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The Greenline works As we reported last week in our special issue on the Green-

You can’t have it both ways Wor local—has less income than needed to cover expenses (in other words, a deficit), there are only two ways

hen the government—whether state, federal

make record profits while many of us right here in Chico are losing our homes, our jobs, our health care. This is not fair. to fix this: cut spending or increase revenue.

Currently the middle class and working Taxing isn’t the only way to increase poor pay a higher tax rate than the mega-rich revenue. Governments can also charge because the mega-rich do not work for a livuse fees. We do this with our national ing and so do not pay an income tax. Instead, parks, and locally we do this with things they make money by trading stocks, which like parking meters. This could be are taxed at a lower rate. expanded. We could make it so that The middle class and working poor have police patrolled only neighborhoods shouldered enough of the burdens that megawhere people paid a use fee. Or we could rich stock-market trading caused. I do not have fire respond only to houses that are think it is unreasonable to ask them to step up paid up on their monthly fire and start paying their fair share. It by protection dues. would be the responsible thing to Nikki Schlaishunt By today’s standards this do.

The middle class and The author is a sounds absurd, but this is actuIt seems to me that the people writer and social working poor have ally how it used to be in our who scream the loudest when activist working to shouldered enough of spending cuts affect them personcreate a holistic and very own history. What we learned from that experience sustainable world ally are the same people who and community. She was that it is better to pool our the burdens ... vote for politicians who refuse to returned to her resources together to provide increase revenue by raising taxes. hometown of Chico in services to everyone.

That’s This is ironic because that leaves 2007 after living in what taxes do. only spending cuts as an option to fix the Milwaukee, Wis., When we all chip in as we are able for 11 years. very large deficits all governments are curand share our resources, we all then share rently experiencing due to the national recesin the benefits: public safety, education, sion, and if you have to do that much cutting usable roads, drinkable water, etc. The everyone is going to be affected personally. problem right now is that not everyone is You can’t have it both ways: Either we need chipping in as they are able. The richest to cut spending or we need to increase 400 people in the nation continue to revenue. Ω 4 CN&R July 26, 2012

line—the political boundary protecting Chico’s ultra-rich westside farm lands from being paved over by development—there are some areas now outside the Greenline that someday might be more appropriately brought into the urban sphere and developed.

When the Greenline was adopted, on July 21, 1982, it was with the recognition that it might occasionally need adjusting, as situations on the ground demanded. Since then, however, Greenline supporters, led by former Supervisor Jane Dolan, have insisted, successfully, on a zero-tolerance policy toward change, and the line remains exactly as it was 30 years ago.

That’s not a bad thing—unless you’re like the folks on Estes Road, just south of the former Diamond Match property, who own land outside the Greenline that is too small to farm but can’t be developed. Let’s hope their situation is resolved soon.

On balance, though, the Greenline has been a resounding success. At a time when hundreds of thousands of acres of prime agricultural land up and down the Central Valley are being lost forever to development, as cities like Fresno, Merced and Modesto sprawl outward, Chico, which is blessed with soil and growing conditions as advantageous as any in the world, has lost none. That’s something we can feel good about, and even a little proud.

One of the goals of the Greenline always has been to establish the boundary along natural lines such as roads and waterways that provide a clear demarcation between urban and rural uses. The stronger the boundary, the less vulnerable it is to breaching. As it’s now configured, however, the Greenline is weak in several places where it doesn’t follow a natural boundary. In the future, as local officials consider appeals to adjust the line, they should keep that goal in mind, striving always to make the Greenline stronger. Ω

Who needs an assault rifle?

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Aurora, Colo., movie theater: The police responded within three minutes.

But in that time alleged shooter James Holmes was able to kill and wound 70 people.

Why? Because he had an assault rifle with large magazines. Luckily, the gun jammed; otherwise more people would have been shot.

When gun-control advocates talk about increasing restrictions, they’re referring to assault rifles, not handguns or hunting rifles. These rifles are extremely dangerous tools. In the wrong hands, as we’ve seen over and over, they can inflict tremendous damage. They have no other purpose but to kill human beings. They are meant for the military, not people like James Holmes. It’s utterly shameful that the National Rifle Association continues to resist any reasonable effort to restrict and monitor their sales.

Currently Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was killed and son grievously injured in 1993 in a mass shooting by a gunman on the Long Island Railroad, has a bill, H.R. 308, that would bring back the assault-weapons ban that, under pressure from the NRA, was lifted in 2004. The bill would also restrict the sale of large magazines, which enable shooters to kill many people in a short amount of time.

This bill would not infringe on anyone’s right to possess a weapon for self-protection, target shooting or hunting. It would apply only to weapons and magazines that exist for the sole purpose of inflicting as much mayhem on human beings as possible.

If the killings in Aurora have disturbed you as much as they have so many Americans, contact your congressional representative to voice your support of commonsensical controls on assault rifles and large magazines. Ω

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Sending the wrong message This week it’s the $14 billion “peripheral tunnels” under the Delta. Last week it was the $68 billion high-speed railroad. In just two weeks, Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature have committed the state to at least $82 billion in infrastructure bonds.

Whether the projects are worth the money is of course debatable. Both have their backers and their opponents. What isn’t debatable is that such extravagant spending couldn’t come at a worse time for the governor’s effort to obtain voter approval in November of his temporary tax measure.

Nor does it help that last week we learned that State Parks had some $54 million squirreled away that apparently nobody knew about. That’s far more than would have been needed to keep open the 70 parks slated for closure.

This is dismaying for those of us who see the tax measure as critically important to the state’s solvency and the maintenance of a minimal level of services, especially education. Many voters have a dismally low opinion of state government as it is. They don’t trust legislators or the governor with taxpayer money. How in the world, they ask, could someone lose $54 million?

The irony is that, as prelude to the vote on the tax measure, Brown has been unrelenting in cutting spending to lower the deficit, as if to prove to voters that the state can be trusted with their money. These latest developments threaten to negate that effort, and that’s a shame.

Crime takes time: The Chico Police Department’s press releases have a new wrinkle these days. In addition to the usual rundowns of criminal activity, they now often include information on just how much police time was spent on each case.

A July 13 release about a scary home invasion on Roseleaf Court, for example, included this information: “This incident necessitated the response of all on duty Officers, including the Chief of Police, for a total of thirteen CPD officers and twenty one man hours (follow up investigation hours not included).”

On July 20, 11 officers and a police dog were used to arrest a man who’d fled police following a traffic violation and ended up having illegal weapons and burgled items in his car. The initial investigation, we learn, required approximately 12 man hours, and subsequent investigation took eight additional hours.

It’s tempting to see this new info as CPD propaganda, but I like getting it. It offers a valuable perspective on the complex work our police officers perform.

Exit stage left: Say what you will about Quentin Colgan, who died Monday night at the tender age of 54, he was one of the most colorful figures on the local scene. An actor who was always “on,” he made Chico the main stage on which he played out his satires and lambasted those he considered fools. If he sometimes worked himself into Falstaffian bombast, it was always in the service of a healthy distrust of authority and love for ordinary Americans.

Besides, it was part of his shtick. He was serious, but if you looked closely, you could see him winking.

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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Dolan’s controversial legacy Re “The Greenline at 30” (Special issue, July 19): Jane Dolan is rightly celebrated for her vision in creating the Greenline. Unfortunately, she has also created an irrational fear that even considering the legitimate concerns of those who farm within the urban area in southwest Chico is a threat to the Greenline concept itself. This is patent nonsense, if not political suicide.

In the long run, the Greenline is far better served by a regular and genuine review process.

The current line, as it was drawn 30 years ago, may be sacrosanct to some, but adjusting boundaries over time will actually insure that the Greenline remains relevant in accomplishing its original purpose as our population and city continue to grow.

Chico’s infrastructure needs have changed a lot in 30 years. Farming within urban densities has also changed a lot during that same time. Responding thoughtfully to changing realities will address the future far more effectively than dogmatic (and even fearful) allegiance to the past.

Finally, let’s not forget that Chico, like many California towns, was intentionally established on prime agricultural land. This accounts for the wide variety of tall trees that are so much a part of Chico’s charm. Those who would use the Greenline to force all new development onto the lava cap might consider balancing their agenda with John Bidwell’s original vision. Most of us can agree that he had a pretty good one.

JOE HOGAN Chico

[Jane Dolan] never gives up, never gives a thought to being wrong, and is only too happy to decide how other people’s property can be used or not used. A true socialist whose policies have helped to keep housing out of reach for so many by limiting how much of other people’s land can be used for housing.

She, of course, has her house and could care less if others do or not.

So sad, and so very typical of the type of smug politicos who we have allowed to rule and ruin even the most basic aspects of our lives. Hopefully people will learn not to accept or support such callous disregard of basic property rights some day.

She, like her cohorts, will never accept the real cost in human terms her collectivist idealogy has wrought. She is still wrongly convinced that this is her so-called legacy, when it is actually the opposite. Time will find that she was totally wrong and irresponsible to the poor uneducated masses who supported her.

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I’m just the messenger Re “Damage control,” subhead “Harsh words” (From This Corner,

by Robert Speer, July 19): I believe your conclusion regarding my letter to the editor is way off the mark.

Harsh criticism of the budget?

Or of the person who wrote it?

That is quite a reach. There is absolutely nothing personal about my letter. It was quite clearly about the budget and council priorities.

I think that this is more of a situation where the truth hurts. It burns. It has me very concerned. I would describe my letter as being a brief, concise and absolutely objective and factual presentation of the situation in 127 words. The news is not good, but don’t shoot the messenger.

Very few people watch Chico City Council meetings. The public reach of that singular forum only reaches a tiny sliver of Chico citizens.

Not only do I maintain my right to free speech as a council member, but I have an absolute obligation to the public to alert them to serious issues affecting the city.

Particularly when the press utterly fails to inform the public about the very details of the city budget that my letter covered. If anything, I worry that I have not been outspoken enough on a variety of issues facing this great city.

MARK SORENSEN Chico

Blame the progressives Re “The real cause” (Letters, by Quentin Colgan, July 12): The costs surrounding the special election held regarding Measure A have been distorted. Yes, it did cost $150,000, but why? That’s the elephant in the room.

The progressives on the City Council chose the method by which the election would be held.

Per the City Charter (which is the city’s constitution), Section 501 clearly states, “The City Council may determine that any Special Election shall be held by mailed ballot,” etc. That would have cut the cost by half, at least.

But the council chose the most expensive means possible, voting at the precinct. They were afraid that just telling the students they were being disenfranchised, which was an obvious lie, would not be sufficient to defeat it.

As to “it’s all the Tea Party’s fault”: I was the only signature to the measure. I felt no need to consult the Tea Party before I took that action, but did enlist the help of many concerned citizens to gather

“The greedy bankers who have made millions off these scams haven’t been touched by any government agency and continue to gamble with our money.”

had a small home, a modest pension, and a small investment to supplement our Social Security.

Because of the greed, fraud and lack of integrity rampant in the banking industry, we lost 30 percent to 40 percent of our investment value and about $40,000 to $60,000 in home equity.

How about clawing back some of these traders’ and CEOs’ ill-gotten gains? How about a little prison time? The government was able to jail Martha Stewart for insider trading that netted her $40,000, yet cannot make a case when these crooks steal $100,000 from me? How much have they taken from you?

RICH MEYERS Oroville

—Rich Meyers

the more than 8,000 signatures required to put it on the ballot.

Toby Schindelbeck has called upon our finance director to adhere to Section 908 of the City Charter, which states “[the] Finance Director shall submit to the Council through the City Manager monthly statements of receipts, disbursements and balances in such form as to show the exact financial condition of the City.” It does not state when you may want to or if you have time to; it says “shall.”

No one on the council or otherwise can remember when that may have happened last. If it was being done as the charter states, it would have been recognized that the city was facing a financial Armageddon and steps could have been taken much earlier in the fiscal year to avoid the closing of Fire Station 5.

STEPHANIE L. TABER Chico

Lock up the thieves Re “The scam of all scams” (Editorial, July 12): Libor price fixing, predatory lending that led to the huge burst bubble of home values across the country, and the gambling addiction of the banking industry all seem like they are happening in another world.

The greedy bankers who have made millions off these scams haven’t been touched by any government agency and continue to gamble with our money. So far all we have are settlements where the banks refuse to admit any wrongdoing and the stockholders get stuck paying fines that amount to pennies on the dollar of gains fraudulently acquired by CEOs and traders.

Instead of the billions of dollars we hear about and cannot relate to, let’s make this personal! After working locally for 30 years, we

Don’t charge the chief Re “Wintu chief fined, faces jail time” (Downstroke, July 12): I am not a lawyer, mind you, but I do not understand why the chief has been arrested or is being fined, etc. Nothing about this makes any sense. It is my hope and prayer that Chief Caleen Sisk is freed and that all charges are dropped!

SCOT ALBERT Davis

When the seas rise…

Most climate models predict the oceans will rise at the most 20 inches in the next 40 to 80 years.

But ice sheets and glaciers are melting faster then predicted by these same models. Surface lakes that now regularly form on these structures drain to where the ice meets bedrock, essentially lubricating them and accelerating their movement into the ocean.

In the worst-case scenario predicted by at least one model, a feedback loop will exponentially increase melting, and in a few short years large ice sheets like the one on Greenland will slide off into the ocean, raising sea levels up to 20 feet!

How many nuclear-power plants would then be flooded and go into meltdown? Of course, with the ensuing release of massive amounts of radiation, higher forms of life on Earth would go extinct, including us.

But don’t worry: After the halflife of these isotopes passes in a few short millennia, evolution will start again.

R. STERLING OGDEN Chico More letters online:

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Dale Rudesill plays the role of the Westlands Desert Ag rep pulling money from the proposed peripheral tunnels while John Hollister acts as Gov. Brown and an unidentified man holds the representation of a withering North State crop during a live skit at the Feather River Nature Center.

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On Monday, July 23, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the $787 million program will fund 255 projects in 48 states, including the replacement of Butte Regional Transit’s administration, operations and maintenance facility, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation press release.

The new facility will be designed to meet LEED Gold standards (an environmentally focused building certification) and will include energy-generating solar canopies.

The grant is part of President Obama’s ongoing efforts to modernize the nation’s public transportation system. In fiscal years 2010-11, the Federal Transit Administration awarded more than $1.8 billion to “state of good repair projects,” mostly for buses and bus facilities.

SHE’S OUTTA THERE …

Courtney Farrell, the newest executive director of the Chico Creek Nature Center, has vacated that position just six months into her tenure.

Her final day in the job was last Wednesday, July 18, according to a CCNC press release sent to the CN&R that same day.

Farrell previously served as the development director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Valley. She was hired in January, replacing longtime Executive Director Tom Haithcock, who’d stepped down citing family and other outside obligations.

Farrell has accepted a position at 3CORE, a Chico-based nonprofit organization focused on regional economic development.

The CCNC Board of Directors has hired Don Krysakowski as interim director of the nonprofit. Krysakowski is the former assistant director of Chico State’s Center for Economic Development, which is where Farrell came from as well.

GOODBYE, GOOD MAN

Former Chico City Council candidate Quentin Colgan was found dead in his bed this past Monday morning, July 23. He was 54. The cause of death is unknown and autopsy results won’t be available for another month, according to the Butte County SheriffCoroner’s Office.

A longtime player in the local community-theater scene, Colgan (pictured) perhaps has been best known lately as a political activist/prankster (who once dressed up as the Mad Hatter to ruffle feathers at a Tea Party rally).

In 2010, he ran for council on a nonpartisan platform that espoused a desire to advocate for “ordinary working people.” A frequent contributor of letters to the CN&R, Colgan also, until recently, penned a political blog called The Uncomfortable Truth. A public memorial in his honor will be held at the ARC Pavilion on Sunday, July 29, at 3 p.m.

