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vince the City Council to pass a meaningful noise ordinance: ENOUGH! (Effective Noise Ordinance: Uniting for a Greater Hometown). Our email contact is enoughchico@yahoo.com.

With the presence of a large institution of higher education, one would expect an academic atmosphere and adult behavior to pervade Chico; instead, there’s a party (alcohol-consumption) atmosphere and adolescent behavior. The result is unreasonable noise after 10 p.m. on most Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights when Chico State is in session. by Noise from the student apartments Neal Wiegman behind our house has made me dread weekends for almost 22 years. Our bedThe author is a room window is some 40 feet from the retired Spanish apartment complex’s parking lot, where professor and the students congregate to party. Sleep is author of our made impossible on a regular basis by Dec. 24, 2009 high-decibel music and obscenity-laced cover story, “The Bones of St. James,” screaming. Appeals to the complex’s about trekking the management have been ineffective. Callancient Camino de ing the police sometimes results in noise Compostela abatement, but only for one night. pilgrimage route.

I shouldn’t have to call the police multiple times every weekend. When officers come to our house to peer over the back fence to determine where the 4 CN&R June 7, 2012

noise is coming from, I have asked them if they can do something that will be effective in the long term. They tell me that they are limited by Chico’s noise ordinance.

Chico residents not affected by student noise may consider the following suggested solutions to be draconian, but those who suffer on a regular basis will probably find them reasonable.

• Noise ordinance in effect 24 hours a day.

• One warning in any 12-month period.

• Tickets may be issued to one or all partiers.

• A maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail.

• When a tenant is fined, the property owner will be fined an equivalent amount.

These proposed modifications to Chico’s current noise ordinance were taken from those of two other college towns: San Luis Obispo and Fort Collins, Colo.

I urge readers to write your City Council members. Go to www.chico.ca.us/city_council/ home_page.asp to access their email addresses.

Tell them your story and what you would like to see in an effective noise ordinance. The misery that so many Chicoans endure because of student noise needs to end.

Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves. Ω

California State University Board of Trustees, the Chico business consultant is responsible for selecting the members of a search committee tasked with finding a successor to retiring Chancellor Charles B. Reed.

As CN&R Managing Editor Melissa Daugherty reported last week (“Into the light,” Newslines), Chico State President Paul Zingg is hopeful that the selection process will include a broad solicitation of viewpoints on the qualities the new chancellor should possess.

But will it? When the trustees picked Reed as chancellor in 1997, the selection process took place behind closed doors, with predictable results.

As Lillian Taiz, president of the California Faculty Association, told Daugherty, Reed “got off on the wrong foot,” and for the duration of his tenure had an often combative relationship with both teachers and students.

Linscheid is concerned about having a process so open that candidates’ interest in the position will become public knowledge. He believes some highly qualified candidates may worry that they’d be putting their current jobs in jeopardy if it became known they were looking elsewhere.

But if Chico State’s experience is any indication, that’s of minor concern. When Zingg was hired, the names of the top four candidates were announced, and members of the campus community were invited to meet with each of them and offer their impressions. The process was similarly open and inclusive during the recent hiring of Belle Wei as the new provost.

Frankly, it’s hard to imagine that someone who has the credentials to become a chancellor would be in jeopardy of being fired for seeking the job. The risk is certainly not sufficient to require that the selection process be kept entirely secret.

Indeed, whoever is selected should be someone who welcomes openness and transparency. The CSU is suffering from a multitude of wounds, some of its own making. Nursing it back to health will require cooperation among all parties, students, teachers and administrators. That cooperation will come only if the new chancellor and the Board of Trustees commit themselves to openness. Ω

Amazon’s sales-tax scheme Remember the tussle last year over a state law requiring giant

e-tailers like Amazon.com to begin collecting sales tax on Internet purchases? At first Amazon tried to qualify an initiative measure to overturn it, but then it abandoned that effort and agreed to begin collecting the taxes in September of this year.

Guess what. It turns out much of the money will go to Amazon.

That’s because Amazon is setting up two distribution centers in California, one in San Bernardino and one in the Central Valley town of Patterson, according to the Los Angeles Times. To attract Amazon, officials in both cities agreed to kick back most of their share of sales taxes.

Wait, it gets worse.

Once the distribution centers are up and running, Amazon will be able to designate them as legal “points of sale,” permitting the company to direct 100 percent of the city share of sales taxes statewide—many millions of dollars—to Patterson and San Bernardino. Those cities, in turn, have agreed to pass on as much as 80 percent of the money to Amazon.

Amazon isn’t the only e-tailer seeking rebates. Up and down the state big Internet companies are squeezing money out of cities by forcing them to compete to become “points of sale.” This needs to end.

The Legislature can resolve the issue by eliminating the point-of-sale provision and the accompanying sales-tax rebates. The taxes should be distributed proportionally to the cities where the purchases were made so they can be used as intended, for police, parks and street repairs. Ω

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Karma and the Constitution In September of last year, 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki ran away from his family’s home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to be with his father, al-Qaida operative Anwar al-Awlaki. A few days later the elder al-Awlaki was killed in a CIA drone strike, along with Samir Khan, an al-Qaida propagandist.

A few weeks later Abdulrahman and his 17-year-old Yemini cousin were among a group of older men killed in a drone strike.

Like his father, Abdulrahman was a U.S. citizen, as was Khan. Unlike his father, he and Khan had never done anything that might have been illegal in the United States.

Nevertheless, as The New York Times revealed last week, that second drone strike was ordered by President Obama—though there was nothing to indicate that he knew two children were among the targets.

Like many liberals, I’m deeply troubled by the use of targeted assassination, especially when the targets include U.S. citizens. I understand the president’s worries, however. It was Anwar al-Awlaki, after all, who trained Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” who had he been successful would have killed more than 100 people. And al-Awlaki apparently had a role in the murder of 13 people at Ft. Hood, Texas, and in training the Times Square bomber, as well.

I also appreciate that the president is assuming personal responsibility for the targeting decisions. He understands the terrible moral complexity of the situation and doesn’t want others to feel responsible for the deaths, especially if the dead turn out to be innocent people, as many have.

War is always horrible. Innocent people always die.

During World War II, both Germany and the United States purposely killed civilians by the thousands in an effort to demoralize their enemies.

Good people can and will disagree on whether the president is doing the right thing to protect the American people while causing the fewest number of casualties.

America’s experience in Iraq, where 4,409 U.S. military and 100,000 to 150,000 Iraqis died, suggests that far more people would perish if the United States invaded Yemen, or any other country, to ferret out terrorists.

A more difficult question to answer is: Is it legal to secretly target and kill American citizens living in countries with which we are not at war? The president says a legal opinion prepared in secret by his Department of Justice holds that it is—that the Fifth Amendment’s dueprocess requirements “could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch,” according to the Times.

But isn’t that crossing the line between executive and judicial powers? And isn’t it dangerous to cross that line?

Since when do democracies make war, and kill their own citizens, on the basis of secret memos?

The drone attacks and civilian deaths come with a high cost in the form of the fierce resentment that alQaida effectively uses as a recruiting tool. The law of karma applies here as elsewhere, and any unjustifiable actions we take will inevitably come back to haunt us.

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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I also really appreciated how clearly and carefully he set the local Chico history in the larger national context of the Great Depression and the confusing welter of New Deal agencies, taking the time to distinguish the WPA from the CWA, PWA, FSA, etc. The larger context is extremely important, but that is usually what’s missing from most newspaper coverage of local history.

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One of his opponents, Doug LaMalfa, advertises that he “is one of us.” Who is the “us,” and, more important, who are the implied “them”?

Thanks to the ill-advised “open primary” initiative, it is likely that in the general election we North Staters are going to have a choice between “Obama is a Muslim” and “He is one of us,” ensuring an appropriate legacy to a quarter-century of the backbench, ineffectual, right-wing extremist “representation” of Wally Herger. Great.

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The CCFM has outgrown the current downtown location and should relocate to the parking lot behind City Hall, where there is lots of grass and shade and room.

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Karmic blowback U.S. “corporatocracy” is the word John Perkins uses in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man to describe how countries are now controlled by a coalition of the U.S. government, banks such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and U.S-based international corporations.

He had a lot of courage to write this book, considering that heads of state who have not gone along with our government and the U.S.based international companies’ suggestions have met with an early death defined as accidental.

He describes his experience of going into other countries like Indonesia, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and other strategically located countries and convincing them to take out huge loans for infrastructure and making sure that U.S. corporations were used for the construction. The huge loans will probably never be repaid, but the countries came under the control of the U.S. government, World Bank and other U.S. aid agencies.

Tools used were: exaggerating benefits (which went mainly to the top people in the money chain), fraudulent financial reports, rigged

“At one time, the Republican Party had a legitimate point of view. … Now you are all lost in a Tea Party agenda over issues that were resolved 50 years ago.”

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elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder.

In many cases the environment was permanently damaged.

His book gives a good brief history of our intervention in other countries’ well-being and suggests our actions make a lot of people hate America and could even lead to some of them becoming terrorists.

In the final pages he suggests the actions you can take.

I expect Iran to be next on the hit list because of its strategic location, water and oil resources.

NORM DILLINGER Chico

Step out, atheists Re “Fruits of the same tree” (Guest comment, by Ronald Angle, May 31): I appreciate the thoughts of Ronald Angle, causing me to reflect on these issues of “democracy.” I’d like to add a voice for the atheists who represent the next line of battle for equal rights.

There are millions of “closet atheists” who are long overdue to find courage and speak their truth. And there are many more non-believer registered voters than one might suppose. I hope their voices will join the chorus against bigotry, hatred, fear and plain ignorance.

TANYA HENRICH Greenville

As good as gods Re “Let’s talk about it” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, May 31): Agreed re: the lack of political will to address climate change, but there seem to be two very substantial obstacles to any useful sort of dialogue, let alone political action.

On the one hand there’s the absence of any sort of consensus, even among the so-called experts and “believers,” on what can or should be done. And even much of

that often ends up as basically just “scolding” everyone who can’t afford to eat organic, go solar or buy a Prius!

On the other hand there are the climate change “deniers” who, underneath all the bogus arguments and petro-funded “facts,” are simply in willful denial mostly due to paranoia at the possibility of “control” and “regulations” impinging on their idea of “freedom” (especially on a “world guvmint” scale ... cue the black helicopters)!

For what it’s worth, I tend to agree with the pragmatic point of view of Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog: “We are as gods and we might as well get good at it.” Or as Brand now puts it in his most recent book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto: “..... “We are as gods, and we have to get good at it!”

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Go to www.celebratingrudy.com to view re-caps of the event.

Updates will be posted throughout the coming year.

Rudy hoped that loved ones would not dwell on his death. We celebrated his birthday and his incredibly rich life instead.

Rudy hoped that his photos would find homes in the community. Ninety out of 95 of his photo images were silently auctioned.

Three young aspiring students of the arts each will receive a $3,333.33 award as a result of fundraising efforts in memory of an extraordinary human being.

CHERYL GISCOMBE Chico

Correction Ken Smith’s May 24 Newslines article incorrectly stated that Harvey Milk Day observations included working in the Jesus Center garden. The volunteer gardening effort took place at the Community Garden, 395 E. 14th St.

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GENERAL PLAN UPDATES POSTED

Three draft documents related to an update of Butte County’s General Plan 2030 are completed and ready for public input.

Two years into its development, the Final Draft Butte County Zoning Ordinance is ready for final review and approval by the Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission. That draft at www.buttegeneralplan.net can be found by clicking the link “View ALL Docs HERE” in the middle of the page (or go to www.tinyurl.com/butteupdate to view it).

A General Plan Amendment (GPA) and Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (DSEIR) are also up for review. The latter is an environmental assessment of the GPA, according to a press release from the county Department of Development Services.

The public-review period on the DSEIR will end on July 16. Written comments may be submitted up to that date. Meanwhile, at 1:30 p.m. on June 14, the Planning Commission will take public comments at the supervisors’ chambers in Oroville.

Can prescribed burns lower the fire danger in Bidwell Park?

CHICOAN HEADS TO STATE BOARD

Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed William McGinnis, a Butte College trustee and former Chico State administrator, to the California Educational Facilities Authority.

The CEFA issues bonds and other financing to nonprofit, private universities for student loans and construction projects.

McGinnis, a 65-year-old Republican, has served on the Butte-Glenn Community College District Board of Trustees since 1992, and was an instructor and administrator at Chico State from 1985 to 2003. He is also a seasoned civil servant and has held positions in Marysville (city administrator, 1984-1985), Crescent City (city manager, 1979 to 1984), as well as Oregon and Florida.

“His experience in not only higher education, but also facilities, budgets, and administration, make him uniquely qualified,” said Butte College President Kimberly Perry in a press release.

Senate confirmation is not required for the position and there is no compensation.

BIG WOMAN ON CAMPUS

Chico State has hired a dean from San Jose State as the university’s new provost, the second-in-command administrator on campus.

Belle W. Y. Wei, (pictured) a native of Taiwan, will take on her duties as provost and vice president of Academic Affairs on Aug. 1.

Wei has been the dean of engineering at San Jose State for a decade and comes to Chico with a stellar résumé.

Her academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in biophysics and a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, as well as a master’s degree in engineering from Harvard.

In a press release, Chico State President Paul Zingg said Wei (pictured) was the first choice among “a deep and impressive pool of candidates.” (Wei takes the place of Sandra Flake, who resigned as provost last spring without explanation.)

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Chico State professor Don Hankins, admiring this valley oak in Lower Bidwell Park, advocates the use of controlled burns to manage the health of certain natural habitats.

Inset: Fire helps control damage from insects, including these appleshaped growths resulting from exposure to gall wasps.

PHOTOS BY KAREN LASLO

Hwouldn’t want to imagine: It’s a crackling fall day, dry as days-old toast. After no rain for

ere’s a scenario Bidwell Park lovers

many moons there’s finally a brisk nip to the air.

Change is coming.

A north wind kicks up, gusting down dusty paths. Suddenly wildfire explodes across Lower Park—one spark fanned into a firestorm that ignites dry grass, roars through thickets of shrubs and young trees and then wicks up wild grape vines to torch majestic old oaks and sycamores.

Red-hot ashes rain down on the wood roofs of million-dollar houses that flank the park, setting those neighborhoods ablaze.

It’s almost unimaginable, an story by instant inferno in the verdant Kim Weir heart of Chico. Yet such a wildfire is quite possible here, given the right conditions—and given the park’s “fuel load,” in firefighter lingo. Imagining this disaster is at least a step toward preventing it.

Park fire:

The city of Chico Park Division scheduled a controlled burn for this week at the grassland area north of Upper Park Road in Middle Bidwell Park. The Chico Fire Department will conduct the burn, which may continue into next week.

Don Hankins, pyrogeo-

grapher and assistant professor at Chico State as well as field director at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER), is well versed in fire-safety practices and the ecological uses of fire. So far he has used controlled burns only in the upper reaches of the watershed, but he is comfortable with using fire in Lower Park, too.

“It’s one of the most inexpensive tools we have to manage

vegetation,” he said. “But there has to be a willing, well-informed public to support it. And sometimes public education takes a while.”

The native Concow people who inhabited this area regularly used fire for particular purposes, according to Hankins, clearing paths to favorite waterholes, establishing basketry plants and encouraging bunch grasses and abundant acorn crops for wildlife.

Native people managing plant and animal habitat with fire didn’t have to contend with air-quality concerns and no-burn days, however.

