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Primary picks The CN&R’s editorial board members had a tough time with a

few of our endorsements. On the surface, certain competing parties appeared equally competent and experienced. It took a lot of research and interviews and candidates’ forums to come up with our picks. We’ve focused our attention mostly on local contests. In one case, it came down to the backing of a candidate’s colleagues. In another, we’ve chosen to endorse neither candidate.

Below are our recommendations in the races and ballot initiatives we’ve studied sufficiently to feel confident about our endorsements. Still, we urge voters to do their own research. The League of Women Voters website, www.smartvoter.org, is an excellent resource for additional info about candidates. The league’s Butte County affiliate has uploaded videos of their local forums at www.lwvbuttecounty.org. Go there to watch the candidates in action, and get out and vote on June 3.

Quality teaching, quality learning Imodity I buy into? Teenagers. Daily, I carefully read over their individual prospectuses, deciding where each will need am lucky to love my job as an investor. The com-

some intellectual capital. Sometimes these investments occur when I sit with a student to review his or her writing, line by line.

Sometimes the investment is in a conglomerate—the entire class will observe me model a strong presentation. These daily investments have immeasurable gains and implications for our future Chico, state, country and world. They are sound, and will produce high yields so long as I continue to reflect and grow in by my instructional practices.

Joe Asnault The National Education Association’s 2004 report K-12 Education in the U.S. The author is an Economy cites a variety of returns on my English teacher at daily investments. In a nutshell: Quality Chico High School. teaching supports quality learning. The state’s long-term economic interests are best served by increasing revenues to K-12 public education. Benefits for personal income, manufacturing investment and employment options rise through ongoing investment in K-12 schools. The human capital we gain through a more educated/informed electorate helps drive our economy forward. This study also found a positive correlation between the quality of K-12 schools and the value of 4

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homes in their respective areas.

My colleagues and I at Chico High School are focusing in on the quality of how we invest in Chico’s kids. In order for the returns above to come to fruition, we continue our research into instructional investments to key in on quality and rigorous learning. What if the Chico Unified School District decided to view its teachers—the entire educational program—not as a cost item that must be contained, but as an investment into the future of our kids and economy?

CUSD can do this in two ways: It can invest in our compensation packages so we can catch up with inflation after six years of lean budgets, and it can empower teachers by supporting our professional growth. These investments in continuing education of our practices will then return high yields on our human capital.

It makes sense to invest in teachers as we invest in the lives of more than 11,000 Chico students. Keeping our compensation packages competitive will help attract and retain only the best. It is a great investment to give teachers time to work together to solve our instructional dilemmas, to share best practices, and to support each other in researching these practices. Our kids are our future, and they deserve it. Ω

Local offices Superior Court judge: Sanda McLean. Her reputation as a tough judge has earned McLean critics, but that’s one of the traits making her the right person for the job. We admire Eric “Ric” Ortner’s desire to give back to Butte County, but he’s outmatched by McLean’s breadth of experience.

County supervisor, District 3: Maureen Kirk. Kirk is a popular leader and well-liked and admired by her constituents. She’s a veteran at setting policy, having served multiple terms on the Chico City Council and Board of Supervisors. She brings a moderate voice to a conservative-majority panel and keeps an open mind. Bob Evans is a thoughtful candidate, but he’s running in the wrong race.

County supervisor, District 2: No endorsement. Incumbent Larry Wahl’s commitment to protecting property owners from the ills of rogue pot growers is commendable, but his tendency to be doctrinaire about medical marijuana despite its legality does many of his constituents a disservice. That said, Andrew Merkel is mostly a one-issue candidate, and he lacks civic experience.

County assessor: Diane Brown. One of the toughest calls, the CN&R chose Brown over the other qualified candidate, Al Petersen. Brown should be able to hit the ground running. She’s worked in the Butte County Assessor’s Office for decades and is endorsed by the current assessor, Fred Holland.

County clerk-recorder: Candace Grubbs. Incumbent Grubbs has some work ahead of her to get the Clerk-Recorder’s Office in order, but her experience, with elections and finances, earns her our nod. Grubbs is also in the midst of establishing the county’s Hall of Records, and she’s the right person to see that project to fruition.

County treasurer-tax collector: Peggy Moak. Her experience is unmatched in this race. Moak spent six years as the assistant treasurer-tax collector, was appointed to the top spot, and is endorsed by all five Butte County supervisors and her predecessor, Linda Barnes.

U.S. Congress Representative, District 1: Heidi Hall State Legislature State Senator, District 4: CJ Jawahar State Assembly, District 3: Jim Reed State executive Governor: Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Lieutenant governor: Gavin Newsom Attorney general: Kamala Harris Proposition 41: Yes. Six years ago, voters approved the sales of hundreds of millions of general obligation bonds to aid struggling veterans with housing. The intentions were good, but it turns out the vets who qualified for assistance found lower mortgage rates through private lenders. The new plan calls for $500 million in bond revenues for affordable housing units, including multifamily rentals and transitional housing, among other options.

It’s a much-needed plan at a time when many vets are facing homelessness.

Proposition 42: Yes. In some cases, communities in the state have been wavering on adherence to the laws governing public records and open meetings, citing the state’s failure to provide reimbursements. Prop. 42 amends the state Constitution, requiring full compliance with those laws— the Public Records Act and the Ralph M. Brown Act. It’s essential to the public’s right to know. Ω

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Backpedaling A friend of mine got the nicest Mother’s Day card this year—a postcard, actually. On the front is a photo of an adorable black and white puppy with a “Happy Mother’s Day” salutation.

It’s just the sweetest thing.

Then there’s the flip side: a portrait of Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly—“assessor for the people!” In the text area, the card reads: “To my mom and my wife, and to all the moms who work hard to provide a better life for their families.

Happy Mother’s Day from my family to yours.”

I guess mine got lost in the mail.

In any case, this is either the most brilliant or sleaziest campaign mailer I’ve ever seen. I’m undecided.

Speaking of Connelly, I recently stumbled upon a link posted on one of our stories to a YouTube video of him speaking to the Magalia Tea Party. During his talk in early December, Connelly said medical marijuana should be knocked down from a schedule 1 to a schedule 2 narcotic and be sold in pharmacies at best and tobacco stores at worst. He went on to say that he’d talked to a reporter for a story that ran in the Sacramento News & Review about this stance, but that his position was not made clear.

Then he talked about how the CN&R called him to take his portrait because we were going to reprint the story in Chico. Connelly charges on the video that he told us he would “love to come in and talk to you, we could have a debate, we’re not always going to agree—blah, blah, blah.”

Newsflash: That never happened. Connelly never called this paper to clarify his position. He didn’t talk to me or any of the other editors about this. Moreover, he agreed to have his photo taken knowing full well that the story was about the failures of marijuana prohibition and the war on drugs.

What he did do, several weeks later, was send a letter to the editor via snail mail that said marijuana laws create the same problems as Prohibition did with alcohol and that the federal government should regulate pot for sale. In other words, he thinks it should be legalized and regulated like cigarettes and tobacco. That’s pretty much the gist of what was said in the story we printed.

So why the weird backpedaling at that Tea Party meeting? My guess is that Connelly was afraid of being labeled as pro-legalization as he was about to embark on a campaign for the assessor position in the June primary.

Connelly has acknowledged that he represents thousands of pot-growers, but he knows thousands more in this conservative county are against cannabis.

I don’t appreciate Connelly’s squirrelly way of downplaying his stance. (He’s right. The only way to cure the ills of rogue growers, including the environmental degradation they cause, is to bring cannabis into the light through legalization.) But that’s not why he didn’t get CN&R’s endorsement for county assessor (see “Primary picks,” page 4). That’s simply because he’s unqualified.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Let the endorsements begin I wish to endorse Candace Grubbs for reelection as Butte County clerk-recorder. As a historian and educator, I can attest to the outstanding job she’s done during her 28 years in office.

The clerk-recorder is the county’s chief public records keeper. Consequently, the Clerk-Recorder’s Office is a treasure trove for historians, genealogists and others interested in Butte County’s past. Although county documents are public property, experienced researchers can tell you that gaining access to such records can be very frustrating. Fortunately, thanks to Candace Grubbs, Butte County has one of the most welcoming courthouses in California, with records readily available in original, microfilm and computerized forms.

As the vigilant custodian of our documentary heritage, Candace has skillfully met the daunting challenges of the digital age by keeping pace with swiftly evolving information technologies. Working with BMI Imaging Systems, Candace is currently converting hundreds of microfilm spools into electronically stored “digital reels” that will be keyword searchable.

Meanwhile, Candace remains determined to build a modern Hall of Records for Butte County. After years of persistent effort, this urgently needed project is now approaching fruition.

Candace’s dedicated public service merits reward. Please join me on June 3 to re-elect Candace Grubbs.

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The Butte County Clerk-Recorder’s Office tabulates your votes, in a very insecure way, utilizing volunteers. This is all being done on the honor system that offends my sense of how significant, and private and personal, my vote and your vote should be.

Individuals of all political persuasions get to volunteer to count absentee ballots and are entrusted with our most precious American right to vote—without even a handshake or a requirement to sign a secrecy document or take an oath. This early volunteer ballot counting could start three days to weeks before election day.

I can understand why it is a good idea to start counting absentee ballots as soon as possible, since the majority of Butte County voters vote absentee, allowing most winners to be determined shortly after the polls are closed.

I know that absentee ballots were counted by these volunteers during the last two county elections (2010 and 2012) and this is just not acceptable. This is just one more extremely important reason to vote for Pamela Teeter for Butte County clerkrecorder and bring professional leadership and new energy to this vital county function.

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Does Supervisor Bill Connelly deserve a $70,000 raise? Having spent nine years earning a piddly $53,000 to flip-flop on the issues as a Butte County supervisor, Bill Connelly has now set his eyes on a far more profitable and less public position (perhaps he was trying to tell us something at past meetings with comments like “I’m tired of the whining”).

A recent newspaper article states that Connelly said “several people” approached him to run for assessor and that “financial considerations were part of this motivation” because, heck, “the pay will entice anybody to run.” The salary for county assessor, $123,000 plus benefits, assumes that the person who fills the position is qualified to manage 41 employees in three Butte County offices.

Connelly’s qualifications are unclear, as it is unclear who approached him to file for candidacy. His campaign website says nothing about relevant experience, leaving me wondering why he thinks that anyone would vote for him. Is name recognition enough?

Since the California Constitution requires the assessor to be an elected position, let’s hope that the voters of Butte County elect a candidate who is qualified. I will be voting for Al Petersen.

JESSICA ALLEN Chico

In Australia there is compulsory voting in federal and state elections, and almost a 100 percent participation rate. I will be coming home from Australia just in time to vote in the June election.

I look forward to the privilege of voting for Maureen Kirk for supervisor. Having served on the Chico City Council with both Maureen, and with Bob Evans during his short appointed tenure, I can say based upon both personal and professional firsthand experience that Maureen is the better qualified candidate.

She is better experienced, shows better leadership, has better judgment, and is by far better in touch with the values of our community regarding the future of Butte County. Maureen has earned re-election based upon a job well done the past four years, and due to her vision and commitment to serve for the next four.

What would be best of all is for our local electorate to match Australia’s voter turnout. Please support what is best for Chico and Butte County, and join me in voting for Maureen Kirk.

ANDY HOLCOMBE Chico/Australia 6

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I want to give a shout out to all you readers in support of Peggy Moak’s credentials and general wonderfulness as a person. After working her way up in the office of treasurer-tax collector for the last 10 years, she was appointed to serve as treasurer on the retirement of her former boss. Having been in banking the rest of her working life, she clearly knows how to manage money. Her experience is what we need!

After devastating fires ripped through Concow six years ago and our community needed to address issues with the county’s general plan at the same time, I was privileged to work alongside Peggy. Those were challenging years and I was very impressed by Peggy. Her calm reasonableness and understanding of county structure allowed us to successfully voice the concerns of foothill communities.

She worked consistently to get support to our fire-scarred residents and land, all the while keeping up with her job responsibilities.

Plus, she was a delight to work with, always opening her home to organizational meetings and keeping her cool with the various personalities involved.

I hope you all will join me in voting Peggy Moak for treasurertax collector.

SARAH SALISBURY Concow/ Chico

As past president of Lassen Savings and area manager/1st VP for Great Western Bank, I worked closely with Peggy Moak from 1984 until 1991, and I’ve followed Peggy’s career from the private to the public sector.

Initally hired as a branch manager for Great Western, Peggy was quickly promoted to regional administrative officer, responsible for branches from the Oregon border to Tulare. A consummate professional, Peggy is an articulate speaker, a gifted writer and possesses the ability to analyze complex financial and economic data.

She has extensive experience in human resources. She is honest and ethical. Hard work, integrity and service to community are values Peggy Moak exemplifies. She is what every employer and every Butte County resident wants from their county representatives: someone who is hardworking, loyal, a true team player and most important, someone they can trust.

Since my retirement I have served on two bank boards. Had Peggy been brought before either of those boards she would have had my complete support. That is

why I support Peggy Moak for treasurer-tax collector.

RICHARD E. MOORE Chico

We in Butte County must elect officials who will look out for the protection of our residents, by protecting our tax dollars, our personal safety and property.

There’s a candidate for supervisor who says he wants to be elected to “turn our county’s economy into a booming one, using the untapped taxes of pot growers.”

His opponent says this: “[It’s] dirty money. The county needs jobs by way of attracting businesses that are honest and law-abiding.”

I’m asking everyone who reads this to support Larry Wahl for supervisor. He’s one of the reasons Butte County is in the black. We need strong conservatives who’ll stand up to the “unlawful pot profiteers,” will protect the foothill residents and all of us from crime. While you’re at it, vote for Bob Evans, who will also stand up strongly against the unlawfulness in the hills.

LORETTA ANN TORRES Chico

Waste of a corner

Hey, it’s cleanup time! It’s great that the lot at First and Main streets is being developed, but just for parking? Put in a five-story condo with underground parking. Imagine the Chico State faculty and staff falling over each other for premium prices, just steps from our glorious downtown!

JIM DWYER Chico

Note to the progressives Re “Council duo strike back” (Letters, May 15): Chico politics is a fine example of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine: a state in which crisis, either real or fabricated, can be utilized to stampede populations into accepting right-wing “solutions” such as privatization, poverty-level wages, unchecked corporate influence, etc.

Chico’s “budget crisis”—a ripple-effect of the Bush administration’s Great Recession—has been freely used to shift Chico politics to the right. Councilmen Mark Sorensen and Sean Morgan, along with City Manager Brian Nakamura and the Enterprise-Record, have exerted influence well beyond what should be possible in a city with a progressive population.

Sorensen and Morgan are correct in asserting that some of the issues brought forward by progressives are mostly symbolic. The irony is that this show of progressive sentiment masks the deeper

failure of our five-member majority to confront issues of actual substance, as progressives!

Will our council find its bearings and support a sales tax, hire an (in-house) city attorney, rehire tree crews and other staff, get our parks fully open, cut administrative salaries, support the farmers’ market, defend the rights of the poor to utilize the public space, hold the Greenline, etc.? Not as long as it remains blinded by the right.

PATRICK NEWMAN Chico

The problem is pensions What do the mosquito assessment, the garbage franchise, and the water rate increase have in common? Unfunded pension liability.

While Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control has laid off employees and total salary has gone down, they still spent more on pensions and benefits in 2013 than they did in 2011—more than $500,000 a year for 16 employees.

Over the same period, annual pesticide expenditure went down by more than $150,000.

Meanwhile, the consultant hired to vet the city of Chico’s proposed garbage franchise says it will “help the city with its current financial condition”—$48 million unfunded pension liability. Councilman Mark Sorensen has called it a “garbage tax.”

Cal Water wants to raise our water rates by 19 percent. The notice I received in my bill specified about $1 million for “employee health care, pensions, and retiree health care benefits.” California Public Utilities Commission Judge Robert M. Mason III has pulled our rate case #1207007 aside, asking for feedback as to whether this hike is “justified or in the public interest.” Write to him at CPUC, 505 Van Ness Ave., Fifth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Please reject these attempts to leave the burden of excessive compensation packages on the taxpayers.

JUANITA SUMNER Chico

On that column’s demise Re “It’s called editing” (Second & Flume, May 8): Ms. Daugherty explained it’s her job to regulate what’s printed in the CN&R, and she explained that the CN&R’s liability to civil litigation requires that the editor protect it from liability actions, such as defamation claims. An editor’s failure to perform this essential duty would likely result in any publication’s speedy demise. If we

call performing this necessary editorial function censorship, we ought to reconsider censorship.

Censorship is a word with a bad connotation. It suggests tyranny, scenes of Nazi book burnings and the truth being muzzled by ignorance. Actually censoring what we communicate to one another is an essential human skill necessary in any civilization. We all learn from an early age not to express everything we think to everyone at every opportunity. If we freely said what we felt about the people in and around our lives we’d soon offend and antagonize everyone, making cooperative activities impossible.

The issue isn’t whether Ms. Daugherty censored Porter but what in his writing she felt was unprintable and why. She explained that clearly and well. Whether some of us loved Porter’s column or thought it was worthless shouldn’t be the issue. The issue here is whether Ms. Daugherty performed her job appropriately. I believe she did, and she has my support.

DAVE WEINER Chico

A cop’s prediction Re “Like a bad penny” (Editorial, May 15): As the CN&R continues its longtime campaign against the Chico Police Department, I’d like to offer up a prediction. In five to 10 years, Chico is going to be a very different city, Stockton-like in appearance and behavior. The police officers who came to Chico for its quality of life will have left for communities that actually value and respect them.

What Chico will be left with are mercenaries, officers who live 30-50 miles away and don’t consider themselves stakeholders in the City’s well-being. The citizens who’ve long railed against their officers will likely then blame the Police Department for allowing things to get so bad. Good luck with that.

MATT WOLFE Oroville

Correction In the May 15 Newslines story “If those walls could talk,” by Ken Smith, John Gallardo was misidentified as president of the Chico Heritage Association. In fact, he is former president. Richard Macias is the current president. Our apologies for the error, which has been corrected online. –ed.

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OROVILLE MAN SHOT BY DEPUTY

An Oroville man was shot and killed May 18 by a Butte County sheriff’s deputy responding to a call of a family disturbance on Refuge Avenue. According to a press release, Cory Lee Bush, 24, was reportedly “having a nervous breakdown” and “was out of control and tearing up the house.”

Four deputies responded and an “armed confrontation occurred.”

Deputy Ben Cornelius shot Bush, who was declared dead at the scene. Court records show that Bush was named in a domestic violence suit last September and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in 2010.

