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Another bad Farm Bill As a member of a wealthy rice-growing family that has received

nearly $5 million in federal crop payments during the past 15 years, state Sen. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) is the poster boy for agriculture subsidies in the North State, coming under fire for the hypocrisy of being a budgetcutting, anti-tax Republican who accepts “corporate welfare.”

If Congress passes the current five-year update of the Farm Bill, however, that may change. As passed by the U.S. Senate (it’s now under consideration in the House), the bill does away with the $5 billion in annual direct crop subsidies, the kind LaMalfa received, replacing them with an enhanced system of subsidized crop insurance that will cost at least $12 billion annually. It’s an overly generous program that subsidizes crop loss without imposing caps on the payments, encourages planting on marginal lands, and favors large, well-heeled farms over their smaller competitors.

It also includes a provision that blocks public release of the amounts of the insurance payouts farmers receive. If the LaMalfa family collects $100,000 in crop insurance, $62,000 of it paid by taxpayers, only its members will know about it.

In order to fund the enhanced crop-subsidies program, the House version cuts food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (CalFresh in California). An estimated 1.8 million people—out of the 46 million currently receiving food stamps—would lose their benefits, and about 280,000 school-age children would be knocked off the free-school-lunch program.

Agriculture is one of the few economic sectors that have prospered during the recession. It makes no moral or practical sense to finance additional aid to millionaire farmers like Doug LaMalfa on the backs of the working poor. Ω

Vets’ home: Why so expensive?

Ifunds, the newly built veterans’ home in Redding remains unoccupied. Although it was completed in the January 2012 n spite of efforts to secure required operating

timeframe, not a single veteran can call the new facility home. And, frankly, no one can say for sure exactly when the doors will officially open for business.

Isa Baca, admissions coordinator at the Veterans Homes Division, California Department of Veterans Affairs (CDVA), recently advised that “until the fiscal situation of the state is corrected it is hard to provide a specific date when the home will be opening for residents to move in….” by While our elected leaders try to sort Pete Stiglich out this mess in Sacramento, the new $88 million, 150-room facility sits empty.

The author is a The only exception is a cadre of CDVA retired Air Force colonel who lives in folks on site charged with maintaining the Cottonwood. He was facility. According to Baca, the home has 10 authorized positions in 2011-12, an unsuccessful candidate for including a deputy administrator.

Congress in Baca points out that “…the cost of 2010 and 2012. maintaining the home in its empty state is $119,000 a month, which includes salary and benefits for the employees and electricity, water and utilities….”

That’s roughly $1.43 million per year.

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tions, grades, responsibilities and salaries, was not releasable.

What strikes me as odd is the need for 10 employees to babysit a facility that’s in mothball status. Heck, since it’s a brand-new facility and not being fully utilized, there should be few, if any, major maintenance problems. Any problems that do develop ought to be covered by builder and product warranties.

Several other local area organizations were surveyed to see how many maintenance folks were employed, with the following results: Regency Place Senior Apartments (80 apartments, 8 years old): one; The Seasons at Anderson (78 apartments, 1 year old): one; Anderson School District: eight; and Shasta Regional Medical Center: eight.

Unlike the veterans’ home, all are open for business and serving customers. Unlike the veterans’ home, all are occupied facilities.

Unlike the veterans’ home, all appear to be taking care of their maintenance needs with fewer personnel.

Dare I say that the CDVA needs to reexamine its veterans’ home staffing levels, current and future. When fully operational, the cost of running the home is estimated to be $26 million to $28 million, with a 236person staff.

With these numbers, one wonders if we’ll ever be able to afford our long-sought Redding veterans’ home. Ω

The scam of all scams Have you heard of the Libor scandal? If not, you soon will.

So far it’s resulted in a $450 million settlement against the UK’s Barclays Bank and forced the resignation of its top executives, including CEO Robert Diamond. Barclays’ defense? That everyone else—referring to the financial elite, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America—was doing it.

“It” is manipulating the Libor, or London interbank offered rate, which is used in the UK and elsewhere to determine the borrowing rates for consumers and companies, including some $10 trillion in student loans, credit cards and mortgages. In addition, the rates are tied to as much as $700 trillion in derivatives, which banks buy and sell every day.

Libor is calculated by the financial information and news company Thomson Reuters for the British Bankers Association, based on daily submissions from BBA member banks. Submitters estimate what they think they would have to pay to borrow money, high and low submissions are thrown out, and the remainders are averaged to create the Libor.

Turns out bank officials for several years have been colluding to submit false figures designed to manipulate the interest rates so they can place bets with customers’ money that will pay off big for them because they have inside information on what the market is really predicting.

The scandal involves trillions of dollars that ordinary people would otherwise have received or saved on their lending and borrowing that instead have been going to the bankers. As one analyst put it, it’s “a rip-off of almost cosmic proportions” and makes Wall Street’s other abuses of trust “look like child’s play by comparison.”

The scandal so far has played out mostly in Europe, but it’s making its way across the pond. Let’s hope Congress is sufficiently disgusted to do something about it. If this doesn’t lead to tighter regulations, nothing will.

First of all, though, we should follow Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz’s advice and throw some bankers in jail. Nothing else, he said, will stop the corruption. Ω

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Re “They Also Serve” (Cover story, by Jaime O’Neill, July 5): I have been an anti-war activist all my life, but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about the young men and women in the line of fire and the concerns of their families. Therefore, I appreciate Jaime O’Neill’s article, especially because the mainstream news media tend to under-report the trials and tribulations of military families and the stress our endless wars put on the people most directly involved.

The article also reminds me of something that has bothered me a long time—the veterans’ memorial in City Plaza. When I heard there was to be a memorial, I assumed that it would most prominently feature a list of the U.S. military people from Chico and the surrounding area who lost their lives in wars.

Instead, the names most prominently featured, on a podium in front of the memorial, are the people on the committee to build the memorial.

The dead in battle?

Those who made the ultimate sacrifice? To find them, you have to walk behind the main part of the memorial, where they are listed along with the various business sponsors. I looked for Arron Clark, the first soldier from Chico to die in Iraq. There he was, listed right below Chico Volkswagen.

There is no way to know if any of the other individual names listed among the sponsors is a fallen Chico-area soldier or simply a person who gave money to help build the memorial. No wonder Clark’s family and friends campaigned to get their son a fitting public memorial.

The memorial was planned by the same people who love to wave the flag, support wars and call themselves patriotic. And yet there is still no way to know the names of our hometown people who died in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Re “What’s she hiding?” (Letters, by Toby Schindelbeck, July 5): Toby Schindelbeck’s campaign letter states that Chicoans “lose” because of our finance director’s lack of timely reporting of numbers. He wants us to believe that this is what led to the closing of Fire Station 5. This is the canard the Tea Party has fooled itself with, and now wants to fool us with.

I am quite certain Jennifer Hennessy has been struggling harder than the proverbial Dutch Boy trying to plug all the holes in the city’s budget—due in no small part to the games played nationally by Mr. Schindelbeck’s Tea Party.

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California’s high-speed-rail plan remains on track, thanks to whiskerthin approval in the state Senate, but it’s not hard to foresee derailment in the future. If it’s completed and actually works—two huge “ifs”—it will be a terrific alternative to cars and airplanes and could do wonders for the Central Valley and, indeed, the entire state, but it’s got so many financial and logistical uncertainties that it may never be finished.

In the short run it will be good for the state’s moribund economy, bringing in $3.2 billion in federal funds to augment the $2.6 billion in bond money to be spent on the initial parts of the project, which means lots of construction jobs. Nearly $2 billion of that will go to improving existing—and well-used—commuter rail service in the Bay Area and Los Angeles regions, money well spent.

But huge questions remain: Is the selected route through Fresno and other Central Valley cities the best one? Will the project overcome environmental concerns and the inevitable lawsuits? Will federal funding continue?

Will the state’s population grow to 60 million by 2050, as predicted? Will the system, if built, attract sufficient riders to cover its costs, or even come close? Can California afford the debt service on the bonds, when it’s running a persistent budget deficit, now at $8 billion?

But the biggest question, at least in the short term, is whether voters will be supportive of Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure on the November ballot knowing that he’s signed off on the sale of the HSR bonds. If the state’s in such dire straits financially, some of them well might ask, why is it spending so much money on this grandiose project?

The governor’s argument is a straightforward one: If not now, when? California will grow, and that growth will require expensive investment in transportation infrastructure, whether it’s highways, airports or a highspeed-rail line. We might as well take advantage of the federal funds available—and low interest rates—and start creating that infrastructure now.

Give him credit for courage. He knows the risk he’s taking here. He knows how important the tax measure is, how painful it will be to cut the budget further if the measure fails. He no doubt would have preferred not to have to take action on HSR at this point. But the feds forced his hand, saying a decision had to be made right away or the funding would go elsewhere, and Brown refused to give up on HSR. He wants it to be his legacy.

I wish I shared his confidence. I certainly hope it succeeds. Most of all, I hope it doesn’t stop people from voting for his tax measure. The initial investment in HSR is small compared to the revenues the measure would bring in. As the governor has said, most of the cuts will be in the schools’ budget. That’s not a threat, it’s reality.

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Re “Former councilman accused of DUI” (Downstroke, July 5): Well, let’s sit back and watch what happens to Mr. Nickell. It seems if you have a badge, or are an assistant DA, or a well-known person in Butte County, then you are singled out as special and get away with a minor charge and a slap on the hands.

Remember our Butte County assistant DA who was charged with driving drunk with his children? Anyone else found in this situation would be serving time in prison now. However, this guy worked for the DA and is now back doing his job for Butte County. Oh, to be one of the “good ol’ boys” is such a comfort to those who break the law in Butte County.

JEWELL STRYKER Oroville

More on clean air Re “Hold the VOCS, please” (Greenways, by Christopher Weber, June 28): I applaud the News & Review for publishing Christopher Weber’s well-written and -researched article. While VOCs contribute to the creation of smog and the deterioration of indoor air quality, there are a number of other things to look at when considering air quality.

Similar to paints, caulk and flooring adhesives are a source of VOCs that is often overlooked.

Additionally, carpet, furniture, cabinetry and other finish materials have adhesives and chemicals (including formaldehyde) that can contribute to poor indoor air quality. When introducing new products into your home, you have the opportunity to find less harmful and natural materials. It is important to note that natural materials are not always going to be better for indoor air quality, so do your homework.

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Spank the school district Re “For the girls” (Newslines, by Melissa Daugherty, June 28): Good for Ms. Wolff for not giving up and for her courageous efforts to go up against CUSD! How many people have the time, energy or resources to pursue complaints like Wolff had to do? It requires an enormous amount of time to contact the Office of Civil Rights, and I believe the school district knows that.

We got to read the politically correct excuses from the school district saying how much they appreciated the feedback. Hogwash. They deserved to be spanked by the Office of Civil Rights, and I hope the school board finds out who was responsible for having “rebuffed or ignored” all Ms. Wolff’s communications.

The public’s lack of trust in the system is directly related to how they are treated. I think the CUSD should replace the superintendent with Ms. Wolff and watch the difference in positive public perception.

DIDI GIBBS Sacramento

Spreading the cost Call me stupid, but I don’t understand why people are so upset about Obamacare’s mandate on

health insurance. We have been required to have auto insurance since the 1970s throughout most of the USA (only three states don’t require it), and I didn’t hear too many people complain then.

Back then the rationale was too many people without insurance were causing accidents and the “good, responsible” citizens were having to pay more than their share of the costs. Now, we have obese and other chronically ill (physically and mentally) people who don’t, won’t or can’t take care of themselves going to emergency rooms, which causes everyone’s health-care rates to rise.

Just like car insurance, this mandate spreads out the cost to everyone. Besides, the insurance industry now can’t dictate who can or can’t get insurance or cancel without cause.

States’ rights vs. federal mandate—who cares? The result is the same.

ROBERT JORDAN Chico

Reinstate the draft—for all Re “Should we bring back the military draft?” (Streetalk, July 5): The respondents all answered a question about war, not the draft.

Of course we should reinstate the draft. If it was still in effect we wouldn’t still be fighting, and maybe wouldn’t even have started, the war about which Jamie O’Neill aptly coins the phrase: “What if they gave a war and nobody gave a shit?”

All of today’s youth and their parents need to have this war in the front of their minds like my generation did with the Vietnam War. Believe me, when the draft is hanging over your head you take the time to analyze why we are fighting and if it is worth it. We may even have some anti-war demonstrations.

If our nation decides to go to war (hopefully with more deliberation and reason than the last three or four, everyone—rich and poor, all colors, all sexes—needs to be ready to fight. The draft needs to be strictly enforced so that rich people can’t buy their way out like the president who started this illadvised mess in the first place.

Aren’t 10 years and hundreds of thousands dead and wounded enough?

RICH MEYERS Oroville

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The threshold to Chico Goddess Temple is a huge, rusting sculpture of the Goddess herself. The temple may close following a decision by the Board of Supervisors on July 31.

COUPLET PROJECT IS A GO

The city of Chico’s First and Second Street Couplet project will begin in earnest July 14 with the closing of the intersection at First and Salem streets near the Bidwell Presbyterian Church and Chico State’s Laxson Auditorium.

Bob Greenlaw, senior civil engineer, said that intersection will be closed for about a month while a “drop-off circle” is constructed. Traffic will be routed through the parking lot behind the building that houses Celestino’s Pizza. There also will be construction activity along Second Street at the new Chico State parking structure.

The project will turn First Street and a portion of Second Street into one-way corridors, running west and east, respectively, enhancing traffic flow and pedestrian and bicycle travel. Greenlaw said construction will be stretched over two years to save money and lessen impacts on the public.

PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR

Robert Seals is hoping the Board of Supervisors will grant him a use permit.

FILE PHOTO BY SHANNON ROONEY

DEAD MEN FOUND AT MAGALIA POT GROW

Butte County sheriff’s detectives located the remains of two bodies at a large marijuana grow near Magalia June 27. According to a press release, the site was discovered based on information received from the Fontana Police Department two days earlier in regard to a missing-person case.

A search near Doon Grade and Coutelenc roads just north of Magalia uncovered 28,000 marijuana plants on property owned

by Sierra Pacific Industries. The remains of two men were located near a shallow grave at the site, said Sheriff Lt. Al Smith. The men likely were killed at the beginning of May and their remains had apparently been dragged from the grave by animals.

An investigation determined the men, one of whom was the missing person, likely had been shot to death. Suspect Joel Espinoza Beltran of Pomona was arrested on July 3 by Fontana police and will be brought to Butte County to face two murder charges. The dead men’s names are being withheld pending identification and family notification.

WINTU CHIEF FINED, FACES JAIL TIME

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk (pictured) is facing up to a $5,000 fine and six months in jail following the tribe’s four-day Coming of Age ceremony on Shasta Lake, which concluded June 3.

Sisk was cited twice by the U.S. Forest Service the day after the ceremony for allegedly operating a boat in restricted waters and violation of the tribe’s own special permit, according to the Redding Record Searchlight. The Forest Service granted the tribe a full closure of a 400yard section of the lake after several years of harassment from passing boaters.

