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Let priorities be guidelines There are good arguments on both sides of the Chico City

A cubana on freedom and equality A island’s history and culture, I was thrilled to read about Sara Cooper’s publication of books by celebrated Cuban

s a Cuban born to a family with deep roots in the

women writers [“In the words of cubanas,” by Christine G.K. LaPado, Feb. 16]. My father, a young, liberal lawyer in the late-1950s, was a leader in the urban resistance movement to free Cuba from [Fulgencio] Batista’s dictatorship. He later served in [Fidel] Castro’s first cabinet. But his allegiance was shaken when Castro traded the promise of a democratic, constitutional new Cuba for a Marxist-Leninist model. by When Castro began his Ana Varona campaign against the “enemies The author is a of the revolution,” the die was health educator who cast. Batista’s cronies met a says she “enjoys brutal end by firing squads in fried plantains, Afro-Cuban music infamous public executions. and Bidwell Park.” But to affirm his autocracy She lives in Chico. Castro also needed to sweep away many of his former allies—democratic revolutionaries who were at odds with the new communist ideology. Many of these “traitors” ended up in prison, some with 20-year sentences. Others boldly opposed Castro and met the same fate as the Batistianos. Others, among them my parents, opted for the inevitable: exile.

My parents, like countless others,

rebuilt their lives from scratch. They raised their children with values I can only describe as deeply humanist. So, when I read in the CN&R about a Cuba where “all humans are equal, and should be treated equally regardless of gender or race—no class divisions,” this “outspoken Cuban woman” (to quote a phrase used by Ms. Cooper) had to speak up.

Equal? Yes—everyone equally impoverished and undernourished, equally deprived of such basic rights as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and access to information; not to speak of the freedom to elect a government, or that precious right we all take for granted: freedom of movement. Cubans, we all know, are prisoners in their own land.

Perhaps professor Cooper would consider seeking out the voices of dissent in Cuba, so eloquently represented by Yoani Sánchez (see her Generation Y blog). A few years ago she was abducted and beaten by state security agents for her writing, yet she continues to reflect daily on life in an oppressive police state. As for issues of gender equality in Cuba, the discussion begs to be framed in the context of an entire people whose basic human rights have been denied for 53 years. Ω

Cubans, we all know, are prisoners in their own land.

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Council’s debate on whether to make replenishing the city’s reserves the highest priority during the upcoming budgeting process.

Some council members believe the reserves, especially the operational reserve, are dangerously low. They note that the operational reserve contains only $142,553, not the $3 million called for by city budget policies.

(The emergency reserve, at $5.8 million, is more robust but not at the ideal level of $9 million.) They worry that, should the city suddenly need to come up with additional funds, they wouldn’t be available.

Other council members, while acknowledging the reserves are low, hesitate to institute strict priorities out of fear that doing so would lock the city into spending priorities that could be injurious to certain programs and services. They believe existing budget policies, which call for “a balance between public safety, infrastructure and quality-of-life services,” are adequate for addressing the reserves while giving city staff sufficient flexibility to be creative.

The proposal to prioritize the budget process came originally from Councilman Bob Evans, who intended it to be a set of guidelines for City Manager Dave Burkland and his staff as they worked on the 2012-13 budget. Highest priority would go to restoring the reserves, next to replacing eliminated staff positions, and finally to staff raises.

Evans and other council members, especially Vice Mayor Jim Walker, insist the proposal is not intended to “lock in” any particular set of actions, but rather, as Evans put it during the council’s Feb. 21 meeting, “to give direction to Dave during these tough budget times.”

We agree that such direction is warranted. As Councilman Scott Gruendl put it, “Not having an operational reserve is a red flag.” That reserve in particular needs to be replenished—not necessarily to the $3 million level right away, but as much as is feasible.

We also agree that the priorities should not be “locked in.” Evans originally wanted his proposal it be sent to Burkland as a letter endorsed by his fellow council members. This remains the right approach. It’s a temporary set of priorities meant for a unique situation—“tough budget times”—and should not be included among the city’s ongoing budget policies. They are fine as they are. Ω

The best tax measure A recent Field Poll indicates that voters approve two of the three

tax measures proposed for the November ballot. That suggests people are coming to the realization that enough cutting has been done and now it’s time to increase revenues.

Of the three measures, the so-called “Millionaires Tax,” which would increase income taxes on Californians earning more than $1 million annually, is supported by 63 percent of respondents. Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax proposal, which would raise income taxes on Californians earning at least $250,000 annually, increase the sales tax by a half-cent and expire at the end of 2016, was supported by 58 percent of respondents. And the third initiative, sponsored by wealthy Los Angeles attorney Molly Munger, would increase income-tax rates on a sliding scale starting with individuals earning $7,316 in taxable income.

Our worry is that, if all three make the ballot, voters will rebel and kill them all. As it stands, the one with the least chance of running into wellfunded opposition, and thus the best chance of passing, is the governor’s plan. It has widespread business and labor support. Also, because of the intricacies of budget financial constraints, it would do the best job of eliminating the state’s structural deficit.

More important, if the governor’s measure isn’t approved, a new, $5 billion round of budget cuts will be triggered. That would be a disaster for California. Ω

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Roll out the cannons!

The race to replace Wally Herger in Congress is going to be a donnybrook, especially now that Sam Aanestad has joined the fray. He and his main opponent, Doug LaMalfa, who now occupies his former District 4 state Senate seat, represent opposite sides in the schism that afflicts the Republican Party in this part of the state, and they’re lining up with muskets raised as if war has broken out.

Aaron Park fired the first shot. He’s a conservative activist in Placer County whose “Right On Daily Blog” is a go-to site for North State Republicans of all stripes. In a blog entry titled “Doug LaMalfa for Congress? Are you kidding me???” he jumped all over LaMalfa for a litany of sins, including “using his office to enrich himself”—no specifics given. But the charge that hit a nerve was that LaMalfa and his rice-farming family have received $4.69 million in farm subsidies over the past 15 years—“making them one of Northern California’s Largest Welfare recipients.”

Redding Record Searchlight reporter Ryan Sabalow picked up Park’s comment and built a Feb. 18 story around it.

“It’s an issue about honesty and integrity,” Park told Sabalow. “It’s about presenting yourself as one thing, when you’re not. He really isn’t a fiscal conservative.

He’s a liberal conservative.”

I like that one: a “liberal conservative.”

Then Sabalow called LaMalfa, who fired back: “The guy is a paid mudslinger,” he said of Park. He defended farm subsidies, saying they “help ‘breadbasket’ crop growers like his family offset the costs of burdensome regulations, taxes, trade policies and escalating fuel costs that threaten to put them out of business,” as Sabalow explained it. Almost made me cry.

Then LaMalfa delivered a line I’ve heard him utter a couple of times: “When you gripe about your farmer, don’t talk with your mouth full.” That’s his way of saying anybody who eats should keep his mouth shut about farm subsidies.

Sabalow called around to LaMalfa’s other opponents.

“Col. Pete” Stiglich said it was hypocritical for a Republican to receive federal farm aid. Greg Cheadle, the Happy Valley businessman recently profiled in these pages, said, “You can’t condemn welfare recipients on one end and then get welfare on the other end. I mean 5 million bucks?

Come on.”

Jim Reed, the only Democrat running, said he wasn’t planning to use the subsidies as a weapon, but if they came up in a debate, well, maybe …

And an Aanestad spokesman, Mark Standriff, said the campaign had no immediate plans to make an issue of the subsidies.

That was then. Two days after Sabalow’s story appeared, Standriff emailed it far and wide, adding an intro that cites Stiglich’s statement in Sabalow’s story that it’s hypocritical for LaMalfa to receive farm aid, since he’s touted himself as a leader in the fight against expensive government entitlements. “When it meets his personal interest, it’s not a big entitlement,” Stiglich said.

Roll out the cannons. The battle has begun.

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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The Heartland effect Re “Leaked documents hit home” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, Feb. 23): Anthony [Watts]’s objections to the exposure of private emails from Heartland Institute is particularly odd when his blog spent years publishing excerpts from the so-called “Climategate” emails hacked from an East Anglia University computer server.

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Your article says the Heartland Institute’s “efforts include the denial of man-made climate change.”

The Heartland Institute has never made any such effort in the four years I’ve been following their work since 2008.

Your editorial insertion of the word “denial” is irresponsible journalism. Being “skeptical” is not denying anything.

TED WAGNER Goodyear, Ariz.

In your article on the GlieckHeartland affair, you regrettably focus on a minor sideshow to the real scandal, which is the mounting evidence that the anthropogenic global-warming theory is founded entirely on falsified data and corrupt models.

On Feb. 12, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran the story of the medical fraud at Duke University, in which false data was used to support claims of a breakthrough cancer treatment.

The data was falsified there in exactly the same way it has been falsified to support the AGW theory—by cherry-picking, discarding, “adjusting” contradictory data, even reversing the signs of temperature data values so they support rather than deny their conclusions.

The original, honest data indicates that average global temperatures have cooled by about 0.3 degree Celsius since 1998. The socalled “hockey stick” model of recent rapid warming is a total fraud and is already the subject of investigations regarding lies told on applications for government research grants. The fraud the AGW scaremongers are committing could cause trillions to be spent on measures that will have zero effect on climate, while enriching profiteers playing on people’s fears.

Simple observation and even simpler arithmetic proves that human activity is an infinitesimal factor in CO2 activity, and CO2 is an infinitesimal factor in climate change. Can scientists buy into poppycock? Yes, if ideology overrules the scientific method.

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Re “Fed (and pumped) up” (Newslines, by Vic Cantu, Feb. 16): I have read the media coverage of the changes to Forest Avenue near Highway 32. As a longtime Chico resident who lives in this part of town, I feel compelled to comment on this issue.

“I would pay out of pocket the $3,000 Chico State has all of a sudden demanded so that my brother can play in this tournament he’s waited for all year.”

—Sarah Cardoni

I was skeptical when I saw CVS being built. I thought a bad intersection would get worse, but my wife and I have been pleasantly surprised. The intersection has been better! We are patrons of 7Eleven and Great Harvest and still get burritos at the restaurant between these two businesses.

Before the change, we often drove down to the light at Humboldt and made a left turn to enter near Great Harvest because a left turn was so difficult on the 7Eleven end. I am sorry to hear about the loss of income reported by some of the businesses. I wonder if some of the losses are due to customers making purchases at the new CVS. ERIC JAMES Chico

I was wondering if Mr. Schindelbeck realized that there was a lot of construction going on at the corner of Highway 32 and Forest Avenue. This might account for some of the people not being able to come to his establishment.

The corner was a bottleneck. I believe that the barrier there is going to make for smoother traffic and fewer accidents. If he feels the need for changes in the parking-lot entrance, he should contact the owners of the parking lot.

It doesn’t sound like Mr. Schindelbeck would make a very good member of the Chico City Council, since he did receive a map and notice from the city about the changes and found it confusing. I do not think that he would be able to help the City Council deliberate about different things that might be in fine print or maybe other “confusing” things.

GLEN POLLOCK Chico

Shame on Chico State Re “Special Olympics event canceled” (Newslines, by Vic Cantu, Feb. 23): My brother deserves to play in this basketball tournament—more than the college girls’ volleyball team deserves to play their one out of many games they have throughout the year. Disgust-

ing is not a strong enough word.

Chico State should be ashamed of their actions and need to make right of this insulting decision. I would pay out of pocket the $3,000 Chico State has all of a sudden demanded so that my brother can play in this tournament he’s waited for all year. These athletes deserve more than this. Chico State, you should be embarrassed.

SARAH CARDONI Sacramento

BEC shout-out Re “BEC re-blossoms” (GreenWays, by Christine G.K. LaPado, Feb. 23): Thank you for the wonderful article on the hiring of a new executive director at the Butte Environmental Council. Unfortunately, someone could come away from the article with the misunderstanding that the co-directors were the cause of BEC’s troubles. Neither Nikki Schaishunt nor Robin Huffman contributed to BEC’s financial woes. They both worked hard to get BEC out of debt. I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank them both for their valued service to our organization.

MARK STEMEN Chair, Board of Directors, Butte Environmental Council

A Hmong thank-you Re “Who are the Hmong?” (Cover story sidebar, by John Boyle, Feb. 16): Gran Torino was well done, and thank you for giving such opportunity for the Hmong people.

Mr. Clint Eastwood is a great actor and director!

Mr. Boyle’s article about our Hmong people was well written. I am sure he knows our Hmong people better than we thought he would. Nobody knows the truth about our Hmong history, but one day we will. Thank you for writing such a touching article!

GYMBAY MOUA Saint Paul, Minn.

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POLICE FIND HIGH-END BIKES

A man from Chico has been arrested for the suspected theft of more than $125,000 in stolen high-end bicycles and bicycle components.

Michael Keith Eosefow, 28, who was arrested on Feb. 19 on a charge of attempted burglary of a residence on Chico Canyon Road, is being held in Butte County Jail in Oroville for a probation violation. Following the arrest, five expensive bicycles were found in Eosefow’s vehicle, prompting a further investigation that led police to a storage locker rented by Eosefow, which contained dozens of custom bicycles. Police said 33 bicycle frames—some valued at $4,000 apiece—have been recovered, along with components to complete them. Officials believe Eosefow has been selling the bikes online.

Police were originally alerted to the case in November, when the five bicycles found in Eosefow’s vehicle were taken from a residence in Chico.

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HALLOWEEN PUNCHER PLEADS GUILTY

The Chico man accused of throwing a fatal punch last Halloween night in downtown Chico pleaded guilty Tuesday (Feb. 28) to felony involuntary manslaughter. Allen Paul Peters Jr., 35, punched William Dennis Collingsworth Jr., also 35, in front of the Crazy Horse Saloon following an argument inside another Main Street bar.

Witnesses said Collingsworth went down after a single punch to the face from a man wearing a mask. Police found him lying on the sidewalk, unconscious. He was taken to Enloe Medical Center, where he later died from a brain injury. Police received a tip five days later that Peters was involved, contacted him via telephone at his Garner Lane residence and he turned himself in. He faces up to four years behind bars when sentenced April 17.

COUNCIL CONSIDERS SPENDING PRIORITIES

Tuesday (Feb. 28), with only about 10 members of the public in attendance, the Chico City Council listened to an hour-long report from Assistant City Manager John Rucker on ways the city can prioritize budgeting in these uncertain economic times.

Rucker (pictured) told the council the process, which would involve community input on how and where the city should spend money, would take about four months. He presented interactive online models that allow citizens to record their priorities. He also mentioned a nonprofit consultancy called the Center for Priority Based Budgeting, which helps cities facilitate priority spending. (This type of meeting sparks that kind of language.)

The council meets again to discuss budget matters on March 20 as it prepares for the 2012-13 fiscal year. But its foray into priority-based budgeting will not happen until 2013-14.

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Chico police, community members discuss proposed changes to city’s noise ordinance

Mcitizens attended a Feb. 22 meeting at Chico State’s Bell Memorial Union to discuss a ore than 70 students and local

proposed change to the city’s existing noise ordinance. The crowd, composed largely of students and members of the local music community, by Ken Smith mostly voiced concerns and opposition to the action, which kens@ would allow police officers to newsreview.com issue a fine of up to $1,500 on their first response to a noise complaint.

The current ordinance requires an officer responding to an initial citizen complaint to issue a written warning to the Weigh in: The next offenders. If the noise reoccurs opportunity to within 72 hours, the offended give input on the party can sign a complaint and a noise-ordinance citation will be issued. The new issue is the ordinance would allow tickets to Community Advisory Board be issued, at the officer’s discremeeting, tion, on the first visit.

The meeting was the second 5:30 p.m.

March 12, at hosted by the Chico Police the Old Municipal Department to inform the comBuilding, 441 Main St. in munity and gather feedback on Chico. Students the proposed change. Chief and Citizens Mike Maloney was unable to Against Changing attend, leaving Lt. Linda Dye to Chico’s Noise represent the police department.

Ordinance Dye said about 10 residents, maintain a website at primarily from The Avenues, www.chico began complaining about noise noise.com issues at Police Advisory Board

meetings in May and September, prompting the police to consider the first-visit citation measure already employed in Davis. The police are collecting input before drafting a proposal to ultimately be voted on by the City Council.

With the current ordinance, Dye said, “Someone can have a party, disturb neighbors, we issue a warning, and by the time we hit the next weekend it starts all over again. So everyone basically gets a free noise violation every weekend, but for some people in certain neighborhoods, it’s too much.”

One of the issues several students remarked on was the severity of the fine.

Dye responded that $1,500 fines would be reserved for extreme cases.

“I can only recall a $1,500 fine being issued once and it was the fourth or fifth time we’d issued that house a citation,” she said, adding that most fines were in the neighborhood of $125 to $200.

Charles Pruesser, who last month cofounded an effort with Chico State student Kevin Rys called Students and Citizens Against Changing Chico’s noise ordinance, argued that the ordinance is working and already has a public-nuisance-abatement clause for repeat offenders.

Pruesser provided numbers obtained from the Chico Police Department indicating there were 880, 857 and 706 complaints in 2009, 2010 and 2011, respec-

tively. Out of those 2,443 complaints, only 17 citations were issued.

Dye said those numbers only represent the complaints answered by officers, and that police actually receive more than 2,000 noise complaints a year—too many to respond to. She also said the abatement process isn’t feasible any longer because the special operations department has lost a crime-prevention officer and two communityservice officers who used to handle that responsibility.

Many members of the crowd expressed concern over difficulties with unfair neighbors, and asked what recourse those fined have.

“Any time you get a ticket, whether it be for noise, speeding, or whatever, you have your day in court and you are innocent until proven guilty,” Dye said. “The difference between a noise complaint and, say, a speeding ticket, is that the burden of proof is on the person that originally complained. The police officer will show up and act as a witness, tell the court what they observed, but it’s up to the person to make the case.”

If the complainant doesn’t show up, she confirmed, the fine is thrown out.

Other attendees said they think

the new ordinance targets students. A number also voiced concerns about what effect the ordinance could have on local music, with bands not being able to

practice in fear of disturbing neighbors and venues in borderline residential/commercial areas being discouraged from hosting performances.

Others said they believe the new ordinance is a money-making scheme for the police department.

Dye said that the officers would be as fair as possible and that the fines would not be a revenue generator, with most of the money going toward court costs.