California native plant communities are adapted to fire, Hankins pointed out, certainly oak-woodland areas such as Bidwell Park. Some species require fire before dormant seeds will germinate and sprout. Because of these adaptations fire helps native plants compete against otherwise dominant interlopers.

One example of this: The perennial bunch grasses once common here; introduced annual grasses have all but choked them out here and throughout the valley.

Almost as dramatic is the case of valley oaks, which in Lower Bidwell Park aren’t successfully reproducing, which means adolescent and middle-age trees aren’t surviving to eventually replace mature oaks. Regular burning would thin out seedlings and young trees— including competitors such as the park’s non-native black walnuts—leaving adequate room for developing oaks plus

plenty of fertilizing ash.

Fire even diminishes parasitic damage produced by oak gall wasps, which create apple-shaped outgrowths or galls that sap essential energy from young trees, Hankins said. For reasons not fully understood, regular burning also practically eliminates mistletoe as a tree parasite.

Using fire for habitat management is as much art as science, said Jeff Mott, director of the BCCER. “It’s taken us a long time to figure out how to use fire—when to use it, and where—and to make it work,” he said.

But the preserve is now having notable success, such as expanding native bunch grass habitat and producing “phenomenal” acorn crops, which the wildlife appreciate.

Frequency of fire is crucial, said both Mott and Hankins. Frequent burns are needed to eliminate annual grasses, for example. Timing is also critical. Fall burns—right after the first rain, when vegetation is dry but humidity is high— are ideal for most purposes.

But Hankins suspects people will be resistant to lighting intentional fires in Lower Park as an ongoing practice.

“At what point would people get fed up with doing this continuously?” Hankins asked. “Public education—that is the key. The community would need to support this.”

Dan Efseaff, the city’s park and

natural-resources manager, said there’s been positive feedback for prescribed

park burns. So far, about 150 acres have been burned, but only in Upper Park and Middle Park.

Volunteer work to remove non-native vegetation in Lower Park has reduced fire danger, he said. But the potential for controlled burns is limited because that stretch of parkland runs perpendicular to prevailing winds, which can limit the “fetch” or unhampered movement of fire. Using fire to help establish shaded firebreaks throughout Lower Park is nonetheless a goal.

“I’m hoping in the next few years to start using prescribed fire in Lower Park,” Efseaff said, starting in the old walnut orchard along Vallombrosa.

Yet controlled burns in Lower Park can’t be the entire answer, even if public opinion comes to support them, said Jim Bishop, a former fire-behavior analyst for CalFire. Today, there are far different fuels, ignition frequency and ecosystem features than in the past, he pointed out.

“It is too simplistic to think that introducing a program of late-season, lowintensity fire will somehow restore the ecosystem to its natural state and reduce the overall ‘fire danger,’ ” he said. “It will take a combination of managed fire, purposeful plant introductions, protecting vulnerable plants and some experimentation to find the optimal approach.”

Susan Mason is on the invasive-plant front lines in Bidwell Park, coordinating Friends of Bidwell Park volunteers who regularly remove unwanted vegetation.

She estimates it took at least 2,000 hours to remove the non-native blackberries for the Sycamore Restoration Project, a very small patch of ground where aggressive vines were stifling young sycamore trees.

“One problem is, the city of Chico is short of money and so short-handed they can’t even haul [vegetation] for me,” she said. “They barely have time for the mow-blow and cleaning bathrooms, the things most people care most about.”

The first thing that needs to happen, she said, is raising awareness—while also raising money to properly care for the park.

“People concerned about fire danger should get involved. We need an endowment fund, which could simply be a fund set up with the North Valley Community Foundation, so people who want to give money to support Bidwell Park can easily make a contribution.

“Get involved,” she urged. “Do some fundraising for the park, talk to your friends. And if you live near the park and have a wood roof—I’d call a roofer right now and replace it.” Ω About the author:

Kim Weir is editor and publisher of Up the Road (uptheroad.org), a Chico-based online publication dedicated to environment, economy and equity. This article, a collaboration between the CN&R and Up the Road, is the first in an occasional series about fire in the California landscape.

Election rundown

Republican infighting rules the day It’s all over except for the counting—of absentee and provisional votes, that is. But the precinct votes for Butte County and the state are in, and they give a pretty good indication of the winners and losers in this year’s primary election.

The county elections office has 28 days to tally those uncounted votes. One county worker estimating the number at “a lot.”

In perhaps the most advertised contest, at least based on the many lawn and billboard signs erected in the county, Measure A, the county ordinance passed last year to regulate the growing of medical marijuana and then placed on the ballot via a referendum, went down to defeat, with nearly 54 percent of voters opposed.

The anti-A folks said it was too restrictive and trampled on property rights. The county supervisors who voted for the ordinance said they did so to protect neighborhoods, schools and churches from the side-effects of pot gardens: the funky smell and the potential for nefarious activity associated with such grows.

In the race to fill longtime Rep. Wally

Herger’s congressional shoes, it looks like a November runoff between Republican state Sen. Doug LaMalfa and second-time Democratic candidate and tax attorney Jim Reed.

In that race of eight candidates, including five Republicans, LaMalfa grabbed 38 percent of the vote followed by Reed’s 25 percent. The top two will face off in the fall.

Former state Sen. Sam Aanestad, who fiercely battled LaMalfa for the spread-out Republican vote, attracted only 14 percent of those cast. Last month Aanestad accused

LaMalfa’s chief of staff of violating state campaign laws by posting a mock website that criticized Aanestad’s voting record and said he was not really an oral surgeon, as he has long claimed to be. Aanestad has filed a lawsuit against LaMalfa’s campaign team.

Aanestad drew a little heat himself when word came out that, while attending a Tea Party meeting in Paradise in April, he said President Obama was a Muslim.

Pete Stiglich, a Republican who ran against Herger two years ago, got 6 percent of the vote, as did Redding attorney Michael Dacquisto, who was endorsed by the Redding Record Searchlight.

The politically conservative Chico Enterprise-Record editorial board was so disgusted with the LaMalfa-Aanestad brouhaha that it chose to make no endorsement. This paper, of course, endorsed Reed. The rest of the votes were grabbed by Democrat Nathan Arrowsmith (5 percent), unaffiliated Gary Oxley (3 percent) and Republican Gregory Cheadle (3 percent).

In the 3rd Assembly District race, incumbent Republican Dan Logue came in first with 41 percent of the vote and will face Democrat and first-time campaigner Charles Rouse (33 percent) in November. Republican and Tehama County farmer Bob Williams received 25 percent of the vote. As in the congressional race, the Republicans split on this one, with one side accusing LaMalfa and state Sen. Jim Neilsen of using Williams to try to defeat Logue, or at least make him spend a lot of money.

Jim Ledgerwood, the Butte County Republican Assembly vice president, has called for an investigation by the state Fair Political Practices Commission “of unethical and possibly illegal activities conducted by the Bob Williams Assembly campaign.

“It is illegal for an assembly member or state senator to make an independent expenditure on behalf of a candidate or to donate to a committee for that purpose,” Ledgerwood

SIFT|ER Show us the money State Sen. Doug LaMalfa raised more than twice the campaign funding as his chief Republican rival, Sam Aanestad, in the hotly contested 1st Congressional District race, according to the Federal Election Commission. Democrat and second-time candidate Jim Reed is next with less than a third of Aanestad’s take. Meanwhile, three of the eight candidates who vyed for Rep. Wally Herger’s seat raised no money at all. The FEC’s most recent report was published on May 16 and breaks contributions down by source, including the candidates’ personal funds, individual donors and money from political action committees. Go to www.fec.gov for financial information on other national campaigns.

Total funds raised and spent by District 1 candidates: Doug LaMalfa Samuel Aanestad Jim Reed Michael Dacquisto Pete Stiglich Nathan Arrowsmith Gregory Cheadle Gary Oxley

Raised $472,661 $222,736 $64,746 $29,140 $13,049 $0 $0 $0

Spent $240,736 $209,809 $65,910 $27,961 $12,998

Congressional candidate Gregory Cheadle waves for votes in Chico on Election Day. It didn’t do him much good, however. He lost with just 3 percent of the vote.

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said. “However, Williams’ campaign directly benefited from a $20,000 donation made by Assemblyman Nielsen to a committee that needed to act in a manner that was totally independent of the Williams campaign.”

In the race for the 5th District Butte

County supervisorial seat, long held by incumbent Kim Yamaguchi, Paradise Town Council member Joe DiDuca came in on top with 40 percent of the vote. He will face off in the fall against Paradise businessman Doug Teeter, who garnered 25 percent. Candidates Robin Huffman (18 percent) and Mike Greer (17 percent) came up short. DiDuca’s fundraising efforts apparently paid off as he brought in $36,000 and spent $39,000, compared to Teeter’s $9,400 raised and $9,300 expended. Huffman brought in $5,800 and spent $5,400, and Greer brought in a thrifty $844 and spent only $90—his candidate filing fee.

DiDuca’s contributions included $1,500 from Chico Scrap Metal and $1,000 from the Highway 70 Industrial Park, two entities that the Butte County District Attorney’s Office has prosecuted for environmental offenses over the years. Neither is in DiDuca’s district.

DiDuca also spent a whopping $13,800 on campaign consultants, including $7,500 to longtime area Republican adviser Cliff Wagner and another $6,300 to Kim K. Yamaguchi and Associates Consulting. Perhaps not surprisingly Yamaguchi endorsed DiDuca on March 1. (Yamaguchi could not be reached for comment.)

In the 1st District supervisorial race, incumbent Bill Connelly easily defeated challenger Virgle Gage, with 67 percent of the vote.

In other Butte County measures, Biggs Unified School District’s Measure B went down with a 58 percent no vote, while Gridley’s Measure C for high-school improvements got a 51.6 percent yes vote and its elementary-school Measure D got 54 percent of the vote. Both needed 55 percent to pass.

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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‘Magical’ money

City officials address suspicions about firestation closure Did the city manager and city finance director pull a fast one?

Did they, with the connivance of the City Council, mislead people about the budget deficit the city faced in March that required the temporary closure of a fire station?

That’s the question a number of people—including some firefighters and tea party activists, as well as a certain City Council candidate—have been asking, in ways both direct and indirect, since Fire Station 5 closed in April. And it’s why at its last meeting, on May 15, the council agreed to discuss the budgetary decisions leading to the closure at its meeting on Tuesday (June 5).

Complicating the discussion was the fact that in the interim the city had managed to come up with sufficient funds to reopen the station on June 1, a month earlier than expected. While this made Fire Chief Jim Beery happy, it seemed to make others more suspicious. As one person asked, where did this money “magically” come from?

Introducing the discussion, City Manager Dave Burkland noted, “This has been a pretty tough year.” After four years of declining revenues, he explained, the state reclaimed the city’s share of vehiclelicense-fee revenue and dissolved its redevelopment agency, a one-two punch to the city’s fiscal body.

Because it’s so hard to predict revenues, he said, it wasn’t until February that he and Finance Director Jennifer Hennessy saw that the city was about $900,000 short in fiscal year 2011-12. That’s when they put together a plan to reduce costs for all departments through June.

For her part, Hennessy said all fiscal projections amount to “educated guesses,” given the volatility of the economy and the lag time— three months, in some cases—for obtaining revenues from the state.

Overall, her revenue projections were off by $300,000. That, added to increased expenses, created the

shortfall.

“In these situations,” Burkland said, “it’s impossible to resolve the problem without reductions in public safety,” which comprises 78 percent of the city budget. So he went to the chiefs and challenged them to make cuts. In Beery’s case, the amount was $95,000.

Beery explained that he’d decided to prioritize maintaining sufficient “truck weight”—that is, keeping the standard four firefighters on each truck—for the sake of safety. “I lost my best friend to a roof collapse several years ago,” he said. “I was not going to let that happen here.”

His decision was to close Fire Station 5, which serves the most limited response area of the city’s six stations. “It was not something I wanted to do, but I really had no choice,” he said.

Councilman Mark Sorensen was puzzled by the chain of events.

In January, he said, members of the city’s Finance Committee had been told the budget was balanced, but all of a sudden in March it was $900,000 in the hole. Where, he asked, was the cost overrun? And how did the city fill the gap a month early?

Hennessy replied that the budget gap was primarily due to increased use of overtime in the Police and Fire departments. By reducing overtime and cutting positions, the city was able to save $300,000. The rest of the money came from fund transfers and reduced spending on supplies.

One speaker, the Rev. Laurel Tower, representing the Butte Taxpayers Alliance, said her group was “very concerned by the fluctuating figures” and wanted to know when the city books would be audited.

This prompted Vice Mayor Jim Walker to point out that the city’s books are audited annually by independent auditors and “they’ve

never found anything wrong.”

Council candidate Toby Schindelbeck, who in the past has accused the council of shutting down the fire station, wasn’t buying Hennessy’s presentation. “As a taxpayer,” he proclaimed, “this process has been absolutely horrifying.” Like Sorensen, he questioned how the city’s figures could go from “worst case break-even” to “suddenly $900,000 over budget.”

One speaker, Ron Husa, complained that “every time something happens to the budget, police and fire are cut.” This prompted Councilman Scott Gruendl to note that, while the Police and Fire departments have taken cuts of around 10 percent, other departments have been cut by 30 percent to 50 percent.

After the discussion, Assistant City Manager John Rucker turned to me, saying, “If they only knew how much time and energy has gone into keeping this city solvent under the circumstances. It’s really kind of amazing.”

Setting the clerk free: Scott Gruendl has an idea: Let’s change the city charter so the city clerk reports to the City Council, not to the city manager. He’d like a public vote on the issue.

For most of Chico’s history, he said, the clerk did report to the council. In 1994, however, as part of a cleanup of the charter, the position was put under the city manager.

Some council members liked the idea, others were skeptical.

Dave Burkland, who is retiring in August, was non-committal.

In the end the council decided unanimously, with Councilwoman Mary Goloff absent, to begin the process of putting it on the November ballot. A public hearing will be scheduled for early July.

—ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com

City Clerk Debbie Presson (left), shown at Tuesday’s City Council meeting with her assistant, Dani Brinkley, will have new bosses if the council agrees to put a charter amendment on the ballot and voters approve it.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

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Encouraging words

Oroville teen spreads a positive message Las Plumas High School senior Ben Hatch is an unusual teenager.

In a good way.

While many teens embrace a world that bestows popularity based on physical attraction, the 18-year-old has created a national campaign to counteract such an approach.

Last January, he explains, he was up late brainstorming ideas to better the lives of fellow students and others tormented by depressing thoughts of unworthiness because they are not considered physically beautiful or attractive by their peers.

“Lots of students, especially girls, have low self-esteem and think your success completely depends on how you look,” Hatch said.

To counter this, he decided to start the “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful” program, aka DYKYB, to reinforce the concept that truth and beauty lies within ourselves.

He created a website, video and wristband bracelets with that catchy phrase, taken from the pop song of the same name released by Seabird a few years ago.

Humble and soft-spoken, Hatch has pursued his project like a man on a mission. The primary way he spreads his message is by selling powder-blue plastic stretch bracelets embossed with “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful” in large white letters. They have sold well since early May at both his school in Oroville and across the nation—2,000 so far, to people of all ages.

The bracelets run $3 for a pack of two. He sells them in pairs, according to his website, www.DYKYB.com, with “one for you and one for you to give to someone that needs to know that they are beautiful.”

