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Stop torture—all of it The debate surrounding the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the

Score one for the coyotes very evening, the local coyotes that inhabit my off-grid Esinging neighborhood break into song. I like to think they are about something, sharing stories, letting the world

One of my neighbors raises goats. She has guard dogs that protect the herd. She hasn’t lost any goats to the resident coyotes. There know of their joy. Listening to the coyotes sing—their yipis a gentle balance of wild and domestic here yipping—is an exhilarating, comforting in these woods. experience, a simple pleasure, much like It is hard to believe that anyone would kill listening to the pitter of rain on my tin coyotes for the sport of it—that “killing conroof or watching the flames (and feeling tests” would still exist in this modern age. It the heat) from my woodstove. is still harder to believe that contests giving I sometimes capture one or two of the extra points for killing pregnant coyotes handsome critters on a trail camera I set would be an acceptable part of our culture. up on this ridge, always caught during Nor would anybody believe that a killing the night. They are incredibly smart anicontest would be a reasonable mals. Once, on a hike, a management tool for ranchers. I by coyote ran in front of me once wrote a story about such a It is hard to believe that Allan Stellar and my dogs, taunting us, contest. I traveled to Adin, Calif., anyone would kill coyotes where hunters hid their mass kill making the dogs give The author is a chase. While chasing after from my prying eyes. for the sport of it ... psychiatric nurse who the dogs, I looked over Recently, the California Fish lives in Concow. my shoulder, only to see and Game Commission voted He is the author of a another coyote slouching away, protect4 to 1 to end such contests. Once again, just CN&R cover story ing its den and pups. We were too close like the mountain lion hunting ban that titled “The coyote to their home so a diversion had to be passed by citizen initiative back in 1990, hunt,” which ran on Feb. 28, 2013. created. It worked.

California is leading the nation. We are As long as we don’t raise chickens, rethinking our relationship to predators. the coyotes mostly leave us alone, conAnd we are a better state for doing so. tent to do their job of keeping the rodent When the coyotes in my neighborhood population down in this semi-wild comsang for me the night after the ban was munity. It’s an important task, what with established, I like to think they did so in the hanta virus and bubonic plague makcelebration. And to share that joy, I howl ing a comeback. with them. Ω 6

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CIA’s use of torture has focused on whether torture produced useful information. The report says no, but CIA officials and others say yes (though current CIA Director John Brennan acknowledges that its usefulness is “unknowable”).

That discussion, however, is a diversion from the truly important questions: Is torture ever morally justified? Is it legal? And is it still being done?

Sen. John McCain, himself a victim of torture during the Vietnam War, insists torture is never justified, and the CIA was wrong to use it. “The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow,” he said. “The American people are entitled to it nonetheless.”

Torture is also illegal. In 1984 President Ronald Reagan, that Republican icon, signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which states, in brief, that there is no justification—none—for torture.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee pushed for release of the report, believes it represents a return to core American values. “The important thing is that America recognizes its mistakes and takes the steps necessary to correct them,” she told The Sacramento Bee. “In so many countries, that doesn’t happen.”

But will the mistakes be corrected? Will the CIA be scrubbed clean of torturers? And will the U.S. cease torturing the hunger strikers at the Guantánamo prison by strapping them to a chair and jamming feeding tubes up their noses and into their stomachs?

And what about the more than 80,000 inmates in American prisons who are slowly going crazy in solitary confinement? Psychological torture can be even worse than physical torture, but we practice it routinely.

The truth pill we really need to swallow is that our government tortures in our name far more than we realize. None of it is necessary. None of it is justifiable. It’s up to us to make it stop. Ω

Sign the ABLE Act On Tuesday, a few weeks after the House of Representatives voted over-

whelmingly in favor of the Achieve a Better Life Experience Act, the U.S. Senate gave its approval. It was a rare bipartisan showing of support for a bill that will empower people with disabilities by allowing them to establish special tax-free savings accounts.

On the surface, that may not sound like such a big deal. But the ABLE Act is being called the most significant legislation aiding those with disabilities since the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

The law would aid millions of citizens by creating an opportunity for them to gain, as the full name of the legislation states, “a better life experience.” That’s because the accounts—which can be used on qualified expenses, such as housing, medical care and transportation—will not interfere with an individual’s eligibility for benefits such as Social Security Income and Medicaid.

Presently, those who have more than $2,000 lose those benefits—a factor that has served only as a roadblock to independence. In other words, as it stands, those with disabilities must remain impoverished to receive federal aid.

Conversely, under the ABLE Act, qualifying individuals, or their families, will be able to set aside up to $14,000 per year. The accounts could draw up to $100,000 before affecting Social Security benefits, and there’s no limitation on accrual when it comes to Medicaid. Moreover, interest on that money is tax-free.

The ABLE Act has been in the works since 2006 and is championed by many national disabled-rights groups, such as Autism Speaks and the National Down Syndrome Society. Its overwhelming bipartisan support should show President Obama that this issue is too important to keep kicking the can down the road. Signing this extraordinary bill into law immediately is the right thing to do. Ω

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Only in Chico There are many things I like about living in our fair burg. One of my favorites is the friendliness factor— the smiles and hellos from strangers (I didn’t get many of those in the Bay Area). It was unnerving when I first moved here, but I’ve grown fond of it over the years. In fact, nowadays, I’m often the first one to greet others I don’t know.

Some of the friendliest people I’ve never met have been in Chico. And that includes two people my husband and I see each weekday morning after dropping our toddler off at preschool. On our drive into work, there they are sitting on the same bench in Bidwell Park—rain or shine (sometimes sitting in their minivan when it’s really pouring, like it was during last Thursday’s deluge).

At some point after seeing their familiar faces again and again in the same spot, we started waving hello to each other. I cannot recall who made first contact, so to speak. But ever since then, my morning ritual starts off with a friendly greeting between us. I wonder what they think of us as we whiz by and I’m curious what their story is.

Speaking of strangers, I want to thank everyone who came into our office and picked up a child’s name from our “giving tree.” We ran out of kids to buy presents for in the middle of last week. Thanks to the generosity of people they’ll never know, these children from The Esplanade House will have a much happier holiday season.

Update: We’re still going strong on our drive for toiletries for local nonprofits aiding the needy. Several of our awesome readers have come in with bags full of all kinds of goodies—lotions, shampoos, body wash, among other items—including some fancy brands. We’re taking donations through the end of the month, so there’s plenty of time to pop in with such items. Local T-shirt makers Design by Humans, a really cool company we wrote about in our Entrepreneurs issue last spring, read about this effort and pitched in with a generous donation of hundreds of brand-new shirts. That made my week.

And while we’re talking about charitable deeds, I might as well go hog wild here. Last week, I stumbled upon a crowdfunding site set up for a badly neglected German shepherd named Noelle who was found tied to a tree in Bidwell Park. A good Samaritan brought her to the Chico Animal Shelter, and it’s a good thing judging by the pictures of the poor creature. Noelle is in rough shape. She has some pretty gnarly skin issues that likely will require extensive veterinary care and medication.

I’m nuts about this beautiful breed, and I’d love to see the fundraising effort reach its goal of $2,000. Go to www.youcaring.com and search for “Noelle the German shepherd” or to the Chico Animal Shelter’s Facebook page to help her. Hopefully, once she’s back to being her gorgeous self, folks will line up to give Noelle the home she deserves.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Two views Re “Arrests, not deaths” (Editorial, Dec. 11): Sadly, in the case of Eric Garner, the “crime” he allegedly committed was supposed to have been handled by a “written ticket” requiring a court appearance. It was not something warranting an arrest. What a sad situation.

This was an egregious crime of excessive use of force by law enforcement. And police wonder why we don’t respect them anymore. It is time to stop looking at citizens as though every one of us is a “criminal.” Selling single cigarettes should not ever cost a man his life. I hope something is done about this. At the very least it should culminate in some kind of mandate that these sorts of excessive force issues be investigated by outside panels of objective individuals.

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What is the response if you talk to protesters? The officer should have tried to wound Michael Brown? George Zimmerman should have let Trayvon Martin beat him to a pulp? The cops should have somehow known the replica gun was not real?

The challenge is for any of them to put themselves in that spot and tell us how the outcome would change? Would you let someone possibly beat you to death? Would you let a 300-pound guy who just tried to kill you charge you?

Would you let a kid pull the gun and wait to see if it goes off? And how would you arrest a 350-pound 6-foot-4-inch guy who did not want to be arrested?

There were millions of arrests this year, yet four catch your eye? There were over a thousand blacks killed by blacks? No black leader has said stop resisting arrest and fighting with the law. If you do crime, you will be arrested— one way or the other. It is a shame for many to think police should willingly give up their lives for a hunch this person is not intent on killing them. It shows lack of contact with the real world, a void of common sense.

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About CUSD’s process Re “Two for the trees” (Letters, by Michael Christopher, Dec. 11): Two large red oak trees will be removed for construction of a science building near Oleander and Memorial at Chico Junior. This location was preferred by science teachers, not the northeast corner.

The teachers’ preference was $4.5 million.

The final option is $2.8 million, a less-expensive design. The budget for this work is $3 million.

The final option allows for modernization, including a new drop-off/pick-up area, fire alarm system, exterior painting, restrooms, upgraded technology infrastructure and ADA modifications. These improvements are impossible under the $4.5 million option.

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Location considered the following: alignment with an existing building wing, creating good traffic flow; placement at the school frontage adding visual improvement; delineating boundaries for the student commons area; enhancing open space in the west playfield area where students gather, have lunch, play sports, hold graduation and participate in afterschool program activities; allowing construction to be phased, causing the least disruption. The placement starts to create a single point of entry for a safe and secure campus.

Stating that the building’s location was made for political purposes demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the careful and transparent process that has taken place.

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Forced annexation wrong Re “Council makes a mess” (Editorial, Nov. 27): I do not agree with the conclusion in your recent editorial about the attempted forced annexation of the Chapman/Mulberry neighborhoods that the agreement “was a well-thought-out plan.” A govern-

ment process that does not allow for disclosure of information and a means and time to understand and to discuss and provide input is simply disrespectful.

The process was meetings between the staff of LAFCo and city of Chico held without any public participation and no public notice. This process nearly completely shut down public participation in this important issue, relegating anyone with interest, curiosity or questions to having two minutes at a council meeting.

The process was wholly disrespectful to the residents of the neighborhood.

A few months ago, when the lack of notice was brought to the attention to the City Council, the council put the issue off to an October meeting and directed staff to at least mail a letter to the residents. Then the October meeting got canceled when city staff said they’d forgotten to send the letter.

People have a right to be informed, a right to question, a right to give input and a right to impact the decision.

JANE DOLAN Chico

Striving for peace Re “More on the Middle East” (Letters, by Rabbi Julie Danan, Dec. 11): I was glad to see Rabbi Julie Danan’s letter, in which she pointed out the years that professor Michael Leitner has spent striving for peace in Israel-Palestine. I attended Leitner’s presentation in which he described how the sporting events he had coordinated between Israelis and Palestinians had reduced hatred between those two ethnic groups. Bravo! However, it was unfortunate that no time was allotted for questions following his presentation.

At Chico Peace and Justice Center, we discussed Leitner’s presentation and wondered what he believes is the cause of all the hatred that he has worked so hard to dispel.

I also attended Leitner’s oncampus showing of the documentary The Case for Israel. It noted that when Israel declared itself an independent nation, “some” Palestinians were forced from their homes. It did not say that in 1948 Israel forced 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, Israel then forced another 300,000 from their homes in 1967, and every decade since 1948 Israel has forced tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.

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made in Israel’s policies, sporting events will have no lasting value.

SHARON FRITSCH Chico

Check this out Re “Goodbye, bipartisanship” (Editorial, Dec. 4): Let’s set the record straight on nonpartisan councils. Under the left-leaning councils, this is what the facts tell us: Mayor Maureen Kirk/Vice Mayor Coleen Jarvis, 2002-04; Mayor Scott Gruendl/Vice Mayor Kirk, 2004-06; Mayor Andy Holcombe/Vice Mayor Ann Schwab, 2006-08; Mayor Schwab 200812/Vice Mayor Tom Nickell (2008-10) and Vice Mayor Jim Walker (2010-12). Mayor Mary Goloff /Vice Mayor Gruendl, 2012-August 2013.

Nowhere can I find a mention that Councilmen Larry Wahl or Bob Evans was even considered for nomination as mayor or even vice mayor. If they had been we would not be in the financial abyss we are today.

It will take a strong financially like-minded conservative majority council many years to put us back on track to build back our publicsafety departments, infrastructure and operating reserves so that this city will be able to withstand the next economic downturn.

Finally a majority of voters have chosen the right people to set the right course.

STEPHANIE L. TABER Chico

Editor’s note: What Ms. Taber’s letter does not mention is that in August 2013 the liberal majority voted in progressive Scott Gruendl as mayor and conservative Mark Sorensen as vice mayor—a bipartisan arrangement that lasted approximately 16 months.

Clarification Last week’s Second & Flume lacked specificity when it came to who it was that hired and paid Andrew Coolidge thousands of dollars for his public relations services related to an effort to oust District Attorney Mike Ramsey during the 2010 election. Mr. Coolidge was paid by the political action committee Citizens for Economic Balance—established

by George Scott, owner of Chico Scrap Metal, and other local business people. This has been clarified online. –ed.

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TEACHERS UNION VOTES FOR VOTE

The Chico Unified Teachers Association (CUTA) has voted to allow its executive board to call for a vote to strike, if current labor negotiation conditions warrant.

According to a Dec. 12 press release, 497 CUTA members said yes to a vote and only nine said no. “This is an advisory vote,” said President Kevin Moretti in the release. “It informs CUTA leadership how our members are feeling about the current negotiations situation.”

Those negotiations between the association and the Chico Unified School District have stalled and were set for mediation on Dec. 19. Teachers at some CUSD school sites have taken part in “weekly informational picketing” to draw attention to their cause.

“The CUTA leadership is cautiously optimistic that a fair settlement can be reached in mediation,” the press release says.

Marchers enter the City Plaza Saturday, Dec. 13, protesting the recent deaths of black men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City at the hands of white cops. The march is led by co-organizers Jaquan Sayres (center with sign) and Theodore Ulsh (far right).

Directly behind Sayres, and also carrying a sign, is rally organizer Mandi Ranalla.