Sisk didn’t physically operate the boat used to transport tribal elders across the McCloud River, but she is responsible for the charges as leader of the tribe. The elders were boated across the river to counsel future Chief Marisa Sisk, who spent four days isolated from her people along the opposite bank.

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Temple is doomed?

Robert Seals fights to keep his beloved Chico Goddess Temple open

“T Seals philosophized during a recent phone interview. “I always take the shortcut to

ime is the only commodity,” Robert

save the most amount of time for pleasurable and spiritual things. I am guilty of that.”

The local musician, artist, inventor, entrepreneur and reverend is also admittedly guilty of having hosted a by wild celebration called EarthHoward dance at his Chico Goddess Hardee Temple four years ago, and howardh@ doing so without a proper pernewsreview.com mit, a mistake that has cost him plenty of time and money since.

Seals is a bit of a local legend for his exploits, including making a 12-foot, 2,000-pound metal sculpture of a mushroom cloud overlaid with an embryo to protest nuclear power, inventing a multi-purpose bike gadget (the Cool Tool), patenting the increasingly popular Klean Kanteen reusable bottle brand, crucifying himself (sans nails) on Chico State’s campus in the 1960s, and twice racing a horse on foot through Lower Bidwell Support the Park, to name a few.

Goddess: These days, Seals is fighting Those interested in supporting the for the building and use permits Chico Goddess he lacked in 2008, when a group Temple can sign of his neighbors filed a coman online petition plaint with Butte County offiat http://chico goddess cials following the music festitemple.com/ val. After several years of petition. attempting to address the coun-

ty’s requirements—and about $60,000 spent on legal counsel and $200,000 on building upgrades—Seals faces the possibility the temple will be shut down.

At this point, he is convinced the issue has escalated into the realm of religious freedom.

“They still haven’t provided a reason why we were rejected,” he said. “I hope it’s not because we’re a different spiritual organization, but that’s all that’s left.

Our wishes and prayers are that the Board of Supervisors will reverse some of these decisions that, frankly, weren’t legal.”

During a recent CN&R tour of the

Goddess Temple, an 80-acre parcel dedicated to “worship of motherhood and the feminine” just off Highway 32 toward Forest Ranch, one could imagine how disruptive a music festival with 500 attendees would be for the area’s homeowners. Only the occasional passing car on the highway and the intermittent beating of tribal drums from the temple’s children’s camp broke the silence.

The property is an oasis amid an arid, brush-filled hillside. Straddling the entrance is a huge metal sculpture of the Goddess, which leads to a series of solid, earthy cabins made of repurposed material. A fountain streaming from a smaller Goddess statue’s nether regions supplies a lush, reed-filled pond teeming with colorful koi fish. Nearby is a crystalclear, chemical-free swimming pool, a

rooftop garden and a giant teepee for the boys at the children’s camp. There are quirks at every turn—Seals designed one set of stairs wider than a typical stride, forcing visitors to walk purposefully in order to appreciate the view of the canyon.

There are two neighbors’ houses within eyesight of the temple, both about 500 feet away, and three more houses on the other side of a steep ridge, all more than 1,000 feet away, Seals said. Lanai Winter, the temple’s property manager and events supervisor, considers their neighbors’ initial complaints justified.

“They got mad about the noise level that one time, and they had something to be mad about,” she said, referring to the Earthdance festival. “It was an open event, and some people, I think, were disrespectful to the property and the neighbors.”

But Seals speculates the festival blew the lid off a bigger issue.

“I think some of the neighbors were unhappy with the facility, but not because of our activities,” he said. “This is nothing new, worship of the Goddess, but it goes up against a lot of fundamental religions. They might say, ‘It’s a cult, it’s different, it’s wrong and it’s not going to happen in my neighborhood.’

But we weren’t hearing any of that until this event.”

Shortly after the neighbors

rallied against the temple, a field inspec-

tor came and served Seals a notice that he was in violation of operating without a use permit. Seals believes that action broke federal law, citing the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, passed in 2000, which states, “No government shall impose or implement a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, including a religious assembly or institution.”

Nevertheless, with his neighbors calling for the county to shut down the temple, Seals began seeking a permit. Wanting desperately to save the buildings on the property—in which he says he has personally invested about $4 million—he made efforts to show the county he was willing to meet their specifications and carry them out quickly.

Seals hired contractors to inspect the buildings, ultimately spending about $200,000 on earthquake retrofitting and electric and plumbing upgrades.

“We had to resolve the building permit to work toward the use permit for a spiritual organization,” he explained.

“We had most of the work done, and it was time for them to come through and check everything, so we started calling them over two years ago. The answer, repeatedly, was that they wouldn’t inspect the buildings until we got a use permit.”

Furthering his frustration, Seals was granted a hearing before the Butte County Planning Commission on April 26, during which his neighbors testified and his representatives were not allowed a rebuttal. The matter was continued to May 10, when the commission voted to deny the use permit.

Tim Snellings, director of Butte County’s Department of Development Services, explained the commission’s decision.

“There were concerns about the church’s compatibility with surrounding rural residences out there, concerns about noise and nuisance issues from past church-sponsored events like trespassing, littering and lack of sanitary facilities,” he said. “The Planning Commission is required to find the use is compatible with surrounding properties and doesn’t impose an undo burden on them. The commission didn’t make those findings.”

Seals has appealed the decision, and the Butte County Board of Supervisors will vote on the issue during its meeting on July 31 in Oroville. He urges those who have enjoyed the temple’s peaceful grounds to attend the meeting or email the board in support. Otherwise, time will be short for the Chico Goddess Temple.

“If we lose this, the temple will be torn down,” Seals said. Ω

Art Brown close to the end of his nearly 800-mile journey.

A long walk Occupy activist ends trek Leaving Mt. Shasta to walk to Redding, activist Art Brown succumbed to a temptation faced by travelers since humankind took its first steps: a short cut.

“I walked the 11 miles or so east to McCloud, and instead of taking the big loop around through Burney and back into Redding, I cut south on a forest road towards 299,” he said last Thursday (July 5) at the Chico Peace and Justice Center.

Brown—one man with a backpack, a banner and a baby cart to carry his gear—recently attempted walking 785 miles from Olympia, Wash., to Sacramento to raise awareness and show support for the Occupy movement, in an effort he’s dubbed West Coast Walkupy.

Brown arrived in Chico July 4. He planned to get a few days of rest before starting the last leg of his journey, and recalled the forest road when asked about the toughest part of his trip.

“I spent a few days climbing 10 miles a day up the worst gravel road I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said. For a few days there, I was just shaking my head and asking myself, ‘What the hell am I doing?’”

It’s a valid question and one Brown had heard plenty of times before. His West Coast Walkupy is not the only walking occupation.

Activists nationwide engaged in similar actions as Occupy encampments in cities and towns have been evicted or abandoned. One group of walkupiers completed a 55-day trek from Washington, D.C., to Atlanta, Ga., during which two members were arrested in Charlotte, N.C. When Brown found himself in doubt, he dug deep: “I know myself well enough to

know that I’m capable of doing what I put my mind too,” he said. “I’ve overcome some trials and tribulations in my life that have proven that to myself. People in general are capable of so much more than they believe they are.”

Inspired by “the usual suspects—

y’know, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks”—Brown, an activist since 1984, chose walking as his preferred form of political expression in 2007. Prior to embarking on his current trip May 7, he’d walked more than 6,000 miles, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and from Mexico to Canada, on four separate journeys.

Brown walked about 20 miles daily, plotting his treks based on where he knows he has places to stay—friends, supporters, campgrounds and people he meets through the website CouchSurfing.com, which connects travelers and hosts. When all else fails, he slips off the road and camps out guerrilla-style.

Though Brown meets many people who support him, he also meets some opposition: “I get plenty of fingers, especially on other walks when I’m travelling with a group and people know what we’re doing.

Though Chico’s own Occupy commu-

SIFT|ER Little trust in TV news American television watchers’ confidence in television news has been on a steady decline for years, hitting an all-time low in 2012, according to a new Gallup poll. Just 21 percent of the surveyed adults reported being confident in TV news. That’s a sharp contrast to 18 years ago, when 47 percent of respondents expressed confidence. The pollster notes that new low was recorded in early June, prior to the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare and the embarrassing snafus by CNN and Fox News outlets, which both initially reported that the health-care law’s individual mandate was deemed unconstitutional.

“As long as I’ve been an activist, I’ve found that people who are on the ‘right’ or the other side don’t really want to have civil conversations; they mostly just want to scream something and barrel off down the road in their big diesel.”

At the outset of his walk, Brown plotted his arrival date in Sacramento for July 13, 70 days after he left Olympia. During his Chico visit, he was in high spirits and anticipated arriving a day early, though the trip was taking its toll: “My initial idea was to have some kind of ceremony, but now I think I‘ll just do a 15-minute silent prayer at the Capitol to pray they’ll gain some wisdom and guidance.” He paused and smiled, as if imagining the end of his long journey. “Then, I’m going to rest a while.”

It was not to be. On Tuesday (July 10), Brown announced on his Facebook page that he was ending the walk. In a phone interview the next Step by step: Art Brown morning, he explained that maintains a 100-plus-degree temperawebsite at tures and a lack of lodging peacesteps.org for the final leg forced him detailing West to stop in Marysville, just Coast Walkupy and his other 40-odd miles from his ultimate goal. “I was too physi- walks. Occupy Chico can be cally and mentally exhaustfound on ed to deal with trying to Facebook. camp illegally, but I feel I accomplished what I wanted to do and have no regrets. I’m only missing out on one day and one night of walking. And, I got to sleep in this morning for the first time in months.”

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

Here’s how the poll breaks down over the past three years, by age and political affiliation: National adults 18- to 29-year-olds 30-to 49-year-olds 50- to 64-year-olds 65-year-olds and older Republicans Independents Democrats

2010

2011

2012

22 24 16 23 25 16 18 31

27 34 24 23 32 25 23 36

21 28 22 16 21 34 17 34

Source: Gallup.com

nity has largely been silent since the tent at City Plaza disappeared some months ago, its members are still active. Chico Occupiers have been participating in other events, including a series of weekend-long, monthly Occupy Beale Teach-Ins focused on drone warfare. (Surveillance drones used in U.S. military actions are piloted from Beale Air Force Base.)

This Saturday, July 14, Chico activists will join others from throughout the North State at Occupy Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio. Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre private campground near the California coast and site of the annual meeting of the Bohemian Club, an all-male organization composed of prominent politicians, business leaders, artists and media executives. Each summer, members participate in a two-week encampment criticized by many for its concentration of power and secrecy.

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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Advocates fear rare attack will spur an assault on the species A mountain lion attack two weekends ago on a 63-year-old camper in Nevada County left the victim scratched and bloodied. Now, cougar allies and advocates worry that the incident—the first California attack on a person since 2007—may generate unwarranted publicity and excitement over the presence of the big cats in a time when their numbers may be dropping.

“Every time an incident like this happens, people get excited,” said Tim Dunbar, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation, based in Sacramento. “Reported sightings jump like crazy, and the people who say these animals are ravenous monsters that need to be controlled by hunting, it just vindicates their efforts.”

The victim of the attack, who was camping alone on a tributary of the Yuba River, woke up before daybreak on Sunday, July 1, to find a mountain lion pawing and biting at his head, face and torso. The man scrambled from his sleeping bag and managed to push away the cat. The two faced off for between 15 and 30 seconds before the mountain lion turned and ran, concluding the two-minute-long incident, according to a report from the Department of Fish and Game.

The victim, who lives in Marin County but asked not to be identified, drove himself to a hospital in Grass Valley, and though his injuries were not life-threatening, the scratches and puncture wounds were “severe,” according to Mike Taugher, a DFG spokesman.

An effort to track down and kill the lion was unsuccessful and called off on Tuesday, July 10. The attack is an anomaly, as almost never before has a mountain lion, also called cougar or puma, attacked a sleeping person. Mountain lions, Dunbar said, more often stalk and pounce from behind— classic predatory behavior. Dunbar suspects the July 1 incident involved a cat driven by curiosity, not predatory motives.

“What bothers me is that this will even be listed as an ‘attack,’” Dunbar said. “It’s certainly the strangest attack I’ve ever heard of.”

Sport hunting of cougars was prohibited in California in 1972.

PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Mountain lion attacks on people are extremely rare, and only 15— resulting in six fatalities—have occurred in California since 1890, according to Fish and Game records. No attacks have occurred in Lassen, Shasta, Plumas or Butte counties, though mountain lions do inhabit the region and are occasionally spotted.

In Chico, back in January 2010, a city press release warned residents that one of the big cats had been seen at Bidwell Park Golf Course. There were a couple of sightings last year as well, including one in May at Lower Park near the Manzanita Avenue bridge. The cat reportedly was gnawing on a deer carcass.

“It’s because [cougar attacks] are rare that they draw a lot of interest,” Taugher said. “You’re much more likely to get struck by lightning.”

Sport hunting of mountain lions has been illegal in California since 1972. At the time, an estimated 600 cougars lived in the state. Today, California is home to between 4,000 and 6,000 of the animals, according to Fish and Game estimates.

But California mountain

lions may now be growing scarcer.

Some experts believe the state’s cougar population peaked in the late 1990s and has been dropping ever since. Still, California is a stronghold for the species, which has vanished from most of its former American range. Once occurring coast to coast, cougars exist today in only 14 states, and development, habitat encroachment and hunting could threaten their future.

Each year in California, scores of mountain lions are legally shot or trapped after allegedly killing pets or livestock. Such killings are allowed via depredation permits issued by the Department of Fish and Game. Mendocino County leads the state with such killings, with 317 between 1972 and 2009, according to DFG reports. In Butte County, just 15 cougars had been killed via depredation permits in the same time period; in Shasta County, 120; Plumas County, 49; and in Lassen County, 43. State records show that depredation killings of mountain lions peaked in 2000, when 148 cougars were shot statewide.

Since then, these lawful killings have declined—evidence, perhaps, of the declining population.

Dunbar said he believes that depredation killings indicate a lack of human willingness to live with California’s native wildlife. He would rather see people “learn how to take care of [their] pets and More info: livestock,” Go to instead of www.mountain hunting and lion.org to learn killing cougars more about the big cats and the for behaving conservation work naturally. He of the Mountain and other Lion Foundation. cougar advocates fear that, with the state’s human population rising, the longterm future of the mountain lion could be at stake.

“There’s essentially no mountain lion population east of the Rockies,” Dunbar said, “and last year the Eastern cougar was listed as extinct. California is the only state still with a ban on mountain lion hunting, but even here, mortality has gone up drastically. They seem to be struggling.”

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According to the DFG, he was in southwestern Lassen County on June 22 and crossed into Plumas County a few days later.

On June 28, he entered northeastern Butte County and was last tracked Sunday, July 9, just northeast of Chico.

DFG spokeswoman Jordan Traverso said the actions are not unusual for a wolf his age.

“His behavior may be a result of natural competition among the males in the pack,” she said, “seeking out a mate or better mating status in another pack, or seeking out a new food source if the original pack has over-bred or there is a limited amount of prey in the area.”

Traverso noted that OR7 does not present a danger to humans, as wolves generally fear and avoid people. In recent years, the lone fatality attributed to a wolf took place in Alaska, said Traverso. Another fatality was reported in Canada, but it’s unknown whether wolves or a bear was the cause.

