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Pipe down, folks As early as mid-summer the Chico City Council will consider

amending the city’s municipal code as it relates to noise violations. When it does so, we hope the panel will listen to an idea floated this week by Councilman Andy Holcombe.

The veteran city leader has come up with a solution that likely would reduce the burgeoning number of noise complaints reported to the Chico Police Department. Holcombe suggests the police continue to give residents a warning when they are the subject of a complaint. However, instead of issuing a citation only upon a subsequent violation within 72 hours, as the code currently requires, he would make the timeline six months. That way, any household receiving two complaints within half a year would have to pay a fine.

On average, about 2,500 noise complaints are reported to the CPD each year. But the department estimates it can respond to only about half of them. Last year, the department issued 410 written warnings and 407 verbal warnings. It issued just three citations.

The fine for a first-time violation is $259, which is a lot of money these days, especially to college students. However, as the law stands, the people creating the chronic problems simply have to wait out the three-day timeline to avoid sanction. In other words, chronically noisy households could be reported every single weekend without repercussion. The six-month clause would make them think twice about being too loud. Plus, the fines go up for repeated offenses.

At an Internal Affairs Committee meeting, Holcombe’s was the sole vote against a move to amend the current law, but not because it doesn’t need tweaking (see Downstroke, page 8). His only beef is that he thinks residents should be given an opportunity to resolve their offense, and they cannot do that without first receiving a warning. We agree. Ω

A soon-to-have can’t wait Whow we lived in a “classless society,” an idea that confused me entirely. The only understanding of the word

hen I was a kid, one of my teachers explained

“class” I’d learned was what I’d picked up from my mom on those occasions when she pointed out people chewing with their mouths open or some guy who failed to offer his seat to her on a crowded bus. “No class,” she’d mutter, “no class at all.”

To be without class was to be a person without grace or manners. So, when that fifth-grade teacher boasted how lucky Americans were to live in a classless society, I wondered why that should by make us proud. Still, I saw lots evidence Jaime O’Neill of how true it was. The slobs were The author is a everywhere, belching in public, not frequent contributor washing their hands after going to the to the CN&R. His bathroom, all displaying an appalling previous guest comment, “The other lack of class.

Steve Jobs,” Only later did I realize what that appeared in the teacher had been trying to convey. We Feb. 9 issue. weren’t like the Europeans who had strict boundaries separating rich from poor, trapping those in the underclass from ever rising. The USA, she wanted us to believe, was a nation where everyone was able to move fluidly from one status to another, with no ingrained disdain for the poor and no 4 CN&R May 10, 2012

traditional veneration of the rich that made us doff our caps and defer to people who outranked us with sobriquets like “governor” or “your lordship.”

Had I not clarified that concept of classlessness, I would be even more confused than I often am, especially when it comes to the class war started by Obama supporters who are, apparently, motivated solely by envy. People who are less class conscious— like Rush Limbaugh and Mitt Romney— don’t see the chasm the dividers keep telling us is there. It’s not haves and have-nots, but a nation of “haves and soon-to-haves,” say Republican egalitarians like Mitch Daniels and Marco Rubio.

As much as I’d like to believe in a society of “haves and soon-to-haves,” my own experience has not borne out the Republican notion of how the goodies get divided. And when. If my “soon-to-have” status isn’t upgraded pretty soon, I’m afraid I’m going to miss my turn altogether.

Some say that people who raise the issue of inequities in the tax code just wish they could be more like Donald Trump. I have no secret desire to emulate The Donald, though it’s surely true that if we were all like him, we’d be a thoroughly classless bunch, in every sense of the word. Ω

The end of austerity As weak as America’s economy is right now, it’s a pillar of

strength compared to Europe’s, where two years of austerity measures have pushed many countries to the brink of depression. This week voters in France, Greece and even Germany revolted, telling their leaders that right now economic growth is more important than cutting government spending.

The lesson is obvious: Recovery from recession begins with getting the economy moving again, and that requires a solid measure of government spending. Yes, deficit spending is an ongoing problem, but it’s best solved when the economy is growing, not when it’s in the pits.

The Europeans tried austerity, and it didn’t work. The theory that cutting government spending would foster confidence in the private sector and encourage consumers and businesses to spend more turned out to be a fantasy. Instead, the spending cuts just made the recession worse.

Here in California, more than 126,000 government jobs have disappeared since the recession began. That’s a huge loss of personal income, and with it demand for goods and services (not to mention a loss of investment in education and other public services). And California is far from alone. Many states have similarly decimated their work forces.

The ideal solution would have been for the federal government, which can borrow money at extremely low rates, to come to the states’ aid far more than it did. But Republican congressional intransigence made that impossible.

The alternative in California would be to find other sources of revenue, but again Republicans in the Legislature have blocked every effort to do so. The only recourse for those who understand the importance of generating new revenues for investment has been the initiative process. That’s why there could be as many as three tax measures on the November ballot. Ω

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Ironies and honor

This just in: Assemblyman Jim Nielsen is one of the featured speakers at the Brave Heart West Coast Men’s Rally this Saturday, May 12, in Weed. This is a Christian empowerment “man fest” whose sub-theme is “men of honor,” which makes me wonder how Nielsen fits in. He’s built his political life on the lie that he lives in Gerber, when he actually lives in Woodland, outside his district.

What would Jesus say, Jim? When the music ends: Last week the Chico EnterpriseRecord reported that the Pleasant Valley High School marching band may be dissolved because of a lack of music students, now that the junior high schools are no longer teaching music, and that the Chico State Music Department had decided to stop teaching music education.

So this is what we’ve come to—no music in the schools. How can we call ourselves civilized if we don’t teach music? Just wondering.

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

Re “Warriors in cages” (Cover story, by Jaime O’Neill, May 3): I have the utmost respect for Jaime Jara and all he has accomplished. If I had written this article, I would have shown as much respect, if not more, but I would not have disrespected or taken away from his opponent.

I’m a two-time world champion; I’m 9-2 as a pro. I have a boxing, wrestling and weapon-defense background, and now seven years in mixed martial arts, two of them coaching. Most of my career I’ve been helping other fighters.

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What about Bob? Re “Religious eviction?” (Newslines, by Vic Cantu, May 3): I am saddened to hear of the potential eviction of Robert Taylor, lovingly known as Brother Bob. I first met Bob almost 10 years ago, while working at Has Beans Coffee on Fifth and Main. The coffeehouse culture was diverse, with patrons ranging from budding artists, philosophers, musicians and students to espresso aficionados, nine-to-fivers and the occasional riff-raff, and in the midst of it all was the shining light of Brother Bob. I can honestly say Brother Bob is one of the most compassionate and accepting people I have ever known; a Christian in the genuine spirit of the word. This man has dedicated his life to the service of others, opening his heart to anyone and everyone in need. Of course a man with such compassion will attract diverse people, including the most suffering and distraught.

While I recognize Ms. Grossman’s desire to maintain a safe and private apartment complex, it would be a shame to evict Brother Bob without exploring the issue further. If Bob is mindful and respectful of who he allows into his home, and the rules of the property are observed, then why can’t a fair solution be reached?

THEO BADASHI Chico

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My report last week on the May 1 City Council meeting needs updating. As its headline, “Split becomes a chasm,” suggested, the council’s liberal and conservative factions split on several agenda items. But there was a certain irony about a couple of those votes that I didn’t have room to discuss.

One involved the City Council’s decision to participate in the Total Road Improvement Program, a mechanism that could enable the city to borrow the matching funds to nail down two grants valued at $5.6 million. The money would be used to fund two current road projects, including the downtown couplet.

Representatives of the Chico Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Chico Business Association spoke in favor of the program. Councilman Mark Sorensen, a conservative who ordinarily supports business-friendly measures, voted no. (The other conservative council member, Bob Evans, recused himself.)

Sorensen was understandably concerned about taking on debt at a time when city finances were shaky. That notion made the liberal council members nervous as well.

They decided it was worth the risk, however, and voted to take the first step toward borrowing the funds. (Mayor Ann Schwab also recused herself, and Councilwoman Mary Goloff was absent.)

If the city borrows the money, it will pay it back out of gas-tax revenues. Right now that’s no problem, but what if the state commandeers that money, as it did redevelopment funds? It’s a small risk, but it’s real.

Otherwise, this is a good deal. Payback on the loan over 30 years is $14 million, but the city will get $5.6 million from the grants and $6.2 million from the loan and save $2 million over 10 years in maintenance costs for the new roads, a total of $13.8 million—close to a wash.

The other irony (or should I say anomaly?) was that Sorensen and Evans split on whether to support giving the economic-development group Innovate North State free rent in City Hall, with the former concerned about loss of rent revenue and the latter wanting to back a promising business effort. Just goes to show … well, something.

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Tom Gascoyne, May 3): Chico City Council candidate Toby Schindelbeck’s Facebook petition to get Chico Fire Station No. 5 reopened appears to be intentionally written to mislead the public as to who should be blamed for the closure.

Schindelbeck wrongfully states that the Chico City Council closed the fire station. Thank goodness for reporter Tom Gascoyne of the CN&R. If it weren’t for his objective reporting about the temporary closing of Station No. 5, the public might think the current City Council is responsible for the closure. In fact, the City Council had nothing to do with the closing. It was the fire chief himself who chose to close the facility.

Schindelbeck’s petition is additionally inaccurate when he implies that the money saved from the closure is to be spent on public art. In fact, as Mr. Gascoyne points out, there hasn’t been any public art purchased for several years, and when it was purchased it was by a different City Council.

Either Mr. Schindelbeck is purposely trying to mislead Chico voters or he’s just not competent enough to check his facts before he speaks. Either way, he’s certainly not the kind of person I want representing me on the City Council. If I had the choice as to whom I’d vote for Chico City Council, I’d vote for Tom Gascoyne. He gets his facts straight.

KAREN LASLO Chico

“Either Mr. Schindelbeck is purposely trying to mislead Chico voters or he’s just not competent enough to check his facts before he speaks.”

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Now we are squarely in Phase 2: to identify a sustainable solution and create an organizational structure that ensures we never have to come to the brink of the abyss again.

The BMCP is committed to maintaining local control of this precious Chico cultural resource.

We’re doing it with a renewed sense of optimism and appreciation for the good will and support of the community and all parties concerned.

MARIA PHILLIPS BMCP Steering Committee Chico

‘Put another nickel in…

“In the Nickelodeon.” These words from the 1950s tune “Music, Music, Music” seem Mansion updates apropos. What has happened to Re “BMA gets back in action” our sense of values? The demise of (Downstroke, May 3): music curriculum at both the In standing up for the Bidwell Chico Unified schools and Chico Mansion Association, Assemblyman Dan Logue has proved himself State spells trouble.

We used to talk about carryover a true representative of his convalue in planning curriculum. stituents. As mediator between the Music skills and appreciation proBMA and State Parks, he is making vide as much or more of these valsure that the amazing efforts of ues as other disciplines. Consider Chico citizens are not in vain.

Dan Logue is a man of integrity the spin-off of learning fractions through notes, the cognitive skills and action who, along with his in remembering words and sounds, hard-working staff, deserves our the manual dexterity and strength recognition and appreciation. He required in playing instruments, has added his name to the long list the teamwork learned through of those who have fought for Bidgroup performances, the discipline well Mansion over the years. of practice, and, no less important, GLORIA VEITH understanding the role of music in Chico history.

Music education should start at I am happy to report that all is an early age. The loss of elemenwell with the Bidwell Mansion Community Project! As everybody tary music instruction in the Chico schools has had a devastating knows by now, weN raised more E W S & R E V I E W B U S I N E S S U S E O N LY effect, especially at Bidwell Junior than $130,000 during our fundraisDESIGNER ISSUE DATE ACCT. EXEC. High and Pleasant ing campaign. We’ve submitted MM 04.22.10 JLDValley High School. LossREV. of job opportunities our proposed donorFILE agreement NAME to DATE and students has canceled the the State Parks system and expect PYRAMIDFARMS042210R1 NEW music-education program at Chico to hear positive things back from USP (BOLD SELECTION) PRICE / ATMOSPHERE / EXPERT / UNIQUE

State. Music skills, like athletics, are cumulative, requiring much practice.

Maybe music questions should be put on the required state tests to reverse this de-emphasis trend. No culture should be devoid of music.

So, here is my nickel’s worth: “All I want is lovin’ you and music! music! music!”

DICK CORY Chico

Pop-up success On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Northern California Art, I would like to express our gratitude to David Halimi for generously donating the space at 325 Broadway during the month of April for our first Pop-up Museum. Because of this exposure to the community, we were able to introduce more than 3,000 visitors to a small part of the museum’s collection as we search for a permanent space.

In addition, more than 30 new volunteers were recruited, and we received significant donations that will allow us to complete the purchase of our small school bus for the Mobile Museum/Driving Docent program.

Reed Applegate’s endowment of a most significant art collection to the museum is a gift that will greatly benefit Chico and the North State for years to come. See where we’ll pop-up next by following us on www.monca.org and Facebook.

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Honk if you love nature!

Thank you to those who have supported the ongoing habitat restoration efforts at the corner of Ninth and Hazel this spring.

Gratitude goes out to the community volunteers who helped weed and pull garbage out of adjacent Little Chico Creek during cleanup days; Sherwood Montessori and Chico Country Day School students for their efforts to remove invasive plants, plant native species, and document insect species at the site; and, last, to those of you Chicoans who gave all of us all a moral pick-me-up with a courtesy honk and wave as you drove past.

If you haven’t been to Ninth and Hazel before, take a moment to sit on the stump spiral while the hummingbirds go about their business among the sage flowers.

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These core members of the parent empowerment group are taking teachers to task in Biggs.

Shown here, left to right, in front of the Biggs Community Hall: Cheryl Gorden, Pam Sheppard, Shelley Slusser, Mike Felkins, Marlee Mattos and Sandra Jackson.

WATER LAWSUIT IN THE WORKS

AquAlliance, a Chico-based water-protection group, announced that it has filed a lawsuit in Butte County Superior Court against the Butte Water District (BWD) for what it calls the “obfuscation of impacts, both short and long term, from water transfers out of the northern Sacramento Valley to Kern County water districts.”

A press release says BWD wants to ship 16,850 acre-feet of water from the Feather River to the Dudley Ridge Water District, the Kern County Water Agency and the Palmdale Water District. It will do so by holding production on 3,350 acres of rice fields and/or substituting 5,350 acre-feet of groundwater (using wells to irrigate the crops and selling the surface water). AquAlliance says the project is part of a plan to transfer 250,000 acre-feet of water south of the Delta.

The suit says the project’s environmental review violates the California Environmental Quality Act.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

PATS ON THE BACK

The California Newspaper Publishers Association named the Chico News & Review as the firstplace winner for coverage of local government in its 2011 Better Newspaper Contest.

CN&R competes with other weekly newspapers in the largest circulation category, papers with circulation larger than 25,000.

CN&R also picked up two second-place honors, for the annual Bike Issue and also for arts and entertainment coverage.

Meanwhile, the Chico Enterprise-Record earned two second-place awards, for column writing and arts and entertainment coverage, in its category for daily papers with circulations ranging from 15,001 to 35,000. The Orion, Chico State’s student newspaper, took the top award for general excellence in its category for four-year university papers.

DEBATE CONTINUES OVER NOISE LAW

Chico City Councilman Andy Holcombe has an idea that would help the Chico Police Department crack down on violations of the city’s noise ordinance, while also giving residents a chance to comply: He suggests issuing a warning and then citing an offender on any subsequent violation within six months.

That’s in contrast with the current policy of citing residents only if a second violation occurs within 72 hours of a written warning.

Holcombe (pictured) cast the lone dissenting vote on Tuesday (May 8) during an Internal Affairs Committee meeting regarding a proposal to make changes to the city’s noise ordinance, including eliminating the written warning.

The CPD supports the amendment. (Vice Mayor Jim Walker and Councilman Bob Evans OK’d the plan.)

Holcombe said he agreed with other aspects of the proposal, including doing away with the need for a written statement from the complaining party. “But I didn’t like not having a warning at all,” he said by phone Tuesday afternoon.

The issue will go on to the full City Council.

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Big ‘ifs’ in Biggs Its schools are poised for positive change— if two major matters are resolved

ICalif., pop. 1,707. There are only two of them, the K-8 Biggs Elementary School and

t’s not hard to find the schools in Biggs,

Biggs High School, and they’re next door to each other on B Street, the main drag, just three blocks from by Robert Speer downtown. The Biggs Unified School District headquarters is roberts@ located there, as well. newsreview.com That makes it easy for Doug Kaelin to walk between his two offices. A burly man who looks like the football coach he once was, he’s the district superintendent as well as the high-school principal, jobs he’s held for 15 months. After years of turmoil, with superintendents and principals coming and then quickly going, he’s determined to turn around his underperforming district.

“I’m in it for the long haul,” he said during a recent phone interview.

That’s good, because he’s facing some major challenges. Contract negotiations with the teachers’ union have stalled, the teachers are engaged in a work slowdown, and a group of ticked-off parents has emerged to pressure the teachers to stop using their children’s educations as bargaining chips.