Success was immediate.

“In the first two days I sold my entire batch of 600,” he said. “A week later I got another batch of 700 that sold out in two days.”

He has another 1,100 on order.

He sells most through his website, but many of his schoolmates have also shown an interest.

“You can’t go anywhere on

campus without seeing several kids with their DYKYB bracelets,” Hatch said. “At one point it was hard to see anyone without them.”

Las Plumas Principal Dan

Ramos said he loves the project.

“Ben’s message is sort of genius because it’s simple and positive,” Ramos said. “It’s a real change from today’s electronic communication because it encourages personally giving the bracelet to others.”

All the money received is reinvested in more bracelets and expanding the movement.

“This campaign is 100 percent honest,” Hatch said. “It’s not a ripoff, and we’re not just trying to make money.”

He next plans to make DYKYB T-shirts, key rings, hats and socks.

A friend, Reagan Keeler, volunteered to help him create a catchy video that is available on his website and on YouTube. (The latter has received approximately 3,000 views.) It features a series of hands, male and female, washing in a sink and emerging with a derogatory word—“worthless,” “fat” or “ugly”—written on the palm.

Hatch then announces his message of hope: “So when the world tries to tell you that you are worthless, ugly, plain and pathetic, we are here to ask you: Don’t you know you’re beautiful?”

He then urges viewers to get involved by purchasing a pair of DYKYB bracelets and giving one to someone in need.

Another of Hatch’s friends, Kurt Libby, helped create the DYKYB logo and website, which has been viewed in 48 states.

Testimonials sent to Hatch are

Ben Hatch is on a mission to help others understand that beauty comes from the inside.

PHOTO BY VIC CANTU

powerful. A young woman says she always hated herself, had been told that she was fat and ugly and felt everyone wanted her to die.

Since a friend gave her one of the bracelets, she said she feels much better about herself.

Another woman wrote that she lost her father in a car accident when she was 2 years old and implies she had no mother since she was given up to her aunt. She said she felt worthless and useless until a male friend recently gave her a bracelet, saying, “You’re beautiful when you smile.”

“I now feel more special to the world,” she wrote.

Others are spreading the message through blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Hatch gave a speech on it to sixth-grade students at Ophir Elementary School.

The teacher was so impressed she bought bracelets for her whole class.

Hatch’s father, Brien, said he couldn’t be happier. “I’m really proud of Ben for having a heart and bringing out the best in others,” he said.

Hatch graduated from Las Plumas High today (June 7) and plans to attend Butte College. A drummer in a rock band, Anchored in Truth, Hatch said he wants to spread his message through music and by partnering with other businesses.

“The bracelets are cool, but I really want people to give that second one away to make a difference in someone else’s life,” he said.

—VIC CANTU vscantu@sbcg lobal.net

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EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS Todd Harris cooks food in his parabolic solar cooker, making use of a graniteware enameled pot inside an oven bag. Behind Harris is a solar box-cooker.

USFS DRAFTS LAKE TAHOE PLAN

The U.S. Forest Service has drafted a four-point plan for maintaining the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe, which draws more than 3 million tourists to contribute about $1 billion to the local economy each year.

Vacation resorts, hotels, homes and recreation have proven detrimental, particularly to the clarity of the lake, which steadily has gotten worse over the past 40 years, according to SFGate.com. The plan, last updated in 1988, will provide guidelines for recreation and naturalresource management on 154,000 acres of public land surrounding the lake. Four alternatives are outlined, all of which address sustainable recreation, wildlife habitat, watershed and forest health, aquatic ecosystems, hazardous fuels and access to forests, trails, roads and facilities.

The plan will be open for public comment until Aug. 30 and can be reviewed online at www.fs.usda.gov/goto/ltbmu.ForestPlanRevision, with a final draft expected by the end of the year.

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Inset: Harris with members of the Kikuyo tribe in Kamangu, Kenya, during his time in the Peace Corps in the 1990s.

In addition to helping build rain-catchment systems, Harris also helped villagers build inexpensive solar cookers—such as this parabolic cooker (left) and wooden box-cooker—as a side project.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TODD HARRIS

FUKUSHIMA CONTAMINATES CALIFORNIA TUNA

A study of a migratory fish species caught off the California coast has shown radioactive contamination from last year’s Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from Stony Brook University in New York examined muscle tissue of 15 bluefin tuna collected near San Diego in August 2011, according to BBC News. All the fish examined had elevated levels of radioactive caesium, namely isotopes 134 and 137. As caesium-137 is already present in seawater from nuclear-weapons testing, the short (two-year) half-life of caesium-134 indicates the contamination of the fish is directly linked to Fukushima.

The study’s authors noted eating Californiacaught tuna from last year represents no health concern because the level of radioactivity is well within guidelines, but the study does demonstrate how species can carry pollution immense distances. “It’s a lesson to us in how interconnected eco-regions can be, even when they may be separated by thousands of miles,” said study co-author Nicholas Fisher.

Cooking with the sun Todd Harris helps Chicoans harness the sun for no-electricity, no-fuel summer cooking by

Claire Hutkins Seda cmh.seda@yahoo.com

LOCAL BIODIESEL FIRM GETS BOOST

The California Energy Commission approved $35 million to hasten the statewide development of green fuels and technology, including funding for a Chico-based manufacturer of small-scale biodiesel-production systems and appliances.

Springboard Biodiesel, run by CEO Mark Roberts, (pictured) produces, markets, sells and operates biodieselprocessing equipment, enabling clients to produce biofuel profitably, according to a company press release. The funding was awarded to five projects and two nonprofit organizations statewide, all of which focus on low-carbon alternative fuels, vehicles and fueling stations.

“We are particularly excited to bring the biodiesel fueling option to the city of Chico, which has been actively focused on sustainable issues for a long time,” Roberts said.

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“Istyle, it’s not going to work,” said Todd Harris. Harris, a Chico resident, is a

f it changes a culture’s cooking

huge advocate for solar cookers, or sun ovens—low-tech devices, often homemade, that reflect the sun’s light into a small cooking area to bake food without electricity or fuel. He could have been talking about Chico, and our cooking habits— like heating up the kitchen to make a summer pie, even as the air conditioner blasts—but he was talking about rural Kenya, where he spent four years in the 1990s.

“When you’re cooking the traditional style in Kenya, it’s three stones with a pot between the stones. You’re indoors, and it’s very stinky. You’ve got all this inhalation of smoke,” he said.

Harris started off in Kenya installing

rainwater-catchment systems during his time in the Peace Corps, and stayed on there working for a nonprofit refugee organization. But he quickly found out he really wanted to spend his time building small vessels that harness the energy of the sun to cook food.

Solar cooking means “less gathering of wood, which frees up time, which also allows the girls to study,” Harris said, noting that women are the primary wood gatherers in Kenya. “It’s also dangerous in some regions to be gathering wood. …

And you use less water. [For] places that are really drought-stricken, that could be huge.” Add to that a reduction in the clearFind out more:

Go to www.solarcookers.org to learn more about various solar cookers and how to make them. Visit the Gateway Science Museum’s website at www.csuchico.edu/gateway or contact Todd Harris at todd@good greenhomes.net for more information about Harris’ upcoming solar-cooker workshop at the museum.

ing of forests for firewood.

Harris worked for several years helping Kenyans build the inexpensive ovens and then integrate them into day-to-day living, so that solar cooking became a part of their cooking culture.

The same technology, he said, has many uses outside of Africa—Chico, with its abundant sun and many energy-aware inhabitants, has great potential to be a solar-cooker mecca. Harris is helping that along, with his goal of “bringing awareness to the power of the sun as an alternative energy source” through local workshops. The garage and back yard at his central Chico home are littered with solar cookers he has designed and built, each from different materials and in assorted sizes and shapes.

Harris—a green contractor focused on sustainable building who owns his own business, Good Green Homes—has built a full range of cookers, from the simple (foil cellophane that once acted as the liner on a cereal box, glued to some folded cardboard) to the complex, such as a “skewer

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in Chico to help others build a very simple cooker, including a successful workshop he held last year during a day-long environmental event that ended up at Cedar Grove in Bidwell Park. Harris had brought with him a few stencils of a basic parabolic solar cooker, along with loads of cardboard, a substantial amount of glue, and extremely thin pieces of Mylar. The design, from Sacramento-based Solar Cookers International (SCI), is the type used in refugee camps. Over the course of an hour or so, 24 solar cookers were made and taken home by participants.

A simple parabolic cooker is “totally capable of cooking just about anything that doesn’t require really high heat. It typically requires that the cooking time is longer and the food is chopped up finer,” but it’s such a “highly adapted means of cooking,” said Harris, that refugee camps and rural, wood-scarce areas across Africa have adapted them as their primary cooking device.

The basic SCI design still requires a few added items to be efficient, said Harris. A 10-inch graniteware enameled pot—the classic black-painted, metal pot GREENWAYS continued on page 14

UNCOMMON SENSE Green up your ’cue It’s almost summertime, which means barbecue season. Time to do a whole lot of cooking outdoors instead of heating up your kitchen unnecessarily. But how to do it in the most environmentally friendly way possible?

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• If you stick with charcoal, buy “lump” charcoal instead of briquettes, which may contain coal dust or other possibly harmful additives. When purchasing lump charcoal, look for brands that are made from invasive tree species or wood from sustainably managed forests.

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He’s made solar cookers out of repurposed doors, windows, portions of skylights and old medicine cabinets.

The cooker he uses most is his simple “box cooker,” a box with a glass top seated on the box at an angle, and which he made out of a recycled door and window. “It will hold heat longer,” he offered. “It gets hotter, it’s less prone to wind, and if it’s partially cloudy” it will still heat up well.

“It’s easy to get to 325 [degrees Fahrenheit] with full sun,” Harris said of his box cooker. He uses it essentially like a crock pot—for vegetable stews and soups, just prepare the food several hours before dinner, and cook it in the solar oven during peak hours between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. But he also uses it as a low-temperature oven to bake cakes (“They take about an hour and a half”) and brownies. (It should be noted that, while Harris advocates the use of solar cookers, he sees them as complementary to a standard home oven, not as a replacement.)

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speckled with white—is a must, as the dark color absorbs additional heat. The pot should be placed on a two-inch pedestal, easily made with cardboard cut and shaped into a triangle. And the pot should be covered with an oven bag, typically used to cook turkeys, to help retain heat.

Harris hosted an informational table (with free samples of justmade solar-oven-baked brownies) at this year’s Endangered Species Faire in early May at Cedar Grove.

He will be hosting a solar-cooker workshop sponsored by the Gateway Science Museum in the near future (a date has not been set for it).

Typically, said Harris, “it takes an hour to create the pattern, and an hour to create the cooker. One of the things I do is provide the pattern,” and help get that cooker together. He also has favorite recipes, books and lots of other resources to share to inspire new users of solar cookers.

Solar cooking is loaded with positives: It reduces reliance upon fossil fuels, it doesn’t heat up the house, building the oven can be inexpensive and easy, and users enjoy spending more time outdoors when cooking.

But Harris is confident that solar cooking is catching on likely for yet another reason: “It’s fun!” Ω

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Learn about Bidwell Park’s geology, history, biology and native peoples in this early-evening stroll through Upper Park on Saturday, June 9, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Meet at the Rod and Gun Club parking lot (near Horseshoe Lake) with a hat, water, snacks and appropriate footwear. Rain cancels. Go to www.upper park.net or call 895-3730 for more info.

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DITCH THE DOG While at the Silver Dollar Fair with my

11-year-old daughter and her friend last weekend, I saw a sign posted in the window of one of the fair’s many traveling food carts advertising “Guilt-free corn dogs—no trans fat.”

There are a number of things that are troubling about that statement.

First of all, it seems to imply that the deep-fried, cornmeal-coated dogon-a-stick is fat-free (thus the word “guilt-free” connected with it); someone who is not apprised of what trans fats are may indeed think this.

But just because a food item is without trans fat—a nutrient-free, unsaturated fat known to increase the risk of coronary heart disease—does not mean it does not contain some other type of fat.

According to NutrientFacts.com, 170 calories of a 460-calorie corn dog come from fat, most of it saturated. And that’s before they are deep-fried in oil. Ouch.

Do think twice: Just because On top of that, trans it lacks trans fat doesn’t mean fats—“chemically altered it’s good for you. vegetable oils, used to give processed foods a longer shelf-life,” as they were described in a 2008 BBC News story (go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7526624.stm to read the whole article)—were banned in the state of California in 2008. So it’s doubly no major deal that the corn dogs sold by this particular purveyor contained no trans fats.

To take it further, the wieners lurking inside the cornmeal batter more than likely contained nitrates and nitrites (cured-meat preservatives that have been linked to cancer), as well as factory-farmed meat and, also as likely, GMO corn, one of the most common genetically altered foods.

One thing’s for sure: A preservative-free hot dog made of grass-fed, grass-finished meat from the Turri Family Farms food cart at the Thursday Night Market it ain’t (see The GreenHouse, May 24, 2012, “Lovin’ the local”).

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Prisoner health advocates have criticized California’s practice of holding those considered incapable of standing trial due to mental illness in prison to wait for state hospital beds to become available.

Randall Hagar of the California Psychiatric Association said many inmates with serious mentalhealth conditions are incarcerated for three to six months while waiting for hospitalization, according to The Sacramento Bee. The percentage of California prison inmates with mental illness has increased from 19 percent to 25 percent since 2007, while budget cuts, fewer hospital beds and realignment of low-level offenders to county jails has complicated the issue.

San Bernardino County has introduced a pilot program that provides medication and education services to restore competency rather than waiting for hospital treatment.

Oroville pediatricians Eric Neal and Maria Alice Alino have made vaccination counseling a regular part of their practice.

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AUTISM’S RISE BLAMED ON CHEMICALS

Though a direct link is yet to be made, researchers are increasingly looking at exposure to chemicals as a factor in disabling behavioral and cognitive conditions like autism.

Many experts in the field believe exposure to chemicals used decades ago to treat morning sickness, bipolar disorder and ulcers in addition to about 80,000 chemicals currently available for industrial use—combined with genetic susceptibility—is to blame for the increasing number of autism cases, according to The Huffington Post. A 2004 study conducted by Environmental Working Group found an average of 200 industrial chemicals in the umbilical cords of 10 babies born in U.S. hospitals.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April one in 88 American children— and one in 54 boys—has autism. Treating and managing autism currently costs the country $35 billion a year.

CANCER DRUG APPEARS PROMISING

A new prostate cancer drug has proven so effective that scientists stopped a clinical trial of it early so that all patients involved could partake in treatment.

A UC San Francisco-led study of Johnson & Johnson’s Zytiga, a hormone treatment used in addition to traditional steroid therapy, found the drug doubled the time it takes for the disease to spread when compared to steroid therapy alone, according SFGate.com. Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval of Zytiga’s use among men whose prostate cancer had spread to other parts of the body despite chemotherapy. The FDA would have to approve its use for men who have yet to undergo chemotherapy before the drug can be introduced to a broader market.

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Informed choice Pediatricians weigh in on a legislative bill requiring that parents receive counseling before opting their children out of vaccinations by

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O immunizing children has become a hot topic of debate. Many physicians, pediver the past several years,

atricians in particular, strongly support vaccinations to curtail the spread of serious diseases. For some parents, though, the risks associated with vaccines serve as a deterrent.

Pediatricians tend to go with the preferences of parents. They just want parents to make informed decisions—not in reaction to sensational media reports, but based on respected scientific research.