There have been 18 reports of wolf aggression toward humans in North America in the past 40 years, Traverso said. Eleven of those involved wolves that had become “habituated” to humans, and six involved the wolves going after domesticated dogs that were close to the humans.

“Wolves can become habituated to humans in areas where they regularly encounter humans or human food,” she said.

“To avoid habituation, wolves, like all other wildlife, should never be fed or approached.”

She said OR7 faces dangers of his own: He could run out of food or water, get mistaken for a coyote and shot by a hunter or rancher, or “have his heart broken because he can’t find a mate since there is only one documented wolf in the state.”

Another DFG employee, Dana Michaels, said OR7 had been seen in May cavorting with coyotes in Modoc County, leading her to speculate that “he’s looking for love in all the wrong places.”

DFG is purposely vague on giving the wolf’s exact location for his own protection.

Pictured here is OR10, a gray wolf of the pack OR7 left.

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Traverso said it’s impossible to predict OR7’s next moves, noting he went back to Oregon once during his journey, but then came back here.

“He could stay here,” she said. “And if one wolf can get here, likely others have the ability to do the same, meaning there is potential for future re-colonization, which could lead him to stay.”

Wolves have been absent from California since the last one was trapped and killed in Lassen County in 1924. That one was old, emaciated, missing part of a hind leg and weighed 56 pounds.

In other wild-animal news, a bald

eagle born at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge near Willows last April took his first flight July 1. Refuge officials say it was a pretty big deal, since the eaglet is the first to be born at the site because eagles rarely nest away from lakes, rivers or the ocean. They do congregate at the refuge in the winter to dine on the migrating waterfowl that come through the Sacramento Valley, but breeding eagles are not typically found during the summer in the valley.

Lora Haller, a park ranger at the refuge, said the parents tried building a nest last year but it was blown away by a storm. Undeterred, they built another this year. The unnamed male eaglet will stay with his parents into September or October and then fly off on his own.

“It takes them until about age 5 to start to breed,” Haller said. “They will start wandering around, finding territories, learning the ups and downs of life, and hunting before they find a mate and location.

“By themselves, if healthy and strong, they really don’t have any predators other than man. If they are ill crows or ravens might try to gang up on them, but as long as they’re healthy and strong they are pretty fine.”

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BIRTH DEFECTS, DISINFECTANT LINKED

Mothers who drink tap water containing disinfectant byproducts are more likely to give birth to children with defects such as cleft palate and spina bifida, a study finds.

The report, published in the journal Environmental Research, is the first to find a link between the byproducts chlorite and chlorate and birth defects, according to Environmental Health News. Researchers compared babies with and without birth defects in Emilia Romagna, Italy, and estimated their mothers’ exposure to chemical byproducts using data from local water authorities. They found women who were exposed to high levels of chlorite were nearly seven times more likely to have a baby with abdominal-wall defects, while mothers exposed to high concentrations of chlorate were nearly 10 times more likely to have a baby with cleft palate and five times more likely to have a baby with spina bifida.

Disinfectants are used in tap water to kill disease-spreading microbes, but create byproducts like chlorite and chlorate when they interact with organic material in the water.

Baran Onder’s experience as a college athlete aids him in his career as sports-medicine physician

HEALTH PRIVACY RESTRICTED?

A bill introduced by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) would limit the scope of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. Currently, the state’s health privacy law allows patients to file suit against a health-care provider in the event their health-care records are released without their consent, according to Healthcare IT News. Skinner’s legislation, Assembly Bill 439, seeks to exempt health-care corporations from damage awards if they can provide “affirmative defense” in a lawsuit, which critics claim allows health-care businesses to leak patient information without being held accountable.

Skinner said the bill would update the law “for the digital age, protecting patient privacy while also recognizing that inappropriate release may occur even when providers adopt strict protections.” However, several notable organizations, such as Consumer Watchdog, argue that the bill would remove a financial consequence that helps protect privacy.

OFFICE OF ORAL HEALTH IN THE WORKS

Legislators at the Assembly Committee on Health voted unanimously to establish a statewide Office of Oral Health in an effort to combat poor dental care for California’s children.

Senate Bill 694, authored by Alex Padilla (DPacoima), includes a hotly debated provision for a study on provider alternatives in rural and underserved areas, according to California Healthline.

Opponents of the study maintain it focuses on the surgical or treatment dental model rather than a less expensive preventive approach, and believe the study would result in the creation of an unnecessary second tier of non-dentists that would supply supportive surgical services.

“We think not only will there be savings to the state, but this bill could bring more money to the state, because the state office could compete better for federal funding,” Padilla said.

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I from physical overexertion or athletic activity, Dr. Baran Onder feels your pain. f you’ve ever suffered an injury

Onder was a college basketball player, and during his playing career he suffered several injuries, including stress fractures in his lower leg that led him to miss the bulk of a season.

“I spent a lot of time in the training room with a couple doctors who helped me get back playing,” Onder said in a recent phone interview. They also inspired his career path: He’s now a sports-medicine physician, treating patients of all ages, with a variety of conditions.

The field of sports medicine dates back more than 50 years, but it’s grown beyond jocks and gyms. Onder sees kids with sprains, adults with repetitive-motion injuries and seniors with osteoarthritis.

Onder considers himself a “non-operative orthopedic” doctor. He completed his residency in family medicine, then a fellowship in sports medicine, so he’s not trained to perform surgical procedures like “operative” orthopedists. Instead, he treats with medication, nutrition and therapy.

“Obviously, if I feel a patient needs surgery, I’ll refer [him or her] to an orthopedic surgeon,” Onder explained, “but a lot of times there are ways to avoid surgery for a long period of time—or altogether—so they can remain active.”

Onder, who is 31 years old, played high-school basketball and volleyball before focusing on basketball at Case Western Reserve University, an NCAA Division III institution in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a 6-foot-5 power forward and center, often asked to guard players two to four inches taller and significantly heavier than he.

During his junior year, he decided to become a doctor because, he said, “I liked science and I liked the idea of being able to use science to help people.” He stayed at Case Western for medical school as well as his residency.

He didn’t go far for his fellowship, either, spending a year at the Cleveland Clinic. The facility features around 1,000 practitioners in an array of specialties, and serves as the sports-medicine clinic for local college and professional teams such as the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA, Cleveland Browns of the NFL and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball.

Onder didn’t get the chance to meet

LeBron James, the Cavaliers all-star who moved to the Miami Heat before Onder began his fellowship. Nonetheless, he met—and treated—a number of pro sports figures through the Cleveland Clinic.

“It was kind of neat to hang out in locker rooms and meet the athletes,” Onder said.

Even more than that, he added, “it was really a great opportunity to learn from practitioners of different types of disciplines.”

So how did he get from Cleveland to

Chico? Through the power of the Internet.

After completing his fellowship, Onder spent several months working part time in a hospital emergency room while looking for a family practice or sports-med position. He found an online listing for a job in Chico.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve never heard of Chico,’” he recalled, so he did a Web search on the city. He found a number of

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Bone injuries, in fact, usually get better and many

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do not require surgery. “The number of people

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Robert Ching, and Dr. Brian Ching, the department

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severe arthritis and you give them a joint that

of orthopedics at Oroville Hospital has been ranked

the people we see receive treatment that is non-

among the top 15 percent for treatment of hip

surgical, whether it’s prescribing medication for

fracture repair in the nation.

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When a patient breaks a hip, often he or she has other medical problems that need to be taken

physical therapy,” says Dr. Robert Ching.

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Patients can treat themselves and manage their

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favorable postings, so he decided to apply.

The job ended up going to one of his medical-school friends, Chico native Dr. Brian Furst, but a physician recruiter remembered Onder when a primary-care sportsmedicine position came open in the Argyll Medical Group.

Onder and his fiancée, Gretchen Klein, visited for an interview and decided to stay.

Klein now teaches yoga at Elevate Power Yoga on Mangrove Avenue, where Onder is one of her students for a handful of classes a week.

“It’s really an outstanding workout,” he said, praising how yoga enhances core strength and stamina. “I’m able to do things in basketball that I might not be able to do if not for yoga.”

The couple also bicycle and hike in Bidwell Park, and Onder regularly plays basketball at In Motion Fitness.

“I love athletics,” Onder said.

“I’ve been a fan of sports since growing up. It helped form who I am today. Athletics are a great sublimation of the competitive drive, and exercise is one of the best medicines there are to make people feel better.”

Still, injury lingers as a risk to anyone who’s athletically active.

Asked if there were any sure-fire ways to avoid injury, Onder replied

that there is no one-size-fits-all prescription. Every person is different when it comes to genetic and mechanical causes of injury.

That’s where sports medicine comes in. An achy patient can receive X-rays, scans and a diagnosis before making the mistake Onder made in college by playing through the pain. The physician can suggest proper nutrition for particular activities. Onder or a physical therapist can help an athlete tailor workouts to minimize stress on the joints.

Currently, less than a third of Onder’s patients consult him for sports medicine. See the doctor: Most come to see Dr. Baran Onder sees patients at him as a family Argyll Medical practitioner. Still, Group, 100 Independence he has plenty of Circle, Chico. For opportunity to practice the medi- an appointment, call 899-0134. cine he loves.

“It’s great to work with people who are motivated to be healthy and are competitive, working hard to get better to do what they enjoy,” Onder said.

“Sometimes in primary care, people get down on themselves, and it’s hard to motivate them. In sports medicine, you’re dealing with a motivated group of people, and that’s uplifting at the end of the day.” Ω

WEEKLY DOSE The daily stretch Being flexible gives you the freedom to do the things you need and want to do. Daily stretching is a great way to increase flexibility, improve the range of motion in your joints (which also helps balance), increase circulation, relieve stress and forestall the stiffness that otherwise comes with age. It’s also easy to perform at home, at work or while traveling, even for beginners. Start with these stretching essentials: 1. Warm up first. Gently stretch after 10 minutes of a low-intensity exercise, such as walking.

2. Target major muscle groups such as calves, thighs, lower back and shoulders and problem areas. Focus also on any areas of chronic tightness.

3. Keep it pain-free. You should feel tension but not discomfort while you’re stretching. If it hurts, ease up until the pain disappears.

4. Don’t bounce or jerk your muscles. This can tear them and lead to scar tissue as the muscle heals. Scar tissue can tighten mus cles, reduce flexibility and cause pain.

5. Inhale and exhale through the stretches to make them deeper and more effective. Be smart. If you have an injury or chronic condition, ask your health-care provider or physical therapist how to stretch safely.

Get started: Go to www.exerciseismedicine.org/keys.htm and click on “flexibility” for video examples of various stretches. Pick the ones that work for you.

EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS David Zoppi (left) and Ken Swain, co-founders of Young Love Outfitters, with one of the fledgling company’s signature tote bags. Fifteen percent of each Young Love purchase supports socially responsible causes.

SUCTION DREDGING BANNED

Gov. Jerry Brown continued a moratorium on suction-dredge gold mining on June 26 with legislation that prohibits the technique in California’s rivers through June 2016.

The bill, AB 120, will prevent the California Department of Fish and Game from issuing dredging permits until it “fully mitigate[s] all identified significant environmental impacts,” according to California Watch. Suction dredging involves handheld vacuums that suck up sediment from river beds, a practice linked to stirring up mercury left from Gold Rush-era hydraulic mining.

The bill was declared a victory by environmentalists concerned with salmon populations and water pollution.

“This sensible law protects wildlife and waterways from toxic mercury and safeguards our cultural heritage,” said Jonathan Evans of the Center for Biological Diversity. “California can’t afford to subsidize toxic mining that hurts our wildlife and our water.”

PHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA

Inset: Young Love Outfitters’ “Vision Quest” T-shirt.

AMERICA’S TOP GREEN CONCERN

In the eyes of Americans, climate change is no longer the biggest environmental problem facing the planet, a poll finds.

A Washington Post-Stanford University survey asked 804 American adults what they considered the greatest threat to the global environment, according to SFGate.com. The poll found 29 percent of Americans perceived air and water pollution to be the No. 1 environmental issue. Just 18 percent felt climate change was the most pressing environmental concern, compared to 33 percent in 2007. However, 78 percent of participants felt global warming would become a serious problem if left alone and 55 percent said the U.S. government should do “a great deal” or “quite a bit” to curb potential effects.

Only 18 percent said the government is doing enough to find a feasible solution for climate change.

ANOTHER PG&E DISASTER LOOMING?

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has identified 239 pipelines at risk of failure similar to the San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people two years ago.

A PG&E assessment found more than 500 potentially troublesome sections on the pipelines ranging in length from a few feet to more than a mile, according to SFGate.com. Each of the sections have pipeseam welds weakened by age or because PG&E pressurized the pipes beyond legal limits. In response, the company plans to replace or test the lines with high water pressure, though it maintains there are some over-pressurized lines that don’t require such precaution.

Critics point out that PG&E is obligated to hydro-test all over-pressurized lines, according to federal law. “PG&E is clearly misinterpreting the regulations, which are fairly clear,” said Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline safety expert.

“You have to inspect all the lines that qualify.

You can’t pick and choose.”

The goodness of their hearts Local pair starts up socially responsible clothing company, Young Love Outfitters by

Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia christinel@newsreview.com

Dvery serious about the motto—“Look good. Do good”—of their new, socially avid Zoppi and Ken Swain are

responsible clothing company, Young Love Outfitters. “It’s a ‘for-purpose’ business— part of this new movement, like TOMS Shoes,” is how Zoppi (rhymes with “floppy”) characterized the fledgling online business. TOMS Shoes, for the uninitiated, donates one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair sold.

“We thought, ‘Why stop at shoes?’” said the 25-year-old Zoppi. Young Love Outfitters donates 15 percent of each purchase—of hip, socially conscious T-shirts and canvas tote bags—to one of three worthy causes, with plans to extend its merchandise offerings to a full line of clothing, including sunglasses and backpacks.

Young Love has a financial goal for each cause—when that is met, a new cause

will take its place. Currently, Young Love is raising $2,000 to buy desks and chairs for three classrooms in West Africa through the Chico-based LeapingStone Foundation, $500 to help replant five forests in areas of deforestation via ruralpoor advocacy outfit Plant with Purpose, and $5,000 to provide clean water for residents of Third World countries through an organization called charity: water.

Zoppi and Swain, a 28-year-old painter, illustrator and Southern California ex-pat, have known each other for about five years, having met while employed at the same clothing store at the Chico Mall.

“We love clothing,” offered Swain.

“We have always wanted our own clothing line.”

Love connection:

Go to www.younglove.co to order merchandise from and to learn more about Young Love Outfitters. Head to www.facebook.com/YoungLoveOutfitters and click on “like” to get updates from the new socially responsible business.

“We knew that we wanted to do something more, something with a purpose rather than just sell clothes to make money,” Zoppi said. In February of this year, the idea of Young Love was born; at the same time Swain and Zoppi quit their mall jobs. Swain and Zoppi at first sold their T-shirts and bags (which are sewn locally by Bear Mountain Production Services, an arm of the Work Training Center) to friends and family; their company went online on June 25.

