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The Grinch factor In December, the Grinch stole Christmas from more than a million

people and then went home to celebrate.

There are, on average, at least three people vying for every available job these days, such that it is impossible for every unemployed person to find work. Despite that grim reality, just before leaving for their Christmas break, House Republicans refused to renew expiring federal jobless benefits, ending those benefits for 1.3 million unemployed Americans.

Another 1.9 million people will discover, when their state-funded benefits run out in the coming six months, that they too won’t be eligible for federal benefits, and ditto for another 1.6 million in the second half of 2014. Not only will this inflict economic pain on out-of-work Americans, it will also harm the still-struggling economy by removing a significant amount of economic activity.

Understand that federal benefits kicked in only when state benefits ended, after 26 weeks, and were available only in states with high levels of unemployment. On average, they provided another 29 weeks of benefits.

Republicans argue that cutting benefits will spur people to get up off the couch and look for work. But that ignores the lack of jobs. Most unemployed desperately want to find work, but the jobs just aren’t there.

Two senators, Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) and Dean Heller (R-Nevada), have authored a proposal to extend emergency unemployment benefits for three months.

The Senate is likely to vote on the bill early this month, after its members return from their break. President Obama has said he will push Congress to act quickly to pass it, but that will require House Republicans to cooperate, something they have done rarely this term.

Contact Rep. Doug LaMalfa (www.lamalfa.house.gov) and let him know it’s too early to kick people off unemployment. Ω

Most unemployed desperately want to find work, but the jobs just aren’t there.

No peace without justice T in an International Day of Action in support of Palestinian human rights. The inspiration for our work is a well-known

chase and develop weapons that enforce Israeli occupation of the West Bank and its blockade of Gaza. Some of these weapons saying: “If you want peace, work for justice.” Justice involves are cluster bombs of white phosphorus and respect for human- and civil rights and Apache helicopters used by Israel in its 2008the dignity of the person. This does not 2009 bombing of Gaza. Our tax dollars are today characterize Palestinian life in used to provide this military aid, and it is our Israel/Palestine. duty as U.S. citizens to protest our country’s Palestinians are mistreated and discomplicity in Israel’s policies against the criminated against in their homeland by Palestinian people. the Israeli government and The Palestine Action Group its settlers who have illegally was recently asked why we pick occupied Palestinian land [I]t is our duty as U.S. on Israel instead of Syria and since 1967. Israel punitively Iran. The fact is, when we stand citizens to protest our for the rights of one group, we by controls Palestinian water Sandra O’Neill and electricity, jails or country’s complicity in stand for the rights of all. detains Palestinians without Every journey is taken one Israel’s policies against step at a time, and our first step is The author is a cause, closes their schools, peace- and uproots their olive orchards, the Palestinian people. to focus on SodaStream. Besides social-justice and destroys their homes and applying economic pressure, the activist living in farms. goal of the SodaStream boycott Chico.

The specific object of our ongoing is to inform the international community of protest is SodaStream, a company locatthe many injustices against Palestinians in ed in an illegal Israeli settlement. The set- order to create a more just and peaceful socitlements and SodaStream are built on ety. If Israelis genuinely want peace, they occupied Palestinian land, which violates must end military occupation and oppressive international law and Palestinian rights. policies against the Palestinian people: If you Our recent Day of Action was a way to want peace, work for justice. bring attention to these issues.

For more information, contact the The U.S. gives Israel $3 billion in mil- Palestine Action Group at chicopalestine itary aid per year. This aid is used to puraction@gmail.com. Ω he Palestine Action Group recently participated

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Saving the bees Dec. 28, 2013, marked the 40th anniversary of the signing of

the federal Endangered Species Act, a bill that for all its supposed flaws has done much to preserve the nation’s endangered plants, animals and insects. Interestingly, the anniversary came even as the act was being invoked to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a perceived failure to protect an insect species that is perhaps the most crucial one for sustaining human life: bees.

The lawsuit, filed in March by major U.S. beekeeping associations, charges that by registering a new pesticide called sulfoxaflor, the EPA was giving its seal of approval to yet another in a class of pesticides—neonicotinoids—that scientific studies have shown contribute to massive bee die-offs.

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, nearly one-third of all honey-bee colonies in the United States have vanished due to what is called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). In some areas of the country, more than half of the bees have disappeared. This has had a huge impact not only on beekeepers, but also on farmers of such crops as almonds, apples, citrus fruits, broccoli, cherries, cucumbers and others. Altogether, bees fertilize crops worth $15 billion a year.

These crops produce nearly one-third of the fruits and vegetables Americans eat. Without them, massive food shortages would ensue.

The EPA insists the neonicotinoids are safe if used according to directions. Experience shows otherwise, which is why several of them have been banned in the European Union. In the U.S., they are used on about 75 percent of food crops and about 95 percent of all corn. Ω

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by Melissa Daugherty melissad@newsreview.com

Predictions Typically, in choosing the subjects to profile in our annual “Who to watch” issue, we wait until a political candidate has won office before deeming him or her a person to watch. But we’ve made an exception this year for Kory Honea, the current Butte County undersheriff who will be running in the June primary for sheriff.

It’s not that bold of a move, considering Honea is backed by none other than Sheriff Jerry Smith, along with some additional heavy hitters, including retired Butte County CAO Paul McIntosh. So far, Honea’s the only person who’s publicly announced intentions to vie for the post. That could change in the next two months, since the candidate filing period for the primary doesn’t close until March 7 (it opens on Feb. 10). But I kind of doubt it will.

Honea is one of a handful of locals who’ve entered the 2014 political field early. My interest, however, lies mostly in the Chico City Council and Butte County Board of Supervisors races.

Three council seats will be up for grabs in the November general election. Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen is wrapping up his first term. Mayor Scott Gruendl, who’s been on the dais for nearly 12 years, said last time around that he wasn’t going to seek re-election. And Councilwoman Mary Goloff—a two-termer—has also stated that she’s done. I doubt that will change.

Sorensen hasn’t mentioned whether he’s going to seek re-election, but I suspect he will.

Other candidates? Well, Andrew Coolidge, who lost by a slim margin in the 2012 council race, is going for it again. Then, there are some likely candidates among the remaining people who lost their bids that year: Bob Evans, Kimberly Rudisill, Toby Schindelbeck, Dave Kelley, Dave Donnan and Lisa Duarte. Of those, I’m thinking only Kelley and Donnan may resurface (at least for the council race). What about Bob? Keep reading.

Michael Dailey, a former unsuccessful conservative candidate (he ran back in 2006) has been palling around with Councilman Sean Morgan lately, so I suspect he’s in.

But back to the Supes, and the much-sooner primary race. It’s going to get interesting in the next couple of months. Two seats are open on that panel. Maureen Kirk has already announced she’s going to seek re-election for her seat representing District 3. No one has officially announced running against the popular Kirk, but the rumors are swirling. That’s where Bob Evans comes in. As you’ll recall, he was appointed to the City Council in 2010, when Larry Wahl vacated his post for the District 2 supervisorial seat. But Evans didn’t get enough votes in 2012 to retain it. He may throw his hat into the ring for Kirk’s seat.

And then there’s Wahl’s district in southwest Chico, the stronghold of Jane Dolan for more than 30 years.

Wahl will most certainly want to keep that post. His potential competition? Andrew Merkel, who used to run a marijuana dispensary just outside Chico city limits, is rumored to be interested in it. The real question, of course, is whether Dolan is planning a run to retake that seat. Your guess is as good as mine. But I’m leaning toward yes.

‘Never give up’ Re “What we want for Christmas” (Cover feature, by Zu Vincent, Dec. 19): This hits close to home, as I had a stroke two years ago this coming January. I am recovering quite nicely after inpatient and outpatient rehab. I remember my struggle like it was yesterday—and my success today.

“Never Give Up” is my motto.

I personally wish each and every one of you a happy holiday season.

GENE DUNNING Forest Ranch

Answering the rabbi Re “Stop the one-sided blame” (Letters, by Julie Hilton Danan, Dec. 19): Rabbi Danan poses two questions in her letter: Why give such focus to Israel? And, why press for a boycott of SodaStream, a company with some admirable labor and “green” company practices?

Israel receives this focus because it stands in special relationship to the U.S., receiving political and financial support of unusual scale—consistent and unwavering support at the UN, even against a world consensus on the illegality of certain Israeli actions, and more annual U.S. foreign aid than any other country in the world, though its population is less than that of New Jersey. We Americans are “enablers” in active support of Israeli policies, and bear a special responsibility as a result.

The boycott of SodaStream has nothing to do with its internal policies or labor practices, but simply with the fact that the company established itself in one of the major Israeli settlements inside the West Bank, settlements judged in clear violation of international law by the great majority of countries in the world. Israel continues to expand these settlements even while the negotiations are underway, and the SodaStream boycott is designed to raise awareness of this unfair occupation.

Refusing to purchase products made there is one way of calling on Israel to cease this expansion.

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Rabbi Danan objects to the international boycott of SodaStream because the manufacturer is a “green” company; the Chico protesters “ignore” issues such as the gassing of civilians in Syria; and it is “one-sided” to blame Israel for displacement of the Palestinians.

It is better, she says, to address the Mideast tragedies by promoting negotiation.

Do the “Arab” employees of SodaStream enjoy the same benefits as their Jewish counterparts? As the manufacturing plant is located on occupied Palestinian land, does employment of the occupied justify this? Are the displaced landowners compensated for their loss?

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Homelessness retort Re “A homeless encounter” (Guest comment, by Michele French, Dec. 12): My recent experience with homelessness shed a very different light on the subject than the one offered by Ms. French.

The man under the bridge down the street from my house prefers solitude away from downtown. He is very polite, humorous and friendly. He’s in post-surgery, recovering outside under his own terms. He chooses freezing nights and his own medicine.

The man is also an eight-year veteran of our military. While I was celebrating high-school graduation, he was bucking for gunnery sergeant in Vietnam. That particular job, at that particular time, was brutal. Today, nearly 40 years later, this is the outcome.

This modest, humble man is homeless in the very same country he served.

Something tells me that Ms. French crossed paths with the entitled homeless. They do indeed demand attention to their plight because they are of the generation who got everything without working for it.

NILE FERNS Chico

The author responds Re “More rebuttals to commentary” (Letters, Dec. 19): Oh, my gawd! I think I caused the Holocaust even though Mein Kampf was published long before I was born. And, apparently, I also steadied George Zimmerman’s hand.

I say the following totally without rancor: I am old, I have con-

sidered the causes of homelessness, the editorial staff of the CN&R and I weren’t prescient enough to know exactly when Nelson Mandela would pass on, and my “rant” was based not on one single incident, but a particularly egregious one of many. I wonder if those who wrote in have almostdaily encounters with the hopeless as I do. If I want to avoid the homeless completely, I have to stay in all day and, even then, they sort through my garbage.

I did apologize as I stepped over the food bowl, but evidently my demeanor wasn’t abject enough. I must have been under the erroneous impression that the sidewalk was for everyone, including the people trying to get in and out of the laundromat. I insist: A large percentage of the homeless have no concern for the rights of others.

One last thing: Canning is illegal. If you’re not discreet, you can get yourself arrested.

MICHELE FRENCH Chico

young as 5 years old, will be exposed to Jimmy coming to school as Janie and wanting to use the toilet like a girl, and even to exhibit him/herself as a girl in front of other young impressionable students, calling his/her obvious male parts a vagina, because “Mommy told me I can be a girl.”

ANDREW PALMQUIST Chico

How to outlaw bicycles This idea is not original with me.

A blogger called “Bike Snob” posted it some time ago. In Chico, it would work like this: We take the number of people who choose not to use the bike lane, even when it’s available, and then add the number who ignore stop lights and pedestrians, along with those who ride on sidewalks, as well as those who ride the wrong way on oneway streets or in the wrong lane of traffic. Each such rider could easily endanger, annoy or infuriate 20 people in an average day.

It will take only 100 of such riders, each fulfilling their daily quota of 20 people, to, within a

I insist: A large percentage of the homeless have no concern for the rights of others.

–Michele French

What about my rights?

For public-school students, Jan. 1 brings with it a new type of education system in the state. It’s one in which boys can’t be boys and girls can’t be girls—or that is at least the hope of the progressive left.

Earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1266, the transgender students equalrights bill, which proponents claim will help reduce discrimination. At the same time, in the opinion of [local Christian radio station] KKXX, AB 1266 will actually do harm to young and vulnerable students in the California school system.

Now, most all people believe in equal rights as a principle. But not when your rights are being taken away to give someone else rights that never existed before. My rights to have my children in a safe environment are considered unimportant, or as a noble and appropriate cost to giving others full control.

Specifically, K-12 children, as

month, create 60,000 voters ready and eager to outlaw bicycles entirely. We could then make the bike lanes into free parking and the bike shops into more bars, which we truly need. Too bad about the responsible bike riders, but the voters will have spoken. A modest proposal.

WILLIAM MARTIN Chico

Hurray for Uruguay Viva Uruguay! There, President José Mujica will soon sign legislation making his country the world’s first to re-legalize cannabis. But you ask: What about all those lovely children? The children in Uruguay will grow up knowing that their government is not lying to them about cannabis, as is the case here in El Norte. I’m so glad to finally see these crumblings in the wall of global cannabis prohibition. I love the herb, and I’m a good person.

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Former Chico Mayor Michael McGinnis (second from left) and Cheryl King, spokeswoman for Friends of the Farmers’ Market, explain plans to qualify an initiative that would ask voters to decide the future of the Saturday Chico Certified Farmers’ Market.

GRAND-THEFT DÉJÀ VU

A local man recently released from jail for vehicle theft was arrested again after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car.

Just after 6 a.m. on Dec. 28, police received a report of a gray Volkswagen Jetta stolen from the owner’s Banning Park Drive home as it warmed up unattended, according to a Chico Police Department press release. About 10 minutes later, a police officer spotted a gray Jetta and a red Mustang—suspected to be involved in the theft—on Humboldt Road; the driver of the Jetta took off immediately and sped past the police station on Humboldt Road at about 80 mph.

Eventually, the suspect stopped the car in a dead end near East Eighth Street and Highway 99 and ran away. Minutes later, Logan Thomas Bandy, 20, was found hiding in a backyard and, upon arrest, told police he had just been released from jail for a prior vehicle theft and was on probation.

GREETINGS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Chico State President Paul Zingg was sent a letter in November by Graham King, owner of a Papua New Guinea palm-oil company, asking the university to reconsider its separation from ongoing environmental expeditions to measure and preserve the “last of the pristine wildernesses on the island of New Britain.”

For a number of years, the school worked with adjunct professor John Lane who, with biology professors Don Miller and Randy Senock, led students on the weeks-long expeditions into the PNG jungles. That relationship soured in the summer of 2011 when the school’s risk-management office determined the trips were too dangerous for the school to be involved.

King said in the letter that local landowners had asked him if the biodiversity studies would continue. “They do not want the last of their remaining naturalresource area to be ruined,” he wrote.

Zingg said he could not comment because it was a personnel matter.

LOCAL AUTHOR DIES

Neal Wiegman, retired college Spanish instructor, author of four books, contributor to the CN&R, and husband to Nancy Wiegman, host of KCHO’s Nancy’s Bookshelf, died Dec. 25 at the age of 69.

Over the past two years, Neal Wiegman (pictured) transcribed 31 of his wife’s radio interviews with local, regional and national authors and compiled them into a book published last year titled Nancy’s Bookshelf: Conversations with Writers.

He told this paper during an interview in the couple’s home last year with former CN&R Editor Robert Speer that he took on the grueling job because, “I wanted to honor Nancy as a radio host.”

The Wiegmans were married for 45 years.

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Market moves to stay put Saturday downtown farmers’ market announces plans for a voter initiative

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to see it move took a new step this past Saturday, Dec. 28, with the announcement of plans to qualify a city initiastory and tive that, if passed, would keep photo by Tom Gascoyne the market on the city parking lot at Second and Wall streets for tomg@ at least two more years and also newsreview.com allow the market to expand on the site.

The market is no stranger to public and political controversy. Opponents include nearby business owners who say the market takes up valuable parking spaces, thereby deterring potential customers. There was a suggestion to move the market about a block south to the Chico Municipal Center parking lot, but market organizers said the spaces were not deep enough to accommodate the vendors’ stands and didn’t want to mess with the market’s success at its current location.

On May 7, the Chico City Council deadlocked on a 3-to-3 vote to approve a two-year franchise agreement for the market in place of the existing year-to-year agreement. In return, the market had offered to pay $16,000 for power and sewer lines to allow for restrooms. But that would have happened during the construction of the Second Street roundabout, which is now completed. Councilmembers Scott Gruendl, Tami Ritter and Randall Stone voted in favor of that plan, and Mary Goloff, Mark Sorensen and Sean Morgan opposed it. Councilwoman Ann Schwab, who co-owns a downtown business

close to the market, abstained from voting, as is required under the rules of the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

Friends of the Farmers’ Market spokeswoman Cheryl King told those gathered at the market on Saturday that it was time to allow the voters to decide the fate of the market.

“As you know, the farmers’ market was served with an eviction notice effective in December 2014,” King said. “We understand the City Council is deadlocked at this point in time, so we have decided to qualify an initiative for the November 2014 ballot.”

She said organizers have six months to collect 7,500 signatures of registered voters to qualify the initiative. The market said it would increase the amount it pays the city for the space, which is currently $164 a year. Former Mayor Karl Ory said the market was offering “a 500 percent increase over what they are paying now,” which amounts to $820 per year.

“This is a community event,” King said. “It’s not just the farmers’ market.

You are the community and the farmers are businesses, and as businesses, they deserve some stability.”

She said the city’s Finance Committee had voted earlier in the year to allow the market to expand into another bay of parking spaces in its current lot. But that proposal also died at the May 7 City

Council meeting.

“At a time when we should be emphasizing local food, sustainability and community events, this market serves all of those: local businesses, local food, sustainability,” King said. “I don’t understand what the city doesn’t understand.”

She said supporters expect to meet with some resistance to the proposal, without mentioning names.

“We think there is some rather bigmoney opposition out there,” she said.

“Let’s just leave it at that.”

King mentioned a study done by LaDona Knigge, a Chico State professor who, with students, conducted an economic and parking survey in 2009 with results indicating downtown businesses are not negatively impacted by the market’s location.

“You can ask most businesses downtown and they will tell you that they love the farmers’ market because people shop here and then they come down to the businesses—the bookstores, the Upper Crust, Grana, North Rim, Anika Burke and Mountain Sports are all supportive of the market,” said King, whose son owns Grana.

Former Chico Mayor Mike McGinnis also spoke in favor of keeping the market where it is.

“I really think the voters are going to decide that we need to keep the farmers’ market here, and I think that it’s great

that we’re going to get to do that,” he said. “In real estate, they say it’s location, location, location. This is the perfect location. It really does bring people into the downtown.”

Farmer and market vendor James Brock said the city government is in a tough position.

“I think we have to give some accolades to the city for supporting the market,” he said. “Certainly there’s been controversy and they’ve had a lot of pressure on them from certain businesses, but the market’s been here 21 years and it’s proven itself.

“I’m a farmer here and our business has increased significantly over the years, and it’s getting better and better, and I spend my money in this town,” Brock said. “We all do. We all support Chico. I think it’s a huge economic engine for this community and we should be encouraging it.”

Councilwoman Schwab, who was

shopping at the farmers’ market during the Saturday press conference, said she supported the idea behind the initiative.

“I think since the council can’t decide whether or not to move the market or keep it where it is, it’s the right thing to take it to the people and let the people decide,” she said. “This market is immensely popular where it is, and so bringing it to the people will let them decide.”

Former City Councilman Bob Evans was also at the market.

“I agree we need to save the market,” he said. “I think the value of the market is extreme to Chico. It’s a beautiful market, but I’m not sure it should stay where it is at. I think there are valuable arguments to keep it here—and I’ve worked with the market in the past to see what could be done—but I think there might be better locations, and I wish both sides would start talking about it.”

A day after the press conference, Councilwoman Goloff weighed in on Facebook in response to criticism of her by former City Councilman Tom Nickell, who’d also spoken at the conference in support of keeping the Saturday farmers’ market at its current location.

Nickell had called Goloff, who’d also attended the market during the press conference, “unprofessional and confrontational as always to the public” on a Facebook post.

Goloff responded: “I thought it was my responsibility as a policy maker to ask questions based on what I believe best serves the overall community I serve rather than maintaining blind allegiance to one constituency group. People who disagree with me will no doubt continue to spout rhetoric to the contrary but, in my heart, I know my intention since last spring has been to support bringing a true cross-section of people to the table to discuss this issue and the various options available.” Ω

Justice for all?

Since 1999, the California Victim Compensation Program has denied virtually every claim for financial assistance from a crime victim identified as a sex worker.

Policy banning sex workers from victim benefits repealed

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fter she was raped and nearly killed inside her apartment last September, a 36-yearold escort asked a state victims’ panel for a few things.

In her application to the California Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP), the woman requested financial assistance for lost wages while she recuperated. The money would also be used to replace a lamp that was broken when she was slammed into a wall and to clean the semen her rapist left on the carpet.

