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We are seeing a political horror show, but under the surface, it’s not a new show. And there is a way forward. But don’t expect mainstream culture or any elected official or minister or teacher to support turned over our power. Or, so goes the refrain in a representative democracy. Beyond our empowerment; mainstream culture is merely posturing. this, we reminisce about vicariOur moral systems are failing—Trump or no ously living through powerful Trump. This failure extends from religious institupeople—the ones we like. What tions to universities to our pervaliberal hasn’t imagined sive market-based morality—the a nice spring day, Our moral terrible lie, that which dazzles us weeding the White and yields profits, must be good systems are House vegetable garden with Michelle failing—Trump and true. Our sources of insight are the enabling voices of drug and the kids? A or no Trump. by dealers; find me a church where fantasy neatly ignoring Patrick Newman the voice of a dying Earth speaks Obama’s 563 drone The author organizes loudly enough to shake the matestrikes. It’s mourning a weekly citizen-led rial aspirations of its congregants. in America and, in much of it, we homeless outreach As we drive the planet beyond its capacity to mourn lost illusions. effort called Chico support life, the moral voice has barely risen to Remember Joe Hill’s famous Friends on the Street. a whisper. Let it rise in us. Remove the clang of telegram?: “I die like a true blue commerce and listen to the suffering of the Earth. rebel. Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!” So, what’s first on this path of Listen to the suffering of Earth’s animals and people. organization? The first step is finding our power; the The voices are there. Do none of this in order to win; the game may already be over. Do it, as Thoreau moral power we lend to the elites—dreaming they said, “to affect the quality of the day ....” □ will carry the conscience of a nation. ll the world’s a stage and sometimes the political

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to bow to his demands and was ruthless in attaining what he wanted. He cheated vendors out of money he owed them through threats of lawsuits. He kept an enemies list of those who would dare to oppose him. Trump’s thuggery worked, for the most part. And now, fellow Americans, he’s on a mission to run the country the same way. It’s called an autocracy, and if you don’t believe he’s bent on having absolute power, you’re not paying attention. Just look at the evidence. For starters, Trump respects some of the world’s most dangerous authoritarian figures. He’s repeatedly expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative who led the annexation of Crimea and is upping the clash between Russian-backed troops and Ukrainian soldiers in light of Trump’s If you don’t ascension to the White House. His righthand man, Steve Bannon, is a far-right believe he’s propagandist and avowed Leninist who bent on having wants to destroy both major parties. Over absolute power, the weekend, Trump gave him a seat you’re not on the National Security Council. And Trump has long denigrated the media, a paying classic move in the autocratic playbook. attention. Most of Trump’s picks are incompetents (think Betsy DeVos for education secretary), chosen because they are wealthy and manipulable. Even respected Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis caved to Trump’s bungled executive order banning Muslims from entering the United States. Moments after signing it, Trump handed Mattis his pen, as if to assure the public he was within his rights. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence stood by, clapping, despite tweeting a little more than a year ago that calls for such a ban were “offensive and unconstitutional.” With the GOP controlling both houses, a lack of leadership from moderate Republicans to oppose executive overreach, and a cabinet of sycophants, the only thing stopping Trump from becoming a despot is pressure from the public. While polls show he’s the least popular incoming president of the last four decades, Trump’s populist rhetoric continues to appeal to his base. Until those Americans feel the squeeze, until they figure out that this man cares only to enrich himself and his ilk, this nation and the world are in for a bumpy ride. □

Chico: allow dispensaries The city of Chico will soon be taking up the issue of how to respond to

the passing of Proposition 64, which legalizes marijuana for adults in California. Specifically, it allows everyone 21 and older to use the drug, to possess it in small quantities and to grow it. It should be noted that while cities and counties can set restrictions on the outdoor growing of the plant for personal use, they can no longer ban indoor grows. The law also creates a licensing structure by which to regulate the commercial growing, testing, manufacturing, selling and taxing of marijuana. In light of legalization, Chico will have to decide whether to allow commercial activities, including dispensaries, within city limits. If the City Council chooses to follow the will of the people, it will vote to adopt sensible regulations allowing such businesses to exist. Speaking of the will of the people, it’s important to note (and we’re talking directly to you, City Council conservatives) that a majority of voters in the city of Chico approved Prop. 64 (60.9 percent voted yes; 39.1 percent no). So, over 60 percent of your constituents want legal weed, and that means being able to buy it at a store. The tax revenues the city will reap are just another (big) reason to support it. □

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plagues I was out sick much of last week with what I’m assuming was the flu—chills, fever, head and body aches, cough, congestion, exhaustion. Somehow, I think Donald Trump had something to do with it— my plague-like symptoms started the weekend after Inauguration Day. Sarcasm aside, it’s hard to believe the new president has been in office (as I write this) for less than two weeks. It feels like an eternity. I know I’m not alone when I wonder how I’m going to get through the next 3 years and 50 weeks. As the editor of an alternative paper that goes to press every seven days, the best course of action, I suppose, is to take it one week at a time. Speaking of which, to counter Trump’s shock-and-awe tactics, we’re working on coming up with a regular feature that keeps readers abreast of what POTUS and his accomplices in Congress are up to. Stay tuned. This week, one only has to look through these op-ed pages to get an idea of what the nation thinks about Trump, especially his unconstitutional efforts to bar Muslims from entering the United States. CN&R has expanded its letters section this week to print the deluge of submissions. We still couldn’t fit all of them into the space, so you’ll have to go online to read the lot. People have strong opinions about Trump—mostly negative—and I want to encourage readers to keep up the letter writing. Just a word of caution: We do our best to fact-check each of them, and we won’t print anything that isn’t easily verifiable through reputable sources. Those go into the round file. Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Speaking of editing, I want to give a big shout out to CN&R’s editorial team. Each member of my small but stellar crew had his or her hands fuller than normal while I was ill. Managing Editor Meredith J. Cooper curated last week’s letters section and wrote the solid watchdogging editorial—if that unbylined piece read a little differently, now you know why. She also cranked out two stories, in addition to her regular business column. Whew. Reporter Ken Smith rounded out the news coverage, but he also spent hours covering the local inauguration protests on Friday and the Women’s March on Saturday for last week’s cover story. He snapped the majority of the photos and interviewed dozens of the thousands who demonstrated in Chico in opposition to the new administration. Meanwhile, Assistant News Editor Howard Hardee kept his head down working on this week’s excellent cover story on a local doctor’s efforts to help chronic-pain sufferers who’ve found themselves reliant on dangerous prescription medications. I made it back into the office on Thursday and was well enough to attend Saturday evening’s Keep Chico Weird Talent Show at the El Rey Theatre. Major props to Arts Editor Jason Cassidy (aka Arts DEVO) for keeping the event on track despite some technical difficulties. Big thanks to all of the judges, contestants and featured performers who made the show lively and, as always, super weird. And finally, I’m sorry to report that this is Calendar Editor Daniel Taylor’s last week with CN&R. He got a full-time gig elsewhere. We’re going to miss Taylor and his excellent work. We wish him well.

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Fueling unrest Re “Resist and reject” (Cover story, by Sasha Abramsky and CN&R staff, Jan. 26): Our citizens (including CN&R readers) will naturally let their feelings be known without the media using words like resist, fight, reject, revolt, etc., to encourage them. Words like that just fuel the potential for nonpeaceful objection and general unrest in our city and across the country. We are a better nation than that. And providing instructions on how to get involved in the resistance to our president? Very poor journalism in my opinion. It is my recollection that those who were opposed to the election of President Obama eight years ago did not stoop to such tactics as we see now in opposition to President Trump. BT Chapman Chico

More on POTUS Young Cassius Clay sat spellbound at ringside as he watched the notorious “Gorgeous George”—the wrestler— taunt the crowd with his “beauty, intelligence” and better-than-thou attitude. Such antics drew a chorus of jeers and boos from the sold-out crowd of deplorables in attendance. Saturday nights found millions of the same ilk sitting in front of their TV sets, beer in hand, yelling and screaming at the detested, peroxide-blonde, fake wrestler. Cassius Clay made the decision to imitate the abominated wrestler: he changed his name to Muhammad Ali, dodged the draft, and was pinned with the appellation of the “Louisville Lip” by fans who hated him but never failed to watch his fights. He added resentment with his arrogant act and outrageous predictions, as he made millions and became famous worldwide. Catastrophically, Trump has pirated the same devious P.T. Barnum sales techniques used by Clay and Georgeous George. Trump ran an estimated $3 billion unconventional TV advertising campaign and didn’t spend a dime. Trump even used LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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My mother and grandmother were registered and honorable members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. My father served his nation and the world as a physician in a field hospital during World War II. He was a lifelong (Eisenhower-admiring) Republican. My parents and ancestors would be horrified (as am I) at what the current president and his “henchmen” are doing to the ideals on which this country was founded. Our country fought successfully against a monarch at its inception, against a cruel despot who wanted to rule the world in my lifetime, and we must not let this current crisis of democracy go unchecked. No one person can “fix it all,” but one person can certainly do a great deal to wreck it all. Marcia Moore Chico

Never again On Jan. 30, local community members gathered to honor Fred T. Korematsu, who, as a 23-year-old Japanese-American, refused to be forced into the American internment/concentration camps during World War II. After losing his case, Korematsu vs. the Supreme Court, he was sent to a camp. Justice was served on Nov. 10, 1983, when U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel vacated the conviction. Korematsu stood in front of Patel and said, “I would like to see the government admit that they were wrong and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed or color.” The timeliness, concern and similarities of Korematsu’s case as we enter week three of the Trump administration escapes few. Over this past weekend, an executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim countries for 90 days and suspending all refugee admission for 120 days was widely protested. As I write this, I’m listening to the coverage of another courageous 6

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act by U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired for, as the White House put it, “refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.” This year is the 75th anniversary of FDR’s Executive Order 9066 and we must not allow this to happen again. Diane Suzuki Chico

Scripture says: Love your neighbor as yourself. Trump’s decision to ban the entry of individuals who are citizens of specific countries is not in keeping with this teaching. Anne Frank’s family was denied entry into the U.S. and she died in the World War II Jewish Holocaust. Who will be denied entry this week and find themselves in a similar situation? I say, Mr. Trump: Love your neighbor, no exceptions. Loree Monroe Chico

In a pre-election letter to the editor, I suggested that we drop “home of the brave” from our national anthem should Trump close our borders to refugees from Syria and other war-torn countries. In one of the most disgraceful, cowardly acts by any American president, Trump has done it. In response, lest we be hypocritical as well as cowardly, let me suggest this as one more action of resistance: Whenever the anthem is sung, we sit down in silence just before “home of the brave.” For those who are already protesting by sitting for the whole anthem, by all means, please remain seated. Please pass this on to your fellow resisters. Dan Johnson Paradise

And more … Isn’t it ironic that a man who recently settled a $25 million fraud lawsuit against his company (Trump University) and has admittedly filed at least four corporate bankruptcies would lecture you on the ethics and credibility of the media and free press? Rick Hunter Chico

The country now has its 45th president. In the last month, Trump’s outrageous behavior, from

tweets (like a high school bully) to his attacks on Congressman John Lewis, has been nauseating for most Americans. The Republicans now have control of all three branches of government, so there will be radical changes and mostly turning the clock back. They will dismantle Obamacare, which will hurt millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of veterans. Most veterans are not authorized by Congress to have access to VA health care. A reminder: Those who did not vote for Secretary Clinton (who won by nearly 3 million votes) wanted Trump to be elected president, and now get ready for many progressive rollbacks. Bob Mulholland Chico

When President Obama was first elected in 2008, I was fearful and angry. Did I wish for a different outcome? Yes! But, I accepted that he was our president and I prayed for him to succeed. When he was re-elected, I felt even more frightened for our country. Did I riot? Did I break things? No and no. Then, I remembered: When I was a Democrat, I was just as upset when President Reagan was elected! (I was sure he would get us into a war!) Did that happen? No. Based on my knowledge of the past, I know that all of us in our country (if we want it to survive) need to take it down a notch and pray that the captain of the ship we are all on guides us through rough water and we all survive. Trump’s only been in office a few weeks. Can’t you all just wait a few months—see how his ideas pan out? Stop being used by the news outlets to go out and protest! Politicians, with the aid of the press, are giving you a false sense of what “may” happen. Let’s respect the office and calm down. Loretta Ann Torres Chico

No women? Re “Two on Women’s March” (Letters, by Bill Monroe and Denny Royston): With all due respect to the CN&R editorial staff, the only two letters regarding the local Women’s

March in Chico were written by men. I marched in Washington, D.C., so I can’t speak to the local event, but posting exclusively male interpretations misses a major tenet of this worldwide event. While the March was fully inclusive of people from all walks of life (including people with disabilities), it was a grassroots effort planned, organized and orchestrated by women in an effort to make our voices heard! We live in a world where women are still treated as second-class citizens and, as Denny Royston pointed out, there are many areas where women are specifically targeted for abuse. We marched for a number of reasons, but this was a women’s march and our voices should be included in the critiques. If there weren’t any women who wrote letters to the editor immediately after the event, it’s likely because they were busy planning, executing and following up on the Chico March. A delay in publishing letters would have been appropriate. Holding off so that women could comment on their event would have been better than printing male-only reviews of one of the largest events in modern herstory! Debbie M. Blake Durham

Editor’s note: The two letters by men were the only ones CN&R received on the Chico Women’s March.

