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Job creation in California Remember when local Assemblyman Dan Logue was telling

anyone who would listen that California was going in the tank economically, losing jobs and businesses to other states, especially Texas? Well, guess what. Data released last week show that California isn’t the job-killing machine Logue said it was.

In May, according to the latest employment report, California added 45,900 jobs, and then in June it added another 38,300 jobs. In those two months, California was responsible for half the job growth in the entire country. And most of those jobs were in the information and professional, scientific and technical-services sectors, which tend to pay well.

The state’s unemployment rate, at 10.7 percent, is still the third-highest in the nation, the result of the collapse of the housing market and the resulting crash of related sectors, especially construction. But California is definitely coming back. It continues to attract more venture capital than any other state—more, in fact, than all the other states combined. Here, too, the money tends to go to economic sectors that produce high-wage jobs.

Critics like to point to the low rating California’s business climate gets.

However, as Peter Schrag, the dean of California pundits, recently pointed out, there’s little to link employment rates and business climate. Nevada, for example, was ranked third in the nation by the Tax Foundation for its business-friendly tax structure, but it has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Vermont, rated 47th in terms of tax friendliness, has an unemployment rate of only 4.7 percent.

And Texas? In her recent book, As Goes Texas, New York Times columnist Gail Collins argues that the state’s business friendliness is based in large part on a regressive tax structure that forces the poor to pay more of their income than the rich—and under which they get some of the worst services in the world.

California has problems, but we don’t need to emulate Texas to solve them. Ω

Finding Blue “T spied this line on Facebook one night. It loomed as a virtual fortune cookie, stuck to my news feed. It made me

rust what your intuition tells you.” I recently

think of The Poodle.

The Poodle, you wonder? None of my Facebook friends have to ask. I’ve posted only 996,000 photos of him—or something close to that.

The Poodle is Blue—not as in color.

That’s the name he came with when he entered my life almost three years ago. My friend Susan, a dog groomer, explained to me when Blue By first arrived that, “In the aniShannon Rooney mal world, grey things are called ‘blues.’” Who knew?

Somehow, about a year The author teaches writing at Butte before my 50th birthday in College and is a November 2009, I knew I freelance writer, had to have a poodle. I had editor, tutor and no idea why. I visualized a toy poodle, social media something the size of a Paris Hilton kind consultant. of dog that could be carried around in a blingy purse. I just knew someone would bring me a cardboard box on my 50th birthday, and out would pop a poodle.

The universe had another idea. My birthday week finally arrived, and I had five parties, each unique, but the actual

day of my birthday finally came and—no poodle. I was a bit crestfallen.

When I woke up the day after my halfcentury milestone, a voice spoke in my head: “Go to the animal shelter.” What? I hadn’t been there for at least five or six months.

Why would I go to the animal shelter? There were never any poodles there.

I did my best all morning to ignore this voice. After lunch, though, I was out running errands when the voice insisted: “GO TO THE ANIMAL SHELTER!” All right, already, I thought. I drove to the animal shelter.

Entering the indoor dog kennel, I looked to my left at the very first cage. I did a double-take! There, silent and shivering in a front corner of his prison, staring up at me with soulful brown eyes, sat a dark-grey poodle! As pit bulls cacophonously barked, he looked up at me with a pleading gaze. “Pure-bred poodle,” the adoption card read. “Previous owner died.”

He was a mini, not a toy, yet I instantly knew he was the poodle for me. The shelter people said he’d been put out for adoption only 15 minutes earlier.

Trust what your intuition tells you. Ω

I knew I had to have a poodle. I had no idea why.

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A spiteful insult to voters It’s hard not to see vindictiveness behind the Board of Supervi-

sors’ decision Tuesday (July 31) to move toward banning all outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana in Butte County. It’s as if the members of the board majority—Supervisors Larry Wahl of Chico, Kim Yamaguchi of Paradise and Bill Connelly of Oroville—were saying to the people of Butte County, who in June solidly approved Measure A overturning the board’s first marijuana-cultivation ordinance, that they could take their referendum and, well, shove it.

By all indications, voters approved the referendum, Measure A, because they thought the ordinance was too restrictive, particularly in its prohibition of cultivation on any parcel smaller than a half-acre.

So, in response and with a large measure of spite, the supervisors decided to move toward an even more restrictive ordinance, in direct opposition to the will of the voters. “You didn’t like our ordinance?” they seemed to be saying. “Well, see what you think of this one, suckers.”

The new ordinance will be modeled on Kings County, where medicalmarijuana patients are allowed to grow only on their own property and only if the plants are enclosed in a structure of some kind.

The supervisors already have outlawed medical-marijuana dispensaries in Butte County. With the new ordinance, patients who can’t afford a structure, who are too ill to garden, or who don’t have a growing area will be forced to turn to the black market to obtain their medicine.

The supervisors may not like Proposition 215, which legalized the medical use of marijuana. And they clearly didn’t like it when voters overturned their cultivation ordinance. But in a democracy the will of the voters is supreme. What the board majority is doing is an insult to that bedrock notion. Ω

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Not ready for prime time Mitt Romney and his crew tripped up several times during his trip to Europe this week, which suggests he’s not quite the organizational wunderkind he’d like us to think he is.

I mean, it’s OK for the British to criticize their planning for the Olympics, but, as my mother always said, a guest never speaks ill of the host’s silverware.

And Romney’s remark in Israel—that the economic success of the Israelis, compared to the Palestinians’ poverty, was somehow due to their superior culture— was stupidly bigoted. Unlike the Palestinians, the Israelis haven’t been forced to live under oppressive occupation for 50 years. But then Romney made no effort to understand the Palestinians, declining to visit the West Bank or meet with Mahmoud Abbas, the duly elected president of the Palestine Authority.

Romney’s comment was of a piece with the shameful pandering he began doing the moment he arrived in Israel. Everything he said was carefully calibrated to appeal to right-wing Israelis and right-wing American Jews like Newt Gingrich’s pal Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate—now under investigation for allegedly bribing Chinese officials in Macau—who is talking about donating $100 million to the Romney campaign.

It’s distressing, also, that Romney held a fundraiser in Jerusalem and excluded the press, and that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is openly favoring him over President Obama. Most disturbing is that Romney has promised, in effect, that he will take America to war on Israel’s behalf by backing an Israeli first-strike attack on Iran.

The last time an American president promised his pro-Israel supporters a war, his name was George W. Bush, and we got Iraq.

He’ll say anything: Newsweek caused waves this week by putting Romney on its cover and asking about the “wimp factor”—whether he lacks the cojones to be president. But the real question is whether he can be trusted not to lie.

I’ve never seen a candidate change his positions on significant issues so often and in such transformative ways. On abortion rights, gun control, health care, immigration and taxation, Romney has done a complete flipflop in order to appeal to the farthest reaches of the right wing in his party.

He’ll do anything, apparently, to get elected. Does that lack of political backbone make him a wimp? You decide.

Crunching numbers: Bill Bradley, who writes the New West Notes blog on the Huffington Post and once wrote for this paper, points out, correctly, that I got my cost figures messed up last week when talking about the high-speedrail line and the peripheral tunnels.

The state hasn’t committed to $82 billion to build the two projects, as I wrote. Voters have approved a $10 billion bond issue for the $68 billion rail project, with matching funds coming from the federal government.

More will be needed from both sources, of course. And water users will pay for the tunnels ($14 billion), though taxpayers will have to come up with an estimated $10 billion to repair the Delta itself.

It’s still a boatload of bucks, just not as big a boat as I said.

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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Keeping the poor poor Re “You can’t have it both ways” (Guest comment, by Nikki Schlaishunt, July 26): Nikki Schlaishunt makes a brilliant socialist case. Fortunately (I believe) we live in a capitalist society.

The crux of the article is the statement, “When we all chip in as we are able….” The idea behind capitalism is that people are rewarded for grit, hard work and taking risks with their own money and that they then get to keep that money. For every Kennedy who made money on bootleg hooch, there were and are many other hard-working businessmen who build their capital the old fashioned way: They work for it. When they leave it to their children, it is still not suddenly community funds.

I returned to college at the age of 28 and worked hard when my friends were partying and having fun. I then worked 60-hour weeks as an engineer. Much is broken in the USA right now, and I mourn the loss of quality education at reasonable costs. However, taking from the rich to feed the poor will not save our country. The poor in the United States have cars, TVs and video games. What they really need is jobs and the desire to work to get a bigger piece of the pie.

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Change weakens the Greenline Re “The Greenline works” (Editorial, July 26): The Greenline at 30 years is an amazing accomplishment. I hope it will last 30 more.

It can be changed by the city or county at any time.

Mayor Ann Schwab will continue to be diligent when re-elected, but more developeroriented candidates must be licking their chops. Any change weakens the line, encourages speculators.

It may have been missed in your coverage that the Greenline was a compromise. Previous city “greenlines” had been overrun by developers sidestepping the city by getting county approvals, spreading sprawl.

Then, in 1982, the newly elected progressive City Council struck a deal brokered by Supervisor Jane Dolan and others, and we approved the massive southeast and northeast sewer assessment districts. By opening the hardpan soils on Chico’s east side to development—from Lassen Avenue to the Skyway, including the Chico Mall, Dan Drake’s subdivisions and California Park—we gave developers an alternative to cementing over rich agricultural land.

Break the Greenline? Sure, we can trade.

Convert eastside development back to grassland for every orchard lost.

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She’s doing it right Re “When Maria said good-bye” (Guest comment, by Tim Milhorn, July 19): Although it is sad that this bright and talented young lady was deported, you are overlooking one thing: She is doing the legal and proper thing to stay in this country.

We can’t blame her for her troubles. It was her parents who brought her here illegally and under a false name. And, unfortunately, she’s the one who is paying the price. (Is she the only one in her family to be deported?)

However, once this young lady takes cares of her illegal status legally, I’m sure she’ll be back to get on with what sounds like a promising future. You should be proud of her and the example she is setting for others, adults and children alike.

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Re “What’s worse, noise or poop?” (Letters, by V. Richard Troia, July 19): For countless years, citizens have been abandoned by our city when faced with the problem of chronic noise. Their suffering has manifested in many ways: stressrelated illnesses, endless calls to the police, landlords, tenants and neighbors with no resolution. In desperation, some have sought legal advice, and when all else failed they sold their family home.

We have paid an astronomical price for this unenforceable noise ordinance: violence, diminished quality of life, disintegration of historic neighborhoods, and the high cost to taxpayers for the futile efforts of our police. It is a shameful, city-wide epidemic.

According to the Chico PD, of the 2,908 calls they received in 2010 for noise disturbances, only 11 were cited. The police consider the existing ordinance unenforceable and have made the following recommendations to the City Council: 1. Remove the second complaint within 72 hours of a written warning required in order to issue a citation.

2. Remove the required written complaint. This would be replaced with a verbal complaint to issue a citation.

On Aug. 7, 2012, the topic of noise is back on the City Council agenda. Isn’t it time that we provide security for all citizens and foster a mature, academic environment? Isn’t it time to do what is right for our community?

MELINDA VASQUEZ Chico

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“We have paid an astronomical price for this unenforceable noise ordinance: violence, diminished quality of life, disintegration of historic neighborhoods, and the high cost to taxpayers for the futile efforts of our police.”

—Melinda Vasquez

In her response to the late Quentin Colgan’s letter [“The real cause,” July 12], Measure A signatory Stephanie L. Taber blames “the progressives on the City Council” for the $150,000 it cost the city to hold the special election, noting that a mail-only election might have cost half as much.

Complaining that a special election, held at a time when as few people as possible would vote, to consider a measure designed to move future City Council elections to a time when as few people as possible would vote, was not held in such a manner so that as few people as possible would vote on it, reveals an astonishing lack of irony (not to mention shame) on Ms. Taber’s part. I suppose we can’t fault her for inconsistency.

NATHANIEL PERRY Chico

Two for Taber Re “Blame the progressives” (Letters, by Stephanie L. Taber, July 26): Once again, the Larry Wahl/ Stephanie Taber team wants to shift the blame for the cost of their Measure A special election in June 2011.

Wahl brought in a company from Florida, and their paid circulators told potential signers of Measure A that the voters would still vote at their regular polling places. And Taber put in the official Yes on A ballot statement the following: “Measure A would join our city elections at the same time and at Chico polling places where county elections are taking place.”

This all happened before the measure came to the City Council, which by state law had to call a special election in June 2011 as Measure A required. So for months Wahl and Taber told voters that under Measure A, voters would go to their regular polling places. The City Council saw the promises made, that people would vote at their regular polling places.

Wahl and Taber and the Tea Party and Toby Schindelbeck (who lived in Paradise then) all supported Measure A, but I guess, since it went down in flames by 68 percent, that they are trying to shift the $151,000 cost to others. That $151,000 hurt the police budget, and these Measure A sponsors should just apologize to the people of Chico!

And it’s always interesting that Taber, who is a political appointee as a county employee for Wahl, never mentions that in her letters.

Is she embarrassed that she works for Wahl or just wants to come across as some neutral resident?

LAUREL HEATH Chico

There’s no stopping madmen Re “Who needs an assault rifle?”

(Editorial, July 26): It was predictable in the wake of the tragic theater shooting in Colorado that there would be renewed cries to ban certain weapons and magazines. Sadly, those advocating new laws apparently haven’t seen the video of the lady who appeared before a Senate investigating committee. She had a semi-automatic weapon with a 7or 10-round clip and showed the committee how simple it was to carry a number of such clips and change them in seconds.

Many cities, counties and states have outlawed various weapons by terming them as “assault weapons.” The devil is in the details. The definitions are all over the map depending upon where one lives. Often, just a small change in the shape of the grip will cause the weapon to be placed in the “assault” category.

The sad truth is that no laws that could be passed, including a complete ban on all weapons and ammunition, would prevent some deranged individual from carrying out a mass killing. The terrorist suicide bombers have demonstrated this to be true. Those who trash the NRA are probably not aware that many law enforcement officers have received training from NRA instructors and that the organization conducts many shooting events in which law enforcement officers participate.

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WHO DROPPED THE BOMBS?

After responding to reports of explosions at Sycamore Field near the One-Mile Recreation Area, officers from the Chico Police Department found four detonated and two live dry-ice bombs during the early morning hours of Sunday, July 29.

An initial search of the park shortly after midnight found “nothing out of the ordinary,” but officers located the dry-ice bombs—which are simple explosives made by putting dry ice and water in a container like a plastic bottle—following several more explosions, according to a CPD press release. Officer Robert Sheridan, an explosives technician, handled the two active bombs.

Police have linked a suspect to the case but have yet to identify or locate him.

Construction and possession of dry-ice bombs is a felony in California.

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The Butte County Board of Supervisors has voted to direct staff to develop a medical-marijuana ordinance even more restrictive than the one tossed out by voters during the June primary. The board was presented three options by staff—looking at and adopting another county’s law, forming a committee made up of staff and “members of the public representing all sides of the issue,” or holding regular public meetings.

Supervisor Larry Wahl made a motion to adopt an ordinance similar to one passed in Kings County last November. That one says: “Cultivation of medical marijuana is prohibited in all zones of the county, except for cultivation for personal medicinal use by a qualified patient within a secured, locked and fully enclosed structure on their personal residence.”

The board voted 3-2, with Maureen Kirk and Steve Lambert dissenting.

COUNCIL CANDIDATE LIST GROWS

On Friday, July 27, community activist Tami Ritter (pictured) held a press conference at the One-Mile Recreation Area declaring her candidacy for the Chico City Council, joining a list of 12 others who have filed candidacy papers with the city. The following Tuesday, July 31, Andrew Coolidge put out a press release announcing he, too, is running for one of the four seats up this November.

Other candidates include incumbents Ann Schwab and Bob Evans, former Councilwoman Kimberly Rudisell, Chico State instructor Sean Morgan, realtor Dave Donnan, Planning Commissioner Dave Kelley and Nutrishop owner Toby Schindelbeck. Money raised so far this year shows Coolidge with $10,055 in contributions and Morgan with $16,595. Schwab’s raised $7,160, Evans has $10,400 and Donnan’s picked up $5,065.

