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Calling for death with dignity Everyone who is reading this is going to die.

Reducing the war to a DVD ll wars are not created equal. Even a pacifist would have to Acan—at acknowledge that there is a moral spectrum on which wars least in theory—be placed. Hitler’s war against

to buy this magical premise and never ask another question about the war—the war is OK, because Kyle is A-OK. What makes American Sniper such a great Poland is impossible to defend. The UN—mostly U.S.— propaganda film is that it sanctions a highly intervention in Bosnia is difficult not to unjust war only by inference. The film never defend. On this moral spectrum, I would touches morality other than to anoint the put the Iraq War much closer to Hitler’s sniper as a moral agent. We need not wrestle invasion of Poland. It is in that moral with the question of the moral validity of the context that I view director Clint Eastentire enterprise—or our own culpability as wood’s American Sniper.

If a great German filmmaker created a American citizens—because we have American goodness staring down a rifle scope at masterpiece about a German sniper who “savages”—the Chris Kyle term picked off Polish resistfor Iraqis. It’s all personal. Up ance fighters, we would by Popular culture is close. So close that the moral have a very difficult time Patrick embracing the character— popular because it bends context is outside the frame.

Newman Within the frame everything is in no matter how much truth into something we the clear focus of high-grade mil“backstory” developed The author, a itary optics and Eastwood’s this sniper as a highly crecan live with. longtime Chico myopic lens. dentialed “good guy.” resident, wrote the Popular culture is not about Would it matter if the GerJan. 23, 2014, CN&R truth. Popular culture is popular because it man sniper was raised on church services cover story “Out of bends truth into something we can live with. and Bible verses? Would it matter if he sight, out of mind.” was taught to stand firm against the injus- How do we live with hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and the chaos that is now Iraq? tices perpetrated by schoolyard bullies?

How do we wash our hands of this invasion?

Eastwood’s Chris Kyle is a superFilm can help. It can reduce the war to a warrior—he’s a soldier’s soldier in Iraq.

But before we ever get to Iraq, Eastwood DVD. It can make it manageable. It can tell us the story we want to hear. It can make hishas made Kyle morally unassailable; his tory into “Legend”—Chris Kyle’s moniker in childhood story makes him so in the first occupied Iraq. Ω 10 minutes of the film. We are supposed 4

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That’s a simple fact, however uncomfortable. No one needs to be in any particular hurry to get there, but it’s the inevitable end point.

None of us wants to suffer unnecessarily when our time comes. Nor do we wish that on our loved ones. The question of what constitutes “unnecessary suffering,” though, is a deeply individual one. It’s certainly not something we have the right to dictate to others.

And that’s precisely why the California Legislature needs to pass Senate Bill 128 this year, which addresses aid-in-dying policy and pain-management options for end-of-life care.

Death with dignity and legislation allowing such isn’t a new idea. Not only has aid-in-dying been broached before in California, but it’s also been successfully in practice in our neighbor to the north for years.

Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, in place since 1997, requires that state residents with a terminal illness seek the counsel of two separate physicians, who must agree on the terminal diagnosis. The patient then has the option of using prescription medicine to end his or her own life at a time of personal choosing, before the pain and stress of dying becomes too great.

In addition, the law requires that the Oregon Health Authority gather and publish statistical data about the patients and physicians who participate in aid-in-dying. It’s not done in secret; instead, the public is included in the process.

One of the more interesting facts about Oregon’s Death with Dignity program is that roughly a third of the patients who seek prescriptions to hasten death opt not to use those drugs. More often, they let their illness take its full course.

Just knowing that one has the power to end one’s suffering is often enough to make that suffering bearable.

It’s important that SB 128, which was co-authored by Davis-based state Sen. Lois Wolk, includes some broad standards guaranteeing that appropriate pain management for those with terminal illnesses is available. It’s one thing to choose to end one’s life, but it’s not really a choice if one has no access to pain relief.

It’s also worth noting that California already assists people in hastening death. We prescribe powerful narcotics to the dying to alleviate their pain, knowing full well that the drugs will suppress a patients’ ability to breathe.

It is a choice to be compassionate, and it is in many cases the right choice.

But death, like life, is not “one size fits all.” Those with terminal illness should never feel pressured, either by the cost of care or by family members in a rush, to hasten their own death. So this law needs to also include guarantees that insurers will not be able to deny medical care to dying patients in favor of speedier and cheaper prescription aid-in-dying.

But the bottom line is that adequate pain management for the terminally ill will reduce the number of patients who request aid-in-dying in the first place, and the experience of Oregon shows that the number of patients who actually need it is quite small. This is not a solution for everyone. But it is a solution for some people, and we ought not deny them the ability to take control of their own destiny. SB 128 is a dignified way to show compassion for those about to leave us. Ω

Just knowing that one has the power to end one’s suffering is often enough to make that suffering bearable.

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Gutless Ten months ago I wrote in this space how pleasantly surprised I was that the conservative-majority Butte County Board of Supervisors voted to have its attorney draft an ordinance banning hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—in the county. I thought it was a gutsy move made for the greater good of the community, considering fracking waste has been tied to aquifer contamination.

Scratch that. Last week, the board inexplicably changed course. Though it had taken many months of research by county counsel to come up with a solid, lawsuit-proof ordinance, three of the four supes who’d initially voted yay—Doug Teeter, Steve Lambert and Bill Connelly—caved to their right-wing political interests.

Maureen Kirk, the left-leaning moderate, made a motion to approve the local law. It never got a second. Perhaps it goes without saying that the dogmatic Larry Wahl was against the ban from the start.

Some of the arguments against such a law include one about how Butte County has few frackable wells. That may be true, but it only takes one catastrophe to foul our water source. Moreover, if there aren’t that many, then what’s the harm? I mean, it’s not as though prohibiting the practice will rid the county of some giant economic driver.

Nope, this comes down to politicking. But here’s the rub. It’s extremely likely that county residents will prohibit fracking in the spring of 2016. That’s when grassroots group Frack-Free Butte County’s referendum— the one they gathered signatures for last year—will be on the ballot. The problem is that the language contained therein is not sufficient to stave off legal challenges. And there will be legal challenges. Locals with ties to Big Oil said as much during previous meetings, outright charging that the citizen-drafted law was “bankruptcy language” for the county.

In other words, the supervisors opened the county up to costly litigation by choosing to not support its staff’s fracking ordinance. Way to go!

Sound familiar? It should. It’s similar to what happened last November, when the then-liberal-majority Chico City Council voted against the plan to annex Chapmantown and the Mulberry district, a move that opened up the city to litigation by LAFCo, the Butte County Local Agency Formation Commission. Fortunately, Councilman Randall Stone, as a nay voter, had the ability to bring the issue back to the table. Tuesday evening, the nowconservative-majority council voted in favor of bringing those neighborhoods into the city (see more on page 10).

Though the conservatives had the votes to approve annexation, Stone broke from the other two liberal members and voted wisely.

While I’m talking about City Council, I want to give props to regular attendee Stephanie Taber for keeping the issue of contract negotiations with the Chico Police Officers’ Association in the public eye. Taber came to the defense of other citizens who’ve been critical of the CPOA’s initial proposal, noting they’ve been chastised.

Taber called the union’s offer “outrageously expensive.”

She’s right.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

On pot and fracking Re “Fracking ban fails” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, Feb. 12): There are many marijuana users living in Butte County and no oil executives. Yet the majority of the members of the Board of Supervisors obviously does not like medical marijuana growers, whose negative impacts can be mitigated. They obviously do love those who have the money to horizontally fracture and whose destruction of our public water is permanent.

Does the Butte County Board of Supervisors represent its residents or the out-of-county wealthy who want our resources and are willing to destroy our agricultural livelihood and our health to get those resources?

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Cannabis users fight back Re “A growing problem” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, Feb. 12): The passage of Measure A in Butte County this past November may seem to have silenced the cannabis proponents, but just the opposite is true. A newly formed group, Liberty Rising, has backed a lawsuit brought by medical cannabis patients whose rights to their legally prescribed cannabis are being sorely trampled upon by the implementation of Measure A. We are not sitting idle. We will rise up, speak up and stand up until we have fair measures in place that work for all Butte County citizens.

As the members of the Butte County Board of Supervisors were working diligently to make their measure as restrictive on growers as possible, they were also trampling on the rights of patients to obtain their medicine as easily as other patients go to Walmart and pick up theirs.

Our dispensary was closed down. Our ability to have collectives grow for those who live in apartments and small parcels has been all but eliminated.

The Butte County Board of Supervisors passed a half-million-dollar appropriation for the Sheriff’s Office to harass and illegally enter properties with the intent of eradicating cannabis gardens. I just bet that there are many, many more pressing issues that need the funds.

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Let’s try education Re “Restrictions won’t do” (Editorial, Feb. 12): You stated marijuana prohibition’s a losing battle because people will always grow it whether it’s legal or not. You argued Californians instead need to eliminate the profit motive that drives criminals to endanger water and wildlife by growing it on public lands. You alleged legalizing marijuana would eliminate these problems and enrich government coffers.

So long as it’s in demand, I agree some people will always grow marijuana and tobacco, and make alcohol. Accordingly, imposing “punishments” for doing so would be somewhat expensive, destructive and ineffective.

Offenders should therefore be required to attend classes educating them to the injury these drugs cause to public health, wealth and the environment. They should also be taught safer, less-harmful methods for attaining the benefits sought. These would include learning to enjoy people and nature without controlled substances and obtaining affordable prescription drugs from Canada via the Internet.

This, along with reducing the ease of obtaining these substances for recreational use, would likely be a far more effective and socially responsible solution. Legalizing marijuana would only worsen the problem, add new problems, and make subsequent reinstatement of its prohibition more difficult.

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WILLIAM DEWITT Chico

Cartoons are disrespectful While I abhor the murderous violence that has taken place targeting creators of cartoons that make fun of the Prophet Muhammad, and I deeply value free speech as a basic freedom, I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would be moved to publish a cartoon of the head of Muhammad attached to the body of a dog, or all the other insulting ways Mohammed has been depicted by promoters of “free speech.” What possible value can there be in such insulting drawings of the esteemed prophet of one of the world’s great religions?

The great majority of Muslims are peace-loving people, yet such insults are hurtful to them as well.

Such cartoons are also a form of violence. They contribute to the growing Islamaphobia in our world and incite more violence in those young people on the edge.

How about kindness and respect to accompany our free speech?

EMILY ALMA Chico

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We are fortunate to live in a community that is so generous to our local nonprofits! Specifically, I want to send out a huge thank you to the ladies of the Discovery Shoppe for selflessly giving of their time and resources to donate almost $100,000 locally to various nonprofits in 2014.

Our organization, Reading Pals (readingpalschico.org), was very fortunate to be one of the recipients of their generosity this year. It is because of folks like them who are so dedicated to this fine Chico community that organizations like ours exist. Thank you, ladies, for your commitment to making this community a better place for everyone!

MICHELLE ANDERSON CURRAN Chico

He’s sorry To the Jehovah’s Witness who came to my door in Paradise this morning, I owe you an apology. I was very rude and am sorry. In my defense, you did not pick up the subtle cues I have been giving you on your frequent visit attempts. I am a sinner saved by the grace of God, just like you, and do not need any more confirmation at my door step. Again, I apologize for being rude.

CRAIG EDWARDS Paradise

Support these workers I’m writing in support of in-home supportive services workers. These people in general are hard-working, self-sacrificing and compassionate. They take care of the frailest people in society. In return, the government, including Gov. Jerry Brown but mostly conservatives, treats them like dirt.

Their union, which is desperately needed, takes a lot of money out of their paychecks. So they are earning less than the minimum wage. This is not glamorous work, so most people would rather flip burgers at this wage. The people needing their help are having a really hard time finding reliable, functional people.

The Board of Supervisors is not negotiating with their union. The workers do not receive overtime pay and the benefits most workers get.

So please help conservative members of the Board of Supervisors give them as big of a raise as is possible and treat them with the fairness and respect that they deserve.

ROD CAUDILL Chico

Corrections The byline for last week’s music feature on Dengue Fever (“Khmer, check this out,” page 22) was mistakenly attributed to the wrong author. The writer of the story was Carey Wilson.

A story last week’s Newslines (see “Hijinks or hate?” by Ken Smith, Feb. 12) incorrectly identified the administrators from Chico High School who showed up to investigate allegations of racism by students from the school. The administrators were Assistant Principals Brian Boyer and Mike Allen. Our apologies for the errors, which have been corrected online.

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Roughly 200 people, many of whom are faculty and staff members at Chico State, participated in a protest rally in the campus core on Friday (Feb. 13).

CITY RECEIVES COP K-9 DONATION

The Chico City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday (Feb. 17) to accept a check for about $45,000 from the estate of longtime Chico resident Virginia Jordon, who died in 2013 at the age of 102.

The check, which is half of Jordon’s estate, was donated to the Chico Police Department “for the exclusive purpose of purchasing, training and caring for police dogs,” according to her family’s bequest.

Following the vote, Councilwoman Ann Schwab expressed the council’s appreciation “for the estate of Virginia Jordon to make this donation gift to the city for something that is very much needed in our department.”

The department currently employs just two police dogs, Luna and Grobi.

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The Butte County Sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed 28-year-old Robert Battaglia of Paradise on Dec. 29 is not criminally liable for his actions, a report from District Attorney Mike Ramsey concludes.

Two deputies—Hugh Hooks and William Brewton—responded to a request for a welfare check from Battaglia’s mother, Alynn Brutsman, at about 4:30 p.m. Upon returning home to a broken front window, she and her husband feared that Battaglia, who suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, had broken in.

When the deputies entered the home, Battaglia reportedly charged them with a knife. In the ensuing struggle, Battaglia repeatedly attempted to stab Brewton’s upper body and face. Fearing for his partner’s life, Hook shot Battaglia once in the chest. He was pronounced dead by paramedics shortly thereafter.

The report concludes that the shooting was justified, citing specific penal codes “as well as the general principles of the law of self-defense and defense of others.”

CONSTRUCTION FOR A CAUSE

The Salvation Army hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday (Feb. 18) for a fourunit duplex near the corner of West Eighth and Salem streets that will serve as transitional housing for single-parent families.

Most of the construction was completed last March by about 90 student volunteers from Chico State’s College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management, along with roughly 75 community volunteers. According to a Salvation Army press release, the duplex will provide housing for the families of adults in the Ann and Emmett Skinner Transitional Living Program, a six-month treatment program that includes counseling, work therapy and a 12-step recovery course.

Ben Juliano (pictured), interim dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management, said a culture of community service has emerged among the students in his department.

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Big din on campus Chico State faculty and staff members have strong words for administration at protest rally at Gantt, president of the California State Pbefore University Employees Union (CSUEU), stood a sizeable crowd at Chico State’s Trinity

Commons midday last Friday (Feb. 13). Aided with a megaphone, Gantt’s words surely reached the stustory by dents eating lunch on the patio Howard outside of Bell Memorial Hardee Union—and many more howardh@ passersby. newsreview.com “We want fair policies; we want transparency,” said Gantt’s amplified voice. “We want to stop the bullshit!”

Gantt was speaking most directly to a couple hundred protesters made up of Chico State staff and faculty members. Many wore blue T-shirts that read “Take a Stand” and held signs bearing slogans such as “No More Secrets” and “Fair Salaries Now.” He led the protesters in chants of “When we fight, we win!” and then in a march through the campus core that swept past Kendall Hall, the stately and historic red-brick building that houses the university’s administration.

The message was clear: Many workers at Chico State aren’t happy with their employers.

The protesters’ objections are many. The rally itself lumped together a broad range of issues, including salary inequity; bullying and intimidation on the part of university officials; a lack of transparency from administration; and even trouble finding parking spots on campus.

Speakers touched on those points throughout a 15-minute presentation as petitions demanding support from Chico State President Paul Zingg and the CSU Office of the Chancellor circulated through the crowd.

“We can stop all of this,” said Teresa Cotner, vice president of the California Faculty Associa-

tion’s (CFA) local chapter. “We can all work together to raise awareness and understand what to do if we see it, if we’re aware of it, if we have suspicions that something really rotten is going on.

We should all take a stand.”

It became public knowledge late last year

that employee dissatisfaction at Chico State is widespread. The unexpected resignation of former Provost Bell Wei prompted the Academic Senate to produce a resolution decrying in part the high turnover rate among university officials. (Wei’s predecessor, Sandra Flake, had also stepped down after a short stint as the university’s second-in-command.)

The resolution described “campuswide deterioration of trust” due to closed-door decision-making processes, such as the replacement of campus leaders. On Sept. 25, the Academic Senate approved a nonbinding request for California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White to appoint an independent consultant to evaluate problems on campus and offer solutions. (White’s response was to direct the university to handle the issues internally, Zingg said in a recent email.)

Shortly thereafter, a sense of general dysfunction was revealed by a campus climate survey, conducted in May, which repeatedly turned up key terms like “oppressive,” “abusive,” “isolation,” “overbearing,” “greedy,” “favoritism,” “unethical,” “detached” and “dictatorship.”

Salary inequity is an underlying factor. For years, university administrators received bumps in salary while staff and faculty wages remained stagnant. That changed in November, when the CSU Board of Trustees ratified a three-year contract with the CFA, which immediately increased all faculty salaries by 1.6 percent and provided a 3 percent boost to long-term employees. However, staff members remain undercompensated, argued Robin McCrea, an administrative analyst for the College of Agriculture and a speaker at the protest rally.