Not only that, there’s a $6 million bond measure on the June 5 ballot. If it passes by the required 55 percent vote, it will generate $3.6 million in state matching funds, for a total of almost $10 million. That money will be used to modernize both schools, which are greatly in need of upgrades. If it doesn’t pass, the modernization plans—on which the state spent $600,000 in “critical hardship” funding—will end up gath-

ering dust on a shelf and the matching funds will go to some other district.

Is Kaelin worried that the very public fight between the parent group and the teachers will turn voters off the bond measure? “My hope,” he replied, “is that people are able to separate out their feelings and see the need for the improved school facilities.”

On Monday (May 7), the Biggs/

Richvale Parent Empowerment Group held an informational meeting in the Biggs Community Hall, which is located next door to the Biggs schools compound.

About 60 people listened as Pam Sheppard, Marlee Mattos and Cheryl Gorden, members of the group and parents of children in Biggs schools, gave a PowerPoint presentation outlining their grievances with the Biggs Unified Teachers Association.

Using charts, they showed that API scores had risen only 24 points since 2000, while other schools had improved much more dramatically, by 100 points or more. The high school has the lowest scores in the county, and Biggs Elementary ranks 37th out of 41 schools in the county.

“We cannot allow 10 more years of no growth in API scores,” Sheppard insisted.

On top of that, BUTA teachers were intentionally losing the district tens of

thousands of dollars in Medi-Cal Administrative Activities (MAA) funding by purposely not participating in the program, the women charged.

MAA is a federally funded program that reimburses schools for assistance they provide to Medi-Cal-eligible students. In 2008-09 the district received $104,000 in unrestricted MAA funds.

Since then, though, the teachers have cut back their participation in the voluntary program, in what they admit is a response to the stalled negotiations. In 2010-11 the district received only $27,000.

“We have to stand up and say, ‘No way!’” Sheppard exclaimed. “This directly relates to the quality of education of our kids.”

“The teachers are using tactics that are hurting our children,” Gorden charged. “They don’t seem to have anything on their minds except their COLA raises.”

One chart the parent group did

not show depicts the salaries of Biggs teachers in relation to others in the county. Like the API scores, they are at the bottom, number 20 out of 20, some $5,000 below the next-lowest district, said Lynn DeArmond, BUTA’s chief negotiator.

The teachers haven’t received a costof-living adjustment for more than a decade, he said. The district faced a

budget deficit in 2005-06 and went into receivership with the Butte County Office of Education, but now it has recovered and has a healthy reserve, he said. The district is offering a 1.5 percent COLA with some reduction of health benefits; the union wants 2 percent and no reduction.

That difference would cost only $70,000 a year, DeArmond said, but the district has refused to go there.

As for the parent empowerment group and its list of demands, “that’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard of in public education.”

In an email sent to members of the parents’ group, Tammie Loftin, a thirdgrade teacher and president of the BUTA, lamented that the parents were attacking the teachers. “I am confused and hurt that the teachers have become the brunt of parents’ frustrations with our schools and district.”

Rather than take out their frustrations on the teachers, the parents should hold the administration and school board responsible, she said.

“We are not the enemy!” she writes.

“Please stop attacking us. If you want real change in our schools, we need to work together. If you have a specific problem with a teacher, talk to that teacher. If you want to change a specific program or policy, go to the administration and the board.”

Doug Kaelin was present at the

parents’ meeting Monday evening. When the PowerPoint presentation ended, he addressed the group. His message: We’re making progress.

“I understand your pain,” he said.

“Unfortunately, I can’t do anything about the last 10 years. … Lots of things were not done before.”

He’s initiated a number of programs that should improve test scores, he said, but it’s going to take time.

Echoing Tammie Loftin, he said, “We have to work together. We’ll get nowhere fighting.” He urged the parents to attend school board meetings and hold him and the board responsible.

Later, in the phone interview, he pointed out that, although teacher salaries are low, health benefits are good and the retirement plan is the best in the region. And the district “is probably the only one in Northern California offering a raise this year.” The offer is all the district can afford right now, he said.

“My No. 1 responsibility is to make sure the district is financially stable. I don’t want us to be under county oversight again in a year or two. I’d rather keep everyone employed.”

One can envision a bright future for the Biggs school district—if it reaches agreement with the teachers, and if voters approve the bond measure. But those are big “ifs.” Ω

Herger’s hot seat Congressional candidates square off in public forum

Rep. Wally Herger’s Jan. 10 announcement that he would not seek re-election to Congress, where he’s served since 1978, has resulted in eight candidates filing to run for what is now, following redistricting, the 1st District seat.

Seven of those candidates took part in a question-and-answer forum on Monday (May 7) in the Chico City Council chambers hosted by the League of Women Voters.

Under California’s new “top-two” primary system, the two top vote-getters in the June 5 election, regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.

The chambers were packed, and the candidates offered some political fireworks that elicited cheers, laughs and, at times, groans from the audience.

The candidates (Michael Dacquisto did not attend) fielded questions from local reporters and audience members on topics ranging from the federal crackdown on marijuana dispensaries to how to fix health care.

Candidates had 30 seconds to deliver both their opening statements and answers to questions in a format that tested both policy and patience.

They came out firing. Republican state Sen. Doug LaMalfa touted that he’s the only candidate with an “A-plus rating from the National Rifle Association.” Republican Gary Oxley declared his love for the Constitution while holding up a small replica of the document, a prop that would reappear throughout the night.

But Republican Sam Aanestad, a former state senator from Grass Valley, stole the opening remarks when he stood and said, “A lot has been said about pledges. I’m going to

Candidates for U.S. Congress, District 1, participated in the debate: (left to right) Jim Reed, Sam Aanestad, Gregory Cheadle, Doug LaMalfa, Pete Stiglich and Gary Oxley. Just out of view is candidate Nathan Arrowsmith.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

take a pledge, and I’d like to have you all join me right now.” With that he put his hand over his heart, turned to face the American flag behind him and began reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Patriotic pressure forced almost everyone present to join in, and the mediator’s reluctance to stop the pledge allowed Aanestad’s opening to break the 30-second rule.

A reference to the Farm Bill, which is up for reauthorization this year, had most candidates decrying farm subsidies. The exception was LaMalfa, whose family owns a rice farm in Richvale and has received more than $4 million in federal subsidies over the past 15 years. He said subsidies are necessary to keep America’s farms competitive. Democrat Jim Reed of Fall River Mills noted the Farm Bill was important in that it helped start the food stamp program.

A discussion on possible rural Post Office closures also was largely tame, though Happy Valley Republican Gregory Cheadle got some laughs with the comment, “If every congressperson had to get their check in the mail, there would be a solution overnight.”

SIFT|ER Union blues Employee unions have been in the local news lately: There’s been a picket by Enloe Medical Center nurses (see page 11), a protest by firefighters over the temporary closure of Fire Station 5, and an accusation by the Chico Police Officers Association that the city has shorted officers of overtime pay. While unions may seem as robust as ever, the fact is membership has dropped over the past 30 years. Last year, 11.9 percent of America’s workers, or about 14.8 million, were union. In 1983, the first year such statistics were gathered, 17.7 million or 20 percent of America’s workers were union. Here are some other interesting stats: • Median weekly earnings: Union, $938; Non-union, $729.

• Union membership by state: Lowest: South Carolina (3.4 percent), Georgia (3.9 percent), Arkansas (4.2 percent). Highest: New York (24.1 percent), Alaska (22.1 percent), and Hawaii (21.5 percent).

• The largest numbers of union members live in California (2.4 million) and New York (1.9 million). Texas has about one-fourth as many union members as New York, despite having 2.3 million more wage and salary employees.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

When asked what makes him different from the other candidates, the lone AfricanAmerican candidate looked at his opponents, pointed to his bald head and quipped, “Oh, my hair?”

The question, “Do you believe there’s such a thing as human-caused climate change?” elicited a range of responses.

LaMalfa declared, “I believe in humancaused climate change inside this room with the air conditioner, or inside a packing plant where they’re keeping your vegetables cool, or when you pray for rain.”

Aanestad said America can go it alone in protecting the environment: “I don’t see why we should put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage.”

Reed was the only on who said he believes in climate change: “I started out as an electrical engineer, so that gives me great respect for science and scientists,” he said.

“This is not even a controversial issue anymore. The top scientists have concluded that global warming is man-made.”

The evening’s proceedings remained mostly civil and largely unheated until Nathan Arrowsmith, a Democrat from Red Bluff, responded to a question about energy resources.

Ignoring the timekeeper’s pleas to stop, Arrowsmith gestured and shouted: “The United States is bankrupt! They’ve got to pledge these resources to foreign countries!

That’s why they’re stealing our resources!

And these men right here won’t tell you that, they won’t tell you the truth!”

That debate was followed by one featuring the three candidates running for the 3rd Assembly District seat—incumbent Republican Dan Logue, Tehama County Supervisor and farmer Bob Williams, who is also a Republican, and Democrat Charles Rouse, a retired postal worker.

The answers provided by these three candidates indicated they are much more closely aligned politically than those running for Congress.

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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Chico police slammed over the holiday

weather of the year. The conditions were just right for partying, but officers did not foresee the outright violence they encountered.

“When the weather turns nice, particularly toward the end of the semester, we know we’re going to be busy,” O’Brien said. “Violence during the weekend is not uncommon, but having it occur almost simultaneously to the other events is unusual.”

During the early morning hours of Saturday, May 6, Chico Police Department officers found 23-yearold John Andreazzi bleeding from The events in question began a gunshot wound to his head. shortly before midnight on May 5, Andreazzi, a resident of Rockas officers arrived at the 300 block lin out on the town with a friend, of Ivy Street to find 23-year-old was approached near the corner of Austin Jones of Walnut Creek West Fourth and Cherry streets by lying unconscious in the roadway. a stranger brandishing a handgun, He was the victim of a beating in demanding his wallet and cell which he was allegedly tackled by phone. Andreazzi attempted to 18-year-old Butte College student fend off the man and was shot in Dominique Harris. the ensuing struggle. His attacker Witnesses reported seeing Harfled before police arrived. ris—who was arrested several It had already been an unusualblocks north on Ivy Street—kickly violent Cinco de Mayo for the ing, punching and kneeing Jones as CPD, which responded to an assault and a hit-and-run earlier that he lay unconscious. Harris was evening. So when police received a booked into Butte County Jail on $50,000 bail. fourth call reporting another gunThen, a few hours later (about shot victim on Columbus Avenue not 30 minutes after arriving on the 1:30 a.m. on May 6), 25-year-old Chicoan Nathaniel Barbour scene of the Andreazzi shooting, it allegedly drove away after striking was clear the department was two pedestrians—24-year-old stretched too thin.

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Barbour’s vehicle, and an officer pulled him over at the Circle K gas station on East Avenue. He was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and felony hitand-run.

Following the armed robbery of Andreazzi, officers were alerted to a second shooting on Columbus Avenue just after 3 a.m. In the midst of a large party, a 31-yearold Paradise resident (whose name has been withheld) was shot in the upper stomach. Police believe the shooting was the result of a personal conflict.

“This one was a little different,” O’Brien said. “We believe the victim and suspect knew each other and there were a number of witnesses who know who the suspect is, and we need them to come forward.”

The Paradise man underwent surgery at Enloe Medical Center and was last reported in fair condition.

Though such a night is certainly the exception, Chico State spokesman Joe Wills said he thinks everyone should be wary while out at night, particularly in the southcampus and downtown areas.

“Chico is a safe and friendly place to live, but it is not crimefree,” he said. “Some students have a false sense of safety. Chico is not crime-free—there are people who will take advantage of you.”

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Enloe nurses stage a picket after contract efforts stall Registered nurses at Enloe Medical Center picketed in front of the hospital’s administrative offices on Friday (May 4) to let the public know negotiations on a new labor contract have hit an impasse.

David Welch, an RN and spokesman for the 700 nurses, who are represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, said the existing contract expired in mid-January.

“We’ve had some short-term extensions,” Welch said, “but on April 19 management wasn’t willing to extend it any further, so now there is no contract.”

A mediator has been appointed at the request of the union and will be at the next round of bargaining May 25.

In a press release announcing the picket, Welch made mention of Enloe’s newly remodeled facility. “We will soon be working in an impressive new building,” he said.

“But a building isn’t a hospital. People come to the hospital for the nursing care, not the decor.”

Welch said the two sides have come to terms on a number of issues and are close to settling a few more. The three remaining sticking points are wages, medical coverage for retiring nurses and something called the management-rights clause, which gives administration mandatory power over wages, hours and working conditions.

Welch said the nurses are trying to get yearly wage increases that match the rate of inflation.

Carol Linscheid, Enloe’s vice presi-

dent of human resources, said management is offering a 2 percent per year raise, plus a 3 percent increase on certain hiring anniversaries. The union is asking for a 3.25 percent yearly increase.

Linscheid defended management’s wage offer. She said the Chico State Center for Economic Development did a survey that shows Enloe’s pay is 9 percent higher than the average nurse wage at hospitals in the North State.

“We do want to stay competitive,” she said.

Welch said the union is also trying to establish health care to cover the time between retirement and when Medicare kicks in at age 65.

“What we do is so physically demanding, and doing it until you’re 65 is hard,” he said.

“We are asking them to provide a bridge to Medicare so that a nurse can retire at 62 and not have to wait to the age of 65 to get heath coverage.”

There is an option currently available, Linscheid said, for which the nurses pay full cost.

As for the management-rights clause, Welch said it is much too restrictive as defined in the nurses’ contract.

“The first contract we signed gave management more leeway to make changes unilaterally,” he said. “We’ve tried

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About 150 picketers, including nurses, their families and members of the Chico Unified Teachers Association, carried signs of support for the nurses’ efforts to hammer out a new contract with Enloe Medical Center’s management.

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to change this each time we’ve renegotiated for a new contract.”

He said Enloe’s service employees— nurses’ aides and technicians represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)—“have a nice, functional management-rights clause. We want the same language in ours.”

Linscheid said the language in the SEIU contract, which was signed four years ago, is less than adequate when dealing with the management-rights clause.

“The SEIU contract has a very abbreviated version of what is in the CNA contract,” she said. “It’s overly broad, and that leads to some confusion about what was actually meant.”

She said the nurses’ contract, which was first signed in 2002, is much more specific about management rights and thus less ambiguous.

“There are two different versions because there were two different bargaining groups involved, which meant different folks at the table,” she said.

The SEIU contract defines management rights in 87 words: “With the objective of carrying out the Medical Center’s mission, and in the best interest of the community, the parties to the collective bargaining agreement recognize that management retains the right and obligation to manage the hospital efficiently and to direct its employees subject to applicable State, Federal and local laws, as well as the provisions of this collective bargaining agreement, and its own written policies and procedures.”

The CNA contract defining management rights is 398 words. It begins: “Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement, the Employer retains the sole and exclusive right to exercise all the authority, rights and/or functions of management.”

It ends with the following disclaimer: “The Union shall have recourse to the grievance procedures if it believes that any action taken by the Employer pursuant to this Article is in violation of a specific provision of this Agreement.”

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EARTH WATCH CHICO WILDFLOWER GETS GREENER

While cycling already epitomizes the ecofriendly lifestyle, the 100-mile Chico Wildflower got even greener this year.

According to Waste Management, the company collected 3,300 pounds of single-stream recyclable material and 1,540 pounds of organic food waste following the 2012 cycling tour of Butte County, which involved several thousand riders.

Waste Management reported that 82 percent of the waste generated by the ride was diverted from local landfills, a 7 percent increase over 2011. Vendors chipped in by reducing packaging material and serving food and drink in bulk at rest stops. Both Waste Management and Chico Velo Cycling Club are working toward a zerowaste Wildflower in the future.

“Many thanks to Waste Management for sponsoring the Wildflower and for partnering with us to educate our participants about reducing waste,” said Janine Rood, executive director of Chico Velo. “We look forward to implementing more improvements and seeing even better results over the coming years.”

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Faire play

One of the highlights of the fair was the Procession of the Species.

PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY

Inset: Jon Aull, from the Chico Creek Nature Center, shows kids a gopher snake.

PHOTO BY CLAIRE HUTKINS SEDA

SMOG, SMOG, GO AWAY

Nine of the 10 most ozone-polluted cities in the nation are in California, an American Lung Association report finds.

The top-five worst regions for ozone pollution are Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, VisaliaPorterville, Bakersfield-Delano, Fresno-Madera and Hanford-Corcoran, according to California Healthline. According to the report, 90 percent of Californians live in counties that received a failing grade for ozone or particle pollution, and no city in California was among the 25 cleanest cities in the nation. The report did note some improvement, as Los Angeles recorded the lowest level of smog in the report’s 13-year history.

The report has been issued annually since 2000 and has consistently ranked California’s air among the most polluted in the nation due in part to the warm, dry climate that tends to trap smog in Southern California and the Central Valley.

ACCOLADES FOR OIL PRODUCER

Lucero Olive Oil has earned international recognition on the awards circuit for its 2011 wares.

The Corning-based company’s Arbequina olive oil was one of five Premier Award recipients out of 140 oils judged during the inaugural Extra Virgin Olive Oil competition in Japan in late April, according to a Lucero press release. Olive oil producers from 16 different countries were reviewed by 12 judges from Spain, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Australia, the United States and Japan.

Owner Dewey Lucero (pictured) was on hand in Tokyo to accept the award and three silver medals for the company’s Ascolano, Sevillano and Miller’s Blend oils.

