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The tragedy of Cecil The media—and the Internet in particular—have been exploding over the
Why not Medicare for all? W question. We didn’t have personal computers back then. Remarkably, during that year, without hat computer were you using in 1966? Trick
computers and 11 months after the Medicare bill became law, the government began paying medical bills for 18.9 million seniors. Medicare turns 50 years old today (July 30) and its benefits to public health have been profound. In 1962, 48 percent of elderly Americans lacked health insurance and often had to forgo necessary treatment. Now, only 2 percent of the elderly lack health insurby ance. Between 1965 and 1984, David Potter life expectancy for 65-year-old Americans improved by 15 percent. The author has Having universal health insurpracticed medicine ance is also good for our financial in Chico since 1981. He is a member of health. The poverty rate for senior the Chico chapter citizens was 29 percent in 1965 of Physicians for and it’s only 9 percent today. a National Health Meanwhile, for people without Program, a national Medicare, medical bills are the organization that most common cause of personal advocates for bankruptcy in the United States. an improved and expanded Medicare When asked, Medicare for all. beneficiaries like Medicare. And it is quite efficient for a government program. Administrative overhead at 4
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Medicare is 3 percent, while private insurance companies are said to be five to nine times more expensive. Of course, Medicare doesn’t cover most of us before we reach the age of 65. Recently, Dr. Linda Fried, dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, made a strong argument for extending Medicare to a younger age group with an emphasis on preventative medicine. The core of her argument is that people who arrive at 65 in better health are more likely to stay healthy with better quality of life and lower health care costs after age 65. Many of us, including thousands of doctors and a majority of Americans in one poll, favor extending Medicare to Americans of all ages. This would be a fair and efficient way to provide the universal health care coverage that prevails in most of the other industrialized countries in the world. Many of those countries spend less on health care and get better health statistics than we do. The program has evolved and improved along the way, adding home health services, hospice care and prescription drug coverage, just to name a few innovations. And other improvements may be necessary. Politicians talk about cutting or privatizing Medicare, but I see no reason to jeopardize a program that is this popular, efficient and effective. Medicare needs to be preserved and, where necessary, improved. As we celebrate Medicare’s 50th birthday this month, we should ask ourselves this: Why not Medicare for all? □
news of Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer’s involvement in the killing of a beloved lion named Cecil in Africa. Cecil, a 13-year-old black-mane lion, was often seen wandering the grounds of a Zimbabwean national park. According to CNN, Palmer reportedly paid between $50,000 and $55,000 for the hunt, which included luring Cecil with food out of the park and shooting him with a bow and arrow, which wounded but didn’t kill him. Forty hours later, the hunting group tracked the lion down and shot him with a gun before skinning and beheading him. What’s more, as a dominant male, Cecil’s death could have further repercussions, as it could lead to additional losses as other males fight to take his place in his pride, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Palmer issued a statement after the Internet unleashed a firestorm against him. He insists he enlisted professional guides to ensure a legal hunt. But the truth is, the Zimbabwean landowner and hunting guide were scheduled to appear in court Wednesday (July 29) on illegal poaching charges—the landowner wasn’t allotted a lion in his 2015 hunting quota. While lion numbers aren’t as low as, say, black rhinos (a Texan reportedly paid $350,000 to kill one in Namibia earlier this year), they are dwindling, according to IFAW. In the past three decades, they’ve declined 60 percent. Killing any lion should be forbidden. We are deeply saddened by the loss of Cecil, but encouraged by the rage rippling through the American people in its wake. Big-game hunting is an expensive sport mostly practiced by rich Americans. We must stop this arrogant behavior. Sure, we can join the masses and berate Palmer on his Facebook or Yelp sites, but let’s step it up a notch. Sign the online petition requesting the Zimbabwean government ban trophy hunting. Donate to IFAW or one of the many other organizations working to put an end to trophy hunting, particularly of endangered species. With our action, Cecil’s legacy will live on. □
There’s a place for kids We were skeptical upon first hearing of a local woman’s plan to open a
children’s museum on the 300 block of Main Street, which is lined by four bars—the Crazy Horse Saloon, Duffy’s Tavern, Lost on Main and the DownLo. It was hard to imagine families gravitating to the space formerly occupied by the Underground on what’s likely the single most nightlife-oriented block in all of Chico. But after looking into it further (see last week’s Newslines story “For the kids,” by Ken Smith), we see the value in Dana Leslie’s plan to open Chico Children’s Museum, a place for hands-on play and interaction emphasizing real-world professions. The concept is intriguing, but the kicker is Leslie’s plan to revitalize the space. “We want to help clean it up and make the entire block something people can be proud of,” she said. That’s something we can get behind. Which reminds us of another revitalization effort, albeit one that would have catered to a very different clientele—local businessman Jon Scott’s proposal to rezone downtown to allow for a seven-table card room and restaurant in the vacant spaces at the derelict corner of Third and Main streets. That was voted down 5-1 by the Chico City Council last December, mostly based on business owners’ concerns of allowing gambling downtown, but we applaud his vision of giving the corner a much-needed facelift. We’re behind any effort to clean up the eyesore that once was the Underground and the children’s museum seems like a good, wholesome option. If we really want to attract more families downtown, particularly to the nearby City Plaza, this is a step in the right direction. Leslie is hoping Chico is supportive enough to help raise about $400,000 to open the museum sometime in 2016. (Donate at chicochildrensmuseum. org.) That’s no chump change, and it’s going to take a concerted effort from the community. Best of luck to you, Leslie. □
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Buzz-cut barbecue I sure was surprised when I received an invitation to the vice mayor’s recent “Re-Election Round-Up.” It came via Facebook a few weeks ago for the July 17 shindig. When I clicked on the link, things made much more sense. The invite had come via my dad, a tea party Republican, who along with my lovely stepmother (that’s not sarcasm, she’s a wonderful woman), evidently didn’t mind shelling out for the $50-per-plate barbecue. This is the first I’d heard about Sean “F-Bomb” Morgan’s plans to seek a second term on Chico’s City Council. It’s not surprising or anything, although it does seem a little early in the game, since we’re 15-plus months away from the general election. Maybe the fact that he’s running during a presidential year has him worried. Or maybe he thinks the whole cursing from the dais and at minimum-wageearning sandwich makers might have put a bad taste in his constituents’ mouths. In any case, he’s out there early. Morgan’s Facebook page is filled with photos from the party and he certainly brought in the local trifecta of rightwing speakers: newly anointed conservative Assemblyman James Gallagher, state Sen. Jim Nielsen and U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, whom I’ve written about several times in this space, especially as it relates to his vote to decrease food stamps for the poor while simultaneously increasing crop insurance (i.e., subsidies) for wealthy farmers such as himself. Speaking of LaMalfa, last week he voted with a majority of the House in favor of the so-called Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015. Food activists have a few other names for that proposed law: the Monsanto Dream Act and the DARK Act (Deny Americans the Right to Know), since what it would do is eliminate states’ ability to require that foods containing genetically modified organisms be labeled as such. Taking away states’ rights, huh? Sounds pretty un-American to me. But back to that barbecue … I don’t recognize a lot of the “regular folk” in attendance, but based on a picture of a poster thanking the hosts and sponsors, the party included a who’s who of the local building and business communities. Interestingly, Recology is listed as a host, which seems odd and a pretty clear conflict of interest considering that the city of Chico is in the middle of negotiations on a franchise agreement with that wastehauler. You, too, dear readers, can check out all of the photos from this affair on Morgan’s public Facebook page (unless he decides to pull them down). You’ll recognize a few retired and current members of the local law enforcement community, including Chico Police Officer Peter Durfee. He’s the president of the Chico Police Officers’ Association who ran that propaganda campaign telling Chicoans that the town was going to hell in a handbasket. Durfee’s been quiet on that front since the City Council (all the conservatives, plus Ann Schwab) voted to give the members of the police union a raise. There’s a nice photo of Durfee and Morgan (the biggest advocate for increasing their pay) having a drink together. Seems like they have a lot in common. I mean, clearly they go to the same barber.
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Re “Arts Devo” (by Jason Cassidy, July 23): Congratulations to Nick Andrew, owner of LaSalles on Broadway in downtown Chico. Andrew’s new idea to convert, or revert, LaSalles, which over the years has devolved from being Chico’s original upscale and very popular “fern bar” into a not-soattractive live music venue, is an excellent plan that will see the traditional downtown area move further into becoming an eclectic collection of excellent restaurants. This is a strong current trend in the downtown area and Andrew is wise to join in. LaSalles has needed something like this for many years. The original LaSalles, owned by Fred Marken, longtime downtown business leader and all around colorful character back in the 1970s, served excellent food as well as quality drinks and occasional music. As mentioned, it was a very popular “fern bar”type venue, drawing customers from Red Bluff down to the Marysville-Yuba City area and everywhere in between. Back in the day, LaSalles was the destination of many of Chico’s business owners. A standard salutation, or exit comment was, “I’ll see you at LaSalles after work.” Maybe that will come about again. Good luck to Nick Andrew!
Re “More on sidewalk bikers” (Letters, by Michele French, July 23): I’m curious about Michele French’s definition of “callous disregard for others.” I learned in physics that the energy applied to an object is equal to 1/2 mass times velocity squared. This puts a collision between a bicycle (200 pounds) and a pedestrian at 700 foot-pounds at 10 mph, and a collision between a car (2,000 pounds) and a pedestrian at 40,000 foot-pounds at 25 mph. For comparison, a major league fastball impacts with 5,600 footpounds and a professional boxer can land a punch with 700 footpounds of force. I’d like to volunteer my services to determine scientifically the definition of welfare if Michele will as well. I’ll allow a 200-pound bicyclist traveling 10 mph to collide with me 50 times if she will allow a car traveling 25 mph to collide with her once.
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Re “Dry lakes spell doom” (Greenways, by Virginia Arthur, July 9): Thank you for this insight into our wilderness areas or what’s left of them. I don’t go up to the Sierras anymore for this reason. But, I recently hiked with friends up the Yahi Trail to swim in each of the swimming holes as we went up the trail. We were appalled at all the garbage and disgusting stuff that’s left behind by the public. We hauled, up from the ponds, as much stuff as we could but were overwhelmed by the volume. After writing letters to the council people and supervisors to give them insight into this situation, I was so disappointed to read last week that the gates will now be open for the public to haul in their garbage. The mountain bikers are doing so much damage to the open areas that we were all supposed to enjoy. The wilderness, as I know it in this area, is just gone. M. Moore Chico
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The tides are a-changin’ At last! A Marxist pope (capitalism is “the dung of the Devil”). And the end of the Civil War (South Carolina takes down its Confederate flag). And maybe the end of the Civil War (U.S. reopens relations with Cuba). What next? Rain? Anne Blake Chico
Focus is blurred While Donald Trump’s foolishness was covered night and day last week, shocking things were happening in Ukraine—not covered by our media. The Ukraine army (largely made up of private militia) were in the process of revolting against their Kiev government and demanding an end to the Minsk OSCE ceasefire agreement (which they weren’t honoring) and demanding all-out war on the western states of Donetsk and Lugansk. Again there were thousands in the streets of Kiev’s Maidan Square; again there were Right Sector (fascist) red and black flags with the neo-Nazi swastikas wafting in the breeze. The Right Sector was legitimized last spring because it was aided by the U.S. State Department (Google “Victoria Nuland”) to overthrow the previous pro-Russian
government and promote the ensuing civil war. Ukrainian people suffer misery and death now because of U.S. foreign policies that bring about chaos. Linda Furr Chico
More on Medicare for all Feedback: Critics continue to deride the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare.” No, the ACA isn’t perfect and it needs more work. Yet every day millions of Americans reap immense benefits from this landmark legislation. The ACA is serving its basic purpose of saving lives. Much the same could be said about Medicare when it was passed by Congress 50 years ago. At that time, Medicare was an equally groundbreaking and controversial program. Today it is a universally recognized mainstay of our health care delivery system. In this era of alarming and escalating health care costs, millions upon millions of Americans (especially seniors) don’t have to worry about obtaining quality health care during a susceptible stage of their lives. I’m immensely grateful for the visionary leadership—starting back in the mid-1940s—that finally made Medicare a reality in 1965. The struggle to implement Medicare was long and hardfought. And so it is with the ACA, a mere baby step in the march to resolve one of our greatest challenges—ensuring every American has access to affordable, quality health care. I say, “On with our march to improve our health care system! Extend Medicare to all.” A single-payer system is the only sensible solution to our looming health care challenge. James Aram Chico
Missed reference Re “Breaks in the story” (Scene, by Carey Wilson, July 23): The author of this bit must be very young. The “golden-haired young woman lounging against a cabinet” is from a still of Faye Dunaway in the film Bonnie and Clyde, and the “cabinet” she’s leaning against is a ‘34 Ford. Doug Barlow Chico
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Chico police made a total of five arrests related to a vandalism spree on Tuesday (July 28) in south Chico during which dozens of vehicle windshields and house windows were broken with rocks. Three suspects from Yuba City—Ellis Ware, 23, Jesse Alexander Robinson, 20, and a 16-year-old—were arrested shortly after police received multiple reports of vandalism early that morning, including one from The Maltese Bar & Tap Room on Park Avenue, according to a police press release. Investigators later learned the names of “two suspects who eluded capture,” according to a press release, and went to the Chico home of Lucas Drake Schuelke (19) and Sydney Anne Hammonds (18). Both were charged with felony vandalism—Schuelke was also charged with felony evading—and booked in Butte County Jail.
