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California’s changing colors Why is California such a blue state dominated by Democrats?

Plutocracy and politics A Many in this country, myself included, believe the real issue is not whether government is too big but whom governkey issue in this election is big government.

ment is for. Clearly it is not for most who read this newspaper. It is for the top one percent, maybe even the top one-tenth of one percent. It is a plutocracy—government by and for the very wealthy.

For the past three or four decades almost all gains from economic growth have flowed to the very top. Forty years ago, the top one percent received about 10 percent of total income. That figure is now close to 25 percent. The by bottom half of earners comWalt Schafer bined—150 million Americans—have less wealth than The author is a small the richest 400 families. farmer and professor Meanwhile, the wages of the emeritus of sociology average worker have stagat Chico State, where nated, with virtually no he taught for increase since 1970 adjust30 years. ing for inflation.

This concentration of wealth and income at the top brings concentration of power—power used to rig the system so the very wealthy get even more. This happens in many ways—tax cuts for the rich, tax loopholes, corporate and bigfarm subsidies, deregulation to get government out of the way for big corpora-

tions and the very wealthy, easy access to office holders, huge campaign contributions, hordes of lobbyists. This is how a plutocracy works in America.

While wealth and income disproportionately flow to the top, we see stark and disturbing decay in funding for roads and bridges, public parks, public schools, colleges and universities, student aid, police and fire, services to the needy, medical research, environmental protections, and more.

I am not alone in my dissatisfaction with this picture. In a recent New York Times/CBS poll, two-thirds of respondents said the nation’s wealth should be more evenly distributed, while a similar percentage stated that the rich should pay more taxes.

This is not “class warfare.” Class warfare is what has already been happening these past 30 years, with the bottom 99 percent its target.

A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that 77 percent of respondents said too much power is in the hands of a few rich people and corporations. That same New York Times/CBS poll revealed that 69 percent of respondents believe that Republican policies favor the rich. Only 28 percent think President Obama’s policies do so.

These respondents got it right. Ω

Concentration of wealth brings concentration of power.

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The answer is simple: changing demographics. In this state, communities of color—black, Asian and especially Latino—are driving the state’s population growth.

According to a report from the Center for American Progress, the Latino share of population in California has nearly doubled since 1990, from 20 percent to 38 percent, while the Asian population has grown from 9.2 percent to 13.1 percent. Whites ceased to be the majority more than a decade ago, in 2000.

People of color vote. In 2008, Latinos comprised 21.4 percent of voters, Asians 9.2 percent and African Americans 7.7 percent, and the numbers have gone up since.

In 1994, when Republican Gov. Pete Wilson pushed through Proposition 187 barring unauthorized immigrants from receiving all but emergency medical services, Latinos took it personally. The measure was quickly struck down in the courts, but the damage was done: Latinos have voted preponderantly Democratic ever since, and Democrats have won the state in every presidential election.

Smart Republicans understand their party, which now comprises only 30 percent of registered voters in the state, is becoming a bastion of older white people whose chief preoccupation is hunting out doctrinal heretics.

Instead of embracing these new demographics and acknowledging that California is becoming more diverse, they have hunkered down with their regressive anti-immigrant sentiments.

They opposed the California DREAM Act, for example, that makes undocumented college students eligible for state and private financial aid that may cut the cost of attending college by up to two-thirds. And they continue to oppose comprehensive immigration reform designed to create a way for longtime unauthorized immigrants to become legal residents.

In doing so, they fail to recognize that communities of color add billions of dollars to the state’s economy as consumers, that business owners of color own more than one-fourth of businesses in the state, that immigrants are essential to the state’s economy as workers, and that they contribute billions of dollars in state and local taxes.

Many immigrants, including Latinos, share the traditional Republican appreciation for smaller government and lower taxes, but they also recognize the value of the social safety net. They could find a home in Republicanism, if only the party would meet them halfway. Ω

Making it easier to vote At a time when many states with Republican-dominated Legis-

latures are trying to make it as difficult as possible for some people—mostly the young, minorities and the poor, who trend Democratic—California is going in the other direction, making it easier to vote. That’s how it should be.

This year the good news is the adoption of online voter registration.

According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 1 million Californians filed online applications to register by the Monday, Oct. 22, deadline for the Nov. 6 election. Many of those applications are still being processed, but as of Tuesday at least 679,000 people had registered to vote in the last 45 days, which may set a new record for registration, according to Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

But why stop there? Historically, registration was initiated as a way to keep non-white people—immigrants and blacks—from voting. Why do we make it harder for people to vote by requiring them to seek out and submit a registration form? Why not make it the state’s responsibility to use its existing databases to register everyone?

Universal voter registration is not a new idea. It exists in many countries around the world. To see how it works, go to www.fairvote.org and click on “Reforms.” Ω

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by Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

Kelley’s lucky break Did you see that full-page ad for Dave Kelley in Sunday’s Enterprise-Record?

It says “Paid for by Dave Kelley for Chico City Council 2012,” but he paid only a pittance for it, and therein lies a tale.

In an emailed press release, Kelley explains that on Aug. 17 he attended a fundraiser for Valley Oak Children’s Services at which a full-page ad donated by the E-R was being raffled. He purchased a passel of tickets and “crossed his fingers,” as he puts it, that his investment would pay off. Sure enough, it did.

But could the free ad be used to benefit a political campaign? Kelley had to wait a month while the state Fair Political Practices Commission, the Chico City Clerk’s Office and the E-R honchos researched the issue. Finally they agreed it was a go.

The only cost to his campaign was for an upgrade to color.

Speaking of candidates: Toby Schindelbeck isn’t at all happy about Councilwoman Mary Goloff’s guest comment (“Speaking of naïveté…”) in the Oct. 11 CN&R, written in response to his own guest comment (“Schindelbeck doubles down”) in the Sept. 27 issue. During the council’s Oct. 16 meeting, he stepped to the lectern and angrily excoriated Goloff for her “unprofessional and untrue” statements and her “attempt to slander” him. Wow. If he wins, things are going to get pretty tense at the council dais.

Will Prop. 30 drive the rich out of California? That’s one of the questions being asked because Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure, if passed, would increase the tax rates slightly on all personal income exceeding $250,000.

The answer, according to a recent study sponsored by the nonpartisan California Budget Project, is no. The report looked at the impact of the “millionaire tax” that California voters approved in 2004. Its findings show that the rich didn’t leave the state and that the risk of socalled “tax flight” is outweighed by other factors, such as “existing ties to family, friends and career.”

The truth about Proposition 32: Backers of this deceptive initiative are touting it as campaign finance reform, so why are they accepting an $11 million donation from a mysterious Arizona group that won’t say where the money came from?

It’s hypocritical to push for campaign finance reform when you’re taking millions from secret donors. But reform isn’t 32’s purpose. Its real goal is to destroy unions’ ability to exercise political influence, leaving the field wide open for Big Business.

Is Argo Carter’s redemption? The Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 contributed to Jimmy Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election. He was seen as weak in the face of humiliating events. But as this terrific movie reminds us, his patience and diplomacy won out in the end, and all the hostages came home alive. It’s something to remember…

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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Crews has more friends Re “Crews support” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, Oct. 18): Another friend-of-the-court brief supporting Willows newspaper publisher Tim Crews was filed by William T. Bagley, former assemblyman and 1968 author of the California Public Records Act; state Senator Leland Yee, the Legislature’s leading defender of First Amendment and open-government rights; and Californians Aware, www.calaware.org .

TERRY FRANCKE Carmichael

Trails mix Re “Off-roaders wrecking Tahoe Forest?”

(Earthwatch, Oct. 18): This lawsuit is about the closure of established off-road trails, not the unlimited use of our wilderness by motorized vehicles.

Off-road vehicles are a legitimate way for a significant percentage of California’s citizens to enjoy the outdoor opportunities that this great state offers. Most off-roaders are highly responsible in their stewardship of the areas they enjoy—with about the same percentage of “bad apples” as the rest of the outdoor community, but it also actively tries to police its own.

For many disabled or less than fit people, it is the only way they can enjoy the outdoors.

It is wise to establish reasonable trails and access to those trails, just as it is wise to ensure that some areas remain pristine and without any human interference. By creating legitimate trail opportunities we lessen the likelihood that ignorant people will abuse the truly roadless sensitive areas. By closing trails ad hoc, we lose the opportunity to manage off-road-vehicle use and encourage those ignorant people to create their own trails.

Leading Chico Forward

Kimberly Rudisill Chico City Council 2012 Kimberly’s Qualifications: 3 Past Council Member 1994-1998 3 Experienced, Independent Thinker 3 Chico Resident since 1975 3 Endorsed by Chico Fire Fighter’s Association

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DAVE GRAY Magalia

Stuck in the ’50s Re “Beware of progressives” (Letters, by B.K. Brooks, Oct. 18): B.K. Brooks out and out lies about crime in Chico. If he reads the Chico E-R (a rightwing publication), he would have noticed crime is down, not up in Chico, per the Chico police.

Mr. Brooks seems to support Bob Evans and Toby Schindelbeck. Evans and Toby are Tea Party small thinkers. Evans tried to derail the democratic vote on medical cannabis, and Toby has called our president a “useless puke.” Chico does not need these small thinkers in local government.

I would think progress is much preferred to 1950s thinking, which both Evans and Toby have demonstrated.

MARC DEVERAUX Chico

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Vote Tami Ritter for Chico City Council

“Tami Ritter has been a valuable asset to the City of Chico through her activism and leadership of organizations working for social benefit. She has undertaken challenging projects and seen them through successfully.

She has demonstrated an ability to work with diverse groups and unify them towards a common goal.

Tami definitely has my support.”

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–Maureen Kirk, Butte County Supervisor

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Andy Holcombe, Chico City Councilor/former Mayor Ann Schwab, Chico City Councilor and current Mayor Jim Walker, Chico City Councilor and Vice-Mayor Mary Goloff, Chico City Councilor Scott Gruendl, Chico City Councilor/former Mayor

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No-smoking tyranny OK people, pay attention! With their use of the words “unenclosed,” “doorway,” “operable window,” “enclosed area” and “twenty feet” in section 8.28.053 of the Chico Municipal Code regarding prohibition of smoking in certain unenclosed areas, the liberal Kool-Aid drinkers on the City Council have effectively criminalized our right to socialize on any patio at any pub. People, this is social tyranny!

LOIS “MAMA BEAR” EDWARDS Chico

Kelley provides balance I support Dave Kelley for City Council. I’ve had the pleasure to serve in city government with Dave Kelley for the past two years. I have found that he researches issues before hearings, brings a wealth of personal and professional experience, and gives thoughtful consideration to issues.

Although I don’t always agree with Dave on every issue, I believe that he will always keep the best interests of the citizens of Chico in mind when making decisions. I believe Dave Kelley will bring a balanced approach to serving Chico.

KEN RENSINK Chico

Restoring sound policies Chico’s last hope is Tuesday, Nov. 6. We’re out of time and money.

We can: 1) vote for social engineering, irrevocably pushing us over the fiscal cliff; or 2) choose rationality, electing those who understand fiscal reality.

It’s irrational to believe those who created the city’s failed fiscal legacy can, will or want to fix the problems. It’s time we elect candidates who’ll advance fiscally sound policies. To solve the overwhelmingly unaffordable problems created in the past, it’s time for a council responsible to all Chicoans, not just their elite patrons.

One individual stands atop the pantheon of responsible candidates: Sean Morgan. Sean’s a long-time Chicoan and knows what’s at stake. A successful business owner, he knows to develop commerce and jobs—and he’s respected by local business, parents, teachers, public servants, residents and taxpayers.

Regardless of political affiliation, we all benefit helping Sean Morgan return the council’s agenda to Chico’s mission: “A safe place to raise a family, an ideal location for business, and a premier place to live.”

RICK HUBBARD Chico

“The liberal Kool-Aid drinkers on the City Council have effectively criminalized our right to socialize on any patio at any pub. People, this is social tyranny!”

—Lois “Mama Bear” Edwards

Jann Reed is a leader The truth is that Jim Nielsen is the very same career politician he wants to “take back” Sacramento from. He does not represent me.

He should not be appointed by Doug LaMalfa nor the Republican machine.

I am supporting Jann Reed, an independent woman and a mom who has been volunteering in this community for more than 25 years. Unlike her opponent, with his dubious address in this district, Jann graduated from Chico State with a degree in microbiology and returned to raise a family.

Jann has taken leadership positions in every organization to which she belongs. During her two terms on the Chico Unified School District board, Jann was both vice president and president, each for three years. Jann has been on the front line as Sacramento politicians continually fail to prioritize education. She understands that categorical funding needs to be included in any true educational funding reform. Jann will continue to make our students her priority.

From volunteering in her kids’ classrooms, driving schoolchildren to live theater and working with her daughters for the Special Olympics, to providing infant car seats, bicycle safety instruction and helmets through the Butte Glenn Medical Alliance, Jann has given tirelessly to our children.

She wants to do more.

Please join me in voting for Jann Reed Nov. 6.

BARBARA MORRIS Chico

Teeter’s ‘fresh new look’ We have a great opportunity to start changing the make-up of the Butte County Board of Supervisors. Doug Teeter is running for

the 5th District seat vacated by Kim Yamaguci. Doug is as smart as they come with a clear vision of what his responsibilities will be as a representative of Paradise, Magalia and Butte Creek Canyon residents. Doug would bring a fresh new look to the traditionally ultraconservative consensus that has been the board’s for years and will continue if his opponent is elected.

Butte County faces some very tough times ahead. We need a supervisor who has a clear vision of what the county needs to do, not only to survive tough times, but also to grow economically by fostering a climate for job growth and personal freedoms.

Go to www.dougteeter.com to learn more about his positions on issues facing Butte County.

BRIAN CORBIT Paradise

Schwab’s ‘clear commitment’ The city of Chico website states that the City Council “establishes and adopts the policies for the City.” I have found that Mayor Ann Schwab takes this directive to heart. She listens, considers and asks questions. I have found her very responsive to my inquiries, and very astute when considering all aspects of an issue.

In addition, she never wavers in showing respect and consideration to all who address the council, whether she feels the same on an issue or not. Leadership, vision and a clear commitment to the city of Chico—these are the qualities we need in City Council members.

That’s why I’m voting for Ann Schwab for Chico City Council.

DEANNE BLANKENSHIP Chico

Stone has business savvy Over the years Chico’s City Council has taken the city on a continual roller-coaster ride with their inconsistent decision-making: A reasonable decision seems to be followed by an irrational one.

This year I am supporting Randall Stone for City Council. We need council members who have a strong background in business and a workable knowledge of finance.

Randall Stone meets both these criteria.

Small businesses have had a rocky few years and are in need of political decisions that strengthen Chico’s business community and put more people to work. Given Randall Stone’s professional history, he will be able to make such decisions.

DR. CLAIRE FIELDS Chico

Shape up, Republicans I’m a Republican, and I’m pretty well fed up with the hypocrisy of North State Republicans.

Here’s what I mean.

Why were Republicans in disbelief when Democrats stood behind President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky affair, but don’t express the same displeasure when their own Republican state senator grabs $5 million in farm subsidies courtesy of American taxpayers and our biggest lender, the communist Chinese?

Why did Republicans find it so offensive for President Obama to force his very unpopular healthcare agenda through Congress, but don’t seem the least put off when their own Republican state senator sets up an illicit attack website against a fellow Republican candidate, blames it on another candidate, and then takes no responsibility for this underhanded, amateurish act?

Why are Republicans so up in arms over Senator Harry Reid’s ineffective, partisan leadership in the Senate, but show no concern when their own Republican state senator refuses to participate in debates sponsored by the League of Women Voters, forcing the cancellation of a planned event in Chico?

Why are Republicans up in arms over the president’s excessive use of Air Force One for personal, political and business reasons, but show no interest in learning the details of an alleged accident involving our own Republican state senator that resulted in more than $16,000 in repair costs to his state-provided Mustang Mach 1?

Come on, Republicans, you’re better than this. Stand up, get a backbone, and police your own ranks.

Otherwise, I’ll soon be reconsidering my party affiliation.

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It’s ‘a moral issue’ Proposition 39 on the California ballot is a moral issue. Our faith principles lead us to support it enthusiastically.

Since 2009, the state has discriminated against Californiabased businesses that create jobs here. It has allowed out-of-state businesses to pay a lower tax rate than California businesses. This is unjust, and it drives businesses and jobs out of the state. Prop. 39 will do away with this discrimination and help keep jobs here.

Prop. 39 also will provide more jobs in California by creating green-energy jobs. By being better stewards of creation, we can create good jobs with a real future.

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Goloff ‘disgraced herself’ Re “Speaking of naïveté…”

(Guest comment, by Mary Goloff, Oct. 11): I found this article about Toby Schindlelbeck to be unbecoming a councilmember and in addition full of lies and half-truths. Mrs. Goloff accomplished this by making up her own views and opinions and selecting words from Toby Schindelbeck’s comments to deliberately change the meaning of his statements and message.

In bashing Toby, Mary failed to mention that Toby and his wife have owned a business with two locations in Chico for almost six years, paying all taxes involved with owning a business and hiring seven employees, all of whom are currently employed at Nutrishop. Though recently moving to our fair city, their broad involvement in Chico has been ongoing for six years.

For most of us who only want a fair and clean campaign, Mrs. Goloff has deliberately disgraced herself and hurt what so far has been a good race by all involved.

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The Jesus Center wishes to express gratitude to the golfers who supported this event and the mission of the Jesus Center—to provide assistance to those individuals who are the neediest among us.

Special thanks to those who provided gifts and sponsorships: Build.Com; Granicher Appraisals; Perfect Tan; Beatniks; Storybook Schoolhouse; JBond Corporation; Law Offices of M. Brooks Houghton; Ken Baker Allstate Insurance; Ray Morgan Company; and especially Brian and Karen Sweeney.

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Correction The hometown one of the honorable-mention winners in the highschool Poetry 99 contest last week, Taylor Matousek, was incorrect.

She is from Orland. The error has been corrected online.—ed.

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Do some reading, like Jeffrey Smith’s Seeds of Deception, and learn more about this subject. And vote YES on Proposition 37. It’s an easy call.

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SIERRA PACIFIC SETTLES HARASSMENT SUIT Anderson-based Sierra Pacific Industries, the timber company that is largest private landowner in California, will pay $95,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

As the CN&R reported in its Sept. 11, 2008, issue, the suit charged that, following 9/11, SPI allowed workers to harass Ahmed Elshenawy, an employee of Egyptian heritage at its Red Bluff plant. The coworkers called him such epithets as “Osama,” “Saddam” and “sand jockey.” Not only did the company not help him after he complained, it retaliated by subjecting him to harsher discipline, finally terminating him in 2004.

The settlement allows SPI to admit no guilt but also requires it to take several steps to forestall further harassment.

In January 2009, SPI paid a former employee at its Oroville plant $110,000 to settle a similar EEOC discrimination suit. In that case, the company allegedly discriminated against the plaintiff because of his religious beliefs.

CHICO GETS BIKE-FRIENDLIER

Chico has officially made the jump from a bronze to a silver-rated bike-friendly city in the League of American Bicyclists’ Bike Friendly America program.

For years, Chico has been rated bronze by the program, which released its rankings Oct. 18, according to a City of Chico press release. The ranking is based on “the five E’s”—Engineering, Encouragement, Education, Enforcement and Evaluation.

Tracy Bettencourt, senior planner for the city, emphasizes that Chico’s ongoing efforts to become more bike-friendly (as part of the 2030 Chico General Plan) is reflective of the community’s values.

“There are people who rely solely on the bicycle as their transportation, there are people who cycle for exercise and people who cycle because they care about the environment, air pollution and traffic congestion,” she said. “This [award] is just illustrative of our dedication.”

NEXT ROUND’S ON HIM?

It would be fair to say visiting a bar isn’t typically a profitable venture, but it recently paid off big for a Chico-area man.

Mark Leary won $1 million by purchasing a California Lottery scratcher at the Studio Inn off The Esplanade, according to a California Lottery press release. Leary had to take the winning ticket into the restroom to make sure he had won the top prize due to dim lighting in the lounge.

After having the retailer check the ticket, he was given an exciting message.

“She told me to come in to the lottery office today and claim my prize,” Leary said.

“It made for a restless, long night.”

The Studio Inn will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

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Maureen Fitzgerald, the CUSD’s assistant superintendent for business services, says this is an ideal time to pass a bond measure because interest rates are so low. The Measure E campaign is being managed by the same consultant who manages Gridley’s $11 million Measure G campaign, as the nearly identical fliers suggest.

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Questions about Measure E District promises not to raise assessment and to keep ultimate cost low

Twhich would authorize the Chico Unified School District to sell $78 million in bonds for o assure voters that Measure E—

school improvements—is a good deal, district officials have vowed to sidestep pitfalls that have mired other districts in astronomical debt. by “The Board [of Trustees] will Ken Smith have the ultimate say when we kens@ sell the bond what direction we newsreview.com want to take,” Maureen Fitzgerald, CUSD’s assistant superintendent for business services, said during a phone interview.

“Capital-appreciation bonds are the ones that get districts in trouble, and we will not go in that direction.”

By “trouble” Fitzgerald was referring to 11 California school districts that, since May 2011, have issued capital-appreciation bonds that mature in 40 years and eventually cost several times the initial loan in interest.

A prime example is the Poway Unified School District. Last year, the suburban San Diego County district issued a $105 million bond. In the end, taxpayers will pay more than a billion dollars to retire the bond, more than $10 for every dollar borrowed.