“We’re happy that faculty members are finally getting raises for their hard work,” she said. “But who stands behind faculty? Who stands behind this campus? The staff.”

Sharyn Abernatha, assistant vice president for human resources, said that in the past two years her department has received more requests for in-range progressions—increases to an employee’s base salary within a specified range—than ever before. That’s partially because the CFA has been active in telling employees to apply for them, Abernatha said.

“We do try to make sure everyone is paid fairly, everyone is treated the same,” she said. “But we can’t just grant every one … Some people just get told, ‘No—you don’t meet the criteria, or it just doesn’t seem appropriate.’”

As for bullying, student newspaper The Orion is generally credited with exposing that specific issue in an April 2014 article in which employees of the

Facilities Management and Services Department claimed they’d been threatened, harassed and intimidated by their supervisors.

Abernatha acknowledged that a number of employees in that department filed complaints of bullying, but says the university responded appropriately.

“We did do a thorough investigation,” she said, “but the actions we took are confidential. We recommended additional training for some people, and a couple other people have left. We really think that department is turning around; things are much better now. But we do a thorough investigation every time there is a complaint.”

Others argue the campus-wide air of intimidation has yet to be addressed. At the rally, McCrea lamented “how many who were afraid to come out today” due to potential retaliation. And speaker Neil Jacklin, president of the CSUEU at Stanislaus State—a campus he says faces similar issues with administration—was critical of the university’s bullying policy, which does not specify a timeline for investigations, provide protection for victims during that process, or outline penalties for bullying.

“Repeat offenders should be terminated,” he said. “A university campus is no place for bullying; there should be a notolerance policy.”

Abernatha, on the other hand, offered a reminder that university administrators are error-prone humans.

“We try to do the right thing by all people,” she said. “If a manager is not saying appropriate things, we correct that manager, but they’re entitled to due process, an opportunity to be trained and to do better—just as we would for any employee who makes a mistake.”

Chico State ostensibly is taking steps to

address the issues raised by employees, although progress is slow. Top university officials, including President Zingg, Vice President for Student Affairs Drew Calandrella and Interim Provost Susan Elrod, among others, have formed a committee focused on responding to the Academic Senate’s resolution. The group is considering establishing a conflict-resolution office and developing further campus-climate surveys, Zingg said.

Since last fall, the committee has met twice, said Senate Chair Paula Selvester during the body’s regular meeting on Thursday (Feb. 12). The committee is currently reviewing transparency and communication issues.

Meanwhile, more protest rallies at Chico State may be forthcoming, said Tom Dimitre, a labor representative for the CSUEU. During the rally, he told the crowd he hopes for twice as many protesters next time around.

“We’ve been working with administration to deal with these issues, and they haven’t dealt with them,” he said. “But they notice us. We’re on the radar.” Ω

Brothers’ keepers Men of Honor dedicated to helping its student members succeed Chico State idled into weekend shutA13),sdown mode last Friday afternoon (Feb. a group of young men known as the

Men of Honor filled a Bell Memorial Union conference room with an infectious energy that sharply contrasted the quiet spreading across the rest of the campus.

“A few days ago, Rex [Men of Honor President Tyrell “Rex” Bell] told me that since I’m in my last semester and have a lot going on, it’s understandable if I need to pull away from the group,” said Malcolm Dixon, a graduating senior in communication deign and media arts, as he stood up from his chair at a large wooden table to address the group of well-dressed, mostly African-American young men.

“But with things so hectic, this is one of the few places I have for support,” Dixon continued. “I realized I don’t need to be out of here, I need to be in here for you guys to help carry me through.”

Men of Honor is a campus organization formed in 2001 to provide social and scholastic peer support, primarily for black men attending Chico State. Members commit to holding themselves and one another accountable for academic and real-life responsibilities and sharing their culture with the broader community. All of the group’s actions are guided by a set of core values known as the “ICE Principles”—integrity, community and empowerment. In addition to Friday meetings, social events and organized activities, the group gathers for weekly study sessions at Meriam Library.

At Friday’s meeting, Dixon’s words were met with a rousing round of applause and vocal affirmation, as were those of other members as they stood and spoke in turn.

Bell explained this is how meetings traditionally begin, with each member offering his thoughts on an assigned topic (that day’s was “success”) and sharing a “Soapbox” and an “ICEbox.”

Soapboxing gives the members a chance to vent about their trials and tribulations since the last meeting, while an ICEbox is meant to recognize another member’s actions in line with ICE Principles. As the young men gave props to one another, it was apparent how deeply their connections run, and how seriously they take their commitment to these principles. ICEboxes that day ranged from members helping others with homework to organizing an impromptu game of dominoes for a much-needed midweek distraction. One young man who’d recently suffered from strep throat thanked another member for paying for prescriptions he couldn’t afford.

Bell explained that after going around the

table once, the meetings go into “ICE cold” status. Though a healthy amount of joking and laughter persisted, that means the focus changes from individual members to group business.

At that point, all members must address one another by the title of “Brother,” and a no-swearing policy is enforced by fines paid

SIFT|ER The meth around us The city of Oroville has long been known to have a methamphetamine problem, but in a recent report by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency listing the number of known meth labs, Marysville, in Yuba County, takes the top spot, clocking in with 25 busted labs. Modesto and Los Angeles rank second and third, with 24 and 22 meth labs, respectively. Oroville follows with 20 labs. Eleven Chico residences show up on the list, which goes back to 2004. To see the full list, visit www.dea.gov/clan-lab/ca.pdf.

The Men of Honor, a student organization primarily for young black men attending Chico State, was formed in 2001.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

into a kitty. At one point, the group diverged from the day’s business—planning this semester’s activities—to an impromptu vote on whether Bell and Vice President Ronald Johnson Jr. owed money for saying “halfass” (they did, the group decided, and the presiding officers ponied up $1 each).

In addition to planning their own one-time events like a poetry slam, a barbecue and a game night, and voting to participate in a handful of campus-wide activities, the group also committed to continuing some long-term programs. Among these are the “OG School of Success,” during which members’ fathers or other older, influential men are invited to campus to share their experiences and wisdom. Another continuing program is “Trill Tuesdays,” outreach/educational presentations at the Cross-Cultural Leadership Center led by members on topics of their interest.

Suggested topics for this semester included the socio-political history of hip-hop and a hands-on turntable workshop.

At the end of the meeting, the men joined hands and formed a tight circle as they, in call-and-response fashion led by Johnson, recited the organization’s credo, a perfect summary of the fellowship and ideals they’d demonstrated for the past two hours: “We are here today because we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us.

We have all been called here to unite in our common mission as black men. We have been selected and given charge of being the beacon of hope and keepers of the light. We have a shared responsibility to represent the best that is in us, and stay true to our destiny and word, deed, mind, body and spirit.

“We are our brother’s keeper and must be committed to excellence. We hold the light of our people’s future in our hands, and vow to hold the candle through the burn. This we pledge, for we are Men of Honor.”

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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In November, in one of its last actions, the outgoing, post-election council narrowly voted, 4-3, not to have then-Mayor Scott Gruendl sign an agreement the city earlier had negotiated with the Butte County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo). The agreement would have led to annexation of the neighborhoods in five years.

Well, that was then, this is now.

Gruendl is gone, and the council has two new members (Reanette Fillmer and Andrew Coolidge) who support annexation.

In addition, Councilman Randall Stone, who voted against annexation in November, had a change of heart. It was Stone who asked for the matter to be reconsidered, and it was he who subsequently spearheaded a community meeting held earlier this month at Chapman Elementary School.

Judging by neighborhood residents’ comments made at Tuesday’s council meeting, that outreach had reassured them somewhat that the city cared about them and that annexation wasn’t the end of the world.

“I think [the meeting] was a great help to many of us in the neighborhood to understand the issues,” Ron Angle, a Chapmantown resident since 1990, told the council.

Besides, the city had no choice.

Soon after it voted in November not to sign the agreement, LAFCo filed a lawsuit demanding full payment for some 62 sewer connections, about half of them in Chapman/Mulberry, the city had allowed without getting LAFCo’s approval, as required by state law.

The suit threatened to cost the city $100,000 or more, not counting attorney fees.

Community Development Director Mark Wolfe acknowledged, as he has done several times before, that the city was wrong not to follow correct procedures. “It’s not a pretty sight to look back at these things,” he said.

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As Mayor Mark Sorensen pointed out, it’s LAFCo’s job to make sure jurisdictional boundaries are efficient and cost-effective. Having islands of county land surrounded by the city, as is the case with Chapman/Mulberry, makes no sense.

Wolfe said LAFCo has offered to settle the unauthorized-hookups issue separately from annexation, but that’s not in the city’s best interest. It would inevitably lead to piecemeal and, in all probability, faster annexation of the neighborhoods.

“If we don’t sign the agreement, LAFCo will move within a year,” Stone said. “This way we have five years to make sense of the process and establish our finances so that we … can satisfy the public-safety needs” of the neighborhoods.

Stone said it would cost the city $600,000 a year to provide services to the neighborhoods and their estimated 1,300 residents. There is disagreement on the figure, however.

Another estimate is $400,000, while a study done by the county in 2013 says the net cost will be minimal.

The vote was 5-2, with Councilwomen Ann Schwab and Tami Ritter dissenting. “I’m very upset that we didn’t stand by our promise that we would let them decide when to annex,” Schwab said.

Gen. Vang Pao is getting bigger—his

statue, that is.

Last October, vandals did irreparable damage to the memorial statue of the late general, the leader of the Hmong in America. The local Hmong community had paid for and placed the statue outside council chambers in 2011. This week, Hmong leaders asked the council to approve plans for a new, significantly larger statue, one that included an American flag and was less vulnerable to vandalism. They’ve raised the funds to pay for it.

Their preference was to have it be placed on the main patio in front of council chambers, not in its original location next to the stairs facing Main Street. County Supervisor Larry Wahl, a Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, told the council, “There’s really no better place in Butte County than here in front of the council chambers.”

The council didn’t agree.

Coolidge said moving the statue sent the message to vandals that the city could be pushed around.

And Vice Mayor Sean Morgan said, “[A] larger statue right out the front doors … I’m not sure that speaks to the entire community.”

In the end the council voted unanimously to place the new, larger statue where the original statue was located.

—ROBERT SPEER robertspeer@newsreview.com

Monica Bell explained the plight the community organization known as the GRUB Cooperative is currently facing.

The property that GRUB has leased for the past seven years is up for sale, which means the future of the 7-year-old endeavor off Dayton Road is up in the air. The property owners—Dave Rush, a retired attorney, and Virginia Moon, his ex-spouse—divorced 20 years ago but are still co-owners and have found themselves in a position where they have to sell the land, Bell said.

GRUB, which stands for Growing Resourcefully Uniting Bellies, was launched with an initial three-year lease in 2008 on a spot of land once referred to as “The Palms,” just southwest of the Chico city limits. Its website defines the collective’s goals, at least in part, as: “We are exploring solutions; learning how to be stewards of the land that we inhabit; conserving the resources we have; consuming less, wasting less, and living more.”

In other words, it is a modern-day commune currently populated by 17 adults and six children and dedicated to raising and sharing healthful food through sustainable practices and offering family education classes such as the seven-week series that launches next month called “How to Talk so Kids Will Listen.”

Bell said she first learned of GRUB in 2010

while visiting Chico—where her father lives—en route to work at a vegetable farm in Nevada City after working on a chicken farm in Vacaville. “I didn’t know anybody in town, and was bored out of my mind watching TV,” she said.

Bell found GRUB during an Internet search to see if there was a community-supported agricultural (CSA) farm in the Chico area.

“I started looking for a CSA farm and wondering if somebody would let me volunteer and get my hands dirty while I was waiting to move on to Nevada City,” she said.

She ended up volunteering with Francine Stuelpnagel and Lee Callender, the married couple who founded GRUB. Two years ago, realizing that losing the lease would mean losing the farm, Stuelpnagel and Callender set up a separate 10-acre garden along with

GRUB member Monica Bell explains the plight of the local community garden while Jake Trimble, who describes himself as a farm intern, harvests vegetables.

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farmer Michael Shaw off West Sacramento Avenue and kept the name GRUB CSA. Bell, who stuck with the original GRUB Cooperative, said there are three primary structures on that property—a main house, a guest house and a building with stables.

There is also the bike shop called Old Spokes Home, which is operated by co-op member Ron Toppi.

Crops currently growing on the 40-acre property—which is also home to the Heartseed Farm CSA—include lettuce, garlic, onions, tomatoes and peppers. There is also a fruit orchard. The produce that isn’t consumed by the residents is sold to Chico Natural Foods, local restaurants and individual buyers.

The property leases for $4,000 a month and Bell said she wants the public to be aware of GRUB’s situation as well as its potential.

“We don’t have fancy branding and we’ve neglected our website,” she said.

“We’d much rather be out here farming or raising children or building community. But we’ve been in this awkward lease situation for a number of years. If we had security we could really start investing in programs and infrastructure.”

They are hoping to find someone to help them buy the land or a buyer who will allow the co-op to remain where it is.

“We did have potential buyers come out yesterday and as they were leaving I walked up to them and said, ‘Hey, this is an awkward situation, but human to human, I wondered if we could just chat?’

“They said that while walking around they really felt the sorrow and the grief of the people living here,” she said. “They go from being ag-land buyers to these men in a nice shirt and nice watch taking a moment to pause and say, ‘We don’t want to displace a bunch of people. We don’t want to ruin your project here.’”

Bell remains positive. “Overall, this has given us some energy and unity and motivation,” she said. “It’s lit a little flame under our asses.”

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GREENWAYS Danielle Ius, owner of Sin of Cortez, says her restaurant goes through 15 to 20 cases of eggs each week. The cost of eggs has skyrocketed, however, due to new cage restrictions for hens.

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stamp, and the rising prices that came with it. The stamp (which stands for California Shell Egg Food Safety Compliant) indicates which eggs meet the regulations of Proposition 2, a California initiative that went into effect Jan. 1.

Prop 2, which was heavily lobbied for by the Humane Society, requires that all eggs sold in California now come from hens provided with “adequate” living conditions. In specific measurements, adequate translates to at least 116 inches of space for hens to fully extend limbs and turn around easily, as determined by studies at UC Davis. The proposition, which also applies to calves and pigs, has taken seven years to implement, but was passed in 2008, with more than 60 percent of the vote. And while this might be better news for chickens, it means the egg industry is, ahem, scrambling to deal with the consequences.

Prop. 2 may have little effect on current “range free/organic” egg companies. But, as all California farmers must now comply

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with the new standards, many have chosen simply to reduce flock size to allow for the space. With fewer hens available to lay eggs, the cost has skyrocketed significantly.

At Chico’s Mangrove Safeway, Lucerne brand eggs are currently sold for $5 a dozen, up from 2014’s average of $2.20, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Even our 99 Cent Store can’t afford to keep its current prices under $2.49 per carton.

And while Prop. 2 may be responsible for the most recent price increases, it’s only one of many factors contributing to the egg industry’s current state of turmoil.

“With the drought, and freezing temperatures, it’s been rough,” said Malinda Stamy, sales representative at ProPacific Fresh. And with cold winter temperatures, hens lay eggs less frequently, further contributing to the decline. As Durham’s wholesale food distribution center, ProPacific serves as one of the primary egg sources for Chico restaurants, with many businesses buying them by the case load at 15 dozen eggs per case. “We haven’t lost business yet, but people are shopping around,” Stamy said.

Two such restaurants supplied by ProPacific are Sin of Cortez and Beatniks Coffee House and Breakfast Joint, both of which heavily rely on egg dishes for their breakfast menus. “We go through 15 to 20

cases of eggs a week,” Sin of Cortez owner Danielle Ius said, noting that 19 out of 30 of her entrees are egg-based. “When I was comparing prices around town, I noticed that in some places, it went from $19 a case to $58 —literally overnight. Right now I’m getting the best deal, but it’s still a lot. If things stay the way they are, we’re talking about a $30,000-$40,000 increase in egg purchases for one year.”

processed and pasteurized with non-egg ingredients as well. Some local businesses aren’t ready to turn to that just yet, however.

“I’m not using those now—we want to use real eggs,” said Ius. For Cress, using local or organic eggs would be ideal, but “we go through so many eggs daily that it’s just too expensive.” But with Prop. 2, the gap in prices between free-range/organic and regular eggs is diminishing. For now, though, Cress said they’re still not the best deal.

California egg brokers are looking for outof-state options when it comes to dealing with the egg shortage, although any states making deals with California businesses still must meet the CA SEFS regulation, a standard that isn’t implemented on a nationwide scale. For ProPacific, sourcing eggs from Willamette, Ore., is the current answer, while some other Chico businesses, such as S&S Organic Produce and Natural Foods use suppliers such as Judy’s Organic Eggs from the Petaluma area, which wasn’t affected by Prop. 2, having already met the cage regulations.

While the state of the egg industry is in flux, the only way many local businesses are dealing is by eating the extra expenses, for now. “If this is just going to be a temporary blip, we’ll suck it up so we don’t have to pass it on to customers,” said Cress.

