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Another bad pot plan On Tuesday, Aug. 28, beginning at 1 p.m., the Butte County

Board of Supervisors will consider another ordinance regulating the cultivation of medical marijuana. This one is certain to elicit even more opposition than the board’s earlier ordinance that was overturned by referendum in the June election. If the voters who soundly rejected that ordinance did so because they agreed with the organizers of the referendum that it was overly restrictive, they’re likely to be even less fond of the new proposal, which asks them to make some serious trade-offs. On one hand, the ordinance eliminates most restrictions on the number of plants that can be grown. Instead it limits the size of growing areas: 50 square feet on parcels smaller than an acre and 150 square feet on parcels of one to five acres. On parcels larger than five acres, the growing area can be any size, but no more than 99 plants can be grown. The big difference is that these plants cannot be grown outdoors like tomatoes. They must be enclosed in a secure structure equipped with a county-approved ventilation and filtration system that keeps the odor of mature plants from being smelled from the outside, an expensive requirement. What’s noticeably missing from the new ordinance is any sense that the supervisors were willing to compromise with the voting majority. Their sympathies clearly lie with those who complain about marijuana gardens, not those who depend on the herb for medical relief. We aren’t holding our breath that they will be more respectful of the democratic process at their meeting Tuesday, but we certainly hope so. Ω

Teachers and their bosses Idecades, finishing out a four-decade teaching career there. Except for the actual teaching, it wasn’t a particularly pleastaught English at Butte College for nearly two

ant experience. The faculty politics were pretty gnarly, the administration seemed pretty clueless about what teachers actually do, and the sense that those bosses actually took much interest in what was going on in the classrooms was fairly hard to come by. Lots of people outside of the teaching profession know the observation about office politics, the one that compares staff to mushrooms, kept in the dark and covered with manure. That was largely the relationship between teachers and adminby istrators I knew at Butte, a loose associaJaime O’Neill tion with people who made lots more The author is a money for doing things that often seemed frequent contributor like they didn’t need to be done. to the CN&R. His The distance between administration previous guest comment, “Oh, and faculty was somewhat ironically (expletive deleted) compounded by the twice-a-year events ’em all,” appeared in in which administrators gathered the facthe June 21 issue. ulty for mandatory meetings that invariably included lots of generalized plaudits about what a great bunch we were and what a great job we were doing, immediately followed by the directive that there was no use in our asking for anything that might involve money because the cupboard was bare. 4 CN&R August 23, 2012

That bit of bad news was then followed by reports about some expensive administrative retreat that had put our remote overseers in touch with some consultant or other who would then take the podium to tell us how to improve what we did. These slick hustlers were usually people rather like the administrators who’d contracted with them to come speak to us. Most of them had a brief acquaintance with the classroom, didn’t like it much, then found greener pastures as consultants with enough chutzpah to tell teachers who actually liked teaching how to do it better. Suffice it to say, those gatherings set up to kick off each semester were monumentally dispiriting events guaranteed to diminish the enthusiasm many of us had gathered for the return to school. I cannot speak for other teachers I worked with, though I suspect I do when I say that any good teaching I ever did was done in spite of administrators, never because of them. And that remote and/or adversarial relationship between teachers and administrators seems like something that could be fixed, though I don’t know how. It might help, however, if the differential of pay and perks were not so wide, and if all or most of the administrators still had to teach as part of their responsibilities. Ω

Romney-Ryan’s con game Here’s what you should know about the Romney-Ryan budget

plan: It doesn’t do what it claims to do, which is reduce the deficit. In fact, it won’t even produce a balanced budget until 2040, if then. In the meantime it will devastate the services the poor and the elderly depend on, like Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, and increase taxes on the middle class while boosting spending on the military and cutting taxes on the wealthy. You think Mitt Romney’s 13.9-percent tax payment is too low? Under the Romney-Ryan plan, it would be less than 1 percent. That’s because the plan eliminates taxes on capital gains, including the so-called “carried interest” on investment profits, the source of most of Romney’s vast wealth. In other words, the plan is Robin Hood in reverse, a con game that, in the name of prosperity, takes from the poor and gives to the rich, who already have the greatest share of wealth since the Gilded Age. The Romney-Ryan plan would end Medicare as we know it, substituting a voucher system that is guaranteed to shift costs onto seniors, as much as $6,400 annually, according to the Congressional Budget Office. By contrast, the Affordable Care Act saves money by reducing payments to hospitals and other providers, money they will make up by having more insured patients. The Romney-Ryan plan is indefensible, so instead the candidates are attacking President Obama, charging he’s “cutting Medicare” and taking money from seniors’ pockets. That’s false and they know it, just as they know their charges about the president’s welfare-to-work proposals are false. Paul Ryan talks a good game, but his numbers don’t add up. He’s got lots of ideas, but as a whole they don’t work. And Mitt Romney has no ideas of his own. This is a dangerous combination, and it’s why these men seeking the highest offices in the land are telling what they know are falsehoods. Our guess is that President Obama is looking forward to his debates with Mitt Romney. It’s harder to lie about your opponent when he’s standing on the same stage. Ω

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Musical chairs For those who watch city government for its entertainment value, last week was a good show. Almost simultaneously, it seemed, the Chico City Council picked a new city manager, Brian Nakamura, to replace the retiring Dave Burkland, and the Biggs City Council picked Chico Councilman Mark Sorensen to be that town’s new city administrator. What do the events have in common, besides Sorensen? Why, none other than Tom Lando, who’s become a one-man human-resources agency since his retirement as Chico city manager. It was Lando who squired Nakamura around town—the two have known each other for years—when the latter was here for his interview, and it was Lando who managed the hiring process in Biggs, where he was serving as interim city administrator. Lando also had a hand in former Chico Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jim Goodwin’s being hired as Live Oak’s city manager in 2008. At the time Lando was interim city manager there as well. And Sorensen tells me Lando also had a role in getting Pete Carr—the previous city administrator in Biggs and the man Sorensen replaced—his new gig as Orland city manager. Lando’s “got a great track record of finding good people,” Sorensen said with a laugh. In choosing Nakamura, who is currently city manager of Hemet, in Riverside County, the Chico council passed on John Rucker, the current assistant city manager, who’d made no secret of his desire for the job. Rucker’s a team player, but there’s sure to be some awkwardness, at least at first. Nakamura is highly experienced, so his selection was no surprise. Sorensen, on the other hand, has worked exclusively in the private sector, the last 22 years as the owner of ACC Satellite. His only governing experience has been a stint as a Chico planning commissioner and less than two years on the council. But Sorensen’s a smart guy and should do well—Biggs has only nine employees, after all, compared to Chico’s nearly 400. Asked whether he intended to stay on the council, Sorensen replied, “There’s no reason not to.” He said he’s seen how Scott Gruendl’s job as director of health services in Glenn County has benefited him as a councilman. But Sorensen may have to adjust his conservatism slightly to accommodate one noteworthy factor about Biggs: It has socialized utilities! As its website proudly proclaims, it’s “Where the People Own the Water and the Power.” Like its neighbor Gridley, Biggs has enjoyed municipal power for decades. And guess what: These socialized utilities charge less than their private-sector peers like PG&E. That’s because they exist for the benefit of their customers, not stockholders. Not only that, Biggs’ power is sustainable! More than 60 percent of it comes from renewable sources, including a geothermal steam field in Lake County that the city partially owns. Socialism and sustainability—now there’s a concept!

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Freedom Summer’s legacy Re “Freedom Summer in the segregated South” (Cover story, by Jaime O’Neill, Aug. 16): Thanks for your excellent article on Freedom Summer. While almost a lost chapter in our history, for those of us who participated that summer it was truly a life-changing experience. I too remember Rita Schwerner’s words about the missing volunteers, and her prophetic words that they would not be found alive are burned in my memory, too. At a recent Freedom Summer reunion in Oxford, Miss., I was able to reassure Robert Moses that all of us had done much soulsearching and knew what we were getting in for and, although we were not looking to be martyrs, the great injustices that we recognized called for great sacrifice. When I was arrested in Laurel, Miss., a couple of weeks later and not too many miles from the location of the murders, I knew that I was doing what I had to do to try to help bring the attention of the country to the conditions particularly (but not solely) in the South. We must remember, however, that the work is not yet done—hatred and violence are still with us, even locally. My work in Freedom Summer still ranks among my most important life’s experiences. MARCIA MOORE Chico

Jaime O’Neill’s cover story was very powerful, very touching, and very well written. The vivid descriptions of the ferocity with which many white Americans have clung to white privilege are an important reminder of some of the ugliness of the American past. And, as Robert Speer points out in his column [“Today’s modern poll tax,” From This Corner], Mr. O’Neill’s article is very relevant for today; as Republicans try to disenfranchise as many black and other minority voters as possible; some of our past American ugliness is still present. I am not as courageous as Ms. Duncanwood. But in the summer of 1964 I helped register voters in a black ghetto of Los Angeles. One of the routine questions on the registration form concerned birthplace. I remember being amazed at how many of the registrants were originally from the South. Most of us, except for Native Americans, are descendants of immigrants. African Americans, however, were brought here against their will, as slaves. Many of their descendants later became “immigrants,” leaving the South and its institutionalized discrimination and hatred to seek the American Dream elsewhere in the United States. Mr. O’Neill’s article and Mr. Speer’s column are reminders that the American Dream LETTERS continued on page 6

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will be taken in the November elections to stop any like-minded candidate from membership on the board. The rush to adopt this new ordinance is obvious, and the voters will certainly be slapped in the face once again at the Aug. 28 meeting when it is adopted regardless of the lack of adequate venue, overwhelming opposition and inadequate vetting process. I would encourage the supervisors to capitalize on this opportunity by rethinking their actions. GARRY COOPER Durham

Looser laws, less crime Re “Supervisors got it right” (Letters, by Tom Fitzwater, Aug. 16): Tom uses economics as a justification that pot causes crime. It’s like saying solar panels are expensive and people like to steal them, therefore they need to be outlawed. In 1995 cannabis sold for $5,000 a pound due to heavy policing and unforgiving laws against it. People ripped it off back then, too. There are far fewer cannabisoriented robberies per grower these days. Relaxed liberal laws on cannabis reduce its value, and it is worth less than 20 percent of what it was in 1995, when you take inflation into account. That allows law enforcement to concentrate on meth, domestic violence, car thieves and other such crimes. The trimmers and processors of cannabis make $15-$35 an hour, bringing increased revenue to the area. My tax money is being wasted on a plant that’s less dangerous than coffee or tobacco just to punish citizens for daring to resist an irrational government policy. KEVIN DURKIN Chico

Correction Due to an editing error, our Newslines article last week, “‘Zombie’ drug hits Chico,” states that, following that infamous Florida face-eating incident, only marijuana had been found “in the victim’s system.” It should have read “the assailant’s system.” The error has been corrected online.—ed.

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The huge pile of fly ash on property off Hicks Lane in north Chico is slated for transport to a Wheatland landfill beginning today, Aug. 23. It’s been there since 2008. The estimated 19,000 tons of dioxin- and metal-containing ash was traced to the Covanta Energy-owned Pacific Oroville Power Inc. facility in Oroville’s Highway 70 Industrial Park. Tests on the ash were conducted by the Butte County District Attorney’s Office working with the Butte Environmental Council. According to the DA, testing revealed metal levels above what’s acceptable for agricultural use and wildlife exposure and the dioxins levels are above community health standards and for wildlife. Tests have also indicated that dioxins have been located on adjacent wetlands. And it is not clear how many orchards have used the ash as a soil amendment in the past four years. Covanta will be moving the ash as part of a settlement with the DA’s office.

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While firefighters have mostly contained the Reading and Mill fires, they have their hands full with a new blaze between Manton and Shingletown that has destroyed about 50 structures. The Ponderosa Fire, which was ignited by lightning strike on Saturday (Aug. 18), has grown to 24,324 acres and was 50 percent contained at last report, according to multiple media sources. Fire officials say about 200 structures remain in danger, and of those already destroyed, many are believed to be homes. Meanwhile, the Chips Fire in Plumas County has grown to 62,541 acres and mandatory evacuations are in place in Canyon Dam, Big Meadows and Prattville. Firefighters had the Reading Fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park fully contained on Tuesday evening (Aug. 21) and the Mill Fire— burning northwest of Butte Meadows in Tehama County—reportedly will be fully contained by tonight.