MORE TEACHER TROUBLE

The Butte Community College District board of trustees at a Dec. 10 meeting received petitions signed by more than 3,000 students urging the board to pay part-time instructors for office hours, according to a press release from the part-timers’ union.

More than half of the school’s part-time instructors are not allotted office hours, and those who are “receive a fraction of what our full-time counterparts get,” Stacy Burk, president of the Part Time Faculty Association Local 12, said in the release.

“As a result,” the release continues, “part timers are put in the untenable position of being reduced to suckers or jerks; suckers for letting the District exploit them by giving students office time for free or jerks because they elect to work to contract which does not include office hour time.”

The union says part-time instructors account for 78 percent of the teaching delivered at the school.

ONE YEAR INTO SIT/LIE

Chico police provided a report on the controversial civil-sidewalks ordinance—otherwise known as the sit/lie law—during the Chico City Council meeting on Tuesday (Dec. 16), roughly a year after the law’s implementation.

The ordinance, which makes it illegal to sit or lie in pedestrian paths of travel adjacent to commercial properties between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., came as a response to community outcry over the homeless population downtown and its perceived effects on business patronage.

Lt. Dave Britt reported that police issued 162 warnings and 39 citations related to sit/lie violations in the past year, noting that the number of citations increased substantially once two officers were assigned to the downtown beat in October. Britt also showed a slideshow of notable criminals cited for sit/lie violations—including Joshua Epstein (pictured), who was charged in the stabbing death of Randell Sexton that took place on Aug. 31 in front of the 7-Eleven on Main Street.

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In the name of justice Local efforts join national protests of police killings ore than 100 people carrying signs and M chanting slogans marched down The Esplanade and into downtown Chico Saturday

(Dec. 13) to show solidarity with protests that have taken place across the country in the past month over by the killings of black suspects by Tom Gascoyne white police officers.

“Black lives matter,” read tomg@ several signs, announcing the newsreview.com theme of the march and rally to follow.

The protesters had gathered in front of the Chico Nut Co. warehouse at The Esplanade and 11th Avenue, where they were addressed by the march’s co-organizer Jaquan Sayres. The march was to be “nonviolent for a peaceful cause,” he said, to “bring awareness of the dehumanizing of people of color, and the militarization of the police.”

Sayres, 22, was born in San Bernardino and has lived in Chico for seven years. His local effort with co-organizer Theodore Ulsh joined those of Donnell Davidson, who’s been carrying protest signs off and on for the past few weeks in downtown Chico, and Mandi Ranalla, who organized a rally at the City Plaza with the help of the Chico Peace and Justice Center for later that day.

“The obvious motivation for me here is to bring awareness in our community because what is happening across the country is not an isolated event,” Sayres said. “To say that it can’t happen here is preposterous.”

The local movement is the result of the now

well-known cases of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo., Eric Garner of New York City and 12-year-old Clevelander Tamir Rice, who head a list that seems to grow daily of black suspects killed by white police officers. The protests were initially triggered when grand juries in the Brown and Garner cases chose to not indict the officers in question.

“We just have to raise awareness on the police brutality that is increasing in our country,” Sayres said. “Everyone has the right to due process, the right to a fair trial, so it’s really important that we bring that to people’s awareness. Why do cops get special protection because they wear a badge?”

Sayres said he has had a number of encounters with local police, including one earlier that week. While he was standing on a sidewalk in Chapmantown near the Dorothy F. Johnson Center talking on his cellphone, he was stopped and questioned by a police officer.

“I am a law-abiding citizen but that does not stop the profiling,” he said. “I can’t stand on the street corner and talk on a phone to a friend without being asked if I work at the Dorothy Johnson Center or why I’m standing there talking on the phone? If that wasn’t an issue, I wouldn’t be doing this march.”

Participants traveled south along the median between the northbound lane of The Esplanade and the frontage road. As

they walked, more joined and took up chants such as “No justice, no peace,” and “I can’t breathe,” the latter in reference to the death of Garner, who repeated those words while being held down

by New York City police officers.

They crossed The Esplanade at Chico High School, filled the southbound lane where it turns into Broadway and continued their walk to Fifth Street, all the while followed by a Chico police SUV. By the time they made it to the City Plaza, the crowd had grown to more than 100.

“We made it and no one got arrested,” exclaimed a pumped-up Sayres to the cheers of those gathered.

The officer who’d been following them parked his vehicle across Main Street in front of the police substation.

When questioned about the event, he said he couldn’t really comment to the press while on duty, but also said the marchers did nothing to warrant arrests.

Many stayed in the park holding their

signs for the next few hours, waiting for the rally to begin, which it did just as the sun was setting. Sayres was one of the first to address the gathering, which had grown to perhaps 250, and he described the march.

“It was very good, very peaceful,” he said. “Actually the police were there and they were very respectful to us express-

ing our First Amendment rights.”

Despite what he had said earlier in the day about being questioned in Chapmantown, Sayres said it was time to “get past just thinking that all cops are bad, that they are all out there to get us.”

“We did this march to see how law enforcement would react to people standing in support, and they were very supportive of us,” he said. “I feel very good about Chico in the sense of how they handled it today, but as a black man in Chico, I still feel that there needs to be a lot of work done.”

Irma Jordan, president of the Butte County NAACP, said her organization was in full support of the nationwide protests.

“We’re standing in solidarity with thousands across the nation with our hands up and our breath short,” she said to the plaza crowd. “We stand for the right and not for the wrong. For the Michael Brown family and the citizens of Ferguson who are some of the most diligent, persistent people I’ve ever seen enduring demonstrations and protesting.”

Law enforcement officers should face the same legal consequences as the average citizen, she said, adding that progress is getting made in Butte County.

“We have reason to celebrate because we have a good working relationship with our law enforcers in Oroville and we are working on this throughout the county,” she said, referring to an effort that began four years ago called BSC, which stands for building safe communities through law enforcement.

“We’ve talked about it and soon all law enforcers throughout Butte County will have body cameras,” she said.

Indeed, Chico Police Chief Kirk Trostle has said that his department is looking for ways to fund body cameras, which have risen as a portal to police transparency, and will do so when able. “We have had a head start, so to speak,” Jordan said about the dialogue that’s begun.

Her comments were greeted with enthusiastic applause.

Standing near the rear of the crowd was Butte County Supervisor Larry Wahl, who said he attended the rally out of “curiosity.”

“The nationwide news aspect is troubling to me,” he said. “I think that it’s being overplayed, quite frankly. These isolated, coincidental incidents that are not related to each other have prompted something that who knows where it’s going to lead?”

Toward the end of the rally, 19-yearold organizer Ranalla called for a moment of silence, which was followed by a woman singing a rendition of “We Shall Overcome,” the song that became the anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement.

“Every one of us has something to say that deserves to be heard and demands to be heard,” she said. Ω

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variations on Mayor Mark Sorensen’s idea of merging the Arts Commission with the Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board.

Fillmer then moved for the Arts Commission to meet only twice a year and explore separating from the city, which passed by a 4-3 vote along party lines.

City Council votes to further gut the Arts Commission s the Chico City Council meeting on ACouncilwoman Tuesday (Dec. 16) approached midnight, Ann Schwab observed that

the evening’s discussions had revolved around “what we do not want the city of Chico to be.” Indeed, the general sentiment was that Chicoans don’t want a downtown core defined by gambling, alcohol abuse and homelessness.

What they do want, she said, is “to be known as an arts community.”

The council was considering restructuring the Arts Commission, a city body that promotes public art and Chico as an arts and culture destination. On Sept. 17 of last year, the council, faced with budgetary constraints, directed the commission to meet six times a year—rather than once a month—and develop a plan for restructuring over the following year. At the meeting on Tuesday, the implicit understanding was that the Arts Commission was in danger of being eviscerated. That is, the council was weighing cutting all city support to the longtime panel.

Arts Commission Chairwoman Muir Hughes described how the commission has adapted to working with reduced resources while still conducting “massive outreach” to local arts organizations and focusing on an economic impact survey.

“We’re looking for a continued partnership [with the city] as we move forward from a time of intense transition,” Hughes said.

“Based on our research, we have concluded it needs to remain a city commission. Maintaining a link to the city is critical for the

Another hot topic on Tuesday night’s agenda

opportunity for resident participation and a facet of city government that oversees one of our strongest economic drivers.

“We’d like to recommend that, for the upcoming year, our schedule remain the same.”

The arts community showed up in force, including representatives from downtown, Chico State, the Museum of Northern California Art, Chico Arts Foundation and Chico Unified School District. They spoke of the arts as a major draw for tourism that pumps money into the local economy and contributes to overall quality of life.

Meanwhile, council newcomers Andrew Coolidge and Reanette Fillmer made it clear that they favored cutting ties with the Arts Commission. Fillmer repeatedly asserted that it had failed to produce a proposal for restructuring, while Coolidge said he supports the arts, “but the very unfortunate fact is that our city is completely broke.”

The council voted down three motions, including Councilman Randall Stone’s attempt to maintain the status quo, and two

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Rainfall: In three days, Dec. 10-12, Chico received 4.01 inches of rain, more than 27 percent of the total—14.47 inches—received in all of 2014 up to that point.

Snowpack: Between Dec. 10 and 15, California’s snowpack jumped from 28 percent to 41 percent of normal for December.

Lake levels: Shasta Lake rose 20 feet between Dec. 11 and 14, and is up 30 feet total so far in December, while Lake Oroville rose 25 feet in four days and is up 35 feet for December.

Sources: California Dept. of Water Resources and UC Cooperative Extension, Butte County

was local businessman Jon Scott’s proposal to rezone downtown to allow for a seventable card room and restaurant in the vacant spaces at Third and Main streets.

In October, the Planning Commission voted to recommend against changing the zoning code. The decision came despite Scott’s promise to revitalize the site—which he characterized as a “homeless hangout” and “public urinal” during the council meeting on Tuesday—and supply dozens of highpaying jobs in the process.

A staff report provided by Senior Planner Bob Summerville recommended against approving the card room because it would be contrary to general plan guidelines for that zoning district. While a good number of public comments favored Scott’s proposal, many others maintained a gambling establishment would diminish the value of surrounding businesses.

For example, Tom Van Overbeek, who recently purchased the building at 300 Main Street directly across from the site, commended Scott’s entrepreneurial spirit but said “it’s the wrong use for this place. Chico’s downtown is very special; it’s starting to come back, and it needs to be carefully managed.”

Even Vice Mayor Sean Morgan, a selfdescribed “free-market capitalist,” said the concerns of the downtown business community outweighed the potential facelift. “That corner would look better revitalized … but stakeholders downtown are pretty violently opposed to it,” he said.

The council voted 5-1 to reject the appeal, with Councilwoman Tami Ritter dissenting (and Schwab abstaining due to owning a nearby business).

The council also revisited a familiar issue: alcohol licensing. In recent months, the city has moved forward with two amendments to Title 19, the city’s land use and development regulations—a conditional use permit and a “deemed approved” ordinance.

The conditional use permit would impose a series of requirements on new businesses that sell alcohol, while a deemed approved ordinance would establish operational requirements for existing businesses and standard penalties for noncompliance.

The council took issue with the specific language of the proposed amendments and voted unanimously to send the amendments to the Internal Affairs Committee for revision.

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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Investment change Chico State pulls money out of fossil fuels n effort launched last year by two Chico Apromoting State students to stop the university from fossil fuels took a giant step for-

ward Dec. 10, when the University Foundation board of governors voted to liquidate within the next four years the school’s holdings in mutual funds whose investments support such businesses.

Professor Mark Stemen credits students Olivia Longstaff and Kaitlin Haley with the university’s move to divest from some 200 companies that deal in gas, oil and coal energy sources. The two students sat on the school’s Environmental Affairs Council, which initiated the divestment campaign last spring and then brought it to Stemen’s Geography 440 class, Environmental Thought in Action.

The students worked to get the matter on the Associated Students’ ballot as an advisory measure and 80 percent of the students who voted supported the move. Efforts to get it before the University Foundation stalled a few times, but at its December meeting the board, acting on a motion by university President Paul Zingg, voted 8-4 to pass a resolution calling for divestment.

According to a press release, the foundation, which manages gifts and endowments for the university, “currently has no direct holdings in fossil fuel companies, and just under 2 percent of its portfolio in managed funds that include fossil fuel investments.�

The resolution to divest was drafted by environmental studies student Kevin Killion, who was also part of the divestment movement, A.S. President Taylor Herren and other students, with input from university staff.

Zingg welcomed the resolution, as evidenced by the fact he made the motion to pass it. “I was very pleased with the decision of the board and proud of our university in accomplishing this decision,� Zingg said in an email. “The performance of our students

was gratifying and impressive.�

The mutual fund the foundation will sell to separate itself completely from the fossil fuel industry is called Vanguard 500. Its estimated worth is about $500,000, which will be invested into fossil-fuel-free mutual funds, and the school fund manager will keep an eye out to make sure that none of the funds they do buy have fossil fuel investments.

Stemen said the idea of divestment was started in so-called public-good institutions, which include churches, hospitals, libraries and universities. “The idea is that organizations that purport to do a public good should not be investing in any industry that does a public bad,� he said.

He credited the student backers of the proposed divestment for their consistent and, at the same time, courteous drive to get the matter before the foundation.

Back in April, Haley explained the push behind the effort: “Our campus is called a sustainable campus and we have all these different programs working toward making it more sustainable,� she said. “It doesn’t go along with our morals to be invested in fossil-fuel companies, which contribute to climate change.�

Zingg reflected that notion this week. “The bottom line is alignment of our enacted values with our professed values,� he said. “The draft announcement underscores several contexts for this decision. In other words, it is consistent with our words and previous deeds in these matters.�

Redirecting the investments will be up to the university’s financial manager, Zingg said. “The important point is that they will be redirected as the resolution requires,� he said. “Not sure of the ultimate redirection, except that it will not be in the 200 fossil fuel companies prescribed in the resolution. Chico State is in the forefront of this movement.�

Chico State will indeed be among the first public universities to fully divest from the fossil fuel industry. “The students made not only an environmental but also an economic argument for divestment,� Stemen said. “That these companies are vastly overvalued and the stock market is proving that true.� —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

Students Kaitlin Haley (left) and Olivia Longstaff initiated Chico State’s move to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

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s a veteran public interest lawyer and former Chico Acratic mayor, Andy Holcombe is no stranger to bureaumorass or the perils of unsound government

directives. This is what he and other advocates for the local homeless population said they see in Butte County’s contingency plan to provide shelter during extreme cold weather conditions, which Holcombe described as “destined to fail.”