Fitzgerald said that, though a bond can legally be financed for up to 40 years, CUSD doesn’t intend to do so. She also said it was “impossible to speculate” what Measure E’s ultimate cost to taxpayers would be until after it is approved and implemented.

“There’s no real way to say what it’s all going to cost 10 or 15 years from now, because it hasn’t even been determined how much the first draw will be,” she explained. “We’re looking to get approval for up to $78 million, but until we actually sell a bond and know the financing terms, it’s not something that can be speculated.”

At no time will the district take on more debt than can be met with the current property-tax assessment of $45.50 per $100,000 of assessed valuation, Fitzgerald said. In that sense Measure E simply continues the funding mechanism provided by Measure A, a $48.7 million general-obligation bond passed in 1998.

That measure has been controversial, however. Originally $39 million of it was to go toward building a new high school in southeast Chico. But before construction could get underway, it was determined that, because of an unexpected decline in enrollment in the lower grades, the high school wasn’t needed after all.

Instead the trustees decided, on the recommendation of their oversight committee, to use the money to upgrade the existing high-school campuses. In doing so, the CUSD has been able to leverage an additional $11 million in state funding to augment its bond funding.

Still, some voters are upset and distrustful. They believe the trustees pulled a bait-and-switch on them. In 2008, however, the county grand jury looked into the matter and determined that the decision was justified.

There won’t be any redirection of funds this time, Fitzgerald said. The measure’s stated purposes—to repair leaky roofs; provide modern classroom technology; modernize outdated classrooms, restrooms, school facilities and fields; upgrade the plumbing, electrical and HVAC systems; and install energyefficiency improvements—will not change.

If Measure E gains the required 55 percent of the vote to pass, a Bond Finance Committee—consisting of Fitzgerald, Superintendent Kelly Staley and the Board of Trustees—will decide the type and amount of bonds sold and the financing mechanism, while a Bond Oversight Committee made up of independent citizens will manage projects and ensure funds are properly used.

The fate of districts like Poway

sucked into super-expensive capitalappreciation bonds has concerned watchdogs monitoring this year’s California elections. Of particular interest is the relationship between bond underwriters, school districts and advisers

hired to handle bond campaigns.

As Fitzgerald explained, district dollars cannot be used to fund bond measure campaigns. Therefore, a bond campaign committee works with an outside consultant who handles all of the campaigning, In the case of Measure E, CUSD is working with Isom Advisors, a Walnut Creek-based firm that on its website claims a better-than-90 percent success rate at passing general-obligation bonds.

Isom Advisors is also handling the campaign for an $11 million Gridley Unified School District bond proposition, Measure G. That the same company is promoting both measures is visible in the nearly identical fliers they sent out. The Gridley flier is navy blue and the Chico flyer is green, but other than that and a few specifics, they are very much alike, including the wording.

Of more concern than what can be chalked up to lazy corporate campaigning, though, are the companies that underwrite bond measures. According to a May 3 article on California Watch, five major underwriters have donated $1.8 million to help pass 111 ballot measures authorizing $15.5 billion in debt. In most cases, bond underwriters who contributed to these campaigns were granted contracts by school districts to manage the bond sales. Critics call this a “pay-toplay” system and are lobbying the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose greater regulation and disclosure.

Two of the top five underwriters are involved in the Gridley and Chico measures. Measure E is underwritten by Los Angeles-based De La Rosa & Co. Measure G is underwritten by Stone and Youngberg, a division of Stifel Nicolaus & Company. Stone and Youngberg also underwrote the ill-fated Poway measure.

They and financial adviser Dolinka Group, of Irvine, made $1.4 million off of the deal.

None of this means the bond measure is suspect, only that close attention has to be paid to how the bonds are issued, a process Fitzgerald has promised will be completely open and transparent.

This is an optimal time to pass a bond measure, Fitzgerald said, because interest rates are so low. “We will not see interest rates this low again for a long time,” she added.

The passage of Measure E is extremely important to CUSD, she continued: “It’s pretty vital. It would be the only mechanism we have to do facility improvements for years to come.

“I’m sure anyone who has kids in Chico schools knows how much it’s needed. Schools are a part of the community, and the better our schools are, the better the learning experience, so I urge voters to go out and do what’s right.” Ω

City Council candidates answer questions about acceptance and tolerance.

Call for tolerance

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Stonewall Alliance holds City Council candidate forum

T

he fifth Chico City Council candidate forum in the last month took place Monday (Oct. 22) in the council chambers. This one was sponsored by the Stonewall Alliance of Chico, whose mission is to foster an accepting environment for the gay and lesbian community.

Jim Peck, pastor of the Congressional Church of Chico, kicked things off by announcing it was the Stonewall Alliance’s first ever council candidate debate. He said that of the 11 candidates, three—Toby Schindelbeck, Bob Evans and Sean Morgan—had declined the invitation and Dave Donnan had accepted and then cancelled. Donnan had tickets to the San Francisco Giants playoff game.

The seven who participated were Mayor Ann Schwab, Andrew Coolidge, Randall Stone, Tami Ritter, Kimberly Rudisill, Dave Kelley and Lisa Duarte, making her first appearance at a forum.

“Please do not make any assumptions,” Peck said of the missing candidates. “They had conflicts in their schedules and have been very cordial to us.”

About 100 people nearly filled the council chambers for the event that was moderated

by Chico State Political Science Professor Charley Turner. Candidates gave a oneminute introduction before answering questions prepared by the alliance and then two from the 60 submitted by the audience.

The self-descriptions by the six candidates who’ve attended the other forums are by now pretty well known: financial adviser and

affordable-housing builder (Stone); mayor and local business owner (Schwab); purveyor of the Chico Home and Garden shows (Coolidge); director of local social agencies including (Ritter); substitute teacher and mother of four (Rudisill); and architect and eight-year planning commissioner (Kelley).

Duarte, heretofore a mystery candidate, said she is a 24-year worker in the veterinary field and would represent the average working person in Chico.

The first question asked what candidates would do to make Chico more attractive to the LGBT+ community.

Coolidge said the council needs to focus on local jobs and economic development.

Rudisill said Chico’s existing diversity makes it a great city and that it is a very tolerant community and that “Chico’s unemployment rate is not that bad.”

Ritter said the city, acting with the university, could bring more technological jobs, and that “tolerance is needed for the LGBT community.” Kelley said “good diversity is all about respect and acceptance,” and said he grew up with a deaf brother whom society in many ways looked down upon.

SIFT|ER CEO hands in taxpayers’ pockets At a time when budget cuts have axed 627,000 publicservice jobs—in schools, health clinics, fire stations, recreational facilities—since June 2009, hundreds of corporate CEOs are taking advantage of a tax code skewed to their benefit and earning more annually than their companies pay in tax. In fact, they’re diverting money they should be paying in taxes into their own pocketbooks, while the rest of us live with the consequences. Here are some figures: • Number of last year’s 100 highest-paid U.S. corporate executives who took home more in pay than their companies paid in taxes: 25 • Average compensation of these 25 CEOs: $20.6 million.

• Estimated amount the four most direct tax subsidies for excessive executive pay cost taxpayers last year: $14.4 billion.

• Number of elementary-school teachers that money could hire: 211,732.

Duarte said everyone wants to be accepted and that the city “needs to create jobs that pay better than just working at Walmart.”

Stone mentioned the city’s Diversity Action Plan, which was adopted last year in the wake of a number of local hate crimes. The plan, he said, “lacks specifics, especially for the LGBT community.”

Schwab said, “Respect, acceptance and tolerance equal celebration and understanding and inviting under-represented groups to the table.”

The next question brought up public

safety and the concern by members of the LGBT+ community that Chico police have not taken seriously enough incidents in which people were targeted because of their sexual orientation.

Ritter said to her understanding the problem lies in “defining hate incidents and hate crimes and how they can be prosecuted.” She said more sensitivity training for officers may be warranted. Kelley said he thinks there should be more officers on the streets and called for pension reform to make that financially feasible.

Duarte said “Everybody deserves the right to feel safe,” and called for better education of the Police Department. Stone brought up an incident that happened in his home when a 17-year-old broke in and “stood over our bed and threatened my wife.” The youth was charged with trespassing rather than attempted sexual assault because the latter would be harder to prove.

Schwab said hate crimes are more difficult to prosecute. The police, she said, are taxed with increasing crime, but that they need to develop a sensitivity to hate crimes.

New Police Chief Kirk Trostle, she said, “is sending out a message of tolerance.”

Coolidge said there should be zero tolerance for any hate crime. Rudisill said everybody should feel safe and “if police officers need additional training, so be it. There is no excuse why [hate] crimes should not be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We are all human beings.”

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

• Number of CEOs who saved more than $1 million on the income-tax bills because of the Bush-era tax cuts: 57.

Source: Institute for Policy Studies, www.ips-dc.org

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drumming preacher, talking bacAentrepreneur teria and a bag monster-turnedprovided “wow”

moments for the 100 attendees of the inaugural TEDxChico event last Thursday (Oct. 18) at Sierra Nevada’s Big Room.

TEDxChico is a local extension of the popular TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conferences held each spring in Long Beach. While official TED events are overseen by a nonprofit Sapling Foundation (which then posts them online as “TED Talks”), the “x” in TEDx is meant to designate that they are independently organized in the spirit, and adhere to certain rules, established by TED. Chico’s event—dubbed “Dreamers. Thinkers. Doers.”— was organized by a steering committee of 10 volunteers, including Mayor Ann Schwab and Butte County Supervisor Maureen Kirk.

From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 10 people (eight live and two videotaped) gave 18-minute-or-less presentations of “ideas worth spreading,” which is TED’s motto.

According to steering committee member JoAna Brooks, 44 speakers applied and gave six-minute auditions, and selected speakers have a chance to be tapped for larger TED events.

“My vision is that, by the year 2020, TEDxChico has more speakers selected for TEDLongBeach than any other city of similar size,” said Matt York, another TEDxChico organizer.

Among those who made the Big Room stage was Greg Cootsona, an associate pastor at Bidwell Presbyterian Church, whose offering was titled, “The Right Rhythm of Yesses and Nos.” With the assistance of a drum kit, he explained how a health scare led him to reevaluate the positives and negatives of technology in modern life, urging him to find balance between the spiritual and scientific.

Andy Keller, creator and owner of ChicoBags, emerged in a costume made of 500 plastic bags, the average amount used by each American annually, and explained the impact of a 2004 trip to a landfill.

“What really stood out to me

were all the plastic bags. They were blowing around; they were actually taking flight and flying around with the birds and jumping the fence and escaping, like little monsters. That’s when I realized I was a bag monster.”

Keller, who was unemployed at the time, said he designed the first ChicoBag—a reusable bag capable of being carried in his pocket—to break his bag habit, then realized he could help other people do the same and make a career out of it.

Two videos from national

TED conferences were shown, including one called “How Bacteria Talk” by molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler. Bassler explained that she and a team of researchers at Princeton University discovered how bacteria communicate, or “talk,” by secreting particular proteins.

Bassler and her team discovered bacteria secrete enzymes that enable intra-species communication and another enzyme recognized by other types of bacteria, and how this discovery could lead to new antibiotics.

Other presenters included

Cindy Wolff speaking about nutrition, Glynda-Lee Hoffmann on the topic of how people learn, and Brian Pierce, who with his company Advanced Light Technologies is pioneering new laser and lightbased cancer treatments. Local singer/ songwriter David Zink performed two songs.

Inspire School of Arts and Sciences student Jessica Shipley’s unscheduled, short appearance onstage gave testament to the cross-generational appeal of TED talks. She explained Inspire offers a Tuesday-afternoon enrichment class in which students select, watch, research and discuss videos.

“It was amazing, the whole composition of different people, artists, speakers and ideas was really incredible,” Cootsona said as the show wrapped up with a no host bar. “I can’t wait for next year, if I can get in.”

Cootsana was referring to the TED-imposed limit of 100 attendees at TEDx events like Chico’s.

As more than 100 people were willing to pay the $50 price of admission, attendees were selected by lottery. Organizers of TEDxChico are currently looking for new volunteers to help steer the next event.

Videos of TEDxChico presentations will be available at www.tedxchico.com starting Oct. 26.

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Budget woes Council gets an earful on money matters

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he Chico City Council, along with a few members of the public including council candidates, were treated Tuesday (Oct. 23) to an almost mind-numbingly detailed presentation by city department heads on what their respective departments do, their budgets, staffing and goals. The meeting was an extension of the Oct. 16 regular meeting, which ran out of time after five of the 12 department heads had weighed in.

This marked the first time in decades since this approach to studying the budget was taken, said a former councilmember who asked not to be named. New City Manager Brian Nakamura organized the meeting, in which each presentation, including a PowerPoint presentation, would take an estimated four to five minutes.

Didn’t happen, as most of the department heads used the opportunity to fully explain the myriad responsibilities their staffs had, how many employees they were down and their goals and challenges in an uncertain economy.

Overall the city is treading water and using innovations like sharing employees among departments to lower expenditures and meet budget allocations. The departments have cumulatively spent 23.1 percent of their annual operating budgets in the first quarter, according to numbers presented by Jennifer Hennesey, the city’s finance director.

Nakamura told the council that the city needs to concentrate on a

recovery plan, set strict budget policies and try to dip into emergency reserves less often so they’re there in case of an emergency.

The last two presentations

came from Fire Chief Jim Beery and Police Chief Kirk Trostle, whose departmental budgets make up $35.7 million of the city’s total $43 million budget.

The Fire-Rescue Department has a budget of $13.4 million, said Beery, which is $1.5 million less than in the 2007-08 fiscal year, though there has been a 30 percent increase in calls. Five years ago the department had 22 on-duty firefighters per shift, and now it has 18. Beery said the department is absent an important administrativeassistant position but is getting help from the City Manager’s Office, which is sharing an employee.

“I’m writing my own reports and spreadsheets,” Beery told the council. “There are better things I could be doing.”

Goals include filling five firefighting vacancies, updating reporting software, pursuing additional grant opportunities and considering fees for services such as inspection charges and emergency medical service calls. That wouldn’t be popular with taxpayers, he said, but it’s legal.

The department is also looking to replace a ladder truck, one of which has been out for three months waiting for a part. The truck is so old that a replacement part is no longer available and had to be manufactured from scratch, the chief explained.

Councilman Andy Holcombe asked about the status of the six fire stations, one of which was closed for a short time earlier this

year, causing some protests at council meetings and in letters to the editor. “I’ve heard we could serve the city as well with five instead of six if they were located in other locations,” Holcombe said.

“I’m just trying to pay the phone bill right now,” Beery told Holcombe. “The loss of [redevelopment funding] really hurts. So we can’t build five new stations in new locations. And that wouldn’t mean we would need fewer firefighters. We’d still be short.”

The Police Department’s

allocated budget, including $513,694 for animal services, is $22.5 million, with $10.3 million of that for salaries, $6.9 million in benefits and $1.5 million for overtime pay. That overtime pay includes $49,000 for an extra 784 hours of staffing for the three-day Labor Day weekend.

Police Chief Trostle said overtime also occurs unplanned, such as during the recent Terra Terrace incident, in which officers responded to reports of an armed man holed up in an apartment. The stand-off lasted a number of hours and ended when officers shot and killed the man after he had opened a door and fired on them. The incident cost $34,512 in overtime.

Halloween is expected to call for another $52,000 in overtime pay for the police.

There are currently two unfunded police officer positions, five officers out on medical leave, two vacancies, and two service retirements expected by the end of the year and three to five more next year. The department should have 56 patrol officers, but currently has only 43 available, Trostle said.

Public Notice

LEAF PICKUP STARTS NOVEMBER 1, 2012 AND ENDS JANUARY 3, 2013 CITY OF CHICO RESIDENTS SHOULD...

PLACE leaves in the parking area on the street closest to their property.

PLACE leaves away from the curb and storm drains to allow drainage.

PLACE leaves in piles less than 4 feet in height.

USE CAUTION when driving, walking, or bicycling near City leaf pickup equipment.

CITY OF CHICO RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT...

BLOCK bicycle lanes, driveways, or storm drains.

DEPOSIT branches, limbs, trees, or other debris for pickup (LEAVES ONLY).

This program is not available to residents living on privately-owned streets or in unincorporated areas.

Residential street sweeping operations will be suspended during leaf season and will resume in February 2013.

To reduce bike and traffic hazards, property owners and landscape companies who service commercial and multifamily properties are NOT ALLOWED to place leaves in city streets.

PLEASE CONTACT THE CITY FOR OTHER LEAF DISPOSAL OPTIONS. City of Chico: 894-4200 Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm RightofWayMaintenance@ci.chico.ca.us

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com October 25, 2012

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THE PULSE

HEALTHLINES

Obamacare or Romneycare?

C. DIFF INFECTIONS GO UNREPORTED?

How cases of a potentially deadly infection common to health-care settings are reported in California has raised the concern of patient advocates.

State law requires hospitals to report cases of Clostridium difficile—a serious gastrointestinal infection responsible for 14,000 to 30,000 deaths in the United States each year—to the Department of Public Health, which began issuing reports of hospital infections in 2010, according to California Healthline. But other health-care facilities like physicians’ offices, nursing facilities and surgical centers are not currently required to report cases of C. difficile, also known simply as “C. diff”—and 75 percent of individuals who have the infection are diagnosed outside of hospitals.

Though state law asks for health-care providers to “report outbreaks of any disease,” medical experts have argued that all healthcare facilities should be bound by a specific law regarding C. diff.

Symptoms of the C. diff infection include severe diarrhea and abdominal pain.

The outcome for health-care reform depends on who is elected president

WHOPPING CALPERS RATE HIKES

The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has made a disturbing announcement for many of its long-term-care clients.

CalPERS has proposed an 85 percent premium increase for 115,000 of its 150,000 long-term beneficiaries, according to the Sacramento Business Journal. Earlier this month, CalPERS officials were considering a 75 percent premium hike, which organization spokesperson Bill Madison called “a work in progress” at the time.

The raised premiums, which would take effect in 2015 and be phased in over two years, are in anticipation of budget shortfalls in the future.

Unlike its pension-benefits program, CalPERS’ long-term program is not funded by taxpayers.

“At current course and speed, we would not have enough money … to pay anticipated claims,” said CalPERS deputy executive officer Ann Boynton.

DAILY VITAMINS VS. CANCER

Consuming a daily vitamin pill may play a role in preventing chronic disease, a new study finds.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, followed nearly 15,000 older male physicians for more than a decade, finding those taking daily multivitamins experienced 8 percent fewer cases of cancer compared to subjects taking a placebo, according to SFGate.com.

Whether vitamin consumption has an effect on the likelihood of contracting a serious illness has been the subject of conflicting reports— last year, a study published in the same journal found men who regularly ingested vitamin E had a 17 percent higher risk of developing prostate cancer than those who maintained their regular diet.

The new study’s lead author, J. Michael Gaziano of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that the reduction in cancer cases was modest but statistically significant.

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by

Evan Tuchinsky ideacultivators@aol.com

Obama What his campaign says: • “President Obama believes that quality,

O presidential election, none defines the candidates quite as specifically as healthf all the issues in the 2012

care reform.

President Barack Obama’s policy stands forth in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010—known as the ACA, or “Obamacare,” a label of derision that the president now uses with pride.

It took more than a year to pass, as Obama attempted to build support, and the final product produced detractors on the far left (who prefer a single-payer solution) and on the right (who object to the individual mandate). In the end, it took a 5-4 vote in the Supreme Court to keep the law alive, so onward goes the implementation timeline.

Once upon a time, when he was governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed a law similar to the ACA. It’s become known as Romneycare. Now he wants to repeal Obamacare, or at least the parts he finds objectionable, even if the ACA would then implode under its own weight.

The moderate Democrat and the pendulum-swing Republican may provide only nuanced differentiation on some issues, but not on health care. Here, in comparison, they contrast. The CN&R assesses their differences:

affordable health insurance you can rely on is a key part of middle-class security.”

• “Obamacare is making health care work better for all of us, even if you already have insurance. It puts the health of your family first—ensuring access to free preventive care and protecting consumers from insurance company abuses.”

• “The Affordable Care Act is holding insurance companies accountable, putting an end to the worst abuses, such as capping or dropping your coverage when you get sick.”

• “The Affordable Care Act is helping people with Medicare save on the care they need to stay healthy—from free preventive services to lower costs on prescription drugs and monthly premiums.”

• “President Obama is putting an end to

the health insurance company practice of charging women more than men for the same coverage.”

Analysis: Many aspects of the Affordable Care Act already have taken effect. Among them: Hospitals and physicians have begun the transition to electronic medical records, supported by the federal government; insurance companies have issued rebates to customers under the “medical loss ratio,” limiting the percentage of premium dollars spent on non-treatment expenses; the government has invested $15 billion to bolster preventative care; and hospital payments from Medicare have been linked to patients’ outcomes.

In Obama’s second term, Medicare would remain a public insurance program with renewed emphasis on reining in costs.

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Medicaid would expand, reducing the ranks of the uninsured.

The “individual mandate” would require working individuals to purchase insurance, but the government would subsidize premiums for those whose incomes are up to four times the federal poverty level ($92,200 for a family of four). Middle-class workers whose employers don’t provide health insurance would be able to buy coverage through a national exchange, rather than choose from the more limited offerings available state by state.

The ACA timetable (viewable online at www.healthcare.gov/ law/timeline/) could change. Paul B. Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, told the New York Times that Obama and congressional Democrats might sway Republican support for the legislation by delaying implementation of the more costly and administrativeintensive provisions. That prediction makes sense given Obama’s track record of compromise.

Romney What his campaign says: • “On his first day in office, Mitt

Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible.”

