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opening a door to the closet in which Americans collectively keep awareness of our mortality. We hide, hoping to deny, our vulnerability to injury, disease, disability, death. In this denial, we lose something essential of the truth of our natures, of how precious our time alive can be; or so we are told by those no longer in denial— dying people, and the family members, care providers and hospice workers who serve them. by Though the vast majority of AmeriMalama MacNeil cans express the wish to die at home, only about 25 percent die outside a hosThe author states pital or nursing facility. A recent Harvard that she has University study found that 62 percent of maintained a manual medical expenses were for intensive therapy practice in measures at the end of life. There are so Chico for 15 years, many options, procedures, protocols and and brings her choices for life prolongation that most service as a hospice volunteer and training people find making informed choices or in soul midwifery to formulating clear advance directives her work as a doula insurmountably daunting. to the dying. She is a The examination of end-of-life issues founding member of and options has been called the most the Alliance for important and costly conversation AmeriSupport and ca isn’t having. We are unused to using, Education in Dying or even hearing, straight-forward lanand Death. 4 CN&R October 17, 2013

guage mentioning dying and death. “Dead” is treated as a four-letter word. However, there are signs of change. Predicated on the premise that “death deserves discourse,” the “Death Café” movement (www.deathcafe.org) is bringing people together to “talk about death, drink tea/coffee, and eat cake.” Locally, Death Café is scheduled every first Thursday at a downtown venue. Another initiative recognizing that death and dying have a place in our lives as natural and fundamental as nourishment—“Talk About Death Over Dinner” (www.deathoverdinner.org)— was launched this August. Locally, 19 people came together over pizza for stimulating and moving conversation. In the movement to reclaim dying as a human event, a variety of non-medical practices, both formal and informal, have arisen to augment hospice care. Locally, the Alliance for Support and Education in Dying and Death (alliancesedd@gmail.com) is developing as a network of such resources. The annual fall event Befriending Death will be held this November at the Chico Women’s Club. The community is invited to celebrate “Days of the Dead” with traditional memorial altar-making, festive food, death rehearsals, eulogy writing, legacy book creation, and music, as well as Death Café all afternoon. Ω

Department officers should trigger further consideration of how local law-enforcement officials respond to vehicle thefts and also how officerinvolved shootings are investigated. We cannot think of a single case in which Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey and the multiagency Critical Incident Protocol Team he leads have determined an officer-involved shooting death unjustified. That would mean that local police departments and the sheriff’s office have flawless records when it comes to using lethal force. Ramsey, who has been the top lawman in the county for about 25 years, is an elected official, but that doesn’t mean the local law-enforcement agencies that report to him don’t hold influence. The police departments, in particular, have unions with a lot of members and community support. One answer to resolve this conflict of interest—whether real or perceived—is to bring in members of outside agencies to conduct investigations. That protocol is being considered in Wisconsin by a Republican state representative—Garey Bies—who, concerned by three officer-involved deaths in the state, is sponsoring a bill with a number of key points to address any conflicts. The bill would, for example, set up a three-person team of investigators (two of whom do not work for the agency associated with the death). Additionally, it would establish a five-person review board whose members— composed of a retired or reserve judge, various law-enforcement personnel, a former DA, and a criminaljustice professor—would be appointed by the attorney general. Bies’ effort is a smart one. After all, the public’s trust is at stake. Our local legislators should take a page from his book and introduce similar legislation in California. This would do a lot to quell concerns about excessive force. Officers who follow proper protocol and have nothing to hide should have no concerns about an outside agency vetting cases of lethal force. We would recommend outside review of the fatal shooting of Breanne Sharpe, the Magalia teen who died at the hands of a Chico Police officer on Sept. 22 after stealing a car and leading the police on a chase. Ramsey’s review of her death left a couple of questions in our minds. First, we wonder if the officer who fired the fatal shot had put himself in a dangerous position. Second, we cannot reconcile how Sharpe was shot in the head and immediately incapacitated while heading in reverse with how the car she was driving was moving forward when it finally came to a stop. In other words, we question the assertion that she was attempting to run over police officers, and rather wonder whether she had backed up and then quickly gone into drive to evade arrest. What’s also noteworthy is that, all together, the officers at the scene fired off 19 rounds in a residential area. Two of them struck Sharpe. Thirteen hit the car she was driving. The other four stray shots hit a number of things, including a bus stop and a garage. Thankfully, they didn’t strike someone in the nearby apartment complex, or passersby. We’ll never know what would have happened if Chico police had simply stopped their pursuit. It’s unlikely—considering the incident occurred at 2 a.m.—that Sharpe would have injured other motorists. It stands to reason that her joyride very likely would have ended without anyone being hurt. As it stands, one life is lost, a family is devastated, and a member of our local law-enforcement agency will for the rest of his days carry the burden of taking a life—a young life. If that outcome doesn’t call for some careful consideration, we don’t know what does. Ω

Ramsey, who has been the top lawman in the county for about 25 years, is an elected official, but that doesn’t mean the local law-enforcement agencies that report to him don’t hold influence.

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Downtown I get a lot of interesting—sometimes strange—mail, both email and snail mail, and lately much of the correspondence has come from folks who are extremely upset about the state of our fair city. One region in particular. Last week, for example, I opened an envelope whose only contents was the cover of our most recent Discover Chico guide featuring a gorgeous photo of the tree-lined Esplanade with its backdrop of vibrant yellow and red fall hues. On it, the writer had circled the word jewel—as in Chico is the “jewel of the Sacramento Valley”—and scribbled in big black letters, “This is a joke—Chico is no longer a jewel!” I’m assuming, of course, that the issues in downtown are what prompted the anonymous letter. I’ve received several emails of the same general tone over the past few months, and one letter-to-the-editor writer this week paints a pretty bleak picture of the area. Jodi Drysdale (see Letters, page 6) said she doesn’t take her kids downtown very often because she feels the area is unsafe. She recalls witnessing two men shooting up, presumably heroin, in broad daylight in a public space recently. She goes on to describe Chico as an enabling city. I’ve worked downtown for the past seven years, but I’ve spent time in the region on a near-daily basis since moving here 15 years ago. Unlike Ms. Drysdale, I don’t feel unsafe when walking around. Then again, now that I’m a mom, my after-dark outings in the area are infrequent. Still, even during the day, the atmosphere is noticeably different than just three years ago. I use that as the benchmark because I, too, have noticed some stark changes compared to when I was the CN&R’s news editor and chief city reporter, when I regularly attended the various public meetings, such as the City Council and general-plan-update meetings. Back then, I would head in and out of the council chambers anywhere between 8 a.m. and midnight, depending on the meeting, and often there would be a person or two hanging out nearby and maybe smoking pot. But never were there straight-up encampments outside of City Hall. Now there are. A lot of the people who set up there with their umbrellas and giant backpacks may split once the temperatures plummet and the rains begin. For now, though, they’re here. One of the striking things to me is that these aren’t folks I recognize from my many years of being a downtowner. To me at least, they seem like they’re new to town. Like others, I wonder what brought them to Chico. And what keeps them here. Next week, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, the City Council indirectly will be discussing these folks during a special study session focusing on downtown issues. I suspect a lot of business owners are going to show up to vent about them, and I imagine they will share some pretty eye-opening stories. I just hope it’s a productive exercise that doesn’t devolve into a finger-pointing session. But I have my suspicions.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R.

Check it out, hikers Re “Best of Chico, Editors’ picks” (Cover feature, Oct. 10): We were happy to see the Best Day Hike outside Bidwell Park in the Best of Chico edition. But you linked to www.Local Hikes.com, an outside for-profit website! We are Chico Hiking Association, founded right here in Chico, and entirely nonprofit. Most important, we have much better maps of the Dome Trail free for downloading at www.chicohiking.org. MICHAEL JONES Chico

Props to kitty helpers Re “Cat-trap fever” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, Oct. 10): Thank you for your informative and empathetic article on the Neighborhood Cat Advocates. They were very helpful to us and our little feral kitty. We are in the process of socializing him, but were unable to catch him long enough to get him neutered. This is so important in light of Chico’s overpopulation of kitties. The NCA knew the humane things to do to accomplish this, and its volunteers are genuinely caring. We will be contributing to the NCA cause, and I encourage other Chicoans to do the same. They are in great need of funds. Thank you again, Neighborhood Cat Advocates! SHELLYE HASSELL Chico

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Blame the public sector Re “Looking for buy-in” (Cover feature, by Daniel Weintraub, Oct. 3): Obamacare is not the solution to rising medical costs. My family will be expected to pay the premiums and then spend another $12,700 on services before we receive any benefits. We are no longer allowed to pay the rate the insurance companies pay for services—20 percent. Instead we’ll pay 40 percent of service charges mandated by hospital administrators. Medical costs have grown out of control because of the healthcare packages given our public employees, packages that pay for anything they want at any charge the doctor comes up with, payment guaranteed by the taxpayers. They run up the cost of health care for everybody else. They’re the freeloaders—we pay more than 30 percent of their premiums, while they pay 9 percent to nothing. Next time you encounter an overcrowded emergency room or can’t get in to see your doctor, ask yourself how many public employees got in ahead of you. In Chico, the pensions alone cost us more than $10 million a year, and then we pay their health benefits. We also give them workman’s comp and social security. If we could throw off these ridiculous benefits and pensions, we could afford Single Payer for every citizen in the state. JUANITA SUMNER Chico

Response to rebuttal Re “Rebuttal from the trio” (Letters, by Mary Fitch, Oct. 10): I generally don’t like tit-for-tat letters, but feel clarification is needed. I didn’t “sling mud,” just facts regarding [Mary Fitch, Quené Hansen and Alicia Meyer’s] pay/benefit package and the fact that they also enjoyed tuition reimbursement in addition to working flex time. I did not imply that they were the only employees that enjoyed these benefits but rather included it as additional information should the general public be unaware this was yet another taxpayer-paid benefit. Nothing is “fed” to me by public officials. The information I have I obtain by purchase of the proposed fiscal budget, copies of Personnel Allocation Worksheets and the individual department detail that makes up the budget. In addition, I read and print reports for both the City Council and Finance Committee meetings and

have done so for the last five or six years in addition to actually attending the meetings. Time-consuming and expensive—but both worth it to have the facts. As to revealing the entire history to our new city manager, that seems akin to telling the farmer the pigs have all been let out of the pen long after they are gone. STEPHANIE L. TABER Chico

Downtown is a mess Other than going to work, I avoid downtown. I very rarely take my children down there, not because of the language, smell, vomit or need to literally step over people sleeping in front of businesses, but because it is not safe and our city doesn’t currently prioritize safety for citizens. I left a downtown business a couple of weeks ago and walked past two guys sitting near a dumpster shooting up—needles in their arms—in broad daylight downtown in a visible, public place. It’s too much, folks. I am all for supporting those who want support, but in my opinion, we have become a city that enables this type of behavior. I’m a big believer in the idea that if you’re not contributing, you’re taking away from. While I know we have a lot of givers, the takers are having a bigger impact and are draining our resources and killing our downtown. Our sense of community is fading away. Our city leadership is compromising our safety and the safety of the first responders who protect us. I cannot see my children living in this community if this is the direction we’re headed. JODI DRYSDALE Chico

Ponder this Since July 1, I have been collecting articles about the homeless situation in Chico from the Chico Enterprise-Record and the Chico News & Review. These have been preserved in a scrapbook. This very unscientific survey has yielded 69 articles from the E-R newspapers and four from the CN&R. In my judgment, of the 69 appearing in the E-R, 44 (63.8 percent) were considered negative toward the homeless. Twenty-five (36.2 percent) were positive. Three were neutral, so not included in the calculations. The CN&R’s four articles are considered positive toward the homeless. What do these calculations reflect? Possibly, the results indicate the opinion of the majority of

the community at large. Or, is it merely the position assumed by the two newspapers? Then, where does the City Council fit into this picture? I leave it up to you to ponder the results. DICK CORY Chico

Editor’s note: The City Council will be discussing downtown issues, including the local homeless and transient population, during a special study session on Oct. 22. (See Second & Flume, page 5.)

“Our sense of community is fading away. ” –Jodi Drysdale

Two-market solution? Some downtown businesses don’t want the Saturday farmers’ market where it is now located because market parking competes with downtown customer parking and products on Saturday. Some downtown businesses want the market moved to Sunday because it competes with Saturday business downtown. Other downtown businesses believe the market draws customers to their businesses on Saturday. Some shoppers want to keep the Saturday market where it’s at because that’s what they like and are used to. Isn’t that basically the controversy? Seems like a situation where not everyone can be accommodated. Or can they? Why not have a Sunday market in the City Hall lot while maintaining the Saturday market where it’s presently located? That would permit market vendors another day to sell local products, give shoppers an option when to shop, pacify some downtown businesses because it potentially frees up some parking and competition on Saturday. It may turn out that future day or location changes aren’t as big a deal as we worry they are. If a Sunday market at a new location works out, it might transition the current market away from its present time and location in a less jarring way. M. ASHLOCK Concow

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Those interested in purchasing a leaf trimmer as the harvest season arrives may want to contact the Butte County District Attorney. Earlier this month, two used trimmers were advertised on eBay with a seller going by the name of butteda. DA Mike Ramsey said the trimmers were confiscated as asset forfeitures in recent years from those whose marijuana gardens were operating outside the bounds of Proposition 215. Two were taken by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office and one by Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force. At a starting price of $6,500, one has sold for $7,500, with the money going to the Sheriff’s Office, Ramsey said. Anyone is invited to bid and buy, the DA said, including those who “are operating a legitimate [marijuana] collective that is within the legal guidelines.”

Bed bugs bite

The Torres Community Shelter on Silver Dollar Way was draped with a tent for fumigation purposes on Oct. 14.

BROWN AFTER GUNS AND TREES

Gov. Jerry Brown last week signed laws that both angered and appeased local state representatives. First, he signed Assembly Bill 744 by Assemblyman Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) and Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) to expand tree removal as a means of reducing catastrophic forest fires and, in the words of Nielsen, restoring “forests to their natural and safe conditions.” The law increases the size of trees that can be legally removed from those with an 18-inch diameter to those 24 inches in diameter. Environmental-protection groups aren’t too happy with the law. On the other hand, those same groups do support Brown’s signing of Assembly Bill 711, which bans the use of lead bullets. Nielsen, however, wasn’t so pleased. He said in a press release, “This bill may effectively destroy time-honored family outdoor gatherings, and end a vital component of rural life in California.” Overall, Brown signed eight bills aimed at gun restrictions, while vetoing four others—all penned by Democrats.

