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Voters should expect to be confused by the June 5 election ballot .

Sam Aanestad, bottom feeder Wthe opportunity to hear Republican congressional candidate Sam Aanestad give a talk to the Paradise Tea Party

believed Barack Obama was a Muslim.

Aanestad said, “Yes, I believe Obama is a Muslim.” He stated this with 20 witnesses in Patriots on April 26, 2012. I joined around 20 curious people the room. as Aanestad pitched his plea for votes.

From the Tea Party point of view, to be It was pretty much what I expected: Muslim is to belong to a religion that is hell Aanestad is in support of the Arizona bent on destroying the United States. To state “papers please” law. He is in support of that Barack Obama is Muslim in front of drastic federal cuts and the elimination of these true believers is to state that Barack several governmental departments. He is Obama is hell bent on destroying the United concerned about the deficit, and carries a States. deficit clock that gives, in real time, the Personally, I don’t care if Obama is Muscurrent deficit amount. He is for drilling lim; we have freedom of religion in this in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. country. However, Obama has stated that he by He wants to build the is not Muslim. He attended a ChrisAllan Stellar Keystone pipeline. And church for years. He was raised I asked Aanestad, tian he believes in climate by a Christian family. That’s good The author has been change, but doesn’t point blank, if he enough for me. a psychiatric nurse believe it is manmade. “If Aanestad, by spreading lies, has believed Barack for 20 years. He lives the climate changes, we’ll become a bottom feeder. How can with his family in an just adapt to it,” he states. he believe such tripe when it was Obama was a “off grid” home Pretty standard Obama, and not Bush, who found in Concow.

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Republican doctrine— and gave the order to kill Osama until a woman brought up bin Laden? her concerns about the Muslim BrotherI expect people who represent me in Conhood. That’s when Aanestad said we gress to have a certain amount of class. To have a Muslim in the Oval Office. stay away from the fear-mongering, to stay Incredulous, feeling dizzy, disoriented out of the gutter. To show good judgment and not believing what I’d just heard a when stating an opinion. Sam Aanestad major candidate for federal office say, I should apologize for his inflammatory asked Aanestad, point blank, if he remarks. He will not get my vote. Ω ith the June open primary growing nigh, I took

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That’s because, while the presidential contest remains a traditional primary election, with voters casting ballots for candidates in their own parties, the state and congressional races are being handled differently.

In 2010 voters approved Proposition 14, which created an “open primary” in which candidates compete against all other candidates, regardless of party.

The top two vote-getters advance to the November general election.

Meanwhile, the races for Butte County supervisor in Districts 1 and 5 are traditional nonpartisan primary contests. If no candidate garners a majority of the votes, the top two will go to a runoff in November. (District 4 Supervisor Steve Lambert is running unopposed.)

So there you have it: three different types of races on one ballot. No wonder you’re confused. Just don’t let that stop you from voting. Turnout is critical, especially for the more progressive candidates and measures. Here are our recommendations: United States Senate: Dianne Feinstein. The veteran senator is running against a bunch of no-name candidates, including Elizabeth Emken, who has the backing of the California Republican Party. This one is a nobrainer.

United States representative: Jim Reed. The moderate Democrat back for a second try for Wally Herger’s seat offers the flexibility and ability to work across the aisle that his chief Republican opponents, Sam Aanestad and Doug LaMalfa, lack. In fact, if we wanted to vote Republican, we’d back Happy Valley real-estate agent Greg Cheadle. He at least has a sense of humor.

State Assembly District 3: Charles Rouse. We’d like to see Rouse make it into the November general election, where he’d no doubt face Dan Logue, the hard-right Republican incumbent. Rouse, a retired postal worker from Corning, is a moderate Democrat whose all-purpose motto is, “If you want it, you have to pay for it.” Chico voters should know that he strongly supports higher education and wants to fund it at adequate levels.

State Assembly District 1: Robert Meacher. All five of the candidates in this race are impressive. The three with the most experience are the two conservative Republicans, Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti and Lassen County Supervisor Brian Dahle, and the one moderate Democrat, Plumas County Supervisor Robert Meacher. Bosetti and Dahle have both drunk the “no-tax-pledge” Kool-Aid, which means Meacher is the only one with the flexibility needed to govern California.

Proposition 28: Yes. Are you happy with the State Legislature? Most people aren’t. The current term-limits law is part of the problem. It doesn’t give lawmakers, especially in the Assembly, time to learn the ropes and develop into knowledgeable leaders before they’re termed out. This measure would tweak the law to allow them to stay in one house longer and gain valuable experience, while reducing their total possible tenure in the Capitol from 14 to 12 years. (See “Prop. 28 will fix term limits,” Editorial, May 3.)

Proposition 29: Yes. The measure would add a dollar tax to every pack of cigarettes, the $735 million in annual revenue to be used for cancer research. The American Lung Association and American Cancer Society are for it; Big Tobacco is against it, to the tune so far of $40 million. (See “Yes on Proposition 29,” Editorial, April 26.)

Measure A: No. Butte County supervisors passed a flawed medicalmarijuana ordinance last year. Tell them to start over. (See “Measure A’s a downer,” Editorial, May 17.)

Supervisor, District 1: Bill Connelly. He’s not the most PC pol around, but he works hard, is approachable, cares for his community and doesn’t let ideology get in the way of good sense.

Supervisor, District 5: Robin Huffman. The Board of Supervisors is dominated by conservative men. Huffman, a former Paradise councilwoman, would add philosophical and gender balance to a board that desperately needs it. She’s smart, too. Ω

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Death of an innocent man In November, California voters will be asked to decide—via the SAFE initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot—whether they want to join the 17 other states that have abolished the death penalty in favor of life without the possibility of parole. There are many reasons for doing so, some moral, others practical, cost being one of the latter: The state has spent $4 billion to execute just 13 people since 1978 and could save $1 billion over five years by getting rid of death row.

From a moral standpoint, we must recognize that human beings inevitably make mistakes, but there is no rectifying the death of an innocent person. The Innocence Project, which uses DNA testing to overturn wrongful convictions, has freed 289 people wrongfully convicted of serious crimes in the United States, 17 of whom had been sentenced to death.

Do we know for sure that innocent people have been put to death? Yes, we do. There was the case in Texas of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 for murdering his three children by setting his home on fire.

Advances in arson science subsequently showed with near certainty that he didn’t do it.

Of course, near certainty is not the same as absolute certainty. But there’s another case from Texas—a state that seems to relish executions, having put 482 people to death since 1982—in which the death of an innocent man is absolutely certain. He was Carlos DeLuna, and on Dec. 8, 1989, at the age of 26, he was executed for stabbing a young woman to death in a Corpus Christi gas station robbery.

Earlier this month Columbia Law School released a book-length account based on the six years professor James Liebman and 12 students spent detailing the multitudinous errors that led to DeLuna’s arrest and conviction for a crime someone else committed. That someone was Carlos Hernandez, who looked enough like DeLuna to be his twin, and who died in a Texas prison while serving time on another stabbing beef.

DeLuna knew Hernandez—and also knew he was the killer. He saw him in the gas station wrestling with a woman behind the counter. Frightened, he ran away.

Hearing sirens, he hid. He was found a few minutes later.

At trial, prosecutors called Hernandez “a figment of DeLuna’s imagination.”

But he was real, and at large in the Corpus Christi community, where he made numerous confessions to having killed the woman and joked that his tocayo, or namesake, had taken the fall. Four years after DeLuna’s death a private investigator did in a day what scores of police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges had failed to do: He found that Carlos Hernandez did exist.

Go to http://tinyurl.com/tocayos for a detailed account of how DeLuna was wrongfully convicted and executed. It’s harrowing, but it’s also something we should remember when we consider whether to maintain the death penalty in California.

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Getting the help needed Re “Special Report: How Butte County is doing ‘whatever it takes’ to help the destitute” (Cover story, May 17): First of all, if Butte county officials are doing “whatever it takes” to help the homeless and mentally ill, there would be representatives down on the streets to help the extreme mentally ill get SSI or into specialneeds living facilities. The extreme mentally handicapped don’t even know they are eligible for disability income, and some might be getting SSI and not even know it.

Butte County Behavioral Health has told me personally that their budget has been cut back severely. It is extremely hard for a single person without a child to get welfare for extended durations, if they can get it at all.

I see the homeless in Oroville daily, panhandling, drunk, loud, unclean and on drugs. I have seen the police arrest these people for disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and panhandling, and in a day or so they seem to be right back at the same location, boisterous, rude and drunk.

The police do not sort the severely disabled out and help them find assistance.

It is pathetically sad.

There are many programs that have been proven to work and help many rehabilitate themselves. The trick is getting the severely handicapped to them.

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The reality is that City Manager [Dave] Burkland directed Fire Chief [Jim] Beery to cut $95,000, even though the Fire Department is under the budget set for them.

Due to safety, minimum staffing requires each fire station to have at least three firefighters working at all times.

Since public safety has already been cut so deep, Burkland knew that Chief Beery had one option when faced with another cut: close a station.

Let me educate Ms. Laslo on how city management works: The city manager works for the City Council; the City Council works for the people of Chico. The buck stops with the City Council.

Now Station 5 is closed. Thousands of homes are at risk, including my own, due to increased response times. The citizens of Chico have spoken loud and clear that they want their tax dollars to fund public safety first.

The ball is now in Mayor Ann Schwab’s hands, because only the City Council can make the supplemental appropriations needed to re-open Station 5. The citizens of Chico are speaking loud and clear about this. The question is this: Is Ann Schwab listening to them?

TOBY SCHINDELBECK Chico

Editor’s note: Mr. Schindelbeck is a candidate for the Chico City Council.

What does Wally say?

Re “Web of deceit” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, May 17): Dear congressman Herger: I have always had respect for the integrity you have shown through your long tenure. As you are well aware, the candidate you have endorsed and given quite a chunk of money to has set up a fraudulent website that slanders his opponent, [Sam] Aanestad. The evidence was obtained by subpoena from the web host that [Doug] LaMalfa’s chief of staff, Mark Spannagel, authorized and paid for this site.

Wally, you have always been a man of integrity, yet you have been strangely silent on this issue.

Will you condemn this action? The world wants to know.

JIM LEDGERWOOD Chico

Two kinds of ‘reality’ Re “Reality” (From the Edge, by Anthony Peyton Porter, May 17):

“The ball is now in Mayor Ann Schwab’s hands, because only the City Council can make the supplemental appropriations needed to reopen Station 5.”

—Toby Schindelbeck

I’ve been a big fan of Anthony Peyton Porter since I first began reading his columns on your back page. He’s a terrific writer—funny, fearlessly honest, thoughtful and quirky. I can only imagine the ordeal he’s living through as his wife struggles with the horrors of brain cancer.

And I can readily understand why he has no energies or spirit left for politics, or why he might, in despair, arrive at the conclusion that Romney and Obama are just stories we’re told while “reality” is what he’s facing on a day-to daybasis. My heart goes out to him, and to Janice.

But the “reality” of difference between Obama and Romney remains “real.” The ordeal Anthony and Janice are experiencing would be far worse if the Romney forces had their way, if they could cut Medicare, if they could engineer a hundred laws and policies that exacerbate all the “reality” that inevitably comes to us in this vale of tears.

When George W. Bush was elected, I tried to convince myself that there weren’t fundamental differences between the power brokers, anyway. “How bad could it be?” I asked myself. As a nation, we found out.

Love you, Anthony, and love your writing. But there are differences between Romney and Obama that matter, that are real, that won’t go away. And I know you as a man who has spent much of his life in service to principles, and those principles still matter, even on the days when we’re dealing with far more immediate and personal struggles.

torial, May 17): If marijuana were fully legal there would be no backyard residential growers cashing in on inflated medical-marijuana prices.

Legitimate farmers would produce it by the ton at a fraction of the current cost. There is a reason you don’t see Mexican drug cartels sneaking into national forests to cultivate tomatoes and cucumbers.

They cannot compete with a legal market.

Marijuana prohibition has failed miserably as a deterrent. The United States has higher rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available to adults. The only clear winners in the war on marijuana are drug cartels and shameless tough-on-drugs politicians who’ve built careers confusing the drug war’s collateral damage with a relatively harmless plant.

ROBERT SHARPE, MPA Common Sense for Drug Policy Washington, D.C.

Those noisy machines Re “Pipe down, folks” (Editorial, May 10): I’m glad that Chico’s noise policies are being reviewed. College students were mentioned in the editorial, but they aren’t the issue for me. Machines are.

I have no hope that the use of chainsaws and power mowers will be limited, but what about leaf blowers and the Silver Dollar Speedway races? Does anyone else in town run for cover when these noisemakers (and dust raisers) from hell are active?

JANICE LEE PORTER Chico

Correction Due to an error in our source material for the Earthwatch item “More electric-car plug-ins” (May 17), we stated that NRG Energy, Inc. was installing recharging stations in California as part of a settlement agreement resulting from the company’s “alleged market manipulation and overcharging more than a decade ago.” The allegations were against the now-defunct company Dynegy, which NRG subsequently purchased, thereby assuming its liabilities.

JAIME O’NEILL Magalia

Prohibition has failed Re “Measure A’s a downer” (Edi-

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It’s looking like a proposed hike in sales tax for the city of Chico is on hold.

On Wednesday, the Chico EnterpriseRecord reported that Tom Lando, a former city manager of Chico, said that other tax initiatives, both statewide and local, as well as the upcoming election, make it a bad time to ask city residents to support the proposal.

Lando, along with other local community leaders, first floated the idea of the tax increase last November. At that time, they were seeking a .75-cent increase to fund a wide range of services and projects (See CN&R Newsline “Taxing proposal,” Nov. 11, 2011.) But in recent months, the group asked for a half-cent hike instead.

The proposal would have needed a twothirds vote to pass. Lando told the E-R that phone surveys indicated voters would pass the increase. The plan is to bring it back at a later date.

WAY TO GO, CHICO STATE!

It was quite a graduation weekend for the Chico State Athletic Department. The men’s golf team took second place in the NCAA Division II National Championship on Saturday (May 19), and the following day the baseball team qualified for the Division II World Series.

The California Collegiate Athletic Association conference co-champ, Chico State was selected as one of four teams to compete in the qualifying Western Regional tournament in Keizer, Ore. The fourth-seeded Wildcats opened by beating the hosts, No. 1ranked Western Oregon, 7-6, and continued to roll, winning the tournament and earning one of the eight spots in the national championship.

It’s coach Dave Taylor’s first World Series since taking over in 2006, and he said that his guys got hot at the right time. “We look forward to bringing home a ring as well,” he added. The first game, against West Chester University, is Saturday, May 26.

RACIST GRAFFITI HITS CHICO HOME

As if she didn’t have enough to worry about, Chico attorney Jill Harris recently had a house she owns in a north Chico neighborhood spray-painted with racist graffiti.

Harris was mentioned in a CN&R story May 3 (“Religious eviction?” by Vic Cantu) that tells of her efforts to stave of the eviction of her father, Robert Taylor, from an apartment on The Esplanade he has called home for the past 25 years.

Harris, who is African-American, said she discovered the graffiti on Mother’s Day and has learned that two nearby homes were also defaced with graffiti the same day. Chico Police Sgt. Curtis Prosise said the graffiti may constitute a hate crime and that the department is looking for leads.

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Left to right: Doug Laurie discusses the problems with Ponderosa Way and the lack of a fire escape route with Cohasset Community Association board members Liz Weber (wearing her volunteer-firefighter uniform), Bob Hursh and Maggie Krehbiel.

Only one way out Cohassians worry about their lack of a fire escape route

I to the mountain-ridge community of Cohasset, population about 2,000, and keep going, past f you drive past the Chico airport up

the store and the school and the church, you’ll come to the TV tower, which is where the paved road ends and a story and dirt road—the historic Ponphoto by derosa Way—begins.

Robert Speer If you keep going, you’ll go all the way to the Ishi Wilderroberts@ newsreview.com ness Area—if you make it that far. The road has not been maintained for years, and in places it’s virtually impassable.

For a couple of years now Paradise resident Doug Laurie has been trying to alert people to Ponderosa Way’s problems. He admits that his purpose is largely Some Cohasset selfish: He wants access to fishhistory: ing streams up there that flow The village’s recorded history through national-forest land.

It’s not just the bad road: begins in the mid1800s, when About three years ago, Laurie lumber and says, Sierra Pacific Industries farming began systematically locking its operations began. logging roads, making the fishBy the early 1900s, Cohasset ing creeks inaccessible.