On phony facts It’s quite impressive how students nationwide suddenly mastered all essential course curriculum by sneeringly echoing the new, innovative and deeply complex tenets of “alternative facts.” Common Core vanquished in a flash.

that help students discriminate between real and fake sources, a tried and true tradition can also be expanded: school newspapers. There is so much good that can come from young people learning the tools of journalism: learning to accurately report on an event; interpreting materials like reports and statistics; understanding the value of objectivity; and, of course, learning how to write concise, clear, correct prose. Every subject taught at every grade level is pertinent; in my elementary school paper, I recall stories such as “What does the principal do?” and “Why are the elm trees being removed?” You need more than an inquiring mind to do those topics justice. For teachers who consider newspapers passé, and think a video or blog would be more relevant, I would say you could build journalistic standards into any media, but there are qualities about newsprint that make it special. Start the presses! Joe Wills Chico

‘Your problem’ I think we can all agree that Trump is a thin-skinned, egotistical, petulant douchebag. While I am decidedly pro-choice, I and millions like me do not want our tax dollars funding the solution for reckless, irresponsible behavior. If you have an unwanted pregnancy and want to abort it, that’s between your conscience and whatever higher power you recognize. But should I, as a taxpayer, be expected subsidize it? Your unwanted pregnancy is your problem, not mine or the government’s. If you can’t afford an abortion, then you should have thought about that before indulging in irresponsible behavior.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

‘Start the presses!’ I’m pleased to read the many reactions to the fake news phenomenon: news organizations pledging to scrutinize dubious Internet news sites, social scientists studying how people evaluate online content, educators reviewing how children use digital source materials. With regard to schools, while I’m not against new lesson plans

Michael Pulliam Paradise

Correction Robert Knight, a person featured in last week’s Streetalk (see “Your weirdest job?”), was misidentified as Robert Dean. We regret the error. —ed. More letters online:

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After nearly a year of contentious battles between Paradise Irrigation District board members and their constituents, mostly over rate hikes, two of those members were successfully ousted. Through a recall election in January, residents voted overwhelmingly to replace Larry Duncan and Sep Carola. Duncan is a former Paradise mayor and longtime PID director. His Division 3 seat goes to Anne Rice, who has 24 years in the water industry, both at a treatment plant and in the laboratory. Carola, who was serving as president of the board when recalled, gives up his seat to Marc Sulik, who has worked for 35 years at a wastewater treatment plant. During a candidates forum in December, Rice promised to waive her salary if elected. She and Sulik both said they supported eliminating health benefits for board directors.

tuition hike in the works

Students attending California State University may face a 5 percent, or roughly $270, hike in the cost of tuition for the 2017-18 school year. The CSU’s governing board discussed raising tuition on Tuesday (Jan. 31) in Long Beach, and will vote on the hike in March, according to multiple news sources. Tuition (not including campus fees) is currently $5,472 annually for undergraduates at the CSU’s 23 campuses, and the hike would be the first in six years. A protest at Chico State spearheaded by a group called Chico State Students for Quality Education was scheduled for Wednesday (Feb. 1) after the CN&R’s press deadline. A statement on the Facebook event page urges students to oppose the hike and says “the Board of Trustees should be working to ensure student tuition remains low.”

recorD numbers at homeless shelter

Last Thursday night (Jan. 26), the Torres Community Shelter served a record number of overnight guests—149. The previous record of 130 was set last summer. The homeless shelter had to purchase additional cots and call in extra staff to accommodate the increased need, said Executive Director Brad Montgomery (pictured). He speculated that recent rainstorms and freezing temperatures are driving more people to seek shelter. He also noted that an ever-increasing number of guests is the long-term trend; when he became executive director in May 2009, the shelter averaged 47 people a night. The silver lining is that the Torres Shelter helped 22 people move into their own homes in January and 40 people the month before, Montgomery said. “Despite the increased numbers, which is challenging, it helps us get more people off the street.” 8

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a place in history Chico State kicks off celebration of Black History Month

Uof Samuel Akinwande had never heard Black History Month. “Every day is ntil he moved to the United States,

black history day to us back home,” said Akinwande, who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, as story and a member of the Yoruba photo by tribe. “So, when I first Gabriel moved out here, I found it Sandoval very weird that it’s like a month that’s dedicated to celebrating my people.” Join the Akinwande, who’s celebration: majoring in social work go to www.csuchico. at Chico State, said he edu/diversity for a full list of chico state initially wasn’t sure what events celebrating to make of the decadesblack history month. old American tradition. “At first I was like, ‘Maybe there’s Mexican History Month or Asian History Month.’ Then in my history class, my history teacher was like, ‘No ...’ and then she broke it down for me. And I was like, ‘OK, now I know why they celebrate.’” Observed annually in February, Black History Month (aka African-American History Month) pays tribute to the achievements of black people in the United States

and around the globe. It originally began as a week-long celebration in 1926. A group of students at Kent University in Ohio extended the celebration for an entire month in 1960. Then, as part of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976, President Gerald Ford recognized the students’ efforts and embraced the idea of a national celebration. Chico State kicked off its series of events on Wednesday (Feb. 1) at Selvester’s Café by the Creek. The theme of this year’s festivities is The Black Arts Movement, a nod to the artistic expression inspired by the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. It also refers to a bygone black arts festival in Chico, says Charles “CC” Carter, the university’s director of Student Life and Leadership and Cross-Cultural Leadership Center. In addition to an art show in Kendall Hall, the month’s festivities include a poetry slam, student-led empowerment workshops, a gospel choir concert, conversations on diversity and inclusion, and a dance party dubbed the “Black Ball” at the Chico Women’s Club on Feb. 25. The CCLC will also screen movies such as DOPE, Poetic Justice, Baby Boy and Hustle and Flow, followed by discussions

about the cultural and historical significance of the films. In years past, the success of individual

events has varied, said Tray Robinson, director of Chico State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. For instance, people turned out for Chico State’s reenactments of rent parties of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and ’30s, where people threw parties that raised money to pay their rent. Those were a hit, Robinson recalls, because they offered guests soul food, music and dancing. Other events, however, were not as successful. “One time I facilitated an event on HIV in the black community,” he said. “Nobody showed up. That’s not a topic that people are ready to talk about, unfortunately.” The topics for this year’s student-led workshops are yet to be determined. Egypt Howard, assistant program coordinator in the CCLC, says one idea that’s floating around is honoring unsung heroes. Some well-known black heroes, including civil rights leader Angela Davis, former President Barack Obama, and his wife,

“Our history, our heritage, is everything we have,” says Chico State student Samuel Akinwande, a native of Nigeria.

Michelle, may be discussed, she said. Several lesser-known heroes could also be highlighted, including muckraking journalist Ida B. Wells; the female mathematicians at NASA who inspired the recent Hollywood hit Hidden Figures; or one of Akinwande’s heroes, Mansa Musa, a 14th century African emperor who “literally fed countries,” he said. “The dude, he was the definition of a humanitarian,” Akinwande added. Whatever people do to celebrate during the month, Akinwande suggests they should do it with “a pure heart,” rather than using it as an excuse to “go turn up”—i.e., party—like some students do on César Chávez Day. the celebrations may be different each

year, but the same question always comes up, Robinson said. “The argument often is: Why do we have a month? Why isn’t it celebrated throughout the year?” he said. “I would support that argument. But I think that as a society, as a nation, we’re still at a place where I don’t think that we are honoring and celebrating the contributions of all of our citizens.” He said he hopes a day will come when the histories of all people are recognized on a daily basis. But, he added, it will always be important to dedicate time to reflect on the contributions of blacks in American society. Given that this year’s celebration is the first under President Donald Trump, Howard says she doesn’t want any of the events to be derailed by his rhetoric. Instead, she wants the focus to be on black empowerment. “We have to learn to continue to fight and move forward ... whoever is in office,” she said. “If they’re not serving our communities— which they haven’t been, ever—we need to learn to fight. So, it’s another year [of Black History Month], but it also does open up more opportunities for us to be more visible in our fight for justice.” Akinwande said he isn’t much of an art fan, save for the music of Louis Armstrong. But he’s looking forward to attending the Black Ball with his girlfriend and learning more about black history. “Our history, our heritage, is everything we have,” he said. “For me, I feel it’s important to know your ancestors. It’s important to know what your people have done—your place in history.” □

Still shaky State of the City address focuses on avoiding past financial mistakes ocal business leaders presented a rosy outlook for the city of Chico’s economic Lfuture at an annual business summit last

Friday (Jan. 27), but Mayor Sean Morgan’s State of the City address was significantly less optimistic as he warned against repeating mistakes from the recent past. In his speech, Morgan said the city is more solvent than it was during the depths of a financial crisis in 2013, but it’s still a long way from fiscal security. “We could easily go right back to where we were four years ago,” he cautioned. “Although we’re better off, there is no significant surplus, there’s no pile of money in the middle of the table to be spent freely.” The mayor’s State of the City speech came at the end of a business summit cohosted by the city and the Chico Chamber of Commerce and held at the CARD Center. The summit also featured reports by Melanie Bassett, executive director of the Downtown Chico Business Association, and Mark Francis, president and CEO of Golden Valley Bank. The crowd of about 200 was largely composed of local business leaders, and Morgan’s address focused mostly on money matters. According to data Morgan presented, city finances hit rock bottom at the end of the 2012-13 fiscal year, when the city’s general fund balance was $7.6 million in the red. A negative balance of $2.8 million was also reported in 2014. The general fund balances have been on the positive side of the ledger since, reaching a high of $6.5 million last

SIFT ER Who’s the greatest? According to a new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm, Americans believe Donald Trump will be the worst president in office since Richard Nixon. When asked, “Who will end up being a better president, Donald Trump or …” This is how the percentages played out: Obama 48-Trump 43 Bush 40-Trump 35 Clinton 51-Trump 41 Bush Sr. 47-Trump 32 Reagan 57-Trump 17 Carter 45-Trump 42 Ford 42-Trump 37 Trump 40-Nixon 31

year. This year’s projected balance is $4.6 million. “If we want to be considered a safe, solid, financially secure city that’s ready for an economic downturn or natural catastrophe or any of those types of things, that number has to get to $15 million.” Morgan said. “We’re not all that close.” Morgan also offered a rundown of the city’s $46.8 million in expenditures allotted for the current fiscal year, noting that 78 percent of spending is directed toward employee benefits and salaries. Police pay accounts for about 49 percent of that spending, and firefighter salaries for 24 percent. Those percentages are in keeping with the City Council’s commitment to public safety as its No. 1 priority, which Morgan emphasized several times during his speech. However, he said the city’s still-tenuous fiscal footing means that bolstering one department comes at the cost of depriving others. He pointed to the city’s Public Works Department, which is staffed at the same levels it was in 1987. Morgan noted that department responded to about 4,000 calls for service from the public last year and, like other city departments, has developed a strategic staffing plan.

Mayor Sean Morgan says improving staffing and services in any department in the city of Chico will come at a cost to other departments. Photo by Ken Smith

Morgan said the city needs to look at budget and staffing issues from a “holistic” perspective and prioritize its needs. “Slow, steady, sustainable growth and investing in our most critical resources whenever possible is the course we need to maintain,” he said. During Bassett’s presentation, she announced

that the DCBA is involved in an effort with downtown property owners to start a Property Business Improvement District (PBID). A PBID, she explained, would open up resources for downtown based on a self-imposed and self-governed assessment focused on managing and improving the downtown business sector. Though it will be a separate entity, the DCBA would help coordinate PBID improvements. Francis presented an “economic snapshot” of Chico’s current financial situation based on confidence surveys the bank conducted among local business owners in June and December 2016. Respondents showed increased levels of confidence in sales, profits and local and national business conditions for 2017, but were less optimistic about employment levels, with 62 percent saying they likely would stay the same. “So what’s the difference?” Francis asked regarding the optimism evident in the survey results before switching to a slide showing that 74 percent of those polled believe Trump’s presidency will help the economy. Several in the audience laughed and a few cheered as Francis quipped, “Please don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger.” —Ken Smith kens@ newsr ev iew.c o m

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medically emancipated at 12 years old. From that age forward, girls don’t need a legal guardian’s permission to start using birth control, get a pap smear or have an abortion. And that’s just one example of state law that supports broad access to reproductive health services, said Eileen Schnitger, director of public policy for Women’s Health Specialists of California. The nonprofit has clinics in Chico, Redding, Sacramento, Grass Valley and Rancho Cordova, where, contrary to popular belief, women don’t need a referral from a primary care physician to make an appointment. “Anybody in California can pick up the phone and make an appointment with their health care provider of choice,” Schnitger said. “California has pretty strong laws to protect people’s rights.” The federal government does, too—at least for now. Critics have expressed concern that President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court may help overturn the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade. If that comes to pass, all women will lose their federal right to have an abortion.