Ius has similar sentiments. “When you have a business, the cost of everything goes up constantly. Until I know what’s happening, I’m not going to raise prices,” she said.

“For now, we’ll just have to wait it out.” □

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With recent cost increases so dramatic,

business owners are struggling to find a solution, but eliminating eggs from the kitchen isn’t one of them. “It’s taken years to build our clientele; they’re used to what we offer, and it doesn’t make sense to take eggs off a breakfast menu,” said Mike Cress, co-owner of Beatniks. “At least 75 percent of our menu items have an egg on them.”

Some restaurants have chosen a direct approach, letting the customers know the effects that the new prices bring to business.

Kalico Kitchen owners hung a sign outside their restaurant informing patrons that a 30 cent increase will be added to egg orders.

For some, the solution is to use a different product. “A lot of people are turning to the liquid egg,” noted Stamy. “It didn’t get affected by Prop. 2.” A popular cooking option for food-service businesses, the liquid egg is roughly 90 percent egg

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Game-show pro Michael Duch may not have been selected from the hundreds of America’s Got Talent auditioners in Santa Clara earlier this month, but the longtime Butte College custodian was chosen for another impromptu role. “I wore a rather shiny shirt,” he said. “I told the producers I wanted to wear something that would reflect well on me … and they put me together with a professional stand-up comic from the Bay Area named Joe. They mic’d us up, and filmed us for a half hour. We gabbed about the other contestants, and did extemporaneous blurbs and promos for the show.

Who knows? Maybe a few nanoseconds of that footage might make it onto the broadcast this summer.”

Duch is a former broadcast journalist and paramedic. Fifteen years ago he appeared on the quiz show Win Ben Stein’s Money. “I tied that erudite polymath in the ‘Best of 10 Test of Knowledge,’” Duch said, “becoming a temporary local minicelebrity.” Since then he’s appeared in numerous Chico theater productions, with such roles as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit and Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Duch described those experiences as “ranking high on his list of wonderful hours spent performing.”

Why did you decide to audition for AGT? With the exception of occasional karaoke nights spent belting out Josh Groban tunes and Broadway songs, I haven’t been able to scratch my performance itch for

the last few years, due to a shift change at my job. Since I just turned 59, I figured, “Hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained,” so I signed up online, drove for four hours down to the South Bay, and joined hundreds of other hopefuls in what turned out to be a wellorganized and entertaining cattle call.

What song did you sing?

I sang a rather heartfelt rendition of “Cry” by Johnnie Ray. It’s one of my British mother’s favorite tunes. She still remembers seeing him live in England in the 1950s, and fondly recalls that he gave her a rose. Alas, the producer who actually judged the set of auditions that I participated in was rather young. I don’t think old crooner tunes were in her wheelhouse, as I didn’t advance beyond the first round.

What was the experience like?

I had a blast. It was so fun seeing the multiplicity of talent in the

room—everything from Polynesian dancers to a guy in a Don Quixote outfit who thought he was the next Pavarotti, but actually sounded more like a moose giving birth to a hedgehog. And yes, I’m going back to AGT next year. I want to sing in front of Howard Stern.

How does it compare to being on Win Ben Stein’s Money?

Much less pressure, for one thing.

I was as cool as the far side of the pillow for AGT, as I’d tried out for many shows in the past. But Win Ben Stein’s Money was in realtime, and I had to use every erg of cognitive acumen that I had to beat the other contestants, and take on that perspicacious Pepperdine pedagogue in the end. Not to mention the fact that I couldn’t walk down Main Street for a month after that show aired without being recognized. It was a heady experience for a little ol’ custodian from Butte College.

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Earlier this month, Jake Cecil was forced to send 46 North State employees home from their jobs because of a labor dispute occurring more than 150 miles away.

The Chico resident, who manages the processing plant at Orland’s Omega Walnut, ceased operations there due to the impacts of longstanding contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

The contract for the 20,000 members of the ILWU at 29 West Coast ports expired in July. Though the dockworkers have yet to officially strike, and the ports technically remain open, the labor dispute has greatly slowed port operations, including those at the Port of Oakland, the main shipping hub for Northern California. PMA blames the slowdown on the ILWU, claiming workers are doing so deliberately to leverage negotiations, while the union claims it is due to poor management. Ships are reported to be stacking up outside California’s ports, while cargo clogs the docks, with little movement on land or sea.

For Omega Walnut, this means shipments to international customers have been halted indefinitely. With a plant filled to the brim with processed walnuts that have already been sold but cannot reach their destination, Omega is at a standstill, held hostage by the impasse. There is no room to shell, sort and pack walnuts, and no reason, as some of their containers delivered to the Oakland port in December are still sitting, waiting to go out.

Omega is charged for each day that the dockworkers fail to move the cargo out of the port. Cecil said buyers are backing out of contracts, and with 90 percent of Omega’s business in foreign markets, this crisis could devastate future business.

The story is the same for many other North State businesses. This region relies heavily on agriculture—it is the No. 1 industry in Butte, as well as Glenn County, where Omega is headquartered—and Butte County’s top three crops last year were walnuts, rice and almonds, all heavily exported and required to go through ports to reach buyers worldwide.

The situation could be catastrophic to our local and state economy if a solution is not reached quickly. Our main economic driver is being idled and it is intolerable for a ransom so high to be placed on the backs of California’s agricultural employees, who often earn hourly wages, compared to the longshoremen who continue to make what the PMA states is an average salary of $147,000 a year.

At this point, fault is irrelevant. Consensus must be demanded by citizens, and must come swiftly.

As Tim Johnson, president and CEO of the California Rice Commission— which represents 2,500 rice producers, many here in Butte County—said so succinctly in a phone interview, pushing the limits on negotiations is only causing suffering for our region’s ag industry.

“This is a game of brinkmanship between labor and PMA, and really, it is coming at the expense of agriculture.”

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HEALTHLINES NAMI Butte County President Cathy Gurney says the White Cards help officers better understand situations involving the mentally ill. Gurney is holding an example of what a white card might look like.

CELEBRATION OF BODIES

Next week at Chico State is Love Every Body Week, which includes discussions, presentations and documentary viewings to coincide with National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

From Monday to Friday (Feb. 23-27), the student organization Embodied: Living the Health at Every Size Way will host events open to the public, including a panel discussion on recovering from eating disorders, a keynote presentation from author Connie Sobczak titled Be Body Positive: Learn to Love Your Unique Body and Quiet Your Critical Voice, and a screening of the documentary America the Beautiful.

Go to tinyurl.com/kullfpz for a full schedule of events. For more information, contact Michelle Morris at mrmorris@csuchico.edu or 898-4757.

FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO DIE

A cancer patient and five physicians are leading a renewed push for right-to-die regulations in California with a lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on Feb. 11, which seeks to exempt doctors from the state’s ban on assisted suicide.

The lawsuit challenges the ban by arguing that physician-assisted death for patients with terminal illnesses is not suicide, according to California Healthline. The suit also alleges that any such ban violates the state Constitution’s guarantees of due process, equal protection, freedom of speech and privacy.

Previous attempts to pass death-withdignity laws in California have faced strong opposition from some physicians and religious groups, but the movement re-emerged after state resident Brittany Maynard, who had an inoperable brain tumor, famously moved to Oregon to legally end her life. She was administered a lethal dose of barbiturates prescribed by her doctor on Nov. 1 of last year. (For more on this topic, see the cover story, page 18.)

MANDATORY MELON PROTECTION?

State Sen. Carol Liu recently announced legislation that would require all cyclists in California to wear helmets or face a $25 fine.

Since 1994, California law has mandated that all cyclists under age 18 wear helmets, but no state in the U.S. currently requires adults to do so, according to The Sacramento Bee. Senate Bill 192 also would require cyclists to wear reflective clothing while riding at night.

“Any responsible bicycle rider should wear a helmet,” Liu said in a press statement. “This law will help protect more people and make sure all riders benefit from the head protection that a helmet provides.”

Janine Rood, executive director of Chico Velo, told the CN&R that she considers the bill counterproductive. The more cyclists there are— and the more motorists get used to sharing the road with them—the safer bicycling becomes, she said. As such, Chico Velo encourages helmet use “but doesn’t support anything that might deter people from bicycling.”

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Identity destigmatized ‘White Card’ program aiding positive interaction between mentally ill, local law enforcement by

Evan Tuchinsky evant@newsreview.com

ven for the most rational individual, Eofficer getting stopped by a uniformed police or deputy tends to cause some

measure of anxiety.

Imagine that moment for a person who’s already anxious—someone experiencing the effects of trauma, neurosis or psychosis. He or she may respond erratically, even violently. Suddenly, a routine encounter can escalate into a high-stakes situation.

“Too often people with mental illness end up incarcerated for issues that are related to their mental health issues,” said Dorian Kittrell, director of the Butte County Department of Behavioral Health.

But what if the officer had a heads-up?

The outcome can be completely different.

Capt. Andrew Duch of the Butte County Sheriff’s Office recalls just such an incident six years ago. While driving from Chico to Oroville on Highway 99, he saw a man walking in the oleanders just south of Skyway.

“He looked disheveled, had an Army coat on, [was] barefoot,” said Duch. He stopped his vehicle to ask the young man to not walk on the median.

As a matter of routine, Duch asked to see his ID. The man showed him a laminated card from a clinic in another county that identified him as a consumer—“what we call people who use mental health services”—plus listed information about his care provider and diagnosis.

“I remember thinking, and I almost said

it out loud, ‘Damn, this is handy!’— because it completely changed the manner of the contact from a possible enforcement action to a public service action,” Duch recalled. As he realized later: “It wasn’t the card … it was the conversation that it started, and how it put me into a different mode of service.”

In that particular instance, a deputy came to give the man a ride. But, on a larger scale, the experience led to a pioneering program that’s brought together area law enforcement agencies and the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Since December, NAMI Butte County has distributed “White Cards”: laminated IDs with one side for law enforcement’s reference and one side for the holder’s reference. The front contains whatever the person wishes to share; options include name, address, photo, emergency contacts, doctors, conditions and triggers.

The back displays shoulder patches of each participating agency—law enforcement and emergency medical response—

to help the cardholder recognize the official’s affiliation.

The program is voluntary. No one has to get a White Card, and NAMI does not keep track of who is given cards (nor what’s on any card). NAMI Butte County president Cathy Gurney estimates that a couple hundred have been given out.

Duch says the sheriff’s office plans to start issuing White Cards, too, at its stations and substations. He says BCSO will follow the same procedures as NAMI: voluntary, no registry or records, and all done in privacy.

Local officials cite positive feedback from

cardholders, but the program has encountered some opposition.

After the idea got publicity in 2013, a psychotherapist contributing to the website for Mad in America (an organization critical of current psychiatric practices) wrote a blog post expressing discomforting consequences. Even if the project were “wellintentioned,” Dr. Michael Cornwall

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Behavioral Health supports the program, Kittrell says, because it’s consumer-driven and “gives clients an opportunity to participate or not right from the get-go, and then have complete control over the information if they do participate.”

Kittrell added that he understands Cornwall’s perspective and agrees that the severely mentally ill have lived with great stigma.

“I, however, see it in a different light: For those people who feel comfortable, who feel they are ready to step out into the light, it gives them an opportunity to do that.”

The White Card, too, may well keep the person out of a dark space.

“They understand it’s not a getout-of-jail card; if you break the law, you have to pay the penalty,” Gurney said. “But for many instances where police officers may misunderstand the actions of someone who’s in psychosis, this would help that officer better understand the situation that he’s walking into—and hopefully make it so they’re walking out of that situation with one less mentally ill person being arrested and taken to jail, but maybe taken to the right place.” Ω

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deemed the White Card “a form of psychiatric profiling” that could lead to authorities stigmatizing noncardholders more than cardholders, keeping track of cardholders and forcing institutionalized or convicted patients to carry cards.

Reached by the CN&R last week via email, Cornwall says he “respect[s] any Butte County mental health system user’s choice to get and carry an ID card.” He also discussed “forced in-home treatment laws in place in 45 states”— recently adopted in the Bay Area and approved in Los Angeles— which “may be the law of the land.” (Cornwall refers to HR 3717, aka the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which includes provisions for involuntary outpatient commitment, or courtordered treatment.)

“So, against that backdrop, the Butte Bounty NAMI/law enforcement mental patient ID cards are even more of a concern because I believe they will be promoted by NAMI nationally, too,” Cornwall said. “I believe they will become an integral feature of the national, draconian forced-treatment legislative agenda of NAMI.” Gurney and Duch know Cornwall’s position. Both stress the voluntary nature of the program.

Besides, the card itself isn’t critical: A person stopped by law enforcement just has to say he or she has a White Card—doesn’t have to produce one—and no one is going to verify the claim.

“It’s just an icebreaker; it’s just a conversation-starter,” Duch said.

“That’s all it is.”

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WEEKLY DOSE What could go wrong?

As the measles outbreak that started at Disneyland in Southern California has captured public attention, calls for mandatory vaccination of children are rising. Preventable diseases like measles are making a comeback in this country, experts say, because 48 states allow families to skip shots for religious or personal reasons. So, what could go wrong? The majority of children who receive the measles vaccine experience no side effects; the most common are fever or minor soreness. Other possible side effects include: • Swollen glands (1 in 7 children) • Rash (1 in 20) • Joint pain/stiffness (1 in 100) • Seizure (1 in 3,000) • Low platelet count/bleeding (1 in 30,000) • Encephalitis (1 in 1 million)

Source: WebMD.com February 19, 2015

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T

he call comes on your cell when you least expect it, while in line for coffee at Peet’s downtown. The

doctor, a specialist from out of town, says, “The telephone isn’t the ideal way to deliver test results, but …” You urge him to proceed. So, he tells you about your brain cancer. It has metastasized with a vengeance.

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His words are both shocking and anticipated. You know you are hearing your own death sentence. You have fought valiantly for years to be rid of this disease.

You’ve endured the onslaught of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy. Your loved ones rallied in support.

You’ve done everything you can to continue living fully. Now, you find yourself at a new stage, with six months to live. You’re aware that people who die with your disease may face distressing events before the end: seizures, loss of functions, dementia, anguish and pain.

What are your options in the above hypothetical?

In California, you could choose ever-more-aggressive interventions in the unlikely hope of a cure. You could greenlight a medical trial and perhaps extend your life, and aid science. You could choose palliative care and hospice, in the unassailable theory they may provide you a gentler exit. You could even exercise your right to refuse food and drink, a difficult path that leads to death in seven to 10 days.

Or you could move to Oregon.

There, you would have an extra option. You could

Jennifer Glass, now in “treated containment” for advanced lung cancer, believes she should have the legal choice to “end my life calmly, peacefully and with dignity.” Glass is an advocate for legislation to bring a right-to-die law to California.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER GLASS

choose to end your own life, at the time and in the place of your choosing, with legally prescribed, fastacting barbiturates provided by a doctor.

As of right now, this final option is illegal in California. In fact, your loved ones could face criminal prosecution for aiding you in pursuit of it here.

But all this may be changing.

Last month, Davis-based state Sen. Lois Wolk announced legislation that would bring an “end-oflife choices” law to California. The law would be fundamentally like Oregon’s 1997 Death With Dignity Act—requiring an adult patient to have residency in the state and two doctors in agreement that he or she has less than six months to live and full mental competency. Other safeguards Wolk referred to as

Brittany Maynard’s high-profile death may help usher in a right-to-die option for terminally ill patients in California “crucial”—for both patients and physicians— will also be folded in.

“It’s time,” she said. “No one should have to go through horrific pain and prolonged suffering when the end is clear.”

A longtime advocate for more compassionate end-of-life scenarios, Wolk authored a groundbreaking 2008 law that provides seriously ill patients with a new mechanism—Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, or POLST—to ensure that their wishes are honored regarding end-of-life care. But Wolk, the state Senate’s new majority whip, likely will face a tough battle this time. The right-to-die subject has been exceedingly controversial when it’s come up in California’s past.

So why introduce it now?

Because of Brittany Maynard, the 29-yearold East Bay newlywed who, diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme) last spring, became the face of a movement when she chose to relocate with her husband to Oregon so as to end her life under that state’s Death With Dignity Act. “Doctors prescribed full brain radiation,” she wrote in an essay for CNN. “The hair on my scalp would have been singed off. My scalp would be left covered with first-degree burns. … My family and I reached a heartbreaking conclusion: There is no treatment that would save my life, and the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I had left.”

Young, attractive and articulate, Maynard’s passionate defense of her right to leave life on her own terms went viral. Her YouTube video drew 13 million views. Her saga was written up in hundreds of newspapers and appeared on the cover of People magazine. Maynard partnered with the nation’s premier “aid in dying” nonprofit, the Denver-based Compassion & Choices, and triggered an outpouring of new energy and funds to its cause.

Ultimately, the sympathy generated by Maynard’s story pushed the Death With Dignity movement forward in ways the country is just starting to see play out.

A month after Maynard’s November death, the already substantial public support for Death With Dignity took a significant bounce. A Harris Poll found that 74 percent of American adults now believe terminally ill patients in great pain should have the right to bring their lives to a close. Even “physician-assisted suicide”—a term controversial in right-to-die circles—now has a 72 percent favorable rating.

“I think [Brittany Maynard] deserves a lot of credit for being willing to be so public about her dying,” said Wolk, who added that the young woman’s story was “very much” part of why she and co-author state Sen. Bill Monning chose to introduce legislation now instead of later.

