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EDITORIAL

Decision on parks hits the mark The Bidwell Park and Playground Commission got

it right Monday night when it decided to forward discussion of closing Chico’s parks and greenways at 11 p.m. (an hour early in most cases) to its policy committee. We think the members of the public who took to the podium on the matter got it right, too—this was not about park safety; this was about homelessness. The suggestion that one hour will make a difference when it comes to cutting back on the criminal elements that lurk in our parks is ridiculous. Commissioner Elaina McReynolds, a longtime participant in the volunteer Park Watch program, said it best in response to the assertion that this would provide law enforcement with a valuable tool: “The current closed hours are 12-5 a.m. [at most parks]. The police have always had a tool—it’s not like they’re getting a new one.” Indeed, the police can address existing problems at any time by patrolling Chico’s green spaces more regularly. Clearly, Chico’s parks face problems. Some of them include criminal activity. And yes, many of them are related to homeless encampments. At the same meeting, but separate from the park closure

discussion, Erik Gustafson, the city’s public works director-operations and maintenance, offered a department update. Chico’s park rangers, he said, spend a majority of their time cleaning up debris. “It’s important to discuss this, the resource drain that this is on existing staff,” he said. We agree. But we don’t think that closing the parks an hour earlier each night will have much, if any, effect on the amount of trash that gets left behind there. That’s because it does nothing to address the root issue, which is a serious lack of affordable housing. As Commissioner Alberto Hernandez pointed out, the city attorney has been asked to present the City Council with a snapshot of what declaring a shelter crisis would look like for Chico. We share his eagerness to see the results. We know that the Chico Housing Action Team has a proposal in place for Simplicity Village, a transitional housing facility made up of tiny homes. In order for it to be approved, it needs two key things: a location and, more important, the declaration of a shelter crisis. Do the parks need attention? Absolutely. Will adjusting their closing hours make a difference? We’re not convinced, but we look forward to seeing what the Ω policy committee recommends.

GUEST COMMENT

Chico’s new scapegoat Pruling which an organization or society is divided into a elite and a class of citizens treated as inferior, lantation mentality: a mentality according to

especially along social or economic lines. Have I just described the Chico of today? One could argue that today’s players bring real validity to that definition. Certainly, it exists within Chico’s City Hall. And to a lesser degree, it exists among some on the county Board of Supervisors. A plantation mentality is nothing new to Chico. It is in by our heritage. Annie Bidwell truly Ronald Angle believed the Native Americans The author has been who originally lived in this a Chico resident segment of the Sacramento since 1980. Valley were part and parcel of her “plantation.” She worked hard to introduce them to Christian and Western culture. Even today we maintain our plantations, including old Chico and downtown and our special favorite, the Chapman neighborhood.

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Today’s scapegoat is our homeless population. A hundred years ago, we regularly denigrated people solely on the color of their skin and their geographical origin. Today, we denigrate people because of their economic status. In 2016, we elected a president who appealed to all of the negative instincts within our populace. Suddenly, it was acceptable to hate without any true justification. Local politicians seized upon that call to action and ceased to represent all citizens equally. In the Chapman neighborhood, a scrap metal yard was deemed far more valuable to the community than the quality of life of its neighbors. In the downtown area, business owners struggling to survive in a changing retail sales climate blamed their difficulties on the vaguely defined “homeless.” Our community is more divided than ever before. In both instances, ambitious politicians used their authority of office to “maintain the plantation.” The scrap yard remains and the homeless and their supporters go to jail. The plantation knows what is best for everybody. If you find this disturbing, remember you have an option that is uniquely democratic: You can vote the rascals out of office. Ω

SECOND & FLUME by Melissa Daugherty m e l i s s a d @ n e w s r e v i e w. c o m

unscrupulous Back when I was a young reporter, both at the local college weekly and the daily paper where I cut my teeth, I caught flak for unflattering stories I’d written about the Greek community, mostly fraternities. I was a higher-education beat reporter back then and regularly wrote about their antics, from run-of-the-mill shenanigans to serious incidents, including multiple cases of near-fatal binge-drinking and a hazing ritual that ended a young man’s life. When folks bemoaned the fact that I didn’t cover enough of their do-goodery efforts, I explained that raising money for charities was something they were supposed to do—it went along with their stated values and was expected of them. So it wasn’t as newsworthy as, say, a fraternity whose members had sex with adult-film stars for a college-themed video sold on the internet. Yes, that really happened. And yes, I broke the story. I always kept my cool when talking to those who charged that my reporting was too harsh, but what I really wanted to say was, “Stop doing dumb shit!” After all, that’s the only sure-fire way to keep your organization’s name out of the local press—or worse, have the story picked up by national news outlets. That happened, too. These days, I still catch flak—mostly for news and commentary based on the antics of the president of the United States. This week, for example, I’ve heard from readers of my last column who are twisting themselves into knots trying to defend the president’s short-lived but nonetheless devastating policy of separating children from their asylum-seeking parents, mainly mothers. In doing so, they use propagandist talking points likely picked up from far-right sources or POTUS himself. Like Trump, they say the president chose to prosecute immigrants as a method of dealing with the flawed “catch-and-release” law Democrats had put into place. Untrue. Essentially, a court ruling during George W. Bush’s administration determined that indefinitely detaining people, irrespective of their legal status, is illegal without due process. Another talking point: that President Obama had done the same thing. Also misleading. Yes, families were separated during his presidency, but only in limited cases—such as when there were concerns about child trafficking or when family detention centers were filled to capacity. In fact, in 2016, due to yet another court ruling, most families were released with a notice to appear in immigration court (some were even fitted with ankle monitors). But there was never a blanket policy of criminal prosecution, which, in a month’s time under the Trump administration, has resulted in the government taking more than 2,300 children, including infants, and placing them into detention facilities without their parents. Trump signed an executive order last week that, at least for now, calls for detaining families together. A statement from Homeland Security over the weekend lacked details of its reunification plan. Meanwhile, 2,000-plus kids remained in captivity as of deadline. As for my Trump-supporting critics: Well, they’ll just have to suffer through commentary that addresses the overwhelming array of stupid, dangerous, cruel and anti-democratic shit born of his unscrupulous administration—including the discriminatory “Muslim ban” SCOTUS upheld this week, the banking deregulation that could jeopardize the economy, and, of course, caging refugee children.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

LETTERS

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‘Chaos and cruelty’ Re “New dark chapter,” Second & Flume, June 21): I cannot fathom the levels of anguish, chaos and cruelty unleashed by the Trump administration. The latest example, of course, is the separation of desperate parents and children at the Mexican border. Trump’s reversal of his and Jeff Sessions’ policy of separation does nothing to reverse the ongoing tragedy of babies, toddlers and children virtually disappearing from their parents, including the obscenity of shipping many of these vulnerable children off to other parts of the country. The consequences of this ugly, punitive policy will reverberate through the generations. Parallels with Nazi Germany are obvious: big lies spoken over and over, vilification of the press as the enemy, terms like “infestation” and animals” to describe human beings. Let us learn from history. Vote in November. Agitate against the madness. Silona Reyman Chico

Thousands of infants separated from their mothers’ wombs by Planned Parenthood. Where’s the outrage from the liberals/ Democrats? Thousands of infants separated from their parents at childbirth due to a history of addiction or abuse. Where’s the outrage from the liberals/Democrats? Thousands of children separated from their parents due to incarceration. Where’s the outrage from the liberals/Democrats? The liberal/ Democrat hypocrisy reeks! Ken Carlsen Durham

The horror story at the border continues. Now, we have incarcerated parents locked up with their children. We should bring back the Family Case Management Program, which Trump eliminated after taking office. This program was hugely successful: “More than 99 percent of families in the program showed up for their court dates.” Yet Trump has preferred jail and criminalization. As anyone who has lost a parent in childhood knows, that trauma stays with a

person for a lifetime. Add to that losing a parent in foreign surroundings? Unimaginable. The U.S. has been bombing and supporting murderous regimes around the world for decades, killing and maiming families from Vietnam to the Middle East. In the past, we’ve offered compensation. Yet last year, the U.S. took in only 11 refugees from Syria. Pitiful. Compare that to the 2 million Indochinese that were resettled in the U.S. over 40 years ago. Trump separates and jails families from Honduras, which is like a war zone, and has the highest homicide rate of all countries in the world, followed by Guatemala, which is No. 4. We have a worldwide refugee crisis. Time for sensible border policy, not jailing families.

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practice of ripping young children out of the arms of their mothers when they have come to our southern border to apply for asylum. No staff person in the national or local offices could tell me what he thought, or if he was doing anything about it. Many of these asylum seekers are fleeing extreme violence in their Central American countries. Some of them have already had several members of their families slaughtered by members of gangs. The GOP once claimed it supported legal immigration. Does it still? And if it does, why did Doug LaMalfa stay silent about this hideous practice, which leaves parents terrified and children emotionally and physically damaged. Congressman LaMalfa, are you afraid of Donald Trump? Since your offices tell us nothing, perhaps you can answer in the pages of this newspaper. Representing your constituents is a dialogue, not a monologue. Please respond. It’s your job. Karen Duncanwood Paradise

I am driving with my daughter. She raised her head up from her coloring book to ask, “Mom, can I be stolen too?” She’s picked up on what’s happening on the radio and by listening to conversations in our home. She’s asking about the forced separation of undocumented families at the border. I want to say, “No, that is impossible!” However, I see parallels between this latest act and those of the past (internment of Japanese-Americans, removal of indigenous children from families to boarding schools, etc.). I cannot comfort her because this is out of my control. My daughter is mixed— Mexican-American and white. I fear that I will be asked to provide proof that she is mine, as was the case in May for Lindsay Gottlieb, head women’s basketball coach for UC Berkeley, while traveling with her mixed-race child. Do I need to start traveling with her birth certificate? “You are American. You were born here, just like your parents and grandparents.” How do I explain forced migration to a 4-year-old? The words do not exist to bring her up to speed. Ambrosia Krinsky Chico

I am grateful for the outrage over the obscene incarceration of children separated from their parents during the immigration/asylum process. That obscenity is going to be stopped because of that outrage. There should be equal outrage over U.S. policies that have created and abetted the Central American violence that is causing many to flee their country. In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supported a coup in Honduras, wanting a government friendly to U.S. business interests and the Honduran elite and its military. The U.S. government then increased funding to the coup perpetrators, the Honduran military. Political violence and assassinations, attributed to statesponsored death squads, soared. The historical record shows that U.S. policies and assistance have most often undermined prosperity, stability and democracy in Central America. Laura Bush called the child separation cruel and immoral. Did she ever call the Iraq War cruel and immoral? Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have died as a result of unnecessary U.S. military action in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. That cruel and immoral military action has been unthinkingly supported by most Democrats and Republicans. Those deaths aren’t as embarrassing as several thousand caged children, so there is no outrage. Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

Sorry and goodbye Re “Bon appétit!” (Letters, by Peter Bridge, June 21): Allow me to open with something foreign to conservatives: an apology. It’s just a courtesy common to we “liberals.” Second, don’t bother to pass the salt. I don’t wish to join the growing Amerikan legions of hypertensive and self-righteously indignant … well, conservatives. Thirdly, I was mistaken to assume anything of you, just like those who assume they know everything about me, including my party affiliation, as a result of my stand on Amerika’s epidemic national health crisis of gun violence. Lastly, you still insist that white boys are made to commit murder as if it is the natural response to the

liberal anti-American indoctrination you assert. Again, in spite of your education, not because of it, you mistakenly seem to believe people can be made to act. No one makes anyone do anything in a free society. Every action is a choice and/ or a reaction. Just as I didn’t make you respond to me. You chose. I’m just hoping you don’t also choose to shoot someone as a result of your anger at liberalism. Have a nice life. Joe Hlebica Red Bluff

More POTUS talk If what Trump does—no matter how illegal, immoral, dishonest or incompetent—irritates the Democrats and progressives, then [Republicans] love and support it. Given this, I would fully expect the Republican reaction to Trump deciding to create a national waste dump in Yosemite Valley to be, “I used to love vacationing there, but, hey, this will freak out those environmental liberals, so I’m all for it!” Our national problem isn’t so much lack of education; it’s a lack of maturity and a lack of the ability to weigh problems and potential solutions on their merits rather than on who proposes them (remember, the Republican Congress refused to pass their own bills if Obama supported them). It’s also demand of instant gratification. Why look at the facts, review the options and weigh the consequences when it’s easier to scream “make America great again!”? It reminds me of two neighbors who both hate hard rock music but don’t get along otherwise. One decides that if he blasts loud electric guitar recordings all day he’ll put up with the hated sounds because he knows how it so irritates the other. Childlike? That’s where we are politically. Hopefully the next generation will have a bit more humility. Dean Carrier Paradise

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For the first time in six years, resource officers will return to Chico Unified School District campuses, and it won’t cost the district or the city a dime. A $1.5 million state grant, funded over two years by the tobacco tax passed in 2016, will allow the Chico Police Department to hire a sergeant and two officers this fall and two more next school year, according to Chief Mike O’Brien. The focus is on combating illegal sales of tobacco products, but CUSD Director of State and Federal Programs John Bohannon told the CN&R, “In today’s world, where we see so many school shootings, having trained officers on site could be a benefit … to the safety of our students and staff.” Previously, CUSD and CPD had been working together to finance the reintroduction of two resource officers. Meegan Jessee, Butte County deputy chief administrative officer, said county staff will bring forward strategies to address pension, In Home Supportive Services and fire services costs later this year.

