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Don’t abandon downtown The news over the weekend that a man was murdered in downtown Chico is

We’re not so special run into a retired stockbroker who said he was not flying Eizedver to Bali—though it was a lifelong dream—because he realthat the emissions from airline travel are a significant

need not be afforded a variable in such a magnificent equation.

The question then arises—as the hour of cause of global warming and ocean acidification? Neither Earth’s biological collapse draws near—what have I. Know anyone who ever considwould have to happen to make questioning ered making the sacrifice of not traveling the morality of the many-thousand-mile trip a long distances, because of conscience? compelling or even thinkable consideration?

Why is it so rare?

How do we become a culture in which nine Probably the No. 1 reason that this out of 10 people are asking about the moralisort of thought and sacrifice is so rare is ty of that recreational flight, as opposed to a that we are products of a culture society in which 999 out of a that puts human advantage and thousand never consider it? human experience at the apex of It seems that we would a pyramid of values. Destroying It seems that we would have to take flight with a new some vaguely defined “environinnovative by have to take flight with morality—more ment” by burning 15,000 pasPatrick than what the Wright brothers Newman senger miles’ worth of aviation created at Kitty Hawk. That a new morality. fuel can hardly matter when an new morality could not have enhancement of the human human experience or human The author, a experience is on the line. longtime Chico life as the exclusive focal resident, wrote the What causes the flame of pride to point of our moral system. It would have to Jan. 23 CN&R cover burn more brightly than describing our make the welfare of all life equally pivotal to feature “Out of sight, 10-day trip to Tierra del Fuego? It has all our moral understanding—and equally pivout of mind.” the elements, as defined by our culture: otal in our decision-making process. It would from the “making good” materially—as have to erase the lines between life forms. in, being waited upon from the moment We would have to give up the story of the we embark—to the human conquest of specialness of humankind and the “epicnature through flight, to the whiff of ness” of all of our “adventures.” Because, magnanimity suggested by our willingmore than anything else, it is that story of ness to dabble in the languages and cushuman specialness and privilege that stands toms of other people. Life on the planet in the way of “saving the planet.” Ω 4

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truly disturbing. We don’t know much about Randall Sexton, who was beaten and stabbed to death outside of the 7-Eleven in the wee hours of Sunday morning. We know he was homeless. So too were his alleged assailants, who now sit in Butte County Jail. We also know that Sexton was murdered just steps from Chico State and during a bustling evening with heavy police presence in the region (see staff writer Ken Smith’s story on page 10).

What does this say about the safety of downtown? While it’s early in the investigation, this attack appears to be an isolated incident. Still, we fear that it will only fan the flames of those who say they are fearful to come to the area.

In recent weeks, we’ve noticed local social media teeming with antidowntown postings, especially in the form of photos of members of the local transient and homeless community hanging out in front of City Hall and at the City Plaza. These people have every right to be in public spaces and they should not be condemned. What they don’t have a right to do is to break laws, such as drinking alcohol and doing drugs in public, and allowing their dogs to roam off-leash.

It’s up to the Chico Police Department to enforce these laws. But it’s also up to the community to ensure that downtown isn’t overtaken by certain unsavory types. And by avoiding the region, residents are essentially admitting defeat.

Maintaining a healthy and vibrant downtown requires the community’s presence. Consider for a moment the Thursday Night Market. It’s the busiest event in the downtown, and it’s one enjoyed by a huge crosssection of the community, from college students to families. It’s a night when everyone enjoys the plaza and the streets where the vendors set up booths. And it’s safe.

Now’s the time to come to the area and show your support during the rest of the week. Ω

Vindication from the state When the Chico City Council’s progressives passed a local ordinance

restricting the use of single-use plastic bags last April, the panel’s conservative members and several others within the community chided them for their effort.

At several points during one of the council’s regular meetings, things got personal. Longtime Councilwoman Ann Schwab was lambasted not only by council regulars Stephanie Taber and Michael Reilley, but also by one of her colleagues, Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen.

During that meeting, the ever-doctrinaire Sorensen called the issue a waste of time and city resources. He attempted to squash the effort, as did conservative Councilman Sean Morgan. The pushback came despite local and chain retailers being on board with such bag-restricting ordinances and the fact that 74 other communities in the state had already approved similar laws. Additionally, the stores self-regulate, meaning city resources would not be dedicated to enforcement. In other words, it was a solid ordinance.

Considering the state Legislature passed a law to curb the use of singleuse plastic bags in such retail outlets late last week, it looks like the lefties were on the right side of history on this one. And we’re glad that’s the case.

Chico’s ordinance will be phased in six months ahead of the state law, which is currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.

Critics may charge that the city ought to have sat back and waited to see what state lawmakers would do on this issue, but, as we’ve learned from their hand-wringing, oftentimes the impetus for change comes from the hardworking folks at the municipal level. California is once again helping set the pace on environmental issues, and in this case it’s thanks to the little people. Ω

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LaMalfa’s fanboy Back when I was a reporter at the Chico Enterprise-Record, there came a point when I stopped reading the editorials. I just couldn’t take what I’m going to call the wince-factor.

Granted, I didn’t cringe at every editorial—just enough of them to decide it was better for my sanity that I remain “uninformed.” It also gave me an out when someone would complain to me about what was printed. “I didn’t read it,” I’d respond, thus ending the conversation.

Now I force myself to read the editorials out of sheer curiosity and amusement. It’s mind-boggling how the E-R’s editorial writers and I come to such vastly opposing conclusions on certain issues. The increasingly hardright bent has unfortunately extended to Editor David Little’s column, especially recently. A few months ago, for example, he spent his 700 or so words dismissing climate change based on his own anecdotal experiences. Then, a few weeks ago, the whole space was devoted to Congressman Doug LaMalfa and what a swell guy he is. That one almost made me lose my lunch.

LaMalfa is evidently back home kissing babies and holding town meetings—gatherings he failed to mention to this newspaper. Little went on one of his rare journalistic outings—actually attending an event. And, boy, has LaMalfa found a fanboy in him. In a column headlined “Where’s LaMalfa? He’s still here,” he went to great lengths to paint a picture of a down-home local who’s working hard at our nation’s Capitol on behalf of his constituents. LaMalfa truly is one of us, true to his slogan, Little seemed to say.

The column noted how the House had sent 352 bills to the Senate, only to have them die there. How many of the GOP’s 50-odd attempts at repealing or altering Obamacare does that include? How many other obstructionist pieces of legislation were among them? Meanwhile, where was LaMalfa with comprehensive immigration reform?

Nope, no progress there. There’s a reason LaMalfa and company are called the Do-Nothing Congress.

As for being “one of us,” let’s call it like it is. Doug LaMalfa was born into privilege—the child of wealthy rice farmers. That doesn’t make him a bad person, but it doesn’t make him sympathetic to the poor. We know based on his vote to simultaneously reduce food stamps and increase farm subsidies—taxpayer welfare that his family has benefited from to the tune of more than $5 million—that he feels entitled. In truth, LaMalfa is nowhere near one of us.

Somehow his folksy rhetoric worked on Little, so you won’t read any of that in the E-R. For the real scoop on LaMalfa, I’d suggest Googling the work of intrepid L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who’s dubbed our representative Boondoggle Doug LaMalfa.

Chico E-R’s editorial board didn’t endorse LaMalfa in the primary, but they didn’t go so far as to endorse his challenger, Heidi Hall. Instead, the paper took the easy road, saying no Congressional incumbent should be reelected. If the E-R goes back on that endorsement this fall, I may actually hurl.

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Longing for the old world Re “The domestic military, Guest comment, Aug. 28): Dean Carrier’s guest commentary was certainly well-stated and well-written.

Sounds like our life paths have run pretty much parallel to one another. And, like him, I’m glad to have been a part of the “old world.”

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Basically, this already-proven failure of drug policy—the “Drug War”—is being used as a sorry excuse to militarize the police against us. We must demand an end to this drug war, once and for all.

The problem is that the police/prison industrial complex has grown in political power to a point that virtually all politicians are on their dole and are being “handled” by them. Our whore politicians will not even consider any change in drug policy as it is political suicide because of this unholy union. Our only hope for the people and America’s freedom is to rally behind any grassroots effort to reform the drug laws in this country. We must stand behind every effort such as our local pot growers’ Measure B in the Nov. 4 election.

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She doesn’t want banners Re “Two views on banners” (Letters, by Patrick Newman, Aug. 28): Thank you to Patrick Newman for his thoughtful letter regarding hanging military banners along Chico city streets. I am also opposed to this proposal on many levels, including the display of militarization.

However, I am also opposed to it from an aesthetic perspective. Chico is a beautiful and special city, our city of trees. One of the things I most appreciate about living here is looking out over the city and seeing all the trees, the outline of the hills and mountains, Upper Park, the horizon with its often glorious sunrises and sunsets. I cannot imagine how distracting it will be to have to look past large, flapping permanent vinyl banners along city streets.

Please consider how extremely uncomely and bothersome these banners will be. Also, why is the military being singled out for this recognition? What about the other “heroes”

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in our city, i.e., firefighters, police officers, trash truck operators, nurses, teachers, etc. There must be other ways to honor all our heroes.

Chico residents should seriously consider what they want to look at every day, forever. I also encourage residents to write to the City Council and/or attend the next City Council meeting to let their feelings be known.

OLIVIA DUMOSCH Chico

Three on the Middle East

Re “Grossly unfair images” (Letters, by Julie Danan, Aug. 28): Rabbi Julie Danan claims that billboards with images of wounded Palestinian children are Israel actIvIst “unfair” and “deeply offensive to our community.” We should be “Who ProFits “Working “ProFiteers satisfied with knowing that the From For PeaCe & oF the gaza issue is “complex.” We should find oCCuPation” JustiCe” trageDy” the various activities of Hamas— building tunnels, firing rockets, etc.—justification enough for the bloodshed.

But, what am I to make of Sat. Sept. 6 7pm. • QuakerS HouSe. • 1601 Hemlock, cHico today’s headline story? Israel is Sun. Sept. 7 • 1pm. uu FellowSHip. • 1289 Filbert, cHico expropriating another 1,000 acres of olive groves in the West SponSored by: Bank—within days of the latest ChiCo PeaCe & JustiCe Center, ChiCo FrienDs meeting, ceasefire. The U.S. has filed anothmiDDle east Working grouP er routine objection, but we will send our $3 billion per year and the Israelis will keep building settlements.

I’ve spent some time trying to find a reasonable argument for the continued colonization of the West Bank. I haven’t seen one yet, but perhaps Rabbi Danan can enlighten me. Perhaps she can explain why the state of Israel has settled over 500,000 people in what is left of a possible Palestinian state—an area not much bigger than Butte County.

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I wonder if anyone else is offended by the Peace & Justice Center’s stance on the “Palestinian” crisis? What about the Israeli crisis? I wonder why in 1947 the world gave the Jews a home in Israel. I wonder if they were not punished enough with the Holocaust. No, we need to back the socalled Palestinians who in 2014 are still bombing Israel. This is very disturbing to me as a Jew. The [Palestinians] are just disgruntled because the Jews finally have a home, which they do not recognize as a sovereign state. I do believe the Peace & Justice Center is more of a “war machine” with this rhetoric. So, to that I say, peace and love.

JOEL CASTLE Chico

Everyone needs shelter

Re “Shelter from the storm” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, Aug. 28): The Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT) appreciates the CN&R’s coverage of our winter emergency shelter program in partnership with the faith community for the coming winter.

We would also like your readers to know about our plans for a tiny house village that would provide longer-term housing for those without shelter. Recently, some CHAT members toured three West Coast cities with successful tiny house villages. These inspiring and innovative efforts, as well as many more projects nationwide, provide a framework to tailor a unique response to Chico’s needs and for achieving CHAT’s goal of ensuring that everyone in our community has access to fair and adequate shelter and sanitation.

Based on this trip, CHAT has produced a 30-minute film that uwill s e oben lshown y at the Pageant Theatre on Saturday, amb 20, at ACCT eXeC Sept.

2 p.m.,reV with a discussion to follow. dATe new We hope that this will help educate people the growing nationPATRICK NEWMAN and please carefully review your advertisement verifyhere the on following: Chico wide movement toward a tiny Ad size (CoLUMn X inChes) To all those with a quick home model. speLLing response to “billboard buyer Visit CHAT online at chico nUMbers & dATes speaks out”: First, consider the housingactionteam.org.

CHAT is ConTACT inFo (phone, Address, eTC) source of your information.

I ask, also eligible for tax-deductible Ad AppeArs As reqUesTed why by: is the U.S. ranked 22nd in donations to the Annie B’s comApproVed freedom of the press? If your munity drive via our website. information is followed by a comSHELDON PRAISER, CHAT MEMBER Chico mercial for a big corporation, red flag. I suggest you look at sources While the issue of bedbugs has of information that are not bought been brought up, the reason groups and paid for by multinational corbacked out was a lack of trained or porations. Listen to a little of experienced supervision.

Democracy Now or read a little CHAT is naive, inexperienced Mother Jones. Then give us your and untrained to handle unruly response. clients. Like teenagers, they are CHARLES WITHUHN Chico sure they have all the answers and

are not prone to taking advice or accepting offers of training. If they cannot responsibly handle a small group of people on a temporary, short-term basis, what makes them think they will run a camp/village?

I am not against churches and groups providing shelter. Safe Space is a great solution that works and more than has its rewards. It also has its problems that must be faced with full knowledge and a mature sense of responsibility. To assume that things will magically take care of themselves or that there will never be any issues is unrealistic. Think of the old adage “If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.”

CRYSTAL A. MOURAD Chico

Ignorance or inflated egos?

Re “Hit the road, Mr. Mayor” (Letters, by Michael Reilley, Aug. 28): I agree with Michael Reilley’s letter that blasted Scott Gruendl running for City Council again. I don’t know if it’s ignorance or inflated egos when incumbents run for re-election after disastrous results during their tenure.

Remember when Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick refused to quit after public corruption charges?

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich basically flipped off the public and refused to step down after his department’s corruption. Gruendl should have the common sense to move aside after so many under his supervision let the public down.

Incumbents whose departments perform poorly should step aside and at the very least allow new faces to give a try. The odds of someone new making a difference is far greater than thinking that an incumbent will be any different.

Look how many years Chico has been burned by terrible school boards? I just read that incumbents want to be re-elected. One will make it out of default, because not enough people want to run anymore. The arrogance of incumbents is maddening!