• “In place of Obamacare, Mitt will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a healthcare reform plan that is best for its own citizens. The federal government’s role will be to help markets work by creating a level playing field for competition.”

• “Mitt will begin by returning states to their proper place in charge of regulating local insurance markets and caring for the poor, uninsured and chronically ill.

States will have both the incentive and the flexibility to experiment, learn from one another, and craft the approaches best suited to their own citizens.”

• “Competition drives improvements in efficiency and effectiveness, offering consumers higher quality goods and services at lower cost. It can have the same effect in the health-care system, if given the chance to work.”

• “For markets to work, consumers must have the information HEALTHLINES continued on page 17

THE COMING JOBS WAR T

his highly acclaimed book, written by Jim Clifton, Chairman of Gallup Inc. influenced my decision two years ago to run for Chico City Council.

Clifton uses over 75 years of Gallup polling research to justify his thesis that good jobs will be in very short supply for decades to come, and will result in a great competition between cities for companies that provide good jobs. His conclusion; those cities that recruit jobs aggressively will thrive; those who do not will be left with crumbs.

So, what do the crumbs look like? In Chico’s case they look like: unemployment remaining above 11%; more homeless people roaming our streets; increased crime because the city cannot afford to hire an adequate police force; and fire stations closing because of a lack of city revenue.

nomic hit. Why? Chico’s WalMart was a major draw, attracting families from outlining communities who drove to Chico to spend money. Now they have little reason to drive and shop in Chico.

“Mayors and leaders of every city must realize that every decision they make should consider the impact, first and foremost, on good jobs.”

And it’s not just national businesses that have closed their doors. There are 386 fewer businesses operating in Chico than there were just two years ago – yet our Council’s focus remains on other subjects. Want proof? From 2009 until this month the words “Economic Development” or “Jobs” never appeared on the Council’s Regular Agenda, yet disk golf, diversity training, corporate person-hood, and plastic bag bans all made the Council’s agenda.

“The big discovery that guides this book is that this new war for good jobs will trump everything Did you know that in 2011 our Economic Developelse.” ment Committee canceled 5 of their 12 meetings because they had “Nothing to discuss.” clearly, if Jim What else convinced me to run for Council was what Clifton’s research is correct our Council’s majority was happening in 2009. We are in the middle of a great has not put Chico on a path that leads to jobs or to exodus of companies from Chico. First Fleetwood left, a thriving community. costing Chico hundreds of good paying jobs. Then we said goodbye to Koret, 3M, Troutmans, Mervyn’s, “The jobs war is what should get city leaders up Gottchalks, and finally, Aero Union. Thousands of in the morning, what they should work on all jobs-gone. Needed revenue for the city – also gone. day, and what should keep them from getting to sleep at night.”

-Jim Clifton You’d think these events would have gotten our Council’s attention: that they’d sense an urgency to attract Thanks for listening. new jobs to replace the lost ones. Wrong. One example: at about this same time WalMart proposed expanding Bob Evans their Chico facility into a WalMart Superstore. Instead of embracing this expansion with the jobs and sales tax revenue that would result, our Council became very creative in finding ways to deny WalMart. Now, because Oroville and Paradise both approved WalMart Superstores Chico can expect to take yet another eco-

➤ Next week: Where we are as a city, and my promise to you.

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Spreading the Word Diabetes is a silent disease, often

Type 2 occurs when the body

present for several years before it is

cannot use the insulin it produces

diagnosed. “Hearing those words for

correctly and in some cases the body

the first time–‘Well, it looks like you

is resistant to the effects of insulin.

have diabetes’–can be a shock to an

Uncontrolled diabetes promotes major

individual, and people commonly

complications, and the overall risk for

experience a form of grief, anger or

death among people with diabetes is

denial,” says Marguerite Marciniak RN,

about double that of people without

Oroville Hospital’s certified diabetes

diabetes.

educator. “But, diabetes is a disease that can be easily managed or even prevented with a few lifestyle changes.”

“Diabetes educators provide a

“Diabetes is a disease that can be managed.”

step-by-step approach to learning, making lifestyle changes and better

Pre-diabetes or at risk diabetes is

choices that fit each individual’s needs.

a condition in which blood glucose

Your physician manages your case

levels are higher than normal but not

and prescribes medication, while we

high enough to be called diabetes.

educate, motivate and coach people

Studies have shown that increasing

in making lifestyle changes,” Marciniak

physical activity, a better diet and

says.

weight control can prevent or delay

Educators help with such things as adjusting to a new diet, increasing activity, monitoring blood sugars,

pre-diabetes from progressing to diabetes.

“Diabetes is a disease that can be

looking for trends, problem solving,

managed,” Marciniak says. “There

coping with change, risk reduction

are some diseases that are difficult to

and managing complications should

manage, but diabetes is one where, if

they occur. “The diabetes educator

you manage it well and if you learn to

works with you and communicates

manage it well, you can still enjoy life.”

your progress to your primary care provider.”

So, what is diabetes? Diabetes is a group of diseases marked by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin resistance, or both. Type I diabetes,

For more information about Diabetes Education at Oroville Hospital and the free Support Group, you can call our clinic at 530-532-8220 or see the hospital website at www.OrovilleHospital.com.

or juvenile onset diabetes, as it is sometimes called, results from the absolute lack of insulin production in the pancreas.

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and the power to make decisions about their own care. Placing the patient at the center of the process will drive quality up and cost down while ensuring that services are designed to provide what Americans actually want.”

Analysis:

ACA defined:

Go to www.healthcare.gov to read the full text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

national insurance exchange, insurance companies would continue to operate state by state. Medicare would become a program that supports the purchase of private insurance instead of serving as a public insurance plan; thus, the discussion of “vouchers” has arisen in health care, not just education.

Tax breaks for those who purchase private insurance would replace the individual mandate.

Romney says this would inspire competition and lower costs.

Romney plans to preserve the ACA protection for people with pre-existing conditions, but with a major proviso: It would only guarantee Americans who have maintained continuous, uninterrupted insurance coverage. Moreover, because those individuals would not be offset in the “risk pool” by healthy adults purchasing insurance, those with pre-existing conditions could find themselves faced with hefty premiums as part of a special high-risk pool. Ω

WEEKLY DOSE Halloween candy guidelines When the kids come home from trick-or-treating with a bag full of sugary delights this Halloween, it may be tempting to strip them of their spoils or limit their candy consumption in a wellintentioned attempt to be health-mindful. But watch it—being too restrictive can turn candy into a “forbidden” treat, making it all the more tempting, says Dr. William Gillespie, a pediatrician and EmblemHealth’s Chief Medical Officer. Other Halloween candy tips from the good doc: • Wait until the last minute to buy Halloween candy: If it’s not sitting around for days before Halloween night, you won’t be tempted to sneak a candy bar here and there.

• Keep candy out of sight: Once the kids have had their fun, put the candy away so they’ll be less likely to think about it.

• Toss the extras: It may be wise to let your kids pick out their favorite treats and get rid of the rest.

• Eat a light meal or snack before trick-or-treating: They may eat less candy this way. No promises.

• Don’t super-size: Buy miniature treats to help cut the calories.

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Romney the governor and Romney the nominee have decidedly different positions on health coverage for all citizens. What Massachusetts Romneycare made a requirement via universal insurance, U.S. Romneycare would attempt to patch together by ramping up the status quo. That is, spur free-market competition in the hope of driving down costs, let states pursue individual reform policies, and accept the fact that ill people without insurance will flock to emergency rooms for “free” treatment.

The Republican nominee favors block grants from the federal government to help states subsidize their Medicaid programs. States then would take those lump-sum grants and control their expenses by limiting benefits and enrollment—again, as each state sees fit.

Rather than working within a

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GREENWAYS

GAS FROM GARBAGE

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has struck new deals with landfill-gas and geothermal plants to help power the state’s water-pumping infrastructure.

DWR signed a contract with The Geysers geothermal field near Middletown and a gas-toenergy plant at Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay to purchase a total of 33 megawatts of energy through 2016, according to The Sacramento Bee. The move is part of the department’s efforts to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050, as mandated by state law. The State Water Project, which includes Oroville Dam and the California Aqueduct, accounts for about 3 percent of California’s energy consumption and has relied on coal-fired power plants for decades.

Earlier this year, DWR announced it would not renew a long-term contract with a coalfueled plant in Nevada.

A FRACKING LAWSUIT

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit demanding California state regulators uphold existing law to protect public health and the environment from hydraulic fracturing.

Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental-law firm, filed the lawsuit on Oct. 16 on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthworks, Environmental Working Group and the Sierra Club, according to Scoop San Diego. Oil and gas companies have begun exploratory drilling in Central and Southern California, drawn by claims of the presence of oil in the Monterey and Santos shale formations.

The groups maintain fracking—which involves injecting water and numerous chemicals into wells at high pressure—is a carbonintensive process at odds with the state’s goals of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

“Developing these extreme fossil-fuel resources is like lighting the fuse on a carbon bomb that will shatter California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity.

LIVESTOCK A-TEAM ASSEMBLED

A professor at University of California, Davis, has been appointed to chair a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization committee to analyze the environmental impact of the livestock industry.

Frank Mitloehner (pictured), an air-quality specialist, will lead representatives from national governments, the meat and dairy industries and nonprofit organizations in assessing the sustainability of the livestock industry, according to a UC Davis press release. The committee’s threeyear project will quantify livestock’s carbon footprint—that is, their farts—and assemble data on such things as the environmental pressures from livestock water consumption.

The environmental impact of raising and processing livestock is of particular significance as the Food and Agriculture Organization estimates worldwide meat consumption will increase by about 73 percent by 2050, while dairy consumption will increase by 58 percent.

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Master Gardeners, demystified

Carla Resnick, one of approximately 65 certified Master Gardeners in Butte County.

Inset: The 2013 Gardening with Edibles calendar, produced by the Master Gardeners of Butte and Glenn counties.

Butte County Master Gardener Carla Resnick gives insight into the UC-sponsored program designed to educate home gardeners story and photo by

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

CGardener. For some people, the somewhat Zen-sounding title prompts the quesarla Resnick is a Master

tion, “What the heck is a Master Gardener?”

“Master Gardeners are volunteers who are trained by the UC system. … What we do is we go through a 17-week training program [in which] professionals in their field come and teach us their specialty on a wide variety of [gardening-related] topics,” Resnick explained recently. The range of topics runs the gamut from soil, compost and fertilizer management and weed control, to plant identification, to entomology and insect taxonomy.

Certified Master Gardeners are then available to the public, specifically to home gardeners, to give information on gardening—everything from pest control to what to plant in a winter veggie garden. Master Gardeners are a familiar sight at the Satur-

day downtown farmers’ market, where they man a gardening-information booth, and they are on the other end of a gardening hotline (538-7201) set up to answer any and all home-gardening questions without charge.

Master Gardeners are also a first line of defense between the home gardener, who Learn lots:

Go to http://cebutte.ucanr.edu/Master_Gar dener719/ to find out more about the University of California Cooperative Extension’s Butte County Master Gardener program, and about purchasing the 2013 Gardening with Edibles calendar.

Butte County’s Master Gardener program is always on the lookout for new recruits.

Classes are offered every other year; the deadline for the 2014 class is September 30, 2013.

The Butte County office of the University of California Cooperative Extension is located at 2279-B Del Oro Ave. in Oroville. Call its Master Gardener hotline at 538-7201 for free home-gardening advice/troubleshooting, Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:45-11:45 a.m. (leave a message during off hours and someone will return your call).

may report a new species of garden pest that has migrated from another area, and the local Farm and 4H Advisor, to which Master Gardeners will report noteworthy information (go to http://www.buttecounty.net/Farm%20Advisor.aspx to learn more about the county’s Farm and 4H Advisor).

Resnick became a certified Butte County Master Gardener in May 2010, after graduating from the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardener Training Program.

The Master Gardener program “is an international program,” Resnick said. “It’s in the United States and Canada; it’s in almost every county in California.” Butte County’s program started up in 2008; since then, it has graduated about 110 people, from Chico, Paradise, Durham, Oroville, etc., about 65 of whom are currently active Master Gardeners, responsible for volunteering 50 hours of time annually.

The UC Master Gardener program

looks “for people interested in, obviously,

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on Prop. 37 anti-GMO-labeling campaign—funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars by pesticide giants Monsanto, DuPont, etc.—was forced to pull one of its television ads for misrepresenting the credentials of its spokesperson, one Henry I. Miller, M.D. The ad, as NaturalNews.com recently reported, “featured an opinion from an individual identified on screen as ‘Dr. Henry I. Miller M.D., Stanford University, founding dir. FDA Office of Technology.’

“As it turns out, Dr. Henry Miller doesn’t work for Stanford University at all,” continued writer Mike Adams. “He’s actually a ‘research fellow’ at [conservative think tank] the Hoover Institution, which just happens to be physically located on the same plot of land as Stanford University.”

“What’s important here is the larger pattern of deception,” offered consumer-rights advocate Zack Kaldveer, the Bay Area-based assistant media director for the Yes on 37 campaign, in a recent phone interview.

“These pesticide companies—the six largest pesticide corporations in the world—are bankrolling the No on 37 campaign to the tune of $20 million out of a $36 million war chest [that they have raised so far]. And these are the same corporations that told us Agent Orange and DDT were safe.”

Interestingly, as Kaldveer pointed out in a recent piece he wrote for CommonDreams.org, Miller is “a founding mentor of a now-defunct tobacco front group [The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition] that tried to discredit the links between cigarettes and cancer, he’s repeatedly called for the reintroduction of DDT … fronted for an oil industry-funded cliNo-on-37 front man Henry I. Miller: mate-change denial group for Exxon, “Nothing more than a corporate claimed that people exposed to radiaquack,” says consumer-rights tion from the Fukushima nuclear advocate Zack Kaldveer. power plant disaster ‘may have benefited from it,’ and attacked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to ensure proper vetting and testing of new drugs’ safety while outsourcing more of its functions to private industries.”

Ouch!

Miller, who remains the face of the No on 37 campaign, “is promoted as an arbiter of good science and someone that Californians can trust with their health,” Kaldveer told me, “but in reality he is nothing more than a scientific front man for some of the most notorious corporate bad actors.” On Oct. 5, said Kaldveer in his CommonDreams article, “the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics…accused the No on 37 campaign of misrepresenting its position and misleading voters in the official California Voter’s Guide that went to 11 million voters.”

The Yes on 37 campaign recently sent letters to the U. S. Department of Justice asking for a criminal investigation for “possible fraudulent misuse” of the official seal of the FDA, after “misrepresent[ing] an FDA quote from 20 years ago and using the FDA logo” in campaign literature “to make it sound like the FDA opposes Prop. 37, which it does not,” Kaldveer said.

“These pesticide companies and their allies in the junk-food biz know their profit margins will suffer [if foods containing GMOs are labeled as such], as they have been in Europe,” said Kaldveer. “That’s why the opponents are spending a million dollars a day, largely on television ads, to make Prop. 37 seem complicated when in reality it’s [asking for] one line of ink on a label as is required for 3,000 other ingredients. …

“Who should you trust … Monsanto, DuPont and corporate shills like Henry Miller, or Prop. 37 supporters like Consumers Union, the California Nurses Association, the Sierra Club, the American Public Health Association, Public Citizen and the Center for Food Safety?”

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learning about gardening,” said Resnick, whose passion for gardening goes back to her childhood.

“I have been gardening since I was a little girl,” she said. “When I was four maybe, I had my own garden plot in our [family] garden. If you put one potato in the ground and you come back some months later, there will be many potatoes— and that’s just magic to a little kid!

“For me personally, gardening has been linked with eating. I grow lots of edible stuff,” said Resnick.

“I have allowed a few roses, but my main focus is food.” Resnick likes to create wildlife habitat with edible plants such as lavender and rosemary in her home garden, as well as with “shrubs that make berries,” such as the black- and red-currant patch she currently maintains.

Other local Master Gardeners specialize in different areas—such as plants native to the area, sustainable landscaping, and irises.

“But the main focus [of the Master Gardener program] is giving information to the public, to home gardeners,” Resnick stressed.

“You have to be comfortable giving information to the public.”

Say you, as a home gardener, are trying to identify the insect that is mysteriously chewing the leaves of one of your plants—just call the hotline and talk to (or leave a message for) a Master Gardener and she or he will look into the matter.

“Part of what we learn as Master Gardeners is diagnosing the problem,” said Resnick. In the case of the aforementioned leaf-chewing, “it could be actual chewing by

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As Election Day nears, the Pageant Theatre (351 E. Sixth St.) is hosting a screening of Bitter Seeds, a documentary weighing in on the state and national GMO (genetically modified organism) debate on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 2 p.m.

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an insect,” she said, “or it could be a fungus, or a bird.

“We use UC-based information—it’s been scientifically vetted and tested,” Resnick said. “Pest notes”—glossy info-packed cards on such things as how to best deal with ants, snails and slugs, or the pesky codling moth—are regularly consulted by Master Gardeners, as well as handed out at the UCCE office in Oroville (see column notes for location) and at the farmers’ market. Another go-to resource used by Master Gardeners is ipm.ucdavis.edu, the website of the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program.

“We help people garden in a way that has been researched, so it’s not people going out using home remedies,” said Resnick.

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ELECTION GUIDE A look at the major local and statewide races and initiatives—plus our endorsements commented recently Sandomebody that it seems as if Barack Obama Mitt Romney are running for president of Ohio—such is the importance of that crucial swing state in a contest as close as theirs.

The reason we’re not inundated with presidential campaign ads is that California is a blue state, and Romney doesn’t stand a chance here.

But that doesn’t mean this election isn’t important.

On a local level, the makeup of the Chico City Council is very much at stake. There’s also an important race for county supervisor, a battle for two seats on the Chico school board, as well as contests for Congress, the state Senate and the state Assembly.

There are several local measures for Chico voters, including two revenue measures that could have major impacts, Measures E and J. Statewide, the most important elections involve the 11 initiatives, not candidates. Some of them could change the state profoundly.

We’ve highlighted the most significant races in this special issue, but we urge voters to go to www.smart voter.org for additional information, especially regarding the races we weren’t able to include. The League of Women Voters sponsors this website, and it’s an invaluable source of candidate ballot statements and position papers as well as local newspaper articles written about the candidates and the races.

It’s your best single source of information.

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The big fat City Council race Making sense of a huge—and hugely important— contest by

Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

Bob Evans

Kimberly Rudisill

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hico City Council candidate Sean Morgan often uses the term “cultural change” to describe what he and other conservative candidates want to do—capture a majority of seats on the council and change its culture and course dramatically.

This year, after nearly a decade in the minority, they see an opportunity to take back majority control. Two of the three council progressives up for reelection, Jim Walker and Andy Holcombe, decided not to run, leaving Mayor Ann Schwab as the only liberal incumbent in the race and three unclaimed seats up for grabs.

If the conservatives win those three seats, the new council members will join fellow conservative Mark Sorensen to form a four-person majority.

And if they manage also to oust Schwab and elect four conservatives, they will have the same 5-2 majority the progressives currently enjoy.

There are 11 candidates, a large number, and only two are familiar to most voters: Schwab, who has served two terms on the council, and appointed incumbent Bob Evans, whom the council selected in 2010 to fill out the two years remaining in former Councilman Larry Wahl’s term when he moved to the county Board of Supervisors.

Voters who haven’t watched one of the several candidate forums may have a hard time distinguishing among them.

Here’s some information that could make it easier: Nine of the 11 candidates form roughly into two blocs, one of four progressives, the other of five conservatives. Another candidate, Dave Kelley, an architect and eight-year member of the city Planning Commission, proclaims himself the lone moderate in the race, and the remaining candidate, Lisa Duarte, a veterinary assistant, has a variety of positions that, taken together, defy categorization.

Dave Donnan

The five conservatives are Andrew Coolidge, a businessman who produces the annual Chico Home and Garden Show; Sean Morgan, a management instructor at Chico State University who also operates a small business with his wife; Dave Donnan, a realestate agent; Toby Schindelbeck, who owns two sports-nutrition stores in Chico; and Evans, a retired business manager.

The four progressives are Schwab, who is program director for CAVE and co-owns a downtown bicycle shop; Tami Ritter, who’s headed up several social-service agencies, including the Torres Community Shelter and Habitat for Humanity; Kimberly Rudisill, a “semi-retired” substitute teacher who previously served a term on the council in the 1990s, when her last name was King; and Randall Stone, a financial manager and, with his brother, a builder of affordable housing.

Each of these candidates is unique, of course, and there are noticeable differences

Tami Ritter

among them, even within their blocs. But the two blocs have fundamentally different visions of Chico and the work of the current council. It’s easier to understand this race if we understand what the terms “progressive” and “conservative” mean in this race and what the two blocs hope to accomplish, while remembering that the candidates ultimately are running as individuals.

things to say about the city’s sustainability efforts, suggesting that in pursuing a green agenda the council was again taking its eye of the economicdevelopment ball. Ditto the public-arts program and its director, whose salary could be better used to fund a police officer.

The progressives have a more holistic

There are two main issues that ani-

mate the conservatives and put them at odds with the liberals. One is what they insist is the need immediately to restore police and fire staffing, along with city reserves, to prerecession levels.

Second, they want to restore public-safety positions by reallocating resources from other city departments and focusing on job creation in the community. The more people who have jobs, the more who are spending money, and thus more sales-tax revenue comes in with which the city can hire more cops and firefighters and build up the reserves.

The current council, they charge, has spent too much time and energy on such “feel-good” issues as whether to ban plastic carry-out bags and a “corporate personhood” resolution, has put the city in financial jeopardy by borrowing from some funds to prop up others, and has put citizens in jeopardy by cutting fire and police staffing.