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Putting environmentalists and residential well-users on equal footing with farmers, the Butte County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday (June 26) supporting the Butte Environmental Council’s involvement in groundwater management. As reported in the CN&R (“Fighting to be heard,” Newslines, May 31), BEC requested representation as the county participates in governance plans under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA. Supervisors previously passed a resolution granting this status to a farming group, the Agricultural Groundwater Users of Butte County. Tuesday’s resolution also commits the county to supporting a domestic well-user and an at-large environmental representative in the governance structure of each of the four sub-basins, or groundwater jurisdictions.

ProJect on the move

The proposed Base Camp Village is still in the works, just not in Thermalito. Project developer Ron Reed (pictured) has faced considerable criticism surrounding the initial proposed location of his transitional housing complex, 1240 10th St. (See “A welcome home?” Newslines, June 14.) Reed, a defense attorney, intends to house 28 formerly homeless individuals with mental illness in partnership with Butte County Behavioral Health. He chose not to disclose the new location he’s been eyeing, but told the CN&R it’s in a residential area of Oroville. The county is helping him with the transition. “I really believe in the project … and I’m not going to back off on that at all, but I want the community to be a part of it,” Reed said. 8

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rough road ahead County budget balanced, but deficit fast approaching

Isome Board of Supervisors will have to make difficult calls to avoid seeing red on n the next few years, the Butte County

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It’s not this fiscal year that will plunge into story and shortfall territory—the photo by Ashiah $552 million budget penScharaga cils out to a nice round zero when all is said and as h i a h s @ done. But next year? n ew srev i ew. c o m Four years from now? That’s a different story. Meegan Jessee, who develops the annual budget as the county’s deputy chief administrative officer, told the supervisors on Tuesday (June 26) that if the county continues operations as usual there could be a $3.2 million deficit by fiscal year 2022-23. “Even though revenues are increasing, our costs are increasing faster,” Jessee told the CN&R leading up to the formal budget presentation. That’s why this year the county is “making the reductions necessary to live

within our means,” culling 60 positions (all unfilled except one) and making some changes at the library, despite a 3.5 percent increase in funds available over last year. More than half of the positions cut were from the Department of Employment and Social Services, reflecting decreased state and federal funding. This continues last year’s trend: In 2017, 86 (mostly vacant) positions were eliminated and the library saw $60,000 in cuts. The county budget is largely composed of “restricted” funding sources from the state and federal government (61 percent, in fact), earmarked for specific uses like public assistance, health, sanitation and other programs. Most of the county’s discretionary budget (about $114 million) has been directed toward public safety. When it comes to the library, the county will cut 24 operating hours per week and reduce the physical materials budget by half, to $500 a month for all branches. Tuesday afternoon, Supervisor Larry Wahl spoke in defense of maintaining current

library hours and funding. “You can spend [$500] in about 20 minutes on books for one library, probably,” he said. “I view the whole thing with concern.” Wahl suggested drawing from the county’s general fund reserves ($8 million) or contingency ($7.2 million) to provide $200,000 to the library system, which still would allow the county to meet target reserve goals. “The loss of library hours are going back to the level that they were almost 20 years ago, and that’s pretty pathetic for a library system here in a place called California,” he added. In response, Supervisor Maureen Kirk spoke up in support of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Valley, to which Wahl amended his motion to include another $100,000 for that organization. Last year, the supervisors made a tough call to drastically cut the county Probation Department’s contract with the Boys and Girls Clubs from $236,000 to $46,000, which was supplemented later by $162,400 in one-time funding. (See “Austerity wins, programs

lose,” Newslines, June 29, 2017.) This year’s budget for the organization was approved for $100,000. “Anticipating they make more money next year, huh?” Chairman Steve Lambert replied. Wahl’s response: “The economy is wonderful, according to our governor.” The other supervisors weren’t swayed: the vote failed 2-3. Supervisor Bill Connelly said that he unfortunately had to be the bad guy that afternoon and say “no,” because the county is just going to have to start “making hard decisions.” “We all need to realize we have a budget gap that’s growing, and we all have to address it,” he said. “We’re going to figure something out with a fire district and other districts so we can go forward with a balanced budget where people will actually pay for the service they desire. Sorry to say it that way, but we have to address that in the coming year, or we’re going to have troubles.” Unfortunately, that could mean raising taxes, fees or “other words we hate in the North State or anywhere,” Lambert added. For example, the county’s residents want criminals prosecuted and they want the roads fixed, but “it all comes at a cost.” While revenue from property and sales

taxes will increase in the coming years, it won’t be able to catch up with rising costs from employee salaries and benefits (i.e., California Public Employees’ Retirement System obligations) and the county’s share of In Home Supportive Services (due to a decrease in state funding), as well as an increase in ongoing operating costs for the expanded county jail, starting in 2021. Roughly speaking, Jessee said, the county contributes 15 percent to 31 percent to CalPERS per employee. That’s projected to increase to as much as 26 percent to 45 percent over the next 10 years. The county is paying approximately $20.4 million to pensions per year, Jessee told the CN&R, and with current projections, that could reach $36 million by 2027-28. County staff will bring forward indepth reports later this year regarding creating a community services district for fire and possibly other county services, as well as a presentation and discussion about options for handling CalPERS costs, which will include looking at paying up-front or investing in a trust, as the city of Chico has done. “These are big, significant costs,” Jessee told the supervisors. “There is no magic bullet here, but there are some ways if we set up funds now that we can reduce costs in the future.” Ω

Park pretense Commission passes on closure decision, weighs validity of request If anything was made clear Monday night (June 25) at the meet-

ing of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission, it was that closing the city’s parks and greenways earlier and at a uniform time—11 p.m.—is more complicated than it might seem on the surface. The biggest concern? That the commission was being asked to make a decision targeting the homeless population under the guise of public safety and clearing up confusion. Each of the six members of the public who spoke on the issue indicated they felt the proposal would have the greatest impact on homeless people who sleep in the parks for lack of anywhere else to go. “All of the places, all of the resources are full—we have 400 people who must sleep outside,” said Sandra O’Neill. “The only place that’s safe is in our parks. We should encourage them to sleep outside instead of behind bushes. “We should keep our parks open [24/7] until such time as Chico can get enough low-income housing to house the people who need to be housed.” Richard Muenzer is one of those people. “It’s about time you saw one of us. I’m one of the dreaded homeless people,” he said by way of introduction. “There are many reasons why we oppose this. Why I personally oppose this: It’s going to drive me in deeper. That’s not what we want; you don’t want to drive us in deeper. I get it—we should be at the Torres Shelter. But the Torres Shelter is full.” Muenzer, as well as several other speakers, went so far as to say that the City Council was asking the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission to do its dirty work, to address homelessness without formally addressing homelessness, or without providing an alternative solution to the problem. “I want my parks back. I want them to be cleaner and safer. I don’t want them to be campgrounds,” said Scott Huber, a City Council candidate and nature enthusiast who earlier this year spent a weekend on the streets to better understand the issue and what people are facing. “One

The Bidwell Park and Playground Commission considers closing Chico’s parks earlier. Cn&R file photo

way to achieve this: Provide housing. People aren’t sleeping in our parks because they want to mess up the parks. They’re sleeping in the parks because they don’t have dwellings. “Please don’t be patsies for the City Council,” he continued. “Don’t take the fall for a bitter failure to act.” Fellow council candidate Rich Ober, a former park commissioner who sits on the board at the Torres Community Shelter, had a similar take. “I think we all know that changing the closing time for Bidwell Park and other parks will not create an additional bed in the Torres Shelter or elsewhere,” he said. He characterized the park closure issue, as well as the sit/lie ordinance and others, as distractions from the real problem. “Let’s put this energy toward real solutions.” When it came time for the commissioners to weigh in, it seemed

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clear that they’d listened. Commissioner Alberto Hernandez said he’d been at Bidwell Park recently and saw what appeared to be a single mother and her kids sleeping in their car. He suggested paying attention to the city attorney’s upcoming report to the City Council on what declaring a shelter crisis might mean and then discussing whether the parking lots could be kept open for people to sleep in their vehicles. Elaina McReynolds took issue with Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien’s assertion that closing all the parks at 11—currently most are open till midnight, while City Plaza “closes” at 2 a.m.—will clear up confusion for the public and police officers, or that it will provide much benefit for public safety. Closing one hour earlier “won’t make a dent,” she said. “Chief O’Brien says it will eliminate confusion, but I don’t see a lot of confusion,” she added. “Put up some signs. If the police are confused, they can make a little laminated card that says the parks are closed at different times. I don’t see that closing all the parks at 11 is a valid way to approach a memory issue.” With his background in law enforcement, Commissioner Tom Nickell said he understands the usefulness of tools like uniform closing times to eliminate a criminal element. He had approached the NEWSLINES C o n t i n u e d June 28, 2018

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around all the technical issues that present themselves.” Wilke finds himself in such a situation now. Monday (June 25), Chico State announced Wilke’s hiring as general manager for North State Public Radio. He’ll start in August after moving from Las Cruces, N.M., where he spent two years as director of membership and community outreach for KRWG Public Media—provider of public radio and TV in southern New Mexico and west Texas. His arrival should coincide with a new transmitter for NSPR. Since April, broadcasts in the southern half of the market—served by Chico-based KCHO/91.7 FM and several “repeater” channels—have wavered because the main transmitter in Cohasset incurred damage. Chester, Greenville, Hayfork and Westwood have been mostly off-air; communities closer in have experienced weaker signals.

