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Where’s the compassion?

Last Friday, a man called the CN&R to voice his frustrations

Our toothless noise ordinance A effective noise ordinance in Chico. There are no tools against chronic drunkenness, incivility, blasting music,

fter a year of meetings, we still do not have an

screaming obscenities and rowdiness that are implicitly sanctioned as “parties.” Our quality of life is unraveling, and the City Council is fiddling. They are protecting neither the neighborhoods nor our students.

Due to limitations on police resources, citizens must deal with chronic noise and disorderly conduct on their own. They become “reverse vigilantes,” negotiating one-by-one with unruly neighbors and uncaring property owners. They come up by with creative solutions, go to court, Wendy Diamond cajole, write letters, start neighborhood The author has been groups and suffer. And then they move. a librarian at Chico The police sympathize and know State University where the repeat offenders are, but are since 1994. She became concerned stretched thin and often cannot respond. about the noise They can request that the rude, crude and ordinance due to the drunken people desist, but under current experience of friends law it takes another visit and 72 hours who have suffered until they can issue a citation. Citizens from a noisy neighbor for more are left to handle most situations alone. than eight years. She The university has mitigated the spoke at the Chico “party school” reputation because it City Council meeting undermines the value of the Chico State on Aug. 7. degree. The city needs to support this effort and not create a false “town/gown” 4 CN&R August 16, 2012

division. This maligns and patronizes our students, most of whom are responsible young adults who will have fun within the rules.

They work hard in school, cover multiple jobs and internships, and want to graduate with a degree untainted by a bad reputation.

Yet Chico is becoming a “party town.”

From the orchards to the foothills, neighborhoods are unlivable and unsafe because of noise and rowdiness. Several council members insist on a warning system, but continual warnings have no teeth, and the scofflaws ignore them. No one (including musicians, artists, students, retirees, families, young adults or businesses) wants to live in a neighborhood where loud noise dominates every evening, where there are no enforceable rules, and the police are not available.

As with a traffic violation, police should have the option of either giving a warning or issuing a citation. After all, the worst consequence in the proposed revision is a $259 citation; no one is going to jail and no one has ever died because of a ticket.

A revised noise ordinance is one way to make our neighborhoods safer by controlling rowdiness and non-civility. I will consider this my highest priority when I vote in the next election. Ω

about our cover story, “Crusader for access,” Managing Editor Melissa Daugherty’s profile of a local disabled woman who advocates for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. That call was a small window into the pushback Becky Barnes-Boers faces every day.

The man said he’d worked at one of the construction sites where Barnes-Boers had taken photographs to document alleged cases of ADA non-compliance. He called that harassment and said he’d responded by turning around and taking a photograph of her. Retaliation of sorts.

Problem is, Barnes-Boers has every right to take pictures in a public right-of-way, without being hassled by construction workers and profiled

by Chico police officers, whom the construction workers call because they somehow feel threatened by a middle-aged woman in a wheelchair.

The same caller charged Barnes-Boers had jeopardized the wellbeing of her child, who is sometimes with her. He also threatened to call “CPS”— Children’s Services—to get her son taken away. He called her names, some unfit to print here. And he called her a fraud.

Of that man, and the others who have harsh words for Barnes-Boers, we ask, “Where’s the compassion?”

This woman is simply asserting her right not to be discriminated against. Her motivation is being able to travel safely from point A to point B. She’s not going around suing local businesses. As a recent sweep by an out-of-area attorney has shown, a lot of businesses are out of compliance. But money isn’t a motivator for Barnes-Boer; compliance is. And getting compliance requires education. Business owners and construction companies should think about that. Instead of viewing her as a pest, they should take a few minutes to listen to her. She’s rational and, as the Chico Unified School District knows, she’s been proven right. In fact, she just might save you from a lawsuit. Ω

Park funds for the future What should be done with that $20.4 million in “hidden” State

Parks funds, now that volunteers have raised enough money to keep open the 70 parks slated for closure?

Gov. Jerry Brown says he wants to use the money on repairs and as matching funds to solicit future donations. The volunteers of the Bidwell Mansion Community Project, who worked around the clock to raise $140,000, want the state to match the money they’ve collected.

In an Aug. 10 letter to the governor, the BMCP states that volunteers were “stunned” and “offended” by the news of the “secret funds.” They want Brown to do an investigation to identify the “culprits” behind the secret funds and correct what “has been an inadequate if not actionable accounting system.”

The matching funds equal to what was raised would be used, the letter states, to facilitate local efforts to find a “sustainable solution to keeping the parks open,” with the balance of funds to go to deferred maintenance and site-specific programs and equipment needs.

It’s a good idea, but let’s face it, the governor has more clout than the BMCP. This is a guy who’s scratching up money wherever he can, as Chico city officials know all too well. He wants to keep the volunteer fundraising going well into the future.

It’s a terrible way to fund the parks, but, given the state’s fiscal woes, right now it’s the only way. The best thing the BMCP and its ally, the Bidwell Mansion Association, can do is fine-tune their pitch for future matching funds. In the meantime, they should continue to insist on a full accounting from the state. Ω

LETTERS

FROM THIS CORNER

by Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

Today’s modern poll tax In his vivid feature story this week, “Freedom Summer in the segregated South” (page 20), Jaime O’Neill takes us back to Mississippi in the summer of 1964, as seen by a young woman who had the courage to defy the state’s white power structure in a historic effort to register African Americans to vote. Three of her fellow “freedom riders” were murdered shortly before she arrived in Mississippi.

Across the South, black people faced daunting barriers to voting. White election officials systematically kept them from registering by forcing them to take difficult literacy tests and making the application process inconvenient. Would-be voters were charged expensive poll taxes and all too often made victims of arson, battery and lynching.

It would be comforting to view voter suppression in the Mississippi of 1964 as a historical artifact, something we’ve put far behind us. But, as we’re seeing this year, that’s not the case. Across the country, but especially in presidential “battleground” states, Republican governors and legislatures have been erecting barriers to voting that target minorities, the young and the poor—people who are more likely to vote Democratic.

The most common method is to require voters to show a photo ID—but often only certain types of identification are allowed. This is a problem for urban people who don’t drive, those with out-of-state licenses and students with college-issued IDs. Many states require people without a sanctioned ID to present a birth certificate to obtain one.

In Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, the Transportation Department acknowledged that more than 750,000 registered voters—9.2 percent—do not have the required forms of ID to vote in November. In Philadelphia, an Obama stronghold, that figure is 18 percent. A study by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law last fall put the number of those affected nationwide at more than 5 million.

In May, Florida Gov. Rick Scott ordered a purge of state voter lists based on driver’s-license records that he himself acknowledged were deeply flawed. The Miami Herald analyzed the purge results and found that 58 percent of those removed were Hispanic, 14 percent were black, and whites and Republicans were least likely to be eliminated.

The rationale commonly given for these restrictions is to eliminate voter fraud. But, according to The Washington Post, an analysis of 2,068 reported fraud cases by News21, a Carnegie-Knight investigative-reporting project, found only 10 cases of alleged voter impersonation since 2000— about one for every 15 million prospective voters.

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), one of the leaders of the Freedom Summer movement, told Democracy Now! that these purges of eligible voters made him “want to just cry, after people gave a little blood, after some people were beaten, shot and murdered trying to help people become registered voters. … We should be making it easy and simple and open up the political process and let all of the people come in.”

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Protect the neighborhoods Re “Noise neighbors” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, Aug. 9): Neighbors should be the priority. Not the noisemakers. I feel that there should be no warnings (they know they are too noisy but know they can get away with it) and no graduated fine structure. Either it is illegal or not.

Fine it as such. If there is a high enough fine, the incidents will be fewer.

I’m tired of being at the mercy of people who choose to play loud music and who are a public nuisance. Protect the neighborhoods instead of the noisemakers!

CATHY PORTER Moscow, Idaho

What would Gore Vidal say?

Re “Gore Vidal in Chico” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, Aug. 9): Amen, Bob. Too bad we don’t have such presences in today’s public discourse. Sadly, we are up to our ankles in elected “leaders” at the state and federal levels who are under the direction of sophisticated Big Lie Machines directed by folks and interests with lots of money.

But, as another article I read lately stated (for this year after centuries of repetition), “We get the government we deserve and desire.” Elected leaders and the vast majority of popular pundits and columnists (not you, of course) are happy to point out horror stories of the bad guys on the other side mixing examples that are apples and freight trains and totally lacking in factual and intellectual integrity but very long on emotional fearmongering. Are there any approaching Gore Vidal on the national public scene today skewering power and being widely quoted?

A high-production quality film, Inside Job, narrated by the very popular Matt Damon, is virtually unknown by Joe and Josephine Average Voter. It showed both parties and lotsa powerful individuals and institutions knowingly led us down the idiotic trail that collapsed the world economy; many greedily and happily followed. Yet we continue to vote the “lesser of two evils” or “our guy” because the “other guy” is so horrible.

With Citizens United the Supreme Court is now clearly in on the game. God, I would love to hear Gore Vidal comment on all this; even William F. Buckley. I suspect they would suggest major structural changes.

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My son was at the same camp with Cayle [Geiser] and was also hoping to sign up as a CIT with him next summer, but is now reconsidering because of how one of his favorite counselors, Tim Griffin, was treated.

I am so sad that there are so many young men who work so hard to reach the highest level in scouting and have had to hide who they are, whether it be gay or atheist, just to reach their goal. Sadder yet are the young men who have given up their hard-earned rank in protest!

It is time for the adults to truly start acting like kids, and perhaps it is also time to add “tolerant” to the Scout Law. JANET KELSEY Chico

For an update on this story, see Downstroke, page 8.

Supervisors got it right Re “Board gets tougher on pot” (Downstroke, Aug. 2): I agree with the Butte County supervisors’ new guidelines on pot growing that eliminate the co-op farms and bring us in line with Kings County policy regulations.

Proposition 215 failed to keep a safe environment for neighbors, as the “black market” prices paid for use of this substance by the sick (?) will make it very dangerous to be exposed to pot robbers. It also will devalue any real estate adjacent to the co-op pot farm.

What our supervisors did was the right move to prevent a classaction lawsuit against Butte County by neighboring landowners of the pot farms. One professional pot farmer told me he expects a harvest of 2 1⁄2 pounds of buds per plant, and he will grow up to 99 plants, at $150 an ounce. This makes the pot farms an easier target than a bank!

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If you drive on Memorial Way, in front of Chico Junior High School, you’ve probably noticed the significant improvement to the greenway on the south side of the street.

Gone are the overgrown bushes, dead trees and trash that have been part of that landscape forever.

Thanks to one woman, Susan Mason, this strip is now cleaned up and made beautiful.

Yes, she had help, but Susan was the mainstay. You could see her there every Saturday, six or seven weeks in a row, with a different group of Chico State student volunteers. She organized and directed these students and then

would set the example by working harder than any of them.

For those of you who do not know Susan, this cleanup is not an isolated example. She is one of the hardest working community volunteers I know. She is dedicated to making Chico’s parks clean.

I usually don’t assume that I can speak for others, but in this case I will. Susan, for all the homeowners on Lindo Park Drive, for all the families in the Avenues, and for all the parents who park on Memorial to drop off or pick up their Chico Junior students, thank you. You’ve made all our lives a little brighter.

Also, to owner Phil Marino of Complete Tree Care and his crew, thank you for disposing of the huge pile of green waste.

BOB EVANS Chico

Editor’s note: The author is a member of the Chico City Council.

He is up for re-election this year.

Law enforcement run amok Re “Crossing a line?” (Newslines,

by Tom Gascoyne, Aug. 2): Hmm, Just one more example of gross use of power by law enforcement agents. This happens all across the United States everyday of the week. Remember what happened to that guy in Lake County, Fla., shot and killed by mistake in his own house? Law enforcement is acting more and more like the Nazis and SS did years ago. History repeating itself.

CHRIS JONES Chico

Wintu ‘re-recognition’ story Re “Ghost tribe” (Cover story, by Marc Dadigan, Aug. 2): Perhaps the story about the recognition of the Winnemem Wintu tribe should actually be called re-recognition. Nowhere in various tribal re-recognition stories is it mentioned how tribal identity was lost in the first place.

These tribes sold and surrendered their tribal recognition in 1953, in the so-called urbanization and assimilation process. Nowhere will you find how much money the federal government paid to derecognize these remnant bands.

The money the tribes received to trade in tribal identities was squandered on the old Caddys strewn around Indian Country. The money paid out remains unmentioned in tribal hagiographies.

Then, in the 1980s, bingo parlors morphed into the Vegas-style house-banking casinos of the ’90s.

Blonde Redding Wintus enriched by diluted racial heritage de-recognized half their brethren, thus dou-

“Blonde Redding Wintus enriched by diluted racial heritage derecognized half their brethren, thus doubling meager tribal stipends, often to the tune of $4,000 a month.”

—Charles Dada

bling meager tribal stipends, often to the tune of $4,000 a month.

Meanwhile, the Paskenta Nomlakis successfully gained re-recognition by piously denying their casino schemes; searchlights now blaze Corning’s nighttime sky. The Paskenta band now resists the efforts of their brethren in Glenn County, where Grindstone Nomelaki re-recognition efforts are underway. Both sides of the Nomelaki family squabble are motivated by the same motive: sharing or not sharing casino claims.

Forgive me if I am skeptical of a tribe suffering 50-year-old buyer’s remorse, but the Winnemem Wintu’s claims became forefront only when Shasta Dam raising was proposed. The end game is to trade in tribal identity for another Caddy, I suspect. If journalism’s byline is to “follow the money,” why do today’s money fights remain as unmentioned as the assimilation payoffs of the ’50’s?

CHARLES DADA Red Bluff

Monca says many thanks On August 1, the Museum of Northern California Art reached its first complete year. The Board of Directors of monca wishes to thank everyone for your donations and for the support you have given us.

We will continue to present exhibitions as opportunities arise and will be expanding our educational outreach to schools and senior centers. Thanks go also to the collector, Reed Applegate, for making this all possible.

We continue our efforts for a permanent home and will keep you updated.

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Left to right: Chico Mayor Ann Schwab, Randall Stone, Kimberly Rudisill and Tami Ritter at the Chico Democratic headquarters ribboncutting on Saturday, Aug. 11.

Inset: Council candidate Toby Schindelbeck.

NORTH STATE FIRES RAGE ON

Though no wildfires are currently burning in Butte County, the smoke drifting over Chico is an indication the Chips Fire in Plumas County is getting closer.

