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‘Give America a raise’ “Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The
Memories of ‘The Stick’ Wmy Dad griping that Willie Mays’ cap flew off too much.
hen Candlestick opened in 1960, I remember
In 1963, Cardinal Gary Kolb warmed up with Dal Maxvill. I flipped a rubber dog toy, with a bell inside, to Kolb. He threw the toy to the skinny shortstop. Maxvill’s reaction? His middle finger. I laughed, and nicknamed him “The Rod.” Watching from frosty 1966 bleacher seats as Giants catcher Dick Dietz batted, some guy shouted out, “Hey, Dietz. Smoke joints!” Dietz’s reaction? He blasted a homer right at the guy! In 1974, a foul ball found me while I by carried a tapper keg in a Styrofoam chest. Danny Wilson I had not even yelled “Smoke joints!” I dropped the cooler, missed the ball, and The author is a the little keg rolled toward the field. husband and father Between games of a 1974 doublewho writes about header, a friend and I hurried outside to craft beer for the bus and grabbed a cooler stocked Northwest Brewing with beer. With a piece of lettuce on the News, and admittedly is hung up on ice for adornment, the entry guard baseball. asked what was in there. I answered, “Picnic supplies.” He granted return passage. In 1975, it was Oroville’s Gary Nolan and his Reds. A group of Gary’s Oroville High classmates had gathered at The Stick to celebrate our local friend’s
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accomplishments. We’d bought cheap red plastic batting helmets and resembled a tomato patch. Working as a stringer for the Oroville Mercury Register, I witnessed “Willie McCovey Day.” Number 44 appreciated the photo album I gave him. I remember the walk on the wire by Karl Wallenda in 1977. The 72-year-old high-wire artist walked on a cable suspended across the infield. He died the next year in Puerto Rico while performing his act. In 1979, my infant daughter, Jessie, was on field in my backpack. Later, in the fifth grade, she was granted a press pass, only to have some good old boys oust her from the press box. Tears all around. Driving from Oroville for three consecutive days in 1982, I shot probably the only still photo of Joe Morgan’s homer that eliminated the Dodgers from the National League playoffs. I recall the 1984 All-Star Game, plus many Candlestick visits to see the Mets and my college roommate, Bud Harrelson. We attended San Francisco State and lived with two other guys on the Great Highway. Bud and I played catch by the Pacific Ocean. All were lovely days. But snuff the flame at Candlestick. The wrecking ball says it is time to go. Ω
cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by, let alone to get ahead. And too many still aren’t working at all.” Those words by President Obama during his State of the Union speech Tuesday evening, Jan. 28, punctuated an address largely focused on furthering the nation’s economic recovery and expanding opportunity for the middle class. One of the ideas he highlighted is a hike of the federal minimum wage. As the president pointed out, the nation’s minimum wage is worth less than it was when President Reagan stood at that very spot in the House chamber some 32 years ago during his first State of the Union address. President Obama, speaking during his fifth such speech to the nation, lamented Washington’s preoccupation with the size of the federal government, and how the perennial argument over that issue has kept lawmakers from working for the American people. He called for 2014 to be a year of action. And he vowed to make it so, with or without the help of Congress. To that end, with regard to aiding struggling Americans, he announced his plan to issue an executive order in the coming weeks that will require federal contractors to pay federally funded employees a minimum of $10.10 per hour. He pointed to Costco as one of the model businesses paying higher wages to boost employee productivity and retention, and he encouraged other employers to increase salaries. But, as he acknowledged, the federal minimum wage is in the hands of Congress. The president said it’s time to give the nation a raise, and we agree with him. There’s already a bill in the House to hike it to $10.10 an hour, an amount that will not only help families but also businesses by giving give citizens more money to spend. As the president said directly to Congress, “Say yes. Give America a raise.” Ω
Caution on outsourcing The Chico City Council is in the midst of seeking proposals from
private law firms interested in providing its services to the city, and we’d like the panel—and its newest members in particular—to take caution on moving away from employing an in-house attorney. There have been three city attorneys over the past 35 years in Chico. This arrangement has served the city well. We understand that city leaders are still looking for ways to save money in the wake of the Great Recession. But contracting out these services should be a last resort. That’s because over the many years our editors have covered city government, we have watched the city attorney step forward during public meetings in such a way that has very likely shielded the city, and thus taxpayers, from potential lawsuits. And we expect this proactive approach to mitigating such threats has happened countless times behind closed doors as well. Indeed, there’s no substitute for having a legal expert available for city staff, City Council members and management at a moment’s notice. And we do not believe an outside firm, especially an out-of-town group, will be able to adequately tend to the city’s day-to-day operations via phone and email or through infrequent trips to City Hall. The City Attorney’s Office has already shrunk in recent years; there used to be two assistant city attorneys in addition to a paralegal and a city attorney. Today, the office is down by one assistant city attorney. We believe it’s in the best interest of the city to retain the office. Simply put, there’s too much at stake. Ω
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Mom and football Guest commentary author and baseball devotee Danny Wilson’s piece on the opposite page this week got me thinking about my memories of Candlestick Park. However, my sport of choice was football, not baseball, although I went to my share of Giants games at The Stick, too. That’s right, growing up I was a dedicated San Francisco 49ers fan. I won’t say my family was obsessive about the team, but my friends might take exception to that. The other day, I was in the Bay Area visiting some childhood pals and one of them reminded me that my home there was covered in Niners memorabilia during football season. Somewhere in this world there’s a studio portrait of grade-school-age me, my older brother, Joel, and our yellow Labrador, Monty, all decked out in 49ers gear. These days, it probably could qualify for entry into one of those Awkward Family Photos books. The portrait was my mother’s idea. And football, even during some rocky years in our lives, brought our little family together. My mom couldn’t afford to take me and my brother to games all the time, but she managed to get us to The Stick at least once or twice each year. Over the years, we watched some of the greatest names in the game—Joe Montana and company, including some of my favorite players: Dwight Clark, Ronnie Lott, Roger Craig, Jerry Rice, John Taylor and Tom Rathman, to name a few. She threw some pretty epic Super Bowl parties back in the day. I remember her making dolphin-shaped bread for the showdown between the Miami Dolphins and the Niners back in ’84. I was in fourth grade. And just as my mom had predicted, San Francisco would go on to “fry their fishy rivals,” as she put it on a homemade poster. I very distinctly remember how sad my mom and I were when Montana announced he was leaving the team. We made it to The Stick for his last game on a very rainy Monday night. And I remember wearing my “I love Joe” T-shirt to post-Montana games. It took me a little while to get on board with Steve Young. I’m sure Brett Favre fans can relate, though both Young and now Aaron Rodgers went on to prove naysayers wrong. I’ll always be a Niners fan, but I’m not crazy about football these days. Like other things I was born into, such as organized religion, I’ve mostly outgrown it. I’ve got no dog in the fight for this weekend’s big game, but I happen to have lived in Littleton, Colo., just outside of Denver, for a year when I was a wee one. So, I’m going to break out the beanie I’ve held onto for the past, oh, I don’t know, 35 years, and hope the Broncos take the title. As one might guess about a woman who cannot let go of a fraying childhood stocking cap, I’m a bit sentimental. So, I’m sad to see the end of Candlestick. Then again, nothing lasts forever.
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Re “Out of sight, out of mind” (Cover feature, by Patrick Newman, Jan. 23): I’m rubbing “eyeball moisture” as the epiphany hits: A small group of wellconnected “squeaky wheels” had directed their anger, fear and hate at the most vulnerable and faceless people in our community— those without shelter from the storm, warmth from the cold, and laughter echoing in a safe space they call their own. Their ethnic cleansing required ruthless tactics including hosing street musicians and threatening homeless advocates outside City Council chambers who challenged a law against sitting on the sidewalk. They needed to convince the good citizens of Chico that the sky was falling at the hands of the unclean and unsafe. Drastic measures were needed, lest Chico suffer more trumped-up roofless atrocities. They needed to numb public tears and to ensure those who dared question their myopic view were silenced and marginalized to the fullest extent possible. The squeaky wheels are about to be silenced with hope and change from the compassionate people of Chico. They will yell, they will scream, they will throw temper tantrums of how compassion will bring us back to hell. Pay them no heed, for love conquers all.
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Patrick Newman compares the Orchard Church/City Plaza decision to South African apartheid. Not content with this cogent analogy, he accuses property owners of creating a “medieval spectacle.” The homeless, by contrast, are “heroic and amazing,” and any average folk who may differ with his viewpoint clearly think they’re entitled to live in “Pleasantville, USA.” Mr. Newman concludes with allusions to “social cleansing and genocide” and “the final solution,” thus proving that he’s not at all prone to exaggeration. He is, of course, entitled to his opinion, but giving him the cover-story soapbox reflects an editorial decision devoid of journalistic integrity. The sidebar, which could have been devoted to a dissenting view, instead featured Newman waxing warmly about the tears he shed while hugging a homeless person, and then waxing glumly that we’ll all be homeless. Maybe the article is just the CN&R version of “fair and balanced,” but it read more like a National Lampoon satire. It’s not April Fools’ Day, so I guess you guys really have fallen this far. What a shame. S.K. MCCARTHY Chico
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Thank you for printing Patrick Newman’s essay about the removal of the Orchard Church and Food Not Bombs from City Plaza. He has inspired me to take a long, hard look at my attitude to our homeless citizens. Blaming people for their problems keeps us in our comfort zones, and allows us to accept them being marginalized and discriminated against. Recognizing that but for the grace of God—or just good fortune—that homeless person could be our mother, brother, or our self, makes it so much easier to dismiss them as people making bad choices or not taking advantage of their opportunities. I recently heard that the average homeless person in San Francisco is a woman older than 65. Now that hits close to home. Maybe if we keep the homeless in our sights we will also keep them in our minds and hearts.
Oh, well, perhaps he didn’t know. Maybe he didn’t read the budget agreement before he voted for it. Or, maybe he did, but didn’t care. Who can know for sure? Now, in an apparent attempt to fix a problem he’s helped create, LaMalfa’s supporting bills intended to restore these cuts to military pensions. Only in Washington can you create a mess and then hope to get credit for fixing it. Dare I say, “Representative LaMalfa voted for it before he voted against it.” PETE STIGLICH Cottonwood
About the city attorney Re “A valued position” (Letters, by Andy Holcombe, Jan. 23): Regarding the letter from former Chico City Councilman Andy Holcombe, there are three positions that report to the City Council, not two. He opined that contracted city attorney services would be more expensive, yet Chico is the rare example of a city its size bearing the payroll and benefits costs of an in-house City Attorney Department, particularly in this day and age, when business is conducted largely via telephone and email. Payroll and benefits costs for
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Chico is a community with heart and commitment. Often, Christmas passes as business as usual, but here in Chico a number of groups help with drives for food, coats and sleeping bags. Those who are homeless have advocates who speak for them, people like Beth Fox and Patrick Newman, who actually speak with those on the streets. What is needed is a day center. I can understand opposition to a tent city that may seem too much like a refugee camp, known for crime and health issues. However, we are an expansive city with many empty buildings. There are grants available to finance such a project. Homelessness cannot be swept under the rug. Many in the homeless community are mentally ill. Many have health issues or are too old to work. Many are longtime citizens of Chico. The term homeless has become derogatory, demeaning and cruel. I think we can do better. These are our neighbors. Let’s give the issue our best effort! CRYSTAL A. MOURAD Chico
LaMalfa, the flip-flopper Congressman LaMalfa’s official website says, “Our gratitude is not enough. I will always fight to protect the benefits that veterans earned.” Hmm, I wonder how he squares that with his recent vote to cut promised cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to the military?
Or is it nature? Re “Duh, it’s climate change” (Letters, by Mike Wiedeman, Jan. 23): Mr. Wiedeman must think that he’s the first farmer to experience crop failure since man first turned the earth in the Fertile Crescent. Way back in 1973, I took an upper-division biology course at Chico State. (Biology is a science, my liberal friends.) It was a planthistory course of native California plants. Tree-ring analyses of bristlecone pines in the southern Sierra Nevada showed periods of drought in California over a 2,000year period. Some of these dry periods lasted more than 100 years. Studies of coastal redwoods yielded similar results. California has been and will continue to be a desert state no matter how many sell their cars and ride bicycles. I recommend the acolytes of Al Gore revisit the predictions set forth in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth and ask why the scientific models used have been remodeled and the predictions revised concerning average global temperatures and sea levels. Could it have been a scare tactic to pass carbon-credit legislation that allowed Al Gore to broker carbon credits to polluting industries and make millions of dollars? Duh! BILL HOOTON Red Bluff
the city attorney alone cost more than $263,000 last fiscal year. That’s on top of the costs for department staff, which brought the total pay and benefits to more than $636,000. An additional $150,000 in specialty outsideattorney fees and other costs brought the department costs to more than $810,000. This expense continued during the years when the city was burning through millions of dollars more in expense than revenue each year, and took the city dangerously close to insolvency. This further demonstrates the need for far greater levels of city-attorney objectivity and independence from internal management and staff. The city-attorney proposal process will enable the council to make an informed decision about how best to procure city-attorney services in the future, rather than to just keep doing things the same old way. MARK SORENSEN Chico
Editor’s note: Mark Sorensen is a Chico City Council member. The third position reporting to the City Council is the city clerk.
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Tales of a white van connected to a string of Chico dog-nappings are apparently bogus. According to a press release from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, a white van in north Chico was seen driving away “erratically” when the owner of a dog noticed that the animal was missing. About a week later, the dog was found dead in the owner’s backyard. An autopsy showed no signs of foul play, but the possibility of poisoning hasn’t been ruled out. Reports of the white van resurfaced after the attempted theft of a bulldog on North Cherry Street. When officials contacted the owner, he said he never saw a white van. The third dog reported missing soon after on San Ramon Drive was found at the Tehama County Animal Shelter in Red Bluff. According to the press release, the dog was placed there by a family member who no longer wanted it around.
STATE PICKS UP PLASTIC SLACK
While the ordinance to ban single-use plastic bags in Chico sits on the shelf waiting for final adoption pending an investigation into whether its passage requires an environmental impact report, the state Legislature has reached a compromise on a bill to do the same thing, according to The Sacramento Bee. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) wrote a bill last year that failed because of opposition from two fellow Democrats whose districts include plastic-bag factories. However, those two formerly opposed politicians, Senators Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), have joined Padilla to offer a bill that would ban single-use plastic bags in large grocery stores next year and at pharmacies and liquor stores in 2016. The bill would also require reusable plastic bags to contain at least 20 percent recycled material beginning in 2016.
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A Chico man charged with aggressive panhandling last fall escaped a fine on Monday, Jan. 27, when his charge was reduced to panhandling, which is not illegal. Thomas “Digger” Lake (pictured) was issued a ticket Oct. 9 while seated at the corner of First and Main streets in downtown Chico while holding a cardboard sign that read “The right not to be Cen-Cerd! Spare-change?” A Chico Police officer cited him for sitting within five feet of a crosswalk, which is a violation of the city’s “Aggressive and Deceptive Solicitation” law. However, Lake maintains he was not within that distance. The aggressivepanhandling law was adopted 10 years ago and crafted to try to adhere to the Constitutional right to free speech. Butte County Superior Court Commissioner Leonard Goldkind ruled in favor of Lake, who sits downtown with his cat, Spot.