Other candidates have not yet raised money, and though they took out papers, Ali Sarsour, Mark Herrera and Ross Kramer are apparently not in the race.

Morgan has paid 5th District county Supervisor Kim Yamaguchi $1,000 for campaign consultation and given another $990 to consultant John Gillander.

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Chico couple say sheriff’s deputies overstepped their bounds

Thas launched an investigation based on a complaint filed by a Chico couple who say they

he Butte County Sheriff’s Department

were rudely and aggressively accosted by deputies who forcibly entered story and photo their home in the wee hours of by last Thursday morning, July 26.

Tom Gascoyne Jordan Cole said that he and a friend were smoking cigarettes tomg@ newsreview.com outside his Park Avenue home, while his fiancée, Finesse Reed, was inside the house watching the 1997 comedy 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag. The two men walked back into the house and joined her to watch the movie.

About 15 minutes later, Cole said, they heard noises coming from outside. Reed and Cole’s home is one of two residences at the rear part of a large building housing a computer-service store fronting Park Avenue.

Entrance is gained through a cyclone gate on a concrete walkway that runs between the computer store and another business just to the north.

Reed, who contacted the CN&R on the afternoon of the incident, said at just past 1 a.m. she heard the gate being opened as it scraped across the walkway, followed by talking and a knock on the door. Reed said she pulled back the curtain that covCaught on tape: ers the door’s window, but all A video of the she could see was flashlight. incident has been Cole said he then heard posted on YouTube under the name movement outside the window “Butte Co sheriff on the wall opposite the door. home invasion.” He said the banging on the door

continued for about 10 minutes. It wasn’t until about five minutes into it that he realized they were sheriff’s deputies.

“I was afraid the door was going to fly off the hinges the way they were pounding and kicking,” he said. “I still was not going to open the door, deputies or not, because I was scared and have a fiancée to protect.”

Cole began videotaping the situation.

The video shows his friend sitting in a chair while Reed is on the phone hysterically talking to her mother, Ramona, saying she doesn’t know what the deputies want because they won’t tell her. She disappears into another room in the house after Cole tells her not to open the door.

Cole tells the deputies they are being videotaped and repeatedly says “sir.”

“I hear ya,” he says. “I hear ya. I’m listening.”

It’s difficult to hear the deputies’ commands over the wailing of Reed, who is still on the phone with her mother.

“What’s your name?” Cole asks the deputy at the back window, obviously in response to the deputy’s asking for his name. Cole then says, “My hands are right here, sir. You’re scaring my family.” The deputy tells him to open the door. Cole says, “I know my rights, sir.

Take a glimpse in here, sir. There’s nothing going on in here, sir.”

The deputy asks if Cole is on probation or parole. Cole says he’s not and that he leases the building and is a business owner. He works out of his home conducting eBay sales. The video ends with Cole saying, “No. Why would I open my door, sir? What are we doing wrong?”

Jordan Cole and Finesse Reed stand in front of the window Butte County sheriff’s deputies broke to gain access to the couple’s home.

Cole said at one point the deputy

said, “That’s a 45 pointed at your head, son. You better do what we require.”

Soon after the video stopped, Cole said, the door window was broken and the deputies unlocked the door and walked in. (Cole said the couple had installed new locks on the door soon after they’d moved in two months earlier to feel more secure in their new neighborhood.)

The occupants were handcuffed, and for the next hour deputies searched the home.

Cole said at least four deputies and two Chico police officers entered the home.

“They came in after the deputies,” Cole said, referring to the Chico officers.

“We made eye contact, but they did not say anything to us, nor did I hear them talk to the deputies. They were in my residence for literately one minute before they turned around and left.”

Cole said the only thing the deputies told him was that they were in “hot pursuit of a suspect.”

“I asked, ‘Suspect of what?’ and was given no reply. I assured them I had been there all night. We were still in our pajamas. One deputy said, ‘You know where we’re coming from, right?’ I was in tears, shook my head no and said, ‘Absolutely not.’”

The sheriff’s incident log offers this three-word synopsis: “SUBJECTS FOOT BAILED.” Meaning they’d been chasing someone on foot.

Cole said one of the deputies claimed he recognized Cole and accused him of being on probation. Cole responded that the deputy recognized him because the deputy was a regular customer at Fast

Eddie’s Sandwich Shop on East Avenue where Cole used to work.

“They searched everything,” Cole said. “Under my mattress, bed frame, closets, dressers and drawers. They just left the place a mess as well.”

Reed said she was wearing a nightgown, and after getting handcuffed was initially left on the floor. She was eventually moved to wooden chair, where, she said, her nightgown shifted and exposed her breasts. She said that a female deputy working a K-9 unit recognized Reed’s discomfort and adjusted the nightgown.

That deputy also swept the broken glass from the window into a pile before the officers left. The next day Reed’s mother, Ramona, and Cole’s father, Joseph, visited their emotionally shaken children. As Cole inspected the damage to the door, he mentioned that the bulb to the outside motion-detector light had been unscrewed, presumably by one of the deputies.

Butte County Undersheriff Kory

Honea said he has ordered an investigation into the incident based on a complaint filed by Cole and Reed.

“An internal-affairs sergeant has been assigned to the case to contact those who filed the complaint and gather additional information,” he said.

Honea said he could not talk specifically about the incident because of the ongoing investigation but wanted it made clear the Sheriff’s Department was taking it seriously and being as open about it as legally possible.

Standard protocol, Honea explained, says that in order to make an entry into a residence there has to be a search warrant, an arrest warrant or consent from the residents.

“There are exigent circumstances of an emergency situation that allow you to go in,” he said. “Those would include a hot pursuit, which is chasing somebody who you believe has committed a crime.”

He said the department would conduct a thorough investigation and take appropriate action, should it be warranted.

“If our staff did something inappropriate, we will hold them accountable,” he said. “We want to get to the truth, to the heart of the matter, and that may take a while.”

He said there are certain legal requirements that must be followed according to the state’s Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act. For his part, Cole said he wants three things to come out of the investigation.

“I would like an explanation, a public apology and for them to fix the damages,” he said. “We are still very shaken and emotional over this. I have considered a lawsuit, but money isn’t going to make us feel any better. I want to feel safe in my own home again. I want my trust for law enforcement to return.” Ω

Cayle Geiser had just returned from summer camp when he learned one of his favorite counselors had been fired, apparently for being gay. He is shown standing in front of the storage shed he constructed at Marigold Elementary School as his Eagle Scout project.

Badge of bigotry

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GEISER FAMILY

Local Eagle Scout laments BSA’s anti-gay policy Cayle Geiser is a self-possessed, thoughtful 16-year-old who’s about to begin his junior year at Chico’s Pleasant Valley High School.

His parents, Bob and Rebecca Geiser, attribute his maturity in large part to his involvement in Scouting, which began when he was just 6 years old. Cayle recently became an Eagle Scout, Scouting’s highest rank, and his younger brother, Jared, who’s 14, is about to become one as well.

Both boys recently spent a week at Camp Winton in Amador County, one of three summer camps run by the Golden Empire Council, the Sacramento Valley arm of the Boy Scouts of America. They had a great time, as always, but when they returned home, they were confronted by disturbing news.

According to a July 25 article in The Sacramento Bee, one of their favorite counselors, a 22-year-old gay Eagle Scout named Tim Griffin, had been fired after eight years on the summer staff. In response, 10 of about 30 staff members had walked off the job in solidarity.

The firing came just days after the Boy Scouts of America announced it had reaffirmed its policy of banning gays. “I definitely think that the reaffirmation of the anti-gay policy played a role in my termination,” Griffin told the Bee. Local BSA officials denied that, saying it was because of Griffin’s failure to adhere to correct attire, specifically his insistence on painting his fingernails and wearing an earring.

But other Scouts weren’t buying it. “It was absolutely about his sexual orientation, no question about it,” Graham Littlejohn, an Eagle Scout and the third-ranking seasonal

staff member, told the Bee. Littlejohn was among those who quit in protest.

Cayle Geiser agrees. “It wasn’t even nail polish; it was crafts paint, and half the staff painted their nails,” he said. “We were all really shocked. … He was a really great counselor. … He was a funny, really outgoing guy.”

Griffin neither hid nor flaunted his gayness, and the subject never came up, Cayle said, shrugging his shoulders. “It was not an issue among the kids.”

Firing Griffin was just “so old-fashioned,” he said.

The Scouts already had taken enough measures to protect youth from sexual abuse, he added, and besides “I don’t know when ‘gay’ started to mean ‘pedophile.’”

The Boy Scouts’ decision to maintain

its anti-gay policy makes it the only major youth organization with that stance. The Girl Scouts, the Boys and Girls Clubs and Camp

SIFT|ER When guns are outlawed…

Over the last two decades, public support for stricter gun laws has declined, according to Gallup Poll surveys. While the most recent survey on the matter was taken last October, before the Aurora theater shootings, the question was asked after the January 2011 shootings near Tucson that killed six and injured 13, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Gifford.

Here is a look at how opinions have trended over the years: • In 1990 a Gallup poll found that 78 percent of Americans favored stricter regulation of guns. Last year only 43 percent of those polled said they favored stricter gun laws.

• On the other hand, a strong majority of the public (89 percent) doesn’t think that existing gun laws should be eased, according to the latest Gallup findings.

• Only 26 percent of Americans favor a legal ban on the possession of handguns, other than by police and other authorized people. Back in 1959, 60 percent favored banning handguns. But since 1975, the majority of Americans have opposed such a measure.

• Last November’s poll revealed for the first time greater opposition (53 percent) than support (43 percent) for a ban on semiautomatic guns or assault rifles.

When the question was posed back in 1996, the numbers were nearly reversed, with 57 percent for and 42 percent against an assault-rifle ban. Congress passed a ban in 1994, but the law expired when Congress did not act to renew it in 2004.

Around the time the law expired, Americans were about evenly divided in their views.

Source: Story by Jeffery M. Jones posted Oct. 26, 2011, on the website Gallup Politics.

Fire all practice non-discrimination.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the BSA’s right to discriminate, however, ruling that, as a Christian organization, it has a First Amendment right to associate with whomever it chooses. The BSA also bans atheists.

Legal or not, the anti-gay posture makes it harder for parents to do volunteer work for the organization, said Rebecca Geiser, who has logged countless volunteer hours in support of her sons and their Scouting friends.

“The Boy Scouts do good work,” she said. “They improve the community and help other nonprofit organizations. But now everybody thinks the Boy Scouts is all about excluding gays, and that’s all they want to talk about.”

She’s conferred with other parents in the program, and they’re similarly dismayed by the decision. “It just wasn’t necessary,” she said.

“The biggest crisis facing Scouting is money. We can’t keep the camps going, pay for uniforms and drive kids to the events without volunteers. Why would we want to kick out anybody who wanted to help?”

And, she wondered, what about gay parents with sons in the program? Are they supposed to hide who they are? Are they forbidden from volunteering?

“This [decision] has hijacked the entire program,” she continued. “We’re all about getting boys outdoors, having fun, learning skills. The people who made this decision are a world away from that. They’re not involved. And they’ve undermined the efforts of volunteers on the ground.”

According to The Associated Press, the Scouts’chief executive, Bob Mazzuca, contends that most Scout families support the policy.

“The vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers and at the appropriate time and in the right setting,” he said.

But gay-rights advocate Chad Griffin, of the Human Rights Campaign, depicted the Scouts’ decision as “a missed opportunity of colossal proportions.”

“With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued,” Griffin told the AP. For his part, Cayle Geiser is trying to decide whether to apply to be a counselor-intraining at Camp Winton next summer. He came home from camp eager to do it, but Tim Griffin’s firing and the controversy over the anti-gay policy have put a damper on his desire.

“It’s hard to be proud of your accomplishments in an organization that’s discriminatory,” he said.

—ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com

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Stories of local middle-aged and elderly folks getting ripped off by scammers have become fairly common of late. However, in the last month the tables seem to have turned, with five Chicoans aged 52 to 73 allegedly being perpetrators in three major fraud cases.

Two of the cases involve people who say they believe the federal government has no right to tax them. The latest one involves a couple accused of falsely filing for and receiving a nearly $1 million tax refund.

On July 26, Randy Barker, 59, and his wife, Tamara Barker, 52, were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the government, making false, fictitious or fraudulent claims, and engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property. If convicted they face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The Barkers do not think the Constitution gives the federal government authority to demand they pay taxes, explained Lauren Harwood, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento.

“They’re true believers,” she said.

“They feel they are sovereign citizens and that federal tax laws are illegal.”

The Barkers are charged with filing a fraudulent 2008 tax return in which they requested a refund of $987,900. According to the indictment, the return falsely claimed $1.48 million in interest income and stated that virtually the entire amount was subject to withholding taxes.

They received a tax-return check from the IRS that they deposited into a Wells Fargo Bank account in early 2009. According to court documents, within weeks they began putting the refund to personal use: They wrote a $495,000 check to purchase a house, one for $81,000 to furnish that house, and another for $28,000 to purchase a Toyota Tacoma truck. Tamara Barker also issued $100,000 checks to herself and her husband.

Randy Barker was featured and photographed in a July 21 Chico Enterprise-Record story about his seasonal job as a CalFire tower lookout at Sawmill Peak.

According to public records, he was paid $7,597 in 2008.

Court documents say Randy Barker claims not to live in the United States, but rather “upon the land mass of California.” He similarly does not use the “U.S. Postal Service federal Zip Code whatsoever” and “is not in fact a United States citizen.”

The Barkers’ case is being investigated by the IRSCriminal Investigation. The Barkers currently are free on $50,000 bail each, and their next court date is set for Aug. 6. Neither the couple nor their lawyer could be reached for comment by press time.

A week before the Barker’s indictment

another Chico couple pleaded guilty to a securities

fraud scheme that that cost more than 250 investors a total of $18.4 million. According to a Department of Justice press release, Barbara Eberle, 65, and Robert Eberle, 73, pleaded guilty on July 20. They reportedly ran their scam from 2001 to 2006 as owners of Lexus Financial, located in the Philadelphia Square business complex in north Chico.

The operation involved reselling to third parties life-insurance policies purchased from elderly or ill people. The Eberles resold the policies with risk-free guarantees and promises of high rates of return, which according to state and federal insurance watchdogs is not true. Further, the Eberles allegedly were not properly licensed.

Alleged fraudster Randy Barker was recently featured in a Chico Enterprise-Record story for his seasonal CalFire work at Sawmill Peak.

They were indicted in 2007 and are now free on a $500,000 unsecured bond each. They are scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 2 by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. The third case came up a week before the Eberles’ guilty pleas, when another Chicoan who doesn’t believe in federal tax laws was arraigned. (See “The flower tax,” CN&R Newslines, July 19.)

On July 16, James Molen, 68, was indicted on charges of failing to withhold federal income tax from employees at the Touch of Class florist shop on The Esplanade. According to a Department of Justice press release, he was released on $100,000 bond and his next court date is Aug. 10. Molen and his wife, Sandra, co-owned the shop, which closed last year after a 35-year run. Sandra Molen was also under investigation but died this year, on Valentine’s Day. —VIC CANTU vscantu@sbcg lobal.net

Goodbye, Goddess Temple Supervisors deny the Chico facility a use permit To the Rev. Robert Seals and a number of like-minded individuals, the Chico Goddess Temple—an 80-acre property off Highway 32 near Forest Ranch—is sacred land. As of this week, Butte County officially disagrees.

The Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday, July 31, to deny a request by Seals and his chapter of the Universal Life Church to use the land as a church and public facility, citing a history of noise complaints from neighbors and the fact that many of the sanctuary’s buildings—which include a 1,600square-foot assembly area, teepees, soundtherapy rooms, two single-family residences, a pond and a pool—were built without proper permits. (The county Planning Commission denied Seals a use permit back in May, which decision he appealed to the board.)

