to enter that date, I’m reminded of my late wife. I don’t mind being reminded of her—fortunately, since it happens many times every day—though the distraction tends to slow me down. This time, after I put in the card number and expiration date, in the box for my first name I absently keyed in J-a-n- . . . and stopped for a long time, unable to do anything. I didn’t weep. It was something different this time, a kind of meditation, acknowledging Janice obviously being a part of me because I miss her. If I were whole, I wouldn’t miss that part of me. That’s what I figure, except I know I’m whole anyway. I just don’t feel it. You may remember reading here about my being in a Relationship and how I wasn’t gonna discuss any of our intimate details, no matter how salacious, and what a character she was and some more thickly veiled allusions to what I once referred to as a special friend. Well, it’s the darnedest thing. It turns out that

those seeming references and apparent mentions were actually typos. I didn’t mean to mislead you, and I promise to pay closer attention in the future. I used to wonder if another Relationship would somehow distract me from my grief over, for, about and around Janice. I’m tired of being a widower. I expect to have only so much room for a woman in what’s left of my life, so maybe a new one would nudge Janice aside in my mind, leaving my head at least no more jam-packed than before. Not exactly. Women take up as much space in my mind as I allow, like the rest of Creation, I suppose. Admittedly, some women spend more time in my mind’s eye than others, and you don’t have to be present to participate. Some of missing Janice is missing a permanent ally, a partner. I’ve compared losing her to losing a leg, implying pain and slow recuperation and adjustment. Nowadays it’s more like not having most of the fingers on my left hand. I can do most things easily and often don’t feel crippled at all, except if I have to carry something heavy or turn a doorknob or open a stuck jar or any of the several tasks that require more left-hand fingers than I can supply. Then I have a hard time. January 23, 2014

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