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Just stay home Five years ago, for the first time ever, retailers—mostly big-boxes—decided

The most interesting man in the world IInme.fact,I amI amcertainly not the most interesting man in the world. actually the fourth most interesting man on my should say here at the outset that this column is not about

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Richard Parker The author, a retired Chico State philosophy professor, is an “aficionado of the flamenco arts.”

He did commentary on North State Radio for 10 years and wrote a column for the CN&R in the late ’90s called Parker at Large.

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But I do have an interest in the Most Interesting Man in the World. For one thing, I like the Dos Equis commercials that he appears in. I like the one where the voiceover tells us that he once had an awkward moment just to see how it feels, and the one where we’re told that the police often question him just because they find him interesting.

The actual guy in the commercials—the actor—is a fellow named Jonathan Goldsmith, a guy from the Bronx who played secondary roles in television shows for years, and got the MIMW job five years ago, when he was exactly my current age.

(There may still be hope, should I find something interesting to do.)

Recently, while my co-author and I were working on a new edition of a college textbook on critical thinking that we revise from time to time, I had to update some material on advertising, credibility,

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self-deception and such. I wanted to run a still shot of Mr. Goldsmith in full MIMW character, surrounded by beautiful companions. The point of the photo was to have been in the caption. It was simply: It is no doubt true that this commercial has sold many barrels of Dos Equis beer, but there is absolutely no reason in the world to think that drinking a Dos Equis instead of a Corona will make you even the tiniest bit more interesting to anybody you will ever meet. To believe otherwise is to engage in the most wistful of wishful thinking.

I thought this would make a great visual in the text while making a solid point. My colleague agreed. So I requested use of the still shot from McGraw-Hill, our publisher, and the photo editor said he’d go after it. Soon, however, we got word that the people who do the Dos Equis ad would not let us publish the photo. Since the textbook would be read largely by young people, they said, they were afraid that using the photo would encourage beer drinking among America’s youth.

I’m thinking the people at Dos Equis could use a course in critical thinking. Ω

It is no doubt true that this commercial has sold many barrels of Dos Equis beer ...

to do the unthinkable and open on Thanksgiving day. They took the one holiday that is dedicated to being thankful for what we have and made it about making money, about selling people crap they probably don’t need, wrapped up all pretty and called a “deal.”

Thanksgiving is a time to be with family—to cook together, share a meal together, maybe watch football and drink beer or wine together. But as Americans, we’ve become so accustomed to being able to get what we want when we want it that we apparently can’t even wait one day to get to the Black Friday shopping list.

Retailers know this and feed off our As Americans, we’ve become so obsession with instant gratification.

This has to stop. accustomed to being able to get There are some encouraging what we want when we want it numbers, as reported by Market Watch, indicating that fewer shopthat we apparently can’t even pers will be heading to the store this wait one day to get to the Thanksgiving day. We at the CN&R are among them, and we encourage Black Friday shopping list. our readers to join us in boycotting Thanksgiving shopping.

Do it for our culture, and do it for the employees at those stores who will have their holidays cut short because the businesses they work for put the bottom line over family values.

And when you do hit the stores after the holiday, remember to shop locally. This year, instead of spending your cash on Black Friday, focus instead on Small Business Saturday, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Keep in mind that money spent at locally owned businesses tends to stay in the local economy. That’s something all of us in the community can be thankful for. Ω

Council makes a mess The four members of the Chico City Council who voted against signing an

agreement that would have led to annexing Chapmantown and the Mulberry district sure have made a mess of it.

The agreement negotiated between the city and the Butte County Local Agency Formation Commission, which oversees jurisdictional boundaries, was a well-thought-out plan to solve several long-standing problems.

First, it would have made annexation a single, unitary process covering the whole area, thereby sparing individual property owners the burden— and additional expense—of doing it on their own and allowing them to hook up to city sewers at any time.

Second, it would have spared LAFCo and the city of Chico the costs of holding an unknown number of hearings and votes as residents seek to annex in a piecemeal fashion—six houses here, nine there, 15 down the street. Those costs will be passed on to residents.

Third, it would have eliminated the two largest county islands in Chico, bringing them into the city where they belong, enabling residents to vote in city elections and serve on city boards and commissions.

Fourth, it would have given the city five years before annexation was finalized, sufficient time to get its finances healthy enough to provide services to the neighborhoods.

And, fifth, it would have resolved a legal conflict with LAFCo over 62 properties that city officials admit were improperly connected to the sewer. Instead the city is saying, in effect, “Go ahead and sue us.”

We understand that some—perhaps most—Chapman/Mulberry residents prefer to be in the county and want to vote on annexation. But as everyone on the council knows full well, there is no mechanism for holding an election. With their vote, the council majority ensured that the annexation process will be complex, expensive, confusing and frustrating.

And then there’s that lawsuit ... Ω

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Absurdity A few weeks ago, I joked with my CN&R colleagues about starting an office pool on who would retire first: Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle or Chico State President Paul Zingg.

I’d just heard a rumor that Trostle was fully vested—meaning he’d spent enough time on the job to retire with a yearly pension of 90 percent of his highest salary for the rest of his life. Under CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System), police officers and firefighters can retire at that maximum when they turn 50 years old. (Trostle is out of town this week, so no confirmation from him on whether he met that threshold.)

According to the most recent city data, he made $154,000 in 2013, 90 percent of which pencils out to $138,600.

Zingg, on the other hand, has been at the helm of the university for more than a decade, is 69 years old and, according to transparentcalifornia.com, made a salary of $277,000 in 2013 (that doesn’t include his housing and car allowances). Assuming he has 30 years of CalPERS service under his belt, he’d have been eligible for 75 percent of his highest salary at age 67—two years ago.

(Police have a sweeter deal, obviously.)

In any event, I should have put my money on Trostle, who, roughly 2 1/2 years into his tenure as Chico’s top cop, announced on Friday that he’s retiring, effective Dec. 30. He turns 50—the magic number—on Dec. 21.

If you’re having déjà vu, it’s probably because Mike Maloney retired as Chico police chief on his 50th birthday, back in April 2012. He, too, ducked out after only a couple of years.

Now the director of Butte College’s Public Safety and Training Center, Maloney is what’s called a “doubledipper.” The local community college’s retirement is through the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), so Maloney’s able to pull in a salary there ($62,500 in 2013) while at the same time earning that fat CalPERS pension pay: $151,000 last year, according to transparentcalifornia.com. He also gets a 2 percent annual cost-of-living adjustment. And in a couple years, when he retires from the college gig, he’ll draw a second pension. Absurd.

But back to Trostle. When he took the job of police chief a few years ago, he told the CN&R he’d stay in that role for at least four years. His lack of follow-through is disappointing. So is the way he’s going out. His announcement last Friday gives the city just more than a month’s notice. (Maloney at least extended the courtesy of warning the city several months in advance.) By leaving before Jan. 1, Trostle’s ensured he’ll pick up that 2 percent COLA increase next year. If he stayed on into the New Year, he’d have to wait a year and a half for that bump.

Trostle says he’s leaving the job to spend more time with his family. It’s hard to fault him for that. Then again, if he’s retiring at exactly the point where he’d make that highest pension level, I’m pretty sure he’s just another cop gaming the system. Hopefully that game ends with him.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Comments on the commentary Re “Peace for Israelis and Palestinians” (Guest comment, by Michael Leitner, Nov. 20): Chico State recreation professor Michael Leitner says that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005—hence, the massacre of 1,462 Palestinian civilians last summer had nothing to do with “occupation.” Instead, the slaughter was precipitated by the actions of missile-firing, Israel-hating terrorists. There is no other explanation for the actions of Hamas— they just hate Israel.

Leitner fails to mention the fact that while Israelis call it “disengagement,” they have maintained absolute control of Gaza’s borders, airspace, coastline and import-export since 2005.

Gaza is a virtual concentration camp, with almost 2 million Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli military. Anticipating disengagement, in 2004, it was stated by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s chief of staff, Dov Weissglass, that this move would allow Israel to “freeze” the peace process. And frozen it remains, as Israel continues to steal more land and build more illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Setting aside the issue of whether Leitner’s “leisure research” is a legitimate university-level pursuit, who could object to anyone organizing soccer matches between Jews and Arabs?

Nonetheless, promoting the idea that peace will be attained through recreational activities— while Israel violates the most basic codes of morality and justice—is just playing games.

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I also strongly condemn the violence perpetrated by Hamas. I oppose the killing and maiming of innocent civilians by whomever commits this. Israeli forces killed far more people in Gaza (not all “human shields”), while very few Israelis died from attacks from Hamas.

Michael Leitner ignores the fact that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, in calling for two states and peace, has bent over backward to seek peace with Israel. Unfortunately, all Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners want is to grab more land for more settlements, and they will never agree to a Palestinian state.

A peace agreement between Israel and the PA in the West Bank would force Hamas in Gaza to agree to the same, or they would lose power there. How many Israeli settlers have been hunted down and prosecuted by Israel for hate crimes against Palestinians, including the torching of a mosque? Virtually none. This was reported in the Israeli periodical Haaretz.

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Mr. Leitner claims to be “pro-Israeli/proPalestinian” but then goes on his pro-Israel diatribe. Clever. I assume this is Part I of a two-part commentary. In Part II, Mr. Leitner, please address: Israel’s divide-and-conquer policy responsible for its supporting Hamas’ founding and Israel’s terror-bombing of Gaza following LETTERS continued on page 6

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Hamas/Fatah June 2014 unity agreement; connection between U.S. refusal to call for nuclear-free Middle East and Israeli nukes; why PM Sharett claims Israel has a policy of “state terror”; why PM Begin and Gen. Gur claim Israel makes no distinction between military/civilian targets; what is the Dahiya Doctrine and why did Gen. Galent say it will “send Gaza decades into the past”; documentation of Israeli ethnic cleansing policy in PM Ben-Gurian’s diary; how the Iron Dome is a video game “sound and light” show that hypes its success, guaranteeing more U.S. taxpayer funds; what Israelis mean by ‘mowing the grass’; why Israel bombs Lebanon with 4 million cluster bombs as a truce approaches; why Israel uses chemical weapons; Israel’s illegal settlement policy and water; Israeli redefinition of “occupation,” which if applied means the Nazi’s did not “occupy” their concentration camps. Fair and balanced.

Look forward to it.

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What strikes me about Mr. Leitner’s guest comment was not what he said but rather what he failed to mention. He was in Israel during Israel’s massacre in Gaza last summer, and describes very clearly the fear felt by Israelis as Hamas fired 5,000 rockets into Israel, and killed 66 Israeli soldiers and six civilians, including a child, while at the same time Israel killed 2,200 people in Gaza, including 519 children. Never mentioned was Israel’s long history of driving Palestinians out of their homes at gunpoint, and killing or imprisoning those who try to fight back.

Leitner claims that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. He failed to mention that Israel has completely blocked all of Gaza’s borders and coast. Israeli gunboats fire on Palestinian fishermen if they get more than 3 miles from the coast. Palestinians returning to Gaza have to pass Israeli soldiers who might force them to wait several weeks or even refuse to allow them to return home. Suppose a foreign power blockaded America’s ports? Would we not fire rockets at them until they lifted the blockade?

Professor Leitner does not seem to understand the causes of this conflict.

SHARON FRITSCH Chico

On immigration Dear Congressman Doug LaMalfa: President Obama’s executive

“I guess they don’t like being on the other end of the authoritarian sword.”

–John Salyer

action regarding undocumented aliens is not “amnesty” as most Americans would understand it.

Obama’s order is “deferred action” or, more accurately, “deferred deportation” under the prescribed conditions he set out for the period of his presidency—nothing more, nothing less, and I applaud it. I wonder how many undocumented aliens will apply since it is only good for at most two years and a little less than two months and there is no guarantee that a subsequent president will continue the policy.

Mr. LaMalfa, if you think you can force Obama to deport anyone, try. Deportation is an authority residing exclusively in the executive office and he exercises it with wide discretion. And, as President Andrew Jackson said in a letter to his friend John Coffee: “the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate ....” In other words, where is the Supreme Court’s army to enforce a decision requiring Obama to deport anyone, should it so order. Of course, nothing stops you from proposing a comprehensive immigration bill with Obama’s veto power in mind.

RICK NORLUND Durham

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grants with children born here the ability to stay and raise their children in the only home they have ever known. I find this moving, as one of my ancestors came here with John Bidwell as an undocumented immigrant, and the Mexican authorities allowed him to stay. Guess which Democratic Party I am proud to be a part of?

It’s not the Dolan-Mulholland one.

MICHAEL JONES Chico

Topics like this are very tough for me to take a position on because I ultimately want individuals to decide their own future instead of unelected bureaucrats and/or political elitists who often demand that they know what is best for everyone. But I also would imagine that the nitrate contamination issue probably isn’t extremely overexaggerated like most Big Government progressive agendas often are.

The main thing that caught me by surprise was that I would have never guessed progressives like Bob Mulholland, Jane Dolan, Tami Ritter, Randall Stone and Ann Schwab would have been so upset about unelected bureaucrats (LAFCo) and state politicians telling us what we can and cannot do in Chico and Butte County!

I guess they don’t like being on the other end of the authoritarian sword? I wonder if they are now thinking more like Libertarians and possibly State of Jefferson supporters instead of continuing to support Big Government Sacramento bullies. And what a predictable surprise that Scott Gruendl would potentially get us into yet another lawsuit before he officially leaves the council.

STEPHEN T. DAVIS Chico

JOHN SALYER Chico

Dissing the progressives Re “Merger stalls” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, Nov. 20): The Chapmantown neighborhood is one of the oldest in Chico.

It was where the working class lived when the Bidwells were still alive. The early founders of Chico adjusted the city boundaries to deny Chapman citizens the right to vote for City Council. At the last council meeting, Democratic Party operatives Jane Dolan and Bob Mulholland broke various procedural rules, such as speaking over the allotted time limit, during their successful effort to get the four Democrats on the council to vote against giving Chapman citizens the right to vote.

Later in the week, President Obama gave undocumented immi-

Correction An editorial in last week’s CN&R stated that Charles and David Koch stood to make $100 billion should the Keystone XL pipeline get the green light. However, according to PolitiFact.com, that is an exaggerated figure. It’s unclear at this time how many millions or billions the oil barons, who are the largest foreign leaseholders in the Canada tar sands, will make as an indirect result of the pipeline.

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James Molen, owner of the now-closed Touch of Class Florist in Chico, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by a federal judge last week (Nov. 20).

Molen, 70, was found guilty in May on a number of tax-evasion-related charges dating back to 2000, including failure to withhold and pay federal employment and unemployment taxes from his four employees’ paychecks. He also filed false liens in 2004 against those involved in his case—two federal judges, the U.S. attorney, two Department of Justice attorneys and an IRS revenue officer. The liens claimed more than $93 billion in collateral.

Molen and his wife, Sandra, who died two years ago, argued that income generated outside of Washington, D.C., is not subject to federal income taxation.

“Mr. Molen thought he could evade the federal tax laws that apply to every American by objecting to federal jurisdiction, ignoring his obligations, and by attempting to harass and intimidate federal officials,” U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said in a press release.

On the same day as the announcement from Wagner’s office, a Durham couple, David and Teri Schell, were indicted on federal drug charges in connection with the alleged growing and shipping of processed marijuana from a Chico UPS store via a post office box registered to Teri Schell and two nonexistent businesses—Outdoor Living ENT and, coincidentally, A Touch of Class. Federal agents reportedly found 428 pot plants at the couple’s home earlier this month. The local investigation was triggered by the feds’ uncovering of the San Francisco-based Silk Road 2.0 drug-marketing website.

POLICE CHIEF STEPS DOWN

Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle will soon retire after about 2 1/2 years of leading his department.

Trostle (pictured) served as interim chief starting in April 2012, following the retirement of his predecessor, Mike Maloney, and took the full-time job that June. At the time, Trostle told the CN&R he intended to remain chief for at least four years. But in a letter to City Manager Mark Orme dated Nov. 21, Trostle said his last day would be Dec. 30.

“Recent events in my private life have caused me to make a choice—profession or family,” Trostle wrote. He said his decision to retire “will be the first time I have chosen family over profession in nearly 28 years of public service.”

In response to an email inquiry from the CN&R, Orme acknowledged his personal surprise. “The chief has been working extremely hard to help the police department overcome the difficult financial circumstances and staffing challenges our city is experiencing,” he wrote. “I was hopeful that he would be here for a few more years as we rebuild the organization and the department.”

Orme said he hopes to work out a contract for an interim replacement by mid-December, and that he plans to begin a national search for a full-time chief in January.

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Helping hands Service groups and activists rely on volunteers to keep homeless people warm, fed ast December, a nasty cold snap prompted LChico members of a then-fledgling organization, Housing Action Team (CHAT), to create a

temporary shelter for the homeless population not served by the Torres Community Shelter or other refuges.

For 16 days beginning last story and photo by Dec. 7, CHAT partnered first Ken Smith with the Chico Peace and Justice Center, and then with the Jesus kens@ newsreview.com Center, to provide overnight housing for as many as 30 people. Midway through that effort, retired nurse Cynthia Gailey Where you read a newspaper article about can help: the temporary shelters and was For information moved to get involved. about donating, “I’d done some cleanup in volunteering or Lindo Channel and was familiar fundraising with the dangers homeless peoevents: ple there face—not just from the Chico Housing elements, but from human predAction Team’s Safe Space: ators—and wanted to help,” she www.facebook.com said.

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When the temporary shelters closed, Gailey continued working with CHAT, determined to streamline this year’s efforts to better serve the homeless. To that end, she researched how other groups run such programs, including the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter of Davis and the Sojourner’s House on the Ridge in Paradise, and for the last several months has been seeking volunteers and venues for the shelter program, now called Safe Space.

This year, Safe Space will provide overnight shelter for 40 people each night from Dec. 14 through at least Jan. 31 (Gailey hopes to extend the program until March).

She explained all guests will report to an intake center at Show Love Thrift on Park Avenue, and be transported to a shelter. Thus far, a few churches—Trinity Methodist, Bidwell Presbyterian, East Avenue and the Universalist Unitarian— as well as the Jesus Center, have volunteered space, though the nightly locations will not be revealed until people seeking shelter report to the intake center. Guests will be provided with a light meal and housed from 7 p.m. until 6:45 a.m.