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Tunnel vision Local water-protection group protests Delta water project

A defenders, held a press conference complete with a skit on Tuesday, July 24, at the Feather quAlliance, the local water-rights

River Nature Center in Oroville in anticipation of Gov. Jerry Brown’s unveiling the next day of plans to build story and two huge tunnels under the Bay photos by Delta to facilitate delivering Tom Gascoyne water south. Brown was to be tomg@ joined by U.S. Interior Secretary newsreview.com Ken Salazar for the presentation.

The plan would cost an estimated $14 billion—to be paid by water users—and create two underground tunnels each 33 feet in diameter that would transfer up to 9,000 cubic feet of water per second 37 miles from the Sacramento River to state and federal pumping stations in Tracy. From there it would flow through State Water Project and Central Valley Project canals How much per that extend all the way to San gallon? Diego, irrigating some 3 million A bill calling for a acres of farm land and helping cost-benefit supply water to 25 million Calianalysis of the fornians. Restoring the Delta peripheral- could cost another $9 billion, tunnels project was defeated in which would be partially floated the State by a water bond.

Backers of the project say it Legislature earlier this year under is the only way to save the considerable Delta’s estuarial system, which pressure from is being destroyed under curSouthern California water rent conditions. Opponents say interests. its cost—financial and environ-

mental—is too great.

“The project is insanity on steroids,” said Barbara Vlamis, AquAlliance’s executive director, in a press release announcing the press conference. She said under the guise of restoring the Delta, which has been drained of water for years, “the plan will drain the Sacramento River and its groundwater basins to continue unsustainable agriculture in the most arid part of the south state.”

She said the project will leave less fresh-water flow for salmon in the Sacramento River system, the only Central Valley system with returning salmon. “And so you start depleting the water farther up the Sacramento, warming the temperature, it’ll be less friendly to returning and migrating salmon.”

Vlamis said the project will also increase the demand on North State groundwater, depleting local rivers and creeks.

The project will need to gain federal and state permits from wildlife agencies that are restoring salmon runs and protecting other endangered species, but Vlamis said she doesn’t trust the system.

“Based on what has occurred already, it will be so slow that we may lose [the salmon] in the process,” she said. “The San Joaquin is an example of where groundwater has been depleted and they have no salmon any more. We would like to think that government agencies would jump in and try to protect our environment, but history has

not proven that they will do that.”

Members and supporters of

AquaAllince performed a live skit during the press conference to illustrate their point. While member Jim Brobeck played acoustic guitar in the background, “Gov. Brown” made a deal with a man representing “Westlands Desert Ag.” While blue cloth representing water was pushed into one end of the “tunnels,” the Westlands man pulled money from the other end. Kathy Faith held up signs with messages like “Ka Sham!!”

Vlamis said opposition to the project has had support from 12 state representatives who’ve written letters to Salazar asking the feds to back off on the project.

“A significant number of counties, including Kern, are even starting to express concerns they might get less water with the project. And then there is the fact that the cost is going to be covered by rate-payers, including those on the coast who are not going to benefit at all.”

She also questioned how the project would help restore the Delta by siphoning massive amounts of water early in the system, before it gets to the Delta.

“They have no plan,” she said.

“Hydrology is not part of this. [Brown’s] moving forward and says, ‘We’ll figure it out later.’”

The project is similar to one

defeated by voters in 1982, during

Brown’s first term as governor. Vlamis said Brown’s interest goes back further than that, to when his father, Pat Brown, was governor.

“This is a family deal here,” she said.

“His dad wanted that peripheral canal; he saw it as the completion of the State Water Project. Now it sure looks like [Brown’s] just trying to complete his dad’s dream, and it’s helping wealthy people he knows in the southern San Joaquin Valley mega-farms.”

Vlamis said that the North State’s supply of groundwater is also endangered by the project.

“If they start siphoning the amount of water they are talking about directly from the Sacramento River, the state will require some flow to continue to come down that river to try to protect the fish and the Delta,” she said. “Where’s it going to come from? Our groundwater.

They are going to incorporate the groundwater one way or another into this system. This is a mad scheme that’s going to devastate our area. It’s been child’s play up to this point, compared to what will happen if they put this in.”

Alliance member and longtime water watcher Brobeck called the project a temporary fix for a permanent problem.

Environmental activists, he said, have helped prevent the continued destruction of the Delta.

“There’ve been constraints on how much water can be pumped out of the Delta at certain times of the year,” he said. “This peripheral canal is an attempt to override those exiting constraints on the overuse of the water that should be flowing out to the San Francisco Bay to help the fish complete their lifecycle.”

He called the project a waste of money.

“It’ll allow California to continue this unreasonable use of water for another few years before they find out that this is impacting the fisheries that provide food for everybody,” he said.

Science has not been considered, he charged. Instead the project is an attempt to provide the water demands of Southern California while also rehabilitating the North State’s fishery system, an approach that’s been labeled as meeting “co-equal goals.”

“These co-equal goals are not scientific,” he said. “They are the result of political pressure. The scientists will tell you that if you didn’t have to abide by these political pressures the best science would be keeping more water in the river system to provide natural flows to rehabilitate the fishery.”

He said the co-equal goals are in reality being pushed by the “industrial farms in the San Joaquin Valley.”

“It’s an attempt to override the constraints that exist to prevent sucking water directly out of the Delta,” he said.

“The problem is simply the over-allocation of water.” Ω

Daisy Bram and husband Jayme Walsh with their children, Zeus and Thor.

Fight goes on

PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR

Daisy Bram wins custody, but faces child-abuse charges related to medi-pot The past year has been quite a whirlwind for Daisy Bram. The 31-year-old mother of two has had her home raided; she and her husband, Jayme Walsh, were arrested; and their children were ripped from her arms.

The couple celebrated a small victory earlier this month in their battle against Butte County’s Children’s Services Division, but their fight is far from over.

In a March 2012 cover story, the CN&R chronicled Bram and Walsh’s fight with CSD for custody of their children. That story explained how the couple’s trouble began with a raid on their medical-marijuana garden by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office in September 2011. It also showed that Bram’s case—and indeed other, non-medical-marijuana-related CSD cases—had attracted the attention of local cannabis and parentalrights activists as well as local and state media. Bram points to the prominent, persistent protests by her supporters and media attention by the CN&R, the Sacramento Bee and the San Jose Mercury News as contributing to her case being dropped by CSD. “With all the attention and media that we drew every time we went to court—I think they kind of wanted off it,” said Bram, who was reunited with her children in February.

“On July 12, we had a status hearing [with CSD],” she continued. “They finally said, ‘We find there’s no reason to keep the kids away from their parents.’”

That day was a major milestone for Bram and Walsh. It marked the end of at least part of the nightmare they’ve lived through these past nine months. But the couple are acutely aware

of the impact their story has had on others.

“I think in a way it’s a groundbreaking case, because there are a lot of people in the medical-marijuana community who have been put in the same position as Daisy,” said Bram’s L.A. attorney, Michael Levinsohn, by phone recently. “She succeeded where 99 percent of the lawyers around there [Butte County] don’t succeed. She got her kids back, and she’s allowed to use medical cannabis.”

One of the biggest issues to come out

of Bram’s story is whether it is safe to consume cannabis while breastfeeding. CSD said it was not and even got a court order barring Bram from breastfeeding her infant and toddler until urine tests came back negative for THC. “Lots of moms smoke pot and breastfeed.

Maybe nobody will admit to it, but it’s a lot more common than people are aware of,” Bram said. “It’s really hard to get anyone to say it’s bad because there’s no science to back it up.”

She’s right. Internet searches for “breastfeeding” and “marijuana” provide little to no actual data—mostly message boards and

SIFT|ER How much do we earn?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average worker in the Chico Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Butte County, earned $20.12 per hour in May 2011, about 7 percent below the U.S. average of $21.74 per hour.

Additional employment and wage data showed that: • Management occupations were highest paid, at $43.86 per hour, followed by legal

occupations at $40.03 per hour (both were 15 percent under the national average, however).

• Health-care support occupations such as dental assistants and pharmacy aides

accounted for 5 percent of local employment, compared to 3.1 percent nationally.

• Home health aides averaged $9.31 per hour and had a total employment count of 800.

• Office and administrative support occupations had the largest share of

employment, at 17.5 percent.

A final note: CN&R employees were not surprised to learn that their category— arts, design, entertainment, sports and media—averaged $19.45 per hour, a full 25 percent less than the national average of $25.89 per hour.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_17020.htm

sites that are either clearly pro- or anti-marijuana.

In searching about breastfeeding, however, there is plenty of research that shows breastfeeding is significantly healthier for infants than formula.

(During the five months Bram and Walsh’s boys, Zeus and Thor, were in foster care, they were breastfed infrequently, getting their nutrients through formula instead.)

The breastfeeding issue has wider implications for Bram, however. In February, the Butte County District Attorney’s Office refiled previously dropped charges of child abuse and endangerment against Bram linked at least in part to her breastfeeding with THC in her system. (It can take from several weeks to months after consumption for THC to leave the body entirely.) The DA’s Office is also alleging that the presence of marijuana in the couple’s home endangered their children, because gardens invite violent robberies and raw marijuana can be eaten by children.

“The prosecution brought in an expert witness [during the preliminary hearing], a medical doctor who said she had come across several cases where children had eaten raw marijuana and gotten sick,” Levinsohn explained.

“The concern is that if you have raw marijuana around the house, it could be picked up.

Children will put things in their mouths.”

DA Mike Ramsey said there was more than just marijuana involved in the concern over child endangerment.

“They were also manufacturing hash, which includes the use of solvents that are dangerous to children,” Ramsey said. “This was a commercial operation with marijuana trimmings all over the house and accessible to the toddler who could, as they are apt to do, share with the baby sibling.”

The preliminary hearing on the criminal charges started at the end of June and is scheduled to resume Aug. 1. Levinsohn is prepared to request that all testimony by the doctor be stricken because she was unable to produce evidence—in the form of medical records—to back up her claims that she’d treated children who’d become ill from eating raw marijuana.

Bram and Walsh, who maintain their garden was for personal use only, are hoping that the case will be dismissed, but they’re not holding their breath. Bram, who is pregnant with the couple’s third child and due in September, is poised to continue the fight.

“I’ve already been separated from one newborn—I’m not going to do it again,” she said.

—MEREDITH J. GRAHAM meredithjgraham@gmail.com

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Local fundraisers react to the State Parks scandal Bidwell Mansion advocates who helped raise approximately $120,000 to keep the building open in the face of threatened closures are reeling over the June 20 revelation that the California Department of Parks and Recreation has been sitting on more that $50 million of unreported funds for up to 12 years.

“Like everyone else, we’re surprised and alarmed,” said Maria Phillips, press secretary for the Bidwell Mansion Community Project. The BMCP was formed in November of last year to raise Maria Phillips and others who have worked as fundraisers to help keep State Parks sites $100,000 by July 1, money State open were shocked by news that the department had millions of dollars hidden away.

Parks claimed was necessary to PHOTO BY KEN SMITH keep the mansion open three days a week for the 2012-13 fiscal year.

“It is incredibly alarming,” but just got word that it was another newly discovered scandal Phillips continued, “because either signed,” she said. “We’re still not within the department’s headquarthis was done on purpose, which is ters: a vacation-buyout program for sure if Ruth Coleman signed it or if really horrible, or the accounting it was signed by [Interim Director] employees that cost taxpayers an methods and oversight used were Janelle Beland.” estimated $270,000. sloppy.”

Other uncertainties loom in the The scandal came to light last Last year State Parks, face of the scandal, but Phillips Friday, July 20, as Ruth Coleman, responding to a projected state said for now the BMCP will conState Parks’ director, stepped down budget deficit, threatened closure tinue as usual. “We plan to keep from the position she’d held since of 70 of the state’s 279 parks, with contributing the $20,000 per quar1999. Another State Parks official, Bidwell Mansion included on the ter,” she said. “All of the money Chief Deputy Director Michael hit list. Statewide, community we have raised will still go to the Harris, was fired over the debacle organizations struck deals with the mansion.” the same day, and the state is still parks to raise money necessary to Phillips said that it is still N E W S &how REV I E money W B U S went I N E S S U keep S E O them N L Y operating. Last month, investigating the unclear if all of the found money DESIGNER ISSUE DATE EXEC. unreported.

Upon resigning, Cole- ACCT. it was announced most of the parks will go back to keeping parks open.

05.03.12 JLD stay open. man said MA she was unaware of the would “No matter what, this money is NAME REV.“It’s DATE funds FILE but accepted responsibility. not just a question of trust a one-shot deal,” she continued.

07.28.11 “IHUGHESSKIHUT050312R2 am personally appalled to being lost, it’s also a question of “There’s still a systemic deficit in learn that our documents not resources being channeled to an the structure of funding for State USP (BOLDwere SELECTION) accurate,” Coleman said in her res- / area that might not have needed it Parks that will take several years to PRICE / ATMOSPHERE / EXPERT UNIQUE ignation letter, released by the so much,” Phillips said. “While we correct. … If the parks department YOUR Governor’sPLEASE Office. CAREFULLY REVIEW were working so hard to save the works in good faith distributing ADVERTISEMENT AND VERIFY THE FOLLOWING: Natural Resources Agency Sec- mansion and get money for it, we this money, it will take some of the AD SIZE (COLUMNS X INCHES) retary John Laird, who oversees were inadvertently damaging other pressure off [nonprofits].”

SPELLING State Parks, told The Associated nonprofits, very worthy ones, that Phillips explained the BMCP NUMBERS & DATES was Press that the investigation really could have used the help. worked hard on the wording of its INFO to (PHONE, ADDRESSES, ETC.) ongoingCONTACT and refused speculate “We do think that the damage donor agreement to ensure that it AD APPEARS AS REQUESTED on whether the surplus was caused done morally obligates them to at would receive regular accounting APPROVED BY: by a legitimate mistake or wrongleast provide funds matching what reports. The first of these is due doing. He said thus far there’s no we’ve raised.” before the organization hands over indication any money was stolen.

Phillips also said the mix-up at another $20,000, Phillips said.

The money—nearly $54 milthe state level momentarily threw “The only good news that may lion—came from two separate all of their efforts into limbo: The come of this is that State Parks perfunds. A State Parks and RecreBMCP just signed its donor agreesonnel and offices might be a little ation fund held $20.4 million more ment and handed the first $20,000 easier to work with,” she continthan reported, while an off-highquarterly installment to local State ued. “They haven’t always been way vehicle fund held $33.5 milParks representative Michael willing or able to give us all of the lion extra. The monies in question Fehling at a public ceremony at the information we’ve wanted and are collected from park fees and mansion on July 16. The other signeeded. Now more than ever, we rentals and from registering all-ter- nature needed to make the docuare insisting on total disclosure and rain vehicles, respectively. ment official was Coleman’s. total transparency.”

The missing surplus was dis“We were afraid of how it —KEN SMITH covered as State Parks investigated might affect the donor agreement, kens@newsreview.com

On the defensive Butte County DA sued by local cattleman Ten years after he was cited on charges of diverting a creek without proper permits, a Butte County cattleman and cabinet maker is suing the Butte County district attorney for damages associated with the case. That lawsuit is currently in federal court.

Irv Leen owns a chunk of property— about 180 acres—that sits between Highway 70 and Clark Road just southwest of Butte College. He is also the vice president of the Butte County Cattlemen’s Association and serves on the board of directors of the Butte County Farm Bureau.

On Oct. 23, 2002, a warden from the state Department of Fish & Game noticed a man on a tractor who appeared to be altering a creek that ran across the property. The warden, Joe Powell, believed the man, identified as Frank Green, had also installed a culvert into an existing bootlegged dam to divert water to a newly cut 2,100-foot ditch. Powell requested that a formal complaint be filed against Green by the District Attorney’s Office for violation of a DF&G code.

A few months later Powell learned that a man named Irv Leen owned the adjacent property and was in the process of buying the land with the diverted stream via bankruptcy proceedings. Leen had made an agreement with Green to alter the waterway with a new bootlegged dam.