CONVICTS TO CLEAN PARK

The Chico City Council moved forward on Tuesday evening (Oct. 15) with a plan to use citizens in the Alternative Custody Supervision program to do cleanup work in Lower Bidwell Park to allow Caper Acres, the popular children’s park, to remain open during the city’s financial crisis. As explained by Councilman Randall Stone (pictured), the program calls for low-level criminal offenders in the program (so-called non-violent, non-sexual, non-serious offenders serving their time outside of jail as part of the state’s Assembly Bill 109 realignment) to work there under the supervision of the Butte County Sheriff’s Office. The council voted 6-0—with Councilwoman Ann Schwab recused because she lives near Lower Park—to have staff draft an agreement with ACS for the work, which will be conducted at no charge to the city. Currently, local business ServPro has been volunteering cleanup services at the park to help keep Caper Acres open. However, the company’s commitment ends on Nov. 1. 8 CN&R October 17, 2013

Local shelter temporarily closed to battle bed-bug infestation

Tforced to shut down service to the homeless at its Silver Dollar Way location in south Chico he Torres Community Shelter was

and move operations to the First Baptist Church on Palmetto Avenue on Oct. 14. story and Brad Montgomery, the shelter’s photo by executive director, said a resilient Tom infestation of bed bugs had Gascoyne forced the temporary shift. tomg@ The 120-bed shelter was newsreview.com fumigated by Clark Pest Control in the hopes that it would be open again for human guests by Thursday, Oct. 16. Bed bugs feed on the blood of people and animals, usually at night while the person or animal is sleeping, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The flat, reddishbrown, quarter-inch-long bugs crawl to get around, or else are carried about by their hosts. The blood-sucking bugs were More first noticed in the shelter about information: six months ago, Montgomery The Torres said. This marked the first time Community Shelter the pests have ever been detectis located at 101 Silver Dollar Way. ed in the 14-year history of the Go to www.chico shelter. “We tried different treatments shelter.org or call 891-9048 for more that at first really seemed to be info. Visit effective, and [the bed bugs www.cdc.gov/ parasites/ would] disappear for a while,” bedbugs/faqs.html he said. “But we found out a fair to learn more amount about these insects’ about bed bugs. lifestyle, including that they can

go without eating for up to a year. … “You can do something to eradicate most of them and it seems like they’ve gone away, but they’re actually in the walls breeding and building up a higher tolerance level for the treatment you’re using.” Montgomery said those treatments included heat, various sprays and fumigation concentrated in particular areas where the bugs were spotted. “It seemed like none of these things completely eradicated the problem,” he said. “So now we are taking a much more aggressive step because we want to be completely rid of them.” The shelter’s guests were moved

to the First Baptist Church’s Fellowship Hall. That facility shares its restrooms with Rose Scott Open-Structure School, which occupies two classrooms at the rear of the church property. The move had some parents and teachers concerned that the bugs may accompany the shelterusers and invade the school. A letter to parents dated Oct. 14 from Cindy Carlson, the school’s curriculum director and lead teacher, addressed those concerns. She wrote that the school was unaware of the bed-bug issue until told late Thursday (Oct. 10) evening by church Pastor Ted Sandberg, and that few details were initially provided. “We have been assured, by both Pastor Ted and the Torres Shelter, that we would not have any problems due to

those in need,” the letter says. “They will arrive in the Fellowship Hall around 4:30 p.m. and will be gone before any of your children arrive in the morning. We do know that they will be screened before they are let in and all their bedding and bags will be left outside.” In a press release, Montgomery, the shelter’s executive director, thanked Sandberg and the church for allowing use of its facilities. The problem the shelter faces is considerable in a number of ways, he said, including health and financial concerns. Clark Pest Control is offering a reduced rate for its services, but the infestation is still a financial hardship, Montgomery said. “We are getting a discount,” he said, “but it is costing $11,500, which, at the rate of $15 per person, is equal to 767 nights of stay for us. The expense will basically exhaust our reserve fund for any unforeseen problems having to do with building, maintenance or facility concerns.” The pest-control company placed a tent over the building on Monday morning, Oct. 14, and then sprayed with Vikane, Dow Chemical Co.’s brand name for the fumigant insecticide sulfuryl fluoride. After the gas evaporated, the company was to go back into the building for tests. (Similarly, Rose Scott School and the First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall were to be inspected by Clark Pest Control after the homeless

guests leave.) “They believe it’ll be safe to come back in around noon on Wednesday, but we’ve given ourselves a cushion just in case,” Montgomery said. “And we do have a backup plan of potentially staying [at the church] another night if there are still pockets of chemicals in the building.” He said the shelter is adopting new procedures that are “both respectful and thorough” as far as checking for bugs that may be coming in on guests’ possessions or on the guests themselves. The new procedures will also increase costs, he added. Darren Jones, an environmentalhealth specialist with the Butte County Health Department, said there has been an increase in the number of bed-bug sightings reported recently, but that may be misleading. “It’s becoming more public now as it’s more often in the news,” he said. “Locally owned hotels and apartment complexes and multiple-unit living quarters are reporting bed bugs. And there are stories of people bringing the bugs into their homes in college areas where they buy second-hand furniture and other goods.” According to the CDC, America is one of many countries now experiencing “an alarming resurgence” in bed-bug populations. The exact cause is not clear at this point, but scientists suspect it is associated with the bugs’ increased resistance to available pesticides, a jump in international travel, a general ignorance about the proper control of bed bugs these days because they seemed to be “gone” for so long, as well as the ongoing decline or elimination of pestcontrol programs at state and local public-health agencies. For his part, Montgomery said he

appreciates the support received to this point. “I’d like to thank the Red Cross for providing us with some cots so we wouldn’t have to move mattresses,” he said, “and the Salvation Army, which has given us mattresses in previous times. And I want to thank the Jesus Center for allowing us to use their trucks for transport, and all the organizations and individuals that are stepping up to help us.” Montgomery also encourages donations from the public to help the shelter weather this bed-bug storm by sending checks payable to the Torres Community Shelter at 101 Silver Dollar Way, Chico, CA, 95928, or by making an online donation at www.chicoshelter.org. The shelter, he noted in his press release, “increases people’s chances of stabilizing their lives and improving their circumstances. “In the past 12 months, we served 729 people, who were staying with us and not living on the streets, and we set a record of helping 301 people escape homelessness and move into a more stable situation.” Ω

Obamacare fair

Left: Covered California’s information fair at Chico State lured students in with free pizza.

The state’s health-insurance exchange lures Chico State students with food

Below: Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California and a speaker at the fair.

hat, one might wonder, is the best way to W get Chico State students interested in Covered California, the state’s health-insurance

exchange under the Affordable Care Act? Hiring a DJ and offering free pizza from Woodstock’s Pizza was the approach taken at the Covered California information fair held last Thursday afternoon (Oct. 10) at Chico State’s Trinity Commons, where a series of booths offered the opportunity to enroll in the exchange, which opened nationwide on Oct. 1. Several speakers, including the exchange’s executive director, Peter V. Lee, emphasized the importance of health coverage to the few dozen students in attendance. “Many of you are here because you know you need health care,” Lee said, while conceding that, “Some of you are here because of the pizza.” Lee said the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “decided health insurance is a right, not a privilege. It’s a big deal for the nation, for the state. It’s a big deal for Chico, for many working Californians, for students.” Joey Telitz, a 24-year-old senior businessadministration major, was admittedly one of those students interested exclusively in pizza, though he offered his take on Obamacare, as the ACA is commonly called. “I feel like there are more pressing issues,” he said, citing national debt as a more relevant concern, and adding that as a business major, he naturally dislikes increased government intervention. “Obama wants to be remembered like [Franklin D. Roosevelt] with the New Deal stuff, like it’ll be his legacy.” Telitz then proceeded to display a decidedly passive attitude toward the information fair and Obamacare in general. “I don’t know anything, really,” he shrugged. “I think Obamacare’s stupid. … I just want some pizza.”

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heard of the Affordable Care Act, but don’t know anything about Covered California,” she said. “They don’t know what it is. I’ve done a lot of explaining the basics. All they know is that there’s a penalty [at tax time for those without insurance], but they aren’t seeing all the benefits. “A lot of people will qualify for free health care—especially in the student population.” Whether Telitz cares or not, members of his age group—who, in ACA lingo, are referred to as “young invincibles” because of their tendency to think they won’t get sick and need health care—are the primary target of Covered California’s outreach campaign. In order for the exchange to work (as explained in CN&R cover story “Looking for buy-in,” Oct. 3) enough young, healthy people need to participate in the exchange to offset the cost of the older, sicker, more expensive enrollees. But misinformation—or, in some cases, no information—seems to be Covered California’s biggest obstacle on the state’s college campuses. At the fair at Chico State, Natalia Butler, outreach and education coordinator at Women’s Health Specialists, used an iPad to give students a rough idea of what insurance through Covered California likely would cost, and allowed them to sort through available plans. She found that many of the students are unfamiliar with the exchange. “A lot of the people I’ve talked to have

SIFT|ER This party sucks! While the rift between Republican and Democratic lawmakers has grown so wide as to force a government shutdown, their constituents seem to agree on one thing—it’s time for a new party. According to the results of a Gallup poll published Oct. 11, 52 percent of Republicans and 49 percent of Democrats support the idea of a third major political party. A total of 60 percent of people polled said both major parties are doing a poor job—the highest rate in 10 years. A mere 26 percent—an alltime low—said the two-party system adequately represents America.

The Student Health Center receives

about 30,000 visits a year, meaning each Chico State student averages about two annual visits, said Dr. Deborah Stewart, the health center’s medical chief of staff, when introducing Lee. About a third of those students are uninsured. Stewart said that for Chico State students, relying on the health center alone is risky because students’ access to the center is limited to business hours—8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday—and that outside of those times, those in need of medical services are directed to an immediate-care clinic or an emergency room, which is a costly proposition for an uninsured student. One such student is Cammi Carter, a 20-year-old junior communication-design major who was at the information fair due to a genuine interest in enrolling in Covered California. Though she’s not sold on the idea—she said she “would like to know everything” before signing up for the exchange—the prospect of subsidized health care is appealing to her. “For me, it’s a positive because I don’t have enough to afford health care at the moment,” Carter said. “If I were to break an arm, it would cost me a lot of money … and I have to pay for my tuition.” Carter expressed a sentiment likely shared by many of her peers—that informing oneself about the sweeping federal law is easier said than done. “I think it’s that way for most of Americans,” she said. “Not a lot of people are willing to actually read a bill.” Overall, Carter said she believes that providing college students with information about the health-insurance exchange is helpful. “I think it’s good they’re doing this and getting it out there, so kids on campus know what’s available to them,” she said. —HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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Much ado about meals Church’s longstanding efforts feeding the needy come under fire hico’s City Plaza has been the Cnity-outreach site of a local church’s commuministry for years,

but its gatherings there, which include breaking bread with members of the homeless and transient population, are now in jeopardy. During the City Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 15, one of the items on the agenda was discussion about the Orchard Church and its Church on the Street ministry. More specifically, the agenda called for the panel to consider Councilman Sean Morgan’s request to agendize a review of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission’s recent decision to approve a permit allowing the church to continue its Sundayevening get-togethers at the plaza. By the time of the meeting, however, a community member had filed an appeal of the commission’s decision, so rather than discussing whether to agendize a review, Morgan expounded on “a disturbing chain of events,” as he put it, leading to his request. In short, he described being blindsided by the commission’s decision. He’d learned about it from reading a story in the Chico Enterprise-Record last week. “I was surprised by that headline … given the transient issues we’re faced with downtown,” he said. Morgan went on to express shock that the council hadn’t been consulted over what he considered a “lightning-rod issue.” His decision to bring the issue to the council was intended to explain what had happened to members of the public, a number of whom had emailed and called him expressing anger over the permit being granted. The freshman councilman then explained how City Manager Brian Nakamura asked if he wanted to agendize the issue, but that he later learned through city staff that the council could neither place a review on the agenda nor appeal the commission’s decision. “My knee-jerk reaction to that was, ‘That’s insane,’ because the council is the governing body that gives authority to the commisOrchard Church Pastor Jim Culp speaks during one of the church’s recent gatherings at City Plaza. PHOTO BY ROBBY MALONEY

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sion,” he said. “So I just thought, so if the commission can usurp the power of the council, maybe we need to look at suspending all the commissions, because this isn’t democracy.” Morgan said he subsequently found out that a private citizen could appeal the decision. He then decided to file an appeal himself, only to find out that doing so would mean he would have to recuse himself when the council discusses the issue. “And I’m just going, OK, I [now] understand all of the jokes about government and how none of this process works—at all. And to be quite honest, I was appalled,” Morgan said. Long story short, one of the

citizens upset about the church’s gatherings—local businessman Wayne Cook—filed an appeal. That appeal, according to City Clerk Deborah Presson, likely will occur during the last meeting in November. (As it turns out, Morgan noted, the city manager has the authority to agendize any decision by a commission, which explains how the issue appeared on Tuesday’s agenda.) Morgan went on to say that he’d met with some members of Orchard Church, including its pastor, Jim Culp, who explained that the church had been feeding the needy at City Plaza for more than five years, and that only recently did he learn that a permit is required. Toward the end of his selfdescribed monologue, Morgan claimed that the church didn’t actually receive a permit, but rather its

application was approved with a recommendation that the permit be approved as well. Because the council was taking no action on the item, Mayor Scott Gruendl decided to close the floor to public comment on the issue. However, during a break in the meeting, Culp told the CN&R he’d jumped through a bunch of legal loopholes, including getting special certification from the Butte County Health Department. He said he believed the church had received a permit through the city. Mark Herrera, a member of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission, attended Tuesday’s meeting and confirmed that the commission had indeed given the church the requisite permit. That decision came out of a Sept. 30 meeting during which the panel’s seven members agreed by unanimous vote to allow the church’s events to continue for three months’ time. Herrera said the commission routinely allows community groups to use parks for events. “We pass permits left and right,” he said. He noted that all of the supporting documents related to the commission’s meeting, including the application from the church, were available for the City Council and the public to view prior to the commission’s meeting. Herrera said he’d attended one of the gatherings to gauge for himself what was happening there. “It’s the most peaceful event I’ve seen at City Plaza,” he said. —MELISSA DAUGHERTY melissad@newsreview.com

The cost of free speech

Street Street dweller dweller issued issued citation citation for for panhandling panhandling homas “Digger” Lake is a street person, Tdowntown often seen sitting on the sidewalks of Chico with his cat, Spot, and

holding a cardboard sign asking for change. He seldom verbally asks for financial assistance—he said he lets his sign speak to the passing sidewalk pedestrians. On Wednesday, Oct. 9, Lake was perched on the southwest corner of First and Main streets holding a sign that read, “The right not to be Cen-Cerd! Spare-change?” when a Chico Police officer pulled up in an SUV. “He started writing a ticket and I asked him what it was for,” Lake later recalled. “He said it was for panhandling, and I said, ‘So you’re saying I don’t have the right to say something?’ He said, ‘That’s right.’” The officer was Peter Durfee, who serves as president of the Chico Police Officers’ Association. He was enforcing the city’s municipal code under Division VII, Consumer Protection, Chapter 9.54, “Aggressive and Deceptive Solicitation.” The city’s panhandling law was adopted 10 years ago and written by former Assistant City Attorney Alicia Rock. Crafting such an ordinance is no easy task, in part because of something in the U.S. Constitution called the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. At the time, then-City Attorney Dave Frank told the City Council it must “put together findings that justify this type of legislation.” Former City Manager Tom Lando said the ordinance would be aimed at “aggressive” panhandling. “I don’t want us to deceive ourselves,” Lando said. “With non-aggressive [panhandling], there is nothing we can do about it.” The adopted ordinance, as noted in its title, outlaws not only aggressive but deceptive panhandling as well, and designates areas where it is prohibited, including within 15 feet of an ATM, bus stop, outdoor vending machine “or any other device which accepts coins or paper currency, except parking meters or newspaper-vending machines.” There is also a ban on begging within five feet of a public crosswalk or while “seated on or leaning against any public bench, planter, monument, or other public property.”