“We’re not going to tell our officers that you shall go out and write a ticket on the first response to a noise complaint,” she said. “We’re just giving them the discretion to do that. It would depend on the nature of the complaint. If we get three or four neighbors calling in, that one would have a good chance of getting a citation because we have more than one person making a complaint in the neighborhood.

“If it’s a small gathering and everybody’s mellow, there’s the possibility the officer may use their discretion and not cite. We’re not talking about citing the first time out; we’re talking about giving the officers tools to resolve some of the issues we see.”

Other suggestions, all noted by

the police, included changing the fine structure, encouraging landlords to inform people they are moving into highnoise areas, and suggestions the ordinance only affect certain areas, much like the city’s glass ban.

The sentiment and focus of the crowd was distinctly different from the initial Dec. 7 meeting. According to the minutes, suggestions included holding absentee landlords accountable, eliminating the citizen-complaint requirement from the ordinance, and fining “every individual occupant of the residence including management and owners. Fines should go up every time. Fine the band or DJ that is responsible for the noise.”

Dye said many noise issues would be moot if people were more neighborly, and hopes a change to the ordinance could help this along.

“A lot of these issues can be avoided through education and communication,” she said. “Our hope is, with the threat of a fine, people will be more neighborly and take the time to talk to people and make sure they’re not going to have problems, and to be aware of the issues with the noise, and that will decrease our calls for service.”

Dye said the next step is to write up a report—including community comment—and draft a proposal to present to the City Council’s Internal Affairs Committee, which will either send it back to be amended or pass it to the council for a vote.

“It won’t be during the summertime,” Dye promised. “We want to make sure that there’s an availability of this community to be at the meetings when we get to council.” Ω

Donations down Salvation Army suffers from bad economy, tightened belts Declining donations to the Salvation Army in Chico this year are threatening its employees as well as the programs that help the poor and those with substance-abuse problems.

Donations so far this year have been down approximately 70 percent compared to the yearly average due in large part to the stubborn recession said Capt. Darren Stratton of the Salvation Army, Chico Corps. Huge sections of the Christian-based charity’s 40,000-square-foot donation warehouse out by the Chico Airport sit empty.

“In January we lost $40,000 compared to our expenses,” said Stratton. “If that continues through March, we would lose $120,000, which would adversely affect all our programs.”

The Salvation Army uses proceeds from its five Butte County thrift stores in Chico, Oroville, Paradise and Gridley to provide social services such as a 50-bed rehab facility for adults with drug and alcohol addictions.

“The rehab center is our signature program and is free to all participants,” Stratton said.

Additional programs are provided by the Salvation Army’s center on East 16th Street and include monetary and other assistance to those who cannot afford such basic life necessities as rent, food, utilities and prescription medications.

“We also help those who have been struck by disasters such as house fires, as long as we have money available,” Stratton said. He lamented that the first quarter of 2012 is shaping up to be as bad as 2010, which was the worst year of the country’s four-year recession. That year revenues decreased so much that it forced the closure of the Chico Salvation Army store at Broadway and 11th Street. Stratton, however, chooses to look at

the glass as half full, noting that the closure allowed for the opening of a new store in Gridley.

This year the problems have again begun to creep in. Though their social-services programs have not yet been reduced, the impacts are being felt in several ways such as less work for employees.

“Last Thursday we had to send our warehouse workers home early because there wasn’t enough for them to do,” said Stratton.

Several warehouse employees have already been transferred to other departments where work is more plentiful. Stratton did say that if the downturn continues for long it could result in layoffs, reduced bed capacity at the rehab center and less help for their other social-service programs.

The months of January through March are typically slow ones for thrift-store donations.

This is a result of the colder weather and shorter days when people are nestled in their homes and less motivated to load up their cars and drop off merchandise. But Stratton says this year has been particularly bad.

“Three of the last four winters have been extraordinarily tough for us,” said Stratton.

Yet Stratton remains confident that the spring will see its annual influx of donations as the weather gets warmer and the days become longer.

While donations of clothes have remained stable, the shortage of all other goods has forced Salvation Army stores to expand their clothing display areas to avoid having customers see large, empty areas. Compounding the problem of reduced sales is the possibility that many regular Salvation Army shoppers may be discouraged by the reduced variety and seek out other thrift stores.

Stratton said donations of all types are

SIFT|ER Survey says …

A recent survey of Chico residents reveals just how they feel about public safety.

The survey was conducted as a joint effort of the Chico Police Department and Chico State criminal-justice students between October 2011 and January 2012. In total, 566 people responded and overall those who had had contact with the police department recently reported positive experiences. Below are the breakdowns of some of the survey results. For more, log onto www.chico.ca.us/Police/ documents/SurveyResults.pdf.

How safe is …

Very safe

Chico during day? at night?

18% . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2%

Downtown during day? at night?

26% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2%

Safe

74% . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42%

60% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31%

Unsafe

6% . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39%

10% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38%

Very unsafe

1% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12%

1% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24%

Don’t know

2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6%

2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6%

Capt. Darren Stratton in the Salvation Army’s warehouse near the airport.

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welcome including books, toys, working household items and small appliances such as toasters, blenders and vacuum cleaners.

Items not in working order are discouraged.

A pick-up service is also available for those who wish to donate large quantities or who have over-sized items such as couches and beds. But Stratton stresses that the items must be worth the time and expense of picking them up.

A smaller thrift store in town is

experiencing a similar downturn. “The Shop” of the American Cancer Society on Mangrove Avenue has seen a 75 percent reduction in donations since January.

“We’re in exactly the same boat as the Salvation Army,” said The Shop’s manager, Rachel Stokes.

She suggested that rather than donating their unwanted goods, people are now selling them via online services such as eBay and Craigslist or through yard sales.

Many of the tables and shelves in The Shop’s donations room are empty, Stokes said. As part of a California chain, The Shop also provides social services such as volunteers who help chemotherapy and prostate cancer patients.

On the positive side, news reports about the Salvation Army’s shortage have resulted in a slight increase in donations, Stratton said.

“I just came from our Seventh Street donation center and was encouraged by what I saw,” he said. “I hope and pray that people continue to help us get out of this tight spot.”

—VIC CANTU vscantu@sbcg lobal.net

How to donate: Salvation Army, Chico: 342-2199, www.tsachico.org. Seventh Street & Broadway (Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. noon-5 p.m.); or George Walker Rehabilitation Facility, 13404 Browns Valley Drive. (Mon.-Fri. 7:30 a.m. 4 p.m.)

“The Shop” of the American Cancer Society, 725 Mangrove Ave., 343-6178. (Donation hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m.)

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Chico State’s website contains this message from the school’s Institute for Sustainable Development: “At Chico State, we are dedicated to sustainable development as a means of balancing human social, cultural, and economic needs with the natural environment by respecting the finite natural resources of this planet and living in harmony with other humans and species now and into the future.

We strive to become leaders in achieving a new vision of education, which integrates the principles of sustainable development into the academic programs, practices, and collaborations of our university.”

Sounds pretty good.

Included on the scheduled list of speakers is Mark Stemen, professor of geography and planning and one of the conference’s founders. He’s been celebrated for his efforts in sustainability, both in the Chico community and beyond.

Stemen is also a critic of where the sustainability conference, which uses an image of a green highway direction sign as its logo, is headed.

“This conference started out as an exploration, but it has turned into a celebration,” he said during a recent interview. “I am all for celebrations, but given that every indicator—energy, waste, transportation—still says we are headed in the wrong direction, celebrating now seems premature,

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Stemen points to the university’s still-under-construction parking structure on Second Street as evidence that the school is not practicing what is preached at these conferences.

“This parking structure,” he said while standing in front of the concrete formation, appears to be “a U-turn on the road to sustainability.”

The original reason for the conference, Stemen said, “was to really figure our way out of this mess: environmental problems, resource depletion, over-fishing, global warming, declining aquifers.”

He said the green highway sign was picked to symbolize where society needs to go. That first conference, he said, was in a sense exploratory.

“We didn’t know where we were going. Now seven years later you look at it and in some ways the sign showing this way to sustainability has become a roundabout.

We are going in circles.”

He mentioned the recently constructed campus buildings that received the coveted LEED awards for their energy-efficiency, but noted they don’t have solar panels.

“The new rec center seems perfect for solar with those sloping roofs,” he said. “But they slope the wrong way. They went for aesthetics rather than sustainability.”

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And even though the school has won two awards for “reducing” waste, he said in fact, 1,100 tons of waste was collected on campus in 2004 and 1,300 tons were removed in 2009.

Chico State biology professor

Jim Pushnik is director of the Institute for Sustainability and a scheduled conference speaker. He questions Stemen’s remark about how the conference has turned from an exploration into a celebration.

“I’m not sure how he would reach that conclusion,” Pushnik said. “The conferences focus on both identifying problems and how we can solve them. And I’ll be honest here. This is a candid conversation Mark and I have been having for years. Calling for change now is good, but not everybody has the same passion and focus or end goal.

“How do we balance the various needs?” he continued. “Mark is right in some ways. Sometimes we do get things wrong like the design of the buildings, but there are other factors at play, like building codes.”

The conference, Pushnik said, provides an opportunity to bring people to a common conversation and what is important is actually moving forward more than the actual speed of doing so.

“Our role is to make sure we are going in the right direction,” he said. “I’d like to go faster, but it takes time for the bulk of the people to appreciate what we are doing.”

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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A lasting impression Chico theater veteran embarks on first film venture Amid the bustle of filming his first movie, native Chicoan Coy Middlebrook took a moment to reflect last week on how his journey has taken him from the local theater scene to where he is now.

Middlebrook, 44, is at the helm of what he calls “a short film—but a big movie.”

He wrote the story Super Tuesday about “a broken family and a broken America.”

The movie, he said, is about how three brothers come back together on the day a number of states hold their presidential primary elections. Middlebrook has three brothers of his own and said the story is somewhat autobiographical.

“It’s a short movie in terms of the budget and the length—probably 20 to 30 minutes—but it’s big in terms of what it has to say,” Middlebrook said. “It’s also about the transformative power of voting. It’s not about who you vote for, but about getting up and participating in the process. So many Americans don’t do that.”

My interview with Middlebrook came in the context of my being one of the 20 or so locals recruited to be “extras” in the film. I’d gotten an email invitation from Roger Hart, a local actor and board member at Chico Theater Company. The two met after Middlebrook chose Hart’s classic red convertible, which was being repaired at Concours Elite in Chico, to be used in the movie.

The filming has gotten attention locally with Middlebrook’s connection, as well as that of another Chico actor, Amanda Detmer, who’s appeared in TV roles (Man Up) and in major movies such as Final Destination and Saving Silverman.

Middlebrook raved about the local community that supported his creative endeavors growing up, and has welcomed him back for this undertaking. “It’s a real communitydriven project,” he said. He was involved in theater productions at Chico State beginning in the early ’80s and in 1990 he co-founded the now-defunct Chico City Light Opera and has since gone on to direct big-scale shows in New York and other major cities. Middlebrook holds an MFA in directing from The Actors Studio Drama School at New School University.

Those of us recruited to appear as

extras gathered Feb. 23 in the children’s nursery at the Salvation Army center at 16th and Laurel streets. Down the hall, a community room made up to look like a typical

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American polling place housed the cinematic activity.

We were called in one by one to join different scenes. A fellow extra was disappointed to discover the star, Detmer, had left not only the building, but the entire county. She already had completed her part of the filming and returned home to Southern California.

Most people would probably be surprised at how many set hours go into making a short sequence for a final production.

“All this we did today,” Middlebrook said after shooting all day, “will probably take up maybe 45 seconds. It’s for a series of flashbacks, where our lead actor, Andres Faucher, remembers his experiences voting.”

The 12-day shoot took in eight separate locations—an unusually large number for a short film, Middlebrook added.

Middlebrook said he hopes the film will be released by summer, to “bridge the gaps” in several ways: Offering hope to troubled families; healing the political divisiveness in America; and making Americans rethink voting in this election year.

Middlebrook’s crew is from San Francisco, and most of the actors are from New York and Los Angeles.

Middlebrook said the bulk of his work has been in theater, but he’s long wanted to direct a movie. “I’ve been carrying the banner, the torch of theater, since I was young. I love theater because it’s so ephemeral, but then it’s gone. I wanted to make a movie because it’s long-lasting, but I didn’t want to make a movie just to make a movie. I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t going to have something to say. But here is a place where I finally feel I have a voice that’s well expressed in film.”

He added that media reporting he is “formerly of Chico” is not exactly accurate.

While he spends weeks on productions in New York and Los Angeles, Chico is still his official home, where his mother lives as well. “I have to go where the work is, so I live out of a suitcase,” Middlebrook said.

“When I’m not working, I spend most of my time here. This is where I vote.”

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STEM CELLS HELP HEAL HEART

A medical study conducted by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has concluded stem cells grown from a heart-attack patient’s own cardiac tissue can help repair damage once thought to be permanent.

The study of 25 heart-attack patients, published in the medical journal Lancet, found 17 of them showed a 50 percent reduction in scar tissue following the stem-cell treatment, while the other eight patients who received standard care showed no improvement, according to SF Gate. A tissue sample about the size of a raisin was removed from the heart to cultivate the stem cells, which were reintroduced to the patient in a second surgical procedure.

Although the study was mostly done to determine the safety of such surgeries, the researchers concluded a study focusing on broader applications is in order.

“If we can regenerate the whole heart, then the patient would be completely normal,” said Eduardo Marban, the study’s lead author.

A tight squeeze The current state of Medicare and Medi-cal funding and the possible effect of cuts on local health care

EPA RELEASES DIOXINS REPORT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a report defining how harmful dioxins are for humans.

Dioxins—a group of about 30 toxic compounds that includes Agent Orange—are byproducts of waste incinerators, chemical-manufacturing plants, paper and pulp mills and other industries, according to Environmental Health News. They are found in trace amounts in most people’s bodies, typically through the consumption of animal products. The EPA reported that dioxin levels have declined so much in the last two decades that most people are not at risk, although they did note that even very low levels could lead to serious health effects. Critics of the report argue the authors did not take groups more sensitive to dioxins into account, such as fetuses and nursing infants.

Dioxins have been linked to cancer, disrupted hormones, immune-system changes and skin disorders.

FREE CONDOMS FOR TEENS

Young people ages 12 to 19 can order condoms by mail for free through a new program called the Condom Access Project.

In an effort to reduce pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted disease amongst teenagers, TeenSource.org—run by the nonprofit California Family Health Council— now offers a free packet including 10 condoms, lube and a health brochure, which will be mailed in a discreet yellow envelope, according to SF Gate. While critics think the program sends a message of approval of teenage sex, supporters say it will be to the benefit of teens too embarrassed to purchase or unable to afford condoms.

“It’d be best if teens didn’t have sex, but if they’re going to do it anyway, they need to protect themselves,” said Denis Smith, director of disease control for the Kern County Department of Public Health.

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unding cuts: two words that

associated with health care. Patients and providers know that what happens on Capitol Hill and in the statehouse—plus, recently, in the courts—has a major impact on local medical centers and doctors’ offices.

Hospitals in Butte County receive a significant chunk of their funding from the federal government (via Medicare) and the state (via Medicaid, known in California as Medi-Cal). Talk of cuts to either source raises concerns, and lately there have been headlines regarding both.

Consider this: • Today (March 1), doctors nationwide would have borne a 27 percent cut to Medicare reimbursements if not for a provision in Congress’s payroll-tax extension that delayed cuts for another 10 months.

That compromise, passed in both the House and Senate on Feb. 17, came with a caveat: In order to help offset the expense, hospitals and laboratories would take some cuts.

• Last Wednesday (Feb. 22), the U.S. Supreme Court kept alive a legal challenge to Medi-Cal cuts by referring the matter back to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

This comes on the heels of a federal judge blocking the state from imposing new copays on low-income Medi-Cal patients.

Neither matter is by any means settled.

It’s not surprising, then, that Myron Machula, chief financial officer at Enloe Medical Center, refers to government funding as “pretty much a moving target”—noting, “It’s hard to figure what’s coming through the pipeline.”

Bob Wentz, chief executive officer of

Oroville Hospital, calls the ebb and flow “dysfunctional for planning what we try to do and physicians try to do.” Yet, Wentz also points out, the term “cut” also can be misapplied. A change taking place this fall may hit hospitals in the balance sheet, but from his perspective it’s more a philosophical than financial distinction for well-run organizations.

What Wentz refers to is Value Added Purchasing. Come October, when the federal government opens its fiscal year for 2012-13, Medicare will withhold 1 percent

APPOINTMENTS BODY ISSUES DISCUSSED Beginning March 5, Chico State will raise awareness in the community about body issues and eating disorders during its four-day “Love Every Body Week” expo. The campus will host an array of workshops and lectures covering topics such as over-exercising, body acceptance and weight stigma in the media.

For a complete schedule, go online to http://tinyurl.com/7tqmjwl.

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By anyone’s definition, the

“cuts” making headlines recently represent funding reductions. The federal government would have slashed its reimbursements to doctors today—and will in 2013 without further Congressional action.

Concurrently the state would have reduced its Medi-Cal burden had courts not blocked additional cuts and co-pays.

The cuts matter most to patients who see independent physicians, rather than practitioners in larger health systems.

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of the funding to hospitals. (That amount will increase by a quarter percent annually until the total reaches 2 percent in 2017-18.)

A single percentage point or two may not seem like much. But, for hospitals the size of Enloe and Oroville—even Feather River Hospital in Paradise—a percentage point of annual revenue can represent a seven-figure sum.

Meanwhile, since July, hospitals have supplied the federal government with data on performance and customer satisfaction. That information gets plugged into what Machula calls a “matrix” in order to compare facilities across the country. Those hospitals that meet or surpass Medicare’s standards will “earn back” the withheld money.

Is that a cut? Well, it does represent a potential decrease in income. Likewise, it represents a bonus for good performance.

“I don’t see it as a cut,” Wentz said. “I see it as a quality parameter we need to meet and should meet. People can quibble about approach, but the bottom line of accountability is a great thing.”

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Plan to arrive early. To view videos of past events, go to http://tinyurl.com/mediforum.

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which does not operate doctors’ offices.

In that regard, Oroville may be better poised to absorb cuts to physician reimbursements than Chico (or Paradise). Individual doctors’ offices are on their own, without ancillary businesses to help offset expenses. That’s why a number of physicians in Chico stopped taking new Medi-Cal patients or accepting Medi-Cal altogether following cuts several years ago—a trend that could continue with further cuts, and possibly extend to Medicare.