The vote came after the supervisors listened to more than three hours of public commentary, mostly asking the panel to work with Seals to get the facilities up to code.

Seals addressed the supervisors, acknowledging he had made mistakes but hoped to fix them in order to save the temple, which is built on land he’s owned for about 30 years and has cost him $4 million to build.

After dozens of speakers, including temple employees and residents, pleaded with the board, about a half-dozen temple neighbors spoke against granting the permit.

“There is a loud and constant noise from the property through events,” contested neighbor Laura Joplin, who happens to be the sister of the late, great ’60s singer Janis Joplin. “If the number of events are approved, there could be 200 people there most every weekend.”

Joplin explained that Seals’ property sits at the bottom of a valley, causing a megaphone effect that makes the noise at her and other properties above it unbearable. She also claimed the temple’s location ruined her opportunity to sell her property, and that Seals and his fellow devotees have been allaround bad neighbors.

“In my interactions with the applicant and the people who work for him, they have used intimidation and dishonesty to try to stop me from complaining. The first time I asked [Seals] what he was doing with this facility, he leaned in within two inches of me and started screaming that it’s a church and he could do anything he wanted to, and there was a nonprofit in San Francisco that would back him up and take it all the way.”

She said Seals also claimed the buildings and other structures were permitted.

At one point, Maureen Kirk—the

only supervisor who actually visited the premises—motioned to give the temple a limited use permit, contingent on Seals’

Robert Seals reacts to the board’s decision.

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efforts to bring everything up to code, obtain overdue permits and work on noise abatement for the adjoining properties. But that motion was defeated 3-2, with Bill Connelly siding with Kirk.

“I’m a firm believer in freedom of religion, and I don’t want to put the board in a situation where we are seen to shut down somebody’s place of worship,” Connelly said.

Supervisor Kim Yamaguchi explained he voted no because he felt granting a non-conforming-use permit was “180 degrees” against the newly adopted general plan. Both he and Supervisor Larry Wahl, who motioned to deny the permit, were outspoken in their criticism of Seals.

“It would be ludicrous to give this outfit permission to do what they want to do,” Wahl said, “in addition to the fact that they’re depriving their neighbors of their quiet enjoyment of their own property in a residential neighborhood.”

After the ruling, Seals, surrounded by a group of supporters, expressed his anger.

“This county will be really embarrassed when they see the repercussions of this one; this will be national news,” he said. “They just denied a religious facility. That’s against the law, especially when we’re standing here saying we will comply in every way.”

Seals, who now lives in Santa Cruz, was unsure whether to take flight or fight. He alleged Brown Act violations by members of the board, claiming they met with neighbors and other government departments at “secret meetings where the agenda was to shut down the Goddess Temple,” and said he had an attorney preparing a case but wasn’t sure if he wanted to use the time and money.

“I might just go home right now, grab a 20-ton forklift, uproot the 20-foot Goddess [statue], and she can go on my property alongside Highway 32. I’m going to plant that there, and these people can look at it the rest of their life, and then I’m gone. I’m done with Butte County.”

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CA RANKS NEAR BOTTOM FOR KIDS’ WELL-BEING

Mission Ranch primary care physician James Westcott is happy his practice has converted to electronic health records (EHEs).

States that expanded their Medicaid programs saw a significant drop in adult mortality rates compared to states that did not, a study shows.

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found adult mortality rates were reduced by an average of about 6 percent in three states that expanded their programs within the last decade (Arizona, Maine and New York) compared to four neighboring states that did not (New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada and Pennsylvania), according to California Healthline.

The study found death rates dropped most for minorities, residents of low-income counties and adults aged 35 to 64.

Expansion also led to lower rates of uninsured adults, fewer instances of delayed care due to cost and an increase in respondents who categorized their health status as “excellent” or “very good.”

California ranked a dismal 41st in a new report measuring U.S. states for children’s overall well-being.

States were ranked using categories like economic well-being, education, health, family and community in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Book, compiled using data from 2006 to 2010, according to the Ventura County Star. California ranked 45th for economic wellbeing, 43rd for education, 42nd for family and community and 23rd for health.

The Golden State came in dead last in the housing category: More than half of California’s children were living in households that spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Also, in 2010, 3.3 million children in California had parents with no full-time, year-round employment, a 20 percent increase from 2008.

Jessica Mindnich of Children Now, which assisted in the research, said the study is “starting to allow us to paint a picture of how children have fared during the economic recession. The picture we are seeing is an increased vulnerability among this generation of children.”

HEALTH BILLS A BURDEN IN STATE

More than half of California’s voters have difficulty paying for health care, a poll finds.

A Field Poll funded by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) surveyed 997 registered voters between June 21 and July 2, finding 53 percent of respondents had difficulty paying their medical bills, a nearly identical figure compared to a similar poll conducted in 2007, according to SFGate.com. 17 percent of respondents 65 or older said they had difficulty paying for health care, compared to 31 percent in 2007.

Slightly less than half of those polled reported forgoing a medical procedure due to cost. “This shows that people are not just having difficulty paying, but that it’s affecting their healthseeking behavior. They are delaying care they need,” said Chris Perrone, CHCF deputy director.

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Local doctors on the perks and problems associated with switching over to electronic health records by

Evan Tuchinsky ideacultivators@aol.com

Iand other Chico physicians came together to form the medical group Mission Ranch n 2000, when Dr. James Westcott

Primary Care, keeping track of patients’ progress was pretty much a pen-and-paper affair. Only a few firms and practices had adopted what’s now known as electronic health records (EHRs) or electronic medical records (EMRs). Everyone else, including Westcott and his partners, maintained oldfashioned folders as their charts.

Times have changed. According to a recent survey by the University of California, San Francisco, 71 percent of California physicians have adopted electronic records.

Of course, this means that nearly three in 10 have not. Moreover, UCSF found that only 30 percent of those with EHRs have software that meets the “meaningful use” standard set by the federal government as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Those physicians—as well as hospitals—who don’t achieve the required level of functionality by 2015 face reduced payments from Medicare. That stick, along with the carrot of government incentives, has spurred the transfer from

paper to computer charts.

Mission Ranch, it turns out, was ahead of the curve. Westcott said his group began its conversion in 2004, using the program from a small company called eClinicalWorks. Since then, eClinicalWorks has grown into a major provider, while other firms dropped out of the market.

“In a lot of ways, we’re really lucky,” Westcott said in a phone interview last week.

Mission Ranch is nearly ready to apply for meaningful-use designation—demonstrating its system can perform a standardized set of tasks that includes compatibility with other meaningful-use systems. When certified, the practice will receive money from the government to

help offset the expense of conversion.

Westcott extols the virtues of electronic records. Among the many, he said, “Messaging makes it really easy to communicate notes to the nurse, front office or billing.

Patients call, and you can look up their chart quickly. We don’t have information in different parts of the office, and several people can look at the chart at the same time.

“We’d never go back to that [old way, with paper charts].”

Dr. Craig Corp, a Chico pediatrician

with North Valley Pediatric Associates, is a new adopter of EHR technology. Corp’s

APPOINTMENT SIMPLE SALADS Nancy Brown-Camacho, executive chef with Enloe Medical Center, will join Enloe’s stroke support group to outline a variety of ways to make simple, healthful summer salads on Wednesday, Aug. 8, from 3 to 4 p.m. The group meets in the Enloe Conference Center’s Planetree Room (1528 Esplanade). Call 332-3981 to RSVP or for more information.

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A Sign of Success Mark Twain once said, “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Twain may have a point, but the fact of the matter is, living longer and living well does matter to most of us.

Even for the healthiest among us, our primary care physician is likely to become an increasingly important person in our life. One of the best ways to get the most from your health care is to build a relationship with your doctor. This philosophy is embraced by two of Oroville Hospital’s finest physicians, Dr. Norman Challburg and Dr. Thomas Mundorff.

Another advantage of having a good relationship with your doctor is that you feel comfortable and have a level of trust. And if you trust your doctor, you are more likely to follow instructions.

“Many of the conditions that I treat can be avoided by lifestyle changes...like not smoking, eating better, and getting more exercise,” says Challburg. “Change is difficult, that’s why it is important to have a physician in your corner.”

Dr. Mundorff, a geriatrician in an outpatient clinic, grew up in Atlanta and was “encouraged” by his father to attend the Medical College of

Georgia. He has been practicing at Oroville Hospital for nearly 30 years.

“Being old is a sign of success,” Mundorff says.

“In 1900, the average lifespan was around 50. Now, it’s not uncommon to live into your 80’s or 90’s.

“The aging process presents us with its own unique set of challenges,” says Mundorff. “Muscle mass decreases, the ability to use oxygen decreases, our joints wear out, and the possibility of dementia increases. Luckily, we get wiser and better looking...okay, maybe just better looking!”

“It’s important that

I know a patient’s history and have a close relationship so that I can help them maintain a good quality of life.”

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He attended medical school at UC Irvine and practiced in Sacramento for 22 years.

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HEALTHLINES practice switched over a year ago, and he describes the process as “a long process with a steep learning curve.”

The resources involved include not just money, but also manpower.

“We have had to customize it to fit our practice, help stamp out glitches and get everyone used to using it for all aspects of our practice: scheduling, registration, charting, billing, vaccine entry and tracking, phone notes, labs, outside documents, etc.,” he said by email.

“It has cost us quite a bit, both in the purchase of the equipment and software to run it, as well as extra staffing to do the arduous amounts of scanning of all of our old paper records as well as all new paper documents that come into the office into the EHR. “We have gotten some reimbursement from the government that defrays a fair amount of our overall cost, but not all of it by any means.”

Nonetheless, he understands why the government made EHR conversion—and meaningful use—a mandate.

“It is very important that physicians and hospitals be able to share and access records as needed,” Corp said, “so I do think it is important that the various systems be able to communicate. That does add expense to them, but in the long run it will be of great benefit.

For example, if a patient is in the [emergency room] unconscious, it would be great if the ER physician could have access to their basic medical history, medication list, allergies, etc.

“We have it set up with one of the local labs so that the results of our patients’ labs go immediately and seamlessly into their electronic record, which helps with tracking if they have been done and speeds our getting the results.”

Similarly, Mission Ranch Primary Care recently upgraded its software to include a secure online portal where patients can view their test results and communicate with their physician.

Another Chico hub for pri-

mary care, Argyll Medical Group, adopted electronic records in 2001 and last year switched providers to eClinicalWorks.

“We were unusual in being a start-up [practice adopting EHR],” said Dr. Roy Bishop, Argyll’s CEO, “so only I had paper records; the other doctors started fresh practices with electronic records and had no legacy of paper records.

“With my own ones, I used the paper records in parallel for six months. After that I hardly needed

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to refer to them again.”

For years, Argyll has used “ePrescribing”—transmitting prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, rather than via hand-written notes on paper pads. That function is among the 15 required to achieve meaningful use—and receive the “HITECH” incentive of $48,000 per doctor over four years.

Like Westcott and Corp, Bishop isn’t surprised that EHRs haven’t been adopted universally.

“In the past this [resistance] was due to cost,” he explained in an email. “For a long time doctors felt aggrieved that they were expected to pay for electronic records, and the benefits mostly flowed to others. At the same time private and government payers were cutting our reimbursements, why would you invest in something when your revenue is going down and there was no proof that the new technology would improve the bottom line?

“Since the government started the HITECH program, there really is no reason not to adopt a system—the holdouts are mostly doing so due to fear of change.”

Corp and Westcott also see a generational bias. As Corp put it, “there are many physicians who do

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not like computers or are not comfortable with them, especially older physicians, who will likely not change over. Some physicians who are near retirement see it as an expense that they will not make up in their remaining practice years.”

That hasn’t been a problem at Mission Ranch. Westcott says all his peers have taken to the EHR, and each new physician who’s joined the practice has gotten the hang of the system within weeks or months.

“In our case, it wasn’t so hard to do what the government wanted us to do,” Westcott said. “All the doctors are doing things for us to qualify.” Ω

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Drink lots of water: Dehydration during a workout can lead to cramping and muscle failure. Drink plenty of water before, during and after your routine, especially if you’re exposing yourself to the sun.

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EARTH WATCH FEDS BACK DELTA DIVERSION PLAN

The federal government confirmed its support for the controversial Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta tunnel diversion plan during a press conference on Wednesday, July 25.

Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar maintain the project—which would divert the Sacramento River through two massive 35-mile-long tunnels at 9,000 cubic feet a second—will improve aquatic habitat in the south Delta, according to The Sacramento Bee. At a construction cost of $14 billion, the tunnels would presumably remedy “reverse flows” caused by existing pumps, which alter habitat and kill millions of fish. Funding would come from water agencies relying on the Delta to provide water for 23 million Californians and 3 million acres of farmland.

“This proposal is fatally flawed,” said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta. “We oppose the rush to build a project that would exterminate salmon runs, destroy sustainable family farms and saddle taxpayers with tens of billions of dollars in debt.”

GREENWAYS

Indigenous design CSUC interior-design professor and architect keeps it local and sustainable in both the classroom and the field

CLIMATE-CHANGE BELIEF RISES WITH HEAT

The record-setting heat wave baking the nation has apparently convinced many Americans climate change is real, a poll finds.

The nationwide poll, conducted by the University of Texas from July 12 to 16, found 70 percent of Americans believe the planet is warming, compared to 65 percent in March, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The rise in belief was particularly dramatic among independent voters and citizens in southern states like Texas, which is suffering its second year of record drought.

Following 2010’s winter of record snowfall, a study published by the Brookings Institution in Washington found belief in climate change dropped to 52 percent.

“There has been a rebound in [climatechange] belief,” said Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan. “All respondents are quite likely to use observations of weather as a big part of their explanation.”

GREEN HOMES SELL FOR MORE

A green-certified home sells for significantly more in California than a similar, less-efficient home, a study finds.

Research conducted by UCLA professor Matthew E. Kahn and Nils Kok of Maastricht University in the Netherlands documented homes sold in California between 2007 and 2012, finding a green certification, such as Energy Star, adds an average of 9 percent to its selling value, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The researchers also discovered what they called the “Prius effect,” where buyers in ZIP codes with high percentages of hybrid-auto registrations are more willing to pay more for green-certified homes than buyers in areas with fewer hybrid registrations.

The study found no correlation between local utility rates and consumer willingness to pay more for green homes.

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Sustainable designer/architect Rouben Mohiuddin, who teaches interior design at Chico State, stands next to a huge English elm tree near the Art Department’s woodshop.

Inset: Mohiuddin redesigned the interior of this Canyon Oaks home, which includes the massive table he designed and built from indigenous claro walnut wood. Above the table hangs a Mohiuddin-designed chandelier made from large recycled-glass light bulbs; the small abstract sculpture at rear of photo is by CSUC ceramics student Kelly Goodman Daniels.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ROUBEN MOHIUDDIN

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“C me—the environment, the community, the culture,” said Chico State interihico has had a big impact on

or-design instructor Rouben Mohiuddin, who moved here with his wife and 2year-old son in August 2009.

“I’ve always worked on sustainable projects in the past before moving here, but I’ve noticed that here people’s lifestyles seem to be more environmentally conscious than in Southern California or New York.”

The 39-year-old Mohiuddin—who moved to the United States from Bangladesh in 1991 to attend SUNY Buffalo—came to the North State following a year-long stint living in New York City, where he worked as an archi-

tect and taught at the New York School of Interior Design.

New York, he said, turned out to be “too fast-paced.” Plus, “it was quite congested, the air quality not that great. And I missed the trees and the sky.” Before living in New York, Mohiuddin was an architect in Los Angeles, where he also taught at UCLA and the Otis School of Design.

