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partisanship and nepotism “I hate to remind you, but you’re supposed to be a nonpartisan council—

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Greatest holiday nobody’s heard of but barely noticed here in the country whose M Haymarket activists it honors. So what is it?

ay 1 is known as Labor Day around the world

Most people can’t imagine that it would be legal to require working 90-100 hours a week. May 1, 1886—now commemorated as International Workers’ Day—was a day of a national strike for 300,000 workers in 13,000 businesses—the culmination of 20 years of organizing and agitating for an eight-hour day. Imagine a nation where by employers paid less than a $1 Paul O’Rourkea day for 12-hour days, where Babb immigrants were paid less than The author, a Chico 35 cents for that same work. resident, is a longtime These conditions and the brutal, nurse practitioner murderous response of corporate and health-access owners to people organizing to activist. better their lot were the seeds and water that produced the strikes of 1886, seen as the turning point in the demand for shorter workdays without shorter pay. History shows that the newspapers of the day, at the bidding of the robber barons and trusts,

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denounced the strike as “without real merit,” conspiracies of “communists” and “foreigners.” The corporate press tried to suppress any knowledge of the National Labor Union of 1867 and the Knights of Labor, as well as the successful strikes by these U.S.-born and immigrant workers. History also shows that, although the corporate owning class tightened its grip on our economy, it failed to prevent our wins in work hours, in work safety for millions of women and men of all ethnicities. We as working people have struggled—sometimes unsuccessfully—to overcome the structural racism and sexism that the rich use to divide us. And every time we use our great power for our benefit, we move forward individually and collectively. Today small farmers, social justice movements, unions, immigrants and gig-economy denizens are mobilizing for redress of grievances and for the piece of the pie our labors have made. So this May 1, renew an old tradition. Thank your neighbor for the work they do. Thank the postal workers, teachers, nurses, clerks, food workers, building and road workers. Celebrate our day. The Labor and Social Justice Cooperative has created a benefit concert for KZFR on May 3, 7:30 p.m., at the Chico Women’s Club featuring local musicians and spoken word/storytellers. Join us. □

not a party council.” That’s a portion of a prominent local businessman’s comments to the City Council’s conservative majority last month during one of the panel’s regular meetings. Michael Reilley, an insurance agent who has long kept tabs on the council, noted that he’d chided a previous liberal-dominated council for doing the same thing. He then reminded the current majority that an election is coming—that there’s a good chance they won’t hold sway. Reilley’s remarks were spot-on. It was a dose of much-needed medicine for the four conservatives—especially the mayor, Sean Morgan. And hearing it from someone who’s contributed campaign donations to that faction is indicative of how bad things have gotten. But were Reilley’s remarks taken to heart? Apparently not. In case you missed it, during the panel’s last meeting (April 17), veteran Councilwoman Ann Schwab requested the council agendize discussion of public restrooms and that her colleagues direct the city manager to explore his idea of forming a partnership with another public agency to come up with a potentially cost-neutral way to open such facilities. Morgan immediately pooh-poohed the idea—noting the vandalism that occurred at City Plaza during a trial run of round-the-clock facilities at that location. And then, unsurprisingly, a vote on the matter fell along party lines. And this, dear readers, is just the latest of many examples of the council majority’s wanton disregard for the public process and transparency, not to mention the mayor’s unbridled nepotism. A couple of issues prompted Reilley’s comments. One was the fact that the conservatives voted nay on Councilman Karl Ory’s request to agendize discussion of the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018. Another request they shot down: Schwab’s desire to discuss the city’s policy on proclamations following constituents’ attempts to get clarity on the issue. Morgan stopped giving proclamations months ago—when questioned about that, he told the local daily that requests focused on “social ideological issues” prompted the move and that he didn’t want to appear to show favoritism. Morgan didn’t specifically note which ideological issues he was referring to, but the timing suggests the tipping point stemmed from proclamations back in November for Trans Week of Resilience and Transgender Day of Remembrance. Case in point: Neither is listed anywhere on the Nov. 7 meeting’s agenda, as proclamations typically are. However, you can watch the meeting video in which Morgan speeds through them, quickly shakes the hands of those behind the efforts (folks from Stonewall Alliance and Chico State’s Gender and Sexuality Equity Center), and then abruptly walks away before introducing them or offering them a chance to speak, as is custom. Fast-forward to last month: As Reilley pointed out at the March 20 meeting, an Arbor Day proclamation appeared on that evening’s agenda. Thus, the need for policy discussion. Following that public outing, the mayor has taken an end-run around the process; he’s giving proclamations under the guise of the “Mayor’s Achievement Award.” That’s what he did just this month for Pleasant Valley High School’s state championship boys’ basketball team, and the girls’ team, which competed at that level. But that doesn’t jibe with history: In 2017, Morgan issued a proclamation for PV’s winning cheerleading squad (see the April 4, 2017, agenda). Further evidence: In 2016, Morgan gave a proclamation for PV’s winning football team when it won the state championship following the standalone parade the ball players received paid partially at the city’s expense. No such event will take place for this year’s basketball champions, though they do get to join the annual Pioneer Day Parade. Then again, Morgan’s kid isn’t on that team. The antics of the conservatives and Morgan are clearly wearing thin. It’s time to end this blatant partisanship and nepotism. Ω

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Buoy our bike shops How in the world does Chico support so many local bike businesses? That’s a question I’ve pondered for years. Do even the slightest research and you’ll find that, nationally, the neighborhood bicycle shop is hurting. One of the issues—as it is with nearly every other retail segment—is that consumers have turned to the internet for purchases. That’s led to a decline in the number of brick-and-mortars. But somehow, our cycling-friendly burg supports at least seven top-notch, independent bicycle shops—the traditional retail variety that focuses on new bikes and accessories, plus repair and maintenance. As we chronicled in this week’s Bike Issue, our local establishments have gotten creative to keep business rollin’. They do more than sell you a bike. And I’m here to plead with you to keep them alive. Remember Sundance Records? The Underground? Or even Tower Records (not exactly a little guy)? I do—and I don’t want to see what happened to those shops happen to local bicycle commerce. Those places added not only to Chico’s economic vitality, but were also part of the fabric of downtown’s character. But Chico’s bike retailers are arguably more a part of our cultural identity—after all, we are ranked within the top tier in a list of communities with the most cyclists in the nation (see page 9). Moreover, local shops encourage healthy activity that also happens to be environmentally friendly. When it comes to bikes, I’m a firm believer in buying locally. I learned that lesson the hard way. About four or five years ago, on impulse, I spent a couple hundred bucks on a model at a big-box retailer. The reproduction of a 1960s-era city bike was cute, but it didn’t take long for the thing to start squeaking. The more I used it, the more uncomfortable it became. For several years, I just kept pedaling. That changed when one of my best friends brought her bike to town during a weekend visit. She insisted I hop aboard—and that’s when I realized what it was like to ride a good bike. The ease of pedaling and switching gears, as well as the lighter frame, made riding so much more enjoyable. I was inspired to check out similar models, so I headed to one of Chico’s shops. After a couple of test rides, I settled on the perfect set of wheels and special ordered the color I wanted (powder blue). It was well worth the extra couple hundred dollars I spent over what I shelled out for the cheapie. The friendly employees put the bike together, and then adjusted it for me when I picked it up. It rides like a dream. I’m the type of person who gets on a bike for the joy of it. It’s a great way to shake off a tough day at a demanding job. It also helps me feel connected to and appreciate my surroundings—like seeing the spectacular show of dogwood blooms that happens every year around this time. I haven’t needed to service my bike, but when I do, considering how well the shop put it together, I’ll take it there. I once bought an accessory for my bike online, but for all future purchases, I’m going to head to my neighborhood shop. I won’t take it for granted, and if you appreciate yours, you shouldn’t either.

Council discussion needed Re “Ending secrecy” (Newslines, by Ashiah Scharaga, April 19): When I was a kid in the 1960s, Lindo Channel was one of our playgrounds. Fast-forward to 2018. Lindo Channel is strewn with illegal campsites. Chico is home to numerous homeless people. Some citizens are angry and frightened about those among us who are unhoused, sometimes addicted, sometimes mentally ill. These people are human beings and have the same right to be here as I do. Homelessness is a complex problem with many causes, among them wars that result in veterans’ PTSD, underfunded health services, and a cruel economic system of every man for himself and unbridled corporate power. There is no one solution, but even baby steps would help. However, our City Council won’t even take baby steps. Councilwoman Ann Schwab asked the council to direct staff to research providing public restrooms. The council refused to even consider providing this basic service. The best solution for many unhoused people simply is to house them. Fortunately, the Chico Housing Action Team is already housing 60 people in locations around town. Further, CHAT’s planned tiny house village will transition even more folks into permanent housing. Demonizing the homeless is not going to bring back “the good old days.” But compassion and work toward finding solutions will make us a better community. Nancy Park Chico

On April 17, the City Council refused to entertain Councilwoman Ann Schwab’s proposal regarding allowing City Manager Mark Orme to explore a potential partnership to implement 24/7 public bathrooms. Get that: The panel refused to allow city staff to even explore the possibility. Mayor Sean Morgan expressed frustration over the damage to the bathrooms in the plaza, and the vote fell (predictably) along party lines. I understand the damage that a handful of bad actors caused, but an

entire population is suffering. We need 24/7 bathrooms in multiple locations in whatever form it takes to accomplish this immediately, including some form of portable. It’s inhumane to fail to provide basic facilities to the 1,100-plus people living on the streets. Even those who don’t believe we should provide anything should be on board due to the potential for public health issues. The recent outbreaks of hepatitis A in Southern California should alarm all of us and move the council to take action. The costs of an outbreak will be much higher than funding this most basic level of service, not only in dollars but also in the potential for loss of life. I urge you to contact the council and ask them to reconsider this initiative. Angela McLaughlin Chico

Councilwoman Ann Schwab made a reasonable motion at the last council meeting. Her request didn’t ask for restrooms, money for restrooms, locations for restrooms or design of restrooms—it only asked for a discussion about public restrooms. Immediately prior to Schwab’s request, numerous speakers commented on the problems associated with public urination and defecation. Most would logically conclude that too much public peeing and pooping could be associated with a shortage of toilets, and they’d be right. Take Chico’s elaborate bike path network for instance: The only public toilets available along many miles of urban trails occur where paths intersect with parks or schools. A person walking or biking Chico from end to end could easily never come into contact with a single toilet, and if the need arose would be forced to improvise. Isn’t this a topic worth discussing? Scott Huber Chico

Public restrooms really do not need to be “unmitigated disaster[s],” as Mayor Sean Morgan described the use of Chico’s public restrooms during the last council meeting. Geez, every major city and township has them. Are we not major enough? For public

restrooms to function as they are supposed to, it takes competent management. With some imagination and vision, certainly discussing alternate plans for these civil necessities is reasonable. I am flummoxed by the four council members who shot down Councilwoman Ann Schwab’s proposal for the council to hear some new ideas on the matter. Are we going to continue blaming and punishing every wandering person looking for relief because of some undeniable slobs, drug-sotted or otherwise? Cathy Webster Chico

‘Negative cherry-picking’ Re “Eye on 45” (Newslines, by Melissa Daugherty, April 19): Given your Eye on 45 follows the radical left’s modus operandi of negative cherry-picking while ignoring the positives—lower taxes, record unemployment, less drugs, human trafficking, terrorists crossing the border, money/businesses pouring in, North Korea/ China bending, Isis/M-13 decimated, stock market booming, and GNP, optimism, Trump’s approval rating trending upward, etcetera—it appears to be the latter. Now that Russian collusion between Trump and Co. has been proven an Obama/Clinton/FBI/ DOJ/CNN conspiracy to ensure the election at all costs, will you embrace justice? Or side with co-conspirators who sought to supplant our constitutional right to choose a president and undermine the 15th amendment? I didn’t vote for Trump, but every American should give thanks he won, not only for the prosperity and security we’re enjoying, but, more importantly, for exposing the lengths power-brokers will go to usurp our rights. Those who attempted to denigrate the Constitution they swore to uphold must be held accountable. And so, too, should editors who feign professional journalism, but ignore Walter Williams’ creed of journalistic ethics, which includes “accuracy and fairness,” and “suppression of news” as “indefensible.” LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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Big difference, actually Re “‘Everyone is a psycho’” (Letters, by Allan Clark, April 19): In his letter in the April 19 issue of the CN&R, Allan Clark writes: “But the only difference between my .22 Ruger and an AR-15 is style.” Well, that’s not the only difference: A common round for the AR-15 is a .223 Remington 55 grain projectile. What makes the .223 potentially deadlier than the .22 is its velocity. When the .223 exits the barrel of a gun, it flies at more than 3,200 feet per second, and is still going 1,660 feet per second after traveling 500 yards. The .22, meanwhile, leaves the muzzle at 2,690 feet per second, and slows to 840 feet per second at 500 yards. At that long distance, the .223 will slam into its target with almost twice the speed of the .22. The .223 is carrying 335 foot-pounds of force, while the .22 carries 70 footpounds (from thetrace.org). From the inception of these weapons, the common thread in discussions of their advantages was the effects of the devastating impact of these high-velocity (and heavier) rounds. Were that not the case, we might just as well have sent soldiers into battle with Allan Clark’s Ruger .22. Dan Robles Chico

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At the forum The League of Women Voters will be hosting a forum for District 1 congressional candidates April 30, 7 p.m., at the Harlan Adams Theatre. On websites of Democratic candidates, there is no mention of foreign policy. This is the usual. At the forum I hope candidates will be asked about their views on foreign policy. I expect that candidates David Peterson, a former Green Party member, and

“Having an opinion on using the U.S. military to resolve conflicts or, in reality, using the military to further the ‘national interest,’ might alienate some voters, so candidates regularly ignore the issue ...” —lucy cooke

Lewis Elbinger, a current Green Party member, will have some convictions on foreign policy and have the courage to share them. Hopefully, the other candidates will do the same. Having an opinion on using the U.S. military to resolve conflicts or, in reality, using the military to further the “national interest,” might alienate some voters, so candidates regularly ignore the issue, despite the Pentagon taking about 54 percent of discretionary spending in the national budget. The recent, reckless congressional decision to throw more huge amounts of money at the Pentagon, already vastly overfunded and never audited, warrants and needs discussion. Candidates are living in la-la land if they don’t acknowledge the huge U.S. debt, with about $6 trillion of the $22 trillion debt resulting from military actions since 2001, severely limiting money for domestic needs. Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

Editor’s note: The candidates participating in the aforementioned forum include: Republican Gregory Cheadle; Democrats Audrey Denney, Jessica Holcombe and Marty Walters; and Elbinger, of the Green Party.