This program paid out nearly $62 million to tens of thousands of crime survivors for such things last year—but not to this Oakland woman, who asked the News & Review to identify her as Ms. R. In October, the state rejected Ms. R’s claim, citing rule 649.56, which disqualifies sex workers from receiving victim reimbursements, even in cases of rape. The board did the same to Savannah, a former Sacramento escort who was abducted by two men and then beaten and sexually assaulted for 10 hours about a year ago.

Ms. R and Savannah (not her real name) are two of the nearly 80 women to fall victim to this little-known policy over the past three years. According to the state, they’re ineligible for statutorily provided victim benefits because of their profession.

“The regulation sends a dangerous message to victims and perpetrators that, for at least some women, ‘no’ doesn’t really mean ‘no,’ and, effectively, some women deserve to be raped,” Kimberly Horiuchi, a American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California attorney, told the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. “Regardless of

how a victim got into a position to be raped, it doesn’t make her any less worthy of compensation.”

Until recently, California begged to

differ.

The rule, which has been on the books for 14 years, has been used to deny “almost all victims who were prostitutes or involved in prostitution,” Chief Counsel Wayne Strumpfer told his board.

On Dec. 12, feeling the full heat of a campaign that began in February, the board— during an unusually packed meeting inside the organization’s Sacramento conference room—finally struck down what Chairwoman Marybel Batjer deemed a “repugnant” statute.

“I don’t understand why it was passed in 1999, but I think it’s time that we do something about it,” she added, before calling for the unanimous vote and drawing relieved applause.

Ms. R said the long-anticipated vote— and the crowd’s reaction to it—left her stunned. “That’s maybe the only time we got

SIFT|ER Around the table Heading into the new year, many families undoubtedly will make a resolution to spend more time together. However, as a recent Gallup poll indicates, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, a majority of American families (53 percent) eats dinner together six to seven days a week. That number hasn’t changed much during the times the pollster has taken this survey (in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2013). Here’s the average number of dinners families eat together each week, combined from the polls in 2001, 2005 and 2013, broken down by certain categories: Average dinners U.S. adults 5.1 Married 5.3 Single 4.8 Employed full time 5 Employed part time/unemployed 5.3

real, sincere applause,” she said of the sexworker community.

Last month’s action followed a 10-month campaign by the ACLU and groups representing sex workers and rape survivors, many of whom offered powerful, damning testimonies about the ways the criminaljustice system treated them like second-class victims.

“Ayla” said she was sexually assaulted by a man who offered her a ride to Denny’s, then accused her of being “an angry prostitute” when she told police of the encounter hours later in a Bremerton, Wash., emergency room.

When authorities found the man’s wife tied up in the trunk of his car months later, Ayla recalled, “Then they wanted me all of a sudden to come in and testify because he had done something to a ‘worthy, pure woman.’”

Sex workers from Sacramento and the Bay Area shared similar tales.

But the policy’s ripple effects don’t start or stop with the paid-sex community.

A computer programmer who identified herself as Jane Doe said she was raped by a home intruder in June 2011. While not a sex worker, her CalVCP application for moving costs was swatted just the same.

“I’m not the target population of this regulation, yet feel that this regulation created the policy of criminalizing victims, causing more harm,” she said. “I ended up homeless and the victim of two other violent crimes that could have been prevented with relocation funds. We need to fight the culture of victim-blaming.”

The three-member panel, which included Batjer, San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos and a stand-in for State Controller John Chiang, often listened with hands over their mouths.

The board’s repeal of rule 649.56 won’t be immediate. The process, including public comment, could take up to three months. The board must also hold a procedural vote before sending the policy change to an administrative law judge for final approval.

According to Jon M. Myers, the board’s deputy executive officer, the repeal wouldn’t be retroactive, meaning past denials of compensation would stand.

And the panel could still mask future denials in concerns about fraud, Ms. R believes. But the rape survivor, who is still appealing the board’s denial of her application, also focused on the positives. Relatives of murdered sex workers now stand a better chance of being able to afford funeral costs, she said.

“It was a great victory.”

—RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI raheemh@newsreview.com

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But on Dec. 28, Palazzo retired, and Mountain Sports lost what employee Andy Olson described as “a wealth of knowledge.”

“He’s a natural teacher, for sure,” said Olson, who worked with Palazzo for 10 years. “He loves to sit down and do miniclinics on gear and whatnot, but I probably learned more from him about life in general than about gear, which is saying a lot.”

Olson’s praise went much further than Palazzo’s knowledge of the outdoors: “I can say with full honesty that Jake’s the greatest guy I’ve ever met, hands down. He’s super genuine and would give you the shirt off his back.”

Palazzo spoke over the phone with the CN&R from his cabin in Plumas County, where he and his wife, Marty Dunlap, intend to spend much of their retirement. He reflected on his time at Mountain Sports and his career in the outdoor industry, which, including 10 years at a shop in Santa Cruz—his hometown—lasted roughly 35 years.

He was drawn to the outdoors at a young age, taking to backpacking when he was 11 years old. As the years passed, he fueled his interest by reading as much as he could, and learning about rock climbing and backcountry skiing from friends.

“Everybody goes through the same things,” Palazzo said of his early years as an outdoorsman.

“You don’t become an expert in anything without having to make a lot of mistakes.”

After stints as a painter and working at a hardware shop, Palazzo began working at an outfitter in downtown Santa Cruz. It was there he began developing his love for the outdoor industry and abandoned his previous plan to become Jake Palazzo tending to a pair of cross-country skis at Mountain Sports in downtown Chico.

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a doctor.

“One of the coolest things is to have a job you enjoy doing, and if you’re both appreciated and respected for it, that’s icing on the cake,” Palazzo said. “You’re meeting people who are [in the store] because they share your interests.

I’ve done so many hundreds of trips with my customers.”

Indeed, Palazzo and Dunlap originally met through one of Palazzo’s customers at the Santa Cruz store.

“One of [Dunlap’s] former neighbors moved down to Santa Cruz and came into the store,” he recalled. “I was organizing a big rafting trip on the Rogue River in Oregon, and I asked the neighbor—who was very cute—if she wanted to go on the trip, and she asked if she could invite her boyfriend and some other friends from Chico. One of her friends turned out to be the woman I would marry.

“That’s what brought me up to Chico, like a lot of guys—the young women,” he said with a laugh.

Palazzo’s first day at Moun-

tain Sports was Nov. 1, 1989; the

shop had recently made the move from Main Street to its current location. Since then, he has helped countless adventure-seekers get started, often acting as “backcountry travel agent with customers, sending them on adventures in hidden spots and swearing them to secrecy.”

Though his love for the work has not waned, the death of a close childhood friend this past spring prompted him to consider retirement. “Time just gets more valuable the older you get,” he said.

As for retirement plans, Palazzo intends to pursue writing—several book publishers have expressed interest in his ideas on outdoor subjects—making his cabin “more livable,” picking up his old hobby of woodworking and, of course, more backpacking, backcountry skiing and river-rafting trips.

Olson said that the employees at Mountain Sports are “all going to miss him immensely. But, hopefully, now we’ll be hiking with him instead of working with him.”

The feeling, Palazzo said, is mutual. “I’d like to thank [Mountain Sports owner] Bruce Hart for giving me the opportunity, the customers who made my job such a pleasure, and all of my colleagues who were so wonderful to work with. It’s been a great run.”

Palazzo plans to have a “very public” retirement party sometime next spring.

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

Initiatives get go-ahead for signature collection

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number of state ballot initiatives got the go-ahead in December for proponents to begin collecting signatures to qualify the measures for the November general election.

Included in the efforts are marijuana legalization, a softening of the state’s gun control laws, a prohibition on abortions for young women without parental consent, and a tax on cigarettes to help fund health care.

According to the Secretary of State’s Office, the Attorney General prepares the title and sums up the proposal as it will appear on the initiative’s signature-gathering petition. The petition is then given to proponents for circulation to gather signatures, which must be collected within 150 days.

The marijuana initiative would legalize the use, growth, cultivation, possession, transportation, storage and sale of pot. A commission would be formed to provide business licenses for purveyors, and a retail sales tax would be placed on sales, unless there is an exemption in place for medical or dietary use. The tax revenue would be spread evenly among education, health care, law enforcement, and drug-abuse education and treatment. It would bar state and local law-enforcement agencies from imposing federal laws on marijuana.

If passed, according to Michael Cohen, director of the state Department of Finance, the law would reduce costs of existing marijuana enforcement to “the low hundreds of millions of dollars annually to state and local governments” and could bring in a similar amount in tax revenue.

An initiative first introduced in 2012 that would require parental notification and a waiting period prior to any abortion procedure performed on women under 18 years old is back for voter consideration. Specifically, the measure would prohibit abortion for an “unemancipated minor until 48 hours after [a] physician or other authorized medical professional notifies her parent/legal guardian in writing.”

Exceptions would be made for medical

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emergencies, parental waivers, or cases in which parental abuse has been documented by “notarized statement from law enforcement, protective services, or certain relatives.” Additionally, a judge would be permitted to waive notice if the minor appears in court and proves her maturity, or if a waiver “is in her best interest.”

The measure’s listed proponent is John Smith, according to a press release from the Secretary of State’s Office.

The California Healthcare, Research

and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2014 initiative would raise the tax on cigarettes by $2 per pack, with a proportionate increase in tax on other tobacco products. The revenue generated—roughly $1.4 billion in 2014-15, according to the state Board of Equalization—would go primarily toward funding health-care programs and services, tobaccouse-prevention programs and tobacco-related disease research, as well as for “state and local agencies to enhance law enforcement.”

The secretary of state’s summary notes that if the new tax causes decreased tobacco consumption, the measure would transfer new tax revenues to offset the decrease in funding to existing tobacco-funded programs.

The last time California raised its tobacco tax was in 1998.

Finally, an initiative on firearms regulations, according to the Secretary of State’s Office, “[a]mends California Constitution to establish a right to acquire, possess, transport, transfer, and use firearms for lawful purposes, including for defense of self, family, home and property. Eliminates state firearms-owner registration, regulation of ammunition, and assault-weapons restrictions.”

It would permit limited state regulation of “possession of firearms and ammunition by, and sale to, the dangerous mentally ill and felons.”

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National suicide data has debunked the myth that suicide rates reach their peak during the holiday season.

Researchers from the The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania analyzed monthly suicide data from January 1999 through December 2010, finding the opposite is true—November, December and January almost always have the lowest suicide rates of the year, according to SFGate.com. During the 2010 holiday season, for example, an average of 100 Americans took their lives each day; during the spring and summer months of 2010, an average of 110 Americans killed themselves per day—about 300 more people per month.

The researchers attributed the fallacy’s widespread acceptance to newspaper coverage. In fact, the report’s authors noted that, of all U.S. newspapers’ stories mentioning both suicide and the holidays during the 2012-13 holiday season, 71 percent perpetuated the myth.

MILLIONS LEFT BEHIND?

The Affordable Care Act will significantly reduce the number of Californians without health-care insurance; about 3.1 million people will be left behind, a new report estimates.

The California HealthCare Foundation projected that 2.6 million California residents will be newly insured by 2015; of those, 1.6 million will obtain private insurance and 939,000 will get coverage through the state’s expanded Medi-Cal program, according to California Healthline.

Of the 3.1 million who will remain uninsured, 1.4 million will be eligible for coverage through Covered California, the state’s health-insurance exchange, but are projected to not enroll; 959,000 will be undocumented immigrants ineligible for coverage; and more than 700,000 Medi-Cal-eligible Californians won’t enroll due to lack of awareness or perceived problems with enrolling for coverage.

NEW LEADER OF HEALTH IT

Former city of New Orleans Health Commissioner Karen DeSalvo has been named the nation’s next coordinator for health information technology (IT).

In August, after two years of serving as the national coordinator of health IT, Farzad Mostashari announced he was stepping down; in September, Jacob Reider, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer, assumed the role on an interim basis, according to iHealthBeat.org.

DeSalvo (pictured) was a professor of medicine and vice dean of community affairs and health policy at Tulane University in New Orleans; she also spearheaded the effort to set up a network of primary-care medical homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

“DeSalvo’s hands-on experience with health-delivery-system reform and [health IT] and its potential to improve health care and public health will be invaluable assets,” said U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a memo to her staff.

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

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Hanging up the stethoscope Longtime Chico pulmonologist retires, honored by Enloe Medical Center colleagues Recently retired Enloe Medical Center pulmonologist Dale Wilms was one of two recipients of the hospital’s Physician Legacy Award.

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I Wilms, don’t feel too bad. It could be because you’re fortunate enough to breathe f you haven’t heard of Dr. Dale

normally and, thus, haven’t needed to see a pulmonologist. It also could be because Wilms isn’t big on self-promotion or media attention.

Even so, a few months after his retirement following 24 years of practice in Chico, he was thrust into the spotlight when selected as a recipient of the Physician Legacy Award at Enloe Medical Center. He’d eschewed a going-away dinner (though he couldn’t say no to the Enloe nurses who threw him a potluck lunch); he did, however, attend the medical-staff meeting where a previous honoree, Dr. Eugene Cleek, presented him the award.

Cleek, medical director of the Enloe Trauma Program, went on at length during a phone interview when asked why Wilms merited the recognition.

“He’s proved himself to be certainly one of the best physicians in the North State,” Cleek said. “We talk about three qualities a doctor should have: [being] affable, available and able. He has all those in spades.

“Affable: He’s a great guy to work with.

There’s no argument; you can discuss anything with him. There’s no hidden motive—he just does the very best he can for the patient every time.

“Available: In critical care, things don’t normally happen at 11 a.m. on Monday through Friday; they happen at very bad

times of the day. He’s one of the people you’ll see in the emergency room at 2 or 3 in the morning without any complaint. I’ve called him multiple times over the past 24 years with particular problems, and he shows up right on the spot.

“Able: He’s very smart, very capable, very diligent, very well-trained. He’s the epitome of what you would want for a doctor to take care of you.”

Wilms has made a comparable impression on the nursing staff of the Intensive Care and Coronary Care Unit. Linda Hunsinger, a day charge nurse, wrote a twopage letter to the CN&R saying how she and her colleagues “miss him every day” since his retirement at the end of August.

“His unique sense of humor got us through many stressful situations that are common to an intensive-care unit,” she continued. “The nurses put together a book called Daleisms [with] remarks that he frequently made that made us laugh. … Many nurses miss the donuts that he reliably

delivered to us every Saturday morning.

“He is the type of man [who] is great at what he does but never wants to draw too much attention upon himself. … His retirement was inevitable, but we wish to thank him for making us better nurses and making this a better community in which to live.”

Wilms, 65, grew up in Wisconsin.

Medicine does not run in his family—his father was a carpenter, his mother a teacher. He was exposed to the profession in his teen years by a member of his church, a nurse-anesthetist who brought him along to observe operations.

“Whenever he got a call that he had to go to a surgery during church, he would invite me to go with him,” Wilms recalled in a phone interview. “That was in the’60s; it was a lot more casual. If the surgeon said it was OK, you could go in and watch surgery. That was where I developed my interest.”

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A Seventh-day Adventist, he headed to Southern California for medical training at Loma Linda University. Wilms completed his residency at Loma Linda, worked full time for two years as an emergency-medicine doctor, then went to Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan for a fellowship in pulmonary and critical-care medicine.

He finished that program in 1982. He spent the next seven years at Loma Linda, working in the university hospital as well as the nearby Veterans’ Health Administration medical center, until he decided to move closer to a physician friend who had relocated to Red Bluff.

Wilms joined North State Pulmonary Critical Care Associates as well as the Enloe medical staff. In Chico, he met his wife, Linda, an intensive-care nurse who became chief of nursing at Chico Community Hospital, which was absorbed

by Enloe in 1998.

Wilms has treated many patients over the years, but one in particular encapsulates the quality of his care.

Cleek recalls the night a young person fell into a canal and came to Enloe in a severe state of hypothermia. The patient desperately needed treatment at a more expansive trauma center but was in too fragile a state to travel.

The patient “should have died,” Cleek said, but Wilms stayed bedside all night, adjusting medications and monitoring progress. “A lesser man might not have spent the time,” Cleek said, but because

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For the second time in the 10 years of the Physician Legacy Award, Enloe Medical Center recognized two winners, selecting Dr. Samuel Brown along with Dr. Dale Wilms. Brown, a psychiatrist, is a former medical director of Enloe Behavioral Health who now serves as medical director of the hospital’s Supportive and Palliative Care program.

“Two good choices,” Dr. Eugene Cleek said. “Dr. Brown works with people’s brains, Dr. Wilms works with their lungs, and it works out well that we have [top physicians with] different interests and different abilities.”

Wilms did, that individual “is now normal and healthy.”

After two dozen years answering late-night calls, Wilms hung up the stethoscope. He says he might fill in for an absent colleague in a pinch, but otherwise he plans to spend time with his wife and in the great outdoors. He’s an avid hunter and fisherman who, since autumn, has already taken trips to South Dakota, Colorado and Mississippi.

“I decided that I was a success at being retired,” Wilms said. “I quit on Friday, and by Wednesday I didn’t know what day of the week it was, so I thought that was working out OK.” As for the Physician Legacy Award: “It’s certainly a special honor to be recognized by your peers. I did not expect it; I think there are people more worthy. It’s definitely a humbling experience.” Ω

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EARTH WATCH LONDON MUST SLASH AIR POLLUTION

London must radically reduce vehicle emissions by the year 2020 or face fines.

The city is one of a number of large European municipalities being asked by the European Commission to get on board with greenhousegas-emission targets set in 1999, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper. The necessity of such air-pollution reduction was reiterated in the EC’s recent Clean Air Policy Package, adopted on Dec. 18.

“The human toll for poor air quality is worse than for road traffic accidents, making it the No. 1 environmental cause of premature death in the EU,” reads the EC’s press release announcing the Clean Air Policy Package. “It also impacts the quality of life due to asthma or respiratory problems.”

EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik told The Guardian that air pollution costs Europe from 330 billion to 940 billion euros a year “in extra health costs” and results in more than 100,000 premature deaths per year.

GREENWAYS Left: In October, Chico State professor Mark Stemen noted that humans “are changing the climate, and it’s not going to be good, and it’s going to last a long time.”

Food security, water and climate change

SAN FRAN WATER-BOTTLE BAN?

The City by the Bay is poised to be the first major U.S. city to ban certain sales of plastic water bottles.

San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu recently introduced a proposal to ban the sale of plastic water bottles at events occurring on public land with more than 100 attendees, according to Time magazine. Additionally, the proposal aims to keep the city from spending public money to buy water in plastic bottles.

The International Bottled Water Association sent out a press release stating that “[e]fforts to eliminate or reduce access to bottled water will force consumers to choose less healthy drink options.”

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on the ban no later than early February.

Send your eco-friendly news tips to Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia at christinel@newsreview.com.

Below: Chicoans were taught how to make ice cream from a native plant called yerba santa at a February workshop sponsored by Friends of the Chico State Herbarium.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALICIA FUNK

Looking back at last year through the lens of sustainability

SALTED ROADS CAUSE SALTY RIVERS

Much of the approximately 35 billion pounds of salt spread annually on U.S. roads in the wintertime to help prevent traffic accidents ends up in waterways, a new U.S. Geological Survey study shows.

Rivers in the nation’s northeast are becoming saltier due to sodium chloride (salt) runoff from roads, a recent Environmental Health News story noted. And the salt in the rivers “remains toxic not just in winter, but throughout two-thirds of the year,” the article said, referring to the study.

Salt levels in late winter and early spring in Wisconsin’s Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers, for example, are 10 to 15 times higher “than a federal level set to protect fish, amphibians and tiny crustaceans.”

Seven rivers in the Midwest have average salt levels approaching or exceeding the guideline set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for adequate protection of aquatic life.

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

S happened last year on a local, regional, national and international level when it o much—good and not-so-good—

comes to sustainability issues. An attempt to be comprehensive would be impossible in such a small space, but suffice it to say that the topics of environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and social equity—the three pillars of sustainability, as outlined at the United Nations’ 2005 World Summit—got plenty of media time.

Economic sustainability got a muchneeded shot in the arm early in 2013 here in California when Assembly Bill 1616— the California Homemade Food Act—took effect on Jan. 1. AB 1616 allows a cottagefood operation—a food-preparation enterprise in a private home—to prepare certain “low-risk” packaged foods requiring no refrigeration for sale to consumers. Baked goods that do not contain cream, custard or meat fillings, and granola, trail mix and popcorn are a few of the foods that qualify under the new law.

Brad Banner—Butte County Public Health’s forward-thinking environmentalhealth director—helped with the passage of the bill. “I worked for it,” he was quoted as saying in a Jan. 31 CN&R article (see “Exactly like homemade,” Greenways).

“I’m excited because it’s part of the local food movement and I think that’s a really good thing.” (Banner also got on board last year as overseer of BCPH’s Composting Toilets and Graywater Systems pilot study, which may result in water-saving graywater systems and composting toilets being OK’d for Butte County residences in the

not-too-distant future.)

Also, in December, Stephen Tchudi and Nea Edwards, of the Chapmantown: Good Food Now! project, held two free AB 1616-related workshops called “How to Start a Cottage Industry,” which included information on how to become a vendor at the Chapmantown Farmers’ Market.

