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So much for transparency There’s a lot we don’t like about the ordinance the Chico City Council
adopted this week (see “Campers in sights,” Newslines, page 9). First off, anyone who says it doesn’t criminalize homelessness is a fool. Sure, the so-called Offenses Against Waterways and Public Property law can be applied to any citizen, but the fact is it will target a single group—indigent individuals who live on the fringes of society. Second, given the Department of Justice’s rulings in other regions of the country where similar laws have been adopted, we believe the council’s move will open the city up to a potentially financially crippling lawsuit. We warned about this scenario prior to the meeting and will be surprised if a civil rights complaint is not filed in short order. Third, as we also stated last week, this law does nothing to address the roots of the issue: drug dependency, poverty, mental illness, etc. But what is also extremely disturbing about this decision is that it’s clear to us that city leaders, in conjunction with the police department and city attorney, intended to pass this law quickly and quietly. It was mentioned for the first time publicly just a few weeks ago, when Vice Mayor Sean Morgan asked that staff bring back a comprehensive ordinance on the issue. Turns out, behind the scenes, the law had been in the works for five months. So much for transparency and the community-oriented policing model being extolled by the police department. The goal clearly was to slip it in under the radar. Such shadowy efforts set a dangerous precedent. The current council majority has shown an utter lack of respect for the public process and should be admonished, and the lefties who went along with this farce are just as culpable and irresponsible. □
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United States. It is the second most dangerous drug, after tobacco. Famous writer Jack Kerouac died from heavy drinking when he was only 47 years old—he threw up blood until he died; the booze had corroded the esophageal varices in his throat and had also prevented proper formation of platelets to clot the blood. Alcohol goes into the blood by stream and affects every organ Michael M. in the body. It inhibits the ability Peters of bone marrow to make red and the author, a retired white blood cells and impairs educator and Chico the ability of the pancreas to resident, is a former make insulin. The third leading Hollywood screencause of death among men ages writer, as well as 25 to 65 is cirrhosis of the liver a theater director, designer and critic. from heavy drinking. Heavy boozers are also more susceptible to cancer—the likelihood of cancer of the mouth, throat and stomach increases by 15 times if the person is also a heavy
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smoker. Excessive long-term drinking takes 10 to 30 years off a person’s life and binge drinking is often fatal—20 straight shots of booze will kill you (your breathing stops), 17 shots you’re in a coma, 14 shots you’re unconscious, 10 shots and you have minimum conscious control, three shots and you’re legally drunk. The liver can process only one drink per hour. Women cannot drink as much as men because they process alcohol differently—one drink for a man is about 1 1/2 drinks for a woman. And yes, drinking causes weight gain. Going cold turkey to quit booze is dangerous for alcoholics, who must ween themselves slowly under a doctor’s guidance. Young people are very susceptible to the allure of booze. Seventy-seven percent of high school kids and 54 percent of eighth-graders have drunk booze in the last year, so colleges have freshmen who are already professional drunkards. It’s an axiom that heavy drinking by college students causes grades to fall. Yes, getting drunk is like being on a carnival ride at the county fair. But you won’t find the answers to your problems at the bottom of a bottle of booze—you’ll just find more problems. □
A legacy of compassion At the tail-end of the state Legislature’s special session on health care
for the poor last week, lawmakers passed the End of Life Option Act, more commonly known as the right-to-die bill. It now heads to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, who advocates fear may not sign the controversial proposed law. That fear may be well-founded, considering Brown is a Catholic who spent three years training to be a priest. In Catholicism, suicide is traditionally considered a mortal sin. That means passage of the bill will require the governor to overcome a deep-rooted religious dilemma. Simply put, Brown must set aside his beliefs for the good of the citizenry. The bill, which is modeled on a similar law in Oregon, allows certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives peacefully. The law would allow doctors to prescribe to qualified patients—those with fewer than six months to live—a lethal dose of medication. The movement to approve such a law in the Golden State became a national one thanks to Brittany Maynard, a Bay Area native who at 29 years old was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. After researching treatments and determining that her quality of life was more important than simply extending her life, Maynard chose to forgo the life-extending options and make the most of the short time that remained. She learned, however, that because she was young and otherwise healthy, her body likely would hold on well beyond that of her mental capacities. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything doctors could legally do to aid her in dying on her own terms. That’s why Maynard moved to Oregon—to take advantage of that state’s aptly titled Death with Dignity Act. Her legacy is for other Californians to be able to stay put—to end their lives as she did. It’s a legacy of compassion and one that the governor should honor. □
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a little payback I can just picture David Little in his corner office of the EnterpriseRecord, sitting under the fluorescent lights in the windowless warehouse his company sold last year to squeeze every penny out of its shriveling news operations, thinking to himself, “Gotcha, Melissa! Payback’s a bitch.” You know, because I called him Doug LaMalfa’s fanboy in this space. I worked for Little for four years at the E-R, and he didn’t take kindly to that characterization. He even unfriended me on Facebook for it. In case you missed Little’s most recent column, he took me to task (not by name) for printing a letter to the editor that may have been penned by someone under a pseudonym. Little went into great detail about how his thorough vetting of a string of letters led him to that conclusion. See, he’d received it, too, but had the good sense not to print it. Little has a point. In hindsight, the letter he’s referring to is sketchy. It came in during CN&R’s recent switchover to a new email address, and though I do keep watch for letters with questionable origins, I erred on the side of its being valid. I’m looking into its authenticity, thanks to Little’s prodding, along with that of a few others I printed that week. I’m just surprised the E-R’s editor named this newspaper in his column. He actually wrote “Chico News & Review.” Furthermore, he mentioned the name of this paper’s former editor, Robert Speer. That’s amazing, too, considering his aversion to doing so in recent years, like when he didn’t assign anyone at the paper of record to write a single word about Speer, a 30-plusyear veteran of the local media landscape, on the occasion of his retirement in 2013. Anyhow, the letters in question were in response to Speer’s recent guest commentary on the health risks associated with portable buildings used at local schools. Speer didn’t just make this stuff up, mind you. He referred to a study by the California Air Resources Board showing that most portable classrooms have levels of formaldehyde in excess of California’s chronic-exposure limits. Speer pointed out that a retired teacher who worked for decades in a Chico Unified School District portable was battling bronchial cancer, and that several others who had worked in portables in Chico schools have cancer, too. Little dismissed the issue as a “phantom” one, saying his education reporter hadn’t heard anything about it. That may be because the E-R’s newsroom has been gutted—down by at least seven positions since I bailed in 2007. Then again, the circulation has plummeted, too, from what I recall was around 30,000 in my day, to about 11,000, as of the first quarter of 2015. Speaking of when I worked at the daily, Little used to say that he didn’t bite back at the CN&R when its editors poked him because the E-R was the “big guy” in town. I always thought that odd considering the CN&R has long outcirculated the daily. Now that Little’s paper is, well, really little, I guess he’s changed his tune.
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‘So off base’ Re “An inhumane rush job” (Editorial, Sept. 10): Your last editorial about Chico and its homeless population was so off base. The proposed ordinance is behavior-based, and every community deserves sanitary public spaces, free from firearms, human waste and needles. I wish you guys would take the time to learn about those of us in the community who work hard to help out people who really need help. We have so many resources for those in the community who want a hand up. I’ve never seen anyone from the CN&R at any meetings or activities that help the homeless out of homelessness. Be part of the solution instead of just complaining about it.
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Time to sue the city? Re “Creekside crackdown” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, Sept. 10): I appreciate Howard Hardee’s report on homelessness and public land. Hardee’s article mentions Deputy Chief Dave Britt and Vice Mayor Sean Morgan. Britt presented the infamous “homeless destination map” to the Chico City Council. The map was bald propaganda, without statistical merit. In the same presentation, Britt gratuitously conflated violent crime and homelessness—likely knowing that the homeless commit less violent crime than the rest of us. Morgan is a longtime cheerleader for homeless criminalization. It is unsurprising that these men support additional laws leading to increased incarceration of the homeless; they believe this will “solve” a poverty and mental health problem. Also mentioned are local heroes Cynthia and Mark Gailey. Both are lifelong environmentalists who went beyond cleaning up the refuse of the homeless to a deeper understanding of suffering on the streets. The extent to which the punitive and fear-based mentality of Britt and Morgan prevails over the humanitarian mentality of people like the LETTERS c o n t i n u e d
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Re “The GMO industry’s true motive” (Guest comment, by Aaron Nielsen, Sept. 10): So now we are against corporations making a profit? This argument has little to do with the actual benefits of using GMOs. We need to feed more people as efficiently and environmentally friendly as possible. “They” do not design them totally for profits only. While it is true that some GMO crops require more herbicides, it is also true that they are more eco-friendly than what we’ve been doing in the past. GMOs are not harmful to people, as evidenced by hundreds of scientific studies and 30 years of use without one harmful medical effect. They are not the perfect answer, but they are the best answer we have at this moment in time. Not using GMOs would be worse for the world. Furthermore, did you know that even organic crops use “natural” pesticides? And they need to use so much of those to be effective that they could be more harmful to the environment than nonorganic crops. It may be politically correct to be against GMOs, but it’s just not scientifically sound.
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I am amused at [Chico musician Aaron Nielsen’s] guest comment. He is obviously wellmeaning, but does not understand how humans operate. He does at least realize that profits are real and our desire for them has great influence on how we live and function. I don’t really care much if what I eat has GMO stuff in it, although I prefer to and do eat
food that is organically grown. I am glad that someone is growing food that will feed lots of people. I am glad that there are those exploiting the fact that I and others like to eat and can make a profit. It gives me confidence that we will be able to continue to eat. There are large areas of the world where people are concerned with just having food. GMO technics help them have it. I think that is good. There are those who exploit people’s enjoyment of music by using their skills and knowledge to make it. Some of it is not pleasant to hear and damages ears as well as promotes violence. Their profits are obscene, but I still selectively listen and enjoy music without having labels attached. How that is different from what the GMO folks do escapes me. That is why I was amused. Jim Richards Chico
Sharing a note of thanks I don’t think I could ever thank you enough for everything you did for me when I was struggling with my family. I’m not even aware that you knew how bad it was, but you are the only one that actually helped me in a healthy way. If it wasn’t for someone showing me any kind of love, I have a strong feeling that I’d be way worse than I ever was. I think I might have even given up completely not even thinking anything can get better. Not only do you help people, but you do it for nothing in return. I want to let everyone know that you change lives, because you changed mine. In my eyes, I will never repay you the way you deserve, but I can say thank you and your kindness did not go unnoticed. This young woman from an adopted home and her boyfriend were tossed to the curb last week; homeless on the streets of Chico. A concerned citizen gave them shelter, so they didn’t have to sleep in lower Bidwell Park, the very same night of the fire. Never doubt that acts of kindness and compassion help. Bill Mash Chico
A winner’s take I have noticed many businesses around town with generic posters on their doors, asking for our votes in your upcoming Best of Chico contest. Some purchase ads. Seems shameful to ask for it, instead of earning it, and thus, people would already vote for them. Back in the day, back when voting was done on paper, I managed a downtown ice cream store and always thought that a nearby yogurt shop must stuff the ballot box. I never gave the awards much credence. I was wrong. People notice and remember. CN&R awarded me with an Editor’s Pick (my second) for Best Legs. Alert readers noticed. I received a lot of positive feedback for months. So, I keep my gams tanned, toned, smooth and exposed. Why not look good and dress well? I enjoy being my finest. It’s not a popularity or regularity contest. Some places I regularly visit lag on earning it, and definitely don’t deserve to be called the best. Vote only for the best, so that they are legitimately honored. And, vote for me. Tedra Thomsen Chico
Editor’s note: Best of Chico voting ended Wednesday evening, Sept. 16. The winners will be tabulated in the coming weeks and announced on Oct. 15.
Clarification CN&R reprinted in a calendar listing a photo from a business’ online promotional material that said business used without the photographer’s permission (see “Wakeboarding the creek,” page 31, Sept. 10). Photographer Paul Hood took the photo.
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As the Valley Fire and other wildfires continue to ravage the North State, a number of locals are mobilizing relief efforts. The Tackle Box began collecting donations for displaced victims on Tuesday (Sept. 15). They are looking for supplies including winter clothes, blankets, diapers and cellphones. A list of the most needed items can be found on the Tackle Box’s Facebook page. On the Ridge, supply donations are being collected at Riebes Auto Parts on Clark Road. Chico-based Tri Counties Bank started a Valley Relief Fire Fund Monday (Sept. 14) with a $10,000 donation. The bank is encouraging people to deposit donations into the fund at any branch or through a link on its website (www.tcbk.com). As of press time Wednesday morning, the Valley Fire had burned 70,000 acres in Lake and Napa counties, displacing 13,000 people.
