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This is a test Readers’ devotion to democracy will be tested next week, and

Who’s a true sportsman?

Tread, “Sportsmen Against Gun Control.” It was right next to one reading, “I’m in the NRA and I Vote!”

he bumper sticker on the truck in front of me

I have been a hunter all my life, and I still own several guns. I’ve killed my share of deer, ducks and quail, and for the first several years of my career I was a game warden. So, I’ve been involved with many sportsmen’s groups and led numerous firearmssafety courses. As such, I’m weary of the NRA claiming one of their primary objectives is to protect sportsmen’s rights. Let me define a sportsman: • A sportsman is someone who sits in the driving rain in a duck blind with a by two- or three-shot shotgun hoping to Dean Carrier have a duck or goose fly within the relaThe author is a tively short range of his shot. wildlife biologist with 50 years of field • A sportsman is one who spends sevexperience. He is eral hours at a gun range prior to each now semi-retired, hunting season ensuring his bolt-action but he regularly rifle is dead on so he can make a onetravels to practice his passion for shot kill if the opportunity arises. wildlife photography.

• A sportsman is someone who pracHe lives in Paradise. tices at a trap or skeet range to improve his skill for that fleeting moment a quail or pheasant flies out of the grass.

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• A sportsman may even take up bow hunting or the use of single-shot muzzleloaders to increase his skills while greatly lessening his opportunity to bag his quarry.

What a sportsman is not: • A person who thinks military weapons having the most firepower are necessary for sport hunting.

• A person who finds the volume of his shots more satisfying than the accuracy of his shots.

• A person who believes he needs such capabilities to protect him from his neighbors.

Owning a military weapon designed for combat in close quarters and capable of shooting numerous shots per second and having rapidly changeable high-capacity clips is not the mark of a sportsman. Unless the owner is in the active military, it’s simply the mark of a frightened bully.

I would urge all bona-fide sportsmen’s organizations to join together to insist on a ban on all semi-automatic guns capable of holding more than five shots in their magazines. This would have no effect on 99 percent of this country’s true sportsmen. Ω

our guess is that it will fail because almost nobody will bother to vote. The special runoff election to be held Tuesday, Jan. 8, is a seriously underwhelming event. It’s safe to say that only a few people are excited about it, and most of them are friends of Mickey Harrington’s.

He’s the 73-year-old Democrat from Magalia who finds himself, to his own surprise, in a runoff with former Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, 67, a Republican, for the District 4 state Senate seat previously occupied by our newly elected congressman, Doug LaMalfa.

Harrington is in the race because Dan Logue, also a Republican, got greedy and decided to run for the seat even though he was already running for re-election to the Assembly. Then Logue’s doctor told him he had kidney problems, so he dropped out of the Senate race to focus on the Assembly race. But his name stayed on the ballot, and he drew enough Republican votes to keep Nielsen from getting a majority and forcing a runoff.

Harrington and Nielsen couldn’t be more dissimilar. Harrington is an old-school union man, a lunch-bucket Democrat who believes in government’s ability to do good but has never held office or done anything close to what’s required of a state senator. Nielsen is a slick professional politician who’s spent most of his adult life in and around the Capitol but has a history of ethically challenged actions, including lying about his residence in order to run for office.

This is the third race during which Nielsen has lied about his domicile.

Although he has sworn under penalty of perjury, a felony, that he lives in a doublewide mobile home in the Gerber area, he actually lives in a gated community in Woodland, outside District 4. He gets away with flouting the law because the only man who can bring charges against him, Tehama County District Attorney Gregg Cohen, is one of his biggest backers.

So which will it be, an inexperienced but honest and sincere former union rep or a cynical politician who’s chowed down at the public trough all his life while railing against evil government? Or will you just not vote?

As we said, it’s a test.

For a report on the special election, see page 11. Ω

Playing fiscal chicken President Obama didn’t get all that he wanted in the budget

legislation Congress approved on New Year’s Day, but he got most of it.

The richest 2 percent will pay more in taxes, unemployment will be extended, milk prices won’t double, the alternative minimum tax won’t hit 30 million more people, and Medicare payments to doctors won’t be rolled back.

But he also gave ground on his original insistence that taxes be raised on income over $250,000, falling back to $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for families.

The problem the president now faces is that on two upcoming votes— on the $110 billion in automatic spending cuts that Tuesday’s voting postponed for two months, and on raising the debt ceiling—he may have little left to trade.

The president says he will refuse to play fiscal chicken over the debt ceiling. “While I will negotiate over many things,” he said following the House vote Tuesday, “I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed.”

But he may not be able to avoid it, given Republicans’ intransigence, and the danger from U.S. default on its debt is infinitely greater than the phony, ginned-up threat posed by the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Let’s hope Obama stands his ground this time around. Ω

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Torture in our prisons One of the positive consequences of California’s fiscal distress has been its reconsideration of its over-reliance on prisons. State officials and the public at large have begun to realize that, when schools and universities and programs for the poor and elderly are being cut, it makes no sense to pay $44,000 a year to imprison, say, a low-level drug dealer.

In 2011 the Legislature, responding to federal court mandates to lessen overcrowding in the prisons, passed AB 109, the so-called “realignment” bill. It mandates counties no longer send offenders convicted of nonviolent, nonsexual and nonserious crimes (drug dealing, for instance, or burglary) to state prison and instead put them in jail— or, as it’s being called, “county prison.”

One of the assumptions of AB 109 was that counties would develop creative ways to deal with the influx by focusing on enhanced probation services, rehabilitation programs and improving pre-trial processes that allowed arrested people to remain out of jail pending trial.

(Statewide, about 70 percent of jail inmates are there because they can’t afford bail.)

So far realignment has worked better in some counties than in others, but overall, progress is being made. A recent study by the Chief Probation Officers of California finds, for example, that an increasing number of judges are applying split sentences to low-level offenders, requiring them to spend half their sentences in jail and the other half in a community program or under probation, where they can be helped to re-enter society.

In November 2012 voters joined the reform movement by supporting Proposition 36, which changed the state’s socalled “three strikes” law to require that the third strike be for a serious or violent felony before a mandatory 25-yearsto-life sentence could be imposed. No longer will someone be sentenced to die in prison for, say, shoplifting.

There’s another part of the prison system that desperately needs change—its use of solitary confinement. More than 3,000 prisoners are held in isolation in what are called Security Housing Units, or SHUs, which are essentially prisons within prisons. Separated from the mainline population, SHU inmates are confined alone for 22 1/2 hours a day in cells measuring 9 feet by 9 feet with no windows or access to fresh air. The inmates receive no meaningful human contact, work, rehabilitation or group activity of any kind.

More than 200 of these prisoners have spent longer than 15 years in the SHU, and 78 have been there more than 20 years. Amnesty International says the conditions amount to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of international law.”

Many of the prisoners go mad. Others deteriorate physically from lack of exercise and natural light, chronic asthma and severe insomnia.

Most SHU inmates are there because they’re suspected of being gang members. The only way they can get out is to “debrief”—that is, inform on other prisoners. But that would invite gang retaliation, even death.

Solitary confinement originally was meant to be a short-term punishment for violations of prison rules. In the SHUs, it’s become long-term torture. It’s not worthy of a compassionate society.

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Let’s try a lawsuit Re “No on 37’s fraudulent campaign” (Guest comment, by Don Taylor, Dec. 27): I strongly supported Proposition 37. But your comments go far beyond Prop. 37.

It should be illegal to blatantly lie. But is it? I could point to dozens—perhaps hundreds—of statements made during the last election that are out and out lies.

When did “winning” become more important that ethics and morality? The political landscape should be about truth and honor and decisions made to benefit We the People instead of We the Corporations. If a classaction suit would bring us to an honorableDESIGNER JEN_PU place, then by all means it should be pursued.

But will it? I’m afraid that mainstream media (I do not consider the CN&R as mainstream media—it’s too honest and balanced) would show this type of action in three sentences on page 11. So even a decision in our favor would carry little weight. Perhaps we need to try anyway.

MARY CARLISLE Paradise

A ‘community icon’ Thank you for including information in both The Greenhouse and Arts DEVO columns about The Bookstore on Main Street needing donations at www.indiegogo.com/ilovebooks to stay open. I hope all of the “Chico is my Hometown” folks and my neighbors will pitch in generously to save this community icon as well as the livelihood of Josh Mills, who has served it so well for 22 years.

I am looking forward to seeing the results of the combined creativity of Josh and his wife, artist Muir Hughes, who have plans to make The Bookstore an even greater community resource.

Knowing what a book lover I am, my son generously gave me a Nook for Christmas, but I graciously asked him to return it. He thought it “cool” that you can use it to read in bed and even in the dark, but I explained that I find it much more satisfying to be able to lend my “real” books to my friends. I also feel “greener” when I buy used books and pass them on.

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Drones create terrorists Re “The killing of innocents” (Letters, by Emily Alma, Dec. 20): Thank you to Emily Alma for her letter. This may be the defining moral issue of our day, so I am compelled to add a bit more information our mainstream media have chosen to omit.

That our drones are killing innocents is not an idle statement.

Those interested might look at the research recently completed by the Stanford and NYU schools of law, including evidence that since 2004 high-value militants’ deaths as a percentage of civilian deaths is 2 percent. (Go to http://livingunder drones.org to check it out yourself.)

We’ve killed scores of innocent children in the attempts to murder a few suspects. These attacks are backfiring. See the report from Peter Kuznick, director at American University and distinguished lecturer: “When we [the United States] started our drone attacks in Yemen, there were 300 members of al-Qaeda there; now there are 700 or 800 members.”

We send billions of taxpayer dollars to Israel’s military and seem to blindly accept mainstream media’s version of the Palestinian situation, yet the U.S. and Israel are almost totally isolated in the international community on this issue. The last vote at the U.N. was 138 to 9. Our traditional European allies did not stand with us.

CHARLES WITHUHN Chico

We’ve got a militia Re “NRA goes over the edge” (Editorial, Dec. 27): The militia of today is our National Guard, and it is well equipped and capable of suppressing any tyranny. The only other groups claiming a need for assault weapons are survivalists and secessionists, neither of which warrants constitutional protections, in my opinion.

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by Rich Meyers, Dec. 27): Well, yes, here come the whiners out of the woodwork!

Mr. Rich Meyers: Do you comprehend the choice you make with your argument against educators carrying guns? Do you comprehend that you are saying we should humor your irrational hatred of guns instead of taking the only effective step to protect schoolchildren from people like

“The militia of today is our National Guard, and it is well equipped and capable of suppressing any tyranny.”

—Richard Mazzuchi

@#$%&*!!? What does this say about your priorities? Which comes first, your feelings or their lives?

Several states are already arming teachers, Utah and Oklahoma among them. Teachers and administrators are the real first responders when a @#$%&*!! comes into a school. The police can’t get there in time. And what do you think the police will bring into the school when they get there? Their guns. Isn’t that why you call them?

Or do you wish the police didn’t bring their guns when they come?

As for Australia’s gun ban, my information comes from many conversations I had with ordinary folks in Australia during a monthlong trip there. I’ll take their word over that of consultants in bed with an out-of-control, tax-and-regulateeverything-to-death government.

CHAD WOZNIAK Chico

‘The beautiful whole’ The atheist billboard controversy story got me thinking. The skeptics can’t really be blamed. God has been given a bad name. All those wars, and the Holy Books, the old and new books of the Bible and the Koran, while inspired collections of wonderful stories with much to recommend them, lead us to believe that Yahweh or God or Allah is generally kind of jealous, vindictive and in quite a few cases just plain mean.

Almost all religions have at their foundation the idea that our days spent here on Earth are only waiting for the time when we will be spirited away to that “better place.” (Unless you’re a Hindu, in which case you might come back here as an onion.)

The unfortunate result of our perpetrating the myth that, while we wait helpless in our sinfulness, we are powerless, while thinking that what we have here is a temporary layover on an expendable planet. This is thinking we can no longer afford.

Here is a quote from the book The Humboldt Current, by Aaron Sachs: “What he suggested was that we would ‘worship’ not whatever force might have been

responsible for the cosmos, but the cosmos itself. Not so much a relationship with the Creator, but with Creation. The beautiful whole, the overall community in nature of which humans are a part. The mutual interdependence and the connection of the magical and mysterious relations of all things.

Everything in relation to everything else.”

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R. M. SPEER Chico

China’s ‘bloody harvest’ For many years China has admitted to using executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplant.

Some people might not have a problem with that, if the prisoners were executed for real crimes.

However, what if that prisoner was put in jail for being part of an unregistered church, performing the meditation exercises of Falun Gong or having dissenting political views in opposition to the one party state? What if the organs were sold to whoever was willing to pay for them, and that “prisoners’” execution was performed for the sole purpose of selling their organs?

This is exactly the type of organ “donation” outlined in the book Bloody Harvest, co-authored by a prominent human-rights lawyer and former Canadian secretary of state. It states that China’s organ-transplant industry expanded rapidly when China outlawed the popular Falun Gong practice in 1999. It documents how these prisoners were used as a massive organ donation bank for China’s organ tourism industry. The information in the book has been validated in reports by the U.S. State Department, the United Nations and the European Union.

Please help stop this crime by visiting www.organpetition.org and signing the petition.

MICHAEL COURTER Chico

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CRIME WAVE IN REDDING

Redding topped a list of 10 American cities with the greatest increase in violent crime over the last five years, according to an article published on the business news and analysis website 24/7 Wall St. last week. The list is based on information gathered between 2006 and 2011 and presented in the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Report, and measures violent crimes in cities per 100,000 citizens.

While the nation’s violent crime rate dropped 19.4 percent, Redding is the sole city where the crime rate doubled, from 357 in 2006 to 726 in 2011. Aggravated assaults and robberies rose (134 percent and 54 percent, respectively), while the murder rate went down (from eight to six). Other cities rounding out the top three were Manchester-Nashua, N.H., and Mobile, Ala. A Forbes magazine article published in April gave Redding another dubious honor based on the same FBI UCR data: It’s the country’s fifth-most-dangerous city for women, with 65 rapes per 100,000 citizens.

DOWNTOWN IN THE DARK

A power outage in downtown Chico left more than 200 Pacific Gas and Electric customers without power for about 12 hours on Sunday, Dec. 30.

The outage, caused by a failed high-voltage cable splice in an underground vault at Fourth and Wall streets, lasted from about 5:50 a.m. on Sunday morning until 5:55 p.m. that night, leaving many commercial businesses without power, PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno said.

PG&E workers had to pump about six feet of water from the enclosure before an assessment could be made. Though the equipment in the vault is designed to work even while submerged, the water was “quite possibly a contributing factor” to the cable’s failure, Moreno said.

The downtown billiards bar DownLo reportedly experienced significant water damage due to several inches of flooding.

CHICO ATTORNEY GETS JUDGESHIP

Gov. Brown announced Dec. 27 a number of judgeship appointments up and down the state, including that of Michael R. Deems (pictured) to the Butte County Superior Court.

According to a press release, the 59-year-old Deems lives in Chico and has been a partner at the Law Offices of Deems and Keller since 2002. Before that he was an associate at Stewart, Humpherys, Burchett and Molin and worked out of three other offices before that, beginning in 1985. He earned his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law. According to his law firm’s website, for the first 13 years of his practice Deems represented insurance companies in personalinjury claims and insurance-policy matters.