“We had comfortable jobs with full benefits and we didn’t feel happy and content,” Swain said of his and Zoppi’s decision to leave their jobs and start Young Love. “We just weren’t satisfied.”

Starting Young Love “just felt like the right thing to do,” Zoppi added. “There are so many problems to fix—people starving, people who aren’t able to get health care, people who aren’t able to get their basic needs met that we all take for granted.

“Basically, all our designs are meant to spark a conversation,” said Zoppi, who has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a GREENWAYS continued on page 16 July 12, 2012

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Of the various tote bags Young Love sells, the biggest seller is its “Fuck plastic” tote. “People love that one,” Zoppi said.

Zoppi and Swain are busy lining up future sustainability-friendly causes to which to donate—“anything from the environment to social issues,” said Zoppi. For his part, Swain is interested in donat-

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ing to organizations that help animals, particularly in the area of habitat and reef restoration. Having grown up spending his days surfing the So-Cal coast, Swain is keenly aware of the problems facing the sustainability of marine life and the world’s oceans.

“Growing up down there in El Segundo, we were not supposed to swim for two days after it rained,” Swain said. “There were needles,

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Styrofoam, spray cans, diapers that the pipeline dumped a mile out into the ocean and the current would bring it all back in [toward the beach]. It’s nasty. How bad does it have to get before somebody does something?”

The name of their business reflects the passion that Swain and Zoppi have for doing good in the world. “To us, [Young Love] means a pure, unadulterated love, like you have before you become jaded, before you learn what ‘team’ you’re on,” said Swain.

“An uninfluenced, pure love for all living things,” Zoppi added.

He and Swain have four goals they wish to accomplish with their business, said Zoppi. “We want to design and create awesome clothes that people want to wear, we want to raise as much awareness as possible about issues that we’re facing in the world, we want to use the money that we raise in the most effective way possible, and we want to inspire other people to make their own change in the world and businesses to be more responsible.”

Swain and Zoppi said that their family members and friends have been “really supportive” of their new endeavor. “Everyone wants to help,” said Swain. “We just don’t have enough spots for them.”

Young Love Outfitters is set to have a booth at the Thursday Night Market in the near future, and Zoppi and Swain have plans to take their eco-friendly show on the road at some point. “We want to do a California tour to different [farmers’] markets, from San Francisco down to L.A.,” said Zoppi. “Kind of do a grassroots campaign. …

“There’s no limit to what we can do. We’re just trying to help wherever we can.” Ω

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What is that good thing that the Bike Kitchen does?

“The Bike Kitchen is a complete demonstration kitchen on a bike,” said Cultivating Community representative Karen Goodwin. It is equipped with a butane stove, a hand-washing sink, a double-compartment sink, a The Edible Pedal Bike Kitchen. refrigerator, freshPHOTO COURTESY OF KAREN GOODWIN and waste-water tanks and a water heater.

Cultivating Community staff will be riding it to the farmers’ markets to help promote EBT use, said Goodwin, via cooking demonstrations that show market-goers how to prepare healthful, inexpensive dishes using farmers’ market produce.

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How well is the city running its share of the animal shelter?

story and photos by Tom Gascoyne tomg@newsreview.com

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lightly more than a year ago, in June 2011, the city of Chico announced it was taking back certain operations at the Butte Humane Society animal shelter after more than 25 years.

Then-Police Chief Mike Maloney told the City Council the change was a mutual agreement that would have the city running the animal intake while the BHS would still be responsible for marketing, adoptions and the newly built spay-and-neuter clinic.

This would come with no increased costs to the city and an improvement in how the lost, stray and unwanted dogs and cats were treated and adopted out.

But since then the city’s plan and its implementation have been ridiculed for financial naïvetÊ that has led to overspending, animal neglect, and even the brokering of a deal with the devil in which innocent animals are euthanized because there is more money to be gained selling their carcasses to a rendering plant than collecting adoption fees from excited new pet owners.

Is any of this true? We decided to take a look, beginning with the financial issues.

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ON THE COVER: Animal Services Manager Tracy Mohr and Chico Police Capt. Lori McPhail are tasked with running the city’s share of services at the animal shelter.

PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

Animal Services Operating Budget EXPENSES FISCAL YEAR: Salaries & Employee Benefits Materials & Supplies Purchased Services Other Expenses Allocations TOTAL EXPENSES

2011-12 $118,492 $35,050 $9,775 $2,025 $0 $165,342

2012-13 $336,999 $109,500 $36,760 $12,260 $18,175 $513,694

REVENUES FISCAL YEAR: Animal Control Impound Fees Feed and Care Spay/Neuter Fine Surrenders Animal Disposal Fee TOTAL REVENUE

2011-12 $8,000 $12,600 $4,000 $200 $200 $25,000

2012-13 $22,000 $34,000 $12,000 $1,000 $1,000 $70,000

The expenses and revenues for the 2011-12 fiscal year are from February through June of this year. The City Council adopted the 2012-13 fiscal year budget on July 3.

“It wasn’t a matter of saving money,”

The city takeover of the animal shelter was scheduled to go into effect on Feb. 1 of this year. At a Nov. 15, 2011, meeting Maloney said his department could run the shelter without additional revenues for the first few months, but more might be needed after that.

This angered Councilmen Bob Evans and Mark Sorensen, who accused the chief of misleading them when the idea was first presented earlier in the year. The councilmen said they’d been told the takeover would not cost the city one extra dime, but now they were being told something quite different, Maloney explained that after working with Human Relations to create job descriptions and set salaries, the projected costs changed.

The turnover called for seven full-time and four part-time city employees to join three people who already worked in Animal Control, which was operated by the Police Department. The contracts for the new positions were limited to two years to allow the city to let people go if it turned out they weren’t needed.

The plan created a new service branch under the supervision of Capt. Lori McPhail and headed by Animal Services Manager Tracy Mohr, who oversees a registered veterinary technician, an Animal Control supervisor, an animal care technician, two Animal Control officers and four animal-care attendants.

Savings would be realized through the

use of volunteers, Maloney said. The plan moved forward, with Evans and Sorensen voting against it.

It’s been more than five months since the city’s takeover. And, indeed, operating the shelter has cost the city more than was anticipated a year ago. The Police Department had estimated that through the first five months the city would save $127,490 by not funding BHS $102,490 for half a year combined with the projected revenue of $25,000 from impound fees (the cost for bailing out wayward pets), spay-and-neuter fees (if said pet is not fixed when apprehended) and the costs of feeding and caring for the furry inmate.

But in the end the city spent $165,342 to run the intake operations, $37,852 more than anticipated. At its most recent meeting, on July 3, the City Council adopted a budget for this year that includes $513,694 to cover the city’s shelter services. Taking away the $347,697 the city would have given BHS for the same services and the expected $70,000 in revenue, the additional cost to the city for the 2012-13 fiscal year will be $95,997.

In other words, the first year and a half of running the shelter intake has cost the city about $134,000 more than if the change in operations had not been made.

Not surprisingly, that has triggered criticism from fiscal conservatives like Sorensen and Evans in these tough budgetary times.

They question the appropriateness of the city’s takeover, given the increased costs.

said McPhail, during a recent tour of the shelter. “It had come to a point where BHS felt they could focus on their mission of adopting animals and educating the public, and the city could focus on its mission and statutory [i.e., legal] obligation of taking in strays and surrenders and running an animal shelter. That’s why the change came about. It was never intended to save money.”

She said there was a misunderstanding on the part of some members of the council.

“It’s been more than 25 years since Animal Control ran the shelter, and at that time the city was small. So we needed to create positions and hire a manager because this is not the same place it was 25, 30 years ago.

That’s why there was misunderstanding when Chief Maloney made that presentation.

It had been months since [the council] had last heard about it, and it just wasn’t clear.”

Jennifer Hennessy, the city’s finance director, echoed McPhail’s take on what happened.

“One year ago they were hoping to keep it cost-neutral for the 2011-12 fiscal year,” she said. “But as they got into it more they realized that, with the needs that were there, it was just not feasible to be cost-neutral.”

The change has also led to condemnation from local animal lovers and former shelter supporters, who charge, among other things, that under the city’s direction more animals than ever are being euthanized because they are not receiving proper medical evaluations and care, including vaccinations when they are brought in.

Two months into the takeover, three active and concerned local animal advocates, who asked to remain anonymous, contacted the CN&R with a number of observations and questions. This is not surprising. Animal lovers tend to be passionate about such things.

They noted the city had not yet established a Web page for lost pets, forcing owners with missing animals to come to the shelter to look for their wayward companions.

“Why is the city making it more difficult for owners and lost pets to reunite?” they asked. “Without a website owners must make numerous trips to the shelter to see whether their pet has been brought in on the most recent truck.”

In fact, Chico Animal Services (CAS), as the operation is now called, just began publishing such a site. It currently features the heart-wrenching photos of 50 in-shelter strays. To see it go to chicoanimalshelter.org and click on the “Stray Animals” link.

Another accusation questions the

health care, or lack of it, that the city is providing: “The CAS doesn’t do any testing or treatment of strays, so sickness is rampant, especially highly contagious upper-respiratory viruses. The allegation that CAS does not vaccinate is likely to be true but still unconfirmed.

BHS chooses animals it wants transferred from CAS to its system for adoption. What becomes of the ‘not chosen’ is not known.”

Tracy Mohr, the animal services manager, said two types of medical treatment are “SHELTER” continued on page 22 July 12, 2012

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offered to incoming animals.

“One would be first aid if it’s something we can handle in house because we do have a registered vet tech on staff,” she said. “And anything that is an emergency we can provide emergency treatment.”

More serious health problems, such as an animal hit by a car, are treated at local veterinary hospitals, she said.

“And then [the animal] would come here afterward, and after a stray period we would then offer the animal to the Humane Society.

They can either accept or decline.

If they accept they would be responsible for whatever additional care is needed.”

What if they don’t?

“It depends on the animal,” she said. “There are actually a couple of animals in this [intake] room that BHS has declined. So if we feel these animals do not need to be euthanized, we put them up for adoption.”

The new 38-kennel dog run facility should help ease over-crowding.

we weigh them, do a full health evaluation to see if there are any medical issues that we need to be aware of or keep an eye on that may need immediate attention. We check their overall appearance, their teeth, their skin, and try to estimate their age so we get a really good picture of the animals as they come in. That information goes into their permanent files that we keep here until they are either transferred over, adopted out by us or go home.”

What about vaccinations? The animal advocates who’ve lodged complaints say: “The city won’t vaccinate, and BHS can’t take unclaimed, unvaccinated dogs into their area for adoption because they don’t have space to segregate them.

What becomes of lost pets whose

vaccination status is unknown?”

Mohr, who has a long history of animal-shelter work beginning in New Jersey, said the charge is unfounded.

“We vaccinate upon entry. Generally we vaccinate every animal except those that have [rabies] tags.

But otherwise, everyone that comes in gets vaccinated unless they are obviously ill.”

She said the animals are also treated for fleas and wormed.

“If they are puppies or kittens

The fact that the city, along-

side the BHS, has animals up for adoption is not an indication that something is wrong, McPhail said.

“It is not an exclusive contract that says only the Humane Society adopts animals,” she explained.

“The contract clearly says that

Head of the pack New BHS manager is an animal lover with a background in business

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ohn Mich took over as operations manager for the Butte Humane Society last November, one day after Police Chief Mike Maloney was grilled at a City Council meeting about changes at the animal shelter.

It was quite a welcome for the new guy, whose background consisted for the most part of working for Home Depot and Target, a fact not missed by critics of the new shelter arrangement.

He’s got a business background, they said; what does he know about animals?

During an interview at the shelter’s spay-and-neuter clinic and cat adoption center, Mich said he was born and raised in Chico, took off for a 10-year stint in Orange County and returned in 1998.

“My background is business,” he said. “I was operations manager for Home Depot and opened both the Home Depot in Chico and in Oroville. I was also an executive team leader over at Target for a few years. Animal welfare as an industry is new to me. I bring the business management to it.”

On the surface those words could sound foreboding to an animal-shelter advocate. But Mich is also an animal person; he has an Australian shepherd named Puck and two cats, Buddha and Bodhi, as home companions. And he is fostering two kittens from the shelter until they can be adopted. He estimates there are currently 40 to 50 animals from the shelter with foster families waiting adoption.

(Part of the interview was conducted while Mich held and stroked an adult cat named Bob, who responded with purrs and head-rubbing affection.)

Mich said he is well aware of the public concern for what is going on inside the walls of the shelter, particularly with the city now running animal intake.

“The stereotypical fear is that the city is killing everything. I really don’t think that’s true. We try to be as transparent as we can. The thing I’ve come to learn is that the catch to being trans-

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parent is giving enough information that people can understand what you are telling them. You have to actually invest enough time in discovering what’s going on to understand the numbers you are looking at.”

Mich runs operations for the nine-member board of directors and manages the cat and dog adoption centers, the clinic and fundraising.

“It’s the fundraising that keeps us going, but not everyone realizes yet that we no longer get contracted money from the city. Donations are now our main source. Adoption fees cover next to none of the actual cost of housing the animal.”

The other source of income is the low-cost spay-and-neuter clinic. But the goal there, Mich said, is just to try to break even because what the clinic does is more important than the money it brings in.

“We really want to keep the number of homeless animals down,” he continued. “Finding them all homes through adoptions is the obvious way we attack that problem. The clinic’s spay-andneuter service is the other one, because for every litter of kittens that gets brought in and cared for by us and adopted out there is a mom that probably didn’t get caught and is producing another litter right away.

“We do the clinic, we spay-neuter and we try to get as many animals through the door as we can. In reality we are in business to try to put ourselves out of business. If we really could reach our ultimate goal, we wouldn’t be needed anymore. In terms of the short-term reality, we won’t be putting ourselves out of busi-

John Mich, operations manager for the Butte Humane Society, holds Bob, who’s looking for a home.

ness any time soon.”

Mich says it is a daily effort to try to do more with what support they’ve been given, even with the 1,500-2,500 hours of volunteer work the shelter gets each month.

“We struggle with the fact that we can’t do as much as we think we should. This is what turns our planning and what we do into very large debates and discussions with the board and staff.

It’s more than just being a good steward with the money that we are given. It’s this drive everybody has here. You know it’s never enough. Our cages will always be full. How do I make room for one more animal? Just one more? Because if you turn around, there is always a line waiting to get in.”

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An unvaccinated puppy asks a stranger for some attention.

because it takes so much time and energy and space and staff to care for these animals, sometimes it’s appropriate that the city does the direct adoptions.�

Mohr said the city’s role in direct adoptions is simply a reality of the situation. “It is not our main focus,� she said. “We just don’t have the time and resources to concentrate on adoptions, but occasionally we will have some animals available.�

According to the statistics from February, the month when the city first took over, 114 dogs and 45 cats came into the shelter. Of those, 61 dogs were returned to their owners, 34 were turned over to BHS and nine were euthanized. For the cats, only five were returned to their owners, 19 were picked up by BHS and 21 were put down.

In May, 129 dogs came in, with 55 getting returned to their owners, 52 turned over to BHS and 14 euthanized. (One dog escaped the shelter.) For the felines, 200 came in— it’s cat season, Mohr said, when unsprayed mothers are having litters—and of those four were returned to their owners, 99 were accepted by BHS and 52 were euthanized.