Earlier in April, Lucero earned four gold and four silver medals at the Yolo County Fair, while Ascolano was named “Best in Show” at the California Olive Oil Council’s annual gathering.

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Chico-area children (and adults) learn and play at Butte Environmental Council’s 33rd annual Endangered Species Faire by

Claire Hutkins Seda cmh.seda@yahoo.com

“Fground, maybe [feel] the grass on your legs. … Look up at the tops of the eel yourself sitting on the

trees—what animals could be up there?” asked Susan Tchudi, co-master of ceremonies at the Butte Environmental Council’s 33rd annual Endangered Species Faire on May 5. Tchudi had gathered the hundred or so school-age children who had just participated in the fair’s annual parade— the Procession of the Species—into a massive circle on the sunny meadow and pointed toward the valley oaks surrounding Bidwell Park’s Cedar Grove, where the fair has been held since its inception in 1979.

With a dozen or so young helpers, Tchudi pulled out a huge net in the center of the circle. “We call this connection the ‘web of life,’” said Tchudi. This short lesson on the interconnectedness of species— a new addition to the fair—capped off the popular Procession of the Species, when local schoolchildren waved their handheld papier-mâché puppets in the air and paraded across the grove among dozens of larger-

than-life animal puppets, to the rhythmic beats of skillful surdu (a Brazilian samba drum) drummers and other percussionists.

Local environmental nonprofit Butte Environmental Council (BEC), inventor and coordinator of the fair, paraded its impressive great blue heron puppet, while members from local-food cooperative GRUB flapped the wings of a huge dove, complete with olive branch. Other gigantic animal creations included Shirley the chinook Salmon, a snake, a snail and a praying mantis. More than 300 children had worked in classrooms across Chico to make their own puppets of nearby endangered species, such as the Sierra Nevada red fox and winter-run chinook salmon, as well as not-so-local species (penguins, exotic cats and desert tortoises).

As part of the preparation for the fair, Tchudi—a schoolteacher, puppeteer and longtime local eco-activist—along with her husband and co-master of ceremonies,

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View this story online at www.newsreview.com/ chico to see a gallery of photos from the event.

Go to www.endangeredspeciesfaire.org to learn more about the Endangered Species Faire.

Stephen Tchudi, arranged classroom visits to create the puppets that were the focal point of the procession, said Robyn DiFalco, BEC’s executive director. “[Making] the puppets of species is a great example of how kids are learning,” DiFalco said.

“The fair is a lot of fun and a great way to raise awareness.”

BEC is proud of its history of growing environmentally conscious kids in Chico.

“I heard two young mothers chatting about how they used to come here as kids,” said Mark Stemen, BEC’s board chairman and a Chico State professor. “People come here because it’s part of their lives now.”

“Every opportunity that we as adults have to teach children something real about life, it’s worthwhile,” added Mark Herrera, a member of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission. Many visitors to the fair expressed similar sentiments—that it is a unique opportunity for children to celebrate the Earth and its many inhabitants, and to learn how to protect the ones that are vanishing.

The fair began about an hour before

its kickoff time of 10 a.m., with Kelly Meagher and Michael Cannon at their extremely popular plant-giveaway booth

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featuring hundreds of peppers, tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers and zinnias. Passersby tucked plants into stroller cupholders and ChicoBags, while the more prepared gardeners arranged starts into cardboard boxes to bring to their bicycle trailers.

The starts were all taken within two hours, when the rest of the fair had only just started—34 official booths in all, including government agencies, schools, nonprofits and local environmentalists simply interested in giving to the community. One such environmentalist, Bernadette Brockman Ross, sat behind a mound of day-old bagels donated by Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works, tying strings to them. Interested young children could make a bird feeder from a bagel by spreading peanut butter on it and dipping it in Chico-wild-bird seed mix, a special blend from Northern Star Mills, which sold 50 pounds to Ross at cost. In front of her booth, toddlers and preschoolers played in a kiddie pool full of the bird seed.

Families strolled around to each booth, many of which featured kids’ activities like planting seeds,

coloring or interactive games, all centered around plants, animals and local environmental issues like loss of habitat and farmland. Children got a close-up view of animals like Lucky the Pacific gopher snake and John the desert tortoise, who were brought in by Chico Creek Nature Center’s Jon Aull and Marilyn Gamette of Bidwell Wildlife Rehabilitation.

Musicians kept the atmosphere light. Highlights included kidfriendly tunes from Jim Brobeck and Friends about such topics as people loving money too much and the fun of riding a bike. Hooker Oak K-8 School children offered their own eco-friendly mini-performance, unique in a time when many schools are cutting performing arts, said a school representative. MaMuse members Karisha Longaker and Sarah Nutting joined an eclectic world-mishmash of a band called “Animalitos Fiesta,” with Mike Wofchuck on the Spanish cajón, Karamo Suso on the West African kora, and Gordy Ohliger strumming a banjo.

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“The largest environmental fair in California is free,” said Stemen, and so he and his team at BEC held two new events—one before the fair and one directly after—in hopes that fundraiser proceeds will one day help cover the full costs of the fair. The early-morning firstever Earth Walk, billed as “an educational stroll through Bidwell Park,” led participants to educational stations scattered throughout the park. Young participants could have their walking guide stamped on the back like a passport, and those with a full passport received prizes like Klean Kanteens and modeling clay.

After the fair ended at 4 p.m., BEC hosted an evening barbecue at the grove for donors and volunteers, to which the public could also buy tickets, re-starting a tradition of the post-fair gathering, which occurred in the early days of the event, said Stemen.

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Well, I had a similar experience this past Friday morning at the Safeway on Mangrove Avenue, where I, as a parent aide, was helping students and teachers from Rose Scott Open-Structured School—a small private, nonprofit school with a significant number of autistic, Asperger’s syndrome and ADHD students—sell raffle tickets as part of its fourth annual year-end fundraiser.

Rose Scott School has had permission—given to school director Cindy Carlson by store manager Art Campion—to sell tickets in front of this particular store for the past four years. In fact, Carlson had just gotten the thumbs up from Campion to sell tickets at the Mangrove Safeway the Friday prior to last Friday’s incident, in which a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair in a Safeway uniform identified herself as the assistant manager and told us sternly a number of times we had to leave the premises or we would be photographed and the photos would “be sent to legal.” When we pointed out that Campion had given us permission to be there, she said that he was out of town and reiterated rudely that we needed to leave or we would be photographed (which made some of the students nervous: “I don’t want my picture taken!” said more than one of them). Veterans, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, she added, were allowed to solicit near Safeway’s doors. But not us, a school for developmentally disabled students. Luckily, the owner of Woman Beautiful let us stand in front of her shop and raise much-needed money.

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In its 12th year, the Diversion Excursion “is designed to capture as many goods as we can that [dormitory] residents are not taking with them when they move out of the halls,” wrote Garza. “It was started by an idea from a student who saw a lot of good items going into the Dumpster.”

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HEALTHLINES Dr. Matthew Fine says there are lessons to learn from this region’s poor ranking in a new study.

PESTICIDE, BRAIN ABNORMALITIES LINKED

Children who were exposed in utero to a common insecticide developed post-birth brain abnormalities, according to a recent study.

The study, published online in Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, conducted magneticresonance imaging on the brains of children who were born before the United States limited the use of chlorpyrifos, finding some parts of the brain overgrown and other parts smaller, according to SFGate.com. The agent was banned in residential areas 12 years ago, but mothers can still be exposed to moderate levels in agricultural settings and as residue on produce.

“Prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos is risky for pregnant women and should be avoided,” said Virginia Rauh, the study’s lead author. Rauh urged pregnant women to avoid agricultural areas where pesticide spraying is taking place, wash all fruits and vegetables and seek out organic food sources.

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Sexually transmitted disease tests are now available at home for young women in four Bay Area counties.

As part of a pilot program intended to provide easy, convenient and embarrassment-free access to STD tests, women ages 18 to 30 in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties can send for a free kit that will test for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis, according to SFGate.com. Once 400 women are enrolled, scientists from the nonprofit research group RTI International will determine whether to continue the program.

The kit is available through www.iknowsfbay.org and includes a cotton swab, collection container and instructions to obtain a sample, which will be sent to Johns Hopkins University. The women will receive a text telling them their results are online—if the test is positive, they are given a prescription online to fill at the pharmacy of their preference.

AGING RATE AFFECTED BY VIOLENCE

The DNA of children exposed to violence shows evidence of aging at an advanced rate, a study finds.

Compiled by researchers at Duke University and King’s College London, the report involved 236 child participants born in England and Wales in 1994-95 and concluded 10-year-olds exposed to violence had shorter telomeres—special agemarking sequences at the ends of chromosomes, according to The Associated Press.

When telomeres get too short, the cell stops dividing and eventually dies. Telomere erosion has been linked to age-related disease, cancer and an increased rate of premature death.

The researchers categorized three types of violence exposure: domestic violence between the mother and her partner, frequent bullying, and physical abuse against the child. Children who experience more than one type of violence showed the most accelerated telomere erosion, suggesting traumatic stress and early aging are closely related.

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Bad report card Butte County comes in 44th out of 58 California counties on overall health of its citizens by

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L the great outdoors, Butte County evokes the image of healthfulness. Bicy-

ocated where agriculture meets

cling is a popular sport here. Chico, Oroville and Paradise all feature trails for pedestrians and cyclists, along with spacious parks and up-to-date hospitals. Farmers’ markets abound. Health-food grocers flourish.

Perception and reality don’t always mesh, though. In a study recently released by the University of Wisconsin, Butte County ranked 44th among California’s 58 counties in overall health of its citizens.

North State neighbors didn’t do much better. Out of the 56 counties studied, Tehama ranked 53rd, Yuba 51st and Shasta 43rd. Glenn ranked 27th and Colusa, interestingly, ranked 11th.

The numbers for Butte County are all the more striking when compared to the previous two years: 35th in 2010 and 39th in 2011. Go to www.countyhealthrank ings.org to read the study.

Health professionals are obviously concerned. Dr. Matthew Fine, chief medical officer and director of patient safety at Oroville Hospital, has parsed the numbers carefully, looking for conclusions to draw—without jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions—as well as lessons to learn.

“Scorecards are always interesting to people,” Fine said. “We know the issues

we face here and how we have to deal with them, and how we’re looked at from the outside.”

Fine said the University of Wisconsin study “supported a lot of things I’ve seen over the years”—in particular, smoking and eating habits. The County Health Rankings notably show: • 21 percent of Butte County adults smoke (compared to 14 percent statewide and nationwide); • 25 percent are obese (24 percent statewide, 25 percent nationwide); • 17 percent drink excessively (matching the statewide number but more than double the nationwide rate of 8 percent); • 14 percent are in poor or fair health (19 percent statewide but 10 percent nationwide).

In addition, and perhaps most disturbing, Butte County experienced nearly a third more premature deaths than state and national averages.

Socioeconomics seem to be a driving

factor. The top-ranked healthy counties are also among the most affluent, with Marin ranking No.1 and Santa Clara, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, ranking No.2.

(Colusa is an anomaly, with a high unemployment rate—20.4 percent—but also a large number of affluent farmers, Fine pointed out.)

Butte County has an unemployment rate of 13.9 percent—a full point and a half higher than the state average—and 25 percent of its children living in poverty. PerHEALTHLINES continued on page 18

APPOINTMENTS HEALTHY BODIES The Network for a Healthy California is hosting “Fruit and Veggie Fest 2012” on Friday, May 11, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at FoodMaxx (2051 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway) to encourage a balanced nutritional diet. Activities will include food preparation demonstrations and cookbook and recipe card giveaways. Call 3452483 for more info.

Dentists from Paradise and Oroville Gentle Dentistry practices are giving community members free dental-care services during an event through Dentistry From The Heart on Friday, May 11. Doctors Brent E. Parrott and Jeremy Chatfield will provide the first 100 adults patients with a free extraction, filling or cleaning, at Paradise Gentle Dentistry (5975 Almond St., Paradise). Registration begins at 7 a.m. Visit www.paradisegentle dentistry.com or www.orovillegentledentistry.com for more info.

Thank You Nurses!

When Florence Nightingale, working as an

“There is a connection that nurses make with

the patients get to reap the benefits.

“We are really entwined with each other and

assistant to her father, found her way into an

a patient,” Speer-Smith says. “They know that

English hospital during the Crimean War and to

we care about them, that we’re connected to

in tune with each other’s needs,” Chapman says.

the bedsides of sick and injured patients, she

them, and they trust us when their lives are in our

“And so our goal is to make the hospital the best

didn’t know it then but she was stepping into

hands.”

it can be while working with each other.”

Castillo notes that the nursing staff of Oroville

Nursing is a high-skill, high-responsibility job,

Nightingale would change the direction of

Hospital consists mostly of local residents, which

and patient’s lives are in nurses hands everyday.

modern medicine by opening the doors for

brings a familial sense of teamwork and “that sense

That’s true at every hospital, but as Castillo says,

women to enter the field, to serve as nurses.

of ownership” to the hospital. Her colleague, nurse

“What’s different at Oroville Hospital is there is a

Irene Walters, says the hospital is “a home away from

special bond with the patient. It’s not just on the

remains around the world – and in the halls and

home. A lot of people I work with, our kids grew up

medical side, there is an emotional connection

chambers of Oroville Hospital, a closely knit

together,” she says.

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history as the founder of the nursing profession.

A century and a half later, her legacy

team of nurses works in the same spirit that drove

Nicole Chapman also recognizes this

rare in a hospital.”

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Nightingale.

the healing environment of Oroville

“Nursing is demanding physically and emotionally.”

Hospital. This feeling of camaraderie starts with the staff, she explains, and

“Nursing is demanding physically and emotionally. You can’t do it if you don’t love it,” says Carol Speer-Smith, the Chief Nursing Officer at Oroville Hospital. That’s why she is so proud of the current group of nurses and believes that they are the best that Oroville Hospital has ever had. “We’ve never had such a great combination of expert nurses and new excited nurses. They really love nursing.”

“Nurses are different...they have an inner responsibility and a respectful, caring, and loving attitude toward the patient. And the patient can feel that,” says Bonnie Castillo, the nurse/manager of the extended care unit (ECU).

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haps reflecting this demographic, 55 percent of the county’s restaurants are fast-food establishments, 6 percent more than the state average and nearly double the national average.

Phyllis Murdock, Butte County’s director of public health, finds a strong correlation between poverty and poor health.

“Anytime you have fewer people working, where they may have less insurance than they had when they were working, their ability to access medical care before things become urgent is impacted,” she told Action News. “You might not necessarily have such an easy time finding employment in a more rural county. That means there’s less disposable income and sometimes you buy foods that are less expensive rather than foods that are maybe slightly more expensive but are healthier and better for you.”

That may be why, despite the plethora of local farms, Butte County comes up short in the study’s “limited access to healthy foods” category at nearly triple the state average.

Fine also zeroed in on the smoking

rates. (That’s understandable for an internalmedicine doctor who specializes in pulmonology—conditions of the respiratory system.) He has seen progress through smoking-cessation programs but says getting people to quit nowadays is “harder, because the low-hanging fruit has been plucked.”

Indoor smoking bans have helped, but he worries about measures that would add onto current cigarette taxes, for fear of adverse consequences such as smuggling.

Still, action needs to be taken. Fine stresses the importance of education, partic-

ularly for stroke and heart patients. He also has a novel suggestion: “Stores that sell cigarettes shouldn’t be able to sell prescription drugs. That would raise cries from storeowners, but it would be more successful than taxes.

It would make [tobacco] less accessible.”

In other words, a pharmacy selling medicines to help cure people’s ailment shouldn’t also profit from such a deadly product as cigarettes. Likewise, more graphic warnings on tobacco packaging would make an impact, he said—“anything that makes you think twice is good.”

Air quality is another drawback in Butte County, as in much of the Northern Sacramento Valley. Recently, the American Lung Association gave Butte County an F on its State of the Air Report Card, based upon California Air Resources Board monitoring stations in Chico, Gridley and Paradise.

Fine suggested programs aimed at woodfire burning would help with wintertime exposure to large particulates in smoke.

“That we have control over,” he said. “It’s an issue we could address.”

Meanwhile, emphasizing exercise would also go a long way toward improving the county’s health grade.

“Our education system has failed physical education; we have cutbacks and we cut physical education,” Fine said. “I think that’s nuts!

“As a society, there’s a lot we can do.

We’re still in a system where health care is not health maintenance and living a healthy life—it’s separate. … [As health-care providers] we’ve addressed these things within our ability, but as a society, we haven’t done so much.” Ω

WEEKLY DOSE A short course to defeat latent TB It’s estimated that more than 11 million Americans, 4.2 percent of the population, have latent tuberculosis. If Butte County’s percentage is similar to the nation’s, some 9,240 county residents are infected. Of them, anywhere from 460 (5 percent) to 920 (10 percent) will develop TB if not treated. That’s the bad news. The good news, according to the Butte County Public Health Department, is that treatment has gotten much easier. It used to require nine months of daily pill-taking, but a recent study has shown that a shorter, easier regimen—once-a-week drugs for three months— works just as well.

Those most likely to have latent TB:

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Anyone who falls into one of these groups is urged to contact the health department at 891-2732. Tuberculosis can be cured if diagnosed early.