I don’t need to know who’s running against incumbents. If they can breathe they deserve our votes to avoid re-electing incumbents. As Reilley said, why would anyone hire the same incompetent contractor?

MICHAEL PROCTOR Chico

Editor’s note: Mr. Gruendl has not been accused of any illegal activity.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated for more than 30 years but continues to work as a journalist and writer.

CAR THIEF RETURNS TO SCENE, JAIL

Just days after a local homeless man charged with vehicle theft was released from jail, he was arrested again for allegedly stealing another car.

Around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday (Sept. 2), as Chico police were interviewing a woman whose vehicle had been stolen on North Cedar Street, they saw the stolen car drive past, according to a police press release.

The driver sped off when police attempted a traffic stop, reaching speeds up to 50 mph through residential neighborhoods. The suspect abandoned the vehicle at One-Mile Recreation Area and ran into Big Chico Creek, where he was arrested.

Michael Murray, described by police as a “Chico transient,” was charged with vehicle theft, evading police, committing a felony while on his own recognizance release and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Murray had been released from Butte County Jail on Aug. 28 due to overcrowding.

GROUNDWATER RULES ON TAP

California took an unprecedented step toward statewide groundwater management on Friday (Aug. 29) as the state Legislature passed a bill package aimed at longterm sustainable use.

California currently regulates surface water diverted from rivers and reservoirs, but is the only Western state that doesn’t regulate groundwater, according to the Los Angeles Times. But two bills awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature—Assembly Bill 1739 and Senate Bill 1168—would change that, directing local water agencies to create plans for managing their groundwater. Most agencies would need such a plan in place by 2020; the state would review the plans and assume oversight if local organizations aren’t up to the task.

For its part, Butte County—an area where groundwater is not yet critically overdrafted—would need a sustainable groundwater-use plan by 2022, said Christina Buck, a water-resources scientist for the Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation.

BAGS GET SACKED?

A measure passed by the state Legislature on Friday (Aug. 29) would enact the first statewide ban of single-use plastic bags in the country.

Authored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), Senate Bill 270 would allow grocers to charge 10 cents for a paper bag or reusable plastic bag, according to the Los Angeles Times.

More than 100 California cities and counties, including Chico, already have adopted similar bans intended to reduce litter.

This past spring, the Chico City Council voted to prohibit grocery stores from offering single-use plastic carryout bags. Large retailers with grocery components must comply

by Jan. 1. Smaller retailers that sell alcohol would have an additional year to comply.

If signed by Brown, the statewide ban will go into effect on July 1, 2015, for grocery stores and pharmacies, and a year later for convenience and liquor stores.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF PRISON RADIO

Prison view Documentary on jailed journalist comes to Chico he documentary film Long Distance RevolutionTemotionally ary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal is an charged and moving examination of

the life of a now-30-year imprisoned American journalist. The film touches on issues of racism and legal injusby tice and was presented in a oneTom time free screening at the Gascoyne Pageant Theatre Aug. 27. That tomg@ presentation was not random— newsreview.com turns out there is a connection between the theater and the subject of the film.

Noelle Hanrahan, the founder of Prison Radio, was on hand at the screening to answer questions about the film and introduced Chicoan Miles Montalbano, who had worked with her recording Abu-Jamal’s commentaries via telephone. Montalbano is the son of Pageant co-owner Roger Montalbano, which explains the film being shown in Chico after debuts last year in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

During Abu-Jamal’s stay in a Pennsylvania penitentiary— most of that time on death row for the 1981 slaying of a police Prison Radio officer—he has written and pubfreedom: lished a number of books and Prison Radio’s continued his career as a radio e-blast can be journalist with the help of an found at organization called Prison info@prison Radio. radio.org, where The books he’s penned—all the weekly commentaries are originally scribed in longavailable for free. hand—include Live From Death

Row, Death Blossoms, All Things Censored and the recently released Jailhouse Lawyers.

Abu-Jamal began his journalistic career at the age of 14, when he joined the Black Panther Party and soon after helped found the Black Panther newspaper.

He said he was “kicked” into the Black Panther Party after he was beaten by whites for trying to disrupt a presidential rally in 1968. That rally was in support of George Wallace, the governor of Alabama who was known for his support of segregation. The film includes Wallace’s infamous inauguration speech as governor in which he says, “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.”

The film reminds viewers of this country’s relatively recent racist past and uses Abu-Jamal’s current incarceration to suggest that racism is still alive and well in America. It is interspersed with testimony about Abu-Jamal by people like writer Alice Walker, journalist Amy Goodman, attorney Angela Davis and one-time boxer and wrongfully convicted Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.

In the film, Abu-Jamal notes that many people would deprecate his early work as a newspaper journalist.

“They’d say, ‘Well, you weren’t a professional journalist,’ or ‘Well, you weren’t a mainstream journalist.’ But consider this: The Black Panther news-

paper at its height of publication, when I was working for it, sold over 250,000 newspapers every week, all across the United States. And we sold internationally. How can you write for or edit a newspaper that sells over 250,000 copies and not be considered utterly professional?”

After leaving the Black Panthers, Abu-Jamal got a job at a National Public Radio affiliate station in Philadelphia¸ where he worked under the tutelage of William Simering, who was one of NPR’s founders as well as the creator of radio shows All Things Considered and Fresh Air. “He was a mentor to Mumia,” Hanrahan said, “which put [Abu-Jamal] on the cusp of becoming a very prominent broadcaster. He had this immense level of talent and the black newsrooms of the 1970s were some of the most amazing places where people could learn their skills.”

In 1982, Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer. The film touches on the matter and notes that Abu-Jamal, who was driving a taxi cab at the time to help make ends meet financially, was shot by the officer after seeing him pull over his brother for going the wrong way on a one-way street.

The film does not go into great detail about the case, focusing instead on his fight against injustice. In 2011, AbuJamal was released from death row and joined the general prison population.

In May 1994, Abu-Jamal was contacted by the producers of NPR’s All Things Considered and asked to deliver

monthly three-minute commentaries on crime and punishment. But the show was canceled the day before its scheduled first airing because of complaints and threats from the Fraternal Order of Police and then-U.S. Sen. Bob Dole (RKansas). This led Abu-Jamal to pen the book All Things Censored.

Prison Radio’s mission, according to its

website, “is to challenge unjust police and prosecutorial practices which result in mass incarceration, racism and gender discrimination. We do this by bringing the voices of men, women and kids into the public debate and dialogue on crime and punishment.”

The station began broadcasting AbuJamal in the mid-1990s, when he was also an occasional guest on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now. His short broadcasts, which continue to this day, are for the most part editorial comments on current events as seen from a man long sequestered from society.

Hanrahan said she had spoken with Abu-Jamal that morning just before she drove to Chico from San Francisco “He is amazing and I’ve had the immense privilege of listening to him,” she said. “Mumia is a lover, not a fighter.

He is just emotionally crushed because his ability to interact with his family and his ability to engage with people was so limited for many years.”

She said that while the film has seen success, it was difficult to get it into theaters.

“Once we did, we found there is an audience for this material,” she said. “We just had a hard time getting there. He’s got a lot to say and I think it’s really important.”

Miles Montalbano was at the Pageant as well, though he no longer works for Prison Radio.

“I guess my title was recording engineer, but basically what I did was go down to our studio in San Francisco and waited,” he explained. “At the time, Mumia was still on death row and he had very limited phone calls. He could call twice a week for 15 minutes each time.

“I would sit and wait and at some point between 3 and 6 o’clock he would get to call and we would record his commentary. As you’ve seen in the film, he’s a pro. It was almost always just one take.

He had it down really easy. I’d record it and do some minor editing and we’d send them off to radio that night and they would get played the next day.”

Montalbano called the film an inspiration.

“He is a really important journalist, philosopher and thinker and it was my real pleasure to work with him and help get his words out there.” Ω

City Council points fingers

Chico attorney Mike Bush charges that the 2013-14 grand jury report was fatally compromised and that it didn’t reflect the true history of the city’s financial problems, which began long before 2008, the report’s “hellacious” start date.

Blames prior councils, managers for city’s fiscal fix

Director [Hennessy] to take charge.” Piling on, the council noted something not mentioned in the finding: that the city manager also had failed to follow a City Charter mandate requiring him to “keep the council advised of the financial condition and future needs of the city ....”

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

nce again, former leaders of the city of OBurkland Chico—in particular City Manager Dave and Finance Director Jennifer Hennessy, along with the city councils in place from 2007 to 2012—have been blamed, to a significant extent, for the financial crisis the city now faces.

This time it was the current council members pointing fingers.

At its meeting Tuesday (Sept. 2), in its legally mandated response to the 2013-14 Butte County Grand Jury report, the council voted, 6-1, with Councilwoman Ann Schwab dissenting, to acknowledge that it agreed with nearly all of the jury’s findings critical of the city’s handling of the crisis.

On the positive side, the council agreed with the jury that nobody broke the law or enjoyed personal gain as a result of actions taken. And it acknowledged that the Great Recession and the decrease in tax revenues that resulted, as well as the state’s commandeering of redevelopment and other funds, were the primary causes of the crisis.

The council also went to great lengths to point out that, in 2012, when it became aware of the severity of the problem, it took steps to bring in a new administrative team (headed by Brian Nakamura) and told it to right the ship.

But the council also agreed with the sometimes harsh indictments of prior administrators and councils—including councils on which three of them, Schwab, Mary Goloff and Mayor Scott Gruendl, served—for compounding the problem.

Specifically, the current council agreed that the “[previous] City Council failed in its

The grand jury questioned the generous pay

fiduciary duty and oversight duties.” City administrators hid the scope of the problem, and the council failed to “dig into the data,” as Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen put it, to see what was going on.

As a result, the city was allowed “to deficit spend for many years, accumulate [internal] debt and erode its cash position to dangerous levels. All while being told that the General Fund was generally balanced each year.”

Interestingly, city staff had recommended a softer response to the grand jury finding, one that disagreed with it, pointing out that since 2012 the city had been working to solve the fiscal problems.

The current council also agreed that upper management “failed to share complete and accurate information with council members.”

It noted, however, that the new city administration has implemented timelier budget reports.

The council also agreed that, “[w]ith respect to finances, it appears that the prior City Manager [Burkland] abdicated his responsibility and allowed the Finance

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packages enjoyed by upper management. In response, the council noted that in 2013 it increased its authority over budget appropriations.

The only finding with which the council disagreed was the jury’s contention that a “council-manager model of governing [such as Chico’s] leads itself to potential problems.”

Every form of government has potential weaknesses, the council noted, adding that it “does not believe the council-manager form of government, the most popular in the country, is more prone to these weaknesses than others.”

The grand jury made a number of recommendations that the council either agreed to implement or already had implemented.

Among them were calls for greater transparency in city government, better training for new council members, contract adjustments to bring down the city’s high salaries, and better controls over enterprise funds.

The council disagreed with one recommendation, that the city “rehire lost staff when funds become available, instead of contracting out for services.” The city needs to maintain flexibility and keep its options open, the council stated.

This is an election year, and Sorensen and Gruendl are both up for re-election. That wasn’t mentioned during discussion of the grand jury report, but it surely was on people’s minds. Conservative gadfly Stephanie Taber, for example, once again lashed out at Gruendl for his alleged “mismanagement” while calling Sorensen “a hero” for having uncovered it.

For his part, Gruendl has insisted that he was as hornswoggled by Burkland and Hennessy as everybody else. Since his awakening, he insists, he has brought all his considerable experience and expertise to bear on rectifying the situation.

Local attorney Mike Bush urged the council to reject the grand jury report in its entirety. It’s compromised by the fact that the jury’s foreman (Chuck Nelson) was a former mayor of Chico at a time when the deficit was already developing and therefore incapable of being objective.

Regular council attendee Sharon Chambers may have put it best, however: “I think it should just go away and we’ll have peace.”

—ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com

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Eternal Life: Could it be that God didn’t intend us to age?

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Murder on Main Street Man stabbed to death in downtown Chico on Labor Day Weekend

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Tough Questions

he Chico Police Department is Twhether focusing its investigation on two transients charged

with fatally beating and stabbing a man outside of a Chico convenience store early Sunday morning (Aug. 31) knew the victim prior to his death, according to a member of the CPD’s Detective Bureau.

“From what we’ve been told by witnesses, the verbal altercation that took place before the fight was minimal,” CPD Sgt. Matt Madden said Tuesday (Sept. 2). “It’s a little hard to believe that a few mixed words in a parking lot could lead to such a violent crime, so we’re speaking to people who might know of the assailants’ prior relationship with the victim.”

Madden said several people witnessed the attack that left 44-year-old Randall Sexton lying unresponsive outside of the 7-Eleven store at Main and First streets at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

Responding officers administered CPR to the victim, but Sexton was pronounced dead on arrival at Enloe Medical Center.

Stephanie Marie Vogel, 23, was arrested behind a nearby building minutes after the attack, and Joshua Epstein, 30, was arrested around 8 a.m. that morning near

the corner of East First and Mangrove avenues, according to a police press release. Vogel and Epstein are in the Butte County Jail, charged with murder with bail set at $1 million each. Both the suspects and the victim were known transients, according to authorities.

In addition to receiving multiple stab wounds to his head and upper body, Sexton was also hit several times with a skateboard, according to Madden, who confirmed his department has the entire event on video from the store’s surveillance system, as well as cellphone camera footage taken by a witness.

Madden said the nature of the suspects’ relationship to one another is uncertain but that they likely knew each other, as video footage shows them arriving at and leaving the scene of the crime together.

Police are still looking to speak with more witnesses, as well as people who may know Vogel, Epstein or Sexton. Madden was reticent to release other details of the assault, so as not to influence further eyewitness accounts in the ongoing investigation. Anyone with information pertinent to the case is urged to contact the CPD. Madden said that, though there

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Police have the fight that led to Randall Sexton’s death outside a 7-Eleven on video from store surveillance cameras and an eyewitness’ cellphone.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

have been “several stabbings and shootings” reported locally since Jan. 1, Sunday’s incident marked the first known homicide of 2014.

The murder occurred at a time

when local law enforcement resources were largely concentrated in the downtown and south campus areas in an effort to curtail Labor Day weekend partying. In addition to a full cadre of CPD patrol units, California Highway Patrol, Butte County Sheriff and Alcoholic Beverage Control officers also helped patrol these areas.

“Pretty much all of our resources at the Chico Police Department were working that night,” said Madden, who added that even several detectives—who are normally on call during weekends—were on duty, and among the first officials to respond to the murder scene.