He later broadened that to include “people seriously injured in all types of accidents.”

Deems replaces recently retired Judge Steven Howell and, according to Brown’s press release, is a registered “decline-tostate” voter. He will earn $178,789 a year.

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This banner recently appeared on the side of the FOX building in downtown Chico. FOX20 TV has been purchased by the same company that owns Redding’s ABC affiliate, Channel 7.

Clash of the broadcasts TV station’s sale spells competition in local news market

I Bonten Media Group and Esteem Broadcasting of Bristol, Va., have purchased Chico’s t’s official. New York City-based

KCVU FOX20 television station from the Sainte Partners II, L.P. out of Modesto.

Bonten currently owns Redstory and ding’s KRCR Channel 7. photo by According to its CEO, plans are Tom Gascoyne in the works to put together and begin airing a nightly 10 o’clock tomg@ newsreview.com Chico-based newscast sometime this year.

Two banners reading “KRCR Loves Chico” were recently draped on the side of the FOX building at Third and Main streets in downtown Chico.

Rumors of the transaction surfaced last May, at which time the parties involved said they could neither confirm nor deny the news. On Dec. 17, the sale was announced after approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

“There will be changes, but it’s a little bit premature to go into detail,” said Randall Bongarten, Bonten’s chairman and CEO. “We are looking at all of that stuff, and we are going to try to make [the station] better. A 10 o’clock news slot would be Hit the Web: good, don’t you think?”

Go to www.bonten He said Esteem now owns media.com to get FOX20’s broadcasting license updates on the and that Bonten will actually KCVU FOX20 sale and plans. operate the station. The compa-

nies have this arrangement in a number of markets, including Eureka, where they recently made a joint purchase of KBVU-DT, also a FOX affiliate.

A source told the CN&R that some of the KCVU FOX20 ad-sales employees were laid off in wake of the change of ownership and were less than pleased with the timing at the beginning of the holidays.

Bongarten said the new owners “hired almost all of the people who were at the station.”

Ireri Pimentel, spokeswoman for KCVU, referred our calls to Redding and KRCR’s Lisa Drafall, director of marketing.

When asked about the sign confessing Channel 7’s feelings about Chico, Drafall laughed and said, “Well, we’ve always loved Chico.”

There are plans in the works to create a Chico-based newscast produced and broadcast from the FOX building, she said.

“This is definitely something we hope to bring to the North State in 2013,” she said. “All of this is being looked at right now. We already had sales staff in Chico, and news correspondent Tyler May has been in Chico about a year. And Jerry Olenyn is also in Chico.”

KRCR news and sports reporter Olenyn, an occasional contributor to this paper, is married to Kelli Saam, who is a news anchor for the Redding station.

They were teamed as news anchors for KNVN Channel 24’s 5 o’clock Action

News broadcast until they were let go in June 2010. (Saam also co-anchored the 11 o’clock broadcast with Alan Marsden.)

“We don’t know exactly what we are going go do, but we definitely have plans to launch a Chico news center in the Chico building in 2013, and for sure a Chico First Alert Weather Center,” Drafall said. “We’re good at that.”

Last May, FOX20 began simul-

casting morning and evening news programs from KTXL FOX40, which serves Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto.

“We’ve always covered significant news and weather in the Chico-Redding region,” Brandon Mercer, KTXL’s news director, said in a press release. “Now we have an opportunity to broadcast directly to those communities.”

An hour-long broadcast is carried at 7 a.m., and a half-hour version runs at 5:30 p.m. on weekdays. Currently, on weeknights, FOX20 carries The Big Bang Theory at the 10 p.m. spot, and on weekends The Closer fills that time slot.

That’s also the time KHSL airs its Action News at Ten on the CW Television Network.

Nine years ago the two stations tried to work together to fill the 10 p.m. slot.

At the time the Chico station was known as FOX30. The first broadcast was on Feb. 9, 2004. Officials at both stations told this paper they were excited about the deal that would allow Chico-domi-

nated news to be aired each night at 10 p.m.

There had been calls by local viewers for 10 o’clock news for years, and when Doug Holroyd became general manager at KCVU, he moved that priority to the top of the list.

Bob Wise, then-general manager at KRCR, said the stations would have access to the same news stories, but separate features would be produced for KCVU. “We can’t just repeat ourselves,” Wise said. But, “if it’s a major story, both stations will have it.”

Redding anchors and reporters did the 10 p.m. newscast from KRCR, leading with the Chico-oriented stories. An hour later, with a different backdrop, they would lead with the Redding-area stories.

At the time Holroyd said it wasn’t that KCVU couldn’t afford to staff its own news team; it was just a matter of priorities.

Fifteen months later the two stations decided to end their joint production.

Holroyd said KRCR simply opted to exercise the termination clause in the stations’ contract and that the local FOX affiliate had no plans to reintroduce locally produced news.

That 15-month period was the

single exception to Chico-area television viewers having only one option for local TV news, even though there have been two affiliated stations operating here since 1985.

KHSL Channel 12 is a CBS affiliate and has been on air for nearly 60 years.

NBC affiliate KNVN Channel 24 first went on air in September 1985 with a competing news broadcast.

And it was competitive. Channel 24 adopted a sort of hipper attitude to attract a younger audience, while Channel 12 took on the more-established and mature role.

A common practice, an insider once told this paper, was for someone at one of the stations to contact the local news department at one of their affiliate stations in another city to alert them of a talented newsperson at the competing station, in hopes that person would be lured away to a larger market.

In the late 1990s a struggling Channel 24 was sold to Evans Broadcasting, and its call letters were changed from KCPM to KNVN (North Valley News). The station closed down its offices on Fourth Street in downtown Chico and moved into the Channel 12 offices on Silverbell Road. KHSL took over the station’s operations, and at the beginning of 2000 the stations news departments became one under the banner Action News. The two stations are now both owned by Evans and operated by Catamount Broadcasting. There are rumors that both might be sold to the Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group. Ω

Robert Trausch says police reacted with excessive force during the takedown of a man at Costco on Dec. 23.

Too much force?

PHOTO BY VIC CANTU

Witnesses say police takedown at Costco excessive wo days before Christmas Chico police TCostco, officers were called to subdue a man at which they did in front of dozens of

holiday shoppers, including two who say the police over-reacted with excessive force. The police say the force was justified based on the man’s behavior.

“I suffer from PTSD, and this has totally set me off,” said witness Tula Bennett. “My holidays are ruined.”

The incident occurred on a rainy midmorning Sunday during the holiday rush at the main entrance to Costco on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy. Costco employees detained Dale Caldrer, 32, who was reportedly causing a disturbance and acting erratically. After the incident Caldrer admitted to officers he’d taken methamphetamine earlier in the day, said Chico police Sgt. Curtis Prosise.

Caldrer is an Oroville resident with an extensive arrest record for domestic violence, forgery, burglary, being under the influence, evading an officer, battery and hit and run. Several police officers apparently had trouble controlling Caldrer. Bennett said she saw him in a hogtied position facedown with his arms handcuffed behind him and his legs bound and crossed. She said his mouth was full of blood and that he screamed the police were breaking his arms.

“There were approximately six officers and two Costco employees on him,” said Bennett. She kept hearing a stun gun go off and saw them apply it once to his mid-back.

“At one point the poor guy looked me

dead in the eye and asked me, ‘Please help me, lady,’ but I couldn’t move,” she said. “I was frozen. I’m surprised he’s not dead.”

Bennett complained to the officers that what they were doing was excessive and wrong, but said she was rebuffed.

Bennett has a long history of working on the side of law enforcement. She was a cook supervisor in California prisons for 27 years, including 12 years at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.

“I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of inmates taken down, and this was definitely excessive use of force,” she said, adding that she was outraged that such tactics were used in full view of Costco shoppers and their children.

Bennett was comforted at the scene

by Robert Trausch, who also witnessed the incident. He is a board member of the Chico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which according to its website works to defend individual rights and liberties.

Trausch was at Costco Christmas shopping with his son when he came upon the

SIFT|ER Don’t bet on it The beginning of a new year is a time for predictions. Some come true, some come close, and some fail miserably. Here are some of the last, as offered by Forbes magazine contributor Brent Beshore.

1. “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”—Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 2. “Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.”

—Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube 3. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

—Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 4. “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”—Bill Gates, 1981 5. “Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”

—Irving Fisher, professor of economics, Yale University, 1929

6. “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”—Charles H. Duell, commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 7. “Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.”—Pierre Pachet, professor of physiology at Toulouse, 1872 8. “If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.”

—National Cancer Institute, 1954 9. “Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.”—Grover Cleveland, U.S. president, 1905 10. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”

—Western Union internal memo, 1876

commotion. He said Caldrer was uncooperative with the four to six officers who were holding him down. He also said that Caldrer was hogtied and appeared mentally out of it or on drugs. From a distance of about 12 feet, Trausch said he saw officers use a stun gun on Caldrer’s neck, wait a few minutes, then stun him again, up to as many as five times.

Chico Police Sgt. Scott Zuschin said the officers were actually firing the stun gun next to the suspect’s head and not touching his body with it. Though he was not at the scene, Zuschin explained that when someone is unruly because of a nervous-system stimulant, as Caldrer appeared to be, the person has a heightened awareness of sights and sounds. A stun gun “spark test” fired near the face tends to have a calming effect, he said.

The spark test was also used to keep Caldrer from biting, spitting or fighting when he was released to Enloe Medical Center due to his drugged condition.

“Often police work is very ugly and can appear different to the public,” Zuschin said.

For his part, Trausch said he’s sure the stun gun was applied several times directly to Caldrer’s neck. “I would testify to it in court if needed,” he said.

Zuschin said that Bennett’s observation of the stun gun being applied to Caldrer’s back may be accurate, but that he didn’t have access to the full police report by press time.

Costco employees refused comment on the story.

Trausch said Tasers and stun guns have become “police tools of convenience instead of necessity.” He said he wants to meet with Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle to share his feelings, give him community feedback and generate better rapport.

“My brother is a cop,” Trausch said. “We need cops, but they need training and the tools to do the best job possible.”

Trausch said he also believes that someone with a long history of heavy drug use may be mentally ill and needs help, not punishment.

“We have cut off funding for the mentally ill,” he said. “Society’s only solution for them is to lock them up or let them live under a bridge.”

Zuschin empathizes with Trausch’s feelings. One day after this incident Zuschin was involved in the tasing of a man on Mangrove Avenue who he believes may have been mentally ill.

“We’re seeing far too many violent, mentally ill people lately,” Zuschin said. “I’m not sure if it’s because they’ve been released from jail early or we just don’t have the resources for them.”

—VIC CANTU

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Shivering at One-Mile CN&R writer takes the plunge on New Year’s Day moment a person is Tbodyheimmersed in cold water the responds with an involuntary

inhalation, a mad gasp for air immediately followed by shallow, rapid panting to compensate for the body’s inability to hold breath.

Blood vessels constrict to save heat, causing a spike in blood pressure, and blood rushes from the body’s extremities to its core, leading to weak, numb limbs and a lack of motor coordination. If immersed too long, hypothermia sets in, which can cause a person to stop breathing entirely, or his or her heart to stop beating.

At least that’s what numerous Internet sites warning against coldwater swimming proclaim.

This information, of course, did nothing to stop hundreds of people from plunging into Sycamore Pool at the One-Mile Recreation Area for Chico’s traditional Polar Bear Plunge at 1 p.m. on New Year’s Day. The event has been happening—without the benefit of official organizers or much pre-publicity— since at least 1981. It is a grassroots, homegrown event that continues to grow annually, fueled by word of mouth and YouTube videos of past plunges depicting waves of humanity crashing into the icy waters of Big Chico Creek.

I decided this, my third New Year’s Day in Chico, should be the occasion to finally make the leap.

Website warnings be damned, there are no bragging rights to be won from something if there isn’t at least a slight chance of death or real bodily harm involved. Besides, my research revealed very few medical incidents associated with earning polar bear status. What’s the worst that could happen? Oh yeah, that whole heartstopping thing.

for a beautiful day at the park. On the downside, the lack of cloud cover made for a particularly chilly afternoon, with the temperature hovering around 43 degrees and the high winter sun offering little warming relief.

The park was packed with an incongruous mix of scantily clad swimmers shivering as they made their way to the jumping-in point at the north side of the pool and others bundled in winter wear settling on the south side. Hoots and hollers from both camps were audible, and a palpable sense of anticipation filled the air. Crossing the One-Mile bridge felt something like rushing into a fire, a steady stream of brave men and women edging toward glory as an alternate stream of onlookers headed for the opposite shore.

Despite the park’s strict noalcohol policy, a fair number of flasks and small bottles were being passed surreptitiously among the revelers.

I pushed through the crowd and was fortunate to find a small group of friends clustered near the creek’s concrete edge. Knowing some of them had participated before, I fished for some advice. They had none to offer. “Once you hit the water, all bets are off,” my friend Ryan told me.

Much of the crowd near us began bouncing in unison in an effort to stay warm. Some collegeage women kept their coats and

This year’s

event was both blessed and cursed with clear skies and sunshine. On the upside, it brought people out in droves and made 10 CN&R January 3, 2013

Hundreds of Chicoans braved the frigid waters of Sycamore Pool.

PHOTO BY MELANIE MACTAVISH

sweat pants on until the last possible minute, then shed them quickly, revealing two-piece bathing suits.

“If my legs don’t work and I can’t jump, pull me in,” I overheard one woman tell her friends.

Then, with no countdown or fanfare, I heard the first splash, which instantly grew to a constant roar of bodies hitting water. The crowd surged forward, and without a second thought I followed.

That gasp came the second

my body hit the 40-degree water, and I think my heart may have stopped for half a second. I thought to myself, “This isn’t so bad,” but only for a moment.

My logical mind told me swimming would be the fastest way across, but my body wouldn’t respond. Instead I half-hopped, half-dog-paddled through the frigid water. The occasional expletive rang out over the laughter and shouts of mostly smiling swimmers, though some grimaced as if they were being boiled alive.

Everyone was smiling on the south shore, where I stood giggling and shivering in wet trunks. I was physically invigorated, but the plunge did even more for the soul.

I felt a bond with my fellow swimmers, camaraderie with perfect strangers born of a shared, intense and singularly Chico experience.

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

The forgotten election Expensive state Senate runoff is being overlooked

runoff for Doug LaMalfa’s TforheDistrict 4 state Senate seat set next Tuesday, Jan. 8, could

be considered a forgotten election. It’s not on the forefront of the public’s consciousness, no debates have been held, and neither candidate is mounting much of a campaign.

Mickey Harrington Jim Nielsen But for Democrat Mickey CN&R FILE PHOTO PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM NIELSEN Harrington, the 73-year-old Magalia man and union representative running against former around $400,000, Butte County Clerk/ Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, a Republican, Recorder Candace Grubbs said. As of the election gives new life to his bid to repre- Dec. 28, Butte County had issued more than sent the expansive 12-county district.

70,000 mail-in ballots for the Jan. 8 election, “I’ve got people working to get voters with about 28 percent returned for processout, but whether they come or not, I don’t ing so far. know,” Harrington said during a recent Grubbs wouldn’t offer a prediction of phone interview. “If they’re good Democrats voter turnout, but she said the special electhey will. It’s the same for the Republition may not be on the minds of many Butte cans—it’s about who can get their base out.