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plant’s strong odor. The supervisors responded last December by approving amendments that require any marijuana garden to be on a property with an “occupied legal residence” and permitted plumbing and sewage systems, and increasing fines for violations. But those changes were relatively uncontroversial compared to those proposed at the Jan. 14 supervisors’ meeting to limit the size of marijuana gardens by square footage rather than number of plants, thereby drastically reducing the county’s current 99-plant limit. “We knew the [restrictions] would be very contentious,” Supervisor Steve Lambert said. “The thought was, ‘Let’s deal with what we can agree on, and then get back to what we know no one is going to agree on.’” Supervisor Bill Connelly also acknowledged that the board is in “a tough situation.” “It’s the only issue I’ve been called corrupt on by both sides,” he said. During a summary of the pro-
posed amendments, Paul Hahn, the county’s chief administrative officer, noted that nothing would change for parcels smaller than a half-acre. As currently written, the ordinance requires any marijuana grown on properties of that size be contained within a detached structure no larger than 120 square feet
and set back at least 15 feet from property lines. But much would be different for growers on larger properties, with new guidelines for setback distances and the required number of doctor’s recommendations—which Connelly defined as a “written current recommendation signed by a licensed California physician”—for each garden size. For instance, on parcels larger than a half-acre but smaller than 5 acres, outdoor gardens would be permissible but limited to an area of 50 square feet with 50-foot setbacks. In addition, growers with gardens of that size would need at least one doctor’s recommendation. Pot gardens on properties of between 5 and 10 acres would be limited to 100 square feet and would require at least 75-foot setbacks and two doctor’s recommendations. Gardens on properties greater than 10 acres in size could not exceed 150 square feet, and would need at least 150-foot setbacks and three doctor’s recommendations. The same setback rules would apply to the harvesting and drying process, which is often the most pungent stage of cultivation and, therefore, represents the greatest nuisance to neighbors. And while the current ordinance allows only formal complaints from neighbors within 1,500 feet of a property, the changes would allow “anyone to complain if they believe an illegal grow is occurring,” Hahn said.
Quick silver Prior to opening the floor for pub-
lic comment, members of the board appeared to brace for heated arguments. Supervisor Doug Teeter reminded attendees to remain “respectful of the board,” while Lambert added: “If you really have some constructive things to say, that’d be appreciated, but if you just want to say [the supervisors] are not the smartest people in the whole world, this is going to be counterproductive.” Aside from a handful of emotional outbursts from speakers and members of the audience, civility was mostly maintained. Several medicinal-marijuana users argued that the proposed limits would simply not allow for a sufficient supply of medicine. One woman said, “I’m stopping the growth of cancer in my body internally and externally with cannabis. You people are overriding my doctor. He’s recommending I have 27 plants to cover my medical needs. I eat it for digestion, I use it for sleep and I inhale it for friendship.” Others pointed out that relying on a small number of plants puts growers and patients at the mercy of variables such as mold issues, pests and inclement weather, arguing that losing a couple plants would effectively cut off a year’s worth of medicine. Also present was Andrew Merkel, a local real-estate agent and medi-pot advocate who, along with local attorney Rob MacKenzie, helped organize the political action group Butte County Citizens Against Irresponsible Government. In recent weeks, Merkel and his supporters have worked toward launching an initiative that would prevent the supervisors from making further changes to the cultivation ordinance. He also announced his intentions to run for Supervisor Larry Wahl’s seat, which is up for grabs this year. “Go ahead and do it,” Merkel said to the board, insisting the amendments would come to a public vote. “We are going to referend you.” The board seemed to agree with Merkel on that point. Shortly before the panel unanimously voted to move forward with the amendments, Supervisor Maureen Kirk acknowledged that “we are probably facing a referendum,” while Connelly said, “Obviously, this is going to go to a vote of the people.” “And I swear to you, whatever happens with that vote, I will not do one single thing to change [it],” Connelly continued. “This has been vetted—it’s been very public. When [the vote] comes about, we’re going to live with it.” The board will hold a final reading of the amendments during the upcoming Feb. 11 meeting, but if Merkel’s initiative petition is successful, adoption of the new rules would be put on hold until a November vote. Ω
result, pesticides could linger on the market for years without critical tests, the U.S. Government Accountability Office warned in August 2013.
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odors. No one knows how the germ-killing particles, part of a new pesticide called Nanosilva, might affect human health or the environment in the long run. But regulators have proposed letting Nanosilva on the market for up to four years before the manufacturer has to submit studies on whether the particles pose certain dangers. That’s because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has backed approving Nanosilva through conditional registration, a fast-track process that recently has drawn criticism for oversight problems. Unlike regular registration, it allows a pesticide to be sold before all required safety studies are in. In this case, manufacturer Nanosilva LLC can move ahead, even though it hasn’t fully explored the potential health risks if the product were to seep out of plastic or be inhaled.
Nanosilva’s approval has renewed focus on the loophole, designed mainly to help the EPA speed up approvals of pesticides nearly identical to those already being sold. Recent reviews have found vast problems with the EPA’s oversight of conditional registration. An internal audit showed in 2011 that 70 percent of all active pesticides had been conditionally approved. The audit also concluded that the agency used the label too broadly. Since then, its use has increased. Figures the EPA provided in December put the number at 80 percent. Thousands of pesticides kept conditional status for more than 20 years, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental-advocacy group, found in 2010. The EPA says studies typically are due within four years. And last year, federal auditors found the agency couldn’t reliably track how many products were conditionally registered or whether safety studies were submitted. As a
SIFT|ER Republicans: The poor are lazy Last month, research revealed that income inequality, which has been on the rise for three decades, is now at the highest level since 1928. This week, a new Pew Research Center/USA Today poll indicates the stark differences in opinion on why some people are rich while others are poor. Republicans were the only group with a majority of respondents who believe the rich work harder. Republican
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Nanosilva to know that it’s safe while the manufacturer finishes testing, as the law requires. But some scientists and environmentalists say the agency is taking a risk on products that are hardly essential, like sports clothing that doesn’t stain or stink, or toys that last longer. “You could allow some uses that are justified based on human well-being, such as medical implements, but to allow the possibility that nanosilver would be released in plastic on children’s toys, and your kid could chew on it and ingest that material before we understand its toxicity—that’s unnecessary risk,” said Samuel N. Luoma, a research ecologist at UC Davis. “It doesn’t make any sense.” Conventional silver has been used as an antibacterial product for centuries. It releases ions that are deadly for many bacteria and fungi. Recently, scientists have broken down silver into particles more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair— some not much wider than a DNA strand. They’re called nanosilver. Nanosilva is just one brand that contains them. Nanosilver can be embedded directly into plastics, fabrics and other materials. Companies say this helps products last longer. It also allows them to call items antibacterial and attract germ-conscious consumers. Nanosilver needs to be registered as a pesticide because it claims to kill bacteria and other live organisms. Regular silver is highly toxic to fish and other aquatic life but isn’t usually dangerous for humans. But scientists say nanosilver could pose unique hazards, and they know little about its long-term risks. The EPA argues that approving Nanosilva promotes innovation and lets consumers enjoy better products. The agency also says it didn’t give the manufacturer enough time to do safety tests. The EPA didn’t ask for those tests until nearly four years after an independent scientific advisory panel counseled the EPA on how it should evaluate nanosilver in 2009. And, in evaluating Nanosilva, the EPA ignored some of that panel’s advice. The scientists told the agency to evaluate every nanosilver product separately. Just because one is safe doesn’t mean others will be, they said. The agency instead figured out many health and environment risks based on studies on particles that were different from those in Nanosilva. The EPA said the tests were “scientifically appropriate.” Nanosilva officials couldn’t be reached for comment. —KATIA SAVCHUK
A longer version of this story originally appeared at The Center for Investigative Reporting at www.cironline.org. NEWSLINES continued on page 10 January 30, 2014
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hen John Hardy first heard a W large tractor rumbling in the lot behind his 22nd Street residence in
the summer of 2011, he assumed someone in the nearby industrial area was carrying out short-term maintenance. But the noise became more frequent, until one day he looked over his back fence to see the giant tractor and stacks of bundled recyclables parked just on the opposite side. In May of 2011, the property had been taken over by Basik Recycling and, as the business grew, so did Hardy’s and other neighbors’ annoyance with the resulting sound, vibration and dust. Hardy took his concerns to the city Planning Department, where he said he was initially met with indifference: “A woman there basically told me it’s an industrial area, and there’s nothing that could be done about it.” This prompted Hardy’s own investigation, and he found the area is actually zoned “ML,” or “light manufacturing,” which, according to Chico Municipal Code, allows “light assembly and manufacturing, wholesaling, warehousing and distribution, agricultural processing and industrial processing within structures, and support commercial services.” Hardy and other citizens continued to complain to the city, pointing out that the recycling business had never obtained a proper use permit for the operation. Last May, neighbors expressed their concerns at a meeting attended by Basik Recycling owner Dylan McFann, representatives of the Barber Neighborhood Association and city officials. In June, another unhappy neighbor, Guy Hathorn, submitted an objection to the recycler’s application for a use permit signed by 30 nearby residents. Hardy has been relentless in his campaign against Basik Recycling, but said his main frustrations haven’t been with McFann, but with lack of city follow-through. “The community meeting only happened because we demanded it,” he said. “I had to go to the city Basik Recycling owner Dylan McFann says he is trying to lessen the impacts of his business to nearby residents. CN&R FILE PHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA
and explain that it was our right to have some input. We had every right to know the business was coming before it even started, and once they figured that out, they never made an attempt to get things caught up.” Hardy said the situation troubles him so much he’s considering using savings planned for improvements to his current home to move elsewhere. Greg Redeker, an associate
planner with the city of Chico, explained the city is addressing the issue through due process and expects a conclusion in the coming months. He also said the controversy goes back to an oversight when Basik first opened. “It appears that some sort of a miscommunication occurred,” Redeker said, “either with the applicant not being clear on what was being done or us not being clear in understanding what was being done, so he opened up thinking he was good to go.” Redeker supplied an Aug. 9, 2013, email from a city principal planner, Brendan Vieg, to the City Council explaining that, based on verbal communications with McFann, the facility fell under the category of “Recycling—large facility” and would not need a use permit. After hearing community concerns, the city Planning Department prompted McFann to submit a zoning-verification letter, which revealed Basik’s outdoor operations actually upgraded it to the
same category as scrap and dismantling yards, meaning a use permit is required. McFann submitted the application shortly thereafter, and Redeker said the city is planning to conduct necessary environmental testing (specifically a “mitigated negative declaration”) shortly; then, the Planning Commission will vote whether or not to approve the permit. The business or concerned neighbors can appeal that decision, which would leave Basik’s future in the hands of the City Council. Redeker further explained that Basik has been allowed to stay open based on city policy. “If a business finds out they need a use permit after they’ve made a significant investment in terms of time and money,” he said, “and there is no significant life or health safety issue, we allow them to continue to operate while they pursue the permit.” McFann said he’d never expected, or wanted, to be at odds with the community, noting he’s spent substantial amounts of money and effort to mitigate negative impacts reported by neighbors, including grading the land and buying water trucks to cut down on dust, investing in quieter equipment and reducing hours of operation. He also noted most of his operations are done indoors, and he’s moved outdoor operations more than 400 feet from Hardy or any other neighbors’ back fences. “I grew up in Red Bluff, graduated from college here at Chico State, then moved away to the big city and realized I didn’t like it there,” McFann said. “I came back here because I love Chico, and I wanted to become an entrepreneur and help the community.” —KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com
Lori Barker announced her pending April retirement last October. The city council is considering contracting out for legal services once she is gone. CN&R FILE PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY
Contracting out City to act on privatizing of city attorney duties he city of Chico’s consideration of conTstruck tracting out government services has a nerve of late with the possible priva-
tizing of the city attorney’s job. Last October, City Attorney Lori Barker gave a sixmonth notice—as required by her contract— that she would be stepping down in April. Barker was hired as assistant city attorney in 1990 and was promoted to the top legal post seven years ago. She did not want to comment publicly on the matter other than to say her decision to retire was not triggered by any inside pressure to do so, as has been suggested by some city government watchdogs. But the fact that the city may hire an outside legal firm to advise and represent it triggered a letter from former City Councilman Andy Holcombe that was printed in this paper last week, as well as one this week from current City Councilman Mark Sorensen in response to Holcombe. Holcombe, an attorney by trade, said the move would be “a costly mistake. The cost of an outside firm providing the same level of service and accessibility to it would be more.” Sorensen argues against that suggestion in his letter and said in an email response for this story that “Chico is the rare example of a city its size bearing the payroll and benefits costs of an in-house City Attorney department, particularly in this day and age, where business is conducted largely via telephone and email.” He went on to say that Barker “was one of the four primary people in the old ‘Budget Team.’ It seemed that the ‘budget team’ carefully plotted the course, developed the talking points, and decided how information would be provided, when, and carefully filtered and shaped the information that was allowed to come to the public and to council.” Sorensen said such a setup led to excessive city spending that took the city close to insolvency. “[This] further demonstrates the need for far greater levels of city attorney objectivity and independence from internal management and staff,” he said.
The city already contracts out on certain issues, he noted, such as how to dissolve its redevelopment agency. “That is an advantage to contracting out of city attorney services,” Sorensen said. “In most cases, you are contracting with a firm of several attorneys who bring various areas of expertise. Today, we pay top dollar and still go outside for specialized services.” Barker’s annual salary is about $190,000, although, as Sorensen pointed out, total compensation including benefits is much greater: $263,000. The City Council will consider three options to cover Barker’s retirement: privatization of all city attorney services; contracting out some services but keeping on board an assistant attorney and paralegal to be supervised by the outside firm; or keeping the status quo by hiring a new attorney and keeping an assistant city attorney. Mayor Scott Gruendl said he’s generally supportive of asking for requests for proposals from outside firms just to see if such a move would be positive for the city. While there have been some inquiries, he said on Jan. 28 that there had not been any actual proposals. “The best way to do that would be to collect actual information for contracting out so we can make an informed decision,” he said. He and Sorensen will screen whatever proposals come in by Friday (Jan. 31), which is the deadline for submissions, he said. They will then schedule for closed session on Feb. 22 council interviews with the law firms that do respond. Gruendl is weary of the city’s layoffs of employees as it downsizes to try to become fiscally solvent. “If out of that screening process there are no proposals that move forward, or it becomes really clear that, at least to me, contracting out doesn’t necessarily produce a savings to the city, then it’s kind of an act in futility,” he said. “There’s been so much we’ve put the organization through relative to layoffs and budget reductions and that’s not over. … I don’t need to participate in any additional significant change unless there’s significant value associated with it.” Councilwoman Mary Goloff echoed Gruendl, saying that while she’s interested in learning more about contracting out legal services, “I remain committed to maintaining staff in the City Attorney’s Office.” Councilman Sean Morgan said he wasn’t surprised by Holcombe’s letter, seeing as how the former council member is also an attorney. “Could it be less expensive to contract it out, avoid the benefit and pension costs?” he asked. “I think the answer is: probably. It’s worth looking into, as long as we can manage to protect institutional knowledge within the city, which the various proposals attempt to do.” —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com
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More crude oil was spilled last year in U.S. railway incidents than in the prior 37 years combined. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration released data showing that more than 1.15 million gallons of crude oil was spilled last year from rail cars transporting the substance, compared to 800,000 gallons during the period of 1975-2012, according to MSN News. Some of that spilled oil came as a result of major train derailments in Alabama and North Dakota. The PHMSA data does not take into account spills that took place in Canada. In one incident alone—the widely publicized oil spill that occurred on July 6 in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, after a runaway train derailed and exploded— more than 1.5 million gallons of oil was spilled.