It is precisely Chico’s beautiful natural environment and environmentally and socially conscious inhabitants that have inspired Mohiuddin in both his work as a university instructor and as an architect/designer/builder. It’s no secret that Chico State’s interior-design program is “heavily directed toward sustainability,”

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as Mohiuddin put it. He fits right in. He has inspired such student projects as an eye-catching table with legs fashioned from rolled-up, cast-off cardboard stuffed inside plastic tubing, and elegant sculptures constructed from layered scrap plywood and OSB board.

But increasingly, word is getting around about Mohiuddin’s special touch when it comes to designing (and constructing) elegant contemporary interiors, which often include such design elements as his artful tables made from locally sourced reclaimed wood and finished with carefully crafted metal bases by local metal artist David Richer. Mohiuddin’s tables resemble the work of the famous late architect, woodworker and furniture maker George Nakashima in their simplicity and beauty.

“I started seeing that [Chico] people

took a lot of pride in locally made products,” Mohiuddin reflected. “You have [the downtown store] Made in Chico, and restaurants serving locally farmed foods,

SuMMer fun

ECO EVENT community gardens, farmers’ markets. … And people living healthy lifestyles—people in Chico are quite healthy, I’ve noticed; a lot of them are trying to eat natural foods.

“I started letting Chico influence me.”

It was Mohiuddin’s second year in Chico “when this really started happening.” It was then that he and his family were given “a really wonderful opportunity to live in an orchard—walnuts and almonds.”

The home was on the west Chico property of a fellow CSUC professor who offered it to the Mohiuddins while he was out of the area for a year and a half.

“I had a chance to meet with neighbors who were walnut growers,” said Mohiuddin. “I started asking, about walnuts, ‘How do you do this?’ I was curious to know what happens to these trees once they stop growing and bearing fruit. The [one] farmer said, ‘Sometimes they get cut down and sold—especially the burls—to gunstock makers.’

“Naturally, it came to my mind if they could make gun stocks with these things, I’m sure they could make other things, too.”

Since that conversation, Mohi-

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uddin has designed and made tables from such reclaimed indigenous materials as a redwood burl salvaged from a house-demolition site in Paradise, a charred piece of wood from a redwood tree that fell during the 2008 Humboldt Fire, and an old walnut burl he found along the side of an orchard. “The [orchard owner] said, ‘Just take it,’” he said of the walnut wood. “I removed the first layer of dirt to reveal the gem hidden underneath.”

Mohiuddin has also made furniture from pieces of elm salvaged from trees cleared from the downtown plaza prior to its dramatic facelift.

UNCOMMON SENSE It’s their planet, too While navigating the responsibilities of pet ownership, it’s important to keep our responsibilities to the environment in mind as well. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals offers these and many more tips on its website (www.aspca.org) on how to keep the planet enjoyable for all species.

Cleaning up: Use biodegradable bags instead of plastic to pick up and dispose of pet droppings. Use eco-friendly kitty litters, or at least avoid brands that use mined minerals. Use vinegar to remove stains and odor instead of expensive products containing toxic chemicals.

Cut the energy: Walk, rather than drive, to the dog park.

Cut down on the use of paper products by using rags or cloth towels. After bathing, towel dry and let ‘em shake it off rather than blow drying.

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Mohiuddin’s requirements for a tree eligible to be made into furniture—dining tables, coffee tables, mirrors—are that it “has to be from Chico, it has to have a story or history, and it cannot have been cut commercially.” Trees salvaged from city of Chico tree-cuts or those removed for some reason from private property are high on his list.

These days, Mohiuddin works

hand in hand with Ivan Hoath of Westgate Hardwoods in Durham in the pursuit of suitable trees, as well as on furniture-building projects.

“Ivan has the machines and the space [to handle large pieces of wood], and I have the ideas and the expertise,” he offered.

Mohiuddin recently completed a “budget-crunch”-motivated conference table for the CSUC Art Department “using all plywood scraps from the [Chico State] woodshop.

“I like to recycle and reuse everything—down to the sawdust,” he said. “We’ll even use the sawdust to create fillers [for cracks in the wood].” Mohiuddin also uses elegant, old-fashioned “bowtie joints” to straddle cracks and join pieces of wood together—“a synthesis of old traditions with modern requirements.”

He recently acquired a sycamore-tree stump with a burnedout center from a tree that had once stood in Bidwell Park and is still imagining what he might make from it.

“My philosophy is to generate design inspired by indigenous materials and culture,” said Mohiuddin.

“Being in Chico, it was just natural for me to start looking at the orchards and see what could be done with the old trees that are not bearing fruit any more.”

Despite his modern focus on recycling, Mohiuddin agreed that his finely crafted, subtly beautiful work is “timeless, not fad-oriented.

“The flavor of the week—it’s not that.” Ω

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A L o c a l D i r e c t o r y f o r Yo u r G r e e n H o m e I m p r o v e m e n t To - D o L i s t YES ON 37 Back in early 2011, local food activist Pamm Larry was just getting started on her campaign to place a proposition on the November 2012 California ballot calling for mandatory labeling of all food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs—see “The GreenHouse” of April 21, 2011). Fast forward to the present: Larry (pictured) succeeded, through much hard work, brain power, organization and the help of many, to achieve just that. Proposition 37—The Right to Know Initiative—will be on the ballot come November.

“We now have an incredible opportunity in the nation’s most populous state to set the precedent that simple labels should alert us if our food has been genetically altered in a laboratory,” writes Larry in a recent press release.

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STIRLING CITY WEEKEND Charlotte Ann Hilgeman of the cute little foothills community of Stirling City sent me a letter (yes, an actual letter delivered by the United States Postal Service—how refreshing!) telling me about the upcoming “Stirling City Town Wide Yard Sales” on Saturday, Aug. 4, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

“This annual event raises money for the Stirling City Community Gardens Art-History Project [and] Stirling City Historical Society’s Museum-Library Complex,” writes Hilgeman. Many of the yard sales will continue on Sunday. Wares by local artisans and craftspeople, as well as home-baked edibles and beverages, will also be available.

“Come up to the cool mountains, support these worthy causes, visit Merlo Park—20-plus acres, ponds, walkways, feed the fish, see the waterfall,” she says. “Visit the unique and historic Stirling City Cemetery at the end of Mica Street, and many more historic sites.”

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“Climate disruption’s assault on all we believed—endless progress, a stable future, our capacity to control the natural world with science and technology—will corrode the pillars that hold up the psyche of modern humanity. It will be physiologically destabilizing in a way exceeded in human history perhaps only by the shift to agriculture and the rise of industrial society.

Already we find psychiatrists and psychologists issuing guidelines on how to respond to emotional and psychological distress associated with awareness of climate change, although the leading therapeutic recommendation to ‘be optimistic about the future’ suggests that the mental health professionals have yet to grasp the seriousness of the threat posed by global warming. We can expect that, for a time, the loss of faith in the future and in our inability to control our lives will result in a proliferation of mental disturbance characterized by depression, withdrawal and fearfulness.”

—Australian author Clive Hamilton, from his 2010 book, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change “As we plunge into cyberspace and strive to replicate the ‘real’ world in the ‘virtual,’ we lose sight of one fundamental fact: nature is totally missing in the digital realm. We humans are the only participants there. The end result? Solipsism, autism, anxiety. When you cut out arterial blood to an organ, the organ dies. When you cut the flow of nature into people’s lives, their spirit dies. It’s as simple as that.”

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Ghost tribe Without federal recognition,

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aleen Sisk, the chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, wore a traditional basket hat—representing clear thinking—to her meeting with congressional candidate Jim Reed.

Amid the din of wheezy coffee grinders at Westside Java & Caffé in Redding, Reed pleaded with Sisk: End her tribe’s longstanding battle against the federal government’s proposal to raise Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet—a $1 billion retrofit that stands to flood or damage 40 sacred tribal sites used for ceremonies and healings.

If elected, Reed told her, he would introduce legislation to grant federal recognition to the Winnemem.

The Winnemem Wintu is a ghost tribe, lacking official recognition from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribe’s members share their limbo status with at least half of this state’s 150,000 California Indians, according to the California Native American Heritage Commission. As a result, their cultural identities and rights may be subject to political bargaining.

For the 125 remaining tribe members, federal recognition would restore not just scholarships and monetary benefits, but also less tangible changes the tribe covets, including added legal clout to protect their sacred sites.

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Because only one California tribe has ever been recognized through the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ laborious petitioning process, Sisk had hoped Reed might offer a congressional shortcut.

In the coffee shop meeting, Reed—a Democrat and attorney from Fall River Mills—presented Sisk, a Chico State grad and former instructor at the university, with a catch-22. With federal recognition, the tribe would have more legal power to stop the dam expansion. The catch: Reed wouldn’t seek federal recognition unless the tribe ended its opposition to the project.

“It’s shovel-ready; it’ll bring jobs and new workers, which will benefit the local businesses,” Reed said. “And to get your approval, I thought, ‘What do the Wintu want more than anything?’ Clearly, it’s federal recognition.”

A deliberate thinker, Sisk gripped her coffee cup and said nothing. Reed’s campaign manager, Frank Treadway, stopped scribbling on a yellow notepad and broke the silence.

“The dam raise is going to happen whatever you do,” he said. “You might as well get something out of it.”

Luisa Navejas, a Winnemem tribe member, broke in.

“I’m not sure you realize what it means for us to lose those sacred sites,” she said. “It’s like you’re asking us to kill our mother in order to save our father.”

In the months that followed the meeting, a disappointed Sisk turned away from politics and back to her traditional ways, fasting to draw the attention of the bureau. That approach brought a surprising result in midJuly, reinvigorating the tribe’s hopes for federal recognition.

Tribal member Jamie Ward approaches the sacred fire during the tribe’s War Dance on the McCloud arm of Shasta Lake this past May. The tribe held the dance in response to the U.S. Forest Service’s unwillingness to implement a mandatory river closure that would bar boaters from heckling the tribe during its Coming of Age ceremony, as had occurred during prior ceremonies.

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

Once proud, now weak The Winnemem have practiced their traditional ways for thousands of years in the McCloud River watershed in Northern California, where academic and tribal accounts indicate their ancestral territory extends from Mount Shasta to just south of Redding.

Archeologists estimate the tribe once numbered as many as 14,000, one of several groups that spoke Wintu. Among the pinequilted mountains and glacial rivers of their homeland, the Winnemem lived as huntergatherers, surviving on acorns and salmon, deer and other game.

About this story:

by

Marc Dadigan, California Watch

Marc Dadigan is a Redding-based freelance writer and multimedia journalist who is working on a book about the Indians of the Mt. Shasta region. The article was produced by California Watch, which is part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s largest investigative reporting team. Visit www.californiawatch.org for more info.

marcdadigan@gmail.com

Winnemem Wintu struggle to protect sacred sites

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk and her niece, Marisa Sisk, 16, who is her designated successor as chief.

Forest Service law enforcement officers wait to meet Sisk, also the tribe’s spiritual leader, during the War Dance.

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

The tribe lost most of its land during the bloody Gold Rush years and through the World War II construction of Shasta Dam, which flooded the lower 25 miles of the McCloud River. Today, the tribe’s only land is an isolated 42-acre village outside of Redding, where a nucleus of about 33 members lives. The rest of the tribe is scattered across Northern California.

While the Winnemem have continued their traditions, they have done so without federal government acknowledgment that they are a tribe. This limits their standing to oppose the Shasta Dam project and curtails many other rights and benefits of indigenous people.

Members of unrecognized tribes cannot legally possess eagle feathers, for instance, which are vital to American Indian spiritual beliefs. Sisk’s own 25-year-old feather permit was revoked in March 2011 by the U.S.

“I’m not sure you realize what it means for us to lose those sacred sites. It’s like you’re asking us to kill our mother in order to save our father.”

—Luisa Navejas

Fish and Wildlife Service.

They can no longer access federal college scholarships, even as American Indian students struggle to afford college and earn degrees.

“I went to school on a BIA scholarship,” said Winnemem Wintu tribe member Jill Ward. “Now they say my children aren’t Indian and can’t have those same scholarships.”

Without recognition, tribes aren’t covered by the Indian Child Welfare Act, designed to help keep Indian children with their tribes.

Recently, a child from the 180-member Tsnungwe tribe of Northern California was put up for adoption and, despite the tribe’s opposition, ended up with a non-Indian family. The adopting family moved away with the child, tribal leaders say, leaving the small tribe one young member smaller.

Challenges of the unrecognized Ghost tribes lack authority over land management decisions in ancestral territory because they do not have government-to-government relationships with most federal agencies.

“Without recognition sometimes there’s no difference between being a tribal member

and a member of the public,” said Bob Benson, a Tsnungwe elder, whose tribe has struggled to prevent cell-phone towers from being installed on sacred Ironside Mountain in Trinity County. “Even when it’s our burial ground or an important sacred site, we’ll get notified when everyone else gets notified.”

For the Winnemem Wintu, this lack of government-to-government status is playing a role in the Shasta Dam negotiations, too.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Pete Lucero said the tribe will have an opportunity to express its concerns during the dam-raising project’s public input period.

Final environmental and feasibility reports are not expected until at least 2016.

But Lucero acknowledged the tribe’s concerns will carry no more weight than those of any other public entity. “We’re constantly trying to do the correct thing for the entire public,” he said. “We get a lot of comments, and we respond to them all.”

The number of tribes seeking official status as governments increased after the 1978 passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. The Bureau of Indian Affairs sought to standardize the process, creating what is now known as the Office of Federal Acknowledgment.

Many California tribes left off the initial

list of recognized tribes maintained their eligibility for various federal benefits through bureau-certified paperwork attesting to their heritage. Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe were among those with such paperwork.

But in 1986, a Supreme Court case changed all that. By ruling that American Indians must belong to a federally recognized tribe to be eligible for benefits, the court relegated many California tribe members to a new class: “the unrecognized”—the ghost tribes.

Today, about 120 California tribes are federally recognized; about 75 ghost tribes are petitioning the bureau for recognition.

The petition process is so arduous that some, like the Winnemem Wintu, are instead pursuing congressional legislation or complaints with the United Nations, claiming the recognition system itself violates the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Nedra Darling, who oversees public affairs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was provided questions related to this story but failed to provide responses on behalf of the agency.

Lee Fleming, director of the bureau’s Office of Federal Acknowledgment and a “GHOST TRIBE” continued on page 22 August 2, 2012

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aleen Sisk, the chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, wore a traditional basket hat—representing clear thinking—to her meeting with congressional candidate Jim Reed.

Amid the din of wheezy coffee grinders at Westside Java & Caffé in Redding, Reed pleaded with Sisk: End her tribe’s longstanding battle against the federal government’s proposal to raise Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet—a $1 billion retrofit that stands to flood or damage 40 sacred tribal sites used for ceremonies and healings.

If elected, Reed told her, he would introduce legislation to grant federal recognition to the Winnemem.

The Winnemem Wintu is a ghost tribe, lacking official recognition from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribe’s members share their limbo status with at least half of this state’s 150,000 California Indians, according to the California Native American Heritage Commission. As a result, their cultural identities and rights may be subject to political bargaining.

For the 125 remaining tribe members, federal recognition would restore not just scholarships and monetary benefits, but also less tangible changes the tribe covets, including added legal clout to protect their sacred sites.

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Because only one California tribe has ever been recognized through the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ laborious petitioning process, Sisk had hoped Reed might offer a congressional shortcut.

In the coffee shop meeting, Reed—a Democrat and attorney from Fall River Mills—presented Sisk, a Chico State grad and former instructor at the university, with a catch-22. With federal recognition, the tribe would have more legal power to stop the dam expansion. The catch: Reed wouldn’t seek federal recognition unless the tribe ended its opposition to the project.

“It’s shovel-ready; it’ll bring jobs and new workers, which will benefit the local businesses,” Reed said. “And to get your approval, I thought, ‘What do the Wintu want more than anything?’ Clearly, it’s federal recognition.”

A deliberate thinker, Sisk gripped her coffee cup and said nothing. Reed’s campaign manager, Frank Treadway, stopped scribbling on a yellow notepad and broke the silence.