SORENSEN GETS BIGGS GIG

Chico Councilman Mark Sorensen (pictured) has a new job: city administrator in Biggs. The Biggs City Council selected him for the position on Tuesday, Aug. 14, after interviewing four candidates. Although the 51-year-old Sorensen, who’s owned ACC Satellite for 22 years, has never worked in the public sector, he was a Chico planning commissioner for two years and has been on the council for 20 months. He started work Tuesday. “It’s like the first day of school,” he said in a phone interview that morning. Already, he said, “there’s no shortage of irons in the fire.” In particular, he was going through the paperwork to register the city with the California Air Resources Board pursuant to its new cap-and-trade program. Sorensen fills the seat vacated by Pete Carr, who is now city manager in Orland. The job will be a challenge, Sorensen said, but one he welcomes. He intends to continue on the Chico council, he said. 8 CN&R August 23, 2012

Shelton said bar patrons threw bottles through his front window, which cost $900 to replace. PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

Feud on Park Avenue Park Avenue resident and Maltese Bar owner squabble over alleged noise violations

F 16th Street and Park Avenue has been ground zero in a battle between a man who has

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filed more than 160 noise complaints and a bar owner who claims those efforts are tantamount to harassment. On one side of the issue— by Ken Smith and the street—is Bill Shelton, a local historian, antiques kens@ dealer and retired Butte Counnewsreview.com ty Jail guard. On the other is the Maltese Bar and Tap Room, owned since April 2010 by Angela Lombardi. Shelton charges that noise and related problems from the bar have caused him sleepless nights and damage to his home. He further says that rising noise levels incite other crimes—even murder. “I live behind locked gates now because the neighborhood has gotten so bad,” said Shelton, who owns and occupies the historic Bruce/Post Home, a three-story house built in 1906. “Over the years there’ve been four murders in or related to that bar, and if things keep going as they are there’s going to be another one.” The murders Shelton attributes to the bar happened decades ago, before the building was known as the Maltese; it has been a bar—formerly known as the Pastime Pub and 99 Club—since the 1950s. When asked to explain the statement, and its relevance to the present day, he said, “Every one of those crimes was because of hype and noise that elevated people to do things. “It starts with a crack in the sidewalk or a broken window, and if you let it go untended it becomes a slum. In every area, noise that has

gone untended has bred other things. In law enforcement, you learn that.” Shelton says he’s not alone in his battle: “I have a petition of over 200 names of people who hate that bar because of the noise,” he said. He also claims Alcoholic Beverage Control has the bar “in its sights” and has an impending 72-hour shutdown order against the Maltese. Shelton says he’s not at liberty to share the petition or other documentation, but that the Chico Police Department and ABC’s Redding office can substantiate his claims. The Maltese-Shelton feud is indeed well known to police and many in the community. At a Feb. 22 informational meeting about proposed changes to the city’s noise ordinance, a woman brought up the situation as an example of people making unfair noise complaints. Chico Police Lt. Linda Dye said police were aware of it and do not support the man’s campaign against the Maltese. In an Aug. 15 phone interview, Dye said she had spoken with officials at ABC earlier that morning, and they informed her there is no pending action against the bar. She also said the Maltese is zoned for commercial use, and therefore a non-issue in the ongoing noiseordinance debate, which affects residential disputes. “I feel like, as a business owner, I

don’t have any protection from this guy,” said the Maltese’s owner, Angela Lom-

bardi. “We’ve had to change our entire business plan to appease one person.” She explains she relocated from Washington, D.C. (where she still lives and works part time) and bought the Maltese to be a full-time music venue. The community’s support of arts and music was her initial attraction to Chico, she says. However, due to the ongoing complaints, the bar has had to limit its performers to mostly acoustic acts, which she says has hurt her business. Lombardi first heard rumors of a problematic neighbor as the sale of the bar was being finalized, and she received the first of many threatening messages from the man she alleges has openly stated his desire to “see the Maltese bulldozed.” “I took the initiative to go introduce myself, let him know who I am and give him access to me to avoid any of the problems the previous owners were having. I have nothing to hide … we run a super chill, low-maintenance, low-issue bar.” Lombardi and Shelton had a series of lunch meetings to negotiate an agreement. She says she offered to install double-paned windows throughout his house, which he rejected. A number of uneasy and short-lived peaces have been established the past two years, Lombardi said, with the bar conceding to limit events and take other measures to decrease noise. The complaints always start again.

“There’s been nights when the doorman has watched him walk out, get in his car and drive away, and then file complaints when he’s not even home, and on nights when we don’t have any music at all,” she said. Shelton has a different take on his interactions with Lombardi, stating he has “no respect for that woman.” He said he did have lunch with her a few times, but denies she made any offers to improve his home or compromise, claiming instead she was hostile. “She told me she was going to have music 24/7 and ‘F’ me, she didn’t care,” he said. “When we got back to the house [after a lunch meeting], she dropped me off, handed me a bag and said she’d bought me a present. It was earplugs, and she said, ‘Live with it.’ That was her parting message to me.” Shelton contends that Lombardi

responded to his complaints by starting a “turf war,” slandering him and inciting her customers to damage his property (he charged a large front window was broken and his front fence damaged three times). Lombardi says Shelton has distributed at least one flier citing the historical murders and number of complaints to label the bar a nuisance. “It was so insane that I think most rational people wouldn’t take it seriously, but it was definitely done with the intent of hurting the business,” she said. Shelton denies distributing the fliers and, responding to a copy of one provided by Maltese staff, saying it was his handwriting but that he didn’t write it, as he was not a part of the organization that signed it (the “S/W Normal Street Neighborhood Watch”). He says noise was his concern above all other issues. When asked if he thought 161 noise complaints was excessive, he said: “Not at all, because it’s working,” noting that DJs and live music have largely quieted, but noise from the patio is still unbearable. He complained most recently on Aug. 5. Only one written warning—on the bar’s opening weekend—has been issued, and the Maltese has never been cited. “There have been times we responded and noise was audible across the street, and there’ve been times that we haven’t heard anything,” said Chico Police Sgt. Rob Merrifield, noting police are obligated to respond to every complaint. “I don’t believe we’ve had any problems there in terms of calls for service or any crime at that location,” he said. Merrifield says he hasn’t checked the Maltese issue for some time, but acknowledges that all or an overwhelming majority of complaints against the bar have come from Shelton. “Other than the noise complaints, there’ve been no issues.” Ω

Brian Nakamura will start his new job in Chico on Sept. 2.

Meet the boss

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Hemet officials not happy that their city manager is coming to Chico Perhaps it says something about Brian Nakamura’s attractiveness as an administrator that officials in the Riverside County city of Hemet, where he’s now city manager, were unhappy to learn he’d been interviewed for the city manager job in Chico. Nakamura quickly sought to reassure them, but then, just a few weeks later, on Aug. 15, he got the Chico job and was forced to tell the people of Hemet that he would be stepping down as city manager there. Nakamura, 47, is set to start Sept. 4, the Tuesday following Labor Day weekend. In a brief interview this week he said he was looking forward to the job and had kept his eye on the Chico city manager position for some time. “I’ve been following openings for Chico for the past 10 years,” he said, “back to when the former city manager, Tom Lando, was there. Then Greg Jones was offered the position and then again when Dave Burkland was hired.” Nakamura was one of 50 applicants and six finalists for the job and the only one whose name was made public during the hiring process. A company called Avery Associates out of Los Gatos conducted the recruiting and advised that it be done out of public view so that the applicants’ employers wouldn’t learn of their intentions to leave for greener pastures. Avery advertised the job as a challenge that included overseeing a $43 million budget and nearly 400 full-time employees in a city that would be negotiating new contracts come December. “Maintaining the positive relationships that currently exist with the

That seemed to be the end of the story,

workforce will be of paramount importance and will be largely reliant on the credibility and trust established by the manager,” reads the job announcement. Word of Nakamura’s application for

the Chico job was published in the CN&R in July, causing a bit of a stir in Hemet. This reporter heard about him from a local business owner, who said Lando had brought Nakamura into his shop while on a tour of downtown. Lando confirmed that info, noting he was a longtime acquaintance of Nakamura. Political reporter Kevin Pearson of the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper brought word of Nakamura’s intentions to light, forcing him to answer to the Hemet City Council. According to Pearson, Nakamura told the council, “I was asked to come up there, share with the [Chico] council my experience on how we made our city a wonderful place, and that’s it. That’s where I’m at.” Pearson reported that Nakamura said he had spoken to several Hemet City Council members “to let them know of the situation. He said his focus was on Hemet and should a call come, it would not be an easy decision.” “I told them my commitment is 110 percent here,” Nakamura told Pearson. “My focus is to continue to serve Hemet to the best of my ability. I’m committed to Hemet.”

SIFT|ER Closer look at tuition Parents of students currently attending the California State University have been facing sticker shock when it comes to paying their kids’ tuition. That’s because they’re looking at writing a pretty fat check nowadays. Back in 1981-82, when many of those parents were themselves CSU students, full-time attendees paid $251 for a year. Today, CSU tuition costs $2,985 per semester. But factor in all of the campus fees, and the price tag jumps dramatically. Chico State, for example, charges eight fees that, when totaled, tack on additional $734. Check it out:

Tuition fee: ID card fee: A.S. activity fee: Student union fee: Health facilities fee: Health services fee: Instructionally related activity fee: Instructionally related activity fee—Athletics: Material services and facilities fee: Total tuition and fees:

$2,985 $2 $63 $373 $3 $129 $43 $90 $31 $3,719.

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but of course it wasn’t. Last week Pearson wrote that Nakamura “shocked city officials Wednesday [Aug. 15] when he announced that he has accepted the city manager’s job in Chico.” Nakamura has served as Hemet’s city manager for three years, after a stint as city manager in the Riverside County community of Banning. “I had a difficult time with this because of the direction we are heading in Hemet,” Nakamura was quoted in the story. “This was a very difficult decision.” The story also reported Nakamura would be paid $217,000 a year in Chico, up from his $205,000 Hemet salary and a substantial increase over Burkland’s $181,000 annual paycheck. Nakamura said the way the news of his pending departure played out was awkward, but not unexpected for someone living in the public limelight. “That’s always a dilemma,” he said, “but Chico to me is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I could not resist, and I’m honored to have the opportunity.” The fact he was hired on a unanimous vote by a normally idealogically split Chico City Council probably speaks well for the man. Mayor Ann Schwab, who is among the panel’s liberal majority, said Nakamura’s wealth of experience will greatly benefit Chico and that his $217,000 salary is the result of a highly competitive market. “We felt we wanted to have the best city manager for the city of Chico,” Schwab said. Councilmember Mark Sorensen, a conservative, also lauded Nakamura, telling Chico Enterprise-Record Editor David Little, “He can speak in details about anything we asked him. That was not always the case [with other candidates].” Nakamura said he has both cities in his best interest. “I am still here and committed to Hemet to my last day,” he said. “I know it’s hard to envision it to be like a light switch, where you can turn off one job and jump into another one, but the positions are pretty much similar.” Nakamura, who was born and rasied in Lodi, said he has no friends or relatives in Chico, but his wife has family in Sacramento. The couple have two sons, one who just finished his master’s degree at Fresno State and another who just entered UC Riverside. Schwab said the family has found a temporary home until they figure out which neighborhood they’d like live in permanently. “As people get to know him, when they get to meet him, I hope they’ll support the council’s decision in finding the city manager that this city deserves,” the mayor said. —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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Local businessman Michael Reilley reminded the council that smoking was already prohibited in City Plaza and Children’s Playground, adding that people smoke there anyway, both cigarettes and “medicine.” “This is a feel-good ordinance,” he said. “The city has no money to enforce it, and if you’re not going to enforce it, why pass it?” Councilman Bob Evans was similarly unsure. Saying he’d had family members affected by smoking, he nevertheless thought it was a “rights” issue. “Smokers have a right to be unhealthy,” he said. But it was soon clear that a majority of the council members favored instituting some kind of ordinance. Although both the Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Chico Business Association oppose a city ban on smoking in entryways, many local businesses are supportive. Enforcement wasn’t the issue, Councilwoman Mary Goloff said. An ordinance, combined with education outreach and signage, would give local businesses the tools they need to police their doorways, she said. “The condition of our downtown sidewalks is among the top 10 public concerns,” said Councilman Scott Gruendl. Noting that the city prohibited panhandling near certain businesses, he said “the responsibility for public health isn’t the Chamber’s or the DCBA’s, it’s the city’s. … We need to make sure downtown is familyfriendly.” He suggested that 20 feet might be more than necessary, noting that cigarette smoke becomes noticeable at 13 feet. Ultimately, the council voted 5-2, with Evans and Councilman Mark Sorensen dissenting, to authorize city staff to draft a public

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smoking ordinance. In other council news: The council unanimously approved a contract with Brian Nakamura as Chico’s new city manager, while thanking Dave Burkland for his service. But the subject came up again, during the “business from the floor” segment of the meeting, when Chris Nicodemus addressed the council. He’s a detective with the county Sheriff’s Office who often criticizes the council for failing to fund the Police Department sufficiently. This time he held up several recent issues of the Chico EnterpriseRecord that featured front-page stories about crimes, charging that convicts are being “dumped” here and the public is at risk. Nakamura cut the police force drastically in Hemet, he said, and yet the council is paying him nearly $40,000 more than Burkland. When, he asked, are you going to explain that to the public? Following the meeting, I asked Mayor Ann Schwab and Councilman Gruendl about that. Schwab praised Nakamura’s experience, noting he’d held five city manager positions in 15 years. “The city of Chico deserves the best,” she said. Five jobs in 15 years? Does that connote commitment? “That was clearly a concern we had,” Gruendl replied. “But [Nakamura] was looking for a place to finish out his career and retire. He appreciated how previous city managers [like Tom Lando] had stuck around.” And the salary? “We were at a disadvantage in negotiations,” Gruendl replied, “because of the [July 19] article in the CN&R [about Nakamura’s interview visit to Chico]. “I’m not blaming the paper, but that made it more difficult.” —ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com

Paradise man will run Perennial Town Council candidate refuses to quit the race Stanley McEtchin has run for Paradise Town Council five times since 2000, usually finishing at the back of the pack. In the first campaign he finished eighth out of nine candidates, gaining 7.6 percent of the votes. In 2004 he finished dead last with 7.7 percent of the votes. Two years ago he received just 2.8 percent of the votes. The 88-year-old McEtchin was not discouraged by these shortfalls and is running again in a field of four candidates vying for three seats on the five-member council. The other candidates are incumbent Steve Culleton, Greg Bolin and John Rawlings. Recently, however, someone called McEtchin and asked him to pull out of the race, saying that if only three candidates vied for the three open seats an election would not be needed, and that would save the town $35,000 it would otherwise have to pay Butte County to organize the vote. McEtchin was not pleased by the request. “The person who called said, ‘We have a consortium, and we’d like you pull out so we can be put in office,” he said. “I really don’t like that kind of thing.” He would not name the caller. “I thought that was something below the belt,” he said. “I can’t give his name because I don’t do that kind of thing, I don’t want to get anybody in trouble.” McEtchin says he is a World War II vet, a marine engineer, refrigeration and electrical technician, business adviser, welder and gate maker. And he makes kinetic sculptures from junk. Dozens of his creations sit in the yard and field next to his southwest Paradise home, where he’s lived for the past 20 years with his fourth wife, Eileen. “I ain’t an artist, I just do artwork,” he said. He came here from Seattle for health reasons related to his work installing refrigeration on ships. He continues to work daily as a repairman. Last week that included fixing an ice machine at a local bar. “I was talking to a guy at the bar,” he said, “and I told him that I still drink beer, but only out of a shot glass.”