One pediatrician with the power to do something about this is Dr. Richard Pan. Pan is a Democratic Assemblyman from the Sacramento area. He authored Assembly Bill 2109, which would permit parents to opt their children out of vaccinations, but only after receiving information about benefits and risks from a health-care professional.

AB 2109 passed the California Assembly and is working its way through the Senate. Among the leading dissenters is North State Assemblyman Dan Logue, a Republican who called it a “nanny state” measure. As Logue explained to television

station KQED: “We tell you how much salt to put on your food, what kind of light bulb you should screw in your lamp. The people of California are fed up with a state government that thinks it can run our lives better than they can, and enough is enough.”

Dr. Eric Neal, a pediatrician in Oroville, isn’t necessarily a fan of government mandates, either. However, he supports AB 2109.

“As much as I don’t like government telling us what to do, I think it’s being done for the right reason here,” he told the CN&R. “We’ve had pertussis outbreaks from people not being immunized. We’ve had measles outbreaks in inner cities from people not being immunized.

“I think immunizations are going to go up [as a result of AB 2109] without a mandate requiring people to get immunized.”

The particular mandate in AB 2109 involves counseling—something most parents receive anyway from their children’s doctors. Neal and Dr. Maria Alice Alino, another pediatrician from Oroville, are among the physicians who make counseling a normal part of treating their patients.

In fact, for the past decade, both pediatricians have required parents to sign a waiver if they don’t want their children immunized.

HEALTHLINES continued on page 19

APPOINTMENTS SHORTCAKE AND LEMONADE Mayor Ann Schwab will be onhand as Skyway House cuts the ribbon on its new women’s facility at 3105 Esplanade on Thursday, June 7, at 4:30 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by tours and strawberry shortcake from Great Harvest Bread Company. Call 898-8326 for more info.

Then, on Friday, June 8, the Kosmic Kids from the Chico New Thought Center for Spiritual Living will host a lemonade stand and bake sale to help support the fight against childhood cancer at their church (14 Hillary Lane) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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So, in a way, AB 2109 is putting a common practice into widespread practice.

“I can’t speak for every pediatrician,” Neal said, “but for the most part that’s true.

If a parent has questions, part of our job is to counsel them and let them know the facts.”

Fact is, from his perspective as a sciencebased physician, “vaccines do work. If we didn’t have vaccines, people would still be in iron lungs from polio. While there are side effects for some of them, the benefit of vaccines far outweighs the risk of vaccine reaction.”

Parents who oppose vaccinations get

their information from a variety of sources.

Both Neal and Alino attempt to ascertain those sources when speaking with parents.

Some parents have a religious basis for opting out of immunizations. In that case, Alino told the CN&R, she doesn’t have much to say in response because “it’s like challenging their faith.” Philosophical reasons are easier to discuss, as are reports in the media and posts on the Internet.

“If I’m pretty sure they heard something on TV, and it’s from a misguided physician, you have to use science [in counseling parents],” Alino said. “If it’s from an actress in Hollywood, you have to talk personally.

“I am a parent, so I tell them my opinion as a physician and a parent. They ask me, in my heart, what would I do? I tell them, ‘You know what? I vaccinate my kid. I only have one kid, and I can’t afford to make a mistake.’”

Still, some parents elect not to get their children vaccinated. Both Alino and Neal respect that decision, even if they disagree with it. That doesn’t mean they’ll stop asking, however.

“Some physicians feel very strongly about not giving vaccinations; they will dismiss a patient from the practice,” Alino said.

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Go to www.aap.org “I don’t.” (Nor does for info about Neal.) vaccines from the “I feel strongly American Academy of about immunizaPediatrics, or log tions,” she continued, onto www.healthy children.org and, “but what if they under the “Safety & change their mind in Prevention” tab, click the future? I don’t on “Immunizations” want to punish a for a page of links to patient because of the articles and info. parent.”

She also is willing to let parents opt out of specific vaccinations—picking and choosing off a list.

As for pediatricians who do dismiss patients who won’t be immunized, “I don’t scold them for that,” Alino added. “It’s their principle.”

Both Alino and Neal refer parents to trusted resources. Alino is partial to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)— the source of her and Neal’s waiver sheets, as well as a recommended schedule for vaccinations. At their separate practices, they hand new parents an informational packet on various vaccines.

Alino also steers parents with questions or concerns to the AAP site (www.aap.org).

“If it’s between me and their Hollywood doctor, I write down ‘American Academy of Pediatrics,’” she said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has good resources, she added, “but if they don’t trust the government, AAP is an academy run by pediatricians.”

Like Neal, Alino says she supports AB 2109—“It’s essentially what I’ve been doing anyway.” Neal said he appreciates talking with parents about vaccines, and if they decide against immunizations, “I’m OK with that, as long as they’ve made an informed decision.” Ω

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Sure, it hurt like hell when the Kings lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2002 Western Conference Finals in one of the most dramatic and controversial series in NBA history. But now, on the 10-year anniversary of the series, it’s worth remembering that pride and that magical season. It was a time of shared hopes, thrills and disappointment, and that alone makes it a story worth retelling.

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ry to say this without smiling: Vlade, Peja, C-Webb, Bibby.

If you lived in or anywhere near Sacramento 10 years ago and you were a Kings fan—and everyone was a Kings fan then—the names alone are enough to bring back memories of good vibes and great hoops. Divac’s no-look dishes from the high post. Peja raining down threes with such regularity we started calling them “Serbian layups.”

Bibby’s deadly midrange jumpers. Webber collecting double-doubles like most people collect pocket lint. Arco thunder. Sold-out games. Playoff wins.

Ten years ago, the Kings were the toast of the basketball world and we were the loudest, most devoted fans in basketball. We packed Arco Arena night after night, shouted ourselves hoarse watching games in sports bars and living rooms and block parties, and generally obsessed over all things Kings. We were part of something special, and it felt good.

SEASONS IN HELL The 2002 Western Conference Finals had everything: buzzer-beating shots, constant shifts in momentum, on-court competition of the highest quality, off-court controversies, larger-than-life personalities with superhuman talents, and two teams that couldn’t have been more different.

The Lakers were then, as now, perennial contenders and arguably the most dominant franchise in professional sports.

Going into the 2002 playoffs, they had won championships in both of the previous two seasons and six of the previous 20.

Laker fans seemed to believe it was simply the natural order of things that the best players of each generation should dominate the basketball world on their behalf, with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant being only their latest superstar duo.

The Kings’ history was a mirror image of the Lakers’ storied dominance. The team arrived in Sacramento in 1985 as one of the NBA’s least successful franchises and quickly set records for on-court futility and home-game sellouts that remain among the longest in NBA history. Having suffered five straight losing seasons in Kansas City, they racked up 13 more in Sacramento.

The Kings lacked the talent to compete with the Lakers, Larry Bird’s Boston Celtics, or the other elites of the ’80s, but they instantly found a fan base that was among the loudest and most loyal anywhere. Longtime fans recall with pride how the Kings beat the Celtics during that

first Sacramento season after Bird—a revered clutch performer and peerless freethrow shooter—missed two foul shots with the game on the line, in large part because Kings fans stomped, waved, howled and literally shook the building to distract him.

“The atmosphere was electric,” recalled NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton, a member of that 1985-86 Celtics team and now a broadcaster for the Kings. “The fans at Arco Arena were as loud and as passionate as anything I’d ever seen.”

“Every night was an experience,” said Nick Rust, who with his wife, Barbara, has held season tickets since the first year.

“They had a lot of years where you came in just hoping the game was going to be close, not expecting to win. But there was an atmosphere. It was exciting … and that carried on for a long time.”

Ironically, the fans’ unconditional love probably contributed to a lack of urgency that allowed losses to pile up year after year, with little hope in sight. Things got so bad that when Mitch Richmond was traded to Sacramento in 1991, he was greeted by guard Spud Webb with a phrase that probably summarized many NBA players’ view of Sacramento: “Welcome to hell.”

Losing was as much a part of the Sacramento landscape as the cattle grazing just beyond the Arco parking lot. It seemed like things would never change. But, beginning in 1998, a series of moves by the president of basketball operations, Geoff Petrie, vaulted the team into contention.

SELLOUTS AND SWAGGER In May 1998, the Kings pulled the trigger on the biggest trade in franchise history, sending a disgruntled Richmond to Washington for a talented but troubled power forward named Chris Webber. Webber was younger, bigger and more gifted than Richmond, but had accumulated a rap sheet that included a marijuana arrest, traffic violations, assault

charges and a was an instant sensagrand-jury investition, adding a touch of gation of sexualstreet-ball swagger to “The [Kings of assault allegations. the Kings with his Many saw the deal behind-the-back drib2002] were as a risky one for bling and no-look lobs. the Kings.

The new-look playing with “It certainly Kings not only led the wasn’t a gamble in NBA in scoring in that such remarkable terms of talent,” shortened 1998-99 seapassion, and they left everything son and put up the Petrie told the News & Review. franchise’s first winout there on the floor every “Chris was rookie ning record in Sacraof the year on a mento, they also night. It’s what you live for, and team that won 50become the subject of some games at nationwide fascination, very few franchises ever get Golden State. He as J-Will’s ball-hanwas one of the best that.” dling antics dominated young power forcable-sports highlight —Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer wards in the shows and his jersey league.” became one of the Also arriving in NBA’s best-sellers.

1998 were Peja “Jason Williams, Stojakovic, a when he first came to 6-foot-10-inch sharpshooter drafted in Sacramento, he gave ’em their swagger 1996 when he was a 19-year-old playing and their personality,” recalled Shaquille professionally in Greece, and Vlade Divac, O’Neal. “When they got Chris Webber, who joined the team as a free agent and Jason, Vlade, they became a very hard instantly became central to everything the team to beat, and Sacramento was probaKings were trying to do. Divac could score bly the hardest place ever to play for visitand defend in the post, shoot from range ing teams.” and pass like no other big man in the game, but his good-natured personality would PICKING UP GOOD VIBRATIONS become equally important to the Kings.

“He was the consummate definition of If the 1998-99 season was promising, the what you call a ‘glue guy,’” Petrie said. next two were even better. In 1999-2000, the “Despite his own considerable talents, he Kings won 44 regular-season games before was always putting others first. He didn’t losing to the Lakers in the first round of the care how many points he scored, even playoffs, 3-2. The next season, they added though he was fully capable of putting up the versatile Turkish-born Hedo Turkoglu numbers. It was all about winning and and sparkplug guard Bobby Jackson, making the team better. He really helped improving to a record of 55-27 and defeating Peja, and he was a mentor for a lot of guys the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the on our team.” playoffs before being swept by the Lakers.

Adding to the excitement was point These Kings were good and getting better, guard Jason Williams, taken by the Kings “KINGS” continued on page 22 as the seventh pick of the 1998 draft. He

BY JOE MARTIN

Ten years later, remembering the best team never to win an NBA championship Sacramento Kings players (left to right) Bobby Jackson, Hedo Turkoglu, Scot Pollard, Peja Stojakovic and Mike Bibby (next to Gerald Wallace).

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Sure, it hurt like hell when the Kings lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2002 Western Conference Finals in one of the most dramatic and controversial series in NBA history. But now, on the 10-year anniversary of the series, it’s worth remembering that pride and that magical season. It was a time of shared hopes, thrills and disappointment, and that alone makes it a story worth retelling.

T

ry to say this without smiling: Vlade, Peja, C-Webb, Bibby.

If you lived in or anywhere near Sacramento 10 years ago and you were a Kings fan—and everyone was a Kings fan then—the names alone are enough to bring back memories of good vibes and great hoops. Divac’s no-look dishes from the high post. Peja raining down threes with such regularity we started calling them “Serbian layups.”

Bibby’s deadly midrange jumpers. Webber collecting double-doubles like most people collect pocket lint. Arco thunder. Sold-out games. Playoff wins.

Ten years ago, the Kings were the toast of the basketball world and we were the loudest, most devoted fans in basketball. We packed Arco Arena night after night, shouted ourselves hoarse watching games in sports bars and living rooms and block parties, and generally obsessed over all things Kings. We were part of something special, and it felt good.

SEASONS IN HELL The 2002 Western Conference Finals had everything: buzzer-beating shots, constant shifts in momentum, on-court competition of the highest quality, off-court controversies, larger-than-life personalities with superhuman talents, and two teams that couldn’t have been more different.

The Lakers were then, as now, perennial contenders and arguably the most dominant franchise in professional sports.

Going into the 2002 playoffs, they had won championships in both of the previous two seasons and six of the previous 20.

Laker fans seemed to believe it was simply the natural order of things that the best players of each generation should dominate the basketball world on their behalf, with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant being only their latest superstar duo.

The Kings’ history was a mirror image of the Lakers’ storied dominance. The team arrived in Sacramento in 1985 as one of the NBA’s least successful franchises and quickly set records for on-court futility and home-game sellouts that remain among the longest in NBA history. Having suffered five straight losing seasons in Kansas City, they racked up 13 more in Sacramento.

The Kings lacked the talent to compete with the Lakers, Larry Bird’s Boston Celtics, or the other elites of the ’80s, but they instantly found a fan base that was among the loudest and most loyal anywhere. Longtime fans recall with pride how the Kings beat the Celtics during that

first Sacramento season after Bird—a revered clutch performer and peerless freethrow shooter—missed two foul shots with the game on the line, in large part because Kings fans stomped, waved, howled and literally shook the building to distract him.

“The atmosphere was electric,” recalled NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton, a member of that 1985-86 Celtics team and now a broadcaster for the Kings. “The fans at Arco Arena were as loud and as passionate as anything I’d ever seen.”

“Every night was an experience,” said Nick Rust, who with his wife, Barbara, has held season tickets since the first year.

“They had a lot of years where you came in just hoping the game was going to be close, not expecting to win. But there was an atmosphere. It was exciting … and that carried on for a long time.”

Ironically, the fans’ unconditional love probably contributed to a lack of urgency that allowed losses to pile up year after year, with little hope in sight. Things got so bad that when Mitch Richmond was traded to Sacramento in 1991, he was greeted by guard Spud Webb with a phrase that probably summarized many NBA players’ view of Sacramento: “Welcome to hell.”

Losing was as much a part of the Sacramento landscape as the cattle grazing just beyond the Arco parking lot. It seemed like things would never change. But, beginning in 1998, a series of moves by the president of basketball operations, Geoff Petrie, vaulted the team into contention.

SELLOUTS AND SWAGGER In May 1998, the Kings pulled the trigger on the biggest trade in franchise history, sending a disgruntled Richmond to Washington for a talented but troubled power forward named Chris Webber. Webber was younger, bigger and more gifted than Richmond, but had accumulated a rap sheet that included a marijuana arrest, traffic violations, assault

charges and a was an instant sensagrand-jury investition, adding a touch of gation of sexualstreet-ball swagger to “The [Kings of assault allegations. the Kings with his Many saw the deal behind-the-back drib2002] were as a risky one for bling and no-look lobs. the Kings.

The new-look playing with “It certainly Kings not only led the wasn’t a gamble in NBA in scoring in that such remarkable terms of talent,” shortened 1998-99 seapassion, and they left everything son and put up the Petrie told the News & Review. franchise’s first winout there on the floor every “Chris was rookie ning record in Sacraof the year on a mento, they also night. It’s what you live for, and team that won 50become the subject of some games at nationwide fascination, very few franchises ever get Golden State. He as J-Will’s ball-hanwas one of the best that.” dling antics dominated young power forcable-sports highlight —Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer wards in the shows and his jersey league.” became one of the Also arriving in NBA’s best-sellers.