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BY JERRY OLENYN jolenyn@newclairvaux.org PHOTOS BY BROTHER RAFAEL FLORES

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he 45-minute tour of the Abbey of New Clairvaux was winding down. A woman in her mid-40s asked the tour guide a question: “Can we see one of the monks?”

“Well, sometimes they come out from behind the cloister,” the tour guide replied. “But they must be busy doing something else right now—I’m sorry.”

The woman got a bit agitated and somewhat demanding.

“Well, can you go get one so we can see what they look like?”

The tour guide thought to himself, “This isn’t a zoo, and they’re not trained animals.” Instead, he politely said he couldn’t do that.

That tour guide was me.

The Abbey of New Clairvaux is one of only 17 Trappist-Cistercian monasteries in the United States. As the director of development at the monastery, I’ve come to know many of the brothers closely. Without exception they are the most interesting, intelligent and kind men I’ve ever known.

Many guests to the monastery—a 580acre spiritual oasis in Vina, 20 miles north of Chico—envision it as a slice of heaven and the 21 monks who live there as angels walking among us.

But the brothers don’t seek such effusive praise. Some even bristle when such words are heaped upon them. Or they greet the accolades with a shrug of the shoulders.

“Believe me, we are very human,” said Father Paul Mark Schwan, the fourth and current abbot at the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

“We have the same foibles and temptations that everyone else has.”

But their lives are so different from ours.

The monks live under the Rule of St. Benedict, a 15-centuries-old order rooted in Roman Catholicism that includes living lives of humility, poverty, chastity and obedience.

“We have no personal income, no private

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bank accounts, not a penny to our names,” said Schwan.

In their possession instead are a religious habit, two sets of outdoor work clothes, shoes, sandals and ordinary attire for traveling to town for supplies and doctor visits.

They have basic toiletry items that need to be replenished, which is why at times you will see the monks outside the abbey grounds purchasing supplies at North State stores.

The monks reside in simple, individual living quarters, the size of a college dorm room. Each has a bed, desk, drawers, closet and bathroom.

What’s most noticeable, however, is what’s missing. There are no televisions or radios. Only a few monks have computers, and those are used only for business purposes.

For a sports fan like Brother Jose Luis Cortez, giving up box scores and nightly highlights of the day’s action is a sacrifice, but one he willingly took when he entered New Clairvaux two years ago.

In 2009 the 29-year-old monk was working at an assisted-living center in Pittsburgh, Penn., providing companionship and spiritual

comfort for the elderly.

“I was doing good work,” he said. “But I was still unsure what I wanted to do with my life.”

By happenstance, Cortez came across a pamphlet on the Rule of St. Benedict. This quote caught his attention: “Never swerving from his instruction … but faithfully observing his teaching in the monastery until death, we shall through patience share in the sufferings of Christ that we may deserve also to share in his kingdom.”

“That quote crystallized my scattered desires and gave me the courage to commit to leaving everything to be a monk,” said Cortez.

That included leaving his family and friends. “They were disappointed by my decision to enter the monastery, but they were not surprised,” he said.

Relatives of a monk can feel rejected.

“Of course, they’re not [rejected],” said Brother John Cullen, who’s been at New Clairvaux since 1962. “They’re just not happy about the decision, but gradually get accustomed to it.”

Brother Christopher Cheney was toiling at a Safeway in Petaluma before coming to Vina. “I wasn’t really happy,” said Cheney, who is now 39 years old. “I turned to God, and I found his love and support.”

That support didn’t come from his family.

“At first, my parents absolutely hated it,” said Cheney. “They were really upset.”

But time passed, and so did the reservations of Cheney’s mother and father. “As they came to see that I’m happy here, they realized that this is a good place for me.”

Brother Cortez says perseverance is the most challenging aspect of being a monk.

“No single day will break you, but staying faithful to the monastic way of life day after day and year after year is hard.”

The monastery landscape is covered in beauty—trees, vineyards and animals (turkeys, squirrels and jackrabbits) grace the grounds. But it’s the solitude that brings people to New Clairvaux.

Visitors—retreatants, they’re called— spend the night in one of the eight guest

rooms near the front of the abbey entrance.

There is almost always a waiting list.

Some retreatants seek merely rest and spiritual refreshment. Some are couples looking to reconnect. Others have experienced a loss and come to find answers for their grief.

While on a visit to the monastery, a gentleman whose wife had recently died broke down inside the church. A brother made himself available, spending nearly two hours consoling him.

Stories like this are commonplace at New Clairvaux, where seven of the monks are ordained priests and are trained to deal with a person’s spiritual needs.

Visitors to the abbey have preconceived notions, but they’re usually wrong. The monks do not walk forlornly, hands folded and heads bowed, adorned in robes and hoods.

A common but mistaken belief is that the monks take vows of silence.

Yes, there was a time when the brothers of New Clairvaux were silent. While it wasn’t a formal vow, the silence was a discipline of the order. In order to communicate with each other, the brothers used sign language similar to that used by the deaf.

“It was easy to be misunderstood,” said Brother John Cullen, who is in his 50th year at New Clairvaux. “We would occasionally whisper to augment our sign language.”

In the mid-1960s, the increasing dependence on modern technology—even inside a monastery—forced the monks to change their policy on silence.

Conversations with the brothers are unlike any others. You won’t hear one of them say “Hey, how are you?” and walk past.

A brother will stop, make eye contact and ask with all sincerity “How are you?” And

About the author:

Jerry Olenyn is the director of development at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, a position that gave him unusual access in writing this story about the monks who live there. A frequent contributor to the CN&R, he is also a part-time reporter for KRCR Channel 7 in Redding.

Tune in to KRCR-TV, Channel 7, tonight (May 10) to catch author Jerry Olenyn’s TV report on the New Clairvaux monks.

then he will listen.

And when he speaks, no matter to whom, he speaks as though speaking to Christ.

This is because of the scripture in Matthew 25:40 where Christ says, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

While the monks live very similar lives, they all have distinct personalities. Like the rest of us, they come from various backgrounds and cultures—from countries as scattered and different as Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, Ecuador, Chile, China, Singapore, Brunei and the United States.

One brother, a Chico State graduate, was an accomplished jazz pianist in the Bay Area.

After three years in the monastery, he left to become a practicing priest.

Usually one in eight monks take life vows to remain monks. The others, like the former jazz pianist, return to the outside world.

A prospective monk begins as an observer.

Within a three-month period, he decides whether to become a postulant, committing himself for one year. During postulancy the monk is responsible for covering his own medical needs.

The order takes on those expenses once the monk moves to the next level, novice, and later to the commitment of what’s

Above: Two brothers stroll through the abbey’s vineyards.

Far right: Abbot Paul Mark Schwan.

Near right: Brother Christopher Cheney says at first his family didn’t approve of his becoming a monk, but now they see that it’s made him happy.

called simple profession.

At some point, monks must make a decision on whether to make life vows and commit to the monastery until death.

Much like a marriage vow, a life vow is a solemn profession. But even monks who’ve taken life vows can have a change of mind—or heart—if, for example, they choose to marry and start a family. In these cases, they must seek dispensation of their vows from the Church.

Monks call it “the rhythm of the day.”

It begins at 3:30 a.m. with the first of seven worship services inside the abbey’s church.

The sanctuary is filled with the sweet aroma of incense, which the building’s pine walls have absorbed since it was built on the abbey grounds in 1960.

Like most of the other services, this one includes scripture readings and the beautiful rhythmic chants of the monks.

The day ends with a similar 7:30 p.m. service before the monks retire for the night.

In between those bookend services the monks engage in a series of three disciplines— prayer, manual labor and spiritual reading.

“The prayer grounds us,” said Brother Cullen.

Each monk has an occupation. Brother Gerard Arsenault, for example, is the primary cook. Virtually everything he prepares is made from scratch. Their three meals— breakfast, lunch and dinner—are held in silence except for a book reading by one of the monks.

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Other monks work in the vineyard, library or guest services office.

During the Tim Tebow mania that captured endless news cycles, I asked Father Anthony Bellesorte about God’s role in our lives—that is, does God care who wins a football game? I rather naively asked him if the brothers ever share discussions like this among themselves.

“Well, Jerry,” Father Anthony gently said.

“That’s kind of Theology 101 for us.”

What seems deep and philosophical to the average believer can be routine for a monk, who spends a third of his waking hours studying scripture and religious writings.

Lectio Divina (Latin for spiritual reading) is the third discipline of a monk. A vehicle for contemplation, the reading and study of Holy Scripture is the primary focus of Lectio Divina.

For these Benedictine monks, the Bible has “the pride of place,” but other books inside the monastery’s 40,000-book library deal with theology, philosophy and ancient monastic writings from the early fathers of the Church.

“It’s not so much that we learn something new,” said Bellesorte. “We’re listening to God.” Listening and meditating.

“But for how long [do you listen and meditate]?” I ask.

“As long as it takes to inspire you,” said Bellesorte.

It took Brother Cortez a year and a half to get used to the rhythm of life at the abbey.

“Obedience and accepting correction are the most difficult disciplines of being a monk,” he said. “Continually joining your will to the will of the community is the deepest and most difficult challenge. In other words, it’s hard not to get your way all the time.”

The monks’ lives are predictable—some might say monotonous. But to the brothers at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, monotony is not a vice.

“We see boredom not as an enemy,” said Father Paul Mark Schwan. “The temptation is to fill the day with a lot of activity, gossip and idle chatter.”

But it’s a common myth that monks themselves are boring—or that they don’t enjoy their lives. Visitors are surprised by their cheerfulness and senses of humor.

But for Brother Cortez, balancing the sacrifices and challenges with the blessings, especially those that come from living in a cloistered paradise like New Clairvaux, are worth it for a life of peace and spiritual reflection.

“The less complicated you make your life, the more vibrant and enjoyable your life becomes,” he said.

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Anthony Bellesorte grew up surrounded by a large Italian family. “Of course, that’s what I expected to have too,” said Bellesorte, now an ordained Catholic priest, who has lived at New Clairvaux for 40 years.

When he was a young man living in Milwaukee, Wis., Bellesorte—now 77—became enamored of a young woman named Mary Jane. “We really clicked,” he said. They fell in love and became engaged.

He’d just graduated from Drexel University with a degree in business and engineering and was preparing to start that large family. “I’d even gotten her a diamond engagement ring,” he said.

But Mary Jane’s career took her to Grand Rapids, Mich. Theirs became a long-distance romance that included a lot of phone calls and letter writing.

After 18 months Bellesorte and his fiancée landed jobs in the same city. But then something happened.

“We found out that the connection didn’t stick when we were close,” he said.

She wanted two children. He wanted 12.

For the next few years, Bellesorte dated other women, as the vision of a large family stayed with him.

After moving to San Francisco, however, he felt a calling and joined a community of Dominican friars. As a result, he was moved to become a priest and lead a parish in nearby Benecia.

But the experiences with the Dominican community stayed with him. “It rang a bell with me,” he said.

In 1972 a friend introduced him to the Abbey of New Clairvaux. “I followed my heart,” said Bellesorte.

That path took him to Vina, where he has— after a lifetime of searching—found that large family, though it’s a family made up entirely of brothers.

“I love my life,” said Bellesorte, holding back tears. “I love my God. And I love my family. I’m totally fulfilled.”

While Father Anthony Bellesorte is confident where his spirit will ascend, he also knows that his human remains will stay at New Clairvaux. The monks have their own cemetery inside the cloister. A monk’s funeral is open to the public, offering one of the few times laymen get a glimpse inside the monk’s cloistered grounds.

Below, left to right: The monks gathered on May 5 to celebrate completion of the trans-vaulted ceiling of the historic charter house, which they plan to use as the abbey church; Brother John Cullen, who has lived at New Clairvaux for 50 years.

From top to bottom: The brothers reading before taking a meal; Father Anthony Bellesorte in the kitchen; Blessing the Grapes ceremonial procession.

FROM GRAPES TO GRACE My journey to redefine the American Dream

As a community, the monks are financially successful in their business ventures. Like much of the rest of the residents of the North State, the monks support themselves through agriculture. They grow prunes and walnuts on the land once owned by legendary explorer and trail guide Peter Lassen and later by Leland Stanford, the railroad baron who founded Stanford University. The vineyard also produces and bottles, on site, wine under the monastery’s own label.

The Sacred Stones project, a reconstruction of a 12th-century chapter house using stones from a Spanish monastery, is generating local, regional and national acclaim. (The monks recently announced their decision to use the chapter house as their church.) And the monastery’s collaboration with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., bringing centuries-old monastic brewing traditions to America, was recently featured in The Financial Times and has been well-received by consumers and critics.

All of this has brought enormous attention to the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

With spring now in full swing, the Sacred Stones office will handle more than a dozen group tours per month. And drop-ins account for thousands of visitors annually.

And more will come.

Newspaper and television stories, features by PBS and ABC News and inquiries from the Tehama County Visitors Bureau—add it all up, and suddenly the very private life of a monk is becoming less so.

So is the interest in these men’s lives warranted? It depends on whom you ask.

“Not anymore,” said Brother Cortez. “After two years here, the life is no longer as romantic as it once seemed. I forget that this is not ‘normal’ living.”

But of course a monk’s life is not normal. It runs contrary to the American Dream (see sidebar), which is what leads visitors to ask the monks—sometimes not so subtly—to come out from behind the cloister and visit with them.

As New Clairvaux becomes one of the most significant tourist destinations in the North State, new visitors will come. And they’ll want to know why someone would want to live a monk’s life. Ω

My parents came to America as poor immigrants from Mexico in the 1970s.

They settled in California’s Central Valley and worked hard to carve out a living by picking grapes. By the time my parents had children they had secured a modest living, and they hoped that my siblings and I would be able to avoid the hardships they had endured as campesinos, or farm laborers.

My father wanted me to go to college so that I “wouldn’t have to work so hard for so little.” Indeed, my parents hoped that their children would fully realize the American Dream of achieving a measure of affluence and comfort through hard work.

Well, I did just that.

I went to college as I was supposed to, and soon after graduating I secured a job with a large corporation. I had the desk, the shirt and tie, and the modest affluence and comfort that the American Dream prescribes. I had bypassed the sweat and strain that my parents had endured and the struggle that most people in the world continue to experience.

I soon realized that the American Dream of affluence and comfort was not what my parents thought it was because I was still unsatisfied. Realizing this, I began my search for a life of substance and authenticity.

My search eventually lead me to enter the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

In this contemplative community I found brother monks who sweat and strain—often in a grape vineyard—to provide for a simple life of prayer and union with God. In this way of life I found men struggling in solidarity with the laborers of America and beyond, growing in compassion and sharing with those in need.

This may not be the American Dream, but it very well may be God’s dream—and with this I am well satisfied.

—Brother Jose Luis Cortez

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Arts & Culture More than OK

Chico State gets down in Oklahoma! territory.

PHOTO BY MATT SIRACUSA

Chico State’s Oklahoma! ends semester on a grand note

E at Laxson Auditorium Friday night as Chico State’s theater and music departments offered a

verything was firing on all cylinders

first-class version of the wholesome, old-timey Oklahoma!—the classic 1943 Broadway musical.

The epic romantic comedy, set by Alan Sheckter on a piece of 1906 farmland in the territory that was about to become alsheck@ comcast.net Oklahoma, the 46th state, propelled the theater careers of legendary writing team Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. REVIEW: With its large cast and its musiOklahoma! cal, costume, choreography and Presented by Chico State’s School of technical demands, Oklahoma! the Arts, Friday, lends itself well to the big stage and May 4, at Laxson a project that the university’s large Auditorium. theater and music departments could Laxson sink their teeth into, and the 100Auditorium plus folks responsible for its producChico State tion were more than up to the task. www.schoolofthe One could sense the teamwork arts-csuchico.com across all aspects of the show, which brought plenty of joy to the crowd.

Like an oiled machine, the whole Mike Mazur-directed production came at the audience as one cohesive amalgamation rather than the sum of many independent parts. And the timeless, storied show tunes were delivered with all of the pomp and grandeur one could hope for, including resounding versions of the title song as well as “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “The Surrey With the Fringe on Top” and “People Will Say We’re in Love.”

The preparation and professionalism were especially evident during the dream ballet, a full 15minute cowboy-tinged ballet sequence, which effectively portrayed, in symphony and choreography, Laurey’s nightmare about the people in her life. Her essence was splendidly captured by Chelsea Haskell, who filled in as Laurey (otherwise played by Hannah Covington-Bernard throughout the rest of the production) during the artful dance segment.

The strings, brass, and woodwinds of the 15member orchestra, conducted by North State Symphony’s Kyle Wiley Pickett, were central to the production, offering perfectly timed sound effects, background accompaniment, and melodies.

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All other things aside, the human storylines of romance and cowboys versus farmhands are still what make Oklahoma! so memorable, and all players were fully immersed in their characters and more than proficient in song, spoken word, and non-verbal dramatics. The Chico State cast and crew effectively took the audience back to a much simpler time in America, but a time that contained the same human desires and jealousies that we experience today.

Mikey Purdue was tremendous as Curly, the richvoiced tall, handsome and chivalrous hired hand, whose virtue exceeded his social standing. Covington-Bernard was perfectly prissy as the Prince Charming-seeking Laurey, who seemed determined to deny the cowhand suitor whom she really loved.