To facilitate the plan, Gailey said CHAT needs 25 volunteers per evening to perform duties ranging from cleaning to serving six-hour shifts through the night. In some cases, the venues will provide helpers from their own congregations, but Gailey said CHAT still needs more hands on deck. CHAT is

inviting interested parties to volunteer orientations on Dec. 1 and 8. The group is also seeking donations of supplies.

“Forty might just seem like a drop in the bucket, and we’re hoping it’s enough,” Gailey said. “Other shelters are telling us they’ve already been full.”

The Torres Community Shelter is not

exactly full, but would be turning away guests had the building not been expanded last June, said Executive Director Brad Montgomery. The shelter’s capacity was 120 before the summer expansion, and now can house 140. He said the shelter set a record on Oct. 15 with 114 guests.

“Every day since then would be a record,” Montgomery said, explaining workers at the shelter have become accustomed to serving between 110 and 120 a night, and have now housed as many as 130, with a marked increase in the number of whole families checking in.

“We haven’t changed our policies much and this is all happening before the weather gets really bad, so we can’t really pinpoint the reason,” Montgomery said. “I’m just glad we were able to get the expansion done in time, and we haven’t been in the position to have to say we’re out of space.”

Montgomery explained it costs about $25 per person per night to house homeless individuals at the shelter, and that the organization’s resources are—as always—strained. In addition to wel-

coming volunteers and donations (particularly of personal hygiene items), Montgomery noted the shelter’s Christmas Tree Auction—its largest annual fundraiser—will be held Dec. 6.

Meanwhile, the Jesus Center is actively seeking materials and volunteers to assist with two of its busiest yearly events, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.

Rich Young, assistant director at the Jesus Center, explained the dinners are actually served the day before each holiday, as those are the only days the center closes. Rather than buffet style, the meals are plated and served by volunteers, and afterward each diner is invited to take a gift.

To facilitate the meals and gift-giving, Young said the center is seeking donations of turkey, ham and other holiday staples, as well as toys and winter-weather gear to offer children and adults who attend.

While some service groups have seen an

uptick in the number of people they serve, Tony Delgardo—a member of the local chapter of nationwide activist organization Food Not Bombs—said he’s seen fewer in recent weeks. The group, which intentionally serves food without permits to protest poverty, sets up every Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Chico’s City Plaza. Delgardo attributes the decrease to the presence of armed security guards recently hired by the Downtown Chico Business Association.

“I’ve noticed there’s fewer of my homeless brothers and sisters downtown,” Delgardo said last Saturday.

“People are less likely to come down here and buy things if they see people suffering and hungry on the street, so business owners don’t want them here and are running them off.

“It’s the time of the year when it’s getting cold and people who don’t have any place to go are the most vulnerable, and now you have guys with guns running them off of public space? This is not cool.”

FNB is completely reliant on volunteers, which some members say have become fewer as longtime members focus on other obligations. Jayme Beres, who’s been with the group since it formed to feed Occupy Chico State demonstrators three years ago, said he hopes more join up to keep the group active.

“Food Not Bombs is bigger and thicker some weeks and thinner other weeks,” Delgardo said. “It kinda depends on who is able to come and help out.

We’re all individuals and we all have our own personal lives and commitments.”

Both members said it’s important for the group to maintain its presence.

“We don’t just feed the homeless, but anyone who eats,” Delgardo said. “It’s about solidarity, not charity.” Ω

Bringing the Heat Summer baseball heading back under the bright lights of Nettleton Stadium

The dragon mascot for the Chico Heat baseball team, Heater, will return along with the team in summer 2016.

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who’s sweated through a midsummer night in Chico knows Abeennyone the value of a pastime, but for the last three years, Chicoans have without America’s traditional favorite—baseball.

Fans will have to cope for just one more season. Then, in June 2016, the Chico Heat will return to the diamond at Nettleton Stadium and play the first summer baseball there since 2011. It’ll be the whole shebang—fireworks, hot dogs and cold beer, goofy promotions between innings and, of course, Heater, the beloved dragon mascot.

The team’s formation will coincide with that of the Great West League, a new wood-bat collegiate league made up of teams from California and Oregon. There are a few notable changes compared to the former Heat and Outlaws teams, which were both part of independent leagues—professional organizations not affiliated with a Major League Baseball team that drew a mix of young talent and grizzled veterans. The Great West League, however, will focus only on the development of college players.

Ken Wilson, a former broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics, is serving as president. During a phone interview, Wilson declined to list participating cities, but said six to eight teams made up of college players from around the country will play a 10-week, 60-game schedule starting June 3.

“These players will be working toward a professional career,” he said, “so the quality of play will be really strong.”

Wilson is well aware that, in the past, professional baseball teams have run successful operations in Chico.

“It looks like an exceptional market, and the history indicates it’s an exceptional baseball town,” he said. “When the Chico Heat were there before, and run extremely well, their success was off the charts.

“Our expectation is the new Chico Heat will be run well, too, and they’ll earn the support of the fans again.”

Steve Nettleton, the former supermarket magnate and generous

donor for whom Chico State’s stadium is named, owned the Chico Heat during their run from 1997 to 2002. They were champions of the Western Baseball League in their first season and generally drew big crowds.

One enthusiastic fan at the time was longtime Chico media personality Dino Corbin, now of Deer Creek Broadcasting.

“It was the most successful team in the Western Baseball League,” he said. “It was just a really wonderful Chico experience, something to do in the summertime.”

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Despite the Chico Heat’s draw, the league folded in 2002 and Chico went without professional baseball until the Chico Outlaws began operations in 2005 as part of the Golden Baseball League. Chico quickly took to the Outlaws and Rascal, their raccoon mascot, as the club paced the league in average home-game attendance and made the playoffs that first year. They became league champions in 2007 and 2010— when they joined the North American Baseball League—and saw a host of players move on to MLB. But in 2011, when time came for the Outlaws to renew their contract, the university balked. Chico State officials were uncertain they could recover stadium operating costs, while scheduling conflicts arose with the university’s baseball team and neighbors complained of game-related noise pollution. In addition, the league struggled with the costs of teams playing away games as far as Illinois, Hawaii and Canada.

No official announcement was made, but the Outlaws were done for good.

In bringing the Heat back to Chico, Nettleton has partnered with Pat

Gillick, former general manager of the Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles and Philadelphia Phillies. In 2011, Gillick was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and he’s currently serving as the Phillies’ interim president.

Gillick is a Chico native. His father, George, was a professional pitcher before serving as Butte County sheriff for 32 years. (An obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that he once “felled a fleeing criminal with a well-aimed rock.”)

“We’re very excited about the prospects in Chico,” Gillick said by phone. “We want to offer family entertainment at a moderate price … and I think Nettleton Stadium will be a great place for this brand of baseball.”

Corbin said he agrees that the Chico Heat will be an “absolutely viable” business for a number of reasons.

“From an infrastructure standpoint, you’ve got everything a baseball team could want,” he said. “We’ve got a great field, thanks to Mr. Nettleton. You have the media—radio, TV, newspapers—and a lot of smaller markets don’t have that capability. Then you have a regional draw from half a dozen communities where it’s not too far to come enjoy a ballgame.”

Another appeal to Gillick is the potential relationship with Chico State’s baseball program, as he expects many students will play with the Heat.

“If you can find those players in your backyard, and I’m pretty sure you can, then certainly we’ll give them every opportunity,” he said.

“That’s our goal—to help these young men develop on the field and into better people within their communities.”

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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‘Soul’ food Local café reinvents ‘affordable dining’ with pay-what-you-can model f everyone gives what they “I have, everyone gets what they need.”

That’s not just an admirable thought, it’s the principle Jill Lacefield used in developing the paywhat-you-can model for her Chico eatery, 100th Monkey Community Café. Opened in 2012, the Fifth Street coffee house’s paradigm changed this summer when Lacefield turned it into a nonprofit. And as of Nov. 3, the new policy was implemented: Instead of fixed prices, suggested donations are requested in exchange for meals.

Regardless of what one can pay, nobody is turned away.

“I knew I wanted this to be more than a café; I wanted it to be a community space,” Lacefield said. “But I wondered where it’d go next. Then I was inspired by the SAME café in Denver.”

Short for “So All May Eat,” SAME café follows the One World Everyone Eats movement, started in 2003 by Denise Cerreta, who opened the first pay-what-you-can café in Salt Lake City to address hunger and food insecurity. With a sliding scale, patrons can pay more or less than what’s listed on the menu. After six years of running One World Café, Cerreta began helping more than 45 eateries across the country establish the same model. The latest to join the ranks is 100th Monkey. There’s most certainly a need.

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know where their next meal is coming from,” Lacefield noted.

Hoping to reduce that statistic, she began gathering the funds necessary to make her vision a reality.

Between one Indiegogo campaign and two local fundraisers, Lacefield raised nearly $3,600 to start her nonprofit.

The café is run entirely by 15 volunteers who split shifts among the Monday-through-Thursday schedule. Lacefield, a part-time instructor at Butte College, is both executive director and a volunteer, as the nonprofit’s current budget allows for only two paid positions, which go to chefs Monica Zukarow and Brenda Bestle.

But offering quality food is what Lacefield is especially proud of. As an exclusively vegetarian restaurant, 100th Monkey also offers glutenfree and vegan options at the “mostly organic” café, including an array of quiches, soups and salads, among other items. “We get the majority of our ingredients from the farmers’ market, especially Rob’s Produce,” said Bestle, who added that she had been eager to join Lacefield’s new venture.

Suggested donations for meals are marked at $9 for large plates and $7 for medium plates, both of which come with a dessert option and coffee or tea.

“There has been a shift in the cus-

tomers since the new policy started,” Lacefield said. “It’s a mix of people from all walks of life.”

For those who cannot afford to pay any of the suggested donations, she trades an hour of work in exchange for a meal. Several customers utilize this method of transaction.

“This is not a soup kitchen,” she said. “Everyone has something to give, even if it’s not money.”

Supporting that giving spirit, many local food providers have offered donations to the café. For instance, the brightly colored walls of 100th Monkey are adorned with work by local artist Marie Hubbard, who donated her inventory to the space.

Learn more: “The vibe is For more information, so friendly check out here,” said first-time cus- www.facebook.com/ 100thmonkey tomer Karey communitycafe and Cooper. “It indiegogo.com for the latest feels casucrowdsourcing al—like endeavor. being in someone’s living room.”

Lacefield understands the financial obstacles that come with such an operation, but she remains optimistic, and more fundraisers are in the works.

“For the month of December, all donations given above the suggested price will be matched by an anonymous donor,” she said.

“We’re in the process of applying for grants, and we’ll have wish lists on our website where people can donate to the café. But it’s not about the money. Denise told me, ‘Even if you can only stay open for six months, it’s worth it—you’re changing lives.’”

—RACHEL BUSH

Buckeye Russell helps Mama Rose take inventory before her biggest feast of the year, Thanksgiving.

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Feeding the hungry Mama Rose cooks weekly meals—and a Thanksgiving feast—for the Chico homeless ost people who know Rose Adams know M her simply as “Mama Rose.” And the name is appropriate. For the past 20 years,

she’s worked hard to grow her family through weekly Sunday dinners, prepared from scratch and offered at her home.

“Thanksgiving is really important to me because a lot of the homeless don’t have families to go home to,” Adams said last week, just a few days before her biggest Sunday dinner of the year, Thanksgiving.

Adams started hosting the weekly dinners to offer homeless or struggling families a place to have a family meal. She liked that about the Waltons, she said. “They’d go to church and then have dinner together on Sundays. There always should be family time.”

There was a time when Adams and her four children were homeless, so she knows firsthand how hard it can be to raise a family without a home. Among the biggest struggles was finding time with her kids to enjoy their meals, and also to ensure her family was eating nutritious foods.

“I am a firm believer in three staples: starch, vegetables and meat,” she said. She incorporates all three into every meal.

Whenever possible, she buys fresh produce—nothing in cans—and prepares the meals herself.

“It’s all me,” she said. “Why do you think people call it ‘Mama Rose’s Dinner’?”

Buckeye Russell is a regular diner at Mama Rose’s. One of his favorite meals is her fried chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans. He also loves the pork roast, he said.

“Without Mama Rose, we would all go hungry,” Russell said. “Thanks to Mama Rose, we have full stomachs.”

Standing outside her Nord Avenue apartment, Adams—with Russell’s help—counted boxes and cans stacked on a table for the feast. “I still need three more turkeys, pumpkin pies, Jell-O ….” Behind her, three men sorted cans and bottles. Every day, Adams heads out on the town to collect recyclables, which she turns in to fund her meals.

“I jump in Dumpsters. I do what I have to to feed these people,” she said. “A lot of people think people who jump in Dumpsters are doing it for drug money, or beer money.

I do it for other people, for the smile on their faces.”

On an ordinary week, Adams feeds between 20 and 60 people—the number gets bigger toward the end of the month. That costs about $150-$200 a week, she said.

Thanksgiving is a different story.

“Last year I had 300 people,” she said.

This year, the turnout was closer to 225, she said, but still there was no food left over.

Adams enlisted the help of 12 neighbors who were willing to donate their ovens to cook turkeys for the feast. Her family also pitched in, as a nasty cold took hold of Adams just before the big day. Nonetheless, early Sunday afternoon, the parking lot outside her apartment was filled with a few dozen hungry patrons eyeing the turkeys, stuffing, potato salad and other fixings. They would trickle in throughout the day, Adams said.

Most of the places around town will fill a plate for people and either there’s not enough food or there’s too much, which means waste, she said. “I always let them fix their own plates. It makes it feel more like home.”

—MEREDITH J. GRAHAM meredithg@newsreview.com November 26, 2014

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NATION’S FIRST SODA TAX

Berkeley passed the nation’s first tax on soda and other sugary beverages on Nov. 4, but a similar measure in San Francisco failed to garner the two-thirds vote it needed to become law.

The soda industry has spent big money in recent years to defeat soda taxes in more than 30 cities around the country, and spent more than $10 million campaigning against the measures in Berkeley and San Francisco, according to The Associated Press.

While some say Berkeley’s penny-per-ounce tax may set an example for the rest of the nation, Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the American Beverage Association, downplayed its significance. “Berkeley is very eclectic,” he said. “It doesn’t look like Anytown, USA.” Salazar also said voters in San Francisco “made it clear that they can decide for themselves what to eat and drink.”

Pneumonia misunderstood As flu season ramps up, local medical experts discuss a separate deadly respiratory illness

EBOLA REGULATIONS ADOPTED

California has adopted tight regulations intended to protect health care providers who might treat a patient infected with Ebola.

Earlier this month, nurses across the country participated in a planned walkout to demand protective equipment, such as fullbody hazardous materials suits, and continuous training for health care workers who might encounter an Ebola patient. On Nov. 14, the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced new regulations requiring the state’s 300 or so acute-care hospitals to provide protective suits, respirators, isolation rooms and extensive training, according to SFGate.com.

The new rules are more comprehensive than those put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which the state had previously followed. To date, no Ebola cases have been reported in California.

DOUBLE STANDARD FOR BOSSES

Women in positions of authority at work are more likely to become depressed than their male counterparts, say researchers from the University of Texas, Austin.

The study, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, included interviews with 2,800 middle-aged men and women from Wisconsin in 1993 and 2004, when they were ages 54 and 64, respectively, according to BBC Health. Participants reported about their level of authority at work and the number of days in the past week they felt depressive symptoms. When their jobs involved hiring, firing and influencing compensation, women were 9 percent more likely to report depression than women without authority. Meanwhile, men in similar positions were 10 percent less likely to have depressive symptoms.

The study’s authors noted that, when female bosses adopted typically masculine mannerisms, they were criticized for being unfeminine, yet colleagues wouldn’t consider them strong leaders if their womanly characteristics were strong.

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

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op quiz: What claimed most patients’

lives during the influenza pandemic of 1918?

If you said “the flu,” good guess, but no. The main cause of death during that outbreak, which killed 675,000 in the U.S. alone, was a separate respiratory infection that strikes the lungs—pneumonia.

“The reason our life expectancy has gone up in the developed world is to a great extent because we can treat pneumonia,” said Dr. Matthew Fine, chief medical officer and director of patient safety at Oroville Hospital. “That plateaued a long time ago; after World War II, we could treat pneumonia. Now, even if we had a flu epidemic, which we’ve had—not to the extent of [the 1918 pandemic]—the death rate wouldn’t be as high.”

Both in doctors’ offices and hospitals, medical advances have allowed physicians to cure countless pneumonia-stricken patients. The most common remedies are medication (antibiotics or antivirals, depending on the strain) and breathing treatments, such as supplemental oxygen.

The key factor that often separates cases that can be treated on an outpatient basis from those requiring a hospital admission is timing.

“There are studies that show delayed treatment in pneumonia is a problem,” Fine said. “Some people will put up with a lot of symptoms before going to the doctor or the emergency room, and they can have a pret-

ty severe pneumonia that can cause pretty severe problems. Maybe they have a high threshold for pain or they didn’t have insurance or whatever reason. And then other people, at the first symptom they may be in their doctor’s office.”

This time of year marks the start of the busy season for pneumonia, just as it is for flu.

“Especially with the changing weather, people get sick in the fall time,” said Dr. Dinesh Verma, a specialist with North State Pulmonology Critical Care Associates in Chico who’s also on the medical staff at Enloe Medical Center. “The vast majority of times it’s almost impossible to distinguish symptoms they are having, whether they have flu or bacterial pneumonia or viral pneumonia.

“It’s the trickiest, most dangerous time of the entire year. The chance of getting a pulmonary infection, or an exacerbation of their [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] or emphysema or asthma, seems to be worse.”

Along with a cough, symptoms can include a fever (but not always—sometimes even a lower temperature), shortness of breath, pain, fatigue and nausea.

Pneumonia is preventable. While it’s spread

by exposure to bacteria and viruses through the respiratory system, many people come in contact with pneumonia and don’t get sick. After all, Dr. Fine points out, health care professionals treat ill people every day without catching the sickness themselves.

In the words of Verma, take “extra precautions” to “make your body and immune system strong.”

Get vaccinated against the flu and bacterial pneumonia, he says, particularly if you’re at risk (such as having a history of bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, etc.). Practice good hygiene, since touching a dirty surface and then touching your face can HEALTHLINES continued on page 14

APPOINTMENT DAY TO REMEMBER World AIDS Day is Monday (Dec. 1) and a host of local organizations are getting involved. The day of remembrance and advocacy kicks off at Chico State with an informational fair in the Bell Memorial Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and continues with speakers— including Mayor Scott Gruendl—and entertainment at Trinity United Methodist Church (285 E. Fifth St.) from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Call Stonewall Alliance at 893-3336 for more information.