“The Greater Chico Homeless Task Force feels, and I feel personally, that it’s not much of a plan,” Holcombe said Tuesday (Dec. 16) at City Hall, as the task force prepared for its monthly meeting. “It’s not going to meet the needs of homeless people on the street who have no place to sleep and stay warm.”

At issue is the Extreme Cold Weather Plan, a piece of the larger Emergency Operations Plan, which dictates certain services be provided by counties during all types of disasters. Holcombe and Ted Sanberg, a pastor at Chico’s First Baptist Church and vice chair of the task force, presented their concerns about the draft Extreme Cold Weather Plan during the public comment period of the Butte County Board of Supervisors’ Dec. 9 meeting.

Primary among those concerns are two triggers that must be met before the county opens a warming shelter—a forecast of less than 25 degrees after 6 p.m., and zero vacancies at all other local shelters.

Holcombe noted the only major local homeless shelter—the Torres Community Shelter—is not designed for last-minute, emergency situations, with shelter guests required to attend interviews, complete an intake process and be assigned a social worker before they can stay. Though currently serving more guests than in past years, the Torres Shelter has never been completely full.

The task force finds more fault with the 25-degree requirement, which they say is significantly lower than the 32-degree trigger set by the California Emergency Management Agency’s statewide counterpart to the local plan.

“People freeze at 32 degrees, and they can die from hypothermia at 42 degrees if they’re wet,” Holcombe said. “I find their 25-degree requirement, frankly, ridiculous … it’s not supported by science, and doesn’t agree with the state recommendations.”

Holcombe said the task force first heard details of the plan when John Gulserian, head of the county’s Office of Emergency Management, addressed the group in October. Holcombe said—and Butte County Public Information Officer Casey Hatcher confirmed—that the plan is not currently available to the public (Hatcher said this is because it is still in draft form). Holcombe asked the supervisors to agendize it for public discussion in January.

“It’s supposed to be a public plan, but the public doesn’t even know about it, can’t see it and there’s no apparent involvement by the public,” Holcombe said.

Hatcher explained the state mandates counties have emergency disaster plans. The state provides models,

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but individual counties set specifics, and she noted the triggers are flexible guidelines. The county could choose to open temporary shelters any time officials determine there is sufficient need, she added.

Hatcher also said the shelters are meant to be activated in times when residents are temporarily displaced from their homes, and not designed to serve the chronically homeless. She used weather disabling power for home heating as an example of a need the shelters serve.

Although homeless people would also be welcome, Hatcher said the shelters are not part of services regularly provided to the homeless community by the county, which she noted include help with employment, food, housing and health care.

Holcombe questioned whether the county even has locations for shelters ready, and Hatcher said the county is prepared. On Dec. 11, the county and Red Cross provided shelter for Palermo residents displaced by flooding at an Oroville church.

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vide shelter, Holcombe noted that Safe Space—shelters held at rotating locations through January, coordinated by the Chico Homeless Action Team—have accomplished a great deal through the combined efforts of volunteers and faith-based groups. Though not scheduled to open until Dec. 14, the program started early to provide shelter during last week’s severe storm. Safe Space housed 30 people the first night and 54 the second, according to Cynthia Gailey, who is spearheading the Safe Space effort.

“What they’re doing is great,” Holcombe said of Safe Space. “But why should the responsibility rest solely on church and volunteer groups? This is everybody’s responsibility.

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A lawsuit has been filed against Gilead Sciences, the company behind the now-infamous hepatitis C drug that costs about $1,000 per pill— Sovaldi.

The lawsuit, filed on Dec. 9 by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), alleges that the exorbitant pricing violates federal antitrust laws, according to California Healthline. SEPTA said it’s paid more than $2.4 million for Sovaldi treatments for its employees and argues that Gilead’s “limited rights as a patent holder do not translate into a license to price gouge consumers.” Along with an unspecified amount of monetary damages, the lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of U.S. residents and third-party payers who have either purchased Sovaldi or have been unable to due to cost.

An estimated 3 million Americans live with chronic hepatitis C, which can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Garden in the desert Community plots bring nutritional awareness to Butte County’s ‘food deserts’

MARKING UP HEALTH CARE

The gap between what it costs hospitals to provide services and what they charge for them has widened significantly over the past two decades, a recent study finds.

Researchers at the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy found that, nationwide, hospital charges are currently increasing at about twice the rate of costs, according to Fierce Health Finance. Overall, margins rose from 72 percent in 1991 to 343 percent in 2011.

On average, large urban medical centers marked up service charges by 262 percent in 2011, the study noted. Furthermore, the report said that hospitals in six states—including California—marked up some charges by 1,000 percent or more.

The study linked the widening gap between costs and charges to tightening reimbursement rates from government and commercial payers.

BOOST YOUR KIDS!

Over the next year, Butte County Public Health will be touting the importance of child passenger safety, especially using a booster seat until the children are old enough to use a seat belt.

Motor accidents are a leading cause of injury and death in children under the age of 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Risk factors include improper use of a child restraint, using a seat belt rather than a car seat, and children sitting in the front seat of the vehicle.

In an attempt to address those risk factors, the “Get Them Boosted” grant, awarded by the California Office of Traffic Safety, will direct $112,127 to educational activities throughout the county, including free car seat classes, car seat fitting appointments and car seat checkup events, according to a BCPH press release.

To view a schedule of events or register for a class, go to tinyurl.com/getthemboosted.

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

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little more than two years ago, Matthew Ait counselor Trumm decided to quit his job as a credand live entirely off his fami-

ly’s 12-acre property in Berry Creek, where he now grows more vegetables than he can eat himself. So he trades with his neighbors for other goods, such as eggs, or just gives his produce away.

But not everyone in Berry Creek has access to healthy food in such abundance.

“We have two convenience stores up here, and there are no fresh vegetables, really,” Trumm said. “They might have some iceberg lettuce, and that’s about it.”

Therefore, every run to the grocery store necessitates driving “up and down the mountain,” he said, as the closest is in Oroville.

The Berry Creek area is nestled in the remote foothills east of Lake Oroville and is home to about 2,000 residents. It’s also what’s known as a “food desert”—defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a “census tract with a substantial share of residents who live in low-income areas that have low levels of access to a grocery store or healthy, affordable food retail outlet.”

It’s a problem residents are well aware of and striving to address. In May, Trumm secured a grant through Cultivating Community Advocates (CCA) to build a community garden adjacent to Berry Creek Elementary School. The garden serves as a venue for after-school programs focused on food education, Trumm said, and also as an example for the broader population.

“It’s a really low-maintenance, longterm garden focusing on perennials— things that will grow back every year,” he

said. “We try to get people to experiment and grow their own garden.”

Trumm hopes that’s the first step in making the rural community more self-sufficient in terms of producing its own food.

“It would be nice to eventually have a farmers’ market, some food networking,” he said. “I trade as much as I can; if we work together, we can have pretty much everything we need.”

The garden in Berry Creek was funded by a

grant handed down in 2012 by the California Department of Food and Agriculture to promote specialty crops—fruits, vegetables and tree nuts, explained Sue Hilderbrand, CCA project manager. CCA, a project overseen by Independent Living Services of Northern California, used the funding to award mini-grants to increase access to healthy food for low-income, rural and multiracial populations in 13 areas throughout Butte County.

“All over the county, we look at populations that are the most vulnerable and the least organized, particularly regarding healthy food,” she said.

What makes the model unique, Hilderbrand says, is that CCA doesn’t presume to have solutions for food-access issues among populations they know little about.

“I’m a middle-class white girl—I don’t know what Southside Oroville needs in terms of organizing the community to grow their own food,” she said. “The idea is, we give money away, give them this seed money and we work very closely to help organize their community and provide them technical skills to get their gardens going.”

Not all of the 13 sites are “true food deserts,” Hilderbrand said, but three of them are: Berry Creek, Concow and Southside Oroville. Others include schools, shelHEALTHLINES continued on page 20

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“We’re trying to introduce them to new foods younger,” she said, “and to the general concept of how what we’re eating affects our ability to be healthy, functional human beings.”

That’s especially important because “you can’t go grocery shopping in Concow,” she said.

“We have one restaurant and one gas station, and there are only a few things in that whole store that could be considered of nutritional value.”

Another component, Trumm said, is helping people identify what constitutes healthy food in the first place. For example, when he gives away the squash he grows on his property, he often gets a curious reaction.

“They always ask me, ‘What do I do with this?’ I’m like, ‘Well, you could eat it,’” he laughed. “It’s not prepared, it’s not packaged; it’s something different they haven’t eaten before.”

Hilderbrand emphasized that all of the projects are long-term, and it’s difficult to measure progress made in the two years since the funding was made available— especially since the goal is “changing fundamental consciousness about food,” she said. “In 20 years, when the kids are buying their own groceries, we’ll know if this worked.” Ω

WEEKLY DOSE Aside from maybe drawing scorn from Type-A personalities, there’s nothing wrong with a midday snooze. In fact, napping offers a host of health benefits ranging from increased alertness to improved memory. Here are a few pointers: • Keep it brief: Napping for more than 30 minutes can leave you feeling groggy.

• Keep it in the middle of the day: Before lunch is too early, and toward evening may affect your nighttime sleep.

• Sleep on the sofa: You don’t want to trick your mind into thinking it’s time to shut down for the night, so steer clear of your bed.

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issue for decades in Southside Oroville, says longtime resident Cissy Smith.

“We’re considered the poor part of Oroville,” she said. “A lot of our residents are wheelchair-bound, don’t own vehicles. Our incomes are low, or nil. It’s a struggle for us to get down to FoodMaxx, in the middle of Oroville, to get decent prices on groceries. It’s so far away that many people spend their money on junk food at liquor stores.”

In 2010, Smith helped found the African American Family and Cultural Center in Southside and spearheaded a community garden project across the street from Wyandotte Avenue Elementary School. Since securing grant funding through CCA, interest in the garden has escalated.

“The more people see the garden growing, the more they want to be a part of it,” she said.

Like Trumm in Berry Creek, Smith uses the garden to educate schoolchildren about nutrition.

“We try to go out there with [children] every week or every two weeks to learn something knew,” she said. “We figure that, if you teach the kids, they’ll take it home.”

Indeed, a strategy employed by all of the projects—including the Gratitude Garden Project at Concow Elementary School—is to influence adults through their children. Every week, Tammy Wichman leads classes in the garden and sends students home with vegetables.

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GREENWAYS Brionne Saseen says she doesn’t anticipate much resistance to new rules regarding bags at the checkout where she works, at Chico Natural Foods.

PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT

Bag ban, here we come Local stores prepare for city regulations on single-use plastic bags, which go into effect Jan. 1

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Evan Tuchinsky evant@ n ewsrev i ew. com

Tincluding Eve will mark a number of changes, one that’s near and dear to he stroke of midnight on New Year’s

local environmentalists. Plastic bags represent a major ecological scourge. Their manufacture requires a massive amount of petrochemicals, and, typically used once and discarded, they then clog waterways, take up space in landfills and add to the trash gyre in the Pacific Ocean.

Many Chicoans understand this, particularly those who shop at sustainabilityconscious stores such as the Chico Natural Foods Cooperative and S&S Organic Produce & Natural Foods. Some have embraced reusable totes for years—well before pushes began across the state to prohibit single-use bags.

“I think our customers appreciate a willingness to be good stewards of the community by being in compliance with local ordinances and also good stewards of the environment,” said Brionne Saseen, the facility and sustainability manager at Chico Natural Foods.

One such ordinance, taking effect Jan. 1, is Chico’s ban on nonreusable plastic bags. When the City Council gave final authorization in May, it joined 107 other local governments in California that issued similar restrictions. The California Legislature followed suit, with Gov. Jerry Brown signing SB 270—a statewide ban— into law Sept. 30.

Since it passed sooner, the Chico ordinance takes effect sooner; stores outside the city limits have until July to comply. Effective dates vary by business

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type: Grocery stores and pharmacies face the initial deadline, while smaller shops— convenience and liquor stores—get an additional year.

The regulations, be they Chico’s or California’s, call on stores to stop distributing thin plastic bags, except small ones used to separate meat, produce and pharmaceutical items; and to charge for paper or heavier plastic bags to encourage reuse.

The amount of the bag fees vary under city and state provisions. The city requires a charge but has set no specific minimum for plastic, just a 10-cent minimum for paper; the state, by contrast, set a minimum of 10 cents for all bags sold. While neither local nor state government will receive any of the money collected, the city established no parameters for how businesses can use the proceeds, while the state delineated limits.

Come July, Chico businesses won’t have to worry about switching to a new set of standards, however. Linda Herman, administrative manager for the city’s General Services Department, says the particulars of Chico’s ordinance will remain in force even after the state law takes effect.

So, how are local businesses adapting?

Grocers, at least, are ready for the new rules. Along with Chico Natural Foods and S&S, the CN&R spoke with Raley’s, SaveMart and FoodMaxx—all with plans in place. Herman says she’s been contacted by the other markets, as well, so she’s confident of compliance. As of Dec. 10, Herman hadn’t heard from pharmacies or major retailers with groceries and/or pharmacies, so she planned a proactive outreach effort.

“I don’t imagine enforcement being an issue, especially during this phase, which is the larger stores,” Herman said. “We pretty

much tried to mirror what the state [would pass], and the state pretty much mirrored what everyone else was doing. We tried to come up with something statewide that was consistent because these grocers are large and dealing with communities all over the state.”

Indeed, both Kat Maudru of Raley’s and Alicia Rockwell of SaveMart Supermarkets (which also operates FoodMaxx) say their companies already have experience with this transition—as do their customers.

“Currently, we have about one-third of our stores already operating under a city plastic bag ordinance, mostly in the coastal and Bay Area regions,” Rockwell said. “In those areas, we have experienced shoppers adjusting quickly to bringing back their own reusable bags or purchasing from a selection of bags at checkout.”

Not everyone is embracing this change, though. Chico’s ordinance sparked plenty of controversy and heated debate before passing with a 5-2 vote along progressive/ conservative lines. The state ban also stirred opposition, which hasn’t died off with the passage of SB 270. A group called Bag the Ban is pushing to overturn the legislation with a referendum on the November 2016 ballot.

Grocers large and small expect some degree of resistance, but not too great.