“How tragic would that be for everyone?” Machula said. “Hospitals and physicians would say they are not meeting costs now, so every [publicly insured] patient treated

means they lose money. Costs get shifted to commercial payers, and no one likes that.”

He’s not asking for a blank check, however: “We need to be careful about our own costs. We can’t just say, ‘This is what our burden is.’ We have to be mindful of our quality and efficiency so we don’t have double-digit increases in costs.”

That’s where accountability comes in, and where the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may well have addressed some problems with health-care economics.

But not all. Wentz is among those in the medical field looking for “a cohesive, comprehensive health policy” tying up loose ends.

In the interim, should patients worry when they hear about looming cuts?

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EARTH WATCH

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A recent study has concluded levels of snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains have remained steady for the last 130 years, contradicting current climate-change models.

The study’s author, Alabama state climatologist and climate-change skeptic John Christy, analyzed snow measurements from loggers, railroad officials, mining companies, hydroelectric utilities, water districts and government organizations dating back to 1878, according to SF Gate. Perhaps most striking, Christy’s analysis showed no dramatic decrease in snow levels in the past 50 years, the period in which greenhouse gases are widely supposed to have increased the rate of global warming.

Critics of the study point out that many of Christy’s sources were unreliable amateurs, but Christy maintains there is no noticeable trend in the data. “The dramatic claims about snow disappearing in the Sierra just are not verified,” he said. “California has huge year-toyear variations and that’s expected to continue.”

U.S., MEXICO REACH OIL PACT

After years of negotiations, the United States and Mexico agreed on Feb. 20 to guidelines for the development of oil and gas along their Gulf of Mexico maritime border.

The Transboundary Agreement allows for the joint inspection of oil rigs, which means each country will be able to oversee the safety and environmental standards of the other for the first time, according to the New York Times. As the deal could open up to 1.5 million acres to deep-sea drilling, both countries felt it was important to establish shared safety protocols, said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

“As the Mexicans move into deepwater development, we want to make sure it’s done in a way that protects the environment and is as safe as possible,” Salazar said.

Estimates project the area contains about 172 million barrels of oil and 300 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

RHINO-HORN TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED

A Chinese citizen was recently arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly shipping dozens of endangered black-rhinoceros horns.

Jin Zhao Feng was one of seven people arrested in a crackdown across the United States and charged with conspiracy and violation of laws protecting endangered species for their involvement in the lucrative black-market trade in rhinoceros horns, which are used in traditional Asian medicine, according to the Mother Nature Network. Four of the arrests were of members of the U.S.-based trafficking ring that supplied Jin, including one man in Texas who had 37 rhino horns and $337,000 in cash.

“We are taking aggressive action to protect the rhino by investigating and vigorously prosecuting those who are engaged in this brutal trade,” said Ignacia Moreno, assistant attorney general for the U.S. Justice Department’s environment and natural resources division.

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Liz Gardner-Jaqua (center, in hat) raffles off fresh produce at Saturday’s market.

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‘Time for a change’ Chico Certified Farmers’ Market looks to the future with new manager and board shakeup

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“Wtude—it’s about time, I think.

It’s time for a change,” said Rob Monte’re getting a new atti-

gomery, new director of publicity for the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market (CCFM).

Montgomery is also a member-vendor of the CCFM; his Rob’s Natural Produce stall has been a regular fixture at the downtown Saturday farmers’ market for more than 20 years.

Montgomery’s comments referred to the recent flurry of changes in the CCFM organization, which oversees the popular year-round farmers’ market that is open every Saturday, rain or shine, from 7:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the city of Chico’s Municipal Parking Lot No.1, at Second and Wall streets. CCFM also operates four other— seasonal—markets in Chico, Oroville and Paradise.

Montgomery, a CCFM board member in times past, is back on its seven-member board of directors, after a January election shakeup that saw only two of the most recent board members returned to their posts. Add to that the departure of longtime CCFM manager Terry Givens in September and the hiring of new market manager Liz Gardner-Jaqua, who took the CCFM reins in January.

“We have a new manager and basically a new board. We’re also changing the way our organization is run,” Montgomery said.

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“We’re becoming more membershiporiented. We are encouraging more membership participation—and we are becoming a more transparent organization,” he added, choosing his words carefully.

“We have this renewed organization that wants to focus on an improved partnership with the city of Chico, the [Downtown Chico Business Association] and the Chamber of Commerce to make the Chico Saturday farmers’ market one of the best in the country,” Montgomery continued. “In the ’90s, the Chico farmers’ market was considered one of the top 10 farmers’ markets in the country, and we have slipped.

We want to re-establish that.”

As for Gardner-Jaqua’s coming on board, Montgomery is excited and optimistic. “Liz has got a lot of ideas and she’s very eager,” he said. Among other things, Gardner-Jaqua is working hand-in-hand with the CCFM board to come up with ideas for improving the Oroville market, which starts up again on the third Saturday in May.

“The city of Oroville is excited to work with us,” Montgomery said. “They’ve offered us a beautiful new location that overlooks the river—that deal is still in the works. Also, we’re forming an alliance with the Chico Grange and they have graciously invited us to use their facilities for our board meetings and member potlucks.”

Additionally, the new-andimproved CCFM organization is working on ways to decrease congestion in the shopping aisles of Chico’s Saturday market, as well as improve safety in general in the entire parking lot. A marketimprovement committee and a safety committee, made up of board members, vendor-members and members of the community, are being assembled to address these issues.

Expansion of the downtown Saturday market is also being looked at. One possibility is that one of the aisles now dedicated to car traffic will become a third vendor aisle.

“We have reached a point where our expenses are becoming larger than the amount of income we have, because of a limited number of vendor stall spaces,” Montgomery said. “We are hoping to expand the number of stall spaces.

This will help accommodate many of the longstanding farmers who don’t have enough room to properly display their products, and we turn away many new vendors with new variety because of lack of space.”

Montgomery, for his part, grows so many different types of produce—six varieties of kale, five types of carrot and 15 lettuce varieties, for starters—that “it becomes really difficult to display it all.”

Gardner-Jaqua, speaking

recently from her tiny CCFM office behind downtown’s Mr. Kopy store, said she’s excited about working with the board. “The [new] board is going to be more hands-on and much more involved with the market.”

Gardner-Jaqua is also excited about being a more hands-on presence herself at the Saturday market; she plans to make the manager’s table at the east end of the parking lot more visible to patrons. She also plans to get the community even more involved in the goings-on of the farmers’ market than before. In addition to already-established events such as summer’s popular Red, White and Blueberry Fest pieGREENWAYS continued on page 18

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making contest, and the Great Tomato Weigh-In and Salsa Contest, Gardner-Jaqua is considering adding a couple more seasonal, community-participation events, such as a winter event that focuses on the bounty of local citrus, and a spring-greens-focused event (“The Great Green Salad Toss?” suggested Gardner-Jaqua).

Look for Gardner-Jaqua to carry on the CCFM tradition of conducting the 11 a.m. raffle (“It’s free!”) of bags of fresh, locally grown produce and other goodies.

She even hopes to improve upon the fun event by using it as a platform to “communicate with the community, announce special events,” and so on. Gardner-Jaqua has also started a CCFM mailing list, with names and email addresses collected during recent raffles, “so we can inform people on a working basis of what is going on, that maybe there’s a new vendor coming in, or maybe a new vegetable in season.”

Montgomery echoed GardnerJaqua’s desire to get the public more involved: “We want to start involving the public and the farmers in get-togethers—meet-andgreets—so that we get to more intimately know each other. This goes along with all the events that Liz talked about. These kinds of events are ‘golden publicity’—no amount of money can buy that kind of publicity.” Ω

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sold-out Chico State lectures—one on animal agriculture and animal rights, and another on her life as a person with autism—widely known author and Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin made an impromptu afternoon visit to Rose Scott Open-Structured School, a local firstthrough 12th-grade private school specializing in individualizing teaching of students who “maybe just do not fit on the bell curve”—children with ADHD, autism and Asperger’s syndrome are among those students.

“One thing I loved seeing was the way Temple Grandin took to [one student with marked artistic ability who is diagnosed with Asperger’s], because she told me no one showed her any respect [as a child] until they saw her drawings,” said Rose Scott director Cindy Carlson of Grandin’s hour-long visit. “Temple was just fascinated by her.”

Carlson noted that teaching other students to keep from teasing this particular student is an ongoing issue: “We try to get the other kids to recognize that someday she’s going to be a famous artist! Having Asperger’s is just part of who we are, like wearing glasses or hearing aids.”

This same student, she said, is exceptionally skilled in math, something that Grandin comTemple Grandin (left front) and Rose Scott mented on. Grandin encouraged Open-Structured School director Cindy Carlson Carlson “to promote math and (right front) with Rose Scott School students science with our kids, and espeon Feb. 16. cially with our girls.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF CINDY CARLSON During her visit, Grandin autographed Xeroxed copies of the cover of her popular book, Thinking in Pictures, for students, staff and volunteers. She also made recommendations of websites—such as www.khanacademy.org and MITOpenCourseware (http://ocw.mit.edu/ index.htm)–where students with particular areas of interest and level of skill can go for a top-notch, stimulating education in a wide variety of disciplines, from architecture to finance to physics and more, and for free.

“She was very encouraging,” said Carlson. “She said to look in areas where kids can get apprenticeships, where they can use their areas of strength to get jobs when they get older.”

Carlson said that Grandin “talked to all of the kids while she was here. I felt that she really gave of herself to us.

“What was so cool is that our two girls in junior high and high school who are on the [autistic] spectrum already knew who she was—they saw the movie [Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes] and knew the book. And they were so thrilled to see her!”

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Lady of the canyon

by Tom Gascoyne tomg@newsreview.com

The amazing story of Martha Rowe, who calls a tree house home

n December Martha Rowe called the Butte County Sheriff’s Office to report her common-law husband of 42 years, Lowell Sutton, was missing. In fact, she said, he’d been gone for six days before she called.

His body was found by a search-and-rescue team four days later. He’d apparently died of exposure while lost in a remote box canyon located within Butte Creek Canyon, about two miles south of Forest Ranch’s Doe Mill Road.

At first take, the story may sound a bit fishy. Why’d she wait so long? What was he doing in the canyon?

But you have to understand: Martha and Lou were apparently the stuff of legend around these parts, at least for the back-to-the-earth generation that lived in Butte County’s foothills in the 1970s.

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Here’s why: Martha, 60, and Lou, who died at the age of 85, met 42 years ago in Chico, moved in together soon after and then lived for most of the next several decades in a tree house in the canyon where Lou was found on Dec. 15. They kept to themselves and were seldom seen, emerging from their Eden to Helltown Road every two months to hitch a ride to Chico, where they would secure their living provisions before heading back to the canyon.

They had no electricity, no phone, no plumbing—except for the plastic pipes they used to siphon water from the yearround spring that feeds a nearby creek.

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It’s a story that is difficult to comprehend; one of those you-had-to-be-there yarns. I interviewed Martha about a month after Lou died. She was staying in a room at the Quality Inn in downtown Chico while tending the business that comes after the death of a loved one. Martha is an interesting mix of new-age spirituality, old-age hippie, gritty realism and an obvious tenacity for survival. And she occasionally offers reverence to God. Plus, she is a talker, rattling off thoughts, accounts and memories with a stream of consciousness that rushes like the creek that flows past the three-story tree house in the canyon where she has spent her adult life.

Present at that first interview were Ron

and Fran Toburen, owners of the property where Martha and Lou lived. They purchased the land, 518 acres, in 1974.

“Lou and Martha were already there,” said Ron. “They came with the land.”

The Toburens had purchased the property from a man named John Hettle, who owned the Seattle Mining Co. Hettle had no problem allowing the elusive couple to live on the land. And neither did the Toburens.

“They were on a spiritual path that meshed with ours,” Ron said. “Not the same, but we had mutual interests.”

Martha grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and came west soon after high school in 1970.

Her father had died and she did not get along with her mother. Plus she had a sister already living in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco.

She flew out and met her sister, but she said soon after she arrived a voice told her to go to Chico.

“It wasn’t a like voice in my head,” she explained. “It’s more of what I call ‘inner guidance.’”

During the summer of 1970, she lived in a house on Salem Street that had been temporarily vacated by Chico State students.

She met Lou about three months after she’d gotten to Chico at a full-moon get-together in Whiskey Flats, an area along the Feather River about five miles northeast of Paradise.

“He had come down for a full-moon party,” she said. “He was a recluse back then.

He had already started the tree house. He’d tried living in a cave, but that didn’t work.”

She said their connection was instant.

“He looked at me and I looked at him and he said, ‘Is that really you, Martha?’

He recognized me—if you believe in past lifetimes; if you’re into that kind of thing.

Well, we recognized one another. And we bonded.”

She said he had lived in Southern California where he went through two marriages and two divorces.

“He was very intelligent and had a job with the Braun Chemical Co. After the second divorce he went down to Mexico to clear his head out

decided to go back to school, so he went up to San Jose and got a job up there as a foreman in the Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale. It was right at the chip boom and he said to me, ‘Martha, I feel like I was getting too good and I didn’t want to earn a lot of money and do that path.’”

By then, she said, she was tired of men, even at that young of an age, but she was impressed with his maturity. She and Lou started seeing each other at the house on Salem Street.

“It was perfect,” she continued. “He and I understood each other. As far as legal marriage, he asked me about that and since he had gone through the wringer and I said, ‘Look, I am just going to marry you spiritually.’”

That would come back to haunt her 42 years later. She does not receive Lou’s social-security benefits because, like most states, California does not recognize common-law marriage.

“That’s not panning out so well in these times,” she said. “But I’ve got other work I’m going to be doing if I’m going to remain on the planet.”

Over the years, she said, they each did odd jobs for income; she worked for Continental Nut from time to time and he did some industrial work.

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” she said, “but we didn’t have a lot of expenses.”

Martha recounted the week when she lost

Lou. He went missing, she said, on Monday, Dec. 5, which was a full moon.

“He was supposed to stay,” she said.

“We had this buddy system and it was our protocol to always leave a note if we went somewhere. He would leave one that said, ‘Gone for wood,’ and leave a dog paw print on it. We’d always tell each other.”

She said when she last talked to him Lou was anxious about work that had to be done and the fact he was not feeling well.

On Tuesday she fixed dinner for herself and Lou. He was still gone. She got up the “TREE HOUSE” continued on page 22

Clockwise from left: Martha Rowe in front of the tree house her husband, Lou Sutton, built more than 40 years ago.

The outdoor kitchen of the studio where Martha now lives.

The way down from Doe Mill Road to the canyon floor where Martha still lives.

PHOTOS BY DUGAN GASCOYNE

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“TREE HOUSE” continued from page 21

recalled. “Helicopters, vehicles, bikes. Everything. But no Lou.” Monday morning’s search did not locate him. They looked again on Tuesday. Martha came to town and checked into the Quality Inn. Nothing on Wednesday. Lou’s body was found about noon on Thursday, Dec. 15.

A few weeks after interviewing

Martha within the comfort of the Quality Inn, I made the arduous trek down to the “homestead,” as the sheriff’s office press release had labeled her and Lou’s residence. I had to see this for myself.

I drove up to Forest Ranch with CN&R sales rep Brian Corbit, who had met Lou and Martha through Matt and Debra Lou Luksic, a Forest Ranch couple who live off Doe Mill Road. The trail that now leads to the tree house begins on the Luksics’ property.

Lou and Martha gave up the fivemile hike to Helltown when they bought a car, which happened after Lou began collecting Social Security.

The car is parked in the Luksics’ driveway. Martha now drives it down the hill for supplies every two weeks.

The Luksics have

Below, clockwise from top: Three galvanized tubs serve as the laundry area.

Martha and Lou tapped water from a year-round spring that feeds the stream that runs past their homestead.

The shower structure where cold water is siphoned in directly from the nearby spring.

PHOTOS BY DUGAN GASCOYNE

owned the property 20 years, initially living in a trailer while Matt, who used to own Chico’s Absolute Audio, built the house. The house sits on the edge of the canyon and from the balcony you can see the Thermalito Afterbay and the Feather River.

The Luksics are friendly and welcoming, but enjoy their privacy. Like most who were aware of the elusive couple, Matt Luksic said he didn’t know them well, but guessed that Lou, who was born in 1926, had had his fill of society.

“I think Lou was tired,” he offered. “He lived through two wars, two wives and had kids with each.”

He remembered the first time he saw Lou. “I didn’t know they were there when I bought the property,” he said. “At first I thought, ‘Well, gosh, this guy actually is just trespassing.’

But then I got to know him and I realized he was a good old guy.

He’d paid his dues.”

Almost as soon as we started the trek down, we were met by Martha and her walking stick coming up. It was her day to drive to town for supplies. She greeted us with enthusiasm and offered to turn around and go

back down with us. We said no, not after she had walked this far out, that we could come back another time.

She immediately told us to go ahead and help ourselves. We said goodbye and headed down.

The path to the humble abode is hardly a path at all. The incline is extremely steep and the trail, if you can call it that, doesn’t switch back and forth to help ease the way. It’s knee-straining travel over mosscovered rocks, through red manzanita, past towering oaks and double-trunk bay trees.

At one point, perhaps halfway down, Lou installed a railing of rope and quarter-inch gas pipe, strung together and fastened to the trees. Its flexible bur offers enough support to take the pressure off your knees.

About two miles down and a halfhour later, the ground levels out and you can cross the creek stepping on rocks strategically placed by Lou who knows how long ago.

The first structure we could see was the studio Lou built as a temporary shelter when the tree house was damaged by a falling oak tree on Thanksgiving 2004. Nearby are two tarp-shrouded structures that serve as

Lou, seen here in an undated photo, was a “three-dimensional artist,” said his wife, Martha Rowe.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTHA ROWE

the outhouse and the shower. Water is siphoned from the year-round spring that feeds the creek that runs nearby.

The tree house looks to be cobbled together with sheets of both corrugated plastic and tin, tarps, chicken wire, tree limbs, 2-by-4s, plywood, glass and screen.

Three galvanized metal tubs and a series of clotheslines tied between trees serve as the laundry. There are the tools needed for such living conditions: shovels, axes, hand saws.

We poked around, tried to imagine living here for a week, let alone 42 years, and then headed back up the trail.

During the trip up, which took close to an hour, I had to stop numerous times to catch my breath and give my heart a break from its elevated activity.

I swore I’d never do this again.