“People were very moved by her story,” said Wolk. “It struck a chord.

“To be forced to set up residency outside California to relieve yourself from suffering?

That’s not right.”

Brittany Maynard on her wedding day in September 2012, before her January 2014 diagnosis.

PHOTO BY TARA ARROWOOD

Below: On the cover of People Magazine after being diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer, Maynard moved to Oregon to take her own life under the Death With Dignity Act.

‘Things can go really wrong’ With her short brown hair, eloquent eyes and gracious smile, Jennifer Glass welcomed a rain-soaked reporter into her San Mateo home for a recent interview, ushering her to a seat in front of a cozy fire, and handing over a cup of steaming coffee. The warm environs seemed to alleviate the difficulty in speaking openly about the topic at hand: Glass’ late-stage lung cancer and statistically probable decline, and death, from the disease.

A formidable communications professional during her working career—with stints at Oracle, Intuit, Sony and Facebook—Glass married the man of her dreams, Harlan Seymour, in August 2012. They settled into family life. Four months later, while giving her a back rub, Seymour found a lump on her neck that felt “like little peas in a row.”

Glass was soon discovered to have Stage IIIB lung cancer (not smoking-related) that had metastasized to the lymph nodes in her neck.

At the time of her diagnosis, the American Cancer Society estimated the likelihood of her five-year survival rate at just 5 percent. The

then-49-year-old underwent radiation and two aggressive rounds of chemotherapy, causing her to lose her thick brown hair. Her cancer is, thankfully, now in a period of “treated containment.” She takes the oral chemotherapy drug Tarceva daily that allows “two to three good hours” per day, she says. The efficacy of Tarceva tends to be two-to-four years before cancer mutates around it.

Glass, who developed a following for her YouTube video “A Photo a Day: One Year with Cancer” and for blogging about her disease on The Huffington Post, has strong beliefs about how she wants to go when her time comes. “I believe I should have the legal choice to end my life calmly, peacefully and with dignity,” she said.

Like Maynard, the tech-savvy Glass wants to bring the right-to-die debate to a generation that’s become accustomed to making its own choices when it comes to certain issues. “It’s like what we’ve seen with gay marriage,” she said, referring to the sea change in public opinion and policy on that issue in a short time span. “There’s a greater desire for personal choice … and quality of life. And that has to include end of life.”

When first diagnosed, Glass contacted Compassion & Choices—which was responsible for creating and passing Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act 17 years ago. She sought advice and counsel. A volunteer came to her home and explained advance-care directives, POLST forms, the role of hospice and what was and wasn’t legal in California when it comes to the end of life. Glass, who had been an advocate on the right-to-die issue even before her diagnosis, was thankful to have that information going into the physical and emotional fight of her life.

After her marathon cancer treatment was completed, Glass contacted Compassion & Choices a second time and asked how she could help their effort to make aid in dying

legal in California.

She is unapologetic when explaining why hospice and palliative care alone are not sufficient to calm her fears about the possibility of dying in pain or discomfort.

“There is some exceptionally fine hospice care,” she said, “but it’s a spectrum. Sometimes it’s simply not possible to eliminate or manage a dying person’s pain.”

People like Glass don’t much like the word suicide—as in “physician-assisted suicide”— imprinted over the right-to-die option. Suicidal people are sad or depressed and want to die, she said. “I’m doing everything I can to live!

But I want control over my death if it’s going to go in a really ugly way.”

She and others suggest “aid in dying” or “death with dignity” as alternative word choices to “physician-assisted suicide.”

Glass admitted to a kind of black market that exists in states where physician-assisted dying is illegal. “Since becoming part of the cancer community, I’ve known people who are doing whatever they think it’s going to take to end their lives when they want to, including hoarding pills. That can be dangerous if it’s not managed.

“It’s the fear, the fear about how this is going to end.”

In her own case, Glass is frightened by the possibility she may be forced to “drown in my own lung fluid in front of my family in my final days. … My quality of life in whatever time I have left would be vastly improved if I knew [a legally prescribed lethal drug] was an option for me under the law.

“If my life is not tolerable, if I’m wracked with pain, if I can’t control my functions, if my system is failing … and I have no recourse?

That’s the worst thing I can think of. Because things can go really wrong.”

If her disease runs its course, Glass says she knows what it would take to move to Oregon and, like Maynard, take the steps necessary to be approved for self-administration of a lethal prescription.

“But I really hope it doesn’t come to a decision where I have to leave my home,” she said.

“Particularly because if it comes to that, it’s a decision I’m going to have to make when I’m already very sick.”

‘A personal, intense experience with dying’ Toni Broaddus entered Café Bernardo near the state Capitol, primed for her first in a long string of meetings scheduled that day with legislators, staffers and local officials. It was Nov. 19, 2014—the date would have marked Brittany Maynard’s 30th birthday.

“Brittany’s story really galvanized the movement,” said Broaddus, an attorney and social-justice advocate who now directs the Compassion & Choices campaign in California.

“Her story has really moved us forward in

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T

he call comes on your cell when you least expect it, while in line for coffee at Peet’s downtown. The

doctor, a specialist from out of town, says, “The telephone isn’t the ideal way to deliver test results, but …” You urge him to proceed. So, he tells you about your brain cancer. It has metastasized with a vengeance.

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His words are both shocking and anticipated. You know you are hearing your own death sentence. You have fought valiantly for years to be rid of this disease.

You’ve endured the onslaught of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy. Your loved ones rallied in support.

You’ve done everything you can to continue living fully. Now, you find yourself at a new stage, with six months to live. You’re aware that people who die with your disease may face distressing events before the end: seizures, loss of functions, dementia, anguish and pain.

What are your options in the above hypothetical?

In California, you could choose ever-more-aggressive interventions in the unlikely hope of a cure. You could greenlight a medical trial and perhaps extend your life, and aid science. You could choose palliative care and hospice, in the unassailable theory they may provide you a gentler exit. You could even exercise your right to refuse food and drink, a difficult path that leads to death in seven to 10 days.

Or you could move to Oregon.

There, you would have an extra option. You could

Jennifer Glass, now in “treated containment” for advanced lung cancer, believes she should have the legal choice to “end my life calmly, peacefully and with dignity.” Glass is an advocate for legislation to bring a right-to-die law to California.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER GLASS

choose to end your own life, at the time and in the place of your choosing, with legally prescribed, fastacting barbiturates provided by a doctor.

As of right now, this final option is illegal in California. In fact, your loved ones could face criminal prosecution for aiding you in pursuit of it here.

But all this may be changing.

Last month, Davis-based state Sen. Lois Wolk announced legislation that would bring an “end-oflife choices” law to California. The law would be fundamentally like Oregon’s 1997 Death With Dignity Act—requiring an adult patient to have residency in the state and two doctors in agreement that he or she has less than six months to live and full mental competency. Other safeguards Wolk referred to as

Brittany Maynard’s high-profile death may help usher in a right-to-die option for terminally ill patients in California “crucial”—for both patients and physicians— will also be folded in.

“It’s time,” she said. “No one should have to go through horrific pain and prolonged suffering when the end is clear.”

A longtime advocate for more compassionate end-of-life scenarios, Wolk authored a groundbreaking 2008 law that provides seriously ill patients with a new mechanism—Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, or POLST—to ensure that their wishes are honored regarding end-of-life care. But Wolk, the state Senate’s new majority whip, likely will face a tough battle this time. The right-to-die subject has been exceedingly controversial when it’s come up in California’s past.

So why introduce it now?

Because of Brittany Maynard, the 29-yearold East Bay newlywed who, diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme) last spring, became the face of a movement when she chose to relocate with her husband to Oregon so as to end her life under that state’s Death With Dignity Act. “Doctors prescribed full brain radiation,” she wrote in an essay for CNN. “The hair on my scalp would have been singed off. My scalp would be left covered with first-degree burns. … My family and I reached a heartbreaking conclusion: There is no treatment that would save my life, and the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I had left.”

Young, attractive and articulate, Maynard’s passionate defense of her right to leave life on her own terms went viral. Her YouTube video drew 13 million views. Her saga was written up in hundreds of newspapers and appeared on the cover of People magazine. Maynard partnered with the nation’s premier “aid in dying” nonprofit, the Denver-based Compassion & Choices, and triggered an outpouring of new energy and funds to its cause.

Ultimately, the sympathy generated by Maynard’s story pushed the Death With Dignity movement forward in ways the country is just starting to see play out.

A month after Maynard’s November death, the already substantial public support for Death With Dignity took a significant bounce. A Harris Poll found that 74 percent of American adults now believe terminally ill patients in great pain should have the right to bring their lives to a close. Even “physician-assisted suicide”—a term controversial in right-to-die circles—now has a 72 percent favorable rating.

“I think [Brittany Maynard] deserves a lot of credit for being willing to be so public about her dying,” said Wolk, who added that the young woman’s story was “very much” part of why she and co-author state Sen. Bill Monning chose to introduce legislation now instead of later.

“People were very moved by her story,” said Wolk. “It struck a chord.

“To be forced to set up residency outside California to relieve yourself from suffering?

That’s not right.”

Brittany Maynard on her wedding day in September 2012, before her January 2014 diagnosis.

PHOTO BY TARA ARROWOOD

Below: On the cover of People Magazine after being diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer, Maynard moved to Oregon to take her own life under the Death With Dignity Act.

‘Things can go really wrong’ With her short brown hair, eloquent eyes and gracious smile, Jennifer Glass welcomed a rain-soaked reporter into her San Mateo home for a recent interview, ushering her to a seat in front of a cozy fire, and handing over a cup of steaming coffee. The warm environs seemed to alleviate the difficulty in speaking openly about the topic at hand: Glass’ late-stage lung cancer and statistically probable decline, and death, from the disease.

A formidable communications professional during her working career—with stints at Oracle, Intuit, Sony and Facebook—Glass married the man of her dreams, Harlan Seymour, in August 2012. They settled into family life. Four months later, while giving her a back rub, Seymour found a lump on her neck that felt “like little peas in a row.”

Glass was soon discovered to have Stage IIIB lung cancer (not smoking-related) that had metastasized to the lymph nodes in her neck.

At the time of her diagnosis, the American Cancer Society estimated the likelihood of her five-year survival rate at just 5 percent. The

then-49-year-old underwent radiation and two aggressive rounds of chemotherapy, causing her to lose her thick brown hair. Her cancer is, thankfully, now in a period of “treated containment.” She takes the oral chemotherapy drug Tarceva daily that allows “two to three good hours” per day, she says. The efficacy of Tarceva tends to be two-to-four years before cancer mutates around it.

Glass, who developed a following for her YouTube video “A Photo a Day: One Year with Cancer” and for blogging about her disease on The Huffington Post, has strong beliefs about how she wants to go when her time comes. “I believe I should have the legal choice to end my life calmly, peacefully and with dignity,” she said.

Like Maynard, the tech-savvy Glass wants to bring the right-to-die debate to a generation that’s become accustomed to making its own choices when it comes to certain issues. “It’s like what we’ve seen with gay marriage,” she said, referring to the sea change in public opinion and policy on that issue in a short time span. “There’s a greater desire for personal choice … and quality of life. And that has to include end of life.”

When first diagnosed, Glass contacted Compassion & Choices—which was responsible for creating and passing Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act 17 years ago. She sought advice and counsel. A volunteer came to her home and explained advance-care directives, POLST forms, the role of hospice and what was and wasn’t legal in California when it comes to the end of life. Glass, who had been an advocate on the right-to-die issue even before her diagnosis, was thankful to have that information going into the physical and emotional fight of her life.

After her marathon cancer treatment was completed, Glass contacted Compassion & Choices a second time and asked how she could help their effort to make aid in dying

legal in California.

She is unapologetic when explaining why hospice and palliative care alone are not sufficient to calm her fears about the possibility of dying in pain or discomfort.

“There is some exceptionally fine hospice care,” she said, “but it’s a spectrum. Sometimes it’s simply not possible to eliminate or manage a dying person’s pain.”

People like Glass don’t much like the word suicide—as in “physician-assisted suicide”— imprinted over the right-to-die option. Suicidal people are sad or depressed and want to die, she said. “I’m doing everything I can to live!

But I want control over my death if it’s going to go in a really ugly way.”

She and others suggest “aid in dying” or “death with dignity” as alternative word choices to “physician-assisted suicide.”

Glass admitted to a kind of black market that exists in states where physician-assisted dying is illegal. “Since becoming part of the cancer community, I’ve known people who are doing whatever they think it’s going to take to end their lives when they want to, including hoarding pills. That can be dangerous if it’s not managed.

“It’s the fear, the fear about how this is going to end.”

In her own case, Glass is frightened by the possibility she may be forced to “drown in my own lung fluid in front of my family in my final days. … My quality of life in whatever time I have left would be vastly improved if I knew [a legally prescribed lethal drug] was an option for me under the law.

“If my life is not tolerable, if I’m wracked with pain, if I can’t control my functions, if my system is failing … and I have no recourse?

That’s the worst thing I can think of. Because things can go really wrong.”

If her disease runs its course, Glass says she knows what it would take to move to Oregon and, like Maynard, take the steps necessary to be approved for self-administration of a lethal prescription.

“But I really hope it doesn’t come to a decision where I have to leave my home,” she said.

“Particularly because if it comes to that, it’s a decision I’m going to have to make when I’m already very sick.”

‘A personal, intense experience with dying’ Toni Broaddus entered Café Bernardo near the state Capitol, primed for her first in a long string of meetings scheduled that day with legislators, staffers and local officials. It was Nov. 19, 2014—the date would have marked Brittany Maynard’s 30th birthday.

“Brittany’s story really galvanized the movement,” said Broaddus, an attorney and social-justice advocate who now directs the Compassion & Choices campaign in California.

“Her story has really moved us forward in

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To all the sponsors, presenters, field trip leaders, participants, and the dedicated group of volunteers who help organize and plan this regional event:

Thank you….for a wildly successful 2015 Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway!

2015 Sponsors

Major Sponsors: Snow Goose ($2,500 or more)

Altacal Audubon Society, California Conservation Corps, California State Parks Northern Buttes District, Chico News & Review, Rancho Esquon, The Nature Conservancy, River Partners, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex

The Hofmann Family Foundation Rancho Esquon

Supporting Sponsors: Great Blue Heron ($1,000 or more)

Butte County Fish and Game Commission, Central Valley Joint Venture, Chico Creek Nature Center, Kelly Meagher, North State Vascular Specialists, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, The Printed Image, Sacramento River Preservation Trust, Top Birding Tours

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Snowy Egret: ($250 or more)

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Thank you for your support!

Super Snow Goosers of the Festival Cathy Carter • Katheryn Hood Carter • Debbie Chakarun • Pat DelFrate • Lollie DeYoung • Shelia Frisk • Marilyn Gamette Claire Greene • Lyn Harrod • Kathleen Huber • Ruth Kennedy • Chuck Lundgren • Sandy Makau • LeAnn McConnell Kathleen McPartland • John Merz • Dolores Mitchell • Marvey Mueller • Steve Overlock • Jennifer Patten • Lynne Pryde John Scott • Sue Scott • Melinda Teves • Kathy Trevino • Carlla Westphal • Lisa Winslow • Mary Wrysinski

16th Annual Snow Goose Festival Field Trip Leaders/Workshop Presenters Ranger Jeremy Alling • Linda Angerer • Jo Anna Arroyo • David Arsenault • Skip Augur • Jon Aull • Everett Ayers • Jay Bogiatto Jim Burcio • Carol Burr • Rex Burress • Dean Carrier • Ranger Zack Chambers • David Dahnke • Amy Darwin • Tim Davis Michael Denega • Dan Dugan • Dan Efseaff • Steve Emmons • Mike Fisher • Matt Forster • Marilyn Gamette • Henry Ganzler Dawn Garcia • Kurt Geiger • Gaylord Grams • Herman Gray • Leroy Hord • Mike Hubbartt • Liam Huber • Scott Huber Lin Jensen • Phil Johnson • Steve Kasprzyk • Raina King • Steve King • Shelly Kirn • Jesse Klingler • Mike and Kathy Landini Roger Lederer • Hilary Locke • Laura Lush • Ryan Luster • Charlie Mathews • John Mac McCormick • Lindsay McDonnell Maureen Morales • Mary Muchowski • Nancy Nelson • Gary Nielsen David O’Keefe • Joseph O’Neil • Heidi Ortiz • Ruth Paz • Victor Paz • Sharon Perry • Mike Peters • Navit Reid Michael Rogner • Shane Romain • Marilyn Rose • Lucas RossMerz • David Samuels • Peter Sands • Ron & Nancy Sanford Tom Savory • Mauricio Schrader • Jackson Shedd • Joe Silveira • Bill Smith • Ken Sobon • Bob Solari • Marty Steidlemayer Richard Thieriot • Dave Tinker • Andy Tomaselli • Scott Torricelli • Karin Vardaman • Pamela Waldsmith Bruce Webb, Swarovski Optik Field Tech • Greg Weddig • Scott Weidensaul • Scotty Weston • Dale Whitmore John Whittlesey • Mike Williams • Rick Wulbern • Steve Zachery

The Steering Committee would like to sincerely thank all who have had a hand in this year’s programming and events, especially all who volunteered at Chico Creek Nature Center, Patrick Ranch Museum and Chico Masonic Family Center during the festival’s five days.