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transmit germs. Diabetics, watch your sugars; there’s a connection between high blood sugar and lowered immunity.

Take Vitamin C (which may reduce a disease’s duration) and Vitamin D (low levels of which have been linked to respiratory illnesses). A cup of tea or soup on a cold day can aid prevention— strep-pneumonia bacteria stick to respiratory epithelium better when the tissues are colder. Drink plenty of water.

“The good thing is that nature knows our lungs are going to be exposed to a whole variety of respiratory pathogens—bacteria and viruses—so we are very wellequipped to defend our bodies against this,” Verma said. “You really have to create the ideal situation for the bacteria or the viruses to get a strong foothold in your respiratory tract, start multiplying and cause symptoms.”

When that happens, you may in fact suffer from two illnesses at once: pneumonia and something else (perhaps the flu). Patients may experience an improvement, then a setback.

As serious cases may require hospitalization for monitoring and treatment, local hospitals have made pneumonia care a priority.

Enloe, for instance, has included it in the medical center’s Quality Initiatives; Oroville Hospital recently was recognized as one of 53 hospitals nationwide with the lowest mortality rates from pneumonia.

All together, Butte County hospitals have fewer deaths from pneu-

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Flu shots Pneumonia vaccine Quitting smoking Hand hygiene Vitamin supplements (notably C and D) • Hot drinks or soups in cold weather • Early medical attention

monia and flu than the state average.

“I think we’ve reached the point in medicine where new drugs and new medical equipment are not what makes a difference,” Fine says. “It’s the ability to apply what we already know.”

Significant components of care include communicating the diagnosis and specific treatment plan, facilitated by the hospital’s electronic health records system; “antimicrobial stewardship” (starting and stopping antibiotics in the appropriate timeframe), and preventing blood clots.

“The move to patient safety since 1999, since the To Err Is Human report [from the Institute of Medicine, about preventable mistakes], has been about using systems to apply what we know to the care of the patient,” Fine said. “It’s really the overall care of the patient and how the hospital functions [that determines] whether you do well with pneumonia, or anything else.” Ω

WEEKLY DOSE Don’t get SAD After Daylight Saving Time winds the clock back and sunlight gets scarce, it’s not unusual to feel lethargic, moody and depressed.

Most people suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) to at least some degree. Here are a few lifestyle tips to ease those effects: • Make your environment sunny: Open blinds wide and sit near a bright window at home or at work.

• Get outside: Taking a walk in the park or eating lunch outside can be helpful even on overcast days.

• Exercise regularly: Stress and anxiety can heighten the symptoms of SAD, and it’s well-established that exercise can alleviate those conditions.

Source: MayoClinic.org.

November 29 is Small Business Saturday

Support your local businesses!

Black Friday Specials and more

Flavorful Holiday gifts

Holiday specials are in force at Fanno Saw Works!

5” Classic Santoku Regular price: $135.00 Sale price: $49.99

Want to share 5th Street Steakhouse with a friend or family member? Gift cards make it simple. Great for the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and company parties. 5th Street Steakhouse food tastes great on any occasion!

Find additional savings on gift sets, steak knife sets and more. Stop by and check out the amazing selection at this wonderful local store with internet pricing. Support local!

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Bacio Gift Cards!

Give the gift of a lunch or dinner from Chico’s best and healthiest take-out! Perfect for Hot Soup on a cold day, “Date Night” at home or a special Birthday Lunch. Their re-loadable gift cards are a welcome gift for all of your smart Foodie Friends, new parents, busy families and anyone you know who loves real food.

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California Sunshine in a Bottle Share the rich, golden elegance of the AWARD WINNING Butte View olive oils. Pure, light and delicate – experience the wonderful aromas and distinctive accents that make each hand crafted oil truly unique and excellent.

250ml/500ml. Available in Chico at Maisie Jane’s, Made in Chico, S&S Produce, in Oroville at Collins & Denny Market & Wagon Wheel Market and in Paradise at Noble Orchard.

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Butte View Olive Company

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GIVE THE “GIFT OF PLEASURE”...

The Tilley Endurables TH4 Hemp Sun Protection Hat

Treating friends, loved ones or employees to a Tui Ná massage at Wendy’s Massage is the ultimate expression of how much they are appreciated! Wendy’s ambiance is the perfect place for them to relax... refresh and rejuvenate—a time when all their bodily tensions will melt away. Wendy’s gift cards are wonderful for Birthdays, Holidays and Anniversaries... the perfect way to say— “You’re Special to Me!”

This hat features a wide front/back sloping brim with 2 1/2” sides for even more sun shading protection. Made of the world’s strongest fiber, hemp hats are soft as linen but durable and resistant to mold, mildew and salt water. It is UPF 50+ rated for ultimate sun protection and has a high ventilated crown for added air flow. This hat is guaranteed machine washable and will never shrink.

Excellent for those whose outdoor activities require a little extra shade.

WENDY’S MASSAGE

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Anika Burke Eclectic Boutique enjoys providing Chico with the essence of California’s casual lifestyle. This ever–popular shop is chock-full of modern and classy women’s & men’s clothing and accessories. Dress with ease and rock every piece you wear! This week’s special offer: Fleece–lined leggings, five for $20 or $5.95 each. Available in 11 colors.

Sweetwater Gift Cards - Beautifully Boxed and Wrapped. Or Sweetwater’s Customer Favorite: The Holiday Spa Package for only $129! Includes Signature spa facial - Relaxation massage - Spa pedicure. Purchase now through December 31.

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A gift certificate from Tres Hombres. Choose any denomination, get a gift card, and your holiday shopping for friends & co-workers is complete. Try the “The BEST Margaritas in Chico” as voted

by CN&R readers. Or skip the filler and try a shot of over 125 premium tequilas. Fiesta Hour Appetizers & Cocktails Daily 4-6. $3.50 La Casa Margs & Draft Beer. Next time you’re making plans to gather just say...

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Celebrate Christmas Christian & Johnson features many beautiful Nativity Scenes to help you celebrate the meaning of Christmas. From rustic wood tones, detailed and hand-painted, or soft and snowy-white, C&J can help you find the perfect set. These Nativities make beautiful gifts or lovely centerpieces for your own Christmas celebration. Don’t forget that C&J also offers gorgeous fresh flowers, beautiful plants, unique Christmas decor and gifts, and free gift wrapping!

Christian & Johnson has been making the Holidays beautiful since 1907.

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Enter Discount Code: cnrgift Find our products online, In-Store,or at Anika Burke’s in Downtown Chico. Combining the richness of Chico and its history into quality apparel.

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On Shop Local Saturday support Chico area artists, crafters, and makers at the MUSE Holiday Marketplace. Art and gifts for the self and the home including jewelry, felting, pottery, natural body products, candles, clothing, toys, pillows, and more.

MUSE Holiday Marketplace

Sat. Nov. 29 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Habitat Lab • 199 E. 13th St Chico

BLACK FRIDAY SALE! 2012 IZIP Metro Get $1000 OFF and FREE shipping or assembly on this fantastic electric bike while supplies last. Travel up to 35 miles per charge at up to 20mph with it’s 36V Lithium Ion battery pack and 500 Watt rear hub motor. Place your order Online or In Store now until Cyber Monday Dec 1st.

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Give The Ultimate Gift of Eternal Value!

Precious metals are an incredible way to present your loved ones with a lifelong gift of lasting beauty and value. This Holiday season presents an attractive time to take advantage of 5 year lows on Gold and Silver. There are very few things that can be purchased at 2009 levels so come on down to Chico Coin and Jewelry and see our incredible selection of Gold and Silver coins and bars before prices escalate again! We have a full inventory of both private mint and Government issue products to satisfy every investor's or collector's needs.

Chico Coin & Jewelry 1414 Park Ave. #108 (Next to Nobby's) 894-5436 chicocoin.com

Handbags, Handbags and more Beautiful Handbags The perfect holiday gift for every women.

Crossbodies, Clutches, totes for every occasion. Join us Thursday, December 4th at 5:30 for our Holiday Sip and Shop Event. Matorya Stones and The Dressing Room will be showcasing our favorites.

The Dressing Room

530 Broadway Street • Chico Monday-Saturday 10-6 (530) 566-9394 thedressingroomchico.com

Red Mountain Green Cycle

455 20th St. (20th & Mulberry) • Chico (530) 899-7270 • redmountaingreencycle.com

Enjoy a True Chico Tradition Shubert’s Homemade Ice Cream & Candy has been a Chico tradition for over 75 years! Homemade Boxed Chocolates, Peanut Brittle, English Toffee and Divinity are just a few treats our families have come to look forward to during the holidays. Pre-order Snowballs now! The perfect holiday dessert! Don’t forget your Shubert’s Mints this season!

No holiday celebration would be complete without them!

Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy

178 East 7th Street • Chico (530) 342-7163 www.shuberts.com

Cheer in the Holidays with Style...

From your custom hand blown glass beer mug.

It might not make the beer taste better but people will definitely notice what you are drinking out of. Take it to the Sierra Nevada bar and just listen to all the comments you’ll get. Check out the amazing selection of glasses and mugs we offer.

Discounts and deals will be in place throughout the holidays!

Chico Valley Gallery is the perfect store to shop for Holiday gifts. We feature glass art marbles, pendants, bracelets, and other one of a kind jewelry and glass items. You’re sure to find something unique for that special someone.

Located in downtown Chico right next to Woodstock’s Pizza.

Chico Valley Gallery

152 East Second Street • Downtown Chico 3451528 find us on Facebook

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Vance Kitira Coasters Coasters are always welcome and useful for entertaining - and they make great gifts too! These are genuine Palm Wood, in a set of 6. Now through Dec. 24 get 20-30% off accessories. Save big on: lighting, rugs, art, mirrors, wall décor, floral, candles, wall partitions, pillows, throws, runners, ottomans, and other fancy stuff. Esplanade Furniture is Chico’s oldest furniture store. In addition to name-brand furniture you’ll find an amazing array of accessories.

Stop in today to browse the store! Find us on Facebook.

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UGGS – Popular Gift for Everyone!

Diamond W…a lot more than Western Wear At Diamond W, you’ll find the largest selection of genuine UGGS for Ladies, Men, and Kids! We offer full line of genuine UGGS, as well as the care-products, and can even special order your favorite pair, just in time for Christmas! Diamond W also offers Northern California’s largest selection of BOOTS for the entire family. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will take the time to size you correctly and assure your 100% satisfaction. Visit us today and experience Full Service with the “Lowest Prices Guaranteed”. Locally Owned for 36 Years.

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Experience Our Citrus Crush!

Delivering a zesty mouthful of fresh Meyer Lemon, Lucero’s Meyer Lemon Crushed Olive Oil is all natural. We press freshly picked Meyer Lemons from California’s Central Valley and mandarins from the finest groves in Butte County - along with olives picked locally in Corning - to create this award-winning flavored oil.

Join us at Lucero Olive Oil’s Winter Crush to witness the blend Saturday, December 6, 10am-4pm. $5. Tickets: 530-824-2190.

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Pat’s Shoe & Boot Repair E181 E 2nd Street • Downtown Chico Open Every Day • (530) 891-1650

Tons of New Items in Stock This Year Chico’s downtown Chinatown has tons of great gift ideas for friends, family and loved ones. Why not give your teacher, mom, dad and best friend a fun and decorative coffee mug this year? House of Rice has over a 100 different designs to choose from! Visit House of Rice today for a great selection of unique gifts at affordable prices.

House of Rice Oriental Imports & Gifts 338 Broadway Downtown Chico (530) 893–1794

Give the gift of Local Food... beautifully wrapped up!

From that small special something to the big ‘WOW’ gift basket, Maisie Jane’s gift shop has you covered! All our beautiful gift baskets are filled with superior quality Maisie Jane’s almond products and a vast array of other top shelf quality, locally made food products, wine and more. We’ll even Ship it for you! Come enjoy our tasting bar and festive holiday charm!

Maisie Jane’s Gift Shop

1324 Dayton Rd • Chico • Holiday hours: Mon-Sat 9-6/ Sun 12-4 530.809.2374 • www.maisiejanes.com

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GREENWAYS Jenny Lowrey is on a mission to improve people’s health through good, wholesome food.

Cultivating change

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ithin 10 minutes of arriving at Kentfield W community garden off First Avenue in Chico, a man handed me two plump, green

tomatoes. “Those will be good to eat in three days!” volunteer Bruce Matthews said.

It was a fitting welcome, seeing as the garden—the current headquarters of the new local, volunteer-run nonprofit From the Ground Up Farms—serves primarily to “feed the community and teach them how to grow things themselves.” That’s the mission of the organization’s founder and executive director, Jenny Lowrey. While it’s her goal to educate others about self-sufficient farming methods, Lowrey admits that gardening is a relatively new passion.

“My background is in corporate management, and I spent 15 years working in chemical agriculture,” she said. “But I couldn’t support what they were doing to the land anymore. Now I work at a nonprofit growing organic food and I’m sure they laugh at me.”

Not only has her work space changed dramatically, but Lowrey made another significant transformation that served as the catalyst for From the Ground Up Farms.

“Three years ago I was 270 pounds, on 15 medications, had four heart attacks, diabetes and cancer. I had to make the decision if I wanted to live or die,” she said.

Spending time on her Concow garden property, she learned healthier diet practices,

which reduced many of her ailments. “Working in the garden was a healing process for me. Picking my own food and going inside to cook it was wonderful,” she said.

Inspired by her transformation, Lowrey’s son, Chico musician Hap Hathaway, suggested she start an organization. In 2013, Lowrey filed for 501 C3 charity status, and FTGUF was planted.

The Concow property became the first official

garden affiliated with the organization, with many local residents volunteering time in exchange for produce. “There’s a huge food security problem in that area. People don’t have access to safe food,” Lowrey said.

Looking to add locations around Chico, she stumbled upon an existing quarter-acre garden lot off Kentfield Road, owned by Todd Hall and Molly Stokes.

“Jenny was very persistent. She told me what she wanted to do and I was all for it—I basically handed over the keys,” Hall said.

With the help of about 18 volunteers, plus many local donations, the Kentfield garden currently flourishes with winter vegetables.

Relatively new to Chico, Lowrey has depended on the strength of word of mouth and her own voice in spreading the news about her organization.

“I’d go to the farmers’ markets and talk to

Learn more:

For more information on From the Ground Up, go to www.fromthegroundupfarms.org.

people with organic starts,” Lowrey said.

“I’m not bashful. I told people, ‘We need help.’”

Walking around the garden, Lowrey smiled as she pointed out the rows of cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes and kale—much of which was gifted from local community members, like Nancy Schleiger of Native Springs Nursery, and Sherri Scott from GRUB CSA Farm.

While donations sustain the growing garden’s productivity, it was the thousand dollar grant awarded by The Pollination Project that initially supported FTGUF’s overhead costs. The Pollution Project, also a nonprofit organization, gives $1,000 seed grants daily to national and international projects promoting social change.

“The reviewers of Jenny’s application thought it was a model example of a community garden project,” explained James West, grant coordinator for The Pollination Project. “Her vision addresses the difficulties that so many face in obtaining access to fresh food.” The Pollination Project was the first grant proposal Lowrey had ever written.

She now has two more completed and “two more in the works!”

Lowrey hopes to have four more gardens

established in Chico and Durham by spring 2015, particularly in areas that can serve low-income residents. With additional funding and garden space, Lowrey’s long-term goals include donating food to local shelters and schools. But she’s especially excited about creating workshops for the community.

“It’s all about education,” she said. “We want to teach gardening practices, and also how to cook and preserve your food—how to make it last.”

For now, it’s the produce stand at the Kentfield property that provides locals with fresh food. Initially set up by Todd Hall, the stand was established on the honor system— take the food you need, and leave an optional donation. Last year’s donations brought in over $1,000, which Hall and his family donated to the Torres Community Shelter.

Now Lowrey runs the stand, keeping baskets of fresh produce—picked straight from the garden—available daily.

“It’s amazing to see what they’ve done with the garden in the last couple months, and the neighborhood loves it. We never could keep it going through winter, but now it looks beautiful,” Hall said.

As the afternoon wrapped up, Lowrey and fellow volunteers prepared to hand off more of those green tomatoes (and some red ones, too).

For Lowrey, it’s the personal reminder of improved health that keeps her motivated in the efforts to grow her organization.

“From changing the way I’ve eaten, I’ve lost nearly 140 pounds. I’m no longer diabetic. And nearly all the other volunteers here once had health problems that have been improved through diet,” she said. “I feel morally obligated to share with others what I learned the hard way.” Ω

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BOY SCOUT SILVERTIPS Generations of Americans have developed a deeper appreciation and understanding of their natural surroundings through the Boy Scouts and similar programs. Chicoans have the opportunity to support scouting with what has become a local holiday tradition, the Boy Scout Troop 31 Christmas Tree Sale.

The Silvertip fir trees are grown in Chester and sold at the Chico Nut Co. parking lot (2020 Esplanade) at a set price of $40, no matter the size. Other local troops help retrieve the trees and run a post-Christmas recycling program. The lot opens on Sunday, Nov. 30, and generally sells out in about a week.

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THE BOTTOM LINE

Cynthia Davis first got interested in ukuleles years ago, when her daughter was in a high school “Venturing Crew” through a scouting program. Tonya Dale, a leader of the Paradise Ukelele Group, introduced the Davis family to the Hawaiian stringed instrument. Today, Davis is a head strummer and leader of the Chico Ukelele Group, which performed favorite Christmas songs at Chico’s annual Christmas Preview downtown this past weekend. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Trinity Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St. in Chico, and can be contacted through Facebook. Davis, 56, lives in Paradise, and is the mother of three daughters. For more than 20 years, she has worked at Pine Ridge School as a Title 1 aide. She said she’s even managed to get her boss interested in the ukulele.

What struck you about the ukulele?

I was not musical at all, but I thought they were grand fun, and even figured I could learn to play.

That was the beginning. Tonya started the Paradise Ukelele Group, and I’d cover her leadership when she was gone—usually to Hawaii. Through that, I met Bill Unger and his lovely wife, LeeAnna.

Bill, being a musician, started a uke group at his house. After a few months, he decided he didn’t want to do it anymore. In stepped Allen Hackett and Elisabeth Stewart.

They, too—being bitten by the uke bug—didn’t want to see it end, so they procured Trinity Methodist Church as a welcome home for a group, and asked me to lead it.