Speaking of candidates Federal farm subsidies are supposed to help agricultural producers manage the variations in agricultural production and profitability from year to year—due to variations in weather, market prices and other factors—while ensuring a stable food supply. Despite the rhetoric of “preserving the family farm,” most of the

subsidies go to the largest and most financially secure farm operations. Despite living in Richvale, a small rural community (population 244) with a median household income of $44,366, the Dsl LaMalfa Family Partnership received rice farm subsidies totaling $5,304,514 between 1995 and 2013. On average, the LaMalfa Partnership, in which Doug LaMalfa is the primary owner and manager, received an average of $294,695 per year for 18 years. This figure works out to 6 1/2 times Richvale’s median household income. To increase the subsidy available under federal rules, LaMalfa subdivided his family’s 2,000-acre rice farm into parcels for six family members, thus multiplying by six parts the annual $180,000 per-person “farm welfare” limit. As a member of the House Agricultural Committee, LaMalfa oversees farm subsidies. During his tenure, LaMalfa has been the largest congressional recipient of money from agricultural subsidies, according to a report released by the Environmental Working Group. This needs to end. Mark S. Gailey Chico

The voters will elect a new California governor in November. June 5, 2018, we vote in the primary election. Candidates for governor of all political parties may have their name on the ballot. The two highest vote-receivers will go to the November election regardless of their political affiliation. Delaine Eastin is one of those candidates. Voters have time to screen the candidates. Please do! Warning: Check their records. Don’t just

use their websites as sources. I researched for negative information on Eastin and only her dislike for private schools, which siphon funding away from public schools, came up. This was not a negative to me. Gov. Brown has announced that he is proud of his record, but during his tenure several agencies have lost proper funding. This concerns Eastin deeply. She sees the need to add more funding to K-12 and upper levels. When she was California state superintendent of schools, funding per student was sixth in the nation. Since then, California has dropped to 41st. She supports building homes people can afford, health care for all, and more. For more platform information go to: DelaineEastin forGovernor.com, facebook.com/ DelaineEastin4CA/ or delainefor governor.com/meetdelaine. To help the people’s candidate, call 899-7911 or robink48@ hotmail.com John P. Martinez Chico

Remembering old Chico Turn back Chico’s clock 25 to 30 years. You’ll find a bucolic town economically balanced with Chico State. Violent crime is nonexistent. Gangs, the homeless and graffiti are unknown. The sky is blue, the water clear, the roads uncongested. Overgrowth began with greedy developers unrestrained—even encouraged by city councils, planning commissions and staff. All buying into the demented “bigger is better” rationalism. We saw it coming, tried to control growth and protect Chico’s fragile environment, its way of life. Our slogan was, “No Way, San Jose.” By democratic vote, the developments planned at the mouth of Bidwell Park were defeated. Our crown jewel stands protected. We can only hope that what is left of old Chico can be protected and preserved. Jerry Olio Chico

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On Monday (April 23), Chico State’s Associated Students Dining Services stopped offering plastic straws on campus as part of the

Strawless Campaign launched by the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy. The student-owned auxiliary organization hopes to cut back on waste while educating students and faculty about its effects on the planet. The Chico campus alone consumes 130,000 plastic straws each academic year, according to a press release. That’s a drop in the bucket compared with the 500 million straws used each day in the United States, but according to the Ocean Conservancy, straws are among the top 10 discarded single-use plastics that wind up in our waterways. A.S. Dining is offering alternatives to plastic—paper straws dipped in beeswax and stainless steel straw kits, which come with a cleaning brush. For more on the Strawless Campaign, go to strawlessocean.org.

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About a year ago, when Enloe Medical Center added a canine staffer, Enloe, to its ranks, the Labrador retriever was just a puppy. He immediately began training at the In Situ Foundation’s Chico facility, where he’s been learning to detect cancer via breath and fluid samples. Now, Enloe’s ready to move up a grade level, thanks to patients at the Enloe Regional Cancer Center, who have donated breath samples to increase his training. Since January, the center has collected 80 samples. All were provided voluntarily through a noninvasive breathing mask participants wear while answering a questionnaire. “Without samples, we have no cancersniffing dog,” Daphne Zaphiris, In Situ’s founder and CEO, said in a press release, adding that “Enloe is motivated and extremely excited when he arrives at our training center to start work.”

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The Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (April 24) voted unanimously to appoint Shari McCracken as chief administrative officer, effective immediately. She’d served in an interim capacity since November, when former CAO Paul Hahn announced his retirement. McCracken (pictured) is an alumna of Chico State and had served as deputy CAO for Butte County since 2005. Board chair Steve Lambert called her “the natural choice” for the position. “I am excited to continue working with our dedicated team, identifying innovative solutions to address the service needs of our residents and enhance our communities, while maintaining fiscal stability for the county,” McCracken said in a press release. 8

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racing the clock Can Chico State erase its carbon footprint by 2030?

Cenvironmentally tomorrow” has resonated with a class of conscious students. For hico State’s motto “today decides

Natalie Kinney, it means the university must make decisions now to ensure a better future for story and photo by the planet and generaAshiah tions to come. Scharaga Though the university pledged in 2007 to as h i a h s @ n ew srev i ew. c o m become climate neutral by 2030, Kinney and her peers feel that Chico State is not keeping its promise, with a new campus building, Siskiyou 2, serving as a prime example. So, they decided to do something about it, gathering more than 1,500 signatures to put an initiative on the student ballot that asks the Associated Students to encourage the university to reaffirm this pledge, the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, made by former President Paul Zingg and other university presidents. The students suggested starting with Siskiyou 2, which they believe isn’t adequately eco-friendly. Last week, the campus sent administrators a clear message: 86 percent of the student body voted in favor of their initiative. Siskiyou 2, a three-story, $101 mil-

lion facility, is projected to emit the equivalent of 664 metric tons of carbon dioxide (MTCO2E) annually—a relatively small amount when compared with the campus’ total output of more than 30,000 MTCO2E—relying on electricity, mainly, and natural gas for heating and cooling. It will serve as the university’s new physical sciences building. “This building is better than the buildings we have now, but it’s still not the best,” Kinney said. “Let’s be before the curve … how is this building going to help, versus adding more emissions into the atmosphere?” The problem is that the university already scheduled construction for this fall. University President Gayle Hutchinson explained in a letter to students that construction cannot be delayed because that would “cost millions of dollars” and “result in increased carbon emissions.” Sisikiyou 2 is “at the cutting edge of what can be done to reduce the energy demand and climate impact of a laboratory science building,” wrote Hutchinson, who recommitted to the climate neutrality pledge two years ago. The net impact will be less than it seems, added David Hassenzahl, dean

of the College of Natural Sciences. The building will essentially replace two others—Siskiyou Hall is planned for demolition, and Siskiyou 2 will house the offices and classrooms of the current Physical Science Building, though its future use is unknown. Combined, the two buildings emit about 970 MTCO2E. The issue is bigger than just one building,

however. Students have criticized the administration for its approach toward sustainability. Climate neutrality is unattainable, they say, given the university’s reliance upon nonrenewable energy, like its natural gas-powered boiler-chiller plant (most recently updated/expanded last summer) and the addition of several nonclimate-neutral buildings in the last 10 years. The latest greenhouse gas emissions report (released Wednesday by Second Nature, the organization backing the university presidents’ climate commitment), shows the campus’ emissions increasing from 26,869 MTCO2E in 2011 to 30,820 MTCO2E in 2015. There was a spike in 2013, with levels reaching 41,338 MTCO2E. Though Chico State has achieved a gold ranking in the Sustainability

Students hustle to their next class on a warm day this week outside Siskiyou Hall, which will be replaced with Chico State’s new physical sciences building, slated for construction this fall. PHOTO BY ASHIAH SCHARAGA

Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), there are some sections of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education program that show room for improvement. Notably, 0.87 percent of the campus’ energy is consumed from clean and renewable sources—that’s less than 1 percent. However, Fletcher Alexander, sustainability coordinator for the university’s Institute for Sustainable Development, noted this doesn’t include the 33 percent of renewable sources from PG&E’s grid. “We’re aware that expanding renewable generation is a priority,” he said. Alexander also pointed out the university’s strengths in the STARS report, which include a near-perfect score in curriculum, and perfect score for outreach and innovation/leadership. Also, building energy consumption decreased by about 7 percent per unit of floor area. Moving forward, the university is

updating its 2005 master plan, which establishes guidelines for the campus’ physical growth. Part of it will detail how it will get to climate neutrality by 2030. The A.S. sustainability coordinator, a student position, will be part of the development process. A.S. President Alisha Sharma said in the fall she’ll bring the climate initiative to the A.S. board of directors, which will decide if it wants to prepare any recommendation for the university. Getting to the 2030 goal isn’t going to be easy, Hassenzahl acknowledged. “To get there, we’re going to have to be using an electrical grid that is not reliant upon fossil fuels. … And then we need to figure out how we offset our use of natural gas. I think even if we had all the financial resources in the world right now, it would be really hard to do it. The technology is not there.” Maggie Scarpa, A.S. Sustainability Affairs commissioner, isn’t convinced the university is doing enough. The campus needs to lower its emissions, explore more solar options and make long-term investments in green infrastructure, she said. “We have a lot of education around sustainability, we have this huge conference around sustainability, which is amazing, but our actions don’t represent what our actual mission is, and it’s disappointing,” Scarpa said. Ω

Surveillance state Legislation would ensure transparency when law enforcement uses facial-recognition software It only took minutes for George Orwell’s 1984 to be invoked during

an April 3 hearing at the state Capitol, where law enforcement and civil liberty advocates reached very different conclusions about the risk-reward ratio for new—and, in some cases, predictive— technologies. The debate happened before the California Senate Public Safety Committee. Sen. Jerry Hill, representing the Silicon Valley, was expressing concern about some of the software his own district produces. His Senate Bill 1186 would make law enforcement agencies follow the same transparency requirements that currently apply to license-plate readers and cellphone trackers when those agencies use video surveillance and facial recognition software, some of which are now operating on social media platforms. Specifically, the proposed law would require police and sheriffs’ departments to have an official policy, approved by their respective local government, about the use of their surveillance technologies, while also delivering biannual reports on exactly how they’ve used the tech. “If police agencies want to search your car, your phone or your house, they have to get a warrant; but many agencies have technologies that can track where you go, who you talk to and what you say in public, without any safeguards,” Hill told the committee. “Law enforcement will argue that creating transparency provides a surveillance road-map to criminals. This is not the case. The mere knowledge of a police tactic does not render it useless.” One of the interests arguing against Hill’s proposal was the California Police Chiefs Association. CPCA’s Joshua Feldman said the new law would impose a bureaucratic burden on agencies, especially rural and small city police departments that have only a handful of officers and no administrative staffs. Feldman also said it would stymie future crime-fighting possibilities. “I was on a panel about artificial intelligence and the growth of technology as it’s used in law enforcement, and yes, there’s a lot of stuff that’s being developed that probably gives a lot of folks some privacy concerns,” Feldman acknowledged. “But there’s also a tremendous potential for it to benefit public safety. If we look at some of these mass events of violence that have been taking place around the country, to be able to spot those events early and prevent them, get in front of them, stop them from happening, that’s what this technology is going to do. If you get too restrictive and slow us down from using it, you’re gong to see those benefits go away.” Locally, Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien agrees that SB 1186 is burdensome, but he

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Senate Bill 1186 would require law enforcement transparency when using video surveillance and facial-recognition software.

said there are benefits to vetting new technologies. He pointed to the change in law surrounding searching a person’s cellphone. “It used to be that if we placed a person under arrest and they had a cellphone, it was fair game to download the contents of that phone,” O’Brien said. “Then, with technological advances and the changes in how those phones were viewed— they’re no longer just telephones—the case law changed in relation to that, and then for us to access the contents, it would take a court process. That’s a good and healthy thing. As technology changes, we have to look at it comprehensively to avoid violating people’s constitutional rights.” As far as SB 1186, he said there are portions that he sees as valid, but he believes those are already covered in other laws. For instance, the requirement to not share information gleaned from facial-recognition software with entities other than law enforcement is something that the department would already adhere to based on current policies. Plus, he sees the need to create a new policy for every new technology and to bring it to a governing board seems tedious and unnecessary. Despite opposition from an array of law enforcement groups, the public safety committee voted 5-1 to push the bill forward. On April 17, the bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee, 4-2. Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told Feldman and his colleagues why she supported the bill. “This is philosophical on one hand, but part of it is about secrecy,” Jackson said. “Because you have certain surveillance approaches you take and you want to keep them, if you will, secret. So that becomes a problem.” —SCOTT T. ANDERSON sc o t ta @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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Animal Place brings anti-factory farming message to Chico State for its student prisoners to stand, Tandroom the early afternoon was already satuhe metal cage barely offered enough

rated with springtime heat, mirroring the intensity of what they were learning. There was no cause for alarm, because they entered willingly, able to leave whenever they liked. But that’s more than can be said for the chickens that spend their entire lives in comparable conditions. Grace Amico, Animal Place’s “brave the cage” outreach coordinator, explained the significance of the experience to Jamie Cabrera, 21, and her friend Andrew Cobian, 18, as the three stuffed themselves into the cage. The nonprofit, based in Grass Valley, has rescued neglected and abused farm animals since 1989, and visited Chico State earlier this week to share the harsh realities of factory farming with students and encourage them to change their diets. Most chickens spend about two years in such confines, Amico told Cabrera and Cobian, after which they are killed as their egg production declines (male chicks are killed once their sex is determined). When the hens are raised this way, they become stressed, she continued, which often translates into aggressive pecking behavior and even cannibalism. Rather than provide more space, farmers typically “debeak” the animals, a process in which a chicken’s sensitive beak is clipped or burned, to curb this behavior. “All this cruelty happens when people are treating animals as commodities … when really, they are living, breathing beings,” Amico told the CN&R later. The cage definitely made an impression on Cabrera, who was inside for less than a minute and said she felt “squashed and couldn’t breathe.” As a child, Cabrera raised chickens with her family. “Thinking of putting them in a tiny place breaks my heart,” she said. Because factory farming results in the slaughter of 10 billion animals each year in the U.S., Animal Place promotes a vegan lifestyle, according to its website. In addition to outreach, the organization’s 600-acre sanctuary in Grass Valley provides refuge for 300 animals from farms, slaughterhouses, research facilities and neglect/cruelty cases. There, it offers farm tours, cooking classes and workshops, along with volunteer and internship opportunities.