Two weeks later I was back with my son, Dugan, dragging him along as the photographer. As we got near Martha’s homestead I began yelling her name.

She finally answered, “Tom is that you?” I was startled at first, before At left: Inside the art studio Lou built as a temporary shelter after a falling tree took out part of the tree house he and his wife had lived in since 1970.

The kitchen stove located on the second floor of the tree house.

remembering she had invited me back two weeks prior and doesn’t get many guests. She hugged us both.

“Boy, I’m really glad somebody came,” she said. “I really thank you for coming all this way. I do like company. And I do miss the company Lou gave me.”

Martha was hospitable, offering us glasses of Tang and then giving the tour, beginning with the first floor of the tree house, which had a very lowhanging ceiling.

“This used to be my room for years. It had a mattress and now it is storage. We were always glad we were off the ground because of animals.”

She said she and Lou had been working for some time to repair damage from the Thanksgiving tree fall seven years earlier.

“I’m still working on it and I just got a clue from Lou to use that window over in the studio and put it over here. I’ll work that one out later. So, Lou’s been guiding me all along.”

Then she showed us the evidence of claw marks where bears had climbed wooden steps, entered the third floor and ransacked the place.

“Isn’t that a trip?” she said. “I think the mother came in and threw stuff out the window to the cubs. I imagine the

cubs were out there catching it— peanut butter, coffee and rum. Lou and I drank rum. It was our medicine.”

She was quiet and reflective for a moment and then came back to the present.

“What a mess,” she said, recalling the bear story.

She pointed to a shelf that looked a bit crooked.

“This board is connected to this tree, which is growing and that’s why this is all askew,” she said. “There are certain dynamics when you are living in a tree.”

In the last years, the third floor was Lou’s space, she said. There’s a small wooden chair by a window that offers a spectacular view of the canyon walls and top to the east.

“That’s what Lou saw and that’s where he is,” she said. “In the old days we lived up here, this was a family room. Lou slept downstairs and I slept upstairs ’cause we just kicked each other, we just slept better alone! It was just that simple.”

She said she noticed Lou’s health had started to decline soon after he turned 85 Oct. 13.

“We were redoing the roof but getting the supplies in was hard. He wasn’t carrying as much at the end. He went down fast. His legs were thin.”

It was getting time to make the trek back up the trail to the canyon top, and we reluctantly said we had to go. She gave us walking sticks.

“This is my staff so leave it up at the head of the trail there. I’ve got an extra one. I’ve been making them because people need a stick to get up that hill.”

She stopped and looked around.

“This is God’s space in my mind,” she said. Ω

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She went back out and called to Lou. It was getting dark and she told him she’d be back at first daylight.

She made up a rescue pack with food, medicine, water and Lou’s heavy coat, which he had left in the tree house.

She awoke early on Friday morning, grabbed the rescue pack and headed back up the trail.

“I get up to where I last heard him and he calls out of the woods and says, ‘I can’t see.’That’s the tragedy. That part. That was really the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my life.”

She said she tried to cut through the thick brush without luck.

“I told him to go back down towards the water. I figure if he’s blind he can go downhill. But you get in those ravines. This is where I made my choice of rescue rather than going to the authorities. The last words I hear Lou saying is, ‘Maybe this will work.’ That was so Lou. But he’s in a place that is all overgrown.

The deer can’t even get through.”

The next morning, Sunday, she hiked up to a neighbor’s house to call the authorities.

“The search team arrived and they came up with everything,” she

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next morning to fix some damage done by a bear. Still no Lou. She told herself that maybe he had gone up to visit the neighbors.

“I calmed myself down. I was working both days on food and shelter. Something we had to with the cold coming and the bear damage.”

On Wednesday she finished the house cleaning and repairs and got ready to head to town.

“I get up early with plans of asking if anyone on the top of the Buttes or in town had seen Lou. I didn’t know he was in the woods until Thursday when I walked out to go into town that morning and I heard him call, ‘Martha.’

“So I wandered around like a little duck in a circle for about an hour and I told him, ‘Go home.’And I kept saying that. ‘Go home.’ He knew that canyon like the back of his hand. I said, ‘I’ve got to go get the mail and I’ll be right back. The bills are coming in.’ I said, ‘I’m not staying long.’

“I hit Winco and went right back up the hill, jamming up Highway 32 at 70 miles per hour. I get home and put boots on and run over [to Lou’s studio] to give him a beer and fix a good meal. No Lou. I panic.”

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Martha near the top of the two-mile trail as she heads to her car to make a trip to town for two-weeks’ worth of supplies.

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“TREE HOUSE” continued from page 21

recalled. “Helicopters, vehicles, bikes. Everything. But no Lou.” Monday morning’s search did not locate him. They looked again on Tuesday. Martha came to town and checked into the Quality Inn. Nothing on Wednesday. Lou’s body was found about noon on Thursday, Dec. 15.

A few weeks after interviewing

Martha within the comfort of the Quality Inn, I made the arduous trek down to the “homestead,” as the sheriff’s office press release had labeled her and Lou’s residence. I had to see this for myself.

I drove up to Forest Ranch with CN&R sales rep Brian Corbit, who had met Lou and Martha through Matt and Debra Lou Luksic, a Forest Ranch couple who live off Doe Mill Road. The trail that now leads to the tree house begins on the Luksics’ property.

Lou and Martha gave up the fivemile hike to Helltown when they bought a car, which happened after Lou began collecting Social Security.

The car is parked in the Luksics’ driveway. Martha now drives it down the hill for supplies every two weeks.

The Luksics have

Below, clockwise from top: Three galvanized tubs serve as the laundry area.

Martha and Lou tapped water from a year-round spring that feeds the stream that runs past their homestead.

The shower structure where cold water is siphoned in directly from the nearby spring.

PHOTOS BY DUGAN GASCOYNE

owned the property 20 years, initially living in a trailer while Matt, who used to own Chico’s Absolute Audio, built the house. The house sits on the edge of the canyon and from the balcony you can see the Thermalito Afterbay and the Feather River.

The Luksics are friendly and welcoming, but enjoy their privacy. Like most who were aware of the elusive couple, Matt Luksic said he didn’t know them well, but guessed that Lou, who was born in 1926, had had his fill of society.

“I think Lou was tired,” he offered. “He lived through two wars, two wives and had kids with each.”

He remembered the first time he saw Lou. “I didn’t know they were there when I bought the property,” he said. “At first I thought, ‘Well, gosh, this guy actually is just trespassing.’

But then I got to know him and I realized he was a good old guy.

He’d paid his dues.”

Almost as soon as we started the trek down, we were met by Martha and her walking stick coming up. It was her day to drive to town for supplies. She greeted us with enthusiasm and offered to turn around and go

back down with us. We said no, not after she had walked this far out, that we could come back another time.

She immediately told us to go ahead and help ourselves. We said goodbye and headed down.

The path to the humble abode is hardly a path at all. The incline is extremely steep and the trail, if you can call it that, doesn’t switch back and forth to help ease the way. It’s knee-straining travel over mosscovered rocks, through red manzanita, past towering oaks and double-trunk bay trees.

At one point, perhaps halfway down, Lou installed a railing of rope and quarter-inch gas pipe, strung together and fastened to the trees. Its flexible bur offers enough support to take the pressure off your knees.

About two miles down and a halfhour later, the ground levels out and you can cross the creek stepping on rocks strategically placed by Lou who knows how long ago.

The first structure we could see was the studio Lou built as a temporary shelter when the tree house was damaged by a falling oak tree on Thanksgiving 2004. Nearby are two tarp-shrouded structures that serve as

Lou, seen here in an undated photo, was a “three-dimensional artist,” said his wife, Martha Rowe.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTHA ROWE

the outhouse and the shower. Water is siphoned from the year-round spring that feeds the creek that runs nearby.

The tree house looks to be cobbled together with sheets of both corrugated plastic and tin, tarps, chicken wire, tree limbs, 2-by-4s, plywood, glass and screen.

Three galvanized metal tubs and a series of clotheslines tied between trees serve as the laundry. There are the tools needed for such living conditions: shovels, axes, hand saws.

We poked around, tried to imagine living here for a week, let alone 42 years, and then headed back up the trail.

During the trip up, which took close to an hour, I had to stop numerous times to catch my breath and give my heart a break from its elevated activity.

I swore I’d never do this again.

Two weeks later I was back with my son, Dugan, dragging him along as the photographer. As we got near Martha’s homestead I began yelling her name.

She finally answered, “Tom is that you?” I was startled at first, before At left: Inside the art studio Lou built as a temporary shelter after a falling tree took out part of the tree house he and his wife had lived in since 1970.

The kitchen stove located on the second floor of the tree house.

remembering she had invited me back two weeks prior and doesn’t get many guests. She hugged us both.

“Boy, I’m really glad somebody came,” she said. “I really thank you for coming all this way. I do like company. And I do miss the company Lou gave me.”

Martha was hospitable, offering us glasses of Tang and then giving the tour, beginning with the first floor of the tree house, which had a very lowhanging ceiling.

“This used to be my room for years. It had a mattress and now it is storage. We were always glad we were off the ground because of animals.”

She said she and Lou had been working for some time to repair damage from the Thanksgiving tree fall seven years earlier.

“I’m still working on it and I just got a clue from Lou to use that window over in the studio and put it over here. I’ll work that one out later. So, Lou’s been guiding me all along.”

Then she showed us the evidence of claw marks where bears had climbed wooden steps, entered the third floor and ransacked the place.

“Isn’t that a trip?” she said. “I think the mother came in and threw stuff out the window to the cubs. I imagine the

cubs were out there catching it— peanut butter, coffee and rum. Lou and I drank rum. It was our medicine.”

She was quiet and reflective for a moment and then came back to the present.

“What a mess,” she said, recalling the bear story.

She pointed to a shelf that looked a bit crooked.

“This board is connected to this tree, which is growing and that’s why this is all askew,” she said. “There are certain dynamics when you are living in a tree.”

In the last years, the third floor was Lou’s space, she said. There’s a small wooden chair by a window that offers a spectacular view of the canyon walls and top to the east.

“That’s what Lou saw and that’s where he is,” she said. “In the old days we lived up here, this was a family room. Lou slept downstairs and I slept upstairs ’cause we just kicked each other, we just slept better alone! It was just that simple.”

She said she noticed Lou’s health had started to decline soon after he turned 85 Oct. 13.

“We were redoing the roof but getting the supplies in was hard. He wasn’t carrying as much at the end. He went down fast. His legs were thin.”

It was getting time to make the trek back up the trail to the canyon top, and we reluctantly said we had to go. She gave us walking sticks.

“This is my staff so leave it up at the head of the trail there. I’ve got an extra one. I’ve been making them because people need a stick to get up that hill.”

She stopped and looked around.

“This is God’s space in my mind,” she said. Ω

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She went back out and called to Lou. It was getting dark and she told him she’d be back at first daylight.

She made up a rescue pack with food, medicine, water and Lou’s heavy coat, which he had left in the tree house.

She awoke early on Friday morning, grabbed the rescue pack and headed back up the trail.

“I get up to where I last heard him and he calls out of the woods and says, ‘I can’t see.’That’s the tragedy. That part. That was really the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my life.”

She said she tried to cut through the thick brush without luck.

“I told him to go back down towards the water. I figure if he’s blind he can go downhill. But you get in those ravines. This is where I made my choice of rescue rather than going to the authorities. The last words I hear Lou saying is, ‘Maybe this will work.’ That was so Lou. But he’s in a place that is all overgrown.

The deer can’t even get through.”

The next morning, Sunday, she hiked up to a neighbor’s house to call the authorities.

“The search team arrived and they came up with everything,” she

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next morning to fix some damage done by a bear. Still no Lou. She told herself that maybe he had gone up to visit the neighbors.

“I calmed myself down. I was working both days on food and shelter. Something we had to with the cold coming and the bear damage.”

On Wednesday she finished the house cleaning and repairs and got ready to head to town.

“I get up early with plans of asking if anyone on the top of the Buttes or in town had seen Lou. I didn’t know he was in the woods until Thursday when I walked out to go into town that morning and I heard him call, ‘Martha.’

“So I wandered around like a little duck in a circle for about an hour and I told him, ‘Go home.’And I kept saying that. ‘Go home.’ He knew that canyon like the back of his hand. I said, ‘I’ve got to go get the mail and I’ll be right back. The bills are coming in.’ I said, ‘I’m not staying long.’

“I hit Winco and went right back up the hill, jamming up Highway 32 at 70 miles per hour. I get home and put boots on and run over [to Lou’s studio] to give him a beer and fix a good meal. No Lou. I panic.”

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Martha near the top of the two-mile trail as she heads to her car to make a trip to town for two-weeks’ worth of supplies.

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Arts & Culture Whoa Nellie!

Multitalented Nellie McKay brings her band and offbeat musical to Laxson Auditorium

Part cabaret and part pop star, Nellie McKay has performed everywhere from the soundtracks of movies to the stages of Broadway.

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Imusician and writer, she has had the opportunity to work alongside—and learn from—such illustrious n Nellie McKay’s career as an actress,

artists as Cyndi Lauper, David Byrne and Hilary Swank. But the lessons she remembers best come from more surprisby ing sources.

Ken Smith “Ossie Davis, who was a great kenswagger@ hero of mine, came and talked to gmail.com our high school,” she recalled about the late actor during a recent phone interview, conducted as she folded laundry at home in New York. “I played terribly at the assembly, but he was such a sweetPREVIEW: heart, and he told me, ‘Keep makChico ing the music.’”

Performances And another piece of veteran presents Nellie McKay, advice: “Bobcat Goldthwait told I Wanna Live! , me, ‘To thine own self be true,’” Wednesday, she said.

March 7, 7:30 p.m., It’s apparent that McKay—who in Laxson will be performing her original Auditorium.

Tickets: $12-$25 musical I Wanna Live! at Laxson Auditorium Wednesday, March 7— Laxson took both lessons to heart. In less Auditorium than a decade, she has released five Chico State www.chico critically acclaimed albums, starred performances.com alongside Lauper in a Broadway 898-6333 musical, acted in a handful of films and been published in the New York Times. McKay’s musical career, particularly, is notable for remaining true to her own offbeat, artistic vision.

Much of her music, performed primarily on piano and ukulele, is a blend of lounge, swing and jazz coupled with cunning lyricism.

McKay said she was introduced to music playing the recorder in elementary school, and then moved on to piano and saxophone. “When I was doing The Threepenny Opera on Broadway my castmate Jim Dale gave me a ukulele so I would quit bothering 24 CN&R March 1, 2012

him,” she said. “It didn’t work, but I loved the uke.”

A feminist and all-around activist (“Music and humor are two of the greatest ways to make a political point,” she said of her philosophy), McKay has also dedicated her talent to pay tribute to two very different famous women: performer Doris Day on the 2009 album Normal as Blueberry Pie, and murderess Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!, the musical she’s bringing to Chico. Nicknamed “Bloody Babs” by press obsessed with her salacious story, Graham was convicted of murder and executed in the gas chamber in 1953.

“Barbara lived and died in California, so it means a lot for us to come there,” McKay said, noting she was initially drawn to Graham because “there’s a lot of contradictions within her and her life, and she’s was a very complicated person. The story is still relevant today, as far as the death penalty being alive and well.”

The degree of artistic freedom McKay enjoys is hard-won, she confirmed: “It’s always a struggle, the struggle is just something you get used to,” she said.

“But it’s important to be invested in what you do. I’d rather struggle than have no opinion at all.”

McKay’s been fighting the good fight from the get-go. She successfully lobbied Columbia Records to make her 2004 debut Get Away From Me a double album, an unprecedented feat for a female artist.

Now, if she has her druthers, she said she’d like to see I Want to Live! made into a movie. “If anyone is interested and has a lot of money to make it, we’re happy to do a proposal,” she half-joked.

Meanwhile, McKay remains busy. On top of touring the Graham show and in support of her latest album, 2010’s Home Sweet Mobile Home, she also starred in the 2010 indie film Downtown Express and continues to contribute music to soundtracks and other projects. Her secret to remaining so prolific is succinct and surprisingly profound, like the advice she got from Davis and Goldthwait.

“Geez,” she said, “I guess my dog wakes me up every morning, then I just go from there.” Ω

Chico’s annual sustainability conference is a forum to discuss current environmental issues relevant to the community, featuring workshops, lectures and keynote speakers.

Go online for a full schedule. 3/1-3/3. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/ conference.

Music LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO: The intricate melodies and rhythms of South Africa come to Laxson Auditorium with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a Grammy Award-winning a cappella group that shot to worldwide fame after appearing on Paul Simon’s classic album, Graceland. Th, 3/1, 7:30pm. $18-$30. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

Theater HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: A musical biography takes the audience through the life and times of the legendary country-music pioneer Hank Williams. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 3/10. $10-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: The long-running off-Broadway musical explores all facets of relationships, from first dates to

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marriage and in-laws to newborns. Final show at Cabaret’s current location. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 3/17. Opens 3/1. $16-$20. Chico Cabaret, 2201 Pillsbury Rd., Suite C-1, (530) 895-0245, www.chicocabaret.com.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: The classic romantic comedy and satire of Victorian society by Oscar Wilde. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 3/11. Opens 3/4. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

VATZLAV: Chico States Department of Theatre presents its first show of 2012, a political farce following a shipwrecked slave by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek. In Harlen Adams Theatre. Th-Sa through 3/3, 7:30pm; Su, 3/4, 2pm. $6-$15. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

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Special Events COMEDY NIGHT: Comedians Tyler Boeh and Susan Jones take the Rolling Hills stage. F, 3/2, 7:30pm. $10-$15. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

MYLES WEBER: A comedian out of the Bay Area, Weber has developed a reputation for his unusual observations and ability to work a crowd. Matt Gubser opens. 3/2-3/3, 7 & 8:30pm. $10. The Last Stand, 167 E. Third St., 3541936, www.laststandcomedy.com.

THIS WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE: See Thursday. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico. edu/sustainable future/conference.