“What’s nice is that it’s everywhere in Chico; it’s not just affecting one store, like we’re making a change, charging for bags, and we’re getting the flak from customers for that,” said Emily Dehnke, general manager at S&S. To comply with the city ordinance, many

grocers are looking to a Butte County manufacturer to replace single-use bags.

Roplast Industries, based in Oroville, long has supplied thicker plastic bags to S&S

and Chico Natural Foods. Now it counts major chains among its clients.

Roplast’s product line called Bring Back Bags meets the specifications in city and state codes (namely a minimum thickness of 2.25 millimeters). Gearing up for the Chico ordinance, Roplast sought submissions of artwork to adorn the first wave of bags for 2015 to be carried at Chico Natural, FoodMaxx, Raley’s, S&S, Safeway, SaveMart and other businesses.

“The Chico Art Bag is a great way to promote the arts in Chico and promote reusable bags at the same time,” said Camille Hogan, reusable bag specialist at Roplast, which also will donate to local arts efforts as part of the project.

While S&S and Chico Natural have been steady customers for Roplast, neither has charged shoppers for Roplast bags.

That will have to change Jan. 1—and they need to figure out what to do with the money. Options include offsetting higher costs of reusable bags (the city’s idea when passing the ordinance, according to Herman); education programs; and charitable donations.

“Hopefully we’re not selling much of either of the bags because the [reusability] program really takes off and is effective,” Saseen said. □

ECO EVENTS Chillin’ Outside Just because it’s cold out doesn’t mean that kids shouldn’t spend some time outside of the house. Chico Camp Frozen is a nature camp focusing on outdoor recreation available for local kids ages 5 to 11. Held at the Chico Creek Nature Center from Monday, Dec. 22, through Friday, Jan. 2 (except Dec. 25, 26 and Jan. 1), children are invited to attend half days, full days, single days or the full sevenday program.

Activities include guided nature walks, lab activities, arts and crafts and presentations of the CCNC’s live animals.

For prices, hours and other information, see ccnaturecenter.org or call 891-4671.

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HOMEGROWN 15 MINUTES

Art for the nonlover

Drawing a dream life Chico’s Shane Will considers himself a lucky man. His job is writing, drawing and producing his fantasies in the form of superhero comic books. At age 5 he was stricken with leukemia and “practically grew up in a hospital,” where he was captivated by the stacks of comic books his father would bring him. Now 36, Will is the owner of CK Comics, which has produced four issues this year, mainly featuring his crime-fighting superhero, Caliber. He’s also left his creative mark on Chico by making an independent horror film (Waning Solstice) and web series (Monster Operatives); owning a gaming store (Kettil’s Keep, now under new ownership as Sanders Hobby Shop); and putting on Chico’s first comic convention, Chico Con, this past September.

What are your comics about?

The main superhero is a teenager named Matthew McAdams, whose hero name is Caliber. Caliber is the namesake of one of our two lines.

He’s been forced into a crimefighting role by his overbearing mother since he was 4. A criminal killed his father and raped his mother, so she raised him as a fighter to be her instrument of societal protection and vengeance. Our second line is Tales of the Tomorrowverse, which features three different superhero stories in each issue. I write two and [CK Comics writer and editor] Joe Burttram writes one.

How did comics become your thing?

Are they selling well?

Comics have been my first love of entertainment since my dad brought boxes of them to me in the hospital as a little boy. I’ve also always loved telling and writing stories. In junior high I’d write unpublished, 300-page fantasy books for fun. Plus I’ve always loved doodling and learned painting at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.

Yes, especially my first two issues of Caliber, which both sold out.

Our publisher, Scattered Comics, is printing a second run to be sold in several states. Locally you can get them at Collectors Ink comic shop or on the Apple App Store.

What’s your work process?

I spend a couple of days brainstorming the story and script before taking another day to roughly sketch the artwork. My wife, Susan, uses inks over the pencil lines and adds depth and shadows. Finishing a full 20-page book takes about 20 days.

Your covers are colorful and beautiful. When did you start drawing?

When I created Caliber, about a year ago. I submitted drawings to friends who had 30 years experience in the field, and they gave me great advice. My best mentor was Dan Brereton, who’s drawn Batman and Superman comics. He gave me the confidence to do it.

Are you planning another Chico Con? Yes. Our first one went great. We outgrew it before it even started.

The capacity at the Veteran’s Hall was 600 and 1,200 showed up! So next August we’re having it at the Chico Elks Lodge, which holds twice as many people. We’ll have attractions like comic creators, a costume contest and demos by professional wrestlers, and the medieval re-creationist Society for Creative Anachronism.

What are you future comic plans?

I eventually want my comic book business to be self-sustaining. I have Caliber planned through issue 22. In the summer of 2015 we’ll launch the six-issue Invasion of Terra series, which will feature 22 superheroes written by myself and Joe Burttram.

—VIC CANTU

by Meredith J. Graham meredithg@newsrev iew.com

Some people may shun me for saying this, but I am not ashamed to admit it: I am not an art person. I have been called crafty—I can sew a mean handbag or bedazzle the hell out of accessories—but you will not likely find me slowly perusing the walls of an art gallery, trying to make sense out of random-looking splotches of paint or to decipher the artist’s seeming overuse of puke green.

In fact, the only art museum you might be able to drag me into is either historic (yes, I’ve been to the Louvre—twice, and the second time was against my will) or features a photography exhibit. I suppose if you were my friend and you had an art opening, I’d go. But there’d better be wine.

So, suffice it to say that it had been a while—since a newspaper photo assignment probably six or seven years ago—that I had been to the Chico Art Center, and I just found a reason to visit a place of art: The gift shop is actually super awesome. And in addition to the paintings that I’d expect at an art center, the room overfloweth with all sorts of other artsy, craftsy delights.

Highlights: • The funky monster sculptures from Dancing Tree Studio, aka Maura Blackburn. These little ceramic sculptures are so ugly they’re cute. They’re whimsical and weird, fanciful and a little bit freaky. She also has tiles with little creature heads poking out of them, as well as monster-face mugs. Maura, I like your style.

• The art quilts and quilted wall hangings by mixed-media artist Wendi Bucey. I’ve already told you I’m a seamstress, and this kind of art amazes me partly because I know how difficult it can be to create such intricate designs with fabrics. I particularly liked Bucey’s small pieces stretched over wooden frames and easily hangable. Looking at her website, I not only learned that she’s a professional artist who has taught K-12 students her craft, but I also discovered her badass woven baskets. They are worth checking out.

• Driftwood art by Laura Wood Designs. I have a brown thumb, but I happen to find plants soothing to the eye.

So when I happened upon the driftwood pieces covered in succulents and other bits of wonder, I had to stop for a look. Neat, super different from anything I’ve ever seen, and local. If interested, call 877-7781.

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BY CHRIS PARKER

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t hasn’t been a very happy holiday season for Sony Pictures, which was hacked recently and had sensitive internal files compromised.

Five movies—four of them unreleased—were leaked along with 11 terabytes of personal data, including executive salaries, release schedules, employee criminal background checks and passwords (kept securely in a directory titled “passwords”). The company’s entire network had to be shut down and employees couldn’t even use their computers or laptops for more than a week.

The irony of the Sony Pictures situation is that their leaky security was exposed three years ago by two Arizona men in concert with LulzSec leaderturned-stoolie Sabu, aka Hector Xavier Monsegur. The group released names, emails and passwords of 75,000 people.

Raynaldo Rivera, 20, and Cody Kretsinger, 24, were convicted last year, sent to prison for 12 months, and ordered to pay $605,663.67 in restitution to cover Sony’s associated costs, including a full

security overhaul that doesn’t appear worth the money spent.

The Sony Pictures mishap is only the latest in a disquieting trend of highprofile computer incursions from Home Depot and Target to JPMorgan Chase to Apple’s iCloud. Nearly everywhere we turn, our personal information, photos and credit card information are getting compromised. In September, Home Depot revealed that a cyber attack in April had exposed more than 50 million customer credit cards and email addresses.

Consumer information never has been more imperiled, and yet very little is getting done to address the issue. Here we are in shopping’s high season, and nothing much has changed.

Though identity theft runs rampant, fraud seems little more than an entry in the ledger for companies that write it off as a business expense.

“Identity theft is kind of like flu deaths,” said Mark Patton, a University of Arizona computer researcher. “We freak about one Ebola death but just accept the fact that 40,000 people a year die of the flu. We’re just so used to identity theft that we’ve stopped putting out screaming headlines.”

We’re racing toward a society where our watches pay bills, our cars drive themselves, and our appliances are connected to the Web, yet even today’s relatively simple networks cannot remain secure. What’s going to happen when the number of network access points increases a million-fold?

“This is a problem that has been building in magnitude and potential harm for 40 years,” said Julie Ryan, a George Washington University informational security researcher. “It only recently got so tightly coupled and so intertwined in our normal everyday life that it started becoming a problem of enormous significance.”

The latest government numbers suggest

that about 17 million Americans suffered identity theft last year, or about 7 percent of those over age 16—with a total loss at about $25 billion.

Fraud has doubled in the United States over the past seven years and cyber-crime Last year’s breach of Target’s computer system exposed 40 million credit cards and 70 million records, including shoppers’ personal information.

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has increased across the board. According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report, the number of detected information security breaches globally has increased by half over the past year.

The extent of network security problems has been put into sharper focus over the past 18 months, beginning with Edward Snowden’s revelations on the pervasiveness of state-sponsored spying and cyber-shenanigans of the sort hinted at by the StuxNet worm that hit Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.

This was followed by last year’s series of holiday retail thefts at Michaels, Neiman Marcus, Target and other retailers of more than 40 million credit card numbers, the largest theft until the Home Depot breach in April.

The Home Depot and Target hackers found their way onto the retailers’ systems by acquiring a third-party vendor’s credentials, in the case of Target, from a Pennsylvania heating, ventilation and air-conditioning company. Once inside, they were able to use vulnerabilities in Windows to load malware onto the point-of-sale terminals that scan personal cards. Thereafter, every card scan was recorded and secretly published online for the thieves to scoop up.

The cyber-threat is hardly limited to retail. Beginning last fall, a Russian group started holding personal computers hostage with malware dubbed CryptoLocker. The software freezes the victim’s computer unless the correct key is entered.

More than a half-million individuals and companies were struck, including a Massachusetts police station that paid a $750 ransom to remedy the situation before European law enforcement arrested the Russian perpetrators in May. A few months later, more ransom-ware popped up, this time threatening to lock Android users out of their phones.

Individuals aren’t the only targets of such cyber-ransoms. In June, Nokia acknowledged that several years earlier, a blackmailer had acquired the encryption key for its Symbian smartphone and threatened to reveal the source code.

This would’ve been disastrous, making it simple for hackers to find its vulnerabilities and subsequently load customers’ phones with malware. Nokia teamed with the Finnish police, and the code never was released. But the perpetrator(s) still got away with millions in ransom money.

d l i w n ru It’s an uphill battle against information theft this holiday and beyond Perhaps the most disturbing revelation came in August when it was discovered that hackers had infiltrated JPMorgan Chase’s computer networks, acquired high-level security access and moved about the system undetected for two months. Nine other financial institutions also were infiltrated, including Fidelity Investments.

Only a hacker slip-up (using the same IP address for attacks on different Chase servers) outed them and prevented an eventual breach of the bank’s accounts system.

Still, the hackers made off with personal (but not account) information of 83 million individuals and businesses as well as a catalog of every program run on JPMorgan’s computers. The hackers can check that list against known vulnerabilities to find other means of access. (JPMorgan now is in the process of switching out all its software.)

The attackers made use of previously unknown vulnerabilities (also called “zeroday exploits”), which suggests greater proficiency than the run-of-the-mill hacker, and the possibility of state sponsorship. Indeed, there are indications they’re part of the extensive Russian cyber-criminal underground with ties to the Russian government. This and uncertainty over the hackers’ motivations has even the White House spooked.

“The question kept coming back, ‘Is this plain old theft or is [Russian President Vladimir] Putin retaliating [for sanctions]?’” a senior official told The New York Times in October. “And the answer was, ‘We don’t know for sure.’”

That puzzling question remains months later: What were they doing there? “[These] were pretty sophisticated attacks, which makes you wonder: If they were that good and in there that long, why didn’t they

manage to get the actual account information?” Patton asked.

Former NSA chief Keith Alexander—who now has his own cyber-security firm—warned that this could be a shot over the bow by Russia to head off further sanctions. A large cyber-theft from an institution the size and stature of JPMorgan damages confidence and could lead to a financial crisis.

“Right now, Russia wouldn’t attack U.S. banks destructively because all [its money] is in those banks,” says Richard Stiennon, author of Surviving Cyberwar. “But what if the U.S. cut off access to those funds for the Russian oligarchs. They could say, ‘What the hell—let’s take them down. If we can’t get our money, then nobody else can.’”

There’s also a chance the break-in is related to another emergent hacking group, FIN4, which has been stealing credentials and insider information. The group acquires executive email addresses and sends fake emails (spear-phishing) designed to trick the recipient into clicking a link that loads malware or uses a fake log-in to snare credentials.

A recent report suggested that the group might feature former investment bankers, based on their heavy use of insider Wall Street nomenclature in the emails. They’ve primarily targeted health and medical-device companies whose insider information on new trials, breakthroughs or impending acquisitions can cause especially steep short-term spikes or dives in stock prices.

Adding to the sense of general paranoia was a Europol report in mid-October of chatter on the dark Web, in the difficult-to-trace chat rooms where criminals congregate. The European law enforcement agency’s moles suggest that Russian gangs are planning a massive $1 billion cyber-bank heist. While this sounds impressive, Ryan suggests “that’s just a rounding error” for the $2.5 trillion banking giant.

This doesn’t exactly fill you with confidence as the Christmas season is upon us.

“I would have to say right now that we’re losing the war in terms of security,” Patton says.

National Institute for Standards in Technology rated 10 out of 10 in terms of severity. You need only access an infected website to be attacked with malware, and there is little that can be done to ensure a site isn’t compromised or to protect yourself if it is.

How did we get in such a mess?

Some of it is endemic to the complexity of creating computers and software, especially without the same agreed-upon standards and practices. (Compare this to the tightly regulated procedures of the medical profession.)

Not only are there millions of lines of code, but the programs need to be compatible with a whole universe of programs and platforms. In the case of the Bash bug, it was legacy code around for years that hadn’t been properly debugged, and the error went unnoticed.

This doesn’t surprise Raynaldo Rivera, one of the original Sony Pictures hackers who lives in Phoenix and now works in game development.