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That was more than five years ago.

Since then, life, ukuleles and work have taken hold, and kept me busy.

How has the ukulele changed you?

I went from a nonmusic-playing, shy person, to leading a group. I still scratch my head over it. I’ve met so many lovely people. What we all love about it is simple—the ukulele is fun. Having changed my life, the uklele is continuing to change many other people’s lives.

It’s easy to learn, fun to play, easy to transport, and the people attracted to it are generous, kind, open and all-around fun.

Are there any prerequisites to joining in?

With Chico Ukulele Group, all that is required is show up, ready to relax, and have good fun. I know it’s not for everyone, but there are 235 people on my email list.

There’s nothing that’s required, nor deadlines to meet. Hopefully,

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everyone who walks in our doors feels wanted and liked. I hope to get people more excited about a very accessible instrument for music. While you don’t need a ukulele the first time or two that you visit, obtaining one is a requirement. Some of our members have extras that they let newbies use, which just reflects how great uke people are.

How do people react when they see the group perform?

Even though performing really isn’t our focus, many people who see us smile and remember when they owned a ukulele. Some people think it’s still the silly little instrument that Tiny Tim made famous.

Really, it’s a most versatile instrument. I feel it connects people to music in a very fun way. Life can be so serious, but it’s hard to frown with a uke in hand.

—CATHERINE BEEGHLY

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I first met Rebekah Tennis about three years ago, awkwardly proclaiming my utter adoration of her within the first few seconds of shaking of her hand at a Christmas party. I had stumbled upon Tennis’ blog through a friend’s social media posting months before meeting her in person, and had stalked the site almost daily to find pictures of a life lived well beyond my reach. Tennis wrote about crafts she would whip up during her children’s naps, gorgeous pies with handmade crusts that she baked, and intricate designs for the latest greeting cards she was creating for her emerging letterpress design and printing business, Wild Ink Press.

Since the only skill I have in the area of arts and crafts is being able to identify the smells of the Mr. Sketch scented markers, I was instantly enamored with Tennis’ talent for making all things beautiful and I just had to tell her in person. I probably should have waited more than seven seconds.

Since our first exchange, Wild Ink Press—which Tennis runs alongside her husband, Matt, who also farms rice—has steadily expanded, with their hand-designed and letter-pressed greeting cards available in 200 retail outlets nationwide, including Papyrus and PaperSource stores.

The business also features customized letterpress wedding invitations, personalized stationery, and thank you cards, among other fine paper products. As business has blossomed, growing to four employees, the second garage at the Tennis home has been pushed beyond capacity, necessitating a move.

Just in time for the holidays, Wild Ink Press has opened its doors at 186 E. Sixth St., with the 3,200-square-foot building becoming home to a design studio, as well as a retail space for customers to purchase Wild Ink Press merchandise as well as greeting cards from other like-minded designers Tennis admires. The building, which was a former bottling plant and once occupied by Mid Valley Title, will also prominently display the historic presses that define Wild Ink Press: a Golding Jobber No. 7 (1912), Chandler & Price Old Style (1908), and two Heidelberg Windmills (1967 and 1973).

The Tennises have remodeled the building to parallel the allure and elegance of their printed designs, with black subway tiles lining the outside facade, a tile entryway with the word “hello” greeting guests, and steel signage welded by local Earthen Iron studio. Though the majority of their work is shipped to stores outside Chico, Tennis said the new space is a way to interact locally.

“We want to be community-friendly,” she said. “We are mainly a wholesale business, but we want to be open to the public to connect with the community. It’s a fun chance to get to know people, to build relationships and extend our reach here.”

Drop by and pick up a card to build a better relationship with someone in your life. The cute and thoughtful designs will elevate any personal message you may write and Wild Ink Press even has boxed holiday cards and gift tags perfect for the season.

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Toasting six locals to be thankful for

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s is tradition at the Chico News & Review, Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for those among us who volunteer and otherwise give their time to make our community a better place. We thank them for fighting to keep our water free of fracking chemicals, for rescuing our stolen bikes and our neglected cats, and for enriching Chico’s culture through the promotion of the arts and music. So, pass the mashed potatoes and raise a glass around the holiday table to the local heroes in our midst.

Joni Stellar of Frack-Free Butte County.

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The fearless fractivist JONI STELLAR

Museum and symphony advocates Pat and Richard Macias.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

Earlier this year, local “fractivists” who’d gathered more than 10,000 signatures to get a ban on hydraulic fracturing in Butte County on November’s ballot faced a setback when a Big Oil-funded legal challenge forced county officials to reject their petition based on “facial defects.” In July, Joni Stellar—treasurer for Frack-Free Butte County and one of the petition’s sponsors—faced two high-powered lawyers from a Sacramento-based law firm in court and, without the advantage of a law degree, convinced the judge to waive the rejection.

Stellar is no stranger to courtrooms, she explained recently. A lifelong nature lover, her activism in the early 1990s twice landed her in legal trouble for what she describes as “crimes in defense of nature.”

She lived in Colorado at the time, and was first arrested for felony trespassing while protesting activities that she said in retrospect resembled fracking. Citizens in the area were complaining that their water was catching fire due to an experimental fossil-fuel extraction facility, and the court ordered Stellar to complete 200 hours of community service.

Stellar served 30 days in jail soon after for tree-sitting to block a logging operation. She had spent five days living on a platform mounted 60 feet off the ground in a 500-year-old tree until a fully armed SWAT team arrived to take her down. Stellar said she evaded capture for several hours by zip-lining through the forest canopy.

She then took a long break from activism to raise her grandchildren and work as a teacher, and in 2003 met and married husband Allan, a fellow nature lover and fan of civil disobedience—Allan is a CN&R contributor whose story about camping in Lassen Volcanic National Park during last fall’s government shutdown resulted in $250 in fines (see “Lassen solitaire,” cover story, Nov. 7, 2013).

Stellar described an early date, when she and Allan were hiking in the desert discussing their favorite birds. Just as Allan mentioned a Steller’s jay, one of them (which she explained is not usually found in that environment) flew by. When the two married, they decided to take the last name “Stellar.”

The couple moved to Concow in 2008 and designed an off-the-grid home made of cob (a natural building material made from earth and straw). The following year, a threat to a Concow Creek swimming hole renewed Joni’s interest in environmental causes.

Soon after, she joined Butte Citizens Action Network, which in turn started Frack-Free Butte County.

The fracking ban ballot measure was waylaid by the Butte County Board of Supervisors’ decision to sit on the matter, rendering it ineligible for the midterm election. Stellar said she hopes the supes enact their own prohibitive ordinance and, if not, she won’t back down.

“We’ll keep fighting, and do whatever is necessary,” she said.

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

Married to the arts

RICHARD AND PAT MACIAS “I joke that I moved to Chico so I could sit on my deck and drink the occasional margarita,” said Richard Macias.

“That hasn’t happened yet.”

It’s not hard to see why. Macias, a retired architect, has become so busy since he moved to Chico in 2006 that he has little free time. He’s president of the Chico board of the North State Symphony, president of the Chico Heritage Association, and a member of the boards of the Chico Art Center and Habitat for Humanity.

Compared to his wife, Pat, however, he’s almost a layabout. She’s president of the board of directors of the Museum of Northern California Art, but “driving force” might be a more accurate title. She has many devoted helpers, but it’s fair to say that it’s she, more than anyone else, who is pushing the museum forward as it seeks to engage and excite the community and raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to transform the Veterans Memorial Hall into an art museum.

She is determined that people understand just how valuable the museum is, how much potential it has to transform the region and inspire its residents, and she’s tireless in her effort to help it succeed.

The Maciases are from Michigan by way of St. Louis and San Francisco. They met in Ann Arbor in 1979 and married in 1983. For many years he worked at HOK, the nation’s largest architecture-engineering firm, where he designed universities, mostly in Asia. She, meanwhile, worked as an art educator.

In San Francisco, he took a job with the California State

University system as a facilities planner. Pat at the time was teaching art at Piedmont High School in the East Bay. When he retired in 2006, she did likewise.

They had friends in Chico and had visited here several times. Chico reminded them pleasantly of Ann Arbor, so they built a new home off Dayton Road that Richard designed. It’s a strikingly modernist structure, with flat planes and bright colors, and stands out in the neighborhood. The interior of the two-story house is bright, thanks to expansive windows on the north side, and filled with tasteful artwork, most of it modernist in style.

As busy as Pat is these days, she still finds time to teach an art class every Monday evening at the Torres Community Shelter, where she’s known as “the art lady.” Meanwhile, Richard—who has a 22-speaker sound system in his studio for listening to classical music while he restores classic mid-century furniture—is on the North State Symphony’s committee to select a new music director. It’s a role, he says, that is becoming more difficult as the four finalists continue to cycle through Chico, each to conduct one of the season’s four programs. They’re all superb, he says, but very different.

If there’s a single word to describe the Maciases, it’s passion—passion for art, for music and, most of all, for engagement with their community. We’re all fortunate that they chose Chico to be their home for the rest of their lives.

—ROBERT SPEER robertspeer@newsreview.com

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Toasting six locals to be thankful for

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s is tradition at the Chico News & Review, Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for those among us who volunteer and otherwise give their time to make our community a better place. We thank them for fighting to keep our water free of fracking chemicals, for rescuing our stolen bikes and our neglected cats, and for enriching Chico’s culture through the promotion of the arts and music. So, pass the mashed potatoes and raise a glass around the holiday table to the local heroes in our midst.

Joni Stellar of Frack-Free Butte County.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

The fearless fractivist JONI STELLAR

Museum and symphony advocates Pat and Richard Macias.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

Earlier this year, local “fractivists” who’d gathered more than 10,000 signatures to get a ban on hydraulic fracturing in Butte County on November’s ballot faced a setback when a Big Oil-funded legal challenge forced county officials to reject their petition based on “facial defects.” In July, Joni Stellar—treasurer for Frack-Free Butte County and one of the petition’s sponsors—faced two high-powered lawyers from a Sacramento-based law firm in court and, without the advantage of a law degree, convinced the judge to waive the rejection.

Stellar is no stranger to courtrooms, she explained recently. A lifelong nature lover, her activism in the early 1990s twice landed her in legal trouble for what she describes as “crimes in defense of nature.”

She lived in Colorado at the time, and was first arrested for felony trespassing while protesting activities that she said in retrospect resembled fracking. Citizens in the area were complaining that their water was catching fire due to an experimental fossil-fuel extraction facility, and the court ordered Stellar to complete 200 hours of community service.

Stellar served 30 days in jail soon after for tree-sitting to block a logging operation. She had spent five days living on a platform mounted 60 feet off the ground in a 500-year-old tree until a fully armed SWAT team arrived to take her down. Stellar said she evaded capture for several hours by zip-lining through the forest canopy.

She then took a long break from activism to raise her grandchildren and work as a teacher, and in 2003 met and married husband Allan, a fellow nature lover and fan of civil disobedience—Allan is a CN&R contributor whose story about camping in Lassen Volcanic National Park during last fall’s government shutdown resulted in $250 in fines (see “Lassen solitaire,” cover story, Nov. 7, 2013).

Stellar described an early date, when she and Allan were hiking in the desert discussing their favorite birds. Just as Allan mentioned a Steller’s jay, one of them (which she explained is not usually found in that environment) flew by. When the two married, they decided to take the last name “Stellar.”

The couple moved to Concow in 2008 and designed an off-the-grid home made of cob (a natural building material made from earth and straw). The following year, a threat to a Concow Creek swimming hole renewed Joni’s interest in environmental causes.

Soon after, she joined Butte Citizens Action Network, which in turn started Frack-Free Butte County.

The fracking ban ballot measure was waylaid by the Butte County Board of Supervisors’ decision to sit on the matter, rendering it ineligible for the midterm election. Stellar said she hopes the supes enact their own prohibitive ordinance and, if not, she won’t back down.

“We’ll keep fighting, and do whatever is necessary,” she said.

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

Married to the arts

RICHARD AND PAT MACIAS “I joke that I moved to Chico so I could sit on my deck and drink the occasional margarita,” said Richard Macias.

“That hasn’t happened yet.”

It’s not hard to see why. Macias, a retired architect, has become so busy since he moved to Chico in 2006 that he has little free time. He’s president of the Chico board of the North State Symphony, president of the Chico Heritage Association, and a member of the boards of the Chico Art Center and Habitat for Humanity.

Compared to his wife, Pat, however, he’s almost a layabout. She’s president of the board of directors of the Museum of Northern California Art, but “driving force” might be a more accurate title. She has many devoted helpers, but it’s fair to say that it’s she, more than anyone else, who is pushing the museum forward as it seeks to engage and excite the community and raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to transform the Veterans Memorial Hall into an art museum.

She is determined that people understand just how valuable the museum is, how much potential it has to transform the region and inspire its residents, and she’s tireless in her effort to help it succeed.

The Maciases are from Michigan by way of St. Louis and San Francisco. They met in Ann Arbor in 1979 and married in 1983. For many years he worked at HOK, the nation’s largest architecture-engineering firm, where he designed universities, mostly in Asia. She, meanwhile, worked as an art educator.

In San Francisco, he took a job with the California State

University system as a facilities planner. Pat at the time was teaching art at Piedmont High School in the East Bay. When he retired in 2006, she did likewise.

They had friends in Chico and had visited here several times. Chico reminded them pleasantly of Ann Arbor, so they built a new home off Dayton Road that Richard designed. It’s a strikingly modernist structure, with flat planes and bright colors, and stands out in the neighborhood. The interior of the two-story house is bright, thanks to expansive windows on the north side, and filled with tasteful artwork, most of it modernist in style.

As busy as Pat is these days, she still finds time to teach an art class every Monday evening at the Torres Community Shelter, where she’s known as “the art lady.” Meanwhile, Richard—who has a 22-speaker sound system in his studio for listening to classical music while he restores classic mid-century furniture—is on the North State Symphony’s committee to select a new music director. It’s a role, he says, that is becoming more difficult as the four finalists continue to cycle through Chico, each to conduct one of the season’s four programs. They’re all superb, he says, but very different.

If there’s a single word to describe the Maciases, it’s passion—passion for art, for music and, most of all, for engagement with their community. We’re all fortunate that they chose Chico to be their home for the rest of their lives.

—ROBERT SPEER robertspeer@newsreview.com

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The cat advocate

Pullins Cyclery owner Steve O’Bryan.

JUDY ALBERICO

PHOTO BY HOWARD HARDEE

Judy Alberico is a cat woman who follows through on her feline devotion in a number of ways. She volunteers at the Butte Humane Society’s cat adoption center and spay-and-neuter clinic, as well as at the Chico Cat Coalition, which rescues abandoned and feral cats, neuters and spays them if needed, and then shelters them until they are adopted.

She also volunteers for PawPrints Thrift Store, whose goal is to raise money to help pay for the spaying and neutering of both cats and dogs and also helps fund the Neighborhood Cat Advocates, a feline welfare organization that Alberico and friend Shelly Rogers launched in January of last year.

Rogers, who is also a board member and volunteer for the Chico Cat Coalition, nominated Alberico for local hero consideration.

“She works harder for the cats than just about anyone else,” Rogers said.

“I think her mind must be working constantly. She sends out emails at 4 a.m. with ideas and reminders of things that need to be done. Her artwork is amazing. Between her donated paintings and her eye for design when it comes to putting together raffle and auction items, she has brought in thousands of donation dollars for just about every animal welfare agency in town.”

Indeed, Alberico’s artwork—oil paintings—is impressive and she’s used her talent to help humans as well as cats and dogs. In the aftermath of 9/11, she created paintings using local firefighters posed as if on the job and then placed them in scenes near the Twin Towers. She sold the paintings locally and sent all profits back east via Chico firefighters who paid visits to New York City, where 340 firefighters had lost their lives.

Alberico grew up in Sutter County, the youngest of five children whose family moved here from Oklahoma.

“My dad worked in an orchard in Yuba City,” she said. “We lived in the country, way out in the middle of nowhere, and as such, animals became my friends.”

She said she has lived with animals throughout her life, though ironically at the present she has none in her home.

Judy Aberico volunteers “Yes, there is not one cat in my for every cat charity house,” she said, “but there are 65 in town. at the coalition, and everywhere I PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE go I deal with cats.”

On the day she was interviewed for this story, she had gone to PawPrints at 6 a.m. to take in donations and clean the place. On other days, when not volunteering at the humane society, she is at the Chico Cat Coalition, beginning her day at 5 a.m., tidying up and tending to the 60 or so residents waiting for adoption.

Longtime cat advocate Sarah Downs also lauded Alberico and the efforts she puts forth on behalf of cats.

“Judy is the sweetest, most dedicated person I know,” Downs said. “No one works harder than her.”

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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Arts advocate Maria Phillips posing with one of her paintings.

PHOTO BY DEBRA LUCERO

Arts maven

MARIA PHILLIPS In this annual giving-thanks issue, it’s not common for the CN&R to posthumously celebrate a local hero. It’s so much better to bestow the honor while they are among us, to provide a picture for the rest of us of someone currently doing good works for the community and maybe even buoy their efforts in the process. But with art historian, painter and localarts advocate Maria Phillips—who died on Oct. 5, at the age of 70, after a long battle with cancer—we have no choice. She may be gone, but her influence as a passionate crusader for local art is still strong and too heroic not to honor.

After retiring as an arts professor—at Chico State, Butte College and Georgia State University in Atlanta—Phillips and fellow artist/art historian Dolores Mitchell opened Avenue 9 Gallery in 2004. The space became a hub of Chico art activity, hosting community-building shows by local as well as visiting artists. In 2009, it was the recipient of the Excellence in

Make Christmas special for the

Bike thief vigilante STEVE O’BRYAN Nobody leaves a trail of slime like a bike thief—not in Steve O’Bryan’s opinion.

That the longtime owner of Pullins Cyclery considers two-wheeled theft a heinous crime is no secret. In fact, many Chicoans go to him first if their bike gets ripped off.

That’s because, since he and his wife, Katy, took over the shop in 1984, O’Bryan has helped recover dozens of stolen bicycles—approaching 100, he estimated during a recent interview—and he’s stepped up his efforts recently, helping track down 23 bicycles this year alone.

O’Bryan casts a wide net in the effort, spreading information via social media and old-fashioned word of mouth, keeping a suspicious eye on the bikes brought into Pullins, and searching in the right places.

He never hesitates to get police involved when confronting hostile bike thieves and has even testified in juvenile court.