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1078 GALLERY: Lentamente Due, local artists’

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interpretations of the North State’s seasonal bounty. 3/1-3/10. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

turing local artists’ interpretations of the North State’s seasonal bounty as well as food tastings by local chefs. Laura Stec, co-author of Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite out of Global Warming will be on hand to sign copies of her book. F, 3/2, 7-10pm. $25. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

ANGELOS CUCINA TRINACRIA: Sal Casa Gallery, some of Sal Casa’s early work depicting classic Sicilian culture. Ongoing. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Augie Velasquez & Darren

Theater

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HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: See Thursday.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Tonight, March 1 Laxson Auditorium

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: See Thursday. Chico Cabaret, 2201 Pillsbury Rd., Suite C-1, (530) 895-0245, www.chicocabaret.com.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

SCHEHERAZADE: Comedy, revenge, magic and mystery weave together in this tale adapted from the stories of The Arabian Nights. F, Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 3/11. $7-$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VATZLAV: See Thursday. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostate boxoffice.com.

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Special Events BIDWELL CLASSIC: The Chico Running Club hosts the annual Bidwell Classic, which includes a 5K fun run/walk and a half-marathon relay race starting at One Mile Recreation Area. Go online for more information. Sa, 3/3, 8:30am.

Bidwell Park; Bidwell Park; www.chicorunning club.org/bidwell classic.html.

MYLES WEBER: See Friday. The Last Stand, 167 E. Third St., 3541936, www.laststandcomedy.com.

STILL STANDISH: An evening of comedy— intended for mature audiences—with comedians Aaron Standish and Liz Merry and musical accompaniment by Roland Allen. Sa, 3/3, 8pm. $10-$12. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

THIS WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE: See Thursday. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/sustainable future/conference.

Music KRUSCHKE PIANO COMPETITION: Watch high

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HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: See Thursday.

J BOOG: With a mixture of island music and

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: See Thursday. Chico Cabaret, 2201 Pillsbury Rd., Suite C-1, (530) 895-0245, www.chico cabaret.com.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

SCHEHERAZADE: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VATZLAV: See Thursday. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostatebox office.com.

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Special Events GREEN FIRE: The Chico premier of Green Fire, a documentary chronicling the life and times of Aldo Leopold, the legendary conservationist who authored the first textbook on wildlife ecology. Proceeds benefit Up the Road, a nonprofit environmental education media project.

Su, 3/4, 6:30pm. $10. Pageant Theatre; 351 East Sixth St.; (530) 343-0663; www.pageant chico.com.

TOUR DE ED: A 20-mile cycle ride from downtown Chico to Durham to raise funds for the Chico Cyclists Care Fund, a local resource to help cyclists with expanses incurred from bicycle accidents. Registration is available at the Chico City Municipal Center up until the morning of the race. Su, 3/4, 10am-noon. $25. Chico City Municipal Center; 411 Main St. City Hall; 343-9103.

Jamaican reggae, the rising singer of Samoan descent has developed a reputation for soulful performance and smooth groove. Su, 3/4, 8pm. $13. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

KIDS AND CREEKS BENEFIT: Show number two in the Kids and Creeks Benefit Concert Series is a biggie: Red-headed folk-pop singing/songwriting sensation Brett Dennen is a Chico fave and is sure to sell out this acoustic show— Plus, his brother Nathan Dennen opens. Su, 3/4, 6:30pm. $35, available at Three-Sixty Ecotique, Chico Natural Foods and Lyon Books.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 8941978.

KYLE & HIS FINEST: A select group of North State Symphony musicians will be led by conductor Kyle Wiley Pickett through Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and other classic works. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Su, 3/4, 2pm. $6-$20. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostate boxoffice.com.

Theater THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater com pany.com.

SCHEHERAZADE: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

VATZLAV: See Thursday. Chico State, 400 W. First

Poetry/Literature LENTAMENTE MATINEE: Prose and poetry readings, as part of 1078’s Lentamente Due Festivities. Su, 3/4, 2-4pm. $3 donation. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

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BOHO: Pantheon Dark & Bright, new sculptures by Goat on display at Boho in the Garden Walk Mall. Through 3/21. 225 Main St. D, (530) 895-3282.

CHICO ART CENTER: Chico Arts Center

Members Show, an exhibition of works by Chico Art Center Members. Through 3/24.

450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Joel Collier

Photography, a display of Joel Collier’s photography on all three floors of the City Municipal Center building. Through 7/13. 411 Main St. City Hall, (530) 896-7200.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Dragonflies and Damselflies, a photo exhibit by Robert Woodward. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

art exhibit featuring 20 local artists.

Through 3/10. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 3453063.

SATORI COLOR & HAIR DESIGN: Michael

Mulcahy Paintings, bright bold works of pop art, figures, animals, landscapes, and abstracts. Through 3/15. 627 Broadway St. 120.

TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Biennial National

Print Competition Exhibition, works by emerging artists past their academic careers who are pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking, also on display at the University Art Gallery. Through 3/4. 400 W First St. Meriam Library breezeway, CSU, Chico.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Biennial National

Print Competition Exhibition, works by emerging artists past their academic careers who are pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking, also on display at the Turner Print Museum. Through 3/4. 400 W First St. Taylor Hall, CSU, Chico.

Call for Artists GROWING HEALTHY CHILDREN WALK & RUN ART CONTEST: A call for artists aged 5-18. All entries must be a picture or symbol that represents physical activity, nutrition and healthy living. Through 3/16. OPT for Healthy Living, 1311 Mangrove Ave. B 3rd Ave and Mangrove behind Papa Murphys, 345-2483.

Museums

CHICO PAPER COMPANY: Monuments, works by

BOLTS ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Kitchen

DiGrazia, who manipulates photographs to detach the structure from recognizable surroundings. Through 6/1.California Mountain Series, serigraphs by Jake Early.

Through 4/30, 9:30am-6pm. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.

CHICO MUSEUM: The Bicycle:Life on Two

HEALING ART GALLERY: Current exhibits, by Northern California artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Currently featuring watercolors by Amber Palmer.

Ongoing. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

Opposites Attract, Paula Busch’s latest encaustics on display. Tu-Sa, 9am-5pm through 3/30. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 3432930, www.jamessnidlefine arts.com.

Gadgets, a new display featuring kitchen gadgets past and present. M-Sa, 10am3:45pm; Su, 11:45am-3:45pm. $2 adults/kids free. 1650 Broderick St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497, www.boltsantiquetools.com.

Wheels, An exhibition that will explore world of cycling, from the history of the bicycle, the science of staying upright and the benefits of riding. F through 6/22. $2-$3. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Toys: The Inside

Story, an exhibit featuring 12 hands-on stations illustrating the simple mechanisms found in most toys. W-Su, 12-5pm. $3-$5. 625 Esplanade.

St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostate boxoffice.com.

school and college students show off their piano chops as they vie for the $2,000 First Prize, as awarded by Marilyn Ann Kruschke.

Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Sa, 3/3, noon. Fee. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

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Names, stone sculpture by Augie Velasquez and computer-manipulated photographs and paintings by Darren Names. Through 3/16.Go Figure, figure art by in-house guild artists. Through 3/16. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Simple Pleasures,

Sunday, March 4 Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall SEE SUNDAY, MUSIC

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Final run It’s been an 11-year run for Chico’s little theater in the Almond Orchard shopping center, but the upcoming production of the wildly popular off-Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change will be the final regular production at the Chico Cabaret. The fun, award-winning revue will be directed by Sue Ruttenburg and feature a cast of local faves: Allison Rich, Ben Ruttenburg, Kelsi FossumEDITOR’S PICK Trausch and Jarrod Cordle. Despite the fact that Sue and her husband, Phil Ruttenburg, and their devoted staff of volunteers have transformed the unlikely strip-mall site into one of the pillars of the local theater community, ever-increasing rents have made it impossible to stay open.

There will be at least one more event before they move out—a one-night celebration called Phil & Sue’s Excellent Adventure on March 23—and after that, Phil says, “We plan to continue to do shows in the community, and if anyone is interested in getting info about our future, they can go to our website and join our [mailing list] or join us on Facebook.” But for now, you only have three weeks—March 1-17 to join the audience for the last run of the last play at this Chico icon before the stage goes dark.

—JASON CASSIDY March 1, 2012

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LOVE EVERY BODY WEEK: A three-day expo focusing on raising awareness about body issues and eating disorders, including film screenings, lectures, panel discussions and informational opportunities. Go online for a complete schedule. 3/5-3/8. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, http://tinyurl.com/7tqmjwl.

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Special Events COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly comedy night on Wednesdays inside Spirits Lounge at Gold Country Casino. W, 8pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS WEEK: See Monday. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 8986333, http://tinyurl.com/6qeozkm.

LOVE EVERY BODY WEEK: See Monday. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, http://tinyurl.com/7tqmjwl.

SOUTHERN UNIONISTS LECTURE: Chico State history professor Robert Tinkler illustrates how most accounts of the Civil War leaves out an important role played by southern Unionists.

Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. W, 3/7, 7:30pm.

Free. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 8986333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

Theater GOLD NUGGET DAYS MELODRAMA AUDITION:

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meeting. Every other Tu, 9am. Board of Supervisors Chambers, 25 County Center Dr. in Oroville, (530) 538-7631, www.butte county.net.

CHICO ORGANIC GARDENING SERIES: A weekly

tion, originally inspired by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, that has evolved into a montage of the moments, memories and music that embodies the American spirit. M, 3/5, 7:30pm. $25. Oroville State Theatre; 1489 Myers St. Corner of Robinson & Myers in Oroville; (530) 538-2470.

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CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

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(Stop Trafficking Of Persons) hosts a week of human trafficking awareness. For a complete schedule of films, lectures and panel discussions, go online. 3/5-3/9. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, http://tinyurl.com/ 6qeozkm.

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Auditions for the 2012 Gold Nugget Days Melodrama: Perils in Pair O’ Dice or the Search for Billy Rhode will be held. Anyone in their late teens or older is welcome to audition with a short recitation, of a poem or a cappella song.

Call for more information. W, 3/7, 7pm. Gold Nugget Museum; 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise; 872-7424; www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

OFF THE CUFF: Bi-monthly improvisational performances. Every other W, 7:30pm. $5 advance/$8 door. Blue Room Theatre; 139 W First St.; (530) 895-3749; www.blueroom theatre.com.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/ bclibrary.

permaculture presentation with Carla Resnick. This week: Downspout Gardens and Fruit Tree Guilds. M, 6:30-8:30pm through 3/12.

Opens 3/5. $12. Matthews Cafe, 1600 Mangrove Ave. #175, (530) 894-9095.

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, free your feet and your spirit.

Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, 891-6524.

EAT AND PLAY TOGETHER: Families in Oroville are invited to play together with activities like dodge ball, Latin hip-hop, muscle strengthening and swimming. Call ahead to reserve a spot. Sa through 3/31. Opens 3/3. Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, 538-7201, www.orovilleymca.org.

FARMERS MARKET - CHICO STATE: The Organic Vegetable Project’s weekly sale of freshpicked greens of chard, kale, cabbage, flowers, herbs, veggies, farm-fresh eggs and more. Location: Student Learning Center plaza. W, 9am-1pm. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

FARMERS MARKET - FIREHOUSE: Locally grown fruits and vegetables and resources for better health. Th, 11am-3pm through 8/31. El Medio Fire Department, 3515 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 592-0889 ext. Message, www.cChaos.org.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more. Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday Farmers Market, Municipal Parking Lot On Second And Wall Streets, (530) 893-3276.

FRIENDS OF THE HERBARIUM WORKSHOP: Chico State’s Herbarium hosts an array of workshops this spring. This week: Introduction to Lichen Identification with Tom Carlberg. Sa, 3/3, 9am-4pm. $40-$125. University Herbarium, 129 Holt Hall, CSUC.

FUTURE OF MEDICARE FORUM: A panel of experts discusses the current status and impact of health care reform. Tu, 3/6, 6:30pm. Free.

Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, (530) 332-7370.

HEALING THE HEALER: A workshop designed for health professionals and caretakers to identify, prevent, and heal Secondary Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Compassion Fatigue. Sa, 3/3, 8am-4:30pm. $89-$109.

Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, 966-1164.

MUTT STRUT: Each week this spring, Butte Humane Society will host a tour of one of Chico’s beautiful parks. Attendees will get a chance to introduce their canine companions to areas they otherwise might not explore. Go online for scheduling and registration information. Last day for registration is March 2.

Su, 2-3pm through 4/8. Opens 3/4. See listing for details, See Listing, www.butte humane.org.

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Sa, 10am-3pm. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

WILDFLOWER TOURS Saturdays North Table Mountain SEE COMMUNITY

seling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm.

Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.

SEWING, KNITTING & CRAFTS CLASSES FOR KIDS: Classes for kids hosted by Earth Girl Art. Go online for class schedule. Ongoing. Earth Girl Art, 3851 Morrow Ln., (530) 354-2680, www.earthgirlart.com.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 895-4707.

WILDFLOWER TOURS AT NORTH TABLE MOUNTAIN: Department of Fish and Game naturalists will guide groups of 25 through North Table Ecological Reserve, pointing out the area’s unique geology, beautiful vistas and spectacular wildflower blooms along the way. Tours are available every Saturday in March and April.

Go online or call for registration or more information. Sa, 10am & 1pm through 4/28.

Opens 3/3. See listing for details, See Listing, (916) 358-2869, www.dfg.ca.gov/lands/er/ region2/northtable.html.

For Kids ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD DAY: A field day geared toward families with children ages 5 to 11 in which the fascinating world of Archaeology is explored. Sa, 3/3, 11am-3pm. Free. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, CSUC Meriam Library Complex.

CALL FOR YOUTH ART AWARD NOMINATIONS: The City of Chico Arts Commission calls for nominations for awards for artists in grades 7-12, including visual arts, theater, dance, creative writing, new media and music. Each participant must have a sponsor 18 years or older.

Call or go online for more information. Through 3/7. Call or visit website for details, Chico, 8967214, www.ci.chico.ca.us.

LENTAMENTE DUE CHILDRENS ART WORKSHOP: As part of 1078’s Lentamente Due festivities, this workshop will guide children on the basics of color, contrast, perception and creativity as they create images of seasonal foods. The workshop will be followed by a reception for the children’s art at 1:30 p.m., which will be open to the public. Sa, 3/3, 11am-1pm. $5 materials fee. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park web site for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health coun-

MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.

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hat’s not to like about this place?” Colette

said, sliding back into the booth. “Redneck wine glasses, camo aprons on the waitresses, a hunters’wall of fame.”

Once again my dear sister had disengaged me from my comfort zone, and though I was attempting to go with the flow, as she likes to say, I was feeling a bit discombobulated.

“And it’s so cute! The sign on the ladies’room says ‘Does.’”

Earlier, she had suggested we take a drive out into the country. “There should be lots of waterfowl,” she said, “and they’re beautiful at sundown.”

I was quite comfortable on the couch in my Snuggie blanket. The “country” did not sound even remotely attractive. I imagined by the worst: goose poop on my new loafers.

Henri Bourride “I’ll buy you dinner,” she said. hbourride@ “Well …” yahoo.com I pulled on my rubbers, grabbed a coat and followed Colette out to Pierre. Before I knew it, we were in the middle of nowhere—heading, I was pretty sure, in the general direction of San Francisco. I wondered if my friends Stevan and Stefan still lived there.

“Isn’t this gorgeous?” Colette asked. ★★★ 1⁄2 She had me there. More than gorgeous.

Glorious. The sun was dropping between Buckshot Grill the mountains and low clouds, the sky 488 B St., Biggs ablaze in oranges and pinks, reflecting off 868-1500 the water on both sides of the road. “Rice Hours: fields,” she said. “The ducks and geese love Mon.-Fri., it.” A huge flock of geese, brilliant white in 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; the fading sunlight, rose into the dusk.

Sat., 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

“You mentioned dinner?” I said. “I don’t think we’re going to find much out here.”

“Don’t worry. I’ve got a plan. Dinner in Biggs.”

“Biggs?” I said. “What’s a Biggs?”

“A little town down the road.”

“You’re kidding me,” I said. “There’s a little town called ‘Biggs’?” ★★★★★ She smiled. “And I hear there’s a really EPIC good restaurant there.” ★★★★ AUTHORITATIVE Ten minutes later we were pulling into the misnamed town. One main street, ★★★ APPEALING about three blocks of shops, a post office and an old abandoned hotel. “There it is,” ★★ HAS MOMENTS she said. “The Buckshot Grill.” ★ “And look,” she said, parking across FLAWED the street. “The Pheasant Club. Aperitif?”

“Like they’ll know that means,” I said.

“Oh, come on.”

We stepped inside The Pheasant (493 B St.), and the six heads at the bar turned in unison to look at us, then turned quickly back to their drinks. The dozen or so other heads in the room didn’t budge. They were dead. Mounted on the walls. Elk, bison, deer, wild boar.

Stuffed ducks and geese in flight hung from the ceiling over the pool tables.

“I just love these kinds of places,” Colette said. “They’re real.”

We each had a vodka tonic, then headed across the street to the Buckshot Grill.

A dozen or so Formica-top tables are scattered about the well-lit dining room, the décor—surprise!—hunting themed, with more mounted heads and old ads for gear.

Colette ordered the pork ribs, and I had the tri-tip ($10.95 each), which came with cole slaw and chili. Colette said it was the best cole slaw she’d ever had, the dressing with “just the right blend of mayonnaise and bite from the vinegar.” The chili was very good, too, but the entrees, which we divided up, were outstanding, smoked on site and served with delicious homemade barbecue sauce on the side—we agreed that the ribs were just slightly better than the tri-tip. Our wine was served in Mason jars glued to candlestick bases. I had to admit, I was glad she dragged me out of the house.

The Buckshot Grill is run by Biggs cattle ranchers Doug and Kari Wheeler, who use local products whenever possible, including produce and Sierra Nevada beers and Bertagna wines. Specializing in barbecue (beef ribs and chicken in addition to the pork ribs and tri-tip), the restaurant also serves burgers ($4.95$6.95), sandwiches ($3.95-$6.95), salads ($5.95), and soups and chili ($1.75-$4.50).

The breakfast menu includes egg dishes, biscuits and gravy and pancakes.

Before we left, we wandered to the back, looking at the photos of local hunters with their dead animals. Not many vegans in that group. I noticed the bathrooms and remembered the half-hour drive back to Chico. “I’ll be right out,” I said tucking my thumbs into my belt loops and hoistin’ up my trousers.

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Gone in 90 minutes Well-played and visually compelling thriller is ultimately forgettable

Amanda Seyfried is going nowhere.

A Portland diner, waitress Jill (Amanda Seyfried) discovers that her 12-steppin’ sister is suspiciously absent from her bed fter coming home from a graveyard shift at a

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on the eve of a big test. The sister’s boyfriend is clueless and thinks she might have backslid and gone off on by a late-night bender. And when she grabs her Craig well-worn conspiracy-theory portfolio and Blamer drops by the police department, the cops are dismissive, to say the least.