Animal Place’s visit Monday (April 23) was punctuated by Farm Sanctuary’s recent announcement that it’s closing its 300-acre Orland facility. That farm-animal rescue organization is planning to shepherd the 246 animals that live there to its other sanctuaries after 25 years in the North State. President and co-founder Gene Baur said rescuing animals remains an important part of what the organization does, but it is shifting its focus to advocacy, education and demonstrating real solutions to the global food crisis in urban areas. Orland is beautiful, but remote, which provided challenges, Baur said by phone More info: from Farm Sanctuary’s headquarFind out more about the cage-free ters in Watkins Glen, N.Y. He initiative at preventcrueltyca.com added that he is glad the sanctuary movement has taken off globally and there are other sanctuaries in Northern California that will continue to rescue animals and provide hands-on education. Animal activism is also manifesting itself this year in the form of a

new California ballot initiative. It builds upon momentum gained with the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (Proposition 2), which, as of 2015, prohibits confinement that doesn’t allow certain farm animals to turn around, lie down, stand up or extend their limbs. Many California egg producers have kept their cages, however, reducing how many birds are in each cage to give them slightly more space, the Humane Society of the United States wrote in a press release. The organization, along with a coalition of animal

PUBLIC WORKSHOP Chico State students Andrew Cobian and Jamie Cabrera “brave the cage” with Grace Amico of Animal Place during an outreach event on campus Monday. photo by AshiAh schArAgA

protection, veterinary and food safety groups, has been collecting signatures for an initiative for the November ballot that would require all eggs produced and sold in California to come from cage-free birds that have at least 1 square foot of space each by 2022. Policy changes like these do come with a price, according to a Purdue University study, which revealed that Prop. 2 affected egg production and pricing. California produced more than 5 billion eggs every year from 2008 to 2013, but that number dropped to less than 3.5 billion by 2016, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. By fall 2016, egg prices were about 9 percent higher. The Humane Society cites economic analyses from the egg industry, however, that argue it will cost about a penny or two more per egg to go cage-free. More than 250 major retailers, including McDonald’s, Safeway, Costco and Walmart, have already made pledges to only use eggs from cagefree chickens, which will be phased in over a number of years. An alternative to supporting factory farms is to buy eggs from local farmers who can attest to their animals’ treatment, or even to raise your own hens, though Amico and Baur both advocate for veganism. Baur said it’s his hope that a vegan lifestyle will become more mainstream for the health of people, animals and the planet. He’s been encouraged by the development of alternatives like almond milk and “meatless meat,” which weren’t available when he became vegan in 1985 (a year before Farm Sanctuary was founded). “Cage-free systems are less horrible, but they’re still pretty horrible. The hens are debeaked and overcrowded, and then, when they’re no longer useful, they’re killed,” he said. “Ultimately the hens and animals are seen as commodities, as production units, not as fellow earthlings, not as companions who deserve our respect and compassion.” —AshiAh schArAgA ashiahs@ n ew sr ev i ew. com

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HEALTHLINES Michael Judson-Carr, board member of the Lyme Center, says park-trail signs (such as this one near Caper Acres) tangibly show his group’s outreach work.

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rainstorms, Michael Judson-Carr took Ea short walk through Bidwell Park. This arly last week, during a break between

might not seem a noteworthy achievement, particularly for a gentleman with his poise and bearing—except for the fact that he couldn’t have made even such a brief effort just a couple years prior. His destination was a sign near Caper Acres, where a dirt path diverges from the paved pathway. The sign advises park-goers of ticks; it’s one of 20 purchased by the Lyme Center, a local nonprofit dedicated to Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, for placement in parks around Chico. Judson-Carr serves as a board member for the Lyme Center. He’s also a Lyme disease patient—something he discovered in 2015, despite symptoms (including two

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related co-infections) dating as far back as the 1970s. The other board members, including acting chair Lisa Sun and secretary-treasurer Sue Slater, also suffer from Lyme disease. Fatigue is a common symptom; so are joint pain, muscle aches, cognitive impairment and fevers. Founded in 2012, the organization “for a number of years was a very small group of very sick people who basically didn’t get very much accomplished,” Judson-Carr said, “except a fundraiser once a year and having some information meetings. “It’s within the last 18 months that our group has gotten active—proactive—and decided, ‘By God, we’re going to go after it.’” The warning signs represent a “tangible manifestation” of what the Lyme Center calls its “ambitious agenda” encompassing patient support and community outreach. The group has two events scheduled this year: Lyme Aid, its annual fundraiser coinciding with Lyme Disease Awareness Month, May 4 (see infobox); and education-

al seminars for health-care professionals and the public, Oct. 25 at the Enloe Conference Center. Support group meetings have become monthly standards, regularly drawing two dozen attendees from around the North State, sometimes as far as Sacramento. The Lyme Center also operates a helpline (8776666); Judson-Carr typically fields the calls and says he’s spoken with people across the country. As for the signs, they’re predominantly in Upper Park, along with ones in Lower Park, and targeted for Lindo Channel, Teichert Ponds, Annie’s Glen, Lost Park, Verbena Fields, Comanche Creek, Little Chico Creek and Bidwell River Park. Linda Herman, the city’s parks and natural resource manager, told the CN&R that Bidwell Park already had signage with tick

advisories, “but the park is so big that [we] could always use more signs.” The Lyme Center’s signs are larger, as well. The project “furthered our educational efforts that we were already doing,” she added, “so we appreciated the help that they were providing us.” Erik Gustafson, the city’s director of public works (operations and maintenance), said the city partners with multiple organizations to inform the public about illnesses spread by ticks. “It’s something to really be vigilant about,” said Gustafson, who oversees the Park Division. “For folks who have contracted Lyme disease, it’s a lifelong condition and difficult condition to manage, so we really want the public to be aware and keep a lookout for ticks when they’re using the park—because they’re there.” Judson-Carr has no idea when or where he

contracted Lyme disease. “I’ll be honest with you, it doesn’t really matter to me anymore,” he said. “I know I’ve got the disease.” Now 67, he’s led an active life of hiking and camping, on top of a 25-year career in newspaper journalism in San Diego County followed by business ownership in Palm Springs and event management for the Calgary Stampede, a festival and rodeo in Canada. “Once you understand that you can be bitten by a tick and show no evidence of being bitten by a tick, and then develop HEALTHLINES c o n t i n u e d

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Chapmantown Family Wellness Fair Dozens of community organizations will be offering information and free health screenings at this neighborhood event sponsored by Enloe Medical Center and the Love Chapmantown Community Coalition. The Chapmantown Family Wellness Fair will have free activities, food tastings, bike helmet fittings, games and more for the whole family, while you learn about the wide array of resources available in our community. North State Food Bank, Legal Services of Northern California, Northern Valley Indian Health and others will have informational booths, and you can check out the city’s proposed plans for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over Little Chico Creek. The event runs from noon-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, at Chapman Elementary.

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what we call ‘Lyme disease onslaught symptoms’ weeks later, you wouldn’t even possibly connect it,” Judson-Carr said. “I began to exhibit in my youth these neurological problems that were strange, like partial paralysis,” he said. Later in adulthood, Judson-Carr became afflicted with fevers, akin to malaria. Those turned out to be linked with a co-infection of Lyme disease, which got diagnosed in Chico. He left Canada for here three years ago to care for his 98-yearold mother. His primary care provider found his symptoms reminiscent of a different tick-borne infection, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. On a hunch, she had him tested for Lyme. Bingo. Interestingly, over the next several months, he’d test both positive and negative for Lyme disease. That’s because tests vary in accuracy, and none are perfect. Mitch Hoggard, a pharmacist who works with two of the three Chico practitioners treating Lyme patients, explained that the disease is diagnosed clinically—that is, by deductions based on the person’s condition—rather than testing alone. Unfortunately for those with

The lyme Center will hold its fifth annual music and information fundraiser—lyme aid—May 4 at 6 p.m. at the Chico Women’s Club. Visit thelymecenter.org for more on the event and the group.

undetected Lyme, the bacteria (in the same family as syphilis, which is called “the great imitator”) can mimic other diseases and “affect any organ or system in the body,” Hoggard said, yielding 60 symptoms. Moreover, related bacteria also carried by ticks often get conveyed in the same bite, bringing on aforementioned co-infections. Some practitioners receive special training through an organization, ILADS, to become “Lyme-literate” health professionals. According to Judson-Carr and Hoggard, local patients seeking physicians certified by the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society must go to Sacramento or San Francisco. In Chico, Hoggard coordinates care for Lyme patients of Dr. Hugo Leon and Dr. Kurt Johnson at Mangrove Medical; nurse practitioner Maureen Breese sees Lyme patients at Chico Premiere Primary Care. Judson-Carr continues to receive primary care here but also sees an ILADS-certified specialist in Sacramento. □

WEEKLY DOSE Secondhand vaping is harmful to kids “Vapor” sounds benign, but it’s not. Just because what comes out of a vape pen or e-cigarette looks different than secondhand smoke from a traditional cigarette doesn’t mean it’s harmless. The surgeon general has warned that e-cig emissions contain harmful chemicals and that children are vulnerable because of their growing lungs. Plus, nicotine stunts adolescent brain development. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, however, many Americans believe e-cig aerosol is safe. Forty percent of adults in the U.S. believe that secondhand aerosol from e-cigarettes causes only some or little harm to children and 5 percent think it’s harmless. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the country, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths each year. While vaping may be less harmful to your health, it’s still affecting the people around you, especially children. Avoid vaping in enclosed spaces with kids, especially cars or your home.

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Ethat’s are on edge over a congressional bill being promoted as a remedy for ailing nvironmentalists and forest ecologists

forests, but appears to be a gift package for logging interests. The legislation comes from Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove), chairman of the powerful Federal Lands Subcommittee, a politician known for strident pro-industry positions and a defiant denial of science— from climate change to wildlife ecology. The way McClintock tells it, his bill will help dying forests. He places the cause for forests’ plight not only on the drought that has plagued California and the Western United States, but also on environmental regulations that limit logging. Forests have become overgrown, he points out, with trees now scrapping for elbow room, water and sunlight. He frequently quotes what he refers to as an adage that he probably coined himself: “Excess timber comes out of the forest one way or the other. It is either carried out, or it burns out.” Indeed, trees are hurting in the Sierra Nevada and throughout parts of the West. In the Sierra alone, more than 100 million conifers have died since the beginning of the drought, in 2012. Nationwide, the number is 6.3 billion. These dead trees have already

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contributed to a dramatic increase in wildfires. McClintock says his bill will fix that. “Under the status quo, we have lost hundreds of square miles of endangered species habitat to fire,” McClintock wrote in a statement emailed to N&R. His solution? Bring on the chainsaws. The idea comes with his House Resolution

865, the Emergency Forest Restoration Act, which died in 2016 and was reintroduced about a year ago. The bill would give states a “categorical exclusion” from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, a law, along with the Endangered Species Act, that McClintock has railed against. Critics say McClintock’s bill ignores science and caters to the timber industry while generally ignoring the interests of voters. Jessica Morse, who is challenging McClintock in the primary election, blames him for deeper-rooted issues that have hamstrung forest managers and ultimately harmed the state’s forests. “The underfunding of the Forest Service is the problem,” she said. “They’ve been hit by the budget cuts that Tom McClintock voted for.” The U.S. Forest Service has long employed two fuel-reduction strategies, thinning forests so that wildfires are not able to spread or intensify beyond firefighters’ ability to control them. In one tactic, dry brush is cleared by teams on the ground to

prevent sparks from jumping, small trees that burn readily are removed, and branches that enable fires to reach into forest canopies are pruned. Prescribed burns achieve the same result. Cuts to the USFS budget have reduced both of these practices. In the place of these surgical practices, McClintock’s forest bill would amend NEPA to allow potentially large logging sales on public land with virtually no public oversight or environmental review, so long as a governor declares an insect or disease outbreak to be an emergency. “This creates the potential for a state governor to declare a state of emergency over insect or disease issues, which are often a natural part of a healthy forest, and the public would have no say in it,” said Justin Augustine, an Oakland-based attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, who has been closely watching McClintock’s forest bill. Chad Hanson, an ecologist and the director of the John Muir Project, a conservation and advocacy group, said McClintock’s bill is based on so many fallacies and myths promoted by the logging industry “that it doesn’t even pass the laugh test.” “Don’t be fooled. He wants to clear-cut, and not just small trees but old-growth trees, too,” Hanson said. According to research published in 2015 by the National Academy of Sciences, there were fewer large trees and more small trees in California forests in the early 2000s than there were in the 1930s. The author, Patrick

McIntyre, a former California Department of Fish and Wildlife ecologist, says total forest biomass—a basic metric of living material often used to gauge ecological productivity— is down as a result. Further reducing biomass by cutting down forests populated by insectkilled trees would be harmful, he says. McIntyre, now a plant ecologist with the Virginia-based NatureServe, said dead trees play valuable roles in forest ecology, providing food and habitat for a range of organisms. While he does not oppose some logging in the damaged forests McClintock purports to be concerned about, McIntyre says the bill goes too far. Working with scientists Curtis Bradley and Dominick DellaSala, Hanson published a study in the journal Ecosphere in 2016 that found that logging does not reduce fire intensity, as logging proponents often say. Hanson and his colleagues studied 1,500 wildfires that occurred between 1984 and 2014 across 20 million acres of the American West. What they found goes counter to the story McClintock is pedaling, that decreased logging causes more fires. In science-speak: “Burn severity tended to be higher in areas with lower levels of protection status,” McIntyre reports. Which is to say: If we want to save trees, we must protect forests—not create a loophole big enough for a logging truck to drive through. Hanson explains that logging activity can increase fire intensity through several mechanisms. For one, he said, loggers tend

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to leave behind piles of highly flammable branches and trimmings. Also, the material they remove—tree trunks—are the least combustible part of a forest. Finally, logging opens the canopy and allows sunlight to generate very flammable, low-lying shrubbery while also making the forest floor hotter and drier. “The false notion that more logging will reduce fire risk and intensity is at the core of the McClintock bill, and it’s absolutely bogus,” he said. Jens Stevens, a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, agrees with one element of McClintock’s claims—that the state’s forests are overgrown. Stevens believes California’s forests need to be mechanically thinned and then, where safe and feasible, treated with prescribed burns. McClintock insists his bill will help

forests by expediting beneficial logging projects. “The intent is to reduce paperwork, delay and cost,” he explained. He added that his bill would restrict intensive environmental analyses to “proposed actions that truly have the potential to cause significant environmental effects.” His attempt with his so-called Emergency Forest Restoration Act is part of a career-spanning mission to defeat what he colorfully described on the floor of the U.S. House as “the nihilistic vision of the environmental left: increasingly

severe government-induced shortages … and a permanently declining quality of life for our children, who will be required to stretch and ration every drop of water and every watt of electricity in their bleak and dimly lit homes.” As chair of the federal lands committee, McClintock is one of the most powerful anti-environmental forces in Washington, with power over not only the public lands in his district (including Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe National Park) but also similar jewels in all 50 states. This latest logging bill is one of many he has introduced aimed at getting timber-cutters back in the woods. Hanson noted that McClintock’s stance on climate change is evident in his forest bill. “Climate science is telling us we need to sequester carbon, that reducing fossil fuel use isn’t enough,” he said. “We have to be protecting forests, and McClintock is proposing we do the opposite.” Augustine said he expects the Emergency Forest Restoration Act to fail because it may be too drastic a proposal to gain congressional approval. However, he suspects some of the bill’s components could be attached as riders to other bills that have broader bipartisan support. Morse warned that McClintock’s flawed forest-management strategies could have long-lasting impacts. A better plan to help the state’s trees: “More funding for fire prevention.” “If you make a wrong move with forest management, it can have consequences that can last decades,” she said. “Our watersheds and our water supplies could be affected.” Ω

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I remember very vividly being here with my dad when he was measuring this place, before anything ever happened, just to see if it was the right size place. I was 5 years old, but I remember being up at that front corner and he handed me the end of a tape measure and he said, “Run back to the back wall, put it up against the wall.” I remember that like it was yesterday.