The following October, Deputy District Attorney Hal Thomas filed a misdemeanor complaint against both men for altering the creek, allowing waste material to enter “waters of the state,” trespassing and unlawfully obstructing free passage or use of a stream, canal or basin. Both entered pleas of no contest.

The case dragged through the courts

and was heard by four different judges over the next 10 years. Aerial photos used by the prosecution in the case show a dramatic decline in vegetation from 2002 to 2005 where the stream used to run. Court documents say the 2002 modification caused “a deeper stream course and resulted in the dewatering of the historic channel of large mature willows and cottonwood trees that were removed and pushed into piles on the flood plain.”

Leen had agreed under a plea agreement in 2004 to restore the old stream. In 2007, he found an old water-rights license that he said gave him the right to divert the water and withdrew his plea. The DA argued that the water-right license belonged to an earlier owner, Earl Parker, and was from the 1960s.

After five years of non-use, the DA says, the water right lapses.

That owner sold the property to music promoter Clay Gunn, who built a venue called The Field of Dreams. The concerts stopped and the land went into bankruptcy.

Before altering the waterway, Green had

removed tires and other debris from the old creek.

Leen could not be reached for this story. In 2010, when Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey was being challenged for reelection by Sacramento DUI attorney Lance Daniel, Leen posted a comment on the Chico Enterprise-Record website in reference to that paper’s endorsement of Ramsey.

Leen referred to the case against him: “That was in 2003. Fast forward past 67 times in court, 125,000 in lawyers fees and you have me going to court on 6/2/10 for arraignment (maybe).”

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On March 3, 2011, the case finally

came to a jury for determination. That jury, acting on the instructions of Butte County Superior Court Judge Gerald Hermansen, acquitted Leen of three charges—altering a stream without notifying the DF&G, unlawful deposit of waste into a stream, and trespassing with the intent to interfere. The fourth charge, obstructing the free passage of a stream, was dismissed. By that time Leen had hired Bay Area attorney Therese Cannata.

Ramsey chalks up the jury’s response to Hermansen’s giving less-than-adequate jury instructions, including the words “navigatable stream” to describe waterways worthy of protection.

“The jury thought we had not met our burden,” he said. “It didn’t help that we were with an unnamed stream that serves as a tributary to a waterway called the Dry Creek.”

Also named in Leen’s suit against the DA, besides Ramsey and Thomas, are Sandra Morey of the DF&G, Jenny Marr, a local biologist, and John Lane, an environmental scientist.

Cannata, Leen’s attorney, also represented local businessman George Scott, who was prosecuted by the DA in connection with the four scrap metal shops he has in Butte County. He, too, sued the DA in federal court, but the case was dismissed. Ramsey said his attorney filed a motion to dismiss the Leen case on June 26. Cannata must respond by Aug, 21. Otherwise the next hearing is set for Sept. 4.

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THE PULSE

HEALTHLINES Linda Reynolds, RN, CWOCN, is nurse manager of Enloe Medical Center’s Wound/Ostomy & Hyperbaric Center.

PRODUCE-INSPECTION PROGRAM AXED

Federal budget plans do not include funding for the only program that regularly tests produce for pathogens.

President Obama did not request funds for the Microbiological Data Program—run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—in his most recent budget revision, with Congress also overlooking the program while penning agriculture spending bills, according to The Washington Post. The USDA suggested transferring the program to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates fruits and vegetables, but the FDA lacks funding for additional inspectors.

Consumer advocates have decried the decision to cut the program, which was funded with roughly $5 million last year.

The program initiated 30 recalls since 2009 amidst mounting evidence that fruits and vegetables are major carriers of food-borne illness.

PHOTO BY KYLE EMERY

POT RESEARCH TOUTS BENEFITS

America’s most expansive studies on the medicinal benefits of marijuana have concluded pot does indeed have therapeutic value.

After more than a dozen years of studies and $8.7 million in state funding, California’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research found marijuana offers pain relief for nerve damage from injuries, HIV, strokes and other conditions, according to The Sacramento Bee. The UC San Diego-based research center has exhausted its funding after hundreds of statecommissioned clinical trials in which HIV and AIDS patients were monitored before and after consuming marijuana, and researchers did such things as introduce a painful ingredient in chili peppers underneath the skin of pot smokers and tested a Volcano Vaporizer to gauge whether smokeless pot represented a healthier consumption method.

“Every one of the studies showed a benefit,” said Dr. Igor Grant, former director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research. “The convergence of evidence makes me convinced there is a medical benefit here, and there may be a niche for cannabis.”

IMPERIAL COUNTY AIR TOUGH ON KIDS

Children with asthma in Imperial County are far more likely than children in any other California county to visit the emergency room or become hospitalized.

A combination of high winds, heavy use of agricultural pesticides, industrial pollution from Mexico, unpaved roads, and a high number of lowincome families lacking health-care coverage cause Imperial County’s children to visit the ER for asthma at a rate three times higher than the state average, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Severe asthma is a problem for children elsewhere in California—particularly in heavily agricultural Central Valley cities like Fresno, Bakersfield and Merced—but Imperial County is far and away the worst for hospitalizations and ER visits. One in five of the county’s children have been diagnosed with an incurable respiratory disease requiring medication.

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Happy to help Enloe nurse Linda Reynolds stands out for her devotion to patients with ... well, ‘icky’ problems

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EJobs? That’s the impression many people get from Linda Reynolds’ profesver see the TV show Dirty

sion. Along with certification as a registered nurse (or RN), Reynolds is a certified wound, ostomy and continence nurse (CWOCN). She treats patients whose wounds won’t heal, patients whose bladder or colon flow have been surgically rerouted, and patients who have trouble with incontinence.

More crudely put, she cleans festering sores and cleans up after urination and fecal movements.

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it—and Reynolds does it gladly.

“It’s definitely considered the most icky [of nursing specialties],” Reynolds said in a recent phone interview. “There’s definitely a negative connotation. People ask me, ‘How are you able to do it?’

“It’s truly a love of being able to change people’s lives and give them their life back.”

She’s not exaggerating. After spending 17 of her 25 years at Enloe Medical Center focused on wounds, ostomy—“an opera-

tion (as a colostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy) to create an artificial passage for bodily elimination and continence,” according to Merriam-Webster.com—and continence, Reynolds has treated myriad patients who’d have grown more reclusive and/or more infected without the care of a CWOCN. Take an elderly gentleman with cancer (whose name she won’t share out of respect for confidentiality). The man lost his eye to the disease, and while radiation treatments brought him into remission, he was left with dead bone in the socket and a wet wound that would not heal.

Once or twice a day, he required new bandages. The only time he’d leave his

house was to see medical specialists at Stanford University. No longer would he attend Chico Performances events at the university. He nearly missed his granddaughter’s wedding.

Reynolds got connected with the man through Enloe Home Health & Hospice.

Together they honed his bandaging regimen to the point where he just needed to change it once a week. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy played a significant role, too, healing roughly 80 percent of the wound.

“He lived 6 years and 11 months going out and doing the things he enjoyed,” Reynolds said. “When he died, he died of old age! I never could heal the wound but HEALTHLINES continued on page 14

APPOINTMENTS HEALTH GIVEAWAYS, SCREENINGS On Friday, July 27, Oroville Hospital will host its annual health fair at the Oroville Sports Club (2600 Oro Dam Blvd.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free health screenings will be provided in addition to giveaways and a raffle. Call Oroville Hospital at 532-8640 for more information.

On Monday, July 30, Women’s Health Specialists (1469 Humboldt Road) will honor its late founder Dido Hasper by providing free self-cervical-exam kits to every woman who visits the clinic. Call 891-1917 for more information.

Oroville Hospital’s

Community Health Fair Friday, July 27 • 10am tO 2pm OrOville SpOrtS Club • 2600 OrO dam blvd For Oroville Hospital, the notion of “friends

the parking lot. Fair attendees also will be able

serving neighbors” doesn’t extend only to

to peek inside a California Highway patrol

community,” taylor says. “through this event,

emergencies. it’s an everyday mission for

vehicle, a First responder ambulance and a

adults and kids will be introduced to what

doctors, nurses, and staff to promote wellness.

fire truck.

Oroville Hospital has new to offer them and get

Oroville Hospital hosts an annual

located at Oroville Sports Club, hospital

Community Health Fair. this year’s fair is

departments will set up booths, where

scheduled for July 27, with dozens of exhibits,

healthcare professionals will conduct free

tours and demonstrations for people of all

health screenings and answer questions. you

ages. in the spirit of “community,” other

can get your blood sugar, cholesterol, blood

public health and safety agencies will

pressure, heart rate, and oxygen saturation

participate as well.

levels tested.

best of all, Oroville Hospital’s Community Health Fair is free! director of education, says Oroville Hospital

reacquainted with our day-to-day operations.”

• Watch the REACH helicopter land in the parking lot, take a “tour” of the First Responder Ambulance, a local Fire Truck, and peek inside a CHP car.

it’s like getting a free wellness checkup! it’s also a lot of fun: booths will feature

Cherith taylor, the medical center’s

“Oroville Hospital is doing so much for our

• Free Health Screenings, get your blood

games and activities along with

sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure,

informational handouts.

heart rate, and oxygen saturation.

holds annual health fairs in order for medical professionals “to meet our growing community, find out their needs, and to continue our goals of helping our community members reach healthier lifestyles. also, we want to give our community members a chance to see what services and resources Oroville Hospital has available to them.”

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kept him pretty much infectionfree, which I consider a life-altering success.”

Reynolds also remembers the 22-year-old bull rider who got bucked off and stepped on by a bull, crushing his abdomen and injuring his bowel. The young man required a temporary ostomy … and a supportive nurse to help him transition to the external bag for his bodily functions.

She remembers a woman with diabetes who could have lost a foot to amputation, but wound therapy saved the limb. She More info: remembers a Linda Reynolds, RN, man with CWOCN, sees patients bladder canthrough Enloe cer who, Medical Center’s Wound/ Ostomy & since receivHyperbaric Center ing his urias well as Enloe’s nary ostomy, Ostomy Clinic and has become in the hospital. “like family For more information, check to me”— www.enloe.org/ going so far wound or call as to craft a 332-7144. wooden Christmas ornament for her tree.

“That touches you in a way I don’t have words for,” Reynolds said. “As a nurse, I am so blessed that I have this healing ability, this skill to touch another human being that way. It’s an honor, because they’re making my life better.

That’s why I do it.”

Reynolds started her career

as a critical-care nurse. After six months at Enloe, she wanted to branch out into educational nursing, so she took a position in the medical/surgical ward. She found she loved helping patients get ready for discharge and transition back to their home lives.

About eight years later, she discovered the field of ostomy and wound care at a national conference.

“People would have these lifealtering surgeries, and I didn’t know how to help,” Reynolds said.

“It excited me there was a specialty dedicated to wounds, ostomy and continence.”

She went to school in Texas to receive training and certification, then returned to Chico, where she found plenty of patients in need of her services.

Education remains a major component of her nursing. Along with leading a support group, Reynolds performs community outreach to help patients learn about the services available to them.

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“The practice of wound care and ostomy care has changed so much—there’s more information, more technology. … People may remember a relative who was reclusive or smelled. That family got imprinted with a negative perception that’s not accurate anymore.”

Reynolds is now nurse manager of the Enloe Wound/Ostomy & Hyperbaric Center and oversees wound care at the hospital.

Reynolds also leads the Chico chapter of the Ostomy Association Support Group, which meets at the Enloe Conference Center. Administrative duties take only a portion of her time, though; she still treats patients.

Connie Rowe, Enloe’s vice president of patient-care services, has been touched by Reynolds as well.

“Linda has a caring and generous spirit, and always balances sentimental and emotional needs with practical considerations,” Rowe said in an email. “She is particularly creative and resourceful when

unusual needs arise, and her first thought is what is best for the patient.”

Reynolds has received multiple honors, including the 2007 national Nurse of the Year award from the United Ostomy Associations of America and one of the four 2011 Enloe Leadership Awards. Yet she is quick to deflect focus off herself: “I work side by side with my doctors, nurses and technicians. I say ‘my’ because it’s a team approach.

It takes a team to heal a patient and get them back into life.”

Still, she recognizes that she and her colleagues have a special calling.

“It does take a special group of health-care providers,” she said.

“Taking care of wounds, oftentimes [the sores] are bloody, infected and smell. I’ve had to take care of rotting limbs. With ostomies, you are touching a person at their most vulnerable moment. From childhood, we’re taught our bladder and fecal movements are private; you’ve stripped away any of their privacy.

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GREENWAYS Turkey Tail Farms’ Susan Tchudi harvests echinacea and bee balm to use in the making of products for her herbal CSA, Everything Herbal.

POT GROWERS POISONING WILDLIFE?

Commercial rat poison used by illegal marijuana growers could be putting California’s wildlife at risk, particularly the fisher, a member of the weasel family. The fisher is currently a candidate for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act. Researchers led by UC Davis veterinary scientists analyzed 58 fisher carcasses in Humboldt County near Redwood National Park and the southern Sierra Nevada in and near Yosemite National Park, finding 79 percent had been exposed to rodenticides, according to a UC Davis press release.

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A natural-gas-fired power plant in Yuba City was fined for improper management of hazardous waste.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fined Calpine Corporation $13,500 for generating arsenic during wastewater treatment and failing to limit its release at the company’s 500megawatt Sutter Energy Center, according to an EPA press release. The EPA found the plant to be in violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act program—which requires hazardous materials be stored, handled and disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner—during a July 2009 inspection, potentially exposing the plant’s workers to the poison.

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Pinnacles National Monument near central California’s Salinas Valley is a step closer to becoming a national park.

The House Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed a bill introduced by Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) on July 11 that would afford the monument greater protections as a national park, according to California Public News Service. The legislation, which is set to go before the U.S. House of Representatives, has the support of cities and businesses which stand to benefit from increased tourism to San Benito and southern Monterey counties. Originally set aside by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1908, Pinnacles is a popular destination for rock climbers and home to a handful of endangered California condors.

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Gducks (and several friendly border collies) are some of the animal residents of oats, sheep, pigs, chickens and

Stephen and Susan Tchudi’s 40-acre Turkey Tail Farms in nearby Yankee Hill.

The livestock are the vestiges of the meat CSA (community-supported agriculture) that the Tchudis’ adult son, Cheetah, headed up back in 2008, when the Tchudi family first moved to the idyllic property from Reno, Nev. That former CSA morphed last year into an herbal CSA, called Everything Herbal, which once each season offers a CSA box filled with homemade herbal goodies such as mint-infused honey, an oatmeal-lavender bath soak, citronella candles, herbal vinegars and various dried tea

and seasoning mixtures.

The candles—as well as the herb-anddried-flower Christmas wreathes that were packed into last winter’s Everything Herbal boxes—are made by Cheetah’s wife, Samantha Zangrilli (founder and coordinator of the Chico Bicycle Music Festival).

The Tchudis’ other son, Mojo Richerson von Tchudi, makes the CSA’s herbal salves, as well as the kombucha—a lightly effervescent, fermented tea product—that is being offered in Everything Herbal’s summer CSA box (a few summer CSA shares are still available).

About the herbs:

Go to www.turkeytailfarm.net to find out more about Turkey Tail Farm and its herbal CSA, Everything Herbal. The farm’s CSA boxes are offered seasonally—in the spring, summer, fall and winter—and cost $70 per box, which includes a framed watercolor print of an herb by Stephen Tchudi and an informative newsletter; a yearly subscription of four boxes will net a 15 percent discount. Everything Herbal will deliver boxes to Chico, Paradise and Oroville.

“I didn’t know what I was doing when I first started,” laughed Susan Tchudi, who heads up Everything Herbal, as she sat near bunches of dried sunflowers, echinacea and strawflowers hanging upsidedown in her dining room doorway. A jar of fragrant lavender honey—made from Tchudi’s lavender and honey produced by Cherokee beekeeper Lee Edwards—sat on the kitchen table next to her.