GLOBAL-WARMING DENIERS ON THE RISE
An increasing number of Americans do not believe that global warming is happening. A new study by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities shows a 7 percent increase (now up to 23 percent) since spring 2013 in the number of Americans who say they do not believe that global warming is occurring, according to Grist.org. Additionally, the number of Americans who believe global warming is caused by humans has gone down by 7 percentage points (to 47 percent) since 2012. “Beginning in September … there was considerable media attention to the concept of the ‘global warming pause,’” said George Mason’s Ed Maibach. “It is possible that this simple— albeit erroneous—idea helped to convince many people who were previously undecided to conclude that the climate really isn’t changing.”
OUTSOURCING THE MESS
China and other rising economies are increasingly on the receiving end of outsourced carbon pollution resulting from the purchase of consumer goods by the United States and Europe. The manufacture, in countries with growing economies, of massive amounts of such popular goods as smartphones and cheap clothing has added to the rapid rise in worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Guardian noted that “emissions of carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases warming the planet grew twice as fast in the first decade of the 21st century as they did during the previous three decades.” In related news, the Los Angeles Times reported that pollution created by China’s export industry is wafting across the Pacific Ocean to the U.S.; “Los Angeles and parts of the eastern U.S. experienced at least one extra day of smog that exceeded federal health standards for ozone in 2006 as a result of emissions from export manufacturing in China,” the Times noted. Send your eco-friendly news tips to Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia at christinel@newsreview.com.
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‘You are what you eat’ Third-generation Iowa farmer (and registered Republican) speaks out against GMOs
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H stereotype that some people may have of a person strongly opposed to
oward Vlieger does not fit the
GMOs (genetically modified organisms). He’s no tree-huggin’, long-haired liberal, in other words. Rather, the 52-year-old third-generation Iowa farmer and widely traveled antiGMO activist is “a registered Republican and a firm believer in the Second Amendment,” he said in a recent noontime phone interview from Irvine, where he was readying himself for a speaking engagement that evening. Vlieger—who also describes himself as “a student of the soil” and “a crop and livestock-nutrition adviser”—will be in Butte County today, Jan. 30, to deliver informational talks at two local Granges. His Chico presentation will take place at the Chico Grange Hall at 4 p.m., followed by a talk at the Thermalito Grange Hall, in Oroville, at 7:30 p.m. Vlieger’s local talks are presented by the California State Grange, Label GMOs and Moms Across America, “a national coalition of unstoppable moms committed to empowering millions to educate themselves about GMOs and related pesticides, get GMOs labeled and offer GMO-free and organic solutions,” as the Moms Across America website puts it. Vlieger has become an in-demand speaker, in part due to the fact that he is one of a team of eight people—including Judy Carman, a well-known GMO researcher who works as an associate professor of biochemistry at Flinders University in Australia—who authored a long-term study published in June of last year in the
Iowa farmer Howard Vlieger travels the United States and Canada giving talks on the downside of GMOs. PHOTO COURTESY OF HOWARD VLIEGER
Journal of Organic Systems that found that pigs fed a combination of genetically engineered corn and soybeans experience more frequent uterine enlargement and severe inflammation of the stomach than do those fed a non-GMO diet. Vlieger said his “must-know” talk— which will cover in significant detail the findings of the study and its implications for the health of humans, who, according to Carman, have digestive systems similar to those of pigs—is aimed at everyone from “consumers to producers, and all points in between.” There has been, since the late 1990s, a “significant fundamental change in crop production that is having an upstream effect on what’s going into the food supply,” Vlieger said, referring to the introduction of GMOs and the accompanying herbicides and pesticides that become necessary in the production of GMO crops. “The side effects that are being documented more and more all the time are in the soil itself, as well as in the livestock that is consuming these crops. …
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Iowa family farmer and anti-GMO activist Howard Vlieger will give two free talks (plus Q-and-A afterward) today, Jan. 30, 4 p.m., at the Chico Grange Hall (2775 Nord Ave.), and 7:30 p.m. at the Thermalito Grange Hall (470 Plumas Ave. in Oroville).
“We started witnessing problems in livestock in 1998, when we first started feeding genetically engineered crops to animals,” Vlieger said. “First, we noticed conception problems.” Also in 1998, “we noticed different digestive issues and immune system problems.” Beyond the ample anecdotal evidence that Vlieger and his farming colleagues had amassed, the June 2013 study provided “solid statistical, scientific findings” that pigs overall had “a 260 percent increase in the number of them who had severe inflammation in their stomachs, severe stomach erosion,” including ulcers, after consuming GMO soy and corn. Vlieger also noted that livestock fed the GMO feed have behavioral problems, such as increased aggressiveness quite possibly due to stomach irritation. “These behavioral changes to me are a flashing red light. … We have witnessed these varying issues and problems from the beginning in introducing genetically engineered crops into the feed supply. “The day our scientific study was published,” Vlieger continued, “I received a call from a Chicago Tribune lady, [reporter] Monica Eng, who said she wanted my response [for her article] to a guy from a biotech organization who said he didn’t understand why we looked at stomachs and uteri [in our study]. He said there was no difference in feed conversion and GREENWAYS continued on page 14
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rate of gain [on a GMO diet versus a non-GMO diet]. “I literally laughed out loud, and then I apologized and said, ‘That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! Why would you not care about how [a GMO diet] might affect the different body parts of the animals who consume it? We mustn’t be a bunch of extremists to care about how this might affect our organs.” After returning home to
Iowa on Feb. 3 from his current speaking tour—which includes stops in the Rogue Valley area of Oregon—Vlieger will head to Lancaster County, Penn., on Feb. 5, to speak about genetically modified crops and the accompanying use of the broad-spectrum systemic herbicide glyphosate at the 23rd annual Farming for the Future Conference, hosted by the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. For her part, Thermalito Grange member Rachelle Parker is excited that Vlieger is bringing his educational talk to her neck of the woods. Plus, “[t]he fact that Howard is a tea party patriot will give this issue credibility with many of the people who voted against Measure D [the initiative ordinance prohibiting the growing of genetically engineered organisms in Butte County] back in 2004,” she offered. “I view this as an educational opportunity about genetically engineered crops,” said Vlieger of his upcoming talks. “This is a ground-level view—a groundlevel, dirt-under-your-fingernails
GOOD FOOD IN THE ’HOOD The Chapmantown: Good Food Now! project is holding a Community Mixer on Friday, Jan. 31, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Subud Hall (574 East 12th St.). Learn how to start your own cottage-foods business and sell at the farmers’ market, and enjoy freshly prepared local foods, kids’ artsand-crafts activities and more at this free, informative event. Email chapmanews@gmail.com for more information.
perspective of what I have witnessed either firsthand or witnessed by family farmers I have been privileged to work with … in the United States and Canada. “I have communicated with a lot of medical doctors, nutritionists and, maybe more importantly, mothers,” said Vlieger of the countless people worldwide with whom he has discussed the eating of GMO food. “The thing that’s a unanimous report is that … the[ir] patients, clients or children see improvement in their health when they get GMOs out of their diet. And that’s never going to be published in a scientific journal. But the mothers don’t care—all they care about is the health of their family.” “There’s no doubt in my mind,” Vlieger added. “You are what you eat.” Ω
UNCOMMON SENSE Save our water! California is officially suffering a drought, so it’s a no-brainer that we should all be finding ways to conserve water. Given that in some places 50 percent or more of our water use goes to lawns and outdoor landscaping, here are some tips for conserving water outside: • Watering early in the morning or later in the evening will save 25 gallons each time you water. • Adding a layer of mulch around plants and trees will reduce evaporation and save 20 to 30 gallons every watering per 1,000-squarefoot area. • Planting drought-resistant trees and plants can result in a water savings of 30 to 60 gallons per watering for every 1,000-squarefoot area.
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RECYCLERS FEELING THE SQUEEZE Jerry Morano, who is the recycling director at Fair Street Recycling, alerted me to certain issues facing recycling centers in the state of California—and, consequently, people who bring recyclables to such centers—as a result of recent changes made by CalRecycle (aka the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery). “It would be helpful for us as a recycler [for] the public to know the changes at recycling centers concerning CRV [California Redemption Value],” said Morano (pictured) in a recent email. “First off, we can no longer accept any loads of CRV aluminum or plastic over 100 pounds (1,000 pounds of CRV glass) [in a single day].” Prior to Jan. 1, recyclers could redeem up to 500 pounds per day of CRV aluminum or plastic, and 2,500 pounds of glass. Additionally, as of Nov. 1 of last year, recycling centers “can only accept segregated CRV material for recycling,” Morano said. “In the past, you were able to mix scrap aluminum, plastic and glass with segregated CRV material and get paid a commingled rate. No more. “All of this is due to the CRV fund going broke. The ag checkpoints coming into the state are now inspecting for loads of recyclables being brought in to defraud the program as well. Lots of changes, but not much information being spread.” As you can perhaps imagine, the slashing of the amount of aluminum, glass and plastic redeemable in any one day is very likely to affect those who depend on the redemption money. Morano sent me a link to a Jan. 18 Los Angeles Times article titled “New redemption law puts squeeze on bottle and can recyclers” that speaks to precisely that issue. For the Times piece, writer Gale Holland interviewed a man—who works as a janitor—who depended on the $200 he earned roughly every week from selling a load of recycled cans and bottles; since Jan. 1, he makes only $50 to $60 per load. Another of Holland’s interviewees—a man who is homeless since being laid off from his job—was living off of the $15 he earned per day from recycling. “Now, with an income of $6 or $7 on the best of days, [he] said he is eating out of the garbage,” wrote Holland. As for Morano’s comment about the CRV fund going broke, an August article in Resource Recycling magazine stated that “without major reforms to the current bottle deposit system, [California’s] recycling fund will be insolvent by March 2015.” Explanation: CalRecycle’s Beverage Container Recycling Fund—which collects all the CRV deposits paid for beverage containers and pays out money when the containers are redeemed—is Jerry Morano (left), recycling director at Fair Street becoming depleted due to the current high rate of Recycling, wants the public to know about some significant changes to California’s recycling program. CRV-container recycling. FILE PHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA “Redemption rates neared 83 percent for beverage containers during FY 2011-2012,” said the article. The break-even percentage for CalRecycle is roughly 70 percent. As Morano pointed out, CalRecycle is attempting to staunch the bleeding of its CRV fund in part by requiring “anyone transporting into California a load of empty plastic or aluminum beverage containers weighing 25 pounds or more, or 250 pounds or more of glass, to pass through a California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantine inspection station and obtain and carry proof of inspection,” as a CalRecycle press release put it. Inspectors are looking for “unscrupulous individuals” bringing in from other states ineligible containers—containers for which no CRV was paid—and redeeming them in California. Go to mountlassen.cnps.org to learn more about the local Mount Lassen chapter of the California Native Plant Society. Next meeting: Feb. 5; theme is “A Botanical Trip to Cuba.” EMAIL YOUR GREEN HOME, GARDEN AND COMMUNITY TIPS TO CHRISTINE AT CHRISTINEL@NEWSREVIEW.COM
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HEALTHLINES Left: Insurance agent Bruce Jenkins is one of 46 certified Affordable Care Act advisers in Chico.
THE STATE OF TOBACCO
The American Lung Association’s annual State of Tobacco Control report concluded that Northern California health officials must renew tobaccocontrol efforts. The report tracks progress in four categories of tobacco-control policies—tobacco control and prevention spending, smoke-free air, cigarette tax, and cessation coverage—at federal and state levels, handing out grades for specific counties and cities, according to an American Lung Association press release. Bolstered by a strong tobacco-retailer license, Oroville earned a C, the highest grade of any city in the area, while Chico was given a D. California as a whole received an A for its smoke-free-air policies, a D for its low cigarette tax, an F for failing to sufficiently fund prevention and control programs, and an F for a lack of smoking cessation and treatment services.
PREVENTING STUDENT SUICIDE
Chico State was recently recognized by the Jed Foundation for its mental-health and suicideprevention programs. The JedCampus Seal is awarded to schools that “exhibit comprehensive mental-health promotion and suicide-prevention programming on campus,” according to a Chico State press release. To earn the seal, Chico State completed a voluntary survey including sections on strategic planning; identification of at-risk students; “gatekeeper” education; increasing helpseeking behavior; provision of mental-health services; crisis-management procedures; restriction of access to potentially lethal means; and helping develop life skills and promoting social networks. Chico State was the only university in the California State University system to earn the seal. “There is always more we can do, but we’re moving in the right direction,” said Brian Reinhardt, associate director of Chico State’s Counseling and Wellness Center.
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Google is currently developing contact lenses that monitor blood sugar levels, providing a potential future alternative to finger-prick blood tests for diabetic patients. The “smart contact lenses,” embedded with a microchip, would measure glucose levels in tears and then transmit the information to a mobile device or a physician, according to iHealthBeat.com. The lenses could serve as a warning system, as well: Google is looking at using LED lights to warn patients when their glucose levels have reached certain thresholds. Google has already tested the prototype in clinical research trials and is currently discussing further steps with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to Modern Healthcare. “There’s still a lot more work to do to turn this technology into a system that people can use,” Google said in a statement. “We plan to look for partners who are experts in bringing products like this to market.” Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.