At last report, the fire—which started on July 29 and has burned 36,743 acres in the Plumas National Forest—was two miles outside Butte County at its nearest point, according to KTVN News. The fire is 12 percent contained and threatening 940 structures in the area, prompting officials to enact mandatory evacuations for residents of Rush Creek and Seneca, while voluntary evacuations are in place for Canyondam, Big Meadows and Rocky Point Campground. The cause of that fire remains under investigation.

Meanwhile, the Reading Fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park, which started on July 23 due to a lightning strike, is 15 percent contained and has burned 23,958 acres.

Go to www.inciweb.org for updates on the Chips and Reading fires.

BODY FOUND AT LOWER PARK

A swim in the wee hours of Wednesday morning (Aug. 15) at Lower Bidwell Park’s Sycamore Pool ended with the discovery of a dead body.

At just before 1 a.m., the Chico Police Department got a call reporting that a swimmer had stepped on a body submerged beneath the surface. Responding officers indeed found a deceased man lying at the bottom of the One Mile’s popular pool.

Emergency responders’ immediate attempts to revive the man were unsuccessful. Despite further life-saving efforts at Enloe Medical Center, the man was pronounced dead about a half-hour later.

Investigators believe the victim died from accidental drowning, as there were no signs of fowl play or trauma. The man is described as a white adult in his early to mid-20s, with a goatee and moustache. No one present knew the man, and no identification was found at the scene. Anyone with info is encouraged to call CPD at 897-5820.

CHICO WOMAN GETS WNV

A Chico woman has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first human case in Butte County this year. According to a Butte County Public Health Department press release, “[t]he older woman developed neuroinvasive disease, the most severe form of the virus.”

Dr. Mark Lundberg, the county’s health officer, said cases of West Nile detection are up statewide this year. “The public should take extra care to avoid mosquito bites,” Lundberg said.

“Prevention is the key to stopping the spread of the virus.”

West Nile has been detected in 32 of the state’s 58 counties, with eight reports of human infection. In Butte County, two dead birds have tested positive along with one chicken and six mosquito laden pools.

WNV is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, which become vectors after biting infected birds. Most WNV-infected people do not get sick, but adults over the age of 50 are more vulnerable.

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T declare their intentions to run for local office has come and gone. There are school he deadline for candidates to

board and council seats to fill, as well as those of county supervisor, the candidates for which were weeded out in the June primary.

Though these offices are officially deemed “non-partisan,” the candidates and campaigns tend to be very partisan. All that “non-partisan” means is that there will be no “R” or “D” or story and photo by other political party symbol next Tom Gascoyne to the candidates’ names on the ballot. tomg@ newsreview.com This would explain why four candidates for Chico City Council, including the mayor, were introduced at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the local Democratic headquarters on Saturday, Aug. 11. In fact, Mayor Ann Schwab was the one who cut the ribbon.

As of press time, there were 11 candidates running for the four open council seats. Notably not running are incumbents Andy Holcombe and Jim Walker, which explains why so many others are lined up for the job.

More than 100 people attended the event (121 signed in, See the money: Go to according to Democratic activist www.tinyurl.com/ and organizer Bob Mulholland), ChicoCouncil to which was held at the former see the Chico City home of the Pampered Paws Council Groom & Pet Supply, located candidates’ financial- next to O’Reilly’s Auto Parts on disclosure Mangrove Avenue. The four statements. candidates anointed by the local

Democratic party are Schwab, former Councilwoman Kimberly Rudisill (known as Kimberly King when on council), community activist Tami Ritter, and Randall Stone, owner of Randall Stone Financial Planning and Real Estate and frequent target of online posts and letters to the editor by local conservatives.

The other seven candidates running are incumbent Bob Evans, a retired business manager; Toby Schindelbeck, a business owner and frequent council meeting attendee and speaker; realtor Dave Donnan, who ran in 2010; Andrew Coolidge, owner of a PR firm and opponent of the proposed cell-phone tax measure; Sean Morgan, a part-time Chico State business instructor; Dave Kelley, a Chico planning commissioner and architect; and Lisa Duarte, the mystery candidate. A message left on her cell phone asking for background information was not returned by press time.

At the ribbon cutting ceremony

former Chico Mayor Karl Ory welcome the gathered, who included Councilwoman Mary Goloff, District 1 congressional candidate Jim Reed, former mayor and current Butte County Supervisor Maureen Kirk, former Vice Mayor Tom Nickell and 3rd District Assembly candidate Charles Rouse.

“This is very exciting campaign,” Ory said. “I’ve never seen so much early

excitement. I think we are going to do really great come November with all of us working together.”

He then acknowledged those in attendance and turned the microphone over to Schwab, whom he called “one of the greatest mayors we’ve had in Chico.”

Before Schwab could speak, a man stepped up and asked her what the council was going to do about the rising crime rate while the Police Department budget is getting trimmed. He held aloft an iPhone and video recorded her answer, which was basically that the council is dealing with financial realities.

The man smirked, said “Thank you” and left the ceremony before the ribbon was cut.

Schwab, standing next to the other three council candidates, said she was also excited about the upcoming election and that things were looking good for President Obama.

“We can win Northern California, we can win Chico, we can win America,” she said. “It’s going to take everybody’s efforts and pull and push. That is what this headquarters is for. It’s important that we have progressive government.”

Six council candidates have filed financial statements of money raised and money spent. Leading the list is Morgan, who as of July 1 had raised $16,595 and spent $9,947. Morgan’s major campaign contributors include $1,000 from C.S. and T.M. Daughterman, owners of

Thomas Welding & Machine Inc. and longtime contributors to conservative candidates. Former City Manager Fred Davis has kicked $500 to Morgan, as have Webb Homes, Judy Sitton, Bill Webb Construction, and Diamond Hotel owner Wayne Cook.

Schindelbeck has raised $13,302 and spent $6,643. He too received $1,000 from the Daughtermans. Councilman and fellow candidate Evans gave him $100. Schindelbeck’s also raised $3,512 in non-monetary contributions, including $395 in advertising space from Upgraded Living magazine and gift cards from local businesses Robin Marie Shoes ($25), Smyth Tires ($45), The Pour House ($100), Perfect Tan ($100), Outback Steakhouse ($90), and Powell’s Sweet Shoppe ($120).

Evans has raised $10,400 and spent $2,147. Contributors include Webb Homes ($500), Emmett Skinner ($500), James Paiva ($250) and Scott Chalmers ($250). Coolidge has received $10,055 and spent $9,380. Contributors include the Daughtermans ($1,000). and the Wagner Insurance Agency ($500).

Donnan has raised $5,065 and spent $4,815. He’s lent himself $4,215 and received $250 from Daniel Hunt, president of Mid-Valley Title & Escrow.

Schwab has raised $7,160 and spent $2,684. Her largest contribution is from fellow Councilmember Andy Holcombe ($250). Stone has given her $100, and she’s even slipped herself $5.

Kelley has $4,305 in contributions and has spent $3,429. His largest contributor is dentist Gary Walker ($250). He’s also received a non-monetary contribution from Kim Scott of Chico Scrap Metal in the form of 141 salvaged metal wire stakes for yard signs valued at $105.75.

In the race for Paradise Town

Council, with three seats up for grabs, incumbents Joe DiDuca and Alan White are not running, while Steve Culleton is.

DiDuca is running for the 5th District county supervisor seat against Paradise businessman Doug Teeter.

Three others, Greg Bolin, Stanley D. McEtchin and John J. Rawlings, are also running for Town Council seats.

In the 1st District supervisorial race, incumbent Bill Connelly won 67 percent of the vote in the June primary, giving him the seat.

In the race to fill longtime Rep. Wally Herger’s congressional shoes, state Sen. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican from Richvale, will face off against Reed, a tax attorney from Fall River Mills. Reed ran unsuccessfully against Herger in 2010, garnering 43 percent of the vote.

In the 3rd Assembly District race, incumbent Republican Dan Logue, of Linda, will face Rouse, a retired postal worker from Corning who is running for his first elective office. Ω

‘Zombie’ drug hits Chico

Dragon Tobacco clerk Tyler Cash with several versions of legal “spice” or “incense.”

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Manufacturers stay one step ahead of the law In May, a naked Florida man, Rudy Eugene, was found eating a homeless man’s face along a public roadway. Police ordered him to stop, but shot him to death when the crazed attacker only growled and continued to cannibalize his living victim, even after being shot once.

That horrific story of the “Miami zombie” is what brought the street drug known as “bath salts” into the popular consciousness. Subsequent tests showed only marijuana in the victim’s system. However, some in the medical community do believe bath salts were the cause, noting that some types of synthetic drugs are undetectable. In any case, the initial suggestion of bath salts established the drug’s reputation as causing extreme violence.

In July, President Obama signed a federal law banning bath salts as well as some other synthetic drugs.

Locally, bath salts became news in Chico on Aug. 7, when James Keith Hall, 22, was arrested on charges of possessing a large quantity of a main bath-salt ingredient, methylone, an illegal, Schedule 1 substance.

Based on the amount in his possession—an estimated $6,000 in street value—and the digital scale and packaging materials also confiscated, agents from the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force (BINTF) think Hall intended to sell the drugs, which had been mailed to him from China.

Bath salts, an off-white powder that is smoked, snorted or injected and sold under names such as Cloud 9, Vanilla Sky and

Ivory White, are not a big problem in Butte County, said District Attorney Mike Ramsey.

“Neither BINTF nor my deputy DAs report it’s much of an issue,” he said. “There are no zombies walking our streets.”

However, both Ramsey and BINTF Commander Jeff Smith say they occasionally hear reports of the drug’s use. “Bath salts are here,” said Smith, “but they’re not entrenched like meth or cocaine, which have been around for years and years.”

Bath-salt use may not be rampant locally, but it’s still something to take seriously.

“Bath salts is the most dangerous drug of abuse ever to hit the streets,” said Dr. Richard Geller, medical director of the California Poison Control System.

Among its harmful effects, which can last up to 24 hours, Geller mentioned attempted suicide, super-human strength, agitated methlike delirium, and acute psychotic episodes from which some never fully recover.

Geller said he’s heard horror stories: users

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cutting their bellies open with knives and exposing their intestines, for example.

“One user was put into a mental ward after trying to hang himself,” said Geller, during a recent telephone interview from his office in San Francisco. “After his release he bought more bath salts and hanged himself again—this time fatally.”

Though the Florida attacker did not test positive for bath salts, both Geller and Smith are among a contingent that suspects he was using a type not yet detectable in tests. The drug first emerged two years ago, and its makers have altered it slightly many times to keep ahead of the law, said Geller.

“When I heard of the Florida face-eating case I immediately thought, ‘That’s bath salts!’” he said.

When legal, bath salts were sold in

smoke shops. The drug’s name changed to “glass cleaner” after it became notorious, said Tyler Cash, a clerk at Chico’s Dragon Tobacco smoke shop.

Although bath salts are illegal, there is still a market at smoke shops for legal drugs generically called “spices.” Also known as “incense,” “K-2” and “herbs,” spices are aromatic herbs that contain synthetic cannibinoids to provide a marijuana-like high. But they also rev-up the nervous system à la meth, said Geller.

Sold in foil envelopes with names such as Mad Hatter, Kryp2nite and Space, they can create high anxiety but are not associated with the severe side effects of bath salts, he said.

While some ingredients have been outlawed, the makers of spices continually change their ingredients to stay legal. Many versions are still available at Dragon Tobacco, while several other smoke shops in Chico have voluntarily removed the spices after hearing reports of crackdowns.

Smith cautioned that the ingredients are not controlled by the Food and Drug Administration, since the manufacturer’s packaging labels claim the products are not for human consumption. (One smoke shop clerk, who asked to remain anonymous, reported finding a dead beetle in a package of spices.) The high delivered is also unpredictable since the ingredients are not listed.

Smith said that the addictive or long-term effects of these drugs are not yet known.

“That’s the problem law enforcement has trying to keep up with new drugs,” Smith said. “Studies on them take years, not weeks.”

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Scientists think an asteroid smashed into the Earth 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and most other large land animals on the planet. Another bigextinction event occurred during the last ice age that ended 10,000 years ago. That’s when about half of the large mammals in the world disappeared; scientists believe it was due to climate change.

In fact, the history of life on Earth is full of these dramatic “state shifts.” Over and over again, some force or forces, gradual or sudden, combined to push the Earth past a tipping point, to reshuffle the global biological deck, or maybe even throw all the cards up in the air.

“This one is unique in that we caused it,” said UC Davis paleontologist Geerat Vermeij.

Wait, “this one”?

Vermeij is talking about the state shift that he and some fellow scientists believe is happening right now.

Vermeij was born in the Netherlands and has maybe just a slight accent. He’s written books with sweeping titles such as Nature: An Economic History and The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything From Seashells to Civilization. He appeared in a PBS documentary, and his bio reads that “he probably knows more about molluscs and their shells than anyone alive.”

He’s also probably one of the few blind paleontologists around. When he sat down for an interview, he held a fat Braille copy of an article he recently worked on, plainly titled, “Approaching a state shift in the Earth’s biosphere.”

A non-Braille version of the article was published in the journal Nature in early June, just ahead of the Rio de Janeiro conference on climate change.

Vermeij was just one of 20 scientists who contributed research in their special disciplines.

“Humans are now forcing the biosphere toward another [state shift], with the potential for rapidly and irreversibly transforming Earth into a state unknown in human experience,” the authors conclude.

Human-driven climate change, overpopulation, overdevelopment, overfishing, the elimination of top predators in most ecosystems and overexploitation of resources—the list goes on. But the root causes are not surprising.

“Human population growth and per-capita consumption rate underlie all of the other drivers of global change,” reads the report.

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But all the trends on global consumption are headed steeply up. “It would help a lot if we could make it unfashionable to be a really big consumer,” said Vermeij.

More people, of course, means more of the planet has already been transformed by human use. Fortythree percent of the land has been converted to agriculture or urban use. And 50 percent of the Earth’s ecosystems will have undergone state shift by the year 2025.

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Meanwhile, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by more than a third compared to pre-industrial levels. That’s leading to global warming and acidification of the oceans.

“It may not be completely obvious to us as urban individuals,” said Vermeij, “but all of the separate shocks to the system are acting in a positive feedback loop, increasing the possibility of a flip. We are having many effects, feeding upon one another in a sort of ghastly way.”

The paper’s lead author, UC Berkeley biology professor Anthony D. Barnosky, told the Los Angeles Times that in the worst-case scenario this state shift “could actually be equivalent to an asteroid striking the Earth” and lead to the loss of 75 percent of the biodiversity on the planet.