BHS statistics show that overall it took in 178 animals in May, and of those 117 were adopted and only 2.26 percent of the total population was euthanized. June was similar with 200 intakes, 154 adoptions and 2.8 percent euthanized.

In the 2009-10 fiscal year the shelter took in 4,791 animals, adopted 1,934 and euthanized 1,491. Based on the first four months since the city took over, the numbers for a whole year would show 3,129 animals taken in, 1,260 turned over to BHS for adoption, 36 adopted out by the city and 639 euthanized.

There is another concern voiced by the animal advocates, which if

true, would make killing the animals more attractive. “The city sells the carcasses of euthanized pets to a rendering plant,� they claim. “Is it a case of the pets being worth more dead than alive?�

Mohr shuddered at that accusation. “We contract with a Sacramento company called Koefran that specifically provides animal cremation,� she said. “We have to pay them to pick up the animals.�

But anybody who’s come in here and taken the time to see what is happening or talk to staff, Tracy particularly, understands.

The company website includes this introduction: “That special relationship between people and their pets defies explanation. When a pet dies a trusting companion is lost. It is during this time of grief that pet owners are called upon to make final arrangements for their beloved animal friend.�

Mohr said she was meeting with a Koefran representative to set a program for individual cremation so that owners can get their pets’ ashes returned.

For years the BHS tried to

get the city to move the shelter to a new location, citing its low profile at 2579 Fair St., south of East Park Avenue and hidden in an industrial

park. And the facility itself is nearly 60 years old, long has needed upgrading and was becoming very crowded. But the city owns the building and property and was reluctant to move the shelter elsewhere.

In the last two years, the Humane Society has opened a lowcost spay-and-neuter clinic nearby, at 579 Country Drive, where the adoptable cats are now housed. The shelter itself has gone through some interior upgrades, and a new, 38-run dog kennel is currently under construction, replacing outdoor dog cages.

The kennel, a prefabricated metal building with heating and cooling, should ease some of the overcrowding.

A press release issued April 25 when ground was broken on the new facility said the runs “are designed so that dogs won’t face each other across the aisle. This will help reduce stress, disease transmission, and barking.�

McPhail said the improvements at the site were much needed. “It was becoming very difficult for BHS to keep up the demands of the facility itself,� she said. “So our facility manager, Kim Parks, came in, and we did an assessment. He came in here with me to figure out, what do we have to do to get this thing shipshape?�

Those efforts, she said, included cleaning, a new floor and baseboards, a new roof and heating and air-conditioning system. There was also a purge of the rodent infestation that lived off the shelter scraps.

McPhail said she understands the public’s fears and concerns about the shelter. She said they received many calls earlier this year when the Hayden Bill was under threat of suspension by Gov. Jerry Brown as a cost-saving measure.

The bill, authored by former state Sen. Tom Hayden, regulates the state’s animal shelters, including the number of days a stray must be held—five—before it’s euthanized. “We got calls when that hit media earlier this year, about the time the city was taking over,� she said. “There really was this kind of fear out there. But anybody who’s come in here and taken the time to see what is happening or talk to staff, Tracy particularly, understands. She knows the history.

She’s been in this business more than 30 years. She understands the shelter, working with rescues and the legalities of what government codes require.� ℌ

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Arts & Culture Wide awakening A mini-Burning Man and a community center coming to Paradise

C the quiet, isolated buttes rising up from the dry, yellow valley fields southome this weekend, one of

east of Chico promises to be the bustling center-ofstory and everything for a comphoto by munity of musicians, Jason Cassidy artists, dancers, envijasonc@ ronmentalists, weeknewsreview.com end campers, newagers and party people of all ages. High atop PREVIEW: one particular plateau Cognitive between Durham and Awakening, Friday-Sunday, Paradise, the CogniJuly 13-15, at the tive Awakening, an Cognitive ambitious three-day Awakening Center. festival will spread out Visit website for across 90 wild acres. full schedule.

Make no mistake Tickets: $55, $110 & $130 for one-, though, even if you two- and three-day haven’t yet heard of advance passes are this first-time event, available at the this is not your typical website and at Blaze ’N J’s (236 slapped-together Butte W. 9th St.). County hippie fest, with rotating bands Cognitive jamming away the day Awakening Center on a rented stage.

227 Good View Drive, Paradise Think: Burning Man, (off Clark Rd.) with its kinetic art, www.cognitive near-constant elecawakening.com tronic music and commitment to communiCognitive ty-building, then add to that some DIY skill-sharing, a spiritual retreat, mind-and-body workshops and even a dash of Cal WorldFest worldliness.

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event created with focused intention to provide a fertile ground for growth and transformation, encouraging all to share the wisdom and magic they carry.”

That’s the gist of the ambitious, newagey description from the fest website that was running through my head as I drove to the top of Good View Drive, the dusty main road on the festival grounds.

Just past the giant windmill and a huge clear bowl filled with water that I would later find out was the “Fire Cauldron” (a bubbling, kinetic fire sculpture to be on display during the fest) was the compound’s main house, where I was greeted by the creative minds behind the festival—husband and wife Sophia 24 CN&R July 12, 2012

and Nick Battaglia and childhood friend, artist Erin Banwell (creator of the “Fire Cauldron”), cofounder of the well-known Burning Man art camp, Nexus.

The three grew up in the Santa Cruz mountains together, and have reconvened here on these 90 acres of Battaglia family property to realize a vision that includes not only the festival, but also the building of The Cognitive Awakening Center, a proposed community center to be housed in a 13,000-square-foot inflatable building on the grounds.

“We actually have the inflatable building already,” said the genial, gravelly voiced Banwell. “Our aim is to raise the money to get the permanent use permits in order to build the facility,” he added.

“Basically what we’re doing is we’re providing a safe space for our community to come in and utilize a center that has space for actors, artists, musicians, dancers, inventors and live culinary artists and gardens to grow from,” Sophie explained.

She went on to emphasize that the ultimate goal is to create a cooperative hub of self-sustaining creation and education in various disciplines, which was something that was first envisioned for the property by Nick’s father, Dennis, before he passed away in 2002.

“He was a drug counselor for a lot of years, and we ran a halfway house,” the soft-spoken Nick said. “He was big in the community with helping people out.

He basically wanted to create a space where there was a learning facility that was fully sustainable with gardens and orchards and stuff to facilitate it. … It was something that he had planned to do here. So, we’re kind of just following through with it and putting some of our own light to it as well.”

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And looking at the packed schedule of music, art and workshops, theirs is one bright light. Starting at the northeast end of the property is the Vista Stage (overlooking the canyon), situated near a kid’s zone, food vendors, free well water, a slip-and-slide, and a family camping area. This is the quieter side of the fest, where the music will end early and where most of the non-electronic musicians will perform—including more representatives from the Battaglia clan: Alli Battaglia and the Musical Brewing Co., and Mary and Chris Battaglia and their hip-hop crew, Twisted Strategies.

There will be more camping spread across the middle of the grounds, along with various spaces and domes for artmaking and workshops (everything from yoga to “Glitch- and Bass-infused Hooping,” a hoop-skills workshop), vendors, art installations and a hands-on music-making area hosted by S.F. experimenters LoveTech.

The Main and Mid stages on the opposite end of the butte is where the mostly electronic-based dance acts— from big name touring acts like S.F. producer Random Rab and local heavyhitter Billy the Robot— will hold fort until 6 a.m. each day.

“A lot of the locals are excited about it,”Banwell said, “Because it seems the attitude is, ‘Oh sweet, there’s something going on in my back yard,’ as opposed to having to go further away for a good, big music festival.” Ω

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

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Its Our Nature!, an exhibition of works by ceramist Tedo Best with Table Mountain Wildflower painters and illustrators. A collection of pressed wildflower specimens from Chico State’s Friends of the Herbarium will also be on display. Through 7/29. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

Theater THE JUNGLE BOOK KIDS: Grades 3-6 perform a

musical version of the Disney classic. F, 7/13, 7pm; Sa, 7/14, 1 & 7pm. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicothe atercompany.com.

Art Receptions AMERICANA RED, WHITE & BLUE RECEPTION: A reception for an exhibition of works in water-

color, pastel and oil by 12 local artists. F, 7/13, 4-8pm. Sally Dimas Art Gallery; 493 East Ave. #1; (530) 345-3063.

SUMMER STOCK 2 RECEPTION: A reception for the group exhibition with music by Robert Karch and Sharon DeMeyer and artist lectures. F, 7/13, 5:30-7:30pm. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: DYLANS DHARMA: The weekly concert series continues with the reggae and rock fusion of Dylan’s Dharma. F, 7/13, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

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Special Events CHARITY SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: A community softball tournament and silent auction to benefit the family of two-year-old Austin Russo, who passed away suddenly on Sunday, July 1.

Call for registration info. Sa, 7/14. Hooker Oak Recreation Area; Upper Bidwell Park; (530) 966-0498.

COGNITIVE AWAKENING: See Friday. Cognitive Awakening Center, 227 Good View Dr. in Paradise, (530) 873-2315, http://cognitive awakening.com.

CRUZ ‘N CLASSICS CAR SHOW: A classic car and motorcycle show with an awards show, BBQ lunch, raffle, poker walk, craft vendors and live music. Go online for more info. Sa, 7/14, 7am-3pm. Free. Durham Community Park; One Mile East Of Durham On Durham-Dayton Hwy in Durham; (530) 624-5310; www.drifters carshow.org.

SUMMER COMEDY CELEBRATION: Standup, improv and sketch comedy from Aberrant Behaviors, Kyle Bowen, Will Craig and more. Go online for tickets. Sa, 7/14, 7:30pm. $8-$10. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.centerstageticketing.com/sites/chicothe atrecompany.

Theater THE JUNGLE BOOK KIDS: See Friday. Sa, 7/14, 1 & 7pm. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd.

Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chico theatercompany.com..

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Special Events COGNITIVE AWAKENING: See Friday. Cognitive Awakening Center, 227 Good View Dr. in Paradise, (530) 873-2315, http://cognitive awakening.com.

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Theater ALL SHOOK UP: Elvis meets Shakespeare in this musical performed by the Blue Room Young Company. $5/kids; $8/adults. 7/17-7/18, 2pm & 7pm. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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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.

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Oaxacan Huipiles & Prints, brightly colored Huipils woven by Guatemalan women, telling stories of their heritage. Also exhibiting etchings depicting Mexican wrestlers, folklore and mythologies by Charles Barth.

Through 7/28. Free. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Americana: Red,

White & Blue, art done in watercolor, pastel, oil and collages. Through 8/31. 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.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

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

CHICO ART CENTER: Discovery Series, an exhibition of selected local, regional and national artists. Through 7/21. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Joel Collier

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

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

CHICO PAPER CO.: Sutter Buttes By Jake Early, the latest print by the prolific local artist on display. Through 7/31. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Cancer Exhibit, 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.

Call for Artists CATALYST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EXHIBIT: All mediums will be accepted and should reflect the theme “In Honor of Love: Separate Identities and Equal Partners.”

Call or email to submit art of for more information. Through 10/5. Catalyst, 330 Wall St. 40, (530) 343-7711, www.catalystdv services.org.

Museums BOLTS ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Kitchen

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

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Summer Exhibits, Exhibits exploring the California grizzly bear, an interactive video exhibit and a display of photographs of wildflowers and their pollinators running all summer.

Through 8/10, 9am-1pm. $3-$5. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

7pm. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

THE LITTLE MERMAID, JR.: Kids from the Theatre on the Ridge StageCoach Youth Theatre program perform the classic underwater musical fantasy for four nights. 7/18-7/21, 7pm. $7-$10.

Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse; 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise; (530) 877-5760; www.totr.org.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

SUMMER STOCK 2 Friday, July 13 1078 Gallery

SEE FRIDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

FREE LISTINGS!

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

Summer-vacation theater School is out and local youth have taken over community-theater stages with a variety of mostly musical-theater camps, plus performances! Chico Theater Company’s Theatre ETC program kicks off its first performances July 13 & 14 with the The Jungle Book, Kids, featuring the young’uns (grades 3-6) and follows that up with one for the older kids (grades 7-12), Godspell Jr (showing July 2021). The Blue Room’s three-play Young Company day-camp program starts with Elvis and All Shook Up (July 17 & 18) and Arrrrrrgh! An EDITOR’S PICK Outrageous Pirate Play with Music (July 19-21), and ends with Harry Squiggles, Secret Agent 049, Aug. 9-11. Up in Paradise, Theatre on the Ridge’s StageCoach Youth Theatre presents four showings of The Little Mermaid Jr, July 18-21. And, still to come, Playhouse Youth Theatre’s Camp Theatre program continues its schedule at Chico Women’s Club with a student-written/-directed/-performed New Works Festival (July 19 & 22) and 101 Dalmatians (July 26 & 29).

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Community BEGINNER / RECOVERY MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: A weekly beginning mountain bike course to work on fitness, techni-

cal skills and confidence. Th, 6-7:15pm through 10/25. Free. North Rim Mountain Adventure Sports, 178 E. Second St., (530) 345-6980, http://northrimadventure.com.

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:

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

CHICO POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Monthly meeting hosted by the Chico Police Chief to discuss community issues. Third W of every month, 5:30-7pm. Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1877 Hooker Oak Ave., (530) 342-7777.

TREMENDOUS SAVINGS THROUGHOUT OUR SHOWROOM AND WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE CENTER

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.

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ECONOMIC STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL MEETING: An

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(530) 892-1905 1341 Mangrove Ave, Chico (Between 3rd & 5th Avenues) Store Hours: Mon-Sat 10-6 Closed Sunday

open monthly meeting for a newly formed consortium of nonprofits, businesses and government groups to discuss direction for the community and economy. Call for more info. Th, 7/12, 4:30-6:30pm. Free. Chico Public Library, Corner of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (530) 781-4676.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

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

FARMERS MARKET: OROVILLE: Produce and fresh food vendors with local crafts and food booths. Sa, 7:30am-noon through 11/17. Free.

Oroville Farmers Market, Montgomery & Myers, Municipal Auditorium Parking Lot Montgomery & Myers in Oroville, (530) 8795303.

FOLK DANCING: Teaching during the first hour, followed by request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 7/27. Opens 7/13. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

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 one-hour tour of houses currently under construction through Habitat for Humanity. Tu, 7/17, 5:30pm. Free. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524.

HERBALIST TALK: A presentation by Harry Chrissakis, C.M.T. natural healing, who will dicuss the use of herbs before, during and after cancer treatment. Second Th of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Opens 7/12. Free. Chico Public Library, corner of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (530) 933-8244.

MT. HARKNESS CLIMB: A beautiful 1,250 foot climb and five mile hike from sparkling Juniper Lake to the lookout on top of 8,046 foot Mt. Harkness in Lassen National Park. Bring water, sunscreen, lunch, boots and a camera.

Sa, 7/14, 8am. Free. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 891-8789.

ECONOMIC STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL MEETING Tonight, July 12 Butte County Library, Chico SEE COMMUNITY

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) 891-6524.

SUMMER READING SKILLS PROGRAM: Chico State offers eight different reading skills programs for 4-year olds through adults. Go online for a complete schedule and enrollment information. Ongoing. California State University, Chico, CSUC, http://rce.csu chico.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., 8954711.