Thomas Lake sits on the corner where he was issued a ticket for panhandling on Oct. 9. PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

Lake said those latter two offenses are what officer Durfee accused him of violating. While he was sitting close to the trafficsignal pole on the corner, he said, with his attendant property including Spot, he was not leaning against the pole. Nor does he think he was within five feet of the crosswalk. “I need to get a measuring tape out here to prove it,” he said. Lake, who is 35, said he’s been in town for 15 years and has lived on the streets for the last 21. He was born in the Bay Area. “I sit there and say ‘spare change,’ using the words as an idea,” he said, “I’m not specifically asking for money.” Lake has a collection of signs including: “It’s not about money, I need change” and “Run for your lives I’m going to ask you for change.” This is not Lake’s first ticket. He’s

had a few others in the past two weeks for illegal camping, and smoking a cigarette in City Plaza. In fact, over the years he’s been handed more than 40 tickets, mostly for camping in parklands. Last December, he had an altercation in Lost Park in which he said he was attacked by a man with a knife. He took the knife and stabbed the man in self-defense. But he was arrested and spent five weeks in the Butte County Jail. The charges were dropped because the other man left the county, Lake said. During his incarceration, his feline, Spot, was cared for by employees of the Shalom Free Clinic Thrift Store on First Street, where Lake often hangs out. The people who work there speak well of Lake, and he, obviously, has high praise for them. In the meantime, Lake said, he will contest his panhandling ticket in court. Calls to the Chico Police Department were not returned by press time, and City Attorney Lori Barker, when asked about it, said she had not heard back from the police regarding the incident. —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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THE PULSE

HEALTHLINES Dr. Samuel Brown, medical director of Enloe Medical Center’s Supportive and Palliative Care Service (left), and Dr. David Potter, an oncologist at Enloe who also oversees the medical center’s hospice service.

ABORTION BILL PASSES

Gov. Jerry Brown approved state legislation on Oct. 9 that expands the type of medical providers able to perform abortions. Nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives and physician assistants will be allowed to perform first-trimester abortions using a method called aspiration under Assembly Bill 154, authored by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), according to The Sacramento Bee. Supporters of AB 154 say it will address a shortage of abortion providers in California and eliminate the need for traveling long distances for the procedure, while opponents argue patient safety will be compromised due to a lower standard of care.

FREE MAMMOGRAMS FOR LOCAL WOMEN

For the fourth year in a row, the Bidwell Rancho chapter of Soroptimist International will host Operation Mammogram, which provides no-cost mammograms for local women who cannot afford an exam. Uninsured women 40 years old and older who cannot otherwise afford the cost are welcome to receive a free mammogram screening at North State Imaging (1702 Esplanade) on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 8 a.m. to noon. Women must live in Butte or Glenn counties and be without signs or symptoms of breast disease. No appointment is necessary. Nearly 200 women were screened at last year’s event, three of whom turned up positive for breast cancer. Go to www.tinyurl.com/lquudvd for more information.

OF GIRLS AND CONCUSSIONS

More girls than ever are playing high-school sports, but—excluding football—they’re receiving concussions at a higher rate than their male peers. Nationally, an all-time high of 42 percent of high-school athletes are girls, and of highschool sports, girls’ soccer is second only to boys’ football in number of concussions during games, according to SFGate.com. Overall, football accounts for 47 percent of all high-schoolsports concussions, while girls’ soccer is next with more than 8 percent of concussions. In team sports that both boys and girls play—such as basketball, soccer and baseball/softball— girls are nearly twice as likely to get concussions, though it’s unclear why. Complicating the issue, boys and girls commonly report different concussion symptoms—boys are more likely to report amnesia and confusion/disorientation, while girls are more likely to report drowsiness and sensitivity to noise. “A big problem here is that when a girl reports milder symptoms to a male coach—and a lot of coaches in girls’ sports are male—her concussion could be missed if the coach isn’t alert to the differences in how boys and girls report symptoms,” said Dr. Paul Fisher, chief of pediatric neurology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford. Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.

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PHOTO BY MELANIE MACTAVISH

End-of-life crossroads Local physicians discuss choices faced by terminally ill patients and their families by

Evan Tuchinsky

Wterminal cancer, patients and their families find themselves at a crossroads.

hen faced with a diagnosis of

How should they proceed—treat the disease aggressively, or make the last days, weeks or months as comfortable as possible? In California, many people choose the aggressive path. A recent study by the Dartmouth Atlas Project, prepared for the California Healthcare Foundation, found that compared with the nation as a whole, Californians with advanced-stage cancer are more likely to spend time in a hospital intensive-care unit, receive life support during their last month of life and receive chemotherapy during their last two weeks of life. The report—titled “Measuring Up? Endof-Life Cancer Care in California”—also concluded that hospice referrals for terminally ill cancer patients are increasing, but still lag behind the U.S. average, and “in some California hospitals, referral to hospice care occurred so close to the day of death that it was unlikely to have provided much assistance or comfort to patients.” Both in terms of aggressive treatment and hospice care, the study found wide variations by region. Researchers examined data from 2010 and compared it to 200307, and Enloe Medical Center was the only Butte County hospital included, though Feather River Hospital also has a cancer center. So, what is the state of end-of-life cancer care locally?

Rather than push patients toward one path or the other, both Enloe and Feather River are focused on bolstering both options and helping patients make the choice that fits their wishes. Each hospital has a hospice program in addition to cancer centers. Moreover, the hospitals have ramped up efforts to get end-of-life decisions made before a person is given a terminal diagnosis. “I’m all for choice,” said Toby Brandtman, a case manager at Feather River who helps facilitate patients’ advance planning. “It is not my goal to make sure people get or don’t get aggressive treatment at the end of life. My goal would be that their wishes are honored.” Articulating those wishes can be

difficult for a person with late-stage cancer. He or she might be unable to speak or think clearly, in which case the decisions may fall on emotionally wrought relatives. Even patients who can state their preferences often

find themselves torn over the prognosis. Dr. Michael Baird, executive director of the Enloe Regional Cancer Center, used the analogy of a passenger falling off a cruise ship and flailing in the water. Someone standing on the deck says, “Hey, I’ve got this life jacket; I don’t know if I can get it out there, but do you want me to throw it to you?” “That’s kind of what we do with patients when they have advanced-stage cancer and we’ve got a treatment that works sometimes, but not all the time,” he said. “We say to them, ‘You tell us whether you want it or not.’ Of course they’re going to say ‘yes’—unless they have a better feel of the whys and wherefores.” Dr. David Potter, an oncologist at Enloe who also oversees the medical center’s hospice service, noted: “There are very strong forces in our economy that may be driving the choice to do treatment over not doing treatment. … There’s the idea out there that I just need to go to the right

APPOINTMENT BREAST CANCER LUNCHEON On Friday, Oct. 25, from noon to 1 p.m. at Canyon Oaks Country Club (999 Yosemite Drive), Enloe Medical Center will host an educational luncheon covering risk factors for breast cancer and options for treatment. The afternoon will include a question-and-answer session with a panel of Enloe physicians. RSVP by Oct. 18 by calling 1 (877) 365-6363 or go to www.tinyurl.com/enloelunch.

Still, patients and families

struggle with how to proceed. Pat Watters, director of hospice for Feather River, says her staff receives referrals for patients “who are not ready to forego aggressive treatments.” For those individuals, hospice may not be the right option, at least at that time. “Here at Feather River we have a really good connection with our cancer center,” Watters said, “and our oncologists have really perfected the ability to know when to have that conversation and how to conduct that conversation.” With Potter bridging oncology and hospice, Enloe is in a similar

Plan ahead:

Before you face an emergency or your family faces an end-of-life dilemma, make your wishes known with an advance health-care directive. Enloe Medical Center posts a comprehensive form on its website (www.tinyurl.com/ enloeform), and the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California has a site devoted to a quick-glance directive known as a POLST (www.capolst.org). Consult with a physician or nurse before completing either form.

position to support patients in whichever decision they make. But both hospitals don’t limit their endof-life-planning initiatives to terminal cancer patients; they’re trying to reach more people early on. “When we’re talking to people in the hospital,” Potter said, “the train has already left the station.” One means of planning is completing an advance health-care directive—a comprehensive document that spells out a person’s wishes for a range of medical contingency. There’s also a shorter form known as a POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), which at a glance can tell emergency-medical technicians and physicians what procedures the patient authorizes. “One of our biggest challenges as a society is we’re not having these conversations,” Brandtman, the case manager, said. “We at Feather River are working very hard with our physicians to make advance decision-making almost an everyday thing.” Ω

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EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS EarthBound Skills instructor Matthew Knight demonstrates fire-making for Blue Oak School fourth-graders.

DRUGSTORE DUMPS TOXINS

Grocery and drugstore chain Rite Aid agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement for allegedly dumping toxic chemicals from hundreds of its California locations. Dozens of attorneys representing California cities and counties joined the suit, filed in September, which claimed that about 600 of the chain’s stores illegally dumped pesticides, bleach, and other toxins into landfills over a nearly seven-year period, according to The Sacramento Bee. The settlement requires Rite Aid to pay $9.4 million in civil penalties, nearly $2 million for environmental projects and $950,000 in attorneys’ fees, in addition to hiring employees to ensure compliance with environmental and safety regulations. “We want Rite Aid to train its employees,” said Heidi D’Agostino, a senior enforcement officer at the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office. “Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do to mitigate what’s clearly been disposed of, but they can rethink how they’re training people.”

RUSSIA’S CARBON SINK

Farmland abandoned in Russia following the collapse of the USSR is now likely the largest manmade carbon sink in the world, a study finds. Research published in the journal Global Change Biology highlighted the enormous climate benefits of vegetation growing on about 110 million acres of land previously used for agriculture, according to Grist.org. The overgrowth has sucked up about 50 million tons of carbon—equivalent to 10 percent of Russia’s fossil-fuel carbon emissions—each year since 1990. The study’s authors projected that, provided the land remains uncultivated, a further 261 million tons of carbon will be sequestered over the next 30 years. At that point, the land would reach equilibrium, where the same amount of carbon would escape into the atmosphere as is being absorbed.

FORECAST: PERMANENT CLIMATE CHANGE

Recent research on climate change has projected dates for when cities and ecosystems around the world will get permanently hotter. In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers used weather observations, maps, simulations from dozens of computer models and data on hundreds of thousands of species to pinpoint when places will have “an environment like we have never seen before,” according to The Associated Press. With a fiveyear margin of error on their estimates, the researchers projected that cities in the tropics, like Kingston, Jamaica, will be the first to experience a permanent change in climate in about a decade. Of the 265 cities projected, Anchorage, Alaska, will be the last to change, in 2071. Most disturbingly, the researchers estimate that every year after 2047, the average global temperature will exceed that of 2005— Earth’s overall hottest year on record.

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Skills almost lost EarthBound EarthBound Skills Skills teaches teaches wilderness wilderness know-how know-how in in Chico Chico

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O morning, a class of fourth-graders from Blue Oak School sat on the ground n a recent warm September

under the shade of pines and cedars at the Lake Concow Campground. They worked intently with their hands, hollowing out the soft inside of a small segment of a thin elderberry branch to fashion it into a tiny container. Overseeing the kids’ progress were Jahnia Mitchell and Matthew Knight, two members of EarthBound Skills, a collective of young instructors who teach wilderness skills in and around Chico. The group has been teaching children on field trips and at school sites for a little over a year. The collective also offers weekend workshops that are open to both adults and children. “Our main focus is … just connecting kids with nature, and if that just means getting kids outside of the classroom in the field outside, awesome,” said Knight. Sometimes, he said, he and his fellow instructors will just go to a school and “build debris houses.” After making the elderberry containers, Knight arranged the children in a semicircle. He used materials from the campsite to demonstrate how to make fire from friction by using a basic hand drill: a piece of cedar

board with a notch cut out at one side, with a stick used as a spindle that sits nicely above the notch, and a pile of fluffed-up cedar bark shavings for tinder. He spun the spindle by rubbing his hands back and forth, applying downward pressure. The children started to gasp and yell, “Whoa! There’s smoke!” Soon after, Knight’s hard work produced a tiny coal, which he quickly picked up and dropped into the fluffed-up bark. After a few blows, and a lot of smoke, the bark burst into flames. The children whooped and hollered and clapped as Knight held the burning pile in his hand for all to see. “Fire is … crucial in our sacred order of survival skills. … To create that from yourself and from nature is really powerful,” said Scott Grist, the third member of the EarthBound collective. He went on to explain the hierarchy of needs as being shelter, water, fire and, finally, food. Grist says that he came to Chico to study geology “because of my love of the Earth.” EarthBound workshops: Workshops cost $20 each. Call for location and to register: 513-2542 All About Acorns: Saturday, Oct. 19, 1-4 p.m. Ancient Art of Fire: Saturday, Oct. 26, noon-5 p.m. Weaving with Cattail: Saturday, Nov. 9, noon-5 p.m.

Unlike Grist, Mitchell and Knight

had little to no connection to nature as children. “I remember being depressed, being like, ‘there’s no place to play,’” said Mitchell. “I think that’s why it struck such a chord within me to bring kids back to nature, because … I didn’t really have that as a kid, and I realized … how much that affected me, and how healing that [connection to the land] has been for me.” Knight said he never camped until he moved away from home at age 17. “When I found out about the skills, it just resonated so deeply with me,” he said. All three instructors, independent of each other, learned their wilderness survival skills at the world-famous Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Each of them first heard of survivalist skills through Brown’s books, which detail his childhood in the Pine Barrens, where he was mentored by an Apache elder in survivalist skills and native philosophy. He also has a series of field guides on each aspect of nature survival—from nature observation and animal tracking, to edible and medicinal plants. “When I read [Brown’s The Tracker], it totally hit a chord inside of me,” Mitchell said. “Right away, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I need to study from this guy.’” All three mentioned being surprised by GREENWAYS continued on page 16

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discovering wilderness skills, and also by their resulting entrance into the subculture of wilderness survivalists: “I didn’t know there was anything like this out there,” explained Mitchell. Grist, in a separate interview, said, “It opened me [up] to a new world that I didn’t really know existed, of this Native American knowledge that’s almost lost.” Attending Brown’s school, Mitchell said, was life-changing. “I recognize there’s a problem with the way our culture is right now, and so I’ve always had a desire … [to determine] what my role is in fixing that, or changing the direction our culture is going in. What I love about the skills is that [they] reconnect you at a really deep level to your surroundings. “I believe once you’re connected to your surroundings, you won’t want to destroy them; you’ll want to preserve them. You develop that respect. You also develop respect for the natives who came before us who kept this place alive for tens of thousands of years.” The goal of EarthBound

Skills is to spread the knowledge to Chicoans, both young and old. The group’s three weekend workshops during the fall are open to all ages and will focus on harvesting and processing acorns [see Chow, page 30, for more on acorns], building a fire-making bow drill, and weaving baskets from cattails. “Acorns, for a lot of tribes in

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California, was the staple food,” said Grist, who also brought up Brown protégé Jon Young, another inspiration to the collective: “[He] says if you want to learn about your environment, learn about [what] the native people did, what food they ate, what shelters they built, because that’s thousands and thousands of years of knowledge built up about survival and just living with the land. “Even if modern society keeps trucking on, I think this connection to acorns or any other kind of natural thing in nature is going to help the overall human paradigm of culture in our area.” Ω

UNCOMMON SENSE Ditch the gas-powered leaf blowers! Fall is upon us, and with red, yellow and orange visuals of leaves changing color is the auditory accompaniment of leaf blowers buzzing across the city. And some of those leaf blowers—the heavy duty, two-stroke, gas-powered ones—also bring the stench of major pollution. According to a study conducted by the auto site Edmunds.com, “the hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a [Ford F-150] Raptor [full-size pickup].” So, please, use a rake, go electric (or drag your leaves across the yard with a giant pickup if you must), but dump the big gas blowers.