“The dam raise is going to happen whatever you do,” he said. “You might as well get something out of it.”

Luisa Navejas, a Winnemem tribe member, broke in.

“I’m not sure you realize what it means for us to lose those sacred sites,” she said. “It’s like you’re asking us to kill our mother in order to save our father.”

In the months that followed the meeting, a disappointed Sisk turned away from politics and back to her traditional ways, fasting to draw the attention of the bureau. That approach brought a surprising result in midJuly, reinvigorating the tribe’s hopes for federal recognition.

Tribal member Jamie Ward approaches the sacred fire during the tribe’s War Dance on the McCloud arm of Shasta Lake this past May. The tribe held the dance in response to the U.S. Forest Service’s unwillingness to implement a mandatory river closure that would bar boaters from heckling the tribe during its Coming of Age ceremony, as had occurred during prior ceremonies.

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

Once proud, now weak The Winnemem have practiced their traditional ways for thousands of years in the McCloud River watershed in Northern California, where academic and tribal accounts indicate their ancestral territory extends from Mount Shasta to just south of Redding.

Archeologists estimate the tribe once numbered as many as 14,000, one of several groups that spoke Wintu. Among the pinequilted mountains and glacial rivers of their homeland, the Winnemem lived as huntergatherers, surviving on acorns and salmon, deer and other game.

About this story:

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Marc Dadigan, California Watch

Marc Dadigan is a Redding-based freelance writer and multimedia journalist who is working on a book about the Indians of the Mt. Shasta region. The article was produced by California Watch, which is part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s largest investigative reporting team. Visit www.californiawatch.org for more info.

marcdadigan@gmail.com

Winnemem Wintu struggle to protect sacred sites

Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk and her niece, Marisa Sisk, 16, who is her designated successor as chief.

Forest Service law enforcement officers wait to meet Sisk, also the tribe’s spiritual leader, during the War Dance.

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

The tribe lost most of its land during the bloody Gold Rush years and through the World War II construction of Shasta Dam, which flooded the lower 25 miles of the McCloud River. Today, the tribe’s only land is an isolated 42-acre village outside of Redding, where a nucleus of about 33 members lives. The rest of the tribe is scattered across Northern California.

While the Winnemem have continued their traditions, they have done so without federal government acknowledgment that they are a tribe. This limits their standing to oppose the Shasta Dam project and curtails many other rights and benefits of indigenous people.

Members of unrecognized tribes cannot legally possess eagle feathers, for instance, which are vital to American Indian spiritual beliefs. Sisk’s own 25-year-old feather permit was revoked in March 2011 by the U.S.

“I’m not sure you realize what it means for us to lose those sacred sites. It’s like you’re asking us to kill our mother in order to save our father.”

—Luisa Navejas

Fish and Wildlife Service.

They can no longer access federal college scholarships, even as American Indian students struggle to afford college and earn degrees.

“I went to school on a BIA scholarship,” said Winnemem Wintu tribe member Jill Ward. “Now they say my children aren’t Indian and can’t have those same scholarships.”

Without recognition, tribes aren’t covered by the Indian Child Welfare Act, designed to help keep Indian children with their tribes.

Recently, a child from the 180-member Tsnungwe tribe of Northern California was put up for adoption and, despite the tribe’s opposition, ended up with a non-Indian family. The adopting family moved away with the child, tribal leaders say, leaving the small tribe one young member smaller.

Challenges of the unrecognized Ghost tribes lack authority over land management decisions in ancestral territory because they do not have government-to-government relationships with most federal agencies.

“Without recognition sometimes there’s no difference between being a tribal member

and a member of the public,” said Bob Benson, a Tsnungwe elder, whose tribe has struggled to prevent cell-phone towers from being installed on sacred Ironside Mountain in Trinity County. “Even when it’s our burial ground or an important sacred site, we’ll get notified when everyone else gets notified.”

For the Winnemem Wintu, this lack of government-to-government status is playing a role in the Shasta Dam negotiations, too.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Pete Lucero said the tribe will have an opportunity to express its concerns during the dam-raising project’s public input period.

Final environmental and feasibility reports are not expected until at least 2016.

But Lucero acknowledged the tribe’s concerns will carry no more weight than those of any other public entity. “We’re constantly trying to do the correct thing for the entire public,” he said. “We get a lot of comments, and we respond to them all.”

The number of tribes seeking official status as governments increased after the 1978 passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. The Bureau of Indian Affairs sought to standardize the process, creating what is now known as the Office of Federal Acknowledgment.

Many California tribes left off the initial

list of recognized tribes maintained their eligibility for various federal benefits through bureau-certified paperwork attesting to their heritage. Members of the Winnemem Wintu tribe were among those with such paperwork.

But in 1986, a Supreme Court case changed all that. By ruling that American Indians must belong to a federally recognized tribe to be eligible for benefits, the court relegated many California tribe members to a new class: “the unrecognized”—the ghost tribes.

Today, about 120 California tribes are federally recognized; about 75 ghost tribes are petitioning the bureau for recognition.

The petition process is so arduous that some, like the Winnemem Wintu, are instead pursuing congressional legislation or complaints with the United Nations, claiming the recognition system itself violates the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Nedra Darling, who oversees public affairs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was provided questions related to this story but failed to provide responses on behalf of the agency.

Lee Fleming, director of the bureau’s Office of Federal Acknowledgment and a “GHOST TRIBE” continued on page 22 August 2, 2012

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Big hole in the plan Massive quarry left out of dam-raising environmental review Raising Shasta Dam has been a matter of debate for more than two decades, with the Bureau of Reclamation touting water supply stability and an improved ecosystem for salmon populations, while the Winnemem Wintu maintain dozens of cultural and religious sites will be lost in the flooding.

Another issue entirely is providing the materials to complete the $1 billion project.

Aggregate used to construct the original dam was moved from a few miles away via a belt line, but currently the nearest deep-pit quarry large enough to meet the demand of raising the dam by 18.5 feet is in Vallejo, nearly 200 miles away.

Multinational mining conglomerate 3M, based in Minnesota, has proposed a 4,500acre mining site near the City of Shasta Lake—just one mile from the dam. The Moody Flats Quarry Project would be 800 feet deep and include four processing plants on site. According to the project description released by 3M, the quarry would produce 2 million tons of aggregate material annually for the next 100 years.

For Heidi Silva-Strand of the activist group Citizens for the Protection of North State Wetlands, the location of the proposed quarry is no coincidence. She believes the Bureau of Reclamation plans on using materials from the Moody Flats project to raise the dam but has been less than forthcoming with the public. Though the agency conducted an extensive environmental review of the dam-raising proposal, it did not take the potential effects of a quarry into account.

The quarry “must be included in the bureau’s environmental-impact review,” Silva-Strand said in a CPNSW press release.

“To do them piecemeal, as if one does not affect the other, is an abuse of power and a sham on the American people.”

The CPNSW has petitioned at the federal level for the Bureau of Reclamation to reveal how it plans to produce the material to raise the dam. Silva-Strand said “the people have a right to know,” and the Moody Flats project would disrupt thousands of lives around Shasta Lake.

“The quarry will absolutely devastate the City of Shasta Lake,” she said during a phone interview. “If you look at where they want to put this quarry, it’s right in a thousand people’s back yard.”

—Howard Hardee howardh@newsreview.com

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Cherokee Indian, said in a previous interview that he had worked to speed up the petition process. But Fleming emphasized that the government needs time to verify that claims to tribal rights are based on legitimate records and documents.

Long petition process In California and other states that grant Indian gaming licenses only to recognized tribes, the importance of verification has grown—as has a desire for federal recognition.

So far, only one California tribe has been recognized through the bureau’s process: Death Valley’s Timbisha Shoshone Band, in 1983.

The Tolowa Nation, another now-small Northern California tribe, began its formal effort to become recognized in 1982. The Tolowa’s traditional territory is the Smith River watershed in the northeastern corner of California.

The bureau’s petition process requires tribes to collect voluminous genealogical and historical proof that they have been a “continuous distinct community” since 1900. The Tolowa’s petition was rejected in late 2010 on the grounds that it didn’t include enough evidence that the tribe existed as a community from 1903 to 1930.

“They’re not used to all these small bands and tribes and the way we lived in California, sticking to our small territories,” said Martha Rice, a Tolowa Nation council member.

“They have a model for what a tribe should be, and it just doesn’t fit in California.”

Anthropologists and tribal members also argue that the requirement to show “continuous and distinct community” for more than a century is unrealistic, given the government’s history of interfering with tribal development.

“These people went through massacres, dislocations and suffered all these horrible atrocities, and then the government demands, ‘Show us your continuous community.’ It’s absurd,” said Les Field, an anthropologist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Questions about whether the recognition criteria adequately reflect reality in California went unanswered by the bureau. But in 2011, Fleming said criteria were developed in collaboration with many tribal representatives.

Petitions are reviewed by teams that include genealogists and anthropologists, he said.

“There was a need for a formal process, and so there was a total of 400 meetings, discussions and conversations with tribal representatives, as well as a national conference attended by 355 Indian tribes,” he said. “That is basically how we got started, based on input from all these tribes.”

Crude disruptions The Winnemem Wintu were among the first tribes to receive a permit to hold ceremonies on national forest land after the 1978 passage of the American Indian Religious Freedoms Act. Until it expired in 2011, the tribe also had a memorandum of understand-

ing with the Shasta-Trinity National Forest offices, stating its members are indigenous to the McCloud River above the dam.

Neither of those documents could prevent what happened in July 2006.

For a Winnemem girl, crossing into womanhood begins along the banks of the McCloud River. Each teenage girl spends four days in a bark hut on one side of the river, learning from tribal women how to grind traditional medicines and receiving teachings from the spirit beings believed to inhabit nearby sacred sites.

On the final day, the girl swims across the river to meet the tribe, which greets her with songs and dances around a sacred fire.

“This ceremony weaves the fabric of our tribe together,” said Sisk, the chief. “It’s not just about teaching the women about their role as caretakers in the tribe, but also about establishing with the men how to have good relationships with the women.”

This sacred land, now a Forest Service campground, is threatened long term by the dam-raising proposal. It would be flooded and lost.

But in the short term, the tribe’s inability to close the area during ceremonies has led to crude interruptions. Boaters have ignored the Forest Service’s “voluntary closure” sign and motored by, shouting insults such as “Fat Indians!” and “It’s our river, too, dude.”

On the last day of the 2006 ceremony, a tribe member captured one particularly egregious activity on video: A woman on a boat, apparently drunk, pulled down her bikini top and flashed her breasts at the tribe—twice.

“Every time those boaters come through, I feel like the message that is being sent is that we should assimilate—like the government and the public doesn’t want our religion here,” said Michael Preston, 28, a Winnemem Wintu dancer.

Rite of passage marred This quest to hold a private ceremony on public land took on added urgency this year.

Marisa Sisk, the chief’s niece, who is being groomed as her future replacement, was set to pass into womanhood in early July. In April, the Winnemem took their plea for a river closure directly to the Forest Service’s Vallejo office.

Boaters ignore a voluntary closure and speed past the tribe’s bark huts.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE

In the office lobby, about 30 tribe members sang traditional songs and carried placards, several emblazoned with images of the barebreasted flasher. The protest brought Regional Forester Randy Moore out of his office but ended with no promises.

The tribe’s campaign continued with phone calls, emails and a four-day war dance at the river ceremony site. Then, on June 21, Moore announced that the agency would enforce a mandatory river closure for the rite-of-passage ceremony, citing health and safety concerns.

“This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make as I balanced both the tribe’s interest with our legal authorities,” Moore said in a statement. “Due to past incidents of harassment … we believe it is necessary to close the river to enhance the safety of the ceremony.”

But the tribe found itself once again in a catch-22: To obtain the closure order, the Winnemem had to sign a permit banning traditional activities central to the ceremony, such as gathering wood for the sacred fire. Caleen Sisk vowed to fast until the matter was resolved.

“We are the indigenous people of this land, and our religion is from here,” she said. “Recognized or not, we’re not compromising our religion. It’s not like the Forest Service doesn’t know who we are.”

A series of hurried back-and-forth edits to the permit followed, enough so that the tribe opted to hold the ceremony. But the Winnemem were far from satisfied, noting that the closure permit covered only the water, not the land, which means people on foot still could interrupt the ceremony. Only full recognition would give the tribe the power to prevent that.

Even with the river closure, Marisa Sisk’s Coming of Age ceremony was tense at times.

Because no motorized boats were supposed to enter the area, U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers and the tribe clashed over a motorized boat the Winnemem used to ferry older women involved in the ceremony across the river.

“They need to understand this is a Winnemem ceremony in Winnemem territory,” said Winnemem elder Betti Comas. “Their job

Above: Caleen Sisk meets with U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Randy Moore at his Vallejo office back in April 2012.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE

Right: Winnemem Wintu tribal members (left to right) Luisa Navejas, Marine Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk, Marisa Sisk and Jessica Sisk address the media after the tribe’s protest this past April at the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional Office in Vallejo.

PHOTO BY MARC DADIGAN

was to keep outsiders from interfering with us, not to tell us how to run our ceremony.�

The morning after Marisa Sisk swam

across the river to represent her transition to womanhood, three law enforcement officers entered the camp and wrote two citations against Caleen Sisk for using the motorized boat. Each carries a fine of up to $5,000 or six months in prison.

Frustrated by the ceremony closure restrictions, Caleen Sisk had begun fasting at the river on June 18, saying she wouldn’t stop until the bureau granted her a meeting to discuss the tribe’s status “You could say [the bureau is] telling the Forest Service this treatment we’ve received is OK because we’re not recognized,� she said.

“We think it’s time they fix their mistake.�

Virgil Akins, superintendent of the Northern California Bureau of Indian Affairs, agreed to meet with Sisk on July 11, the 23rd day of her fast. At the meeting, Akins accepted a packet of the Winnemem’s historical records and promised to help them, Watch the video:

Go to www.youtube.com/embed/mpuqR1hwmgs to see an excellent short video about the Winnemem Wintu’s efforts to gain federal recognition and the conflicts surrounding their Coming of Age ceremony.

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sharing information that led in January to the Tejon Indian Tribe being restored to the list of recognized tribes.

Winnemem Wintu government liaison Gary Hayward Slaughter Mulcahy said that, at first glance, his tribe seems to have at least as much documentation as the Tejon tribe. “We used to think we didn’t need federal acknowledgment because we’ve always known who we are. We didn’t need the government to tell us,â€? he said. “But it’s become apparent ‌ that to be able to protect our ceremonies and protect our sites, we need to be on their list.â€? â„Ś

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Hieroglyphics’ Pep Love talks about the present and future of hip-hop

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Ahip-hop acts, Hieroglyphics has long stood in sharp contrast to mainstream rap. s with many underground

Since its debut album in 1998, the Oakland-based collective has represented the by Howard Hardee artistic end of the hiphop spectrum, offering a howardh@ high-minded alternative newsreview.com to the boisterous millionaires in fur coats on MTV. The CN&R disPREVIEW: cussed Hiero’s legacy, The Hiero Imperium the state of hip-hop and Summer Tour, what it means to be an featuring Pep Love, artist with founding Souls of Mischief and Casual, stops member Pep Love, who at the El Rey released his fifth solo Theatre, Friday, album, Rigmarole, in Aug. 3, 8:30 p.m. March, and who will be Tickets: $15, at the El Rey Theatre available at www.ticketweb.com Friday, Aug. 3, when the . Hiero Imperium Summer Tour hits town.

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CN&R: What’s the inspiration for Rigmarole?

Pep Love: Ideally, the end result would give people a message of perseverance rather than frustration. A lot of times, the word “rigmarole” denotes frustration, but it’s also the process—if you want to get in shape, you’ve got to work out. The rigmarole is going to the gym, eating right and doing what it takes to be healthy and achieve a goal. That’s really the message the album conveys. My particular field is music, so I related to that throughout my record.

So what do you consider “rigmarole” as an artist?

