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A worthy ministry Chico is without a doubt seeing an unprecedented level of

homelessness and there are most certainly problems associated with it. For starters, people are sleeping in doorways downtown. What’s worse, some are using those areas—as drunken college students have been for years— as places to urinate (or worse). Local business owners are understandably fed up (See “Clearing a path,” Newslines, by Melissa Daugherty, page 10). Unfortunately, however, there’s talk going around town that some of the organizations providing services to the down-and-out are simply enablers. Chico’s Orchard Church was a victim of that knee-jerk reaction during the last regular City Council meeting (see “Much ado about meals,” Newslines, by Melissa Daugherty, Oct. 17). Its “Church on the Street” ministry has been providing meals and fellowship to the homeless at City Plaza for more than five years. But it took only days to dismantle the church’s operation, thanks in part to freshman Councilman Sean Morgan. After finding out about the gatherings, Morgan actually attempted to personally file an appeal of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission’s vote to approve the church’s permit. If he’d instead reached out to church leaders or visited the weekly gettogethers, he might have seen that the outreach is, as one park commissioner put it, “[T]he most peaceful event I’ve seen at City Plaza.” He also would have learned that the nonprofit has successfully helped to pull numerous locals out of homelessness. In other words, while city leaders continue to wring their hands, this small nonprofit has made progress in doing exactly what the citizens of Chico want: to find solutions to solve the local homeless crisis. And it hasn’t cost the city a dime. Morgan did meet with church leaders after an appeal was filed, but if he gained any understanding of the mission of the City Plaza gatherings, he didn’t share any of it from the dais. Moving forward, we hope the full council will have more of an open mind. If anything, city leaders should be asking Orchard Church what they can do help with the cause. Ω

Let us unite Wresponsible for building the community coalitions with which we can achieve social, environmental, health and ecoe, as the citizens of this land, are ultimately

nomic justice. Despite the diversity of our principal interests, health is the common ground on which we can organize together. On Saturday, Nov. 2, at Trinity United Methodist Church, Uniting Generations for Action will bring community leaders, activists and concerned citizens together to network, share skills, and ultimately develop solidarity among the many passionate local individual organizers and organizations. The goal of this event is to by strengthen Butte County’s community Forest network, and to meet and cultivate Harlan inspired individuals, from the newly awakened youth to seasoned community The author is veterans. president of the Butte We will expand our own knowledge County Health Care and understanding, and strengthen the Coalition. He states groundwork for alliances directed toward that he is committed political, economic, social and educationto creating stronger alliances and al action. We know there is a strong link overturning silos. between personal and social health, and the health of the food, water and land. The way we respond to the threats of fracking, water transportation and food sovereignty is emblematic of the way we will treat ourselves and community. 4 CN&R October 24, 2013

With a schedule of events that includes speaker panels, whole-group educational lectures, and workshops on specific topics, Uniting Generations for Action will focus on community building; multi-generational wisdom exchange; the intersections of water, health, fracking and food; as well as leadership empowerment. We will be discussing how we as a community can work together to advance our personal and universal calls to action. We would like representation from as many organizations as possible to create an event that highlights and empowers our diverse needs and interests. Principal sponsors include the California Student Sustainability Coalition, the Butte County Health Care Education Coalition and the Butte Environmental Council. Partnership sponsors include the California Nurses Association, the Sierra Club, Physicians for a National Health Program-California, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The organizers hope to break new ground in linking local issues with global implications. We are calling on activists on all issues to join us. A $5-$15 sliding-scale donation is requested to support the host organizations. A delicious vegan or chicken meal by Brenda Bestle will be provided. To learn more, call 680-9441. Ω

LaMalfa the extremist The Oct. 17 Los Angeles Times headline reads, “Rep. Doug

LaMalfa stands up for principle!” The exclamation point suggests the author is being facetious, and indeed he is. That’s because Michael Hiltzik, a veteran business reporter and columnist for the Times, believes LaMalfa is the epitome of hypocrisy in Washington. In a July column, he noted, as the CN&R has done repeatedly, that LaMalfa and his family—wealthy rice farmers from Richvale—had received $5.1 million in federal farm handouts over the years. But when it comes to assistance to the poor, LaMalfa declaimed on the House floor, “We should be doing this as individuals, helping the poor, helping these individuals. Or through the church, if we can’t do it ourselves.” Hiltzik then pointed out, “The number of recipients of food stamps in Butte County, where LaMalfa resides, is 27,457. That’s 11 percent of his neighbors who would go without, thanks to LaMalfa’s vote to eliminate benefits. Hope he eats well at dinnertime.” More recently, as Hiltzik describes in his Oct. 17 column, LaMalfa was one of 144 House Republicans who voted against the compromise bill to end the government shutdown—an act of political extortion that LaMalfa also supported—and temporarily lift the debt ceiling. By voting to continue the shutdown, LaMalfa was again standing on “principle,” Hiltzik states—the principle that government shouldn’t help the poor, that charity should be left to churches and individuals. Except when it comes to wealthy rice farmers, apparently. Even more concerning is his willingness to allow the U.S. government to default on its debts, ignoring the fact that this country is the cornerstone of the world economy, and other nations rely on its financial stability. It’s frightening to imagine what might have happened had LaMalfa and his fellow House extremists succeeded. Ω

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No good deed … A few things stood out during the last regular City Council meeting (on Oct. 15). First, the most interesting item on the agenda turned out to be the controversy over a church whose leadership has quietly been ministering— and providing dinner to—the needy at City Plaza each Sunday for years. Five years. Literally across the street from the City Council chambers. And now, suddenly, this is a problem. In July, a park ranger busted Orchard Church for not having the proper permit to give out food. To be able to continue breaking bread with folks at the plaza as part of its “Church on the Street” ministry, Pastor Jim Culp had to pay $731 in city fees and get certification through the Butte County Health Department. When the permit application came before the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission, it received approval for three months’ time, rather than the 52 weeks the church had been seeking. As it stands, now that a formal appeal has been filed by a downtown business owner, the City Council holds the authority to allow or deny the meal-providing fellowship. A decision is going to happen sometime in November. In the meantime, Culp and company are continuing Orchard Church’s ministry at the plaza, as they have a right to do in this public space. The local pastor told me he’s complied with a letter from the city ordering the church to stop feeding people. However, it didn’t stop others from showing up independent of the church to pass out sack lunches this past Sunday. Also notable: Some heavy hitters—including former Chico Police Chief Mike Maloney and his wife, Laurie—are standing up for the church. The Maloneys have long volunteered at the Jesus Center and with the local homeless and transient population the organization serves. As they point out in a letter of support, in the last year alone, the church has successfully helped transition three people out of homelessness, helped three addicts into rehabilitation, and helped three others reunite with their loved ones. “Chico hasn’t heard about any of this because the church is not doing it to get attention or credit,” reads part of the letter. The problem for Orchard Church is timing. Its ministry came to light during the peak in talks about the problems associated with homelessness. But that doesn’t mean they’re part of the problem (see Editorial, page 4). Another interesting point: Councilman Sean Morgan seemed shocked by the permitting process at the commission level and implied that its members had done something wrong by not informing the City Council about the church’s application. I thought that odd considering the commission is subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act, the state open-meeting law, and thus its agendas must be posted prior to meetings. I asked Commissioner Mark Herrera about that during Tuesday’s meeting, and he said all of the documentation was indeed posted on the city website. I checked. It was. Just a few links above that of the City Council agendas. Morgan, a council newbie, ought to familiarize himself with the Brown Act.

A few bad apples Re “Downtown” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Oct. 17): Ironically, Oct. 22 [the day of the City Council’s study session on downtown issues] is also the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. Perhaps you’re thinking, “How dare anyone question our beleaguered, beloved and overworked police force? Clearly, it’s just a few bad apples. Most police officers are just like you and me—good, decent and honorable people.” The same applies to our community members experiencing homelessness. The biggest difference in the discussion is that it’s cool, acceptable and great fodder to pick on those facing horrific experiences every day. The other, not so much. Which one is which to whom? BILL MASH Chico

On homeless youth Advocating for homeless youth is a risky venture in the current sociopolitical/economic climate of Chico. Some consider this population a nuisance, others see [advocating efforts as] charity, and still others see a wildness to control. I personally think it is important to realize that this is a diverse population within itself. Young homeless people are diverse in personality, as well as in levels of vulnerability. Both of these aspects—personality/culture and vulnerability/personal history—are susceptible to public opinion. I would like to take the opportunity to present a positive picture of Chico’s homeless youth, while emphasizing the power of personal choice and the impact of personal history. Chico’s youth services’ attempts to keep this population safe often go unnoticed. Specific agencies aside, Behavioral Health youth services and youth drop-in centers are collaborating in a positive way. Behavioral Health provides a connection to local homeless youth through the local youth drop-in center. Drop-in centers provide safety, food, counseling and positive role-modeling. With respect to choice and freedom, I think those who access these services deserve recognition. Despite the difficulty of sharing personal history, these youths are choosing to access a system that is invaluable. MICHAEL CHAVIS Chico

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feline companion. Never has Thomas been rude or disrespectful to me or anyone else. Patrons of the bakery would buy him soup, coffee and pastries, and from time to time a gift certificate, so he could choose his own likes. Never did I see him use the bathroom to “clean up.” He speaks softly. And if you take the time [to speak with him], he can carry on an intelligent conversation. And he has a quick wit. Thomas is far from aggressive, which isn’t always the case [with homeless citizens]. I applaud the Shalom Free Clinic for caring for Spot and for caring for Thomas. If all the panhandlers were like Thomas, I do not think there would be so much fear surrounding this topic. I wish him well. I do not see him as much anymore. I hope when I do it’s not in the paper about being arrested for “peaceful panhandling”—or for something worse. MARY HAYDEN Chico

Changes needed at Chico PD Re “Outside review needed” (Editorial, Oct. 17): I see two distinct questions regarding the use of lethal force against Breanne Sharpe. First, if she had been a college student with no record whatsoever, might the outcome have been different in the eyes of the Butte County District Attorney? Second, if a citizen had shot this young woman as she was stealing his or her vehicle, would the citizen be brought to trial for use of lethal force for what amounts to a property crime? There isn’t much equal justice under the law these days, unless you are a cop. That is the bottom line here. Law enforcement officers are “itchy” to use all those tools they carry around, and this situation was what they considered a good excuse to do just that. Male, female—it just didn’t matter. It is time for an outside review of this shooting and some changes in protocol for Chico police. CAROLYN KIESZ Chico

Opinions from retired judges and DAs after the fact won’t bring back the dead. Their opinions serve only to justify, distort or condemn the killing. There’s a big problem, and it’s not the public’s perception of facts that needs fixing. Police who brutalize and kill unnecessarily should be punished like regular people. Otherwise,

police become exceptions to the laws. Unfortunately, they’re held to the lowest standards conceivable. Since Rodney King was brutally beaten to a pulp, things have gotten worse; the media just learned to ignore it. At least King survived his high-speed chase— barely. Now police play judge, jury and executioner, mirroring U.S. foreign policy. Power has corrupted America into a fascist police state. Media outrage? It’s been replaced by opinions from warmongers seeking to explain away, with abstractions and warped ideologies, the inherent fascism driving our inhuman wars against entire races of people. Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., might have a weapon, so we wage war against them—killing millions. An American may have a weapon, so police kill him. However, neither had weapons. Rather than apologizing, the character assassination of the victims continues. DAVID KIEFER Chico

“One of us,” as your campaign slogan so proudly proclaimed. You and the others of your ilk are holding the Republican Party and the nation hostage to your ideological extremism. You have all but guaranteed that Congress will be paralyzed by political infighting and rancor while the real problem of the people you were all sent to Washington to fix will continue to go untended. When you are up for re-election, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your seat. ROBIN I. TRIPP Chico

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The city of Chico is facing two lawsuits filed in federal court involving the Chico Police Department. Former Police Sgt. Dan Fonseca claims he was terminated in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit says Fonseca, who joined the department in 1985, suffered from the disability of alcoholism, of which he informed the city on May 14, 2012. The city did not properly respond, the suit says. He was fired six months later after an off-duty auto accident. A separate lawsuit filed by Joseph DeVincenzi, who was arrested in 2009 on an alcohol-related charge, claims that during transport to the police station, DeVincenzi attempted to light a cigarette with a lighter and “either accidentally set his clothing on fire or actually attempted suicide by fire.” He suffered third-degree burns to 32 percent of his body. The suit says the responding officers knew the plaintiff had a history of mental illness and failed to locate his lighter during the arrest.