On the subject of food, native foods (and edible weeds)—acorns, manzanita, pokeweed, the sticky evergreen shrub called yerba santa, and so on—gained a higher profile this year as people increasingly looked to locally sourced foods. The Friends of the Chico State Herbarium’s February workshop—“The Wild Dessert: Preparing Food from Native Plants”—presented by author, herbalist and wild-food advocate Alicia Funk was a hit. Participants came away with knowledge of how to make such native-plant-based confections as Oak Nut Bliss Bars and yerba santa ice cream.

In fact, Chicoans couldn’t seem to get enough locally sourced, healthful food.

The Saturday-morning downtown farmers’ market (despite its long-term status at Wall and East Second streets becoming uncertain as of last year) continued to rock all year long, with its vendors doing a robust business selling all manner of fresh fruits, veggies, prepared foods, drinks and craft items. Heartseed Community Farm sprang up in the vacuum-of-sorts left at the GRUB Cooperative after the GRUB CSA

Pillars of sustainability:

Go to www.un.org/womenwatch/ods/ A-RES-60-1-E.pdf to read the outcome document of the United Nations’ 2005 World Summit, at which the three pillars of sustainability—environmental, economic and sociopolitical—were established.

Farm relocated to West Sacramento Avenue—giving consumers of healthful organic produce even more goodness to choose from (see “Farming with heart,” CN&R, June 6). And the new Veterans Garden Project, in the heart of the Humboldt Community Garden on Humboldt Road, offered free vegetables and therapeutic gardening experience to the vets involved with it (see “‘Veggie barracks,’” June 27).

A number of canning workshops (at the Chico Grange Hall and at Hodge’s Nursery & Gifts in Durham) were held last year, as were other food-security-focused workshops, such as Cultivating Community North Valley’s Vegetable Rotation Design workshop held in March at Chico State’s Organic Vegetable Project. Sherwood Montessori K-8 charter school weighed in on the food-and-sustainability front with its purchase of a new solar oven for use in the school’s cooking classes, and its hosting of a “kitchen-garden clinic” in October for students of Rose Scott Open-Structure School.

The Chico Seed Lending Library (located at the Chico branch of the Butte County Library) came into existence last year as well, promising to be a robust, growing source of seed security for years to come.

But you can’t germinate seeds

without water, and water, unsurprisingly, was a much-discussed topic here in the North State last year (and promises to be even more so in 2014). California’s planned twin-tunnels project—featuring two multibillion-dollar, 40-foot-diameter tunnels designed to transport precious North State water south—dominated headGREENWAYS continued on page 16 January 2, 2014

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lines last year, including here in Chico, where the Butte Environmental Council worked year-long to bring information about the project to local citizens via its Code Blue series of water-outreach events.

As Nani Teves, BEC’s wateroutreach coordinator, noted in a Dec. 19 CN&R guest commentary, “Building high-capacity tunnels to remove large amounts of fresh water from the [Sacramento-San Joaquin] Delta will destroy the Central Valley ecosystem as well as as fisheries, recreational opportunities and the agricultural economy of California.” BEC is not alone in opposing the pricey project—local water-watchdog group AquAlliance and Stockton-based Restore the Delta are just as vocal.

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Drop off: December 26th – January 4th at Chico Compost Facility. Hours 8am – 4pm. Closed Sundays and Mondays.

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Gridley & Biggs Waste Management. Call 846-0810 for more information Curbside: Cut trees into 3’ lengths and place in yardwaste containers for collection on regular yard waste day. Remove all tinsel & ornaments. Biggs residents can drop trees off at the Biggs/BCFD station on B Street from December 26th to January 6th.

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Perhaps the most prominent

sustainability-related topic of last year (and, like water, sure to be an even more prominent issue this year) was climate change due to rampant greenhouse-gas emissions.

Around the world, glaciers are melting, and rain- and snowfall are dwindling in some areas, while in others, massive storms and flooding are wreaking havoc. Wildlandfire season is starting earlier and ending later each year, with the trend expected to continue. Iconic destinations such as Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park are suffering under drought conditions that are likely to bring more fires and habitat loss for wildlife living there.

Chico State professors Jim Pushnik and Mark Stemen weighed in on the impacts of climate change in the CN&R in October (see “‘Climate shifts,’” Oct. 24), on the heels of the

ECO EVENT MANY TREES TO SEE On Saturday, Jan. 4, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., the Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 E. Eighth St.) is hosting its World of Trees Tour, led

by CCNC naturalist Jon Aull. “By 1890, nearly 16,000 trees, representing dozens of different species from around the world had been planted in what is now Lower Bidwell Park to see which types of tree would survive and thrive here,” said the press release teasing the tree tour. $10 suggested donation; call 891-4671 for more info.

issuance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment report.

“All fingers point to human activity, that we are changing the climate, and it’s not going to be good, and it’s going to last a long time,” Stemen was quoted as saying.

Along similar lines, Scott McNall—the former executive director of Chico State’s Institute for Sustainable Development—and co-author George Basile wrote a CN&R Greenways feature story (“A climate narrative,” Nov. 28) calling for a more expansive, community-focused approach to dealing with climate change.

Quoting environmental heavyweight Bill McKibben, Basile and McNall left us with these thoughts: “Live anywhere there is s strong community” and “You will find such strong communities by creating them.” Ω

UNCOMMON SENSE Helping the climate Don’t be overwhelmed by the admittedly daunting task of curbing climate change.

The Nature Conservancy offers a number of tips for small changes everyone can make that will help lower carbon emissions, including: • Walk or bike instead of driving a car, which saves one pound of carbon for every mile you travel.

• Compact fluorescent light bulbs save 100 pounds of carbon over the life of the new bulb for each incandescent bulb replaced.

• Keeping your vehicle’s tires fully inflated means better gas mileage and saves 300 pounds of CO2 for every 10,000 miles driven.

More tips at www.nature.org.

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The grants—which were awarded to Catalyst Domestic Violence Services, the Jesus Center and the Work Training Center—“are part of a larger 2012 Specialty Crop Block Grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture,” as a CCA press release described them.

According to CCA, Catalyst will use its $7,900 grant to “fund a nutrition specialist who will lead meal workshops at Catalyst’s emergency shelter in order to increase knowledge and access to nutrition, locally grown fruits and vegetables for shelter residents and their children.”

Similarly, the Jesus Center plans to use the $10,000 it was awarded “to provide job training at the Jesus Center Community Farm to homeless The Jesus Center recently received a $10,000 grant from individuals through Cultivating Community Advocates to help provide job growing produce for training at the Jesus Center Community Farm on West sale and for consump16th Street.

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ast week, in our annual year-in-review issue, the CN&R looked back upon the most significant local stories of 2013.

This week, in our first issue of 2014, we’re taking a look at some of the people we suspect will make headlines in the coming year.

A few of them, such as Undersheriff Kory Honea, who’ll be running for the position of Butte County sheriff in the June primary, are surefire newsmakers. The others show the promise of doing newsworthy things. They have diverse backgrounds and objectives and we look forward to watching their contributions to the community.

“After we discuss what direction Sheriff Smith wants to take, he sets the course, and once that course is set, it’s my job to see that we get there,” he explained.

When Butte County Undersheriff Kory Honea And with Smith’s recent announcement he will began attending Butte College after high school, a not seek re-election, the 43-year-old Honea has— career in law enforcement was far from his mind. with the sheriff’s full support and blessing—thrown He was actually more interested in playing foothis hat into the ring for the office, guaranteeing an ball, until reality and luck conspired to change his especially hectic 2014. course. First, a year of playing offensive guard next Honea’s career with the BCSO has included to future Pro Football Hall of Famer Larry Allen stints as a jail guard and designated deputy for the left him thinking he wasn’t cut out to be a career Cohasset and Forest Ranch communities. He was athlete. Then, he was offered a summer job workdrawn to the investigative side, and worked for ing with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, many years as a detective. patrolling Lake Shasta by boat.

In 2000, he joined the Butte County District “It was one of those experiences that was kind Attorney’s Office as a special investigator. Honea of wasted on youth,” said Honea, whose name is pronounced “hoe-knee.” “Now, there’re some days pursued a law degree he then put to good use as the I wish I could just be riding around Lake Shasta on DA’s chief investigator and special deputy district attorney. He said his hybrid cop/lawyer experience a boat.” and training gives him a unique perspective and Honea has so much on his plate, it’s impossible skill set uncommon to most sheriffs. to fault the occasional daydream. As undersheriff, The election aside, Honea said one of his he is Sheriff Jerry Smith’s second-in-command, and office’s biggest challenges is dealing with changes oversees BCSO’s daily jail, patrol, investigation, to the criminal-justice system triggered by Assemservices, courts and coroner operations. bly Bill 109, commonly known as prison realignment. “I think we really got ahead of the curve in working on mitigating impacts on public safety,” he said. “We’ve developed some positive programs that I think have the potential to change lives.”

He also said he and Smith will continue to pursue funding to renovate older portions of the county jail, increase beds to hold “those who pose a threat to public safety,” and better provide education and services that have been proven to help inmates successfully re-enter society.

Honea credited Smith with preparing him for the job. So far, Honea’s the only candidate to announce intentions to run for the office (applicants have a March Undersheriff Kory Honea is looking to succeed retiring Butte deadline to file papers for the June priCounty Sheriff Jerry Smith.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH mary).

“He’s a great boss,” Honea said of Smith. “He has allowed me to really expand my horizons, given me lots of opportunities to lead and help develop policy and procedures, and allowed me to help shape the direction we’re heading. But there’s still a lot of work to do, and I would love the opportunity to keep doing it.”

The chosen one

Kory Honea

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Mixing it up

Scott Barwick

For prolific local musician Scott Barwick, owner of the Origami Recording Lounge, creating, recording and performing music has long been a passion.

But his recently assuming concert-booking and sound-production duties at The Maltese Bar & Tap Room has opened an unexpected creative avenue for Barwick, who in turn is playing a hand in bringing about major changes to the neighborhood bar.

Since performing with the hippie jam band Jordhuga in the early 1990s, Barwick has seemingly dabbled in every imaginable musical genre. He wrote beats and rapped in the live hip-hop act Zzyzx; imitated heavymetal guitar sounds on a keyboard with doom horror-soundtrack band Horror, Horror, Horror; and played guitar in the garage-rock band Candy Apple, to name just a few of his projects. Most recently, Barwick’s been making throwback sounds with Gentleman’s Coup, a ’60s-inspired psychedelic rock band.

Given his affinity for “the classics,” it follows that a visit to a San Francisco speakeasystyle bar last year sparked his interest in “this whole movement of getting back to how cocktails were made pre-Prohibition,” he said.

A little more than a year ago, Barwick began researching how the cocktail world has changed since the Prohibition era and experimenting with making his own drinks.

So, when an employee of The Maltese recently approached Barwick about booking shows for the bar, he “started thinking that maybe it was my opportunity to expand on my passion for mixology.”

He met with the bar’s owner, Angela Lombardi, who, in addition to wanting Barwick’s help with promoting concerts, expressed interest in his proposed menu of classic cocktails.

“To me, the bar was missing the opportunity to pull in this demographic of the people who want a quality drink. They’re not coming out to binge drink; they just want a tasty cocktail,” Barwick said, pointing to the recently opened Winchester Goose and The Argus as examples of local establishments catering to connoisseurship.

Upcoming drink menu aside, there have already been noticeable changes at The Maltese. The shuffleboard table that used to run the length of a wall has been replaced by swank booth-seating (the booths themselves are reupholstered relics from the nowdefunct Towne Lounge), while the sound and lighting systems have been beefed up significantly for shows, due largely to the addition of equipment from the Origami Lounge.

And though Barwick was hesitant to get specific, he said much broader changes to the building itself are on the near horizon, hinting at a possible remodel sometime in mid-2014.

Meanwhile, Barwick has begun familiarizing himself with tending bar at The Maltese in preparation for an upcoming weekly happyhour appointment with local jazz-fusion group Bogg. The bar will use the happy-hour show (Fridays from 5 to 7 p.m.) to roll out a new drink menu that will include Barwick’s classic cocktails and house-made ginger beer.

—HOWARD HARDEE

Longtime Chico musician and impresario Scott Barwick is trying his hand at crafting classic cocktails in addition to taking on a new role booking shows at The Maltese Bar & Tap Room.

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City Hall insiders

Mary Fitch, Alicia Meyer and Quené Hansen

Alicia Meyer, a financial-planning manager who had worked under four city managers, including (for a short time) Nakamura, followed Fitch at the podium. Without naming names, she ripped into former City Manager Tom Lando, whose overspending practices, she charges, in large part led to the city’s current straitened budget. She described some of the cost-cutting measures adopted by Lando’s successor, Greg Jones, who lasted only a short time in the position, and then spoke about former City Manager Dave Burkland, who had inherited a budget nightmare that was worsened by the Great Recession—an economic downturn that has lasted far longer than expected.

That led her to Nakamura, whom she lambasted and accused of attempting to privatize certain city functions, before taking the council to task for allowing the new city manager to do some of the same things the panel has said got the city into its current financial mess.

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Since last August, three former city of Chico employees—Mary Fitch, Alicia Meyer and Quené Hansen—have been making waves during City Council meetings. The trio has challenged information coming from City Manager Brian Nakamura and certain council members, primarily Mayor Scott Gruendl and Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen, who’ve accused certain city employees— both rank-and-file and management—of financial mismanagement.

But the three former city employees say that the city leaders’ narrative of events isn’t so clear-cut, and they are determined to set the record straight, even if they have to do so in three-minute increments during the “business from the floor” segment that comes at the end of each Left to right: Quené Hansen, Alicia Meyer and Mary Fitch are a trio to be reckoned with during council meetings. meeting. That’s PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY what two of them, Fitch and Meyer, did on Aug. 6, the month after the first round of sweeping layoffs at City Hall. Both of their jobs were casualties of the cost-cutting measures, and they were giving their take publicly for the first time.

During her three-minute allotment of speaking time at the podium, Fitch, an administrative analyst who worked for the city for a decade, accused Nakamura of lying to the public—and to the council in particular. She said she’d wanted to speak up for months, but had kept silent to keep her job.

“This is about finally telling the truth. …

There is corruption in this new organization.

There have been lies directly told to this council during public meetings,” said Fitch, who’d accepted a layoff notice rather than “bumping” down to a lower-paying job.

systems, city attorney, safety and who-knowswhat-else going to grow Chico’s economy, or some other community?” Meyer asked. “And how do some of you [council members] face yourselves in the mirror, after whining about previous city managers who weren’t keeping you informed while allowing a current manager to ask for forgiveness, rather than permission? Did that new assistant city manager end up below the salary cap after all?”

That last question was in reference to the council’s approval of salary caps for department managers, including the $26,000 increase from the previous assistant city manager’s salary.

During a council meeting on March 5, Councilwoman Ann Schwab had asked Nakamura why, in his report asking council to approve salaries for his newly configured departments, the maximum ranges had not been included. “I just have not seen the transparency in this process,” she said.

During the same meeting, Nakamura said that the caps did not automatically mean applicants for those posts would be compensated at the top rates. However, the next morning, the Press-Enterprise newspaper announced that Mark Orme, the new assistant city manager, who worked in the same post under Nakamura in Hemet, had been hired. His salary: $185,000. His salary in Hemet: $180,000.

In the months since their initial statements, Fitch and Meyer, along with Hansen, who quit her job in the Capital Projects Services Department, have unleashed criticism after criticism of Nakamura and his tactics

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ast week, in our annual year-in-review issue, the CN&R looked back upon the most significant local stories of 2013.

This week, in our first issue of 2014, we’re taking a look at some of the people we suspect will make headlines in the coming year.

A few of them, such as Undersheriff Kory Honea, who’ll be running for the position of Butte County sheriff in the June primary, are surefire newsmakers. The others show the promise of doing newsworthy things. They have diverse backgrounds and objectives and we look forward to watching their contributions to the community.

“After we discuss what direction Sheriff Smith wants to take, he sets the course, and once that course is set, it’s my job to see that we get there,” he explained.

When Butte County Undersheriff Kory Honea And with Smith’s recent announcement he will began attending Butte College after high school, a not seek re-election, the 43-year-old Honea has— career in law enforcement was far from his mind. with the sheriff’s full support and blessing—thrown He was actually more interested in playing foothis hat into the ring for the office, guaranteeing an ball, until reality and luck conspired to change his especially hectic 2014. course. First, a year of playing offensive guard next Honea’s career with the BCSO has included to future Pro Football Hall of Famer Larry Allen stints as a jail guard and designated deputy for the left him thinking he wasn’t cut out to be a career Cohasset and Forest Ranch communities. He was athlete. Then, he was offered a summer job workdrawn to the investigative side, and worked for ing with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, many years as a detective. patrolling Lake Shasta by boat.

In 2000, he joined the Butte County District “It was one of those experiences that was kind Attorney’s Office as a special investigator. Honea of wasted on youth,” said Honea, whose name is pronounced “hoe-knee.” “Now, there’re some days pursued a law degree he then put to good use as the I wish I could just be riding around Lake Shasta on DA’s chief investigator and special deputy district attorney. He said his hybrid cop/lawyer experience a boat.” and training gives him a unique perspective and Honea has so much on his plate, it’s impossible skill set uncommon to most sheriffs. to fault the occasional daydream. As undersheriff, The election aside, Honea said one of his he is Sheriff Jerry Smith’s second-in-command, and office’s biggest challenges is dealing with changes oversees BCSO’s daily jail, patrol, investigation, to the criminal-justice system triggered by Assemservices, courts and coroner operations. bly Bill 109, commonly known as prison realignment. “I think we really got ahead of the curve in working on mitigating impacts on public safety,” he said. “We’ve developed some positive programs that I think have the potential to change lives.”

He also said he and Smith will continue to pursue funding to renovate older portions of the county jail, increase beds to hold “those who pose a threat to public safety,” and better provide education and services that have been proven to help inmates successfully re-enter society.

Honea credited Smith with preparing him for the job. So far, Honea’s the only candidate to announce intentions to run for the office (applicants have a March Undersheriff Kory Honea is looking to succeed retiring Butte deadline to file papers for the June priCounty Sheriff Jerry Smith.

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“He’s a great boss,” Honea said of Smith. “He has allowed me to really expand my horizons, given me lots of opportunities to lead and help develop policy and procedures, and allowed me to help shape the direction we’re heading. But there’s still a lot of work to do, and I would love the opportunity to keep doing it.”

The chosen one

Kory Honea

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Mixing it up

Scott Barwick

For prolific local musician Scott Barwick, owner of the Origami Recording Lounge, creating, recording and performing music has long been a passion.

But his recently assuming concert-booking and sound-production duties at The Maltese Bar & Tap Room has opened an unexpected creative avenue for Barwick, who in turn is playing a hand in bringing about major changes to the neighborhood bar.

Since performing with the hippie jam band Jordhuga in the early 1990s, Barwick has seemingly dabbled in every imaginable musical genre. He wrote beats and rapped in the live hip-hop act Zzyzx; imitated heavymetal guitar sounds on a keyboard with doom horror-soundtrack band Horror, Horror, Horror; and played guitar in the garage-rock band Candy Apple, to name just a few of his projects. Most recently, Barwick’s been making throwback sounds with Gentleman’s Coup, a ’60s-inspired psychedelic rock band.

Given his affinity for “the classics,” it follows that a visit to a San Francisco speakeasystyle bar last year sparked his interest in “this whole movement of getting back to how cocktails were made pre-Prohibition,” he said.

A little more than a year ago, Barwick began researching how the cocktail world has changed since the Prohibition era and experimenting with making his own drinks.

So, when an employee of The Maltese recently approached Barwick about booking shows for the bar, he “started thinking that maybe it was my opportunity to expand on my passion for mixology.”

He met with the bar’s owner, Angela Lombardi, who, in addition to wanting Barwick’s help with promoting concerts, expressed interest in his proposed menu of classic cocktails.

“To me, the bar was missing the opportunity to pull in this demographic of the people who want a quality drink. They’re not coming out to binge drink; they just want a tasty cocktail,” Barwick said, pointing to the recently opened Winchester Goose and The Argus as examples of local establishments catering to connoisseurship.

Upcoming drink menu aside, there have already been noticeable changes at The Maltese. The shuffleboard table that used to run the length of a wall has been replaced by swank booth-seating (the booths themselves are reupholstered relics from the nowdefunct Towne Lounge), while the sound and lighting systems have been beefed up significantly for shows, due largely to the addition of equipment from the Origami Lounge.

And though Barwick was hesitant to get specific, he said much broader changes to the building itself are on the near horizon, hinting at a possible remodel sometime in mid-2014.

Meanwhile, Barwick has begun familiarizing himself with tending bar at The Maltese in preparation for an upcoming weekly happyhour appointment with local jazz-fusion group Bogg. The bar will use the happy-hour show (Fridays from 5 to 7 p.m.) to roll out a new drink menu that will include Barwick’s classic cocktails and house-made ginger beer.

—HOWARD HARDEE

Longtime Chico musician and impresario Scott Barwick is trying his hand at crafting classic cocktails in addition to taking on a new role booking shows at The Maltese Bar & Tap Room.