What compels him? He knows the bitterness of losing a beloved ride. Indeed, the first stolen bicycle he tracked down was his own—a Schwinn Panther II taken from his parents’ garage in the early 1970s. He found it in Lindo Channel, where somebody had “just dropped it off the freakin’ bridge into the dry creek bed,” he said.

Since then, O’Bryan has always looked in the creeks for hot bikes. “It’s been my experience that people will steal bikes, go ditch them somewhere, then come back

later,” he said. “If you find it in the interim, I don’t think they worry about it too much; they just go steal another bike.”

It helps that he never forgets a bicycle.

One classic in particular stands out to O’Bryan: a purple, French-made Andre Bertin road bike he’d given to his friend, Molly Adams. A few years ago, O’Bryan recalled, it was stolen after Adams locked it in front of Café Coda.

Days later, “some kid” rolled past Pullins on the unmistakable Bertin. “I ran out there just as the light turned green,” he said, “and grabbed hold of the seat.”

The “lame” story O’Bryan was fed—the kid said he’d borrowed the bike from a friend, so it wasn’t really his to hand over—is a go-to when thieves are confronted, he said.

“So, I take my phone out and tell him, ‘OK, we’ll talk to Chico PD about it and you can spend the night in juvenile hall,’” O’Bryan said. “Most of them don’t want to do that, so Molly got her bike back.”

O’Bryan urges bike owners to take a photo of their bicycle and write down the serial number because, in this age of rapid information-sharing, the chances of recovering a stolen bike are better than ever.

“If you can report it fast enough and post a picture, a lot of people see it,” he said. “A lot of bikes get recovered by people just paying attention and being brave.”

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

Arts award by the Janet Turner Museum. For the last three years, the gallery has operated as a local-artist guild, and when it closes its doors in January, it will leave behind an 11-year legacy of showcasing the works of more than 400 area artists.

Avenue 9 was the home base for Phillips’ many arts-promotion efforts, starting with ChiVAA, the Chico Visual Arts Alliance, an umbrella organization linking artists with local arts organizations, namely through its printing of a Chico Art Map and promoting monthly ARTabout art walks. She also spearheaded the effort to produce the annual Art at the Matador spring arts festival at the Matador Hotel, and in 2012 received the city of Chico’s Mayor’s Art Award as well an editor’s pick for “Best art maven who doubles as a community activist” in the CN&R’s annual Best of Chico issue.

“Maria was my cohort in utilizing art to make people more aware of being part of the community,” said Artoberfest organizer Debra Lucero when asked about her friend and fellow arts promoter. “Nothing was impossible, nothing too difficult. There were only possibilities with Maria and only solutions.”

In addition to promoting art, she was also an advocate for many local causes, including the successful push to stop the M&T gravel mine west of Chico and the more recent Saving Bidwell Mansion campaign to raise money for the local institution when it faced closure due to state budget cuts. “[Maria’s] gift to Chico was her imagination and drive that resulted in many firsts and some new traditions,” Lucero added. “She was fun. She was intelligent. And she somehow managed to get you to do things that you didn’t really want to do. The Saving Bidwell Mansion campaign was one of those things for me. She prodded and poked and said, ‘We need you to be involved,’ and so I was. That was Maria. I miss her.”

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PLEASE JOIN US! Starting Dec. 1st, the Chico News & Review invites community members to stop by our office to choose a name and purchase gifts for an Esplanade House child.

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Hip-hop collaboration blows up El Rey stage espite never having heard of ¡MAYDAY! before, I D was sold on their show at the El Rey last Wednesday (Nov. 19) based entirely on Murs—with whom

echo. It was next-level MC interplay, and they kept it up for about three minutes.

After Ces Cru’s set, two dudes dressed like cops appeared onstage and looked real enough I’m pretty they shared the stage—being the shit. sure a few members of the audience stomped out Murs is a former member of their lit joints. Turns out the cops were the percusthe California hip-hop collective story and sionist and DJ for ¡MAYDAY! Murs, along with Living Legends, see, which is, photos by like, legendary in underground rap Wrekonize and Bernz of ¡MAYDAY! followed in Howard Hardee orange jumpsuits (there was an incarceration theme circles. He’s also worked extengoing on) and the energy level went through the sively with Atmosphere’s Slug, howardh@ newsreview.com released eight solo albums and has roof. The rappers were highly animated and all over the stage, while the percussionist switched between a a well-deserved reputation as a killer live act. Turns out he’d done conventional drum kit and a separate percussion REVIEW setup with congas and such. (Said percussionist also a collaborative album, ¡Mursday!, ¡MAYDAY! and pulled off an absolutely unreal robo-dance later in with the Miami-based group and Murs, the set.) was on tour in support of it, and Wednesday, Nov. 19, Murs didn’t disappoint—his mic presence was the two would be performing El Rey Theatre commanding, his intonations crystal-clear and hightogether in Chico. ly expressive—and Wrekonize and Bernz certainly I showed up in the middle of a held their own in terms of chops. set from Kap Kallous, another Floridian (now L.A.Most of their jams could be described as based) on the tour. Most impressive were his a capel“crunk”—e.g. “Spiked Punch,” “Zones” and “Tablela spots, which were like beat poetry delivered with tops”—but the clear standout, “Here,” is of a much white-hot aggression. Musically, he sounds like a more downtempo style. It begins with an eerie, technically oriented Paul Wall (you know, that orchestral arpeggiation loop and a prechorus sung by Southern rapper with the diamond-encrusted braces) Wrekonize: “We were going to be something/We who favors bass as nasty as his sexual references.

Most memorably, Kallous asked the audience, “Who were going to be stars/We were going to be on one/We were going to be Gods.” Thematically, the likes drugs?” then earnestly inquired as to where all gist is that the group feels left out of their own the bad bitches were at. genre—that they’re worthy of mainstream recogniThe evening was a showcase for Strange Music, tion but remain outsiders continually “slept on,” as a hip-hop label owned by none other than Tech Bernz raps. That sentiment is best summed up by N9ne—the nastiest in all the land—and it continued Murs’ short-and-sweet verse: “They treated me like with Ces Cru, a hip-hop duo made up of Godemis (Donnie King) and Ubiquitos (Mike Viglione) out of an outcast/But not like Big and Three Stacks”—references to The Notorious B.I.G. and André 3000 (of Kansas City, Mo. My initial impression was lukeOutkast)—“I saw them playwarm—the catch-me-if-you-caners ballin’/And knew that flows were brought down by I’d never be that.” unremarkable subject matter It’s odd that this song is ranging from acquiring cash still “underground,” money to getting super laid. because its broad appeal is Then the duo did something obvious. But considering I’ve never seen before. Facing the electro-R&B stuff now each other from opposite ends passed off as hip-hop on of the stage, Godemis and UbiqTop 40 radio, maybe the uitos went seriously a capella, music Murs and ¡MAYrapping the same lines, one DAY! have made really slightly behind the other preBernz of ¡MAYDAY! and Murs doesn’t belong there. Ω cisely enough to sound like an trading verses at the El Rey.

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Special Events RUN FOR FOOD: The annual 5k fundraising run/ walk to benefit the Jesus Center and community members in need. Registration required.

Th, 11/27, 9am. Bidwell Park.

Music THANKSGIVING KARAOKE: Loosen your belt after feasting and let down your hair and belt out some tunes with the whole family. Th, 11/27, 7:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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Special Events HOLIDAY MUSIC AND ART SHOW: A holiday art sale with original art, apparel and accessories, plus live music local rockers The She Things and Oakland-based experimental

UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Tuesday, Dec. 2 Ayres 106, Chico State

SEE TUESDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Americana trio Hi. F, 11/28, 6pm. $5. Orange Street Studio, 601 Orange St., (530) 243-4755.

Music PAY IT FORWARD CONCERT & TOY DRIVE: Bring a children’s gift and enjoy the holiday season with live music from The Velveteen Habit featuring Holly Taylor, plus singer/songwriter Bradley Relf. F, 11/28, 9pm. $5 or a children’s gift. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

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Special Events MUSE HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE: Shop local and support Chico-area artists, crafters, and makers. Art and gifts for self and home including jewelry, felting, pottery, clothing, toys, pillows, and more. Sa, 11/29, 10am-5pm.

Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St.

NOVEMBEARD: The Chico Beard Collective’s finale and fundraiser for the music and arts programs at Chico and PV High School. Music from Lisa Valentine, The Maker’s Mile, and The Lolos, with a silent auction, raffle prizes,

FINE ARTS Theater AUDITIONS FOR MARY POPPINS: Call for details.

M, 12/1, 6-8pm, Tu, 12/2, 6-8pm. California Regional Theatre Training and Education Facility, 3851 Morrow Ln. (800) 722-4522 ext.

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Monday & Tuesday, Dec. 1-2 California Regional Theatre

Special Events HISTORIC HOLIDAY HOME TOURS: See Sunday.

SEE MONDAY & TUESDAY, THEATER

11/30-12/2, 4-9pm. $25. Call for location.

UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES: A weekly presentation bearded pageantry and the crowning of the 2014 Novembeard Champion. Sa, 11/29, 8:30pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

PARROTT FAMILY PERFORMANCE: Ring in the holidays with Karen and Harvey Parrott’s 5 children, 17 grand-children, plus and sonsand daughters-in-law for an evening seasonal of music. Sa, 11/29, 2 & 7pm. $10. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

Art Receptions ANYTHING BEARDED: A mixed-media art show featuring “bearded” works from various artists to benefit the arts and music at PV and Chico High. Sa, 11/29, 4-7pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, tedrathompson@yahoo.com

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Special Events HISTORIC HOLIDAY HOME TOURS: See Sunday.

11/30-12/2, 4-9pm. $25. Call for location.

Music BROKEDOWN IN BAKERSFIELD: California country from Tim and Nicki Bluhm’s side project. M, 12/1, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

MUSE HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE

Special Events CHICKEN-FRIED STEAK BREAKFAST: The annual

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

HISTORIC HOLIDAY HOME TOURS: Tour three his-

Theater AUDITIONS FOR MARY POPPINS: Call for details.

M, 12/1, 6-8pm, Tu, 12/2, 6-8pm. California

Regional Theatre Training and Education Facility, 3851 Morrow Ln. (800) 722-4522 ext.

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Music THE YULE LOGS: The hardest working band in

Saturday, Nov. 29 Habitat Lab

Dennis Wolfe chicken-fried steak breakfast with eggs, chicken fried steak and gravy, hash browns, biscuits, O.J. and coffee. Su, 11/30, 7:30-11am. $7.50. Eagles Hall, 2010 Montgomery St. in Oroville, www.orovillefoe.com.

of international films. This week: Beauty and The Beast (France., 1946) Directed by Jean Cocteau. Tu, 7:30pm. Opens 12/2. $3. Ayres 106, Chico State, (530) 899-7921.

snow business is back in Chico for its first show of the 2014 hholidays. W, 12/3, 11:30am1pm. Butte College Main Campus, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. Fountain Lawn in Oroville, (530) 965-1946.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 34

Art 1078 GALLERY: Future MONCA: Growing a

Northern California Collection, curated by Reed Applegate featuring work on loan from area collectors with potential gifts/endowments to the Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA. Through 11/29. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Waterworks, an exhibition of paintings by Candy Mathews and Cynthia Sexton, plus sculpture from Jim Woronow.

Through 12/7. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 8791821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

B-SO SPACE: The Earned, The Inherited, The

Taken, a BFA culminating exhibition featureing prints and sewn sculptures from artist Dillon Rapp. 12/1-12/12. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Forms of The

Figure, three artists, Arthur Lenmar, Staci Hoffer and Ruben Heredia use three diverse approaches to utilizing the figure in art.

Through 12/11. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO ART CENTER: Salon d’Art, local artists in one location displaying their work during the holiday season. Through 1/11, 2015. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

HAS BEANS INTERNET CAFE & GALLERIA:

Flights of Fancy, paint and pastel works from Francis Duty. Through 12/30. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Watercolors, new watercolor paintings from artist Frences Miller. Through 12/26, 9am-5pm. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM:

Together/Divided: A Couple Curates, local artists, collectors and art supporters, David Hopper and Shari Maxson Hopper will select from Janet tuener’s Print collection of works that appeals to them aesthetically, and their selections will be combined for one exhibition. Through 12/13. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Centenary: John C.

Ayres, guest curated by Chico art collector Reed Applegate. Works by John C. Ayres, who joined the Chico State art department in 1946, where he was an active voice for 30 years. Through 11/30. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

Call for Artists VOOM VOOM VARIETY SHOW SUBMISSIONS: Chikoko is seeking performances for the annual variety show. Comedy, music, ventriloquism, dancing, juggling, performance etc. 5 minute limit. Submit ideas through email. Through 12/4. TK@TK.

Museums CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik ‘cupu Dy: This is Our

Home, Here We Remain, the exhibit focuses on the tribe’s heritage and history and presented from the perspective of the Mechoopda people using the four seasons to delineate periods of happiness, success and tragedy. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Three exhibits:

Modern Farming-Land, Water, People, and Science; Eat well, Play Well; and Patterns of The Land. Ongoing. 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.

Ongoing. 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

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

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

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Fall Color, featuring mixed media works with autumnal themes from all artists showing with the gallery. Through 11/30. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

toric homes decorated for the holidays, including Bidwell Mansion, the Stansbury Home and the Glenwood Farm House at Patrick Ranch. 11/30-12/2, 4-9pm. $25. Call for location.

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WHISKER SEASON FINALE The most hirsute of all months is coming to a close, and in addition to sparing the razor for the month, the Chico Beard Collective—a local group of philanthropic fans of facial coiffures—have been holding a series of fundraisers to benefit music and arts programs at Chico and Pleasant Valley high schools. It all culminates at the Novembeard Bash 2014 on Saturday, EDITOR’S PICK Nov. 29, at Duffy’s Tavern. In addition to live performances

by Lisa Valentine, The Maker’s Mile and The Lolos, there will be raffle prizes, a silent auction and the crowning of the 2014 Novembeard champion.

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BULLETIN BOARD 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.

Performed by

Chico Community Ballet and Guests

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

December 4 - 7

Thurs., Fri., Sat. 7:30 p.m.

Sat. & Sun. 2:00 p.m.

Laxson Auditorium, CSU, Chico

www.chicoperformances.com

Tickets $13-$29 University Box Office (3rd & Chestnut St.)

(530) 898-6333

Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-3977.

CREATING CUSTOM STENCILS Wednesday, Dec. 3 Idea Fabrication Labs SEE COMMUNITY

CAREER BUILDERS: A monthly counter-recruitment meeting for the community’s youth.

Fourth Th of every month, 3:30pm. Free. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 343-3152, www.chico-peace.org.

CREATING CUSTOM STENCILS: Join current IFL Incubator Artist, David Cedeño aka Chocolate David, for two evenings of hands-on creation and application of custom stencils. Visit Website for more details. W, 12/3, 7-8:30pm, W, 12/10, 7-8:30pm. $30. Idea Fabrication Labs, 603 Orange St., (530) 592-0609, www.ideafab labs.com/event/creating-custom-stencils.

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

Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

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

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

EVENING DANCE JAM: A weekly meditative dance session. F, 7:15pm. $10. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Suite 150, (530) 3420100.

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

Chapman Mulberry Community Center, 1010 Cleveland Ave., (530) 680-3217, www.cchaos.org.

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

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

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

FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES: NaNoWriMo hosts a

weekly write in. F, 5-8pm. Midtown Local, 365 E Sixth St.

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.

PARADISE ON ICE: The outdoor ice rink returns for holiday activities and seasonal fun.

Through 1/11, 2015. $12. Terry Ashe Center, 6626 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9466.

SAFE SPACE: A winter program to provide emergency shelter for people in need within our community. Ongoing. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 893-9078, www.chico-peace.org.

entertainment and festive activities, plus free parking on noted Fridays.(See website for more info) F, 11/28, F, 12/5, F, 12/19.

Downtown Chico, www.downtown chico.com/dcba.

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY: Keep our local dollars local and support small business in our community this holiday season. Sa, 11/29.

Downtown Chico, Downtown Chico.

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.

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.

WORLD DANCE: Prepares youth to perform line, circle and partner dances from around the world. No partner needed. Th, 6pm. $20 (for a family of 4). 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. $7. Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, 2320 North St., (530) 566-6711.

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, www.friends ofbidwellpark.org.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS: A donation only, nonprofit restaurant needs community help with serving, busing, kitchen help and general duties. Orientation meetings and training included. Call for more details. Ongoing. 100th Monkey Community Cafe, 642 W. Fifth St.

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

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.

SHOP, DINE AND SAVE FRIDAYS: Enjoy a clean and safe holiday season and downtown hospitality with later store hours for shops and restaurants, greeters giving out holiday buttons, candy canes and directories, with

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CHOW A golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with black currants from all-sour brewery, The Rare Barrel, in Berkeley.

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Pucker up to the bar Sour beers, the funky final frontier itter and sweet have been the essence of most Bspectrum beers for centuries. Still, these basics of the flavor weren’t enough for some craft brewers, who

in the past decade have introduced to the American beer market a curious style of beer called a “sour.” These brews have by bitter hops, and they have sweet Alastair malt, but the dominating flavor, Bland thanks to a living consortium of bacteria cultured in the aging beer, is tart, acidic sourness.

Russian River Brewing Co., in Sonoma County, is widely credited as a leader in the sour-beer revolution.

Here, brewer Vinnie Cilurzo has brought us renowned sour ales like Supplication and Consecration. But other breweries have become almost equally reputed for making beers tart enough to pucker the faces of the most seasoned beer drinkers. There is The Rare Barrel, in Berkeley, which makes all sours. Almanac Beer Co., in San Francisco, also focuses on sour beers.

Nationwide, and in Europe, the style is now wellrecognized as its own category in specialty beer aisles.

Although you may never have tasted one, sour beers are not a new concept. Rediscovered in the current century, sour styles such as lambic, kriek and gueze were first made in Belgium ages ago—and probably initially by accident. The style owes itself to bacteria in the genera Lactobacillus and Pediococcus, as well as yeast in the genus Brettanomyces. All of these microbes produce flavors ranging from funky to downright sour. Winemakers, in fact, often fear these critters, which can create ruinous off-flavors in a wine.

Worse, they can easily infect the porous wood of barrels, rafters and walls and become long-term residents of a facility. Eliminating these organisms may be impossible short of burning the place down.