Cornelius was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the District Attorney’s Office.

Lake Oroville is just full enough to ensure Butte County gets its normal allotment of water this year.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Below: This graph, from Christina Buck’s presentation to the Butte County Drought Task Force, shows Lake Oroville water levels historically (WY is short for water year, which is from Nov. 1-Oct. 31).

DIOXIN TESTING IN OROVILLE

A group called the Oroville Dioxin Education Committee (ODEC) has applied for a grant to do further testing for the cancer-causing pollutant dioxin. Testing over the years has revealed dioxin in chicken eggs and soil in the area around the Highway 70 Industrial Park.

The dioxin was generated by a couple of sources, the Koppers wood-treatment plant, which caught on fire in the late 1980s, spewing dioxin-laden smoke in a region of houses and farms south of the plant. More recently, the toxins came from the emissions from the Pacific Oroville Power Inc. cogeneration plant, which burned “urban waste” to create electricity. That plant closed two years ago.

The grant, if approved, would be administered by the city with funding from the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Contractors.

According to ODEC, the Butte County Public Health, Environmental Health Division has issued a report called “Dioxin in Oroville Summary and Recommendations.” The office can be reached at 538-7281.

KIRSHNER FOUNDATION INVESTIGATED

An inspection report by the U.S Department of Agriculture on the Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation from last month lists a number of violations. The report comes in the wake of complaints by former foundation volunteers who said the Butte Valley sanctuary was abusive to creatures living there. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals contacted the Department of Agriculture, triggering the investigation.

The report’s findings note that the facility has a 7-year-old tiger named Dana with a reoccurring eye problem, no written program of veterinary care, a “grossly obese” bobcat named Ranger, and a 5-year-old lynx named Nasha who appeared to have painful limbs.

The report also said bears were being fed moldy fruit and Cheez-Its, lacked access to clean water, and there is no veterinarian-approved feeding plan for the animals.

Kirshner representatives deny the animals are mistreated and claim there are veterinary records. There are no recommendations for closure.

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Water levels dip Butte County feels effects of the drought, but is in relatively good shape

I that California, Butte County included, is experiencing a pretty serious drought. To look at t should come as no surprise to many

precipitation charts comparing the 2013-14 “water year” (Nov. 1-Oct. 31) with previous years, it’s darn by close to the driest on record.

Meredith J. That has resulted in lower than Graham normal groundwater, which in meredithg@ turn affects the wells that Chico newsreview.com and other Butte County communities rely on for water.

“We’re certainly seeing unprecedented dry conditions,” said Christina Buck, water resources scientist for Butte County’s Department of Water and Resource Conservation.

“The 2013 calendar year was the driest on record in parts of the state.”

Buck presented her findings at a meeting Monday (May 19) of the Butte County Drought Task Force. Among them: Well and reservoir levels are low. As we head into the dry irrigation season, they will only get lower.

In addition, Sacramento River runoff is expected to be the fourth lowest on record, with

water levels at just 34 percent of normal.

One of the measurements Buck pointed to in studying well levels is the “depth to water,” meaning the distance between the ground level and the water in the well. In some areas of the county, such as Richvale, Biggs and Llano Seco, that depth to water hovers between 2 and 10 feet and is within 1 1/2 feet from where it was a year ago. Other places, like the Chico urban area, Durham/Dayton and Vina, are showing bigger variances. Chico, for instance, has an average depth to water of 90 feet, 9.1 feet below last year. Durham/Dayton is at 69 feet, 7.2 feet below 2013, and Vina’s average is 59 feet, 6.3 feet below last year.

“Water levels typically reach their highest point in spring and then, at the beginning of irrigation season, people turn on their pumps and water levels decline throughout the summer,” Buck explained by phone. “Water levels in wells give us an indication of how things change over time.

“In Chico, the change is bigger than what we have seen around here in the recent past,” she continued. “But compared to other places in California, it’s small. Some parts of the Central Valley

… are seeing changes in the area of negative 50 or 100 feet. So, hey, it’s not that drastic, we’re not falling out the bottom, but it is a bigger change than what we’ve seen recently.”

Additionally, communities in the foothills are at a greater risk of losing access to their well water during a drought.

“There are small water systems in jeopardy of losing supplies, particularly those in fractured-rock areas,” said Kristen McKillop, program development manager at Butte County’s Environmental Health Department. She pointed to two mobile-home parks, one in Berry Creek and the other in Butte Creek, that lost access to water last year and had to truck in bottled water for a time.

“The most vulnerable areas always are the foothill and mountain areas,” Buck confirmed.

Not everything is doom and

gloom, however. Relatively speaking, Butte County is sitting pretty this drought year. A few good rains in early spring were enough to raise the water levels in Lake Oroville sufficiently to ensure we get all the water we’re used to getting for things like our homes, busi-

nesses and farms. And that was reason enough for the Drought Task Force to opt against recommending the Board of Supervisors to declare a drought emergency.

“Generally speaking, we only want to declare an emergency when there’s really an emergency,” said Sang Kim, deputy county administrator. “We’ve been prudent. If we cry wolf, we won’t be taken seriously in the future.”

The rest of the room agreed, based mostly on the fact that Butte County’s water disbursements from the Department of Water Resources, previously expected to be less than usual because of the abnormally dry winter, were approved in April at 100 percent. Buck explained that because local water districts were in existence before the creation of Oroville Dam, their agreement is that as long as the Lake Oroville water level reaches a certain threshold—which it did this year only after the late spring storms—Butte County will receive 100 percent of its allotment. If it had not reached that threshold, she added, that percentage could have gone down to as low as 50 percent.

Still, it’s all relative.

“Most of the Central Valley, down to L.A.—municipal and agricultural districts south of delta—are looking at 5 percent allocation,” Buck said. “They’re essentially out of luck this irrigation season.”

As of May 11, Lake Oroville was 52 percent full (that’s 63 percent of its normal level) which is about average for most of the reservoirs in California. The exceptions are Castaic and Pyramid lakes in Southern California, which are at 72 percent and 92 percent of capacity, respectively.

“Southern California is actually sitting in a better position than a lot of the rest of the state,” Buck told the room full of mostly county personnel. “They’ve done a great job of conservation.”

Buck said many communities in the southern part of the state have taken it upon themselves over the past 20 years to conserve water and even build additional storage to avoid future problems.

“They realized their vulnerability in the ’90s drought, that, ‘A huge chunk of our water comes from Northern California, and if there’s another drought we’re in huge trouble,’” she said. “They diversified their water-supply portfolio, and now they’re sitting in much better position than they were in then. It’s better for the whole state, too.”

Butte County, while it’s not in dire straits now, should be looking at similar conservation measures. “Even though Chico is not in a crisis situation watersupply-wise, it’s still really important to use water wisely,” she said. “The rainy season is pretty much over and we’re anticipating a long, hot, dry summer.

We’re moving into fire season and that’s a big concern.” Ω

Foster flub California is the only state to penalize relatives who take in foster kids rom inside the tunnel slide of a south Davis park, Fdead.

4-year-old Jasmine belted a scream that could rouse the

Rather than stiffen with parental concern, the child’s adopted mother calmly wiped the dirt-speckled hands of her 2-year-old grandnephew, Jeremiah, and smiled.

“That’s her happy scream,” Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald explained. “I’ve learned to tell the difference.”

Escamilla-Greenwald and husband David Greenwald, editor of the Davis Vanguard, are just two of the thousands of foster-care providers in California and are intimately attuned to a bizarre quirk in the system: Foster children who are taken in by relatives generally receive a fraction of the aid they would get if placed with complete strangers—nearly $500 less a month per child in most cases.

California is the only state in the union where this disparity exists, which has its roots in a not-so-grand national bargain. When former President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress hammered through welfare reform back in 1996, they included a stipulation: The federal government wouldn’t pay foster-care benefits if the households the kids were removed from had incomes above the federal poverty level—as it stood 18 years ago.

To put that in context, a family of four making more than $16,000 a year today wouldn’t qualify, said Reed Connell of the Alliance for Children’s Rights.

For foster children who aren’t federally eligible but live with relatives, every state but California has coughed up the difference. A whopping 36 percent of California’s foster children stay with extended family, nearly 21,000 kids in all.

Here in Butte County, approximately 25 percent of the 464 children who are dependents of the juvenille court live with relatives.

Up to one-half of familial providers are ineligible under federal law, a figure that increases as inflation leaves 1996 further behind.

But related caretakers are eligible for CalWORKs, which used to pay relatives the same before massive budget cuts and unaddressed inflation left it reeling.

By way of example: The state pays $820 a month to a nonrelative caretaker of a 15-year-old foster child—or what UC Davis deter-

Cecilia EscamillaGreenwald is the adopted mother of (from left) Jasmine and the legal guardian of grandnephews Jeremiah and Malachi.

She receives less state aid because she’s related to the boys.

PHOTO BY RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI

mined to be the minimum cost of caring for a foster child with no special needs—but only $351 a month to a relative provider through CalWORKs. Additionally, signing up for the program is an arduous process that often requires the help of an attorney, Connell said.

It’s this way even though child-welfare experts say foster kids living with kin experience more stability, fewer placement changes and more contact with biological parents and siblings.

“We step up because we want to help kids stay with their families,” said Escamilla-Greenwald, who receives no financial support for Jasmine, Jeremiah and Jeremiah’s older brother, 10-year-old Malachi.

Connell’s organization and other child-advocacy groups are pushing for a legislative fix that would pay all foster caregivers the same, and also give them equal access to additional benefits for children with special needs, another loophole in the state system. But because this is California’s first budget surplus in a while, Connell acknowledges there are other worthy causes angling for attention.

Alliance’s “fall-back position” is Assembly Bill 1882, which would make it easier for relative caregivers to sign up for CalWORKs, but wouldn’t do anything to address the disparity in payments.

Connell is guardedly hopeful of a positive resolution. “We’ve got a lot of ground stir,” he said.

The Greenwalds are luckier than most relative caretakers, who tend to be older, in poorer health and make less money than nonrelative providers. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t tight months, especially with Jeremiah receiving speech therapy and the two older children getting involved in after-school activities.

On this overcast day, Escamilla-Greenwald and her young charges looked like any other family. As Jeremiah scaled a white ladder that What’s your problem? curved into a vicious hump at its peak, “Aunt Cessi” called out and made her way to rescue Jobs, bad government and the economy the little fella. were the three most common answers given

by Americans when asked for the nation’s “No, Mom!” Jasmine protested. “He can do top problems, according to a May 19 Gallup it. Watch.” poll. Unemployment was the most common Laughing, Escamilla-Greenwald positioned answer, with 20 percent, up from 14 percent herself under Jermiah’s feet. He trembled with the previous month. Government dysfuncsudden fear on the last rung. “You can do it, you tion also ranked high with 19 percent, can do it,” Escamilla-Greenwald cood, stabilizhaving peaked at 33 percent during last year’s government shutdown. The economy ing his legs. in general was named as a top concern by 17 percent of those polled. Those who It took a few fraught moments, but Jeremiah responded that the environment was the biggest issue climbed to 3 percent from finally planted himself on solid ground. Then he 1 percent the previous month, mirroring the numbers of those who named race hopped in triumph. relations as the nation’s primary problem. Other responses included poor health

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care (17 percent) and poverty/ hunger/ homelessness (4 percent).

—RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI raheemh@newsreview.com

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Farmers’ market petition process stalled

of the Farmers’ Market, the folks Fkeepriends who gathered more than 9,000 signatures to the Saturday market in its longtime downtown space, learned this week that the signatures that were turned into the City Clerk’s Office May 12 had, as of May 20, not yet been transferred to the Butte County Elections Office for verification. Former Chico Mayor Karl Ory, who helped lead the initiative campaign, said he was told by City Clerk Deborah Presson that she’d been advised by the city attorney to hold onto the signatures.

City Attorney Vince Ewing told the CN&R he simply had not had a chance to examine the paperwork, which he said was sitting in a large box in the clerk’s office.

The recently hired Ewing works out of a Los Angeles County-based law firm and had arrived in town on May 19 and said he would stay until Friday, May 23, as part of his regular schedule.

“The city clerk and I still need to evaluate what is in the box,” Ewing said. “It’s a very big box with a lot of documents. In this job I read a lot of documents, and this is on my list. With any sort of initiative or referendum, on our end the clerk and the city attorney look it over and then pass it on. Like I said, it’s a big box.”

The City Clerk’s Office confirmed last week (May 13) that the Friends of the Farmers’ Market had gathered 9,265 signatures.

Only 4,750 signatures—10 percent of Chico’s registered voters—are required to advance the initiative.

Presson told Ory via email that Ewing wanted to allow the City Council to discuss the matter in closed session at its May 20 meeting. At that meeting, Ewing simply said three votes were taken during closed session, but did not give any details as to the subjects of the votes. Immediately following the closed session, Ory asked for more information, but Mayor Scott Gruendl said the matters couldn’t be discussed because they were brought up in closed session.

This isn’t the first time Ory has questioned closed-session meetings. Earlier this

Forest Harlan and Karl Ory, of the Friends of the Farmers’ Market, carry the signatures for a petition to the City Clerk’s Office.

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week, he sent an email to Gruendl: “I was just told by the City Clerk that the petitions have been withheld from processing, although required by Election Code, at the direction of the City Attorney in order to be brought up in closed session,” Ory wrote. “At whose direction? It really is unfathomable that the City Clerk has been prevented from following state law and has suppressed petitions signed by over 9,000 residents. It is in pattern with recent undemocratic practices of the City. In secret session the opinions of biased staff and councilmembers go unchallenged. All of this stinks, we need fresh air and openness.”

Wednesday morning (May 21), Presson said she would most likely take the petition to the county, which will verify the signatures, that day. She said her office has 30 days from the day they are turned in, excluding weekends, to get the signatures verified, which means the deadline is June 24.

The initiative, if passed, would give the market a six-year lease and expanded use of the parking lot at Second and Wall streets where it has resided for the past 21 years.

Former City Attorney Lori Barker, who retired in April, had said the initiative did not comply with the state constitution in that it specifically “identifies a private corporation that may perform any function or have any power or duty.”

Ewing has concurred on that interpretation of the state law.

The CCFM’s attorney, Keith Wagner, said in a memorandum to Ory, that the “initiative measure spells out the details and terms of the farmers’ market’s operation, and does not grant CCFM the types of prospective, governmental consultation and decision-making powers that have caused other measures to run afoul of [the Constitution].”

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

Money matters City Council votes to fix fire station, give nature center a break om Lando’s ears must have been Twhen burning Tuesday night (May 20), the former city manager took

a verbal drubbing at the Chico City Council meeting for allegedly allowing the faulty construction of Fire Station 5 to go unchallenged when it was discovered.

“It was well-known from day one that the building had problems,” said Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen. That was in 1997, and now it’s too late to collect damages from the construction company.

“I wish someone would have invited Tom Lando to this meeting to explain why nothing was done,” said Stephanie Taber, a regular attendee at council meetings. “The people of Chico should be very, very angry.”

The station across from Wildwood Park developed a dangerous mold problem due to multiple water leaks, and firefighters posted there are currently living in an onsite trailer. Interior dry wall has been removed and the mold remediated, said Public Works Director Ruben Martinez, but the exterior problems—flawed flashing, a freestanding brick veneer that allows water intrusion, leaking windows and a deteriorating roof—need to be fixed before the interior can be restored.

The council had three options, he said: (1) authorize restoration of the roof, the interior and the brick veneer, total cost $220,000; (2) authorize that plus repair of all construction issues causing leaks to the interior, including windows,

gutters and brick veneer cladding issues, total cost $300,000; and (3) restore the roof and interior only, total cost $150,000.

Option 1, which is already funded in the budget, will do the job for now, Martinez said, by fixing all water-intrusion problems that lead to mold buildup, especially in the living areas. And it will save the city $80,000 this year, when money is tight, but the additional work will need to be done soon.

Council members couldn’t agree on whether it was better to take the financial hit and do all the work now or hold off until the next budget cycle. After much discussion, they voted 5-2, with Mary Goloff and Ann Schwab dissenting, to go ahead with Option 1 so the station would be functional by the end of summer and to complete the work later.

The debate over the fire

station spilled over into discussion of the next agenda item, a request from the Chico Creek Nature Center to defer an additional two years of quarterly loan payments to the city, which lent it $185,000 in 2005 to help finance construction of a new building.

The overriding problem, of course, is that if the nature center goes under, the city will be left with a couple of empty buildings in the middle of Lower Bidwell Park, as well as the unpaid loan.

One of the options—favored by City Manager Brian Nakamura—

was simply to forgive the loan. The center is “a public facility that serves the public,” he said. He later acknowledged, however, that the city would have to repay the development-impact-fee fund, the source of the loan money, out of the general fund.

Several audience members objected to loan forgiveness, questioning why the city would forgive a $185,000 loan while balking at spending $80,000 to complete the restoration of a fire station. Besides, they said, the center keeps making promises to pay but doesn’t.

The council considered two other options: (1) continue deferring the loan payments as requested and lower the interest rate to 3.2 percent; and (2) allow interestonly payments and lower the rate.

The latter option would cost the center about $6,000 annually.

Don Krysakowski, the center’s treasurer, said the agency’s operating budget was improving, going from $140,000 two years ago to nearly $200,000 now. But the cost of the loan interest payments, combined with the expected loss of $34,000 in city funding, added up to a $40,000 hit.

But council members felt the center needed to make some payment effort and voted unanimously in favor of the interest-only option.

Earlier, the council had voted 5-2, with Sorensen and Sean Morgan dissenting, to pass the final reading of the ordinance restricting the use of plastic bags at certain retailers. It also voted unanimously to approve a new set of user fees designed to recover 90 percent of the city’s costs for planning, building and engineering services. The fees will be phased in over time.

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GREENWAYS Robyn DiFalco of the Butte Environmental Council says we must be willing to change human behaviors in order to help the ecosystem.

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Climate on the front burner

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Wreleased its third National Climate Assessment, the basic findings didn’t sur-

hen the White House recently

prise anyone who’s stepped outside on a regular basis. The Southwest portion of the U.S., including California, has been decreed in the report as “the hottest and driest region.”

What isn’t so obvious, of course, is exactly what the future will bring. But the outlook is not positive. According to the federal report, the Southwest “is expected to get hotter and, in its southern half, significantly drier. Increased heat and changes to rain and snowpack will send ripple effects throughout the region. … Drought and increased warming [will] foster wildfires and increased competition for scarce water resources for people and ecosystems.”

