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Toward a better ban The citizen activists in the group Frack-Free Butte County, who toiled for

months to gather sufficient signatures to qualify a measure to ban hydraulic fracturing in Butte County, were understandably angry when, on July 29, the Board of Supervisors chose to delay approval. Instead the board voted 4-1 to have county staff take 30 days to study the initiative to determine whether it might result in costly litigation, harm property values, have a negative impact on existing businesses or fail to prohibit other unwelcome uses of wells. The decision meant the board couldn’t place the measure on the November ballot before the Aug. 8 deadline. It will appear instead on a 2016 ballot. Supporters were miffed; to them the decision was anti-democratic. (Chicoarea Supervisor Maureen Kirk voted nay, saying she preferred to let the people vote.) The supervisors were right to be concerned about the citizen measure, however, especially its vulnerability to litigation. County Counsel Bruce Alpert noted that the ordinance his staff is preparing would have “no confusion or ambiguity about what would be banned or what would be allowed.” As the CN&R revealed last week (see “Fractured finances,” by Leslie Layton), deep-pocketed oil and natural-gas companies have spent more than $116,000 locally to block the ban. County officials need to bear this in mind as they prepare the new ordinance. With the exception of the other Chico-area supervisor, Larry Wahl, the board is committed to drafting a strong and clear ordinance. The success of Frack-Free Butte County’s petition drive should harden that determination. We don’t like it when democracy is delayed, but in this case we think it will result in a better ordinance. We fully expect county staff to come up with wording that is clearer and stronger than the citizen measure. And we expect them to do it quickly, so that voters will have plenty of time to decide which of the two they prefer. Ω

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Creativity as therapy back, I watched the video of the young college student Athenwhile who recorded a litany of his sexual frustrations, and proceeded to open fire on his peers with an assault

weapon that he collected without a license. Then he offed himself. Like most, I thought, “What’s this world coming to?” and “What if my child was in Santa Barbara; it could have been my kid!” and “What an ungrateful, spoiled ass!” He had a history of different labels to describe his behavior. I heard “high-functioning autistic,” meaning, in my experience, awkward people who rub others the wrong way. by This is a clinical catchphrase to Cynthia describe a group of people who, for variSchildhauer ous reasons, have nobody to talk to. That’s an awful place to be. You feel like The author is a local an idiot to begin with, then your peers artist and registered reinforce your social difficulties by art therapist in avoidance, ridicule or that look of disgust private practice. She and the pitying eyes. Social isolation is maintains a website: solitary confinement with a happy face www.cynthiaart.com. plastered on it. The kid drove a fancy car and he’d probably been handed everything he wanted. A new word—“affluenza”— describes how privilege without responsibility and accountability creates kids without conscience. But this young man’s parents proved to be educated, 4

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compassionate and on top of it (so it seemed), since they took as many preemptive measures as they could to help their son. Typical interventions for “socially awkward” individuals involve talk … talk to the counselor, talk to the parents, talk to the doctor, talk, talk, talk. Find someone the kid can “trust,” then the isolated youth should feel safe and loved, which should propel awkward folks toward acceptance, popularity and sex appeal. Does anybody ask the question, “What if a person doesn’t know how to talk to someone?” Or how about, “What if, even if I could talk to a person, I have not the slightest idea how to express what I want to say.” In my opinion, the young man needed the arts. Sometimes talking just doesn’t cut it. I can show you study after study proving that arts participation increases school attendance, keeps people from returning to jail, helps addicts stay sober, gives seniors meaning, and in general triggers a deeper happiness in most, from preschool to nursing homes, from Yale to jail. People are getting burned out. We need to express ourselves in creative, nonverbal ways. Let’s make creativity and self-expression available to those who are tired of empty words but who still want help. Ω

Bombing our own guns Now that ISIS suddenly has become such a huge presence in Iraq and Syria,

America’s recent involvement with those countries seems like a surreal nightmare. As Max Fisher, writing in the online news magazine Vox, points out, the United States is now bombing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of high-tech military equipment America provided to the Iraqi military in the decade following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The reason we gave the Iraqis all that expensive weaponry was, of course, that we had destroyed the weapons they already had. But the Iraqi army failed, fleeing from ISIS and leaving all those weapons behind for the jihadists to use. Not only did the weapons fail to make Iraq secure, they now are being used by an offshoot of al-Qaida to terrorize the Iraqis that the U.S. ostensibly liberated 11 years ago. In Syria, America chose not to give weapons to the moderate rebels, fearing they might fall into the hands of ISIS. As Fisher writes, “that made it easier for ISIS to overpower the underfunded moderate rebels, and now ISIS has seized, in Iraq, much better versions of the weapons that we were so worried they might acquire in Syria. So now we’re bombing the guns that we didn’t mean to give ISIS because we didn’t give guns to their enemies because then ISIS might get guns. “It’s not just ironic,” Fisher concludes. “It’s a symbol of how disastrous the last 15 years of U.S. Iraq policy have been, how circuitous and self-perpetuating the violence, that we are now bombing our own guns. Welcome to American grand strategy in the Middle East.” Ω

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Fences and a tree Last week, a new fence went up along the northern edge of Cal Water’s property at First and Orient streets. That parcel, home of the two iconic raised water tanks, sits adjacent to the CN&R’s office. It’s a pretty little spot with a lot of mature trees and a grassy knoll, and a place where I would sometimes sit and eat lunch, next to a young magnolia. Over the years, I’ve seen other people enjoying the space, too, including a young guy who regularly practiced juggling. More recently, homeless folks have been hanging out and bedding down there. Probably due to its location directly across from the entrance to Annie’s Glen, this private property had a park-like quality. Not anymore. I called over to Cal Water this week and spoke with Pete Bonacich, the company’s acting district manager. He confirmed my suspicions. The fence went up because, as Bonacich put it, “We had a tremendous amount of problems with vagrants.” Turns out some of the folks setting up camp there were stealing chairs from the porches of nearby homes and lounging on them on the property. Bonacich said there appeared to be regular drug-dealing at the site, too. After numerous complaints by the neighbors and no response from the police department, the company tried deterrents, such as turning the sprinklers on at varying hours. That didn’t do the job. So, up went the fence and a number of no-trespassing signs. It’ll take some getting used to. Curiosity killed the tree: On the subject of changes near CN&R HQ, I noticed a few weeks back some greenery growing in the center of the roundabout at Second and Flume. At first I thought it was a weed, but upon further inspection, turns out it’s a sapling—a redwood, I think. The little sprout of a tree was still alive this week, so I called City Hall to see what the deal is—whether the city or a rogue tree lover planted it. After talking to someone in the engineering department (not planted by them), I ended up speaking with Dan Efseaff, Chico’s parks and natural resources manager, who also didn’t plant it. He had actually seen the sapling earlier in the day while out on a stroll. Efseaff said he understands the motivation behind the gesture, but that the tree likely isn’t in the right spot. Moreover, plans for landscaping and an art feature there are in the early stages, he said. In other words, Efseaff will be yanking the young tree. He said I’m not the only person to bring this to his attention, so don’t blame me for ending the plant’s life. Who knows, maybe it will get replanted elsewhere. Speaking of demises, you’d think these days that the downtown was going to pot. Sure, the area has issues, but I’m down here every day, and I can tell you first-hand that the problems associated with the region are greatly exaggerated. If you don’t believe me, read this week’s cover story by News Editor Tom Gascoyne, who interviewed numerous downtowners, mostly business owners, about the changing face of the city center.

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Punished for principles Re “Catching up with Tim DeChristopher” (Cover feature, by Sarah van Gelder, Aug. 7) Tim DeChristopher stood on principle even though it cost him prison time. I’m a baby boomer and know I bear some responsibility for out-of-control government. I’m doing my part now to make up for that; however, I don’t believe “climate change” is the most important issue. It is the “justice” and “legal” system. Tim’s description of the judge’s parameters for allowing people on the jury is telling. Juries are supposed to be “the trier of fact and the trier of law,” though most citizens don’t know that. Juries can, by “jury independence” (aka jury nullification), determine whether a law was broken and, more important, whether the law is righteous. They were given that power by the Founding Fathers. Our so-called justice/legal system is devoid of principle, as practiced today. People who serve on juries need to be educated. They don’t know the power they can wield as jurors. It is a shame and a crime to allow our current “injustice” system to continue in this manner. In my opinion, we must focus on this as the primary issue. Until we do, fine young men such as Tim, who are standing on principle, will continue to be sent to prison. I urge citizens to discover the “Fully Informed Jury Association.”

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Another take on legalization Re “An end to prohibition” (Editorial, July 31): The CN&R’s argument that marijuana should be legalized because the associated punishment is more harmful than its use itself is not only circular, it’s short-sighted. Marijuana is actually quite harmful in that like any intoxicant, it impairs judgment and motor skills critical to personal and public safety—not just driving and operating LETTERS continued on page 6 August 14, 2014

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machinery, but also while socializing and having sex. Like alcohol, marijuana precludes us from maintaining intelligent conversation that facilitates our making and maintaining friendships with attractive, responsible, intelligent people. Further, like tobacco, marijuana’s bad for our lungs and immune systems, it’s expensive, it stinks, it makes us fat, and it’s a fire hazard. Moreover, as with alcohol, smoking marijuana encourages others to do it and suffer the same ill effects. Growing marijuana’s also bad for the environment. It encourages people to lay waste to natural areas and to drain and pollute the air and streams. It’s taxing to law-enforcement, health care and the courts. People need to stop being lazy and learn to overcome their inhibitions naturally instead of turning to alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. If they really need pain relief, they can get cheap prescription medication over the Internet. NATHAN ESPLANADE Corning

Prohibition’s cost Re “An end to prohibition” (Editorial, July 31) and “A flawed punishment” (Editorial, Aug. 7): One things for sure: They’ll never use marijuana to administer the death penalty. If you use too much you’ll just fall asleep. The War on Drugs (mainly a war on marijuana) is 43 years old. That’s longer than the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII and the Korean, Vietnam, Kuwait and Iraq wars combined. The criminalization of marijuana has grown a mountain of dead bodies over the fight for money. There is also a mountain range full of broken families, because daddy or mommy got busted and now cannot get a job. The war has cost over $1 trillion-plus. For all the harm criminalization of marijuana has done and is doing, the plant itself has not killed a single person. I’m afraid to sign this letter. Sure, the Declaration of Independence says the “pursuit of happiness” is an “inalienable right.” But today, the justice system has over 500,000 Americans behind bars for marijuana. The last 43 years has chewed up tens of millions of lives and I don’t want to be next.

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life. He was a one-of-a-kind person who had a history of mania, depression and the accompanying medications. Robin rejected clinical terms and instead chose to see himself in terms of being sad. We will miss Robin Williams’ laughter; he gave us the best medicine. I can’t help but think and feel this tragedy could have been avoided. I do not know what Robin’s relationship to cannabis was during his life’s journey, but I do know that cannabis is a powerful medicine for overcoming depression. Living in Tiburon, Robin must have had access to medical cannabis. If Robin never used medical cannabis, we’ll probably never know why. I know so many closet users of medical cannabis who cannot openly and/or legally use because of their social position, occupation and/or family. We need more understanding and less stigmatization. Robin Williams will always be a shining light in my soul. I would implore anyone out there suffering from depression to try cannabis. Don’t wait until your last chance. Cannabis makes a difference. Na-nu, na-nu. BENSON Chico

School can do better

I take no joy in writing this letter and am reluctant to do so, but feel compelled because of what I consider to be the importance of the subject. While in Willows the other day, I took time to bike around town and rode by and through the intermediate school. I was impressed by its deplorable appearance, almost as though it was being abandoned. The shrubbery and trees display a lack of care, grass is intruding upon the sidewalk, especially outside the east side of the main building, and I could go on. LEROY W. Chico Visitors must have a negative response and students deserve betMissing Robin Williams ter. There has to be someone who cares, perhaps a group of parents, We all just lost a brilliant person teachers or students who could whom most of us loved. I felt like I n e w s & r e v i e w b u s i n e s s u s e o n ly lost a brother. This person is Robin take it upon themselves to make ss designer issUeto dATe eXeC amb this place ACCT a sparkling gem rather Williams. Robin chose take03.03.11 his

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He’s got an idea For the budget and our town needing a facelift, this is what I would do if I were the city manager of Chico: I would let go of three of the top-paid firefighters and police officers, which would add up to about $1.2 million. I would then hire for $20,000 a year 40 Chico State graduates who want to stay in Chico for their master’s degrees but cannot afford it. I would place them on bicycles as nonlethal policing pairs. They would help the homeless to the homeless farm and get to know all of the shopkeepers. The other 20 would work for the fire department as apprentices as well for two years. Now, that would raise the level of education on both and maybe put a nicer face on Chico while saving $400,000. Let’s see, 40 for six? Just a thought. Let me know what you think. JOEL CASTLE Chico

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The Chico Creek Nature Center has once again launched a crowdfunding campaign, this time to compensate for a loss of city funding that could cause the center’s closure next month. The “Cover the Cuts Campaign” on GoFundMe.com was launched July 25 by CCNC Executive Director Caitlin Reilly, with a description stating the center needs “$10,000 by August 25th to remain open to the public in September and we must raise $60,000 to be able to survive the coming winter.” A similar crowdfunding effort last September on FundRazr.com netted $755—a quarter of the center’s goal at the time. The CCNC received no funding from the city of Chico this fiscal year. In 2013-14, the city’s contribution to the center’s operating costs was $35,000, down from $42,500 in 2012-13 (see “Up the creek,” Newslines, Sept. 26, 2013). Before the city’s financial crisis, its annual contribution to the nonprofit CCNC was $65,000. At press time, the Internet funding campaign had raised about $5,000.