In the meantime, the liberal majority has failed to do the kind of economic development that they say would bring jobs to town and bolster the economy.

“My whole goal,” Morgan said during the Oct. 15 League of Women Voters forum, “is to reorient the council so it’s no longer wasting staff time and there’s no time when they’re not talking economic development.”

The city’s permitting process and regulations make it hard to do business, the conservatives charge. “We need to change the sign to say the city is open for business,” Morgan said. Coolidge echoed him, saying “we must treat businesses like customers.”

Schindelbeck goes further, saying the city should attract businesses by offering them financial incentives—waiving environmental or development fees, or at least deferring them until the businesses get on their feet.

The conservatives had few good

Toby Schindelbeck

view of economic development. They believe that the economy can’t be approached separately from all the other services the city provides. The best economicdevelopment plan in the world couldn’t make up for a lack of parks, poor schools and a shortage of cultural and recreational activities when it comes to attracting businesses, they say.

They see the city’s efforts to decrease energy use and foster sustainability, and its emphasis on such amenities as the arts, bike paths, parks and cultural diversity as business attractants, not distractions.

Besides, they argue, the city has not ignored economic development. Schwab cites its consistent effort to improve the city’s infrastructure—now hampered by the loss of redevelopment funds—as well as the council’s recent passage of an economicdevelopment action plan. She mentions her regular meetings with the Mayor’s Business Advisory Committee, the city’s work with such business-development groups as 3CORE, the Center for Economic Development and Innovate North State, and the recent update of the city’s general plan as contributing to economic development.

On the issue of police and fire staffing, the progressives agree that restoring both departments to full strength should be a high priority, but they generally aren’t as willing to cut other city services as are their opponents.

And they too want to restore the reserves, but they know that will happen when the state economy improves, as it seems to be doing. The current council’s use of emergency reserves to balance the budget has been appropriate, they believe, because since the onset of the recession the city has been in an emergency situation, one compounded by the state’s appropriation of redevelopment and vehicle-license-fee revenues to help bal-

Lisa Duarte

ance its budget. As it is, they point out, the city still has nearly $6 million in that reserve fund, half of the ideal amount of $12 million.

Dave Kelley has carefully positioned

himself as the lone “moderate” in the race by refusing to take consistent—or, one might say, rigid—ideological positions. He tries to make “independent decisions,” he says. He cites his stint on the city Planning Commission, which includes three years as its chairman, his chairmanship of the General Plan Task Force, and his work as an architect as giving him the experience a successful council member should have.

Lisa Duarte has become the “mystery candidate” in this race. A promotion at work made her unable to attend candidate forums before this week, she explained in a phone interview. Also, her sample ballot statement, which she dug into savings to pay for, somehow failed to be included in the printed version.

She said she’s running because she wants to help people and make a difference in the community, and “how better than to be on the City Council?” She favors more funding for public safety, protecting the parks, programs for kids and “healthy human-pet relations.”

Asked what her qualifications are, she replied, “Mostly life, you know, balancing my own budget.” Duarte has raised no money and doesn’t intend to do so.

That makes her unique in the race, in which, as of Sept. 30, several candidates had raised more than $20,000. Four of the top five are conservatives: Morgan ($28,121), Evans ($26,665), Coolidge ($23,285) and Schindelbeck ($17,917).

The only progressive in the top five is Schwab, who raised $22,942. She is followed by Ritter ($13,811), Stone ($9,437) and Rudisill ($4,454).

Donnan, the remaining conservative, raised $5,065, while Kelley raised $7,321.

An examination of campaign reporting statements shows that in general the conservative candidates, with the exception of Donnan, received fewer but significantly larger donations than their liberal opponents.

Donations to the progressives and Kelley, in contrast, tended to be more numerous but smaller in amount. Ω more ELECTION 2012 continued on page 24

Randall Stone

Dave Kelley

Ann Schwab

Sean Morgan

Andrew Coolidge

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Face-off on the Ridge Two candidates looking to replace Kim Yamaguchi on the Butte County Board of Supervisors

by

Tom Gascoyne tomg@ newsreview.com

R

esidents of the 5th District, which includes Paradise and Magalia, soon will have new representation on the Butte County Board of Supervisors for the first time in a dozen years.

While it doesn’t compare to former 2nd District Supervisor Jane Dolan’s 32-year run on the board, Kim Yamaguchi’s three-term stint is nonetheless pretty impressive and does reflect the conservative majority that lives in the district, which runs from Butte Valley in the south—think of Butte Community College—northwest all the way to Butte Meadows and includes the Butte Creek Canyon and Stilson Canyon areas near Chico.

The choice to replace Yamaguchi, who opted not to run for a fourth term, is between Paradise Town Councilman Joe DiDuca and longtime Paradise resident and financial adviser Doug Teeter.

Both men say they value the outdoors— Teeter is an avid off-roader and DiDuca is an active hunter who told the CN&R he took his daughters duck hunting while they were still in diapers.

In the June primary, DiDuca gained 5,040 votes (39 percent) and Teeter followed with 3,275 (25 percent). DiDuca, who owns a construction company called Sierra Builders, is an unabashed conservative who’s called for promoting business by deferring or even waiving property and sales tax to help new businesses.

Teeter is more moderate and says he would

place emphasis on transportation and planning.

He said rather than compete with one another, the county, Oroville, Chico and the town of Paradise should merge their respective economic development plans into one.

While DiDuca beat Teeter in the primary by 1,765 votes, there were another 4,642 votes cast for the other two candidates, Robin Huffman (2,450) and Mike Greer (2,192).

And those candidates are also more moderate than DiDuca.

Huffman is an instructor at Butte College and former Town Council member, who was probably the most liberal member during her time on the council. Greer, who’s served three terms on the Paradise school board, has also been a chapter president for the teachers union in Marysville.

On the matter of medical marijuana,

a hot-button issue in the county over the last year, the two candidates offer a bit of a different take.

Last year the Board of Supervisors passed what many saw as an overly restrictive ordinance that disallowed any marijuana grows on less than a half-acre of land. That effort was rejected by voters in June on a ballot referendum.

A month later the board’s conservative majority tried to adopt an ordinance that the medical-marijuana supporters saw as even more restrictive. The board backed down when District Attorney Mike Ramsey suggested the latest ordinance was unconstitutional.

DiDuca said that medical marijuana does need to be regulated. “Pot is being grown up here by bus stops,” he said. “And 17-year-old boys are eyeing it with plans to steal it.”

Doug Teeter

Joe DiDuca

He said complaints about the plant’s smell are valid and that “people can’t enjoy privateproperty rights.”

He suggested putting together an ordinance like the one now in place in Paradise that limits medical-marijuana gardens to 50 square feet.

Teeter said it is time for the county “to do the right thing and get a group together of legitimate growers, law enforcement and property owners” to form a committee and hammer out an ordinance acceptable to all parties. Such a committee is now being formed.

DiDuca serves on the Butte County

Water Advisory Committee. He says the BayDelta Stewardship Council wants to “have a majority of our water flushed down the rivers to help habitat in the Delta.”

That, he said, will put a strain on the Tuscan Aquifer and put many farmers out of work.

He said his No. 1 priority is getting “24-7” sheriff patrols on the Ridge. The 5th District, he said, is greatly underserved by the Sheriff’s

Office, and response times are much too long.

DiDuca has been endorsed by four retired Butte County sheriffs—Hal Brooks, Mick Grey, Scott MacKenzie and Perry Reniff—as well as the Butte County Deputy Sheriffs Association. He is also endorsed by Assemblyman Dan Logue, as well as Yamaguchi, whom he refers to in a fundraising letter as his “good friend.” According to campaign reports, DiDuca paid Kim K. Yamaguchi and Associates Consulting $1,200 for services rendered.

Teeter, who is new to politics, says his strengths would lie in budgeting and zoning issues. He has worked as an engineer and attended law school and, as a private fiduciary who has served on the board of the Paradise Pines Property Owners Association, would know how to scrutinize the county budget and invest tax dollars.

As an off-road vehicle enthusiast, he says he also has concerns that the federal government is not allowing enough access to federal lands, something that could bring more tourism to the Ridge.

Teeter has been endorsed by three of DiDuca’s fellow town councilmembers, Steve Culleton, Alan White and Scott Lotter, as well as the Butte County Farm Bureau and the Butte County Employees Association. Ω more ELECTION 2012 continued on page 26

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The Logue effect Races for state Senate and Assembly intertwine

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Ken Smith kens@ newsreview.com

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he race for the 4th Senate District could have been a cakewalk for Republicans, but lately it’s looked more like a mosh pit fueled with party infighting, questionable political maneuvering and persistent questions about candidate Jim Nielsen’s residency in the district he’s running to represent.

The race is closely tied to Wally Herger’s decision to relinquish the leech-like grip he’s held on his congressional seat for a quartercentury and anoint state Sen. Doug LaMalfa as his replacement. After finishing first in field of eight in the June primary, LaMalfa resigned his Senate seat on Aug. 31.

Shortly thereafter Nielsen—who had already announced he wouldn’t seek reelection as the 2nd District assemblyman— announced his bid for LaMalfa’s old position. LaMalfa claimed the timing of his resignation was to save taxpayers the cost of a special election, but some politicos believe it was to give Nielsen a boost by not allowing other candidates time to rally a campaign.

Either way, it didn’t exactly work, and five other candidates joined the race, including Mickey Harrington, Dan Levine and Jann Reed. Ben Emery joined and dropped out, though his name will still appear on the ballot.

But the most surprising candidate to throw his hat in the ring was fellow Republi-

Jim Nielsen

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can Dan Logue, who was also up for reelection to the 3rd Assembly District seat, running against Democrat Charles Rouse.

Logue thus was in two races at once, but not for long. He dropped out of the Senate race earlier this month, citing health concerns, though he is still seeking reelection to the Assembly.

Then there’s the ongoing question of

Nielsen’s residence. He owns two homes— one in Woodland, outside the district, the other a double-wide trailer in the tiny Tehama County town of Gerber. Critics say he maintains the latter solely to remain eligible in the district, and has never actually lived there.

The issue first came up during his 2008 bid for Assembly, and was eventually resolved—or at least stuck in a drawer somewhere—when then-state Attorney General and now-Gov. Jerry Brown, without really looking at the case, declared there was no evidence to warrant further investigation.

In contrast, at least two politicians in Southern California face multiple felony charges for faking their residences.

“The guy is still a crook, he has no integrity, he’s a coward, and he still lives in Woodland,” Rancho Tehama political activist Don Bird said recently. Bird has spent the last several years protesting against Nielsen, even promising to place him under citizen’s arrest on felony fraud charges for lying about his address to serve in public office. Nielsen got a restraining order against Bird a year ago that prohibits him from entering Nielsen’s Gerber property for the next three years.

Nielsen’s campaign signs say he is “Con-

Jann Reed

servative Rancher.” When asked what kind of ranch a double-wide trailer in Gerber can support, Cliff Wagner, Logue’s chief of staff, said, “I know. I married a woman from Gerber, and all it takes to have a ranch there are three feral chickens.”

Harrington, a Democrat from Magalia,

is a labor council president and resident of Magalia who has unsuccessfully run for Assembly three times. His closest bid was in 2008, when he polled 44.4 percent of the vote but lost to Logue.

Levine, the youngest candidate, is a 27-year-old rancher and Chico State University graduate student whose campaign slogan is, “Bringing Freedom, Prosperity, Justice & Honesty Back to California District 4!” On his Facebook page—his main campaign vehicle—he displays a fondness for using capital letters and deep concern about protecting patients’ rights to medical marijuana.

Levine is not affiliated with a political party.

Reed is a former clinical laboratory scientist who has served as a trustee and president of the Chico Unified School District Board of Trustees. Also unaffiliated with a party, she addresses the Herger-La Malfa-Nielsen Republican legacy in a candidate statement at her Website (www.jannreed.com): “Why me? Why now? It’s because Californians deserve better than handpicked successors by departing politicians. If we continue to elect the same politicians to represent us, we will never fix California’s broken political process.”

In the District 3 Assembly race, Logue

is challenged by Rouse, a Corning olive farmer and retired rural postman. Rouse worked on Democrat Jim Reed’s congressional campaign two years ago and has been a political activist for some time, but this is his first bid for public office.

In a recent CN&R interview, Rouse said education and water rights are on his list of priorities. He also said of Logue’s “Jobs, not taxes” slogan, “I’m not exactly sure what that means. Are you?”

Logue’s supporters appreciate his efforts to educate the public on what he says are the state’s innumerable anti-business regulations. Foes cite his creation of 2010’s unsuccessful 2010 Proposition 23 to over-

Dan Logue

Charles Rouse

turn the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act as one reason among many to oppose him.

In the June primary, Logue came in first with 41 percent of the vote, Rouse second with 33 percent, and Corning-area rancher Bob Williams third with 25 percent.

Jim Ledgerwood, the Butte County Republican Assembly vice president, had called for an investigation by the state Fair Political Practices Commission of a $20,000 donation Nielsen made to Williams’ campaign designed to force Logue to draw down his campaign warchest in response.

As it turned out, it wasn’t money that forced Logue out of the Senate race; it was injured kidneys. Ω

Filling Wally’s shoes Two candidates vying to take over Rep. Herger’s long-held seat by

Tom Gascoyne tomg@newsreview.com

the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, the Repeal Obamacare Pledge and the No Pork Pledge, which is not a call for a ban on bacon and ham consumption.

During the primary campaign fellow

J

im Reed, the Democratic candidate for the newly drawn 1st Congressional District, is facing stacked odds.

Yes, his Republican opponent, recently retired state Sen. Doug LaMalfa, has run a campaign mired in misstatements and alleged dirty politics that has even some of his fellow North State Republicans crying foul. And just last week Pete Stiglich, a staunch Republican who lost to LaMalfa and Reed in the June primary, said in a letter to the editor that he was so put off by LaMalfa’s antics that he is supporting Reed.

But a look at the primary’s overall results shows that 117,478 voters spilt their support among five Republican candidates, while only 52,007 went for the two Democratic candidates. It’s hard to say how many of those 50,951 voters who went for a Republican other than LaMalfa will follow Stiglich’s lead and support Reed.

LaMalfa’s campaign began in January, when Rep. Wally Herger announced he was retiring after a quarter-century in office. Two days later Herger endorsed LaMalfa, who often reminds voters that he is a fourth-generation Richvale rice farmer and “one of us.”

LaMalfa has been accused of handpicking his successor, 2nd District Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, and paving the way for him by announcing on Aug. 31 that he was resigning his Senate seat. Critics say that the surprise announcement did not give other potential candidates time to line up a campaign for the seat, something Nielsen has been doing since January.

LaMalfa said the move was an unselfish act on his part to save the taxpayers $2 million by aligning the special election needed to fill his seat after he becomes a congressman with the Nov. 6 general election. Of course, that works only if one of the four candidates running for that seat gets 50 percent plus one votes, thus not requiring a January special election between the top two vote-getters.

LaMalfa’s campaign website shows that he’s been endorsed by Gun Owners of America, the Siskiyou and Tehama county farm bureaus and a couple of anti-tax groups. He’s also the first 1st Congressional District candidate, his website points out, to have signed

Republican candidate and former state Sen. Sam Aanestad accused LaMalfa of dirty politics after an odd website called Sam4Congress criticizing Aanestad appeared online.

The site claimed the Nevada County oral surgeon was neither an oral surgeon nor a dentist and included a photo of Aanestad in a sort of Heil Hitler-like stance.

LaMalfa denied any knowledge of or connection to the site, but it was traced to Mark Spannagel, his chief of staff.

Aanestad filed a complaint with the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission.

Fellow Republican candidates also criticized LaMalfa for something that his Democratic opponents have pointed out for years: The LaMalfa family rice farm has received some $4.7 million in federal subsidies over the last 15 years. His response to the oftrepeated accusation has been: “Don’t talk with your mouth full when criticizing farmers.”

This summer Gov. Jerry Brown told The Sacramento Bee editorial board about an encounter he’d had with LaMalfa in the basement of the Capitol building. Brown said he tried to lobby LaMalfa to support a 1 percent lumber-tax proposal.

“He kind of got into a little fetal position and started shaking, he literally was shaking,” Brown told the board. “And this big man, he looks like a—wears boots, he’s kind of an outdoorsman, a mountain man kind of.

And I saw him kind of start shriveling in fear…”

LaMalfa wrote off the governor’s description as “trying to have some fun there. Obviously, I didn’t drop to the floor of the garage and shake.”

There have also been accusations that LaMalfa is avoiding debates with Reed.

Even the conservative Chico EnterpriseRecord took him to task for doing so.

The candidates have had two debates, the latest one held in the studio of Redding’s KRCR-TV on Oct. 19. LaMalfa was asked about his views on abortion, bringing up the gaffe he made in September when he told a Redding Tea Party gathering that abortion had been linked to cancer. When called on the statement by KRCR reporter Mark Mester, LaMalfa said he’d been “misinformed” on the matter.

Jim Reed

Doug LaMalfa

It’s been a rough campaign road for

Reed as well, quite literally. In mid-September the Fall River tax attorney and second time candidate for Congress rolled his pickup truck four times while driving along Interstate 5, where, according to a campaign press release, he’d been planting campaign signs.

Reed suffered a broken wrist and his Dodge pickup was totaled.

At their most recent debate Reed also criticized LaMalfa’s opposition to the lumber tax bill, which requires retailers to add a 1 percent tax on lumber sold in the state to raise $30 million annually to pay for regulatory oversight of the timber industry. The tax, Reed pointed out, was backed by the industry, and LaMalfa’s vote against it was not in district’s best interest.

The candidates also differed on President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. LaMalfa vowed to help repeal it, calling it an insult to American ingenuity. Reed said it had already brought numerous benefits to Americans, including those with pre-existing conditions who’d been denied insurance coverage.

He said the law needs to be tweaked, not killed.

“It always bothers me that people say we just need to repeal it. No, we need to fix it,” Reed said. “If we throw out Obamacare altogether, it may be another 75 years before we get back to where we were with these good things.”

Reed has said that he’s optimistic about the nation’s economy and that it’s high time to fix the blame for the economic mess on Wall Street.

“The Occupy movement has really drawn attention to the fact that Wall Street got us into this mess,” he said. “And it really is a terrible mess. It’s obviously worse than any-

thing we’ve seen since the Great Depression.”

The problem, he said, is that Wall Street has turned into the largest gambling casino in the world, with day traders investing not to support and help grow business, but rather to make a quick buck.

“That’s gambling if you’re just getting into the market for a very short time,” he said. “That’s bad because for every person who makes a little money on a gamble, there is somebody who loses money on a gamble, and guess who that is? It’s the small investors, it’s the middle class.”

Reed has resisted criticizing LaMalfa on the subject of farm subsidies.

“Look,” he said when asked earlier this year, “I’m not really going to pick on that issue at the moment because for one thing I understand that farm subsidies are something out there that are absolutely necessary.”

Two years ago Reed lost to Herger in the general election but received a respectable 43 percent of the vote. He said he thinks he can win the seat this time around because, while the district has changed, “it’s changed favorably.”

“When I ran against Wally Herger in 2010, it was a rough year to have Democrat next to your name because the Tea Party was basically in control.”

Still, he pointed out, he was only 7 percentage votes shy of the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win. He said his campaign has analyzed the new district, and even though the number of registered Republicans is 12 percent higher than in the old district, 20 percent of the voters are registered as independent or decline to state.

As for the truck accident that his campaign deemed a “near-death experience,” Reed said. “It’s the kind of thing that puts your life into a very sharp focus.” Ω

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The high-stakes propositions You should be getting A it once a week.

Forget the presidential race in California. This is where the statewide action is

by

Howard Hardee howardh@ newsreview.com

mong statewide races on the Nov. 6 ballot, the two that involve actual candidates are non-contests: Barack Obama is a lock to defeat Mitt Romney, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein is certain to defeat her largely unknown Republican challenger, Elizabeth Emken.

No, the serious elections this year involve the propositions.

There are 11 of them, and how voters respond to them will have profound impacts on the state, beginning with Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure, Proposition 30.

Here’s a rundown: • Proposition 30: temporary

taxes to fund education, guarantee local public-safety funding.

This initiative would increase the tax rate on income over $250,000 for seven years and the sales tax by a quarter-cent for four years. The additional revenue would prevent $6 billion in cuts to California’s education system during 2012-13. Those in favor maintain the tax increase for the state’s wealthiest people is a small price to better secure the budget and highereducation funding. Opponents believe Brown is downplaying the sales-tax aspect of the measure, which also won’t address education reform or cut waste and bureaucracy.

For: www.YesOnProp30.com Against: www.StopProp30.com

• Proposition 31: state budget,

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state and local government.

At its core, this measure seeks to revamp how California handles its budget. Prop 31 would set a two-year state budget (rather than one year) to encourage lawmakers to plan ahead and establish guidelines for balancing new expenditures and governing budget cuts in

fiscal emergencies. A “yes” vote would prevent legislators from adding spending or making tax cuts without outlining how the changes would be offset. Additionally, all bills would have to be publicly available for three days before going to a vote, and local governments would be able to develop their own strategies for administering state programs. Proponents argue the bill would increase visibility and accountability in Sacramento, while opponents believe Prop 31 is badly flawed and will result in confusion and lawsuits.

For: www.accountableca.org Against: www.prop31facts.com • Proposition 32: political contributions by payroll deduction, contributions to candidates.