The question is just how fast these transformations are taking place. Even within the group of 20 authors of the state-shift article, Vermeij said, there’s some division between the optimists and the pessimists.

“It’s useful to be optimistic. People don’t react well to pessimism. They stop trying to help. So, I’d like to be optimistic. But I’m not,” he said.

“The best we can do is slow it down. If we can slow it down, then we have some chance of adapting to it.”

—COSMO GARVIN cosmog@newsreview.com

Scam mastermind sentenced Chico’s epic housing-fraud case is coming to a close Two more participants in the local mortgagefraud scheme that garnered national attention have been sentenced for their respective roles in the multimillion-dollar caper.

On Aug. 10, Garret Griffith Gililland III was sentenced in federal court to seven years and 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in the scam that involved local builders Anthony Symmes and William Baker.

Gililland, 31, was the mastermind behind the operation that began in 2006, ran for about two years and involved some 70 newly constructed houses that were sold, for the most part, to buyers who didn’t exist for greatly inflated prices using mortgage lenders from out of the area.

The scam began just as local housing sales began to slow, and has been blamed for the sharp drop in property values that led to many foreclosures.

Meanwhile, Shane Burreson, 39, of Orland, was sentenced to 23 months in prison and a three-year term of supervised release.

Both men pleaded guilty last year to mail fraud and money laundering. They ran a Chico company called Nor-Cal Innovative Investments.

“The fraud scheme in this case was audacious in scope, and those involved in the scheme are paying a steep price for their criminal conduct,” said U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner.

“Mortgage fraud remains a top priority of this office, and we are continuing to vigorously investigate and pursue such cases.”

According to a press release, Judge

Edward Garcia said that in sentencing Gililland he considered the defendant’s “substantial assistance” to the feds’ prosecution of other mortgage-fraud defendants. He balanced that cooperation against the fact the Gililland and his common-law wife, Nicole Magpusao, fled from their Canyon Oaks home in 2008 with $250,000 in cash and landed in Colombia, where they purchased a nightclub. When that didn’t work out they

went to Spain, where they were eventually forcibly extradited back to California in 2009, initially to be held in the Butte County Jail before getting transferred to Sacramento.

During the couple’s stay in Spain, another defendant in the case, Remy Heng, whom Gililland referred to as his “unofficial banker,” stuffed $20,000 into a Pringles potato-chip container and sent it to Gililland.

FBI agents intercepted the container, removed the cash and sent it along empty.

Magpusao, who also pleaded guilty, was sentenced to time served. Symmes pleaded guilty early in the case and helped prosecutors by wearing a wire and recording conversations with other suspects. He was sentenced earlier this year to two years and 11 months in prison. He’s also paid $4 million in restitution.

Other players who’ve pleaded guilty and have been sentenced include Baker, 66, who got only 18 months due, according to a press release, to his frail health. The owner of Baker & Baker Construction, he was indicted in June 2010 for falsifying the sales price of five houses he built and sold in 2007. He kicked back money—$160,000 altogether— to his fellow conspirators after escrow closed on the houses Niche Savon Fortune, 39, also of Chico, received four years and nine months’ prison time. His sister, Kesha Haynie, 41, was convicted in March after a six-day trial, and is scheduled for sentencing Aug. 24.

The operation was uncovered by Butte County Sheriff’s Office deputies, who began stumbling across foreclosed homes that had indoor marijuana grows. The Butte County District Attorney’s Office began an investigation that eventually moved into federal jurisdiction.

“It was one piece at a time,” said District Attorney Mike Ramsey of the investigation.

“They slowly started putting it together, and once it got beyond our borders, both county and then state, we said we needed to get the feds involved.”

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GREENWAYS Ron Toppi stands in front of his new bikerepair business, Oldspokes Home Chico, housed in a metal shipping container. To Toppi’s left is the portable solar panel that runs the fan, lights and power tools he uses.

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Energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs have been touted as eco-friendly for good reason, but could be harmful to human skin, new research suggests.

Scientists from Stony Brook University in New York found that chipping or cracking the phosphor coating used on the familiar coiled bulbs allowed ultraviolet light to escape, according to CBS News. Most compact fluorescent bulbs “have cracks in the phosphor coating, probably due to the fact that the coating is brittle and has trouble making the tight bends required to make these bulbs compact,” said Miriam Rafailovich, the study’s lead author. “As a result, we observed, by eye, defects in nearly all the bulbs we studied.”

Skin cells exposed to the damaged bulbs showed the same damage as those exposed to ultraviolet light, Rafailovich said.

GREEN GROUPS RESCUE DONNER SUMMIT

A coalition of environmental groups saved 3,000 acres of Sierra Nevada peaks, forests and meadows from development by purchasing the Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski resort.

Bay Area developers had bought the resort in 2005 for $35 million and proposed construction of 950 additional condos and single-family homes on Donner Summit, but defaulted on a $16.7 million loan from Armed Forces Bank in June 2011, according to The Sacramento Bee. The property was assumed through court-ordered receivership by Douglas Wilson Companies of San Diego, which agreed to sell the land to conservation groups Truckee Donner Land Trust, The Trust for Public Land and the Northern Sierra Partnership for $11.25 million. The groups have until escrow closes in December to raise the funds.

The resort, billing itself as the largest crosscountry ski resort in the nation, will stay open under management from the nearby Sugar Bowl resort.

U.S.-MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL PACT SIGNED On Aug. 8, the United States and Mexico agreed to a pact addressing environmental issues along the two countries’ 2,000-mile national border.

The Border 2020 U.S.-Mexico Environmental program agreement—which was signed by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Juan Elvira Quesada, Mexico’s secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources—will aim to reduce air, land and water pollution, reduce exposure to chemicals from accidental releases or terrorism, and improve environmental stewardship, according to an EPA press release.

The Border 2012 program connected millions of border households to drinking water and wastewater services and removed 75.5 metric tons of obsolete pesticides from rural areas in California, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Tamaulipas.

“Addressing the environmental issues along the border has long been a priority we share with our colleagues in Mexico,” said Jackson.

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Living the two-wheeled life Ron Toppi’s new community bicycle-repair shop is innovative and all-encompassing by

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“Iroom, and it’s a space to just come and hang out. It’s a step toward building a t’s a repair shop, it’s a class-

community bike shop,” said Ron Toppi recently of his brand-new, endearingly named bicycle-repair shop, Oldspokes Home Chico, housed in a metal shipping

container on the eastern edge of the GRUB Cooperative property on Dayton Road.

Much like the concept of the community bike shed Toppi started for neighborhood youth in Chapmantown in late 2010—the Chapman Shed Project—Oldspokes Home is a multi-faceted endeavor.

“We weren’t able to get that much involvement from the kids in the neighborhood,” said Toppi of the Chapman project, which still exists and features an annual bike swap every June. Also, “the intention of the Chapman Shed was more of a neighborhood kids’ bike shop, but I’ve always had the idea of a larger community bike shop where there would be more potential for expansion.”

So, three weeks ago Toppi—a longtime bicycle repairman and avid cyclist who has not owned a car for 18 years—opened Oldspokes Home, in the midst of a field surrounded by fruit trees and other crops, and just yards from where he lives at GRUB. On a recent sunny Tuesday morning, the amiable 47-year-old chatted as he worked on local photographer Karen

Laslo’s bicycle, which was up on a custom, space-saving repair stand designed and built by local metalworker Gregory Degouveia. The tranquil natural surroundings and tweeting of birds outside were complemented by KZFR deejay Lisa Boyd’s relaxing jazz show playing over a portable radio plugged in near where Toppi was working inside his shop.

Oldspokes is open Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. to do repairs; it’s closed the rest of the week to accommodate Toppi’s other job as farmers’-market salesman for Massa Organics.

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Go to www.facebook.com/oldspokes.chico to find out more about Ron Toppi’s community bike shop, Oldspokes Home Chico.

Information about signing up for Toppi’s eight-week series of Tuesday-evening bikerepair and -maintenance classes, which run through the first Tuesday in October, can be found on Oldspokes’ Facebook page; cost is $15 per class, on a sliding scale, with worktrade or bike-parts-trade as a possible payment option.

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Toppi said his shop is also open to those who want to use the space and tools (and Toppi’s expertise) to work on their own bikes: “If you want to work on [your bicycle] yourself, there’s space here and I’ll walk you through the different processes.”

Payment for Toppi’s expert services—he worked for many years in bike shops in his former home state of Washington, as well as at a manufacturer of recumbent bicycles, doing lead assembly—is “mainly on a donation basis, of either money or time.” Donation of one’s time can include “helping to keep the shop organized, clean.

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states of disrepair [here]—I need help stripping those bikes of their reusable parts to use for repairs.”

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• Opt for real flatware, rather than single-use plastic utensils.

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years seem to be mystified by how derailleurs work and how they shift.” Attendees will “learn the difference between index versus friction shifting.”

Weeks three through six will focus on bearing assemblies, “because there are three different bearing assemblies on a bike— two hubs, the bottom bracket [pedal area] and the headset [handlebar area]—and we’re gonna get into each one. We’re gonna learn what each bearing assembly is and the importance of adjusting it.”

The last two weeks of the series will focus on wheel truing (proper wheel alignment and spoke adjustment). “Everyone will learn to true their own wheels,” said Toppi.

“It’s a pretty big concept—most people don’t even know how their wheel is held together.”

Toppi is also planning to use Oldspokes Home as an art space.

Currently, poems of his that were featured at a show at now-defunct RayRay Gallery hang on its walls.

Toppi is also known for the lovely earrings he makes from reclaimed bike parts, such as chain links and gear-shift cable (available at Chico Natural Foods and through Toppi).

“Stay tuned for some kind of functional bike-art art opening,” he said.

“I envision this place as a collective where people support it through both work and financial support. … I’m trying to build that here.” Ω

ECO EVENT TOMATO BASH On Sunday, Aug. 19, from 1 to 4 p.m., the GRUB Cooperative (1525 Dayton Road) will host the fourth annual Tomato Fest, a free community celebration of the wholesome tomato that will include tastings of more than 40 varieties, and a salsa contest. Call 588-0756 or email grubchico@yahoo.com for more information.

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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 DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE READING? I was recently given a

copy of a colorful booklet called Look Closer at Biotechnology (pictured), put out by the Council for Biotechnology Information, and offered as a no-cost “activity book for kids,” as the organization’s website (www.whybiotech.com) puts it. Amanda Bosschart, the local leader of the Yes on Prop. 37—California Right to Know GMO-labeling campaign, is the woman I have to thank for bringing this item to my attention.

Why do I mention this? For starters, the book is filled with a lot of disconcerting information about biotechnology, which largely has to do with genetically modified food, but nowhere in the book is the term “GMO” or the like mentioned. Instead, the friendlier-sounding “biotechnology” is the term of choice throughout the publication.

“Hi Kids,” the book begins. “Welcome to the Biotechnology Basics Activity Book. This is an activity book for young people like you about biotechnology—a really neat topic.

Why is it such a neat topic? Because biotechnology is helping to improve the health of the Earth and the people who call it home. … You will see that biotechnology is being used to figure out how to: 1) grow more food; 2) help the environment; and 3) grow more nutritious food that improves our health.”

The book, which is sprinkled with happy drawings of people discovering the joys of bioengineered foods, goes on to say that “[b]iotechnology allows scientists to look closer at genes and make improvements in them. … [S]cientists can now insert a specific gene into a plant that will help it adapt to Don’t judge this book by its innocuousits environment, make it more pest looking cover. resistant, or even make it more nutritious.”

From the section titled “How can biotechnology help the environment?”: “Thanks to biotechnology, a farmer can manage … weeds without having to plow. This saves energy as well as the soil!” Tell that to those GM-crop farmers in the Midwest and the Southeast United States that are battling six-foot and taller “superweeds” that have developed a resistance to the Monsanto herbicide, Roundup, after having planted genetically engineered “Roundup-ready” seeds. (Go to www.tinyurl.com/weedattack for more on the relationship between superweeds and GMO crops.)

Even more scary: “In the future, bananas could be grown with medicines inside them. This means people could grow their own banana trees to provide the essential medicines to protect against illness and disease.”

I know I’m not alone when I say that I do not want to eat bananas “with medicines inside them.” Bosschart had this to say on the topic of pharmaceuticals engineered into our food supply: “We are all aware of cross-contamination [of GMO crops with non-GMO and organic crops]—you could then cross-contaminate crops with pharmaceuticals and we’d no longer have a clean food supply.

“This book is just more propaganda and now they are trying to get it to the youth, and brainwashing them,” said Bosschart. “This is going to target children, and teachers … through public education.”

There’s even a curriculum section at the back outlining other “agricultural biotechnology educational materials” available for schoolchildren of all ages, through the 12th grade. A downloadable version of the book is available at www.whybiotech.com/resources/activity-book.asp.

Oh, by the way, the Council for Biotechnology Information is made up of the following members (are you ready??): BASF Plant Science, a biotech firm based in Germany; Bayer CropScience; Dow AgroSciences LLC; DuPont; Syngenta and … Monsanto.

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Nearly one in three doctors refused new Medicaid patients last year due to the program’s low reimbursement rates, a report finds.

The report, compiled for the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, polled 4,326 American doctors on whether they would accept patients under the federal health program, according to the Wall Street Journal. Thirty-one percent reported they would not accept new Medicaid patients, while 18 percent said they wouldn’t accept new patients with private insurance and 17 percent said they wouldn’t accept new Medicare patients.

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Research conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found 25 percent of high school students could access soda at school during the 2010-11 school year, down from 54 percent in 2006-07, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The availability of soda in middle school dropped from 27 percent to 13 percent in the same time frame. But sugary sports drinks—intended for serious athletes during rigorous exercise—are still available to 83 percent of high school students on school grounds, down slightly from 90 percent in 2006-07. Previous studies have suggested sugary beverages are a big factor in the surge of obesity in American children.

Under the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing updated nutritional standards for foods and drinks that can be sold at schools. It is expected to target sports drinks, milk that is not fat-free and flavored milk.

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Minority populations are disproportionately affected by overcrowding in California emergency departments, a study finds.

Researchers from UCLA, UCSF and Stanford University tracked how often ambulances were diverted to another facility from 202 California hospitals, finding hospitals serving the largest ratio of minority patients diverted emergency vehicles up to four times as often as hospitals serving smaller percentages of minority patients, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The authors found ambulance diversions can lead to delays in medical attention and poorer health outcomes.