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The Chico Certified Farmers’ Market was especially festive last Saturday (Aug. 9) as vendors, market supporters and city officials celebrated the CCFM’s first annual lease payment to the city of Chico. As onlookers held colorful letters spelling out “Thank you, Chico,” CCFM members presented Mayor Scott Gruendl with an oversized $5,000 check pasted to a large paper carrot. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony was partly in observation of National Farmers’ Market Week, but the real cause for celebration was the end of the CCFM’s long battle to stay in its downtown location at the corner of Second and Wall streets. After years of contention sparked by vocal downtown business owners who claimed the market negatively impacts parking and commerce in the area, the council voted unanimously June 17 to sign a six-year lease with the CCFM.

AND THEY’RE (ALMOST) OFF

The Chico City Clerk’s Office reports that, facing an Aug. 13 deadline, 10 people have shown varying degrees of commitment toward running for the three City Council seats open this fall. Those who’ve qualified with the required 20 valid signatures of registered voters are incumbents Mayor Scott Gruendl and Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen; along with Andrew Coolidge, who ran two years ago; Rodney Willis, who ran a decade ago; and first-timers Loretta Torres, Forough Molina and Reanette Fillmer. City Clerk Debbie Presson said other possible candidates—those who’d taken out papers but had not returned them by the CN&R’s deadline—are Lupe Arim-Law, Dave Donnan and Wes Holt. (Donnan posted a message on Fillmer’s Facebook page saying he was not running.) The third incumbent, Councilwoman Mary Goloff, is not seeking reelection. The deadline to file paperwork was 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, after this paper’s press time. 8

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Below: Tracy Mohr is greeted by one of her three mustangs. PHOTO COURTESY OF TRACY MOHR

Desperately seeking pasture Organizer of mustang sanctuary turns to local landowners for help racy Mohr choked up while recalling her first TOwning horse, a mustang she adopted back in 1999. a horse had been a lifelong dream of the

New Jersey native, and that became feasible when she moved to California, where horse ownership is more by Melissa affordable. Daugherty “Gentling him and getting that bond was the most amazing melissad@ newsreview.com experience,” she said of the then-6-month-old colt she named Cody. Mohr is most known for her role as animal services manager for the city of Chico, and it probably goes without saying that she has a soft spot for animals. During a recent interview in her office at the shelter, as a nervous Chihuahua she’s socializing sat on her lap, Mohr explained her passion for rescuing larger four-legged companions. Not long after adopting Horse helpers: Cody, she came up with the idea Go to of starting a youth organization www.themustang project.org or that would allow kids, at-risk www.face teens in particular, to help gentle book.com/ mustangs. Part of the mission of TheMustang what she named The Mustang Project to learn Project is to give kids a sense of more about the mustang accomplishment and self-worth sanctuary and to and to instill empathy toward contact founder animals and people. IncremenTracy Mohr. tally, she’s been working on

establishing the program. More recently, though, Mohr’s focus has been on a complementary plan to open a sanctuary for wild horses. There’s a great need, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently rounding up the herds at the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in the northwest corner of Nevada, near the community of Denio on the border of Oregon. Mohr came up with a plan to contract with the federal agency to take in some 70 or so horses, but she hit a major snag in recent weeks when a local private landowner she was going to lease property from backed out at the eleventh hour. “It was kind of a shock to everyone,” she said. It’s an understatement to call the loss of that property a setback. Months of preparations are all for naught, including a few thousand dollars that she sunk into an environmental review at the site. But more important, Fish and Wildlife is already well into its efforts gathering the equines. Mohr’s horses were scheduled to be transported to Butte County midSeptember, and since there’s no stopping the federal agency’s timeline for rounding up the animals, she’s in a desperate situation to find a new place to house them in a short time—just a few weeks. It’s certainly not an ideal spot to be in,

but Mohr is keeping faith that the nonprofit will find a site. So, too, are other

local horse advocates, including Concow horse owners and mustang admirers Laurel Paulson-Pierce and partner Dennis Walker, both of whom have been to the Sheldon Refuge and seen its horse residents—majestic creatures as they tell it. The couple saw more than 100 horses over a few days driving around the refuge last year. “When we observed those horses, we got a sense of their family bonds. They have a special dynamic between them; how they work to protect each other,” Paulson-Pierce said. Both she and Walker are critical of Fish and Wildlife’s removal policy. Paulson-Pierce noted how the federal agency calls the horses “feral.” She noted, however, that the animals’ lineage goes back to horses that were shipped off and used in wars dating back to the Civil War. Moreover, she said, their presence in the region predates the refuge’s inception. “They’ve been around and part of the tradition of this nation for many years and helped to build this nation,” she said. “They deserve to be honored and protected.” They believe the horses should remain at the site, but, since that’s not an option, the next best choice is Mohr’s plan of keeping the animals together, Paulson-Pierce said. According to Oregon-based Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Megan Nagel,

A creek in common the agency will honor the existing contract with Mohr so long as she can provide adequate facilities for the horses. She explained how Fish and Wildlife contracts with what it refers to as “certified adoption agents” around the nation, who find the horses homes. Sheldon Refuge’s entire population of an estimated 450 horses and 100 burros is scheduled to be rounded up. The operation is expected to be completed by Friday, Aug. 15. Years ago, Nagel said, the agency implemented some sterilization efforts to reduce the 20 percent breeding rate in a population of more than 1,300 horses. To keep the numbers in check, the agency culled the herds through roundups by about 200 animals per year. Nagel said that it’s only now feasible, with the size down to 400 or so horses, that the lot could be removed from the land, which is the long-term plan as outlined in the agency’s comprehensive conservation plan. Nagel called the animals feral and said that they are the progeny of abandoned domestic horses that were part of a horse- and cattle-ranching outfit that operated on the land prior to the establishment of the refuge in 1931. The equines, she said, compete for resources with the native wildlife, and, as such, are the agency’s No. 1 challenge to preserving one of the last intact Great Basin ecosystems. “Without the removal of the horses and burros, the service is unable to restore and conserve the native habitat for fish, wildlife and plants, which is the purpose for which the refuge was established,” she said. American pronghorn antelope and the greater sage grouse are two of the native species she mentioned. Mohr heard about the roundup through

her connections in the mustang community, and she agreed to take in many older horses, those that would be difficult or impossible to adopt out, since they will be too old to gentle enough to be trained. “The thought is to have a real sanctuary where they could live out their lives in peace,” she said. It’s a unique situation, since the horses would remain together—in effect, preserving the Sheldon herd for years to come. Because it may take some time to find an ideal long-term site, Mohr’s open to finding a temporary set-up, preferably a spot that’s previously held horses or other livestock and has a reliable water source and hay storage. She’s putting out feelers in every capacity she can think of. “This is the Hail Mary pass and we’re hoping there’s somebody on the other end who is going to catch it,” she said. Ω

BEC and eco-firm FISHBIO share interest in health of Big Chico Creek he Butte Environmental Council and local eco-consulting firm Trately, FISHBIO have found common ground—or, perhaps more accucommon water.

That is to say, both organizations are dedicated to protecting the Big Chico Creek ecosystem, though their approaches differ. BEC’s is one of advocacy and community engagement, touting the importance of water conservation through its new watershed program and preparing for the annual Big Chico Creek Cleanup in September. Meanwhile, FISHBIO’s work is science-based; researchers there are currently in the process of compiling data from their second fish count survey in as many years, intending to keep decision-makers informed on the overall health of the waterway. By working parallel to one another, it’s natural that BEC and FISHBIO’s paths would cross. “We reached out—we were really interested in the work FISHBIO was doing,” said Robyn DiFalco, BEC’s executive director, during a joint interview with Gabriel Kopp, director of operations at FISHBIO. “In terms of local scientific research, we realized that these are the guys doing it, and we’re the ones trying to advocate on behalf of the water bodies, the aquatic ecosystems.” While there is no formal working relationship between BEC and FISHBIO, both DiFalco and Kopp said their respective organizations’ recent efforts to benefit the creek complement each other.

Before FISHBIO researchers snorkeled in the creek last August, it had

been a decade since the fish populations there had been recorded. They did so again a couple weeks ago and, unlike last year, when the surveyors were limited to Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, they were granted permission from private landowners to go about 2 miles farther upstream. In addition to counting fish, the team mapped habitat all the way to the waterfall at Higgins Hole, which represents the uppermost barrier for migratory fish in the stream. As with last year, researchers were on the lookout for five species of fish during the survey—rainbow trout, brown trout, Sacramento sucker, riffle sculpin and California roach. Though FISHBIO is still processing data, estimated numbers were down for all species except California roach. “We’re not seeing quite as many rainbow trout, not as many brown trout and we also didn’t see any sculpin at all this year,” Kopp said. But Kopp cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the condition of Big Chico Creek based on a two-year sample. “You see lower or higher fish population estimates, and all you

SIFT|ER Keep your smoke to yourself Americans are becoming less and less tolerant of smokers lighting up in public spaces. According to a recent Gallup poll, 56 percent of respondents favored banning smoking in public. That’s in stark contrast to 2003, when a minority of those polled (31 percent) wanted to make smoking in public illegal. As far as banning smoking altogether, an overwhelming majority was against that prospect— 79 percent say it should remain legal.

FISHBIO researchers wade through Big Chico Creek during a recent fish count. PHOTO COURTESY OF FISHBIO

can do is guess at what’s affecting them,” he said. “Some people will point to the drought year, but there are larger trends. That’s what monitoring gives you—better insight as to whether we’re in a downward or upward trend.” The researchers did note that water temperatures were a touch higher than last year, which can alter the fish count—species that prefer cold water may stay closer to the bottom of the creek, where they’re more difficult to spot by researchers snorkeling on the surface. Kopp said the research team expects to post the official survey results online within two months; the company hopes the numbers will be used by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and the city of Chico when decisions are made regarding management of the waterway. While BEC has long concerned itself with the health of Butte County’s

watersheds, it only recently launched a program specific to Big Chico Creek, and the data gathered by FISHBIO will serve as important markers moving forward. “We felt we should find out more about the work they’re doing and how we might be able to do our work based on their knowledge,” DiFalco said. In February, BEC adopted the Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance, a coalition that suffered financially after state funding for such programs dried up. The alliance’s outreach and advocacy efforts fell neatly in line with BEC’s overarching goals. As part of the watershed program, BEC has held workshops on things like gray-water conversion and rainwater catchment, and will host a series of informational sessions in the coming weeks on how state groundwater regulations will affect locals, water bonds and Gov. Jerry Brown’s controversial “twin tunnels” project. DiFalco and Nani Teves, coordinator of the watershed program, said they hope California’s drought will serve as a wake-up call of sorts that will put the community on a path of conservation. “The only way to get there,” Teves said, “is to have an engaged community with a strong environmental ethic.” FISHBIO seems to agree with that philosophy. “We’re always excited about getting the community to build relationships with the stream,” Kopp said. “It’s about establishing that greater connection between the community, the environment and the fish.” —HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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the county’s grading ordinance. The action is the result of a number of unpermitted grading operations by marijuana farmers discovered in the foothills over the past few years. In March, the board tentatively approved amendments to the county grading code that would require a permit for any project calling for the grading of more than 50 cubic yards of soil. That is equivalent to a 30-by-15 foot swimming pool dug 3 feet deep. Supervisor Bill Connelly was the lone dissenting vote at that meeting. When it came back to the board in April for final adoption, a number of local contractors objected. The board then voted for staff to engage in discussions with contractors to gather their input. The issue came back to the board in May and then again on July 29. It was continued for further discussion both times. Concerns about pot growers’ grading activity triggered the revisions. In a number of cases, the dirt-moving caused erosion to land and subsequent damage to streams. The work often violated state law, but the state has been less than proactive in enforcement, citing the potential danger of confronting pot growers. While contractors say the regulations may be too restrictive, envi-

ronmentalists say they may not be restrictive enough. The current county grading code calls for permitting and detailed reports for the excavation and fill of 10,000 cubic yards or more that also include cuts or fills of more than 15 vertical feet or an existing slope of 20 percent or more. The changes proposed in March would have changed the permitting to include the excavation of just 50 cubic yards, as well as the grading of driveways that are longer than 150 feet. After discussion with contractors, the supervisors agreed to increase those numbers, to 250 cubic yards and 350 feet, respectively. Local contractor Ted Bigelow said

the process of grading property is already too oppressive and bureaucratic. He said he has a project in which he’s trying to eliminate a “hump in the road” on a client’s property. The client has already spent $16,000 to try to get the matter resolved legally, he said. “I still haven’t done the work,” he told the board. “This is killing my business and tearing my heart up.” Bigelow said he’d been talking to others in the county, whom he called “old timers and old vets,” who said the county was waging an “absolute war” on land owners. “There are too high of penalties,” he said. “This is the United

States of America, where somebody should be able to do some things on their own property. Go after the pot growers.” Woody Elliott, conservation chair at the Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, questioned the leniency of allowing driveways up to 150 feet to be exempted from permit requirements. He said the driveways should be reviewed by a state-certified engineer to make sure they are stable and not causing drainage problems, which would not be done under the proposed code changes. “Large parcels could have large entrance roads that need to be looked at by more than just the [California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection],” he said. “They look at access for their equipment and staff safety, not whether the road is going to fail in the long run.” In the end, the board voted 4-1, with Supervisor Maureen Kirk the lone dissenter, to have staff continue to work on a draft of amendments to the grading code with consideration of the contractors’ concerns. Mike Crump, county director of public works, said his office would have something in place for the supervisors to consider within four to six months. Supervisor Larry Wahl suggested there be a twoyear sunset clause, which would mean the supervisors would automatically revisit the issue after that timeframe to see if it’s working. —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

Grading at this pot farm in the foothills was discovered last year. PHOTO COURTESY OF BUTTE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS

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Chico police, community discuss changes to law to reduce the number of false alarms here was heated discussion Wednesday TInternal morning (Aug. 13) at a meeting of Chico’s Affairs Committee, where police Lt.