The northern reaches of NSPR, emanating from Redding’s KFPR/88.9 FM, remain unaffected. “We’ve gotten calls,” NSPR’s Jonathan Coke said, “we’ve answered everyone, and for the most part we’ve told them the same thing: ‘The solution is not happening quickly enough for us, either.’” The station had to order a piece of custom equipment, manufactured in Canada and shipped from Maine. It’s scheduled to arrive by mid-July, at which time technicians from the manufacturer will install it and engineers from NSPR will get it turned on. “It should be plug-and-play,” said Coke, the underwriting sales manager. But the engineers will be prepared for troubleshooting if needed; plus, the project also involves a new cooling system. The problem stemmed from overheating. Just ahead of the spring pledge drive in April—ominously, on Friday the 13th—station staff noticed what Coke called “degradation of the signal, of the sound quality” on their personal radios. Engineers isolated the issue to the Cohasset transmitter, a 35-year-old piece of equipment utilizing tubes instead of solidstate technology like the replacement. What should look like “a glossy, golden-colored radio tube looks more like a toasted marshmallow,” Coke said. “We thought that we could just replace the damaged part,” he continued, “but the part was so damaged that it damaged the rest of the transmitter housing and [other parts] inside.” Turns out the air-conditioning had broken down; “we didn’t know it, and heat is really bad—really bad—for electronics.” The replacement transmitter

parks mentioned here, I’ve seen the damage to Bidwell Bowl, and to [Children’s Playground],” he said. “This is where kids play. For those two areas, close them at dusk.” The others, however, based on their unique character, may warrant the current midnight closing time. Commissioner Jeffrey Glatz, who originally brought up the

discussion of park closures in December, agreed to a point, erring on the side of closing earlier. “Our responsibility is to Bidwell Park and playgrounds,” he said. “People are calling it a homeless issue. It’s not a homeless issue that we have to deal with—that’s not our responsibility.” All said and done, the commission voted 5-0 (Valerie Reddemann

was absent; one seat is vacant) to forward the issue to the policy committee. Glatz suggested studying parks around the country for guidelines on closure times. McReynolds said she’d like to see statistics from the police department on how many calls and/or arrests are made in the parks between 11 p.m. and midnight.

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print journalism to public radio, he joined a station accustomed to a particular bit of misfortune: transmitter trouble. Once, a vandal with bolt cutters snapped the guide wires supporting Kansas Public Radio’s antenna, which toppled to the ground. Within the week, a boom operator accidentally knocked down the temporary replacement tower. By the time Wilke came aboard in 2001, some 20 years later, those incidents had settled into lore. However, springtime lightning strikes are so common to northeast Kansas that KPR perennially sends crews to electrified transmitters. “I’ve never been involved in something that intricate,” said Wilke, whose media manager position focused on sales, not engineering. “That’s where you’ve got to have great staff who know what they’re doing so they can maneuver

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proposal with care, however, because he was concerned that it might target one specific group. For that reason, and to avoid discrimination, he made a motion to forward the issue to the commission’s policy committee, requesting that it study each park and greenway individually. “After looking at the different

equipment costs $40,000. Because of a deep discount and donation from underwriter Royal Aire, the cooling system will cost just $6,000. Aug. 20, at which point the new transmitter should be operational. He’ll play a part in the project, however, as NSPR is making an investment—which he supports— in infrastructure. The transmitter replacement constitutes about 60 percent of a $75,000 commitment to technology. Coke said the station also will procure monitoring devices that hopefully will forestall such catastrophic failures. Public radio stations run lean; NSPR is no exception. Additional funding will be required, but Wilke deems this venture significant, saying: “You have to be ready for all the contingencies.” Or, as Coke put it: “A radio station is exactly like a crying baby that never sleeps. It’s on 24 hours a day, and it does require constant attention. It’s not like you get to plug it in and forget about it.” Wilke, 57, grew up in New Jersey before studying journalism and broadcasting at the University of Kansas. He worked at two papers in Lawrence, Kan., before going into radio—in fact, he continues to write freelance articles and columns. NSPR is his first GM job. His two previous stations resemble ours: university-sponsored with large, predominantly rural footprints. He’s been listening to NSPR online for a month (at mynspr.org) and said he’s “amazed at how good the station is with as small a staff as they have … that is a remarkable operation. “I don’t have grand plans for Day 1 to change this, that or the other thing—not by any stretch. My first job is to learn all the immediate priorities.” —Evan Tuchinsky eva ntu c h insk y @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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but confidently backed her way up a metal ramp along the left edge. Looping past the sign-language interpreter seated by a chesthigh table, Whitmore grabbed a microphone, strode ahead and accepted applause. Those few moments represented a snapshot of the life story she shared with

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the 100-plus people—36 of them young athletes with disabilities—who came to hear her speak at the El Rey Theater last Tuesday evening (June 19). Patience. Perseverance. Adaptation. Appreciation. Those characteristics, and others, have defined the past decade for Whitmore, whose career as a professional triathlete got derailed by cancer but career as an athlete did not. With a leg brace and special shoe, she’s able to compete in para-cycling—bicycle racing, sanctioned by the sport’s international federation, with modifications for riders’ physical limitations. She’s won four world championships since 2013 and two med-

Para-cyclist Jamie Whitmore shares a gold-medal moment with Madeline Nadeau, left, and Aliyah Dinits outside the El Rey Theater, where she spoke last Tuesday (June 19).

als, gold and silver, in the 2016 Paralympic Games. She met President Barack Obama at the White House as well as marquee Olympians of Team USA. She also received an ESPY Award, in 2014, as Best Female Athlete with a Disability. Those milestones followed a series of crossroads, of tough choices. Would she linger in bed, or would she push herself to walk? Would she find satisfaction in the trappings of home life, or push herself back into athletics’ elite? At each juncture, Whitmore remembered a lesson her father imparted during her childhood: You can be what you want—attitude is everything. “Even though cancer changed my path,” she said, “I was able to chase my dream.” This message in particular moved Chuck Nadeau, president of Ability First Sports, which last week held its annual summer camp at Chico State. Ability First offers youth with disabilities—this year, from as far away as Arkansas—the chance to learn adaptive sports such as para-cycling from coaches who compete at world-class levels. Campers got to see Whitmore, 42, front and center at the El Rey before she coached them the next morning. “It’s really great to get a speaker like Jamie to come in to talk about the adversity she faced, the challenges that were in front of her and what she was able to do to overcome those and continue pursuing on,” he told the CN&R afterward, as Whitmore signed autographs and posed for photos with her Paralympics medals. “We have a couple of coaches who have been part of the Paralympics ... I don’t think

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we’ve had a gold medalist Paralympic athlete come to our camp before. This is definitely a pretty big deal.” Whitmore’s appearance at the El Rey (hosted

by Chico firm Red Rock Financial) and the Ability First camp was not her first time here. A Sacramento-area native, she ran track and cross-country for Valley High and earned a scholarship to Cal State Northridge. The triathlon piqued her interest, specifically XTERRA—a series comprising swimming, mountain biking and off-road trail running. First, in 2001, Whitmore earned her pro card in mountain biking. Over the next six years, she’d win more XTERRA races (37) than anyone else on the circuit, male or female, along with one world championship and six U.S. championships. “I was living the dream,” she recalled. “I was super stoked.” In 2007, at age 31, racing in Maui, everything changed. At the start of the bike stage, her left leg cramped. She felt “worse and worse” with each successive mile, overcompensating with her right leg, and entered the final run “farther back than ever.” Both legs cramped, yet she willed her way to a thirdplace finish. The pain in her left leg didn’t subside. Several months later, in January 2008, she couldn’t sleep. Whitmore tried taking a bike ride in February, but the pain was excruciating. The cause remained a mystery until physicians at UC San Francisco found a tumor of a rare cancer wrapped around the sciatic nerve. Surgery took over nine hours and left her unable to fully move her foot. Whitmore needed to relearn how to walk. Doctors said her pro career was over,

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swimming—back in an XTERRA triathlon. These days—when not training, competing or spending time with the boys—Whitmore travels far and wide delivering motivational talks. “Whoever will listen to my story, I’ll go share it,” she told the CN&R with a hearty chuckle. “I want to do it forever.” What does she hope people take from her story? “That you have the ability to do whatever you want,” Whitmore replied, “and you can never let someone else prevent you from [doing] that. The bigger you dream, people are going to go, ‘That’s crazy!’—but you have to believe in that dream. It might not look how everybody else does it, but you’ll do it, you’ll figure it out.” □

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that she’d never run, that she’d never ride more than a stationary bike. The latter, she refused to accept—she was determined to return to mountain biking, maybe even ride in the Paralympics, which she knew about from XTERRA’s partnership with the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Four days into radiation, Whitmore learned her cancer had returned. A grapefruit-size sarcoma had grown out of the sciatic and headed up her spine. She had a 12-hour surgery that July that cost her muscle tissue and led to a bout with sepsis, a sometimes fatal infection. From 115 pounds, her 5-foot-5 frame thinned to 98 pounds. She recovered her strength, recovered from the disease—she’s gone 10 years cancer-free. She got sick again, but this time found the cause to be positive: pregnancy. Her twin sons, Christian and Ryder, were born in January 2010; the family lives in Somerset, a small community near Placerville. Eventually, she got herself back on a mountain bike, back to running (aided by crutches) and

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GREENWAYS Gateway Science Museum docent Stephanie Parker, left, and Executive Director Adrienne McGraw have seen kids respond to the climate change exhibits.

Warming up to science Climate change exhibits engage Gateway Museum’s inquisitive visitors story and photo by

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Omodel the Gateway Science Museum spotted the research vessel taking up the center of n a recent Friday, three young visitors to

the North Gallery. Immediately boarding, the kids started playing make-believe with the mock scientific instruments and toy marine animals on board. “Today was their last day of school,” said Nicole Andrews, one of the mothers who had brought the children―faces painted from their earlier celebration at school―to the museum to kick off their summer vacation by checking out its latest offerings. This summer, the Gateway Science Museum’s focus is on climate change, and so far, the exhibits seem to be a hit. The aquatic-themed “Climate Change Oceans, Acid vs. Life” will remain at the museum through Sept. 9, while “Beauty & The Beast: California Wildflowers & Climate Change” will run until later in the fall. “The kids are learning and having fun, and the adults are quite engaged, just as much as the kids are,” Luann M. Manss, a part-time docent, said outside the Newberry Gallery, home of the wildflower exhibit. Inside, pictures of native wildflowers (such as the deep-purple silver lupine and our iconic state flower, the California poppy) fill the gallery, along with descriptions of the delicate habitat required for each to thrive― habitats threatened by global warming trends. In the North Gallery, coral reef reconstructions—some with areas bright and colorful, others pale and devoid of life—surround the boat. The exhibit focuses on ocean acidification and coral bleaching, two side-effects of global warming. Stephanie Parker, another docent, said that when sharing with visitors information

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on effects a changing climate can have on ecosystems, “I’m really surprised at how much they already know.” Showing pretty flowers and colorful coral brings the concepts home, Parker continued—that makes children and parents want to get even more involved in conservation and learn even more about the science behind it all. Concentrating on this topic is an intentional choice. “We’re a science museum, so we’re definitely trying to talk about climate change—it is a big, important topic in science,” Adrienne McGraw, the museum’s director, said from her corner office on the grounds. “Climate change is the most important global and local phenomenon that we’re facing.” Before any exhibit gets chosen, it must meet specific criteria. First, exhibits are vetted to make sure they come from reputable sources, then the topic must be deemed to be “of interest to the general populace,” McGraw said. Last, but not least, the exhibits must be hands-on in some way. The museum, McGraw estimates, welcomes about 18,000 visitors a year, a large number being children―5,000 to 6,000 from school field trips alone, even during the summer. Interactive elements draw them in and Extended hours:

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keep them entertained, she said, while making concepts that are difficult to understand, such as coral bleaching and ocean acidification, more approachable. Back on board the miniature research vessel,

the children played with a replica data logger among the scientific instruments. The logger, a clipboard made to resemble a tablet computer, showed it was connected to a nearby remote sensor just behind the boat in the coral exhibit that’s in the process of bleaching—that is, losing color due to changes in the ocean. Other displays of coral, throughout different stages of bleaching, dot the room; one chunk is large enough for children to crawl through. To better explain the science behind the process of coral bleaching, seven monitors with push-to-play videos stand on either side of the vessel. Each plays short videos that explain how coral is made, a major cause of coral bleaching and exactly what ocean acidification is, as visitors proceed clockwise from one to the next in the ordered series. Coral, the video explains, actually is composed of many organisms living on and among a hardened skeleton-like structure made of calcium carbonate, which is exuded through chemical processes by other marine organisms. Bleaching, the videos go on to explain— with bright and attractive colors, and easyto-follow narration—comes from a chemical change due to increasingly acidic oceans

as a result of absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide naturally forms carbonic acid in water, which in higher levels begins to disrupt the coral’s natural levels of calcium carbonate; instead, corals form with more calcium bicarbonate, which is incapable of supporting life the same way. Thus, the colorful organisms once inhabiting the coral no longer can survive, and it turns a pale, bleached white. “It sounds complicated, but I find that [the exhibits] take complicated subjects—especially the chemistry part of how the oceans are acidifying—and make it a lot more approachable,” Parker said. “I’ve had kids regurgitate the information back very well. They may not fully understand, but they mostly get it.” □

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Dumpling royalty John Dean and Elizabeth Young, and even their 18-month-old daughter, Isabel, are proud to blaze their own trail with the food they serve and the new business model they’re using with Drunken Dumpling. Dean and Young met in 2014 while they were both working at The Wine Room in Paradise. A few years later, they met the self-proclaimed Dumpling King of the Northwestern United States over a bottle of tequila while on vacation. After hearing his story about building a successful business selling dumplings late at night out of a small walk-up window in Alaska, a light bulb went on for both Dean and Young; the idea for Drunken Dumpling was born. Dean, whose culinary background spans over 30 years of working with different types of food, is passionate about Asian fusion cuisine. After two years of planning, building their mobile kitchen and creating a rotating menu, which always includes vegan and vegetarian options, they started doing pop-ups around Chico in March and the response has been great. Now they can be seen, often with Isabel in tow, every Wednesday from 4-8 p.m. at Secret Trail Brewing Co. (132 Meyers St.), at the Thursday Night Market, Saturday nights from 7 p.m.-midnight at the Maltese (1600 Park Ave.), and at Fork in the Road at DeGarmo Park the third Friday of the month. For more information, find them on Facebook.