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FDorothy Lee had no health insurance. Employed as the office manager of a busior years, Chico resident
ness that was too small to provide coverage, she earned too much to qualify for Medi-Cal, was too young for Medicare, and couldn’t afford to purchase expensive individual insurance. When Lee became ill, she went to prompt-care clinics and paid cash. She worried constantly that one day she might need hospitalization, which would destroy her financially. She was, in other words, exactly the kind of person the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was designed to serve. Covered California, the quasi-governmental agency implementing the program in this state, estimates there are more than 100,000 people like Lee in rural far Northern California. A widow who is now 53 years old, Lee was fortunate that she had no medical emergencies. “I’m lucky to be in good health,” she said during a recent phone interview. “I take care of myself.” When Obamacare went into effect in California, Lee was quick to take advantage of it. She saw a newspaper ad for an insurance agent, Bruce Jenkins, a certified Obamacare adviser who offers free consultation. She called him up. With his help, she went to the Covered California website and plugged in her
income figures. To her delight, she discovered that she was eligible for subsidies that enabled her to obtain “an amazing Anthem/Blue Cross plan” for $143 per month. Negotiating the system involved “a little back and forth,” she said, but it was easier than doing her taxes. One of the lesser known aspects of
the Obamacare rollout in California is that thousands of independent insurance brokers have taken the training that qualifies them to assist people in signing up. There are 46 of them just in Chico. They’re paid on commission, so there’s no cost to the client. In Butte County, signing up is relatively easy because only two companies— Anthem/Blue Cross and Blue Shield— offer plans in this area. Jenkins, who has a law degree, would stress the word “relatively.” Before Obamacare, when a client wanted to purchase a policy, he would go directly to the insur-
ance company. Now, because of the subsidies offered, he first has to go through Covered California. “This is a new agency that has never handled insurance that’s staffed by new people,” Jenkins said during a phone interview. It’s been frustrating at times, he said, especially when certain sign-up deadlines are nearing. “At the end of December, I had to get up at 4 a.m. [in order to beat the crowd using the Covered California website]. “It’s a pain in the ass for everybody,” Jenkins continued, “but it’s a great thing. People finally have health insurance they can afford.” Some of his clients’ earnings are less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which qualifies them for the expanded Medi-Cal program that is also part of the Affordable Care Act. He refers them to the county Employment and Social SerHEALTHLINES continued on page 19
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macare has gone “relatively smoothly. It’s not a perfect system yet, but it’s doing well.” The agency is also happy with the turnout of young people. They’re signing up “at a rate consistent with their population,” he said. This is important because they will need less medical care and therefore will cost less, thereby subsidizing older people, in a modern version of taking care of one’s elders. Kennedy agrees that insurance agents are a good way to go, and notes that a list of qualified agents, organized by zip code, is available on the Covered California website (CoveredCA.com). The final deadline for signing up this year—March 31, for coverage beginning May 1—is fast approaching. Those who fail to have insurance by then will pay a penalty at income-tax time, $95 or 1 percent of their reported income, whichever is more. Meanwhile, Dorothy Lee is waiting for her insurance card to arrive in the mail. As Jenkins and others have noted, the insurance companies can be frustratingly slow at processing sign-ups. But Lee is unfazed. “Everything has its quirks that you have to iron out,” she said philosophically. What matters to her is that for the first time in her adult life she’ll enjoy health-care security. As she put it, “I know I can get care without having to pawn my wedding ring.” Ω Independent reporting for this story was made possible through a grant from HealthyCal.org.
WEEKLY DOSE Common cold misconceptions Here are widely held (false) beliefs regarding the common cold: • People catch more colds in winter because it’s cold and rainy. False. Colds are spread by close contact, and in the winter people spend much more time inside, where they are exposed to other people’s germs. • Vitamin C helps prevent catching a cold. False. There is little proof that vitamin C has any effect on the common cold. • Chicken soup cannot help relieve a cold. False. Chicken soup helps break up nasal congestion, protects from sore throat, and the combination of lean protein and vegetables can help boost strength to fight off illness.
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Bunnymilk: Lisa Marie (left) and Kelly Brown. PHOTO COURTESY OF BUNNYMILK
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Bunnymilk The story of Chico duo Bunnymilk starts outside, on the sidewalk in front of the Origami Recording Lounge. It was a summer evening in 2012, and Kelly Brown and Lisa Marie both showed up to see a concert at the studio/club, and both happened to bring acoustic instruments along. “Instead of going into the show, we drank and sat on the curb [playing music],” said Marie recently over afternoon beers at Duffy’s Tavern with her and Brown. “And we’ve been together ever since.” That was only the second time the two had met each other, yet that first session of getting buzzed and singing CocoRosie songs to the night air as bands banged away inside the club set the tone for what would become a very distinct musical partnership. Utilizing banjo (Brown) and guitar (Marie), and very natural and beautiful vocal harmonies, the duo have created a dark and often creeping brand of folk music that harken back to the “Old weird America” of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. The voices are pretty, but the songs are often messy snapshots of timeless themes, of sinning daughters (“Lullaby”), heartbreak (“Pale Blue Eyes,” “Dire Stand”), or in the case of “Plant Toxins,” what sounds like a stoned-out fever dream (“This is an overdose of plant toxins.”) “Drunken songbird angels” is the succinct, somewhat tongue-in-cheek description they’ve adopted to describe themselves online, and it 20 CN&R January 30, 2014
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g like here is nothin get new music to wing. the juices flo ar, And each ye R combs & N C e th n e wh o’s current ic h C h g u o r th icians, we s u m f o r te s ro asantly surle p s y a lw a e ar ct that fa e th t a d e is pr istently a s n o c is e r e th sh sounds to e fr f o ty ie r a v n ere in our ow h t h ig r y jo n e backyard. probably does a better job of painting an accurate rop of picture than simply saying “dark folk music.” This year’s c Besides, whatever “folky” sound they might have h consists of tc a w to s d is gradually being pushed back in favor of adding n a b more electric guitar and effects pedals to the mix. ren’t all neca o h w ts s ti r “We kind of want to do something louder,” said a Marie, adding that they are exploring more riffw, but have e n y il r a s s e based, lo-fi, “art-student basement band” sounds. so Bunnymilk has only a few, fairly rough recordpast year or e th r e v o ings under their belt so far, available for download n and on the duo’s Bandcamp page. But even though into their ow e m o c they say their plan is to do some “better” recordparticular ings in the new year (they’ve already done some lidified their o s tracking at Origami Recording Lounge), the tape he. If you hiss and the natural reverb of some of the current aesthetic nic kitchen recordings do bring a complementary e the full c n ie r e p x e grit to their old-time sound. want to As for other future plans, besides recording and e of what eclectic rang turning up the volume, they want to go on the e road. Last week, Bunnymilk played out of town to offer, thes s a h o ic h C for the first time—joining new local crew Donald s the Beaman and the Spirit Molecules for gigs in ds (as well a n a b ix s Davis, Sacramento and San Francisco—and ighlighted h ts c a they’d like to tour even more. In fact, now that s u n o five b Brown just bought a car, both women now own e a great r a ) r a b e id hatchbacks—ideal vehicles for a two-person band s in the hitting the road and exploring new venues, even t. though they might not even make it inside the place to star clubs. “[We can] tailgate our own shows,” said Brown, “just throw our hatchbacks up.” Bunnymilk will perform Feb. 22, 9 p.m., at Maltese Bar & Tap Room. www.bunnymilk.bandcamp.com
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Donald Beaman When Donald Beaman sings of “realizing the gift inherent in being adrift” in the song “Tule,” he’s speaking from experience. Beaman’s life and adventures, musical and otherwise, have always been driven by a touch of wanderlust. Having grown up in various locales throughout the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley, he was originally drawn to Chico in the midaughts to obtain a degree in American Studies from Chico State. After making a mark with various Chico and Davis bands, Beaman left for an extended stint on the East Coast, where he experienced some success as a member of The Double, a band that signed to indie-darling factory Matador Records, toured with the likes of Blonde Redhead and Interpol, and recorded a session with late, great BBC DJ and
Sorin: (from left) Skylar Wells, Kevin Bowman, Alex Light, Curtis Scholar and Ade Porter. PHOTO BY EMILY NICOLE TEAGUE
tastemaker John Peel. When that ended, he was again set adrift, spending time in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and the valley towns of his childhood before being drawn back to Chico last fall. “I’ve been playing music by myself for a while, playing solo shows, and this seemed like a good spot to come back to and start playing music with other people,” said Beaman, whose day job of buying and selling antiques (mid-century Dutch-modern relics are his specialty) helps finance his wandering ways. Topping the list of local musicians Beaman sought to reconnect with were bassist Jason Willmon and guitarist Ken Lovgren, who also brought drummer Michael Nalin into the fold. Dubbed the Spirit Molecules, Beaman’s new backup band is starting to flesh out the 30 to 40 songs he wrote between leaving New York and returning to Chico. Beaman said the aforementioned “Tule” and two other songs available on his Bandcamp page are good indicators of what the Molecules are building on—slow and haunting songs driven by Beaman’s crystalline voice that are akin, both in delivery and poetic lyricism, to Leonard Cohen. Beaman and the boys are headed to Origami Recording Lounge in the next few weeks to document their fuller sound and already have a few local and out-of-town gigs under their collective belt. As for longer-term plans, Beaman said he’s now living on “task time” rather than measuring the days with a calendar. He plans to stay in Chico as long as it takes to record a good album. While he said an EP may come as soon as summer, he wants to give a full-length the time to develop. “I need to take advantage of where I’m living and the great people I’m making music with until the job is done,” he said. “It might be a year, it might be longer.” Donald Beaman and the Spirit Molecules will perform Feb. 22, 9 p.m., at Maltese Bar & Tap Room. www.donaldbeaman.bandcamp.com —Ken Smith kens@newsreview.com
‘Raw energ y made musical’
Sorin We now see a different scarlet fantasy Come climb up, use us as paint The milk is lava from the breast of the Mother Vessel Give me justice! Drink your fill. It’s raining justice It’s raining justice Will we save us? –from Sorin’s “The Milk” Alex Light, vocalist for local metal outfit Sorin, screams the lyrics to “The Milk,” the second song on the band’s recently released debut EP, New Heights. His screaming urgency is the same for all of the lyrics he delivers. “It’s an honest expression of real emotion,” said the 25-year-old Light in a recent interview that included three of his four bandmates: Sorin guitarists Ade (pronounced “Ah-day”) Porter and Kevin Bowman, and drummer Curtis Scholar (missing was bassist Skylar Wells). The musicians—who are all graduates of Pleasant Valley High School and longtime musicians—were fresh off of placing second in a metal battle-of-the-bands competition at Backstage Bar & Billiards in Las Vegas on Jan. 17. Light uses the terms “narrative thread,” “poetic journey” and “performance art” when describing what it is that Sorin involves itself with when writing songs, and planning and putting on a show.
“There’s a solid structure [to our show],” he said. “We build a set that has peaks and valleys. It gives [audience members] a chance to rest.” “We have about an hour-long discussion about our set list,” Bowman added. All four band members agreed that “New Heights”—the 16-minute, two-part title song from the new EP that sneaks into the listener’s consciousness gently at first, via guitar, before Light explodes into it with his commanding voice (“Realize there’s nothing to see/ Forming a reason to rise/ Tear down that stone altar/ A frozen throne will suffice/ Truth has brought me back”) —is emblematic of what Sorin is all about. “‘New Heights’ was an avenue to write a fantasy story,” said Porter, who has written most of Sorin’s songs, but worked in collaboration with the whole band on this particular one. “It’s the song that I want to aim our music toward,” Scholar said. “‘New Heights’ has so much emotion and so much of ourselves in it.” No surprise that the band’s description of itself on its Facebook page is: “Raw energy made musical.” “I want to challenge people with a really raw image of humanity and what it’s like to be alive in this day and age,” said Light. Sorin will perform Feb. 8, 8 p.m., at 1078 Gallery. www.sorinmusic. bandcamp.com —Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia christinel@newsreview.com
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Bunnymilk: Lisa Marie (left) and Kelly Brown. PHOTO COURTESY OF BUNNYMILK
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Bunnymilk The story of Chico duo Bunnymilk starts outside, on the sidewalk in front of the Origami Recording Lounge. It was a summer evening in 2012, and Kelly Brown and Lisa Marie both showed up to see a concert at the studio/club, and both happened to bring acoustic instruments along. “Instead of going into the show, we drank and sat on the curb [playing music],” said Marie recently over afternoon beers at Duffy’s Tavern with her and Brown. “And we’ve been together ever since.” That was only the second time the two had met each other, yet that first session of getting buzzed and singing CocoRosie songs to the night air as bands banged away inside the club set the tone for what would become a very distinct musical partnership. Utilizing banjo (Brown) and guitar (Marie), and very natural and beautiful vocal harmonies, the duo have created a dark and often creeping brand of folk music that harken back to the “Old weird America” of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. The voices are pretty, but the songs are often messy snapshots of timeless themes, of sinning daughters (“Lullaby”), heartbreak (“Pale Blue Eyes,” “Dire Stand”), or in the case of “Plant Toxins,” what sounds like a stoned-out fever dream (“This is an overdose of plant toxins.”) “Drunken songbird angels” is the succinct, somewhat tongue-in-cheek description they’ve adopted to describe themselves online, and it 20 CN&R January 30, 2014
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g like here is nothin get new music to wing. the juices flo ar, And each ye R combs & N C e th n e wh o’s current ic h C h g u o r th icians, we s u m f o r te s ro asantly surle p s y a lw a e ar ct that fa e th t a d e is pr istently a s n o c is e r e th sh sounds to e fr f o ty ie r a v n ere in our ow h t h ig r y jo n e backyard. probably does a better job of painting an accurate rop of picture than simply saying “dark folk music.” This year’s c Besides, whatever “folky” sound they might have h consists of tc a w to s d is gradually being pushed back in favor of adding n a b more electric guitar and effects pedals to the mix. ren’t all neca o h w ts s ti r “We kind of want to do something louder,” said a Marie, adding that they are exploring more riffw, but have e n y il r a s s e based, lo-fi, “art-student basement band” sounds. so Bunnymilk has only a few, fairly rough recordpast year or e th r e v o ings under their belt so far, available for download n and on the duo’s Bandcamp page. But even though into their ow e m o c they say their plan is to do some “better” recordparticular ings in the new year (they’ve already done some lidified their o s tracking at Origami Recording Lounge), the tape he. If you hiss and the natural reverb of some of the current aesthetic nic kitchen recordings do bring a complementary e the full c n ie r e p x e grit to their old-time sound. want to As for other future plans, besides recording and e of what eclectic rang turning up the volume, they want to go on the e road. Last week, Bunnymilk played out of town to offer, thes s a h o ic h C for the first time—joining new local crew Donald s the Beaman and the Spirit Molecules for gigs in ds (as well a n a b ix s Davis, Sacramento and San Francisco—and ighlighted h ts c a they’d like to tour even more. In fact, now that s u n o five b Brown just bought a car, both women now own e a great r a ) r a b e id hatchbacks—ideal vehicles for a two-person band s in the hitting the road and exploring new venues, even t. though they might not even make it inside the place to star clubs. “[We can] tailgate our own shows,” said Brown, “just throw our hatchbacks up.” Bunnymilk will perform Feb. 22, 9 p.m., at Maltese Bar & Tap Room. www.bunnymilk.bandcamp.com
—Jason Cassidy jasonc@newsreview.com
Donald Beaman PHOTO BY JASON WILLMON
All who wander are not lost
Donald Beaman When Donald Beaman sings of “realizing the gift inherent in being adrift” in the song “Tule,” he’s speaking from experience. Beaman’s life and adventures, musical and otherwise, have always been driven by a touch of wanderlust. Having grown up in various locales throughout the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley, he was originally drawn to Chico in the midaughts to obtain a degree in American Studies from Chico State. After making a mark with various Chico and Davis bands, Beaman left for an extended stint on the East Coast, where he experienced some success as a member of The Double, a band that signed to indie-darling factory Matador Records, toured with the likes of Blonde Redhead and Interpol, and recorded a session with late, great BBC DJ and
Sorin: (from left) Skylar Wells, Kevin Bowman, Alex Light, Curtis Scholar and Ade Porter. PHOTO BY EMILY NICOLE TEAGUE
tastemaker John Peel. When that ended, he was again set adrift, spending time in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and the valley towns of his childhood before being drawn back to Chico last fall. “I’ve been playing music by myself for a while, playing solo shows, and this seemed like a good spot to come back to and start playing music with other people,” said Beaman, whose day job of buying and selling antiques (mid-century Dutch-modern relics are his specialty) helps finance his wandering ways. Topping the list of local musicians Beaman sought to reconnect with were bassist Jason Willmon and guitarist Ken Lovgren, who also brought drummer Michael Nalin into the fold. Dubbed the Spirit Molecules, Beaman’s new backup band is starting to flesh out the 30 to 40 songs he wrote between leaving New York and returning to Chico. Beaman said the aforementioned “Tule” and two other songs available on his Bandcamp page are good indicators of what the Molecules are building on—slow and haunting songs driven by Beaman’s crystalline voice that are akin, both in delivery and poetic lyricism, to Leonard Cohen. Beaman and the boys are headed to Origami Recording Lounge in the next few weeks to document their fuller sound and already have a few local and out-of-town gigs under their collective belt. As for longer-term plans, Beaman said he’s now living on “task time” rather than measuring the days with a calendar. He plans to stay in Chico as long as it takes to record a good album. While he said an EP may come as soon as summer, he wants to give a full-length the time to develop. “I need to take advantage of where I’m living and the great people I’m making music with until the job is done,” he said. “It might be a year, it might be longer.” Donald Beaman and the Spirit Molecules will perform Feb. 22, 9 p.m., at Maltese Bar & Tap Room. www.donaldbeaman.bandcamp.com —Ken Smith kens@newsreview.com
‘Raw energ y made musical’
Sorin We now see a different scarlet fantasy Come climb up, use us as paint The milk is lava from the breast of the Mother Vessel Give me justice! Drink your fill. It’s raining justice It’s raining justice Will we save us? –from Sorin’s “The Milk” Alex Light, vocalist for local metal outfit Sorin, screams the lyrics to “The Milk,” the second song on the band’s recently released debut EP, New Heights. His screaming urgency is the same for all of the lyrics he delivers. “It’s an honest expression of real emotion,” said the 25-year-old Light in a recent interview that included three of his four bandmates: Sorin guitarists Ade (pronounced “Ah-day”) Porter and Kevin Bowman, and drummer Curtis Scholar (missing was bassist Skylar Wells). The musicians—who are all graduates of Pleasant Valley High School and longtime musicians—were fresh off of placing second in a metal battle-of-the-bands competition at Backstage Bar & Billiards in Las Vegas on Jan. 17. Light uses the terms “narrative thread,” “poetic journey” and “performance art” when describing what it is that Sorin involves itself with when writing songs, and planning and putting on a show.