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On Wednesday (July 22), one of Chico’s most well-known personalities, Mike “Mike G” Griffith of G-Ride Pedi-Cab, had his truck stolen—with his faithful dog, Lil G, inside. The story ends well, though, thanks in part to the local community, which rallied behind Griffith, splashing the news all over social media. After his truck was stolen with Lil G inside, Griffith sent out a series of distraught social media posts, which were shared by hundreds of concerned local citizens. Less than an hour later, Lil G, who apparently escaped and ran to one of Griffith’s places of employment, Heritage Inn Express on Broadway, was in the arms of Griffith’s boss. The two were reunited shortly thereafter. About 45 minutes after that, Griffith received a call from a Chico police officer who had found his truck, apparently the result of an Instagram post alerting residents to the truck being stolen. In a Facebook post, Griffith thanked the community for rising up. “Words can’t express my gratitude! I will never forget this!” 8
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in California released last week warns that recreational weed in the state won’t necessarily mean more green for its financial coffers. The report, by the Lt. Gov. Gavin by Nick Miller Newsom-led Blue Ribbon Commission ni c ka m @ on Marijuana Policy, n ew srev i ew. c o m is a 93-page opus nearly two years in the making. The hype GET youR was that it would be a THuMBS GREEN: blueprint for legalizing read the report at pot in California. But safeandsmart now that the smoke has policy.org. settled—experts and pot interests have had a few days to actually read and dissect the document—one thing is clear: Legalizing pot has dozens of moving parts, and, little surprise, some will never agree on how to greenlight bud in the Golden State. In fact, the only consensus now among cannabis stakeholders is that legalization won’t, and shouldn’t, be about the almighty dollar. “This isn’t going to be a cash cow for the state,” said Brian McGuigan of ReformCA. “It’s not going to solve all our budget woes.” ReformCA is the leading contender to get an initiative to legalize pot on the ballot in 2016. There are, as of deadline, five other possible ballot measures in the mix. And some say there likely will be more before the attorney general’s October deadline to submit ballot language. But only ReformCA has retained a signature-gathering outfit to help. They’ve also performed
What does report on legalizing pot mean for recreational weed on the 2016 ballot?
significantly more outreach than the other groups, says McGuigan. ReformCA and even most old-school pot advocates generally support the findings of Newsom’s commission. Dale Gieringer, a Stanford University Ph.D. who heads the California chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML), said that, even though there “weren’t a lot of surprises” in the lieutenant governor’s report, he was nevertheless “pleasantly surprised” by the committee’s research and analysis. “We think it’s a good report, and we definitely are paying close attention to it,” said Gieringer, who also supports ReformCA’s initiative effort. But some pot activists question whether the Blue Ribbon Commission discovered anything new. Jason Collinsworth, with the California Bipartisan Decriminalization of Cannabis Act—one of the six initiatives vying to qualify for the ballot—says he was disappointed by Newsom’s findings. “Honestly, what it all boils down to is a little bit of a waste of time and taxpayers’ money,” he told the News & Review. He says the group didn’t “truly consult the medical-cannabis community” and called a great deal of the findings “out of touch.” It’s worth noting that the cannabis community has a rich history of being divided on flagship issues (most notably in 2010, when Proposition 19’s legalization initiative failed to pass and drew significant criticism from the antiprohibitionist bloc). That said, critics of the commission appear to be the minority. McGuigan with ReformCA called the report an “extremely credible,
well-thought-out and timely analysis of how to legalize cannabis in California.” When one peeks inside the report, the
complexity of legalization emerges from the smoke. It begins with a warning that the commission does not endorse legalization. There is, however, some semblance of a road map to recreational pot. The impetus for the report, back when Newsom kicked it off in October 2013, was that an increasing number of Californians supported the idea of legal weed. In turn, the commission did outreach all over the state—town halls, meetings, testimony, etc.—and finally crafted an analysis of legal marijuana’s potential benefits and red flags. The first point is that legalization will be a process, not a moment or event. The report says that people will need to engage the issue for years to ensure protections for public health, keep the black market at bay, cooperate with old-school pot-industry stakeholders, and capture the millions of tax dollars this new industry surely will generate. Protecting young people and public safety get the commission’s foremost attention. But there’s also a focus on protecting the environment from the impacts of marijuana cultivation and production, and also the decriminalization of pot and its impact on “racial and economic disparities.” In total, the commission makes a whopping 58 recommendations for California policymakers. NORML’s Gieringer says the biggest challenge for pot in California will be ensuring that the state’s forefathers— industry operators such as the cultivators
who’ve worked in the shadows for decades—have a stake in the Golden State pot economy. “It’s a serious worry,” he explained. “What we’ve been trying to do is take an illegal market, and take the people who’ve been into it, and get them legal. California has thousands of growers, generations worth of growers … many of whom have wanted to do so legally. It’s important that they get into the legal market.” He says that, in some states, there are only handfuls of approved legal medical-pot growers, and they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get in the game. It’s a pay-to-play situation that’s priced out many cannabis pioneers. Try that in California, he says, and it will simply perpetuate the illegal market. “If you do this [in California], all those people are going to get shut out—and then you’re going to have as many illegal growers afterward as you did beforehand.” And there’s so much marijuana in this state already, Gieringer reminded. “We don’t really need any new big marijuana plantations in California. We’re exporting as it is.” In the end, it’ll likely come down to
money. Even though stakeholders downplay the impact, all of this marijuana will certainly bring in new revenue. Licensing fees for growers and sellers, fines, taxes—the money will be flowing in ways the state has never experienced. The amount of money generated will be minuscule compared with California’s $100 billion general fund, but it could amount to several hundred-million dollars annually. Gieringer says he feels that the time is right for legal pot in California. “I just sense that the public attitude is right, that an intelligently written initiative will pass,” he said. Short of a huge influx of capital to the opposition, he’s confident. McGuigan with ReformCA would not disclose any internal polling, but a Public Policy Institute of California poll from March of this year showed that a slight majority of Californians think pot should be legal (53 percent). He also warned, however, that California will be a different beast compared with the efforts in Colorado and Washington. “You’ve seen other states go ahead and legalize it. But those states are very different than California—the size of the states, the diversity,” he explained. “We feel that voters are inclined to vote for this … but it’s not going to be a slam dunk.” □
Follow the water Plan to pump groundwater skewered by critics ells are drying up across the northern Sacramento Valley, W from Artois to Durham and Orland to Chico, but Paul Behr, owner of North State Water Testing, says that local
farmers and ranchers drill deep to keep water flowing during California’s epic drought. “A lot of these ranchers ... they keep track of their water levels and they lower their wells before they run out of water,” he said. “They can’t afford to have those pumps quit.” Livelihoods are at stake, and so the region’s agricultural community is understandably alarmed by the dropping water table beneath the valley floor—Behr says many wells have dropped five to 20 feet just this year. If the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District’s (GCID) public meeting on July 22 at Ord Bend Community Hall is any indication, many farmers are vehemently opposed to the district’s proposal to draw vast volumes of groundwater from the aquifer, ostensibly to augment surface water supplies and meet the needs of growers. High-profile critics of the proposal, including Butte Environmental Council (BEC) and local water-watchdog group AquAlliance, say the district’s true motive is profit. The meeting itself was opaque and covered only the most basic information contained in GCID’s draft environmental impact report. Just prior to opening the floor for public comment, the meeting’s facilitator, Heather Waldrop—lead planner with the engineering consulting firm CH2M Hill, which compiled the report—announced that “this is a public meeting to get your comments. CH2M Hill and GCID are not prepared to answer your questions tonight.” At that, a local farmer stood from his seat and shouted, “You’re kidding—we’re all here, and you’re not going to answer any questions? Really? We want answers!”
Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District’s pump station in Hamilton City diverts water from the Sacramento River into a 65-mile canal. PHOTO BY HOWARD HARDEE
report says all the groundwater drawn from the wells will remain in the district. But there’s a broader context in which water has been transferred outside of the district. According to minutes from GCID’s board of directors’ meeting on May 7, the district, in the face of diminished surface water allocations from the state Water Resources Control Board, fallowed 18,123 acres of farmland this year, allowing the agency to sell a total of 59,050 acre-feet of surface water—13,775 acre-feet to Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority for $5.51 million and 45,275 acre-feet to San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority for $30.19 million. That’s a major point of contention for BEC, VIew tHe PLAN: said Executive Director Robyn DiFalco during Go to tinyurl.com/ GCIDplan to read a recent phone interview. GCID’s draft environ“How can you claim an emergency when mental impact report. you’re transferring water elsewhere? They fallowed land and created surplus surface water,” she said by phone. “Now they come back and say they don’t have enough water to meet district needs?” Thad Bettner, general manager of GCID, told the CN&R that Here’s the plan as outlined in the project’s report: As an emergency 80 percent of the money paid to GCID for the water transfers went measure in dry years like this one, GCID would operate a total to farmers who fallowed their land, while the district retained the of 10 wells along along a five-mile section of its 65-mile canal, remainder. Bettner said that funding was used to pay for future which diverts water from the Sacramento River. GCID estimates water allocations from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, reservoir conditions will require it to operate the wells during 16 of the next studies and winter-run fishery restoration projects. 40 years. As for selling off surface water while simultaneously claiming a Five of the wells already exist, while the other five have yet to water shortage, “we only had a surplus on paper,” Bettner said. The be drilled. They would pump 24 hours a day over 8 1/2 months, Water Resources Control Board withheld water from his district to from Feb. 15 to March 15 and then April 1 through Nov. 15, drawreserve enough for salmon in the Sacramento River. ing an annual maximum of 28,500 acre-feet of groundwater. (That’s One way to reserve that water is through transfers, Bettner a relative drop in the bucket compared with the 618,000 acre-feet explained. GCID has rights to divert off the Sacramento River this year.) The “Instead of diverting water in the spring and summer for rice production, for example, we’ve fallowed that ground, didn’t farm it, and the water that would have been used on that property would be left behind Shasta Dam and used later in the year to support fall-run salmon,” he said. “We were basically told by the state board Pass (on) the fries that, ‘You need to maximize the amount of Every year, the American Consumer Satisfaction Index surveys tens of thousands of transfers you can do this year, and either you Americans to gauge their love (or lack thereof) for fast-food joints. This year, McDonald’s can participate in these transfers or lose that comes in at the bottom of the list, bested by restaurants with slightly nicer décor and water and be uncompensated.’ From a finanmany with healthier ingredients. Restaurants also were rated on order accuracy, cial and growers’ standpoint, transferring food quality and customer service. Here’s how people voted (score out of 100): the water and getting some revenue for that 1. Chick-fil-A (86) 10. Starbucks (74) water was better than having it taken away.” 2. Chipotle Mexican Grill (83) 11. Arby’s (74) The window for public input on the 3. Panera Bread (80) 12. Wendy’s (73) proposal closes today (July 30).
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his past weekend was particularly excitDamian’s mom, Elizabeth, said she was ing for 13-year-old Chicoan Gianni Law. reluctant at first to let Damian learn to ride, He was among a swarm of 800 BMX racers but says “he took off right away and broke from all over the country, all clad in bright us in.” uniforms with their equally colorful bikes, Traveling to the 31 BMX Nationals who brought a huge amount of adrenaline events each year is expensive, so a to the sunny Silver Dollar Fairgrounds for commonly shared goal among racers is to the USA BMX Golden State Nationals. become “factory,” which means getting a Participants, who competed by age, business sponsor, explained Gianni’s father, raced for speed along an 1,100-foot track Marty Law. Gianni races locally twice a of straightaways, jumps and sharp curves week, he said, and plans to make his next in three skill levels: novice, intermediBMX Nationals appearance in Reno, ate and expert. Each day, Saturday and Sept. 4-6. Gianni says his ultimate goal is Sunday, consisted of “main events” for to get a BMX scholarship for college. If his each age group, during which the top racers showing in Chico was any indication, he’s competed for the most points. on his way. Gianni raced and qualified for Gianni’s main event on Saturday— the second main event race on Sunday, and which he first had to qualify for—was a ended up winning both days’ events in the spectacular, major upset, said Craig “gOrk” expert class for his age group. Barrette, USA BMX chief communications In addition to the hundreds of amateur officer. Gianni began the contest in last riders, there were 10 pros at the event this place after another racer at the starting gate weekend, Barrette said. Gianni named stumbled into him, nearly causing him to one of them, 21-year-old Brandon Cato of crash. But Gianni blasted up the track, soon Oakland, as a major mentor. catching up to the pack. On the first curve “There’s infinite knowledge, so I love he cut off six racers, bringing him into both giving and taking advice,” said a second place. humble Cato. “From there I did very good on the But BMX racing is not just about second straightaway, then on the second competing and winning. A strong sense of turn I went super low and cut the first-place family and community permeates the sport. guy off the track and won,” Gianni said. Racers and families greeted each other as In third place was Chicoan Trevor close friends. Gianni’s mother, Paula Law, Shields, and in second was Austin Peebles explained how her husband and friends of Citrus Heights, who often races and started a community service and BMX trains in Chico with his brother and coach, racing group called Syndicate Racing. It not Jake Peebles. All three winners hugged and only helps to recruit and organize racers, congratulated each other at the finish line. but contributes their services to charities The event, which turned the fairgrounds and fundraisers. into a sea of people, bikes, RVs and vendor “Whatever we can do to keep kids off booths, thrilled fans who watched racers the street is worth it,” Paula said. from preschool to age 70. The youngest racer of the weekend was just a year and —VIC CANTU a half old. Damian Cervantes, of Fontana, was competing in his first race, according to his father, Isic Cervantes. He rides a “strider,” or “balance” bike, which, like a scooter, moves by pushing off the ground with the rider’s feet instead of using pedals. “He goes fast, has good balance, and always wears a helmet,” said Chico racer Gianni Law Cervantes, who took home two wins this guided Damian up past weekend at the hills during the race. USA BMX Golden State “If he falls, he gets Nationals. PHOTO BY VIC CANTU right back up.”
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egular readers of this paper might be familiar with the name Tom Tomorrow. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you might recognize his characters—a penguin incredulous at the conduct of Congress, a friendly looking drone all too happy to advise children of his military capability, or Invisible Hand of the Free Market Man, a talking hand extolling the virtues of capitalism run amok. Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of political cartoonist Dan Perkins. His cartoon This Modern World has long been a fixture in the Chico News & Review. He’s currently hosting a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of a career retrospective called 25 Years of Tomorrow, featuring every cartoon he’s ever published plus archival photos and annotation by the author. We spoke to him about right-wing humor and the 2016 election season. How did you develop an interest in cartooning?
I don’t know that I ever really had a choice in the matter. It’s just ever since I was a little kid, I just loved the art form. I was in love with Peanuts when I was 4 or 5 years old. It was always the thing that spoke to me and as I got older, Mad magazine, Doonesbury and Zippy the Pinhead, I was such a big fan of all of them.
It seems that satirical voices tend to be liberal. Do you think that’s true?
You’re gonna get me in trouble here because this is a thing that our friends on the right don’t really like to hear. But there’s just something about right-wing humor that tends to punch down rather than up and comes across as mean. What’s your take on the 2016 election so far?