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During a major pot bust in Concow on Sept. 9, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Unit seized a total of 863 plants on three separate parcels. Upon serving a search warrant on property off Danville Circle, deputies arrested Jose Bladimir Reyes-Membreno, 26, of El Salvador, who allegedly was tending 503 pot plants on one parcel and 276 plants on another, according to a BCSO press release. ReyesMembreno was charged with cultivation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and taken to Butte County Jail with bail set at $100,000. On the third parcel, 38-yearold Ge Theo of Sacramento was arrested for allegedly cultivating 84 plants. Septic, building, camping, water well and Measure A violations at all three locations are under further investigation by Butte County Code Enforcement.
GRAND THEFT CYCLE
The perception that bicycle theft is on the rise in Chico is no illusion—it’s now backed up by statistics from the Chico Police Department. A staff report prepared by Chief Michael O’Brien (pictured) notes that, between Jan. 1 and June 1 this year, 168 bike thefts were reported, compared to 149 over the same period last year. The average value of the stolen bikes was estimated at $412. “It is our contention that our bike theft issue is a visible symptom of a much larger problem,” the report states. All thefts increased by 23 percent in 2014, and this year “appears to be tracking in the same direction.” Of 106 bike thefts analyzed by police, 74 were locked—48 with a cable lock, nine with a U-lock, five with a chain and 12 with an undetermined device. 8
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Local skateboarding community pushes for improvements at Humboldt Neighborhood Park (again)
the Humboldt Community Park while a Shandful of skateboarders and BMX riders cott Bailey sat on a slab of concrete at
took turns gliding through the larger of the skate park’s two bowls. “I skate in Corning, story and Auburn and San Jose,” photo by he said. “Those parks Meredith J. are so much better. Cooper Oroville’s park is 10 m e re d i t h c @ times better than this new srev i ew. c o m one. Every Sunday [my kids and I] skate, and we usually go to Get involved: Oroville or Corning.” Looking at it, and CARD will meet tonight (Sept. 17) to discuss then watching videos moving forward with of Oroville’s Bedrock plans to improve Chico’s Skate and Bike Park skate park. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in and Corning Skatepark, the Lakeside Pavilion, it’s easy to see that 2565 California Chico’s only skate park Park Drive. offers few amenities. Check out a video of It has two relatively Corning’s skate park at shallow bowls and a tinyurl.com/ corningskatepark. few rails and boxes for tricks. But, as Bailey pointed out, there’s no advanced-level bowl (he’d like to see one swimming-pool size) and there aren’t enough “street” features, like stairs. He’s not the only one to have that opinion, either, and he’s requested the Chico Area Recreation and Park District (CARD), which owns the skate park, bring the matter
up again for discussion. It’s on the agenda for tonight (Sept. 17). “I’ll be asking the board to give me direction on how they would like the project to proceed,” Ann Willmann, CARD general manager, explained by phone. “But I am asking them to wait until 2016, because I’m still short-staffed and we have a number of other projects getting ready to go into construction.” Willmann said the issue came up last year, after vandalism and problems with alcohol and drug abuse had ramped up at the park. That, plus the increase in Chico’s homeless population and the elimination of the Chico Police Department’s TARGET Team, which patrolled high-crime areas, made the skate park a priority. But staff reductions and turnover meant nothing ever went forward. That doesn’t mean all that work won’t pay off, however. Willmann says she plans to use the findings from previous staff reports and public comments to direct her going forward. “I’m going to resurrect some of those meetings, plus get more input from the skating community,” she said, “to get us closer to actual plans. Construction plans.” In May and June of last year, CARD held a
series of community meetings to generate ideas for improving the park. The consensus then was that it was too small to attract high-level skaters, and just secluded
enough to attract transients, drug users and general mischief-makers. Also, it was designed exclusively with skateboarding in mind—insurance back in 1998, when the park was built, would cover only skateboards and skates—but BMX riders wanted in on the action (after all, they ride at the park despite the fact they’re not allowed). “The design is old. It’s out-of-date,” said Brent Schneider, a first-grade teacher and veteran skateboarder who also teaches skate camp at the Humboldt park during the summer. “The so-called bowl is poorly built, so it’s not very functional. The concrete sagged in a lot of places because they poured it by hand. I’d like to see a lot of the spots that are old and outdated be revamped.” The three community meetings outlined these problems and generated solutions, including allowing BMX bikes, prolonging hours of private security, expanding the park into the grassy lot next door (which CARD also owns) and holding more classes and events there. It even went so far as to contract with a design firm to draw up plans—a schematic shows expansion of one of the existing bowls into an intermediate-level bowl and the addition of an advanced bowl area, as well as a new street course along the Humboldt Avenue entrance. “One of the suggestions I brought to the table was: There’s the grass area, which is basically a place for transients to hang out. If they put in a skateboard pool there,
that would draw the 40- to 50-yearolds, even the 30-year-old skaters to the park,” said Schneider, who attended last year’s meetings. Yet nothing—not even an amendment to the Chico Municipal Code that pertains to Humboldt Community Park allowing bikes—was done. “We spent quite a bit of time at those meetings, and then the bottom line was they just said, ‘Sorry, we don’t have the money,’” Schneider said. Meanwhile, the problems with loitering, drug and alcohol use and a general lack of supervision that makes the park ripe for criminal activity persist. And many of the serious skaters, including parents with kids who skate, often head out of town in search of better parks. Not only that, but the “deviant behavior” at the park repels some parents. Schneider said he has never experienced negative activity at the park first-hand, but he knows it does happen. Bailey sometimes takes his kids there, but that negative stigma makes him less likely to do so. “My sons are 12 and 9 and they’ve both been skating almost seven years,” Bailey said. “My daughter is 5 and she’s starting to skate. But I would never have them here by themselves—unless an adult I know were here.” That’s one of the things Bailey, who teaches at Butte County’s juvenile hall, hopes to accomplish through the resurgence of interest in investing in the park—to increase adult use of the park. “Adult skaters are unpaid supervision,” he said. Schneider agreed that appealing to the older demographic of skaters would be a boon to the park. “Representing all genres of skating is important for having a successful skate park,” he said by phone. “Then you have people skating and not just hanging around all the time. If you have a facility for everyone, you’ll get a lot more participation instead of sideline watching. Get the old guys down there—I’m gonna push those [troublemakers] out of there. “Give something to the skaters that they’re proud of and enjoy, and they’ll own it more,” he added. “There’s no ownership right now.” In talking with other adult skaters in town, and other parents of skaters, Bailey said he sees a definite interest in working to improve the Humboldt park. “I know it’s been a project that’s been waiting a long time,” Willmann acknowledged. “I just want to assure people who are interested in it that it is not going away. It’s important to both the board and myself.” □
This shelter made of arundo, an invasive and highly flammable plant, was discovered during a recent survey of Little Chico Creek led by the Butte Environmental Council ahead of the nonprofit’s annual Bidwell Park & Chico Creeks Cleanup, which is set for Saturday (Sept. 19).
Campers in sights Council approves controversial law targeting homelessness
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code enforcement officer who recently witnessed a “transient couple” having sex outside ACityformer Hall; a downtown business owner who steps over
human excrement on a near-daily basis to open her shop; and a homeowner on Lindo Channel who’s tired of picking up somebody else’s trash. These were among the experiences shared by nearly 50 speakers on Tuesday evening (Sept. 15) as the Chico City Council considered a new law targeting nuisances and environmental degradation in local parks and creeks, all ostensibly associated with homelessness. The Offenses Against Waterways and Public Property initiative was introduced by Vice Mayor Sean Morgan at the council meeting on Sept. 1 but has been in the works for four or five months, City Attorney Vince Ewing said during a staff report. Drafted with specific input from Chico police officers on the downtown beat, it prohibits the storage of personal property on public land; establishes City Hall and the surrounding area as a “Civic Center” and prohibits a host of activities there; extends the city’s existing civil-sidewalks ordinance (also known as the sit/lie law) to building entrances; and allows police officers to more easily cite homeless people for camping along Chico’s creeks and tributaries. Roughly half the speakers favored the ordinance, citing often stark examples of quality-of-life issues. Some, such as Jolene Francis, former CEO of the Chico Chamber of Commerce, said the ordinance would enforce “minimally acceptable citizenship standards.” Many with differing ideologies argued that citing or arresting a homeless person only compounds his or her situation without addressing root causes, and that the city should instead provide affordable housing and adequate mental health and drug rehabilitation services. Jennifer Haffner, an attorney for Legal Services of Northern California, suggested that laws targeting vulnerable populations is a violation of constitutional rights. (In a case in Boise, Idaho, the U.S. Justice Department recently argued that banning people from sleeping on the street is unconstitutional, though Ewing’s report notes that a city’s right to prohibit camping in public spaces was upheld by the California Supreme Court in a case in Santa Ana.)
Local environmentalist and homeless advocate Cynthia Gailey said the city is “putting the cart before the horse. You need to give [homeless people] a place to sleep, poop and pee legally before you criminalize behaviors necessary for life.” Wil Pierman, who identified himself as homeless, echoed Gailey’s sentiment with personal testimony. There aren’t any public restrooms open at night, he said, so people living outside don’t have much choice when it comes to relieving themselves. “The bathrooms are locked,” he said. “How are you going to criminalize me for being homeless?” The prohibitions in the newly designated Civic Center include bicycling
and skateboarding; damage to plants and property; public urination and defecation; possession of alcohol; smoking; graffiti; amplified sounds; glass containers; unlicensed dogs and dog feces; and possession of hypodermic needles and syringes. Additionally, that area would be closed to the public from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., although citizens “will be allowed to remain and linger” up to an hour after a cityhosted event, the ordinance reads. The law also aims to protect the city’s waterways and riparian areas by prohibiting camping overnight, entering unauthorized areas, possession of alcohol, littering and dumping, urination and defecation, and using firearms or fireworks. Violating the ordinance would be punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor, at police discretion, said Deputy Chief Dave Britt. He emphasized that citations and arrests would be a last resort. “Our hope would be to direct them to services,” he said. (The law will be read for a second time in early October and go into effect 30 days thereafter.) Before approving the ordinance on a 6-to-1 vote, members of the council acknowledged that the ordinance is no panacea, and that the Go directly to jail end goal is helping unsheltered people on the Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, recently spent path to permanent housing. The dissenting vote five days in jail for refusing to grant marriage licenses was cast by Councilwoman Tami Ritter, who to same-sex couples, citing religious objections in objected to the law’s framing as an environspite of a June Supreme Court ruling that same-sex mental measure rather than one specifically tarcouples have a legal right to marry. According to pollgeting homeless people—a point Mayor Mark sters YouGov, the majority of Americans (56 percent) Sorensen disagreed with. support the federal judge’s decision to jail her on con“This isn’t about criminalizing homelesstempt of court charges. Breaking down that number, ness, this is about criminalizing criminal behav72 percent of Democrats, 42 percent of Republicans, ior,” Sorensen said. “It is to stop the absolute and 50 percent of those who identified themselves as desecration of our parks and waterways.” independent agreed with the move. However, a 53 percent majority (33 percent of Democrats,
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55 percent of independents and 81 percent of Republicans) also said they believe religious liberty is being threatened in America today. Asked what Davis should do, about two-thirds (65 percent) said she should quit her job if it interfered with her Christian values.