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Can you describe your Asian fusion menu? Dean: One of our biggest sellers is called the Barack Obama, which is a “shish baraak” dumpling where instead of having the meat and spices in a ball cooking in, like, a yogurt soup, I put the sauce inside so I could wrap it all up ... and then we serve it with our house ponzu, satsuma orange slices with Thai chili flakes and Thai basil. It’s crazy because it’s Japanese ponzu sauce with a Lebanese dumpling with Thai spices and ingredients, so that’s where the fusion comes in, and it’s really good.

What kind of vegetarian options do you offer? Currently on the menu, we have an organic vegan option called the Vegan Mary, which is marinated tofu with our Cajun sauce, vegan hoisin, roasted peanuts and cilantro. I find it’s very important to hit the vegetarian and vegan population ... because there are a huge number of

people that have committed to that lifestyle, and I love making that food.

What’s the new business model you’re working with? The food trucks [in town] are all very different, which is great. It’s very diverse. And that’s what’s cool about the new business model right now—they open a place with their beer and wine or whatever and they’ve kept in mind having the trucks. What restaurant can you go to in town that will serve vastly different cuisine on a daily basis? For me, as a chef, if I had to serve something different every day, I would go insane. So that’s brilliant.

Any plans to go brick-and-mortar? The end game is to have a brickand-mortar. Our business model for that is going to be much more like the business model we had originally, which was latenight dumplings. —CATHY WAGNER

WARDROBE UPGRADE Last Friday marked the official opening of Lulus’ new

downtown shop, The Outlet, and a couple of co-workers and I stepped out for an afternoon break to check it out. The concept is insanely simple: Pieces returned to the online clothier or deemed unfit to ship—usually due to flaws you or I would never find—are sorted into loose categories by size, dumped in bins and sold for $15 a pop. (Formal dresses are $20.) That first day, the store was fairly busy, with a steady stream of women pulling colorful dresses and jumpsuits out of various bins and trying them on in the fitting rooms. I selected an assortment of dresses, as my wardrobe is in serious need of an upgrade, and though all were pretty cute, I settled on a Bohemianflavored maroon one that I’m itching to wear. There are no returns and the store does require a certain amount of patience and persistence, as the bins can quickly feel overwhelming. But what a fun way to find new additions to your closet! Added bonus: The styles vary wildly, so you can go in with a friend with virtually zero fear of walking out with the same outfit. Check out The Outlet at 232 Broadway St. downtown, Friday-Saturday 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

ANOTHER CLOSURE I recently purchased some art that needed some cheap but decent-looking frames. So, I headed over to Aaron Brothers Art & Framing on Forest Avenue because I’d seen sale signs out front. Turns out the place is closing down, merging with Michaels. Everything is on sale, from frames to art supplies to the fixtures they’re displayed on. Potential last day is Saturday (June 30).

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“With privilege comes great responsibility.” That was Mike Mitchell, who was in Chico last week from his home base of Santa Cruz, and dropped by the CN&R office to offer an update on his nonprofit, Project Play Soccer. Part of Mitchell’s philanthropic thesis, which he actually wrote while studying for his master’s at Chico State in 1990, was that if he could get soccer balls to the kids in Niger—where he’d served in the Peace Corps years prior—that struggling nation could eventually compete on a world-class level. After launching Project Play Soccer (originally Project Play) in 2011 and getting a $500,000 infusion two years later from the One World Play Project, creator of the indestructible soccer ball, he’s seeing his thesis pan out. In 2015 and again last year, Niger qualified for the Under-17 World Cup. “That means some of those kids grew up playing with our balls,” Mitchell said, smiling. How cool is that? People like Mitchell, who runs Body and Soul Adventures in the Santa Cruz mountains as a way to raise money for his nonprofit, inspire me to want to do more. I haven’t written my thesis quite yet, but I feel it brewing. For more on Project Play Soccer, visit projectplaysoccer.org or check out Body and Soul Adventures at bodysouladventures.com.

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redwoods and sequoias. But this carbon-trapping benefit is faltering. According to Zhang, most of California’s forested public land— some 19 million acres, including parts of all 18 national forests—is overstocked and must be thinned. Due to our history of interference, the forests have become anthropogenic, or heavily altered by people. Now, ironically, the only way out is through further interference. We can no longer trust the forest to heal itself. “Humans are already a component of the ecosystem,” he says. “You have to consider that. I understand why you wouldn’t want to treat a natural stand. But you have to treat a stand in order to save it.”

Carbon is the new black Carbon science is a relatively new way to understand our relationship with trees. As recently as 15 years ago, wildfire assessments focused on potential loss of life, property and watersheds, not how much carbon escaped into the sky. As wildfires have increased in both frequency and intensity throughout western North America, however, the field of forestry has shifted to account for CO2. “It is a big deal, this role of wildlands breathing in carbon and

holding it into the landscape,” said Bruce Goins, a retired California forester. “And it’s not just carbon management: You’re protecting the water; you’re providing habitat for wildlife; you’re providing habitat for fisheries; you’re providing beautiful aesthetic areas where people can hike and recreate. Carbon sequestration is just one attribute of a healthy, resilient forest.” Goins’ personal perspective on humanity’s connection with conifers changed when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 32, or the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, mandating a statewide reduction in heattrapping pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. State officials began looking at the role forests play in capturing CO2 and Goins helped set the rules for tracking forest carbon under the law. The concept of forests acting as the state’s lungs can be difficult to absorb, Goins said: “To this day, lots of people understand fire risk, but very few people understand forest carbon.” Indeed, carbon scientists come armed with jargon-heavy talking points and graphs of changes in atmospheric gases, which tend to make laypeople tune out. It doesn’t help that scientists don’t agree on the extent of the problem. For example, the authors of a 2015 paper published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management concluded that, between 2001 and 2010, California’s forests emitted more CO2 than they sequestered.

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California’s forests emit more C02 than they sequester, according to the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, mandating a sharp reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Jianwei Zhang, a researcher for the U.S. Forest Service, maintains that humans are a major component of the forest ecosystem in California.

And some experts say that we probably can’t count on carbon-capturing conifers to have our backs on climate change anymore—that they are, in fact, doomed to recede from the slopes of the Sierra Nevada and make way for scrubby brushland as rain and snow become more scarce and average temperatures rise. If climate models prove accurate in the coming decades and centuries, the Sierra Nevada backcountry we know from hiking, camping and beer can labels may transform into a hardly recognizable landscape. Others say that is not coming to pass quite yet. Andrew Gray, an Oregon-based research ecologist for the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, likes to keep the discussion simple, so he talks about walking in the woods and counting trees. By revisiting plots every decade or so and noting the differences, the FIA records how forest carbon changes over time (obviously, dead trees no longer pull CO2 from the atmosphere). Looking at the latest 10-year averages, the number of trees growing

in California well outpaced those dying, despite the severe drought from 2011 to 2016, suggesting the carbon balance is still positive overall. “Given the high levels of growth we have, California’s forests are still probably a net carbon sink,” Gray said. “You’d have to keep killing trees for quite a while to actually change the overall trajectory. It’s a big state. There are a lot of trees. I don’t see them becoming a net source of carbon yet.” But another FIA scientist, research forester Jeremy Fried, believes the tree inventory alone paints an incomplete picture: “Overall, we’re growing more than we’re losing, and if you just focus on that, you think, ‘We’re OK!’ And, yeah, it’s better than if we were carbon-negative, but there’s a lot of room for improvement if your objective really is to keep carbon out of the atmosphere.” That’s why Fried talks about gross growth, or how much CO2 is turned into live wood, foliage, bark,

roots, cones and flowers—as he put it, “the total productive capacity of an acre of forest.” In California’s reserved wilderness areas, trees are dying as fast as they are growing, which means the gross growth is zero. It’s Fried’s professional opinion that all of those logs rotting on the forest floor are a lost opportunity to store carbon long-term. Here’s his thinking: Whether it takes 15 or 50 years to totally decompose, a dead tree is going to release its carbon back into the atmosphere eventually, but if that tree is removed before it dies and becomes lumber used to build houses or furniture, it’s locked up for decades. “If you’re talking about climate benefits,” he said, “you need to look at the harvest, and recognize that some of that harvest is producing significant benefits for a long time.” Dominick DellaSala, on the other hand, doesn’t think we can CARBON C O N T I N U E D

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Despite severe drought, the number of new trees outpace the number of dying trees.

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Rim Fire burns 257,000 acres in Tuolomne and Mariposa counties. Mega-forest fires during the past decade have released millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

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A swath of forest charred by the Rim Fire, which burned 257,000 acres in Stanislaus National Forest from August 2013 to November of the following year.

chainsaw our way out of this. He’s president of the Geos Institute, an environmental consulting group based in Ashland, Ore., that works on climate solutions up and down the West Coast. Citing research overseen by the Oregon Global Warming Commission’s Forest Carbon Task Force, DellaSala said that wood products such as furniture store about 36 percent of the source material’s carbon—meaning that nearly two-thirds of it escapes into the sky. And that’s not accounting for emissions from logging trucks and overseas shipping, manufacturing, damage to soils and the reduced sequestration potential of the forest itself. “Most of that carbon is becoming a global warming pollutant,” he said. “It doesn’t pencil out. When you compare this to the scale at which thinning needs to take place

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Tree Mortality Task Force created. To date, it has removed over 1 million dead or dying trees from California forests.

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to influence fire behavior—even if you could do that—you would be sending out more emissions in the process of thinning the forest than what you’re preventing.”

Burning the hard way So, it’s complicated. But there is little debate about what’s causing the problem: The forests are too dense. The phenomenon is rooted in 150 years of post-European settlement activity. Previously, Native Americans used fire to convert shrubland to promote grassland for deer-hunting, protect themselves from predators and as a tool of inter-tribal warfare, and lightning started fires throughout the West for many thousands of years, clearing away dense underbrush and unhealthy trees and naturally regenerating the landscape.

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The introduction of EuroAmericans to California profoundly changed the role fire plays in forest ecology, especially following the railroad expansion. Locomotives spewing cinders and sparks ignited piles of slash—unmillable limbs and branches left behind by loggers—which, combined with unrestrained fires to clear land for animal grazing, corrosive mining practices and the lumber harvest, nearly stripped the West bare. In 1891, California’s forest reserves were established in the name of conservation. The U.S. Forest Service was created in 1905 and Gifford Pinchot, considered the grandfather of modern forest management, was appointed head of the new agency. “Today,” he declared at the time, “we understand that forest fires are wholly within the control of men.” The era of fire suppression was born.