Madden was reluctant to peg the 7-Eleven location as a problematic property, and praised the store’s owners for working closely with the CPD’s now-defunct TARGET Team in agreeing to stop selling single-serve alcoholic beverages and on other issues.

“It’s not just 7-Eleven,” he said.

“We have a lot of problems all over downtown, especially late at night on the weekends; 7-Eleven is open late and tends to be an area where a lot of different kinds of groups of people congregate, but I wouldn’t want to point a finger at the store.”

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

City Council candidate Forough Molina (right) offers her opening statements at the first forum of the election season.

PHOTO MEREDITH J. GRAHAM

Candidates face off Forum marks the beginning of City Council election season safety, financial solvency Pwereubic and economic development at the tip of every City Coun-

cil candidate’s tongue during the first forum of election season Wednesday (Sept. 3). The gist: Chico needs more police officers, better control of its budget and a red carpet for businesses.

The candidates—newbies Lupe Arim-Law, Reanette Fillmer and Forough Molina; incumbents Scott Gruendl and Mark Sorensen; and second-time hopefuls Andrew Coolidge and Rodney Willis— each addressed the audience in the CARD Community Center with opening and closing statements and answered questions in between. The forum was hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Chico Business Association.

“I know Chico is a great place to be and a great place to live—but I also know that Chico can be better than it is today,” said Fillmer, who is banking on her background in human resources and contract negotiating to gain one of three open council seats.

The other candidates echoed that sentiment in their own ways, all of them pointing to public safety and a need for more police officers as their primary concern.

“When it comes to crime issues, what we need is more money to hire more cops,” said Coolidge, who ran unsuccessfully in 2012. “We all know what happened yesterday. Someone was killed over at the 7-Eleven downtown. Is this where our city is going?”

The state of downtown was on everybody’s mind. Willis said he doesn’t feel safe bringing his family downtown, and Mayor Gruendl and others pointed to programs like Clean & Safe Chico and the Downtown Ambassadors as being helpful but needing more support.

“I, for one, am certainly disgusted to see what’s happened to my little downtown,” said Vice Mayor Sorensen, who suggested that more stringent laws would help the police control the problem. “Most of what we’re talking about isn’t the ‘homeless’ … it’s vagrants and transients. We’re on the map. We’re a draw to these folks and we tolerate it.”

One of the questions posed to the panel was what the community’s role should be in policing itself. Most of the candidates took the opportunity to again discuss the need for more cops, but others, including Willis and Molina, said they encouraged the idea of personal responsibility.

“We are all citizens and we have to take care of this place.

That means looking out for each other,” said Molina, whose stated reason for running is her family and their safety.

“When we see something happening, we need to stand up and say, ‘Not in my neighborhood,’” added Willis, whose bid for council 10 years ago was unsuccessful.

Aside from safety, the other major

issue on each candidate’s agenda was the city’s financial situation.

The candidates disagreed when

asked by an audience member about the sustainability of staff salaries and benefits. Coolidge, Molina, Sorensen and Willis said no, they are not sustainable, while the rest couldn’t settle on a hard answer.

“There is no yes or no answer because the system is controlled by a higher level of government,” Gruendl said, referring to CalPERS. As a solution to the city’s financial problems, many of the candidates pointed to attracting businesses to town.

“What we need here is businesses to come in,” said ArimLaw, whose own arrival in Chico was on a red carpet with her employer, solar manufacturer Fafco, 14 years ago. “I know why we came here, and that’s what I’m going to be focusing on.”

Another question from the moderators related to the Chico Municipal Airport’s impending loss of commercial flights. The candidates agreed that the loss would affect businesses and the ability of Chico to attract new ones, but some, including Coolidge and Sorensen, suggested that it was a lack of passengers— i.e., demand—that forced SkyWest to discontinue service.

“You have to have passengers to have a successful airline,” Coolidge said. “It’s a lot easier to keep an airline than it is to find a new one. So this conversation is unfortunately too late.”

—MEREDITH J. GRAHAM meredithg@newsreview.com

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Harry Chrissakis, man of herbs.

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TEEN SNORTS RAT POISON, DIES

A 16-year-old in Anderson died on Aug. 22 after snorting a white powder he and two friends had mistaken for cocaine.

On Aug. 28, Anderson Police announced that lab analysis identified the powder as strychnine, a pesticide used as rodent poison, according to the Redding Record Searchlight. A police press release noted that consuming the substance produces “dramatic and painful” symptoms.

The three teens obtained the poison from a friend who had found a vial of the white powder in his garage. After snorting the substance, two of the teens went into seizure and the third became seriously ill. One of the boys died within 30 minutes of ingestion. The two others, ages 16 and 13, survived after receiving treatment at a hospital.

A criminal investigation is ongoing, but no arrest has been made thus far.

DISARMING THE MENTALLY ILL

In response to an Isla Vista shooting that left six people dead in May, the California Senate recently passed legislation to restrict mentally ill individuals’ access to guns.

Under current state law, only individuals who have been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility can be banned from buying firearms, while guns can be seized only if a licensed therapist notifies police that a patient is a threat to his or her own or others’ safety; they have been convicted of a felony or a violent misdemeanor; or they are under a domestic violence restraining order.

On May 23, Elliot Rodgers killed six and injured 13 in a shooting and stabbing spree, after his family had contacted law enforcement with concerns about his mental state. Police determined Rodgers didn’t pose a risk.

Assembly Bill 104, passed by the Senate on Aug. 27, would allow family members or friends to request a temporary restraining order to prevent an individual from purchasing or possessing firearms.

The bill now heads to the Assembly for a vote on amendments.

OF MOTHER’S MILK

More newborns have been consuming breast milk in California hospitals over recent years, a report finds.

The California Women, Infants, Children Association and the UC Davis Human Lactation Center found the rate of newborns exclusively drinking breast milk immediately after being born has risen 8 percent since 2010, according to Healthy Cal.org. The researchers also noted that 92.9 percent of mothers fed their newborns at least some human milk, and 64.6 percent gave their babies only human milk.

It’s a step in the right direction for advocates, who maintain breastfeeding is associated with improved health for infants, including reduced likelihood of childhood obesity, diabetes and other chronic health issues.

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

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Herbal remedy, cosmic energy Herbalist Harry Chrissakis draws healing philosophy from range of disciplines by

Evan Tuchinsky evant@newsreview.com

arry Chrissakis defies categorization, H professionally and personally. He spent 10 years as a chef before embarking on a

far-reaching study of healing techniques, culminating in the herbal medicine practice he established in the North State. He’s also a musician, half of the duo SoundSpeak LC, writing songs and performing around Northern California.

Though he doesn’t integrate music with medicine, he admits “it’s very hard to separate cooking, healing and music—there’s some kind of similar juice that runs through all of them, a cosmic energy.

There’s a relationship.”

But don’t jump to the conclusion that Chrissakis is an ethereal healer. He studied under an osteopath, and he encourages his patients to see their M.D. or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy, an alternative medicine that uses physical therapy to promote health).

He believes herbal remedies—Eastern medicine—can complement, rather than conflict with, so-called modern medicine.

“I want to see this actually become part of Western medicine, because I think it’s a big, key element that they’re missing and it

could provide such a huge benefit,” he said. “Thing is, it’s not outside the range of their minds; it’s totally within the language and culture of their science. It’s just the way the information is sewn together.

“It’s true they’re not herbalists; again, it’s not beyond the capacity of people who are that intelligent to learn.”

Oncology is a case in point: Chrissakis says herbal medicine offers means to “undermine the infrastructure” of cancer cells, thereby making treatments more effective. It’s not either/or—chemotherapy may well be necessary for a severely ill patient, while herbal remedies serve as a supplement.

“At a certain point, you can pour all the herbs in the universe in someone, and they

will die,” he says. “If you do not use these heavy guns, you will not stop this cancer; it’s just gotten too much of a foothold into the body.

“Integrating that very powerful medicine [with herbal medicine] would create a very different perspective. But, again, that’s a lot to ask.”

Chrissakis, 60, grew up in New Jersey. As a

teenager, he developed an interest in plants, but after a hitchhiking trip brought him to Alaska, he got introduced to cooking and wound up going to culinary school. A decade in East Coast restaurants

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APPOINTMENT PREWALK PARTY The Chico Walk to End Alzheimer’s isn’t until October, but you don’t have to wait to support the cause. On Friday, Sept. 5, the California Park Rehabilitation Hospital is hosting a fundraiser benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association, complete with live music, food, raffles, beer and wine. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. at 2850 Sunrise Terrace; tickets are $35 or two for $50. Call 894-1010 for more information.

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Early detection is safer for the patient, has easier treatments and a survival rate above 95%. It is recommended that at age 40 women should begin to get yearly mammograms. The chance of breast cancer increases as you grow older.

The Feather River Outpatient Center provides comprehensive laboratory and radiology services for your health care needs. Many services are offered, including digital mammograms with Computer Aided Detector (CAD).

“We are a comprehensive breast care center and have been for the past four years. We provide screenings, diagnostics, breast biopsies, breast ultrasounds and ultrasound guided biopsies,” says Brenda Cummings, Mammogram Technology Supervisor.

The digital imaging technology offered at Feather River Outpatient Center is provided through state-of-theart equipment. Four views are taken by compressing the breasts. The technologist controls the pressure applied to each patient. A MammoPad, a soft, foam pad that creates cushion between the patient and the mammography machine,

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The staff at Feather River Outpatient Center understand that each patient deserves individualized care. With little to no wait time when you check in, a mammogram can take as little as 5-10 minutes.

The staff works with each patient to make sure they understand the exam and take the time necessary to make the patient feel as comfortable as possible.

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left him at a career crossroads; he decided to follow his true interest and embark on a study of healing.

He began at the Institute of Chinese Herbology in the Bay Area.

Next came three years of Shiatsu massage training. He then headed to Florida, to the Upledger Institute, for a program on craniosacral therapy (an offshoot of osteopathic medicine involving light-touch techniques), and returned to the Bay Area to learn more about osteopathy from Dr. Mark Rosen.

Over time, Chrissakis has amassed mentors in various disciplines.

“When I work, I think in multiple languages,” he said. In other words, he draws from various fields but views them as separate entities.

“It’s not like you take French and Spanish and it becomes a new language; you think in French or you think in Spanish. So, I think Western or Eastern or body work, but usually when I’m communicating with my clients I’ll talk very little about Eastern energetics, because it’s a whole other model.”

Chrissakis started practicing herbal medicine around San Francisco in 1989 before moving to Dobbins and opening an office in neighboring Oregon House.

Around five years ago, he expanded to Chico; he also sees patients in Red Bluff.

“I still use body work if people need it, but a lot of my work is consultation,” Chrissakis said, “designing programs either for people who want to stay strong or people who are sick—help them with their treatment protocols and/or work with assisting them if they have disease.

See the herbalist:

Harry Chrissakis practices in Chico, Red Bluff and Oregon House. His Chico office is at 574 Manzanita Ave., Ste. 4.

For an appointment, visit www.herbalistandherbs.com or call 933-8244.

Chrissakis also conducts a lecture series. His next talk— “Losing Weight and Maintaining Weight Loss”—is scheduled for Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. at Yuba Harvest, 9222 Marysville Road, Oregon House.

“Basically, trying to get people well.”

He has a variety of herbs, extracts and nutritional supplements—some of which he formulates, some of which he purchases.

Patients may take them in the form of tinctures (drops that dissolve under the tongue), capsules, powders and even shakes.

Chrissakis sees his approach fitting into a “holistic, physiologic model” of health and health care, as opposed to the model used by most standard-practice doctors, which is to treat the symptoms of a disease.

“Standard practice approach to chronic disease is based on the wrong model,” he said. “They have tremendous strengths in the areas of diagnostics, surgery and acute crisis care; but in the area of chronic disease, if you follow the pharmaceutical model, you’ll end up with the result that you have. If you follow the holistic model, which goes from health to disease back to health again, then you have something that’s really valuable.” Ω

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Bonkers for ball It’s been quite the year for local youth ball players. The Chico Softball Little League majors black team made it to the Little League Softball World Series a few weeks ago.

Around the same time, the Chico Nuts earned a spot as one of eight baseball teams advancing to the American Legion World Series, held in Shelby, N.C. Neither team took home the title, but their players and coaches did come back with stories to tell. In the case of the Nuts, Tom Stevens, the team’s coach for the last 19 years (and current Chico American Legion Baseball director), is still riding high on the trip with the legion’s team of 17- to 19-yearold male players from the Chico area. Now back home, Stevens continues to oversee the operations of Chico American Legion while balancing his duties as a teacher and head baseball coach at Los Molinos High School.

What is American Legion Baseball?

American Legion is the oldest youth sports program in our country. It’s 89 years old. Our program in Chico is 77 years old, so there’s a lot of history. For the last 20 years, the premier team has been the Chico Nuts. We also have two teams of 15- to 17-year-olds, the Chico Suns, and a team of 13to 14-year-olds, the Chico Rice.

We’re successful not just in wins or championships, but in taking the players in this area and getting them onto the next level, from

college to professional baseball.

With the Chico Nuts, 87 percent go on to play college baseball.

Any college/professional players we might recognize who started with American Legion?

Currently, Luke Barker and Brad Lohse from Chico State. And Kyle Lohse is the starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.

What’s the recruitment process for the Chico Nuts?

We have intensive tryouts. But most of our kids have been playing on the younger teams their whole life, so we already know them.

What matters is where you went to high school; a Chico State player who’s from Los Angeles won’t qualify. We are Chico’s homegrown team. All of our kids come from the area.

Can you tell us about your new program with younger players?

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11-year-olds. They practice with us twice a week. As long as they’re committed and want to work hard, we’re going to find something for them. It has been so much fun.

They give me a different perspective on why we are out here.

What was it like going to the American Legion World Series?

It was by far the most incredible athletic experience I’ve ever been a part of. The road to the World Series has gotten more difficult over the years, so it was quite an accomplishment. By the time we got to Shelby, we had only 13 players, because we lost a few to conflicts and injuries, but played against teams with 18 players. We lost 0-3 in pool play tournaments.

It was a tiring month, but worth it.

The stadium was incredible; we played in front of 10,000 people.

They say it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but I hope it won’t be just once.

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When I heard the loud crash outside my home, I knew it couldn’t be good.

The sound of crunching metal against the backdrop of an otherwise quiet Monday afternoon brought my peaceful vacation day to a halt and sent me rushing outside to see what had happened.