PHOTO BY HOWARD HARDEE

City Hall insiders

Mary Fitch, Alicia Meyer and Quené Hansen

Alicia Meyer, a financial-planning manager who had worked under four city managers, including (for a short time) Nakamura, followed Fitch at the podium. Without naming names, she ripped into former City Manager Tom Lando, whose overspending practices, she charges, in large part led to the city’s current straitened budget. She described some of the cost-cutting measures adopted by Lando’s successor, Greg Jones, who lasted only a short time in the position, and then spoke about former City Manager Dave Burkland, who had inherited a budget nightmare that was worsened by the Great Recession—an economic downturn that has lasted far longer than expected.

That led her to Nakamura, whom she lambasted and accused of attempting to privatize certain city functions, before taking the council to task for allowing the new city manager to do some of the same things the panel has said got the city into its current financial mess.

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Since last August, three former city of Chico employees—Mary Fitch, Alicia Meyer and Quené Hansen—have been making waves during City Council meetings. The trio has challenged information coming from City Manager Brian Nakamura and certain council members, primarily Mayor Scott Gruendl and Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen, who’ve accused certain city employees— both rank-and-file and management—of financial mismanagement.

But the three former city employees say that the city leaders’ narrative of events isn’t so clear-cut, and they are determined to set the record straight, even if they have to do so in three-minute increments during the “business from the floor” segment that comes at the end of each Left to right: Quené Hansen, Alicia Meyer and Mary Fitch are a trio to be reckoned with during council meetings. meeting. That’s PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY what two of them, Fitch and Meyer, did on Aug. 6, the month after the first round of sweeping layoffs at City Hall. Both of their jobs were casualties of the cost-cutting measures, and they were giving their take publicly for the first time.

During her three-minute allotment of speaking time at the podium, Fitch, an administrative analyst who worked for the city for a decade, accused Nakamura of lying to the public—and to the council in particular. She said she’d wanted to speak up for months, but had kept silent to keep her job.

“This is about finally telling the truth. …

There is corruption in this new organization.

There have been lies directly told to this council during public meetings,” said Fitch, who’d accepted a layoff notice rather than “bumping” down to a lower-paying job.

systems, city attorney, safety and who-knowswhat-else going to grow Chico’s economy, or some other community?” Meyer asked. “And how do some of you [council members] face yourselves in the mirror, after whining about previous city managers who weren’t keeping you informed while allowing a current manager to ask for forgiveness, rather than permission? Did that new assistant city manager end up below the salary cap after all?”

That last question was in reference to the council’s approval of salary caps for department managers, including the $26,000 increase from the previous assistant city manager’s salary.

During a council meeting on March 5, Councilwoman Ann Schwab had asked Nakamura why, in his report asking council to approve salaries for his newly configured departments, the maximum ranges had not been included. “I just have not seen the transparency in this process,” she said.

During the same meeting, Nakamura said that the caps did not automatically mean applicants for those posts would be compensated at the top rates. However, the next morning, the Press-Enterprise newspaper announced that Mark Orme, the new assistant city manager, who worked in the same post under Nakamura in Hemet, had been hired. His salary: $185,000. His salary in Hemet: $180,000.

In the months since their initial statements, Fitch and Meyer, along with Hansen, who quit her job in the Capital Projects Services Department, have unleashed criticism after criticism of Nakamura and his tactics

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“WHO” continued from page 19 inside City Hall. Among their many complaints, they accuse him and his team of not responding to their requests for public records, breaching personnel rules during layoffs to retain favorite employees, a lack of transparency, and forcing out key managerial staff with vast institutional knowledge. And, in addition to being vocal at council meetings, the women have started a blog— www.truthmatterschico.com—at which they expound on their accusations.

At certain points, the trio’s communications at meetings spurred heated responses from certain council members, especially Gruendl, who has called the women “disgruntled former employees.” However, during recent meetings, the three have apparently made a breakthrough, as evidenced by Gruendl and Chris Constantin, the city’s new administrative-services director, both acknowledging that a group of former employees, which included Fitch and Meyer, had successfully helped to staunch “the hemorrhaging,” as the women put it, of one of the city’s enterprise funds.

As for their future, Fitch, Meyer and Hansen say they will continue to shed light on any missteps the current administration makes.

—MELISSA DAUGHERTY

Putting a fresh face on outreach

Katrina Djberof

Since Katrina Djberof took over in midFebruary as publicist and workshop coordinator for Cultivating Community North Valley— the local “partnership of organizations working to strengthen our community through local food,” as it is described at its website, www.cultivatingcommunitynv.org—there has been a heightened vibrancy to the communications coming from the organization.

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attention-worthy before—far from it. But the 37-year-old Djberof—who is also the market manager for Massa Organics, and has an extensive background in organic-food education and marketing, as well as a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in environmental anthropology—has brought added flair and savvy to the way that CCNV presents itself to the community. Its colorful, eye-catching posters for its 2014 series of seed-saving workshops alone are enough to make one stand up and take notice.

“I was instrumental in defining CCNV’s mission,” Djberof said, “and creating a brochure”—an impressive glossy tri-fold that outlines the educational programs (workshops, garden workdays, mobile cooking demonstrations, and so on), services (such as community-garden consulting) and resources (e.g., bulk garden-supply store) that CCNV offers. Among other useful information, the brochure lists CCNV’s community partners: the GRUB Education Program, Chico State’s Organic Vegetable Project, healthful-food and -lifestyle promoter cChaos, and the Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion (CNAP) at the university.

“We’re doing a seed-saving series—a series of six workshops,” Djberof said.

“We’re partnering with our regional seedbreeder, Kalan Redwood, of Redwood Seeds [in Manton], to offer this succession of workshops, starting in January and ending in August of 2014.” The series begins with “Seeding Cool Season Crops” on Jan. 25, which will be held in the Heartseed Greenhouse at the GRUB Cooperative on Dayton Road (cost is $10, or free for those who are income-eligible).

“We are also planning a workshop in March or April promoting small-farmer scholarships,” in which attendees will learn “how to set up farmers’-market booths” and will be walked through “the marketing psychology, regulations and standards” in the process of setting up a mock farmers’-market stand, she said.

Chris Moore-Backman just completed his first year as the executive director of the Chico Peace and Justice Center.

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“My hopes out of this seed-saving series are to shed light on the community garden network that exists here in Chico,” Djberof said. “We want to teach people how to plant a garden with seed-saving in mind.”

The current food-gardening and seedsaving movement “is kind of like going back to the values of our grandparents—like victory gardens,” she said. CCNV’s workshops are “an important way of revitalizing the community and getting people involved.”

—CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA

A year at the helm

Chris MooreBackman

Today (Jan. 2) marks Chris MooreBackman’s one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Chico Peace and Justice Center. The calm, well-spoken 42-year-old— whose name made the news during the recent cold snap when he worked with the Chico Homeless Action Team to facilitate the use of the CPJC as a nighttime warming shelter for some of Chico’s homeless population—sat down recently to talk with the CN&R. “Whether we’re talking about the homeless or about [the U.S.’ racialized system of] mass incarceration, we’re talking about an undercaste,” said Moore-Backman, a Gandhi scholar whose ongoing work on the Bringing Down the New Jim Crow radio-documentary series, a CPJC “core program,” is widely known (go to www.prx.org/series/32471bringing-down-the-new-jim-crow to access).

“Michelle [Alexander, the author of the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, upon which the radio series is based] argues that people felonized in our country are primarily of color. The criminalization of homeless people just because they’re poor resembles that in many ways.

Katrina Djberof took over in mid-February as publicist and “These are the groups that workshop coordinator for Cultivating Community North Valley. that are equivalent to the PHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA untouchables in India.”

Moore-Backman compared his earlier experience working in a migrantresource center—which “received migrants who were exited from the United States”—in the Mexican town of Agua Prieta (across the border from Douglas, Ariz.) to his current New Jim Crow work: “My experience with those people [deported Mexican migrants] being criminalized for crossing that line in search of work and money to send home to their families connects to my work now … raising awareness about mass incarceration in the U.S., particularly the disproportionate targeting of communities of color in the war on drugs. …

“Basically, what I’m trying to do is create a bridge for our community of Chico to the

growing national movement to dismantle mass incarceration.” In addition to the PRXdistributed radio series, Moore-Backman also oversaw a four-session New Jim Crow study circle this past year, during which “Chicoans got together to have face-to-face, heart-toheart dialogue about race and criminal justice in the U.S. and in our community.” Along those same lines, the CPJC brought Susan Burton—an African-American ex-felon who founded the wildly successful A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Southern California— to speak at the CPJC’s annual dinner in October, an event that attracted, in MooreBackman’s words, “a wonderful turnout of people of color, of young people, of families.”

“Mass incarceration is arguably the worst human-rights crisis we face as a nation today,” Moore-Backman said, adding that “taking on mass incarceration has powerful implications for other movements, whether they relate to food justice, militarization, the environment, health care. …

“Historically, the Peace and Justice Center has been focused on anti-militarization kinds of work, but my feeling … is that all the movements that we would hope would succeed in countering the forces of empire— whether that’s anti-military or environmental or other movements—if we remain a divided community with this enormous proportion of people of color trapped by the prisonindustrial complex, we won’t be able to build movements powerful enough to actually turn this thing around.

“We need all hands on deck—so ending mass incarceration, to me, is a prerequisite for building the needed movements.”

Look for the CPJC’s new Alternatives to Violence Project workshop series, which will begin sometime this month.

—CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA

New cultural sheriff in town

Stephen Cummins

The first thing that jumps out about Stephen Cummins upon meeting him for the first time is that he wears cowboy boots.

Though he came to his new job as director of Chico State’s University Public Events from his former gig as director of performing arts for College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., an affluent suburb of Chicago, Cummins is originally a Texas boy. He grew up in Lubbock, “home of Buddy Holly,” he pointed out. “I grew up listening to Joe Ely,” he added, listing the honky-tonker along with fellow Lubbock natives The Maines Brothers Band as two of his “dream” bookings.

Cummins’ rootsy background came as a welcome surprise in the man who has ridden into town to try to fill the very big shoes of retired UPE Director Dan DeWayne. For 13 years, the much-loved promoter was the face of Chico Performances—the primary job for the director, whose responsibilities also include overseeing the KCHO public-radio station, the University Box Office and Laxson Auditorium—which has been the standard-bearer for bringing world-class performing arts to this college town.

Of course, given the fact that Cummins is currently overseeing a season curated by his predecessor, we have yet to see what he’ll do in that role. “I’m sort of in an information-gathering stage,” he said.

Meanwhile, while he books the next school-year’s calendar of events, and as he and his wife Sunday and their 11-year-old daughter have gotten settled in Chico, Cummins said he’s been busy meeting people in an effort to get to know the city and to assess its needs. In addition to picking the brains of DeWayne and previous UPE Director Pat Kopp, he’s made the rounds in the community, meeting with the Downtown Chico Business Association, the Chamber of Commerce and even fellow producers such as Bob Littell of the Sierra Nevada Big Room.

But he did give some general ideas about what’s in store.

“I’ve probably got 20 events already lined up,” he said, citing the usual diverse range of acts that Chico Performances is known for: classical, world, jazz, Americana and other forms of music; dance programs; and theater, an area of the arts that Cummins—who has a master’s degree in theater—was particularly excited about in the next season.

“We’re working on a theatrical event that I think will be fantastically different than what people have seen before,” he said.

And though there are no confirmations during these planning stages, a few tantalizing possibilities were written on Cummins’ dry-erase-board wish list—including comedian Mike Birbiglia and another Texas boy, Willie Nelson.

As part of putting Stephen Cummins, the together an eclectic schednew director ule, Cummins said he of University Public Events at Chico State, is still getting to know the Chico community.

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wants to try to fill any needs that aren’t being met in the community, including performances that are geared toward students, something that has been challenging for the university, especially given the absence in the last few years of the Associated Students’A.S. Presents program.

“That’s the challenge—looking at future seasons—how do you program for all demographics?” Cummins said. “When I was hired, they said, ‘How do we get more students to Laxson?’” His answer was twofold: program to them and discount the price.

Asked what his hope was for his future with UPE and the performances he brings to Laxson, Cummins’ message was simple: “I hope people will take a chance.”

—JASON CASSIDY

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Arts & Culture Monks’ lives

The monks of New Clairvaux.

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THIS WEEK New film captures life at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in nearby Vina

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W the gates of a local Trappist monastery two summers ago, he thought he was going to be making hen filmmaker John Beck entered

a documentary about monastic winemaking.

What the Benicia-based journalist ended up uncovering and porby traying in his film, The Monks of Alastair Vina, was a deeper, layered drama Bland at play within the Abbey of New Clairvaux, in the small town of Vina. Here, not so far from the roar THE MONKS of Interstate 5, dozens of Trappist OF VINA monks—men who have abandoned Narrated by Tim Bays. the outside world in a lifelong comOpens Friday, mitment to God—eat in silence, Jan. 17, at the pray, pursue quiet hobbies, make Pageant Theatre, wine and, sometimes, grapple with 351 E. Sixth St. inner demons.

Director John Beck Secrets are revealed to the camera. will be on hand on opening night One young man just months into a to talk about three-year trial as a so-called novice, the film and or postulant, at the monastery conanswer questions. fesses to Beck that he was, when still on the outside, working through anger-management issues. In a dramatic scene, the New York native says he spent a night in jail shortly before arriving at the monastery on a rainy night in the winter of 2012.

Beck himself, though not religious, said he was impressed by the spiritual strength of the men he interviewed.

“It’s inspiring to see the amount of devotion and sacrifice people will give to achieve a goal,” Beck said.

The film tells us that roughly 85 men per

year visit the Vina Monastery—which was built in the 1950s—interested in pursuing a life there. Most don’t pass their first interviews, however, and just three new entries take up the lifestyle every two years. Of these novices, just 40 percent become lifelong residents.

The Monks of Vina portrays the daily routine of the monastery’s roughly two dozen inhabitants—an ethnic blend of men of all ages—during the winegrape harvest season. This very property was the 22 CN&R January 2, 2014

location of Leland Stanford’s disastrous winemaking venture in the late 1800s, when he planted more than 4,000 acres of grapes in the hopes of bettering the wines of Bordeaux. His wine, though, gained a lowly reputation, and much was distilled into hard liquor—one of the greatest failures in winemaking history.

Yet the monks of Vina, working with heat-loving grape varieties that Stanford overlooked, make it work. Brother Rafael Flores is the vineyard manager, and the winemaker is an outsider, Aimee Sunseri, the only woman in their midst. Trained at UC Davis, Sunseri works with the monks from vineyard to bottle, using varieties of grape like Albarino, Syrah, Tempranillo and Barbera. Threaded through the film is the ongoing saga of Stanford’s failed endeavor.

While the early governor of California eventually gave up his dream—the vines torn out and the land sold—the monks, it seems, succeed. In fact, the wine they bottle and sell under their New Clairvaux label is what pays their bills. The wine is sampled by visitors at the monastery tasting room.

The property’s prune orchard also generates some cash, as does monastic ingenuity. One monk, who has taken up making ceramics, tells us he once collected thousands of fallen walnuts to sell at $2 a bag in order to buy materials.

Others, between their hours of toil, play golf or throw baseballs.

Beck told the Chico News & Review that he was pleasantly surprised at the willingness of Vina’s monks to be portrayed onscreen. “We think of monks as being secretive and curtailed, but they opened right up and talked to me,” Beck said.

Especially, it seems, the abbey’s two postulants, whose respective stories are the film’s strongest anchor. One tells the camera that a person can’t escape his troubles simply by entering a monastery.

The other, filmed while harvesting grapes, likewise notes that who you are on the outside is who you remain on the inside. It’s clear that their past lives, and the greater world, still haunt them. The viewer can detect the doubt in them both—are these guys really monk material?

And then the question turns inward: Am I? Ω

P.S.O.: The Lemon Grove skatecore band is joined by local thrashers Badger, Criminal Wave and Icko Sicko. Th, 1/2, 8pm. $5. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.

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Special Events SIXTIES BANDSTAND SHOW: Relive the hits of the ’60s with a tribute to bands like The Beach Boys, The Crystals, and multiple singers, plus a video experience. 1/3-1/4, 9:30pm. $5.

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

WORLD OF TREES TOUR: Explore the Japanese Zelkova and Cork Oaks in Lower Bidwell Park with naturalist Jon Aull. Sa, 1/4, 10-11:30am. $10. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

Art Receptions CHICO ROCKS! ART SHOW: Chico’s Got Soul presents posters from the Chico music scene over the past 20 years, featuring artists Frank Alan Bella, Jonas Beeler and Frank Wiedemann, with live music from DJ Spenny and Maker’s Mile. Sa, 1/4, 6pm. $5. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

Music BIG TREE FALL DOWN: The local ska punks are joined by The Stashers (feat. members of Folksteady and Rock Creek Jug Band), The Union Drifters (indie folk-rock from Riverside), and BandMaster Ruckus. Sa, 1/4, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

DANNY COHEN: Local singer/songwriter Danny

Art Receptions EMPIRE COFFEE: Group Art Show, Drawings from the Monday Figure Drawing Workshop at the Chico Art Center. F, 1/3, 5-7pm. 434 Orange St., (530) 899-8267.

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Special Events SIXTIES BANDSTAND SHOW: See Friday. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

CALL FOR ART: EVERYTHING BLUE Manas Artspace

SEE CALL FOR ARTISTS

Cohen with his band Near Death Experience.

Sa, 1/4, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Auditions ALL IN THE TIMING AUDITIONS: Uncle Dad’s Art Collective is holding auditions for All in the Timing by David Ives. Email info@1078 gallery.org to schedule an audition spot. Su, 1/5, 11am-5pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

FINE ARTS Art

Community

1078 GALLERY: Stories Two, a group exhibition

AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the

featuring five local artists showcasing media such as ceramic, painting, photographs and prints. Through 1/4. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: New California Abstracts, new abstract landscape paintings by Lenn Goldmann. Through 1/11. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Winter Salon d’Art, one-of-

BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT: TRIBUTE TO SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON Tuesday, Jan. 7 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE TUESDAY, MUSIC

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Poetry/Literature WORD PLAY: A freestyle poetry reading open mic ending in a two-round slam. First M of every month, 7-9pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

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Music BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT: Mark Hummel’s annual harp showcase pays tribute to Mississippi bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II, with performances by John Mayall, Rick Estrin, Curtis Salgado and Hummel. Tu, 1/7, 7:30pm.

SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

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a-kind gifts created by local fine artists, including original paintings, sculptures, jewelry, prints, mosaics and ceramic works.

450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chico artcenter.com.

CHICO PAPER CO.: Mariam Pakbaz, drawings and paintings by the recent Chico State graduate showcase reflections of her inner world. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

EMPIRE COFFEE: Group Art Show, drawings from the Monday figure-drawing workshop at the Chico Art Center. F, 1/3, 5-7pm. 434 Orange St., (530) 899-8267.

Call for Artists EVERYTHING BLUE: How will you portray this pervasive hue? All mediums accepted, must be wall-hanging. Call for more info. Through 1/18, 12-5pm. $5. Manas Artspace & 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.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Keys to the

Kingdom: Fungi, learn the varieties and importance of mushrooms and fungi via interactive displays. Through 1/5. $6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

GROUP ART SHOW

sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave., (530) 321-5607.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled

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

CAMP CHICO CREEK: An environmental education-based day camp providing outdoor recreation activities and themes covering different Bidwell Park habitats and cultural histories each session. Through 1/3, 8am-5pm. $35. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 8912762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

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

Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

the elements. F, 6-8pm. $6-$12 sliding scale.

Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 532-1989.

EVENING DANCE JAM: A weekly meditative

dance session. F, 7:15pm. $10. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Suite 150, (530) 342-0100.

FANCY FEET DANCE: Beginning to experienced dancers welcome to work on the foxtrot, waltz, swing and more to a live band. Tu, 7:30pm. $5-$7. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4015, www.chicorec.com.

FARMERS’ MARKET: CHAPMAN: A year-round Certified Farmers’ Market serving as a community forum for healthful-lifestyle promotion and education. F, 2-5:30pm.

Chapman Mulberry Community Center, 1010 Cleveland Ave., (530) 624-8844, www.cchaos.org.

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

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

Ave., (530) 518-8300, www.shalomfree clinic.org.

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

INFINITE RHYTHMS ECSTATIC DANCE: A shoefree, food-free, drug-free, smoke-free dance for you and yours with DJ Clay. Th, 7:309:30pm through 5/8. $8-$10. Manas Artspace & Gallery, 1441-C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

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

Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. in Paradise, 872-7085.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 8916524, www.chicorec.com.

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

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SQUARE-DANCE CLUB: Square-dancing classes for beginners and advanced-level dancers.

Call for more info. Th, 7-10pm. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1962.

TRADITIONAL WEST-AFRICAN DANCE: All levels of

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

WORLD OF TREES TOUR: Explore the Japanese Zelkova and Cork Oaks in Lower Bidwell Park with naturalist Jon Aull. Sa, 1/4, 10-11:30am. $10. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasiveplant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water-quality testing and more.

Check Friends of Bidwell Park website for dates and locations. Ongoing. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

PATRICK RANCH VOLUNTEERS: There are multiple volunteer opportunities available at the museum. Call or email for more info. Ongoing.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 514-3903.