Senate Bill 1260 introduced, would enable federal, state and private landowners in California to implement prescribed burns on federally and privately owned property. Passed by Senate; currently in Assembly.

In recent decades, California has spent billions on airplanes, fire engines, chemical deterrents and heavy machinery to fight wildfires, and it has worked too well. Whereas most stands used to be touched by fire every 10 to 20 years, some areas haven’t burned in a century. As a result, the forests have become overloaded with fuel, said Jeff Webster, a senior forester with the Jefferson Resource Co., a consulting firm based in Weed. “The forest needs a certain level of disturbance,” he said. “We haven’t been disturbing the forests hardly at all, especially for the last two decades. … We’re loving our

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forests to death.” Now, wildfires are bigger and hotter than ever before, consuming even healthy old-growth trees and leaving only scorched earth and skeletal snags. As California’s population encroaches deeper into the woods, we cannot afford to let wildfires run unchecked. More than 11 million people live in the Sierra Nevada’s wildland-urban interface, and, in addition to health concerns about air quality, the risk to life and property is enormous. For example, the October 2017 Northern California wildfires killed 44 people and caused $9.5 billion in insured damages. And so our culture has come to pray for rain and demonize fire, two equally critical ecological processes, said Craig Thomas, conservation director of Sierra Forest Legacy. He’s been beating the drum to strategically reintroduce fire onto the landscape for many years. “Frequent fire is California,” he said. However, the state hadn’t committed to ecologically significant prescribed burning programs until recently. During Gov. Jerry Brown’s state of the state address in January, he said, “Trees in California should absorb CO2, not generate huge amounts of black carbon and greenhouse gas as they do today when forest fires rage across the land.” Last month, Brown signed a multipronged executive order that, among other actions, will double the area of forestland actively managed through vegeCARBON C O N T I N U E D

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tation-thinning, controlled fires and reforestation—from 250,000 acres to 500,000 acres. The order coincides with the release of the state’s 2018 Forest Carbon Plan, which recognizes that the forests “will become a source of overall net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if actions are not taken to enhance their health and resilience” and that “these conditions threaten progress toward meeting the state’s longterm climate goals.” To that end, fiscal year 201718 marked a dramatic increase in the state budget for forest health programs through an appropriation of $220 million from the California Climate Investment Fund, and there are several firerelated bills currently working through the Legislature, including Senate Bill 1260 by Santa Barbara Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson. And significant action has already been taken: More than 1.2 million dead or dying trees have been removed from the state’s forests since California established a Tree Mortality Task Force in 2015. Thomas is greatly encouraged by the action from the state’s highest office and efforts by foresters, firefighters and air regulators to step up prescribed burning statewide. “They’re pulling it together and realizing we don’t have a nofire option in California,” he said. “There’s a general, broad acceptance of that across the board, and it’s pretty stunning. … To me, it’s a cultural phenomenon I really didn’t expect a couple of years ago.” With state agencies mostly on the same page, now it’s a matter of actually removing enough trees to save the forests—and fighting fire with fire.

If these trees could cough Oak trees gradually give way to evergreens as Highway 50 rises from the Sacramento Valley floor to the mountain community of Pollock Pines, just west of Placerville. An exit leads to Jenkinson Lake at Sly Park Recreation Area, a manmade reservoir that serves as one of the primary water sources for the residents of rural El Dorado County. It’s a brisk morning and a gaggle of geese calls overhead, unseen in the overcast sky. On the scene are Jim Branham,

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the executive officer of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, as well as Mark Egbert, manager of El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation District, or RCD. Overlooking the glass-smooth lake, the pair explain that the 3,724 acres of surrounding forestland are encompassed by the Sly Park Vegetation Management Project, an example of proactive forest management in action.

“We’re loving our forests to death.” —Jeff Webster, senior forester

In March, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy awarded the RCD $500,000 to create a fire-resistant landscape around Sly Park. Now, multiple agencies—including Cal Fire, the Forest Service, the El Dorado Irrigation District and others—are working to avoid a disaster of the magnitude of the 2014 King Fire, which consumed nearly 100,000 acres of nearby forest and a dozen homes. Workers hand-thin brush and small trees, in addition to mechanical removal, with the goal of using prescribed fire to mimic natural processes. The alternative isn’t pretty, Egbert says. He subscribes to the philosophy that excess trees either leave the forest as lumber or wood chips, or burn. “The trees in the

King Fire, they’re not sequestering carbon anymore,” he says. “They’ve burned up. They’re dead.” The strategy remains hard to sell to the public. “It’s somewhat counterintuitive to say we need to cut a bunch of these green, live trees to make the forest healthy,” Branham says. “It’s not the easiest message to deliver to people who’ve grown up thinking more trees are better.” But there’s been a shift in public perception since the King Fire, Ebgert says. Now residents regularly thank them for their work; they understand that it benefits forest health, air quality and their own safety. Count Branham and Egbert among those who are optimistic that full restoration is still achievable, despite the daunting scale of California’s forest-carbon problem. They say reducing stand density promotes growth, and therefore carbon storage; and bigger trees are generally more resilient to fire, insects and disease. That’s why Jenkinson Lake can be a model for proactive forest management throughout the Sierra Nevada, Branham says: “This is exactly what we need to be doing if we want to store carbon longterm.” With another fire season heating up, it’s a good time to remember that forests provide more than lumber for our homes, recreational settings and pretty backgrounds for our profile pictures. Our dependence on trees is as basic as breathing. And if Mother Nature keeps coughing up carbon like this, we’re pretty much on our own with this whole climate change thing. Ω

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Arts &Culture Paradise Community Guilds President David Zink on the mic at Norton Buffalo Hall during a Leonard Cohen tribute show. PHoTo by Ken PoRdes

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Dinterview As he explained recently during an at Paradise’s Norton Buffalo avid Zink was feeling lonely.

Hall, he was new to Paradise at the time—2011—and working out of his home as a long-distance management consultant. He had clients and friends all over the country, but by none in Paradise. Robert Speer What he did have rober tspe er@ was music: Zink’s an newsrev iew.c om accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and arranger with several Preview: be the Community CDs under his belt. But Music Festival, he didn’t know many saturday, June 30, local musicians, and 5-10 p.m. there was no venue in Tickets: $20 Paradise where he felt (kids free) comfortable playing. Then he heard about Norton Buffalo Hall 5704 Chapel drive the Paradise Grange Paradise Hall and the then762-1490 nortonbuffalohall.com embryonic effort to turn it into a community music venue and gathering place. When his wife informed him that members could rent the hall for just $30, he jumped aboard. Today it’s called the Norton Buffalo Hall, named after the late legendary harmonica player who in his last years made Paradise his home and gave freely of his time and talent to benefit the community. The hall is run by the newly formed Paradise Community Guilds— Zink is president of the board of 22

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directors—and it has hosted more than 15 concerts so far this year. These included two delightful sold-out Leonard Cohen tribute shows by local musicians. Cohen would have loved them. Not only that, the hall is on sound financial footing and recently was able to put a new roof on the building. David Zink is no longer feeling lonely. And

neither are the hundreds of people who have attended the hall’s music events, worked in one of its two organic gardens, attended one of its tai chi classes, played at its popular Wednesday evening “Open Mikefull” gigs, or attended one of its monthly “Potluck and Presentation” events, where the talk ranges from bee hotels to beer making. The hall opened in 1949, having been paid for and built by volunteers. Were it not for one member in particular, however, the hall would have died in 2008. That’s when Michael Weldon moved from Chico to Paradise. He’d been a member of the Chico Grange, Zink explained, so it was natural for him to attend the Paradise fellowship. He discovered, however, that the group was broke and about to fold. The old-timers recognized that Weldon brought new energy to the hall and soon elected him president. He started a plot garden, and then some local musicians got involved and started putting on fundraising events. Gradually word got out that “the

Buff,” as some now call it, is a sweet little place to play music, and Paradise artists became eager to play there. Artists from outside Paradise also became interested. The Cohen concerts, for example, were organized by longtime Chico musician Mark McKinnon, with help from others, including fellow Chicoan Peter Berkow, one-third of the novelty group Bird and Wag. “If Chico had something like this, I’d be really happy,” Berkow said by phone. Like most feel-good stories, this one has a hitch. There’s been a schism in Grange World, with the agribusinessbacked National Grange asserting what it claims are its legal rights and taking ownership of Grange halls across the country, even though all were built and paid for by local members, mostly small farmers. Many in this state have opted to join the breakaway group California Guild. Although the judge in the case has largely upheld the National Grange, he also is requiring that it pursue each Guild chapter in county court—a difficult task, at best. In the meantime, the Paradise group is about to celebrate its successes with a blow-out music festival and benefit concert on June 30. It’s billed as “Be the Community,” which is taken from the group’s vision statement: “Be the community you want to live in.” In Paradise, that’s exactly what they’re doing. □

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STRUNG NUGGET GANG: Bluegrass music in the park. Thu, 6/28, 6:30pm. Free. Palermo Park, 350 Ludlum Ave., Oroville.

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GRAND OPENING PID DEMONSTRATION GARDEN: Paradise Irrigation District proudly presents its new Community Demonstration Garden, showcasing the best plants for Ridge landscaping, water-wise gardening concepts and different ways to efficiently irrigate. Fri, 6/29. Free. Paradise Irrigation District, 6344 Clark Road, Paradise.

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Special Events GOLD-PANNING: Mountain Mike teaches you to pan for gold during this free summer program at Bidwell Mansion. No reservations required and open to all ages. Mon, 7/2, 11am. Free. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade. 530-895-6144.

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PIZZA PASTA DANCE PARTY: All-you-can-eat pizza and pasta, plus dance to the Rev-Atomics on the Elks’ dance floor. Cash bar available. Fri, 6/29, 5pm. $12. Paradise Elks Lodge, 1100 Elk Lane, Paradise. 530-877-3977.

SUMMER BASH: A light dinner followed by blues, jazz, rock, zydeco and more from the Alan Rigg Band. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. Fri, 6/29, 6:30pm. $15. Center for Spiritual Living, 789 Bille Road, Paradise. 530877-5673. paradisecsl.org

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Rock and pop hits of the ’80s with Off the Record. City Plaza, downtown Chico.

MIKE JONES: Mike Jones, who? Once one of the biggest celebrities in hip-hop, in 2005, the Houston rapper gave out his actual telephone number in a song: 281-330-8004. Try it! He’ll get slow and syrupy at the Box. Fri, 6/29, 9pm. $18-$25. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

VISTA KICKS: The L.A. four-piece will play a free set of booty-shakin’ rock under a full moon. Fri, 6/29, 7pm. Hop Yard at Sierra Nevada, 1075 E. 20th St.

Theater BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: YMCA Family Theatre presents the classic story of Belle and the young prince trapped in the body of a gruff beast. If Belle can help him learn to love and be loved, his curse will end... but time is running out! Fri, 6/29, 7pm. $8-$10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville.

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Special Events PUBLIC ART TOUR: One-mile walking tour through downtown highlighting the wide variety of public art on display. Donations gladly accepted. Sat 6/30, 10am. “Our Hands” sculpture, 411 Main St.

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Music BE THE COMMUNITY FESTIVAL: Five hours of music on two stages featuring Bird & Wag, Michael Bone, Maurice “Big Mo” Huffman with Scott Shaw, Pat Hull, Mark McKinnon, The Paper Hats and other fine local talents. The fundraiser will also have a food truck and cash bar. Kids are free! Sat, 6/30, 5pm. $20. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise. 530762-1490. nortonbuffalohall.com

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Dang nabbit, not again! Play the retro-computer game IRL during this afternoon kids’ activity. Fri, 6/29, 3pm. Free. Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave, Oroville.

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Music SONGS OF SOLDIERS: Patriotic tunes from the Oroville Community Concert Band & Chorus. They’ll perform lively, familiar songs as well as more reflective music in honor of our nation’s independence and the sacrifices made throughout its history. Tue, 7/3,

Stocks, Sport Modified and Hobby Stock races all night long, plus the biggest fireworks display in Chico (after sundown). Wed, 7/4, 7pm. Silver Dollar Speedway, 2357 Fair St.