It turns out that only a year before, Jill wandered out of the deep, dark woods all muddy and disheveled, deliriously claiming that she’d been held captive in a dead pit by some barely glimpsed serial killer who has been preying on local girls. Trouble is, all the cops have is Jill’s word on that count. The investigation was inconclusive and the girl has some serious credibility problems, what with an institutional Gone history and a rep around the station house as a Starring Amanda Seyfried. bit of a loose nut.

But gone is gone and Jill grabs a .38 and Directed by Heitor Dhalia. sets off on her own to track down the missing Cinemark 14 sibling. Cue the ticking clock and plenty of red and Feather herrings as the cops try to rein in the off-herRiver Cinemas.

Rated PG-13. meds Nancy Drew waving a gun around town.

Gone isn’t exactly bad, and it’s lovely to look at, what with sweeping camera shots of local scenery and the comfortably ominous pacing that gets Seyfried from Point A to B without too much down time. And the saucereyed Seyfried (Red Riding Hood) brings her Agame to the table and deserves credit for Poor pulling a decent performance out of what is ultimately a very pedestrian script.

But after awhile the parade of suspects starts to get a li’l ludicrous, as damn near every Fair dude she encounters in her investigation has “rapey eyes” (even the cops) and by the time the script throws in the good ol’ flying cat gag, it becomes evident that Gone is nothing more Good than a Lifetime channel potboiler padded out with a multiplex budget. There’s really nothing at work here that ties the film to the real world, Very Good as the cops don’t seem interested in the growing number of missing local girls, and random characters don’t seem overly concerned with just handing over their car keys to strangers.

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of its running time between two alternate theories of what might really be happening, and by the time the movie gets to the big reveal it becomes evident that there’s really nothing up the movie’s sleeve. Which is too bad. It’s a nicely packaged project that is pretty much gone from the memory the minute you step out of the theater. Ω

Just go with it Wanderlust

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

by Rachel Bush New York City might be exciting if

you’re making it, but if you’re struggling to make ends meet, the City That Never Sleeps just makes you tired. Wanderlust’s lead couple, George and Linda (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston), learn this the hard way after finding themselves out of work and having to sell the luxury closet in which they were living (and which they were barely affording anyway).

Forced to mooch off George’s douchey but rich brother, the two reluctantly pack for the trip to his home in Atlanta, making a pit stop at Elysium Bed and Breakfast along the way. The scenic B&B turns out to actually be a hippie commune, where free love, guitar medleys and armpit hair rule the land. Realizing that signing on to this alternative lifestyle might be their best option—and maybe exactly what they need to de-stress—George and Linda give Elysium a trial run.

Watching city slickers adjust to a rural, spiritual environment naturally creates plenty of opportunity for humor. Rudd’s charming neurotic style is a perfect comic contrast to the laid-back bohemians with whom he finds himself surrounded. The eclectic ensemble keeps things pleasantly strange, with Alan Alda playing the loopy co-founder of Elysium, Malin Akerman as the staunch advocate for free love,

and Justin Theroux as some weird hybrid of a hippie and Jesus. The film might rely heavily on old stereotypes of counter culture, but as someone who’s recently been living in Santa Cruz, I can vouch that the depictions still ring true.

The plot loses focus often, and it comes across like a bunch of fun individual scenes stuck together rather

Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Christine G.K. LaPado, Rachel Bush and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week Dr.Seuss’s The Lorax

The classic Dr. Seuss environmental tale about the grumpy tree-huggin Lorax (voiced here by the grumpy Danny DeVito) gets the whole 3-D, computer-animated-feature treatment. Also starring the voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift and Ed Helms. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

than an organized story. And it’s hard to determine the lead characters’ motivations half-way through the film, but that might be because they’re super high on peyote. (Maybe the environment is wearing off on the film a little too much.) But the film isn’t trying to take itself too seriously. It’s two hours of fun fluff, and that’s all it needs to be. So, just go with it, man. Ω

as actual teenaged dudes, rather than brooding male models in high school jackets.

Of course—unlike its used car-priced “found-footage” antecedents—it cost $12 million to make. But all that money doesn’t come into play until the effects-heavy battle royale that serves as a third act. And the battle royale is pretty spiffy. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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The Descendents

During a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative, a Navy SEAL team uncovers an imminent threat that requires them to embark on a new secret operation with global implications. The film stars a real-life group of active-duty Navy SEALS. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

George Clooney plays Matt King, a Hawaiian businessman, soon-to-be-widowed father of two troubled daughters and head of a clan whose roots in Hawaii go back to the 19th century. He’s a mild sort of takecharge guy who’s also a bit of a clueless doofus. Writer-director Alexander Payne puts Clooney/King at the center of things here, but the center in this case is always part of a larger and ever more entangled situation: King’s comatose and dying wife, the sorrows and travails of the two young daughters, the belated discovery of the wife’s infidelity, and the impending sale of virgin wilderness that has belonged to the King clan for more than a century. It’s the stuff of soap opera and tragic melodrama, but Payne and company enliven and complicate all that by taking it in yet another direction—toward the comedy of contemporary middle-class manners. Each of the story’s plot strands involves a test of regions of King’s character that he has heretofore neglected, and the zig-zag path of his quirky integrity is comically crucial but never independent of the tougher issues involved. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Project X

Things get ridiculously and hilariously out of hand when three high-school buddies throw a house party to try and make a name for themselves. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Now playing Act of Valor

The Artist

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

The enchanting novelty of The Artist comes to us on a wave of Oscar awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and more). Its subject may sound recondite—a silent movie, shot in black-and-white, about the silent-movie actors struggling with the transition to talking pictures—but it all works very nicely, both as a comic entertainment and as a frisky homage to old-time moviemaking. The title character is George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a swashbuckling star of silent movies who refuses to make the change to sound. His professional fall from grace is set off against the rise to success of Peppy Miller (a delightful Bérénice Bejos), an ingénue who makes a spectacular debut with Valentin and then goes on to stardom in talking pictures. All of this plays out as comedy bordering on parody, but with far more affection and zest than that might suggest. Filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius deftly manages an unlikely feat—not only playing a corny old story for laughs in a way that is neither condescending nor patronizing, but also re-creating silent movies and their ambience in a particularly lively and engaging form. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

In this sequel our disaffected antihero Johnny Blaze (Cage) brings us up to speed on the backstory over a crudely animated montage. Fortunately, soon enough Blaze’s head explodes into flames and he’s roaring around Eastern Europe as Ghost Rider on his blazin’ motorcycle snapping flamin’ chains around evildoers and making them explode into oily clouds of embers.

There’s also a hot Euro MILF whose boy is the spawn of Satan who the bad guys want to groom into being the Antichrist. I suppose that’s about all of the story you need before it starts getting in the way of the fire. And there’s a lot of CGI fire in this puppy. It’s like an action screensaver for stoners. “Dude!

Fire! Fire! Fire!” Unfortunately, while the action does have the Cheetos-stained fingerprints of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor all over the place (directors of the deliriously twisted Crank and Crank: High Voltage), the craziness you’d expect from those two seems a li’l repressed. While the flaming bits work well enough, there’s really not much else to recommend here to anyone who isn’t sparking up a bowl before going into the theater. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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Chronicle

Teen Andrew (Dane DeHaan) has some issues. He’s bullied at school, his mom is dying slowly and his unemployed old man only comes out of the bottle long enough to slap Andrew around. So Andrew buys a camera to chronicle these abuses but gets distracted when his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and all-around popular dude Steve (Michael B. Jordan) drag him away from a ragin’ rave and pull him down into a rabbit hole that leads to a big, glowing ... um, something. After an electromagnetic pulse of some kind knocks them on their asses, they wake up discovering that they now have nascent super powers. Andrew soon forgets the “with great power comes great responsibility” admonition and starts using his powers to blow shit up. Chronicle is clever, fun, well-paced and the leads come across

Gone

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

Good Deeds

Triple-threat Tyler Perry writes, directs and stars as Wesley Deeds, a wealthy businessman who veers from his doing-what’sexpected-of-him script after falling for the single mother working for the cleaning crew in his office. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

A young man (Josh Hutcherson), his stepdad (The Rock) and his girlfriend (Vanessa Hudgens) take off on a fantastical adventure to a mysterious island of monsters, volcanoes and mountains of gold to find his missing grandfather (Michael Caine). Cinemark 14, Feather

River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

One for the Money

Katherine Heigl plays a bounty hunter who ends up chasing down an old flame (Jason O’Mara) on her first assignment. An adaptation of the first book in Janet Evanovich’s best-selling series of romance/adventure novels centered on the exploits of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Safe House

At least part of the time, Safe House is high-octane action-movie entertainment.

Some of that time and other times as well, it takes on the air of a political thriller while also taking time here and there to pose enigmatic questions about its two central characters. The central premise has a young, untried CIA agent named Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) charged with the desperate task of bringing in Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a notorious rogue agent. That increasingly complicated pairing plays out against the larger backdrop of counterespionage and intra-agency scheming, all ostensibly in the name of national security.

Initially, Frost is the larger-than-life antagonist to Weston’s perhaps life-size protagonist, but the nature of that match-up shifts as events unfold. The plausibility of these shifts (and of Weston’s own character) gets increasingly thin as the twists of plot and character become more frenetic. And the movie itself, after starting out with a grab bag of disparate but intriguing premises, gradually reverts to merely generic moves.

Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The Secret World of Arrietty

“Delightful” doesn’t even begin to describe this newest animated film from Studio Ghibli. Based on Mary Norton’s juvenile fantasy novel The Borrowers, Arrietty’s screenplay was co-written by Japanese animation king Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle). Miyazaki’s sensitive hand is all over this film that tells the story of a 10centimeter-tall “Borrower” girl named Arrietty who lives under the floorboards of the house of a wacky woman named Hara (voiced by Carol Burnett in the U.S. version) with her mother Homily (Amy Poehler) and father Pod (Will Arnett). Things get interesting when a human boy named Shawn comes to stay with Hara and discovers Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler) in the garden. Arrietty is at first reluctant to befriend a “human bean,” as the Borrowers refer to people, as past experience has proven dangerous, even fatal. The colorful, nuanced artwork and animation is stunningly beautiful and delicate, rivaled only by the fairy sequence in Walt Disney’s Fantasia. The film is truly a must-see for viewers of all ages. Cinemark 14. Rated G —C.G.K.L.

This Means War

McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) directs this action/romance about a couple of hottie CIA agents/friends (Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) who, after finding out that they are both dating the same woman (Reese Witherspoon) utilize all their spy talents and resources in a battle for her affection. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

The Vow

After his wife (Rachel McAdams) awakes from coma after a severe auto accident with severe amnesia, a young man (Channing Tatum) tries to win her heart all over again. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Wanderlust

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —R.B.

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2012 CAMMIES nominees The selection committee has spoken. Here are your nominees for the 2012

Chico Area Music Awards (public voting begins March 8): Folk/Acoustic

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Punk

Aubrey Debauchery Kelly Brown & Lisa Marie Kyle Williams Lish Bills MaMuse The Railflowers

Eye-Que The Hooliganz Resonators Twisted Strategies TyBox

In the spirit of the annual all-inclusive CAMMIES punk showcases that the Pyrate Punx have hosted, every local punk band has been nominated this year.

Animal Cruelty Baghdad Batteries Born Into This Brass Hysteria!

Chingado Cody K & The Thundertrain Express Disorderly Event Fight Music Filthy Luke Icko Sicko In Reach Jay Decay Kasm Nothing Left The Oisters Pintlifter The Pushers Ryan Davidson Season of the Witch Severance Package Shivaree The Suspects Zabaleen

Rock/Pop Americana/Country Furlough Fridays The Blue Merles Broken Rodeo Gordy Ohliger, the Banjo-ologist Poa Porch Band Three Fingers Whiskey

Jazz

The 2012 Chico Area Music Awards will be taking over Chico this spring with an insane three-day festival of the best local music:

3 nights, 6 venues, 12 shows—April 12-14.

And we’ll return the following week for the all-day 2012 CAMMIES Awards Show:

April 22, at the Chico Women’s Club

Stay tuned for the full schedule of shows and details on purchasing festival passes.

Find CAMMIES on Facebook and visit us at www.newsreview.com/cammies.

Hard Rock/ Metal

Carey Robinson Trio Chico Jazz Collective Eric Peter Holly Taylor Lew Langworthy

Amarok Armed For Apocalypse Cold Blue Mountain Into the Open Earth Teeph

Blues

Indie/ Experimental

The Amy Celeste Band Big Mo & The Full Moon Band Sapphire Soul Second Hand Smoke Swamp Daddy

Jam/Funk Alli Battaglia & The Musical Brewing Co. Black Fong Gravybrain Jeff Pershing Band Soul Butter Swamp Zen

World/Celtic/ Reggae Boss 501 Cannon & The Lion of Judah Band Los Papi Chulos Pub Scouts Soul Union

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Clouds on Strings Crashed Giraffe La Fin du Monde The Shimmies West by Swan

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Chico State Theatre Department reworks Polish émigré’s twisted political satire for our twisted modern times

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Bankers make billions betting on our debts and then get rewarded further with bonuses and bailouts. Meanby Jason Cassidy while, the rest of jasonc@ us suckers sink newsreview.com beneath the weight of our inflated mortgages and tear one another REVIEW: down from oppoChico State Theatre Department’s site sides as our production of cowardly leaders Vatzlav shows stoke the fires Thurs.-Sat., with sound bites.

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University Box It makes perOffice, 898-6333. fect sense then Harlen Adams that we get someTheatre thing really weird Chico State from the Chico www.schoolof State Theatre theartscsuchico.com Department for its first production of the spring semester. And this modern reworking of the 40-year-old political satire Vatzlav by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek is pretty freakin’ bonkers.

Mrozek wrote his play as an allegory of his own journey as an emigrant in the ’50s and ’60s and the similarities of oppression he saw after leaving communist Eastern Europe for the free-enterprising West. His Vatzlav, a shipwrecked slave trying to take advantage of his newfound free-

dom and a new life on new shores, gets wrapped up in the many levels of corruption as he navigates Western civilization. For the Chico State version, director and theater professor William Johnson has tweaked the details to make Vatzlav “an escaped prisoner of the American Dream” and the shore onto which he washes is a place called Plutocrostan, a representation of the U.S. today, with its imbalance of power and wealth and attendant mess of economic, social and political problems.

I sat in on Monday night’s dress rehearsal as Johnson and his cast and crew did last-minute fine-tunings, and during the course of twoplus hours was treated to an irreverently dark production. A succession of characters (many in creepylooking masks) came and went, including a chorus of occupying clowns, a couple of (literally) blood-sucking capitalists, a young woman-turned-stripper named Justice, a boy in a bear suit, a couple of bickering peasants living under the stage, a wizardly Oedipus and one sodomizing military general.

The raked stage built for the play is impressive, and scenic designer Daniel Shindler and his crew deserve major kudos for setting the scene. The massive wooden structure slopes upstage dramatically and covers nearly the entire Harlen Adams stage, not only creating more room for the actors but also the illusion of expansive depth. The visual worked especially well in the opening scene, when the shipwrecked Vatzlav (Janette Wallen) emerges from the blue waters of two long waves of cloth undulating at the top of the slope.

Wallen did nice frantic work as the scoundrel Vatzlav, talking her character in circles to justify his actions. In fact, the whole young cast should be commended for meeting the farcical challenge. I especially enjoyed Ernie Rosales as Bobbie Bat, the “good little boy” with the squeaky voice who was fun to watch as he set off on his own, turned himself into a bear and took on his blood-sucking parents.

For this sort of Theatre of the Absurd, there needs to be an audience to play off of to get the full measure of how well the farce succeeds, so it was hard to gauge in a mostly empty room during rehearsal.

Even with an audience though, I fear this might be a tough sell.

Mileage may vary with many of the weirder vignettes (a headscratching glimpse into the intimate life of a rich housewife and her pet poodle comes to mind).

And there are plenty more WTF? scenes. Which is the point in this kind of absurd farce. But, unless you’re OK with sitting through a lot of gratuitous zaniness, this might not be your bag.

It was my bag, for the most part, and despite a few too many long-winded moments of circular logic the narrative is pretty simple to figure out. You know fairly quickly that every character is a representation of some facet of 21st century America-gone-wrong, and that Vatzlav is both playing and being corrupted by the system.

From there, it’s just spotting the contemporary parallels beneath the surface of the farce, and joining the fun as the characters of Plutocrostan flaunt their perverseness—just as Ω their real-life counterparts do.

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NIGHTLIFE

THURSDAY 3|01—WEDNESDAY 3|07 OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

THE NOETICS Friday, March 2 Café Coda

OPEN MIKEFULL: Open mic night to benefit Earthdance. Refreshments on sale.

SEE FRIDAY

First and Third Th of every month, 7pm. $1. Paradise Grange Hall; 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.

REGGAE & DANCEHALL NIGHT: Weekly Th,

arrangements, odd time signatures, dissonance, beauty and crushing heaviness. On the bill: La Fin du Monde, The Empty Set and, in their second-to-last Chico show, Birds of Fire. Th, 3/1, 8pm. $5.

Origami Lounge; 7th and Cherry streets.

9pm-1:45am through 3/29. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

RETROTONES: Chico’s go-to band for

classic rock covers. Th, 3/1, 6pm. Free.

LaSalles; 229 Broadway St.; (530) 893-1891.

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO:

1THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery; 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pmin Paradise; (530) 872-1788.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo; 319 Main St.; (530) 892-2473.

LA FIN DU MONDE: An all-local, all-instru-

Highland

MATTEO PLAYS FILM SCORES: Classical

guitarist Matteo plays film scores and light classics. Th, 6pm. Free. Angelos Cucina Trinacria; 407 Walnut St.; (530) 899-9996.

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CANNON & LION OF JUDAH: Down-toEarth roots reggae with Cannon, who has shared the stage with the likes of Jimmy Cliff and The Wailers. F, 3/2, 8pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway St.; (530) 893-1891.

moody angst and high-energy rock. F, 3/2, 7:30pm. $5. Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 892-1790.

folk/Americana. Th, 3/1, 7-9pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, 514-8888.

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The intricate melodies and rhythms of South Africa come to Laxson Auditorium with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a Grammy Awardwinning a cappella group that shot to worldwide fame after appearing on Paul Simon’s classic album, Graceland.