That possibility couldn’t help but color “Celebrate Choice: Protect Roe,” the Women Health Specialists’ annual celebration of Roe v. Wade in Chico on Friday (Jan. 27), just a few days before Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the high court. Though the overall mood was upbeat, conversations often turned to the burgeoning barrage against reproductive rights. On Jan. 24, North State

Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) voted in favor of House Resolution 7, which prohibits federal dollars from funding abortion services. Also known as the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017, the bill makes permanent the Hyde Amendment, which was passed in 1976 and says federal money can’t be used to fund abortions. It also amends the Affordable Care Act to disallow premium tax credits on plans that cover abortion services. The bill passed the GOP-controlled House by a 238-183 vote and is Support women’s health:

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awaiting approval by the Senate. The day before, Trump had reinstated the Mexico City policy, also referred to as the global gag rule, which blocks federal funding for nongovernmental organizations abroad that provide abortion counseling or referrals, advocate to decriminalize abortion or expand abortion services. The U.S. Agency for International Development has observed the law 17 of the last 32 years—not coincidentally, years when Republican presidents were in office. “That’s an international way of saying, ‘If you even talk about abortions, we’re not going to provide you with funding,’” said Kimberly Edmonds, regional manager of Women’s Health Specialists. “We want to make sure that doesn’t happen at a domestic level, because that would close places like us.” The clinic’s staff believes HR 7 and the gag rule are just a glimpse of what’s to come. In January, House Speaker Paul Ryan formally announced that GOP lawmakers intend to strip federal funding for Planned Parenthood with a budget bill that would also repeal the Affordable Care Act. Trump has also threatened to eliminate Title X, the only federal grant program that supports com-

Kimberly Edmonds, regional manager for Women’s Health Specialists of California, says the clinic will survive the Trump administration. Photo by howard hardee

prehensive family planning, but there’s no telling what he’ll actually do, Edmonds said. “The unpredictability of it is alarming. I’m just trying to take a deep breath and take it as it comes. There’s not really another way to handle it.” One program administered by

Women’s Health Specialists is especially vulnerable: Family PACT. The Legislature established the Family Planning, Access, Care and Treatment program through the Office of Family Planning in 1997 to provide confidential services to low-income residents. It helps teens and adults obtain birth control and educational counseling from clinics such as Planned Parenthood and Women’s Health Specialists. The problem is that 90 percent of Family PACT’s funding comes from federal sources, Schnitger said. “So, if the new presidential administration was going to cut funding to California, that’s where it would hurt the largest number of people.” It’s not all doom and gloom, Schnitger said. People can support Women’s Health Specialists by donating, volunteering and speaking up. “Talk to your elected officials,” she said. “Tell your community leaders what it means to cut off low-income people’s reproductive health care.” Staff at the clinic took heart in the Women’s March in Chico and cities throughout the country. With continued support, Women’s Health Specialists will persevere for the next four years, Edmonds said—just as it did under President Ronald Reagan and through both Bush administrations. “This isn’t a new fight for us. The struggle to provide access to abortion services didn’t start on Jan. 20,” she said, referring to Trump’s inauguration. “It’s continued every day since abortion became legal. Of course, we have a lot of big challenges ahead of us, but we’re going to continue fighting the way we have for the last 44 years.” —HOward Hardee howardh@ new sr ev i ew. com

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GREENWAYS Some chefs are choosing to buy beef from grassfed cows in lieu of taking it off the menu altogether.

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While raising cattle can tax the environment, some argue swearing off meat altogether isn’t the answer by

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Rhe hebuysthinks of himself and the farmers from as “careful stewards of the estaurateur Patrick Mulvaney says

land.” Mulvaney primarily buys certified organic or sustainably grown farm products, and seafood approved by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. Servers at his Midtown Sacramento restaurant, Mulvaney’s B&L, even limit pours of drinking water to patrons who specifically ask for it—a nod toward California’s ongoing drought. But Mulvaney isn’t giving up his meat. Even though the rearing of livestock has considerable environmental impacts on water quality, land, wildlife and the climate, Mulvaney is not convinced by calls from a few activist groups and researchers to eat less meat. Instead, he chooses to support mostly growers of grass-fed, pastured meat rather than turn vegetarian. “As a human, I’m an omnivore, and my knee-jerk reaction to people saying we should eat less meat is to say that we should eat more sustainably raised meat,” he said. Mulvaney is hardly alone in his stance. Most Americans are omnivores. Just 3 percent of people surveyed recently by The Vegetarian Resource Group claim to eat no meat at all, and the U.S. has a higher per capita rate of meat consumption than nearly any other nation—about 200 pounds each year, according to data from the Organisation for Co-operation and Economic Development, an intergovernmental group based in Paris. According to some ecologists and experts

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on global agricultural trends, our eating habits must change dramatically if we are to overcome environmental issues facing the planet and its future generations. Even though livestock production has become more efficient in the past few decades, globally it is still responsible for almost 15 percent of the greenhouse gases that are causing our planet to warm, ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise. Animal producers have largely escaped the

public criticism that other environmental stressors, like fossil fuels, overfishing and pollution, have received. Some scientists say this is simply because meat and dairy production isn’t as devastating. “Livestock is not inconsequential in this discussion, but it’s not the 800-pound gorilla,” said Frank Mitloehner, an associate professor at the UC Davis Department of Animal Science. Moreover, he says, livestock is an essential food and protein source for many people in the world whose arid lands are unsuitable for growing most vegetables, fruits and grains. Other scientists think the environmental costs of growing meat should raise more questions about our eating habits. “The amount of focus on this is not nearly proportional to the environmental impacts,” said William Ripple, an Oregon State University researcher who has intensively studied livestock’s effects on natural resources. According to Ripple, livestock production is the world’s greatest driver of extinction, through both habitat conversion and direct persecution of wild animals deemed pests to farmers. About this story:

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Ripple says all the environmental impacts of raising animals, from trampling of stream beds where fish spawn to deforestation and large carnivore persecution, add up to a pronounced net detriment to the planet. “Reducing meat consumption might be the most important everyday thing a person can do to curtail the loss of biodiversity,” he said. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute (an Oakland-based think tank focused on water issues), says diet patterns must be altered to help solve California’s water supply problems. But this approach, he says, “has gotten short shrift by policy makers and even the public and the media, in part because asking people to change behavior is rarely popular.” Gleick says there is no simple legal tool to change what people eat and drink. “Lawmakers can pass a law improving appliance efficiency standards, or fund a major infrastructure project, but they can’t easily mandate that people eat less meat,” he said. “That is a far more difficult cultural and communications challenge.”

a whole. The Pacific Institute has reported that about 10 million acrefeet of California’s water supply is pumped into fields of alfalfa, straw, hay and other animal feed every year. A few chefs, acknowledging the environmental impacts of the livestock industry, have publicly decried excessive meat consumption. Mulvaney takes a different approach by supporting small farms that use what are commonly termed grassfed, free-range grazing models. So do several restaurants in Chico, who choose to support local, sustainable, humane farmers. “I think Americans do eat too much meat, in general,” he said. “However, I always have to question when people say you shouldn’t do something because of climate change. I always have to wonder if that’s their real motive.” □

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California, as well as the entire country’s, has received undeserved criticism. Oldfield is the vice president of government relations with the California Cattlemen’s Association, based in Sacramento. This is in part, he says, because most cows in the U.S. are fed an antibiotic called Rumensin that improves the efficiency of the animals’ digestion, accelerating each cow’s growth while decreasing its rate of methane emissions. Oldfield also says claims about excessive water use by livestock are often exaggerated. “The majority of the state’s pasture is rain-fed,” Oldfield said. “There aren’t pipes going out to all the fields.” Still, there is no doubt lots of water is used to support the livestock industry as

UrBAn fOrestry In a town full of strange and wonderful places, the Chico Seed Orchard at the Mendocino national forest Genetic resource and Conservation Center (known to many locals as “The Tree Farm”) has to be among the most unique. The orchard, located on 209 acres in south Chico, is home to more than 130 different variety of plants used for a number of different research and restoration projects. You can learn all about it friday, feb. 3, as the Mount Lassen Chapter of the California native Plant society hosts a free guided walk along the riparian trail. For more information, go online to mountlassen.cnps.org or call 343-2397.

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fresh cut After about two years working for FedEx in Sacramento, Marcos Solis moved back to his hometown of Chico without much of a plan. The 34-year-old had gone to Butte College for counseling, but hadn’t found steady work in that field. A single father, Solis said he needed to make a change and started working with his younger brother, Danny, who had just opened his own barbershop (Danny’s Barbershop, 544 Broadway). Solis said initially he didn’t see a future in cutting hair, but his family inspired him to grab some clippers and take a chance. In December, he opened Gentlemen’s Barbershop in downtown Chico a few blocks down from his brother’s place. The shop is staffed by experienced barbers, Solis said, people he grew up with and trusts. They offer cuts for all ages, give haircut advice and can use a straight razor on your beard or lineup. Swing by the shop (at 151 Broadway), check out @gentlemens_barber shop on Instagram, or visit www.gentlemens barbershop151.com for more info.

What made you want to open your own shop? When I was younger, I wasn’t the perfect son to my parents or father to my daughter. It took me a year or two to wake up and figure out that I’m a dad now and I’m getting old—you gotta do something right to show your daughter who you are. For that I thank my parents, my brother and my sister.

How’s business? Now that school’s been back, we’ve been rockin’ ’n’ rollin’. The good thing about my barbers are they are not new to this. They have been in this area for

a while, were born and raised in this area, so they have a strong clientele. They don’t have to worry about walk-ins; it’s more [by appointment].

Who’s your typical client? We’re downtown. We are next to Chico State. Seventy percent of our clientele and walk-ins are students. We have more of the younger, urban people coming in here ... but we take care of anybody from 6- to 10-year-olds to 60-, 70-year-olds.

How many people come in off the street and have no idea what they want? Half, 50 percent. Right now, for some reason, the barber trend is growing quickly. There are a lot of new hair styles going on. Most of my barbers went to school and have cut hair for one to two years and can give you an idea—“I think this hairstyle would look better on you,” or “I think you should take this much off the top.”

What sets Gentlemen’s apart from other barbershops? We have a DJ every Friday just to have a little kick back, make you feel good, thank God it’s Friday, you know what I mean? We serve beer, champagne, we have it all. We take care of everything.

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I had the opportunity earlier this month to attend the North State Economic Forecast conference, sponsored by Chico State’s Center for Economic Development and held at Gold Country Casino. And while some of the economist-speak went over my head, much of it was enlightening—cautiously optimistic, while at the same time a little bit scary. (For a full report on the event, see “Sketchy, but positive future,” Newslines, Jan. 26.) One takeaway that has the potential to affect us here in Butte County in a big way is the monstrous growth of Amazon. I remember when the Internet became a thing and buying stuff online was a strange and novel idea. I’m pretty sure I signed up on eBay as soon as I got my first credit card. I’ve been a member, it tells me, since Y2K. I joined Amazon three years later. Like many others, I was enamored by the sudden ability to not only compare prices and find rare items but also to do so in the comfort of my own home. Amazing! Sometime around the Great Recession, as a way to both curb spending and support the local economy, I stopped shopping online. Not completely—from time to time, if I can’t find something I’m looking for locally, I’ll hop on the Internet—but even then, I often opt for in-store pickup. Apparently I’m the exception. Business leaders at the economic forecast conference looked at Amazon as a real threat to local retail. And the construction of an 850,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Sacramento, combined with growing goals to shorten delivery times, means Chico stores likely will feel more pressure. On the national level, we’ve already heard news that Sears and Kmart are buckling. Just this month, though, other big chains—including Macy’s and Lowe’s—announced thousands of layoffs. A recent MarketWatch article analyzing Amazon’s massive amount of growth offered this viewpoint: “What Amazon won’t tell us is that every job created by Amazon destroys one or two or three others. What Jeff Bezos doesn’t want you to know is that Amazon is going to destroy more American jobs than China ever did.” That’s a pretty ominous proposition, and one that doesn’t bode well for retail stores, big or small. It’s enough to make us all a little wary. In response, I urge you to drop the mouse, put on pants and get out into the world. Interact with real people, spend your money locally. I know I’m not alone in saying I like a diverse marketplace. Let’s keep it viable by supporting our local business owners and their employees.

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Magnusson, she doesn’t describe him W simply as her cardiologist, a fellow cyclist hen Peggy Nay speaks about Dr. Peter

or a friend. He is all those things—but most of all, he’s a lifesaver. Ten years ago, Nay’s daughter Ruth Cooper noticed a decrease in her mother’s stamina. That’s not overly surprising in a septuagenarian, except that Nay (now 88) began cycling in her 70s and had completed—along with Magnusson—a bike tour across the state of Iowa. Six times. “The problem became she couldn’t ride her bike uphill as fast as she normally did,” Cooper said. As a nursing colleague of Magnusson’s wife, Kathryn, at Enloe Medical Center’s cardiac catheterization lab, where he performs procedures, Cooper knew exactly which cardiologist should see her mother. Nay took a stress test on a treadmill—“I put on my running shoes because I was going to wow him!”—but after reviewing the results, Magnusson had both good and bad news. “He said, ‘You want the bad news first? What’s wrong with you is going to kill you. But I can fix it,’” Nay recalled. “And he did.” Magnusson, along with a surgeon,

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installed a pacemaker, which transmits electric signals to keep the heart beating regularly. It’s working well to this day. Her only regret: “They didn’t make [the pacemaker] where it can go faster; there’s only one speed. Ruthie wants to monitor it!” Injected Cooper: “My brother wants a remote control to turn her down so we can keep up with her.” Nay said she did not hesitate to undergo the operation because of her faith in her physician. “It’s nice when you’re going into surgery like that to trust somebody—totally trust

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him—and know that you’re going to come out because they’re going to care,” she said, “and I don’t think I know anybody who’s more caring than Peter. Not just for me or my family, but for [all] his patients.” Nay’s experience is not unique; even other

doctors admire the way Magnusson provides care. The Enloe medical staff acknowledged that by selecting him as the 2016 recipient of the hospital’s Physician Legacy Award. The honor, announced Jan. 13, “recognizes ... exceptional service, leadership and performance in medicine and the community.”