The retired University of Nevada, Reno, English professor admitted that she “had only grown some flowers—a few little perennials—in my back yard [in Reno]” before diving head first into planting numerous rows of vegetables and herbs at Turkey Tail Farms. “I hadn’t grown herbs or vegetables before!

“So I was asking Cheetah, ‘Is this a weed or a plant?’ all the time. I couldn’t tell one plant from another. I couldn’t tell the difference between lettuce and a calendula leaf!

“And now I know.”

Cheetah’s gardening expertise—he

used to be in charge of Chico State’s Organic Vegetable Project, and currently oversees the organic garden at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.—has been invaluable to his mother, who also does regular research on the Internet to increasingly fine-tune her now-considerable knowledge of herbs and gardening. “It’s really constant learning,” she said. “I look up online every day [things like], ‘What else can I do with this herb? What am I missing?’”

At one point, Tchudi pulled out from a kitchen cupboard a bottle of herbed vinegar she had made.

“Taste this,” she offered, pouring some vinegar into a spoon. “It’s made with winter savory, a really powerful herb” that is similar to oregano, “but stronger.” Indeed, the robust taste of the savoryinfused vinegar—to which Tchudi had also added rosemary and thyme—was delicious.

Tchudi reached for a basket filled with fresh basil cuttings.

“I’m really expanding my basils this year,” she said. Tchudi has added two new types of basil this year to the lemon, lime, Thai and tulsi (aka “holy basil”) in her basil patch—Purple Ruffles and aromata basil. She will dry the basil and add it to one of the herb seasoning mixes in her CSA boxes. Holy

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basil also happens to be the herb featured in the framed watercolor print, done by Stephen Tchudi, that goes along with Everything Herbal’s summer CSA box (each season’s box contains a print of an herb painting by Stephen).

Each CSA box always contains a few food items, such as herbed vinegar or honey (“We’re doing both this time,” she said), as well as two or three dried-herb mixes for cooking, and two or three dried tea mixes. Sometimes some of the tea mixes contain medicinal herbs, “like motherwort or nettles,” Tchudi said. “But really all herbs are medicinal. They all have some

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Near the herbs grew tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, lettuce, asparagus and beans. A small orchard adjacent to the garden contained fig, apple, apricot, peach and nectarine trees, though a good number of the figs—seedlings—were recently decimated by an infestation of grasshoppers.

“We are not certified organic, but I don’t use anything toxic in my garden,” Tchudi offered. “I’m not ever going to use anything that Monsanto has anything to do with in my garden—ever!”

Tchudi said she would like to expand the size of her garden, which currently occupies a halfacre plot behind her house, but “it all depends on water—and help.

“We need to deepen our well; a lot of what we’re going to do depends on water,” she said. “As soon as we get more water, we’re going to expand. … And I would like to have an intern [interested parties should contact Tchudi].

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had barely passed Chico’s city limits before making my first stop, prompted by a woman in a hot-pink and camouflaged bikini, stars tattooed along her torso, yelling, “Car wash! Woooooo! Come on in!

Topless car wash! Woooooo!”

“Best to start the trip with a clean ride,” I suggested to my traveling companion as we wheeled into the parking lot of Centerfolds and took our place behind three other cars queued up outside a white canopy, from which more “Wooooos!” and the sounds of splashing water escaped.

A woman explained $20 bought a car wash, and included passes to the strip club and a free DVD from the box she carried under her arm. I picked one whose title was a XXX play on Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” and, with the permission of the club’s owner, went to work while waiting for the wash. In the tradition of roving reporters, Sunday drivers and my literary forefathers, I’d struck out on Highway 99 that sweltering summer day in search of America.

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The highway’s northernmost stretch, from Chico to its terminus in Red Bluff, is a prime example of this, standing as evidence why Highway 99 was once commonly known as “California’s Main Street.” Places like Vina and Dairyville are, to many people living just a few miles away, merely signs they speed past on the way to somewhere else. But if you slow down you might find, as one man in a roadside bar told me, “There’s a helluva lot more to Los Molinos than meets the eye, man.”

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road—whose stage name was Mya—was happy to talk about her job. “I love working here!” she

gushed. The 21-year-old Chico native explained she’d worked at Centerfolds for more than two years and previously stripped at house parties and in Reno, which she hated. “This is by far the cleanest and safest environment I’ve ever danced in. The girls I work with are like a small family. It’s more like a night out with the girls than going to work.”

Mya paused to “Wooooo!” at a

passing truck driver, who honked and kept driving. “I wish I could keep doing this for the rest of my life but obviously this isn’t a job you can do forever, so you gotta take advantage of it while you have it.”

“We get so many customers that come in and say they never knew it was a strip club,” Mya said of Centerfold’s location. “We’ll pass out fliers in Chico, and people don’t even know where it is. If more people knew, I think we’d have a lot more customers.

“But it’s not bad. I make more than I would at any minimum-wage job, so I can’t really complain.” She said she can make as much as $500 or as little as $20 a night. “It’s scary sometimes, but you just have to have faith it will all work out by the end of the month, and it always does.”

Back at the tent, Nathan Bravo

Centerfolds dancer Mya beckons travelers to the club’s car wash.

scurried to fasten down the side canopies as another customer’s wash began. Bravo is director of promotions, resident DJ and—for today— car wash king at Centerfolds.

“It’s an odd location for a strip club,” he confirmed before I could even finish the question. “We get a lot of wanderers, drifters, college stu-

dents, professionals, all walks of life out here on the highway.

“This little pink and grey building has a lot of mystique,” he said with a laugh. “When people find out I work here, they’re like, ‘Whoa, what goes on there?’”

What goes on, Bravo continued, is nothing too shocking. They have VIP nights and an annual pole-dancing competition (“to highlight pole dancing as an art form,” he explained).

Inside the tent, a bevy of bikinied girls, mostly sporting tattoos and piercings, introduced themselves. I lost track of which girls Heaven, Trinity, Autumn and Nikki were, but remembered Ayla as the one chosen to recite the stripper mantra: “The better the tips the better the show.”

We tipped accordingly, and the show was great, so much so that it might have affected the quality of the car wash. The girls seemed to get more soap and water on themselves and each other than the car, and mostly focused on the front windows.

I pointed the half-clean car

northward, across the Tehama County line and through the town of Vina, where railroad baron Leland Stanford owned what was once California’s

largest vineyard. Stanford allegedly sold his local holdings because of bad publicity surrounding the winery operation.

At its peak, Vina was a rough-andtumble town populated largely by vagrants, criminals and runaways who came for the work and stayed for the lawlessness and debauchery.

Today it’s the home of a Trappist monastery.

Past Vina, I raced a train into Los Molinos and turned at Aramayo Way. Aramayo turns into Third Street as it crosses the Sacramento River, where a dozen or so teenagers frolicked in the water beneath a railroad trestle paralleling the road. Less than two miles off 99, I reached C and Third streets—downtown Tehama, made up entirely of a museum, a park, a mini market and a closed taco shop.

I parked next to the Old Tehama County Jail in the park and got out to read the plaque. It didn’t read like most stodgy historical markers, instead commemorating in part “many a drunk who needed to sleep it off, and walk out its unlocked doors in the morning.” My momentary confusion was cleared up by the plaque’s bottom line: E Clampus Vitus.

The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus is a fraternal organization with two primary interests: drinking and history. “Clampers,” as members are known, trace their history back to West Virginia, 1845, and the organization flourished during California’s Gold Rush years, when whole mining camps would sometimes shut down for Clamper holidays and the organization provided something resembling social support to widows, orphans and members.

Part of the miners’—and modern drinkers’—attraction to E Clampus Vitus is its embrace of the absurd, a stark contrast to Masonic “mumbo jumbo” that proliferated throughout the West.

Across the street from the plaque is the Tehama County Museum, housed in an 1859 building originally constructed, ironically, as a schoolhouse and Masonic temple.

Inside the museum, Paul Quinn was vacuuming the floor. Quinn serves on the Board of Directors and is secretary of the Tehama County Museum Foundation. The TCMF started in 1980, and Quinn has been involved since 1983.

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a l o n g e f H 9 i 9 i g y h a w L There’s more than meets the eye between Chico and Red Bluff

story and photos by

Ken Smith

kens@newsreview.com

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had barely passed Chico’s city limits before making my first stop, prompted by a woman in a hot-pink and camouflaged bikini, stars tattooed along her torso, yelling, “Car wash! Woooooo! Come on in!

Topless car wash! Woooooo!”

“Best to start the trip with a clean ride,” I suggested to my traveling companion as we wheeled into the parking lot of Centerfolds and took our place behind three other cars queued up outside a white canopy, from which more “Wooooos!” and the sounds of splashing water escaped.

A woman explained $20 bought a car wash, and included passes to the strip club and a free DVD from the box she carried under her arm. I picked one whose title was a XXX play on Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” and, with the permission of the club’s owner, went to work while waiting for the wash. In the tradition of roving reporters, Sunday drivers and my literary forefathers, I’d struck out on Highway 99 that sweltering summer day in search of America.

Interstate 5, a modernized, more direct link to “control” cities like San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Portland. The face and character of California were changed forever, and many communities along the highway are preserved largely as they were then, small towns populated by people content to live as they have for generations. One can travel hours without spotting a KenTacoHut, corporate gas station or modern subdivision, but there’s plenty of natural beauty and prime slices of Americana to enjoy.

The highway’s northernmost stretch, from Chico to its terminus in Red Bluff, is a prime example of this, standing as evidence why Highway 99 was once commonly known as “California’s Main Street.” Places like Vina and Dairyville are, to many people living just a few miles away, merely signs they speed past on the way to somewhere else. But if you slow down you might find, as one man in a roadside bar told me, “There’s a helluva lot more to Los Molinos than meets the eye, man.”

Beginning in 1964, U.S. Route

The siren at the side of the

99, which ran the length of the West Coast from Mexico to Canada, was decommisioned and replaced by

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road—whose stage name was Mya—was happy to talk about her job. “I love working here!” she

gushed. The 21-year-old Chico native explained she’d worked at Centerfolds for more than two years and previously stripped at house parties and in Reno, which she hated. “This is by far the cleanest and safest environment I’ve ever danced in. The girls I work with are like a small family. It’s more like a night out with the girls than going to work.”

Mya paused to “Wooooo!” at a

passing truck driver, who honked and kept driving. “I wish I could keep doing this for the rest of my life but obviously this isn’t a job you can do forever, so you gotta take advantage of it while you have it.”

“We get so many customers that come in and say they never knew it was a strip club,” Mya said of Centerfold’s location. “We’ll pass out fliers in Chico, and people don’t even know where it is. If more people knew, I think we’d have a lot more customers.

“But it’s not bad. I make more than I would at any minimum-wage job, so I can’t really complain.” She said she can make as much as $500 or as little as $20 a night. “It’s scary sometimes, but you just have to have faith it will all work out by the end of the month, and it always does.”

Back at the tent, Nathan Bravo

Centerfolds dancer Mya beckons travelers to the club’s car wash.

scurried to fasten down the side canopies as another customer’s wash began. Bravo is director of promotions, resident DJ and—for today— car wash king at Centerfolds.

“It’s an odd location for a strip club,” he confirmed before I could even finish the question. “We get a lot of wanderers, drifters, college stu-

dents, professionals, all walks of life out here on the highway.

“This little pink and grey building has a lot of mystique,” he said with a laugh. “When people find out I work here, they’re like, ‘Whoa, what goes on there?’”

What goes on, Bravo continued, is nothing too shocking. They have VIP nights and an annual pole-dancing competition (“to highlight pole dancing as an art form,” he explained).

Inside the tent, a bevy of bikinied girls, mostly sporting tattoos and piercings, introduced themselves. I lost track of which girls Heaven, Trinity, Autumn and Nikki were, but remembered Ayla as the one chosen to recite the stripper mantra: “The better the tips the better the show.”

We tipped accordingly, and the show was great, so much so that it might have affected the quality of the car wash. The girls seemed to get more soap and water on themselves and each other than the car, and mostly focused on the front windows.

I pointed the half-clean car

northward, across the Tehama County line and through the town of Vina, where railroad baron Leland Stanford owned what was once California’s

largest vineyard. Stanford allegedly sold his local holdings because of bad publicity surrounding the winery operation.

At its peak, Vina was a rough-andtumble town populated largely by vagrants, criminals and runaways who came for the work and stayed for the lawlessness and debauchery.

Today it’s the home of a Trappist monastery.

Past Vina, I raced a train into Los Molinos and turned at Aramayo Way. Aramayo turns into Third Street as it crosses the Sacramento River, where a dozen or so teenagers frolicked in the water beneath a railroad trestle paralleling the road. Less than two miles off 99, I reached C and Third streets—downtown Tehama, made up entirely of a museum, a park, a mini market and a closed taco shop.

I parked next to the Old Tehama County Jail in the park and got out to read the plaque. It didn’t read like most stodgy historical markers, instead commemorating in part “many a drunk who needed to sleep it off, and walk out its unlocked doors in the morning.” My momentary confusion was cleared up by the plaque’s bottom line: E Clampus Vitus.

The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus is a fraternal organization with two primary interests: drinking and history. “Clampers,” as members are known, trace their history back to West Virginia, 1845, and the organization flourished during California’s Gold Rush years, when whole mining camps would sometimes shut down for Clamper holidays and the organization provided something resembling social support to widows, orphans and members.

Part of the miners’—and modern drinkers’—attraction to E Clampus Vitus is its embrace of the absurd, a stark contrast to Masonic “mumbo jumbo” that proliferated throughout the West.

Across the street from the plaque is the Tehama County Museum, housed in an 1859 building originally constructed, ironically, as a schoolhouse and Masonic temple.

Inside the museum, Paul Quinn was vacuuming the floor. Quinn serves on the Board of Directors and is secretary of the Tehama County Museum Foundation. The TCMF started in 1980, and Quinn has been involved since 1983.

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“One day I was driving by and noticed the grass needed to be cut,” Quinn explained. “I stopped in and offered to do it, and ended up cutting the grass for the next 25 years. My duties have shifted a bit now, though,” he said with a chuckle, indicating the vacuum cleaner.

Quinn gave us a tour of the museum and shared his extensive knowledge of the twostory building and its contents. These range from typical museum fare (furniture, old clothing) to oddities (a square piano, a mammoth’s leg) to the downright creepy (a century-old flowered diorama made of human hair). Typical of small-town museums, there’s also the unintentionally funny (a papiermâché cowboy named Joe in a fur coat).

We dropped $5 in the jar (the museum runs entirely on donations) and headed out to see a pair of 19th-century churches—St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and the Tehama Assembly of God—that stand cater-cornered to one another at Third and D Streets. They look much as they did 100 years ago, save for a colorful vinyl banner that looks out of place on the aged white Assembly of God building reading “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL? WE NEED GOD.” Demographics carry much more

weight when you apply them to small populations. For example, the 2010 census reported that .2 percent of Tehama’s 418 residents— one person—is Asian. I wondered what it would be like to be the only Asian in town, but didn’t run into him or her.

Stopping at the mini market as I left, I met a Sikh woman named Balwinder, who originally hails from Chandigarch, India. I imagined the highways she’d traveled to come all the way to Tehama. She explained she lives in Orland but runs the store with her husband and son.

“People here are nice,” she said of Tehama. “Nobody makes trouble. Some places, trouble is the normal, but not here.

People help us, and we help people.”

I passed back through Los Molinos,

for the moment resisting the allure of meat smoking outside Roxie’s BBQ and cold drinks at Joannie’s Hayloft or Mike’s Bar 99.

The town is also full of unique shopping opportunities, like Marsha’s Minerals and Rocks and a half-dozen junk stores overflowing with merchandise, but I waited to check out the retail action until several miles north, at Sherry’s Antiques, Collectibles and Frivolous Necessities.