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Neighborhood residents terrorized by rash of vehicle vandalism
ozens of Chico residents—mostly living in the same area—have Dbecome victims of a senseless and
costly crime in the last two months. The attacks happen in the dead of night, usually in the victims’ front yards as they sleep soundly, and no one knows why they’ve been targeted. Despite community efforts and enhanced police patrols, the crime wave shows no sign of ebbing. Between Aug. 5 and Sept. 9, 18 separate incidents of tire slashing were reported to the Chico Police Department, mostly between Mangrove Avenue and Highway 99, north of Lower Bidwell Park and south of Lindo Channel. The numbers reported on Nextdoor.com—a social media/virtual neighborhood watch application CPD recently adopted—are much higher. Information compiled from that site as of Tuesday (Sept. 15) indicates 40 separate incidents resulting in 107 total slashed tires, with all but 10 incidents occurring within those boundaries. Some of the slashings also included rocks or bark being put into vehicles’ gas tanks. Residents also have reported paying damages and insurance deductibles of up to $1,000 in cases where multiple tires were slashed on the same vehicle. Chico City Councilman Randall Stone lives and works in the area, and said in a phone interview that he has been following the situation since it emerged on Nextdoor. He also said he’s been quietly working with neighbors, city and police officials to address the issue, fear-
ing that media attention “might encourage copycats.” Stone’s tires haven’t been slashed, but he said several near his home and office have been. Chico Police Lt. Rob Merrifield said tire slashings tend to be isolated events perpetrated by known suspects with a beef, but the current spree is different. “None of the people seem to have any personal connection with each other, or anyone angry with them,” Merrifield said. “There doesn’t seem to be any common thread other than the neighborhood they live in. We don’t get this kind of thing happening often, especially concentrated in one area. “We haven’t had a single incident in which anyone saw a suspect, or even a glimpse of someone running away,” he added. “It definitely seems like someone has an issue with someone in the neighborhood, or they just feel really comfortable there at night when that street is very dark, like maybe somebody living in the channel.” Many Nextdoor users, including
Stone, have come to the same conclusion. Stone was quick to note a difference between the homeless population and a criminal subset engaged in antisocial behavior. “This isn’t about homelessness; this is about theft and vandalism,” Stone said. “My take on this is that it appears to be vandalism as retribution for attempts to crack down on vagrancy.” Stone said using the app
All of the tire slashing has occurred late at night or early in the morning. PHOTO COURTESY OF ISTOCK
enabled residents to see the pattern and mobilize a reaction. One Nextdoor user, Peter Hansen, compiled all of the reports into a spreadsheet and map that can be updated and edited by other users. A plot of the incidents clearly indicates a swath of slashings centered around Arbutus Avenue. Residents organized a meeting Aug. 20 at Hooker Oak Elementary School attended by Merrifield, two other CPD personnel, Assistant City Manager Chris Constantin, Stone and about 75 citizens. This led to several neighbors walking the streets in groups at night and increased police attention. “The neighbors are really doing everything they should be,” Merrifield said. “They’re talking to each other, they’ve made the rest of their neighbors aware of the problem, they’ve met with police, and they’ve installed more lights and surveillance cameras.” Merrifield said he couldn’t comment on all of the CPD’s current strategies, but said for now they’re focusing on following up on each new complaint. “We’re not referring [victims] to online reporting; we’re asking people to call,” he said. “We want officers coming out to look for any physical evidence and talk to every victim individually.” —KEN SMITH kens@ newsr ev iew.c o m
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ometimes doing nothing is the easiest way out of a jam. Nothing is exactly what happened at the Butte County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday (Sept. 15), following the board’s reconsideration of a controversial rezone near the Greenline in northwest Chico. As the CN&R reported in its Aug. 27 issue (Newslines, “A botched process?”), several residents and neighbors of the so-called Bell-Muir Extension (BME), 33 parcels north of Bell Road and west of Muir Avenue, had requested that the board rezone the area from very low density residential (VLDR) with a 2.5-acre minimum lot size to rural residential, whose minimum size is 5 acres (RR-5). The BME lots originally had been zoned RR-5 during the process that resulted in creation of General Plan 2030, which was approved in 2010. Subsequently, several property owners petitioned the county to rezone the area VLDR with a 1-acre minimum, which is the existing zoning in the much larger county area to the immediate south known as the Bell-Muir area (not to be confused with the Bell-Muir Extension). Unlike the BME, the BellMuir area is inside the Greenline, a demarcation adopted in 1981 to protect westside orchards by prohibiting all urban development beyond the line. However, lowdensity and rural-residential “transition zones” between urban and agricultural uses are allowed. After several public hearings, in 2012 the board adopted the VLDR2.5 zone as a transition-zone compromise, as Supervisor Larry Wahl described it, between the 1-acre and 5-acre zones. Changing it back to RR at this point would establish a bad precedent, he said.
of Chico Nut Co. He hired attorney Andrew McClure, of the Minasian law firm in Oroville, and on Aug. 25 they petitioned the board to do another rezone, this time reverting to the 5-acre minimum. The 2.5acre minimum was set without their participation and contrary to laws that require adequate notification, McClure told the board. Tim Snellings, director of the county’s Department of Development Services, insisted the county was on sound legal footing, but Supervisor Maureen Kirk was skeptical. “It was clearly pointed out by Mr. McClure that it wasn’t noticed,” she said. Snellings told the board he wanted time to come up with a compromise, so the matter was continued to Sept. 15. But he and his staff were stymied, so on Tuesday DDS Assistant Director Pete Calarco presented the supervisors with the same choice they had before: rezone the area back to RR or stick with the VLDR-2.5 zoning. Complicating the issue was the fact that two property owners had completed applications to split their properties. They would have to be included as exceptions were the board to revert to RR zoning, Snellings said. That left only about eight par-
cels that were large enough (more than 5 acres) to split, and the owners of four of them spoke in favor of keeping the 2.5-acre minimum. Some of them, like Kevin and Lorraine Riley, who live on Bell Road, had bought their properties believing they could split them. A couple of speakers complained that the VLDR-2.5 zoning outside the Greenline was inappropriate, but Wahl insisted that nothing about the Greenline was being changed. Kirk reiterated her concerns about the lack of notification. “The decision we made was not made with all the information we could have had,” she said. She moved to revert to the RR zoning, but got no second. The other supervisors lined up behind Wahl, saying that, all in all, it was better to leave the zoning as is. No motion was needed for that, so no action was taken, and the discussion was over. McClure, interviewed later that afternoon by phone, said his group was “disappointed that there was no answer to our main contention that the notification procedure was inadequate. But what are we going to do? Nothing.” —RobeRT SpeeR rob e r t s pe e r@new srev i ew. c o m
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has co-introduced a bill targeting exorbitantly priced prescription medication. Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) unveiled the Prescription Drug Affordability Act on Sept. 9, according to The Hill. The bill would allow Medicare’s prescription drug program to negotiate prices with drugmakers, a practice banned under a 2003 law, and require drug companies to report factors that affect pricing. However, the legislation is unlikely to gain support in the Republican-controlled Congress. Last year, spending on prescription drugs increased by 12.6 percent—more than double overall health spending, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “The time has come to say that ‘enough is enough,’” Sanders said. “The greed of the pharmaceutical industry is killing Americans and making many of them much sicker than they otherwise would have been.”
Don Massie didn’t plan on practicing in Corning for more than a few years, but has remained at the Corning Health Center since getting hired as a physician assistant in 1973.
CURBING DRUG USE
Efforts to curb teen substance abuse in Butte County got a boost on Sept. 10 with a $625,000 federal grant. Butte Youth Now Coalition was one of 697 community-based organizations across the country awarded a total of $86 million of grant funding from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, according to a Butte County Behavioral Health press release. The funding will be allocated over the next five years to prevent youth abuse of prescription drugs, marijuana, tobacco and alcohol through its Committed programs, which involve student athletes, parents, businesses and physicians. “Prevention is a powerful tool to counteract drug use in our community, and we will use this funding to help youth in Butte County make healthy choices about substance use,” said Danelle Campbell, program manager at Behavioral Health.
MEDI-POT CONTROLLED
State lawmakers voted to approve a package of bills that will establish a new statewide framework for regulating California’s billion-dollar medical marijuana industry. A package of three bills also will establish a new state office, the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, to issue licenses for medi-pot dispensaries and give water agencies regulatory control over the industry, according to The Los Angeles Times. The bureau will be established within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996, but cities and counties have created a patchwork of rules. Chico, for instance, has an ordinance governing the cultivation of medical marijuana but no rules for dispensaries. (No dispensaries have served the Chico area since the last one standing shut down under county pressure in 2011.) Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.
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Health care extender Don Massie has long been good medicine for Corning by
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and found himself at a crossroads. DHeWar still wanted to put his skills as an Air on Massie returned from the Vietnam
Force medic to use, but couldn’t find a job matching his abilities in the civilian sector. Then he discovered a relatively new position he could wrap his head and hands around: physician assistant (or PA). After two years of training and certification, he could work with a doctor and treat patients almost as if he had a medical degree, but without having to put in the additional years of schooling. Massie became one of 16 students accepted into the inaugural PA class at Stanford University in 1971. He graduated in 1973, then immediately came to Corning, where he was recruited by Dr.
Gerald Ingle to take some of the primarycare load from the general practitioner and surgeon. A Southern California native, Massie intended to work in this rural community just a few years, pay off his student loan, then move along. “Here I am still,” he said with a gentle chuckle. Massie and his wife, Connie, a social worker and clinic administrator, both work at Corning Health Center. From 1986 to 2014, they owned the practice and operated out of a building owned by the Corning Health Care District. Now it’s under the umbrella of Feather River Hospital and Adventist Health, which retained the whole staff—including the Massies. “Don and Connie ran a great operation,” said Keith Stilson, who oversees outpatient clinics as vice president of ancillary services at Feather River Hospital. The couple live in Corning, by the
Sacramento River, 5 miles from the clinic. Now 68, Don Massie is a fixture in town. He basically kept health care alive after Corning Memorial Hospital went bankrupt in 1986. That was another crossroads, where he could have taken a different path; instead, he assumed control of the clinic, hired doctors—ironically, becoming the boss of his supervising physicians—and extended his care for the community into a third generation of neighbors. “The closing of the hospital was quite an economic and social thing,” said Mayor Gary Strack, a Corning city councilman since 1971. “Don, by being able to understand what was needed and work with the health board, was able to keep health providers for us. “The alternative was Chico or Red Bluff until we could have found somebody else to come in, and that would have taken a while with the district finances the way they were … Don did a really great service to the Corning community by doing what he did to get the clinic going, keeping it going and seeing that it continued.” Since Massie has been blazing trails for
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The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants is honoring the 224 PAs nationwide who have maintained their certification throughout the organization’s 40 years. Considering the commission has 102,000 active members, Massie is in rare company. He’s receiving a certificate as well as publicity from his peer group for the achievement. The profession has changed somewhat over the decades, but more in perception than practice. “It was a challenge being a PA back in the early years because nobody knew what you were,” Massie said. “It was kind of tough educating patients. Now it’s pretty routine; mid-levels are common over the entire United States.” Indeed, since his arrival, other parts of the North State caught up with Corning in terms of welcoming mid-level providers: PAs and NPs (nurse practitioners). Stilson calls them “physician extenders” for the role they now play in local clinics, practices and hospitals. They can perform most any function of a licensed medical doctor. Feather River Hospital employs 30 mid-levels in Paradise alone. “In times past, there were hardly any of them,” said Stilson, who’s worked for Adventist Health since 1971. “They are a vital necessity now because of the extreme shortage of primary-care physicians.” In bringing Massie and his practice into the fold, Feather River Hospital didn’t so much expand as add. Adventist Health is the largest operator of rural health clinics in California, Stilson said, including FRH’s three in Paradise. Corning Health Center fits within
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certified physician assistant don massie practices at corning Health center (155 Solano St.). call the clinic at 824-4663.
a broader network. “It’s our mission to minister to the medically underserved and those in need,” Stilson said. “So when the opportunity in Corning came up, we jumped at the chance to reach out to another community that really had no medical infrastructure.” That opportunity came when Massie began succession planning. Though not intending to retire soon, he knows he can’t practice forever. He said he wanted to ensure continuity of care; now that will happen—with or without him. Stilson said Massie “is welcome to stay as long as he wants, and he can be guaranteed that Feather River Hospital and Adventist Health will carry on the tradition of great health care in Corning.” Massie, reflecting on the career that forged this tradition, wrote thoughts to share: “After 43 years of practice, I’ve realized that all people are basically good and individually unique, and that all want good health but realize it’s just hard to live by all the ‘health rules.’ “Moderation is the key. A little exercise goes a long way. Good health is a blessing, and you have to help yourself through your entire lifetime to keep it; no one can do it for you. “Also, try to be happy and love your fellow man.” Consider that a prescription from Don Massie, PA-C. □
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Indian paintbrush in a sea of smoky blue sagebrush, just two of thousands of beautiful “drought tolerant” California native plants.