People have this idea that this is like my best time, because it’s when everyone is focused on politics, but the thing is the campaigns drag on for so long, there’s so little to say about them. The Republican field is so crowded with lunatics. Presumably they’ll weed it down to a plausible candidate at some point, but right now it’s mostly choked with lunatics who are never going to be president, and I find that those cartoons—when I go back and read over them as I’ve been going back and reading over everything this past year—about those flash-in-the-pan candidates that we’re all chitter-chattering about momentarily, I find that those cartoons have the least shelf life. I went through and annotated a lot of the cartoons to add context, and one of the things I was constantly adding was explaining why I have this character or this politician
that you can barely remember who he was, saying this thing that you kind of vaguely remember. Last time around, Herman Cain was kind of that candidate, and this time around Donald Trump is momentarily that candidate. Right now, there’s no really big news, so he’s getting a lot of attention, but I guarantee you in a couple of years we’re going to look back and say “Oh god, remember when Donald Trump was running for president?” and it’ll just be this passing thing.
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GREENWAYS Allison Boyer, 17, formulated the plan for Purses for Primates about five years ago. Now her organization is competing internationally.
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Ocalled was in the second grade, she read a book Koko’s Kitten, about a gorilla born in ne day during recess, when Allison Boyer
captivity at the San Francisco Zoo and her feline companion. Allison immediately fell in love with apes, especially orangutans. But, in researching her new favorite animal, she learned that they’re endangered. She soon set out to ease their plight by educating anyone who would listen about the threats to their survival—particularly the production of palm oil, which has wiped out huge swaths of orangutan habitat in Southeast Asia. She even adopted an orangutan in Borneo and got Marigold Elementary School to do the same. Now the 17-year-old senior at Pleasant Valley High School is concentrating on a bigger project, launched five years ago, called Purses for Primates. The nonprofit has recently gained momentum, winning state and national entrepreneurship competitions. “In elementary school, my primary focus was just raising awareness, but as I grew in my knowledge of this topic and realized how big the palm oil problem was, I knew I had to do something more substantial to fix the problem, like raise funds,” Allison said. She and her mom started noticing the rise of second-hand stores filled with fashion accessories, and Allison thought to herself, “It’d be great if this went to a really great cause.” So she started asking for donations of purses. This effort morphed into the nonprofit
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organization Purses for Primates, which collects gently used purses, scarves and jewelry, cleans them up and then sells them at “purse parties” at private homes and businesses. They’ve hosted events at Birkenstock, Chico Women’s Club, Oxford Suites and the Sacramento Zoo. One hundred percent of the profit goes to Orangutan Outreach, an organization that works to protect orangutans in their native habitat and care for orphaned orangutans. Donations come from all over the country, but Allison has had the most success from family, friends and donation bins at Advanced Body Dynamics in Chico, with Build.com and Chico Theater Company soon getting their own bins. With five years under its belt, the organization has raised more than $10,000 through its purse parties, which is used for medicine, food, equipment, and the care and rehabilitation of orphaned orangutans. Purses for Primates has had measurable impacts in its conversations efforts, not just because of the cash that’s been raised, which can fund about 10 orangutans released into the wild, but because of the local community impact. “At every purse party we strive to talk to our customers about why orangutans are endangered, why we should care and how we can help them,” Allison said. “This is an educational platform for us to be able to talk to people about why we do what we do.” But Allison doesn’t do it alone. She’s enlisted the help of her family and friends. Natalie Katsikas, also a 17-year-old senior at Pleasant Valley, has known Allison since second grade and when Purses for Primates started, Natalie was immediately on board. She’s helped with inventory management and leading purse parties. “I get to do this with my best friend, which is amazing, but it feels really good to help out,” Natalie said. “I’ve learned a lot from Allie. She’s really educated me on what’s going on around the world. Purses for Primates has opened my eyes on how to help others.” Jacob Pawek, a 17-year-old senior at
Gridley High School, joined the effort about four months ago and began handling social media, Web and marketing. He said it was the contagious passion he saw in Allison that sparked his interest. He has big plans, too, including an e-commerce site that will help expand their reach. “I thought it was really cool that Allie was doing this on her own,” he said. “I got involved because I saw a good opportunity to help a good cause as well as introduce myself into the business world and figure out how things work.” Earlier this summer, Purses for Primates caught the eye of Curtis DeBerg, a Chico State professor and CEO of SAGE (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship). He asked them to participate in their statewide competition, held here in Chico, for young entrepreneurs to present their business plans. Purses for Primates won the
competition, then won first place in social enterprise on the national stage in Berkeley. The next step will be the SAGE World Cup, a global competition against teen groups in 20 other countries in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 7-10. “I’m so excited to see the connections we’ll make in Korea,” Allison said. “It went from this small-town organization where we would have purse parties every now and then to competing internationally. I feel that it is finally getting some footing.” Purses for Primates’ isn’t stopping there. Its efforts recently have spread to secondary locations at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York, and in Boring, Ore. “It’s basically a garage sale—that’s as much effort as it takes,” she said of starting up a new branch. “Anyone can do it.” The recent whirlwind of activity has felt a bit surreal. “I’m still kind of in shock,” Allison said. “It’s grown very fast in a matter of months. It’s given me a huge kick to get things expanded even further with our website and contacting more zoos to get them more involved.” “It’s great to see how quickly it can grow,” Jacob added. “It’s heartwarming how many people are willing to help, because it’s a great cause.” □
ECO EVENT CAMPING WITH THE SIERRA CLUB The Sierra Club’s local chapter, the Yahi Group, is hosting a Manzanita Lake Campout from Thursday, July 30, to Aug. 3. Interested parties are invited to stay for one night or the duration, and enjoy daily hikes of all levels throughout Lassen Volcanic National Park. Nights promise to be filled with campfire camaraderie, songs, games and wine. Registration is $10 for up to four nights and carpooling is available from the Chico Park and Ride (Highway 99 and East Eighth Street). To register, contact John Hollister at 872-8258 or hubhollister@yahoo.com.
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Wandering magic man Dean Waters eats and breathes magic. The 26-year-old husband, father and entrepreneur has been a professional magician since his teens. You can find him doing tricks for diners between bartending at Applebees, and he’ll soon be a bartending magician at Buffalo Wild Wings, which is planning its grand opening for Aug. 9 in the North Valley Plaza. On weekends, he performs for gatherings such as birthdays, graduations or charity events, and even gives magic lessons. Call Dean at 518-0222 or email him at dwatersmagic@gmail. com.
What is your main job? I bartend two to three days a week, and do magic three to five days a week, depending on my bookings. I bartend at Applebees, and I’m their “strolling magician” during dinner hours, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Chico on Wednesdays, and in Red Bluff on Tuesdays. I wander around doing magic for virtually everyone, using props like cups and balls, cards, coins and rope tricks. I was also the bartending magician at The Pour House until I couldn’t fit them into my schedule.
How long have you been a ‘strolling magician’? I’ve been doing it in Chico for a couple of years, but I started it seven or eight years ago when I began my professional magic career at a restaurant in Savannah, Ga. Back then I was mostly busking, or doing
street magic on River Street, which is a big Savannah tourist spot.
How do customers react to your magic? A little bit of everything. Some nod, laugh or smile, and some freak out and scream, or even run across the room. That’s part of the fun. I get paid for boosting Applebees’ business, plus I get tips and hand out business cards for private shows.
At which types of private parties do you perform? All kinds of parties, and some charities, like the homeless youth program downtown in October. The past year has been a whirlwind of magic bookings!
I heard you tried out for America’s Got Talent TV show. Yes, earlier this year I made it past the “producer’s round” of auditions, but didn’t make the show. I’ll try again in a few months, and this time I’ll have a better, hard-hitting routine.
Do you also teach magic? Yes, I’m a consultant to other magicians, and give private or group instruction to anyone who’s serious. I love doing it because the art can’t progress unless other people are learning it.
What are your future plans? I’m making a two-DVD set called Bread and Butter on how to do magic for money. Someday I’d also like to make the Golden Gate Bridge disappear.
What tips do you have for aspiring magicians? Avoid YouTube videos, since they’re usually bad teachers. It’s not about learning the secret, but how you perform it. The best books are The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase and The Tarbell Course in Magic by Harlan Tarbell. Find a private instructor, like me, or attend a reputable magic camp, which are like summer camps, but for teaching magic. —VIC CAnTu
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HEALTHLINES Ellie Schafer of Chico Community Acupuncture places a needle in the author’s leg.
First WNV Death
Shortly after health officials announced the year’s first two human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) in Butte County, the first fatal case in California was confirmed in Nevada County. The WNV victim was a senior, according to a California Department of Public Health press release. People over 50 years old have greater chances of getting sick and developing complications from WNV, which is transmitted to humans and animals by mosquito bites. Locally, WNV was detected recently in two residents after they gave blood, according to the county Public Health Department. So far this year, the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District has identified 49 pools of WNV-infected mosquitoes. That’s more than all of last year, when just 43 were counted. The district also reported the first cases of WNV in sentinel chickens this year (18), as well as eight dead birds.
iDeNtiFicatiON FOr hOMeless PeOPle
Under Assembly Bill 1733, counties in California are now required to issue free birth certificates and identification cards to people who can demonstrate that they are homeless. The bill, effective July 1, intends to help homeless people access basic services, John Bauters, policy director of Housing California, told The Sacramento Bee. Without documentation, homeless people in California are often unable to apply for assistance programs through shelters or other service providers. “The irony is that programs are created to serve people of the lowest means but actually create barriers,” Bauters said. A person’s homeless status must be verified by a homeless service provider. In Butte County, the cost of a birth certificate is $25, according to the clerk recorder’s website, and ID cards are $28 at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Chico—though they’re available to certain lowincome individuals for $8.
Killer rObOts?
Technical difficulties during robotic surgery, which has been widely touted as minimally invasive and effective in reducing risk of infection and recovery times, can have fatal consequences, a study finds. Researchers combed through reports submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by hospitals, patients and device manufacturers, concluding that, out of a total of 1.7 million robotic procedures nationwide, there were 144 deaths, 1,391 injuries and 8,061 device malfunctions between January 2000 and December 2013, according to BBC News. Difficulties included broken instruments falling into patients’ bodies, electrical sparks burning tissue and system errors making surgery take longer than planned. The authors cautioned that the EPA’s reports provided little information about the cause of death in most instances, meaning they could be related to risks inherent in all surgeries. Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.
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W on my shoulders—or at least making them really tense—I badly needed to ith the work week weighing heavily
relax. So I did something that, for me, was experimental. I’d meant to try acupuncture since meeting Olivia Peters-Lazaro and Ellie Schafer, both of Chico Community Acupuncture, on a guided hike in Butte Meadows earlier this summer. The tension in my upper back has been a recurring problem, likely due to a combination of stress and many hours spent sitting hunched over a computer keyboard. (Yes, I actually chose this profession.) I’ve been fairly proactive by treating it with exercise, stretching and using a foam roller, but recently my discomfort was such that I decided to try a fresh approach—i.e., being stuck full of needles. Schafer was at the front desk when I walked into CCA on Mangrove Avenue. She had me fill out an intake form that included questions about my health history and use of substances, such as alcohol (check) and caffeine (double check). Otherwise, my health record is clean and free of disease, injury and major surgery, and I’m a relative spring
chicken at 27 years old. I circled the upper back as an area of discomfort and listed “general stress” as my condition. Before ushering me into the treatment room, Schafer told me to turn off my cellphone and to communicate by whispering once inside (“community acupuncture” means group treatment). The room was open, dimly lit and lined with several linen-draped recliner chairs; two were occupied by fellow patients, both of whom appeared comatose. I picked a chair and leaned back, feeling better already after having realized I’d left work midday essentially to take a nap. The communal setting is an integral part of CCA’s mission to make acupuncture accessible, Peters-Lazaro, the owner, explained during a follow-up interview. The isolating aspects of modern health care—sitting in a waiting room for an
eternity, and then moving to a smaller, more sterile room to wait alone—can be a disempowering experience for patients. “Community acupuncture takes the isolation out of disease, out of pain,” she said. Speaking of pain, naturally I’d wondered
what being punctured would feel like. I don’t have an undue fear of needles and didn’t balk at the prospect of being poked by many at once, but I was slightly alarmed when Schafer said she’d be placing the first two needles on my ears. “My ears?” I raised an eyebrow. Schafer nodded and smiled, maybe sensing my surprise. I shrugged and gestured for her to go ahead, so she
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dabbed a bit of alcohol on my skin and inserted the needles. I hardly felt them, or any of the next 12 she placed around my body—four in my left arm, two in my right, and three in each leg. (I learned later that the needles usually aren’t placed in the specific area of pain or discomfort, but rather on strategic points elsewhere on the body to increase circulation where it’s needed.) She recommended I lie like that for at least 20 minutes. The needles weren’t painful, or even uncomfortable, really—just noticeable. I could feel each individual pin if I focused, but when I didn’t it was like they weren’t there. I must have dozed a little, because I was surprised when Schafer returned and said it had been 25 minutes. She encouraged me to come back, adding that it usually takes more than one visit for newbies to get a sense of how to incorporate acupuncture into their lives. On my way out, I realized the tension in my back was gone. What’s more, I had a lateafternoon flurry of creativity at work and felt energized the rest of the evening, especially during a few games of ultimate disc in Lower Bidwell Park. Young, healthy people often feel positive effects after one or two treatments, Peters-Lazaro said, especially if their ailment is minor, whereas an elderly
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WEEKLY DOSE Jam for brain function Playing a musical instrument can help keep the mind sharp— particularly when it comes to addressing mistakes, according to a 2013 study from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The researchers gathered a group of amateur musicians, who all spent varying amounts of time practicing their instruments, and a nonmusician control group, then ran both through a series of mental tests. Not only did the results suggest that musical activity may help slow or stop age- and illnessrelated decline in mental functioning, the musicians were significantly better at recognizing and correcting their mistakes. One possible explanation offered by the study’s authors was that musicians learn to be highly aware of what they’re playing, but not let mistakes overly affect their performance.