The Snow Goose Festival would also like to give special thanks to: California Conservation Corps, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Rancho Esquon, Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, Chico Certified Farmers Market, Chico Creek Nature Center, Iris Software, Inc., Mission Linen Service, Avenue 9 Gallery, Butte County Rice Growers Association, Mathews Rice Farm, Rick and Geri Wulbern, C & R Ranch Paskenta, Patrick Ranch Museum, Divide Ranch, and the City of Chico.

See you at the next Snow Goose Festival of the Pacific Flyway, January 27-31, 2016.

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Right-to-die continued from page 19 ways we never could have predicted or expected. We have seen a huge increase in supporters, in donors, in volunteers.”

Broaddus, previously a leader in the state’s marriage-equality movement, said Compassion & Choices has set a goal of having California join the five other states in the country—Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico—that have legalized aid in dying. The group plans to assist in the passage of California legislation or mount a grassroots effort to put the matter before voters in 2016.

Such efforts have failed in the past, however.

Attempts to legalize assisted dying in California have been beaten back many times over, thanks to fierce opposition from organizations like the Catholic Church, with its moral authority, and the California Medical Association, with its well-financed lobby. In 1992, the statewide ballot measure Proposition 161 went down with 46 percent of the vote.

The most recent legislative attempt, Assembly Bill 374 by Assemblywoman Patty Berg, was taken off the table for lack of support at the end of the 2007 session.

Famously, the bill had preachers speaking out in opposition from the pulpits in California.

Then-Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez actually described getting a call from his churchgoing mother at that time, urging him to reconsider his support for the bill.

The powerful California Medical Association is predicted to oppose again this time, though a spokesperson said the group hadn’t yet taken a position on new legislation.

The organization, which officially represents just 30 percent of the state’s physicians, has claimed before that assisting in a death is in conflict with a doctor’s ethical responsibility to “do no harm.”

Also, the doctors’ group holds that most pain at the end of life can be controlled through medication and comfort care in a hospice environment.

However, a recent poll of 17,000 American doctors by Medscape for the first time found physicians supporting death with dignity for those with “incurable and terminal” disease by a 54 percent majority.

Also expected to oppose Wolk’s legislation are some in the disability rights community, who say such a law could open up the potential for abuse by insurers or family members.

Patients might be pushed to an early death for the convenience of others, they say. In response to the groundswell of media on Maynard’s story, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund senior policy analyst Marilyn Golden wrote: “For every case such as [hers] there are hundreds—or thousands—more people who could be significantly harmed if assisted suicide is legal.”

Broaddus disagrees, based on 17 years of data from California’s neighbor to the north.

“People talk about concerns about abuse for vulnerable populations,” she said. “But the reality is, that hasn’t happened in Oregon.”

For her, California’s lack of a law simply doesn’t make sense. “It’s hard to understand, given the support in the state and the state’s usual leading role on this kind of socialjustice issue.”

For Assemblywoman Wolk, the fate of the bill will depend, in part, on individual legislators’ own personal experiences with death and dying.

“More and more people have had a personal, intense experience with dying— either a relative or a friend … and they want it to be different, they know it should be different,” she said.

The legislator pointed out that the Oregon law “is broadly accepted and not that heavily used,” with about 60 percent of the people who obtain a prescription ever actually taking it.

“It’s a comfort for people to know that if it got really bad, it’s there,” she said. “That seems to make people feel better. Just having it is enough.”

‘You’re scared and stressed’ Barbara and Doug Wilson met in 1967 while residents in UC Davis’ first co-ed dormitory. They fell in love, married, launched careers and raised two daughters, never once leaving the safe haven provided them by the city of Davis. How could the couple have known that security was fleeting, that they were not destined to accompany each other into their elder years?

In 2004, Doug, age 57, was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. At first—thanks to two rounds of surgery and chemotherapy— his disease went into remission. But in 2007, the cancer returned. With Barbara constantly at his side, he spent the next five-plus years in and out of infusion rooms, clinics, radiation centers and hospitals undertaking every treatment and intervention doctors recommended to help save his life.

“He was amazing,” Barbara said of her husband. “He had the most positive attitude.

He did not want to die.”

But eventually, in the spring of 2013, the couple chose to enter hospice care, more than anything because it would get them access to equipment—like a battery-operated oxygen tank—that would help Wilson attend his daughter’s April wedding in Santa Cruz. “Doug walked my daughter down the aisle,” said Barbara, choking back tears. On morphine for pain, he gave his father-of-thebride speech and, she said, “did the fatherdaughter dance.”

By the following Friday, he was gone.

Barbara, now 66, looks back with disquiet and some unease on her husband’s death process those last five days of his life. “The image of a wonderful, peaceful end of life with loved ones around … well, that didn’t seem to happen,” she said.

Home hospice provided qualified people checking in once a day, she said, and availability in emergencies. But basically, she felt left to her own resources, in the company of her two daughters and son-in-law, without experience or knowledge in how to attend to a dying loved one.

“I think it’d be the same with any hospice,” she said.

“You’re scared and stressed because this is your loved one,” she said. “You don’t know what to do.” She described her husband as

State Sen. Lois Wolk has announced legislation to bring an “end of life choices” law to California.

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on-again, off-again agitated—he was bleeding internally, with his liver shutting down. “We felt we were incapable of dealing with him properly,” she said. She described frustration at her inability to help make him comfortable.

She feared his pain and what would happen if she gave him too much or too little morphine.

Eventually, in a hospital bed in the living room with his family surrounding him, her husband took his last breath. But the day-byday countdown to Wilson’s end remains a fairly traumatic memory for his beloved wife.

The Wilsons’ story illuminates the reality that the actual process of dying can take time and be upsetting, confusing and painful for both patient and caregivers, especially those who are facing death’s tests for the first time.

Though Barbara believes her husband would not have chosen to take his own life at the end even if it had been legal, she now personally believes that people should have a right to that option.

“Until you walk in those shoes, you just don’t know. … When it’s my time, I do not want to suffer,” she said, “especially after watching Doug.”

Why is it so hard?

Why is it so very difficult for modern society—with its medical aptitude, technological advantages and ability to fulfill desires—to succeed at delivering a “good death” when it’s something most everybody wants?

In his recent bestseller, Being Mortal, Atul Gawande takes a stab at an answer by laying out the limits of medicine and inadequacies of medical school in preparing physicians to help patients deal with the stark reality of death.

Doctors have been trained to find cures and “to win,” he writes. This simple fact— along with an American health care system that seems to encourage excessive treatment—continues to make a peaceful death an elusive goal for many people.

For example: Though most people want to

pass away at home surrounded by loved ones, 70 percent die in a hospital, nursing home or long-term-care facility after a long struggle with advanced or incurable disease.

Marge Ginsburg, executive director of the Sacramento-based Center for Healthcare Decisions and noted advocate for better end-of-life outcomes, has spent the last two decades pushing for more compassion for patients as they near death.

“You’d think 20 years later we’d have gotten this solved,” she said. “But no, we haven’t.”

Ginsburg, whose nonprofit organization won’t be taking a position on the new Death With Dignity legislation, reminds that California’s end-of-life problem is much larger in scope than the debate over one potential last-resort option. The importance of advance-care directives and the ongoing push for family members, physicians and patients to have candid conversations before crisis hits cannot be overstated, she said.

“The ICU is not the time to start finding out what your family members want,” she said.

Still, some see a shift occurring in the endof-life landscape—perhaps because members of an aging baby-boomer population have begun to see their final acts in sight. Indeed, more doctors are now being trained in palliative care, which focuses on pain relief over cures for terminally ill patients. Also, there’s an increased use of advance-care directives and POLST forms as well as an uptick in the number of individuals dying in hospice care.

Meanwhile, over to the side is the more controversial subject of a California law that would allow people who meet its dire criteria to self-administer lethal prescription drugs.

Could a shift be occurring there, too?

Wolk believes the answer is yes.

“It’s changing,” she said.

“We have to learn. Doctors have to learn.

At the end of life, there is a range of things that can happen. We haven’t wanted to think about that. We haven’t wanted to talk about that. But it’s time.”

Those who followed Brittany Maynard’s story this past year—with its tragedy, awareness and resolve—might tend to agree with Wolk that things have to change, that peace of mind for terminally ill patients shouldn’t depend on whether they live in Oregon or not.

Like Maynard, Jennifer Glass seems utterly brave and self-aware as she moves forward and, despite her disease, attempts to live a full life regardless of the harsh lesson mortality threatens to teach her. A few weeks shy of a CT scan to check for recurrence of her lung cancer, she said, “I feel fine now. But any minute things could go a different way.

“My great hope is that, in the next 12 to 24 months, if my disease runs its course, then I will have the legal option to procure prescribed medicine and end my life, by my own choice, by my own hand, legally, in my own home.”

And then, as if preparing for an upcoming debate, Glass posed a question to an imagined opponent of a California end-of-life choices law: “Nobody’s saying you have to do this if you don’t want to do it,” she said, “But who Ω are you to say that I can’t?”

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Arts & Culture A war of word-making between brothers Lee (Fred Stuart, standing) and Austin (Joe Hilsee).

PHOTO BY BRITTANY WATERSTRADT

The way-out West Sam Shepard’s darkly comic masterpiece

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f his Pulitzer Prize-nominated True West, American

playwright Sam Shepard has said, “I wanted to write a play about double nature, one that wouldn’t be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It’s a real by thing, double nature. I think we’re Carey split in a much more devastating Wilson way than psychology can ever reveal. It’s not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It’s something we’ve got to live with.”

REVIEW: Given the evidence on stage True West shows Friday night during the Blue ThursdaySaturday, Room Theatre’s production of the 7:30 p.m., through 1980 play, he succeeded in achievFeb. 28 at the ing his goal.

Blue Room.

Set in present-day suburban Tickets: $15-$18 (Thursdays: pay- Southern California, True West what-you can) gives us a jagged—and occasionally hilarious—slice-of-life glimpse Blue Room into the conflicted existences of Theatre 139 W. First St. two long-estranged brothers who 895-3749 unexpectedly reunite in their mothwww.blueroom er’s cozy suburban home when she theatre.com is off on a sightseeing trip to Alaska. Joe Hilsee stars as semi-successful, typewriter-tapping screenwriter and family man Austin, and Fred Stuart plays his older brother Lee, a manic desert rat, home burglar, and Pabst-swilling drunkard.

The play begins with Lee’s unexpected intrusion into Austin’s quiet, candlelit work of polishing up a screenplay that he’s on the verge of selling to major movie producer Saul Kimmer (played by Jeremy Votava). Hilsee and Stuart—both very experienced and skilled theater veterans (each former artistic directors at the Blue Room) at the dawn of middleage—are ideally paired as the diametrically opposed brothers. Austin’s initial conciliatory politeness is complemented by Lee’s brash, intimidating, bellyscratching, big-brother machismo.

Shepard is a master of employing realistic dialogue to illuminate his characters’ inner feelings and conflicts, and Hilsee and Stuart bring his lines to robust life. The expression of their conflict ranges from poignant to ridiculous, and the play’s dialectic rhythm, which surges from quiet argumentativeness to over22

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the-top, red-faced, nearly hysterical shouting matches, is by turns (and sometime simultaneously) hilarious and frightening, and illuminates their dysfunction.

The core of the brothers’ conflict is the difference between their compositional approaches: the writer’s use of creative craft and process to produce marketable synthetic drama, and the man of action’s visceral creation of genuine drama by the simple act of being himself. The genius of Shepard’s presentation of this conflict is that, through the examination of the writers’ process, the brothers eventually morph into their own opposites. Their transformation is catalyzed by the insertion of the sleazoid movie producer, who decides that Lee’s extemporaneously blurted out melodramatic story idea is more worthy of major financial backing than Austin’s carefully crafted contemporary love story.

Lee is suddenly responsible for writing his own story and is faced with the dismal realization that the craft of writing is much more challenging than the act of spouting off a vague but exciting drunken idea. And for Austin, the dissolution of his dream of finally getting his arduously crafted screenplay made into a major film sends him into his own hilarious role-reversal as a drunken but very “successful” house burglar obsessed with pilfering a certain, perhaps symbolic, countertop appliance.

As the brothers descend into increasingly dark comic madness, set designer Amber Miller’s cozy, meticulously designed kitchen setting—initially suffused with soft light and the bucolic sounds of chirping crickets and distantly barking dogs—is inundated with the increasingly chaotic detritus of drunken writing and thievery, until the floor is a virtual sea of beer cans, wadded paper, and broken furniture. It’s at this point that their mother (Rosemary Febbo) returns unexpectedly to find her home and family in apparently irreparable disarray. Her calm motherly voice of reason and seeming lack of concern for the cartoonishly brutal fight that ensues between her offspring sets up the perfect culmination to this finely and deliberately overwrought comedic drama.

With its brilliant script, extraordinary four-character cast, and masterful direction by Joyce Henderson, the Blue Room’s production of True West is community theater at its best. Well worth a trip to the true and way-out west of the title. Ω

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GEORGE KEITHLEY: Ring of Fire author reads and signs his new novel. Th, 2/19, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books, 135 Main St.; (530) 891-3338; www.lyon books.com.

Special Events BIONEERS: A screening of Bioneers conference talks featuring Paul Stamets discussing mushrooms, Robin Kimmerer on Native Americans and passenger pigeons, and John Warner on green chemistry. Th, 2/19, 7pm. $2$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

CHINESE NEW YEAR: Celebrate the year of the wood ram with tea, cookies, and a calligraphy demonstration. Th, 2/19, 12-4pm. $3. Oroville Chinese Temple, 1500 Broderick St. in Oroville.

THE POETICS OF ICE CREAM: Presentation by

Sandra Gilbert, author of The Culinary Imagination. Reception to follow. Th, 2/19, 79pm. Free. CSUC Trinity Hall 100, 400 W First St.; (530) 898-4636.

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Special Events ANTIQUE SHOW: Butte County Sheriff hosts an

Music STORM LARGE: The front woman of Pink Martini returns to Chico with her own band performing Broadway tearjerkers, American Songbook classics, and rock goddess anthems. Th, 2/19, 7:30pm. $10-$34. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

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antique show open to the public. 2/20-2/22, 10am. $5. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

MOONLIGHT MELODIES: A European-themed gala fundraiser for the Children’s Choir of Chico, with dinner, cocktails, auctions, raffles and dancing, plus a performance from the choir. F, 2/20, 6:30pm. $60. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2341 Floral Ave.; (530) 894-1971.

RAIL JAM: Soul ID athlete network will be hosting

MARY POPPINS: The classic musical about the

famous magical nanny. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 3/1. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: The classic dramedy about a group of gossipy Southern ladies in a smalltown beauty parlor. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 2/22. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.bird cagetheatre.net.

TRUE WEST: The 1980 drama from famed American playwright Sam Shepherd is a story of sibling rivalry and reconnection, with influences of American myths and pop culture.

Th-Sa through 2/28. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749.

the first ski/snowboard competition in downtown Chico, with local vendors and booths and piles of trucked-in snow. F, 2/20, 6-8pm.

Free. Downtown Chico Plaza, 400 Broadway St.

Music BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY: The Ohio crew celebrates its 20th annivesary with a performance of E.1999 Eternal in its entirety. F, 2/20, 8:30pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

LEANN RIMES: Grammy Award-winning country

superstar visits the casino. F, 2/20. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville; (800) 803-1911; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

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

NORTH STATE SYMPHONY: DISCOVER Saturday, Feb. 21 Laxson Auditorium

SEE SATURDAY, MUSIC

FINE ARTS LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND: The Paradise Symphony Society hosts a dinner with musical entertainment by The OffBroadways. Su, 2/22, 5:30pm. $50. Paradise Seventh-day Adventist Church, 5720 Academy Dr. in Paradise; (530) 877-4454; www.paradise adventistchurch.org.

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

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

THE VANISHING POINT Opens Saturday, Feb. 21 Idea Fabrication Labs

SEE SATURDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

TRUE WEST: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749.

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Special Events ANTIQUE SHOW: See Friday. 2/20-2/22, 10am. $5.

Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

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.

GUN SHOW: Vendors and collectors display a wide variety of guns and collectibles for show and sale. 2/21-2/22, 9am. $6. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

RIPE OLIVE DAY: A featured olive grower will be at the historic home, plus treats, and everything made from olives. Sa, 2/21, 11:30am-3pm.

Dontation. Ehmann Home, 1480 Lincoln St. in Oroville; (530) 533-5316.

Art Receptions THE VANISHING POINT: Erin Banwell, artist and co-owner of Idea Fab Labs, exhibits a new collection exploring the science and illusion of depth using 3D models and 2D design techniques. Sa, 2/21, 3-6pm. Idea Fabrication Labs, 603 Orange St.; (530) 592-0609.

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Chico State; (530) 898-6333; www.north statesymphony.org.

PURPLE RAIN: Uncle Dad’s Art Collective presents a tribute to Prince’s classic album, with local groups each performing individual tracks in order. Featuring: The Lolos, The Shimmies, Western Divide, Bogg, Solar Estates, and more. Sa, 2/21, 7pm. $8-$10. Bell Memorial Union, 400 W First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 8984696; www.aschico.com.