Parked on the street, my little red truck, my wheels for the last 12 years, had been hit by a driver who allegedly was under the influence.

The damage was significant, and I held back tears as I realized my truck was beyond repair.

I groaned at the thought of wading through police reports, insurance claims and car dealership visits. But the process has been remarkably pleasant, marked by the great customer service that I’ve experienced from businesses here in our local community.

The first highlight was the response from Geico, which someone I know once classified as a “discount online” company. The rates may be discounted, but the care certainly didn’t feel that way. Within four days, they’d taken my initial report, had my truck towed, sent a claims adjuster out and issued me a check. I did buy my policy online, but someone in a local office kept me up-to-date on the process, checking in at least once a day about the progress of my claim. He even snapped one last photo of me and my truck.

Without any wheels, I started the arduous task of car shopping, deciding to buy new. I stopped at a few local dealerships, but one in particular got me to leave the lot in a new car. Their sales team was sharp, friendly and relaxed. Rather than a sales pitch, we had a conversation and they respected that such a big financial decision shouldn’t be rushed.

One of my priorities was to buy from a dealership within the city of Chico to keep my sales tax dollars local, though I knew I couldn’t pass up a great deal if I saw it somewhere else. I did see a lower price on the car I had in mind, and without much push, Chuck Patterson agreed to match it.

I was still having some doubts, so I called a competitor in a nearby town to see if I could get the same deal. No go. They implied that I was lying about the price and made it clear that they did not want my business.

Needless to say, I came back to Chico, not simply because of the price, but because of the service. The dealership truly earned my business and reminded me that to gain customers, a business must put service at its core. The sales tax revenue stayed here in Chico, thanks to the Chico dealership’s strong customer service.

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in the North State, in the northwestern corner of Tehama County. Within the next five years, that could be a reality. The Tembo Preserve is the vision of the Tembo Foundation in collaboration with the Oakland Zoo, and if all goes to plan it will also include a captive-breeding and research center on-site.

The foundation, established by Silicon Valley venture capitalists Roger and Ann McNamee, paid approximately $5 million for the Diamond Ranch property at the beginning of the year, and has earmarked an undisclosed amount of money to cover operational costs for the next 50 to 100 years.

The foundation began working with the Tehama County Board of Supervisors before purchasing the ranch. After the purchase, the foundation promised over $200,000 for an environmental impact report, which is slated to begin later this year. It’s hoping the completion of the EIR in the next year and a half will pave the way to barn and building construction, followed by elephants roaming the hills.

“Tehama County is very fortunate to have a combination of terrain that is very conducive to the African elephant and similar to what you will find within their range in Africa,” with its rolling hills and Mediterranean climate, explained Dr. Joel Parrott, CEO of the Oakland Zoo. The foundation and the zoo evaluated sites across the state, including in the Sierra foothills and the Carmel area, before settling on Diamond Ranch, which lies north of Highway 36 and west of Cottonwood, roughly an hour and a

half from Chico.

The preserve plans to move African elephants from U.S. zoos to the site, which, with its open spaces and planned facilities, “would allow for normal social structure [by] restoring the family group … that is more matriarchal,” with a mother, her offspring, aunts and cousins together in one group, Parrott said. He noted that herds in U.S. zoos often are unrelated. The preserve also would serve as an education and research center, which is one reason Tehama County Supervisor Steve Chamblin, whose district would be home to the elephants, supports the program.

“I think it’s wonderful that they’re considering Tehama County for something that would be known world-wide,” Chamblin explained. As the EIR is still at least a year from completion, Chamblin refers to the project as a future possibility; Parrott, in contrast, speaks as if it’s already underway.

“I think it’s a win-win for everyone, but we have to get all the proper reports and public review to get to that point,” Chamblin said. He admits that, as the property is historically grazing land, cattle ranchers in his district have raised questions and concerns.

Neighbors of the ranch have been in contact with the preserve, which has been doing outreach in the community, he noted. Local children enjoyed an elephant education program at a Red Bluff library over the summer, presented by the Tembo Preserve. Future partnerships with veterinary schools in addition to Northern California elementary and high schools are also a possibility, Chamblin and Parrott said. “[When] you get elephants that are quite happy, living as normal a life as they would back in Africa, then you’ve got this enorLearn more:

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mous educational opportunity to then expose people in the U.S. ... to the essence of what the elephant is,” Parrott explained. The extent of the education program—which will be limited for safety and habitat concerns, he said—has not been released.

Parrott said he feels the program is a neces-

sary educational tool to help wild elephants.

“I can’t imagine a better time to bring the elephant story to the American public than right now, because of the ivory trade and the collapse of so many [elephant] populations in Africa because of slaughter [in search of ivory],” Parrott said.

In mid-August, a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated that 100,000 elephants were killed by poachers in the last three years, leaving the total population at about 450,000, Parrott estimated. Ivory is most often sent to Asia, particularly China and Hong Kong—but the United States is the second-largest market for ivory, said Parrott, who is working to introduce a state bill in the fall that would ban ivory in California. Education, like that provided by the Tembo Preserve, is a key component to ending the trade, he said.

Yet, not everyone is convinced the preserve is good for the overall population of elephants.

“We don’t need elephants in North America. We need them in Africa and India, where they’re from,” said Chico-based wildlife biologist and former zookeeper Dawn Garcia. “In my mind, where all that money needs to go is on the ground [in Africa], where they can protect the elephants.”

Garcia is an active opponent to captivebreeding programs, which she believes perpetuate the problem of making the next generation of elephants into a potentially lucrative public spectacle, rather than rescue animals with an educational story to share. She shared concerns that large elephants may

The Tembo Preserve has purchased 4,900 acres of land in Tehama County, which it hopes to turn into an African elephant preserve.

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pose an issue for native wildlife and flora and, as the matriarchal structure will require the animals to be related, only a small handful of animals will be removed from their small-enclosure homes at zoos.

“The elephants in Africa and India need the help. We don’t need this captive population of elephants in Tehama County,” Garcia said.

Parrott countered that the animals that do make it to the preserve will “live a very happy, very contented, high-quality elephant life” and noted that the EIR will include mitigations, should Tehama County determine that the elephants may damage the flora and fauna. Ω

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This Is Where I Leave You (Sept. 19): The trailer for this one has been in theaters for months, and it’s one of the most tantalizing of the whole year. It features Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne and Kathryn Hahn as a family with issues forced to spend a week together sitting shiva for their deceased patriarch. With that kind of talent stewing in their juices, even a director as clumsy as Shawn Levy can deliver the goods. Jonathan Tropper wrote the script, from his own novel.

Foxcatcher

includes Josh Brolin, Benicio del Toro, Owen Wilson, Eric Roberts, Martin Short and Maya Rudolph. Anderson’s core group of off-camera collaborators are present, including composer Jonny Greenwood, cinematographer Robert Elswit, editor Leslie Jones and costume designer Mark Bridges. I am literally about to have a heart attack from anticipation.

Mr. Turner (Dec. 19): Although Mike Leigh is best known for updating the British kitchen-sink drama to the age of the hand-held camera, my favorite of his films have been his period dramas like Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake. The phony verisimilitude that often feels quite common and condescending in his contemporary-set films actually makes for a unique perspective on the past.

Longtime Leigh collaborator Timothy Spall won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes for his lead performance as eccentric English painter J.M.W. Turner.

—DANIEL BARNES

SCIENCE, SCI-FI AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM The Skeleton Twins (Sept. 12): I’m always up for something new from Kristen Wiig. An incredibly busy supporting actress—everything from SpongeBob SquarePants to Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues—I always wish her roles were bigger. Her deadpan quirks greatly amuse me. As a star, she’s one for two.

She had a huge hit in 2011 (Bridesmaids, Interstellar more than $288 million at the box office) and a quiet flop in 2012 (Girl Most Likely, less than $1.4 million). Still, Girl Most Likely was even better than Bridesmaids, and I hope the arc continues.

Here she’s teamed with Saturday Night Live colleague Bill Hader as estranged twin siblings. Writer-director Craig Johnson is an unknown quantity, but I’m banking on Wiig and Hader.

Interstellar (Nov. 7): Frankly, I’m no great fan of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, but after 2010’s Inception, I’d follow him almost anywhere. This science-fiction epic has what sounds like a grand vision—humanity migrating to beyond the stars—which would be refreshing after the endless parade of Mad Maxstyle ruined-future sci-fi we’ve had for the past 30 years or so. And what a cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, David Oyelowo and Jessica Chastain. I try never to say never, but I don’t see how this one can miss.

The Theory of Everything (Nov. 7): I’m looking forward to this one mainly because of the subject: Stephen Hawking. Probably the most brilliant mind since Albert Einstein, Hawking was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease in 1962 and has now lived 50 years beyond the 24 months his doctors predicted. The movie tells the story of Hawking’s marriage to his first wife Jane (which foundered in 1995 under the pressure of his genius), his illness and his attachment to one of his nurses, who became his second wife. It’s quite a story, and I can’t wait to see what the movie makes of it. And having Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, David Thewlis and Emily Watson in the cast certainly doesn’t hurt.

Into the Woods (Dec. 25): Songwriter Stephen Sondheim has already kicked up a storm on social media, telling tales out of school about the changes being made in his (and librettist James Lapine’s) 1986 fairy-tale musical.

Outraged cries of “How dare they!” went bouncing from Facebook to Twitter to Tumblr and back again, driving director Rob Marshall into damage-control mode.

Well, Marshall made changes and cut songs from Annie, Chicago and Nine, too. Personally, I trust him— and Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ullman—more than a mob of hotheaded fankids going off half-cocked. Into the Woods always strained at the limits of the stage; a movie should be just what the doctor ordered.

—JIM LANE

Handicapping Oscar Some not-so-crazy Academy Awards predictions uring the 2013 Academy Awards, Blue Jasmine star Cate Blanchett was considered such a massive Dfavorite to take home the Best Actress trophy, the sports-betting site Bovada put her odds to win at -3,000, or 1/30. That means you would have had to bet $3,000 on Blanchett to earn back only $100, a sure bet (she won, after all) for anyone with a spare few-thousand bucks lying around, which would presumably exclude everyone except for fat cats with bigger fish to fry than Oscar bait.

In the Nate Silver era of ridiculously accurate election forecasting, the outcomes of the major Academy Award categories are often a foregone conclusion. Any old fool can pore through the mountains of Oscar gossip and up-to-the-minute odds that pile up around awards season in order to win their office pool. But it takes a real fool to predict the major winners when few have seen even most of the contenders. I believe that I am that fool— although my methods of prognostication are logically rooted in the mistakes of Oscar past.

Keys to victory: 1) Be serious—even The Artist, the only ostensible “comedy” to win Best Picture in the last few decades, ended with its hero contemplating suicide. 2) Be at least superficially Boyhood edgy and important, without telling us anything new—last year’s 12 Years a Slave was a formal and emotional triumph, but outside of the Ferguson Police Department, no one could possibly take issue with its depiction of American slavery as a mortal sin. 3) Don’t revolt the core demographic in the opening act—the majority of awards voters are older white men and women feverishly working through Academy screeners, and they have no problem switching off a film that isn’t working for them.

Analysis: The grand experiment of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood seems like the only major contender among the films already released, although I suspect it will be compensated in other categories. The Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma (due in theaters Dec. 25, in limited release) is a tempting choice, given its timely subject matter of protests and police force, but the film is still being shot, and little is known of director Ava DuVernay. The all-in-one-shot Birdman could sneak in to the mix, but that technical marvel is more likely to snatch a Best Director prize for Alejandro González Iñárritu. There is an outside chance that Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice or David Fincher’s Gone Girl could go all No Country for Old Men on Oscar voters, blowing them away with high cinematic quality and a tightly coordinated campaign. However, my presumed frontrunners are all biopics—Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken.

—DANIEL BARNES

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Locke: It sounded like the worst idea for a movie ever—a man in a car on the phone—but this was the riveting story of a man throwing his life away out of a misguided sense of duty. Brilliantly written by director Steven Knight, with a powerhouse performance by Tom Hardy (greatly aided by unseen phone voices) and beautiful, almost abstract cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos.

Muppets Most Wanted: The Muppets’ eighth theatrical feature was the best one since the very first— and maybe even better than that. A parade of guest stars, clever songs by Bret McKenzie, and a riot of groan-and-guffaw jokes from Nicholas Stoller and director James Bobin. There was more pure fun here than in any movie all year.

Tim’s Vermeer: If the Oscar for documentary feature still meant anything, this one would win. Comic magicians Penn (producing and narrating) and Teller (directing) follow inventor Tim Jenison as he seeks to duplicate a painting by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, testing his theory of what made Vermeer so great. A fascinating examination of the relationship between art and technology.

Under the Skin

N&R film critics’ favorite films of 2014 (so far) The Grand Budapest Hotel

EXPERIENCE BECOMES MEMORY Under the Skin: Many sounds and images from Jonathan Glazer’s film continue to haunt me, especially that slow, oblivious sink into the inky abyss. But the film endures longest as an unsettling take on the nature of identity. Leaving the universe of this film was like being suddenly snapped out of a hypnotist’s trance, and I feel as if I have been half-living in its reverie ever since.

Boyhood: In Richard Linklater’s achingly beautiful film, a child goes to bed one night and wakes up a year older. Ask any parent: It happens. There is the feeling throughout that the protagonist, Mason (Ellar Coltrane, literally growing up on camera), is simultaneously living and remembering his childhood, just as experience becomes memory the moment it occurs.

This is Renoir and Truffaut on their best days.

Stranger by the Lake: Alain Guiraudie’s insidious thriller is the homoerotic flipside to the gender-gaze politics of Under the Skin. The explicit and erotic gay sex scenes are all anyone talks about, but Guiraudie’s ability to sustain a discomforting suspense is worthy of Hitchcock or Haneke, keeping the film balanced on a knife’s edge of orgasm and murder.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has been retreating into the shoebox project of his imagination to increasingly alienating effect, so it’s a pleasant surprise that his best film in a decade is also his most elegantly detailed diora-

—JIM LANE

FIVE THAT CAME CHICO’S WAY Cold in July

ma to date, with a great lead performance from Ralph Fiennes.

The Raid 2: Berandal: Snowpiercer had bigger ideas and Edge of Tomorrow was funnier, but The Raid 2: Berandal provided the purest action high of the year. Gareth Evans expands his claustrophobic The Raid: Redemption into an epic of sleazy grandeur, featuring gloriously over-the-top fight scenes announced with the operatic fanfare of a Sergio Leone gunfight.