A “yes” vote on Prop 32 would prevent unions and corporations from using payroll-deducted funds for political purposes like campaign contributions, effectively eliminating the organizations’ political clout. Supporters maintain the measure would cut ties between special-interest groups and politicians and make all employee political contributions voluntary.

Opponents of the initiative point to exemptions for Super PACs and thousands of big businesses and claim the measure won’t

Governor Brown makes his case for proposition 30.

remove money from politics and would only hinder the primary beneficiaries of union political contributions—mostly Democratic candidates.

For: www.yesprop32.com Against: www.stopspecial exemptions.org • Proposition 33: auto-insurance

companies set prices based on driver’s history of insurance coverage.

If this measure passes, auto insurance companies would be allowed to set premium prices based on the number of years in the previous five drivers were insured.

Proponents point to the potential discount for drivers who are switching insurance companies, while opponents believe the measure is a guise for insurance companies to raise premiums on people who weren’t driving recently for legitimate reasons.

For: www.yesprop33.com Against: www.StopProp33.org

• Proposition 34: death penalty.

This measure would repeal the death penalty, which was reinstated in 1978, and replace it with life without parole. The repeal would apply retroactively to all state

Proposition 34 repeals the death penalty in California.

and no requirements for improved student performance.

For: www.prop38forlocal schools.org Against: no website • Proposition 39: tax treatment

inmates who have been sentenced to death. Prop 34 would also direct $100 million to investigations of homicide and rape cases and save the state about $130 million annually within a few years. Supporters maintain the repeal would prevent innocent people from state-mandated execution and would make killers and rapists work to pay court-ordered restitution to victims and their families. Opponents decry allocating roughly $50,000 annually in taxpayer money to support offenders for the rest of their lives.

For: www.YesOn34.org Against: www.waitingforjustice.net • Proposition 35: human

trafficking penalties.

If approved, this initiative would impose harsher prison sentences and fines on those convicted of human trafficking and require human-trafficking convicts to register as sex offenders. Additionally, Prop 35 would require registered sex offenders to disclose Internet activities and identities. Those in favor claim the measure would be instrumental in the fight against human trafficking, while opponents contend it reaches too far, is misdirected and is an issue best tackled by the legislative process.

For: www.VoteYesOn35.com Against: www.esplerp.org

• Proposition 36: three strikes

law, repeat felony offenders.

This measure would revise California’s repeat-felony-offender law to impose life sentences only when the third felony conviction is serious or violent. The law would apply retroactively to inmates serving life sentences whose third strike was nonviolent, allowing them to be re-sentenced for a shorter prison term. Proponents argue the law would still be tough on crime, as

nonviolent offenders would get twice the ordinary prison sentence for their third strike, while rapists, murderers and other serious criminals would stay in prison for life.

Opponents claim Prop 36 will release many dangerous criminals who were previously sentenced to life in prison for long histories of crime.

For: www.FixThreeStrikes.org Against: SaveThreeStrikes.com • Proposition 37: genetically engineered-foods labeling.

Prop 37 would require all food containing genetically modified organisms to be labeled as such and would prevent companies from labeling food containing GMOs— or other processed foods—as “natural.” Pro-labeling advocates argue consumers have the right to choose between food containing GMOs and truly natural products, while opponents of the measure believe it contains loophole exemptions, will create more unwieldy bureaucracy and increase grocery bills for consumers.

For: www.CARightToKnow.org Against: www.NoProp37.com • Proposition 38: tax to fund

education and early childhood programs.

This initiative would increase state tax revenue by roughly $10 billion annually in initial years—through higher taxes on earnings, based on a sliding scale— with funds allocated to K-12 schools, early childhood programs and repaying state debt. Proponents champion funding for local public schools and potential improved academic results, all while preventing legislators from using the funding elsewhere. Opponents decry the additional tax burden for those earning at least $7,316 annually

for multi-state businesses, clean energy and energy-efficiency funding.

Prop 39 would take roughly $1 billion in income tax revenue from multi-state businesses (based on percentage of their sales in California) and allocate the funding to clean-energy projects for five years.

Such businesses would no longer be allowed to choose the most favorable method for determining their state taxable income. Supporters say Prop 39 would close a loophole allowing out-of-state corporations to avoid taxes, while opponents believe it will unduly burden job creators.

For: www.cleanenergy jobsact.com Against: www.Stop39.com

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Proposition 39 proposes a tax to fund clean-energy projects.

• Proposition 40: redistricting

state Senate.

A “yes” vote would uphold state Senate lines created by the voterapproved independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which gave citizens the power to draw district lines four years ago. Politicians made an attempt to regain districting authority with 2010’s similar Prop 27, which was defeated. No one is currently campaigning against Prop 40.

For: www.HoldPoliticians Accountable.org Ω

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Our endorsements for the Nov. 6 election

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he CN&R editorial staff is small, just five full-time positions divided among seven people. They’re veteran reporters, but they can’t possibly cover all local elections in depth. Below are our recommendations in the races and measures we’ve studied sufficiently to feel confident about our endorsements.

Ultimately, though, each voter should make an independent decision. Read the statements in your sample ballot. Go online to the League of Women Voters site at www.smartvoter.org to learn more.

Most of all, vote. Keep American democracy thriving.

LOCAL CHICO CITY COUNCIL Ann Schwab, Dave Kelley, Randall Stone, Tami Ritter This election is a pivotal one for Chico.

Will its City Council continue to be a forward-looking group charting a progressive, sustainable future? Or will it, in the name of economic development, radically narrow its focus in an effort to promote business and job creation?

What the conservatives in this race— including Councilman Bob Evans, who knows better—fail to acknowledge is that the council has promoted economic-development measures even as it’s supported a green agenda and promoted diversity in city government and the city as a whole.

This year, for example, it approved an economic-development action plan, initiated

by Evans, that sets specific goals and timelines and mandates quarterly reports on implementation. And right now the city is in the process of uploading a portal on its economic-development website listing all the services and agencies someone seeking to open a business or expand an existing one might want to contact for assistance.

The city should of course continue to work with business groups like the Chamber of Commerce, but the council shouldn’t become the Chamber of Commerce. It has a different function, which is to serve all the people of Chico, not just business owners.

The current council has done a superb job of navigating the rapids of the most difficult period in the city’s financial history since the Great Depression. Working with the city manager, it has managed to keep core services, including police and fire protection, at functional levels, despite losing many mil30 CN&R October 25, 2012

lions of dollars in tax revenues and redevelopment funds and having to cut city staff by 20 percent.

As the economy improves, the city will be able to restore its emergency reserves to ideal levels and hire more staff, beginning with police and fire.

The candidates we’re endorsing are all qualified to carry on the council’s current efforts. Mayor Ann Schwab has been a remarkable leader, not only in the way she conducts council meetings with fairness and respect toward all parties, but also in her hard work and dedication to making city government responsive to the community.

Randall Stone and Tami Ritter are both smart, articulate advocates who combine deep humanitarian impulses with a hard-headed awareness of budgetary details. Stone has a background in financial management that will enable him to tear into the budget, as well as experience in the affordable-housing arena.

And Ritter is a veteran executive director of such nonprofits as the Torres Community Shelter and Habitat for Humanity. Both will make excellent council members.

We also endorse Dave Kelley, who brings more experience to the race than any other candidate except Schwab. As a self-described moderate, he is likely to be a strong voice for compromise and to bring balance to the panel.

Finally, we’d like to honor the other candidates in the race. All of them want what’s best for Chico. We don’t always share their views, but we respect their willingness to serve.

CHICO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES Liz Griffin and Linda Hovey Serving on the CUSD Board of Trustees has a steep learning curve. That’s one reason why we’re endorsing Liz Griffin for a second term. Besides being experienced, she’s smart and articulate, and as director of the local First 5 Commission she’s a strong advocate for children.

We also recommend Linda Hovey. A mother and grandmother, she recently retired after 10 years as the business manager of the Blue Oak Charter School. School financing is a tangled web of categories and funds, and Hovey knows them well. She is also a strong supporter of educating the whole child by incorporating music, arts and sports into the curriculum.

BUTTE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, DISTRICT 5

MEASURE H: ABANDONED VEHICLES

Doug Teeter

Yes

Though he’s never held public office, Doug Teeter gets our nod for 5th District supervisor. Kim Yamaguchi’s decision not to run for reelection offers a chance to break the Board of Supervisors’ stubborn three-person conservative majority.

That’s not to say Teeter is a flaming liberal—he opposes Prop. 30, the governor’s tax proposal to fund schools and public safety— but neither is he an ideologue, which means he will consider issues without preconceived notions.

We like his take on how the county should approach medical marijuana, a problem exacerbated by a seemingly vindictive board majority looking to punish those who voted to repeal its overly restrictive ordinance by trying to pass an even more draconian measure.

Joe DiDuca is a nice fellow but politically too much like the incumbent, and it says something that three of DiDuca’s fellow Paradise Town Council members have endorsed his opponent.

Approval of this measure would continue a successful countywide program to remove abandoned vehicles paid for by a $1 surcharge ($2 for commercial trucks) on vehicle license fees. So far 5,596 abandoned vehicles have been removed.

MEASURE E: CHICO SCHOOLS BOND MEASURE Yes Anyone who has seen the new buildings at Chico’s two principal high schools knows how much they improve students’ educational experiences. They were made possible by the $48.7 million Measure A passed in 1998 that today is nearly exhausted.

Meanwhile, Chico’s other schools, especially the older ones like Citrus and Rosedale, are greatly in need of upgrades and improvement. Roofs and pipes leak, heaters and air conditioners are antiquated, and classrooms built decades ago can’t handle modern technology—which, incidentally, the district doesn’t have nearly enough of.

If approved by 55 percent of voters, Measure E would provide up to $78 million at a historically low interest rate without raising the current assessment tax on real property that’s paying off the Measure A bonds. And district officials have promised to avoid the kind of high-cost delayed-payment bond that has mired other districts in outrageous debt.

Keep Chico’s schools strong. Our future depends on it.

MEASURE J: TELEPHONE USER’S TAX Yes Currently the city of Chico receives about $900,000 annually from taxes on cellular and Internet telephones. But that revenue, which goes into the general fund to pay for cops and firefighters and other employees, is in jeopardy.

That’s because the city’s telephone-tax ordinance was written in 1970, before such phones existed. Because they’re not specified in the ordinance, wireless providers can choose not to collect the tax revenue, as some have done.

This measure would update the ordinance to include wireless and Internet phones and reduce the tax on all phones from 5 percent to 4.5 percent. Phone users would see a slight reduction in their bills.

By voting yes, you will help protect this valuable source of city revenue, continue taxing all telephone services equally, and reduce your tax bill—all at the same time.

MEASURE K: CONSTITUTIONALAMENDMENT RESOLUTION Yes This measure would simply adopt a resolution making the same findings as a resolution adopted in May by the City Council.

That resolution was written in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which gives corporations a virtually unlimited ability to spend money for political purposes because doing so supposedly is a form of speech. The resolution calls for a constitutional amendment overturning the Citizens United amendment.

There’s no question that Citizens United gives rich individuals and corporations tremendous power to influence voters, power ordinary citizens don’t have. Indeed, because it puts no limit on contributions to “superPACs,” while individual donors face strict limits on what they can contribute, it gives the super-wealthy an even greater advantage.

This is a nonbinding resolution that simply puts the people of Chico on record as opposed to Citizens United.

MEASURE L: CITY CLERK Yes This would remove the city clerk from under the supervision of the city manager and put her position directly under the City Council instead, as it was for most of Chico’s history. It’s a good idea. After all, the primary role of the City Clerk’s Office is to provide support staff for the City Council. This measure would increase accountability and foster efficiency.

REGIONAL STATE ASSEMBLY, 3RD DISTRICT Charles Rouse The incumbent in this race, Dan Logue, has certainly made an impression. In addition to his authorship of 2010’s Proposition 23, the Big Oil-backed initiative to overturn the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act that crashed and burned, he’s also widely known for barnstorming up and down the state—and even to Nevada!—holding workshops on what he sees as California’s jobkilling overregulation of businesses.

Perhaps all that showboating has done some good, but so far we haven’t seen much evidence of it. The best thing Logue has done for Butte County is go to bat for saving Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, for which we should all be grateful.

We question whether he really wants this job. He was all set to abandon it when he began a run for state Senate, but health problems made him drop out of that race.

Charles Rouse is a Corning-area farmer and retired postal worker who has long been active in Democratic politics. He’s a smart, thoughtful man who would bring moderation to the job, not the ideological rigidity that afflicts Logue.

STATE SENATE, 4TH DISTRICT Jann Reed In super-conservative Republican political circles, Jim Nielsen is considered a RINO, a Republican in name only. It’s a silly conception because Nielsen is anything but liberal and, during his tenure in the Assembly, almost always voted with other Republicans.

A better word for Nielsen is “opportunist.” Twice during his long political career he has lied about his residence in order to run for office in a district in which he didn’t live.

He’s doing it again this year as he runs for the Senate, insisting he lives in a mobile home on farmland in the Gerber area, rather than the luxurious home in Woodland where he actually resides, outside the district.

His political life, in other words, is based on a lie—one that is potentially a criminal offense. Two Democratic politicians in Southern California accused of the same

deception face multiple felony counts, including perjury. The Tehama County district attorney, Gregg Cohen, supports Nielsen and has refused to bring charges against him.

This is in itself enough to disqualify Nielsen. We also don’t like it that he’s the hand-picked successor to Doug LaMalfa, who’s angling to replace Wally Herger in Congress. That’s why we support former Chico school board trustee Jann Reed in this election.

Reed is a registered independent who says she wants to represent the people of the district, not a political party. She’s an intelligent, energetic woman who did an excellent job during her eight years on the Chico school board, working to respond creatively to a 20 percent reduction in funding. She will bring a pragmatic, problem-solving attitude to Sacramento, not a political agenda.

U.S. CONGRESS, 1ST DISTRICT Jim Reed Doug LaMalfa is a nice guy. So is Wally Herger, the man LaMalfa is looking to replace. But we’d rather share a beer with these guys during a backyard barbecue than have them represent us in the newly drawn 1st Congressional District.

Democratic challenger Jim Reed is an intelligent and reasonable man, and his background as a tax attorney gives him a valuable asset when it comes to understanding how the economy works.

Some of LaMalfa’s campaign antics have been questionable at best. While he may not have been directly involved in the phony website smear of Republican opponent Sam Aanested, he is responsible for the actions of his staff.

Also, his comments linking abortion to cancer and his criticism of government intervention while collecting annual farm subsidies are embarrassing. And his efforts to handpick his replacement for state Senate have angered many in his own party. Reed is the better alternative after 25 years of Herger.

STATEWIDE U.S. SENATE

the income-tax rates on any earnings over $250,000. Passage of Prop 30 would prevent an immediate $6 billion in further cuts to schools; provide billions in new school funds; prevent more tuition hikes; protect public safety by halting further cuts to cops and firefighters; and save billions in future prison costs.

PROPOSITION 31: YES This is a package of reforms that would improve the dysfunctional governance in Sacramento. It would shift the state to a twoyear budget cycle; require performance reviews of all state programs; and require that bills be in print and available to the public at least three days before a vote. No more dead-of-night surprises.

The measure would also institute a “payas-you-go” requirement that legislators identify a source of funding for any new programs costing $25 million or more; give the governor the authority to make budget cuts during fiscal emergencies; and allow local jurisdictions to design local approaches to state-mandated services.

On balance, it’s a step—or a series of steps—forward.

PROPOSITION 32: NO This is a duplicitous measure sponsored by big corporations that, under the guise of campaign finance reform, prohibits unions from collecting political dues from their members, even when those members vote to pay them. We don’t support everything unions do, but we also know they’re the only viable political force offsetting the influence of Big Business.

PROPOSITION 33: NO This is a retread of a nearly identical measure that was rightfully voted down in 2010. Sponsored by the billionaire owners of Mercury Insurance, it would allow discrimination against anyone who for any reason let his or her auto insurance lapse, making it much more expensive to obtain coverage.

Dianne Feinstein

PROPOSITION 34: YES

While we’re disappointed in Feinstein’s willingness to push North State water south, we also recognize that she is one of the most powerful figures in the Senate and a reliable voice for liberal values.

The death penalty in California is broken and can’t be fixed. The state has executed only 13 men since 1978, at a cost of $4 billion, while the number of people on death row continues to grow. This measure would substitute life without parole in capital murder cases, saving taxpayers $183 million annually, ending families’ anguish as they endure repeated appeal hearings, and eliminating the possibility that an innocent person might be executed. It’s time for California to join the 17 other states that have ended statesanctioned killing.

PROPOSITION 30: YES Gov. Jerry Brown won a resounding return to California’s top job because voters believed he could craft a balanced solution to the state’s calamitous budget problems. Well, Republican lawmakers blocked him straightaway and without conscience. If voters hold up their end of the bargain and pass this measure, he’ll be able to fulfill his end of it.

The measure would temporarily raise the sales tax by a piddling quarter-cent and raise

PROPOSITION 35: NO Let’s keep it simple: Human trafficking is already illegal. If the penalties aren’t harsh

enough, they can be changed in the Legislature.

PROPOSITION 36: YES We need to reduce prison costs. This measure would save up to $90 million annually by requiring that a felon’s third strike be a serious or violent crime. If it’s not, it would be treated ordinarily. No more life in prison for stealing a loaf of bread.

PROPOSITION 37: YES Don’t believe the anti-37 hype. After all, it’s being paid for by Monsanto, DuPont and other pesticide and geneticengineering firms. This measure would simply require that foods containing genetically modified organisms be labeled as such, as is required in more than 60 countries. People have a right to know what’s in their food.

PROPOSITION 38: NO Molly Munger is willing to spend her millions on good causes, but this measure comes at the wrong time. It would increase the income-tax rate, on a sliding scale, for everyone earning more than $7,316 annually and raise $10 billion annually for the public schools. Unfortunately, it competes with the governor’s Proposition 30, which is a superior initiative.

PROPOSITION 39: YES This measure would close a corporate-tax loophole opened in 2009 that gives an advantage to out-of-state corporations and costs the state about $1 billion annually. And it would create new jobs in the green sector (up to 30,000 in five years) and reduce public energy costs.

PROPOSITION 40: NO Voting down this initiative will safeguard the state Senate districts drawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2011, following the process established by voters in 2010.

NATIONAL PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Barack Obama and Joe Biden America faces colossal challenges. We need to fix the economy while growing jobs; rein in Wall Street; strive for balance and intelligence in our dealings with an increasingly unpredictable world; implement and improve the historic health-care overhaul now underway; and move swiftly to tackle an already unfolding climate crisis. This is no time to go backward. Give President Obama the opportunity to continue leading us forward on these and other fronts. Ω October 25, 2012

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Arts & Culture You missed it

Doc Severinsen and his hot pants and his hot band, San Miguel 5.

PHOTO BY MELANIE MCTAVISH

THIS WEEK Empty seats greet one of the hottest Latin jazz bands to ever come through Laxson

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must begin my review of last Thursday’s

awesome Doc Severinsen & the San Miguel 5 show at Laxson Auditorium by chastising the local musicians who were not there—which looked to be every single one of them (I won’t name names), except for me. Parby Christine G.K. don me if I’ve overlooked anybody, LaPado-Breglia but the modestly sized audience that was in attendance for this christinel@ musically bad-ass show seemed to newsreview.com consist largely of silver-haired folks likely attracted by the fact that REVIEW: trumpet player Severinsen was a Doc Severinsen & longtime fixture as bandleader on the San Miguel 5 Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.

Thursday, Oct. 18, To all of you who should have Laxson Auditorium been sitting in those empty seats: Laxson You missed one hell of a show!

The wonderful Severinsen Auditorium Chico State aside, his band alone was worth the www.chico price of admission: fabulous Mexiperformances.com can classical/jazz guitar virtuoso Gil Gutiérrez, electric-violin player Charlie Bisharat, Brooklyn uprightbassist Kevin Thomas and Cuban percussionist Jimmy Branly. Bisharat, for one, has played with everyone from Burt Bacharach, Al Jarreau and Elton John, to Aerosmith, Beck, Mary J. Blige and Linkin Park, with dozens more in between, including Michael Jackson, Ronnie Milsap and Ricky Martin. His membership in defunct New Age electronic group Shadowfax earned him a Grammy.

Branly, for his part, has played with a who’s-who of musicians, from Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chucho Valdés and Celia Cruz, to Sheila E., Gregg Bissonette and Brian Bromberg.

Severinsen—now 85 years old, but as

vibrant as ever in a stunning black-with-silversequins Day of the Dead jacket over a bright-orange shirt and trousers—had the audience from the getgo, as he proved in short order that he can still hit the 32 CN&R October 25, 2012

high notes and play his trumpet as beautifully as ever.

The night’s program—a mixture of Latin, Gypsy and standard jazz tunes, Gutiérrez originals and South American classical music à la Astor Piazzolla, and then some—rolled along smoothly in waves of increasing and decreasing tempos and volumes as the performers clearly had fun both taking turns soloing and performing as a tight-knit ensemble.

Gutiérrez and Severinsen even injected some snappy political humor into the evening when, after Gutiérrez spoke to the audience in Spanish, Severinsen joked, “That’s the kind of comment that makes it hard for us to get booked in Arizona!”

From their joyous, blistering rendition of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli’s well-known “Minor Swing,” to Gutierrez’s lovely song written for his son and daughter, “Irene y Diego,” to the band’s catchy improvised take on the Juan Tizol jazz standard, “Caravan,” each member of this quintet showed mastery both in playing mind-bogglingly fast and sensitively slow. At more than one point, Severinsen handed off a lead line to Bisharat (whose electric violin at times was set up to sound very much like a trumpet) so seamlessly that it was almost impossible to tell—unless you were looking—that the switch had been made.