“There’s a solid structure [to our show],” he said. “We build a set that has peaks and valleys. It gives [audience members] a chance to rest.” “We have about an hour-long discussion about our set list,” Bowman added. All four band members agreed that “New Heights”—the 16-minute, two-part title song from the new EP that sneaks into the listener’s consciousness gently at first, via guitar, before Light explodes into it with his commanding voice (“Realize there’s nothing to see/ Forming a reason to rise/ Tear down that stone altar/ A frozen throne will suffice/ Truth has brought me back”) —is emblematic of what Sorin is all about. “‘New Heights’ was an avenue to write a fantasy story,” said Porter, who has written most of Sorin’s songs, but worked in collaboration with the whole band on this particular one. “It’s the song that I want to aim our music toward,” Scholar said. “‘New Heights’ has so much emotion and so much of ourselves in it.” No surprise that the band’s description of itself on its Facebook page is: “Raw energy made musical.” “I want to challenge people with a really raw image of humanity and what it’s like to be alive in this day and age,” said Light. Sorin will perform Feb. 8, 8 p.m., at 1078 Gallery. www.sorinmusic. bandcamp.com —Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia christinel@newsreview.com
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The Rugs: (from left) Nolan Ford, Katrina Rodriguez, Austin King, Jeremy Gerrard and Andrew Alvarez. PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
Big Slim With his baggy clothes, backward hat angled to the side, blacked-out sunglasses and cool swagger, Chico MC Big Slim unquestionably has the look of a typical gangster rapper. But judging him (or anyone for that matter) on style alone provides a one-dimensional picture. The 31-year-old is earnest, thoughtful and very much aware of the potential effect his music might have on young listeners. While acknowledging that he operates within a genre with a decades-long affinity for money, sex and violence, Big Slim said he strives to make music with a higher-minded message. Big Slim (whose real name is Nate Joyner) conceded that wasn’t always the case. When he was 19 years old, for instance, “I really wanted to be like Jay-Z on MTV or BET,” he said. “But when you start to live a little more, you realize … it’s cool to be yourself. You don’t need 1,000 chains and a 50-person entourage to make people feel you. “Everybody wants to be a gangster thug, but I don’t know how many more of my friends have celebrated getting out of jail [instead of] graduating from college,” he continued. “In hip-hop, we celebrate the wrong things.” To that end, Big Slim’s latest release, the six-track EP Better Way, delves into broad social and political issues. For example, in the song “PSA,” he raps over a bass-heavy arrangement reminiscent of classic Dr. Dre production: “Opinions from the ’hood unheard, irrelevant/ If the doctors all agree that weed is medicine/ Then why not legalize it and free the innocent?/ Because prison is a business, pointblank, period.” The six tracks that compose Better Way are selections from his New Music Monday series during which he wrote and recorded a song every week for 104 consecutive weeks. It was an exhausting test of creative endurance—he came close to quitting around week 30, and multiple times after that point—but one that forced him to mature as an artist and a person. As for the current health of Chico’s hip-hop scene, Big Slim said he feels that the inherently competitive nature of rappers has hampered cooperation in hosting shows and attracting bigger touring artists to town. “Other musicians really support each other—you would never see Garth Brooks and Toby Keith fighting at the bar over a girl or $100, you know?” www.facebook.com/sleazysleez and www.new-music-monday.com —Howard Hardee howardh@newsreview.com
Wo v e n i n h a r m o n y
The Rugs When Jeremy Gerrard and Nolan Ford—vets of established local bands The Amblers and the Perpetual Drifters/The Secret Stolen, respectively—started talking about starting a new musical project in the spring of 2012, they had a good notion of what they wanted to avoid, and the type of reaction they wanted to invoke. “I like the songwriter and pop genres, but I dislike how it’s all about [the music] being as cookie-cutter and accessible as it can be,” said Gerrard. “So we wanted to do some songwriter-driven rock that people don’t usually hear, something where people would say, ‘Well, it’s good and I like it, but I’m not sure exactly what to call it.’” To meet this end, Gerrard and Ford began assembling what would eventually become fivepiece band The
Rugs (Gerrard, guitar, keyboard, harmonica; Ford, guitar, keys; Andrew Alvarez, bass; Austin King, drums; Katrina Rodriguez, ukulele, percussion). Driven by Gerrard’s lyrics and lead vocals (“I write the length of the songs, the band writes the breadth of them,” he said), the band plays unique, mid-tempo rock ’n’ pop driven by layered harmonies, with three of the other four members assisting on vocal duties. As for the band’s moniker, Alvarez noted it serves a dual purpose in describing the band’s eclectic elements and as an ode to one of their shared favorite movies: “We’re all [The]Big Lebowski fans, and we also thought there are a lot of different elements here, and it really ties the room together.” The band has already done a bit of traveling, and—other than one bad experience at a San Francisco café—said they’ve had some great experiences outside of Chico, particularly with a pair of performances at Berkeley stronghold The Starry Plough. The band is currently in the process of recording its debut album, which the band members hope to have done in time for more touring this summer. Rather than stick to the standard studio route, they’ve enlisted the help of Matt Franklin’s (of Clouds on Strings) mobile recording wizardry to take advantage of a situation many bands dream about. “My parents are selling their house in Forest Ranch,” Alvarez explained. “It’s mostly empty and we have it all to ourselves. It’s our own quiet little spot, with great acoustics and wide-open spaces. It’s also pretty isolated, so there’s no one around to complain about the noise. We call it The Eagle’s Nest.” The Rugs will perform Friday, Jan. 31, 9 p.m., at Lost on Main. www.facebook.com/ therugsmusic —Ken Smith
Big Slim PHOTO BY JASON CASSIDY
Persian Skirts PHOTO BY ROBBIE REAVES
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Gimme that old-soul music
Persian Skirts “I just woke up from a nap—that’s my excuse.” Persian Skirts vocalist-guitarist Johnny Meehan isn’t much for words when it comes to his music. It makes sense when you think about it: Meehan has always been more of a doer than a sayer. And you can’t argue with the results. For years, Meehan and his wife, Kerra Jessen—both of whom are better known under their rock ’n’ roll surname “Shanker”—have played and recorded with their greaser garage-rock band The Shankers. Now the couple have formed the Persian Skirts (the name comes from an inside joke/sexual innuendo between the two) along with drummer extraordinaire Jake Sprecher (of The Yule Logs). What has always connected the couple’s projects is the visceral emotion that’s born of whiskey-stewed innards and being content with playing music for themselves. What you see is what you get. Meehan and Jessen are old souls, and you’d probably be hard-pressed to find anything in their record collection post-1967. “We listen to a lot of country. Lots of stuff from the ’50s,” Meehan explained, rattling off names like Jimmie Rodgers and Charlie Feathers. “I don’t like to call [what we do] rockabilly because that can mean so many different things.” While The Shankers rely more on a country shuffle rhythm, the Persian Skirts are stationed more in straight rock ’n’ roll, bolstered by the hard-hitting Sprecher. Of course, it’s all rooted in the dusty grooves of old rock, soul and country records. As Meehan put it: “I guess with the Shankers and the Skirts we could always do Gories covers.” The Persian Skirts have recorded only a handful of songs. “Makeup” is a no-nonsense garage rocker that clocks in under two minutes, while “Patter” tips more toward Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. “Throw Me” is slow and delicate (by their standards), with Jessen taking the lead with what comes across as a love story buried beneath the dead sticks and leaves. Recording almost seems inconsequential next to the Persian Skirts’ live performances. When they creep onto the stage for a night out, it’s always an event. Dance floors fill up. People sweat. And not much has to be said. Meehan thinks more rock bands should have that kind of effect on people. And, of course, he’d like to continue recording and playing shows, and tells me so in a way only Meehan can. “I like playing music with them. Hopefully we’ll do more things that bands are meant to do.” I think he means it. www.persianskirts.bandcamp.com
BONUS BANDS
Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
Five more to add to your datebook
Big Tree Fall Down Featuring members of Boss 501 and Brass Hysteria, Big Tree Fall Down combine the former’s pure ska with the latter’s psycho-ska-punk to create a lean, punk-ish brand of high-energy ska made for skankin’ the night away. Look for newly recorded CD Go Home Tree, You’re Drunk to be released soon. www.facebook.com/bigtreefalldown
Black Fong Frontman of a thousand fabulous outfits, Jack Dammit International (pictured) has brought the funk to Chico Black Fong for decades, beginning with one-time favorite party crew Brutilicus Maximus and now with his everchanging lineup of funmakers in Black Fong. Lately, the Fong has grown, with backup singers and a horn section swelling the caboose of the selfstyled “butt funk” ensemble to a dozen. www.facebook.com/ groups/blackfong
Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy With a metal pedigree that includes singer/guitarist Kirk Williams (Armed for Apocalypse), Adrian Hammons (Cold Blue Mountain) and Matt Shilts (Into the Open Earth), it comes as no surprise that Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy would tip heavy. But with the addition of some melodic passages, straight up rawk riffage and Shimmies drummer Jack Gingrich, there is something new and fun to be had here. www.facebook.com/TuFuGeDi The Vesuvians
—Mark Lore
Electric Canyon Convergence What started as a musical experiment to bring local musicians/songwriters into Electric Canyon Studios to collaborate has grown into a full-fledged superband. Julian Ruck (formerly of Soul Butter and Here for Now) and Musical Brewing Company mandolinist Matthew Stratton’s brainstorm has just yielded its second album in just eight months, and the huge group of Chico ringers will celebrate with a CD-release show (opening for Swamp Zen) at Lost on Main on Feb. 21. Search “Electric Canyon Convergence” at www.facebook.com
The Vesuvians The rumblings of the latest Chico supergroup are growing louder. According to guitarist/singer “Mad” Bob Howard (of The Asskickers fame), the group— which includes bassist Alex Kokkinakis (Disorderly Events), singer/guitarist Scott Pressman (Brutilicus Maximus, Mossy Creek and dozens of others), and drummer Steve Bragg (The Asskickers, Michelin Embers)— is writing songs faster than they can learn ’em. Search “The Vesuvians” at www.facebook.com
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Arts & Culture What’s in a name? With Dead Winter Carpenters, it depends on when you ask ’em. PHOTO BY RYAN SALM
North Shore jam Lake Tahoe quintet is on the road with a new show for every town
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the band name originated, the members of North Lake Tahoe-based Americana group Dead Winter Carpenters exchanged quizzical glances before casting their eyes toward vocalist/guitarist Jesse Dunn for by clarification. Dunn hesitated briefly Laura Davis before launching in. “We all sort of practice amateur PREVIEW: carpentry on our own, in different Dead Winter regards,” Dunn began—before Carpenters switching gears into an entirely difperform Saturday, ferent tale. “There’re a lot of stories Feb. 1, 9 p.m., at Lost on Main. and folklore that surround different Low Flying Birds time periods in Tahoe. The story I and Jess Braun like to go back to is some carpenopen. ters who were working on the railTickets: $12 road above Donner Lake one winadvance (at the DownLo); $15 at ter, and they got snowed in, like the door. Donner Party, and never made it out.” Lost on Main It seems that the answer to the 319 Main St. question depends on where and www.facebook.com/ lostonmain when you ask it, and—kind of like the band’s live shows—there’s hardly ever a repeat performance. That ever-changing element is part of the appeal of Dead Winter Carpenters; you never know what you’re going to get, whether you’ve caught them once, twice, even 20 times. “The risk taking [is the best part]. We definitely don’t play the same show twice, for better or for worse,” said lead guitarist/vocalist Bryan Daines. “It gives an incentive for people who have seen the band like 20 times to continue to come out—the fact that there’s no stock version of anything, each song will vary in some way each performance.” The challenge of constantly mixing things up onstage has kept the five-piece band inspired since its origin in spring of 2010. Sprouting from the roots of a former San Francisco-based bluegrass band— Montana Slim String Band—the group has been consistently on the road, having played approximately 140 shows in 2013. (It was actually kind of a slow 24 CN&R January 30, 2014
year. Other years it’s been around 175 to 180). “We try to think of different material for each show, so we’re constantly pushing our abilities and pushing our brains to be more creative,” explained fiddler/vocalist Jenni Charles. “I think it’s really satisfying to push your creativity—to make it fun for the crowd, which feeds off of knowing we’re actually having fun up there ourselves.” The jam-band approach to their upbeat, harmonizing, bluegrass style gives the players a green light to expand upon a song if they feel the mood is right, both within the band and also with the help of accompanying like-minded musicians. “We know a pretty good extended family of musicians, and we all trust each other onstage enough that we can set a palette for someone else to expand upon and we’re not going to train-wreck,” said Daines of the band’s guests. One such guest performer—Pete Grant, who has performed with everyone from the Grateful Dead to Willie Nelson—brings a beautiful complement of pedal steel to the foot-stompin’ California-country track “Easy Sleep” on the band’s new six-track EP, Dirt Nap (available online at www.deadwintercar penters.bandcamp.com). As for how guest contributions to the recordings translate into the live show, the band’s intention isn’t to identically recreate what happened in the studio for the stage. Just as with its live performances, the band wants its recording to be a bit different from what fans experience at a concert. “We’ve been playing these songs live before we put them in the studio,” explained Charles. “And we tried to think about how we could do the arrangements and instrumentation differently from the live shows, which I think is important.” The group is just starting a month-long jaunt from the Pacific Northwest to Colorado in support of the new EP, and will be making stops at the grand reopening of Lost on Main in Chico (Saturday, Feb. 1) as well as at the WinterWonderGrass festival in Avon, Colo. They will close out the tour on Feb. 25 at The State Room in Salt Lake City, Utah, sharing the bill with Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers. Ω
lowing the craft beer and whiskey connoisseur, Michael Jackson (not the moonwalking one). Appetizers will be served. Th, 1/30, 6:30pm. Free. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.