Chico’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has been reluctant to experiment too earnestly in the sour beer style due to the risk of contaminating the brewery, according to communications manager Ryan Arnold. While a limited release of a sour beer could be possible someday, he says, the risks of making funky beers, and of a bacterial outbreak infecting other beers, are too high.

Bill Manley, another rep with Sierra Nevada, aptly summed up the hazards: “Any time beers using traditional brewer’s yeast are made side-by-side with

beers using other yeasts [like Brettanomyces] or bacterial strains, extreme caution must be taken to prevent cross-contamination. Any porous materials can become impregnated with the bacteria or foreign yeasts, which can infect or out-compete the traditional brewer’s strains.”

Making these beers on a regular and large-scale basis can be done, he says (and Sierra Nevada did brew a very tightly controlled one-off collaboration with Russian River a couple of years ago called BRUX, a wild ale using Brettanomyces yeast). “It is a gamble, though, and a small error can lead to a very large problem that is difficult to fix,” Manley says.

At Russian River, on the other hand, Cilurzo has made sour beers a main part of his business, and with no second facility to accommodate them. Some are so tart that newbies to the style might cringe at first taste.

Cilurzo also brews acclaimed IPAs and other conventional styles that, if a wayward microbe found its way in, would be ruined by sourness.

“We have a lot of systems in place to keep funky and nonfunky beers separated,” he explained in an email. Color-coded tools and equipment are reserved for either sour or nonsour beers. “There are [also] rules that all the brewers follow when they are working with barrels. Once they touch something funky they are not allowed into the main cellar. We also never do funky work on bottling days. I even go as far as to have separate shoes and boots.”

At The Winchester Goose bar in Chico, owner Rob Rasner always keeps at least a handful of sour beers on tap and a dozen or more in bottles.

“Most people are skeptical at first of the style, but it’s surprising how many palates this flavor profile fits,” Rasner says. He notes that while Pediococcus and Lactobacillus bacteria create very sour flavors, the qualities of a Brettanomyces beer are simply “funky,” comparable to horse blanket, hay and barn. A good beer to start with for newbies might be Evil Twin’s Femme Fatale Brett, a funky Belgian-style IPA. You also can find many sours, including occasionally some from Almanac, at Spike’s Bottle Shop.

Want a real face-turner? Then try Rodenbach’s Grand Cru, a Belgian red ale aged in oak vats. The beer is affected by Brett yeast, as well as bacteria— and it’s really, really sour. Ω

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Paradise Ice Rink

Nov. 26-Jan. 11, Mon.-Thurs., 2-8 p.m.; Fri., 2-10 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.8 p.m. An outdoor ice rink for the holiday season. $12 day pass. Terry Ashe Recreation Center, 6626 Skyway. 872-6393.

Muse Art Collective Holiday Marketplace

Nov. 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Featuring the creations of more than 20 local artists—sculptures, clothing, jewelry and more. Plus, henna, kids activities and a raffle. Free admission. Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St. 345-6411.

Music & Tree Lighting

Dec. 1, 5:15 p.m. Enloe Medical Center’s tree lighting with music, hot beverages and holiday sweets. Free. Enloe Medical Center, 1531 Esplanade. 332-7300.

Light Up a Life - Paradise

Dec. 4, 7 p.m. A tree-lighting ceremony benefiting Paradise Hospice, with singing, treats and more. Paradise Hospice House, 1289 Bille Road, Paradise. 872-7166.

Christmas with the Bidwells

Dec. 5, 6-8p.m. All three floors of Bidwell Mansion will be decorated for the holidays and open for viewing. Plus, olive oil tasting from Olive A’Sudden, and wine-tasting provided by Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards. $25 (registration required). Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade. 895-6144.

Chico Community Tree Lighting

Dec. 5, 6 p.m. Listen to a musical program, meet Santa and count down with the community as the tree is lit up in the Chico City Plaza. Free. 345-6500.

Stansbury House: Victorian Christmas

Christmas Tree Auction & Holiday Festival

Dec. 6, 6 p.m. The Torres Community Shelter hosts this festival complete with hors d’oeuvres, desserts, no-host bar, live music from The Alternators, guest speaker Andy Duke and a Christmas-tree auction. Chico Masonic Life Family Center, 1110 East Ave. 891-9048.

Dec. 5-7, Fri., 6-9 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 1-4 p.m. Santa, horse-drawn carriage rides, entertainment, spiced cider, homemade cookies, holiday raffle and a live appearance by Mark Twain (on Friday and Saturday). Donations: $2-$6. Stansbury House, 207 W. Fifth St. 895-3848.

Dec. 6-7 & 13-14. Tours of historic Glenwood Farm House. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, between Chico and Durham.

342-4359.

Breakfast with Santa

Oroville Eagles Holiday Bazaar

Dec. 6, 8 a.m.-noon. Three pancake/photo sessions with Santa: 8, 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Call ahead to register; $10 per person. CARD Community Center, 545 Vallombrosa Ave. 895-4711.

Breakfast with Santa - Oroville

Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Join Santa for breakfast, photos and craft time. Pre-registration required. $7. Feather River Recreation and Park District. 1875 Feather River Blvd., Oroville. 533-2011. www.frrpd.com

Harvest Festival - Oroville

Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Holiday shopping with local crafts and gifts from artisans, plus tastings of mandarins and sweets. Free admission and parking. TRI-L Mandarin Ranch.

Mt. Ida Road and Naranja Ave., Oroville. www.mandarins4you.com

Frontier Christmas - Oroville

Dec. 6, noon-4 p.m. A gold-rush-era holiday celebration with pioneer crafts, a melodrama and panning for gold, plus a visit from Santa.

Call for info. Lake Oroville Visitor Center, 917 Kelly Ridge Road above Oroville Dam. 538-2219.

Christmas at the Ranch

Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. A benefit for Jimmy Durante’s Children’s Fund featuring handmade gifts from local crafters and artisans. Eagles Hall, 2010 Montgomery St., Oroville.

Mistletoe Party - Oroville

Dec. 7, noon-4 p.m. Friends of the Park and the city of Oroville host the annual party with music, cookies, tea and tours of the historical Lott home. Free. 1067 Montgomery St., Oroville.

Parade of Lights - Oroville

Dec. 13, 6-8 p.m. A hometown Christmas in historic downtown Oroville with floats, vehicles, horses, music and Santa riding a fire truck. Free. Montgomery St., Oroville.

Ehmann Home Christmas Open House - Oroville

Dec. 13, 5-8 p.m. Free. Ehmann Home, 1480 Lincoln St., Oroville. 877-7436.

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Oroville Holiday Light Parade

Dec. 13, 6-8 p.m. Annual parade of lights in downtown Oroville, with a visit from Santa and a tree lighting ceremony. Free. Downtown Oroville. 538-2542.

Winter Bizarre Bazaar

Dec. 13-14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Chikoko design/artist collective hosts its annual alternative holiday craft faire, featuring the handmade clothing, jewelry and utilitarian art of local artists.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

Bidwell Mansion Holiday Open House

Dec. 14. Tours every hour starting at 11 a.m. (last tour at 4 p.m.). The Chico Women’s Club hosts the holiday tours, with staff and volunteers dressed in period costumes.

Free (call to reserve). Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade.

895-6144.

Bidwell Mansion Evening Tours

Dec. 19-21, Fri., 6:30-8p.m. Tours of the historic home all decorated for the holidays.

Tickets: $10/adults; $4/children (4-under/ free). Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade. 8956144.

Community Hanukkah Party

Dec. 21, 5 p.m. Traditional dinner for the community, featuring the CBI band, menorah lighting, dancing, games, gift shop and more.

Members: $6/children; $10/adults. Non-members: $10/children; $15/adults. Congregation Beth Israel, 1336 Hemlock St. 342-6146.

The Christmas Faire

Dec. 5-7, Fri., noon-7 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.6 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. A three-day fair featuring crafts, art, food, music and entertainment. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St.

Patrick Ranch Museum Fine Arts & Gift Sale

Dec. 5-7, Fri., 4-8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Arts and crafts, live music, food, and the museum gift shop.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, between Chico and Durham. 342-4359.

Paradise Ice Rink, Nov. 26-Jan. 11

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Stansbury House Victorian Christmas, Dec. 5-7

Entertainment Parrott Family Christmas

Nov. 29, 2 & 7 p.m. The members of the Parrott family present spiritual and secular holiday tunes.

Two performances. Free. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise, 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

The Yule Logs

Dec. 5-7, Fri.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m.

Chico State Music Department students and staff ensembles perform in kaleidoscopic fashion, with one performance beginning as another ends. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State campus. $20. University Box Office: 899-6333.

Cricket on the Hearth

Dec. 6-7, Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 3:30 p.m. The annual Christmas concert presented by the Oroville Community Chorus and Concert Band. $10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. 539-2470.

Dec. 4-7, Thurs-Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m. Based upon the novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens. $16-$22. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise, 877-5760, www.totr.org

The Yule Logs, Dec. 3-21

Glorious Sounds of the Season

Dec. 3-21. The hardest working band in snow-biz is back for another run of rockin’ holiday parties. Local gigs include Butte College (Dec. 3, 11:30 a.m.); Duffy’s Tavern (Dec. 5, 10 p.m.); and two shows at Argus (Dec. 10 & 17) and the Chico Women’s Club (Dec. 20-21). Go to www.facebook.com/ theyulelogs for full schedule.

The Nutcracker

Dec. 4-7, Thurs.-Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m.

Chico Performances presents the Chico Community Ballet’s holiday performance of the classic folk tale. $16-$28. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State campus.

University Box Office: 898-6333. www.chicoperformances.com

A Christmas Carol

Dec. 4-21, Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. The Blue Room brings Dickens himself to the stage to narrate his classic holiday tale while actors play the parts in front of him. Tickets available at the box office and Lyon Books. Call for prices.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 8953749. www.blueroomtheatre.com Dec. 13

Christmas Concert - Oroville

White Christmas

Dec. 6-21, Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.

The Chico Theater Company presents this stage rendition of the classic holiday musical. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road 894-3282.

Winter Music Concert

Dec. 8, 7-9 p.m. Inspire School of Arts & Sciences presents a program of seasonal music. Call Inspire for more info. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., on the Pleasant Valley High Campus. 891-3090.

Holiday Concert - Paradise

Dec. 10, 7 p.m. Performance by the United States Air Force Band of The Golden West.

Free. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road 872-8454.

Holiday Burlesque and Vaudeville Comedy Show

Dec. 10, 8 p.m. The popular and risqué theatrical holiday variety show. $15 Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr., Oroville.

Voom Voom Variety Show

Dec. 12, 7 p.m. A variety show of local artists, musicians, dancers and more to kick off Chikoko’s Bizarre Bazaar. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.chikoko.com

North StateSymphony: Holiday Concert

Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m. Baroque and seasonal music for a small orchestra. $12-$30. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2341 Floral Ave. University Box Office: 898-6333.

It’s A Wonderful Life - Oroville

Dec. 12-13, Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2pm. A holiday performance based on the classic film by Frank Capra. $10-$15. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville. 534-6233.

Mariachi Sol

Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. Chico Performances presents a night of traditional mariachi favorites for a merri-achi Christmas. $10-$28. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State campus. University Box Office: 898-6333. www.chicoperfor mances.com

A Winter Gift

Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m. Legends of the Celtic Harp present Irish and English literature woven together with holiday music of the season. $15-$18. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Chico, 1289 Filbert St. www.UUChico.org

The Nutcracker in Paradise

Dec. 19-21, Fri, 7:15 p.m.; Sat, 2:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Sun, 2:15 p.m. Northern California Ballet hosts its rendition of the Christmas classic. $12-$20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road. 872-1719.

Charity Arc gift-wrap volunteers needed. Call for info: 891-5865, ext 116.

Jesus Center needs food and clothing donations along with volunteers. Call 345-2640 for info.

Pet photos with Santa. Support Butte Humane Society with photos of you and your pet with the jolly one. Two dates: Dec. 6 & 13, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Nantucket Home, 603 Broadway, 895-1038.

A Christmas Carol, Dec. 4-21 A Winter Gift: Legends of the Celtic Harp, Dec. 18 Dec. 6-21

Salvation Army Angel Trees and red donation kettles are popping up around Chico. Salvation Army community center, 567 E. 16th Street. Info: 342-2199.

Sixth Street Center for Youth needs donations of personal-care items, undergarments, coats, backpacks, sleeping bags, blankets and more. Donations accepted Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 130 W. Sixth St. 894-8008.

Torres Community Shelter needs food and clothing donations along with volunteers.

101 Silver Dollar Way. Info: 891-9048.

Toys for Tots. Drop off new, unwrapped toys at the Torres Community Shelter, 101 Silver Dollar Way. Info: 891-9048.

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MUSIC

Pop-and-jazz gumbo

Crescent City crew: Allen Touissaint with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT

A lively night of varying styles from two New Orleans heavyweights hitney Balliett, the brilliant jazz critic for The New W Yorker, once described jazz as “the sound of surprise” and that certainly jibed with my reaction to

New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s performance at Laxson Auditorium last Friday night. by The PHJB was formed in 1961 Miles Jordan to promote and preserve New Orleans jazz and a couple of years later began touring the world.

They now spend about half the year on the road and this, their Oh REVIEW Yeah! Tour, next takes them to the Chico Performances San Francisco Jazz Center and in presents Allen January onto a six-day cruise in Toussaint and the Preservation Hall the Caribbean before winding up Jazz Band, Friday, at a Mexican resort for four days.

Nov. 21, at Laxson Their mission is more than celAuditorium, Chico ebrating the New Orleans jazz traState. dition. Rickie Monie, the piano player, says it best: “We’re not a museum. We’re a living, breathing part of New Orleans.” This is where the “sound of surprise” hit me as their repertory really threw me a curve, involving both more and less than I’d expected.

After a few nontraditional tunes by the band— Ronell Johnson, tuba; Charlie Gabriel, tenor sax/clarinet; Clint Maedgen, tenor sax; Mark Braud, trumpet; Freddie Lonzo, trombone; Ben Jaffe, bass; Joe Lastie Jr., drums; and Monie on piano—they were joined by pianist/composer Allen Toussaint. I’m not that up on Toussaint’s oeuvre, which includes many songs written for and covered by famous pop and R&B artists, and several of the unannounced tunes drifted by unrecognized.

Toussaint’s a cheery guy who’s had a long, successful career—he’s been inducted into the Rock and Roll, the Blues, and the Louisiana Music halls of fame—and had quite a bit to say, especially when

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introducing “Yes We Can,” a song that was a hit for the Pointer Sisters. “They went to the bank with it,” he said, “and took me along, too.” Naturally this got a laugh out of the packed house. He then added that it turned out that he wrote his best songs for others—like Boz Scaggs and Bonnie Raitt. And mentioning how the Grateful Dead covered of one of his songs got a rise out of the crowd when he added, “I’m a Deadhead.”

But for pure comic relief it was hard to top Johnson’s tuba playing: his sturdy build came in handy as, enveloped by his brass tuba, he was in constant motion while playing—twirling in place or strutting back and forth, even hopping across the stage, and occasionally emitting powerful elephantine blasts that fit in perfectly with the music. He also switched to trombone for a lively duet with Toussaint.

About halfway through the 90-minute concert things started to get more interesting for me as they launched into Toussaint’s “Working in the Coal Mine” (a hit for fellow Crescent City artist Lee Dorsey) and Fats Domino’s “I’m Walkin’.” They then went back to New Orleans’ early days, and the kind of music I was expecting this evening, with a classic interpretation of “St. James Infirmary,” first in a slow version sung by trumpeter Braud, then in a jacked-up version featuring saxman Maedgen’s vocals that was a little too jivey for my taste.

Toussaint also essayed a solo piano piece that, due to its varying tempos, could have served as the score for a silent movie, and into which he slipped a few bars of boogie-woogie and a taste of “Go to the Mardi Gras” by Professor Longhair, one of his influences.

Earlier, in the middle of his “Mr. Mardi Gras,” Toussaint dug into a shopping bag full of beads, etc., and tossed them to the highly receptive audience.

After a well-earned standing ovation, Toussaint closed the show with a lovely rendition of one of his most successful tunes, “Southern Nights,” a song that was a hit for Glenn Campbell in 1977. Ω

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WEDNESDAY 11/26—WEDNESDAY 12|3 HOLIDAY MUSIC AND ART SHOW: F, 11/28, 6pm. $5. Orange Street Studio, 601 Orange St., (530) 243-4755.

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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, this week they’re going “electric”. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

PAT HULL: Give Black Friday the boot and

28FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.; (530) 895-3888.

BOGG: Work off some Thanksgiving tryptophan and enjoy two nights of jazz. F,

27THURSDAY CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

MAKES YOU FEEL: Soulful, funky jazz from Clayton the Chemist and guests playing an eclectic blend of vibes and rhythms. Th, 10pm-midnight. $2 before 10pm, $4 after. Arabian Nights, 142 Broadway Down town; (530) 828-3194; www.naturalselectionmusic.com.

11/28, 9pm; Sa, 11/29, 9pm. Kings

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

THANKSGIVING KARAOKE: Loosen your belt after feasting and let down your hair and belt out some tunes with the whole family. Th, 11/27, 7:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

take time to enjoy music from singer/songwriters Pat Hull, Greyloom (Erin Lizardo), and Casing The Promisedland. F, 11/28, 9pm. $5.

Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

Bring a children’s gift and enjoy the holiday season with live music from The Velveteen Habit featuring Holly Taylor, plus singer/songwriter Bradley Relf. F, 11/28, 9pm. $5 or a children’s gift. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 8931891, www.lasallesbar.com.

Tavern, 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-7100.

CHAD BUSHNELL: Red Bluff native and his four-piece band play a mix of both old and new country. F, 11/28, 9:30pm. $5.

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

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: F, 11am. With Bogg. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafe coda.com.

29SATURDAY BOGG: See Friday. F, 11/28, 9pm; Sa, 11/29, 9pm. Kings Tavern, 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-7100.

80S NIGHT: Wear your best 80s attire and dance the night away. Sa, 8pm.

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THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 26 PARROTT FAMILY PERFORMANCE: Ring in the holidays with Karen and Harvey Parrott’s 5 children, 17 grand-children, plus and sons- and daughters-in-law for an evening seasonal of music. Sa, 11/29, 2 & 7pm. $10. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

SURROGATE: Powerhouse local indie-rock show, with Surrogate, The Shimmies and The Mondegreens. Sa, 11/29, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

WAKE OF THE DEAD: Grateful Dead music plus a performance from Eastwind Bellydance between sets. Sa, 11/29, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

HAPPY HOUR: Maker’s Mile. Sa, 11/29.