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hat was I thinking? A songwriting camp? In Tennessee? It seemed like a good idea the night before. We’d been with our regular gang at the Big Room at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. for John McCutcheon’s annual January show—funny, intimate, inspiring. McCutcheon on guitar, fiddle, banjo, piano and hammered dulcimer. Traditional songs, covers and originals, including “Christmas in the Trenches,” his heart-wrenching song about the spontaneous World War I truce in France on Christmas Eve 1914. On the way out I grabbed a flier announcing a songwriting camp he’d be hosting—then looked at his website when I got home: Join Grammy-nominated folk musician and songwriter John McCutcheon for an intense, intimate songwriting Master Class at the historic Highlander Center in east Tennessee. [E]njoy breathtaking views of the Smoky Mountains, healthy, delicious homemade food, camaraderie, and visits to the Highlander library and archives. • Four days of theoretical and hands-on practice. • One-on-one critiques with John. • Open-mic/sing-arounds each evening. • Dorm-style lodging, $700. Add to cart. Maybe I shouldn’t have had that last Celebration Ale. Sure, I’d been strumming three chords on guitars most of my life, knew dozens of folk and country songs, and had even written several silly little songs of my own—but a songwriting camp? At the “historic Highlander Center”? Never even heard of it.
You read in all the history books the same old story told How us poor miners all got rich, digging that old black gold But you know the company got the gold, you know the miners’ lungs got black
—Si Kahn (“Black Gold”)
The Highlander Folk Center was founded
in 1932 in Monteagle, Tenn., to train and educate labor organizers—particularly in support of coal miners, textile workers and
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Far left: Campfire strumming. PHOTO BY LINDA ERDAY
g n i t i r w g n o S rf om deep in f o t r a e h the s t h g i r l i v i c the movement woodcutters—and to promote social justice and racial equality. (Repeat: The South. 1932.) The center’s mission, in part: We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability … Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we … help create and support strong, democratic organizations … to build broad movements for social, economic and restorative environmental change. In 1944, United Auto Workers leaders attended Highlander’s first integrated workshop, and the following year, as the center became more involved in union causes, Zilphia Horton, the center’s music director, adapted “We Shall Overcome” from a gospel hymn to support striking tobacco workers. In 1960, Guy Carawan, Horton’ successor, taught the song to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at the group’s first meeting at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. Since 1966, the center has administered the We Shall Overcome Fund, generated from royalties, which supports black communities fighting injustice with art and activism. Carawan is also the author of Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?, about the Gullah people—descendants of slaves and living in isolated areas of the coastal South—and their encounter with the civil rights movement.
“The degree to which you resist other people taking away your rights is the degree to which you are free.” —John McCutcheon An early afternoon in May on the first day
of camp, and I’m back at Sierra Nevada, but the new one, outside Asheville, N.C., 85 miles from Highlander. Stalling? Maybe. But we’ve been instructed not to arrive before 4, and these duck-fat fries and smoked-trout sandwich are delicious, especially washed down with a Nooner (I’d decided not to go with the pig cheeks, freerange or not). I-40 west from Asheville ribbons through the lush Pigeon River Gorge, hugging cliffsides and bridging the river, the Smoky Mountains ridging off in every direction. Just past Douglas Lake I left the freeway, chased a state route through hills of rolling pine and slanting fields stippled with tractors and rickety red barns, then followed the signs to Highlander along a narrow country road and up a steep gravel driveway. Four o’clock on the button. No one else there. I wandered over to what looked like the main building, a large circular central room on the second floor built out of the hillside. Two circles of rocking and folding chairs with a piano off to the side, the far wall’s sliding-glass doors opening to a wrap-around deck and a wide-angle view of mountain ridges, hazy in the distance.
Soon others began to arrive, and McCutcheon wandered down from the Horton House, where he and a few others would be staying in private rooms. Six of us would be in the men’s dorms—eight pairs of bunk beds with mattresses about as thick as my wallet. We settled in, then headed downstairs to the buffet—veggie and turkey sausages, mashed potatoes, corn bread and a freshgreens salad with goat cheese. After dinner, we convened in the rocking-chairs room, McCutcheon circling us around him. “Closer,” he said. “This room is sacred. Pete Seeger, the Soweto Gospel Choir and many more have sung this song right here.” Then he led us through Carawan’s iconic civil rights anthem “Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?” Our voices filled the room as we stood shoulder to shoulder, feeling the power of song and decades of freedom-fighting. Then we returned to our chairs. “Tell us where you’re from and who you are, especially as a musician and songwriter,” McCutcheon instructed. “You have three minutes.” Perfect, I thought—I can sell my unneeded two minutes to the highest bidder! Unfortunately, I went last and didn’t get the chance. Turns out four others were from California, a few from the Midwest, and several had driven in from Southern states. Nineteen, plus McCutcheon. A teacher, a mother and her mid-20s daughter, a retired
orthopedic surgeon, a wine maker. A couple of IT guys. A pastor, a veterinarian. A 14-year-old kid. Some had been writing and performing professionally for decades; some, including a professional storyteller, didn’t play instruments at all. One woman had bought a ukulele on the way and was learning a few chords. Maybe it would be OK. “See you in the morning,” McCutcheon said. “Breakfast downstairs at 8, first workshop at 9, right here.”
“Never edit a first draft. Just get something out there that you can work with. Polish it later.” —JM John McCutcheon is a songwriter, storyteller
and activist with a profound appreciation of traditional American folk music and its ability to bring about social change. In 1971, he hitchhiked to Highlander from his Wisconsin home, and he’s never looked back—becoming involved in many of the center’s causes and fights and attending and offering workshops. On his 2006 CD Mightier Than the Sword, he set to music the work of several contemporary American writers, including Wendell Berry, Rita Dove and Barbara Kingsolver, as well as poetry by Pablo Neruda and an unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyric. Pete Seeger called McCutcheon “one of our country’s best songwriters.” “You could argue about the definition of folk music forever,” McCutcheon said the first morning, “but remember that it belongs to us.
This page: Author Steve Metzger (center, without guitar), John McCutcheon (cigar) and the other songwriters around the campfire in the Smoky Mountains. PHOTO BY CATHRYN FAIRLEE
No one owns it. You have permission to use it.” Then he sang the traditional English ballad “Barbara Allen” and talked about how with folk music, “the story, not the personality, moves the song, worn smooth on a thousand tongues before ours.” He talked about “zipper songs,” in which just one word or phrase is changed with each verse, so they’re easy to learn and to sing in groups: “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and “I Shall Not Be Moved.” He also talked about the power and the value of bridges, which traditionally link the chorus of a song to its final verse, making the song whole. Then it got scary: “OK, let’s try it,” he said. “Pair up with someone and write a song about what it was like to get here yesterday, and then come back and perform them. You’ve got half an hour.” Really?
“I gained [at Highlander] strength to persevere in my work for freedom, not just for blacks but for all oppressed people.”
Above: Highlander music director Guy Carawan (left) singing with activists Bernard Lafayette and James Bevel. Carawan helped establish “We Shall Overcome” as a civil rights anthem.
—Rosa Parks
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Highlander
was targeted by Southern newspapers and politicians for hosting integrated workshops and training sessions, including one at which NAACP secretary Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. strategized
Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy at Highlander in September 1957. PHOTOS COURTESY OF HIGHLANDER FOLK CENTER
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hat was I thinking? A songwriting camp? In Tennessee? It seemed like a good idea the night before. We’d been with our regular gang at the Big Room at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. for John McCutcheon’s annual January show—funny, intimate, inspiring. McCutcheon on guitar, fiddle, banjo, piano and hammered dulcimer. Traditional songs, covers and originals, including “Christmas in the Trenches,” his heart-wrenching song about the spontaneous World War I truce in France on Christmas Eve 1914. On the way out I grabbed a flier announcing a songwriting camp he’d be hosting—then looked at his website when I got home: Join Grammy-nominated folk musician and songwriter John McCutcheon for an intense, intimate songwriting Master Class at the historic Highlander Center in east Tennessee. [E]njoy breathtaking views of the Smoky Mountains, healthy, delicious homemade food, camaraderie, and visits to the Highlander library and archives. • Four days of theoretical and hands-on practice. • One-on-one critiques with John. • Open-mic/sing-arounds each evening. • Dorm-style lodging, $700. Add to cart. Maybe I shouldn’t have had that last Celebration Ale. Sure, I’d been strumming three chords on guitars most of my life, knew dozens of folk and country songs, and had even written several silly little songs of my own—but a songwriting camp? At the “historic Highlander Center”? Never even heard of it.
You read in all the history books the same old story told How us poor miners all got rich, digging that old black gold But you know the company got the gold, you know the miners’ lungs got black
—Si Kahn (“Black Gold”)
The Highlander Folk Center was founded
in 1932 in Monteagle, Tenn., to train and educate labor organizers—particularly in support of coal miners, textile workers and
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Far left: Campfire strumming. PHOTO BY LINDA ERDAY
g n i t i r w g n o S rf om deep in f o t r a e h the s t h g i r l i v i c the movement woodcutters—and to promote social justice and racial equality. (Repeat: The South. 1932.) The center’s mission, in part: We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability … Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we … help create and support strong, democratic organizations … to build broad movements for social, economic and restorative environmental change. In 1944, United Auto Workers leaders attended Highlander’s first integrated workshop, and the following year, as the center became more involved in union causes, Zilphia Horton, the center’s music director, adapted “We Shall Overcome” from a gospel hymn to support striking tobacco workers. In 1960, Guy Carawan, Horton’ successor, taught the song to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at the group’s first meeting at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. Since 1966, the center has administered the We Shall Overcome Fund, generated from royalties, which supports black communities fighting injustice with art and activism. Carawan is also the author of Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?, about the Gullah people—descendants of slaves and living in isolated areas of the coastal South—and their encounter with the civil rights movement.
“The degree to which you resist other people taking away your rights is the degree to which you are free.” —John McCutcheon An early afternoon in May on the first day
of camp, and I’m back at Sierra Nevada, but the new one, outside Asheville, N.C., 85 miles from Highlander. Stalling? Maybe. But we’ve been instructed not to arrive before 4, and these duck-fat fries and smoked-trout sandwich are delicious, especially washed down with a Nooner (I’d decided not to go with the pig cheeks, freerange or not). I-40 west from Asheville ribbons through the lush Pigeon River Gorge, hugging cliffsides and bridging the river, the Smoky Mountains ridging off in every direction. Just past Douglas Lake I left the freeway, chased a state route through hills of rolling pine and slanting fields stippled with tractors and rickety red barns, then followed the signs to Highlander along a narrow country road and up a steep gravel driveway. Four o’clock on the button. No one else there. I wandered over to what looked like the main building, a large circular central room on the second floor built out of the hillside. Two circles of rocking and folding chairs with a piano off to the side, the far wall’s sliding-glass doors opening to a wrap-around deck and a wide-angle view of mountain ridges, hazy in the distance.
Soon others began to arrive, and McCutcheon wandered down from the Horton House, where he and a few others would be staying in private rooms. Six of us would be in the men’s dorms—eight pairs of bunk beds with mattresses about as thick as my wallet. We settled in, then headed downstairs to the buffet—veggie and turkey sausages, mashed potatoes, corn bread and a freshgreens salad with goat cheese. After dinner, we convened in the rocking-chairs room, McCutcheon circling us around him. “Closer,” he said. “This room is sacred. Pete Seeger, the Soweto Gospel Choir and many more have sung this song right here.” Then he led us through Carawan’s iconic civil rights anthem “Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?” Our voices filled the room as we stood shoulder to shoulder, feeling the power of song and decades of freedom-fighting. Then we returned to our chairs. “Tell us where you’re from and who you are, especially as a musician and songwriter,” McCutcheon instructed. “You have three minutes.” Perfect, I thought—I can sell my unneeded two minutes to the highest bidder! Unfortunately, I went last and didn’t get the chance. Turns out four others were from California, a few from the Midwest, and several had driven in from Southern states. Nineteen, plus McCutcheon. A teacher, a mother and her mid-20s daughter, a retired
orthopedic surgeon, a wine maker. A couple of IT guys. A pastor, a veterinarian. A 14-year-old kid. Some had been writing and performing professionally for decades; some, including a professional storyteller, didn’t play instruments at all. One woman had bought a ukulele on the way and was learning a few chords. Maybe it would be OK. “See you in the morning,” McCutcheon said. “Breakfast downstairs at 8, first workshop at 9, right here.”
“Never edit a first draft. Just get something out there that you can work with. Polish it later.” —JM John McCutcheon is a songwriter, storyteller
and activist with a profound appreciation of traditional American folk music and its ability to bring about social change. In 1971, he hitchhiked to Highlander from his Wisconsin home, and he’s never looked back—becoming involved in many of the center’s causes and fights and attending and offering workshops. On his 2006 CD Mightier Than the Sword, he set to music the work of several contemporary American writers, including Wendell Berry, Rita Dove and Barbara Kingsolver, as well as poetry by Pablo Neruda and an unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyric. Pete Seeger called McCutcheon “one of our country’s best songwriters.” “You could argue about the definition of folk music forever,” McCutcheon said the first morning, “but remember that it belongs to us.
This page: Author Steve Metzger (center, without guitar), John McCutcheon (cigar) and the other songwriters around the campfire in the Smoky Mountains. PHOTO BY CATHRYN FAIRLEE
No one owns it. You have permission to use it.” Then he sang the traditional English ballad “Barbara Allen” and talked about how with folk music, “the story, not the personality, moves the song, worn smooth on a thousand tongues before ours.” He talked about “zipper songs,” in which just one word or phrase is changed with each verse, so they’re easy to learn and to sing in groups: “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and “I Shall Not Be Moved.” He also talked about the power and the value of bridges, which traditionally link the chorus of a song to its final verse, making the song whole. Then it got scary: “OK, let’s try it,” he said. “Pair up with someone and write a song about what it was like to get here yesterday, and then come back and perform them. You’ve got half an hour.” Really?
“I gained [at Highlander] strength to persevere in my work for freedom, not just for blacks but for all oppressed people.”
Above: Highlander music director Guy Carawan (left) singing with activists Bernard Lafayette and James Bevel. Carawan helped establish “We Shall Overcome” as a civil rights anthem.