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Depot (horticultural plants from Europe, the Mediterranean, Australia—not here, in other words) and replace it with “drought-tolerant native plants.” Except that Home Depot and similar stores, along with many local nurseries, don’t sell them. If they do, it’s a limited offering. Then we have the confusion about native flora being called “fuel.” It used to be called habitat—forage and cover for wildlife. Now, every native plant is called “fuel” and it’s all out to burn your house down. It breaks my heart to see my neighbors chopping down their oak trees, thinking they are doing the right thing. That now they are safe from fires while their home with that nice cedar shingle siding (or cedar shingle roof) sits blazing in the hot summer sun, the shade all gone, and nothing blocking the wind anymore. It’s even better if the house
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is on a steep slope. This is a house now all tricked out to burn in a fire. Good job. On the one hand, public agencies want everyone to tear out their lawns/horticultural water-sucking plants from the other-lands and put in native plants, but then Cal Fire and other public agencies tell Californians those same native plants are “fuels” that will burn their houses down. Well, guess what? California is an arid place. Under its current climatic regime, it has always had fires. It always will. Human arrogance has the audacity to blame our amazing, unique and beautiful native plants. It’s a mess. I can speak to this from a lot of different perspectives. As a professional plant ecologist who has been gawking at California’s native plants for over 35 years, I know we have some damn beautiful and unique drought-tolerant native plants. The idea that I can run down to Kmart and be home in 15 minutes with a flat of water-demanding petunias (native to Brazil and South America) versus a flat of native “pussy toes” (Antennaria rosea) is nothing less than just plain stupid. In 2003, I lost my home; my entire neighborhood in San Diego County went up in
flames in the Cedar Firestorm. We’d brushcleared our little hearts out and our homes still burned to the ground—and my neighbor who did not participate? His house was left standing. (Still have the photo.) Our houses were made of wood. Our houses were the fuel. My neighbor’s house caught my house on fire and my house caught my neighbor’s house on fire, etc., etc. But no, it’s all the oak trees’ fault. Chop ’em down. (Of course, clearing dead pine needles and the like is a good practice, but many public agencies do not differentiate between living and dead foliage when referring to “fuels.”) If you demonize native plants, you avoid all the nasty real work of preventing fires, like conducting a statewide audit of counties that allow new wood homes on steep slopes (some counties, under pressure from developers, have made it easier to build new wooden homes on steep slopes while saying they are very “concerned” about fire safety). You avoid ushering in a new set of strict building standards that require fire-safe materials like brick or adobe, requiring cement shingle roofs or fire-safe metal roofs. You avoid having to, God forbid, change design standards for fire-prone areas. This is the real work for fire safety, but it might piss off a bunch of
people and we just can’t have that. Let’s just keep dumping this on the backs of our young firefighters who only have their lives to lose for that BMW in your garage. Yes, that’s the ticket! What’s more, if you focus on protecting the structure, you don’t have an excuse to log or clear brush anymore, to drag that vegetation masticator around up there on the hill, even if removal of the woody “fuel” just results in flammable nonnative grasses coming in. Let’s not talk about that. When it comes down to how California now deals with its own nature, state agencies are just plain wrong and lazy. Maybe add greedy because as one Cal Fire firefighter admitted to me, “cutting shit down is where the money is right now,” courtesy of the oxymoronic Bush Jr.-inspired Healthy Forests Restoration Act, which included nothing for evaluating or improving fire land planning, or building fire-safe structures. None of the public agency definitions mention that the primary “fuels” are homes and structures themselves, 99 percent of which are made out of wood, even in light of the fact that one of their own, Jack Cohen—with the USDA Forest Service and the pre-eminent researcher on wildfire and
DONATE • SHOP • VOLUNTEER home ignitions—has come out and said this multiple times in multiple papers. “Home ignitability, rather than wildland fuels, is the principal cause of home losses during wildland/urban interface fires. Key items are flammable roofing materials (e.g., cedar shingles) and the presence of burnable vegetation (e.g., ornamental trees, shrubs, wood piles) immediately adjacent to homes.” So why not add this to the legal, official definition of “fuels”? Rightfully, the public is confused. So, what can we do about this?
First, box stores, like Home Depot, Lowes, etc., need to sell California native plants over and above any other species. They need to start mass production of these plants. Then the state and feds need to put their big leadership and safety pants on and do an audit of any county that allows new development on steep slopes or in dangerous high fire-prone areas (call it a “hypocrisy sting”). Firefighting services and related subsidies from the sate and feds should be withdrawn from these counties. The state needs to put on demonstrations in cooperation with contractor associations on how to build with new fire-safe building materials. How to build with brick, advances in these materials—put on workshops and trainings.
The state needs to offer incentives, tax deductions to big box stores and local nurseries to begin mass production of California native plants appropriate for/native to each bioregion. There are jobs in this, too, for native plant botanists, wildlife biologists, ecologists and conservation biologists. Currently, much of the legislation has language targeted only for the forestry industry or requires “foresters.” Language should be changed to include far broader nonresource extraction-based professions/disciplines. State agencies are not engaging the public in these kinds of conversations. We need to be having these conversations. Fire is the driving force in California. It affects many things. When are we going to start talking about this? We need to keep and preserve our California native plants. They are our plants. Our history. Our heritage. We must stop blaming our native plants for our horrible “planning” decisions, and take responsibility for facing the fire problem where it lies. But maybe I am just being silly. Go ahead. Go outside and chop down that manzanita, then go back to watching TV in your wooden tract home on the steep slope. You’re “fire safe” now. After all, the fire risk in California? It’s all manzanita’s fault. □
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What are the biggest benefits for the kids?
What is the main purpose of Syndicate Racing?
I’ve noticed a huge change in their demeanors. Some didn’t have the best socialization skills, and some had minor learning disabilities. Syndicate helps them focus, and I see better, positive attitudes and more smiles. They feel like they’ve found their niche and own their team.
To have fun! I don’t care if you come in first, second, third or last, as long as you have fun. We also want to give kids a vital feeling of inclusion. We repair kids’ bikes and get sponsors to offset riders’ costs such as entry fees, travel accommodations and equipment.
How did you start the Syndicate BMX Racing Team?
What other kinds of activities do the kids participate in?
Several of us parents had kids who were on various BMX racing teams that mainly just wore the same jersey. We all became friends and thought it would be a great idea to start our own. My husband, Marty, and I, with Matt Heaps and Carl Profit, founded Syndicate last September, and now have 15 boys and four girls. We have two levels: The Elite Riders travel and compete mostly throughout California, and
We’ve had many that allow the kids to hang out, form friendships and be like a family. Lots of sleepovers, Friday nights at Cal Skate, and a Christmas gift-making and lighttouring day. We’ve also done fundraisers with ChicoBag, a “lapathon” at the track, and would like to volunteer for other causes. There’s no greater feeling than belonging to something and feeling like you’re loved.
What plans do you have for Syndicate Racing? We hope to work with Chico Area Recreation District (CARD). We’d like to give veterans a special section at a big race. We also want to continue volunteer efforts like the ones my kids did before Syndicate formed, such as a breast cancer awareness race for Enloe’s Sycamore House, and a “Wet Pet food drive” for older pets at the Butte Humane Society. We’re just a few local parents with big hearts and even bigger dreams for our kids. —ViC CANTu
There are few things in life that I love more than brunch. It’s the one meal that combines my favorite things—late mornings, champagne, strong coffee and bagels. I have my favorite brunch go-to spots, and there’s one place that may be added to that list soon: Bidwell Perk. The coffee joint has long offered pastries and a variety of breakfast bagel sandwiches, but it’s always been more of a breakfast-on-the-go stop for me. Now, through a new venture called One Mile Wines, mimosas are on the menu, and may call for some leisurely bubbly sipping on a Saturday morning. One Mile Wines is a collaborative effort with Bidwell Perk, both owned by Michelle and Gentry Power, who have run the café for nearly 10 years. The business will hit its 20-year anniversary in 2016, and Michelle said One Mile Wines is a way to evolve and bring more of a European-café atmosphere to the Perk. Aside from mimosas, wine and beer are now available throughout the day and the café has expanded its hours to offer a post-work happy hour. The full coffee menu will be available at all times, too, making it convenient to grab a quiche and a glass of wine at lunch or a cappuccino and a pastry in the evening. “We just really want people to have another reason to come into the Perk,” Michelle said. “Our coffee is still our coffee. It’s the foundation of who we are. But who doesn’t love a glass of wine at the end of the day?” The Perk’s new hours are Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekends. Check out the business’ Facebook page for happy hour times. Brew tour. Talking to Michelle reminded me of the fantastic Sierra Nevada Brewery tour that my husband, Nick, and I took last month with friends. Although Gentry Power still works behind the scenes at Bidwell Perk, a few years back he took a position at Sierra Nevada and one of his first efforts was to create the tour that showcases the brewery business. I typically prefer mimosas over beer, but by the end of the tour I was ready to have a few pints just from sheer appreciation of all that goes into making those brews. I also was introduced to a new favorite beer: the Ovila Abbey Golden, featuring pomegranates grown and harvested by the monks at New Clairvaux in Vina. It’s on tap now, so be sure to grab a pint soon.
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Charles eisenstein wrote this article for the Debt Issue, the fall 2015 issue of YeS! magazine. Charles is the author of Sacred economics and the more beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is possible.
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he legitimacy of a given social order rests on the legitimacy of its debts. Even in ancient times this was so. In traditional cultures, debt in a broad sense—gifts to be reciprocated, memories of help rendered, obligations not yet fulfilled—was a glue that held society together. Everybody at one time or another owed something to someone else. Repayment of debt was inseparable from the meeting of social obligations; it resonated with the principles of fairness and gratitude.
The moral associations of making good on one’s debts are still with us today, informing the logic of austerity as well as the legal code. A good country, or a good person, is supposed to make every effort to repay debts. Accordingly, if a country like Jamaica or Greece, or a municipality like Baltimore or Detroit, has insufficient revenue to make its debt payments, it is morally compelled to privatize public assets, slash pensions and salaries, liquidate natural resources, and cut public services so it can use the savings to pay creditors. Such a prescription takes for granted the legitimacy of its debts. Today a burgeoning debt resistance movement draws from the realization that many of these debts are not fair. Most obviously unfair are loans involving illegal or deceptive practices—the kind that were rampant in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. From sneaky balloon interest hikes on mortgages, to loans deliberately made to unqualified borrowers, to incomprehensible financial products peddled to local governments that were kept ignorant about their risks, these practices resulted in billions of dollars of extra costs for citizens and public institutions alike. A movement is arising to challenge these debts. In Europe, the International Citizen debt Audit Network (ICAN) promotes “citizen debt audits,” in which activists examine the books of municipalities and other public institutions to determine which debts were incurred through fraudulent, unjust, or illegal means. They then try to persuade the government or institution to contest or renegotiate those debts.
in 2012, towns in France declared they would
refuse to pay part of their debt obligations to the bailed-out bank Dexia, claiming its deceptive practices resulted in interest rate jumps to as high as 13 percent. Meanwhile, in the United States, the city of Baltimore filed a class-action lawsuit to recover losses incurred through the Libor rate-fixing scandal, losses that could amount to billions of dollars. And Libor is just the tip of the iceberg. In a time of rampant financial lawbreaking, who knows what citizen audits might uncover? Furthermore, at a time when the law itself is so subject to manipulation by financial interests, why should resistance be limited to debts that involved lawbreaking? After all, the 2008 crash resulted from a deep systemic corruption in which “risky” derivative products turned out to be risk-free—not on their own merits, but because of government and Federal Reserve bailouts that amounted to a de facto guarantee. The perpetrators of these “financial instruments of mass destruction” (as Warren Buffett labeled them) were rewarded while homeowners, other borrowers, and taxpayers were left with collapsed asset values and higher debts. This is part of a context of unjust economic, political or social conditions that compels the debtor to go into debt. When that injustice is pervasive, aren’t all or most debts illegitimate? In many countries, declining real wages and reduced public services virtually compel citizens to go into debt just to maintain their standard of living. Is debt legitimate when it is systemically foisted on the vast majority of people and nations? If it isn’t, then resistance to illegitimate debt has profound political consequences. This feeling of pervasive, systemic unfairness is palpable in the so-called developing
“won’t pay” is a form of protest easily accessible to the atomized digital citizen ... no street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police to stop payment on a credit card or student loan. the financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks.