TOXICOLOGY TEST REVEALS METH USE

Breanne Michelle Sharpe, the 19-year-old who was shot to death by Chico Police Department officers last month, had drugs in her system at the time of her death, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 22) CPD press release. Toxicology tests performed by the Butte County Coroner’s Office revealed Sharpe had methamphetamine and amphetamine in her blood at the time of the incident, the release states. Sharpe led officers on a short vehicle chase in the early morning hours of Sept. 22 that ended in a hail of gunfire near the intersection of East Eighth Street and Vista Verde Avenue. An interagency investigation led by Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey ruled that the shooting was justified, Ramsey announced on Oct. 3.

FIXING DOGS AND CATS

The Butte Humane Society hit a milestone Oct. 17 with the 10,000th fix of a Butte County cat or dog. Its spay-and-neuter clinic opened in 2010 to provide a service aimed at reducing the number of local homeless felines and canines. One cat can produce as many as 376 kittens in just three years, said Dina Soza, the BHS clinic manager, in a press release. The low-cost service also reduces the number of cats and dogs housed in local shelters, the press release said. The surgeries are done during the weekdays at the clinic, which is located at 587 Country Drive in Chico. More information is available at 343-7917 or online at buttehumane.org/clinic. The 10,000th surgery was performed on a dog, but because of privacy concerns associated with health issues, the name and sex of the patient was not released. 8 CN&R October 24, 2013

Remembering a fallen cyclist Chico’s first ghost-bike memorial will commemorate Kristina Chesterman

L was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the death of Kristina Chesterman, a vibrant ike most Chicoans, Frankie Dean

young Chico State nursing student hit and killed, allegedly by a drunken driver, as she was riding her by bicycle home from campus on Robert the night of Sept. 22. Speer Unlike most Chicoans, however, Dean felt she had to do something in response. “It’s really, really sad,” she said during a recent interview in her north Chico home. “I didn’t want it to happen to anybody else.” So she decided to create a “ghost bike.” Dean is an avid bicyclist, familiar with the growing movement that places ghostly allwhite bicycles at the sites where cyclists have been struck by cars and killed. She says she first noticed ghost bikes on Facebook, when a friend whose brother had been killed while cycling had posted a photo of the Bay Area ghost bike located near where he had died. Later, she and her boyfriend, Dana Miller, were driving in the McKinleyville area, in Humboldt County, and saw a ghost bike alongside the road. It sent a powerful message. Ghost bikes are meant not For more on only to memorialize those who ghost bikes: have died, but also to remind The website motorists that they are driving www.ghost potentially lethal machines and bikes.org is a good source of to watch out for cyclists. Unfortunately, the man who information about the movement, is alleged to have killed the latest number Chesterman and then fled the and location of scene, 19-year-old Riley Dean memorials, as well as advice on how to Hoover, was reportedly so create a ghost-bike drunk he was beyond such memorial. messages. According to police,

Frankie Dean and the ghost bike she’s created in memory of Kristina Chesterman. PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

his SUV crashed into several vehicles while he was attempting to park it at his apartment complex just down Nord Avenue from the Big Chico Creek bridge, where Chesterman was struck. He later was found passed out on the floor in his apartment. He’s since been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter, among other offenses. “She did everything right,” Dean said of Chesterman, her voice filled with emotion. “She was wearing a helmet, she was riding in a bike lane, her bike had lights—and still she died.” Not everyone who runs into a cyclist is drunk, of course. Last November, 61-year-old Rick Magee died after being struck in the daytime by an SUV on the

Midway, just north of Durham. The driver of the vehicle, a 71-year-old farm manager from Gridley named Tony Mardesich, later confessed to hitting Magee and, panicked, running from the scene. He was sober at the time. Bicyclists love being outdoors,

enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the world around them and feeling their bodies working to move them forward. But there’s always a nagging worry as well, a faint taste of dread that comes from feeling so vulnerable to the drivers with whom they share the road. Nationwide, more than 700 cyclists are killed each year, including about 100 in California, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

A ghost bike in Columbus, Ohio, installed in 2008 in memory of Michael Sonney, 19, a cyclist who was killed by a drunken driver.

The ghost-bike movement reportedly began in St. Louis in 2003, when volunteers began installing ashy-white bikes to remember fallen cyclists. It quickly spread, and now there are nearly 600 ghost bikes that have appeared in more than 180 locations throughout the world, from Austria to Australia by way of Belarus and Brazil, including more than 100 in New York City and a similar number in California, according to ghost bikes.org. Many of them are lavishly decorated with flowers, candles, photos and other remembrances. The ghost-bike memorial for Chesterman will be the first in Chico. Dean, who’s 53 years old, is a

Chico native, as is Miller, her boyfriend, who is the former owner of Miller Buick-Oldsmobile, which he sold several years ago. Both are now real-estate agents, operating as a team out of the Century 21 office on Highway 32 at El Monte Avenue. About a year ago, they became aware that the local chapter of Soroptimist International was sponsoring a free mammogram clinic. Miller asked Dean when she’d last had a mammogram. “About 10 years ago,” she replied. He insisted she get another. She didn’t think she needed one and didn’t want the hassle, but he was adamant. Turned out she had a lump. A biopsy revealed it was cancerous, but it had been caught so early that she needed only a lumpectomy to be cured. She’s convinced Miller saved her life. Since then she’s become something of a crusader for mammograms—a walking, talking example of the good they can do. She’s a runner as well as a bicyclist, and she’s set a goal of running 14 races next year—“14 in 2014,” she calls it—that benefit breast-cancer research. This desire to give back also extends to preparing a ghost bike for the site where Chesterman was struck and mortally injured. Sports LTD donated an old bike nobody was using, and Miller painted it white. Dean is in the process of making a placard for it that will include Chesterman’s name and date of death. Dean’s not saying whether she will be directly involved in setting up the memorial. Local authorities don’t always welcome the bikes, so traditionally they’re installed anonymously, usually at night. Dean says several people have volunteered to place the bike, and in fact it may be up by the time this story appears. One person who is excited about the memorial is Janine Rood, executive director of Chico Velo Cycling Club. The more motorists are aware of the dangers cyclists face, the better, she believes, and “when you see a bike that’s 100 percent white, it really stands out.” Ω

He shall not be moved Tehama County activist claims constitutional violations ell, I was really hoping I’d get arrest“W ed,” 78-year-old Don Bird quipped to a chorus of laughter from the pack of a halfdozen similarly aged men following him out of a Tehama County courtroom the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 16. “Now I’m all dressed up and got no place to go.” “Cozy Diner? Get some coffee?” suggested another man, as a third chimed in, “Maybe we can all get arrested there.” There was still a fair bit of courtroom drama that morning when Bird, charged with the infraction of fishing without a license, faced Judge Jonathan Skillman. Bird is a longtime political provocateur from the small community of Rancho Tehama whose campaigns include attempts to place state Sen. Jim Nielsen (who was a state assemblyman at the time) under citizen’s arrest for living outside the district he represents. Bird was cited for fishing without a license on Aug. 14, after casting his line into the Sacramento River below the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. He contends that the state requirement for a fishing license is unconstitutional, citing Article I, Section 25, of the California Constitution, which states: “The people shall have the right to fish upon and from the public lands of the State and in the waters thereof, excepting upon lands set aside for fish hatcheries, and no land owned by the State shall ever be sold or transferred without reserving in the people the absolute right to fish thereupon …” Shortly after the citation, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife sent Bird a letter explaining that the constitutional passage also entitles the department to regulate fishing to maintain healthy fisheries, Wildlife Officer Mitch Carlson—who issued Bird’s

citation—told the court. Bird pleaded “innocent” to the fishing charge at a Sept. 23 arraignment and was informed he would be granted a court trial— ruled upon by a judge—rather than a jury trial. Bird said this is a further assault upon his rights, particularly those guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. He said this is indicative of a systemic problem in California courts in which people charged with infractions aren’t entitled to a jury trial, a right reserved for those charged with misdemeanors and felonies. This set the stage for the Oct. 16

proceeding where Bird—who opted, as in past legal confrontations, to represent himself—arrived hoping to shake up the system. The proceedings began with Carlson’s narrative of the events of Aug. 13, detailing how Bird informed him earlier that he had a constitutional right to fish without a license, and that he wanted to be cited so he could take it to court. “He told me he would contact me in the future to let me know when he was fishing without a license so I could issue him a citation,” Carlson said. “I informed Bird that this energy would best be spent on something else, because a judge would find him guilty if he decided to fish without a license. I then left the area.” Carlson encountered Bird in the same spot the next day; the officer said Bird informed him of his intention to be cited, walked to the waterside and, in the officer’s plain sight, cast his line into the water. When it was his turn to speak in court, Bird said, “I want to file an objection with this court for denying my constitutional right to have a jury trial.”

SIFT|ER Citizens upset with the GOP Americans are understandably upset with the Republican Party, whose leadership led the way to the recent government shutdown. But according to a new CNN poll, a majority (53 percent) of respondents believe that GOP control of the House is bad for the country. Additionally, an even larger percentage say House Speaker John Boehner should be booted from his post.

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Don Bird told a Tehama County Superior Court Judge he has no intention of paying a $460 fine for fishing without a license. PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

“Overruled,” Judge Skillman responded without hesitation, explaining that California Penal Code Section 19.6 says that since infractions are not punishable by jail time, the defendant is not entitled to a jury trial. Skillman said the fine would be $460, reduced to $181 if Bird gets a fishing license. “Will you be getting a license sometime soon?” Skillman asked. “No, sir.” “Then the fine is $460. How much time do you need to pay it?” “I’m not going to pay.” With that, Skillman warned Bird that nonpayment would go to collections, resulting in an additional $300 civil-assessment fee, and the case was concluded. Outside the courtroom, the disappointed-but-still-smiling Bird said, “Well, I guess it’s time for me to go fishing again. I’ll try Glenn County next time.” Perhaps he won’t have to. In a follow-up phone interview on Monday (Oct. 21), Bird’s ire was again at full boil, and he said he’d just spoken with a Sacramento lawyer who told him his fight may not be at an end, but just beginning. “The lawyer said there’s a good chance we can have a constitutional case in federal court on this,” he said, adding that he couldn’t go into details yet and has a pending meeting with the unnamed attorney. “In my opinion, Tehama County violated my rights numerous times on this jury situation,” he said. “After discussing it with this lawyer, I think Mr. Skillman might regret finding me guilty down the road.” —KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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Study session leads council members back to sit/lie ordinance hico’s city leaders decided to revisit the so-called Ctroversial civil-sidewalks ordinance—one of the most conproposals they have considered in discus-

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past three years, delivered an insightful and at times humorous talk to a nearly full house in Chico State’s Laxson Auditorium on Tuesday (Oct. 22). “I am Ari Shapiro, and you all look nothing like I thought you would,” he began, reversing the role of what radio audiences often think of the faceless reporters they listen to on air. After that ice-breaker, Shapiro localized himself by announcing he has an aunt who lives in Willows and his uncle was once the principal of Gridley High School. Early on in his career, he covered the Justice Department, he said, and “with the excitement of being a kid, I called my mom and told her I’d just talked with [Supreme Court] Justice Anthony Kennedy. And she said, ‘Couldn’t you talk to a liberal justice?’” Shapiro expressed the importance of maintaining a politically neutral posture as a reporter, particularly one covering the White House. When asked later in the evening if NPR is “liberal,” he said he didn’t think so. “Of course, if you listen to Rush Limbaugh all day, NPR will come across as liberal,” he said. “But then there’s the very idea that there could be a nonpartisan media. We are human after all, and therefore not perfect.” Shapiro, who is transferring to London to serve as an overseas reporter, said that early on in his White House coverage he was approached by President Obama. “He said, ‘You’re pretty new. What do you think so far?’ I said, ‘My mind has never been so focused on a person as I am with you. Frankly, I’m a little obsessed with you.’ He said, ‘I’m sorry to hear that.’” Once while flying with the president on Air Force One, Shapiro said, he was in the back of the aircraft eating a plate of pasta covered with marinara sauce. 10 CN&R October 24, 2013