What was it like growing up here? When I was 14 years old, that’s when I really started working for real. I had my own schedule, my own shifts, busing tables, washing dishes. At lunch time, there would be a line of nothing but high school kids from the register out the door. Those high school kids from the ’80s, they’re coming in with their kids now. I’ll find parents back here sometimes pointing out their face in a little league picture to their kids.

Do you have a family that will take over the business from you? I have a wife and three children; they’ve all worked here. My son might want to take this over, I keep on checking. I’m not in a hurry, I’m still pretty young.

What would you say is the secret to your success? Quality, value, customer service—those are the big three. I mean, I don’t know if people realize that every single thing we do here is from scratch, every day, fresh. We have a consistency here, people are amazed that it tastes the same over the years. In 48 years now, we’ve had two cooks. When our original cook retired, her daughter took over for her, and she’s been doing it ever since. Now that’s consistency. —CaThy WaGnER

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The chicken sandwich I had last Friday (April 20) was quite possibly the best fried chicken sandwich I’ve had in years. For a soft opening of a restaurant, I’d say this one is on the right track! The Lab Bar and Grill is Chico’s newest eating and imbibing establishment, and it came together seemingly overnight. Owner Kevin Jaradah (of Spike’s Bottle Shop) got the keys and a week later, he’d finished repainting the whole thing, scrubbing down the kitchen and hiring staff. Overall, the place looks and feels great. I’d stopped in to visit earlier in the week and had a chance to chat it up with the head chef, Christopher Olmstead. Originally from Idaho, he’s studied the culinary arts in the U.S., Italy and Thailand. For the past 35 years, he’s worked as a personal chef. I was impressed with his résumé—and his philosophy on food, which is right in line with mine: Good food starts with good ingredients, making things from scratch takes longer but is worth it, and heart is integral to the recipe. He mentioned his buttermilk fried chicken during our conversation, and I think I started drooling a little. The sandwich was simple, to be sure: fried chicken breast, onions, tomato, lettuce, pickles and mayo on a Tin Roof challah bun. I also ordered the grilled cheese with bacon jam—I brought half of each home to the man. My friends Joan and Mike, who accompanied me, had the burger and the grilled cheese. Both were quite pleased. Mike and I agreed that maybe one more slice of cheese would make the grilled cheese just that much better. Besides a predictably eclectic beer list, Jaradah already has started building his whiskey shelf, and Olmstead promised a good variety of wines as well. Beers are served in beakers, as they should be in a Lab. (The location, in a mostly medical complex and next door to Quest Diagnostics, is fitting.) Along the lines of a tap takeover, Jaradah plans to have educational tasting nights in the banquet room with reps from whiskey makers. On weekends, there will be barbecue from brand-spanking-new Southern Zen Barbecue, owned by L.A. native Kevin Klemm. I’m excited to watch this venture grow. Check out The Lab on Facebook or in person at 250 Cohasset Road, Ste. 10 (previously The End Zone).

La Comida, perpetual winner of the CN&R readers’ poll for Best Cheap Eats, is celebrating 50 years of food, family and community in Chico. Owner Mike Pavis says it was his dad, Mike Pavis Sr., who started the business and made it what it is. In the early years, Mike Sr. was famous for his friendliness—he would sit and socialize with diners regularly. Today, the restaurant is known for its quick in-and-out service and a family atmosphere that invites people to bring their kids and feel at home. The food, too, keeps people coming back—it’s affordable, comforting and offers a dash of nostalgia for longtime customers. Over the years, La Comida has given back to the community by putting on fundraiser dinners for Shasta Elementary School plays and sponsoring little league, soccer and roller hockey teams. Visit the Chico location at 954 Mangrove Ave. for Taco Tuesdays or try one of their new lunch specials. There’s also a Paradise location (at 6155 Skyway). Go to lacomidarestau rants.com for more info.

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Care for a sliCe? There are three new pizza places planning to open in town. The first, Chicago’s Pizza With a Twist, is by far the most interesting. It is going in to the Safeway shopping center on Nord Avenue. What’s the twist, you ask? The pizzas are Indian-themed. Think chicken tikka masala pizza, or chicken curry pizza. (Incidentally, nearly across the street, in the old Bulldog Taqueria spot, are signs for Taj Indian Restaurant.) Then there’s Drifter Pizza Co., which appears to have started in Sebastopol and is a mobile, wood-fired pizza kitchen. It’s on the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market list of vendors, so watch out. The other is Inferno Wood-Fired Pizza and Catering, also mobile, which plans to open any day now.

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CN&R explores Chico’s love affair with bicycles

t’s hard to believe this marks the 10th installment of the CN&R’s popular Bike Issue. Over the years, we’ve chronicled many major improvements to our region’s pedestrian and cycling infrastructure—think the Annie’s Glen tunnel, the bike lanes on Second Street, and the betterconnected Bikeway 99—and highlighted the areas that are desperately in need of work. But for this, our 10th annual Bike Issue, we sought to capture the less-tangible aspect of bicycling. To do so, we reached out to bike shop owners and managers to get their take on just how Chico is able to sustain so many bicyclerelated businesses. The answer: Each adds a little something different to the local bike culture, encourages new riders by making the activity accessible and, naturally, all are crazy about life on two wheels.

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store’s motto is basically: “Get outside.” Schrock wants to see more people hopping on their bikes and connecting with one another by riding together, whether that’s during the shop’s Sunday easy rides, Women on Wheels outings ast fall, about a dozen Chico mountain bikers drove or men and women’s beginner and intermediate mountain 100 miles southeast, grabbing their gear and climbing, and road bike trips. The shop has tried to become “the via shuttle, nearly 8,000 feet into the heart of the Sierra hub for group rides in Chico,” he said. Buttes near Downieville. Brandon Andrews, the group’s The groups, led by employees as well as community leader, smiled while recalling the perfect day: It was a members, offer not just adventure, but also a supportive crisp autumn morning, and his first group outing with community, said Andrews, who has collected most of North Rim Adventure Sports. Though the bikers his scars from spills on mountain trails. Before he that day were of varying athleticism, the ride started working at the shop about a year and a had a great “synergy.” half ago, he was exploring alone. Now he has “You’d have people who’d race down fellow shredders with him on the trail. Taking the hill and others who’d trail behind, North Rim the lead during outings has helped him learn but we all had the same amount of fun,” Adventure Sports: a lot about his own riding style as well. Andrews said. “At the end of the day, 178 E. Second St., “There’s always someone here who can we were able to just have a beer and talk 345-2453, push you or take you to that next level,” he about this awesome day we had.” northrimadventure.com said. North Rim’s owner, Tyler Schrock, Though North Rim is considered a highruns the Meet, Shred and Eat group for end shop, offering bike brands like Trek, Salsa, mountain bikers with Andrews. Though he’s Santa Cruz and Giant, it has started offering midbeen running the store for only three years, he level models. Keeping in line with Schrock’s goal of was an employee for 13 years prior, and the shop’s welcoming all customers, it sells children’s bikes (includservice center manager. ing balance bikes, which have no pedals) all the way Since Schrock’s been steering the operation, he’s tried to high-end mountain and road bikes, and even electric to build upon the store’s foundation, originally laid out bikes. by Paul McIntyre and John Alden in 1997, then under “We still want to be on the cutting edge for the road the name Bike Lane. During his leadership, the store has bikes and the mountain bikes, but we want to embrace the honed its bike servicing skills, expanded the inventory families, too,” Schrock said. “We just love to be a friendly and steadily increased the number and variety of free bicycling groups it hosts, with the goal of welcoming bik- place to come.” A lot of older folks who can no longer drive or don’t ers of all means and abilities, not just thrill-seeking mounget around as easily as they used to have asked about the tain explorers. “Whether it’s a leisurely stroll through Bidwell Park or motorized, battery-powered bikes, which are easier to use a fast-paced road ride or mountain ride,” Schrock said, the than traditional bikes because they aren’t as demanding

Brandon Andrews assembles a bike at North Rim Adventure Sports’ service center in downtown Chico. PHOTO BY ASHIAH SCHARAGA

when it comes to traversing hills and facing headwind. In an effort to make beginners feel welcome, the store has also started offering roadside training classes that teach bikers basic safety and skills, like how to fix a flat. This year, 100 folks got together to prepare for the Wildflower Century in a training hosted by leader John Wiesinger. When it comes to the store’s service center, Schrock said he used automotive service centers as inspiration for professionalism and appearance. Employees have developed their technical skills at bicycle repair and mechanical training sessions as far away as Madison, Wisc., and as close as Sacramento. The store is now certified by Trek Bicycle Corp. and Shimano, an international company that manufactures bicycle components. Mechanics have also been trained to work on Bosch electric bikes. “Basically, anything on a bike, we can fix,” Schrock said, “whether that be electronics on an e-bike or suspension on a full-suspension bike.” The store has always been known for its progressiveness, and that’s something Schrock has continued to embrace: “If there’s something new out there, we’re usually the first ones to jump on it,” he said. At the end of the day, it all comes down to promoting cycling, and “whatever we can do to keep you on your bike,” Schrock said. “We want to sell you your first bike all the way to your last.” —ASHIAH SCHARAGA as hi ahs @ n ew sr ev i ew. com

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business wasn’t growing in a way that would provide the security he needed for his family. hen Dax Downey was preparing to open Greenline Downey says he always planned to open a location in Cycles in Chico, he put paper over the windows of Chico, where he grew up and worked at a local bike shop, the space at 515 Main St. But that made people Family Cyclery, back in the 1980s. But by the time he got more curious, and oftentimes, when the door was serious about it, the effort was a “Hail Mary.” He open, passersby would peek in and ask what scraped together just enough to open a modest sort of business was going in there. storefront in a small retail space in the building Downey always answered with enthuthat houses the Senator Theatre. siasm: “A bike shop!” Greenline Cycles: “If it was any bigger, I couldn’t have 515 Main St., 894-7885, The response was nearly always afforded paint on the walls,” he quipped. greenlinecycles.com something along the lines of: “Are you If it didn’t work out, Downey told himSearch “Chico Seersucker serious?” self, he was going to get out of the busiRide 2018” on Facebook He understood the skepticism. After ness altogether. But that was not to be— to learn more about the all, at the time, about seven years ago, annual spring ride. Greenline was welcomed by the community. Chico was home to 10 specialty bicycle Sales were immediate, though it took longer retailers. That number made him a little nerfor the service side to catch on through word of vous, Downey acknowledged, since research mouth from riders. Today, it’s a large portion indicated a city of this size should support about 2.5 of the business, Downey said, and he and his five shops. employees take on all sorts of projects, from repair to But after investigating the idea further, Downey learned customization to restoration. that Chico is an anomaly when it comes to bicycles. That’s “With my love for bikes and my love for people due in part to it being a college town—having a new pool who love their bikes, whatever you want to do, we’re of potential customers arrive each year. But there’s another into it,” he said. aspect that helps defy the statistics. Speaking of love for bikes, Downey is one of the “Chico has an amazing bike culture,” he said during a folks who started the popular Tweed and Seersucker rides, recent interview at Greenline. where locals get decked out in old-timey attire, many ridSo, Downey decided to go for it—or, as he put it, “listen ing vintage bikes, and pedal from Bidwell Mansion to my gut and heart and soul.” to Five-Mile. The next outing is May 6. It helped that he wasn’t new to the business. In fact, he’d Like many of his customers, Downey’s been in it for about two decades—in Oroville, where, back passion for bicycles is a lifelong one. in 1992, he opened his first shop (also called Greenline) at “I’ve just been nuts about bikes since the age of 21. Working in the county seat was great—and my earliest memories,” he said. the community was supportive—but as the years passed, the One of them is of his stepfather taking

If you look closely, you’ll find many bicycle-related artistic features in Dax Downey’s Main Street shop, Greenline Cycles. PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY

him to a BMX track when he was 5 years old. Though he already had a bike, that’s when he really caught the bug. “I just remember seeing it for the first time—it was dark, and the stadium lights, and it was dusty, and these jumps. I couldn’t even see where the beginning and end was, and I thought, ‘this is it for me,’” he said. Eventually, about a year and a half ago, due to the logistical difficulties of maintaining two stores, Downey closed the Oroville shop to concentrate on Chico. Shortly thereafter, after six years in the tiny downtown footprint, the busy shop expanded greatly—taking over the space formerly occupied by Three Sixty Ecotique. Downey noted

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also teaching group-riding etiquette—such as how to signal that there’s a pothole ahead or that you’re going to pass someone. It’s also a great opportunity for people to get their feet wet in a new sport without a huge investment—Billman said he sees a lot of people rent bicycles from the shop specifically for the ride. If they end up loving biking, then they might buy a bike. Introducing new riders to the sport that they love is more important to the shop’s staff than making a big sale, Billman said. That’s part of the reason AMain chooses to rent out such a range of bikes—from the cruiser meant for easy rides through town or the park to the super-technical mountain bike that runs $4,000-$5,000. “We want you to have the same amazing experience we have when we’re out there,” Billman said. “So, to get that experience, you might need a really great bike.” Dinsmore appreciates that attitude, saying

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or Casey Dinsmore, getting into road cycling—and even racing—came pretty naturally after buying his first bike at Cyclesport and joining the Wildflower training group run out of the shop. “For me, I was one of the slowest riders—so, riding with a bunch of people who are faster makes you get faster real quick,” said Dinsmore, who works in Chico State’s Financial Aid Office. “I made some of my best friends in that group. We share that common interest of cycling and we have tons of conversations while pedaling up Honey Run or Table Mountain. Talking helps time go by when it’s a challenging ride.” Cyclesport, of course, vacated its downtown space about a year ago. But it had been owned by AMain Sports & Hobbies for about three years before that. It’s now AMain Cycling and located in a space appropriately situated next door to The Handle Bar on East AMain 20th Street. In fact, they share Cycling: a picture window, so bicycle 2070 E. 20th St., shoppers can drool over the Ste. 100, 966-8941, beer cheese and pretzels while a amaincycling.com couple sharing a pint can check out the newest mountain bikes on display. “There’s really great synergy,” explained Evan Billman, manager at AMain Cycling. Aside from sharing clientele, he Evan Billman, manager at AMain said, “Our Tuesday rides are almost always Cycling, says his shop aims to encourage new riders while offering followed by beer and food.” all the cool new gear—and more On Tuesdays, AMain holds beginner advanced organized rides—for the instructional road bike rides, meant to get seasoned cyclist. new cyclists comfortable on the road while PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. COOPER

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he never feels pressured to buy things when he goes into AMain—though he does, naturally. Going into the shop, he said, is “like a kid going to a toy store where your friends work.” “It’s just a fun experience going in there,” he added. “I love buying bike stuff—I don’t have kids, so that’s what I spend my money on. There’s always something new, and I’m always needing new gloves or tubes. I like chatting it up with people, talking about your latest ride, it’s just fun.” In addition to instructional rides for road and mountain bikers, the shop hosts intermediate rides as well as race prep rides. AMain also sponsors men’s and women’s racing teams, as well as individual cyclists. One thing that gives AMain a leg up in the local industry, Billman said, is its 60,000-squarefoot warehouse in town, which supplies the company’s online store. For people wanting to get on a specific bike immediately, that

same-day access is a plus. AMain Cycling celebrated its grand opening last weekend (April 21) and sees the new shop—which opened about a year ago—as an opportunity to grow, both as a business and as a cycling community. A big improvement is ample parking, which the downtown space didn’t provide, as well as future development in the complex, which will soon be home to a Holiday Inn Express, and the area, with the nearby Meriam Park neighborhood. And, when it comes to socializing with helmets off, The Handle Bar doesn’t hurt. “The people who work at the shop hang out at The Handle Bar, so I’ll drop by after work and see who’s there,” Dinsmore said. —MEREDITH J. COOPER me r e d i th c @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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❒ Knees touch the handle bars ❒ Weekends are for the pump track ❒ You have opinions on berms ❒ Average ride time: Roughly nine bunny hops, a sevenblock-long wheelie and one gnarly double-peg grind

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❒ You know the names of every trail in the park ❒ You just got the cast off ❒ You’ve been passed by joggers while riding uphill ❒ You’ve contemplated the gnar ❒ Ride time: Exactly 1 hour, 14 minutes and 43 seconds, a personal best

You are:

❒ Your helmet is very handsome

❒ Six-pack in basket

❒ Always sporting a sensible shoulder bag

❒ Fat tires

❒ Pant leg? Tucked into sock or cuffed

❒ Helmet? Nah

❒ Average ride time: “I would’ve been five minutes earlier if drivers weren’t idiots. I’m taking the lane, car!”