The NCA, unveiled May 6, comes on the heels of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releasing the third phase of its Fifth Assessment Report. After looking at the science and impacts of climate change, the IPCC focused on ways to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases and other effects.

“Generally, I think it’s certainly frightening but not necessarily unexpected,” said Fletcher Alexander, sustainability coordinator at Chico State. “This is confirming what we’ve known for some time, but things are getting worse and happening more quickly than we realized.

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Nevadas, water tables are low and we’re feeling that right now—and the [NCA] report confirms we’re going to be seeing less and less water in the future.”

The snowpack factor has multiple effects.

Barbara Vlamis of local water advocacy organization AquAlliance says the decreases in rain- and snowfall “make it more urgent to protect our groundwater from transfers and overuse in our region.” She added, “There’s very little vision in California at the level it should occur for water. Engineering or plumbing is all they can see as a solution.

Until they break away from these paths, we’re going to continue to have serious water problems.”

Ironically, as officials grapple with storage and shortage issues, they also have to deal with flooding. As Robyn DiFalco, executive director of the Butte Environmental Council, explains, shifts in precipitation patterns throughout the country, but even in California, can mean more intense rain and snow in places not accustomed to such levels, and warmer winters mean greater—and earlier— ice melts in California mountain areas.

Water may be a prime concern, but it’s not the only concern. BEC has a three-pronged approach to environmental advocacy: land, air and water, and the interrelationship Read the reports:

National Climate Assessment: www.globalchange.gov IPCC Assessment Report: www.ipcc.ch

Watershed event:

The Butte County Groundwater Forum will be held at 6 tonight (May 22) in Chico City Council chambers.

between the three. As explained by Chico City Councilwoman Tami Ritter, a member of the county’s Air Quality Management District, dry land breeds a greater risk of wildfires, which breeds greater air pollution.

As a result, DiFalco says her organization is pushing all three elements as Chico and Butte County implement climate action plans, and the recent reports haven’t shifted BEC’s priorities.

“We do have a problem that’s humancaused that we need to respond to,” she said.

“The question is whether or not we can modify our human behaviors and reduce our carbon emissions—as the [IPCC] report puts it, mitigate—effectively, in time, enough to make a difference.

“The studies continue to show: probably we can, [at least] some of what’s needed.”

greenhouse gases as well,” Cecil said. So, she added, farmers aren’t inherently against climate action—they just have a different take on the discussion.

“What we call ‘drought’ and ‘fire’ and ‘weather impacts,’ everyone else calls ‘climate change,’” she said. “A lot of things that the county is taking credit for are things we’re already doing as a responsible community because it makes sense—because it makes business sense.”

Chico State’s mandate comes from the California State University system’s chancellor as well as the campus president. Alexander said the university has myriad goals that include reducing water use by 20 percent and becoming environmentally neutral by 2030. Faculty members also are integrating sustainability more fully into the curriculum.

“These reports underscore the reasons we’ve been doing this and add some urgency to it,” Alexander said, “but we’ve been really moving in this direction and there are a lot of people engaged in these processes right now.”

Ritter, meanwhile, hopes the reports spur people who’ve been skeptical about climate change.

“I think it makes it harder for them,” she said. “Climate change is something that’s on pretty much everyone’s mind at this point, and I think as we look at the potential impacts, it’s affecting the elements most crucial to our existence: our food supply and our water source. The more focus we get on it from higher up is going to have an effect on the state and local level.” Ω

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For those involved in climate action

planning in the North State—at the city, county and university levels—the takeaway from the NCA and IPCC is we’re already on the proactive path.

Mitigation has been a longstanding local priority. The city started climate action planning a decade ago, while Butte County and Chico State CAPs have been years in the making.

For even longer, North State farms and orchards have been conservation sites.

Colleen Cecil, executive director of the Butte County Farm Bureau, says microsprinklers have replaced flood irrigation for many agricultural operations, and solar panels power many pumps.

Yes, agriculture is the single-biggest greenhouse gas emitter in Butte County, but “it’s also the single-largest industry to reduce

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UNDER THE HOOD SEEKING AN AUTO BODY REPAIR SHOP? Having to choose an auto body repair shop can be extremely stressful, especially if you have never been to one. There are dozens of shops in our area, so how can you choose which one is best for you?

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Word of mouth: Start of by asking your friends and family. Someone you are close too should have a recommendation or two. Follow up these recommendations by checking out reviews online. Reputable shops will have positive reviews from past customers.

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Labor charges: Prices vary from shop to shop, but no matter what you are having done to your car, a labor fee is always included. Generally when a shop has a smaller staff the labor fee will be lower since they do not have as many people on the payroll.

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How did you start Prancing Pony?

When we first moved to Durham in 2000, a horse rescue firm asked us to board 12 horses for the winter for $600. At the end they didn’t have the money so they offered one of their Shetland ponies. I didn’t want to take it because they have very bad temperaments, but we kept it to sell. However, Sweetie was so friendly, gentle and sweet that we kept her for the kids and have had her for 14 years. She had a foal named Marigold and when she was old enough, we drove them as a two-pony team. We have a third, a gelding that we sometimes substitute.

Where did you get that carriage?

To the best of my knowledge, it’s

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the only three-wagon carriage in the world. It was from a custom kit and I did all the painting, varnishing and woodwork myself.

Karen Robinette sandwiched between Sweetie (left) and Marigold.

What types of events do you attend?

glued plates of food and bottles of water on her. My 8-year-old daughter was an ant and we put her in the basket!

We do birthday and Halloween parties, weddings and the Patrick Ranch Autumn Fest the last three weekends each October. We also plan to do wine tours. We charge $75 an hour if we go to your event, or $25 an hour on our farm.

What have been some of your most memorable events?

The first time we did Autumn Fest was our first commercial event and it was a huge hit. We were very apprehensive and afraid no one would show up. But people went nuts at seeing a pony-drawn carriage and we had lines all day.

Then once for Halloween we dressed Sweetie as a four-legged picnic. We draped a checkered tablecloth on her and a big picnic basket over her saddle. We also

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And the kids can paint on the ponies?

Yes, I think we’re the only ones on the face of the planet that do it.

It’s a huge thrill for the kids. We have pony-decorating parties where they paint their names and other designs on them. They even put flowers on them and braid their manes and tails.

Any future plans for your ponies?

Yes, in June we plan to start ponydrawn taxi rides in [downtown] Chico. We’re having the carriage fitted with a sound and lighting system. We’re going to call it “Equi Cab” or “Pony Cab.” —VIC CANTU

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When was the last time you sat down, at a café or restaurant or in your own home, and enjoyed a nice cup of coffee? If you’re anything like me, it hasn’t been more than, oh, a few hours or so. But beyond (sometimes) knowing where the coffee beans were grown, I never really thought about how the coffee came to be in my cup.

So, since I heard the guys at the Naked Lounge had recently opened their own roastery—Great State Coffee Co.—I asked if I could hang out with them on a recent Sunday morning to find out about the process.

The Great State Coffee Co. space, off Benatar Way in south Chico, is impressive. (Watch out for a grand opening this summer.) I met co-owner (and my former CN&R co-worker) Alec Binyon there and he escorted me to the back room, where the coffee magic happens.

“Every coffee is different and needs to be roasted differently to bring out the depth of that particular bean’s flavor,” he explained as roastmaster Kevin Nies prepared each of us a cup of Naked Lounge’s first house brew, which they began serving at the café earlier this month. It was delicious, and strong—it had me buzzing half an hour later.

As roastmaster, Nies took over the roaster as he, Binyon and coowner Eric Fairchild prepared to create their fourth coffee, a blend. For each they go through a testing process called a “cupping.”

Nies poured the beans into the roaster, which is attached to a computer equipped with software that allows him to precisely track every step of the process (and, more importantly, re-create it). He pulled out a handful at different times to get a variety of flavors, from light roast to dark.

Then, for the cupping, with five samples in front of us, each of them ground and placed in small cups, we tested. First we smelled the grounds, then we poured hot water into them and smelled again a few times before finally tasting.

Creamy. Fruity. Acidic. Ashy. The differences in flavor among the five samples were astounding. Who knew that simply altering the length of time—by mere minutes—the beans are in the roaster could have such an effect? I certainly didn’t. Then, after choosing the best amount of time to roast a certain bean, Nies and company go through the same cupping exercise three more times, altering other variables. In all, it takes about 24 hours to perfect one recipe. The blend will take longer because they’ll do it for each of the three coffees and then again once they’re mixed together, but Binyon and Nies still expected it to be available at the Naked Lounge by press time.

For Binyon, it’s all about creating something. And now that I have a better understanding of the work and expertise involved in making a single coffee, my morning Joe is more than just a pick-me-up, it’s a product of creativity—you could even call it art.

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HEALTHLINES Pleasant Valley High School seniors Lana Maderos (left) and Mary Beem took second place in Directing Change, a statewide video contest they participated in as part of Michael Peck’s ROP video production class.

POOR FORM?

A new form used to determine Medi-Cal eligibility for beneficiaries renewing their coverage may be too complicated, advocates for low-income individuals argue.

Counties began sending the forms out last month and they are due back at the end of June, according to HealthyCal.org. As per the Affordable Care Act, the form now includes questions about income and tax deductions, which advocates say could be confusing for beneficiaries who don’t file their own taxes or have multiple jobs. Further, the renewal process now includes two forms in most parts of the state, whereas one form was used prior to ACA implementation.

Marcia Gardner, deputy director of Santa Barbara County’s Department of Social Services, maintained that the process has been simplified, noting that rather than requiring beneficiaries to produce pay stubs, the state can now verify such information electronically.

TEEN DRUG USE DISCUSSED

Local parents are encouraged to attend an upcoming forum titled Understand and Address Drug & Alcohol Abuse Among Teens.

Keynote speaker Jon Daily from Recovery Happens Counseling Services in Sacramento will address the most recent insights, interventions and changing trends related to drug use among teens, according to a Butte County Partners4Health press release. Other speakers will include Trisha Seastrom of Chico State’s Campus Alcohol & Drug Education Center and representatives from Marsh Junior High School’s Kids Leading Everyone Against Nicotine (KLEAN) program, which will provide information on increasingly popular e-cigarettes and vaping devices.

The event will be held on Tuesday, May 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Colusa Hall on Chico State’s campus. Entry is free; call Butte County Public Health’s Raúl Raygoza at 538-6109 or email rraygoza@buttecounty.net to RSVP.

A PURPOSE FOR A LONG LIFE

New research suggests that having a sense of purpose can add years to life, regardless of what that purpose is.

Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, in New York tracked the physical and mental health of more than 7,000 U.S. adults ages 20 to 75, according to BBC News. The participants’ purpose in life was assessed by the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with these statements: Some people wander aimlessly through life, but I am not one of them; I live life one day at a time and don’t really think about the future; I sometimes feel as if I’ve done all there is to do in life.

The researchers followed up 14 years later, finding the purposeful people had outlived their counterparts, even when controlling for other factors such as negative mood, and that the added years did not depend on the person’s age or if they had retired from work.

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Emotion captured Pleasant Valley High School students highlight mental health stigma in statewide video contest story and photo by

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MMichael Peck’s ROP video production class at Pleasant Valley High School is

uch of what students learn in

technically oriented. “We shoot, we edit,” Peck said during a recent visit to his classroom.

But as of this year, he’s built participation in a statewide student video contest, Directing Change, into his curriculum. The competition is part of broader efforts to prevent suicide and reduce stigma and discrimination related to mental illness. As such, Peck knew his students would have to fully grasp the prevalence of mental illness to be successful.

“I told them that unless they really understand what this message is about, it’s just going to be a cool-looking video,” he said. “It’s not really going to be the message these people at Directing Change are looking for.”

So Peck, who also teaches a health class at PV, made sure his students were familiar with mental health issues before they began producing their 60-second public service announcements. He invited a guest speaker from Butte County Behavioral Health, assigned research on the topic and shared personal anecdotes about people he’s known who have struggled with mental disorders.

Seniors Lana Maderos and Mary Beem said the background work helped them form the concept for their PSA, titled “Walk the Mile.” Filmed along the Steve G. Harrison Memorial Bike Path near the Doe Mill neighborhood, the video begins with a young woman—Maderos’ sister— walking along the path as passersby literally label her, sticking notes on her shirt that read “weird,” “psycho,” “freak” and “crazy.”

“The world thinks they know what I am. But the reality is I’m so much more than that,” Maderos narrates. As friends and family members emerge to remove the labels and walk alongside the girl, Maderos continues: “I am a sister. I am a daughter. I am a best friend. I am a granddaughter. … Stand up for a friend, stand up for yourself, stand up against stigma of mental illness.”

Though his students turned in plenty of worthy videos, Peck said, “Walk the Mile” stood out immediately. “The first time I saw it, it just struck me—this is unique, it’s powerful, it’s very positive, it can give people hope,” he said. “It shows that everyone really is surrounded by a network of people and that you’re not defined by a mental illness.”

The Directing Change judges must have agreed. “Walk the Mile” took first place in the regional competition, advancing to the state level. Maderos and Beem, along with Peck and six students hired as the official video crew for the evening, attended the red carpet awards ceremony at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento on May 13.

Their competitors were mostly students from schools in Southern California, where access to higher technology is the norm,

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Watch “Walk the Mile” and other videos created by House of Blue, PV’s video production department, at www.pvhouseofblue.com.

Go to www.directingchange.org to view the winning entries or for more information on Directing Change.

That’s why he decided to incorporate the Directing Change contest into his classroom. National statistics suggest that mental issues are widespread, and Peck has observed them in his students. “The more I learn about mental illness and depression, the more I see how many people are affected by it.”

Maderos and Beem acknowledged that mental health stigma is prevalent among their peers.

“Some kids don’t want to understand what people are going through with a mental illness,” Beem said, “or anyone who is a little different.”

Peck asserted that any school, from preschool to university, will have similar social issues. He’s observed an unwillingness to reach out to fellow students who “appear to be different or appear to be struggling.”

In Peck’s health class, he devotes a unit to mental health in which he reminds his students: “It’s very easy to just walk right by somebody, but it’s also easy to take a second to say, ‘Hello.’ That kind of stuff can be very important for people who are struggling. It can change how they feel.” Ω

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The pair described themselves as underdogs in their classroom, admitting they received help from their peers on the sound and video production, but maintaining their video was successful because of its positive tone.

“It’s not all these negative facts; it’s, ‘There is a light at the end of the tunnel,’” Beem said. “We wanted to keep it positive.”

“A lot of people struggling with mental illness feel like they’re alone,” Maderos added, “so we wanted to portray that you’re not alone. You have people there for you even if you don’t realize it.”

National Institute for Mental Health statistics show that roughly 1 in 5 youth ages 13 to 18 experience some form of mental health challenges in a given year, and the implications are troubling—45 percent of students with an emotional disorder drop out of high school, according to the U.S. Department of Education, while only 32 percent of students with a serious mental illness pursue higher education.

“It’s alarming to me as an adult, a father and a teacher to see the number of kids in our society who are dealing with unhappiness and internal struggles,” Peck said.

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his year’s primary election is in jeopardy of low voter turnout.

This is commonly the case. For one, it’s not a presidential election year.

Additionally, with California’s new “top-two primary,” under which the top-two vote-getters in statewide races head to the November general election, some may not feel a pull to the polls.

However, as our package of stories

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CN&R’s guide to the June election

this week demonstrates, there are plenty of important local races on the line. Included are Chico’s two supervisorial districts, county assessor, superior court judge, county clerk and more. And don’t discount those statewide races either. The new toptwo system makes party affiliation irrelevant. Voters who sit home next month may not like their options come November.

Who’s in the House?

LaMalfa has the edge, but Logue lags are two races for U.S. Congress that affect CN&R readers, depending on where they TOnehere live. Both are intriguing, but for different reasons. is the race for District 3, which stretches from the Highway 80 corridor in the south,

Gregory Cheadle

John Garamendi

including Davis, Dixon and Fairfield, to Glenn County in the north. The incumbent is Democrat John Garamendi, 69, long a major player in state politics. He is being challenged by local Republican Assemblyman Dan Logue, 63, who is being termed out of office.

The other race, in District 1, includes all of the counties in northeastern California, from Butte and Nevada in the south to Siskiyou and Modoc in the north, and includes the cities of Chico, Paradise, Red Bluff and Redding. The incumbent is Republican Doug LaMalfa, 53, a Richvale rice farmer who is completing his first term in office, having succeeded 12-term Rep. Wally Herger.

LaMalfa is being challenged by three people: Democrat Heidi Hall, 53, of Grass Valley, who’s a program manager for the state Department of Water Resources; Democrat Dan Levine, of Chico, a medical-marijuana farmer and activist running under the slogan “Cannabis for Congress”; and Republican Gregory Cheadle, 57, of Redding, an attorney interning in the Shasta County Public Defender’s Office.

This race is interesting for a number of reasons. One, obviously, is the presence of Levine, whose shoestring candidacy may indicate how many pot growers there are in the district—or at least how many of them vote.

Another is that Cheadle is also an unusual candidate, an African-American Republican.

And then there is Hall, an unabashed liberal running in a district where the voter registration split between Republicans and Democrats is about 60-40.

As the incumbent and someone who served in both the state Assembly and Senate, LaMalfa, a bedrock conservative who wants to repeal Obamacare and denies that humans are causing climate change, is in a strong position here. The only question is: Who will survive the primary to run against him in November, Cheadle, Hall or Levine? If it’s Cheadle, look for some conservative hair-

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Readers may remember that in 2012,

following then-Assemblyman Jim Nielsen’s decision to seek the District 4 State Senate seat vacated by LaMalfa, Logue also threw his hat in that ring, while continuing to run for re-election to the Assembly. Four weeks before the November election, however, he dropped out of the Senate race, citing health issues. (He and Nielsen both won their races.)

With Nielsen and LaMalfa ensconced in their seats, and facing term limits in the Assembly at the end of this year, Logue had only one option for continuing his political career: challenging Garamendi, an iconic figure who has previously served as state insurance commissioner, lieutenant governor, assemblyman and senator.

In 2012, competing for the first time in a newly reshaped and more conservative district, Garamendi defeated Colusa County Supervisor Kim Vann, a Republican, with 54.2 percent of the vote to her 45.8 percent.

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splitting. If Hall moves on, voters will have a clear choice in November. And if Levine prevails—well, no telling what may happen.

May 22, 2014

Dan Logue

We’ve covered some of the contests in these pages, but we want to urge voters to go to the League of Women Voters’ website— www.smartvoter.org—for additional information, especially regarding the races we weren’t able to include. And get to the ballot booth on June 3. (For the CN&R’s endorsements, see Editorial, page 4.)