Stepping out of the car, I was startled half to death by the unfamiliar braying of a donkey across the highway.

Inside I met Sherry and Leroy Elliot, the store’s proprietors, who were that week celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary. “I grew up working at flea markets,” Sherry said, “And we met at one 35 years ago.

Because of that, we always joke we get everything at the flea market.”

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Red Bluff

Dairyville Pumpkinland: home of (left) delicious chocolates, (lower left) strange statues and (below) lucky ducks with their own waterfall.

printed. Much of the conversation ran this way, and the couple’s good chemistry is apparent, Leroy’s grizzled stoicism and salty humor at once a contrast and odd complement to Sherry’s softer, “Aw-schucks-what’she-saying-now?” sweetness. Leroy is 12 years Sherry’s senior and calls her his “young little chicken.”

The couple explained they’d migrated from Bakersfield to Los Molinos 30 years ago, and bought the business 11 years ago. As veterans of the junking trade, they wanted to continue in a building they could live in and work out of. Leroy was recently retired from his lifelong day job as a carpenter, so they bought the building—built in 1934 and the former home of a bar called Lou’s Triangle— and Leroy fixed it up.

“I can fix anything, plumbing, electrical, I don’t care, and I do it by hand, not with the machines they do now’days,” Leroy said before adding, “but the COPD has slowed me down some.”

Sherry buys, sells and barters for the items covering rows of shelves loaded floor to ceiling, and said plenty of strange characters with strange items wander in off the highway. The biggest scores she recalled were a pair of antique children’s jeans she bought for $100 and sold for $2,500 and a rag doll from the 1800s that sold on eBay (she also has an online store) for $1,400.

“Those kind of things are few and far between, so that’s why I remember them so well,” Sherry said. Leroy added the poor economy has hurt business in recent years.

“We did half last year than what we normally do, and this year’s been really bad,” he said. “We still get our regular customers, but we don’t get the travelers much lately. That hurts because the travelers come in and buy the good stuff.”

“People just don’t have the extra money to buy themselves little things to make themselves feel good,” Sherry said, her sadness for

Ellen Burlison works the longest-running fruit stand in Tehama County.

others’ hardships apparent and sincere.

We talked a little about the old building’s haunts: Leroy pointed to the spot where the previous owner had a heart attack (“Dropped dead right over there where the bar was,” he said). He took leave to drink his ceremonial afternoon Budweiser and Sherry started to close up shop. Both urged us to take a bag of homegrown plums from their small fruit stand out front. I bit into one as I waved goodbye to the donkey and headed farther north.

Mature walnut, almond and peach

orchards line the highway through Dairyville, offering some respite from the late afternoon heat. Along the way are a few more religious messages, these not as immediately clear as the one in Tehama. “WHO TOUCHED ME?” reads the sign outside the Cohn Community Church, and the sign for the Red Barn reads “THE BEST GIFT EVER WAS FOUND IN A BARN.” The taste of plum lingering on my lips prompted me to stop at Burlison Fruit Stand.

Burlison’s has been there since 1948 and is the oldest fruit stand in Tehama County.

Paul Quinn at the Tehama County Museum. The town’s other historic attractions include (above) old churches and a 118-year-old drunk tank.

Sherry and Leroy Elliot may not be the only souls dwelling in this possibly haunted roadside curio shop.

There are photos from the 1950s on display showing Aldon Burlison, the current patriarch, working the stand and the orchards as a child. He and wife Ellen’s grandchildren are the fourth generation of Burlisons to call Dairyville home.

There are other fruit stands in Dairyville, prompting me to ask the woman if there’s any rivalry. “We do what we do, they do what they do,” she said with a laugh, crushing my dreams of writing a dramatic expose of the Dairyville fruit wars. When I asked what her biggest concern with living, working and raising a family alongside Highway 99 was, she immediately said, “The traffic. I’ve seen more accidents right here than I care to remember.”

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Los Molinos Tehama

Mike Dyson and Rebecca Rupe (behind the bar) and representatives of the Los Molinos Social Club greet thirsty travelers at Mike’s Bar 99, where women’s underwear hangs from the ceiling in abundance.

and local honey and head to my northernmost destination for the day, Pumpkinland Chocolate Company, another place I’ve long wanted to visit.

Though it was right on the highway, Pumpkinland was another world. A thick wall of foliage blocked the noise and sight of the road, and the grounds were immaculately kept. A large paddling of ducks played in a waterfall at the end of a pond surrounded by weeping trees, and giant metal statues of bears and frogs greeted visitors outside the main building, which held more wonders— all manner of delectable handmade treats in dark, white or milk chocolate.

Pumpkinland offers free samples, and the ice cream is a killer deal—99 cents for three scoops. Knowing the handful of truffles and turtles we bought wouldn’t survive the nonair-conditioned ride home, we enjoyed them on the outdoor patio in this roadside oasis.

Then it was time to head home, but the trip wasn’t over yet.

I’d blame Leroy Elliot and his Bud-

weiser, but there’s really no need for an excuse to have a beer near the end of a long, hot day of driving, so I pulled up to Mike’s Bar 99 next to a sign that said “ECV Parking Only.” Inside I ordered a draft and struck up a conversation with bartender Rebecca Rupe, whose bubbly manner and breathy voice reminded me of Bernadette Peters.

Across the bar, a group of men—Fred, Ron, Don and Matt—talked in the loud but good-natured way men sometimes talk in bars, conversely arguing and joking about everything and nothing in particular.

I asked Rupe what ECV meant, noticing the letters displayed elsewhere around the bar, and realized I should have tried to figure it out: “E Clampus Vitus,” she said proudly, explaining owner Mike Dyson was a dedicated member and the bar an official ECV watering hole where meetings and events are sometimes held.

I praised my good fortune in stumbling upon the local headquarters of a semi-secret society I’d long admired. Rupe also informed the men across the bar of my mission, and they agreed to talk to me about life in Los Molinos.

“Sure, we’ll tell ya about it; we’re the goddamned Los Molinos Social Club,” one of the men said, and they all laughed. I started by asking how long they’d been here.

“What, today? Hell, I dunno, since noon at least,” one cracked, and they all laughed.

Vina

Going through the car wash with the women of Centerfolds.

They mostly ignored me as they began talking through the math: who was oldest, who’d been born there, and if it counted if they’d moved away for a couple years. The conversation was entertaining but not the most informative, so I got up to take pictures of bras hanging from the ceiling and a giant pair of panties on the wall, spurring the Social Club to start in on the topic of paparazzi.

“Those bastards killed Princess Diana!” one of the men said, drawing out the word and adding emphasis to the second syllable: “Di-ANA!” “Well, she shouldn’t o’ ran!” another said.

I took my beer and headed for the

back smoking patio, where I had a fortunate run-in with Mike himself, who sat and spoke to me under a tailgate hanging from the ceiling emblazoned with the words “SHOW ME YOUR TITS.” Dyson is a magnanimous man with a big personality, and after a few minutes of conversation one realizes there’s a story behind every line and crease on his beaming face.

“I’ve been here forever, and my family’s been here forever and ever,” he started, explaining he’d owned the bar for eight years. “We have a lot of fun in here. Most anything goes, but there ain’t no fighting. We don’t even allow arm wrestling.”

The conversation eventually led to the obvious: ECV and boobies.

“We help the ‘widders and orphans,’ and we send a kid or two to camp, depending on what our finances are every summer,” he explained of the local lodge, Lassen Loomis Outpost 1914. “We cut a lot of firewood for widowed women, and we do a lot of plaquin’ on sites of historical interest.”

As for the bras, Mike explained the tradition started shortly after he took over the bar.

“One night this gal and her daughter were in here and we got to talking about bars with bras on the ceiling, and how down there in Cabo they got bras and panties and everything hanging up,” he said. “So the lady asks, ‘Do you care if I take my bra off,’ and I said, ‘You’ll never hear me say no to a woman who wants to take her bra off.’ So she took hers off, her daughter took hers off, and I put them on the ceiling.

“I got another box of ’em to hang up; I just washed ’em,” he continued. “That was a pain in the ass. The first time I washed them I just did a washing machine full then threw them in the dryer. … It took me hours to untangle that mess.”

Dyson offered to pay for my second beer, and when a Clamper offers you don’t say no.

I drank it lustily, relishing my last 15 minutes in Los Molinos while calculating the cost of a cab ride home to Chico versus a Los Molinos motel room: I was fine to drive today, but would love to see this place on Friday— karaoke night. Ω

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Arts & Culture Art working Local artist is painting his way out of homelessness

THIS WEEK

D button-up shirt and blue jeans, Lee Wright doesn’t immediately come off as ressed in an untucked

someone who has lived much of his life on the streets. As seen around town, standing by Stephanie Geske in front of his familiar easel, painting colorful smgeske@ renditions of Chico yahoo.com landmarks, the softspoken 42-year-old looks like just another local plein-air painter taking advantage of the local color.

However, for 15 years Wright has been Wright online: homeless—on the Go to www.facebook. streets of Chico for the com/LeeWright past two years, and FineArt to see before that up and examples of Lee down the West Coast, Wright’s paintings. from Washington to For info on commissioning California, living in his paintings, contact van for 13 years before Laurie Maloney at it was impounded.

518-1616.

But since coming to Chico, the struggling artist has begun to find a niche and a market for his paintings, and the promise of a more secure life.

When he arrived in Chico,

Wright went to the Jesus Center looking for a meal, and he was also offered clothes and computer access as well as art supplies and a place to paint during the winter months. While working on paintings at the center, he met Laurie Maloney, a volunteer there for 16 years.

After seeing his work, she asked him to do a painting from a photograph she took of the bridge at Sycamore Pool in Bidwell Park, and she was blown away by the finished work.

“I figured a man with that kind of talent should not be sleeping on the street,” she said.

Wright said that it was his painting for Maloney that “kicked it off.” Volunteers in the Jesus Center’s Free Store soon followed suit, commissioning him to do paintings for their homes.

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Special Events and figuring out how to make duplications. Prints of many of his paintings are now available for purchase at Art Etc. in downtown Chico and at the Jesus Center ($80 for 11-by-14 and $100 for 16-by20), and are on display at the Gypsy Rose Salon downtown and will be a part of the Chico Museum’s upcoming I Love Chico exhibit (opening Sept. 8).

The commissioned pieces have mostly been for paintings of iconic Chico landmarks, places in Bidwell Park and even some portraits of children and pets.

“Nothing so inspires like necessity,” Wright says, borrowing a quote he heard on National Public Radio to explain his process for painting the local icons.

“I don’t like to be all cliché, but there are so many iconic places. I could do no wrong if I even came close,” he said.

“There’s plenty of ugly to go around; [these places] are some beauty.”

The results—on acrylic renditions of Sycamore Pool and of Bidwell Mansion, for instance—are a wonderful intermingling of the subjects with their natural environment. The point of view of the mansion, for example, is from the opposite side of Big Chico Creek, with the mansion peeking through tree branches.

In his 20s, Wright worked, had

his own apartment, went out with friends—“what you would call normal,” he said. He was reluctant to go into too many details about his past, citing only a general restlessness and a series of bad choices as contributing to his becoming homeless.

Wright never had formal art training, but he’s been drawing since he was a kid. He considers himself better at

Lee Wright poses with his latest painting and its subject, Bidwell Presbyterian Church.

PHOTO BY JASON CASSIDY

STICKY BEE BEER RELEASE PARTY: A release party for seasonal favorite

Sticky Bee Honey Wheat Ale with brewmaster Roland Allen. Th, 7/26, 6pm.

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

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local

sculpting, and has even done bronzes and cut precious gems in the past, but he says that these days the materials for painting are more readily available, thanks to donations to the Jesus Center.

Art is in our nature, Wright said.

“You can make art from anything, and it’s something everyone can relate to.”

He first began making money with his art by doing wood carvings of animals—bears, wolves, turtles and frogs—“your standard chainsaw stuff,” he said.

“I said, ‘I can do that,’” Wright recalled. “If you’re carving a bear, you just carve off all the stuff that isn’t the bear.” He says he’d like to go back to doing more wood carving, when he has more time and more money for the more expensive materials.

And things are looking up. Maloney said that, thanks to his art sales and the kindness of local property owner Dave Purvis (who didn’t require any credit check or co-signer), Wright has just moved from a motel into a small apartment. “It’s on a month-to-month basis and we are hoping and praying he will be able to keep selling enough art to keep a roof over his head,” she said.

Wright admitted he’s overwhelmed by the positive response from the Chico community. “I can’t say enough, but I don’t want to say too much and sound dumb,” he said.

“Chico people love Chico,” Maloney said about the locally themed paintings.

“Lee Wright loves Chico,” Wright added with a laugh. Ω

produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: blues and jazz with Blue Spruce, folk and pop with Jackie Daum and a performance by Jazzercise. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.downtown chico.net.

WINE TASTING: A sampling of six wines from California and around the world and gourmet chocolates to benefit the Arc of Butte County. Th, 7/26,

4-6pm. $3. Garden Walk Mall; 225 Main St.

Music CONCERTS IN THE PARK: DRIVER: The weekly concert series continues with the rockabilly, blues and classic rock of Driver. Festivities will include food vendors, a raffle and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 7/26, 6:30-8pm.

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

Theater 101 DALMATIANS: The aspiring actors from the Playhouse Youth Theatre

perform the Disney musical complete with pooches and Cruella de Vil. Th, 7/26, 7pm; Su, 7/29, 2pm. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 8941978.

BUSTOLINI’S COMEDY SHOW Friday, July 27 Blue Room Theatre

SEE FRIDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS CHRISTIAN MARQUEZ RECEPTION Saturday, July 28 Gypsy Rose Salon

SEE SATURDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

Art Receptions CHRISTIAN MARQUEZ RECEPTION: The opening reception for a three-artist show including paintings by Christian Marquez, with live music, food and refreshment. Sa, 7/28, 6-9pm.

Free. Gypsy Rose Salon; 151 Broadway St, Chico, CA; (530) 891-4247.

Theater Theater RADIOLANDS 1949 CAVALCADE OF STARS: A nostalgic evening with an all-star cavalcade of singers, musicians, serials, soaps and quiz shows. A preview of the 2012 Chico Summer Theatre Festival.

7/27-7/28, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/28, 2pm. $16. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

TITLE OF SHOW: The Chico Troupers are producing this show that follows its own creation as an entry in the New York musical festival as well as the struggles of the author and composer. 7/27-7/28, 7pm. $7-$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

Poetry/Literature SUMMER READING SERIES: Ongoing series of readings by local authors using Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” as inspiration. Th, 7/26, 7:30pm; Th, 8/16, 7:30pm. $3. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

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Special Events CHICO MUSICFEST: A benefit for the The Jesus Center with food vendors, arts and crafts, street performers and live music from The Blue Merles, The Montanes, Black Slax, Hot Flash and Kyle Williams. Sa, 7/28, 4-9pm.

Donations accepted. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.; (530) 345-2640.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST CLOSET BALL: ISCCD ball with a Beauty and the Beast theme, with food, drinks, and the crowning of king/queen and “Lady Does Drag.” F, 7/27, 8pm. $7. Subud Hall; 574 E. 12th St.; (530) 895-4711.

BUSTOLINIS COMEDY SHOW: Mickey Waltz from San Francisco headlines an evening of standup comedy. F, 7/27, 7:30pm. $8-$12. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St.

CHICO MUSICFEST Saturday, July 28 Chico City Plaza

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

RADIOLANDS 1949 CAVALCADE OF STARS: See Friday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

TITLE OF SHOW: See Friday. 7/27-7/28, 7pm. $7-$10.