You are:

The Commuter

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❒ Freaky balancing ability at stop signs

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The Shredder ❒ One speed ❒ Lock? It’s around here somewhere ❒ Average ride time: “Looks like there’s a hill up ahead. I’ll just walk it.”

You are:

Slow Lane ❒ Your ride has three or more axles ❒ You need an entire bike rack to lock everything up

❒ You ride in a superhero costume ❒ Multiple water bottles for every trip ❒ Bike weighs less than your helmet and costs more than your car ❒ Average ride time: Saturday

You are:

The Wildflower

❒ Soccer practice, stopping by the farmers’ market and dropping the pet at the groomer all in one trip ❒ Average ride time: Every trip is a long haul

Your handle is:

Rubber Duck

(as in, “Breaker, breaker, rubber duck … we got a little ol’ convoy.”)

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Arts &Culture Michael Bishop’s 2-D and 3-D works at the James Snidle gallery. pHoTo coUrTesy of James snidle fine arTs

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Special Events CHICO ALUMNI CHAPTER SPRING BBQ: Reconnect with classmates, enjoy barbecue sandwiches, dessert, games and tours of the University Farm. Limited tickets at the door. Thu, 4/26, 5:30pm. $15. Chico State University Farm, 311 Nicholas C. Schouten Lane.

FAMILY NIGHT OUT: Games, crafts and food with friends and neighbors. Sponsored by CARD. Thu, 4/26, 5:30pm. Free. Dorothy F. Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St.

GOLD NUGGET QUEEN CONTEST: Decked out in period dresses, Ridge

Gallery of mysteries

high school juniors compete for the title of Gold Nugget Queen. Thu, 4/26, 7pm. $10. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise.

PLAZA PALOOZA: KZFR celebrates another successful pledge drive with booths, giveaways, dancing and more. Thu, 4/26, 6pm. Free. Chico Downtown Plaza, 132 W. Fourth St.

Michael Bishop’s studies in contrast

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT: Keynote speakers, workshops, spoken

OmightJamesget Snidle Fine Arts Gallery, you the impression that you are n entering the cozy display room at

encountering an exhibit by two quite different (but equally by appealing and interCarey esting) artists: one a Wilson surrealist sculptor concentrating on enigmatic militaristic imagery, the other a graphic artist Review: who utilizes manipulatselected works from ed photographic images michael Bishop now showing through overlaid with subliminal april 30. text to convey mysterious, soft-focus comJames Snidle mentary on its subject Fine Arts 254 e. fourth st. matter. 354-6541 But all the works jamessnidle in the intriguingly finearts.com staged exhibit are by one person, Chico artist Michael Bishop. The first piece that greets you is “Salt,” a photograph depicting a motorcyclist in the left foreground viewed from the back as he gazes across the vast, empty expanse of Utah’s salt flats to where the horizon and the softly clouded sky diffuse into one another. The image, printed with industrial inkjet on industrial felt and overlaid with a nearly imperceptible layer of calligraphic Farsi script, is

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soft and intriguing, inviting viewers to project their own fantasies or interpretations onto the literally wide open scene. Between the viewer and this peaceful photo, laid out on the wooden floor as well as atop an industrial-looking display table, is “Tuff Gold,” a multipart sculptural piece made of cast bronze and fabricated steel. On the floor is a phalanx of five silvery foot-long military tanks training their cannons on the viewer and flanked by a pointing hunting dog. And on the narrow table, an open-mouthed baby gazes at five more tanks that are stacked like books. Taken together, Bishop’s photo and sculpture create a tableau that is simultaneously—and paradoxically—ominous, tranquil and a bit humorous. On the wall to the left of the entrance hangs another large inkjet-on-felt image, “Büyük Ada Feribot (Big Island Ferry),” a candid, very softly colored photo of the interior of a ferry occupied by a few casual-looking commuters on bench seats. What could be a rather mundane, touristy snapshot is enlivened by the inset of four nearly abstract panels showing the choppy surface of water. In front of the picture window overlooking the gallery’s view of the street is “Real Estate,” a cast glass, cast aluminum and hot-rolled steel sculptural piece, again

using tanks and a baby head on a table top as the predominant images. In this case, the tank and the random chunks of matter it faces are a dusky scarlet color, and the baby head perches behind its turret, with a small, Monopoly-evoking house balanced like a cocked hat on top of its head. On the wall to the right and above “Real Estate,” hanging at an oblique angle, another tank-and-baby-head themed sculpture, “Tank House.” It encloses a figure within a house-shaped open framework through which the tank directs its cannon toward the tableau beneath it, in an ambiguous position of attack on or defense of the adjacent piece. The interior wall of the exhibit is occupied by its most colorful piece, the large diptych “Dog Hand & Lipstick,” which places side-by-side photos of a hand against a blank background, one holding a hot dog, the other a lipstick tube. Unlike the more soft focus of the other graphic pieces, this one is much sharper in detail, with the creases in the skin, the zig-zag streak of mustard on the dog, and the figures etched on the lipstick tube easily discernible. Compact in size but huge in its offering of curious images, Bishop’s exhibit is one that pays off visitors with food for thought that will retain its freshness long after one leaves the gallery. □

word and music, followed by a silent, candlelit march through downtown to bring awareness to sexual assault and stand in solidarity with survivors. Thu, 4/26, 6pm. AS Gender and Sexuality Equity Center, Chico State, BMU 004. takebackthe night.org

Theater EVERY BRILLIANT THING: 1. Ice cream 2. Kung fu movies 3. Things with stripes ... Duncan MacMillan’s story follows a young boy as he attempts to ease his mother’s depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world. Poignant and very funny. Rescheduled performances from March. Thu, 4/26, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. totr.org

NOISES OFF: Possibly the best farce ever written, this hilarious romp follows the backstage happenings and performances of a play dubbed Nothing’s On. Featuring slamming doors, falling trousers and even flying sardines, Noises Off is a manic menagerie of itinerant actors who attempt to stitch together a sex comedy that’s sure to flop. Thu, 4/26, 7:30pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

TaKe BacK THe niGHT Thursday, April 26 Bell Memorial Union, Chico State see THUrsday, SPECIAL EVENTS

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GOLD NUGGET DAYS Thursday-Sunday, April 26-29 Oroville

SEE THURSDAY-SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

BOOK SIGNING: Mary K. Jensen presents Rudy’s Rules for Travel: Life Lessons From Around the Globe. Proceeds from book sales will be donated to scholarships for local students. Sat 4/28, 11am. ABC Books, 950 Mangrove Ave. 530-893-4342.

COFFEE RANCH ANNIVERSARY PARTY: Celebrate five years on the patio with coffee, pancakes and dog treats. Pet trick contest at 11am with a $100 grand prize value. Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog! Sat 4/28. Free. Coffee Ranch, 1288 E. First Ave., Suite 100.

DINNER ON THE STAGE: The theater’s big fundraiser includes hors d’oeuvres, wine and champagne, plus a fabulous dinner served on the decorated stage. Sat 4/28, 6pm. $250. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville. orovillestatetheatre.com

DIRT & BREAD: Professors Altier and Lyles’ classic lab on healthy soil qualities via a demonstration on breadmaking and examining soil from different areas of the University Farm. Participatory workshop is open to all. Sat 4/28, 9am. Free. Chico State University Farm, 311 Nicholas C. Schouten Lane. 530-636-2525.

FANTASY FUN RUN: Dress up as your favorite fantasy character and run! Some costume suggestions: Kaonashi from Spirited Away; Hans, the half-human, half-hedgehog boy; or run with two friends and tell the awesomely weird tale of the mouse, the bird and the sausage—look it up. Sat 4/28, 7am. $15-$30. Caper Acres, Bidwell Park.

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AARON WATSON: Country singer-songwriter known for his 2017 hit “Outta Style.” Fri, 4/27, 9pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.

BROADWAY BOOGIE: Street dance party! DJ spins and dance instructors teach moves. Free, fun and open to everyone. Fri, 4/27, 7pm. Free. Downtown Chico, Third Street between Broadway and Main. 530-898-6333.

KEEPING DANCE ALIVE! 2.0: Chico Community Ballet and Chico Creek Dance Centre put on a group show featuring ballet, Bollywood, aerial dance, musical theater, tap, hip-hop and a whole lot more. Fri, 4/27, 7:30pm. $15. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. tututix.com

TRIVIA NIGHT: This month’s theme is films from the Marvel universe. Fri, 4/27. Stonewall Alliance, 358 E. Sixth St.

Theater EVERY BRILLIANT THING: See Thursday. Fri, 4/27, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. totr.org

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: What happens when Vietnam soldiers visit a hippy retreat looking for love? Butte College’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s OG rom-com intends to find out. Fri, 4/27, 7:30pm. $10-$15. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Campus Drive, ARTS Building, Oroville. butte.edu

NOISES OFF: See Thursday. Fri, 4/27, 7:30pm. $14$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd, Ste F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany. com

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Special Events 5POINT FILM FESTIVAL: Award-winning outdoor films from the renowned film festival in Carbondale, Colo., built on five guiding principles: respect, commitment, humility, purpose and balance. All ticket sales support Sierra Nevada’s Pale Ale for Trails campaign. Sat 4/28, 6pm. $20. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. 530-893-3520. sierranevada.com

AN EVENING TO TREASURE: Gateway Science

KEN JEONG

Saturday, April 28 Gold Country Casino SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Museum benefit dinner includes an elegant meal, auctions and delicious desserts Sat 4/28, 6pm. $125-$130. Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzanita Ave. 530-898-4119.

BACON & BREWS: You too can live like a king! Pork and pints, live music and raffle prizes. Sat 4/28, 1pm. $15. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

FREE DOCUMENT SHREDDING: Be prepared for your next FBI raid. Sat 4/28. Free. Allstate Insurance, 389 Connors Court. 530-893-8301.

GOLD NUGGET DAYS PARADISE DEPOT PARTY: Live music, food and beverages, local artisans offering their wares, a 50/50 raffle, and children’s activities. Sat 4/28, 1pm. Free. Paradise Community Park, Pearson and Black Olive roads, Paradise. 530-872-8722. goldnuggetmuseum.com

KAZ LEFAVE: Science fiction author signs copies of her latest dystopian novel. Sat 4/28, 11am. Barnes & Noble, 2031 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

KEEPING DANCE ALIVE! 2.0: See Friday. Sat 4/28, 7:30pm. $15. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. tututix.com

KEN JEONG: Scene-stealing actor and one of today’s top comedy stars. Jeong appeared as an Asian mobster in The Hangover and starred in NBC comedy Dr. Ken. He’s even a real M.D. with a degree and everything! Ask him about that weird mole on your shoulder. Sat 4/28, 8pm. $45-$75. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. goldcountrycasino.com

LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE & RUN!: A 5K/10K run/walk to benefit the Kristina Chesterman Memorial Clinic. Sat, 4/29, 8am. $15-$35 registration, online at active.com or at 7:30am day of race. One-Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park.

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar editor at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com. Deadline for print listings is Wednesday, 5 p.m., one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

NORTH SIERRA WINE TRAIL: Two days of tasting from Oroville out to Bangor and the Oregon House/Dobbins area. Your passport to a wine adventure includes samples and other goodies and over a dozen local wineries. Sat 4/28, 12pm-5pm. $25. northsierrawinetrail.com

SAVEUR: Fancy dinner and fundraising gala for Chico State’s Department of Recreation, Hospitality and Parks Management, with wonderful food prepared by chef Ann Leon, champagne and wine pairings, live entertainment and a silent auction. Sat 4/28, 6pm. $125 or $900 for a table of eight. Chapelle de L’Artiste, 3300 Inspiration Lane, Paradise. 530-898-6774.

SPRING CARNIVAL: Food trucks, face-painting, carnival games and a bounce house! Free admission and game tickets are four for $1. Sat 4/28, 3pm. Free. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eigth St.

WILDFLOWER PRE-RIDE PARTY: Rider check-in, vendors, food trucks and music. Free community event is open to all. Sat 4/28., 1pm-6pm Free. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St.

WORDSPRING CREATIVE WRITING CONFERENCE: Lessons on the craft and inspiration for fiction, poetry and other genres at Butte College’s annual writing conference. Presenters include keynote speaker and spoken word poet Jason Bayani, plus local poets and writing faculty from Butte College, food and travel writer Blair Anthony Robertson, songwriter Pat Hull, memoir author Neal Snidow and more. Sat 4/28, 8am. $45-$75. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Drive, Oroville. 530-895-2935. buttewordspring.org

Music A GARLAND OF SONG: Chico State’s University Chorus, Acappella Choir and Chamber Singers join forces for a diverse concert of choral music. Sat, 4/28, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, PAC 144. 530-898-5739. schoolofthearts-csuchico.com

BERKLEY HART: Acclaimed Americana duo perform bluegrass, folk and rock tunes laced

with down home humor. Sat, 4/28, 7pm. $15. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise. nortonbuffalohall.com

GOLD NUGGET DAYS HOEDOWN: The Blue Merles and Brad Peterson & Friends perform at this community dance. Sat, 4/28, 7pm. $18. Paradise Elks Lodge, 1100 Elks Lane, off Clark Road, Paradise. 530-822-8722.

MUSIC BENEFIT: Music from the Revells Band, karaoke and hula dancers to benefit adults with disabilities. Sat, 4/28, 12:30pm. Creative Learning Center, 1080 Ewald Court, Paradise. 530-872-3296.