Th, 3/1, 7:30pm. $18-$30. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

FICTION: Local modern soul/funk/Latin/ rock. F, 3/2, 7-9pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, 514-8888.

FOLK DANCE PARTY: A night of live music with the Troika Folk Dance Band and the Karamfil Singers, hosted by the Chico International Folk Dancers. F, 3/2, 7:30pm. $7. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

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

JOHN TRENALONE: Jazz and Broadway standards of the last 100 years. F,

6:30-8:30pm through 4/27. Free.

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LIVE MUSIC SHOWCASE: Rich & Kendall’s weekly music revue. F, 4:30pm. Free.

Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

THE NOETICS: Locals The Noetics play a mix of psychedelic ‘60s Brit-rock blues and with some ‘90s grunge thrown in.

JP Gutierrez, The Mountaineers and Lish Bills open. F, 3/2, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

ONE WEEK OLD: New local rock crew. F, 3/2, 9pm. Free. The End Zone; 250 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 345-7330.

ROSES & GUNS: A Guns N’ Roses tribute band out of the Bay Area in the brewery. F, 3/2, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

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3SATURDAY AFROMASSIVE: A groovy experimental funk band out of Arcata. Chico hip-hop

trio The Resonators open. Sa, 3/3, 10pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING CO: Best known as the band that originally featured Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Co. was on the forefront of the 60s psychedelic movement. In the brewery. Sa, 3/3, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

HELLO MOUNTAIN: Portland moody folkies Hello Mountain are joined by local singer/songwriter Jaquan Sayres opens. Sa, 3/3, 7:30pm. $5. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

EMPTY SET, BIRDS OF FIRE, LA FIN DU MONDE Tonight, March 1 Origami Lounge SEE THURSDAY

KRUSCHKE PIANO COMPETITION: Watch high school and college students show off their piano chops as they vie for the $2,000 First Prize, as awarded by Marilyn Ann Kruschke. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Sa, 3/3, noon. Fee. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

TOM HAITHCOCK & WOUNDED PICKUP: Acoustic songwriter Tom Haithcock is backed by his band, Wounded Pickup.

Solo acoustic musician Chris Schadt opens. Sa, 3/3, 8pm. Free. The DownLo; 319 Main St.; (530) 892-2473.

4SUNDAY BRETT DENNEN: Show number two in the

Kids and Creeks Benefit Concert Series is a biggie: Red-headed folk-pop singing/songwriting sensation Brett Dennen is a Chico fave and is sure to sell out this acoustic show. His brother

NIGHTLIFE Nathan Dennen opens. Su, 3/4, 6:30pm. $35, available at Three-Sixty Ecotique, Chico Natural Foods and Lyon Books.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Tu, 3/6, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafe coda.com.

DINNER & JAZZ SERIES: Thelonious Monk is highlighted in this installment of Cafe Coda’s jazz series. First M of every month, 7-8:30pm. $10. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

J BOOG: With a mixture of island music

and Jamaican reggae, the rising singer of Samoan descent has developed a reputation for soulful performance and smooth groove. Su, 3/4, 8pm. $13.

El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

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JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

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a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 514-8888.

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music with Aaron and friends. Tu, 7-9pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, 5148888.

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THE HOBO NEPHEWS OF UNCLE FRANK: A rootsy folk band out of Minnesota that makes liberal use of ear-worm melodies and twangy guitars. Bran Crown opens. M, 3/5, 8pm. Free.

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KARAOKE 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

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AFTERNOON BLOOM: A folk trio consisting of Chico singer/songwriters Karen Joy Brown and Aaron Lyon, plus Portland transplant Kim Ketner. W, 3/7, 9pm. $3.

LaSalles; 229 Broadway St.; (530) 8931891.

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LOCAL HONEY: A monthly meeting for singer/songwriters hosted by Mandalyn May. First W of every month, 6-8pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 5148888.

OPEN JAM NIGHT: Join the jam. Drum kit, bass rig, guitar amp and PA system are provided, bring your own instruments. All ages until 10. W, 7pm. Free.

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DOWN LO: DJ Ron Dare. Tu, Sa, 9pm. Free.

The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

DUFFYS: DJ Lois & DJ Spenny. W, 10pm. $1.

Duffys Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

FEATHER FALLS: Su, 8pm-midnight. Free.

Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

LASALLES: Th, 10pm: DJ Mac Morris; Fr,

11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party”; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St. (530) 893-1891.

MADISON BEAR: Dancing upstairs and on the patio. W-Sa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party

w/ DJ2K. F, 9pm-2am through 4/6. Free.

Maltese Bar & Taproom, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

MONTGOMERY ST.: W, F Sa, 8pm. Free.

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QUACKERS: F, 9pm. Free. Quackers Lounge, 968 East Ave., (530) 895-3825.

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by Henry Purcell, interwoven with more contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake and Wallumrød herself, who sings them all with crystalline clarity. Seldom has the phrase “bell-like tone” rung more true. This is chamber music enriched and reinvented, and fans of Cohen are going to hear his lyrics in a context that gives them new and expanded life. Music of this kind is sometimes destined to become ambient noise in places that sell scented candles, but Wallumrød and her talented collaborators deserve better than that. This album rewards careful and attentive listening.

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Any local worth their salty roasted almonds knows about the Merry Standish comedy duo. Aaron Standish and Liz Merry have been bringing their lampooning stage show to Duffy’s Tavern forever, and the Red Bluff comedians have announced that they are “back from the dead” and have been traipsing about the North State for the past few weekends with their Still Standish comedy extravaganza. They’ll be stopping at the Aaron, Liz and the brewmaster.

Chico Women’s Club for a big show on Saturday, March 3, at 8 p.m., for which Standish says they’ll be keeping things simple with mostly stand-up and funny songs (also featuring bits and accompaniment by Feather Falls Brewing Co.’s brewmaster Roland Allen), because “keeping it simple will allow us to perform more … and still leave time for naps.”

And, coming March 16-17 to the Last Stand, Chico ex-pat DNA rolls back into town with a crew of fellow Bay Area comedians for four performances by his touring Pawns of Comedy stand-up posse.

All that and we still have the occasional Sketch Valley sketch-comedy shows (next ones: March 30-31) and Bustolini’s comedy nights (March 23—and they are still looking for amateurs to fill out bill!) at the Blue Room Theatre; monthly comedy Fridays at Rolling Hills Casino in Corning (March 2); and weekly comedy nights at Gold Country Casino in Oroville (Wednesdays, 8 p.m.).

Laugh it up, my friends. These are funny days we’re living in.

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP SHAWNTEL This Wednesday, March 8, at Lyon Books, local funeral director and former contestant on the realityTV show The Bachelor Shawntel Newton will be on hand for a book signing of her recently released Final Rose. The book is a behind-thescenes look at both her experiences on The Bachelor and life working at her family’s Newton-Bracewell funeral home in Chico.

EMPIRE BUILDING Speaking of locals writing

words, a new locally produced magazine just published its first issue. Empirical is “a literary and current-affairs magazine” that will be a “forum for discourse on contemporary issues.” Empirical isn’t officially launching until mid-May, but you can go to www.empiricalmagazine.com and purchase a copy of the first issue (or a one-year subscription) of this magazine put out by locals—Publisher/Editorin-Chief Tara Grover Smith and Managing Editor Olav Bryant Smith.

RIP PAUL Over the weekend I received the profoundly sad news that local musician Paul Harper had died on Saturday, Feb. 25. He was 27.

The Butte County Coroner’s Office said that results of an autopsy won’t be known for six to eight weeks.

I first was introduced to Harper when he was playing in nowdefunct Redding band History Invades. They were all a bunch of kids, but their highenergy hectic/noisy sound was way ahead of its time and would blow much of today’s lauded indie fare out of its hipster pants.

But I didn’t properly meet him until a couple years ago, after he’d moved to Chico and started his lush-and-noisy shoegazer crew Soft Crest. He was a very sweet and very talented guy, and it’s going to be rough for his family, friends and those of us in the local music community to come to terms with losing someone so young.

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$173,000

6/ 4

2016

1456 Saratoga Dr

Chico

$265,000

4/ 3

1881

17 Hemming Ln

Chico

$170,000

3/ 2

1231

2554 Banner Peak Dr

Chico

$260,000

3/ 2.5

1840

720 E Lassen Ave

Chico

$166,000

3/ 1

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(530)899-5360

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 13, 2012 — February 17, 2012.

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

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

67 Jackie Dr

Chico

$162,000

3/ 2

SQ. FT. 1102

6329 Amherst Way

ADDRESS

Magalia

$140,000

3/ 2

SQ. FT. 2891

2625 Lobo Way

Chico

$158,000

3/ 2

1102

14664 Bridgeport Cir

Magalia

$110,000

2/ 2

1204

2619 Burnap Ave

Chico

$155,000

3/ 1

1192

13500 Vista Ridge Rd

Oroville

$175,000

3/ 1.5

1482

3483 Hackamore Ln

Chico

$144,500

3/ 1.5

1332

145 Oro View Dr

Oroville

$158,500

3/ 2

1606

32 Redeemers Loop 9665 Teal Ln 4734 Heidi Way

Chico

$110,000

4/ 2

2188

615 Stringtown Rd

Oroville

$147,000

2/ 2

1512

Durham

$475,000

3/ 2.5

2554

3145 Columbia Ave

Oroville

$135,000

3/ 2

1120

Forest Ranch

$258,000

5/ 2.5

2072

8408 Montna Dr

Paradise

$139,000

3/ 2.5

1605

1775 Blue Heron Ct

Gridley

$165,000

4/ 2

1852

508 Castle Dr

Paradise

$105,000

2/ 2

1478

505 Sage St

Gridley

$135,000

4/ 2

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Wanted for Consignment Yard art, garden tools, patio furniture, sporting goods, commercial equipment, antiques, furniture, bikes, jewelry, costume jewelry, and just about anything that is in good condition and priced to sell at our warehouse consignment store.Stop by 2450 Valine/Meyers between 1-4pm or call John at 894-1628. Near the Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore and Wilbur’s Feed.

GaRaGe sales YARD SALE, March 3, Saturday only. 8am-?

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Quality women’s clothes, sizes 12-26. Reasonable prices.

Other misc. items.

ficTiTiOUs BUsiNess FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PUREHEART ACADEMY LLC at 2961 Hwy 32 #15, Chico, CA 95973.

PUREHEART ACADEMY LLC, 2961 Hwy 32 #15, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JEREMY ROSALES Dated: January 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000158 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as P1 MARKETING CHICO at 3470 Brook Valley Commons, Chico, CA 95928.

JAMES EDWARD GROSS,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as HIP ROOF REAL ESTATE, HIP ROOF REALTY at 1372 E 1st Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

KANDACE ANN CAULFIELDCHESSCHER, 226 Nicalog Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: Kandace Ann Caulfield-Chesscher Dated: February 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000196 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO MOVING SERVICES, DOG GUY JOSH at 1339 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

JOSHUA NICOLAS PITTS, 1339 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOSH PITTS Dated: January 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000145 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PINK EYE STUDIO at 4243 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

EVAN JOSHUA WOOLERY, 4243 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: EVAN WOOLERY Dated: February 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000180 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BALLOU ENTERPRISES at 2389 England St. Chico, CA 95928.

TARA DANIELLE DAVIS, 2389 England St. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TARA DAVIS Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000117 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

BUlleTiN BOaRd Butte County Surplus Sale 14 County Center Dr. Oroville, CA Friday, March 2, 2012 9am-2pm.

Items include: Couches, air purifiers, metal shelf units (some enclosed), bulletin boards, file cabinets, A/V carts, (1) table saw for $200, desks, office chairs, misc office goods and more. Open to the public.

Next sale June 1, 2012

SANDRA MAE GROSS, 3470 Brook Valley Commons, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: SANDRA GROSS Dated: January 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000168 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person is abandoning the use of the fictitious business name DISCOUNT CIGARETTE AND CIGAR MARKET at 1229 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHAMIYA YASIN Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2007-0000340 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DISCOUNT CIGARETTE AND CIGAR MARKET at 1229 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

SAMAHER HADEED, AKRAM HAKIRI, 400 Mission Blvd. #21, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: AKRAM HAKIRI Dated: January 24, 2012

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FBN Number: 2012-0000127 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name XHALE TOBACCO at 337 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

Shamieh Abdel Raouf Yasin, 400 Mission Ranch Blvd. #160, Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHAMIEH YASIN Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2009-0000539 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as XHALE TOBACCO AND GIFTS at 337 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

SAMAHER HADEED, 400 Mission Blvd. #21, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: SAMAHAR HADEED Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000128 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STONER AND ASSOCIATES at 3120 Cohasset Rd. #8, Chico, CA 95973.

JOAN STONER, 81 Chico Canyon Rd. Chico, CA 95928 This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOAN E STONER Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000084 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name VISIONS HAIR AND NAIL DESIGN at 680 Rio Lindo Ave. #10, Chico, CA 95926.

JILL WORSWICK, 1980 Durango Way, Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: JILL S WORSWICK Dated: January 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2008-0001154 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAIL CANDY at 169 Cohasset #6, Chico, CA 95926.

SCOTT C OGBORN, JILL S WORSWICK, 949 Downing Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JILL S WORSWICK Dated: January 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000025 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MANGROVE BOTTLE SHOP at 1350 Mangrove Ave. #160, Chico, CA 95926.

NAIM HABROUN, 433 Windham Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NAIM HABROUN Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000211 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RILEY’S BAR AND GRILL at 702 W 5th St. Chico, CA 95926.

NICK ANDREW, 3557 Bell Estates Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

KEVIN RILEY, 235 Idyllwild Cr. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KEVIN RILEY Dated: January 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000164 Published: February 16,23 March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO PAWS & CLAWS at 264 Autumn Gold Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

GARY THOMAS SWIETANSKI, 264 Autumn Gold Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GARY SWIETANSKI Dated: February 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000217 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOGOS WRITING & EDITING at 1394 Huggins Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

Elliott Andrew Smith Haught, 1394 Huggins Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ELLIOTT HAUGHT Dated: January 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000045 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PUREHEART APPAREL LLC at 2961 Hwy 32, #15, Chico, CA 95973.

PUREHEART APPAREL LLC, 2961 Hwy 32, #15, Chico, CA 959973. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JEREMY ROSALES Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000212 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME -STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name NEW BEGINNINGS HOUSE OF RECOVERY at 647 W 2nd Ave. #1, Chico, CA 95926.

STACY JOHNSON, 2697 White Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

RAFAEL VEGA, 3449 Page St. Redwood City, CA 94063.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: STACY JOHNSON Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-00000016 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LAND IMAGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS at 627 Broadway #220, Chico, CA 95928.

BRIAN FIRTH, 732 Churchill Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: BRIAN FIRTH Dated: January 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000079 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE LAST STAND COMEDY VENUE at 167 E 3rd St. Chico, CA 95928.

KAYLENE ANISSA ROSS, JOHN MORRIS ROSS IV, 2581 California Park Dr. #257, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOHN ROSS Dated: February 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000197 Published: February 16,23 March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL APPLIANCE AND AIR CONDITIONING at 79 Hidden Mine Rd. Oroville, CA 95965.

WILLIAM JAMES KUKRAL, 79 Hidden Mine Rd. Oroville, CA 95965. 79 Hidden Mine Rd. Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: WILLIAM KUKRAL Dated: January 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000066 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PALOOKAVILLE CLOTHING at 857 Lynn Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

JASON POWERS, 857 Lynn Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JASON POWERS Dated: January 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000091 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WRETCHED PRODUCTIONS at 630 W 2nd Ave. #11, Chico, CA 95926.

HEIDI NICOLE MOORE, 630 W 2nd Ave. #11, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: HEIDI MOORE Dated: February 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000179 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MEANT TO BE at 1125 Sheridan Ave. #53, Chico, CA 95926.

LINDSEY HENRICKSON, 1125 Sheridan Ave. #53, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed; Lindsey Henrickson Dated: February 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000186 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as M AND P ENTERPRISES at 15815 Forest Ranch Rd. Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

PEGGY MARTHA HOWELL, 15815 Forest Ranch Rd. Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: PEGGY M HOWELL Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000238 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JACK’S AUTO GLASS at 4331 Hedstrom Way, Chico, CA 95973.

GARY L ELLIS, 920 Skyway Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

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This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GARY ELLIS Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000236 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO IMPORTS, CHICO IMPORTS AUTO SERVICE at 1430 Locust St. Chico, CA 95928.

DAVID STANLEY FELVER, 1430 Locust St. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DAVID S FELVER Dated: January 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000083 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROFESSIONAL GARDEN COMPANY at 1239 Elliott Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

NORMAN TICKNER, 1239 Elliott Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NORMAN TICKNER Dated: February 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000176 Published; February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TACO BELL #27944 at 1930 E 20th St. Chico, CA 95928.

OCAT INC, 801 10th St. 5th Floor, #2, Modesto, CA 95354.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAVID OLSON Dated: February 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000234 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TACO BELL #27946 at 757 East Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

OCAT INC, 801 10th St. 5th Floor, #2, Modesto, CA 95354.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAVID OLSON Dated: February 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000235 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JAMBA JUICE at 201 Broadway St. Chico, cA 95928.

WHIRL PARTNERS LLC, 2000 Alameda De Las Pulgas #250, San Mateo, CA 94403.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: TODD HENDERSON Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000209 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VILLAGE GREEN at 2159 Park Ave. #100, Chico, CA 95928.

PAUL EDWARDS, 6086 Mason Ct. Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: PAUL EDWARDS Dated: February 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000275 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO GUN SAFE at 1351 Mangrove Ave. Suite A, Chico, CA 95926.

MICHAEL GRAY, 328 Southgate Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: MICHAEL GRAY Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000246 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FABULOUS FAITH DESIGNS IMAGE STUDIO at 1035 Village Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

ELIZABETH FAITH ALFANO, 400 Mission Ranch Bl. #76, Chico, CA 95926.; This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ELIZABETH ALFANO Dated: January 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000095 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OLD CROW ESTATE SERVICES at 1916 Laburnum, Chico, CA 95926.

TAMMARA ASKEA, 852 Wisconsin St. Chico, CA 95928.

PAUL SUHY, 1916 Laburnum, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: TAMMARA ASKEA Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000240 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BEAST CLUB ACADEMY at 3821 Hilldale Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

TYREE JONES, 3821 Hilldale Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TYREE JONES Dated: February 15, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000260 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VOODOO TATTOO at 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #12, Oroville, CA 95965.