Ari Shapiro waits to greet his audience up close and personal after delivering a talk in Chico State’s Laxson Auditorium. PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

“The president comes to the back of the plane, which was unusual, and I have a plate of red sauce on my lap and I can’t get to my microphone. So I’m in a position where I can either soak the leader of the free world with red sauce or not do my job.” He said the current political divide in Washington, which led to a government shutdown, is due in part to changing demographics— namely the shrinking influence of white America, which by 2043 no longer will be in the majority. Congressional districts, as redrawn, he said, are dominated by either a hardcore conservative voter base, or a more progressive-leaning demographic. As such, he said, the art of political compromise, the willingness to reach across the aisle, is disappearing. “In February, the debt-ceiling debate is coming again,” he reminded his audience. “Of course, by that time I’ll be in London.” He said he recently spoke with a political reporter in Britain who told him that Scotland is looking to secede from the UK. He said the reporter told him that politics in Britain “are crazy.” “Then he looked at me, paused, and said, ‘Well, not that crazy.’” —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

sions on curbing transiency and crime—at the City Council’s next regular meeting on the first Tuesday of November. That was one of the main results of a special study session Tuesday evening (Oct. 22) at the Council chambers, a meeting during which the hundreds of citizens in attendance insisted that the public—and especially businesspeople—needed the council to take quick and decisive action to put an end to issues plaguing the city, and downtown in particular. Loitering, trespassing, aggressive panhandling and camping were among the problems they say are blighting the area and driving away potential visitors. “The message is loud and clear,” said Mayor Scott Gruendl near the conclusion of the meeting. Much earlier, he had implied that work on solutions could continue into March. “As winter bears down, we have an opportunity to focus on … everyone’s input, and having it in place and operative before spring comes.” Minutes earlier, Gruendl and five of his council colleagues (Councilwoman Ann Schwab recused herself because the meeting focused on downtown and she co-owns a business in the area) listened as members of the community, as well as some members of the city staff, read off the priorities that the public had come up with to curb crime and transiency. The ideas surfaced during exercises that divided the nearly 300 people present into six groups tasked with creating lists of what services the city should provide and how enforcement should be handled. Initial answers from citizens ranged from costly requests such as bringing back the Chico Police Department’s TARGET team and placing infrared lights at all four corners of City Plaza, to prohibiting the distribution of food to the homeless at the plaza and outlawing shopping carts in downtown. When distilled, the top priority among the five groups focused on enforcement was to fund the Police Department at a full staffing level. Next, a majority of the groups said the city needed to begin enforcing existing ordinances, laws such as the one prohibiting camping in public places and another on loitering. The civil-sidewalks ordinance (or “sit/lie” law) was another popular choice. The top priorities among those focused on services included the city establishing a daytime resource center, setting up a housing camp, and improving outreach and education. After hearing from the groups’ leaders,

Councilman Sean Morgan wasted no time in throwing out a motion that the city attorney draft another civil-sidewalks law to deal with the transients who regularly sit and lie in pedestrian paths of travel. Many of the council members sounded receptive to the idea after hashing out concerns that led to the panel nixing the idea back in August. Councilwoman Mary Goloff, for example, explained that she’d voted against the first version of the proposed ordinance because she believed it didn’t “have teeth.” Councilman Randall Stone was

concerned that Chico Police officers would be pulled away from their duties to deal with court proceedings resulting from citations issued to lawbreakers. Councilwoman Tami Ritter—who, along with Goloff, Stone and Gruendl, voted down the ordinance when it first came before the panel—urged caution on the law. She pointed out, as many citizens had, that the city wasn’t using laws already on the books. “What would the community look like if we were enforcing the no-camping ordinance, if we were enforcing the loitering ordinance, and if we were prosecuting for nuisance?” she asked. “Let’s give it a try.”

Assistant City Manager Mark Orme and Assistant City Clerk Dani Brinkley come up with a condensed list of priorities based on feedback the public had submitted on Post-it notes. PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY

Ritter also sought information regarding the vagrancy on off-sidewalk areas, including the grassy regions in front of the City Council chambers and at City Plaza, where transients congregate and, in some cases, set up encampments. She learned that the civil-sidewalks ordinance would not be applicable to those areas. District Attorney Mike Ramsey said the concern about officers going to court assumes those cited would challenge a citation. He said that would be difficult to do and urged the council to pass the ordinance. “What you need to understand is that right now, if [Police Chief Kirk Trostle] or any of his officers went out, and there was someone lying on the sidewalk, they can do absolutely nothing about that,” he said. “If what you’re interested in is clearing your sidewalks, you need to give your police the tools to move people along.” His answer for the grassy areas: “Sprinklers.” —MELISSA DAUGHERTY melissad@newsreview.com

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said. “We need to talk about the reality of the situation, and that’s ‘climate shifts.’” Both Pushnik and Stemen are pleased with local responses, particularly the Climate Action Plan developed by the city of Chico. Stemen, an appointee to the city’s Sustainability Task Force, says specific emissions goals in the CAP may warrant re-examination in light of the IPCC update, though this process—and the role the STF might play in it—remains uncertain in light of budget cuts, layoffs and reorganization at City Hall. “The question isn’t necessarily if it’s happening or not—it’s ‘What are we going to do in response to it?’” Stemen said. Ω

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STATE OF JEFFERSON OPEN HOUSE Local State of Jefferson supporter Joanne Alden, who recently wrote a Guest Comment for this paper arguing for the secession of Butte County from the state of California (See “A case for Butte County seceding,” Oct. 3), sent me a press release announcing an open-to-the-public meeting on Saturday, Oct. 26, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., at the Chico branch of the Butte County Library (1108 Sherman Ave.). At the meeting, members of the Butte County State of Jefferson planning committee “will hand out information and collect signatures supporting the withdrawal of Butte County from California.” Discussion (including on secession efforts in other North State counties) and volunteer sign-ups will also be included in the evening’s activities. “The purpose of the State of Jefferson movement is to lawfully divide California, as provided for in Article 4, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution, separating the North State from the laws and regulations that rule from Sacramento, and that mostly pertain to the urban metropolitan areas of the state,” the press release said. Go to www.jeffersondeclaration.net or call 520-4303 for more info.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for thousands of privacy breaches under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) since 2010, an investigative report has revealed. A two-month Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation found that VA employees or contractors were responsible for 14,215 breaches, such as stealing veterans’ identities or prescriptions, and posting Facebook pictures of veterans’ body parts, according to California Healthline. The investigation concluded that the VA lacks accountability, has poor safeguards in place, and fails to encrypt computer data. “It’s hard to argue against the notion that [the] VA holds the dubious distinction of being the largest violator of the nation’s health privacy laws,” said Deven McGraw, director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Health Privacy Project.

COVERED CA GOING STRONG

Nearly 95,000 applications for health-care coverage were started through Covered California after the first two weeks of open enrollment. Though the website for the state’s healthinsurance exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was marred by technical difficulties in its opening week, consumer interest has been strong, particularly considering that each application could represent a household of more than one person, according to the Los Angeles Times. Compared to the first week, Web traffic decreased from 987,000 unique visits to 603,000, while calls decreased from 59,000 to 46,000. Covered California won’t release figures regarding how many people have opted for private insurance or coverage through the expansion of Medi-Cal until November. The deadline for consumers who want health coverage starting Jan. 1 through Covered California is Dec. 15, though enrollment will remain open through the end of March.

NO NURSE FOR YOU

Less than half of the Golden State’s school districts have a full-time school nurse. A report compiled by researchers at Sacramento State University found that 57 percent of school districts are without a full-time nurse, according to California Healthline. The report also found wide variation in the number of students an individual school nurse is responsible for, from 180 to more than 20,000. Dian Baker, a CSU researcher involved in the report, said the capacity of schools in some areas to provide health services to students “is so low that the safety of these children might be at risk.” The National Association of School Nurses ranked California 45th in the nation for access to school nurses. School districts have cut back on school nursing staff to reduce costs, opting rather to hire health aides and train school staff to administer students’ medications. Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.

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Chronic pain at age 12 A local athlete’s successful search to relieve her long-term lower-back pain

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Utore has no recollection of her first experience on water skis—she was 2 years nderstandably, Genna Pinga-

old—but clearly remembers the 2006 injury that prevented her from defending her national water-skiing title and the recurring pain that sidelined her for years. The bubbly 18-year-old Butte College student plays lacrosse competitively, has a love for hiking and distance running, and is “just getting into rock climbing,” she said during a recent interview in downtown Chico. Last year, she gave up competitive water skiing for good, though she’s still open to doing it recreationally. “It takes away your summer. I would fly back to Florida and Louisiana for professional coaching, which is very expensive,” Pingatore said, also describing the unforgiving nature of the competitions themselves: “You only get one shot—if you fall, you’re done.” At 10 years old, she was ranked the top water skier in the nation for her age group by the USA Water Ski association, setting a regional record during an out-of-state tournament. “I was very good,” she admitted bashfully. The following year, when she was 11—only a day before she was scheduled to leave for a regional water-skiing competition in Washington—Pingatore was horseback riding with a friend. Her horse came into contact with an electric fence and began to buck. “I got ejected off the horse and hit my

back on a telephone pole,” she recalled. “It was incredibly painful. My mother picked me up and set me down on this counter, and I just started screaming; I could feel these shots [of pain] going down my back.” An emergency room visit revealed that the impact had fractured parts of her sacrum (the large, triangular bone at the base of the spine that connects to the tailbone) and her ischial tuberosity (part of the hip bone). For the following six months, she used crutches to walk, and sitting upright was excruciating. Though it was a “miserable” setback, as she described it, Pingatore was able to resume training the year after her accident and reclaim her top spot in the nation, but the injury became a source of long-term discomfort. “Any time I would run or do any sort of endurance activity, my back would flare up,” she said. “In lacrosse [at Chico High School], I could only play half the game—

in the second half, I would be in too much pain and would have to ice.” And so Pingatore lived with chronic lower-back pain for four years, starting at age 12. Enter Dr. Holly Kelly of Marin

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Novato. During a recent phone interview, Kelly said she first met Pingatore in 2011, when she was 16. “Her mom and brother were patients of another doctor in our office,” she recalled. “Her mother had mentioned to the physician a little bit about Genna’s story. She ended up coming into the office and I diagnosed her with sacroiliac joint invariant dysfunction.” Kelly’s original suspicions about Pingatore’s condition were confirmed after injecting the problem area with cortisone, after which Pingatore was provided only a couple weeks of pain relief. “We needed a longer-term solution,” Kelly said.

APPOINTMENT GOOD GRUBBIN’ The national celebration of healthful, sustainably produced and affordable food known as Food Day comes to Chico State’s Selvester’s Café on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The day will include food tastings, a scavenger hunt, documentary screenings, the Edible Pedal Bike Kitchen, and a talk by Emily Koller of New York-based healthful-food activist organization FoodCorps. Contact Alicia Bedore at 941-5128 or abedore@mail.csuchico.edu for more info.

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competition of her childhood, it’s perhaps unsurprising Pingatore would be drawn to a team sport like lacrosse as an adult. She said the team aspect is what she likes most, though the travel has also been a perk. Last year, Pingatore traveled to Japan with a women’s lacrosse team assembled by a coach at UC Santa Barbara. Her squad played six games against teams from colleges in the Tokyo area, winning three of them. It was a “fantastic experience,” she said, recognizing that such an adventure wouldn’t have been possible if she hadn’t undergone the procedure with Kelly. Since Pingatore is young, the nerves in her sacroiliac joint regenerated within two years of the initial procedure. This past February, she went back to Marin Orthopedics and Sports Medicine for a second round of treatment. She has been completely pain-free since, and this past summer (with competitive water-skiing out of the picture) she was able to visit Zion National Park in Utah with her family, where she tried her hand at rock climbing. Knowing Pingatore has been able to fully pursue her interests has been tremendously rewarding for Kelly. “Having chronic pain starting at age 12 is unacceptable,” Kelly said. “It’s been a joy to watch her after she’s been treated. That’s the best thing about being a doctor— watching your patients get back to the sports and hobbies they enjoy.” Ω

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The sacroiliac joint isn’t designed to move like an elbow or a knee joint, Kelly explained. It’s held in place by ligaments on either side of the joint, and serves to stabilize the pelvic area. “When you have a trauma to the pelvis, what you can end up doing is stretching those ligaments that hold the joint in place and the joint becomes more mobile,” Kelly said. “Then, any time you walk or bend or twist, that joint will shift a little bit, and that becomes very painful. You have bones moving that aren’t really meant to move that way.” The procedure subsequently performed on Pingatore—called “cooled radiofrequency denervation”—uses a long needle heated with an electric current to cauterize the nerves that provide the pain signals to the sacroiliac joint. While radiofrequency treatment has been used since the 1990s, Kelly said it was deficient in that it was unable to reach the full “spiderweb” of nerve endings running in and out of the sacroiliac joint. The water-cooling system, introduced about four years ago, “keeps the tip of the needle cooler so you can add more power, and spread that area of heat so it doesn’t just stay in one position. You’re able to make a more three-dimensional lesion.” While Pingatore admitted the needle involved was frightening, and the procedure itself was painful, she said it was ultimately worth it. Within two weeks of the procedure, she was fully back into her athletic routine and found she was “able to run longer and farther without any of the pain.”