If it’s even possible to single out any one member of this world-class ensemble for special mention, Branly—who sat behind a traditional Western drum kit accessorized with an assortment of Latin percussion—deserves the award. Sitting atop the sassy Cuban box drum known as a cajón, Branly provided a masterful rhythmic anchor that spared no detail, from his ripping cajón licks to his delicate touches on the cymbals, both with his hands and with fuzzy mallets. At one point, late in the evening, Branly sauntered over to Gutiérrez’s side of the stage and— in a display of musical camaraderie and just plain over-the-top talent—proceeded to percuss with both hands on Gutiérrez’s guitar strings as Gutiérrez provided the chord changes with his left hand.

Go see them the next time they’re in town. Duh. Ω

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tacular as a partial benefit to arts education in Oroville. Th, 10/25, 7:30pm. $25. Oroville State Theatre; 1489 Myers St. in Oroville; (530) 589-2667; www.orovilleconcert association.com.

Music JOE NICHOLS: The country music superstar has scored hits with “Brokenheartsville,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” and “Gimmie That Girl.” Th, 10/25, 8pm. $20-$50. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

Theater MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF HORRORS: Murder, mystery, comedy and audience interaction with Billy St. John. 10/25-10/27, 7:30pm. $5-$10.

Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

OUR TOWN: Thorton Wilder’s American classic takes place in small-town New Hampshire during the early 20th century, where change comes slowly for the residents of Grover’s Corners. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 11/4. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

Poetry/Literature CHICO STORY SLAM: Names go in a hat and 10 “tellers” share their stories, with applause determining the winner. This week’s theme: “What I Really Learned in School.” Th, 7pm.

100th Monkey Books & Cafe; 642 West Fifth St.

WRITER’S VOICE RAE GOUIRAND: The author of the poetry collection Open Winter appears for a special reading. Th, 10/25, 7:30pm. $3.

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

WRITER’S VOICE: RAE GOUIRAND Tonight, Oct. 25 1078 Gallery

SEE THURSDAY, POETRY/LITERATURE

CREEPY CRAWLY NIGHT OF FUN: Kids ages 4 to 11 are welcome to bring their costumes as they learn about about nocturnal animals, make Halloween crafts, play ghoulish games for prizes. Call to register. F, 10/26, 6-8pm. $15.

Chico Creek Nature Center; 1968 E. Eighth St.; (530) 891-4671; www.bidwellpark.org.

HAUNTED HOUSE: The Haunted House comes complete with a totally freaky waiting area, a monstrous maze and some zombie-type creatures. 10/26-10/27, 7-9pm. $3-$5. Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, (530) 5339622, www.orovilleymca.org.

LGBTQ+ DANCE: A dance for teen members of the LGBTQ+ community. F, 10/26, 7-10pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

Art Receptions AN EVENING OF ART & WINE: Featuring oils and acrylics by artist Clinton Cheatham. Call for more info. F, 10/26, 5:30-7pm. Free. Chico Sports Club; 260 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 518-1994; www.chicosportsclub.com.

FUNERARY URN SHOW: Ceramic sculpture urns from artists Janice Hoffman and Sherri Fizer along with works from participants in an urnmaking workshop. F, 10/26, 5-7pm. Free. All Fired Up; 830 Broadway; (530) 894-5227; www.allfiredupchico.com.

FINE ARTS Quinn and her Bodytale Ensemble, Molly Miner and Arabesque Comedy Dance Company, vocalist Tawny Vernau and much more. Sa, 10/27, 7pm. $5-$10. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 345-6324.

Music AN EVENING WITH NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: The

Music G-EAZY: The Bay Area rapper and producer is best known for his infectious sample of “Runaround Sue.” CDEnt, Nina Loco and DJ Carnage open. F, 10/26, 8pm. $15. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

FISHTANK ENSEMBLE Monday, Oct. 29 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE MONDAY, MUSIC

HAUNTED HOUSE: See Friday. Oroville YMCA, 1684

Theater REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: An abridged, 90-minute version of American history from three talented comedians of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. F, 10/26, 7:30pm. $15$27. Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperfor mances.com.

MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF HORRORS: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcage theatre.net.

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

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Special Events BBQ COOKOFF: Professional pit masters square off for the title of BBQ Master. Music provided by local cover band Decades. Sa, 10/27, 1:30pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

CHICO HOME & GARDEN SHOW: The annual home and yard expo will feature over 350 exhibits, local agriculture samples, cooking demonstrations, a recycled art competition and more. Go online for more info. 10/27-10/28, 10am-5pm. $4-$5. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.chicohome show.com.

Robinson St. in Oroville, (530) 533-9622, www.orovilleymca.org.

ISCCD & STONEWALL HALLOWEEN DANCE: A Halloween celebration for the LGBTQ+ community with dancing, food, drinks, a costume contest and more. Sa, 10/27, 8pm. Arc Pavilion; 2040 Park Ave.; (530) 891-5865.

OPEN STUDIOS TOUR: This the big one. A fourday, two-weekend art walk. Print a map from the website and visit 50 arts studios.

Produced by Chico Art Center. Final weekend: Sa & Su, 10/27 & 10/28, 10am-5pm. Visit website for details. Locations vary. www.chicoarttour.com.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK: A walk to increase national awareness about depression and suicide and provide support for survivors of suicide loss. Proceeds benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Go online to register. Sa, 10/27, 9am-noon. Downtown Chico Plaza; 400 Broadway St. Between 4th & 5th st.; (530) 520-6696; http://tinyurl.com/922qf3s.

REVEALED: A combination of large-scale illusion, comedy and topless dancers. Sa, 10/27, 10pm. $15-$20. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

SPOOKTACULAR DANCE SHOWCASE: Dances of doom, dread and the dead presented by Dance Evolution Studio. Audience costumes encouraged. Sa, 10/27, 2 & 7pm. $10-$12.

Paradise Performing Arts Center; 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8454; www.paradise performingarts.com.

WORKS IN THE WORKS: Seventh-annual performing-arts fest to raise money for scholarships for college-bound local women. Featuring the Acrobatic Club of Chico State, Rosemary

GOLD COUNTRY CASINO OKTOBERFEST: German food and beer accompanied by music from The Chico Bavarian Band. Sa, 10/27, 5pm. $30.

Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 5349892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

HARVEST FEST: A fall celebration including family activities like face painting, a cake walk, bean bag toss, mask decorating and a screening of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” Sa, 10/27, 11am-3pm. Free. Lake Oroville Visitor Center; 917 Kelly Ridge Rd. in Oroville; (530) 538-2219.

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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE CO.: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED) Friday, Oct. 26 Laxson Auditorium

SEE FRIDAY, THEATER

country-rock group of “Mr. Bojangles” fame has won multiple Grammy Awards, topped charts and toured relentlessly for over four decades. Sa, 10/27, 7:30pm. $25-$38. Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

SHEW IN, GROOVE OUT: An evening with renowned trumpeter Bobby Shew, who has played with the likes of Buddy Rich, Elvis Presley, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Tommy Dorsey. Sa, 10/27, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre; W. First St. CSU, Chico campus; (530) 898-6333.

Theater MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF HORRORS: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcage theatre.net.

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

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Special Events CHICO HOME & GARDEN SHOW: See Saturday.

Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.chicohomeshow.com.

MIMI’S BOSOM BUDDIES BENEFIT: A dinner, silent and live auction, music by The Alternators and Jeff Pershing on dulcimer and more to benefit breast cancer research. Call or email for tickets. Su, 10/28, 4-8pm. $25. Chico Grange; 2775 Nord Ave.; (530) 774-1252.

OPEN STUDIOS TOUR: See Saturday: Sa & Su,

10/27 & 10/28, 10am-5pm. Visit website for

details. Locations vary. www.chicoarttour.com.

Music DADA LIFE: What’s cooler than a Swedish electro house duo? Giant, inflatable bananas. Expect both here. Su, 10/28, 8pm. $30. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

Art 1078 GALLERY: re: Home, photographers and writers collaborate to create their own definitions of home. Through 10/26. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

ARTISTS OF RIVER TOWN GALLERY & GIFTS:

Annual Mystery Show, a juried art exhibition. Through 10/26. Gallery hours are 11am-3pm Tu-Sa. 1435 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 533-4140, http://http://artistofriver town.com.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: The Guilded Art Space, an exhibit enlivened by demonstrations, workshops, sales, raffles, and formal and informal talks. Through 10/28. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

B-SO SPACE: MFA Culminating Exhibit, student art on display. Through 11/2. Ayres Hall Room 107 Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE & BREAKFAST JOINT: Postmodern Mixed Media, paintings and drawings by Lori Stevens on display.

Through 10/31. 1387 E. Eighth St., (530) 8942800.

CHICO ART CENTER: Open Studios Art Tour, a tour of galleries featuring work from 66 local artists as a fundraiser for the Chico Art Center. Go online for a tour guide.

Through 10/28. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO ART SCHOOL: Student Exhibit, art from students ranging from seven years old to adults. Through 10/30. 336 Broadway, Suite 20, (530) 570-3895, www.chicoart school.com.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Works by

Claudia Steel, an exhibition of etchings,

works from artists affected by cancer.

Through 10/31. 265 Cohasset Rd.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

Lois Perkins & Frances Miller: New Works, watercolors and mixed-media assemblages from two local artists. Through 10/26. Free.

254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

MANAS ART SPACE & GALLERY: Naked Coffee

Art Show, an all-media exhibition incorporating empty Naked Lounge coffee bags into each piece. Through 10/31. 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE: Naked

Coffee Bag Show, an all-media exhibition of works incorporating empty Naked Lounge coffee bags, jointly hosted by MANAS Art Space. Through 10/31. Gallery hours are Open daily. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Folk Art & Crafts, local folk art and one-of-a-kind sculptures, dolls and old-world Christmas ornaments.

Through 11/30. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 3453063.

TIN ROOF BAKERY & CAFE: Dance, Music,

Floral, Shoe & Coffee Cup, an exhibition of work by local artist Teresa Renfro. Through 10/31. 627 Broadway St. 170, (530) 345-1362.

THE TURNER PRINT MUSEUM AT CSU: Space

Form Light, an exhibition explores how architects do what painters do but in interactive, solid form. Through 11/4. 400 W. First St. Meriam Library breezeway, CSU, Chico, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Agit Props, works of clay with an emphasis on political and social commentary. Through 11/14. 400 W First St. Taylor Hall, CSU, Chico, (530) 898-5864.

serigraphs, watercolors and oils. Through 1/11, 2013. 411 Main St. City Hall, (530) 896-

Call for Artists

7200.

CHICO ART CENTER GALLERIES 2013:

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: I Heart Chico, paintings, poetry, kid’s art, photography, textiles, videos and interactive collaborative exhibits inspired by Chico. Through 1/31, 2013. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.

Applications for exhibition opportunities next year currently accepted. Through 11/1.

Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

EVERYTHING GREEN SHOW: MANAS is accepting new works in all mediums for their show beginning at the end of November. Call for details. Through 11/17. Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183

CHICO STATE HUMANITIES CENTER (TRINITY HALL): Gone to Ground, a new series of photographs of bunkers in Albania from photographer Wayne Barrar. Through 11/30.

400 West First St. 100 400 West First Street, (530) 898-6341.

ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Lilly Oncology on

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It’s tricky With Halloween falling on a Wednesday this year, maybe it’ll be easier to keep the sexy zombies and wee ones in plastic Iron Man masks separated. Most of the grown-up action is naturally at the casinos and nightclubs over the weekend before the holiday (e.g. costume parties at Lost on Main, Friday & Saturday and Electric Bordello, an EDM fog/laser party at LaSalles), plus Night of the Living Dead (The Sitcom) at Lost on Main (Sun.-Tues.) and a rock show on Halloween, at the new Band Creator venue of Zanella Way. (See Nightlife, p. 45, for more.)

And for the kids and teens, in addition to the candy fests on Halloween (including Treat Street downtown, and the Safe and Sane EDITOR’S PICK Trick-or-Treat at Chico Mall), there are a couple of haunted houses—Friday and Saturday at the YMCA in Oroville and the Nightmare on Forest Avenue on Monday and Tuesday at Butte College—as well as the Creepy Crawly Night of Fun for the little ones at the Chico Creek Nature Center on Friday. See This Week for more listings.

—JASON CASSIDY October 25, 2012

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE SITCOM: Night of

the Living Dead as you’ve never seen it before, as a live sitcom! Su-Tu, 7:30pm. $8 ($5/dressed as a zombie!). Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

OUR TOWN: See Thursday. Chico Theater

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Special Events NIGHTMARE ON FOREST AVENUE: Butte College hosts a spooky haunted house for three days, culminating in a celebration Halloween night with treats, music, games and prizes. M, 10/29, 2-9pm; Tu, 10/30, 2-10pm. $2. Butte College Chico Center

Music FISHTANK ENSEMBLE: The eccentric Bay Area group brings youthful energy to traditional world sounds, from French jazz to flamenco and Japanese folk to gypsy. M, 10/29, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

Theater NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE SITCOM: See

Sunday. Su-Tu, 7:30pm. $8 ($5/dressed as a zombie!). Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 8911853.

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Butte College Chico Center.

TRUNK OR TREAT: A bounce house for the little ones along with hot dogs, popcorn and candy.

Tu, 10/30, 5:30-8pm. Free. Chico Church of Christ; 995 E. Lassen Ave. Corner of Burnap and E. Lassen Ave.; (530) 893-8565.

Theater NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE SITCOM: See

Sunday. Su-Tu, 7:30pm. $8 ($5/dressed as a zombie!). Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 8911853.

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Special Events GHOULS NIGHT OUT: A Halloween party at the historic Monday Club with local food vendors, hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine, a costume contest, dancing and a silent auction.

Proceeds benefit services provided by the Quota Club of Oroville. W, 10/31, 8pm. $20.

Monday Club; 2385 Montgomery St. in Oroville; (530) 533-9943.

SAFE & SANE TRICK-OR-TREAT: Stores will pass out candy for the kiddies until sweet reserves are exhausted. W, 10/31, 4-6pm. Free. Chico Mall; 1950 E. 20th St.; (530) 343-0706; www.chicomall.com.

TREAT STREET: The annual Halloween celebration in downtown Chico, with merchants offering treats for costumed kiddies under 12 years old. W, 10/31, 2-5pm. Free. Downtown Chico.

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BULLETIN BOARD Community ACORN OUTING: Chico State’s fall naturalist outings continue with a acorn harvesting and processing. Call for more info or reservations.

Sa, 10/27, 9am-4pm. $5. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 898-5010.

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.

AUTUMNFEST AT PATRICK RANCH: The museum’s annual pumpkin sale includes unique gourds, hay rides, animals, tours of the farmhouse, children’s activities, food and more. Call for more info. F-Su, 9am-4pm through 10/28. $5.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 342-4359.

BITTER SEEDS: A screening of a documentary weighing in on the debate over genetically modified crops. Sa, 10/27, 2pm. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageantchico.com.

appointments scheduled every 15 minutes. M, 10/29, 11:30am-2:30pm & 3:30-5:30pm. Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, (530) 3346444.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled

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

BONSAI DEMONSTRATION: Greg Strong will demonstrate techniques for shaping bonsai trees and layering and blending soils. Sa, 10/27, 11am-1pm. Free. Chico Paper Co., 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.

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

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

EMERGING POLICE STATE: FACT OR FICTION?: The next installment of a series of Occupy

Movement events at Chico State. Th, 10/25, 67:30pm. Free. Harlen Adams Theatre, W. First St. CSU, Chico campus, (530) 898-6333.

EVOLUTIONARY SHIFT NETWORK: Celebrate conscious awakening, connection and examples of the birth of a new “universal humanity.” Su, 67:30pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

FERROCEMENT WATER TANK WORKSHOP: Learn to build a makeshift water tank to store rainwater. Call to register. Su, 10/28, 6pm. $30-$50.

GRUB Cooperative, 1525 Dayton Rd., (530) 5880585.

FOLK DANCING: Traditional folk dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 10/26. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8171.

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO SCREENING: A documentary and discussion exploring religion and homosexuality in the U.S. F, 10/26, 6-8pm. Free.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St., (530) 893-3336.

Saturday, Oct. 27 One-Mile, Bidwell Park SEE VOLUNTEER

$10. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

OWL PROWL: A guided twilight walk in search of

owls. Call to register. Sa, 10/27, 6-8pm. $5.

Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

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.

PUMPKIN PATCH: Pick out a pumpkin, go for a wagon ride, pet the farm animals or visit the decorated barn. Through 10/31, 10am-6pm.

Free. TJ Farms, 3600 Chico Ave., (530) 3432294.

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

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

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

SUNDAY STROLLS IN UPPER BIDWELL PARK: Chico State students help explain the region’s geographical and historic importance on a four-hour hike. Bring hat, water and lunch. Su, 9am-1pm through 10/28. Free. Chico Rod & Gun Club, Wildwood Ave., (530) 895-3730, www.upperpark.net.

TEN MILE HOUSE TRAIL HIKE: A moderately challenging hike in Upper Bidwell Park. Call for meeting info. Su, 10/28, 9:30am. Free. Contact for info, (530) 342-2293.

WATER CONSERVATION PRESENTATION: A California Water Conservation team will outline how community members can save money on their water bills. Lunch optional. Th, noon through 10/25. Free. Chico Mobile Country Club, 1901 Dayton Rd., (530) 343-3904.

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

WILDLIFE VIEWING: Guided wildlife tours. Rain

HOW TO WRITE A REVOLUTION: A lecture with

Volunteer

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.

Martin Puchner of Harvard University and author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy. Th, 10/25, 7:30pm. Free. Chico State Performing Arts Center, Room 134 W. 2nd St. and Chestnut, (530) 898-6341.

JESSE KOHEN MEMORIAL FUND 5K WALK/RUN: Proceeds benefit special-needs students in college. Call for more info. Sa, 10/27, 8:30am.

One Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park, (530) 893-1631.

MONCA MASK-MAKING WORKSHOP: A creative

workshop for all ages. Su, 10/28, 11am-4pm.

THINK FREE.

BLOODSOURCE BLOOD DRIVE: Call or email for

MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY

cancels. Sa, 10am through 2/3; Su, 1pm through 2/3. $4. Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, 3207 Rutherford Rd. in Gridley, (530) 846-7505.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY: A cleanup of Bidwell

Park as part of the national service day. Sa, 10/27, 10am-1pm. One Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park, (530) 896-7831.

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

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grounds adjacent Oroville’s badass paintball complex, Surplus story and photo by City’s Combat Howard Hardee Zone, the threeday festival was howardh@ newsreview.com advertised as a mixture of electronic dance music, art and full-fledged paintball action.

REVIEW: Splatter Festival Topping things Friday, Oct. 19 off, Del the Combat Zone, Funky HomoOroville sapien (of Bay Area underground hip-hop group the Hieroglyphics) was billed as the headliner for Friday’s opening-night show.

As big fans of Del, dancing and simulated violence, my buddy Zack and I had high expectations as we made the drive out to Oroville. Both of us envisioned scaling obstacles, taking cover and storming the enemy line while bobbing to some sweet hip-hop and electronica.

As we weren’t staying overnight, we were given our over21 bracelets at the gate and told to “go around back” rather than take the drive-in entrance upon arriving around 7:30 p.m. This amounted to walking through row after row of trailers and tents in the pitch-black darkness. In the distance, we could hear the pop-pop-pop of paintball guns and throbbing bass. We quickened our pace.

As we came upon the festival’s main stretch, we were immediately struck by how dark and empty the space was. A handful of food ven-

dors and two stages were providing the only light, and what we could see wasn’t impressive. A few dozen festival-goers were watching an uninspired performance by Nerd Nate, an Oaklandbased rapper with the lyrical ability of a parakeet. Figuring it was still early in the evening, we decided to check out the paintball scene.

Just as we arrived at the edge of the course, however, the last rounds were fired and the overhead lights were turned off. Our war-dance fantasy was not to be.

Undeterred, we found a lineup schedule that said Del would be performing a three-hour set with Bukue One and the Serendipity Project at 10 p.m. It was just past 8 p.m., so we decided to check out the dance stage. We approached as DJ Gamma (out of Sacramento) ripped an undeniably awesome remix of Kanye West’s “Get ’Em High,” complete with dubstep divebombs and screeches. However, the pair of 12-foot high speaker stacks on either side of the stage were probably overkill, especially considering they were bumping for about 17 people, so we opted to cruise the grounds a second time rather than let our brains melt.

As we did, we realized there was actually no beer tent and our over-21 bracelets were pointless.

And to make matters worse, the festival smelled bad. It was a sickening blend of fog machine, marijuana, body odor and some other unidentified scent that the breeze would occasionally pick up. And as we wandered, inadvertently bumping into revelers in the darkness (and picking up additional scent with each encounter), a man in a soiled full-body penguin costume approached us at one point offering

“Molly,” which I knew to be a powdered drug with effects similar to those of ecstasy. I politely declined, acknowledging the offer was mighty neighborly of The Penguin.

The 10 p.m. set time came and went with no sign of Del. We faithfully returned several times, with the Serendipity Project finally taking the stage around midnight.

The Project turned out to be a glorified elevator-funk group, the flashiest member of which was a Mohawk-sporting bassist who, at every opportunity, wanted to remind the audience he had his pop-and-slap funk technique down.

We became so bored that we left the stage and sat in front of a crepe cart to read the menu about a dozen times. It’s not that either of us wanted a crepe; it’s that absolutely any other form of stimulation was better than watching that ass and his forced Flea impression.