County residents.

“I’m not saying I’m going to win, but I “Is this a forgotten election? In many sure as heck think I’ve got a chance.” respects, yes,” she said. “Many families are November’s general election did not fall just returning from vacations now. They in Harrington’s favor, to put it mildly. Nielsen aren’t even thinking about it.” received 188,207 votes, or 49.8 percent, while Harrington got 104,572 votes, or Harrington has never held office, 27.7 percent. Republicans hold a significant though he has run unsuccessfully for the registration advantage in the district.

Assembly three times. He lost to Rick Keene Things got weird in the election, due in 2006 and to Logue in 2008 and 2010. But largely to the 43,303 votes cast for RepubliHarrington maintains he has “something to can Dan Logue. The incumbent assemblyoffer” on issues regarding unemployment, man had dropped out of the race to conceneducation reform and protecting Northern trate on his simultaneous race for re-election, California’s water resources. but not soon enough to have his named He also feels obligated to run against removed from the Senate ballot. Logue drew Nielsen, who has been frequently accused of sufficient Republican votes to keep Nielsen not living in the district he represents. from garnering the 50 percent plus one vote Nielsen’s critics believe he uses his doublenecessary to win outright. wide mobile home in the Gerber area to Ironically, LaMalfa cited avoiding a speestablish his residency, while he actually cial election and concentrating on his run to lives in a gated community in Woodland, replace U.S. Rep. Wally Herger as concerns outside the district. Harrington said he when he stepped down from his seat at the believes state officials have turned a blind end of August. eye on the possible fraud.

“I’ve thrown my “Nobody seems to give a rat’s ass,” he hat over the fence said with a laugh. “But he needs to be taken Vote early: and am taking nothout, one way or another, because he is as disThe Butte County ing for granted in honest as the day is long.”

Elections Office (25 my campaign for Nielsen could not be reached for comCounty Center Drive Congress, but I do in Oroville, Ste. 110) ment on this story. will be open to the not feel it would be Although it seems like a long shot, Harpublic for voting on right to wait until rington has high hopes headed into the speSaturday, Jan. 5, the end of the year cial election. His modest campaign has set from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. to resign from the about calling party members within the disSenate,” he told the trict, emphasizing that a strong turnout could conservative website Flash Report. “Resignlead to a surprising result. ing now gives the governor the ability to con“The whole thing hinges on who gets the solidate elections, saving local counties and people out, and we’re making an effort to do taxpayers at least $2 million.” that,” he said. “I feel good about it.”

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EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS Eddie Trujillo uses a special camera to capture images of a car’s paint. Trujillo calls the new camera “the newest, latest-greatest invention” to accurately match a vehicle’s color.

FROM KITCHEN TO ENGINE

Chico-based Springboard Biodiesel’s new appliance, the BioPro, has been endorsed by the Green Restaurant Association, a national nonprofit that promotes environmental responsibility.

The appliance converts used cooking oil into premium-grade biodiesel, which emits up to 90 percent less carbon dioxide and 50 percent less fine particulate matter than regular diesel fuel, according to Renewable Energy Magazine. The appliance allows restaurants to produce a gallon of biodiesel—which will run in any diesel engine without conversion and can be mixed in any ratio with regular diesel fuel—for about 95 cents.

“Making a clean-burning fuel in an automated appliance and saving money at the same time is a truly great combination of benefits,” said Springboard CEO Mark Roberts.

Inset: Car with hood being painted at Knockout Collision Repair.

OF CHICKEN AND HERBS

As major grocery outlets like Costco, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s complain they can’t find enough antibiotic-free meat, farmers have begun looking into a way to fight bacterial disease in their animals without pharmaceutical drugs.

For example, Pennsylvania-based chicken farmer Scott Sechler of Bell & Evans swears by a diet laced with oregano oil and cinnamon, which he claims has worked well as a substitute for antibiotics, according to The New York Times.

Some experts have maintained consumption of meat for animals treated with antibiotics will lead to the rise of “superbugs”—bacteria resistant to one or more antibiotics.

Antibiotic-free meat represents just a fraction of the overall meat industry—organic meat, poultry and fish sales totaled $538 million in 2011, while sales of all types of beef that year totaled $79 billion.

SOOT STANDARD JACKSON’S FINALE?

In one of the last moves Lisa Jackson will oversee as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), national regulations of soot emissions have been tightened.

As of Dec. 14, the new standard for the amount of permissible soot in the air is 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air, down from 1997’s standard of 15 micrograms, according to The Washington Post.

Soot, or fine particulate matter, is the nation’s most widespread deadly pollutant and is the result of emissions from sources like diesel vehicles, coal plants and wood fires. In 2009, a court ruling mandated the EPA rewrite soot standards to comply with the advice of scientific advisers, which found the 1997 standards inadequate.

Jackson (pictured), the first African-American EPA administrator, announced on Dec. 27 she would step down next month. During her tenure, she oversaw major improvements in vehicle emissions standards and new controls on mercury in power-plant fumes, and ruled that greenhouse gases should be classified as pollutants.

Send your eco-related news tips to Howard Hardee at HowardH@newsreview.com.

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KO’ing VOCs Local outfit Knockout Collision Repair offers eco-friendlier auto paint story and photos by

Catherine Beeghly

I Trujillo, an employee at local autobody shop Knockout Collision Repair, returned n October, Edward “Eddie”

from several weeks’ training in Southern California, where he became certified in the use of DuPont Cromax Pro waterborne paint products, which emit fewer volatile organic compounds.

Trujillo’s two-year waterborne-paint certification was acquired at a facility near Ontario, where each of the eight students got individual training. Half the time was spent in the classroom, and the other half actually using the paint. In addition, a technical consultant came to Chico to work at Knockout before and after the training.

The Chico-based automobile body shop has since shifted to the use of the lowerVOC, water-based auto paints in the process of restoring damaged cars, a big

step in helping to curb the use of toxincontaining materials that state agencies say harm the environment and human health.

Indeed, the California Air Resources Board takes a tough stance on toxins found in paint used on cars. “It is imperative that the toxic emissions from automotive coatings be reduced or, depending on the compound, eliminated,” says its website (go to www.tinyurl.com/vocyuck to read more).

Stanley Young, CARB’s director of communications, said in an email that his agency is working to lower the amount of volatile organic compounds—VOCs—in paints. He said VOCs are known as “smog precursors.”

“They’re smog-forming chemicals that contribute to the production of ozone when combined with sunlight and other smogforming chemicals, such as oxides of nitrogen from internal combustion engines,” wrote Young. “Levels of ozone are strictly limited under federal air-quality rules.”

Water-based paint is less toxic than traditional solvent-based paint, according to

Young, and contributes to fewer health problems.

“Solvent-based automotive paints contain VOCs and hazardous air pollutants that contribute to air pollution and cause numerous adverse health effects … including eye and skin irritation and centralnervous-system effects. Organic solvents may also damage the liver and kidneys, and cause cancer, respiratory, reproductive and other [problems]. Waterborne [waterbased] paints contain much lower levels of organic solvents and are less toxic than solvent-based paints.”

Trujillo has worked at Knockout

Collision Repair for the last two of his 10 years in the body-shop business. He

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Low Cost Acupuncture compared the composition of the new paint to what was previously being commonly used in the business: 85 percent of the older kind is composed of organic solvents, and 15 percent is the actual color material. With waterborne paint, only 10 percent is composed of organic solvents, 70 percent is water and 20 percent color.

“So the new paint still has solvents,” he offered, “but they’re kept to a minimum. And the actual color percentage went up 5 percent, so we can cover a car with fewer coats and less spraying into the air.”

The new line of paint also came with a cool new toy—a $10,000 camera that matches paint better than the human eye. Trujillo calls the Acquire Plus EFX camera “the newest, latest-greatest” invention in the business. It records three images of a car’s surface and matches it to the best paint formula.

“It makes my job a lot easier. You can spend all day comparing paint chips. The system offers us painters a more speedy and effective way, and it saves so much time.”

The paint also dries faster,

being water-based, and requires no waiting time between coats.

Kareem Abouzeid, who

started Knockout in 1999 as “a one-man operation,” said his staff tested four different types of paint before going with DuPont’s. “It just had the best technology and performance as a paint. It helps us deliver a quality product, as well as being better for the environment.”

In the past, Abouzeid explained, auto paints were primarily solventbased. “That’s been the normal way for years, but now the technology has developed into water-based paints. New cars now all have it, and it makes matching so much easier.”

While water-based paints aren’t required in Butte County, Abouzeid said they’re becoming mandatory in some counties in California. “In Europe, they’ve been using waterbased paint for 20 years,” he said.

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2. Adjust the thermostat: If you don’t have little ones in the house, save energy (and money!) by setting your thermostat at 68 degrees or lower this winter (or 78 degrees or higher in the summer months).

3. Compost: For those with a back yard, composting can be as simple as throwing scraps in a corner pile. Apartment dwellers can compost, too, by employing a variety of methods (check out www.tinyurl.com/indoorcompost to learn how) or using a worm bin (go to www.tinyurl.com/insidewormbin for info).

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to what’s better for the environment, and better technology.”

Abouzeid said cars are also painted with an outer layer of clear coat. “That clear coat is still solvent-based, and that’s what protects it. Waterborne topcoat hasn’t been tested as being tough enough yet. It’s a gradual process, as the technology comes along. They keep testing until they find what will work, and develop one thing at a time,” he said.

Continuing in the vein of being green, Abouzeid added that— rather than discarding damaged or unneeded parts made of metal, cardboard, and paper—Knockout recycles them.

“Last year our business grew, but we were actually able to reduce the amount of garbage we had,” he said. “We keep working on it.” Ω

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WINTER CAMP, COMMITTEE OF TREES Running through Friday, Jan. 4, Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 East Eighth St.) will host themed educational winter camps for kids ages 5 to 11.

The camps will include group discussions, live animal presentations, craft projects, nature hikes, outdoor activities and interactive games with themes of birds, bugs and mammals. Each day costs $25; go to www.bidwellpark.org or call 891-4671 for registration info.

On Wednesday, Jan. 9, the public is encouraged to attend the Tree Committee of Bidwell Park and Playground Commission meeting in Room 2 of the City Council chambers (421 Main St.) at 6 p.m.

Participants will review the draft of the Urban Forest Management Plan before it is sent to the Park Commission for review. Go to http://tiny url.com/3jff3cc to view the current draft.

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THOUGHT-PROVOKING READING FOR A BRAND-NEW YEAR A friend of mine recently tipped me off to the existence of The Venus Project, an organization founded by a structural engineer/industrial designer named Jacque Fresco—whose lengthy résumé includes working as an aircraft designer for the Northrop Division of Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles, and as a designer in the Army Air Force Design and Development Unit at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio—and a former portrait artist, Roxanne Meadows.

The Venus Project—housed on a 25-acre research center in Venus, Fla.—“is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization,” according to its website.

“When one considers the enormity of the challenges facing society today, we can safely conclude that the time is long overdue for us to reexamine our values and to reflect upon and evaluate some of the underlying issues and assumptions we have as a society. This selfanalysis calls into question the very nature of what it means to be human, what it means to be a member of a ‘civilization,’ and what choices we can make today to ensure a prosperous Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows future for all the world’s PHOTO COURTESY OF THE VENUS PROJECT people. …

“The Venus Project calls for a straightforward approach to the redesign of the culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but [also] totally unacceptable.”

The project proposes a shift from a money-based free-enterprise system to a “resource-based economy,” a “holistic socio-economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all the inhabitants, not just a select few.

The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resources; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counterproductive to our survival. … In a resource-based economy, all of the world’s resources are held as the common heritage of all of Earth’s people, thus eventually outgrowing the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people.

This is the unifying imperative.

“We must emphasize that this approach to global governance has nothing whatever in common with the present aims of an elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations at the helm, and the vast majority of the world’s population subservient to them. Our vision of globalization empowers each and every person on the planet to be the best they can be, not to live in abject subjugation to a corporate governing body.”

Among the aims of resource-based economic system: “all-out efforts to develop new, clean and renewable sources of energy: geothermal; controlled fusion; solar; photovoltaic; wind, wave and tidal power; and even fuel from the oceans. … A resource-based economy must also be committed to the redesign of our cities, transportation systems and industrial plants, allowing them to be energy-efficient, clean and conveniently serve the needs of all people.”

Go to www.thevenusproject.com to learn more, and to watch the documentary, Paradise or Oblivion, a film that “details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other ‘establishment’ notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world’s people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people.”

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City of Chico Compost Facility Drop-off: Free drop off at facility December 26th – January 8th. Hours 8am-4pm. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Remove all tinsel & ornaments.

Recology Butte Colusa Counties Curbside collection for current yard waste customers: Place trees next to yard waste containers or in container on regular recycling day. Must be next to container cut into 3 ft or smaller sections and bundled.

Waste Management Curbside: Cut trees into 3’ lengths and place in yard waste containers for collection on regular yard waste day. Remove all tinsel & ornaments.

Earthworm Soil Factory Drop-off: Free drop off at Neal Road just east of Hwy 99. Remove all tinsel & ornaments.

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Berry Creek & Feather Falls Country Roads Disposal Free drop-off at Berry Creek Grange Hall December 30th and January 6th from 8-5.

Trees must have all tinsel and ornaments removed. No flocked trees.

Curbside: collection for current yard waste customers. Place trees next to yard waste containers on regular collection days. Must be cut into 3ft or smaller sections and bundled.

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Drop-off locations: December 26th-January 31st.

• Paradise Vegetative Waste Yard 920 American Way • Paradise Vegetative Waste Yard Clark Rd. & American Way, Open Tues thru Sat. 9-4pm • Mountain View Trees 1986 Mountain View Drive Curbside: Yard waste pickup on regular yard waste day. Remove all tinsel & ornaments. No flocked tress. Cut into 3 ft. sections. Tree must fit inside greenwaste cart.

Gridley & Biggs Waste Management Call 846-0810 for more information Curbside: Cut trees into 3’ lengths and place in yardwaste containers for collection on regular yard waste day. Remove all tinsel & ornaments.

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THE PULSE

HEALTHLINES

ENLOE DOC HONORED

Dr. David Potter, an Enloe Medical Center hematologist/oncologist, has received the Enloe Physician Legacy Award, which recognizes a staff member each year for “exceptional service, leadership and performance in medicine and the community.”

Potter, an Enloe staff member since 1981, was honored at a general medical-staff meeting for physicians on Dec. 18, according to an Enloe press release. Aside from being a member of the hematology/oncology physician group at the Enloe Regional Cancer Center, Potter has served as medical director of Enloe Hospice since 2010 and was previously Enloe’s chief of staff.

The selection process is handled by the Medical Executive Committee, which considers nominations from doctors on staff, other Enloe employees, volunteers and community members.

Golden State shrinking?

NEVER SAY NEVER

About 500 times a year, a surgeon in the United States makes a surgical mistake—termed a “never event”—like leaving an object inside a patient, operating on the wrong part of someone’s body or performing the wrong procedure.