And Hannah Moore was a splendid Aunt Eller, the matriarchal voice of reason who took no guff from even the toughest cowboys.

Cameron Pate wonderfully overacted as Will, a square-jawed, tough-as-nails and a bit dull-witted cowboy, who single-mindedly sought a handsome sum of $50 that would grant permission from Ado Annie’s father for her hand in marriage; while McKenna Perry excelled as the comedic and flirty Ado Annie, an intellectually vacant beauty who would “feel shaky from horn to hoof” when men “talked purty” to her. And Blair Palmerlee was excellent as Ali, the stylishly dressed traveling salesman/shyster whose penchant for romance got him more involved with Ado Annie than he wished.

Also notable was Benjamin Day, who marvelously filled the role of the villainous Jud, who couldn’t accept that his beloved Laurey would choose Curly over him. Joe Zimmerman was fine as Judge Andrew Carnes, Ado Annie’s gun-totin’ father, but he looked to be no older than 25, a small flaw that make-up could’ve solved.

Often, drama companies have to overcome logistical limitations, such as the size of the stage, small troupe size and/or shoestring budgets. This production had at its disposal, and made commendable use of, a grand stage, more than 100 participants, and the university theater and music department resources.

The costumes have now been placed back in storage, the music stands stacked, the stage has been swept clean, and Chico State deserves a tip of the hat for capping the semester with this stirring adaptation of Oklahoma! Ω

THIS WEEK 10

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Special Events CALIFORNIA DREAM WEEK SUSTAINABILITY FEST: A four-day festival serving as the culmination of a sustainability design competition for high school juniors and seniors including benefit concerts, a community fair, cocktail reception, awards dinner and a tribute to sustainability at the Gateway Science Museum. Go online for a complete schedule.

5/10-5/13. $7. Downtown Chico, www.california dreamweek.org.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: smooth jazz with Chuck’s Place, acoustic guitar and harmonica with Rob McDaniel, Roundhouse Ronny the balloon clown, Connor the Amazing Juggler and more. Th, 6-9pm.

Prices vary. Downtown Chico; Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

Music MT. EDEN: Bombastic synthesizer loops and endless vamping are the norm with this dubstep duo from Auckland, New Zealand. Crizzly and Minnesota open. Th, 5/10, 8:30pm. $20-$30.

Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

Theater A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: A stage adaptation of the controversial novel and film following Alex, a teenager in dystopian future Britain whose primary interests include “rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.” Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 5/26; Su, 5/13, 7:30pm. $10-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

FEATHER FIESTA DAYS

Saturday, May 12 Oroville SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

GUYS AND DOLLS: The classic oddball romantic comedy set in a mythical New York City as presented by the Chico Troupers. 5/10-5/11, 7:30pm; Sa, 5/12, 3pm. $8-$10. Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 895-1976.

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Special Events ART FIESTA: A three-day festival celebrating local art, and featuring traditional Mexican and Spanish music and dance. Work from 40 artists will be on display including paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics and jewelry.

Call for more info. F, 5/11, 4-9pm; Sa, 5/12, 11am-7pm; Su, 5/13, 11am-3pm. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 518-4536.

ART & WINE NIGHT: A silent auction and an art exhibition of works by Rhett Butler as part of California Dream Week. F, 5/11, 7:30pm. $30.

Monks Wine Lounge & Bistro; 128 W. Second St.; (530) 343-3408.

CALIFORNIA DREAM WEEK SUSTAINABILITY FEST: See Thursday. Downtown Chico, www.californ iadreamweek.org.

COMEDIAN RAY MOLINA: Molina is a thought-provoking comedian who doesn’t rely on vulgarity for laughs. 5/11-5/12, 7 & 8:30pm. $10. The Last Stand Comedy Venue, 167 E. Third St. On E. Third between Main and Wall, (530) 354-1936, www.laststandcomedy.com.

HOOKER OAK CARNIVAL: A family carnival with camping-themed games, food vendors, a petting zoo, face painting, temporary tattoos, cake walk and salad bar. Proceeds benefit the school. F, 5/11, 4-7:30pm. Prices vary. Hooker Oak Elementary School; 1238 Arbutus Ave.; (530) 891-3119.

FINE ARTS Art

gallery of her lifes work. Oils, watercolors, pastel figure drawings and etching prints.

Through 5/31. Free to the public. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

1078 GALLERY: Member Show, an exhibition of wall, sculpture, installation and performance art by 1078 Gallery members. Through 5/12. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Juried Student

Printmakers Exhibition, the best student printmakers and ceramic artist in a juried show. Through 5/15. 400 W. First St. Meriam Library breezeway, CSU, Chico.

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: Natural & Crafted Worlds,

SEE FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

ONCE UPON A FASHION SHOW: Butte College’s spring fashion show featuring student designs. F, 5/11, 7pm. $8-$10. Butte College Black Box Theatre; 3536 Butte Campus Dr.; (530) 895-2542.

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Special Events ART FIESTA: See Friday. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 518-4536.

Music CHILDREN’S CHOIR OF CHICO: The choir performs

One Earth, Many Voices: Songs of Peace, a collection of songs from around the world that focus on hope and peace. F, 5/11, 7:30pm. $10$15. CUSD Center for the Arts; 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus; (530) 342-2775; www.childrenschoirofchico.org.

Theater A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: See Thursdy. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

GUYS AND DOLLS: See Thursday. Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 895-1976.

LEADING LADIES: Two actors fall on hard times and attempt to impersonate the long-lost nieces of a dying millionairess. F, Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 5/20. $7-$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

Art Receptions FIGURE DRAWING GROUP RECEPTION: Celebrating the Figure, a group show featuring works by Jerril Kopp, Rose Pace, Roni Weiners and others from the Thursday Figure Drawing Group. F, 5/11, 4-8pm. Sally Dimas Art Gallery, 493 East Ave., #1. (530) 345-3063.

Poetry/Literature A READING OF MIXED GENRES: Readings with Tom Fox, a poet, author and Chico State professor and Anna Blackmon Moore, author of dozens of essays, stories and works of creative nonfiction. F, 5/11, 7:30pm. Free. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar.

Once posted, your CN&R calendar listing will also be considered for print. Print listings are also free, but subject to space limitations.

Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

Student Exhibition, a juried exhibition of ceramics, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and digital media created by students. Through 5/15. 400 W First St. Taylor Hall, CSU, Chico.

photography by Michele Miller and Karma Ganzler. Through 5/19. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

ART FIESTA

Friday-Sunday, May 11-13 Matador Motel

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Annual Juried

BARK FOR LIFE: Bring your pooch to this companion event to the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. Festivities include a walk around Wildwood Park, agility demonstrations, vendor booths, contests, music, hot dogs, refreshments, raffle prizes, a wall of hope and more. Sa, 5/12, 10am-1pm. $20-$25.

Wildwood Park; Wildwood & Manzanita; (530) 515-6635; www.chicorelayforlife.org.

CALIFORNIA DREAM WEEK SUSTAINABILITY FEST: See Thursday. Downtown Chico, www.californ iadreamweek.org.

CHICO ANTIQUES & DESIGN FAIRE: Antiques, collectibles, jewelry, garden accents and salvaged treasures. Call for more info. Sa, 5/12, 8am-5pm. $3. Patrick Ranch Museum; 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham; (530) 893-5534.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian PARADISE ART & MUSIC FAIRE: Beaded jewelry, stained glass, ceramic art, paintings and crafts will be accompanied by live music with Diego Bustamante, David B., the Ruby Hollow Band and more. Call for more info. 5/12-5/13, 10am-5pm. Prices vary. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise, (530) 873-1370.

PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST: A chocolate lover’s dream, with countless treats, a chocolate fountain and the crowning of the Chocolate Fest King and Queen. Festivities also include live music and arts and craft booths. Sa, 5/12, 9am-5pm. Prices vary. Terry Ashe Center; 6626 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 342-4896; www.chocolatefest.us.

PICNIC IN THE PLAZA: A community picnic followed by live music, a high jump contest, arts and crafts and more as part of California Dream Week. Sa, 5/12, 8am-3pm. Free. Sol Mexican Grill; 3269 Esplanade; (530) 342-4616; www.solmexicangrill.com.

SPRING BLOOM: A celebration of the spring olive bloom. Festivities include a tour of the olive groves guided by Dewey and Bobby Lucero, live music, artisan food vendors, local wine tasting and mill tours. Call for more info. Sa, 5/12, 12-5pm. Free. Lucero Olive Oil Mill; 2120 Loleta Ave. in Corning; (530) 824-2190.

CHIKOKO SPRING BIZARRE BAZAAR: An ultra-hip arts and crafts fair with over 20 local vendors, live music and food. Sa, 5/12, 10am-6pm.

Prices vary. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978; www.chikoko.com.

COMEDIAN RAY MOLINA: See Friday. The Last Stand Comedy Venue, 167 E. Third St. between Main and Wall, (530) 354-1936, www.laststand comedy.com.

FEATHER FIESTA DAYS: Oroville’s hometown celebration culminates with a parade, car show, craft fair and more. Call for more info or go online for a complete listing of events. Sa, 5/12.

(530) 538-2542; www.featherfiestadays.org.

LADIES NIGHT OUT: A live fashion show presenting items available at local boutiques with a no-host bar, refreshments, food, drawings and giveaways. Sa, 5/12, 6pm. Buckshot Grill; 488 B St. in Biggs; (530) 846-0920.

MAD HATTER TEA PARTY FASHION SHOW: The latest fashions will be modeled and desserts will be consumed under the watchful eye of the Mad Hatter. Proceeds benefit the Patrick Ranch Museum, Chico Museum, Bidwell Mansion and the Stansbury House. Call for more info. Sa, 5/12, 2-4pm. $15. Casa de Flores Mobile Home Park; 701 East Lassen Ave.; (530) 354-3276.

CALIFORNIA DREAM WEEK

Thursday-Sunday, May 10-13 All around Chico SEE THURSDAY-SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Theater A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

GUYS AND DOLLS: See Thursday. Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 895-1976.

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

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Garcia. Ongoing. 225 Main St. D, (530) 8953282.

CHICO ART CENTER: Naomi Tatum, large-scale

Call for Artists ART INSPIRED BY CHICO: The Chico Museum is planning a multi-media exhibit (including poetry, art, videos, sculptures, textiles and music) of original creations inspired by Chico. Go online for submission guidelines.

Through 7/1. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

work of Naomi Tatum, a prolific mixed media artist from New Mexico. Through 5/19. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.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.

Museums BOLTS ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Kitchen

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.

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

CHICO PAPER CO.: Monuments, works by DiGrazia, who manipulates photographs to detach the structure from recognizable surroundings. Through 6/1.Marilynn Jennings, the qualities of the four elements are captured through color and texture in oil paintings and adjacent fiber cylinders.

Through 6/1. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

CHICO MUSEUM: The Bicycle:Life on Two

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

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.

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

HUMANITIES CENTER GALLERY: Make it Work, an exhibition of remade and appropriated objects produced by Cameron Kelly and Rouben Mohiuddin. Through 5/20. 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico, Trinity Hall.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS: Passion: Lois

Cohen Art Work, a celebration of the late and great local artist Lois Cohen with a

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Special Events ART FIESTA: See Friday. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 518-4536.

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Across the Seas, From Ages Past If it’s not enough that the North State Symphony will be closing out the school year with performances of two “powerful, energetic and beautiful” German pieces— Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, and Richard Wagner’s “overture” to the opera The Flying Dutchman—also on the program will be guitarist Matthew Greif, performing Joaquín Rodrigo’s EDITOR’S PICK composition for classical guitar and orchestra, Concierto de Aranjuez. Greif is a member of the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and both his mother and his aunt will be a part of the orchestra backing the featured soloist during this Mother’s Day performance, Sunday, May 13, in Laxson Auditorium.

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CALIFORNIA DREAM WEEK SUSTAINABILITY FEST: See Thursday. Downtown Chico, www.californ iadreamweek.org.

MOTHERS DAY BRUNCH: An annual Mother’s Day brunch to benefit the Torres Shelter and the Newman Catholic Center. Su, 5/13, 8am-1pm. $6-$12. Newman Center; 346 Cherry St.; (530) 894-1898; www.chicoshelter.org.

PARADISE ART & MUSIC FAIRE: See Saturday.

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RETURN TO THE RIVER: The Sacramento River C L O T H I N G

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Trust hosts an event to illustrate the value of the river and the trust’s role in protecting it.

The afternoon will include live music, door prizes and representatives from local agencies. Call or go online for more info. Su, 5/13, 12-5pm. Free. Scottys Landing; 12609 River Rd. Turn right onto River Road at the western end of W. Sacramento Road; (530) 345-1865; www.sacrivertrust.org.

Music NORTH STATE SYMPHONY: Across the Seas, From

Ages Past, the symphony’s showcase of European masterworks featuring Schumann’s Symphony no. 4 and Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Overture. Matt Greif performs Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez on Spanish guitar. Su, 5/13, 2pm. $20-30. Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.csuchico.edu/upe/ boxoffice.html.

Theater A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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

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Music LED KAAPANA & MIKE KAAWA: An evening of traditional Hawaiian music with slack-key guitarist Led Kaapana and 12-string guitarist Mike Kaawa. M, 5/14, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

Saturday, May 12th

1038 Midway, Chico - at the Patrick Ranch (530) 893–5534 • $3 Admission Antiques * Retro * Art * Shabby Chic * Jewelry * Garden * Salvaged Treasures!

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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.

Theater ANNIE, JR.: The Playhouse Youth Theatre presents the classic musical with familiar tunes like “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life.” W, 5/16, 7:30-10pm. $8$12. Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.csuchico.edu/upe/ boxoffice.html.

OFF THE CUFF: Bi-monthly improvisational per-

We Speak Bumble and bumble.

formances. Every other W, 7:30pm. $5 advance/$8 door. Blue Room Theatre; 139 W First St.; (530) 895-3749; www.blueroomthe atre.com.

Dana Howes, Judi Loren, Tonya Wellert-Pullenza, Crystal Lawther, Ingrid Norlie, Jen Wilkinson (Shifflet), Brittany Morgan Woodcox and nail tech; Katherine Dietz.

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BULLETIN BOARD Community ALTERNATIVES TO TOXINS WORKSHOP: A class guided by the Butte County Environmental Council in the Oroville meeting room. Tu, 5/15, 1:30pm. Free. Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 538-7642, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled

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

BUDDHISM AND GENDER: A daylong retreat with Zen Buddhist monks exploring gender and the feminine in Buddhism. Sa, 5/12, 9am-4pm. Sky Creek Dharma Center, 120 Three Oaks Ct., (530) 893-8088, www.skycreekdharma center.org.

BUDDHISM & GENDER Saturday, May 12 Sky Creek Dharma Center SEE COMMUNITY

CHICO CONTRA DANCE: Traditional contra dance

with music by the Pub Scouts. Second Sa of every month, 6:30pm. Opens 5/12. $4-$8. Chico

Grange, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 877-2930.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: 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.

CHICO POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Monthly meeting to discuss community issues. Third W of every month, 5:30-7pm.

Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1877 Hooker Oak Ave., (530) 342-7777.

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.

DIOXINS IN SOUTH OROVILLE: A class guided by the Butte County Environmental Council in the Oroville meeting room. Tu, 5/15, 11am. Free.

Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 538-7642, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

EAST PARK RESERVOIR BIRDING: A moderately strenuous birding hike. Pack food and water and wear appropriate clothing. F, 5/11, 8:30am-5pm. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 345-9356, www.bidwell park.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 in the campus plaza. W, 11am-2pm. Chico State, W. First St. Plumas Hall.

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.

FORECLOSURE CLINIC: A clinic to provide information on home ownership, mortgage loan issues, foreclosure prevention and alternatives to foreclosure. Call for registration. F, 5/11, 10am. Free. Legal Services of Northern California, 541 Normal Ave., (530) 345-9491.

FRUIT & VEGGIE FEST: Food preparation demonstrations, cookbook and recipe gard giveaways and more to promote a nutritious diet. F, 5/11, 3-6pm. Free. FoodMaxx, 2051 Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy., (530) 345-2483.

FOLK DANCING: Teaching during the first hour, followed by request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 5/25. Opens 5/11. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

PUPPIES & KITTENS DONATION DRIVE: The Butte Humane Society is looking for dog and cat food, litter pans and litter, Easy Walk harnesses, collars, microfiber blankets, heavy-duty dog chew toys and disposable cardboard scratching posts to prepare for the hundreds of puppies and kittens born during breeding season. Call or go online for more info. Sa, 5/12, 1-4pm. TrailBlazer Pet Supply, 1612 Mangrove Ave. Next to Kragen’s, (530) 343-7917 ext. 134.

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm.

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

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.

UPPER BIDWELL PARK BIRDING: A hike beginning at Horseshoe Lake and around the rim of Iron Canyon. Bring binoculars, water, snacks, walking shoes and proper clothing. Sa, 5/12, 9am. Horseshoe Lake, Upper Bidwell Park, (530) 891-4671.

WALKING TOUR OF CHICO: The Chico Heritage Association offers a walking tour of downtown and the surrounding neighborhood. Sa, 5/12, 1pm. Free. Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 208 W. First St., (530) 343-1484.