—DANIEL BARNES

BECAUSE, MUPPETS Chef: Written and directed by its star, Jon Favreau, this road picture wandered a bit here and there, but the trip was always worth taking, as Favreau, son Emjay Anthony and pal John Leguizamo drove a refurbished food truck form Florida to L.A., cooking and serving as they went. Cameos from Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. and several others iced this tasty cake very nicely.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Quirky filmmaker Wes Anderson may be an acquired taste, but movies like this one make it easy. Simultaneously funny and sad, this tale of a European luxury hotel between the World Wars was a melancholy valentine to lost (and maybe imaginary) elegance, with a nearly bottomless bag of comic tricks and a hilarious changeof-pace turn by Ralph Fiennes.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel: A fanciful delight in every respect. The whimsical meanderings of its story are very much a part of its offbeat charm and the many small, bittersweet pleasures that go with it. An abundance of quirky characters, confectionery colors and eccentric curios are all part of the tragicomic entertainment here.

La Grande Bellezza/The Good Life: Winner of the 2014 Oscar for best foreign film (and finally making it to Chico this spring), this latter-day take on “la dolce vita” boasts an extraordinary lead performance from Toni Servillo, a wry and intricate insider’s tour of 21st century Rome, a Fellini-esque phantasmagoria of faces, places and moods cooked up by director Paolo Sorrentino.

Boyhood: The passage of time in this story is always in motion here, as is the film’s sense of “boyhood.” But it’s also full of passing reflections on marriage and family, the fate of human passion in the digital/electronic world, daily life in modern-day Texas, education, magic, faith, football, photography and more.

Under the Skin: With Scarlett Johansson playing a sort of extraterrestrial femme fatale, this offbeat film takes shape as a chilly, sexy, ironic parable about the paradoxes and ambiguities of human nature and sexual desire. The film’s semi-surrealist special effects have a weird sublimity to them as well.

Locke: Ivan Locke (played by a quietly fierce Tom Hardy) is driving alone, headed for London on a British motorway, in what gradually emerges as an exceptional kind of mission. The main dramatic action, mostly a matter of the lone driver’s increasingly fraught cell phone conversations, is a tour de force of offbeat characterization.

And, some favorites not shown (so far) in Chico: Only Lovers Left Alive, Dormant Beauty, Blue Ruin, Cold in July, The French Minister.

—JUAN-CARLOS SELZNICK

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Still to come A (snarky) look ahead at 2014’s fall film offerings

Big Eyes

The Skeleton Twins

(Sept. 12) Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig in the quintessential antiSaturday Night Live spinoff.

Wayne’s World on dabs?

The Equalizer

(Sept. 26) Denzel Washington and his Training Day director do what U.S. soccer couldn’t: beat hella ass.

(Nov. 26) Apparently the original earned enough moolah on TV to merit a sequel, which proves that zoning out and watching crap movies on cable isn’t a victimless crime.

(Oct. 10) Hollywood’s two Roberts (Downey Jr. and Duvall) bitch at each other for two hours.

Then, hugs.

Penguins of Madagascar

(Oct. 10) Jeremy Renner as journalist Gary Webb, who briefly worked for the News & Review.

(Nothing snarky to say, sorry.)

St. Vincent

(Oct. 24) Let’s imagine that your neighbor is Dr. Peter Venkman ...

Interstellar

(Nov. 7) 2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Notebook. Called it!

(Nov. 21) Milking every last dollar out of Hunger Games fans by splitting the third book into two films? For shame!

Horrible Bosses 2

The Judge

Kill the Messenger

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1

(Nov. 26) Watching animated penguin spies: Another argument for birth control.

Inherent Vice

(Dec. 12) Paul Thomas Anderson adapts Thomas Pynchon and riffs on The Big Lebowski. I’ll abide.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

(Dec. 12) Ridley Scott gets biblical? Christian Bale as Moses?

Hard to keep the faith.

Rosewater

(Nov. 7) Jon Stewart ups his big-screen game postHalf Baked cameos with this directorial debut.

Dumb and Dumber To

(Nov. 14) Predicting jokes as dead as a parakeet.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

(Dec. 17) Another three-hour nap in your future.

Annie

(Dec. 19) I’d take a hard knock on my head over seeing this musical remake starring Jamie Foxx.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

(Dec. 19) I hear the secret of the tomb is to lock this movie’s print in there and see what happens.

The Interview

(Dec. 25) Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This Is the End followup, whereupon they go Errol Morris on Kim Jong-Un. Dennis Rodman cameo?

Into the Woods

(Dec. 25) All the fairy tales … and singing!

Big Eyes

(Dec. 25) Tim Burton gets serious (sans Johnny Depp) about artist Margaret Keane’s annoying doe-eyed paintings. Merry Christmas!

Unbroken

Programming note:

Films (especially end-of-theyear releases) often make it to Chico after the official release dates. Consult latest listings for current releases.

(Dec. 25) Angelina Jolie directs the true story of Forrest Gump?

Reagan revolutionites reloading!

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Gaytheist frontman Jason Rivera getting some sugar from his rhythm section, bassist Tim Hoff (left) and drummer Nick Parks.

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THIS WEEK Metal trio Gaythiest is the toast of Portland’s metal scene

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dressed gay atheist Jason Rivera, the Portland, Ore., band has emerged as one of the top heavies in a city teeming with rock. (The trio is rounded out by a lethal rhythm section of bassist Tim Hoff and drummer Nick Parks.)

The band’s last two records— 2012’s Stealth Beats and last year’s Hold Me … But Not So Tight—are loaded with metal riffs tempered by the Pacific Northwest’s sludgy past, with plenty of tongue-in-cheek social commentary. This shit’s fun.

The CN&R caught up with Rivera, who was suffering from a summer cold, by email to talk politics, live records and legendary Pacific Northwest heavy band Karp.

A couple of years ago you talked about how machismo in metal pushed you toward different music when you were younger. Obviously a lot has changed. What’s your take on metal today?

I don’t think most people can agree on what is metal and what isn’t. I think that is where metal is now. Sub-genres ate my babies. Look at Future Islands on Letterman a few months ago—dude did some death-metal growls during their dreamy pop song, and it seemed more metal then Metallica’s last 20 years of output. Metal is in everything now.

Gaytheist is a very Pacific Northwest band; you love bands like Karp, Tad and Sissyface, and it shows. Have you written any songs that are influenced by, say, other styles of heavy rock? Could you see yourself writing a seven-minute song?

I think the biggest heavy-band influences on our riffs, besides the mentioned, would be Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt, Voivod, High on Fire, more Northwest bands like Nirvana, Crackerbash … [we make] a desperate attempt to not rip them off in the process. So far I haven’t put any time restrictions 28

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on songs, just an insistence that they be interesting.

If we end up writing a constantly engaging 10minute-long song, we’d be into it.

What’s more dangerous in your opinion, Christianity or homophobia?

What’s the difference? I guess answering a question with a question is a dick move. I would say on the whole, Christianity, as homophobia is just one of their exports. I guess there is some good from Christianity—charities, feeding the downtrodden … the hot preachers—whereas there is nothing good from homophobia.

Do you consider Gaytheist a political band?

Not really. Despite the name, despite some of the songs’ subject matter, despite occasionally catching myself spewing something political from the stage.

Ultimately we are just trying to write songs that we think are somewhat original and that we enjoy playing and listening to. I’m not really trying to raise awareness or change things. I’m old and jaded.

You did a live record in May. Whose idea was that? How did it come about?

Banana Stand Media, a great group of people that invite a band once a month to come to their basement/studio/party house and record a live album. We did it last Halloween and it was a lot of fun. We knew we only had one take on each song, so we played 25 songs, and 13 of them were just good enough to make us not grossly embarrassed. We had just got back from the Red Fang/Helms Alee tour, so we were pretty tight. They did a fine job with the recording and Larry Crane and Tim Shrout did an awesome job mixing and mastering it.

Do you have any favorite live records?

My all-time nostalgic love goes out to Exit …

Stage Left by Rush. I wore out my Iron Maiden Live After Death cassette as a kid, but that album was so long that the tape was super thin, so it was bound to break.

And, finally, your favorite riff ever?

Off the top of my head, the intro to “Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon” by the Blood Brothers is unstoppable. Also Karp’s “Bacon Industry.” No wait, Karp’s “Rocky Mountain Rescue.” No wait, it’s Karp’s “Rowdy.” No wait, Karp’s … Ω

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Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: The market is back with fresh produce, local food, arts and crafts, plus live entertainment. This Week: kick-off for the book in Common: The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande, with live music from Los C Quartet. Th, 6-9pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

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FIRST FRIDAY FESTIVAL: Every first Friday of the month, enjoy the Edible Pedal bike kitchen, learn how to grow your own food, plus kids activities, entertainment and food vendors. F, 2-5:30pm. Chapman Mulberry Community Center, 1010 Cleveland Ave., (530) 624-8844.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Downtown Chico’s summer music series continues with bluegrass/Americana from Mossy Creek. F, 9/5, 7-8:30pm. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

PAULA POUNDSTONE: “A cocktail party” with the comedienne who as of late has been making her voice heard on NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me. F, 9/5, 7:30pm. $10-$34. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

DIRTY LAUNDRY: A reception for the group show featuring discarded clothing re-purposed into works of art. Th, 9/4, 6-8pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

FLIP THE SCRIPT: AN UNICORPERATED REMIX: A reception for the Los Angeles-based artist Pablo Cristi’s paintings and sculptural objects motivated by political awareness, power, representation and history. Th, 9/4, 4-6pm. Free.

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

JAPAN: A reception for Paula Busch and her recent work influenced by her latest travels to Japan. Th, 9/4, 5-8pm. James Snidle Fine Arts & Appraisals, 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 3432930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

TL,DR: A reception for the BFA culminating exhibition showcasing new prints from artist Ian Roffe. Th, 9/4, 5:30-7:30pm. B-So Space, Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

Art Receptions PHOTOGRAPHS: COLOR AND PATTERN.: A reception for the artist Jack Alderson and his color photographs taken around the Sacramento valley. F, 9/5, 5-7pm. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

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

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Theater BOEING-BOEING: Bernard is a successful American architect who believes he can juggle his three flight attendant fiancées by meticulously monitoring their schedules. Directed by Judy Clemens. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/28; and Su, 2pm, 9/14-28. $12-$18. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

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Special Events BELLY DANCE ROULETTE: Improvisational belly dancing with Allegory. F, 9/5, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

FINE ARTS Music 354 TOUR: Compton MC Problem is joined Bad Lucc, Chain Gang, and Jon Connor. Su, 9/7, 8pm. $17-$20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

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Music KEITH GREENINGER AND BAND: The Americana singer/songwriter is touring with a band of ringers in support of a new CD. M, 9/8, 7:30pm. $18/advance (www.chicotickets.com); $22/door. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.

MATERIAL CULTURE: WEARING THE ART OF CHIKOKO Wednesday, Sept. 10 Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology SEE WEDNESDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

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Music MAMAJOWALI & MAMUSE: Mamajowali—featuring Joe Craven, Mamadou Sidibe, and Walter Strauss—mixes up and overlays West African music, old-time American tunes, and spirited originals. Chico’s MaMuse opens. F, 9/5, 7:30pm. $20/advance (www.chicotickets.com); $24/door. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.

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Special Events CHICO CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE: A full day of music, refreshments, entertainment and, of course, beautiful automobiles in the park-like atmosphere of Butte Creek Country Club. Sa, 9/6, 10am-4pm. Free. Butte Creek Country Club, 175 Estates Dr., (530) 343-7979, www.chicoconcours.com.

CHICO PALIO: The official kick-off for October’s Artoberfest with a art horses created by community groups to take part in the annual art-horse race. Plus, performances and exhibits from a wide range of local artists and arts groups. Visit www.chicopalio.org for more info. Sa, 9/6, 9am-noon. Free. Bidwell Park One-Mile Recreation, Woodland Ave., (530) 865-4875.

THE GREAT GARDEN ART WEEKEND: A display of garden art by more than 15 local artists working in metal, wood, ceramics and glass.

Beer and wine for sale with proceeds going to KZFR 90.1 FM. Treats from Mim’s Bakery, kid’s crafts, plus live music from Bogg. Sa, 9/6, 127pm, Su, 9/7, 11am-4pm. Free. Magnolia Gift & Garden, 1367 East Ave., (530) 894-5410, www.magnoliagardening.com.

Cory’s Country Inn, 4673 Nord Hwy, (530) 3452955, www.chicoartcenter.com.

RED, WHITE & BLUE COLLAR COUNTRY: A country music festival with national and homegrown artists. Featuring The Brodie Stewart Band, Cattle Rocket, Celeche Ryder and many more, plus vendors, food trucks, face painting, bounce houses, games, and beer gardens. Sa, 9/6, 3-10pm. $10-$50. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave., (530) 343-5617, www.bluecol larcountryfest.com.

Theater BAREFOOT IN THE PARK: Laugh and love with newlyweds Paul and Corie as their lives spin into craziness. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/21; & Su, 2pm, 9/14-21. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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

and Ant of Atmosphere, plus openers Prof and Dem Atlas. Tu, 9/9, 8pm. $27.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

DUSTBOWL REVIVAL: Bluegrass swamp-blues and

gospel from Venice. Tu, 9/9, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 3452739, www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

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Art Receptions MATERIAL CULTURE: WEARING THE ART OF CHIKOKO: A reception in the far-out world of Chikoko, the local collective of artists, designers, and performers sharing unique creations that blur the lines between art and fashion in our community. W, 9/10, 4:30-6pm. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

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

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Other Worlds, a retrospective from sculptors Doug Rathbun and Norm Dillinger. 9/5-10/12. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

B-SO SPACE: tl,dr, a BFA culminating exhibition showcasing new prints from artist Ian Roffe. 9/4-9/5. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

CHICO PAPER CO.: 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, 10am-6pm. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.

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

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS: In

Memory, works from the artist and estate of David Gilhooly. Also: Japan, influenced by her latest travels to Japan, artist Paula Busch showcases Ukiyo-e caricatures in encaustic. Through 10/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidle finearts.com.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Inhabitable:

The Sense of City, co-curated by Prof.

Laura Nice’s Humanities seminar students who helped select works from Turner’s collection. Through 9/20. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

LAXSON FINE ART GALLERY: Volumetric Forms That Function, projects from the spring semester’s 3-D design class. Through 9/26.