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CATCHING UP WITH CHEF RICHIE AND CHEF ALEX As part of local K-8

public charter school Sherwood Montessori’s ongoing community-service mission (à la Maria Montessori, creator of the Montessori method of education), the school’s cooking and gardening teacher, chef Richie Hirshen, and his “longtime assistant/super-volunteer” (as Hirshen put it in an email), chef Alex Cilensek, hosted a group from nearby Rose Scott Open-Structure School on Oct. 2 for a “kitchen-garden clinic.” Nine Rose Scott students, and four adults, including school director Cindy Carlson, planted swiss chard seeds in the school garden, made a pizza from scratch with organic whole-wheat dough and fresh tomatobasil sauce, ate Massa Organics brown rice cooked in the school’s new solar oven, and drank strawberry-banana smoothies made with organic apple juice. “The kids stretched the dough, spread the sauce, topped the pizza with mozzarella and Sherwood-made ricotta, cut the fruit, pushed the blender buttons and ate to their hearts’ delight,” said Hirshen. “A lovely time in the neighborhood.”

MORE CATCHING UP I would be remiss if I did not provide news of the recent Write Away: Postcards with a Purpose show that was held at 1078 Gallery Oct. 3-5. According to exhibition co-organizer Erin Wade, a total of 168 artfully decorated postcards, submitted by people of all ages, graced the gallery’s walls. Wade, a local artist who teaches at Butte College, also had her Introduction to Digital Photography students submit entries: a striking bunch of mini-artworks created in part by computergenerating random images onto the cards. Savannah Berg’s lovely watercolor postcard of a heart. Every postcard, in fact, was a miniartwork. It was a delight to study each one, from the simple-yet-striking watercolor of a heart (pictured) by young Savannah Berg to the impressive, obviously time-consuming card created by Claudia Dussault-Howell from tiny pieces of dyed eggshell, watercolor paint, and pen and ink (also pictured). Local watercolorist Amber Palmer weighed in with a photographic card of a painting of a chili pepper; line-drawing artist extraordinaire John V. McMackin Claudia Dussault-Howell’s intricate mosaic postcard made with dyed bits offered “Daffodil Memory,” depicting a of eggshell features an adorable pen- meadow-like scene; Ryan Voigtman made a and-ink/watercolor inset of birds striking card featuring a thought-prolaughing. voking image of a hooded individual; and PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA Zoe Karch—who played Lumière in the Blue Room Young Company’s recent (fabulous) production of Beauty and the Beast Jr.—and her mom, Sharon DeMeyer, each entered postcards as well. Some (myself included) entered a series of cards: Peter Hogue’s expressive series of five cards, Russ Burnham’s moody red-hued series, and local artist X13’s cool Chico-comic series. The show was wonderful. I hope 1078 makes it an annual event.

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POETRY 99 ADULT WINNERS Lisa Anina Berman

FIRST PLACE

THIRD PLACE

Two-man Saw

Holy Relics

Laced with poison oak, pines lie like pick-up sticks round the new cabin. Teen-age brothers come one weekend with a rusty two-man saw.

Three dear blackgrey hairs cling to an unwashed, folded white pillowcase, an ashes sandwich tucked into a ziploc medicine bag closed vicious tight against Forever. Is he in its creases? Opened, spread, will sweat Barbasol bike leather conjure him? It lies hidden, not forgotten, in the inky part of the bedroom closet once brightened by a yellow plastic rain suit that squeaked and swished when he walked. Outside, a cleaner white pillowcase lies centered atop a vast bed desert, subject only to blonde.

Much later in his life, while in an act of love, the younger will recall the sweaty push and pull, a pungent ooze of pitch, the both of them panting. David Bell Orland

David Bell lives and helps with the upkeep on a ranch near Orland, and it would appear that his natural surroundings offer plenty of inspiration for his poetry, both with his winning entry here and with his honorable-mention selection that follows. Bell is no stranger to writing, having worked in arts publishing in New York City and as an art critic for various art journals while living in Santa Fe, N.M. These days, he writes poetry as it comes to him—“I did years of deadlines, and nobody is waiting for the poetry anyway.”

David Bell

Elizabeth Nelms Chico

SECOND PLACE

During her years working as a planner for PG&E, Elizabeth Nelms didn’t have much time to write. Now retired, she’s taking a writing class at Butte College with English teacher Molly Emmons, who suggested Nelms submit this poem—her first published work—which was actually taken from a writing exercise for a short story Nelms is working on.

Phone Call from Rehab The sky was numb, grey as a dial tone. My husband, in rehab again, had just called. “I don’t belong here,” he boasted, “everyone’s a loser.” I relayed the message to my parents, and the same look from my father I got as an eight-year-old on my first hunt. I was standing over the goose I had just wounded. My father said, “You have to do it. It’ll end the suffering.” Tears fell on its downy feathers, coarse and soft in my hands. I held its neck, warm and supple, and twisted. Something inside snapped loose.

Elizabeth Nelms

Lisa Anina Berman Chico

Lisa Anina Berman is teaching academic writing at Chico State University while she works on finishing up her master’s thesis on the subject of, appropriately enough, poetry. The project is called “Salty Wild,” and features writing influenced by the environment and her own personal history, from childhood to her transition into adult life. Once finished, Berman hopes to teach at a community college. 18 CN&R October 17, 2013

Poetry 99 reading:

2013: Winning poems from our talented community

oly cow! So many people in this area are writing poetry! It is pretty inspiring. Thank you all for taking part in the Chico News & Review’s annual Poetry 99 contest. This year, we once again leaned on the 1078 Literary Committee to sort through the hundreds of submissions. The five-person committee is made up of Chico State, Butte College and local high-school English instructors, published writers, and editors, bringing an eclectic background of literary experience and expertise to the table when judging the various categories: kids (fifth grade and under), junior high school (grades sixth-eighth), high school (grades nine-12) and, of course, the wide range of adults. And, we’re not done yet. All the winners (and all the honorable men-

HONORABLE MENTIONS Nesting You didn’t come to the river, couldn’t see the heron feeding near me in the lilied shallows how it rose and blazed an arc up twilight’s thickened green to settle on the curtain of the far bank

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Notes: In the junior-high and high-school honorable mentions, there are students from Table Mountain School in Butte County Juvenile Hall who made the cut. The students’ last names have been omitted to protect anonymity. Also, in the high-school category, contest judge Pape’s daughter, Sylvia, received an honorable mention. To avoid any conflict of interest, the entries for the high-school category were handled by the other judges. Additionally, author names were removed from poems before being given to the judges.

Particle bored

We Lost Everything

My arms shake from exhaustion, too limp for prolonged hugs, or heavy coffee cups to clutter my afternoon. No to humid air.

What we lost had everything to do with the inevitable ocean, consuming stars, the ancient art of creating the simplest day from the immediate heaven.

Boxes of “food” color cupboards in molten, banal rainbows pulling migraines from the center of my skull. smell of green shag and old newsprint give my senses no place to rest.

A perfect day, we said, would be a day assembled of straw we gleaned in morning leisure. We were caught by a seasonal eventuality, and Ursa rises there as if duty bound, as if the answer to misery were in a constellation. At the edge of things there, we found that things pile up on the ground and that some time we will wade in things, wade in an ocean made of soft earth.

clipping repressed coupons rearranging them into sentences trying to make you just understand the word David Bell

Muria Dilts Chico

Country Sunset The white grass flows over field, stretches slow brushing lushly the sky’s ankles like a cat gently and softly Quietly clamoring, body calling up from down where beasts crawl and Grass Claws a sunstenciled divide

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tions) are invited to read their poems at the Poetry 99 reading at Lyon Books (135 Main St.), tonight, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. Enjoy the poems!

I crave the edge of town where hot pavement hits cool green, waiting on paychecks scouring base boards and lino thinking of China or someone else’s retirement plan.

laced of oak and fox grape where a trace of light stayed to ignite a second point of white you couldn’t see,

Enjoy a free night of spoken word, as the Poetry 99 winners share their poems live at Lyon Books tonight, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. All winners and receivers of honorable mentions are invited to read.

We built the fence to contain the daily detritus just small enough to hold it all in. You added your peels I added my clippings We tended it Until it melded into rich black anticipation but we never took the fence down never worked in the possibilities to make fertile ground.

Kandis Horton Chico

Richard Ober Chico

wal-flower stretch this heavy head hangsmy rosette. a neck so long and pale, just caricature of my natural beauty. I hear the blue haired ladies say I’m leggy... marveling at my blushing leaves, deeper each day. that creeping pink is my death mask, but my barcode reads, ‘succulent’. I had a name, a family: crassula. photosynthesis? a memory I open my stomata, an old habit, and sigh. Tomorrow I will stretch further. until my roots dry hard and crumbling around vermiculite. This life, of an echeveria. The last succulent in stock, dying elegantly at the check out in walmart.

The 1078 Gallery Literary Committee: (clockwise, from top left) Hilary Tellesen, Jeff Hull, Sarah Pape, Jason Willmon and Kathleen McPartland.

Crescent Moon you’re a slip of a girl in muslin dress, a dancer posing arabesque the smooth delicateness of an egret’s neck your mood capricious prone to wax and wane your smile a bow straight aimed at the breast of the men you’ve bidden to fall besot by the wink of one eye yet you have not got even half a heart, your double tongue’s sharp as a scimitar’s blade to divide brother stars for conquering, but quickly comes the tempest wind, to cast you adrift, a sailboat in unfathomable sea so you may never keep awake another mother’s lovesick son.

AnnaMarie Whiteley Gridley

Sarah Eblin Chico

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My Son He was three years, three months and eleven days. I got on the bus, picked up my M16 and put him in a closet, After three tours, years of VA, mountains of paperwork, I became aware six years after he skinned his knee, four years after took his hundredth swimming class, three years after he stopped calling me mommy, seven years after he stopped using sippy cups, five years after he stopped believing in the Tooth Fairy, eight years after I stopped being young and five years since dying was an option I liked. “Thank you for your service.”

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Lisa Anina Berman

Ditch Della me you I remember the Playboy magazine no worse Hustler photographs of things we’d never seen could never see from our angle but there that summer in the ditch down the road from your house just past the cemetery overgrown and neglected we could see it all

Sharon DeMeyer

The Broken Roof Jack keys unlock the moonlight As she sings her sorrow to a bowl of stale cornflakes The porch feels limited by its new dimensions Resentment for the tree builds Unaware she cries on and on into the night Shawn Smith Chico

HIGH SCHOOL WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS

FIRST PLACE Provincetown, MA After they pulled him, starving, from the belly of the whale he said, “I don’t want to look at the sea anymore, or hear the restless pull of the waves along the shore in the dark, or the songs of searchers fathoms below.” He smells like rot and rosewater, And every morning he scrubs until his skin is pink and raw. In his sleep he hears hymns sung in kelp beds, sung in trenches, sung in the hollow spaces of his bird-bones. Fiona Murphy, 17 Chico

For someone who writes poetry “occasionally,” Fiona Murphy didn’t do too badly in this year’s contest, taking both first and second place. The Chico High senior said, “I just had some poems lying around, and I thought, ‘Might as well.’” She did add that she comes from a “very literary family,” and confessed that her main writing focus is actually movie scripts.

Fiona Murphy

SECOND PLACE Our ancestors built this place in the desert long before I was born; an Eden in Egypt, carefully cultivated by God’s chosen people. My sisters slumbered as the stars sank to Earth. Our father left us to walk the shifting sands. In the afternoon we stay inside. In the evening the stars roll over the horizon. Sometimes the rain comes. Rarely. But when it does, it comes like a destroyer of worlds, and the ink in which our history is written colors the flood indigo, and stains the skins of my sisters who swim in the blue-black water. Fiona Murphy

Kestrel Carroll

“Smells like rain,” she says. The first monsoon is quick and merciless. So am I. Full of sweet pea flowers and the smell of curry. I dream that you are safe and that I am glowing gold. It’s a mirage I long for in the sound of thunder, the touch of summer. It smells like rain and I am lonely for you; child of the brisk monsoon, you are timid – miracles always are – and I am a dream that doesn’t end. I am a storm that never stops. Kestrel Carroll, 17 Chico

Hope

Endearing yet rabid letting his emotions blindly run through him; perfect marksmanship driving the arrow deep.

Three fateful words meant to destroy or to rebuild a tattered heart.

Running down a self-wanted path of unrighteousness, blind and shameless of my vanishing future. All the motherly love in the world, but none to reciprocate, just a fake smile, So I conjure up discreet ideas of tactile hope, I’m still going down the path, thinking it’s harmless. Almost lost in the sweltering smoke, The feelings like lying on top of a cloud, But I’m actually getting lowered through the smoke to a burning hot fire. A hand reaches out, grabs my arm and cuffs me. A tiny spark of hope ignites.

Once said, can and will be used against you as evidence, as if I was in court.

Poem to A Future Child (Or Present Self)

Vitality of my emotions I accept naively begging this not be a savage mirage.

Jordan, 17 Oroville

No one can judge me.

To Zerzura

THIRD PLACE The Emptiness

A Blaze of Color

Young poets of Chico, you can now breathe a sigh of relief. After this year, perennial Poetry 99 and Fiction 59 winner Kestrel Carroll will have aged out of the three youth divisions. This is Carroll’s seventh year placing in the CN&R’s writing contests. She’s actually already taking classes out at Butte College, and in addition to writing poetry and short stories, she’s studying ballet and taking prerequisite classes for the school’s nursing program.

To be a blaze of color in your black and white to be the sound in your wordless film.

Breanna, 17 Oroville

Courage What, do they think I’m the Cowardly Lion? That trait is absent. Mocked, like the Great Oz, so I’ll hide, these tears? Concealed with anger, dark, mortifying, violent anger. These blasphemers will soon curse their ground, While I? ascend on a white cloud, but not the cloud they’ll predict, “She’ll never change.” I have, without your help. No more murderous toxins filling me, filling my days, meaningless hours. Instead of being the witch on which the house fell, I’m Dorothy, three clicks, one walk, the yellow brick road away from, white walls and locked doors. I don’t even shiver. Maddie, 17 Oroville

Talk to yourself as often as you like. Wear armor thick as atmosphere, but don’t fear rocketeers. Listen to the sound behind words, especially ‘I know what you mean.’ Cry whenever you need to, or want to. Remember those who do not run from that power. Be an explorer of this world, this existence, your backyard, the patterns on someone’s skin. Don’t be put in your place, put your place in you so that home is always where you are. Feel however you feel. It’s your life. They all just live in it. Sylvia Pape, 17 Chico

Stained Parchment Heavy Lids Closing in, racing towards Dreams Bought strength Hidden form of humility, to be honest The desire to go on But all they do is hollow me out Your face, her voice, their sobs Misplaced memories Resounding through this emptiness that was once a brilliant mind The lock never works Or maybe it just breaks Perhaps it’s just my will Flowing out into this void Once a heart, now an enchanted shell

Breanna

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Gwen Henson

FIRST PLACE Bow

JUNIOR-HIGH WINNERS

A curved sharp stick A long soft white string An extensive arm draws the bow back An aim so perfect the force would rip you A young fawn trots by A small cry, then it lies down, still Sherwood Montessori sixth-grader Gwen Henson is starting to make a habit of being in the top spot. Last year she came in first in the Kids division, and this year she makes the jump to Junior High. She said she loves to read and write fiction and perform in community theater. She recently played the part of Madame de la Grand Bouche in the Blue Room Young Company’s production of Beauty and the Beast Jr. at Laxson Auditorium.