But there’s another, more was famous for its high-quality important reason for fixing the apples. Today it’s road. It’s the only fire escape known for its route other than Cohasset Road Annual Cohasset Bazaar and the itself. If a fire were to close off beauty of the that road, everybody north of the Cohasset Ridge. blaze would be trapped.

It’s the same potentially dire situation residents of Paradise’s Upper Ridge faced until recently, when Forest Highway 171 was put in connecting Inskip to Butte Meadows.

Laurie is looking for allies in his campaign to get the road repaired, which was why he recently attended a meeting of the Cohasset Community Association’s board of directors. There, he explained how he’d contacted all the responsible parties—Butte County, Tehama County, the Lassen National Forest and Sierra Pacific Industries—to no avail. Each is responsible for stretches of the road, he said, but none was willing to pay to fix it.

“I thought if I could point out the safety issue and the lack of access to state and federal lands, they would take it seriously,” he told the CCA board.

“Most didn’t respond.

“Selfishly,” he continued, “I am pretty upset that I don’t have easy access to state and federal lands, especially in the Deer Creek area, that are featured on the Lassen National Forest website.”

That there were huge, water-

filled potholes in the road wasn’t news to the Cohasset folks. “We call them ‘the Great Lakes,’” said board President Linda Hartsong.

As they told Laurie, they’ve been trying for years to get the road repaired.

They’re well aware of the danger posed by the lack of a fire escape route.

Maggie Krehbiel, who chairs the association’s Emergency Preparedness Committee, said, “We are absolutely, 100 percent aware of the situation [with the road]. But we’ve been told there’s no money to fix it. I just don’t know what else we can do.”

The association has prepared an emergency evacuation plan that is available as a brochure or online at the CCA’s website. “There’s only one way out!” it reads in large, bright-red block letters.

“Are you prepared?”

Their county supervisor, Maureen Kirk, has done all she can do, they said.

Butte County’s section of the road is in relatively good shape, fortunately, but even if it weren’t, she’s told them, the county has no money to maintain it.

“The problem is Tehama County,” Laurie said. But it gave the same reason for not maintaining the road that the U.S. Forest Service did: no bucks in the budget.

“They kinda have to establish priorities based on population,” Krehbiel said, adding that apparently the authorities believe there aren’t enough people in Cohasset to warrant putting in an escape route.

Cohassians, as they call them-

selves, know how quickly an emergency

can develop. So far they’ve been lucky and avoided a major fire, but in January 2009, when the worst winter storm in decades hit the North State, Cohasset residents lost power for several days, and PG&E closed Cohasset Road for 12 hours to repair downed power lines.

The community was cut off from medical and all other services.

“What would have happened if some husband had a heart attack using a chainsaw on a tree or, God forbid, if a baby should choke?” Krehbiel said to a CN&R reporter at the time. “There are no trained medical personnel up here and no fire service.”

The New Year’s storm, as it was called, became impetus for Cohassians to ramp up their Emergency Preparedness Committee “to take care of ourselves and each other for at least one week,” as Krehbiel wrote in a letter to residents. The group has set up various sub-committees to handle everything from food supplies and emergency medical care—a registered nurse, Liz

“I worry that it’s going to take a tragedy to get that road fixed.”

—Doug Laurie

Weber, is in charge of that—to heavyequipment management.

Elaborate preparedness menus were drawn up, with the goal being for all residents to be able to go at least three days without outside help. “That means having an adequate supply of food, water, prescription medication and a safe means to heat your home and cook your food,” Krehbiel wrote.

Wildfire is a greater danger than snow, however, so the CCA, with help from Cal Fire and other state and local agencies, has drawn up a sophisticated emergency evacuation plan and asked Cohassians to keep copies in their homes and cars.

In the meantime, members of the CCA board have pledged to work with Laurie to keep pressure on the agencies responsible for maintaining Ponderosa Way. They’re not optimistic, but they’re going to keep trying.

Laurie knows how things work, however. “I worry that it’s going to take a tragedy to get that road fixed,” he said. Ω

Revamping the market Meeting spurs talk of improvements at the farmers’ weekly sale

Rob Montgomery wants to keep the Chico Certified Farmers Market thriving, and he’s got a wish list to help make that happen.

Speaking on Tuesday morning (May 22) during a city of Chico Finance Committee meeting, Montgomery, operator of Rob’s Natural Produce, said the market used to be one of the top 10 markets in the country.

“But we’ve slipped off that mark,” he said.

Montgomery, along with several other vendors at the market, attended the meeting for discussions on whether to adjust the fees paid for use of the city-owned lot at Second and Wall streets.

The CCFM, which has 50 to 80 vendors depending on the season, currently pays a nominal fee of $164 per year. Each of the vendors in turn pays the organization $25 per week. The Finance Committee was considering implementing an additional 10 percent vendor surcharge, which would generate an estimated $6,250 for city coffers.

Members of the nonprofit came prepared to defend the year-round event and to ask for something in return should their fees go up.

Montgomery lobbied for several improvements: permanent restrooms, water and electricity hook-ups, and more space for additional farmers to pedal their produce.

Currently, the organization spends about $6,000 a year on portable toilets. Montgomery said the board has looked into purchasing a pre-fabricated bathroom, which

would cost about $30,000. He said the farmers cannot afford that without taking out some sort of loan, and he noted that the nonprofit’s overhead has more than doubled while its income is up by 20 percent. Montgomery also pointed out that the organization’s lone source of income is the money generated from vendors. Those fees pay for the operational costs of the market, along with administrative fees and advertising.

Using a calculator, Vice Mayor Jim Walker pointed out that the CCFM could generate $20,000 for improvements in a year by charging each vendor an additional $5 per week.

Richard Coon, chairman of CCFM’s Board of Directors, balked at mention of raising vendor fees. He also pointed out that the market is on a year-to-year lease with the city for use of the municipal lot. In other words, there’s no guarantee the site will be the market’s permanent home.

“Would you put $20,000 into someone else’s parking lot?” asked Coon, who raises market lambs and chickens at his Wookey Ranch.

He was echoed later in the meeting by former Mayor Michael McGinnis, who suggested the panel lease the lot for, say, three to five years, which he said would enable them to make improvements. “Give them a lease that’s fair,” he said.

For his part, Walker said he thought

the CCFM should invest in its own “war chest” to pay for improvements and that $5 extra per vendor wouldn’t be asking too much. “I think there should be a way that we can work together on this,” he said, referring to some sort of collaboration with the city.

And, in fact, there has been some cooperation in that regard.

CCFM members have been working with city staff on ways to improve the market, such as permanent signs. Fritz McKinley, the

SIFT|ER Pressure on the president Americans still have about six months to think about who should run the country, but as of May one thing was clear: A majority isn’t happy with the current president of the United States. President Obama’s approval rating came in at 47 percent, as of May 16, according to a Gallup survey. Worse still for him, of those surveyed, just more than 20 percent said they were satisfied with direction the country is taking.

Based on history, it’s hard to say what the figures mean for Obama’s bid for a second term. The satisfaction rating is very close to that experienced this time of year during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, who lost to Bill Clinton in 1992. However,

Obama’s recent approval rating is also very close to that of George W. Bush, in 2004, the year he was re-elected.

Here’s a snapshot of the approval rating (in percentages) of former presidents leading up to their respective re-election wins and losses:

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director of Building and Development Services, said the nonprofit has agreed to pay for the signs, with the city contributing the poles.

He said there also have been discussions on the potential of water and electricity hookups when the city moves forward on its downtown couplet project.

The meeting was a follow-up to a City Council meeting about a year ago, during which that panel renewed its franchise agreement with the nonprofit. At the time, the council referred the issue of the related fees back to the Finance Committee for review.

By the end of discussions this time around,

“Would you put $20,000 into someone else’s parking lot?”

—Richard Coon, chairman of the CCFM Board of Directors

the committee (Walker and Councilmen Mark Sorensen and Scott Gruendl) voted to leave the funding schedule intact and to come back in December with a cooperative plan for improvements.

Previous meetings related to the market the over the last couple of years have at times been contentious, with vendors squaring off against a couple of downtown business owners who contend the Saturday event eats up too much parking. But the members of CCFM’s board of director are almost entirely new, as is the market manager, Liz Gardner, and for whatever reason, there was little talk in that regard this time around.

Most speakers during the meeting said they consider the market an asset to the community. And there were several references to a survey conducted by the classes of Chico State professors LaDona Knigge and Richard Gitelson, which found that a majority of the people who visit the market do not have trouble finding parking. Moreover, the study found that two-thirds of market-goers said the market is what drew them downtown and that they planned on also shopping elsewhere in the downtown region.

The study has only served to strengthen the farmers’ resolve that event serves not only the community, but also downtown businesses.

Chris Copley, a Corning-based farmer who sells eggs from his laying hens, called the market “a gem.”

“We bring crowds into downtown when it would ordinarily be quiet,” he said.

—MELISSA DAUGHERTY melissad@newsreview.com

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He was assassinated—along with San Franciso Mayor George Moscone—on Nov. 27, 1978, by Dan White, a former colleague on the Board of Supervisors. President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom in August 2009, and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger designated May 22 (Milk’s birthday) as Harvey Milk Day statewide.

Locally, the day was observed with a community cleanup/day of service organized by the Stonewall Alliance and the Chico Peace and Justice Center. Between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., volunteers picked up litter, worked in the Jesus Center garden and otherwise dedicated themselves to public service.

An evening event at The Last Stand Comedy Venue featured addresses by Chico Mayor Ann Schwab, City Councilman and former Mayor Scott Gruendl, Chico State University sociology professor Liahna Gordon, and a screening of the 2008 Oscar-winning biopic

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Milk, starring Sean Penn.

“What we’re celebrating here is courage,” Mayor Schwab said in a preamble before reading an official proclamation from the city of Chico recognizing Harvey Milk Day. “He had courage to stand for his convictions and stand for his community and do the right thing.”

The proclamation included this request: “We encourage the people of Chico to observe this occasion by educating themselves, their friends and family members about Harvey Milk’s life and legacy.”

Gruendl followed with an emotional speech.

“I can think of no better way to honor Harvey Milk than to stand before you as an openly gay elected official,” he said at the outset of his address. He wept openly at times during his moving half-hour talk that in part focused on his personal experiences and the ongoing battle for civil rights still being fought by the gay community.

Gruendl served as mayor from 2004 to 2006. A native of Oakland, Gruendl said when he was 14 he already knew he was “different” and wanted to be a public servant when Milk was assassinated.

“With Harvey’s election came hope,” Gruendl said. “He used to say he wasn’t an elected official because he was gay, he was just an elected official who happened to be gay.”

Gruendl spoke at length about gay marriage and cited recent moves by state legislatures to ban them. He said such efforts must be fought in the manner that Milk battled Proposition 6, also known as the Briggs initiative, which sought to ban teachers and other school

officials who were gay or supported gay rights.

Gruendl is married to Nicholas Goody. He spoke about the frustrations he endured in wanting to marry: “I have served my country, I could be a mayor, I could be a professional executive working in local government, but I did not have what it took to be married.”

He also spoke of the joy he felt when a break in marriage laws allowed him and Goody to seal their commitment, creating what he called a “constitutional anomaly.”

“An openly gay mayor in a Podunk town marries his man of 15 years on a bluff overlooking one of the most conservative parts of California,” he said of the event. “And even with TV cameras and reporters present, nothing could have seemed so right or so normal.”

Gordon began her speech by saying, “I’m a sociology professor on campus, and I’m queer,” and spoke at length about the connotations of gay terminology and the ongoing fight for civil rights.

Community supporters for the event included the Jesus Center, GRUB, Chico Havurah and The Last Stand.

Harvey Milk Day celebrations throughout California included a day of service and address by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the naming of Harvey Milk Street in San Diego. Stuart Milk, Harvey’s nephew and founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, attended a celebration in Sacramento May 15.

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Last Friday (May 18) Chico State honored longtime Republican political strategist Ed Rollins as one of “Chico’s most successful graduates,” according to a university press release.

Rollins, who worked for four presidents, including eight years in the Reagan White House, was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during graduation ceremonies. He is now a senior political analyst for Fox News and appears regularly on other TV talk shows. His book Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms was a top seller in 1996.

Because of his tight weekend schedule in Chico, he agreed to a phone interview on Monday from his home in upstate New York.

He said he was notified of his award via snail mail.

“I got a letter from the president [of Chico State],” he said. “It was very funny because the envelope wasn’t official stationery. It was just a plain white envelope with my address written on it. I almost threw it out.”

He said he was flattered by the honor.

“But I didn’t quite know how or why, and I said, ‘I hope they don’t go and check my transcripts.’ ” Rollins, who grew up in Vallejo and attended junior college there before transferring to Chico State in 1965, is funny and an interesting mix of modesty and confidence.

He downplays some of his achievements, but at the same time notes that, after he quit the Michelle Bachman run for the Republican presidential nomination last year, her campaign fell apart.

And while he praises Chico State and the city itself, back in 1993 during a celebration of Ronald Reagan Day carried on C-SPAN, Rollins tripped up while offering a tribute to the ex-president.

“You’ll have to excuse me,” he said on national TV. “I went to school at Chico.

That’s in California.”

An athlete, he wanted to attend San Jose State to play football but a back injury changed his plans.

“I couldn’t pass the physical because I’d broken my back my senior year in high school,” he said. “I had a bunch of pals who were going to Chico, and I basically climbed in a car and rode up with them to look at the school. I loved and it went over and registered. I got in the next day, and it was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.”

This was the fall of 1965, and he stayed through June of 1968.

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“I look back and it was probably the happiest place I’ve ever been in my life,” he said, “including eight years in the White House.”

After graduating from Chico State, Rollins got an internship with Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, a Democrat, in 1967.

He met Robert Kennedy and worked for his campaign in early 1968. Kennedy was assassinated that June.

In the November elections, Republicans took over the State Assembly. Rollins was hired soon after by Republican Assemblyman Ray Johnson, whose 4th District included Butte County.

“I sort evolved from a Democrat to a Republican under the influence of Ray Johnson and Ronald Reagan,” he said.

He ran Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign in California and when that was over moved to Washington. He said his greatest success was Reagan’s campaign in 1984.

“You walk out with four or five people on your staff, and you get to build an organization that gets a hundred full-time people in Washington and 3,000 employees across the country and 600,000 volunteers. It’s quite an undertaking.”

Reagan took 49 states that year, losing only in opponent Vice President Walter Mondale’s home state of Minnesota.

Rollins is careful about predicting the outcome of this year’s presidential race between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney “If I knew who was going to win I’d take all the money I’ve saved for my daughter’s college education and I’d be in Las Vegas,” he said. “I don’t know who’s going to win. I can say it’s going to be a very close election.

Romney survived a very, very tough primary and came through pretty undamaged. He has a pretty unified party at this point. Maybe not as much as Obama, but he is a very credible candidate.”

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Vince Enserro, Chico Unified School District’s director of Nutrition Services, outside of his Carmichael Drive office.

By late June, the Western States Petroleum Association will disclose what chemicals its member companies use in California during the hydraulicfracturing oil-extraction process on the website “Frac Focus.”

The announcement comes as Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration begins the drafting process for the state’s first regulations on fracking, the controversial extraction method that involves pumping a high-pressure mixture of water and chemicals deep underground to break up rock formations, according to The Sacramento Bee. The association said fracking was used in 628 of California’s tens of thousands of oil wells last year.

On May 16, Vermont became the first state in the nation to ban fracking, which has been linked to contaminated groundwater and small earthquakes.

“Human beings survived for thousands and thousands of years without oil and without natural gas,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said of the law. “We have never known humanity or life on this plant to survive without clean water.”

Inset: The new CUSD Nutrition Services logo, designed by Enserro and CUSD nutrition specialist Tanya Harter.

FIRE DANGER HIGH STATEWIDE

The unusually dry winter and spring months have California poised for an especially harsh wildfire season, state fire officials warn.

Though they have been contained to between two and five acres, there have already been 818 wildfires statewide in 2012, roughly triple the number for this time last year, according to SFGate.com. The year’s snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains contains just 40 percent of the average water content—conditions experts are comparing to those of 2003, when the largest fire ever recorded in California killed 14 people, destroyed 2,323 homes and burned 280,200 acres in San Diego County.

The coming season is likely to stretch Cal Fire, which reduced the number of seasonal firefighters from 3,100 to 1,700 over the past two years due to budget cuts.

PATH CLEARED FOR FROGS

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has cleared a path under Highway 70 in Butte County for the foothill yellow-legged frog.