For Kids CAMP CHICO CREEK: Registration is open for 10 weekly sessions of naturalist-led education camps for children ages 5 to 11. Children will participate in outdoor recreation activities designed to foster awareness of nature. Call or go online for more info. Through 6/4. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

DAY CAMP FOR KIDS: Hosted by Oroville’s YMCA, this day camp is intended to get kids outside and to begin developing healthy life-long habits. Call for more info. M-F, 6:30am-6pm through 8/17. Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, 533-9622, www.orovilleymca.org.

MAMMAL MANIA: A preschool program focusing on mammals for children ages 3 to 5. Go online to register. Th, 5/10, 10-11am. $12. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 8914671, www.bidwellpark.org.

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.

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.

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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I hero battle royale interesting for people who don’t like superhero movies, it’d be Joss (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The

f there’s one filmmaker who could make a super-

Cabin in the Woods) Whedon. (Well, a Stanley Kubrick superhero movie would have been interesting, but by in a really gawdawful sort of way. But we Craig Blamer don’t have to worry about that.) These days, Whedon is on top of his game, and there’s only 10 minutes of gawdawful here and that’s the first 10.

Samuel MF Jackson opens the movie with The Avengers Starring Robert a performance that creeps into self-parody, Downey Jr., coming across more as Samuel MF Jackson Samuel L. standing in as Nick Fury than delivering an Jackson, Chris actual performance. He gets the ball rolling as Evans, Scarlett his HQ is invaded by some intergalactic joker Johansson, Tom Hiddleston, Mark called Loki (think Marilyn Manson fresh out Ruffalo, Chris of the shower, sans contacts). It’s kind of Hemsworth, blink-worthy camp. Not sure if that was WheJeremy Renner don’s intent to deliberately make the camp so and Gwyneth over the top that it creeps into caricature, but it Paltrow. Directed

by Joss Whedon. plays like the ’70s template of superhero Cinemark 14, voguing.

But 11 minutes in, Black Widow (Scarlett Feather River Cinemas and Johanssen) starts kicking some ass, and all Paradise Cinema reservations are canceled as the flick shifts 7. Rated PG-13. gears and begins to get more awesome as it howls along.

What we get next are a few origin stories, Poor about Fury’s recruitment of the Avengers— Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk and eventually Thor and Hawkeye—as a team. As a stand-alone, it could be confusing.

Fair You really need to have seen the other recent Marvel packages to follow all the drama being dragged in. But if you kick back and go with the flow, that’s over soon enough and they Good band together to fight the common threat that has followed Loki to Earth, one that unfortunately echoes the cosmic baddies of TransVery Good formers 3. But The Avengers’ climax is more organic and way better than Michael Bay’s miasmic bowl of pixel soup.

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FRIDAY 5/11 – TuesDAY 5/15 CABIN IN THE WOODS, MIRROR MIRROR THE (Digital) (R ) 7:35PM (Digital) (PG)11:05AM 9:55PM PIRATES! BAND OF CHIMPANZEE (Digital) MISFITS (3D) (PG) (G) 12:15PM 2:30PM 2:15PM 7:00PM 9:15PM 4:35PM PIRATES! BAND OF DARK SHADOWS (Digital) (PG-13)11:20AM 12:40PM 2:00PM 3:20PM 4:40PM 6:05PM 7:20PM 8:45PM 10:00PM

FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT, THE (Digital) (R ) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM HUNGER GAMES, THE (Digital) (PG-13) 12:55PM 4:05PM 7:15PM 10:25PM LUCKY ONE, THE (Digital) (PG-13)11:35AM 2:10PM 4:55PM 7:25PM 9:55PM MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (3D) (PG13) (10:40AM*) 12:30PM 1:10PM 3:45PM 4:30PM 5:20PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 10:15PM

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movie (with the banter between him and Gwyneth Paltrow evoking Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man films, and Iron Man flights used as an excuse to swoon over art deco designs among the skyscrapers), Whedon has also made the Hulk interesting (something directors Ang Lee and Louis Leterrier failed to do). While there’s not much of the Hulk until late in the game, what we do get is a blast. Welcome is a giddy enthusiasm the Hulk brings to his rage, a wide-toothed grin of enthusiasm as he smashes. And the Hulk delivers the best punch line in the movie. Also the second. Both without a word (there’s also an icing verbal retort that’s drowned out by audience laughter).

Helping to sell the package is Mark Ruffalo as Hulk’s alter-ego, turning in a performance that echoes Bill Bixby (the original live-action Bruce Banner) while making the character comfortably his own. The aftermath of the Hulk’s first rampage is also graced by a late-inthe-game cameo that serves no real purpose other than to make me very, very happy. Ω

The perfect meal Jiro Dreams of Sushi

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Ends tonight, May 10. Pageant Theatre.

Rated PG.

by Christine G.K. LaPado Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary

film directed by David Gelb, is the story of an 85-year-old perfectionist sushi master named Jiro Ono who runs a 10-seat sushi restaurant in a Tokyo subway station that has garnered a three-star Michelin rating, despite its funky location and lack of an on-premise toilet. That alone is interesting enough, but it is the film’s meticulous, successive delving into the layered depths of Ono’s life, mind, co-workers, customers, children and the world of sushi that puts Jiro over the top.

His restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, serves no drinks, no appetizers—only sushi that has been sourced from the very best seafood available and prepared with a level of attention and care that other, lesser sushi restaurants simply cannot attain. One must reserve a spot at least a month in advance for the three “movements” of sushi that Ono serves to that night’s customers. Like a conductor of a premier symphony, Ono guides each evening at his restaurant with almost unbelievable artful flair and love.

Ono—who was basically abandoned by his mother and drunken father at a young age—has such a strong, passionate work ethic (developed originally because

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of his need to survive) that every move he has made in his 75-year career as a sushi chef has been in pursuit of perfection.

Over the course of the movie, one cannot help but grow to have great respect and affection for the seemingly gruff, demanding master.

Sentences uttered unpretentiously by Ono throughout the film shine like bits of Zen wisdom, such as “Never complain about your job”; “Ultimate simplicity leads to purity”; and “You have no home to come back to”—which is something that, according to Ono, one should say to one’s children so that they can go out into the world and succeed as adults. Ω

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Opening this week Damsels in Distress

The latest from writer/director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona) is a comedy about three college girls trying to change the prevailing male-dominated culture of their school and have some fun along the way. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

Dark Shadows

Tim Burton adapts the long-running late’60s/early-’70s gothic TV series into a campy dramedy, with Johnny Depp updating the role of vampire Barnabas Collins, awakened from a witch’s spell after a couple of centuries to find his mansion and his descendents in a state of disrepair and dysfunction. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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The Avengers

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

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Bully

This fine, gentle, moving documentary takes on what has become an urgent national issue—bullying, sometimes with drastic consequences, among American school children. It makes no definitive statement on the issue signaled in its title, but it does give us some valuable glimpses inside a handful of specific cases. Filmmakers Lee Hirsch and Cynthia Lowen build their study around bullied kids and their families in Iowa, Georgia, Oklahoma and Mississippi. A bright gawky 14-year-old in Iowa, an openly gay 16-yearold gal from Oklahoma and a 14-year-old honor student and basketball star (jailed for pulling a gun on her tormentors in a school bus) in Mississippi are the film’s foreground figures. But the parents of two school-boy suicides, one in Georgia and another in Oklahoma, also loom large, particularly in the part of the film that is concerned with burgeoning grassroots movements to raise awareness on these issues. A school principal in Iowa and a sheriff in Mississippi provide some troubling signs of institutional breakdown, but Bully makes no sweeping indictments. Small-town provincialism recurs, but those same environments yield up some beacons of enlightenment—the parents of those suicides in particular, but also the surviving best friend of the Oklahoma suicide, who identifies himself as a reformed bully. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee chronicles the lives of one African chimp clan, with special focus on a young’un named Oscar. Kenny is the alpha male of the clan, the “large and in charge” boss, according to the not-entirely objective script (narrated by Tim Allen). Isha is Oscar’s mother, who’s killed after a brawl

with a neighboring chimp clan. Left as an orphan (a familiar Disney theme), Oscar soon forms an unlikely mentorship with Kenny, who steps in as foster dad. The first half of the movie really tries to build Kenny’s character as the stereotypical stubborn old man figure, so that it’s extra sweet when he accepts Oscar. And it is sweet. But it’s also a stretch to believe that Kenny is crotchety just because Allen tells us so. For the sake of your enjoyment—and that of the kids in the audience—you have to just go with it. Plus, the movie’s visuals overshadow any criticisms of the content. With the lens under the canopies of the African rainforests, some beautiful stuff starts to show itself. The lush green scenery and quirky chimp faces are fun to watch, and the time-lapse sequences are especially impressive. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated G —R.B.

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home

Jeff (Jason Segel) is a shambling hulk of a boy/man who still lives with his widowed mom (Susan Sarandon). He’s a shy, goofy giant and according to his brother Pat (Ed Helms), he’s also a loser and an embarrassment to the family. To writers/directors Jay and Mark Duplass, he just might be some kind of holy fool, and so they make him the presiding spirit in an amiable little lowbudget comedy/drama. Part bromance, part New Age farce, part domestic mashup—the Duplass’ new picture runs off in a number of entertaining directions, without ever losing its deadpan dramatic edge. The storyline starts out small (mom calling from work and trying to get Jeff out of the basement long enough to fix a broken shutter in her kitchen) and charmingly builds its pellmell way toward a semi-comic, semi-melodramatic climax in a traffic jam on a Florida bridgeway. There’s a heroic rescue, a series of eerie coincidences involving guys named Kevin, two kinds of mid-life crisis (with offbeat romantic implications for both), a pick-up basketball sequence, a spectacular misadventure with Pat’s new Porsche (which he can’t really afford), and eventually that shutter gets fixed. Pageant Theatre.

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90 minutes of fancifully facetious storytelling. A sterling cast of actors is on hand to provide the animated characters’ voices: Hugh Grant (The Pirate Captain), Martin Freeman (The Pirate with a Scarf), Imelda Staunton (Queen Victoria), David Tennant (Charles Darwin), Jeremy Piven (Black Bellamy), Salma Hayek (Cutlass Liz), among others. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG —J.C.S.

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The Raven is a murder mystery/horror film with some intriguing literary and period-piece trappings. It’s got Edgar Allan Poe as its doomed protagonist doing battle with an elaborately fiendish serial killer whose crimes emulate aspects of Poe’s best-known tales of horror—“The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” etc. John Cusack plays Poe, and director James McTeigue lays it all out in a pulpy, erratically lavish frenzy.

The script plays mainly as a series of spasmodically spectacular set-pieces with only a cursory interest in narrative coherence.

Psychological credibility always takes a back seat to sensational and intermittently gory display. But the Poe angle and the period setting (Baltimore, 1849) were enough to keep me interested most of the time. Luke Evans as Inspector Emmett Fields, does, by far, the best acting in the film. Cusack might be too nice a guy for his role here. He seems to zone out on the more convulsive and contradictory aspects of the character. But the cast is not the problem. They’re just at the mercy of this production’s outlandish story dynamics. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Safe

Jason Statham plays an ex-cage fighter/exNYPD cop who is running around with a gun in his hand trying keep a young Chinese girl safe from the Chinese mob, the Russian mafia and crooked New York cops and politicians who are all after a secret code locked in the girl’s memory. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Think Like a Man

After their female partners begin using the advice of comedian Steve Harvey’s book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, against them four men conspire to turn the tables on their mates. Directed by Tim Story (Barbershop, Fantastic Four). Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Britain’s Aardman Animations, creators of the superb Wallace & Gromit films, have come up with a delightfully comical pirate adventure. The story, adapted by Gideon Defoe from a novel in his Pirates! series, has an amiably hapless pirate captain named The Pirate Captain who, in his ongoing (and mostly hopeless) quest for Pirate of the Year honors, crosses paths with Charles Darwin and the voyage of The Beagle. Darwin is especially impressed by The Pirate Captain’s “parrot,” which the great scientist recognizes as a (supposedly extinct) dodo. That discovery takes the pirate, the scientist and the parrot/dodo into the rambunctiously oppressive company of the Royal Academy and, worst (or best) of all, a farcically tyrannical Queen Victoria. Aardman’s exquisitely detailed stop-motion animation, directed here by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, makes for nonstop comedy pleasure throughout nearly

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“Where’d you get the recipe?” by I was hesiHenri Bourride tant to say. In hbourride@ fact, it was from yahoo.com a book she’d recently given me, Eat Like a Man: The Only Manly read: Cookbook a Eat Like a Man Man Will Ever (Chronicle Books), Need, and I have is available for $30 to admit that at at Lyon Books in first I was a bit downtown Chico. put off by the gesture. Was there subtext here? What’s next?

An appointment with Michelle Bachmann’s husband?

Besides, publications like that tend to forget about men like moi. I remember the cover story from Vanity Fair’s 30th anniversary issue: “Thirty things a man should have done by age 30.” Well! Not only was there hardly anything on the list that I had done—and I was comfortably past 30 by then—but there were some pretty impressive things I had done that were not on the list, merci very much.

But, I have to admit, the claim this book’s subtitle makes is surprisingly well substantiated. If Chez Bourride ever caught fire— perish the thought!—and I could grab only one cookbook, I just might take Eat Like a Man before Larousse Gastronomique or Julia Child’s The Way to Cook, and not only because I’ve nearly committed them both to memory.

Eat Like a Man is a compilation—by Esquire magazine editors and staff writers, and chefs around the country—of recipes, essays, memoirs, interviews (including with Child herself, from 2000), and simple lists of advice, including “Things a Man Should Know

About Cheese,” as well as about entertaining and wine and spirits.

There’s also a “Steak Information Center.” Most were previously published in the magazine, some in earlier Esquire cookbooks, including “Classics: Pretty Easy Recipes for Some of the Best Chicken Dishes of All Time,” from 1955.

Reading more like a magazine, appropriately, than a cookbook, Eat Like a Man manages to keep from taking itself too seriously and at the same time to seriously address issues of food and our relationships with it—and with those with whom we share it.

Tom Junod’s “My Mom Couldn’t Cook” is a heartbreaking memoir.

The book’s six chapters— Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Sides, Dessert, and Drinks (With Food)—offer over 100 recipes, designated by skill level: Easy, Reasonable, and Worth the Effort.

Among them: lobster scrambled eggs, fish and grits, steak tacos, William Styron’s clam chowder, bourbon and brown sugar salmon, creamed spinach, martinis, gimlets and “the foolproof Daiquiri.”

The book also includes the easy 45-minutes-at-450-degrees castiron-skillet chicken.

Note: the Dessert “chapter” contains only one recipe: for fruit crisp—“the only dessert you’ll ever need.”

In addition to doubting the book’s premise, I questioned some of the recipes. Case in point: the meatloaf, whose divinity Colette had just pronounced.

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right: This is better (and designated Easy): Michael Symon’s Meatloaf Ingredients: Olive oil (to coat pan) 1 tbsp unsalted butter 1 red onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 1⁄2 lbs. ground beef (20% fat) 1 1⁄2 lbs. hot Italian sausages, removed from casings 2 tbsp cilantro, chopped 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup panko bread crumbs coarse salt and freshly ground pepper Lightly coat inside of a medium-sized loaf pan or shallow roasting pan with oil. Melt butter in small skillet, and cook the garlic and onions until translucent.

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Third Man Records When a big-time rock star decides to record a solo album, the most common choice is to strip down the sound, to reveal some bare musical bones. But since Jack White made his name playing minimal, punky garage rock with the White Stripes, he headed in the opposite direction with his first “solo” record, Blunderbuss. It’s a heavily layered album featuring contributions from 18 musicians kicking around the studio at White’s record label in Tennessee who provide interjections of honkytonk piano, layers of soulful backing vocals and mournful lap steel guitar.

The end product gives the impression White is obsessed with the golden era of rock; save for some futuristic, glitchy guitar leads here and there, Blunderbuss could pass for an album recorded in the early ’70s. And while devotees of White’s previous work with the White Stripes and the Racon& PREV. teurs will expect oodles of nasty guitar licks, he mostly favors keyboards with tracks like the groove-centric “Missing Pieces,” the nostalgic and beautiful “Love Interruption” and the short-but-sweet “Hypocritical Kiss.” Even when he’s busy showing off how well-rounded a musician he is, White is at his best while stirring up a ruckus on tracks like “Sixteen Saltines,” a three-chord head-banger about … saltines. Yeah.

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Sweet Heart Sweet Light Spiritualized Fat Possum Sweet Heart Sweet Light—the first release from Spiritualized in four years—could be seen as a labor of love. It could also be looked at as a labor of life. Through one stretch of the mixing, band leader Jason Pierce (perhaps better known as J. Spaceman) discovered he had liver disease, which—with the addition of MUSIC long-term being on an experimental drug treatment—made work, let alone life, difficult. The former Spacemen 3 space cadet made it through and Sweet Heart Sweet Light finally saw the light of day, and the result is another strong batch of heartland psych rock. It’s arguably one of the poppiest records Pierce has done as Spiritualized. That said, the familiar themes are still here—death, drugs, religion—given even more heft through soaring choruses. There are a lot of different emotions swirling through the record, almost as if you’re experiencing a chemical trip firsthand. On a sunny day. In church. “Get What You Deserve” is brittle and hazy while “I Am What I Am” is a handclapping gospel song. Pierce has been playing this sonic tug of war for nearly three decades. What’s amazing is that it has only found its way to the ears of very few earthlings.