—Rosa Parks
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Highlander
was targeted by Southern newspapers and politicians for hosting integrated workshops and training sessions, including one at which NAACP secretary Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. strategized
Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy at Highlander in September 1957. PHOTOS COURTESY OF HIGHLANDER FOLK CENTER
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the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1957, the Georgia Commission on Education accused the center of being a “Communist Training School,” and the FBI identified Highlander co-founder Donald West as the director of North Carolina’s Communist Party—most likely in connection with a photo of West and King together, taken at Highlander’s 25th anniversary. In early 1961, the state of Tennessee revoked the center’s charter and seized its property—it reopened months later in Knoxville as the Highlander Research and Education Center. With a new charter and property, Highlander resumed its dedication to social causes and educating organizers— and, of course, continued taking flak from its conservative and fearful neighbors. It moved to its current location, New Market, Tenn., in 1971, expanding to national and international issues, from environmental to gender equality. Fast forward to 2015, and the center is also involved in LGBT issues and the “Black Lives Matter” movement. It wasn’t so bad. My partner and I worked
up a couple of decent if not particularly original verses, and in fact, all the songs were surprisingly good, given their halfhour gestations. That evening after dinner we reconvened in the rocking-chairs room for the first song circle, a hard rain falling outside, taking turns singing original songs or simply telling stories (subsequent nights the song circles met on the hillside across the field, around a fire under clear, starry skies). The second day’s afternoon workshop focused on creating characters to tell stories in the first person, McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches” an example:
Oh, my name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here I fought for King and country I held dear ... This led to a lively discussion about how accurately we can inhabit characters unlike ourselves. “I’d feel like an imposter writing a song from the point of view of a 15-year-old African-American girl,” said Mike, a white 50-something family physician. McCutcheon nodded. “Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But you need to know where he or she is coming from. If you were to sing it to them, you’d want it to be like a mirror, so they could see themselves in your song.” Then he told the story of SuAnne
Folk singers/ social activists Woody Guthrie (left) and Joe Hill.
Big Crow, a star player on the 1989 Pine Ridge High School basketball team in South Dakota who confronted pregame racist war whoops by dropping the basketball she was holding and silencing the crowd by doing a shawl dance on the gym floor. Then he picked up his guitar:
Rose says I should I leave him, “Look what he’s done to you” I remind her of my promise, that’s not something I could do Last night he went too far, though, and pushed me down the stairs Threw my bike outside behind me, I am SuAnne Big Crow, I am fourteen said, “Fuck you, I don’t care.” years old Here on the Pine Ridge Reservation So I got an ad on Craigslist, I’m I play for the Lady Thorpes, but that looking for a place night on the court A little studio sounds nice, can’t I was the Oglala Nation … wait to have my space “OK, your turn. First, take 15 minutes My name is Annie Adams, and my to identify and describe your character.” whole life’s a mess We all set to scribbling in our My boyfriend’s back to drinkin’, but I notebooks. just bought this dress “Ready? You’ve got 30 minutes.” We filed out of the room. Some sat under trees on the hillside, some on benches on the deck. I sat on a cinderblock retaining wall just outside the main building. McCutcheon circulated among us, asking if we needed help. After 20 minutes, I had this (Repeat: “Never edit a first draft.”), and played it for the group, apologizing and calling it a “ferry song” (no bridge).
My name is Annie Adams, and my whole life’s a mess My boyfriend’s back to drinkin’, and I just bought this dress Don’t judge me by my ink, don’t judge me by my teeth Don’t judge me for the way I live, you don’t know what I seen I’ve owned four bars and 20 cars, a Harley softtail, too But it’s time that I turned things around, I’m going back to school It’s hard to get to classes, though, I got this DUI And it’s a five-mile ride ’cross town on this old yellow bike
The most interesting workshop—and the
most apropos, given the setting—focused on protest/political songs. Among the things McCutcheon emphasized: 1) You can do more with songs than with lectures. “Name three speeches from the civil rights movement,” he said (after some hemming and hawing, the group came up with three). “Now name three songs from the civil rights movement” (we rattled off a dozen in 10 seconds). 2) Don’t tell people what to do or think. “Let your stories shine little slivers of light where people can see action needs to be taken.” 3) You need to know and respect your audience—they’re not the enemy. Your job is to get them to join you. 4) You do that with emotion. “You can take people further with what they feel than what they think.” Then he talked about melody. “Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie wrote songs based on familiar melodies,” he said. “Striking Irish railroad workers learned songs more quickly if they knew the tune.” His example: Hill’s “We Won’t Build No More Railroads for Overalls and Snuff,” sung to the tune of “The Wearing of the Green.” “Now,” McCutcheon said on the third day, “it’s time to put to practice what we’ve been talking about. Break up into groups of three and write songs to
perform for the kitchen staff to thank them for the wonderful meals.” I found myself tripled up with Mike the doctor and Cathryn the storyteller. We repaired to the deck outside and agreed on a concept: We’d signed up for the camp without giving much thought to the food but had been hugely impressed with it. We ended light-heartedly:
Who cares about the music? Who cares about the mood? Let’s get to the end of the stories, all we want’s your food. Back inside, McCutcheon told us to listen carefully to each song and to come up with a sensible set list. He suggested considering key, pace, meter and “emotional content,” then added, “Oh, and your group will need a name.” We agreed on an order and headed downstairs where the four cooks were waiting at a table. “And We Thank You,” by Here We Gather, and “Take Me Back Again,” by Pair Up in Threes, bookended the other five songs, including “All We Want,” by the Hip Replacements. Apparently, it went well—the staff seemed moved. I was just about to bite into my veggie stir fry when head chef Thomas, a large 30-something man with a tight beard and magenta bandana tied around his head, stepped back out of the kitchen. “Excuse me,” he said, “but I need to disrupt this white tranquility.” We looked up, startled. “I went to Ferguson after Michael Brown was murdered,” he continued, “and came back feeling totally hopeless. I wanted to do something.” He gave us stats on the numbers of black men in prison, talked about what it was like as a white man to come to understand white privilege, then thanked us, scribbled #blacklivesmatter on the menu board, and returned to the kitchen. Camper Lucas sings a tune in the rocking-chairs room with fellow camper Jim looking on. PHOTO BY PATTI ROBINSON
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John McCutcheon (right) laughs it up with Highlander campers. PHOTO BY STEVE METZGER
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“The only other thing I’d suggest,” he said, “is to work on your bridges. Good bridges make good songs.”
John McCutcheon is currently on tour
will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They are also working on a building to be named for Lillian Johnson, the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from Cornell and who founded Memphis State College—and who donated the land the old Highlander Folk Center was located on. Meanwhile, the Tennessee Preservation Trust has purchased Highlander’s original “hallowed ground” and is re-establishing it as an educational center and tourist destination. In June and July, Highlander hosted meetings and workshops and circulated petitions in response to the Charleston AME church shootings.
performing Joe Hill’s Last Will, a oneman song-and-monologue show written by his good friend Si Kahn. It’s the story of Hill’s last 90 minutes before the famous union organizer, Industrial Workers of the World member, and selfproclaimed world’s greatest songwriter was executed in Salt Lake City in 1915. As Hill, McCutcheon tells his story to an imaginary reporter, including how he was arrested on what he claims—and what most historians agree—were trumped-up murder charges. Finally, McCutcheon/Hill watches through his cell window as the sun rises and the firing squad prepares for the execution, reminding us that Hill let the commander yell, “Ready … aim,” but then interrupted: “Fire!” On stage, McCutcheon’s strapped to his chair, the lights go out, and the sounds of shots fill the air. Moments later, McCutcheon returns to sing “Joe Hill’s Last Will,” the words of which Hill handed through his cell bars to a guard the night before the execution and which McCutcheon set to music. (McCutcheon will be performing the show in Salt Lake City on Sept. 19, the centenary of the execution.)
On the afternoon of the third day,
McCutcheon and I sat on the deck outside going over a couple of my songs. He sang along, then picked up the lyrics. “Look,” he said. “What do you think about this?” He drew a big X over an entire verse of one song. Really? “If your audience is paying attention, they already know the baby’s mixed race. Don’t tell them what they know from the details earlier in the song.” Of course he was right, and the song’s better now. So is the other one, in which he suggested conflating two verses.
Throughout August, the Highlander Center
The last morning, after a brief Q-and-A
wrap-up, we circled up for one last song: “Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?” Then McCutcheon thanked us. “Thank you for being kind,” he said. “This is a huge risk. Maybe you’re the one who was scared. Maybe your family doesn’t even know what this means to you. Thank you.” Hugs all around, and we trudged reluctantly out to our cars. I threw my guitar and bag on the back seat and headed down the gravel driveway, back to Asheville.
Two weeks later I’m back at the Big Room
in Chico, McCutcheon on stage as Joe Hill. He sings “Casey Jones, the Union Scab,” “The Preacher and the Slave,” and “There Is Power in a Union,” then looks at his pocket watch and out the cell window. He tells the reporter that he will be dead before he can hear the shots—bullets travel faster than the speed of sound. “Ready … aim …” “Fire!” Shots as the lights go out. I take a deep breath and think about Ω bridges.
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THIS WEEK
Young S.F. quartet channels the spirit of summer and 1960s girl groups
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THURS he She’s, a young, all-girl band from Tindie-pop San Francisco, write fully realized songs that are thick with vocal
harmonies and reflect both their youth (they’ve only been out of high school for a couple of years), and a deep appreciation for their 1960s musical forerunners—from girl groups to surf music. Composed of Sami Perez, bass; Hannah by Carey Wilson Valente, lead vocals; Eva Treadway, guitar; and Sinclair Riley on drums (their first initials spell SHES), the PREVIEW: band has released a The She’s perform Friday, July 31, couple of independent 9:30 p.m., at albums and become a Duffy’s Tavern. The live favorite on the She Things and San Francisco scene, Viking Skate having in their nearly Country open. Cost: $5 eight-year history played on stages at the Duffy’s Tavern Fillmore, the Noise 337 Main St. Pop Festival, and most 343-7718 of the city’s alt-rock venues. Their current tour brings them to Duffy’s Tavern on Friday, July 31, and Valente recently took time to talk to the CN&R about the band. CN&R: The four of you decided in junior high to “learn instruments and start a band”—how did you decide who would play which instrument? Valente: When we formed the band in seventh grade, it went down just like that. Sami, Eva and I had all learned to play the guitar a little at that point, but Eva learned the most so she got to play guitar. Sami wanted to learn to play the bass, and I decided to just focus on singing. Sinclair jumped on drums
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Special Events BEER RELEASE PARTY: Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. intro-
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duces Jester Imperial Pilsner, a new seasonal beer. Th, 7/30, 6pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.
PARTY IN THE PARK: Join the farmers, artists, and local ven-
because, well, that was the instrument that was left! [Laughs] The instrumentation was not something we fought over. At this point, we’re all able to play all the instruments in the band fairly well, and in the studio we often play each other’s instruments. Live, Sami [switches to] guitar and I play bass on a few songs. Your songs have are very rich for having been created with just guitars, bass, drums and vocals. How do you work out instrumental and vocal arrangements? We really do write the songs all together. Sometimes one of us will bring a song to practice that has music and lyrics and we just flesh it out together. Other times someone just brings in a short chord progression or a guitar riff and we build the whole song from there. It usually takes about of a month of playing a song for us to be totally satisfied with it. I love the YouTube video of the band doing an acoustic cover of Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me.” How did you discover that song in particular and the other 1960s girl groups that influence your vocal arrangements and harmonies? My mom first played me that Lesley Gore track, and I think our parents are to blame for introducing us to girl groups and most of the music from the past that influences us. I think initially we were
drawn to the ’60s girl groups because of their harmonies, which we just really enjoyed decoding and singing. But another reason we love groups like The Ronettes or Martha and the Vandellas is because they were very badass, talented women working in a male-dominated music industry, and we definitely respect that. Among current musicians, who are you most enjoying? One of my favorite musicians is Brittany Howard, frontwoman of Alabama Shakes. Not only is her voice the perfect combination of intense heartbreak and unwavering sweetness, but she also shreds on guitar! She is one of the most inspiring women in music right now in my opinion. I had the honor of seeing Alabama Shakes a few months back, and the amount of emotion that emanated from her while she performed was incredible. For being a dive bar in a small college town, Duffy’s Tavern actually has quite a history of hosting impressive live acts—from Jonathan Richman to honky-tonk hero Sleepy LaBeef to altrock forebears Pavement. What should people expect when The She’s hit the tiny stage? Wow! That is an amazing list of bands to follow. We’ll be excited to be there and meet all the new faces in the crowd, and I hope that excitement is translated through the performance. Ω
dors, plus a rotating cast of live musicians in the Paradise Community Park. This week: classic rock, blues and rockabilly featuring Driver. Th, 5:30pm through 8/20. Free. Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 872-6291.
THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farm-fresh produce, enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and live entertainment. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free. Downtown Chico, www.downtownchico.com/events.
PARTY IN THE PARK Thursdays Paradise Community Park
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FINE ARTS Music THOMPSON SQUARE: Country music duo that’s topped the U.S., Canadian and Australian charts. Sa, 8/1, 8pm. $40-$70. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 5349892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.
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NEW JIM CROW READING GROUP: Explore Michelle
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Music RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: Texas-based country singer/songwriter comes to Chico to play a benefit show for KZFR. Th, 7/30, 7:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E Third St., (530) 8950706, www.kzfr.org.
Theater MID-LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL: A satirical musi-
cal for those facing the crisis of midlife. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 8/9. $15-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
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Special Events COHASSET BAZAAR & MUSIC FESTIVAL: An all-day festival featuring a parade, live music and more, Sa, 8/1, 9:30am. $5. Cohasset Community Association, 11 Maple Creek Ranch Rd. 11 past chico airport in Cohasset, (530) 898-8197.
LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY: Join the Museum of Northern California Art for a day of food, art, books and fun. Sa, 8/1, 11:30am-2pm. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-6320, www.butte county.net/bclibrary/Paradise.htm.
Theater MID-LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
with performances from a variety of local talent. This week: Los Papi Chulos performing Latin jazz/Afro-Cuban salsa. F, 7pm through 9/11. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.
Theater MID-LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
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PICNIC IN THE PLAZA Tuesdays Chico City Plaza
Alexander’s paradigm-shifting book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and learn about the ways the prison-industrial complex and institutional racism impact our own lives and community. M, 6-8pm through 8/24. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 893-9078, www.chico-peace.org.
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1078 GALLERY: All The King’s Horses, artist
CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.
Rebecca Wallace uses fragmented landscapes in collage images to create a sense of security amid an ever-changing environment. Through 8/8. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
CHICO ART CENTER: All Media Juried Exhibition,
CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This Is Our
Home, Here We Remain, presented from the perspective of the Mechoopda people, focusing on the tribe’s heritage and history and using the four seasons to delineate periods of happiness, success and tragedy. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.
multi-media group show. Through 8/14, 57pm. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.