world and in increasing swathes of the rest. African and Latin American nations, southern and Eastern Europe, communities of color, students, homeowners with mortgages, municipalities, the unemployed ... the list of those who strain under enormous debt through no fault of their own is endless. They share the perception that their debts are somehow unfair, illegitimate, even if there is no legal basis for that perception. Hence the slogan that is spreading among debt activists and resisters everywhere: “Don’t owe. Won’t pay.” Challenges to these debts cannot be based on appeals to the letter of the law alone when the laws are biased in favor of creditors. There is, however, a legal principle for challenging otherwise legal debts: the principle of “odious debt.” Originally signifying debt incurred on behalf of a nation by its leaders that does not actually benefit the nation, the concept can be extended into a powerful tool for systemic change. Odious debt was a key conAustin, Texas cept in recent debt audits on the national level, most notably that of Ecuador in 2008 that led to its defaulting on billions of dollars of its foreign debt. Nothing terrible happened to it, setting a dangerous precedent (from the creditors’ point of view). Greece’s Truth Commission on Public Debt is auditing all of that nation’s sovereign debt with the same possibility in mind. Other nations are likely taking notice because their debts, which are obviously these loans bear interest. unpayable, condemn them to an eternity of What debts are “odious”? Some austerity, wage cuts, natural resource liquiexamples are obvious, such as loans dation, privatization, etc., for the privilege to build the infamous Bataan Nuclear of staying in debt (and remaining part of Power Plant from which Westinghouse the global financial system). and Marcos cronies profited enorIn most cases, the debts are never paid mously but which never produced off. According to a report by the Jubilee any electricity, or the military Debt Campaign, since 1970 Jamaica has expenditures of juntas in El borrowed $18.5 billion and paid back $19.8 Salvador or Greece. billion, yet still owes $7.8 billion. In the But what about the huge same period, the Philippines borrowed amount of debt that financed $110 billion, has paid back $125 billion, large-scale, centralized develand owes $45 billion. These are not isolated opment projects? Neoliberal examples. Essentially what is happening ideology says those are to the here is that money—in the form of labor great benefit of a nation, but power and natural resources—is being now it is becoming apparent extracted from these countries. More goes out than comes in, thanks to the fact that all DEBT c o n t i n u e d o n pa g e 2 2
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that the main beneficiaries were corporations from the same nations that were doing the lending. Moreover, the bulk of this development is geared toward enabling the recipient to generate foreign exchange by opening up its petroleum, minerals, timber or other resources to exploitation, or by converting subsistence agriculture to commodity agribusiness, or by making its labor force available to global capital. The foreign exchange generated is required to make loan payments, but the people don’t necessarily benefit. Might we not say, then, that most debt owed by the “developing” world is odious, born of colonial and imperial relationships? The same might be said for municipal, household and personal debt. Tax laws, financial deregulation and economic globalization have siphoned money into the hands of corporations and the very rich, forcing everyone else to borrow in order to meet basic needs. Municipalities and regional governments now must borrow to provide the services that tax revenues once funded before industry fled to the places of least regulation and lowest wages in the global “race to the bottom.” Students now must borrow to attend universities that were once heavily subsidized by government. Stagnant wages force families to borrow just to live. The rising tide of debt cannot be explained by a rising tide of laziness or irresponsibility. The debt is systemic and inescapable. It isn’t fair, and people know it. As the concept of illegitimate debts spreads, the moral
As the recent drama in Greece has shown us,
though, isolated acts of resistance are easily crushed. Standing alone, Greece faced a stark choice: either capitulate to the European institutions and enact austerity measures even more punishing than those its people rejected in the referendum or suffer the sudden destruction of its banks. Since the latter would entail a humanitarian catastrophe, the Syriza government chose to capitulate. Nonetheless, Greece rendered the world an important service by making the fact of debt slavery plain, as well as revealing the power of undemocratic institutions such as the European Central Bank to dictate domestic economic policy. Besides direct resistance, people are finding ways to live outside the conventional financial system and, in the process, prefigure what might replace it. Complementary currencies, time banks, direct-to-consumer farm cooperatives, legal aid cooperatives, gift economy networks, tool libraries, medical cooperatives, child care cooperatives, and other forms of economic cooperation are proliferating in Greece and Spain, in many cases recalling traditional forms of communalism that still exist in societ-
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ies that aren’t fully modernized. Debt is a potent rallying issue because of its ubiquity and its psychological gravity. Unlike climate change, which is easy to relegate to theoretical importance when, after all, the supermarkets are still full of food and the air conditioner is still running, debt affects the lives of growing numbers of people directly and undeniably: a yoke, a burden, a constant constraint on their freedom. Three-quarters of Americans carry some form of debt. Student debt stands at more than $1.3 trillion in the United States and averages more than $33,000 per graduating student. Municipalities around the country are cutting services to the bone, laying off employees, and slashing pensions. Why? To make payments on their debts. The same is true of entire nations, as creditors—and the financial markets that drive them—tighten their death grip on southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the rest of the world. Most people need little persuading that debt has become a tyrant over their lives. What is harder for them to see, though, is that they could ever be free of their debts, which are often described as “inescapable” or “crushing.” That is why even the most modest challenges to debt legitimacy, such as the aforementioned citizen audits, have revolutionary implications. They cast into question the certainty of debt. If one debt can be nullified, maybe all of them can—not only for nations
The problem is that canceling the debts means erasing the assets upon which our entire financial system depends. Fortunately, there are deeper and more elegant alternatives to conventional redistributive strategies. but for municipalities, school districts, hospitals and people too. That’s why the European authorities made such a humiliating example of Greece—they needed to maintain the principle of inviolability of debt. That’s also why hundreds of billions of dollars were used to bail out the creditors who made bad loans in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, but not a penny was spent bailing out the debtors. Not only does debt have the potential to be a rallying point of near-universal appeal, it also happens to be a unique political pressure point. That’s because the results of mass debt resistance would be catastrophic for the
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financial system. The Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 demonstrated that the system is so highly leveraged and so tightly interconnected that even a small disruption can cascade into a massive systemic crisis. Moreover, “won’t pay” is a form of protest easily accessible to the atomized digital citizen who has been sundered from most forms of political association; arguably, it is the only form of digital action that has much real-world impact. No street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police, to stop payment on a credit card or student loan. The financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks. Herein lies a resolution to the dilemma posed by Silvia Federici in the South Atlantic Quarterly: “Instead of work, exploitation, and above all ‘bosses,’ so prominent in the world of smoke stacks, we now have debtors confronting not an employer but a bank and confronting it alone, not as part of a collective body and collective relation, as was the case with wage workers.” So let’s organize and spread awareness. We needn’t confront the banks, the bond markets, or the financial system alone. What should be the ultimate goal of the debt
resistance movement? The systemic nature of the debt problem implies that none of the policy proposals that are realistic or reachable in the present political environment are worth pursuing. Reducing rates on student loans, offering mortgage relief, reining in payday lending, or reducing debt in the Global South might be politically feasible, but by mitigating the worst abuses of the system, they make that system
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slightly more tolerable and imply that the problem is not the system—we just need to fix these abuses. Conventional redistributive strategies, such as higher marginal income tax rates, also face limitations, mostly because they don’t address the deep root of the debt crisis: the slowdown of economic growth worldwide, or, as a Marxist would put it, the falling return on capital. More and more economists are joining a distinguished lineage that includes Herman Daly, E.F. Schumacher, and even (though this is little known) John Maynard Keynes to argue that we are nearing the end of growth—primarily, but not only, for ecological reasons. When growth stalls, lending opportunities disappear. Since money is essentially lent into existence, debt levels increase faster than the supply of money required to service them. The result, as Thomas Piketty described so clearly, is rising indebtedness and concentration of wealth. The aforementioned policy proposals have a further defect as well: They are so moderate they have little potential to inspire a mass popular movement. Reduced interest rates or other incremental reforms are not going to arouse an apathetic and disillusioned citizenry. Recall the Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1980s: Widely decried as naïve and unrealistic by establishment liberals, it generated a vocal and committed movement that contributed to the climate of opinion behind the START agreements of the Reagan era. The economic reform movements need something equally simple, graspable and appealing. What about the cancellation of all student debt? What about a jubilee, a fresh start for mortgage debtors, student debtors and debtor nations? The problem is that canceling the debts means erasing the assets upon which our entire financial system depends. These assets are at the basis of your pension fund, the solvency of your bank, and grandma’s savings account. Indeed, a savings account is nothing other than a debt owed you by your bank. To prevent chaos, some entity has to buy the debts for cash, and then cancel those debts (in full or in part, or perhaps just reduce the interest rate to zero). Fortunately, there are deeper and more elegant alternatives to conventional redistributive strategies. I’ll mention two of the most promising: “positive money” and negative-interest currency. Both of these entail a fundamental change in the way money is created. Positive money refers to money created directly without debt by the government, which can be given directly to debtors for debt repayment or used to purchase debts from creditors and then cancel them. Negative-interest currency (which I describe in depth in Sacred Economics) entails a liquidity fee on bank reserves, essentially taxing wealth at its source. It enables zero-interest lending, reduces wealth concentration, and allows a financial system to function in the absence of growth. Radical proposals such as these bear in common a recognition that money, like property and debt, is a sociopolitical construct. It is a social agreement mediated by symbols: numbers on slips of paper, bits in computers. It is not an immutable feature of reality to which we can but adapt. The agreements that we call money and debt can be changed. To do so, however, will require a movement that contests the immutability of the current system and explores alternatives to it. Ω
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Aseemed Tin Roof for the predominantly (it to me) senior citizen audience of t first, the idea of staging Cat on a Hot
Theatre on the Ridge, in the sleepy, pineshrouded and fairly conservative community of by Paradise, struck me as Carey Wilson courageous for the producers and potentially challenging for the audience. After all, the play, Review: Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , now Southern Gothic mastershowing at piece, explores themes of Theatre on the alcoholic dissipation, Ridge Thursday- thwarted sexuality and Saturday, dysfunctional family 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m., dynamics. Then it through Sept. 27. occurred to me that people of a certain age, faced Theatre on with personal mortality the Ridge and family dynamics of 3735 Neal Road, Paradise their own, might find the 877-5760 play both illuminating www.totr.org and, in a way, cathartic. Williams’ depiction of a few dramatic hours on the 65th birthday of his larger-than-life character Big Daddy (played here by Jerry Miller)—dying patriarch of the plantation-owning, old-Southern-money Pollitt clan—is enough to make nearly anyone feel that their own family travails are relatively small potatoes by comparison.
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The action features Big Daddy’s interactions with his secretly loathed wife, Big Mama (Teresa Hurley-Miller); his (possibly) homosexual ex-athlete son Brick (Matt Hammons) and his sexually and reproductively frustrated wife, Maggie “the Cat” (Ashley Garlick); and his other son Gooper and his “fertility monster” of a wife, Mae (Karen Fox) and their troop of “no-neck monsters” (aka children). The play opens with Maggie, partially disrobing due to being struck by a “hot buttered biscuit” flung by one of the noneck monsters and thus having to change out of her “lovely lace dress.” To those most familiar with the play via the 1958 movie version and Elizabeth Taylor’s glamorous brunette take on the character, Garlick, a pretty and fair strawberry blonde with an air more of bruised innocence than incipient debauchery, may at first seem cast against type as Maggie, but her manner and delivery soon allow us a believable look into Maggie’s yearning and frustrated character. Hammons’ portrayal of the increasingly intoxicated and bitterly insightful and brutally articulate Brick is equally charged with believability. Having the character of an alcoholic be hampered by a literal crutch and a crippled leg could seem a bit heavyhanded in the literary-symbolism department, but Hammons inhabits the character so thoroughly that his symbolic resonance
is displaced by his very human emotional sympathy. Williams’ script never makes explicit whether Brick is capable of accepting or even perceiving the (perhaps latent) homosexuality at the heart of his love for his late teammate, Skipper, who drank himself to death after a failed attempt by Maggie to seduce him in order to verify her suspicions of the cause of Brick and Skipper’s devotion to each other. The rage, frustration and sorrow at the heart of Brick and Maggie’s sham marriage is reflected in the attitude of Big Daddy toward Big Mama and their equally false portrayal of marital devotion. Miller, who, according to the program notes, “is taking a break from writing and directing to be part of this exciting project,” could not have chosen—or been chosen for—a more perfect role for both his gravitas as an actor and gravity field as a man of great substance. In my opinion, Big Daddy, more than Maggie, is the real cat on a hot tin roof. And that roof is heated, as he says, “By all the goddamn lies and liars that I have had to put up with, and all the goddamn hypocrisy that I lived with all these 40 years that [Big Mama and I] have been livin’ together!” This is a production well worth seeing. The entire cast is excellent, the staging is simple and elegant, and the story is both currently relevant and well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize it won in 1955. Ω
Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farmfresh produce, enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and live entertainment. This week: Annie B’s Community Drive plus folk music by Suzanna Holland. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free. Downtown Chico, www.downtownchico.com/events.
Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: Tennessee Williams’ classic drama explores the desires and subterfuge of a family as its members grapple with one another to hide and expose secrets. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/26, Su, 2pm through 9/27. $12-$20. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
STUPID FUCKING BIRD: Contemporary, comedic remix of Anton
Chekhov’s The Seagull that explores love, art and growing up. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 10/3. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.
Music HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT: The Paradise Symphony performs
jazz in this Mardi Gras-themed event. Th, 9/17, 6pm. $50 including dinner, $35 concert only, children free to concert with paying adult. Chapelle de l’Artiste Chateau & Retreat, 3300 Inspiration Ln. in Paradise, (530) 809-0799, www.paradisesymphony.org.
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BOOGIE NIGHTS: One-night only screening of
Boogie Nights with drinks and live music from John Holmes. Sa, 9/19, 10pm. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageant chico.com.
DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
GEM & MINERAL SHOW: Over 30 vendors from the
ROBBY KRIEGER: Legendary guitarist of The Doors touring in support of his Grammy-nominated new record. Th, 9/17, 7pm. $22.50. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.
STUPID FUCKING BIRD: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 10/3. Opens 9/17. $15. Blue
Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.
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LOCAL AUTHORS’ NIGHT: Local authors share
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their works and experiences. Audience questions are encouraged and sweet treats provided. Th, 9/17, 6pm. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-6320, www.buttecounty.net/ bclibrary/Paradise.htm.
POETRY READING: Shared words and refresh-
ments. Third Th of every month, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.
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Special Events HAPPY TAILS: Drop the kids off for a couple hours to enjoy pizza and a movie. Reservations required, email Honey Souza at honeysouza@buttehumane.org. F, 9/18, 6:308:30pm. $10/first child; $6/each additional child. Butte Humane Society Education Center, 2156 Pillsbury Rd. Ste. 160, (530) 343-7917 ext. 109.