While assessing passage issues for fish and amphibians, a team assembled by the Rock Creek-Cresta Ecological Resources Committee—a group chaired by PG&E with representatives from state and federal agencies—noticed that a drain pipe running under the highway was too high for the yellow-legged frog to reach, according to a PG&E press release. In the beginning of May, crews built a ramp out of cobble-boulders to allow frogs easy access to the culvert and the tributaries beyond.

The project was completed in time for mating season, when frogs leave tributaries to lay eggs along the North Fork of the Feather River.

They will return shortly after breeding in favor of the cool, shaded waters of the tributaries.

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Catching up with chef Enserro CUSD Nutrition Services Director Vince Enserro looks back at his first year on the job—and to the future story and photo by

Christine G.K. LaPado christinel@newsreview.com

Vlast summer as the new director of Nutrition Services for the Chico Unified ince Enserro came on board

School District (CUSD) to a considerable amount of fanfare and expectation. After all, Enserro—a certified executive chef with years of experience in public-school nutrition services as well as restaurant management—offered the promise of improving the local food landscape when it comes to the meals served in the district’s school cafeterias.

“Enserro … comes with qualifications that poise him to be just what the district needs in this time of tight budgets combined with increasingly vocal demands from parents and local food activists for better nutritional choices for students,” we wrote back in July 2011 (see “Chef on board,” July 7, 2011). Among other things, during his tenure heading up Nutrition Services at Arizona’s Chino Valley Unified

School District, Enserro got rid of chocolate milk that contained high-fructose corn syrup in favor of a HFCS-less version, and upped the quality of the processed chicken nuggets served.

Perhaps predictably, Enserro has made admirable strides during his first year at the CUSD, maybe most notably in the wake of a recent flurry of negative publicity about ground beef containing a controversial meat byproduct treated with ammonium hydroxide known in the beef industry as boneless lean beef trimmings (BLBT). It is also called lean finely textured beef (LFTB)—or, popularly, “pink slime.”

In response to consumer dismay over finding out the ground meat they had been eating contained LFTB, burger chains such as McDonald’s and Burger King stopped serving meat containing it, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture had already committed to purchasing 7 million pounds

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of LFTB-containing ground beef for use in its school-lunch program in the 2012-13 school year.

However, Enserro pointed out, “starting July 1, when the entitlement money for food, for new commodities, starts up again for the new fiscal year, the USDA does offer an option for not using textured-beef products.” Enserro will take this option, he said. “We will use the USDA’s option of not using it. If you’ve got the choice of ‘use it or don’t use it,’ nobody would take the choice to use it.”

Along similar lines, Enserro worked with CUSD nutrition specialist Tanya Harter to make menu changes during the past school year. “We went from processed chicken to whole-muscle chicken products,” he said. This switch includes substituting whole-muscle chicken nuggets for processed chicken nuggets, long a subject of derision from healthful-food advocates, especially since celebrity chef Jamie Oliver famously showed viewers in 2010 the stomach-turning ingredients many are made of.

“I think the ultimate goal is that we’re

trying to get away from processed food as much as possible,” said Enserro. “We want to use upgraded products.”

Enserro said he and his staff— which includes three on-site bakery employees—“utilized about 2,000 pounds of cranberry beans this year,” acquired from Chico High School’s Henshaw Farms garden, which is operated by the school’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) group and is located on the corner of Guynn and Henshaw avenues.

“It was a lot of fun,” he said of working with bakery staff to find creative, nutritious ways to use the fresh beans. “We used them in our burritos. We made brownies—we worked together to use the cranberry beans as a fat substitute, to eliminate the fat, in our brownies, and in some cookies.”

Do the students have any idea they are eating brownies made out of beans?

“They do. We serve them at Pleasant Valley High School and they don’t say, ‘I’m not eating them.’ They think it’s cool that kids grew [the beans],” Enserro said.

“Next year, we’re going to work on different items that [the FFA students] can grow [for us].”

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UNCOMMON SENSE Getting unplugged There was a time when we were told to unplug our appliances when not in use as a means of saving energy. That was when those appliances added up to maybe one television in the living room and a radio in each of the bedrooms. Unplugging the cords was no big chore. Today, of course, electronic devises rule our lives, and while they may be more energy efficient than those boxy tube-invested televisions of yesteryear, unplugging is still a worthwhile practice.

According to a recent story in Mother Jones magazine by Kiera Butler, the Environmental Protection Agency says the average American household spends $100 a year on plugged-in gadgets that are not even in use. Nationwide, that accounts for 100 billion kilowatthours of electricity, which could power nearly 9 million homes and adds up to $11 billion in charges.

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High School. “It will basically allow us to feed any child regardless of socioeconomic background.

You could be from Germany, coming to visit Grandma, and you could go over [to one of these schools] and get breakfast and lunch [for free].”

The reasoning behind the new program, he said, is that “when summer comes, you have an increased struggle on the part of families to afford food when the kids are home all day.”

The summer program follows on the heels of Enserro’s successful Title-I-school supper program that began this past school year at Chapman and McManus elementary schools, whereby students enrolled in the after-school program are served a no-cost, themed (such as Asian, American, Italian or Mexican) dinner. Parents, who pay only $3.50 to eat, join their kids in the fun of eating dinner together and chatting when they come to pick up their children in the late afternoon.

“I wanted it to be a family night,” Enserro said. “I was fortunate to grow up when we had dinner as a family every night, and that’s the way [my wife and I] try to raise our family. And I know that doesn’t exist for all families.”

Enserro added that “we’re hopefully going to be able to create 12 to 14 new jobs starting this summer,” in the summer and supper programs; the family-supper program is set to expand next year into all of the CUSD’s Title-I schools.

On Enserro’s to-do list?

“To be able to have a composting program at all the [CUSD] schools, to where we don’t have any leftover trays and [compostable] forks and compostable food going to the landfill.” Ω more GREENWAYS continued on page 15

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like I did last week, and have too little time to spend cooking a good, nutritious meal for me and my 11-year-old daughter, I am glad that there are places like Bacio Catering & Carry Out Cuisine (1903 Park Ave., 345-7787) and the Turri Family Farms food cart at the Thursday Night Market. Both serve the ultimate in healthful, fresh, locally sourced eats.

For the unfamiliar, Bacio—owned by longtime Chico über-caterer Amanda Leveroni (and conveniently located just blocks from my house)— serves an irresistible array of carry-out entrées, appetizers, sandwiches, salads and sweets, such as The Sandwich, which is made with either barbecued, pulled, organic Llano Seco pork or free-range chicken, or the Salad Trifecta, a selection of three of Bacio’s always-yummy deli-case salads on a bed of organic greens. (Tip: the Quinoa & French Lentil Herb Salad is out of this world!)

Other menu items include Chico Rice Salad (made with organic local rices), garlic smashed potatoes, polenta lasagna and Deluxe “Grown Up” Mac ‘n’ Cheese.

Bacio’s soft, brownie-like ChocoBacio rocks the locavore-friendly carry-out late Aztec cookies—their peppery, food at its Park Avenue location. chocolate interiors complemented PHOTO BY JOSH GRAHAM by a sprinkling of sea salt on the outside—were a total score the other evening, as were the buttery cranberry-coconut-chocolate chip cookies I got for half-price (50 cents each) because they were a day old.

Head to www.baciocatering.com/togo/menus/carry-out to look at Bacio’s take-out items (which may also be eaten in Bacio’s tiny, cozy dining area).

As for Turri Farms’ farmers’ market cart, it’s the go-to place for my daughter on Thursday evenings. She always gets a hot dog, which bears little resemblance to the standard nitrate- and nitrite-loaded dog on a processed-white-flour bun. Turri Farms’ preservative-free dogs are made with hormone- and antibiotic-free, grass-fed and -finished beef from Tony and Marianne Turri’s farm in Flournoy and served on locally made artisan-bread buns. Produce served on Turri’s half-pound burgers comes from Chico Natural Foods; the organic ice cream for the fresh strawberry shakes comes from Alden’s Ice Cream in Eugene, Ore.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long been criticized for being slow to approve new pharmaceutical drugs, but a recent study shows the United States clears drugs at a faster pace than the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed turnaround times for each agency between 2001 and 2010, concluding the FDA’s drug reviews were roughly 15 percent faster than its foreign peers, according to The Associated Press. The FDA averaged 322 days or about 101⁄2 months, for each drug, 45 to 70 days ahead of Europe and Canada. Additionally, the FDA reviewed 225 drugs in the same 10-year period, 40 and 125 more than Europe and Canada, respectively.

The findings allow researchers to focus on other barriers to drug innovation in the U.S., said Kathleen Stratton of the Pew Charitable Trusts, which provided funding for the study.

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A man from Stockton was arrested May 15 for refusing to regularly take his tuberculosis medication.

Armando Rodriguez, 34, stopped treatment for the highly contagious airborne disease because he didn’t want to damage his liver while on an alcohol and methamphetamine bender, according to The Associated Press. Ginger Wick, nursing director for San Joaquin County, wrote a letter requesting a warrant for Rodriguez’s arrest after he failed to take his medication on several occasions. He was detained for refusing to comply with a tuberculosis order to be at home at certain times to take his medicine.

The arrest has stirred a debate over the merits of mandatory treatment of infectious disease. Some health professionals, like Georgetown University public-health law professor Lawrence Gostin, believe the arrest was made in error.

“The whole intention is to protect the public’s health,” he said. “It’s not to lay blame on someone.”

EATING RIGHT CAN BE COST-EFFECTIVE

Contrary to common perception, a nutritionally balanced diet is less expensive to maintain than one high in fat, sugar and salt, a study finds.

Research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture concluded that most fruits, vegetables and grains are cheaper than foods like sodas, French fries or ice cream when measured by weight or portion size, according to SFGate.com. Previous studies have made highcalorie processed snacks seem like a bargain by measuring calories per dollar, which can be misleading, said study co-author Andrea Carlson.

“Using price per calorie doesn’t tell you how much food you’re going to get or how full you are going to feel,” she said.

More than a third of U.S. adults are obese, a figure expected to rise to 42 percent by 2030.

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The doctor is not in Dr. Amy Darwin, of Paradise Medical Group, is booked until January.

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Decreasing reimbursement rates spell shortages in physicians, leaving patients with unmet medical needs by

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S of the Paradise Medical Group (PMG), a practice that features 20 physicians— teve Nord is the administrator

roughly half seeing patients in clinic offices and half treating patients at Feather River Hospital. That may sound like a lot of doctors, yet it’s not nearly enough to meet the demand. On a regular basis, PMG says no to potential patients, regardless of whether they have private or public insurance.

“When we’re turning people away, it’s a capacity problem,” Nord explained. “[For a]dult-medicine physicians in particular, we have 400 to 600 potential patients beyond our capacity. That’s frustrating.”

Over the past year, he said, two private medical practices in Paradise have closed.

Meanwhile, several established PMG physicians have “closed practices”—that is, aren’t accepting new patients—and new patients can’t get an appointment with the newest physician, Dr. Amy Darwin, until January 2013.

This is not an isolated incidence. A study released earlier this month reveals that millions of Americans, both insured and uninsured, struggle with access to health care both because of the quantity of doctors and the cost to see them.

The study, published in the Health Affairs journal, finds that 20 percent of adults under age 65 have “unmet medical needs” because of health-care expense— compared to 12.5 percent in 2000. These individuals also have difficulty accessing dental care.

The millions of Americans falling through the cracks aren’t just the uninsured: The study finds 10 percent of insured adults have unmet needs (up from 5 percent in 2000), and 7 percent delay get-

ting the care they need because of cost (up from 4 percent).

Still, uninsured Americans are particularly hard-hit. The study finds that more than half of uninsured adults did not see a doctor in 2010 and around three-quarters didn’t see a dentist.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010—known as the PPACA, or Obamacare—is set to add 30 million more American adults to the insurance rolls, depending on the disposition of the U.S. Supreme Court. (See the March 22 Healthlines story, “Uncertainty the only sure thing.”)

The PPACA also calls for increasing, albeit temporarily, the reimbursement payments for primary-care physicians. However, this won’t necessarily improve access, because it does not require doctors to accept Medicaid and will not necessarily reverse the trend of increasingly expensive premiums, co-pays and deductibles. Moreover, the national physician shortage, felt in Butte County, means there are not always enough doctors in an area to meet all needs.

The shortage is particularly acute in

primary care—that is, general practices such as family medicine and pediatrics, as opposed to specialties such as cardiology and neurosurgery. Primary-care practitioners typically have lower reimbursements and higher patient loads than specialists, which motivates many medical school graduates to specialize.

Access to care is one of the factors contributing to Butte County’s low ranking among California counties in overall health. (See the May 10 Healthlines story, “Bad report card.”) The University of Wisconsin, which assesses counties across the country, found that Butte County has 971 residents per primary-care doctor, compared to a 631:1 ratio nationwide and 847:1 statewide. (Go to www.county healthrankings.org to see the research.)

“Insurers do not pay enough in the Butte County area for us to be able to recruit and retain enough physicians so that everyone could be seen by a physician,” said Dr. Roy Bishop, CEO of the Argyll Medical Group in Chico. “Patients will need to expect to sometimes see a HEALTHLINES continued on page 19

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Integrity To the thousands of patients he’s

really do help, but sometimes they put

treated for over 31 years at Oroville

out drugs that make them a lot of money

Hospital, Dr. Roy Shannon is known for

but really don’t provide much benefit to

his warmth, compassion, and openness.

society in general,” Dr. Shannon says. “The

Pharmaceutical companies think of him

pharmaceutical industry creates a lot of

differently; to them, he’s a hard sell, a

diseases and gives names to them, and

doctor who keeps sales representatives

then they have drugs that they want to sell

at bay and makes sure only the most

to treat those diseases.

effective medications make it into the

“There also are a lot of medications that will do the same thing, so we evaluate

hospital.

“I feel I’ve been able to make a bit of a difference in the way things go here. Hopefully I’ve had a little positive influence on the hospital and community.”

Dr. Shannon heads one of the most

which ones we need to have so we can provide all the appropriate therapy.

We make sure we have the right drugs, the good drugs, without responding to the ads or to the appeals by drug representatives.

“We want evidence-based science to determine which drugs get used. Our evaluations of the medications to have

important medical panels at Oroville

on the formulary are done by peer-

Hospital: the Pharmacy & Therapeutics,

reviewed literature: journals, articles that

Infection Control, and Blood Utilization

have been through peer review so they

Committee. This group determines

are objective.”

which pharmaceuticals the hospital

This stance makes Dr. Shannon a

stocks, along with creating procedures

gatekeeper as well as a caregiver. On

for administering drugs and blood

the advice of the pharmacy committee,

transfusions to patients, as well as taking steps to reduce the spread of infections such as MRSA. It’s a huge job. But, then, Dr. Shannon is used to having such great responsibilities, since he is a former chairman of

which he’s chaired for 25 years, Oroville Hospital followed the lead of major medical centers, such as Stanford University, by prohibiting pharmaceutical salespeople from coming into the medical center, except as patients.

“I feel I’ve been able to make a bit

the board of directors of the

of a difference in the way things go

entire hospital. That position

here. Hopefully I’ve had a little positive

required compromise; for

influence on the hospital and community.”

patients, however, there is no compromise when it comes to

The integrity of an institution depends on the integrity of its people.

quality treatment.

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physician assistant or nurse practitioner, and a physician for more complex problems. By using ‘midlevels’ we are following the pattern of primary care in other countries where it is a team approach.”

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often overLatest healthloaded, however. care news: “Because of Go to www.health affairs.org to increasingly learn more about limited insurthis and other ance reimbursetopical healthment, a harder care issues. time getting reimbursed, a harder time getting people to pay their bills because they don’t have the money, etc., it is getting harder to keep a practice afloat,” Corp continued. “More and more physicians are leaving the practice of medicine because of this. There are fewer and fewer medical school students as the practice of medicine becomes less attractive.”

Argyll Medical Group also turns away patients with Medi-Cal. (PMG does not, because it has a contract with Feather River Hospital to see patients at FRH’s rural health clinic—which, as Corp explained, qualifies for higher reimbursement rates.)

“I would like for Argyll Medical to see anyone who needs our help,” Bishop said, “but accepting MediCal would compromise our viability and ability to take care of everyone else. If California paid Medicare rates for Medi-Cal patients like many states do, and removed the hassle factors when dealing with authorizations and referrals, we could see them. …

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on public insurance (i.e., MediCal), aren’t immune to the access problem. Dr. Craig Corp of North Valley Pediatric Associates in Chico says 80 percent of California physicians either don’t accept or limit their number of Medi-Cal patients.