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

LONG TIME: A tribute to Boston. Sa, 11/29, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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

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.

NOVEMBEARD: The Chico Beard Collective’s finale and fundraiser for

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the music and arts programs at Chico and PV High School. Music from Lisa Valentine, The Maker’s Mile, and The Lolos, with a silent auction, raffle prizes, bearded pageantry and the crowning of the 2014 Novembeard Champion. Sa, 11/29, 8:30pm. $5.

Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 3437718.

30SUNDAY REGGAE NIGHT: Rise the Vibes with live Dj’s, pool, and shuffle board. This week Jams from Bay-area’s Rocker T. Su, 8pm-2am. Seeva’s Pub, 6093 Lincoln Blv in Oroville.

1MONDAY BROKEDOWN IN BAKERSFIELD: California country with Tim & Nicki Bluhm’s side project. M, 12/1, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

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from local musicians. Tu. Opens 12/2.

Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, www.myspace.com/theitaliangarden.

band in snow business is back in Chico for its first gig of the Holidays. W, 12/3, 11:30am-1pm. Butte College Main Campus, 3536 Butte Campus Dr. Fountain Lawn in Oroville, (530) 9651946.

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THE CAREY ROBINSON TRIO: Jazz trio. Tu, 6-9pm. Shenanigan’s, 3212 Esplanade, (530) 809-1088.

COSOMONAUTS: Stoner-psych from L.A. with local support from The She Things. Tu, 12/2, 9:30pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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

3WEDNESDAY PIANO NIGHT: Live Piano music. W. Opens

12/3. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, www.myspace.com/theitaliangarden.

THANKSGIVING CALENDAR Due to scheduling changes that may occur around the holidays, please confirm listed times and details with venue.

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Instead of waking up before the crack of dawn to buy into the terrible corporate plot to steal your hard-earned dollars, why not do something that celebrates the really good things in life. Music and good food trump rampant greed and aggressive crowds any day, and especially the day after Thanksgiving, so we suggest checking out Friday Morning Jazz with Bogg at Café Coda, or Friday night jazz with Bogg at Kings Tavern in Paradise, instead of joining the rat race on Black Friday, Nov. 28.

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 2K Games, Gearbox Software PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Gearbox knows how to keep a franchise strong. In this third installment of the first-person shooter with heavy RPG elements, the over-the-top mania of the Borderlands series is freakishly familiar with a few added touches that up the bloody ante.

The prequel takes us back in time to explore the origins of Handsome Jack, but while the series’ stories continue to get better, the real thrill is—and always has been—the great art style, lack of morals, and endless enemies ready to be dispatched. There’s plenty of the sick humor and twisted characters you’ve come to expect—returning fan-favorites and new psychos—as well as overpowered weaponry, quests overflowing with disdain for the questing system, and headshots that pop like cherry tomatoes, all in a lowgravity environment. Messing with the gravity—and the now necessary oxygen tank gear slot—would be nothing more than a threequel gimmick if it weren’t for the fact that it was genuinely fun. The low gravity makes travel easier and more creative while the accompanying butt slam to squash enemies is irresistibly excessive. Everything about The Pre-Sequel is excessive, especially the bad taste covering your tongue planted firmly in cheek, but that’s what Borderlands does best.

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El Camino If you’ve been waiting for something in the downtempo, ambient realm, or something that approaches trip-hop or electronic dance music but doesn’t sound nearly as banal as most of the mainstream examples of the genres do, then you are going to want to pick up Mixed Emotions, the new album from L..A-based duo Digital Daggers, right now. Maybe you will resonate with the powerful lyrics of a track like “Bleed for Me” (“You won’t feel the shadows/but they’ll be closing in/You won’t see me coming/but I’ll rip you at the seams”), or feel the hairs on your neck stand up at the haunting, beautiful synth-and-piano-led instrumental “Purgatory.” Failing that, you probably will fall in love with singer Andrea Wasse and her clear, breathy, gorgeous delivery. “Angel,” a hypnotic slice of ambient piano pop featuring Wasse’s repeated calls for someone to save her “from this hell,” and God help you if you try to resist the seductive beauty of “Nothing’s Broken,” because you will utterly fail. You will love every second of the song, as well as the rest of this exceptional album.

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Serial serialpodcast.org In 1999, Maryland high school student Hae Min Lee was found strangled to death. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted in her murder and sent to spend the rest of his life in prison. But did he kill her? Was the police investigation thorough enough?

Did the defense ask the right questions? This is the story being told in the debut season of Serial, a new documentary-style podcast that tells a new chapter each week in an investigation based on true events. Produced by the folks who bring us This American Life, its host, Sarah Koenig, walks us through the crime, the characters, the events leading up to and following Lee’s murder. She reviews the evidence and the court documents, and interviews witnesses. And in each episode, she highlights one aspect of her investigation, from Syed’s alibi to the location of the murder to the relationship between Syed and Lee. One thing that strikes me is the fact that Koenig, a soothing narrator, allows her characters to retain their own voices as well—when she’s on the phone with Syed in prison, for example, we hear that call. Will it be revealed that it wasn’t Syed who murdered Lee? Or will Koenig find that the jury was right 15 years ago? I, for one, will be tuning in to find out.

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J-Law will lead us.

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Opening this week Horrible Bosses 2

The gang—Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis—is back and there’s another bad boss and another bad plan to stop him.

Also starring Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Hungry for more First half of The Hunger Games finale offers just a taste of what’s to come n Mockingjay, Part 1, things take a darker, more underIHunger ground, and perhaps more understated turn in The Games film series. While it takes a step back

overall from the rousing prior chapter, Catching Fire, this is still a sturdy installment.

After being rescued at the end of by Bob Grimm Catching Fire, shortly after destroying The Hunger Games for good, bobg@ newsreview.com Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is taken underground to join the rebellion. Rebellion President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) wants to use the reluctant Katniss as a propaganda tool to inspire the masses against the Capitol and its evil leader, President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

Katniss is getting a little grouchy at this point, exacerbated by the fact The Hunger that Snow has imprisoned Peeta (Josh Games: Mock- Hutcherson) and is using him as a ingjay, Part 1 propaganda tool, as well.

Starring Jennifer In exchange for their help in resLawrence, Josh cuing Peeta, Katniss agrees to assist Hutcherson, Liam with the resistance and be their Hemsworth, “Mockingjay.”

In what constitutes the film’s best Julianne Moore and Donald sequence, Katniss is asked to perform Sutherland. in a staged, studio production for Directed by Francis what is supposed to be a rousing, Lawrence. call to arms propaganda piece. Alas, Cinemark 14, Katniss can’t act. It’s decided that a Feather River more realistic approach would do, so Cinemas and Katniss goes above ground, where a Paradise Cinema couple of decent action sequences 7. Rated PG-13. ensue. A TV crew is embedded with her, and they capture Katniss in real action alongside District 12 friend and semi-love-interest Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth, awarded more screen time in this installment).

Mockingjay, Part 1 is obviously the result of taking the final novel in the popular Suzanne Collins series and splitting it in half. Yes, more movies equal more dollars, but I certainly didn’t feel like the mate-

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rial was being stretched out in a detrimental way like, say, what’s happening with the Hobbit movies.

This film has plenty moving it forward, and I like where it ends.

It’s a cliffhanger for sure, but a cliffhanger with only a one-year wait. I’ve cited this before, but in my day, we used to wait more than three years for the answer to a nasty cliffhanger. My junior high school grades suffered due to the malaise brought on by The Empire Strikes Back cliffhanger. I think it truly damaged me, and is a reason for my not being married and hating parties.

Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch, now a part of the underground movement, isn’t allowed to drink anymore, so he’s grumpier than Katniss. Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) has also gone underground, where she is no longer adorned with extravagant wigs, gowns and makeup. It’s a pleasure to really see Banks, who takes the character to new places without her powdered face.

Moore is a welcome presence, as she often is in movies. Sutherland has really progressed with the Snow character, one that I didn’t enjoy all that much (actually, I didn’t enjoy a lot) in the first movie. In one of his final performances, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman is strong as Plutarch, the double agent architect of The Hunger Games now helping the resistance.

Lawrence doesn’t get to strut her action-heroine stuff as much in this installment (although she does shoot down a plane with an arrow). She’s required to emote more here, and a couple of her moments are actually a little overwrought. I’ll blame director Francis Lawrence for the film’s more awkward moments, because I don’t want to blame Jennifer Lawrence for anything. She’s just so damned delightful!

A final note to diehard fans: You already know how Mockingjay will end, so buck up and calm down. I heard people actually crying in the audience because they were pissed with the cliffhanger ending. Just go read the book again, or practice a little thing called patience. It’s all going to be finished up in 2015. Everything is going to be OK. Ω

Penguins of Madagascar

A spin-off from the Madagascar animatedfeature franchise, with the four lovable penguins on a world-saving adventure of their own. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart makes his directorial debut with this story based on real-life events surrounding the arrest and brutal four-month imprisonment of Maziar Bahari (played by Gael García Bernal) in part due to his appearance in a satirical interview on The Daily Show. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

The Theory of Everything

A biopic on the life of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking, from the time when they met at Harvard through the years of his seminal work and growing academic fame and her simultaneous 24-hour care of him as ALS wreaked havoc on his body. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13.

In Disney’s latest 3-D computer-animated feature, a young robotics genius and his big white inflatable robot team up with a crew of do-gooders to foil a criminal plot. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Birdman

An actor (Michael Keaton) is both directing and starring in his stage adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story. The first mysterious details—a levitation, the deus ex machina of a falling stage light, hints of telekinetic powers in Keaton’s character— pass without comment or explanation. But mixtures of realistic grit and occasional tremors of the supernatural are integral to the whole of Birdman, which soon takes spectacular flight in several forms—a bizarre and somewhat convulsive backstage comedy, a high-spirited psychodrama couched in terms of comic-book imagery, a fantasy within a fantasy that is both deadly serious and exuberantly playful. The voice of “Birdman” (a movie superhero he once played) is in Keaton’s head early on and we can hear it too. Eventually, he’s also present as a kind of ogre in a superhero costume. By then it seems fairly evident that he’s maybe the most tenacious and troubling of the several alter egos swirling around the protago-

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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back and stupid as ever. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Fury

Writer-director David Ayer’s intentions are to show the effects of war on a group of men who are clinging to the last threads of sanity after years of claustrophobic, bloodsoaked terror inside a tank during WWII. Brad Pitt leads the crew as Don “Wardaddy” Collier, a grizzled, scarred up individual resorting to arguably insane behavior as he treks across Nazi Germany. When he’s saddled with new recruit Norman (Logan Lerman), his behavior becomes a strange mix of paternal and completely unhinged. Other members of the crew include Boyd “Bible” Swan (Shia LaBeouf), Trini “Gordo” Garcia (Michael Peña) and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis (Jon Bernthal). Much of the film takes place inside the tank, with few breaks, and the carnage in the battle scenes is unrelenting. It all builds up to the key sequence where the tank breaks down and Wardaddy decides he isn’t going to run away with a large group of enemy soldiers approaching. As action films go, it’s a real winner. As war films go, it’s one to be remembered. As horror films go, I doubt you’ll see anything scarier this month.

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nist. All of these elements are seemingly in play as the film reaches its mysterious and multifaceted climax. We’re left to make what sense of it we can, or will. But before you get to that, Birdman is an immensely entertaining film. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Interstellar

Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster runs almost three hours and feels even longer. Interstellar’s sci-fi plot, exploration of outer space in search of a new and inhabitable home for the survivors of a dried-up Earth, seems to require the long-form treatment, especially when you factor in timetravel aspects, some elemental family drama, and an elaborately detailed preoccupation with the technologies involved. The story, scripted by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, never stops moving, but by the time the time-travel stuff starts coming home to roost, it’s hard not to feel that there’s been an awful lot of wasted motion here. It’s certainly an impressive spectacle, but the things that you could really care about might have been better served in a two-part installment of The Outer Limits.

Interstellar also has astronauts and farmers, black holes and worm holes, cryogenics and ghosts, and a robot treated as a fledgling sidekick (and voiced by Bill Irwin). It just may be that the Nolan brothers have tried to put too much baggage aboard their boundfor-IMAX behemoth. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Now accepting entries for the second annual Keep Chico Weird Talent Show and Art Show – A celebration of all the colorful, creative, brave, inventive, inspiring artists who make our community a unique, tolerant and enriching place to live. Weird is good. Celebrate it with us!

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TalenT show: Jan. 31, at the El Rey Theatre arT show: Jan. 29-31 (reception Jan. 29), at 1078 Gallery With prizes, celebrity judges and featured weird performers. how To submiT: Must be 18-over. Email a description of your three-minute act or visual art (and if you have them, include photos, videos, audio samples of your act or art, as well as any pertinent Internet links), plus contact info and the names/ ages of all participants to: keepchicoweird@gmail. com. Or mail/drop off entries to: Chico News & Review (attn. Keep Chico Weird), 353 E. Second St., Chico, CA, 95928. Deadline for submissions is Thursday, Jan. 8. Selected entrants will be notified the following week.

conscious warlocks on this Thanksgiving holiday, for being just so freakin’ Chico. As much as I can get annoyed by its hippies, rednecks and wingnuts, Chico is still rad for me and I am so thankful to live in a place that feels like home. Just as when I moved here 25 years ago, I’m thankful that you and I can each do our weird things without much trouble, and while we’re at it, eat cheap tacos, gobble up cheap rock shows, and share the experience with arty freaks and funloving friends under what is still a goddamn impressive canopy of trees shading us in this dry north valley. My life in Chico is as idyllic now as it was when I first arrived, except these days I can afford to buy a fancy beer whenever I want one. So, thank you, Chico.

Before I start sounding like too much of a self-centered asshole, I should say that more Giving thanks for the taco bounty. than any of that I am thankful for my wife, family and friends and the fact that we all have been so close to one another. A lot of trying, painful stuff has hit the DEVO clan and the tribes of those close to us since last Thanksgiving, and I’m grateful for the good health of those who are healthy, for the slow-but-steady recovery of those who aren’t, and for the years of laughing and crying with those who are no longer with us.

And, I’m also thankful for all sorts of miscellaneous radness right now. Next Friday is Dec. 5, and you know that means … Krampus is coming! Last year, I threatened to go all out for this Krampusnacht, and I am looking forward to a spirited Krampuslaufen with some of the good kids.

You probably already know that Pablo Sandoval is now the third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, and while I wish Panda was still gnawing on bamboo at AT&T Park, I am thankful that the Giants had him for as long as they did—long enough for him to help them win a few World Series and for him to inspire legions of young fans in Panda hats to fall in love with the team.

I really like baseball, but the NBA is my real jam, and I am very thankful that guys with names like Boogie and Omri are on the Sacramento Kings, and that the team appears to be on the upswing this year as they anticipate their new downtown digs set to open in time for the 2016-17 season.

I’m also thankful for how amazing TV is these days. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back in January, the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul starts in February; and my favorite filmmaker, David Lynch, is joining his Twin Peaks co-creator, Mark Frost, in returning to TV (on Showtime) in 2016 with a nine-episode update to the classic series. The story will apparently return to the scene in present day, more than two decades later. No actors have been announced yet, but Kyle MacLachlan/Agent Dale Cooper, reacted Twin Peaks returns, as prophesized. to the news with a tease of a Tweet: “Better fire up that percolator and find my black suit :) #Twinpeaks.”

And, thank the goddesses! There is a new all-female band in town!

The She Things—with Kerra Jessen (The Shankers), Christina Von Ulch (Hasta La Pizzas, The Shankers) and Chelsea Tucker (Melody Records)—are emerging from the garage with a very Crampsy sound to match their very Crampsy logo to play their first string of shows: Friday, Nov. 28, at Orange Street Art Studio’s Holiday Music & Art Show; Tuesday, Dec. 2, at Duffy’s Tavern; and Saturday, Dec. 13, at The Maltese.

FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26, 2014 ARIES (March 21-April 19): What ex-

actly do you believe in, Aries? What’s your philosophy of life? Do you think that most people are basically good and that you can make a meaningful life for yourself if you just work hard and act kind? Do you believe that evil, shapeshifting, kitteneating extraterrestrials have taken on human form and are impersonating political leaders who control our society?

Are you like the character Crash Davis in the film Bull Durham, who believed in “high fiber, good scotch ... the sweet spot … long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days”? Now would be an excellent time for you to get very clear about the fundamental principles that guide your behavior. Recommit yourself to your root beliefs—and jettison the beliefs that no longer work for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I have

two encyclopedias of dreams, and they disagree on the symbolic meaning of mud. One book says that when you dream of mud, you may be facing a murky moral dilemma in your waking life, or are perhaps dealing with a messy temptation that threatens to compromise your integrity. The other encyclopedia suggests that when you dream of mud, it means you have received an untidy but fertile opportunity that will incite growth and creativity. I suspect that you have been dreaming of mud lately, Taurus, and that both meanings apply to you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are there

certain influences you would love to bring into your life, but you can’t figure out how? Do you fantasize about getting access to new resources that would make everything better for you, but they seem to be forever out of reach? If you answered “yes,” it’s time to stop moping.

I’m happy to report that you have more power than usual to reel in those desirable influences and resources. To fully capitalize on this power, be confident that you can attract what you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Should

you cut back and retrench? Definitely.

Should you lop off and bastardize?

Definitely not. Do I recommend that you spend time editing and purifying? Yes, please. Does this mean you should censor and repress? No, thank you. Here’s my third pair of questions: Will you be wise enough to shed some of your defense mechanisms and strip away one of your lame excuses? I hope so. Should you therefore dispense with all of your psychic protections and leave yourself vulnerable to being abused? I hope not.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I know you’re

beautiful and you know you’re beautiful. But I think you could be even more beautiful than you already are. What do you think? Have you reached the limits of how beautiful you can be? Or will you consider the possibility that there is even more beauty lying dormant within you, ready to be groomed and expressed?

I encourage you to ruminate on these questions: 1. Are you hiding a complicated part of your beauty because it would be hard work to liberate it? 2. Are you afraid of some aspect of your beauty because revealing it would force you to acknowledge truths about yourself that are at odds with your self-image? 3. Are you worried that expressing your full beauty would intimidate other people?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Helsinki,

Finland is growing downwards. By cutting out space in the bedrock below the city’s surface, farseeing leaders have made room to build shops, a data center, a hockey rink, a church and a swimming pool. There are also projects underway to construct 200 other underground structures. I’d like to see you start working along those lines, Virgo—at least metaphorically. Now would be an excellent time to renovate your foundations so as to accommodate your future growth.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Pantone

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BY ROB BREzSNY sification, there are 104 various shades of grey. I suspect you will benefit from being equally discerning in the coming weeks.