For Kids CHILDREN STORY TIME SERIES: Reading events

sponsored by Lyon Books. Every other Th, 3pm.

Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbook.com.

DAY CAMP FOR KIDS: Hosted by Oroville’s YMCA, this day camp is intended to get kids outside and to begin developing healthy life-long habits. Call for more info. M-F, 6:30am-6pm through 8/17. Call for fees. Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, (553) 533-9622, www.orovilleymca.org.

PARENTS & KIDS DAY: Coloring of wildflowers assisted by botanist Linnea Hanson, singing by Wildflower School students and storytelling by local author Naty Osa. Sa, 7/14, 2-4pm. Free.

Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 8791821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

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

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

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Used book sale. Every other Sa, 10am-3pm.

Prices vary. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

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

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

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CHOW Mama Rose cooks up fun in her iTunes cookbook app with dishes like coconut prawns. Cooking to Impress Chicks art by Thorn Hart.

Hot dishes Local sexy cookbook goes digital and global

R Febbo is one of Chico’s most vibrant and widely known characosemary “Mama Rose”

ters. If you don’t know her by sight, then you probably know the story and photo by sound of her Christine G.K. cheery voice LaPado-Breglia from her longchristinel@ n e w s r e v i e w. c o m running, foodcentric radio show, Mama Rose’s Kitchen, airing two or three Tuesdays each month on Download a local community night of fun radio station Cooking to Impress KZFR, 90.1 FM. Chicks is available And now, via iTunes. The first Febbo’s food six chapter are free, expertise and the rest are 99 cents each. popularity have begun to spread worldwide. Four weeks ago, the charming, vivacious 65-year-old launched her own cookbook mobile app on iTunes— Cooking to Impress Chicks—and it’s already been downloaded in 43 countries.

“The idea of this app came by way of inspiration from my son, Jason,” Febbo says in the app’s introduction. “I was visiting him in New York, and he announced one night that he was going to cook me a ‘red meal.’ I was intrigued. ‘What is a red meal?’ I asked. He sat me down in full view of the kitchen, and then handed me a glass of red wine. He proceeded to cook lamb chops with a red-wine reduction sauce, roasted red beets with herbs and olive oil, radicchio salad with raspberry vinaigrette, and raspberry sorbet for dessert. … I said, ‘You must have impressed a lot of women with your cooking, huh, J?’ And his response was, ‘Yeah, Ma, cooking impresses chicks.’”

Cooking to Impress Chicks has been in the works for about five years. Originally, it was intended to be an actual old-school cookbook

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that a guy could hold in his hands, dripping melted butter and other ingredients onto the open pages as he cooked. It transformed into an app about six months ago after another of Febbo’s sons, Robert, suggested the idea. “He said, ‘You need to turn it into an app, Mom,’ and the very next day I made some phone calls to find out who could do this for me,” she said. “Most young men, if you ask them, they would probably not buy a cookbook as likely as they would download an app.”

With sassy chapter titles such as “Wake Me, Bake Me, Take Me,” “Chug Me, Hug Me, Don’t Let Me Drive” (on cocktail-based meals) and “First Course, Intercourse, Second Course,” Febbo’s app straddles the fine line between food and sex.

From Chapter 13, “Tease Me, Please Me, Feed Me”: “You get to eat this whole meal using only your hands and lips. You can build so much excitement around this evening that the results may just startle you. … A ripe juicy grape passed from your lips to hers is off-the-wall sexy!”

“Being the mom of three sons, the information I give is really tongue-in-cheek,” she continued, “but really good for a guy who wants to hone his romantic and culinary skills—in and out of the kitchen. I mean, I say things like, ‘Countertops are not just for cooking.’ It gets a little sexy.”

Febbo reached out to Portland, Ore.-based chef (and former Chicoan) Mike Wirch to be her

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Febbo is retiring her KZFR show on July 31, after almost 12 years on the air (in the early days, as listeners know, Febbo was teamed up with Loretta Metcalf when the show was called Mangia with the Mamas). “I’m gonna have more time to market this [app] and do some specialty events regarding food and music locally,” she offered.

True to her fun- and foodloving nature, Febbo had these parting words: “Put some romance and fun in your life. I mean, jeez, life is so darn short!” Ω

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The story, drawn from the novel by Don Winslow, has a pair of enterprising beach-boy stoners getting entangled in violent conflict with a Mexican by Juan-Carlos drug cartel.

Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Selznick Kitsch) are pot-growing tycoons whose imported-from-Afghanistan strain of highgrade marijuana draws some very hostile interest from the competition just below the CaliforniaMexico border.

The menacing attention comes chiefly from Savages Starring Aaron Elena (Salma Hayek), a cartel matriarch headJohnson, Taylor quartered in Tijuana, and Lado (Benicio Del Kitsch, Blake Toro), the maliciously enterprising enforcer Lively, Salma ostensibly working on her behalf. And the tenHayek, Benicio sion is complicated further through the Del Toro and John Travolta. involvement of a double-dealing DEA agent Directed by named Dennis (John Travolta).

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Poor The script (co-authored by Shane Salerno, Winslow and Stone) has “O” thinking of the trio’s escapades as a contemporary version of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It wouldFair n’t be in character for any of them to notice that this might also be a So-Cal noir version of the French New Wave classic Jules and Jim, but both notions reflect the threesome’s Good blissed-out semi-delusional romanticism.

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The younger members of the cast do nicely serviceable work in roles that are mostly generic types. The older actors’ roles are no less generic, but Hayek and Del Toro in particular manage to convey impressions of depth, however fleeting.

The film’s reductive character psychology, more or less mandated by some semi-incomprehensible cartwheels of the plot, is summed up in the title. The undercurrents of social psychology, however, prove more resonant— Afghanistan, Mexico, commando raids, the war on drugs, warlords and drug lords, power and profit, etc. Ω

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why you should see The Amazing Spider-Man, just that you should. As a recently graduated film major, I suppose I might be expected to pick apart its plot structure and character development, but to the film’s credit, I didn’t really pay that stuff much notice this time. I simply just enjoyed watching the comic book unfold in the theater.

When I initially heard that director Marc Webb (a name destined to direct a Spider-Man film?) was remaking Sam Raimi’s 10-year-old franchise, I wasn’t too interested. But Webb’s spin on the original movie is just fresh enough to warrant a repeat. Casting newcomer Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) as Peter probably helps too. His awkward charm is well-suited for the profile of the quintessen-

tial underdog superhero.

The storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s details are a little different than previous Spiders, but the basic structure remains. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nerdy high school kid who gets bitten by a radioactive spider in one of OsCorpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genetic labs, and develops the proportionate super strength of a giant spider.

The succeeding murder of his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) motivates Peter to use his new abilities to fight crime anonymously, only telling crush Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) his real identity.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different flavor comes in the

form of a new villain, The Lizard (Rhys Ifans), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also Dr. Curt Connors, an old colleague of Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scientist father. When Connors uses himself as a human trial for a serum that supposedly rids the body of weakness, he transforms into a dangerous lizard-man hybrid who wreaks havoc on New York City. The battle of good versus evil ensues, and though weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen it before, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as exciting, even touching at times.

Kudos to Webb for making a fun summer flick that just lets you swing along for the ride without thinking too much. â&#x201E;Ś

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

(Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton), the chief characters are two precocious, gifted 12-year-olds, Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward), who fall in love and run away to their own little romantic paradise on the coastal island where they are spending their respective New England summer vacations. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pointedly a storybook situation, and in the frisky scenario concocted by co-writers Anderson and Roman Coppola, it blossoms into a wistfully dreamy romantic comedy that also revolves around and beyond the travails and pratfalls of the various adult characters. Gradually, there emerges a sense that the kids are innocent versions of various adults in their lives, while the adults in part remain children amid the challenges and disappointments that life has brought them.

But a buoyant comic energy prevails even as the more bittersweet themes weave themselves more prominently into the action. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;J.C.S.

Opening this week Ice Age: Continental Drift

For this fourth installment in the animated-film franchise, the mismatched crew of prehistoric animalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Manny, the wooly mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid, the sloth (John Leguizamo), and Diego, the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;are forced into an adventure on the high seas atop a chunk of iceberg after the continents are split apart. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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The Amazing Spider-Man

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;R.B.

Brave

Pixarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest animated feature tells the story of the fiery Scottish princess Merida who would rather work on her archery skills than follow tradition. Her defiance leads her on a journey that requires her to overcome her fear to reverse a witchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curse. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Katy Perry: Part of Me

Pop singer Katy Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tour diary/behind-the-music specialâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in 3-D! Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Madagascar 3: Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this time via a cross-country European adventure disguised as circus animals. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Madeaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witness Protection

Tyler Perry cross-dresses as the sassy Madea in entry number seven from the franchise that just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quit.

This time thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ponzi scheme, Tom Arnold and some other stuff. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Magic Mike

Magic Mike wants to be taken seriously. The film is about male strippers. See the problem? I understand that star/co-producer Channing Tatum used to work the poles in real life, which director Steven Soderbergh capitalizes on to give this film slightly more sincerity.

But this storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all over the place, leaving the viewer little chance to be truly compelled by the moments of real dancer drama. First we meet Mike (Tatum), who works the clubs by night and tiles roofs by day. Mike introduces his young slacker friend, Adam (Alex Pettyfer), to the stripping world to give him some â&#x20AC;Ś direction? But Adam takes advantage of the fast-paced lifestyle, leaving older sister Brooke (Cody Horn) worried. Oh yeah, Brooke and Mike develop feelings for each other. But between the strip-club scenes, Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiral into the drug world, and Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggle to â&#x20AC;&#x153;find himself,â&#x20AC;? thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little room for a love story. However, if you want to see a lot of naked, toned butts and fun dance scenes, this is your movie. Maybe I should have led with that? Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R â&#x20AC;&#x201D;R.B.

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Moonrise Kingdom

The new film by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, etc.) is a summertime comedy of an exceptionally poetic sort. While it has a big-name cast

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Ted

Ted is the best sitcom never allowed to air on television, an onion of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s-nostalgia porn that positively bursts at the seams with a giddy excitement at getting to play on the big screen. A lovable loser (Mark Wahlberg) with an amazingly hot girlfriend (Mila Kunis) is given an ultimatum to leave behind his childhood toys and join the adult world, or else. But the toy in this case is a walking, talking stuffed teddy bear (voiced by director and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane), and Wahlbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character and Ted the bear have been inseparable since the toy sprung to life after a Christmas wish 25 years before. But now that he is all grown up, Ted leaves behind his snuggliness to pound shots, snort lines of cocaine and bring home hookers. Complications ensue. There are a whole lot of ways this premise couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone wrong, and fast, but MacFarlane pulls off the impressive feat of delivering a consistently hilarious comedy that demands its audience sink or swim rather than spoon feed them the jokes with soothing tones. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R â&#x20AC;&#x201D;C.B.

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To Rome With Love

Woody Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest European-based summer romance is charmingly entertaining, but it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t match the sustained effervescence and delight of its dazzling predecessors, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and Midnight in Paris (2011). Architectural student Jack (Jesse Eisenberg) and his live-in girlfriend, Sally (Greta Gerwig), have some unexpected romantic challenges when her actress friend, Monica (Ellen Page), comes to visit them in Rome. Newlyweds Antonio (Alessandro Tiberi) and Milly (Alessandra Mastronardi), just arrived from Pordenone, get farcically separated, and then romantically distractedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he with a misdirected hooker (PenĂŠlope Cruz), she with a porky movie actor. Visiting student Hayley (Alison Pill) falls in love with the son of a mortician, after a chance meeting. When Hayleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents (Woody Allen, Judy Davis) come to visit, dad Jerry (Allen) tries to create a career in opera for the peculiarly talented mortician (Flavio Parenti). A scrawny-looking office worker (Roberto Benigni) gets swept into a few silly minutes of fameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a satirical bit of romanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; through the extravagant absurdities of reality TV. And an American architect (Alec Baldwin) weighs in as a semi-symbolic alter ego for Jack. The young couples have the best of it. Baldwin, Cruz and Davis have good moments, but the attempts at satire have little real impact. Cinemark 14. Rated R â&#x20AC;&#x201D;J.C.S.

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Encore performance Chico theater vet returns to town to run the Blue Room

O Room has been uniquely known in Chico as the local theater offering the most

ver its 18-year history, the Blue

challenging, avant-garde stage productions.

And its various artistic directors—including Joe Hilsee, Ben Allen, Gail Holbrook and the founding by Alan Sheckter brothers Denver and Dylan alsheck@ Latimer—have, each in his comcast.net or her own way, stayed true to the company’s exploratory nature.

And, last month, Fred Stuart, a local theater veteran with deep roots at the Blue Room moved back to Chico to try to carry on the legacy as the theater’s new executive and artistic director.

“The Blue Room has always been defined by doing rather risky theater, and I want to continue Young Company performances: that,” said the new chief.

All Shook Up : During the mid-’90s, StuJuly 17-18, 2 p.m. art did a variety of work at & 7 p.m.; the downtown theater, Arrrrrrgh! : including directing The July 19-20, Man Who Came to Dinner 11 a.m., 2 p.m. & 7 p.m and (starring Jerry Miller and July 21, 11 a.m. & his then-5- or 6-year-old 2 p.m. son, Loki Miller); acting in Harry Squiggles : a Twilight Zone-based Aug. 9-10, 11 a.m., Nightmare at 27,000 Feet; 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. and Aug. 11, and playing John and 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. James—“identical twins who couldn’t be any more Blue Room different”—in Love! ValTheatre our! Compassion!

139 W. First St. Stuart and his wife and 895-3749 www.blueroom son just moved back to theatre.com Chico from New York,

where he worked for the past five years as director of marketing and creative development for Theatrical Rights Worldwide.

Before that—after theatrical tours of duty in several cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York—the 49-year-old established and managed the Haymarket Theatre in Lincoln in his home state of Nebraska.

Now in Chico and in artistic-director mode, Stuart said he and the Blue Room staff are looking ahead in earnest, reading potential material for the 2012-13 season.

An announcement of that schedule is expected in the next several weeks, with all plays relating to a general theme.

“We will explore the theme of civility and ask if it is a vanishing concept,” Stuart

New Blue Room artistic director Fred Stuart oversees the Young Company (with guitarist Loki Miller) rehearsal of Arrrrrgh!

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said. “We are building it around a Broadway play, God of Carnage. The rights just became available. For that one we’ll have a fine cast of Chico compatriots that can’t be announced yet.”

But before that, he’s been busy with the Young Company’s summer season.

“Rebuilding the sustainability of the Blue Room slowly and effectively involves building up the children’s theater, which is crucial for success,” Stuart said. To that end, the Blue Room Young Company’s day camps are in full swing in preparation for upcoming performances that will include the Loki Miller-directed, Elvis-meets-Shakespearethemed All Shook Up, followed by the Stuart-directed pirate musical comedy, Arrrrrrgh! and the Stuart-penned Harry Squiggles, Secret Agent 059.

“I originally wrote [that one] for my students in Lincoln, and it was popular there,” he said. “It’s a whole lot of fun.”