Music SONGS OF SOLDIERS: See Tuesday. Wed, 7/4, 1:30pm. $10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville. 5306934908. occband.org

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Theater BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: See Friday. Sat, 6/30, 7pm. $8-$10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489

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Theater BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: See Friday Sun, 7/1, 2pm. $8-$10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville.

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LIBERTY FOR ALL Yo, America, for Independence Day, let’s be kind and empathetic to all those yearning to breathe free. Raise a can of beer in one hand and a cob of corn in the other and shout at those explosions bursting in air: “This is America! Welcome one and all!” Holiday fireworks go down Tuesday, July 3, at Nettleton Stadium during the Chico Heat game, and Wednesday, July 4, at both the Silver Dollar Speedway (during the races) and at the Thermalito North Forebay at Lake Oroville.

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CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Watercolors of Jim Lawrence, exhibit covers more than 20 years of his work, showing a progression of styles and subjects. Through 8/30. Free. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 530-877-5673. paradisecsl.org

CHICO ART CENTER: The Puzzle Show, community-based show features work from 300 artists of all ages and experience. Joined together, they form the largest puzzle installation ever created in Chico. Bid on individual puzzle pieces and contribute to this unique fundraiser during the reception on Friday, June 29 from 5-7pm. Through 6/29. 450 Orange St.

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JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS GALLERY: Clowns & Portraits, multiple medium works by Lynn Criswell. Through 6/30. Free. 254 E. Fourth Street., 530-343-2930. jamessnidlefinearts. com

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Persistence, featuring impressive works by 60 female artists from Northern California including Ann Pierce and the late Claudia Steel. Through 7/15. 900 Esplanade.

NAKED LOUNGE: Photography, stark, thoughtful images from local artist Michael Bone on display. Through 6/30. 118 W. Second St.

ORLAND ART CENTER: The American West: A Way of Life, Oregon photographer Tracy

Libby tells the story of the American West through her sepia tones, stark black-andwhite images and brilliant color work. Through 7/21. 732 Fourth St., Orland. orlandartcenter.com

PARADISE ART CENTER: Water Media, watercolor, acrylics and mixed water media in a variety of styles including abstract and realistic, colorful and monochromatic. Through 6/30. Free. 5564 Almond St., Paradise. paradiseart-center.com

UPPER CRUST: Havana, Paris & Chico, artist Michael Goloff shares photos from his travels to Cuba and France, as well as shots from his hometown. Through 7/1. Free. 130 Main St.

Museums 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. Through 12/15. 1968 E. Eighth St. ccnaturecenter.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Summer Exhibits, learn how our climate catastrophe is affecting the acidification of the oceans and changing California’s wildflower blooms, plus life beneath the sea with coral reefs and hammerhead sharks. Through 9/8. $5-$7. 625 Esplanade. csuchico.edu

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interview with him, which at times felt more oratorical than converby Mark Lore sational. It’s been ma rk l@ only a few newsrev iew.c om years since the Preview: singer-guitarist here Lies man made the shift to performs sunday, heavy rock with July 1, at 8 p.m., with his project Here Viking skate Country and black magnet. Lies Man, which Cost: $10 takes Garcia’s Afrobeat proNaked Lounge clivities of the 118 W. second st. 487-2634 past decade and a facebook.com/pg/ half as a member nLChiCo of Brooklyn collective Antibalas, and retransmits them through volume and fried riffs. The band’s self-titled debut came seemingly out of nowhere last year, and got record nerds’ and critics’ hearts all aflutter. Garcia’s vision is clear: Here Lies Man plays heavy psych that’s based around the clave rhythm, which is the center of Afro-Cuban and African music (as well as a number of other non-Western musical styles). He says what he does is mostly in service of the music and tradition, but also what he refers to as “the muse.” “I don’t know what it is,” said Garcia, when asked exactly what this muse was. “But it’s my job to listen. The muse likes to be visited often.”

That may sound a little esoteric, but you can’t argue with the results. This month, Here Lies Man released You Will Know Nothing, the band’s second record in just over a year. It’s a natural progression from the debut, with songs like “Fighting” and “Taking the Blame” showing leaner riffs and more taught arrangements. If listeners liked the debut, they’ll really get down with the new material. Garcia is riding a creative wave right now, although it took a while to get the band going. The kernel for Here Lies Man has actually been rattling around his head since 2005, when Garcia recalls rehearsing a cover of Fela Kuti’s “Yellow Fever” with Antibalas. “All of a sudden I heard it as if Tony Iommi were playing it,” he said. It wasn’t until 2015 that the band—which also includes drummer and core member Geoff Mann (also a member of Antibalas)— began recording demos for what would become the debut. “The first record was more a proof of concept,” said Garcia. “I was tired of trying to explain what I wanted to do.” Garcia says bringing in Mann was instrumental in getting his vision off the ground. Both “speak the language,” as Garcia puts it. They were both surrounded by Afro-Cuban and West African music growing up in Brooklyn. Mann’s father is the late jazz flautist Herbie Mann, who toured Africa and afterward recorded one

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of his definitive records, Flautista!, in 1959. And Garcia’s father produced merengue records throughout the genre’s golden era in the 1970s (which led to him meeting Garcia’s mother at the Spanish-language radio station she deejayed at). “I’m really blessed to have been exposed to all these types of music,” Garcia said. “I found my voice through this syncopated West African style of music.” Here Lies Man gives Garcia a chance to continue exploring those rhythms while also experiencing the simple catharsis of punk and heavy rock. (He says Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat also remain hugely influential to him.) Here Lies Man, along with bands like Fumaça Preta and Goat, is actively trying to expand the language of rock music. There’s no slowing down for Garcia, either. Here Lies Man has plans to release an EP toward the end of the year, and Garcia says he’s already working on demos for the next full-length, which he anticipates being completed in 2019. The future of rock may be uncertain (some would say its death rattle is sounding), but the future of Here Lies Man is clear. And Garcia’s respect for the music is undeniable. “I’m committed to these traditions, and being innovative,” he said. “Not that I’m an innovator, but I do speak the language.” □

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JEFF PERSHING BAND: Guitarist and songwriter performs a variety of jam rock, world music, funk and rock. Thu, 6/28, 6pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. jeffpershing.com

KELLY TWINS ACOUSTIC: Acoustic “living room” music with Jon and Chris. Thu, 6/28, 6pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

PAT HULL BAND: Talented singer/ songwriter gets groovy with his full band. Plus, an opening set from Who Can Sleep. Thu, 6/28, 8pm. $5. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Rock and pop hits of the ’80s with Off the Record. City Plaza, downtown Chico.

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RED MOLLY: Folk, bluegrass and ripping honky-tonk tunes from this phenomenal three-piece. Thu, 6/28, 7:30pm. $20. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

MIKE JONES: Mike Jones, who? Once one of the biggest celebrities in hip-hop, the Houston rapper gave out his actual telephone number in a song—281-330-8004, try it! He’ll get slow and syrupy at the Box. Fri, 6/29, 9pm. $18-$25. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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PUNK & ROCK: Heavy rock from Brother, indie rock from Elwood of Chico and punk rock jams from The Primers. Fri, 6/29, 9pm. $7. The

Attention parody musicians! You can pack it up. Goth fish tribute Koi Division is here, brilliantly turning “Love Will Tear Us Apart” into “Lure Will Catch Us A Carp.” Joy Division’s haunting songs were full of misery and brutality without a hint of reprieve. The life of a fish is similar, constantly working against the current, getting a hook in the face instead of a tasty worm and being preyed upon by unseen eagles or patient bears waiting upstream. The fishy foursome plays The Maltese on Saturday, June 30 with Guest No. 66 and a trio of DJs.

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and soul band gets dark and sticky. Plus, an opening set from Fearless Freqs. Sat, 6/30, 8:30pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

BLACKOUT BETTY: High-energy guitar rock. Sat, 6/30, 9pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave. unwinedchico.com

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blues on a hot night. Sat, 6/30, 8:30pm. Ramada Plaza Chico, 685 Manzanita Court.

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themed Joy Division cover band, just like Ian Curtis always dreamed of. Plus, sets from Guest No. 66 (members of Michelin Embers, The Vesuvians and The Empty Gate) and DJs Trasher Thrasher, MattleAxe and Rat Boi. Sat, 6/30, 9pm. $5. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebar chico.com

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DESERT BEATS: The Exbats are an awesomely kitschy father-daughter duo on Burger Records and The Rifle play dreamy, summertime indie rock. Those two Arizona bands get down with locals Mr. Malibu and semi-local Uni & Her Ukelele. Tue, 7/3, 8pm. $5. The Maltese, 1600 Park

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 7/4, 7pm. $2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, 530877-4995.

TACOS & TUNES: Drink specials, music from DJ Byrdie and tacos, plus a “Make America Bake Again” fundraiser with proceeds supporting RAICES, the largest immigration services legal nonprofit in Texas, helping to protect migrant children and families at the border. Wed, 7/4. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

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HERE LIES MAN: Groovy riffage from members of L.A.’s Antibalas who harvest African rhythms and run them through layers of distortion. Noise rock dudes Black Magnet also perform. Plus, the return of Viking Skate Country. Sun, 7/1, 8pm. $10. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

OPEN MIC COMEDY NIGHT: Working on a bit? See if it’s a hit and enjoy cheap beer specials. Sun, 7/1, 8pm. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebar chico.com

ROB CAUDILL AS ROD STEWART: The spitting image of Rod the Mod, Caudill’s tribute act follows the iconic singer from his days in the Faces to his legendary solo career, playing all the hits. Sat, 6/30, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

ROCKHOUNDS: Classic rock in the

lounge. Sat, 6/30, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

S.M. WOLF: Psychedelic power pop from Indianapolis, plus sets from locals Yurkovic and Bogart the Monster. Sat, 6/30, 7pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

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MARIO KART MONDAY: If you start the third lap in first place, you’re going to have a bad time. Eight-person tournament with a small entry fee and prizes. Mon, 7/2, 6pm. Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114.

DUFFY’S DANCE NIGHT: DJ Lois and

Amburgers spin funk, pop and hiphop. Wed, 7/4, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

I HEART THE ’90S DANCE PARTY: Hiphop, pop and R&B hits from the time when overalls went over just one shoulder. Wed, 7/4, 10pm. $3. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebar chico.com

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Missing out on the garage-rock shenanigans of the Burger Boogaloo fest this week? Drown your sorrows in sweat and beer at The Maltese during a humpday mini-fest, Wednesday, July 3, featuring Burger Records’ Exbats and fellow Arizona pop-rockers The Rifle (pictured), plus troubadour Uni and Her Ukelele and local friends Mr. Malibu. John Waters would approve.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: Early evening show for country-music lovers of all-ages, plus a hot dog meal special and a great parking lot view of the Silver Dollar fireworks show. Kids younger than age 14 are free. Wed, 7/4. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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Opening this week Hearts Beat Loud

Nick Offerman stars as a musician and record-store-owning single dad in New York who teams up with his college-bound daughter (Kiersey Clemons) in an unlikely musical partnership. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado

Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro return for this sequel about secret agents and mysterious operatives battling the Mexican cartels, whose members are now involved in smuggling terrorists into the U.S. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

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Nothing new in latest installment in dino franchise

urassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a big, dumb dino joke of a movie. It’s nothing but a brainless, sloppy rehash of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World, with a lame militaristic angle thrown in (again!). by The dinosaurs look cool, and Bob Grimm things do get off to an awesome start in the prologue, which features bg rimm@ an underwater visit to the skeleton newsrev iew.c om of Indominus rex, the genetically engineered dinosaur that died hard at the end of Jurassic World. It’s a scary and great-looking beginning that is well-directed, and seems Jurassic World: to be setting up a film that will Fallen Kingdom recall the grim tone of Michael Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Crichton’s novel that spawned the James Cromwell film franchise. and Jeff Goldblum. Sadly, things degenerate badly Directed by J. after the title credits pop up, as the A. Bayona. Cinemark film slides into stale, conveyer14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise belt movie-making. Cinema 7. Rated PG-13. When a volcanic eruption on their island threatens the dinosaurs’ genetically engineered lives, Congress holds hearings on whether or not to save them. These hearings involve the return of the one and only Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm. Rather than keeping Goldblum around for his trademark psycho rambling and dark wit, however, his character just groans a couple of lines about how we shouldn’t have made the dinosaurs because it goes against nature and they have really big teeth and might bite you. Then he goes away. Raptor expert Owen (Chris Pratt) and Jurassic World manager Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island to save Blue, the adorable velociraptor who