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Y expression, “You are what you eat.”

Dr. Richard Pruett, a dentist who has pracou’ve probably heard the

ticed for nearly 40 years in Chico, has an expression that’s a variation on the theme.

“You’re only as healthy as your mouth,” Pruett says.

In other words, dental conditions affect other parts of the body, and vice-versa.

That’s the central philosophy of holistic dentistry. When a patient sits in Dr. Pruett’s chair, the holistic dentist isn’t just concerned with the teeth and gums. He takes a broader view, stressing prevention of a wide range of conditions.

“If your mouth isn’t healthy, the diseases can spread through your whole body,” Pruett explained in a recent phone interview. “Everything ties in. … When people ask, ‘What’s holistic dentistry?’ I say, ‘How much time do you have and how much do you want to know?’”

Mercury in fillings can lead to a range of medical problems, as can the injudicious use of fluoride, he pointed out. Acidic saliva can damage tooth enamel but also can represent a broader condition—unhealthful habits such as eating too much sugar or smoking cigarettes can contribute to the creation of acidic saliva, as can illnesses like Sjögren’s syndrome, a disease of the

autoimmune system (see www.tiny url.com/acidsal for more information).

Even something as simple as how a person bites down can have a ripple effect, impacting posture.

“Occlusion is really important,” Pruett said. “Occlusion affects cranial bones and joints. If your bite is out of balance, that sets up muscle imbalances, cranial imbalances, structural imbalances.”

As an analogy, Pruett suggested walking down a hallway with one shoe on and one shoe off. The lopsided gait puts added stress on a variety of bones and joints, not just the feet.

Same with an imbalanced bite: “If your occlusion is off,” Pruett continued, “it can affect your cervical vertebrae and also your whole structure.”

Mercury is of particular concern.

Pruett says mercury contributes to a variety of problems, from “changing the bacteria in the gut, increasing the chance of antibiotic resistance. It also creates an environment for intensifying yeast infections” and compounding autoimmune diseases.

“Mercury is the second-most toxic thing you can put in your body,” Pruett said. (The most toxic? Plutonium.) “There are 13 electromagnetic signatures in mercury— 13 different ways mercury can hurt you.”

Research has found the mercury in fillings can leach into the bloodstream.

Though considered a “heavy metal,” mercury is not as hearty as the name implies— in fact, on his website, www.drpruett.com, Pruett posted a video showing mercury emissions from a tooth gently rubbed with HEALTHLINES continued on page 18

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“The American Dental Association states that mercury fillings are ‘stable’ but that’s only half true,” Pruett said. When it comes to mercury fillings, “mercury is only stable if you do not chew food or drink hot beverages. Anytime you chew, they’re emitting mercury.”

Pruett found out the hard way that mercury fillings can lead to poor health. Around 15 years ago, he said, he had a blood test that showed poor kidney function due to an excessive amount of heavy metals. Soon after, he had his mercury fillings removed—and made his office a mercury-free dental practice.

Along with not using mercury fillings, Pruett has honed a technique for removing them that is safe for the health of the patient as well as that of the dentist and dental assistant. He isolates the tooth with a rubber dental dam, has the patient breathe from an alternate air source, has his dental assistant apply cold water and heavy suction to clear the debris, and has an air purifier in the room for him and his staff.

Fluoride is another substance to which Pruett gives special attention. He takes care with both the type and amount he administers.

“America has a thyroid problem,” offered Pruett. “Fluoride, chlorine and all the halogens are a big reason.”

Pruett began practicing

dentistry in Chico in 1974, the year after he graduated from the dental school at Loma Linda University in Southern California.

Loma Linda teaches a mindbody-spirit model of care, which turns out to be compatible with the holistic dentistry Pruett began adopting roughly 20 years ago.

“It just sort of evolved,” he said of his interest in holistic dentistry.

“I didn’t plan it. I was always interested in Learn more: nutrition and Go to health. As I took www.drpruett.com for additional more classes— information about hundreds of Dr. Richard hours of nutriPruett. The Dental tion, TMJ [temWellness poral mandibular Institute’s website at joint] and crawww.dentalwell nial—I started ness4u.com also looking at the contains info on whole person, holistic dentistry. not just their teeth and gums.

“I’m very much into cause and effect, not just treating symptoms.”

To Pruett, the interconnectedness of physiological systems simply makes sense. He maintains that “germs, fungi and parasites only thrive in a toxic body and that the root cause of all disease is cellular toxemia….

“Holistic dentistry is bringing the body into balance.” Ω

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hen Karen Duncanwood was a very young woman, she spent a summer in a very dangerous place.

If you were to see her ahead of you in line at the post office or the supermarket, you almost certainly wouldn’t know you were standing in proximity to a person of rare courage, a woman who played a part in one of the nation’s epic struggles.

Duncanwood lives in mobile-home park in Paradise these days, but the fire that was struck in her when she was young still burns bright.

Her name isn’t known to history, nor are the names of hundreds of men and women like her, people whose belief in the principles this country was founded upon was so strong that they risked injury and even death to stand for those principles. Even the names of those who did make the news back in the struggles of the early 1960s are being forgotten.

Who remembers Stokely Carmichael, the fiery leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, for instance? And would any American high school students recognize the names Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney, or have any idea why those names should not

be forgotten? It’s unlikely that even one person in a thousand still remembers the name of Viola Liuzzo, a woman who paid for her belief in racial equality with her life.

“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” is not one of the songs Bob Dylan is ever likely to perform on any night of the endless tour he’s on, nor would most of his audience know the story that inspired that song if he were to sing it. And all but the most devoted fans of the old Simon and Garfunkel oeuvre have forgotten or never knew the lyrics to “He Was My Brother,” a song commemorating the courage of freedom riders that appeared on Simon and Garfunkel’s debut album in 1964.

In fact, even the phrase “freedom riders” is largely being forgotten in a nation with a very

short memory and a very brief attention span.

But Karen Duncanwood was a freedom rider back in the summer of 1964, and she does remember Stokely Carmichael, and a whole lot of other people, too, people with whom she went to Mississippi when riding those buses was likely to be accompanied by spitting, taunts and the threat of getting beaten up by Southern rednecks who were similar to and different from the slightly more subtle racists who are still in our midst even in an America some optimists defined as a “postracial society” after we elected our first African-American president.

For our interview, we sat on the deck in my back yard in Magalia, drinking coffee on a pleasant summer morning nearly a half-century after her Mississippi summer. She shows me a copy of her high-school yearbook, and as she talked it was easy to see flashes of the young girl who’d just finished her first year of college at San Francisco State. She was barely 20 years old,

FREEDOM SUMMER

about to board a bus headed to the heart of Mississippi darkness to confront what she now refers to as “American apartheid.”

“It began when I was walking past a table that SNCC [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] had set up on campus,” she said. “I glanced at pictures of church burnings and people getting sprayed with fire hoses, but I wasn’t immediately in sympathy with the SNCC people. I saw them as protesters, and I didn’t want anything to do with it. I was the daughter of a blue-collar family, and up until then I thought the policeman was your friend.

But something about those pictures kept calling me back again and again, to look and to learn.”

Those pictures—and the literature on that SNCC table—aroused her conscience. “I thought it was appalling that people got killed for wanting to vote,” she explained. “I didn’t know that much.”

Karen Duncanwood (shown here in a high school yearbook photo) didn’t know exactly what she was in for when she signed up as a freedom rider back in the summer of ’64.

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A Paradise woman recounts her dangerous 1964

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But she was about to learn. She signed

up to take part in what came to be called “Freedom Summer,” traveling from the Bay Area to Ohio for training in the techniques of nonviolence. It was all in the interest of registering black people to vote.

“When we arrived [in Ohio],” she recalled, “our first training orientation session began with words from Rita Schwerner, Mickey Schwerner’s wife. She told us that her husband and two others had been missing 16 hours in Mississippi and would probably not be found alive. I remember being utterly astounded that a murder could have already taken place. I was in the second group of volunteers; Mickey Schwerner had been in the first. They went into Mississippi a week before us.”

(For readers who did not know or may have forgotten, Schwerner was brutally murdered on June 21 of that year, along with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. Their deaths provided context for the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, a film many people believe gives too much credit to the FBI’s role in tracking down the murderers of the slain civil-rights workers, and too little credit to the people in the black community, who were, in Duncanwood’s words, “the real agents of change.”)

Rita Schwerner was followed on that orien-

tation program by Fannie Lou Hamer, a woman whose name would take a place in the history of the civil-rights movement.

“Fannie Lou Hamer was an astoundingly strong woman, a black sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta,” Duncanwood said, “and when she got up on the stage and started singing ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain,’ the walls rocked. That’s when I first learned the power of gospel music in fighting fear.”

Next came Robert Moses, a man Duncanwood remembered in vividly reverential tones, calling him a “Gandhian figure.” Moses, one of those people being too rapidly forgotten, was the field coordinator for SNCC and codirector of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), which was made up of SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, and C.O.R.E. (the Congress of Racial Equality).

In Duncanwood’s memory, Robert Moses was “a very conflicted man at that particular moment because he was worried that some of the people he was training might die. Even at the last minute, he was having second thoughts about it. He said that any of us who wanted to quit the project could return to our safe homes, and he pledged there would be no condemnation of us at all.”

A few people did leave, but the overwhelming majority stayed, comprising a delegation of 400 to 500 volunteers.

Then the training began in earnest,

five or six days of preparation for the mission they’d taken on.

“We spent a lot of time being trained in nonviolent resistance,” she said. They were taught how to fall to the ground, roll up in a ball, protect their stomachs, and put their hands over their necks and heads so that if hit by billy clubs, it would do less damage.

“This was quite sobering to students from the Northern and Western states,” Duncanwood said. “We’d never been bullied by the police. It took a while to get used to the reality of all this, and to learn how to not respond sarcastically or violently to aggression.”

They also learned that the local black population was terrified of attempting to register to vote. People had lost their jobs, been kicked off of land they’d been sharecropping for generations, then had no home all of a sudden.

Some had been murdered for merely attempting to register to vote, not even for voting.

They also learned that a poll tax was in place, in which dirt-poor people who lived on a couple hundred dollars a year had to pay a

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fee in order to register to vote. These were people who didn’t even have cars to get to the county courthouse to register.

“I think back to the training now, and how the police operated with impunity, doing whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, to whomever they wanted,” Duncanwood said.

“They functioned like a private army in some South American dictatorship.”

When the training was completed, the freedom riders boarded a bus to Memphis, where they slept on a church floor, then boarded a train for Jackson, Miss.

“We boarded trains because buses weren’t safe to take us to Mississippi at that time,” Duncanwood said. “There was so much publicity about our coming that we were very visible targets for shotguns and Molotov cocktails, and people who wanted to flatten the tires of the buses so they could be attacked. It’s harder to stop and burn a train.”

Ironically, her contingent was des-

tined for a town that bore the same name as the one they’d departed from in Ohio—Canton. Awaiting them first was a delegation of very angry white folks.

“FREEDOM” continued on page 22

BY JAIME O’NEILL

4 journey to Mississippi to register black voters Stokely Carmichael

Officials in Canton, Miss., blocked black residents’ attempts to register to vote.

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“FREEDOM” continued from page 21

“Canton was a town of 10,000 people,” Duncanwood recalled, “about 10 miles from Jackson.

There were more blacks than whites in that county, but they had not been able to elect a single black official in the nearly hundred years since Reconstruction because people were being kept from voting, suppressing the majority. It was segregation and apartheid kept in place by a system of terror.”

That terror was part of Karen Duncanwood’s welcome to Mississippi, the crowd of whites shouting “go home, outside agitators, you’re not wanted here,” and other less polite taunts and epithets.

“But a little farther up the road a bigger crowd of black people was waiting to welcome us,” she remembered. “We were taken in private cars to a black church. We were barely inside and there was a loud pounding on the church door. It was the sheriff. He told us we were unwanted guests of the county, that we’d not been invited, that we should leave right away. He warned us that the men among us would be beaten up by the ‘Nigra’ men, and that the women would be violated.”

At the beginning of his remarks, the sheriff had said he’d take questions at the end. “Naïve me,” Duncanwood said, “I asked him that since the crowd that welcomed us was bigger than the crowd that said we weren’t welcome, could it maybe be that we were, in fact, invited? The sheriff glared at me, and a black woman, older and wiser, whispered that maybe I’d better just keep quiet.”

The sheriff then demanded that the new arrivals go with him to the

station to be registered and have their mug shots taken. “We had our pictures taken,” Duncanwood said, “with numbers in front of us, as though we were criminals.”

After the local constabulary had made an official record of their presence, they were released.

“Later that night, we went out to Valley View, a cluster of 20-25 houses with a little grocery store and two gas pumps another 10 miles past Canton. Extremely rural. At first we slept on the floor of what we called The Freedom House, a house someone had donated to the project. We couldn’t get a phone there because the phone company was racist and wouldn’t install one.

In the back room was a CB radio that allowed us to communicate with the Canton office.

“The house was unfurnished, so every night at dusk we nailed up blankets in front of the windows and turned out the lights so we wouldn’t be shotgun targets. We crawled on our hands and knees to the back room so they couldn’t tell when we were using the CB radio. There

were probably six or seven or us staying there. Some of the others had moved out to live with families in the community.”

I mentioned how brave those local black people must have been to take them in. After all, they would still be there when the freedom riders had come and gone.

“Amen to that,” Duncanwood said. “It took amazing courage. A white grocery store owner had her store firebombed simply because she sold us cold sodas.”

Then the work Duncanwood

had come to do began.

“I was assigned to be a freedom school teacher for the project, and several of us met at the black church out in Valley View. We were to teach remedial skills that would prepare people to register to vote, and black history to help people gain the courage and the self-respect that would make them want to vote.

“The irony was that I didn’t know any black history, so I was reading black history about two chapters ahead of what I was teach-

ing, hoping against hope that my students wouldn’t ask me any questions I couldn’t answer. I had gone to a white high school in Novato, and my teacher taught us that slaves had been happy in slavery because they sat around all day eating watermelon. Learning about the slave rebellions was eye opening to me.”

Eyes were being opened on both sides of the racial divide.

“The kids sort of worshipped us because they had never been around white people,” Duncanwood explained. “Our delegation was mixed-race, but overwhelmingly white. The strategy of the summer project had been that if a bunch of primarily white college students came to Mississippi, the press would follow, and the racism, brutality and degradation would be exposed because now it was happening to white people.”