Gwen Henson, 12 Paradise

Lia Puser

SECOND PLACE The sun, the moon and the stars Are like a twilight counsel The sun does not agree with the moon The moon does not agree with the stars The stars don’t agree with the sun When we’re here on Earth The world seems so utterly large But when we’re in nothingness When we’re plunged into space Our home is somewhat like a blueberry And we happen to live upon it

Lia Puser, 12 Chico

So Many Summers Ago When we were younger, And you were still here We spent every minute together Mirror images of each other

Lilly Ober

Inside the fence There was too much to do New people we could be For an hour or two And while the yard is still there the fence is too And I’m sure if I looked I would see some remnant of you Not much has changed here Except one small thing You’re gone now And you took summertime with you

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Empty Souls

I Could Be Gone

Empty souls, empty brains Dark hearts, evil faces What’s next? Could I be concerned? I can’t even think. Like a zombie I am so boundless, I don’t even know how to function, I can’t even feel pain or be cold. I wish I were human, To have fun or walk fast or talk? I wonder if humans will be scared or even run from me?

No wandering eyes Will ever fall upon my face Look me up and down And decide I am not worth it.

Spilled Ink

No one will ever reach me

Jeremiah, 13 Oroville

THIRD PLACE

I loved climbing over your fence Using the gate was too tame And balancing on top Feeling like falling

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Lilly Ober, 13 Chico

Sherwood Montessori kids are on fire. With seventh-grader Lia Puser taking second place, they own the top two spots in the Junior High division. Puser said she likes to write stories “out of my own little dreams in my head.” She also likes to draw and read fantasy-fiction, especially Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Avalon Series. Lilly Ober is continuing her run in the Junior High division, adding to her first- and third-place finishes in 2012 with a top-three finish and an honorable mention in this year’s contest. The Chico Country Day School eighth-grader loves writing poetry and reading, and is focusing on the classics—like Uncle Tom’s Cabin—in her Book Club class. She’s also a member of the school’s cross-country team.

Ink coats my hands, As if the night decided to turn to liquid. It puddles around my feet like a cloak. And it slowly creeps up to my neck, Giving me a warm embrace. I am now the spilled ink that you wipe up, As if nothing happened. You pretend to wonder where I am, But you know. And yet you forget about me. I’m nothing now.

No intent ear spoiled with juicy knowledge will ever hear my voice and wonder what else I have to say. No outstretched hand will ever clasp around my fingers and pull me back from this ledge I stand on

And no one will ever care No one will see me laughing And know that I am happy I’m beyond your grasp And I am beyond your words I could be gone forever

Lilly Ober

Molly Lane, 13 Chico

Soldier The soldier walked away from the brutally fought battle. His hands red with the blood of those he tried to save, And of the ones he killed. His gun was hoisted high but his heart was not. He would never be able to walk away from that. Mud caked his face and clothing But inside his pain washed it away Medals and ribbons were pinned to his uniform, But none were to his soul. Life would never be the same. He held on not wanting to die and see those he killed. Soon the soldier walked away from life.

Molly Lane

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KIDS WINNERS THIRD PLACE Moonlight The moon lights up like a flashlight, showing your way through the dark woods, keeping you safe from all your fears. A see-through orb surrounds you and nothing can break through it. Light shines through you as you turn into an angel with white wings and a white dress.

Alden Ingelson-Filpula

FIRST PLACE The jungle vines leisurely snake their way up around the tree, slowly mummifying it.

Julia Begley, 8 Chico

An old crow caws a single mournful note letting its brethren know what is about to happen.

Julia Begley is another winner attending Sherwood Montessori. The fourth-grader said that, in addition to poetry, she likes to do math (especially “rounding”) and write stories with clues, and she has written a comic book about a “haunted letter.”

Many months later, the tree is totally enclosed in constricting vines. Julia Begley

All the birds who have sat upon its branches mourn the loss of their old friend. Toby Pope, 10 Chico

“I like to write poems a lot.” And it shows, Toby Pope! This year’s top kid poet joins a long line of Sherwood Montessori students to win recognition for the works they create each year as part of literacy instructor Danielle Mennucci’s efforts to submit her students’ works to the CN&R’s Fiction 59 and Poetry 99 contests. Pope says he likes science as well as writing, and that he gets his inspiration to write from Chico’s natural environment, especially Bidwell Park.

HONORABLE MENTIONS SECOND PLACE Frustration Frustration is hot as magma. It tastes sour like yellow, lemon juice hitting my tongue. It smells like the reeking odor of a smoky blaze. It sounds like the loud annoying screams of ranting babies. It feels rough and dry like a desert. It is misplaced Legos, melted ice cream, a broken bike, hard school work, and an annoying sister. Alden Ingelson-Filpula, 8 Chico

Poetry runs in the Ingelson-Filpula family. This year Alden joins his sister Aline (who placed in last year’s contest) as a top finisher in Poetry 99. The CORE Butte Charter School student said that, after seeing his sister’s poem, he thought, “Wow, she’s really good,” and was inspired to write his own. In addition to writing, Alden said he likes to read, hang out with his family and build stuff with Legos.

My Closet

Whispering

Everyday in the corner of my room There lays a closet. Not an ordinary one though. This closet has no monster or a bug It has toys and stinky socks Dollies and Race cars Apple cores and old yogurt Underwear and cobwebs and spiders That closet was gross But it was there for a teenager It had everything he owned Was there If your closet is dirty It will be there forever

Footsteps on the sandy tree, the chocolate clock making noise, borrowed, quietly. Cars flashing light while flying by, looking for the army trucks on the side, carefully. They’re whispering.

Kelsey Imrie, 11 Durham

The mountains are huge They are bigger and stronger than giants. They cover the earth like gods of stone.

Markus Westerdahl, 9 Chico

Nightmare

Toby Pope

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Vial of death, Cultures breath. Evil torture brings Darkened thoughts, Human nightmare, devil’s dream. Heart-shaped diamond, murder’s scheme. Colin Bailey, 10 Chico

Cedar Bailey, 7 Chico

Poem of My Heart I sing in and out of my lungs, I breathe as if I ran the length of a mile. I am on a horse galloping away. As I drink out of my goblet a feeling of warmth and safeness comes over me as my heart pumps the blood of millions. I stand strong and fearless from within my ancestors. The bones inside of me allow myself to be here. My brain fills itself with questions and answers. My heart lets me give out these last few words of wisdom.

Maya Klein, 8 Chico

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Arts & Culture The stage is jam-packed in California Regional Theatre’s full-scale Les Misérables.

Les Miz in our midst

An impressive local production of über-popular Broadway musical

WHugo’s great 19th-century novel of love, injustice and revolution, Les Misérables, opened in

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London in 1985, critics denounced it as a “lurid Victorian melodrama” and “a witless and synthetic entertainment.” But audiences simply didn’t by care that it turned a classic novel Robert Speer about the struggles of the wretched of Paris and Inspector Javert’s obsessive search for the convict Jean Valjean into musical melodrama. They loved Les Miz, and it’s REVIEW: gone on to become one of the most California Regional popular—and profitable—musicals Theatre presents Les Misérables ever created. It calls for a huge production of Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., and the kind normally mounted by proFri. & Sat., fessional theater outfits—more than 7:30 p.m. and 30 scenes, numerous sets, a pit Sun., 2 p.m., through Oct. 27, at orchestra and a huge cast. But it’s CUSD Center for also been successful—despite its the Arts. complexity and size—among amateur groups such as California CUSD Center for Regional Theatre, which is staging the Arts 1475 East Ave. a production at the CUSD Center (on the Pleasant for the Arts. There are 41 actors in Valley High the cast, and some of them play as campus) many as six or seven roles, which www.crtshows.com gives you an idea of the size of the thing. The play is operatic in form, meaning the music tells the story and what little dialogue is used is also sung. There’s a limit to what a string of songs can accomplish when it comes to transmitting the plot of a zillion-page novel, so if Les Miz the musical doesn’t quite do justice to Les Misérables the novel and some plot points are unclear—just who, for example, is the General Lamarque mentioned so prominently during the barricades scene?—it’s no fault of the actors and crew. They didn’t write the play (Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg created the original French-language version). All in all, it was an impressive staging, one that 26 CN&R October 17, 2013

was rewarded with a standing ovation when I saw it Sunday afternoon. All the major players—Vince Chambers as Valjean, Steven Oberlander as Javert, Kaelyn Hughes as the prostitute Fantine, Austen Strine as Marius, Nicole Thayer as Cosette, Makayla Thompson as Éponine, Dashiel Provost as the revolutionary Enjolras, and Megan Schwartz and Brandon Morgan as the greedy inkeepers Madame and Monsieur Thénardier—sang their parts robustly but with great sensitivity when required. They were fortunate to have the excellent local soprano Pam Thornton as their vocal coach. I especially enjoyed Schwartz and Morgan, who brought colorful flair and rich physical playfulness to their comic-relief roles as the innkeepers. The stage lit up when they were on, and the big first-act scene in the inn (“The Innkeeper’s Song”) was one of the best in the show. Credit choreographer Kate Reeves, costume designer Laura Thompson, set designer Christopher Burkhardt and lighting designer Kevin White for the quality of this scene and the half-dozen others with similarly strong production values, culminating in the amazing barricades scene that dominates the second half. It’s no mean feat to create a believable war scene on a sound stage, but this group brings it off. A bit more about the costumes: As you can imagine, a production with 41 actors and many more roles—sailors, convicts, soldiers, factory workers, prostitutes, beggars, wedding guests and maids, not to mention the principal parts—places big demands on the costumers. I don’t know how many outfits Thompson and her crew had to create, but it had to be at least 60. Well done, folks. Finally, the unsung heroes of the production were neither backstage nor onstage. They were the 13 musicians and conductor Ryan Heimlich located in the orchestra pit. Their job was to provide the instrumental music for some 30 songs performed one after another over nearly three hours, with only one break at intermission. It had to be grueling, truly a musical marathon, but it was evidence of the kind of dedication and spirit that make these community-theater productions so enjoyable. Ω

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THIS WEEK 17

THURS

Special Events CLASSIC “CITY” FILMS: A night of city-themed films. Hosted by Jason Tannen as part of his concurrent exhibition Visual Culture: Photographs from San Fransisco’s Chinatown. Th, 10/17, 7:30pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

HUNTER’S MOON DINNER: A silent auction and fundraiser evening for the Chico Creek Nature Center. Th, 10/17, 6-9pm. $50. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

POETRY 99: The winners of the CN&R’s Poetry 99 Contest read their poems. Th, 10/17, 7-8pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

Art Receptions

Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 11/9. Su, 2pm, 10/2711/10. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

FRI

Special Events BOUTIQUE CRAWL: Downtown resale boutiques have joined together to host an evening of fashion, libations, entertainment and local art. Hosted by Bootleg, Three Sixty Ecotique, Yard Sale and BOHO. F, 10/18, 6-9pm. Free. Downtown Chico.

Art Receptions OPEN STUDIOS RECEPTION: A preview and reception for the many artists opening their studios to the public for the annual art tour. F, 10/18, 7-9pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

LET IT BE: An opening for the BFA culminating

exhibition by Sarah Schott. Th, 10/17, 5pm. B-So Space, Ayres Hall Room 107 Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

Theater DOCTOR FAUSTUS: Based on Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance text with a modern

twist. Directed by Katie Whitlock. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Sa-Su, 2pm. $6-$15. Wismer Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolof thearts-csuchico.com.

LES MISÉRABLES: California Regional Theatre presents a full-scale production (with live orchestra) of the beloved Broadway musical. Th, 7:30 pm, F, Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 10/27. $18-$25. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. on the PV High campus, (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

STOMP: The percussion-heavy theatrical percussion sensation will fill the Laxson stage with its high-energy rhythms. Th, 10/17, 7:30pm; F, 10/18, 7:30pm. $55-$70. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: Follow young Dr. Frankenstein as he attempts to complete his grandfather’s work, with helpers Igor and Inga in Mel Brooks’ signature comedy.

OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR RECEPTION Friday, Oct. 18 Chico Art Center

SEE FRIDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Theater ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: Follow Mortimer Brewster as he navigates through a family of secrets, thwarting police and a fiancée at home. F, Sa, 7:30pm and Su, 2pm through 10/27. $10-$20. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcage theatre.net.

DOCTOR FAUSTUS: See Thursday. Wismer Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

LES MISÉRABLES: See Thursday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. on the PV High campus, (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

STOMP: See Thursday. F, 10/18, 7:30pm. $55-$70. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

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

FINE ARTS CHICO LIBRARY FALL FESTIVAL Saturday, Oct. 19 Butte County Library, Chico Branch SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

Theater ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: See Friday. Birdcage

DOCTOR FAUSTUS: See Thursday. Wismer Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

LES MISÉRABLES: See Thursday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. on the PV High campus, (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: See Thursday. Chico

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Special Events AUTUMN FEST: Fine art on display, plus tours of the Glenwood House with hay rides, farm animals and a pumpkin patch. Sa, Su, 10am-4pm through 10/27. $5. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

BLUE ROOM COMEDY: Headliner Kevin Young performs a night of stand-up with Phat Joe and hosts William Craig and Steve Swim. Two shows. Sa, 10/19, 7:30 & 10:30pm. $8-10. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

CHICO LIBRARY FALL FESTIVAL: Celebrating 100 years of the Butte County Library, Gordy Ohliger will take you on a journey through history with songs from Chico’s early years, fireplace stories and vintage instruments. Sa, 10/19, 11am-2pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 8912762, www.chicolibrary.org.

HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR: Evolution Dance

Studios presents Dances of Doom, Dread and the Dead. Two shows. Sa, 10/19, 2 & 7pm. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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Special Events AUTUMN FEST: See Saturday. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

IFC WARRIORS CHALLENGE: Mixed martial arts,

cage fights, girls and more. Su, 10/20, 3pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

OPEN STUDIOS TOUR: See Saturday. Call or visit website for details, locations vary, www.chico artcenter.com.

PERFORMANCE CONVERGENCE: A showcase of local performances followed by music with Jiving Board. All proceeds will go to the Chico Women’s Club Arts Fund. Su, 10/20, 7pm. $5-15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 8941978.

TOUCH OF CHICO: Live music by Vicki Lea Eggen, Alli Battaglia and many more, plus healthy food and beverages, raffles and participating body-workers for lifestyle healing. Su, 10/20, 12-5pm. $5. Living Light Studio, 2155 Park Ave., (888) 342-3258, www.kzfr.org.

OPEN STUDIOS TOUR: Visit all of Chico’s galleries, cafes and artists’ studios during the Chico Art Center’s annual mega art walk. More than 80 locations! Sa & Su through 10/27. Call or visit website for details, locations vary, www.chico artcenter.com.

SINGLE, WET & WILD HARVEST FESTIVAL: Over 50 breweries from around the nation bring their beers and celebrate hops in Sierra Nevada’s hop field. A benefit for the California Craft Brewers Association. Sa, 10/19, 1pm. $75. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., 893-3520, www.sierranevada.com.

Music THE GLEAMING BRASS: A select performance

Art Receptions LOCAL ART OPENING: Featuring the work of local artists Erica Phillips, Barbara Schofield and Lea Gadbois. Su, 10/20, 5:30-7:30pm. Broadway Heights California Cuisine, 300 Broadway St., (530) 899-8075, www.broadwayheights chico.com.