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Magnusson referred to the award as “kind of like the Oscar” for Chico doctors, poignant because it comes from peers, and mentioned “the incredible succession of awardees over the past years that have been my idols, my role models.” The award’s timing has serendipitous significance. Magnusson spent much of 2016 championing the expansion of Enloe’s facilities for cardiology. He and Kathryn volunteer as committee co-chairs for the Enloe Foundation’s Cardiovascular Care Center Campaign. Dr. Marcia Nelson, Enloe’s vice president of medical affairs, said Magnusson would have merited selection as Physician Legacy Award winner in any year, but “it really is fitting that Pete Magnusson should be getting the award this year, because I think creating this new cardiovascular center at Enloe will be like a capstone to his career. It really will be a permanent, lasting legacy to his work in the North State.” The $17 million project (see “Room to grow,” Healthlines, Aug. 11) should be completed by 2020. By then, Magnusson will be in his late 70s. He knows Chico, and the region, will need new cardiologists—and new cardiologists need new technology to perform cutting-edge procedures. The facility will accommodate all those components. “We have to set the stage for the next generation,” Magnusson said. Exactly when to retire, he said, is “a moving target; Kathryn may know the answer better than I do.” (She did.) Looking to Nay, Magnusson said it would be hard to stop seeing patients “as long as Peggy sits there and says, ‘Don’t you do it!’” To which Nay declared: “You can’t quit while I’m still breathing.” Magnusson, 74, came to Chico in 1988 after

spending 18 years in Los Angeles, where he’d completed his residency and fellowship. He’s a native of Illinois and graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. One of his numerous cycling treks across Iowa kindled his affinity for Midwest-style college towns like Chico.

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medical science to this corner of California,” Nelson said. “He seems tireless in his efforts to always improve heart care for this community.” At his core, however, heart matters most. “Not in an overt way, I have practiced medicine by taking care of the patient; the technology, advances and medications are just tools,” Magnusson said. “That doesn’t change; the goal in 2017 is the same as the goal that we had when I first started doing all this.” □

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He’s “never thought about leaving,” though Kathryn said he’s been “lured a lot” by offers elsewhere. “Plenty of opportunities,” he said, “but this is hard to beat.” Nelson came a year later to practice family medicine. She’s referred numerous patients to him over the decades and consistently marvels at Magnusson’s ability to summon specific details upon hearing a patient’s name. “What makes him special is while he’s technically excellent, and while he’s always delivering state-of-the-art care to his patients, he does it in a way that conveys his deep sense of caring about the person who is his patient,” Nelson said. That really makes all the difference in the world in creating a trusting relationship, and that adds to a person’s experience … and helps the patient have a better outcome, because they know that they’re part of his team.” Medicine has changed dramatically since Magnusson began practicing, and he has adapted accordingly. “He has continued to look for ways to bring the latest in

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elley Otani was sitting next to a hotel pool in Las Vegas. It was 2008, more than a year after he’d stopped practicing medicine and sold his worldly possessions. He’d been restless for a long time, but found peace during that moment in the sun. “Everything was bright,” he recalls. Was this feeling connected to his vision quest months before in Joshua Tree National Park? Or, perhaps, his studies with traditional healers? It was impossible to be sure, Otani said during a recent interview. In life and medicine, he observed, it’s never easy to trace relationships between the mind, body and spirit. “There is no direct, linear path,” he said. “There is no cause and effect.” But he’s sure of one thing: It’s all connected. Modern medicine generally accepts that physical conditions can contribute to mental ones, as with an athlete or laborer who becomes depressed after a major injury. Otani, however, embraces a somewhat more radical concept, at least in Western culture:

The mind’s anguish can become bodily pain. In his book, Paradox of Conscious Healing, Otani writes, “Commonly in Western medicine, it is the symptoms (such as pain, anxiety and depression) that are treated—rather than the actual root cause or pathology. The root cause, however, may not be in the physical domain.” It took decades to reach that conclusion. After completing his medical residency at the University of Washington, Otani began his career as a pain specialist in Chico in 1985. And, along with most American doctors of his generation, he regularly wrote prescriptions for opioid-based medications such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet to treat chronic pain. However, he found that the pain actually became more severe for some patients, despite escalating doses of medication. “I was dissatisfied,” he said. “I felt like I wasn’t impacting people. They’d go home and didn’t make an improvement in their lives.”

That realization changed Otani’s life— and the lives of the patients he treats today through Feather River Hospital in Paradise. But first, he quit his practice, sold his big house and sports car, and went to the desert. On a recent Friday, a few dozen people gath-

ered in a conference room on the basement level of the Feather River Health Center. They formed a circle with chairs, then Otani led the introductions. It was the first day of a new six-session course on chronic pain, but there were some familiar faces: the program’s alumni, the people who keep coming back despite having “graduated.” The patients in Otani’s program suffer from pain that can be incurable. Almost all are MediCal recipients; 95 percent of them live in poverty. The support group is one part of Otani’s comprehensive pain management program. He oversees a team of physical therapists, psychologists and nutritionists, about 10 people total. The program is built on the understanding that pain is multifaceted, and therefore covers just about everything— nutrition, weight loss, smoking cessation, meditation, sleep, spirituality and mental health. For the patients who are taking pain medication, there’s an emphasis on tapering down dosages. It’s a holistic approach that treats the whole patient, Otani said. “In the medical community, specialists look at somebody as a heart, or kidneys, or a stomach, and don’t take into account that the patient just got a divorce, or they lost their job,” he said. “Those aspects of stress can affect health.” Take Debbie Bacon, 56, of Paradise. When she first showed up to the pain management support group, she was depressed and overweight. “All I’d been doing up until Debbie Bacon first joined Dr. Otani’s pain management support group four years ago.

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then was taking pain medication and lying in bed,” she said. She was living with all sorts of chronic pain. Years of repetitive motion as a licensed vocational nurse at Stanford Medical Center had pulled the muscles in her elbows off the bone, which required surgery. She also suffers from nerve pain—a tingling sensation in her extremities—and a bad back. “My hips hurt, I assume as part of the whole back thing,” she said. “And I have bad knees.” But the physical pain didn’t explain why she cried uncontrollably during each meeting. That had more to do with her estranged daughter, who left home as a teenager during Bacon’s stormy second marriage. “I was unable to forgive myself for the problems that my daughter and I had,” she said. “I was also grieving the fact that I couldn’t be a nurse anymore. I had lost my identity.” She was carrying tremendous guilt for not having done enough for her daughter— not enough in life—but with each class the burden became lighter. With the help of the program’s counselors, she confronted the mental aspect of her pain for the first time. She was provided a nutrition plan and started losing weight. With meditation techniques, she was able to stop taking Xanax, an anxiety medication. By graduation day, her physical discom-

Dr. Kelley Otani, 63, says, “If you’re able to address the emotional pain, the physical pain gets better.”

Then came the medical bills, and chronic pain began to settle in. The years spent at the wheel had ruined his back, and he still suffered from leg injuries sustained from falling off a truck more than a decade before. No longer able to work enough to make payments on his rig, he sold it and was forced into retirement five years ago, at age 63. For the pain, King was prescribed OxyContin, but if he missed taking it every 12 hours, he’d go into withdrawal. His pain specialist’s solution was prescribing a lighter dose to take before the time-release pill kicked in. “The logic of taking medication to stop the pain caused by taking medication … I just couldn’t square that up in my mind,” he said. He wanted something different, so his primary care doctor referred him to Dr. Otani. There’s a major problem with the opiate-

forts were much easier to bear. “I’m the happiest I’ve ever been right now,” Bacon said. “I’ve lost weight. I still take pain medication, but I don’t rely on it. I’m out with friends; I laugh. I don’t lay in bed and suffer.” Another alumnus is Richard King, also of

Paradise. He drove big-rig tanker trucks for 25 years, and he’d always had a high threshold for anger. “People doing stupid stuff in their cars didn’t make me mad,” he said. “I always tried to be understanding.” As the years passed, however, he started losing his patience. Maybe it was from the heart attack, being unable to work, or just living for 68 years; somehow, he had become angry. It manifested in his interactions with his granddaughters, which often turned into arguments. It showed when he dropped them off at school, and parents would just sit there in their cars, letting traffic back up into the street. He could barely keep his cool. King’s physical ailments were perhaps to be expected, he said, after decades of what he called “bad living”—smoking, drinking, eating red meat, not exercising. His lifestyle came to a head one day in 2005 when he was hauling oil from the Bay Area to the Richard King is still managing the pain from falling off a big-rig truck more than a decade ago.

Central Valley. He was heading south on Interstate 580, near where it connects to Interstate 5, when an intense pain gripped his chest. There was an exit ahead, but he didn’t make it; he pulled onto the side of the highway, set the brakes and called 911. Later, at the hospital, an ultrasound revealed that he’d had a massive heart attack. His arteries were clogged and he needed bypass surgery.

only approach to pain management: It’s killing people at a staggering rate. About 40 Americans die each day from overdosing on prescription painkillers, and prescriptionhappy physicians are helping fuel the epidemic, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people died in the U.S. from overdoses related to doctorprescribed opioids. Doctors want to help, to do something for patients debilitated by pain, Otani said. “There was basically a federal mandate to treat people’s pain. It became the fifth vital sign. That’s part of why there was so much overprescribing. Now it’s reversed.” Indeed, last year, for the first time, the CDC issued guidelines to primary care physicians who prescribe powerful opiates. The agency advises doctors that patients living with chronic pain should avoid those medications entirely—clinical research suggests

they’re not effective—and prescriptions be given only to patients receiving cancer treatment or end-of-life care. The CDC recognizes that opiates can also effectively treat acute, short-term pain from injury or illness, but urges physicians to prescribe them in the smallest dosages for the shortest periods of time. That’s another problem. According to a survey conducted last year by the National Safety Council, when American doctors give their patients narcotic painkillers, 99 percent of them write prescriptions that exceed the federally recommended three-day dosage limit. Given that some medications, such as OxyContin, are as addictive as heroin, prescribing more than necessary can do patients a grave disservice. Otani reached that conclusion individually, after years of private practice and working his way up to rehabilitation medical director at Enloe Medical Center. It was a position of enormous responsibility, he said, and toward the end of his tenure at Enloe, he had a growing sense of his own inadequacy. Otani knew by then that prescribing lots of painkillers wasn’t working, but he didn’t have a better answer. The feeling took hold that, despite his training and experience, he didn’t have the knowledge and skills to be a good doctor. “I was doing nothing but covering up the pain with large amounts of medications, which did nothing to improve the person’s quality of life beyond the basics of selfcare,” he writes in Paradox of Conscious Healing.“Why didn’t people heal? What was I missing?” In 2006, at age 52, he walked away from his six-figure salary and sold his house and car. “I wasn’t who I thought I was,” he said. “It was very humbling. I walked away from materialism, the respect and prestige. We all identify with our jobs.” Trisha Cantrell relates. Before she got hurt,

the 45-year-old mother of three took pride in being a certified nursing assistant at a local convalescent hospital. Lifting a particularly heavy male patient was “the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak,” she said. That was in 2007, and Cantrell still lives with a herniated bulging disc in her spine, nerve pain, arthritis and chronic migraines. She tried to keep working, but the pain kept her from even light duty. “I wanted to get back to what I was before the accident,” she said. “I wanted to be fixed, and I thought that was the doctor’s responsibility. I was very angry.” That was an unrealistic expectation, Cantrell said. At the time, she could hardly get out of bed or walk up stairs. “I didn’t understand the full injury,” she said, “and the workers’ comp doctors just wanted to pump me full of medication. My life, essentially, was stuck, and the doctors weren’t helping. HEALING JOURNEY C O N T I N U E D FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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n June, Dr. Mark Lundberg stepped down as Butte County’s public health officer and into a new role with the county’s Department of Behavioral Health. Now, he oversees the recovery of people addicted to narcotic painkillers. Helping people overcome opiate addictions has been the most rewarding part of his career in health care, he told the CN&R during a recent phone interview. “I’ve seen the most remarkable changes in people’s lives,” he said. “When they come in, they are enslaved by opioids and they’re sick and tired of it. Every waking moment, they’re planning how they’re going to find and pay for it. It’s their mission in life— they’re desperate.” That can include patients who are taking prescription drugs such as Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin exactly as directed by their physicians, he said. “They take so many opiate pills, they are in a dark place. They can’t break free from the legal prescriptions.” Lundberg’s work is especially relevant in a rural county hit hard by all forms of substance abuse. According to the 2016 CDPH County Health Status Profiles report, which is based on data from 2012-14, Butte County’s rate of drug overdose deaths per capita (30.7 death per 100,000 people) is three times higher than the state average. And oversaturation of prescription medication plays a role. In 2015, there were 1,376 opioid prescriptions for every 1,000 people in Butte County, according to the California Department of Public Health. However, the medical paradigm is shifting toward more responsible prescribing, Lundberg said. Nationally and locally, private practices and clinics are adopting more conservative guidelines for prescribing opioids, hospital emergency departments are crafting consistent policies, and doctors everywhere are embracing different modalities of pain management. Lundberg also offered a reminder: Opioids are terrifically effective for treating acute pain caused by car accidents, surgeries and cancer treatment. “We can’t forget how important they are under the right circumstances,” he said. “It’s the chronic use of opiates that creates big problems for people.” —Howard Hardee howardh@ n ew sr ev i ew. c o m