Since then he has worked hard to win over conservative voters. Twice he’s joined forces with LaMalfa—in a widely published photo op supporting construction of the Sites Reservoir and co-writing a letter to the FDA that convinced the agency to back off a new regulation that would have made feeding spent brewery grain to cattle—a practice Chico’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. embraces—prohibitively expensive.

Logue is of course known to CN&R readers as our conservative three-term assemblyman. He is more widely known as the man behind the failed Proposition 23 on the November 2010 ballot, which would have overturned the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. He’s also known for his opposition to state regulations and his series of hearings up and down the state—and even in Nevada—about California’s alleged hostility to business.

This is the first time Logue has faced a strong Democratic opponent in a district where Democrats have a voter-registration advantage. If turnout is low on June 3 and Democrats stay home, Logue could win.

Under California’s new “top-two primary” law, however, both men will advance to the November general election, and Garamendi will almost certainly have the edge then.

—Robert Speer

Candidates online:

To learn where the candidates stand on a wide range of issues, go to the following addresses: Logue: www.danlogue.com Garamendi: www.garamendi.org LaMalfa: www.douglamalfa.com Hall: www.heidihallforcongress.com Cheadle: www.cheadleforcongress.com Levine: www.facebook.com/ DanLevineforCongress

FAQ: Frequent assessor questions

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The whos and whys of the most coveted job you’ve never heard of hen current Butte County Assessor Fred W Holland was appointed to that position in 2009 after his predecessor stepped out midterm, he beat out a field of 15 candidates. Of the county seats on the ballot this primary election, the widest field of contenders—five altogether—are vying for the position he’s stepping away from. The hubbub over a job that most people know little about is likely to prompt questions from voters, so here are some quick answers that might help before stepping into the booth:

What does an assessor do?

In Butte County, the assessor oversees an office of about three dozen employees whose collective duties include identifying all taxable properties in the county and who owns them, and appraising property values to assign tax values. These numbers are all subject to lots of variables, including multitudinous current and historical tax laws and legal exemptions. All of this information is compiled into an assessment roll, and the office works closely with the auditor-controller and treasurer-tax collector to ensure all residents are taxed fairly. The job of assessor, like that of the sheriff, is to carry out policy rather than determine it, and thus it is a nonpartisan position.

Have any of them worked in an assessor’s office?

Candidates Diane Brown and Al Petersen both currently work for county assessor’s offices, Brown as a principal appraiser in Butte and Petersen is the chief appraiser for Sutter. Petersen formerly worked in the Butte County office, and Brown has worked there her entire career, since beginning as a clerk typist in 1983.

The website smartvoter.org— maintained by the League of Women Voters—lists the current

Al Petersen

Rudy Rindlisbacher

assessor, Holland, and the Butte County Employees’Association as Brown endorsees.

Petersen began his campaign early, and in an interview with the CN&R (“Assessing the big race,” Newslines, March 6), said making the office more transparent and accessible to the public is a high priority. In a more recent interview, he emphasized the importance of introducing improved technology to the office.

Virgil Gage

What about the others?

Bill Connelly is currently a Butte County supervisor, a position he’s held the last nine years, and has the most name recognition.

Connelly’s campaign paints him as protecting property owners against “overzealous application of tax rates.” His website claims, in all caps, that he “is the only candidate … that puts your property rights first and foremost!” He is also the only candidate who didn’t attend an April 24 League of Women Voters forum at the Chico City Council chambers.

Candidate Rudy Rindlisbacher has been a real estate agent in Butte County for 35 years, and says that experience gives him extensive knowledge of property values and appraising.

As for management know-how, he touts his former job as manager of a large grocery store in San Francisco.

It’s hard to gauge Virgil Gage’s platform or camA closer look: paign, as he doesn’t mainThe League of Women Voters site, tain an online presence Smartvoter.org, offers information on all of the candidates. More and didn’t submit a candiinformation can be found at these date’s statement for the campaign websites.

Primary Election Sample Brown: dianeforassessor.weebly.com Ballot and Voter InformaPetersen: www.alpetersen2014.com tion Booklet. He’s a retired Connelly: business executive who connellyforassessor.nationbuilder.com made an unsuccessful bid Rindlisbacher: www.facebook.com/ for Connelly’s District 1 rindlisbacherforassessor2014 supervisorial seat in 2012.

“I spent most of my career doing assessments in the public arena,” Gage said at the forum. “I did assessments on companies that built hardware for the military, the space program, communication ... and NASA.”

Why do so many people want the job?

Well, we hope it’s because of a genuine desire to serve the public and carry out the office’s duties efficiently and responsibly. It’s probably not the glory (Wyatt Earp was a county assessor, of Pima County, Kan., but that’s not what made him famous). Money, however, could be a factor— Holland made a not-too-shabby $126,245 in regular pay in 2012.

—Ken Smith

kens@newsreview.com

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Let’s start with the incumbent.

McLean packs a lot of experience in her tool belt, including a degree from Georgetown University Law School; a stint as an Army nurse; and 25 years in private practice, during which time she specialized in everything from real estate to family law. A native Chicoan, McLean said she originally wanted to be a judge to make Butte County a safer place to live and work.

“A lot of my life has been involved with doing community service, including serving in the military,” she said during a recent phone interview. “I wanted to be able to work in a capacity that I could give back to my community and serve my community that would have an impact—and I was unable to do that when I was in private practice.”

McLean said she’s gained a reputation for being tough, fair and honest, and when determining the outcome of criminal cases, she takes into consideration the victims, the criminals, and the public.

“Every day I come to work and I am confronted with making decisions that affect the community I live in, whether it’s in a criminal case to protect the rights of victims, while at the same time determining whether the defendant should get probation or is too dangerous to be put back in our community.”

For his part, Ortner has pointed to his 32 years as an attorney, both

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for civil and criminal cases, including countless jury trials.

“What I bring to this position that I’m running for as far as office, is I bring experience and I bring knowledge,” he said during a recent League of Women Voters candidates’ forum. “That experience and knowledge comes from the wide variety and background as far as cases that I have handled, both on a court-appointed as well as retained basis as an attorney.”

In a phone interview, Ortner added that he feels the breadth of support he’s received during his campaign—he’s been endorsed by fellow attorneys, law enforcement and the Paradise Post—speaks to his ability to do the job well. He said he’s ready and willing to sit as an impartial judge, viewing and assessing the evidence in order to make careful decisions.

“I decided to switch gears because I think I’ve achieved or accomplished enough in practice as I can,” he said. “It was time to take another step and based on what

I’ve had in terms of success within the community, I want to return the favor and sit on the bench.”

In the few face-offs between Ortner and McLean since the election season began, both have been cordial to the other. Some anonymous members of the public, however, have raised questions as to McLean’s ability to hold office due to an incident involving a medical leave in 2012. In speaking with McLean, she acknowledged she’d taken the 30-day leave, but said she returned to work capable and healthy. She pointed to her nearperfect record as a judge (she’s had just one case overturned during her tenure) and a stellar attendance record since as evidence of her competence.

“My record speaks for itself,” she said. McLean has the backing of several fellow judges, attorneys, including the Butte County Deputy District Attorneys Association, and others.

—Meredith J. Graham

meredithg@newsreview.com

Left: Sandra McLean is being challenged for her judicial seat for the first time.

Below: Attorney Eric Ortner is vying for the job she’s held for eight years.

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he race for Butte County clerk-recorder is unusuT al for a couple reasons. First, it comes on the heels of a county government feud in which incumbent Candace Grubbs received a letter of reprimand from the county’s chief administration officer, Paul Hahn, accusing her of creating a toxic workplace.

Additionally, for the first time in at least the last four elections dating back to 1998, Grubbs, who’s held her seat since 1986, is running against an opponent with name recognition. That opponent is Pamela Teeter, who works for the nonprofit agency Youth for Change and is married to District 5 Supervisor Doug Teeter.

In the 2002 primary, Grubbs faced a Magalia man named Don Illa and four years later went up against an Oroville woman named Linda Rhyne. In each race Grubbs captured 82.6 percent of the vote. She ran unopposed in 2010.

As for the Feb. 18 letter of reprimand, Hahn said that besides creating an uncomfortable workplace, Grubbs also improperly used an employee for personal work totaling 9.75 hours and equating to more than $300 in wages and benefits. The letter was based on the results of an investigation into the ClerkRecorder’s Office at the request of County Counsel Bruce Alpert, who had become aware of the unease in the workplace through communication with Laurie Cassady, the longtime assistant clerk-recorder.

The summary of the investigation’s report reads: “At your request I conducted an investigation of the allegations made by Laurie Cassady with regard to how Candace Grubbs, as the Clerk-Recorder has treated Ms. Cassady and other employees in a disrespectful and discourteous manner. Ms. Cassady stated that Ms. Grubbs’ demeanor and conduct towards Ms. Cassady and other employees has created a high degree of stress both for herself and for other employees in the Clerk-Recorder’s Office.”

The report’s conclusion placed most of the blame on Cassady’s behavior. District Attorney Mike Ramsey reported in a press conference March 4 that a followup investigation by his office determined the employee had performed only a half hour of work for Grubbs, which added up to $17.34, and he held up a check Grubbs had written to the county for that amount.

Teeter announced her candidacy the day

after the story hit the press.

The two faced off at a League of Women Voters candidates’ forum on April 24 in Chico. In her opening statement, Teeter said, “Elected offices are not meant to be long-term careers. They’re meant to foster the rotation of new leadership, fresh perspective, new thinking, new ideas.”

Grubbs defended her long stay in the office. “You can be in office or a position for one year and be stale or you can be in a position like mine and keep bringing innovative ideas and keep the office moving forward

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and in the most cost-effective manner, which I have,” she said.

When asked what major challenges the ClerkRecorder’s Office faces, Teeter suggested getting word out to citizens on the role the office plays.

“These departments serve the county, they serve the residents, they serve the voters and obviously there seems to be a confusion or misunderstanding or lack of education in regards to what this department does for them,” she said.

Grubbs said that a general lack of understanding simply shows she’s doing her job.

“Pamela is correct,” she said. “People don’t know what our office does. They don’t think about it because it is functioning very well. The fact is, if you get married, if you have a baby born or someone dies in your family or you record a document because you bought or sold property, it all goes through that office. And, of course, you vote. So, when things are going well, they don’t quite understand; they just know that they work.”

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Supes scoop Two very different races on display hico’s supervisorial districts are up for C grabs next month and both incumbents, Larry Wahl and Maureen Kirk, are seeking

re-election. They and their challengers, Andrew Merkel and Bob Evans, respectively, got a chance to share their platforms with the public last Wednesday (May 14) during a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

Those looking for the candidates to distinguish their campaigns were not disappointed

by Wahl and Merkel, whose views on most issues are extremely divergent. The same could not be said of Kirk and Evans, who rarely disagreed during their hour-long Q&A session.

Wahl, a staunch conservative and former Chico city councilman, is looking for a second term in his District 2, the westernmost Chico district. He’s facing medical-marijuana advocate and political neophyte Merkel, one of the supporters of an initiative that would preserve a local medi-pot ordinance the Board of Supervisors adopted last year but recently amended in a way that restricts pot-growing.

Wahl made it clear right off the bat that he’s not a fan of medical cannabis. “I’ve fought hard to preserve your right to the peaceful and quiet enjoyment of your property,” he said. “It’s an important issue.”

He also noted that the county is in good shape financially. “Butte County has spent less than it takes in, it lives within its means, and it’s paid down debt. It has a healthy reserve and we do not borrow money to meet our ongoing obligations anymore,” he said.

More info: Merkel: www.facebook.com/ andrewmerklefordistrict2supervisor Wahl: www.buttecountyboardofsupervisors candidate.com Kirk: www.maureenkirk.com Evans: www.votebobevans.com

Merkel went on the offensive immediately, saying the county has deteriorated during Wahl’s term. He pointed to infrastructure in need of work and noted that Butte County is missing out on generating income from a $400 million marijuana industry. “I’m here to create jobs, bring in new businesses,” he said.

When asked about where housing development should occur, Merkel pointed to infill projects. Wahl pointed to the lava-cap foothills outside of District 2 as the ideal spot. As for the Greenline, he said he’s content at this time to leave the ag-land-protecting demarcation where it is, but that he would consider projects to amend it. Merkel, however, called for strict protections. “We do not need to be developing properties on agricultural ground that’s irreplaceable,” he said.

The two mostly remained at odds throughout the forum. For example, Wahl called the Board of Supervisors’ decision to ban fracking in the county as an “emotional response” based on no factual information. He was the lone holdout on that decision. Whereas Merkel supports the prohibition. “It’s a bad practice. … We need to ban fracking now. We need to protect our water,” he said.

Following Wahl and Merkel were

incumbent Kirk and challenger Evans. Kirk is looking for a third term representing District 3, the easternmost Chico district, which also includes Forest Ranch and Cohasset.

She introduced herself by highlighting her breadth of experience, which includes eight years as a Chico city councilwoman and being a member of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission before that.

Evans lost a bid for a Chico City Council post in 2010. However, he was appointed a few months later to fill the spot left vacant by Wahl, who unseated longtime Supervisor Jane Dolan. He lost that seat in the 2012 election.

Kirk said her priority is public safety and that maintaining those services requires a

healthy budget. She helped to balance the structural deficit the county faced in 2007, she noted.

Evans, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, introduced himself as a Midwesterner greatly influenced by his upbringing. He has a degree in economics and two master’s degrees, including an MBA. He touted his experience running Lifetouch, a student portrait photography business, noting his work there also influences how government should run.

Regarding the Greenline, Evans said he doesn’t think minor amendments to the demarcation would open the floodgates to development. He said, however, that he’s not in favor of radical changes. Kirk said there’s a lot of room to grow outside of the county’s prime soil, including in north Chico.

Fracking also came up. Kirk said she supports a prohibition because “there are too many unknowns about it.” Evans agreed that the region’s groundwater needs protection, but he chalked up the ban to being “a political statement.” That’s because he believes no local wells can be fracked, since there’s no shale in the area.

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safety and marijuana as three of the biggest issues weighing on constituents’ minds. As to the latter, Evans talked about how prevalent pot-smoking is and how harmful it is to health. Kirk said the county needs to live with Proposition 215—the state’s so-called Compassionate Use Act. She’s against the initiative backed by Merkel and is hoping the county can come to a solution that works for everyone.

At one point, each candidate acknowledged the other’s commitment to serving the public.

“Both Maureen and I are trying to do our best for this community,” Evans said. “We’re certainly not in it for the money.”

Kirk concurred: “I actually think Bob and I have a lot in common as far as wanting the best for our county,” she said.

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The other races A mixed bag of candidates and two ballot initiatives

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From left: Jim Reed and his opponents, James Gallagher and Ryan Schohr.

see from this week’s Streetalk question— “Who are you voting for?”—the race to fill the post leading public schools isn’t weighing on a lot of minds outside of those in the education realm.

That’s true for several of the contests, actually. Historically, the primary has low voter turnout, and there are a number of campaigns that haven’t made much news around these parts. Here are the basics on the less talked about races as well as the two ballot initiatives.

Of course, many local incumbents are running unopposed. They include District Attorney Mike Ramsey, Butte County Superintendent Tim Taylor and Auditor-Controller David Houser. Kory Honea, currently the undersheriff, is running unopposed for sheriff.

One local office that is contested is that of the treasurer-tax collector. Peggy Moak, who was appointed back in February following the retirement of the former treasurer, was previously the assistant treasurer. She is in charge of, among other things, the county’s nearly $400 million investment portfolio.

Endorsements include dozens of heavyhitters, including all five Butte County supervisors, as well as former Supervisor Jane Dolan. Moak is squaring off against Kathleen Dwyer, a private-sector financial manager who has served as branch manager of several corporate banks.

As for state superintendent: The candidates are Democratic incumbent Tom Torlakson, a former Bay Area assemblyman who insiders say supports unions. He’s challenged by anti-Common Core Republican teacher Lydia Gutierrez and Democrat Marshall Tuck, a 40-year-old Harvard Business School grad who wants to cull the

Reed’s run twice for Congress, in 2010 and 2012, first against Wally Herger and then against Herger’s successor, Doug LaMalfa.

In the latter contest, after being among the 09 vote-getters in the 09 09 primary, Reed got top-two endorsements from former opponents Gregory Cheadle, a Republican, and Gary Oxley, an independent.

It wasn’t enough, however, to10 10 10 overtake LaMalfa in the general election.

The primary also includes two ballot initiatives.

The first, Proposition 41, asks California voters to authorize the sale of $600 million in general obligation bonds to build affordable multifamily housing for struggling veterans and their families. According to impartial analysis from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, about half of the funds would be earmarked to construct housing for extremely low-income veterans—those making about 09 09 09 $14,000 a year or less.

The second, Proposition 42, eliminates state reimbursements for the costs local gov10 incur to comply 10 ernments with laws ensuring10 public access to meetings and records of government officials. Should the measure pass, the requirement to comply with the laws on access to records and meetings—the California Public Records Act and Ralph M. Brown Act, respectively—would be added to the state Constitution. At the same time, it would eliminate to repay local09 09 the state’s obligation 09 governments for their related costs. Prop. 42 is supported by the First Amendment Coalition, an advocate of government transparency.

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Gov. Jerry Brown, aka Edmund G. Brown, is facing more than a dozen challengers, including activist Cindy Sheehan of the Peace and Freedom party. Gavin Newsom, incumbent lieutenant governor, is seeking a second term in a field of eight total candidates. The top-two vote getters for each race will go on to the November general election. The same is true in the contests for state controller (six candidates), insurance commissioner (three), treasurer (three) and secretary of state (eight) as well as all other statewide races.

Incumbent Attorney General Kamala Harris, a Democrat, is looking to defend her post against six other candidates. And Republican George Runner, current member of the State Board of Equalization, and his challenger for District 1, Democrat Chris Parker, will square off again in November despite being the only two in that race.

State Sen. Jim Nielsen, the (supposedly)

Gerber-based Republican lawmaker, goes up against Democrat CJ Jawahar, a Rosevillebased engineer and teacher, who’s endorsed by the California Teachers Association and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.

Nielsen was a no-show at the League of 09 Women Voters’ recent series of candidates’ forums in Chico.

In the Assembly, District 1 incumbent Brian Dahle, a Republican farmer based 10 in Bieber, is looking for a second term. He faces Democrat Brigham Sawyer Smith, a student.