Mike O’Brien presented proposed changes to the city’s alarm ordinance. For his part, he said, it shouldn’t be up to the Chico Police Department to subsidize the alarm industry. In 2012, he explained, officers responded to more than 3,200 false alarms. The issue stems from a seemingly abrupt decision by Police Chief Kirk Trostle to change the department’s policy for responsding to electronic alarms. On June 15, the department switched to a “verified alarm response” model—meaning, it requires either video or human verification of a crime before dispatching officers. The change caused an uproar in the community, with some arguing that it signaled open season for burglars. A committee of stakeholders was formed and further changes were offered—it was those changes that O’Brien presented to Internal Affairs, made up of City Council members Sean Morgan, Ann Schwab and Tami Ritter. “The current system, which has not been functioning, has been to fine the alarm user,” O’Brien said. What he heard from alarm companies was that they’d prefer to be the ones fined, “and they will deal with those false alarms as an industry. I welcome that— I think it’s an excellent idea.” His report included recommendations that alarm companies be fined $100 for the first false alarm requiring officer dispatch, $200 for the second and $300 for each subsequent report. A collection agency would handle the fines, and all the money would go directly to the Chico Police Department. If a company became delinquent in paying those fines, the department would cease to respond to any alarms from its customers. About a dozen people spoke during the public comment period of the meeting, the vast majority of them representing the alarm industry. The consensus among them was that yes, something should be done to reduce the number of false alarms requiring police response. Most argued that they already do a good job of managing their customers and encouraging responsible use of alarms. Some even said they regularly “fire” customers who repeatedly set off false alarms. Others argued that despite their best efforts, it is impossible to ensure accidents—an open window, or a spider crawling across a motion detector, for example—won’t happen.

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“I’m concerned about being fined from the get-go. Nothing is perfect. There are going to be mistakes,” one alarm-company representative said. “The problem is, sir, that I can’t send my officers to respond to 3,000 mistakes of yours,” O’Brien said. Jon Sargent, of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition, suggested that fining alarm companies could be unconstitutional based on a recent ruling in the Southern California city of Fontana. “The judge there said that you cannot fine an alarm company for false alarms that they did not cause through unlawful conduct. It violates the Constitution and due process,” he said. O’Brien countered that the decision was nonbinding for the city of Chico. Ritter posed the question to City Attorney Vince Ewing, who was present via conference call. “Can you repeat the question?” he said. Then, “I would need to read the case before offering an opinion.” In the two months since the verification policy was enacted (June 15-Aug. 2), the police received 321 alarm calls, of which only 26 were verified and therefore required officers to be dispatched. Of the 26, only four were deemed “criminally attached.” “That is an almost 90 percent reduction,” O’Brien said. Others agreed that a verification policy should be in place. Assistant City Manager Chris Constantin suggested the fines go into the general fund rather than directly to the police department to avoid any appearance of response based on getting paid. In the end, the committee requested Ewing move forward with drafting an amended ordinance including the following: An enhanced verified call system; ascending fines of $100, $200 and $300 to be imposed on alarm companies, which can then pass them on to offending customers; outsourcing to a collection agency; and allocation of collected fines to the general fund. The matter could come before the City Council as early as September, Ewing said. —MEREDITH J. GRAHAM meredithg@newsreview.com

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The primary care quandary

TOUGH JOB HUNT FOR NURSES

Despite widespread predictions of a nationwide nursing shortage, many nursing students in California and other states are having difficulty finding jobs after graduation. According to the National Student Nurses Association, 25 percent of new nurses are unemployed four months after graduating, while 13 percent are unemployed after six months. David Auerbach, a researcher at think-tank nonprofit RAND, offered two explanations for why nurses are having trouble landing jobs—the economic downturn has caused many older nurses to delay retirement, and, ironically, nursing schools have accepted more students in anticipation of a nursing shortage. A RAND study found that the number of nurses still working at age 69 has doubled over the last 20 years, according to California Healthline. Wendy Sutherland, a recruitment manager at Kaiser Permanente, said the number of applicants for nursing positions has “doubled to tripled” in recent years. “Unfortunately, without a lot of people leaving or retiring, it has created not enough openings for as many graduates [as] we have coming out,” she said.

SKEETERS ARE KILLER

Two North State residents have died this year after contracting West Nile virus, the California Department of Public Health announced last week. The individuals’ identities have not been disclosed, but officials said one was from Sacramento County and the other lived in Shasta County, according to California Healthline. Statewide, 35 cases of humans contracting the mosquito-borne virus have been reported this year. Last year, 15 Californians died from WNV, according to the Los Angeles Times. Here at home, the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District announced late last month that several pools of mosquitoes tested positive for WNV. For tips on reducing risk of contracting mosquito-borne illnesses and up-to-date information on WNV in our area, go to www.westnile.ca.gov. Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.

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ver the last year and a half, the number Oinjuries of patients seeking treatment for serious or illnesses at Chico Immediate

Care has noticeably increased. “We’ve had heart attacks, dropped lungs, gunshot wounds, seizures, meningitis,” said Dr. Brad Smith, owner of the clinic for nearly 30 years, during a recent interview. And while he acknowledged that his clinic is designed for exactly that—quickly addressing urgent health problems—he said many of those patients would have benefited from preventative medicine, but simply didn’t have access to it. Also, those in dire need of attention are usually mixed in with others seeking treatment that falls distinctly within the realm of primary care. “It’s become ridiculous—50 percent of the people who come into our clinic are there for something they should go to a primary care doctor for,” he said. “You have someone with a cut on his arm waiting to get sewn up behind three other people who are there to get their blood pressure medication refilled. “That’s the result of the primary care shortage.” A lack of primary care practitioners is a national issue—a study conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges projected there will be a shortage of 45,000 primary care doctors by 2020, accounting for the millions of people newly insured under the Affordable Care Act—and the trend is very much a problem here in

Chico. About 20 years ago, there were about 30 private primary care physicians in Chico, Smith said. Since then, there has been natural attrition due to doctors dying, retiring, moving elsewhere, or transitioning to hospital-based care. The problem is they haven’t been replaced. By his latest count, there are about half as many primary care providers in town these days. As a result, Chico Immediate Care has increasingly served as a safety net for those who can’t find a regular doctor. Smith said it’s common for patients at the clinic to say, “I don’t have a doctor. I’ve called every practice within 30 miles, and not one of them can take me.” And so Smith decided to take things into his own hands. Just last week he opened a new clinic in Chico—Premiere Primary Care. The shortage of primary care practitioners

said Dr. Roy Bishop, CEO of Argyll Medical Group in Chico, which he founded in 2001. “We don’t have any large, integrated health care systems that can put in the necessary capital to build clinics, recruit doctors and get decent contracts with insurers,” he said. Both Bishop and Smith identified low insurance reimbursement rates as the biggest obstacle for attracting new primary care providers. “We need more primary care doctors in the community,” Bishop said, “but the current business model is not going to bring them here.” For instance, Bishop’s current contract with a private insurer reimburses him at 90 percent of Medicare’s rate, which is already so low that many physicians won’t accept it as payment. “And that’s after a huge fight,” he said. “If I was a solo practi-

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tioner, rather than part of Chico’s biggest primary care group, they would try and pay me 60 or 70 percent [of the Medicare rate]. It’s truly awful. “Most young doctors want a salary and benefits and they don’t want to take any business risks,” he continued. “The old model, where doctors were self-employed, is dying simply because the reimbursements controlled by the government and insurers are so low it’s no longer a viable business.” Smith agreed, adding that there’s little incentive for medical school graduates to open their own practices, given that entering a specialty field is often far more lucrative—no small consideration given the massive student loan debts most med students accrue. Further, the logistical aspects of running a primary care office such as meeting federal and state mandates, tracking paperwork and managing an office can be daunting. Bishop is doing his part. In an effort to address the issue, he and other area physicians have formed the California North State Independent Practice Association (IPA), which aims to bargain collectively with insurers for better rates. Successfully doing so might allow the IPA to attract more primary care physicians to Chico. In a perfect world, providing primary care wouldn’t be such a hard sell, Bishop said. After all, it can be a rewarding field. “I enjoy the contact with patients and entire families, looking after them for many years and doing my best for them,” he said. “But sometimes I feel like I spend half my

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shares a building with Enloe Prompt Care off Bruce Road, is staffed by two physicians new to Chico. (Smith said he was able to recruit them through “dumb luck” more than anything.) Based on the number of appointments in the first week, he believes it will be operating at max capacity within two months—despite not having advertised at all. Further, Smith is already planning on opening two similar clinics, another in Chico and one in the Paradise area. He said he’ll open the second Chico clinic as soon as he’s able to staff it. Indeed, now that he’s established an infrastructure—including an electronic health record system on a cloud server that allows doctors at any of Smith’s clinics to access patient files—opening new clinics is purely a matter of recruiting primary care physicians. He knows as well as anyone that it won’t be easy. “But I got very frustrated and tired of seeing nobody do anything about primary care in Chico,” he said. “We can’t just sit here and watch this train run off the end of the track, because that’s where it’s going.” Ω

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to assume payments for a vehicle you didn’t choose versus the windfall of one that’s fully paid off. “I think solar’s awesome,” she said, “but the next person may not, and may not want it, and then it’s more of a deterrent … if it comes with a payment.” As far as roofing issues go, SolarCity per-

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ly. “If it sounds too good to be true,” she says, “usually it is.” So, when a series of solar-system representatives came through her Chico neighborhood, Widlund found herself intrigued by the notion of leasing panels to generate power for her home. She just wasn’t ready to jump into a 20-year commitment without deep reflection. “It’s kind of a can of worms, in my opinion, if you’re not asking all the right questions,” she said. For example: What if she and her husband sell their home? They may well do that in a few years, because they’d like a place with more space for their hobbies and ventures now that they are semi-retired. Even if they don’t sell, what happens if they need to re-roof? These are a few of the things she asked the salespeople. “You’ve got these issues that are popping up that I don’t think people are thinking about ahead of time,” Widlund said. “Some people, especially young people, they’re naïve, and until you’ve lived a little bit of life, how do you know what questions to ask

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if you don’t know you should ask the questions?” Homeowners who want a solar-power system

for their home either can purchase (typically for between $9,000 and $30,000) or lease. Leases run $50 to $200 a month, and may come with two options: a flat fee that’s the same every month over the term of contract, or a power purchase agreement (PPA) under which the customer pays for the electricity consumed each month. “The value of a solar system is the power it produces,” said Jonathan Bass, vice president of communications for SolarCity, a solar system provider with an operation center in Chico. Leases/PPAs typically run 20 years, Bass said, with SolarCity owning the equipment and providing maintenance, repairs and insurance to the lessee. Most customers opt to lease “predominantly to eliminate upfront costs but also for the services we provide. People don’t necessarily want to own and maintain a power plant on their roof.” That contract remains in effect even if the lessee sells the home. In that case, either the new owner takes over the lease, or the old

Cost comparison:

A home solar system typically runs $9,000 to $30,000 to purchase, versus $50 to $200 per month to lease ($12,000 to $48,000 over 20 years).

owner buys it out. Bass said SolarCity handles one or two contract transfers a day, calling it “a simple and straightforward process.” There is a caveat, though: The solar company must approve the homebuyer for the lease. Bass says it’s no big deal, that “if you qualify for a mortgage, you’re going to qualify for a lease or PPA”—and that a buyer would need to apply with a utility company to get electrical service anyway. “We don’t hold up a home sale.” Alice Zeissler, president of the Chico Association of Realtors, says it’s not always that easy. Payments for a solar system lease count as debt, not expenses (like a utility bill does), so adding that amount on top of the mortgage has the potential to push a buyer out of the price range. “[A solar lease] can make it so they don’t have as much purchasing power,” Zeissler explained. “I do have a lot of clients where their debt-to-income ratio is kind of a fine line, and they don’t have a lot of room there to add more debt like the solar panels.” Bass said SolarCity has found 69 percent of its lessees who sold their homes determined the solar system actually increased the sale price. Zeissler says she does see solar as a positive selling point, when it’s been bought outright. “[But] a lease, I don’t know if I would say that,” she continued, comparing a leased solar system to a car in the garage—having

forms an inspection and recommends any required work get done before installation. Once the panels are up, Bass says they provide protection for the roof materials underneath. Should a re-roof become necessary, SolarCity will take down its equipment and put it back up for a fee of $499, which the company says it spells out in its contract. Finally, when the lease or PPA expires, the customer can renew it in five-year increments, purchase the system at depreciated value or have SolarCity remove the system at no cost. These details are good to know—and are why Widlund is such a stickler for specifics. For now, she hasn’t opted for a solar system, but neighbors have, and a house on her block with a leased solar system recently went up for sale. “You’ve got to ask questions,” Widlund advised. Ω