HAS BEANS INTERNET CAFE & GALLERIA: New works, art of Oni E Dakini, oil paintings on canvas. Th, 7/30, 8am-5pm. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.
GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming
- Land, Water, People, and Science, explores North State agriculture. Patterns of the Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images of the Sacramento Valley. Moneyville, an interactive exhibit that explores the history, science and culture behind money. Through 9/6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.
HEALING ART GALLERY: New Works, oil and colored pencil works by Northern California artist, Barbara Anne Ramsey. The Healing Art Gallery features Northern California artists touched by cancer. Through 10/14. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.
JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Collage, Paper, Pins,
LOTT HOME IN SANK PARK: Woodcarvers
Exhibit, New works from the Woodcarvers club on display. Also, Miniature Toy Soldiers, a collection of miniature toy soldiers manufactured by W. Britain’s of London on display in the Tandy Room. Through 9/1. 1067 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497.
Bay Area artist Michael Mew showcases his latest collages using digital-print layering on paper with pins. Through 7/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.
NAKED LOUNGE TEA & COFFEEHOUSE: New
Works, showcasing flyer art from 1994-2014 from artist Aye Jay. Through 7/31. 118 W Second St., (530) 895-0676.
PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and
logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 79pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.
SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Hanging Out, artists Betty Benson’s birds and K.W. Moore Sr.’s bridges. Ongoing. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.
VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:
UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: International Faces of Chico, seven local artists display their portraits of people from around the world. Through 8/29. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.
Leaping Lemurs and Mysterious Crimes: On The Trail of Physical Anthropology, the exhibit takes visitors on the human journey from our African roots to modern humans through the eyes of physical anthropology. Ongoing. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.
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One of the best ways to experience the dramatic difference between life on the valley floor and the Sierra Nevada foothills is to drive to the tiny town of Cohasset, located just 11 miles past—and about 2,500-feet above—the Chico Municipal Airport. And offering a good glimpse of mounEDITOR’S PICK tain livin’ in Butte County is the Cohasset Bazaar and Music Festival, happening Saturday, Aug, 1, at the Cohasset Community Association Building. This 45th annual installment of the community event will feature a parade, bake sale, seven live bands, beer and wine and much more.
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W building to a bountiful climax, the local farmers’ markets ith another California summer
have been absolutely stunning: great tables of by gorgeous tomaHenri Bourride toes (finally!), huge red onions, h enri @ new srev i ew. c o m succulent eggplant, exotic Asian beans, pungent basil, and Henri’s favorite fruit, peaches. Eaten straight from the stone or chilled and sliced and served in a bowl with just a dash of powdered sugar—and maybe a splash of sauvignon blanc or even cognac—there’s nothing better than sweet, sticky, juicy fresh peaches. Native to China, and documented there as early as the 10th century B.C., peaches migrated west with traders through the Mideast, where the Romans discovered them and introduced malum persicum, or Persian apples, to much of the empire. Spanish explorers brought peaches to the New World, and Jefferson planted them at Monticello. The peach came west across North America with Native Americans and mid-19th-century gold seekers, who dried them and packed them for the long overland journey. Today, California and the Southern states, especially
Georgia (of course) and South Carolina, lead the United States in peach production, and the fruit is also grown commercially in New Jersey and Colorado, among other states. With hundreds of varieties, peaches are generally divided into two categories: clingstone and freestone, depending on whether the flesh sticks to the stone or not. Growers also have developed hybrids, called “semi-freestone.” North State peach aficionados are especially lucky. Not only are the farmers’ markets offering wide varieties of excellent fresh peaches at very reasonable prices, but you can also drive out to Chico State’s University Farm (starting in early August this year) and pick your own. The orchards will be open to the public and cost is $1.25 per pound. And although the farm provides buckets for picking, you need to bring your own boxes or other containers to bring the peaches home in. Of course, the classic peach dishes include desserts such as cobblers and pies, but the fruit is actually quite versatile, and with a little imagination, you can use peaches in a wide range of interesting and delicious dishes and concoctions, including salsas and chutneys, grilled peaches and baked (and stuffed) peaches. They also make a sweet addition to cocktails such as martinis and
daiquiris. Here is a recipe for delicious peach and Brie quesadillas, from local caterer and cooking instructor Shelley Anderson. Peach and Brie quesadillas Honey-lime dipping sauce:
Combine 2 tablespoons honey, 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice and 1/2 teaspoon minced lime peel. Quesadillas:
1 cup thinly sliced, peeled, firm, ripe peaches (about 2 large) 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives 1 teaspoon brown sugar 3 ounces Brie cheese, thinly sliced 4 flour tortillas Cooking spray Combine peaches, chives and brown sugar, toss gently to coat. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Evenly divide peach mixture and cheese between four tortillas and spread evenly over half of each, then fold in half. Coat pan with cooking spray. Place two quesadillas in pan, cook 2 minutes on each side or until tortillas are lightly browned and crisp. Remove from pan and keep warm while repeating procedure with remaining quesadillas. Cut each into thirds and serve with honey-lime sauce. □
Tony Daum (left) as Watson Prichard and Quintin Deshler as pilot Lance Schroeder, two overnight guests in the haunted house.
Fright night
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Blue Room horror-comedy stirs up haunted memories
THill,1959I wasfilm5 House on Haunted years old. My older he first time I heard about the
brother had come back from the theater in Three Forks, Mont., with the other ranch kids telling horrific tales of ghosts, walking skeletons and screaming people dissolved in acid. I didn’t know what to make of it, but was glad I didn’t go. At that age, the wicked witches of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and The Wizard of Oz still made me bury my face behind a pillow during the “scary parts.” Nonetheless, a year later I somehow wound up with a group of kids who got dropped off at the movie theater to see Roger Vadim’s 1960 psychological vampire tale Blood and Roses, which traumatized my sensibilities so much that I didn’t watch another horror film until my late teens. So I approached the Blue Room’s one-weekend run of House on Haunted Hill, co-directed by Samantha Deshler and Stephanie Ditty, guided only by my memories of the horrors described by other little kids, never having seen the original William Castle film starring Vincent Price. The story is almost by Carey archetypal in its simplicity of Wilson design—Frederick Loren (played originally by Price and here by Nick Anderson), a mysterious REVIEW: and wealthy man, and his glamorHouse on ous wife, Annabelle (Stephanie Haunted Hill, Gilbert), invite five strangers to Thursday, July 23, spend the night at a “party” in Blue Room Theatre an allegedly haunted mansion. Guests who endure the night are each promised $10,000 for surviving from midnight till the following morning. Horror, of a very slowpaced and comically melodramatic sort, ensues. The Blue Room show’s producer, local horror impresario and connoisseur Craig Blamer, chose his cast well, and directors Deshler and Ditty had them deliver the word-for-word dialogue with a deadpan lack of irony that heightened the script’s innate goofiness, Swiss-cheese plot and cornball “suspense”—even amid the rigors of translating a movie with multiple interior sets into a play with minimalistic props. The necessity of quickly rearranging the two tables, three chairs and a few props to represent the various rooms depicted in the film became a near slapstick element on stage, with cast and crew hustling through the rapid-fire and increasingly hilarious choreographed set changes. It’s a credit to the ensemble cast that not one
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broke character in the face of this manic action between their sedately paced scenes. This production didn’t employ any of Castle’s trademark in-the-audience special effects—such as the seat vibrators installed for showings of The Tingler (1959)—but there were well-placed thunder sounds as well as not-so-well-placed pantomimed door-knocks that were often out of sync with the prerecorded sounds. Tony Daum, as the trepidatious and increasingly drunken Watson Pritchard, appeared to be genuinely terrified of his surroundings. Quintin Deshler as the steel-nerved test pilot Lance Schroeder embodied the handsome romantic lead. Samantha Wolf not only demonstrated a great, eardrum-piercing scream, she bears a striking physical resemblance to Carolyn Craig, who played the pretty girl of humble means Nora Manning in the original film. As newspaper writer Ruth Bridgers, Blue Room veteran Delisa Freistadt was remarkable in her characterization of the “Scotch and …” drinking journalist stereotype. The saturnine hysteria specialist Dr. David Trent is a part that could have been written with Caleb Mains in mind—his face, framed in a well-trimmed beard, convincingly conveyed the mind of the scheming psychologist. But the gem of the production, perfectly complementary to the obsequious menace of her husband, was the character of Annabelle Loren, and Gilbert gave the role just the right balance of languorously cool gold-digger and icy-veined would-be murderess. Without delivering a complete spoiler to those who may seek out the film (it’s on YouTube), I can only say it’s a bit of a letdown when she gets hers in the end. Her triumphant husband, as portrayed by Anderson, oozed such oily-smooth venom that one almost wished he’d slipped on his own slickness and wound up in the acid bath as well. □
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Opening this week Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation
Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (who won an Oscar for his screenplay for The Usual Suspects) is at the helm of this fifth installment in the series, featuring Tom Cruise back as superspy Ethan Hunt, fighting for his life against a group of ex-ops out to dismantle the Impossible Missions Force. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Back on the case An old mystery invades the twilight years of world’s greatest detective
TDr.Holmes himself, but here he’s Sherlock without Watson and the deerstalker hat. In Bill Condon’s he title character is none other than Sherlock
Mr. Holmes (based on a novel by Mitch Cullin), it’s 1947 and the aged great detective has long since left sleuthing behind. by He’s living in semi-solitude in a Juan-Carlos large country house and he’s trying Selznick to write an account of an unexpectedly complicated encounter with a mysterious woman on a long-ago case that still haunts him. Slippages in Holmes’ memories add urgency and suspense to his authorial efforts, and the story Mr. Holmes itself is a time-shifting mosaic of Starring Ian McKellen episodes and character connections. and Laura Linney. He’s become a devoted beekeeper Directed by Bill Condon. Cinemark 14 in retirement and he tries to pass and Paradise on what he’s learned in that realm Cinema 7. Rated PG. to young Roger (Milo Parker), the bright and eager son of Holmes’ rather haughty housemaid, the widowed Mrs. Munro (Laura Linney). Flashbacks fill out the other major story strands: Holmes’ labyrinthian involvement with the mysterious Mrs. Kelmot (Hattie Morahan); and a voyage to Japan, where he visited with the son of a former diplomat there for reasons that prove both scientific and personal. Spiritual themes slide quietly into view, especially in the Kelmot story and the Japan visit, but it’s not until the film’s remarkable final images that they become unmistakably central, and even then there’s a beguiling offhandedness to the discovery. Other large themes—the truth in fiction and fantasy, nature and memory as healing refuges that are both
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powerful and problematic—are handled with a mostly charming nonchalance as well. There’s a powerful nostalgia in all this, but one that is directed mainly toward older forms of storytelling. The various shivers of nostalgia for a bucolic past get thoroughly chastened by references to the calamities of two world wars (including especially the bombing of Hiroshima) and by the darker shadings of fine performances by McKellen and Linney. □
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Heaven Knows What Ends tonight, July 30. Pageant Theatre. Rated R. by Juan-Carlos Selznick
This vivid, swift-moving account of homeless young
drug addicts in New York City has no big-name stars and so it may be doomed to its own kind of marginality at the box office. But Heaven Knows What is a very good movie in several respects, and it’s especially sharp in its portrayal of life on the streets as a darkly picaresque series of minor episodes and futile escapades. Based on Arielle Holmes’ writings about her own experiences in this milieu, the film follows an amorphous group of young people and especially a character named Harley (played by Holmes herself) through the rigors and lulls of their hand-to-mouth, flim-flam existence. Co-directors Josh and Benny Safdie film it all with a brisk sort of street-level realism, and excellent performances by Holmes and Buddy Duress (as a gawky DeNiro-esque type named Mike) are central to the peculiar emotional electricity of a film that is both detached and intimate, sympathetic and rigorously unsentimental. □
The notorious university prisoner/ prison guard “experiment” from 1971 is portrayed here as straight-ahead psychodrama with Billy Crudup as the mildly deranged psychology prof in charge. In a way, it’s a low-key horror film with a brusque sense of human psychology, and in our age of mass incarcerations and “enhanced interrogation,” the socio-political reverberations have a fresh and special sting. Pageant Theatre. Rated R –J.C.S.
Vacation
Clark Griswold’s boy Rusty is all grown up and Ed Helms is starring as the adult version of Chevy Chase’s son from the original run of Vacation films. This time, it’s Rusty’s turn to lead his family—two sons and wife (Christina Applegate)—on a road trip to the soon-to-be-closed-forever Walley World. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
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Ant-Man
Paul Rudd is Scott Lang, a professional, wisecracking thief given a new lease on life when scientist Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) shows him the wonders of his incredible shrinking suit. Director Peyton Reed (who replaced outgoing early director Edgar Wright) does a good although not outstanding, job. The framework for the movie plays it mighty safe, with an emphasis on family viewing and very little of the offbeat touches that are hallmarks of a Wright affair. After a setup that involves Lang’s release from prison, some business with his ex-wife (Judy Greer) and daughter (Abby Rider Fortson) and a short-lived job at Baskin-Robbins, he winds up in the company of Pym, who is justifiably concerned that his invention has fallen into the wrong hands. His sinister business partner Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) has uncovered Pym’s shrinking technology, and has created his own suit and a new bad-guy persona, Yellowjacket. Lang is hand picked by Pym to break into his own company’s headquarters and steal the new suit. Rudd is a naturally funny guy who is so good as Lang/ Ant-Man, the film would’ve likely been a dud without his presence. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —B.G.
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Ends tonight, July 30. See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.
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See review this issue. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —J.C.S.
Inside Out
From the writer and director (Pete Docter) who brought us Up and Monsters, Inc. comes the story of a young girl who, after being uprooted from her hometown, must reconcile her many emotions—Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger and Sadness. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.
Jurassic World
It’s two decades later and the Jurassic World live-dinosaur theme park is real. When attendance drops, a new creature is brought to life on the island to attract more visitors, and things go about as well as you might guess. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
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The little yellow things from Despicable Me get their own computer-animated film, and their shtick is fun for a while, but not enough to sustain an entire feature film. The Minions have always wanted to be henchmen and are attracted to serving bad guys, and three of them (Stuart, Kevin and Bob) decide to head out on a journey to look for a new master. Their travels take them to New York in 1968, and up to this point the movie has a cool MAD Magazine vibe going for it. Things start going off the rails a little bit when the trio leave New York for Orlando, Fla., where they seek out the evil Scarlett Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock). She has some cockamamie scheme for the Minions to steal the Queen of England’s crown. So they all travel to England, where things get even wackier. The best thing about the movie is the Queen (Jennifer Saunders), portrayed as a happy-go-lucky goofball, but the Minions themselves get a little grating after the first 45 minutes. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —B.G.