SHORTZ! FILM FESTIVAL: Annual international festival showcasing short films from around the globe. F, 9/18, 6pm. Check site for times. $10$20. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727. www.shortzfilmfest.com.
Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/26, Su, 2pm through 9/27.
$12-$20. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
Community Band will be performing. F, 9/18, 4:30pm. Paradise Pines Property Owners Association, 14211 Wycliff Way in Magalia, (530) 873-5266.
FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.
EBONY & IVORY CONCERT SERIES: Jazz/blues group the Alan Rigg Trio performs for the series. F, 9/18, 6:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.
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STUPID FUCKING BIRD Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 17-20 Blue Room Theatre
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western United States will showcase finished fine jewelry, polished rocks, minerals and fossils. Sa-Su, 9/20, 9:30am. $3, kids under 16 are free. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 321-6331, www.featherriverrocks.org.
SHORTZ! FILM FESTIVAL: See Friday. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727. www.shortzfilmfest.com
Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/26, Su, 2pm through 9/27.
$12-$20. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
MURDER MYSTERY THEATER AND DINNER: A “Lethal Luau” featuring dinner, dessert, beer and wine. Sa, 9/19, 5pm. $30. Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-1733.
PIZZA PARTY WITH THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Join the
cast of The Addams Family for a meet and greet that includes pizza, drinks, popcorn and cotton candy. Sa, 9/19, noon. $10. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.
STUPID FUCKING BIRD: See Thursday. Th-Sa,
Community Park, 1847 Durham/Dayton Hwy, (530) 345-1921, www.durhamrotary.org/ Harvest.
GEM & MINERAL SHOW: See Saturday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 3216331, www.featherriverrocks.org.
KZFR’S TOUCH OF CHICO: Enjoy a variety of healing massage and bodywork under a canopy of cedar trees while local musicians play sweetly. Plus we’ll have free holistic workshops, healthy food and a variety of vendors. Visit site for details. Su, 9/20, 12-6pm. $1 a minute. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 895-0706, www.kzfr.org.
SHORTZ! FILM FESTIVAL: See Friday. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727. www.shortzfilmfest.com
TRIBUTE TO OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVANTS: Honoring unsung, everyday heroes for their enduring contributions. Plus, local historical highlights, live music, refreshments. Su, 9/20, 3pm. Free. Old School House, 11666 Concow Rd. in Yankee Hill, (530) 534-5383.
Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/26, Su, 2pm through 9/27.
$12-$20. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.
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try skiffle), Thick & Thin (Americana) and Rock Ridge (bluegrass). Su, 9/20, 12-5pm. $15, $10 for cyclists. 2500 Estes Rd.
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Special Events PEACE ONE DAY: In celebration of the International Day of Peace, Ridge Coalition for Peace and Justice invites you to view the documentary film Peace One Day and stay for discussion and light refreshments. M, 9/21, 6:30-8:30pm. Free. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 762-1333, www.ridgecoalition.org.
YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly open mic comedy with 20 open slots. Sign-ups at 8pm. M, 9pm through 8/29. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
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FAREWELL TO SUMMER: ACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: An eclectic acoustic concert featuring Hannah Jane Kile (soulful songbird), Charlie Robinson (flamenco), Michelin Embers (coun-
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Music EVENING UNDER THE STARS: The Paradise Big
Band performs a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Su, 9/20, 6pm. $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 student, children free. River Reflections, 4360 Pacific Heights Rd. in Oroville, (530) 533-1995, www.rvparkresorts.com.
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SHORTZ FESTIVAL GROWS LONG When the Shortz! Film Festival premiered in Chico in 2011, bringing together 30 brief films for a weekend-long celebration at the Chico Cabaret, it was an ambitious endeavor. Luckily, the idea had a life longer than the short attention spans of the cinephiles it aims to please, and now in its fifth year, the festival has more than doubled in size. Friday, Sept. 18Sunday, Sept. 20, five dozen new works plus 90 minutes of favorites from past years will be shown at the El Rey Theatre, with all kinds of other fun stuff going on as well (see shortzfilmfest.com for more details).
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B-SO SPACE: Print Club, miniprints with universities of Minnesota and Florida 9/18-9/9. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.
CHICO ART CENTER: Abstracted Florals, floral designers create a floral arrangements to compliment a piece of art. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.
GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Drawings and paintings, new works by Donald Beaman. Through 9/30. 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.
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: Oaxaca Market
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Scenes, Vincento Rasem’s large ink and watercolor wash drawings created in 1958 and ’59. Also, framed works by Mexican print artist Jose Posada (1853-1913). Through 9/26, 9am-2pm. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.
JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Does Size
Matter, featuring small to large-scale prints that explore how scale and size impacts perception. Through 9/19. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.
MCM GALLERY: Local Artist Gallery, featuring Chelsea Jeffers, oil on canvas, Ama Posey, mixed media. W-Su, 10am-6pm through 10/4. 260 E. First St., (530) 899-8443.
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.
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Total Wreck, featuring New Jersey-bred/San Francisco-based artist Patrick Hillman’s manipulations of common household materials and forms. Through 10/9. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.
Museums CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day
and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.
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.
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Land, Water, People, and Science, exploring North State agriculture. Patterns of The Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images of the Sacramento Valley. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.
PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.
VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:
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From Chico to China: The Life and Travels of Valene Smith, explore Valene Smith’s journeys around the world through photos, videos and her collected artifacts. Through 10/10. Free. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.
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CN&R: Lucy, I hear you were featured in your school’s newspaper. How did that come about? Lucy: They were just going around taking photos at prom and they just took a picture of me. I thought it was pretty cool because people at my school ... Gwendolyn: Lucy doesn’t consider herself popular. Lucy: Because I’m not. People at my school don’t really know what I do as a band. So, it was cool to be in the paper. What inspired the single “Peanut Butter Dream” (from Vol. 4)? Lucy: “Peanut Butter Dream” was about how I got together with my boyfriend. From the outside, we don’t really seem like we would be very compatible because he’s really good at soccer and blah, blah. So, that’s why I said, like, “looking through mirrors and broken glass” and “I cannot get the words outside my mouth,” like, you know, when you’re eating peanut butter. What’s different about writing songs now versus when the two of you were much younger? Gwendolyn: Writing the songs still comes from the heart. Even when the lyrics seem like they’re random, there are still hidden meanings behind everything. Lucy: I think it’s weird because [when] I listen to my lyrics [now], a lot of them have a ton of meaning, but I was just singing. Honestly, I wasn’t thinking about what I was doing.
Do venues treat Dog Party differently because of your age? Lucy: We like to be treated with respect. And, it’s totally a bummer when we play a show and we don’t get treated with respect by sound men, or people who put on the shows. There are people that are kind of, like, rude to us at first, but then after we play, they’re like, “Ohhh!” How do you deal with that? Lucy: I try not to get too angry about it. Gwendolyn: At least afterward, they kind of understand. Even though it’s irritating that their first opinion wasn’t as cool as their second opinion after hearing us, at least we justify ourselves. Then, they might rethink their thoughts, like, “Why would I think they’d be bad just because they’re girls?” Was it your parents who introduced you both to music? Lucy: Our parents didn’t play music at all. They just shared their love of music with us. We were so inclined to play music and express ourselves musically that it just all kind of happened. They always supported us and always tried to supply us with the means that we needed. Gwendolyn: We never felt any pressure like, “You need to play, or you need to practice.” That was never a thing either. For me, education is good for the mind, exercise is good for the body and music is good for the soul. □ S E P T E M B E R 1 7, 2 0 1 5
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Chapelle de l’Artiste Chateau & Retreat, 3300 Inspiration Ln. in Paradise, (530) 809-0799, www.paradisesymphony.org.
JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, ERIC PETER: An eclectic mix of live music. Th, 9/17, 6:30pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.
ME AND JULIO: Weekly live salsa, calypso,
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AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.
CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.
Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONCERT: The Paradise Symphony performs jazz in this Mardi Gras-themed event. Th, 9/17, 6pm. $50 including dinner, $35 concert only, children free to concert with paying adult.
Hawaiian Afro-Cuban music. Th, 6:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.
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THE ALAN RIGG TRIO: Jazz/blues trio perform for the Ebony & Ivory concert series. F, 9/18, 6:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.
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.
DIRTY REVIVAL: Soul, R&B and hip-hop fusion from Portland. Plus, The Soul Shine Band (blues/rock). F, 9/18, 8pm. $8. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.
DOG PARTY: Garage rock duo from
welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.
Sacramento with The She Things (garage), Astro Turf (rock) and Cell Block (goth). F, 9/18, 8pm. $7. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 345-7672.
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delic covers), High Minds Cafe (soul) and Rising From My Death Bed (hard rock). Th, 9/17, 8pm. $3. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.facebook.com/ events/486318464868927.
ROBBY KRIEGER: See Spotlight, page 29. Th, 9/17, 7pm. $22.50. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.
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AFROLICIOUS: Funk and disco blending electronic instruments and live musicians. Plus, Boca de Rio (reggae). Sa, 9/19, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.
BE CALM HONCHO: San Francisco-based psych-pop. Plus, Team Skins (math rock), Belda Beast (Redding indie rock), Sr. Francis Lee Howard (folk) and Lish Bills and Erin Lizardo (folk). Sa, 9/19, 7:30pm. $5. Orange Street Studio, 601 Orange St., (530) 243-4755.
BOOGIE NIGHTS: One-night only screening of Boogie Nights with drinks and live music from John Holmes. Sa, 9/19, 10pm. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageant chico.com.
DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
MA BARKER: Classic rock/pop with a
pinch of country. Sa, 9/19, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackleboxchico.com.
MADEON: Electronic house music from France. Plus, Louis the Child (house). Sa, 9/19, 8pm. $25. Senator Theatre,
RETRO DONE RIGHT
There are plenty of bands aspiring to tap into the longgone cool of eras past, to varying degrees of success. When it comes to interpreting the early- to mid1960s, most such acts adopt some of the decade’s campier trappings and call it a day. But not Seattle’s Prom Queen, which effectively captures the sultry, sexy, spooky and cinematic side of mid-century modern, both sonically (think Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood) and cinematically (they have a series of excellent videos to accompany at least one whole album, Midnight Veil, available on YouTube). Prom Queen plays with Chico’s QuasiMofos on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Maltese Bar & Tap Room.
517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmax productions.net.
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.
SEAN HAYES: Folk singer/songwriter. Sa, 9/19, 7pm. $20 advance, $24 at the
door. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.
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DIRTY REVIVAL, THE SOUL SHINE BAND Friday, Sept. 18 Lost on Main
native rock. Plus, Paktukia (singer/ songwriter). Tu, 9/22, 8pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.
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rapper is joined by Canada’s Cquel and DJ knoah. W, 9/23, 8pm. $8. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 3422727.
MATT SCHOFIELD: British blues guitarist and Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Tu, 9/22, 7:30pm. Sierra Nevada Brewing
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CLOWNS: Punk rockers all the way from Australia. Plus, Get Dead (SF) and local punk from Los New Huevos. Su, 9/20, 7pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
FAREWELL TO SUMMER: ACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: A an electic evening of acoustic music featuring Hannah Jane Kile (soulful songbird), Charlie Robinson (jazz/flamenco), Michelin Embers (country skiffle), Thick & Thin (Americana) and Rock Ridge (bluegrass). Su, 9/20, 12-5pm. $15, $10 for cyclists. 2500 Estes Rd.
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YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly open mic comedy with 20 open slots. Signups at 8pm. M, 9pm through 8/29. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
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from local musicians. Tu. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, www.myspace.com/ theitaliangarden.
Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, http://$17.50.
OPEN MIC AT GOGI’S: All performers welcome. Signups at 6pm. Hosted by Dan Casamajor. Tu, 7-9pm through 9/29. Free. Gogi’s Cafe, 230 Salem St. Next to the Transit Station, (530) 891-3570.
P.O.D.: American Christian alt-metal band. Plus, Islander (nu metal), Gigantes (power metal) and Harwood (metal). Tu, 9/22, 7:30pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.
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DOWNTOWN BROWN: Detroit-area punk/funk/metal. Plus, Radio Relapse (local, 90s covers) and Socorro (local rock). W, 9/23, 5-9pm. 2 dollars. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 693-0864, https://www.face book.com/events/521647364650075.
GET FOXY: Psychedlic rock. W, 9/23, noon. Free. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333,
LORNA AND BRADLEY: Live music. W, 9/23, 6:30pm. Red Tavern, 1250 Esplanade, (530) 894-3463, www.redtavern.com.
PIANO NIGHT: Live piano music. W. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, www.myspace.com/ theitaliangarden.