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wants you to pet him. Eventually, the action winds up in a large mansion in the States, where a nefarious businessman is keeping dinosaurs in the basement in a far-fetched scheme to make big bucks. C’mon. A rehash of a familiar plot is fine if done with skill and nuance, but Fallen Kingdom goes the campy route with the cheeky Pratt in the lead and rehash of Lost World’s moves—dinos in peril on an island, military schemes and wild beasts finding their way to human civilization—and it’s dull, dull, dull. Everybody in this film appears to be going through the motions (“I hit my green screen mark! Where’s craft services?”). How many times do we have to see a T-rex inadvertently save the day? How many times do we have to see a billionaire old guy with an amber mosquito cane presented in a sympathetic light even though his genetic-engineering blunder has put the world in terrible peril? Sweet and cuddly James Cromwell plays Benjamin Lockwood, the former business partner of John Hammond (Richard Attenborough in the original trilogy), and he’s just a nice guy whose goofs have sent a bunch of people through dinosaur digestive systems. In the original novel, Hammond was a monster; Spielberg turned him into Santa Claus, and that trend continues with Cromwell’s Lockwood. Normally excellent director J. A. Bayona (The Impossible) is saddled with a dopey screenplay, one that wants to be family-friendly with just a hint of menace. Personally, I don’t want dinosaurs that can be controlled with clickers so we can all go, “Awwww.” I want them to tear people’s faces off! □

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Because you always hoped that someday that Sprite commercial would come to cinematic life as a streetball showdown featuring a team of former and current NBA players in old-people makeup. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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Deadpool 2

The happily profane superhero party continues with Deadpool 2, a sequel that brings the anarchistic spirit of the original without necessarily blazing any new trails. Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool/Wade Wilson character continues the break-thefourth-wall schtick here—Ferris Buellerstyle—and while the gimmick definitely leads to some good laughs, it does start to feel a little too cute and repetitive. Much of the movie involves Deadpool forming the mutant supercrew X-Force while also becoming a trainee of the much more conservative X-Men team. Deadpool’s first mission with his crew is a screamer, especially due to the participation of Peter (Rob Delaney), a normal, khakis-wearing guy with no powers and a killer mustache who joins the force because he saw an ad and thought it might be cool. Deadpool gets a worthy adversary in the time-traveling Cable (Josh Brolin), a half-cyborg mound of angst with a human side. The sequel earns its hard-R rating much as its predecessor did: thanks to a steady stream of intermittently hilarious profanity and constant gore. Cinemark 14. Rated R —B.G.

Hereditary

Annie (an incredible Toni Collette) has just lost her controlling, creepy mother. She has some control issues of her own, which manifest in her creation of miniature models, often depicting scenes from her home life with husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne, doing his best work in years), son Peter (an impressive Alex Wolff) and daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro, who will break your heart). While every member of the family seems to be earnest and decent, they are also dysfunctional with a capital “D.” Annie learns how to perform a séance and communicate with the recently departed, and it all seems innocent enough

until apparitions start appearing and malevolent spirits begin messing things up. The movie is a ghost, demon and witch story rolled into one. It’s also one of the more powerful depictions in recent years of a family falling apart, making for a deep and layered horror excursion. Writerdirector Ari Aster proves to be a master of atmospheric scares, relying less on jolts and gore and more on lingering shots in dark corners where you can sort of make out something staring at you. Cinemark 14. Rated R —B.G.

The Incredibles 2

The CGI superheroes and all their voices (Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson) are back in this sequel that finds Elastigirl fighting crime on her own while Mr. Incredible takes care of the kids. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Ocean’s 8

This time, an all-female crew of specialist thieves teams up for a big heist. Starring Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson and Awkwafina. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

After a tumultuous production, Solo: A Star Wars Story makes it to screens, completed by a different director (Ron Howard) than the ones who started the gig. The finished film definitely feels like more than one director had his hands in the pot. It’s sloppy, tonally challenged, and scenes crash into each other at times. There are also plenty of positives, though not enough to keep Solo from being one of the weaker Star Wars films. Stepping into the iconic role of Han Solo is Alden Ehrenreich, a guy who has very little in common with Harrison Ford. He doesn’t look like him, he doesn’t sound like him, and he lacks that bemused Ford swagger. He does have his own charms, however, and is a likeable actor, and he puts his own spin on the character. The film is an origin story of the scoundrel with a heart of gold, willing to shoot first and ask questions later and also put his life on the line to save the universe. I had no need to see Han’s past romantic relationships, but it is undeniably enjoyable when he meets Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) for the first time. The budding bond with Chewbacca made me smile, and Glover does Billy Dee Williams proud as the young Lando. In my opinion, he is the film’s shining star. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Tag

A comedy starring Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jake Johnson as five friends who, every May for the past 30 years, have been playing an epic game of tag. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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organs of the Fugu pufferfish (those will definitely poison you). And, on the coast of North Carolina, there are a lot of folks who believe that having dessert after eating a meal of seafood will make you really sick. Of course, as with the other aforementioned story and “rules,” this is just another fading photo by superstition (except the Fugu—those Jason Cassidy guts will kill you!). Finishing a meal j asonc @ of shrimp and grits with a sweet newsrev iew.c om treat is no worse for you than doing so after a plate of babybacks. Nonetheless, the notion was apparently persistent enough to make coastal cooks devise a dessert that wasn’t too sweet, with a citrus bite that would make it an appropriate complement to a seafood meal: lemon pie. The North Carolina coastal varieties go by a lot of names—lemon milk pie, down east lemon pie, Atlantic Coast lemon pie—but the easiest and most delicious-sounding recipe I found online was one for the “Atlantic beach lemon-lime pie” devised by Bill Smith, celebrated chef at Southern comfort-food cafe Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill. The filling is elegantly simple, with just three ingredients—lemon juice, egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk. With the salty and barely sweet crust of crushed saltines on one side and the fresh whipped cream on the other, the tangy, buttery, crunchy, salty, rich and velvety pie is perfection. In a “Found Recipes” segment on NPR’s All Things Considered, Smith said the pie “takes like four seconds to make.” It takes a little longer, but it’s still super simple. I went with just lemon juice, but you could combine lime and lemon as Smith does. Other recipes I came across used Ritz instead of saltines for the crust, which is an intriguing variation I’ll probably try next time. And even though I think the whipped cream is incredible alongside the filling, if you’d like to take

advantage of your spare egg whites, you could always do a meringue topping instead. After trying a test slice with a pinch of sea salt, as Smith recommends, I decided to do without it. Between the saltines and using salted instead of unsalted butter, I didn’t think it needed anything extra. Atlantic Beach Pie (Adapted from Bill Smith of Crook’s Corner) Crust: 1 1/2 sleeves of saltine crackers (or equivalent amount of Ritz crackers—2 cups crushed) 1/2 cup salted butter, softened 3 tablespoons white sugar Filling: 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk 4 egg yolks 1/2 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice (approximately 3 medium lemons) Topping: 2 cups heavy whipping cream 1/4 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Crush crackers, by hand or in a food processor, until they are roughly fine, but not powdery. In a bowl, mix together crackers, butter and sugar. Using your hands, work it until it holds together well, then press into an 8-inch pie pan. Put in freezer to chill for 15 minutes, and set oven to 350. Bake chilled crust for 18 minutes or so, until it gets a little golden. Once crust is baked, put milk and egg yolks in a mixer and beat till blended. Add juice and blend well. Pour mixture into shell (it does not have to be cooled), place pan in oven and bake for 16 minutes, or until filling is set (wiggly, not wavy). When pie cools to room temperature, place in refrigerator until completely cold. Top pie with generous mound of freshly whipped cream (whisk cream, sugar and vanilla at medium speed until soft peaks form), and serve after seafood, landfood, spacefood, any food! □

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an American flag in front of his house on the 4th of July. I still do. Early on, I didn’t think too deeply on the practice. I enjoyed feeling part of a community, and walking my flag out to the bracket on my home was a warm tradition and a sign shared with neighbors that, whatever our differences, we are living this American experiment together. However, beyond an earnest desire for connection, I do know how problematic blind flag-waving is. Patriotism that omits the violent, racist, classist history—and present—of the country that the flag represents can be dangerous. Next week, when you’re celebrating the country’s independence, remember that, despite its preamble that states “all men are created equal,” when the declaration of independence was signed in 1776, the “all” in that sentence did not include blacks, women or Native Americans. Another whole century passed before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, and another century still before the Civil Rights Movement would begin the process of equal rights for “Andy Warhol, 1983” – Alberto Schommer blacks. Women didn’t have the right to vote until 1920. And as for the continent’s indigenous people—those referred to as “merciless Indian savages” in America’s founding document—the creation of this country meant the wholesale destruction of their various nations. My point here is that America has never respectably realized the notions of freedom and liberty for all. Unarmed blacks are gunned down by police today. Women make less than men, by nearly 20 percent, today. The total income for the top 10 percent of Americans is more than nine times as much as the bottom 90 percent today. America is not so exceptional. And wrapping oneself in the flag and pointing a fat finger at all who disagree as being anti-American or fake or whatever is both delusional and antithetical to the kickass ideals to which this country aspires. I still love America. I celebrate it at its wild, free, beautiful best, and am willing to do my part to dismantle the machine at its exploitative, repressive, ugly worst. As for the stars and stripes, why should the socalled “patriotic right” own it? I’m going to keep flying my flag—this year, the “In Our America” version (see image in Editor’s Pick, page 23) that I “White Flag” – Jasper Johns ordered from nasty Women Get shit done (nwgsd.org)—if for no other reason than to broaden the scope of what “American” means. The flag isn’t just embraced by doughy old white guys who stir up the gun-totin’ masses with racist rhetoric, it’s also represented by doughy middle-aged white guys who dig punk-rock music and welcome immigrants and applaud the bravery of those who, in the name of justice, take a knee in its presence.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF June 28, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your

best ideas and soundest decisions will materialize as if by magic while you’re lounging around doing nothing in a worryfree environment. So please make sure you have an abundance of relaxed slack and unhurried grace. Treat yourself to record-setting levels of comfort and selfcare. Do whatever’s necessary for you to feel as safe as you have ever felt. I realize these prescriptions might ostensibly clash with your fiery Aries nature. But if you meditate on them for even two minutes, I bet you’ll agree they’re exquisitely appropriate for you right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “It is

always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment— that explodes in poetry.” Taurus poet Adrienne Rich wrote that in an essay about the poet Emily Dickinson. She was describing the process of tapping into potent but buried feelings so as to create beautiful works of literature. I’m hoping to persuade you to take a comparable approach: to give voice to what’s under pressure inside you, but in a graceful and constructive way that has positive results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Introduc-

tory offers are expiring. The bracing thrills of novelty must ripen into the cool enjoyments of maturity. It’s time to finish the dress rehearsals so the actual show can begin. You’ve got to start turning big, bright fantasies into crisp, no-nonsense realities. In light of these shifting conditions, I suspect you can no longer use your good intentions as leverage, but must deliver more tangible signs of commitment. Please don’t take this as a criticism, but the cosmic machinery in your vicinity needs some actual oil, not just your witty stories about the oil and the cosmic machinery.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the

coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to dramatically decrease your Wimp Quotient. As the perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off-limits or invisible to you. To ensure you remain in top shape for this delightful development, I think you should avoid entertainment that stimulates fear and pessimism. Instead of watching the latest flurry of demoralizing stories on Netflix, spend quality time summoning memories of the times in your life when you were unbeatable. For extra credit, pump your fist ten times each day as you growl, “Victory is mine!”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s not so bad to

temporarily lose your bearings. What’s bad is not capitalizing on the disruption that caused you to lose your bearings. So I propose that you regard the fresh commotion as a blessing. Use it as motivation to initiate radical changes. For example, escape the illusions and deceptions that caused you to lose your bearings. Explore unruly emotions that may be at the root of the superpowers you will fully develop in the future. Transform yourself into a brave self-healer who is newly receptive to a host of medicinal clues that were not previously accessible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s my

list of demands: 1. Avoid hanging out with people who are unreceptive to your influence. 2. Avoid hanging out with people whose influence on you is mediocre or dispiriting. 3. Hang out with people who are receptive to your influence and whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating. 4. Influence the hell out of the people who are receptive to your influence. Be a generous catalyst for them. Nudge them to surpass the limits they would benefit from surpassing. 5. Allow yourself to be deeply moved by people whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If I didn’t de-

fine myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” Activist author Audre Lorde

by rob brezsny said that, and now, in accordance with your current astrological and psychological needs, I’m offering it to you. I realize it’s a flamboyant, even extreme, declaration, but in my opinion, that’s what is most likely to motivate you to do the right thing. Here’s another splashy prompt, courtesy of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): André