09 One of the more interesting primary races is that of the 3rd Assembly District, now occupied by Dan Logue. He’s termed out at 10 the end of the year and running for Congress in a more left-leaning district against veteran politician John Garamendi, a Democrat.

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Arts & Culture On the mic, from left: Chico comedians Phil From Chico, Kyle Bowen, Mark Joseph Leathers and Steve Swim.

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Still standing up Chico comedians maintain stage presence despite losing their venue

D comedy venue was open a mere five months in 2012, but the community owntown’s The Last Stand

of comedians it helped bring together is still standing stronger than ever. by Ken Smith “I would say John Ross is the father, or kens@ at least the stepfanewsreview.com ther, of the current comedy scene in Comedy nights: Chico,” said local Mondays are for comedian Kyle comedy open mics, with the DownLo Bowen of the Sacra(319 Main St.) and mento comic behind Maltese Bar & Tap the short-lived Room (1600 Park venue. And a chorus Ave.) alternating as of affirmations rose hosts. Next up: the DownLo, Monday, from the other standMay 26, 9 p.m.; ups gathered one and the Maltese, recent weekday Monday, June 2, afternoon at Duffy’s 8 p.m. Tavern for a makeshift summit on the state of local stand up.

The four comedians comprise a veritable rogue’s gallery of comedic styles and off-kilter personalities. Bowen, a licensed embalmer with a flair for storytelling and dramatic delivery, is the most seasoned, having performed in locales as far-flung as London and Tokyo. Steve Swim is a local stand-up veteran and theater fixture who cuts through bullshit with his raspy voice; his straight-shooting and prickly demeanor an extension of his truththrough-comedy philosophy. Mark Joseph Leathers is a scruffy-looking fellow whose quiet, shy-seeming demeanor at the meeting sharply contrasted the brutally self-effacing stage persona he’s developed in six years of doing stand-up. Finally there was Phillip Corbin (Phil From Chico), a 24

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brash young comic with a knack for social media and self-promotion determined to prove he’s as fearless as his idols Richard Pryor and Louis C.K. (“I really don’t care; I’ll say anything,” he repeated several times).

The elder comics agreed the vitality of local comedy has ebbed and flowed for years, but mark the ill-fated Last Stand as the catalyst for a renaissance, anchored these days around alternating Monday night comedy open mics at the Maltese Bar & Tap Room and the DownLo. Though some of the older comics’ stand-up experience predates the Last Stand, they credit the venue with initially bringing them all together and galvanizing the local scene, as well as giving younger comics a semiprofessional place to cut their teeth.

The result, they said, is continuing quality comedy.

“One thing that impresses me rather a lot is that the talent pool is incredibly impressive, especially for a city of its size,” Bowen said. “I’ve been in Santa Cruz on nights where you couldn’t find four funny comedians, but I know I could call seven guys who could get onstage right now and do 20 good minutes.”

Doing stand-up in Chico is not without its challenges, claimed the comics. With the city apparently unable to support a full-time venue, comedy shows are commonly limited to bars, which are not always the most cordial environment. And, Swim added, Chico audiences are sometimes fickle and sensitive.

“I think Chico is a great training ground, because you have to deal with all the liberal pains in the asses, all the conservative redneck crazy fuckers, the racist fucks, too,” Swim said. “Then

these bar environments, they’re tough but it sharpens your tools. You know if you can get a chuckle in a bar, the same joke is gonna kill in a quiet intimate comedy show environment.”

Other topics of conversation included the importance of learning to host a comedy show as opposed to just performing and whether alcohol and weed enhance or inhibit performance (all agreed alcohol is a boon if not overdone and three out of four said marijuana made performing harder, with Leathers alone offering the dissenting vote).

The comics all said there’s still room for some growth in the scene, and Leathers is already hosting intermittent comedy open mics at Mondo’s Café with the hope of making them more regular.

“I like that idea because it’s not a bar and minors can get in, so we can try to get younger people to go,” Leathers offered earnestly.

“Yeah, I want younger people to go there, too!” Corbin interjected with exaggerated lechery.

“That’s because he’s a pervert,” Leathers responded, “but I just wanna hook ’em on stand-up while they’re young ...”

“Yeah, hook ’em while they’re young, that’s what I want, too!” Corbin interrupted again.

Swim said he sees good things in the longer term: “In the next decade, you’re gonna see Chico people out there [on the national scene] doing it. “[Someone’s] gonna click with somebody because there’s always roomfuls of greedy fuckers looking to make a buck off of somebody.

Which is kind of what we want, because they’re a catalyst to make that buck.” Ω

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THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: The market is back with fresh produce, local food, arts and crafts, plus live entertainment. This Week: Recologizing Chico the Zero Waste Way. Th, 6-9pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

Theater GOD’S COUNTRY: A theatrical docudrama about the growing white supremacist movement in America. Directed by Steven Dietz. Th-Sa, 7:30-9:30pm through 5/31. $12 - $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blue

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AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Delbert Rupp and Friends, thrown and carved large-scale stoneware vessels and sculpture. Through 5/31. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Contemporary Woman, mixed-media art that examines the role of women, their struggles, successes, and experiences as female artists. Through 6/13.

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Bring your own chair and enjoy popcorn and refreshments available for purchase. F, 5/23, 7-10pm. Free. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.BikeChico.org.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS: Downtown Chico’s summer music series continues with jam-funk from Swamp Zen. F, 5/23, 7-8:30pm. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

THE SURVIVORS: Tunes from the ’60s and ’70s in honor of the Veterans art on display at the monCA Pop-Up Museum. F, 5/23, 6-8pm. Free. monca Pop-Up Museum, 215 Main St.; (530) 891-4304.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

Music EBONY AND IVORY CONCERT SERIES: The series features local artists on the newly restored 1911 Steinway grand piano. This month join pianist John Trenalone playing selections from the American songbook and pop standards. F, 5/23, 6:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

community event to raise awareness for migratory fish in our area. Open to all ages, with prizes and raffles throughout the day. Sa, 5/24, 8am. $20-$25. Bidwell Park One Mile Recreation, Woodland Ave.; (530) 865-4875.

POW WOW: Celebrate, dance, sing and watch ceremonies, and check out jewelry, beads, leather clothing, T-shirts and local vendors. Sa, 5/24, 11am-10pm; Su, 5/25, 11am-5pm. Free. Plumas Avenue School, 440 Plumas Ave. in Oroville.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

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Special Events ART UNDER THE AWNING: A benefit for the 6th St Center for youth with an art auction, BBQ dinner, and live music from Dylan’s Dharma. W, 5/28, 5-8pm. $20, $5 discount with donations.

Jack’s Family Restaurant, 540 Main St.; (530) 343-8383.

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MONCA POP-UP MUSEUM: Veterans Art Pop Up Museum, monCA hosts a temporary art exhibit featuring the work of North State veterans. Through 5/24, 10am-5pm. Free. 215 Main St., (530) 891-4304.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE: All the

Rest, paintings and prints by Jonny Alexander. Through 5/31. Gallery hours are Open daily.. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: New Works, figu-

rative drawings from local artists. Color Magic, original paintings, pottery, etchings and jewelry by local artists. Through 5/30.

493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

THE UPS STORE: New Works, etchings, engraving and collagraph prints from artist Michael Halldorsen. Through 5/31. 702 Mangrove Ave. #224.

Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

FLORALS AND FLOWERS: Artwork can be of any subject, but must contain at least one flower in the image. See website for more details. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

POSTER CONTEST: Submit drawings and designs for the upcoming season of show posters at Theatre on The Ridge. See website for more details. Ongoing. Opens 5/22.

Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Explore Evolution, investigate evolutionary principles in organisms ranging from smallest to the largest, with interactive exhibits giving the viewer an opportunity to experience how scientists conduct research on evolution.

Ongoing. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Paradise Depot

Museum Open House, a railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Into The Blue: Maritime Navigation and the Archeology of Shipwrecks, featuring artifacts recovered from the Frolic shipwreck and the story behind the ship’s history. TuSa through 7/24. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Bird Houses, local artist and craftsman Bernie Vigallon created bird-houses to benefit the Fairview Alternative Education Program. Through 6/20. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

Call for Artists

Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

ALL-MEDIA ART SHOW: The Chico Art Center hosts its annual national all-media juried art competition. See website for details.

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POW WOW: See Saturday. Free. Plumas Avenue School, 440 Plumas Ave. in Oroville.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday.

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works inspired from textiles, jewelry design, painting, and collage by artist Marilynn Jennings. California Rivers, Jake Early’s latest series. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

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Joy of cookbooks Henri cleans the closet and outs his favorites

“S Henri had just returned from a walk around the acrebleu! What’s going on here?”

block with Miss Marilyn to find Colette dumping armfuls of books into the trunk of Pierre. Cookbooks! Henri’s cookbooks! by “Spring cleaning, Little Brother.

Henri Bourride Goodwill. Salvation Army. Do you henri@ newsreview.com have preference?” (She’s known the answer to that since I was 14.)

“But … but … but …”

“Oh, chill out,” she said. “Just getting rid of stuff we don’t need. Like 300 cookbooks.”

A bit of an exaggeration.

“Don’t need? Cookbooks?”

She scowled. “Oh, come on. You’re getting your recipes online these days as much as I am.”

“But … my cookbooks?” I peered into the trunk.

Alice Waters, Craig Claiborne, Anna Thomas, Rachael Ray, Christopher Kimball. Mes amis!

“Tell you what,” she said, “you can keep one shelf of books.”

Probably best I didn’t say what I was thinking: And you can keep one pair of shoes!

Actually, she had a point. The Internet has dramatically changed how we find recipes. Whether it’s looking up ways to cook a specific dish or possible dishes to make with specific ingredients, we’ve found ourselves going online more and more. Besides, there were cookbooks I hadn’t opened in years.

So I ended up agreeing to thin them out. Problem: which ones to keep.

Thankfully she agreed to wait until the next day, so I had some time to go through them and think about which books I absolutely couldn’t let go of.

At the top of the list: Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer Continually in print since 1936 (subsequent editions revised by co-authors), Joy of Cooking is a virtual reflection of 20th century American cooking, a book that will never disappoint, whether you’re looking for recipes for hors d’oeuvres, soups, sauces, or game (including opossum and raccoon in earlier editions).

The Way to Cook, Julia Child Another classic, by one of the most influential cooks of the last

50 years, The Way to Cook is actually more useful than her better-known Mastering the Art of French Cooking, emphasizing fresh, natural and easy-to-find ingredients in her down-to-earth conversational voice. Child walks beginners through the basics—of soups, breads, fish, meat and desserts—but allows room for improvising for more experienced cooks.

The New Basics Cookbook, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins This 800-plus-page book (over 900 recipes) is a continuing source of new discoveries, two of my favorites being chilled avocado soup and peanut pesto (a dip, perfect for sliced red bell peppers!). An expanded version of the authors’ The Silver Palate Cookbook, The New Basics includes simple suggestions for preparation, presentation, entertaining and wine pairing—with wonderful hand-drawn, often silly illustrations (we love the smiling fish).

How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman Two thousand recipes, often with many variations/alternatives, such as the eight ways to make skillet pork chop (including with soy sauce, with pears, and with prunes and cream). This is an excellent book for finding dishes for ingredients you have, with overviews of the product first (“About Eggplant”) and then pages on what to do with it. Bittman begins with a section on essential kitchenware, from mandolins to muffin tins.

Culinary Classics and Improvisations, Michael Field This is our go-to book for what to do with leftovers. For each “classic” (pot-au-feu, roast chicken, leg of lamb), Field also offers up to eight improvisations—what to do with what ends up in Tupperware.

Got some leftover corned beef? How about making a pâté? Or some red flannel hash?

Non-cookbooks: There are also several books about food and cooking that I absolutely refuse to let go of. Among them: The Art of Eating, by M.F.K. Fisher (the grand dame of American food writing); The Physiology of Taste, by Jean Anthelme BrillatSavarin (published in France in 1825, translated by Fisher in 1929); Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History, edited by Mark Kurlansky.

Note to readers: What cookbooks and books about food are essential to your collections? Send me a note to the email address above explaining your selections.

I’ll discuss as many as I can in a subsequent column. Ω

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THURSDAY 5/22—WEDNESDAY 5|28 local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

CRIPPLE CREEK: Two nights of southern

rock. 5/23-5/24, 9pm. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.goldcountry casino.com.

DANNY COHEN: Local singer/songwriter

Th, 5/22, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

MUSIC ON THE PATIO: With jam

22THURSDAY CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

CLASSIC M PLANETS: The official tour kick-off for Portland’s Classic M Planets, plus local wilderness music from Western Divide and singer/songwriter Pat Hull. Th, 5/22, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Join the duo as they play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards.

rock from Swamp Zen. Th, 5/22, 6-9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

MUSICFEST IV JAM: A fundraiser event for the Chico Cannabis Club with potluck treats, and music from Dakota Cree. Th, 5/22, 2-9pm. $5. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

23FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of

Danny Cohen takes the stage. Plus, rock covers from The Entertainment.

F, 5/23, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

DJ EMVEE: DJ dancing with Emvee. F,

5/23. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

EBONY AND IVORY CONCERT SERIES: The series features local artists on the newly restored 1911 Steinway grand piano. This month join pianist John Trenalone playing selections from the American songbook and pop standards. F, 5/23, 6:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

JOY & MADNESS: An eight-piece funk and soul meltdown from Sacramento, plus friends and funk-rockers Ideastream.

F, 5/23, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

ACHILLES WHEEL AND GRAVYBRAIN: High energy roots and world music from Achilles Wheel, with local funk from GravyBrain. Sa, 5/24, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

OPEN MIC: All singer/songwriters

BADGER TOUR BENEFIT SHOW: A benefit for local hardcore crew Badger’s summer tour. With local death metal from Chemical Burn and Paradise head-bangers Aberrance. Sa, 5/24, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 345-7672.

welcome. F, 6-9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

OUT OF THIS WORLD: Local rock from Socorro, astro punk with Banned From Earth, prog rock from UFO vs. NASA and alt-rockers Witness to Society. F, 5/23, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafe coda.com.

STRAIT COUNTRY: Covering George Strait’s western swing and barroom ballads. F, 5/23, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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A little sci-fi schlock goes a long way in livening up the local music scene, something astro-punks Banned from Earth will bring in spades to Café Coda on Friday, May 23. Also playing are spaced-out prog rockers UFO vs. NASA and fellow locals Socorro and Witness to Society. Far out, man.

TAINTED LOVE: 1980s music. F, 5/23, 9pm. $5. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa, (530) 458-8844, www.colusa casino.com.

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.

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.

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THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 24 BLUES AND BREWS FESTIVAL: A day-long celebration of music and craft beer with Curtis Salgado, Janiva Magness, John Nemeth, and the Growlers featuring Johnny Vernazza. Su, 5/25, noon. $30. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-com.

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RHYTHM OF CRUELTY: Darkwave from Canada with local surf punkers Criminal Wave. Tu, 5/27, 8pm. $5. 100th Monkey Café & Books, 642 W. Fifth St.

CRIPPLE CREEK: See Friday. Gold Country

LOVE FOOL: Pop hits from the ’80s and

’90s. Sa, 5/24, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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DUFFY’S SIRENS GO BIG: The three women of Duffy’s Sirens perform with their other bands--The Rugs (with Katrina Rodriguez), Lisa Valentine and The Unloveables, and Aubrey Debauchery and the Broken Bones. Sa, 5/24, 9pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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Five years of making noise and backing it up with Chico’s Teeph

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That’s Teeph bassist/vocalist Matt Shilts talking irst and foremost, we’re screaming

about the band’s sound, and it’s a good place to start with the Chico three-piece.

“There’s something really catharby Jason tic and just awesome about playing Cassidy too loud and screaming too hard,” he added. jasonc@ newsreview.com Teeph first started shrieking in Chico’s face five years ago as a twopiece with guitarist/vocalist Sesar Sanchez and drummer Alex Coffin.

Preview: Then it grew into a trio with former Teeph CD-release bassist Gavin Fitzgerald (of Bogg, and The Americas cassette-release the Pageant Dads), then again party, Thursday, became a two-piece for a short time May 29, 7:30 p.m., before Shilts joined in 2011. at Monstros.

Sanchez and Shilts do lead Teeph Also: Baby Gurl with typically metal screaming (Salt Lake City) and locals vocals, but the band on a whole is as Descent. fun as it is intense. The members Cost: $5 donation have a physically and musically unhinged approach (especially live) Monstros Pizza that is often mathy but unpredictable 628 W. Sacramento Ave. and loose in a way that stands out at 342-1111 a typical metal show. www.monstro Over beers last Thursday evening, spizza.com Shilts and Sanchez talked energetically about local heavy music as well as the CD-release party for their new EP, Solid Jobs, and the subsequent week-long western tour that will kick off June 6 at Crucial Fest in Salt Lake City. “[Teeph] started because me and Alex heard some Helms Alee, and we were really into it,” Sanchez said of the Seattle three-piece, which has been one of the most frequent, loudest and hardest-to-categorize bands to come through Chico in at least the past five years.

Helms Alee’s energetic no-rules approach to making sometimes difficult—and always heavy—music clicked with the two founding members, and Teeph has crafted a sound that similarly doesn’t fit neatly into a category. “We are not metal; we are not punk,” Sanchez said. “I think we’re kind of like a mathy sludgy band.” They simply try to not force any sound, he said; they just let it happen.

“I just want it to sound real,” Coffin added via email after the interview. “It’s possibly about finding

the balance between trying and thinking, and the visceral nature of how I feel loud, abrasive music should just come out of someone. You shouldn’t fake it. … I absolutely love it though when I exert myself to a point of depletion, because [that’s proof that] I meant it. It also means I should probably be in better shape.”

The sound has evolved some over the course of the band’s three albums, tightening up into more focused heaviness for the new CD (recorded by Scott Barwick at Origami Recording Lounge)—which is the first written equally by the current trio.

Some of that extra polish might just be some bleedthrough from one or more of their other projects. Each member of Teeph also plays in another two active bands, with Shilts in a couple more heavy ones—on guitar in Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy and on bass with the very hectic Into the Open Earth. Sanchez is on guitar/backing vocals for metal powerhouse Cold Blue Mountain, and also guitar in the instrumental indie three-piece CITIES. Coffin’s other projects are much less noisy—playing drums in the Broken Bones (the backup band for local rocker Aubrey Debauchery) and drums/guitar/vocals in prog-ish comedy rockers the Pageant Dads.