400 W. First St. CSU Chico, Laxson Audtorium.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY:

Photographs: Color and Pattern, color photographs from places around the Sacramento valley from artist Jack Alderson. Through 9/28. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Material Culture: Wearing the Art of Chikoko, the far-out world of Chikoko, the local collective of artists, designers, and performers whose unique creations blur the lines between art and fashion in our community. 9/11-10/11. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

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.

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, learn about the laundry devices ranging from the late 1800’s glass washboards to a classic Kenmore winger washer from the 1940s.

The exhibit includes irons, vintage linens and antique clothing. Call for museum hours. Ongoing. 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnugget museum.com.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm.

5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 8771919.

TIN ROOF BAKERY & CAFÉ: New Works, technically detailed and complex etchings from artist Michael Halldorson. Through 9/30. 627 Broadway St. 170, (530) 345-1362.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Flip the Script,

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paintings and sculptural objects from Los Angeles-based artist Pablo Cristi whose work is motivated by political awareness, power, representation and history. Through 9/19. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

THE GREAT GARDEN ART WEEKEND: See Saturday. Magnolia Gift & Garden, 1367 East Ave., (530) 894-5410, www.magnolia gardening.com.

JAZZED ABOUT ART: An afternoon of live jazz performances, a fine art show and sale, and local food truck fare. Sa, 9/6, 12-7pm. $15- $20.

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Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

(Not) drinking with Paula CHICO PALIO

Saturday, Sept. 6 Bidwell Park One-Mile Recreation Area SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Paula Poundstone, the humorist best known in recent years as a regular panelist on National Public Radio’s weekly current events quiz show Wait Wait ...

Don’t Tell Me, has built a 25-year career based on her off-the-cuff wit. Her live shows likewise maintain an air of spontaneity and audience interaction she likens to more like being at a cocktail party than a stand-up performance or speaking engagement. Poundstone’s Laxson Auditorium EDITOR’S PICK appearance on Friday, Sept. 5, will unfortunately be cocktail-less (the Chico State venue is dry), but post-show coffee and dessert will be offered on the auditorium’s portico.

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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.

BINGO: Proceeds donated to non-profit. Su,

4pm. $15 per pack. Paradise Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-3977.

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DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

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

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

EVENING DANCE JAM: A weekly meditative dance

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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.

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INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: All levels wel-

come. No partner needed. F, 8pm. Opens 9/5. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

THINK FREE.

• DRAIN any standing water that may produce mosquitoes, including unmaintained swimming pools.

• DAWN and DUSK are times to avoid being outdoors. These are the times when mosquitoes are most active.

• DRESS appropriately by wearing long sleeves and pants when outside.

• DEFEND yourself against mosquitoes by using an effective insect repellent such as DEET, Picaridin or Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus. Follow label directions.

• DOOR and window screens should be in good working condition to prevent mosquitoes from entering your home.

FARMERS’ MARKET: CHAPMAN: A year-round

FARMERS’ MARKET: SATURDAY: Chico’s weekly

PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY Practice the Ds!

session. F, 7:15pm. $10. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Suite 150, (530) 3420100.

Certified Farmers’ Market serving as a community forum for healthful-lifestyle promotion and education. F, 3-7pm, F, 25:30pm. Opens 10/3. Chapman Mulberry Community Center, 1010 Cleveland Ave., (530) 624-8844, www.cchaos.org.

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Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale.

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

drop your mind, find your feet and free your spirit. Call for more info. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10.

Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

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Butte County Mosquito & Vector Control District To report mosquito problems or standing water call: (530) 342-7350 or (530) 533-6038 • www.bcmvcd.com

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle,

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meeting. Every other Tu, 9am through 12/9.

Board of Supervisors Chambers, 25 County Center Dr. in Oroville, (530) 538-7631, www.buttecounty.net.

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Used book sale. Every other Sa, 10am-3pm.

Prices vary. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

RESTORE PARKING LOT SALE: Habitat for Humanity ReStore celebrates 10 years of business with a yard sale. Su, 9/7, 10am-3pm.

Habitat for Humanity of Butte County, 220 Meyers St., (530) 343-7423, www.butte habitat.org/page/re-store.php.

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

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

WORLD DANCE CLASS Opens Thursday, Sept. 4 Pleasant Valley Recreation Center SEE COMMUNITY

Marigold Elementary School, 2446 Marigold Ave., (530) 343-5183.

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.

STUDENT MARKET: The Organic 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.

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. Opens 9/4. $7. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.chicorec.com.

WORLD DANCE CLASS: Learn line, circle and couple dances from around the world. Youth and adult class offered. Scholarships available via instructor. No partner needed. Th, 6-7 & 7-8:30pm. Opens 9/4. $7. Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, 2320 North St., (530) 5666711.

For Kids CHICO ROCKSTARS FALL OPEN HOUSE: Meet the instructors, try out an instrument, and enjoy some pizza and live music. Sa, 9/6, 11am-2pm.

Free. Chico Rockstars: School of Music, 932 W. Eighth Ave. A, (530) 809-4932, www.chicorock stars.com.

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

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. $10-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524, www.chicorec.com.

SOUNDS OF THE VALLEY CHORUS: Women singers welcome to sing in four-part harmony barbershop style. Call for more info. W, 7pm.

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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EXPENDABLES 3, THE (Digital) (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:55PM 5:00PM 8:00PM

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) (Digital) (PG) 12:00PM 2:35PM 5:10PM 7:45PM 10:20PM

GIVER, THE (Digital) (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:00PM 4:35PM 7:00PM 9:25PM

Charlie Chaplin of Mexico

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Biopic revisits legendary Mexican comedian/movie star, Cantiflas completely unheralded Latin American production, a T(akahisbiopic of the great Mexican comedy star Mario Moreno Cantinflas), comes as a small but very welcome surprise.

The bilingual screenplay (co-written by Edui Tijerina and Sebastian del Amo, the film’s director) moves back and forth between Moreno/Cantinby Juan-Carlos flas’ early days in Mexican show business and the late 1950s in Hollywood and environs, Selznick where producer Michael Todd (played by Michael Imperioli) is trying to get an all-star cast together for his much-ballyhooed production of Around the World in 80 Days, the film that would bring Cantinflas to his greatest international success.

Todd’s dominance in the ’50s sequences creates a peculiar imbalance, and at times the film seems more about the making of Todd’s blockbuster than about the life and career of Cantinflas Starring Óscar Moreno/Cantinflas (played very effectively Jaenada, here by the Spanish-born actor Óscar Jaenada).

Michael But both strands of the tale ultimately coalesce Imperioli and as parallel accounts of the man’s rise to a nearIlse Salas. mythical culture-hero status.

Directed by The screenplay is fairly standard rags-toSebastian del Amo. Cinemark riches show-biz stuff, but the period-piece 14. Rated PG. details are generally flavorsome and the episodic glimpses of Mexican show-biz history are especially piquant. And Moreno’s journey from tent-show scrapper to big-time mover and shaker (superstar, union organizer, movie producer, patron of the arts, etc.) is fascinating, even in this simplified form.

Jaenada’s superbly detailed evocation of Moreno/Cantinflas helps a great deal as well. Imperioli is careful to maintain second-banana status in the otherwise very dynamic Todd role.

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(Digital) (PG) 1:30PM 4:20PM 7:10PM 10:00PM

IDENTICAL, THE

(Digital) (PG) 11:45AM 2:20PM 4:55PM 7:30PM 10:05PM

IF I STAY (Digital)

(PG-13) 11:30AM 2:05PM 4:50PM 7:30PM 10:05PM

LET'S BE COPS

(Digital) ( R) 12:10PM 2:45PM 5:20PM 7:55PM 10:30PM

LUCY (Digital) (R) 12:40PM 3:00PM 5:20PM 7:40PM 10:00PM

NOVEMBER MAN, THE (Digital) (R) 11:35AM 2:15PM 4:55PM 7:40PM 10:15PM

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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WHEN THE GAME

STANDS TALL (Digital) (PG)11:05AM 1:45PM 4:35PM 7:15PM 9:55PM

sounds like Charlie Chaplin, most of the actors doing cameos of real-life celebrities are rather indifferently cast. Nevertheless, the film does offer up briefly amusing versions of such Mexican luminaries as Diego Rivera, María Félix, Miroslava, Emilio “El Indio” Fernández and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Ω

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

by Juan-Carlos Selznick

This nicely upholstered spy thriller moves

along like the well-oiled entertainment machine it was clearly meant to be. Brisk editing, shrewdly orchestrated musical accompaniment, hints of sex, dollops of violence, and occasional gulps of reheated Cold War poppycock keep the whole thing running a step or two ahead of its fundamental incoherence.

Pierce Brosnan is on hand to play Peter Devereaux, an embittered CIA veteran who looks like James Bond but sounds like an outtake from a John le Carré knockoff. He’s got a very unwieldy collection of personal baggage coming to light in the midst of a mess of interagency double crosses centered in Belgrade.

There are shootouts, car chases and a lot of surveillance via computer, drone and smartphone. There’s a Russian villain, but villainy within the CIA is the larger plot point. It may sound topical, but I suspect that there are several kinds of disinformation in play here. Ω

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The Identical

Did you know that Elvis Presley had a stillborn twin? Utilizing an Elvis-like character, this film’s “what-if” premise imagines that the other twin actually lived, then was separated at birth, and ended up struggling through life as his Elvis-like brother became a star. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

As Above, So Below

Another found-footage horror flick, this one taking place in the underground catacombs below Paris, where some American tourists have uncovered dark and scary secrets.

Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

Rated R.

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Boyhood is such a beguiling array of time-capsule moments—12 years in the life of a boy growing up in the vicinity of Houston, Texas. Part of what’s intriguing, of course, is the project’s central concept: its bits-andpieces story proceeds year by year, through scenes filmed year by year as Ellar Coltrane, the young actor who plays the central character (whose name is Mason), grows up. He’s 6 at the start and 18 at the finish. And part of it is also that writer-director Richard Linklater’s approach to story and drama is so casual and easygoing, even though resolutely unsentimental. The movement through these fragments of time is both seamless and unhurried. The passage of time in this story is always in motion, as is the film’s sense of “boyhood.” Linklater evokes the recent past, but his time-capsule movie has no frozen moments, and it reminds us more than once that even the most significant moments never really stand separate from the flux of all existence. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Cantiflas

See review this issue. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG —J.C.S.

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Chef

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. Feather River Cinemas and Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Guardians of the Galaxy

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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 writing, producing and starring in The Specials, one of the first deconstructionist swipes at superheroes. The story here: Charming half-human/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 sen-

tient 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.

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The Hundred-Foot Journey

The cinematic meal served here is tasty but not very filling. There is some real appeal, however, in the basic setup here. A refugee family of Indian restaurateurs, the Kadams, moves into a picturesque French village and opens up Maison Mumbai, a grand-looking Indian restaurant, just across the road from a Michelin-rated French restaurant, Le Saule Pleureur, run by the snooty Mme. Mallory (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 (Charlotte Le Bon), a comely sous chef working for 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. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —J.C.S.

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Magic in the Moonlight

The new Woody Allen picture offers up a number of characteristic enticements—a mixture of romantic comedy and philosophical reflection, a period setting (Europe in the 1920s), and a frisky and attractive cast. The basic plot has a sardonic master magician (Colin Firth) setting out to expose a young American spiritualist (Emma Stone) as a fraud. Romantic complications ensue (both characters are engaged to marry others, but second thoughts begin to rise) and the quasi-ruminations (“scientific” rationalism vs. “magical” intuition) impinge on much of that. Allen’s script seems uncharacteristically labored. The familiar themes and moves are there, but the inspiration is too often lacking, especially with Firth’s debunker/illusionist, a doggedly sour sort only partly salvaged by the actor’s charm.

Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The November Man

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

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 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Still here The Expendables 3

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Giver

Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

If I Stay

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Let’s Be Cops

Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

Rated R.

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Lucy

Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

When the Game Stands Tall

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

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SCENE From left: Bernie Vigallon, surrounded by birdhouses in his shop; Robin Indar with “Mr. Crab”; Don Bravo with “The Bridge.”

Art in the yard It’s a garden party, with local artists showcasing their outdoor works at Chico nursery ith so many Chico sculptors, ceramicists, mosaic W artists and glass-, metal- and wood-workers making art that lends itself to being displayed outside, it’s

surprising that there aren’t more shows geared toward outdoor art. This weekend, Magnolia story and Gift & Garden is hosting a two-day photos by exhibit featuring nothing but outdoor Jason artists. Curated by Trish Howard, one Cassidy of Magnolia’s nursery assistants, The jasonc@ newsreview.com Great Garden Art Weekend (Sept. 6 and 7) will feature the work of 15 artists, and in anticipation of the PREVIEW show, the CN&R went on a little The Great Garden garden-art tour, visiting the homes Art Weekend , and the work of three of those taking featuring 15 garden artists, part.

Saturday, Sept. 6, Don Bravo insists that he’s not an noon-7 p.m. & artist. He just “makes stuff.”

Sunday, Sept. 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Regardless of his claim, when you Reception, with look around his neatly landscaped food, beer and backyard and see the examples of the wine for sale, plus “stuff” he’s made—most strikingly live music by the bells fashioned from old oxygen Bogg, Saturday, 4-7 p.m. tanks or fire extinguishers and hung

from gorgeous rustic archways made out of scrap metal and weathered wood—it’s obvious Bravo is indeed an artist.

But the retired metal worker and contractor is not being falsely modest when he talks about what he makes.

His art is just a continuation of the work he and his father did constructing prototypes at Stanford University. Now, instead of creating something out of the ideas generated by engineering professors, he’s creating sculptures from his own inspiration, which he gets from recycled materials. Sometimes it’s straightforward: 3-foot-long sections of rebar are capped with metal architectural salvage—stars, swirls and handformed birds—to make garden stakes. Other times it’s a piece that requires more engineering: fashioning the rusted steel beams of a washed out bridge and a fallen sycamore branch that he found in the creek into the frame of “The Bridge,” his largest bell.

“I spend lots of time in scrap yards,” he said. “Ninetyfive percent of everything I do has a former life.”

The bells are his favorite, though. “I love to get lost in the bells. It’s a spiritual thing for me,” he said.

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Robin Indar’s house is like a mosaic amusement park.