Research published in the journal Surgery found that between 1990 and 2010, 9,744 malpractice claims involved a never event, according to SFGate.com. About half of those cases involved leaving an object inside a patient, while 17 of the cases involved a surgeon operating on the wrong person altogether.

The consequences of botched surgery are serious—6.6 percent of patients experiencing a never event died, while a third had permanent injury. Patients who received the wrong procedure were at the highest risk of death or permanent injury.

SMOKELESS TOBACCO A STATEWIDE HIT

California has seen a rise in the sale of smokeless tobacco products like snuff and chew, which pose health risks similar to those of cigarette use.

According to a report released by the state Department of Public Health, Californians spent $211 million on non-cigarette tobacco products in 2011, up from $77 million in 2001, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Among high-school students, smokeless tobacco use has increased from 3.1 percent of students in 2004 to 3.9 percent of students in 2010. Meanwhile, the tobacco industry spent $444 million on advertising for non-cigarette tobacco in 2010 and products have become more readily available— among tobacco retail outlets, those offering snus (a small packet of tobacco placed under the lip) have jumped from less than 1 percent in 2008 to almost 40 percent in 2011.

New, dissolvable tobacco products that come in orb and strip form have become more popular in other states and are expected to be sold in California soon.

Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at HowardH@newsreview.com.

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Economic uncertainty seems to play a role in California’s declining birth rate by

Evan Tuchinsky

I our future, you may be disheartened to learn that fewer children are being born in f you believe that children are

California. Numbers from the California Department of Public Health show a marked decline in birth rates, reaching a level that many experts say is the lowest in history.

In 2010, the most recent year for statewide statistics, only 63 babies were born per 1,000 women of fertility age— that is, 15 to 44 years old. Just four years earlier, the rate was 71.3, which itself was down from 75.5 in 1995.

Butte County had the 11th-lowest rate in the state at 51 babies per 1,000 fertileaged women. Interestingly, one county neighbor, Glenn, posted the seventh-highest rate, 71.9.

Dr. Mark Lundberg, Butte County’s public-health officer, looks at the numbers with great interest.

“Decreasing fertility is an observation that should be studied and examined for its interesting social explanations and implications,” said Lundberg. “From my publichealth point of view, it is generally positive. We do not need a growing population for a country to be physically healthy.

“Our environment may benefit from a declining population,” he observed.

“Economists and politicians may have a

very different view of fertility declines and its implications. One obvious exception would be if infertility rates were also increasing. If our fertility rates were declining because women could not get pregnant, that would be concerning. Then we would ask questions about causes of infertility like infections, toxins, environmental issues, etc. I don’t know of any concerns like these at this time.”

So why is the birth rate dropping, and why is it particularly low in Butte County?

The overarching trend, according to California Healthline and the San Francisco Chronicle, likely corresponds to the economic decline.

“I’ve heard discussions about whether the recession is making people stop and

think if they can afford children,” Lundberg said—raising the sociological question about whether the value of raising a family has changed.

Every county has its own set of circumstances that influences its rate and ranking.

San Francisco, for instance, is a metropolitan county, and the Chronicle cited a demographics expert who attributed the low rate there (47.6, fourth lowest statewide) to an exodus to the suburbs among young couples ready to start families.

Butte County, too, seems to feature pragmatic decision-makers, but in a different way. Lundberg sees greater planning as a potential cause of the birth-rate decline.

“From a public-health standpoint, that could be a great trend if it means people are

APPOINTMENT THE MEDI-CAL MAZE The rights and options provided to Medi-Cal recipients can be confusing. That’s where the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) comes in—the organization will offer a free educational presentation on Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the Feather River Senior Center (1335 Myers St. in Oroville) from 10 a.m. to noon. Volunteer counselors will help answer questions related to Medi-Cal and other health-insurance topics. Call Mary Cirnigliaro at 533-8370 for more info.

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“Decreasing fertility is an observation that should be studied and examined for its interesting social explanations and implications,” said Dr. Mark Lundberg, Butte County public-health officer.

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being more intentional about when to have children,” he said. “I underline ‘could’—we don’t know if all these [children] are planned. But we have been trying to make familyplanning service more readily available; we want people to have their pregnancies planned. There’s family planning all across the county.”

Low-income women seeking to plan their pregnancies can seek services at county public-health clinics in Chico and Oroville. Butte College and Chico State both have “excellent family-planning services.” Lundberg also mentioned Women’s Health Specialists, Planned Parenthood, Ampla Health and Northern Valley Indian Health in the context of family-planning services available locally.

“We also have a large number of OBs [obstetrician/gynecologists] in town, so people who have access to insurance can seek care,” he added.

“Oroville, Chico and Paradise all have large numbers of gynecologists.”

Meanwhile, the public health department mounts a number of outreach efforts. Health officials make presentations at schools and health fairs. The county received a faith-based grant to counsel women through religious organizations.

Moreover, during appointments at public-health clinics, health-care providers discuss family planning with both men and women.

“There definitely have been those sorts of outreaches,” Lundberg said. “So I think there are a lot of resources available to women seeking family-planning services.”

Glenn County may have a

higher birth rate than Butte County, but it also is experiencing a decline in birth rate. Grinnell Norton, Glenn County’s deputy director of public health and director of nursing, cited a 10 percent drop

between 2010 and 2011.

She, too, sees family-planning efforts as a prime cause.

“I’d like to attribute it to public health’s great outreach in getting people in their reproductive years to use birth control and to plan their families and maybe realize the impact of raising a child from 0 to 18,” Norton said. “It’s not a cheap endeavor if you plan on doing it right. As a mother of four, with two in college, I can tell you that!

“People are realizing that entering into that commitment takes not only money, but it [also] takes time. Maybe they’re choosing to have fewer children or [they] wait until they have a secure job to have children.”

Norton knows for sure that services are being used. Planned Parenthood makes weekly visits to the public health department, “and their clinics are very busy. It seems like it’s [family planning] increased.”

Three years ago, Glenn County also launched a project through WIC—the federal Women, Infants and Children program—in which health officials encourage women to space their pregnancies, via counseling and informational pamphlets. The goal is for women to wait two years between birth and their next pregnancy.

“We’re hoping that has been helpful,” Norton said.

Declining birth rates may strike some people as alarming. Lund-

County Rate* Rank Butte 51 47 Colusa 69.9 14 Glenn 71.9 7 Tehama 59.7 31 *Births per thousand women ages 15-44, in 2010 Source: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Declining numbers:

Statewide, the birth rate among women ages 15-44 has a downward trend.

Year Rate* 2007 71.3 2008 69.0 2009 65.5 2010 63.0

Source: California Department of Public Health

berg, from his perspective as a public-health official, sees a different picture.

“From just a population-health point of view, certainly across the world there’s a need for controlling population,” he explained.

“There’s been an explosion of population, and that creates challenges for resources: food, housing, hospitals. From a population point of view, there are some benefits to stable populations.

“I think it frightens the planners of our communities, because they make certain economic assumptions based on birth rates, but it looks to me that the population rate is a little over two [children] per woman on the average, and that at least maintains your population.” Ω

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THE NEWSMAKERS OF 2013 Here are some of the people who will be on our radar this year

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he new year is a time for looking forward, and historically we’ve done so by spotlighting some of the people we think will play important roles and be worthy of attention in the coming year. As always, they are a mix of obvious candidates— Chico’s new city manager, for example, and our new mayor—and some less obvious but just as noteworthy, such as the man behind the remarkable California Regional Theater. Read our profiles and see if you agree that these are people worth watching this year.

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Mayor with a mission Mary Goloff

Now that she’s Chico’s mayor, after six years on the City Council, Mary Goloff says she wants to shake things up a bit. She mentions in particular her upcoming appointments to various council committees, such as Internal Affairs and Finance. Goloff says she intends to surprise people with some of her choices.

Right now, Goloff recognizes that the city is “at a place where we have to care for our resources.” Staff is stretched thin, the reserves are lower than they should be, and voters just turned down Measure J, costing the city $900,000 annually in lost telephone-tax revenue—on top of the millions in redevelopment and vehicle-license funds lost last year.

That’s a good part of the reason why, in her first significant act as mayor, she voted against a proposal to set up a cityled ad hoc committee on homelessness.

“We already have the Greater Chico Homeless Task Force,” she explained.

Another committee would have required considerable staff and council time.

She welcomes the three newly elected council members, Tami Ritter, Randall Stone and Sean Morgan, all of whom are relatively young. “One of the things I’m really excited about is that we’re seeing more engagement and more leadership from the next generation,” Goloff said.

Among her goals for the year is figuring out how to maintain the city’s commitment to building affordable housing without redevelop-

Mary Goloff PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

ment funds. “It’s going to be challenging, but I want to do everything I can to support that. Chico wins in every way when we invest in affordable housing.”

She also wants to tackle the alcohol issue and says she is looking forward to working with Chico State on it. “The university has waited too long and done too little to address this issue,” she said.

She also would like to get the University Police Department more involved in patrolling student areas of town. “The city spends a disproportionate amount of its public-safety dollars on a very small segment of the community. I’d like to leverage the university police to do more. I think it’s a fair conversation for us to be having.”

Finally, she wants to get serious about implementing the recently passed Economic Development Action Plan, even if it means devoting city staff time to doing so.

“I’ve always seen myself as a steward of the public interest,” she said. “Now I see [the council] as needing to be stewards of the public trust. So I’m rethinking how we do things. It’s important that, as mayor, I facilitate conversation that challenges my fellow council members and asks them what’s in the community’s best interest.”

—ROBERT SPEER

Making musical theater Bob Maness

“This theater was born out of a passion for community,” explained Bob Maness, executive director of the new California Regional Theater. In fact, during the course of his interview, Maness mentioned the word “community” no fewer than 10 times. And the theater he started at the beginning of 2012 is certainly well on the way to becoming a vibrant part of both the theater community and the greater Chico community as well.

Staging its shows at the Chico Unified School District’s spacious Center for the Arts on the Pleasant Valley High School campus, the company has been attracting impressive crowds for its ambitiously staged versions of classic Broadway musicals, from Peter Pan to The Music Man to the most recent production, Oliver! The Musical, which drew 2,150 audience members to its six-performance run. CRT even took third place for Best Local Theater in the CN&R’s annual Best of Chico after only a few months in existence.

While producing huge musicals requires a lot of people working together—Oliver! by itself featured a cast and crew of nearly 100, including a live orchestra—it’s the vision of its enthusiastic and soft-spoken leader, Maness, that got things started.

A teacher and theater-arts instructor at Chico Christian School by day, the husband and father of six got his introduction to theater as a teenager in Los Angeles. Maness’ high school had a program that brought in industry professionals to the school to teach students all facets of the craft of theater, and after four years of immersion he was hooked.

He went on to work in theater around the state, before moving to this area (first Orland, then Chico) 13 years ago. After working on local plays at Chico Theater

Company (directing, among other titles, Hairspray and Fiddler on the Roof) and at Neighborhood Church, Maness decided he wanted to start something new for the community.

After spending the year renting out spaces for rehearsals, two months ago CRT signed a long-term lease on a huge building on Morrow Lane with plenty of room for full-scale rehearsals, set-building and holding two to three children’s theater classes per week.

“We cast the community,” Maness said, reasserting CRT’s commitment. “We love on them and we care for them and we create a learning environment.

“Our vision is to really give back to the community. Our intention is not to make money. [We do] pay staff fairly and correctly, but then the money goes back in.”

In addition to paying for the shows and the people involved, a portion from each performance is set aside to donate to a particular charity. Oliver!, for example, made enough for CRT to donate $6,000 to the Families for Children Adoption and Foster Care Agency.

“It’s been a great experience,” Maness said about CRT’s debut year. And with plays like Into the Woods (Feb. 8-17), Seussical!

The Musical (April 26-May 5) and a massive production of Les Misérables (October) on the calendar, 2013 looks just as promising.

—JASON CASSIDY

Bob Maness PHOTO BY JASON CASSIDY

Monica Bell PHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LaPADO-BREGLIA

Increasing access to good food Monica Bell

“I would say Monica Bell is going to be the big mover and shaker for Cultivating Community [NV] next year. … She has done great things, and I love working with her.”

That’s how Stephanie Elliott, spokeswoman for Cultivating Community NV and GRUB Education Program, put it when she recently recommended Bell as someone to watch in the coming year.

Bell, the 26-year-old workshop-series coordinator for Chico-based Cultivating Community NV—which approximately a year ago was the recipient of a $500,000 grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture to help increase local access to nutritious food—sat down with the CN&R recently and shared her thoughts.

“The Cultivating Community workshop series was designed to increase access to local food for populations that are not already going to the farmers’ market, or buying local or growing local, primarily because of barriers to access such as income,” Bell said.

In addition to planning and coordinating twice-monthly (often no-cost) workshops over the past year hosted by local gardening experts on such topics as gardening with edible perennials, drying and otherwise preserving fruits and vegetables, saving seeds and fermenting sauerkraut and kimchi, Bell has led workshops herself on such subjects as composting, container gardening, and drip-irrigation installation.

Bell was excited to announce that Cultivating Community NV was recently awarded “a whole new round of financial support that will allow communities [of people] that define themselves as ‘access-challenged’ to creatively access local food.”

A new organization within Cultivating Community NV—called Cultivating Community Advocates (CCA)—is being formed; its director “will administer mini-grants to a number of groups who set forth proposals showing how they will use the money to, for example, involve their [particular] community in a community gardening project or shop at the farmers’ market together. And if they had, say, transportation or language barriers to coming to workshops, the money could go for a shuttle or translator.”

“In the past year, workshops were mainly geared toward home gardeners and community gardeners,” Bell noted. In 2013, the scope of the workshops will expand to include teaching small-farm skills and about cottage-food production, “now that [California Assembly Bill 1616—the cottage-food operations food-safety bill] has passed.”

Bell is also excited about Cultivating Community’s upcoming certification program “for folks who have demonstrated their commitment to learn about and serve the local food movement by attending a number of workshops and volunteering a number of hours in a community garden or at the [Cultivating Community] farmers’ market table.”

Go to www.cultivatingcommunitynv.org to learn more about Cultivating Community NV. —CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA

“NEWSMAKERS” continued on page 20 January 3, 2013

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A chief for all seasons Kirk Trostle

Cop shows and pop culture have lead us to believe police chiefs are high-strung, angry individuals constantly embroiled in shouting matches with rogue officers and city officials behind frosted windows and slatted blinds.

Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle—who took the office of Chico’s top cop last June— couldn’t be further from this stereotype.

From his comfortable corner office at the Chico Police Department, decorated with family pictures and a large bowl brimming with Christmas chocolates, Trostle rules with more of an open hand than an iron fist. His boyish face and “aw, shucks” demeanor partially obscure a sharp political mind and straightforward problem-solving philosophy based on cooperation and community involvement.

This approach was apparent as Trostle ran through the department’s top priorities for 2013. For each of the items, he offered a list of people and organizations the police intend to partner with to best address these concerns.

“The police can’t solve all social ills,” he said, summarizing his holistic approach. “It takes a community to make a place safe for everybody.”

The first issue Trostle mentioned was crime and violence, citing a spate of stabbings, sexual assaults and other incidents that have plagued Chico the past year. He said the department is always looking at new staffing models to make the best use of the city’s limited resources.