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Music MEMORIES OF ELVIS: Celebrate Elvis’ 79th birthday with Chris MacDonald paying tribute to the King of Rock. W, 1/8, 6:30pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

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Chico Rocks! art show The local music-producers of Chico’s Got Soul are bringing together a couple of rock-poster veterans for a showcase of their prints at the The DownLo on Saturday, Jan. 4. One time Chicoan Frank Alan Bella has designed posters for Bill Graham Presents, EDITOR’S PICK and Frank Wiedemann has done work for classic S.F. rock venues The Fillmore and The Warfield. For this show, they’ve also both collaborated on a print that will be on sale, with proceeds benefiting the Pageant Theatre. Plus, music from Maker’s Mile and DJ Spenny.

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The light of music A look ahead at what’s shiny and new in early 2014

“Babout looking ahead to 2014? Here are 20 albums on my radar for the first quarter—heavy on est of” lists are soooo 2013. So how

rock, with some pop, and a Cherry on top.

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Wig Out At Jagbags (Jan. by 7, Matador): After a stint living in Mark Lore Berlin, Stephen Malkmus has returned to Portland, and with his first record since 2011’s excellent Mirror Traffic. Less jam, more pop.

Mogwai – Rave Tapes (Jan. 21, Sub Pop): “Remurdered”—the lead single from Mogwai’s first album in three years—owes more to the band’s recent soundtrack work for the French TV show Les Revenants. It’s proggier and synthier (i.e., moodier and more understated) than the guitar explosives Mogwai normally lob at us.

Dum Dum Girls – Too True (Jan. 28, Sub Pop): Bigger production, with influences from some of the usual suspects. As frontwoman Dee Dee Penny put it: “Do you hear Suede? Siouxie? Cold-wave Patti?

Madonna? Cure? Velvet and Paisley Undergrounds?

Stone Roses? Cuz I did.”

Pontiak – INNOCENCE (Jan. 28, Thrill Jockey) These brothers make some propulsive psych-rock.

And this new one’s got muthafuckin’ swagger!

There’s a good reason the title is in all caps.

Mean Creek – Local Losers (Jan. 28, Old Flame Records): This Boston four-piece cranks things up on their second full-length. Hand-clapping punk rock with hooks aplenty.

Neil Finn – Dizzy Heights (Feb. 11, Lester Records): I love Neil Finn. His first solo album in more than a decade is more experimental than probably anything he’s done (strings, electronica flourishes). And you still get those sweet hooks and that voice. Oh, and I love Neil Finn.

Helms Alee – Sleepwalking Sailors (Feb. 11, Sargent House): After listening to the first single, “Tumescence,” I told a friend it sounded like metal ABBA. I’m sticking with it.

Cheatahs – Cheatahs (Feb. 11, Wichita Recordings): This band comes straight outta London, 24 CN&R January 2, 2014

Helms Alee – Sleepwalking Sailors

although the members are international. They play sharp, jangly pop with a shoegaze haze.

Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Feb. 26, Smalltown Supersound): Electronic musician Four Tet produces the new album by the Swedish siren (known by many for her 1989 single “Buffalo Stance”) who returns a sassy and textured dance record that features guest vocals from Robyn. This album makes even me want to dance.

The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits (March 4, Sacred Bones): Last year, these dudes came out with New Moon, a more subdued record that leaned heavily on Crazy Horse-era Neil Young. There’s no telling what these prolific Brooklyn rawkers have in store this time around. A recent blog post on the band’s site simply stated that it’ll be their highest fidelity record to date, and that “things will be different.”

Reigning Sound – title TBA (April, Merge): It’s been five years—five years—since Reigning Sound’s last LP, Love & Curses. Sure, we got an Oblivians record from main man Greg Cartwright and co. last year, but man alive! The band’s first on Merge promises to be something special.

Old 97’s – title TBA (April, ATO Records): Frontman Rhett Miller says to expect a record heavy on the garage-rock influence. With some twang, of course.

Two things are certain: It’ll be rowdy, and it’ll be good.

Tilts – Cuatro Hombres (spring, Robotic Empire Records): Guitarist Andrew Elstner was playing in this St. Louis four-piece years before he joined Florida pop-metalists Torche. Their 2011 debut conjured the spirits of early Van Halen and Tight Bros from Way Back When. Riff rock at its riffiest.

Body Count – Manslaughter (release date TBA, Sumerian): The Ice T-fronted hardcore outfit has released a few albums since their 1992 self-titled debut, although none have matched its intensity or controversy (only the silliness). We’ll see if a more chill Ice T can pull off songs like “Bubble Full of Bullshit” and “Pray For Death.”

Spoon – title TBA (release date TBA, Merge): Coming off a spell with Divine Fits, Britt Daniel and his cohorts are finishing up the first Spoon record since 2010’s underrated Transference. Expect some R&B influence, and expect greatness.

Others to look for: Broken Bells – After the Disco (Jan. 14, Columbia); Warpaint – Warpaint (Jan. 21, Rough Trade); Crosses – Crosses (Feb. 11, Sumerian); Beck – Morning Phase (February, Capitol Records); Triptykon – Melana Chasmata (April 14, Prowling Death Records Ltd.). Ω

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knowing he would be rewarded not only with holiday festivities but also with fresh Dunby geness crab in high season. I was Henri especially looking forward to crab Bourride cakes—a major vice since I first came out to the city in the early ’80s. Though now one of my own specialties, they somehow taste so much better in a restaurant on the water.

And the timing was good: Colette was driving down anyway to visit a friend in Berkeley. She dropped me off at my hotel at Fisherman’s Wharf on Friday evening. “See you Sunday afternoon,” she said, wheeling my suitcases to a stop beside the door to my room.

After a short nap—the ride down exhausted me—I showered and headed out, cozy in a heavy black car coat, which worked divinely with my new carnelian-red wool scarf from Versace and matching beret from lovehats.com.

First stop, the third-floor bar at Alioto’s. A glass of pinot grigio and, yes, sir, the crab-cakes appetizer, s’il vous plaît. Delicious, moist, cooked in butter and with just a hint of celery. Perfect as I looked out over the harbor, lights on sailboat rigging reflecting off the water.

From there, a short stroll down a dark, damp filmnoir alley to the end of the pier. Scoma’s Restaurant was brightly lighted and full of large groups enjoying the season—the walls decorated with signed photos of celebrities who have visited since the restaurant first opened in 1965. I got a table for one; Dickie Dawson and Dean Martin smiled down on me.

A bottle of fumé blanc, the crab-cakes appetizer and a large bowl of cioppino overflowing with crab, prawns and scallops. Magnifique! I sopped up the last of the delicious red broth with the last of a loaf of sourdough bread, hardly spilling any on my paper bib.

I woke the next morning in a haze, vaguely remembering a dream in which I was stuck in a cage at the bottom of the ocean, my claws unable to open the little door to freedom. I needed to clear my head.

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by Sunday afternoon, I was ready to head back to Chico. Colette, for her part, was aglow on the way home. Apparently, she had a wonderful time with her friend, who’ll be visiting her soon. She wants me to make crab cakes for him.

Henri’s Crab Cakes 1 pound crab meat 4 scallions (or green onions), minced 1 tablespoon celery, minced 1 tablespoon fresh parsley (or cilantro), minced 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup bread crumbs or panko 1 tablespoon Old Bay seasoning dash of red-pepper flakes 1 egg, beaten 1/4 cup flour vegetable oil, for frying 1 lemon, wedged

Mix all ingredients except for egg, flour, oil and lemon wedges in large bowl, keeping the crab meat as lumpy as possible. Season with salt and pepper.

Fold in egg—if mixture doesn’t cling together, add more bread crumbs.

Divide mixture into four patties about an inch thick, and place on parchment paper on a large cookie sheet.

Cover with a towel and refrigerate at least one hour.

Spread flour on another cookie sheet or in a pie pan, and dip cakes in, lightly coating both sides.

Bring oil to a low sizzle in a skillet over medium-high heat, and cook cakes on both sides until crispy—three to five minutes, depending on size. Serve with lemon wedges. (Henri especially loves them with dressed with a bit of wasabi mayonnaise.)

Notes: The Dungeness season lasts through June, but tapers off significantly after mid-January. Also, canned crab works surprisingly well. We’ve satisfied our out-of-season cravings with Boss brand, available at S&S Organic Produce and Natural Foods. Ω

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P.S.O.: The Lemon Grove skatecore band is joined by local thrashers Badger, Criminal Wave and Icko Sicko. Th, 1/2, 8pm. $5. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.

3FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peeking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

2THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JOHN SEID DUO: John Seid and Larry Peterson play an eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 6-

9pm. Opens 1/2. Grana, 198 E. Second

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.

St., (530) 809-2304.

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

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.

OPEN MIKEFULL: Open mic night to share your music, poetry, comedy, or other talents in a 10-minute slot. First and Third Th of every month, 7pm. $1.

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

MONKEY MUSIC SHOWCASE: Spotlighting local acoustic singer/songwriters and musicians. F, 7:30pm. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.

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4SATURDAY ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: A jam hosted by Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa of every month, 2-5pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 345-4128.

BIG TREE FALL DOWN: The local ska punks are joined by The Stashers (feat. members of Folksteady and Rock Creek Jug Band), The Union Drifters (indie folk-rock from Riverside), and BandMaster Ruckus. Sa, 1/4, 8pm. $5.

Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

CHICO ROCKS! ART SHOW: Chico’s Got Soul presents posters from the Chico music scene over the past 20 years, featuring artists Frank Alan Bella, Jonas Beeler and Frank Wiedemann, with live music from DJ Spenny and Maker’s Mile. Sa, 1/4, 6pm. $5. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

DANNY COHEN: Local singer/songwriter Danny Cohen with his band, Near Death Experience. Sa, 1/4, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.

MONKEY PUNK

While the college students are away, the punks are going to take over the Fifth & Ivy ’hood with this all-ages marathon of fun at 100th Monkey Café & Books: San Diego County’s P.S.O. (skatecore), Portland’s Honduran (noisy hardcore), and a bunch of locals—Badger, Icko Sicko, Criminal Wave and Kong. It’s tonight, Jan. 2, and it’s only $5!

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OPEN MIC: Open-mic night with Aaron

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

SHIGEMI & FRIENDS: Live jazz with keyboardist Shigemi Minetaka and rotating accompaniment. Tu, 6:308:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.

A TRIBUTE TO THE SIXTIES

For two nights—Friday & Saturday, Jan. 3 & 4—the Feather Falls Brewing Co. will be filled will the popular rock and R&B hits of the ’60s as the 60s Bandstand Show brings its tribute to the favorite dance tunes of the era to Oroville. Dance in the new year to the sounds of The Beach Boys, The Ronettes, Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, The Byrds, Sonny & Cher, Nancy Sinatra, and more.

8WEDNESDAY LAURIE DANA: Soul, light rock, blues, country, Tin Pan Alley, jazz and more.

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

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JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Live Jazz happy hour with Carey Robinson Trio. M, 57pm. Free. Café Flo, 365 E. Sixth St., (530) 514-8888, www.liveatflo.wee bly.com.

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7TUESDAY BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT: Mark Hummel’s annual harp showcase pays tribute to Mississippi bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson II, with performances

by John Mayall, Rick Estrin, Curtis Salgado and Hummel. Tu, 1/7, 7:30pm.

SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

MEMORIES OF ELVIS: Celebrate Elvis’ 79th birthday with Chris MacDonald paying tribute to the King of Rock. W, 1/8, 6:30pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

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

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IN THE MIX Surgical Steel

“THIS IS A MOVIE TO BRING HOME AND LIVE WITH, TO KICK AROUND IN YOUR HEAD AFTER IT HITS YOU IN THE HEART. ITʼS NEAR DAMN PERFECT” ....PETER TRAVERS (ROLLING STONE)

Carcass Nuclear Blast When bands attempt to recapture the magic of yore—usually after a lengthy hiatus, or perhaps straying from their roots—it can get ugly. And sad. British death-metalists Carcass went out with sort of a whimper on 1996’s Swansong, an album that gelled with the times rather than slice through the bullshit. Surgical Steel, the band’s first release in 18 years, doesn’t come across as a desperate attempt to reclaim former glory—this thing makes good on its title, slicing and dicing with the precision of a scalpel. Carcass continue with their obsession with the grotesque on songs like “Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System,” which mixes horrific imagery with blast beats, dual guitar leads and Jeff Walker’s bestial growl. And the breakdown riff in “The Master Butcher’s Apron” will hook itself deep into your tympanic membrane (since we’re getting technical). With Surgical Steel, Carcass have not only lanced the glaring blemish of Swansong, they’ve also re-established the idea that classic death metal doesn’t need any embellishment. All that matters is what’s on the inside, and Carcass gladly will show you in great detail.

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Amy Webb wanted to be married with children, and playing the odds as a 30-something simply wasn’t producing any results. Each “match” she found via online dating sites such as jdate.com and match.com resulted in dates with men who seemed to be the exact opposite of the kind she was looking for. One man referred to her as his girlfriend 20 minutes into their first date. Another left her with an insanely large restaurant bill and proceeded to smoke a joint as they were leaving. After what seemed like a very pleasant date with a doctor ended in him getting a phone call from his wife, Webb decided to “game” the world of online dating by creating a specialized algorithm to suit her needs. In Data, A Love Story (available in paperback Dec. 31), Webb explains how she developed a point system of scoring profiles, and it worked in weeding out men who were obvious mismatches.

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Unreleased Art: Vol. VIII Art Pepper Widow’s Taste Records The latest release by Laurie Pepper of her late husband, alto saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-82), was recorded Sept. 6, 1976, at the Paul Masson Mountain Winery (now called The Mountain Winery) in Saratoga. The hour-long CD captures the afternoon set by Pepper—whom Village Voice writer Gary Giddins called “the great white bebopper”—and his Bay Area sidemen: Smith Dobson, piano; Jim Nichols, bass; and Brad Bilhorn, drums. Pepper’s coruscating tone dominates the first track, a blazing version of the Juan Tizol classic “Caravan,” on which he skitters around the theme for 90 seconds before digging into the tune.

Pepper excelled at fast tempos and he doesn’t pull any punches here; ditto Dobson, who proves himself Pepper’s equal. Pepper loved ballads, too, and “Here’s That Rainy Day” was a favorite. Taken at a very relaxed tempo, it shows his gentler side; Dobson’s solo is so remarkable that an emotional Pepper says, “It got to me; that’s what people are talking about when they say ‘jazz’.” “What Laurie Likes” is a funkified number that he liked to play for dancers. “Straight Life” (also the title of his 1979 autobiography) is more high-speed goods.

Pepper’s subsequent East Coast tour brought him back into a welldeserved spotlight and he recorded a batch of LPs that further established his reputation.

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see. But most of its lively virtues and strengths are in the details and on the margins. At its heart, this three-hour extravaganza rings rather hollow. by The sources of its greatest Juan-Carlos appeal include a supercharged Selznick lead performance from Leonardo DiCaprio; stylishly frenzied direction by Martin Scorsese; a penchant for bravura scenes and eccentric set pieces; a distinctly contemporary topicality (Wall Street scammers); and a large and quirky supporting cast, with particularly pungent contributions from Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill and

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comic-ironic tone to this tale of reckless ambition, rampant corruption and wretched excess.

Scorsese and company take due note of the corruption and the wretched decline, legal and otherwise, but the ebullience and flash of the title character seem to have the upper hand in the film’s overall presentation.

DiCaprio does dazzling work in evoking the many faces that Belfort presents to the world in this spectacle of big-bucks careering run amok. But the movie seems to celebrate the guy’s indefatigable brilliance above all else, and Belfort’s gift for exploiting delusions, including his own, seems to matter more than the social, legal and moral consequences of his exultantly expansive bamboozlements.

At times, Scorsese’s Wolf seems so much in love with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll that the larger moral distinctions will never get a

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The Wolf of Wall Street

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Joanna Lumley and Matthew McConaughey.

Directed by Martin Scorsese.

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

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Opening this week Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Entry No. 5 in the found-footage style horror series focuses on a young man who becomes “marked” and pursued by supernatural forces. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Now playing 47 Ronin

Keanu Reeves stars as the leader of 47 samurai in this update of the 18th-century Japanese tale of the group of warriors’ quest for revenge and defense of the honor of their slain master. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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American Hustle

American Hustle is a sardonically comical caper movie, a semipicaresque period piece set among con artists, influence peddlers, political fixers, etc., in the late 1970s. Banking scams, FBI stings, Mafia politics, governmental corruption, fashion excesses, and elaborate double-crosses all have roles to play. It’s a beguiling tale, with a nicely timed set of surprise twists laid out along the way. But what makes this one of the best films of the year is mostly a matter of superb, beautifully directed performances from a fine cast, including especially its four leading players. The key figures here are a sleazy entrepreneur/con man (Christian Bale), a frenetically ambitious young FBI agent (Bradley Cooper), a gifted quick-change artist (Amy Adams), and the Bale character’s hilariously erratic wife (Jennifer Lawrence). Bale is especially brilliant—giving unexpected shades of emotion and intelligence to a character who at first seems merely a mild comicgrotesque character. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Still classy a decade later, Ron Burgundy (Will Farrell) and the rest of the news team (Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner) rise from the ashes of their failed careers and join the ranks of a new 24-hour news network. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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Joanna Lumley.

But some of the film’s most striking aspects are allied, in the long run, with its abiding weaknesses. McConaughey’s early “tutorial” scene with DiCaprio is a darkly comical tour de force that just might be the single best moment in the entire film, but the intense articulation of character and theme of this scene goes unmatched through the film’s final two-thirds. And, except in spirit, McConaughey’s devilishly charming broker is absent from the rest of the movie.

A bigger problem resides in Scorsese’s directorial approach.

Working with screenwriter Terence Winter’s adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s book about his own rise and fall as the eponymous “Wolf,” Scorsese brings rambunctious pacing and a hyped-up

chance to register. This production has a real flair for over-the-top drug comedy, and there’s something almost heroic about even the most wretched of the excesses it depicts.

The film’s moral quandary is reflected in the character of a pointedly incorruptible FBI agent (played with deadpan conviction by Kyle Chandler). He shrugs off Belfort’s efforts to bribe him, but the last time we see this character (after Belfort’s day of legal reckoning), it’s clear that he’s remembering Belfort’s taunts and maybe wondering if his rectitude on a civil-servant’s salary is really worth it. Chandler’s Agent Patrick Denham is a rare moral beacon in this film, but the film gives no more respect to him than it does to the fallen Belfort at the end of this oddly baroque saga.

All in all, the energy and intricacy of this off-kilter concoction are enough for me to cut it some slack, even with the reservations expressed above. Maybe it helps to think of the thing as an alternate (and to me preferable) version of The Great Gatsby as “updated” by DiCaprio and Baz Luhrmann. Ω

The new Disney computer-animated feature is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Snow Queen. In the film, a young princess embarks on an epic journey to find her sister—the Snow Queen—whose magical powers have buried the kingdom in a never-ending winter. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Grudge Match

Two old actors—Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone—star as two old boxers who come out of retirement to step into the ring and settle a 30-year grudge. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The action picks up from where we left off in part one of director Peter Jackson’s three-film adaptation of The Hobbit, with Gandolf (Ian McKellen), Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and the dwarf posse setting off to the evil woods of Mirkwood and a confrontation with the foul dragon Smaug in the hall of the former mountain king. But first they have to confront giant spiders, rampaging orcs and cranky elves before barrel-riding on down into the degraded village of Laketown. As the second entry in the sprawling narrative, it’s mostly setting up the characters who will serve their function in the conclusion next year. When Bilbo and crew arrive to confront Smaug, the film settles down into a fine-tuned hum.

Obviously, as an epic, it’s not as subtextually satisfying as the The Lord of the Rings trilogy, because it wasn’t intended to be an epic. But one feels that when this trilogy is completed, it’ll serve nicely as the run-up to Jackson’s true masterwork. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

ing, but suffers in that it gets us only to the midway point of a story that ends in 2015. We rejoin Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) as they spend some quality time hunting in the woods while the second narrative arc kicks in. It seems that President Snow (Donald Sutherland) isn’t too happy with Katniss and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) escaping his deadly machinations and sowing the seeds of revolution, so he brings in the ultimate game-designer (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to whip up something to clear the slate of all the past winners of the Hunger Games. So it’s back into the arena, and this time the emphasis is more on the game versus the competitors, than the competitors going after each other. We are never given anything but a rudimentary introduction to most of them, so as the casualties pile up, any connection with the characters existing as anything other than clay pigeons rings hollow. However, the film does move along cracklingly enough for a 2 1/2hour entertainment. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

Justin Bieber’s Believe

A concert-tour/bio documentary in the vein of 2011’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

A Madea Christmas

Tyler Perry is back in drag as the sassy, pistol-packing granny this time on a Christmas adventure in the country. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Nebraska

The new picture from Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways, Citizen Ruth) is filmed in widescreen black-and-white, and most of it has the bleakness of the central plains in late winter. Storywise, much of it is a sort of start-and-stop (and start again) road movie in which an unhappy young man (Will Forte) indulges the wishes of his aged father to travel from Billings, Mont., to Lincoln, Neb., for an in-person submission of what he assumes to be the prize-winning number in the lottery run by a mail-order subscription service. The quixotic nature of this endeavor is essential to the pathos and contrasting charms of father and son alike, but that fool’s errand also puts both men on paths toward tentative regeneration—modest but real—for their respective stalled lives. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Out of the Furnace

The new film from Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) mixes violent action with some sensitively written (and very well-acted) character drama. Brutal violence pretty much gets the first and last word in this case, but the character of Russell Baze and Christian Bale’s very fine performance in the role are likely to be the things that stay with you after the bloodletting has stopped. The story revolves around Bale’s character, a steel-mill worker in a decaying Rust Belt town, and his wayward younger brother, Rodney (Casey Affleck), an Iraq war vet (four stints) trying to fast-start his bankroll via gambling and bare-knuckle boxing matches. A sad-sack barowner/gambler/promoter (Willem Dafoe) gets Rodney a high-stakes match in the domain of a terrifying backwoods crime boss (Woody Harrelson) ruling over an “inbred” clan of hillbilly psychopaths, and when Dafoe and Affleck’s characters fail to return from their venture among the “inbreds,” Russell and his steadfast uncle (Sam Shepard) take action. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Saving Mr. Banks

A comedy/drama directed by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) and loosely based on the negotiations between Australian author P.L. Travers (played by Emma Thompson) and Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) over screen rights to her Mary Poppins novels. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Ben Stiller directs an stars in this adaptation of James Thurber’s famous short story about the heroic daydreamer Walter Mitty. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

Walking with Dinosaurs

Realistic-looking CGI-animated dinosaurs are set against a live-action backdrop in this tale of a young, awkward pachyrhinosaurus who grows up to lead his herd on an epic adventure. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

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The Wolf of Wall Street

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

As a bridge, Catching Fire is in itself entertain-

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OUT WITH THE OLD WORDS A picture of 2013 is worth 555 words from a

year’s worth of Arts DEVO:

• The election is over. The End of Days passed us by. The Jersey Shore has been canceled. Post-2012 life is pretty sweet.