“Who really wants to look at old batch code all day,” Rivera asks. “That’s what it comes down to. I could create something cool and new, or I could stare at old code and hope I get something.”

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Every few months, we read reports of new-

found software vulnerabilities.

In April, there was Heartbleed, a coding bug that could reveal previous website users’ passwords and encryption keys. Some called it “catastrophic.” It was patched, but then, in September, came Shellshock, which the Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander now runs his own cyber-security firm.

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enormously detailed-oriented, long and laborious, and people who are ADHD simply cannot do it because it requires you to pay attention to details and display a great deal of dedication.”

Security was an afterthought for most companies through the millennium, in part because there were so few people who really understood network security.

Indeed, author Stiennon reports that the U.S. government has spent the past 14 years developing a network-centered-warfare platform with an informational grid, sensors and precision-guided munitions without giving any thought to the network’s security.

“When they started designing it, security by obscurity was good: The Chinese are not going to get a hold of our software. So even if they down one of our jets, it will be hard as hell for them to compromise them,” Stiennon says.

“Since then, the Chinese have stolen the design data for a dozen weapons platforms, airplanes and missiles systems. Odds are, if they stole the software, they can find the vulnerabilities.”

Network security really began to change thanks to computer enthusiasts and a predecessor of Anonymous, Cult of the Dead Cow. The group was deeply involved in network security and released a series of tools around the millennium to probe networks for holes and vulnerabilities.

It also inaugurated a style of network war games where teams would compete to break into each other’s computers. It’s by now a well-established nostrum in the industry that those best at network security generally have spent significant time trying to break into systems. Rivera took part in similar network security “games” while in high school.

“Some schools claim they can teach it, but really they don’t for the most part; all they’re doing at best is guiding,” says Rivera, who attended the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe before his arrest.

“Most people in network security have experimented themselves,” he said, “or had someone who knew something help them out.”

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tools have evolved dramatically in the past few years to the point where they’re not only widely available but pretty much pointand-click, giving rise to what are known as “Script Kiddies.”

According to Rivera, “A ‘Script Kiddie’ is an individual who doesn’t understand the underlying technology. They download scripts that can attack these servers without having to know anything about it. They just know that if they put the URL in this thing and push go, they’ll get some outcome if it’s vulnerable.

Added Ryan, “You can go online and find a virus-creation tool that you can, with zero knowledge whatsoever, simply point and click and design a malicious software tool, and you can find forums that talk about this stuff and enthusiasts who don’t intend to do bad things but are just really interested in understanding how things work and are motivated to share information with each other.”

These are what are known as “gray hat” hackers because the allegiances aren’t as cutand-dried. A white hat works in security and a black hat typically is motivated solely by profit.

Gray hats often act out of a (perhaps misplaced) sense of justice. They’ve been involved in releasing information about software vulnerabilities and bugs publicly, sometimes rationalizing it as necessary to ensure quick action. They also tend to have a certain ego about their exploits, doing a little end-zone dance where a little decorum might be better appreciated.

That’s what happened when Julie Ryan, a researcher at George Washington University, says the problem of cyber-threats has been building for decades.

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“Identity theft is kind of like flu deaths.

We freak about one Ebola death but just accept the fact that 40,000 people a year die of the flu. We’re just so used to identity theft that we’ve stopped putting out screaming headlines.”

–Mark Patton, University of Arizona computer researcher

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer found a flaw in AT&T’s security that exposed iPad users’ email addresses, information he first gave to Gawker. Though he didn’t break into any system or subvert any password authentication, Auernheimer was convicted and jailed. Later, in April, the ruling was vacated because of improper jurisdiction, though the justices sounded skeptical of the ruling’s logic since Auernheimer only accessed information that was (inadvertently) publicly accessible.

This is an unfortunate riptide in the ongoing security crisis.

Gray hats serve a very important function of exposing weaknesses for the sake of it rather than quietly profiting and letting bugs proliferate. (Essentially the NSA’s approach.) Perhaps because of the difficulty of catching devious “black hat” hackers, law enforcement has focused more on the gray hats whose greatest crime oftentimes is little more than criminal mischief.

Meanwhile, an empire has grown up around the illegal exploits of the black hats. It boasts a sprawling infrastructure of hyper-specialized conmen offering their skill and wares on underground eBays in the dark Web on sites hidden by the anonymizing browser TOR. Sites such as SWIPED traffic wholesale in credit cards and identities at anywhere from a quarter to a hundred bucks for freshly stolen cards.

(Indeed, security companies watch these sites to determine whether their clients have been hacked.) An entire production chain has developed to diffuse risk among the bad actors, Patton stated.

“The people who write attacks and then sell them, that’s pretty safe; they’re not actually committing the

crime of launching the attack.

Then there are people who use the attacks to steal credit cards, but they don’t actually try to use the credit cards; [they] sell them in bundles online to people who buy credit cards and convert them into cash,” he said. “Then, there are other people who maybe don’t do credit cards, but they do bank accounts . . . So there’s a lot of specialization online.”

Nobody likes to admit that they’ve

been hacked. (Note that the eight other financial institutions struck along with JPMorgan remain unnamed.) Banks have conflicting interests in confessing the level of threat.

“They’re very carefully not telling anybody else because they don’t want to make it look too big so that other people are encouraged to jump on the bandwagon,” Patton said. “But they also don’t want to lie and make it sound like it’s smaller than it is.”

While we have a pretty good handle on the amount of identity theft out there, bank-fraud losses are harder to figure. This fuzziness plays a role in capitalization.

If you don’t really know how much potential loss is out there or how much you’re already preventing, then how can you possibly determine your all-important return on investment?

Given the uncertainties, most banks and retailers use a riskmanagement approach that examines vulnerabilities and exposure and calculates a number—as they do with the financial markets.

Then they’ll either invest more to change the number or buy more insurance. That’s a problem for Stiennon.

“It doesn’t work that way in cyber. You can’t know what your exposure is because that attacker is not going to give up. So even if you’re perfectly patched, the attacker will just use a zero-day vulnerability,” he said. “Banks, in

general in the United States, have been focusing too much on risk models and not enough on threat models.”

Maybe that’s because it’s not the hacked institutions that bear the cost of the illegal egress but their customers. Insurance ultimately covered a substantial portion of Target’s exposure, leaving it with a pre-tax bill of about $140 million, or 0.2 percent of last year’s $73.7 billion in revenue.

“It’s you and me who pay the cost,” Ryan said. “Every time a successful exploit is done, a fraction of a cent is added to the cost of things that we buy or a fraction of a cent in a credit card fee.

Yeah, there is some bad publicity, but in the end, the cost is a passthrough to the consumer.”

For their part, the credit card companies herald the incipient arrival of chip-and-PIN-style credit, debit and ATM cards.

Instead of just a metallic strip, these cards have an embedded microchip and are authenticated by entering the personal identification number. (Other “smartcards” are chip-and-signature.) It makes it very hard to clone the card, but it requires merchants to add whole new point-of-sale terminals for all their registers at $500 apiece.

America is the last major country to abandon the magnetic strip.

The roll-out begins in earnest next year, ahead of the major U.S. credit card issuers’ October 2015 deadline. Experts say stores won’t be ready in time, but they have an incentive—after the deadline liability for fraud shifts to the least-compliant party, merchants.

Unfortunately, chip-and-PIN is not the panacea it may once have been. Patton saw a British bank’s presentation at a security conference in the Netherlands a couple of months ago.

“When they introduced chipand-PIN, it went down to $350 million that year, and after that, they just found different attack vectors [so] now it’s back at [the original level],” he said. “Chipand-PIN is not the solution.”

Of course, that’s just human nature. If there’s a way to make money, people will figure it out, and if there’s a way to monetize shady cyber-behavior, certain people will find it.

“Talk to people in the security business, and they will tell you 10 percent of any population is bent,” said Ryan, chuckling. “Then if you use a normal distribution, a whole bunch of them are going to have high IQs. Pretty soon,

LulzSec member Raynaldo Rivera and attorney Jay Leiderman outside United States District Court in Los Angeles during Rivera’s Sony Pictures conspiracy trial in 2012.

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you are looking at a situation that makes you go, ‘Uh-oh!’”

In November, Arizona State

computer scientist Gail-Joon Ahn chaired the 21st Computer Machinery’s Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Ahn is involved in creating a secure mobile wallet and has secured several patents for the technology.

Another of Ahn’s research projects involves an unsecured “honeypot” server that waits like flypaper for malware to strike.

The idea is to study it, identify its signatures and, using social media, try to identify its origin.

Ahn believes all companies need to have their fingers to the wind and share what they glean. He notes that banks already have formed a consortium for just such information, creating sort of a police scanner for cyber-threats.

“We can share some of the trends so you can understand the current situation in each private sector and understand what you are facing,” Ahn said. “I’ve been working on a similar notion with some of the intelligence agencies here to develop collaborative and collective intelligence for both parties so they can share immediately. We need this kind of intelligence and maybe a university, third party, or some nonprofit

could have this role in the middle and help to do this.”

Ahn suggests that a way around the spate of PoS and other credit card attacks on retailers may be to rethink our approach to financial transactions.

“Is it possible to make my payment without leaving my financial information with the merchant?” he asked. “Can I talk to my bank directly and my bank talk to these merchants regarding my approval? My bank has my personal information; why do I have to . . . give it to the merchant?”

There’s not much hope under the tree this season. No one feels the network-security problem will be solved quickly. There’s just so much border to cover that it’s nearly impossible currently to prevent egress. Patton says most institutions price it into the cost of doing business.

“The stuff that’s happening, it’s expensive, but it’s not like it’s going anywhere. So people are getting credit card information, and they’re selling it. And the financial institutions have a budget to absorb a certain amount of loss every year,” he said. “In some ways, it’s like the war on Next year, expect credit card companies to issue chip-and-PIN cards as a security measure.

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drugs. Yeah we can keep taking down drug cartels, but the drugs haven’t gone anywhere. A lot of FBI agents have been promoted, but they haven’t solved the problem.”

Some of the issue is built into the incentive system. If it’s hard to see the advantage, it’s hard to invest. And even when risk is readily apparent, it’s difficult to get people to spend money on insurance. That’s why the government mandates flood insurance in certain regions.

“When the cost of reducing the risk is borne by the people it’s decreased for—and they’re able to understand the decrease in risk—it’s pretty easy to [get them to pay for it]. A lot of people will pay for a car that has a five-star crash rating,” Patton says.

Unfortunately, those capable of addressing the issue of computer fraud—banks and retailers—have little incentive to make costly changes when the fraud’s already covered by consumers. “Not only do the cardholders not know what it’s costing them, even if they were able to create savings, it wouldn’t be passed through to [them],” he said.

This is the idea that resonates most with Ryan. Noting the indifference with which security has been handled and the general unwillingness of companies to heavily invest, she suggests that we insist that everyone who safeguards personal information, creates software or operates networks have a little more skin in the game.

“I’m hoping a new generation of lawyers will develop a legal strategy of negligence and liability, because that’s the only thing that I believe will really change the culture,” she says.

Ryan compares the field of security to the evolution of medicine.

“The medical profession moved into guild structures that were regulated and controlled and eventually,” she says, “into a system of testing and certification of capabilities and a professional credo of policing themselves.”

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Arts & Culture Legends of the Celtic Harp (from left): Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter.

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‘Light in the darkness of winter’ Trio brings medieval instruments and old-world traditions for unique holiday program

“W gorgeous Alaskan mountains covered in snow,” harpist Lisa Lynne announced at the begin-

e’re looking out the window at these dramatic,

ning of a recent phone interview from a tour stop in Valdez, her lyrical description evoking mental pictures of an by imagined documentary about the Ken Smith great white northern wilderness. kens@ The soundtrack to that mental newsreview.com image—something big, dramatic, lush and elemental—could easily be scored by Lynne and her musiPREVIEW cal partner, Aryeh Frankfurter, A Winter Gift, with with the voice-over handled by Legends of the storyteller and fellow harpist Celtic Harp, tonight, Dec. 18, Patrick Ball, the third member of 7:30 p.m., at the threesome collectively known Unitarian as Legends of the Celtic Harp.

Universalist Lynne is a Celtic and new-age Fellowship. multi-instrumentalist who comTickets: $18-$20 bined forces with globetrotting Unitarian folk musician Frankfurter several Universalist years ago, the duo gaining an Fellowship international following based on 1289 Filbert Ave. their virtuosic affinity for medieval 570-8826 instruments. The Legends trio came together three years ago at the behest of Ball, who wanted to assemble a collection of stories about the history of the harp set to musical accompaniment.

“Patrick’s collection of stories and poems about the harp with our underscore of traditional and original music really created a profoundly moving, heartcatching, heartwarming show,” Lynne said. “So even though it’s about harps, it’s really about humanity and connection and the power of music to heal and inspire.”

For their latest endeavor, the trio has assembled a new show called A Winter Gift, which they will bring to Chico’s Universalist Unitarian Church Thursday night (Dec. 18).

“I occasionally do a show called The Christmas Rose, so this show with Lisa and Aryeh is an expansion of that,” Ball explained. “We chose some of my favorite Christmas- and winter-themed stories and

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organized them so there is always music going.”

Stories and poems performed during the show include Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a chapter from The Wind in the Willows, and passages by Shakespeare and William Butler Yeats.

There are also lesser-known tales.

“One is a very beautiful little story I found about 20 years ago in a long-out-of-print book,” Ball said.

“It’s all about a young Irish boy who’s waiting in his seaside village for his father’s fishing schooner to come home. It had been out to sea a week longer than expected, and couldn’t return to shore because the lighthouse had been destroyed by the storm. The young boy is able to get the lighthouse operable again, and fortunately, it has a happy ending.

“If there’s an overall theme to this show, it’s about finding a light in the darkness of winter.”

On the musical side, audiences can naturally expect plenty of harping, including a rousing threeharp rendition of the Christmas favorite, “Carol of the Bells.” While harps are not exactly commonplace, the group also switches out with even more exotic instruments, including an Irish bouzouki, a cittern and, strangest of all, Frankfurter’s Swedish nyckelharpa.

Frankfurter explained he first saw the instrument—which looks something like a giant violin with lots of extra hardware, and is played by pressing keys and bowing it—while playing a folk festival in Sweden in 1994.