1998 were Peja “Jason Williams, Stojakovic, a when he first came to 6-foot-10-inch sharpshooter drafted in Sacramento, he gave ’em their swagger 1996 when he was a 19-year-old playing and their personality,” recalled Shaquille professionally in Greece, and Vlade Divac, O’Neal. “When they got Chris Webber, who joined the team as a free agent and Jason, Vlade, they became a very hard instantly became central to everything the team to beat, and Sacramento was probaKings were trying to do. Divac could score bly the hardest place ever to play for visitand defend in the post, shoot from range ing teams.” and pass like no other big man in the game, but his good-natured personality would PICKING UP GOOD VIBRATIONS become equally important to the Kings.

“He was the consummate definition of If the 1998-99 season was promising, the what you call a ‘glue guy,’” Petrie said. next two were even better. In 1999-2000, the “Despite his own considerable talents, he Kings won 44 regular-season games before was always putting others first. He didn’t losing to the Lakers in the first round of the care how many points he scored, even playoffs, 3-2. The next season, they added though he was fully capable of putting up the versatile Turkish-born Hedo Turkoglu numbers. It was all about winning and and sparkplug guard Bobby Jackson, making the team better. He really helped improving to a record of 55-27 and defeating Peja, and he was a mentor for a lot of guys the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the on our team.” playoffs before being swept by the Lakers.

Adding to the excitement was point These Kings were good and getting better, guard Jason Williams, taken by the Kings “KINGS” continued on page 22 as the seventh pick of the 1998 draft. He

BY JOE MARTIN

Ten years later, remembering the best team never to win an NBA championship Sacramento Kings players (left to right) Bobby Jackson, Hedo Turkoglu, Scot Pollard, Peja Stojakovic and Mike Bibby (next to Gerald Wallace).

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and their team-oriented style made them a joy to watch.

“The combination of Vlade and Chris, their versatility and their passing, allowed [coach Rick Adelman] to create an offense that was one of the most fun offenses to watch,” said Petrie. “He was able to take what he had in Chris and Vlade, and a really creative point guard in Jason, and the rest of the pieces started to fall into place.”

“Vlade was a brilliant passer,” said Walton. “Chris was a brilliant passer. And they had guys like Peja who were able to knock down jumpers, Doug Christie and Bobby Jackson willing to lay it all out there and fight for the ball. And the fans made it. They took the team to heights it could never get to on its own. The players were playing with such remarkable passion, and they left everything out there on the floor every night. It’s what you live for, and very few franchises ever get that.”

Adding to the excitement and general air of good vibes was the fact that these Kings actually liked each other and enjoyed playing together. “We respected each other,” recalled Bobby Jackson. “It was kind of like a brotherhood, because we hung around each other more than we hung around our families, and there was just a bond that we had. There was camaraderie, chemistry, no egos.”

The response from fans was ecstatic. “Oh, my gosh, it was insane, to have a team like that here!” said Kelly Auradou. “I moved here when Chris and Vlade and all those guys were playing, and even though I had never really been interested in sports before, I started watching on TV, and I got hooked.

Then I started coming to games and became a season-ticket holder.”

“It was a lot of fun, because the fans were not only die-hard, loyal Kings fans, but on top of that they had a sense of humor,” said former Kings player Scot Pollard, recalling how after Lakers coach Phil Jackson called Sacramento a “cow town,” Kings fans brought cowbells to Arco and rattled them incessantly during time-outs. “It annoyed the hell out of the whole Laker organization, and I loved it.”

Barbara “Sign Lady” Rust, who has occupied seats on the baseline near the Kings bench since the first season in Sacramento, was one of the many fans who brought handmade signs to games. “It became my way of sending them support,” she said. “Chris Webber was always responsive. As much of a superstar as he was, he would always acknowledge me in some way, nodding his head or mouthing ‘thank you.’ He was absolutely awesome, but that whole team was like family. We all had such strong feelings for them.”

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“Lakers coach Phil Jackson called Sacramento a ‘cow town.’ Kings fans brought cowbells to Arco and rattled them incessantly during time-outs.

It annoyed the hell out of the whole Laker organization, and I loved it.”

—former Kings player Scot Pollard

TAINTED CHEESEBURGERS AND GUT-CHECK WINS In both of the previous two years, the Lakers had ended the Kings’ season with playoff series defeats, but hopes were high that things would be different in 2001-02.

Thanks to another trade, they had the steadier, sure-shooting Mike Bibby in place of Williams and finished with a league-best record of 61-21, guaranteeing home-court advantage throughout the playoffs.

The season record was all the more remarkable considering that Webber, who led the team with 24.5 points and 10.1 rebounds, missed 18 games with injuries, and Divac was under tremendous stress due to the NATO bombing of his homeland. Divac often spent all night on the telephone checking on relatives in Serbia and doing what he could to help.

“Vlade was such a professional that a lot of us didn’t even know all of that was going on in his personal life until it started coming out in the media,” said Pollard. “He didn’t let it affect him, didn’t complain, just went out and played hard every night.”

The Kings made quick work of the Utah Jazz and Dallas Mavericks in the opening rounds, but the Western Conference Finals got off to a deflating start as the Lakers dominated Game 1, shredding the Kings’ defense for 36 first-quarter points and never trailing en route to a 106-99 win.

Though otherwise dismal for Kings fans, Game 1 produced at least one unforgettable moment. During a furious third-quarter rally, Jackson chased a rebound down the baseline and tumbled headlong into the seats, where he was embraced and kissed on the forehead and cheek by adoring female fans. “They love their Kings in Sacramento,” marveled TNT’s Mike Breen as Jackson returned to the floor, smiling in amazement.

In Game 2, the Kings bounced back, thanks in part to a much better performance from Turkoglu, starting in place of the injured Stojakovic, and a Hyatt Regency room-service cheeseburger that weakened Kobe Bryant. The Kings received great per-

formances from Webber (21 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists), Bibby (20 points, 8 assists) and Jackson (17 points), but the postgame media buzz was all about Bryant, who played 40 minutes and scored 22 points, despite having been up all night with food poisoning.

Local sports talk shows were ablaze with gossip. How could Kobe have gotten food poisoning when the Hyatt served 1,700 meals with no other reports of illness that day? Meanwhile, O’Neal added to the extracurricular controversy, telling reporters, “There is only one way to beat us. It starts with a ‘C’ and ends with a ‘T,’” implying the Kings had cheated in Game 2.

“That was all just for fun,” O’Neal told the News &Review. “It’s like when I called Sacramento the ‘Queens.’ I knew it was going to get the fans all riled up. It’s called marketing.”

THE HORROR, THE HORRY In Game 3, the Kings put together their most dominating performance of the series, beating the Lakers 103-90 in a game they controlled from start to finish. Six Kings scored in double figures, and the defense was equally impressive, holding the Lakers to a miserable 36 percent field-goal percentage.

Game 4 started with more of the same, and boos rained down from the L.A. fans as the Kings opened up a 24-point first-quarter lead, but the Lakers tightened their defense and pulled to within 65-51 at halftime, thanks in part to a three-pointer by Samaki Walker that replays revealed had clearly been released after the buzzer.

“The first half was great, and we’re thinking, ‘If we can hold out for two more quarters, we’ll be up 3-1,’” said Ryan Lindow, a Kings fan who traveled to Los Angeles for the game. “Most people agreed that whoever won the Western Conference was going to win it all that year, so it felt like we were right on the verge.”

Kings fans won’t need to be reminded of how Game 4 ended. Trailing by two with

11.8 seconds to play, the Lakers inbounded to Bryant, who drove, was cut off by Divac, and forced a shot that missed. O’Neal missed the put back and Divac tipped the rebound away, sending the ball bouncing with agonizing slowness to Laker forward Robert Horry, who was standing alone at the three-point line. Horry drained the shot as time expired, the Staples Center exploded, and the series was tied.

“It was the single worst sports moment of my life,” said Lindow. “I was sitting pretty high up in Staples Center, but I could see it all unfold. I remember Kobe missing, and I was thinking, ‘This is it, we’ve got it!’And then the ball bounced out to Horry.”

Game 5 was a war, a game full of hard fouls, loose balls and bodies on the floor. It was also Mike Bibby’s finest hour. He scored 12 in the final quarter, including a 20-foot jumper with 8.2 seconds left that put the Kings ahead 92-91, decided the game, turned Arco into a madhouse, and left the Kings needing just one more win to advance to the finals.

GAME 666 In a series filled with drama, spectacular play, and disputed officiating, Game 6 was the most spectacular and most controversial.

O’Neal was utterly dominant. Those who dismiss Shaq as a banger who lacked the finesse of a truly great center should review the dazzling turnaround bank shots, jumphooks and running one-handers he unveiled in Game 6 en route to a dominating 41 points and 17 rebounds. Likewise, anyone who questions Webber’s ability to produce under pressure should review his numerous clutch shots and 26-point, 13-rebound performance here.

“Chris was the guy who could put our team on his back and carry us into the winner’s circle most nights,” said Pollard.

“There were so many times he won games for us, yet there were always people who piled on him for the few times he didn’t. He took a lot of flak for not getting us to the promised land, but without him we wouldn’t have had a chance at the promised land in the first place.”

Despite Webber’s brilliance and great games from Bibby and Divac, the Kings lost 106-102 in a Game 6 that would live in infamy, thanks to stunningly bad officiating that consistently favored the Lakers. The numbers alone told the story, Pollard said, noting that the Lakers shot a remarkable 27 free throws in the fourth quarter alone. Pollard fouled out in only 11 minutes, Divac fouled out in 31 minutes, Webber had five fouls, and Lawrence Funderburke picked up three in only six minutes, yet O’Neal played

44 minutes and was called for only four fouls.

“Does that sound like an evenly officiated game?” Pollard asked. “Does that sound like it was fair?”

One call in the final seconds got more attention than any other. With the Lakers’ lead at 103-102 with 12.6 remaining, Bibby was guarding Bryant with his back to the basket as Horry inbounded from the baseline. Struggling to get free, Bryant landed an elbow to Bibby’s nose that floored him and bloodied his nose. Nothing was called.

Bryant took the inbound pass, was intentionally fouled, made two free throws to seal the win, and the Kings were left to wonder what had happened.

“Walking away, we felt that something was wrong,” said Jackson. “We felt like we had got cheated.”

“Game 6 was a fiasco,” said Nick Rust. “I was so mad about it. I still consider them champions of that year, because I think we got jobbed. I don’t know if Sacramento is ever going to forget what happened.”

WHERE CONSPIRACIES HAPPEN Against the backdrop of Game 6, the final game seemed anticlimactic. After all the incredible plays, the big shots and controversial calls, the Kings lost due to an inability to execute one of the most mundane fundamentals in the game: shooting free throws.

This time, the Kings could blame no one but themselves. With their season on the line, they shot a miserable 16-30 from the line on their way to losing 112-106 in overtime. Stojakovic airballed a wide-open three with 11 seconds left that might have won the game.

In one exasperating sequence in overtime, the Kings failed to score on five straight possessions, with Webber, Bibby and Christie badly missing open shots and Turkoglu committing a turnover. With 100 additional police officers on duty in anticipation of a wild victory celebration, Sacramento fell quiet after the game.

The series was over, but Game 6 took on a life of its own as sportswriters around the country roasted the officiating. David DuPree of USA Today wrote: “I’ve been covering the NBA for 30 years, and it’s the poorest officiating in an important game I’ve ever seen.”

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader joined the fray with an open letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern stating the

Game 6 officiating had “severely shaken” public confidence in the integrity of professional sports and calling for an investigation.

If Stern took any of the criticism seriously, he never let on, even when the controversy resurfaced again in 2007 after longtime NBA official Tim Donaghy was caught up in an FBI investigation of organized crime and admitted to shaving points for mobsters. In an effort to show cooperation and gain a reduced sentence, Donaghy provided information to the FBI regarding what he claimed were instances of “game manipulation” by NBA referees. The Game 6 crew included two “company men” who made calls against the Kings and ignored fouls on the Lakers in order to extend the series to a seventh game, Donaghy alleged, in order to boost television ratings and profits.

Stern dismissed the allegations as the desperate act of an admitted felon. Still, the NBA investigated, and in 2008 issued the Pedowitz Report, a 133-page review of Donaghy’s claims that included eight pages on Game 6. It confirmed that officials made numerous mistakes, most of them benefiting the Lakers, but found no evidence of intentional favoritism.

O’Neal dismissed the controversy. “I read those excerpts,” he said. “There was no controversy, no conspiracy. The Kings couldn’t stop me, and they couldn’t stop Kobe. We beat ’em fair and square on their court.”

STILL HERE Ten years later, they’re still here.

Despite the injuries, trades and per-

Sacramento Kings players Vlade Divac, Jason Williams and Chris Webber.

sonnel decisions that scattered the core of that magical 2001-02 team. Despite six straight losing seasons. Despite a near move to Anaheim in 2011. And despite the team owners’ recent rejection of the best arena deal the city of Sacramento could muster.

Despite everything, Kings fans are lined up 5-feet deep at courtside an hour before game time, a seething mass of purple and black, waving signs and pens and cameras, shouting to the players loosening up for a midweek, late-season contest that was meaningless in terms of postseason eligibility for either team.

“Jason! Jason! Sign my shoes?

Jason!”

“Jimmer! One picture? Come on, Jimmer! Pleeeeeease!”

It’s true that fan support for the Kings has eroded in recent years, but probably not as much as could reasonably be expected. Judging by the blogs and the sports talk shows, fans are feeling anger, disappointment and betrayal, but you wouldn’t know it to visit Arco, even if it’s now called Power Balance Pavilion. They’re still here, and the story isn’t quite over.

“This atmosphere is special,” said fan Ron Rumford. “They’ve got true fans who love the team, love being here and seeing them get better, even through the bad times.”

“I love this team,” said Auradou, between shouts to Jason Thompson. “I don’t care if they play in a parking lot. I just want them here.” Ω

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Arts & Culture Summer of love stories

A few tales of the heart for the lazy months ahead

Iwoe. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, an amazing 2008 collection of short stories involving love, put am a complete sap for tales of love and

together by the ever-moving writer Jeffrey Eugenides, makes it clear that, truly, most love stories are not by happy ones. The love plot Willow Sharkey requires an object of affection that cannot be attained; a certain Emma Bovary must never be satisfied for her dear readers to make her story a tragic classic forever.

And, as Eugenides explored in his excellent 2011 novel, The Marriage Plot, the love plot seems to be a necessarily changing, shifting form in the 21st century. Love doesn’t quite look the same to us as did to Victorian novelists, the very inventors of that particular, now well-worn form. But love is always the compelling-enough stuff of fiction, and writers are never quite content to leave it alone.

I am glad for it, because to me, really, every good story is a kind of love story. Summer-reading season wouldn’t be bearable if there weren’t some stories of yearning and resolution in which to take some indulgent comfort.

But the books I am turning to this summer are not traditional love stories. They are stormy, imaginative, full of self-discovery, and ultimately preoccupied with love of a sort. But these memoirs, graphic novels and fictions all yearn for something other than romantic resolution. They want to find, perhaps, what it is to love one’s self.