As we left at 1:20 a.m., Bukue One was letting the crowd know Del was taking the stage soon and it would be awesome. But by then, we had been strung along so badly we probably wouldn’t have enjoyed his performance, anyway.

There were still a handful of people groovin’ to Bukue’s vibes as we made our exit; among them was The Penguin in the midst of a high-speed shuffle dance. This would be my final and most lasting impression of the Splatter Fest.

(Maybe if I’d have taken The Peguin up on his offer, I too could have gotten more into it.)

Post script: According to a post

by Moc Events Management (as well as several others by festivalgoers) on the Splatter Festival’s Facebook event page, the fest was shut down Saturday morning due to “lots” of noise complaints. Ω

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Then, even before Prohibition, cider mysteriously disappeared, along with the orchards of tart, acidic apples used to make it. Beer and wine became our favorite libations, and they remain such.

But national cider sales are back on the upswing, and in California a handful of micro-scale cider-makers are resuming old traditions of cider not seen in America for more than a century—and they’re expecting consumers to catch on soon. In Petaluma, Wayne Van Loon—owner of Murray’s Cyder—is making Normandy-style cider from organic California apples. Finding proper ciderapple varieties, Van Loon says, has not been easy.

“For a while, I couldn’t get anything resembling a cider apple,” he said. “I was using American table apples, and you just can’t make a real Normandy cider with those varieties. It can’t be done.”

Such apples, high in sugar but low in character-building acids and tannins, make for a dull juice, says Van Loon, and “a backward, hollow character” in the cider.

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For now, though, it’s tiny.

In the Chico area, for instance, there are no commercial cider producers. But cider sales are on the rise at S&S Organic Produce and Natural Foods, where beer buyer Andy Granskog says he has seen consumer interest climbing for about two years. He keeps the beer department stocked with four cider brands— and Red Branch Cider Company, made in Sunnyvale, in the Silicon Valley, is as local as the ciders get. The Chico Natural Foods Cooperative carries a similar selection.

American cider has a reputation for being a sweet, simple, fizzy drink rather like a cheap wine cooler. A scattering of craft cider makers nationwide could change that, though. In Cincinnati, Ohio, a company called Angry Orchard uses heirloom apples imported from the Italian Alps and Normandy to make several ciders, including some made in old styles of Europe. One, called Iceman, is a tribute to cider traditions of Quebec and brings to the table a very

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The McRitchie Ciderworks in North Carolina is filling wine bottles with handmade cider styled after ciders of Brittany, and in Washington State the Tieton Cider Works has planted a large acreage with its own cider-apple trees and, clearly, is banking on a boom in American cider drinking.

In California, a handful of producers are producing similarly traditional cider styles—more tart than sweet, with little Spritelike fizz, and with just a trace of hay-bale funk. These companies include The Apple Farm in Philo and Two Rivers Cider in Sacramento. Several brands are based in Sebastopol, in the looming shadow of Ace, the king of American cider operations.

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entry hitting the theaters on an almost weekly basis as the genre has crept back into mainby stream consciousness.

Craig Unfortunately, the current slate on Blamer the multiplex marquee has featured generally disposable reboots of classics (and not-so classics) and found-footage exercises in mediocrity.

Admittedly, some recent mainstream horror films aren’t bad, some even pretty good, but the great new horror—the stuff being produced in places like Japan, France and Spain—hasn’t been invited to the party.

However, thanks to home media, there really is a horror renaissance, and it is flourishing right there in front of your couch, and all the really good international and indie choices—not to mention a 100 years’ worth of classic re-released ghoulishness—are just a mailbox or keystroke away.

Let’s start with the granddaddy of modern

horror, Universal Studios, and its just-released Universal Classic Monsters set on Blu-ray, featuring eight of its iconic monster titles—from Dracula (1931) to Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). While it may seem that watching a horror film from the early ’30s could be a creaky affair, the box set offers an excellent opportunity to revisit the films that inarguably mainstreamed the horror genre in the early 20th century.

Every horror genre filmmaker of substance has been influenced by these films.

Sure, when viewed in comparison to contemporary films, these perfect examples of gothic atmosphere might be found to be paced sluggishly with acting that spits sawdust, but visually they have aged very well. Each frame—depthless black-and-white contrasts of expressionism—could be frozen and hung on the wall. Or, well, at least appreciated on a wall-mounted HD screen.

Of course, black-and-white horror might not be to everyone’s tastes, so thankfully there is plenty of mod-

ern ghoulish fun for folks willing to eschew the multiplex and do some serious grave digging. (All of these titles are available on DVD and VOD.) At the beginning of the new millennium, the Japanese were churning out some pretty twisted but disorientingly beautiful horror films on such a large scale that J-horror became its own genre. Takashi Miike’s Hitchcock-goes-to-hell Audition was the flagship in 1999, a movie so messed up that Hollywood was too traumatized to bastardize it for American audiences.

Another one that was just plain too weird to Anglicize was the bizarro Uzumaki, a slice of surrealistic Lovecraftian horror that doesn’t always make a lot of sense, but is so compellingly beautiful that it works as moving art on its own.

Not to be shown up by the Japanese, the French launched their own barrage of titles over the first of the oughts, creating the “new French extremism” that justifies the aesthetics of torture-porn genre by layering the proceedings with even more disturbing subtext.

Titles like High Tension, In My Skin, Inside, Martyrs and Frontier(s) are good examples of extreme horror that stop just short of being gratuitous. (Well, sort of.)

They’re also responsible for one of the best zombie actioners ever made, The Horde.

Meanwhile, Spain has churned out Catholic-centric creepers like The Day of the Beast and the [REC] franchise. Made before found-footage became ubiquitous, [REC] features the cutest reporter ever and her cameraman as they drop by a Madrid apartment complex to document ground zero of the zombie apocalypse.

Remade by Hollywood (very badly) as Quarantine, [REC] is easily one of the best horror films of the new century, and it was followed by two sequels released Stateside by the indie-horror distributor Magnet Releasing. With titles like Trollhunter, V/H/S, I Saw the Devil and the stalker pastiche Tucker and Dale vs.

Evil, Magnet is quickly shaping up to as the seal of approval for horror films too good to be shown at the multiplex, with almost every title on its slate being worthy of at least a rental. Ω

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Opening this week Chasing Mavericks

Biographical film about famed surfer Jay Moriarity and his quest to ride the big and dangerous “Mavericks” waves near Santa Cruz. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Cloud Atlas

A nearly three-hour-long adaptation of David Mitchell’s time-jumping sci-fi fantasy novel directed by the Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and featuring a star-studded ensemble cast that includes Tom Hanks, Halle Barry, Susan Sarandon and Hugo Weaving. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Fun Size

After being put in charge of taking her little bro trick-or-treating, a teenage girl instead drags him along to a Halloween party, only to lose him in the crowd. Hijinks ensue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Robot & Frank

Frank Langella stars as a former jewel thief forced to retire due to failing health. When his son buys him a robot butler, the aging cat burgler programs his mechanical assistant to help him reboot his career. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

Sequel to the 2006 adaptation of the survival-horror video game of the same name, this one following the character of Heather back to the alternate dimension of Silent Hill.

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

Now playing Alex Cross

For this latest film adaptation of one of the books in James Patterson’s series of Alex Cross thrillers, Tyler Perry takes over for Morgan Freeman in the role of the homicide detective/psychologist, now tracking down a killer called The Butcher. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Argo

In 1980, in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis, a CIA agent organized an undercover caper that was desperate, dazzling and very improbable. In the hands of Ben Affleck and company, that little farrago becomes a riveting, briskly entertaining thriller. There is no shortage of peril and suspense in the basic incident—agent Tony Mendez (Affleck) is attempting to spirit six Americans hiding in the Canadian embassy out of Iran. And the tension is only heightened by the outlandishness of Mendez’s scheme—he and the six escapees will exit Iran disguised as a Canadian film crew. That scheme adds a second, curiously complementary element to the story—Mendez must set up an actual production company as a supporting cover story for the filmcrew disguise. The cover-story movie becomes a sci-fi epic called Argo which might be filmed in Iranian locations. The movie angle adds a rich level of ironic comedy to Affleck’s own production, which thereby also becomes a dark, barbed comedydrama about the business of making movies.

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

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Frankenweenie

Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is living in a stop-motion universe somewhere between the worlds of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, a monochrome suburbia populated by spindle-legged figures with large eyes.

Although his school seems to be made up of kindred spirits of the morbid variety, Victor prefers to devote his time exclusively to his dog Sparky, but that friendship is sorely tested when Sparky is flattened by a car while chasing a ball. Fortunately, on the curriculum the next day the science teacher

(Martin Landau) shows the class how to make a dead frog’s legs kick with the help of electricity. Victor scuttles off to the pet cemetery, disinters the pieces of Sparky and returns to his attic space and stitches ol’ Sparky back together. A slash of light and a crash of thunder later and it’s alive! Alive!

Admittedly, Tim Burton’s latest is sort of fun visually, but with about 75 percent homage, 25 percent story and weak jokes that don’t really have punch lines, it makes for a vaguely unsatisfying bit of déjà vu all over again. Cinemark 14. Rated PG —C.B.

Here Comes the Boom

Kevin Smith plays a middle-aged high-school teacher and former collegiate wrestler who becomes a mixed-martial-arts fighter to raise money to save the job of his school’s music teacher (Henry Winkler). Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Hotel Transylvania

The latest 3-D animated feature takes place at a five-star hotel strictly for monsters run by Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler), who is forced to protect his place and its guests from a young human (Andy Samberg) who stumbles upon the exclusive resort.

Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

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The Intouchables

Driss (Omar Sy), an African immigrant and part-time hoodlum, inadvertently charms his way into an appointment as fulltime care-giver in the chateau of a quadriplegic aristocrat named Philippe (veteran French star François Cluzet). Driss, impressed by the sumptuous creature comforts that are part of the job and prodded

by Philippe’s testy defiance, rises to the challenges of his unexpected new responsibilities. And Philippe in turn begins to feel somewhat re-enlivened by the younger man’s frenetic and sometimes reckless ministrations to him. As such, The Intouchables is an amusing combination of odd couple/ buddy buddy comedy with ostensibly therapeutic concerns in mind. Its apparent good intentions carry less weight than they might have in a tale less dependent on broad stereotypes. Still, the good-natured performances of the lead actors have a lot to do with whatever success this French blockbuster finds as entertainment in the U.S.. And Omar Sy, who won the French Cesar for best actor, is a particularly large and exceptional delight. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Looper

Dateline: 2044. The mean streets of America are looking even more ghetto than they do in 2012. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his fellow Loopers are hit men, and their job is to show up in an isolated area and wait for a bound-and-hooded package to arrive from 30 years in the future, blow them away and pocket silver bars for their day’s work, which they generally spend on rocket cycles, drugs and hookers: The good life. Unfortunately, in the future there’s been a coup and the Loopers are increasingly finding themselves whacking their future selves for a severance package of gold bars. It’s not pretty how things are resolved when a Looper doesn’t “close the loop” as directed, so Joe should know better when his own future self (Bruce Willis) arrives, but he hesitates on the trigger and Old Joe promptly knocks Young Joe out and sets off to … Well, it’s kind of like the first Terminator, with all sorts of time-space continuum paradoxes and other nonsense that doesn’t really add up when looked back on, but is sort of neat while it’s happening. Cinemark 14. Rated R —C.B.

Paranormal Activity 4

More spooky strangeness goes down after dark as the supernatural faux-found-footage series picks up four years after the events of the original. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky directs this adaptation of his own best-selling book about an introverted high-school freshman who is helped through his shyness by a couple of seniors.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Pitch Perfect

The Bellas are an all-girl college a capella group led by a new member (Anna Kendrick) who injects updated songs into the reper-

toire on the way to The Bellas taking on their male rivals. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Searching for Sugar Man

Ends tonight, Oct. 25. This remarkable little documentary is a “musical detective story” that turns into something even more special than that. The film got its start from the desire of a couple of South African hipsters, a magazine writer and a record store owner, to find out whatever happened to an American singer-songwriter known only as Rodriguez who had been a huge success in South Africa in the 1970s. Rodriguez’s songs were particularly influential with the younger generation at a time when the antiapartheid movement was still mostly an underground phenomenon. But nothing else was known about this seemingly legendary figure apart from the two albums that found their bootlegged way to South Africa and some vague rumors of a melodramatic suicide. When the searchers extend their inquiries to the U.S., they discover that those albums were stateside flops and Rodriguez was never really on the music-biz radar. But they also learn that Sixto Rodriguez is very much alive, a manual laborer still working hard to support his family in beleaguered Detroit. An unexpectedly engaging portrait of man who is at once exceptional and ordinary, and whose startand-stop musical career is only one aspect of an admirable and quietly heroic life.

Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Seven Psychopaths

The action in the new movie by playwright/filmmaker Martin McDonagh includes the efforts of an Irish guy named Marty (Colin Farrell) to write a Hollywood screenplay, but all he has at the start is a title, “Seven Psychopaths.” The fragmented stories that emerge, for Marty’s screenplay and/or from McDonagh’s movie, have a good deal of violence in them, some of it farcical, some of it gruesome, some of it both at once.

McDonagh, whose movies call Quentin Tarantino to mind, fancies himself having a moral seriousness that is lacking in Tarantino’s pictures. Be that as it may, Seven Psychopaths fails to distinguish itself as moviemaking and ends up looking a lot like a rather lazy and deluded knock-off of the Tarantino “brand.” What it does have going for it are a good cast, an assortment of offbeat amusements, and a wacko throwaway story about a psychopathic gangster (Woody Harrelson) trying to retrieve the Shih Tzu that two part-time dog kidnappers (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) are holding for ransom. Farrell, stranded in McDonagh’s mildly parodic self-portrait, ends up playing half-hearted straight man to those guys and others. Cinemark. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Boozy true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) is desperate for another bestseller, so he uproots his long-suffering family and relocates them to a suburban house where another family was sacrificed in a sinister ritual. Of course, he doesn’t clue his wife in to that li’l bit of info. But ol’ Oswalt is pretty short on clues himself, seeing how he finds a box of 8mm home movies and a projector up in the attic—a box that wasn’t there before they moved in—and still stays put. Oswalt is so desperate to resurrect his career that he decides to go with the flow, even after he realizes that the found footage is not just of the prior family being snuffed, but also a few other families scattered across the map. All this ends up pretty much as you’d expect it to end. Fans of stupid horror films might be impressed by this butt-numbing Frankenstein of faux snuff footage and wannabe J-horror. But I found the whole thing to be boring, derivative and kind of ludicrous. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —C.B.

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The retired CIA agent (Liam Neeson) who rescued his daughter who was taken by human traffickers in the first film is himself the target of the father of the kidnapper who he killed while saving her. (Side note: Isn’t it obvious that they should’ve called this Taken Again? C’mon, people!). Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Ry Cooder has taken fans on a journey for nearly a half-century now. I first heard him playing behind Taj Mahal back in the late-’60s, and I still remember his eponymous first album played at innumerable gatherings. Then there were increasingly adventuresome excursions in musicology that laid the blueprint for what would become Americana and roots music, an ongoing homage to the past that has become a genre all its own. Cooder took us around the world, blending blues and gospel and rock with indigenous music from everywhere people were making noise that caught his ear.

And always, undergirding it all, was his distinctive guitar work, along with an abiding political sensibility that takes center stage on this collection. On “The Wall Street Part of Town,” he gives vent to the sense so many have that the playing field isn’t even close to level. On “Cold Cold Feeling,” Cooder sings the blues from Barack Obama’s point of view, and it’s funny and angry and true. It’s also a damn good blues piece. If you’re upset about how things are, Election Special isn’t going to make your dissatisfactions go away, but it will give you some good musical company and a shared sense of outrage.

Guillotine Games Before sparkling vampires and their diaries hypnotized us, you couldn’t swing a chainsaw without hitting a zombie in pop culture. For people who miss those days, Zombicide is a collaborative board game that allows one to six players to fight for survival using classic zombie-shredding weapons such as axe, shotgun and Molotov cocktail. The heroes and zombie archetypes—Walker, Runner, Fatty and Abomination—have special skills, and it’s a credit to the game mechanics and detailed miniatures (created by CoolMiniOrNot) that they all feel unique and valuable. As players rack up kills, they gain levels and new skills, but with higher levels come more zombies. At first, a few trickle through the streets but soon dozens block every path.

One misstep and the punishment is merciless. Don’t be surprised if each game features an “Oh, crap” moment of realization that no matter what you do, things just got bad. Real bad. Oddly, the rulebook has more than a few typos, but it’s a minor blemish on a game that embodies the horror, hopelessness and guiltless zombie slaughter found in our favorite walking-dead films. With Guillotine Games and the online community already supporting complimentary smartphone apps and a map editor, Zombicide has brought the undead back to life…again.

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Monster KISS Universal Music Group After the loss (again) of OG members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley in the early aughts, it appears fans have finally learned to accept KISS 7.0. Then again, what choice do they have? Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are committed to steering the KISS biz to maximum profits. They also feel they still have something to say musically, hence their second record in three years with oldies-but-newbies Tommy Thayer on lead guitar and drummer Eric Singer. Monster—which follows up 2009’s Sonic Boom—rocks relentlessly; it’s a hot mess of really good moments that make up a pretty good whole. Of course, the usual pre-release hoopla from the KISS machine claimed a return to form (Destroyer-meets-Revenge). And for once they deliver. “Eat Your Heart Out” includes cowbell, a sleazy riff, and an R&B-inspired chorus (which kicks the song off a cappella). “Back to the Stone Age” is a stomper in the spirit of “Deuce,” and the Zep-inspired “Long Way Down” might be the best KISS song in 30 years. There is some fat that should have been trimmed (Thayer’s “Outta This World” cribs the Space Ace in style minus the substance). Bottom line: Come for the rock, approach the lyrics with caution—they’ll only make you want to shower after.

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G-Eazy is an intriguing package. The trim Oakland MC with the slick haircut and sharp duds looks like he could’ve been a member of Depeche Mode or an extra on Mad Men, and his throwback style slides right into place behind his smooth and very catchy 2011 summer-jam re-do of Dion’s “Runaround Sue” (1.5 million YouTube views, and counting).

G-Eazy hits the Senator Theatre stage this Friday, Oct. 26, on the heels of his newest album/mixtape, Must Be Nice, released this past summer

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25THURSDAY BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-

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

CALIFORNIA SOUND RULERS: DJ Dans-One spins the reggae, dancehall and hiphop. Th, 10/25, 9pm-2am. $2. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

IMPROV JAM: Open jam with Michael

Gaughan. Th, 5-8pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

JOE NICHOLS: The country music superstar has scored hits with “Brokenheartsville,” “Tequila Makes

Her Clothes Fall Off,” and “Gimmie That Girl.” Th, 10/25, 8pm. $20-$50. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

JOHN SEID: John Seid and friends. Th, 6:30-9:30pm through 11/1. Free.

Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond.

LEVATOR: Dreamy, hypnotic and eerie indie rock out of Seattle. Local metal heavyweights Cold Blue Mountain and folk-rockin’ Star Thistle Wall open. Th, 10/25, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

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

899-9996.

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

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

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

PHOENIX: Blues, classic rock and more on the back patio. Th, 10/25, 6-9pm. Free.

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

ROCK VS. FOLK: A showcase of local rock and folk-punk acts with the Deadly Gallows, Handsome Vultures, Skelator and Frankie Doppler’s Nuclear Sunrise.

Th, 10/25, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs; 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

26FRIDAY THE AMBLERS: Local Americana-tinged indie rockers return. The Airplanes and Katrina and Sean open. F, 10/26, 8pm-midnight. $5. The DownLo; 319 Main St.; (530) 892-2473.

THE BUTTE COUNTY PLAYERS CLUB: Classic rock and country tunes in the lounge. F, 10/26, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

CHICO BAILE LATINO: MORE THAN SALSA:

DJ Mack Morris. F, 10/26, 9pm. $2-$6.

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

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

G-EAZY: Nina Loco and DJ Carnage open.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: The local country

F, 10/26, 8pm. $15. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxpro ductions.net.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with a traditional Irish music session by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffys Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

JUDGEMENT DAY: Metal rhythms (complete with a double-pedaling drummer) and tonality for the violin and cello. Akasa opens. F, 10/26, 8pm.

Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia and Bachata dance lessons followed by an open social dance. F, 8pm through 11/15. $2$4. The Hub; 685 Manzanita Ct. Inside the Holiday Inn, Chico; (530) 518-9454.

outfit headlines the first night of a two-day Halloween celebration with costume contests, spooky games and prizes. F, 10/26, 9pm. $3. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

27SATURDAY BLUEGRASS JAM: Open jam hosted by

Lucy Smith. Sa, 1-4pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

BOBBY SHEW: An evening with renowned trumpeter Bobby Shew, who has played with the likes of Buddy Rich, Elvis Presley, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Tommy Dorsey. Sa, 10/27, 7:30pm. $6$15. Harlen Adams Theatre; W. First St. CSU, Chico campus; (530) 898-6333.

DECADES: A dance-friendly cover band in the brewery. F, 10/26, 9:30pm. $5.

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

THE BUTTE COUNTY PLAYERS CLUB: Classic rock and country tunes in the lounge. Sa, 10/27, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com.

EARLY HARVEST COSTUME PARTY: A costume party with hip-hop and electronica act PYRX and underground hip-hop fixture Devin the Dude. F, 10/26, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

JUDGEMENT DAY Friday, Oct. 26 Café Coda

ELECTRIC BORDELLO: A Halloween celebration combining theatrical production, a lineup of EDM DJs and a fog/laser show. Spinsters include UR Friends, Panic City, Miles Medina and

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Sa, 10/27, 7pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghills casino.com.