They were just prescribing.” She became dependent on OxyContin and terrified of going through withdrawal. She hit a low one day when she was driving on Highway 99. Her eyelids became heavy, then they snapped back open and she realized she had fallen asleep. Cantrell pulled over to the side of the road and waited for her husband to pick her up. She was badly shaken. Native American healing always

interested Otani, and after hanging up his stethoscope, he embarked on a years-long journey to study it. He started by spending a week in Arizona with a Yaqui shaman, who inspired him to go a vision quest at Joshua Tree in Southern California. He took only a tent, a flashlight, some firewood and enough water for three days. Each day, he walked under the sun until nightfall. Then he gazed into the campfire and up at the stars, looking for the lost sense of himself. He grappled with the fear of “discovering who you are,” he said. “My fear was that I was never going to be good enough, never worthy enough.” Such expectations for himself may be related to growing up in the 1950s as a minority in Loomis, a small farming community on the outskirts of Sacramento. “I had felt like I had to be better than other people in order to be accepted,” he said. “I never felt accepted. All of that was in my own mind.” As he searched through spike-leafed yucca trees and cacti, he recalled memories of being subjected to prejudice and racism and contemplated regrets— friends he’d hurt, employees he’d let go, major life events that didn’t go his way. He imagined what might have been. At the end of his vision quest, Otani hadn’t found himself. That was more of a long-term process. “I had to build myself back up again,” he said. He was, however, utterly exhausted after fasting for three days. After recuperating, he continued traveling to study with different healers. His main mentor was David Hawkins, a renowned psychiatrist, spiritual lecturer and researcher of consciousness. Otani further eschewed traditional medicine and sat in a sweat lodge with an Inuit medicine man in New Mexico; went to a training camp with healing experts called kahuna in Hawaii; and studied with traditional Navajo and Lakota Sioux healers. Drawing from the modalities of different cultures and religions, he began to write Paradox of Conscious Healing, which explores the connection between emotional/physical pain and disease. He wanted to see if the perspectives in his book-in-progress would apply in the clinical setting, and in 2011 he was contracted as a pain specialist at Feather River Health Center. Jennifer Niswonger was director of the clinic while Otani built the program from scratch. During a phone interview, she said its spiritual aspects fell in line with Dr. Otani studied with Inuit healer Gray Wolf in New Mexico before returning to medical practice. PHOTO COURTESY OF KELLEY OTANI

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Trisha Cantrell was an active mother and certified nursing assistant before hurting her back.

parent company Adventist Health’s faith-based mission to improve the community’s health. “As a general rule, Adventist Health believes in taking care of patients even if it’s not a sound financial decision,” she said. “We can lose money so long as it’s in the best interest of the patients.” Bill Redondo, 56, is grateful that he signed up for the

program. He’s hurt so much, for so long, he says pain is like an old friend. “I know that sounds odd, but it’s manageable at the level it’s at now,” he said. “If it got any worse ... I can’t tell you exactly what I would do.” Due to his condition, Redondo has effectively been retired since he was 31 years old. As a highly trained

electrician and master painter, his last project was painting a California Coast Guard pursuit boat. He was working on a ladder on the ship’s top deck when the paint booth’s ventilation system failed; despite wearing a mask, he lost consciousness in the cloud of industrial chemicals and fell. His back was broken in three places and one vertebra was fractured. The pain was incredible; placing any weight on his left leg shot daggers from his foot up his backside. His life since has been defined by MRIs, CT scans, surgeries and an endless parade of chiropractors promising to fix his back with the latest gizmos. “Not one of them could,” he said. “In fact, they exacerbated the problem.” For 15 years, he saw a doctor in Chico who specialized in chronic pain. He wrote prescriptions for narcotics and didn’t offer any other form of support. Redondo found that the drugs dulled his intellect. “It masked my problem and kept me in a state of unclarity,” he said. “I’m a fairly intelligent person, but I just didn’t feel as sharp as I was, and it was directly related to the painkillers. They kept me in a fog. I’d have to work extra hard to speak and be concise.” When his doctor retired, Redondo was referred to Dr. Otani. With the support of his program, he’s weened himself off narcotic medication and just started his fourth support class. All things considered, his quality of life is high. “[Otani] touches on many different aspects of pain—the emotional, the spiritual,

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the clinical and the nutritional; the well-being of the mind,” Redondo said. “It’s all tied together. I was skeptical at first, but it’s not hocus-pocus or wishful thinking. “From what I’ve seen and experienced, the connection is real.” King, the retired truck driver, is managing his anger

with the breathing exercises he picked up from Otani’s program. Deep breathing before bed helps him sleep, which improves his mood throughout the day. The program has also taught him to appreciate certain aspects of his life. “As much as it can be a struggle, I’m grateful that I’m able to be with my granddaughters, to teach them what I know,” he said. “We don’t fight anymore because I’m not getting angry.” He still lives with chronic pain—and still gets ticked off at bad drivers—but he’s found a more positive mindset. “I still hurt,” he said, “but it doesn’t bother me as much because I’m a happier person.” Cantrell, the caregiver, has gotten off OxyContin and drastically reduced her dependency on prescription narcotics by managing her weight and stress. She’s lost 60 pounds since joining the pain management support group, and started with basic advice: Eat three meals a day. “It was that in combination with the meditation techniques,” she said. “My stress was toxic. Now I can handle it with breathing.” Most important, she said, she doesn’t feel alone in her pain anymore: “In the group, you always connect with somebody.” That’s the spiritual aspect of the program, Otani said, and it’s good medicine for him, too. He’s at every meeting of the support group, helping newcomers break the ice and telling alumni he’s proud of them. The last five years, he said, have been the most fulfilling of his career. “Most of these people are in poverty. They barely have enough money to buy gas to come and see me, but they’re doing the work. To watch the people who have the dedication, the commitment and courage to change their lives, is inspiring.” □

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finding out right now). But often changes are just opportunities to create fresh new by Robin Bacior moments in a more harmonious way. The Motet know all about the latter. Preview: The Denver-based The Motet perform funk band has toured tonight, Feb. 2, 8 p.m., at Lost on Main. and self-released Tickets: $20, avail- albums for nearly able at www.events. two decades, but not applauze.com/ without a fair amount events/3253479 of change. Drummer Lost on Main Dave Watts began the 319 Main St. band in 1998 initially 892-2445 as a rotating collective www.facebook.com/ lostonmain under the name The Dave Watts Motet. By 2000, the group had become an official sextet and changed to its current name, The Motet. Over the following years, the band went through several transitions, with a fluid lineup of nearly a dozen members coming and going, with new ones joining as recently as 2015 and 2016, including newest addition, lead singer Lyle Divinsky. At the end of 2014, The Motet had released a self-titled album, and were in search of a new singer who could take on a prominent writing role as well.

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Divinsky was sent intrumentals, added his lyrical input, initiating a collaboration that would become the band’s 2016 album, Totem. “The guys put their creative trust in me,” Divinsky said during a recent interview. “I wrote two songs before I ever met them in person. They sent me one song as an instrumental, and I sent it back and that became “The Truth,” the first song on [Totem]. Then they sent me another instrumental and I wrote that and sent it back, and that song is the second song on the record. Once we got together and sat down for the first rehearsal, it was as if we’d been doing it for years.” Stepping in as a new frontman for a band with so much history behind it could be daunting, but for Divinsky it was the complete opposite. “It kind of blew me away that I could come into something and just be welcomed so warmly,” he said. “It really worked out that we had similar visions, and even if it wasn’t the same vision, it grew into what we have now, which I think is kind of The Motet M.O. Look at the history, it’s all about constant evolution and constant change and whatever’s inspiring that particular group at the time. I think about The Motet as an evergrowing family.” The Motet’s sound is as fluid as its lineup. Though rooted in tightly executed funk grooves, the group manages to

weave in elements of jazz, Afrobeat and light disco, all with Watt’s subtle rhythmic shifts. What really ties it together is the energy created with the audience in the live show. “It’s all about the connection,” Divinsky said. “With this group and with the fans that we get a chance to interact with around the country. It blows my mind how willing everybody is to bring themselves into the moment. I don’t feel like we’re performing for them, I feel like we’re performing with them. It can’t happen without the other; the energy is electric. That’s what drives the shows, and that only inspires the music more.” Divinsky recently left his home in Portland, Maine, to join the band in Denver. The relocation has allowed the group to start working diligently on a new album. The sound will still be The Motet, but what that entails is always open for discussion. “There’s always gonna be the core spirit of The Motet—you can’t evolve if you don’t appreciate the past, where you come from,” Divinsky said. “That’s kind of the responsibility I’ve taken upon myself—to honor the building blocks that have been set by all of the past records and versions of The Motet, and then do my best to further that, and to push it into something that is distinctly The Motet, [something] that people might not H[SHFW ³ Ɛ

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MY FAIR LADY: Classic Lerner and Loewe musical in which pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working girl into one a cultured member of high society. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chico theatercompany.com.

OF KITES AND KINGS: Northern California playwright Gary Wright’s account of America’s revolution through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin’s landlady and confidant, Polly Stevenson. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

Art Receptions THE MONDAY FUNNIES: Opening reception for new exhibition, including a talk by artist Michael Mulcahy. Th, 2/2, 5-7pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Special Events BACKCOUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL: Annual touring film festival produced by Winter Wildlands Alliance as a celebration of the human-powered experience and a gathering place for the backcountry snowsports community. F, 2/3, 6pm. Free. Bell Memorial Union Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6411.

PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION: HOPE & FEAR: Slow Theatre presents an opportunity for the community to come together and share thoughts on where the country is headed. Scheduled speakers include Tracy Butts, Aramenta Hawkins, Josh Indar, Anna Moore, Jose Preciado, Robert Tinkler, Roger Trent, Daniel Veidlinger, David Welch and Jer Xiong. F, 2/3, 7:30pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

Music ABBEY ROAD: Uncle Dad’s Art Collective, a large ensemble of local musicians, dancers and more, take to the Laxson stage for a performance based on The Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Road. F, 2/3, 7:30pm, Sa, 2/4, 7:30pm. $10-$23. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.csuchico.edu/upe.

EKALI: Instrumentalist and producer from Vancouver, British Columbia, known for his thundering club remixes. F, 2/3, 9pm. $10-$20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

A EUROPEAN MUSICAL ODYSSEY: Organ Professor Emeritus Dr. David Rothe takes a musical journey through Spain, France, Austria and Italy in this recital played on Chico State’s Centennial Organ. F, 2/3, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/muta.

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with local experimental troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

Theater HIR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W.

MONCA SUPER BOWL ART PARTY Sunday, Feb. 5 Chico Women’s Club

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First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

MY FAIR LADY: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

OF KITES AND KINGS: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

SISTER ACT: Feel-food musical comedy based on the hit movie of the same name telling the story of a disco diva that witnesses a murder and disguises herself as a nun. F, Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm. $15-$20. California Regional Theatre, 475 East Ave., (800) 722-4522, www.crtshows.com.

Art Receptions DISCOVERY SERIES: Opening reception for annual exhibition featuring artists with limited exposure. Light refreshments will be provided. F, 2/3, 5-7pm. Free. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

KANDIS HORTON-JORTH: Reception for new exhibit of mixed media artwork by the Chico artist. F, 2/3, 5-7pm. Free. Great Northern Coffee, 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

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Special Events THE MALTEAZERS: Monthly show mixing classic

and contemporary burlesque dancing. First Sa of every month, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

SACTOWN COMEDY TOUR PART 2: A slate of standup comedians followed by music from DJ Slee. Sa, 2/4, 8:30pm. $5 advance/$10 at the door. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackleboxchico.com.

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PHILTHY RICH: East Oakland street rap veteran

brings his Hood Rich Tour to town. Sa, 2/4, 9pm. $20. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 8911853.

Theater HIR: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

MY FAIR LADY: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

OF KITES AND KINGS: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

SISTER ACT: See Friday. California Regional Theatre, 475 East Ave., (800) 722-4522, www.crtshows.com.

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Special Events MONCA SUPER BOWL ART PARTY: An afternoon of food, beverages and art activities for all ages, including games, Valentine’s Day card-making, photo ops, music and more. Proceeds from ticket sales go toward the renovation of the Veterans Hall. Su, 2/5, 1-6pm. $10 person/$20 family. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

DAVID LINDLEY: Eclectic solo artist well known for his many years as a featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of the band El Rayo-X. Sa, 2/4, 7:30pm. $26. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.

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SISTER ACT: See Friday. California Regional Theatre, 475 East Ave., (800) 722-4522, www.crtshows.com.

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Music SHANE DWIGHT BAND: Young, American roots musician and introspective singer-songwriter whose voice spans blues, alt-country, Americana, R&B and flat-out rock ’n’ roll. M, 2/6, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierranevada.com.

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Art Receptions BLACK HISTORY MONTH ART SHOW: Reception for exhibition of art celebrating Black History Month. Tu, 2/7, 3pm. Free. Kendall Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-5397.

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Special Events COMMUNITY WATER FORUM: Forum presented by Assistant Director of the Butte Environmental Council Becky Holden providing basic water knowledge and a chance to become involved with local water issues. W, 2/8, 6pm. ARTS 111,

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brating Bob Marley, Black History Month and the reopening of the restaurant from winter vacation. Performers include King Hopeton with a full band, DJs PhG and Sprech Magic and surprise guests. Sa, 2/4, 11am. Sipho’s Restaurant & Cafe, 1228 Dayton Road, (530) 895-1866, www.siphosjamaica.com.

the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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ABBEY ROAD: See Friday. Laxson Auditorium,

BOB MARLEY BIRTHDAY BASH & BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION: Family-friendly day cele-

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SNOW BUSINESS For the first time in quite a few years, local snowsports enthusiasts have something to be enthused about: ample snow throughout the mountains of California. But whether you’re an outdoor adventurer or just someone who appreciates the scenic beauty of wintry landscapes, the annual Backcountry Film Festival, coming to Chico State’s BMU Auditorium on Friday, Feb 3., has something for you. The free, touring festival, which stops in more than 100 cities, includes nearly a dozen films, each of which capture the spirit of winter in a uniquely beautiful way, touching on subjects from the environment to adventure and ski culture across the globe. FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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B-SO SPACE: Visual Resource Center Exhibition, art from the collection of Chico State’s Ira Latour Visual Resource Center. Through 2/3. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: A Weaver’s

Journey, exhibition of textile work by Chico artist Sandy Fisher. Through 2/23. 3536 Butte Campus Drive in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

Birds of Chicago displays rock and roll singing/songwriting at its best. Come see why the band was the runaway hit at Worldfest. And yes, the dance floor is open.