Three of the 10 Chico-based pediatricians have dropped all their patients on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, a program for lowincome families who don’t quality for Medi-Cal. North Valley Pediatrics Associates generally does not accept new patients on public insurance but makes exceptions (for example, newborn siblings of existing patients).

“More people are unemployed and under- or uninsured these days,” Corp said. “More people are on Medi-Cal. With the economy and job market the way it is, a lot of people have been impacted. …

“Medi-Cal pays us less than one half of what the lowest-paying private insurance pays,” he added.

“The federally funded health clinics, Indian health clinics and rural health clinics all get paid several times what private pediatricians do for the same visits. Those clinics are

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RULES OF THE GAME It’s a different kind of primary this year.

Here’s how it works: If you’ve looked at your sample ballot and wondered why 24 people were running against each other for U.S. senator, you can blame it on California’s new, “open” primary election.

Yep, it’s confusing. But you asked for it.

Before now, primary voters for state and congressional offices selected among only the candidates running in their own parties. Republicans chose among Republicans, Democrats among Democrats, Libertarians among Libertarians, and so on. The winners faced off in the November general election.

In 2010, however, California voters approved Proposition 14, which requires all state and congressional candidates, regardless of party, to run against each other in the primary; the two top vote-getters advance to the November ballot. That’s why voters will be choosing from among 24 people competing for the Senate. Somewhere buried in that list is a name they will recognize: that of the current senator, Democrat Dianne Feinstein.

The same is true of the races for State Assembly and the House of Representatives. It is not the case in the presidential primary, however: Democrats will vote for Democrats (well, one Democrat, Barack Obama), Republicans for Republicans (Mitt Romney et al.), and so on.

In addition to adopting an open primary, California has recently gone through redistricting. Voters should be aware that, as a result, the shape and in many cases the numerical designations of California’s Assembly, Senate and congressional districts have changed this year.

Most voters in the CN&R’s readership area will be casting ballots in the reconfigured Assembly District 3, but a significant number in eastern Butte County, including Oroville, will be voting in the new District 1. Similarly, most voters in our area are in Congressional District 1, which is a reconfiguration of retiring Rep. Wally Herger’s district. Voters in Orland and western Glenn County, however, are in Congressional District 3.

The open primary is a revolution in the rules of the game, and nobody quite knows how it’s going to turn out. Even experienced political insiders say they haven’t a clue. As Democratic strategist Garry South told The Sacramento Bee, “Any consultant on either side of the aisle who tells you they’ve got this figured out is [fooling] you. None of us have it figured out.”

But will the voters figure it out? And will they then turn out to vote on June 5 or send in their MIBs (mail-in ballots)? With the presidential contest now set, what’s the incentive? Measure A, the medical-marijuana referendum in Butte County, may pull in some voters, and the bruising battle between Sam Aanestad and Doug LaMalfa to replace Herger has certainly been entertaining. But who knows?

In the meantime, here are our takes on the local congressional and state elections, the two propositions on the ballot, and Measure A. Our space is limited, so these are at best cursory analyses. We encourage all voters to do their own research before casting their ballots.

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ally Herger’s announcement Jan. 10 that he would not seek re-election to the congressional seat he’s held for the last quarter-century triggered a wave of interest, and eight candidates jumped into the race, including a couple of widely known veterans.

Fourth District state Sen. Doug LaMalfa was blessed with the incumbent’s endorsement on the same day Herger made his plans official. LaMalfa’s predecessor, former state Sen. Sam Aanestad, made public mention of his interest in the job soon after and then made it official on Feb. 10.

Joining those two Republicans in the June 5 primary election are the candidates who ran for Herger’s seat two years ago— retired Air Force Col. Pete Stiglich of Cottonwood, also a Republican, and Democrat Jim Reed, a tax attorney out of Fall River Mills.

And those four are joined by two more Republicans: Gregory Cheadle, a real estate agent from Happy Valley, who actually announced his intentions to run a year ago, and Michael Dacquisto, a Redding attorney.

Rounding out the field are Nathan Arrowsmith, a Democrat from Red Bluff who doesn’t trust government, and Gary Oxley, a registered nurse from Redding who says that, while he has been both a Republican and Democrat, he is running as an Independent.

Political reality in the open primary suggests that the top-two finishers will be Reed and either LaMalfa or Aanestad. The Republican candidates most likely will split most of their party’s vote between them, while Reed will pick up most of the registered Democrats.

Reed lost to Herger in the general election two years ago, but received a respectable 43 percent of the vote. The 1st Congressional District was redrawn since that time, and while it is still heavily Republican, Reed thinks he has a pretty good shot.

The district has “changed favorably,” he said. “When I ran against Wally Herger in 2010,” he said, “boy, it was a rough year to have ‘Democrat’ next to your name because the Tea Party was basically in control.”

Reed lost by seven percentage points and won in Butte County. He said his

campaign has analyzed the new district, and even though the number of registered Republicans is 12 percent higher than in the old district, 20 percent of the voters are registered as independent or decline to state.

Spicing up the race is the recent

flap generated by a website called Sam4Congress.com, which criticized Aanestad’s voting record and his “out of touch elitism.”

Aanestad’s people traced the site’s source to LaMalfa’s chief of staff and campaign manager, Mark Spannagel, who has remained silent publicly in the wake of the disclosure, which happened on May 14.

The next day LaMalfa’s campaign released a statement: “Neither Doug LaMalfa, nor the LaMalfa campaign, had any knowledge or involvement in the construction or posting of the website in question, which just came to our attention this morning.”

It also added this disclaimer about the role of humor in politics: “Political satire has a long history in American politics, something that thin-skinned candidates, or those trying to hide their record, sometimes have trouble fully appreciating.”

Aanestad’s campaign called the website a “clear violation of federal campaign finance disclosure laws.” A lawsuit has been filed.

Interestingly, Aanestad noted that an accusation on the website that he is not an oral surgeon or doctor was also brought up back in 1998 when he ran against former LaMalfa chief of staff David Reade for the Republican nomination for state Assembly, the seat for which Reade’s father-in-law, the late Bernie Richter, had just been termed out.

At a recent candidates’ forum at

the Paradise Senior Center, candidates were asked about the website controversy—ironically, neither LaMalfa or Aanestad attended the forum, each saying he had a scheduling conflict.

Politician’s departure leaves a crowded race for Congress Oxley said he was “very disappointed it even made the headlines. It’s just mudslinging.”

The accusation by Aanestad and any discussion of the matter, he said, should have been done behind closed doors.

For his part, Jim Reed said he had heard of a similar misinformation effort in which a purported “Democratic mailer” was sent out telling voters, “We support Sam Aanestad.”

Michael Dacquisto noted a reference to him was initially on the website, which had a disclaimer across the bottom of the page that said: “Free Thinkers for D’Acquisto.” He called the posting “childish.”

Candidate Greg Cheadle said he, too, was linked to the site because of his campaign signs that say “Thinkers for Cheadle.”

Pete Stiglich called the matter a “major distraction.”

“It’s childish and says something about the candidates and the people who work for them, the people whose jobs count on these

guys getting re-elected,” he said.

On the other hand, Aanestad has been accused of saying President Obama is Muslim (see Guest comment, page 4). At a press conference on May 21, he said the statement, while he can’t remember the exact words, was in response to a question at a Tea Party meeting in Paradise a month ago.

“What I said was that the president’s background is Muslim,” Aanestad said. “He was brought up in the Muslim culture, his father was a Muslim. Does that mean he follows the practices and customs? He says he is Christian. Who are we to judge?”

On matters of actual government,

Reed says an overhaul of the nation’s payroll taxes is in order and that the wealthy should pay more. He referred to the remark made by President Obama during the State of the Union Address about billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s secretary paying a higher tax rate than her boss.

“But the federal government has been mired in a political gridlock over the past four years with little getting done,” he said.

He does not support the House budget plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that calls for a slowing down of federal spending over the years to balance the budget in 2049. “The Ryan plan balances the budget on the backs of our services like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid,” he said.

Dacquisto said the Ryan Plan doesn’t reduce spending fast enough. Stiglich agreed and said more strident spending cuts are needed.

On the matter of federal farm subsidies, another touchy subject in this race because of LaMalfa’s Richvale rice farm being on the receiving end of nearly $5 million in the last 15 years, the candidates who weighed in at the Paradise forum were for the most part on the same page.

Oxley said he was against them. Cheadle called them “green-collar welfare,” and Dac-

quisto said, “Let the free market system work.”

Reed said subsidies have their place to encourage farmers to grow or not grow certain crops. “But I’m not sure about a 2,000acre rice farm receiving $5 million over the years,” he said in an obvious reference to LaMalfa.

Stiglich didn’t bite his tongue. “I agree with these guys,” he said. “Subsidies have outlived their purpose, and now only the big farms get them. LaMalfa will continue to fight for subsidies. Is that the kind of leadership we want?”

While he wasn’t at the forum in person, LaMalfa did forward a statement that was read by Art Messenger, the senior center’s president and emcee of the event.

“Thanks for the forum and I’m wishing you all the best,” the statement began. He mentioned some of the support he’s received, including that of the Gun Owners of California, Crime Victims United and the California Farm Bureau Federation, and that he has earned an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association.

He said it is time to “stop the spending and rampant waste in Washington,” and reminded voters that he has been fighting against implementation of the state’s highspeed rail system.

“I would eliminate the burdensome laws and regulations, fight Obamacare and out-ofcontrol government.” Ω Introducing the candidates: Left to right: Sam Aanestad, Jim Reed and Doug LaMalfa.

Below: At a forum in Chico.

Left to right: Nathan Arrowsmith, Reed, Aanestad, Gregory Cheadle, LaMalfa, Pete Stiglich and Gary Oxley.

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STATE

Term limits and a cigarette tax

Eyes on the Assembly Two districts feature two intriguing races

A look at Propositions 28 and 29 and who’s backing them

by

Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

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ost voters in the CN&R readership area are in the redistricted Assembly District 3, which covers much of the Sacramento Valley, from Red Bluff to Yuba City/Marysville. Voters in Oroville and points east are in Assembly District 1, a mostly mountainous district that encompasses much of northeastern California, including Susanville and Redding.

Here’s a rundown of the races: Assembly District 1 There’s no incumbent in this race, but at least three of the five candidates have considerable political experience on the local level.

Two of them are conservative Republicans— Lassen County Supervisor Brian Dahle and Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti— and one, Robert Meacher, a Plumas County supervisor since 1992, is a moderate Democrat.

Dahle, a farmer who lives in Bieber and with his wife owns a seed company and nursery, has the backing of agriculture interests, including the California Farm Bureau. Bosetti, a former major-league baseball player who owns a small technology business in Redding, is backed by timber and real-estate interests.

Both decry what they say is the over-regulation of business

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and have pledged never to raise taxes. They oppose the high-speed-rail proposal and Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative, and they support pension reform. Both have vowed to make jobs their highest priority. Dahle is staunchly anti-abortion.

Meacher, who owns a store and deli in Genesee, agrees with Dahle and Bosetti about overregulation, but he differs from them in emphasizing environmental issues, including protecting North State water and forest resources and fostering the region’s tourism and recreation industries. He also believes strongly in the value of education and investing in the state’s universities and colleges. He supports the governor’s tax measure.

As the only Democrat running, he no doubt hopes Dahle and Bosetti split the Republican vote in this GOP-leaning district, creating an opening for him to come in first or second and make it to the November ballot.

There are two other candidates with minor-party preferences: Nevada City resident David Edwards, of the Green Party, and Libertarian Charley Hooper, of Grass Valley. Edwards is a water ecologist who advocates for restoring watersheds and wildlands, creating self-reliance in communities, and creating fair taxation and balancing the state budget. Hooper, an engineer who owns a small consulting company, wants to “dra-

matically improve the economy in California,” reduce taxes, reduce regulations, reduce state spending and extend education choice to all students.

Assembly District 3 In the new 3rd District, which is a lot like the old 3rd District but smaller, Dan Logue is a familiar quantity. The two-term Republican incumbent has garnered considerable recognition—some would say notoriety—for both Proposition 23, the 2010 measure he coauthored that sought, unsuccessfully, to overturn California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, and his ongoing road show of hearings up and down California, and even in Nevada, on the subject of job loss and overregulation.

Logue, who lives in the Yuba City area, is a self-described fiscal conservative and “staunch opponent of high taxation and government waste” who believes in “limited government and free enterprise.” In the Assembly, he’s chief whip for the Republican caucus and vice-chairman of the Health Committee.

In Chico, a town he previously had visited only occasionally, he recently ingratiated himself by mediating resolution of the tussle between State Parks and the Bidwell Mansion Association.

It’s inconceivable that Logue, who faces two challengers, will come in last on June 5, which means he will face one of his opponents again in November. They are fellow Republican Bob Williams, a Corning area rancher and, since 2006, a Tehama County supervisor, and moderate Democrat Charles Rouse, also from Corning. He’s a retired

postal worker and an olive farmer with a degree in philosophy from Occidental College.

There isn’t a lot of difference between Logue and Williams on the issues, but they do part ways when it comes to the Republican schism represented by the Doug LaMalfaSam Aanestad battle royal to replace Wally Herger in Congress. Williams has the backing of LaMalfa and Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, while Logue is supported by Aanestad and Rep. Tom McClintock.

Meanwhile Rouse, who is running a lowkey campaign, says his top priorities, if elected, would be police and fire protection, education funding and protecting North State water. He’s hoping enough Democrats cast ballots this time around to give him sufficient votes to defeat Williams and come in second, at least. Ω

Candidates’ websites:

Brian Dahle: www.briandahle.com Rick Bosetti: www.rickbosetti.com Robert Meacher: www.robertmeacher.com David Edwards: www.davidedwardsforcalifornia1st assemblydistrict.com Charlie Hooper: www.hooper2012.com Dan Logue: www.danlogue.net Bob Williams: www.bobwilliams2012 Charles Rouse: www.facebook.com/CharlesRouse ForCaliforniaAssembly

Left to right below: Rick Bosetti, Robert Meacher, Brian Dahle, Charles Rouse, David Edwards, Bob Williams, Charlie Hooper, Dan Logue.

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Ken Smith kens@newsreview.com

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roposition 28 is California’s latest attempt to address the issue of term limits, at face value reducing the total amount of time a person may serve in the State Legislature from 14 years to 12 years.

However, it also replaces an earlier law— 1990’s Proposition 140—that restricted legislators from spending more than six years in the Assembly and eight in the Senate. If Proposition 28 passes, legislators could spend all 12 years in either house—six two-year terms in the Assembly or three four-year terms in the Senate.

As it is, many lawmakers termed out of one house go on to run for the other house and end up serving 14 years.

Proposition 28 affects only future members of the State Legislature. Legislators first elected on or before June 5, 2012, would continue to be restricted by existing term limits.

Proponents of Prop. 28 claim the 1990 term-limits law isn’t working. Six years in the Assembly, they argue, isn’t sufficient time to learn the ropes, nor does it give Assembly leaders time to prepare for their jobs and carry them out. As a result, legislators become overly dependent on lobbyists and staffers, the only people who know how the system works.

Supporters include the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Democratic Party, California Teachers Association, and the League of Women Voters of California. Prop. 28’s largest contributor—with more than $600,000 contributed to the Yes on 28 fund—is the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

Those who oppose Prop. 28 claim it is a scam by special-interest groups to trick voters into weakening term limits, which they say have worked well at keeping legislators in check. They include California Tea Party Groups, the Humboldt County Republican Party, the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition and the organization U.S. Term Limits.

The proposition has no immediate fiscal effect, but could dramatically change the composition of the state legislative bodies, thus having an effect on future decisions.

Proposition 29 would

impose an additional 5-cent tax on every cigarette sold, which amounts to an extra dollar a pack, to be marked for cancer and other medical research and tobaccocessation programs. The state’s current cigarette tax— as established by similar measures approved by voters in 1988 and 1998—is 87 cents per pack, so the new rate would more than double these excise taxes to $1.87 a pack.

The federal government also imposes an excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products, with a 62-cent-per-pack hike in 2009 raising the federal tax to a total of $1.01 per pack. Funds from the latest federal hike go to help fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Other state excise taxes are generally passed along to the consumer in the price of cigarettes nationwide, as well.

The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association wrote Prop. 29 with the expressed intent to “save lives, stop kids from smoking, and fund cancer research.” The American Cancer Society has contributed nearly $5 million to the “Yes on 29” cause thus far, with the Lance Armstrong Federation contributing $1.5 million.