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Music THE MALONE BROTHERS: Louisiana bros Dave (The Radiators) and Tommy (the subdudes) Malone join guitars for a new roots-rock supergroup. Su, 7/29, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

Theater 101 DALMATIANS: See Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Poetry/Literature LOCAL AUTHOR PRESENTATION: Tory Zellick,

author of The Medical Day Planner, talks about her experience as a caregiver. M, 7/30, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books, 121 W. Fifth St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

Art 1078 GALLERY: Summer Stock 2, an annual group show with works from Lee Holcomb, Logan Kruidenier, Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, Mariam Pakbaz, Amber Palmer, Daniel Papke, Anastasia Samoylova and Jennifer Tancreto. Through 8/4. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: 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.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

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

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 series by the prolific local artist on display. Through 7/31.Artistic Nature, a combined show from owners Greg and Jana Strong focusing on natural forms. Through 7/31. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

GYPSY ROSE SALON: Christian Marquez, a three-artist show including paintings by Christian Marquez. Ongoing. Opens 7/28. 151 Broadway St., Chico. (530) 891-4247.

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.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

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.

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.

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.catalystdvservices.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.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: LOS PAPI CHULOS: The weekly concert series continues with AfroCuban, Latin jazz, salsa and groove tunes from Los Papi Chulos. F, 7/27, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

MAYPOP TRAVELIN BAND: The rural concert series continues with the Maypop Travelin’ Band. F, 7/27, 6:30pm. Free. Berry Creek Grange; 1477 Bald Rock Rd. in Berry Creek; (530) 533-2011.

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

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

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

I have this on the brain: A lazy float across the length of Sycamore Pool in Lower Bidwell Park. The ideal place for the community to cool down during these hottest afternoons of the summer. Embarking on EDITOR’S PICK any other activities seems like entirely too much work to even consider. My pick is for a quiet dip at dusk, after the crowd has dissipated and the water’s grown dark under early evening shadows. A very peaceful way to properly close out a hot day.

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Community AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

Brazil and West Africa with live drumming. Tu, 5:30pm. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 345-6324.

ATMOSPHERIC AWAKENING: A two-hour hour presentation on geoengineering and the socalled “biggest attack on human and environmental health in history.� F, 7/27, 79pm. Free. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 624-5377, www.chicosky watch.org.

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

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

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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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.

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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.

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.

TIE DYE IN THE PARK: Tie dye techniques with

Tamara. F, 1-4pm. Free. One Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park, (312) 415-8461.

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

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 1-4pm.

Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave. Corner of Downing and E. 1st Ave, (530) 5188300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.

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

HEALTH CENTER GIVEAWAY: Self cervical exam kits for every woman who comes to the clinic in honor of late founder Dido Hasper. M, 7/30.

Free. Womens Health Specialists, 1469 Humboldt Rd., (530) 891-1911.

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 Orovilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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.

LATIN DANCE CLASS: A fun, friendly dance class

open to all ages. No partner required. Tu, 7pmmidnight through 12/18. Free. AMF Orchard Lanes, 2397 Esplande, (530) 354-3477.

MOTH NIGHT: Join Chico State entomologist Dr. Don Miller in an evening of moth baiting,

observing, identifying and collecting. Sa, 7/28, 7-11pm. $5. Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, 3521 Hwy 32 14 miles east of Chico, (530) 8985010.

OROVILLE HOSPITAL HEALTH FAIR: A public opportunity to participate in free health screenings.

Festivities will include giveaways and a raffle. F, 7/27, 10am-2pm. Free. Oroville Sports Club, 2600 Oro Dam Blvd E in Oroville, (530) 538-0123.

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.

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, (530) 891-4671, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

FEATHER RIVER CLEANUP: Volunteers will meet at Bedrock Park or Centennial Plaza in Oroville or the Feather River Nature Center to assist in cleaning the lower Feather River. Sa, 7/28, 7:30-11:30am. Call for details, (530) 533-2011.

PATRICK RANCH VOLUNTEERS: There are multiple volunteer opportunities available at the museum, including help with Autumnfest 2012 and the annual Christmas celebration. Call or email for more info. Ongoing. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 345-3559.

PEMA CHODRON: A video presentation of Pema

talks followed by discussion and tea. Fourth Sa of every month, 9am-noon. Donations. Sky Creek Dharma Center, 120 Three Oaks Ct., (530) 893-8088, wwww.skycreekdharma center.org.

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

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Feelin’ peachy Henri takes a bite out of his favorite summer fruit

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kets have been absolutely stunning: great tables of gorgeous tomaby toes (finally!), Henri Bourride huge red onions, hbourride@ succulent eggyahoo.com plant, exotic Asian beans, pungent basil, and Henri’s favorite fruit, peaches.

Eaten straight from the stone or chilled and sliced and served in a bowl with just a dash of powdered sugar—and maybe a splash of Sauvignon Blanc or even Cognac—there’s nothing better than sweet, sticky, juicy fresh peaches.

Native to China, and documented there as early as the 10th century B.C., peaches migrated west with traders through the Mideast, where the Romans discovered them and introduced malum persicum, or Persian apples, to much of the empire. Spanish explorers brought peaches to the New World, and Jefferson planted them at Monticello.

The peach came west across North America with Native Americans and mid-19th-century gold seekers, who dried them and packed them for the long overland journey.

Today, California and the Southern states, especially Georgia (of course) and South Carolina, lead the United States in peach production, and the fruit is also grown commercially in New Jersey and

Colorado, among other states.

With hundreds of varieties, peaches are generally divided into two categories: clingstone and freestone, depending on whether the flesh sticks to the stone or not.

Recently, growers have begun developing hybrids, called “semifreestone.”

North State peach aficionados are especially lucky. Not only are the farmers’ markets offering wide varieties of excellent fresh peaches at very reasonable prices, but you can also drive out to Chico State’s University Farm (starting the first or second week in August; call 898-6343 for exact dates) and pick your own. The orchards will be open to the public weekdays, 7 a.m.-noon, and cost is $1 per pound. And although the farm provides buckets for picking, you need to bring your own boxes or other containers to bring the peaches home in.

The farm’s “season” is starting late this year, and will probably run only two weeks, depending on how many people come out and how fast the peaches get picked.

Of course, the classic peach dishes include desserts such as cobblers and pies, but the fruit is actually quite versatile, and with a little imagination, you can use peaches in a wide range of interesting and delicious dishes and concoctions, including salsas and chutneys, grilled peaches, and baked (and stuffed) peaches. They

also make a sweet addition to cocktails such as martinis and daiquiris.

Here is a recipe for delicious peach and Brie quesadillas, from local caterer and cooking instructor Shelley Anderson.

LET’S NOT GO TO EXTREMES. Peach and brie quesadillas

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Honey-lime dipping sauce: Combine 2 tablespoons honey, 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice and 1/2 teaspoon minced lime peel.

Quesadillas: 1 cup thinly sliced, peeled, firm, ripe peaches (about 2 large) 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives 1 teaspoon brown sugar 3 ounces Brie cheese, thinly sliced 4 flour tortillas Cooking spray Combine peaches, chives and brown sugar, toss gently to coat.

Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Evenly divide peach mixture and cheese and between four tortillas, and spread evenly over half of each, then fold in half.

Coat pan with cooking spray. Place two quesadillas in pan, cook 2 minutes on each side or until tortillas are lightly browned and crisp.

Remove from pan and keep warm while repeating procedure with remaining quesadillas. Cut each into thirds and serve with honeylime sauce. Ω

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And there is a lot of talking. If you suffer short-term memory loss, then this is definitely your bowl of medicine, as between the bursts Fair of mayhem the cast pauses to iterate and re-iterate plot points while Hans Zimmer’s propulsive score saves the movie from stopping dead in its tracks. It’s a convention lifted from the comic Good books, where a balloon of exposition spares the reader a few panels of static space in a limited format. The conceit doesn’t translate well to Very Good film. Don’t tell. Just show.

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for grounding the narrative. There are more than a few times when the story makes outrageous jumps. I mean, just exactly what was the villainous plot supposed to achieve? Roll in a neutron bomb that’s set to go off in five months? The waiting period just seems like a lazy way of giving breathing room to another plot point. And there was no context given to the results. I don’t need a detailed portrait of what exactly the civilians of Gotham were doing in those five months, but some casual brushstrokes would have been nice.

Worse, none of the villains rises to the level of Heath Ledger’s Joker or even Aaron Eckhart’s tragic Two-Face. As Bane, Tom Hardy does the best he can with his eyes and mannerisms, but his Yoda-esque lilt is further hobbled by a mask that muffles his voice (and the clarity of certain plot points). And all Anne Hathaway’s turn as Catwoman provides is an excuse to include her action figure in the marketing and prove that her ass looks nice in pleather.

On Batman’s side, Morgan Freeman as Fox is squandered, and the only purpose Michael Caine as Alfred the butler serves is to fill in for the traditional girlfriend role by expressing reservations about the hero’s agenda.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt serves absolutely no narrative function here other than to scuttle around waiting for the moment when he gets to reveal who he is for the inevitable next entry. Which was actually a disappointment, as I hoped that Nolan was playing for higher stakes. He wasn’t.

I was also hoping he would tie the Bane Occupy Wall Street figurehead/terrorist stuff into the Bruce Wayne billionaire/Batman dichotomy, but he never really fulfills that promise. He evokes the subtext of fascism, but never overtly addresses it.

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

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Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade star in this comedy about a group of suburban husbands who form a security team to watch over the neighborhood only to find a much bigger threat than expected after uncovering an alien (as in, space alien) plot. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated. R.

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The Amazing Spider-Man

When I initially heard that director Marc Webb was remaking Sam Raimi’s recent film franchise, I wasn’t too interested. But Webb’s spin is just fresh enough to warrant a repeat, and newcomer Andrew Garfield’s awkward charm is well-suited for the profile of the quintessential underdog superhero. The story is a familiar one: Peter’s a nerdy high school kid who gets bitten by a radioactive spider 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. The film’s different flavor comes in the form of a new villain, The Lizard (Rhys Ifans). When Dr. Curt 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. Kudos to Webb for making a fun summer flick that just lets you go swing along for the ride without thinking too much.

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Brave

Pixar’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 witch’s curse. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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ducer 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 story’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 … 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, Adam’s spiral into the drug world, and Mike’s struggle to “find himself,” there’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.

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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 (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton), the chief characters are two precocious, gifted 12-yearolds, 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.

It’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 —J.C.S.

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Savages

The story of Oliver Stone’s latest, drawn from the novel by Don Winslow, has a pair of enterprising beach-boy stoners getting entangled in a violent conflict with a Mexican drug cartel. Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) are pot-growing tycoons whose imported-from-Afghanistan strain of high-grade marijuana draws some very hostile interest from the competition just below the California-Mexico border. The menacing attention comes chiefly from Elena (Salma Hayek), a cartel matriarch headquartered in Tijuana, and Lado (Benicio Del Toro), the maliciously enterprising enforcer ostensibly working on her behalf.

And the tension is complicated further through the involvement of a double-dealing DEA agent named Dennis (John Travolta).

But there’s also Ophelia (Blake Lively), known simply as “O,” who is the beloved of both Ben and Chon. The shining centerpiece

in these golden boys’ ménage à trois, she is fated to become a funky damsel in distress.

The film’s reductive character psychology, more or less mandated by some semiincomprehensible 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. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —J.C.S.

4

Ted

Ted is the best sitcom never allowed to air on television, an onion of ’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 Wahlberg’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 could’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 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —C.B.

3

To Rome With Love

Woody Allen’s latest European-based summer romance is charmingly entertaining, but it doesn’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 distracted—he with a misdirected hooker (Penélope 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 Hayley’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 fame—and a satirical bit of romance— 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. Pageant Theatre.

Rated R —J.C.S.

Your Sister’s Sister

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

Ice Age: Continental Drift

For this fourth installment in the animatedfilm franchise, the mismatched crew of prehistoric animals—Manny, the wooly mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid, the sloth (John Leguizamo), and Diego, the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary)—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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Magic Mike

Magic Mike wants to be taken seriously. The film is about male strippers. See the problem? I understand that star/co-pro-

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The Austin Texas country rock sound returns to the Big Room with this much anticipated appearance by “The Band of Heathens.” “The Band of Heathens, an Austin-based group, played the best set I came across during my five nights in town (at SXSW).”–The Wall Street Journal. The Austin-American Statesman says The Band of Heathens “are ready-made for sitting on the back porch with a cold beer, a rock ‘n’ roll soul affair evocative of Little Feat, The Band and The Black Crows.” This is a goodtime, open dance floor, leave your spurs at home, belly up to the stage (and bar), special event.

Opening the show, and also from Austin, Texas will be Lera Lynn, a unique and intriguing performer in her own right. For more information on Lera, please visit www.leralynn.com On August 28th, the music and spirit of Austin Texas comes to the Big Room. Join us.

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In fact, one of the genre’s hot spots is the home computer of a 38-year-old Web developer living on a 60-acre Tehama spread, near Corning, where Stephen HollandChang (better known around the North State by his DJ/producer name of Symbio) has operated 530Techno, an electronic-music website/record label, since 2003.

And his just-released Lateral Excursions, a compilation album featuring original tracks by artists from Europe to Chico, is already generating a buzz in the global EDM community.

“When I think about electronic music, the instruments and the production methods used to be looked

Stephen HollandChang, founder of 530Techno, chills with a couple of his goats.

Corning-area electronicmusic producer’s website has become an online techno hub

down upon,” said Holland-Chang during a recent phone conversation. “[But now], in a lot of ways, everything has become electronic music.”

Though he says that he’s not fond of things becoming too commercial, Holland-Chang sees some potential for good to come from the mainstream success of EDM. “It makes them wonder what else is out there,” he suggested, hoping that being exposed to the sounds will lead some to explore the source material. “The more young people can find music that’s not popular, in my opinion, the better. Finding things they like, rather than what they are force fed.” And, he adds that, thanks to the Internet (and sites like his), “You can find anything you want now.”

Holland-Chang initially created 530Techno to be a sort of online home base for the local electronicmusic scene. In 2002, he and his wife, Renee, and their baby daughter (the couple now have two children, ages 10 and 6) moved to the North State from Seattle, and soon purchased their 60 acres in order to build a straw-bale house (which they did, an “octagon-shaped” house inspired by Holland-Chang’s time as an architecture major).

“When I first moved here there wasn’t any kind of Web hub for electronic music at the time,” Holland-Chang said. So, 530Techno worked to bring the scene together by providing a directory of area producers and DJs as well as a calendar of local EDM events. “That went on till about 2007, I guess,” Holland-Chang explained, during which time he was also performing as Symbio and teaming up with fellow promoter Anna Talbott to host the regular Future/Now nights at Panama’s, Lost on Main and the now-defunct Off Limits.

Then, as the “music started to change, becoming more commercial,” he shut the site down for a few months and in 2010 re-

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launched it as a blog/record label dedicated to house, techno and electronica. “It started out as a blog where I’d be blogging about music I love,” he said. And as he wrote about music and produced EDM podcasts, he started developing relationships with artists from around the world. Those relationships led to 530Techno putting out original tracks and remixes by producer/DJs—some of whom, like Spanish house-music innovator Sishi Rösch, have gone on to become internationally recognized.

But it’s not just the betterknown international musicians who are bringing recognition. Holland-Chang regularly releases music by North State artists, and the music by Chico acts like Oilpanic and Daxophonics and Mt. Shasta’s Lady Blacktronika has gotten notice as well. In fact, the distinct personality that HollandChang has cultivated with the international/local blending is part of his label’s charm, leading one UK dance-music blogger—Acid Ted—to name 530Techno his “label of the year” in 2011.

Out just a couple of weeks, Lateral Excursions—which features new remixes by HollandChang (Symbio), Oilpanic, Lady Blacktronika, Rösch, Stunp (S.F.), Chris Fortier (New York), Ivan Dbri (Mexico), and more—is already gaining notice. Acid Ted says “[It’s] a techno lover’s dream.

You should buy it next week.”