Paper Towns
An adaptation of a young-adult novel about a teenager who hits the road with his friends to search for his mysterious neighbor Margot who has gone missing. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Pixels
Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and friends have invaded the planet, and a one-time pro videogamer (Adam Sandler) is called upon by the president (Kevin James) to lead the battle against them. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Southpaw
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a world-champion boxer trying to get his life back after a terrible tragedy leads him to lose everything good in his world. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.
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Trainwreck
Comedian Amy Schumer’s first star turn is a mixed affair. Directed by Judd Apatow from Schumer’s script, the film seems uncomfortable in its raunchy romcom skin as it choppily sets up the story of a 30-something party girl whose boozing, one-night-stand lifestyle is threatened when she meets a sweet sports doctor (Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader). However, after the prolonged setup, the film does start to come together in a somewhat surprising way. As the narrative bears down on the serious transition happening in the lives of two sisters (Schumer and Brie Larson) with a dying pops (Colin Quinn), it becomes more of a touching story of a family at a crossroads than a hard-R comedy. And the closing scene is as genuinely romantic as it is ridiculous. Despite not living up to the level of excellent raunchy satire of Schumer’s Comedy Central show, there are many hilarious moments. Schumer’s soloriffing (e.g., poking fun at her sister’s nerdy husband, played by a sweet John Birbiglia) is priceless. And her many comedy guest stars also get a turn in the spotlight—Quinn as her cranky dad in a nursing home, Dave Attell as a wisecracking homeless dude, and NBA star LeBron James is surprisingly good as an intensely involved client/friend of the sports doctor. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —J.C.
Pretty Speeches Poema Self-released The new EP from the Albuquerque, N.M., sister duo (Elle and Shealeen Puckett) Poema is beautiful. Comprising five breezy pop tracks that together provide the perfect soundtrack to lazy sunny days, Pretty Speeches will have you salivating for more at the end. Dreamy guitars and a funky percussive rhythm match perfectly with the lush vocals and quirky delivery on catchy opener “Go Away,� and with the Colbie Caillatesque follow-up, “Enough Messing Around,� the EP’s theme of relationships is set. The low-key, vaguely Hawaiian-sounding “Get to Me� slows things down nicely and is a perfect mood-setter, while “Forget You in L.A.� is a throwback to warm, 1970s-era, radio-friendly rock. By the time the EP concludes with the gorgeous, tragic “Madeline�—a tale about loving someone whose heart and mind are clearly on someone else—you’ll have arguably spent the best possible 20 minutes you could listening to pop music this summer. A breath of fresh air.
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THURSDAY 7/30—WEDNESDAY 8/5 THE SHE’S: The She’s bring their dreamy
ENSLAVE THE CREATION, BURIAL GROUNDS, OVVL AND WAVES OF LEVIATHAN Sunday, Aug. 2 1078 Gallery
Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.
30THURSDAY BRISTOL TO MEMORY: The Santa Ana altrockers come to town with In Urgency (alternative/post-hardcore). Plus, Neon Junkie (punk) and South Fork (indie/folk) Th, 7/30, 7:30pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973.
CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.
Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.
Riverbend Park, 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville, (530) 533-2011.
IRISH-MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi-
try singer/songwriter comes to Chico to play a benefit show for KZFR. Th, 7/30, 7:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E Third St., (530) 895-0706, www.kzfr.org.
MIKE RUSSELL: Live music from Mike
Russell. Th, 7/30. Tackle Box, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499.
OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians
DRIVER: Live music by the guys from Paradise at the Feather River Recreation & Parks District Concert in the Park series. Th, 7/30, 6:30pm. Free.
welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.
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100 WATT MIND: Ashland rockers visit.
Locals Nolan Ford and Get Foxy open. F, 7/31, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
BASSMINT: A weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.
FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café
Skate Country (noise pop). F, 7/31, 9:30pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.
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“This is a song by Ray Wylie Hubbard,” Jerry Jeff Walker famously announces at the beginning of his rendition of Hubbard’s “Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother.” Set in a Luckenbach, Texas, bar circa 1973—complete with the sounds of clinking bottles and hooting cowboys in the background—it’s one of the greatest live country recordings of all time. Hubbard continues to write and play some great songs, and KZFR is bringing him to the Chico Women’s Club tonight, July 30.
JOURNEY UNAUTHORIZED: Journey cover band F, 7/31, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.
ROCK AT 1078 A hyper night of rock by local and visiting crews: Overture, Descent, The Kelps, Started as Egyptians. F, 7/31, 7:30pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.
SAFETY ORANGE: San Diego-based group will perform beach/rock/reggae tunes. F, 7/31, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.
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BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music
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OPEN MIC: The Cafe Flo open mic has THOMPSON SQUARE: Country music duo that’s topped the U.S., Canadian and Australian charts. Sa, 8/1, 8pm. $40-$70. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.
2SUNDAY GLOOMSDAY: A 2-piece band blowout
1SATURDAY 80S NIGHT: Wear your best 80s attire and dance the night away. Sa, 8pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.
ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: A jam hosted by Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 4-6pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 345-4128.
featuring Blaster Dead (Chico punk), Panther Surprise (Chico gloom) and Gloomsday (rock/doom pop) from San Diego. Sa, 8/1, 7pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.
MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.
ROCKHOUNDS: Classic rock cover band.
Sa, 8/1, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.
DARK SEAS: Psychedelic surf rock by Dark Seas from Salt Lake City. Plus, Bogart the Monster (psych-rock) and Dirty Clean. Su, 8/2, 7pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
METAL NIGHT: A heavy militia featuring Burial Grounds (death metal), Ovvl (rock), Waves Of Leviathan (metal) and Enslave The Creation (death metal). Su, 8/2, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.
REGGAE NIGHT: Rise your vibes with live DJs, pool and shuffle board. Su, 8pm2am. Seeva’s Pub, 6093 Lincoln Blv in Oroville.
moved and is hosted by a new group of musical misfits. First Tu of every
month, 7-10pm through 12/29.
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With the right mix of talent, charisma, technical ability and mental connection, two musicians can make as much noise as and have a greater impact than typical four-and five-member rock bands. There’s also a primitive quality to the two-piece that’s been lost with the gradual smoothing of rock’s rough edges. San Diego’s Gloomsday is a great example, and they’ll be sharing the stage at Maltese Bar and Tap Room on Saturday, Aug. 1, with fellow duos Blaster Dead and Panther Surprise.
5WEDNESDAY PIANO NIGHT: Live piano music. W. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, www.myspace.com/ theitaliangarden.
WEEKLY JAZZ: Cary Robinson and friends play an eclectic mix of jazz standards. W, 6:30-8:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.
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by Jason Cassidy • jasonc@newsreview.com
ThaT summer feeling Hey what’s with all the whining, my Chico friends?
Summer is not “almost over.” Not even close. Arts DEVO admits he’s prone to freaking out over thoughts of the sands of another summer slipping through his greedy hands, but just because college students are signing leases and kindergarten teachers are hanging colored paper on their walls doesn’t mean summer is over for the rest of us. According to the calendar, we’re not even halfway through! And if you mark the end of summer as I do—the moment when I can wear long pants without sweating through my crotch— we have nearly three more months of good times and short pants to look forward to. The sun is still setting late, so light up the barbecue and enjoy the many long hot nights we have left.
WanTed: Black BarT Thanks to the very active members of the Butte County Pictures & Information Facebook page (go find it and join now—it’s one
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of the best local groups around), I got some fun new dirt on the history of our county. It turns out Charles Earl Bowles, aka the notorious highwayman Black Bart, was actually active in the Butte County area. Between 1875 and 1883, Bowles committed 28 robberies in Northern California and southern Oregon—at least two in Oroville—before being caught and serving four years in San Quentin prison. Known as a “gentleman bandit,” Black Bart supposedly never fired his gun and never cursed during his hold-ups, and since he was afraid of horses, all of his robberies were committed on foot! And even though it only happened during two of his robberies, Black Bart was perhaps most notorious for leaving behind poems at the scene of the crime—one of which was apparently left after holding up a stagecoach traveling between Quincy and Oroville:
Here I lay me down to sleep To wait the coming morrow, Perhaps success, perhaps defeat, And everlasting sorrow. Let come what will, I’ll try it on, My condition can’t be worse; And if there’s money in that box ‘Tis munny in my purse. Black Bart, the poet.
—Black Bart, The PO8
Today, there’s actually a road named after him in Oroville, and there’s even a monument that was “erected by the Butte County Road Department” in 1935. Find it at the intersection of Sandra Lane and Black Bart Road.
WaiT, WhaT? If American fans of rad metal were excited to hear news this week that progressivemetal badasses Mastodon were teaming up with British metal legends Judas Priest for some U.S. shows this fall, how stoked do you think local headbangers were to hear that the Atlanta, Ga., fourpiece would be taking a detour from the tour for a show in Chico at the Senator Theatre on Oct. 22? If you answered, “By squealing like a 10-year-old girl at a Bieber concert,” you’d be exactly right. TheaTer gossip A little bird
recently whispered a tantalizing Mastodon approaches. bit of news into Arts DEVO’s ear regarding a certain newly vacant Victorian building in downtown Chico and a trio of local theater types—Brandon Hilty, Michael Gremo and Keaton Robison—who are making big plans to transform the big, beautiful space into something theatery. Very intriguing. More news (hopefully) soon.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 30, 2015
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am very
much in love with no one in particular,” says actor Ezra Miller. His statement would make sense coming out of your mouth right about now. So would this one: “I am very much in love with almost everyone I encounter.” Or this one: “I am very much in love with the wind and moon and hills and rain and rivers.” Is this going to be a problem? How will you deal with your overwhelming urge to overflow? Will you break people’s hearts and provoke uproars everywhere you go, or will you rouse delight and bestow blessings? As long as you take yourself lightly, I foresee delight and blessings.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In
her io9.com article on untranslatable words, Esther Inglis-Arkell defines the Chinese term wei-wu-wei as “conscious nonaction … a deliberate, and principled, decision to do nothing whatsoever, and to do it for a particular reason.” In my astrological opinion, the coming days would be a favorable time to explore and experiment with this approach. I think you will reap wondrous benefits if you slow down and rest in the embrace of a pregnant pause. The mysteries of silence and emptiness will be rich resources.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I always
liked side paths, little dark back alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.” The character named Dmitri Karamazov makes that statement in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. And now I’m thinking that you might like to claim his attitude as your own. Just for a while, you understand. Not forever. The magic of the side paths and back alleys may last for no more than a few weeks, and then gradually fade. But in the meantime, the experiences you uncover there could be fun and educational. I do have one question for you, though: What do you think Dmitri meant by “precious metal in the dirt”? Money? Gold? Jewelry? Was he speaking metaphorically? I’m sure you’ll find out.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Some-
times the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason,” says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. His implication is that rejecting traditional strategies and conventional wisdom doesn’t always lead to success. As a professional rebel myself, I find it painful to agree even a little bit with that idea. But I do think it’s applicable to your life right now. For the foreseeable future, compulsive nonconformity is likely to yield mediocrity. Putting too much emphasis on being unique rather than on being right might distract you from the truth. My advice: Stick to the road more traveled.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I expect you to be
in a state of constant birth for the next three weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about it. (P.S. This upsurge is a healthy response to the dissolution that preceded it.)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Expiration
dates loom. Fond adieus and last laughs and final hurrahs are on tap. Unfinished business is begging you to give it your smartest attention while there’s still time to finish it with elegance and grace. So here’s my advice for you, my on-the-verge friend: Don’t save any of your tricks, ingenuity or enthusiasm for later. This is the later you’ve been saving them for. You are more ready than you realize to try what has always seemed improbable or inconceivable before now. Here’s my promise: If you handle these endings with righteous decisiveness, you will ensure bright beginnings in the weeks after your birthday.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A company
called Evil Supply sells a satirical poster that contains the following quote: “Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt
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you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.” The text in the advertisement for this product adds, “Follow your nightmares … Plot your own nefarious path.” Although this counsel is slightly funny to me, I’m too moral and upright to recommend it to you—even now, when I think there would be value in you being less nice and polite and agreeable than you usually are. So I’ll tinker with Evil Supply’s message to create more suitable advice: “For the greater good, follow your naughty bliss. Be a leader with a wild imagination. Nudge everyone out of their numbing routines. Sow benevolent mischief that energizes your team.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Every
time you resist acting on your anger and instead restore yourself to calm, it gets easier,” writes psychologist Laura Markham in Psychology Today. In fact, neurologists claim that by using your willpower in this way, “you’re actually rewiring your brain.” And so the more you practice, the less likely it is that you will be addled by rage in the future. I see the coming weeks as an especially favorable time for you to do this work, Scorpio. Keeping a part of your anger alive is good, of course—sometimes you need its energy to motivate constructive change. But you would benefit from culling the excess.