Trostle’s second priority is Chico’s alcohol issues, and he mentioned 2012’s five student deaths and Chico’s persistent partyschool reputation (Trostle himself attended Chico State during the tumultuous late-’80s, when Playboy gave the university the dubious honor of naming it America’s top party school). “I’m not saying we need to ban alcohol and that alcohol is always bad, but we have this culture of alcohol that needs to change.”

He named homelessness as the third pri-

ority, and was quick to acknowledge it is a complex and multi-layered issue. “When it comes to homelessness, the police’s main problem is the section of the homeless community that displays anti-social behavior. To deal with the bigger picture, it’s important we work with everyone from local businesses to Butte County Behavioral Health.”

Mental-health issues were the fourth priority Trostle named. Again, he said the Police Department’s responsibility needs to be limited. “It’s important we find out what our role needs to be and how we can support other solutions,” he said.

Trostle said his history of military service, Chico State education, and a lifetime of working in law enforcement in Butte County give him a variety of perspectives as well as experience-based knowledge.

“I’ve met a lot of different people along the way,” he said. “It’s my goal to make this department as inclusive and transparent as possible.”

—KEN SMITH

Kirk Trostle PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

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a lovely rendition of “Hallelujah”), but also won the show’s Duet Contest (beating out 750 other entrants and five other finalists) while engaging in some good-natured banter with host Garrison Keillor.

“They told us from the very first phone call that it’s a competition, Sarah Nutting (left) but that we had already won just by and Karisha Longaker being picked,” Nutting recalled.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MAMUSE “We just tried to enjoy it. We went into it like, ‘Who are we going to meet?’ What is Garrison Keillor like? What’s it like being picked up by a limo?’”

Needless to say, the appearance exposed MaMuse to a larger audience. And Longaker and Nutting are looking to play some prominent gigs in 2013, including the Oregon Country Fair, the Sisters Folk Festival and possibly a trip to Indonesia for the BaliSpirit Festival. Nutting also hints at touring with some noteworthy names, although she won’t divulge the whos or the whens quite yet.

Nutting says it’s a balance between looking ahead to bigger and better things, but remaining grounded and comfortable in what they do. MaMuse is still very much a group for the people, and Longaker and Nutting are outspoken about their proclivity for playing house shows. That’s likely not to change, even as the women continue to grow as people and musicians.

“It’s the ultimate setting,” said Nutting of MaMuse performing house shows. “The lack of disMaMuse’s trajectory over the past few tractions; there’s no bar—it’s just us and a years has been much like the folk duo’s home. There’s a lot of love in a home.” music—sincere and truly captivating. Made —MARK LORE up of vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Karisha Longaker and Sarah Nutting, MaMuse continues to capture the hearts of locals, but the two have also been steadily making their presence known beyond the cozy confines of Chico.

And 2012 turned out to be an exceptionally big year in that regard. MaMuse released its third album, Integration Tami Ritter, Sean of the Awkward, which includes an unabashedly positive message deliv- Morgan, Randall Stone ered by way of Longaker and NutThree people worth keeping an eye on ting’s otherworldly vocal harmonies. this year are the three newly elected Chico And the two also just returned from City Council members: Tami Ritter, Sean playing a handful of shows in Morgan and Randall Stone.

Hawaii, where Nutting says they met Ritter has long been involved with local other musicians and artists who likely service agencies, including the Torres Comwill play into MaMuse’s 2013 plans. munity Shelter and Habitat for Humanity.

“I feel like this year is going to Homelessness was often cited during the bring a lot of creativity in where we council election campaign as a major probplay, and in creative collaboration,” lem in Chico. Morgan is a business manageshe said. ment instructor at Chico State and could help Certainly the most noteworthy reinforce the “town-gown” relationship event of the past year was between the school and the city. Stone is a MaMuse’s appearance on A financial planner and builder of affordable Prairie Home Companion in housing who says progressives see him as October, where the women too conservative and conservatives as too not only performed (including progressive, which shows he is open-minded.

Two soaring voices

Fresh faces on the council

We asked the three about their first impressions serving on the council, the important issues facing the city, and if they had any regrets this early in the game.

Ritter said her first impression was of the amount of homework involved.

“There’s a lot of reading, there is a lot of researching, and just really educating myself,” she said. “There is a lot more detail and nuance that I would have ever imagined.

And we haven’t had anything huge come before us yet.”

Ritter said the important issues include the city’s financial state. “Everyone agrees that the most important issue is the budget and finances,” she said. “We need to get into a better position where we can begin to rebuild our reserves.”

She said she’d like to take a lead roll in how the city addresses homelessness. “The idea that we can somehow fix homelessness is maybe not really the best approach,” she said. “The city is a service organization, and the services we provide are not just to those with money or houses, it is to all of the residents of the city.”

As of yet she has no regrets. “But I’ll keep you posted,” she promised.

Morgan said one of his first impres-

sions was how well the council and city staff get along. “In our first closed-session meeting I was really impressed by everyone, especially Brian [Nakamura], the city manager,” he said. “There was a lot of respect. I guess being excited and optimistic is the best way to explain it.”

Important issues include fiscal conservatism. “I don’t think anybody has a great handle on where the city finances are,” he said. “But I think that will change in the next couple of weeks.”

He said there are plans to create a partnership between the city and Chico State’s Center for Entrepreneurship to work with the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Sean Morgan, Tami Ritter, Randall Stone PHOTO BY MELANIE MacTAVISH

Club and the Downtown Chico Business Association to create student internships for local businesses.

“This would be mutually beneficial,” he said. “Some students might stay and maybe even start their own businesses, and I think I’m in a unique position here.”

He said he has no regrets and that the first council meeting went exceedingly well. “I think everybody else felt that way,” he said.

“But then again, maybe I’m just the naive one of the bunch.”

Stone said one of his first impressions

on the job was that he couldn’t let it become “business as usual.”

“The worst thing I think an elected official can do is to sit behind the dais or on a committee and not get involved,” he said.

“I’ve always believed that committees breed complacency. I like to get in there and get my hands dirty.”

And that is what he’s done, going on a police ride-along that proved quite exciting, as well as spending time with the Fire Department and a local waste-management company.

The city’s budget is the most important and immediate issue on the council’s menu, he said. “Unquestionably economic development is key to the problem,” he said. “I don’t want to poster-child the homeless thing, but it could be keeping businesses from moving downtown, and that is what we should be encouraging.”

He said with the city’s projected budget shortfall and the failure to pass the cell phone tax, the City Council and staff have to figure out “how to do things faster, more efficiently and cheaper.”

His only regret, he said, is that he failed to convince progressive voters that he was not the conservative many of them believed he was. “There was a sense that I am much more conservative than I really am,” he said.

—TOM GASCOYNE

Digging out of a hole

Brian Nakamura It didn’t take Chico’s new city manager long to discover the best ways to learn about his new home: walking and bicycling. Since assuming his post on Aug. 21, he’s bicycled all over town and

walked much of it, especially downtown. You can see a lot more if you get out of your car, he says.

He wants to meet as many people, especially business owners, as possible, he says.

He and his wife, Sharon, have a Saturdaymorning ritual: hit the farmers’ market, have some coffee or chai tea, and walk around downtown, dropping into businesses.

He has also begun hosting, along with Chamber of Commerce CEO and President Katie Simmons, regular “Meet the City Manager” sessions to which they invite several local business owners for coffee and conversation.

So far “it’s going great,” he said during a recent interview in his third-floor office at City Hall. “I love

Brian Nakamura PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

Chico. I love the community, the people.

They’ve been so receptive in welcoming me.”

He’s taken on his new job at a tough time.

Although the state’s economy is improving, the city has been hit by so many revenue losses—first vehicle-license fees, then redevelopment funds, and most recently the failure of Measure J, resulting in a $900,000 hit to the city budget—that he has to focus on digging the city out of a fiscal hole.

The city needs to become more effective and efficient, he says, and it needs to help the business community grow, which in turn will increase tax revenues.

He also wants to bolster public safety, which he defines as not only police and fire, but also the safety of our streets. Perhaps because he’s a bicyclist, he knows how dangerous chuck-holed streets can be.

And he wants city government to be more open and transparent, and he wants it to be progress-driven, not process-driven. “Whatever we do, let’s make it purposeful,” he said.

The best way to promote efficiency, he says, is to make better use of technology. Too many departments that could be using e-tablets in the field are using paper, and people too often have to come to City Hall to do business with the city—whether it’s applying for a license or submitting development plans—that could be done more efficiently online.

“Those are the kinds of investments we’re going to be making, and that’s why it’s critical to rebuild our accounts and reserves.”

—ROBERT SPEER

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Arts & Culture Retired Chico High math teacher George Bader in a screenshot from Learning Never Ends.

THIS WEEK Extra credit Chico High alumnus films retired teachers for inspiring documentary

T effect on the life of filmmaker Brendan Hedges. He’d recently graduated junior high in the Oklahoma town where

he events of late summer 1978 had a profound

he’d spent his entire life when his father dropped a bombshell: He’d accepted a job as an associate professor, and the family was moving to California. by “A week later we were all piled in a movKen Smith ing van headed for Chico,” Hedges said by kens@ phone interview from his home near Yosemite. newsreview.com “A few weeks after that, I walked onto the Chico High campus, and it changed my life.”

Hedges adapted quickly. Not only was he happy to be able to wear shorts and sandals well into fall, but he also found a home in a pair of adjoining classes occupied by two mentors who continue to positively impact his life—English/journalism instructors Barbara Copeland and Patricia Wismer.

“Of all the classes I’ve ever taken, those classes—especially journalism—were as formative as anything I’ve experienced in my educational career,” said Hedges, who went on to study film and theater at the University of Southern California.

It wasn’t just the curriculum, but also the character of the two women that Hedges loved, so much so that 30 years later they serve as the inspiration for his latest work, a series of documentary shorts called Learning Never Ends featuring educators from what he calls the “Golden Age” of teaching.

“They couldn’t be more opposite,” he said of the two teachers. “They’re both wonderful in their own way but so different that there’s inherent comic value in their pairing.

They’re like a classic comic duo. Of course they also adored and respected each other.”

Hedges said Copeland was tall and ran a tight ship, with a very clean and orderly classroom, while Wismer was short and a “hoarder of sorts,” her classroom filled with mobiles and other artwork, with stacks of papers and books covering her messy desk.

In recent years, Hedges said he’d had some success optioning a few screenplays he’d written, and was able to buy a highquality Red Digital Cinema camera, the same type of camera used to film The Social Network and the most recent installment of Pirates of the Caribbean.

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FRI taking the opportunity to interview her on film for posterity.

That was the impetus for what would evolve into Learning Never Ends. He wanted to interview the two women just for his own archives. But they began to suggest other teachers to talk to, as did Alberta Simic of the Chico High School Foundation.

Before he knew it, he had interviews with 25 retired teachers totaling hours of solid raw footage. Hedges decided to shape the interviews into more than a dozen shorts covering a number of topics in education.

Among the topics covered is one many of the retirees were particularly passionate about: the loss of electives in the school.

One of the featured teachers, Cliff “Blackie” Gilbert, ran a popular forestry program, and Copeland was the longtime adviser to the Red and Gold, CHS’s now-defunct student newspaper.

Though Hedges and the teachers understand the budget issues behind this loss, they are saddened that so many programs have been canceled or moved off campus.

He’d initially struck a deal with Chico State to use its studio for filming in exchange for use of his camera, but just before filming began he decided to film on the Chico High campus. Doing so, he said, helped the documentary series develop from a personal project to something bigger.

“As these retired teachers arrived they would see some familiar faces, get some hugs, walk past their old classrooms and through groups of current students,” he said. “By the time they sat down they were beaming, and it shines through on film.

That’s when I realized I had something really special.”

The Pageant Theatre will be playing all of the shorts—a different one each week—before regularly featured films beginning in mid- to late-January. A Hollywood-style gala premiere, at which the teachers arrived by limo and walked a red carpet, was held at the El Rey last September. The event netted approximately $2,400 for the CHS Foundation, and Hedges recalls it as one of his proudest moments.

“I still consider Chico my adopted home, and I fell in love with film at the Pageant and the El Rey theaters,” he said. “I mean, I saw The Empire Strikes Back for the first time at the El Rey, and my early film education came from watching classic, foreign and art films at the Pageant. To see my work, and my favorite teachers, up on those two screens is a big deal to me.” Ω

Special Events STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT: Stand-up comedy with Chris Strait and Adam Richmond on the Rolling Hills Comedy Stage. Go online for ticket info. F, 1/4, 8:30pm. $10. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.ticketforce.com.

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Special Events THE BOOKSTORE FUNDRAISER: A variety of musical performances, a silent auction, a bar and light appetizers to benefit The Bookstore, the downtown Chico fixture fighting to keep its doors open. Su, 1/6, 6pm. $10-$20 donation. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

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Music 1ST MONDAY JAZZ: GRANT GREEN: Dave Elke, Greg D’ Augelli, Shigemi Minetaka, Robert Delgardo and Jonahan Stoyanoff celebrate the music of guitarist Grant Green. M, 1/7, 7-8:30pm. $10.

Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 570-7755; www.cafecoda.com.

TRIBUTE TO JIMMY REED: A world-class collection of blues players—including Lazy Lester, Kim Wilson, Rick Estrin and Mark Hummel—pay homage to the great Jimmy Reed. M, 1/7, 7:30pm. $32.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 28

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar. Once posted, your CN&R calendar listing will also be considered for print. Print listings are also free, but subject to space limitations. Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

BULLETIN BOARD Community ACHIEVING NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS: A workshop hosted by Earth Haven that will focus on achieving goals in the New Year.

W, 1/9, 6pm. First Congregational Church, 1190 E. First Ave., (530) 345-8118.

AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call

for info. First M of every month, 6pm.

Opens 12/31. $10. Paradise Grange Hall,

5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise, (347) 588-1083.

AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti, Brazil and West Africa with live drumming. Tu, 5:30pm. Opens 1/1. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 3456324.

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A weekly workshop with discussions and presentations designed for men and women seeking to enhance their outlook on life. Interaction encouraged but not required. Tu, 6-7:30pm through 2/26. Opens 1/8. Free. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.chicorec.com.

WILDLIFE VIEWING: Guided wildlife tours. Rain cancels. Sa, 10am through 2/3; Su, 1pm through 2/3. $4. Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, 3207 Rutherford Rd. in Gridley, (530) 8467505.

WRITING GROUP: All writers welcome. Bring

paper, a pen and writing to share. F, 3:305pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled meeting. Every other Tu, 9am. Board of Supervisors Chambers, 25 County Center Dr. in Oroville, (530) 538-7631, www.buttecounty.net.

CHAPMAN FARMERS MARKET: A farmers’ market in the park serving as a neighborhood collaborative forum focusing on healthy lifestyle promotion, education and access. F, 2-5:30pm through 12/31. Free.

For Kids HOLIDAY FUN FOR KIDS: Hosted by Oroville’s YMCA, this day camp is intended to get kids outside and to begin developing healthy life-long habits. Call for more info.

Through 1/4, 6:30am-6pm. Call for fees.

Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, (553) 533-9622, www.orovilleymca.org.