The two biggest opponents of Prop. 29 are R. J. Reynolds and Phillip Morris, the country’s two largest tobacco companies. Together they have contributed more than $30 million to defeat Prop. 29, and subsidiaries of these companies have given even more.

They say Prop. 29 is flawed in that the $735 million in annual new revenues will not stay in California, and the measure creates more bureaucracy by duplicating existing programs.

Expenditures on this proposition thus far equal about $40 million from opponents and $8.5 million total in support of the action, a nearly 5-to-1 ratio. Political analysts have predicted that, by voting day, tobacco companies may spend as much as 16 times more money than the pro camp is able to raise. Ω

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STATE

Term limits and a cigarette tax

Eyes on the Assembly Two districts feature two intriguing races

A look at Propositions 28 and 29 and who’s backing them

by

Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

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ost voters in the CN&R readership area are in the redistricted Assembly District 3, which covers much of the Sacramento Valley, from Red Bluff to Yuba City/Marysville. Voters in Oroville and points east are in Assembly District 1, a mostly mountainous district that encompasses much of northeastern California, including Susanville and Redding.

Here’s a rundown of the races: Assembly District 1 There’s no incumbent in this race, but at least three of the five candidates have considerable political experience on the local level.

Two of them are conservative Republicans— Lassen County Supervisor Brian Dahle and Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti— and one, Robert Meacher, a Plumas County supervisor since 1992, is a moderate Democrat.

Dahle, a farmer who lives in Bieber and with his wife owns a seed company and nursery, has the backing of agriculture interests, including the California Farm Bureau. Bosetti, a former major-league baseball player who owns a small technology business in Redding, is backed by timber and real-estate interests.

Both decry what they say is the over-regulation of business

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and have pledged never to raise taxes. They oppose the high-speed-rail proposal and Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative, and they support pension reform. Both have vowed to make jobs their highest priority. Dahle is staunchly anti-abortion.

Meacher, who owns a store and deli in Genesee, agrees with Dahle and Bosetti about overregulation, but he differs from them in emphasizing environmental issues, including protecting North State water and forest resources and fostering the region’s tourism and recreation industries. He also believes strongly in the value of education and investing in the state’s universities and colleges. He supports the governor’s tax measure.

As the only Democrat running, he no doubt hopes Dahle and Bosetti split the Republican vote in this GOP-leaning district, creating an opening for him to come in first or second and make it to the November ballot.

There are two other candidates with minor-party preferences: Nevada City resident David Edwards, of the Green Party, and Libertarian Charley Hooper, of Grass Valley. Edwards is a water ecologist who advocates for restoring watersheds and wildlands, creating self-reliance in communities, and creating fair taxation and balancing the state budget. Hooper, an engineer who owns a small consulting company, wants to “dra-

matically improve the economy in California,” reduce taxes, reduce regulations, reduce state spending and extend education choice to all students.

Assembly District 3 In the new 3rd District, which is a lot like the old 3rd District but smaller, Dan Logue is a familiar quantity. The two-term Republican incumbent has garnered considerable recognition—some would say notoriety—for both Proposition 23, the 2010 measure he coauthored that sought, unsuccessfully, to overturn California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, and his ongoing road show of hearings up and down California, and even in Nevada, on the subject of job loss and overregulation.

Logue, who lives in the Yuba City area, is a self-described fiscal conservative and “staunch opponent of high taxation and government waste” who believes in “limited government and free enterprise.” In the Assembly, he’s chief whip for the Republican caucus and vice-chairman of the Health Committee.

In Chico, a town he previously had visited only occasionally, he recently ingratiated himself by mediating resolution of the tussle between State Parks and the Bidwell Mansion Association.

It’s inconceivable that Logue, who faces two challengers, will come in last on June 5, which means he will face one of his opponents again in November. They are fellow Republican Bob Williams, a Corning area rancher and, since 2006, a Tehama County supervisor, and moderate Democrat Charles Rouse, also from Corning. He’s a retired

postal worker and an olive farmer with a degree in philosophy from Occidental College.

There isn’t a lot of difference between Logue and Williams on the issues, but they do part ways when it comes to the Republican schism represented by the Doug LaMalfaSam Aanestad battle royal to replace Wally Herger in Congress. Williams has the backing of LaMalfa and Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, while Logue is supported by Aanestad and Rep. Tom McClintock.

Meanwhile Rouse, who is running a lowkey campaign, says his top priorities, if elected, would be police and fire protection, education funding and protecting North State water. He’s hoping enough Democrats cast ballots this time around to give him sufficient votes to defeat Williams and come in second, at least. Ω

Candidates’ websites:

Brian Dahle: www.briandahle.com Rick Bosetti: www.rickbosetti.com Robert Meacher: www.robertmeacher.com David Edwards: www.davidedwardsforcalifornia1st assemblydistrict.com Charlie Hooper: www.hooper2012.com Dan Logue: www.danlogue.net Bob Williams: www.bobwilliams2012 Charles Rouse: www.facebook.com/CharlesRouse ForCaliforniaAssembly

Left to right below: Rick Bosetti, Robert Meacher, Brian Dahle, Charles Rouse, David Edwards, Bob Williams, Charlie Hooper, Dan Logue.

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Ken Smith kens@newsreview.com

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roposition 28 is California’s latest attempt to address the issue of term limits, at face value reducing the total amount of time a person may serve in the State Legislature from 14 years to 12 years.

However, it also replaces an earlier law— 1990’s Proposition 140—that restricted legislators from spending more than six years in the Assembly and eight in the Senate. If Proposition 28 passes, legislators could spend all 12 years in either house—six two-year terms in the Assembly or three four-year terms in the Senate.

As it is, many lawmakers termed out of one house go on to run for the other house and end up serving 14 years.

Proposition 28 affects only future members of the State Legislature. Legislators first elected on or before June 5, 2012, would continue to be restricted by existing term limits.

Proponents of Prop. 28 claim the 1990 term-limits law isn’t working. Six years in the Assembly, they argue, isn’t sufficient time to learn the ropes, nor does it give Assembly leaders time to prepare for their jobs and carry them out. As a result, legislators become overly dependent on lobbyists and staffers, the only people who know how the system works.

Supporters include the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Democratic Party, California Teachers Association, and the League of Women Voters of California. Prop. 28’s largest contributor—with more than $600,000 contributed to the Yes on 28 fund—is the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

Those who oppose Prop. 28 claim it is a scam by special-interest groups to trick voters into weakening term limits, which they say have worked well at keeping legislators in check. They include California Tea Party Groups, the Humboldt County Republican Party, the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition and the organization U.S. Term Limits.

The proposition has no immediate fiscal effect, but could dramatically change the composition of the state legislative bodies, thus having an effect on future decisions.

Proposition 29 would

impose an additional 5-cent tax on every cigarette sold, which amounts to an extra dollar a pack, to be marked for cancer and other medical research and tobaccocessation programs. The state’s current cigarette tax— as established by similar measures approved by voters in 1988 and 1998—is 87 cents per pack, so the new rate would more than double these excise taxes to $1.87 a pack.

The federal government also imposes an excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products, with a 62-cent-per-pack hike in 2009 raising the federal tax to a total of $1.01 per pack. Funds from the latest federal hike go to help fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Other state excise taxes are generally passed along to the consumer in the price of cigarettes nationwide, as well.

The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association wrote Prop. 29 with the expressed intent to “save lives, stop kids from smoking, and fund cancer research.” The American Cancer Society has contributed nearly $5 million to the “Yes on 29” cause thus far, with the Lance Armstrong Federation contributing $1.5 million.

The two biggest opponents of Prop. 29 are R. J. Reynolds and Phillip Morris, the country’s two largest tobacco companies. Together they have contributed more than $30 million to defeat Prop. 29, and subsidiaries of these companies have given even more.

They say Prop. 29 is flawed in that the $735 million in annual new revenues will not stay in California, and the measure creates more bureaucracy by duplicating existing programs.

Expenditures on this proposition thus far equal about $40 million from opponents and $8.5 million total in support of the action, a nearly 5-to-1 ratio. Political analysts have predicted that, by voting day, tobacco companies may spend as much as 16 times more money than the pro camp is able to raise. Ω

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Taking the measure of Measure A The highs and lows of the confusing referendum on Butte County’s marijuana-cultivation ordinance

by Melissa Daugherty melissad@newsreview.com

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or Chico voters, the upcoming election may seem like déjà vu all over again, as the saying goes. That’s because residents in the city are going to see Measure A on the ballot again, only this time around the measure relates to marijuana, not City Council elections.

Confused?

Well, think back to last June. That’s when city of Chico voters soundly (about two-thirds) defeated a measure to move City Council elections from the November general election to the June primary. That Measure A was spearheaded by Stephanie Taber, a member of the Chico Tea Party Patriots and political gadfly.

This Measure A is on the June 5 primary, and it’s being voted on by everyone in Butte County. And this time the measure is the result of a referendum petition by members of the medical-marijuana advocacy community, who want to overturn the marijuana-cultivation ordinance approved by the Butte County Board of Supervisors.

A group calling itself Citizens for Compassionate Use qualified the measure for the ballot through a signature-gathering campaign last summer.

It sounds simple enough, but that’s not where the confusion ends, according to 1st District Supervisor Bill Connelly, whose district, the largest in the county in terms of acreage, includes the greater Oroville area.

Connelly said he’s spoken with constituents who support the county’s proposed ordinance but on their absentee ballots mistakenly have voted NO on A, thinking that a YES vote meant affirming medical-marijuana use.

Or perhaps they assumed a NO would overrule the marijuana advocates’ referendum.

In any event, a NO vote rejects the county’s plan. A YES vote supports it.

The supervisors approved the land-use ordinance a year ago. It includes a number of restrictions for county residents (it does not apply to residents of the city of Chico and other municipalities), including limiting the number of plants based on property size. The law would prohibit growing on parcels smaller than one-half acre; properties between onehalf and 1.5 acres would be allowed up to 12 plants; 24 plants for parcels between 1.5 and 20 acres; 48 plants for properties between 20 and 80 acres; 72 plants for parcels of 80 to 160 acres. Any larger properties would be allowed the maximum 99 plants.

Connelly and the pro-A camp, which

includes former Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff and Paradise Town Councilman Tim Titus, maintain the ordinance is a way to protect residents from the negative impacts associated with cultivation on neighboring properties.

During a recent phone interview Connelly listed the many detrimental effects of cultivation: increased crime, offensive odors, decreased property values, degradation of the environment due to unmitigated use of chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) and the roadways due to increased traffic, among other issues.

He said the people causing the problems

are growing the plants for money, not for personal use.

“We are just trying to stop that to the degree we’re allowed to under the law,” he said.

The ordinance calls for setbacks on all properties, and requires that plants be concealed and protected from public access. It prohibits cultivation within 1,000 feet of certain public and private gathering places, such as schools, bus stops, parks and churches, and also requires that renters receive permission from their landlords to grow marijuana.

Growers must register with the county annually, providing the names and addresses of each patient (or their caregiver) participating in the cultivation, along with copies of their doctor’s recommendations, as well as the number of plants.

Connelly said those using marijuana strictly for compassionate use will find it easy to comply with the law.

Those from the NO on A camp beg to

differ.

Notable backers of that group include two local attorneys: City Councilman Andy Holcombe and Robert MacKenzie.

MacKenzie, a land-use attorney representing Citizens for Compassionate Use, is especially troubled by the prohibition on half-acreor-smaller parcels. He said the ordinance criminalizes conduct that state law—Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Use Act)—says should be legal and that the county should facilitate.

A former deputy county counsel with

Opponents of Measure A think the ordinance will force medical-marijuana users to the black market.

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Butte County, MacKenzie acknowledged that there are growers who create nuisances, but the county already has a nuisance-abatement ordinance, one he helped to craft during his tenure with the county, he said.

Further, the ordinance imposes a red-tape program on the county Department of Development Services, which would be responsible for collecting all of the recommendations, MacKenzie said. That means its staff would have to have training in HIPAA, the federal medical-privacy rule.

If approved, the restrictions would only drive up the prices of marijuana on the streets, encouraging the black market and dangerous cartels, he said.

“We’re not saying there should be no regulations, but this one is not well thought out,” he said. Ω Read it:

Go to http://clerk-recorder.buttecounty.net/ elections/upcoming_elections.html to learn more about Measure A.

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t’s Oroville conservative versus Oroville conservative for the District 1 supervisor post.

Incumbent Bill Connelly is seeking a third term for the position, and Virgil Gage, his lone opponent, is running for the first time.

Connelly said he stands on his successes, which include lobbying the rest of the supervisors to approve ongoing improvements to Highway 70, as well as making

sure the south county gets its full share of county resources; something he says wasn’t happening before he came on board.

Gage said, however, that the most important issue facing the district is bringing in jobs, and that’s what he fully intends to do.

“Our young people go off to college and never come back,” he said. “There’s nothing for them here.”

Gage wants the county to be more user-friendly for potential businesses coming in. He said his own experience in trying to bring

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After Yamaguchi, who?

Variety abounds in a quartet of candidates

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in a small manufacturing firm proved impossible because of all the county red tape.

Both candidates call themselves conservative. Gage’s grassroots campaign is being backed and supported by Concerned Citizens, a conservative taxpayer group that is very active in the south county.

Both men have served in the Air Force. Neither candidate finished college. Gage said his career took off while he was studying and he never had the chance to go back and finish. He went on to work his way up to a vice-president position in the electronics-manufacturing industry

to become a member of the City of Oroville Planning Commission Members of the Oroville Planning Commission are volunteers appointed by the City Council. Applicants must reside within the Oroville City Limits.

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or the past 12 years, Kim Yamaguchi has represented the Ridge at County Center.

He’s an unabashed conservative, staunchly opposed to new taxes, who prides Butte County on running a lean, mean ship.

Mike Greer His lingering legacy as District 5 supervisor likely will be the Upper Ridge Escape Route from Inskip to Butte Meadows, which he helped champion to legislators beyond the North State.

Yamaguchi elected not to seek a fourth term, so someone different will head to the Board of Supervisors. Precisely how different remains to be seen, as variety abounds in the quartet of candidates. There’s Joe DiDuca, a businessman and Paradise town councilman; Mike Greer, a special-education teacher on the Paradise Unified School District board; Robin Robin Huffman Huffman, a former town councilwoman on the faculty of Butte College; and Doug Teeter, a private fiduciary who’s served on the board of the Paradise Pines Property Owners Association.

DiDuca might be the candidate most similar to the outgoing incumbent. He, too, has vociferously objected to new taxes and fees. He would like to reduce the size of county government to provide just the most vital services—roads, emergency response and business support—and said at a candidates’ forum that he would like to Doug Teeter audit public agencies.

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Candidates’ websites:

DiDuca: www.joediduca.net Greer: www.mikegreer2012.com Huffman: www.robinhuffman.com Teeter: www.dougteeter.com

Greer got re-elected to the school board for a third term in 2010. Interestingly, though he’s been a teachers’ union chapter president in Marysville, where he works, he was never endorsed by Paradise teachers.

The PUSD budget has shrunk from $34 million to around $25 million during his time on the school board; experience with budgets and boards is among the attributes he touts.

Huffman ran against Yamaguchi in 2008, finishing second in a three-candidate race. She was elected to the Town Council in 2004 on the strength of her opposition to Walmart, which is planning a store at the Paradise Gateway. Huffman stresses the importance of local business, particularly local food producers and distributors.

Teeter is a newcomer to elected politics, though he’s held an appointed position on the Butte County Resource Advisory Committee. He’s been an advocate for access on public lands and expressed support for preserving the Greenline as drawn. Ω

before starting his own business.

Connelly said he received a degree from the college of “hard knocks” and that it’s not been an easy road. He left home, worked in both farming and construction and eventually started his own construction business. He now owns a roofing company.

District 1 covers the area from Feather Falls, up in the mountains, to Marysville and Highway 99 in the rice fields and nut orchards, and includes most of the city of Oroville.

Connelly said the important part of his position as supervisor of

a $400 million budget is to watch over the county department heads without micromanaging. He wants to finish the work he started on the general plan and says the position of supervisor is “intellectually stimulating.”

Gage said he wants the position because there are so many resources in the south county that are being ignored, and he wants to find ways to use those that will benefit the district and attract industry.

“Connelly’s had eight years to make the south county a better place to live,” said Gage. “People are still waiting.” Ω

The Commission conducts one evening meeting per month to review planning issues in depth, and to review and take action on development applications and changes to Oroville’s development-related regulations.

All applications must be received by the City Clerk’s Office no later than June 11, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.