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Wisteria Steve Kuhn Trio ECM Records The word “pretty” is pretty much anathema when it comes to describing music, akin to N E W S & R E V I E W B U S I N E S S U S E O N LY telling an aspiring writer that something DESIGNER ISSUE DATE ACCT. EXEC. he’s written is “nice.”

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across the country and in such farflung places as Brazil, Singapore by and Germany. It’s Ken Smith a moment the kens@ newsreview.com magazine’s founders hoped would come when they started the Build your project late last empire year, but never Visit expected to happen www.empirical so soon. magazine.com “We started off to purchase following the Sierra subscriptions to digital or print Nevada [Brewing editions ($34.99 Co.] model, to start or $54.99 for 12 local but with no monthly issues) limits,” said Olav of Empirical Bryant Smith, who Magazine. wears multiple hats as Empirical’s managing editor, art director and graphic designer. He and his wife, Tara Grover Smith, the publisher and editor-in-chief, committed themselves to the magazine last October, though the idea has been stewing for much longer.

“I had forgotten, but Tara reminded me that when we first met, I had talked about wanting to start a magazine,” Olav said. That was in Portland in 2005, and the couple was married in 2007.

“We’ve all been writers and editors a long time, and I think every writer and editor dreams of starting their own magazine one day.”

Empirical is designed as a literary and current affairs magazine “with the openness and pioneering spirit of the Pacific Northwest,” and its stated goal is to seek truth

“by boldly introducing thoughtprovoking points of view and new paradigms.”

“I think there’s a hunger for a more philosophical background than a lot of magazines strive for, for going a little deeper,” Tara said.

“We have a spiritual edge and discuss spiritual topics. We have a broad focus that feeds the soul.”

Though June is Empirical’s first monthly issue, a prototype premiere issue was printed two months ago. A sampling of the stories are two works of fiction, a piece on the Occupy movement by Chico State professor Michael Coyle, a story about the Arab Spring by English journalist Emanuel Stoakes and a story about the St. Louis Cardinals’ World Series run written by Randall Auxier, a Southern Illinois University philosophy professor.

The whole package is beautifully designed, with full-color photos and illustrations.

The Smiths’ publishing dreams became more realistic after Tara’s stint working for a now-defunct Texas-based lifestyle magazine. “I was able to see what they were doing right and wrong and learn a lot, so I figured we could take that knowledge and apply it to our own project,” she said.

Soon after they started, the Smiths were joined by Dan O’Brien—a local author of 10 novels who they brought aboard as an editor—and the current triumvirate behind Empirical was finalized.

Between the three, they have backgrounds in philosophy, language, publishing, education and more, which Olav describes as “a good combination of energies.”

O’Brien said the magazine thus far has met their mission statement and even exceeded it, developing a life of its own: “Even without us meaning to create it, there is such consensus in the attitudes and philosophies we have going into the magazine. It seems purposive, but it’s all an accident. Even though it’s unplanned, many of our contributors are using the same kinds of paradigm shifts and the same notions of what’s wrong with the world.

“I think that’s why, on some level, we’re going to be very successful,” he continued. “It’s just going to take time.”

Empirical’s early mass distribution, Tara explained, was based on an initial vote of confidence from their distributors, Rider Circulation Services. “They were supportive from the get go, but when they saw the beauty of the first issue they were overwhelmed and really got behind us.”

O’Brien and the Smiths say they’re “all in” on the project, and have a great deal of faith in their own success, even with today’s dearth of print journalism. Olav likened the situation to that of the music industry: “If you’re a big company and you count on enormous revenue to do what you’re doing, then you’d be seeing the writing on the wall and thinking ‘this is disappearing.’ Well that stage of print production might be disappearing, but we still think it’s possible to find a niche.

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Darrell Scott is an official “favorite son” of the Big Room. I can say without hesitation that he’s my favorite singer/songwriter/ musician that I’ve presented in the Big Room. His peers consider him to be the best of the best. “His playing is unreal. He’s just limitless in his approach and knowledge of instruments.” ~ Sam Bush “Darrell Scott’s music is equal parts talent and heart, soul and grace, power and poetry, charm and wit, funk and grit.” ~ Rodney Crowell “He is so good. He is soooo good.” ~ Alison Krauss “Darrell Scott is to Nashville what Richard Thompson is to Britain.” ~ The Boston Globe. Nuf said. Darrell will be performing solo and it will be a sit-down presentation. If you’ve seen Darrell before, we’ll see you there. If you haven’t, don’t miss this show. Please note that his previous visits have all sold out quickly so get your tickets early.

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JOHN SEID: John Seid and friends, featuring Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing an eclectic mix of tunes all night. Th, 6:30-9:30pm. Free. Johnnies Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaurant.com.

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.

Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

SILIAN RAIL: An instrumental duo from the Bay Area that makes way too much noise for two people. Cold Blue Mountain and The Americas open. Th, 5/10, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

ZEN ROAD PILOTS: A psychedelic blues three-piece reminiscent of ’60s rock, presented as part of California Dream Week. Holly Taylor Trio opens. Th, 5/10, 7:30pm. $7. The Graduate; 344 W. Eighth St.; (530) 343-2790.

MCBRIDE BROTHERS BAND: ’60s rock covers, presented as part of California Dream Week. Th, 5/10, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

MT. EDEN: Bombastic synthesizer loops and endless vamping are the norm with this dubstep duo from Auckland, New Zealand. Crizzly and Minnesota open. Th, 5/10, 8:30pm. $20-$30.

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NEW IBERIANS: A six-piece, dance-

friendly ensemble from Portland. Th, 5/10, 7-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

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

11FRIDAY ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE: The heaviest of local metal with Armed for Apocalypse, Into the Open Earth and Taunis Year One. F, 5/11, 8pm. $5.

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

HAIL THE SUN: A post-hardcore outfit with dual guitars and a super busy drummer/vocalist. Post-alternative four piece The Victor Ship opens. F, 5/11, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

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. F, 6:30-8:30pm through 10/26. Opens 5/11. Free. Johnnies Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaurant.com.

NIGHT FEVER: A high-energy party band specializing in dance hits. In the brewery. F, 5/11, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

PAT HULL & BYRON DUNNING: Byron Dunning of the Amblers and Pat Hull play unplugged. F, 5/11, 7-10pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

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Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

STRANGE FICTION: Rock originals and

covers. F, 5/11, 9pm. Free. The End Zone; 250 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 345-7330.

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from Houston, Texas. Giddy-up. Sa, 5/12, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

ALLI BATTAGLIA: Frontwoman from Alli Battaglia & the Musical Brewing Company without her gang. Sa, 5/12, 710pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

THE CONNIPTION FITS: An indie band from Vermont that dabbles in alternative, pop and progressive rock. The Hambones and Kasm open. Sa, 5/12, 9pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

MEDIEVAL & SPANISH BLUES: Virtuoso classical guitarist Claude Bourbon (from France!) plays a variety of styles from around the world. Sa, 5/12, 8pm. $10. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

MUSIC CIRCLE: An open jam for all levels of musicians. Second Sa of every month, 1-4pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

NIGHT FEVER: A high-energy party band specializing in dance hits. In the brewery. Sa, 5/12, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

POWER HOUR: Live music in the lounge. F, 5/11, 8:30pm. Free. Feather

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THE REAL NASTY: An absolutely filthy mix of rock, country and blues presented as part of California Dream Week. The Mercantiles, Gentleman’s Coup and Waltzsolsnakenstein open.

F, 5/11, 9pm. $7. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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NORTHERN HEAT: A variety of musical styles, covering tunes from the ’50s to ’90s. Sa, 5/12, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghills casino.com.

E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

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Foolish Ways opens. Sa, 5/12, 9pm. $10.

Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

STRANGE FICTION: Rock originals and

covers. Sa, 5/12, 9pm. Free. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge; 2582 Esplanade; (530) 343-0662.

POWER HOUR: Live music in the lounge.

Sa, 5/12, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

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SAPPHIRE SOUL: A Cammie-nominated blues band known for tight musicianship. Sa, 5/12, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Carey Robinson hosts a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

LED KAAPANA & MIKE KAAWA: An evening of traditional Hawaiian music with slack-key guitarist Led Kaapana and 12-string guitarist Mike Kaawa. M, 5/14, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

ELECTRO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FAMILY CIRCUS: Lantz Lazwell and the Vibe Tribe are joined onstage by Joe Con, Kiren Notez and Apaulo 8 to create a blend of rock, hip-hop and electro. W, 5/16, 8pm. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888.

SOLO JAZZ: Every Wednesday with Carey

BLACK QUEEN: Theatrical black metal from Seattle. Amarok, Thy Lord Beheaded and Arrastrados open. Tu, 5/15, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafe coda.com.

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

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YOU ARE PLURAL: An experimental duo from San Francisco with classical undertones. Kelly Brown and Lisa Marie, Fera and The Sad Bastards open. W, 5/16, 9pm. $5. Origami Lounge; 7th and Cherry Streets.

Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

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

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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.

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

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

TACKLE BOX: DJ Shelley. Tu, Su, 6pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499.

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Actually, I was going to rail off a whole bunch of stuff that some students might not have yet experienced—my particular list of things that define Chico: tamales at the Thursday Night Market, watching a local band, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., etc.—and insist that you had to check everything off in order to get your Chico-cred diploma. But that’s my Chico.

And it would be an inane exercise in self-indulgence to throw my list at the feet of this year’s short-timers (even though I do enjoy my selfindulging inanity).

So, I’ll instead offer just one assignment. Let’s call it extra credit.

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Before you leave Chico, on one of the perfect clear days ahead, head to Upper Bidwell Park, out to Parking Lot B. Starting just below the modest Easter Cross, make your way up the North Rim Trail. Breathe deep and drink in the scene as you go, following the wide, bumpy trail past Horseshoe Lake below and up around the long bend ahead. It will take only 20 minutes or so, and once you’ve gone past the second sign for Maidu Trail, turn right and walk to edge of the point. Look back at Chico. It’s not big. Just green and still and pretty perfect. It might not the usual image that comes to mind when people say “Chico,” but there it is. You should take a picture.

When you leave, your memories of Chico will include your own personal collection of half-remembered events and a few crystalclear images of some of the friends, foes, teachers, bartenders and various characters who helped shape your first years of adulthood.

And maybe when you’re out in the big world, and you’re thinking back to these days inside the bubble, this parting shot can be the one that marks your time spent in Chico, like one of those snow globe panoramas where everything inside never changes, always staying exactly as you remembered.

GEEK-ROCK BLATHERING Not to worry. That squealing sound you heard slicing through the late-spring heat was just the sound of a delighted Arts DEVO nerding-out after discovering the new www.28thdaymusic.com website. For those Chico rockers of a certain age, 28th Day is the origin of what is holy and good in local music, and for this geek, the band’s seminal EP was one of the early gateways to the world of the musical underground. For us, this repository of rough recordings from the band’s early days is like a gift from heaven. Some of the shows even And on the 28th Day … include copies of fliers, original set lists and reviews, including one by the late great Matt Hogan of a 1984 show at Chico State’s BMU. Here’s an excerpt: The four play in pathetic dying wretched dens of pestilence and decadence and bring with them something fresh, ragged, but alive, pulsing with the fervor of those who know at least that they don’t know but are searching and relishing The Search.

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SIERRA POOLS INC, 1 Governors Lane, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TYLER MORELAND Dated: April 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000567 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LITHE AND NIMBLE at 2954 Hwy 32 #600, Chico, CA 95926.

WHOLE BODY FITNESS INC, 6177 Francis Lane, Orland, CA 95953. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ASHLEY POLI Dated: April 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000475 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL CUSTOM IRON FENCE AND RAIL at 2700 Hegan Lane #110, Chico, CA 95928.

PHIL CHARLES ALLEN, 311 Stonebridge Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: PHILLIP ALLEN Dated: April 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000541 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name HONEY RUN QUILTERS at 1230 Esplanade, Chico, CA 905926.

CARMEN G ROLFE, 2 Summer Sky Commons, Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: CARMEN G ROLFE Dated: April 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2007-0002066 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COMPUTER MEDIC at 744 Flume St. Chico, CA 95928.

ARTHUR DEROSE, 3 Dove Creek Ct. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ARTHUR DEROSE Dated: March 28, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000495 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PLATINUM SALON at 407 Walnut St. Suite C, Chico, CA 95926.

ABBY COX, 2160 Zuni Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ABBY COX Dated: March 27, 2012

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MANIFEST MUSIC PRODUCTIONS LLC at 870 Lynn Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

MANIFEST MUSIC PRODUCTIONS LLC, 870 Lynn Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: AMANDA P HACKNEY Dated: April 4, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000526 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO BACK AND NECK PAIN CENTER at 2060 Talbert Dr. #150, Chico, CA 95928.

MCCOWAN CHIROPRACTIC INC, 649 Coyote Way, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MATT MCCOWAN, D.C. Dated: April 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000552 Published: April 19,26, May 3,10, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CLEAR WATER POOL at 3012 California Park Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

TOM ESTRELLA, 3012 California Park Dr. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: THOMAS ESTRELLA Dated: April 20, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000613 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ECOMAX CALIFORNIA at 25 Chaparral Dr. Oroville, CA 95966.

BARRY DEDITCH, 25 Chaparral Dr. Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: BARRY DEDITCH Dated: April 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000514 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GRUB GROWN at 1525 Dayton Rd. Chico, CA 95928.

SHERRI SCOTT, 1525 Dayton Rd. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHERRI SCOTT Dated: March 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000464 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TACOS TONAYA NO 2 at 244 Walnut #C, Chico, CA 95928.

MARIA G QUINTERO, RODRIGO O QUINTERO, 1372 Humboldt Ave. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: RODRIGO QUINTERO Dated: April 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000602 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SOCIAL SECURITY ADVOCATES at 341 Broadway #405, Chico, CA 95928.

MARY MARGARET GALVIN, KEVIN MARK HENDREN, 318 Flume St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: MARY GALVIN Dated: April 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000558 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name EMPIRE COFFEE at 434 Orange St. Chico, CA 95928.

ANDREW TERRELL, MEREDITH KELLEY, 454 E 8th St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MEREDITH KELLEY Dated: April 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2008-0001443 Published: April 23, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NOVA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, NVDS INC at 1494 Arch Way, Chico, CA 95973.

NORTH VALLEY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC, 1494 Arch Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: GARY GREEN Dated: April 16, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000584 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EMPIRE COFFEE at 434 Orange St. Chico, CA 95928.

LINDSAY BROTHERS, 925 Arbutus Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LINDSAY BROTHERS Dated: April 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000619 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JACKS FAMILY RESTAURANT at 540 Main St. Chico, CA 95928.

MARTIN GARCIA, TELMA GARCIA, MTG MANAGEMENT, 5 Sterling Ct. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TELMA GARCIA Dated: April 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000566 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as IRON HORSE STATION, IRON HORSE STATION AND STORE, IRON HORSE STORE at 3688 Durham Dayton Hwy, Chico, CA 95927.

DALE OWENS FREEMAN, 1818 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: Dale Owens Freeman Dated: April 16, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000581 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRUNK INSURANCE SERVICES at 4061 Port Chicago Hwy, Suite H, Concord, CA 94520.

ALLIED RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE SERVICES INC, 4061 Port Chicago Hwy, Suite H, Concord, CA 94520.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MYSTI MATTHEWS Dated: April 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000565 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BEYOND THE BARN at 2279 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

LAURA MARIE HAZEL, 1785 Heron Lane, Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LAURA M HAZEL Dated: April 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000561 Published: April 26, May 3,10,17, 2012

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as INDAY’S at 1490 Heritage Oak Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

ETHEL CABAHIT GEIGER, JOHN DAVID GEIGER, 1490 Heritage Oak Dr. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: ETHEL C GEIGER Dated: March 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000380 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as IKE’S SMOKE HOUSE at 13670 Anderson Bros. Dr., Chico, CA 95973.

ISAAC WARREN ANDERSON, KRYSTIN ANDERSON, 805 Oak Lawn Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: ISAAC ANDERSON Dated: April 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000652 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DELLIPROOF at 1134 W 5th St. Chico, CA 95928.

ALEX THOMAS FORTIS, 1134 W 5th St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ALEX FORTIS Dated: April 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000550 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AUSTIN BROTHERS at 3217 Cohasset Rd. #120, Chico, CA 95973.

CEA INVESTMENTS LLC, 6154 County Road 200, Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: RANDAL W AUSTIN Dated: April 20, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000616 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SOLID TATTOO MACHINES at 319 Main St. #200, Chico, CA

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95928.

BEN LUCAS, 31 Dean Way, Chico, Ca 95926.

CHRISTOPHER PEPLOW, 985 Salem #1, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: BEN LUCAS Dated: April 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000618 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIESTA BELLA at 36 Birdwing Ct. Chico, CA 95973.

MARIA DELGADO, 36 Birdwing Ct. Chico, CA 95973.

AURORA GUZMAN, 262 Via Mission Dr. Chico, CA 95928 SANDRA C JAUREGUI, 4572 Bell Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: AURORA GUZMAN Dated: April 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000503 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ZEN BOTANICALS at 84 Via Morro Ct. Chico, CA 95928.