Next to the front porch (which is covered beautifully in

tiles), unpainted handmade tiles were drying in sun. On the back patio was a 2-foot-high yellow-eyed panther covered in black tiles, and a mosaic self-portrait with bright yellow background hanging on the wall behind it. In one planter rested a multihorned Darth Maullooking head. And that’s just a fraction of what’s on the outside. Inside the home, there was just as much to take in.

Most of the time, Indar is in some stage of tilemaking or mosaic-creating. She runs her own specialty tile company (Rebel Tiles, www.rebeltiles.com) and is an in-demand public artist who has mosaic-ed everything from the big dragon in the Caper Acres playground to a giant gecko on the side of a threestory building in Sacramento.

In preparation for the garden-art show, she laid out several round stepping stones on her living room floor, each decorated with an outer ring of glow-in-the-dark tiles surrounding varied mosaic patterns and an inner glow-in-the-dark ring around different central images—a hummingbird, etched floral patterns, etc.

She said she was still pulling together stuff to take to the show, but in addition to the stepping stones she’ll have fun little garden accents like flying bumble bee-stamped tiles and realistic eyeballs, some with spikes perfect for poking into Halloween pumpkins.

From outside Bernie Vigallon’s home on the east side of

Chico, the sound of screaming power tools emanated from the garage/shop where the retired public-school administrator was busy putting together some new versions of his popular rustic birdhouses made from recycled materials.

The former Fair View High School principal and director of Alternative Education at Chico Unified School District looked every bit the relaxed retiree tinkering in his shop. At least 100 of his birdhouses, each one different from the other, literally hung from the rafters. But he’s actually still on the job—working part time, teaching shop in a skills-building program called Youth Build Chico for kids with probation backgrounds. And he’s still helping by way of the birdhouses he builds. All the money he makes goes to students in need. In the last year, Vigallon said he gave out $2,500 in gifts—including a $1,000 scholarship to a young artist heading to Seattle Art Institute this school year. He’s also used the money to buy tools for students, pay for tuition at Butte College, and even purchase set of tires for one young woman who needed a car to get to work. Ω “A lot of kids get a lot out of it,” he said.

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Queso fresco—and its close cousins queso blanco and the firmer, more salty cotija—is a staple of Latin American cuisine and delicious almost any way you might serve it. Pure white and made overnight, the cheese can be as light and fluffy as tofu, with a creamy cool texture refreshing in a hot climate.

Queso fresco is often used for crumbling over hot dishes, where the cheese softens without quite melting. It may also be stirred into sauces or served in tacos, but just eaten straight it can be delicious. A slab placed on a table and matched to dried fruits or honey won’t last long at a dinner party.

Hispanic cheeses—especially the prepackaged El Mexicano brand—are as widely available in California as Spanish is spoken, but in most grocery stores it’s kept in a Mexican food section of a cold case, separate from the other cheeses of the world.

I didn’t discover queso fresco until I visited Mexico about a decade ago. I had just finished college at UC Santa Barbara, and I tramped off to Baja California and spent 10 months hiking the coastline of the desert peninsula, fishing for my food, collecting cactus fruit and sleeping on the beach. It was a country of cowboys and fishermen, primarily, and I stopped every day at ranches and fish camps to ask for water from the well. The generosity of the people often put me in possession of handmade tortillas, avocados, fresh figs and dates.

One day early on, I was offered cheese. The lady of the ranch left me with her husband and boys on the

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porch while she went indoors and returned bearing a towel-wrapped slab of what looked like mozzarella. It was made that morning, she said, as she sliced me a piece and wrapped it up for me to take on the road. I fell in love with the light texture and cool taste, and I became an avid cheese-hound for the rest of my days in Baja. Subsequently, almost anytime I passed a ranch with goats or cows nearby, I always approached, made a quick greeting, and asked, “Hay queso aquí?”

Back home in California, I began seeking it out.

Artisanal renditions can be found, like the queso fresco from Orland Farmstead Creamery. This cheese comes in 8-ounce packets and is available at S&S Produce and Chico Natural Foods, as well as the Saturday farmers’ market, for about $6 each.

But it’s more fun to visit small Mexican grocery stores—obscure shops stacked with mangos, bananas and imported canned goods and where circular cakes of snow-white cheese are often kept discreetly under the cash register display window or a similar location somewhere in the back of the store. At Panadería la Michoacana, a bakery/meat market/grocery in south Chico (1414 Park Ave.), they sell the ubiquitous 10 oz. El Mexicano rounds in the soda case, but you can also get queso fresco to order at the deli counter for between $3.49 and $4.29 a pound, so don’t be shy about buying an extra-big hunk.

At home, keep it cold or serve it right away.

Remember that this is not the cave-aged hard cheese of Europe—durable food that can accompany travelers in a backpack and provide sandwich material for a week. Queso fresco is a product of a warm climate.

At many desert homesteads south of the border, it is made overnight, eaten by day, and prepared again the next evening. In other words, it’s not meant to last without refrigeration. It’s meant to be eaten. Try serving it as part of a fill-your-own-taco buffet dinner— and afterward offer guests some honey to lather on the cheese for dessert.

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

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5FRIDAY ALLI BATTAGLIA AND THE MUSICAL BREWING CO.: Funky folk rock with the local singer songwriter and her big band. F, 9/5. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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

J. PIGG PROJECT: Hooliganz MC goes solo and is joined by Armed For Apocalypse drummer Nick Harris. F, 9/5, 9pm.

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JAZZED ABOUT ART: An afternoon of live jazz performances, a fine art show and sale, and great local food truck fare. Sa, 9/6, 12-7pm. $15- $20. Cory’s Country Inn, 4673 Nord Hwy, (530) 3452955, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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.

RED, WHITE & BLUE COLLAR COUNTRY: A country music festival with national and homegrown artists. Featuring The Brodie Stewart Band, Cattle Rocket, Celeche Ryder and many more, plus vendors, food trucks, face painting, bounce houses, games, and beer gardens. Sa, 9/6, 3-10pm. $10-$50.

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MUSING AROUND A few weeks ago, Arts DEVO received an anonymous

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It reads: “Hello. Please, can’t arts column go back to covering the arts? It’s too important to sacrifice the space on other musings, right? Thank you.” If I wanted to be a total knee-jerk—and I kind of did at first—I could’ve easily responded with a whole column about why peanut butter is the perfect food (mental note: write the definitive peanut butter is manna column—make it a three-part series, include personal anecdotes about my dog, my wife, indie rock and Magic Johnson). But even though I might not agree that this space needs to be free of my random musings, I do agree with my anonymous reader that art is important and deserves our attention. So this is me giving art full attention. Look, with me, at these pieces by artists who will be showing during an especially overstuffed weekend of new art openings (not pictured: Dirty Laundry at 1078 Gallery, tonight, Sept. 4, 6-8 p.m.; Jack Alderson’s photos at Upper Crust Bakery, Sept. 5, 5-7 p.m.; Chico Palio arts celebration at One-Mile, Bidwell Park, Sept. 6, noon-6 p.m.):

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ally do this kind of thing, but I’m going to suggest that you monitor the number six.

My hypothesis is that six has been trying to grab your attention, perhaps even in askew or inconvenient ways. Its purpose?

To nudge you to tune in to beneficial influences that you have been ignoring. I furthermore suspect that six is angling to show you clues about what is both the cause of your unscratchable itch and the cure for that itch. So lighten up and have fun with this absurd mystery, Aries.

Without taking it too seriously, allow six to be your weird little teacher. Let it prick your intuition with quirky notions and outlandish speculations. If nothing comes of it, there will be no harm done. If it leads you to helpful discoveries, hallelujah

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In

English, the rare word “trouvaille” means a lucky find or an unexpected windfall.

In French, “trouvaille” can refer to the same thing and even more: something interesting or exceptional that is discovered fortuitously; a fun or enlightening blessing that’s generated through the efforts of a vigorous imagination. Of course I can’t guarantee that you will experience a trouvaille or two (or even three) in the coming days, Taurus. But the conditions are as ripe as they can be for such a possibility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Dutch

word epibreren means that even though you are goofing off, you are trying to create the impression that you are hard at work. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to you indulging in some major epibreren in the coming days. More importantly, the cosmos won’t exact any karmic repercussions for it. I suspect, in fact, that the cosmos is secretly conspiring for you to enjoy more slack and spaciousness that usual. You’re overdue to recharge your spiritual and emotional batteries, and that will require extra repose and quietude. If you have to engage in a bit of masquerade to get the ease you need, so be it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When

James Franco began to learn his craft as an actor, he was young and poor. A gig at McDonald’s paid for his acting lessons and allowed him to earn a living. He also used his time on the job as an opportunity to build his skills as a performer.

While serving customers burgers and fries, he practiced speaking to them in a variety of different accents. Now would be an excellent time for you to adopt a similar strategy, Cancerian. Even if you are not doing what you love to do fulltime, you can and should take stronger measures to prepare yourself for that day when you will be doing more of what you love to do.

LEO (July 23-August 22): Here are a few

of the major companies that got their starts in home garages: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mattel, Amazon, and Disney.

Even if you’re not in full support of their business practices, you’ve got to admit that their humble origins didn’t limit their ability to become rich and powerful. As I meditate on the long-term astrological omens, I surmise you are now in a position to launch a project that could follow a similar arc. It would be more modest, of course. I don’t foresee you ultimately becoming an international corporation worth billions of dollars. But the success would be bigger than I think you can imagine.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22):

“I have a hypothesis that everyone is born with the same amount of luck,” says cartoonist Scott Adams. “But luck doesn’t appear to be spread evenly across a person’s life. Some people use up all of their luck early in life. Others start out in bad circumstances and finish strong.” How would you assess your own distribution of luck, Virgo? According to my projections, you are in a phase when luck is flowing stronger and deeper than usual. And I bet it will intensify in the coming weeks. I suggest you use it wisely—which is to say, with flair and aplomb and generosity.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (September 23-October 22):

When my daughter Zoe was seven years old, she took horse-back riding lessons with a group of other young aspirants.

On the third lesson, their instructor assigned them the task of carrying an egg in a spoon that they clasped in their mouths as they sat facing backwards on a trotting horse. That seemingly improbable task reminds me of what you’re working on right now, Libra. Your balancing act isn’t quite as demanding, but it is testing you in ways you’re not accustomed to.

My prognosis: You will master what’s required of you faster than the kids at Zoe’s horse camp. Every one of them broke at least eight eggs before succeeding. I suspect that three or four attempts will be enough for you.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Peter the Great was the Tsar of Russia from 1682 until 1725. Under his rule, his nation became a major empire. He also led a cultural revolution that brought modern European-style ideas and influences to Russia. But for our purposes right now, I want to call attention to one of his other accomplishments: The AllJoking, All-Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters. It was a club he organized with his allies to ensure there would always be an abundance of parties for him to enjoy. I don’t think you need alcohol as an essential part of your own efforts to sustain maximum revelry in the coming weeks, Scorpio. But I do suggest you convene a similar brain trust.

SAGITTARIUS (November

22-December 21): In Roald Dahl’s kids’ story James and the Giant Peach, 501 seagulls are needed to carry the giant peach from a spot near the Azores all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. But physics students at the U.K.’s University of Leicester have determined that such a modest contingent wouldn’t be nearly enough to achieve a successful airlift. By their calculations, there’d have to be a minimum of 2,425,907 seagulls involved. I urge you to consider the possibility that you, too, will require more power than you have estimated to accomplish your own magic feat. Certainly not almost 5,000 times more, as in the case of the seagulls. Fifteen percent more should be enough. (P.S. I’m almost positive you can rustle up that extra 15 percent.)

CAPRICORN (December 22-Janu-

ary 19): So far, 53 toys have been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. They include crayons, the jump rope, Mr. Potato Head, the yo-yo, the rubber duckie, and dominoes. My favorite inductee—and the toy that is most symbolically useful to you right now—is the plain old cardboard box. Of all the world’s playthings, it is perhaps the one that requires and activates the most imagination. It can become a fort, a spaceship, a washing machine, a cave, a submarine, and many other exotic things. I think you need to be around influences akin to the cardboard box because they are likely to unleash your dormant creativity.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February

18): I’m not opposed to you fighting a good fight. It’s quite possible you would become smarter and stronger by wrangling with a worthy adversary or struggling against a bad influence. The passion you summon to outwit an obstacle could bestow blessings not only on you but on other people, as well. But here’s a big caveat: I hope you will not get embroiled in a showdown with an imaginary foe. I pray that you will refrain from a futile combat with a slippery delusion. Choose your battles carefully, Aquarius.

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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.

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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 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PEACE LOVE PETS at 2235 Dorado Cerro Chico, CA 95928.

RACHEL DELL’AGOSTINO 2235 Dorado Cerro Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RACHEL DELL’AGOSTINO Dated: August 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001081 Published: August 21,28, September 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AWAKE LASH STUDIO AND ORGANIC SKIN CARE at 7 Governors Lane Suite 1&2 Chico, CA 95926.

DOUGLAS A L SMITH 220 Hillcrest Avenue Oroville, CA 95966.

JIMI STURGEON-SMITH 220 Hillcrest Avenue Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JIMI STURGEON-SMITH Dated: August 1, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001031 Published: August 21,28, September 4, 11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NATURAL HOOF MEDALLIONS at 1140 Hurleton Swedes Flat Road Oroville, CA 95966.

KATHLEEN JILL LAZZARESCHI 1140 Hurleton Swedes Flat Road Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KATHLEEN JILL LAZZARESCHI Dated: August 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001080 Published: August 21,28, September 4,11 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ROADRUNNER STRIPING at 707 Kings Canyon Way Chico, CA 95973.

RYAN MORELAND 707 Kings Canyon Way Chico, CA 95973.

TAMARA HAMILTON 707 Kings Canyon Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: RYAN MORELAND Dated: August 12, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001049 Published: August 21,28, September 4, 11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ROADRUNNER STRIPING at 707 Kings Canyon Way Chico, CA 95973.

EDWARD MORELAND 707 Kings Canyon Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RYAN MORELAND Dated: August 12, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001070 Published: August 21,28 September 4, 11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHU CHU RECORDS at 1139 Spruce Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

BEN COLBECK 1139 Spruce Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

MATTHEW DWAIN HEYDEN 293 E. 4th Ave #3 Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: BEN COLBECK Dated: August 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001076 Published: August 28, September 4,11,18, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO FIREPLACE AND STOVES at 3029 Esplanade, Suite 11 Chico, CA 95973.

JOE ACQUISTAPACE 2538 HWY 32 Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PACIFIC BUSINESS SUPPLIES at 100 Sterling Oaks Dr #268 Chico, CA 95928.