If you are interested in applying, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at cityclerk@cityoforoville.org, or (530) 538-2535 for an application, or visit City Hall, 1735 Montgomery Street, Oroville. The successful candidates will be required to complete and file a Statement of Economic Interest – Form 700.

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All applications must be received by the City Clerk’s Office no later than June 11, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.

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Arts & Culture Future past

“Odd Jobs” (raku, ceramic),

by Ulises Meza.

PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR

Two-person show at 1078 Gallery examines history of society’s relationship with technology

Adystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury watched a woman walking down the street cradling few years after the publication of his

a small radio in her hand, with headphones latched on her ears, supposedly ignoring her walking companions to devote by her attention to the buzzing radio, Willow playing a melodramatic soap Sharkey opera. Bradbury was clearly scandalized by this little instance of the unraveling of the social fabric as REVIEW: he understood it, but in the Ferrous , recounting of it, he also appeared a two-person show unwittingly thrilled. featuring works by Much art produced in the postDoug Rathbun and Ulises Meza, shows 1945 era would take a doubtful through June 2, at position in relation to new forms the 1078 Gallery. of media, but some of it was also tinged with notes of excitement 1078 Gallery 820 Broadway about change. The burgeoning cat343-1973 egory of pop art was largely made www.1078 by artists invested in forms of gallery.org making that resisted and parodied the cynical languages of advertising, but showed a contradictory, tonal cheekiness that betrayed a fondness for advertising all the same.

Ferrous, a showing of the mostly sculptural artworks of Doug Rathbun and Ulises Meza currently on view at the 1078 Gallery, puts itself directly in dialogue with these historical times of fantasy and worry about how the future would unfold.

Rusted, moving rockets are on offer. There are ceramic figural busts wearing the leather helmets and goggles of early air pilots and the delicate scars of raku pottery. Found silver spoons are filled with tiny molded metal figures, resembling toy soldiers welded together. The pièce de résistance is a wonderfully rickety large-scale model Ferris wheel, covered with candles made in the shape of small heads.

These pieces make time, nostalgia, guarded worry and unapologetic celebration of the technological collapse and collide.

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ture point for his thematic concerns, as were early science-fiction adventure comics like Flash Gordon.

Noting that what was once the outlandish realm of science fiction is now so frequently our everyday reality, Rathbun seems to work with some of the contradictions of technological advancement, while still lingering aesthetically in vintage charms.

Rathbun’s works often rely on the hands of viewers to work. His unwieldy Ferris wheel may be operated by winding a metal crank—it’s fun to turn it. He also produced a hefty, wooded sculpture with a small image embedded in the center, which may be lit-up by the viewer’s flick of a switch. Rathbun quite sadly evokes the lost dreams of abandoned amusement parks with his rusted metal contraptions, but the necessary intervention of the viewer, and the very vibrant functionality of these lantern-like sculptures, seems also to assert some hope about ways to connect and move forward together, as old distant hopes and untapped possibilities come together within them.

Meza, who has a master’s in sculpture from Chico State, mentioned in his talk that an emphasis on material comes forward in his ceramic pieces, as does a focus on the figure. Meza often works with strong industrial materials like steel, but also crafts small, fragile, ceramic sculptures that tell ambiguous stories.

Unmoored from any discernible time, his recurring images—like that of a small boyish figure riding the back of a bear—call upon mysterious mythologies but resist being pinned down to any in particular. Shifting between the serious and the novel, the historical and the fabricated, these figures invite a complex relationship to the question of progress as well. Chilling and beautiful, Meza’s figures seem to want to charge forward, but we don’t know if they are threatening or friendly.

Ferrous, while registering some moments of mournfulness, or pausing at the question of progress, mostly gives viewers big doses of the whimsical. We can and should bristle at all of the enormous costs that come along with leaping into the technological future, but then we can turn a great crank with innocent glee, and appreciate its occasional harmless joys, as well. Ω

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Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: acoustic music with Daygone, Shameless Vocal Imitations and straight-up rock ‘n’ roll with Footloose. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary.

Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: The fair is in town! Enjoy the rides, the farm animals and the foods on sticks. Fun and entertainment throughout the week, everything from auto races to demolition derby to live concerts by the likes of Pablo Cruise (Sa) and The Mother Hips (Su).

Visit website for full schedule and ticket info.

5/24-5/28. $8/adults; $3/kids; $5/parking (concert tix sold separately). Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

Music GRAND OPENING & HIP HOP SHOW: Opening night at Energy Plant Studio, a nonprofit multimedia space. Performances by Big Slim, Lynguistix, Tybox and Himp C along with DJ TED SHRED. Tours of the new studio will be offered from noon to 5 p.m. Th, 5/24, noon-midnight. $2 donations. Energy Plant Arts; 2961 Hwy. 32 #57 Warehouse in Gasoline Alley; (530) 570-0320; www.facebook.com/energy plantarts.

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. $10-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

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Special Events FROM THE CORE TO COSMOS: A fundraiser for the Occupy Road Trip (a caravan movement hoping to inspire a paradigm shift in government) with food, live music, a short film, an auction of local art and more. Call for more info. F, 5/25, 7pm-midnight. $3-$33. Subud Hall; 574 E. 12th St.; (530) 230-8143.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday for info. 5/245/28. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

STAND UP SMACK DOWN COMPETITION: The third round in the month-long comedic battle royale, with the final round Friday next week.

Comedians Justin Bryant, Mark Leathers, Justin Baran and Phil Corbin face off. F, 5/25, 8pm. $10. The Last Stand Comedy Venue; 167 E. Third St.; (530) 354-1936; www.laststand comedy.com.

STORYTELLER KYLE BOWEN: A local poet, storyteller and writer who has been featured on NPR’s “Snap Judgement.” F, 5/25, 9:30pm; Sa, 5/26, 8 & 9:30pm. $10. The Last Stand Comedy Venue, 167 E. Third St., (530) 354-1936, www.laststandcomedy.com.

WHAT YOU LOVE ME FOR?: Colorful artwork, hair design and the latest fashions on display, with live music and dancing to follow. Call for more info. F, 5/25, 8pm. $10-$12. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 591-3857.

Art Receptions A SENSE OF PLACE RECEPTION: A reception for works by Phyllis Cullen and the California Fiber Artists. F, 5/25, 5-8pm. Free. Avenue 9 Gallery; 180 E. Ninth Ave.; (530) 879-1821; www.avenue9gallery.com.

Music FREEDOM DANCE: A three-day music festival with Mushka, The B-Side Players, Dylan’s Dharma, The Railflowers and much more. Go

OROVILLE POWWOW

Saturday & Sunday, May 26 & 27 Oroville SEE SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

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Special Events OROVILLE POW WOW: See Saturday. Plumas Ave. School, 440 Plumas Ave. Elementary School in Oroville, (530) 532-1611.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday for info. 5/245/28. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

Music BLUES & BREWS FESTIVAL: An all-day celebration

FREEDOM DANCE Friday-Sunday, May 5-7 Tehama Gold Ranch

SEE FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MUSIC

online for a complete festival schedule and ticket information. 5/25-5/27. Tehama Gold Ranch, 15530 Paskenta Rd. 14 miles west of Corning in Flournoy, (530) 833-0119, http://tinyurl.com/bpu9vue.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: STRANGER: The weekly concert series continues with blues and rock one-hit wonders from the ’60s and ’70s. F, 5/25, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

VOTE NO ON MEASURE A CONCERT: Food, beer and wine paired with live music from Allan Riggs Trio, The Jeff Pershing Band and Waltz, Saul, Snake and Stein. Proceeds benefit the campaign to vote “no” on Measure A. F, 5/25, 6pm-midnight. $5 donation. Chico Women’s Club; 592 E. Third St.; (425) 273-6409.

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

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D’Augelli Band (Rudy’s old bandmates), the MuGicians and Backyard Boyz. Proceeds benefit three aspiring students of the arts. Sa, 5/26, 6-10pm. $50. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday for info. 5/245/28. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

STORYTELLER KYLE BOWEN: See Friday. The Last Stand Comedy Venue, 167 E. Third St., (530) 354-1936, www.laststandcomedy.com.

Art Receptions CONTEMPORARY WOMEN 6 RECEPTION: A reception for the juried exhibition of 66 artworks by 40 contributing artists. Awards will be presented by juror JoAnne Northrup. Sa, 5/26, 7pm. Free. Chico Art Center; 450 Orange St. 6; (530) 895-8726; www.chicoartcenter.com.

Music FREEDOM DANCE: See Friday. Tehama Gold Ranch, 15530 Paskenta Rd. 14 miles west of Corning in Flournoy, (530) 833-0119, http://tinyurl.com/ bpu9vue.

of craft beer and live blues with the Tommy Castro Band, Kaye Bohler, Joe Louis Walker, Jeffrey Halford & the Healers and Rick Estrin & the Nightcats. Su, 5/27, noon. $35. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

FREEDOM DANCE: See Friday. Tehama Gold Ranch, 15530 Paskenta Rd. 14 miles west of Corning in Flournoy, (530) 833-0119, http://tinyurl.com/ bpu9vue.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday for info. 5/245/28. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

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Music BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION: A power-funk ensem-

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

ble combining rock sensibility with jazz improv, fronted by Big Sam on trombone. Tu, 5/29, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

Art 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: A Sense of Place, an exhibition of works by Phyllis Cullen and the California Fiber Artists. 5/25-6/23. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

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

CHICO ART CENTER: Contemporary Woman 6, a juried exhibition of 66 works by 40 contributing artists. Art Center. Through 6/23.

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

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Joel Collier

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

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

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.

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

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

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

Passion: Lois Cohen Art Work, a celebration of the late and great local artist Lois Cohen with a 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.james snidlefinearts.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Celebrating the

Figure, an exhibition of of pastels, chalk, pencil, water color, acrylic paints and various inks from 12 local artists. Through 6/30.

493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.

SATORI COLOR & HAIR DESIGN: Gitta Brewster, 13 locally-created paintings on display.

Through 7/15. 627 Broadway St. 120.

THE VAGABOND ROSE GALLERY & FRAMING: Will Chiapella Photography, “lost” B&W film images and digital photographs from abroad on display. Through 7/31; Tu, 7/31, 10am-5pm. 236 Main St., (530) 343-1110.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Cradleboards: Carrying on the Traditions, an exhibition of cradleboards, commonlyused by many Native American cultures to carry and protect infants. Through 6/15.

CSUC Meriam Library Complex.

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.

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 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

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

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Special Events

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 36

LOCAL FILMS VIEWING: A viewing of Midsummer

Nightmare: The Betrayal and Toxin, two films produced by local film crews. The filmmakers will be on-hand to answer questions. Sa, 5/26, 2pm. $5. Pageant Theatre; 351 E. Sixth St.; (530) 877-7422; www.pageantchico.com.

OROVILLE POW WOW: A two-day celebration of American Indian culture with music, dance,

food and arts and crafts. Sa, 5/26, 11am-10pm; Su, 5/27, 11am-4pm. Free. Plumas Ave. School, 440 Plumas Ave. Elementary School in Oroville, (530) 532-1611.

REMEMBERING RUDY: A birthday celebration of the late local jazz musician and photographer with dinner and live music by the Greg

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A SENSE OF PLACE Friday, May 25 Avenue 9 Gallery SEE FRIDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

The jury is in For its sixth annual all-women-artist show, the Chico Art Center received 245 entries. Juror JoAnne Northrup, director of contemporary acquisitions at the Nevada Museum of Art, whittled the entries down to 66 pieces by 40 artists—including the photo above titled “He Opened Her EDITOR’S PICK Womb,” one of two selections by Barbara Simcoe—for the Contemporary Women 6: Interpretations exhibit. Northrup will be on hand for the opening reception on Saturday, May 26, 7-9 p.m., and will give a talk and present the six cash awards and four awards of merit to the best of the show.

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• 550 Books were purchased for the 2012 “Children’s Summer Reading Program” with the funds raised by the 2011 Links for Literacy golf tournament • One persons entry fee will purchase 4 books for the library • Children who participate in the “Children’s Summer Reading Program” do better in school

BULLETIN BOARD Community AAFCC OPEN HOUSE: A celebration and open house at the African America Family and Cultural Center. W, 5/30, 4-6pm. African American Family and Cultural Center, 3300 Spencer St. in Southside Oroville, (530) 532-1205.

CARIBOU TRAIL HIKE: An all-day hike through the upper north fork of the Feather River. Call for more info. Su, 5/27, 8:30am-5pm. Free.

Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 343-2397.

CELEBRATING ROSES: Making rose creams as part of the library’s “Creating Gifts from Nature” series. Sa, 5/26, 1-3pm. Free. Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 282-3772, www.butte county.net/bclibrary.

VOLUNTEER AT GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM Saturday, May 26 Gateway Science Museum SEE VOLUNTEER

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 HERITAGE ASSOCIATION TOUR: A walking tour of downtown and Chico’s historic neighborhood. Sa, 5/26, 1-3pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, 400 Main St., (530) 893-1187.

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, 8916524.

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.

FARMERS MARKET: OROVILLE: Produce and fresh food vendors with local crafts and food booths. Sa through 11/17. Free. Oroville Farmers Market, Montgomery & Myers, Municipal Auditorium Parking Lot Montgomery & Myers in Oroville, (530) 8795303.

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GOLF FOR VETERANS: A program to help combat veterans socialize with other veterans on the links. Ongoing. Free. Call for details, (530) 8998549.

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

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Major sponsors:

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, 5/26, 12-3pm. PETCO, 2005 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy., (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.

previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 895-4707.

SWELLING, A PROBLEM RELATED TO OBESITY: A presentation covering the causes, effects and methods for managing swelling (edema). W, 5/30, 6:30-8:30pm. Free. Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, (530) 332-7370.

WOMENS BUSINESS EXCHANGE LUNCHEON: A women-only business networking opportunity that includes lunch and guest speaker Christiane Wear, a Certified Health Coach.

Dress formally. Th, 5/24, 11:30am-1:30pm. $20.

Canyon Oaks Country Club, 999 Yosemite Dr., (530) 343-7163, www.wbechico.com.

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.

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.

VOLUNTEER AT GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: The museum is now accepting applications for volunteer docents for a variety of summer 2012 shifts. Call or email for more info. Sa, 5/26, 10:30-11:30am. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, (530) 898-3273, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

SOS EXPUNGEMENT WORKSHOP: A workshop to assist ex-convicts complete their criminal record expungement petition. Tu, 5/29, 6pm.

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the popular Crazy Dog hot-dog cart on West First and Warner streets) takes customers’ orders while she mans (“womans”?) the barbecue by grill. But as Inday (pronounced “In-dye”) Christine G.K. proudly reminded me from behind the grill LaPado on which she was busy cooking rows of christinel@ chicken and flavorful longaniza sausages newsreview.com on sticks, “This is mine.” In other words, Inday’s Filipino Food is her baby, inspired by the food of her childhood and youngadult years growing up in the Philippines before she moved to Chico 15 years ago.

Inday’s food cart, decorated to resemble a colorful, tropical beach shack, bears a hand-painted red sign trimmed with bright blue with the words “Inday’s Filipino ★★★ 1⁄2 Food.” It’s the only Filipino food for miles around. “I think I hit the jackpot at this Inday’s time,” Inday told me, referring to being Filipino Food the only game in town when it comes to Filipino food.

Food truck at And it’s a welcome addition to the local Thursday Night food and food-cart landscape.

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see—I feel like eating this tonight,” she explained of her selection method, “and I’m gonna have dinner over there [at the market] so that’s gonna be the special.” Last Thursday’s special was manok adobo (“manok” means “chicken” in Filipino, Inday explained).

The previous Thursday there was no special offered, not that it mattered—I was perfectly content munching on my skewered barbecued longaniza and chicken, and tasty pansit bihon.

Last Thursday, I splurged on a three-item meal consisting of halang-halang, tino-no-an and one lumpia (lumpia can count as one item in a dinner box). The halang-halang—something I had never eaten before—was delicious.

It brought back memories of a curried-groundmeat dish my Australian mother used to make me when I was a child—the ground pork was full of spicy flavor, and punctuated by peas and chunks of tender cooked carrots and potatoes. The chicken in the tino-no-an was super tender and scrumptious, due largely to its being cooked in sweet coconut milk.

And the one lumpia I allowed myself made me want more. In fact, I thought how easy it would be to become addicted to chowing down several at a sitting. The snappy, soy-based sauce that came with it (in which floated a squeeze of lime) made it all the more enjoyable.