I record, I work on music. It’s not a perfect process, I’m still refining it and steadily trying to get better and maintaining music as my focus—whether it be writing and recording or more the busi24 CN&R August 2, 2012

Call him Mr. Love.

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ness side of stuff, trying to get projects completed or just visualizing the moves we want to make next. It’s all part of the rigmarole of being a performer, an entertainer, a recording artist, a rapper.

The Hieroglyphics are considered legendary in some circles. How do you react to that?

“Legendary” is something defined by your full body of work, and I don’t even think we have achieved what we set out to or what we could potentially achieve.

And for me, personally, I still have a lot of goals—I want to record many more albums and really make my contribution to hip-hop and its prestige, to uphold what it means to be a highly skilled practitioner of this art form. “Legendary,” especially for someone who is still around and writing, is a way to say, “Maybe it’s time for you to cash in your chips.” It’s nowhere near that time for us, and hip-hop as a culture and art form is entering into a whole new phase. Hip-hop has been around for a long time, and it’s just now showing it can be mature—now I think hip-hop artists can be celebrated as high-caliber artists like Miles Davis or John Coltrane.

How important is live performance for hip-hop?

It’s important to not let hip-hop get totally bastardized and watered down, to lose its potency as a live performing art, because that’s where it started. There are some disturbing trends with live hip-hop performances, things you don’t really see in other genres—performers who just play the song with the recorded vocal track and perform their vocals on top of that, which is more like karaoke or lip-syncing than being a real live performer. Everything it

means to be a performer and an MC goes against stuff like that.

Why do you think so many hip-hop acts perform that way?

Now everybody just wants to be a star, they want to be famous; they don’t necessarily aspire to be excellent artists. I’d like to contribute to changing that, to bringing it back to the roots of music, things that go along with being a musician or entertainer, period. Things that cross genres and mediums or artistic expression. It’s about the quality and concept of the art being presented, not so much about being famous, cool and standing in the spotlight. A lot of new artists look at it purely like a chance to be in the spotlight, and it’s not necessarily a chance to use the spotlight to highlight your skills and passion. We as Hieroglyphics would like to revitalize that in hip-hop.

A lot of popular music gets labeled hiphop. Do you think that has blurred the lines of what it means to be a hip-hop artist?

I think a lot of it has to do with pop culture in general—they’ve consigned the title of hip-hop to an R&B record as a marketing tool. They say Chris Brown is hip-hop [laughs]. But, who am I to say that he’s not? There just used to be a more strict interpretation in earlier eras.

There’s more to art to than what is promoted through the biggest media outlets.

What’s next for the Hieroglyphics?

The Kitchen is a new project slated to come out soon—it’s a collection of songs that never got on any particular project.

The world should look forward to it and hopefully not long after that we’ll have an official Hiero album release. Ω

Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. Th, 69pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.down townchico.net.

Music OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: The weekly concert series continues with Inside Strait. Festivities include food, raffles and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 8/2, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

Theater RADIOLAND’S 1949 CALVACADE OF STARS: Ensemble Theatre of Chico has created a new all-star cavalcade of singers, musicians, serials, soaps and quiz shows as part of Chico Summer Theatre Festival. 8/2-8/4, 7:30pm; 8/4-8/5, 2pm. $5-$20. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Special Events FRIDAY COMEDY CLUB: Stand-up comedians Dan St. Paul and Robert Duchaine hit the Rolling Hills Comedy Stage. Call for ticket information. F, 8/3, 7:30pm. $10-$15. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (877) 840-0457; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

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Art Receptions ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBIT RECEPTION: An opening reception for the gallery featuring 24 local and regional artists. F, 8/3, 3-7pm. Free.

Orland Center for the Arts & Gallery; 431 Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.

CHICO ICONS RECEPTION: A reception for 30 artists who have created works depicting endangered natural and man-made symbols of Chico, plus classical tunes by the Chico Strings. F, 8/3, 5-8pm. Free. Avenue 9 Gallery; 180 E. Ninth Ave.; (530) 879-1821; www.avenue9 gallery.com.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: THE RATTLESNAKES: The weekly concert series continues with rock and southern rock from The Rattlesnakes. F, 8/3, 78:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

HIERO IMPERIUM TOUR: Pioneering Bay Area rap collective the Hieroglyphics—noted for their socially conscious lyrics, vast vocabularies and catch-me-if-you can flow—are represented by members Pep Love, Casual and The Souls of Mischief. F, 8/3, 8:30pm. $15. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

WYNONNA AND THE BIG NOISE: Country star and

five-time Grammy winner Wynonna Judd comes to the showroom with her band. F, 8/3, 8pm. $35-$62. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.gold countrycasino.com.

Theater RADIOLAND’S 1949 CALVACADE OF STARS: See Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Community Association; 11 Maple Creek Ranch Rd. 11 past Chico airport in Cohasset; (530) 345-7622.

Music THE BLACK LILLIES: Right out of Knoxville and fresh off a run of shows at the Grand Ole Opry, the acclaimed Black Lillies touch on bluegrass, country, rock, jazz and Americana.

They’re a pretty big deal. Sa, 8/4, 8pm. $10$14. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

COOL SUMMER BLUES AND BREWS: The legendary

Elvin Bishop headlines this mini blues (and brews!) fest in the showroom. Also on tap: Bay Area blues/boogie/gospel singer Lady Bianca and Chico crooner Kyle Williams. Admission includes brews and food. Sa, 8/4, 5:30pm. $25.

Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.goldcountry casino.com.

MIMI BLAIS: The “Queen of Ragtime,” Blais is a performer, composer, writer and comedian from Montreal. Proceeds benefit the Blue Room Theatre. Sa, 8/4, 7pm. $18-$20. Blue Room Theatre; 139 W First St.; (530) 895-3749; www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Theater CLUE THE MUSICAL: A fun-filled musical bringing the world’s best-known suspects to life and inviting the audience to help solve the mystery: Who killed Mr. Boddy? Opens Sa, 8/4, 7:30pm. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company; 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F; (530) 894-3282; www.chico theatercompany.com.

RADIOLAND’S 1949 CALVACADE OF STARS: See Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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CAR SHOW: A day of classic cars, live music, food and prizes to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children and Paws for Purple Hearts. Sa, 8/4, 10am-3pm. Free. Paradise Masonic Lodge; 5934 Clark Rd. in Paradise; www.paradisemasonic family.org.

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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: Chico Icons: Endangered!, an exhibition of over 30 artists depicting endangered natural and man-made Chico landmarks. 8/2-9/1. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

Poetry/Literature AUTHOR PRESENTATION: Kimberly Carlson pres-

ents her debut novel, Out of the Shadows, about healing oneself through healing others.

M, 8/6, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books; 121 W. Fifth St.; (530) 891-3338; www.lyonbooks.com.

WORD PLAY: A night of poetry, readings, comedy and song. First M of every month, 7pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.wee bly.com.

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Theater GREAT MOMENTS WITH SHAKESPEARE: Chico’s finest thespians will perform some of Shakespeare’s most memorable scenes— from the popular to the obscure—as part of Chico Summer Theatre Festival. 8/7-8/8, 7:30pm. $10. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

CHICO ART CENTER: Chico Art Center

Discovery Series II, exhibiting four contemporary artists drawn from around the nation—Fidalis Buehler, Pancho Jimenez, Gina Tecson, and Steven Wilson. Through 8/18. Free. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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

GYPSY ROSE SALON: Christian Marquez, a three-artist show including paintings by Christian Marquez. Ongoing. 151 Broadway St, Chico, CA, (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:

ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY:

Annual Group Exhibit, featuring 24 local and regional artists. 8/3-8/25. 431 Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.

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.

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

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

Museums BOLTS ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Kitchen

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

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

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

LOTT HOME IN SANK PARK: Hand Fan Display, A display of hand fans of all eras and purposes at the historic Victorian home, circa 1856. Through 9/3. 1067 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497.

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Theater GREAT MOMENTS WITH SHAKESPEARE: See Tuesday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

JOHN BIDWELL BIRTHDAY BASH: Birthday cake, Shubert’s ice cream, live music and local entertainment to celebrate John Bidwell’s 193rd birthday. Su, 8/5, 6-8pm. $3-$5. Bidwell Mansion; 525 Esplanade; (530) 898-8016; www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=460.

COHASSET BAZAAR: The annual bazaar featuring food, craft vendors, kids activities, quilt raffle, a parade and live music with the Ruby Hollow Band, Alice Peake Experience, Mud Creek Kenny and more. Sa, 8/4, 9am. $5. Cohasset

leader is generally recognized as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. M, 8/6, 7:30pm.

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

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.

Hoppe’s latest combination of modern surreal and realist styles. 8/7-9/28. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.james snidlefinearts.com.

Theater RADIOLAND’S 1949 CALVACADE OF STARS: See Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

CHICO ICONS RECEPTION Friday, Aug. 3 Avenue 9 Gallery

SEE FRIDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

Summer stock With the community theaters in summer-vacation mode, it’s been mostly the young thespians (deservedly) getting the bulk of the local stage time in recent months. But with the grown-ups’ fall theater season on the horizon, the Chico Summer Theatre Festival kicks off its 23rd season, and once again the Ensemble Theatre of Chico has rounded up the best local thespians to get us ready for the new school year. Back in its new regular EDITOR’S PICK venue, the Chico Women’s Club, the ETC is putting on three productions in a row over the next two weeks: Radioland’s 1949 Cavalcade of Stars (Aug. 2-5), a musical and variety show written and directed by locals Jerry Miller and Marcel Daguerre; Great Moments with Shakespeare (Aug. 7 & 8), a compilation of the Bard’s greatest hits; and Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh (Aug. 9-12), a love triangle set during the French Revolution.

—JASON CASSIDY for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32 August 2, 2012

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BULLETIN BOARD 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.

BAT NIGHT: A discussion of the various species of bats that frequent the reserve, bat netting and identification by vocalization. Sa, 8/4, 711pm. $5. Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, 3521 Hwy 32 14 miles east of Chico, (530) 8985010.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled

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

CHICO BAILE LATINO: MORE THAN SALSA: Dance lessons with Monika Ronquillo followed by open dancing. F, 8/3, 8-9pm. $6. Holiday Inn, 685 Manzanita Ct., (530) 518-9454, www.holi dayinn.com.

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

Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, 8916524.

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

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

EMPTY THE SHELTER: Butte Humane Society holds its largest adoption event of the year, with all animals available at substantially reduced rates. Sa, 8/4, 9am-6pm. Prices vary.

Butte Humane Society, 2579 Fair St., (530) 3437917 ext. 134, www.buttehumane.org.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

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

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

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

FOLK DANCING: Teaching during the first hour, followed by request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 8/10. Opens 8/3. $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.

GLOBAL HAPKIDO CONFERENCE: A two-day seminar highlighting the techniques, philosophies and history of traditional Hapkido. Go online for a complete list of classes available and registration. 8/4-8/5. Azads Martial Arts Family Center, 313 Walnut St. 150 Corner of Walnut and 4th St., (530) 892-2923, www.global hapkidomasters.com.

GOLF FOR VETERANS: A program to help combat veterans socialize with other veterans on the links. Ongoing. Free. Call for details, (530) 899-8549.

HUMBUG SUMMIT HIKE: A plant-identification

hike to the highest point in Butte County. Su, 8/5, 8:30am. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E.

Eighth St.

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.

EMPTY THE SHELTER Saturday, Aug. 4 Butte Humane Society SEE COMMUNITY

Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csu chico.edu/gateway.

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

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

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524.

STIRLING CITY YARD SALES: Town-wide yard sales to benefit the Stirling City Community Gardens art-history project and Stirling City Historical Society. Sa, 8/4, 10am-4pm. Call for details, (530) 873-1598, (530) 873-0858.

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A presentation designed for those who have suffered through recent loss or turmoil looking to enhance their outlook and learn to cope. Through 9/25, 6-7:30pm.

Lakeside Pavilion, 179 E. 19th St., 895-4711.

TIE DYE IN THE PARK: Tie dye techniques with

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

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

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

Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park web site for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, (530) 891-4671, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

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.

PARADISE MEADOW HIKE: A hike to Paradise Meadow in Lassen National Park. Bring water,

sunscreen, lunch, boots and a camera. Su, 8/5, 8am. Free. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 342-2239.

READY TO TAKE FLIGHT: A paper airplane extravaganza, serving as a preview for the museum’s upcoming “Take Flight” exhibit. W, 8/8, 11am-1pm. $3-$5. Gateway Science

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.

It’s all about the ramen at Chicoichi.

PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR

Number one, with a bullet Just-opened ramen house is as good as advertised

Tthem up with the former owner of Gen Kai Japanese Restaurant, and give them a restaurant to run—a cozy spot

ake the owners of Big Tuna Sushi Bistro, team

with the lingering good vibes left over from its former inhabitant, Annie’s Asian Grill …

What do you get?

The wonderful brand-new Chicoichi by Ramen.

Its name declares in Japanese that Christine G.K. it is “No. 1” (“ichi” means “one”) and, LaPadowell, that’s not just an empty boast.

Breglia Chicoichi Ramen backs it up with excelchristinel@ lent food. newsreview.com The vibe inside (and outside, on the lovely patio) is casual but authentic; all the wall hangings and curtains were purchased from shops in San Francisco’s Japantown.

The menu is fairly simple. Basically it includes four types of ramen, eight kinds of donburi (a rice bowl with meat, fish or ★★★★ vegetables), four appetizers, four salads and a selection of sushi.

Chicoichi Let it be said that Chicoichi’s ramen is Ramen not the cheap, junky kind you used to eat 243 W. Ninth St. as a starving student. I found that out the 891-9044 first time I visited the restaurant, when I Open daily, ordered tonkotsu ramen (all ramen bowls 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. are $7.75), with ramen in broth made from a boiled pork bone. The other three totally traditional variations served at Chicoichi are shoyu (a soy-sauce-based broth), miso and soy-milk ramen.

My ample, steaming bowl of ramen soup contained slices of roasted pork and boiled egg, bamboo shoots, green onions, ★★★★★ EPIC delicate bright-pink-and-white fishcakes, ★★★★ bean sprouts, green seaweed, pickled ginAUTHORITATIVE ger and sesame seeds. Rising from the ★★★ middle of the soup, like the sails of the APPEALING Sydney Opera House, was a large sheet of ★★ toasted dark seaweed folded in a way as to HAS MOMENTS roughly suggest the art of origami. It is ★ delicious, especially if you are a fan of seaFLAWED weed.

On my second visit, I sat outside on the patio next to a burbling water feature, as it was relatively cool for a July day and the outdoor air was refreshing.

This time I ordered from the special sushi menu (it is separate from the sushi featured on the main menu), which features a few kinds of rolls, all $11, except the Alaskan roll (smoked salmon, cream cheese, Kanikama—imitation crab—and avocado), which costs $8.

All the rolls sounded really inviting, including the Mexican Roll, made with snow crab, serrano peppers, cucumber and cilantro on the inside, and topped with shrimp, avocado and spicy mayonnaise. I chose the Energy Roll— made with garlic, shrimp tempura, Kanikama tempura and avocado tempura wrapped in delicate soy paper—and sunomono ($4), a pickled cucumber salad.

The sunomono, topped with sesame seeds, was delightful—light, crisp and refreshing.

Each bite was as pleasant as the jazz that was playing over the speakers on the patio.

The Energy Roll was lovely to look at.

Once again, I was reminded of sails—the soy paper wrapped around my sliced roll pointed upward on each end of it in a playful, sail-like way. And boy, was it delicious—I savored every wasabi- and ginger-garnished bite. The tempura shrimp was a perfect combination of crisp and juicy.

The food, the weather and the friendly service made me so content that I decided to stay a little longer and have dessert. My choice was a bowl of green-tea ice cream ($3)— pretty much my go-to dessert at a Japanese restaurant—and Chicoichi’s was totally yummy. The three other desserts offered are green-tea cheesecake ($3), a mini-éclair ($4) and a cream puff ($4).