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Stan McEtchin and some of the artwork that graces his Paradise home. PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

McEtchin said he’s never expected

to win a seat on the council. Running is a way to get his ideas out into the public. He’s never actively campaigned, choosing instead to go to candidate forums like those held by the League of Women Voters to air his ideas. “This has nothing to do with politics,” he said of his refusal to drop out. “It’s the American way. If they don’t hold an election, these people get appointed just like in a fascist system. People have no say in who’s going to be in office. But if I stay in there they are gonna have to have the election. I don’t say I’ll get elected, but they are going to have to listen to me because this time I am going to campaign.” He joked that he considered asking the person who called him to pay him to drop out. “They didn’t offer me any money to buy me off,” he said. “I was going to do that, but I thought I better not. You know, ‘Give me 10 grand and I’ll pull out.’ ” He’s got sewer plans that don’t include connecting with the Chico sewage plant, a plan that has been discussed by both municipalities. His plan calls for the use of gray water, effluent that’s been treated to reduce the water to a useable state for irrigation and maybe even human consumption. Is he being listened to on this? “Not really,” he said. “People think I’m a nut. I don’t care. If we get it done, we get it done.” And he thinks a sculpture park in town would draw tourists. He said as many as 200 people a month come through in the summer and take pictures of his art work. “Now if we had a park that would bring more people in,” he said. “We get people from Germany, Holland and from all over coming here to look at this junk.” His wife says she supports her husband’s political efforts. Standing on her front porch on a recent smoky day in Paradise, waiting for her husband to come home from work, Eileen smiled. “We just play characters,” she said. “We like to make life interesting.” —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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GREENWAYS An easy-to-make bee house such as this one can provide much-needed refuge for native bees.

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On Aug. 12, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon outlined a plan to protect the world’s oceans from the “grave threat” of pollution, over-fishing, rising sea levels and global warming. During a speech at the 30th anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, Ban unveiled his “Oceans Compact” initiative, aimed at improving the health of the oceans and more closely regulating their management via a highlevel advisory group consisting of senior policymakers, scientists, ocean experts, private-sector representatives and leaders of various U.N. organizations. “Ocean acidification [from absorbed carbon emissions] is eating into the very basis of our ocean life, and sea level rise threatens to re-draw the global map at the expense of hundreds of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people,” Ban said.

SPACE FLIGHT AND GLOBAL WARMING

The suborbital flights soon to be offered by Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson’s spacetourism venture, won’t be as eco-friendly as the company claims. A simulation study published in Geophysical Research Letters found the solid-fuel rockets used on Virgin’s spacecraft are remarkably efficient in terms of carbon-dioxide emissions, but the black soot they will release into the stratosphere could have a global warming effect 140,000 times worse than their carbon output, according to Truth-Out.org. A summary of the same study, published in the journal Nature, said 1,000 spaceflights a year “could increase polar surface temperatures by 1 degree Celsius and reduce polar sea-ice by 5 [percent] to 15 percent.” Virgin Galactic has already taken $70 million in deposits from 536 passengers, who were charged $200,000 for three future minutes in space. The company has yet to confirm a launch date.

SALMON RETURN, BUT NOT FOR GOOD?

A decade-long high of 800,000 salmon are expected to run up the Sacramento River this year, compared to a low of 100,000 several years ago. But a $2 million California Hatchery Review Project study compiled by a panel of 11 fishery experts over a period of two years warned California’s boom-and-bust cycle is likely to repeat itself, according to The Sacramento Bee. As 90 percent of the returning salmon are hatched in one of eight hatcheries along the Sacramento, Trinity and Klamath rivers, interbreeding has reduced the salmon’s ability to survive environmental disruptions. The authors suggested discontinuing the practice of trucking young fish to San Francisco Bay, which improves their chances of survival by avoiding the predators and pollution in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but ends up weakening their instincts to return to their birthplace to spawn. California’s Department of Fish and Game may begin adopting some of the report’s recommendations this fall. 12 CN&R August 23, 2012

Bee house, sweet bee house Help the struggling native-bee population by building a bee house in your back yard by

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O colony collapse disorder has devastated honeybee populations, claiming almost ver the last several years,

a third of America’s hives. It’s not just honeybees that have suffered. Gardens and farms nationwide are humming with thousands of native bee species, many of them just as important—and just as threatened— as the honeybee. While scientists work to pinpoint the causes of colony collapse, anyone with a yard or garden can help native bees, including the sweat bee, the orchard mason bee and the bumblebee. One of the best ways to do so is by building a simple bee house where they can find refuge. Consider the humble bumblebee.

Tomatoes (also native to the New World) cannot be pollinated by honeybees, so every bowl of salsa and jar of pasta sauce owes its existence to the stubby bumblebees that pollinate those little, yellow tomato flowers. Why not build a little “Chez Bumble” near the compost pile? Bumblebees need all the help they can get. “Native bee populations have been hammered hard, especially the bumblebees,” says Alan James Molumby, Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor of biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The culprits? Changing agriculture practices and parasites. Every inch of farm

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fields is now plowed and planted, leaving little refuge for native bees. Moreover, honeybees—introduced to the Americas by European settlers—brought with them a host of parasites that have devastated populations of native bees. A bee house offers a welcome refuge. To make one out of a chunk of untreated wood, drill holes at least three inches deep using drill bits of different widths. Then, hang it in a sunny area at least five feet off the ground. (“If you put in the shade, it will fill up with spiders,” Molumby says.) Bumblebees and other native bees will soon take up residence inside the tunnels. Another kind of bee house can be made with an empty clay pot. Plug up the drainage hole in the bottom and lay it topdown on a sunny patch of soil. (The south side of a building or trees tend to be the sunniest.) Use fingers or a shovel to dig little divots under the lip so that bees can

crawl in and out. Alternately, for $20, there are adorable bumblebee houses available online. Once the bee house goes up, leave it alone. An occupied bee house may be defended by residents’ stings. Or maybe not. Native bees tend to be less aggressive than honeybees. Mason bees rarely sting. The males actually lack stingers. Once the bee house is in place and “rented” for the season, gardeners and homeowners can do a number of other things to be a good bee landlord: • Ditch the rototiller:

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ally destroy their homes. Instead, Molumby suggests that gardeners consider adopting a no-till approach. Simply clip off the dried stalks of last year’s crops at ground level without bothering to pull up the roots. This approach requires less work, it helps bees and it leaves other beneficial structures like fungi and earthworm tunnels in place.

UNCOMMON SENSE Staying cool naturally It’s pretty hard to ignore the heat that’s been oppressing us for the past few weeks. As that old religious phrase goes, this too shall pass. But until it does here are some ways to keep cool without cranking up the air conditioning and needlessly gouging Mother Nature’s resources. • Cool your pulse points: The neck, wrists, tops of the feet, inner ankles, inner thighs and temples on the head are all pulse points. When cooled they relay the sensation thoughout the body, bringing down the core temperature. Use a moistened hankerchief of ice cubes. • Stay hydrated: Hydration helps ensure perspiration to keep the core body temperature down. The most effective hydrating drinks are water, herbal teas and natural juices. Coconut juice both hydrates and helps balance electrolytes. • Eat spicy foods: Spicy foods increase perspiration and blood circulation, which help cool core temperatures. • Spritz away the heat: Keep a water-filled spray bottle in the fridge and use it throughout the day. Take it with you when driving to help lay off use of the car’s A/C and the gallons of gas that crank it. • Indulge in peppermint: Peppermint mints and gum can offer a cooling sensation, and a dab of peppermint oil on pulse points helps the body cool down quickly.

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Molumby says that native bees, like their honey-making kin, benefit from a variety of flowers. Flowering native plants will work best because they are precisely the sorts of food sources that native bees evolved with. “Those trays of impatiens and bedding pansies do nothing for pollinators,” Molumby says. In their place, Molumby suggests easy-to-grow natives like sunflowers and members of the mint family. Bees need access to flowers for the whole season, so make sure to plant varieties that will bloom at different times. Keep in mind that bees can be highly specialized in terms of the flowers they feed on. The adorable little squash bee depends upon its namesake plants. So don’t plant squash varieties for just one season; plant them year after year to help build up squash bee populations. Ditto for sunflowers and mint.

•Above all, don’t spray:

“Bees hate artificial pesticides,” Molumby advises. Pesticides targeting other insects can still wreak havoc on bee populations. It seems, for instance, that a group of pesticides aimed at corn pests may trigger colony collapse. Whenever possible, use floating row covers instead of chemical pesticides. Doing so protects more than favorite plants; it also safeguards all the bees in the neighborhood. Ω

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A CLOSER LOOK AT BIRD-BANDING Jon Aull, education coordinator at the Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 E. Eighth St.), told me recently about the new bird-photography exhibit, “Banding by Day and Night,” at the center’s Janeece Webb Living Animal Museum. “Developed by Altacal Audubon Society members [and bird-banders] Steve King, Raina King, and Dawn Garcia, and sponsored by the Altacal Audubon Society, this exhibit gives us a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail, and shows the process of scientists gathering information about the birds,” wrote Aull in a press release. In the “Banding by Day” portion of the exhibit, two banding projects are focused upon—the monitoring of songbirds at Chico State’s Butte Creek Ecological Preserve and Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) to ascertain such things as species diversity and population demographics, and “Ecology in Flight,” Altacal Audubon’s outdoor program for children. “Banding by Night” takes a look at Garcia’s six-week-long Northern Saw-whet owl migration-monitoring program, which has Intriguing photos such as this one of two banded taken place each fall since Northern Saw-whet owls are featured in the Chico 2005 as the owls migrate Creek Nature Center’s current exhibit, through the Sierra foothills “Banding by Day and Night.” via the BCCER. Back in the fall of 2010, I went along on one of these nighttime bird-banding adventures (see “Netting the Sawwhet,” Nov. 4, 2010). Though we did not net an owl that night (we did catch an unsuspecting Pallid bat), I learned a lot about bird banding, what kinds of stats are kept (such as age, sex and tail length) and the importance of keeping track of possible population declines in certain areas depending, for instance, on availability of prey. The nature center is open Wednesday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Call 891-4671 or send an email to naturecenter@chico.com for more information. Visit www.bidwellpark.org to learn more about the Chico Creek Nature Center. Go to www.birdbling.blogspot.com for more info on the Saw-whet owl and owl banding. GET RID OF PLASTIC BAGS Recently, I was approached in front of Chico

Natural Foods by a representative of Los Angeles-based environmentaladvocacy organization Environment California about its “Keep Plastic out of the Pacific” campaign. “A toxic soup of trash is swirling off our coast, polluting the Pacific and harming wildlife,” says the flier handed to me. “We can cut the flow of plastic into the ocean by banning disposable plastic bags.” According to Environment California, Californians throw away more than 123,000 tons of plastic bags a year, many of which end up in the Pacific Ocean as part of the massive, churning dump of plastic and other garbage known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (AKA the Pacific Trash Vortex) that is trapped by the swirling currents of the North Pacific Gyre, one of five major oceanic gyres. “Ocean pollution is a growing disaster for sea birds, whales and turtles, which choke, suffocate or starve after mistaking plastic for food,” points out Environment California. “More than a million animals die each year after coming into contact with plastic pollution. … Nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our oceans for hundreds of years.” Environment California is working to ban plastic bags throughout the state of California. Go to www.environment california.org to learn more about what you can do to help.

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HEALTHLINES Mackenzie Peterson, an infant heart-transplant recipient, plays and laughs in her north Chico home with her mom, Sue Peterson.

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Men are reluctant to visit the doctor and more likely to engage in risky health-affecting behavior when compared to their female counterparts, statistics show. Data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 27 percent of men have not visited a doctor or health professional in the past year, compared to 14 percent of women, according to SFGate.com. The data also showed that 59 percent of men consider themselves regular drinkers, while just 43 percent of women say they drink regularly. The division between men and women was less significant among smokers—21 percent of men reported themselves as current smokers, compared to 18 percent of women. Not surprisingly, American men have a life expectancy of 76.2 years, while the average for women is 81.1 years.

Amy Bourke displays her Y-shaped scar—a reminder of the liver transplant that saved her life—on the front steps of her home in McCloud.

WHO’S THE FATTEST OF THEM ALL?

California is among the least-obese states in the nation with an obesity rate of 23.8 percent, the fifth lowest of all 50 states, a study finds. A report by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based on state obesity figures provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked Colorado as the fittest state and Mississippi as the most obese, according to Reuters Health. Of the 30 states with the highest obesity rates, 26 were in the Midwest and South. Obesity was measured using body mass index, a number determined by an individual’s weight and height. “Obesity has contributed to a stunning rise in chronic disease rates and health-care costs. It is one of the biggest health crises the country has ever faced,” said Jeffrey Levy, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health.

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There is no evidence to suggest the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—formerly known as food stamps—influences children’s consumption of sugary drinks, a study finds. A report involving a sample group of 3,126 kids, published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, compared SNAP beneficiaries and families not enrolled in the program, finding no significant difference in how much soda, fruit juice and milk children drank, according to Reuters Health. Though the federal food-assistance program has been touted by government officials to steer poor families toward more healthful eating habits, it appears to have little influence on the drinks children consume, for better or worse. The study comes in the midst of debate whether to ban the use of SNAP benefits for the purchase of sugary beverages, considered a key dietary factor in American’s skyrocketing obesity problem. Banned SNAP products currently include tobacco, alcohol and other non-food items.

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Giving the gift of life Two North State women open up about the organ donations that gave new life to them and their families story and photos by

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“Jday I was going to die or the day I was going to be saved,” said Amy Bourke une 14, 2010, was either the

in a recent interview at her home in McCloud. That was the day when Bourke received a new liver after she went into a coma due to liver failure. Bourke’s eyes sporadically tear up while talking about the liver transplant that has so far given her two more years of life with her husband Jarrod and their daughters, 6-year-old Morgan and 10-year-old Madison. The Bourkes know on the most fundamental level the value of organ donations. So do the parents of 3-year-old Mackenzie “Bean” Peterson. She was born on Feb. 19, 2009—two months too early—and as a result suffered respiratory problems. This led to a doctor’s discovering her heart was five times too large for her body and was putting pressure on her lung, explained her mother, Sue Peterson, recently. Mackenzie’s transplant took place when

she was just 4 months old. Her new heart came from another infant whose parents made the decision to donate life to a stranger after their child passed away. “For someone to have that forethought…” said Peterson, her voice trailing off. She said she couldn’t imagine making that decision after going through such a traumatic situation. Mackenzie holds up a stuffed toy high above her head while she rocks happily back and forth on her rocking horse in her north Chico home, her mom smiling and laughing with her.