She stayed for a while with some older people who had five acres of land, a vegetable garden and some chickens. “Talking to them was like talking across centuries,” Duncanwood said. “They were in their 70s,

“Rita Schwerner, Mickey Schwerner’s wife, told us that her husband and two others had been missing 16 hours in Mississippi and would probably not be found alive. I remember being utterly astounded that a murder could have already taken place.”

—KAREN DUNCANWOOD

and they’d never shaken hands with a white person in their lives. We realized how strong and effective this internalized discrimination had become, this ingrained sense that they were seen as inferior.

“The grandmother said to us one day, ‘I’m going to the market to go buy some chickens.’ They probably had 25 chickens. We looked at her and said, ‘Why are you buying chickens when you raise chickens?’

She said, ‘Oh, we eat those chickens, but we didn’t think you would.’They thought because they’d raised them, they weren’t good enough for us.”

Duncanwood then moved in with a sharecropper and her chilKaren Duncanwood’s life of activism began in college, almost by accident, as she happened by a table set up by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Robert Moses, Freedom Summer field coordinator for SNCC

dren for a month or two.

“When I got there, the only thing in her kitchen was flour, salt, lard, pepper and baking powder. The first expense stipend check I got from a support group in Ohio seemed like Christmas to the family because we went to the store and bought groceries. … I’ll never forget going to the store with that family.”

The expansion of Karen Duncanwood’s cultural horizons extended to picking cotton, a chore she hated.

“It just tore up your hands,” she said. “There’s no way you can avoid getting pricked. I tried picking cotton for only one day, and I couldn’t do it for more than an hour.

The sharecroppers worked from dawn to dusk and they lived in shacks with no heat. The sacks you dragged behind you could hold up to a hundred pounds of cotton. The stamina required for that backbreaking work was amazing.”

Not only was the work hard, but the system also was thoroughly rigged against the sharecroppers.

“It was a white power structure that determined everything,” she explained. “The first time I ever understood institutional racism was when I saw how they doled out the fertilizers and the pesticides that determined how well you did with your crop. White farmers got richer and richer, and black farmers got poorer and poorer, and they began to shrink the crop allotments because the only way you could gain growing permission for more acreage was through attending meetings, but only the white farmers received notice of when those meetings were taking place. Racism isn’t about individual bigotry; it’s about a policy and a network of white community control of every avenue of advancement.”

Throughout our conversa-

tion, I kept wondering what the young Karen Duncanwood’s parents must have been going through as her daughter was spending that

perilous time in Mississippi.

“My mother came from Scotland, through Ellis Island,” Duncanwood said. “And she was a believer in the American dream, like a lot of firstgeneration immigrants, believing that America was the land of opportunity. She believed in the goodness of the country, and she was patriotic in the uninitiated sense.

“My dad was a milkman. …

When I told my dad I wanted to go to college, he got a pained look on his face. College was for people with money he didn’t have.”

In those days, though, state colleges were nearly free. Duncanwood worked part time and obtained grants. “As far as my going to Mississippi was concerned, he didn’t think it was a wise thing for me to do, but he already knew that I was pretty determined to go.”

Her dad may not have wanted her to go, but he was proud of her experience, as she learned much later.

“He carried clippings of stories about the civil-rights workers,” she said, “and he showed all his favorite customers on his milk route.”

In many ways, Freedom Sum-

mer was a failure. White segregationists effectively blocked efforts to register black voters, and the Fannie Lou Hamer, an integral organizer of Freedom Summer, was known for her stirring speeches.

Mississippi Democratic Party banned them outright. In response, COFO focused on registering members of an alternative organization, the racially integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which was led by many of the same people Duncanwood had met during Freedom Summer. The goal was to challenge the all-white Mississippi delegation at the Democratic National Convention that fall in Atlantic City.

Duncanwood was on her way to the convention when she heard news of a Ku Klux Klan burning about 40 miles away from where she’d been staying in Mississippi.

She broke into a cold sweat. “I couldn’t stop shaking for a full 10 minutes,” she says.

Although the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation was not seated, the event marked a turning point in the history of democracy in America. The group’s challenge to Mississippi’s segregationist delegation was referred to the Credentials Committee, which televised its proceedings, allowing the nation to watch the MFDP delegates as they gave testimony. That’s when the aforementioned Fannie Lou Hamer became a household name, after she gave a powerfully moving portrayal of her brutalized life as a sharecropper on a cotton plantation and the retaliation inflicted on her for trying to register to vote.

Although members of the

MFDP were devastated by their treatment at the convention, Americans in general were outraged by the injustice of it, and that gave great impetus to passage of the historic Voting Rights Act the following year. In that sense, Freedom Summer was a tremendous success.

During our conversation, Duncanwood had told me about her son, Ryan, now 40, who was born with cerebral palsy. She mentioned him again in a subsequent email message.

“Ryan uses a wheelchair and speaks through a communication device,” she wrote. “When he was growing up, I spoke in a few U.S. history classes in his school about my Freedom Summer experiences.

Those experiences contributed in uncountable ways to the work he and I both did to help get the Americans with Disabilities Act passed.

“We always taught Ryan that the roots of his disability-rights movement are in the black South where the country learned that common people could band together and change things. Years ago, when my ex-husband had a teachers union convention in New Orleans, Ryan and I joined him for the last two days, and then we took Ryan on a tour of historic civilrights sites in the South, visiting the church where the four little girls died when it was bombed in Birmingham, Ala., and the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery.”

They also visited the church where she had taught Freedom School. After she left the South, the church was “bombed and burned to the ground by sheriff’s deputies who wore uniforms by day and Klan robes by night,” she said. “We were so glad to see the congregation had somehow managed to rebuild their church—this time in brick, so it wouldn’t burn again.”

A few days after the interview in my back yard, I called her and asked if there was anything she wanted to add.

“That summer in Mississippi was the most soul-searing experience of my life,” she said. “It made me an activist. It taught me to ask questions and to challenge what I hear. It happened totally by accident when I walked by that SNCC table on campus in the spring of 1964.

I’m from a very patriotic military family, a blue-collar kid who went to Mississippi and later to Cuba, and I had this rich collection of experiences that would never have happened if I hadn’t gotten on that bus. It was the fundamental education of my life.” Ω Civil-rights leader Aaron Henry speaks before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, N.J., in August 1964.

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and Seth Avett (who share vocal duties and play banjo and guitar, respectively), who by refer to fellow founding Ken Smith member—bassist Bob Crawford—as “our kens@ newsreview.com third brother.”

Being in a band can be trying on any relationship. Members of the Ramones, for example, famously declared they’d go PREVIEW: years without speaking Chico or seeing one another Performances presents The except onstage, and Avett Brothers, they weren’t even realWednesday, Aug. ly siblings. But, accord22, 7:30 p.m., at ing to eldest brother Laxson Auditorium. Scott, no such acrimoTickets: $40-$61. ny exists among the Laxson Avetts, even after an Auditorium 11-year-long climb to Chico State the top of the Ameri898-6333 cana scene. www.chico “I’ve totally given performances.com myself to the time with these guys; I don’t really feel the need to have breaks from them,” Avett said by phone interview while on vacation “as far east as we could get” in the band’s home state of North Carolina.

It’s a brief reprieve from the road and, one would imagine, one another before kicking off a two-month tour (beginning with their Chico appearance) and the chaos bound to surround the release of their seventh full-length, The Carpenter, next month. Not so, said Scott.

“Bob’s just two miles away from me, and I’ve seen him twice and played some music with him since we’ve been on break. I spent the morning with my sister and our kids, playing in the water and picking some shark’s teeth, and now we’re getting ready to head down and spend a few days with Seth.

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Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: acoustic pop with Kyle Williams, a solo set from jam master Jeff Pershing and traditional tunes from Simplewheel. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

The Avett Brothers (from left): Scott Avett, Bob Crawford and Seth Avett.

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“The more we communicate and work together, the better we get along and the more we understand each other.”

The brothers have been playing together since the merger of their two college bands into one entity, and their musical roots go much deeper: “We had a very musical family, but not in the formal sense,” he said. “We took lessons but for fun, it wasn’t an expectationbased thing. But we sang together a lot with our dad and uncles, and our grandmother was a great piano player, so good she could’ve gone to New York and been a concert pianist. Instead she married a Methodist minister and played at the church.”

Everyone from the aforementioned Ramones to other great family bands like the Carter Family have been cited by music scribes trying to pin down the Avetts’ sound. Talking about what’s influenced him, Scott mentions everything from the usual suspects (Jerry Jeff Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash) to the less obvious (Mike Patton of Faith No More and early ’90s grunge had a big impact). He also doesn’t cringe away from the fact that there are echoes of Grandma Avett’s big life decision in the brother’s own music, leading to a discussion about the universal appeal of gospel music.

“I don’t think gospel music should be alienating to people who don’t follow

any particular religion,” he said. “I think everyone’s tied to some sort of spirituality, whether we’re conscious of it or not.

Gospel music to me is a moment, a memory and a very important tradition.

Regardless what people believe, the music’s all coming from the same place.”

Also like good gospel, the Avetts lyrically explore deep themes like life, death, redemption and acceptance. A good example is the haunting refrain from the new album’s title track, a line that could fit just as well in a Louvin Brothers song as an Avett Brothers song: “If I live the life I’m given I won’t be scared to die.”

“I think it might be having children or getting older, but I’ve had a different awareness the last five years,” Scott said.

“I started reading a lot more, thinking a lot more and slowing myself down a little bit. I think, and I hope, it has made me a more peaceful person. A lot of our songs are about surrendering to that.

That troubled mind still comes up, and we still write songs about that as well, but a lot of the newer songs are about searching for and finding that comfort.

“I think living your life and facing our fears will let us go out in a much more comforting and peaceful way. We all gotta go sometime, and if we go trying to move forward and progress, then that’s a good thing. In the end, it’s all just an attempt.” Ω

Music ALL AMERICAN REJECTS: A night of sing-alongs—”Swing Swing,” “It Ends Tonight” and “Dirty Little Secret”—with All American Rejects. Openers: ‘90s act Eve 6. Th, 8/16, 8:30pm. $20. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: DECADES: The weekly concert series continues with Decades. Festivities include food, raffles and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 8/16, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

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? Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 8/18; Su, 2pm through 8/19. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

Poetry/Literature SUMMER READING SERIES: On ongoing series of readings by local authors using Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” as inspiration. Th, 8/16, 7:30pm. $3.

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

JACKIE GREENE

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FINE ARTS Music JACKIE GREENE: The beloved singer-songwriter—whose style draws comparisons to Bob Dylan and The Band—showcases his extensive musical catalog. Proceeds benefit KZFR. Su, 8/19, 5pm. $30. Paradise Performing Arts Center; 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 895-0706; www.par adiseperforming arts.com.

NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS: Nicki’s soulful voice and groovy band have been a hot commodity on YouTube, where they scored big with a series of road trip cover performances. The dance floor will be open. Su, 8/19, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

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Special Events AN EVENING IN SHERWOOD FOREST: ICSSD presents a Renaissance affair with period dining and live performances. Sa, 8/18, 6-10pm.

Subud Hall; 574 E. 12th St.; (530) 895-4711.

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VINTAGE VEGAS: Signature martini samples and appetizers, a raffle and live music to benefit Valley Oak Children’s Services. F, 8/17, 6-10pm. $50. California Park Lakeside Pavillion; 2565 California Park Dr.; (530) 895-3572; www.valley oakchildren.org.

SKYWAY CENTER GRAND OPENING: The new center for Butte College’s automotive technology, small business and economic workforce development programs opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony, guided tours, live music, a car show and a barbecue lunch. Sa, 8/18, 10am. Butte College Skyway Center; 2480 Notre Dame Blvd.

YARD SALE & BARBECUE: A yard sale with donated items to benefit Paradise Gleaners and Strive Center. A barbecue dinner (with a whole pig!) will be accompanied by live music.

Sa, 8/18, 8am-8pm. $10. Dream Makers; 5420 Clark Rd. D in Paradise.

Music MATT HOGAN TRIBUTE SHOW: Local acts pay trib-

Art Receptions NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES RECEPTION: Opening night for an exhibition of oil and pastel works by Jamie Albertie. F, 8/17, 5-7pm.

Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery; 130 Main St.; (530) 895-3866.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: BIG MO & THE FULL MOON BAND: The weekly concert series continues with veteran blues master Big Mo and his Full Moon Band. F, 8/17, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

Theater CLUE THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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ute to the late musician, songwriter, club owner and concert promoter. Sa, 8/18, 7pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

Theater CLUE THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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Poetry/Literature AUTHOR PRESENTATION: A lecture and book signing with local poet Marilyn Ringer, author of the collection Island Aubade. Tu, 8/21, 7pm.

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

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Music THE AVETT BROTHERS: Foot-tappin’, banjopoppin’ folk rock that draws on the energy of punk and leans heavily on close vocal harmonies. The group is currently touring in support of their new album, The Carpenter. W, 8/22, 7:30pm. $40-$61. Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

JIMMY GRANT: A songwriter and guitar master of striking fluidity playing gypsy jazz, Russian folk, bluegrass, Celtic and classic tunes. The World’s Finest Apples opens. W, 8/22, 8pm. $10.

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

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

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

BLOODSOURCE: 2D for the Show 2, an exhibition of submitted art on the back of 1078’s invitation cards, which will be sold at a culminating reception on Aug. 18. Through 8/18.

555 Rio Lindo Ave., (530) 893-5433.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

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.

CHICO PAPER CO.: Clayton Rabo Exhibition, bright, colorful canvas reproductions on display. Through 9/30. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

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.

ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY:

Annual Group Exhibit, featuring 24 local and regional artists. Through 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.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Northern

California Landscapes, an exhibition of oils and pastels by Jamie Albertie. 8/17-9/12. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

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

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

SMALL WORLD 2012: Pick up a canvas from CAC or use your own 12x12-inch canvas and submit to the Small World showcase. Go online for details. Through 10/30. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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.

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.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

David Hoppe Paintings & Prints, David Hoppe’s latest combination of modern surreal and realist styles. Through 9/28. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

Theater 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.

Special Events TOMATO FEST: A free community celebration of the wholesome tomato that will include tasting of over 40 varieties and a salsa contest.

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FUNKY FASHION SHOW Friday, Aug. 17 Pepper Grand Coulee’s Funky Trunk

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Hogan lives It’s hard to believe that more than four and a half years have passed since the death of Chico music icon Matt Hogan.