To me, the young Chicoichi Ramen is already a hit. With its pedigree, how could it not be? Ω

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don hooligans defending their turf from toothy invaders from space. Being British, the dialect might’ve been by Craig Blamer impenetrable to Yankee ears, but it was crafted well enough that you really didn’t need the dialogue to follow the proceedings. (Just use the subtitle option; the writing in itself is pretty damned clever.)

And now, for the folks who prefer their comedy in comfortable Wonder Bread mode, The Watch we’ve all been blessed with The Watch. If one Starring Ben were of a charitable mind, they’d say that The Stiller, Vince Watch was, um, “inspired” by Attack the Block.

Vaughn and A more cynical mind might call a knockoff “a Jonah Hill.

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Here we have Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan Cinemark 14, and Jonah Hill as loathsome suburban knobs Feather River whose Neighborhood Watch duties suddenly Cinemas and Paradise Cinema rise to intergalactic scale as a bunch of slimy 7. Rated R. critters invade the local Costco to build a transmitter to kick off their invasion of Earth. Blah, blah, blah.

It could be fun, but it isn’t. Most of the care Poor taken is in crafting set pieces for the gratuitous product placement—and setting the last halfhour’s worth of action in Costco affords many opportunities for this. And to be fair, the action Fair of the last half hour is almost fun as a ripoff/tribute to the old arcade shooter Area 51.

Unfortunately, the first interminable hour is set to the mundane banter and character arcs of Good the dimwitted trio. And their occasional testimonials about how cool Costco is. (Which stocks plenty of Anheuser-Busch products, Rayovac batteries and Magnum condoms.) And Very Good this being an American sitcom co-written by Seth Rogen (Superbad), each of these placements gets its own Rogen spin—e.g. the batteries being used to power a stockpile of dildos.

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The only female presence here is Rosemarie DeWitt as Stiller’s horny wife and some blond kid as Vaughn’s horny daughter. That’s pretty much their character development. Otherwise they’re just props. Which is too bad, ’cause DeWitt is one of the few rays of light on display here. The other is Richard Ayoade (of the Brit shows Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place and The IT Crowd) who drops by to see how hanging with the walking lobotomized feels.

If these kinds of comedies are your bag, you might find this funny. But if you’re expecting clever dialogue and something other than a narrative written with crayons you might wanna save some money by staying home, popping your own corn and settling in with a rental. … Say, did I mention how much fun Attack the Block is? Ω

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Opening this week Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Entry No. 3 in the film franchise based on Jeff Kinney’s popular pre-teen fiction series checks in on middle-schooler Greg Heffley as he tries to salvage summer vacation after his plans go awry. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Total Recall

A reboot of the 1990 sci-fi classic set in a future where memories can be manipulated, and where one man (Colin Farrell) is fighting to find out who he actually is and who’s been literally messin’ with his mind. Loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Also starring Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel and Bryan Cranston. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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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.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —R.B.

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. Rated PG.

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I have to say, despite a nearly threehour running time, The Dark Knight Rises manages to not overstay its welcome.

Unfortunately, it also never rises to meet the potential set up by director/writer Christopher Nolan’s first two entries in his Batman trilogy. If you’re content with turning off the brain and coasting on spectacle and nostalgia, then it probably will deliver.

But if you require a competent narrative to go along with the eye candy, then Nolan’s innate weakness as a writer will consistently hobble the show. While inarguably a gifted stylist, Nolan’s scripts are notoriously full of plotholes big enough to flip an 18-wheeler.

And here 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.

Long-story-short: the sporadic action is entertainingly action-y, although delivered without inspiration. The Dark Knight Rises isn’t a bad time. It’s just not a good movie.

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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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. Feather River Cinemas and Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Step Up Revolution

Entry No. 4 in the Step Up franchise features more kick-ass dance moves plus a convoluted plot about a rich dancing girl and her new, poor boyfriend trying dance their way into keeping her rich dad from bulldozing his poor dancing neighborhood. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated. PG-13.

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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.

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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.

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

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O’Brien Party of 7 brings together the families of those talented siblings Tim and Mollie O’Brien. Most recently, O’Brien has been performing before capacity crowds in the band of Mark Knopfler, who described O’Brien as “a master of American folk music, Irish music, Scottish music – it doesn’t matter; a fine songwriter and one of my favorite singers.” Tim has played the Big Room many times and has sold out each and every show. We are also pleased to welcome back Mollie O’Brien. Her previous visit was a testimonial to the power and grace of the female voice. Darrell Scott says of Mollie, “We do not have another singer like Mollie O’Brien – she stands and delivers in a completely, original way – no matter the material.”

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J. Everett is sitting in the cozy band room at the by back of his ChapJason Cassidy mantown home on a recent toasty jasonc@ newsreview.com summer evening, trying to explain his band Broken Rodeo’s approach to its version of PREVIEW: stripped-down Broken Rodeo CDrelease party Americana.

It’s “just the Friday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m., at Café Coda. feel,” the guiDrunken Prayer tarist/vocalist and Rustwater adds, letting manopen. Cost: $5. dolinist Matt A. Café Coda LeMond com265 Humboldt Ave. plete the thought: 566-9476 “The music just www.cafecoda.com kind of happens, and then the music leads us somewhere.”

That all might sound a little vague, but listening to the Chico duo’s just-released second CD, Beginner’s Luck, you can hear that, however the songs got their start, where they’ve ended up is an album with a definite cinematic quality. The scene that comes to mind is of two cowboys sitting around a campfire at night on a desolate prairie. It’s pitch black in every direction, and the fire is spitting and hissing and glowing orange on their trail-weary faces as the duo sings lonesome-sounding tunes to the stars—Everett with his dusty Dylanesque twang and LeMond with the bright and brittle voice of his mandolin.

The recording was done at local Origami Lounge Recording studio, and engineer Scott Barwick has added plenty of reverb to Everett’s

Broken Rodeo’s Matt A. LeMond (left) and J. Everett.

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vocal twang to give an airy quality to the proceedings that makes for a sound that conjures up the ghosts of country past. And, in simplified terms, Beginner’s Luck is a country album, and the opening track, “Rite at Home,” announces as much, as it longs for the time when Hank, Waylon, Loretta and Emmylou were on the radio: “What ever happened to that old country song?/ That song that made us feel like we were right at home/ What ever happened to that old country sound?/ That sound that made us feel like our feet were on the ground.”

Everett goes on to sing about those “lost songs” being made today by artists working in relative obscurity who won’t make it to mainstream radio and get their chance to become a part of a bigger shared experience.

“The musicians who are really motivating me right now are people on the verge of making it, or they haven’t made it and they don’t care,” Everett explained, adding, “I don’t know if their songs will be around—I don’t know if ours will be around.”

He mentions Charleston, S.C., duo Shovels & Rope, with their “driving rhythm with old-school country flair,” as a current favorite and example of writing songs in the old traditions.

When Everett and LeMond

came together a year ago, they were each on the heels of finishing up stints in other local Americana-

inspired bands—Everett in the folk/country duo Trail Ninety and LeMond in the bluegrass/folk super group the Poa Porch Band.

“I saw Matt play at Origami [Lounge] with Poa Porch Band, and I was taken aback at how he stood out.” Everett said that initially he was curious about how a mandolin would sound with his tunes.

After realizing the sound was a good fit, they started writing songs together, and Everett soon discovered another quality in LeMond that added flavor to the band.

They were playing in a pickup basketball game on the outdoor courts behind the Dorothy Johnson Center, and “I accidentally elbowed [Matt] really hard on the chin,” Everett said—so hard that, had it happened to him, he would have gone home. “But it didn’t even faze him. I thought, ‘Whoa, this is who I’m looking for.’”

Heading into their CD-release show this weekend (Friday, Aug. 3, Café Coda), the guys are motivated to continue to progress as a band by playing out of town more (with a slot at the Callahan Music Festival in Siskiyou County already booked in September) and making connections with other artists and putting on some bigger shows in Chico. But they also say that they want to remain judicious with their local show selection and not play out too often.

“I don’t want to ruin the mystique,” Everett said.” “We want to make it special for us and people who listen to it.” Ω

Sobriquets Fera Self-distributed After listening to local singer/songwriter Fera’s third self-recorded solo CD, Sobriquets, I’ve gone from merely appreciating his inventive approach to completely falling for the artist. This album is a giant leap forward for the poetic troubadour. Over time, Fera (aka Michael Strishak) has developed his somewhat dramatic-sounding vocal affectation (reminiscent of Conor Oberst and even Robert Smith of the Cure) into one of his biggest assets, and here it is confidently incorporated into his songwriting, adding impassioned foundation to his dreamy aesthetic. My favorites right now are the longer tracks—“If I Go” (6:05) and “I Just Wanted to Let You Know” (7:11)—where he stretches out and takes his time repeating a simple acoustic guitar-and-mysterious-vocals (“Start a fire in someone’s body”) arrangement for the bulk of the song before ending with the addition of a chorus of backing vocals or making a shift to a dynamic coda. The best, however, is “Penumbrous.”

Built on looping banjo arpeggios, the arrangement is unusual and thrilling, with a big chorus of vocals rushing in unexpectedly to introduce a line— “We are! (shadows in the hall)”—and the music dropping out completely a couple minutes in before creeping back and finishing in a swirl of electric guitar noise and feedback. A fully realized local work of art.

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This music required something of those who made it, and it requires something of those who want to really hear it. But Miles Davis knew what he was doing way back in the way back when he chose Jarrett as his new keyboard player just as Davis himself was stepping into some new cutting-edge jazz realms. You can hear the creative restlessness of Jarrett’s spirit all over this set. The improvisations and the interplay between Jarrett and Jan Garbarek on horns, Palle Danielsson on double bass and Jon Christensen on a variety of percussion instruments are richly textured. This is no “sleeper,” however, if you approach it thinking you can doze through it without attentive wakefulness. This album re-awakens a great old concert to a brand new day, and if you snooze you will lose when it comes to hearing all that’s going on as these top-flight musical innovators play off and with one another.

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Press Here Hervé Tullet Chronicle Books As the title suggests, Press Here is an invitation to children to be active participants in a whimsical journey. While Hervé Tullet’s clever book is written with young readers in mind, I found myself smiling and following along with its instructions, standing in the middle of the book store, happily tapping, shaking and rubbing various dots as instructed. Its simple dot images are brought to life with Tullet’s rich, playful language. As the book progresses, the reader is encouraged to perform different tasks (“… tilt page to the left … just to see what happens” “… try pressing down really hard on ALL the yellow dots”) and as the endeavors and language become more sophisticated, readers are rewarded with surprising results to their actions as well as words of encouragement: “Good,” “Perfect,” “Well done.” Press Here is not for lulling to sleep or calming down; rather, it’s a book of motion and imagination not intended for the passive reader. It will definitely become a favorite, making it to the treasured stack that your child (and you) will want to read again and again.

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Thursday, augusT 23, 2012 The talk of this years Cal Worldfest music festival!

Fresh from taking the California Worldfest by storm, and I mean by storm, we’re pleased to announce that they’ll be bringing their must see musical and visual energy to the Big Room. Hailing from Melbourne, the trio has brought their unique brand of folk-roots to center stage at some of the world’s major musical festivals, featuring a combination of catchy harmonies and humor. Along with the talented and dynamic Rosie Burgess on vocals, harmonica and guitar, the Rosie Burgess trio features Sam Lohs (Fruit) on stomp box drums and vocals and Tim Bennett on bass guitar and vocals. We will be opening the dance floor for the simple reason that people who see the Rosie Burgess Trio develop an undeniable urge to rush the stage.

We here in the Big Room are going to make this possible. Join us. Better to see the Rosie Burgess Trio than to hear about what you missed.

Tickets $15 On sale now in the gift shop or online.

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respectively) play as an acoustic duo. Lisa Valentine opens. Th, 8/2, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

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2THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

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

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

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

ERIC TOLLEFSON: A singer-songwriter with a touch of blues melancholy and pop inclinations. Also, Jeremy Gerrard from the Amblers will collaborate with various musicians, while Emma Blankenship and Nolan Ford (of the Railflowers and the Perpetual Drifters,

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. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 8951515; www.johnniesrestaur ant.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.

NOT DEAD YET: A Grateful Dead tribute band. Th, 8/2, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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

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

THURSDAY 8|2—WEDNESDAY 8|8 First and Third Th of every month, 7pm. $1. Paradise Grange Hall; 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.

OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: The weekly concert series continues with Inside Strait. Festivities include food, raffles and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 8/2, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

3FRIDAY BROKEN RODEO: The local Americana duo launches their second album, Beginner’s Luck. Drunken Prayer and Rustwater open. F, 8/3, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: THE RATTLESNAKES: The weekly concert series continues with rock and southern rock from The Rattlesnakes. F, 8/3, 78:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

FUNKY FRIDAYS: NIX: Funky electronica, complete with cheesy synths and porno “wah-wah.” Game Face opens. F, 8/3, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

HIERO IMPERIUM TOUR: Pioneering Bay Area rap collective the Hieroglyphics—noted for their socially conscious lyrics, vast vocabularies and catchme-if-you can flow—are represented by members Pep Love, Casual and The

Souls of Mischief. F, 8/3, 8:30pm. $15. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

HOOLIGANZ & THE WHAT: Party-centric hip-hop from Chico’s premier rap collective. Big Slim opens. F, 8/3, 8pm. $5.

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

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: 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.

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Country and Americana with local jam master Jeff Pershing. F, 8/3, 7pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

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. F, 8/3, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

THE MOTIFS: Live music in the lounge. F,

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

THE BLACK LILLIES: Right out of Knoxville

Wynonna Judd comes to the showroom with her band. F, 8/3, 8pm. $35-$62. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 8031911, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

and fresh off a run of shows at the Grand Ole Opry, the acclaimed Black Lillies touch on bluegrass, country, rock, jazz and Americana. They’re a pretty big deal. Sa, 8/4, 8pm. $10-$14.

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

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COOL SUMMER BLUES AND BREWS: The

ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: A jam hosted by Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 2-5pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery; 130 Main St.; (530) 345-4128.

ALICE IN COOPERLAND: A tribute to shock-rocker Alice Cooper in the brewery. Sa, 8/4, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

legendary Elvin Bishop headlines this mini blues (and brews!) fest in the showroom. Also on tap: Bay Area blues/boogie/gospel singer Lady Bianca and Chico crooner Kyle Williams. Admission includes brews and food. Sa, 8/4, 5:30pm. $25. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.goldcoun trycasino.com.

DEAD MANS HAND: Live classic and

modern country hits. Sa, 8/4, 9pm.

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

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PATTON LEATHA: Soulful R&B hits in Jack’s Lounge. F, 8/3, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

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Sunday, Aug. 5 Origami Recording Lounge the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

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zadelic” dance grooves. Sa, 8/4, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

BLACK METAL NIGHT: Black metal with Ruines of Abaddon from San Diego.

Octavius and Kirrha open. Half off admission if you come in corpse paint.

Su, 8/5, 9pm. $10. The Zoo; 2021 Baldwin Ave. in Oroville; (530) 520-7360.

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

PATTON LEATHA: Soulful R&B hits in Jack’s Lounge. Sa, 8/4, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

GAZA: Crushingly heavy and jaw-drop-

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.

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man folk-punk act. Elia Goat and the Natural Horns and Rick Barnett open.

Su, 8/5, 9pm. Free. Maltese Bar & Taproom; 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

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nerds who totally rock, combining elements of punk, New Wave, surf and rockabilly with a futurist theme. Prima Donna, Hooten Hallers and Severance Package open. W, 8/8, 8pm. $5.

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

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

DJ DANCING CRAZY HORSE: DJ Hot Rod and mechani-

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party

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

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

Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TACKLE BOX: DJ Shelley. Tu, Su, 6pm. Tackle

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

11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party”; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229

Box Bar & Grill, 375 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499.

Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

LOST ON MAIN: Best and latest reggae

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

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

LOST ON MAIN: A brand-new

electronic DJ crew. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. $3. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

MADISON BEAR: Dancing upstairs and on the patio.

W-Sa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 891-1639, www.madis onbeargarden.com.

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music, open-jam style. First Tu of every month, 5-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

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

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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

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.

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

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Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to

music of Charlie Parker, a driving force in the creation of Bebop and an innovative improvisational talent. First M of every month, 7-8:30pm. $10. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

pingly technical progressive “crust” metal from Salt Lake City. Eagle Twin, Armed for Apocalypse and Amarok open. Su, 8/5, 8pm. $8. Origami Lounge; 7th and Cherry streets.

STEVE JOHNSON: Acoustic Americana with guitarist and vocalist Steve Johnson. Sa, 8/4, 8:30pm. Free.

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

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GET IN THE ANNIE BIDWELL SPIRIT It’s time to pony up for your local nonprofits, Chico. The North Valley Community Foundation just opened its annual Annie B’s Community Drive, and for the next two months all monies donated to the participating local groups (everyone from the library to local arts groups to the Butte Humane Society) will be matched with a grant of 10-15 percent of the amount donated to each specific organization. Visit www.nvcf.org and do what you can.

08 ARTS CUT, THE GOOD KIND Next Thursday, Aug. 9, at 9 a.m., Mayor Ann Schwab will preside over a ribbon-cutting for some new public art at the affordablehousing complex Parkside Terrace Apartments (2162 09 Hartford Ave.). The installation is actually made up of two separate pieces, by two local artists—a ceramic- and glass-tile mural by Janice Hoffman and a 12foot stainless steel and prismatic-glass sculpture

by Owen Gabbert.

10 ART SCHOOL Chico State’s School of the Arts

has published its programming for the 2012-13 academic year, and there is the 08 embarrassment of art, music and usual theater riches on tap, thanks to the uni“For the Children of My Heart,” versity’s students and faculty. I’m particby Owen Gabbert. ularly interested in the theater department’s take on Arabian Nights (opening Nov. 6) and the New Music Sympo09 sium (Feb. 28-March 1) featuring visiting minimalist composer Paul Dresher, who will perform a program “for electric guitar, quadrachord and marimba lumina.”

Look for copies of the school’s Kaleidoscope publication—featuring the 10 full School of the Arts and Chico Performances schedules—around town and check out the digital version online at www.schoolof thearts-csuchico.com (coming soon).

SHINY HAPPY CHUNKS OF SHARP METAL IN YOUR FACE Much like the

ancient city of its namesake, Salt Lake City’s Gaza has been invaded by08many outside influences. However you define the different styles that might be at play—metalcore, grindcore, prog-metal, crust, sludge, thrash—the end result is something that just sounds really super pissed off. I have no idea what the lyrics are to “Not with All 09 Hope in the World” from the band’s just-released No Absolutes in the Human Suffering, but it is some impressive heavy, bowel-wobbling noise and probably isn’t about not worrying or being happy. Maybe I’ll ask ’em about it when they come to Origami Lounge, Sunday, Aug. 5, to make loud with Eagle Twin, Amarok and Armed for 10 Apocalypse.

BEWARE THE FEISTODON Speaking of really loud metal, you may have heard that Canadian singer/songwriter Feist (“1, 2, 3, 4, tell me that you love me more”) and 08 prog-metal monsters Mastodon put out a split 7-inch to honor Record Store Day earlier this year. Well, this week the two tracks featuring the disparate artists covering 09 Feistodon! songs by each other (Feist doing “Black Tongue” and Mastodon “A Commotion”) were finally made available digitally. To celebrate they’ve also just released a really cool interactive video of “A Commotion” that lets the viewer/listener slide a fader back and forth 10 between Feist’s original and the Mastodon cover, blending the two as you see fit. Go to www.listentofeist.com or www.mastod onrocks.com and mix it up.

DJ MATTICULIT HAS LEFT THE COUNTY A quick shout out to my boy Matt Siracusa, the longtime CN&R photographer and Arts DEVO BFFF has taken his camera and turntable skillz (and m-f’n suaveness!) to S.F. to show The City how things are done. Good luck, my friend.

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2380 E 8th St 7 Walnut Park Dr 2318 Alamo Ave 22 Fairway Dr 312 Somerset Pl 13844 La Castana Dr 30 Lobelia Ct 3119 Morseman Ave 62 Lobelia Ct 3011 Calistoga Dr 1924 Potter Rd

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20 Comanche Ct 408 Ash St 1250 Yosemite Dr 808 Bryant Ave 23 Santos Way 31 Turnbridge Welles 931 W Sacramento Ave 503 W Shasta Ave 3 Jean Ln 17 Kimberlee Ln 2309 Moyer Way

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Sat. 11-1 1100 Neal Dow Avenue 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1056 sq. ft. $129,500 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

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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.

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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FREE X at 9 Lower Lake Ct. Chico, CA 95928.

GERALDINE J MAHOOD, 9 Lower Lake Ct. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: G MAHOOD Dated: July 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001086 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE HANDLE BAR at 2070 E 20th St. #160, Chico, CA 95928.

BCK INVESTMENTS LLC, 2499 England St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: CAROLYN CLELAND Dated: July 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001090 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALLEVITY at 870 Manzanita Ct. Suite A, Chico, CA 95926.

STAFF RESOURCES, INC. 870 Manzanita Ct. Suite A, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KENT AHLSWEDE Dated: July 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001077 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TCK ENVIRONMENTAL at 2324 Fern Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

TIMOTHY CARL KEESEY, 2324 Fern Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TIMOTHY KEESEY Dated: July 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000994 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name RED TAVERN at 1250 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926.

CRAIG ALAN THOMAS, 116 Winchester Ct. Chico, CA 95928.

MARIA P VENTURINO, 116 Winchester Ct. Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: MARIA VENTURINO Dated: July 16, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000243 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2012

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

Overbid: Required amount of first overbid: $38,510.00

NOTICES NOTICE OF HEARING GUARDIANSHIP OR CONSERVATORSHIP ESTATE OF:

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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 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARTIN V. OWENS SR. TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARTIN V. OWENS, SR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DEBORAH L. WALBURN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

THE Petition for Probate requests that: DEBORAH L. WALBURN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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

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

Case Number: PR40323 Petitioner: Deborah L Walburn 1285 Feather Ave. Oroville, CA 95965 Published: August 2,9,16,2012

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

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.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 14, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L McLean Dated: July 17, 2012 Case Number: 157199 Published: July 26, August 2,9,16, 2012

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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

RECYCLE THIS PAPER.

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 a point that bears North 0 degree 07’ 00” East from the point

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The

astrological omens suggest that you now have a lot in common with the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World¡ªadventurous, unpredictable, interesting, lucky, one of a kind. To create your horoscope, I have therefore borrowed a few selected details from his ad campaign’s descriptions of him.

Here we go: In the coming weeks, you will be the life of parties you don’t even attend. Astronauts will be able to see your charisma from outer space. Up to one-third of your body weight will be gravitas. Your cell phone will always have good reception, even in a subway 100 feet underground.

Panhandlers will give you money. You could challenge your reflection to a staring contest — and win. You’ll be able to keep one eye on the past while looking into the future.

When you sneeze, God will say “God bless you.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist

Bruno Bettelheim said the dreams we have at night are “the result of inner pressures which have found no relief, of problems which beset a person to which he knows no solution and to which the dream finds none.”

That sounds bleak, doesn’t it? If it’s true, why even bother to remember our dreams?

Well, because we are often not consciously aware of the feelings they reveal to us. By portraying our buried psychic material in story form, dreams give us insight into what we’ve been missing. So even though they may not provide a solution, they educate us.

Take heed, Taurus! Your upcoming dreams will provide useful information you can use to fix one of your longstanding dilemmas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When French

composer Georges Auric scored the soundtrack for Jean Cocteau’s movie Blood of a Poet, he produced “love music for love scenes, game music for game scenes, and funeral music for funeral scenes.” But Cocteau himself had a different idea about how to use Auric’s work. For the love scenes he decided to use the funeral music, for the game scenes the love music, and for the funeral scenes the game music. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Gemini, I recommend that you experiment with that style of mixing and matching. Have fun! (Source: A Ned Rorem Reader, by Ned Rorem.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Piglet was

so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened any more,” wrote A. A. Milne in his kids’ story Winnie-the-Pooh.

That’s my prescription for how to evade the worrisome fantasies that are nipping at you, Cancerian. If no one has invited you to do some engaging and important labor of love, invite yourself. You need to be needed — even more than usual. P.S. Here’s what Rumi advises: “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ve been making

pretty good progress in the School of Life.

By my estimates, you’re now the equivalent of a sophomore. You’ve mastered enough lessons so that you can no longer be considered a freshman, and yet you’ve got a lot more to learn. Are you familiar with the etymology of the word “sophomore”? It comes from two Greek words meaning “wise” and “fool.” That’ll be a healthy way to think about yourself in the coming weeks. Be smart enough to know what you don’t know. Cultivate the voracious curiosity necessary to lead you to the next rich teachings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A few years ago,

a Malaysian man named Lim Boon Hwa arranged to have himself “cooked.” For 30 minutes, he sat on a board covering a pan full of simmering dumplings and corn. The fact that no harm came to him was proof, he said, that Taoist devotees like him are protected by their religion’s deities. I advise you not to try a stunt like that, Virgo — including metaphorical versions. This is no time to stew in your own juices. Or boil in your tormented fantasies. Or broil in your nagging

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On a spring day

in 1973, an engineer named Martin Cooper debuted the world’s first cell phone. He placed a call as he walked along a New York City street. The phone weighed two and half pounds and resembled a brick. Later he joked that no one would be able to talk very long on his invention, since it took a lot of strength to hold it against one’s ear. Think of how far that amazing device has come since then, Libra. Now imagine some important aspect of your own life that is in a rather primitive state at this moment but could one day be as natural and fully developed as cell phones have become. Are you willing to work hard to make that happen? Now’s a good time to intensify your commitment.

story and photo by Shannon Rooney rooney.shannon@gmail.com Chico resident Irish McNeil and her 18-monthold golden retriever, Niki, bring smiles to the faces of patients at Enloe Cancer Center through Enloe Medical Center’s Paws Program.

McNeil and Niki recently completed an animalassisted-activities dog-certification process, studying online through Pet Partners and receiving training at the Canine Connection, a Chico-based training center. Among Niki’s various skills, she can “shake” and “wave goodbye,” and she’s also learning how to “give a blessing.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming

week, you will lose some clout and self-command if you’re too hungry for power.

Likewise, if you act too brazenly intelligent, you may alienate potential helpers who are not as mentally well-endowed as you. One other warning, Scorpio: Don’t be so fiercely reasonable that you miss the emotional richness that’s available. In saying these things, I don’t mean to sound as if I’m advising you to dumb yourself down and downplay your strengths. Not at all. Rather, I’m trying to let you know that the best way to get what you really need is to tailor your self-expression to the unique circumstances you find yourself in.

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

a while, French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was very poor. He lived in a place that had no heat and almost no furniture. To enhance his environment, he resorted to the use of fantasy. On one of his bare walls, he wrote the words, “rosewood paneling with ornamental cabinet.” On another, he wrote “Gobelin tapestry with Venetian mirror.”

Over the empty fireplace he declared, “Picture by Raphael.” That’s the level of imaginative power I encourage you to summon in the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

So much of what you’ll need will come from that simple magic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s an

excellent time to overthrow false gods and topple small-minded authorities and expose fraudulent claims. Anyone and anything in your environment that do not fully deserve the power they claim should get the brunt of your exuberant skepticism. When you’re done cleaning up those messes, turn your attention to your own inner realms. There might be some good work to be done there.

Can you think of any hypocrisy that needs fixing? Any excessive self-importance that could use some tamping down? Any pretending that would benefit from a counter dose of authenticity?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In old

China, people used to cool themselves by sipping hot drinks. After taking a bath, they buffed the excess water from their skin by using a wet towel. When greeting a friend, they shook their own hand instead of the friend’s. To erect a new house, they built the roof first. You’re currently in a phase of your astrological cycle when this kind of behavior makes sense. In fact, I suspect you’re most likely to have a successful week if you’re ready to reverse your usual way of doing things on a regular basis.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m really

tired of you not getting all of the appreciation and acknowledgment and rewards you deserve. Is there even a small possibility that you might be harboring some resistance to that good stuff? Could you be giving off a vibe that subtly influences people to withhold the full blessings they might otherwise confer upon you? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to work on correcting this problem. Do everything you can to make it easy for people to offer you their love and gifts.

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How did you decide to participate in Enloe’s Paws Program?

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A couple years ago, I was really sick—so sick I could just lie on the couch, and it came to me I really wanted a dog to pet while I was lying there. The feeling was really strong in me what comfort it would be for me if I had a dog.

Eventually, I knew I’d like this dog to become a dog for animal-assisted activities, so now we’re a pet partner team that goes into places where people are ailing, and we try to bring them a little bit of joy and take their minds off their unpleasant situations.

How did you acquire Niki?

On the day of the final pick [at the breeder’s], she’s the dog I chose. I couldn’t have asked for a better dog. She has all the right qualities.

What’s happened when Niki has worked with patients?

When we were leaving after Niki’s first visit [at the Enloe Cancer Center], several patients

just started clapping. They were smiling. They were happy. I’ve had people say, “You just made my day,” just because of her loving and doing the things she does. People are just so anxious to see her—I mean, they clearly don’t care about me! It’s all about her! I’m just the person at the end of the leash. Sometimes I ask them if they have a dog or if they’ve had one—and they’ll start talking about their dog or a dog they had as a kid. And I can see that for that period of time, that really transforms them. They’re in a happy place for that time we’re there.

What is Niki’s claim to fame?

She’s one of the youngest dogs in this area to pass the examination for an animal-assistedactivities dog.

What do you see for the future?

I’m hoping that in the new Magnolia Tower there will be an area for pet partners to come in for the kids. I think that would be so helpful for the kids, and they would enjoy it so much.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Tact Exploring the word world in Minnesota, I discovered a liking for theater and film. For a few years I spent a lot of time at the Playwrights’ Center in south Minneapolis, mostly watching works in progress and listening carefully to the discussion afterward. I met Jeffrey Hatcher and Derrick Walcott and August Wilson at the Playwrights’ Center, not at the same time.

In ’91 or ’92 I got a chance to write a two-minute scene that would be staged during some festival or other, and I wrote a conversation between two white Southerners after the local slaves had been freed. I loved hearing people say my words.

There were a lot of words spoken all day, and at some point the director asked me to read a poem written by an actor I knew slightly, and he gave me a copy of it to read.

It was simple-minded and rife with typos, poor usage and bad grammar. I could allow for the typos, and found the rest unfortunate, but the poet was an actor, a reader of other people’s words, not so much a writer. Just saying the words as written was technically possible, except the bad grammar was in hyperbolic praise of black women, especially their butts.

I have nothing against black women or their various butts. Having studied black women inadvertently and no doubt inattentively for 40 years and been dearly tolerated by them the whole time, I’m eternally grateful.

I was at the festival, though, with the most pregnant white woman in the building, and the poem made it clear that the writer’s world revolved around thoughts of brown haunches and the nearby bits.

Fine.

I couldn’t possibly tell the 50 or so people there that my pregnant wife was at best a sideline to my all-consuming fascination with and reverence for the stereotypical Negro female form—it wasn’t true. If it were true, it would be a good story and I would tell it.

I even considered reading a disclaimer assuring the audience that I was not the author of the poem and did not share his views.

That wasn’t the whole story, though. I wouldn’t read that poem in a closet. It was stupid and badly written, and I didn’t want to have anything to do with it. Know what I did? I told the actor that its power came from his heart, and that his fervor and honesty were unique and could not be duplicated. I couldn’t do his poem justice. It deserved to be read by him. I think he was flattered.

August 2, 2012

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