Theater EVERY BRILLIANT THING: See Thursday. Sat, 4/28, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. totr.org

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: See Friday. Sat, 4/28, 7:30pm. $10-$15. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Campus Drive, ARTS Building, Oroville. butte.edu

NOISES OFF: See Thursday. Sat, 4/28, 7:30pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

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Special Events BIRDS & WALRUS BONES: Scott Huber shares slides and memories from a birding trip to St. Lawrence, a remote island off the coast of Alaska. Sun, 4/29, 4pm. Free. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

GOLD NUGGET DAYS SUNDAY AT THE MUSEUM: Special exhibits, live music, gold panning, Janet’s Sweet Shoppe and children’s activities. Deep Pit Barbecue is cookin’ up barbecued beef, cowpoke beans, green

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MISCHIEF & MERRIMENT Shakespeare’s witty rom-com shows how love can bring out the best and worst in all of us. Butte College Drama Department students and faculty, along with some talented community members, take Much Ado About Nothing and set its “merry war” during the Vietnam conflict. When a group of soldiers stumble into a hippie commune, a battle of wits and words ensues between carefree bachelor Benedick and the acid-tongued, headstrong Beatrice. His comrade Claudio is head over heels for Hero, the governor’s daughter, and they’ll soon be wed … if a treacherous conniver doesn’t ruin everything. The production opens April 27 and runs through May 6 at Butte College’s Black Box Theatre.

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"FINNED MIGRATIONS: CONNECTING WARMING OCEANS TO INLAND STREAMS"

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salad and bread. Sun, 4/29, 10am. Free. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Road, Paradise. 530-872-8722. goldnugget museum.com

NORTH SIERRA WINE TRAIL: See Saturday. Sun, 4/29, 12pm-5pm. $25. northsierrawinetrail.com

PEOPLE’S CANDIDATE TOWN HALL: Our Revolution Chico and the Women’s March Chico organizers host a Q&A session with candidates running for U.S. Senate. Free tickets are required. Sun, 4/29, 1pm. Free. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. ourrevchico.com

WILDFLOWER: It’s not too late! Same-day registration is available for a variety of ride lengths, from 12 to 125 miles. Haven’t been training and ready for a century? We like your moxie! Sun, 4/29, 5:30am. $20. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. wildflowercentury.org

Music UKAPALOOZA: Young ukelele students kick off this variety show followed by talented ukelele musicians. Also, Hawaiian-themed snacks and drinks, a silent auction and raffle to benefit Arts for All and Chico Housing Action Team. Sun, 4/29, 2pm. $5-$20. First Christian Church, 295 E. Washington Ave. 530-520-6412.

Theater EVERY BRILLIANT THING: See Thursday. Sun, 4/29, 2pm. $10-$18. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. totr.org

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: See Friday. Sun, 4/29, 2pm. $10-$15. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Campus Drive, ARTS Building, Oroville. butte.edu

NOISES OFF: See Thursday. Sun, 4/29, 2pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

FREE ADMISSION TO THE NATURE CENTER PROCESSION OF THE SPECIES (PUPPET PARADE) NEW 2ND PERFORMANCE AREA LOCAL POETS, STORY TELLERS, ORGANIZATIONS & FOOD VENDORS LIVE MUSIC & WILD ANIMAL SHOW

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Music LOS LONELY BOYS: Bluesy “Texican rock” from the Garza brothers. Sold out. Mon, 4/30, 7:30pm. $32.50. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St.

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Special Events SUPPER CLUB: Chow down, enjoy craft beers, and support the Butte Humane Society and homeless animals. Wed, 5/2, 11am. $5-$15. The Handle Bar, 2070 E. 20th St., Ste. 160. buttehumane.org

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presents the hilarious Tony-winning musical (Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book). Featuring a puppet and human cast, and songs like “The Internet Is for Porn” and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” the musical puts a decidedly adult spin on kids’ TV shows like Sesame Street. Wed, 5/2, 7:30pm. $10-$20. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. 530-898-5739. csuchico.edu

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JiM laWrENCE Art B-SO GALLERY: Mercedez Matta, BFA student’s culminating exhibition. Through 4/27. Free. Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

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B-SO GALLERY: Tatiana Stevens, BFA student’s culminating exhibition. Through 5/11. Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

BLACKBIRD: Spring Group Show, featuring the work of Robert Farris, Jesse Mercer, Matt Barber, Kricket, Rozemary Xanella, Dylan Tellesen, Katy Orchid, Maya Ellis and Josh Kaercher. Through 4/30. Free. 1431 Park Ave.

CENTENNIAL CULTURAL CENTER: Water Reflections, juried art show from the Artists of River Town. Through 4/27. 1931 Arlin Rhine Memorial Drive, Oroville.

Vought and Alyson Mucci display their diverse works. Through 5/19. 732 Fourth St., Orland.

PARADISE ART CENTER: Hangin’ Around, diverse fired arts and ceramics on the walls of Wheeler Gallery. Through 4/26. 5564 Almond St., Paradise.

SATORI HAIR SALON: Faded Glory Photographs of Havana, Michael Goloff’s photographs of Cuban buildings and street scenes. Through 5/31. Free. 627 Broadway, Ste. 120., 530-5146264. michaelgoloffphotography.com

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Jim Lawrence, abstract art on display in the Social Hall. Exhibit covers over 20 years of Lawrence’s work. Through 5/31. Free. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 530-877-5673.

CHICO ART CENTER: Creative Fusion, exhibition of exceptional student works features fresh twists on traditional assignments and explorations in digital media. Through 4/27. Free. 450 Orange St. chicoart center.com

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS GALLERY: Michael Bishop, latest sculptures in metals and Czechoslovakian glass, along with bold prints made on industrial Turkish felt. Through 4/28. Free. 254 E. Fourth St., 530343-2930. jamessnidlefinearts.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Ink & Clay, juried student print exhibition showcases outstanding student work in printmaking, complemented by corresponding works of excellence in ceramics. Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 26 at 5pm in RowlandTaylor Recital Hall. Through 5/19. Free. 400 W. First St., 530-898-4476.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: monca Honors Our Veterans, the museum welcomes 25+ vets to share paintings, ceramics, drawings, sculpture and more. Check the monca website for special events including films, panels and workshops. Through 5/27. $5. 900 Esplanade. monca.org

ORLAND ART CENTER: Dancing to Different Tunes, mother and daughter Pat

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Hand Tools, rotating displays of more than 12,000 kinds of tools. Through 6/2. $3. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville., 530-538-2528. boltsantique tools.com

BUTTE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: WWI Exhibition, recently renovated exhibits demonstrating the profound changes in American society caused by The Great War. Through 7/29. 1749 Spencer Ave.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Permanent Exhibits, including the The Janeece Webb Living Animal Museum and the Nature Play Room. 1968 E. Eighth St. ccnaturecenter.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Brain – The World Inside Your Head, an exhibit exploring the inner workings of the brain—neurons and synapses, electricity and chemistry. Through 5/6. $5-$7. 625 Esplanade. csuchico.edu

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Imprisoned at Home, excellent and enlightening exhibit on Japanese Americans held at the Tule Lake Incarceration Camp during WWII. Through 5/18. Also, Sacred Splendor, exhibit chronicles the history and influence of Christian colonization, underscoring the faith’s movement across the globe from Indo-Portuguese carvings to a William Morris cartoon. From the collection of Judith E. Hilburg. Through 5/11. Chico State. csuchico.edu

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funk, zydeco and more—rises out of the Mississippi River Delta to nurture souls and tap into a natural urge to join together in by Carey celebratory dance. Wilson If the above statement strikes you as a bit of mildly hyperbolic mumbo jumbo/gumbo, I’d guess Review: you didn’t attend last week’s perRebirth Brass Band, formance by New Orleans’ Rebirth Tuesday, April 17, at Brass Band at Lost on Main (April Lost on Main. 17). The octet’s rhythm section— which includes founding members/ brothers Phil and Keith Frazier, on tuba and bass drum, respectively, as well as virtuoso snare drummer and percussionist Derrick Tabb—is a wonder to behold. Working without the standard modern dance band instrumentation of electric bass guitar, trap drums and keyboards, the rhythm section is a force of nature. In what appeared to be a telepathic unity, the three provided an ever-shifting but undeniably solid foundation—sustained by the dexterous bass of Phil’s tuba (the man must have lungs that could sustain a blue whale to keep that massive instrument resonating with such sonic force)—over which the five other horn players weaved, entwined and stacked melodies and riffs. At any moment, saxophonist Vincent Broussard, trombonists Stafford Agee and Gregory Veals, or trumpet players Chadrick Honoré and Glenn Hall would break into a solo that would transport the packed floor of dancers into musical heaven.

The Rebirth Brass Band was founded in 1983, when the Frazier brothers were fresh out of high school, and the band’s music seamlessly synthesizes influences ranging from 19th-century second line marching street band music to Afro-Cuban and Dixieland jazz to George Clinton-infused pure funk, the common thread being that everything they do will make you move. The band was a regular feature on HBO’s New Orleansbased Treme series, and it won a Grammy in 2012 for its album Rebirth of New Orleans. Without electric instruments battling to dominate stage volume, the noise level in Lost on Main remained emphatic but comfortable throughout the set. The band could employ nuanced shifts in volume that ranged from unamplified horn solos accompanied by the clear chime of Keith’s tapping of a steel screwdriver shaft on a cymbal, to Tabb’s spot-on accents and rolls on the snare drum, often enhanced by trombonist Agee’s addition of cowbell and wood block embellishments. The group’s vocal style—mostly chanted exhortations urging the audience to join the party—suits the celebratory, get-up-and-shake-your-ass nature of the music perfectly and brings to mind the grittier aspects of Parliament-Funkadelic’s live ensemble sing-alongs. The audience leaves the show with a sense of having shared in a visceral, body- and soul-reviving musical communion that could have burst forth only from the fertile musical soil of New Orleans. Rigamarole, a local “collective of musical educators,” opening the show and warmed up the crowd with a not too obviously academic set of covers and originals highlighted by the trumpet-playing of Ayako Nakamura and vocals of Seth Snyder. Ω

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JENNY DON’T & THE SPURS: Country music with a garage rock ethos. Severance Package & Michelin Embers also share the stage. Fri, 4/27, 9pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

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music. Thu, 4/26, 6pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

MEANT TO BEND: San Francisco trio’s catchy indie rock blends with angular, post-punk riffs. Chico’s The Rugs also kick out the alt-rock jams. Thu, 4/26. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

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ATOMIC APE: Genre-shifting ensemble

led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Schimmel (Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3). Expect a wild ride through an everchanging aural landscape. Opening sets by Bogg and Zola Vibe. Thu, 4/26, 9pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

BANDS WITH RAD NAMES NIGHT: SLC post-punk band Martian Cult beams up locals Los New Huevos and Mr.

Bang & The Bangmen. Plus, the debut of Satanic Mountain Witches featuring members of Pink Bandana, Michelin Embers, Slaves on Peyote, etc. Thu, 4/26, 8pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

KATRINA RODRIGUEZ & MARK MCKINNON: The front persons for The Rugs and Ha’ Penny Bridge, with support from several local musicians. Thu, 4/26, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, 530-877-0152.

KELLY TWINS ACOUSTIC: Jon and Chris dust off some old favorites with an acoustic evening of “living room”

like his new single, “You Can Drive My Truck.” Fri, 4/27, 9pm. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

SWAMP ZEN: Live music and dancing on the patio with Chico’s jam kings during the Thursday Market. Thu, 4/26, 6pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

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AARON WATSON: Country singer-songwriter known for his 2017 hit “Outta Style.” Fri, 4/27, 9pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.

CHAD BUSHNELL: Local boy makes good. Born and raised in Red Bluff, Bushnell now lives and records music in Nashville, where he mixes classic country tunes with originals

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Yeah, she’s from Portland and wears bolo ties and vintage western shirts, but Jenny can actually ride a horse and her fierce, aching vocals ring of true country. Backed by a ripping band—Kelly Halliburton (of Pierced Arrows), Sam Henry (Wipers) and JT Halmfilst (half the bands in PDX)—Ms. Don’t sings of heartbreak and triumph without a lick of irony. Real deal music here, folks. See Jenny Don’t & the Spurs at the Maltese, Friday, April 27, with punk trio Severance Package and western skiffle superstars, the Michelin Embers.

LOOKING 4 ELEVEN: Cover act plays the songs of Aerosmith, Eagles, Led Zeppelin and more. Fri, 4/27, 9pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

OPEN MIC: Tito hosts music, comedy, poetry and more. Fri, 4/27, 6pm. Free. Lost on Main, 319 Main Street. lostonmainchico.com

PUB SCOUTS: Irish music for happy

hour. Fri, 4/27, 3:30pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

THE SEXTONES: Reno neo-soul band brings the funk (and soul). Midtown Social crams a whole lotta people, fun and party onto the stage. Fri, 4/27, 9:45pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

TRIBUTE ACTS: Cherry Bomb plays the songs of John Cougar Mellencamp and Take the Money and Run play all your favorite Steve Miller tunes. Fri, 4/27, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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4/27, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

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BERKLEY HART: Acclaimed Americana

duo perform bluegrass, folk and rock tunes laced with down-home humor. Sat, 4/28, 7pm. $15. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise. nortonbuffalohall.com

BOB’S COMEDY NIGHT: Bob Backstrom hosts comedians Mikey Walz, Samantha Gilweit, Dean Simcox and Jesse Clark. After the stand-up, comedy-rock band Legit Supreme performs. Sat, 4/28, 8:30pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

COUNTRY MILE: Classic country covers and Southern rock. Sat, 4/28, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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OPEN MIC TWOFER: The evening kicks Bella. Sat, 4/28, 8:30pm. Ramada Plaza Chico, 685 Manzanita Court.

SYMBALANCE: Rock trio does ’80s hits and original tunes. Two sets: 2pm and 9pm for Gold Nugget Weekend. Sat, 4/28. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

off with Jimmy Reno’s musical open mic, followed by a comedy session until midnight. Mondays are bring your own mug, so you can get up to 40 oz. of Sierra Nevada for five bucks. Mon, 4/30, 6pm. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

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ZEPPARELLA: There’s no shortage of for the 2000 hit “Butterfly,” which drove their debut album to 1.5 million sales. They broke up when the follow-up flopped, but reformed and released another record in 2015. Sat, 4/28, 9pm. $10-$15. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

DRIVER: Local Paradise rock ’n’

roll trio in the lounge. Sat, 4/28, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino &

band. Sat, 4/28, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

NOCHE LATINA: La Renovada Banda Guerreros, Perrones y Grupo Los Estudiantes Oficial. Sat, 4/28, 8pm. $25-$35. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.

tribute acts attempting to climb the “Stairway to Heaven,” but these four women bring an entirely different energy to the stage as they roar through the legendary band’s repertoire. Founding drummer Clementine is particularly bad ass. Sat, 4/28, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

THE POSEYS: Laurel Posey performs

Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

DUSTY GREEN BONES BAND & ACHILLES WHEEL TRIO: Electric newgrass outfit from the Bay Area performs with a trimmed down version of the Nevada City psych-rock jam

oldies, swing, jazz, blues and singalongs. Sat, 4/28, 5:30pm. Free. Rock House Dining & Espresso, 11865 Highway 70, Yankee Hill, 530-532-1889.