WEEKLY JAZZ: Carey Robinson and friends play an eclectic mix of jazz standards. W, 6:30-8:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farmstarpizza.com.
STILL SWINGING
When it comes to The Doors, most of the focus usually falls on the band’s enigmatic wannabe shaman-cum-rock ’n’ roll tragedy Jim Morrison. A closer listen reveals that all four members contributed massively to the group’s singular sound. Robbie Kreiger, for example, is a masterful guitarist (check out his Flamenco playing on “Spanish Caravan”) who co-wrote hits like “Light My Fire” and “Touch Me.” Kreiger has never quit playing, and swings by the El Rey Theatre tonight (Sept. 17).
OPEN MIC AT MALTESE: Bring your instrument of choice. Bring songs. Hosted by Jeff Coleman and Jimmy Reno. W, 6-8pm through 9/30. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.
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times to the exclusion of almost everything else. The characters, of course, are little more than pawns in the games that this kind of story tends to play, but you could also say that they are pawns in the games that Shyamalan is playing with those stories here. There are touches of parody and satire in some of it, and the outlandish plotting (including their mom’s “secret” and Tyler’s timely redemption of a failure in pee wee football) indulges the wishful thinking of movie audiences while remaining mostly indifferent to murders that, outside the artificial safety of a genre movie, would have left some very large emotional scars. If the film has a particular special strength, I’d say it’s in the director’s skill at presenting the characters as slightly absurd but not entirely unsympathetic. The kids’ mom seems to have heroine potential at first, but soon seems a little immature and maybe a little crazy as well. The kids’ moments of precociously adult behavior are fanciful and parodic, with the occasional hint of something demonic. McRobbie and Dunagan are good with the grandparent roles, which devolve from sentimental stereotypes into lunatic caricatures, his full of melancholy and hers hyperactive in a way that is hysterical in at least two senses of that word. □
Reviewers: Jason Cassidy, Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.
Opening this week Black Mass
Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace) directs this biopic on the infamous Irish-American gangster-turned-FBI informant, Whitey Bulger (played by Johnny Depp). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
Boogie Nights (1997)
For the latest installment in the Pageant’s Late Show series, local punk band John Holmes is fluffed and ready to open for Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) in Paul Thomas Anderson’s tale of the porn industry during the 1970s and ’80s. KZFR will sell cold ones at the bar. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.
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Lily Tomlin stars as a woman who embarks on an adventure with her 18-year-old granddaughter (Julia Garner), who has dropped by out of the blue because she desperately needs $600 by the end of the day. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Installment No. 2 in the film series based on James Dashner’s young-adult sci-fi novels picks up where the previous left off, with the young maze runners now tasked with maneuvering the dangerous obstacles of a desolate desert landscape of a dystopian future. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Mistress America
A college freshman (Lola Kirke) living in New York has her ho-hum big-city experience turned around when her new stepsister (Greta Gerwig) brings her along for mad adventures. Written by Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale). Pageant Theatre. 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. Rated R —B.G.
Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos
A Spanish-language 3-D computer-animated feature about timid little Toto, a young chick who summons the courage to fight an evil farmer in order to save his family and home. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
The Gift
Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall star as Simon and Robyn, a successful, happily married couple whose life is turned upside down when a high school classmate of Simon’s (Joel Edgerton) starts leaving mysterious gifts on their doorstep and dredging up a troubling past. Cinemark 14. Rated R.
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Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation
For me, the newest Mission: Impossible is mostly a matter of comedy and digitally enhanced ballet. The whiplash storylines and convoluted plotting, with all those double agents and secret espionage schemes, are little more than a pretext for the spectacular carnival of outlandish action sequences that writer/director Christopher McQuarrie and producer/star Tom Cruise have concocted for this fifth entry in the Impossible franchise. Cruise is once again full of zest and bounce in the role of the central hero. With his mysterious hint of a grin and a body seemingly lined with invisible shock absorbers, he serves mainly as a live-wire action figure in this hyper kinetically animated cartoon of an adventure. The action is indeed quite lively, but very little of it feels
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A dangerous love triangle develops between a successful woman (Sanaa Lathan), her former boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) and a man she recently met who might not be all he seems (Michael Ealy). Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.
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Straight Outta Compton
For a biopic about one of the most iconoclastic musical acts ever, Straight Outta Compton plays things disappointingly safe. It says a lot about the film that its most charged and energetic moments happen during the closing credits, when scenes from the original video for the song “Straight Outta Compton� hit the screen like firecrackers going off in the theater. For those unfamiliar with seminal gangsta-rap group’s story, the film provides a serviceable made-for-TV-movie style biography (but with much better music), and the young actors nail the characterizations of the group’s principal players—Eazy-W (Jason Mitchell), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins) and Ice Cube (played by his son, O’Shea Jackson, Jr.). But the excitement of the music and its revolutionary influence on American culture are greatly dampened by the film’s canned approach to storytelling (cue the recordingstudio montage) and the ham-handed juggling of too many individual storylines and legacies for one film to handle. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.
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This mildly amusing little film is based on Bill Bryson’s book about the trek he and a friend took on the Appalachian Trail, but with the characters’ ages increased to match those of the movie’s stars, Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Thus, A Walk in the Woods becomes in part a kind of docudrama about two aging actors playing themselves and doing standard-issue bits of grumpyold-man comedy. The screenplay sets up a few narrative lines on which to hang a series of semicomic episodes, with occasional pauses for Bryson-like ruminations. Ken Kwapis’ direction is mostly uninspired; the wisecracking is glib and predictable, and only a little is gained from the briefly sparkling contributions of Emma Thompson (as Bryson’s wife), Mary Steenburgen (as a motel-based temptress), Kristen Schaal (as a very opinionated hiker), Nick Offerman (as a camping-gear salesman), and Susan McPhail (as a laundromat-based temptress). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.
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… (Crab, lobster and crawfish are all market price, while shrimp, clams and mussels run from $10 to $11.99/lb.) I didn’t realize just how unique Big Hot Crab was (for Chico at least) until our food arrived, in buckets. I wasn’t the only one taken aback, either—looking around the table, all I saw were wide eyes and smiles of disbelief. Our server pulled large bags out of the bucket and started handing them to us. Our surprise turned to confusion. We had no plates— what were we supposed to do with bags full of seafood? “Just pour it on the table,” the waitress told us. Really? “Yes,” she assured us. So, we did. Laid out in front of us was a feast fit for kings. Huge crab legs, plump shrimp—heads and all—clams, mussels and lobster tails. There were also sausages, corn on the cob and potatoes mixed in. And in the style of a traditional Southern seafood boil, all of it had been boiled in a pot and seasoned with the mild house sauce. (Sauce is offered mild or spicy, and there’s a garlic butter option as well.) Bibs on, sea-shellers in hand, we began to dig in. I started with a lobster tail. Delicious. It was perfectly cooked—tender, no rubbery edges—but the sauce completed the meal. The Cajun flavors were strong without being overpowering, and there was just a hint of heat (the perfect amount, in my opinion). We all stopped talking for
at least 15 minutes while we cracked shells—it took some trial and error to figure out the sea-shellers—and stuffed our faces, only breaking the silence to ask someone at the other end of the table to pass a crab leg or to say “Mmm. This is good!” My personal favorites of the evening had to be the king crab legs, even if they were the most difficult to pry open. The lobster and shrimp were also delicious. (I’m not a huge fan of mollusks, but everyone else seemed to enjoy the mussels and clams.) The menu also features a variety of fried options, from shrimp, cod and oysters to onion rings and french fries. From the look of them at nearby tables, portion sizes are generous. As the evening wound down, we took turns at the hand-washing station at the back of the restaurant—a very convenient feature, as we were on the opposite side of the dining area from the restrooms and our hands were positively covered in sauce. My only complaint with the restaurant is that the Southern seafood experience is diminished somewhat by the fact that the place still looks and feels like the breakfast diner it had been for so many years. But, as a seafood lover, I will most definitely be returning to Big Hot Crab. Everything was super fresh and flavorful, and the novelty of it all makes it the perfect place for a group dinner or a date night. □
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“Take him anywhere, play him for anyone, and the response is always the same: People want more. They’ll write down the name if they don’t know it already…” – San Francisco Weekly shOW 8:00 (Doors 7:00)
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Armada, Ernest Cline’s sophomore outing— following his popular video-game-centric novel Ready Player One—draws more from 1980s films than video games but still delivers the fan experience. Cline’s story of an outcast youth called on to save the world from aliens seems straight out of a sci-fi movie, because it is. Armada is an homage to 40 years of sci-fi and action movies, as well as first-person shooter and real-time strategy games. The novel’s invading armada behaves exactly like pop-culture aliens—a fact we’re reminded of all too often as Cline’s story refuses to drift too far from its source material in content, tone or meta reminders not to expect any surprises. Filled with military conspiracies, eccentric nerds and sly nods to works Cline clearly loves, Armada is still a fun ride with great high-tech battles—more than enough familiar fun to enjoy one more pool-side read before the summer sun sets.
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JoRma KauKonen “Though he’s ensured his place in the rock firmament as a member of both Jefferson Airplane and its bluesy offshoot, Hot Tuna, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen continues to embrace his role as a musical journeyman.” — Goldmine shOW 7:30 (Doors 6:30)
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Something More Than Free Jason Isbell thirty tigers It’s easy to imagine Something More Than Free, by Jason Isbell, will end up on some folks’ Best of 2015 lists. This eclectic, raw collection of Americana picks up where the former Drive-By Truckers member’s celebrated Southeastern (2013) left off. “The Life You Chose” is loaded with power from lines like: “Are you living the life you chose?/Or are you living the life that chose you?” and represents the primary thematic tone for the record. “Speed Trap Town” is a bleeding-heart lament about leaving a small-town cage only to get caught in a big-city one, while “Children of Children” makes the powerful statement of a child stealing away a young parent’s life merely by being born. Isbell gracefully wanders through the realms of Americana, rock, country, blues and folk, exploring that tension between wanting to break free of your chains and realizing that freedom comes with its own set of troubles, too. The album is a knockout. —Brian Palmer
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SUMMER FADES AWAY Let this sink in: In roughly six weeks, on the first day
of returning to standard time (Nov. 1), the sun will set in the North State at 5:06 p.m. This is of course extremely depressing for Arts DEVO to think about. I’m already bummed that we’re creeping toward 7 p.m. sunsets, which means my favorite season is about to come to a close. I’ll deal with staving off postsummer depression later. For now, we can take comfort in the efforts of some of the best musicians in the area, who will be gathering by the orchards at the end of Normal Street (2500 Estes Road) on the final Sunday of the season (Sept. 20, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) for A Pickin’ Picnic. Subtitled “A Farewell to Summer,” the mostly acoustic music festival features an impressive and eclectic roster that includes local guitar legend Charlie Robinson (playing flamenco and jazz); the Rock Ridge bluegrass band; singer/songwriter Hannah Jane Kile (with band); the all-star Thick and Thin Band (Americana/ Latin/swing) and Chico’s favorite country-skiffle purveyors, the Michelin Embers. The afternoon show is a benefit for KZFR radio.
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FALL INTO BEER WEEK If I have to say goodbye to the long days of summer, at least I have Chico Beer Week (Oct. 8-17)— and the chance to share many different good beers, hopefully with many different beer geeks—to look forward to. The beerweek events have started to pour into the online calendar; keep an eye on www.chicobeerweek.net and find Chico Beer Week on Facebook for the latest updates. And, if you’re a local beer purveyor, make sure to send in your events (to chicobeerweek@gmail.com) to be included in the calendar, both online and in the CN&R’s Beer Issue coming out Oct. 8.
MORE BEER? It probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Sierra
Nevada Brewing Co. is raising the bar once again for beer adventurousness. The brewery just announced that Beer Camp Across America—the beercollaboration project (with attendant cross-country beer-festival tour)—is back and bolder. In 2014, to commemorate the opening of its new East Coast facility, Sierra Nevada collaborated with a dozen American breweries on 12 different beers for the Beer Camp pack. And for 2016, they’ve teamed up with 30 different breweries (already gathering at the North Carolina facility to write recipes) for a new mixed 12-pack. Some of the impressive breweries in on the project include Faction (Alameda), Societe (San Diego), Magnolia (San Francisco), Bear Republic (Healdsburg), Dogfish Head (Delaware) and Odell (Colorado). And, once again, the Beer Camp bus will hit the road for a series of six regional beer festivals (dates and locations to be determined, although I suspect the “Nor Cal” edition will take place very close to home). It’s a good time to be alive, my friends. It’s all happening again.