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

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: See Thursday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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Theater BLASTED: Slow Theatre presents a reading of the

first two scenes of Sarah Kane’s Blasted. Read

by Stephen Barry and Jessica Sijan. M, 2/23, 7pm. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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Special Events UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES: A weekly presentation

of international films. This week: Away From Her (Canada, 2006). Tu, 7:30pm. Opens 2/24. $3.

Ayres 106, Chico State; (530) 899-7921.

TRUE WEST: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749.

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Special Events ANTIQUE SHOW: See Friday. 2/20-2/22, 10am. $5.

Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

GUN SHOW: See Saturday. 2/21-2/22, 9am. $6.

Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

TOUR DE ED: An open 20-mile ride benefitting Chico Cyclists Care Fund. Registration starts at 8am, riders depart at 10am Info: email sandyfisher@chico.com. Su, 2/22, 10am-noon. $25. Chico City Municipal Center, 411 Main St. City Hall; (530) 343-9103; www.chicovelo.org.

Music ALO: Their first Big Room appearance with pop,

energy and dance-worthy tunes. Su, 2/22, 7:30pm. Sold Out. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

NORTH STATE SYMPHONY: DISCOVER: The North State Symphony hosts guest conductor Scott Seaton and guest violinist Lindsay Deutsch.

Pre-concert talk one hour before the show.

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Poetry/Literature REYNA GRANDE LECTURE: Book in Common author will be giving a lecture on her memoir, The Distance Between Us . Tu, 2/24, 7:30pm.

Free. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

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100TH MONKEY COMMUNITY CAFE: Faces of

Flower Children: Bringing Back Peace and Love, artist Rod Caudill showcases mixedmedia collage. Through 2/28. Free. 642 West Fifth St., (530) 343-0704.

1078 GALLERY: Fragile Structures, Monika Meler examines fragility, the impermanence of memory, and nostalgia through prints, collages, and paper-cut works. Through 3/7.

820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

B-SO SPACE: Print Show, Chico State Print Club hosts a print exhibition/fundraiser.

Through 2/23. New Works, Travis Woods and fellow fire arts student showcase new metal works. 2/19-2/20. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: The Untamed,

new works from artist Jessica Sid. Through 2/19. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE: No

Place Was There, woodblock carvings and litho drawing printed over screen-printed color from recent BFA graduate artist Dillon Rapp. Through 3/2. Gallery hours are Open daily.. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY:

Telling Stories, photos from Tehema County Photos Club. Through 2/28. 431 Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: My Favorite

Things, local artists showcase their work.

Through 2/28. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Art and Technology, technology-based art works that engage audiences through integrated forms of video, gaming media, sculpture and experience. curated by Nan Hee Kim, Cameron Kelly, and Kelly Lindner with the work of artists Derek Larson, Hye Yeon Nam, and collaborators S.L. clark and Sonya Belakhlef of Babycastles. Through 2/27. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

CHICO ART CENTER: Focal Plane & Multi Plane, photography and three dimensional works from local artists. 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: ceramic art by Northern California artist touched by cancer, Tedo Best. Through 4/16. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

IDEA FABRICATION LABS: The Vanishing Point, Erin Banwell, artist and co-owner of Idea Fab Labs exhibits a new collection exploring the science and illusion of depth using 3D models and 2D design techniques. Sa, 2/21, 3-6pm. Free. Idea Fabrication Labs, 603 Orange St.; (530) 592-0609.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:

Sculptures and Paintings by Stan Sours, latest paintings and sculptures using found materials. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: New Work

New Artist II, The national print competition solo exhibition from award winner Kathy Aoki. Through 2/21. Chico State, (530) 8984476, www.theturner.org.

LAXSON FINE ART GALLERY: Eclectic

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

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This is Our

Home, Here We Remain, presented from the perspective of the Mechoopda people, focusing on the tribe’s heritage and history and using the four seasons to delineate periods of happiness, success and tragedy.

Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming

- Land, Water, People, and Science, explore North State agriculture. Eat Well, Play Well, discover nutrition, fitness, and the science of health in a fun and interactive way. And Patterns of The Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

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

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

Reflections, Bobby Farris presents his paintings on found objects. Through 3/6. 400 W. First St. CSU Chico, Laxson Audtorium.

RESPECTFUL REVOLUTION PROJECT: The Respectful Revolution: Putting Ideals Into Action. A weekly series documenting positive actions throughout the United States with short video portraits. This week: Guardians Of Nature. W, 2/25, 7pm. Free and open to the public. Donations are encouraged and gratefully accepted. Siskiyou 120, Chico State. (530) 514-7475; www.respectfulrevolution.org.

Music JON PARDI: Nashville country artist visits Chico

for his Keepin’ It Country tour. W, 2/25, 8:30pm. $20. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 28

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Hug a writer Remember books? Contrary to what the Internet might suggest, there are still authors out there dedicated to crafting more than top-10 listicles with hyperbolic headlines (e.g. “Number Five Will Liquidize Your Brain So Hard They’ll Have to Mop Up the Puddle!!!”). There are several local opportunities to meet an actual book-writing author this week. Tonight, Feb. 19, Sandra Gilbert, author of The Culinary Imagination, will present “The Poetics of Ice Cream” at Chico State’s Trinity Hall, and EDITOR’S PICK George Keithley will read from and sign copies of his latest novel, Ring of Fire, at Lyon Books. On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Reyna Grande (pictured)—author of The Distance Between Us, which was named Chico’s 2014-15 Book in Common—will speak at Laxson Auditorium.

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the day ahead, and I tend to agree with that assessment.

But on a social, perhaps even a spiritual level, I also subscribe to by the theory that brunch—especially Carey Wilson brunch enjoyed with friends and acquaintances in a convivial B Street atmosphere with plenty of tasty Public House 117 Broadway edible and drinkable options—pro899-8203 vides us with the conversational www.bstreet and intellectual stimulation that pub.com make facing the sometimes grueling interactions of the coming Hours: Mon.-Tues., work week bearable.

4 p.m.-midnight; So it was a pleasant and welWed.-Sat., 11 a.m.-midnight; come surprise on a recent Sunday Sun., 11 a.m.morning that a friend and I midnight. received an e-note reading: “Doing Brunch served brunch today at B Street at 11:30.”

11 a.m.-3 p.m. on It seemed fitting on such a fine Saturdays and morning that our schedules synSundays. chronized to align our leisure time with that of several of our friends.

Entering B Street Public House and walking past the bustling semi-open kitchen takes you to the well-lit main room with its high ceiling; long, dark wood bar; glistening array of bottles and taps; and extensive blackboard listings of craft beers and food specials.

Sturdy wooden tables and bench seats line the perimeter, and above the bar an array of big- and huge-screen TVs are tuned to assorted athletic events. A pleasant aromatic mélange of scents wafting from the kitchen as well as the perfume of assorted liquors and beers let us know we were in for a treat, both socially and gastronomically.

While waiting at the bar for the rest of our party to arrive, we ordered a Sierra Nevada Torpedo ($3.75) for myself, and a Bloody Mary ($6) for my compan-

ion from the friendly, rather preppyish, bartender. Both beverages were excellent and fortifying, the Bloody Mary carrying a pleasant hint of horseradish and Worcestershire sauce along with its celery stalk.

Eventually our ethnically diverse, multigendered and high-spirited assemblage—a subsection of Chico’s current crop of artists and musicians, including members of Bunnymilk, The She Things, Bran Crown, the Shimmies and Biggs Roller, along with significant others—coalesced at the bar. We then migrated to wooden picnic tables in the spacious, open-air back patio under the vintage Towne Lounge sign that serves as a reminder of the continuum of Chico’s socially dynamic drinking culture.

Food orders from the 15-item, type-written “Brunch Specialties” menu were discussed and placed, with a majority of the group agreeing that the Chicken Little ($12), with its combination of fried chicken, biscuit, cheese and eggs, enhanced with some sausage gravy, was a delicious and worthy top choice (and judging from the empty plates seen later, so it was). My companion and I chose to split the Cubano sandwich ($11), a generous amalgamation of ham, roasted pork, pickles and Swiss cheese cooked to perfection on thin, exquisitely toasted, crunchy white bread that was plenty for both of us.

Other popular selections were the poutine ($10), a generous—and rich—platter of duck fat french fries and cheese curds, dowsed with rich onion gravy, and the kimchi pastrami reuben ($13), featuring housemade kimchi accenting smoked pastrami and dressed with sesame-infused Thousand Island dressing. With all of these items settled on our adjoining tables, a veritable maelstrom of sharing and sampling, accompanied by a soundtrack of clattering silverware, clinking glasses, unrestrained laughter and rustling napkins arose.

All in all, it was a perfect way to wind up the week.

We enjoyed excellent food and drink with an extraordinary bunch of friends, and the B Street patio provided just the right setting for an exuberant group brunch. Ω

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TFlesh-N, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony—Bizzy, Layzie, Krayzie and Wish—have already cemented he five Bone “brothers” of Cleveland rap crew

their place as godfathers of Ohio hip-hop and as one of the best-selling rap groups in the U.S. But, in a somewhat elusive by series of interviews over the last Jason Cassidy year or so, it appears the group has and plans to put an exclamation point Mazi Noble on its legacy.

What we know for sure is that all five members are reunited for the moment to celebrate the PREVIEW: 20th anniversary of their classic Bone Thugs-nHarmony perform Grammy-nominated album, E. 1999 Eternal in E. 1999 Eternal (featuring their its entirety Friday, biggest hit, “Tha Crossroads,” Feb. 20, which actually took home the 8:30 p.m., at the Senator Theatre. Grammy for Best Rap single), with Tickets: $25 (at a U.S. tour, performing the album Diamond W, in its entirety at each show. What Blaze N’ J’s, and www.ticketweb.com) isn’t confirmed officially, but has been hinted at by the group, is that Senator Theatre the Bone Thugs are planning to 517 Main St. release a final recording in 2015, www.jmax productions.net a (possibly two-disc) album titled E. 1999 Legends (with everyone from Mariah Carey to Kendrick Lamar rumored as guests), and that the plan is to auction off one copy of the album, with a starting bid of $1 million (with mass release to follow). The CN&R caught up with Wish Bone via email to talk about BTNH’s place in hip-hop history and what they have planned for the new year.

CN&R: How does it feel to be celebrating E. 1999 Eternal 20 years later?

Wish Bone: First and foremost, [we feel] blessed.

We all just really appreciate that the hard work we put in is being shared again with [the] Bones’ family/ fans. Everyone gets to come out and hear it and see us perform it.

How did the idea come about to celebrate the anniversary with a tour in this format?

Basically, a lot of our hits come from that record.

It’s one of the biggest records of our career. We’ve never done this before, and to get a chance to relive it is incredible.

How do you feel hip-hop has changed since E. 1999 Eternal was released?

It’s changed a lot. Virally, the Internet has made the opportunity for getting a lot more people out there. This is good and bad. The good: Real artists can be heard with less of the struggle. The bad: People who don’t deserve to be artists are clogging up the airwaves.

E. 1999 Eternal producer and BTNH mentor Eazy-E passed away just before the album was released. How much of an influence does his death still have on you?

It has a great deal of effect on us. And I would like to say for the rest of the Bone Thugs-NHarmony guys, without Eazy-E, we totally believe that hip-hop would not at all be what it is today.

Eazy-E was just as important—in another lane—as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. How do you view your influence on hip-hop today?

You couldn’t really put a finger on it. It’s everywhere. I don’t think music would be where it is at today, if it wasn’t for Bone. Ninety percent of the game has a piece of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony— R&B, rap, hip-hop, country, all of it.

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Artists like Blueprint, Illogic, Stalley and J. Rawls have joined BTNH in building Ohio’s hip-hop legacy. What’s the scene in your home state like today?

I mean, ever since Bone Thugs hit the scene, we opened the door wide open. In my opinion, you just have to stay consistent and have a real true raw talent. No copycats, please! It gets boring. And the world can’t sleep on my new artist by the name of Caine, right out of Cleveland, Ohio!

Considering your history of songs on the subject, what’s your take on the increasing legalization of recreational marijuana use?

To me, I think it’s a good thing because there are too many people in jail for marijuana-related crimes, when I think we should be going after the real criminals. It’s recreational so what’s the harm in making your own choices? It’s a choice.

There are stories going around that BTNH is in the process of completing its last group project, and celebrating it in a very special fashion. Can you explain more what you have planned for the last album?

Well, it’s still in the working process. We don’t want to give away too much. You just have to wait and see. □

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Ruf Records Ruf Records was started 20 years ago by Thomas Ruf, and this two-disc celebration of its anniversary features 13 tracks by the “Girls with Guitars” and 15 tracks by the “Guys with Guitars.”

Ruf, a German, got hooked on the blues after seeing Chicago bluesman Luther Allison at a club in Germany. In addition to recording him he also became his manager. Allison’s ebullient version of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” recorded shortly before he passed away in 1997 at 58, ends the “guys” disc. Ruf’s slogan is “where the blues crosses over,” and most of the musicians here have crossed over to blues/rock.

Featured on the “girls” disc are such sassy newcomers as Dani Wilde, Samantha Fish and Ana Popovic, plus more seasoned players like Dana Fuchs, Sue Foley, Candye Kayne and Joanna Connor. Most of their singing is too snarly for me, which is why “Skinny Girl,” a slide guitar rave-up by Erja Lyytinen, the “Finnish Bonnie Raitt,” is such a treat. Highlights on the equally high-energy “guys” CD include the Royal Southern Brotherhood’s “Rock and Roll,” Cyril Neville’s “Swamp Funk,” Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown’s “Nuthin’ Like the Blues” (a real treat) and newcomer Albert Castiglia’s relaxed “Bad Avenue.” All in all a great introduction to many new artists.

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Last week, the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul had its two-night, two-episode debut, and Vince Gilligan did not disappoint fans hoping he still had more holes to dig in the New Mexico desert (he does!). The central character this time around is Saul Goodman, the slimy lawyer who helped meth-master Walt manage his dirty business. We are introduced to Saul a decade or so before the events in Breaking Bad, when he was still Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer struggling to make ends meet as a public defender, and desperation is just starting to motivate him to bend the rules to further his career. So far, the show isn’t completely smooth. The fearsome Tuco (Raymond Cruz) of the previous series makes an appearance, and his character was uneven bordering on ridiculous—one minute he’s no-nonsense, focused and immune to Jimmy’s charm, the next he seems foolish and susceptible to every desperate last-ditch manipulation. But Bob Odenkirk is absolutely incredible in the title role. And if Gilligan and company stay true to the long-game approach of the show’s predecessor, Better Call Saul will be an exhilarating and intriguing story of the transformation of one well-intentioned man whose ambition and natural gift for persuasion leads him into a life where he’ll need to constantly tap into his talents just to stay one step ahead of the Tucos of the world.

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A few pints and a proper fight.

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

her so that they can … um … well, it’s complicated, and not good news for the residents of planet Earth. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

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The DUFF

A teen girl wages war against the social order of her high school when she discovers she’s been labeled a DUFF, Designated Ugly Fat Friend, by her popular peers. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Most of the gang—Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and Clark Duke—is back in the tub and headed back in time for another round of WTF hijinks.

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

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atthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret

Service is adapted from a comic-book series (The Secret Service by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons), and at times that’s a little too evident. But it’s also a comical action film, with secret agents, by high-tech weaponry, and interJuan-Carlos national espionage, as well as Selznick intermittent jolts of crazed satire and broad spoofs of several sorts.

It’s a mostly entertaining stew of movie ingredients, but erratic in ways that dilute and dull down the whole enterprise.

While the spoofing of James Kingsman: Bond films is mostly affectionThe Secret ate and inconsequential, the Service parts of the story involving spy Starring Colin agencies, Internet moguls, Firth, Taron Egerton and global conspiracies, and semiSamuel L. futuristic technology are a Jackson. rather unstable mix of sci-fi Directed by extravagance, furious satire and Matthew fanboy jokiness.

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Colin Firth, who plays a Cinemark 14, Feather River foppish variation on the BondCinemas and type super spy, acquits himself Paradise Cinema nicely in the dialog scenes but 7. Rated R. is pretty clearly out of his element in the movie’s blindingly souped-up fight scenes. Samuel L. Jackson is sharp and stingingly funny as the wide-eyed, lisping Internet mogul who sees satellite-assisted massacres as the solution to the problem of global warming.

Taron Egerton is mostly likable as Gary “Eggsy” Unwin, the fledgling secret agent whom the veteran Harry Hart (Firth) hopes to bring to the special “Kingsman” branch of the British secret services. Gazelle, who has lethal blades where her feet ought to be, and Roxy, also a Kingsman inductee, are ably played by Sofia Boutella and Sophie Cookson, respectively. Ω

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by Juan-Carlos Selznick

There are a good many special movie-going

pleasures to be found in this year’s program of Oscar-nominated live-action short films.

Some of the extra-special standouts include Sally Hawkins’ enchanting performance in The Phone Call; the bittersweet comedy of crosscultural manners in Talkhon Hamzavi’s Parvaneh; the intricately observed psychology of two people meeting by chance in the arrivals area of an Israeli airport in Aya (directed by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis); the rambunctious high spirits of two Irish kids trying to protect their pet chickens in Boogaloo and Graham; and the brilliantly casual social panorama of Hu Wei’s Butter Lamp.