SALSA NIGHT: Heat up the dance floor with Afro-Cuban quintet Salsa

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ENTRESOL: Dreamy, drone-y experimental songwriting, plus sets from DMT and Cat Depot. Sun, 4/29, 7pm. $5. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

JOYCE MANOR & AWAKEBUTSTILLINBED: Self-indulgent melancholia and gushing emotional turmoil condensed into pop-punk anthems, plus an opening set from local band Spun. Tue, 5/1, 8pm. $16. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.

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BEN COLBECK: Guitarist of the LoLos plays some of his tunes. Wed, 5/2, 6pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

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OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic, all musicians get two

songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 5/2, 7pm. $2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise,

530-877-4995.

TOM JONES TRIBUTE: From the afro to the gold chain, Harmik is internationally recognized and praised as the world’s premier Tom Jones impersonator. Wed, 5/2, 6:30pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfalls casino.com

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ing (1978-81). I’m old enough to remember it, and Janus Metz’s Borg vs. McEnroe does a pretty good job of reliving by the time period through the lens Bob Grimm of their epic 1980 championship bg ri m m @ match at Wimbeldon. If the film new srev i ew. c o m suffers from anything, it’s that Borg was a pretty boring figure, as opposed to the fiery McEnroe. Since much of this film deals with Borg’s side of the story, a good chunk of the film winds up being, Borg vs. well, boring. Such is not the case with the McEnroe Starring Shia laBeouf McEnroe side, because LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason. turns in his best performance yet Directed by Janus as the temper-tantrum-throwing Metz. Streaming on Amazon. rated r. American sports star who came rolling into Wimbledon to face off against the four-time champion Borg. LaBeouf takes a historical figure in McEnroe and avoids caricature in a role that could so easily Kodachrome become cartoonish. He finds the Starring Ed Harris, human competitor at the core of Jason Sudeikis and McEnroe, and while he can deliver Elizabeth Olsen. Directed by Mark a very mighty “You can’t be seriraso. Streaming on ous!” he finds a lot of sensible Netflix. TV-MA. levels in the man as well.

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The match itself is all kinds of crazy. The dramatic circumstances of that particular sporting event are as intense as any in the last 50 years, and the film works as a nice time stamp. Much credit to the wig department for making the two actors look pretty authentic. Gudnason does well as Borg, but it’s LaBeouf who steals the movie. In Kodachrome, a dying photographer (Ed Harris)

coaxes his estranged son (Jason Sudeikis) into going on a road trip with him and his nurse (Elizabeth Olsen) to get some Kodachrome film developed before an Arizona photo lab (and ultimately the rest of the world) stops developing the brand. Yes, it’s yet another road movie, and yes, it has the “somebody’s dying” gimmick to go with it, but don’t write this one off based on the generic synopsis. The trio of stars are pretty good here, especially Harris as a miserable man trying, in a very strange and peculiar way, to make nice with his son before checking out. Sudeikis is one of the more underrated actors out there right now, and he does a lot with a fairly stereotypical role. Olsen (one of my favorite actresses) adds the final piece to the ensemble as more than just an extra passenger calling shotgun. The movie falls into some of the typical trope potholes, but Harris and company consistently pull it out of the muck. There’s a music business subplot involving the Sudeikis character that is actually pretty good, too. Not a great movie, but definitely worth a shot late on a Saturday night. Ω

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animation and epic cartoon yarn-spinning, and watching it was, for me, a joy. The main characters are dogs, mostly, and the plot involves the battle of a small boy (Koyu Rankin) and some outcast dogs against a cat-loving tyrant who means to eliminate all the canines in his realm. There’s an obvious hint of allegory with dark echoes of modern history running through that, but Isle of Dogs is more of a mock epic in a rowdy and whimsically comical mode. A scruffy joyousness comes by way of the playful and nonchalant pacing, the amusingly antic (and quasi-Japanese) visuals, and the frisky and varied personalities of nearly a dozen dog characters. There’s also an impressive cast on hand (Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, among others) to provide the dog voices, but rambunctious storytelling and wise-acre character touches are the main founts of serious fun here. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Opening this week Avengers: Infinity War

The Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Black Panther and his Wakandan army join forces to try and defeat Thanos before he destroys the universe. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

You Were Never Really Here

The new film from Scottish writer/director Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar) stars Joaquin Phoenix as a traumatized veteran working to track down missing girls. He accepts a job to find a kidnapped daughter of a politician and is sucked into a conspiracy. Winner of Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Black Panther

For this coming-of-age comedy about parents teaming up to stop their three daughters from making good on a lose-their-virginity-on-prom-night pact, the producers were OK showing John Cena butt-chugging in the commercial, but for the title they had to remove “cock” and replace it with an image of a rooster. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

I Feel Pretty

Amy Schumer plays a young woman struggling with insecurity who, after hitting her head, starts believing she’s extremely capable and beautiful. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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With its black superhero and predominantly black cast, and its special mixture of action fantasy and social history, Black Panther is a monumental cultural event. And a key part of its specialness is that it’s also a richly entertaining movie. Writer-director Ryan Coogler and co-writer Joe Robert Cole have produced a very engaging mixture of action movie and epic/utopian allegory. It’s an impressively mounted production throughout, and even with elements that are routine or generic, it makes fine use of a large and appealing cast. Chadwick Boseman has the title role. He is T’Challa, the newly coronated king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. His Black Panther-infused superpowers derive from vibranium, the super-strong metal that is the basis of Wakanda’s radically advanced technology. A key premise of the tale is that Wakanda has heretofore kept its highly developed civilization hidden from the rest of the world. Eventually, the new king will move to change all that, and Boseman proves to be well attuned to both the warrior and the statesman in the character. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

The new film from Scottish writer/director Armando Iannucci (creator of HBO’s Veep) is a historical/political satire that looks at the power struggle among Joseph Stalin’s cronies after the dictator drops dead. Starring Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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John Krasinski directed , co-wrote and stars—he’s Lee, a father trying to protect his family in a post-apocalyptic world besieged by horrific aliens who will tear you apart if you make so much as a peep. The aliens don’t respond to regular ambient sounds—a river running, birds chirping—but rather sounds that are more interruptive, like fireworks or a person screaming after stepping on a nail. The gimmick lends itself to some faulty logic at times, but it does provide an overall interesting premise. Playing Lee’s wife Evelyn, Emily Blunt gives a standout performance as somebody forced to keep quiet in especially difficult circumstances—e.g., after a painful injury, or giving birth in a bathtub while an alien clicks and claws nearby. And Krasinski complements his impressive directing chops with a fine performance as a guy doing everything to keep his sanity and protect his family, including a young deaf daughter (played by the superb Millicent Simmonds, who is actually deaf) and son (Noah Jupe). Both of the kids are terrific here. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Rampage

A government experiment results in dangerous animals growing to Hulk proportions, and it’s up to a primatologist played by The Rock and his now super-sized albino gorilla buddy named George to put a stop to the rampaging monsters. Cinemark 13, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg directs this sci-fi adventure about a virtual-reality world to which people of a desolate future Earth escape for fun and work, and in which its creator has planted an Easter egg that promises control of the whole digital reality to whomever finds it. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Super Troopers 2

The Broken Lizard comedy crew returns to its roots, bringing the cast of the 2001 original film back for a sequel that finds the Vermont state troopers tasked with overseeing a disputed territory on the border of Canada and America. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Truth or Dare

In this game, if you tell a lie or dare not to take a dare, you lose your life. Cinemark 13, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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Little Dark Age MGMT Columbia It can be tough to escape a hit. There are certainly worse things in the world, but it is a thing. MGMT’s decade-old debut, Oracular Spectacular, was chock-full of them, most notably “Electric Feel” and “Time to Pretend.” Subsequent releases have strayed further and further from the bright, glitzy pop, and moved toward subdued pop with hazy layers and softer vocal melodies. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and Little Dark Age continues down that very path with a collection of subtle yet still sparkling synth-pop tunes that never rise above a cool vibe. The lyrical fun is still there, as on “TSLAMP,” revealed as an acronym for Time Spent Looking At My Phone. There aren’t many standout pop-candy hits, which might be hard to accept for those still under that 2008 spell. However, there is meticulous synth layering, nice horn placements and an overall pleasantness that’s an escape all its own.

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—Robin Bacior

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF april 26, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine

you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The

Simpsons is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better. When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it.

by rob brezsny vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news

is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news—at least for historians, tourists, and hikers—is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has reemerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.

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next seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try the following strategies. 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time when you first met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2. Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3. Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4. Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): weeks might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your self-mastery? I suspect you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Hol-

lywood film industry relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only one of the ten top-grossing movies—Interstellar—was not a sequel, remake, reboot, or episode in a franchise. In the coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like Interstellar than like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the six other top-ten rehashes of 2014. Be original!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the

land we now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction. Now is an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You some-

times get superstitious when life is going well. You worry about growing overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your

Now is one of the rare times when you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting you in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it!

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you afford to hire someone to do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psycho-spiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money, and making sweet nonsense. Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe

it’s a favorable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches, and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS at 15283 Forest Ranch Way Forest Ranch, CA 95942. PERRYMAN AND ASSOCIATES, INC. 15283 Forest Ranch Way Forest Ranch, CA 95942. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: VICKI PERRYMAN, PRESIDENT Dated: March 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000413 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RISING BEAUTY at 1324 Mangrove Ave. #212 Chico, CA 95926. KAELA JONES 1650 Forest Ave Apt 15 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KAELA JONES Dated: March 28, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000428 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ABUNDANT LIFE COACHING ACADEMY, KESHA HAYNIE MINISTRIES at 574 E 12th Street Chico, CA 95928. KESHA DANINE FORTUNE FORTUNE-HAYNIE 6576 Oakland Drive Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KESHA HAYNIE Dated: March 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000441 Publilshed: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BY.TIGERHEART at 35 Tarn Circle Oroville, CA 95966. SANJIVANI M PATHAK-FARISH 35 Tarn Circle Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SANJIVANI M. PATHAK-FARISH Dated: March 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000438 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DEL REAL COMPANY at 2080 Bidwell Avenue Chico, CA 95926. DEL REAL INTERNATIONAL, INC. 142 W. 2nd Street Suite A Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: M. MAX DEL REAL, PRESIDENT/CEO Dated: February 23, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000270 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HEALTH CLAIM, SACRED EDIBLES at 4918 Maplespring Rd Yankee Hill, CA 95965. JODI DAVIS 4918 Maplespring Rd Yankee Hill, CA 95965. TIMOTHY NEBEL 4918 Maplespring Rd Yankee Hill, CA 95965. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: JODI DAVIS Dated: March 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000370 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HANDS OF LOVE DOULA SERVICES at 1988 Poppy View Terrace Chico, CA 95928. BONNIE JOHNSTON 1988 Poppy View Terrace Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: BONNIE JOHNSTON Dated: March 12, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000334 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HAPPY CAMPERS RV RENTALS at 1675 Carol Ave Chico, CA 95928. MATHEW DUNCKEL 1675 Carol Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MATT DUNCKEL Dated: April 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000448 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AIC ELECTRIC at 3804 Hicks Lane Chico, CA 95973. AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC, INC. 3804 Hicks Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: KRISTIN FLOCK, OFFICE MANAGER Dated: March 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000421 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name AIC ELECTRIC at 3080 Thorntree Drive Suite #85 Chico, CA 95973. GARY R AKE 286 White Ave Chico, CA 95926. WILLIAM T WILLIAMS 6567 Oak Park Drive Magalia, CA 95954. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: KRISTIN FLOCK, OFFICE MANAGER Dated: March 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2008-0000267 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KSARTA SQUARE at 360 Starlight Ct Paradise, CA 95967. ANTHONY ROACH 360 Starlight Ct Paradise, CA 95967. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ANTHONY ROACH Dated: April 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000461 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE CITRINE FOREST at 100 Risa Way Apt 229 Chico, CA 95973. SARAH R TORKELSON 100 Risa Way Apt 229 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SARAH TORKELSON Dated: April 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000447 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as IRONGATE GARDEN INN at 4673 Nord Highway Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT GROVE ESTATE AND VALUATION SERVICES, INC 3151 Canyon Oaks Terrace Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: KRISTA GROVE, SECRETARY Dated: March 23, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000400 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CREED STRENGTH AND FITNESS at 1607 Ridgebrook Way Chico, CA 95928. TAYLOR CREED CATRETT 1607 Ridgebrook Way Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TAYLOR C. CATRETT Dated: March 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000394 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COACH WORKS at 2844 A Northgate Dr Chico, CA 95973. SALVADOR VILLEGAS 13043 Orchard Blossom Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SALVADOR VILLEGAS Dated: April 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000482 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GEOLOGY ROCKS AND MINERALS, KCV CONSULTING at 835 Main St Chico, CA 95928. GEOLOGY ROCKS! AND MINERALS LLC 835 Main St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: KASEY VALLE, PRESIDENT Dated: April 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000465 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AFFORDABLE AUTO GLASS at 6 Geneva Lane Chico, CA 95928. ALAN JAMES MOON 6 Geneva Lane Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ALAN MOON Dated: April 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000477 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CRYSTAL TREASURES at 5455 Platt Mountain Road 839 Forest Ranch, CA 95942. PATRICIA CROWNOVER 5455 Platt Mountain Road 839 Forest Ranch, CA 95942. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PATRICIA CROWNOVER Dated: April 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000444 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLACK BART BIKES at 1346 Myers St Oroville, CA 95956. CURTIS ALLEN ELWELL 4760 Seacrest Dr Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CURTIS ELWELL Dated: April 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000501 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SCC CONCRETE at 325 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973. MATT SADLER 325 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MATT SADLER Dated: April 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000499 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GETHSEMANE RANCH at 3825 Silvera Ct Paradise, CA 95969. JAMES D HOEPPNER 3825 Silvera Ct Paradise, CA 95969. NATALIE E HOEPPNER 3825 Silvera Ct Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: NATALIE E HOEPPNER Dated: April 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000483 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PAINT PARTIES BY DAWN at 5660 Skyway Suite C Paradise, CA 95969. DAWN HICKEY 13771 Sugar Pine Drive Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DAWN HICKEY Dated: April 13, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAKE CHICO, WPINONECLICK at 2559 New Heather Way Chico, CA 95973. JEFFREY SAMORANO 2559 New Heather Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JEFFREY SAMORANO Dated: April 9, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000484 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EAGLE PLUMBING at 1560 East Avenue Chico, CA 95926. ROBERT RINEHART 1560 East Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT RINEHART Dated: March 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000357 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VIRTUAL IMAGE SOLUTIONS at 1585 Filbert Ave Chico, CA 95926. JOESHAK ENTERPRISES INC 1585 Filbert Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JOE KOSHAK, CEO Dated: March 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000388 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as F.E.W. PRODUCTS at 5050 Cohasset Rd. Unit 50 Chico, CA 95973. LANCE A WALDSMITH 14064 Limousin Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LANCE WALDSMITH Dated: March 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000418 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELEVATE at 180 Erma Ct, Suite #130 Chico, CA 95926. ROBERT L NORMAN 2780 Pillsbury Rd 202 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT L. NORMAN JR. Dated: April 18, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000541 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN BELT MANUFACTURING at 21 Valley Ct Chico, CA 95973. TIMOTHY VANDERHEIDEN 21 Valley Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TIMOTHY VANDERHEIDEN Dated: April 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000498 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PANAMA BAR CAFE at 177 E. 2nd St. Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT MOWRY 3 Crusader Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSHUA COKER Dated: April 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000470 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BEYOND FITNESS at 7224 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. BEYOND FITNESS CLUB, LLC 7224 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: STEVE GIBSON, MANAGING PARTNER Dated: April 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000500 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JP CONSTRUCTION at 6603 Woodward Dr Magalia, CA 95954. JOEL PRENTISS 6603 Woodward Dr Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOEL PRENTISS Dated: April 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000515 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 3 DOWNTOWN BARS, 3-DB at 175 E. 2nd St. Chico, CA 95928. 3 DOWNTOWN BARS, INC. 177 E. 2nd St. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JOSHUA COKER, CFO Dated: April 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000474 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TWIN DRAGON SERVICES at 999 East Ave Apt C Chico, CA 95926. VICTOR SCOTT RUTTMAN 999 East Ave Apt C Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: VICTOR RUTTMAN Dated: April 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000535 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO EVENT CENTER at 191 E. 2nd St. Suite 3 Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT MOWRY 3 Crusader Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSHUA COKER Dated: April 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000473 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name SALON CONCEPTS at 6607 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. BARBARA J RYAN 4333 Pentz Rd 4B Paradise, CA 95969. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: BARBARA RYAN Dated: April 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2016-0001236 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as UNIVERSITY BAR at 200 Wall St. Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT MOWRY 3 Crusader Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSHUA COKER Dated: April 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000471 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE BEACH, THE BEACH IN CHICO at 191 E. 2nd St. Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT MOWRY 3 Crusader Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSHUA COKER Dated: April 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000472 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WOOD, WATER AND STONE at 6408 Crossroads Rd Magalia, CA 95954. BRIAN TIMOTHY MARSHALL 6408 Crossroads Rd Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: BRIAN T. MARSHALL Dated: April 9, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000494 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELITE EXPOSITIONS, EXOTIC BIRD AND ANIMAL MART at 1045 Hazel St Gridley, CA 95948. VAN THI THU NGUYEN 1045 Hazel St Gridley, CA 95948. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: VAN NGUYEN Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000312 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