ALAN A SAJADI 100 Sterling Oaks Dr #268 Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TWO TEACHERS TRAVEL at 2378 England St Chico, CA 95928.

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GIUSEPPE CAPUTO 904 Tahoe Keys Blvd South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GIUSEPPE CAPUTO Dated: August 15, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001098 Published: September 4,11,18,25, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO NATURAL FOODS COOPERATIVE, INC at 818 Main St Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO NATURAL FOODS COOPERATIVE, INC 818 Main St Chico, CA 95928.

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Signed: LIZA TEDESCO Dated: August 19, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001106 Published: September 4,11,18,25, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as WYNN MEMORIAL LEARNING CENTER 2508 D Street Oroville, CA 95966.

WYNN MEMORIAL TABERNACLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST 2528 D Street Oroville, CA 95966.

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Signed: EDWARD E HALL III, CEO Dated: August 20, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001109 Published: September 4,11,18,25, 2014

NOTICES 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.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE LAURA E. EMMETT, AKA LAURA ELEANOR EMMETT To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LAURA E. EMMETT, AKA LAURA ELEANOR EMMETT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: FRANCES A. PARKER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: FRANCES A. PARKER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or 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 25, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­ sentative 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 per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and le-­ gal 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: ROBERT L. HEWITT 1876 Bird Stret Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 534-8393 Case Number: PR41147 Dated: August 18, 2014 Published: September 4,11,18,25, 2014

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTOPHER JACUB ARNOLD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CHRISTOPHER JACUB ARNOLD Proposed name: TYLER JACUB ARNOLD THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 8, 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 22, 2014 Case Number: 162811 Published: September 4,11,18,25, 2014

at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

The name and address of the court are: Superior Court of California, Tehema County 633 Washington St. Rm 17 Red Bluff, CA 96080.

The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Paula Joan Marksberry 5675 Edith Ave Corning, CA 96021.

(530) 824-4259.

Signed: LANE MOORE Dated: June 23, 2014 Case Number: 69499 Published: August 28, September 4,11,18, 2014

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SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT JAMES E. MARKSBERRY You are being sued by plaintiff: PAULA JOAN MARKSBERRY (POORE) You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not pro-­ tect 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 re-­ sponse.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make or-­ ders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

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PROPERTY INVESTMENT ENTERPRISES, LLC P.O. Box 895 Carmichael, CA 95609.

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Signed: PETE HALIMI Dated: August 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001064 Published: September 4,11,18,25, 2014

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

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The 2014 California housing market took off slowly and sputtered through the first quarter of the year as if it needed a tune-up. Home sales were slower than the 2013 market by 10 percent.

Market analysts blame the slow start on investors putting on the brakes because of a lack of bargain properties to buy, along with rising interest rates and low inventory overall.

In the second quarter, the 2014 California housing market seemed to run better, and stepped on the gas. It almost caught up with the pace of the 2013 model.

“While the decline in sales continued on a year-over-year basis in June,” says an analyst with the California Association of Realtors (CAR), “the decrease was the smallest since September 2013, and the statewide sales number was the highest in the last eight months.”

California home prices, despite slower sales, gathered momentum, outpacing 2013.

“The statewide median price was at $457,160 in June 2014, as compared to $428,700 in June 2013,” said the CAR analyst.

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CAR predicts the California housing market will motor along the rest of the year at about the same speed as last year. For the year as a whole, California existing home sales are projected to decline 4.4 percent when compared to 2013, but a stronger economy should propel the housing market to bounce back in 2015.

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263 Idyllwild Cir

Chico

$429,000.00

4/ 3

2434

30 Sunbury Rd

Chico

$225,000.00

3/ 2

1348

1456 Lucy Way

Chico

$350,000.00

3/ 2

1978

1067 Viceroy Dr

Chico

$220,000.00

3/ 2

1126

1987 Potter Rd

Chico

$340,000.00

3/ 2

1900

1352 Chestnut St

Chico

$215,000.00

2/ 1

877

13109 Orchard Blossom Ln

Chico

$290,000.00

3/ 2

1560

825 E Lindo Ave

Chico

$197,000.00

2/ 1

986

27 River Wood Loop

Chico

$285,000.00

3/ 2

1704

1001 Rushmore Ave

Chico

$185,000.00

3/ 1.5

1039

5 Patches Dr

Chico

$265,000.00

3/ 2

1391

1269 Ravenshoe Way

Chico

$176,000.00

3/ 2

1285

3 Renee Cir

Chico

$263,000.00

4/ 2

1478

2416 Tom Polk Ave

Chico

$147,000.00

3/ 1

1068

341 W 1st Ave

Chico

$250,000.00

2/ 1

1632

699 E 15th St

Chico

$130,000.00

5/ 2

2196

488 Cimarron Dr

Chico

$247,500.00

3/ 2

1317

2942 Pennyroyal Dr

Chico

$123,000.00

2/ 1.5

904

723 Victorian Park Dr

Chico

$228,000.00

3/ 2

1286

2055 Amanda Way 43

Chico

$102,300.00

3/ 2

1008

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REDUCED TO SELL AT: $260,000 Steve Kasprzyk (Kas-per-zik) | Realtor Associate Century 21 Jeffries Lydon | (530) 518–4850

www.century21JeffriesLydon.com Ask the Professionals at Century 21 — 345-6618 • 1984 sq ft, 4/2 extra large garage

Decorator’s Dream

plus RV parking ONLY $259,00

two fire places, hardwood, dual pane windows & many other upgrades

AMBER GROVE

G PENDIN

• 3 bd/ 2 ba 1684 sq ft $295,000

EL PASO

$239,400

• 1600 sq ft $225,000

BIG CHICO CREEK ESTATES

• Estated 4 bd/ 3 ba, 3352 sq ft $449,000 • Darling 2bd/2ba LD $204,000 SObungalow,

KIMBERLEY TONGE | (530) 518-5508

5 acres just waiting for a new Home

Call & see today!

Alice Zeissler | 530.518.1872

Senior park, 2 bed, 2 bth, den $90,000

Open, upgraded 3 bed/2.5 bth, 2,165 sq ft $324,999

.91 of an acre building lot $164,900

Large lot, new roof, 3 bed/2 bth, nice home $250,000

Forest, 18 acs, 1,550 sq ft home, cash only $225,000

Horse property, 1.13 acs, Park, 2,364 sq ft, 4 bed/3 bth $479,000

Canyon View, 2,531 sq ft, gated area $438,900

Curb Appeal Plus, large lot, 4 bed/3 bth, 1,666 sq ft $299,500

Gorgeous, 3,792 sq ft, Canyon Oaks $749,000

Lake View, Stunning 4 bed/3 bth, 2,165 sq ft $469,000

NDIN Avenues, PE 3 bed/1 bth,G912 sq ft $179,500

Fixer, park, 3 bed/1 bth, 1,444 sq ft $207,500

ND Beautiful PE 2,456 sqIN ft, 3Gbed/office, 3 bth, 1.04 acs, pool. $524,900

Awesome, 4 bed/3 bth, 2,456 sq ft, .44 ac, pool $499,500

Teresa Larson • (530)899-5925

Teresa Larson • (530)899-5925

www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of August 18, 2014 – August 22, 2014.

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

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

11204 Holiday Dr

ADDRESS

Clipper Mills

$130,000.00

3/ 2

1310

555 Silver Leaf Dr

Oroville

$125,000.00

2/ 2

1620

4801 Vivian Ln

Forest Ranch

$340,000.00

4/ 2.5

2035

15514 Coutolenc Rd

Magalia

$385,000.00

3/ 1.5

1760

6255 Mountain View Dr

Paradise

$590,000.00

4/ 3

3637

15266 Tan Oak Dr

Magalia

$350,000.00

3/ 2

2057

5450 Sawmill Rd

Paradise

$290,000.00

6/ 6

2368

150 Ward Blvd

Oroville

$390,000.00

3/ 2

2373

5055 Country Club Dr

Paradise

$254,000.00

3/ 2

1680

125 Glen Cir

Oroville

$195,000.00

2/ 1

1379

1759 12th St

Oroville

$175,000.00

3/ 1.5

1892

3527 Neal Rd

Paradise

$208,000.00

2/ 2

1232

2001 12th St

Oroville

$155,000.00

3/ 1.5

1382

6314 Oliver Rd

Paradise

$200,000.00

3/ 2.5

2083

2130 Fogg Ave

Oroville

$150,000.00

7/ 4

2624

830 Bille Rd

Paradise

$142,000.00

2/ 1.5

1080

4 Satsuma Ct

Oroville

$135,000.00

3/ 2.5

2116

946 Wagstaff Rd

Paradise

$132,000.00

2/ 1.5

1428

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13500 Takara Rd. ARTIST’S RETREAT! Stunning Lenn Goldmann-designed home on 5 ac. just 6 mi. from Cal Park. Breathtaking views from every window. Gourmet kitchen, huge living areas with gleaming terra cotta-tiled flooring, soaring ceilings. Enjoy the canyon views from the privacy of the sparkling pool or spa. $650,000.

More info & photos at www.CityofTreesRealty.com

Laura Burghardt, CRS, GRI, ePRO www.CityofTreesRealty.com | (530) 864-6632

CalBRE# 00991783

For all your Real Estate Needs call (530) 872-7653 IMMACULATE!

Don’t Miss This Amazing Opportunity!

House/Fishermans Lodge/Bed & Breakfast 4 bedrooms/4.5 bathroom House with a separate 1 bedroom/1 bathroom apartment, 6 car garage and is a successful rental property. Located where the river feeds the lake in Hamilton Branch, Lake Almanor.

Private boat dock, boat launching less than 5 minutes away. Would consider trade for something on the Sacramento River. Owner financing.

LAKE VIEWS IN TWO DIRECTIONS! 5 acres, 2000 SF +/home, huge deck, 3BR/2.5BA, pool table. $354,000 Ad #590 Ginny Snider 530-872-6814

RECENTLY REDUCED! 4BR/2BA, recently updated, Great west side location $253,000 Ad #632 Donna Cass 530-872-6831

Ruth Brooussard, BRE#01921842 Lake Almanor Brokers

530.258.6097 | 530.596.3303 | 530.258.3303 | ruthbroussard@frontier.com

Custom-built, one owner home!

3BR/3.5BA, 1900 SF+/-, corner lot RV parking, gas fireplace, large utility room, extremely well cared for. Upgrades throughout.

Must see!! $170,000 Ad #638 Chari Bullock @ 530-872-6818

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME 47 ACRES!!

In beautiful Butte Valley $695,000 Ad #640 Amber Blood 530-872-6817

5350 Skyway, Paradise | www.C21Skyway.com | Paradise@c21selectgroup.com

open house Century 21 Jeffries Lydon Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1 14 Dana Point Rd (X St: Idyllwild) 3 Bd / 3.5 Ba, 2795 Sq.Ft. $625,000 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Sandy Stoner 514-5555 Brian Bernedo 624-2118

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 5 Avocet Ct (X St: Wisteria Ln) 5 Bd / 3.5 Ba, 3107 Sq.Ft. $563,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1656 Vallombrosa Ave (X St: Madrone) 4 Bd / 3.5 Ba, 2769 Sq.Ft. $479,000 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Chris Martinez 680-4404

Sun. 1-3

6404 County Road 18, Orland 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,800 Sq. Ft. $468,500 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

Sat. 11-1

1806 Oro Chico Hwy (X St: Estates Dr) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2,456 Sq.Ft. $445,000 Kathy Kelly 570-7403

Sat. 11-1

208 Denali Drive (X St: Calistoga) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2104 Sq.Ft. $394,900 Shelinda Bryant 520-3663

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

Sat. 11-1

Sat. 11-1

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

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

Sat. 2-4

2615 Lakewest Drive (X St: Bruce) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2,452Sq. Ft. $359,000 Brandon Siewert 828-4597

1350 Salem St (X St: W. 13th St) 4 Bd, 2 Ba, 1973 Sq.Ft. $354,000 Jennifer Stelle 515-6801

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1575 Champlain Way (X St: Marigold Ave) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1707 Sq.Ft. $353,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

Sat. 11-1 & Sun. 11-1

2690 Guynn Avenue (X St: W. East Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,762 Sq. Ft. $319,900 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

Sun. 2-4

729 Skyway Avenue (X St: Hegan) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,800Sq. Ft. $300,000 Becky Williams 636-0936

Sat. 11-1, 2-4

14 Patches (X St: Towser) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 1661 Sq.Ft. $299,500 Amy Bean 805-248-3903

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1708 Magnolia Ave (X St: E. 7th Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1932 Sq.Ft. $299,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Brandon Siewert 828-4597

12 Coleman St (X St: East Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1368 Sq.Ft. $287,500 Mark Reaman 228-2229

1068 Viceroy Dr (X St: Mariposa Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1832 Sq.Ft. $287,500 Heather DeLuca 228-1480 CJ Catrambone 858-722-1951

Sun.11-1

14177 Racine Cir. (X St: Wycliff), Magalia 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2740 Sq.Ft. $285,000 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

Sat. 2-4

20 Jasper (X St: Notre Dame) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1654 Sq.Ft. $259,500 Mark Reaman 228-2229

2840 Burnap Ave (X St: E. Lassen Ave) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1180 Sq.Ft. $239,950 Paul Champlin 828-2902

1019 Sheridan Ave ( X St: Palmetto) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1166 Sq.Ft. $239,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227

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

1609 Sheridan Ave (X St: E. 5th Ave) This cute house has been beautifully spruced up! Granite kitchen counters, new flooring, and brand new roof!!

3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1040 Sq.Ft. $215,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227 Garrett French 228-1305 Amy Bean 805-248-3903

Sun. 11-1, 2-4

756 Lorinda Lane ( Cohasset Rd) 2 Bd / 1 Ba, 1486 Sq.Ft. $245,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

1086 Sierra Vista Way (X St: Rey Wy) Needs updating and a little TLC. Large RV covered, shop in backyard. Large lot.

3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1444 Sq.Ft. $207,500 CJ Catrambone 858-722-1951

Sun. 11-1, 2-4

Sat. 2-4

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4

907 Karen Dr (X St: Palmetto Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,557 Sq.Ft. $245,000 Jennifer Stelle 515-6801

1154 Neal Dow Ave ( E. 1st Ave) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1152 Sq.Ft. $135,000 Paul Champlin 828-2902

Sun. 11-1

1008 Southampton ( X St: Greenwich) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1474 Sq.Ft. $245,000 Becky William 636-0936

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