2pm through 2/9. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.
VENUS IN FUR: The Rogue Theatre players returns to the Blue Room to collaborate on David Ives’ “sexy dark comedy.” Directed by Joe Hilsee. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 2/1. $10-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.
Poetry/Literature BOOK PRESENTATION: Local author Erin McCabe
Music BYU LIVING LEGENDS: Celebrate Native American, Polynesian, and Latin American music, dance and culture with Brigham Young University’s Living Legends show. Th, 1/30, 7pm. $8-$15. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.
TOMMY EMMANUEL WITH MARTIN TAYLOR: Australian guitar whiz Tommy Emmanuel teams up with Martin Taylor to showcase their collaborative album The Colonel & The Governor in an evening of acoustic fingerpicking and entertaining stories. Th, 1/30, 7:30pm. $26-$38. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.
Theater 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 & Su, 2pm through 2/16. $12-$22. Theatre on the
Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
GREASE: Danny and Sandy reunite after a summer of love as the Pink Ladies and T-Birds dance and sing their way through the school year. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su,
KEEP CHICO WEIRD TALENT SHOW Saturday, Feb. 1 El Rey Theatre
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presents her new book I Shall Be Near To You.
Th, 1/30, 7pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.
CHICO STORY SLAM: Tell a five-minute, unscripted story related to a weekly theme. Last Th of every month, 7pm. Free. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.
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stripes, with two dozen contestants, plus an art show in the lobby and featured performances by Chikoko fashion/art collective and the Michelin Embers. Celebrity judges: Brandon Squyres and Adam Switzer, The Beards from The Amazing Race; Megan McMann, host of Wake Up! Action News Now; and Dragonboy of Manas Artspace. Hosted by Arts DEVO. Sa, 2/1, 7:30pm. $12/door, $10/advance (buy online ), or at JMax ticket outlets (Diamond W. Western Wear & Blaze ‘n J’s). El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 894-2300, www.cnr sweetdeals.news review.com.
Friday, Jan. 31 Subud Hall
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Music MIDNIGHT NORTH & WALKING SPANISH: The first show in KZFR’s fundraising Power to the Tower concert series features Midnight North (California country) and Walking Spanish. Sa, 2/1, 7:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.kzfr.org.
Music NEW WAVE PROM: Dress up in your finest New Wave prom wear and get ready to dance. Live performances by Claudette de Versailles, Origin tribal belly dance. Music by DJ Mike Flanagan. F, 1/31, 8pm. $8-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.
Theater BARK! THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
VENUS IN FUR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blue roomtheatre.com.
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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 Friday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692, www.crt shows.com.
GREASE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chico theatercompany.com.
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Music ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA: Dweezil Zappa pays tribute
to his father, the late Frank Zappa. M, 2/3, 8pm. $27.50-$50. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 892-1838.
BARK! THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
Poetry/Literature WORD PLAY: A freestyle open-mic poetry reading ending in a two-round slam. First M of every month, 7-9pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.weebly.com.
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.
CHICO PAPER CO.: Infused metal photographic
prints by Larry Leigh. California River Series, Jake Early’s latest series. Mariam Pakbaz, drawings and paintings by the recent Chico State graduate. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.
HEALING ART GALLERY: Machelle Conn, mixedmedia work by Northern California artist. Gallery highlights works of those touched by cancer. Through 4/17. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.
Jerry Frost, new oil paintings provide a visual journey across the large canvases. Through 2/28. Opens 2/1. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefine arts.com.
MANAS ARTSPACE & GALLERY: Everything Blue,
SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: The Way of the
GREASE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company,
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: Tevye and his five daugh-
Philip Hartigan’s printmaking showcases half-remembered narrative moments and the collection of photographs from Patricia McNair serve as community memoirs. Through 2/1. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
mixed-media group show featuring works inspired by the color blue. Through 3/7. 1441C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.
Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.
166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
1078 GALLERY: Places I’ve Never Been, artist
JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: See Friday. Center for the
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New Year, original art by local makers, plus J. Daniel Walker’s holocaust memorial painting. Through 2/28. 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. Through 2/22. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Pushing Boundaries
—Expanding Horizons, the 10th Janet Turner National Print Competition. This joint exhibition with the Turner surveys new and innovative “must sees” in the print world. Through 2/22. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.
UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: World
Photography and Paintings, Ayse Taskiran’s paintings and photography exhibit nature, architecture and street scenes from Turkey, Greece, and California. 2/3-3/2. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.
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.bidwellpark.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.csu chico.edu/gateway.
VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Into The Blue: Maritime Navigation and the Archeology of Shipwrecks, featuring artifacts recovered from Frolic and the story behind the ship’s history. Tu-Sa through 7/24. Meriam Library Complex, Chico State.
ters 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 (no show 1/30). $15$20. 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.
VENUS IN FUR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.
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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, led a pretty interesting life, hosting Neverland Ranch sleepovers with chimps and the Elephant Man’s bones and all; but Michael Jackson, the writer, lived in a way more people might envy. Jackson spent most of his career gallivanting around the globe sampling fine beers and whiskeys. His 1977 book The World Guide to Beer and EDITOR’S PICK 1993 TV series The Beer Hunter are regarded as essentials for tipplers the world over, and helped to revitalize nearly extinct styles of beer and launch the craft-beer movement. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. will host a free viewing of a crowd-funded documentary about Jackson’s adventures titled The Beer Hunter tonight (Jan. 30) at the Big Room. Proceeds from the film contribute to the fight against Parkinson’s disease, which ultimately claimed Jackson’s life in 2007.
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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.
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.
BIRDING IN BIDWELL: Join the Chico Creek Nature Center for a walk through Bidwell Park and receive a winter field guide to explore common birds in the area. Sa, 2/1, 1011:30am. $10. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.
CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.
SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524, www.chicorec.com.
SOUNDS OF THE VALLEY CHORUS: Women singers welcome to sing in four-part harmony barbershop style. Call for more info. W, 7pm. Marigold Elementary School, 2446 Marigold Ave., (530) 343-5183.
SQUARE-DANCE CLUB: Square-dancing classes for beginners and advanced-level dancers. Call for more info. Th, 7-10pm. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1962.
TRADITIONAL WEST-AFRICAN DANCE: All levels of
drummers and dancers welcome. W, 5:307pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.,
(808) 757-0076.
DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a 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) 891-6524.
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.
FAMILY FUN NIGHT: Butte County 4-H Youth Development Programs hosts their annual fundraiser event with games, bounce house, cake walk and BBQ. Sa, 2/1, 4-8:30pm. $2. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 8954666.
FANCY FEET DANCE: Beginning to experienced dancers welcome to work on the foxtrot, waltz, swing and more to a live band. Tu, 7:30pm. $5-$7. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4015, www.chicorec.com.
FAMILY FUN NIGHT Saturday, Feb. 1 Silver Dollar Fairgrounds SEE COMMUNITY
FARMERS’ MARKET: CHAPMAN: A year-round Certified Farmers’ Market serving as a community forum for healthy-lifestyle promotion and education. F, 2-5:30pm. Chapman Mulberry Community Center, 1010 Cleveland Ave., (530) 624-8844, www.cchaos.org.
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.
FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First
Ave., (530) 518-8300, www.shalomfree clinic.org.
HAPPY HEALING: Experience a variety of healing
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.
There are 59 words— exactly 59 words—in your story !
ONLINE AND EMAIL ENTRIES PREFERRED. Visit www.newsreview.com/fiction59 to submit and read complete rules, 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.
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modalities. F, 7pm. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.
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.
INFINITE RHYTHMS ECSTATIC DANCE: A shoefree, food-free, drug-free, smoke-free dance for you and yours with DJ Clay. Th, 7:309:30pm through 5/8. Opens 1/30. $10. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Ste. 150, (530) 342-0100.
For Kids CHILDREN’S CHOIR OF CHICO SINGERS: Begin rehearsals and register for the 13th choir season. Learn to read and write music and sing in various languages. Through 1/31. Children’s Choir of Chico, 295 E. Washington Ave., (530) 342-2774.
Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive-plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water-quality testing and more. Check Friends of Bidwell Park website for dates and locations. Ongoing. Bidwell Park, www.friends ofbidwellpark.org.
PATRICK RANCH VOLUNTEERS: There are multiple volunteer opportunities available at the museum. Call or email for more info. Ongoing. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 514-3903.
PASKENTA RIDE/RACE: A 100-plus mile bicycle ride, with climbs up to 1,700 feet. Meet at One-Mile on ride day to get maps and instructions. View website for details. Su, 2/2, 7am. One-Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park, http://racechico.com.
SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental-health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. in Paradise, 872-7085.
MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.
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Wat your local comic store can be a bit overwhelming, even for seasoned fans of the format. But if ading into the sea of options available
you don’t know your Ant-Man from your Giant-Man, breaking into the world of comics by can seem downright daunting—espeMatthew cially if you’re not even sure you Craggs want to make the commitment to an ongoing monthly comic series. Graphic novels and trade paperbacks, on the other hand, offer a self-contained story and can be the perfect vehicle for newcomers to discover the medium and for fans to find new favorite writers and artists. Here are four graphic novels that showcase what the medium has to offer; from stark black-and-white teen angst to colorfully cartoonish battles, this is an introduction to the series people will be talking about in 2014:
• Battling Boy, First Second Books When his father sends Battling Boy on a rambling rite of passage to rid Arcopolis of the monsters that threaten the far-off world, the young boy faces not only building-size monstrosities but also local politicians, public accolade and the need for self-reliance. For younger readers, Battling Boy is an identifiable hero— inexperienced and unsure—kicking monster butt and saving the world in a classic tale of good versus evil filled with oddball characters and cartoonish villains. Older readers may look deeper into the story and find government and military satire, plenty of nods to classic comic books and TV shows, and—with the inclusion of Aurora, the young daughter of Arcopolis’ fallen hero—an examination of the father/child relationship. It’s a great story that fully utilizes the medium. Colorist Hilary Sycamore’s use of a single background color throughout a scene or location adds a distinctive atmosphere to an alien world or depth to an Buy local: island floating in space. Writer Bat Comics & Paul Pope optimizes the layout, Games 218 Broadway making a single panel explode with 898-0550 action or a two-page spread overwhelm the reader in its still gravity. Collectors Ink It’s one hell of a ramble. 2593 State • Beautiful Creatures, Yen Press Highway 32 The graphic adaptation of Kami 345-0958 28 CN&R January 30, 2014
Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s 2009 young-adult novel boils down the supernaturally Southern teenage love story to its core. Unlike the 2013 film adaptation, the graphic novel takes a more subdued approach to the story and focuses on Ethan and Lena’s struggle against cursed love, family secrets and a claiming that will determine Lena’s eternal fate. Artist Cassandra Jean’s black-and-white manga style echoes the all-or-nothing extremes of teen angst and love, with the stark visual contrast amplifying the already elevated emotions. The art and subject are a great pairing, and together they create a moody modern fairy tale. • Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon, Marvel In writer Matt Fraction’s hands, Clint Barton is an everyman—an everyman backed by Earth’s mightiest heroes. When he’s not saving the world with the The Avengers or training Kate Bishop to replace him as Hawkeye, Barton is a pissed off New Yorker surrounded by crime and indecency too inconsequential for superheroes to notice. While The Avengers’ job is always the same—save the world—Fraction understands that an alter ego’s life is far from routine, and this allows him to tell a variety of stories that look at the character from different angles, all without losing an ounce of action or the boomerang arrow. • Five Ghosts, Vol. 1: The Haunting of Fabian Gray, Image Comics With plenty of story and art nods to the pulp comics of the 1930s, and similarities to Indiana Jones and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, writer Frank J. Barbiere and artist Chris Mooneyham’s Five Ghosts exists in that time and space where science and magic seem interchangeable, artifacts are more powerful than weapons, and it’s the good guys versus the bad guys until the bitter end. The ongoing series is an exciting adventure with our awesomely named stoic hero, Fabian Gray, who magically—thanks to shards of Dreamstone embedded in his chest (that are slowly killing him)—calls upon the talents of ghosts resembling Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Merlin, Miyamoto Musashi and Dracula so that he may escape run-ins with Nazis and a hostile tribe that worships giant spiders. Full of biplanes, magical cities and dragons, Five Ghosts is a deliciously guilty pleasure that will leave you hunting Ω for the next issue.
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I’ve been a steadfast Rush fan for going on 30 years. I even tried to convince my jazz band teacher in middle school to play “Tom Sawyer,” so I could impress everyone by playing it on my trombone. However, I have mixed feelings when it comes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ new Clockwork Angels Tour concert DVD. First, the performances themselves were fantastic: Songs like “The Body Electric” and “The Analog Kid” are seldom played live, and seeing them brought back to the stage breathed new life into them. “Clockwork Angels” and “The Garden” bookended the portion of the concert that featured songs from their most recent album, 2012’s Clockwork Angels. And the inclusion of the live string ensemble—such an integral part of that album—was brilliant. But then there’s the audio mix and video editing. The sound levels are totally inconsistent, and quick cuts from shot to shot become tiresome and annoying—all of which is baffling given that the band members are notorious sticklers for precision and quality. Overall, the three-hour performance proves that Rush is still relevant as it plays to a new generation of fans. But the production of the DVD itself is not Rush’s finest hour.
Mike Jones Trio Capri Records Mike Jones—the pianist, not the rapper—is a new name to me and, after listening to this CD (his sixth), a very welcome one. The highly tattooed 51-year-old plays two-handed piano in the tradition of long gone masters from the pre-bop era. In his hands, one is reminded that above all, the piano is a percussive instrument—and that lesson is served up on the first track, a novel arrangement of “Bésame Mucho.” Very ably joined by bassist Mike Gurrola and the veteran Jeff Hamilton on drums, Jones toys with the theme, reducing it to a series of stops and starts before showing what he can do with his two hands and 88 keys—which, as it turns out, is plenty. The disc’s repertoire is drawn from the Great American Songbook with Jones et al. getting into high gear on “September Song” and “I’m Old Fashioned,” plus lesser-known items like “’Deed I Do,” “It’s a Wonderful World” and “Day by Day.” Jones has also revived “I Thought About You” and “I Know Why and So Do You,” both of which receive luxuriously relaxed performances. Two tasty blues by Jones are the only originals. This is a magnificent effort by all three men; piano hounds are hereby put on alert.