Neither the Petersons nor the Bourkes know who their donors were, and the donors’ families have chosen not to respond to letters that Bourke and Peterson wrote to their respective donors. The letters thanked the donors, explained the organ recipients’ situations and were sent in the hope they would help the donor families understand what their gifts meant. Many people have misconceptions

about what is involved with giving the gift of a donated organ, such as the notion that

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Welcome to the Family Helping women has always been important to Pamela D. Simons, MD, and as the newest member of Oroville Hospital’s obstetrics/ gynecology team she is dedicated to keeping the “care” in health care.

“At Oroville Hospital I have the opportunity to work with experienced and highly respected physicians and be part of a multi-disciplinary team.” Simon adds, “Dr. Johansson, Dr. Bazzani, Dr. Bippart, and Holly provide patients with the best possible care. They want to serve

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Cornell University. “I view my relationship with my patients as a partnership. I believe in empowering my patients to take responsibility for their own healthcare,” she says. Dr. Simons is thrilled to join Karl Johansson, MD, Matthew Bazzani, MD, Peter Bippart, MD, and Holly Torricelli, NP. She values being part of a team, especially one composed of such skilled and compassionate partners.

Dr. Simons loves being a doctor and is eager to begin establishing relationships with her patients. “I enjoy the fact that I get to care for women throughout their entire lifecycle and that my specialty is still so broad, encompassing routine annual care, the wonder of pregnancy and childbirth, and specialized surgery,” says Dr. Simons. “And I have particular interests in adolescent gynecology and the emotional/ psychological aspects of obstetrics and gynecology, including postpartum depression and pelvic pain.” She also became fluent in Spanish after living in South America and practicing for many years in the Southwest United States. Dr. Simons came to Oroville to settle down for the long term, and believes it’s a good fit for her personally, as well as professionally. “Oroville is big enough to have everything that I need. I love open spaces, riding horses, skiing, sailing and just being outdoors.” She also enjoys competitive West Coast Swing dancing, and this area has an active and energetic West Coast Swing community. Dr. Simons’ colleagues believe she is a valuable addition, and are happy to add another knowledgeable, skilled and caring physician to their team. The entire staff hopes she will stay a long time, and that this is more than a West Coast swing for this caring, dancing doctor.

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doctors rush to harvest organs and are not concerned with reviving certain patients if they have been identified as an organ donor. That’s why people like Peterson, director of the Speech and Debate team and a teacher at Chico State, and Bourke, who runs the after-school program at McCloud Elementary School, have become Donate Life ambassadors via OneLegacy, a California-based Donate Life organization (go to www.one legacy.org/site/community/ volunteer/join.html to learn more). As ambassadors, Bourke and Peterson help educate others on the complex and emotional process of donating and receiving organs by speaking at events in the North State and attending donor sign-up drives. Peterson pointed out that most people are not aware of how layered and varied the process can be. Bourke explained that a number of doctors and social workers must take into consideration such things as how many family members one has, whether one has insurance, and of course how sick one is in order to determine eligibility for organ donation. Doctors and social workers are very detailed to make sure that the recipient will be able to take care of the organ by being able to pay for medication, and also that the person receiving the organ will have adequate emotional, financial and physical support from her or his family members, Bourke added. Peterson has even talked with trauma nurses, educating them on the entire process so that they know how to identify when someone is a potential donor. She says this encourages the nurses to become organ donors as well. Although not a hospital at

which transplants are performed, Enloe Medical Center began promoting organ-donor sign-ups in July 2011, partnering with California Transplant Donor Network, in an effort to get more employees to register as donors, said Enloe spokeswoman Christina Chavira. Along with the new five-story Magnolia Tower, Enloe also gained a new Donate Life flag this year, which is lowered to half-staff for 48 hours after an organ donation “as a symbol of gratitude to the donor and family,” Chavira said in an email to the CN&R. Enloe has won several awards, including one for having more than 75 percent of eligible donors actually donating organs that ended up saving someone’s life. The hospital also received two Medals of Honor

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in 2009 from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. “Specifically the Medals of Honor award hospitals for achieving and sustaining national goals for donation,” said Chavira. As of Aug. 1, 2012, Enloe has had 20 tissue donations, and eight organ donations from two separate donors, according to the California Transplant Donor Network. There are currently 114,840 organ-donation candidates on the waiting list in the United States, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network website, optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/ data. Of those, 92,811 people specifically need a kidney; most people have two kidneys and could donate one and be perfectly healthy. “The problem isn’t that so many are waiting on transplant lists; it’s that not enough people are registered to donate,” Peterson said, shaking her head. Mackenzie most likely will have to receive another heart transplant when she is a teenager, or possibly as late as her early 20s, if she is lucky, said her mother. Peterson and her husband, Jason, plan to be open with Mackenzie about her

Support the cause:

Go to www.donatelife.net to learn more about organ donation, and to fill out a form detailing exactly what kinds of tissues and organs you are willing to donate. Donate Life America’s site also gives information about the extensive counseling and evaluations by various doctors and social workers that are involved with organ donation, as well as how organ recipients deal with the emotions that come with a second chance at life. Visit www.facebook.com/ DonateLifeAmbassadors to “like” the Donate Life Ambassadors. Go to http://asecondheart.blog spot.com to keep up with Sue Peterson’s ongoing blog about her daughter, A Second Heart.

situation to help her understand how important it is to take care of herself. Bourke will have to take several medications every day for the rest of her life, and is hyper-aware of any minor cold or virus because of her weakened immune system. But that doesn’t stop her from working and spending time with family—and even running in the 5k Color Run in San Francisco this past July. “The worry about something going wrong is always there, but it fades as time goes on,” she said. Ω

WEEKLY DOSE Sleep better Maybe the summer heat’s getting to you; maybe you’re ruminating about money problems. Whatever the cause, sleeplessness is no fun. And being tired the next day certainly doesn’t help you deal any better with the things that are bugging you. About.com’s Alternative Medicine section offers 14 natural remedies for insomnia. Here are four of them: • Valerian: The herb valerian, which is available in capsule and liquid form in health-food stores, has long been known for its sleepinducing (and nerve-calming) benefits. Take it about an hour before bedtime for best effect. See website below for additional information on usage, which includes not taking valerian with alcohol or if you have liver disease. • Melatonin: Typically taken about 30 minutes before bedtime to aid sleep, melatonin should not be used by pregnant and nursing women, or by people with depression, schizophrenia or autoimmune diseases. • Relaxation techniques: Visualization, mindfulness and yoga techniques help one fall asleep more easily. • Diet: Avoiding caffeine and sugary foods will help combat insomnia, as will eating foods that contain tryptophan (such as turkey) and eating magnesium-rich foods, such as leafy, dark-green vegetables.

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hico State’s Athletics Department may have a hard time following up on its 2010-11 season. Of the program’s 13 Division II teams, 11 made it to their conference championships and seven won conference titles. The men’s golf team finished second in the nation; the men’s basketball team won its conference despite being picked seventh in pre-season polls; the women’s soccer team made the Final Four tournament. It’s fair to say the bar has been raised.

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R “That’s what we want,” said Luke Reid, Chico State’s sports information director. “We want to compete for conference championships every year. That’s why people want to play here, why they want to work here, because they know they’re expected to perform.” The success has not gone without recognition. Reid and his colleagues believe Chico State is developing a national reputation for athletic excellence—this past spring, the Wildcats won their second consecutive Commissioner’s Cup, awarded to the best overall sports program in the conference— and Athletic Director Anita Barker was voted the regional director of the year. In terms of across-the-board performance, Chico State was the eighth-best Division II sports program in the nation last year. Reid acknowledges such accolades can only make the program stronger. “Coaches want to come here because they know they’ll have the backing, support and resources they need to be successful, and athletes want to come here because they hear about what kind of program we run,” Reid said. “We talk a lot about the studentathlete experience, and I’ve always believed you’re not going to find a lot of athletes who have a great experience on a losing team. It’s fun to win.” For Kim Sutton, coach of the women’s soc-

cer team for the past 11 years, Chico State’s winning culture starts at the top with Barker. Under her leadership, the coaches, staff and players have created an energy all their own. “There’s a chemistry in the hallway between our coaches and players; it’s a very collegial atmosphere,” she said. “Not to put pressure on fall sports, but when one team is successful, the excitement and energy carries over to the other teams. It happened last year.” Reid agrees that heightened expectations may be a defining factor for the upcoming fall teams. Men’s soccer was recently chosen as the favorite to win the conference in a preseason coaches’ poll, while the women’s team enters the season ranked No. 4 in the nation. “It’s going to be interesting to see how we handle all of the success and expectations that go along with that as a department, as a team, as coaches, as athletes,” Reid said. Scott Bauhs, a professional distance runner and former two-time national champion for Chico State’s cross-country team, knows what its like to thrive on a winning team. “We kept each other in check and pushed each other, made sure nobody was doing anything too stupid on any given weekend,” Bauhs said during a recent phone interview. “I can see how teams just mesh together; everyone gets along great and trusts each other to work as a team.”

Former Chico State runner Scott Bauhs during the 2008 NCAA Division II cross country championships, two months before going pro. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHICO STATE SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE

For Reid and his colleagues, success in the

context of their conference is always welcome, but the sports program has an eye on loftier goals in the near future. “We’ve had a ton of success at the national level, but we haven’t had a lot of our teams win national titles,” he said. “If you were to ask what the next step is, we’re aiming to bring a few more team national titles. It takes a lot of skill, a lot of luck and some things falling in the right place to win a national championship.” Coach Sutton, with her team on the cusp of a serious run at the NCAA Division II tournament, agrees bringing home a national title would involve more than good recruiting and coaching. “Just to get that far is a tremendous act,” she said. “It’s not just about talent; it’s so much more than that. Everything has to be clicking on all the right cylinders, everything has to be lined up perfectly. But that’s everyone’s dream, to win a national title. It’s not why I coach, but it would certainly be a culminating event.” Off the field, the department hopes to offer more competitive scholarships in the future to continue the influx of talented student athletes. But no matter how dominant the program becomes, don’t expect Chico State to make the jump to Division I. “The Division I idea would be like going from riding a bike to paying for a Hummer,” Reid said. “And if you look at the programs that have bumped up over the last few years, I don’t think there are a whole lot of them recruiting athletes better than ours. In fact, we used to play a lot of those teams, but not anymore—it wasn’t working out very well for them.” Ω

eliever Dale Thayer of the San Diego Padres did not have the meteoric rise enjoyed by some pitching prospects. In fact, the former Chico State pitcher has stuck in the Major Leagues for the first time in a decade. In what would be a major blow for an aspiring professional ballplayer, Thayer wasn’t drafted following his junior year, in which he saved 14 games for the Wildcats during the team’s 2002 run to PHOTO COURTESY OF SAN DIEGO PADRES the championship game of the NCAA Division II tournament. Undeterred, he tried out for the Padres in September of that year and was signed as an undrafted free agent. Perseverance has become one of Thayer’s defining characteristics, as he continued pursuing his big league dream past the point where most would quit. After toiling in the minor leagues for more than six seasons, he got his first Major League call-up in 2009 with the Tampa Bay Rays, pitching a little over 15 innings in two seasons bouncing between Triple-A and the big club. He got his next shot in 2011 with the New York Mets, pitching just 10 innings out of the bullpen. “I just didn’t want to give up on my chance to pitch in the big leagues,” he said during a recent phone interview. “My first couple call-ups were pretty short. I feel like I didn’t get a chance to show everything I had. I feel like I could have done better. I wanted to stick around.” And finally, after 10 years of pitching effectively at every professional level, Thayer, now 32, was traded back to his original organization and has earned a job in the Padres bullpen. Relying mostly on his fastball and a hard slider, he has posted a 2-2 record through 42 games, converting six of his eight save opportunities and sporting a 3.64 earned-run average. Thayer says he has reached a point where he isn’t starstruck by big names in the batter’s box. “During my first call-up in ’09, in my first save opportunity I had to face the middle of the [Colorado] Rockies lineup,” he said. “I’ve seen what they can do on TV, and what they’ve done for years. That was about the only time I thought about who I was facing, aside from just knowing the batter and the scouting report on them.” He’s come a long way from that junior season with the Wildcats, but he still recalls their championship run fondly. “It was a great experience,” he said. “We were the No. 1 team in the nation for a while—it was cool to be on a team that good. It’s just a lot of fun when you win.” —Howard Hardee howardh@newsreview.com

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aleb King has worked at Chico State’s University Police Department since 2007, but not as a police officer. He’s a graduate student pursuing his master’s degree in public administration, and he’s also a community service officer. CSOs are not sworn peace officers; they don’t carry guns, and they deal with only “non-hazardous law enforcement services,” as King put it. Even so, the UPD is reliant upon these officers, who do everything from bike registration and running the Campus Connection safety shuttle to helping with presentations at the Freshmen Safe Start orientations. This week is the busiest time of year for the 11 students who currently serve as CSOs. Indeed, the officers have to be ready to deal with the “unique challenges” that are present on the Chico State campus during the weekend evenings, said UPD Sgt. Corinne Beck, who’s in charge of their scheduling and general supervision. King, 25, said there are “tons of funny stories” of how people behave under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and his job is definitely not for the timid. He has seen people who can barely walk due to high levels of intoxication and try to run away once they see someone in uniform. CSOs wear light-blue uniforms, as opposed to the darkblue ones worn by sworn police

officers, but most students don’t ests, like studying late at the library know the difference. or attending evening classes and “I don’t have any special prividon’t want to walk alone to places leges or authorities over any other like the parking garage or residence student or person,” King said. “In halls. reality, I am the same as everyone King originally heard about else.” He understands how a person in the job opening from his uncle, who works on campus and was uniform can be intimidating, but monitoring the online postings. He King just wants to be viewed as has worked his way up from rookie someone there to help others and CSO to field training officer and is keep students safe. To that end, he now responsible for helping train wishes more students would use new hires, making the schedules the Campus Connection shuttle, which carries them between 6 p.m. each week and attending community presentations with Beck, which and midnight to various campus gives him even more public-service locations. experience. King thinks the skills Beck said the CSOs were very he is learning from the job are involved in developing new plans invaluable. He’s gained more confifor the service, since they are the ones driving it every day. Instead of dence in confrontational situations, for example, and heading out to dealt with a large students call“There’s no amount of responsiing to get bility. picked up part of me that These experiences from a specifwill help King pursue ic location, enjoys ruining his ambitions of the shuttle someone’s day.” working in public will be more like a bus–Caleb King, service, possibly in stop system. Chico State CSO emergency response, putting away dangerThe hope is ous criminals or helpthat this will ing victims of international disaster. prevent the shuttle from being “We’ll see where life takes me,” abused, as it was in the past, by he said. people calling for rides and then The department focuses on asking to be dropped off on parts of being proactive in its efforts, King campus close to the bars. “It’s not a party bus,” Beck said. said. This means patrolling problem areas, looking for ways to preThe shuttle is to assist people vent bad things from happening or who are pursuing academic inter-