JANIE KUOCH, 84 Via Morro Ct. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JANIE KUOCH Dated: April 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000531 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FINISHING EDGE at 3150 Highway 32, Chico, CA 95973.

ROBERT KONECEK, 1218 Yosemite Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ROBERT KONECEK Dated: April 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000626 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as YOUNG LOVE OUTFITTERS at 2622 Navarro Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

KENNETH SWAIN, 2622 Navarro Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

DAVID ZOPPI, 1604 Laburnum Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: DAVID ZOPPI Dated: April 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000635 Published: May 3,10,27,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ANGELS IN STONE at 28 Jordans Pl. #600, Chico, CA 95973.

LARRY A ATKINS, 28 Jordans Pl. #600, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LARRY A ATKINS Dated: April 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000625 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

Dated: April 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000596 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO IT SOLUTIONS at 2260 St. George Lane #2 Chico, CA 95926.

ESLEY JEROME SHAFFER, 6403 Corning Ct. Magalia, CA 95954. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: ESLEY SHAFFER Dated: April 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2008-0001099 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE KALE LEAF at 1083 Sierra Vista Way, Chico, CA 95928.

PRAIRIE Y FRANCIA, 1083 Sierra Vista Way, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed PRAIRIE Y FRANCIA Dated: April 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000570 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HOUSING TOOLS at 815 Alice Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

JAMES ROBERT COLES, 815 Alice Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JAMES COLES Dated: May 4, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000683 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VIVA ROLLER DERBY at 2636 Burnap Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

NICOLA BEATTS, 657 E 6th St. Chico, CA 95926 BRITTANY MICHELS, 1670 Kenford Way, Paradise, CA 95969.

BRITTNEY MURRAY, 1550 Springfield Dr. #63, Chico, CA 95928.

WENDY WILSON, 2636 Burnap Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: BRITTNEY MURRAY Dated: April 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000556 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MERIAM PARK at 539 Flume St. #200 Chico, CA 95928.

THOMAS DIGIOVANNI, 578 Vallombrosa Way, Chico, CA 95926.

JEFF FLEEMAN, 565 Connecticut St. San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: THOMAS DIGIOVANNI Dated: April 20, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000615 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO IT SOLUTIONS at 48 Bellarmine Ct. #80, Chico, CA 95928.

PAYDEN WOMACK, 6581 Rocky Lane, Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: PAYDEN WOMACK

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO NATURAL SOLUTION FOR CHRONIC CONDITIONS at 4D Williamsburg Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

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JAMES H SCHWARTZ, 1603 E Lassen Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: JAMES H SCHWARTZ Dated: May 4, 2012 FBN Number: 20-7-0002054 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TWIN CREEK COMPANY at 11706 Centerville Rd. Chico, CA 95928.

DEBRA HALL FREEMAN, 11706 Centerville Rd. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DEBRA FREEMAN Dated: April 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000434 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DIAMOND DETAIL at 1005 Liberty Lane, Chico, CA 95928.

DONNA MORGADO, 1005 Liberty Lane, Chico, Ca 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DONNA MORGADO Dated: April 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000628 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RICO’S MEXICAN FOOD at 900 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95928.

JOSE ANTONIO FLORES, 900 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95928.

EDWARD DANIEL ZUNIGA, 901 Walnut St. Corning, CA 96021.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: Jose Antonio Flores Dated: May 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000673 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GOODWIN INVESTMENT GROUP LP at 647 W 4th Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

DAN OSTRANDER 475 Lakeshore Blvd. #4, Incline Village, NV 89451.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: DAN OSTRANDER Dated: May 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000669 Published: May 10,17,24,32, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ELAINE PEGG ADULT DAY CENTER at 5325 Black Olive Dr. Paradise, CA 95969.

THE ARC OF BUTTE COUNTY INC. 2030 Park Ave. Chico, CA 95928 This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MICHAEL MCGINNIS Dated: April 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000637 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HONEY RUN QUILTERS at 2418 Cohasset Rd. Chico, CA 95926.

CATHY ANN JENKS, DANIEL SCOTT JENKS, 14444 Richardson Springs Rd.

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Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: DAN JENKS Dated: April 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000539 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PLANET LANDSCAPE at 2586 Ludlum Ave. Palermo, CA 95968.

SHAWN WAYNE DAVIS, 2586 Ludlum Ave. Palermo CA 95968. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHAWN DAVIS Dated: April 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000643 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LAKE HOUSE MEDIA LLC at 500 N Rainbow Blvd. #300A, Las Vegas, NV 89107.

LAKE HOUSE MEDIA LLC, 500 N Rainbow Blvd. #300A, Las Vegas, NV, 89107.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: DUSTIN KRAUSE Dated: April 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000603 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Secs 6101-6107 U.C.C.) 1.Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below: 2.The name(s) and business address of the seller(s) are: SCHINDELBECK, INC. 1141 Forest Ave. #20, Chico, CA 95928 3.The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: SAME 4.The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: DARCI BURTON and MATT SHEPPARD, 1208 Bidwell Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

5.The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: NUTRISHOP CHICO EAST AVENUE 855 East Ave. #220 Chico, CA 95926 ESCROW HOLDER: Bidwell Title & Escrow Co. 500 Wall St. Chico CA 95928.

P.O.Box 5173, Chico, CA 95927 ESCROW OFFICER: Jolleen Whitsett DATE OF ANTICIPATED SALE: June 1, 2012 LAST DAY TO FILE CLAIMS: May 31, 2012 Notice is hereby given that Transferor intends to make a BULK SALE of the assets of the above described Business to Transferee including all stock in trade, furniture and equipment used in the said Business, to be consummated at the office of Escrow Holder at the time of consummation or thereafter.

Creditors of the Transferor may file claims with the Escrow Holder on or before the last day to file claims stated above. This sale is subject to Sec. 61066107 of the California Commercial Code.

Transferor has used the following business names and addresses within last three years so far as known to Transferee: Nutrishop Chico 1141 Forest Ave. #20 Chico, CA 95928 Dated May 3, 2012 Signed: DARCI BURTON, MATT SHEPPARD Published: May 10, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JANELLE ST.CLAIR and THOMAS PEET filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Jacob Nathaniel Crosthwaite Proposed name: Jacob Nathaniel St.Clair 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: June 8, 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: April 20, 2012 Case Number: 156523 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAMES CHRISANTO SALAZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAMES CHRISANTO SALAZ Proposed name: JAMES JETT GREYWOLF 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: June 1, 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: April 30, 2012 Case Number: 156458 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CARLI PEARL SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: EMMA MARIE LARABEE Proposed name: EMMA MARIE JOHNS 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

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hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: June 1, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Barbara Roberts Dated: April 16, 2012 Case Number: 156548 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

SUMMONS CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 CHILDS NAME: XMG Case Numbers: J-35747 To: JIMMY P PALMER and anyone claiming to be a parent of XMG born on September 24, 2010 at Enloe Hospital, Chico, CA. A hearing will be held: Date: July 5, 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.

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.

Dated: April 27, 2012 Signed: Kimberly Flener Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: GINGER A HARLOFF aka GINGER MATHIS aka GINGON HARLOFF, an individual, and Does 1-100, inclusive.

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: PERSOLVE, LLC, A Limited liability company, dba, ACCOUNT RESOLUTION ASSOCIATES. NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose

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the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: BUTTE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: Alaine Patti-Jelsvik PERSOLVE, LLC dba Account Resolution Associates 9301 Winnetka Ave. Suite B Chatsworth, CA 91311 (818)534-3100 Dated: July 20, 2011 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 154291 Published: May 3,10,17,24, 2012

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: RICH W MILLER aka RICHARD W MILLER aka RICHARD H MILLER, an individual, and Does 1-100, inclusive.

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: PERSOLVE, LLC, A Limited liability company, dba, ACCOUNT RESOLUTION ASSOCIATES. NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

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lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In

one of your past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at pretentious tyrants—and gotten away with it. At least that’s one explanation for how confident you often are about speaking up when everyone else seems unwilling to point out that the emperor is in fact wearing no clothes. This quality should come in handy during the coming week. It may be totally up to you to reveal the truth about an obvious secret or collective delusion. Can you figure out a way to be relatively tactful as you say what supposedly can’t or shouldn’t be said?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus actor

Daniel Day Lewis will star as American president Abraham Lincoln in a film to be released later this year. Hollywood insiders report that Lewis basically became Lincoln months before the film was shot and throughout the entire process. Physically, he was a dead ringer for the man he was pretending to be. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, he spoke in the cadences and accent of his character rather than in his own natural voice. It might be fun for you to try a similar experiment in the coming weeks, Taurus. Fantasize in detail about the person you would ultimately like to become, and then imitate that future version of you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The idea of a

housewarming party comes from an old British tradition. People who were moving would carry away embers from the fireplace of the home they were leaving and bring them to the fireplace of the new home. I recommend that you borrow this idea and apply it to the transition you’re making. As you migrate toward the future, bring along a symbolic spark of the vitality that has animated the situation you’re transitioning out of.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My friend

Irene has a complicated system for handling her cats’ food needs. The calico, Cleopatra, demands chicken for breakfast and beef stew at night, and all of it absolutely must be served in a pink bowl on the dining room table. Caligula insists on fish stew early and tuna later. He wants it on a black plate placed behind the love seat. Nefertiti refuses everything but gourmet turkey upon waking and beef liver for the evening repast. If it’s not on the basement stairs, she won’t touch it. I’m bringing your attention to this, Cancerian, because I think you could draw inspiration from it. It’s in your interests, at least temporarily, to keep your loved ones and allies happy with a coordinated exactitude that rivals Irene’s.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The moon’s pale glow

shimmers on your face as you run your fingers through your hair. In your imagination, 90 violins play with sublime fury, rising toward a climax, while the bittersweet yearning in your heart sends warm chills down your spine. You part your lips and open your eyes wide, searching for the words that could change everything. And then suddenly you remember you have to contact the plumber tomorrow, and find the right little white lie to appease you-knowwho, and run out to the store to get that gadget you saw advertised. Cut! Cut! Let’s do this scene again. Take five. It’s possible, my dear, that your tendency to overdramatize is causing you to lose focus. Let’s trim the 90 violins down to ten and see if maybe that helps.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We all need a

little more courage now and then,” said poet Marvin Bell. “That’s what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you.” I advise you to adopt his approach in the coming days, Virgo. Proceed on the assumption that what you need most right now is to be braver and bolder. And consider the possibility that a good way to accomplish this goal is by hanging around people who are so intrepid and adventurous that their spirit will rub off on you.

by Rob Brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the Byrds’

Chico’s NFL referee

1966 song “5D (Fifth Dimension),” the singer makes a curious statement. He says that during a particularly lucid state, when he was simply relaxed and paying attention, he saw the great blunder his teachers had made. I encourage you to follow that lead, Libra. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to thoroughly question the lessons you’ve absorbed from your important teachers—even the ones who taught you the best and helped you the most. You will earn a healthy jolt as you decide what to keep and what to discard from the gifts that beloved authorities have given you.

story and photo by Vic Cantu vscantu@sbcg lobal.net If you caught last year’s NFC championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants, who went on to win the Super Bowl, you were watching Chico’s Don Carlsen officiating the game. He was the ref wearing the No. 39. Carlsen, 65, was also an alternate at the Super Bowl—he stood on the sidelines in case one of the starting refs got hurt. Some know Carlsen from his previous job with the Butte County Office of Education. He worked there for 24 years, retiring in 2003 as the assistant superintendent of administrative services.

Carlsen has been a football ref for 41 years.

Next season will be his 24th year in the NFL.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What are the

most beautiful and evocative songs you know? What are the songs that activate your dormant wisdom and unleash waves of insight about your purpose here on earth and awaken surges of gratitude for the labyrinthine path you have traveled to become the person you are today? Whatever those tunes are, I urge you to gather them all into one playlist, and listen to them with full attention while at rest in a comfortable place where you feel perfectly safe.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a concentrated dose of the deepest, richest, most healing emotions you can tap into.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Tourists rarely go to the South American nation of Guyana. That’s mostly because much of it is virgin rain forest and there are few amenities for travelers. In part it’s also due to the reputation-scarring event that occurred there in 1978, when cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones led a mass suicide of his devotees. Last year, after travel writer Jeff Greenwald announced his trip to Guyana, his friends responded with a predictable joke: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!”—a reference to the beverage Jones spiked with cyanide before telling his followers to drink up. But Greenwald was glad he went. The lush, tangled magnificence of Guyana was tough to navigate but a blessing to the senses and a first-class adventure. Be like him, Sagittarius. Consider engaging with a situation that offers challenging gifts.

Overcome your biases about a potentially rewarding experience.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You

have more freedom than you are using,” says artist Dan Attoe. Allow that taunt to get under your skin and rile you up in the coming days, Capricorn. Let it motivate you to lay claim to all the potential spaciousness and independence and leeway that are just lying around going to waste. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you have a sacred duty to cultivate more slack as if your dreams depended on it. (They do!)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’ve

been tuning in to my horoscopes during the past months, you’re aware that I have been encouraging you to refine and deepen the meaning of home. You know that I have been urging you to get really serious about identifying what kind of environment you need in order to thrive; I’ve been asking you to integrate yourself into a community that brings out the best in you; I’ve been nudging you to create a foundation that will make you strong and sturdy for a long time. Now it’s time to finish up your intensive work on these projects. You’ve got about four more weeks before a new phase of your life’s work will begin.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is your BS-

detector in good condition? I hope so, because it’s about to get a workout. Rumors will be swirling and gossip will be flourishing, and you will need to be on high alert in order to distinguish the laughable delusions that have no redeeming value from the entertaining stories that have more than a few grains of truth. If you pass those tests, Pisces, your reward will be handsome: You’ll become a magnet for inside information, valuable secrets, and unusual but useful clues that come from unexpected sources.

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15 MINUTES

BREZSNY’S

For the week of May 10, 2012

What are your biggest refereeing highlights?

Being picked to go to last year’s Super Bowl as an alternate is definitely the best. I received a golden ref’s whistle in a beautiful display case for that. Next is my selection to referee 18 playoff games and one Pro Bowl. Others are the many games I’ve officiated that went down to the last play or last second.

How were you chosen for the NFC championship and the Super Bowl?

A supervisor grades us after every game and we get a “downgrade” for every disagreeable call. During last year’s 15 regular-season games I officiated 2,500 plays and only received four total downgrades. So they picked me as one of seven out of 119 total NFL refs to officiate the NFC championship. The guy who started over me in the Super Bowl only got two total downgrades. Near perfect.

Do you know Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers?

Yes, I know him very well. We spoke on the field before the 2012 Super Bowl. I also refereed his first playoff game in 2011 against the Philadelphia Eagles, when they went on to win the Super Bowl. I officiate one of his games every year.

Isn’t it nerve-wracking making calls before thousands of live viewers and millions on TV? Well, I get excited by the cheering fans, but I learn to zoom out on it. Especially if you’ve got 70,000 fans booing, you have to tune it out.

How do you stay in such great shape?

I’ve taken pride in lifting weights since I was 17.

I also run during the NFL season twice a week.

I jog from my house to the Pleasant Valley High track where I sprint and backpedal 40-50 yards. Backpedaling is vital during the games.

I’m lucky because I’m 65 with no major injuries. Many of my colleagues retire long before my age.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Right speech Now and then I get an urge to attend to politics. I used to read about politics and comment on political issues. I’ve been to Chico Silly Council meetings, and once I even went to a meeting of the Butte County Board of Ignoramuses. My problem is that I think of them as the Silly Council and the Board of Ignoramuses, and my experience of them alters my perception of them.

Wikipedia says right speech is “Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle chatter.” I’ve been looking for a way to keep to right speech and talk about politics at the same time. I’m still looking. I’m sure it can be done.

I’ve met a few City Council members, and they seem like decent people, just maybe afraid of more things than is good for them and trying to satisfy a lot of people at the same time, which isn’t good for anybody.

I’ve been trying to like Obama—I really have—but his embrace of Super PACs after dissing them specifically not all that long ago was yet another last straw.

The sole remaining honorable Chicago politician died, I think, in the ’90s, and I’ve never expected much from Obama, although I admit I did expect something.

Torture, domestic spying, any underhanded government policy is fine with him. What bill of rights?

I still just barely manage to think Barack Obama may be a decent person. If I were an old-fashioned, judgmental kind of guy, I might, if I were also both uncharitable and folksy, say Obama warn’t worth a bucket of warm spit. I may be all those things but I won’t say it anyway, because I don’t think that’s right speech. Nate, a local political analyst, says Obama is the least worst candidate, and he may be right.

The Republican wannabes are a disheartening lot, though not quite beneath contempt. Robert Williams and I came to blows over the 1956 Presidential race, and although I won my enthusiasm has waned steadily ever since. Based on everything I’ve seen and heard, a lot of people in the United States are ignorant, quite a few are stupid, and several of the dummies are frequently on television. Even if that’s true, I don’t know that it’s right speech. Even if it’s not abusive or divisive, it’s still idle chatter.

Whenever I read or hear about some political development or discussion, I can often think of a lot of things to say or write about it, and all of it is wrong speech—true, apt and no help at all. I’m sure all I need is practice, for which there are fortunately myriad opportunities.

May 10, 2012

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