DEBBY VAKUTA, STEVE VANDERVORT, 77-6581 Sea View Circle 1C, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: STEVE VANDERVORT Dated: February 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000224 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SPA PIERMAN at 2059 Forest ave. #6, Chico, CA 95928.

APRIL R MANN, 2059 Forest Ave. #6, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: APRIL MANN Dated: January 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000162 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO PAINT MART at 255 E 20th St. #150, Chico, CA 95928.

MARTIN AUTO COLOR INC, 7622 Van Nuys Blvd. Van Nuys, CA 91405. This business is

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conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DARYL FIELDER Dated: January 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000043 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTHSTAR ENVIRONMENTAL at 111 Mission Ranch Blvd #100 Chico, CA 95926.

M A P ASSOCIATES INC, 111 Mission Ranch Blvd. #100, Chico, CA 95926.

Signed: MARK ADAMS Dated: February 15, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000263 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIRTHDANCE MIDWIFERY at 1032 Sarah Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

PAULA EMIGH, 1032 Sarah Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: PAULA EMIGH Dated: February 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000313 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PV DEPOT at 567 Morgan Dr. #1, Chico, CA 95973.

TRAILS VENTURES LLC, 567 Morgan Dr. #1, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: DEREK SINE Dated: February 21, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000284 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DEADLIFE MIXED MEDIA GROUP at 14432 Carnegie Rd. Magalia, CA 95954.

EARL HIGGS, 6368 Lincoln Bl. Oroville, cA 95966.

ANTHONY J SORTILLON, 14432 Carnegie Rd. Magalia, CA 95954.

JEDEDIAH THORNBURG, 9148 Skyway, Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: ANTHONY SORTILLON Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000213 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YAGER INDEXING SERVICES at 5 Mione Way, Chico, CA 95926.

ANN M YAGER, 5 Mione Way, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ANN YAGER Dated: February 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000183 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO WEBMASTERS at 1335 Sherman Ave. #5, Chico, CA 95926.

RANDY MICHAEL LEDBETTER, 1335 Sherman Ave. #5, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: RANDY LEDBETTER Dated: February 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000296 Published: March 1,8,15,22,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE DEPOT STEAKHOUSE at 2191 High St. Oroville, CA 95965.

JAMES KELSIE HAWTHORNE, 66 Apache Cir. Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JAMES HAWTHORNE Dated: February 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000298 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MIRACLE AUTO BODY at 2304 Park Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL DEAN MASSEY, 31 Fairway Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: MICHAEL MASSEY Dated: February 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000295 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name MIRACLE AUTO PAINTING AND BODY REPAIR at 2304 Park Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL D MASSEY, 31 Fairway Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: MIKE MASSEY Dated: February 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2010-0000637 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO KIDS ENTERTAINMENT LLC at 728 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95926.

CHICO KIDS ENTERTAINMENT LLC, 728 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: KAYGAN BRITT Dated: February 14, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000256 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VALOR SECURITY SERVICES at 1950 E 20th St. #727, Chico, CA 95928.

MYDATT SERVICES INC, 7135 Charlotte Pike, #100 Nashville, TN 37209 This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: SCOTT EMERSON Dated: February 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000229 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIX MY COMPUTER at 51 Westgrove Ct. Chico, CA 95973.

DOMINIC BATTEZZATO, 51 Westgrove Ct. Chico, CA 95973.

DREW M DYER, 371 Autumn Gold Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed ROBERT BATTEZZATO Dated: February 21, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000282 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE RESISTANCE at 2961 Hwy 32, #45, Chico, CA 95973.

MATTHEW KEVIN COPPENS, 2961 Hwy 32, #45, Chico, CA 95973.

ZAKARY MICHAEL HANNS, 4331 Hedstrom Way Suite A, Chico, CA 95928.

DANIEL THOMAS JACOBONI, 1296 Glenshire Lane, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO WINDOWS at 113 Via De La Cruz Way, Chico, CA 95973.

ROY DANEHY, 113 Via De La Cruz Way, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ROY DANEHY Dated: February 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000323 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELEVATE YOGA at 1015 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

GRETCHEN KLEIN, 1089 E 7th St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GRETCHEN KLEIN Dated: February 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000184 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

NOTICES NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name of the applicant is: JOHN MORRIS ROSS The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 167 E 3rd St. Chico, CA 95928-5403 Type of license applied for: 40 - On-Sale Beer Published: February 23, March 1,8, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: CHRISTINE WILSON, bike boxes, mattress, chair, cart, totes, x-box.

QUENTIN BOWEN, tote, bags, clothes, sml laptop, books, tools, toolbox, sleeping bag, camp grill.

RONALD MULKEY, boat, bath tub, chair, golf clubs, lamp, fishing pole, duffle bags, boxes, clothes, bird cage, stereo.

DONNA DRAEGER, speakers, heater, laptop computer, tote, pictures, tv, cabinet tv stands, shelf clothes, chairs, boxes.

To the highest bidder on: March 10, 2012 Beginning at 12:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 2298 Park Ave. Chico, Ca 95928.

Published: February 23, March 1, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California selfstorage facility act: (B&P code 21770 et.sec.) the undersigned will sell the contents of:

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ANDREW STOFFLET, chair, guitar, clothes.

ELIZABETH SMITH, books, clothes, household items.

DAVID DRAKE, xmas decor, washer/dryer, storage bins,.

MELINDA FLICK, artist supplies, flip top table, easel.

To the Highest Bidder: On March 10, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 3160 Olive Hwy, Oroville, CA 95966 Published: February 23, March 1, 2012

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name of the applicant is: EDWARD JAMES BURNS The applicant listed above is applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 968 East Ave. Suites A&B Chico, CA 95926-1309 Type of license applied for: 47 - On-Sale General Eating Place Published: March 1, 2012

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE In the Estate of: SHARON LEE MONIZ aka SHARON L MONIZ, Decedent.

Case No. PR39963 Please take notice that the Administrator, MARCIA GILMER intends to sell the real property which is the subject of this estate located at 930 North Graves Ave. Chico, California and more particularly described as follows: PARCEL 1 OF PARCEL MAP RECORDED JUNE 4, 1981, IN BOOK 83 OF MAPS AT PAGE 8, OFFICIAL RECORDS OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA UNDER RECORDER’S SERIAL NUMBER 81-18830.

APN: 004-490-066 Offers will be accepted after the date of the first publication of this notice.

The terms of the sale are as follows: a. Deposit: Deposit in the amount of $1,000.00 upon presenting an offer. The balance of the funds are to be placed in the escrow account prior to the close of escrow. b. Other terms: Sale is made “as is”, no warranties express or implied.

All sales are subject to court confirmation within 30 days upon acceptance of the offer.

For questions about this property please contact the Administrator, Marcia Gilmer at (530)892-9607.

Signed: MARCIA GILMER Dated: January 28, 2012 Case Number: PR39963 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DENISE E STEELMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TRISTAN JAMES CRUZ Proposed name: TRISTAN LLOYD CRUZ 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 days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the

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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: March 23, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L Mclean Dated: February 3, 2012 Case Number: 155792 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAYSON PAUL LANDES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYSON PAUL LANDES Proposed name: JAYSON PAUL THOMPSON 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 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: March 23, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: February 1, 2012 Case Number: 155793 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHAEL DAVID ROLEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MICHAEL DAVID ROLEN Proposed name: MICHAEL DAVID REYNOLDS 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 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: April 6, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L McLean Dated: February 8, 2012 Case Number: 155826 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Luz Maria Valdes Reynolds filed a petition with this court for

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a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Luz Maria Valdes Reynolds Proposed name: LUZ MARIA REYNOLDS 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 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: April 6, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: February 16, 2012 Case Number: 155885 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner PERNEET KAUR GORDON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: PERNEET KAUR GORDON Proposed name: NEENA ALEISA KAUR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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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 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: April 13, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: February 21, 2012 Case Number: 155981 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

WORKER’S COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure Section 4120) To: Defendant, Illegally Uninsured Employer: Applicant: CURTIS M MCNAMAR Defendants: DENNIS MICHAEL ROBBINS INDIVIDUALLY & DBA ROBBINS PLUMBING 1)A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, has been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above-named applicant(s).

You may seek the advice of an

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attorney in any matter conducted with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that your response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office (see telephone directory).

2)An answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals Board rules: therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly: a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

3)You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy the award in a non-judicial sale, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award.

4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTEREST! Issued by: Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Name and address of Appeals

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Board: 2115 Civic Center Dr. Room 15, Redding, CA 96001 Name and address of Applicants Attorney Harley E Merritt, 1280 E 9th St. Suite D, Chico, CA 95928 NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant, as the person sued under the fictitious name of: ROBBINS PLUMBING Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2012

SUMMONS CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 CHILDS NAME: B.S.S. Case Numbers: J-35950 To: CANDACE C. STRUVE and anyone claiming to be a parent of B.S.S. born on 7/03/11 at Enloe Hospital, Chico, CA. A hearing will be held: Date: March 15, 2012 at 8:30 a.m.

Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of Butte, Juvenile Branch 1 Court Street, Oroville, CA 95965.

At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

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You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attorney for you.

If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final.

The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): At

one point in his book The Divine Comedy, the Italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory on his way to paradise. American poet T.S. Eliot describes the scene: “The people there were inside the flames expurgating their errors and sins. And there was one incident when Dante was talking to an unknown woman in her flame. As she answered Dante’s questions, she had to step out of her flame to talk to him, until at last she was compelled to say to Dante, ‘Would you please hurry up with your questions so I can get on with my burning?’” I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I love the way you’ve been expurgating your own errors and sins lately. Don’t let anything interfere with your brilliant work. Keep burning till you’re done. (Source: “A New Type of Intellectual: Contemplative Withdrawal and Four Quartets,” by Kenneth P. Kramer.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you’ve

been holding yourself back in any way, Taurus, now’s the time to unlock and unleash yourself. If you have been compromising your high standards or selling yourself short, I hope you will give yourself permission to grow bigger and stronger and brighter. If you’ve been hiding your beauty or hedging your bets or rationing your access to the mother lode, you have officially arrived at the perfect moment to stop that nonsense.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the cult

blaxploitation film The Human Tornado, the main character Dolemite brags about his prowess. “I chained down thunder and handcuffed lightning!” he raves. “I used an earthquake to mix my milkshake! I eat an avalanche when I want ice cream! I punched a hurricane and made it a breeze! I swallowed an iceberg and didn’t freeze!” This is the way I want to hear you talk in the coming week, Gemini. Given the current astrological configurations, you have every right to. Furthermore, I think it’ll be healthy for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Astrologer

Antero Alli theorizes that the placement of the sign Cancer in a person’s chart may indicate what he or she tends to whine about. In his own chart, he says, Cancer rules his ninth house, so he whines about obsolete beliefs and bad education and stale dogmas that cause people to shun firsthand experience as a source of authority. I hereby declare these issues to be supremely honorable reasons for you to whine in the coming week. You also have cosmic permission to complain vociferously about the following: injustices perpetrated by smallminded people; short-sighted thinking that ignores the big picture; and greedy selfinterest that disdains the future. On the other hand, you don’t have clearance to whine about crying babies, rude clerks, or traffic jams.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): L.A. Weekly praised

the music of drone-noise band Barn Owl. Its review said that the listening experience is “akin to placing your ear against the Dalai Lama’s stomach and catching the sound of his reincarnation juices flowing.” That sounds a bit like what’s ahead for you in the coming week, Leo: getting the lowdown on the inner workings of a benevolent source … tuning in to the rest of the story that lies behind a seemingly simple, happy tale … gathering up revelations about the subterranean currents that are always going on beneath the surface of the good life. It’s ultimately all positive, although a bit complicated.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming

days, you could do a lot to develop a better relationship with darkness. And no, I don’t mean that you should do bad things and seek out negativity and be fascinated with evil. When I use that word “darkness,” I’m referring to confusing mysteries and your own unconscious patterns and the secrets you hide from yourself. I mean the difficult memories and the parts of the world that seem inhospitable to you and the sweet

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sister Jessica, a

character in Frank Herbert’s Dune books, says, “The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.” I encourage you to use that theory as your operative hypothesis for the foreseeable future. Here are some specific clues about how to proceed: Don’t obsess on your crazy-making dilemma.

Instead, concentrate on skillfully doing the pleasurable activities that you do best. Be resolutely faithful to your higher mission and feed your lust for life. Slowly but surely, I think you’ll find that the frustrating impediment will be drained of at least some of its power to lock up your energy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A few years

ago, the Hong Kong company Life Enhance sold briefs and boxer shorts that were supposedly designed by a master practitioner of feng shui. On the front of every garment was an image of a dragon, which the Chinese have traditionally regarded as a lucky symbol. To have this powerful charm in contact with your intimate places increased your vital force—or so the sales rap said. By my estimates, Scorpio, you’re not going to need a boost like that in the coming weeks. Without any outside aids whatsoever, your lower furnace will be generating intense beams of magical heat. What are you going to do with all that potent mojo? Please don’t use it on trivial matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There are times in your life when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. In my astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter kind of research. If you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: Take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing both the content of what they say and the tone with which they say it. Some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm and insightful.

Welcome all the voices in your head into the spotlight of your alert attention. Ask them to step forward and reveal their agendas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The

Oxford English Dictionary, an authority on the state of the English language, adds an average of two new words every day. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I’d like to see you expand your capacity for self-expression with equal vigor. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for an upgrade in your vocabulary, your clarity, and your communication skills. Here’s one of the OED’s fresh terms, which would be a good addition to your repertoire: “bouncebackability,” the ability to recover from a setback or to rebound from a loss of momentum.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We turn to

Dr. Seuss for help in formulating your horoscope this week. He told a story of dining in a restaurant with his uncle, who was served a popover, which is a puffy muffin that’s hollow on the inside. “To eat these things,” said his uncle, “you must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” Drawing a lesson from these wise words, Dr. Seuss concluded, “As you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.

And be careful what you swallow.” I expect your coming week will be successful, Aquarius, if you apply these principles.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You should be

like a rooster, Pisces: dispensing wake-up calls on a regular basis. You should be nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out of their stupor. What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodle-doo!”? It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!” or “Stop making excuses!” Come up with attention-grabbing exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can possibly ignore or feel defensive about.

For example: “Let’s leap into the vortex and scramble our trances!”?

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Krista Lapp is a striking person, a combination of forces that’s hard to forget. Maybe it’s her bright blonde hair and brown eyes, or the way she carries herself from years of ballet training.

Maybe it’s her warm personality and encouraging smile. Maybe it’s the dozens of brightly colored tattoos … or, the combination of all of the above. Lapp, 31, teaches Balletone and yoga at In Motion Fitness. She moved to Chico 10 years ago to study communications at Chico State, and never left. She met her husband, Dylan Lapp, at Normal Street Bar, and they have a 3-year-old son, Lincoln. Dylan is a tattoo artist who owns Red Room Tattoo at Nord Avenue and First Street in Chico. Krista had just a couple of tattoos before she met him. “They tell the story of my life,” she says of her tattoo collection. In addition to teaching at In Motion, once a week, Krista treks to Orland, where her in-laws live, to teach yoga for the recreation department.

How has ballet been part of your life?

I grew up doing ballet. I practiced a lot. I was always at the studio, and then in different dance companies. I took a few years off, started practicing yoga, and realized it was so key to helping my life in so many ways.

What is Balletone?

It’s a fusion-type fitness class, combining fitness, ballet and yoga. It’s for everyone, including people without dance experience. It’s a great all-over body workout. It’s done to contemporary music. They have Balletone CDs, but I found I got a better response with some-

thing more fresh and fun. I made a playlist, stuff like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Maroon 5.

Describe some of your tattoos, and what they mean to you.

On my left arm, I have a Georgia peach that says “Mom,” for my mother, and because I spent time growing up in Georgia. One is a heart-shaped birdcage with a bird flying out— not that I’m a caged bird, but I like the freedom it represents. I have the pink toe-shoes for my ballet background. For my family, I have a baby with “Lincoln” on it. My husband and I have matching tattoos, with each other’s names and “True Love,” that we got for our anniversary. Then there is a corset, because I like girly things.

What are your future plans?

Definitely to still be teaching yoga and Balletone, and to stay in Chico. We might have another kid in a few months. It’s interesting how life goes. I feel like being in my 30s is good.

It feels right.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Wait in the car Anthony is taking the week off, so we’re rerunning this column from 2009.

In middle age I became aware of a serious condition I’d been suffering all my all my life and about which I knew nothing. I don’t mean to be this way; I just am. It’s probably a hormone.

I was first diagnosed when I was a hack writer at a children’s-book publisher. My boss said she wanted me to write a biography of Magic Johnson, then a very big deal. He was apparently a helluva basketball player, since even I had heard of him, and I had absolutely no interest in his life story, an awkward situation.

So I did some research. There were several biographies of Magic Johnson in print, not a good sign.

The other biography I’d written at that point was the first published of its subject, and I liked that exclusivity. My boss simply wanted to fill a hole in the department’s list. That it would take months to write a wellresearched, readable book didn’t matter. No editor in company history had ever been told “No” by a hack.

Staff writers needn’t be good, but they must be obedient.

My boss was surprised and angry—I don’t think anybody had ever told her “No” about anything. I enlisted the assistance of the employee advocate, but my boss and I weren’t budging and the advocate was

unprepared for total recalcitrance.

I explained my position to the editorial director: 1. There were already more biographies of Magic Johnson than absolutely necessary, including a couple for children; 2. My complete lack of interest in Magic Johnson didn’t make a good book likely; 3. My name would be on the book forever no matter how dull it was.

I concluded by saying that I wished all of us well, even my boss, but I wasn’t gonna be writing a biography of Magic Johnson. Appalled, the editorial director said, “That’s insubordinate.”

I’d never thought of myself as disobedient to authority. Hard to believe, isn’t it? I can’t imagine how I missed that. She suggested that I propose an alternative biography, which frankly had never occurred to me. I blame that on my being an only child. I don’t know jack about compromise. I’m teachable, though, so I picked a hot tennis player acceptable to the parties of the first, second, and third parts.

Years later a friend of mine said to me, “You’re one of those guys who never waits in the car.”

“Huh?” “You know what I’m talking about. When I was young, riding around with my buddies, and the driver would make a stop and say to the rest of us, ‘Wait in the car,’ there was always somebody who didn’t want to wait in the car. You’re that guy.”

He was right. I do not wait in the car.

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