NOTices CITATION TO APPEAR The People of the State of California: TO: RIGO ROBERTO PRADO-GARIBAY By order of this court, you are hereby cited and required to appear before the above-entitled court located at 1775 Concord Ave, Chico, California 95966, on May 16, 2018 at 1:30 p.m., then and there to show cause, if you have any, why BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO, all minors, should not be declared free from your parental control according to the Petition on file herein to free the minors for adoption. The address of the court is 1775 Concord Ave, Chico CA 95928. For a failure without reasonable cause to appear and abide by the order of the court, you will be deemed guilty of a contempt of court. The following information concerns rights and procedure which relate to this proceeding for the termination of custody and control of BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO as set forth in Sections 7860-7864 of the Family Code. (1) At the beginning of the proceeding, the court will consider whether or not the interest of BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO required the appointment of counsel. If the court finds that the interest of BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO do require such protection, the court will appoint counsel to represent them, whether or not they are able to afford counsel. BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO will not be present in court, unless they so request, or the court so orders. (2) If a parent of BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO appears without counsel, and is unable to afford counsel, the court must appoint counsel for the parent, unless the parent knowingly and intelligently, waivers the right to be represented by counsel. The court will not appoint the same counsel to represent both BENJAMIN LOUIS PRADO, MAXWELL BRADLEY PRADO, and HUDSON LEE PRADO and their parent. (3) The court may appoint either the public defender or private counsel. If private counsel is appointed, he or she will receive a reasonable sum of compensation and expenses, the amount of which will be terminated by the court. The amount must be paid by the real parties in interest, but not by the minor, in such proportions as the court believes to be just. If, however, the court finds that any of the real parties in interest cannot afford counsel, the amount will be paid by the county. (4) The court may continue the proceeding for not more than 30-days as necessary to appoint counsel and to enable counsel to become acquainted with the case. Case No: 18AB00025 KATIE WARNER-MEYERS 2021 Cox Lane Oroville CA 9596 In Pro Per Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: March 29, 2018 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF BUTTE Case Number: 18PR00141 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF In re THE MARYLEE SHAFFER LIVING TRUST dated April 22, 2013 MARYLEE SHAFFER, Decedent Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1775 Concord Avenue, Chico, California, 95928 and mail or deliver a copy to Richard S. Matson, as Trustee of The Marylee Shaffer Living Trust dated April 22, 2013, of which the Decedent was the settlor, at 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A, Chico, California 95926, within the later of 4 months after April 12, 2018, or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code section 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: April 3, 2018 Signed: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson, Trustee The Marylee Shaffer Living Trust 1342 The Esplanade, Suita A Chico, California 95926. Published: April 12,19,26, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ADAM JOHN BRITT Proposed name: ADAM JOHN MCCLASKEY 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: May 25, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: March 23, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00784 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ALYSSA JACQUELINE MARIE BROOKS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALYSSA JACQUELINE MARIE BROOKS Proposed name: ALYSSA JACQUELINE MARIE BURNETT

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THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: May 11, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: March 21, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00867 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CASANDRA ROSE RAGSDALE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CASANDRA ROSE RAGSDALE Proposed name: CASANDRA ROSE HEARTSTRONG 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: May 25, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: March 23, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00698 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHAEL JAMES SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MICHAEL JAMES SMITH Proposed name: KISMET GABRIEL HEARTSTRONG 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

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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: May 18, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L MOSBARGER Dated: March 27, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00700 Published: April 5,12,19,26, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ANGELICA HELTON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ANGELICA HELTON Proposed name: ANGELICA COLEMAN 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: May 18, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: March 27, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00852 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SAVANNAH LEIGH O’HEARN-SERNA Proposed name: SAVANNAH LEIGH O’HEARN 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: May 11, 2018

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Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: March 12, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00771 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SUSAN LYNN GERLICK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SUSAN LYNN GERLICK Proposed name: SUSAN LYNN SMITH PARCO 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: May 25, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: April 11, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01042 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARAH COX filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SARAH LAUREN COX Proposed name: CALI LECHUGA DEVINNEY 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: June 8, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: April 11, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01051 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CAROLYN ROSE LEBOEUF filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAXON ROBERT HORN-CAMPUSANO Proposed name: JAXON ROBERT LEBOEUF 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: June 8, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: April 11, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00946 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KERIN GENE CRANE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KERIN GENE GRANE Proposed name: KERI GENE CRANE 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: June 15, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: April 17, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01152 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2018

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: RACHEL ANNE SANDOVAL YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928. (530) 366-4290 Dated: October 2, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV02839 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: AUSTIN D GIANECCHINNI YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can

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use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928. (530) 366-4290 Dated: July 24, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV02180 Published: April 12,19,26, May 3, 2018

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CHELSEA M HENDRELL YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at

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the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928. (530) 366-4290 Dated: October 27, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV03287 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2018

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE SETH OTT, AKA SETH M. OTT, AKA SETH MICHAEL OTT To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SETH OTT, AKA SETH M. OTT, AKA SETH MICHAEL OTT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PAULA HILL-OTT, MICHAEL OTT in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: PAULA HILL-OTT, MICHAEL OTT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: MAY 8, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: PROBATE Room: 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

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letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: CLAYTON B. ANDERSON 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 18PR00139 Published: April 12,19,26, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BURGESS, JOHN MILO To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOHN MILO BURGESS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JUDITH BURGESS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: JUDITH BURGESS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: MAY 8, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: TBA Room: 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.

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Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: HEATHER SALVADOR 468 Manzanita Avenue #6 Chico, CA 95926 (530) 636-4923 Case Number: 18PR00077 Published: April 12,19,26, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WILLIAM LADD KINCHELOE, AKA WILLIAM L. KINCHELOE, AKA WILLIAM KINCHELOE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WILLIAM LADD KINCHELOE, AKA WILLIAM L. KINCHELOE, AKA WILLIAM KINCHELOE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHRYN NAKAMOTO in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: KATHRYN NAKAMOTO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: MAY 1, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: PROBATE Room: 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

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notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: REBECCA YUHASZ McKernan, Lanam, Bakke & Williams LLP 732 Fir Street Paradise, CA 95969 (530) 877-4961 Case Number: 18PR00147 Published: April 12,19,26, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ROXANNA M. SKAGGS, AKA ROXANNA MARY SKAGGS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROXANNA M. SKAGGS, AKA ROXANNA MARY SKAGGS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DANIELLE LECLERC-KLEIN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: DANIELLE LECLERC-KLEIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: MAY 8, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: C-18 Room: 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

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE SUZANNE S. WINNIE, AKA SUZANNE WINNIE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SUZANNE S. WINNIE, AKA SUZANNE WINNIE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: CAROLYN FEJES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: CAROLYN FEJES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: MAY 22, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: Probate Room: 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 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: REBECCA YUHASZ McKernan, Lanam, Bakke & Williams LLP 732 Fir Street Paradise, CA 95969 (530) 877-4961 Case Number: 18PR00165 Dated: April 20, 2018 Published: April 26, May 3,10, 2018

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE GLENN PAUL WILLIAMS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: GLENN PAUL WILLIAMS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LINDSAY L. WILLIAMS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: LINDSAY L. WILLIAMS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: MAY 29, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: TBA Room: 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 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: SCOTT A. LEWIS, ESQ. 500 Main Street Vacaville, CA 95688 (707) 451-4502 Case Number: 18PR00146 Published: April 19,26, May 3, 2018

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from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 18PR00153 Dated: April 11, 2018 Published: April 19,26, May 3, 2018

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“I’m tired,” said my old friend Carlene. “I just want to stay in this house and die here.” Carlene and I had been driving around town checking out apartments for her to rent. She couldn’t afford the loan payment on her house anymore and she had decided to sell to acquire funds to live on. “Let’s have a drink,” she said, as she collapsed into her easy chair and fired up a cigarette. It had been a rough afternoon. Carlene was arthritic and weak. “I’d rather be back on the ranch digging ditches and skinning rabbits than dragging my old carcass around town with the likes of you,” she said.

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“I called the 800 number,” she said, “and some loan guy is coming here tomorrow. You want to be here?” In other words, she expected me to be there. The loan guy drove 90 miles to meet Carlene. He laid out the reverse mortgage plan, and it seemed too good to be true, so I called a local loan person I knew. “It’s a new product,” she said. “We don’t have it here yet, but my understanding is that it’s perfect for older people who want to stay in their homes. It’s a cash-flow tool, drawn from the equity in their home.” Carlene signed up for that reverse mortgage and it fit her situation like a glove. No more house payments for her. In fact, she now received a check every month. “Pour us a drink and let’s celebrate,” said Carlene. She fired up a cigarette. “Well sir, I know you’re sad you have to wait till I die to list my house now.” “What? No….!” “Ha! It sure is easy to get your goat!”

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Sandra Peltola | (530) 872-6823 3Bd/3Ba, 2,643 sq ft of open flowing floor plan, fireplace & built - ins, indoor laundry, formal dining & living room, family room is open to Lrg kitchen. $639,000 sn18044215

3Bd/3Ba 1,656 sf, open floor plan, kitchen has all stainless steel appliances. Tile counter tops, pantry, family room w/wood fireplace & recess lighting. $345,000 sn18031570

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Teresa Larson (530)899-5925 BRE #01177950 chiconativ@aol.com

NEW ROOF, 3 BED/2 BTH, 1,313 sq ft, stainless steel appliances......................................................................................... $290,000 4 BED/2 BTH, 1,819 sq ft with formal living/dining + family rooms! NICE ...................................................................... $369,500 BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA PARK 3 bed/2.5 bath, 2,738 sq ft with views of the lake, hardwood floors, and more ........................... $559,000 2-HOMES ON .77 OF AN ACRE IN TOWN! Custom 3 bed/2 bth, 3,000 sq ft + 3 bed 2 bth, 1,110 2nd home ............................ $575,000 BUTTE VALLEY 2-custom homes, private setting on 235 acs, horse or cattle ................................................................. $1,999,000 FOREST RANCH,, adorable 3 bed/2 bth, DIN 1,204G sq ft with updates, fully fenced .43 acres. ............................................... $235,000 PEN GUEST UNIT ATTACHED with this beautiful bed/3 Gbth, updated 3,000 sq ft home PEN4DIN located on 1.17 acres with pool, shop, and more! .................................................................................................... $689,000 G open floor plan, .2,468 sq ft on .89 acs, SHOP! ............................... $499,000 BEAUTIFUL 3 bed/3 bth, plus office + craft room, DIN PEN UPDATED AMBER GROVE 3 bed/ 2 bth 1,904 sq ftGhome, .25 lot ........................................................................................... $439,900 DIN PEN

New construction just blocks to Bidwell Park: 3/2 $369,000 4/3 & 3 car garage $499,000 20 acres with views $145,000

D STUNNINGSOLAMBER GROVE HOME, blt 2004, 3 bed, 2 bath 1784 SOLD sq ft. Home features quartz counters, SOLD wood floors, expansive backyard and much muchSOL more,D $410,000

KIMBERLEY TONGE | (530) 518-5508

Alice Zeissler | 530.518.1872

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of april 9, 2018 – april 13, 2018 The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home. TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

14359 Sinclair Cir

ADDRESS

Magalia

$196,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1452

2336 Via Corte

ADDRESS

Oroville

$160,000

2/1

963

14625 Bridgeport Cir

Magalia

$192,000

2/2

1131

1807 Gray St

Oroville

$153,500

2/1

1376

11183 Yankee Hill Rd

Oroville

$600,000

2/3

2786

1932 10th St

Oroville

$145,000

3/1

1056

23 Regal Way

Oroville

$442,000

3/3

2682

2027 Merrill Rd

Paradise

$645,000

3/3

2293

3629 Hildale Ave

Oroville

$300,000

3/2

1436

1880 Bille Rd

Paradise

$500,000

4/3

2279

36 Wahoo Ave

Oroville

$300,000

3/2

1921

650 Roberts Rd

Paradise

$385,000

3/2

2324

1141 Montgomery St

Oroville

$243,000

2/2

1342

6216 Virginia Way

Paradise

$325,000

3/2

1878

23 Oak Park Way

Oroville

$225,000

3/2

1648

1665 Pamela Dr

Paradise

$317,000

3/3

2277

162 Morningstar Ave

Oroville

$213,500

5/2

1571

3776 Neal Rd

Paradise

$285,000

3/2

1280

1130 Tehama Ave

Oroville

$193,500

3/1

1150

6263 Graham Rd

Paradise

$196,000

2/2

1106

1290 Pomona Ave

Oroville

$180,000

3/2

1400

809 Violet Way

Paradise

$187,000

3/2

1150

april 26, 2018

SQ. FT.

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