It just won’t be possible to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys.

You’ll misunderstand situations that you try to simplify, and you’ll be brilliant if you assume there’s always more nuance and complexity to uncover. Don’t just grudgingly tolerate ambiguity, Libra. Appreciate it. Learn from it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I am

not necessarily predicting that you will acquire a shiny new asset in time for the solstice. Nor am I glibly optimistic that you will get a raise in pay or an unexpected bonus. And I can offer only a 65-percent certainty that you will snag a new perk or catch a financial break or stumble upon a treasure. In general, though, I am pretty confident that your net worth will rise in the next four weeks.

Your luck will be unusually practical. To take maximum advantage of the cosmic tendencies, focus your efforts on the one or two most promising prospects.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who is sometimes called “the father of modern science.” He expressed his innovative ideas so vigorously that he offended the Catholic Church, which convicted him of heresy. For us today, he symbolizes the magnificence of rational thought. And yet Galileo also had a weird streak. For example, he gave lectures on the “Shape, Location, and Size of Dante’s Inferno,” analyzing the poet’s depiction of hell. In the course of these meticulous discourses, Galileo concluded that Satan was more than four-fifths of a mile tall. In this spirit, Sagittarius, and in accordance with current astrological omens, you are temporarily authorized to de-emphasize the constraints of reason and logic so that you may gleefully and unapologetically pursue your quirky proclivities.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

While in his early twenties, actor Robert Downey Jr. appeared in the films Less Than Zero and Weird Science. That got him semi-typecast as a member of Hollywood’s Brat Pack, a group of popular young actors and actresses who starred in coming-of-age films in the 1980s. Eager to be free of that pigeonhole, Downey performed a ritual in 1991: He dug a hole in his backyard and buried the clothes he had worn in Less Than Zero. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ceremony to help you graduate from the parts of your past that are holding you back.

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

her book Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem offers a challenge: “Think of the times you have said: ‘I can’t write,’ ‘I can’t paint,’ ‘I can’t run,’ ‘I can’t shout,’ ‘I can’t dance,’ ‘I can’t sing.’” That’s your first assignment, Aquarius: Think of those times. Your second assignment is to write down other “I can’t” statements you have made over the years. Assignment three is to objectively evaluate whether any of these “I can’t” statements are literally true. If you find that some of them are not literally true, your fourth assignment is to actually do them. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform “I can’t” into “I can.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dogs

don’t know where they begin and end,” writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her book The Wave in the Mind. They “don’t notice when they put their paws in the quiche.”

Cats are different, LeGuin continues. They “know exactly where they begin and end.

When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open ... It’s a cat’s way of maintaining relationship.”

Whether you are more of a dog person or a cat person, Pisces, it is very important that you be more like a cat than a dog in the coming weeks. You must keep uppermost in your mind exactly where you begin and where you end.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RUSSELL’S at 185 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95926.

PEACH TREE RESTAURANT INC 1080 N Beale Rd Marysville, CA 95901.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: NAEEM REHMAN, OWNER Dated: October 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001326 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUEENLY CLERGY SHIRTS at 2508 Tom Polk Ave Chico, CA 95973.

DELIA FAY 2508 Tom Polk Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SDELIA FAY Dated: October 15, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001285 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ROYAL COOKIE BOUTIQUE at 1450 Springfield Drive #81 Chico, CA 95928.

RACHEL J VONASEK 1450 Springfield Drive #81 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RACHEL VONASEK Dated: October 29, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001343 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

business as EAT PLANTS ALIVE at 17 Bowers Lane Chico, CA 95973.

JILL MARIE STEWART 17 Bowers Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JILL MARIE STEWART Dated: October 27, 2014 FBN NUmber: 2014-0001329 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are do-­ ing business as HALEY GROUP, HALEY REAL ESTATE GROUP at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

CRYSTAL ANN COATS 1557 Filbert Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT EMMET HALEY 1557 Filbert Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted be a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001307 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GILMOUR REAL ESTATE GROUP at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

JOSEPH TODD GILMOUR 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001308 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE SIMPKINS TEAM at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

ALISHA SIMPKINS 39 Lakewood Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001309 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SUFUENTES REAL ESTATE GROUP at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

JULIO R SUFUENTES 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001310 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as

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WINSLOW AND ASSOCIATES at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

HEIDI WINSLOW 480 Cinnamon Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

KEN WINSLOW 480 Cinnamon Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001311 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PORCH-TO-PORCH REAL ESTATE at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

KENNETH M. DICKSON 1423 Arcadian Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001312 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PLATINUM PARTNERS REAL ESTATE TEAM at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

MARISA BAUER 1275 Banning Park Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

LISA BRISTOW 573 E. 4th St. Chico, CA 95926.

ERICA MARTINI 1239 Peninsula Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001313 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BELLA NATURAL at 712 Bidwell Drive Chico, CA 95926.

MARIANNE BELTRAN 712 Bidwell Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARIANNE BELTRAN Dated: October 6, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001246 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BROADWAY HEIGHTS at 300 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

SKS ENTERPRISES LLC 8858 Troxel Rd Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: SCOTT SCHULMAN, MEMBER Dated: November 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001350 Published:November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as UN-WINDED RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE at 1165 Dog Leg Drive Chico, CA 95928.

STELLAR RESTAURANTS, LLC 1165 Dog Leg Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: MELINDA KENNEMER Dated: November 4, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001359 Published: November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM at 3120 Cohasset Rd, Ste 8 Chico, CA 95973.

DANA RENEE LESLIE 253 E. 7th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANA LESLIE Dated: November 6, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001370 Published: November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CUSTOM CONCRETE CONCEPTS at 441 Madrone Ave Chico, CA 95926.

GARRETT R BILSBOROUGH 441 Madrone Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GARRETT R BILSBOROUGH Dated: November 5, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001365 Published: November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ABUNDANCE FLOWER DESIGN at 105 Wawona Place Chico, CA 95928.

CATHERINE VALENZUELA 105 Wawona Place Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CATHERINE VALENZUELA Dated: November 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001353 Published: November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JENMOON CREATIONS, MOONSTONE at 835 Main St. Chico, CA 95928.

JENNIFER ANN LANE 2505 Cactus Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JENNIFER A. LANE Dated: November 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001377 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BCBA, BUTTE COUNTY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION at 2961 Highway 32, Suite 100 Chico, CA 95973.

NC ALCHEMY HOLDINGS, INC. 2961 Highway 32, Suite 100 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ANNA MACEY, SECRETARY Dated: October 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001319 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CORINTHIAN STERLING SILVER JEWELRY at 1235 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

JANE ANNE JOHNSON 1235 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JANE JOHNSON Dated: November 6, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001368 Published: November 26, December 4,11,18, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOT 5 DESIGN at 1134 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

KIMBERLY CABRAL 1134 Oleander Ave, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIMBERLY CABRAL Dated: October 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001276 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JACK CORRIEA NEIGHBORHOOD MAINTENANCE at 3244 Mystery Run Chico, CA 95928.

JACK CORRIEA 3244 Mystery Run Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JACK CORRIEA Dated: November 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001393 Published: November 26, December 4,11,18, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROJECT K at 231 Main Street Chico, CA 95928.

ALISON KILLEEN 1475 Sale Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ALISON KILLEEN Dated: November 13, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001389 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TIPSY at 1400 W. 3rd St B #100 Chico, CA 95928.

CULLEN QUINN 1400 W. 3rd St B #100 Chico, CA 95928.

This person is doing business as an Individual.

Signed: CULLEN QUINN Dated: November 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001404 Published: November 26, December 4,11,18, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ABIGAIL HOUSE REDECORATING at 1941 Preservation Oak Drive Chico, CA 95928.

EARL MJ AAGAARD 1941 Preservation Oak Drive Chico, CA 95928.

GAIL SELBY AAGAARD 1941 Preservation Oak Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: GAIL SELBY AAGAARD Dated: November 6, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001367 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name DE AIR COMPANY at 2710 B Feather River Blvd.

Oroville, CA 95965.

RICHARD ELDEN ROOT JR. 6 Waffle Court Oroville, CA 95966.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD ROOT Dated: September 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2012-0001363 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EUROPEAN MOTORSPORT at 3870 Benatar Way Suite C Chico, CA 95928.

EUROPEAN MOTORSPORT INC. 3870 Benatar Way Suite C Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RION GROH, CFO Dated: October 28, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001337 Published: November 26, December 4,11,18, 2014

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE E. LUANN KAMPRATH To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: E. LUANN KAMPRATH A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SUSAN BELOW and AMY BELOW in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: SUSAN BELOW and AMY BELOW be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: December 18, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: C-13 Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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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: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111, Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: PR41235 Dated: November 14, 2014 Published: November 20 December 4,11 2014

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JEAN F. FREEDOM aka JEAN FRANCIS CURTIS To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JEAN F. FREEDOM aka JEAN FRANCIS CURTIS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DONALD DRIGGERS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: RONDA BRUNSON and CYNTHIA HARVEY dba ELDERCARE SOLUTIONS 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: December 11, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­

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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: JOHN C. SCHALLER 1458 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926 530-893-8891 Case Number: PR41231 Dated: November 14, 2014 Published: November 20,26, December 4, 2014

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held on December 4, 2014 at 11:30am.

The property is stored at Garden Drive Mini Storage & U-Haul. Oroville, CA 95965.

The items to be sold are generally described as follows: DORY/GARY BRUBAKER; Furniture, TV, tool box, pro tools, truck bed, air compres-­ sor, boxes.

ED METZ; Household furniture, boxes, tools, clothes.

CHARLOTTE SMITH; Furniture, mattress, desk, boxes.

AMBER GOLDEN; Chainsaw, gardening equipment, tools, toolbox and boxes.

DAVE TIPP; Clothing, mattress, boxes, stroller.

MIKE LANDRENEAU; Auto parts, desk, dresser, mattress, armoire.

COREY DAVIS; Clothing, bedding, kids bed, sofa and loveseat.

RICHARD RYDINGSWARD; Bicycle, television, dishwasher, dollie, shop vac and boxes.

This notice is given in accordance with the provisions of Section 21700 et seq of the Business & Professions Code of the State of California.

J. Michael’s Auction & Vehicle Lien Service, Inc. Bond #1836232 Published: November 26, December 4, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CYNTHIA GOLDEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CYNTHIA ELIZABETH ANN GOLDEN Proposed name: CYNDI ELIZABETH ANN LEDET 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: December 10, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is:

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Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L MCLEAN Dated: October 03, 2014 Case Number: 162955 Published: November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHLEEN SHERMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CARL KEITH HOLLINGER Proposed name: AKIN KEITH ISRAEL SHEPHERD 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: January 14, 2015 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: November 4, 2014 Case Number: 163280 Published: November 13,20,26, December 4, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner IRA BENJAMIN STOCKBRIDGE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: IRA BENJAMIN STOCKBRIDGE Proposed name: BEN STOCKBRIDGE 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: January 14, 2015 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: November 13, 2014 Case Number: 163354 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SHANE ANDREWS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KAIYAH REI MARCHICK Proposed name: KAIYAH SUESETTE ANDREWS 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

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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: January 7, 2015 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: November 5, 2014 Case Number: 163306 Published: November 20,26, December 4,11, 2014

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT JENNIFER F. NEWMAN You are being sued by plaintiff: JERROD A. NEWMAN You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make 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.

You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court One Court Street Oroville, CA 95965 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: JERROD A. NEWMAN 1420 Oro Dam Blvd. West Oroville, CA 95965.

AFFORDABLE DOCUMENTS 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #4 Oroville, CA 95966 (530) 534-7777 LDA #11 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: September 26, 2014 Case Number: FL-046422 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: BARBARA J. SWIGART, AN INDIVIDUAL, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 75 INCLUSIVE you are being sued by plaintiff: AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMINITY COMPANY, A CALIFORNIA CORPORTATION. NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF BUTTE, One Court Street, Oroville, CA 95965.

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: CRAIG P. BRONSTEIN [SBN 174124] Lanak & Hanna, P.C. [#18798] 625 The City Drive South, Suite 190 Orange, CA 92868-4983 (714) 550-0418 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: September 21, 2012 Case Number: 157901 Published: November 6,13,20,26, 2014

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Love’s ReaL estate Un-selling I was driving along, honing my skills as a lively and interesting conversationalist, when to my utter amazement, tears shot from the eyes of my passenger, Kathy Grisham.

“No, no, no, no,” she sobbed into her hands.

“Uh,” I said. I recalled in that moment the words of my mentor, the wily and wise KDV: “There’s more to this real estate stuff than showing houses and writing contracts, babe.”

“It’s all wrong!” Kathy bellowed. “My husband won’t listen to me! The house he wants us to buy, it’s all wrong, all wrong. It needs too much work and costs too much. And I’m about to have a baby! Do you understand?” She wrung tears from her handkerchief like a soaked washrag.

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I understood the part about having a baby. The rest I was foggy on. Kathy and her husband, Brad, were excited about buying this house as far as I knew, and I was excited about making a sale.

Now she was yelling. “He’s a dreamer! Always biting off more than he can chew, always getting in over his head!”

When she said “getting in over his head,” she whirled her handkerchief in circles over her head, and covered the inside of the car with showers of tears. “You’ve got to get me out of this,” she wailed.

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I wiped the tears from my cheek, also my hair and right ear, and drove on to the house, where we met Brad.

“Honey!” said Brad, as we strolled room to room, “just wait till I refinish these hardwood floors, and patch this old plaster. The painting is no big deal, and some plumbing and electrical will get the kitchen and bathroom in shape in no time.” It took everything I had to not shout, “Here, Brad! Sign this tear-stained contract!”

But Kathy looked at me pleadingly. I silently said goodbye to my tear-stained contract.

“Uh, it’ll take a lot of money and time to do all that,” I said numbly, “are you sure you’re not getting in over your head, biting off more than you can chew?” I wanted to bite off and chew my tongue.

Brad saw the look of agreement on Kathy’s face.

“Honey?” he said.

“You’ve been painting our apartment for two years,” she said. “I want some furniture besides paint cans, tarps and ladders.”

Back at the office I told KDV my sordid tale.

“Ah, yes!” said KDV. “The art of un-selling! You know, babe, there’s more to this real estate stuff than showing houses and writing contracts.”

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

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

260 Orange Ave

Bangor

$410,000.00

3/ 2.5

2364

3069 Snowbird Dr

Chico

$232,000.00

3/ 2

1213

7437 Oro Bangor Hwy

Bangor

$219,500.00

3/ 2

2169

2617 Swallowtail Way

Chico

$228,000.00

3/ 2

1126

Berry Creek

$328,000.00

3/ 2

2020

3 Cloud Ct

Chico

$227,000.00

3/ 2

1242

3277 Middletown Ave

Chico

$455,000.00

4/ 3

2458

17 Glacier Peak Ln

Chico

$210,000.00

3/ 2

1119

676 Bryant Ave

Chico

$386,000.00

4/ 2.5

2744

3198 Godman Ave

Chico

$204,000.00

3/ 2

1220

47 Redeemers Loop

Chico

$294,000.00

3/ 2

1608

132 W 22nd St

Chico

$175,000.00

2/ 1

647

2529 Navarro Dr

Chico

$287,500.00

3/ 2

1621

2916 Pennyroyal Dr

Chico

$122,500.00

2/ 1.5

904

19 Patches Dr

Chico

$258,000.00

3/ 2

1373

1186 Vallombrosa Ave 1

Chico

$112,500.00

3/ 2

2206

37 Franciscan Way

Chico

$233,500.00

3/ 2

1156

1556 Mountain View Ave

Chico

$105,500.00

3/ 1.5

1244

244 Horseshoe Trl

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$290,000

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of November 10, 2014 – November 14, 2014.

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

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

Forbestown

$225,000.00

2/ 2

1419

593 Silver Leaf Dr

Oroville

$140,000.00

2/ 2

1440

14167 Elmira Cir

Magalia

$163,000.00

3/ 2

1570

6178 Ponderosa Way

Magalia

$160,000.00

3/ 2

1454

2100 D St

Oroville

$120,000.00

3/ 2

1020

14216 Racine Cir

Magalia

$152,000.00

3/ 1.5

1716

2368 Via Laton

Oroville

$116,000.00

2/ 1

952

2092 Table Mtn Blvd

Oroville

$265,000.00

4/ 2

2244

6888 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$180,000.00

2/ 2

1378

79 Magnesio St

Oroville

$258,000.00

4/ 2.5

2209

6114 Kanaka Ave

Oroville

$226,000.00

2/ 2

1698

6807 Rexdale Ln

Paradise

$153,000.00

2/ 2

1215

12 Avery Ct

Oroville

$180,000.00

3/ 2

1373

12145 S Stoneridge Cir

Paradise

$128,000.00

2/ 2

1427

36 Mourning Dove Ln

Oroville

$170,000.00

4/ 2

1312

5874 Crestview Dr

Paradise

$126,500.00

1/ 1

988

6212 Forbestown Rd

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392 Weymouth Way (X St: W. Eaton Rd) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2803 Sq.Ft. $535,000 Jenn Stelle 515-6801

Sat. 12-3

1041 Dias Dr (X St: Cecelia/W. 11th Ave) 4 Bd / 4 Ba, 3685 Sq.Ft. $465,500 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 132 Commonwealth Ct (X St: Patriot) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1707 Sq.Ft. $373,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 420 Mission Santa Fe Cr (X St: Mission Ranch Blvd) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1365 Sq.Ft. $264,750 Patty Davis Rough 864-4329 Chris Martinez 680-4404

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 11-1

1168 Metalmark Wy (X St: Vistamont) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1471 Sq.Ft. $259,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872 Lindsey Ginno 570-5261

Sat. 12-3 & Sun. 2-4

571 Eaton Rd (X St: Godman) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1723 Sq.Ft. $235,900 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

Sun. 2-4

1376 Humboldt Ave (X St: Bartlett) 2 Bd / 1 Ba, 1040 Sq.Ft. $177,500 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sun. 11-1, 2-4

769 Caprice Way (X St: Morseman) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1416 Sq.Ft. $255,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227

Sat. 12-3

1082 E. 5th Ave (X St: Neal Dow) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1387 Sq.Ft. $250,000 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

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