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Jasbir Singh oversees religious services at Dashmesh Darbar, Chico’s first Sikh gurdwara, or temple.

nless you know what you’re looking for, Dashmesh Darbar, Northern California’s newest gurdwara, or Sikh place of worship, isn’t easy to find. The only outward sign of its existence is a white board with the word “GURDWARA” penned in black ink and an arrow directing the faithful to an office space tucked behind the Italian Cottage off of Dominic Drive in Chico. On Sunday mornings, while the restaurant’s patrons sip champagne and eat omelets served on red-and-white-checkered tablecloths by costumed waitresses, local Sikhs engage in a more austere and veritable cultural tradition—the diwan, or religious service—just steps away. 20 CN&R October 24, 2013

Behind the gurdwara’s tinted glass door, an elderly, turbaned man named Jasbir Singh sits cross-legged on a raised platform covered in bright-blue material behind the Guru Granth Sahib, the main holy scripture of Sikhdom, which adherents revere as more than just a book—they see it as a sovereign, active and living Guru. Worshippers remove their shoes and cover their heads before entering the temple, and once inside, place an offering (usually a few dollar bills) before the Guru, push their hands together to pray, then drop to their knees and bow until their foreheads touch the carpeted floor. They then join the rest of the sangat, or congregation, at either side of the room. On a recent Sunday, the diwan’s attendance numbered about a dozen, predominantly made up of women in traditional Indian garb, with long scarves covering their heads. Also present were a few men, most dressed in slacks and button-up shirts, and a pair of young boys who fidgeted— as boys of any faith might do—throughout the diwan, their actions intermittently corrected by

stern glances from nearby adults. For two hours, those present shared in the duty of leading sacred chants in Punjabi, taking turns singing out alone as the rest sang responses in chorus. At one point, two of the women in attendance produced a harmonium (small pump organ) and a tabla (drum), to accompany the group in the singing of devotional hymns. At the end, Singh circled the room, smiling as he handed out the karah parshad, a sweet sacramental food that tastes something like cookie dough. Though the diwan may seem exotic and strange to those unfamiliar with Sikhism or Indian customs, it’s actually something that’s been happening regularly in the North State for more than 100 years. Beginning in 1903, thousands of Indian immigrants—mostly Sikh, but also some Hindu and Muslim—came to Northern California to work. Some helped build railroads, while many worked on farms as their ancestors in the Punjab region of India had done for centuries. Many stayed in the fertile Sacramento Valley, and today, Yuba City—where all three area high

schools teach Punjabi as a second language, and fresh samosas are as readily available as cheeseburgers or burritos—is home to one of the largest Sikh populations outside of India. More continue to arrive, joining American Sikhs of Punjabi ancestry who can trace their local heritage back further than many WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) and adding to the racial and spiritual diversity of Northern California.

After the diwan, it’s time to eat. One of

Sikhism’s most sacred traditions is the langar, a communal meal which anyone, of any faith, is welcome to attend. Vegetarian meals are cooked by gurdwara members and provided to anyone who cares to sit in, free of charge. “There is only one God,” Singh, the gurdwara’s granthi—or caretaker—offered in a thick Punjabi accent, holding up his index finger for emphasis, when asked about the basics of Sikhism. He paused, smiled behind his long and immaculately maintained facial hair and shook the finger as he added, “Too many names,” indicating the Sikh belief that all of the world’s deities are one. To illustrate further, he took a poster from the wall with symbols from many of the world’s religions arranged in a wheel, all radiating from a central point representing enlightenment. Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, with about 30 million adherents. It is monotheistic and, despite some perceived similarities to Christianity and Islam, as well as an open and accepting attitude toward other religions, is entirely its own philosophy. The religion was founded by Guru Nanak—the first of 10 Gurus—in the 15th century. Sikhs believe that secular and spiritual life are intertwined, and the best way to know God in one’s heart is by living a good life. Guru Nanak taught that Sikhs should work hard to make a living, without begging or being deceitful, and also to share the fruits of these labors with the less fortunate. Sikhs are encouraged to participate in acts of selfless service, called seva. Sikhism’s guiding principles are truth, equality, freedom and justice. Sikhs believe all people—regardless of race, sex or creed—are equal. Since Guru Nanak’s day, they have denounced the caste system, with many Sikhs disregarding their family names and the ranks they imply, instead adopting the last names Singh (meaning lion) for men or Kaur (princess) for women. As Chico Sikh Surinder Bhandal explained, the langar embodies many Sikh ideals. “It shows that we are all one,” she explained as everyone present shared a vegetarian meal of spicy chickpeas, long-grain rice, sweet yogurt, cheese curds and delicious homemade naan. “There are no classes or castes, no differences between men and women, and different religions do not matter. We are all equal.” In urban areas, Sikhs often take the langar out of the temple and into the streets to help the homeless and other underserved communities. A group of mostly 20-something Sikhs A number of women help prepare food at Yuba City’s largest gurdwara on Tierra Buena Road, the epicenter of the city’s three-day Sikh festival and parade.

working under the name SEVA: Selfless Service, for example, organizes weekly free meals, primarily in downtown Sacramento and San Francisco. They serve everything from traditional Indian dishes to vegetarian pizzas and, on one recent outing in Yuba City, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches made by elementary-school-age Sikhs who raised $80 to buy all of the ingredients. Singh came to Yuba City from the Indian state of Punjab in 2005, but stayed there only two days before moving to Chico to work in a Sikh-owned gas station. Feeling it was too much of a strain—especially for elderly Sikhs—to travel to Yuba City once or more weekly, he saved money and obtained the necessary permits to open Chico’s first gurdwara last January. Singh estimates that 50 Sikh families live in Chico, and listed numerous Sikh-owned businesses, including several gas stations, some 7-Elevens, Little Caesars Pizza and Gogi’s Café. In addition to the Sunday diwan, other services are held throughout the week at the gurdwara. Singh also hosts Punjabi classes for young Sikhs to help them connect with their heritage.

Singh, with his distinctive facial coiffure,

is what is known as a baptized Sikh, one who has “taken amrit,” or undergone a special ceremony involving anointment with holy water. In order for Sikhs to be baptized, they must dedicate themselves to living life as laid out by the Gurus, remain vegetarian, and always carry five articles of faith, known as the “five K’s.” The five K’s are Kesh (long, uncut hair), Kangha (a small wooden comb for maintaining the Kesh), Kara (a metal bracelet), Kacherra (an undergarment) and Kirpan (a small sword or dagger). The majority of modern Sikhs are not baptized and thus do not maintain the five K’s. The most common “K” maintained by many Sikhs, even those who are not practicing or actively engaged in their religion and are Sikh only by heritage, is the Kara. Also, Kirpans have evolved from the original long, curved sword to take forms that make it easier to get

Kashmir Gill became the first Sikh mayor in the U.S. in 2009. PHOTO COURTESY OF KASHMIR GILL

by in modern society, where the carrying of swords can cause obvious trouble. Some Sikhs simply wear a Kirpan-shaped charm on a necklace.

The history of Sikhs in America, like that

of many minorities, has not always been one of openness and acceptance. Beginning in the 1920s and for much of the next four decades, Sikhs were subject to anti-Asian immigration laws that for many years stemmed the migration of Sikhs to the United States altogether, and naturalized Sikhs were barred from owning land or exercising some rights enjoyed by other American citizens. As these laws were loosened or abolished in the 1950s and ’60s, the United States saw large influxes of Sikhs. They have also been persecuted in other countries, including India, where Sikhism was born in the Punjab region. Throughout their 500-year history, Sikhs have been forced

to fight to protect their way of life. Throughout the 1970s, efforts by Punjabi Sikhs to obtain autonomy were met with armed responses and arrests by the Indian government, then led by Indira Gandhi. This escalated until 1984, when Indian forces surrounded one of Sikhdom’s most holy sites, the Harmandir Sahib (or Golden Temple) in the city of Amritsar, India, killing hundreds. In response, two of Gandhi’s Sikh bodyguards assassinated her on Oct. 31, 1984. This led to anti-Sikh riots and attacks that killed an estimated 8,000 Sikhs and displaced a great deal more. Sikhs have also had a rough time in post9/11 America, the victims of Islamophobia because of their perceived resemblance to Muslims, largely incited by the fact that many Sikhs wear turbans; in fact, more than 95 percent of turban-wearers in the U.S. are Sikh. Last year, Wade Michael Page, a white supremacist and U.S. Army veteran, entered a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wis., and opened fire with a 9 mm handgun. He killed six Sikhs—five men and one woman, ages 39 to 84. Just last month, two high-profile examples of Sikh persecution made headlines. Prabhjot Singh, a doctor and Columbia University professor, was beaten near New York City’s Central Park on Sept. 21 by 25 to 30 men who yelled, “Get him! Osama!” The professor underwent surgery to his jaw as a result of the attack. Also in September, the American Civil Liberties Union announced it was representing Jagjeet Singh, a California truck driver who was pulled over for a flat tire last January in Mississippi, and arrested by officers from the state’s Department of Transportation for refusing to turn over his three-inch Kirpan. During the arrest, the officers allegedly remarked that “all Sikhs” are “despicable” and “terrorists.” When he appeared in court two months later, a judge demanded he “remove that rag” from his head. The victim of the New York attack responded in a way that shocked many; in an op-ed piece penned for the New York Daily News and published by other news outlets, he forgave his attackers, inviting them to come to the temple he attends and learn about the Sikh faith, and expressed hope that his attack would open up conversations about prejudice and what it means to be an American.

Every year, during the first weekend of

November, between 60,000 and 100,000 people—the overwhelming majority of them Sikh—converge in Yuba City for a three-day festival celebrating the 1699 inauguration of the Guru Granth Sahib. They come from all over the United States—some even from overseas—to celebrate and participate in Sunday’s Nagar Kirtan, a parade that arguably qualifies as the largest religious procession in the United States, and definitely as the city’s largest civic event. This upcoming event marks the festival’s 34th year. The epicenter of this event is the Sikh Temple Yuba City on Tierra Buena Road, the largest of the city’s three Sikh temples, the “SIKHS” continued on page 22 October 24, 2013

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Sikhs of the Sacramento Valley Yuba City has long been a hub for East Indian immigrants, and now Chico is home to a temple story and photos by

KEN SMITH

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Jasbir Singh oversees religious services at Dashmesh Darbar, Chico’s first Sikh gurdwara, or temple.

After the diwan, it’s time to eat. One of

Singh, with his distinctive facial coiffure,

Kashmir Gill became the first Sikh mayor in the U.S. in 2009. PHOTO COURTESY OF KASHMIR GILL

by in modern society, where the carrying of swords can cause obvious trouble. Some Sikhs simply wear a Kirpan-shaped charm on a necklace.

The history of Sikhs in America, like that

Every year, during the first weekend of

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onion-shaped top of which rises above the surrounding orchards. There are fireworks on Friday evening, and a weekend-long openair marketplace at which vendors sell everything from kirpans to Bollywood DVDs and novelty T-shirts reading “Proud to be Punjabi” or “Supersikh” written like the Superman logo. The parade is the largest event, complete with floats, music, dancing, religious chants, and a helicopter dropping rose petals on the crowd. One thing not for sale is food or drink of any sort. It is provided—in fantastic abundance—for free. An estimated 400,000 meals are given away over the course of the weekend. During a recent visit to the temple on a weekday afternoon nearly a month before the festival, the interior was abuzz with preparation. As a group of men and women engaged in 48 straight hours of reading holy scripture, broadcast throughout the building, more than a dozen men and women worked in the kitchen, doing early preparation of the festival’s food.