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True Detective HBO Sundays, 9 p.m. This new eight-part series from HBO is an extended murder mystery with a familiar trope: a pair of mismatched detectives on the trail of a murderer. What makes it stand out is the casting of two iconic actors, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, in the lead roles as Louisiana State Police homicide detectives. Harrelson’s Det. Martin Hart is a good-ol’-boy family man addicted to his job and the power it gives him, to the detriment of his wife and daughters, and McConaughey’s his opposite: a whip-smart, intuitive loner whose brooding pessimism masks his ability to suss out others’ secrets. They’re terrific together, and the rest of the cast is first-rate, too. Add in sharp dialogue, a rich evocation of rural south Louisiana (where the series was filmed) and an intriguing mystery involving a serial killer who creates ritualistic tableaux with the bodies of the women he kills, and you’ve got a winner. Told in flashback via separate interviews with the no-longer-partnered detectives, it’s as much a portrait of two wounded but fascinating men as it is a murder mystery, and Harrelson and McConaughey make the story sing.
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WALKING SPANISH Saturday, Feb. 1 Chico Women’s Club
traditional Irish music session by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.
MANDOLIN JAZZ: With Tyler Mansfield and Jack Lemley F, 1/31, 6:30-9pm. Albatross, 3312 Esplanade, (530) 3456037, www.thealbatross.com.
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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.
NEW WAVE PROM: Dress up in your finest
31FRIDAY 30THURSDAY BYU LIVING LEGENDS: Celebrate Native American, Polynesian, and Latin American music, dance and culture with Brigham Young University’s Living Legends show. Th, 1/30, 7pm. $8-$15. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.
CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.
Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.
IRATION: Dub/rock, sunshine reggae from Santa Barbara, plus party/reggae band Natural Vibrations (Hawaii), and The Movement (Reggae/hip-hop from
New Wave prom wear and get ready to dance. Live performances by Claudette de Versailles, Origin tribal
BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic Philadelphia, Penn.). Th, 1/30, 8pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.
OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Café & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.
TOMMY EMMANUEL WITH MARTIN TAYLOR: Australian guitar whiz Tommy Emmanuel teams up with Martin Taylor to showcase their collaborative album The Colonel & The Governor in an evening of acoustic fingerpicking and entertaining stories. Th, 1/30, 7:30pm. $26-$38. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.
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.
CZ & THE HIGH BEAMZ: Chris Zanardi and his electronic bluegrass jam band The High Beamz. F, 1/31, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
DECADES: Tribute music from the ’50s to
today. F, 1/31, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.
IRISH-MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday-night happy hour with a
Rodeo. F, 1/31, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.
belly dance. Music by DJ Mike Flanagan. F, 1/31, 8pm. $8-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.
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SUNS OF THE PACIFIC & JIVE COULIS: Jack Knight and Byron Dunning’s new band Suns Of The Pacific. Also, Jive Coulis, rock/funk/ blues from Ashland, Ore. F, 1/31, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
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ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: A jam hosted by Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 2-5pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 345-4128.
Lost on Main’s “rebirth” with a night of local music from rock/soul quintet The Rugs, with gypsy rock by The LoLos and country-folk with Broken
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CHICO MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: Photographers display various photos from past local music shows. Live music from Stubblegum, Sofa King and East Wind Bellydance. Sa, 2/1, 6-10pm. $5. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 8922473.
JOURNEY UNAUTHORIZED: A Journey tribute band. Sa, 2/1, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feath erfallscasino.com/brewing-co.
KEEP CHICO WEIRD TALENT SHOW: The CN&R presents a celebration of weirdness of all stripes, with two dozen contestants, plus an art show in the
lobby and featured performances by Chikoko fashion/art collective and the Michelin Embers. Celebrity judges: Brandon Squyres and Adam Switzer, The Beards from The Amazing Race; Megan McMann, host of Wake Up! Action News Now; and Dragonboy of Manas Artspace. Hosted by Arts DEVO. Sa, 2/1, 7:30pm. $12/door, $10/advance (buy online ), or at JMax ticket outlets (Diamond W. Western Wear & Blaze ‘n J’s). El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 894-2300, www.cnrsweet deals.newsreview.com.
MIDNIGHT NORTH & WALKING SPANISH: The first show in KZFR’s Power to the Tower Concert Series features Midnight North (California country) and Walking Spanish. Sa, 2/1, 7:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.kzfr.org.
MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and
ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA: Dweezil Zappa pays tribute to his father, the late Frank Zappa. M, 2/3, 8pm. $27.50-$50.00. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 892-1838.
GRAND REBIRTH: NIGHT TWO: The second
night of the grand re-opening of Lost on Main brings Dead Winter Carpenters (Americana/country from Lake Tahoe) back to Chico. Low Flying Birds (outlaw jamgrass) and Jess Braun (dream-rock songstress) open. Sa, 2/1, 9pm. $12-$15. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.
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One of Charles Mingus’ nicknames was “The Angry Man of Jazz,” largely because the late famed bassist and bandleader was so committed to his artistic vision that he refused to suffer fools in his attempts to realize it, sometimes angrily erupting at fellow musicians and even firing them mid-performance. This volatility is also part of what makes his music so exciting and fun to listen to, simultaneously igniting urges to dance, brawl and drive fast while chain smoking. Mingus is the subject of the Feb. 3rd installment of 1st Monday Jazz at Cafe Coda, where the Angry Man’s music will be brought to life by a band of Chico’s finest jazz players.
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.
Like Birds (post-hardcore) and Sianvar (metal) are joined by Stolas (Las Vegas experimental/prog-rock), The Venetia Fair (punk) and locals Strange Habits. Su, 2/2, 8pm. $10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
5WEDNESDAY BUNNY KISSES: Progressive/instrumental jazz-rock from Seattle, Wash., plus Bay Area’s Glimpse Trio with local acts Pageant Dads and Avant Groove. W, 2/5, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafe coda.com.
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JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Live jazz happy hour with the Carey Robinson Trio. M, 57pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.we ebly.com.
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critics the world over are using those facts to craft analogies poking fun at this highly derivative, shockingly bad movie. For by that is what we do. Emiliano GarciaNormally, I’d do the same. I’d say Sarnoff something about it being a soulless, CGI monstrosity stitched together from should-be-dead movies like Highlander, Blade and The Matrix, and I’d hope you’d laugh, and I’d hope you’d like me. The thought, though, of coming up with my own mocking metaphors is making me sleepy and weak. Because, really, my reaction to I, Frankenstein is I, Frankenstein simply sadness and fear. I’m sad and Starring Aaron scared because an entire demographic Eckhart, Bill of young people is growing up with Nighy, Miranda Otto and Yvonne absolute cultural garbage. They started, Strahovski. as adolescents, with “young adult” fanDirected by tasy books, and everything seemed Stuart Beattie. fine. Their parents were just happy that Cinemark 14 and they were reading. But they didn’t tranFeather River Cinemas. Rated sition. It turns out that those really big PG-13. young-adult novels didn’t lead to increasingly sophisticated engagement with art. Instead, it was simply the gateway literature to a lifetime of “emotionally young-adult” crap about warlocks, vampires and goddamned gargoyles. Gargoyles? Really? Maybe I’m just old, pretentious, Poor grumpy. Maybe I’m just like my uncle, for whom rap was just a bunch of dumb talking and noise—while I was connecting with it in a way I knew he Fair couldn’t understand. Maybe it’s all subjective; maybe it’s a generational thing; maybe I just don’t get it. Good Yet, if I’m wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Let me give you, dear reader, a brief synopsis of what this movie is about. Very Good It goes like this: As humans go about their usual business, there is, in fact, an invisible, centuries-old battle Excellent taking place between demons—toothy,
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Opening this week Inside Llewyn Davis
The latest comedy/drama from Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is a close look at a week in the life of a struggling Greenwich Village folk singer (played by Oscar Isaac), who in 1961 is couch-surfing with an abandoned cat in tow as he tries to reignite his career. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
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The latest from screenwriter-director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking) stars Kate Winslet as a depressed single mother who is forced by an escaped ex-con to offer him refuge in the home she shares with her teenage son. As time goes by, the man with the complicated past starts to bond with his hosts. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
The Saratov Approach
The most recent entry in the “Mormon cinema” genre is based on the real-life events surrounding two Mormon missionaries who were kidnapped in Russia in 1998 and held for ransom. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
That Awkward Moment
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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. Rated R —J.C.S.
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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 bigname 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, drugaddicted, cancer-plagued 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 brother-in-law, Julianne Nicholson as the youngest of her daughters, Misty Upham as an inhouse caregiver, Shepard—come as welcome relief. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.
Frozen
The new Disney computer-animated feature is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Snow Queen. In the film, a young princess embarks on an epic journey to find her sister—the Snow Queen— whose magical powers have buried the kingdom in a never-ending winter. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.
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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
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Tom Clancy’s seminal character Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is the one who gets the spectacular tasks in this Clancy-like adventure tale, but CIA agent Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner)—Pine’s mentor/minder/ father figure/enabler—has the slightly more central, pivotal and deeply heroic role. 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 formative adventures and so miraculously present for each key twist that his guardian-angel status seems more 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. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.
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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 twothirds. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.
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BELLY UP TO THE BEER LAB I will not lie to you, faithful readers. There are days when my job is pretty great. Take last Friday, when by 10:30 a.m. I was taking my first sips of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and “taking notes” on how its minimal building blocks—water, a couple of varieties of malted two-row barley (pale and caramel), three varieties of hops (magnum, perle and the signature citrusy Cascade), and yeast—contribute to the flavor of the brewery’s flagship product. From my notes: “Good beer at 10:30 a.m. is good.” The discussion of the flavor profile of the flagship beer of Chico’s home brewery was being led by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Tour Support Lead John Pearson, and we were sitting around a table set with jars of brewing ingredients during what would be an introduction to a three-hour tour of the Sierra Nevada brewery. Dubbed the Beer Geek Tour, the new feature costs $25 to join a guide and no more than five other guests on a “leave-a-trail-of-bread-crumbs” expedition. So, given that the regular one-hour tour (which includes sampling in the tasting room) is free, what extras do you get for ponying up the dough? In addition to getting an extended excursion into the guts of the brewery with one of those naturally chill Sierra Nevada workers who know a lot about beer and are obviously stoked to be sharing their passion (the friendly Pearson definitely fits the bill), you also get to taste not just good beer, but really, really good beer. On this trip, we got samples pulled from “pig tails” (little curly-cue spouts) tapped right into the tanks of fermenting beer, including the classic Porter, a new white IPA spiked with Belgian yeast called Snow Wit, and the best Pale Ale I’ve every had, served just as it came through its final filtration through sheets of cotton. “That’s as fresh as it gets,” Pearson said. Damn straight! And things got even better back at the tasting room, as Pearson and his cohorts brought out a pinch-yourself line-up: a sample (in a beaker!) of the upcoming pale ale collaboration with Allagash Brewing Co. (featuring the Maine Pouring the good stuff. brewery’s house strain of Belgian yeast); a 2-year-old bottle of Brux; a fresh sample of the honey rye ale made by winners of the public Beer Camp contest; and a bottle of the Narwhal imperial IPA aged for 10 months in bourbon barrels. All were amazing, but the star was the barrel-aged Narwhal, which was pure rich, rum-soaked raisin-bread-like comfort. Almost a completely different beer than the regular Narwhal, and one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Oh, and Beer Geek Tour guests will also get to take home an unfilled growler and an exclusive-to-Beer-Geek-Tourists T-shirt, so there’s your $25 back. For now, Beer Geek Tours happen on Fridays only. Call the tour desk at 899-4776 to reserve a spot. DEVOtions • Freakin’: Join the CN&R this Saturday as we let our freak flags fly at the inaugural Keep Chico Weird Talent Show, Saturday, Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m. (doors 7 p.m.), at the El Rey Theatre. • A time to weep: On Monday, Jan. 27, Pete Seeger died at the age of 94. The man rode trains with Woody Guthrie, sang for Martin Luther King Jr. and helped Bob Dylan get his start. One of the icons of American folk music, Seeger helped usher in the folk-music revival of the 1960s, and lived a life devoted to activism alongside his singing—from anti-war and labor movements in the 1930s and ’40s, to the civil-rights movement, to sitting in on Occupy Wall Street protests in his 90s. Easily one of the greatest Americans of the last century. Rest in peace. Pete Seeger
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Butte Meadows Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico
$220,000 $725,000 $685,000 $675,000 $570,000 $425,000 $415,500 $393,000 $385,000 $381,500
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1396 4802 3415 3808 4169 2400 2169 1879 2015 1928
1340 W Sacramento Ave 2344 Tiffany Way 1030 Gateway Ln 705 Bradford Ct 224 Windrose Ct 1719 Arbutus Ave 180 Fairgate Ln 374 W Lassen Ave 2589 El Paso Way 573 E 4th St
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Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico
$360,000 $310,000 $295,000 $282,000 $278,000 $225,000 $220,000 $215,000 $211,500 $205,000
4/ 3 4/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 4/ 2 2/ 1 3/ 2 2/ 1 3/ 1.5 3/ 2
2678 2150 1824 1723 1741 1026 1136 964 1150 1572
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50 Rose Avenue • chico Classic Chico home in one of our best country settings, 1 mile from Downtown! 2,200 sq.ft., 4bd/2ba ranch-style home on 2/3 of an acre, beautiful pool & rock waterfall. Full length back deck & park-like backyard.. The living room/dining room opens to the kitchen from the front entry, with 3 bedrooms & bath to the left, master & bath to the right. The fourth wing feeding the kitchen is the giant bonus room to the rear. Hardwood floors, bathroom upgrades, new paint inside & out. Two car garage AND LARGE SHOP. This home has been lovingly cared for & maintained!