Born in Hastings, Neb., and raised

in Lincoln, Stuart became interested in theater in a hands-on way when a “lucky land-

ing” got him a foot in the door at the Pantages Theatre at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, first as an usher and then as part of the house management team.

Stuart also spent several years as a performing artist in Los Angeles and San Francisco; the latter including a two-year run performing in the famed Beach Blanket Babylon, taking on the personas of Tom Jones and Bruce Springsteen. Did that mean he didn’t have to don one of the show’s trademark freakishly large hats?

“Oh no. Nobody dodges the big hats,” Stuart said affectionately.

While in San Francisco, Stuart met his future wife, Willo, a Chico native, and in 1992 the couple moved to town, with Stuart picking up classes at Butte College and pursuing a theater degree at Chico State while directing and performing in several Chico dramatic productions at the old Chico City Light Opera House and Shakespeare in the Park, in addition to the Blue Room.

Then, a different type of fame struck when Stuart became lead vocalist for Blue Plate Special, a neo-swing band that formed in Chico when the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy were reviving the jump and jive craze and swing dancing was all the rage in Chico and beyond.

“We moved to L.A., made a couple of records, and had two long stints in Vegas,” Stuart recalled.

While working and living in New York over the past several years, the old Chico energy worked its way back into Stuart’s psyche, thanks to some prodding by oldschool Blue Room folks/current members of the board of directors Denver Latimer and one-time Blue Room managing director Yana Collins Lehman.

“It took about a year to work out the logistics to make it work, but we did and here we are,” Stuart said. “What we created at The Haymarket [in Nebraska] serves as a model in some ways for what we can do at the Blue Room—to create a sustainable future for a theater in downtown Chico that can take artistic risks and be a vital place for young people and the arts while retaining the adventurous mission established by the Ω founders.”

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Slipstream Bonnie Raitt Redwing Records Hardly anyone remembers it anymore, but Bonnie Raitt made some of her very first recordings just up the road from here at Paxton Lodge, deep in the Feather River canyon, where Elektra Records once had a studio. That was more than four decades ago, long before that trademark streak of white hair appeared in Raitt’s red mane. She’s given lots of fans lots of pleasure in the years since then, and she remains a slide guitar standard bearer. In the track that leads off this collection—“Used to Rule the World”—she sings a song that speaks to and for her generation, with lyrics that take note of the passage of time since 1975, leaving so many “mystified/ standin’ with the rest of us/ who used to rule the world.” If you don’t understand that line, just give it a little time, brother, and you surely will. This is Raitt, emotionally honest, sometimes tender, sometimes raw, singing and playing with the power she’s always brought to her game, covering Bob Dylan on a couple tracks, and making her own testament on a bunch of new songs, all with the distinctive sound that ensures that, though younger voices are pushing her generation toward the exit, she still rocks, and she still rules her world.

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An official “friends of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.” we are pleased to bring Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers back to the Big Room.

Nicki has become the “It Girl” of the San Francisco music scene performing with her band the Gramblers and mixing it up with a host of other SF artists. She’s shared the stage with Chris Robinson, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Steve Kimock, Jackie Greene, Josh Ritter, and many others. Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers have become a YouTube sensation based on their cover songs recorded while driving in their van. Their version of Hall & Oates “Can’t Go For That” has received overr 1.1 million views in a little over a month. Whether she playing with the Gramblers, her husband Tim or Brokedown in Bakersfield, Nicki dominates the stage with her presence and vocal prowess.

Come see her while you can. She’s on her way. And yes, the dance floor will be open.

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

A HOLY GHOST REVIVAL: Self-described as “epic, brutal and progressive.” So metal. F, 7/13, 9pm. $3. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

BONNY SCOTT: Local AC/DC tribute band.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi-

Th, 7/12, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

Allen Kass and DJ Lil 50. F, 7/13, 8pm. $5.

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

AJA VU: A Steely Dan tribute band in the brewery. F, 7/13, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

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.

JUDGEMENT DAY: A metal band without guitars relying on only violin, cello and drums. The Vandolins and Chingado open. Th, 7/12, 8:30pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

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.

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

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OROVILLE CONCERT IN THE PARK: MAYPOP TRAVELIN BAND: The weekly

THE BLUE MERLES: Live, local

concert series continues with the Maypop Travelin’ Band. Festivities include raffle prizes, food and a bounce house for the kids. Th, 7/12, 6:30-8pm.

Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

UPSIDE DROWN: Dreary and beautiful indie rock marked by intertwining female vocals. Jeremy Faulner and Final Down and Fera open. Th, 7/12, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: DYLANS DHARMA: The weekly concert series continues with the reggae and rock fusion of Dylan’s Dharma. F, 7/13, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

FUNKY FRIDAYS: A weekly showcase of local funk. Except for this week, which is honky tonk with Three Fingers Whiskey and The Blue Merles. F, 8:30pm-1:30am. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

FURLOUGH FRIDAYS CD RELEASE PARTY:

3AM BOYS: A lineup of North State hiphop acts including 3AM Boys, Sonu,

Bakersfield-style honky-tonk. F, 7/13, 8pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park

Chico alt-rockers celebrate the release of their new album, Sliver.

Callow opens. F, 7/13, 6pm. $5. Origami

tion: 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.

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. F, 7/13, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

ALAN RIGG TRIO & ROBERT SPEEGLE: Live

standards. F, 6:30-8:30pm through 10/26. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaur ant.com.

jazz fusion, blues, and New Orleans. Sa, 7/14, 7-9pm. Free. Left Coast Pizza Co.; 800 Bruce Rd. Ste. 100; (530) 873-3064.

MEATWAD’S METAL BIRTHDAY BASH: Metal

Cranes from Portland and local hybrid Bogg—comprised of members from Clouds on Strings and Teeph—and folk rock from Zach Zeller and the Crooked Timbers. Sa, 7/14, 8pm. $5-$7. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

CARL SONNY LEYLAND: Boogie-woogie pianist Carl Sonny Leyland plays an intimate show at a home in Chico. Sa, 7/14, 6pm. $20. Call for details; (530) 966-0595.

CHUCK EPPERSON JR. BAND: Live funk,

DJ Meatwad with Bloody Roots, a tribute to Sepultura, and Bonny Scott, a tribute To AC/DC. Locals Constant Grey and Death Rattle open. F, 7/13, 9:30pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

soul and R&B. Sa, 7/14, 9pm. Free. The End Zone; 250 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 3457330.

THE CRUX: Theatrical folk-punk sprinkled with pirate shanties and barnyard foot-stompers. Sa, 7/14, 8pm. $5.

Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: The country alter ego of local metal/reggae act Esoteric.

F, 7/13, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

JUDGEMENT DAY Tonight, July 12 Monstros Pizza

SEAN THOMPSON ALBUM RELEASE: Sean Thompson, a local finger-pickin’ singer-songwriter, introduces Chico to his debut album Synesthesia. Joe Goodwin and Socorro open. F, 7/13,

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JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans

Thursday & Friday, July 12 & 13 LaSalles & Lost on Main SEE THURSDAY & FRIDAY

Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

16MONDAY ALLEGRA & TRENT: A dynamic female

DECADES: A cover band performing all

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. Sa, 7/14, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

the number one hits from the ’20s to today. Sa, 7/14, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

JOHN SEID: An eclectic mix of tunes with

STEVE JOHNSON: Acoustic Americana with guitarist and vocalist Steve Johnson. Sa, 7/14, 8:30pm. Free.

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

John Seid and Larry Peterson. Sa, 7/14, 7:30-10:30pm. Free. Red Tavern; 1250

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

MUSIC CIRCLE: An open jam for all levels

TALES OF BRASS AND HORROR!: L.A. skacore band La Pobreska shares the stage with locals Brass Hysteria! Big Tree Fall Down, Skeletonhead and DJ Dr. Bones open. Sa, 7/14, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853; www.brasshysteriamusic.com.

of musicians. Second Sa of every month, 1-4pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

NOTHERN TRADITIONZ: The country alter

URBAN LEGEND: A variety of danceable

ego of local metal/reggae act Esoteric.

Sa, 7/14, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

rock, pop, country and funk hits. Sa, 7/14, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

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singer-songwriter in the vein of Sheryl Crow. M, 7/16, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

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.

Time open. W, 7/18, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

JAZZ TRIO: Every Wednesday with Carey

Robinson and company. W, 4-7pm. Free.

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

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.my space.com/theitaliangarden.

SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the

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

SWING DANCE WEDNESDAY: Every

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Wednesday night, swing dancing lessons 8-10pm. W, 8-10pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery; 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

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) 8911853.

Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party

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

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

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

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

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.

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

FURLOUGH FRIDAYS CD RELEASE Friday, July 13 Origami Lounge SEE FRIDAY

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.

18WEDNESDAY ASK SOPHIE: An acoustic trio from Washington with an emphasis on storytelling viafolk, Americana and old country music. Bouquet and Deep

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EVERYTHING OLD IS STILL YOUNG TO ME Arts DEVO has become quite a

reminiscer as of late. And it’s been made even more pronounced the past month or so as I’ve packed and unpacked 11-plus years of accumulation at the old DEVO compound. This week, the CD collection was unpacked at the new pad, and I paused and recovered a memory from nearly every disc before it hit the shelf. As I dusted off a succession of melodic uptempo classics that included The Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World and Knapsack, I was struck with the realization that emo music used to not suck! And, in some kind of serendipitous aligning of the rock planets, I also got word this week that former Chico emo gods Number One Gun are reuniting the original lineup— Jeff Schneeweis, Trevor Sellers, Ben Number One Gun reunites!

Tietz and Jordan Mallory—to record a new album and go on tour! And, turns out, you can help realize the dream by finding the band on kickstarter.com and contributing to the funding of the self-produced recording.

GET OUT OF MY DREAMS, SESAR! Even though his picture is right

there, and it’s taken from a video for a song by his band Teeph, I am not going to talk about Sesar Sanchez in this column! (How the hell does he keep sneaking in here!?) Instead, I’m gonna talk about Tom Skowronksi, aka Tom “Botchii,” mastermind of one of my all-time favorite local bands, Botchii. Tom is in Sacramento now, and while his noisy guitar-busting days may be behind him, he’s still making a racket in video production, including this impressive gem for the hectic “A/S/L” (off Teeph’s new album, the extremely hectic VietBurying Sesar. namaste) featuring the-frontman-who-shallnot-be-named tied up and being buried alive. Good stuff.

GET YER JAZZERCISE Portland, Ore., indie-jazz crew the Blue Cranes has an impressive collection of press clippings, with a shower of praise for its genre-hopping art-rock/jazz sound coming from everyone from the L.A. Times to NPR. But I think I like best how Josh Fernandez, a brother at our sister paper, the Sacramento News & Review, described them: “Blue Cranes provide a new amplification of jazz, allowing listeners to hear a stream of water pass through a storm drain thick with sediment.” Let ’em wash over you this Saturday, July 14, as they join returning Chico fave Zach Zeller for a summer evening at Café Coda.

STOP THE PRESSES! The CN&R didn’t get word of this last-minute show in time to get it into our calendar, but Austin, Texas, minimalist-pop duo Deep Time (formerly known as Yellow Fever) is coming to Café Flo on Wednesday, July 18. The band’s new Deep Time self-titled album was just released on Hardly Art this week and has already been gettin’ the good word from the usual suspects, including a glowing, if jaw-droppingly pretentious, review by the taste-makers at Pitchfork. Go to www.hardly art.com/ deeptime and fall in love with the simple, catchy and slightly gloomy-sounding “Clouds.”

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STOP THE PRESSES AGAIN! This show we did know about in time, but we didn’t get this awesome poster for the Friday the 13th CD-release party (at Origami Lounge) for local alt-rockers Furlough Fridays (featuring FF frontwoman Minnie Mental standing in for Jason Voorhees) until the last-minute, but I had to share. Enjoy.

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772 Bridlewood Ct 245 Zion Canyon Ct 36 Commonwealth Ct 278 Pinyon Hills Dr 21 Redeemers Loop 108 Estates Dr 649 Royce Ln 1020 Yosemite Dr 37 Titleist Way 1670 E 8th St 759 San Antonio Dr

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$385,000 $339,500 $315,000 $315,000 $300,000 $299,000 $293,000 $289,000 $265,000 $260,000 $250,000

4/ 2.5 3/ 2 4/ 3 4/ 2.5 4/ 2 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 4/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1.5 3/ 2

2574 1925 2458 2369 1916 2046 1652 1768 1496 1476 1752

291 E 1st Ave 1581 Arch Way 734 Grand Teton Way 25 Forest Creek Cir 484 Eaton Rd 1722 Sunset Ave 733 W 2nd Ave 1001 Sycamore St 2034 Huntington Dr 567 Cimarron Dr 1633 Citrus Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$249,000 $225,000 $220,000 $219,000 $216,000 $215,000 $209,000 $200,000 $190,000 $190,000 $189,000

4/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1 5/ 2 5/ 3 3/ 1.5 3/ 1.5 2/ 1.5

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1967 Wild Oak Ln 997 E 16th St 951 Walnut St 853 Inyo St 475 Panama Ave 1000 Regency Dr 9389 Goodspeed St 325 Hazel St 68 Gaylor Ave 3071 Grand View Ave 3735 Hildale Ave 36 CN&R July 12, 2012

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Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Durham Gridley Oroville Oroville Oroville

$185,000 $183,500 $175,000 $168,500 $167,000 $165,000 $250,000 $255,000 $171,000 $170,000 $170,000

3/ 1.5 4/ 2 3/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 5/ 2 4/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 2

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1153 3809 1089 1624 1242 1126 1808 2428 1705 1627 1607

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3619 Oro Bangor Hwy 355 La Mirada Ave 11 Westwood Way 5430 Harrison Rd 1784 Bille Rd 1421 Coldren Rd 820 Seneca Dr 5733 Hilbe Dr 6161 Oliver Rd 1515 Forest Service Rd 1220 Betty Ln

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Oroville Oroville Oroville Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$116,000 $115,000 $105,000 $300,000 $265,000 $260,000 $185,000 $175,500 $155,000 $130,000 $120,000

3/ 1 3/ 3 3/ 1 3/ 2.5 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 3 2/ 2 2/ 1 2/ 2

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AUTOS 1983 Full-sized Chevy Blazer.All original. Most factory options. Very well kept condition. 530-895-8171

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50 MPG, best warrantee, 2 year service free, call Lee McKim, Hybrid Specialist, at 530-354-7782 at Chuck Patterson Toyota.

Men and women, a sober living environment, rooms for rent. includes utilities.

Resident mgr. Stacy 530-520-5248 ROOM FOR RENT 3 bedroom house, big yard, 4 blocks from Enloe, $450/ mo includes utilities. Deposit negotiable.343-9759

ATTORNEYS HEALTH/PERSONALS/ MISCELLANEOUS: WERE YOU IMPLANTED WITH A ST. JUDE RIATA DEFIBRILLATOR LEAD WIRE between June 2001 and December 2010? Have you had this lead replaced, capped or did you receives shocks from the lead? You may be entitled to compensation. Contact Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WESTERN PACIFIC CAFE AND CATERING at 2191 High St. Oroville, Ca 95966.