RECYCLE THIS PAPER. YOU’RE WELCOME, TREES. Caleb King might write you a parking ticket, but don’t take it personally.

catching them in progress. CSOs patrol campus at night to make sure no one is “behaving illegally,” and that campus is secured, such as locking all buildings on weekends when the custodial staff isn’t present. In many ways, being a CSO is a social job. King enjoys getting to meet and talk with people who come in for LiveScans, a digital finger-printing service for background checks, or those riding the campus shuttles. However, people aren’t always too kind when he’s doing parking enforcement. King said people can become “absolutely irate” when issued a parking citation. He’s had to grow a thicker skin over the years as a result. “There’s no part of me that enjoys ruining someone’s day,” said King, who acknowledged some people are rude to him for no apparent reason other than a general dislike of law enforcement. Beck said King and the other

CSOs are hired through a very selective process including extensive background checks. They then go through training in radio codes and defensive driving, and also learn how to be the “eyes and ears” of the UPD on campus. The officers must be versed in campus locations, services offered and general knowledge to help out the students, staff and faculty, as well as campus visitors. Their work is incredibly varied and is an integral part of what UPD does, Beck said. For instance, if Beck is giving a presentation to freshmen on campus safety and has to respond to a radio call, CSOs are able to stand in for her. Yet, school is always the No. 1 priority for the officers. Even though many of them are very dedicated and would rather be working than attending class, Beck said UPD helps them prioritize and keep track of their schedules. “School, job, then their social life,” she said. Ω more SCHOOL continued on page 26

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he last time we checked in with David Buckley, executive director of Chico State’s Associated Students, back in January 2011, rapidly declining book sales at what was then called the A.S. Bookstore had forced the store into decreasing its staff, going into the book-rental business and diversifying its merchandise. The store, which also underwent a name change to the A.S. Wildcat Store, now offers a wide range of Chico State clothing and such, as well as Clinique cosmetics and “CStore”—industry shorthand for “convenience store”—goods. “The text[book] floor space [on the second floor of the Wildcat Store] has decreased,” said Buckley recently. “If you go up there, you will see that years ago the text area took up the majority of the space. But now it’s reduced to maybe half to two-thirds of the floor space compared to five years ago.” The first floor of the store is filled with “general merchandise, clothing, computers and ‘C-Store’—what it’s always been,” Buckley said. However, “general books”— novels and other nonacademic books—has switched places with supplies (binders, pens, Wildcat connection:

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paper, etc.); supplies are now downstairs, and general books are on the second floor with textbooks. “We felt that moving supplies down would generate additional sales because they are more visible,” said Buckley. “And general books—we’ve seen a continued decline in general-book sales due to people buying online at Amazon [and] Barnes & Noble.” The continuing decline in textbook sales has resulted in the Wildcat Store’s becoming more competitive in the text-rental market by creating its own rental service this past school year, as opposed to partnering with major textbook-rental firm Chegg.com, as it did in the spring semester of 2011. “We got a small commission anytime someone would rent [from Chegg] through our website, but we wanted to give students options. … With Chegg, there were limited rental options,” Buckley said. Now, said Buckley, most Chico State textbooks are available for rent or purchase, both new or used. ”We saw considerable increase in rentals now that we have our own system,” he noted, adding that with Chegg, students “had to wait for books to be shipped to them; now, the books are here [in the Wildcat Store]. “What we are seeing is students like that option [of renting],” Buckley said. “We expect [rentals] to increase. Since last year was the first year [for the new rental program] …we don’t have a history on establishing a rental increase; we have nothing to compare it to. But we’re anticipating an increase of 20 percent [in rentals this school

Associated Students Executive Director David Buckley is hopeful that the Wildcat Store’s new textbook-rental program will continue to see increasing business.

year]. I think we’ll get that because we saw such a strong response this past year.” The second-floor textbook area will

continue to shrink, Buckley said. “We’re moving text to half the space [it currently occupies]; the other half will be for other student services yet to be determined. The point is, if you don’t need all that space, maybe there are other uses that would be of more benefit.” Buckley said that he is waiting “until after fall rush”—by mid-September—to decide what to do with the floor space. “We have to ask, ‘Have text rentals really increased by 20, 30 percent? How are text sales?’ If we’re hitting our target, we’ll make one decision; if we’re not hitting our target, we’ll make another decision.” Regardless, he said, the text area will be made smaller. “We are doing well in all other areas— clothing, gifts, computers, supplies, C-Store, Clinique. Clinique’s a big seller,” said Buckley. “If we are off on our [textbook sales and rental] estimates for 2012-13, then we would assess whether we would just move all of

text down to the first floor.” However, such a move would require careful assessment, he said. “We would have to assess what [moving all the textbooks downstairs] would do to decrease of sales in those other areas [clothing, gifts and so on], because clothing, etc., would have to shrink.” Regardless, Buckley anticipates that “over the next four to five years, text inventory will decrease. “So that’s kind of where we are,” he said. “I’m optimistic. The staff has worked really hard. I’m very proud of the way they have addressed the challenges we’ve faced for the past three years.” Buckley is upbeat as well about the Wildcat Store’s new, incoming director, Rob Meyers, most recently an associate director of textbooks at Arizona State University’s Phoenix campus, to replace Steve Dubey, who left in March for a job at the University of Nevada, Reno. “He’s a very talented guy,” Buckley said of Meyers. “We’re looking forward to him being here and sharing his expertise.” Ω more SCHOOL continued on page 31

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elcome back to school. What you are holding in your hands, and perhaps even reading, is a basic guide to proper student behavior in the classroom. It’s aimed more at the college student than the elementary, junior-high or high-school student. They, after all, are still kids, while you are somewhere between blossoming and totally ripened adult. I’ve been teaching at the community college level for more than decade, and in that time I’ve observed, tolerated and in some cases lashed out at inappropriate behaviors by students. Thus this guide. Listen: Different venues call for different behaviors. You don’t act the same at a Luciano Pavarotti opera as you would at an Insane Clown Posse concert—less slam-dancing at the Pavarotti gig, or so I would imagine. (I don’t know; I’ve never been to either.) Anyway, with that said, let’s get to the business at hand, which is helping you smoothly navigate through the semester, pass the class and maybe even learn something for your efforts (and tuition).

Show up for class. I know, pretty basic Stifle yawns. At least hide them, espe1surprised 4 and seemingly obvious. But you’d be cially in the middle of an instructor’s at how many times, halfway lecture. Taking this a step further, never put through a semester, I’ve thought to myself: “I wonder whatever happened to James? He seemed like a pretty good student.” And then James would reappear at the next scheduled class and say something to the effect: “Ah, sorry man. What I miss?” Don’t be late to class. If you are, enter 2instructor quietly and make eye contact with the to show your remorse. During a break or after class, tell the instructor why you were late: “Uh, my cat, you know? Um, like turned off my clock-radio alarm. Again.”

Turn off your cell phone or, if the best you can do is silence the ring, at least don’t text during lectures. And don’t break out the laptop without permission or instruction to do so.

your head down on your desk and sleep; but if you do, don’t snore.

Pay attention to lectures. Feign interest if you have to by forming facial expressions that suggest curiosity, surprise and/or amusement. Nod your head in agreement or shake your head in disgust, when appropriate.

Take part in class discussions, even if 6 your only contribution is: “Oh, that is like so stupid.” This at the very least shows you’re paying attention, which tends to impress the instructor.

If you don’t understand a lesson, assignment or critique the instructor has just delivered, raise your hand and say so. Don’t let your ego get in the way of asking questions. This applies to life out-

side the classroom, as well. Do the assignments. The important 8 thing for many instructors is noting an educational progression, that the student has learned something during the course of the semester. Assignments measure progress.

Set up visits with the instructor before 9 or after class or, even better, during his or her office hours. This, too, suggests that

you have a healthy interest in the subject matter and the instructor as well. Such visits can reveal some background information about the instructor, often based on the photos, diplomas and artwork hanging on the office walls. And, finally, what may well be the 10 most important suggestion on this list: Show respect to the instructor, even if deep down you think he or she is an incompetent idiot. Even if you’re right, he or she is in charge of your grade. Ω

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It’s takes a real guts to get on stage with Chico horror-thrash crew Season of the Witch

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“W the grown man who calls himself The Hand of Doom declared proudly, surrounded by evidence supporting the truth of e’re definitely the nerdiest band in Chico,”

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To one side sat his four bandmates in Season of the Witch, to the other a 2-foot-tall statue of Leatherface, of The Texas Chainsaw by Massacre fame, at the base of a bookshelf Ken Smith filled with action figures of Freddy Kreuger, kens@ Jason Voorhees and other horror-movie vilnewsreview.com lains. A rusted chain hung from the ceiling, and the only decoration most people wouldn’t find macabre was a poster of Prince and the Revolution. PREVIEW: This is the living room of Jared Glenn The Season of the Witch performs Saturday, Irish Cannibal, guitarist and founder of Season Aug. 25, 8 p.m., at of the Witch. Glenn and company—keyMonstros with boardist Baron Sarnath, bassist Joe Dredd, Airpocalypse, The singer Delbert Grady and aforementioned Fabulous Downey Brothers, drummer The Hand (known to their mamas as Disorderly Event Jared Glenn, Tommy Diestel, Joe Bertram, Jodi and Banned from and Jamie Lively, respectively)—craft slabs of Earth. horror-thrash using elements of punk, metal and hardcore. Monstros Pizza They also play in full makeup, masks and 628 W. Sacramento Ave. costumes designed by Glenn, a graduate of the www.facebook.com Tom Savini Special FX School in Pittsburgh, /monstros Penn. Savini is an actor, stuntman, makeup and effects designer beloved by hardcore horror fans and best known for his award-winning FX work on George Romero films and his role as Sex Machine in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s From Dusk ’til Dawn. Glenn started the band in 2006 upon moving to Chico to assist another Savini School alum filming a low-budget horror film called Waning Solstice. Prior to that, he also did some film work while living in North Hollywood and working at a Halloween factory called Cinema Secrets, including a movie for the Sci Fi Channel called They Are Among Us starring Allison Eastwood (daughter of Clint) and Bruce Boxleitner. “I helped put together this Ed Wood-style creature,” he said of his Hollywood experience. “The thing was huge and mounted on a platform with wheels. My friend Andrew was inside controlling the tongue and jaws, and I had these preying mantis arms mounted on rods. 32 CN&R August 23, 2012

“I could hear the wheels screeching behind me on this thing, and I had to creep forward toward Bruce Boxleitner with the dumb hands while he was screaming ‘Ohh, nooo!’ It took everything I had not to laugh.” The band members, who cite influences from The

Misfits and Samhain to author H. P. Lovecraft, spend about four hours transforming into their undead counterparts before every show. “We always play in full makeup,” Glenn said. “Whether there’s three people or 300 people watching, we try to put on the best show possible.” The pre-show prep makes for interesting public interactions. All of the members have hilarious stories about talking to police, liquor store owners and other unwitting passersby while dressed like zombies nowhere near Halloween. Some strangers are so impressed they ask to take pictures with them, and the makeup occasionally earns them a few free drinks, as well. “We went to Thursday Night Market dressed up once to promote the Blue Room’s Zombie Prom, and they gave us some beers at the Beach Hut Deli,” The Hand said. “‘Thriller’ just happened to be playing as we walked by.” “The best is confusing children,” Glenn added, explaining that they don their costumes before driving to out-of-town shows. “We’ll be driving down I-5 in a van full of corpses, and the looks on kids’ faces are priceless.” The band’s Aug. 25 show at Monstros will mark a new beginning as well as an end: They are releasing their third album, Bonedust, recorded at HTX by Brent Warr, and it will be singer Grady’s last show. “I’m only leaving the band because I’m leaving town,” he said. “Being in this band has definitely been the best experience I’ve had here. I’ve had my ups and downs, but no matter what, I could always look forward to hanging out with these guys at band practice and getting all the frustration out.” While sad to see Grady go, the band is no stranger to change. He is the third lead singer, and the current line-up is the band’s fifth incarnation … in California (Glenn kept the band going when he left town for stints in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, and said he plans to continue until he is an actual corpse instead of just playing one on stage). In fact, Season of the Witch is actively searching for a new singer. Prerequisites include an unhealthy obsession with horror, science fiction and, as Baron Sarnath put it, “general nerdery.” Vegetarians need not apply. Ω

local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

Music ROSIE BURGESS TRIO: The folk, blues and gypsy-roots trio out of

Australia specializes in earworm melodies. Th, 8/23, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

FRI

Special Events BUSTOLINIS COMEDY SHOWCASE: Another night of stand-up comedy at the Blue Room featuring Sacramento’s Johnny Taylor and Jesse Fernandez along with a host of local acts. F, 8/24, 8pm. $10-$14. Blue Room Theatre; 139 W First St.; (530) 895-3749; www.blueroom theatre.com.

MINI MERNA PRESENTS: X-POSED: The kick-off event for Stonewall Alliance’s Pride Weekend, with live performances by Queens of Castro, Sisters of Delta Eta Pie and Nor-Cal Drag Alliance. The event includes a fashion runway and variety show and a no-host bar. F, 8/24, 8pm. $10. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

Music CHICO EARTHDANCE BENEFIT: A dance party to raise funds for the

annual Chico Earthdance celebration. F, 8/24, 7:30pm. $10. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

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Special Events SHORTZ! FILM FESTIVAL: See Saturday, Special Events. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 876-4199, http://shortzfilmfest.com/web.