Music PARADISE SYMPHONY: Local guitarist Tobin Roye performs works by Richard Rogers, Beethoven and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco with the symphony. Su, 10/20, 7pm. $17. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly

featuring the brass section of the North State Symphony. Sa, 10/19, 7:30pm. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State.

Theater ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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Thursday & Friday, Oct. 17 & 18 Laxson Auditorium SEE THURSDAY & FRIDAY, THEATER

Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

DOCTOR FAUSTUS: See Thursday. Wismer Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

LES MISÉRABLES: See Thursday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. on the PV High campus, (530) 899-2692, www.crtshows.com.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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Special Events JOANNA DUNLAP COWDEN MEMORIAL LECTURE: America’s Infatuation with classical antiquity presented and discussed by Caroline Winterer. M, 10/21, 7:30pm. Free. RowlandTaylor Recital Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

Poetry/Literature CONSTANCE HALE PRESENTATION: Hale reads

from her book, Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing. M, 10/21, 7-8pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

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Special Events ARI SHAPIRO: NPR’s White House correspondent shares the funny and sometimes profound tales that you don’t hear on the radio. Tu, 10/22, 7:30pm. $12-$25. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperfor mances.com.

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Art ARTISANS GALLERIA: Artisan Displays, showcasing sculptures, paintings, ceramics, jewelry, stone art and more by Larry Lefner and other local artists. Through 12/31. 25 Lost Dutchman Dr.

B-SO SPACE: Let It Be, a BFA culminating exhibition by Sarah Schott, featuring sculptural works using bronze, aluminum and cast glass. Through 10/18. Ayres Hall, room 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

CHICO ART CENTER: Open Studios Art Tour, with over 80 artists opening their studios to the public and works ranging from watercolors and oil paintings to glass fusion, fiber arts, ceramics and more. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO PAPER CO.: Larry Leigh, limited-edition photographic metal prints. Through 10/26. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chico papercompany.com.

HAS BEANS INTERNET CAFE & GALLERIA:

Broken Color, paintings of North State and Chico landmarks along with figurative works by Jon Shult. 10/17-10/31. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS: The

bag ladies are back!, eight local artists have been gathering items and saving them in bags. It has finally come time to see the art they have created from the task. Through 10/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

MANAS ART SPACE & GALLERY: Planting the

Seeds of Your Intention, group show featuring artists fruits from the “seed kits” provided by the gallery. Through 10/18. 1441C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

MONCA POP-UP MUSEUM: Through The Eyes of

the Collector, featuring works from the collection of Reed Applegate, plus Art From Many Minds—works from three diverse cultures in MonCA’s latest temporary-locale exhibit. W-Sa through 10/26. 215 Main St. in.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA & COFFEEHOUSE: Ink By

Bob, new ink works by Bob Garner. Through 10/31. Open daily. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Playing with Paints,

exhibition explores the monstrous and grotesque. Through 11/2, 11am-4pm. Free. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: 47 Years, photographic portraits of both place and people by nationally exhibited artist and educator Victoria Mara Heilweil. Through 10/25, 9am5pm. Free. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

Call for Artists CALL FOR ARTIST: Established and emerging artists of all media welcome to apply for a guest artist exhibit this summer. call for more info. 10/17-12/2. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

PACIFIC FLYWAY WILDLIFE AND HABITAT: An allmedia juried exhibition to be featured at the Snow Goose Festival this January. 10/1711/16. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

WHO THE HECK IS FRANKIE: An open-entry exhibition to give little Frankie the time of his life. Plans and “Frankies” are provided and you make the art. Through 11/9. $5. Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441-C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

Museums 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: Chico in Black and White, an exhibit featuring historical photos from the John Nopel collection. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.

SQUARE DANCE CLUB: Square-dancing classes for beginners and advanced level dancers. Call for more info. Th, 7-10pm. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1962.

TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN DANCE: All levels of drummers and dancers welcome. W, 5:307pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (808) 757-0076.

featuring oil paintings by Fay Grundving. Tu, Th, Sa, 11am-4pm through 10/28. 493 East

Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.

THE JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Unsettled Dreams:

Monsters in Print, A collaboration with Dr. Asa Mittman, this

Special Events WILL DURST: The political-satirist presents “comedy for people who read or know someone who does.” With special guests Deb and Mike. W, 10/23, 7pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 32

Left of the dial Hearing voices on the radio, our brains tend to form visual representations of those people who may or may not match up to reality. This week offers the unique opportunity to compare what’s in your mind’s eye with the real thing with in-the-flesh appearances by two personalities best known by their voices. First, National Public Radio White House corEDITOR’S PICK respondent Ari Shapiro is appearing at Laxson Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The next night, Wednesday, Oct. 23, political satirist Will Durst—whose down-home diatribes regarding the absurdities of American politics can be heard locally on KZFR 90.1—takes the stage at Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co.

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Community AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave., (530) 321-5607.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

ALL ABOUT ACORNS: Come learn how to process acorns into delicious and nutritious foods. Samples will be provided and you will leave with some ready-to-eat oak nuts. Sa, 10/19, 1-4pm. $20. Call for location, www.earth boundskills.com.

CHICO AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS SOCIETY MEETING: Chico writers regular meet-up. M,

free

10/21, 6:30-7pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

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CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

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

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DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit. Call for more info. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Simple, meditative and uplifting group dances honoring many of the world’s spiritual traditions. Third Sa of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5-$10 donation. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 891-8789.

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DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

the elements. F, 6-8pm. $6-$12 sliding scale. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 532-1989.

DEATH CAFÉ: A place to come and chat about death over a cup of tea, in a respectful and confidential space. Th, 7pm. 100th Monkey Books & Café, 642 W. Fifth St.

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dancers welcome to work on the foxtrot, waltz, swing and more to a live band. Tu, 7:3010pm. $5-$7. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4015, www.chicorec.com.

FARMERS’ MARKET: OROVILLE: Farm-fresh produce, hand-crafted wares and entertainment. Sa, 7:30am-noon through 10/26. Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 1200 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 589-0735.

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FARMERS’ MARKET: CHAPMAN: A year-round Certified Farmers’ Market serving as a community forum for healthful-lifestyle promotion and education. F, 2-5:30pm. Chapman Mulberry Community Center, 1010 Cleveland Ave., (530) 624-8844, www.cchaos.org.

FARMERS’ MARKET: NORTH CHICO: Farm-fresh produce, hand-crafted wares and entertainment. W, 7:30am-noon through 11/22. North Valley Plaza, 801 East Ave.

FARMERS’ MARKET: SATURDAY: Chico’s weekly community gathering, with fresh produce, crafts, baked goods and more. Sa, 7:30am1pm. Municipal Parking Lot No. 1, Second & Wall streets.

FILM AND DISCUSSION EVENING: Telling Amy’s

Story—a screening of the documentary to raise awareness about domestic violence. M, 10/21, 6:30pm. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

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INFINITE RHYTHMS ECSTATIC DANCE: A shoefree, food-free, drug-free, smoke-free dance for you and yours with DJ Clay. Th, 8-10pm through 5/8. $8-$12. Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441-C Park Ave., (831) 331-4051, www.facebook.com/groups/infinite rhythmschico.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: An open dance

with no partners required. F, 8pm through 10/25. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Used book sale. Every other Sa, 10am-3pm. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-6320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

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. in Paradise, 8727085.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free your 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, www.chicorec.com.

SOUNDS OF THE VALLEY CHORUS: Women singers welcome to sing in four-part harmony barbershop style. Call for more info. W, 7pm. Marigold Elementary School, 2446 Marigold Ave., (530) 343-5183.

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. Call for location, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

CHICO PERFORMANCES: Volunteers are needed

to put up posters on a monthly basis. Through 10/24. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6785, www.chicoperformances.com.

PATRICK RANCH VOLUNTEERS: There are multiple volunteer opportunities available at the museum. Call or email for more info. Ongoing. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 514-3903.

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave.,

(530) 518-8300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.

HAPPY HEALING: Experience a variety of healing modalities. F, 7pm. 100th Monkey Books & Café, 642 W. Fifth St.

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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From acorn, to nut, to leaching, to pancake. PHOTOS BY JESSE MILLS

Fruit of the oak Foraging for acorns in your own back yard

Table eating—the furor over GMOs, food-miles and carbon footprints—has effectively buried one

he modern shouting match over sustain-

quiet but crucial perspective. From an ecological standpoint, annual agriculture (in both its conventional and organic by forms) has been an unqualified Jesse Mills disaster. Notwithstanding the petrochemical regime that has risen to dominance over the last two generations, the practice of annual tillage itself is problematic—severely impacting beneficial soil life, contributing to soil loss and releasing massive quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere. Enter the humble acorn. For as long as people and oak trees have coexisted, on every inhabited continent, we have sought nourishment and community under their canopies. Not too long ago in this area, acorns were a dietary staple. A natural stand of mature valley oak trees can yield several thousand pounds of acorns per acre in a good year (with some single trees found to produce more that 2,000 pounds), without soil amendments, tillage, or human labor of any kind. While by no means a silver bullet for all of society’s food-related ills, building a relationship with oak trees and their fruit can be one small lesson in a field of study that too often eludes our attention: how to be in a place. I chose the valley oak for my recent experi-

ment in acorn cuisine. There is probably one—tall, majestic, of deeply lobed leaves and of weeping habit (or shape)—on your block. The trees’ acorns are larger than those of the blue oak, but both are suitable for eating. Production cycles of the acorn can be inscrutable; whole regions may go several years without a significant crop. This is a heavy production year, what is known in botanical circles as a “mast” year. On a short walk by the creek, I gathered several pounds in a few minutes. The shells of young acorns can be difficult to crack. I soon determined that pliers were worse than useless and switched to a carpet knife with a sharp blade, scoring a line down the length of the acorn’s

shell; then I used my thumbnail to slip out the nuts. I discarded any obviously funky acorns, or those with a hole in the shell—the signature of the acorn weevil larva. When I had a good pile of shelled acorns, I dropped them in multiple batches into a food processor with a little water, ending up with what looked like frothy chai. This I poured evenly into four one-quart Mason jars, which I then put in the fridge. This process, known as cold leaching, is paramount in making the acorn’s nutrition available. Bitter plant compounds known as tannins make unleached acorns indigestible. Soaking ground acorns draws out the tannins, freeing up the starch, fat and protein and eliminating the bitterness. Every morning and night over the next five days I poured off the dark, acidic water, replaced it from the tap and gave each jar a vigorous shake. By the fifth day, the acorn meal had a bland taste, not bitter at all. To dry the meal, I poured the jars’ contents through a mesh strainer lined with several layers of cheesecloth. After squeezing out the remaining water, I ended up with something resembling brown sugar, which I then spread out onto two baking sheets. On my oven’s lowest setting (170 degrees), I baked the meal for about an hour, periodically pulling the baking sheets out to stir the meal around. Finally, I ran the dry acorn meal through an old coffee grinder I keep around for such things. The resulting flour was dark and aromatic, roughly the color of the discarded shells. Far from bleak apocalypse fare, or pioneer-days anachronism, acorn flour has a deep and complex character and deserves a place at the modern foodie’s table. Having no gluten, it is best used in conjunction with wheat flour. For breakfast, I used the buckwheat pancake recipe in The Joy of Cooking. The pancakes were dark, with an incredible nutty, toasted flavor not unlike buckwheat; the texture was cake-like, with a mild crunch. Later my wife baked loaves of robust, delicious bread using the acorn flour. If you’re up for an adventure in deep, tasty sustainability, grab a backpack and a friend and head to the park for some acorns. The universe will thank you for it. Ω

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Vocalist Eric McGuire and guitarist/vocalist Eric McCauley of Strange Habits. PHOTO BY MATT SIRACUSA

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Fist-pumping clichés on full display at 1078 Gallery

Ishow at 1078 Gallery last Friday (Oct. 11), with openers Strange Habits. A quick look online revealed

was intrigued by The Deaf Pilots’ CD-release

that both local bands are made up of dudes in their mid-20s, have the distinction of not playing heavy metal (a welcome by Howard change), and seem to have earned Hardee decent local and online followings. Furthering my interest was the howardh@ newsreview.com fact that The Deaf Pilots’ ReverbNation page described the band as an “energetic throwback to the times of psychedelic rock.” So, a group of friends and I made REVIEW: a night of it. We stopped by the newly The Deaf Pilots and opened Winchester Goose for beers Strange Habits, Friday, Oct. 11, at (awesome on all counts), then popped 1078 Gallery. into the 1078, just up the sidewalk, to check out the show. We arrived at 9 p.m., when the show was scheduled to start, but the gear was just getting set up. We killed some time and came back about 30 minutes later. Strange Habits was into their set when we returned, and it was readily apparent why they have made fans in Chico. Their college-party-friendly blend of ska, funk, punk and hip-hop (not unlike Sublime) seems tailor-made for Chico house parties. What’s more, vocalist and frontman Eric McGuire clearly draws inspiration from Brandon Boyd of Incubus, and the timbre of his voice is eerily similar, as well. Guitarist Eric McCauley’s playing was a little lost in the mix, which was a shame because from the looks of it, he was tearing it up. Bassist Brett Sparrey and drummer Sheel Doshi played excellent supporting roles, avoiding attention-grabbing wankery. The same cannot be said of McGuire. At the conclusion of Strange Habits’ set, he leapt and grabbed hold of the lighting rig above the stage, and hung there as the mod-

est crowd of a few dozen politely looked on. It came across as forced and unnatural, like he was going through the motions expected of a rock frontman by pandering to the end-of-set rule of going bat-shit crazy and throwing a guitar through a drum head or doing something equally edgy. There are crazy shows that call for genuine, over-the-top antics, but hanging from the light fixture, in this case, was out of place and fell flat inside the art gallery. Prior to his band taking the stage, The Deaf Pilots’ vocalist and guitarist, Derek Julian, armed with an awesome Gibson Explorer, proceeded to soundcheck by shredding our faces off. It was clear the young guitarist was a disciple of Eddie Van Halen, and had the guitar chops and tone to match. In fact, the threepiece—bass (Andrew Watt), drums (Ryan Fairley) and guitar—seemed intent on matching Van Halen’s level of rock-cliché exploitation and farcically masculine guitar-wielding. A friend of mine summed it up nicely when he leaned over to quip, “This is what Tenacious D would sound like if they weren’t funny.” It’s not that I’m opposed to bands that have no intention of reinventing the wheel. In fact, I like rolling with the wheel. I’ve drawn an immeasurable amount of pleasure from music—new and old—that follows basic rock formulas and has fun playing off clichés (and, to be fair, the band’s heavy-riffing “Where You Run”—a blues-based track in the vein of Australian band Wolfmother—did stick with me after the show). But something more than formula is necessary to keep my attention; namely, the unique personality of the performers has to shine through to make the music stand out, and The Deaf Pilots’ cliché personality of cocksure swagger does little to separate them from the crowd. (Maybe I’m just disappointed that there was no hint of the promised psychedelia.) I will concede, though, that they do possess the kind of attitude that lends itself to a fist-pumping, college-party setting, which is exactly what they’re probably shooting for. Ω October 17, 2013

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THURSDAY 10|17—WEDNESDAY 10|23 8pm. $5. Dex, 167 E. Third St. Next to the Crazy Horse Saloon, (530) 3278706.

Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

BROKEN RODEO & THE RUGS: A friendly night of local fun with country-folk duo Broken Rodeo and laid-back rock-

ers The Rugs. Sa, 10/19, 9pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

JOHN SEID TRIO: John Seid, Steve Cook

18FRIDAY BASSMINT: A weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. F, 9:30pm. Peeking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St. 4, (530) 895-3888.