For those who knew and played music with him—which is damn near everyone in town—the years have not dimmed their memory of the man and his spirited personality, and this Saturday, EDITOR’S PICK Aug. 18, his old pals have secured the small stage at Duffy’s Tavern for a marathon of musicians, young and old, to rock out in tribute to the former Incredible Diamonds front man. It should be an over-full house, so grab a bar stool early. Proceeds from the show will benefit The 6th Street Center for Youth.

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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 in the Hub. Half price after 9 p.m. F, 8/17, 8-9pm. $4. Holiday Inn, 685 Manzanita Ct., (530) 518-9454, www.holi dayinn.com.

Friday, Aug. 17 The Hub at Holiday Inn SEE COMMUNITY

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

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

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

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

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

SUMMER READING SKILLS PROGRAM: Chico State

and uplifting group dances honoring many of the world’s spiritual traditions. Third Sa of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5-$10 donation.

Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 891-8789.

offers eight different reading skills programs for 4-year olds through adults. Go online for a complete schedule and enrollment information. Ongoing. California State University, Chico, CSUC, (180) 096-48888, http://rce.csuchico.edu/reading.

DOULA MINI-WORKSHOP: A workshop illustrating

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A presentation designed

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Simple, meditative

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.

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.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

TIE DYE IN THE PARK: Tie-dye techniques with

FARMERS MARKET: OROVILLE: Produce and fresh

For Kids

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.

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.

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

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

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

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

HERBALIST TALK: Herbalist Harry Chrissakis discusses use of herbs and supplements for treatment of type 2 diabetes. W, 8/22, 6:307:30pm. Free. Chico Public Library, Corner of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (530) 933-8244.

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weekly information session on how to prepare for a hip or knee replacement, what to expect for surgery and post surgery and how to recover as quickly as possible. M, 11am12:30pm. Opens 8/20. Free. Feather River Outpatient Center, 6283 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 876-7111.

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.

PHYLLIS LINDLEY CELEBRATION OF LIFE: A memorial for the late environmental activist and

upstanding steward of Bidwell Park. Sa, 8/18, 10am. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E.

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

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.

GRID ALTERNATIVES VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION: An orientation for volunteers at GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit that installs solar electricity systems for low-income homeowners. W, 8/22, 6-7:30pm. Free. GRID Alternatives North Valley Office, 3860 Morrow Ln. Ste. A Near Home Depot off of Notre Dame and the Skyway Exit of 99, (530) 217-6146, www.grid alternatives.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.

Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

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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.

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.

CHOW Though it’s often called honey wine, mead is probably more comparable to beer—in variety and brewing methods—than it is to wine.

Honey brew Pass the flagon, it’s time to try mead

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Thursday, August 30 4 – 6pm The Crystal Room

F or honey wine, it all began in the homebrew bucket. That’s where

or many makers of mead,

Ron Lunder first combined honey, water and yeast in 1987, shortly by after he became Alastair Bland interested in the allybland@ culture of beeyahoo.com keeping, honey harvesting and fermentation.

The longtime Mead from Lassen County the source: resident entered HoneyRun Winery (Chico): a few of those www.honeyrun early batches winery.com into state fair Mountain Meadows contests—and Mead (Westwood): he began winwww.mountain ning prizes. meadowsmead.com “That’s what encouraged me to think about doing this on a commercial scale,” said Lunder, who today owns and operates Mountain Meadows Mead, in Westwood.

Lunder uses honey from a farmer in Surprise Valley, in the northeast corner of the state, and he has built a creative repertoire of honey wines that go beyond just traditional dry mead. He makes one mead with ginger and tropical spices, another with Oregon cranberries, and even a sweet mead fortified to 20-percent ABV with honey-based spirits—a delicious slow sipper that tastes of nutmeg, mint, honey and lemon. The Mountain Meadows blue agave nectar mead combines the sap of the Mexican cactus with wildflower honey for a semi-sweet drink, fruity and with a tart, tangy finish.

HoneyRun Winery, based in Chico, also began on a homebrewing scale, in 1985. Even before then, owner John Hasle kept bees.

After three years of harvesting their honey, he began fermenting it in his beer-making kit—often offering the resulting meads to friends as “wine” for their weddings. A positive response invited Hasle to acquire his commercial license, and by 1992 he was selling HoneyRun Winery honey wines.

Today Hasle, with his wife,

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Amy, makes straight honey-based meads, but most of their brews are infused with pure fruit juice.

HoneyRun’s product line includes half a dozen offerings, including elderflower honey wine, cherry honey wine and blackberry honey wine. The HoneyRun traditional dry mead—Ragnar’s Dry Mead— is redolent of honey, beeswax and fresh herbs. The taste is spicy, of mint, pumpkin pie and a faint medicinal tea quality.

Mead originated 8,000 years

ago or more in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere within the native fly zone of the European honeybee, which didn’t appear in the New World until early European settlers brought along their beehives. While wine took root as the favored drink in latitudes hospitable to grapes, in some equatorial and sub-Arctic zones honeybased alcohol became and would remain the tipple of choice.

Often, early mead-makers added herbs and fruits to their brew pots, possibly to vary the flavors, hide defects or both.

Today, such infused meads remain common. Those brewed with fruit are called melomels— and the categorization gets even more specific: Grape-honey mead is called pyment, apple-honey mead cyser, and mulberry-honey mead morat. Still other meads are flavored with herbs.

Honey-based alcohol walks a fine line between the wine and the beer worlds—and it belongs, really, to neither. Though meads are often called honey “wines” and are usually sold in standard wine bottles, the wide range of recipes used in mead-making makes the craft of

fermenting honey into a beverage more akin to the culture and methodologies of beer brewing.

In fact, Lunder says beer drinkers are his main consumer base, while the wine community, at best, tolerates the presence of honey-based alcohol.

“There is a growing awareness of mead, mostly among beer people,” Lunder says, noting that he regularly pours samples of his mead at beer festivals, where inventiveness of his meads makes them a natural fit in the colorful world of craft beer. “We’ve tried wine events, and a lot of people there kind of walk by and sneer at us. Wine drinkers seem to know what they want, while beer drinkers seem more open to new flavors and styles.”

Meaderies in the United States are growing in number. In California, other popular brands include Chaucer’s, in Santa Cruz, and Rabbit’s Foot Meadery, in Sunnyvale, which also began as the bucket project of a homebrewer and is now among the finest makers of mead—and a few honey beers, or braggots—in America.

And at least one producer in the United States—Heritage Wines, in New Jersey—is emulating an old Ethiopian honey drink style called tej, made using an indigenous bittering herb called gesho.

Meads from our local producers are available at S&S Produce and Natural Foods, Chico Natural Foods, Liquor Bank, Safeway, Duke’s Cork-N’-Bottle Shop, among other locations. Such retail markets usually feature designated beer aisles and designated wine aisles—and perhaps somewhere in between you’ll find the mead. Ω

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

Opening this week The Expendables 2

Punch, kick, explode, repeat, repeat, repeat … Starring all kinds of capable badasses: Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Rambo, Chuck Norris, Liam Hemsworth, The Terminator, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture and Jet Li. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Intouchables

This wildly popular French film tells the story of a wealthy quadriplegic Frenchman and the improbable friendship he develops with a black Muslim excon hired as his personal caretaker. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

A young couple, unable to conceive a child, write down all the wishes for their imaginary child and bury them in a box in their back yard. Soonafter, a 10-year-old boy magically appears on their doorstep and introduces himself to his new parents. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Mock the vote Lots of laughs, little satire in this election-year send-up

A The Campaign is sometimes pertinent, sometimes impertinent, oftentimes silly. Its

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facetious send-up of a fictional North Carolina campaign for a congressional seat is not without points of conby Juan-Carlos temporary relevance, but imperSelznick tinence—in the form of rambunctious comedy—is finally its strongest suit.

Screenwriters Chris Henchy and Shawn Harwell do some moderately satirical riffing on topical matters—campaign The Campaign finance reform, attack ads, focus Starring Will Ferrell and Zach groups and buzz words, marketGalifianakis. minded electioneering, etc. But Directed by Jay it’s chiefly a series of comic Roach. Cinemark opportunities for its stars, Will 14, Feather River Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.

Cinemas and Airheaded Cam Brady (FerParadise Cinema 7. Rated R. rell) is the incumbent candidate and doofus Marty Huggins (Galifianakis) is the last-minute challenger in a district where Brady is accustomed to running unopposed. John Lithgow and Dan Poor Aykroyd play the superwealthy Motch brothers (sound familiar?), who are ready to bankroll whichever candidate can be most Fair profitably bought. Brady’s chronically rampant libido gets him in trouble with his backers, and it’s their money that throws Good Huggins unexpectedly into the race.

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in assorted brouhahas, with political handlers played by Jason Sudeikis and Dylan McDermott tweaking every step and misstep along the way.

With or without the semi-satiric touches, Brady is a flashy vehicle for the lame-brained impulsiveness of a familiar Ferrell persona and Huggins is a mostly charming opportunity for Galifianakis’ patented prissy man/child act.

And, while their respective antics have center stage, there are some nicely populated sideshows developing with several of the secondary characters.

Katherine LaNasa is very sharp as Brady’s sharkishly ambitious wife, Rose, and cherubic Sarah Baker musters a quiet force of her own as Huggins’ wife, Mitzi. Each of the women mirrors her husband in contrastingly ironic ways.

The casting choices for the candidates’ children register several kinds of pathos without any of them having much to say.

McDermott’s lethal-looking Tim Wattley isn’t very funny, but that does give him a darkly satiric edge that is missing from much of the rest of the film. The cheery cynicism of Brady’s campaign manager (Sudeikis) gets soft-pedaled in the end, and the Aykroyd/Lithgow rendition of the Motch brothers is mostly a matter of cartoonish buffoonery. The comical ethnic crossovers of the Huggins’ maid (Karen Maruyama) seem gratuitous if not ineffective.

The figureheads of Huggins’ family—boozily imperious father Raymond (Brian Cox) and genially obnoxious brother Tripp (Josh Lawson)—are pungent caricatures initially, but real family dynamics have no place in this movie’s comic simplifications.

Neither the fast-and-loose happy ending nor the campaign-reform coda planted in the closing credits carries much conviction. More likely, the baby-punching episode and Brady’s sex tape/attack ad are what we’ll remember from this one. Ω

ParaNorman

Laika, the stop-motion animation studio that created the creepy Coraline, presents this story about a town besieged by all manner of ghosts, ghouls and zombies, and the efforts of one little boy who has the ability speak with the dead to save his town.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Sparkle

A musical inspired by The Supremes about three sisters who form a girl group in 1960s Detroit. Starring American Idol’s Jordin Sparks as well as Whitney Houston, in her last role before her death. A remake of the 1976 film of the same name. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Bernie

Jack Black delivers an exceptionally fine performance as the pivotal figure in this film’s offbeat gallery of small-town characters. As such, Black’s Bernie Tiede is the focal point in what is also a droll, quirky account of a very peculiar real-life incident.

But Bernie is no one-man show. Director Richard Linklater presents the story in friskily varied form—part comic documentary, part courtroom drama, part true-crime farce. The cast includes Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey in key roles, but part of the film’s special charm comes from the casting of assorted local folk as the townspeople who comment on various aspects of Bernie’s time as a remarkably kind and public-spirited mortician. The crucial twist in all this is that Bernie ends up being charged with murder. The victim is Marjorie Nugent (MacLaine), a wealthy widow and a thoroughly disagreeable person to whom Bernie becomes a constant companion and helpmate. And yet there is no conventional murder mystery here—Bernie freely confesses once the body is discovered in a freezer in the Nugent garage. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Now playing The Bourne Legacy

Jeremy Renner takes over the Bourne franchise from Matt Damon, playing an agent from another CIA black ops program who is on the run from those who made him into an equally badass operative.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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

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I have to say, despite a nearly three-hour 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 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

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The 30-year marriage of a middle-aged Midwestern couple has lapsed into latter-day doldrums. At the behest of wife Kay (Meryl Streep), husband Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) grudgingly agrees to join her for an “intensive” week of counseling in the offices of a therapist in a small town in Maine. The therapist is played by Steve Carell, but Hope Springs is only partly a comedy, and Carell’s part is played fairly straight, in keeping with the film’s prevailing tone of very gentle irony. Vanessa Taylor’s script manages a kindly, even-handed approach to the couple’s troubles, but the main characters, as written, need some crafty rescuing by the star actors. Director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me) does a rather lackluster job of managing the script’s mixtures of comedy and drama. Jones soldiers gamely through a characterization that lingers in simplistic caricature for more than half the film. Streep may have the advantage of playing the character whose point-of-view is honored right from the start, but she still delivers a smartly nuanced account of Kay’s sweetly conflicted character. Mimi Rogers’ cameo as a neighbor woman who interests Arnold is virtually thrown away. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The preview trailers in particular make this new Total Recall look like an empty exercise in video-game imagery, but on the big screen Len Wiseman’s film has an appealing kinetic energy for most of its two-hour running time. There’s plenty of CGI in action and settings alike, but not so much that a certain visceral sense of the characters’ physical reality gets entirely lost. Wiseman’s cast, headed by Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, delivers a sort of pulp-fiction vitality, even as the special effects approach a suffocating critical mass. Farrell does yeoman duty as a troubled bloke who is both “ordinary” and possessed of action-hero capabilities. As the women in his puzzlingly multi-layered life, Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are the yin and yang of an action-boy fantasy girl. Early on, the thing works pretty well as sci-fi action fantasy. But Wiseman and company are much better at taking us into the story’s special world—with its dream implants, artificial memories, identity erasures, Rubik’s Cube architecture, and environmental catastrophes— than they are at getting us to some point at which the journey seems genuinely worthwhile. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG —J.C.S.

Still here Brave

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Ice Age: Continental Drift Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Island Aubade Marilyn Ringer Finishing Line Press It’s always nice to be able to learn a new word or two in the course of reading a book or magazine article. Chico poet Marilyn Ringer’s new poetry chapbook, Island Aubade, offers that opportunity—the word “aubade” in the title, for instance, means “1) a song or poem greeting dawn; 2) a morning love song; or 3) a song or poem of lovers parting at dawn,” as Ringer points out on the book’s accompanying bookmark.