Alison Bechdel’s critically acclaimed

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, published in 2006, was a devastating, beautifully rendered graphicmemoir that explored the writer’s complicated relationship with her late father and his long-closeted 24 CN&R June 7, 2012

From the front cover of You Could Be Normal?, by Jeanette Winterson.

sexual identity. In her new work, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Bechdel turns to examine her equally complex relationship with her mother, who is still alive and has sincere doubts about the memoir, Bechdel’s chosen medium of expression. Bechdel is a literary wonder, effortlessly weaving together strands like the history of psychoanalysis, the novels of Virginia Woolf, mother-daughter rivalry and her personal love trials, with a mixture of self-effacement and wit that never rings false. Bechdel looks for who she is, and we wonder what it is to be. Are You My Mother?, inked carefully in black and white, is the perfect mix of longing and fulfillment.

Jeanette Winterson’s new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, appears suspicious of the very notion of fulfillment. The title is derived from the author’s adoptive mother’s response in discovering Winterson was a lesbian, and the lack of understanding offered by her parent haunts Winterson’s search for a fulfilling life. But despite the memoir’s fatalistic protestations (she writes: “I never did drugs, I did love—the reckless kind, more damage than healing, more heartbreak than health”), Winterson understands things about love and desire, and this peeks through in her arresting language, just as it did in her breakthrough 1985 novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her intensity is often harsh, but just as often dazzling.

Finally, two charming efforts by illustrator Maira Kalman are capturing my heart this season. A collaboration with novelist Daniel Handler (better known as Lemony Snicket), Why We Broke Up is the story of precocious Min, who dumps a collection of keepsakes from her broken relationship onto her exboyfriend’s doorstep. Each item begins to tell a narrative of its own, brought to life by the sympathetic brush of painter Kalman. The story is lovely, sad and affirming, the romantic’s favorite combination. And I am seeking out Kalman’s gorgeous illustrated version of Strunk and White’s notorious guide to grammar, The Elements of Style, to keep close as I delve into tender summer tales, as well. Beautiful writing will, after all, always be my first love. Ω

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TWENTIETH CENTURY: The story of an egomaniacal Broadway director who attempts to persuade his former chorus girl—now a movie star—to return to the stage. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 6/24. $12-$16. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: acoustic folk and pop with Kyle Williams, classic soul and blues with Havana Highway, a ballroom and street-style dance performance and more. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

Art Receptions INTERPRETING STRUCTURES RECEPTION: A reception for the exhibition of two artists focusing on cultural and personal interpretation within structural form. Th, 6/7, 5-7pm. Free. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

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Art Receptions HOLLY SIEMENS RECEPTION: Art by Siemens will be accompanied by live music at this opening reception. F, 6/8, 7:30-10pm. Free. Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 892-1790.

SKATEBOARD ART RECEPTION: An opening reception for skateboard art by Maia Illa, with

music by Sarah Myles Spencer to follow. F, 6/8, 7pm. Music: $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888.

KISS ME KATE: A musical based on

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew with

plenty of laughs and memorable tunes. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 6/24. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

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Saturday & Sunday, June 9 & 10 Patrick Ranch Museum SEE SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS JAZZ AT THE MUSEUM: Local jazz groups Higgysuerussex and The Syncopa Trio set the mood for this art-and-food fundraiser for the Museum of Northern California Art. Su, 6/10, 2-6pm. $25. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

MEMORY WALK BENEFIT: A benefit for October’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Featuring food, wine and beer tasting plus music by Ha’Penny Bridge and The Railflowers. Visit site to purchase tickets. Su, 6/10, 2-5pm. $45. Book Family Farm, 153 Heavy Horse Ln. in Durham, (530) 893-3139, http://tinyurl.com/78kwomt.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY FESTIVAL: A celebration of cultural and ethnic diversity hosted by the Paradise Center for Tolerance and Nonviolence. Festivities include live music, dance, a silent auction, raffles, food vendors and more. Su, 6/10, 12-5pm. Free. Paradise Community Park; Black Olive Dr. in Paradise; (530) 877-1856.

SEE SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

WINDOWS RECEPTION: A reception for an exhibition of photography by Kyle Delmar. 21 images of windows will be displayed to create the illusion of reality. F, 6/8, 7-9pm. Free. Empire Coffee; 434 Orange St. Between 4th & 5th in Train Car; (530) 899-8267.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: CHRIS SCHADT BAND: The weekly concert series continues with danceable funk and rock originals by the Chris Schadt Band. F, 6/8, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

Theater KISS ME KATE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWENTIETH CENTURY: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Special Events BOOMBOX PARTY: Bring your boombox and tune

10am-4pm. Free. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 342-4359.

RIBS, RODS & RIDES: Hot ribs, hot cars and hot air. A classic car show and rib cook-off with over a dozen hot air balloons floating overhead. Sa, 6/9, 9am-6pm. $15. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

Theater BLACK & WHITE WITH A SPLASH OF COLOR: A performance featuring the youth of Oroville’s Creative Arts Centre. Sa, 6/9, 7:30pm. $5-$10.

Oroville State Theatre; 1489 Myers St. in Oroville; (530) 538-2470.

KISS ME KATE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWENTIETH CENTURY: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Theater KISS ME KATE: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWENTIETH CENTURY: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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

Music DARRELL SCOTT: The rootsy Americana super-

star playing an intimate sit-down show. W, 6/13, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

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COUNTRY FAIRE & BEE THRESHING: See Saturday.

OFF THE CUFF: Bi-monthly improvisational per-

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 342-4359.

to KZFR 90.1FM and listen showcase of local DJ’s in the sun. Sa, 6/9, 1:30-3pm. One Mile Recreation Area; Bidwell Park; (530) 896-7200.

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

BROADWAY REVIEW & DINNER: A pasta and salad dinner will accompany classic Broadway show tunes. Sa, 6/9, 6:30pm. $14. Monday Club; 2385 Montgomery St. in Oroville; (530) 533-5976.

COUNTRY FAIRE & BEE THRESHING: The annual old-fashioned country fair with an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photography in a distinctly rustic setting. 6/9-6/10,

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1078 GALLERY: Interpreting Structures, two artists who take different approaches to address cultural and personal interpretation within structural form. 6/7-6/30. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

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

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: A Sense of Place, an exhibition of works by Phyllis Cullen and the California Fiber Artists. Through 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) 895-3282.

BUSTOLINI’S DELI & COFFEE HOUSE: Holly

JAZZ AT THE MUSEUM Sunday, June 10 Chico Women’s Club

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Siemens, new works. Through 6/30. Gallery hours are Closed Sunday. 800 Broadway St., (530) 892-1790.

CAFE FLO: Skateboard Art, by local Maia Illa.

6/8-6/30. 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

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

Also, Salon des Refuses an exhibition of “refused” artworks on display in the lobby gallery. Through 6/23. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.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.

CHICO ICONS: Show focusing on the endangered, fragile and precious aspects of our natural and man-made environment in Chico. Go online for a full prospectus.

Through 6/30. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, http://tinyurl.com/ d3b8jgg.

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.

EMPIRE COFFEE: Windows, photos by Kyle Delmar, displayed in such a fashion as to create the illusion of reality. 6/8-6/30. 434 Orange St. Between 4th & 5th in Train Car, (530) 899-8267.

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.

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.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE:

Reconstructed, original artworks by Andy Greer. Through 6/30. Gallery hours are Open daily. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

Good reception Nothing like some fresh art work in the warm spring to add some color to your weekend. Three opening receptions: At the 1078 Gallery, tonight, June 7, 5-7 p.m., is the reception for Interpreting Structures, a two-person show by Amy Yun-Ping Chen and Jodi Lightner, a pair of Wichita State grads who are using a mixture of mediums to “focus on the role of architecture in understanding our EDITOR’S PICK relationship to struc“Amend,” mixed-media on mylar,

by Jodi Lightner ture and culture.” And on Friday, June 8, will be openings for new works by Holly Siemens, at Bustolini’s (7:30-10 p.m.); and Kyle Delmar’s Windows—featuring 21 photos of windows “which will be printed and displayed in such a fashion to create the illusion of reality”—at Empire Coffee (7-9 p.m.).

—JASON CASSIDY June 7, 2012

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CHICO CONTRA DANCE: Traditional contra dance with music by the Pub Scouts. Second Sa of every month, 6:30pm. $4-$8. Chico Grange,

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

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale.

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

COMMUNITY SUNDAY: A weekly program of music and message to inspire conscious awakening and compassionate action. This week, meet at the labyrinth between Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Playground and the Bidwell Mansion. Th, Su, 11am through 6/30. Opens 6/10. Center for Spiritual Living Downtown Chico, 830 Boadway St., (530) 8948115.

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

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

DOULA MINI-WORKSHOP: A workshop illustrating the birthing services five local doulas offer.

Call for more info. Third and First Th of every month, 7-8pm. Free. La Casita Primera Preschool, 2035 Esplanade, (530) 592-7887.

EVENING STROLLS IN UPPER BIDWELL PARK: Learn about Bidwell Parks geology, history, biology and native peoples. Meet at the Rod and Gun Club parking lot. Sa, 5-8:30pm through 6/30. Free. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park, (530) 895-3730, www.upperpark.net.

FARMERS MARKET - CHICO STATE: The Organic Vegetable Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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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.

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

HABITOUR: A tour of Habitat for Humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Greens neighborhood and the homes under construction. Call to RSVP. W, 6/13, 5:306:30pm. Free. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 343-7423.

INNER ARTS GROWTH GROUP FOR WOMEN: A fourweek expressive arts group for the purpose of self-discovery and empowerment. Tu, 7-9pm through 6/26. $80. Center for Spiritual Living Downtown Chico, 830 Boadway St., (530) 4102567.

FOLK DANCING: Teaching during the first hour, followed by request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 6/29. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

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Sa, 6/9, 9-11:30am. Free. Paradise Alliance Church, 6491 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8774231, www.AKBuilders.org.

LEMONADE TO FIGHT CHILDHOOD CANCER: The kids from the Center for Spiritual Living will host an lemonade stand and bake sale fundraiser. F, 6/8, 11am-2pm; Sa, 6/9, 11am2pm. Chico New Thought Center for Spiritual

SUMMER READING SKILLS Starts Monday, June 11 Chico State SEE COMMUNITY

Living, 14 Hillary Ln. Off Burnap, (530) 8958395.

LOOK GOOD, FEEL BETTER: A workshop for ladies dealing with the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment. Registration required. M, 6/11, 10am-noon. Free. Enloe Cancer Center, 265 Cohasset Rd.

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 Longâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.

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

SUMMER READING SKILLS PROGRAM: Chico State offers eight different reading skills programs for four-year olds through adults. Go online for a complete schedule and enrollment information. Ongoing. Opens 6/11. California State University, Chico, CSUC, (180) 096-48888, http://rce.csuchico.edu/reading.

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A presentation designed for those who have suffered through recent loss or turmoil looking to enhance their outlook and learn to cope. Tu, 6-7:30pm through 7/24; Through 9/25, 6-7:30pm. Lakeside Pavilion, 179 E. 19th St., 895-4711.

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FREE SWIM DAY: Shapiro and Pleasant Valley (2320 North Avenue) pools will be open to all to kick off the summer season. F, 6/8, 1-3:45pm.

Free. Shapiro Pool, Oleander Ave. at Chico Junior High, (530) 345-0678.

LEAP INTO SUMMER CAMP: A five-day interactive nutrition education and swim day camp for children ages 7 to 13 to help kids develop healthy eating and activity patterns. Call or go online for more info. M, 6/11, 1-5pm. $40.

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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.

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One of the most exciting things about Henri’s move to Northern California in 2003 was discovering the local king salmon. That first summer I must have eaten salmon twice a week. In recent years, though, very little has been available—the 2008 and 2009 California commercial seasons were canceled, and the 2010 season was just 11 days long. The 2011 season was better, but far from as productive as seasons past.

But the 2012 California season, which opened May 1, is already looking to be one of the best in at least the last seven years, thanks in part to improved fisheries management and water conditions. Party boats out of Bay Area harbors are

reporting limits (two fish per person) on almost every outing, and biologists, commercial fishermen and fishmongers expect a long, good season.

Unfortunately, prices are still quite high. Last week at S & S Organic Produce and Natural Foods, king salmon steaks were $17.99/lb. and fillets were $19.99/lb. I was told that prices might not come down much, if at all, over the course of the season, which runs through September.

Of course, you can buy less expensive salmon, Alaskan sockeye, farmed Atlantic salmon, etc., but the king—aka chinook—is far superior. Its natural oils keep the meat moist and flavorful, and its high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, like red wine, merci beaucoup, can protect against heart disease.

King salmon is delicious any way you cook it—poached, baked, broiled—but it’s best grilled. The key is not to overcook it. It should be flaky but not dry. I like the center still dark pink (raw). On the grill, I turn it by slipping my spatula between the skin and the meat and then cooking it on top of the separated skin for a few more minutes. (Miss Marilyn and Mr. Theo always watch closely.)

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Starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron.

Directed by Rupert Sanders.

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girls while still remaining accessible to everyone else. It has some weaknesses, but those are flaws only if you walk into it churlishly. Which is kind of a stupid headspace to walk into a movie after spending eight bucks on a ticket.

Here we have Charlize Theron as wicked ice queen Ravenna, who after seducing then killing the king (who fell in love and married her after seemingly rescuing her from a phantasmagorical battalion of CGI dark knights), locks his daughter Snow White (Kristen Stewart) up in a dark tower to let the young girl’s beauty rot away in a dank cell. That inexplicable approach to threat management turns around and bites the queen in the ass a few years later as Snow White blossoms in her cell and manages to escape.

A growling huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is set loose on Snow White’s trail, which also crosses that of a band of ruffian dwarves. Her adventures with the conflicted huntsman and her eight little friends adds seasoning to a rebellious stew that builds up to a Joan of Arc-like crusade back to Ravenna’s despairing kingdom.

Weaving its way through such dark fantasy antecedents as Legend, Lord of the Rings and even Princess Mononoke, Snow White admittedly relies a little too heavily on gratuitous spectacle. There’s really no reason to have the image in the mirror spill out onto the castle floor before standing up and delivering the fairest doctrine, and the arrival of a dreadnaught troll seems like an outtake from Clash of the Titans. Although the latter does serve a narrative function, so these are small quibbles when taken as part of the fabric of a visually lush mise en scène.

While the backstory of Ravenna is promising (her betrayal by another king a long, long

time ago serving as the catalyst for her narcissistic psychosis and misandrist agenda), her growth as a villain is stunted the minute Snow White takes center stage, leaving the queen as little more than a default scowling villain.

But the casting is spot on. Theron sinks her teeth into the role like it’s Shakespeare, and Stewart has an earthy beauty that plays well against medieval despair. Despite the Twilight haters, Stewart handles herself capably here (although she does occasionally slip into her stock “Who farted?” expression). As the romantic interest Hemsworth is ... well, Hemsworth. The dwarves, however, played by the likes of a CG-altered Ian McShane, Nick Frost, Ray Winstone and Bob Hoskins, are worth the price of admission by themselves. Ω

Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Rachel Bush and JuanCarlos Selznick.