The Phone Call has Hawkins playing a crisis-hotline counselor who gets personally involved in a call from a man (Jim Broadbent, voice only) who sounds terminally depressed.

In Parvaneh, the title character is a teenage Pakistani immigrant (Nissa Kashani) in Switzerland who wants to send money home to her parents but needs the help of someone with the proper ID to help her do so. She finds the helper (a street kid played by Cheryl Graf), but the encounter ends up being more complicated and more rewarding than expected.

The title character in Aya (Sarah Adler) pretends to be the driver awaiting a Danish music scholar (Ulrich Thomsen) at an Israeli airport, and a beautifully nuanced but slightly odd relationship forms between the two of them on the drive into Jerusalem. In the surprisingly evocative Butter Lamp, a single camera angle suffices to show a succession of Tibetan families posing for an itinerant photographer in front of a series of artificial backdrops. Ω

Kevin Costner stars as a high-school track coach in this sports drama based on the real-life story of an inexperienced cross country team at a predominately Latino high school in Kern County that’s transformed into a state-championship contender. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

The Spaceman

Local filmmaker Josh Funk premieres his short black-and-white film, The Spaceman, which combines stop-motion animation with live action.

Also, on the bill, Funk’s stop-motion short, Wormholes, and a Q&A with Funk and crew. Two showings: Saturday, Feb. 21, 1 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 22, 6 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Still Alice

Julianne Moore has already won the Golden Globe and been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of a Columbia linguistics professor whose life is turned upside down when she’s diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

Now playing Black or White

Issues of race and class are at the fore in this story about a white widower (Kevin Costner) raising a mixed-race granddaughter whose mother (his daughter) died while giving birth. He is struggling with grief while battling with the family of the little girl’s drug-addicted biological father, who are pursing custody. Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Fifty Shades of Grey

Film version of E.L. James’ massive bestseller about the BDSM relationship that develops between a sexually inexperienced college student and a young rich businessman with very particular kinks. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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The Wachowskis’ latest WTF-fest, Jupiter Ascending, gets a goose in the old popcorn box just for having strands of one of my guilty pleasures, Flash Gordon, woven into its DNA, albeit with the camp played hetero. Jupiter Ascending has a lot of other movies in its genetic code, but the Wachowskis wrap it all up into a flaming space burrito that is distinctly cooked up from their own long-running cinematic fever dream.

Granted, it ain’t a good movie, but it is good space-opera fun if you can lock your logical buzzkill in the closet for a couple of hours. It’s eyecandy to the Nth degree, with Mila Kunis as a Cinderella-story hotel maid swept off her toiletscrubbing knees by some half-wolf space ninja (Channing Tatum) assigned to protect her from interstellar 1-percenters who are bent on killing

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Two separate showings of the selection of the nominated shorts in two different Academy Award categories—Live Action and Animation. See review of live-action selections in this issue. Pageant Theatre. Not rated —J.C.S.

Paddington

A film adaptation of the popular children’s book series (and equally popular stuffed toy) that mixes live-action with CGI to tell the story of the anthropomorphic Peruvian bear who finds his way to London and into the hearts of the Brown family. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Project Almanac

Found-footage-style sci-fi thriller about a group of friends who, after finding plans for a time machine, build one and soon find out that changing the past can have unforeseen consequences on the present. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Seventh Son

It’s unclear whether the soporific dialogue and plotting is due to the source material—a young-adult novel—but the unimaginative scripting and direction sure as hell don’t keep one from developing a certain fascination with the passage of time. The eponymous seventh son (of a seventh son) is a medieval farm boy (Ben Barnes) afflicted by visions, which ultimately never serve a function in the narrative. He’s dragooned into an apprenticeship with the witchhuntin’ Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) to help him take down the queen witch Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore) with whom he has serious longstanding issues. There’s also a bland ingénue witch to fulfill the obligatory romance needs and buckets of pixel dust to distract from the narrative gaps. It all unfolds in a very rudimentary way that might impress easily amused 13-year-olds, as a dungeon master’s second-string bestiary (ghasts and ogres and dragons, oh my) are trotted out to be dispatched by our intrepid posse.

But the rest of us will just be bored to living death waiting for amusement that never comes.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

The characters of the popular TV series gets transformed into CGI versions of their cartoon selves as they enter the live-action world to track down their stolen Krabby Patty recipe. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

The Wedding Ringer

Jupiter Ascending

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

Rated R —J.C.S.

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Good

Kevin Hart plays Jimmy Callahan, a best man for hire who faces his toughest challenge in concocting a grand charade for one very socially challenged groom (Josh Gad). Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Still here

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American Sniper

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The Imitation Game

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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THURSDAY 2/19—WEDNESDAY 2|25 BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY: The Ohio crew

BOB DAY CELEBRATION Tonight, Feb. 19 Lost On Main SEE THURSDAY

celebrates its 20th annivesary with a performance of E.1999 Eternal in its entirety. F, 2/20, 8:30pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

BRODIE STEWART BAND: A six-piece country rock band. F, 2/20, 9:30pm. $5.

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

FRESH FRIDAY: Wild dance party. F, 2/20, 9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891; www.lasallesbar.com.

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

Saloon, 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

BOB DAY CELEBRATION: Live music from Jamaican trio Mighty Diamonds, backed by Yellow Wall Dub Squad, plus ska, punk, and reggae from locals Big Tree Fall Down. Th, 2/19, 9pm. $15 -$20.

Lost On Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 8911853.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

CHICO UNPLUGGED: SOTA Productions presents an acoustic songwriting competition with each performer

HAPPY HOUR: Joshua Leif Owen. Th, 2/19, 6-9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891; www.lasallesbar.com.

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

PAGEANT DADS: Four award-winning fathers together on stage. Plus, polyrhythmic world metal from Human Ottoman, and electronic producer Playboy Smooth. Th, 2/19, 8pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

STEVE COOK AND LARRY PETERSON: Join the duo as they play an eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 2/19, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St.; (530) 809-2304.

STORM LARGE: Th, 2/19, 7:30pm. $10-$34.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperfor mances.com.

20FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.; (530) 895-3888.

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.

FURLOUGH FRIDAYS & FRIENDS: The Chico power-pop crew is joined by locals Slay It Forward and The Maker’s Mile, and former locals The Deaf Pilots. F, 2/20, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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

LEANN RIMES: Grammy Award-winning

country superstar visits the casino. F, 2/20. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville; (800) 803-1911; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

C’mon, you know the next line. Come sing it loud and proud, along with the rest of the soundtrack to Prince’s 1984 film Purple Rain, with Uncle Dad’s Art Collective on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Chico State’s BMU Auditorium. The collective has assembled 10 local bands and solo performers, each playing a song from the album in sequential order, as well as a cast of dancers, visual artists, videographers, set designers and engineers for a production befitting this titanic pop masterpiece.

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

23MONDAY ACES UP: Local country with special

21SATURDAY 80S NIGHT: Wear your best 80s attire and dance the night away. Sa, 8pm.

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

BOB KIRKLAND TRIO: With Chris Wenger

and Matt Christensen Sa, 2/21, 6-9pm.

Grana, 198 E. Second St.; (530) 8092304.

THE GUITAR PROJECT: With Marc Teicholz.

Sa, 2/21, 7:30pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery,

820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

HAPPY HOUR: Joel and Cooley. Sa, 2/21, 69pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891; www.lasallesbar.com.

JOURNEY UNAUTHORIZED: A tribute to

Journey. Sa, 2/21, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd.; (530) 710-2020.

NIK WEST: The Phoenix-born funk bassist brings an outrageous mix of Prince and Bootsy to the stage. Sa, 2/21. Lost On Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

NORTH STATE SYMPHONY: DISCOVER: The North State Symphony hosts guest conductor Scott Seaton and guest violinist Lindsay Deutsch. Pre-concert talk one hour before the show. Sa, 2/21, 7:30pm. $22-$36. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State; (530) 8986333; www.northstatesymphony.org.

22SUNDAY ALO: The pop-funk crew makes its first

Big Room appearance. Su, 2/22, 7:30pm. Sold Out. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND: The Paradise Symphony Society hosts a dinner, with music by The OffBroadways performing hits from the musical revue Seasons of Love. Su, 2/22, 5:30pm. $50. Paradise Seventhday Adventist Church, 5720 Academy Dr. in Paradise; (530) 877-4454; www.paradiseadventistchurch.org.

PURPLE RAIN: Sa, 2/21, 7pm. $8-$10. Bell Memorial Union, 400 W First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-4696; www.aschico.com.

ROCK THE RIDGE: A musical celebration

and benefit. Sa, 2/21. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8454; www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

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PIANO NIGHT: Live piano music. W. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.myspace.com/ theitaliangarden.

WEEKLY JAZZ: Cary Robinson and Greg D’Augelli play an eclectic mix of jazz standards. W, 6-8pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade; (530) 343-2056; www.farmstarpizza.com.

LARGE AND IN CHARGE

Storm Large began her musical career fronting Bay Area art/punk bands in the early 1980s before evolving into a jazz singer, cabaret performer, theatrical artist and author of the 2012 memoir Crazy Enough. Since 2011, she’s also covered female vocal duties for the internationally regarded “small orchestra” from Portland, Ore., Pink Martini. Storm will hit Laxson Auditorium tonight, Feb. 19, in support of her latest album, Le Bonheur.

BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music

from local musicians. Tu. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.myspace.com/ theitaliangarden.

OPEN MIC: The Cafe Flo open mic has moved and is hosted by a new group of musical misfits. Tu, 7-10pm through 12/29. Shenanigan’s, 3212 Esplanade; (530) 809-1088.

25WEDNESDAY JON PARDI: Nashville country artist visits Chico for his Keepin’ It Country tour. W,

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GOODIN’S ROCK GARDEN NURSERY

Community crawlers will use this map that includes all the participating 11 local nurseries.

Most nurseries will be holding raffles, special deals and offering refreshments.

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7. MENDON’S NURSERY 5424 Foster Road, Paradise, CA 95969 (530) 877-7341 (open Saturday only)

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5. LITTLE RED HEN NURSERY GARDEN CENTER 189 East 8th Street, Chico, CA 95928 (530) 891-9100 www.littleredhen.org

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9. TJ’S NURSERY AND GIFTS 2107 Kennedy Ave., Chico, CA 95973 (530) 803-1815 www.tjsnurserychico.com

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DUDE! Where’d this show come from? Arts DEVO is very intrigued by Lost on Main’s Saturday, Feb. 21, headliner. Nik West is a funk bassist from Phoenix who looks like a cross between Janelle Monáe and a graduate of the Bootsy Collins Funk University (which, by the way, is a real thing—sign up today at www.thefunkuniversity.com). Her funky bass-slappin’ antics are naturally getting most of the attention, but for me, it’s her voice (and her outrageous sense of style) that are most noteworthy (check out her pipes on the slow jam “You” at nikwestbass.com).

West’s band for her Chico show will include local drummer Dave Breed (of For the Love of Frank) and Redding guitarist Marc Cooper (GrooveStruck). Local intergalactic groovemasters GravyBrain will open for what looks to be the perfect night cap to the Uncle Dad’s Art Nik West Collective’s Purple Rain tribute earlier in the evening at Chico State’s BMU Auditorium.

JOIN THE ART TEAM Dig art and art people? Want Chico to always be

overflowing with both? Then show up for the Chico Arts Foundation’s Meet and Greet this Friday, Feb. 20, 4:30-7:30 p.m., at 2590 California Park Drive, and rap with the members of the local-art-funding nonprofit and find out what they have planned for the year. Application packets for new board members will be available, as will a sign-up sheet to become a volunteer.

THE SPACEMAN COMETH Local rocker-turned-filmmaker Josh Funk will premiere his second film, The Spaceman, this weekend at the Pageant Theatre. The black-andwhite short is part stop-motion animation and part live-action, and stars the writer/ director’s brother Jordan as a man who “builds a cardboard spaceship and goes to an alien planet to dispose of a mysterious object.” Funk will also present his first stop-motion short, the most-excellent Wormholes, during the screening. Plus, he’ll be showing off some of his puppets and props and will be on hand with his crew for a Q&A. There will be two showings— Saturday, 1 p.m., and Sunday, 6 p.m.—and $5 tickets will be available at the door.

COUNT YOUR WORDS Finally, the CN&R has gotten back to hosting one

of our writing contests! As of today, we are accepting submissions for Poetry 99 (deadline is March 17, visit www.newsreview.com/ poetry99 to enter). Last year, we decided to switch things up by moving Poetry 99 to the spring (to coincide with National Poetry Month) and Fiction 59 to the fall (entries will be accepted starting some time in September). In the process we skipped a writing contest last fall.

That means it’s been a year and a half since we last received your poetry, and with all that extra time to refine your poems of 99 words or fewer, we’re expecting nothing but greatness!

LINING UP FOR PLINY Thanks to a work

training Mrs. DEVO attended in Petaluma last weekend, Arts DEVO was lucky enough to spend his Valentine’s Day in nearby Santa Rosa with several hundred beer lovers and a couple of cold glasses of Pliny the Younger. It was my second pilgrimage to Russian River Brewing Co.’s annual twoweek-long release of its triple IPA, and it was just as bold and piney and huge and clean as I remembered. And to those who say they would never wait five hours in line for just a beer, I say, “Thank you!”

Gold at the end of the bar.

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 19, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): There are

many different facets to your intelligence, and each matures at a different rate. So for example, your ability to think symbolically may evolve more slowly than your ability to think abstractly. Your wisdom about why humans act the way they do may ripen more rapidly than your insight into your own emotions. In the coming weeks, I expect one particular aspect of your intelligence to be undergoing a growth spurt: your knowledge of what your body needs and how to give it what it needs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What

is the proper blend for you these days?

Is it something like 51 percent pleasure and 49 percent business? Or would you be wiser to shoot for 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent business? I will leave that decision up to you, Taurus.

Whichever way you go, I suggest that you try to interweave business and pleasure as often as possible. You are in one of those action-packed phases when fun dovetails really well with ambition. I’m guessing that you can make productive connections at parties. I’m betting that you can spice up your social life by taking advantage of what comes to you through your work.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1900, the world’s most renowned mathematicians met at a conference in Paris. There, the German whiz David Hilbert introduced his master list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. At the time, no one had done such an exhaustive inventory. His welldefined challenge set the agenda for math research throughout the 20th century.

Today he’s regarded as an influential visionary. I’d love to see you come up with a list of your own top unsolved problems, Gemini. You now have extra insight about the catalytic projects you will be smart to work on and play with during the coming years.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Spani-

pelagic” is an adjective scientists use to describe creatures that typically hang out in deep water but float up to the surface on rare occasions. The term is not a perfect metaphorical fit for you, since you come up for air more often than that. But you do go through phases when you’re inclined to linger for a long time in the abyss, enjoying the dark mysteries and fathomless emotions. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that’s what you’ve been doing lately.

Any day now, however, I expect you’ll be rising up from the Great Down Below and headed topside for an extended stay.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When faced with

a big decision, you might say you want to “sleep on it.” In other words, you postpone your final determination until you gather more information and ripen your understanding of the pressing issues.

And that could indeed involve getting a good night’s sleep. What happens in your dreams may reveal nuances you can’t pry loose with your waking consciousness alone. And even if you don’t recall your dreams, your sleeping mind is busy processing and reworking the possibilities. I recommend that you make liberal use of the “sleep on it” approach in the coming weeks, Leo. Revel in the wisdom that wells up in you as you’re lying down in the dark.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1962,

Edward Albee published his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It won numerous awards and is still performed by modern theater groups. Albee says the title came to him as he was having a beer at a bar in New York City. When he went to the restroom, he spied the words “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap on the mirror. I urge you to be alert for that kind of inspiration in the coming days, Virgo: unexpected, provocative and out of context. You never know when and where you may be furnished with clues about the next plot twist of your life story.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Edward III, a

medieval English king, had a favorite poet: Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1374, the king promised Chaucer a big gift in appreciation for

BY ROB BREzSNY his talents: a gallon of wine every day for the rest of his life. That’s not the endowment I would have wanted if I had been Chaucer. I’d never get any work done if I were quaffing 16 glasses of wine every 24 hours. Couldn’t I instead be provided with a regular stipend? Keep this story in mind, Libra, as you contemplate the benefits or rewards that might become available to you. Ask for what you really need, not necessarily what the giver initially offers.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To make

the cocktail known as Sex on the Beach, you mix together cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, peach schnapps and vodka. There is also an alternative “mocktail” called Safe Sex on the Beach.

It has the same fruit juices, but no alcohol. Given the likelihood that your inner teenager will be playing an important role in your upcoming adventures, Scorpio, I recommend that you favor the Safe-Sexon-the-Beach metaphor rather than the Sex-on-the-Beach approach. At least temporarily, it’s best to show a bit of protective restraint toward the wild and sometimes erratic juvenile energy that’s pushing to be expressed.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” That’s what American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson advised. Even if you’re not naturally inclined to see the potential wisdom of that approach, I invite you to play around with it for the next three weeks. You don’t need to do it forever.

It doesn’t have to become a permanent fixture in your philosophy. Just for now, experiment with the possibility that trying lots of experiments will lead you not just to new truths, but to new truths that are fun, interesting, and useful.