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A few years ago, I caught a wild hair, bought a sewing machine and some fabric and started to make things, mostly purses and totes. The satisfaction of turning a stretch of cotton into something else—something pretty and useful, even—was a little intoxicating. I started with store-bought patterns and then, after getting a feel for it, began to create my own. When a half-dozen projects turned into more than 20, I began to wonder what I was going to do with my creations. Everyone said Etsy was the way to go if I wanted sell them, so I labored over photos, descriptions, price points. After a month of no sales at my online shop, however, I became discouraged. Were my handmade bags not cute enough? Were they unfashionable? What was wrong with them that nobody wanted to buy them? Determined not to fail, I decided to look a little closer to home. I ended up at Konjo, the funky little retail/consignment shop on Second Street near Naked Lounge. I walked all my bags over and presented them to one of the owners, Kirk Johnson. And a bit to my surprise, he liked what he saw. We set up a consignment deal and my purses were hung on racks inside his store. Most of them even sold. Browsing the shelves, I noticed I wasn’t the only one around town with a creative bug—I spied everything from funky hair clips to feather earrings to full-on gowns. Konjo isn’t the only shop that’s fostering that creativity. Most obviously, there’s Made in Chico (between Main and Broadway on Third Street), whose name says it all. And a few blocks south on Main Street there’s Three Sixty Ecotique, which sells cool fashions by Chico designers. I stopped in recently to check out the offerings and, as usual, found a great selection of fun clothing and jewelry. One of the local designers whose stuff I’ve seen around town—most recently at Three Sixty Ecotique—and love is Chicoan Amy Waltz (www.amywaltz.com). Her hammered metals and use of stones (I’m a sucker for turquoise, which she uses a lot) are stylish and a bit bohemian. There’s nothing quite like wearing a one-of-a-kind piece, and the fact that these are all made by hand contribute to their unique charm. There’s also Hobo Chic Designs, created by Orovillian Samira Morrar. Her bold use of metals like copper and wire-wrapped stones and crystals is enough to make me want to go home, break out my craft box and try to make something beautiful. These fun shops are integral to Chico’s charm and are part of the funky allure of our downtown. And the fact that someone like me—who hadn’t sewn a thing since a summer sewing class when I was 14—could get my bags in a local shop window was pretty neat. All it really took was a desire to create and the motivation to get my stuff out there. It’s been a while since I’ve sewn anything to sell, so these days I just browse the racks and shelves at local stores to see what has inspired my fellow Chicoans. I’m so thankful that this town’s shop owners—and customers, of course—appreciate locally made fashions and can only hope the trend continues.

The alternate bike universe Greg de Gouveia, 37, is a kind of bicycle mad scientist. In July he finished a grueling 2,900-mile bike ride from Canada to Mexico in 29 days, averaging 95 miles per day. But his specialty is building elaborate, oneof-a-kind bikes and bike art, from the practical to the absurd. He’s built a 6-foot-tall tricycle, a full kitchen-equipped bike, and even a 20-foot-long, four-person, pedalpowered “lizard” with swiveling head and tail. You’ve probably seen (and maybe ridden) his aweinspiring creations at Burning Man or in Chico at the Parade of Lights, the Seersucker Ride or the Tweed Ride. He works out of his Conceptulight warehouse at 11088 Midway Ste. B, or find him online at www.ConceptuLight.com.

Why do you build your wild, “fun” bikes? Mostly for artistic sake and the joy of seeing others ride them. I also like the challenge of doing different things. I’ve seen lots of bikes, but never ones with car tires, or three-wheelers that can go 30 miles per hour.

What are some of your more notable ones? “The Kitten” is a yellow bike with two car tires that really turns heads. The “Peackock” is a tricycle that’s 6 feet tall with a two-person platform on the back. I get a kick

riding it and seeing the shocked looks from drivers of jacked-up trucks when I pull up higher than them at stop lights. Another of my tricycles is only 10 inches tall and is like a Big Wheel but with rubber tires that can fly down the road.

Which businesses have you built bikes for? I built the pedal-powered generator that amplifies the music at the annual Chico Bicycle Music Festival, and the bike cart for Chico Chai, which sells teas at the Thursday Night and Saturday farmers’ markets. I also built a bike kegerator for Chico Natural Foods, and the soup bike for Cycle City Soup Co. One of my biggest projects was the original Bike Kitchen that does cooking demonstrations at the Saturday farmers’ markets. My original had a canopy, propane stove, refrigerator and water pump, but they now use a second, newer version.

Why do you think you get so much business? I’m the only one who can take their vague, basic concept, fill in the blanks and actually build it.

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What’s your main job? I’m a fabricator or artist who does custom metal work. Before this I owned Chico Pedi Cab for 10 years, but it got old dealing with drunks all the time, plus I do my art more effectively at night.

Did you take more than one bike to Burning Man? Oh, yes. I’ve taken a dozen of them to Burning Man over 12 years. People really have a blast with them there.

What’s that big, circular structure outside made of bikes? That’s a giant clock I built using 12 old bikes that actually keeps real time by spinning the pedals on one of the bikes. It’s called “Time to Change” and was featured in Popular Mechanics in 2013. It’s 13 feet in diameter and uses 27 bike chains to turn the bikes, as well as the 5-foot-long hour, minute and second hands. I built it to display at the 2011 Wildflower bike ride. —VIC CANTU

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hat’s happened to downtown Chico? Hordes of homeless people wander the streets, their faces reflected in the windows of vacant storefronts. They hang out at City Plaza, in some cases scaring away shoppers. Check out the vacancies on the south side of Third Street, between Wall and Main, where only one of the five storefronts houses a business. On the corner of Third and Main, the Jimmy Jack’s Rib Shack sign still hangs on the building, but the restaurant has long been gone, as has the neighboring Gina Marie’s Italian restaurant. Stroll down the sidewalk toward Fourth Street, and see how the building that once housed the Towne Lounge and The Underground sits vacant behind a black chainlink fence designed to keep the transients from bedding down there.

A few steps away, the furniture and home décor store that occupied the first floor of the Grand View building at Third and Main is gone, as is the Fashion Lounge near Second and Main. And as for the downtown parking situation … Welcome to the Chico News & Review’s semi-regular look at the constantly changing face of downtown. The description above certainly sounds alarmist, but the fact is, while a number of prominent spaces are empty, the region remains a vibrant business sector. According to numbers released in April by the Downtown Chico Business Association, the estimated first-floor retail vacancy rate for downtown Chico is 7 percent, less than the estimate for city as a whole (9 percent) as well as that of the nation (11 percent). Sales tax receipts are up 1.5 percent from the last quarter of the fiscal year and up 29 percent since they bottomed out in 2009. The city’s transient occupancy taxes—those charged by hotels and motels—are up 2.8 percent over a year ago. Two stores that vacated downtown last year, Betty’s on Broadway and Katie’s Corner, have been replaced with new tenants, a clothing store and consignment shop, respectively. Other new businesses that have come downtown include Denine’s Cupcakes on Broadway between First and Second streets, the B Street Oyster Co. directly across the street, and Wanderful Media on Broadway between Third and Fourth. To get a handle on what is going on downtown, we checked in with a number people who have an insider’s view, a vested interest, or both. Here’s what they had to say about downtown Chico, including the issues of homelessness, parking and business in general. Melanie Bassett became executive

director of the Downtown Chico Business Association in July of last year. The DCBA, as its name would indicate, serves to promote and encourage downtown retail. She formerly worked for Tri-Counties Bank and before that worked with nonprofit organizations. “I love the downtown and that was the

impetus for applying for this position,” she said in a recent interview. “It seemed like there was an opportunity to elevate this organization and what we are doing, and it was time to revitalize our downtown as well.” While her job is to promote the area, the articulate Bassett comes across as genuine when expressing her views. She says she believes the downtown is in much better health than most people might think. “We have what hovers around 450 businesses downtown,” she said. “There is a lot of discussion about what should be the balance. There are those who would like so see more retail, but we have these satellite tech companies calling and making inquiries about being downtown, rather than out at the airport.” (See a breakdown of business type on page 21.) Those types of businesses include Wanderful Media. “They are there 24 hours a day with a younger population,” she said of the company. Bassett explained that Wanderful, formerly named Travidia and located at the airport, has an app program called Storefront that guides its users to deals being offered in local stores. Another app called FindnSave encourages people to buy locally rather than online by telling customers in stores what is on sale within that particular business. “They will also come out and help businesses set those connections up and so we are getting that message to our downtown merchants,” Bassett said. A new restaurant called Crepeville is coming to town thanks to the owner of Burgers & Brew, she said. The new place will be located in the green wooden box of a building that sits at the southeast corner of Third and Broadway. “It is such a cool spot and it will have outside dining,” she said. “Outside dining has helped a lot downtown. It’s something the city did by making some [zoning] allowances. Every time I turn the corner Tres Hombres is packed and that makes me happy. There is a lot going on down here.” Bassett, like a number of others interviewed for this story, said the perceived downtown parking problem is greatly exaggerated.

Left: Melanie Bassett, executive director of the DCBA, says she is confident that downtown Chico will retain its economic health. Right: That confidence is shared by Bob Summerville, a longtime city planner.

“People don’t want to walk,” she said. “We are so spoiled here. It’s really going to take some education. But we have a great group working on it. We have good representation.” Bassett noted the number of spaces will increase with the ongoing project of installing diagonal parking along Flume Street. She said she hopes to get diagonal parking on Broadway and Main as well, a project that would eliminate one of the three lanes that currently run along those streets. Additionally, the City Council soon will be discussing the installation of so-called smart meters. As for the homeless, she mentioned the

R-Town Downtown Coalition that created the Downtown Ambassadors and the Jesus Center Cleanup Brigade, programs the DCBA took charge of six months ago. Those two groups welcome downtown patrons and keep the sidewalks clean. When first launched last November, there was a third component made up of a private armed-security firm out of Yuba City that patrolled the downtown during the holidays. “Sometimes when a crisis happens, good things come out of it,” Bassett said, referring to the downtown transient situation. “I think we are doing OK, but obviously there are people in the community who say, ‘I’m not coming downtown anymore.’” She said she thinks the problem is not as ghastly as it’s been in the past. “It’s not going to change overnight and we all have to be working together,” she said. “I think the biggest thing is trying to change

the face of homelessness so that it isn’t a matter of ‘We just need to get rid of these people.’” Bob Summerville is a senior planner

who’s worked for the city since 1992 and has had an eye on the downtown for a pretty long stretch. Overall, he says, there has been an improvement in downtown storefronts. “What I think has been a good shot in the arm are the outdoor dining patios, which we are seeing a lot of,” he said. “Our new code in the general plan encourages that. It started with Tres Hombres, Celestino’s [Pizza] was the second, and then Mom’s [Restaurant].

We’re going to see a fourth where Crepeville is going in. While they take away a parking space, they add to the charm.” Summerville said there’s actually been a net gain in parking spots with the installation of the diagonal spaces along Flume. As for the businesses downtown, he noted the increase in the number of consignment shops. “The second-hand stores were limited until we redid the zoning code last year,” he said. “Now, second-hand stores that are 2,500 square feet or less are permitted downtown in the north district.” The north downtown district comprises the area that runs from First Street down to Fifth between Wall and Salem streets. Summerville said the south downtown, the area from Fifth to Ninth streets, is also seeing some resurgence. “That is what the city wanted to see when we went through the general plan process,” he said. “From Café Coda and Lulu’s up to Nantucket, and over to the Winchester Goose and 1078 Gallery. Our new general plan has a downtown element: a dedicated chapter, which has some wonderful policies.” Mid-block on the south side of Second

Street, between Main and Broadway, is Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works, owned by longtime downtown businessman Scott Schulman and partner Peter Horylev. Schulman’s first business in Chico was the Oy Vey Bagel Co., also in downtown. He opened that popular spot in 1979. Schulman also purchased LaSalles Bar in the mid-1990s and began catering to a “DOWNTOWN” continued on page 22

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younger crowd than the one that had frequented the popular former fern bar for so long. Problems facing the downtown—transients, homeless and parking—were all well-documented even at that time, he said. “This is nothing new; it’s just a de-evolution,” he said. “You have better media coverage of it with the Internet and all, but I don’t think that much has changed. We had the same issues in the ’90s with Hey Juan’s across the street. You couldn’t get through on the sidewalks because of what some people would consider unsavory types. Right now, it’s better than it was last year.” Parking has always been an issue downtown and probably always will be, he said. “In years gone by there were concerted efforts to keep employees from parking in front of their place of business. We gave out coins to people to feed the meters. There have been various attempts to change the perception of downtown parking,” he said. “You park farther away at the mall. Parking downtown is not that tough. I do it all the time. It’s all perception and that [$29] ticket doesn’t help.” What is the secret to success in running a downtown business? “If I was successful I’d be on a beach in Rio de Janeiro,” he joked. “The secret is to know your clientele, provide good service and good product at a fair price. … I’ve been on this block for 34 years and I never get tired of the downtown. I look forward to my shifts. That is probably the biggest part of success— love what you are doing.” If Schulman is an old-school Chico

business owner, then Sebastian Tamarelle is of the new school. He and his business partner, Will Brady, recently opened the B Street Oyster Co. on Broadway next to Collier Hardware after extensive upgrades to the inside of the building. It is the duo’s second

“I’ve been on this block for 34 years and I never get tired of the downtown.” –Scott Schulman, co-owner of Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works

venture in downtown. Seven years ago, they opened The Banshee on Second Street, in the spot formerly occupied by Stormy’s Off Broadway. Tamarelle was born in Chico and raised here until he turned 14 and moved to Grass Valley. He received a scholarship to Brandeis University, which is just outside Boston, where he met Brady. “Will caught wind that I was interested in moving back to my hometown and opening a bar,” Tamarelle said. “He Googled Chico and saw it was a cool spot and said, ‘Let me know if you do that.’ One thing led to another and eventually I brought Will out here.” He said the two gutted Stormy’s to create a new bar. “We spent every hour we had doing it,” he said. Tamarelle said the success comes from filling a niche that was missing in the downtown—a nice bar with good food. “When we first came to town with our idea, people told us we were crazy because Chico’s got a million bars,” he said. “We just took it to a different level where we do really good food with a bit of thought behind it. You pay a bit more,