MUSICAL TRIBUTES SEE MONDAY, MUSIC

FINE ARTS Art 1078 GALLERY: Stories 1 Exhibition, the 1078’s annual December group show showcases five artists with strong ties to Chico. Through 1/5.

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

ANGELOS CUCINA TRINACRIA: Maria Phillips

Exhibition, large, other-worldly watermedia paintings on display. Ongoing. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Reflections, Refractions &

Reveries, paintings by Dolores Mitchell and art glass by Claudia Schwartz. Reception F, 12/7, 5pm. Through 1/12. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 8791821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Gallery Collective, featuring members and local artists showcasing their artwork for the holidays. Through 1/4. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

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. 141 Salem St., (530) 8914336.

LAXSON FINE ART GALLERY: Mothership, Ann Posey’s sculpture and large-scale oil paintings exploring the tension between motherhood and being an artist. Through 1/22. 400 W. First St. CSU Chico, Laxson Audtorium.

MANAS ART SPACE & GALLERY: Everything Green

Show, Green is the theme for the latest MANAS

all-medium open-entry show. Through 1/11. 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

Call for Artists 2013 ART FIESTA BOOTHS: Artist booths are still available for next spring’s event. Call or email for more info. Through 4/1. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 487-4553.

AVENUE 9 POETRY: Avenue 9 wants nine lines of poetry about the gallery from local writers to serve as part of the gallery’s ninth birthday bash. Through 1/10. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

BTW, HAVE YOU SEEN MY KEYS?: Works of all medias and sizes accepted, so long as they incorporate a discarded key (which you can pick up at the gallery). Submissions accepted from Jan. 16-19. Through 1/19. $5. Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 5885183.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Works by

Claudia Steel, an exhibition of etchings, serigraphs, watercolors and oils. Through 1/11.

411 Main St. City Hall, (530) 896-7200.

CHICO ART CENTER MEMBERS SHOW: All members are invited to submit their favorite piece for this show, which will open Jan. 12. 1/5-1/6, 124pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

Get outta here!

GREEN ARTS COMPETITION: Mixed-media artwork

As you can see from the feeble calendar before you, not much is going on in these parts. Nearly every week of the year, Chico is overflowing EDITOR’S PICK with groovy things to get into, but the time between the holiday season and the start of the spring semester is an exception. So, what to do? Loitering outside respectable businesses is a solid option, but most of us aren’t one of those punk kids (anymore). Another possibility: get out of town. Make an outdoor adventure happen or go see a long lost friend or relative, and remember to bring back some fun for the rest of us.

—HOWARD HARDEE

that answers the question “What does it mean to be green?” Top finalists will have their work published on the Associated Students homepage. Ongoing. CSU Chico, 400 West First Street, Yolo Hall Room 178, (530) 898-6677.

Museums GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Veterans Day Exhibit, A

display honoring those who serve. Ongoing. 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 592-0889, www.cchaos.org.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

COALITION OF REASON AND ATHEISTS MEETING: The public is welcome to join Butte County Coalition of Reason and the Atheists of Butte County as they review their various projects. Tu, 1/8, 7pm. Round Table Pizza, 964 Mangrove Ave., (415) 4364281, www.buttecountycor.org.

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water

ACHIEVING NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS Wednesday, Jan. 9 First Congregational Church SEE COMMUNITY

NATURE CENTER WINTER CAMP: Three days— each with a different theme—of an educational outdoor day camp for kids ages 5 to 11 including group discussions, live animal presentations, craft projects, nature hikes, outdoor activities and interactive games. Through 1/4, 9am-2pm. $25 each day. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

bottle, drop your mind, find your feet and

free your spirit. Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. Opens 1/1. $10. Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods, honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more. Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday Farmers Market, Municipal Parking Lot, (530) 893-3276.

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave. Corner of Downing and E. 1st Ave, (530) 518-8300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.

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

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.

Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park web site for dates and locations.

Ongoing. Call for location, (530) 891-4671, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

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

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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“Of course,” I said, then sang, “I say grits, you

say polenta.”

“I’m shocked,” she said. “Frère Henri referencing a Fred AstaireGinger Rogers musical.”

“Shall we dance?”

She scowled.

I closed one eye. “Watch yourself, sister! Everything in these woods’ll either bite ya, stab ya or stick ya!”

“Excuse me?”

“Rooster Cogburn,” I said.

“True grits.”

She rolled her eyes, once again not appreciating Henri’s biting wit.

My dear sister’s fourth husband, Jimmie Ray, was not the sharpest needle in the sewing kit.

But he did have one thing going for him: He was from a little town near the South Carolina coast and had family recipes dating back four or five generations (he thought I was serious when I asked him if he had a recipe for crackers). Some were, well, interesting, like the one for opossum. But some were outstanding, including his recipe for shrimp and grits, which to this day is one of Henri’s all-time favorite meals. We make it several times a year. It’s quick, easy and absolutely delicious, although my physician, the well-meaning Dr. Epinards, does not approve (see two sticks of butter, below).

Grits, a form of which was a

Native American staple, are very common in the Southern United States, though largely unknown— or at least rarely served—elsewhere. Most frequently made from coarsely stone-ground white corn with the skin removed, grits are similar to polenta, which is usually made from finer-ground yellow corn with the skin intact.

What distinguishes the two more than that, however, is how they’re served. Grits are typically served at breakfast, with sugar and/or butter, and at lunch, with gravy.

Polenta, which originated in northern Italy, is generally served at dinner and frequently with cheese and/or pasta sauce, and sometimes with whole corn mixed in. Grits are also creamy and usually served in bowls, while polenta is firmer, cake-like, and sometimes sliced and fried. That said, you can use just about any cornmeal to make grits. While Jimmie Ray might object, we make his grits with Golden Pheasant brand polenta (available at most grocery stores) and have also used the bulk cornmeal from S&S Organic Produce and Natural Foods.

Jimmie Ray’s Shrimp and Grits Ingredients: 1/4 lb. bacon, diced 1 medium onion, diced 1 1/4 cup grits 4 cups (or more) chicken broth (or other liquid, see recipe) 1 cup butter cut into 1/4-inch slices Four cloves garlic, minced 1 lb. large shrimp, deveined Lemon wedges Salt Fresh-ground pepper

Instructions: Start bacon cooking in a large saucepan or sauté pan. Add the onion and cook in bacon fat until softened.

Add the grits and stir. Add chicken broth, two slices of butter, a sprinkle of salt and freshground pepper, and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low and cook the grits for about 30 minutes, stirring frequently— and adding more broth (or water) as needed to keep the mixture fluid and to keep grits from sticking to pan.

When the grits are done, pour 1/4-cup water in a large sauté pan and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat and add two slices butter and whisk into water until melted. Add three or four more slices of butter and continue to whisk. When all the butter is melted and hot but not boiling, add garlic, stir, and then add the shrimp. Cook, continuing to stir, for three to five minutes (depending on size), until shrimp shells are pink and the meat white.

Add remaining butter to grits and stir—if needed add more liquid to keep the grits creamy. Spoon the grits into large shallow bowls and ladle shrimp on top, including generous amounts of melted butter.

Add salt and fresh-ground pepper to taste, and garnish with lemon slices.

Note: For cooking the grits, you can use four cups water, or any combination of water, milk and broth (meat or vegetable) equaling four cups. Use half milk and half chicken broth for extra creamy grits. Ω

A recent 1st Monday Jazz show at Café Coda: (Left to right) Jim Schmidt, Greg D’Augelli, Lisa Valentine, Jonathan Stoyanoff and Lew Langworthy. (Guitarist Charlie Robinson obscured behind Valentine).

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Scarborough, a longtime jazz deejay at community-radio station KZFR 90.1 FM, was speaking recently in his capacity as informal promoter and gig emcee of “1st Monday Jazz” nights at Café Coda, which occur—predictably—on the first Monday evening of each

month and feature some of the finest players Chico has to offer.

And without the noise—Scarborough guarantees a clatter- and chatter-free listening experience focused on the performers “for a person who wants to appreciate jazz. … It’s not like people are there having conversations. They’re not talking about their wedding plans, and shit like that. …

“I gravitated into this job by default,” Scarborough said of his volunteer promotional work. The unabashed jazz lover explained that he was keen to help local bass player Jonathan Stoyanoff—who founded 1st Monday Jazz a year and a half ago (when it was still at now-defunct Café Culture)—promote the monthly event because Stoyanoff has been so busy of late.

The new papa and in-demand musician has been playing with numerous groups, including various jazz configurations, as well as local Afro-Ameri-Caribbean outfit Soul Union.

Stoyanoff explained by email that he organizes each 1st Monday Jazz concert around a theme. Having a theme “makes it easier to pull the show together by choosing material from the standard repertoire, although we do include original music and arrangements regularly,” he said.

Past themes include the music of late pianist Bill Evans (featuring local keyboardist Shigemi Minetaka, drummer Casey Schmidt, and Stoyanoff, who is the house bass player), the music of late überbassist Jaco Pastorius (guitarist and Music Connection co-owner Bruce MacMillan, drummer Calvin Daley and Stoyanoff) and a

tribute to local guitar legend Charlie Robinson (which, of course, featured Robinson himself, as well as other heavy hitters).

Other themes have included Gypsy jazz, bossa nova, and a night of West African music, featuring local percussionist and balaphone master Lansana Kouyaté.

Recently, both KZFR and Odyssey Winery & Vineyards have come on board as sponsors of the event. It now functions as a “partial fundraiser” for the radio station, and KZFR is looking into the possibility of broadcasting 1st Monday Jazz shows live from Café Coda, said Scarborough.

Additionally, local sound-man and musician Joe Hammons recently donated recording equipment so that the exciting shows can be captured for posterity. Café Coda employees Will Watje and Tyler Hawkins are the jazz-loving volunteers who, respectively, do sound and make MP3 tracks of the night’s music. At the Jan. 7 show—which will focus on the music of late guitarist Grant Green—an email list will be initiated so that audience members can receive MP3s of the night’s tunes in their inbox.

“I’ve made all of them, except for a couple [of shows],” Scarborough said, speaking of the enthusiastic 1st Monday Jazz attendance. Musicians play a 90-minute set—“no break, straight music.” And since the show runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m., “everybody gets home at a reasonable hour. For a Monday night gig, it’s good; even if you live 30 minutes away, you can get home by 10 o’clock.” Ω

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A musical storm will make its way through the Big Room in February.

New Monsoon, making its first visit to our venue, is known to inspire plenty of dancing and prancing with its performances. A longtime San Francisco club favorite, New Monsoon has been chosen to headline the New Year’s Eve extravaganza at the legendary Mill Valley club, Sweetwater Music Hall—an honor considering the numerous acts the venue could select. Close your eyes and think Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, and jig-worthy Southern Rock to arrive at New Monsoon; this will be a jam groove sure to get you out of your seat. (What a wonderful way to work off those holiday calories!) New Monsoon has played marquee festivals like Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Langerado, High Sierra, Telluride Bluegrass and Austin City Limits, among others. The Big Room is the perfect place to get to know New Monsoon.

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Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Howard Hardee and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Off the chain

Opening this week Texas Chainsaw 3-D The “D” is silent, you say?

Now playing

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is one of his best, and—even allowing for the habitual sideswipes of rambunctious crudity—that makes it one of the liveliest and most pungent entertainments of the past year.

It’s ostensibly a western about a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) and a freed slave by (Jamie Foxx) who track down miscreants from Juan-Carlos the slave trade while also seeking to liberate Selznick the latter’s still-enslaved wife. Much of the action, however, takes place not in the Wild West but rather in the pre-Civil War South, and the central settings are big plantations owned by swaggering grandees (Don Johnson in the first instance, Leonardo DiCaprio in the second and more consequential one).

Here, as in Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino has concocted another of his rambunctiously Django dynamic mashups, mixing disparate genres Unchained (the spaghetti western and the blaxploitation Starring Jamie melodrama, in this case) and putting them at Foxx, Christoph the service of a convulsive revenge fantasy set Waltz, Leonardo in historical circumstances of a particularly DiCaprio and grievous and volatile sort. It’s partly a spaghettiKerry western homage/pastiche with an African Washington.

Directed by American in the gunfighter/avenger role and Quentin partly a rambunctious inversion of the sentiTarantino. mental Old South/Gone with the Wind historiCinemark 14, cal romance.

Feather River Even with a 165-minute running time and Cinemas and Paradise Cinema the occasionally flimsy detour of plotting, 7. Rated R. Tarantino’s playful flair for storytelling is running full tilt the whole way. The filmmaker’s characteristic mix of wry, deceptively casual dialog scenes and abrupt explosions of violence works especially well when Waltz’s character is part of the action.

The picture’s picaresque/tragicomic brilPoor liance dwindles somewhat in almost any scene in which the Waltz character is not a factor, but Django Unchained never really loses its furiousFair ly engaging momentum. Digressive detours and abrupt shifts in tone are part of the Tarantino deal, as usual, and they’re part of the yarnspinning fun here, too.

Good The German-born Dr. King Schultz (Waltz) is a bounty hunter who travels in the guise of an itinerant dentist. An educated man with a sly Very Good and genial manner, he is the pivotal character in the story and the most thoroughly developed in terms of Tarantino-style paradoxes, moral and otherwise. Foxx is very good in the title Excellent

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role, but his character (named in honor of a distinctive series of spaghetti westerns) is more interesting early on, and less so when the generic requirements of the revenge plot begin to take precedence.

DiCaprio is very good in the key villain role, which is another of the film’s distinctively well-written parts. (Johnson’s part is similar but smaller and less nuanced.) Samuel L. Jackson has the other plum, Tarantino-esque role— an ironic Uncle Tom/house slave given to ferocious bloviations. Kerry Washington’s Broomhilda, the poetically idealized wife of Django, is the only other standout part. Ω

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by Craig Blamer I’ve never seen the stage version of

Les Mis or even heard anything from the soundtrack. So, here I’m judging this on its own terms, as a musical film, not as the Broadway show itself. And as a film, it was easily the worst thing I’ve seen at the multiplex in 2012.

On the other hand, the rest of the audience seemed genuinely moved. People were sobbing by the end, and a good chunk gave it an ovation when it faded to black.

But for me, it was pure torture. Nothing but the rudiments of Victor Hugo’s classic multifaceted novel remain. A synopsis—a tale of redemption revolving around Jean Valjean, a French peasant who, after serving time in prison for stealing bread, jumps parole and encounters a string of dramatic characters and revolutionaries in 19th-century France—serves only as life-support for two and a half hours of sung-through elevator musical.

OK, Hugh Jackman (as Valjean) and Anne Hathaway (as the ill-fated Fantine) were in their milieu. Hathaway was a little overwrought, but at least she added passion to an otherwise tedious ensemble. But Amanda Seyfried (Cosette) and Eddy Redmayne (Mar-

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The Guilt Trip

between Bilbo and Gollum was fantastically realized, and the motion-capture technology is top of the game here, with Andy Serkis’ froggy li’l critter breathing real air.