Kashmir Gill, the once and future

mayor of Yuba City, said the festival’s benefit to the area—culturally and economically—cannot be overstated. In 2009, Gill was sworn in as mayor, giving him the distinction of being the United States’ first Sikh mayor, first mayor of Punjabi descent, and among the first people of Indian origin to hold such a position nationwide. He is currently a City Council member and will assume the mayoral position again in December (in Yuba City, the top

Harbhajan Singh working in the kitchen of the Yuba City gurdwara.

two vote-getters in City Council elections both take a one-year turn as mayor). There is currently another Sikh serving on the council, as well—Tej Maan. “It was interesting, and very humbling,” Gill, who goes by the nickname Kash, said of becoming mayor during a recent interview in his office at Mechanics Bank, where he serves as vice president and senior relationship manager. He also graduated from Chico State University with a degree in agricultural science, and owns a farm in the area. “We had reporters from Canada, India, London, all the major U.S. networks,” he said, referring to his 2009 inauguration. Gill has lived in Yuba City most of his life, having arrived with his

parents from Lakhsina village in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab in 1967, at age 2. His family’s history in the area dates back even further, to the first wave of Punjabi immigrants in the early 1900s. His parents were sponsored by his uncle, Didar Singh Bains, a locally famous farmer who at one time produced more peaches than anyone else in the world (“He owned orchards from Chico all the way to Bakersfield,” Gill said). Gill offered plenty of perspective on his faith, the history of Sikhs in the region, and the community he serves. “Yuba City was an early hub [of Punjabi migration],” he explained, saying other large enclaves of Sikhs include the Bay Area and New York City. “Everyone has gone out, but

Amardeep Kaloty (left), Ranir Kaur and baby Tarnpreet Bhele taking a break in the Yuba City temple’s kitchen.

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it’s like a tree, and all of the roots of the tree are here. You can talk to Sikhs around the United States and ask them who they’re related to, and it all comes back here, because it pretty much originated with 10 families that came here. “And of course it’s known as a very important agricultural area,” he continued. “Many Sikhs here are doctors and lawyers and professionals, but agriculture is still very important.” Gill said that, like many immigrants, his parents first worked in fields and orchards owned by more established family members, work that he and his siblings joined in on when they were “old enough to climb a ladder to pick prunes, peaches and almonds.” Remembering more of his childhood, Gill continued: “Before the local temple got built in 1969, the closest one was in Stockton, so we’d all go on the weekends; two families would pile into one car and we’d drive for what seemed like all day. Sometimes we’d spend the whole weekend there, basically camping out at the temple. As a kid, it was great to go to temple and worship, but it also had a railroad line right out back and we’d go play with all the other children by the tracks.” Still, Gill’s childhood memories aren’t all as halcyon. “Back then, people called us all ‘Hindus,’ and they didn’t mean it in any sort of positive way,” he said. “Then, after the Golden Temple attack in 1984, people started recognizing that we were Sikhs, and understanding a bit more about East Indians, and Indian Americans, in general.” Gill keeps his hair cut short and he wears only one of the five K’s, a silver kara on his right wrist, though

he explained this doesn’t mean he’s not devout. “I go to the temple all the time, and recite the prayers,” he explained. “In my eyes, I’m worshiping God. If people want to be fully baptized, that’s the commitment they make at that point in their lives. Maybe someday I’ll be there as well, but right now I’m not quite there.” Gill said his impetus to get involved in politics was an underrepresentation not only of Sikhs, but also of the entire Indian-American community. He emphasized the importance of education in helping younger Sikhs remember their heritage, as well as educating other cultures about who Sikhs are and what they believe, in order to lessen prejudice. “There are people who will embrace not just Sikhism, but any culture and anyone,” Gill said. “But there are also always those people who don’t care to learn, don’t care to listen; they don’t care about anything else. It’s not just Sikhism, or any other specific issue that they have a problem with—it’s how they feel about everything. “People need the education to understand, and what they need to realize is, what it all comes down to is we’re all Americans.” Ω Guru Nanak, born in 1469, founded Sikhism, and is the first of the religion’s 10 gurus.

Celebrate Sikh culture:

The 34th annual Yuba City Sikh Festival and Parade takes place Friday through Sunday, Nov. 1-3, with the parade happening Sunday, Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. The action is centered around the Yuba City Sikh Temple at 2468 Tierra Buena Road. Go to www.tinyurl.com/SikhFest for more information. An exhibit on Sikh history in the North State is on permanent display at the Community Memorial Museum at 1333 Butte House Road in Yuba City. Call 822-7141 for hours. The curators also maintain a very informative website at www.punjabipioneers.com.

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THURSDAY 10|24—WEDNESDAY 10/30 REBEL SOUL: A southern-rock tribute. F,

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10/25, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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.

BLUEGRASS JAM: Hosted by Lucy Smith. F, 10/25, 1-4pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth

St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

DRIVER: Live music from these Paradise

boys. F, 10/25, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave., (530) 3457499.

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FLO SESSIONS: Flo’s weekly local music showcase continues with host Zack

Black and guests. F, 7-10pm. Opens 10/25. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530)

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FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

FLO IN THE BLUES: Live blues music for the blue at heart featuring Steven Truskol and friends. Th, 10/24, 7-10pm. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.com.

JOHN SEID DUO: John Seid and Larry Peterson play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 69pm. Opens 10/24. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

LAND-AIR-WATER CONCERT: The second installment of Butte Environmental Council’s benefit concert series features Whiskerman and their soulful folk-rock, plus bluegrass ensemble Low Flying Birds. Th, 10/24, 7:30pm. $17. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

HAPPY JAZZ: Jazz on the patio with Shigemi Minetaka on keyboard and Christine LaPado-Breglia on upright bass. F, 10/25, 6:30-8:30pm. Chicoichi Ramen, 243 W. Ninth St., (530) 891-9044.

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

Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

ROCKIN THE MIC: A monthly open mic open to performers young and old.

Fourth F of every month, 6-8pm. Free. Chico School of Rock, 932 E. Eighth Ave. A, (530) 894-2526, www.chicoschoolof rock.com.

RUTH MOODY: Critically acclaimed, twotime Juno Award winning singersongwriter from The Wailin’ Jennys performs two intimate back-to-back sets. F, 10/25, 6:30 & 9pm. $24. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

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DO IT FOR DIMEBAG, DO IT FOR DIO

Kill Devil Hill is a supergroup from North Carolina featuring a couple of heavy-metal heavyweights in its rhythm section: bassist Rex Brown and drummer Vinnie Appice. Brown laid down the bass lines for ’90s metal gods Pantera, while Appice kept the beat for ’80s-era, Ronnie James Dio-fronted Black Sabbath, as well as much of that singer’s epic solo career. Two of the most beloved metal icons ever, Pantera’s guitarist Dimebag Darrel was gunned down by a crazed fan in 2004, and Dio succumbed to stomach cancer in 2010. If you have any doubt that Kill Devil Hill’s Monday, Oct. 28, appearance at Lost on Main will kick some serious ass, dust off an old copy of Pantera’s 1992 breakthrough Vulgar Display of Power and Dio’s 1983 masterpiece Holy Diver to get an idea of what to expect.

COMEDY NIGHT: Join comedians Brad Williams, Tom Segura and Jason Larson for a night of laughs Sa, 10/26, 8pm. $20. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

FUNKANAUTS: Psychedelic music from

planet funk (via the Bay Area). Sa, 10/26, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main, 319 Main

St., (530) 891-1853.

JAZZ X-PRESS: ACOUSTIC TELEPATHY: A wide variety of music, from swing to more modern jazz sounds, including some original compositions from Chico State’s Jazz X-Press students. Sa,

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Sunday, Oct. 27 The Butcher Shop Outdoor Theater SEE SUNDAY

the preservation of old-time fiddle music. Fourth Su of every month, 25pm through 12/8. Opens 10/27. Feather River Senior Center, 1335 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 533-8370, www.oroville oldtimefiddlers.com.

10/26, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csu chico.com.

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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ROOTS MUSIC: An evening of Americana with Gordy Ohlinger’s Trio Gordo, and Thick & Thin—a “Cajun gypsy-jive vaudeville of odd and rare tunes.” Sa, 10/26, 7:30pm. $8. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

and the Cash Band’s homage to the “man in black.” Sa, 10/26, 7-9pm. $20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8728454, www.paradiseperforming arts.com.

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fellow locals The Deaf Pilots. Sa, 10/26, 9pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted

and The Doors. Sa, 10/26, 9:30pm. $5.

country-punkers put on a show with local folks Biggs Roller and The Lee Side Riders. Su, 10/27, 6-9pm. The Butcher Shop Outdoor Theater, 2500 Estes Rd. (at the end of Normal St.).

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FOR THE LOVE OF FRANK: Frank Zappatribute Halloween show featuring original Zappa bandmate Ike Willis. Danland Band opens. Tu, 10/29, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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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.

30WEDNESDAY HOT BUTTERED RUM: The progressivebluegrass virtuosos and festival regulars from the Bay Area return to Chico. W, 10/30, 7:30-9:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: With the Carey

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

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Willie Tea Taylor is walking proof that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Behind the gruff, bearded exterior of this tenor-guitar-playing troubadour is a deeply poetic and sensitive soul, as evidenced by the heart-rending songs of simple pleasures and small-town life he sings. For an introduction, check out his song “Life is Beautiful” on YouTube. If you don’t get a little misty, check yourself for a pulse. Willie Tea, as he’s known to fans, plays on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Café Flo with his occasional cohorts, “indie-grass” outfit the Harmed Brothers, as well as locals the Sons of Jefferson.

JOHN SEID TRIO: John Seid, Steve Cook and Larry Peterson play an eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. W, 10/30, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

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

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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.

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most are ones I would seek out again. Just some of the high points included Founders’ sweet and floral wet-hopped Harvest Ale (with five hop varieties); the piney, fresh-tasting fresh-hopped (with citra hops?) Raceway IPA from Pizza Port Brewing Company (Carlsbad, and other SoCal locations); the complex fruity/floral/spicy fresh- and wet-hopped Freshie IPA (with simcoe, mosaic and citra hops) from Berryessa Brewing Co. (Winters); and both the Nellie single-hopped ale (with very tropical-flavored nelson hops from New Zealand) and the brandy/raisin/chocolate goodness of the amazing, dark, barrel-aged Eclipse Imperial Stout from FiftyFifty Brewing Co. in Truckee. The discovery of the day though was probably Solemn Oath Brewery, of Naperville, Ill. The new-tome brewery’s friendly, bearded tap-jockeys poured two of the most unique beers I had: an amazingly balanced Belgo-American double red ale called Man vs. Internet vs. Mothra, and the odd-but-alluring Salty Beard, a Belgian IPA whose funky yeast and experimental single hop (#05256) combined into a fairly indescribable fruity muskiness that I’d never experienced. It was also a kick to get the chance to be one of the few to enjoy a sample poured from Russian River’s one giant bottle of Toronado 25th Anniversary, a blend of six disparate styles into one sour beer that was one of the most funky, sour and complex beers I’ve ever tasted. There were only four wild-hop varieties on the menu—IPA 395 by Mammoth Brewing Company (Mammoth Lakes), Experience IPA from SweetWater Brewing Company (Atlanta, Ga.), and a couple from Sierra Nevada—and I tasted only one, the home brewery’s Neomexicanus Wild Hop IPA, which might’ve been my favorite beer of the day. The neomexicanus sub-species is an unusual-looking multi-headed hop that grows wild throughout the Western United States, and was harvested by Sierra Nevada in the foothills of the mountain range that the brewery is named after. The flavors that the hop imparted to the special release were hard to pin down: sweet citrus, and sort of earthy, but not in a musty or vegetative way, more like freshly picked fruit—a really sunny brew! It was so new and delicious, and captured the fresh, fun and adventurous spirit of the day in one tiny glass. Ω

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Burger King “I need to wear fishnets and a negligee on Saturday,” I reminded myself as a friend and I pondered Burger King’s digital menu. The woman behind the counter pretended not to have heard my self-admonition as I ordered Satisfries and a gigantic Diet Coke. The Satisfries—Burger King’s new lower-calorie, lower-fat fries—arrived, and in their thick, crinkle-cut valleys of golden goodness, I saw my chance of fitting into Saturday’s Rocky Horror Picture Show costume fade away. I resolved to work it off in the gym, and dunked the first fry into some ketchup, the hot ridges capturing small pools of the cool condiment. Crispy, though not crunchy. Chewy, though not mealy. I immediately thought of baked steak fries, without the sogginess, and then devoured the rest. Satisfries’ 40 percent less fat and 30 percent less calories (than McDonald’s regular fries, it says in the fine print) is thanks to a batter coating the potatoes that keeps it from absorbing as much oil during frying. When you compare Satisfries to BK’s own fries, the differences are only 20 percent less fat and 20 percent less calories. Still, Satisfries are a slightly less guilty pleasure, one that you can enjoy in moderation and still look good while doing “The Time Warp.”