“We are at the point where we are trying to call the police once in a while to try to get them to scoot people along, but they don’t really care about it.” –Sebastian Tamarelle, co-owner of B Street Oyster Co. and The Banshee

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but now we have a good following with loyal, loyal customers.” He said B Street, which opened in March, also fills a void. “People are still finding us, and we are growing slowly,” he said. The issues with the homeless and transient community do affect the bar, he said. “There are always a couple of people parked out on the sidewalk or digging through the trash or just wandering back and forth and there doesn’t seem to be anything being done about it. We are at the point where we are trying to call the police once in a while to try to get them to scoot people along, but they don’t really care about it,” Tamarelle said. Parking, he said, is not a problem. “When I come downtown, I park three blocks away,” he said. “Chico is such a bikefriendly town and you can walk from just about anywhere to get here. So it really is not that bad. It is congested right downtown, but if you are willing to skip driving around the block for five minutes and just park and walk, you are there in the same amount of time.” Downtown property owner David

Halimi has lived in Chico since 1979 and sat on the DCBA executive board for more than a decade. Halimi, who came to the U.S. from Iran in 1969 at the age of 16, owns several buildings, including the one that houses his business, Diamond W Western Wear on Second Street. He owns the old Chevy’s building that houses Burgers & Brew, Crush and Jamba Juice, as well as four other buildings housing Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Lyon Books, Wanderful Media and Pluto’s. “I don’t have any vacancies right now and in the past when I did, it hasn’t been that difficult to lease them,” he said. “Sometimes you have to do a bit work to get it rentable, just like the whole refurbishment we did at the 325 Broadway for Wanderful.” Halimi said vacancies often occur not because of a lack of interest but rather due to a failure of the property owner to make the place suitable for a potential renter. “I think the perfect example is the old Chevy’s building,” he said. “It sat vacant for five years and then, once I got involved, it took a couple of years to get it full. Not because it was a bad location—it was a prime

location in Chico, but it was too big for the type of tenants who tend to come downtown. They tend to be small mom-and-pop-type businesses and so the solution was to separate the two spaces, the upstairs and downstairs. It took understanding what the problem was and solving it.” He said working with the city is for the most part positive and fruitful. “I think the city really does work very hard to get things done with property owners,” he said. “And I understand that they have certain limitations and regulations that they have to abide by. My experience with them in that regard has been great.” Like others with downtown investments, Halimi also says parking is not a problem. He said, however, that the homeless issue does have a negative affect on business. “I think that it does discourage and distract some shoppers,” he said. “Particularly the older ones; they feel uncomfortable coming downtown. So having more police presence would be good, but I certainly understand the limitations there.” Halimi helped start the R-Town Downtown Coalition with the private security force. He said he’s glad the ambassadors and cleanup components of the program are still active. “The next step is to bring back the private security,” he said. “I think that will give people a certain comfort level to come downtown. The city police presence downtown would be the first choice, but you don’t always get your first choice. They have their own challenges.” Budd Schwab, owner of Campus

Bicycles, is just beginning his third term as president of the DCBA’s board of directors. He’s had a bike shop downtown for the past 32 years, having moved to his current spot at Fourth and Main a dozen years ago. Schwab, who is married to Chico City Councilwoman Ann Schwab, pulls no punches when talking about downtown’s problems. His shop is just across the street from City Plaza, where many homeless people and transients hang out. “We have a $4.2 million plaza that we don’t use,” he said in a recent interview at the plaza. “There is a safety issue involved, there’s a cleanliness issue. I’ve been involved in the Clean and Safe movement since it began. We have people from the Torres Shelter, people from the Jesus Center, Behavioral Health, the 6th Street Drop-In Center and the DCBA. I’m proud to be part of that, but we just don’t know what we can really do.” He said the recently passed sit/lie ordinance is unenforceable because of a short-handed police department. The law says—with the exception of babies in

strollers, those using wheelchairs and those who are having a medical emergency—no one shall sit or lie on a downtown sidewalk. “We have a liberal City Council, a very wealthy student body and a micro police department,” Schwab said. He acknowledged that the homeless community includes people with drug-addiction and mental-health issues and even those who’ve lost their mortgage. “But there is this middle group, and I would guess it’s 50 percent for which it’s a lifestyle choice,” he said. “I don’t get panhandled, but I hear it is still going on. I don’t know if they see it in me and just don’t approach me, but it’s just the general population that’s not good for downtown retail.” He said the downtown needs to be more vibrant and generate more sales tax revenue to hire more police officers. “I’m seeing the quality of the storefronts

David Halimi owns Diamond W Western Wear as well as a number of downtown properties. PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. GRAHAM

so people are putting a lot of energy into it,” he said. “The ingredients are there for a really great downtown, but I don’t know what the solution is with this transient situation.”

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remains optimistic about the city’s future. “The DCBA and the Chamber of Commerce are working together,” she said, referring to a relationship that has had a bit of a rocky past. “We are working on getting public safety to where it needs to be. In the meantime, the [Downtown] Ambassadors are doing a great job. “We are doing OK on vacancies. It was somewhat surprising to learn that sales tax revenue was up. Our downtown is our jewel in Chico, so we have to take care of it.” Ω

The building on the left, which sits at Third and Broadway, is the future home of a restaurant called Crepeville.

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“I’ve been on this block for 34 years and I never get tired of the downtown.” –Scott Schulman, co-owner of Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works

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David Halimi owns Diamond W Western Wear as well as a number of downtown properties. PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. GRAHAM

so people are putting a lot of energy into it,” he said. “The ingredients are there for a really great downtown, but I don’t know what the solution is with this transient situation.”

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Arts & Culture Megan Briggs and Matt Gunnison throw down in Show Down!

Return flight

PHOTO BY BILL SCHROEDER

Below: The original Thunderbird Theatre Company gathered on a San Francisco stoop in 1998. PHOTO COURTESY OF THUNDERBIRD THEATRE COMPANY

Chico ex-pats bring Thunderbird Theatre production to Blue Room some members of the San FranciscoFtheirorbased Thunderbird Theatre Company, appearance at the Blue Room The-

atre next weekend (Aug. 22-23) is more than just a whistle-stop in a strange town; it’s a homecoming a decade by Ken Smith in the making. The troupe’s local kens@ roots run to its incepnewsreview.com tion 16 years ago by four Chico ex-pats— PREVIEW: Thunderbird Bryce Allemann, Theatre Company Kathy Hicks, Martin presents Chavira and Christy Show Down! , Gomez—looking to Friday & Saturday, carve their niche in Aug. 22 & 23, 10:30 p.m., at San Franciso’s theater the Blue Room scene. Ever since, the Theatre. Thunderbird group has Tickets: $10 been a haven for Chico thespians who’ve Blue Room made their way to the Theatre 139 W. First St. Bay. 895-3749 “In the beginning www.blueroom there were a bunch of theatre.com us who had lived in www.thunderbird Chico, who’d either theatre.com gone to school or grew up [there] ... and we finally stopped talking about doing something together and started the Thunderbird,” said Allemann, who remains a part of the group with his wife, Hicks. The couple first met while working at KCHO public radio, which was then located on the Chico State campus in the basement of Meriam Library. “Back then there were at least nine or 10 active theater companies in Chico,” Allemann continued, listing some nowdefunct names like C.I.A. (Chico Independent Actors), Plank and a Passion, and the Cosmic Travel Agency, which eventually morphed into the Blue Room Theatre. “It was such an active and supportive community that we wanted to emulate what we’d experienced in Chico in San Francisco. “The Blue Room’s focus on original works is what inspired us to exclusively do new, original works by local writers,” he continued. “We were basically tired of seeing stuff in San Francisco that just didn’t entertain us.” Thus the troupe began, its name 24

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inspired by the iconic Thunderbird Lodge sign in downtown Chico. In the early days, the group returned often to share its new shows, but there hasn’t been a Thunderbird Theatre production in Chico in 10 years, since 2004’s Lusty Booty. This time around, the Bay Area-based players will perform Show Down!, a play written by Allemann, Hicks and two S.F. playwrights, Claire Rice and Christine McClintock. The screwball comedy, which Allemann said is part soap opera and part classic workplace melodrama, takes place in the studios of KRAP, the world’s last live television studio. The head of the station dies, leaving its two top producers—traditionalist heroine Beth and digital-ageobsessed, steampunk hipster Commodore—to duke it out for control of the station. Along the way, kale, love triangles, cheese theft, and something called the iPlan play a part in the conflict. Allemann said that, though the play is over-the-top and intentionally ridiculous, it contains a fair amount of commentary on the state of technology and entertainment, a pertinent topic to live theater. “Here we are doing live theater, which movies were supposed to kill a long time ago,” he said. “Then television was supposed to kill movies; radio is largely a thing of the past; and now everyone’s streaming everything. You can watch or listen to whatever you want on your own schedule, which makes it more difficult than ever to get people to come see live theater.” Allemann said the Thunderbird Theatre group averages a single production a year: “We’re all unpaid and there’s a lot of work involved and money spent for at least three months straight,” he said of the schedule. “Plus, since we focus on original works, we like to take the time

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THURS

Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: The market is back with fresh produce, local food, arts and crafts, plus live entertainment. This Week: Full Force Dance Company, a hula-hoop performance from Meg Amor, and soulful acoustic pop from Kyle Williams. Th, 6-9pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

Music ROBBEN FORD & THE FORD BROTHERS BAND: Bluesman Robben Ford and his group–Volker Strifler on guitar, Mark Ford on harp, Dewayne Pate on bass and Patrick Ford on drums--take over the Big Room. Th, 8/14, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

WADE BOWEN: Texas-based country singer/songwriter with special guest

Sean McConnell. Th, 8/14, 8:30pm. $12. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

Theater MISS NELSON IS MISSING: The kids in room 207 are faced with a mystery

to develop the scripts and the production.” Allemann and Hicks are the only founders still with the Thunderbird (Chavira has since moved back to Chico and is the Blue Room’s current artistic director, and Gomez lives overseas), but several other Chicoans are still involved, even from younger generations—Show Down! features 21-year-old Chico native Zane Barrett in his first play ever. When the Thunderbird crew rolls into town (Allemann expects about 20 cast and crew members to make the trip), they’ll take up residence at the motel that serves as their namesake for their twoday engagement. “We’re excited to give the actors who grew up [in the Bay Area] in the fog an idea of what real heat is, take them swimming in Upper Park, and then everyone usually gets excited when they realize Chico is where Sierra Nevada is from and we’ll head to the brewery,” Allemann said. “Chico is just fantastic, and I can’t express how happy we are to come back after all this time.” Ω

when their kind teacher Miss Nelson goes missing. Join the class, an insane detective and a clueless principal as the kids try to put it all together in this Young Company production Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 8/23. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

PAGEANT PLAY: Welcome to the world of Texas child beauty pageants, where bouffant curls mask depravity. The independent director/producer team Alyssa Larson and Autumn Jay have been working with The Barn to bring this dark comedy to Lost on Main. Th-Su, 7pm through

ALMOND BREW INAUGURAL BREWFEST Saturday, Aug. 16 Parking lot behind Riley’s Bar

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS Art CHIKOKO TRUNK SHOW Saturday, Aug. 16 Great State Coffee Co.

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

SUN

Music FOR THE FUNK OF IT: See Friday. Belden Town Resort & Lodge, 14785 Belden Town Rd., (530) 283-9662, www.ftffest.com.

8/22. $10. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 8911853.

PAGEANT PLAY: See Thursday. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: Stage version of the classic, light-hearted movie musical about Hollywood in the 1920s. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 8/17. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

FRI

Special Events FORK IN THE ROAD: Fifteen of Chico’s food trucks in one great location. Plus, beer and margaritas, lots of shade, live music by The Chuck Epperson Band, and a playground for the kids. F, 8/15, 5:30-8:30pm. Free. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave., (530) 343-5617.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Downtown Chico’s summer music series continues with ska/pop/alt-rock with Quasimofos. F, 8/15, 78:30pm. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

Art Receptions AQUA VITA: A reception for the mixed-media group show featuring new works from local artists. F, 8/15, 4-8pm. Sally Dimas Art Gallery, 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

ALL MEDIA NATIONAL SHOW: New art in various media from all over the U.S., chosen by Dr. Scott Shields of the Crocker in Sacramento. Awards to be given during reception. F, 8/15, 5-7pm. Free. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

Music FOR THE FUNK OF IT: Get down with Northern California’s funk festival on the Feather River. Featuring Jelly Bread, The Nibblers, Moksha, Mojo Green, ZuhG, Swamp Zen, and many more. 8/15-8/17. $65-$75. Belden Town Resort & Lodge, 14785 Belden Town Rd., (530) 2839662, www.ftffest.com.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

SAT

Special Events ALMOND BREW: A benefit for local football programs with more than 25 different beer samples, plus food and music. In the parking lot behind Riley’s. Sa, 8/16, 3-7pm. $40. Riley’s, 702 W. Fifth St., (530) 343-7459, www.rileysbar.com.

CHIKOKO POP-UP TRUNK SHOW: Chikoko and Great State Coffee Company host a pop-up trunk show with hand-made goods, live music and prizes. Sa, 8/16, 6-10pm. Great State Coffee Company, 3881 Benetar Way STE C.

DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

Theater MISS NELSON IS MISSING: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

PAGEANT PLAY: See Thursday. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

Music FOR THE FUNK OF IT: See Friday. Belden Town Resort & Lodge, 14785 Belden Town Rd., (530) 283-9662, www.ftffest.com.

Theater MISS NELSON IS MISSING: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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LAURIE MORVAN BAND Tuesday, Aug. 19 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE TUESDAY, MUSIC

Theater PAGEANT PLAY: See Thursday. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TUES

Music LAURIE MORVAN BAND: Blues-rock with smokin’ guitarist Laurie Morvan and company. Tu, 8/19, 7:30pm. $18.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room,

1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

Poetry/Literature AUTHOR PRESENTATION: A book signing with Suzanna Strisower, as she present her book, 111 Inspirational Life Purpose Quotes and Exercises to Find Your Purpose in Life. Tu, 8/19, 8pm. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 8913338, www.lyonbooks.com.

1078 GALLERY: Dirty Laundry, a fundraiser show featuring discarded clothing re-purposed into innovative works of art. 8/14-9/6. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Historic Heart and

Arteries, Chico Icons group exhibition showcases mixed-media works from over thirty local artists. Through 8/30. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: All-Media Art Show, the Chico Art Center hosts its annual national all-media art show, with guest juror Dr. Scott Shields of The Crocker in Sacramento. 8/15-8/12. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO PAPER CO.: California Rivers, Jake

Early’s latest series. Through 8/30. New Works, copper, a palette of greens, blues and browns, plus Chico’s own Sierra Nevada Brewery hop fields are inspiration for Jake Early’s new work. Through 9/30. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chico papercompany.com.

HAS BEANS INTERNET CAFE & GALLERIA: Dance

With Me, new acrylic and mixed media paitnings from Diane Siguenza. Through 8/31. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Jane King a Northern California artists touched by cancer showcases her paintings. Through 10/9. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:

Bidwell Park Series, Betty O’hare showcases new paintings inspired by Bidwell Park. 8/14-8/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 3432930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Aqua Vita Water of Life, a mixed-media group art show featuring new works from local artists. Through 9/2. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: New Works, oil, pastels and chrcoal landscapes from artist Julie Albertie. Th, 8/14. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

WINCHESTER GOOSE: Meow Meow, a summer showcase featuring watercolors from local artist Sea Monster. Ongoing. 800 Broadway St., (530) 715-0099, www.thewinchester goose.com.

Call for Artists POSTER CONTEST: Submit drawings and designs for the upcoming season of show posters at Theatre on The Ridge. See website for more details. Ongoing. 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. Ongoing. Changing California, journey through geological and ecological transformations in Northern California. Ongoing. $3-$6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Laundry Exhibit, laundry devices ranging from the late-1800s glass washboards to a classic Kenmore wringer washer from the 1940s. The exhibit includes irons, vintage linens and clothing. Ongoing. Opens 8/14. 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: a railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 8771919.

WED

Music DIRTY ROTTEN IMBECILES: Thrash OG’s DRI mosh down memory lane with Angerhead, We The Persons, Fight Music and The Oisters. W, 8/20, 7pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 34

Kiddie lit live There’s more to be said for children’s literature than many adults realize. Authors like Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein— and more recently, J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket—hold a permanent place in our collective subconscious that can (thankfully) never be shaken. The Blue Room Theatre Young Company’s adaptation of EDITOR’S PICK the Harry Allard and James Marshall classic Miss Nelson is Missing, premiering tonight (Thursday, Aug. 14), should be a great outing for children and adults alike.

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

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

BELLY DANCE CLASS: Weekly belly dance with BellySutra. Tu, 7pm. $8. 100th Monkey Community Cafe, 642 W. Fifth St.

CHICO POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Monthly meeting hosted by the Chico Police Chief to discuss community issues. Third W of every month, 5:30-7pm. Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1877 Hooker Oak Ave., (530) 342-7777.

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit. Call for more info. Tu, 6:308:30pm. $10. Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

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drummers and dancers welcome. W, 5:307pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.,

(808) 757-0076.

WELLNESS RECOVERY ACTION PLAN CLASS: An eight week course on learning to live with mental illness. Sa, 1:30pm through 9/13. Free. Iversen Center, 492 Rio Lindo Ave.

WORLD DANCE: Classes offered through CARD offering line, circle and partner dances from around the world. No partner needed. Th, 7pm. $7. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.chicorec.com.

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

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

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH Every Sunday Dorothy Johnson Center SEE COMMUNITY

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

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

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

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

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

SLOW THEATRE: Youth theater camp with instructor Jeanne Christopherson, plus a culminating performance at The Butcher Shop. Register online. Through 8/23. $125. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524, www.chicorec.com.

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TRADITIONAL WEST-AFRICAN DANCE: All levels of

open dance with the elements. F, 6-8pm. $6-$12 sliding scale. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 5321989.

welcome to sing in four-part harmony barbershop style. Call for more info. W, 7pm. Marigold Elementary School, 2446 Marigold Ave., (530) 343-5183.

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Vegetable Project returns with local and seasonal produce, a variety of herbs, flowers and vegetable starts. Located in the BMU Courtyard. W, 10am-1pm. Bell Memorial Union (BMU), 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 8984696, www.aschico.com.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly

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

For Kids CHILDREN STORY TIME SERIES: Reading events sponsored by Lyon Books. Every other Th, 3pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.lyonbook.com.

DAMSELS AND DRAGONS PARK TOUR: Dragonflies and Damselflies are top predators in the insect world. Learn about their aquatic and terrestrial existence, look at specimens in the lab and walk around Big Chico Creek for diversity samples. Sa, 8/16, 10-11:30am. $5$10. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

Volunteer ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY: Join the Butte County RCD and NRCS to help clean-up litter from our roadways. This month located at the intersection of Hwy 162 and Hwy 99. W, 8/20, 8-11am. Call for location, (530) 534-0112 ext. 125.

BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive-plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water-quality testing and more. Check Friends of Bidwell Park website for dates and locations. Ongoing. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

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

MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.

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Woodson Bridge State Recreation Area calls for a bolder, but still smooth, wine. Located outside Corning, the spot is popular for fishing, birding and camping, while the nature trails

wind through valley oaks and blackberry patches that would be at home with the fruity flavors of St. James Syrah of the New Clairvaux Vineyard—which is just a stone’s throw away. The towering oaks are overwhelming compared with the frolicking otters but a spicy—though still fruity—syrah is audacious enough to take on the grand scene. Unlike a zin, which may be too full-bodied, a syrah plays nicely with the wild blackberries plucked free of their thorny embrace from the bushes beside the trails. On a damp day—like those after a surprising summer rain—the red wine’s earthy musk mingles in the air with the sickly sweet smell of decaying detritus rising off the forest floor. Each sip draws the two in, the wine carrying the essence of the forest on crimson waves. And, if those or any other waves carry you to a place where you find yourself in need of an impromptu campout under the stars, a syrah’s drinkability means you can pour into night while sprawled under a sky so full of starlight that it dwarfs the surrounding mighty oaks and outshines the wine. The 3,670-acre Bidwell Park straddles Big Chico Creek,

is home to a simian outcropping, and was a filming location for Errol Flynn’s The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)—it’s a big park with a big attitude and a big rule about alcohol not being allowed. If there weren’t such a law, or if you indulged in advance of your hike, a go-anywhere, powerful barbera (even the name sounds worthy of Robin of Locksley)—perhaps one from Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards—would pack enough umph to get you up the Upper Park ridges, but this everyday wine won’t thumb its nose if you go ape standing atop Monkey Face. Keep a safe distance from bluff’s edge, and take in the grand views of Big Chico Creek Canyon. Sit and let the barbera grease your mind as it slips into canyon and cup alike. Listen for the repetitious raps of a woodpecker while the shadows of turkey vultures circle the grass-spotted rocky outcropping, and wrap yourself in the natural wonder. Your blood pumping with confidence, declare yourself one with nature and, in doing so, own its grandiose wonder. Ω

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t was exciting to stand next to the table full of art on IDirty submission day. The 1078 Gallery’s new exhibit, Laundry, wouldn’t open for a couple of days,

but standing in the gallery and talking to the artists as they dropped off their works turned story and out to be a good way to get a feel for photos by the project. Jason And, as luck would have it, the Cassidy first artist I talked to brought in a jasonc@ newsreview.com piece that neatly offered a jumpingoff point for discussing how one might approach the show’s premPREVIEW ise—“discarded clothing repurposed Dirty Laundry into innovative works of art.” shows Aug. 14Kara Bayma’s fairly straightforSept. 6, at the 1078 Gallery. ward piece, “Water Is the New Reception: Black,” was only the second work of Sept. 4, 6-8 p.m. art she’s ever shown. It’s basically a couple pieces of glass glued together 1078 Gallery to look like an aquarium, and inside 820 Broadway 343-1973 there are fish made out of just the www.1078 tags from old clothes (she wanted to gallery.org keep the garments intact so she could still donate them) plus a statistic spelled out at the bottom: “It takes 700 gallons [of water] to make one T-shirt.” “That’s a beautiful response to what we’re going for,” said Trevor Lalaguna, a Chico State art instructor and the 1078 Gallery volunteer who organized the show. The inspiration for Dirty Laundry came about a year ago while Lalaguna was driving on the freeway, he said. Off the side of the road he saw a clothesline in someone’s yard covered in laundry and what looked like an odd white sculpture next to the line. He couldn’t stop at the time, but upon returning down the same stretch of road, he pulled off to satisfy his curiosity and discovered that it was just three white shirts waiting in a pile. “What I look for in art is something that provokes curiosity,” he said. “I thought it would be cool to format a show based on that one glimpse.” So, with that three-shirt pile in mind, Lalaguna filled a bunch of “laundry bags” with three items of used clothing each. Some bags had matching pieces, some had clashing, and none of the artists who paid the $10 entry fee knew what was inside the bag of raw materials until after they had purchased it. Once you paid, you were guaranteed a spot in the show, with the 32

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understanding that whatever you created would have to include something from all three items in the bag and your piece had to be able to be hung from a clothesline. “I always wanted to do something that was a little more community-based at 1078,” Lalaguna said of the setup, which he compared to that of the open-entry shows at the now-defunct Manas Artspace, which also were instigated with prompts—colors, bags of junk, vinyl records, etc. These open shows tend to attract artists from a variety of backgrounds, and Lalaguna said that many of those who delivered works for this show had never shown their work, and some weren’t even regular artists. “I think that’s beautiful,” he said, excited that the spark of the show led to artistic creation and brought new artists into the fold. “You start a new community of conversation,” he added. And the community’s wide range of responses to the prompt (approximately half of the 40 bags purchased were resubmitted as art) will at the very least pique a curiosity as to what the items of clothing were before being transformed. Some made clothes from the clothes, like Sheryl Cummings, who fashioned a handsome “Voyeur’s Vest” (take free peeks behind the secret doors) out of a bikini top, a Super Mario shirt and a V-neck sweater. Others went way out there, like ceramicist Patti Lloyd, whose sweet, dark, candy-themed mobile, “Want Some Candy Little Girl,” hides its source material well. Sharon Nilsson, owner of the Funky Trunk vintage clothing store, augmented her bag with goodies from her own shop (including a pair of knee-high boots with zippers up the side that she made into sleeves) to create a wearable steampunk-looking outfit. After the initial look through the submissions, my favorite was probably “Feminalia Angus” by ceramicist Charlene Abinante. Using a bag full of men’s trousers, she sewed together a giant gray worm and then stuffed its mouth with a bunch of little ceramic worms. It’s gross, cuddly and wonderful. The reception won’t happen until Sept. 4 (at 6 p.m.), but there, a panel of judges will give out prizes (including gift certificates donated by local second-hand clothing boutiques—Funky Trunk, Boho and Yard Sale) for the top pieces in fun categories like “dirtiest” work and “most creative Ω use of material.” Pat Collentine drops off a collaborative piece (“USS Lollipop”) to the 1078 Gallery by him and his partner, Susan Larsen.

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CHEMICAL CLOCK: Hailing from Seattle, the dudes of Chemical Clock bring a mixture of electronic and rock. Local prog-rockers Avante Groove and Clouds on Strings open. M, 8/18, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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

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FOR THE FUNK OF IT: See Friday. Belden Town Resort & Lodge, 14785 Belden Town Rd., (530) 283-9662, www.ftffest.com.

HAPPY HOUR: Tough Love. Sa, 8/16. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

KENDRA MCKINLEY: Santa Cruz siren, jazz guitarist and pianist is joined by Geoff Baker and Michael Bone. Sa, 8/16,

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LEGENDS OF MOTOWN: Nathan Owens is backed by a seven-piece band performing hits from the Motown era. Sa, 8/16, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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Needs more spice Food-centric feel-good flick is pleasant but not very substantial

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

Opening this week Boyhood

The latest from Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, etc.) has received nearly universal critical praise for its story following the life of a boy from age 6 to 18. The movie was actually filmed in pieces over a 12-year period, following actor Eller Coltrane as he grew with his character. Also starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

The Expendables

Han Solo, Blade, Zorro, Frazier, a UFC champ, the Terminator, Rocky and Ivan Drago, plus a bunch of other old badasses form a band of mercenaries on a mission to take down a warlord. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Giver

In a peaceful but very gray dystopian future, the master plan of a government that controls the people by submerging their humanity is threatened when a teenage boy begins receiving vivid images from the past and sharing what he’s seen with those in the dull present. Starring Jeff Bridges, Taylor Swift and Meryl Streep. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Let’s Be Cops This one’s just right.