As busy as they are playing locally, the guys are also very involved in other aspects of the local music scene. Coffin is part of the Uncle Dad’s Art Collective—which puts on a variety of original concerts, plays and other performing-arts events—and Sanchez is responsible for booking and promoting dozens of shows in Chico each year featuring some of the best touring heavy and noisy underground acts paired with bands in the local scene.

And the health of the scene is something Sanchez— who goes to nearly as many shows as he puts on and performs—is pretty vocal about. “Fuck your band.

Your band is only as important as other people think it is,” he said, pointing out the growing tendency he sees with many young local musicians who only go out when their bands are playing and who are content to take a back seat (aside from Facebook blasts) when it comes to booking and promoting. “A lot of the younger bands aren’t stepping up,” he said.

“The personal side is being pushed aside,” he added. “People have to start caring. … The best times I’ve had are [at shows with] the people with whom I have a personal relationship.

“Dude, go out and be personal with people, and build something with them.” Ω May 22, 2014

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I have had the distinct pleasure of recently reviewing two of the three finest English-language fiction writers of this millennium: Jim Harrison and Neil Gaiman. And now I get to No. 3, Richard Powers. The trio could not be more different from one another, which is great. Powers burst on the scene 30 years ago with a bang with Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but he got a whole book out of one photo of three German boys. He’s written 11 novels with entirely different subjects but a common theme: genuineness and honesty. And Powers’ The Gold Bug Variations (1991) is one of the finest books I have ever read. In his latest, Orfeo, a contemporary radical composer, Peter Els, creates a pathogen in his home lab in an attempt to find music in science. This arouses the suspicions of government agents and forces Els on the run. Yet another tour de force from a true master. Read all of his novels and you will thank me.

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Chronicle Man The Mother Hips Mother Hips Records Some 23 years into a journey that has resulted in both a music festival (Hipnic) and a beer (Sierra Nevada’s Hips Helles) being named after them, and the creation of a subgenre and vibe (California soul) that now includes the likes of Jackie Greene and the Tumbleweed Wanderers, the Mother Hips are going back in time to retrieve Chronicle Man. Rescued from tapes discovered in Los Angeles in 2009, these previously unreleased tracks from the grungy mid-1990s range from countrified to hard-edged rock with a touch of psychedelia, and include gems like “Little Rich Girl,” “Desert Song,” “Loup Garou” and the title track. While Greg Loiacono delivers a neverending variety of sizzling lead-guitar runs, Tim Bluhm, the band’s frontman and principal songwriter, gives us delightful melodies and lyrics.

In “Headache to Headache,” Bluhm shares this romantic exchange: “I said put your best foot forward/ she said I’ll put my foot up your ass”; and in the twangy, California-centric ballad “Saint Andrew,” he paints an interesting view of an earthquake: “Well we had a temblor that shook all the hills/ It spooked my lost donkey wherever he is/ Now I’ve never had much; what I have has gone to hell/ It shook all my mason jars off the shelves.”

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Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

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What are the odds? Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Chef

Jon Favreau wrote, directed and stars as a chef who loses his job and returns to his cooking roots by purchasing a food truck and driving it across the country. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

The Railway Man

An adaptation of the real-life events as told in British Army officer Eric Lomax’s autobiography about his traumatic time as a Japanese prisoner of war during WWII and his efforts to return and confront his torturer years later. Starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

There goes the neighborhood.

Mshadow Hollywood of Godzilla put me off what has to offer anymore, ediocrities like Gareth Edwards’

and reviewing them is akin to by spending 500 words describing Craig Blamer the experience of eating a Big Mac. “But it’s only a movie,” you may roll your eyes, “Just have fun with it!” Fine. You love rock ’n’ roll? Here’s some Nickelback. Enjoy!

I want more to a movie than two hours of Walmart writing Godzilla wrapped in $100 million worth Starring Bryan of CGI. Harrumph.

Cranston, Aaron The original Godzilla stood as Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen cinema’s biggest metaphor, a and Ken 150-foot fire-breathing lizard Watanabe. laying apocalypse down in the Directed by name of Hiroshima and NagasaGareth Edwards. ki. It wasn’t subtle. I don’t ask Cinemark 14, Feather River for subtle; all I ask is that filmCinemas and makers don’t dial it in like TimeParadise Cinema Warner does with this latest 7. Rated PG-13. attempt to domesticate Godzilla.

At the very least, don’t market it as an homage to the original.

Godzilla as mankind’s watchdog Poor is a debasement of the original intent, and a whitewashing of history, the denial of cultural complicity in one of the biggest Fair war crimes in history.

Of course, as the first entry of a new franchise, it has to pander Good to the lowest common denominator. This is product. If you expect anything challenging from the product, you’re not getting down Very Good with the 21st century. If you’re looking for Old Testament Godzilla hosing down shrieking Excellent humanity with fire and brim-

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stone, this isn’t it. This is strictly a New Testament Godzilla. I don’t think you actually see anyone die onscreen here. WTF? Anything smelling of sociopolitical underpinnings has been removed to avoid offending the nationalists and replaced with rah-rah jingoism, and any hint of nature bitch-slapping mankind’s hubris has been avoided so as not to alienate the climate-change deniers. There’s no story here to confuse the viewer, just an hour of the screenwriter working out his abandonment issues followed by Edwards turning over the helm to the computer jockeys for the battle royale between Big G and some intruder monsters.

The first hour of this film is almost entirely disposable, interminable stretches of human drama. “But I watch Godzilla movies for the human drama,” said no one ever. We get lots of human drama here, none of it really applicable to the second half of the movie.

There is some wonderful imagery to be found here, brief flashes of brilliance that makes one wish the director had worked with $50 million instead of $160 million so that he would’ve been allowed some narrative risks.

The problem is that Edwards is so busy playing it safe and peppering the proceedings with fanboy nods that he omits signature aspects of Godzilla, like the ominous footsteps, distant thunder slowly rolling in and rattling the paper house as the residents realized how insignificant they truly were in the universe.

If you’re looking for a matinee of city smashing, after the first hour, Godzilla ends up delivering the goods. Sort of. The mayhem is set at night and there’s lots of dust flying, so I’d recommend not doing the 3-D. And Edwards has an annoying habit of cutting away from the action when things are finally getting good, either cutting to evening news footage of the monsters going at it or even worse … more family drama.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

The latest installment in the franchise is based on the most celebrated story arc in the Uncanny XMen comic series, where mutant-hunting robot Sentinals have taken over Earth and one of the mutants (Wolverine in the film version) must travel back in time to try to alter history and save the world. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Director Marc Webb proves himself adept at drama and romance in this sequel (Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy are kind of adorable). But he botches the action elements and tries to juggle too many villains—among them, the goofy Electro (Jamie Foxx), the Green Goblin (Dane Dehaan) and the robotic Rhino (Paul Giamatti). Electro starts off as Max Dillon, a geeky electrical engineer at Oscorp Industries who gets transformed into some sort of bluish, see-through monstrosity after electrocuting himself and falling into a tank of electric eels. He has the ability to move and stop things with electricity, which makes no sense, and disappear into wires and sockets, which also makes no sense. Yes, this is a comic book movie, but this stuff is just stupid. There’s a big, dramatic occurrence deep in this film, and that sequence is the best thing in the movie, and the film should’ve ended directly after it. Instead, Webb and his writers force a terrible finale that feels tacked on, and destroys any dramatic tension. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

In this sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger, the captain (Chris Evans) is struggling to cope in modern society when he is presented with the challenge of fighting against an old friend who’s come forward in time in a different, much more dangerous form. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Heaven Is for Real

Seabiscuit director Randall Wallace has adapted the best-selling book by Todd Burpo, a Christian pastor who tells the story of his 4-year-old son’s near-death experience of visiting heaven. Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return

A computer-animated follow-up to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, featuring the voice of Lea Michele as Dorothy, who returns to Oz and helps her familiar pals—plus a few new ones—in a fight against an evil jester. Additional voices include Jim Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Kelsey Grammer. Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Million Dollar Arm

Based on the real-life events in the lives of two Indian athletes—Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel— the film stars Jon Hamm as a sports agent who devises a reality show to find potential pitchers from a field of baseball novices in India, two of whom win a chance to pitch for a Major League Baseball team. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Moms’ Night Out

A faith-based feature about a group of moms who hit the town for a night out and leave their kids at home with the dads—hijinks ensue. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Neighbors

Director Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is at the helm of this hard-R comedy starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as a married couple doing battle with a frat (led by chief instigator Zac Efron) that moves into the house next door. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Other Woman

When a married woman (Leslie Mann) meets two other woman (Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton) with whom her husband has cheated on her, the trio decides to work together to exact revenge on the three-timer … hijinks ensue. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Rio 2

The two blue macaws (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway) are back for an adventure in the Amazon rainforest. Cinemark 14. Rated G.

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to pack summer’s opening weekend with good fun. In addition to some dirt-tending on the grounds of the DEVO compound—installing some toad-friendly environments for our new mosquito-and snail-eating friends—and more than one grilled meal, Mrs. DEVO and I will join some of the extended DEVO clan for a trip to the Silver Dollar Fair (May 22-26). On the checklist: setting fire to Honey meets Mr. Toad. cash on the midway; eating something sweet that’s been deep-fried and something savory that’s been dipped in chocolate; and getting a front-row seat to the demolition derby (Monday, 2 p.m.).

And X-Men: Days of Future Past is opening this weekend! It’s been more than 30 years since I purchased a comic book, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the movie adaptations, especially the X-Men series. I was a comic nerd for only a couple of years or so, but I was lucky enough to come aboard just when the Uncanny X-Men was cycling through its two signature storylines—The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past (1980-81)—and now Hollywood is getting to the timetraveling robots vs. mutants classic.

music. I want to hear the music you are making (next week: the summer of music continues with a look at new local albums and new— and soon-to-arrive—local bands). And, as always, I want to dive into all the cool summer jams.

It’s early in the season, so I’ve only settled on a few. And so far I’ve discovered that, unless it’s in the context of the beautiful mess that is Die Antwoord, I’m not digging on hardly any electronic music (not that I was ever a rabid fan). The ubiquitous “unh, unh, unh” is wearing on me (at the gym, at the grocery store, at the bar), and I am hoping that the discofication of the genre will reach its peak this year so that the underground can reclaim what’s left of its life energy.

Here’s what I’m hearing so far: • “Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)

by Ages and Ages and “Stay With Me” by Sam Smith: Two slow singalongs for the long summer.

• “Hymn to the Pillory” by Nothing: Like My Bloody Valentine playing The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Ninja. guitars.

• Dad Claps at the Mom Prom—Sun Club: The whole EP is pure summer— noisy and fun.

• “Oxygen” by Swans: Hot, brutal repetition.

• “Interference Fits” by Perfect Pussy: This is your new punk rock. Good lord!

• “Cookie Thumper” by Die Antwoord: It’s just nasty, in every way.

FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 22, 2014 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I believe

your persuasive powers will be stronger than usual in the weeks ahead. The words coming out of your mouth will sound especially interesting. I also suspect that your intelligence will get at least a temporary upgrade. The clarity of your thoughts will intensify. You will see truths you have been blind to in the past.

Innovative solutions to long-running dilemmas are likely to occur to you. The only potential snag is that you might neglect to nurture your emotional riches.

You could become a bit too dry and hard.

But now that I’ve warned you of that possibility, let’s hope you will take steps to ensure it won’t happen.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If there

was a hall of fame for scientists, physicist Isaac Newton (1642-1727) would have been the charter member. He was like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were to rock ’n’ roll, like Babe Ruth was to baseball.

The theory of gravity and the three laws of motion were his gifts to the world. He made major contributions to mathematics and optics, and was a central figure in defining modern science. There is also a legend that he invented the cat door, inspired by his pet felines. Whether or not that’s true, it serves as an excellent metaphor for this horoscope. It’s an excellent time for you to apply your finest talents and highest intelligence to dream up small, mundane, but practical innovations.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During the

next 12 months you will have exceptional opportunities to soak up knowledge, add to your skill set and get the training you need to pursue interesting kinds of success in the coming six to eight years.

What’s the best way to prepare? Develop an exciting new plan for your future education. To get in the mood, try the following: Make a list of your most promising but still unripe potentials, meditate on the subjects that evoke your greatest curiosity, brainstorm about what kinds of experiences would give you more control over your destiny, and study three people you know who have improved their lives by taking aggressive steps to enhance their proficiency.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The moon

shows us a different phase every 24 hours, which makes it seem changeable.

But in fact, not much actually happens on the moon. It has no atmosphere, no weather, no wind, no plant life, no seasons. There is some water, but it’s all frozen. Is there anything like this in your own life, Cancerian? Something that on the surface of things seems to be in constant motion, but whose underlying state never actually shifts or develops?

According to my analysis, now would be an excellent time for you to revise the way you understand this part of your world and then update your relationship with it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you thought

of organizing a crowdfunding campaign to boost your pet project or labor of love? I suggest you get serious about it in the next four weeks. This coming phase of your cycle will be a favorable time to expand your audience, attract new allies and build a buzz. You will have a sixth sense about how to wield your personal charm to serve your long-term goals.

More than usual, your selfish interests will dovetail with the greater good—perhaps in unexpected ways.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago

I had a Virgo friend who was a talented singer. She had technical skill, stylistic flair and animal magnetism, making her worthy of being a lead vocalist in almost any great band. And yet when she was asleep and had dreams of performing, she often found herself standing in the shadows, barely visible and singing tentatively, while her backup singers hogged the spotlight at center stage. Moral of the story: Some of you Virgos are shy about claiming your full authority. It doesn’t always come easy for you to shine your light and radiate your power. And yet you can most definitely learn to do so. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in this direction.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is

always an enormous temptation in all of life,” wrote Annie Dillard, “to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. ... I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Libra, is to transcend whatever is itsy-bitsy about your life. The alternative? Head toward the frontier and drum up experiences that will thrill your heart and blow your mind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “We are

all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours,” wrote novelist Heidi R. Kling. That’s good advice for you to keep in mind these days, Scorpio. Those little imps and rascals that live within you may get you into bad trouble if they feel bored. But if you arrange for them to have play dates with the imps and rascals of people you trust, they are far more likely to get you into good trouble.

They may even provide you with bits of gritty inspiration. What’s that you say?

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“Kludge” (pronounced klooj) is a slang word that refers to a clumsy but effective fix for an engineering problem. It’s a cobbled-together solution that works fine, at least temporarily, even though it is inelegant or seems farfetched. Let’s use this concept in a metaphorical way to apply to you. I’m guessing that you will be a kludge master in the coming days.

You will be skilled at making the best of mediocre situations. You may have surprising success at doing things that don’t come naturally, and I bet you will find unexpected ways to correct glitches that no one else has any idea about how to fix.

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

hesitate to compare you to your fellow Aquarian Kim Jong Il. When he was alive and ruling North Korea, he was an egomaniacal tyrant. You’re definitely not that. But there are certain descriptions of him in his official biography that remind me of the kinds of powers you may soon exhibit. He was called The Great Sun of Life and Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love, for instance. Titles like that might suit you. It is said that he invented the hamburger. He could command rain to fall from the sky.

He once shot 11 holes-in-one in a single round of golf, was a master of gliding down waterslides, and never had to use a toilet because he produced no waste. You may be able to express comparable feats in the coming weeks. (Do it without falling prey to excessive pride, OK?)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Even if

you had a sensitive, nurturing mommy when you were growing up, and even if she continues to play an important role in your life, now would be a good time to learn how to mother yourself better.

You are finally ready to appreciate how important it is to be your own primary caregiver. And I’m hoping you are no longer resistant to or embarrassed about the idea that part of you is still like a child who needs unconditional love 24-seven. So get started! Treat yourself with the expert tenderness that a crafty maternal goddess would provide.

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Those suggestions are especially crucial for you to keep in mind these days. You are entering a phase when your best relationships will be up for review and revision and revitalization. To foster an environment in which intimacy will thrive, you’ve got to be extra receptive, curious, tolerant and tender. That’s all! Not hard, right? A good place to start is to proceed as if your allies know who they are better than you do—even as you ask them to return the favor.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAC2MACONLINE at 1406 Locust Street Chico, CA 95928.

KAREN BLOOD 1406 Locust Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KAREN BLOOD Dated: April 2, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000527 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRO NAILS AND SPA at 1950 East 20th Street Suite #A 102 Chico, CA 95928.

BINH T TRAN 1950 East 20th Street Suite #A 102 CHico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BINH TRAN Dated: April 14, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000572 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JAVI’S HOMEMADE GRANOLA at 836 Kern Street Chico, CA 95928.

TERESA LOPEZ 836 Kern Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CARMEN L. TORIBIO Dated: April 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000540 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NATURE’S HILIGHTS at 1608-A 5th St Chico, CA 95926.

MICHAEL EPPERSON 6 Merle Ct Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DAWN BLANKENHEIM Dated: March 25, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000471 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as REMAX OF CHICO at 1140 Mangrove Avenue Suite D Chico, CA 95926.

MARK CHRISCO 45 Temperance Way Chico, CA 95928.

ROBERT M CONTRERAS 7 Glenview Court Chico, CA 95928.

MARTIN T LUGER 14055 Hereford Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELIJO’AN PUBLISHING, PRINCIPIO, TE CHING at 466 Panama Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

LYNN MARIE TOSELLO 466 Panama Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LYNN MARIE TOSELLO Dated: April 21, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000627 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ANGELEGACY DESIGNS, LIVE LIFE JUICE CO at 2355 Lombard Ln Chico, CA 95926.

ANGELINA BRITTAIN-RASMUSSEN 2355 Lombard Ln Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANGELINA BRITTAIN-RASMUSSEN Dated: April 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000641 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE ITALIAN KITCHEN at 2275 Myers, Suite A Oroville, CA 95966.

CHRISTOPHER MCGLENISTER 203 Mission Olive Oroville, CA 95965.

JULIE MCGLENISTER 203 Mission Olive Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JULIE MCGLENISTER Dated: April 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000643 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BOUNCING BUTTES at 161 Blazeford Gulch Road Oroville, CA 95966.

AARON SMITH 161 Blazeford Gulch Road Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON N. SMITH Dated: April 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000630 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GIT YA SOME PIZZA at 1950 E 20th St Suite B221 Chico, CA 95928.

SHAWN VERLAND RICHINS 1972 Fogg Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHAWN RICHINS Dated: April 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000648 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following person is doing business as LOS ARCOS AUTHENTIC MEXICAN FOOD at 2454 Notre Dame Blvd #100 Chico, CA 95928.