COSTUME PARTY: A costume party with

LISH BILLS: Kirk Williams, singer and guitarist of Armed for Apocalypse fame, releases his EP Kicks to Get. Pat Hull, Birdy Fiedler and Casing the Promisedland open. Sa, 10/27, 7:30pm.

1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 3431973; www.1078gallery.org.

Rat Jerky playing the heavier side of classic rock with AC/DC, Van Halen and Ozzy Osbourne covers. Sa, 10/27, 7pm. Free. Lassen Steakhouse; 4945 Hwy. 99E in Vina; (530) 839-2838.

AN EVENING WITH NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: The country-rock group of “Mr. Bojangles” fame has won multiple Grammy Awards, topped charts and toured relentlessly for over four decades. Sa, 10/27, 7:30pm. $25-$38.

Laxson Auditorium; 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

ONE HEADLIGHT: High-energy covers. Sa,

10/27, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

PINHEAD & THE SHANKERS: Local Ramones cover band Pinhead heat up the bar with rockabilly pals The Shankers. Come in costume! Sa, 10/27, 10pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

HALLOWEEN BASH: A costume contest

and dancing with DJ Mack Morris. Sa, 10/27, 8pm. $5. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

HALLOWEEN PARTY: A costume contest,

SCORPIO BALL: The Halloween celebration continues at Lost. Sa, 10/27, 9pm. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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SWANSEA: An experimental indie band out of Portland with a dynamic female singer. Manzanita Falls—a four-piece indie rock band out of Santa Rosa— and new local rock outfit The Muddy Sours open. Sa, 10/27, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

TOM DRINNON: The local country singersongwriter headlines the second night of a two-day Halloween celebration with costume contests, spooky games and prizes. Sa, 10/27, 9pm. $3. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

WALKING SPANISH: High-energy indie rock drawing on classic rock, jamband and classical influences. Sa, 10/27, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.wee bly.com.

29MONDAY FISHTANK ENSEMBLE: The eccentric Bay Area group brings youthful energy to traditional world music from French jazz to flamenco and Japanese folk to gypsy. M, 10/29, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

LONESOME SHACK: A deep-grooving blues duo touring in support of their album, City Man. M, 10/29, 7-9pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

30TUESDAY AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-

writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

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

OPEN JAM NIGHT: Drum kit, bass rig,

31WEDNESDAY HAPPY JAZZ: A weekly jazz appointment with Shigemni Minetaka on piano and Christine Lapado-Breglia on upright bass. W, 4:30-6:30pm. Chicoichi Ramen; 243 W. Ninth St.; (530) 891-9044.

JAZZ TRIO: Every Wednesday with Carey

Robinson and company. W, 5-7pm. Free.

Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

MUMBO GUMBO: A danceable blend of rock, soul, country and zydeco in the brewery. W, 10/31, 9:30pm. $5. Feather

guitar amp and PA system are provided, bring your own instruments. All ages until 10. W, 7pm. Free. Italian Garden; 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988.

OPEN MIC: All ages welcome. W, 7pm. Free.

100th Monkey Books & Cafe; 642 West Fifth St.

THE ROCKING DEAD: Local rockers Furlough Fridays headline a Halloween concert at Chico’s newest music venue. Mommydaddy Monster, Team Shark Week and Inaeona open. W, 10/31, 9pm. $5. Band Creator / Dex Records; 2555 Zanella Way E Off Skyway; (530) 570-2641.

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I can’t think of any better use of a tiny live-music venue than to fill it with a groovy trio bashing out a backwoods version of country blues. Lonesome Shack’s just-released City Man was recorded live at Café Racer in Seattle, and after listening to the dirty, groovy album opener, “White Lightening,” it’s not hard to imagine Café Flo gettin’ just as rowdy and sweaty when the band sets up in the corner Monday, Oct. 29.

DADA LIFE: What’s cooler than a Swedish electro house duo? Giant, inflatable bananas. Expect both here. Su, 10/28, 8pm. $30. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproduc tions.net.

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

—JASON CASSIDY

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WINNING! If you wanna coax those goosebumps to the surface, summon the hairs on the back of the neck to attention and well up all over with local pride, visit www.prairiehome.publicradio.org and listen to the incredible (and winning!) performance by local faves MaMuse on A Prairie Home Companion’s Duets contest. Not only did Karisha Longaker and Sarah Nutting blow the roof off the place (performing the moving “Hallelujuah” during the contest MaMuse on Prairie Home Companion. and “Glorious” with PHOTO COURTESY OF PRARIE HOME PRODUCTIONS the band at the end of the show), but their interaction with Garrison Keillor was charming and priceless. Congratulations, you two! Chico is glowing.

WE ARE GIANT! Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.—The Shawshank Redemption The Beard went down. The Freak went funky. Melky juiced. The Reds went up 2-0. The Cards went up 3-1. Despite a very fun and successful season (Matt Cain’s perfect game, Buster Posey = likely MVP, lapping up delicious Dodgers tear drops), there were several times this year when the post-season hopes of the San Francisco Giants were all but lost. But this is baseball, and our weakened hearts were soon enough tested as the hopelessness took a turn for the weird, was immediately replaced with disbelief, and then morphed into an embarrassment of babbling giddiness. Quicker than you could say “grand slam by Posey” or “Marco Scutaro is my new favorite Venezuelan on the Giants,” a sweet October rain washed away the badness and the Giants floated, drunk and disoriented, into the World Series.

Someone pass me the horse tranquilizers. … crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.

RIP BRAD On Monday, Oct. 22, Brad Moniz, Chico theater legend, died at the age of 54 after battling cancer. I didn’t know Moniz personally, but I’ve seen his plays—from his gripping one-man performance in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in the old Whispering Clam Room a couple decades ago (my first theater experience in Chico) to his direction of the excellent Dead Man’s Cell Phone at the Blue Room earlier this year— and I’ve heard local theater folks offer their admiration of the singular local character. I’ll leave the rest to them: Outside the theater (and his prickly exterior) [Brad] was good people, and over the years I grew to like and respect him. He touched a lot of people.

Of course sometimes that touch left bruises, but a couple of generations of actors learned a hell of a lot more doing one show with him than throwing money away to sit in a classroom for a few years. Now that’s a legacy.—Craig Blamer, local director, actor and CN&R film critic [Quoting Moniz] “There are actors who suck, and there are actors who blow. Decide which one you are going to be, and just fucking do it god damn it.” He would also specify that it was better to be an actor who blows, because when you blow you’re giving something. Actors who suck are just selfish.—Betty Burns, Rogue Theatre

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Mr. Moniz is responsible for disrupting community theater here, forever. Each and every one who saw or performed in one of his vivisect creations was affected by him and it, and I mean in a profound, lasting lifetime way. I must think of his mind every goddamned day. I am sorta p.o.’d about [him dying]—probably no more then he was.

Goodnight Brad, but not goodbye.

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1497 E. 1st Avenue (X St: Verbena) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1468 sq. ft. $249,900 Effie Khaki 514-3334 Anita Miller 321-1174 Shane Collins 518-1413

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Sat. 11-1 2751 Lowell Drive (X St: Henshaw) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1232 sq. ft. $215,000 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 11-1 421 Pomona Lane (X St: Pomona/Dayton Road) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1296 sq. ft. $159,500 Frank Speedy Condon 864-7726 Frankie Dean 840-0265

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of October 8, 2012 — October 12, 2012.

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

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9259 Midway 59 Wright Ave 680 Lincoln St 5992 Timber Ridge Dr 6240 Ponderosa Way 13951 Chestnut Cir 14713 Colter Way 14743 Bridger Ct 13659 Endicot Cir 6419 Ehrlich Ct 3455 Oro Dam Blvd 3530 Cherokee Rd 48 CN&R October 25, 2012

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Durham Gridley Gridley Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia Oroville Oroville

$140,000 $230,000 $149,000 $265,000 $181,000 $175,000 $133,000 $132,000 $110,000 $105,000 $263,000 $200,000

3/ 2 3/ 2 5/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 1.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 1 6/ 4.5

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1456 2647 1908 1951 1616 1504 1082 1611 1536 1538 935 3470

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164 Ward Blvd

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Oroville

$198,500

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60 Oro View Dr

Oroville

$151,000

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2304

47 Greenbank Ave

Oroville

$135,000

3/ 1

1256

65 Orchardcrest Dr

Oroville

$111,000

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1144

2690 South Villa Ave

Palermo

$280,000

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4967

5036 Pioneer Trl

Paradise

$475,000

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2018

5902 Debbie Ln

Paradise

$235,000

3/ 2

1811

1873 Del Rio Way

Paradise

$147,500

2/ 2

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ficTiTiOUs BUsiNess 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 MCNALLY’S MOUNTAIN VIEW TREES at 1986 Mountain View Dr. Paradise, CA 95969.

JOSEPH P MCNALLY, 1986 Mountain View Dr. Paradise, CA 985969.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: J MCNALLY Dated: September 18, 2012 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name TONYS RESTAURANT at 951 Nord Ave. #2, Chico, CA 95928.

SHUK CHING LO, 16013 Wellington Way, San Leandro, CA 94578. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHUK CHING LO Dated: September 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000863 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE CREATIVE APPLE at 2201 Pillsbury Rd. #182, Chico, CA 95926.

Annet Poldervaart Habroun, Naim Ibrahim Habroun, 433 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: ANNET HABROUN Dated: October 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001408 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SNAP MY SASS PHOTOGRAPHY at 2251 St. George Lane Suite G, Chico CA 95926.

CHELSEA ANN PARKER, 5 Leafwood Court, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: CHELSEA PARKER Dated: October 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001409 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICKEN BOOTS at 48 Hanover Lane #4, Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SIERRA VALLEY FURNITURE LLC at 5369 Old Olive HWY Oroville, CA 95966.

SIERRA VALLEY FURNITURE LLC, 81296 Hwy 70 Beckwourth, CA 96129.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: PAUL BRENNEMAN Dated: October 3, 2012 FBN Number 2012-0001411 Published: October 11,18,25 November 1, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STAR HOUSE BOOKS at 25 Rose Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

LISA D WEST, 25 Rose Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LISA D WEST Dated: October 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001414 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME- STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL The following person has withdrawn as partner from the partnership operating under: CHICO COLLEGE APARTMENTS TANYA M. MORGAN, 16 Pathfinder Way Chico, CA 95928.

Signed: TANYA MORGAN Dated: October 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2009-0000943 Published: October 18,25 November 1,8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SOL MEXICAN GRILL at 3269 Esplande Ave Suite 155 Chico, CA 95973.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANTS INC., 1424 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by a corporation.

Signed: GEOFFREY AKERS Dated: August 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001145 Published: October 18,25 November 1,8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AVERAGE JOES CUSTOMS at 139 Innsbrook Ave, Chico, CA 95973.

CASEY WILLIAM RAMOS 1086 Via Verona Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: CASEY RAMOS Dated: September 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001337 Published: October 18,25 November 1,8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ORANGE JULIUS at 1950 East 20TH Street B-205 Chico, CA 95928.

MIKELL INC. 19872 Potomac Lane Huntington Beach, CA 92646 This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: Michael Vadney Dated: October 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001463 Published: October 18,25 November 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CAMPOS RENTAL PROPERTIES 341 Broadway #400 Chico, CA 95928. Michael Dennis Campos 774 Hillview Way Chico,CA 95926. Nancy Jean Campos 774 Hillview Way Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: Nancy Jean Campos Dated: September 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001335 Published: October 18,25 November 1,8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TAILORED4MOBILE AT 721 West 3rd Street Apt. C Chico, CA 95928.

RYAN CHRISTOPHER SZOT 721 West 3rd Street Apt C Chico, CA 95928.

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Signed: RYAN SZOT Dated: September 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001333 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as J B LANDSCAPES at 26 Philox Way Chico, CA 95973.

JEFFREY A BARNDOLLAR 26 Philox Way Chico, CA 95973.

KEITH A CARLSON 6 Creekwood Ct Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: Jeff Barndollar Dated: October 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001410 Published: October 25, November 1,8,25, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME-STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ORANGE JULIUS at 1950 East 20th Chico, CA 95928.

BRHUMBLE LLC 1396 Minder Dr Redding, CA 96003.

This company was conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: BRIAN HUMBLE Dated: October 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000540 Published: October, 25 November 1,8,25, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TREVOR DEADMOND CONSTRUCTION at 2304 Hutton Way Durham CA, 95938. TREVOR KEITH DEADMOND 2304 Hutton Way Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TREVOR DEADMOND Dated: October 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001494 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FIVE BY FIVE TONICS at 2290 Ivy St #150 Chico, CA 95928.

JESSE SMITH 305 W 16TH ST Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JESSE SMITH Dated: September 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001295 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STUDIO TWENTY-TWO AT 2220 ST George Lane #5 Chico, CA 95926. NICOLE LANDINI 2271 Moyer Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NICOLE LANDINI Dated: October 5, 2012 FBN Number 2012-0001424 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO MYOFASCIAL RELEASE at 1388 Longfellow Suite #1 Chico, CA 95926.

KATHLEEN PAPPANI 1556 Mountain View Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: KATHLEEN F. PAPPANI Dated: October 15, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001475 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as YOUNG LOVE OUTFITTERS at 1713 Magnolia Ave Chico, CA 95973.

KENNETH SWAIN 1713 Magnolia Ave Chico, CA 95926.

DAVID ZOPPI 1121 Marin Street Corning, CA 96021.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: DAVID ZOPPI Dated: October 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001505 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PASEO HACIENDAS DEVELOPMENT LLC at 1111 Marauder Street Chico, CA 95973. PASEO HACIENDAS DEVELOPMENT LLC 14040 Kelsey Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: CURTIS HAYS Dated: October 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001401 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as YOUNG LOVE OUTFITTERS at 1713 Magnolia Ave Chico, CA 95973.

KENNETH SWAIN 1713 Magnolia Ave Chico, CA 95973.

DAVID ZOPPI 1121 Marin Street Corning, CA 96021. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: David ZOPPI Dated: October 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001505 Published: October 25, November 1,8,25, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PLUM GALLERY at 3204 Calistoga Drive Chico, CA 95973. JUSTIN LEHRBAUM 3204 Calistoga Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

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FICTITOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PACIFIC MOTEL at 1308 State Highway 99 Gridley, CA 95948.

RITESH KANJI, 3111 Tule River Way Chico, CA 95973.

RUPESH KANJI, 3111 Tule River Way Chico, CA 95973 DAHYABHAI PATEL 3111 Tule River Way Chico, CA 95973 TARULATA PATEL 3111 Tule River Way Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: RUPESH KANJI Dated: October 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001407 Published: October 18,25 November 1,8, 2012

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: Christina Solansky, tools, housewares, pressor, bike.

Mike Sherrick, golf clubs, P/U 5th wheeel, desk, compressor.

Alicia Griff, microwave, T.V., wood furniture, wall pictures.

David Drake, washer/dryer set, holiday decor, household items.

Paul Kostiew, workbench, drillpress,oxy/acetylene set, wielder.

Bob Hood, books, clothes, housewares, dresser.

Steven Hudson, leuge sewing maid and table, guitar, leathergoods.

To the highest bidder on: November 10, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Oroville, Ca 95966.

Published: October 25, November 1, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GEORGE MARY CHEEVERS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GEORGE MARY CHEEVERS Proposed name: MANOJ GEORGE CHEEVERS 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: November 2, 2012 Time: 9:00amm Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: September 25, 2012 Case Number: 157863 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MATTHEW REECE THOMAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MATTHEW REECE THOMAS Proposed name: MATTHEW THOMAS RITENOUR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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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: November 9, 2012 Time: 9:00amm Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: October 3, 2012 Case Number: 157977 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DANALEE R WILCOX, DARRYL R BROWN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JEREMIAH JACK WILCOX Proposed name: JEREMIAH JACK BROWN 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

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should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 12, 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: October 12, 2012 Case Number: 158030 Published: October 25, November 1,8,11, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ASHLEY DEVIN CUTTING filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ASHLEY DEVIN CUTTING Proposed name: DEVIN ASHLEY CUTTING 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: November 30, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert A. Glusman Dated: September 24, 2012 Case Number: 157858 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2012

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big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I find your multilevel multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel unified, steady and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocado

tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your father

didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now, it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are.

But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know

how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions?

Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only 10 percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expecta-

High-tech flyer

by Rob Brezsny tions and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist.

story and photo by Vic Cantu vscantu@sbcg lobal.net

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officially

protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered and underprivileged parts of your life. Not a year from now, not when you have more leisure time, now! If and when you do this, I predict the arrival of a flood of personal inspiration. Halloween costume suggestion: a symbolic representation of a neglected, disempowered or underprivileged part of your life.

Some people have all the luck. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play with your favorite toys and make a good living doing so? Greggor McGrath, 33, is one such man. He flies and teaches others to fly high-tech model airplanes and helicopters that go 100 miles per hour at Chico’s A Main Hobbies and all around the country.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fine

and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting started may seem painfully impossible.

And yet there can also be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music.

Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen field. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.

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

you contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a Thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold, a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots or a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. For that matter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t come close to imitating any of those hapless creatures even in your non-Halloween life. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Harry Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Does

anyone know where I can find dinosaur costumes for cats?” asked a Halloween shopper on Reddit. In the comments section, someone else said that he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you. You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Live

Monarch Foundation made a video on how to fix a butterfly’s broken wing (http://tinyurl.com/FixWing). It ain’t easy.

You need 10 items, including tweezers, baby powder, toothpicks and glue. You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration. But it definitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. It will require you to be ingenious, precise and tender, but I suspect you’re primed to rise to the challenge. Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman or other healer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s not a

good time to wear Higher Power Spanx or any other girdle, corset or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers or confines you. You need to feel exceptionally expansive. In order to thrive, you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big and wander freely. As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed, tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the garuda or thunderbird; the god or goddess of abundance.

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What do you like best about flying models?

15 MINUTES

BREZSNY’S

For the week of October 25, 2012

The fact that it’s my favorite activity and pays well enough that I can support the woman I love and my three sons. I fly every chance I get: before and after work, on my lunch hour and on weekends. The models can go over 100 miles per hour and can stop within a foot.

They fly upside down, sideways and even backwards. I also love teaching others to fly. Our A Main Hobbies motto is “Help people share the fun.” Another big highlight is building a new helicopter every year for Keeping Up with the Kardashians co-star and Olympic gold medal decathlete Bruce Jenner.

How did you get involved with model aircraft?

In high school I got in with the wrong crowd, doing meth and getting into trouble. Shortly after high school I started caring for my mother, who was dying of cancer, and I promised her I’d change my life. I saw an ad for a micro helicopter and thought it would be fun to play with indoors to distract me from the drugs and my sick mom. It was a great challenge, and it worked. I lost my mother seven years ago, but I got off the drugs and never looked back. Now not only do I not get into

trouble, but I regularly do demonstrations for District Attorney Mike Ramsey’s softball tournaments.

What does your job consist of?

I’m the leader and only local member of the national Team A Main Hobbies that travels the country putting on public demonstrations of our helicopters and airplanes. I’m also the lead aircraft tech; I do phone tech support and make YouTube videos on how to build and fly the helicopters.

How did you get to be head of Team A Main Hobbies?

Eight years ago I was just a regular customer of A Main Hobbies who was hired to do menial work. Within a year the owner, Kendall Bennett, saw me flying a model behind the warehouse and said, “Where the hell did you learn to fly like that?” He hired me to run the team, which keeps me traveling from four to 14 days a month. It’s weird now, when I travel the country, people want my autograph and even say I’m their hero.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Janice bought the farm My wife croaked. We’d only been together 22 years, and then she went and kicked the bucket, and now she’s everywhere.

Janice and I were together more in the last year than ever before, and for long periods it was mostly just the two of us, a situation we hadn’t been in for more than a day or two since our honeymoon. We still liked being together, even in cramped, tacky quarters in Mesa, Ariz.

Twenty-two years is time enough for several ups and downs, and I don’t think we missed any. Janice and I mated, like geese, and our pair bond kept humming along even when we didn’t like each other much.

That happened, too.

We reared fine young men—no soldiers or cops— which surely counts for something, at least it does with Janice and me. I guess I mean “did” count with Janice and me, but I’m not convinced that the past tense is altogether warranted. I can live with inconsistency for the time being.

This sadness is unpredictable and irresistible. I can be doing something or other and my eyes fill up and there’s a new lump in my throat, and if I’m driving I

have to pull over. I don’t multitask worth a damn anymore—probably never did—and tears are compelling.

Sometimes I’m too sad to do anything but be sad.

I distract myself with whatever I can stand. On this table where I’m more-or-less working now there’s a Large Print Crossword Puzzle Omnibus, a New Yorker, the New York Times Sunday Magazine from Sept. 23, the day Janice checked out, and Horoscopes for the Dead, a collection of poetry by Billy Collins. I tried a couple of novels that turned out to be well beyond my attention span, and now poetry and crosswords—the best of which are poetic—are my go-to lit.

Caring for someone is a privilege if you know it. I loved doing for Janice—moving her to another apartment and another apartment in Arizona, carrying things for her as she got weaker, answering the bell I gave her to ring when she wanted me, figuring out how to get her in a comfortable position when she couldn’t do it herself, holding her whilst she could walk, and wheeling her when she couldn’t. I loved holding her hand as she died. I’m deeply grateful that I got a chance to do all that for her, for anyone really, and especially for Janice. Now all I can do is miss her, so I do.

October 25, 2012

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