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CHICO ART CENTER: Discovery Series, annual exhibition featuring artists with limited exposure. This year’s artists are Bonnie Smith, Sandra Reylea and photographer Jamie Blankenship. 2/3-2/24. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Kandis Horton-Jorth, mixed media pieces by Chico artist. Through 2/28. 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by Ken W. Moore, oil paintings and pencil drawings by Northern California Artist Ken W. Moore. Through 4/14. 265 Cohasset Road inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Artworks by James

Snidle, oil paintings and mono prints created by James Snidle, over the years. Many are recognizable plein-air paintings of the Butte County scenes and locals. Through 2/25. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Currency, 11th

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Turner National Print Competition and Exhibition, a biennial event showcasing national print artistry through an exploration of the theme of “currency,” curated by Erin Sullivan Maynes Through 3/4. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

KENDALL HALL: Black History Month Art Show, exhibition of art celebrating Black History month with a portion of proceeds going to benefit the Chico State Black Faculty and Staff Association. Through 2/28. Chico State, (530) 898-5397.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing exhibits, rotating exhibits featuring local artists. Ongoing. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Currency, 11th Turner National Print Competition and Exhibition, a biennial event showcasing national print artistry through an exploration of the theme of “currency,” curated by Erin Sullivan Maynes Through 3/4. Chico State.

Museums CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Ongoing display highlighting local aviation history. Ongoing. 165 Ryan Ave., (530) 345-6468.

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: Chico Through Time, a permanent exhibit, featuring a variety of displays depicting Chico’s history—from John Bidwell and the Mechoopda Indians to Robin Hood and Hmong Life in Chico. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Chico’s science museum features rotating special exhibits, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of ice-age skeletons. Check site for current special exhibition. Ongoing. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

Hmong Reflections: Stories of Our Own, Hmong history, culture and identity as told by students from the local Hmong community. Through 7/27. Meriam Library Complex At Chico State.

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even two-dimensional space can be folded, curved and molded directly from the artist’s mind into the visual consciousness of its beholder. Very different, but just as graphically dazzling and equally evocative, is David Avery’s etching, “Running on Empty.” It evokes both DaVinci and Michelangelo in its depiction of a free-floating consumer, errant over a field of oil wells, SUVs, gas pumps and a rather Republican-looking elephant. If there is an incongruent aspect of the show, it’s the title/theme, “Currency.” One can see the attraction of trying to draw a parallel between printed money and newer, digital forms of economic exchange, or in wanting to declare as a theme that the show is all about using the most up-to-date technologies and definitions of printmaking as a craft or art form. But jurist Erin Sullivan Maynes says the reasoning was that, “Although neither is threatened with immediate death in the digital age, both [paper money and artists’ prints] do share and project a certain amount of material uncertainty ….” That doesn’t quite connect with the actual content of the exhibit, because the pieces seem to emphasize that printmaking is very much alive and infinitely viable and applicable to the current state of human affairs. There are literally dozens of praise-worthy pieces, and I can’t mention them all in this short summary of an afternoon preview of the show, so you’ll just have to visit the galleries’ expansive display and see for yourself. Better yet, tonight (Feb. 2) is the opening reception at the Turner, which will be preceded by a curator’s talk in Zingg Recital Hall. □

THE BIG ROOM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017 With Oliver Wood on guitar and vocals, Chris Wood on bass and vocal and Jano Rix on percussion and vocals, this trio presents a uniquely soulful approach to the roots/Americana genre. Opening the show will be The Shook Twins who’ve headlined the Big Room on their own.

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2THURSDAY

AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

round-robin. First and Third Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408, www.facebook.com/crazyhorsesaloon.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday night jazz featuring local musicians. Th, 811pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

HI STRANGENESS: Free preshow party

LEANN COOLEY AND FRIENDS: Vintage

blues and swing. Every other Th. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 3432056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

THE MOTET: Seven-piece Denver band whose signature take on funk incorporates elements of jazz, soul and Afrobeat. Th, 2/2, 8pm. $20. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians

welcome. Th, 7pm. Has Beans Cafe, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.has beans.com.

ROBERT KARCH AND LARRY LAMBERT: Jazz, standards, pop and blues with Robert Karch on guitar/vocals and Larry Lambert on keyboards. Th, 2/2, 6:30-8:30pm. No Cover. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

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ABBEY ROAD: Uncle Dad’s Art Collective returns to the Laxson stage for a performance based on The Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Road. F, 2/3, 7:30pm, Sa, 2/4, 7:30pm. $10-$23. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.csuchico.edu/upe.

BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and regional producers and DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

DEEP STATE: Pure rock ’n’ roll from Athens, Ga., with two of Chico’s rowdiest bands, Viking Skate Country and West by Swan, opening and closing the night. F, 2/3, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

EKALI: Instrumentalist and producer from Vancouver, British Columbia, known for his captivating original work and thundering club remixes. F, 2/3, 9pm. $10-$20. Senator Theatre, 517

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HEROES OF ROCK & ROLL: Vegas-style cover band playing songs from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and beyond from a wide range of genres and styles. F, 2/3, 8:30pm, Sa, 2/4, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with traditional Irish music by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

Nathan Shaw, aka Ekali, has been playing in and touring with bands since high school, but it wasn’t until taking up producing a few years back that he caught his first big break: getting sampled by Canadian hip-hop deity Drake. After being selected as the sole Canadian for the 2014 Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo, Ekali has continued building his name in the electronic music community. He plays Friday, Feb. 3, at the Senator Theatre.

LATINO NIGHT: Banda Tierra Azteca faces off with locals Raizes Jalicienses “contra a contra,” with Latino music all night from DJ Lil 50. F, 2/3, 9pm. $20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 8911853.

OPEN MIC: All-ages open mic hosted by Jodi Foster and Julie Bos. F, 7pm. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

SPAZMATICS: High-energy 1980s new

wave tribute show. F, 2/3, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

UNPLUGGED OPEN MIC/JAM: Happy hour and music hosted by singer/songwriter Jeb Draper in the Fireplace room or on the new outdoor stage. F,

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folk-funk singer-songwriter who has been touring throughout the world since the early 1990s. Show is seated on a first-come, firstseated basis. Th, 2/2, 6:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 895-0706, www.kzfr.org.

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5-8pm through 11/23. no cover. Rock House, 11865 Highway 70 in Yankee Hill, (530) 532-1889.

WEIRD SCIENCE: 1980s and ’90s pop,

dance and Top 40 hits. F, 2/3, 8:30pm, Sa, 2/4, 8:30pm. No cover. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountry casino.com.

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ABBEY ROAD: See Friday. Laxson

Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.csuchico.edu/upe.

Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 4-6pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 345-4128.

DAVID LINDLEY: Eclectic solo artist well known for his many years as featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of the band El Rayo-X. Sa, 2/4, 7:30pm. $26. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.

DRIVER: Paradise classic rock and R&B band. Sa, 2/4, 9pm. Free. Piggs Club, 3070 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 533-9843.

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Saturday, Feb. 4 Lost on Main

roots musician and introspective singer-songwriter whose voice spans blues, alt-country, Americana, R&B and flat-out rock ’n’ roll. M, 2/6, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

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HALIE LOREN: Road-proven, critically acclaimed artist, whose 2011 album, Heart First, reached No. 1 on the iTunes Canada jazz albums chart. Sa, 2/4, 7pm. $20. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive in Paradise, (532) 7621490, www.nortonbuffalohall.com.

HEROES OF ROCK & ROLL: See Friday Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

PHILTHY RICH: East Oakland street rap veteran brings his Hood Rich Tour to town. Sa, 2/4, 9pm. $20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SACTOWN COMEDY TOUR PART 2: A slate of stand-up comedians followed by music from DJ Slee. Sa, 2/4, 8:30pm. $5 advance/$10 at the door. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

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JAZZ NIGHT: Live music from drums and keyboard duo Zach Cowan and Shigemi Minetaka. Sa, 2/4, 8pm. Ramada Plaza Hotel, 685 Manzanita Ct., (530) 345-2491.

THE MALTEAZERS: Monthly show mixing classic and contemporary burlesque dancing. First Sa of every month, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

benefit for Chico schools, hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Road, (530) 710-2020.

SO MUCH LIGHT: Elk Grove-based melodic guitar/synth project provides the sweetness to balance out the savory heaviness of Chico’s Team Skins and Surrounded by Giants. Sacramento hip-hop artist Hobo Johnson rounds out the bill. Sa, 2/4, 8pm. $8. 1078

Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

WEIRD SCIENCE: See Friday. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountry casino.com.

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LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

by Carey Robinson and friends. W. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

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HANK DUKE’S GOOD TIME VARIETY HOUR: Laughter, buffoonery, dancing, love and the comedic musical stylings of Hank Duke. Su, 2/5, 9-11pm. FREE!. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

THE POSEYS: Husband-and-wife duo playing a wide assortment of swing, jazz and blues. Every other Su, 4:306:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.

bands, Moon Bears, Dial Up Days and Cat Depot, with a special out-of-town guest, The Panduhs. W, 2/8, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

ROBERT KARCH AND LARRY LAMBERT: Live music from Robert Karch on guitar/vocals and Larry Lambert on keyboards, playing jazz, pop, blues and more. W, 2/8, 6:30-8:30pm. No Cover. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000 Notre Dame Blvd., (530) 342-8500.

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Over the last several years, Chico’s Uncle Dad’s Art Collective has produced a number of well-received cover shows, enlisting local musicians and performers to assist in crafting elaborate full-stage productions based around the music of legendary artists. The collective’s latest, and most elaborate, production yet is Abbey Road, a collaboration with Chico Performances that celebrates The Beatles’ 1969 album with an all-star cast of local performers at Chico State’s Laxson Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 3, and Saturday, Feb. 4.

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Opening this week 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Comedian

Taylor Hackford (Ray, The Devil’s Advocate) directs this story about an aging comic (Robert De Niro) trying to reinvent himself. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Neruda

Director Pablo Larraín (Jackie) is at the helm of this biopic following the events surrounding Chilean poetry giant and communist Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), who was forced underground after WWII and subsequently hunted down by a fascist police inspector (Gael García Bernal). Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Ybasedeffortonina true his latest film excursion, the “loosely story” Gold.

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McConaughey not only stars as wannabe gold magnate Kenny Wells, he also coproduced the movie, plus thinned his by hair, put in weird teeth and gained Bob Grimm some weight as he fully committed bg rimm@ to the role. newsrev iew.c om Sadly, maximum effort doesn’t result in optimized return. The movie is an uneven, confused endeavor, and physically, McConaughey comes off as a guy who is normally in really Gold good shape simply messing himMatthew self up for a few months to shoot a McConaughey, movie. He doesn’t look like a real bryce Dallas Howard guy (e.g., the way Robert De Niro and edgar ramírez. did when he destroyed his physicalCinemark 14 and Feather river Cinemas. ity for Raging Bull), he just looks rated r. made up and slightly out of shape, which is distracting. The film is based loosely upon the Bre-X gold scandal of the 1990s. The original story was based in Canada, while director Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) brings it to the U.S. In his second treasure-hunting film role with “Gold” in the title (remember 2008’s Fool’s Gold? Didn’t think so!), McConaughey goes full throttle as the fictional character Wells, owner of a prospecting business in Reno who’s looking for that one strike that will make him legendary. In his search, he comes across a renowned explorer, Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramírez), who has the ties and ingenuity to mine unsearched parts of Indonesia. Wells pawns his watch, goes into business with Acosta, and starts panning for the real deal.

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Upon turning 16, the first human born on Mars (Asa Butterfield) visits Earth for the first time and is determined to connect with a girl he met online (Britt Robertson) and explore this beautiful new world no matter the cost to his health. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Reopening this week Fences

Denzel Washington directs and stars in this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a former Negroleague baseball player (Washington) struggling with race relations in America as well as coming to terms with his life, working as a garbage collector and raising a baseballplaying son in the 1950s. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Lion

Dev Patel stars as a young man who, after being separated from his parents as a young boy in India and adopted and raised by an Austrailian couple, returns to his home country in search of his family. Also starring Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Split

The Space Between Us

Manchester by the Sea

A fantastical bit of musical nostalgia wrapped around a love story between a waitress/struggling actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling). Nominated for a whopping 14 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Actor. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The third installment in the horror franchise comes 12 years after The Ring Two, and retains the cursed videotape premise of its predecessors, adding the twist of a newly discovered video within the video. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

This is where the movie becomes a little haphazard. There are a lot of shots with Wells flying around to different locations like Indonesia and New York. There’s a substantial sequence where Wells is running around in the jungle with Acosta and getting ill, and another substantial part of the film that deals with the business/stock exchange ramifications of Wells’ dealings. It all becomes a bit much, a little too hard to keep track of, and ultimately too routine to distinguish itself. It plays like The Wolf of Wall Street minus most of the fun (but not minus the McConaughey!). It’s the same basic plot: A headstrong guy tries to take the fast track to big riches and gets his butt kicked hard in the end. If the film has a partial saving grace, it is McConaughey, who remains fully committed to the role and makes Wells an engaging character, even when the events swirling around him are confusing and lack originality. The movie is almost worth the admission price if only to see a good actor giving his all. As for storytelling, there’s nothing new here, and the big twist isn’t a surprise at all. The movie wants to be a jungle adventure movie and business adventure all in one, and the two don’t meld together well. In fact, it winds up feeling like four or five movies mushed together. Bryce Dallas Howard—who had a lousy 2016 with the god awful Pete’s Dragon remake and now this—plays Wells’ long-suffering girlfriend, a role that utilizes absolutely none of her talents. She shows up every now and then looking mildly frustrated, then disappears for large chunks of the story. While it’s hard to feel bad for an Oscar-winning multimillionaire, it is a bit depressing to see McConaughey do all of this for naught. Gold is definitely one that plays better on paper than it does on the big screen. □

See review this issue. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —B.G.