EPICTOBER Friday, Oct. 18 LaSalles

EPICTOBER: EDM-powered Oktoberfest

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17THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

BLUES UNPLUGGED: Featuring musical

stylings of Mark Holder. Th, 10/17, 810pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JOHN SEID DUO: John Seid and Larry Peterson play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 69pm. Opens 10/17. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

MONK WARRIOR: Redding-based three piece instrumental band performs with local prog/metal/weird bands Teeph, Io Torus and Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy. Th, 10/17, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

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

OPEN MIKEFULL: Open-mic night to share your music, poetry, comedy or other

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

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

RISE: Hardcore show featuring Rise, Gorilla Monsoon, Grove Street and locals Outside Looking In. Th, 10/17,

party with a laser light show and music by DJ Emvee vs. DJ Monks, SteelE, J Handel, DMC and more. F, 10/18, 8pm. $1-$3. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

FALL REVIEW DRAG SHOW: F, 10/18, 9pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

FLO SESSIONS: Flo’s weekly local music showcase continues with host Zack Black and guests. F, 7-10pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. This week Bogg performs arrangements of music by Chico musicians. F, 11am. Opens 10/18. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

IRISH-MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi-

and Larry Peterson play an eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. F, 6-9pm. Opens 10/18. Free. Chicoichi Ramen, 243 W. Ninth St., (530) 891-9044.

JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE: James Garner honors the life and music of the legendary “Man in Black”. F, 10/18, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

MIKE COMFORT: The singer/songwriter

LADIES’ NIGHT

Chico has a lot more to offer than your average little city, including a sizeable population of glamorous and talented drag queens. These lovelies strut their stuff at special events and venues around town every so often, and the Maltese Bar & Tap Room serves as the unofficial local headquarters for men wearing high heels, wigs and lots of makeup. The best of the best will grace the Maltese stage on Friday, Oct. 18, for a special Fall Review Drag Show.

performs a special benefit show for KZFR. F, 10/18, 8pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

RETROTONES: Performing classic rock

and country. F, 10/18, 7-10pm. Albatross, 3312 Esplanade, (530) 3456037, www.thealbatross.com.

19SATURDAY BIG MO AND THE FULL MOON BAND: Paradise band performs a variety of original music ranging from Southern rock to funky grooves. Sa, 10/19, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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ROACH GIGZ: Hyphy-rapper from the Bay Area with friends Husalah and Bobby Brackins. Sa, 10/19, 8pm. $16. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

Friday, Oct. 18 Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co.

20SUNDAY NICK JAINA: Su, 10/20, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

PARADISE SYMPHONY: Local guitarist

forms with fellow singer/songwriters Alli Battaglia and Lisa Valentine. Sa, 10/19, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

Tobin Roye performs works by Richard Rogers, Beethoven and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco with the symphony. Su, 10/20, 7pm. $17. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

MANDY JO AND THE HOLY MACKEREL: A

night of bluegrass/folk covers. Sa, 10/19, 7-10pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted

DECENT CRIMINAL: Noisy Santa Rosa band joined by Magalia metal crew Epitaph of Atlas, Chico punks Icko Sicko and Redding’s Gyro Spazzers. Sa, 10/19, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 3457672.

ance featuring the brass section of the North State Symphony. Sa, 10/19, 7:30pm. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State.

KEYSER SOZA: The Reno, Nev., rock-

21MONDAY JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: With the Carey

Robinson Trio. M, 5-7pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

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boardist Shigemi Minetaka and rotating accompaniment. Tu, 6:308:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.

23WEDNESDAY JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: With the Carey

Robinson Trio. W, 5-7pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

NICK JAINA

Nick Jaina’s songs sound like the next chapter in the clever, creatively phrased tunes of the Elvis Costelloto-Spoon book of songwriting. The Portland, Ore., musician is a pop-rocker with a punk soul and a classical mind. The great single “Don’t Come To Me,” from his latest album, Primary Perception, was just featured on NPR’s Morning Edition; the New York Times recently wrote about the latest ballet he scored (“Epistasis”); and the 1078 Gallery is presenting him live this Sunday, Oct. 20, with openers Fera and Hello Biplane.

LAURIE DANA: Soul, light rock, blues, country, Tin Pan Alley, jazz and more.

by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.

THE GLEAMING BRASS: A select perform-

and Friends. Tu, 7-10pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveat flo.com.

SHIGEMI & FRIENDS: Live jazz with key-

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OPEN MIC: Open mic night with Aaron

W, 7-9pm. Free. VIP Ultra Lounge, 191 E. Second St.

OPEN MIC: An all-ages open mic for musicians, poets, comedians, storytellers and dancers. W, 7pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Café, 642 W. Fifth St.

WAY OUT WEST: A weekly country music

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AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-

writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

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TOWN

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

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SQ. FT.

Bangor Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$230,000 $750,000 $675,000 $380,000 $365,000 $359,000 $350,000 $334,500 $329,000 $313,000 $309,500 $290,000

3/ 1.5 3/ 3 5/ 3 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2.5 4/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2

1232 3087 3707 2915 1954 1904 3420 1847 1959 1811 1833 1562

610 Crister Ave 4 Cottage Cir 1810 Meadow Rd 5 Savannah Ln 1092 Manzanita Ave 1384 Ravenshoe Way 1115 Sunset Ave 211 Mission Serra Ter 2585 White Ave 12 Jenny Way 39 Kinswood Ln 11 Betsey Way

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$274,000 $268,500 $260,000 $259,000 $252,500 $246,000 $235,000 $234,000 $225,000 $222,000 $200,000 $186,000

4/ 1.5 3/ 1.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1.5 4/ 2 5/ 3 3/ 2 3/ 1.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2

1447 1499 1400 1531 1567 1407 1835 1317 1127 1350 1692 1337

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Sat. 11-1 2270 N. Lindo Ave ( X St. Hwy 32) 5 Bd / 3 Ba, 3221 Sq.Ft. $699,000 Kathy Kelly 570-7403

Sun. 2-4 682 Grafton Park Dr (X St: Cussick) 5 Bd / 3.5 Ba, 2843 Sq.Ft. $564,500 Heather DeLuca 228-1480

Sun. 12-2

481 Silver Lake Dr (X St: Calistoga) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,966 Sq.Ft. $334,900 Patty Davis Rough 864-4329

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 273 Autumn Gold Dr (X St: Henshaw) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,081 Sq.Ft. $339,000 Morgan Berry 774-7745

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

1 Pistachio Dr (X St: Entler) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2635 Sq.Ft. $469,900 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

15 River Wood Loop (X St: Glenwood) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1915 Sq.Ft $314,000 Ed Galvez 990-2054

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

Sat. 2-4

4078 Spyglass Rd (X St: Garner) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 3,350 Sq.Ft. $625,000 Frank Condon 864-7726 Anita Miller 321-1174

1089 Filbert Ave (X St: Rey Circle) 3 Bed, 2 Ba, 1,904 Sq.Ft. $299,900 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

Sun. 2-4

2602 Sedona Ct (X St: Archway) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,603 Sq.Ft. $292,500 Justin Jewett 518-4089

5517 Cumorah Ln (X St: Newland) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 3,261 Sq.Ft. $400,000 Becky Williams 636-0936

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 4338 Keith Lane (X St: Garner) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 2,328 Sq.Ft. $439,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911 Frank Condon 864-7726 Chris Martinez 680-4404

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

Sat. 12-2 3676 Durham Dayton Hwy (X St: Dayton Rd) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2,558 Sq.Ft. $264,800 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

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Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 11-1

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1866 Conifer Dr (X St. Pentz) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,781 SqFt. $259,900 Sandra Grill 228-3937

190 Fairgate Ln (X St: W. Sacramento) 2403 Stearns, Paradise 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1198 Sq.Ft. $209,500 3BR/2BA, on.37 AC, $239,000 Susan Thomas 872-6847 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850

Sun. 2-4 885 Lorinda Ln (X St: Cohassett) 3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1,288 Sq.Ft. $250,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

Sun. 2-3 923 Christi Ln. (X St: Cohasset Rd.) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1608 Sq.Ft. $245,000 Frankie Dean 717-3884

Sat. 2-4 1 San Pablo Ct (X St: North Ave) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,126 Sq.Ft. $230,000 John Wallace 514-2405

Sun. 11-1 1822 Magnolia (X St: W.8th Ave) 2 Bd / 1 Ba, 1044 Sq.Ft. $222,500 Frank “Speedy” Condon 864-7726

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 1512 E. Lassen Ave (X St. Eaton) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,119 Sq.Ft. $218,000 Sandy Stoner 514-5555 Russ Hammer 566-3540

Sun. 2-4

Sun 2–4

70 Acacia (X St: Oro Dam Blvd) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2200 Sq.Ft. $189,000 Frank “Speedy” Condon 864-7726

5340 Harrison, Paradise 3 BR/2 BA, 2128 SF +/-, $247,000 Patty McKee 872-6842

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Sun 2–4 6634 Quail Way, Paradise 3BD/2BA, 1,707 SF+/-, $227,950 Chari Bullock 872-6818

Sun 2–4 1682 Paradisewood Dr, Paradise 3BD/2BA, 1,734 SF+/-, $245,000 Chari Bullock 872-6818

6173 Toms Trail, Magalia 3 BR/2 BA, 4500 SF+/-, $590,000 Patty McKee 872-6842

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Sat 11 – 1 & 2-4 5790 Acorn Ct, Paradise 3 BR/2 BA, 1908 SF +/-, $295,000 Warren Bullock 872-6825

1874 June Way, Paradise 2 BR/2 BA, 1803 SF +/-, $275,000 Dori Regalia 872-6829

Sat 2–4 6177 Toms Trail, Magalia 3 BR/2 BA, 1893 SF +/-, $318,500 Chari Bullock 872-6818

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of September 30, 2013 – October 04, 2013. The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home. ADDRESS 1915 Magnolia Ave 2848 Burnap Ave 1023 Poppy St 898 E 8th St 34 Lacewing Ct 1146 Hazel St 613 Little Ave 1188 Larkin Rd 14759 Vassar Ct 14635 Bridgeport Cir 14389 Skyway 1211 Leah Ct 40 CN&R October 17, 2013

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Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Gridley Gridley Magalia Magalia Magalia Oroville

$186,000 $145,000 $127,000 $119,000 $115,000 $108,000 $190,000 $127,000 $218,000 $150,000 $112,500 $325,000

2/ 1 3/ 2 2/ 1 2/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 1 3/ 1.5 2/ 1 3/ 2.5 2/ 2 1/ 1 2/ 1

1205 1364 956 936 1357 1002 1300 1340 1738 1718 760 1363

437 Hillcrest Ave 2345 Via Cedro 2375 Via Madero 2681 Forestview Dr 10234 Palermo Honcut Hwy 7796 Irwin Ave 4755 Salmon Dr 1630 Graystone Ct 2374 Josephs Ct 3801 Honey Run Rd A 5321 Newland Rd 5709 Woodglen Dr

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Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Palermo Palermo Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$195,000 $140,000 $120,000 $110,000 $159,500 $119,000 $335,000 $269,000 $264,000 $190,000 $190,000 $144,500

3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 1 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2.5 4/ 4 3/ 2 2/ 1.5

1646 1151 1151 1170 1499 1170 2261 1793 2120 2562 1737 1173

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ENVISION at 3088 Helena Way Chico, CA 95973. AARON DAVIS 3088 Helena Way Chico, CA 95973. JENNIFER DAVIS 3088 Helena Way Chico, CA 9573. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: JENNIFER DAVIS Dated: September 11, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001214 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STREAMFINE, STREAMFINE CONSULTING at 1354 East Ave Ste R 199 Chico, CA 95926 ANTHONY CHAPMAN 30 Pebblewood Pines Drive Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TONY CHAPMAN Dated: August 15, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001106 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as COLLEGE SCHEDULER LLC at 2440 Pinion Ct Redding, CA 96002. COLLEGE SCHEDULER LLC 2440 Pinion Ct Redding, CA 96002. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: ROBERT STRAZZARINO, CEO Dated: August 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001156 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO HYDROTHERAPY CENTER at 555 Flying V Street #4 Chico, CA 95928. SOMERSET CONSULTING GROUP 1615 Meadow Road Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: LESLIE PHAIRAS, OWNER/PRESIDENT Dated: September 9, 2013 FBn Number: 2013-0001202 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as F AND S HOUSEBOATS at 846 Coit Tower Chico, CA 95928.

ADRIAN MICHAEL HELT 4856 Pentz Road Paradise, CA 95969. JASON MUNOZ 6594 Vine Street Magalia, CA 95954. JAMES MICHAEL RUTZ 846 Coit Tower Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: JAMES MICHAEL RUTZ Dated: September 11, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001209 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KP FARMS at 1224 Windecker Dr. Chico, CA 95926. DEBORAH LYNN KRAUSE 1224 Windecker Dr. Chico, CA 95926. THOMAS BURTON KRAUSE 1224 Windecker Dr. Chico, CA 95926. C LORENZO POPE 3515 Bell Estate Dr. Chico, CA 95973. NANCY CROPPER POPE 3515 Bell Estate Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: THOMAS B KRAUSE Dated: September 16, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001230 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as V-26 PRODUCTS at 2776 Alamo Avenue Chico, CA 95973. PAUL ABBOTT 2776 Alamo Avenue Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PAUL ABBOTT Dated: September 17, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001236 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BLUE TEAM, BLUE TEAM REAL ESTATE, BLUE TEAM REALTY, BLUE TEAM REALTY GROUP, THE BLUE TEAM at 7020 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. TROY J DAVIS 3184 Cherokee Rd Oroville, CA 95965. CYNTHIA G HASKETT 1326 Deodara Way Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: Troy J. Davis Dated: September 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001264 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HAZEL STREET VINTAGE AND COMPANY at 946 Hazel Street Gridley, CA 95948. NELDA Z ANDES 542 B. Street Biggs, CA 95917. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: NELDA ANDES Dated: September 24, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001257 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ART OF THE CRAFT at 3862 Ord Ferry Rd Chico, CA 95928. JAMES ALLEN WORONOW 3862 Ord Ferry Rd Chico, CA 95928. MARYLYN JOY WORONOW 3862 Ord Ferry Rd Chico, CA

95928. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: JAMES ALLEN WORONOW Dated: September 18, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001242 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as L AND R PUBLISHING at 5776 Vista Way Unit #1 Paradise, CA 95969. LYNDA J GIBSON 5776 Vista Way Unit #1 Paradise, CA 95969. RONALD K GIBSON 5776 Vista Way Unit #1 Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: Ronald Gibson Dated: September 12, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001216 Published:October 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOCALGIRLGONECLEAN.COM at 555 Vallombrosa Ave. #53 Chico, CA 95926. SUE ANN AQUILA 555 Vallombrosa Ave. #53 Chico, CA 95926 This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: SUE ANN AQUILA Dated: September 24, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001254 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as 8L YOGA at 234 W. 3rd St. Apt # F Chico, CA 95928. BRIAN SWEAT 101 Ahwanhee Commons #36 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: BRIAN SWEAT Dated: September 27, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001270 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN TARA PIECE WORKS at 701 E Lassen Ave #246 Chico, CA 95973. PIPER MICHELLE MILES 701 E Lassen Ave #246 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PIPER M. MILES Dated: October 2, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001284 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE RENDEZVOUS at 3269 Esplanade Suite 142 Chico, CA 95973 STACIE SHATKIN SCHUMAN 1747 Broadway Chico, CA 95928. STEVEN SCHUMAN 1747 Broadway Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: STEVEN SCHUMAN Dated: September 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001223 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTHSTATE MORTGAGE at 292 Chico Canyon Road Chico,