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The Crazy Ones Thursdays, 9 p.m.

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CBS How to wrap a sitcom around Robin Williams? That’s a question television producers have been asking for 31 years, ever since Mork & Mindy ended. Efforts to create a similarly good fit for him have failed—until now. In The Crazy Ones, created and produced by David E. Kelley, Williams plays Simon Roberts, a wacky genius given to rapid-fire joking and banter who heads up a major Chicago advertising company. He’s the kind of guy who, as Williams has said, “could sell clouds to God.” He’s paired with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays his daughter and business partner, Sydney. She’s the one person who can rope him in when he becomes unmoored, and Gellar, much to her credit, keeps right up with Williams— no easy task. There’s also a good cast of supporting players, including James Wolk, Amanda Setton and Hamish Linklater, all of whom treat Simon with the respect and fearful disbelief that come from working for a mad genius. Plot is secondary here to raillery and repartee, at which Williams excels. I’ve watched three episodes since the show debuted on Sept. 26, and all had me laughing out loud, over and over.

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Secrets and lies

Reviewers: Craig Blamer and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

It’s government versus the people in two new dramas

he Fifth Estate is being promoted as a

dramatic portrait of Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks phenomenon but also as a kind of lowkey political thriller. It delivers on both counts, but not to any really impressive or revealing extent. Benedict Cumberbatch’s edgily by Juan-Carlos cautious impersonation of Assange is Selznick striking in appearance and mannerism, but the overall portrayal is sketchy at best. In a way, the film’s true central character is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, whose book about his loose-limbed partnership with Assange in WikiLeaks is one of the sources for the film’s screenplay. He’s played here by Daniel Brühl

writer/adapter Josh Singer have framed their portrait in the trappings of respectable docudrama, but they’re hard-pressed to come up with anything in the way of fresh revelations. That is, at least in part, a byproduct of dealing with ongoing current events and legal and political dramas that remain unresolved at best, and shrouded in disinformation and secrecy at worst. There’s a fleeting sense of urgency and commitment in the sequences where Assange and Domscheit-Berg are making “Courage is contagious” their watchword. But in the end, there’s nothing left to do but acknowledge all the fraught loose ends—which The Fifth Estate accomplishes via a fictional “interview” in which Cumberbatch/Assange addresses the camera directly and makes pronouncements which are provocative, evasive and inconclusive.

Opening this week Bad Grandpa

The original jackass is back, as Johnny Knoxville dons his old-man getup and pranks America during a road trip across the country with his “grandson.” Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Counselor

Ridley Scott (Prometheus, Matchstick Men, Blade Runner) gets the honor of directing the first original screenplay by novelist/ playwright Cormac McCarthy (The Road, No Country for Old Men), which tells the story of a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets in over his head when he tries his hand at drug trafficking. Also starring Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Dean Norris. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Enough Said

Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a single mom whose new relationship with a loveable guy (James Gandolfini, in one his final roles) starts to be poisoned by information gleaned from a new friend of hers (Toni Collette), who turns out to be the guy’s ex-wife. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Inequality for All

A documentary revolving around former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he explores income inequality and the widening economic gap in the country. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

Wadjda

A Saudi Arabian film about a young Saudi girl who takes part in a Koran-recitation competition, hoping to win the prize money and buy the green bicycle of her dreams. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

The Fifth Estate

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Brühl. Directed by Bill Condon. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Captain Phillips

Closed Circuit

Ends tonight, Oct. 24. Starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall. Directed by John Crowley. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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(who is also excellent as a very different kind of character in this year’s Rush), and much of what is best in the film is mostly a matter of scenes in which Cumberbatch and Brühl are both involved. There’s an excellent supporting cast on hand as well—David Thewlis and Peter Capaldi as journalists involved in publishing the leaks, and Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney as government figures in charge of national-security matters. Alicia Vikander plays Domscheit-Berg’s girlfriend and comrade in a part of the movie that brings the political and the personal into charged contact. Linney’s performance, in a small but well-written part, is probably the best of the lot. Director Bill Condon and screen-

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another release to make it to Chico this week. Closed Circuit takes on surveillance systems, whistleblowers, and the quagmire of “national security” issues from another angle. The setting is Great Britain, WikiLeaks revelations are not an issue, and the secrets uncovered will remain hidden from the public. Instead, judicial tyranny and the malfeasance of spy agencies have the foreground, and the plight of potential whistleblowers is the central drama. Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall play defense lawyers who uncover an elaborate judicial sham in a terrorist bombing case to which they’ve been assigned. Compromised by shared personal secrets, and seriously menaced by government officials operating behind a veil of secrecy, the two of them must take flight and bargain for their own survival via the few remnants of legal and moral redress left to them. The spirit of social protest, which seems cautious but not unhopeful in The Fifth Estate, looks to be nearly extinct in Closed Circuit. Ω

Director Paul Greengrass and screenwriter Billy Ray keep the central focus on Capt. Phillips (Tom Hanks), but never lose sight of what’s going on with the Maersk Alabama’s 20-man crew or with the scrawny quartet of Somali youths who first try to take over the ship and then later try to take flight with Phillips as hostage. A key drama within the larger one comes from the keenly nuanced battle of wits, male pride and allround know-how that develops between Phillips and the gaunt, rail-thin pirate called Muse (a haunting Barkhad Abdi). The film rises to its most impressive levels when we begin to see that the simplistic good guys/bad guys outlook that usually prevails in such stories gets deflected here in some very interesting and even moving ways. The screenplay and direction combine with Hanks’ quietly multifaceted performance to portray Phillips as a genuine hero, but also as one deeply marked by the devastating cost of victory. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Carrie

A second big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a psychologically abused and bullied teen who eventually exacts revenge on her tormentors with her telekinetic powers. Chloë Grace Moretz (who played Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass) takes on the title role made famous by Sissy Spacek in the 1976 classic. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Closed Circuit

Ends tonight, Oct. 24. See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

In part two of the computer-animated film series, the overactive food-making machine made popular in Judi and Ron Barrett’s celebrated book of the same name is back, this

time turning out hybrid food/animal creatures that threaten to take over the world. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Escape Plan

Sylvester Stallone stars as a structural engineer who is wrongly convicted of a crime and then locked up in a prison of his own design, from which he plans to escape with help from his cellmate, played by The Governator. Also starring 50 Cent, Jim Caviezel, Amy Ryan and Vincent D’Onofrio. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Fifth Estate

See review this issue. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Gravity

The new film by Alfonso Cuarón is a dazzling piece of artful entertainment. It’s a sci-fi adventure, with a pair of stranded astronauts played by George Clooney and Sandra Bullock trying to survive a spacestation calamity, and it packs a great deal of unexpected interest into what might sound like a relatively simple story. Scarcity of oxygen, suspension of the law of gravity, extreme physical isolation—they all heighten the stakes in the characters’ efforts to improvise self-rescue via the increasingly disabled remnants of their elaborate spacetravel technology. Cuarón and company make wonderfully expressive use of the 3D format on behalf of all of its main concerns. Both visually and dramatically, Gravity is about human beings struggling to get their bearings, in several senses of that word. Spatial and psychological disorientation recurs, but the screenplay by Alfonso and his brother Jonás Cuarón also nudges us toward perspectives on the dimensions of human identity, of purpose and self, and locale. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Prisoners

In the wake of an abduction of two little girls, tensions mount between a brash detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) and the desperately frustrated father (Hugh Jackman) of one of the missing kids. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Pulling Strings

Pantelion Films, the new Hollywood studio putting out features aimed at Latino audiences, is capitalizing on its summer hit Instructions Not Included, by releasing this romantic-comedy about a young woman working as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy in Mexico City who begins falling for a mariachi singer whose visa she denied. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Runner Runner

Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) directs this story of an Ivy Leaguer (Justin Timberlake) who, after being cheated out of his tuition money in an online poker game, heads to an offshore island to confront the company and winds up drawn into a dangerous game between a criminal entrepreneur (Ben Affleck) and the FBI. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Rush

Screenwriter Peter Morgan turns his talents to the politics of celebrity and the psychology of high-speed risk-takers, via the storied rivalry of world-class Formula One auto racers Niki Lauda from Austria and James Hunt from Great Britain on the 197677 Grand Prix circuit. Both men are extraordinarily gifted auto racers, both are from wealthy backgrounds, and both seem obsessed with defeating the other. Beyond that, they are two entirely different types of competitive males. Lauda (played by Daniel Brühl) is cold, intense, socially withdrawn, brilliantly analytical, mathematically precise; Hunt (played by Chris Hemsworth) is handsome, energetic, charming, relentlessly outgoing, and reckless in appetite and impulse. These contrasts are a little bit too pat, but director Ron Howard and his actors bring them out with an attractive zest that is made all the more interesting by hints of rueful regret and half-hidden desperation. The end result is brisk, smart, fast-moving entertainment. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

October 24, 2013

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Arts & Culture Far left: A tree-sculpture prototype by Daniel Devas, a Brazilian artist/ performer whose art installations have included “Água E Fogo” (below) a whirlpool of water with flames blooming from its vortex. Near left: “Allen,” in progress, by Dylan Tellesen, Matt Barber, and you.

New batches of art Experiments bubble over at two local art labs

“W it changes them.” Dylan Tellesen would know. We were inside the

hen people get to paint on a wall,

Naked Lounge Tea & Coffeehouse when he made this comment, sitting across from the long wall on which he and by Jason Cassidy some of his artist friends recently painted—with help from random jasonc@ members of the public—a giant newsreview.com “community mural” (with a John Bidwell-inspired head in the cenPREVIEW: ter) that runs the length of the main Scientia Truncatis , room of the downtown café. That tree fabrications experience of, as Tellesen put it, by Daniel Devas, at “allowing people to participate Idea Fabrication Labs (603 Orange with me, and giving up some conSt.). Opening trol,” is what he and collaborator reception Saturday, Matt Barber are hoping to replicate Oct. 26, 3-6 p.m. at the WE exhibit they are hosting Shows Thursdays, this Saturday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m., 6:30-9:30 p.m., at the Habitat Lab warehouse. Oct. 31-Nov. 28. The duo (as well as a few of WE , a collaboration their friends) collaborated on a between Matt series of paintings/screenprints/ Barber, Dylan drawings/collages on which showTellesen, and you, goers will be invited to make their at Habitat Lab (199 E. 13th St.), own artistic contributions during Saturday, Oct. 26, the reception. The pieces are all 7:30 p.m. Cost: $5 built around images of authors— (proceeds to Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burbenefit the Museum roughs, Miranda July, etc.—loosely of Northern California Art). tying them to the notion of “authorship” in art, and kick-starting the process of having others add their vision to what’s already been established. “I didn’t invent painting. I didn’t invent the art show,” Tellesen continued, trying to explain how he believes that there is too much authority given to artists and galleries when it comes to making decisions about what is or isn’t art, and creating expectations on how art is to be presented. He said that art shows shouldn’t have to be “hushed,” polite events at which visitors keep a respectful distance from the neatly arranged frames on plain white walls. “I want to break that down a bit,” Tellesen said. The works, whomever they end up being created 32 CN&R October 24, 2013

by, will be for sale, and half of the proceeds from the art (as well as the door money) will be donated to the Museum of Northern California Art (monCA), which is raising money to turn the Chico Veterans Memorial Hall on The Esplanade into a permanent home for its collection of 400-plus works by Northern California artists (none of which you should try to add your own artistic expression to). Tellesen and company’s Habitat Lab

show is one of two unique, participatory art experiments happening in Chico on Saturday. Earlier the same day, across town in the Idea Fabrication Labs “maker space,” Brazilian installation artist and performer Daniel Devas will be taking visitors on a “sensorial journey though physics” through his Scientia Truncatis (Latin for “Science Jungle”) exhibition. Devas has created large-scale installations all over the world—from Burning Man to the Boom Festival in Portugal—and while in Chico he’ll be taking advantage of IFL’s cool toys (laser cutter, 3-D printer, etc.) to fabricate a series of trees using everything from magnets and bubbles to lasers and electronics. The trees are being designed and arranged in a way that will allow the audience to interact with the respective scientific concepts at play in each piece, “showing the beauty of the laws that rule our dimension,” Devas said. You’ll have to wait until opening night to see what exactly he has in store, but if his previous works are any indication, it’s going to be a unique experience. His installations have included everything from “Água E Fogo,” featuring a clear tube filled with water that spins into a whirlpool, creating a vortex that allows flames to shoot up through the water, to the huge “Torres Dancantes” (“Dancing Towers”), a series of reflective bands strung together to make a massive ribbon-like curtain hung from bridges or rafters inside concert halls, which, when twisted, sent wave-like ripples up and down its surface that flickered to a dance beat. (Visit his Vimeo page at www.vimeo.com/danieldevas to see his art in action.) The afternoon show is open to all ages, so bring the kids and get lost in the science jungle. Ω

THIS WEEK 24THURS Special Events CHICO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL: Four days of independent films. See website for details.