• That specific unrestrained, kinda noisy, uncomplicated, fun, universal chord that resonates with my natural frequency. (I call it J-major, the J chord, the Jason button …)

• This weekend kicks off Chico’s four-month-long puke-a-punch-apapilloma-thon.

Calling all performance artists, sword swallowers, musicians, mimes, thespians, magicians, competitive eaters, ballerinas, Olympic curlers, contortionists, one-man bands, mind readers, chainsaw jugglers, spelling-bee champs, interpretive dancers, slam poets, organ grinders, and everyone else with a talent for keeping Chico weird … the Chico News & Review wants to put you on the stage for the

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• Leave your knife at home. I get it. Your knife is super sweet! Now that we agree on that, leave it in the dartboard.

• How badass is it to have in our midst a news anchor who made a rap album called Gangsta Planz?!

• “I bought a knife from you last Friday night. Just wanted to say you seem like a pretty awesome kind of guy.”

• There is shit, and there is Shinola. As it was and ever shall be. I just try to keep my eyes on the flowers and keep my nose open and my shoes as clean as possible.

• Now, as much as I believe that sometimes a firm sock in the crotch can greatly reduce one’s dickishness, I don’t think getting physical with these particularly stiff members of the Protect Marriage lobby would do anything but bolster their cause. However, maybe if a judge or nine were willing to punch some D, we could start down the road of being a less dickish country.

• Like everyone else, I have my preferred styles of music, and not every genre moves me. But what is consistent from showcase to showcase, and from band to band, in Chico, is how much I enjoy the people making music of every style. I’ve always said that musicians are my favorite kind of people, and it’s in Chico where that notion was born and has been nurtured.

Happy New Year, Chico!

• Who’s going to update the Sniffle Scale?!

• Did you know cherries can be an extremely effective diuretic? I did.

But that didn’t stop me from eating the fresh, sweet fruit for breakfast, lunch and dinner all day long …

• My journalism school was right here at this paper, and I learned how to write and edit and look at the world as a reporter from all the editors and writers I’ve shared my time with here.

• And there’s no better oil than the emulsified goodness running through deer brains, and lucky for the kids there was a skull full of such treasure lying at their feet. So Ranger Hannibal Lecter then invited the youngsters to dip their hands right in and …

• Just standing in the garden gets my happy juices flowing as much as running, or playing music, or drinking happy juice. Now, a day without getting my hands dirty is an incomplete day.

• Prohibiting live music in restaurants that serve alcohol? What’s the police chief been drinking? … Is there anyone other than book-burning preachers who actually believes this will have any result other than destroying art and business?

• Art runs deep in Chico, and we are all tapped into it.

• Keeping Chico weird is the guiding principle behind this column.

• And thank you … for instigating a conversation, making me think and keeping me honest.

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spotted a guy driving a pickup truck weaving through traffic, sticking his head out the window, looking up.

The pickup truck looked like it had been splattered randomly with buckets of black tar and dented by hammers and other blunt objects—which it had, because it was a roofing truck. The guy driving was John James Miskella, and he was looking up because he was looking at roofs. Half of the roofs around town had been installed by John James or his father before him, and he kept his eye on them like a dad watching over his kids.

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I had called John James in behalf of my first-time buyers Dion and Alma Sarafino, to provide a roof report for the house they were buying.

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“A report?” he said on the phone. “I can tell you right now the doggone place needs a new roof. When they built that subdivision they hired out-of-towners who slapped those roofs on with cheap materials and hit the road. The ridge shingles are warped and cracked, and the valley flashings are rusted through. Those roofs are dying prematurely.”

YOU’RE WELCOME, NATURE.

I now stood in front of the house when John James pulled up. He slid the ladder out of the truck, leaned it against the rafters and lunged

up to the roof like a panther. I lumbered up behind him.

He kneeled at the peak of the roof and moved his hands lightly along the shingles as if he were gauging the health of a sick beast.

“What a shame,” he said. “Like I said, it needs a new roof. And I would feel better about the whole doggone thing if that separate patio roof got replaced, too. They used cheap roll roofing on it instead of hot tar.”

I wrote up a repair request. The seller agreed to replace the main roof but not the separate patio roof. Dion and Alma were disappointed.

“The patio roof will cost as much as three house payments,” said Dion,” but let’s move ahead.”

A week later I met at the house with Dion and Alma as John James was finishing up his job.

“Now that’s a good roof,” said John James.

“Wait a minute,” said Alma, “isn’t that a new patio roof?”

John James nodded.

“But that’s not being paid for,” she said.

“I know,” said John James Miskella, “but now I feel better about the whole doggone thing.”

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1822 Magnolia (X St: W.8th Ave) 2 Bd / 1 Ba, 1044 Sq.Ft. $209,900 Frank “Speedy” Condon 864-7726

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562 White Ave (X St: Tom Polk) 2 Bd / 1 Ba, 1,004 Sq.Ft. $178,888 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

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ficTiTious Business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as G AND J PROPERTIES at 830 W Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

GAIL UJIKI RIGG 4003 Valley Haven Dr Kingwood, TX 77339 JEAN EIKO UJIKI-WALKER 830 W Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JEAN UJIKI-WALKER Dated: December 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001558 Published: December 12,19,26, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as B STREET OYSTER at 117 Broadway St Chico, CA 95928.

XIBANYA INC 134 W 2nd St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ADAM SAMORANO, SECRETARY Dated: December 3, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001534 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FAIR STREET RECYCLING at 2300 Fair Street Chico, CA 95928.

WORK TRAINING CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED, INC 2255 Fair St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JERRY MORANO, MANAGER Dated: November 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001513 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: DONNELLS 2 COOL MUSIC at 932B W. 8th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

KENNETH D. DONNELL 105 Ayoob Dr. Greenville, CA 95947.

MARTIN E. DONNELL 105 Ayoob Dr. Greenville, CA 95947.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KENNETH D DONNELL Dated: November 25, 2013 FBN Number: 2012-0001198 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AAA AND D FARMS at 2 Florence Lane Chico, CA 95926.

DARYL D ALBERICO 6357 Country Road 48 Willows, CA 95988.

RUSSELL A ALBERICO 2255 Dixon Street Chico, CA 95926.

KARLA K DREISS 2 Florence Lane Chico, CA 95926.

THE ALBERICO LIVING TRUST SURVIVING SPOUSES TRUST 1351 East Lassen Ave #106 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KARLA DREISS Dated: December 2, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001531 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTH VALLEY PRODUCE at 1747 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

STEVEN SCHUMAN 1747 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STEVEN SCHUMAN Dated: November 14, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001467 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MCKINLEY ENGINEERING at 1 Shimmering Oak Court Chico, CA 95926.

FRANCIS MCKINLEY 1 Shimmering Oak Court Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: FRANCIS MCKINLEY Dated: December 2, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001526 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE VIRTUAL TOURS COMPANY at 6150 Pentz Road Paradise, CA 95969.

KIMBERLY MICHAELS 6150 Pentz Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIMBERLY MICHAELS Dated: November 21, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001499 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRANA ENDURA THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE at 392 Connors Ct, STE C Chico, CA 95926.

JENNIFER L MILLER CMT

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1301 Sheridan Ave #67 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JENNIFER L MILLER, CMT Dated: November 14, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001464 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 3, 2014

P.O. Box 3320 Chico, CA 95927.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MATTHEW YORK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dated: December 5, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001548 Published: December 19, 26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY, KW COMMERCIAL at 1196 E. Lassen Ave STE 130 Chico, CA 95973.

BCHM CORPORATION 1196 E. Lassen Ave STE 130 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Corporation.

Signed: JOANNE MADLUNG, CEO Dated: December 4, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001540 Published: December 12,19,26, January 2, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TRICOGENT BEHAVIORAL CONSULTING at 2931 Grape Way Chico, CA 95973.

LYNN MARIE BAKER 2931 Grape Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LYNN M. BAKER Dated: December 6, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001552 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SLEEP DIAGNOSTICS OF PARADISE at 6585 Clark Rd Suite 200 Paradise, CA 95969 MEHRDAD RAZAVI 5 Bon Air Rd Suite C-116 Larkspur, CA 94939.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MEHRDAD RAZAVI Dated: December 2, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001525 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SLEEP DIAGNOSTICS OF CHICO at 35 Jan Ct Suite 150 Chico, CA 95928.

MEHRDAD RAZAVI 5 Bon Air Rd Suite C-116 Larkspur, CA 94939.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MEHRDAD RAZAVI Dated: December 2, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001524 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE NATURALLY BALANCED DOG at 747 Lawn Drive Chico, CA 95973.

KIM LOUISE GROOM 747 Lawn Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIM LOUISE GROOM Dated: November 27, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001521 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CRYSTAL RAINBOW BAND, LILLY DIAMOND, LILLY DIAMOND BAND at 1510 10th Street Oroville, CA 95965.

MARGARET D. O’DONNELL 1510 10th Street Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Singed: MARGARET D. O’DONNELL Dated: December 10, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001570 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COMFORT ZONE HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING at 12152 River Road Chico, CA 95973.

DONALD R WILEY 12152 River Road Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DONALD R WILEY Dated: December 11, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001578 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AWARDS COMPANY at 424 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

JOE SCILIGO 1457 Keri Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOE SCILIGO Dated: November 26, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001517 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OMPT, ONE MEDIA PLAYER PER TEACHER, POLDER INC at 1350 East 9th Street Chico, CA 95928.

POLDER INC

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: AWARDS COMPANY at 424 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

J UJIKI INC 424 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JEAN UJIKI-WALKER, GENERAL MANAGING PARTNER Dated: December 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2009-0000828 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SERVICE MASTER SELECT at 3881 Benater Way #B Chico, CA 95928.

RESTORATION GROUP INCORPORATED 2662 Tarmac Road Redding, CA 96003.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ROBERT CRONIC, PRES Dated: November 22, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001503 Published” December 19,26, January 2,9, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE GHOST LIFE, THE VISIONARY ARTS at 122 Peak View Drive Oroville, CA 95966.

BRIAN SANCHEZ 122 Peak View Drive Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRIAN SANCHEZ Dated: December 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001559 Published: December 26, 2013, January 2,9,16, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN ENERGY CONSTRUCTION at 2654 HWY 32 STE 1300 Chico, CA 95973.

MICHAEL THOMAS GROSBERG 3168 Aloha Ln Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIKE GROSBERG Dated: December 17, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001600 Published: December 26, 2013, January 2,9,16, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: GREEN ENERGY CONSTRUCTION at 2954 Hwy 32, Suite 1300 Chico, CA 95973.

STEPHEN M MCNULTY 3075 Coronado Road Chico, CA 95973.

MICHAEL T GROSBERG 3168 Aloha Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MIKE GROSBERG Dated: December 17, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000748 Published: December 26, 2013, January 2,9,16, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STREAMLINE DESIGN at 890 East 9th Street #14 Chico, CA 95928.

JENEANNE CHATOFF 890 East 9th Street #14 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JENEANNE CHATOFF Dated: November 22, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001505 Published: December 26, 2013, January 2,9,16, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DJ PHG at 433 Cherry Street #2 Chico, CA 95926.

GRANT C. PARKS 433 Cherry Street #2 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GRANT C. PARKS Dated: November 21, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001501 Published: December 26, 2013, January 2,9,16, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LAKE OROVILLE GOLD COUNTRY RV COMMUNITY at 3864 Olive Hwy Oroville, CA 95966.

WAY OUT WEST COMMUNITIES CORPORATION P.O. Box 689 Fallon, NV 89407.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: NICOLE ADAMS, SECRETARY/CFO Dated: December 12, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001588 Published: December 26, 2013, January 2,9,16, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ECLECTIC MARKETING at 1074 San Ramon Dr Chico, CA 95973.

SHELBY SANDERS 1074 San Ramon Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHELBY SANDERS Dated: December 6, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001556 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SKZ PHOTOGRAPHY at 851 Victorian Park Dr Chico, CA 95926.

SHIANNE ZERLANG 851 Victorian Park Dr Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHIANNE ZERLANG Dated: December 10, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001574 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CITIZENS ACTION NETWORK, FRACK-FREE BUTTE COUNTY at 2965 Madre De Oro Pl Oroville, CA 95965.

KAREN DUNCANWOOD 6656 Pentz Rd #56 Paradise, CA 95969.

DAVE GARCIA 128 Via Las Lupes Yankee Hill, CA 95965.

CHARLES GREENWOOD 128 Grimy Gulch Bangor, CA 95914.

JONI STELLAR 2965 Madre De Oro Pl Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Unincorporated Association.

Signed: JONI STELLAR Dated: December 13, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0001594 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: PCMD PC TREATMENT CENTER at 2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

NICOLETTE BATTENFIELD 355 E Lassen Ave #5 Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NICOLETTE BATTENFIELD Dated: December 23, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000782 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2013

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MIGUEL A. VELETA GONZALEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KEVIN SORRELS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: AIDEN JOSEPH MINTON Proposed name: AIDEN JOSEPH SORRELS 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: January 29, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: December 9, 2013 Case Number: 161034 Published: December 19,26, 2013, January 2,9, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHLEEN V STARR

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The Name of the applicant is: XIDONG JIANG The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 951 Nord Ave Ste 2 Chico, CA 95926-4305 Type of license applied for: 41 - On-Sale Beer And Wine Eating Place Dated: December 5, 2013 Published: January 2, 2014

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follows: Present name: IRENE GUADALUPE VELETA GONZALEZ Proposed name: IRENE GUADALUPE VELETA BETTENCOURT 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: January 22, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBD The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: December 3, 2013 Case Number: 160933 Published: December 12,19,26, 2013, January 2, 2014

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filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: AAREN INLOW STARR Proposed name: AAREN INLOW THOMAS STARR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 26, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 17, 2013 Case Number: 161100 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARGARET DOLORES (DELORES) O’DONNELL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARGARET DOLORES (DELORES) O’DONNELL Proposed name: LADY MARGARET WATTS SCHNEIDER VALLIER MARKS O’DONNELL THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 19, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: December 24, 2013 Case Number: 161154 Published: January 2,9,16,23, 2014

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Deep bronzes and smoky cinnamons and dark chocolates will be your lucky colors in 2014. Mellow mahoganies and resonant russets will work well for you, too. They will all be part of life’s conspiracy to get you to slow down, deepen your perspective and slip into the sweetest groove ever. In this spirit, I urge you to nestle and cuddle and caress more than usual in the coming months. If you aren’t totally clear on where home is, either in the external world or inside your heart, devote yourself to finding it. Hone your emotional intelligence. Explore your roots. On a regular basis, remember your reasons for loving life. Stay in close touch with the sources that feed your wild soul.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For years, French painter Édouard Manet and French poet Stéphane Mallarmé hung out with each other every day. Mallarmé referred to their relationship as “the most complete friendship.” They influenced each other to become better artists and human beings. I’m guessing that in the coming months, Taurus, you’ll thrive on that kind of stimulating companionship. Having such regular contact with a like-minded ally might even be an important factor in ripening your intelligence. At the very least, I predict that soulful friendship will be a crucial theme in 2014. You will attract blessings and generate luck for yourself by deepening your ability to cultivate synergistic bonds.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): St. Peter’s

Basilica is a very old church in Vatican City.

It contains a life-size bronze statue of St. Peter that is at least 700 years old. Over the centuries, countless visitors have paid their respects by kissing and touching the feet of the idol. The metal composing the right foot has been so thoroughly worn down by these gestures that the individual toes have disappeared, leaving a smooth surface. You will have a similar kind of power in 2014, Gemini.

Little by little, with your steady affection and relentless devotion, you can transform what’s rigid and hard.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Big rivers

don’t travel in straight lines. Their paths are curvy and complicated, with periodic turns and bends. In some places, they flow faster, and in others, they’re slower. Their depth and width may vary along the way, too. Your own destiny is like one of those big rivers, Cancerian. In some years, it meanders for long stretches, slowing down as it wanders along a crooked course. It may even get shallower and narrower for a while. But I expect that in 2014, you will be moving more rapidly than usual. You will be traveling a more direct route, and you will be both wide and deep.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “In games there

are rules,” writes science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, “but in life the rules keep changing.” This is always true, of course, but I think it will be an especially poignant truth for you between now and your next birthday.

During the coming months, you may sometimes feel as if every last law and formula and corollary is mutating. In some cases, the new rules coming into play will be so different from the old rules you’ve been used to, they may at first be hard to figure out. But now here’s the happy ending: It may take a while, but you will eventually see that these new rules have an unexpected logic and beauty that will serve your future well.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that you will commit no major acts of self-sabotage in 2014. Congrats! I also foresee that you will be exceptionally careful not to hurt or damage yourself. Hooray! More good news: You won’t be as critical of yourself as you have sometimes been in the past. The judgmental little voice in the back of your head won’t be nearly as active. Yay! Even your negative emotions will diminish in frequency and intensity. Hallelujah! Whoopee!

Abracadabra!

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by Rob Brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The citizens of

Iceland love literature, but many are not content to simply read. One out of every 10 Icelanders writes and publishes a book at sometime in his or her life. I know it’s unrealistic, but I would love to see at least one in 10 of all my Libra readers do the same in 2014. I think you’re ready to make a big statement¡ªto express yourself in a more complete and dramatic way than ever before. If you’re not ready to write a book, I hope you will attempt an equivalent accomplishment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m hoping you will find a new teacher or two in 2014, maybe even a mentor. Not a guru who tells you what to do. Not an exploitative “expert” who claims to know what’s right for you or a charismatic narcissist who collects adoration. What I wish for you, Scorpio, is that you will connect with wise and humble sources of inspiration, with lifelong learners who listen well and stimulate you to ask good questions, with curious guides who open your eyes to resources you don’t realize you need. In the coming months, you are primed to launch a quest that will keep you busy and excited for years; I’d love to see you get excellent help in framing that quest.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In

2014, it’s possible you will be given a cabbage farm or a petting zoo or some bequest that’s not exactly in close alignment with your life’s purpose. But it’s more likely that the legacies and dispensations you receive will be quite useful. The general trend is that allies will make available to you a steady flow of useful things. Your ability to attract what you need will be high. In the coming months, I may even have good reason to name you an honorary Scorpio. You might match those Great Manipulators’ proficiency at extracting the essence of what you want from every situation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Would you be interested in a motto that will help set the tone for you in 2014? I’ve got a suggestion that’s in alignment with the astrological omens. It’s from a poem by Margaret Atwood. Try saying this and see if it works for you: “Last year I abstained / this year I devour / without guilt / which is also an art.”

If you choose to make this affirmation your own, be sure you don’t forget about the fact that devouring without guilt is an art¡ªa skill that requires craft and sensitivity. You can’t afford to get blindly instinctual and greedy in 2014; you shouldn’t compulsively overcompensate for 2013’s deprivations. Be cagey and discerning as you satisfy your voracious hunger.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The

coming months will be a good time to meditate on the concepts of happy accidents and benevolent trouble. Go ahead and throw constructive mischief into the mix, too, and maybe even a dose of graceful chaos. Are you game for playing around with so much paradox? Are you willing to entertain the possibility that fate has generous plans for you that are too unexpected to anticipate?

There’s only one requirement that you have to meet in order to receive your odd gifts in the spirit in which they’ll be offered: You’ve got to be open-minded, eager to learn and flexible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I think we

humans need some new emotions. It’s true that old standards like sadness, anger, jealousy and fear are as popular as ever. But I would personally love to be able to choose from a greater variety, especially if at least 51 percent of the new crop of emotions were positive or inspiring. Now it so happens that in 2014 you Pisceans will be primed to be pioneers. Your emotional intelligence should be operating at peak levels. Your imagination will be even more fertile than usual. So how about it? Are you ready to generate revolutionary innovations in the art of feeling unique and interesting feelings? To get started, consider these: 1. amused reverence, 2. poignant excitement, 3. tricky sincerity, 4. boisterous empathy.