René Roussimoff, also known as André the Giant, was a French actor and professional wrestler. He was 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds. As you might imagine, he ate and drank extravagantly. On one festive occasion, he quaffed 119 bottles of beer in six hours. Judging from your current astrological indicators, Scorpio, I suspect you may be ready for a binge like that. JUST KIDDING! I sincerely hope you won’t indulge in such wasteful forms of “pleasure.” The coming days should be a time when you engage in a focused pursuit of uplifting and healthy modes of bliss. The point is to seek gusto and amusement that enhance your body, mind, and soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

On her 90th birthday, my Great-Aunt Zosia told me, “The best gift you can give your ego is to make it see it’s both totally insignificant and totally important in the cosmic scheme of things.” Jenna, my girlfriend when I was 19, was perhaps touting a similar principle when, after teasing and tormenting me for two hours, she scrawled on my bathroom mirror in lipstick, “Sometimes you enjoy life better if you don’t understand it.” Then there’s my Zen punk friend Arturo, who says that life’s goodies are more likely to flow your way if you “hope for nothing and are open to everything.” According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, these messages will help you make the most of the bewildering but succulent opportunities that are now arriving in your vicinity.

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Ecologists in Mexico City investigated why certain sparrows and finches use humans’ discarded cigarette butts in building their nests. They found that cellulose acetate, a chemical in the butts, protects the nests by repelling parasitic mites. Is there a metaphorical lesson you might draw from the birds’ ingenious adaptation, Aquarius? Could you find good use for what might seem to be dross or debris? My analysis of the astrological omens says that this possibility is worth meditating on.

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

that sometime soon you will come into possession of an enchanted potion or pixie dust or a pouch full of magic beans—or the equivalent. If and when that occurs, consider the following protocols: 1. Before you use your new treasure, say a prayer to your higher self, requesting that you will be guided to use it in such a way as to make yourself wiser and kinder. 2. When you use it, be sure it harms no one. 3. Express gratitude for it before and during and after using it. 4. Use it in such a way that it benefits at least one other person or creature in addition to you. 5. See if you can use it to generate the arrival or more pixie dust or magical beans or enchanted potion in the future. 6. When you use it, focus on wielding it to get exactly what you want, not what you sort of want or temporarily want.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO POWER SWEEPING SERVICE at 1074 E 8th Street Chico, CA 95928. JAMES SMITH 1074 E 8th Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JAMES A SMITH Dated: June 1, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000744 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NEEDFUL THINGS at 8247 Skyway Paradise, 95969 95969. MARTIN BYRON VAN GUNDY 1542 Millwood Lane Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MARTIN VAN GUNDY Dated: June 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000795 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as C.C. CUSTOM AUTO SPECIALISTS at 8200 Skyway Suite B Paradise, CA 95969. JEREMY BOONE 1070 Lupin Ave. Chico, CA 95973. STEPHANIE DILLARD 3549 Esplanade Ave. #235 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: STEPHANIE DILLARD Dated: June 19, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000817 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PROJECT APIARY at 2607 Forest Ave, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928. SELBY HONEY, INC 2607 Forest Ave, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JOSEPH L. SELBY, PRESIDENT Dated: June 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000824 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAVEX, INC., NEW AUTOS, INC., NORTH AMERICAN VEHICLE EXPORT at 720 Main Street Chico, CA 95928. NAVEX TRADING COMPANY, INC. 720 Main Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: BERNIE KNAUS, PRESIDENT Dated: June 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000803 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TABLE TETHERS at 2770 Garden Valley Terrace Chico, CA 95928. DIANE SCHUMACHER 2770 Garden Valley Terrace Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DIANE SCHUMACHER Dated: June 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000828 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CENTURY 21 SELECT COMMERCIAL GROUP INC, CENTURY 21 SELECT REAL ESTATE INC at 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928. JACUZZI LYDON LTD 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: DANIEL C. JACUZZI, PRESIDENT Dated: June 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000837 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHOICE PROPERTIES at 33 Blackstone Ct Chico, CA 95928. DEBORAH KAY BRODIE 33 Blackstone Ct Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DEBORAH KAY BRODIE Dated: June 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000794 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STEEL HUSKY TRUCKING at 101 Risa Way Apt 73 Chico, CA 95973. DEREK AVRIT 101 Risa Way Apt 73 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DEREK AVRIT Dated: June 18, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000806 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a mobile home, registered to Raymond King & Cheryl King, interested party Raymond King & Cheryl King, as described as a 2002 Oakwood mobile home, Decal Number LBE7272, Serial Number GOCA21L29262A/ GOCA21L29262B, Label/Insignia number RAD1373099/RAD1373100, and stored on property with in the Golden Feather MHP, at 703 Oro Dam Blvd. W. Oroville, CA 95965, County of Butte (specifically the space designated as space #403 within the park), June 29, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. and such succeeding sales days as may be necessary, and the proceeds of the sales will be applied to satisfaction of the lien, including the reasonable charges of notice,

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advertisement, and sale. This sale is conducted on a cash or certified fund basis only (cash, cashier’s check, or travelers’ checks only). Personal checks and/or business checks are not acceptable. Payment is due and payable immediately following the sale. No exceptions. The mobile home and/or contents are sold as is,where is, no guarantees. The sale is conducted underthe authority of California Civil Code 798.56a and Commercial code 7210. Dated: June 14, 2018 Golden Feather MHP 703 Oro Dam Blvd. W #208 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-8679 Published: June 21,28, 2018

NOTICE OF LAND PATENT Gary Victor Varesco claims the “forever” benefit of the original land patent and occupy the land located at 282 Pinyon Hills Drive, Chico, California. Documentation of this claim is posted online and may be downloaded from ADrive.com using this link to the download page: http://goo.gl/8gd3AM Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DIANE ELIZABETH SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DIANE ELIZABETH SMITH Proposed name: DIANE ELIZABETH PRINCE 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: July 13, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m. 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: May 22, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01624 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner PATRICIA ELAINE PETROPOULOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: RENAE JANE LEFLORE Proposed name: RENAE JANE PETROPOULOS-LEFLORE 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

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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: July 6, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m. 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: May 11, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01532 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JOSE RIOS VILLEGAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JOSE RIOS VILLEGAS Proposed name: JOSE RIOS 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: July 20, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m. 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: May 24, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01638 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 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: EMILY N GAYNOR Proposed name: EMILY N TEAGUE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 10, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court

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1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: June 11, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01165 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAYMEE LYNN VUE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYMEE LYNN VUE Proposed name: JAYMEE LYNN MCLAUGHLIN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 17, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m. 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: June 15, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01730 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR DECREE OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on 8th day of June, 2018 a Petition for Decree of Beneficial Ownership of the Equitable Estate of “RANDY KENT BARKER” Case No. 18PR00248 was filed in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte, Civil Probate Action-Equity requesting an Order decreeing to be the Beneficial Owner of the Estate of “RANDY KENT BARKER.” The Court has fixed the 17th day of July, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom No. TBA of the North Butte County Courthouse as the time and place for the hearing on said petition when and where all persons interested may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. Published: June 21,28, July 5, 2018

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“That’s an old house, son, but it’s on good soil,” Mr. Johnson said. “Old Bud and Martha had a mighty fine garden every year over there.”

“Stop that, Ed!” said Mrs. Johnson. To me she said, “Don’t you worry ‘bout him, honey, he’s just a kidder.”

“Since you’re so smart,” he said, “tell me why they’re covering up all this rich loam soil around here with houses and concrete.” New subdivision houses and commercial warehouses were springing up all around them.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson rocked side by side in twin rocking chairs on the front porch of their old ranch house among the orchards on the west side of town. Mr. Johnson leaned back, laughing, and said, “You better wash your mouth out with soap, son!” I had just listed the house next door to the Johnsons’. Describing it I had said, “It’s a nice old place, but unfortunately past its prime and in the path of progress.” In real estate terms, it suffers from “functional obsolescence.”

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PRICE

BR/BA

4788 Songbird 4115 Spyglass Rd 496 Entler Ave 394 Brookside Dr 2288 Bloomington Ave 359 Mill Creek Dr 3163 Mariposa Ave 11855 Butte Creek Island Rd 1609 Lazy Trail Dr 1186 Bonair Rd 1365 Arcadian Ave

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$1,120,000 $680,000 $635,000 $550,000 $540,500 $519,000 $505,000 $503,000 $499,000 $495,500 $494,000

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PRICE

BR/BA

3471 Brook Valley Cmns 743 Windham Way 1231 Glenwood Ave 357 Saint Augustine Dr 1708 Jetta Ct 975 Saint Clair Dr 1239 Peninsula Dr 1061 Warner St 83 Cottage Ave 9 Highland Cir 1086 E 5th Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$457,000 $452,500 $405,000 $388,000 $387,500 $380,000 $376,000 $375,000 $374,000 $369,000 $360,000

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Teresa Larson pool! 1 Acre, 3 bed/2 bth, updated kitchen + bathes, 2,411 sq ft + Gorgeous!...$599,000 (530)899-5925 g 1,861 sq ft on a cul de sac! $325,000 bath, pendin BRE #01177950 huge family room! Plus living room, 3/bed/1.5

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of june 11 – june 15, 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. ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

39 Shari Ln

Chico

$335,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1511

1920 Oleander Ave #1

Chico

$245,000

2/1

SQ. FT. 1003

1149 Wendy Way

Chico

$330,000

3/3

1417

3732 Cosby Ave

Chico

$245,000

1/1

1080

1020 Cordelia Ct

Chico

$320,000

3/2

1333

1251 Hobart St

Chico

$221,000

3/1

1150

212 W 2nd Ave

Chico

$314,500

2/1

1173

295 E Lassen Ave

Chico

$200,000

4/2

1501

638 Crister Ave

Chico

$314,500

3/2

1164

2885 Pennyroyal Dr

Chico

$180,000

1/1

715

44 Losse Way

Chico

$311,000

3/2

1290

821 Walnut St

Chico

$155,000

1/1

848 1240

7 Discovery Way

Chico

$310,000

3/2

1269

1375 Nord Ave

Chico

$129,500

2/1

107 Winchester Ct

Chico

$295,000

3/2

1471

2375 Notre Dame Blvd #10

Chico

$75,000

1/1

503

1188 Lupin Ave

Chico

$280,000

3/2

1313

3808 Steamboat Rock Rd

Oroville

$469,000

3/3

2235

1975 Hooker Oak Ave

Chico

$277,500

3/2

1752

3770 Honey Run Rd

Paradise

$331,000

2/2

1870

86 Fairway Dr

Chico

$246,273

3/2

2310

718 Twilight Ct

Paradise

$330,000

3/2

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