10/24-10/27, 6-11pm. $5-$10 or $75 four-day pass. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.ciffcalifornia.org.

MOMIX: BOTANICA: The modern-dance company creates a fantasy world of larger than life puppetry, athletic dance, music, costumes and inventive props for an entertaining multimedia experience. Th, 10/24, 7:30pm. $18-$33. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Music LAND-AIR-WATER CONCERT: The second installment of Butte Environmental Council’s benefit concert series features Whiskerman and their soulful folk-rock, plus bluegrass ensemble Low Flying Birds. Th, 10/24, 7:30pm. $17. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E Third St., (530) 894-1978.

Art Receptions TRACKING: BFA culminating exhibition by Ben Engle showcasing images from fly-fishing and the unseen marks this process makes. Th, 10/24, 5pm. Free. B-So Space, Chico State, Ayres Hall, room 107, (530) 898-5331.

Theater LES MISÉRABLES: California Regional Theatre presents a full-scale production (with live orchestra) of the beloved Broadway musical. Th-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.crt shows.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. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm through 11/10. $12$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

Poetry/Literature BOOK PRESENTATION: Publish Your Dreams, seminar with author Dan O’Brien Th, 10/24, 7-9pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

25FRI Special Events CHICO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL: See Thursday. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.ciffcalifornia.org.

PUMPKINFEST: Chapman Farmers’ Market hosts “Good Food Now,” a harvest fest with healthful food choices, face painting, jack-olanterns, and games. F, 10/25, 2-5:30pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2921 B St. in Oroville.

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, Su, 2pm through 10/27. $10-$20. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcage theatre.net.

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.

EXOTIC EROTIC PARTY Saturday, Oct. 26 Manzanita Place

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS MOONLIGHT MEOWS Saturday, Oct. 26 Arc Pavilion

CHICO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL: See Thursday. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.ciffcalifornia.org.

FALL HOME AND GARDEN SHOW: See Saturday.

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

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

OPEN STUDIOS TOUR: See Saturday. Locations vary, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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

26SAT 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.

CHICO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL: See Thursday. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.ciffcalifornia.org.

RIDE AND DINE: An equine extravaganza with trail rides, silent auction, food, beer and wine garden plus a Halloween parade. Call for more info. Sa, 10/26, 9am-5pm. $35. Camelot Equestrian Park, 1985 Clark Rd. in Butte Valley, (530) 354-6079.

Music JAZZ X-PRESS: ACOUSTIC TELEPATHY: A wide variety of music, from swing to more modern jazz sounds, including some original compositions from Chico State’s Jazz X-Press students. Sa, 10/26, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

COMEDY NIGHT: Join comedians Brad Williams, Tom Segura and Jason Larson for a night of laughs Sa, 10/26, 8pm. $20. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 5349892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

EXOTIC EROTIC PARTY: Power 102 and Epic Productions present their annual sexy Halloween dance party with a rotating roster of DJs and a costume contest. Sa, 10/26, 9pm. $20. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave., (530) 345-6783, www.power102radio.com.

FALL HOME AND GARDEN SHOW: Numerous exhibits and demos focusing on cooking, landscape, agriculture and home-improvement, plus food and entertainment. 10/26-10/27, 10am-5pm. $5. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

HAUNTED PARK 5K: A jaunt through Bidwell Park for Halloween, and who knows what will be lurking behind all those trees. A benefit run for the Jesse Kohen Memorial Foundation. Register online. Sa, 10/26, 8:30-10:30am. $10$35. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park, www.race planner.com/register/info/Haunted_Park.

MOONLIGHT MEOWS: A dinner to benefit the Chico Cat Coalition catered by Spiteri’s Deli with music, prizes, raffles and auction. Sa, 10/26, 5:30-10pm. $35. Arc Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave., (530) 891-5865, www.chicocatcoalition.org.

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

POST-APOCALYPTIC RIDE: Chico Bike Party presents a post-apocalyptic ride just in time for Halloween. Dress in costume, and bring your bike. Sa, 10/26, 7:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico, www.chicobike party.weebly.com.

Art Receptions SCIENTIA TRUNCATIS: Opening for Daniel Devas’ “science trees,” made using light, sound, magnets, lasers, bubbles and more. Sa, 10/26, 3-6pm. Idea Fabrication Labs, 603 Orange St., (530) 592-0609.

WE: Dylan Tellesen and Matt Barber share their collaborative series by inviting the audience to add to the works. A fundraiser for the Museum of Northern California Art (monCA). Sa, 10/26, 7:30-11pm. $5. Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St., www.monca.org.

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

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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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.

29TUES Poetry/Literature KEN GROSSMAN BOOK SIGNING: Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. presented by Ken Grossman. Tu, 10/29, 7-8pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

30WED Special Events BUTTE COLLEGE HAUNTED HOUSE: “A Very Wicked Wizard of Oz” haunted house hosted by the Butte College Associated Students with a harvest fair on Halloween night. Entertainment and food trucks, live music, photo booth and games. W, 10/30, 6-9pm, Th, 10/31, 5-9pm. $2. Butte College, Chico Center, 2320 Forest Ave. CHC 109, (530) 895-1352, www.butte.edu/as.

Music HOT BUTTERED RUM: The progressive-bluegrass virtuosos and festival regulars from the Bay Area return to Chico. W, 10/30, 7:30-9:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

VAN CLIBURN: Chico Performances presents the

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gold-medal winner of this year’s competition of classical piano music. W, 10/30, 7:30pm. $15$27. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Special Events ALTON BROWN: The Food Network star reinvents the foodie with comedy, puppets, storytelling, music ... and food! Be sure to request a seat in the “poncho zone.” Su, 10/27, 7:30pm. $29$45. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

AUTUMN FEST: See Saturday. Patrick

FREE LISTINGS!

LES MISÉRABLES: See Thursday. Center for the

Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

ALTON BROWN Sunday, Oct. 27 Laxson Auditorium

SEE SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Art 1078 GALLERY: Visual Culture: Photographing

Chinatown, new photographic works by local curator, filmmaker and teacher, Jason Tannen. Through 10/26. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Open Studios, displays by Waif Mullins, Mike Gillum and Maria Phillips to name a few, with artist demos on weekends. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

B-SO SPACE: Tracking, BFA Candidate Ben Engle showcases nocturnal images of flyfishing through movements and mark-making within the process. Through 10/25, 9am-5pm. In the Dark We Both Look the Same, a BFA culminating exhibition featuring new paintings, books and ceramic works by Rickie Barnett. 10/28-11/1, 9am5pm. Ayres Hall Room 107 Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

CHICO ART CENTER: Open Studios Art Tour, with more than 80 artists opening their studios to the public for the 25th anniversary of the annual art tour. Sa & Su, 10am-5pm through 10/27. 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, John Shult’s figurative works and paintings of North State and Chico landmarks. Through 10/31. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

IDEA FABRICATION LABS: Scientia Truncatis, artist Daniel Devas brings new works to life using tools available at the fab lab to create “trees” using light, sound and magnets. Sa, 10/26, 3-6pm. 603 Orange St., (530) 5920609.

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.

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 “pop-up” exhibit. W-Sa through 10/26. 215 Main St.

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

THIRD FLOOR GALLERY: Girl Tuesday’s Pick and

Pull, a BFA culminating exhibition featuring screen prints, pop-ups, cast bronze and clothing by Lindsey Slater. 10/28-11/18. Chico State, third floor of BMU, (530) 898-5489.

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. Chico State, Trinity Hall, (530) 898-5864.

Call for Artists CALL FOR ARTISTS: Established and emerging artists of all media welcome to apply for a guest artist exhibit this summer. call for more info. Through 12/2. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

PACIFIC FLYWAY WILDLIFE AND HABITAT: An allmedia juried exhibition to be featured at the Snow Goose Festival this January. Through 11/16. 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.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 24

Riding to the end of the world Though Halloween is still a week away, there are plenty of opportunities to get some thrills nearly every day in the next week—haunted houses, nearby corn mazes, and parties galore. One of the most interesting of these is a Post-Apocalyptic Ride held by the group Chico Bike Party this Saturday, Oct. 26. Bicyclists—in costume, if you prefer—are asked to meet at 7:30 p.m. at City Plaza, where organizers will lead the EDITOR’S PICK group on a secret route filled with End Days-themed eye candy and the occasional scare. For more info, search for them on Facebook or check out www.chicobikeparty.weebly.com. The organizers provide a mobile sound system with the spooky tunes, and riders are encouraged to bring their own drinking water, lights and a patch kit.

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WINDOWS TO THE SOUL If you’re planning on hitting the trail for the

final weekend of the Open Studios Art Tour [see Scene, page 27], be sure to get properly warmed up before heading out. Stretch your arts muscles by taking in the Window Art Project that the Chico Arts Commission put together, featuring window-art displays in more than 50 local storefronts. There are guides available online at www.artober fest.net as well as at participating businesses, but you hardly need one. Arts DEVO just walked downtown early one morning, grabbed some coffee from the Naked Lounge, and window-shopped for original, local art. In the two-squareblock area framed by First, Third, Broadway and Wall streets, there were David Sutherland at Trucker. 30 Window Art displays:

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1725 Flamingo Rd 1846 Bedford Dr 1212 Whitewood Way 907 Netters Cir 2148 Ceres Ave 1586 Kona Dr 12 Leland Ct 10 North Valley Ct 35 Lakewood Way 1840 Salem St 2320 Floral Ave 3086 Snowbird Dr

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

$277,000 $268,000 $265,000 $255,000 $251,000 $241,000 $235,000 $225,000 $219,000 $211,000 $200,000 $190,000

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

1472 1842 1817 2096 1236 1252 1179 1126 1111 1160 1296 1127

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14944 Woodland Park (X St: Hwy 32) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,782 Sq.Ft. $419,000 Johnny Klinger 864-3398 Chris Martinez 680-4404

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 1 Stoney Point Way (X St: Pinyon Hills) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,233 Sq.Ft. $380,000 Laura Ortland 321-1567

Sat. 11-1 273 Autumn Gold Dr (X St: Henshaw) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,081 Sq.Ft. $339,900 Kathy Kelly 864-7964

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Sat. 11-1 720 Grand Teton Way ( X St. Godman) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1652 Sq.Ft. $275,900 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

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Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 190 Fairgate Ln (X St: W. Sacramento) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1200 Sq.Ft. $209,500 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850

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Sun. 2-4 555 Vallombrosa Ave #85 (X St: Mangrove) 1 Bd / 1 Ba, 702 Sq.Ft. $124,900 Paul Champlin 828-2902

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SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

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SQ. FT.