One has to appreciate the attention to detail director Peter Jackson and his crew put into realizing his overall vision. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Les Misérables

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

Still here

Hijinks ensue when a young man (Seth Rogan) is joined by his mother (Barbara Streisand) on a cross-country business trip. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Ends tonight, Jan. 3. Ostensibly a tellall biopic based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, this slightly rancid bit of movie portraiture does little justice to the book or to Hitchcock. The perverse quirks of the great director’s character and of his elder years in particular are no secret, but this complacently lurid account of the man and his work is little more than tabloid sensationalism of a maudlin and pseudo-sophisticated sort. Anthony Hopkins’ performance in the title role almost never rings true, which is probably more of a reflection on the ham-fistedness of the script (John J. McLaughlin) and the direction (Sacha Gervasi) than on the actor. Helen Mirren as Alma Reville, Hitchcock’s wife and creative partner, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh are the film’s lone bright spots.

Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit hits all the expected marks as a very short dude with big hairy feet, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), is drafted by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 12 … no, 13 dwarves for a quest to reclaim a conquered kingdom. And retrieve some gold.

Lots of gold. And of course there’s lots of walking in single file as the camera swoons across the New Zealand landscapes. And the 3-D is swell. The iconic battle of riddles

Life of Pi

Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG —J.C.S.

Lincoln

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Monsters, Inc. 3-D

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

Parental Guidance

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

Playing for Keeps

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Red Dawn

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Rise of the Guardians

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

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Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —H.H.

This is 40

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

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

Wreck-it Ralph

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

ius) were vacuums as the romantic leads, and Russell Crowe was seriously miscast as Valjean’s foil, Javert.

The Sacha Baron Cohen/Helena Bonham Carter comic relief was excruciating (the former making me want to take a lighter to the screen anytime he was on), and seemed lifted from Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sweeny Todd. (It’s probably not a good idea to evoke Sondheim when doing lesser material.)

The motivations of the characters were unclear, even when conveyed via a five-minute “song.” No actor sells a character you’ll feel bad for when they finally get around to dying. Unfortunately, the four people I really wanted to see die are the only ones who make it to the end credits. I could go on, but I feel like a bitchy Rex Reed reviewing a high-school production.

I will say that Samantha Barks (as doomed Éponine) was wonderful.

She actually made everyone else look bad. However, given its place as one of the most beloved Broadway shows of all time, how the film comes across to us newcomers to the musical will hardly matter when the box office is counted. Ω

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More from 2012:

NEW IN 2012:

MÁNÁS Art Space, California Regional Theater, Southside Playhouse, 100th Monkey Bookstore, Energy Plant Arts, Habitat Lab.

GONE IN 2012:

Austen Urry flipping for summer, at One-Mile.

Bustolini’s Deli, PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR Birds of Fire, La Fin du Monde, Ray Ray Gallery, retiring Chico Performances Director Dan DeWayne, Last Stand Comedy Venue, Babylon Community Arts Center. (And the Synthesis?)

REST IN PEACE

• Paul Harper: Chico musician/ band leader—History Invades, Soft Crest, Christian Lady Killers.

• Janice Porter: Artist, teacher and children’s-book illustrator.

• Lois Cohen: Prolific Paradise artist and vigilant plein-air painter.

• Michael Davis: Bassist for MC5 (who had relocated to Chico).

• Quentin Colgan: Larger-than-life actor, activist, City Council candidate and blogger.

• Brad Moniz: Chico theater pioneer.

• Mercedes “Midge” Frontera Gilbert: Old-school theater director/teacher.

THINK FREE.

is over. The End of Days passed us by.

The Jersey Shore has been canceled.

Post-2012 life is pretty sweet (although 2012 was pretty sweet, too, for Art and Mrs. DEVO). Just a little more housekeeping to take care of before Arts DEVO starts workin’ on 2013. First up, the traditional round-up of AD’s fave images from the arts section in 2012, followed by some overflow from last week’s year-end round-up. Also, visit Arts DEVO on Facebook and download his Best of 2012 Mix. Will his favorite song be the sassy “Bad Thing,” by King Tuff? The head-banging primitive noise of “You’re a Dog,” by Girl Band? Or … will “Gangnam Style” continue rotting our brains with its sweet torture?

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THURSDAY 1|3—WEDNESDAY 1|9

SONGWRITER SHOWCASE

A pair of interesting songwriters will be making Café Flo a tour stop on Thursday, Jan. 3. The music of composer and multi-instrumentalist Alex Rather-Taylor of the Bay Area draws influence from Frank Zappa and Elliott Smith; his counterpart, Brooklyn-based Miles Wick, will perform work from his home-made LP Open Heart.

FASTLANE: Classic rock music in the

talents in a 10-minute slot. Third and First Th of every month, 7pm. $1.

Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.

TOURING SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: Th, 1/3, 8pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530)

514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

4FRIDAY

lounge. F, 1/4, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

HINDSIGHT: Dance-friendly hip-hop, R&B and jazz in the lounge. F, 1/4, 8:30pm.

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

JASON BUELL & THE DOUBLE BARREL BAND: Rockin’ country originals and covers. F, 1/4, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy, Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

SPY PICNIC: Rock hits from the ’80s and ’90s. F, 1/4, 8pm. $1. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi-

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

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

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

CALIFORNIA COWBOYS: Foot-stompin’ country covers and originals in the brewery. F, 1/4, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.

3THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse

Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

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

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

IMPROV JAM: Open jam with Michael

Gaughan. Th, 5-8pm. Opens 1/3. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

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

LAST STAND: A stand-up comedy openmic. Th, 8-10pm. Opens 1/3. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.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.

MIP: A hip-hop/alternative rock band on

the patio. Th, 1/3, 6-9pm. Free.

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

COUNTRY NIGHT: Live country music with Rancho Mars. F, 5-8pm. Free. Towne Lounge, 327 Main St.; (530) 896-0235.

TRIBUTE TO JIMMY REED

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

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Robinson Trio. M, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.

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RETROTONES: Classic rock and country,

live and loud. Sa, 1/5, 9pm. Free. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade; (530) 343-0662.

STEVE JOHNSON: Acoustic Americana

and folk rock. Sa, 1/5, 8:30pm. Free.

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

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

DAMAGE INC: An explosive Metallica tribute band honoring the group’s early work in the brewery. Sa, 1/5, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feath erfallscasino.com.

FASTLANE: Classic rock music in the

lounge. Sa, 1/5, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

HINDSIGHT: Dance-friendly hip-hop, R&B and jazz in the lounge. Sa, 1/5, 8:30pm.

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

JASON BUELL & THE DOUBLE BARREL BAND: Rockin’ country originals and covers. Sa, 1/5, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy, Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

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

7MONDAY 1ST MONDAY JAZZ: GRANT GREEN: Dave Elke, Greg D’ Augelli, Shigemi Minetaka, Robert Delgardo and Jonahan Stoyanoff celebrate the music of guitarist Grant Green. M, 1/7, 7-8:30pm. $10. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 570-7755; www.cafecoda.com.

collection of blues players—including Lazy Lester, Kim Wilson, Rick Estrin and Mark Hummel—pay homage to the great Jimmy Reed. M, 1/7, 7:30pm. $32.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

8TUESDAY AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-

writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Opens 1/1. Free.

Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

9WEDNESDAY DR. LUNA: W, 1/9, 9pm. $3. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

JAZZ TRIO: Every Wednesday with Carey

Robinson and company. W, 5-7pm. Free.

Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

LAURIE DANA: Soul, light rock, blues, country, tin pan alley, jazz and more.

W, 7-9pm. Free. VIP Ultra Lounge, 191 E. Second St. Upstairs from The Beach.

OPEN JAM NIGHT: Join the jam. Drum kit, bass rig, guitar amp and PA system are provided, bring your own instruments. All ages until 10. W, 7pm. Free.

Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.my space.com/theitaliangarden.

OPEN MIC: All ages welcome. W, 7pm. Free.

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

POP PUNK SHOWCASE: Local rock outfit A

Cult Like Vulture shares the bill with a trio of touring pop punk bands— Stanley and the Search of Los Angeles, For the Win of San Diego, and Guts of Las Vegas. W, 1/9, 8pm. $5. Origami Lounge, 7th and Cherry Streets.

SWING DANCE WEDNESDAY: Every

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

DR. LUNA

In what is sure to be a diverse musical evening, Dr. Luna will appear alongside fellow local singersongwriter Lish Bills, Southern-fried trash-metal outfit Death Rattle and The Babylon 3 at LaSalles on Wednesday, Jan. 9. Dr. Luna, a female singer and guitarist with a clear rock ’n’ roll influence, will release her second album, The Riot of Comprehension, this month.

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Man Chest Hair Various Artists Finders Keepers Records British label Finders Keepers has been digging its grubby little paws in dusty record bins for years now, unearthing a vinyl trail of Technicolor sights and sounds that includes everything from Turkish protest songs to Czechoslovakian vampire movie soundtracks. Last year’s excellent Bollywood Bloodbath—which features B-horror movie scores from India—was more funky than frightening, and provided a dance-party soundtrack for 2011 and beyond (the grave). Their latest discoveries are assembled on—wait for it—Man Chest Hair, named for these previously unreleased testosterone-drunk gems plucked from the rock underground of Manchester, England, circa 1970s.

And they are as fantastically bristly as the title. It’s a varied collection, too. Savoury Duck’s “Dragon Flight” and Spider Jive’s “Crocadilla” sound like they should be pumped through the speakers of a coke-fueled space disco, while Urbane Gorilla’s “Ten Days Gone” and Oscar’s “Good Lovin’ Woman” are earthier and a little greasier. But the best cut of the bunch is So On And So Forth’s “Sweet Wine,” a blown-out nugget picked deep from the shag. Needless to say, Man Chest Hair comes from a parallel universe—and these songs may actually put hair on your chest.

MUSIC

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Call of Duty: Black Ops II Activision/Treyarch Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC With the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops has traditionally featured stronger campaigns than Modern Warfare, but has received flak for weaker multiplayer options. Black Ops II continues to deliver engaging storytelling—with a great villain with whom we empathize, but still hate— but the welcome surprise is a robust multiplayer experience. The campaign weaves gamers between the late-1980s and 2025 and stands as a prime example of developers pushing the limits of current-gen console hardware to deliver excellent graphics—though at this point it must feel like wringing blood from a stone. There are also optional real-time-strategy/first-person-shooter mashup missions that are incredibly fun and alter the story. Taking a few cues from Modern Warfare and running with them, the multiplayer features league play, various new game modes, unlockable emblem and gamer-card customizations, and—most important—some amazing maps. Almost every map exceeds expectations, but “Hijacked” is poised to become a longtime favorite. The perfect mix of close quarters and mid- and long-range combat options make it a crowd pleaser with great versatility. Watch out, Modern Warfare, Black Ops just grabbed a flak jacket and has you in its sights.

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—Matthew Craggs

Magico: Carta de Amor Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismoti, Charlie Haden ECM Records Of the hundreds of CDs I’ve acquired over the past couple of decades, none has been more frequently played than Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny’s Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories). It ranks right up there with Kind of Blue, the Miles Davis classic, in its enduring power to reward countless listenings. Since his early years as a jazz innovator playing with Ornette Coleman and other pathfinders, Haden has taught me how to hear the bass, to take note of just how much the best bass players do to anchor the sound and guide the tonal elements of a composition. On this double album, recorded live in Munich three decades ago, but released now for the first time, Haden is the entire rhythm section since there’s no drummer.

And, as is nearly always the case when Haden is present, the overall result is gorgeous. But I don’t want to give him all the credit. Jan Garbarek’s tenor and soprano sax inventions meld with the bass and with Egberto Gismonti’s piano and guitar to create a series of dreamscapes, all tinged with a Latin aura and a deep romanticism. The music is atmospheric, impressionistic, muted and rich. I’ve already replayed it several times, and I’ll be returning to it often for its abundant pleasures.

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

2931 3rd St

Biggs

$133,000

2/ 2

1599

1059 San Ramon Dr

Chico

$240,500

3/ 1.5

1530

11 Catalina Point Rd

Chico

$523,000

3/ 3

2869

1726 Flamingo Rd

Chico

$240,000

4/ 1.5

1647

195 Sycamore Valley Rd

Chico

$495,000

4/ 2

2428

94 Northwood Commons Pl

Chico

$235,000

2/ 2

1776

14301 Richardson Springs Rd

Chico

$439,000

3/ 3

2905

1736 Jetta Ct

Chico

$222,000

3/ 2

1438

1 Temperance Way

Chico

$305,000

4/ 2

1910

2197 Talbert Dr

Chico

$217,000

3/ 2

1602

355 Idyllwild Cir

Chico

$305,000

3/ 2.5

1925

2045 Huntington Dr

Chico

$207,000

3/ 2

1142

679 E 7th St

Chico

$292,000

2/ 2

1326

119 Terrace Dr

Chico

$204,000

3/ 1

1121

34 Barker Ct

Chico

$285,000

3/ 2

1654

47 Forest Creek Cir

Chico

$190,000

3/ 2

1498

954 Royal Dr

Chico

$243,500

3/ 2

1539

2 Oxford Way

Chico

$189,000

3/ 2

1305

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Sat. 2-4 4 Woodstone Lane (X St: Shallow Springs Terrace) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3270 sq. ft. $629,000 John Wallace 514-2405

Sat. 11-3 & Sun. 12-4 3133 Ceanothus (X St: Diablo) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2038 sq. ft. $339,900 Frank Speedy Condon 864-7726

Sat. 11-1 5 Nevadillo Court (X St: Via Mission) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1826 sq. ft. $298,000 Paul Champlin 828-2902

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

1240 Laburnum • ChiCo Wonderful home located in the Avenues, this 3 bed/2 bth, has skylights, fireplace, updated bathrooms, huge master bedroom, custom touches throughout, and a 2-car attached garage.

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1240 Laburnum Avenue (X St: 2nd & 3rd Ave.) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1443 sq. ft. $275,000 Lindsey Ginno 570-5261 Paul Champlin 828-2902

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 1009 Neal Dow Avenue (X St: E. 1st Avenue) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1600 sq. ft. $269,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

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

2561 & 2559 Banner Peak (X St: Bruce Road) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1602 sq. ft. $277,000 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1782 sq. ft. $288,000 Ed Galvez 990-2054

69 Brenda Drive (X St: Forest Avenue) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1811 sq. ft. $259,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Johnny Klinger 864-3398

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811 Teagarden Court (X St: Winkle) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1745 sq. ft. $285,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

2713 San Jose Street (X St: E. Lassen Avenue) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1066 sq. ft. $170,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

• Canyon Oaks 4 bd/3 ba, 3,200 sq ft, pool, 1 acre, custom $629,000 • 3 bd/4 ba, 2 offices, 1.66 acres, pool, near town $668,000 • Condo, 3 bd/2ba, central Chico $149,000 • New carpet + paint 3 bd/2 ba, 1,194 sq ft $188,000 • Avenues, 3 bd/2ba, 1,443 sq ft plus garage $275,000 • Senior mobile 2 bd/1 ba, 800 sq ft $10,000 • Mission Ranch 3 bd/2.5 ba, 1,837 sq ft, pool $279,000 • Manufactured home on .48 acre w/ studio $159,500 Teresa Larson (530) 899-5925 www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com

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1008 Rushmore Ave

Chico

$180,000

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1039

904 Mission Olive Rd

4 Cottage Cir

Chico

$179,500

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1499

100 Plumas Dr

1509 Sunset Ave

Chico

$153,000

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4010 Ednas Way

2117 Moyer Way

Chico

$123,000

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1471 Freestone Ct

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Oroville

$263,000

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2214

Oroville

$149,000

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1658

Oroville

$132,500

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Paradise

$240,000

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1784

448 Lincoln St

Gridley

$135,000

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155 Jay Bird Ln

Paradise

$201,500

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1856

15013 Emma Mine Way

Magalia

$350,000

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5420 Hickory Way

Paradise

$199,000

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1630

13664 W Park Dr

Magalia

$226,000

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1511

453 Apple Ln

Paradise

$180,000

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1470

14801 Chipwood Ct

Magalia

$196,000

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1851

95 Rivendell Ln

Paradise

$168,000

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13909 Cascade Dr

Magalia

$120,000

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1257 Elliott Rd

Paradise

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ficTiTiOUs BUsiNess FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DIRT ROAD 11 at 1329 Sherman Avenue #5 Chico, CA 95926.