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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of January 13, 2014 – January 17, 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. ADDRESS
3961 Ord Ferry Rd 4509 Cable Bridge Dr 137 W 21st St 555 Vallombrosa Ave 17 9461 Yokum St 9098 Goodspeed St 1857 Laurel St 14839 Humbug Rd 6228 Pueblo Dr 14428 Essex Ct 36 CN&R January 30, 2014
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Chico Chico Chico Chico Dayton Durham Gridley Magalia Magalia Magalia
$194,000 $180,000 $179,000 $134,000 $204,000 $110,000 $183,000 $184,000 $167,500 $149,000
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1186 450 1423 952 1909 1780 1809 1582 1544 1638
80 Rex Ln 71 Galaxy Ave 40 Bessie Ln 204 Windward Way 1865 Conifer Dr 5019 Arden Way 520 Fir St 1503 Bille Rd 479 Nottingham Dr 5944 Del Mar Ave
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Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise
$275,000 $155,000 $140,000 $106,000 $220,000 $213,500 $190,000 $165,000 $165,000 $160,000
2/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 2 3/ 2.5 4/ 3.5 3/ 1.5 2/ 2 2/ 2
1520 1671 1288 1583 1377 1666 2259 1188 1370 1350
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 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
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,
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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. 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
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CHICO AREA, KW COMMERCIAL NORTH STATE at 1196 E. Lassen Ave Suite 130 Chico, CA 95973. BCHM CORPORATION 1196 E. Lassen Avenue Suite 130 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JOANNE MADLUNG, CEO Dated: January 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000055 Published: January 30, February 6,13,20, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TRUCKARONI at 1049 Cherry St Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT BUSICK 776 E 6th St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT BUSICK Dated: January 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000114 Published: January 30, February 6,13,20, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YUROK D AND P, YUROK DESIGNS AND PHOTOGRAPHY JOLENE A SMITH 656 East Avenue, Unit B Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOLENE SMITH Dated: January 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000121 Published: January 30, February 6,13,20, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FIRE LITIGATION CONSULTING, PARADISE SAILBAGS at 82 Lariat Loop Oroville, CA 95966. DANNY K NICHOLS 82 Lariat Loop oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DANNY K. NICHOLS Dated: January 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000146 Published: January 30, February 6,13,20, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLISS NAIL AND SPA at 23 Forest Ave Suite 100 Chico, CA 95928. MANG LEPHAM 472 Entler Ave Chico, CA 95928. Signed: MANG LEPHAM Dated: January 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000156 Published: January 30, February 6,13,20, 2014
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CIRCULATE PETITION Notice is hereby given by the persons whose names appear hereon of their intention to circulate a petition within the County of Butte for the purpose of placing an Initiative on the November 4, 2014 ballot. These persons request that a ballot title and summary be prepared. If approved by voters, the Initiative would adopt reasonable restrictions on the cultivation of medical marijuana, including, but not limited to the following: restrictions on the number of plants which could be grown on each parcel of real property, a requirement that all medical marijuana plants grown on each parcel be set back specified distance from the property line, requirements prohibiting cultivation of medical marijuana within a specified distance from schools, youth oriented facilities, school bus stops and churches, a prohibition from cultivating medical marijuana in the public view, environmental requirements and a requirement that a permitted dwelling exist on every parcel on which medical marijuana is cultivated. STATEMENT OF THE REASONS FOR THE PROPOSED ACTION 1. The Initiative would set forth reasonable restrictions on the cultivation of medical marijuana, designed to protect the public health, safety and welfare. 2. The Initiative would sharply restrict the amount of medical marijuana that can be grown on small parcels in urban areas, in order to ensure, to the extent possible, that cultivation of medical marijuana does not generate criminal activity or unreasonably impact public safety in urban residential areas. 3. The Initiative would allow for a reasonable amount of medical marijuana to be grown, predominantly in rural areas of the County, to establish and preserve access for qualified medical marijuana patients. 4. The initiative would preserve the status quo, by adopting the same restrictions adopted by the Board of Supervisors on December 10, 2014. Andrew A. Merkel 844 Morninghome Ct. Chico, CA 95926 Margaret Anne Murphy 100 Penzance #118 Chico, CA 95973 Michael Benson 469 E. 5th St., Chico, CA 95926 Shirley Reaves 1051 E. Lassen Ave. #10 Chico, CA 95973
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Denice A. Lessard 2910 Morseman Ave #C Chico, CA 95973 INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE VOTERS The county counsel has prepared the following title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure: INITIATIVE MEASURE TO ENACT VOTER APPROVED COUNTY ORDINANCE ON MARIJUANA CULTIVATION The initiative’s purpose is to repeal and replace Butte County’s current ordinance restricting medical marijuana cultivation with the restrictions that were in place in December 2013. If this initiative is approved by a majority of the voters, it will replace any outstanding local ordinance restricting marijuana cultivation at that time and may only be changed by a majority vote of the people of Butte County. The most significant terms of the initiative are: The ordinance imposes cultivation limits by lot size and plant count: Lot size Plants permitted 0-0.5 acre Indoor only (detached structure no larger than 120 sq. feet) 0.5-1.5 acres Indoor or outdoor - 6 mature/12 immature plants maximum 1.5-3.0 acres Indoor or outdoor - 18 mature/36 immature plants maximum 3.0-5.0 acres Indoor or outdoor - 24 mature/48 immature plants maximum 5.0-10.0 acres Indoor or outdoor - 48 mature/96 immature plants maximum 10.0-20.0 acres Indoor or outdoor - 66 mature/99 immature plants maximum 20.0-40.0 acres Indoor or outdoor - 72 mature/99 immature plants maximum 40.0 acres plus Indoor or outdoor - 99 plants maximum Cultivation setbacks from the boundary line of the premises shall be: Lot size Setback 0-0.5 acre 15 feet 0.5-1.5 acres 15 feet 1.5-3.0 acres 20 feet 3.0-5.0 acres 25 feet 5.0-10.0 acres 50 feet 10.0-20.0 acres 75 feet 20.0-40.0 acres 100 feet 40 acres plus 100 feet -Persons complaining about ordinance violations must (a) provide their name and address and (b) reside within 1,500 feet of the property that is the subject of the complaint (which shall be kept confidential at any hearing). There are exceptions for administrators of schools, churches, parks, business owners, and landlords. - Growers must be Butte County residents for one year prior to cultivating and collective members must be Butte County residents or an immediate family member or primary caregiver of a Butte County resident. - All growers must (1) have a permitted permanent water well or connection to a municipal water source, (2) not engage in unpermitted drawing of water and (3) not permit illegal discharges of water from the premises. -Cultivation is prohibited: -Within 1,000 feet of a youth-oriented facility, school, park, church or residential treatment facility; -Within 600 feet of a school bus stop; -Outdoors within 100 feet of any occupied residential structure located on a separate parcel, with exceptions; - In any location where the plants are visible from the public right of way; and - Certain designated zones. - If growers are not legal owners of the parcel, they shall obtain the landlord’s written consent to cultivate marijuana.
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- Fencing is required unless grown on 5 acres or more and out of sight from public view. - The County will enforce the ordinance through nuisance abatement procedures and other remedies. - Civil penalties shall be $500.00 per day for the first violation and $1,000.00 per day for each subsequent violation. Published: January 30, 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
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an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 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
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Attorney for Petitioner: MICHAEL MORAN 686 Rio Lindo Avenue Chico, CA 95926 Published: January 16,23,30, 2014
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ALLAN E. FORBES To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ALLAN E. FORBES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARY ANN MICHELON AND JENNIFER ANN MACARTHY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: MARY ANN MICHELON AND JENNIFER ANN MACARTHY 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: Date: February 20, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: PROBATE Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave
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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: PR40922 Attorney for Petitioner: Richard S. Matson 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 Published: January 30, February 6,13, 2014
NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held on February 7, 2014 at 11:30am. The property is stored at Garden Drive Mini Storage & U-Haul. Oroville, CA 95965. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: BEVERLY ZELLER: Pans, lamps, generator, rocking chair, end table, dresser/chest of drawers. KALENE VANLEER: Baby furniture, trunks, office chair, TV, stereo equipment, recliner, coffee/end tables, pictures/ paintings, entertainment center, chest of drawers, golf clubs. SHANELL THOMAS: Children’s car bed, TV/speakers GAYLE KAMPHOUSE: Chairs, TV, clothing/bedding, boxes. GARY JUDD: Mattress, desk/ office chair, boxes. ALONNAH MCGRATH: Paintings/artwork, mattress, clothing/bedding, vacuum and boxes. This notice is given in accordance with the provisions of Section 21700 et seq of the Business & Professions Code of the State of California. J. Michael’s Auction & Vehicle Lien Service, Inc. Bond #1836232 Published: January 30, February 6, 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
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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
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RACHEL KERRY CRIBB filed a petition with this court for a decree changing petitioner’s name as follows: Present name: RACHEL KERRY CRIBB Proposed name: RAY KEELAN CRIBB THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 26, 2014 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept.: TBA The address of the court is: 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: January 9, 2014 Case Number: 161196 Published: January 30, February 6,13,20, 2014
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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
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my 15th birthday, I finally figured out that eating dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory problems. From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow’s milk. My health improved. I kept up this regimen for years. But a month ago, I decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense. Just for the fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a tub of organic vanilla yogurt. To my shock, there was no hell to pay. I was free of snot. In the last few weeks, I have feasted regularly on all the creamy goodies I’ve been missing. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally momentous shift is possible for you. Some taboo you have honored for a long time, some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be broken.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psycholo-
gist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile, psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are inferior to wild guesses. So, does this mean you should never trust any experts? No. But it’s important to approach them with extra skepticism right now. The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own intuition.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m a big fan
of logic and reason, and I urge you to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very good thing. The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be. Having said that, I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination. Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate. Pay attention to your dreams, and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies, and see yourself as a mythic hero in life’s divine drama. Moral of the story: Both the rational and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sorry, Can-
cerian, you won’t be able to transform lead into gold anytime soon. You won’t suddenly acquire the wizardly power to heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and misogynists. Nor will you be able to cast an effective love spell on a sexy someone who has always resisted your charms. That’s the bad news. The good news is this: If you focus on performing less spectacular magic, you could accomplish minor miracles. For example, you might diminish an adversary’s ability to disturb you. You could welcome into your life a source of love you have ignored or underestimated. And you may be able to discover a secret you hid from yourself a long time ago.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Cosmopolitan mag-
azine is famous for offering tips on how to spice up one’s sex life. Here’s an example: “Take a few of your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations, like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Put a dollop of, say, peanut butter on an area where you’d like to be licked.” That sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way. In any case, I recommend that you don’t follow advice like that, especially in the coming days. It’s true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren’t advisable right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and graceful risks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are not as broken as you may think you are. Your wounds aren’t as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will prove it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: Life will attempt to prove it to you—and not just
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in some mild, halfhearted way, either. The evidence it offers will be robust and unimpeachable. But here’s my question, Virgo: Will you be so attached to your pain that you refuse to even see, let alone explore, the dramatic proof you are offered? I hope not!
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kenneth
Landon Faulkner has always loved hiking hills. The Yuba City resident and foster family worker also enjoys helping others. A few months ago he hooked up with the organization Peak 7 Adventures. The Oregon/Washington-based nonprofit helps disadvantaged, at-risk youth by facilitating outdoor adventures such as whitewater rafting, backpacking and kayaking. For their part, Landon and his cousin Andrew are planning a fundraising mountain hike called Climb for Change as a benefit for Peak 7. Their ambitious plan is to climb both Lassen Peak and neighboring Brokeoff Mountain within the span of 30 hours (Feb. 21-22). Visit www.Active.com/donate/climb4Change to make a donation.
Rexroth wrote a poem called “A Sword in a Cloud of Light.” I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don’t want to get too intellectual about the reasons why, but I will say this: The cloud of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every
autumn, the bird species known as the Clark’s Nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000 pine nuts in 5,000 places over a 15-square-mile area. The amazing thing is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn’t as prodigious as that, but it’s far better than you realize. And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your upcoming decisions will be highly effective if you draw on the wisdom gained from past events¡ªespecially those events that foreshadowed the transition you will soon be going through.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Can you imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week. For best results, don’t try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 percent.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a
favorable time to gather up resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect lots of inside information. I won’t call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it’s fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use—because right now is also a favorable time to prepare for future adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help and inside information.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Extrava-
gant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th-century England. They could soar as high as 4 feet above a woman’s head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here’s a second-best option: Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic license to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of your
anti-role models in the coming weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem’s tune “Love the Way You Lie.” Study the following lyrics, mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine, on psychological, spiritual and interpersonal levels, you embody the exact opposite of the attitude they express: “Just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that’s all right, because I like the way it hurts / Just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that’s all right, because I love the way you lie.” To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that would tempt you to feel and act like that.
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What’s the inspiration for the hike? Well, I really like helping disadvantaged people, especially those in their teens, which is a time when life can really suck. My motto has always been, “Make adventures.” I enjoy the outdoors so I had the idea of hiking to help them.
How is the fundraising going so far? We’re taking donations of any amount. The biggest have been $250 to $300, but some are just $10. Right now we have 42 percent of our goal—$3,250—and we launched only five days ago. [By press time the donations had exceeded 70 percent of the goal.] So we’re doing exceptionally well.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): On
by Rob Brezsny
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For the week of January 30, 2014
How have you been preparing? I’ll have a goose-down sleeping bag with a pad, plus a down jacket, snow shoes and an ice ax. I’ve also been running 25 to 30 miles a week and hiking with a 30- to 40-pound pack in similar conditions.
What will you eat? We’ll eat high-calorie, high-fat foods like Snickers bars and other snacks. At night we’ll eat a hot meal using a little stove to heat things like dehydrated spaghetti and meatballs.
How much do the Peak 7 Adventures outings cost? If the kid or their parents don’t have much money, they can pay as little as $5. If they absolutely don’t have any money, they can go for free and do community service. But they are provided with the essentials such as food, backpacks and sunscreen.
What are your future plans?
How harsh are the conditions this time of year? Well, in February the average day temperature is 28 degrees, and at night it’s in the single digits. The elevation will be around 10,000 feet with a 45-degree grade in 20 to 40 feet of snow, so we have to move quickly.
Nothing concrete, but I’d like to do a rim-torim run of the Grand Canyon, maybe as another fundraiser for Peak 7. I’d run from one side of the canyon, down to the basin and back up the other side.
FROM THE EDGE
by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net
Prep When John Kennedy was killed, I was in class at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a few minutes later in the student lounge I found out what had happened in Texas. I was driving my route as a collector for the post office when Malcolm X was murdered. Martin Luther King was killed during our busy time of the month in my department at Harris Trust and Savings Bank, and we were working that evening when somebody told us. I was at my apartment the morning my father died, and probably on my way to the nursing home when my mother breathed her last. I was at home in our bedroom with Janice at the end. Now I want to know where I’ll be when I die. I never thought I’d die in Chicago. It took me nearly 40 years to get out, and I never once considered not leaving. I remember wanting not to die in Minnesota, although many people have done so successfully. I didn’t rule Minnesota out based on anything Minnesota had done. It was good to me, and I liked it there, but I never felt like a Minnesotan, probably because I wasn’t. I could die in Chico; I feel good enough here to die, comfortable enough to let it all go. I could go somewhere else to die, though, at least in theory, as long as
it’s warm. I think I could stand the tropics. One complication is that my chosen disposal method has changed. For many years, I wanted my body to be cremated and the ashes scattered somewhere sensible. Now I’d much rather have a green burial, preferably in an unmarked grave; I’d just as soon be food for other Earthlings and save burning all that methane. What happens after I’m gone is up to somebody else, though, and I’m gonna stop thinking about it right now. I’ve got to think about my wills, though. I’ve got little or nothing to leave my heirs, and still there are ways to make things easier when I’m gone than they might be if I don’t do anything. The will that really looms for me is an ethical will, which has so far been too hard to do. The examples I’ve read are attempts to pass on the writer’s values. My problem is that I’m still not convinced that my values ought to be adopted. I’ve changed my mind about so much that I’m reluctant to make any blanket statements or recommendations, although as a young man I missed no such opportunity. The older I get the less I know, and I don’t think it’s just galloping senility, although I suppose I’d be the last to find out. January 30, 2014
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