“I wasn’t that familiar with Swedish folk music back then, and when I got there I was blown away by the beautiful intensity of the music and the variety of unusual musical instruments,” Frankfurter said, explaining the instrument dates back to at least the 14th century. “I bought one myself in 2003 on a whim, but didn’t start taking it seriously until I started playing with Lisa a few years later. Now it’s slowly crept up to overtake my musical life.”

Ball explained the mix of music, oratory and light theater of their program harkens back to the tradition of Celtic bards: “That’s really the driving dynamic behind the show,” he said. “When people come to the show, the experience is something they might have from thousands of years ago.” Ω

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Special Events BAH HUMBUG: The 35th annual festival of crafts with local artists, handmade treats and artisan goods. M-Sa, 10am-7pm through 12/23. Su, 12/21, 10am-5pm, W, 12/24, 10am-5pm. Free.

Bah Humbug Warehouse, 355 E. 20th St.

music of Irving Berlin. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 12/21. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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DECEMBER WINE TASTING: A monthly wine tast-

BAH HUMBUG: See Thursday. Free. Bah Humbug

ing benefiting Rape Crisis Intervention and hosted by The Grocery Outlet. Th, 12/18, 57pm. $5. The Crystal Room, 968 East Ave.

THE NUTCRACKER: The Northern California Ballet

Warehouse, 355 E. 20th St.

host their rendition of the Christmas classic.

WINTER RECITAL: Positive I Dance Studio presents the Paradise Dance Fest and Winter Recital, with ballet, hip-hop, bellydance and hula-hoop, with performances from EastWind Bellydance, Meg Amor, and more Th, 12/18, 6pm. $10-$15. Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-1733.

Music A WINTER GIFT: Legends Of The Celtic Harp, featuring Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter, perform a program of holiday music with selections of Irish and English literature. Th, 12/18, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1289 Filbert, (530) 3431693.

Theater A CHRISTMAS CAROL: The classic tale of redemption told through the words of Charles Dickens about Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly curmudgeon who thinks that Christmas is a Humbug. Directed by Holly Riggs. Th-Sa,

F, 12/19, 10am & 7:15pm, Sa, 12/20, 2:15 & 7:15pm, Su, 12/21, 2:15pm. $12-$20. Paradise

Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

Art Receptions STORIES THREE: A reception for the group show of locals Ellen Akimoto, Haley Hughes, Trevor Lalaguna, Sienna Orlando Lalaguna, and Brad Thiele, sharing their biographical stories. F, 12/19, 6-8pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

Music BAHAPKI AND BIG MO AND THE FULL MOON BAND: A rock, blues and American roots holiday celebration with two of Butte County’s favorite party bands. F, 12/19, 8pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 12/21. Opens 12/14. $12-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

WHITE CHRISTMAS: Stage version of the Bing Crosby holiday classic, with the timeless

HOLIDAY SING ALONG Saturday, Dec. 20 Avenue 9 Gallery

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Special Events ART ON THE RISE: See Saturday. Moonstone Artist Collective, 835 Main St.

BAH HUMBUG: See Thursday. Free. Bah Humbug Warehouse, 355 E. 20th St.

COMMUNITY HANUKKAH PARTY: Traditional dinner for the community, featuring the CBI band, menorah lighting, dancing, games, gift shop and more. Su, 12/21, 5pm. $6-$10.

Congregation Beth Israel, 1336 Hemlock St. corner of Hemlock and 14th St., (530) 342-6146, www.cbichico.org.

Theater BELIEVE: An original production inspired by The Polar Express, created, produced and directed by brother-sister team, musician Jeff Schneeweis and dancer Sarah Blakley. F,

COMMUNITY HANUKKAH PARTY Saturday, June 21 Congregation Beth Israel

SEE SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

12/19, 7pm, Sa, 12/20, 2 & 7pm, Su, 12/21, 2pm.

$16-$23. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

SEASON’S GREETINGS: The Bare Bones Theatre Project and the Blue Room Theatre present David Sedaris’ story of family dysfunction during the holiday season. A one woman show starring Delovely Delisa. Plus, Dickie LaRocca (Betty Burns) in “An Evening with Little St. Dick”. F, Sa, 10:30pm through 12/20. $10. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

WHITE CHRISTMAS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted

by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

HOLIDAY SING ALONG: A holiday sing along with

accordions and sleigh bells. Sa, 12/20, 2pm.

Free. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

THE NUTCRACKER: See Friday. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

Theater BELIEVE: See Friday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692.

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SEASON’S GREETINGS: See Friday. Blue Room

ART ON THE RISE: Locally cultivated and handmade jewelry, leather crafts, dream catchers and henna from various artists. 12/20-12/21, 11am-5pm. Moonstone Artist Collective, 835 Main St.

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

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

WHITE CHRISTMAS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

BAH HUMBUG: See Thursday. Free. Bah Humbug Warehouse, 355 E. 20th St.

Music THE YULE LOGS: The last performances of the season for the hardest working band in snow business. $5-$10. Two nights; two shows.

12/20-12/21, 7pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Art 1078 GALLERY: Stories Three, local artists Ellen Akimoto, Haley Hughes, Trevor Lalaguna, Sienna Orlando Lalaguna, and Brad Thiele sharing biographical stories.

Through 1/3, 2015. 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: A Fond Fairwell and

Holiday Sale, guild artists showcase their works. Through 1/10, 2015. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

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.

Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

SUPPER WITH SANTA: The annual supper with Santa to benefit Toys For Tots. A full Christmas meal, plus real snow and pictures with Santa.

Su, 12/21, 5-9pm. $10 adult $5 kids, 3-under free. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.supperwithsantachico.com.

BELIEVE: See Friday. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692

A CHRISTMAS CAROL: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

WHITE CHRISTMAS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

Music THE YULE LOGS: See Saturday. Chico Women’s

watercolor paintings from artist Frences Miller. Through 12/26, 9am-5pm. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Home for the

Holidays, Christmas paintings, decorations and ornaments from local artists. Through 12/31. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

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.bidwellpark.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.

THE NUTCRACKER: See Friday. Paradise

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JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Watercolors, new

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM:

“Sunday Picture,” by Ellen Akimoto at 1078 Gallery HAS BEANS INTERNET CAFE & GALLERIA:

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

IDEA FABRICATION LABS: Transpositions, incubator artist David Cedeño (aka Chocolate David) presents his multi-layered stencilmaking capturing the raw force and soul of musical experience. Through 1/13, 2015.

603 Orange St., (530) 592-0609.

Multiple exhibits: Modern Farming- Land, Water, People, and Science, Eat well, Play Well, and Patterns of The Land. See museum website for ticket info. 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 wringer washer from the 1940s.

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

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Special Events BAH HUMBUG: See Thursday. Free. Bah Humbug Warehouse, 355 E. 20th St.

WAYNE HOUCHIN: Chico native and magician entertainer performs a benefit for the Weed Public Library destroyed by a fire in September. M, 12/22, 7pm. $10. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 899-2692.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 36

Smoke (and fire) and mirrors THE YULE LOGS

Saturday & Sunday, Dec. 20 & 21 Chico Women’s Club SEE SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MUSIC

Wayne Houchin is an accomplished magician and daredevil who’s appeared on The Tonight Show and numerous other television programs, correctly predicted the outcome of Super Bowl XXXVI, and drove down Highway 99 blindfolded. He’s also a Chico resident, although a rigid touring schedule means local performances are few and far between. Houchin will appear (and maybe disappear) at the Center for the Arts on Monday, Dec. 22, to raise funds for the Weed Public Library, which was destroyed by fire earlier this year. Houchin is no stranger to fire damage himself—in EDITOR’S PICK 2012, a television host in the Dominican Republic threw burning oil in his face in an attempt to “cleanse evil spirits,” inflicting first- and second-degree burns on the magician.

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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.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

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

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale.

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

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

Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

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

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

EVENING DANCE JAM: A weekly meditative dance

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.

STUDENT MARKET: The Organic Vegetable Project returns with local and seasonal produce, a variety of herbs, flowers and vegetable starts. Located in the BMU Courtyard. Th, 11am-2pm. Bell Memorial Union (BMU), 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 8984696, www.aschico.com.

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.

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

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.

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Thursday, Dec. 18 Chico Rockstars: School of Music SEE FOR KIDS

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 The national

novel writers host a weekly write in. F, 5-8pm.

Midtown Local, 365 E Sixth St.

HOLIDAY PHOTOS AT BIDWELL MANSION: Make reservations to take personal holiday photos at Bidwell Mansion. Bring your own camera and call for an appointment. Through 12/22. $20. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144.

HOLIDAY TOURS: Tours of Bidwell Mansion

decked out for the holidays. 12/19-12/21, 6:30-8pm. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144.

For Kids CAMP CHICO FROZEN: Hands on natural science labs, games, art and recreation, up close animal visits, Bidwell Park exploration. See website for details. 12/22-1/2. $25-$250. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

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

KIDS’ OPEN MIC AND KARAOKE NIGHT: Kids can perform original material or sing to a track.

Th, 12/18, 6pm. Free. Chico Rockstars: School of Music, 932 W. Eighth Ave. A, (530) 809-4932, www.chicorockstars.com.

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

Calling all performing artists, interpretive dancers, thespians, magicians, competitive eaters, musicians, contortionists, one-man bands, mind readers, chainsaw jugglers, horse whisperers, interpretive dancers, slam poets, experimental filmmakers, mimes and any other freaks with a talent for keeping Chico weird … the Chico News & Review wants you! We are now accepting entries for the second annual Keep Chico Weird Talent Show and Art Show! With prizes, celebrity judges (Sea Monster, Mini Merna, Meg Amor and Linda Watkins-Bennet), and featured weird performers.

KIDS’ OPEN MIC AND KARAOKE

HOW TO SUBMIT: Must be 18-over. Email a description of your three-minute act or visual art (and if you have them, include samples—videos, audio, photos—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 your info (not your artwork) 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.

Visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/keepchicoweird

Tickets on sale now! at Diamond W Western Wear, Blaze ’N J’s, and www.jmaxproductions.net $15 in advance ($20 night of)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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The Rise of Aurora West Paul Pope, JT Petty, David Rubin First Second Any chance to return to the monster-ridden city of Acropolis is a welcome opportunity. Author/illustrator Paul Pope’s 2013 Battling Boy was a fish-out-of-water story in which the chaotic city and the demonic baddies that besiege it overwhelm the newly arrived titular teenage hero. The Rise of Aurora West, on the other hand, is a prequel, giving readers a chance to explore more deeply Acropolis, its perils, and what first unleashed the monsters that prey on children at night. It’s through Aurora West, daughter and apprentice to the great science hero Haggard West (think Batman meets Indiana Jones with Flash Gordon’s tech) that we get a sense of what it’s like to exist in this monstrous place, as Aurora pushes to uncover the secrets of her family’s past. David Rubín takes over the illustration duties from Pope, and his black-and-white manga-style art lacks the splashes of color that helped make Battling Boy pop. But he does capture the dirty, crumbling, claustrophobic metropolis and the utterly insane chaos inherent to the monsters in everything from their emotions and physical form to their destruction and semblance of a moral code.

Fans of the series, or those looking for an action-packed story suitable for younger readers, will not be disappointed with the return to Acropolis.

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Hystori CyHi the Prynce GOOD Music For Black History Month, elementary school student Chance Whitfield does a project on rapper Cydel Young, aka CyHi the Prynce. That’s how Black Hystori Project starts, and class is in session on the Georgia-born emcee’s latest mixtape, produced by Kanye West. Lesson one, “Intro (Black Hystori),” awakens with an RZA-like sonic blast of strings (and gutpunch grunt) that sounds like a classic kung-fu film opening. CyHi lectures: “This the death of the trap/If you sleepin’ on me/Go on, enjoy the rest of your nap/Tired of hearin’ fake niggas and they regular raps they writin’/Guess it ain’t no real leaders left on the map!” Track titles like “Huey,” “Mandela,” “Coretta” and “Basquiat” are a collection of the black free-thinkers and freedom fighters who are covered in these lessons, and whose ranks CyHi joins here.

His “princely” moniker might bring up a self-indulgent image that belies his lyrical skill, and in fact, CyHi’s consciousness of his own oratorical deftness (akin to that of Malcolm X and Kwame Toure) does make him come across as more regal than erudite. He concludes the album with “Black Pride” and a boast—“Nigga, this the closest thing to The Chronic album”—that exemplifies the 30-year-old rapper’s ambition for doing something great.

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1989 Taylor Swift Big Machine Records On 1989, Taylor Swift’s fifth studio album, the global superstar takes a conceptual pop turn from her country-ish roots and manages to hold on to what brought her to this moment in her career. Swift’s mainstay—multifaceted love songs—continues to dominate on this album. “Clean” is haunted by the aching absence of an addictive ex-love; “This Love” is the rekindled kind; and “Bad Blood” will have you screaming along over wronged love à la early Pink or Alanis Morissette. On “Blank Space,” Swift’s self-satirizing is spot on as she pokes fun at her man-hungry ways (“Look at that face/you look like my next mistake”) and twists the delivery to let the subtext come through. And if you don’t enjoy letting loose to “Shake It Off,” you probably don’t enjoy much of anything.

1989 sold nearly 1.3 million copies in its first week, a feat last attained by Eminem’s The Eminem Show in 2002. Artistically, it’s great to see music’s genre barriers continue to crumble, freeing Swift and other musicians to explore the medium with a broader scope. Country, pop-country, pop—it doesn’t matter, as long as Swift keeps writing music. If she ever stops, Lorde help us.

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The scene is all right A hot night of great, local music at The Maltese

Tof bunker in South Chico, has, over the past couple years, become a favored venue for catching he Maltese, that cute little brick-red concrete

live music performances by both local and touring purveyors of original music. The intimate setting, well-stocked by and -staffed bar, cozy booths and Carey Wilson especially the recently enhanced sound system make it a great place to get a handle, or at least an ear, on the latest developments in Chico’s musical underworld.

Last Saturday’s show—featurREVIEW The She Things, Los ing all local bands Bunnymilk, New Huevos and Los New Huevos and The She Bunnymilk, Saturday, Dec. 13, at Things—presented a cavalcade of the Maltese Bar styles beginning with the eerily & Tap Room resonant plucking of Kelly Brown’s electrified banjo rising through and above the sea of bar chatter generated by the capacity crowd. Brown and her Bunnymilk partner, Lisa Marie, use predominantly banjo, electric guitar and their own intertwined vocal harmonies to generate a ghostly, dark, molasses-slow ambiance of ethereal romance tinged with regret and hope. My only regret for them on this particular outing was that a large portion of the crowd was geared up for punk rock and spent most of the Bunnymilk set buying drinks and yammering among themselves rather than appreciating the beauty that was swirling about them from the velvet-draped stage.