VICTOR M CRISPIN 549 Esplanade Spc# 509 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VICTOR M. CRISPIN Dated: April 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000629 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LEGAL STOP FORECLOSURE GROUP at 315 Wall St #14 Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN EDWIN SHALBERG 37401 Oakview Burney, CA 96013.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN EDWIN SHALBERG Dated: April 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000636 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL The following person has withdrawn as partner from the partnership operating under BODHI SANCTUARY HEALING CENTER at 1390 East 9th ST #150 Chico, CA 95928.

KRISTIANA LOPEZ 846 Coit Tower Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KRISTIANA D. LOPEZ Dated: April 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2013-0000793 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SUMMIT LANDSCAPE at 1334 Laburnum Ave Chico, CA 95926.

NEIL GARRETT CARR 1334 Laburnum Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NEIL CARR Dated: April 18, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000613 Published: May 8,15,22,29, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name FIFTH AND ORIENT at 1692 Mangrove Ave #142 Chico, CA 95926.

LEAH E MORRIS 117 W 18th Street B Chico, CA 95928.

PHUONG K LY 533 Orient Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnershp.

Signed: PHUONG LY Dated: April 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2013-0000319 Published: May 8,15,22,29, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as N.M.BOYDSOAPS at 443 Stilson Canyon Rd Chico, CA 95928.

ELIZABETH MCDONALD 443 Stilson Canyon Rd Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ELIZABETH MCDONALD Dated: April 29, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000664 Publish Dates: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO REMODELING at 868 Kern Street Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN ALBERT SCHRAM III 868 Kern Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by

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This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KELLY VADNEY, CFO Dated: May 16, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000747 Published: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NUCLEUS APPLICATIONS at 1115 West Sacramento Ave #150 Chico, CA 95926.

CAMERON BROWNFIELD 1115 West Sacramento Ave #150 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CAMERON BROWNFIELD Dated: May 1, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000668 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL CATS AND DOGS at 1238 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

GAYLE FRITZ 950 Karen Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GAYLE FRITZ Dated: May 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000697 Published: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LORDS GYM OROVILLE at 2120 Bird Street Oroville, CA 95965.

FATHER’S HOUSE RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC 2656 Fort Wayne Street Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RYAN KELLY, ACCOUNTING Dated: April 16, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000594 Published: May, 15,22,29, June 5, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as YOVILLE YOGURT AND MORE at 2550 Olive Hwy Oroville, CA 95966.

FATHER’S HOUSE RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC 2656 Fort Wayne Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RYAN KELLY, ACCOUNTING Dated: April 16, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000595 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CLS BOOKKEEPING SERVICE at 1966 12th St Oroville, CA 95965.

CINDY L STRACHAN 1966 12th St Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CINDY L. STRACHAN Dated: May 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000734 Published: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUEENIES BOUTIQUE at 225 #D Main St Chico, CA 95928.

ANNETTE FRAZIER 3305 Splane Lane Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANNETTE KUSSEROWFRAZIER Dated: April 16, 2014 FBN Number 2014-0000589 Published: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing Business as THAT’S A WRAP at 2471 Cohasset Rd #120 Chico, CA 95926.

MIKELL INC 3563 Shallow Springs Terrace Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FALCON AERIAL IMAGING at 39 Forest Creek Circle Chico, CA 95928.

BEN DONEY 16 Birdwing Ct Chico, CA 95973 SCOTT GREGORY 39 Forest Creek Circle Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: SCOTT GREGORY Dated: May 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000715 Published: May 22, 29, June 5,12, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MLGRACECAPITAL LLC at 1877 Modoc Dr Chico, CA 95928.

MLGRACECAPITAL LLC 1877 Modoc Dr Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: FONG MICHAEL LO, CEO Dated: May 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000713 Publiched: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name AUSTIN BROTHERS at 3217 Cohasset Road, Suite 120 Chico, CA 95973.

CEA INVESTMENTS LLC 6154 County Road 200 Orland, CA 95963.

This business was conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: BOBBIE SMITH, OFFICE MANAGER Dated: May 1, 2014 FBN Number: 2012-0000616 Published: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

NOTICES CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): DUSTIN WINTER KYLE VANDERGRIFT and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): TB born on (date): April 3, 2013 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): FEATHER RIVER HOSPITAL PARADISE, CALIFORNIA A hearing will be held on Date: August 19, 2014 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte

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1 Court Street Oroville, CA 95965 At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attor-­ ney for you.

If the court terminated your pa-­ rental rights, the order may be final.

The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: May 7, 2014 Case Number: J-36876 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

Proposed name: JODIE MARIE ROSE 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 objec-­ tion 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: May 28, 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: April 15, 2014 Case Number: 161498 Published: May 1,8,15,22, 2014

CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): MATTHEW EMERZIAN and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): G.S. born on (date): October 15, 2005 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): FEATHER RIVER HOSPITAL PARADISE, CALIFORNIA A hearing will be held on Date: July 16, 2014 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1 Court Street Oroville, CA 95965 At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attor-­ ney for you.

If the court terminated your pa-­ rental rights, the order may be final.

The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: May 19, 2014 Case Number: J-36805 Published: May 22,29, June 5,12, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ALECANDER BELIALCAIN TUBALCAIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALECANDER BELIALCAIN TUBALCAIN Proposed name: ISOTES LOIPOI CHAYIL 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 objec-­ tion 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: June 11, 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: April 28, 2014 Case Number: 162023 Published: May 8,15,22,29, 2014

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due.

The following unit contains storage totes (4), boxes, holiday decorations, misc items: Unit 251: DEBORAH NOLEN (5x5) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: June 7, 2014 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

Published: May 22,29, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JODIE NEAL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JODIE MARIE NEAL

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRIAN SANCHEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name:

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BRIAN SANCHEZ Proposed name: BRIAN GAULTIER 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 objec-­ tion 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: June 11, 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: April 28, 2014 Case Number: 162002 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NICOLE M. DIMAGGIO-HALL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NICOLE MARIE DIMAGGIOHALL Proposed name: NICOLE MARIE DIMAGGIO 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 objec-­ tion 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: June 04, 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: April 10, 2014 Case Number: 161865 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: NORMA ALICIA ABREGO YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT

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BEREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attor-­ ney referral service. If you can-­ not afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Chico Courthouse 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

Dated: July 19, 2013 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 160033 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: AMBER GRACE SIMS AKA AMBER GRACE ALLEN YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BEREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS

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after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attor-­ ney referral service. If you can-­ not afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Chico Courthouse 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

Dated: August 26, 2013 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 160262 Published: May, 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

YOU’RE WELCOME, NATURE.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CIMARRON SOLUTIONS at 3568 Bridle Lane Chico, CA 95973.

ALLEN LEE STALLMAN 3568 Bridle Lane Chico, CA 95973.

CHRISTOPHER ALLEN STALLMAN 3568 Bridle Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Joint Venture.

Signed: ALLEN LEE STALLMAN Dated: April 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000661 Publish Dates: May 8,15,22,29, 2014

an Individual.

Signed: JOHN ALBERT SCHRAM III Dated: April 18, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000609 Published: May 15,22,29, June 5, 2014

RECYCLE THIS PAPER.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name RIGHT CLICK ADMIN AND DESIGN at 1411 Heather Cir Chico, CA 95926.

JENNIFER BURKE 1411 Heather Cir Chico, CA 95926.

JOSHUA BURKE 1411 Heather Cir Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted

by A Married Couple.

Signed: JENNIFER BURKE Dated: April 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2012-0001613 Published: May 8,15,22,29, 2014

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Chico

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14081 Heiderose Ln

Chico

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2553

1828 Nord Ave

Chico

$260,000.00

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760 Hillgrove Ct

Chico

$454,000.00

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2831

168 E 1st Ave

Chico

$255,000.00

2/ 1

1322

108 Aurora Glen Dr

Chico

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636 El Varano Way

Chico

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5 Lanai Ct

Chico

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Chico

$238,000.00

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1325

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Chico

$355,000.00

3/ 2.5

2213

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Chico

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Chico

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Chico

$235,000.00

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1136

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Chico

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3/ 2.5

1472

27 Sierra Lakeside Ln

Chico

$229,000.00

2/ 2

1146

788 Halie Ct

Chico

$325,000.00

4/ 2

1630

2181 Ramsey Way

Chico

$227,000.00

3/ 2

2037

273 Autumn Gold Dr

Chico

$322,000.00

3/ 2

2081

4 Whitewood Way

Chico

$225,000.00

3/ 2.5

1286

1059 Via Verona Dr

Chico

$305,000.00

3/ 2

1980

1090 Rey Cir

Chico

$220,000.00

5/ 1.5

1393

May 22, 2014

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Love’s ReaL estate Shadow Buyers A “shadow inventory” of new buyers is infiltrating the real estate market.

This shadow inventory is made up of people who lost their homes through distress sales, such as foreclosures or short sales, and are ready to jump back into home-ownership. These buyers have worked hard to get back on their real estate feet, but they are also lucky. New loan programs have recently sprung up, allowing them to qualify to buy again, despite the heavy hit they took on their credit when they lost their homes.

Traditionally, if you lost your home through foreclosure your credit would suffer enough damage that you couldn’t qualify for a real estate loan for up to seven years afterward.

A short sale would set you back at least three years. If you also declared bankruptcy, your credit damage was that much worse.

Now lenders are giving new consideration to distress-related credit damage. The hard times in the Great Recession were so bad, and so many people lost their jobs and their homes, that lenders have created new loan programs to accelerate their re-entry into the market.

The Federal Housing Administration launched the “Back-to-Work-Extenuating Circumstances” loan program, which cuts the waiting period for loan-qualifyication down to one year after

a foreclosure, a bankruptcy or a short sale.

The borrower has to prove that they suffered a 20 percent drop in income for six consecutive months due to job loss or another economic event, and they must have 12 months of on-time rent payments.

Sean and Anita Burkes recently bought a new home through the FHA Back-to-WorkExtenuating Circumstances loan program.

“It’s a great program,” said Anita, “but it’s not easy.” She made hair-pulling motions as she described the amount of paperwork involved in getting the loan. Then she held her hand 2 feet above the tabletop. “A stack this high,” she said.

Sean laughed. “The only worse paperwork nightmare I’ve seen was our short sale when we lost our house a year and a half ago,” he said. He held his hand as high as he could reach above the table. “A stack this high,” he said.

HAVE YOU dreamt about a cabin-like home, with soaring ceilings and lots of beautiful wood accents in the forest? Still need the amenities of town? Well, this lovely one owner home has been meticulously maintained! Located in the heart of Paradise, yet feels like you are in the middle of a peaceful forest. Both a gas and free standing wood stove, a huge separate family room, living room, bright open updated kitchen.

Just a few of the many wonderful features this home has to offer: newer 30 year roof, dual pane windows, newer appliances in the kitchen, new DuPont Premium Laminate flooring in kitchen, a large pantry, inside laundry room, outside retractable screen doors, tons of storage and the master suite on the first floor.

Expansive decks along the front, side and back yards allowing plenty of room for entertaining and enjoying the beauty of nature. This property has RV parking and is very private. Home sits on .37 acre lot, and also included in the price is the adjoining .37 acre parcel which already has its own water meter in. Maintain your privacy! You won’t want to miss out on this amazing home!

“We’re so thankful, though,” Anita said. “We were really down and out. But Sean got a new job, and now we own our new home. It feels good that a lender will take a chance on us again.”

Sean nodded. “And it feels good to come out of the shadows.”

Listed at: $229,900

Doug Love is Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon email escrowgo@aol.com or call 530.680.0817

Call REMAX of Paradise | 530-872-5880 | Julie Rolls | CalBRE#01844065

opportunity is knocking Hard to find 5 bd / 3 ba with 2 master bathrooms

$219,000

Dana W. Miller

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Reduced $245,000, call motivated! for a showing!

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of May 5, 2014 – May 9, 2014.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1061 Diablo Ave

Chico

$203,000.00

3/ 2

1039

125 Deerwood Dr

Oroville

$815,000.00

4/ 2.5

2577

518 Wilshire Ct

Chico

$189,500.00

2/ 2

1357

304 Mira Loma Dr

Oroville

$250,000.00

5/ 3

2336

1125 Neal Dow Ave

Chico

$184,500.00

3/ 2

1576

77 Magnesio St

Oroville

$239,500.00

3/ 2

1904

773 Colorado St

Chico

$117,500.00

2/ 1

795

3035 Foothill Blvd

Oroville

$210,000.00

4/ 3

2282

1692 Grace Rd

Gridley

$295,000.00

3/ 2

1808

6042 Kanaka Ave

Oroville

$183,000.00

2/ 3

1663

1865 Sycamore St

Gridley

$178,000.00

3/ 1.5

1370

4161 Hildale Ave

Oroville

$175,000.00

4/ 2

1584

13807 Sugar Pine Dr

Magalia

$147,500.00

2/ 2

1271

70 Acacia Ave

Oroville

$165,500.00

3/ 1

1514

14182 Norwich Cir

Magalia

$142,000.00

3/ 1

1598

2249 Bridge St

Oroville

$130,000.00

3/ 1.5

1104

6530 Vine St

Magalia

$142,000.00

2/ 2

1104

5772 Acorn Ridge Dr

Paradise

$478,000.00

4/ 3

3369

14102 Menlo Ct

Magalia

$129,000.00

2/ 2

1104

1627 Gate Ln

Paradise

$215,000.00

3/ 2

2079

14545 Colter Way

Magalia

$110,000.00

3/ 2

1344

5799 Ingalls Rd

Paradise

$130,000.00

2/ 1

926

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SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

SQ. FT.

Heather Jay

Laura Burghardt

Aaron Jay

CalBRE# 00991783

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Century 21 Jeffries Lydon Sat. 11-2

56 Horse Run (X St: Honey Run Rd) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,809Sq Ft. $649,900 Johnny Klinger 864-3398

Sat. 1-4 6173 Toms Trail Magalia (X St: Humbug) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 4,250Sq. Ft. $587,000 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

Sat. 2-4 3583 Shadowtree Lane (X St: Whispering Winds) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,569Sq. Ft. $568,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sat. 11-1 & Sun. 2-4 767 Westmont Ct (X St: W. Sacramento) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,515 Sq.Ft. $537,500 Matt Kleimann 521-8064 Sherry Landis 514-4855

Sat. 11-1 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 791 Westmont Ct (X St: W. Sacramento) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3352 Sq.Ft. $515,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508 Laura Willman 680-8962

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

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

Sat.11-1, 2-4

1653 Carol Avenue (X St: Park Vista Drive) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,940S Sq. Ft. $449,000 Tracy Simmons 925-348-2069 Sherry Landis 514-4855

15 Elisha Ct ( X St: Cohasset Rd) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1614 Sq.Ft. $299,000 Paul Champlin 828-2902 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

112 Wawona Place (X St: Echo Park and Yosemite) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,584Sq Ft. $253,900 Erin Schmidt 575-7431 Frank Condon 864-7726

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4

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

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

15 Abbott Circle (X St: Windham Way) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,280 Sq. Ft. $399,000 Patty Davis Rough 864-4329 Morgan Berry 774-7745

1990 Modoc (X St: Forest Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1490 Sq.Ft. $299,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Chris Martinez 680-4404

2059 Marilyn Drive (X St: Parkway Village Drive) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,257Sq. Ft. $232,500 Alice Zeissler 518-1872 Laura Willman 680-8962 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

1114 W. 11th Ave (X St: Herlax & Greenwich) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,357Sq. Ft. $269,000 Garrett French 228-1305

9099 Midway (X St: Brown & Hanlon) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,250 Sq. Ft. $231,900 Traci Cooper 520-0227

Sun. 2-4

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

1170 Patricia Drive (X St: Floral) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,408Sq. Ft. $269,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

11 McKinley (X St: Ceres) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,170Sq. Ft. $224,500 Bob Sereda 570-1501 Tracy Simmons 925-348-2069

Sat. 11-1 & Sun. 11-1 887 Westgate Ct (X St: W. Sacramento) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 2285 Sq.Ft. $387,500 Debbie Brodie 519-5524

Sat. 11-1 7688 Maddrill Lane (X St: Biggers Glenn) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,725Sq. Ft. $349,900 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1 1344 Laburnum Ave ( X St: E 4th Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1510 Sq.Ft. $329,900 Carolyn Fejes 966-4457 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Tracy Simmons 925-348-2069

Sun. 11-1 879 Lorinda Lane (X St: Cohasset) 3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1,134Sq. Ft. $255,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sun. 11-1 10 Burkeshire Ct (X St: Hampshire) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,034Sq. Ft. $219,000 Garrett French 228-1305

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Welcome to the Enloe Baby Guide!

NavigatiNg through a healthy, balaNced pregNaNcy At Enloe Medical Center, we love guiding families as they grow!

Questions around nutrition, exercise, changes in your body, and how to juggle new roles and responsibilities while maintaining a healthy relationship are all very normal. The health care providers and educators at Enloe are here to help.

Enloe’s Nettleton Mother & Baby Care Center offers tours and classes that provide the answers and support before and during pregnancy, as well as the months after the baby is born.

On Saturday, May 31, from 9 a.m. to noon, Enloe Medical Center is hosting a Baby Faire. Guests will be treated to a fun morning.

• Enjoy a maternity fashion show and great prizes • Learn about pregnancy nutrition and fitness, as well as balanced parenting tips • Ask questions of our physician panel • Enjoy healthy snacks and a relaxing hand massage • Peruse the exhibits and vendor booths offering helpful resource information

James B. Wood, M.D. Board Certified Pediatrician Traditional Medicine Personalized Care in an office-based practice

Read more about this fun event on page 4, then visit www.enloe.org to register today!

572 Rio Lindo Ave, Ste. 203 Chico, CA 95926 Phone: (530) 342–4860 Fax: (530) 342–4844

(left) Heidi Cantrell, RN, who teaches Enloe Mother & Baby Education classes, looks at items in the Enloe Mother & Baby Boutique.

Accepting new patients on a limited basis

Dr. Michelle Borg, D.D.S.

Serving the children & teens in our community for over 20 years

Baby & Me Oral Health tips Pregnancy and the first year of your baby’s life are a very special time for taking care of yourself and getting your baby’s life off to a good start. Good oral health habits prevent oral problems and maintain the health of your unborn child. Eating nutritious well balanced meals and avoiding snacking between meals is crucial.

A boutique just for moms and babies We invite you to experience the Enloe Mother & Baby Boutique for your unique pregnancy, breastfeeding and baby needs.

Most of us know that finding a bra with just the right fit is a challenge. Now imagine finding the right nursing bra. At the Mother & Baby Boutique, our friendly staff can professionally size and fit you for your perfect nursing bra.