PRIDE BRUNCH: Pancakes, eggs, fruit and coffee

to cap Stonewall Alliance’s Pride Weekend. Su, 8/26, 9am-noon. Free. Childrens Park, Downtown Chico (Vallombrosa Ave. & First St.).

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.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

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

CHICO ART CENTER: All Media Show, one of the

STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS Tuesday, Aug. 28 Laxson Auditorium

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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: The weekly concert series continues with jam master Pershing and his funky band. F, 8/24, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

Theater AUDITION: A cabaret-style presentation of the Japanese psychological horror-flick. F, Sa, 7:30pm through 9/1. Opens 8/24. $5. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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Special Events BIDWELL BUMP MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE: A challenging cross-country event with three options—a demanding 12.5 mile expert course, an intermediate short course and a novice course for beginning competitive riders. Go online for more details. Sa, 8/25, 7:30am. $15$40. Five Mile Picnic Area; Centennial Way; (530) 342-6620; www.thebidwellbump.com.

CHICO PRIDE FESTIVAL: A festival including live music and performances, vendors, food, dancing, educational workshops and more as part of Stonewall Alliance’s Pride Weekend. Speakers will include Mayor Ann Schwab, Scott Gruendl, Nandi Crosby and more. Sa, 8/25, 10am-5pm. Free. Downtown City Plaza; 418 Main St.; (530) 893-3336; www.stonewallchicopride.com.

CONCOURS DE LA CHAPELLE: Classic European cars, an art show, fine dining, four no-host bars, a silent auction and music from the Bob Aranguren Trio and The Alternators to benefit Northern California Ballet. Sa, 8/25, 6pm. $65. Chapelle de l’Artiste Chateau & Retreat, 3300 Inspiration Ln. in Paradise, (530) 228-0941, www.chapelledelartiste.com.

Theater CRT AUDITIONS: Auditions for California Regional Theater’s production of Oliver. Call or go

online for more info. Su, 8/26, 5pm; M, 8/27, 6:30pm. Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Ave., (800) 722-4522, www.californiaregional theater.com/crt/oliver.

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Theater CRT AUDITIONS: See Sunday. Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Ave., (800) 722-4522, www.californiaregionaltheater.com/crt/oliver.

MURDER MYSTERY DINNER THEATER: Witness a murder, help solve the crime and gets some laughs in while enjoying a gourmet dinner. Sa, 8/25, 5pm. $35. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville; (800) 803-1911; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

SHORTZ! FILM FESTIVAL: A two-day movie festival featuring 27 films with running times of 40 minutes or less. Call or go online for more info. 8/25-8/26. $10. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 876-4199, http://shortzfilm fest.com/web.

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Music THE BAND OF HEATHENS: A blend of country, blues and alt-rock fresh out of Austin, Texas, that draws comparisons to Little Feat and The Black Crows. Tu, 8/28, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

TALENT ON THE RIDGE: A red carpet event to benefit the Sawmill Peak Fire Lookout, with a performance by The Paradise Dancers, raffles, concessions and more. Sa, 8/25, 1-5pm. $10-$12. Magalia Community Church; 13700 Old Skyway in Magalia; (530) 872-1691.

STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS: Bluegrass, tall tales and, of course, a good dose of humor as Steve Martin straps on the banjo to front the Steep Canyon Rangers. Tu, 8/28, 7:30pm. $60-$76. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/upe/boxoffice.html.

BREW FEST: Featuring over 25 different breweries and wineries along with music and food from many of our local restaurants, this fundraiser supports local youth sports. Call or email for tickets. Sa, 8/25, 4-8pm. $50. Chico Elks Lodge; 1705 Manzinita; (530) 7741352.

CHICO AIDS WALK/RUN: A community run hosted by Caring Choices to support HIV testing as part of Stonewall Alliance’s Pride Weekend. Sa, 8/25, 7:30am. $20-$25. One Mile Recreation Area; Bidwell Park; (530) 898-4764; www.groupengine.org/ChicoAWR.

CHICO PRIDE DANCE: The culminating event for

Art Receptions ALL MEDIA SHOW RECEPTION: Opening night for a juried exhibition featuring 42 artists from across the nation. Sa, 8/25, 7-9pm. Free. Chico Art Center; 450 Orange St. 6; (530) 895-8726; www.chicoartcenter.com.

and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. 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 Helen Madeleine. Ongoing. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

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.

MANAS ART SPACE & GALLERY: Bag O Junk

Group Show, repurposed junk transformed into works of art. Through 9/21. 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

THE TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: New View, never-before-seen paintings and scratchboard works from Janet Turner. Through 9/23. 400 W. First St. Meriam Library breezeway, CSU, Chico, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Historical

Makeovers Exhibit, Kathy Aoki presents imagery that looks antique but actually depicts current beauty treatments and pop culture figures. Through 9/20. 400 W First St. Taylor Hall, CSU, Chico, (530) 898-5864.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Northern

California Landscapes, an exhibition of oils and pastels by Jamie Albertie. Through 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 Domestic Violence Services, 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: Branding Irons,

A new display of over 200 branding irons. M-

Sa, 10am-3:45pm; 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.

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.

Theater AUDITION: See Friday, Theater. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

White & Blue, art done in watercolor, pastel, oil and collages. Through 8/31. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.

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Stonewall Alliance’s Pride Weekend is a DJ dance party with a no-host bar. Prior to the event a free teen dance will run from 5 to 8 p.m. Sa, 8/25, 8pm. $5. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

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most popular annual shows at the CAC, this juried exhibition will feature 42 artists from across the nation. 8/25-9/22, 10am-4pm. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Americana: Red,

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For the second year, Chico’s Stonewall Alliance is taking over the downtown City Plaza with the Chico Pride Festival (Saturday, Aug. 25), one big party/outreach uniting and celebrating the LGBTQ+ community with live music and other performances, speakers, food, vendors and a beer/wine garden. The whole Chico Pride Weekend, Aug. 24-26, is filled with events and workshops, including the an aids walk/run at One-Mile in Bidwell Park; free educational workshops at Catalyst; both a teen dance and EDITOR’S PICK an 18+ dance at Chico Women’s Club; Mini Merna Presents: X-Posed, a fashion/variety show also at CWC and a Sunday morning brunch in Children’s Playground. See A&C listings, pages 32-35, and Bulletin Board, page 34, for more info.

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Community 1078 ANNUAL GARAGE SALE: Quality used household and select clothing items on-sale to help support the gallery. Sa, 8/25, 8am-5:30pm. Prices vary. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

CANCER WELLNESS DAY: A special day for cancer patients, survivors, their families and the community with presentations, cooking demonstrations, exercise guidance and resource information. Call to register. Sa, 8/25, 9am-2pm. Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, (530) 332-7016.

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.

CHICO PRIDE WORKSHOPS AT CATALYST: A series of educational workshops as part of Stonewall Alliance’s Pride Weekend including “Moving Beyond Trans 101,” “Defining the Line: Supporting Youth Relationships,” “Ask the SEXpert” and “Self-Defense Strategies.” Call for more info. Sa, 8/25, 11:30am-5pm. Free. Catalyst Domestic Violence Services, 330 Wall St. 40, (530) 893-3336, www.catalystdv services.org.

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.

DINNER WITH THE DOCTOR: Feather River Hospital’s dinner series continues with Ross Hatchet, M.D., presenting “A Walk through a Well-Woman Exam.” Th, 8/23, 6pm. $8 for dinner. Craig Memorial Congregational Church, 5665 Scottwood Rd. in Paradise, (530) 876-7154, www.frhosp.org.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

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

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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.

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.

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.

MEDIA AND POLITICS DISCUSSION: A public discussion led by Jim Gregg, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Chico State covering print media, radio, TV and social media. Tu, 8/28, 7pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 343-0841, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

PEMA CHODRON: A video presentation of Pema

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

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.

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

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

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Hit and Run

Co-director Dax Shepard stars in this action-comedy as a former getaway driver named Charles Bronson who skips out on the Witness Protection program in order to help his girlfriend get to L.A., and soon has both the feds and his old gang hot on his trail. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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A New York City bike messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is chased all over the city by a crooked cop (Michael Shannon) intent on getting at the contents of an envelope that he picked up from Columbia University. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Three magazine employees set out to interview a man who posted a classified ad seeking companions for time travel. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Bernie

Jack Black delivers an exceptionally fine performance as the pivotal figure in this film’s offbeat gallery of smalltown 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

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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.

The Campaign

Screenwriters Chris Henchy and Shawn Harwell do some moderately satirical riffing on topical election-year matters— campaign finance reform, attack ads, focus groups and buzz words, market-minded electioneering, etc.—but The Campaign is chiefly a series of comic opportunities for its stars, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. Airheaded Cam Brady (Ferrell) is the incumbent candidate and doofus Marty Huggins (Galifianakis) is the last-minute challenger in a North Carolina congressional district where Brady is accustomed to running unopposed. John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd play the superwealthy Motch brothers (sound familiar?), who are ready to bankroll whichever candidate can be most profitably bought. Brady’s chronically rampant libido gets him in trouble with his backers, and it’s their money that throws Huggins unexpectedly into the race. The ensuing campaign is a mostly funny mash-up of negative ads, televised screw-ups, extravagant image-tweaking and spin management. And the candidates’ respective antics have center stage, there are some nicely populated sideshows developing with several of the secondary characters. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

The Dark Knight Rises

I have to say, despite a nearly threehour running time, The Dark Knight Rises manages to not overstay its welcome. Unfortunately, it also never rises to meet the potential set up by director/writer Christopher Nolan’s first two entries in his Batman trilogy. If you’re content with turning off the brain and coasting on spectacle and nostalgia, then it probably will deliver. But if you require a competent narrative to go along with the eye candy, then Nolan’s innate weakness as a writer will consistently hobble the show. While inarguably a gifted stylist, Nolan’s scripts are notoriously full of plotholes big enough to flip an 18-wheeler. And here there are more than a few times when the story makes outrageous jumps. I mean, just exactly what was the villainous plot supposed to achieve? Roll in a neutron bomb that’s set to go off in five months? The waiting period just seems like a lazy way of giving breathing room to another plot point. Long-story-short: the sporadic action is entertainingly action-y, although delivered without inspiration. The Dark Knight Rises isn’t a bad time. It’s just not a good movie. Cinemark 14 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.

Expendables 2

The first Expendables was pretty much a stable of one-trick ponies, a loose collection of faded action stars trotted out for their own creaky asskicking scene, tied together with rudimentary narrative. The main problem (aside from the embarrassment of

watching grandpas pretend to pull moves that would send men half their age to the hospital) was the tone was all off, like it didn’t quite get the genre it was self-parodying. The homage to ’80s action flicks was too rooted in the 21st century to properly convey the giddy excess of your typical cannon fodder. And the use of CGI to fill in for the practical FX that were a trademark of the productions was unforgivable. But for a second trip to a dry well, Expendables 2 at least gets the tone right this time. Here, Simon West, director of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, picks up the reins of this masturbatory tribute to badass dudeness and delivers 100 minutes of nonstop Hooah. It’s a gawdawful script wrapped in an amber and teal patina of sociopathic excess. Which is all it aspires to, so it is what it is, dwelling comfortably in that gray area between intentional and unintentional camp. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —C.B.

Hope Springs

The 30-year marriage of a middle-aged Midwestern couple has lapsed into latterday 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.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

For this fourth installment in the animatedfilm franchise, the mismatched crew of prehistoric animals—Manny, the wooly mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid, the sloth (John Leguizamo), and Diego, the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary)—are forced into an adventure on the high seas atop a chunk of iceberg after the continents are split apart. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Intouchables

See review this issue. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R. Ends tonight, Aug. 23.—J.C.S.

Moonrise Kingdom

The new film by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, etc.) is a summertime comedy of an exceptionally poetic sort. While it has a big-name cast (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton), the chief characters are two precocious, gifted 12-yearolds, Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward), who fall in love and run away to their own little romantic paradise on the coastal island where they are spending their respective New England summer vacations. It’s pointedly a storybook situation, and in the frisky scenario concocted by co-writers Anderson and Roman Coppola, it blossoms into a wistfully dreamy romantic comedy that also revolves around and beyond the travails and pratfalls of the various adult characters. Gradually, there emerges a sense that the kids are innocent versions of various adults in their lives, while the adults in part remain children amid the challenges and disappointments that life has brought them. But a buoyant comic energy prevails even as the more bittersweet themes weave themselves more prominently into the action. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Most would-be parents go through a grieving process when told they can’t have children. Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Eggerton) transform their sorrow into celebrating what their imaginary kid could have been like. Seems a little weird, but The Odd Life of Timothy Green is, by nature, weird. Director Peter Hedges’ (Dan in Real Life) film follows young Timothy (CJ Adams), a boy who sprouts from Cindy’s garden, adorned with leaves on his legs, plus all the characteristics of the Greens’ envisioned perfect child. The overly enthusiastic new parents (come on Jennifer Garner, tone it down) love him from the get-go, but the rest of their dull, dying town doesn’t appreciate the misfit. Like some allegory for the Messiah, Timothy works his mysterious magic, using his big heart to bring the town folk together, saving their livelihood. It’s kind of sweet, but younger viewers might not understand all the metaphors, while adults might find the symbolism too sappy. Bottom line: It’s a family film that falls flat. Regardless, newcomer CJ Adams uses his charm to make a few touching scenes worthwhile. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG –R.B.

ParaNorman

The paranormal title character is a little kid named Norman Babcock. Much to the consternation of those around him, especially his parents and his teenaged sister, Courtney, he keeps dropping hints that he can talk to the spirits of the dead. This beguiling animated fantasy from Oregon’s Laika Entertainment (Coraline) lets us see right away that he does indeed communicate with the ghost of his kindly grandmother (who seems to have camped out on the couch in his parents’ living room). His family’s skepticism is echoed in harsher terms by his schoolmates including especially the class bully, a punk named Alvin. Fortunately, for Norman and the movie (and us), Mr. Prenderghast, a spooky neighbor who is also paranormal, enlists him for a mission of mercy that will take him, via the local cemetery, into the haunted Puritan history of his home town of Blithe Hollow. Laika’s enchanting stopmotion animation brings this little fable (scripted by Chris Butler, who co-directed with Sam Fell) to full bodied life and the deft layering of images creates a nice sense of extrasensory awareness. John Goodman (Mr. Prenderghast) and Elaine Stritch (Grandma) are special standouts in the cast of distinctive voices. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG –J.C.S.