Chico Chico Chico Durham Magalia Magalia Magalia Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville

$176,000 $142,500 $115,000 $310,000 $141,000 $132,000 $108,500 $355,000 $300,000 $270,500 $242,000 $177,500

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912 1148 620 1439 1641 1449 1372 2926 2703 3145 2373 1997

860 Robinson St

Oroville

$170,000

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2212

2417 Oro Quincy Hwy

Oroville

$125,000

2/ 1

1168

21 Leslie Ln

Oroville

$124,000

3/ 1.5

1273

5579 Woodsmuir Ln

Paradise

$235,000

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2261

547 Bille Rd

Paradise

$207,500

3/ 2.5

1560

6333 Graham Rd

Paradise

$205,000

2/ 2

1665

1932 Crandall Way

Paradise

$190,000

2/ 2

1541

457 Sunset Dr

Paradise

$156,500

2/ 1.5

1319

6839 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$106,000

3/ 1

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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 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ENLOE NEUROSURGICAL AND SPINE CLINIC at 251 Cohasset Road, Suite 370 Chico, CA 95926. ENLOE MEDICAL CENTER 1531 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: MYRON E. MACHULA, VP/CFO Dated: August 19, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001121 Published: October 24,31, November 7,14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WORK OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY at 4139 Hildale Ave Oroville, CA 95966. ARTHUR V MARTINEZ 4139 Hildale Ave Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ARTHUR V MARTINEZ Dated: October 11, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001336 Published: October 24,31, November 7,14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TONY’S SMOKE SHOP at 175 Cohasset Road, Suite 2 Chico, CA 95926 MTANIOUS SAMAAN 1749 Eaton Road #39 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MTANIOUS SAMAAN Dated: October 7, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001293 Published: October 24,31, November 7,14, 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 Part- nership. Signed: KAMI GRIMES Dated: October 8, 2013 FBN Number: 2012-0001661 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: RED TAVERN at 1250 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. MIKELL, INC 901 Bruce Road Suite #270 Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by a Corporation. Signed: MICHAEL VADNEY, PRESIDENT Dated: October 21, 2013 FBN Number: 2012-0001072 Published: October 24,31, November 7,14, 2013

NOTICES 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. 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.

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 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

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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 follows: Present name: CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CARRICK Proposed name: PETER ROBERT PIAZZA SR 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 1, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: August 9, 2013 Case Number: 159771 Published: October 10,17,24,31, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KRISTEN ANN DRISH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KRISTEN ANN DRISH Proposed name: SOPHIA ANN DRISH THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition

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should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 22, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: October 03, 2013 Case Number: 160576 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NIKKI JO SCHLAISHUNT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NIKKI JO SCHLAISHUNT Proposed name: NIKKI JO HUNT 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: December 6, 2013 Time: 9:00am Dept:TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: October 09, 2013 Case Number: 160578 Published: October 17,24,31, November 7, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner YANTI IBRAHIM filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: YANTI IBRAHIM, MICHAEL LEUICA BEATRICE IGNACIA LEUICA JENNIFER RAPPORT Proposed name: JANE WALTER MICHAEL WALTER BEATRICE IGNACIA WALTER JENNIFER BIRGITA WALTER 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: December 20, 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: October 18, 2013 Case Number: 160650 Published: October 24,31, November 7,14, 2013

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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, 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): “I’m

greedy,” said painter David Hockney, “but I’m not greedy for money—I think that can be a burden—I’m greedy for an exciting life.” According to my analysis, Aries, the cosmos is now giving you the go-ahead to cultivate Hockney’s style of greed. As you head out in quest of adventure, here’s an important piece of advice to keep in mind. Make sure you formulate an intention to seek out thrills that educate and inspire you rather than those that scare you and damage you. It’s up to you which kind you attract.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): French philosopher Simone Weil described the following scene: “Two prisoners who cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication.” This muted type of conversation is a useful metaphor for the current state of one of your important alliances, Taurus. That which separates you also connects you. But I’m wondering if it’s time to create a more direct link. Is it possible to bore a hole through the barrier between you so you can create a more intimate exchange? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I had tend-

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t you wish your friends and loved ones would just somehow figure out what you want without you having to actually say it? Wouldn’t it be great if they were telepathic or could read your body language so well that they would surmise your secret thoughts? Here’s a news bulletin: It ain’t going to happen! Ever! That’s why I recommend that you refrain from resenting people for not being mind readers, and instead simply tell them pointblank what you’re dreaming about and yearning for. They may or may not be able to help you reach fulfillment, but at least they will be in possession of the precise information they need to make an informed decision.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpios are obsessive, brooding, suspicious, demanding and secretive, right? That’s what traditional astrologers say, isn’t it? Well, no, actually. I think that’s a misleading assessment. It’s true that some Scorpios are dominated by the qualities I named. But my research shows that those types of Scorpios are generally not attracted to reading my horoscopes. My Scorpios tend instead to be passionately focused, deeply thoughtful, smartly discerning, intensely committed to excellence and devoted to understanding the complex truth. These are all assets that are especially important to draw on right now. The world has an extraordinarily urgent need for the talents of you evolved Scorpios.

ed to view waiting as mere passivity,” said author Sue Monk Kidd in her memoir. “When I looked it up in my dictionary, however, I found that the words passive and passion come from the same Latin root, pati, which means ‘to endure.’ Waiting is thus both passive and passionate. It’s a vibrant, contemplative work. ... It involves listening to disinherited voices within, facing the wounded holes in the soul, the denied and undiscovered, the places one lives falsely.” This is excellent counsel for you, Gemini. Are you devoted enough to refrain from leaping into action for now? Are you strong enough to bide your time?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Venice is

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you thought about launching a crowdfunding campaign for your pet project? The coming weeks might be a good time. Have you fantasized about getting involved in an organization that will help save the world even as it feeds your dreams to become the person you want to be? Do it! Would you consider hatching a benevolent conspiracy that will serve as an antidote to an evil conspiracy? Now is the time. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to build alliances. Your specialties between now and December 1 will be to mobilize group energy and round up supporters and translate high ideals into practical actions.

to the man-made world what the Grand Canyon is to the natural one,” said travel writer Thomas Swick in an article praising the awe-inciting beauty of the Italian city. “When I went to Venice,” testified French novelist Marcel Proust, “my dream became my address.” American author Truman Capote chimed in that “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” I bring this up, Cancerian, because even if you don’t make a pilgrimage to Venice, I expect that you will soon have the chance, metaphorically speaking, to consume an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. Take your sweet time. Nibble slowly. Assume that each bite will offer a distinct new epiphany.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you have any

interest in reworking—even revolutionizing—your relationship with the past? If so, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do so. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you attempt any of the following actions: 1. Forgive yourself for your former failures and missteps. 2. Make atonement to anyone whom you hurt out of ignorance. 3. Reinterpret your life story to account for the ways that more recent events have changed the meaning of what happened long ago. 4. Resolve old business as thoroughly as you can. 5. Feel grateful for everyone who helped make you who you are today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “As a bee

seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere,” advises the Tibetan Buddhist holy text known as the Dzogchen Tantra. That’s your assignment, Virgo. Be a student 24 hours a day, seven days a week— yes, even while you’re sleeping. (Maybe you could go to school in your dreams.) Regard every experience as an opportunity to learn something new and unexpected. Be ready to rejoice in all the revelations, both subtle and dramatic, that will nudge you to adjust your theories and change your mind.

Using his noodle

by Rob Brezsny

you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.” That helpful advice appears in Norwegian Wood, a novel by Haruki Murakami. Now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for your cruise through the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. When you first arrive, you may feel blind and dumb. Your surroundings might seem impenetrable and your next move unfathomable. But don’t worry. Refrain from drawing any conclusions whatsoever. Cultivate an empty mind and an innocent heart. Sooner or later, you will be able gather the clues you need to take wise action.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 2008,

writer Andrew Kessler hung out with scientists at NASA’s mission control as they looked for water on the planet Mars. Three years later, he published a book about his experiences, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission. To promote sales, he opened a new bookstore that was filled with copies of just one book: his own. I suggest that you come up with a comparable plan to promote your own product, service, brand or personality. The time is right to summon extra chutzpah as you expand your scope.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Right now

you have a genius for escaping, for dodging, for eluding. That could be expressed relatively negatively or relatively positively. So, for instance, I don’t recommend that you abscond from boring but crucial responsibilities. You shouldn’t ignore or stonewall people whose alliances with you are important to keep healthy. On the other hand, I encourage you to fly, fly away from onerous obligations that give you little in return. I will applaud your decision to blow off limitations that are enforced by neurotic habits, and I will celebrate your departure from energydraining situations that manipulate your emotions.

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

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For many on a budget—like college students— ramen noodles are a food staple. They’re cheap, reasonably tasty and are easy to prepare. Now, thanks in part to the work of Chico State manufacturing professor Daren Otten and some of his students, cooking them is even easier with the Rapid Ramen Cooker. It’s basically just a simplelooking BPA-free, microwavable plastic bowl that is in the same rectangular shape as the familiar bricks of dehydrated noodles. Sacramento entrepreneur Chris Johnson thought up the product and hired Otten to bring his idea to fruition. Otten—vice chair of the Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing department at Chico State—and his students took 100 hours to complete the project. Johnson then presented the product on the reality show Shark Tank, and after securing $300,000 in financing from billionaire Mark Cuban, went on to sell, so far, more than 200,000 units in stores like Walmart and Safeway.

How’s it feel to have made such a popular product? It’s exciting to see someone we’ve worked with succeed, and my sustainable-manufacturing students got real-world experience that you can’t beat. But it’s not about the widget, it’s about the guys who can push it. I don’t want to discount what my students did, but Chris Johnson is 100 percent absolutely the reason for its success. Those who can get their products to those who use them will succeed, and those who can’t won’t.

What was the process for creating the cooker? It was an extensive process where we measured various ramen noodle pack sizes and created the BPA-free plastic container to with-

stand 212 degrees of microwave heat. The walls were designed tall enough to prevent water from boiling over and the side handles had to be convex, or rounded on top to prevent any splashed water from puddling up. It took many hours to design the dimensions using Excel spreadsheets, going back to the drawing board, etc.

Is this the most successful product you’ve worked on? It’s not the biggest success; I call it a success when the client succeeds and wants more work from me, which has happened a lot. I’ve developed products privately for companies like Hewlett-Packard and Dell computers, and in Asia for GM and Hamilton Beach. The big guys have a lot more resources and the smaller guys have a lot more passion.

Any advice for prospective inventors? Ask yourself: Is there a market for it? Are you willing to work harder than you’ve ever worked in your life for it? Are you willing to sell everything you own to fund it? If the answer to any of these is “no,” don’t do it. In any case, it’s always really hard. You’re better off playing the lottery. But if you’re willing to try it, call me! My office phone is 898-4316.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net

Birthday I’m writing this on Janice’s birthday. It’s beautiful—blue sky, light haze, no wind. A great day like this is hard to enjoy; she’s not here to enjoy it, and I know she would have. It sounds goofy to me, too, but there it is. We each had a life, and a lot of what we did and enjoyed had nothing to do with each other, and now every situation I run across in which we had ever found ourselves makes me cry—in homage, I think. When I go to sit outside in the morning and I see the chaise longue set to catch the early light, I think of all the mornings she and I sat there, drinking tea and waking up the day. She may have been giving me shit, but at least she was here. Now and then, I retry going through some of her stuff, but I don’t get far and I don’t try often anymore. And her stuff is everywhere—art on the walls, bottles in the medicine cabinet, books on the shelves, photos in boxes, journals in stacks, paint on the walls. I’m immersed in her stuff—for Janice pretty much everything had value as art supplies or art—without the

pleasure of her company, and her company gave plenty of pleasure. There’s still an element of cosmic something or other about all this grief, a component that’s not specific to Janice or our bond, and for which I’m grateful without understanding. Every time one of those waves picks me up and turns me over, I feel softer somehow, maybe less resistant, and more able—willing?—to accept whatever happens along, not to judge it or decide anything about it, just appreciate it for itself. Odd. I think it’s a chance to surrender, which I’m finding is nearly always a good idea. Grief is exhausting, crying especially so. It seems like I ought to be burning a lot more calories, but I’m not losing any weight, and it does nothing for abs. That recurring lump in my throat sometimes aches; maybe it’s getting stronger. I’ve been crying a river for the last couple of months and blaming it on the movement of the ecliptic and subsequent change in season, and I see no reason to revise the results of my entirely unscientific study. The goddamn autumn light makes me cry.

October 24, 2013

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