Following a brief interlude of stage reconfiguration, Los New Huevos—a conglomeration featuring members of local punk bands Severance Package, Zabaleen, The Pushers and Nogoodnix—blasted off a flurry of old-school, Brit-flavored punk rock.

Fronted by vocalist Jimmy Lo and his blazing-eyedmadman performance style, the band churned up a pit-worthy maelstrom of bashed chords, smashed cymbals and vehement, buried-in-the-noise lyrics.

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to hoist their cans of PBR and howl approval at the end of every pile-driven two-minute song.

The finale, a cover of Spizzenergi’s 1979 classic, “Where’s Captain Kirk,” was a fitting tribute to the band’s roots in the tradition of punk—fusing humor, energy and intelligence in songs you can simultaneously pogo to and laugh about.

Bringing the night to a fittingly resounding and celebratory climax, Chico’s latest—and at this point only—all-woman, punk-a-billy power trio, The She Things, quickly reset the stage and grabbed the welcoming crowd’s enthusiastic attention with their opening number, “Make-out Monster,” a Ramones-flavored rocker with sassy lead vocals by bassist Kerra Jessen, with support from guitarist and co-singer Christina Burnham, and solid-as-a-rock drummer Chelsea Tucker. The song set a high bar for both the fun meter and the musicianship of the rest of the set, and each tune that followed met or exceeded that expectation.

Drawing on influences ranging from 1950s girl groups, old-school rockabilly and American punk and proto-punk, with resonances of the early B-52’s, Ramones and The Cramps, The She Things are rock ’n’ roll fun personified. The power-trio configuration allows plenty of space for the instruments and vocals to interact in a high-voltage mesh and the bare-bones, joyfully libidinous energy of the songs directly hit the foot-stomping, hip-swaying, lifeembracing centers of the brain in irresistible waves.

Refreshingly not tied to any specific genre, The She Things’ songs vary in style and feel, from the comfy, mid-tempo surge and beach-punk rootsiness of “Peach Comb” to the ominous sway of “Rock Bottom Roll,” to the twist-worthy rock beat and updated bratty girl-group fun of “Shitty Summer.”

All delivered with gleeful, fun-fueled precision by three women who have obviously done their due diligence practice-wise, and whose joyous camaraderie makes their band a genuine joy to behold. □

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“You owe me this much,” she’d said, parking between a muddy truck with a slobbering black dog in the back and a Jeep flying two American flags the size of my Ikea duvet.

And the tough broad? The bartendress, who had no qualms with F-bombs and was debating something about a “bad call” in a sports game on one of the bigscreen televisions—with five or six of her customers, all dressed like plants, in big pants and coats with green and brown splotches on them.

I proudly buttoned my blazer as we made our way to the bar.

Now, Colette was loving her Brad Burger, a 1/3-lb. hamburger patty, with another 1/3-lb. linguica patty ($8.50), named for one of the Last Stand’s chefs. And I had to admit my deep-fried cod sandwich ($6.75) was tasty, despite ★★★ the fish having spent some time between sea and sandwich frozen in The Last Stand a large waxed box.

Bar & Grill Claiming to be “the last outdoor 414 N. Tehama St., standup bar and grill in the state of Willows Open California,” the Last Stand is an 11 a.m.-9 p.m., open-air bar with a foot railing but daily (open at 10 a.m. for Sunday no bar stools, literally a stand-up bar, brunch). with a couple of high yellow Formi934-7246 ca tables on the patio, each appointed with an ashtray. Attached is an Vsit them on indoor dining room with six pink Facebook for and teal tables, five booths, two information on counters with stools, a gumball occasional specials, i.e., Taco Tuesdays machine, and a pool table. The cinand Brad’s derblock walls are decorated with jambalaya. the schedules of sports teams, street signs (“Raiders Blvd.”), and photos of local 4H kids showing their preslaughter hogs.

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at 10 to start drinking anyway.”

Naturellement, we had to try it.

And so we found ourselves once again at the Last Stand, this time on a Sunday morning and in the dining room at a table underneath a “One Nation Under Beer” sign. We’d arrived right at 10 and were the only ones there. I’d planned ahead and worn my Randy Jones (Henri’s second favorite Village Person) cowboy hat.

The waitress brought the regular menus—burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches ($4.25-$8.50); chili, soups, and salads ($3.25-$7.75); and fried potatoes, fish and chicken strips ($3.25-$7.25)—then seemed surprised when we asked for the Sunday brunch menu.

“Champagne to start?” she asked.

But of course. “And two coffees,” I added. “Oh, and what kind of champagne is it?” I asked as she walked away.

She turned, looked puzzled, and shrugged.

She returned a few minutes later with menus, the champagne in red-wine goblets, and coffee in paper cups.

“I think I see some bubbles,” I said, holding my glass up against a Budweiser lamp on the wall.

Colette scowled at me. “This isn’t the Ritz,” she said.

“Besides, it’s $4. Enjoy it. Oh, and take that hat off!”

And truth be told, we did enjoy the brunch. Colette had the two-egg breakfast ($6.50), with bacon, potatoes and wheat toast, but I think I made the better decision.

My breakfast sandwich ($5.75—two scrambled eggs with cheese and bacon on sourdough toast) was very tasty.

By the time we were done, a dozen or so more customers had arrived, their attention divided between the sports on television and the buckets of bottled beer on ice beside them at the bar.

“I was tempted to try the Texas french toast,” I said, as Colette pulled out of the parking lot.

“Really?” she asked.

“I wonder what that even is.”

“I’m not sure,” I said.

“But I bet it was Jean Wayne’s favorite.” Ω

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Out of proportion Biblical epic gets chewed up by modern movie-making machine y deliberate choice, I watched Exodus: Gods and B Kings in its 2-D version this past weekend. I mention that partly in the interests of journalistic clarity,

but also out of a continuing conviction that the 3-D process is, more often than not, little more than a gaudy and expensive accesby Juan-Carlos sory, with little real relevance to the Selznick requirements of genuine film drama.

The great exceptions to that tendency as of late include Martin Scorsese’s Hugo and Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, both of which made the 3-D process integral to their respective central dramatic concerns, and to character and setting. Ridley Scott’s Exodus functions Exodus: Gods mostly like a big-budget exercise in and Kings grandiose technical display. The expanStarring sive high-angle aerial views of massive Christian Bale, crowds of people, encamped or on the Ben Kingsley , march, all have their roots in the biblical Joel Edgerton and Sigourney story, but their visual extravagance Weaver. Directed seems an end in itself here.

The 2-D version does get some nice

by Ridley Scott.

Cinemark 14, 3-D effects the same way that RoadrunFeather River ner cartoons, John Ford westerns and Cinemas and Paradise Cinema cinemascope epics have been doing it all 7. Rated PG-13. along—through framing and camera movement. But the most conspicuous opportunities for 3-D—the plague episodes—seem blatantly exploitative, even in 2-D. The script (credited to Scott and four co-writers) does make some scattered attempts at injecting something other than grand spectacle into the proceedings. That subtitle (Gods and Kings) signals the film’s most emphatic theme—men who think themselves kings, kings who think themselves gods. Spiritual struggles are given brief attention and evocations of the supernatural mostly get overwhelmed in

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the film’s heavy-handed displays of showmanship.

The movie’s Moses (Christian Bale) is no Charlton Heston, which probably ought to be a blessing, but there’s little that Bale is able to do with the script’s token, man-of-faith gestures. The film’s visualization of God is a particularly provocative bit of Midrash that ends up seeming more brazen than inspired.

There are a couple of sweetly old-fashioned declarations of love between Moses and his beloved Zipporah (María Vlverde) that are so out of keeping with most of the rest of the film that they become more interesting than they would otherwise have any right to be. But that too may not be enough to erase the abiding impression that Scott’s Exodus is mostly about militarism and deal-making.

An impressive supporting cast includes Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Sigourney Weaver, Ewen Bremner and Ben Kingsley. Edgerton’s simpering machismo gets the most screen time (he plays Ramses), but the strongest impressions are made by Weaver (unshakeable dignity) and Bremner (shameless camping). Ω

Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week Annie

A precocious foster child (Quvenzhané Wallis) is paired with a rich politician (Jamie Foxx starring as Will Stacks, a modern-day Daddy Warbucks) in this contemporary adaptation of the classic 1977 musical-comedy. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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The third and final installment in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famed fantasy novel. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

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Reese Witherspoon stars in this film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir about her 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Coast Trail in an effort to get her crumbling life together in the wake of a divorce and her mother’s death. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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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. 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 protagonist. 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. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

Dumb and Dumber To

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back and stupid as ever. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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.

Rated R.

While it takes a step back overall from the rousing prior chapter, this is still a sturdy installment. After being rescued at the end of Catching Fire, shortly after destroying the Hunger Games for good, 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 that Snow has imprisoned Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and is using him as a propaganda tool as well. In exchange for their help in rescuing Peeta, Katniss agrees to assist with the resistance and be their “Mocking jay.”

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 material 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. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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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 time-travel 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 bound-for-IMAX behemoth. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

It’s a Wonderful Life

The classic Frank Capra holiday flick, with Jimmy Stewart starring as George Bailey, a man whose life is saved thanks to a Christmastime miracle at the hands of a friendly angel. Showing Saturday, Dec. 20, 3 p.m.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Penguins of Madagascar

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THURSDAY 12/18—WEDNESDAY 12|24 OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

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

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A WINTER GIFT: Legends Of The Celtic Harp, featuring Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter, perform a program of holiday music with selections of Irish and English literature. Th, 12/18, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1289 Filbert, (530) 343-1693.

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18THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse

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CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

HAPPY HOUR: L.T.D. Th, 12/18, 6-9pm.

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JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Join John Seid, Larry Peterson and Eric Peter as they play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 12/18, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

KARAOKE: Karaoke night. Th, 12/18, 9pm.

Tackle Box, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499.

BAHAPKI AND BIG MO AND THE FULL MOON BAND: F, 12/19, 8pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

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F, 12/19, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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

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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.

QUICK AND EASY BOYS: A power trio out of Portland, plus funk from Groovestruck. F, 12/19. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SANTA’S SEMESTER SEND OFF: Say goodbye to your classmates with music and dancing into the holidays. F, 12/19, 10pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

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20SATURDAY THE YULE LOGS: The last performances of the season for the hardest working band in snow business. $5-$10. Two nights; two shows. 12/20-12/21, 7pm.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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HAPPY HOUR: Stunt Double. Sa, 12/20, 69pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

and Christmas tunes with John Seid and Larry Peterson. Sa, 12/20, 8:3011am. Beatniks Coffee House & Breakfast Joint, 1387 E. Eighth St., (530) 894-2800, www.chicobeatniks.com.

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

UGLY SWEATER PARTY: Wear your hideous holiday sweaters and celebrate the season. Sa, 12/20. Seeva’s Pub, 6093 Lincoln Blv in Oroville.

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JOHN SEID DUO: Morning jazz, pop, blues and Christmas tunes with John Seid and Larry Peterson. Su, 12/21, 8:3011am. Cal Java Coffee Roasters, 216 W. East Ave., (530) 891-8935.

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

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For those looking to smear a little jam all over their holidays, the Chico Women’s Club is the place to be on Friday, Dec. 19, for Bahapki and Big Mo and the Full Moon Band’s Holiday Concert. Big Mo and Co. are long-lived local purveyors of rock and blues, while Bahapki—made up of a number of veteran local players churning out music with “spiritual undertones where East meets West”—celebrates the one-year anniversary of their first gig.

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.

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SLOW ROAD TO ARTS DEVO I grew up in Redding, in an environment fairly

devoid of artistic and cultural influence. Poor white trash would be an unkind, but not entirely inaccurate, way to frame the circumstances of my youth, but thanks to the influence of music, specifically the Columbia House Record Club (“13 records or tapes for $1”), MTV and my Uncle Craig’s vinyl collection, the sights and sounds of the bigger world leaked into my sheltered sphere.

KISS jumpstarted me at an early age, putting the idea into my head of humans having the ability to bring whatever new, loud, colorful worlds that they could dream up into being, which led me to other theatrical musical performers in the years that followed—Queen, Adam Ant, Prince, a bunch of hair-metal bands. Then, in the middle of high school, I caught a whiff of the warm, dark atmosphere bubbling up from the American South thanks to an up-and-coming jangly, mumbling and mysterious “college-rock” band called R.E.M., and into the underground I went, seeking various music and film alternatives (and trying my hand at creating my own) before college and its art and lit classes clued me into the rest of the continuum.

Looking back, there were a lot of brushes with art that began to stoke the flame that craved something “other”—other people, places, ideas and cultures. A dubbed cassette of the Beat Street soundtrack and demos of some of the related dance moves from a kid on my paper route; the unavoidable and unmistakable magic of Michael Jackson and Thriller; and the very fortuitous high-school reading-list choice of W. Somerset Maugham’s wanderlust-inducing The Razor’s Edge.

All that is to say, for the sake of something different at this listmaking time of year, I’ve decided to make a (ridiculously restrictive) list—that doesn’t include such elemental building blocks as Shakespeare, Hemingway, Gordon Gano, Toni Morrison, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Calvin Johnson, Hieronymus Bosch, Elvis Costello, the Beats or the spirits of Harry Smith’s “old weird America”—of the 10 artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers to whom I was eventually led and who ended up making the biggest impression on me and how I interact with the world and you readers. (Send me yours!)

Arts DEVO’s top 10 artists of all time: 1. David Lynch 2. Walt Whitman 3. Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground 4. Pablo Picasso 5. Rainier Maria Rilke 6. Jonathan Richman 7. Leonard Cohen 8. Bob Dylan 9. Stanley Kubrick 10. Facteur Ferdinand Cheval (French mailman and builder of the visionary environment Palais Idéal)

AS THE WORLD FEST TWIRLS

Where the dream becomes reality —Facteur Cheval

Big news from the Nor Cal festival circuit: Cal WorldFest, the familyfriendly world-music festival founded by longtime Chico music promoter Dan DeWayne and his wife, Christine Meyers, has been sold to Grass Valley’s Center for the Arts. After 18 years of producing the popular summer festival at the Nevada City Fairgrounds, DeWayne and Meyers’ Maple Creek Presents will hand the reins to the local cultural center, which will take over starting with next summer’s fest, happening July 16-19.