The word “cagoule”—a type of hooded raincoat—appears in Ringer’s lovely poem, “Passage, the Elizabeth Ann”: “A stiff breeze tugs at our cagoules./ Watching the sea, my vision blurred by salt and age, I see as a painter might/ multitudes of colors shaped then swirled into marine blue.” The poem is representative of the 36 other poems in Ringer’s book in its contemplative attention to the joys of quiet hours spent amid the fresh, salty air and coastal colors of Maine’s Monhegan Island, where Ringer spends her summers. Ringer’s words, those of an older woman coming to terms with what is truly meaningful—and with her mortality—ring particularly poignant in the book’s final poem, “Blown Down”: “Where the trunk rests against the forest floor, its embedded roots still/ reach, still seek,/ still hold their ground.”

—Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia Ringer will appear at Lyon Books Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 7 p.m.

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All of the work in the openentry show was created using (and/or inspired by) items from the individual bags-o-junk distributed by the gallery. Each bag cost $5, and each contained a different collection of random items. One can only guess how Macias’ bag (#90) figured into her piece. Was the picture of aviation explorer Amelia Earhart included in the bag? Was the tiny mesh bag with the Earhart picture inside, or the tiny baby doll arm holding it part of the package? Or

was the Rothko quote the impetus?

That’s the beauty of this kind of show. In addition to the variety of the contents of the different bags-ojunk, and the variety of the different mediums at play in an open group show, there is infinite variety in the number of ways the junk could have prompted inspiration.

And not knowing what was/wasn’t part of the bag added to the mystery of how the works came into being.

Some were self-explanatory, like Jocelyn Glatthaar’s “Cambiar”—a basket/nest woven from a roll of red 16mm film with a big egg-shaped rock nesting in it—or Nicole Mercedes Brereton’s four flowing, multi-colored plant-like sculptures inspired by the “found sculpture” in her bag. Others were more mysterious, like one of the most pulled-together pieces in the show (as would be expected with this setup, not all were fully realized pieces), Brittney Thomas’ “House of Grain,” a tiny, sculpture featuring a little birdhouse and scary-looking, blood-splattered detritus from what I imagined as a bird murder-torture scene—tiny feathers, doll hands, mini scissors, a metal pulley, etc.

One of my favorite’s was Goat’s “Cinefactus” (Latin for “reduced to ashes”), a simple jar filled with the black ashes of his burned bag of junk sitting on a shelf.

As we looked up at her papier-

mâché “Junkman Ascending” hanging from the ceiling, local textile artist Muir Hughes made the observation that these open-entry shows are great for bringing a wide

variety of local people out to a gallery. Artists of varying ages and from different scenes mix together and even those who don’t normally create for art shows can take part.

Anyone who bought a bag could take part.

And, for this exhibit, there were impressivepieces from all corners.

From the incredible poster-sized photo by Marion Bronson (“Bag #46”) of a meticulously staged trippy diorama of random bag items— army men, a giant-looking lizard on the lap of a girl sitting on a daybed, Monopoly money—to fun children’s pieces, such as those by Nyah and Isabella Dutro. Nyah’s bunny with a pickle-jar lid for a face (“Bunny”) and her sister’s abstract monster with one big eye (“untitled”), also flanked a piece by their dad, Johnny Dutro (“All Alone with Arms Wide Open”), featuring a bamboo-and-rebar stick figure with a tiny Buddha head mounted on a lacquered board.

By the middle of the reception, both girls’ pieces had actually sold (at $20 apiece), prompting the younger Nyah to excitedly ask her sister, “Now do we have enough money to buy that dolly thing?!

Of the 91 bags-o-junk distributed, 35 were entered into the show.

So, if you were one who didn’t get your work together in time, you have another chance to take a risk and create. MÁNÁS has partnered with The Naked Lounge coffee house for another open-entry exhibit (opening Oct. 5), this one built around naked coffee bags (available for $5) distributed for inspiration and transformation. Ω

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

continues with Decades. Festivities include food, raffles and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 8/16, 6:308pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

in Paradise; (530) 872-1788.

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

16THURSDAY 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.

ALCOJUANA: Rough-around-edges punk rock and ska out of Washington. Neil from Roseburg opens. Th, 8/16, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

ALL AMERICAN REJECTS: A night of singalongs—“Swing Swing,” “It Ends Tonight” and “Dirty Little Secret”— with All American Rejects. Openers: ’90s act Eve 6. Th, 8/16, 8:30pm. $20.

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BAWL ‘N’ CHAIN: Blues, oldies, rockabilly,

and Latin grooves. Th, 8/16, 6-9pm.

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

country and straight-up rock ’n’ roll. F, 8/17, 7-9pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.wee bly.com.

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

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

OPEN MIC: COMEDY: Everyone is welcome to try their hand at stand-up comedy.

Th, 8-10pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.wee bly.com.

series continues with veteran blues master Big Mo and his Full Moon Band.

F, 8/17, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Funky, jammy

and rockin’ originals. F, 8/17, 9pm. Free.

The End Zone; 250 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 345-7330.

JOHNNY DILKS & THE HIGHWAY KIND: A

CONDUCTING FROM THE GRAVE: Savage and unrelenting metal akin to The Black Dahlia Murder, fresh out of Sacramento. A Holy Ghost Revival, Armed for Apocalypse, Taunis Year One and A Plague Upon Her open. F, 8/17, 8pm. $5. Origami Lounge; 7th and Cherry Streets.

COTTONWOOD: Live music in the lounge. F,

8/17, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

CUTLASS SUPREME: A hard-rockin’ outfit from Washington. F, 8/17, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

blend of early ’70s country twang and classic soul from the underground country singer. Shelby Cobra and Lish Bills open. F, 8/17, 8pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

18SATURDAY 8/18, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

COTTONWOOD: Live music in the lounge.

Sa, 8/18, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls

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

Floyd tribute band in the brewery. Sa, 8/18, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

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CHAD BUSHNELL: Live country tunes. Sa,

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: BIG MO & THE FULL MOON BAND: The weekly concert

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

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LOS PAPI CHULOS: Jazz, Afro-Cuban salsa

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

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cal catalog. Proceeds benefit KZFR. Su, 8/19, 5pm. $30. Paradise Performing Arts Center; 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 895-0706; www.paradiseperforming arts.com.

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

NOTHERN TRADITIONZ: The country-half

of local metal/reggae act Esoteric. Sa, 8/18, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

TRADITIONAL DANCE CLUB: Traditional country dancing with live music by Cottonwood, Silver Wing and more. Sa, 8/18, 7-10pm. $6-$7. VFW Hall; 1901 Elgin St. in Oroville; (530) 533-5052.

19SUNDAY JACKIE GREENE: The beloved singersongwriter—whose style draws comparisons to Bob Dylan and The Band—showcases his extensive musi-

NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS: Nicki’s soulful voice and groovy band have been a hot commodity on YouTube, where they scored big with a series of road trip cover performances. The dance floor will be open. Su, 8/19, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

20MONDAY JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Carey Robinson hosts a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 57pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

22WEDNESDAY THE AVETT BROTHERS: Foot-tappin’, banjo-poppin’ folk rock that draws on the energy of punk and leans heavily on close vocal harmonies. The group is currently touring in support of their new album, The Carpenter. W, 8/22, 7:30pm. $40-$61. Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 8986333; www.chicoperfor mances.com.

JAZZ TRIO: Every Wednesday with Carey

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

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

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Funky, jammy and rockin’ originals. W, 8/22, 5:308:30pm. Chico Sports Club; 260

Cohasset Rd.; (530) 345-9427; www.chicosportsclub.com.

JESSIE NOMIE: A solo set from a member of Sacramento-based funk band ZuhG.

W, 8/22, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth

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WORLD’S FINEST APPLES & JIMMY GRANT: Acoustic jazz w/Sac’s World’s Finest Apples. Also, Jimmy Grant plays gypsy jazz, Russian folk, bluegrass, Celtic and classic tunes. W, 8/22, 8pm. $10. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

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

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.

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

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

11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party”; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St., (530) 893-1891. and dancehall. Th, 9pm through 8/23.

WORLD’S FINEST APPLES Wednesday, Aug. 22 1078 Gallery

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DJ DANCING AT LOST ON MAIN: Dubstep

with DJ Flex. Sa, 8/18, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

some thrashing of the metal variety. A Plague Upon Her, Gary Busey Amber Alert and Death Rattle open. W, 8/22, 9pm. $3. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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HOT ... Arts DEVO has said it before, but this week especially (topping

out at 108) it bears repeating: I love the heat. Being raised in the hot crotch of the North Valley—aka Redding—I’ve been pre-calibrated to tolerate the 100-plus days. When a heat wave hits, I’m always taken back to those long summer days traipsing across Diestelhorst Bridge with my crew, and I am more than happy to give into being a little extra moist for a few days. If I wouldn’t drown in my own phlegm from attempting to wade through the wildfire smoke, I would love nothing more than to Forecast: Melty be out cruising around right now with the windows down in my Volvo with the busted A/C, stopping for lunch at a taco wagon in a parking lot, and washing down a plate of carnitas and pickled jalapeños with an ice-chilled bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola.

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HOT, BUT NOT MESSY Hey, whatever happened Hot Mess, the Chico pop-rock crew fronted by local musical-theater diva Storey Anderson that took a giant leap across the country to try to make a go of things in the Nashville, Hot Mess Tenn., music scene? I’ll tell you what happened. They caught the ear of Chad Carlson–Grammy Award-winning engineer for Taylor Swift—who offered to record and produce their next EP! Go look up Hot Mess on kickstarter.com now, and help your homies raise enough scratch to pay for studio costs.

HOT ROCK It seems like every time Chico faves Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers come to town for a show (Sunday, Aug. 19, at the Big Room), there’s some big news arriving just ahead of them. This time, it’s the announcement that Bluhm is now … a Gap girl? It’s true, Gap signed Bluhm on to be part of their hip new Shine campaign, featuring young musicians and dancers in updated retro styles. (Also Gap girl, Nicki Bluhm featured in the ads—Americana-rock trio, The Avett Brothers, coming through town three days after Bluhm, Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Laxson Auditorium).

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

2094 Larkin Rd

Biggs

$115,000

3/ 1.5

1566

12 Vermillion Cir

Chico

$255,000

3/ 2

1565

97 Horse Run Ln

Chico

$575,000

4/ 3.5

4671

1075 La Mesa Dr

Chico

$240,000

3/ 2

1922

785 El Monte Ave

Chico

$395,000

3/ 2.5

2344

2233 Danbury Way

Chico

$235,000

3/ 2

1445

537 Countryside Ln

Chico

$358,000

3/ 3

2610

19 Sierra Lakeside Ln

Chico

$230,000

2/ 2

1300

2959 W Sacramento Ave

Chico

$320,000

4/ 3

2359

1001 Southampton Dr

Chico

$222,000

3/ 2

1357

1686 Oak Vista Ave

Chico

$319,500

4/ 2

1947

10 Franciscan Way

Chico

$220,000

3/ 2

1273

1046 Marchetti Ct

Chico

$310,000

4/ 2.5

2362

173 Remington Dr

Chico

$195,000

4/ 2.5

1661

1211 Peninsula Dr

Chico

$260,000

3/ 2

1506

131 W 22nd St

Chico

$184,000

4/ 2

1822

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 822 Teagarden Court ( X St: Winkle) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1736 sq. ft. $299,000 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Emmett Jacobi 519-6333

3/2, 1,732 sqft for $225,000

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INGw/pool, $339,500 NDhome 4 bed/2 bath, 1,995 sq ft,PE newer 19.55 Acres in Orland, $89,000 1 ac building lot, Chico. OWC $150,000 Duplex mobile in family park for $12,500 2 bed/2 bth, senior mobile in park $17,000 Super nice 3 bed/2 bth condo upstairs unit $149,900 2 bed/2 bth, park area, 1,600 sqft $249,000 Teresa Larson (530) 899-5925 www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com

15 Jones Creek Road (X St: Humboldt Road) In Jonesville 1 Bd / 1 Ba, 808 sq. ft. $225,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sat. 11-1 & Sun. 2-4 1431 Trenta (X St: Moyer) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 1290 sq. ft. $189,000 Paul Champlin 828-2902 Lindsey Ginno 570-5261

Sat. 11-1

4 Trinity (X St: CA Park Dr.) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1721 sq. ft. $240,000 Mark Reaman 228-2229 Brandon Siewert 828-4597

4525 Wilder Drive (X St: Al Rd) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1410 sq. ft.

“Vacation” like home on 2.5 acres $335,000

Dana Miller

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 2-4

Sat. 11-1

Dana Miller | REALTOR | Century 21 Jeffries Lydon | (530) 571-7738

Beautiful 2,600 sqft home on 64 acre rice ranch, north of Sacramento Refuge. Country setting $750,000

1009 Gateway Lane (X St: W. Sacramento Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1875 sq. ft. $289,000 Effie Khaki 514-3334 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Emmett Jacobi 519-6333

1 Jones Creek Road (X St: Humboldt Road) In Jonesville 2 Bd / 1 Ba. $350,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

64 acre rice ranch, 8 miles north of Sacramento Refuge. Beautiful 2,600 sq. ft. home which is the center piece of the country setting. Relax and watch ducks on the Bass lake just outside your back door. Wildlife abounds here. Barn, shop and rice bins complete this property for your own piece of nature.

(530)571-7738 (530)570-1184 dmiller@century21chico.com

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4

Sat. 2-4

6704 HWy 162 • WilloWs

Sun. 2-4

$298,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

9074 Humboldt Road (X St: Jones Creek Road) In Jonesville 1 Bd / 1 Ba, $124,900 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

One owner home on quiet cul-de-sac. 4 bd/3 ba, pool, 3 car garage. $356,500 Jeffries Lydon

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Mark.Reaman@c21jeffrieslydon.com

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of July 16, 2012 — July 20, 2012.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

7 Cabaret Dr

Chico

$174,500

4/ 2

1406

6594 Buena Vista Dr

Magalia

$218,000

3/ 2

1770

256 Rio Lindo Ave

Chico

$170,000

3/ 1

1055

12 Ridge Line Ct

Oroville

$154,500

3/ 2.5

2129

1125 Walnut Glen Ct

Chico

$170,000

3/ 2

1320

32 La Foret Dr

Oroville

$144,000

4/ 2

2112

30 La Placita Way

Chico

$160,000

4/ 1.5

1176

5478 Royal Oaks Dr

Oroville

$130,000

3/ 2.5

2477

568 Humboldt Ave

Chico

$107,000

2/ 2

1216

55 Dedeker Ln

Oroville

$127,500

2/ 1.5

1144

1910 Nevada St

Gridley

$165,000

4/ 2

1852

5081 Royal Oaks Dr

Oroville

$120,000

2/ 2.5

1396

1805 Sycamore St

Gridley

$130,000

4/ 2

1827

974 Waggoner Rd

Paradise

$132,000

4/ 2

1874

14375 Troy Way

Magalia

$220,000

3/ 3

2169

6090 Vista Knolls Dr

Paradise

$125,000

2/ 1.5

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FINS FUR AND FEATHER SPORTS at 1520 Bader Mine Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

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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

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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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as METEMORFOZ SKIN AND BEAUTY at 341 Broadway #208, Chico, CA 95928.