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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Vic Cantu

Since childhood, 31-year-old Anthony Bennett has loved playing games of all types. Now, he’s turned his hobby into his dream job. Less than two months ago he was working a “regular” job as an accountant, but today he and his wife Carla are the proud owners of a new gaming store in Chico called Heroes Corner Games & Merchandise (1380 East Ave.), in the East Avenue Safeway shopping center. They’re the new kids on the local gaming block and you can find out more about the store online at www.heroes cornergames.com or by calling 774-2409.

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I grew up in Paradise and there was generally nothing for me, my wife and friends to do. It’s extremely hilly and hard to get around on foot or bike. So in high school we played games a lot—board games, Dungeons & Dragons, trivia nights, even scavenger hunts. I created a zombie board game and, after much effort, couldn’t get a publisher interested. So my wife suggested we open a gaming store to sell it when it’s finished and get extra income. I couldn’t do both jobs, so I quit accounting.

What’s your store’s main emphasis?

Magic: The Gathering is our biggest attraction for both organized games and products. But we do a little of everything: fantasy games, board games, books, T-shirts and more. We like to promote social games, where people interact face-to-face, instead of solitary video games.

You can even rent our games—which might cost $40 new—for only $5 for three days.

Several of the other game stores in Chico were

very niche, only doing things like Magic. No one did it all, and I felt we could be that store.

How’s business so far?

It’s been very good since we started in midSeptember. We have weekly tournaments with 15-25 players. Three people here today are regulars that drive from Oroville. This weekend, we had two carloads of Magic players caravan from here to Oakland for a big Magic tournament.

What are your demographics?

Mostly 15- to 30-year-olds. Our Magic games are 95 percent male, but the board games are 50-50 male to female because they’re mostly for fun and not as intense.

What’s the attraction to Heroes Corner?

The Friday tournaments are set up by the national Magic corporation, and allow stores to give out special promo prizes as long as they end at midnight … [and] some players who played at the downtown stores felt unsafe walking around there.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter anthonypeytonporter@comcast.net

Ancestry My father, John Peyton Porter, died 42 years ago. I had taken my wife to work and was back home getting ready for my job when my mother called and said, “Pete passed.” He’d been in a coma for days.

I doubt that anybody else ever thinks about the day Pete died. All his friends are long dead, and he never even mentioned relatives, much less visited them, except once.

He took me to meet some cousins of his when I was 10 or 11. All I remember is that the apartment was dark and so were they. He never talked about his parents or any siblings, and I never thought to ask. I was a silly ass.

For years, I’ve wanted to know something about my father’s family—anything. I mentioned my desire to a friend of mine who mentioned it to a genealogical researcher, and now I know a few things, which makes me want to know more.

Spencer, my great grandfather, was born in January, 1850, in Autauga County, Ala., on James Porter’s plantation. He probably walked to Mobile after the Civil War, where he married Ann about 1870. Ann seems to have been born in Virginia about 1855 and was likely sold to somebody in Alabama. I’d like to know about that.

In May 1899, Spencer and Ann Porter’s son—also named Spencer—married Edna Nins in Mobile, Ala., after paying the outlandish sum of $200 for the privilege. I have copies of their marriage certificate and the note written by the elder Spencer and Edna’s mother giving their consent. That takes me back, and I’ve never been there to begin with. I can’t imagine how long it took black people to amass that much money in 1899 Alabama, and Edna and Spencer managed it only three months before my father was born in August of that year.

I knew that Pete had been on his own early in life, and that sounds right since his father died in 1913. I don’t know what happened to his mother, Edna, and I suspect Spencer’s death marked the end of Pete’s childhood.

I have a copy of Pete’s Selective Service registration card from September 1918, and it has introduced an element of mystery and wonder. He was 19, the same age my youngest is now, and was working as a presser, probably for a tailor. He was later a tailor himself for some years, and maybe that’s how he got started. The mystery arises because he spelled his middle name Payton, a first in my experience, and unrepeated as far as I can tell. The wonder is that his signature at 19 was the same as it was at 70. And I’m just getting started.

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“Birds & Books” Opening Mixer at Patrick Ranch Pacific Flyway Wildlife Art Exhibit & Reception ‘Gathering of Wings’ Banquet & Silent Auction Keynote Speaker, Debi Shearwater

Welcome to the 15th Annual Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway Millions of waterfowl migrating along the Pacific Flyway call the Northern Sacramento Valley their home during the winter months, creating ample viewing opportunities for bird and nature enthusiasts of all ages. You are invited to join us at the 15th Annual Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway, one of the premier birding events in California, for an action-packed five days celebrating this annual phenomenon.

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Anderson River Park 2800 Rupert Rd, Anderson 530-378-6656 Exit off I-5 N at Central Anderson/Lassen National Park, Turn right onto Balls Ferry Rd, Turn left onto Stingy Ln, Take the 1st right onto Rupert Rd. Destination will be on the right. Meet at the Anderson Park Amphitheatre parking lot.

Avenue 9 Gallery & Art Guild (A9) 180 E. 9th Ave., Chico, 530-879-1821 There is ample free parking on the corner of 9th Avenue and Oleander for the Friday January 24 Art Reception.

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Bell Memorial Union, CSU, Chico (BMU) Corner of 2nd and Chestnut streets, Chico, 530-898-4636 From U.S. Hwy 99, take the East First Avenue Exit. Proceed west on East First Avenue following signs to the campus. After approximately 1.5 miles, turn left on Esplanade and drive into downtown Chico. Turn right at 2nd Street, then three blocks to the corner of 2nd Street and Chestnut Street. If coming from Hwy 32, turn east at the W. 2nd Street stoplight. The BMU is on the left, six blocks down on the corner of 2nd and Chestnut streets. Free Parking on weekends at Chico State’s parking structure and on lots across the street from the BMU. Bidwell Mansion Visitor’s Center (BMVC) 525 Esplanade, Chico, 530-895-6144 From Highway 99 take East First Avenue exit and head west. Turn Left on Esplanade.

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Chico Creek Nature Center (CcNc) 1968 E. 8th Street, Chico Phone: 530-891-4671 Fax: 530-891-0837 Email: info@bidwellpark.org Directions from Chico: Take exit #385 toward Chester/Orland-Hwy. 32. Continue to follow hwy 32-east and take the first left right after Hwy. overpass. Turn left at E. 8th St.

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15th Annual Snow Goose Festival FIELD TRIPS AND WORKSHOPS

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“Gathering of Wings”

Banquet & Silent Auction Saturday, January 25, 2014 5:30 - 10:00 pm Bell Memorial Union Auditorium, CSU, Chico, CA

Corner of 2nd and Chestnut Streets, Chico, CA Cost per Person: $37 Adult, $20 Youth (17 years and younger) and students with ID Beer & Wine (No Host) Don’t miss the biggest event of the Snow Goose Festival, our Gathering of Wings Banquet. This treasured evening is a mix of great food, great company and great entertainment and is anticipated by many as the one chance per year they have to visit and catch up with fellow birders and friends in Debi the community. Join field Shearwater, trip leaders, workshop professional presenters and all our seabirder hard-working committee and owner members and volunteers Shearwater in celebrating this special Journeys evening.

Special Guest & Keynote Speaker

We are excited and pleased to have pelagic birding pioneer, Debi Shearwater, present this year’s keynote address, “40 Years of Seabirding.” From field guides to national marine sanctuaries to seabirds saved and seabirds on the brink, Debi will share experiences and insights gained from thousands of days at sea off the central coast of California to the ends of the Earth – the High Arctic and Antarctica. Debi will demonstrate how changes in the way humans view seabirds has affected their lives and existence. Her illustrated talk will also provide ways people can help save some of the most endangered and magnificent birds on Earth.

Debi is the owner of Monterey-based Shearwater Journeys, and has been leading boat tours to view seabirds in Monterey Bay, Half Moon Bay, and the Farallon Islands since 1975. She is renowned throughout the birding world for her expertise on pelagic birds and continues to lead 40 tours a year in California as well as tours in other parts of the world, including Antarctica.

Debi was the inspiration for Anjelica Huston’s character, “Annie Auklet,” in the 2011 movie The Big Year, a major motion picture about competitive birding co-starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson.

We are looking forward to Debi’s participation in our 15th Annual Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway and encourage you to join us at the banquet to hear her presentation!

Silent Auction Begins at 5:30 p.m.

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Marathon Big Day Birding in Yuba County SOLD OUT

Historic Llano Seco Rancho: Wildlife & Habitat Conservation

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Thu 6:00 am - 5:00 pm

Winter Raptors SOLD OUT Thu 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Rancho Esquon

Thu 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Thu 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm

This is a “behind the gates” opportunity to visit the historic Llano Seco Rancho where thousands of acres of wildlife habitat attracts wintering waterfowl, Sandhill Cranes, a variety of raptors. Dress warmly, bring a warm beverage, and do bring your binoculars -- we may have a chance to see hundreds of wintering ducks, geese, and Sandhill Cranes! This tour leaves the ranch after dark. A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Owl Banding & Survey at the BCEP SOLD OUT

Gray Lodge & Cordi Winery

Owl Banding & Survey at the BCCER SOLD OUT

Thu 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Thu 12:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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Thermalito Afterbay & Surrounding Grasslands

Fri 7:00 am - 2:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Anderson River Park encompasses 440 acres of mixed habitat, including freshwater marsh, major river, riparian woodland, and oak

Hike the north side of the Afterbay reservoir which offers a mix of

Pacific Flyway Wildlife Art Exhibit

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center at 7:00 am Meet at Anderson River Park at 8:30 am

Art Opening & Welcome Reception Friday, January 24, 5:00 to 8:00 pm at Avenue 9 Gallery

Free to the public • Free parking You are invited to attend the Pacific Flyway Art & Welcome Reception, Friday, January 24, 5:00 pm – 8 pm. View the inspiring Feast your eyes on wonderful art by collection of artwork, enjoy refreshments, live music, splendid artists whose subjects include wildlife conversations, and a no-host bar. Bring a friend and meet the and habitat along the Pacific Flyway. artists, along with fellow festival participants, presenters, and field This impressive two-week exhibit trip leaders. This is a truly special evening you won’t want to miss! located at the Avenue 9 Gallery in There is ample free parking at the corner of 10th Avenue and the Chico, will feature the work of over 55 artists in a variety of media, Esplanade, courtesy of Chico Nut Company. including sculpture, clay, oils, fiber arts, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media, glass, and photography.

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Anderson River Park NEW!

Thu 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Fri 7:30 am - 4:00 pm

Fri 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Friday, January 24 FIELD TRIPS

We will arrive at the refuge in time to witness thousands of birds Marathon Big Day Birding SOLD silhouetted against the sunset sky as they leave the refuge all at once in Fri 6:30 am - 5:00 pm their spectacular ‘fly-off’. Dress warmly. Photographers are welcome and encouraged to bring their equipment. This trip is also offered on Friday. Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

Sutter Buttes Hike: Dean Ranch

Digiscoping Workshop/ Field Trip

Thu 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center Gray Lodge Wildlife Area is one of the premier winter birding areas in Northern Sacramento Valley Then we’ll take a short drive to Cordi Winery, nestled at the base of the Sutter Buttes, for some wine tasting and R & R after your big day of birding. Bring snacks, lunch, water, a field guide, and binoculars. Dress for the winter weather and wear hiking shoes or boots. A$32 Level 2

Sacramento Refuge Fly-Off

savanna. It also hosts 125+ bird species. If time allows, we will try to include Kutras Lake/Turtle Bay. Bring your binoculars, spotting scope, water, and lunch. If meeting at Anderson River Park, we will meet in the Amphitheater parking lot. A$27 - Y$10 Level 3

Enjoy a three mile walk to visit the 100 year old Dean Place Cattle Ranch. This trip will focus primarily on birding with hopes of seeing Golden Eagles, Phainopeplas, and Rufous-crowned Sparrows, so bring binoculars along with lunch and water. No early departures on this trip. Be aware that you will be driving another 12-15 miles to the hike’s starting point from the meeting place at the McDonald’s in Gridley. Limit 15 people. A$45 - Y$30 Level 3

Just a short drive outside Durham, along the roadways bordering Rancho Esquon, multitudes of Snow Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, and Sandhill Cranes can usually be seen right from your vehicle! This trip is Thu 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center also offered on Sunday. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Avenue 9 Gallery & Art Guild

The vibrant Silent Auction tables will accompany us while we dine at the BMU, and will include a variety of exquisite items including works of artwork, photos, wine, and services so generously donated by businesses, organizations and members of our community. Your financial participation directly affects our ability to ensure that the Snow Goose Festival remains the North State’s premier birding event, so enjoy the evening bidding for an event or item that you love. You won’t be disappointed!

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Thurs., January 23 FIELD TRIPS

habitats including open water, rice fields, short grass plains, backbays, and marsh. We hope to see waterfowl including Canvasback, goldeneyes, and grebes; raptors such as Prairie Falcon, Ferruginous Hawk, and Bald Eagle; and Burrowing and Short-eared Owls Bring food, good hiking gear, and all-weather clothing. A$27 - Y$10 Level 3

You will spend time in the classroom to help you make some preliminary camera settings. Then we will step outside and get some bird photos. Bruce will work with participants on topics such as: choosing the best camera mounting options, shooting tips, techniques in the field, and using a Digital SLR behind the scope eyepiece. Participants are encouraged to bring their spotting scopes and digital still cameras. A$22 - Y$10 Level 1

Sutter Buttes Hike: State Park’s Peace Valley Fri 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Explore California State Park’s Peace Valley in the Sutter Buttes.

Step back in time as you learn about Peace Valley’s natural and cultural history. Wear comfortable walking shoes or boots. Bring a sack lunch and beverage. No early departures on this trip. This trip is also offered on Saturday. A$45 - Y$30 Level 3

Paskenta’s C & R Ranch SOLD OUT (includes lunch) Fri 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

South Butte County Raptors & Waterfowl SOLD OUT Fri 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Bidwell Park Bird Walk Fri 8:30 am - 10:30 am

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Enjoy a bird walk through Bidwell Park with ornithologist and author of Birds of Bidwell Park. Learn amazing facts about the birds of the park and how to identify them. It is excellent birding for both the beginner and expert. This trip is also offered on Saturday and

Sunday. Sunday’s trip is led by Roger only. A$12 - Y$5 Level 2

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

Fri 8:30 am - 2:00 pm Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Wildlife, wintering waterfowl, and nature photography are exceptional at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, especially along the three-mile gravel auto tour, one-mile trail, and at their new observation deck. Spectacular flights of Snow Geese and Ross’ Geese along with thousands of ducks can be seen in the marshes. A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

Feather River Birds & Fish Hatchery Tour NEW! Fri 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Walk along the banks of the Feather River to view the waterfowl (goldeneye, Bufflehead, merganser) and the winter residents (Phainopepla, woodpeckers, herons, egrets, and more). Then cross the river and tour the Oroville Fish Hatchery. See and learn about the incredible life cycle of the salmon. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Foothill Birding & LaRocca Vineyards NEW! Fri 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Enjoy the beauty of nature, sample award winning organic wines, and look for the birds of the foothills. Join Dawn as she leads you upslope along Hwy 32, stopping at several pullouts looking birds, then on to LaRocca Vineyards for a tour, chocolate, cheese, and wine tasting. Bring lunch, water, and sturdy footwear for hiking. A$32 Level 3

Birds & Rice Growers

Fri 9:00 am - 12:30 pm Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Take this trip over to Richvale where Butte County Rice Growers Association, a farmer-owned cooperative founded in 1914, will provide a tour of the drying operations and the plant. Richvale is not only rich in rice farming history but also rich in wintering waterfowl on the flooded rice fields. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Dye Creek Preserve

Fri 9:00 am - 2:30 pm Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Visit the rugged Dye Creek Preserve in the Lassen Foothill region of eastern Tehama County. Hike the scenic Dye Creek Canyon and visit a streamside restoration site. See birds common to oak woodlands and raptors may also be seen. Bring lunch and drink. Boots/sturdy footwear is a MUST! A$27 - Y$10 Level 3

Sacramento Refuge Fly-Off SOLD OUT Fri 12:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Raptor Run thru Butte County SOLD OUT Fri 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Family Owl Prowl

Fri 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

This family-oriented field trip offers a unique glimpse into the amazing nocturnal world of owls. The Prowl, a leisurely hike into Bidwell Park, will start and end at the Chico Creek Nature Center. Dress warmly and bring a flashlight. A$12 - Y$5 Level 1

Friday, January 24 PRESENTATIONS/ WORKSHOPS Photographing Birds & Nature: Where to go in California Fri 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

This program is an introduction to some of the locations in California and nearby southern Oregon that provide excellent opportunities to photograph nature, particularly birds and scenic views. Photography opportunities on the refuges of the Sacramento Refuge Complex will be discussed in addition to recommended methods of photographing at the other locations covered in the presentation. A$15 - Y$8

Bird Carving Seminar for Beginners SOLD OUT

The following rating system for field trips will give you an idea for the rigors involved.

Level 1: Mostly birding by car and/or easy walking Level 2: Walking, could involve distance but largely flat Level 3: More vigorous hiking, some elevation gain/loss Level 4: A true adventure trip, lots of driving and hiking

Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 5:00-8:00 pm PATRICK RANCH 10381 Midway, located between Chico & Durham Free Admission and Parking for all festival participants and general public Glenwood House Tour $5 Start your winter birding adventure by attending the 1st Annual Snow Goose Festival Birds & Books Opening Mixer! Meet local and regional authors who have touched upon a wide range of subjects in our natural world.

They will share their passion and sell their books.

Enjoy light refreshments featuring local products, live music, and no-host bar.

Pull up a chair in Pat’s Barn and enjoy the outstanding avian wonders of our area during the Bird Photo Slideshow. Photos submitted by our trip leaders, participants and photographers will continually show throughout the evening.

Even if you can’t make it on a field trip or attend a workshop presentation, the Birds & Books Mixer is a great place to introduce yourself and your family to the joys of birding and our natural world.

Book Door prizes will be awarded. Ample parking is available.

Fri 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Geese of the Pacific Flyway Fri 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Meet at CSUC Holt Hall Rm #235

This workshop will include a PowerPoint slide introduction to the classification, distribution, and identification of Pacific Flyway geese.

Following the introduction, we’ll move into the Vertebrate Museum in order to examine museum study skins and wings of the various goose species and subspecies. Lastly, participants will be able to practice their identification techniques on fresh, unlabeled goose wings. A$15 - Y$8

Photo Workshop with John Hendrickson NEW! Fri 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Meet at Bidwell Mansion Visitor Center

John will first present an illustrated program about the two most important creative elements of high quality photography: understanding and using light, and composition. John will then allow time for participants to ask questions and explore any aspect of nature photography, from equipment, to digital workflow, to specific subject techniques, to publishing, etc. A$15 - Y$8

FREE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES Saturday/Sunday January 25-26, 2014 Chico Masonic Family Center 1110 W. East Ave. Chico

The Maze of Maps

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am - 3:00pm This year we will feature an eclectic assortment of interesting maps from around the North Valley and beyond. Get the bird’s eye view of our local landscape features. Stroll through maps in the CMFC hallway and let your curiosity take you on a tour.

Exhibits Galore & Vendors

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am -3:00pm Displays by State, Federal, and Non-profit organizations. Plus vendors selling everything from binoculars to bird books.

Federal Junior Duck Stamp Display

Sat., January 25 FIELD TRIPS Valley Wetlands & Wintering Waterbirds

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am - 3:00pm All 100 California winners from nearly 2,000 entries will be on display. Don’t forget to see the Chico winners.

Meet Smokey Bear and the Blue Goose

Travel the back roads of Chico to visit the Llano Seco Viewing Platform, Sacramento River NWR, and the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area. Along with Snow Geese, we hope to see a variety of waterfowl, raptors, and many other wetland species. This trip is most appropriate for intermediate to advanced birders. Bring lunch, water, binoculars, and a field guide.

A$27 Level 4

Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 9:00am - 3:00pm Smokey the Bear and the National Wildlife Refuge’s Blue Goose will be visiting at various times courtesy of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Also be sure to visit the US Fish & Wildlife Service fire safety exhibit booth.

Refuge to Refuge

Junior Naturalist Activities

Sat 6:30 am - 4:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sat 7:00 am - 5:00 pm Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

LEGEND:

1st Annual Birds & Books Opening Mixer at Patrick Ranch

Visit two premier Sacramento Valley wildlife refuges, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Sacramento NWR, and CA Dept. of Fish and Game Gray Lodge Wildlife Area. See huge flocks of Snow Geese and waterfowl along with cranes, ibis, and a variety of raptors. Dress in layers and bring a sack lunch. A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

Tehama Bird Trek NEW! Sat 7:30 am - 3:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

This exciting bird trek include always birdy Cone Grove Park bordering Antelope Creek and Tehama’s best kept secret, the Sacramento River Discovery Center. The SRDC is a Watchable Wildlife Site. Habitats include oak woodland, restored grasslands, and riparian. Bring lunch, water, and binoculars. A$27 - Y$10 Level 3

Wheelchair accessible

Sat 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Sun 10:00 am - 3:00pm There will be nature crafts, bird games, opportunity to get banded like a bird, plus much, much more. Plus, earn a Junior Naturalist Certificate by participating in a few activities designed just for youth.