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by rob brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I won’t go so LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The rooster is far as to say that you are surrounded by unhinged maniacs whose incoherence is matched only by their self-delusion. That would probably be too extreme. But I do suspect that at least some of the characters in the game you’re playing are not operating at their full potential. For now, it’s best not to confront them and demand that they act with more grace. The wiser strategy might be to avoid being swept up in their agitation as you take good care of yourself. If you are patient and stay centered, I bet you will eventually get a chance to work your magic.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Many of
the heroes in fairy tales survive and thrive because of the magical gifts they are given. Benefactors show up, often unexpectedly, to provide them with marvels—a spinning wheel that can weave a cloak of invisibility, perhaps, or winged shoes that give them the power of flight or a charmed cauldron that brews a healing potion. But there is an important caveat. The heroes rarely receive their boons out of sheer luck. They have previously performed kind deeds or unselfish acts in order to earn the right to be blessed. According to my analysis, Taurus, the coming weeks will be prime time for you to make yourself worthy of gifts you will need later on.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): We humans
need nourishing stories almost as much as we require healthy food, clean air, pure water and authentic love. And yet many of us get far less than our minimum daily requirement of nourishing stories. Instead, we are barraged with nihilistic narratives that wallow in misery and woe. If we want a break from that onslaught, our main other choices are sentimental fantasies and empty-hearted trivia. That’s the bad news. But here’s the good news: Now is a favorable time for you to seek remedies for this problem. That’s why I’m urging you to hunt down redemptive chronicles that furnish your soul with gritty delight. Find parables and sagas and tales that fire up your creative imagination and embolden your lust for life.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now is an
excellent time to close the gap between the Real You and the image of yourself that you display to the world. I know of two ways to accomplish this. You can tinker with the Real You so that it’s more like the image you display. Or else you can change the image you display so that it is a more accurate rendition of the Real You. Both strategies may be effective. However you go about it, Cancerian, I suggest you make it your goal to shrink the amount of pretending you do.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Born under the
sign of Leo, Marcel Duchamp was an influential artist whose early work prefigured surrealism. In 1917, he submitted an unusual piece to a group exhibition in New York. It was a plain old porcelain urinal, but he titled it “Fountain,” and insisted it was a genuine work of art. In that spirit, I am putting my seal of approval on the messy melodrama you are in the process of managing. Henceforth, this melodrama shall also be known as a work of art, and its title will be “Purification.” (Or would you prefer “Expurgation” or “Redemption”?) If you finish the job with the panache you have at your disposal, it will forevermore qualify as a soul-jiggling masterpiece.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some people
express pride in gross ways. When you hear their overbearing brags, you know it’s a sign that they are not really confident in themselves. They overdo the vanity because they’re trying to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. In the coming weeks, I expect you to express a more lovable kind of self-glorification. It won’t be inflated or arrogant, but will instead be measured and reasonable. If you swagger a bit, you will do it with humor and style, not narcissism and superiority. Thank you in advance for your service to humanity. The world needs more of this benign kind of egotism.
your power animal. Be like him. Scrutinize the horizon for the metaphorical dawn that is coming, and be ready to herald its appearance with a triumphant wake-up call. On the other hand, the rooster is also your affliction animal. Don’t be like him. I would hate for you to imitate the way he handles himself in a fight, which is to keep fussing and squabbling far beyond the point when he should let it all go. In conclusion, Libra, act like a rooster but also don’t act like a rooster. Give up the protracted struggle so you can devote yourself to the more pertinent task, which is to celebrate the return of the primal heat and light.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Since you
seem to enjoy making life so complicated and intense for yourself, you may be glad to learn that the current astrological omens favor that development. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re about to dive deep into rich mysteries that could drive you half-crazy. I suspect that you will be agitated and animated by your encounters with ecstatic torment and difficult bliss. Bon voyage! Have fun! Soon I expect to see miniature violet bonfires gleaming in your bedroom eyes, and unnameable emotions rippling through your unfathomable face and unprecedented words of wild wisdom spilling from your smart mouth.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
The Adamites were devotees of an ancient Christian sect that practiced sacred nudism. One of their central premises: How could anyone possibly know God while wearing clothes? I am not necessarily recommending that you make their practice a permanent part of your spiritual repertoire, but I think you might find value in it during the coming weeks. Your erotic and transcendent yearnings will be rising to a crescendo at the same time. You will have the chance to explore states where horniness and holiness overlap. Lusty prayers? Reverent sex? Ecstatic illumination?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One
of your key themes in the coming weeks is “grace.” I suggest that you cultivate it, seek it out, expect it and treasure it. To prepare for this fun work, study all of the meanings of “grace” below. At least two of them, and possibly all, should and can be an active part of your life. (1) Elegance or beauty of form, movement or proportion; seemingly effortless charm or fluidity. (2) Favor or goodwill; a disposition to be generous or helpful. (3) Mercy, forgiveness, charity. (4) A temporary exemption or immunity; a reprieve. (5) A sense of fitness or propriety. (6) A prayer of blessing or thanks said before a meal. (7) An unmerited divine gift offered out of love.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be
good, but not necessarily well-behaved. Be extra exuberant and free, but not irresponsible. Be lavish and ardent and even rowdy, but not decadent. Why? What’s the occasion? Well, you have more-or-less finished paying off one of your karmic debts. You have conquered or at least outwitted a twist from your past that had been sapping your mojo. As a reward for doing your duty with such diligence, you have earned a respite from some of the more boring aspects of reality. And so now you have a mandate to gather up the intelligent pleasure you missed when you were acting like a beast of burden.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I am the
least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.” That’s the mantra that Frank O’Hara intoned in his poem “Meditations in an Emergency,” and now I’m inviting you to adopt a modified version of it. Here’s how I would change it for your use in the coming months: “I am the least difficult of passion artists. All I want is to give and receive boundless, healthy, interesting love.” To be frank, I don’t think O’Hara’s simple and innocent declaration will work for you. You really do need to add my recommended nuances in order to ripen your soul’s code and be aligned with cosmic rhythms.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALPACA BOB’S SANDWICH ADVENTURES at 672 Mangrove Chico, CA 95926. MLGPARADISE INC 879 Waggoner Rd Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: ELIZABETH GUILLAUME, SECRETARY Dated: September 14, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001154 Published: September 17,24, October 1,8, 2015
NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WALTER L. WHITE aka WALTER WHITE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WALTER L. WHITE, aka WALTER WHITE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RONALD S. WHITE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: RONALD S. WHITE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the 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: September 29, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: Probate 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: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41572 Dated: August 26, 2015 Published: September 3,10,17, 2015
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE GRAYCE HENRI To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: GRAYCE HENRI A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PETRA PENUNURI in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: PETRA PENUNURI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the 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: September 29, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: Candela 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 530-342-4524 Case Number: PR41578 Dated: August 28, 2015 Published: September 3,10,17, 2015
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES P. SWEENEY aka JAMES PATRICK SWEENEY To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may
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otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES P. SWEENEY, JIM SWEENEY, JAMES PATRICK SWEENEY A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHERINE I. SWEENEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: KATHERINE I. SWEENEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the 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: September 29, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: Probate 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: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41579 Dated: August 28, 2015 Published: September 3,10,17, 2015
NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due. The following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc.
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DWIGHT AITKENS: Unit #427ac (6x10) ZACHARY A. CAMPOLO: Unit #087acc (5x5) JOHN FISCHER: Unit #169ss (6x7) KARAH GRIFFEN: Unit #298ss (5x5) JANET MOON: Unit #487cc (6x7), Unit #506cc (6x7) CHAD BARTUSEVICIUS: Unit #500cc (5x6) RONALD LOCKHART: Unit #262ss (5x6) DAVID A. DUNCAN: Unit #504cc (5x5), Unit #215ss (5x11) SHERRY PADDOCK: Unit #251ss (5x5) KASEY GERVAIS: Unit #015ss (5x6) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: September 26, 2015 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926. Published: September 10,17, 2015
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARK G. NORTON aka MARK GERARD NORTON To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARK G. NORTON, MARK GERARD NORTON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARTA NORTON CUNNINGHAM in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: MARTA NORTON CUNNINGHAM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the 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: October 13, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBD 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-
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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: JOHN P. GOLDEN, ATTY HOPKINS & CARLEY, ALC 200 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2062 (650) 804-7600 Case Number: PR41569 Dated: August 27, 2015 Published: September 10,17,24, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHELLE IBARRA AND ARTURU IBARRA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FABIAN PENA-IBARRA ANDRES PENA-IBARRA LOUIE PENA-IBARRA Proposed name: FABIAN IBARRA DRE IBARRA LOUIE IBARRA 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: October 16, 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: August 17, 2015 Case Number: 164715 Published: August 27, September 3,10,17, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CALEN CURTEMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CALEN DREW CURTEMAN Proposed name: CALEN DREW CHAPMAN 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
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should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 16, 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: August 20, 2015 Case Number: 164787 Published: September 3,10,17,24, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HILLARY CALLIHAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HILLARY LYNN CALLIHAN Proposed name: HILLARY LYNN CHAPMAN 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: October 16, 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: August 27, 2015 Case Number: 164788 Published: September 3,10,17,24, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner IKHLAS ALFAOUR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: IKHLAS ALFAOUR Proposed name: IKHLA JARADEH 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: October 23, 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: August 27, 2015 Case Number: 164837 Published: September 10,17,24, October 1, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRIAN STRACNER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRIAN NEAL JEREMIAH STRACNER Proposed name: BRIAN NEIL JEREMIAH SROTANANDA 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: October 30, 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: September 08, 2015 Case Number: 164921 Published: September 17,24, October 1,8, 2015
SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT MARSHA STRICKLAND You are being sued by plaintiff: CHRIS PRECKWINKLE 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: Plumas Superior Court 520 Main Street, Room 104 Quincy, CA 95971 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: CHRISTOPHER PRECKWINKLE P.O. Box 28 Portola, CA 96122 Signed: CATHERYN YOUENS Dated: December 2, 2014 Case Number: FL14-00242 Published: August 27, September 3,10,17, 2015
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open house Century 21 Jeffries Lydon Sat. 2-4 13060 Centerville Road (X St: Honey Run) 5 Bd / 6.5 Ba, 4889 Sq.Ft. $1,075,000 Mike Clifford 707-508-5817 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 61 Floating Cloud (X St: Old Chico Way) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2468 Sq. Ft. $719,900 Johnny Klinger 864-3398 Sat. 11-1 3922 Barbados Ct (X St: Spyglass Rd) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2612 Sq.Ft. $599,000 John Wallace 514-2405 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1 2611 Alamo Ave (X St: East Ave) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2877 Sq.Ft. $489,000 Emmett Jacobi 519-6333 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 2890 Carlene Pl (X St: Lassen Ave) 3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1472 Sq.Ft. $450,000 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Becky Williams 636-0936 Sun. 12-3 2220 Cherry Glenn Ct (X St: Fern) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1833 Sq.Ft. $340,000 Anita Miller 321-1174
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Custom 4 bd/5ba 5,009 sq ft, 1.21 ac, pool, extras! $950,000 West side, 3bd/3ba, 2,901 sqft .29ac $425,000 Gated community, lovely 2,531 sq ft with VIEW! $435,000 g Pinnacle building pen lot, 2.03din acs $330,000 Near park 3bd/2ba, 1,502din sq ft.g$275,000 pen 18 acres, forest, 1,580 sq ft home, cash only $199,900
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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of August 31, 2015 – September 4, 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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428 Royal Glen Ln
Chico
$250,000.00
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65 Red Rock Ln
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$266,000.00
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112 Wawona Pl
Chico
$250,000.00
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6641 Creekside Dr
Paradise
$366,000.00
3/ 2
2511
17 Phlox Way
Chico
$227,500.00
3/ 1.5
1562
1632 Paradisewood Dr
Paradise
$349,000.00
5/ 4
3172
438 W 1st Ave
Chico
$225,500.00
3/ 1.5
1110
701 Kinsey Way
Paradise
$315,000.00
4/ 2.5
2957
2173 Huntington Dr
Chico
$220,000.00
3/ 2
1184
368 Valley View Dr
Paradise
$285,000.00
3/ 2.5
1730
497 E 21st St
Chico
$205,000.00
3/ 2.5
2136
235 Redbud Dr
Paradise
$253,500.00
2/ 2
1776
1359 E 8th St
Chico
$200,000.00
3/ 1
836
7760 Skyway
Paradise
$245,000.00
3/ 2
1607
194 Rio Lindo Ave
Chico
$195,000.00
3/ 1.5
1344
5212 Bennett Rd
Paradise
$245,000.00
3/ 2
1940
1090 E 9th St
Chico
$165,000.00
2/ 1
972
1618 Hucka Ln
Paradise
$225,000.00
2/ 2
1311
7441 Lower Wyandotte Rd
Oroville
$300,000.00
3/ 1.5
1809
5777 Fickett Ln
Paradise
$219,000.00
3/ 2
1379
559 Silver Leaf Dr
Oroville
$290,000.00
3/ 3
2238
1552 Adams Rd
Paradise
$209,000.00
2/ 1
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