TisWith tasty but not very filling. its multicultural comedy and its culinary

he cinematic meal served by The Hundred-Foot Journey

romance among restaurateurs and chefs, it taps into the mini-trend that includes The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Ratatouille, by Juan-Carlos Slumdog Millionaire, etc., as well as such recent foodie niche hits as Chef Selznick and The Lunchbox. As such, it seems made-to-order for fans of those other films, even though the on-screen results here live up to those promises in only the most cursory ways. There is some real appeal, however, in the basic setup here. A refugee The Hundredfamily of Indian restaurateurs, Foot Journey Starring Helen the Kadams, moves into a picturMirren and Om esque French village and opens up Puri. Directed by Maison Mumbai, a grandLasse Hallström. looking Indian restaurant, just across Cinemark 14, the road from a Michelin-rated Feather River Cinemas and French restaurant, Le Saule Pleureur, Paradise Cinema run by the snooty Mme. Mallory 7. Rated PG. (Helen Mirren). A mildly impassioned rivalry develops between the two establishments, and between the two proprietors, the widowed Papa Kadam (an ebullient Om Puri) and Mme. Mallory, herself a widow. And there are other complications of note. Hassan (Manish Dayal), the eldest of the Kadam sons and a chef of special gifts, gets involved—romantically, professionally and otherwise—with Marguerite

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(Charlotte Le Bon), a comely sous chef working for Mme. Mallory. The two of them are, at various times, rivals, lovers and benign co-conspirators, and ultimately they are the key figures in bridging the gaps—cultural, national, professional—between the two restaurants and their respective crews. That relationship is in some ways the flip side of the Mallory/Papa coin, but Hassan in particular looms as the closest the film comes to having a heroic central protagonist. His journey away from and then back into the Mallory/Papa orbit is the final stage of the hit-and-miss process by which the story’s various dramas are resolved within what might be termed the Hassan/Marguerite orbit. The political violence that the Kadam family fled in Mumbai recurs briefly in France via a neo-fascist firebombing at Maison Mumbai, but the film is not particularly interested in history, politics, or human psychology, for that matter. The two incidents of violence are matters of narrative convenience: the one to get the Kadam family away from India and the other to provoke an easy moral reawakening in Mme. Mallory. But The Hundred-Foot Journey means above all to offer up a pleasant array of good feelings. It does that often enough that the presold audience for which it was made is not going to worry too much about the childish simplicity of the characterizations or the dull predictability of emotional scenes. Nevertheless, even with Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg taking the lead among the film’s producers, this is yet another movie in which the spirit of Disney seems both pervasive and reductive. Ω

Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. (both of New Girl) star in a buddy comedy about two dudes whose lives get out of hand when their bright idea of wearing cop uniforms in public draws them into more dangerous and wacky scenarios than they planned for. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Magic in the Moonlight

This year’s offering from writer/director Woody Allen is a comedy set in 1928 Europe and features Colin Firth as a popular magician who performs disguised as an Asian illusionist and who is hired to try and debunk a young woman (Emma Stone) claiming to be a clairvoyant. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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There’s much else on his film’s menu, but writer/director/star John Favreau is unmistakably the presiding spirit at the heart of this rollicking crowd-pleaser. Favreau plays Carl Casper, a Florida-based chef and gourmand given to robust tastes and adventurous cuisine. He’s also trying to be more of a father to young Percy (Emjay Anthony), who lives mostly with Carl’s exwife, Inez (Sofía Vergara). Renewed attention to family responsibilities becomes even more complicated when Carl has a falling out with the restaurant owner (Dustin Hoffman) who bankrolls his culinary endeavors. With a little help from a friendly assortment of old pals and former associates, Carl rebounds from these setbacks by setting up business in a refurbished food truck and taking it on the road, heading west from Florida, with Percy and longtime sidekick Martin (John Leguizamo) on board as his crew. There’s an amiable sort of predictability to most of this, and it may be only the prevailing spirit of rambunctious camaraderie that holds the story and its characters together. Pageant Theatre. Rated R. —J.C.S.

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Guardians of the Galaxy

If someone was gonna make a swell comic-book movie despite the aggressively calculating influence of both Disney and Marvel—it would be writer/director James Gunn. And yep, he did it. Gunn was writer of the better-than-the-original remake of Dawn of the Dead and he’s been a filmmaker to keep an eye on since graduating the Troma School of low-budget filmmaking, and wrote, produced and starred in The Specials, one of the first deconstructionist swipes at superheroes. The story here: Charming halfhuman/half-alien rogue Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) steals a MacGuffin and teams up with a band of misfits—including a foul-tempered talking raccoon and a sentient tree (voiced by Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, respectively)—to avert the destruction of the galaxy from some intergalactic dude. It’s kind of shambolic, but in a good way, and easily the most entertaining movie of the year, a delirious romp through the CGI cosmos. Gunn isn’t shy about wearing his influences on his sleeve, evoking the best aspects of the original Star Wars, Joss Whedon’s Firefly and all sorts of other fun stuff. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13. —C.B.

The Hundred-Foot Journey

See review this issue. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG. —J.C.S.

Into the Storm

A disaster flick about a group people documenting a frightening barrage of destructive tornadoes touching down in their small town. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Lucy

One way to watch this film is as the third section of an unofficial but weirdly beguiling Scarlett Johansson trilogy. She was the seductive voice of an operating system in Her and the fatally attractive human body assumed by a homicidal alien in Under the Skin. And now she’s a mind-blowing superpowered warrior woman in Luc Besson’s latest action fantasy. Besson’s script has Johansson’s Lucy as the unwitting recipient of an experimental drug that endows her with unimagined mental powers. She becomes the radically dynamic embodiment of the theories of a scientist (Morgan Freeman) who speculates authoritatively about what would happen should human beings start activating more than 10 percent of their brains’ capacity. In Besson’s hands, this becomes a flamboyantly pulpy mixture of trippy special effects, sub-Asian gunplay farce, and some facetiously cinematic pantheism. Oddball humor, some reflections on the future of human emotion, and Johansson’s vivid deadpan performance help ensure some lively entertainment amid the obvious silliness. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R. —J.C.S.

Step Up: All In

Once again in 3-D, film No. 5 in the Step Up franchise features an all-star collection of dancers from the previous films traveling to Vegas to battle sexily on the dance floor. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The four ass-kicking brothers are back in producer Michael Bay’s reboot of the Ninja Turtle film franchise, trying to save New York City from the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Nobody’s Smiling Common Def Jam Recordings Nobody’s Smiling, the 10th album from Chicago MC Common, gives fans a street-level view into the heart of the rapper’s hometown. Immediately vulnerable and poignant, James Fauntleroy’s opening lines of “The Neighborhood”—“Thousand lives ago/ When we were young and we didn’t know/ We were trading our crowns for our souls”—provide the haunting aural cue supporting the entire album. The LP was produced with longtime collaborator No I.D., and a minute in, the scene-setting “The Neighborhood” explodes to life with a cacophonous blast of driving bass, blaring brass, and strings while a sample of Curtis Mayfield’s “The Other Side of Town” flushes images of pot-holed streets drowning MUSIC in an eternal drizzle. And guest Lil Herb focuses on the gritty soul of south side lifers with the heartfelt: “Small crib/ big fam/ Momma working/ granny raised us/ No food in refrigerator/ I was banging/ pulling capers.” The first single, “Speak My Piece,” evokes a Max Headroom-esque Notorious B.I.G. in its effects-heavy chorus (“I just speak my piece”) and robotic beat. On it, Common hints at the city’s hypocritical identity as he vents braggadocious: “I’m iller than most/ sick with it/ Feeling the dose/ in the butter-soft leather/ but I’m still with the toast.” Nobody’s Smiling embodies and embraces the pulse of Chicago and Common is wearing the stethoscope. —Mazi Noble

Lotus Blossom Jeff Colella and Putter Smith Capri Records This seems to be an extraordinary year for extraordinary pianists, with new releases by veterans and new-to-me pianists nearly every month. Jeff Colella, for example, falls into both categories. He’s recorded three CDs with a trio since 1997, but has worked mostly under the radar, so to speak, with vocalists. Colella spent 16 years with Lou Rawls, until his death in 2006, and also worked with a raft of singers including Kenny Washington, Anita O’Day and Dolly Parton(!). Lotus Blossom finds him in a duet setting with Putter Smith, the superb bassist with whom he’s gigged for most of the past two decades in Los Angeles. Conceived as a compact and cohesive set of music, the album features Colella probing the work of Bill Evans (a major influence) with “Time Remembered” (an Evans original), and a playfully rendered “All Blues” from the landmark Kind of Blue album made when Evans was with Miles Davis. In his liner notes, guitarist Larry Koonse calls Smith the “Thelonious Monk of the bass,” and he’s very much an equal partner in the music whose lyricism matches Colella’s. The duo’s dreamy passion is achingly apparent on “The Very Thought of You,” Smith’s introspective “Desert Passes,” Colella’s lovely “Gone Too Soon” and the title track. Highly recommended.

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.indefinite. Stanley Ipkuss & Ewonee Thee Beatnik www.stanleyipkuss.bandcamp.com As early evening shadows grow, moods begin to perk up from underneath the stifling heat, and with indefinite, Stanley Ipkuss and Ewonee Thee Beatnik provide a musical score for your late summer haze. The aptly titled LP is a 14-track showcase of the beautiful synergy between New York-based beat producer Ewonee, and the Bay Area-based MC. A Chico State alum, Ipkuss impresses with laid back, buttery vocals reminiscent of Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest—but with a slight rasp. The album is an ode to summertime activities of skating, toking and (graffiti) bombing. Standout tracks include the opener, “SskpyInts,” on which Ipkuss bemoans the misspelling of his name by promoters, and Ewonee’s off-kilter beat is reminiscent of Madvillain’s classic Madvillainy. “Letters” features Bay Area-based Bukue One romanticizing graffiti culture; “Dopesick=\” recalls the tragic tale of an Ipkuss comrade lost to drug abuse; while “Presquevu__” features LuzID spitting crazy bars like “… drunk off of a love montage/ faces of mirages/ but you were not like some/ so with you I just saw some façade …” Full of rap and graffiti heavy-hitters, indefinite is a bicoastal celebration of hip-hop culture, and an album to close out your summer with style.

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CARPE DAMN! Longtime readers know that, of all of the art subjects Arts DEVO tries to cover in this column, he is most committed to shining a light on local artists bringing something new to the scene. It’s priority No. 1. So, with that in mind, I was stoked to learn recently that Alyssa Larson and Autumn Jay—who quietly put on a much-talkedabout production of the twisted Mr. Marmalade at Lost on Main last year—are returning to the nightclub (and its now much-bigger, better-lighted stage) to put on another bit of theater wildness, Pageant Play (Aug. 14-17 & 21-22, 7 p.m.). Between the two of them, Larson and Jay have likely worked with every theater outlet in the area, and for this comedy they’ve cast a mighty local pair—Erika Soerensen and Samantha Perry—as their leads, two beauty-pageant mothers battling for the tiara. When I asked Larson via email why she and Jay were opting to produce shows independently (as opposed to hooking up with an established local community theater), her three-part response was a pretty kickPageant Play at Lost on Main. ass illustration of what I’m always going on about (Larson’s italic answers are followed by my plain summations): There were several reasons. The first was that in all—or at least most—of the theaters we’d worked in, there was such an established status quo .… We wanted to break from that and make our own culture from scratch. Independent-minded, original artists … The second was that the sorts of shows we wanted to produce— dark, offbeat, unusual pieces for an adult audience—didn’t have a place to call home in Chico at that time. The Cabaret had just closed, there was no place for us at the Blue Room, and things like Uncle Dad[’s Art Collective] didn’t exist yet. … bringing something fresh into the world … The third reason we wanted to go it alone, honestly, was that we were pretty sure we could, and a lot of people were telling us we couldn’t. And that made us want to do it. … not waiting for permission to take the stage. Any young’uns just rolling into Chico with creative thoughts running through your heads, heed those words. Your time spent in college will be better for it. Chico will be better for it. Heck, your life will be richer and more fulfilling and the world more interesting for it. STILL MAKING THINGS HAPPEN Speaking of local fun makers, the punk-

rock collective that has kept the scene hot at Monstros Pizza for the past decade is changing its name—from Chico Area Pyrate Punx to simply Chico Area Punks. The deletion of the “Pyrate” from the name actually returns the local volunteer group back to its original moniker, as the members have decided to cut formal ties with the loosely connected worldwide network of punk-rock promoters. In a statement on their new Facebook page—www.facebook.com/ chicoareapunks—the local Punks give props to the efforts of the Pyrate Punx to support music and thanks for the experience and memories during their association. But recently, it’s become hard to reconcile the fact that the behavior of people in some of the Pyrate chapters ran counter to the Chico group’s long-held core values: “Keeping racism, sexism, homophobia or any other form of intolerance out of our scene, while encouraging creativity, cooperation and mutual respect.” The Punks close their statement by saying, “This will not change what we do or how we do it, and we continue to have love and respect for all our Pyrate brothers and sisters, but this change is necessary for us to continue to be true to ourselves.” Right on! Next up for the Punks at Monstros: Tonight (Aug. 14), Lemon Grove’s PSO, plus locals Badger, Criminal Wave and Gorilla X Monsoon. Tonight at Monstros!