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Despite his solid performance, McConaughey’s latest isn’t quite gold

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La La Land

This week’s repertory feature is Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic. One showing: Sunday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

all that glitters …

The story of writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea (nominated for six Academy Awards) focuses in particular on Casey Affleck’s character, a rather solitary working man named Lee Chandler who we first see living in Boston and working as an apartment house janitor. When his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly, Lee is drawn back to his coastal hometown of Manchesterby-the-Sea and into the dramas and tragedies of his much-beleaguered family and his own very conflicted past. And perhaps the biggest challenge of all comes in the discovery that brother Joe’s will names Lee as the guardian of his teen-age son, Patrick (Lucas Hedges). The mutually mixed emotions in the hit-and-miss relationship of Lee and Patrick provide a particularly lively thread of low-key character drama as the film expands into the further reaches of the past calamities and breakdowns that haunt Lee’s family. Affleck’s performance is also brilliantly in tune with the film’s abiding sense of the loose ends and insoluble tangles in all human drama. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

M. Night Shyamalan has finally made his first good movie since Signs (2002). Split is a down-to-basics, creepy thriller propelled by excellent performances from James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy. Taylor-Joy plays Casey, an introverted high school outcast attending a birthday party for Claire (Haley Lu Richardson) thanks to a “mercy invite.” Casey’s stuck after the party, so Claire’s dad offers her and another friend, Marcia (Jessica Sula), a ride home. Claire’s dad never gets his car out of the parking lot because a strange, angry man (McAvoy) takes the driver’s seat and knocks the three girls out. They wake up together in a prison cell. It’s no big reveal to let you know that McAvoy’s character is suffering from a multiple personality disorder. In addition to the man who kidnaps them, he’s a stately, mannered woman; a 9-year-old child; and, well, a bunch of others. McAvoy is bone-chillingly good here, seamlessly segueing into each personality, and giving each an original vocal and physical spin. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Still here A Dog’s Purpose

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

A Monster Calls

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Hidden Figures

Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —B.G.

Monster Trucks

Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Sing

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Underworld: Blood Wars Cinemark 14. Rated R.

XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Cinemark 14 Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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substantial to a potluck, this would make a great dish. Just cook first on the stove and then transfer to a slow cooker to keep it hot throughout the game. (I’ve made it entirely in my Crock Pot before and found that it doesn’t get hot enough to thicken it.) This recipe makes 6-8 servings. Cheesy Broccoli Chicken Soup 1/4 cup butter 1 onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup white wine 1 large head broccoli, chopped, stalks removed 6 cups chicken stock (or about 3 14.5 oz. cans) 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 lb. cheddar cheese, shredded (may sub processed cheese—cubed—for some or all of this) 1 1/2 cups milk 2/3 cup cornstarch 3/4-whole rotisserie chicken 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, for garnish

In a large stock pot over medium heat, melt butter. Add onion and cook until soft. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the wine. When chopping broccoli, I like to

remove the stalks for this soup. Some stalk is fine—especially if you will be blending it—but use mostly florets. Bite-size or smaller pieces. Add chicken stock, then broccoli to the pot, along with salt and pepper. Simmer until broccoli is tender, about 15 minutes. While soup is simmering, shred your rotisserie chicken meat. I tend to use about 3/4 of the bird and save the rest for a meal the next day. You can, of course, cook your own chicken, but pre-cooked is delicious—and much less work! Once shredded, set aside. I like my soup with chunks of broccoli, but if you prefer a smoother soup, at this point you can use an immersion blender or transfer soup in batches to a regular blender. Make sure to hold the lid, as hot liquid can splatter! Add cheese to the pot. Stir every few minutes until it’s melted. Add chicken. In a small bowl, whisk cornstarch into milk to form a slurry. Then pour this slowly, while stirring, into soup. Bring to a boil and simmer for a minute or two, while stirring. This will thicken up your soup. Add salt and pepper to taste. Ladle into bowls, sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese and serve with crusty bread. Enjoy! □ FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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IN THE MIX Foxhole The Proper Ornaments Slumberland records

Stay weird, my FriendS arts dEVo was blown away by the amazing array of weirdos who came

together and shared their unique visions with the community for Cn&R’s fourth annual Keep Chico Weird festivities. Chico came out in droves to overfill the 1078 Gallery for the art opening and sell out the El Rey Theatre for the talent show. While I consider all y’all a bunch of freaks and exactly the kind of fabulous humans with whom I want to share my time in this circus that is America, some of you won prizes for your good work. At the art show, the reception-night audience members voted for their faves and third place went to Candy Cougar’s threepanel “Portrait” series; amaris Cardenas’ iridescent, orange and blue acrylic “Butterfly Kisses” took second; and the Best of Show winner was Ze Treasure Troll’s wonderful abstract ceramic sculpture installation, “Regular Chico Family.” And at Saturday night’s talent show, there were top three acts— judged on performance/execution (10 points possible), audience reaction (10 points) and originality/ weirdness (20 points). Third place: The nibiru Chronicles (a live version “Regular Chico Family” (detail), by Ze Treasure Troll of local funk band GravyBrain’s intergalactic Web series); second place: Mike Bogowitz (local acrobat who spun around in his impressive giant metal cyr wheel, blowing minds with his feat of strength and balance); and first place: comedian Trip Hazard, who punctuated Keep Chico Weird Talent Show his dry, weird-ass delivery with a slideshow presentation and a strategically winner Trip Hazard placed “censored” bar. Photo by emily teague Congratulations! See you all next year.

Still more art The little train car that could and does show the best of

local artists is hosting a show of Kandis Horton-Jorth’s mixed-media works for the month of February, with a reception on Friday, Feb. 3, 5-7 p.m. HortonJorth is also a regular contributor to the Keep Chico Weird shows, and her lovely “The Peculiarities of Her Faith” (pictured) was part of this year’s exhibit.

a Very marley Party sipho’s Jamaican restaurant has been on a winter break for nearly a month and this Saturday, Feb. 4, starting at 11 a.m. (and going to “late”), it will reopen in style. As it will take place a couple of days before the reggae legend’s Feb. 6 birthday, the party is being billed as a “Bob Marley Pre-Birthday Bash” as well as a kick-off for Black History Month, and will feature live music (by Triple Tree & Conquering Lion Band), DJs and, of course, a buffet-style feast. All for only $10. don’t call it a tribute The The Uncle dad’s art Collective is once again mak-

ing a show based on one of the greatest albums ever recorded (see their past productions of Led Zeppelin IV, Prince’s Purple Rain and Queen’s A Night at “The Peculiarities of Her Faith,” by Kandis Horton-Jorth the Opera). This weekend, in conjunction with Chico State’s Chico Performances, the crew is mounting its latest ambitious endeavor, titled abbey Road, for a two-show run at Laxson auditorium, Feb. 3-4. As with their previous album-related shows, this is not a mere cover night with a band playing an album from start to finish. For their adaptation of The Beatles’ 1969 classic, the collective has once again corralled a massive ensemble of artists—more than 60 performers—including an orchestra, a chorus of singers, dancers, animators, lighting designers, costumers, acrobats, and even a slew of guest bands from the Chico music scene. The intent is to use the source material, as well as a handful of The Beatles’ other masterworks (“A Day in the Life,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” etc.) as inspiration for an entirely new presentation, an original theatrical interpretation that Uncle Dads’ ringleader Joshua Hegg says will “follow a single character, who awakens into a world of disorder and chaos, each time she opens a new door, she and the audience will experience something completely new.” A tiny portion of the Abbey Road cast.

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British proto-psych rockers The Proper Ornaments—the brainchild of Ultimate Painting guitarist James Hoare and Max Oscarnold from Brighton shoegazers Toy—polished the rough edges of the sound from their 2014 debut Wooden Head to a mesmerizing sheen on sophomore release Foxhole. On it, the band has expanded its already heady panorama of spooky pop dirges to feature more piano-led tunes, beginning with the melancholy “Memories,” with minor-key melodies driving through descending progressions, inviting eerily engaging musical moments. It’s not all moody sentiment, though; even songs as sinisterly titled as “Cremated (Blown Away)” tap along thanks to Hoare’s peppy, guitarforward songcraft. The band’s exploration of late-1960s psychedelic wonderlands is also tied to the same kind of harmonic pop purveyed by the likes of Elliott Smith. Lush tracks like the appropriately titled “1969” are enough evidence that the band is mired in a kind of stone-y malaise. Luckily, it’s the kind of pleasantly unobtrusive condition that lends itself to repeated listens.

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Moonglow Michael Chabon HarperCollins Moonglow is described by its publisher as “an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir,” and more candidly by the author in the postscript as “a pack of lies.” The novel/memoir follows the significant moments in the life of Michael Chabon’s semi-fictitious grandfather, chronicling his exploits in World War II, a stint in prison, his involvement with the U.S. space program and, perhaps most important to the author himself, the often turbulent relationship between an accomplished but ill-tempered man and his mentally unstable wife and its effects on their family down the generations. It’s an open question whether the decision to mix fiction with nonfiction was to allow for dramatic exaggeration or to disguise painful truths hidden among the lies—Chabon’s father receives a particularly unsympathetic characterization—but the author’s smooth prose and believable characterizations make it a moot point. Whether it’s partial or pure fiction, it’s still a compelling read.

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Anything Could Happen Bash & Pop Fat Possum More than 20 years since the breakup of his post-Replacements project Bash & Pop, Tommy Stinson has rebooted the band and finally followed up its encouraging 1993 debut, Friday Night Is Killing Me. Anything Could Happen segues pretty seamlessly, parlaying Stinson’s songwriting into 12 appropriately rollicking tunes of barroom rock ’n’ roll. Beginning with the ’Mats-y opener “Not This Time,” Stinson’s impressively steady vocals take on a sneering quality, with blistering leads and blustery sentiment to guide the effort. “On the Rocks” could have been a B-side from Pleased to Meet Me. “Anybody Else” showcases Stinson’s swaggering inner balladeer, stretching whiskey-saturated vocals thin to croon “You can’t be anybody else to anyone.” Yes, Paul Westerberg understandably influences Stinson’s material—especially on the moody, fantastic “Can’t Be Bothered.” Yet Bash & Pop in 2017 probably sounds like it would have sounded in 1994, which is a comforting development any way you slice it. Besides, from first song to last, Anything Could Happen is one of the best rock records you’re likely to hear this year.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF February 2, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Once upon

a time, Calvin of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip made this bold declaration: “Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!” Given your current astrological aspects, Aries, I think you have every right to invoke that battle cry yourself. From what I can tell, there’s a party underway inside your head. And I’m pretty sure it’s a healthy bash, not a decadent debacle. The bliss it stirs up will be authentic, not contrived. The release and relief it triggers won’t be trivial and transitory, but will generate at least one long-lasting breakthrough.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The com-

ing weeks will be an excellent time to ask for favors. I think you will be exceptionally adept at seeking out people who can actually help you. Furthermore, those from whom you request help will be more receptive than usual. Finally, your timing is likely to be close to impeccable. Here’s a tip to aid your efforts: A new study suggests that people are more inclined to be agreeable to your appeals if you address their right ears rather than their left ears. (More info: https://tinyurl.com/ intherightear.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are

your five words of power for the next two weeks, Gemini. (1) Unscramble. Invoke this verb with regal confidence as you banish chaos and restore order. (2) Purify. Be inspired to cleanse your motivations and clarify your intentions. (3) Reach. Act as if you have a mandate to stretch out, expand, and extend yourself to arrive in the right place. (4) Rollick. Chant this magic word as you activate your drive to be lively, carefree, and frolicsome. (5) Blithe. Don’t take anything too personally, too seriously or too literally.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The

17th-century German alchemist Hennig Brand collected 1,500 gallons of urine from beer-drinkers, then cooked and recooked it till it achieved the “consistency of honey.” Why? He thought his experiment would eventually yield large quantities of gold. It didn’t, of course. But along the way, he accidentally produced a substance of great value: phosphorus. It was the first time anyone had created a pure form of it. So in a sense, Brand “discovered” it. Today phosphorus is widely used in fertilizers, water treatment, steel production, detergents and food processing. I bring this to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, because I suspect you will soon have a metaphorically similar experience. Your attempt to create a beneficial new asset will not generate exactly what you wanted, but will nevertheless yield a useful result.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the documentary movie Catfish, the directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, present a metaphor drawn from the fishing industry. They say that Asian suppliers used to put live codfish in tanks and send them to overseas markets. It was only upon arrival that the fish would be processed into food. But there was a problem: Because the cod were so sluggish during the long trips, their meat was mushy and tasteless. The solution? Add catfish to the tanks. That energized the cod and ultimately made them more flavorful. Moral of the story, according to Joost and Schulman: Like the cod, humans need catfish-like companions to stimulate them and keep them sharp. Do you have enough influences like that in your life, Leo? Now is a good time to make sure you do.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The city

of Boston allows an arts organization called Mass Poetry to stencil poems on sidewalks. The legal graffiti is done with a special paint that remains invisible until it gets wet. So if you’re a pedestrian trudging through the streets as it starts to rain, you may suddenly behold, emerging from the blank gray concrete, Langston Hughes’ poem “Still Here” or Fred Marchant’s “Pear Tree In Flower.” I foresee a metaphorically similar development in your life, Virgo: a pleasant and educational surprise arising unexpectedly out of the vacant blahs.

by rob brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When he was

in the rock band Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh took his time composing and recording new music. From 1978 to 1984, he and his collaborators averaged one album per year. But when Mothersbaugh started writing soundtracks for the weekly TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, his process went into overdrive. He typically wrote an entire show’s worth of music each Wednesday and recorded it each Thursday. I suspect you have that level of creative verve right now, Libra. Use it wisely! If you’re not an artist, channel it into the area of your life that most needs to be refreshed or reinvented.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many

vintage American songs remain available today because of the pioneering musicologist, John Lomax. In the first half of the 20th century, he traveled widely to track down and record obscure cowboy ballads, folk songs and traditional African American tunes. “Home on the Range” was a prime example of his many discoveries. He learned that song, often referred to as “the anthem of the American West,” from a black saloonkeeper in Texas. I suggest we make Lomax a role model for you Scorpios during the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to preserve and protect the parts of your past that are worth taking with you into the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

The mountain won’t come to you. It will not acquire the supernatural power to drag itself over to where you are, bend its craggy peak down to your level and give you a free ride as it returns to its erect position. So what will you do? Moan and wail in frustration? Retreat into a knot of helpless indignation and sadness? Please don’t. Instead, stop hoping for the mountain to do the impossible. Set off on a journey to the remote, majestic pinnacle with a fierce song in your determined heart. Pace yourself. Doggedly master the art of slow, incremental magic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Who can run faster, a person or a horse? There’s evidence that under certain circumstances, a human can prevail. In June of every year since 1980, the Man Versus Horse Marathon has taken place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells. The route of the race weaves 22 miles through marsh, bogs and hills. On two occasions, a human has outpaced all the horses. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns will have that level of animalistic power during the coming weeks. It may not take the form of foot speed, but it will be available as stamina, energy, vitality and instinctual savvy.