River Dynamics & Wildlife NEW

Sat 9:00 am - 10:30 am Sun 1:00pm - 2:30pm Join us for a virtual journey through the upper and middle Sacramento River regions.

We will discuss how physical river systems and seasons affect and influence wildlife within the Sacramento River Watershed.

This workshop will highlight the majesty, ecosystem services and diverse wildlife of the Sacramento River. This 1.5 hour

workshop will have plenty of time for questions and attendee input. Presenter: Lucas RossMerz Wetlands’ Wildlife: The Sacramento Valley (Film) NEW

Sat 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Sun 11:00am - 12:00 Filmed in the Gray Lodge Wildlife Refuge, The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, The Llano Seco Wildlife Refuge, and the wetlands and rice fields in and around the counties of Butte and Colusa in California, this beautiful video gives viewers a close-up look at many of the migratory birds that come from as far away as Siberia and the Arctic Circle to make their homes in the Sacramento Valley’s wetlands each winter.

Included are Snow Geese, Ross’s Geese, Greater White-Fronted Geese, Canada Geese, Tundra Swans, Sandhill Cranes, Bald Eagles, and many other species. Presenter: Henry Ganzler All About Bats!

Sat 11:00am – 12:30pm They are one of the most beneficial, yet most misunderstood animals in the world.

Learn more about the habits, habitats, and species of bats that reside within the unique ecosystems of California’s valleys and forests. Presenter: Linda Angerer Our Magnetic Sun and Solar Viewing NEW

Sat 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Birds use the sun’s polarized light as one of their tools to enable them to navigate during migration. Come learn more about out magnetic sun. We’ll begin with a talk and PowerPoint presentation about our sun, sunspots, solar prominence, flares, and coronal mass ejections. Then we’ll explore light using simple diffraction gratings.

Finally, skies permitting, we’ll go outside and do some solar viewing using a safe, dedicated solar telescope. Presenter: David Samuels

All those White Geese!

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Snow Goose Workshop Sat 12:00pm - 1:30pm Through exquisite pictures and lively narration, you can become much more knowledgeable about our Mascot of the Festival—the SNOW GOOSE! Learn how to identify a Snow Goose from a Ross Goose, and a Blue Morph, all overwhelmingly white in the sky! Presenter: Mike Peters, Colusa NWR Raptors and Rehab

Sat 1:00pm - 2:30pm Meet “Checkers” a Great Horned Owl as Marilyn shares some fascinating facts, unique habits, and curious myths about these beautiful birds of prey. Learn about wildlife rehabilitation and what you can do to help native wildlife. A surprise visit by other raptors is sure to delight all ages.

Presenter: Marilyn Gamette Optics Demo

Sun 9:30 am - 10:30 am Learn the basics about Binoculars and Spotting Scopes for bird watching! What do the numbers mean? Isn’t higher power always better? This will be a “show and tell” discussion about the differences in size, quality, and construction of optics so that you can make a good choice for your needs and budget. Sample optics will be available from numerous manufacturers to illustrate.

Marilyn Rose from Out of This World Discount Binoculars will be the presenter.

Presenter: Marilyn Rose Volcanoes of Lassen Volcanic National Park

Sun 11:00am - 12:30pm This workshop is a great opportunity for educators, adults, and children ages ten and older to learn about some of the world’s most exciting active earth processes. Learn about the unique geologic features of this national park and how to identify the four major types of volcanoes using a variety of fun and creative techniques. Educational props, volcanic rocks, visual display, and other resources will be used to enhance this presentation.

Presenter: Ranger Steve Zachery

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Llano Seco Viewing Platform Sat 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

The Llano Seco Unit of the Sacramento River NWR offers sensational views from an elevated viewing platform. This is an ideal spot for viewing a large number of geese and ducks in one location! Other often-seen species include Sandhill Cranes, raptors, herons, and egrets.

This is definitely a birding hot spot and a good trip for the beginning birder. This trip is also offered on Sunday. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Sutter Buttes Hike: State Park’s Peace Valley Sat 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Step back in time as you learn about Peace Valley’s natural and cultural history. As we traverse this incredible valley, we will learn the interesting geological processes that formed it. Wear comfortable walking shoes or boots. Bring a sack lunch and beverage. No early departures on this trip. This trip is also offered on Friday. A$45 - Y$30 Level 3

Tundra Swan Viewing: District 10 (includes lunch) SOLD OUT Sat 8:00 am - 1:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sutter Buttes Hike: Dean Ranch Sat 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Meet at Gridley McDonalds

A three-mile gentle hillside walk will take us around the 100 year old Dean Place Cattle Ranch. Buttes’ volcanic origins and Native American artifacts will be revealed. See eagle, hawks, winter sparrows, geese and swans flying high over the Buttes. Bring binoculars, lunch, water, and sturdy boots/shoes and hiking sticks. No early departures on this trip. Be aware that you will be driving another 12-15 miles to the hike’s starting point from the meeting place at the McDonald’s in Gridley.

A$45 - Y$30 Level 3

Vina Plains to Pine Creek & the River Sat 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Visit The Nature Conservancy’s Vina Plains Preserve and observe winter plants and animals of unique vernal pool ecosystems. Learn why vernal pool landscapes are so important to migratory waterfowl and shorebirds. Travel to the Pine Creek Unit to see a riparian habitat restoration project and learn why it is critical for the survival of Chinook Salmon, migratory songbirds, and endangered species. A$22 - Y$10 Level 3

Photo Field Trip with John Hendrickson SOLD OUT Sat 8:30 am - 1:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

A$27 - Y$10 Level 3

Bidwell Park Bird Walk Sat 8:30 am - 10:30 am

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Enjoy a bird walk through Bidwell Park with ornithologist and author of Birds of Bidwell Park. Learn amazing facts about the birds of the park and how to identify them. Bidwell Park is a wonderful place to see birds because it is both semi-wild and very accessible. It is excellent birding for both the beginner and expert. This trip is also offered on Friday and Sunday. Sunday’s trip is led by Roger only.

A$12 - Y$5 Level 2

Birding & Brunch in Paradise SOLD OUT Sat 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Feather River Region & Nature Trail Sat 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

This trip begins with a car caravan to the Old Bath House Nature Center near the Table Mountain Bridge. Here we will begin with a nice leisurely hike along the banks of the Feather River. We will keep a keen eye out for some of the area’s abundant wildlife, which includes mergansers, goldeneyes, Bufflehead, Osprey, eagles, River Otter and even lingering salmon. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Bidwell Park: Bird & Ecological Diversity Sat 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Join Dan, Park Manager for the City of Chico, as we explore the diverse habitats of Bidwell Park. We will learn about the factors that influence the vegetation of Blue Oak, grassland, and riparian areas, and create a list of birds from each area. We will also get a first-hand view of some of the restoration and management efforts in the Park. Participants should plan for wet weather, and hiking uneven terrain. Plan for a great morning out in the park, rain or shine! A$22 - Y$10 Level 3

Wings & Wine Tasting in Vina SOLD OUT Sat 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Photo by Mike Peters

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Family Hike at Verbena Fields Sat 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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In the heart of Chico, a wildflower meadow overlooks a creek meandering past willows and cottonwoods, while overhead a Red-shouldered Hawk surveys the ground for its next meal. Lesser-known Verbena Fields is a 21 acre open space that is an active restoration site along Lindo Channel where native plants and animals are making a comeback.

A$12 - Y$5 Level 2

Raptor Run

Sat 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

January is one of the best months for raptor viewing in Butte County; accordingly, we will caravan southward along Hwy 99 to the environs of

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south of Chico to seek as many of these birds of prey as we can. Target species include Bald and Golden Eagles, Ferruginous Hawk, Burrowing Owl, Merlin, and Prairie Falcon. Binoculars are a MUST! A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Photo by Mike Peters

Butte College Wildlife Refuge & Natural Area Sat 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Here is your chance to explore the Butte College Wildlife Refuge. This hidden gem on campus encompasses a streamside forest, wetlands, oak woodlands, and grasslands that offer a chance to observe Belted Kingfisher, woodpeckers, kinglets, towhees, nuthatches and many other bird species. If time permits we will bird into the canyons of upper campus in blue oak woodlands adjoining Tuscan Formation cliff faces.

A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Birds & Native Plants in Upper Bidwell Park Sat 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

We are going to search for wintering birds as well as learn about the native plants found in Upper Bidwell Park. We will hike about a mile up the Yahi Trail along Big Chico Creek. This area has some of the best winter bird watching in Bidwell Park. The plant life is abundant in the park year round as well. A$22 - Y$10 Level 3

Youth Nature Photography Field Trip NEW! Sat 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Join Wildlife Refuge Manager Steve Emmons at the Llano Seco Viewing Platform to photograph the refuge. This trip is intended for youths between 9 and 17 years of age. We will discuss different types of light and how to compose good photographs. And of course we will practice photographing some of the birds and other subjects. You will need to bring your own camera. Participants must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. There is no charge for the adult. Y$10 Level 2

Sat., January 25 PRESENTATiONS/ WORkSHOPS Soundscapes of California NEW! Sat 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

We will enjoy a selection of surround-sound recordings from California’s parks and wildlife preserves. A quick survey of nature recording equipment and brief ear training exercises will be given. The relatively new concept of “soundscape” describes an immersive appreciation of nature. Participants may wish to take the field trip that compliments this workshop, Beginning Birding by Ear on Sunday at 9:00 am.

A$8 - Y$5

Basic Nature & Wildlife Photography Workshop Sat 9:00 am - 11:30 am

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

This workshop is an introduction to nature and wildlife photography,

particularly bird photography. Topics will include discussions on exposure, lighting, composition, and the ethics of nature photography.

Some equipment will be on display including film and digital cameras, photography blinds, camera support devices, flash projection setups, and remote control units. This workshop compliments the Youth Nature Photography Field Trip on Saturday and the Photography at the Sac Refuge Field Trip on Sunday. A$15 - Y$8

Project Flying WiLD Educator Training Workshop NEW! Sat 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Become a Project Flying WILD Educator! Flying WILD makes it easy for teachers to educate their students about birds and their conservation.

Educators trained in the Flying WILD curriculum can engage children in bird conservation and gets kids outdoors! Flying WILD curriculum guide, snacks, and refreshments included. To see more, visit www. flyingwild.org or call Scott Huber at 530-342-1371. A$30

Who Toots in the Dark?

Northern Saw-whet Owls!

Sat. 1:00pm – 2:30pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

The elusive Saw-whet Owl migrates into the Sierra Nevada foothills predictably every autumn. Dawn shares 8 years of migration data from one of the few northern saw-whet owl banding stations in western North America. The banding effort, located at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER), east of Chico, CA, gives a glimpse into saw-whet migration. The study revealed a few surprises, but leaves a lot of questions unanswered. A$8 - Y$5

The Elusive Wood Duck Sat 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Come learn about the life cycle of the Wood Duck; one of our shyest and most difficult ducks to observe in the wild. Why do Wood Ducks nest in trees? What are their favorite foods? What is “dump nesting”?

Richly illustrated with many beautiful photos, we will take a journey through the annual cycle of the Wood Duck. A$8 - Y$5

Photography “JUST FOR FUN” Sat 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Pro travel and wildlife photographers, Ron and Nancy Sanford, are working more and more with less and less photo gear. Ron promises to ‘show and tell’ how new technology has elevated small, inexpensive PHD cameras. In case you don’t know, PHD means push here dummy.

He promises a lively visual adventure ... he’ll make the case, you decide!

Warning: If you just dropped a couple grand on a camera/lens package ... this may not be your best program choice. A$10 - Y$5

Secrets of the Sutter Buttes

Sutter Buttes Hike: Mid-Mountain

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Meet at Gridley McDonalds

Sat 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

1st Annual Chico Christmas Bird Count 4 Kids NeW!

Sun 7:30 am - 4:00 pm

Here’s an opportunity for glimpses into the mysterious Sutter Buttes.

Travel through the Buttes without ever leaving your chair as you enjoy this fascinating slide presentation on the many facets and wonders of the remarkable landscape that makes up the Sutter Buttes. A$8 - Y$5

Less Lawn, More Wildlife Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Lawns are wonderful for children to play on and dogs to run on, and the expanse of green is certainly appreciated in the heat of the summer. Lawns, however, use large quantities of water and fertilizer, need mowing, and provide little to no habitat for insects and birds. In this workshop I will discuss the nuts and bolts of converting a lawn to a wildlife friendly garden. We will cover methods to kill the lawn, with an emphasis on sheet mulching; how to change over the irrigation; design considerations; and plant choices. A$8 - Y$5

Sun 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Meet at Gridley McDonalds

This hike traverses essentially the same terrain as the Mid-Mountain Hike but adds an additional half-mile 1000 ft. elevation gain. The last half mile-is quite strenuous. Wear sturdy hiking shoes, dress in layers, and bring lunch and water. No early departures on this trip.

A$45 - Y$30 Level 4

Birds & Trees of Butte Creek ecological preserve Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sunday, January 26 FieLd TripS

We will explore the native trees, shrubs, and birds of Butte Creek. Butte Creek Canyon is stunning with its Tuscan Volcanic Formations. This is a 3-4 mile intermediate hike along the creek (and over some logs). Otters and beavers may also be seen. Wear sturdy shoes/boots and bring water, and snacks. A$22 - Y$10 Level 3

Oxidation ponds & indian Fishery

rio Vista, Woodson Bridge & Olive Tour

Sun 7:30 am - 12:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Walk the levees around Chico’s Oxidation Ponds where we hope to find many species of migrating waterfowl as well as resident birds and mammals. We will then go over to the Indian Fishery Day Use Area of Bidwell-Sacramento River State Park. There the half mile trail winds through an oak woodland forest adjacent to an oxbow lake.

A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

raptor Field Study NeW! Sun 7:30 am - 1:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Trips leaders will provide you with some field instruction and simple tools to help you id raptors in the field before we head out. We’ll caravan down Hwy 99, south of Chico, and practice our new skills on as many of these birds of prey as we can. Dress for very cold weather, bring a scope if you have it, and binoculars are a MUST! You may also want to bring snacks and water/hot drinks. We will carpool as much as possible. A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

Bird the Shores of Black Butte Lake Sun 7:30 am - 3:00 pm

Sun 7:30 am - 4:00 pm

rancho esquon

Sun 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Bordering Rancho Esquon, multitudes of Snow Geese, Greater Whitefronted Geese, Sandhill Cranes and Bald Eagles can usually be seen right from your vehicle! . Visit the viewing platform which offers a spectacular view of the surrounding wetlands with a high concentration of ducks. We will also be visiting the egg hatching facility as we learn about the diverse undertakings of this complex rice ranch. This trip is also offered on Thursday. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Llano Seco Viewing platform

Sun 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sun 8:00 am - 2:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Visit Rio Vista Unit of Sac. NWR and Woodson Bridge SRA to search for the winter birds along the river. Hike a 2-mile flat trail through Rio Vista Unit in riparian woodland and stroll through towering oaks, sycamores, and cottonwoods at Woodson Bridge SRA. Then take the short trip into Corning to Lucero Olive Oil. Once there you will be given a mill tour and have the opportunity to taste several olive oils. Wear good walking/hiking shoes, and bring lunch, water, and binoculars.

A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

photography at Sac refuge Sun 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Meet at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

Come to the Sacramento NWR for a morning of photography. Although concentrating on photographing birds, be prepared to take scenic and close-up photos. Participants should bring a film or digital camera, wide angle and telephoto (minimum 200mm with 1.4X teleconverter) lenses, and tripod. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Birding & Brunch in paradise

Situated on the west side of the upper Sacramento Valley, Black Butte Lake is surrounded by beautiful dark volcanic buttes. Come explore the backwaters and woodlands this lake has to offer and see Grebes, Belted Kingfisher, Bonaparte’s Gulls, Wild Turkeys, and raptors.. Bring a lunch and drink. A$27 - Y$10 Level 3

birds of the park and how to identify them. It is excellent birding for both the beginner and expert. This trip is also offered on Friday and Saturday. A$12 - Y$5 Level 2

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sun 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

North Table Mountain ecological reserve Birds & Waterfalls SOLd OUT

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Sutter Buttes Hike: Summit Ascent

Sat 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sun 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

On this 5-mile hike into the Sutter Buttes, we’ll visit secluded locations revealing the Buttes’ geologic formation, Native American presence, old pioneer home sites, and ecology typical of California’s past. This hike is moderately brisk. Wear sturdy hiking shoes, dress in layers, and bring lunch and water. No early departures on this trip. A$45 - Y$30 Level 3

The Llano Seco Unit of the Sacramento River NWR offers sensational views from an elevated viewing platform. This is an ideal spot for viewing a large number of geese and ducks in one location! Other often-seen species include Sandhill Cranes, raptors, herons, and egrets.

This is definitely a birding hot spot and a good trip for the beginning birder. This trip is also offered on Saturday. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Beginning Birding by ear Sun 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Join avid ear-birder Scott Huber for a morning of listening to and learning some audio clues for Iding bird songs and calls in the field. Some listening and recording equipment used in Greg Weddig’s Soundscapes workshop will be along on this trip. Participants may wish to take the Soundscapes of California Workshop on Saturday at 9am at the Chico Masonic Family Center that compliments this field trip. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Falcons & Falconry

Sun 9:00am - 11:00 am Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Sun 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center.

See Saturday’s description. This trip is also offered on Saturday with different leaders. A$32 - Y$12 Level 2

Bidwell park Bird Walk

On this field trip, you will have the opportunity to see falconry in action. Falconry is a traditional method of hunting with trained birds of prey. The field trip will begin with a short drive to a large open area. Falconry as a field sport will be discussed and equipment of this ancient art form will be displayed, along with live raptors. The trip will culminate with a live flying raptor display. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

Sun 8:30 am - 10:30 am

CBC4K group leaders will guide families in the identification and counting of birds. During your 90-minute hike around Bidwell Park, you’re likely to see woodpeckers, hummingbirds, hawks, and many more birds that are common in the Park. After collecting data, kids will share their experiences at lunchtime over pizza. The results will become part of a database that scientists can look. Open to youth ages 9-15. Youth must be accompanied by at least one parent. There is no charge for parents.

Pizza and drinks are included. Some binoculars and bird guidebooks will be available, but feel free to bring your own. Y$5 Level 2

Wing-it to the Sacramento National Wildlife refuge Sun 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

The “winging-it” part of this trip is where the fun starts! We’ll veer off the beaten path as we bird along our way to the refuge. At the refuge we’ll view the dioramas and pick-up a wildlife checklist. Then we are off to a leisurely adventure around the auto tour loop to possibly see thousands of birds. You can expect to see Snow Geese, Northern Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, Ring-necked Duck, wigeon, raptors, and possibly a Bald Eagle. A$22 - Y$10 Level 2

The private Lives of Sandhill Cranes Sun 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Paul will talk about crane behavior; how to distinguish between dancing and aggression, recognize juveniles, and tell subspecies apart. Then on the “wild side” of the field trip, Paul and Pam will take you to the back roads of Chico to view cranes up close and personal. Please bring binoculars, scopes, and wear layered clothing for winter weather. Workshop: 2pm-3:30pm; Field Trip: 3:30pm-5:30pm A$27 - Y$10 Level 2

Sunday, January 26 preSeNTATiONS/ WOrKSHOpS Following Your Feet NeW! Sun 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

The writings of critically-acclaimed author and Zen master, Lin Jensen have been likened to those of Thoreau and Steinbeck. Of his book Deep Down Things, David Loy wrote “It is Lin’s observation that our bodies often know where we are and what’s needed even when we don’t”. Join Lin in a reading of original works evoking the inevitable path each of us walks on our own. A$8 - Y$5

Chico Backyard Birds

Sun 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Meet at Chico Masonic Family Center

Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center

Join Mac, who will give you tips on identifying some of Northern California’s birds that visit your backyard and explain why many of them seem to seasonally disappear. In addition, he will make suggestions regarding reference material to help you become a better backyard “birder.” A$8 - Y$5

Enjoy a bird walk through Bidwell Park with ornithologist and author of Birds of Bidwell Park, Roger Lederer. Learn amazing facts about the

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Winter Wings Festival Feb. 13-16 2014 Klamath Basin

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IT’S IN OUR NATURE...

We’re partners from the ground up.

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orthern California’s wetlands are a precious, yet scarce, resource. And while over 95 percent of our wetlands have been lost, millions of waterfowl still call the Central Valley home. Ducks Unlimited works hand-in-hand with the California rice growers to enhance and preserve habitat, keep rice farming viable and still meet both waterfowl and human needs.

Ducks Unlimited is continually developing waterfowl-friendly land management practices and California’s Ricelands continue to produce millions of tons of rice every year. As people benefit, so do the ducks – by flooding their fields after harvest, California rice growers provide 60 percent of the food needed by wintering waterfowl, while DU’s on-the-ground conservation work provides wetlands habitat ducks need to flourish here in the Valley.

Find out how you can partner with Ducks Unlimited and the California Rice Commission.

Visit www.ducks.org and www.calrice.org.