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Much of the action in the world’s novels takes place inside buildings, according to author Robert Bringhurst. But characters in older Russian literature are an exception, he says. They are always out in the forests, traveling and rambling. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest that you draw inspiration from the Russians’ example in the coming days. As often and as long as you can, put yourself in locations where the sky is overhead. Nature is the preferred setting, but even urban spots are good. Your luck, wisdom and courage are likely to increase in direct proportion to how much time you spend outdoors.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Has
a beloved teacher disappointed you? Are there inspirational figures about whom you feel conflicted because they don’t live up to all of your high standards? Have you become alienated from a person who gave you a blessing but later expressed a flaw you find hard to overlook? Now would be an excellent time to seek healing for rifts like these. Outright forgiveness is one option. You could also work on deepening your appreciation for how complicated and paradoxical everyone is. One more suggestion: Meditate on how your longing for what’s perfect might be an enemy of your ability to benefit from what’s merely good.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): French
and Italian readers may have no problem with this horoscope. But Americans, Canadians, Brits and Aussies might be offended, even grossed out. Why? Because my analysis of the astrological omens compels me to conclude that “moist” is a central theme for you right now. And research has shown that many speakers of the English language find the sound of the word “moist” equivalent to hearing fingernails scratching a chalkboard. If you are one of those people, I apologize. But the fact is, you will go astray unless you stay metaphorically moist. You need to cultivate an attitude that is damp but not sodden; dewy but not soggy; sensitive and responsive and lyrical, but not overwrought or weepy or histrionic.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Which
signs of the zodiac are the most expert sleepers? Who best appreciates the healing power of slumber and feels the least shame about taking naps? Which of the twelve astrological tribes are most inclined to study the art of snoozing and use their knowledge to get the highest quality renewal from their time in bed? My usual answer to these questions would be Taurus and Cancer, but I’m hoping you Pisceans will vie for the top spot in the coming weeks. It’s a very favorable time for you to increase your mastery of this supreme form of self-care.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as COUNTRY VIEW APARTMENTS at 54 Grand Ave Oroville, CA 95965. GABINO GONZALEZ 901 Berendsen Ct Clayton, CA 94517. ALFONZO ROMERO 27 El Portal Dr Clayton, CA 94517. This business is conducted by Copartners. Signed: NINA RICCI Dated: June 24, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000822 Published: July 9,16,23,30, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as D & G ENTERPRISE at 1490 Marauder St Chico, CA 95973. WILLIAM LEE CROWDER 4216 Shorthorn Dr Chico, CA 95973. THOMAS JOSEPH DALTON 589 Valley View Dr Paradise, CA 95969. JAMES THOMAS GRIFFIN 112 Live Oak Knolls Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: WILLIAM CROWDER Dated: June 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000756 Published: July 9,16,23,30, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following person is doing business as PROARTPLUS at 1901 Dayton Rd. #93 Chico, CA 95928. SUSAN N JEFFRIES 1901 Dayton Rd. #93 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SUSAN N. JEFFRIES Dated: July 7, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000867 Published: July 16,23,30 August 6, 2015
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as UNWINED AT 980 at 980 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95928. STELLAR RESTAURANTS, LLC 1165 Dog Leg Drive Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: MELINDA KENNEMER, OWNER Dated: June 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000845 Published: July 16,23,30, August 6, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GRO-KING GARDEN SPRAYERS at 1535 Bird St Oroville, CA 95965. DEBORAH A WIGELY 1535 Bird St Oroville, CA 95965. TEAK R WILBURN 2898 Cussick Ave Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: DEBORAH WIGELY Dated: June 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000811 Published: July 16,23,30, August 6, 2015
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THERAPY SERVICES INC 2889 Cohasset Rd Ste #6 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: SUSAN K. MADSON, DIRECTOR Dated: July 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000859 Published: July 16,23,30, August 6, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOCALGAL HANDWOVENS at 1391 Ringtail Way Chico, CA 95973. ASHLEY INEZ HAMM GORDON This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ASHLEY GORDON Dated: July 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000886 Published: July 23,30 August 6,13, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DONNA’S KITCHEN at 5542 Clark Rd Paradise, CA 95969. DONNA MARIE JOHNSON 1487 East 1st Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DONNA JOHNSON Dated: June 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000802 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following person is doing business as SERENE DATA at 1571 Marauder St Chico, CA 95973. TIM CLARK 1571 Marauder St Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TIM CLARK Dated: July 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000903 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JJI TOYS at 4345 Hedstrom Way Chico , CA 95973. JUST JUMP IT 4345 Hedstrom Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: CHRIS KALBERER, OPERATIONS MANAGER Dated: July 1, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000850 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TENDER HEARTS at 1152 Lawton Dr Chico, CA 95973. MIRIAM RODRIGUEZ 1152 Lawton Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MIRIAM RODRIGUEZ Dated: July 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000918 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as J/S PLASTERING AND MORE at 10807 State Hwy 70 Marysville, CA 95901. JAIME C CAPRISTO 10807 State Hwy 70 Marysville, CA 95901. SILVIA C CAPRISTO 10807 State Hwy 70 Marysville, CA 95901. This business is conducted by A Married Couple.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CLEAN MASTER at 1572 Nord Ave Suite A Chico, CA 95926. NOAH ABEBE DESALEGNE 13059 Orchard Blossom Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: NOAH ABEBE DESALEGNE Dated: September 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001171 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL STAR TOWING at 5050 Cohasset Road Chico, CA 95973. PHILLIP HOWARD HARRIS 4408 Hall Road Corning, CA 96021. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PHILLIP HARRIS Dated: July 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000925 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DRAGON DONUTS, DULCE MIKA, OXBOW RISING at 1545 Sylvan Way Paradise, CA 95969. ALEXA VOYER 1545 Sylvan Way Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ALEXA VOYER Dated: June 24, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000823 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EMERY’S MOBILE FORKLIFT REPAIR at 3648 Chico Street Chico, CA 95928. DONALD ROY EMERY 3648 Chico Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DONALD ROY EMERY Dated: July 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000881 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YDP, YUROK DESIGNS AND PHOTOGRAPHY at 701 E Lassen Ave, Sp 266 Chico, CA 95973. JOLENE A SMITH 701 E Lassen Ave, Sp 266 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOLENE SMITH Dated: July 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000929 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ACCURATE MOBILE LIVE SCAN AND NOTARY at 2279 Fern Ave Chico, CA 95926. KATIE LYN CARMICHAEL-BUELL 2279 Fern Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KATIE CARMICHAEL-BUELL Dated: July 20, 2015
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: SUNRISE TO SUNSET LANDSCAPING at 12 Serendipity Ln Cohasset, CA 95973. TRAVIS EDWARD ULCH 12 Serendipity Ln Cohasset, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TRAVIS ULCH Dated: July 27, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000953 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
NOTICES CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): JENNY L. MASON WILLIAM LEE TAYLOR and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): K.T. born on (date): January 19, 2015 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): OROVILLE HOSPITAL OROVILLE, CA A hearing will be held on Date: September 17, 2015 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, 95928. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attor- ney for you. If the court terminated your pa- rental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Signed:KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: June 23, 2015 Case Number: J-37491 Published: July 16,23,30, August 6, 2015
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DEANNA LOUISE EPPERSON, aka DEANNA L. EPPERSON, aka DEANNA EPPERSON To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DEANNA LOUISE EPPERSON aka DEANNA L. EPPERSON aka DEANNA EPPERSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MELISSA DANIELS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: MELISSA DANIELS 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
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very important actions, however, the 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: August 18, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord 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 repre- sentative 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 per- sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and le- gal 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. Attorney for Petitioner: JANE E. STANSELL 901 Bruce Road, Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928. Case Number: PR41521 Dated: July 16, 2015 Published: July 23,30, August 6, 2015
NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held on August 7, 2015 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: LARRY OSTRANDER #34: Household items, baby furniture, pool parts. ED METZ #E: Household, lamps, entertainment center, mattress, lawn equipment, tools. DEBORAH ANDERS #G: Household, vacuum, clothing, boxes. GUNNER ANDERSON #195: Mattress, lamps, toys, cooler, golf clubs, 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: July 30, August 6, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRANDY NICOLE FERGUSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRANDY NICOLE FERGUSON Proposed name: BRANDY NICOLE WELCH
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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: September 18, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: July 13, 2015 Case Number: 164565 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KYONG A CHOI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KYONG A CHOI Proposed name: CECI GOYA CHOI 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: September 18, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: July 14, 2015 Case Number: 164610 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DEANNA CAREY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KELSEY ANNALYNNE CHERRY Proposed name: KELSEY ANNALYNNE CAREY 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: August 28, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: July 17, 2015 Case Number: 164592 Published: July 30, August 6,13,20, 2015
SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT KAMI L. HAMBEK You are being sued by plaintiff: ROBERT D. HAMBEK You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: ROBERT D. HAMBEK 744 Cherry Street Chico, CA 95928. AFFORDABLE DOCUMENTS 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #4 Oroville, CA 95966. 530-534-7777 LDA #22 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: May 7, 2015 Case Number: FL-047586 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT MICHAEL S. RICHARDSON SR. You are being sued by plaintiff: DONILDA L. RICHARDSON You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make or- ders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court One Court Street Oroville, CA 95965-3303. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: DONILDA L. RICHARDSON 4250 Lincoln Blvd. Oroville, CA 95966. Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: January 31, 2014 Case Number: FL-045113 Published: July 23,30, August 6,13, 2015
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Good news! Today’s newspaper says interest rates will be cut nationwide. Every single homeowner with a home loan will receive a reduction on their interest rate and therefore a lower house payment. I looked up from the newspaper to my wife, and from my wife down to the newspaper. “Lassie, you’ll not believe what I’m seein’ with me own two eyes,” I said. She glanced nervously around the tea shop, and whispered, “Stop using that fake Irish accent. It’s embarrassing.” “I’m thinkin’ I sound perfectly natural,” I said, continuing with my best Irish brogue, rolling the r’s and rounding the vowels. She rolled her eyes and raised her eyebrows. “Ach! You’re a bonny lass!” I exclaimed. “Stop it!” she whispered. She lowered her head, as if she could hide from the other patrons in the tea shop by disappearing into the tabletop. “Anyway,” I said in my flattest American accent, “can you believe the entire nation is getting a loan modification? For free? And apparently with no hassle!” I told her the story from the newspaper: “Today the finance minister announced victory over the lenders in a long-running dispute over the interest paid by homeowners. A source said the banks have committed to giving customers a better deal within the next two months. Ultimately all borrowers will be able to access a mortgage interest rate of below 4 percent, and all will receive a cut of at least ¼ percent, and up to ¾ percent.” “Wow,” I said, “we should be so lucky.” “That will never happen to us,” said my wife.
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It will never happen for us because we are Americans, and, you see, the tea shop we occupied and the newspaper I read are in Ireland. The newspaper’s source continued on to say that there was a game of chicken going on and it seems the banks broke first. Ireland experienced the same boom and bust cycle the United States did a few years back, with shady lending practices by banks as part of the problem. “Well, the Irish deserve it after all they’ve been through,” said my wife. “It’s amazing they’re so friendly and goodnatured. But the Irish heart is a tender one.” It’s true. We received a crash course in Irish history during our recent trip there, and it’s a violent history, despite the calm beauty of the watery green island today. A guide who set us up with a boat trip over the Lakes of Killarney gave us a detailed description of the slaughter, famine and displacement of his clan. Tears rolled down the face of this Viking-looking Irishman as he described the brutality suffered by his people at the hands of foreign oppressors. The Irishman’s tears were fresh, though the events he described took place in the year 1601. “The Irish do deserve this, lass. Truer words were never spoken,” I said, reverting to my finest Irish accent. “But I envy the luck o’ the Irish when it comes to their good fortune with this interest rate bit.” “I wouldn’t be so embarrassed if your accent wasn’t so lousy,” said my wife, looking warily around the tea shop. “Bless your heart, lass,” I said. “Let’s go kiss the Blarney Stone.”
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Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico
$329,000.00 $310,000.00 $293,000.00 $290,000.00 $286,000.00 $267,000.00 $263,000.00 $262,000.00 $255,000.00 $255,000.00 $245,500.00
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SQ. FT. 1471 1833 1510 1692 1112 1424 1421 1487 2160 2160 1378
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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of July 13, 2015 – July 17, 2015. 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
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1004 Normal Ave 1602 Arbutus Ave 1432 N Cherry St 591 E 10th Ave 1514 E Lassen Ave 263 E 7th Ave 13011 Carmen Ln 17 Elisha Ct 1125 Sheridan Ave 22 1447 Salem St 138 W 22nd St
Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico
$239,500.00 $230,000.00 $220,000.00 $219,000.00 $214,000.00 $200,000.00 $200,000.00 $188,500.00 $165,000.00 $140,000.00 $140,000.00
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SQ. FT. 1433 1160 1040 2400 1248 912 1461 1614 978 1350 988
ADDRESS 97 Lemon Hill Dr 56 Hope Ln 5 Gleness Dr 50 Oak Ave 4815 Prospect Ln 5675 Cherry Ln 5920 Boeta Ct 324 Redbud Dr 879 Waggoner Rd 580 Circlewood Dr 1024 Fairview Dr
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$350,000.00 $283,000.00 $277,000.00 $220,000.00 $559,000.00 $357,500.00 $339,000.00 $319,000.00 $270,000.00 $255,000.00 $206,000.00
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Sat. 11-1 5461 Alpine Court (X St: Streans), Paradise 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2336 Sq.Ft. $408,500 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1827 Wisteria Ln (X St: Glenwood) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1707 Sq. Ft. $359,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562
Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 2986 Godman Ave (X St: Eaton) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2477 Sq.Ft. $399,000 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508
Sat. 11-1 2343 Holly Ave (X St: 11th Ave) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1580 Sq.Ft. $312,000 Johnny Klinger 864-3398
Sun. 11-1 14 Kingsburry Ct (X St: W. Sacramento) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2302 Sq.Ft. $367,500 Becky Williams 636-0936 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1 926 Yosemite (X St: California Park Dr) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1871 Sq.Ft. $368,900 Ronnie Owen 518-0911 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 234 W. 4th Ave (X St: Magnolia) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1753 Sq.Ft. $367,500 Traci Copper 520-0227 Laura Willman 680-8962
Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 318 Mission Serra Terrace (X St: Mission Ranch Blvd) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1414 Sq.Ft. $305,000 Brandon Siewert 828-4597 Frank “Speedy” Condon 864-7726 Brandon Siewert 828-4597 Sat. 12-3 38 Quista Drive (X St: Matthews/Guynn) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1511 Sq Ft. $287,500 Marc Shapiro 426-2555
Century 21 Select - Paradise Sat 11-1 6302 Woodbury Dr, Paradise 3 Bd / 2 Ba 1626 SqFt $189,000 Chari Bullock 872-6818 Sat 11-1 5268 Harrison Rd, Paradise 3+ Bd / 2.5 Ba 2095 SqFt $409,900 Chari Bullock 872-6818 Sat 2-4 701 Kinsey Way, Paradise 4 Bd / 3 Ba 2,957 SqFt $333,500 Chari Bullock 872-6818 Sat 2-4 249 Pacific Dr, Paradise 3+ Bd / 3 Ba 2,543 SqFt $399,000 Chari Bullock 872-6818
Sun. 12-3 2579 White Ave (X St: Lassen Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1589 Sq.Ft. $239,900 Michelle Bridgeford 541-221-2341
Sat. 11-1 23 Blackstone Ct (X St: Coit Tower Wy) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2460 Sq.Ft. $459,000 John Wallace 514-2405 July 30, 2015
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