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.

Total Recall

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 twohour 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 actionhero 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.

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Is NorSac the new center of Chico’s culinary universe?

Rstart the new school semester by pontificating to you students ight now, I’d usually

about how Chico has so many flavors to offer and how you need to by Jason Cassidy take this local’s jasonc@ advice and newsreview.com explore beyond the bubble of the university and the west side of town to enjoy them. But, last week I had a revelation. As I stood in the middle of the parking lot of the University Square shopping center, my belly full of pickled pig skin as I stared at a glorious menu of hot dogs and sausages—while also eating a pistachio ice cream out of one hand, drinking an icy horchata from the other, and holding a to-go box filled with “Spam sushi” to enjoy later—I realized that I have no idea what I’m talking about. You already have every flavor you could want right there in the university’s back yard. This corner, where Nord forms a “T” with West Sacramento Avenue (let’s call it “NorSac”), has been adding new, interesting, inexpensive restaurants at a steady rate over the past couple years, and today, between University Square (aka the Safeway shopping center) on one side of Nord, and a series of old and new strip malls on the other, there are an incredible 17 different places to eat. And it’s not a bunch of chain fast-food joints in NorSac. It’s a nearly all-local collection of small owner-operated restaurants, featuring an eclectic selection of classicAmerican and international flavors. Park in the University Square parking lot (perhaps the most broke-ass section of blacktop in Chico) at

lunchtime and you’ll be a few steps away from just about any flavor you could want. And for my lunch last week I enjoyed as many as my stomach would handle. I started at La Flor de Michoacán Palatería y Nevería, the new (amazing) Mexican icecream shop, to order something from their small lunch menu, the Mexican street-food favorite: tostilocos. It’s a bowl of seasoned Tostitos chips topped with chunks of cucumber and jicama, plus chili-coated tamarind candies, some kind of Asian peanut snacks, a generous helping of sliced pickled pig skins and tossed with limejuice and a chili-powder-infused chamoy sauce. It was a tart, multitextured kick in the tongue, even a little refreshing (though I don’t know that the gelatinous texture of the pickled pig skins is something I’ll soon get used to). I washed it down with a cinnamony cup of horchata (made with rice milk) and that unbelievably flavorful pistachio ice-cream bar. The kicker for the day, though, was the Spam musubi I got at Wok ’N’ Roll, with two seared slabs of salty pink-meat goodness on rice wrapped with seaweed and served with a side of teriyaki sauce. I’ve had great food at many of the NorSac establishments, and this ingenious snack ranks at the top (right next to Donut Rising’s bacon-topped maple bar, the O Canada). With the addition of La Flor, there are now four different choices for Mexican in NorSac—La Flor; the “family style” La Familia; Aca Taco and its giant burritos; and across the street in the Star Liquor parking lot, the Fiesta Taco truck. And for Chinese, there are now

three options: the well-established Windy’s; the brand-new curiously named Szechuan/Mandarin spot, Tony’s Restaurant next to Mondo’s Café (where I recently enjoyed a wonderful, freshly prepared plate of spicy twice-cooked pork that was hot enough to make the back of my neck sweat); and Wok ’N’ Roll, with its blend of Chinese, Hawaiian and Japanese cuisines. Other NorSac options include sandwiches (Kona’s, Subway), teriyaki bowls (Teriyaki House), cheese steaks (Cheese Steak Shop), stone-baked pizzas (Mamma Celeste’s Stone-Baked Pizzeria) and even a few shots of espresso to perk you up after a big meal (Mondo’s). And, just across the breezeway from Windy’s is one of the most promising-looking new restaurants in all of Chico, Aonami Sustainable Sushi. Their menu of fresh, sustainably sourced seafood is very intriguing and reasonably priced (for sushi). It’s mostly the wide variety of budget choices all in one spot that make NorSac a destination, but in some instances—with La Flor; the award-winning The Dog House; the nonpareil Donut Rising; and the original Burger Hut—there are also some of the best, if not the best, ice creams, hot dogs, donuts and hamburgers in town being produced in this zone of flavor. It’s enough to cause a reverse migration, with townies and downtown hipsters crossing the railroad tracks to get schooled by the students. Now, if there were just a good Thai, Indian or Middle Eastern choice as well. There is an open unit between the Mexican and pizza places … Ω

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metal; rather a very serious-minded intestine-rupturby ing kind, marked Jason Cassidy (to varying degrees, dependjasonc@ newsreview.com ing on where on the black-deathdoom spectrum it PREVIEW: falls) by walls of Kayo Dot distorted chunky performs low-end, blinding Wednesday, Aug. fret-board and 29, 8 p.m., at double-pedal Café Coda. West by Swan, Bogg calisthenics and and Akasa open. alternating Cookie Cost: $5. Monster/ shrieking-banshee Café Coda vocals. And while 265 Humboldt Ave. it’s nice to have 566-9476 some weight www.cafe added to the roscoda.com ter of indie and punk-rock on local small stages, there are a lot of generic crews out there who have jumped on this metal bandwagon, content to riff through the motions and sound just like the last band that played. New York’s Kayo Dot is not one of those bands. In fact, even though front man and songwriter Toby Driver has been writing and recording projects that get tagged as various kinds of metal—from his early days in his ’90s “mystical progressivemetal” band Maudlin of the Well to the various experimental-, blackand not-so-metal stages of Kayo Dot (which grew from the ashes of MOTW)—his current band is not even metal really. The latest release, Gamma Knife, is being heralded by critics as a return to the band’s metal roots, even though two of its

five songs—album opener “Lethe” and closer “Gamma Knife”—are beautiful drum- and distortion-free soundscapes that, while thick with dark gothic atmosphere, are not metal in any conventional sense. (And though the other three muchlouder songs on the album are no more heavy mood-wise, they are brain-meltingly more chaotic and noisy.) “In New York, you can just be any old asshole and start a metal band and people will care,” said Driver during in a recent phone conversation. “We never fit in completely to any scene,” he added, explaining that they’ve “always been too metal for the classical people,” and too “weird” for the metal folks. “Our peers in New York are bands like Extra Life and Hazel-Rah … a lot of stuff you would find in the ‘brutal prog’ community.” The bio on the band’s website describes Kayo Dot as a compositional avant-rock band, and that’s probably the best way to put it. Driver is a songwriter who may have metal, rock, classical and experimental influences, but he isn’t beholden to any of the rules or conventions of the styles, and as a result his projects naturally push boundaries by ignoring them all together. Whether it’s Kayo Dot; or Tartar Lamb, the offshoot duo with violinist Mia Matsumiya; or Ichneumonidae, the soon-to-be-released DVD of his collaboration with Butoh dancer Michelle Morinaga. “Every time we do a record, we do it different,” Driver said. And when it came to Gamma Knife, he explained in an interview with the music and arts blog, Sound Color Vibration, that the album is his

“exploration of a black-metal sound,” adding that “My interest is sonic only and how I can use sound to express how I and I alone am feeling. If I were to compare Gamma Knife to previous Kayo Dot albums, I would say the underlying similarity is its sense of adventurousness and utter disregard for rules.” That approach is what likely caught the attention of avant-garde saxophonist John Zorn, who released Kayo Dot’s first album, 2003’s Choirs of the Eye, on his eclectic Tzadik Records. In fact, Driver was fresh off a trip to the south of France where he performed with Secret Chiefs 3 (the instrumental-rock brainchild of former Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance) as one of Zorn’s backing bands at the Marciac Jazz Festival. “It was super-fucking intense, man. It was really a humbling experience,” Driver said. “The way [Zorn] works on stage he tries to keep the musicians on edge. … He gave us a piece of music to play just before going on stage … and 6,000 people were watching.” There obviously will be far fewer people than that in the audience at Café Coda next week when Kayo Dot hits the cozy stage. While they won’t be subjected to the same ol’ boring metal show, there will be plenty of heavy darkness on display, from the moodyand-quiet classical moments to the mad noise of songs like “Rite of Goetic Evocation” and “Ocellated God.” In fact, if you plan on whipping your head around to the culminating frenetic-ness of the latter, you might as well make an appointment with your chiropractor right now. Ω

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I Belong to the Band Rory Block Stony Plain Blues singer/guitarist Rory Block has recorded three previous homages to honor the artists who have influenced her music—Robert Johnson, Son House and Mississippi Fred McDowell—and all have earned high praise. This disc, subtitled A Tribute to Rev. Gary Davis, is the latest and celebrates this unique musician’s career. Like many others back in the ’20s, Rev. Davis (1896-1972) began as a street singer performing the kind of music (popular songs, blues, ragtime) that would encourage people to cough up some cash, but when he became an ordained minister in 1937 he pretty much gave up the blues and concentrated on what one writer called “holy blues, gospel songs with a blues inflection,” and that’s the legacy that Block celebrates here. Like House’s and McDowell’s, Davis’ career was revived during the folk-music boom of the ’60s, and as a teenager Block sought out Davis, whose stunning finger picking guitar stylings have awed guitarists for years. Of the 11 songs she’s chosen—many with lovely slide guitar accompaniment—the best known are his “Twelve Gates to the City,” “Samson and Delilah,” and “Death Don’t Have No Mercy.” While her playing is superb, her occasionally biting vocals take some getting used to. One notable exception is on the title track, on which her overdubbed vocals twine beautifully around themselves.

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BLAZE OF GLORY: A Bon Jovi tribute band in the brewery. F, 8/24, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JOHN SEID: John Seid and friends, featuring Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing an eclectic mix of tunes all night. Th, 6:30-9:30pm through 9/30. Free. Johnnies Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnnies restaurant.com.

LOW FLYING BIRDS: A funky, jammin’ bluegrass band comprised of established

local musicians. Th, 8/23, 69pm. Free. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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://liveat flo.weebly.com.

party to raise funds for the annual Chico Earthdance celebration. F, 8/24, 7:30pm. $10. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

CLOUDS ON STRINGS: Classic prog and math rock at its finest. Heatwarmer, Pageant Dads and Palaver open. F, 8/24, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafe coda.com.

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

NORTHERN HEAT: Country and southern rock covers from the ’50s to now. F, 8/24, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. F, 8/24, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

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8/25, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

JELLY BREAD: Elements of country

twang, funk and alt-rock collide. Sa, 8/25, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853; www.facebook.com/ events/169303759872287.

TOM DRINNON: A night of honky-tonk

country music. F, 8/24, 9:30pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

MOSSY CREEK: A longtime Chico favorite, the local bluegrass outfit emphasizes complex vocal harmonies. Sa, 8/25, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

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NORTHERN HEAT: Country and southern

AIRPOCALYPSE: The unrivaled masters of air guitar bring their explosive show to Monstros and Season of the Witch releases their album Bonedust. The Fabulous Downey Brothers, Disorderly Event and Banned from Earth open. Sa, 8/25, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

rock covers from the ’50s to now. Sa, 8/25, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

SLY FOX: Classic rock covers in the

lounge. Sa, 8/25, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

TOM DRINNON: A night of honky-tonk

EASE UP: Surf, reggae and ska out of San

country music. Sa, 8/25, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

Diego. DJ Az Redsmoke opens. F, 8/24, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: The weekly concert series

URBAN LEGEND: Classic rock, country

and pop covers. Sa, 8/25, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rolling hillscasino.com.

continues with jam master Pershing and his funky band. F, 8/24, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.

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and cinematic aesthetic. Gentleman’s Coup, Ocha La Rocha and West by Swan open. F, 8/24, 8:30pm. $5. Origami Lounge; 7th and Cherry Streets.

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STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS: Bluegrass and a good dose of humor as Steve Martin straps on the banjo to front the Steep Canyon Rangers. Tu, 8/28, 7:30pm. $60-$76. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/upe/box office.html.

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DECKS AND DRUMS: Drummer Nick Harris of Armed for Apocalypse and DJ Marvel of the Hooliganz team up to kick off the semester at LaSalles. W, 8/29, 8pm. $2. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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.

ZOMBIE KITTEN: Acoustic emo improv out of Anchorage, Alaska. Sierra Webb opens. Sa, 8/25, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

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.

28TUESDAY writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

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8:30pm-1am through 11/13. No cover all night! The Hub; 685 Manzanita Ct. Inside the Holiday Inn, Chico; (916) 8727729.

KAYO DOT: A compositionally cinematic

try, blues and alt-rock fresh out of Austin, Texas, that draws comparisons to Little Feat and The Black Crows. Tu,

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CRAZY HORSE: All-request karaoke. Tu,

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

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

SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the

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

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

DJ DANCING CRAZY HORSE: DJ Hot Rod and mechani-

cal bull contest. F, 9pm-1:30am. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

FEATHER FALLS: Tu, 7-11pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com.

the patio. W-Sa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

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.

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QUACKERS: F, 9pm. Free. Quackers Lounge, 968 East Ave., (530) 8953825.