NYEMA JANKUSKA 1329 Sherman Avenue #5 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NYEMA JANKUSKA Dated: December 4, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001690 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012 January 3, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE BLACK KETTLE at 2727 Monterey Street Chico, CA 95973.

KAMI GRIMES 2659 Monterey Street Chico, CA 95973.

LORI RICE 2727 Monterey Street Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KAMI GRIMES Dated: November 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001661 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012, January 3, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BOSTON SQUARE APARTMENTS at 550 Flying V Street Chico, CA 95928.

SUNRIVER INVESTMENTS LLC 4035 Avenida Brisa Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JOHN PLUCIANO Dated: November 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001583 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012 January 3, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE HUNTER AND THE FARMER at 1243 Magnolia Ave., Chico, CA 95926.

JENNA R HUNTER, 1243 Magnolia Ave., Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JENNA HUNTER Dated: December 3, 2012 FBN No: 2012-0001680 Published: December 13, 20, 27, 2012, January 3, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CARTER FARMS at 1338 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928.

NATALIE CARTER 13315 Helltown Rd Chico, CA 95928.

CHERI WOLF 504 Mission Santa Fe Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: NATALIE CARTER Dated: December 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001678 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012, January 3, 2013

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NAME CHANGE / PETITION / SUMMONS

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTH VALLEY CHIROPRACTIC at 2050 Talbert Drive Suite #500 Chico, CA 95928.

STEVEN TRACEY SEEGRIST 1954 Cummings Drive Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STEVE SEEGRIST Dated: December 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001681 Published: November 13,20,27, 2012, January 3, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DIAMOND BUILT CONSTRUCTION at 1315 Glenwood Ave Chico, CA 95926.

Anthony M George 1315 Glenwood Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: Anthony George Dated: December 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001711 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012, January 6, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ENLOE FOUNDATION at 249 W. 6TH Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION 1531 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: Myron Machula Dated: November 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001579 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012, January 3, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MATT WEBB CONSTRUCTION INC at 121 Yellowstone Drive Chico, CA 95973.

MATT WEBB CONSTRUCTION INC 121 Yellowstone Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MATT WEBB Dated: December 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001720 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as D AND E AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR at 3328 Esplanade #D Chico, CA 95973.

THANE HARRINGTON 1973 Belgium Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: THANE HARRINGTON Dated: November 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001663 Published: December 13,20,27, 2012, January 3, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TANNIS WINE BAR AND BISTRO at 234 W 3RD Street Chico, CA 95928.

VICTORIA GOBLE 2777 Eaton Road #79 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VICTORIA GOBLE Dated: December 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001702 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ENERGY MASTERS at 1933 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT A FLORES III 521 Daniels St Woodland, CA 95695.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT A FLORES III Dated: November 21, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001639 Published: December 20,27, 2012 January 3,10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROPERTY PAL at 1875 Auburn Oak Way Chico, CA 95928.

PAUL BRADLEY COOPER 1875 Auburn Oak Way Chico, Ca 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: Paul Cooper Dated: December 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001719 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE COUNTY JANITORIAL at 2864 Burnap Ave #1099 Chico, CA 95973.

LESLEY SAWYER 2864 Burnap Ave #1099 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LESLEY SAWYER Dated: December 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001728 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FAIR AND SQUARE HOUSEBOATS at 846 Coit Tower Chico, Ca 95928.

ADRIAN MICHAEL HELT 382 E 9TH Street Chico, CA 95928.

JASON MUNOZ 6594 Vine Street Magalia, Ca 95954.

JAMES MICHALE RUTZ 846 Coit Tower Chico, Ca 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JAMES MICHALE RUTZ Dated: December 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001710 Published; December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as IMAGINE REALTY, NETWORK MORTGAGE at 169 Cohasset Road Suite 3 Chico, Ca 95926.

WILSON INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED 169 Cohasset Road Suite 3 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KRISTEN L. WILSON Dated: December 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001716 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TURKEY TAIL FARM AND EVERYTHING HERBAL at 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

CHRISTOPHER NELSON TCHUDI 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

SUSAN JANE TCHUDI 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed: SUSAN TCHUDI Dated: November 28, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001675 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COHASSET WREATH COMPANY at 9901 Cohasset Road Cohasset, CA 95973.

BARBARA WRIGHT 9901 Cohasset Road Cohasset, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BARBARA WRIGHT Dated: December 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001698 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3,10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DIAZ CABINETS AND CONSTRUCTION at 38 Ranchita Way Chico, CA 95928.

CHARLES DIAZ 38 Ranchita Way Chico, CA 95928.

NICK DIAZ 910 West Laurel Colton, CA 92324.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: CHARLES DIAZ Dated: December 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001705 Published: December 27, 2012, January 3,10,17, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAKED BONES DUTCH OVEN COOKING at 691 E 3RD Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

DESERY JOAN UHOR 691 E 3RD Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

MATTHEW DAVUD UHOR

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691 E 3RD Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: MATT UHOR Dated: December 21, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001779 Published: January 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name THE BOOKSTORE at 118 Main Street Chico, CA 95928.

RONALD M BARRETT 118 Main Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RONALD BARRETT Dated: December 14, 2012 FBN Number: 2011-0001619 Published: January 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE BOOKSTORE at 118 Main Street Chico, CA 95928.

MUIR Q V F HUGHES 1228 Chestnut St Chico, CA 95928.

JOSH S MILLS 1228 Chestnut Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: JOSH MILLS Dated: December 14, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001746 Published: January 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as J AND L MOBILE HOME REPAIRS at 3156 Esplanade Space 270 Chico, CA 95973.

LUIS ALBERTO GARCIA 3156 Esplanade Space 270 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LUIS A. GARCIA Dated: December 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001792 Published: January 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THEGREENGREEK at 61 Artesia Drive Chico, CA 95973.

DEAN STEFANIDES

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61 Artesia Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DEAN STEFANIDES Dated: December 28, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001799 Published: January 3,10,17,24, 2013

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE SHARON ;. ANDERSON To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SHARON L. ANDERSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: WALTER T. MARSHALL, JR in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

THE Petition for Probate requests that: WALTER T. MARSHALL, JR. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

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

A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: January 10, 2013 Time: 1:30pm Dept:Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

Case Number: PR40483 Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON 1342 Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 Published: December 20,27, 2012, January 3, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CRISSY BAYLOCK & ALVIN L. KAVANAUGH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KEARA MARIE JOHNSTON Proposed name: KEARA MARIE KAVANAUGH 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: February 8, 2013 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: November 9, 2012 Case Number: 158467 Published: December 27, 2012, January 3,10,17, 2013

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In

2013, I pledge to conspire with you to increase your mastery of the art of friendship. Together we will concentrate on making you an even stronger ally than you already are. We will upgrade your skill at expressing your feelings with open-hearted clarity, and in ways that don’t make people defensive. We will also inspire you to help others communicate effectively in your presence. I hope you understand that doing this work will empower you to accomplish feats that were never before possible for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Chickens and

alligators share a common ancestor.

Seventy million years ago, they were both archosaurs. That’s why chickens possess a gene that has the ability to grow teeth. A few years ago, a biological researcher at the University of Wisconsin managed to activate this capacity, inducing a few mutant chickens to sprout alligator teeth. I predict there will be a metaphorically comparable event happening for you in 2013, Taurus. The “chicken” part of you will acquire some of the gravitas of an alligator.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “People wish

to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground,” said French novelist Marcel Proust. An attitude like that is always a barrier to growth, of course, but in 2013 it would be especially ill-advised for you Geminis. In order to win full possession of the many blessings that will be offering themselves to you, you will have to give up your solid footing and dive into the depths over and over again. That may sometimes be a bit nerve-racking. But it should also generate the most fun you’ve had in years.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s the

horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: You escaped the chains that kept you enslaved to your primary source of suffering. You broke the trance it kept you in, and you freed yourself from its demoralizing curse. Now you have forged a resilient new relationship with your primary source of suffering—a relationship that allows you to deal with it only when it’s healthy for you to do so and only when you feel strong enough to do it. Very nicely done!

Congratulations! Excellent work!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “In this world,” said

Oscar Wilde, “there are only two tragedies.

One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” I’m counting on you to refute the last part of that questionable assertion, Leo. According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, you will definitely be getting what you want in the next six months. You will receive your prize, you will earn your badge, you will win a big game or claim your birthright or find your treasure. When that happens, I trust you will make sure it is an enduring blessing.

There will be no sadness involved!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): English poet

Alfred Tennyson wrote so many memorable lines that he is among the top 10 most frequently cited authors in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. One of his most famous passages was, “’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” When he was on his death bed at age 83, his enigmatic last words were, “I have opened it.” Let’s make that declaration your mantra for the coming year, Virgo. In your case, it will have nothing to do with death, but just the opposite. It will be your way of announcing your entrance into a brighter, lustier, more fertile phase of your life. Try saying it right now: “I have opened it!”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Back in 1830, it

was expensive to stay up and do things in your room after dark. To earn enough money to pay for the whale oil that would light your lamp for an hour, you had to work for 5.4 hours. And today? It’s cheaper. You have to put in less than a second of hard labor to afford an hour’s worth of light. I suspect that in 2013 there will be a similar

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by Rob Brezsny boost in your ease at getting the light you need to illuminate your journey. I’m speaking metaphorically here, as in the insight that arises from your intuition, the emotional energy that comes from those you care about, and the grace of the Divine Wow. All that good stuff will be increasing.

story and photo by Vic Cantu

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I’ve been

absolutely terrified every moment of my life,” said Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe, “and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” I think her declaration is excellent medicine for you. In 2013, you will have great potential for upgrading your relationship with your fears—not necessarily suppressing them or smashing them, but rather using them more consistently as a springboard, capitalizing on the emotions they unleash and riding the power they motivate you to summon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Ambition can creep as well as soar,” said Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. That will be good for you to remember throughout 2013, Sagittarius. Later this year, the time may come for your ambition to soar—in the month of April, for example, and again in the month of August. But for the foreseeable future, I think your ambition will operate best if you keep it contained and intense, moving slowly and gradually, attending to the gritty details with supreme focus.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Tom Robbins’ book Skinny Legs and All, one of the characters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversation with a voice in her head. The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball.

Even when you can’t see the ball.” I think that happens to be excellent counsel for you to heed during the next six months, Capricorn. You may not always be able to figure out what the hell is going on, but that shouldn’t affect your commitment to doing the right thing. Your job is to keep your own karma clean and pure—and not worry about anyone else’s karma.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ll be

bold and predict that 2013 will be a time when you’ll discover more about the art of happiness than you have in years. Here are some clues to get you started. 1. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

—Agnes Repplier. 2. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.” —Epictetus. 3. “For the rational, healthy person, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.” —Nathaniel Branden. 4. “Our happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.”

—E. Wigglesworth. 5. “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” —William H. Sheldon. 6. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” —Charles Kingsley.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2013, I

pledge to help you feel at peace and in love with your body; I will do everything in my power to encourage you to triumph over media-induced delusions that tempt you to wish you were different from who you actually are. My goal is to be one of your resourceful supporters in the coming months—to be a member of your extensive team of allies. And I will be working with you to ensure that this team grows to just the right size and provides you with just the right foundation. If all goes well, your extra help will ensure that you finish almost everything you start in the coming year. You will regularly conquer everyday chaos and be a master of artful resolutions.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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Bill Wattenburg is a scientist, inventor and businessman who for 25 years hosted a national radio talk show on Bay Area-based KGO Radio 810 AM, where he expounded on everything from how things work to present-day politics. The opinionated Renaissance man is a Chico native and Chico State alumnus who went on to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering and physics from UC Berkeley. Over the course of his career, Wattenburg worked in governmental research, working on such things as nuclear weapons and guidance systems for NASA programs. He also knows Clint Eastwood and appeared in some of his films. Now, at 76, Wattenburg has moved back to Chico, where he broadcasts his radio show, The Open Line to America, airing Sunday nights, 8-11 p.m., on Chico’s KPAY 1290 AM as well as dozens of other U.S. stations.

What brings you back to Chico?

I’ve always loved Chico and I’m raising two daughters, [ages] 8 and 11. Chico’s schools are better than the Bay Area’s. Plus, it’s one of my favorite areas to broadcast from, since I can meet listeners on the street every day walking downtown.

What do you like best about broadcasting?

The fact that I get to talk to millions of people and let callers take me on. Unlike other shows, I don’t dictate the topics, and that makes for exciting radio.

How did you end up in three Clint Eastwood movies?

I got to know Clint when he was a teenager fight-

ing fires with me in Butte County. We later played celebrity tennis tournaments together. He invited me to be in those movies: The Dead Pool, Pink Cadillac and True Crime. The Dead Pool is a Dirty Harry movie where I play a talk show host who gets stalked and killed by the bad guy.

What are some of your other accomplishments?

I dug the lake in California Park. I started a 60 Minutes-style Bay Area TV show, People’s Five, in the ’70s. Among my many inventions is a helicopter-pulled mine sweeper used in the first Gulf War after Saddam Hussein said his mines would kill 50,000 U.S. troops.

Are you a conservative or liberal?

Neither. Conservatives think I’m a liberal because I don’t believe men should tell women how many kids they can have and I don’t think gays should be told whether they can marry.

Liberals think I’m conservative because I believe the U.S. should pay its bills, I’ve worked on nuclear weapons, and I think we should run down terrorists before they run us down.

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Quotations, 2012 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. –Carl G. Jung (1875–1961) Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.

–Annie Dillard (1945– )

greatest help to the world. –Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

–Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855) The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you. –David Foster Wallace (1962–2008)

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy.

The amount of work is the same. –Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998)

Men are men, but Man is a woman. –Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions. –Seng-Ts’an ( ? –606)

If others seem deceitful to you, it is because you deceive yourself, and then project this outward upon others. –Seth

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. –Horace (65–8 BCE)

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. –Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. –Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–1965) Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

–Wayne W. Dyer (1940– ) Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. –Neale Donald Walsch (1943– ) If you can learn to make the mind still, it will be the

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

–Lauryn Hill (1975– ) Think enough and you won’t know anything. –Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) What most of us think of as fear is primarily a mental process of imagining situations that do not exist in the moment. –Cheri Huber (1944– ) Transformation always involves the falling away of things we have relied on, and we are left with a feeling that the world as we know it is coming to an end, because it is. –Mark Nepo (1951– ) January 3, 2013

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