SHERRI D ALEXANDER, 2754 Lucy Way, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHERRI ALEXANDER Dated: July 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001132 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TOM WALKER’S AUTO REPAIR at 17 Valley Ct. Chico, CA 95973.

THOMAS JAMES WALKER, 4684 1st Ave. Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: Thomas James Walker Dated: July 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001133 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAKE MY SITE RANK.COM at 801 Moss Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

JOHN KENTON KLAGES, 801 Moss Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: John Kenton Klages Dated: July 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001078 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SASSY AND CLASSY BOUTIQUE at 1722 Mangrove Ave. #22, Chico, CA 95926.

GENOVEVA SANTANA, JOSE A SANTANA, 4050 Augusta Lane, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: GENOVEVA SANTANA Dated: JUly 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001126 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as M CREATIONS at 1530 Koyo Lane, Durham, CA 95938.

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MELINDA BENSON, 1530 Koyo Lane, Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: MELINDA BENSON Dated: July 16, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001048 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORCAL PRIVATE FUNDING at 336 Broadway, #15, Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN PAUL DENTON, 451 Brookside Dr. Chico, CA 95928 This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOHN DENTON Dated: July 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001110 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BURGER KING at 855 Oroville Dam Blvd.

Oroville, CA 95965.

OROVILLE FOODS, INC. 2565 Zanella Way, Suite C, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: Dated: May 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000805 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARK N SELL, THE CAR LOT at 3326 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973.

DOUGLAS C WHITELEY, 3326 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DOUG WHITELEY Dated: July 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001103 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SKYDANCER BALLOON CO, SKYDANCER BALLOON COMPANY at 4371 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

MARIE J KLEMM, BRANN K SMITH, 4371 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

SKYDANCER BALLOON COMPANY LLC, 5716 Corsa Ave. Westlake, CA 91362.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: BRANN SMITH Dated: July 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001030 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE CHINA STUDIO at 1502 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

JACILYN MASCITELLI, 1502 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JACILYN MASCITELLI Dated: July 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001107 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name

CHICO KIDS ENTERTAINMENT LLC at 728 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95926.

CHICO KIDS ENTERTAINMENT LLC, 728 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: KAYGAN BRITT Dated: August 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000256 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CULLIGAN OF CHICO at 2377 Ivy St. Chico, CA 95928.

QUALITY WATER SPECIALISTS INC. at 2704 Hegan Lane #132, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: GREGORY LOE Dated: August 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001158 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FREE FLOW TECH at 278 Vail Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

NICK KOEHLER, 9 Roxanne Ct. Chico, CA 95928.

JEREMY MCCARTHY, 278 Vail Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: NICK KOEHLER Dated: August 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001165 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TIMOTHY INDUSTRIES at 615 W. 11th Avenue, Chico, CA 95926.

OLGA MONIKA GILLETT, 615 W. 11th Avenue, Chico, CA 95926.

TIMOTHY JOSEPH SHARKEY II, 615 W. 11th Avenue, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Signed: TIMOTHY J. SHARKEY II Dated: August 9, 2012 FBN No.: 2012-0001174 Published: August 16, 23, 30, September 6, 2012

NOTICES 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

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Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

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

A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 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 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WARREN DOUGLAS ROSE TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WARREN DOUGLAS ROSE, WARREN D ROSE, WARREN ROSE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RICHARD S MATSON in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

THE Petition for Probate requests that: RICHARD S MATSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless

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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:Probate 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: PR40332 Attorney for petitioner: Richard S Matson 1342 Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 Published: August 9,16,23, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HOLLY NOEL BEHR KNIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HOLLY NOEL BEHR KNIGHT Proposed name: HOLLY NOEL BEHR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

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 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GLORIA DAWN LEYDEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GLORIA DAWN LEYDEN

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Proposed name: GLORIA DAWN MILLER 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 24, 2012 Case Number: 157325 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LAURIE DIANE SCOTT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LAURIE DIANE SCOTT Proposed name: LAURIE DIANE HAVENS 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 31, 2012 Case Number: 157432 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LORI ANN CROSS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LORI ANN CROSS Proposed name: LORI ANN FOLVEN 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: August 1, 2012 Case Number: 157409 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LISA PATTERSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LISA PATTERSON Proposed name: LEZAH YOUNG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two 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: August 3, 2012 Case Number: 157403 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SYEDA SHOKOOH & ABDUL SHOKOOH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NEGAH SHOKOOH Proposed name: SANA NEGAH SHOKOOH 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: August 1, 2012 Case Number: 157423 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2012

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

These days, you have a knack for reclamation and redemption, Aries.

If anyone can put fun into what’s dysfunctional, it’s you. You may even be able to infuse neurotic cluelessness with a dose of erotic playfulness. So be confident in your ability to perform real magic in tight spots. Be alert for opportunities to transform messy irrelevancy into sparkly intrigue.

By the way, how do you feel about the term “resurrection”? I suggest you strip away any previous associations you might have had, and be open to the possibility that you can find new meanings for it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The game of

tic-tac-toe is simple. Even young children can manage it. And yet, there are 255,168 different ways for any single match to play out. The game of life has far more variables than tic-tac-toe, of course. I think that’ll be good for you to keep in mind in the coming weeks. You may be tempted to believe that each situation you’re dealing with can have only one or two possible outcomes, when, in fact, it probably has at least 255,168. Keep your options wide open. Brainstorm about unexpected possibilities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let’s turn our attention to the word “mortar.” I propose that we use it to point out three influences you could benefit from calling on. Here are the definitions of “mortar”: 1. a kind of cannon; 2. the plaster employed for binding bricks together; 3. a bowl where healing herbs are ground into powder. Now please meditate, Gemini, on anything you could do that might: 1. deflect your adversaries; 2. cement new unions; 3. make a container—in other words, create a specific time and place—where you will work on a cure for your suffering.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Nirvana’s

song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was a megahit that sold well and garnered critical acclaim. But it had a difficult birth. When the band’s leader Kurt Cobain first presented the raw tune to the band, bassist Krist Novoselic disliked it and called it “ridiculous.” Cobain pushed back, forcing Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl to play it over and over again for an hour-and-a-half. In the course of the ordeal, the early resistance dissolved. Novoselic and Grohl even added their own touches to the song’s riffs. I foresee a similar process for you in the coming week, Cancerian. Give a long listen to an unfamiliar idea that doesn’t grab you at first.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of history’s most

notorious trials took place in Athens, Greece, in 399 B.C. A majority of 501 jurors convicted the philosopher Socrates of impiety and of being a bad influence on young people. What were the impious things he did?

“Failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities.” And so the great man was sentenced to death. This is a good reminder that just because many people believe something is true or valuable or important doesn’t mean it is. That’s especially crucial for you to keep in mind. You are in a phase when it might be wise and healthy to evade at least one popular trend. Groupthink is not your friend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With all the

homework you’ve done lately, you’ve earned a lot of extra credit. So I’m thinking you’ll get a decent grade in your unofficial “crash course” even if you’re a bit sleepy during your final exam. But just in case, I’ll provide you with a mini cheat sheet. Here are the right answers to five of the most challenging test questions: 1. People who never break anything will never learn how to make lasting creations. 2. A mirror is not just an excellent tool for self-defense, but also a tremendous asset in your quest for power over yourself.

3. The less you hide the truth, the smarter you’ll be. 4. The well-disciplined shall inherit the Earth. 5. You often meet your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Keeping the language alive

by Rob Brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Hubble

Space Telescope has taken 700,000 photos of deep space. Because it’s able to record details that are impossible to capture from the Earth’s surface, it has dramatically enhanced astronomers’ understanding of stars and galaxies. This miraculous technology got off to a rough start, however. Soon after its launch, scientists realized that there was a major flaw in its main mirror.

Fortunately, astronauts were eventually able to correct the problem in a series of complex repair jobs. It’s quite possible, Libra, that you will benefit from a Hubblelike augmentation of your vision in the next nine months. Right from the beginning, make sure there are no significant defects in the fundamentals of your big expansion.

by Shannon Rooney rooney.shannon@ gmail.com Wallace Clark is part Maidu Indian and the teacher-speaker of the Koyomk’awi Maidu dialect of the North Fork of the Feather River people, a dialect unique to that area of the Concow Valley (Maidu has a variety of dialects).

Clark and his nephew, Butte College anthropology student Matthew Williford (whom Clark has been teaching), and a few others are working to keep this dialect alive by organizing language camps at Concow Lake. The next one will be held this weekend, Aug. 17-19. For more info, contact Clark at konkowvalley@att.net.

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

people, sweating is regarded as an indelicate act that should be avoided or hidden. But there are others for whom sweating is a sign of health and vigor. In Egyptian culture, for example, “How do you sweat?” is a common salutation. In the coming weeks, Scorpio, I encourage you to align yourself with the latter attitude. It won’t be a time to try to impress anyone with how cool and dignified you are. Rather, success is more likely to be yours if you’re not only eager to sweat but also willing to let people see you sweat. Exert yourself. Extend yourself. Show how much you care.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount,” wrote poet Antonio Porchia. “The exact amount is no use to me.” I suggest you try adopting that badass attitude in the coming days, Sagittarius. Be a bit contrarian but with humor and style. Doing so would, I think, put you in sweet alignment with the impish nature of the vibes swirling in your vicinity.

If you summon just the right amount of devil-may-care jauntiness, you’ll be likely to get the most out of the cosmic jokes that will unfold.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What is

the longest-running lie in your life? Maybe it’s a deception you’ve worked long and hard to hide. Maybe it’s a delusion you’ve insisted on believing in. Or perhaps it’s just a wish you keep thinking will come true one day, even though there’s scant evidence it ever will. Whatever that big drain on your energy is, Capricorn, now would be a good time to try changing your relationship with it. I can’t say for sure that you’ll be able to completely transform it overnight. But if you marshal a strong intention, you will be able to get the process underway.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may

have heard the theory that somewhere there is a special person who is your other half—the missing part of you. In D.H. Lawrence’s version of this fantasy, the two of you were a single angel that divided in two before you were born. Personally, I don’t buy it. The experiences of everyone I’ve ever known suggest there are many possible soulmates for each of us. So here’s my variation on the idea: Any good intimate relationship generates an “angel”—a spirit that the two partners create together. This is an excellent time for you to try out this hypothesis, Aquarius. As you interact with your closest ally, imagine that a third party is with you: your mutual angel.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming

weeks, you’ll be wise to shed your emotional baggage and purge your useless worries and liberate yourself from your attachments to the old days and the old ways. In other words, clear out a lot of free, fresh space.

And when you’re finished doing that, Pisces, don’t hide away in a dark corner feeing vulnerable and sensitive and stripped bare.

Rather, situate yourself in the middle of a fertile hub and prepare to consort with new playmates, unexpected adventures, and interesting blessings. One of my readers, Reya Mellicker, sums up the right approach: “Be empty, not like the bowl put away in the cupboard, but like the bowl on the counter, cereal box above, waiting to receive.”

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15 MINUTES

BREZSNY’S

For the week of August 16, 2012

How did you learn your tribe’s dialect?

I was introduced to it approximately 22 years ago, when I was an administrator for one of the local Maidu tribes. I acquainted myself with the elders at their center where we met for lunch. I got to know quite a few of the elders who were with us in those days, including Mary Wagner Jones, and she and I would go over to a Maidu family where they’d get together and talk. I was blessed by being able to be around all of that in those days. That gave me the basis for the language.

Do you have access to information about your dialect?

We can go online and seek some of the information out. There’s still a lot where you have to go to the university and complete research there. Some of it is archived at UC Berkeley. In Colorado, there’s a place where a lot of Indian

information is catalogued. Some of our old songs are stored over there and also at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

What is your tribal role?

I am the linguist for the tribe. What I have done for the past 20-some-odd years is to keep studying the Koyomk’awi Maidu dialect.

I’ve recently returned from the Breath of Life Conference at UC Berkeley, which was a week of intense research.

What else are you doing to keep the dialect alive?

From spring to autumn, we conduct language camps at Concow Lake. One weekend out of the month we dedicate a weekend-long class for the language. To date, we’ve had approximately 40 people who have committed to learning the language. The majority of those are children, which tickles us pink because it’s fairly hard to teach an adult a new language!

How has learning the dialect affected you?

When you start studying the language, it becomes apparent how the ancestors saw the world around them. This gives us a reference for cultural identity.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Anthology I’m going to submit work for possible inclusion in an anthology. Good. The problem is what to submit.

I have a problem with submission and the judgment that it provokes. I suppose that’s why I loathe résumés. When I had to have a résumé to apply for a job, the hard part was deciding how I wanted to present myself, what to emphasize, what to omit.

This is a little like that, having to guess how a stranger will react to what I present. I like submissions better than résumés, though, because the submissions are my work. The essays I send in are what I actually do. My résumé is brief descriptions of what I’ve done, and although it and my work are both verbal and are examples of my wordsmithing, a résumé is not my work.

So how do I pick what to send? I know which book is my favorite, but From the Edge is close to 300 essays, and, frankly, they’re all a blur from here. Once in a great while a Gentle Reader finds some niggling reason to disagree with my views. Do I submit the essays that provoked a reaction? Maybe, but there

have been few that anybody responded to at all.

Mostly, writing these is like kissing a battleship— there’s no detectable response—so maybe it might be better to stick to the pieces I like and not think about how the reader, this time an editor, might react, which is how I usually write them to begin with.

I don’t know what sticks in your minds, so I figure a balance of sorts is my best bet—win, place, and show. When I started going through my files I noticed how my political writing has dropped off. I read a couple of those old things, and, although I pretty much think the same way as I did when I wrote it, I don’t know that I’d write the same things today. I’d rather not think about, say, the Butte County Board of Avengers any more, but already I’m thinking about them, and now you are too. I’m sorry.

I feel like I should include one or two about my estate—the garden, dead cats, and all. I’ve got a couple of old ones about my sons that I like, except now my sons read my stuff and they’re a lot larger. I’ll send something about my practice and our old dog and excessive use of the word “but,” all evergreen. Or I could send the ones that still make me laugh.

Absolutely.

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