DOWN LO: DJ Ron Dare. Tu, Sa, 9pm. Free. DUFFY’S: DJ Lois & DJ Spenny. W, 10pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

FEATHER FALLS: Su, 8pm-midnight. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

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this time of year, so full of the promise of something new and fresh happening in Chico. It is always my sincere hope that some crazy-ass young bloods will roar into the school year with big ideas and a reckless disregard for all who’ve come before and just kick the local art scene square in the nuts. There is a lot of radness already in place in Chico, but the spark for that eternal flame has only one source: the wildly beating hearts of the young ’uns who have the gumption to slam their feet into our crotches. Chico’s music and arts scenes can be what you make them, and Chico is the kind of manageable, friendly, encouraging town where Argh! My groin! being involved in things is easy. With that said, here is a list of fresh and awesome things and people and questions to consider (and maybe be inspired by):

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1. First question: What’ll the new kids do next? If any arty types or musical wannabes out there would like to see how following through with a creative idea is done, check out the many projects of Chico band Clouds on Strings. In addition to their prog-nerdiness, the various members have been hosting themed jazz nights at Café Coda; building GigIndie.com, an online music-venue database for bands with their buddies in Hail the Sun; and now hosting rock shows those same guys with their new DiFY Productions. First show: Dark Side of the Moon Tribute Concert, featuring the classic Pink Floyd album being performed in its entirety by local bands, Friday, Aug. 31, 8 p.m., at the Chico Women’s Club. 2. Café Coda, Origami Recording Lounge, Monstros Pizza, The Maltese, Café Flo: Aka the Five Horsemen of the Radpocalypse, wherein your underground-music spirit is nourished. 3. Second question: Will Rogue Theatre shine again? The rebel theater without a home is still around, and I’m very excited at the prospect of its reported plans to stage Tracy Letts’ incredible Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning dark comedy, August: Osage County, in December. 4. Fred’s debut performance: New Blue Room Theatre artistic director Fred Stuart is about to announce the schedule (on Aug. 25) for his first season at the helm, and he’s already confirmed that the cornerstone production of the season built around the theme of “civility in modern society” will be French playwright Yasmina Reza’s Tony Awardwinning God of Carnage. 5. The original originals: MÁNÁS Artspace, where Chico’s most energetic scene-makers invite you to come help them make the scene. 6. Habitat Lab: A former candy warehouse is bought by local artists and turned into a big, beautiful new art space. Stay tuned. 7. Bustolini’s comedy nights: The Last Stand comedy venue might’ve closed, but Bustolini’s semi-regular comedy showcases live on. Next up: Friday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m., at Blue Room, featuring a host of local performers plus Sacramento comedians Johnny Taylor and Jesse Fernandez. 8. Third question: Will the mysterious She Fetus bring her acoustic experiments out from the shadows and make a public appearance? 9. Fourth question: Will the mysterious Hobilly MF continue to haunt my dreams for failing to get off the couch and bear witness to his tasty slide guitar? 10. Indarcore! Coolest family in Chico? It’s no contest. Husband and wife Josh and Robin Indar front the mighty fun rock/punk trio Severance Package; Robin is about the hippest punk-rock tile-maker around (see her art opening Saturday, Sept. 8, 4-6 p.m., at All Fired Up), and their two sons are superstar actors in Bobby Joe Ebola’s “Xcelnt” new music video for their sing-along anthem, “Life is Excellent.” XI. Another question: Will an audience member lose an actual limb at Lost on Main during a showing of the stage adaptation of the twisted Japanese horror flick Audition (directed by CN&R film critic Craig Blamer and showing Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 1.) I don’t know. Probably. 12. Final question: Which of you as-of-yet unknown arts makers will be the one who makes Arts DEVO screech like a little girl by delivering a clean kick to the energy bone?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRESTONS SHOE REPAIR at 161 East 3rd Street, Chico, CA 95928. PRESTON POWERS, 4714 Road E, Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: PRESTON POWERS Dated: July 13, 2012 FBN No: 2012-0001038 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 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 person is doing business as PARTNERS IN GRIME CLEANING SERVICES, 676 Bille Road, Paradise, CA 95969. CARLY MARIE SANTA, 100 Sterling Oaks Dr, Apt 123, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: CARLY SANTA Dated: July 18, 2012 FBN No: 2012-0001060 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME-STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CIG NORTH VALLEY INSURANCE CENTER at 680 Rio Lindo Avenue, Suite 60, Chico, CA 95927. RISKPRO INSURANCE SERVICES INC, 680 Rio Lindo Avenue, Suite 60, Chico, CA 95927. This business was conducted by a corporation. Signed: CINDY SICK, CEO Dated: August 14, 2012 FBN No: 2010-0001482 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2012

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

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BRANDY HARMON, household items. CAROL McMURRAY, household items. CHRIS BOONE, household items. To the highest bidder on: September 8, 2012 Beginning at 12:00pm. Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 2298 Park Ave. Chico, Ca 95928. Published: August 23,30, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: ALICIA GRIFF, microwave, TV, wood furniture, wall pictures, boxes. DAVID DRAKE, Xmas decor, dry erase board, pool ladder, microwave, storage bins. DONNA WEBER, wood door, swamp cooler, guitar, area rugs, boxes. BAMBI MAJOR, wood furniture, baby clothes, futon, womans clothes, copy machine. SAMANTHA DUTRA, wood furniture, jewelry, queen bed, area carpet, computer monitor. To the highest bidder on: September 8, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm. Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 3160 Olive Hwy., Oroville, Ca 95966. Published: August 23,30, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: FILBERTO & NICKY PADILLA, drums, furniture, household items. To the highest bidder on: September 8, 2012 Beginning at 2:00pm. Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 60 E Grand Ave, Oroville, Ca 95966. Published: August 23,30, 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 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

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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,

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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 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner AALESHEA JIMENEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ELLEANA PAJTSHIAB THAO Proposed name: ELLEANA PAJTSHIAB DUONG 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: October 5, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: August 7, 2012 Case Number: 157424 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2012

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do

you know what a controlled burn is? Firefighters start small, manageable fires on purpose so as to eradicate brush that has accumulated too close to wooded areas. With less fuel around, bigger fires are not as likely to ignite accidentally and turn into conflagrations. I encourage you to use this as a metaphor for your own life, Aries. How? First, identify a big potential problem that may be looming on the horizon. Then, in the coming weeks, get rid of all the small messes that might tend to feed that big problem. Make sure it’ll never happen.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Jungian sto-

ryteller Clarissa Pinkola Estés advises us to take good care of the untamed aspects of our nature. “The wild life must be kept ordered on a regular basis,” she writes. One way to do this is to keep our uncommon and unruly ideas clear and organized. It’s also important to give them respect, and understand that they’re crucial to our spiritual and psychological health. How are you doing in this regard, Taurus? What’s your relationship with the untamed aspects of your nature? According to my reading of the omens, now is prime time for you honor and nurture and cultivate them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): By my astro-

logical reckoning, you’re not nearly wet enough right now. I recommend that you take immediate and intensive steps to remedy the situation. There should not be anything about you that is high and dry; you need to soak up the benefits that come from being slippery and dripping. If you’re suffering from even a hint of emotional dehydration, you should submerse yourself in the nearest pool of primal feelings. For extra credit, drink deeply from the sacred cup that never empties.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the 16th

century, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ruled over a vast swath of land that included 12 modern European nations. According to some historians, he once said, “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” This is the kind of attitude I recommend that you adopt in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Tailor your language to the people and creatures you’re speaking to. Address them on their own level of consciousness, respecting their limitations and appealing to their particular kind of intelligence. Of course, this is always a good policy, but it’s especially important for you to observe now. Fluency and flexibility will be rewarded in ways you can’t imagine.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to

enhance your relationship with money? If so, do you have any specific ideas about how to do it? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to identify and implement those ideas. Let me make an initial suggestion: Keep your magical thinking to a minimum, but don’t stamp it out entirely; a small amount of frisky fantasizing will actually boost the likelihood that your more practical intentions will achieve critical mass. Here’s another tip: Imagine the presents you’d get for people if you had some extra cash. Stimulating your generous urges may help motivate the universe to be generous to you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A guy I know

was invited to hang one of his paintings in a New York gallery—on one condition. It had to be a piece he created on the spot, in the gallery, on the day the show opened. That would be way too much pressure for me to handle. I need to spend a long time on the stuff I make, whether it’s music or writing. I’ve got to fuss over every little detail as I constantly edit and refine and add layers. What about you, Virgo? Could you quickly come up with some new wrinkle or fresh creation that would show the world who you really are? I’m guessing we will soon find out.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you’ve been reading my horoscopes for a while, you

Funk in the trunk

by Rob Brezsny know I’m not a decadent cynic who thinks “no pain, no gain” is the supreme formula for success. On the contrary. I think it’s quite possible to enjoy tremendous growth spurts when you’re happy and healthy. Pleasurable events can be great learning experiences. Joy and freedom may activate potentials that would otherwise remain dormant. Having said that, I want to make a suggestion that may seem at odds with my usual approach, even though it’s not. For the next two weeks, I encourage you to explore the necessary power of decay. Harness the archetypes of breakdown and dissolution as you put an end to things whose time is up. This work is key to your future rejuvenation and renaissance.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m going to

ignore the Urban Dictionary’s more modern definitions of the word yeast, and stick to the original meaning: an agent of fermentation that brews alcoholic drinks and makes bread dough rise. Metaphorically speaking, Scorpio, you should be like that for your gang or crew or tribe. I urge you to stir up group morale. Provoke deeper thought and stronger feelings. Instigate some bubbly new trends and effervescent interactions. Be yeasty!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sussex is a county in southeast England. Its official motto is “We wunt be druv,” which is Sussex dialect for “We won’t be pushed around.” It’s not bad as mottoes go, I guess. There’s power in announcing to the world that you’re not going to allow anyone to manipulate you or bully you. But I’d like to see you come up with a more robust battle cry for yourself, Sagittarius—one that doesn’t focus on what you won’t do, but rather on what you will do. It’s an ideal astrological moment to articulate your driving purpose in a pithy formula that will give you strength whenever you invoke it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Most

people consider global warming somewhat of a mixed blessing,” wrote Aaron Sankin on The Huffington Post. “On one hand, there’s ocean acidification, deserts gobbling up wide swaths of farmland and the massive die-off of the innumerable species unable to cope with the effects of the world’s rapidly rising temperature. But, on the other hand, you’ll be able to wear shorts for literally the entire year.” Sankin is being deeply sarcastic, of course. Let’s make his satire a jumping-off point as we consider some sincerely worthwhile trade-offs you might want to implement in your own sphere. Would you be willing to sacrifice a trivial comfort for a new privilege? Would you shed a small pleasure to gain a much bigger pleasure? Might you divest yourself of a pocket of resentment if in doing so you’d attract a cleansing epiphany?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I don’t

expect your travels in the coming weeks to be like a smooth luxury cruise in a stretch limousine. Your route is not likely to be a straight shot through breathtaking scenery with expansive views. No, my dear Aquarius, your journeys will be more complicated than that, more snakey and labyrinthine. Some of the narrow passages and weedy detours you’ll need to navigate may not even resemble paths, let alone highways. And your metaphorical vehicle may resemble a funky old 1967 Chevy pickup truck or a forklift bedecked with flowers. It should be pretty fun, though. Keep in mind that your maps may only be partially useful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In medieval

times, you didn’t need a priest to get married, nor did you have to be in a church or recite a set of vows. You didn’t even have to round up witnesses. All that was required was that the two people who wanted to be wed said “I marry you” to each other. Those three words had great power! In the coming days, Pisces, I’d love to see you draw inspiration from that lost tradition. Your assignment is to dream up three potent declarations that, while not legally binding, express the deepest and most loving intentions you promise to be faithful to in the coming years.

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Sharon Nilsson opened Pepper Grand Coulee’s Funky Trunk six months ago, combining her love of individuality and creativity into a way to start a small business. The Trunk sells vintage, retro and repurposed clothing and accessories for both men and women in a brightly colored store at 1112 Mangrove Ave. The only employees at the trunk are Sharon’s husband, Kurt, and the couple’s three kids, Jonah, 17, Griffin, 15, and Sawyer, 11. Nilsson’s mom, Shirley Mckenzie, is a seamstress and helps repurpose some of the items that come in. In addition to retail, the store is a place for local bands to play and for local organizations to hold fundraisers. Go to Facebook.com/PepperGrandCouleesFunkyTrunk to learn more about the store.

Where did the name Pepper Grand Coulee’s Funky Trunk come from? When I first started thinking of opening my business I knew I wanted Funky Trunk. As I started researching I found that there were a few mom-and-pop businesses around the country with the name Funky Trunk, so I needed to differentiate it. So I decided to go with my alter-ego, and use my “soap opera name,” which is my first dog’s name and the street [I] grew up on. No one else will have this name. It sets me apart.

What motivated you to open this kind of business? I came to a point in my career where I needed to redefine what I wanted to do, and I thought,

‘What do I love to do?’ I love thrift-store shopping and finding hidden treasures. How can I turn that into a job? When my son, Jonah, had trouble finding cool boys clothes at thrift stores, I thought someone needed to open a fun place that appeals to guys and girls, so I decided I should do that.

What kinds of events go on at the Funky Trunk? We’ll have concerts with one, two or even three local bands. We kind of push all the clothes to one side of the store and the band will set up and play. We also hold fundraisers for local groups. As a small-business owner I feel like you have to give back to the community that supports you.

Where do you get your merchandise? People can bring in clothes and accessories and if it is something I can sell they receive store credit. But mostly it’s from me digging for it.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

What I love Editor’s note: Anthony is taking a week off, so we’re rerunning this column from 2010. I love it when people look at me and smile. I love it when I give my storage-cabinet door just the right push and it closes quietly, even though I’m leaning way over the kitchen table to keep from having to walk all the way around. I love interesting skies. I love it when Sammy, our neighbor’s Siamese cat, walks within a foot or two of me like I’m not there. I love to face the sun, feel the heat on the bridge of my nose, and know that my sinuses are happy. I love when my son sits down with me for no particular reason. I love it when I’m watching a movie and I recognize a character’s Wordsworth quote or Salinger reference or the Jacob Lawrence reproduction on the wall, thus ever so slightly justifying my liberal-arts education. I love big dictionaries and long, intricate, grammatically impeccable sentences. I love riding a bicycle. I love being able to touch my toes again. I love it when the strawberries at the bottom of the box look better than the ones on top. I love a sax bridge between verses. I love when things get jangly and I remember that

peace is right here within like always and I close my eyes and take a few deep, slow breaths, often in a parking lot or in line at a grocery store. Over and over I save my life. I love reader letters that give me something to write about. I love chanting with my family, ditto meditation with same. I love it when in the afternoon the morning clouds part and the rest of the day is warm and sunny. I love it when even though nearly everybody I voted for lost the election I can still take heart and joy in not living with a politician or in the Deep South, especially Texas. I love seeing people I barely recognize and remembering their names. I love not hearing traffic. I love being up before dawn when the house is quiet and I’m the only one awake. And I loved it when I recently went through six weeks of email and saw that some of you had offered me sympathy, advice, and even loaners in response to my computer problem. I’m astonished and grateful. Thank you. I’m writing this on my repaired Mac because a reader told a friend of his who contacted and steered me to a consultant. The repair shop that had my Mac when it passed out offered me a compromise, which I promptly accepted. The whole thing took 10 minutes. I love it and you. August 23, 2012

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