CA 95928. CRAIG C SCOTT 292 Chico Canyon Road Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CRAIG SCOTT Dated: October 1, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001278 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HILL HOME REPAIR, MADRONE MEADOWS RANCH at 906 Sucker Run Rd Feather Falls, CA 95940. DAVID DEWAYNE HILL 906 Sucker Run Rd Feather Falls, CA 95940. KATHLEEN MARIE MOWDY 906 Sucker Run Rd Feather Falls, CA 95940. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: KATHLEEN M MOWDY Dated: September 23, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001251 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GRACE LIGHT HINDU TEMPLE at 3160 Canyon Oaks Terrace Chico, CA 95928. GRACE LIGHT HINDU TEMPLE 3160 Canyon Oaks Terrace Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: PRABHA PILLAI, PRESIDENT Dated: September 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001201 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MARCELLI’S SANDWICHES AND MORE at 215 West 1st Street Chico, CA 95928. FAITH ROAD INVESTMENTS, INC. 11145 Faith Road Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JOHN FEDRO, PRESIDENT Dated: October 4, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001290 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARADISE COMMUNITY WELLNESS CONNECTION at 8093 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. PARADISE COMMUNITY WELLNESS CONNECTION P.O. Box 1488 Paradise, CA 95967. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: LYNN COSTA, TREASURER Dated: September 25, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001263 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELIZABETH’S at 225 Main St Chico, CA 95928. MEGAN GRANDFIELD 1286 Howard Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MEGAN GRANDFIELD Dated: October 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-00001318 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013

SHAREN LACITINOLA AND KAREN WICKER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SHAREN LACITINOLA AND KAREN WICKER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: SHAREN LACITINOLA, AND KAREN WICKER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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 consent- ed 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: October 24, 2013 Time: 1:30pm Dept:TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 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: PR40798 Attorney for Petitioner: Clayton B. Anderson 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973. Published: October 3,10,17, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BLOOM at 1163 East Avenue, Suite 103 Chico, CA 95926. SUNNY FITZWATER 1730 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95928. LYNN FLOWERS 130 Secluded Oaks Ct Chico, CA 95928. MOLLIE HOUSTON 75 Plumwood Court Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association. Signed: LYNN FLOWERS Dated: October 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001315 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LUNATIC FRINGE BELLY DANCE ESSENTIALS at 163 E. Third St. Chico, CA 95928. MICHELLE PALOMA-HUDKINS 2610 Oro Quincy Hwy Oroville, CA 95966. Signed: M. PALOMA HUDKINS Dated: October 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001320 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GET SHARP at 635 Riverview Ct Oroville, CA 95966. RUSSELL LOOMIS FELDER 635 Riverview Ct Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RUSSELL FELDER Dated: October 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001319 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE BLACK KETTLE at 2659 Monterey St Chico, CA 95973. KAMI GRIMES 2659 Monterey St Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KAMI GRIMES Dated: October 8, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001302 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 FITITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: 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 was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: KAMI GRIMES Dated: October 8, 2013 FBN Number: 20120001661 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE CARL MELVIN GILLILAND, AKA CARL M. GILLILAND, AKA CARL GILLILAND To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of:

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE B. GORE, AKA BETTY GORE, AKA BETTY J. GORE AKA BETTY JEAN GORE To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: B. GORE, AKA BETTY GORE, AKA BETTY J. GORE AKA BETTY JEAN GORE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PAT GORE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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THE Petition for Probate requests that: PAT GORE personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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 consent- ed 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: November 7, 2013 Time: 1:30pm Dept:TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 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: PR40804 Attorney for Petitioner: Clayton B. Anderson 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973. Published: October 17,24,31, 2013 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ALAN RUSSELL MITCHELL, AKA ALAN R. MITCHELL To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ALAN RUSSELL MITCHELL, AKA ALAN R. MITCHELL A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JILL MITCHELL in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: JILL MITCHELL personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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 consent- ed to the proposed action.) The

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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: November 7, 2013 Time: 1:30pm Dept:TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 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: PR40814 Petitioner: Jill Mitchell 1663 Wee Dell Road Paradise, CA 95969. Published: October 17,24,31, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner STEVEN HOKE, SUSANNA HOKE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MIHRETU STEVEN HOKE Proposed name: DANIEL STEVEN MIHRETU HOKE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 15, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: September 24, 2013 Case Number: 160488 Published: October 3,10,17,24, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTOPER MICHAEL CARRICK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as

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SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT RUBEN RAY ZABALA You are being sued. Petitioner’s name is: CLAUDIA A. RIVERA You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court One Court St. Oroville, CA 95965 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: CLAUDIA A. RIVERA 368 White Ave #3 Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Kimberly Flener, T. COOPER Dated: September 4, 2013 Case Number: FL044325 Published: September 26, October 3,10,17, 2013 SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT CASEY CAULFIELD, DORINDA A CAULFIELD AKA DORIE CAULFIELD You are being sued by plaintiff: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your

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children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Avenue Chico, CA 95926. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Joseph L. Selby #249546 Law Office of Leverenz, Ferris & Selby 515 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 Signed: Kimberly Flener, T. MORGAN Dated: May 24, 2013 Case Number: 159641 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT VALERIE R UNDERWOOD You are being sued by plaintiff: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Avenue Chico, CA 95926. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Joseph L. Selby #249546 Law Office of Leverenz, Ferris & Selby 515 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 Signed: Kimberly Flener, M. McCall Dated: May 17, 2013 Case Number: 159541 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): This

is an indelicate oracle. If you’re offended by the mention of bodily functions in a prophetic context you should stop reading now. Still here? OK. I was walking through my neighborhood when I spied an older woman standing over her aged Yorkshire terrier next to a bush. The dog was in discomfort, squatting and shivering but unable to relieve himself. “He’s having trouble getting his business done,” his owner confided in me. “He’s been struggling for 10 minutes.” I felt a rush of sympathy for the distressed creature. With a flourish of my hand, I said, “More power to you, little one. May you purge your burden.” The dog instantly defecated. Shrieking her approval, the woman exclaimed, “It’s like you waved a magic wand!” Now I am invoking my wizardry in your behalf, Aries, although in a less literal way: More power to you. May you purge your psychological burden.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “You won’t do it at the right time,” warns writer Kate Moller. “You’ll be late. You’ll be early. You’ll get re-routed. You’ll get delayed. You’ll change your mind. You’ll change your heart. It’s not going to turn out the way you thought it would.” And yet, Moller concludes¡ªare you ready for the punch line?¡ª“It will be better.” In describing your future, Taurus, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Fate may be comical in the way it plays with your expectations and plans, but I predict you will ultimately be glad about the outcome. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the com-

ing weeks, you Geminis could be skillful and even spectacular liars. You will have the potential to deceive more people, bend more truths, and even fool yourself better than anyone else. On the other hand, you will also have the knack to channel this same slipperiness in a different direction. You could tell imaginative stories that rouse people from their ruts. You might explore the positive aspects of Kurt Vonnegut’s theory that we tend to become what we pretend to be. Or you could simply be so creative and playful and improvisational in everything you do that you catalyze a lot of inspirational fun. Which way will you go?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m all in

favor of you indulging your instinct for selfprotection. As a Cancerian myself, I understand that one of the ways you take good care of yourself is by making sure that you feel reasonably safe. Having said that, I also want to remind you that your mental and emotional health requires you to leave your comfort zone on a regular basis. Now is one of those times. The call to adventure will arrive soon. If you make yourself ready and eager for changes, the changes that come will kick your ass in mostly educational and pleasurable ways.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Who exactly do you

want to be when you grow up, and what is the single most important experience you need in order to make that happen? What riches do you want to possess when you are finally wise enough to make enlightened use of them, and how can you boost your eligibility for those riches? Which one of your glorious dreams is not quite ripe enough for you to fulfill it, but is primed to be dramatically ripened in the coming weeks? If I were you, Leo, I would meditate on these questions. Answers will be forthcoming.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): At an elemen-

tary-school festival some years ago, I performed the role of the Mad Hatter from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. One of my tasks was to ask kids to make a wish, whereupon I sprinkled their heads with magic fairy dust. Some of the kids were skeptical about the whole business. They questioned the proposition that the fairy dust would make their wishes come true. A few were so suspicious that they walked away without making a wish or accepting the fairy dust. Yet every single one of those distrustful kids came back later to tell me they had changed their

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The door to

the invisible must be visible,” wrote the surrealist spiritual author René Daumal. This describes an opportunity that is on the verge of becoming available to you. The opportunity is still invisible simply because it has no precedents in your life; you can’t imagine what it is. But just recently, a door to that unknown realm has become visible to you. I suggest you open it, even though you have almost no idea what’s on the other side.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the White Rabbit, “How long is forever?” The talking rabbit replies, “Sometimes, just one second.” That’s an important piece of information for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. It implies that “forever” may not necessarily, in all cases, last until the universe dies out 5 billion years from now. Forever might actually turn out to be one second or 90 minutes or a month or a year or who knows? So how does this apply to your life right now? Well, a situation you assumed was permanent could ultimately change¡ªperhaps much faster than you have imagined. An apparently everlasting decree or perpetual feeling could unexpectedly shift, as if by magic. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I need a little language such as lovers use,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves. “I need no words. Nothing neat,” she wrote. “I need a howl; a cry.” If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, Sagittarius, Woolf is speaking for you right now. You should be willing to get guttural and primal¡ªto trust the teachings of silence and the crazy wisdom of your body, to exult in the inarticulate mysteries and bask in the dumfounding brilliance of the Eternal Wow. Are you brave enough to love what can’t be put into words?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I get bored with the idea of becoming a better listener,” writes business blogger Penelope Trunk. “Why would I do that when interrupting people is so much faster?” If your main goal is to impose your will on people and get things over with as soon as possible, Capricorn, by all means, follow Trunk’s advice this week. But if you have other goals¡ªlike building consensus, finding out important information you don’t know yet and winning help from people who feel affection for you¡ªI suggest that you find out how to have maximum fun by being an excellent listener. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The last

time meteorologists officially added a new type of cloud formation to the International Cloud Atlas was 1951. But they’re considering another one now. It’s called “asperatus,” which is derived from the Latin term undulatus asperatus, meaning “turbulent undulation.” According to The Cloud Appreciation Society, it resembles “the surface of a choppy sea from below.” But although it looks rough and agitated, it almost never brings a storm. Let’s make asperatus your mascot for the next few weeks, Aquarius. I suspect that you, too, will soon discover something new under the sun. It may at first look turbulent, but I bet it will mostly just be interesting.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you

try private experiments that might generate intimate miracles? Yes! Should you dream up extravagant proposals and schedule midnight rendezvous! By all means! Should you pick up where your fantasies left off the last time you got too timid to explore further? Naturally! Should you find out what “as raw as the law allows” actually means? I encourage you! Should you question taboos that are no longer relevant? Most assuredly! Should you burn away the rotting pain with a show of liberated strength? Beyond a doubt! Should you tap into the open secret at the core of your wild beauty! Of course!

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BREZSNY’S

For the week of October 17, 2013

A pair of Chico natives and Chico State students just won a national competition for a new outdoor sport that you may not have heard of: spikeball. It’s sort of a mix between volleyball, foursquare and ping pong and it’s quickly gaining popularity. On Sept. 28, the Chico Spikeball team of Skyler Boles, 23 and Shaun Boyer, 21 (pictured at left and right, respectively), took first place in the Spike-A-Palooza national tournament in Nashville, Tenn. Boles, a self-described spikeball ambassador, sets up matches at Chico State, teaches the sport at local schools, sells the equipment and enters tournaments all over the U.S. Visit www.facebook.com/chicospikeball for more info, or call/text Boles at 519-3965.

How’d it feel to win Spike-A-Palooza? It felt very cool. I wanted to make sure we were the best in the U.S. There were 62 teams. We won $500—$250 each—and got engraved glass pitchers. We also won a tournament in New York last June that had 44 teams. We are sponsored with cool merchandise by SAVAGEultimate, but I really play for the love of the game.

How’s the game played? It’s super easy and you can play anywhere. It’s two-on-two and you use a small net that looks like a mini-trampoline. Each team hits a ball by hand a maximum of three times before bouncing it off the net to the other team, [and they do] the same until one team messes up, giving the other team a point. The first to reach 21 wins.

How did you get into spikeball? I saw a video of it on YouTube 1 1/2 years ago and fell in love. I said, “That’s the kind of sport for me.” I wanted to unite people and organize competitions. I now teach it at Chico State, Chico High, Chico Junior High and Marsh Elementary. I also sell the sets—the net and ball—for only $50.

What do you like best about the sport? Going as hard as you can and getting the ball back on the net. It’s about hand-eye coordination, finesse, deception and not quitting on the ball. Playing in the sand is the most fun because you don’t have to think about landing.

What do you think the future holds for the sport? It’s only going to grow, with bigger prize money. In my first tournament there were only 21 teams and at Nashville there were 62. We have open game days Wednesdays, 4 p.m., at Chico State’s Yolo Field by the tennis courts. My family always said I should do something I love for work and now I’ve found it.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net

Storms Editors note: Anthony’s taking the week off, so were re-running this column from 2008. I love storms, when Mother Nature is kicking ass and taking names. I was born in the Midwest and spent my first half-century there, and I’ve been in some fairly exciting weather. No Hurricanes, but I’ve been close to several tornadoes. One of the things I miss most about living in the Midwest is the sudden appearance of a summer storm, with thunder and lightning and big wind. I lived for a while in a high-rise apartment in Chicago, and the best thing about it, other than the cuties by the pool, was being able to watch a thunderstorm coming in off the prairie, apparently lighting up cars and buildings as it moved across the city headed for me. I especially like storms that knock out electric power. First, a lack of electricity tends to be accompanied by quiet, which is good. And when the power’s out, we pretty much have to listen to the storm, which can be as engaging as any music. The silence that follows a snowstorm is sublime. In the blizzard of ’67 in Chicago, I spent the night on a bus headed home, and we never got more than a couple of miles from downtown. That was no fun, but the miles I walked the next day to complete my commute were quite pleasant, with no cars or buses, just walkers and the occasional child being towed on a

sled. The South Side wasn’t that quiet again until the blizzard of ’79. A storm that interrupts electricity is also likely to disrupt street traffic, and the combination is good for air quality and my peace of mind, which is most of what I care about these days. After the initial annoyance of nothing happening when I flip a switch and having to do without electronic entertainment, I begin to notice and enjoy how my horizon shrinks back from halfway around the world on some Godforsaken website to maybe the back fence. Many, many blizzards in the Midwest eventually helped reveal to me the wisdom of attending to what’s right here on the bookshelf, thawing in the refrigerator, simmering on the stove, waiting in the next room. Particularly sweet was the exquisite anticipation of being snowed in, when doing nothing would be all anyone expected of me. Making sure I had the necessities so I wouldn’t have to go out again, finding a treat to share with my family, picking a movie we could all stand and that we might actually like, wading through the snow from the garage and not caring about getting snow on my pants because I’d soon be taking them off anyway—all that was good, and I’m glad I did it. But now I can’t imagine putting up with six months of winter in Minnesota for the sake of experiencing the maybe two snows per year that would promote coziness before the slush. It wasn’t that good. Reverie will do nicely. October 17, 2013

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