Opening this week Darling Companion

The latest from writer/director Lawrence Kasdan (Grand Canyon, The Big Chill) is a dramedy about a woman (Diane Keaton) who fills the growing space between her and her self-involved husband (Kevin Kline) by bonding with a dog she rescues. Then her husband loses the dog. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

First Position

A documentary following six young ballet dancers—ages 9-19—as they dance their way toward the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and the other familiar voices are back for part three in the DreamWorks animated franchise about the mismatched crew of wayward zoo animals trying to find their way back home to New York—this time via a cross-country European adventure disguised as circus animals. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Prometheus

Alien director Ridley Scott returns, sort of, to the place where he got his start. His latest, while not a prequel to the Alien story, takes place in a time before the events of the 1979 film, when a space crew following clues about the origin of the human race winds up in a dark part of the universe facing a threat that could cause its end. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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The Avengers

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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Battleship

After a meet-cute with the skanky daughter (Brooklyn Decker) of a barking naval commander played by Liam Neeson, a total loser (Taylor Kitsch) mans up and joins the Navy. With his brother’s help, he manages to work his way up the chain of command while remaining a screw-up. But he gets his shot at redemption when the fleet sets out on some big Navy exercise. If you’ve seen the ads, you know where this is going: Next come the aliens and the explosions.

Director Peter Berg has gone from the jagged edges of Very Bad Things to being a fairly polished Hollywood stone, and here he’s delivered one very polished two-hour commercial that is at least much more visually cohesive than a Michael Bay movie.

Writers Erich and Jon Hoeber also deserve some credit for floating a narrative out of the basic board game on which the film is based, 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. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

3

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

This good-natured crowd-pleaser from John Madden (Shakespeare in Love; Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown) is primarily a charming field day for a small host of veteran British actors. The story, drawn from a novel by Deborah Moggach, sends a motley assortment of hard-pressed Anglo senior citizens off to a cut-rate retirement home in India. Their number includes a grieving widow (Judy Dench), a bickering married couple (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton), a much-married lady (Celia Imrie) boldly seeking yet another (preferably wealthy) husband, a retired judge (Tom Wilkinson) who is gay and returning to the scene of his youth, an exultantly randy old gentleman (Ronald Pickup), and a crotchety ex-nanny (Maggie Smith) who’s getting an outsourced hip replacement. Late-blooming romances mingle with a medley of financial and medical issues. Individual dilemmas get a miscellany of resolutions, but the film as a whole gathers itself around the problems of Sonny (Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire), whose courtship of lovely Sunaina (Tena Desae) and amateurish management of the hotel draws the ire of his family and of his domineering mother in particular. Dench is superb and Nighy is a delight, as always. Wilkinson is very good in the one truly somber role. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG13 —J.C.S.

For Greater Glory

An historic epic about the 1926-1929 Cristero War, a rebellion against the Mexican government’s efforts to secularize the country.

Starring Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

3

Headhunters

Ends tonight, June 7. Adapted from a novel by Scandinavian mystery writer Jo Nesbo, this Norwegian crime story is part paranoid thriller, part neo-noir farrago.

Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), a crafty corporate headhunter who doubles as a high-end art thief, justifies his professional ruthlessness as a means of keeping the respect of his statuesque blonde wife, Diana (Synnove Macody Lund). When corporate hotshot and top-ranked executive candidate Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) shows an interest in Diana, a potentially deadly romantic triangle comes into view. The lethal cat-and-mouse game that ensues is bloody, brutal and outlandish. Hennie’s Brown becomes a kind of serio-comic underdog when matched up against the taller, more classically handsome Greve, and director Morten Tyldum plays at least some of the action as darkhumored farce. Ove Kjikerud (Eivind Sander), Brown’s gun-crazy security guard sidekick, embodies the film’s semi-contradictory mixtures of erotomania, gonzo violence, social expose and sentimental pseudo-ironies. Just for the record, there’s plenty of other stuff in the mix—art market scams, Russian hookers, state of the art electronics and surveillance technology, etc.

Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

4

Men in Black 3

The sharp-dressed partners are back, going about their comfortable routine of policing the city streets for illegal aliens—of the spaceship kind. But that routine suddenly gets really complicated when Boris “Just Boris” the Animal manages to bust out of an über-secret maximum security prison on the moon and head back to Earth for some payback on the Man in Black responsible for his down time. That man being the taciturn Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). Of course, this being a summer blockbuster, just ambushing him is sort of uninspired so Boris (Jemaine Clement) cuts a time-fart and goes back to 1968 to kill K. This results in all sorts of nasty butterfly effects being unleashed in the space/time continuum, like giant creatures descending from the sky and eating New York. The agency sends K’s partner, J (Will Smith), back to turn the fan off before the shit hits—with surprisingly amusing results. It’s complicated but not too complicated, seeing as this is a summer popcorner. But it’s a very well-crafted popcorner. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

4

Monsieur Lazhar

Ends tonight, June 7. Adapted from a play by Évelyne de la Chenelière, this French-Canadian classroom drama comes off as an unusually honest feel-good movie emerging from patently extreme circumstances. An Algerian refugee named Bachir Lazhar (avuncular Mohamed Fellag) presents himself at a Montréal school, volunteering to assume the instruction duties for a class whose teacher has committed suicide. Bachir gets the job and is soon embroiled in the difficulties endured by the traumatized kids in his class—and in the travails of his newfound colleagues, who give him a somewhat mixed welcome. A couple of exceptionally bright kids, Alice (Sophie Nélisse) and Simon (Émilien Néron), present some especially dramatic challenges. Two colleagues, the somewhat autocratic school principal (Danielle Proulx) and the warmly forthcoming Claire (Brigitte Poupart), put him to contrasting emotional tests. Plus, all sorts of backstory keeps leaking in, to increasingly ironic effect—Lazhar’s desperate flight from Algeria and the loss of his family there, the fraught and convoluted circumstances of the suicide, the intramural politics of parents and teachers. That stacked premise may smack of morbid excess, but the directness and simplicity in writer-director Philippe Falardeau’s approach keeps it all on a surprisingly even keel. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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No Time Like Now Nick Moran Trio Manor Sound Records Brooklyn-based guitarist Nick Moran’s trio also features B-3 whiz Brad Whiteley and drummer Chris Benham. Inspired to switch from trumpet to guitar after succumbing at the age of 13 to the lure of British Invasion plectrists like Peter Frampton, he made a bigger jump to jazz after seeing a George Benson performance on television. After a six-year stint in Germany he began studying with bassist Ron Carter at New York’s City College. While knowledgeable about other guitar/organ trios, he doesn’t seek to emulate them, and his nine originals carve a lot of new territory. The one cover, Cream’s “Strange Brew,” gets this CD off the ground and effectively leads into track two, “My Beautiful,” a lilting bossa nova. Moran’s delicately chiseled lines and deft playing are very effectively complemented by Whiteley’s lusty B-3 playing, especially on a number like the up-tempo “Wishful Thinking” on which he really “kicks the B,” (i.e., plays the bass by using the organ’s foot pedals) and Benham’s solid drumming (here’s a guy who knows how to complement the leader’s session rather than commandeer it.) Benham also excels on his solo that closes the energetic “The Physicist Transformed.” Moran and co. show their funky sides on “Slow Drive” and “Say Hi to Paris,” a tribute to NYC blues singer Frankie Paris.

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Home Toni Morrison Knopf Toni Morrison has this way of turning an otherwiseordinary story into something extraordinary. Home follows the life of Frank Money (who doesn’t have any), a veteran of the Korean War who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. He struggles in his relationships, and he’s ashamed to return home. But when he gets word of his sister’s illness, he makes the long trek to Georgia from the West Coast, trying tirelessly to block out the images of war that plague him, to bring color back to his world. The beauty of Home is in the way Morrison chooses to tell the story, alternating between characters and points of view, weaving her words together like an elaborate, poetic tapestry. Morrison, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her ability to capture the nuances of the AfricanAmerican experience, and Home continues in the same tradition. Her newest novel never mentions skin color, however, leaving it up to the reader to decide, based on speech and perspective, a character’s background. I appreciate her trust in her audience, but I do have one criticism: I wish she’d given us more time to get to know the characters, to figure them out and really care about their lives and how their stories end.

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Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate Bill Evans Resonance Records If you’re a jazz fan, you already love Bill Evans.

His piano improvisations are canonical. They hold up through decades of listening. When I first heard him, back when I was in high school, John Kennedy was president, and I knew Evans was the real deal. But, as my musical sophistication grew, so did my understanding of just how good he was. Now, a half-century later, come these recordings Evans made in the late ’60s, at the peak of his powers, performing upstairs at the Village Gate. It’s a two-album treasure trove that’s a bit like time travel, though these takes are also unfettered by time. Resonance Records can take justified pride in this package that includes great liner notes by Nat Hentoff and a period photo of the exterior of the Gate in daytime, with lots of thin hipsters in pegged pants hanging out on the street. But the biggest delights are in the grooves, with Evans, Eddie Gomez and Marty Morrell doing what jazz trios did when they were playing with complete synchronicity. No praise I’ve ever offered in a review was as fully deserved as this.

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Primus: (from left) Ler LaLonde, Jay Lane and Les Claypool.

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Excluding a hiatus here and there, Primus has been producing their off-kilter, bass-poppin’ metalfunk since the mid-’80s, all the while maintaining an unlikely international fan base, headlining major festivals and selling out arenas whenever they feel like touring.

And though Primus is, for some, the Les Claypool Show, lurking just outside the spotlight is guitarist Larry “Ler” LaLonde—a virtuoso musician in his own right, but most notable for being the perfect complement to Claypool on and off the stage.

“We’ve been hanging out for like 20 years,” LaLonde said during a recent phone interview.

“Somehow, we don’t get on each

other’s nerves. We’ve seen plenty of bands who don’t get along, but I don’t see why you would want to be in a band like that. You’re so lucky to be making music, why turn it into a drag? Plus, we’re lazy and it takes energy to fight.”

LaLonde’s first forays into music were typical for his generation. At 12 years old, he attended a Rush concert.

“I didn’t know what a concert was and a friend of mine said, ‘Hey, we’re going to see Rush,’” LaLonde said. “The next weekend was Van Halen. About two weeks later, I convinced my parents to buy me a guitar.”

About two years later, he walked into a music shop in Berkeley that was advertising guitar lessons. The teacher just happened to be Joe Satriani, who also tutored the likes of Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Steve Vai, among others, and would rise to personal fame as a ridiculously technically proficient instrumental guitarist in the late ’80s.

“Eventually, I tried to teach a couple people and realized how hard it is,” LaLonde said of his appreciation for Satriani. “He’s an amazing teacher. I didn’t realize how lucky I was that day by stumbling across him.”

By the time Claypool recruited him into Primus in ’89 (and after a stint with the seminal death-metal band Possessed), LaLonde had developed world-class chops. And although the musical taste of his band mates—including thendrummer Tim Alexander—varied greatly, they found common ground in their adoration of Rush.

“I’m sure, subconsciously, a lot

of times we’ve been influenced by how they’ve managed to make a lot of sound with just three guys,” he said.

As Primus gained popularity following their studio debut, Frizzle Fry, in ’90, they remained a band distanced from the rise and fall of grunge and industrial rock.

“We kind of lucked out,” LaLonde said. “There were a lot of different genres that were big. As stuff like that went away, we stuck around since we weren’t a part of it. When we started doing Primus, I thought it was fun and cool music, but didn’t think it would get very big because it’s so weird.”

The band felt the same way about the pilot for South Park, which creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone sent them in ’96 in hopes the band would record the show’s theme song.

“At the time we were like, there’s no way this is making it on TV, it’s too crazy,” LaLonde said.

“They came out to a show in Boulder [Colo.], sent us the pilot and told us they were big fans. It’s one of the songs I’ve focused on most.

I wanted it to be the perfect cartoon song.”

Being weird has certainly worked out for Primus. The band currently is touring in support of last summer’s Green Naugahyde, the band’s first album since 1999’s Antipop and the seventh overall.

But theirs is the path less traveled, and not one LaLonde would recommend for aspiring musicians.

“There are a handful of bands who told me they were influenced

by Primus,” he said. “But if you want to get famous, we’re not a very good band to emulate.” Ω

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THURSDAY 6|7—WEDNESDAY 6|13 $1. Paradise Grange Hall; 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.

THE WEST EDGE: Original blues and rock ’n’ roll out of Redding. Th, 6/7, 6-9pm.

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Friday, June 8 Café Coda

honky-tonk. F, 6/8, 9pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

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BRIEFCASE FULL OF BLUES: A tribute to

7THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

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

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

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

BUTTE COUNTY PLAYERS CLUB: Live clas-

sic rock and blues. Th, 6/7, 6pm. Free.

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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the legendary comedic-duo The Blues Brothers in the brewery. F, 6/8, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: CHRIS SCHADT BAND: The weekly concert series continues with danceable funk and rock originals by the Chris Schadt Band. F, 6/8, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

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.

JIMMY GRANT QUARTET: Grant, a gypsyjazz guitarist, fronts a talented ensemble of young jazz musicians. The Chico Jazz Collective opens. F, 6/8, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

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.

LOW FLYING BIRDS: Members of Swamp Zen and Crazygrass come together for this funky blues-grass band. F, 6/8, 10pm-1:30am. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

THE NATHAN THOMAS BAND: A danceable

country band from Redding. F, 6/8, 8pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530)

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NORTHERN HEAT: A mix of country and

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tribute to Neil Young in the brewery.

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and covers. F, 6/8, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

with guitarist and vocalist Steve Johnson. Sa, 6/9, 8:30pm. Free.

Farwood Bar & Grill; 705 Fifth St. in Orland; (530) 865-9900.

Sa, 6/9, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls

Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

STRANGE FICTION: Rock originals and

covers. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. Free. The End Zone; 250 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 345-7330.

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piece bluegrass band specializing in complex vocal harmony and tight musicianship. Sa, 6/9, 7-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

STEVE WALKER: Live music in the lounge.

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THIS WILL DESTROY YOU & A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Saturday, June 9 Café Coda SEE SATURDAY

11MONDAY 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.

ZAC & JAY: Country and rock originals

and covers. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

12TUESDAY 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.

10SUNDAY MASS GRAVES: A grindcore/punk outfit

13WEDNESDAY DARRELL SCOTT: The rootsy-

specializing in minute-long intensity. Wendol, Chingado and Epitaph of Atlas open. Su, 6/10, 8pm. $5. Origami Lounge; 7th And Cherry Streets.

Explosions in the Sky, while New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers make heavy, psychedelic walls of noise. Sa, 6/9, 8pm. $12. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafe coda.com.

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

DON SHERIDAN: Jazz keyboard. Tu, 5-7pm.

Americana superstar playing an intimate sit-down show. W, 6/13, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

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://live atflo.weebly.com.

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. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

LOST ON MAIN: A brand-new electronic DJ crew. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. $3. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

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

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.

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

LASALLES: Su, 9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broad-

in Oroville, (530) 533-0900.

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

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.

way 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.

MONTGOMERY ST.: Tu, 8pm. Free. Montgomery St. Pub, 1933 Montgomery St.

DARRELL SCOTT Wednesday, June 13 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE WEDNESDAY

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.

DJ DANCING CRAZY HORSE: DJ Hot Rod and mechani-

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

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

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

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YOUR MUSIC, ON THE RADIO There’s a new nonprofit community radio station coming 10 to Oroville—KROV, Radio Oroville, 91.1FM—and local bands are being invited to the airwaves. Former Café Flo owner Monikah Miller will be hosting a show called Keep it Local Music, and she has put out the word to 08 local bands that she needs submissions for music of all genres (even jam bands?) made in Butte County. Email her at keepit localmusic@gmail.com for more info.