And, according to HollandChang’s publicist (and friend and partner in hosting the Zocalo familyfriendly chill-out shows at Bustolini’s), Sean-Michael Yoder (aka Abstract Terrorist) of VinylJunkie PR, “it’s getting an unusually large amount of support and attention from the international dance music community,” with taste-making DJs from Europe to New Dehli giving the locally produced compilation a spin. Ω

One Wrong Turn Rick Estrin & The Nightcats Alligator Records Harmonicist Rick Estrin’s new CD, the follow-up to 2009’s well-received Twisted, gives his fans more of what they’ve come to expect from the dapper musician. Estrin’s backed by the same trio he’s been working with since guitarist Little Charlie, with whom he’d toured and recorded for more than 30 years, retired from the road four years ago. Estrin is a prolific composer and, in addition to his eight originals, the CD showcases two numbers by drummer J. Hansen and instrumentals by guitarist Chris “Kid” Andersen and bassist/organist Lorenzo Farrell. In addition to his stunning playing, especially on chromatic harmonica, Estrin’s lyrics are several cuts above the usual “she done me wrong” variety.

A good example is “(I Met Her on the) Blues Cruise,” a bouncy item in which he describes an amorous encounter on a Caribbean musical voyage.

The initial attraction soon fades when he spots all her tattoos (e.g., “The Tommy Castro tramp stamp was tough to overlook”). Andersen’s feature is “The Legend of Taco Cobbler,” an uptempo number that’s described as a “spaghetti-western-while-surfing instrumental.” Tenorman Terry Hanck guests on “Zonin’,” Farrell’s jazzy instrumental that features his hip organ work and Andersen’s guitar. An added bonus is the inclusion of the lyrics.

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Greekadelia Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis Riverboat Records The beleaguered Mediterranean country of Greece certainly has its share of economic and societal woes these days. There’s nothing like music, however, to distract one from such depressing stuff. Greek folk duo Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis’ Greekadelia—a collection of 13 traditional demotika (ethnic-Greek folk) songs remixed with a modern touch—should do the trick. Though Greekadelia’s songs, from various regions throughout Greece, often focus on such less-than-cheery topics as danger and longing, the hypnotic album nevertheless draws one in and away from one’s ordinary troubles. The opening song, “Matia San Kai Ta Dika Sou,” features the sampled voice of a boat captain announcing his vessel’s arrival, played over Stassinopoulou’s mesmerizing vocals and harmonium and Kalyviotis’ traditional Greek stringed lauto. In “Halassia Mou,” Stassinopoulou sings of her yearning for her beloved partner who has been away for years; Kalyviotis supports with droning backup vocals that perfectly complement the contemplative tune. The complex melody line of the haunting “To Ponemeno Stithos Mou”—about one whose heart is “weeping”—effectively shows off Stassinopoulou’s flexible, interesting voice.

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NIGHTLIFE SCOTT HUCKABAY

Saturday, July 28 Lost on Main SEE SATURDAY

THURSDAY 7|26—WEDNESDAY 8|1 Th, 7/26, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

27FRIDAY

26THURSDAY BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

DYLANS DHARMA: A groovy mix of rock

and reggae. Th, 7/26, 6pm. Free.

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

JEFF PERSHING ACOUSTIC: A solo acoustic set from Chico’s master of the funky jam. Th, 7/26, 7pm. Free.

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

JOHN SEID: John Seid and friends, featuring Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing an eclectic mix of tunes all night. This week, the trio is joined by Bob Littell. Th, 6:30-9:30pm through 8/2. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W.

bookishly intimate setting for singer Karen Joy Brown’s last show with Afternoon Bloom. F, 7/27, 8:30pm. $5.

Lyon Books; 121 W. Fifth St.; (530) 8913338; www.lyonbooks.com.

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

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

OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: DRIVER: The weekly concert series continues with the rockabilly, blues and classic rock of Driver. Festivities will include food vendors, a raffle and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 7/26, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 5332011.

REPROACHER: Super-mega hardcore punk metal from Wyoming. Fatal Birth, Teeph and Into The Open Earth open.

METHOD ECHO: A funky and soulful elec-

funk and soul and dance-happy originals. Los Papi Chulos opens. F, 7/27, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

tronica-tinged pop band from Sacramento. Fate Under Fire opens. F, 7/27, 8pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi-

AFTERNOON BLOOM FAREWELL SHOW: A

Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnnies restaurant.com.

FUNKY FRIDAYS: BLACK FONG: Old school

BRODIE STEWART BAND: Live original country music led by songwriter Brodie Stewart. F, 7/27, 8:30pm. Free.

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

tion: Friday night happy hour with a traditional Irish music session by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

7/27, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: The country side

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Chico’s

of local metal band Esoteric. F, 7/27, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E.

master of the funky jam. F, 7/27, 9pm.

Free. Holiday Inn; 685 Manzanita Ct.; (530) 345-2491; www.holidayinn.com.

Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

MAYPOP TRAVELIN BAND: The rural concert series continues with the Maypop Travelin’ Band. F, 7/27, 6:30pm. Free.

Berry Creek Grange; 1477 Bald Rock Rd. in Berry Creek; (530) 533-2011.

ELIZA RICKMAN: A singer-songwriter who

NORTHERN HEAT: Live southern rock. F,

COLD BLUE MOUNTAIN & DR. BECKY SAGERS Saturday, July 28 Duffy’s Tavern SEE SATURDAY

favors a toy piano as accompaniment.

Local songwriter Fera opens. F, 7/27, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

TEAM SHARK WEEK: A local indie/electronic duo. Mommydaddy Monster is a techno trash project featuring the frontwoman from Furlough Fridays.

Present Day Enthusiasts and Sissterhoods open. F, 7/27, 8pm. $5.

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

28SATURDAY ASCENT BAND CAMP RECITAL: Students from the Ascent Music Academy perform after a week-long crash course in the history of rock music. Sa, 7/28, 8pm. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

BRODIE STEWART BAND: Live and original country music led by songwriter Brodie Stewart. Sa, 7/28, 8:30pm. Free.

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brewery. F, 7/27, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: LOS PAPI CHULOS: The weekly concert series

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RENEGADE: A Styx tribute band in the

7/28, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill;

Live music from Frankie Doppler’s Nuclear Sunrise, Crescent, Fallin’ to Rise and Fill the Void. F, 7/27, 6-10pm. $5. Chico Grange; 2775 Nord Ave.; (530) 990-5715.

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in the lounge. F, 7/27, 8:30pm. Free.

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

ALL FIRED UP!: Classic rock covers. Sa,

FRANKIE DOPPLER’S NUCLEAR SUNRISE:

continues with Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz, salsa and groove tunes from Los Papi Chulos. F, 7/27, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

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THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 24 St. in Oroville; (530) 533-5052.

29SUNDAY JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans

THE MALONE BROTHERS: Louisiana bros Mountain is gloomy, melodic and crunchy as all hell. Dr. Becky Sagers, Ph.D and Chris Keene open. Sa, 7/28, 9pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

COTTONWOOD: Classic rock and oldies. Sa, 7/28, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino;

2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

INTANGIBLE ANIMAL: Indie rock with nods toward jazz, grunge and punk. You Poor Devil, C.J. Allegre and Furlough Fridays open. Sa, 7/28, 8pm. $5.

Origami Lounge, 7th and Cherry streets.

JEFF PERSHING ACOUSTIC: Chico’s master of all things jammy plays a solo acoustic set. Sa, 7/28, 5-9pm. Free.

Scooters Cafe; 11975 State Hwy. 70 in Oroville; (530) 534-4644.

LIVING IN THE USA: A tribute to American country and rock music from Neil Diamond to Bruce Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt to Simon and

Garfunkle in the brewery. Sa, 7/28, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

NORTHERN HEAT: Live southern rock. Sa,

7/28, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

PHOENIX: Blues and classic rock covers

in the lounge. Sa, 7/28, 8:30pm. Free.

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

Dave (The Radiators) and Tommy (the subdudes) Malone join guitars for a new roots-rock supergroup. Su, 7/29, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

30MONDAY 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.

SCOTT HUCKABAY: A guitarist who uses a violin bow, an e-bow, percussive techniques and layers of effects to create a huge sound for just one man. Alli Battaglia & The Musical Brewing Company, Hear for Now, The Resonators and Christian Gabriel open. Sa, 7/28, 9pm. $7. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

TRADITIONAL DANCE CLUB: Traditional country dancing with live music by Cottonwood, Silver Wing and more. Sa,

Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

FIGHT MUSIC: Raw and rocking punk.

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

COLD BLUE MOUNTAIN: Cold Blue

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7/28, 7-10pm. $6-$7. VFW Hall; 1901 Elgin

31TUESDAY 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.

‘Nuff said. The Secretions and Born Into This open. W, 8/1, 9pm. $5.

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

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.

UGLY WINNER: San Jose psych-rockers Ugly Winner are joined by local noisemakers West by Swan and indie-folksters Star Thistle Wall for a hump-day party. W, 8/1, 9pm. $5.

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

KARAOKE CRAZY HORSE: All-request karaoke. Tu,

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

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

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

QUACKERS: Th, 9pm. Free. Quackers

FEATHER FALLS: Tu, 7-11pm. Free. Feather

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

Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com.

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

LASALLES: Su, 9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St. 2nd street, (530) 893-1891.

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

Lounge, 968 East Ave., (530) 895-3825.

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

STUDIO INN: With Brandon Hightower. Tu,

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

TORTILLA FLATS: Karaoke en Espanol. Su,

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

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

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MAY THE FORCED VIBRATIONS BE WITH YOU Those crazy musical potstirrers in local indie-prog crew Clouds on Strings are at it again. Keyboardist Josh Hegg and guitarist/vocalist Michael Bone are digging up their musical roots and bringing local players together for regular jazz performances, each built on a different theme.

The playful series starts up as a biweekly affair— every other Wednesday in August, 7:30 p.m., at Café Flo—with a Star Wars-themed night debuting on Aug. 1. and an Elton John jazz night on Sketches of Tatooine.

Aug. 15. Things will then shift over to Café Coda, where they will be taking over the old Friday morning Green Eggs and Jazz brunch series. Stay tuned for details.

REST IN PEACE Man, Chico just became a less fun and interesting place. Local actor, political blogger, activist and former Chico City Council candidate Quentin Colgan died this past Monday, July 23, at the age of 54. (See Downstroke, page 8.) Quentin was one of my favorite locals. One of those wonderfully distinct personalities who give Chico its character. Probably a better way to put it is that he was kind of a kook who would completely devour any stage upon which he foisted his larger-than-life persona. In fact, most local plays in which I saw him were made better—and sometimes were held together—by Colgan’s wacky vibrant presence in the cast. But he wasn’t just weird, he was also very smart and seemingly fearless, and those qualities not only served the actor but also the refreshingly straight-talking political candidate who cut through partisan rhetoric and stood up for those who had no voice—despite his slim chances at the polls. The CN&R sends its condolences to Quentin’s friends and loved ones. Chico won’t be the same without him.

A public memorial, entitled Occupy EVERYTHING: A Celebration of Quentin Colgan, will be held at the ARC Pavilion Sunday, July 29, 3 p.m. Wear your best Hawaiian shirt.

RIP Quentin.

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410 E Biggs Hwy 283 W Rio Bonito Rd 33 Sparrow Hawk Ln 31 Cade Ct 37 Fuchsia Way 10 Pelican Park Dr 731 Chestnut St 2981 Bancroft Dr 1731 Cardinal Ct 140 W Eaton Rd 8 Savannah Ln

Biggs Biggs Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$235,000 $120,000 $439,000 $395,000 $318,000 $300,000 $280,000 $270,000 $260,000 $253,000 $243,000

4/ 2 3/ 1.5 4/ 3.5 3/ 2.5 4/ 3 4/ 3 4/ 4 3/ 2 3/ 2 4/ 3 2/ 2

2670 1170 2799 2634 2177 2011 2520 1595 1776 1705 1430

13 Bunker Ct 1521 La Linda Ln 9 St Francis Dr 1 Lakeshore Ter 5 Tierra Rosa Ln 113 Wawona Pl 1276 Palmetto Ave 1144 W 6th St 1150 Spruce Ave 1160 Metalmark Way 2166 Bar Triangle St

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$240,000 $238,000 $231,000 $228,000 $225,000 $225,000 $222,500 $220,000 $198,000 $195,000 $190,000

3/ 2 3/ 2 6/ 4 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 2 4/ 1 5/ 2 2/ 1 4/ 2 3/ 2

1496 1482 2100 1534 1389 1661 1415 2194 1086 1603 1186

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Sat. 2-4 264 Pinyon Hills Drive (X St: Lake West) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1803 sq. ft. $299,500 John Wallace 514-2405

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5388 High Rocks Ct 3855 Hildale Ave 12 Avery Ct 1189 Montgomery St 4 Donna St 12 Sorrel Ct 136 Valley Ridge Dr 1001 Thomasson Ln 5887 Orrin Dr 1356 Orput Ln 972 Bella Vista Ave

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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 persons are doing business as BURGER KING at 1104 W 2nd St. Chico, CA 95928.

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

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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.

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

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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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAYHEM! at 100 Risa Way #217, Chico, CA 95973.

JENNIE WOLFE, JEREMY WOLFE, 100 Risa Way, #217, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: JEREMY WOLFE Dated: July 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001031 Published: July 19,26, August 2,9, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DESIGNER CANVASES at 3042 Calistoga Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

KELLY MILTON, 3042 Calistoga Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: KELLY MILTON Dated: June 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000940 Published: July 19,26, August 2,9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DAVID YAGER PHOTOGRAPHY at 5 Mione Way, Chico, CA 95926.

BRYAN YAGER, 5 Mione Way, Chico, CA 95926.

DAVID YAGER, 1328 Bruce St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: BRYAN YAGER Dated: June 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000939 Published: July 19,26, August 2,9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ID INTERNATIONAL at 1033 Park Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

MATHEW JACOBS, 1703 E Sacramento, Chico, CA 95926.

ALEX SORGER 570 Waterford Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ALEX SORGER Dated: June 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000937 Published: July 19,26, August 2,9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE GYPSY CROW at 131 Gooselake Circle, Chico, CA 95973.

ASHLEY LYNN BOONE, 131 Gooselake Circle, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ASHLEY BOONE Dated: July 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001015 Published: July 19,26, August 2,9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FINS FUR AND FEATHER SPORTS at 1520 Bader Mine Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

LARRY MAIN, 6619 Rosewood Dr. Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LARRY E MAIN Dated: June 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000958 Published: July 26, August 2,9,16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NUTRISHOP OF CHICO at 1141 Forest Ave. #20, Chico, CA 95928.

SCHINDELBECK Incorporated 1141 Forest Ave. #20, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TOBY SCHINDELBECK Dated: June 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000906 Published: July 26, August 2,9,16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DEE DEE ORTIZ PHOTOGRAPHY at 1380 East Ave. #124, Chico, CA 95973.

DELORES D ORTIZ, 2536 North Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

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Signed: DELORES ORTIZ Dated: June 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000951 Published: July 26, August 2,9,16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PASSION FOR LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY at 2940 Burnap Ave. #5, Chico, CA 95973.

JENNY LOUISE SKIBO, 2940 Burnap Ave. #5, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JENNY SKIBO Dated: July 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001061 Published: July 26, August 2,9,16, 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: TAMMY NEWTON, furniture, boxes.

KEVIN WITHDRELL, clothing.

To the highest bidder on: August 4, 2012 Beginning at 2:00pm.

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

Published: July 19,26, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California selfstorage facility act: (B&P code 21770 et.sec.) the undersigned will sell the contents of: VALERIE VASQUEZ, kitchen table/chairs, misc. home decor, toys/games.

LARRY GRIFF, king bed set, oak hutch, dressers, ent. center, wave board.

TASHA ROMERO, TV’s, dressers, patio chairs, game controllers, kids items.

To the highest bidder on: August 4, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm Sale to be held at: Extra Storage 3160 Olive Hwy, Oroville, CA 95966 Published: July 19,26, 2012 NOTICE OF HEARING GUARDIANSHIP OR CONSERVATORSHIP ESTATE OF: FRANK A MCGEE CASE NO. CVPC 09-0060 This notice is required by law.