You can also choose from a beautiful selection of nursing tanks and covers.

If you plan to breastfeed your baby, having a good breast pump is important. Enloe’s Mother & Baby Boutique is one of the few places locally where you can purchase or rent hospital-grade pumps, spare parts, breast milk storage items and breast care products.

The Mother & Baby Boutique also carries items especially for baby, and offers a registry and discounted gift bundles.

The boutique is located at 251 Cohasset Road, Ste. 120, Chico. We’re open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.enloe.org/baby or call (530) 332-3970.

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During pregnancy, your body’s hormone levels rise considerably causing red, puffy, tender gums. This sensitivity is an exaggerated response to plaque and is caused by an increased level of progesterone in your system. Seeing your dentist for oral exams and teeth cleaning every six months is very important.

After the baby is born, you want to make sure you never allow your baby to fall asleep with either a bottle containing milk, or juice. Wipe your baby’s gums with a wet wash cloth after feeding, and checking your child’s teeth regularly for any changes.

Schedule your child’s first visit to the dentist by the first birthday.

www.enloe.org/baby

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Q&A SESSION WITH THE DOCTORS

RESOURCE & EXHIBIT AREA

A panel of OB/GYN, pediatric and anesthesiology specialists are ready to answer questions about pregnancy and parenting, such as: •When should I have my first prenatal appointment?

•Can I exercise while I’m pregnant?

•What do I need to know in deciding between an epidural and natural childbirth?

•When do I need to pick a pediatrician?

When you register online, you can submit questions in advance. Register today at www.enloe.org/events.

The event costs $5 per person.

Getting answers, or even simply knowing where to find them, makes your road to motherhood a little easier. At the Enloe Baby Faire you’ll have a chance to talk with local experts about: •Car seat safety •Breastfeeding tips •Eating right for you and your baby •Safe sleep practices •And more!

It’s important to take time for yourself, too, so enjoy a pampering massage while you’re here! Emma Honan, CMT, from Chico Massage Studio will be on site offering free hand massages to women attending the Baby Faire.

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Medela Pump

“BUMP UP YOUR STYLE” FASHION SHOW Looking your best is one way to help you feel your best. It’s no secret that as your body grows and changes throughout your pregnancy, your wardrobe is going to change, too. Enloe’s Mother & Baby Boutique, in partnership with Motherhood Maternity, will present the “Bump Up Your Style” fashion show highlighting the latest in maternity clothing and fashionable accessories like the Moby Wrap for carrying your baby in comfort and style.

LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS Preparing your body for a healthy pregnancy means making healthy lifestyle choices. At the Enloe Baby Faire, you will have an opportunity to attend one of three breakout sessions dedicated to your good health. See the three sessions and presenters listed at right.“

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Enloe Baby Faire

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May 22, 2014

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www.enloe.org/baby

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Saturday, May 3 1

Finding the right doctor for you and your baby

9 a.m. - Noon

Enloe Confere

nce Center

One of the most important steps to take when you are pregnant is to select a doctor for you and then for your new baby.

Register online at enloe.org/eve nts $5 per person

At the Baby Faire, meet OB/GYNs Raleigh Unterseher, MD, Steven Lazaro, MD, and pediatrician Elisa Brown, MD.

Breakout Sessions

Visit doctors.enloe.org to learn about all of the doctors affiliated with Enloe.

You can find introduction videos of the OB/GYNs who deliver babies (shown here) at Enloe, at www.enloe.org/baby.

PARENTING: BALANCE AND PARTNERSHIP

Monica Soderstrom, RN Northern Valley Indian Health

Darrell Whitacre Butte College Child Development Center

SMART NUTRITION FOR YOU & YOUR BABY

Cathy McLendon, BSN, IBCLC Enloe Medical Center

Mary Aram RD, MS, CDE

Enloe Medical Center

FEEL GOOD FITNESS – BEFORE, DURING & AFTER PREGNANCY Valerie Erickson Simply Perinatal Pilates

Browse and Meet Peruse the Baby Faire resource and exhibit area and meet representatives from several local resources: Butte-Glenn Community College; Northern Valley Indian Health; Butte County Public Health; Chico Massage Studio; the Enloe Mother & Baby Education Center; Glenn County Public Health; and Simply Perinatal Pilates.

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Joseph Brooks, MD

THE GIFT FOR YOU & YOUR INFANT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME… BREASTFEEDING

By Cathy McLendon BSN, IBCLC, Enloe Lactation Program Coordinator The health benefits of breastfeeding are enormous and well documented. A quick online search will tell most new mothers all they need to know about benefits. However, the questions that I receive most involve more practical tips and applications.

HOW DO I BEGIN? At Enloe Medical Center we recommend that mothers begin thinking about their infant feeding plans early.

When mothers come to the hospital to deliver their baby, our specially trained maternity nurses provide great support and assistance with breastfeeding.

Providing families with information and guidance to initiate infant feeding and mother-baby bonding is significant in Enloe receiving international recognition as a “Baby-Friendly Hospital.”

WILL IT HURT? While a certain amount of tenderness is considered normal in the beginning, a mother should not have to experience pain as a part of breastfeeding.

Lindsey Cafferata, MD

Steven Lazaro, MD

Walter Mazen Jr., MD

Scott Mellum, MD

Raleigh Unterseher, MD

Maurice Valcarenghi, MD

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM MAKING ENOUGH MILK? We watch for several things, including infant swallows, breast softening, baby contentment and volume of wet and dirty diapers. While weight loss is normal in the beginning, by two weeks most infants will be at or above their birth weight. We help new parents to recognize these signs.

WILL MY PARTNER HAVE A ROLE? Absolutely! It is important that a new mother have a strong support team.

HOW WILL BREASTFEEDING FIT INTO MY BUSY LIFESTYLE? Most new moms work outside the home or go to school. With a little planning it is definitely possible to maintain breastmilk feeding. Science now tells us that the benefits actually increase as the baby ages, which is why the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastmilk feeding for the first full year of life or longer.

These are all great questions and as a new mom you may have many more.

Please remember that we are here for you—before, during and after your childbirth experience. Breastfeeding your baby is truly the gift that lasts a lifetime!

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“I REALLY APPRECIATED THE ONE-TO-ONE NURSE WHO WAS THERE WITH ME AND DEDICATED TO ME FOR HER WHOLE SHIFT. IT IS AMAZING THE COMPANIONSHIP AND ENCOURAGEMENT YOU RECEIVE FROM A TOTAL STRANGER.” – Kayla, a mother of one

www.enloe.org/baby

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May 22, 2014

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Enloe Baby Faire

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e h t o t e m Co

! e r i a F y b a B e o l En while n fu e v a h d n aby Faire a B e lo n E e h t . Whether d o o h t Join us at n e r a p f dventures o a e h t e r lo p x t is a great n e v e you e is h t , g or plannin t n a n g e r p e r ng the way. lo a n you a io t a m r s and info ip t r e v o c is d o place t

Q&A SESSION WITH THE DOCTORS

RESOURCE & EXHIBIT AREA

A panel of OB/GYN, pediatric and anesthesiology specialists are ready to answer questions about pregnancy and parenting, such as: •When should I have my first prenatal appointment?

•Can I exercise while I’m pregnant?

•What do I need to know in deciding between an epidural and natural childbirth?

•When do I need to pick a pediatrician?

When you register online, you can submit questions in advance. Register today at www.enloe.org/events.

The event costs $5 per person.

Getting answers, or even simply knowing where to find them, makes your road to motherhood a little easier. At the Enloe Baby Faire you’ll have a chance to talk with local experts about: •Car seat safety •Breastfeeding tips •Eating right for you and your baby •Safe sleep practices •And more!

It’s important to take time for yourself, too, so enjoy a pampering massage while you’re here! Emma Honan, CMT, from Chico Massage Studio will be on site offering free hand massages to women attending the Baby Faire.

!

N I W O T R E NT

E

Medela Pump

“BUMP UP YOUR STYLE” FASHION SHOW Looking your best is one way to help you feel your best. It’s no secret that as your body grows and changes throughout your pregnancy, your wardrobe is going to change, too. Enloe’s Mother & Baby Boutique, in partnership with Motherhood Maternity, will present the “Bump Up Your Style” fashion show highlighting the latest in maternity clothing and fashionable accessories like the Moby Wrap for carrying your baby in comfort and style.

LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS Preparing your body for a healthy pregnancy means making healthy lifestyle choices. At the Enloe Baby Faire, you will have an opportunity to attend one of three breakout sessions dedicated to your good health. See the three sessions and presenters listed at right.“

4

Enloe Baby Faire

•

May 22, 2014

•

www.enloe.org/baby

•

Saturday, May 3 1

Finding the right doctor for you and your baby

9 a.m. - Noon

Enloe Confere

nce Center

One of the most important steps to take when you are pregnant is to select a doctor for you and then for your new baby.

Register online at enloe.org/eve nts $5 per person

At the Baby Faire, meet OB/GYNs Raleigh Unterseher, MD, Steven Lazaro, MD, and pediatrician Elisa Brown, MD.

Breakout Sessions

Visit doctors.enloe.org to learn about all of the doctors affiliated with Enloe.

You can find introduction videos of the OB/GYNs who deliver babies (shown here) at Enloe, at www.enloe.org/baby.

PARENTING: BALANCE AND PARTNERSHIP

Monica Soderstrom, RN Northern Valley Indian Health

Darrell Whitacre Butte College Child Development Center

SMART NUTRITION FOR YOU & YOUR BABY

Cathy McLendon, BSN, IBCLC Enloe Medical Center

Mary Aram RD, MS, CDE

Enloe Medical Center

FEEL GOOD FITNESS – BEFORE, DURING & AFTER PREGNANCY Valerie Erickson Simply Perinatal Pilates

Browse and Meet Peruse the Baby Faire resource and exhibit area and meet representatives from several local resources: Butte-Glenn Community College; Northern Valley Indian Health; Butte County Public Health; Chico Massage Studio; the Enloe Mother & Baby Education Center; Glenn County Public Health; and Simply Perinatal Pilates.

A Special Pull-Out Advertising Section

Joseph Brooks, MD

THE GIFT FOR YOU & YOUR INFANT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME… BREASTFEEDING

By Cathy McLendon BSN, IBCLC, Enloe Lactation Program Coordinator The health benefits of breastfeeding are enormous and well documented. A quick online search will tell most new mothers all they need to know about benefits. However, the questions that I receive most involve more practical tips and applications.

HOW DO I BEGIN? At Enloe Medical Center we recommend that mothers begin thinking about their infant feeding plans early.

When mothers come to the hospital to deliver their baby, our specially trained maternity nurses provide great support and assistance with breastfeeding.

Providing families with information and guidance to initiate infant feeding and mother-baby bonding is significant in Enloe receiving international recognition as a “Baby-Friendly Hospital.”

WILL IT HURT? While a certain amount of tenderness is considered normal in the beginning, a mother should not have to experience pain as a part of breastfeeding.

Lindsey Cafferata, MD

Steven Lazaro, MD

Walter Mazen Jr., MD

Scott Mellum, MD

Raleigh Unterseher, MD

Maurice Valcarenghi, MD

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM MAKING ENOUGH MILK? We watch for several things, including infant swallows, breast softening, baby contentment and volume of wet and dirty diapers. While weight loss is normal in the beginning, by two weeks most infants will be at or above their birth weight. We help new parents to recognize these signs.

WILL MY PARTNER HAVE A ROLE? Absolutely! It is important that a new mother have a strong support team.

HOW WILL BREASTFEEDING FIT INTO MY BUSY LIFESTYLE? Most new moms work outside the home or go to school. With a little planning it is definitely possible to maintain breastmilk feeding. Science now tells us that the benefits actually increase as the baby ages, which is why the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastmilk feeding for the first full year of life or longer.

These are all great questions and as a new mom you may have many more.

Please remember that we are here for you—before, during and after your childbirth experience. Breastfeeding your baby is truly the gift that lasts a lifetime!

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“I REALLY APPRECIATED THE ONE-TO-ONE NURSE WHO WAS THERE WITH ME AND DEDICATED TO ME FOR HER WHOLE SHIFT. IT IS AMAZING THE COMPANIONSHIP AND ENCOURAGEMENT YOU RECEIVE FROM A TOTAL STRANGER.” – Kayla, a mother of one

www.enloe.org/baby

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celebrates new life, inspiring hope and joy throughout the medical center.

Family Lounge “Maybe Baby” Rooms When an expectant mom arrives, her first stop could be a “Maybe Baby” room. Here, she will be assessed for progress in labor before moving into a birthing suite.

Family members are welcome in the birthing suite if requested by the expectant mom, or may wait comfortably in our family lounge.

Guests can also enjoy a fresh meal or cup of coffee in Enloe’s Allspice Café.

Couplet Care Birthing Suites The Nettleton Mother & Baby Care Center’s Birthing Unit has eight private suites with private bathrooms. Each suite was designed to create a soothing environment helping labor progress naturally. Mothers can choose to use a birthing ball, whirlpool tub or shower, or wireless fetal monitoring allowing her to move throughout the unit. Soft lighting in the room and aromatherapy can assist with relaxation. Each suite also has Wi-Fi access and a TV. Safety and healthy outcomes are our top concerns. We take pride in allowing moms to decide who she wants in the birthing suite to provide love and support during her birth experience. Moms can watch their baby being born, reflected in a mirror, and dads or birth partners are invited to cut the umbilical cord.

After the birth, we provide guidance to initiate infant feeding and mother-baby bonding with skin-to-skin contact. This is beneficial for both mom and baby and is an area of great pride and joy for us as the first Baby-Friendly hospital in Butte County.

When babies are born, new parents get to “push the button” that plays the Brahms’ Lullaby overhead throughout the hospital. This tradition A Special Pull-Out Advertising Section

After recovering from the birthing experience, mom and baby move to a private Couplet Care room. Each has a private bathroom with shower and furniture to accommodate an overnight guest.

Babies room with their mother, where our staff gives information on self-care, newborn care and infant feeding. This is provided in-person, on DVD and through a take-home booklet.

(Who says babies don’t come with a manual?)

Mothers will enjoy fresh, healthy meals during their stay and, to celebrate baby’s arrival, we offer a special meal for mom and her partner.

“the New Mother aNd BaBy Care CeNter at eNloe is faNtastiC. it really Made Me feel at hoMe. the eNviroNMeNt is light aNd airy. it was great to feel as if we had our owN spaCe aNd spaCe for our visitors.”

– Aimee, a mother of one

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All nurses in the Mother & Baby Care Center have extensive breastfeeding education to assist mom and baby getting the best start possible. If needed, lactation specialists are also available.

Enloe Medical Center is the only Butte County hospital equipped with a Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This special care nursery features six private rooms, each with a bassinet and sleep chair. After a stay in the special care nursery, a physician may order an overnight stay in the unit’s Family Room to allow parents to gain confidence in caring for their new baby before leaving the hospital.

Your baby is truly your best gift, but before you go home, we have a couple of presents to give, too. Every family receives an infant sleep sack for safe sleeping and a certificate for Enloe’s free six-class Bittie Baby & Me series. Sign up as soon as possible to learn valuable parenting tips and meet other new moms in a relaxed and supportive environment.

GrowinG your healthy family with enloe’s mother & BaBy education center after Baby education

We are here to guide families through some of life’s most meaningful times: giving birth and becoming a parent.

Enloe’s Mother & Baby Education Center offers a rich education program for before and during pregnancy, as well as after your baby is born.

Tours

Take a free tour of Enloe’s Nettleton Mother & Baby Care Center. Call (530) 332-3970 to register.

Exciting Expectations: For women planning to become pregnant or are within 12 weeks of pregnancy. Learn how to give your baby a healthy start with information on pregnancy nutrition, exercise, stress management, physicians and more. Plus, take a tour and receive free tote bag.

Mother Baby Tours: Get pre-admitted and explore the Nettleton Mother & Baby Care Center while learning about our services. Register early and plan to attend in your sixth or seventh month of pregnancy.

Sibling Preparation & Family Tour: A fun, interactive class for 3-7 year olds where they will learn how to be a big brother or sister. The class includes a family tour so they can see where their new baby will be born.

Homebirth Backup Tour: Families who plan a home delivery, with Enloe as a backup, are invited to view our beautiful unit and learn about our services.

Classes

All classes take place at the Enloe Mother & Baby Education Center, 251 Cohasset Road, Suite 120. Pre-registration is required unless otherwise noted. Call (530) 332-3970 to register early because classes fill up fast.

Before Baby education Prepared Childbirth: This class helps expectant mothers and their partners prepare for the birthing experience, newborn care and breastfeeding. Classes are held one evening per week for five consecutive weeks, or over a weekend. We recommend you start the class in your fifth month of pregnancy. $125 per couple.

Bittie Baby & Me (0 – 3 months): Ease the transition to parenthood with this 6-class series, held Tuesday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Topics include infant massage; breastfeeding; calming your crying baby; becoming a new parent; health, illness & immunizations; and choosing quality childcare. $75 for the series or $15 per class. Free for those who delivered at Enloe Medical Center (please bring your free-class certificate).

Pre-registration is not required.

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Bigger Baby & Me (0 – 7 months): This popular 6-class series, held Thursday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to noon, covers first-year milestones; individual temperaments; discipline and guidance; baby sign and language development; and so much more! $75 for the series.

safety classes “in terms of camaraderie, it’s reassurinG to meet other moms in the classes dealinG with the same thinGs, and know that you aren’t the only one. i found such value in GoinG around the room, sharinG, meetinG Great people. i even found my daycare person throuGh the enloe BaBy classes. today, my Girls are 4 and 6, and the women from my BaBy class have all stayed friends. my Book cluB is all women from the BaBy class who have maintained lifelonG friendships.”

– Patti, a mother of two

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Infant/Pediatric CPR: The No. 1 cause of death for children under age 5 is preventable accidents. Find out how to make your child's environment safe, how to prevent the most common childhood accidents, and learn infant/child CPR techniques for newborns through age 8. $35 per person.

Safe Babysitter: This is a great class for kids 11 and older who want to learn how to be a responsible babysitter and gain insight on infant and pediatric CPR techniques. $35 per person.

Grandparenting: The exciting time is here and this class is for you! Learn infant/pediatric CPR techniques, infant safe sleep recommendations, tips on supporting your adult child and his or her new family, and more. $35 per person.

sweet success Enloe Medical Center’s Sweet Success program provides education and guidelines for women with gestational diabetes. Enloe Diabetes Education Services is located at the Enloe Outpatient Center, 888 Lakeside Village Commons, Building C, Chico, (530) 332-6840.

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