Inday’s cart appears to be getting increasingly more popular, based on the growing lines I’ve observed. Inday told me last Friday that she sold out of food the previous night.

“I always wanted to have it,” said Inday of her food cart, which has been in business at the farmers’ market since early April.

And, she reminded me, it’s a family business. Her 9-year-old son, Geo, and 6-year-old daughter, Ally, are always with her and John at the farmers’ market. “I could never leave them at home,” she said. Ω

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I ♥ SAN FRANCISCO The thousands of us waiting at the back of the pack leading up to

the starting line at the Bay to Breakers 12K last Sunday were corralled inside a perimeter of blue porta-potties. And as the breeze floated in off the bay, the air was overtaken by the fresh accumulation of thousands of gallons of pre-race waste. Don’t get me wrong, Arts DEVO had a great time running in his first Bay to Breakers, but the smell and that scene were noteworthy, especially in contrast to the fresh and exhilarating winds breaking off the ocean at the other end of the race. I wasn’t nude, nor was I dressed for the costume party, I was just there to test myself and see if I could run the width of San Francisco. Turns out I can, and that seven-mile-long party train along with the sights (and smells) of the city, Golden Gate Park and the Pacific Ocean made it the best run ever.

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Day—is no exception. Combine the sticky sweetness of cotton candy with the frialated goodness of foods on sticks; mix in a some of that hot grease lubing up The Zipper and a little sprint-car exhaust; add to that some of the steaming fog emanating from the cross-crapping over in farmworld and just a pinch of carnie musk, and you have pure, hot, summer magic. It’s a powerful bouquet, one that immediately brings to mind childhood memories of kicking up dust in flip-flops and stealing kisses on the Ferris wheel. Maybe I don’t really like the fair’s smell, but that’s beside the point. If you’re gonna do it, it’s best enjoyed by just accepting everything it has to offer—let the fair soak in until your sweat is properly seasoned and you’ve become one of the gritty, carefree spirits of the Midway. And when you’ve given in and are truly brave, slide your ass onto the sparkly vinyl of one of the giant chain-powered torture cages and spin, spin, spin away until the pink-tinged chunks of corndog spray forth inside your clown’s washing machine in the sky.

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They also provide a live sound service and will be hosting occasional live events, like the one Friday, which will be a showcase of local hip-hop talent, with Lynguistix, TyBox, Himp C, Big Slim and DJ Ted Shred.

RUDY G It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since beloved local sax-man

and photographer Rudy Giscombe died. With the anniversary of his birthday coming up, his friends and family have put together a huge party at the Sierra Nevada Big Room to celebrate the man. Saturday, May 26, a who’s who of local musicians will play through the night—from his old band mates (Lew Langworthy, Greg D’Augelli, Nate Furgason and Shigemi Minetaka) to a couple of super groups featuring everyone from Big Mo to Bob Littell. The whole event—which will include a buffet dinner and an auction of Giscombe’s photos—will be a benefit for local aspiring students of the arts. Visit www.celebratingrudy.com for info and to purchase tickets for what promises to be just the sort of festive, celebratory night that Giscombe would have loved.

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Texas three-piece True Widow’s loud and heavy drawl

Tleast Texas-sounding band to come out of Texas. The threerue Widow might be the

piece’s glacial aesthetic, along with echoed by vocals that sound Mark Lore like they’d leave mark@ frozen molecules thedaysof lore.com in the air, recall the gray haze of Manchester rather than the humid climes of Dallas.

“A lot of the heaviness people associate with our shows and the newer albums wasn’t conPREVIEW: scious,” says True Widow True Widow performs Monday, May 28, 8 p.m., at drummer TimoCafé Coda. thy “Slim” Starks LANTVRN, La Fin in a slight Southdu Monde and ern drawl.

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For Starks and his band mates— guitarist-vocalist Dan Phillips and bassist-vocalist Nicole Estill—it has been about pleasing themselves first, which has led to them even coining their own genre: “stonegaze.” It just so

happens that over the course of two full-lengths, True Widow has also taken a lot of listeners captive.

The band’s sophomore LP, the equally heavy titled As High as the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth, contains guitars that are down-tuned to unfathomable, almost uncomfortable, depths.

True Widow didn’t happen overnight. In fact, much of the band’s sound could be attributed to Phillips’ two-year stint in Massachusetts after the break up of his previous band, Slowride. It was there that he began writing new material, most of which was evolving into slower compositions.

Phillips moved back to Texas and hooked up with Starks and Estill, and the three continued to painstakingly work on the songs in an old warehouse outside of Dallas. The humor in the band’s gradual evolution is not lost on Starks.

“It might be slow paced, and people do make jokes about that,” he says, “but it works for us. It was basically a lot of rainy Sundays smoking weed and tuning guitars weird.”

Those rocket-engine guitars are met with fragile dual vocal harmonies from Phillips and Estill.

But the concoction doesn’t spell doom. There are also melodies throughout the record that are sure to keep songs embedded in ears and nervous systems off balance.

True Widow’s years of holing up in that space are captured perfectly

on the first single from As High, “Skull Eyes,” a song that could be likened to making love on a bed of basalt.

Things get even louder and heavier live (I imagine True Widow is not advised for those with heart conditions)—and it sounds like the experience is just as mind-congealing for the members as it is for audiences. It’s all about creating mood—albeit a dark and occasionally menacing one.

“There are nights where I feel closer to Nicole and Dan when a song connects,” Starks explains, saying the effect on listeners is an unintentional byproduct. “We’ve unexpectedly connected with so many people around the country and all over the world.”

True Widow already has a European tour under its belt, and the band continues to play across the U.S., most recently opening for Kurt Vile. Touring has put off recording new material, although there are songs in the works, and a few are already getting some live play. Who knows, maybe by the time this tour wraps up, the newer songs will sound completely different. Starks says the band is currently toying around with four or five different tunings, although a sixth is not completely out of the question.

“You want [the music] to be something you’re proud of and shit, but if you’re not having fun then what’s the point, you know?” Ω May 24, 2012

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Battleship is a $200 million advertisement for a plastic toy, basically adapted from a pencil-’n’-paper guessing game. And so we get a basic story too: After a meet-cute with the skanky daughter (Brooklyn Decker) of a barking naval commander played by Liam Neeson, Battleship a total loser (Taylor Kitsch) mans up and joins Starring Liam the Navy. With his brother’s help, he manages Neeson, Taylor Kitsch, Alexander to work his way up the chain of command Skarsgård, while remaining a screw-up. Oh, and he conBrooklyn Decker tinues doing the commander’s daughter along and Rihanna. the way.

Directed by Peter But he gets his shot at redemption when the Berg. Cinemark 14, Feather River fleet sets out on some big Navy exercise and Cinemas and navies sail in from all over the world to join Paradise Cinema the wild rumpus. If you’ve seen the ads, you 7. Rated PG-13. know where this is going: Next come the aliens and the explosions.

The characters are excruciating but not boring—just anonymous. Like the characters in a Poor splatter flick where you’re supposed to cheer with each one’s demise. But instead, here we get some narrative dancing that leads them from being loathsome to heroic. Give the Fair actors credit—it took some work in the end.

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Writers Erich and Jon Hoeber also deserve some credit for floating a narrative out of the basic board game, managing to incorporate the iconic aspects of the game into the mix, while laying down with a subtext involving the nature of games and adding some nice touches regarding disabled vets and forgotten war relics. That bumps this up a notch.

But still, is it now acceptable that we pay to sit down and watch Product Placement: The Movie? The mind sorta boggles. But getting boggled can be fun. And it’s a pretty cool feature-length commercial. And Rihanna does a spunky job. Maybe I’ll download some of her music. Ω

Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Rachel Bush, Jim Lane and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

An ensemble of British actors star in the latest from director John Madden (The Debt, Shakespeare in Love), a dramedy about a group of British retirees who move to India and overcome less-than-glamorous conditions at their not-asadvertised hotel and learn to appreciate the charms of the country. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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A group of tourists seeking an extreme adventure in the Ukrainian ghost town around the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant get stranded and find themselves being hunted by mutant survivors of the plant’s explosion. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Marley

Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, The Last King of Scotland) directs this biographical documentary about the life of Bob Marley, the most revered performer in the history of reggae music. Pageant Theatre.

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Men in Black 3

The alien-watching secret government agents played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back. This time, Agent J (Smith) has to travel back in time to save his partner, K (played as a young agent by Josh Brolin), from an alien assassination attempt.

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Once Black Widow (Scarlett Johanssen) starts kicking some ass about 11 minutes in, this superhero flick shifts gears and begins to get more awesome as it howls along. What we get next are a few origin stories, about the 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. But if you kick back and go with the flow, that’s over soon enough and they band together to fight a common threat that has followed power-hungry god Loki to Earth. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) is pretty much the center of the movie, but director Joss Whedon has also made the Hulk interesting. 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. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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With a prologue that seductively nails the Ann Radcliffe atmosphere of gothic romance, director Tim Burton and lead Johnny Depp establish the backstory of one Barnabas Collins, scion of an 18th century New England fishing magnate who uses his position to sample the galley maids until he pisses off one named Angelique (Eva Green), who just happens to be a witch.

A real one. And so, after a bit of toil and trouble over a cauldron, we end up with Barnabas undead, chained up in a coffin and buried away for eternity.

After some workmen backhoe up his prison in 1972, Barnabas is unleashed on hippy-era Collinsport, Maine, home to Collinsworth castle, where he finds his descendants essentially squatting in its decayed grandeur. The years have not been good for the Collins family, as Angelique has applied her witchy skills to wresting control of Collinsport from Barnabas’ descendants. It’s pretty much an arch soap opera, but the material really plays to Burton’s strengths and the humor isn’t as broad as the trailer for the movie threatened. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

home. Wandering the streets unrecognized, he meets and begins to fall for the owner of an organic grocery store (Anna Faris). The script by Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer is a raunchy riff on The Prince and the Pauper with Cohen’s patented offend-everybody brand of tasteless jokes (the movie’s motto might be “Sick semper tyrannis!”). Cohen is a 21st century Andy Kaufman: he can vanish into his character, but (like Kaufman) without being naturally funny like, say, Robin Williams or Jim Carrey. Between genuine amusement (rare) and squirmy discomfort (frequent), there are enough laughs to satisfy Cohen’s fans—but only them. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R —J.L.

The Five-Year Engagement

Jason Segel teams up again with writer/director Nicholas Stoller (director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and writer of 2011’s The Muppets), starring with Emily Blunt in this comedy about a couple who keep extending their engagement. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Footnote

(Ends tonight, May 24.) This wry, pensive comedy from Israel builds a surprisingly compelling combination of entertainment and drama out of a father-son conflict in an academic setting. Both Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar-Aba) and his son, Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi), have devoted their lives to Talmudic studies. The son wins an assortment of academic honors while the father’s work gains no special recognition. The deeply conflicted bond between the two is put to an extraordinary test when the father is announced as the winner of a major prize meant for the son. What ensues is partly theatre of the absurd among professorial types. But deeper resonances and ambiguities emerge in the course of the action.

Quasi-Freudian family dynamics are part of that, and so are the ensuing moral dilemmas, some of which may evoke the Hebrew Bible. And in the midst of all that, there are recurring ironic glimpses of the uneasy relationship these truth-seeking scholars have with the modern state of Israel. This remarkable film is the work of writerdirector Joseph Cedar, an American-born Israeli, and was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Laguage Film. Pageant Theatre.

Rated PG —J.C.S.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games commences with a grim vision of a dystopian America a few generations down the road, where proles abide in Appalachian squalor after the world

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The Dictator

A North African despot (Sacha Baron Cohen), visiting the United States, is replaced by a lookalike—part of a plot by his uncle (Ben Kingsley) to introduce democracy back

seemingly bankrupts itself during the course of a war on terror. These folks have it bad, and everyone just sits in doorways and looks miserable. Except for Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) who stalks the woods hunting for sustenance for her hungry family. To keep the edgy populace in line, the elite aspects of society have provided them with a little circus called The Hunger Games, where contestants set out to kill each other until the last one stands victorious. Guess who ends up as a contestant? The Hunger Games is leisurely paced, allowing its characters to naturally develop, with an eye for the communication of body language and subtextual manipulation.

Although, it is a little too sluggish at times and the content has apparently been homogenized for better mass appeal. However, most viewers might find that the biggest downside is having to wait until November of 2013 for the next episode. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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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. Rated R —J.C.S.

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting In the same vein as other recent fluffy ensemble rom-coms (see: Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve), a ton of recognizable faces (J-Lo, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Banks, etc., etc.) fall into a bunch of interconnected roles—this time in the form of five couples all dealing with the ups and downs of having babies. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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NIGHTLIFE SURROGATE Friday, May 25 Café Coda SEE FRIDAY

THURSDAY 5|24—WEDNESDAY 5|30

25FRIDAY FREEDOM DANCE: A three-day music festival with Mushka, The B-Side Players, Dylan’s Dharma, The Railflowers and much more. Go online for a complete festival schedule and ticket information. 5/25-5/27. Tehama Gold Ranch, 15530 Paskenta Rd. 14 miles west of Corning in Flournoy, (530) 833-0119, http://tinyurl.com/bpu9vue.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: STRANGER: The weekly concert series continues with blues and rock one-hit wonders from the ’60s and ’70s. F, 5/25, 7-8:30pm.

Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

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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. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaurant.com.

BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-

midnight. Lynns Optimo; 9225 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 872-1788.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo; 319 Main

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.

St.; (530) 892-2473.

GRAND OPENING & HIP-HOP SHOW: Opening night at Energy Plant Studio, a nonprofit multimedia space.

Performances by Big Slim, Lynguistix, Tybox and Himp C along with DJ TED SHRED. Tours of the new studio will be offered from noon to 5 p.m. Th, 5/24, noon-midnight. $2 donations. Energy Plant Arts; 2961 Hwy. 32 #57 Warehouse in Gasoline Alley; (530) 5700320; www.facebook.com/ energyplantarts.

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

STRANGE FICTION: Rock originals and

covers. Th, 5/24, 9pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

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. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnnies restaurant.com.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: High-energy

country music. F, 5/25, 8pm. $5.

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

PHOENIX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. 5/25-5/26, 8:30pm. Free.

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

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rock band with a sound reminiscent of Death Cab for Cutie. Caught In Motion, Cold Eskimo and Rett Matthews open.

F, 5/25, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

TUMBLEWEED WANDERERS: A soulful folkrock five-piece, extra spicy, from Oakland. Locals Garret Grey and Noland Ford open. F, 5/25, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

VOTE NO ON MEASURE A CONCERT: Food, beer and wine paired with live music from Allan Riggs Trio, The Jeff Pershing Band and Waltz, Saul, Snake and Stein.

Proceeds benefit the campaign to vote “no” on Measure A. F, 5/25, 6pm-midnight. $5 donation. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (425) 273-6409.

PHOENIX: Classic rock covers in the

grass musicians hosted by Lucy Smith.

Fourth Sa of every month, 1-4pm. Free.

Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

STRANGE DAYS: A tribute to The Doors.

DAVID SILVA: A heartfelt singer-song-

writer performing on his lonesome. Sa, 5/26, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

FREEDOM DANCE: See Friday. Tehama Gold Ranch, 15530 Paskenta Rd. 14 miles west of Corning in Flournoy, (530) 833-0119, http://tinyurl.com/bpu9vue.

JOHN SEID: An eclectic mix of tunes with John Seid and Larry Peterson. Sa, 5/26, 7-10pm. Free. Red Tavern; 1250

Esplanade; (530) 894-3463; www.red tavern.com.

ZEPPARELLA: An all-female tribute to Led

lounge. 5/25-5/26, 8:30pm. Free.

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

Sa, 5/26, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

STRANGE FICTION: Rock originals and

covers. Sa, 5/26, 9pm. Kings Tavern; 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise; (530) 8777100.

URBAN LEGEND: Rock, pop and country

covers. Sa, 5/26, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghills casino.com.

27SUNDAY BLUES & BREWS FESTIVAL: An all-day celebration of craft beer and live blues

Zeppelin. F, 5/25, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

26SATURDAY BLOOZE ON THE ROCKS: A BBQ with live

blues and, of course, booze. Sa, 5/26, 5pm. Free. Outpost; 7589 Humboldt Rd.

BLUES & BREWS FESTIVAL Sunday, May 27 Feather Falls Brewing Co. SEE SUNDAY

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BLACKBIRD RAUM Tuesday, May 29 Monstros Pizza SEE TUESDAY

tion, equal parts folk and punk.