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

would have guessed that Aquarian Charles Darwin, the pioneering theorist of evolution, had a playful streak? Once he placed a male flower’s pollen under a glass along with an unfertilized female flower to see if anything interesting would happen. “That’s a fool’s experiment,” he confessed to a colleague. “But I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” Now would be an excellent time for you to consider trying some fools’ experiments of your own, Aquarius. I bet at least one of them will turn out to be both fun and productive.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO ALOHA DANCERS at 476 Hoopa Circle Chico, CA 95926. JUDY AKEMI HAMAMOTO

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as IRON CANYON CONSTRUCTION at 1199 Hill View Way Chico, CA 95926. ALEC MARTIN BINYON 1030 Clotilde Way Chico, CA 95926. KYLE JORDEN PRICE 1199 Hill View Way Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: ALEC BINYON Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000024 Published: January 12,19,26, February 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AHIMSA.XYZ at 385 E 10th Ave Unit B Chico, CA 95926. SALINA STEPHNIA MARIE MITCHELL 385 E 10th Ave Unit B Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SALINA MITCHELL Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000013 Published: January 12,19,26, February 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THOROUGH SEARCH at 1934 Bird Street Oroville, CA 95965. RICK COOK 76 Tuscan Villa Drive 104 Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RICK COOK Dated: December 19, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001552 Published: January 12,19,26, Febuary 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ADVANCED COMPUTER SOLUTIONS at 28 Jordans Place Number 600 Chico, CA 95973. ALEXANDER AUVINEN 28 Jordans Place Number 600

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Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ALEXANDER AUVINEN Dated: January 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000029 Published: January 12,19,26, February 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO REAL ESTATE, CHICO REAL ESTATE INC, CHICOREALESTATE.NET at 1250 East Ave #20 Chico, CA 95926. CHICO REAL ESTATE INC 1250 East Ave #20 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: DARREL E. STEPHENS, OWNER Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000018 Published: January 12,19,26, February 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HAVEN HOME SERVICES at 1044 Greenwhich Drive Chico, CA 95926. KASSANDRA GREULE 677 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926. JESSICA SORENSON 1044 Greenwhich Drive Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: KASSANDRA GREULE Dated: January 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000042 Published: January 12,19,26, February 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRIAGE ENTERPRISES at 5475 Skyway Unit B Paradise, CA 95969. TROY DUANE BEACH PO Box 983 Magalia, CA 95954. BRIAN MICHAEL KOPKA 386 Valley View Dr Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: TROY D. BEACH Dated: January 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000065 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LD MARINE at 18 Alyssum Way Chico, CA 95928. LARRY DAVID DE LEGE 18 Alyssum Way Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LARRY DE LEGE Dated: January 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000030 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRU GANICS at 25 Foreman Creek Road Berry Creek, CA 95916. CERTAPHYD, LLC 25 Foreman Creek Road Berry Creek, CA 95916. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: SHAWN MORRIS,

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OWNER Dated: December 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001546 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VIDEO STORE at 1900 Oro Dam Blvd Ste 10 Oroville, CA 95965. CRYSTAL COX 160 Rutherford Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CRYSTAL COX Dated: December 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001531 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DINO 8 FOOD AND FUEL at 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928. MRAS ENTERPRISES, INC 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: MONTY BHOGAL, PRESIDENT Dated: December 13, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001528 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SUNSET AUTO WHOLESALE at 954 Royal Dr Chico, CA 95973. WILLIAM J HOLESTINE 954 Royal Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: WILLIAM J HOLESTINE Dated: January 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000080 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CACTUS AFFINITY at 37 Terrace Dr Chico, CA 95926. LAWRENCE SMITH 37 Terrace Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LAWRENCE SMITH Dated: January 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000079 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE CABLE COMPANY at 121 Wine Blossom Dr Chico, CA 95973. THE CABLE COMPANY 121 Wine Blossom Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: MICHAEL MCEVOY, OFFICER Dated: January 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000082 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FAST EDDIES SANDWICH SHOP at

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1175 East Ave Chico, CA 95973. EDWARD LEE FORTUNE JR 1892 Auburn Oak Way Chico, CA 95928. STEPHENIE GENE FORTUNE 1892 Auburn Oak Way Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: STEPHENIE FORTUNE Dated: January 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000087 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CALISUN FARMS LLC at 16246 Calle Tierra Forest Ranch, CA 95942. CALISUN FARMS LLC 16246 Calle Tierra Forest Ranch, CA 95942. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: LAWRENCE ELKINS, MANAGER Dated: January 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000069 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EYELASH EMPIRE at 3545 Smith Ave Biggs, CA 95917. SAVANNAH ROSE FORRISTER PO Box 239 Biggs, CA 95917. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SAVANNAH FORRISTER Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000025 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BETTER BUILT FENCE COMPANY at 1540 Second Ave Oroville, CA 95965. WILLIAM WALTHER PATTERSON 1540 Second Ave Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: WILL PATTERSON Dated: January 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000059 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO HANDS, CHICO MASSAGE, CHICO MASSAGE THERAPY at 341 Broadway Chico, CA 95928. SHELLEY BOWER 1128 Valley Oak Drive Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: SHELLEY BOWER Dated: January 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2013-0001357 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO MASSAGE THERAPY at 260 Cohasset Rd Ste 190

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Chico, CA 95926. JONI MARIE JOBE 5968 Hayes Ln Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JONI JOBE Dated: January 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000047 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHARKEY COMPANY at 230 Walnut St. Suite C Chico, CA 95928. TIMOTHY J SHARKEY II 3375 Bodero Ln #2 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TIMOTHY J SHARKEY II Dated: December 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001596 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME – STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name TIMOTHY INDUSTRIES at 3375 Bodero Lane Unit 2 Chico, CA 95973. TIMOTHY JOESPH SHARKEY 3375 Bodero Lane Unit 2 Chico, CA 95973. OLGA MONIKA MORSKA-SHARKEY 3375 Bodero Lane Unit 2 Chico, CA 95973. This business was conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: OLGA MORSKA-SHARKEY Dated: December 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000264 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MEDIAPLUS at 1228 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928. LAWRENCE A MARQUEZ 1228 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LAWRENCE A. MARQUEZ Dated: January 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000135 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A-1 AND SON HANDYMAN SERVICES at 14737 Wildlife Drive Magalia, CA 95954. WILLIAM STEVEN BUNN 14737 Wildlife Drive Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: WILLIAM STEVEN BUNN Dated: November 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001386 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRUE REST FLOAT SPA at 1357 East 8th Street Chico, CA 95928. VERGEO ENTERPRISE, LLC 53 Chinese Wall Rd Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: VERONICA G

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CARPENTER, MANAGER Dated: January 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000064 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME – STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name SERVANT LEADERSHIP NETWORK at 3015 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973. CITY LIGHT OF CHICO PO Box 9199 Chico, CA 95927. This business was conducted by A Corporation. Signed: JACKLYN HAGBERG, TREASURER Dated: January 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2014-0000178 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SERVANT LEADERSHIP NETWORK at 1479 Hooker Oak Ave Unit 2 Chico, CA 95926. LOVE RESOLUTION NOW 1479 Hooker Oak Ave Unit 2 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: RANDALL C. STARK, TREASURER Dated: January 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000102 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TAYLOR CRAFTED at 752 Brandonbury Ln Chico, CA 95926. MELISSA LYNN TAYLOR 752 Brandonbury Ln Chico, CA 95926. STEPHEN KILE TAYLOR 752 Brandonbury Ln Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: STEPHEN TAYLOR, MELISSA TAYLOR Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000020 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Secs 6101-6107 U.C.C.) 1.Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below: 2.The name(s) and business address of the seller(s) are: FARZAD KASHTIBAN 1661 Forest Avenue; #72 Chico, CA 95926 TAMARA KASHTIBAN 1661 Forest Avenue; #72 Chico, CA 95926 3.The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is (if “same as above” so state): 1661 Forest Avenue; #72 Chico, CA 95926 4.The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: KERRI BELL 2318 Floral Avenue Chico, CA 95926 5.The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: SULTAN’S BISTRO, 300 Broadway Street, Ste. A-4, Chico, CA 95928 Escrow Holder: BIDWELL TITLE & ESCROW CO.

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500 Wall Street, Chico, CA 95928 ESCROW OFFICER: Becky Schroer Order No. 00256824-002 DATE OF ANTICIPATED SALE: February 21, 2017 LAST DAY TO FILE CLAIMS: February 20, 2017 Notice is hereby given that Transferor intends to make a BULK SALE of the assets of the above described Business to Transferee including all stock in trade, furniture and equipment used in the said Business, to be consummated at the office of Escrow Holder at the time of consummation or thereafter. Creditors of the Transferor may file claims with the Escrow Holder on or before the last day to file claims stated above. This sale is subject to Sec. 61066107 of the California Commercial Code. Transferor has used the following business names and addresses within last three years so far as known to Transferee: NONE Signed: KERRI BELL Dated: January 26, 2017 Published: February 2, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BROOKE KERHOULAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KYLEIGH JADE LUERA Proposed name: KYLEIGH JADE KERHOULAS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 10, 2017 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: December 27, 2016 Case Number: 16CV03120 Published: January 12,19,26, February 2, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARA WILCOX filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAQUALYNN MARIA PLASCENCIA Proposed name: JAQUALYNN AURORA WILCOX 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: March 10, 2017 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: January 12, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00018 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE RICHARD W. JONES, ALSO KNOWN AS RICHARD WILLIAM JONES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RICHARD W. JONES, ALSO KNOWN AS RICHARD WILLIAM JONES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RANDALL W. JONES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: RANDALL W. JONES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless as interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.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 representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may

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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: 17PR00006 Dated: January 9, 2017 Published: January 19,26, February 2, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ESTHER GRAVES AKA ESTHER E. GRAVES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ESTHER GRAVES AKA ESTHER E. GRAVES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RONALD L. GRAVES, SR. in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: RONALD L. GRAVES, SR. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless as interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: C-18 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 representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your

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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: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 17PR00012 Dated: January 17, 2017 Published: January 26, February 2,9, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WILLIAM RALPH LACEY To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WILLIAM RALPH LACEY, ALSO KNOWN AS WILLIAM LACEY A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JONNELLE LACEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: JONNELLE LACEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless as interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a

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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: KELLY ALBRECHT, ESQ. 1440 Lincoln Street Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 534-9900 Case Number: 17PR00013 Dated: January 17, 2017 Published: January 26, February 2,9, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE RONALD CARRUTH To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RONALD CARRUTH A Petition for Probate has been filed by: STEPHEN CARRUTH in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: STEPHEN CARRUTH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless as interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 21, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.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 representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in

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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: 17PR00022 Dated: January 23, 2017 Published: February 2,9,16, 2017

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You are now in violation of California law by operating a sink, shower or toilet in a house built before 1994. That is, if the faucets, showerheads and toilets haven’t been replaced by new water-conserving models.

3) Any showerhead manufactured to have a flow capacity of more than 2.5 gallons per minute.

That’s right. As of January 1, 2017, any house in the state of California built before January 1, 1994 must be equipped with water-conserving plumbing fixtures.

“Where did this law come from?” asked the homeowner.

4) Any urinal manufactured to use more than one gallon of water per flush. That question is answered by a legal Q&A this way:

Non-compliant plumbing fixtures as stated in the law are:

“The California legislature decided that water conservation is a cost effective approach to the challenges created by not having enough water. Those challenges include future economic health; environmental health; growing urban areas; water reliability; waste water treatment; energy and other resource costs; and protecting and restoring aquatic resources. All of these issues were cited as reasons behind this effort to promote water conservation.”

1) Any toilet manufactured to use more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush.

Meanwhile, if you live in a non-compliant home, it’s time to get right with the law and go shopping for some new plumbing fixtures.

“So, does that mean I’m supposed to go out right now and get a new toilet?” asked an incredulous home-owner when told of the new law. “I’m afraid so,” was the answer. “And don’t forget the non-compliant faucets and showerheads.”

2) Any faucet that emits more than 2.2 gallons of water per minute.

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