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

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: AMANDA CORONA Dated: May 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000707 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YOGANICALLY, YOGANICALLY GROWN at 1390 E 9th St. #130, Chico, CA 95928.

KRISTIANA DELCARLO LOPEZ, 846 Coit Tower Way, Chico, CA

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TIGER LILLY PRODUCTIONS at 1390 E 9th St. #130, Chico, CA 95928.

Kristiana Delcarlo Lopez, 846 Coit Tower Way, Chico, CA 95928.

Christine Louise Macshane, 1964 Zachary Ct. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KRISTIANA D LOPEZ Dated: May 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000787 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PURE JUJU at 40 Jillian Lane #1, Chico, CA 95973.

AMY BENITEZ, 40 Jillian Lane #1, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: AMY BENITEZ Dated: June 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000837 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012

Warehouse 1200sf warehouse on 99E w/ loading dock & power. $250/mo. Roger, 736-0457

JOHNSON HOUSE OF SOBRIETY

95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: KRISTIANA D LOPEZ Dated: May 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000788 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KAIA FIT CHICO at 2700 Hegan Lane, #106, Chico, CA 95928.

LAURA C GILMORE, 75 Skymountain Circle, Chico CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LAURA C GILMORE Dated: May 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000776 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A SECOND LOOK at 5810 Pentz Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

ANNE RUSSELL, 5810 Pentz Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ANNE RUSSELL Dated: May 29, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000798 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PCMD PC TREATMENT CENTER at 2117 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926.

NICOLETTE BATTENFIELD, 355 E Lassen Ave. #5, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: Nicolette Battenfield Dated: May 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000782 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DOMENICS SEPTIC SERVICE at 12360 Meridan Rd. Chico, Ca 95973.

ROBERT PERKINS, 12360 Meridan Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ROBERT E PERKINS Dated: June 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000899 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KOKORO UNIVERSAL MARTIAL ARTS at 2145 Park Ave. #1, Chico, CA 95928.

KOKORO UNIVERSAL MARTIAL ARTS INC, 9 Keystone Ct. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KEVIN D ATKINSON Dated: June 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000871 Published: June 21,28, JUly 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHOW LOVE THRIFT SHOP at 1405 Park Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

TERRI LEE BLESSING, 933 Benson Dr. Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TERRI BLESSING Dated: May 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000802 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BURGER KING at 962 East Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

RIVER VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC, 2565 Zanella Way, Suite C, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BYRON CROSSEN Dated: June 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000885 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as STAR STUDIO’S at 1224 Mangrove Ave. #10, Chico, CA 95926.

DONNA BRISTOL, WESLEY BLAKE BRISTON, 13735 Nimshew Rd. Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: WESLEY BRISTOL Dated: June 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000934 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as JG PAINTING at 6038 A Clark, #149, Paradise, CA 95969.

JAMES GOULARTE, 6038 A Clark #149, Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JAMES GOULARTE Dated: June 20, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000913 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HONEYBEE LANDSCAPING at 1584 Rue Francais, Chico, CA 95973.

MICHAEL E CHILDS, 1548 Rue Francais, Chico, Ca 95973.

JAIME PASILLAS, 669 El Verano Way, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MICHAEL CHILDS Dated: June 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000881 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BURGER KING at 1104 W 2nd St. Chico, CA 95928.

RIVER VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC, 2565 Zanella Way, Suite C,

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Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BYRON CROSSEN Dated: May 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000806 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO SCRAPBOOKS AND MADISON GRACE PHOTOGRAPHY at 2033 Forest Ave. #104, Chico, CA 95928.

JODIE N BECK, WALTER MARTIN BECK, 1991 Potter Rd. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: JODIE BECK Dated: June 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000869 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE BREAKFAST BUZZ at 208 Cedar St. Chico, CA 95928.

THE TEAFORD GROUP, 295 Santa Rosa St. San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KATIE NORTON Dated: June 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000868 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AA ALTERATIONS AND ASSOCIATES at 1834 Mangrove Ave. #30, Chico, CA 95926.

MARITZA Y MCCUTCHEN, 2211 Notre Dame Blvd. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: Maritza McCutchen Dated: July 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000991 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE IDEA EMPORIUM at 764 E 7th St. Chico, CA 95928.

Carey Jeanne Robinson Galliani 764 E 7th St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: CAREY GALLIANI Dated: July 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001011 Published: July 12,19,26 August 2, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SOOPER DOOPER(S) at 75 Glen Circle Dr. Oroville, CA 95966.

EDWIN GENE DENHAM JR, 75 Glen Circle Dr. Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: EDWIN G DENHAM Dated: July 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001009 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHANGE, CREATING HAPPINESS AND NEW GROWTH ETERNALLY at 1616 Hemlock Lane, Paradise, CA 95969.

SAMANTHA SOLEIL, 1616 Hemlock Lane, Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: SAMANTHA SOLEIL Dated: July 9, 2012

FBN Number: 2012-0001014 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CURB APPEAL LAWNSCAPE SERVICES at 59 Lexington Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

MICHAEL MACARTHY, 59 Lexington Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: MICHAEL MACARTHY Dated: June 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000820 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2012

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: KRISTEN KETTERLING, baby items, furniture, misc items.

To the highest bidder on: July 21, 2012 Beginning at 2:00pm.

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

Published: July 5,12, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ELIZABETH GREGG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GABRIELLA ROSE KUMOR Proposed name: GABRIELLA ROSE GREGG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 10, 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: June 12, 2012 Case Number: 156798 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LEIGH DANIELLE GRAVETTE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LEIGH DANIELLE GRAVETTE Proposed name: LEIGH DANIELLE YOUNG 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

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 3, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926

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Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: June 12, 2012 Case Number: 157017 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Kyle John-Thomas Hicks filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

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Present name: Kyle John-Thomas Hicks Proposed name: Kyle John-Thomas Williams 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.

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for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 24, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave.

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Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: July 5, 2012 Case Number: 157171 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2012

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

During an author tour a few years ago, I was a guest on San Francisco radio station KFOG. For a while, the host interviewed me about my book and astrology column. Then we moved into a less formal mode, bantering about psychic powers, lucid dreams and reincarnation.

Out of nowhere, the host asked me, “So who was I in my past life?”

Although I’m not in the habit of reading people’s previous incarnations, I suddenly and inexplicably had the sense that I knew exactly who he had been: Savonarola, a controversial 15th-century Italian friar. I suspect you may soon have comparable experiences, Aries. Don’t be surprised if you are able to glean new revelations about the past and come to fresh insights about how history has unfolded.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Tease and

tempt and tantalize, Taurus. Be pithy and catchy and provocative. Don’t go on too long. Leave ’em hanging for more. Wink for dramatic effect. Perfect your most enigmatic smile. Drop hints and cherish riddles.

Believe in the power of telepathy. Add a new twist or two to your body language. Be sexy in the subtlest ways you can imagine. Pose questions that no one has been brave or smart enough to ask. Hang out in thresholds, crossroads and any other place where the action is entertaining.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): American

political leaders who have never been soldiers tend to be more gung-ho about sending U.S. fighting forces into action than leaders who have actually served in the military. So said former Marine Capt. Matt Pottinger to The Daily Beast. I recommend that you avoid and prevent comparable situations in your own life during the coming weeks, Gemini. Don’t put yourself under the influence of decision-makers [S: hyphen or no?] who have no direct experience of the issues that are important to you. The same standard should apply to you, too. Be humble about pressing forward if you’re armed with no more than a theoretical understanding of things. As much as possible, make your choices and wield your clout based on what you know firsthand.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let’s hypoth-

esize that there are two different kinds of freedom possible for you to pursue. One is simplistic and sterile, while the other is colorful and fertile. The first is characterized by absence or emptiness, and the second is full of rich information and stimulating experiences. Is there any doubt about which is preferable? I know that the simplistic, sterile freedom might be easier and faster to attain. But its value would be limited and short-lived, I’m afraid. In the long run, the tougher liberation will be more rewarding.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some people believe

that a giant sea serpent lives in a Scottish lake. They call it the Loch Ness monster, or Nessie for short. The evidence is anecdotal and skimpy. If the creature actually lurks in the murky depths, it has never hurt any human being, so it can’t be considered dangerous. On the other hand, Nessie has long been a boon to tourism in the area. The natives are happy that the tales of its existence are so lively. I’d like to propose using the Loch Ness monster as a template for how to deal with one of your scary delusions. Use your rational mind to exorcise any anxiety you might still be harboring, and figure out a way to take advantage of the legendary story you created about it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The soul should always stand ajar,” said 19-century Emily Dickinson poet in one of her poems, “That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her.” Modern translation: You should keep your deep psyche in a constant state of readiness for the possible influx of divine inspiration or unexpected blessings. That way, you’re likely to recognize the call when it comes and respond with the alacrity necessary to get the full benefit of its offerings. This is always a sound principle to live by. But it will be an

by Rob Brezsny especially valuable strategy in the coming weeks. Right now, imagine what it feels like when your soul is properly ajar.

Long route to Cuba story and photo by Kjerstin Wood

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Some people

wonder if I’m more like a cheerleader than an objective reporter. They think that maybe I minimize the pain and exaggerate the gain that lie ahead. I understand why they might pose that question. Because all of us are constantly besieged with a disproportionate glut of discouraging news, I see it as my duty to provide a counterbalance. My optimism is medicine to protect you from the distortions that the conventional wisdom propagates. Having said that, I’d like you to know that I’m not counterbalancing at all when I give you this news: You’re close to grabbing a strategic advantage over a frustration that has hindered you for a long time.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Life always

gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment,” said Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck. “This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.”

While I appreciate Beck’s advice, I’m perplexed why she put such a heavy emphasis on lessons that arise from difficult events.

In the weeks ahead, you’ll be proof that this is shortsighted. Your teachers are likely to be expansive, benevolent and generous.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A

lathe is a machine that grips a chunk of metal or wood or clay and rotates it so that someone wielding a tool can form the chunk into a desired shape. From a metaphorical point of view, I visualize you as being held by a cosmic lathe right now. God or fate or whatever you’d prefer to call it is chiseling away the nonessential stuff so as to sculpt a more beautiful and useful version of you.

Although the process may be somewhat painful, I think you’ll be happy with the result.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m

hoping you will take maximum advantage of the big opportunity that’s ahead for you, Capricorn: an enhancement of your senses.

That’s right. For the foreseeable future, you not only have the potential to experience extra vivid and memorable perceptions. You could also wangle an upgrade in the acuity and profundity of your senses, so that your sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch will forevermore gather in richer data. For best results, set aside what you believe about the world and just drink in the pure impressions. In other words, focus less on the thoughts rumbling around inside your mind and simply notice what’s going on around you. For extra credit: Cultivate an empathetic curiosity with everything you’d like to perceive better.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What kind

of week will it be for you? It will be like you’re chewing gum while walking down a city street and then suddenly you sneeze, catapulting the gooey mess from your mouth onto the sidewalk in such a way that it gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe, which causes you to trip and fall, allowing you to find a $100 bill that is just lying there unclaimed and that you would have never seen had you not experienced your little fit of “bad luck.” Be ready to cash in on unforeseen twists of fate, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Having served as executive vice-president of the Hedonistic Anarchists Think Tank, I may not seem like the most believable advocate of the virtues of careful preparation, rigorous organization and steely resolve. But if I have learned anything from consorting with hedonistic anarchists, it’s that there’s not necessarily a clash between thrill-seeking and self-discipline. The two can even be synergistic. I think that’s especially true for you right now, Pisces. The quality and intensity of your playtime activities will thrive in direct proportion to your self-command.

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For the week of July 12, 2012

Tamara Hansen has been to Cuba many times, but this year the Vancouver, B.C., resident is getting to the county via a humanitarian-aid mission called Caravan to Cuba, which for the past 20 years has collected things like wheelchairs, sports equipment and computers to send via buses to the U.S.-embargoed country.

The effort, with 10 routes throughout the United States, is organized by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing/Pastors for Peace. Stopping in nearly 100 cities this year, the caravans collect aid and give talks about the impact of the embargo. Hansen’s caravan stopped in Chico last Friday (July 6), departing the next morning. However, the Chico Peace and Justice Center at 526 Broadway collects donations year-round.

How long have you been involved with the caravan?

I’ve been involved in Vancouver, B.C., since 2005. We have an event every year in Vancouver to send off the caravan, similar to the event in Chico held by the Chico Peace and Justice Center. We then organize the border crossing from British Columbia into Washington State.

What supplies does Caravan to Cuba want?

Basically, it is what Cuba needs. We don’t take items like clothes, and we try not to take junk that people have collected in their basements, like their computer from 1984 or their half-broken bicycle. We really want to take items of quality, because this isn’t charity, it is solidarity; we are going to support the people of Cuba.

What sorts of the obstacles do you deal with?

[Border patrol] actually stopped us the past two years and accused us of carrying commercial goods rather than humanitarian aid.

This year, there’s an exciting story: At the B.C. and Washington border there are two crossings: one for people and one for commercial goods. They told us we have to go to the commercial truck crossing. They kept saying it wasn’t their decision, that the orders came from officials higher up.

How did you make it through?

After two attempts at the border with no success, [Border Patrol] told us that some of the aid could go through the crossing, excluding sports equipment, since it was not on ‘their list’ of humanitarian aid. We could not accept that, so we held a protest where several media outlets came from Canada and the United States, and they let us through on the third attempt with all of the items, including sports equipment.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Impermanence I’m old and creaky and conscious of having a tenuous hold on life. I feel like I could keel over at any moment. It’s rather freeing, and I can see now that my hold on life was always tenuous. I just didn’t know it. One oops is all it takes. A heckuva lot of things have to go right for me to keep going. All my innards have to have their act together or I could end up by the side of the road, rather than here in the garden where I won’t get run over.

The same goes for Whitney Houston, Ed McLaughlin, and you. Any hold on life is tenuous. I think that’s why we talk about the “miracle of life.” If you don’t think life’s a miracle, you don’t know enough. We’re all in critical condition. Old news for Buddhists; being conscious of that impermanence somehow makes room for an appreciation of all of life, especially your own. I’m paraphrasing here.

I cut my finger not long ago, and the blood and pain from just that little accident changed my world.

Although a minor mishap, it made any number of actions at least difficult. I carry my keys in a different pocket now because I can’t get my injured hand in a

pocket. Keyboarding has become a pure bother and takes way longer because of all the errirs I make. I can wash dishes only with great difficulty and one hand, all of which is trivial.

My wife’s hold on life seems even more tenuous than mine, but I wouldn’t bet on it even if it were measurable. Retching aside, Janice’s energy level varies from low to lower, and one look makes her general condition obvious. She could still pull through this and outlive me and you, too. Meanwhile, we both periodically try to accept reality and still focus on a vision of a happy future, which works now and then.

Mostly she and I just take things as they come, day by day, minute by minute. Each day was about all we had to think about at the cancer clinic in Arizona—What’s up this morning? Do you want to go to yoga? Is there an infusion today? What do you want to do on the weekend? What’s the weather like?

How do you feel? Are you hungry? Thirsty? Warm enough? Hot? Cold?

No matter how things went during the day, the next day was new and filled with the same infinite possibilities as all the rest of them. Our holds on life then were just like they are now—tenuous. Yours, too.

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