This notice does not require you to appear in court, but you may attend the hearing if you wish.

NOTICE is given that: BRENDA SMITH, CONSERVATOR AND ATTORNEY FOR CONSERVATEE has filed: REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY You may refer to documents on file in this proceeding for more information. (Some documents filed with the court are confidential. Under some circumstances you or your attorney may be able to see or receive copies of confidential documents if you file papers in the proceeding or apply to the court.)

A HEARING on the matter will be held as follows: Date: 8/13/2012 Time: 9:00am Dept. 2 Address of the court: Superior Court of California, County of Yuba 215 Fifth St. Marysville, CA 95901

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IT’S WORTH THE DRIVE! REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Petitioner: BRENDA C. SMITH AS CONSERVATOR of the estate of the decedent, conservatee, or minor and request a court order for confirmation of sale of the estate’s interest in other property sold as a unit as described in Attachment 2c.

Approval of Commission of: 10% of the amount of $3620.

Additional bond is not required.

Description of property sold: Interest sold: 100% Unimproved Street address and location: 8.9 ACRES ON PINECREST ROAD IN BUTTE COUNTY, APN 079-250-025-000 COMBINED WITH 8.07 ACRES ON UPPER PALERMO RD. APN 079-250-027-000.

Appraisal Date of death of decedent or appointment of conservator or guardian: APPT OF CONSERVATOR 12/20/11 Appraised value at above date: $36,000 Appraisal or reappraisal by probate referee has been filed.

Manner and terms of sale: Name of purchaser and manner of vesting title: TODD R. IRVIN AND RONNIE LEE IRVIN Sale was public on: 7/11/12 Amount bid: $36,200 Deposit $1000 Payment: Cash Terms comply with Probate Code section 2542 (guardianships and conservatorships).

Commission: A written contract for commission was entered into with: Purchaser was procured

by SHEILA STEWART. Commission is to be divided as follows: 1/2 to Mike Capella, 1/2 to Sheila Stewart Bond none Notice of sale: Published Notice of Hearing: Personal representative, conservator of the estate, or guardian of the estate: Petitioner(consent or notice not required).

Reason for sale: Necessary to pay debts, expenses of administration. The sale is to the

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advantage of the estate and in the best interest of the interested persons.

Overbid: Required amount of first overbid: $38,510.00 Petitioner’s efforts to obtain the highest and best price reasonably attainable for the property were as follows: PROPERTY WAS LISTED UNDER MULTIPLE LISTING, THREE SEPARATE OFFERS WERE RECEIVED AND THEN COUNTERED IN ORDER TO PRODUCE HIGHEST OFFER AVAILABLE, OFFER IS ABOVE PROBATE REFEREE APPRAISED VALUE. Dated: 7/11/12 Attorney: BRENDA C. SMITH I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Signed: BRENDA C. SMITH Attachment 2e- legal description of property APN 079-250-025 8.9 acres on Pinecrest Road in Butte County.

PARCEL THREE: BEGINNING at a point on the Southerly boundary line of Lot A, as shown on a Map of Palermo and Subdivision Number 1 and 2 with Addition to No.1 of the Palermo Citrus Tract, recorded in the office of the Recorder of the County of Butte, State of California, September 17, 1888, from which the Southeast corner of said lot bears East, a distance of 1500 feet; thence from said point of beginning South 88 degree 46’ 25” West, along the Southerly boundary line of said Lot A, 372.98 feet to a point on the Easterly boundary line of a parcel of land as described in Deed to Ralph E Brereton, et ux, recorded May 28, 1963 in Book 1248 of Butte County Official Records, at page 97; thence North o degree 56’ 55” West, along the Easterly boundary line of said Brereton parcel, 196.28 feet to the Northeast corner of said Brereton parcel; thence South 88 degree 55’ 45” West, along the Northerly boundary line of said Brereton parcel, 38.42 feet; thence North 9 degree 01’ 32” West, 1365.69 feet to a point on the Southerly boundary line of Pinecrest Avenue; thence Southerly and easterly along the Southerly boundary line of said Pinecrest Avenue to

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a point that bears North 0 degree 07’ 00” East from the point of beginning; thence South 0 degree 07’ 00” West, 1421.47 feet to the point of beginning.

EXCEPTING THEREFROM the Easterly 240 feet as measured along the Southerly boundary line of the above described parcel of land.

APN 079-250-027 8.07 acres on upper Palermo Road in Butte County PARCEL ONE: Being a portion of Lot A, as shown on a Map of Palermo and Subdivision Number 1 and 2 with Addition to No. 1 of the Palermo Citrus Tract, recorded in the office of the Recorder of the County of Butte, State of California, September 17, 1888 being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the Northerly boundary line of Block 113 as shown on a Map of Addition to Subdivision No. 1 of the Palermo Citrus Tract, according to the Official Map thereof, recorded in the office of the Recorder of the County of Butte, State of California, July 23, 1888 and the Easterly boundary line of Citrus Avenue; thence along the Easterly boundary line of said Citrus Avenue North 2 degree 04’ 26” East 300.0 feet to the point of beginning for the parcel of land herein described; thence from said point of beginning South 89 degree 39’ 36” East 1167.57 feet; thence North 9 degree 01’ 32” West 303.02 feet; thence North 89 degree 39’ 36” West 1100.23 feet to a point on the Easterly boundary line of said Citrus Avenue; thence along the Easterly boundary line of said Avenue, South 9 degree 50’ 48” West 66.30 feet; thence continuing along said Avenue, South 2 degree 04’ 26” West, 233.70 feet to the point of beginning.

Attachment 4f- terms of sale Buyer shall deliver to Seller written verification of sufficient funds to close the transaction within 2 days of acceptance.

Purchase shall be completed with cash payment. Escrow fees to be split equally between the buyer and seller.

Published: July 26, August 2,9, 2012

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: DAWN PANEK, household items.

DAWN PANEK, household items.

JEREMY BOCH, household items.

SILVIA MEJIA, household items.

SARA CLIFTON, household items.

ASHLEY TAYLOR, household items.

To the highest bidder on: August 11, 2012 Beginning at 12:00pm.

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

Published: July 26, August 2, 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: 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.

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 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 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HOLLY NOEL BEHR KNIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HOLLY NOEL BEHR KNIGHT Proposed name: HOLLY NOEL BEHR 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.

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your personal chart, the planet Uranus symbolizes those special talents you have that are especially useful to other people. Which aspects of your soulful beauty are potentially of greatest service to the world? How can you express your uniqueness in ways that activate your most profound generosity? If you learn the answers to these questions, you will make great progress toward solving the riddle that Uranus poses. I’m happy to report that the coming years will provide you with excellent opportunities to get to the bottom of this mystery. And now would be a good time to launch a concerted effort.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming weeks, I’m afraid there’s only a very small chance that you’ll be able to turn invisible at will, shapeshift into an animal form and back, or swipe the nectar of immortality from the gods. The odds of success are much higher, though, if you will attempt less ambitious tasks that are still pretty frisky and brazen. For example, you could germinate a potential masterpiece where nothing has ever grown. You could legally steal from the rich and give the spoils to the poor. And you could magically transform a long-stuck process that no one thought would ever get unstuck.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are there are

any weaknesses or problems in your approach to communication? They will be exposed in the coming weeks. If you’re even slightly lazy or devious about expressing yourself, you will have to deal with the karmic consequences of that shortcoming. If there’s more manipulativeness than love in your quest for connection, you’ll be compelled to do some soul-searching. That’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that you will have far more power than usual to upgrade the way you exchange energy with others. In fact, this could be the time you enter into a golden age of communication.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you narrow your focus now, the world will really open up for you in the second half of October and November. To the degree that you impose limitations on your desire to forever flow in all directions, you will free up creative ideas that are currently buried. So summon up some tough-minded discipline, please.

Refuse to let your moodiness play havoc with your productivity. Dip into your reserve supply of high-octane ambition so you will always have a sixth sense about exactly what’s important and what’s not.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The state of Maine

has a law that prohibits anyone from leaving an airplane while it is flying through the air.

This seems like a reasonable restriction until you realize how badly it discriminates against skydivers. Legal scholars will tell you that examples like this are not at all rare.

Laws tend to be crude, one-size-fits-all formulations. And, as I’m sure you’ve discovered in your travels, Leo, one-sizefits-all formulations always squash expressions of individuality. In the coming weeks, be extra alert for pressures to conform to overly broad standards and sweeping generalizations. Rebel if necessary.

You have license to be yourself to the 10th power.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I propose that

you try to accomplish the following cleanup projects in the next four weeks: 10 bushels of weeds yanked out of your psychic landscape; 25 pounds of unused stuff and moldering junk hauled away from your home; 10 loads of dirty laundry (especially the metaphorical kind) washed free of taint and stains—and not blabbed about on social media; at least $5,000 worth of weird financial karma scrubbed away for good; a forgotten fence mended; and a festering wound tended to until it heals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Philosopher

Following his dream

humans are like flies creeping along the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. We literally cannot see the splendor that surrounds us. As a result, we don’t live in reality. We’re lost in our habitual perceptions, blinded by our favorite illusions and addicted to beliefs that hide the true nature of the universe. That’s the bad news, Libra. The good news is that every now and then, each of us slips into a grace period when it’s possible to experience at least some of the glory we’re normally cut off from. The veil opens, and previously undetected beauty appears. The weeks ahead will be the closest you’ve come to this breakthrough in a long time.

by Dane Stivers dstivers@mail.csuchico.edu

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Can you

guess which European country has the best military record in the last eight centuries?

It’s France. Out of the 185 battles its soldiers have engaged in, they’ve won 132 and lost only 43. Ten times they fought to a draw. Of all the signs of the zodiac, Scorpio, I think you have the best chance of compiling a comparable record in the next 10 months.

Your warriorlike qualities will be at a peak; your instinct for achieving hard-fought victories may be the stuff of legends years from now. But please keep in mind what the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said in his iconic text The Art of War: The smart and powerful warrior always avoids outright conflict if possible and wins by using slyer means.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

After consulting the astrological omens, I’ve concluded that during the next three weeks, you will deserve the following titles: 1. Most Likely to Benefit From Serendipitous Adventures; 2. Most Likely to Exclaim “Aha!”; 3. Most Likely to Thrive While Wandering in Wild Frontiers and Exotic Locales; 4. Most Likely to Have a Wish Come True if This Wish Is Made in the Presence of a Falling Star. You might want to wait to fully embody that fourth title until the period between August 9 and 14, when the Perseids meteor shower will be gracing the night skies with up to 170 streaks per hour. The peak flow will come on August 12 and 13.

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

may have to travel far and wide before you will fully appreciate a familiar resource whose beauty you’re half-blind to. It’s possible you’ll have to suffer a partial loss of faith so as to attract experiences that will make your faith stronger than it ever was.

And I’m guessing that you may need to slip outside your comfort zone for a while in order to learn what you need to know next about the arts of intimacy. These are tricky assignments, Capricorn. I suggest you welcome them without resentment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My daugh-

ter Zoe has been writing some fine poetry these last few years. I regard it as professional-grade stuff that has been born of natural talent and developed through discipline and hard work. You might ask, quite reasonably, whether my evaluation of her literary output is skewed by fatherly pride.

I’ve considered that possibility. But recently, my opinion got unbiased corroboration when her school awarded her with the All-College Honors for her poetry manuscript. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience.

Your views or theories will be confirmed by an independent and objective source.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The critic

Dorothy Parker didn’t think highly of Katherine Hepburn’s acting skills. “She runs the emotional gamut from A to B,” said Parker. I realize that what I’m about to suggest may be controversial, but I’m hoping you will be Hepburn-like in the coming week, Pisces. This is not the right time, in my astrological opinion, for you to entertain a wide array of slippery, syrupy, succulent feelings. Nor would it be wise to tease out every last nuance of the beguiling vibes rising up within you. For the time being, you need to explore the pleasures of discerning perception and lucid analysis.

Get lost in deep thought, not rampant passion.

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Gerald “JJ” Curcio is an Anaheim-born aspiring actor who visited Chico back in 1994 and decided to make the North State his home. Despite living far from Tinsletown, Curcio has been an extra in a couple of commercials, for Comcast and Golden One Credit Union. He’s also done theater, such as a local production of South Pacific. A couple of his biggest roles to date have been playing a cop and FBI agent on episodes of the TV series I (Almost) Got Away With It, which airs on the Investigation Discovery channel. Curcio is on the verge of becoming eligible for membership in the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and hopes to eventually take his talents to the big screen.

In the meantime, the 39-year-old, who’s married with two young sons, holds down a day job at a local big-box store.

How has Chico meshed with your big acting dreams?

Chico is an artsy town, so that inspired me in a way. Just thinking back to when I was in high school, how I liked drama … the Chico area brought me to that conclusion of remembering that I do want to pursue acting. It’s quite hard, to be honest with you, to be in Chico because all my auditions are in San Francisco.

I’ve got one tomorrow and if I don’t land it, it’s almost a wasted trip, besides the experience you get at the audition itself.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In

by Rob Brezsny

15 MINUTES

BREZSNY’S

For the week of July 26, 2012

Is there a key moment that helped your career?

I think it was my last audition for the TV series The World’s Astonishing News. The auditioning crew comes out and gives you the scenario, which are actual stories that happened in the world. You jot them down because you have to act them out in front of the casting director.

Everybody was asking this one guy, “Aren’t you going to write down what you’re going to do?,” and he goes, “No, whenever I go for auditions, I act it out like I would in real life or I pick up the scenario of someone I know in that situation and act it out that way.” I was like, “Wow!” and kind of brought that mentality into my audition.

What do you see in your acting future?

My dream right now is to get my SAG card. You get paid way more as a SAG actor, and in places like L.A., they’ll only look at you 80 percent of the time if you’re a SAG actor. In the long term, I’d like to continue what I’m doing.

I’d like to [do] feature films, getting cast in a bigger role; more speaking roles and things of that nature.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Morning I sit on the estate, or maybe in it. It’s early, just after my morning meditation, the best time of day. I’m still calm and centered, not having given any thought to anything I have to do today.

I’ve finally gotten to the place where I can relax and think about whatever I want without guilt over not doing or thinking about what I think I ought to do or think about. Notice all the thinking. Without thinking I’m left with just relaxation, a pretty good deal.

I’ve put the table in the morning sweet spot, where I’ll be mostly shaded until about three thirty.

Then I’ll shift a couple of yards south, which will do until the tree next door takes over, and we move into evening. I can’t sit nearly that long, though, so I’m up and about often. Next year I’m gonna make a standing table for the garden, and then I’ll be able to work outside longer.

For the time being I use my breaks from sitting to tend to the local flora, primarily watering things and being aware of signs of infestation or other unpleasantness. I now and then resist looking for trouble like that, since that’s likely to encourage it, and just try to be aware of conditions and appearances without

actually looking for something awful. I don’t altogether understand, either. It’s a little like the relaxed attention of meditation.

A few years ago I thought I’d reached complete acceptance of the tree rats, and now it seems to have worn off. A walnut tree dominates our back yard and is a heck of a cafeteria, although not a smorgasbord since there are only walnuts. I know they’re just trying to make a living like you and me, and I don’t mind sharing with them, even that one up there.

So I accept the tree rats. I haven’t accepted the rain of gnawed bits of green walnuts within the drip line. The best shade is in the drip line, and, as much as I love the sun, when it’s a hundred degrees I want some shade. Shade with a drizzle of walnut bits isn’t nearly as good as shade without walnut bits.

Barefoot walking is a lot more uncomfortable on jagged pieces of walnut shell than not on jagged pieces of walnut.

A couple of friends say I should get a slingshot. I bet that would discourage the squirrels, but I don’t want to kill any, although I’ve heard they’re tasty, so I spray them with water instead. With a sweeper nozzle I can nail any tree rat within twenty feet with no casualties. Got him.

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