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“I photographed 21 windows, with the help of Dark Shadow, which will be printed and displayed in such a fashion to create the 10 Bike fest nurse, Heatherlee illusion of reality.” Hmmmn? I see. Or do I? Richerson von Tchudi.

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THEY’RE COMING! Have you seen ’em? The Sea Monster.

Dragonboy! What strange beings are these living and working and stretching into impossible poses among us?

Mark your calendars, and track these creatures down to 1441-C Park Avenue on June 15, when they open HoneyMoon BabyBlanket, the first show at the Manas Art Space Gallery in the same building as the new Rise Yoga Movement studio.

A MOST PASSIONATE DEVOTION If you enjoy traversing the span of atmospheric noise that runs from The Jesus and Mary Chain to Explosions in the Sky, then it’s very likely that this will be your Best Chico Show of 2012. On Saturday, June 9, at Café Coda, San Marcos, Texas, instrumentalists This Will Destroy You and tour mates A Place to Bury Strangers, a shimmering, feedbacking beautiful mess from Brooklyn, will conduct a seismic test of the tiny venue’s foundation. Forget earplugs, bring a helmet.

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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

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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 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as L2 SPORTS CARDS AND MEMORABILIA at 2711 Lowell Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

LANCE HARLAN LOPER, 2711 Lowell Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LANCE LOPER Dated: May 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000666 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WINTER CONSULTING at 975 Filbert Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

SCOTT STERLING WINTER, 975 Filbert Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: SCOTT WINTER Dated: April 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000659 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE OVAL CHEVRON, BLUE OVAL FOODMART at 1025 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

GURINDER SHILLON 1865 Rose River Ave. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GURINDER DHILLON Dated: May 29, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000791 Published: June 7,14,21,28 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BASKIN ROBBINS OF CHICO, BASKIN ROBBINS ON MANGROVE at 668 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

GURINDER S DHILLON, 1865 Rose River Ave. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GURINDER DHILLON Dated: May 29, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000792 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SYNERGY HEALTH AND WELLNESS at 225 Main St. Suite M, Chico, CA 95926.

TAMARA STOVER, 713 Grand Teton Way, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TAMARA A STOVER Dated: May 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000720 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HANDOZER DISTRIBUTING at 2954 Hwy 32 #1300, Chico, CA 95973.

MIKE T GROSBERG, 3168 Aloha Lane, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: MIKE GROSBERG Dated: May 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000777 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

NOTICES LIEN SALE 06/19/12 10AM AT 5084 PENTZ RD., PARADISE 68 KNCFT TR LIC# FS9347 VIN# S1414

Notice of lien sale: Saturday 6/23/12 at 12:00pm at Bidwell Self Storage, 65 Heritage Lane, Chico, 893.2109, Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units of household or personal items and boxes, furniture, home d‚cor, kitchen items, etc. and other misc. items not specified will be sold.

Silent auction.

The unit numbers and names are: Unit 59: Kimberly Lee Unit 322: Edmond Wenzell Unit 308: Tiffany Palmore Unit 78: Shelly Byrd Unit 318: Charles Bailey Unit 225: Jeffery Mueller Unit 239: Frank Torress Unit 279: Frank Torress Unit 434: David Kennedy Unit 241: Russell Garner NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name of the applicant is: SACHA CASSELL The applicant listed above is applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 800 Bruce Road, Suite 600 Chico, CA 95928-3823 Type of license applied for: 41 - On-Sale Beer and WineEating Place Published: May 31, June 7,14, 2012 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MICHAEL VINCENT MURASKO TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MICHAEL VINCENT MURASKO A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Michael W. Murasko in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

THE Petition for Probate requests that: Michael W. Murasko be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 12, 2012 Time: 1:30pm Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate

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Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Case Number: PR40265 Attorney for petitioner: Charles A. Pinney III 12526 High Bluff Dr. #300 San Diego CA 92130 (858)755-7502 Published: June 7,14,21, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KIMBERLY JOYCE SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KIMBERLY JOYCE SMITH Proposed name: KIMBERLY JOYCE KOHN 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: July 6, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: May 21, 2012 Case Number: 156807 Published: May 31, June 7,14,21, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DAVID ALLEN KOSS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing petitioner’s name to DANIELLE ALLENA KOSS. 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.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 13, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: May 23, 2012 Case Number: 156721 Published: May 31, June 7,14,21, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BOB YANG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BOB YANG Proposed name: GEORGE W. YOUNG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 20, 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: May 22, 2012 Case Number: 156826 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JENELLE LYNN POSPISIL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JENELLE LYNN POSPISIL Proposed name: SOPHIA LYNN RIVERS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 27, 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: May 22, 2012 Case Number: 156962 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LEAH HOPSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Abenie Kaitlyn Lenee Hopson Proposed name: Abenie Kaitlyn Lenee Derose THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 6, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: May 21, 2012 Case Number: 156819 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DAVID HALPAINY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DAVID HALPAINY Proposed name: DAVID KELLY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 20, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is:

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Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: May 21, 2012 Case Number: 156134 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

SUMMONS CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 CHILDS NAME: DGD Case Numbers: J-35568 To: CHAD RISER and anyone claiming to be a parent of DGD born on September 21, 2001 at Enloe Hospital, Chico, CA. A hearing will be held: Date: August 23, 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: May 25, 2012 Signed: Kimberly Flener Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: MARCELLA E MASTELLER aka MARCELLA WOOD, aka MARCELLA E EDENS, aka MARCY MASTELLER, aka MARCY EDENS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU, A CORP. NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30

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days. Read the information below.

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF BUTTE, 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: Alfred W Driscol III 1339 The Esplanade Chico, CA 95926 (530)345-8472 Dated: October 21, 2011 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 155003 NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant. As the person sued under the fictitious name of: aka MARCELLA WOOD, aka MARCELLA E EDENS, aka MARCY MASTELLER, aka MARCY EDENS. Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): If

your destiny has gotten tweaked by bias or injustice, it’s a good time to rebel. If you are being manipulated by people who care for you—even if it’s allegedly for your own good—you now have the insight and power necessary to wriggle free of the bind. If you have been confused by the mixed messages you’re getting from your own unconscious mind, you should get to the bottom of the inner contradiction. And if you have been wavering in your commitment to your oaths, you’d better be intensely honest with yourself about why that’s happening.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Diamonds

are symbols of elegant beauty, which is why they’re often used in jewelry. But 80 percent of the world’s diamonds have a more utilitarian function. Because they’re so hard and have such high thermal conductivity, they are used extensively as cutting, grinding and polishing tools, and have several other industrial applications. Now let’s apply this 20/80 proportion to you, Taurus.

Of your talents and abilities, no more than 20 percent need be on display. The rest is consumed in the diligent detail work that goes on in the background—the cutting, grinding and polishing you do to make yourself as valuable as a diamond. In the coming week, this will be a good meditation for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The pain you

will feel in the coming week will be in direct proportion to the love you suppress and withhold. So if you let your love flow as freely as a mountain spring in a rainstorm, you may not have to deal with any pain at all. What’s that you say? You claim that being strategic about how you express your affection gives you strength and protection?

Maybe that’s true on other occasions, but it’s not applicable now. “Unconditional” and “uninhibited” are your words of power.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What actions

best embody the virtue of courage? Fighting on the battlefield as a soldier? Speaking out against corruption and injustice? Climbing a treacherous peak or riding a raft through rough river water? Certainly all those qualify. But French architect Fernand Pouillon had another perspective. He said, “Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one’s feelings.” That’s exactly the nature of the bravery you are best able to draw on right now, Cancerian. So please do draw on it in abundance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book The Four

Insights, author Alberto Villoldo tells the following story: “A traveler comes across two stonecutters. He asks the first, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘Squaring the stone.’ He then walks over to the second stonecutter and asks, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘I am building a cathedral.’ In other words, both men are performing the same task, but one of them is aware that he has the choice to be part of a greater dream.” By my astrological reckoning, Leo, it’s quite important for you to be like that second stonecutter in the months ahead. I suggest you start now to ensure that outcome.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Harpo Marx

was part of the famous Marx Brothers comedy team that made 13 movies. He was known as the silent one. While in his character’s persona, he never spoke, but only communicated through pantomime and by whistling, blowing a horn or playing the harp. In real life, he could talk just fine. He traced the origin of his shtick to an early theatrical performance he had done. A review of the show said that he “performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke.” So in other words, Harpo’s successful career was shaped in part by the inspiration he drew from a critic. I invite you to make a similar move, Virgo: Capitalize on some negative feedback or odd mirroring you’ve received.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What is your

Spare-time superman

by Rob Brezsny you feel offended by the secrets they spill and the ignorance they expose and the slightly embarrassing truths they compel you to acknowledge? Or are you a vivacious lover of life who welcomes the way cosmic jokes expand your mind and help you lose your excessive self-importance and show you possible solutions you haven’t previously imagined? I hope you’re in the latter category, because sometime in the near future, fate has arranged for you to be in the vicinity of a divine comedy routine. I’m not kidding when I tell you that the harder and more frequently you laugh, the more you’ll learn.

story and photo by Vic Cantu vscantu@sbcglobal.net As a dangerous fire season approaches, with the Sierra snowpack at just 40 percent of normal, people like Capt. Mike Kaliczak, 61, a volunteer with the Butte County Sheriff’s Communication Reserve, become vitally important. On his days off from his job at United Healthcare, Kaliczak helps coordinate communications for state and local agencies during emergencies such as fires and rescues. BCSCR is a nonprofit organization staff by more than 15 volunteers. Go to www.buttescr.org for information on how to donate or become a volunteer.

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

to being an accomplished astrophysicist and philosopher, Arthur Eddington (18821944) possessed mad math skills. Legend has it that he was one of only three people on the planet who actually comprehended Einstein’s theory of relativity. That’s a small level of appreciation for such an important set of ideas, isn’t it? On the other hand, most people I know would be happy if there were as many as three humans in the world who truly understood them. In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you make that one of your projects in the next 12 months: to do whatever you can to ensure there are at least three people who have a detailed comprehension of and appreciation for who you really are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Yesterday the sun was shining at the same time it was raining, and my mind turned to you. Today I felt a surge of tenderness for a friend who has been making me angry, and again I thought of you. Tomorrow maybe I will sing sad songs when I’m cheerful, and go for a long walk when I’m feeling profoundly lazy. Those events, too, would remind me of you. Why? Because you’ve been experimenting with the magic of contradictions lately.

You’ve been mixing and matching with abandon, going up and down at the same time and exploring the pleasures of changing your mind. I’m even tempted to speculate that you’ve been increasing your ability to abide with paradox. Keep up the good work.

I’m sure it’s a bit weird at times, but it’ll ultimately make you even smarter than you already are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be on

the alert for valuable mistakes you could capitalize on. Keep scanning the peripheries for evidence that seems out of place; it might be useful. Do you see what I’m driving at, Capricorn? Accidental revelations could spark good ideas. Garbled communication might show you the way to desirable detours. Chance meetings might initiate conversations that will last a long time. Are you catching my drift? Follow any lead that seems witchy or itchy. Be ready to muscle your way in through doors that are suddenly open just a crack.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An article

in the Weekly World News reported on tourists who toast marshmallows while sitting on the rims of active volcanoes. As fun as this practice might be, however, it can expose those who do it to molten lava, suffocating ash and showers of burning rocks.

So I wouldn’t recommend it to you, Aquarius.

But I do encourage you to try some equally boisterous but less hazardous adventures.

The coming months will be prime time for you to get highly imaginative in your approach to exploration, amusement and pushing beyond your previous limits. Why not get started now?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to

my reading of the astrological omens, you would be smart to get yourself a new fertility symbol. Not because I think you should encourage or seek out a literal pregnancy.

Rather, I’d like to see you cultivate a more aggressively playful relationship with your creativity—energize it on deep unconscious levels so it will spill out into your daily routine and tincture everything you do. If you suspect my proposal has some merit, be on the lookout for a talisman, totem or toy that fecundates your imagination.

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What are your general duties with Search and Rescue?

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we called a rescue helicopter from Auburn that found the family alive. It’s cases like this that make you feel you’re doing something worthwhile.

When disasters strike I organize a team and two communication trucks filled with radios and equipment that allow different agencies like police and fire to talk with each other by radio. The departments, such as the American Red Cross, Chico Police and CHP may talk on separate frequencies that are incompatible.

What are some of the fun non-emergency events?

What are some of the more memorable cases you’ve helped with?

How did you get into this?

The Butte County Lightning Complex Fires in the summer of 2008 was one of the biggest. It destroyed 200 homes and buildings, 57,000 acres and caused 15,000 people to evacuate.

We first set up operations at Butte College, then as the fires spread we had to move to Jarbo Gap and finally to the Silver Dollar Fair[grounds]. If some agencies couldn’t talk to each other we gave them handheld radios that allowed them to do so. A few years ago a family got lost for several days in a snow whiteout in the mountains hiking for a Christmas tree. During a break in the weather

We go with the Chico police and set up a communication antenna when they take kids to the mountains in their four-wheel-[drive] jeeps. …We develop a working relationship with them so that during major disasters we won’t be strangers.

I’ve been a communications nut since I was 11, when I got my first CB radio. In 2005 my brother-in-law dragged me to a Search and Rescue meeting and I was hooked.

What do friends and family think about your duties?

They think it’s the weirdest hobby in the world.

I can’t count the times when my wife and I had our evening plans interrupted by a sheriff’s call. Every 4th of July I work the Oroville Dam and every Labor Day I work the Sacramento River float. I know my wife really loves me to have stuck with me through all that.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Marriage What a notion. Pick somebody and stay with them for the rest of your life. Go ahead.

Choose.

I was married the first time in 1971. Two days later I graduated from college. Six months after that my father died. It was quite a year.

I met Jennifer when she was seven. I became a friend of the family and for years would stop by from time to time to see them. Jennifer’s sister and I for a while referred to ourselves as play-brother and -sister. We were good friends and she asked me to her senior prom, I guess because I was safe. We hung out a lot and with no funny business.

In 1968, I stopped by after I hadn’t seen the family for a long time, and when I stepped through the door Jennifer flung herself at me and wrapped her legs around my waist, back when I had a waist. On a whim, or maybe an impulse, I asked her if she wanted to go with me to a friend’s engagement party that evening, a risky date. With Jennifer, it was time for some funny business.

She had bloomed under my nose, so to speak, and I hadn’t noticed. I’m not sure when we got engaged,

1969 or so. I wanted to finish school, and the possibility of my being drafted into the military at any moment—I was number 12 in the lottery—was good for a delay, but June 1971 was the end of college and bachelorhood.

What an idiot. I got married mostly because everybody else was married or looking to be soon. I loved Jennifer, and that’s not the same as being ready to agree that no matter how miserable we are together I’ll never fuck anybody else. Six months into our union I ran across Linda One, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time and who was incapable of keeping her panties on in my presence, and that was that.

Jennifer put up with me for four long years.

On the other, and still current, hand, Janice put me in mind of marriage. She says we’ve known each other before this time-space reality, and that makes sense, because I was sure of her as soon as I met her. She had wife written all over her, and I proposed two weeks after our first date, a rash move and my best so far.

Our 21 years haven’t been all skittles and beer and we’re still here anyway. I feel like I’ve just started Advanced Janice, the one with the lab and the dissertation, where it’s all homework.

June 7, 2012

CN&R 39