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FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 14, 2014 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Research-

ers in Peru have recently tracked down many previously unknown varieties of wild cacao plants. What that means is that there are exotic kinds of chocolate that you and I have never dreamed of, and they will be commercially available within a few years. As delicious as your Chocolove Extra Strong Dark Chocolate bar may taste to you now, you will eventually journey further into a new frontier of ecstatic delectability. I propose that we use this theme as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of you right now. It is time for you to make good things even better—to take fun diversions and transform them into experiences that engender transcendent bliss. Turn “yes” into “yesss!!!!”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At your

next meal, imagine that the food you are eating is filled with special nutrients that enhance your courage. During the meal after that, fantasize that you are ingesting ingredients that will boost your perceptiveness. The next time you snack, visualize your food as being infused with elements that will augment the amount of trust you have in yourself. Then you will be ready to carry out your assignment for the coming weeks: Use your imagination to pump up your courage and perceptiveness as you carry out smart adventures that you haven’t trusted yourself enough to try before now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The leaves

and berries of the deadly nightshade plant are highly poisonous. If ingested, they cause delirium and death. On the other hand, a drug obtained from the same plant is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. It’s helpful in treating many illnesses, such as gastrointestinal and heart problems and Parkinson’s disease. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your life, Gemini? An influence that can either be sickening or healing, depending on various factors? I suspect that now is one of those times when you should be very focused on ensuring that the healing effect predominates.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A New

York doctor offers a service he calls Pokertox. Jack Berdy injects Botox into poker players’ faces so as to make their expressions hard to read. With their facial muscles paralyzed, they are in no danger of betraying subtle emotional signals that might help their opponents guess their strategy. I understand there might sometimes be value in adopting a poker face when you are in the midst of trying to win at poker or other games. But for the foreseeable future, Cancerian, I recommend the opposite approach. You’re most likely to be successful if you reveal everything you’re feeling. Let your face and eyes be as eloquent as they can be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When we are

launching any big project, our minds hide from us the full truth about how difficult it will be. If we knew beforehand all of the tests we would eventually face, we might never attempt it. Economist Albert O. Hirschman called this the principle of the “hiding hand.” It frees us to dive innocently into challenging work that will probably take longer than we thought and compel us to access new resources and creativity. To be clear: What’s hidden from us are not only the obstacles but also the unexpected assistance we will get along the way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The literal

meaning of the Swedish word smultronställe is “wild strawberry patch.” Metaphorically, it refers to a special place that feels like your private sanctuary. It may be hard to find or unappreciated by others, but for you, it’s a spot that inspires you to relax deeply. You might have had a life-changing epiphany there. When you’re in this refuge, you have a taste of what it’s like to feel at home in the world. Do you have a smultronställe, Virgo? If not, it’s time to find one. If you already do, spend extra time there in the coming week.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I’m read-

ing the astrological omens correctly, the bells are about to ring for you. The festive lights will flash. The celebratory anthems will throb. It’s like you’re going to win a fortune on a TV quiz show; like you will get an A+ on your final exam; like you’ll be picked as homecoming king or queen. But it’s possible I’m a bit off in my projections, and your success will be subtler than I anticipate. Maybe, in fact, you are about to accomplish the healing of the year, or discover the secret of the decade or enjoy the most meaningful orgasm of the century.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A teenage

Pakistani boy decided he wanted to help his country’s government clean up the local Internet. Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah gathered a list of more than 780,000 porn sites and sent it to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Big job! Hard work! I would love to see you summon similar levels of passion and diligence as you work in behalf of your favorite cause, Scorpio. The coming weeks will be prime time for you to get very excited about the changes you would like to help create in the world.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Kintsukuroi is a Japanese word that literally means “golden repair.” It refers to the practice of fixing cracked pottery with lacquer that’s blended with actual gold or silver. Metaphorically, it suggests that something may become more beautiful and valuable after being broken. The wounds and the healing of the wounds are integral parts of the story, not shameful distortions to be disguised or hidden. Does any of that resonate with you about your current experience, Capricorn? I’m guessing it does. Let’s call this the kintsukuroi phase of your cycle.

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

the end of his career, the painter Henri Matisse created a paper-cut composition he called “Le Bateau,” or “The Boat.” It is an abstract piece that does not depict a literal boat. That’s why the Museum of Modern Art in New York should perhaps be forgiven for mistakenly hanging it upside-down back in 1961, upon first acquiring the piece. Fortunately, after a month and a half, a knowledgeable person noticed, and the position of “Le Bateau” was corrected. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable phenomenon going on with you right now, Aquarius? Is it possible that a part of your life got inverted or transposed? If so, will you be sharp enough to see the goof and brave enough to fix it? I hope you won’t allow this error to persist.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO DISCOUNT REALTY at 1224 Mangrove Avenue Suite 8 Chico, CA 95926. STEVE JULIAN VALENCIA III 264 East 15th Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: STEVE VALENCIA Dated: July 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000944 Published: July 24,31, August 7,14, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALEX FIX IT at 280 Camino Norte St Chico, CA 95973. ALEXANDER ARAUJO 280 Camino Norte St Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ALEXANDER ARAUJO Dated: July 16, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000972 Published: July 24,31, August 7,14, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SOUTHGATE PROPERTY INVESTORS at 4287 Stable Ln Chico, CA 95973. BETH ROMIG 4287 Stable Ln Chico, CA 95973. MARK ROMIG 4287 Stable Ln Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: MARK ROMIG Dated: July 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000996 Published: July 31, August 7,14,21, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DEER CREEK GIS, DEER CREEK PRESS, MR. PANCAKE AND SONS, RAINCLOUD PRESS, ZEEKO SALVAGE at 144 Myers Street #140 Chico, CA 95928. DEER CREEK RESOURCES LLC 807 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: ERIKA LUNDER, MANAGING OWNER Dated: July 21, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000986 Published: July 31, August 7,14,21, 2014

FICTITOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as H AND R BLOCK at 1516 Highway 99 Suite E Gridley, CA 95948. KAROL LYNNE SARITAS 7 Kingston Circle Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KAROL LYNNE SARITAS Dated: July 16, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000974 Published: July 31, August 7,14,21, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business names RAINCLOUD PRESS, POETRY DIVINE at 807 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. ERIKA LUNDER 807 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: ERIKA LUNDER Dated: July 21, 2014 FBN Number: 2013-0001629 Published: July 31, August 7,14,21, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following personis doing business as CHICO CHAMANGOS at 1835 Mountain Vista Dr Oroville, CA 95965. MARIA P LUJANO 1835 Mountain Vista Dr Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MARIA P LUJANO Dated: July 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000941 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ZERO WASTE at 621 Castle Drive Paradise, CA 95969. TERRIL LIPPINCOTT 621 Castle Drive Paradise, CA 95969.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO VALLEY GALLERY at 152 East Second Street Chico, CA 95928. MICHAEL CALNAN 8 Wysong Ct Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL CALNAN Dated: July 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001014 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ANGEL OF BILLIARDS, CHICO BILLIARDS ACADEMY at 1005 West 1st Street Chico, CA 95928. JACQUELINE KAROL 113 Benson Terrace Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JACQUELINE KAROL Dated: July 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000995 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ROCK HOUSE at 11865 State Hwy 70 Oroville, CA 95965. KAREN MACGOWEN 11865 State Hwy 70 Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KAREN MACGOWEN Dated: July 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000939 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as R AND S EXPRESS CLEANING at 1290 Notre Dame Blvd #70 Chico, CA 95928. RICARDO D HERNANDEZ 1290 Notre Dame Blvd #70 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RICARDO HERNANDEZ Dated: July 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000943 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VINE HAIR STUDIO at 1324 Mangrove Avenue Ste 104 Chico, CA 95926. DANIELLE GREER 10 Alameda Park Circle Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DANIELLE GREER Dated: July 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001016 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

FICTIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NAKED HEADLIGHTS at 327 West 2nd St Chico, CA 95926. TRAVIS MARTIN

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327 West 2nd St Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TRAVIS MARTIN Dated: July 30, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001023 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ANIMAL RESCUE TRAINING at 406 Vilas Road Chico, CA 95973. JOHN MARETTI 406 Vilas Road Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOHN MARETTI Dated: August 6, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001040 Published: August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DINO 8 FOOD AND FUEL at 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928. MONTY BHOGAL 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928. RISING QUILL INCORPORATED 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: HARMINDER K BHOGAL, OWNER Dated: July 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001012 Published: August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business at SEELADAVID SALON 1124 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926. MARISA BHOJAK 2071 Amanda Way #7 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MARISA BHOJAK Dated: August 5, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001037 Published: August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SUMMIT STRUCTURAL DESIGN at 383 Rio Lindo Ave., Suite 200 Chico, CA 95926. SUMMIT STRUCTURAL DESIGN 10 Robert Lee Place Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: RYLAND BURDETTE, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: August 1, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001030 Published: August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALMOND TREE STABLES at 2636 Dayton Rd Chico, CA 95928. ALMOND TREE STABLES LLC 2636 Dayton Rd Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: JENS NIELSEN, PARTNER Dated: July 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001003 Published: August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BLIND FAITH CUSTOM TATTOO at 170 East 2nd Avenue Chico, CA 95926. NATALIE SYLLING-FULLER

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9201 #3 Goodspeed Street, Durham, CA 95938. THOMAS FULLER 9201 #3 Goodspeed Street, Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: THOMAS W. FULLER Dated: August 5, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001039 Published:August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WILLIAM PATRICK ROBERTS To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WILLIAM PATRICK ROBERTS, WILLIAM P. ROBERTS, WILLIAM ROBERTS, PAT ROBERTS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: GREGORY J. MARTIN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: GREGORY J. MARTIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 4, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON RICHARD S. MATSON LAW

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OFFICE, INC. 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926. Case Number: PR41138 Dated: August 11, 2014 Published: August 14,21,28, 2014

NOTICE OF NEW HEARING DATE AND ORDER ON REISSUANCE Superior Court of California, County of Butte. One Court Street Oroville, CA 95965. Case No. 161537 Person Seeking Protection: REBECCA LEAGUE. Lawyer: MICHAEL M. ROONEY ROONEY LAW FIRM 1361 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. (530) 343-5297 Person From Whom Protection Is Sought: RUSSELL BERT New Hearing Date: A hearing in this case is currently set for: July 28, 2014 at 1:30pm. The court orders a new hearing date at the request of the person seeking protection because RUSSELL BERT could not be served before the current hearing date. Order for Continuance and Notice of Hearing: The Court hearing on the Request for Civil Harassment Restraining Orders (Form CH-100) is continued and rescheduled: September 15, 2014 at 1:30pm. Reissuance of Temporary Restraining Order: The request to reissue the temporary restraining order is DENIED. Dated: July 28, 2014 Published: August 14,21,28, September 4, 2014

NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA BUTTE COUNTY Case Number: PR-41126 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF DEBORAH FOSTER In re the Trust Estate of DEBORAH FOSTER, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file then with the Superior Court, at 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, California, and mail or deliver a copy to ERNIE LOWER, as Trustee of the Deborah Foster Revocable Trust dated March 21, 2014, wherein the decendent was the settlor at 901 Bruce Road, Suite 170, Chico, California, 95928, within the later of four months after July 31, 2014 or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or presonally delivered to you. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: July 23, 2014 Signed: ERNIE LOWER, Trustee of the DEBORAH FOSTER REVOCABLE TRUST c/o JANE E. STANSELL, Attorney at Law. Published: July 31, August 7,14, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHAEL HICKS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MICHAEL DAVIS HICKS Proposed name: MICHAEL DAVIS CROSS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to

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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: September 10, 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: July 29, 2014 Case Number: 162569 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARCUS JAMES RENDER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARCUS JAMES RENDER Proposed name: ARAS JAMES TROY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 1, 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: July 28, 2014 Case Number: 162590 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner THEA ELYSSA BLUMENO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: THEA ELYSSA BLUMENO Proposed name: HAILEY ALISA BLUMENO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to

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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: September 17, 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: August 1, 2014 Case Number: 162668 Published: August 7,14,21,28, 2014

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: DAVID E. MARTIN, AND DOES 1-10, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: ILO BESSER 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 law 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 attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting you 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 the plaintiff’s attorney is: ILO BESSER 3115 Aloha Lane Chico, CA 95973 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 161391 Published: July 31, August 7,14,21, 2014

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In the old days, sellers could sit back while their buyers crawled over, under, around and through a property searching for defects. Sellers had no obligation to offer information about the condition of their property, and they usually didn’t. It wasn’t a matter of dishonesty by sellers; it was simply the rules of the road. For buyers there was no map. Of course, most people are honest, and many sellers did volunteer well-meaning clues such as, “My wife’s uncle built the family room addition. He knows all the codes and the like”; or, “That crack in the foundation hasn’t given us any problems since we shored it up with bricks.” Unfortunately, there were the more devious sellers. Buried tanks, looney neighbors, property-line encroachments, and youname-it, litter the landscape of the old world of nondisclosure. The landmark case that opened up the new territory of disclosure was in 1984:

The Eastons sued the Strassburgers after the home they bought in Diablo, Calif., sank into the landfill portion of their property that they were not told about. It turns out the Strassburgers had twice filled a 10-footdeep sinkhole on the property. The Eastons won, and legislators started drafting up new rules of the road. In 1987, it became California law for sellers to fill out the Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Statement, answering specific questions about the condition of their properties. We’ve come a long way since then. Sellers are now on the hot seat for an immense array of disclosure requirements. And it’s not always clear what should or shouldn’t be disclosed. (Just how much of a pain in the neck is that neighbor? Is the water at the side of the house during the rainy season a big deal?) The usual advice is for sellers to err on the side of over-disclosing. It can be a memory test, but so far, there is no requirement for a lie detector test. Got a question or comment? I’d like to hear from you. Email escrowgo@aol.com or call 530-680-0817. Doug Love is Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon.

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