CORRECTION In last week’s column, I incorrectly said that Muir Hughes was resigning from the Chico Arts Commission. In fact, Hughes is not resigning; she has instead reached the end of her four-year term.

The error has been corrected online.

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FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 18, 2014 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Too much

happiness can make you unhappy,” reported journalist Marta Zaraska in The Washington Post. Citing research by psychologists, she concluded that being super-extra cheerful can make you selfish, gullible and more prone to stereotyped thinking. On the other hand, she said, maintaining merely moderate levels of happiness is pretty damn good for your mental and physical health. So here’s the takeaway, Aries: The astrological omens suggest you’re due for a surge of joy and pleasure. Just be careful it doesn’t spill over into rash, delirious excess. Here’s your watchword: wellgrounded delight.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In

the 19th century, the Grimm brothers gathered more than 200 old fairy tales from a variety of sources and published them in an unprecedented collection.

Many of their stories are still popular, including “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rapunzel.”

Around the same time they did their work, a storyteller named Franz Xaver von Schönwerth assembled his own compendium of fantastic myths, fables and folklore. Unlike the Grimm brothers’ book, his work faded into obscurity. But it was rediscovered in 2011, and 500 lost fairy tales are now finding their way into newly published books. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening for you in 2015, Taurus. Forgotten stories will return. Raw material from the depths will resurface. Interesting news from the past will come flowing into the present.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your first

task is to ascertain the half-truth, the whole half-truth and nothing but the whole half-truth. Only then will you be able to find the other half of the truth.

I realize it may be frustrating to use this approach. You’d probably prefer to avoid wrangling with the deceptions and misdirections. But I think it’s the only way to jostle loose the hidden or missing information. For best results, be a cunning and unsentimental detective who’s eager to solve the mystery. Don’t focus on finding fault or assigning blame.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the ingredients that makes yoga mats so soft and springy is the chemical azodicarbonamide. The same stuff is added to the soles of shoes. There’s a third place where it’s used, too: in the burger buns sold by McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and other fast food joints. I’m not suggesting that you order a big supply of azodicarbonamide and ingest it. But I do hope you will consider the metaphorical equivalent: doing whatever’s necessary to make yourself bouncy and fluffy and pliable and supple and resilient.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are

two kinds of light,” said author James Thurber, “the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” Lately you have been an abundant source of that first kind of light, Leo. The fire in your heart and the gleam in your eyes have not only brightened the mood wherever you’ve gone. They have also clarified confusing situations, warmed chilly attitudes and healed dispirited allies. Thank you! In the coming weeks, I’d love to see you continue on your hot streak. To help ensure that you do, keep your ego under control. Don’t let it pretend that it owns the light you’re emitting. With a little introspection, you will continue to generate illumination, not glare.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Studies

suggest that 57 percent of all people with access to the Internet have engaged in the practice known as ego-surfing. This modern art form consists of searching Google for mentions of one’s own name.

This is a suspiciously low figure unless we factor in the data uncovered by my own research—which is that a disproportionately small amount of Virgos go ego-surfing: only 21 percent. If you are one of the 79 percent of your tribe who does not indulge, I invite you to remedy the situation. It’s an excellent time to risk exploring the potential benefits of increased self-interest and self-regard.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When I

started writing horoscopes many years ago, I was a good astrologer but an unexceptional writer. Eventually, the practice of composing 12 packets of pithy prose every week allowed me to improve my authorial skills. The stuff I composed in the early years wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t want to present it as my work any more.

So should I feel guilty that I got paid and appreciated for those old efforts even though I was less than perfect? Did I get away with something I shouldn’t have gotten away with? I don’t think so. I was doing the best I could at the time. And even my unpolished astrological musings were helpful to many people. Now, Libra, I invite you to apply these meditations to you own unfolding destiny.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You

may already know what I’m about to tell you. It’s a core principle at the root of your Scorpio heritage. But I want to focus your attention on it. In the coming months, you’ll be wise to keep it at the forefront of your conscious awareness. Here it is, courtesy of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “You have it in your power to invest everything you have lived through—your experiments, false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your love and your hope—into your goal, with nothing left over.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): “A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life.” So says Harry Haller, the protagonist of Herman Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf. His declaration could serve as an interesting point of reference for you in the coming months, Sagittarius—not as a mood for everyday use, but as a poetic inspiration that you periodically call on to invigorate your lust for life. My invitation has a caveat, however. I advise you not to adopt the rest of Harry Haller’s rant, in which he says that he also has “a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, or a cathedral, or myself.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I

have lived near an open space preserve for five years. Up until the last two months, it has been a peaceful, quite place. But then the coyotes moved in.

Just after dusk every evening, a pack of them start yipping and yowling in the distance. At first I found the racket to be eerie and unsettling. It activated some primal unease in me. And yet the coyotes have never actually been a problem.

They don’t roam into my neighborhood and try to bite people or prey on pets.

So now I’ve come to relish the situation: The wild things are close and exciting, but not dangerous. I’m guessing this has a metaphorical resemblance to what your life will be like in the next six months, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, are really a single town that straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada. Many of the people who live there have dual citizenship, but they’re still supposed to carry their passports with them at all times. I suspect you may experience a metaphorical version of this split in the coming months, Aquarius.

You will be in a situation that has a split down the middle or a seemingly unnatural division. Whether it turns out to be a problem or an opportunity will depend on your adaptability and flexibility.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When a

dead tree topples over in the woods, its withered branches may get entangled with the branches of a living tree that’s standing nearby. As years go by, the living tree must grow the best it can with the decaying wood trapped in its midst.

Has something like that ever happened to you? Are you still carrying the rot that other people have burdened you with?

If so, the coming months will be an excellent time to get disentangled. A tree isn’t capable of freeing itself from the dead weight of the past, but you are— especially in the first half of 2015.

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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

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 JACK CORRIEA NEIGHBORHOOD MAINTENANCE at 3244 Mystery Run Chico, CA 95928.

JACK CORRIEA 3244 Mystery Run Chico, CA 95928.

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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 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 INTERCHANGE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, IPM, IPM CHICO, IPM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 242 Broadway, Suite 10 Chico, CA 95928.

VAUGHT INC 242 Broadway, Suite 10 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RYAN VAUGHT, PRESIDENT Dated: November 19, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001417 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PALETERIA Y NEVERIA LA FLOR DE MICHOACAN HOMEMADE ICE CREAM SHOP at 1354 East Ave. Ste K Chico, CA 95926.

ANTONIO ARREGUIN BERMUDEZ at 15 Top Flight Court Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANTONIO ARREGUIN BERMUDEZ Dated: November 20, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001426 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INCREDIBLY BAKED at 1175 East 8th Street #1 Chico, CA 95928.

LISA M. KNOWLES 1175 East 8th Street #1 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LISA M KNOWLES Dated: November 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001436 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

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RESULTS RADIO LLC 1355 N Dutton Ave #225 Santa Rosa, CA 95401.

RESULTS RADIO OF CHICO LLC 1355 N Dutton Ave #225 Santa Rosa, CA 95401.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JACK W FRITZ II, PRESIDENT Dated: November 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001381 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DRJMOBILITY at 4 Cheshire Court Chico, CA 95926.

GREGORY R JENKINS 4 Cheshire Court Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GREG JENKINS Dated: October 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001322 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MARISCOS LA COSTA MEXICAN SEAFOOD GRILL at 1141 Forest Ave Suite 30 Chico, CA 95928.

JESUS SANDOVAL 5 Betsey Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JESUS SANDOVAL Dated: November 26, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001448 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STRAP AND STRAND at 1340 Arcadian Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

KRISTINA M BANWELL 1340 Arcadian Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KRISTINA M BANWELL Dated: November 14, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001401 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TONYS FOOD AND LIQUOR at 240 Table Mountain Boulevard No B Oroville, CA 95965.

SOUHEL KHALIL 11 Blackstone Ct Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SOUHEL KHALIL Dated: November 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001410 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following person is doing business as BREATHE YOGA STUDIO at 2500 Durham Dayton Hwy Ste 1 Durham, CA 95938.

MIKAELA ANNE HENGST 9984 Fimple Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIKAELA HENGST Dated: December 5, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001476 Published: December 11,18,24,31 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CORAL VIEW, SCUBA HUT at 2343 Holly Ave Chico, CA 95926.

DEBRA NOWLING 2343 Holly Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This busines is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DEBRA NOWLING Dated: November 21, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001431 Published: December 11,18,24,31 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO COFFEE COMPANY at 107 Parmac Suite 180 Chico, CA 95926.

SHAWN HAMILTON 6 Highland Circle Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHAWN HAMILTON Dated: November 24, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001434 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

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HUNT CONVENIENCE STORES, LLC 5750 South Watt Ave. Sacramento, CA 95829.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JOSHUA M. HUNT, MEMBER Dated: November 20, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001423 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARK AVENUE 76 at 1105 Park Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

HUNT CONVENIENCE STORES, LLC 5750 South Watt Ave. Sacramento, CA 95829.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JOSHUA M. HUNT, MEMBER Dated: November 20, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001424 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHARLIE’S SEPTIC SERVICE at 15 Irving Way Chico, CA 95926.

DONNIE ABERNATHY 15 Irving Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DONNIE ABERNATHY Dated: December 12, 2014 FBN Number: 2012-0000426 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GTS ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING at 130 Amber Grove Drive, Suite 134 Chico, CA 95973.

GAS TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS, INC. 130 Amber Grove Drive, Suite 134 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KATHLEEN B. CLAPP, PRESIDENT Dated: December 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001463 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARGARET RYON, aka MARGARET WHITNEY RYON, MARGARET ARBUCKLE To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARGARET RYON, aka MARGARET WHITNEY RYON, MARGARET ARBUCKLE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JENNIFER S. BERGER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: JENNIFER S. BERGER 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: January 8, 2015 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-­ 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: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson Law Office, Inc. 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 530-343-5373 Case Number: PR41243 Dated: November 25, 2014 Published: December 4,11,18, 2014

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NONAMEGIVEN AQEELA aka FNU AQEELA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NONAMEGIVEN AQEELA aka FNU AQELA Proposed name: AKEELA HUSSAIN 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: February 4, 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 19, 2014 Case Number: 162214 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARLISA GAE MEYERS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FELICIA ANN MARIE TEFS Proposed name: FELICIA ANN MARIE MEYERS 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: February 4, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: November 24, 2014 Case Number: 163435 Published: December 4,11,18,24, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JENNIFER C. BLACKWELL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JENNIFER CHRISTINE BLACKWELL Proposed name: JENNIQUE ALLYSON LEE 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 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 21, 2014 Case Number: 163424 Published: December 11,18,24,31, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner AMANDA EILEEN HAVENS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: AMANDA EILEEN HAVENS Proposed name: ADELIO EILEEN FRAGA 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: December 9, 2014 Case Number: 163472 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JESSICA ROSE PROVENCIO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JESSICA ROSE PROVENCIO Proposed name: JESS ETERNAMENTE FRAGA 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

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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: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: December 3, 2014 Case Number: 163471 Published: December 18,24,31, 2014, January 8, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT PRANAD BANIK You are being sued by plaintiff: JILL V. BANIK 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: JILL V. BANIK PO Box 1792 Chico, CA 95927.

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SQ. FT.

4085 Augusta Ln 25 Blackstone Ct 4318 Green Meadow Ln 5 Ralland Cir 3026 Hudson Ave 3 Lakeshore Ter 1436 Oak Ridge Dr 10 Redeemers Loop 3030 Calistoga Dr 4 Trieste Way 3087 Coronado Rd

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$650,000.00 $438,000.00 $415,000.00 $345,000.00 $334,000.00 $330,000.00 $311,000.00 $297,000.00 $286,000.00 $272,000.00 $242,000.00

4/ 3 4/ 3 3/ 2 8/ 4 4/ 3 2/ 2 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1.5 3/ 1

3675 2181 1999 3452 1881 1300 1499 1566 1961 1488 1044

2610 Sedona Ave 819 Colusa St 2840 Burnap Ave 46 El Cerrito Dr 1283 Parque Dr 633 Victorian Park Dr 1284 Howard Dr 61 Paseo Haciendas Ct 346 Honey Run Rd 555 Vallombrosa Ave 29 555 Vallombrosa Ave 36

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$237,000.00 $235,500.00 $230,000.00 $224,500.00 $215,000.00 $205,000.00 $176,000.00 $152,000.00 $139,500.00 $132,000.00 $125,000.00

3/ 2 4/ 2 2/ 2 3/ 1.5 3/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 1 4/ 2 5/ 3 1/ 1 1/ 1

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Chico Durham Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Paradise

$120,000.00 $433,000.00 $265,000.00 $244,000.00 $230,000.00 $195,000.00 $180,000.00 $180,000.00 $166,000.00 $150,000.00 $370,000.00

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1038 2184 2696 2230 1380 1438 1475 1383 1204 1156 1820

1890 Dean Rd 6314 Oliver Rd 1378 Delia Way 6650 Whittall Ln 5897 Crestview Dr 5750 Fickett Ln 6465 Dora Lee Ln 743 North Cloud Dr 5734 Copeland Rd 1388 Elliott Rd 841 Bille Rd

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Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$304,000.00 $295,000.00 $290,000.00 $277,000.00 $242,000.00 $221,000.00 $191,000.00 $175,000.00 $148,000.00 $145,000.00 $120,000.00

3/ 2 3/ 2.5 3/ 2.5 4/ 2 4/ 2 2/ 1.5 3/ 2.5 2/ 2 2/ 1.5 3/ 2 2/ 2

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1466 Sale (X St: Ceanothus) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1718 Sq.Ft. $317,500 Mark Reaman 228-2229

14 Patches (X St: Towser) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 1661 Sq.Ft. $299,500 Keating Murphy 707-363-1872 Kim Finlan 518-8453

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10 Casa Del Rey (X St: Ceres Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1651 Sq.Ft. $258,000 Lindsey Ginno 570-5261

1168 Metalmark Wy (X St: Vistamont) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1471 Sq.Ft. $259,000 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

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769 Caprice Way (X St: Morseman) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1416 Sq.Ft. $255,000 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

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1368 Ravenshoe Wy (X St: Floral Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1463 Sg.Ft. $239,900 Keating Murphy 707-363-1872 Sherry Landis 514-4855

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