Shivaree and Witchdick open. Tu, 5/29, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

DON SHERIDAN: Jazz keyboard. Tu, 57pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

30WEDNESDAY with the Tommy Castro Band, Kaye Bohler, Joe Louis Walker, Jeffrey Halford & the Healers and Rick Estrin & the Nightcats. Su, 5/27, noon. $35.

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

FREEDOM DANCE: See Friday. Tehama Gold Ranch, 15530 Paskenta Rd. 14 miles west of Corning in Flournoy, (530) 833-0119, http://tinyurl.com/bpu9vue.

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

28MONDAY JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Carey Robinson hosts a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 57pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

TRUE WIDOW: True Widow is dreary, down-tempo three piece from Texas.

LANTVRN from LA and local acts Aubrey Debauchery and La Fin du Monde open. M, 5/28, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

29TUESDAY AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-

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

BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION: A power-funk ensemble combining rock sensibility with jazz improv, fronted by Big Sam on trombone. Tu, 5/29, 7:30pm. $20.

Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

THE LAST HUMP SHOW: An acoustic showcase of local musicians. This month, Soul Butter, JP Guitierrez, Chris Schadt and Minnie and B-Funk of Furlough Fridays perform. W, 5/30, 8pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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

Italian Garden; 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.myspace.com/theitaliangarden.

SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the

restaurant. W, 8-11pm. Tortilla Flats; 2601 Esplanade; (530) 345-6053.

SOLO JAZZ: Every Wednesday with Carey Robinson. W, 4-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

DJ DANCING

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

CRAZY HORSE: DJ Hot Rod and mechani-

cal bull contest. F, 9pm-1:30am. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOST ON MAIN: Best and latest reggae

and dancehall. Th, 9pm through 8/23.

Opens 5/24. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party

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

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

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

Montgomery St. Pub, 1933 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 533-0900.

MONTGOMERY ST.: Tu, 8pm. Free. Montgomery St. Pub, 1933 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 533-0900.

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

KARAOKE CRAZY HORSE: All-request karaoke. Tu,

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

FEATHER FALLS: Tu, 7-11pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com.

SMOKIE MOUNTAIN: F, Sa, 9pm. Free.

Smokie Mountain Steakhouse, 7039 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-3323, www.smokiemtnsteakhouse.com.

STUDIO INN: With Brandon Hightower. Tu,

9pm-1am. Studio Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

TORTILLA FLATS: Karaoke en Espanol. Su,

8-midnight. Free. Tortilla Flats, 2601 The Esplanade, (530) 345-6053.

KINGS TAVERN: M, Tu, 8pm. Free. Kings Tavern, 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-7100.

LASALLES: Su, 9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

LAST CALL LOUNGE: M, Th, 8pm-midnight.

Last Call Lounge, 876 East Ave., (530) 895-3213.

LYNNS OPTIMO: F, Sa, 9pm. Lynns Optimo, 9225 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1788.

BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION Tuesday, May 29 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE TUESDAY

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

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

2833 6th St

Biggs

$131,500

3/ 2

2038

361 Entler Ave

Chico

$236,000

3/ 1.5

1620 1270

604 Watson Rd

Biggs

$108,000

3/ 2

1572

1201 Whitewood Way

Chico

$223,000

3/ 2

865 Whispering Winds Ln

Chico

$739,000

3/ 3

3182

592 E 5th Ave

Chico

$222,000

4/ 2.5

1968

474 Weymouth Way

Chico

$425,000

4/ 3

2882

1160 Lupin Ave

Chico

$212,000

3/ 2

1378

376 Picholine Way

Chico

$279,000

3/ 2

1781

1283 Hobart St

Chico

$209,000

3/ 1

1104

2814 Lucy Way

Chico

$265,000

3/ 2

1718

622 Pomona Ave

Chico

$205,000

3/ 2

1206

7 Jerome Pl

Chico

$250,000

3/ 2

1494

191 Pauletah Pl

Chico

$205,000

4/ 2

1780

5 Calgary Ln

Chico

$241,000

4/ 2

1471

2809 Ceanothus Ave

Chico

$192,000

3/ 2

1571

812 Alice Ln

Chico

$241,000

3/ 1.5

1343

1589 La Linda Ln

Chico

$180,000

3/ 2

1482

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3BR/2BA Spacious 2006 home

1742 Sq.Ft. $234,000 Ad #350

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2672 Sq.Ft. $525,000 Ad #374

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TOWN

PRICE

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9 Olympus Ln

Chico

$177,000

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1248

7 Service St

ADDRESS

Oroville

$110,000

3/ 2

1253

2643 Castlewood Ct

Chico

$155,000

2/ 1.5

1225

5670 Bartels Pl

Paradise

$278,000

3/ 2.5

2190

9406 Cummings Rd

Durham

$155,000

3/ 1

1325

5708 Round Tree Dr

Paradise

$255,000

3/ 2

2153

1975 Vermont St

Gridley

$150,000

3/ 1.5

1504

14613 Holmwood Dr

Magalia

$116,000

3/ 2

1900

1611 Gate Ln

Paradise

$180,000

2/ 2

1570

180 Solana Dr

Oroville

$230,000

3/ 2

2130

1269 Story Book Ln

Paradise

$132,000

3/ 2

1200

10 Patrick Ct

Oroville

$165,000

4/ 2

1650

5779 Kenglo Dr

Paradise

$125,000

2/ 1.5

1292

106 Buck Run Dr

Oroville

$160,000

4/ 2

1622

6803 Rexdale Ln

Paradise

$123,000

2/ 2

1562

2631 Oro Quincy Hwy

Oroville

$150,000

2/ 1.5

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ficTiTiOUs BUsiNess 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

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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 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.

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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

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 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 NATURAL SOLUTION FOR CHRONIC CONDITIONS at 4D Williamsburg Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

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 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

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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 10,17,24,31, 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

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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. 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NUTRISHOP CHICO EAST AVE at 855 East Ave. #220, Chico, CA 95926.

BURTON AND SHEPPARD LLC, 1208 Bidwell Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: DARCI BURTON Dated: May 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000709 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DRINK DOTS at 645 Betty Belle Lane, Chico, CA 95973.

JOHN SHERN, 645 Betty Belle Lane, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOHN SHERN Dated: April 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000641 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PUBLIC SCHOOLS UTILITY BUYERS’ GROUP at 4139 Willow Landing, Chico, CA 95928.

CLIFF JOHNSEN, 4139 Willow Landing, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: CLIFF JOHNSEN Dated: May 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000695 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WESTERN PACIFIC

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CAFE AND CATERING at 2191 High St. Oroville, Ca 95966.

AMANDA CORONA, 2925 S Villa Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: AMANDA CORONA Dated: May 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000707 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as GRINDSTONE OUTFITTERS at 3114 Michael Way Chico, CA 95973.

Brendan Christopher Smith 3114 Michael Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: BRENDAN SMITH Dated: May 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000708 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO COMPUTER CLINIC at 1304 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

KYLE M SILLIMAN, 3456 Hackamore Lane, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: KYLE SILLIMAN Dated: April 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000597 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ART & ZAIN FENCING at 474 E 12th St. #1, Chico, CA 95928.

SAIN PIMENTEL, 474 E 12th St. #1, Chico, CA 95928.

ARTURO QUINTERO, 474 E 12th St. #10, Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: SAIN PIMENTEL Dated: May 14, 2012 FBN Number: 2011-0001746 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CATAPULT at 2 Governors Lane, Suite B, Chico, CA 95926.

DIVERSE NETWORK ASSOCIATES INC, 316 Rainbow Trout Ct. Roseville, CA 95747. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JASON JEFFERY Dated: April 4, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000521 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DYNAMITE WELDING at 2229 Holly Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT CARL SERNA, 2229 Holly Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed; ROB SERNA Dated: May 4, 2012 FBN Number; 2012-0000687 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ADVANCED ROOFING, R AND R AUTO OUTLET at 1997 Poppy View.

Terrace, Chico, CA 95928.

MID VALLEY DEVELOPMENT INC, 1997 Poppy View Terrace, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ROBERT SMITH

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Dated: May 14, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000730 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LAW OFFICE OF ANN M WICKS at 3560 Elk Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

ANN M NEUMANN, 3560 Elk Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ANN NEUMANN Dated: April 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000655 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name SEISHINDO KARATE at 1108 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

SHANE DUBIN 4 Vermillion Circle, Chico, Ca 95982.

JORDAN ADAMS, 40 Mill St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: SHANE DUBIN Dated: May 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2010-0000327 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SEISHINDO at 1108 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

SHANE MICHAEL DUBIN, 4 vermillion Circle, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHANE DUBIN Dated: May 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000721 Published: May 24,31, June 7,14, 2012

NOTices NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: RONALD MULKEY, boat, fishing gear, golf clubs, chair, boat motor.

JARED PERRY, Misc. Items.

KRIS WILLMANN, Bookcase, storage drawers, misc. items.

DEREK SIZEMORE, couches, gaming chair, toddler bed, table, telescope.

ASHLEY TAYLOR, Table, radio flyer, couch, misc house items.

To the highest bidder on: June 9, 2012 Beginning at 12:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 2298 Park Ave. Chico, Ca 95928.

Published: May 24,31, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California selfstorage facility act: (B&P code 21770 et.sec.) the undersigned will sell the contents of: DARWIN MASSEY, Speakers, stereo, kids stuff, end table, microwave.

SANDRA SOLANSKY, Dressers, pick-up toolbox, coffee & end tables, kitchen table.

TASHA ROMERO, TV’s, dressers, patio chairs, game, kid stuff MICHELE GRIGGS, Dresser, 2 vacuums, work bench, xmas tree, games.

To the highest bidder on: June 9, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm Sale to be held at:

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Extra Storage 3160 Olive Hwy, Oroville, CA 95966 Published: May 24,31, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: ERIC BAUER, Suitcase, clothing, electronics.

SARAH CLAY, DVD’s, videos, boxes, books, guitar.

JEFF CRUZ, Furniture, TV, power tools, golf clubs.

JACK RODRIGUEZ, Speakers, lamps, bowling balls.

To the highest bidder on: June 9, 2012 Beginning at 2:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 60 E Grand Ave. Oroville, CA 95965.

Published: May 24,31, 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

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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 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 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

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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.

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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),

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There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at

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the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

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

The name and address of the court is: BUTTE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 The name, address and

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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 21, 2011 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 154297 Published: May 10,17,24,31, 2012

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My

soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing as his, Aries, and you may normally be able to get along fine with just a few cubic inches of new ideas per day. But I expect that in the next three to four weeks, you will both need and yearn to generate Prevost-type levels of heat and light. Please make sure you’re getting a steady supply of the necessary fuel.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a

great question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind. Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” On some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by. Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Sometimes I

think and other times I am,” said French poet Paul Valery. Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle—a time when it will be more important for you to exclaim “woohoo!” than to mutter “hmmm;” a time to tune in extra strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t pre-

tend you can’t see the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it.

In other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it. Gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s OK with me if you want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, Leo. But I’d like to tell you why I’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with. And I think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger. During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people.

Networking opportunities will be excellent.

Your web of connections should expand. By the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular, and better fighters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1977, the first

Apple computers were built in a garage that Steve Jobs’ father provided for his son and Steve Wozniak to work in. (You can see a photo of the holy shrine here: http://tinyurl.com/applegarage.) I suggest you think about setting up your own version of that magic place sometime soon: a basement, kitchen, garage, warehouse, or corner of your bedroom that will be the spot where you fine-tune your master plan for the coming years—and maybe even where you begin working in earnest on a labor of love that will change everything for the better.

by Rob Brezsny

The Nor*Kal hustle

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have a head’s

up for you, Libra. Do your best to avoid getting enmeshed in any sort of “he said/she said” controversy. (Of course it could be a “he said/he said” or “she said/she said” or “trans said/intersex said” brouhaha, too— you get the idea.) Gossip is not your friend in the week ahead. Trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong suit. Becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your destiny. In my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter and clatter. It’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mountaintop, flying in your dreams, and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling.

story and photo by Ken Smith kens@ newsreview.com Rapper Nor*Kal (real name: Nolan Robinson) is not one to sit idly by and wait for his big break to happen. He gets out on the road every day, setting up in front of stores from Redding to Yuba City to promote his and other local artists’ music. Nor*Kal has been making music since he was a teenager and started slinging CDs on the streets (the “independent hustle,” he calls it) four years ago. Go to www.reverbnation.com/ norkal32 to check out his EP, Hear Me Out, and to watch a video of his opening slot for Snoop Dogg at The Senator Theatre.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In some

Australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret. Even the child isn’t told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: When you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers, or yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Please raise your hand if you have ever sought out a romantic connection with someone mostly because of the way he or she looked. You shouldn’t feel bad if you have; it’s pretty common. But I hope you won’t indulge in this behavior any time soon.

In the coming weeks, it’s crucial for you to base your decisions on deeper understandings—not just in regards to potential partners and lovers, but for everything. As you evaluate your options, don’t allow physical appearance and superficial attractiveness to be the dominant factors.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The

21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. But about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem. Northern Flicker Woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep.

To allow for necessary repairs, launch was postponed for over a month. I’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn. Regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. Take that almost-insignificant pest seriously.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s offi-

cial: Dancing increases your intelligence. So says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling, and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. But one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. Lucky you: This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance.

Take advantage! Get smarter. (More info: http://tinyurl.com/dancesmart.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your animal

totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a hero shrew.

Of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. You will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces. Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. I expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you— and do it with exceptional charisma.

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This is my day job. If I don’t hustle, I don’t eat.

How many CDs do you sell a day?

It depends on a lot of things—the spot, the city, the time of the month. If it’s the first week of the month, I can sell 20 to 50 CDs a day. I think my record is about 80 in one day. This spot [outside 7-Eleven at First and Main streets] is pretty mixed. The college kids are really friendly, and interested, but they ain’t got no money.

What are some of the best places?

The shopping center on Nord can be cool, and there are some other good places in Chico. You can never tell, sometimes you get a hot spot in Gridley, Oroville, just about anywhere.

How would you describe your music?

Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s sad; it covers a broad range. It’s truthful and cuts to the core.

Nor*Kal is a well-rounded artist. I can do anything.

Today you have NAJAD compilation CDs … is NAJAD a music label?

It means “no attachments just a dream.” It’s not a label, but a group of musicians and other artists working together, helping each other out. It’s not just hip hop either, but all kinds of music. You can go to najadgeneration.com and check out what it’s all about.

In your opinion, does Chico have a good rap/ hip-hop scene?

There’s some really talented artists around here, but they don’t get enough support, particularly from the radio stations. All the greats, from back in the day until now, only got big after they had a lot of local radio play to get established. So I urge all the local radio stations to please, please support your local artists.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Trains When I was a tyke we lived about a block from a mainline with 10 sets of rails and a lot of traffic. I remember hearing steam engines in the night and wondering if any went to the station downtown where my father worked.

The tracks were high on an embankment that ran along the northern edge of West Chesterfield, our neighborhood on the far South Side of Chicago. The embankment was nearly a block wide, so getting caught by more than one train at once was a possibility for a little kid, and I was strictly forbidden to go on the tracks. I could see really far from up there.

Pete, my father, worked for the Chicago & North Western Railway until the mid-’50s, and I felt connected to railroads. I got a model train very early; I don’t remember not having a train until I got to high school, when I think I let my mother give it away.

When I was little, because Pete worked for a railroad, my mother and I would ride the Illinois Central’s City of New Orleans out of Chicago and end up in Fairhope, Alabama, near Mobile.

In the ’70s I was a charter member of the Windy

City Model Railroad Club, and I worked briefly as a brakeman for the Baltimore & Ohio. I got to ride on the engine, hanging on a boxcar, and in the cupola of a caboose. Very cool.

My train friends always wanted to travel cross country by train, especially on a name train—The City of New Orleans, the Broadway Limited, the Empire Builder, et al. Some had done it, but not many.

Simultaneous money and time was rare.

I rode Amtrak a couple of times between the Twin Cities and Chicago, and even Amtrak is better than no train at all, but not by much.

My wife and sons wanted to see our oldest in Chicago and friends in the Twin Cities this summer, and a tax refund meant that I could not only go, I could ride the train and meet them there. Hallelujah!

With the right sort of planning and a little luck, I can also see a cousin in a nursing home on the way. I can ride the Coast Starlight to Los Angeles, the Sunset Limited to New Orleans, and the City of New Orleans to Union Station in Chicago; then maybe a bus to Saint Paul, the Empire Builder to Portland, and the Coast Starlight again back to Chico. Bliss. I’ll be gone about a month, and I’ll let you know how it goes.

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