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

art of the French Aquarian painter Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) appears in prestigious museums. He isn’t as famous as his fellow impressionists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, but he wielded a big influence on them both. His career developed slowly because he had to work a day job to earn a living. When he was 50 years old, he won a wad of free money in the national lottery, and thereafter devoted himself full-time to painting. I’m not saying you will enjoy a windfall like that anytime soon, Aquarius, but such an event is possible. At the very least, your income could rise. Your odds of experiencing financial luck will increase to the degree that you work to improve the best gifts you have to offer your fellow humans.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It isn’t

normal to know what we want,” said pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow.

“It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” That’s the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that you may be on the verge of rendering that theory irrelevant. In the coming weeks, you will be better primed to discover what you really want than you have been in a long time. I suggest you do a ritual in which you vow to unmask this treasured secret. Write a formal statement in which you declare your intention to achieve full understanding of the reasons you are alive on this planet.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HOLLY PINES MINI STORAGE at 6428 Hollywood Road Magalia, CA 95954.

JAMES BOISSERANC 14788 Del Oro Dr Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES BOISSERANC Dated: December 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001539 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HARDWOOD FURNISHINGS at 14419 Vine St Magalia, CA 95954.

JAMES BOISSERANC 14788 Del Oro Dr Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES BOISSERANC Dated: December 22, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001540 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSIINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INTERNATIONAL HOMESTAY CALIFORNIA at 2112 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

TONI YOUNG 2112 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TONI YOUNG Dated: January 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000031 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO BUSINESS NETWORK ASSOCIATION at 1208 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

VERN DOUGLAS BROUGHTON 352 East 8th Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VERN BROUGHTON Dated: January 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000010 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A-1 QUALITY PELLET STOVE REPAIR at 567 E. Lassen Ave #217 Chico, CA 95973.

DENNIS CLAY NORTON 567 E. Lassen Ave. #217 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DENNIS NORTON Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000067 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CRYSTAL ROOM, QUACKERS, QUACKERS FIRE GRILL AND BAR at 968 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT STEPHEN MOWRY 3 Crusader Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT S. MOWRY Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000069 Published: January 29, February 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RESTAURANT REVAMP at 1511 Manzanita Ave Chico, CA 95926.

PAUL LAVERY 2 Bel Aire Circle Chico, CA 95926.

SHANNON LAVERY 2 Bel Aire Circle Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: PAUL LAVERY Dated: January 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000113 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTHERN VALLEY APPLIANCE at 2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

JASON GREEN 2117 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASON GREEN Dated: December 30, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001564 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE REPO DEPO at 6431 Upper Palermo Rd. Oroville, CA 95966.

KEVIN LEE 6431 Upper Palermo Rd. Oroville, CA 95966.

EDGAR SANTANA 517 El Verano Ave Corning, CA 96021.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: KEVIN LEE Dated: January 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000014 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GREEN CONSTRUCTION SERVICE, IGREEN, at 180 Erma Court #150 Chico, CA 95928.

GREEN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INCORPORATED 180 Erma Court #150 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

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Signed: DAVID GREEN, PRESIDENT Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000063 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN ENERGY PRODUCTS at 2954 Hwy 32 Ste 1300 Chico, CA 95973.

MIKE GROSBERG Two Ilahee Ln #44 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIKE GROSBERG Dated: November 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001372 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE LANTERN at 642 W. 5th Street Chico, CA 95926.

QUYEN NGUYEN 767 Bridlewood Ct Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: QUYEN NGUYEN Dated: December 15, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001509 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CONSUMER PRODUCT BRANDING at 320 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973.

JASON C ROBERSON 320 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASON ROBERSON Dated: January 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000117 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BOEGER MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR at 1240 Stewart Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

CHASE ROBERT BOEGER 1240 Stewart Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHASE BOEGER Dated: January 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000115 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as APPLE BLOSSOM BABY at 1372 Longfellow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

DARCI CROSSIN 1405 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DARCI CROSSIN Dated: December 29, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0001558 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ECO IN CHICO at 1803 Mangrove Ave. Suite D Chico, CA 95926.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CJ CONSTRUCTORS at 2283 Honey Run Road Chico, CA 95928.

CRAIG JEFFERY WENNER 2283 Honey Run Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CRAIG JEFFERY WENNER Dated: February 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000132 Published: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SPUN TONGUE NUTTERY at 1064 E 7th St Chico, CA 95928.

KATHERINE ANNA LANDRY 1064 E 7th St Chico, CA 95928.

ROBERT WAYNE LANDRY 1064 E 7th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: KATHERINE ANNA LANDRY Dated: February 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000159 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ANDREW AUTO LLC at 5050 Cohasset Rd Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973.

ANDREW AUTO LLC 5050 Cohasset Rd Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: SAMPSON KUE, OWNER Dated: February 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000163 Published: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OPEN PASTURE EVENTS, SOUL HEALING HORSES, THE CALIFORNIA THERAPY HORSES at 4739 Lucky 7 Lane #C Oroville, CA 95965.

SHANNON LIANE PAIGE 4739 Lucky 7 Lane #C Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHANNON PAIGE Dated: January 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000028 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as L.E.A.F. ENGINEERING at 2806 Chico River Rd Chico, CA 95928.

ELIZABETH SANTILLAN 2806 Chico River Rd Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ELIZABETH SANTILLAN Dated: February 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000173 Pubished: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name THE VINE HAIR STUDIO at 1324 Mangrove Avenue Ste 104 Chico, CA 95926.

DANIELLE GREER 10 Alameda Park Circle Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIELLE GREER Dated: January 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2014-0001016 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRIMO LAWNS at 1040 Diablo Ave Chico, CA 95973.

MARCO SALIGAN 1040 Diablo Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARCO SALIGAN Dated: February 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000152 Published: February 12,19,26 March 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FOREST GLEN MOBILE HOME PARK at 1080 Pearson Road Paradise, CA 95969.

KATHY CATANHO 3369 Somerset Ave Castro Valley, CA 94546.

DAVID EAKIN 3369 Somerset Ave Castro Valley, CA 94546.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: KATHY CATANHO Dated: January 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000072 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AVILA SERVICES at 574 Manzanita Avenue Suite 5 Chico, CA 95926.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ELLE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS at 2513 El Paso Way Chico, CA 95973.

ELLEN K SHEPHERD 2513 El Paso Way Chico, CA 95973.

GENE M. SKALA 2513 El Paso Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ELLEN SHEPHERD Dated: February 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000134 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OM FOODS TM at 76 Northwood Commons Place Chico, CA 95973.

AMANDA BOSSCHART 76 Northwood Commons Place Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMANDA BOSSCHART Dated: January 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000098 Published: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELEVATE HERBALS at 1116 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO PAPER COMPANY L.L.C. at 345 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO PAPER COMPANY L.L.C. 345 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: ERIC METCALF, PRESIDENT Dated: February 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000150 Published: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO PAPER COMPANY at 345 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO PAPER COMPANY INCORPORATED 345 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: GREG STRONG, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: February 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2010-0001410 Published: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ERNEST M. LOPEZ, aka ERNEST MORAN LOPEZ, ERNEST LOPEZ To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ERNEST M. LOPEZ, aka ERNEST MORAN LOPEZ, ERNEST LOPEZ A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ERNESTINE MARTIN and HENRY MARTIN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: ERNESTINE MARTIN and HENRY MARTIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 26, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­ sentative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and le-­ gal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: DIRK POTTER Jacobs, Anderson, Potter & Chaplin 20 Independence Circle, Chico, CA 95973.

(530) 342-6144 Case Number: PR41306 Dated: February 9, 2015 Published: February 12,19,26, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE RUSSELL MARK CHARMLEY aka RUSSELL M. CHARMLEY aka RUSSELL CHARMLEY aka RUSS CHARMLEY To all heirs and beneficiaries,

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creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RUSSELL MARK CHARMLEY aka RUSSELL M. CHARMLEY aka RUSSELL CHARMLEY aka RUSS CHARMLEY A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DOUG CHARMLEY and KEITH CHARMLEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: DOUG CHARMLEY and KEITH CHARMLEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 5, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­ sentative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and le-­ gal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: JANE E. STANSELL 901 Bruce Rd, Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 342-4524 Case Number: PR41304 Dated: February 6, 2015 Published: February 12,19,26, 2015

NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA BUTTE COUNTY Case Number: PR-41303 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR LIGHTY In re the ELIZABETH TAYLOR LIGHTY REVOCABLE TRUST, ELIZABETH TAYLOR LIGHTY, DECEDENT. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent, that all persons hav-­ ing claims against the decedent

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are required to file then with the Superior Court, at 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, California, and mail or deliver a copy to MARK WILLIAM LIGHTY and PAT MCWILLIAMS as Trustees of the ELIZABETH TAYLOR LIGHTY REVOCABLE TRUST dated September 14, 2007 wherein the decedent was the settlor at JANE E. STANSELL, Attorney at Law, 901 Bruce Road, Suite 170, Chico, CA, 95928, within the later of four months after the date of first publication of this notice to creditors or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested.

Dated: February 6, 2015 Signed: JANE E. STANSELL, Attorney for Trustees 901 Bruce Road Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

Published: February 19,26, March 5, 2015

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 25, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: January 26, 2015 Case Number: 163680 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 18, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 4, 2015 Case Number: 163748 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner WENWEI LI Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: WENWEI LI Proposed name: WADE BRANDON 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 objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 1, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 3, 2015 Case Number: 163744 Published: February 19,26, March 5,12, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HUI MASSAGE at 1430 East Ave Suite 4B Chico, CA 95973.

HUI XIA ZHOU 101 Risa Way Apt 133 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HUI XIA ZHOU Dated: February 3, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000140 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH VALLEY FINANCIAL SERVICES at 2585 Ceanothus Ste 178 Chico, CA 95973.

VINCENT FINANCIAL GROUP INC 2611 Forest Ave Ste 120 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DANIEL THOMAS VINCENT, PRESIDENT Dated: January 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000066 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VINE HAIR STUDIO at 1324 Mangrove Ave Suite 104 Chico, CA 95926.

AMY LECHNER 1603 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMY LECHNER Dated: January 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000089 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

1116 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHAUNCEY QUAM Dated: February 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000154 Published: February 19,26 March 5,12, 2015

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AMPARO AVILA-WALKER 2575 White Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMPARO WALKER Dated: January 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000106 Published: February 12,19,26, March 5, 2015

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DARCI RENEA CROSSIN 1405 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DARCI CROSSIN Dated: December 29, 2014 FBN Number: 2013-0000734 Published: February 5,12,19,26, 2015

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LOVE’S REAL ESTATE Apprentice I stood outside the front door and waited while someone inside opened a series of locks from top to bottom, painstakingly and slowly.

I checked my “While You Were Out” note. The message said, “Man says needs to sell house now—Mr. Voss.”

The house looked solid. Natural lap-siding gleamed with an oil coating like a good old baseball glove. A fat orange cat crouched and glared at me from a ledge on the brick chimney.

This would be a nice listing.

I heard metallic clunking, clanking and rattling from the other side of the door. Deadbolts opened, chains slid out of slots, and padlocks unhooked. At last, the door slowly opened and I was greeted by an ancient, silent woman with long white hair and otherworldly blue eyes. She didn’t respond to my introduction, and after a long gaze into my eyes, she smiled calmly, and waved me in.

She led me through the living room to the kitchen. As we slowly made our way, I admired rich paneling and hardwood floors. “HENRY!” she shrieked to no one. My heart jumped. She wandered back into the living room and sank into a straight-back rocker and stared out the window.

The kitchen wall-phone was surrounded by a confetti-like spray of sticky notes covered with phone numbers, names and indiscriminate scrawl.

I peered outside and saw a tall stooped man in overalls disappearing into a stout little shop building.

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I slipped out back and leaned in the shop doorway. “Mr. Voss?”

“You know it, son!” he said, grabbing a handsaw off a workbench. “Bring that drill, will ya?” The drill was an old brace-and-bit with big woodknob handles. It lay among a neat display of chisels, hand planes and antique tools in perfect condition.

“Let’s go!” he said. “Hang on to this 2-by-2, Rob.” He called me Rob for the next two hours, despite my protests, and we rebuilt the upper part of his redwood trellis. He ordered me around like an apprentice.

“Nice work, Ron!” he said I when drilled through a 2-by-2, holding the wood-knob handle of the brace-and-bit against my chest, spinning the bit churn-like.

The man was 85 or 90 years old, with questionable mental lucidity, but a master carpenter, and in complete control of his physical abilities.

“Congratulations, Rob,” he said and shook my hand. “You got the job!”

“But I’m here to list your house for sale.”

“Did you hear me, boy? You got the job. You want it or not?”

I was unsure of my job description: Realtor, laborer or both.

“Uh, yes,” I said. “I’ll take it.”

(To be continued …)

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

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$193,000.00 $140,000.00 $330,000.00 $326,500.00 $310,000.00 $310,000.00 $295,000.00 $268,000.00 $262,500.00 $250,000.00 $237,500.00

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

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SQ. FT. 784 1378 1581 2064 1588 1821 1697 1703 1737 1606 1463

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TOWN

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BR/BA

2540 Royal Cir 71 Lexington Dr 1648 Laburnum Ave 1277 Glenshire Ln 2835 Ceanothus Ave 1120 Stewart Ave 83 Oak Dr 266 Humboldt Ave 1633 Mulberry St 2941 Cohasset Rd 308 Bordeaux Ct B

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$229,000.00 $228,000.00 $225,000.00 $225,000.00 $225,000.00 $205,000.00 $185,000.00 $170,000.00 $162,000.00 $157,000.00 $145,000.00

3/ 2 3/ 1.5 2/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 1 3/ 1 3/ 1.5 2/ 1 2/ 1 2/ 1 February 19, 2015

SQ. FT. 1628 1236 1014 1120 1196 773 1450 1176 816 994 928

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 2, 2015 – February 6, 2015.

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

ADDRESS 10696 Fimple Rd 1400 Bridgeford Ave 664 California St 6226 Kilgord Ct 5834 Ponderosa Way 6490 Loyola Ct 216 Mira Loma Dr 7052 Springtime Trl 4 Avery Ct 6 Parkwood Dr 17 Harmony Dr

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PRICE

BR/BA

Durham Gridley Gridley Magalia Magalia Magalia Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville

$405,000.00 $255,000.00 $123,000.00 $166,000.00 $164,000.00 $122,000.00 $245,000.00 $200,000.00 $200,000.00 $162,500.00 $160,000.00

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

SQ. FT. 930 2269 1525 1792 1848 1337 2336 1412 1303 1290 1120

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PRICE

BR/BA

1075 Robinson St

ADDRESS

Oroville

$115,000.00

2/ 1

SQ. FT. 1196

821 Big Sky Dr

Paradise

$341,000.00

3/ 2.5

2409

4795 Salmon Dr

Paradise

$305,000.00

3/ 2

2088

395 Castle Dr

Paradise

$287,500.00

3/ 2

1954

6043 Supreme Ct

Paradise

$248,000.00

3/ 2

1648

6161 Opal Ln

Paradise

$170,000.00

3/ 2

1092

5575 Sierra Park Dr

Paradise

$160,000.00

2/ 2

1335

1020 Elliott Rd

Paradise

$126,000.00

3/ 2

1591

1534 West Dr

Paradise

$120,000.00

2/ 1

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4350 Woodrose Drive (X St: Cassandra) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,331 Sq. Ft. $510,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

136 W. Eaton Road (X St: Esplanade) 3 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 1,694 Sq. Ft. $295,000 Amy Bean 805-248-3903

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2099 Hartford Drive #13 (X St: Forest Avenue) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,375 Sq. Ft. $185,000 Sandy Stoner 514-5555

4712 Songbird (X St: Keefer) 5 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,116 Sq. Ft. $484,000 Patty Davis Rough 864-4329

703 Bradford Ct ( X St: Alamo) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1513 Sg.Ft. $269,900 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508 Chris Martinez 680-4404

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1071 Mildred Ave (X St: E. 1st Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1560 Sq. Ft. $265,000 Keating Murphy 707-363-1872 Laura Willman 680-8962

9270 Stanford Lane (X St: Durham Dayton Hwy), Durham 3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1,187 Sq. Ft. $175,000 John Spain 519-5726

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1168 Metalmark Way (X St: Viceroy) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,471 Sq. Ft. $254,500 Marc Shapiro 426-2555 Keating Murphy 707-363-1872 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

1253 Hemlock Street (X St: 12th Street) 2 Bd / 1 Ba 801 Sq. Ft. $169,000 Amy Bean 805-248-3903

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

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550 W. Lassen Avenue (X St: Cussick) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 3,109 Sq. Ft. $574,900 Paul Champlin 828-2902

1262 Whitewood Way (X St: Floral Ave) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1643 Sq.Ft. $323,000 Jenn Stelle 515-6801 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4

2 Crabapple Court (X St: Glenwood) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2,795 Sq. Ft. $523,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

Sat. 2-4 1115 Sherman Avenue (X St: 1st Street) 3 Bd / 1 Ba, 1,124 Sq. Ft. $210,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

1376 Humboldt Ave (X St: Bartlett) 2 Bd / 1 Ba, 1040 Sq.Ft. $177,000 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 124 Benson Terrace (X St: Yosemite) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,584 Sq. Ft. Chris Martinez 680-4404

43 Titleist Way (X St: Delaney Dr) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1653 Sq.Ft. $305,000 Kathy Kelly 570-7403

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